00:00of your sacrifice. We will prove worthy of your time on earth. We will make you proud. We will
00:09finish the job. We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil. And we will stand every day
00:16for what is true, what is beautiful, what is good. And we will achieve victory for our children,
00:24for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us.
00:31God bless you. God bless Turning Point. God bless Erica. God bless the Kirk family.
00:38God bless our heroes. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you.
00:54Please welcome to the stage, Susie Wiles.
01:16Good afternoon, and what an honor to be here with all of you.
01:20Those of you who loved Charlie and love Erica, I was blessed to work with Charlie these past
01:28few years. And I know he is looking down now, rejoicing, because his life, his words, his
01:36courage to speak the truth about God, family, and country built the most powerful youth movement
01:44in our time.
01:45Many of you knew Charlie better than I did. And if you did, you experienced the gift of being
01:59lifted by his conviction and his joy. For Charlie, making America great again meant bringing young
02:07people to this movement and making sure they knew they belonged. Like our president says, it's a movement
02:15of common sense, and it makes sense. Love your God, love your family, love your country, and help the next
02:26generation live into those values. Boldly.
02:32Through Turning Point, Charlie gave us countless young Americans who had their first Turning Point the
02:38moment they decided to stand up, speak out, and make America all that she could be.
02:45When the president's 2024 campaign partnered with Turning Point, Charlie did not just promise,
02:52he delivered. Charlie and his team embraced the assigned mission completely, and they didn't
03:00meet expectations. They shattered them and blew them out of the water. President Trump's victory,
03:09winning the popular vote in every swing state was powered by young people, most brand new to
03:15politics. That was Charlie's army, and he made sure they understood the stakes.
03:21They outworked, they out hustled, and outperformed everyone else. Charlie just didn't help. He made
03:37the winning difference. I promise you that. And I believe Charlie is still urging us on, urging us
03:47not to sit back, not to be quiet, but to carry on his mission forward loudly, proudly, and with the same
03:55conviction he showed. So I ask you, let us honor Charlie in the best way possible, by continuing his work,
04:05by building on the foundation he laid, and by making sure this generation knows that this movement is
04:14their home. May God bless Erica and their beautiful children, and may he hold them in the palm of his hands
04:24as always.
04:38Ladies and gentlemen, Tucker Carlson.
05:08Oh, that made me emotional, made me emotional to see that.
05:21Susie Wiles had tears in her eyes, which you don't often see in politics, but it's real.
05:27This is the most unbelievable thing I think I've ever seen.
05:35Whatever happens next in America, I hope it's in this direction because God is here and you
05:41can feel it.
05:42And Charlie would have loved this, not just because he loved large groups of people, but
05:46because ultimately he was a Christian evangelist.
05:50And it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever.
05:54So it's about 2000 years ago in Jerusalem and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about
06:01the people in power.
06:03And he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people.
06:09And they hate it.
06:10And they just go bonkers.
06:11They hate it.
06:12They become obsessed with making him stop.
06:14This guy's got to stop talking.
06:16We've got to shut this guy up.
06:18And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp lit room with a bunch of guys sitting
06:22around eating hummus thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about
06:27us.
06:28We must make him stop talking.
06:31And there's always one guy with the bright idea and I can just hear him say, I've got
06:34an idea.
06:35Why don't we just kill him?
06:36That'll shut him up.
06:38That'll fix the problem.
06:46It doesn't work that way.
06:49It doesn't work that way.
06:50Everything is inverted and the Beatitudes tell it, I think, the most crisply.
06:54Everything is sort of the opposite of what you think it's going to be.
06:58Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.
07:00That is true and you can feel it here.
07:03The thing about Charlie's message, I thought a lot about it and I'm trying not to be emotional
07:07because in addition to everything else, he was a wonderful man and a decent man and one
07:11of those rare people you meet who you just groove with in conversation and have these very
07:15intense conversations that you don't stop thinking about, which is my experience with
07:19him.
07:20But the main thing about Charlie and his message, he was bringing the gospel to the country.
07:27He was doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent.
07:35So how is Charlie's message different?
07:38And Charlie was a political person who was deeply interested in coalition building and
07:44getting the right people in office because he knew that vast improvements are possible politically.
07:51But he also knew that politics is not the final answer.
07:55It can't answer the deepest questions, actually.
07:58That the only real solution is Jesus.
08:04And the reason, it's really simple.
08:09Politics at its core is a process of critiquing other people and getting them to change.
08:17Christianity, the gospel message, the message of Jesus, begins with repentance.
08:24Christianity calls upon you to change.
08:29Our core prayer given to us by Jesus, the Lord's Prayer, demands that we forgive other people,
08:38but preceding that is a request for our forgiveness.
08:41In other words, forgive us, our sins, meditate on what we've done wrong, how we've fallen short,
08:47and then it becomes possible to forgive other people.
08:52That is a call to change our hearts from Jesus.
08:56And that is the only way forward in this country.
08:59That is the only solution to where we all know we're going.
09:03And Charlie knew where we were going without that.
09:06And that is not a call for being politically passive.
09:09Of course not.
09:10I stood on many stages with Charlie calling for various people to be elected, particularly
09:14Donald Trump.
09:15And I'm proud of that.
09:17It's only an acknowledgment that what Charlie was really saying is that change begins, the
09:22only change that matters, when we repent of our sins.
09:28We.
09:29Me.
09:31A recognition that the real problem is me.
09:33And how fallen I am.
09:35And that was the reason that Charlie was fearless at all times, truly fearless.
09:43To his last moment, he was unafraid, he was not defensive, and there was no hate in his
09:49heart.
09:50I know that because I've got a little hate compartment in my heart.
09:53And I would often express that to Charlie about various people.
09:56And he would always say, always say, that's a sad person, that's a broken person, that's
10:02a person who needs help, that's a person who needs Jesus.
10:06He said that in private.
10:09Because he meant it.
10:10So I guess I would just say, this gathering and God's presence, God's very obvious presence
10:16in this room, the presence of Jesus, is a reminder of what we've known for 2,000 years.
10:23Which is any attempt to extinguish the light causes it to burn brighter.
10:29Every single time.
10:31So as we proceed into whatever comes next, and clearly something's coming next, remember
10:46this moment.
10:47Remember being in a room with the Holy Spirit humming like a tuning fork.
10:53This is the way.
10:55Right here.
10:56This is the way.
10:58And that is what Charlie Kirk was saying underneath it all.
11:01And God bless.
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