Glenn Beck, Andrew Kolvet, and Katie Pavlich dissect the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, framing the shooter as a frightened individual inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer rather than pure evil. Guests recount the chaos of gunshots and President Trump's evacuation while debunking conspiracy theories about staged events or Erica Kirk's involvement. The trio condemns radicalized left rhetoric targeting conservatives, criticizes inadequate hotel security, and warns that failing to reject this "death culture" will lead generations into fascist regimes. Ultimately, Beck urges listeners to take personal responsibility and choose their God to prevent societal collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
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Choosing Your God Amid Violence00:14:22
Wow, we, I don't even know where to begin on today's show.
Yet another shooting.
And I tried to stay calm and rational, and I didn't make it all the way through the show like that because the problem is really deep.
And I talk about it when I talk about choosing your God.
And I kind of made some of the insiders a little angry with me because I said, this guy, this shooter's not evil.
I think he's more frightening than evil.
He thinks he was good.
Thinks he was Bonhoeffer.
You know, Swalwell, he knew he was a bad guy.
This guy didn't.
And it is what's happening to a lot of our society, and quite honestly, I think our children, they're slowly being brainwashed and they are coming to radically different conclusions about life.
Also, Andrew Colvett is with us.
He was at the dinner.
He's with TPUSA and Erica Kirk.
He gives us an update on that.
It was horrible.
And Katie Pavlich.
Also joins us.
She was also at the dinner.
It's interesting to hear what they actually saw and went through at the White House Correspondents' Dinners, all that and so much more on today's podcast.
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I want to start with Assad here.
I think it's three guys.
Trump calling out the Dems' violent rhetoric.
Listen to this.
Political violence has touched so many people in that room.
Is there something that you, as president, can do?
What can be done to change the trajectory?
You know, you go back.
20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years.
It's always been there.
People are assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt.
And I'm not sure that there's any more now than there was.
I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats, much more so, is very dangerous.
I really think it's very dangerous to the country.
I have to tell you, Jennifer Say from XXYY, I was reading an article from her.
She was there.
She's not a political person.
She went for the first time and she said she saw signs of.
She was called a rapist for even attending.
You're a rapist.
You're a fascist.
All of these signs leading into it.
What do you think people are.
And what is the president supposed to do about that?
O'Donnell, what is the president supposed to do?
Katie Pavlich, host of Katie Pavlich Tonight, is with us.
She was there with News Nation on Saturday.
Katie, we are so glad that you're okay and that everybody's all right.
How are you feeling today?
Thanks, Glenn.
I was trying to reflect yesterday about what happened.
But the feeling I keep coming back to is anger and frustration that this continues to happen.
You know, that guy.
Explain anger.
Because, you know, being in the room and watching Caroline Levitt, who's nine months pregnant, have to be taken out of the room because there's someone outside trying to.
Assassinate her boss and the people she works with, and for her, potentially watching people who I've known for 16 years who are my friends.
Pete Hegseth, for example, was in the room, and then they took him outside.
And once they opened the doors, I was out in the hallway, and he came by with his wife, Jennifer, and we said hello to each other, you know, and said, It's nice to see you.
And then they whisked him away, and he went off to the White House.
But it's just infuriating that this continues to be something that is acceptable.
And, you know, I thought going into the night that security was going to be tough and that it would take me an hour to get into the hotel.
It was not tough at all.
I walked by those same protesters you were just talking about with their Palestinian flags, and they were screaming that they hoped our dresses were ruined, that our night was ruined, that we were fascists for going to the dinner.
You walked right into the hotel, and the security downstairs, Magnetometers were right above the ballroom, a stairwell away from everything that was happening in the room.
Yeah, it's infuriating.
And the manifesto, I think, speaks for itself, but it's just infuriating just that it happened at all.
Let me ask you this you know, we saw a couple of pictures there in the room that you just can't fake.
Stephen Miller also.
You know, our defense secretary standing up and shielding their wives.
And then, you know, pretty in pink, I hear, you know, people, you know, rushing to the White House.
In fact, I want to give the quote.
What was it?
The quote was many of us ran to the White House in very heroic ways to make sure that we were there for the press conference.
And I don't think I've ever heard a sentence with heroic and ran in the same sentence.
But these journalists, A, I think experienced something for the first time.
They thought they might be in the line of fire.
They seem to make themselves out into heroes.
What did you actually see?
So we were in the room.
They got everyone in and they closed the doors.
They sealed off the room.
Then they brought in President Trump, the first lady, announced them at the front of the room.
I was closer to the back of the room, near the doors where the press and everybody else entered.
They announced the president.
We did the color guard came in.
We did the national anthem.
President Trump was seated, and about five minutes.
Into him being seated and everybody starting to get, you know, comfortable.
Then, because I was close to the doors, I heard the gunshots and people started hearing them.
And then, because the front of the room was so loud, people didn't know what was happening up near the stage.
So, we heard the gunshots.
People around me went down on the floor.
It was very packed.
I don't know how they're capable of actually having that many people in there.
It was impossible if we needed to leave the room for people to get out.
So many people got on the floor.
I was trying to see where a threat was.
I was trying to see if there was someone in the room or if there was someone outside of the room.
To me, it sounded like it happened outside of the room, but we weren't sure.
Then glass starts breaking.
You see Secret Service running down the middle of the room to get to the president.
And they were taken out very quickly.
I mean, I turned my head and the president was gone.
So they got him out very quickly.
But then they were trying to find other people, cabinet secretaries who were sitting in the room.
And they were spread out because different news outlets were.
Right.
You know, they invited these guests at their tables.
Right.
So, all these different security details are trying to find their people to get them out of the room.
And when I heard the shots, to me, it sounded like a controlled situation because it ended quickly.
There was not a real exchange of gunfire, it was not something that continued.
There were about five shots when you listen to the audio and it was over.
So, to me, that indicated that Secret Service or some other law enforcement agency that was there had handled the situation and it was not in the room.
But people weren't sure exactly what happened.
And there was no security.
There was no service in the room, really.
There was some Wi Fi, but it was very sporadic.
So people couldn't go outside.
Well, they usually shut that down.
They usually shut all of that stuff down so nobody can activate a bomb using cell service.
Well, right.
And that was the other, you know, there's so many questions here about the security.
I mean, this guy checked into the hotel and he had, you know, I just think it's a miracle that he was an amateur.
If this had been an organized terrorist group or if this had been a suicide bomber who was able to get into even the upper level above the ballroom, there were thousands of people in the hotel, including cabinet secretaries, at parties before the event started.
So this perpetrator waited until the president was seated.
Clearly, he was watching on television.
And that's when he tried to get into the room.
And he was stopped.
So the Secret Service did their job.
The lead up to it, if it had been more organized, did you see anybody in the room?
Professional, I think we'd have a much worse situation for everybody.
Did you see anybody in the room, Katie, that prayed?
I don't think I was paying that close attention, Glenn, to be honest.
I was looking to see where we needed to be, where people were going.
Once people realized and the doors opened that the threat was over and they were letting people leave, people did run out on one side.
They wanted to get out of there.
Other people stood around to try and see if the president was coming back.
There was some talk of him maybe coming back.
The presidential seal was still on the Podium, an elector.
He had said he wanted to come back, but then Secret Service eventually said, We're not going to do that.
And once the seal came off, I knew that he wasn't going to be coming back into the room.
But people were scared.
People were on the floor.
They were very nervous.
They should have been scared.
But the fact is that this perpetrator was not there for them.
He was there for Republicans who work for Donald Trump, and they were there for Donald Trump.
The media, I think, absolutely plays a huge role.
In all of this.
But now they found themselves a little bit in the crossfire.
Do you think this will change them at all?
Think there's any change coming to the people in the media?
I'd like to say yes, but I don't think so.
I think that maybe today and this week there'll be some reflection, but the rhetoric that we saw, we've seen from many in the media is very similar to what is in the manifesto.
Um, calling the president a fascist, calling him a Nazi, saying he's an existential threat to the country.
Um, that is coming from many in the media and it's coming from many mainstream Democrats.
So they've wrapped themselves, they have too much political capital in this narrative, uh, to change it.
Unfortunately, this is the third assassination attempt plan, this is not the first one, and we haven't seen changes so far.
Um, so I'm not sure it will change.
The president refuses to, I mean, I've asked him several times, and um.
He'll always, he'll cut me off every time.
And I've talked to him privately about it.
Mr. President, I am so concerned about the Secret Service.
Glenn, it's fine.
It's all fine.
I've looked into it.
I trust them.
But Mr. President, I don't want to talk about it anymore.
I mean, he is, he's, you know, he grew up with the power positive thinking.
Norman Vincent Peale was his pastor growing up in New York.
And so he does not like to put things into his head that are negative.
And he doesn't like to talk about them or discuss them.
And I trust, That you know, it's his life.
I trust that he has looked into this, but are you convinced the Secret Service is capable of protecting our president and the Republic?
So, um, I actually interviewed the president in January and asked him the same question about his safety.
And you know, there are plans for him to go out and campaign for Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections.
Um, a lot.
Security Perimeters and Political Safety00:03:39
Saturday night, they did do their job.
There was no one who got into the room.
The president was the guy that got the guy.
The president was taken out of the room immediately.
If you watch the video, the Secret Service stood right in front of the president, which is their job, in case there had been someone in the room to protect him.
So they did do their job on that level when something happened.
However, given the fact that this person checked into this hotel and that the hotel was still operating while the entire cabinet and the president of the United States was in the building.
And the fact that there was no real security perimeter at all for everyone else, that is a failure.
So, two things can be true at once.
They did their job to protect the president, but the other factors of the night were atrocious.
You know, waiving your ticket to get in, maybe there was no ID check, there was no list of names.
Anybody could have gotten in so long as you, you know, went through the magnetometer.
There were no really working.
I saw one working dog.
That's it inside the hotel.
So the perimeter to get in, I mean, there was no check at the street.
Anybody could have walked into the building.
Katie, Katie, when you look back at this, what is the one thing that you are going to live with?
What was the image or the one thing that you're going to live with?
Just remember hearing the gunshots and wondering.
If there was someone in the room and knowing immediately that the target was the president.
And then hearing the glass breaking and watching Katie Miller being escorted out of the room with her husband.
She's also pregnant.
People frantically trying to get their families out of there.
And also, once they got the president out, the SWAT team I don't know if it's officially the SWAT team, so forgive me if the language is not proper, but they were in the room going table to table trying to see what was going on.
But it was very difficult for them to move around.
They were walking on tables, on chairs, because people were on the floor.
And even if the floor was not covered in people, it was so hard to move around in that room, even if you were just, nothing was happening and it wasn't chaotic.
So just the sounds, the scenes.
But also, I'll remember the president's words at the White House.
I walked from the hotel to the White House to get into that press conference and listening to him say, look, we need to come together and tone down the temperature.
Politics is supposed to be a substitute for violence.
And at this point, we have one side of the political aisle that is continually pushing the envelope and promoting people in their party who have called for murder.
And they're trying to do it.
So, where does that stop?
Katie, I have real respect for you and really admire you.
And thank you for your grace, literally under fire.
And thanks for coming on today.
I appreciate it.
And I'm glad you're safe.
Thanks for the opportunity, Glenn.
Good to talk with you.
You bet.
Good to talk to you.
Katie Pavlich.
Boy, I will pray for two people today.
I mean, pray for a lot of people, but two in particular Melania Trump and Erica Kirk.
Enough.
Enough is enough.
The direction of this country isn't just being decided in Washington, it's being decided in our culture, in our economy, and in the choices that every single person makes every day.
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So, this killer, if you read his manifesto, and I don't recommend it, I can just summarize it for you.
He thought he was working for God.
He thought he was Bonhoeffer.
He said, I've got to stop all the pedophiles.
I have to stop all of the racists.
I have to stop all the fascists.
And it's left up to me.
And he then apologized to his family and everybody else, and he seems like a really, really nice guy.
Let me just tell you.
He's not obviously a really nice guy, but he's not evil either.
He's not crazy, and he's not a lone wolf.
He was a guy who had an awful lot of potential, very, very smart, and got himself wrapped up in the left, was part of the No Kings March and everything else, and started to believe all this, and then started to convince himself that he was on a mission from God, that he had to do the right thing to save the Republic from all of these pedophiles.
I want to talk to you about this because I have been saying this for a while, and it is so important that we take every moment to recognize we've just taken another step towards darkness.
So you need to take another step and a half towards the light.
This guy was not evil, this guy thought he was doing right.
The only way out of this situation now is the God revolution of the past, not a revolution with guns.
But quite honestly, that's what got us out of the 1860s.
That's what got us out of the 1700s was a God revolution.
That was a God revolution.
When we went into the Civil War, that was a God revolution.
When we went into the 1960s, gang, that was a God revolution.
At the end, it was God that saved us.
It was the, what did they call it?
I think they actually called it the God revolution, didn't they?
The Jesus revolution.
That's what it was.
That's what saves us every time.
God is the shield from the disease of almost right, because that's what happened to this guy.
He was looking to do right.
And you are not going to be presented with options that are wrong.
Very rarely will the Gestapo walk in and go, We're the bad guys, join us.
Their uniforms with the Gestapo were made by Hugo Boss, they were made to look like really great uniforms that you wanted to join these guys.
They were the good guys.
And so you might have made the mistake of going, well, maybe they're not so bad.
Mistake.
But you didn't just choose evil.
You chose almost right.
Well, they look like good guys.
Almost right.
Well, there are some problems they're dealing with.
Almost right.
And before you know it, you are 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
We are so close to the edge of evil.
Nobody wants to admit it, but we are there.
And it's the tiny little shifts that will land us in the completely wrong direction.
If we don't consciously choose now which God we serve, this guy was not evil.
He was steeped in evil.
He had listened to, engaged in, marched with those who had made good evil and evil good.
He didn't choose evil.
Evil chose him.
And he chose it every single time when he chose almost right.
And before he knew it, You don't know what's up and what's down.
And it begins by surrounding yourself with people who believe the ends justify the means.
Make no mistake, this is about choosing a God.
If you don't choose your God, one will choose you.
And it will shape everything, everything in your life.
And choosing your God is not a one-time prayer whispered in the moment of feeling.
It's the most decisive act your will will ever provide you.
Daily.
Costly reordering of your entire life around one idea what is good and eternal.
And it will mean that you will stop drifting and you will start directing your life because too many of us are just in the passenger seat of our own life.
We're being taken places and we think, well, we don't really have control.
I don't know.
Look where the world's going.
It's your choice where you go.
How do you order your hours and your thoughts and your heart?
Too many of us are just ordering them because it's the loudest thing in the room.
Because I got to respond to this right now.
Stop, stop.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
Look at your day today.
Look at everything you do and decide which ones you're going to say, no more.
No more of this.
From this moment, I'm going to give my life to only things that are absolutely true.
And I know they're true because they're eternal principles.
My grandmother would walk into the room and she would be like, I'm proud of you.
And it begins the instant you refuse to blame anyone or anybody or anything else for where you stand.
Not your past, not your circumstances, not the culture, not the economy, not the people who let you down.
Blame is the language of the lost, ownership is the language of the free.
Own your life.
Stop saying these things are happening to you and I can't control it.
Yes, you can.
You control the way you respond to all of these things.
He can't control, this shooter couldn't control what's happening in Washington, but he can control what he does about them.
And what he did about them was he got into bed with people who kept preaching good is evil and evil is good.
You need to say, I know who my God is, and I know what's eternal.
And I know my God is a God of order, and my God is not going to say, go kill that person.
We have a God of life, not a God of death.
There is a death culture that is going on in all of society.
It's a death cult.
Choose Life With Sincere Purpose00:07:20
Choose life.
Choose it.
This life belongs to me and only me.
No one else. Can change my life except for me.
I have steward of my life and over everything I have.
I know, I know this sounds almost ridiculously simple, but it is each of us making this choice that will make all of the difference.
When we choose to think, when we choose to look at things, when we stop saying, I don't know about this, I haven't been following, you have to follow.
It's your personal responsibility as a human being on planet Earth at this time to follow, to think.
To get away from the endless distractions, choose.
Choose to live, really live, not as a consumer of life, but as its creator.
Your life is being created by you.
Look for, read, study, gaze upon, engage in acts of kindness, in words of wisdom, in words of beauty, moments of genuine connection.
Serve your family first.
Feed your own soul with good and truth.
And then you can serve your friends and your community and a world that is starving for something real.
Become fully alive.
Trade the wide, easy road of least resistance for the narrow path that leads to life.
The climb is really steep, but it makes you stronger, and every sacrifice is met with grace.
Every lonely stretch is filled with God.
Become the leader in your own story instead of a follower of every passing win.
Become the one who stands when others sit, becomes the one who builds when others either want to tear down or only watch.
Truth is eternal.
And when you choose eternal truth, when you choose the living God, who is not about vengeance and wrath, but is about truth and justice and love and healing, then the false gods that rule over you lose their power.
Their chains.
Fall off.
The numbness of your life lifts.
The strength rises where weakness once lived.
Peace settles in where you were nothing but a ball of anxiety.
And you will discover a freedom no screen, no success, no amount of approval could ever, ever, ever give you.
You will face storms that you think there's no way I could face that.
You will face every road with all of its difficulties.
And you will never, ever walk it alone.
You will have a guide.
That knows every turn, a father who loves you and delights in you, a savior who's already overcome everything in the world and walks beside you and takes every broken piece of your story and makes it somehow or another breathtakingly beautiful.
And you're like, How did this happen?
I know I've lived it.
It doesn't seem possible.
And it also doesn't seem like an answer.
It's this problem is too big.
Too big for who?
Too big for me, yep.
Too big for you, yes.
Too big for God, do you think he's surprised by any of this?
He is calling out to us stop, stop, stop.
Choose life.
Even if you don't know what that means exactly, you don't choose it perfectly, you just choose it sincerely.
It means you have to be willing to say, I may have screwed up my life.
Everything I may believe right now may be wrong, but I don't want to live this way anymore.
And I just want to find happiness.
I just want to find truth.
And you'll choose courage over comfort and depth over distraction, responsibility over blame and regret.
This guy chose almost right, time and time again, until he was convinced that he was on.
The side of God.
I want you to know God's not on my side.
He's not on your side.
He's not on America's side.
We must prepare to be on His side.
And that's hard.
And you're going to make decisions that you don't want to do.
You're going to say, I don't want to believe that.
I don't want to say that.
I don't want to stand there.
I don't want to be quiet.
I want to be mad.
But you have to take ownership.
You have to take the wheel.
You have to step into the woman or the man you were designed to be.
You were made for this.
You are the key to all of this.
We can blame this on a whole bunch of people.
I take the blame for this in everything that I have done and not done in my life.
And if we all start there, maybe, maybe we can save ourselves.
But the choice is yours.
Make the choice.
The ends don't justify the means.
They never do.
Nobody's ever done anything to you that is worth a hill of beans.
It doesn't matter what's happened to you.
It doesn't matter.
Once you know who you really are, and once you know what God you actually serve, then you become a masterpiece of grace and purpose and unshakable joy.
And this stuff will stop.
I urge you, please, today, begin.
Choose your God carefully.
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Thank you.
Yes.
I got to tell you, man.
John Fetterman's Sympathy Points00:12:42
My wife and I, we saw the video of Erica going out crying.
Yeah.
And I just leave this poor woman alone.
Can people leave her alone?
Anybody who is saying, oh, she planned the death and everything, she's obviously, she obviously, she left there so distraught.
This, she has not even been allowed to grieve.
It's so clearly just below the surface.
I felt for all of you guys.
I didn't know you were there, Andrew.
Yeah.
Well, you said in your open that I was at the same table as her.
I wasn't actually.
I was probably about 10, 12 tables away.
But Glenn, this place was so packed in.
I mean, the fire marshal should have a head day with this place.
You could not get through there.
Really, even before the chaos broke out, it was so jam packed.
But I tried after everything kind of cleared up.
I mean, you know.
Where to start with this story is a question, Glenn.
But basically, you know, you hear everybody ducking for cover.
You know, you heard some loud bangs, but, you know, in that room, there was such a cacophony of noises that it was kind of indiscernible.
And then you see people ducking for cover.
You know, our table got underneath the table as well, you know, and we're hiding underneath the tablecloth.
And right over on my chair, I was sitting next to Harmeet Dillon.
You know, the Secret Service was climbing on our chairs, and it was, uh, Harmeet was kind of had her head a little bit higher, and one of the Secret Service guys actually stepped on her head.
So she got bruised by these guys trying to get by our table.
So she had a little wealth on her head just from getting stepped on.
That's how tight it was.
As soon as everything kind of cleared up, though, the question was did Trump get hit?
Did JD get hit?
Did somebody get shot?
And we just couldn't hear it because it was so loud.
So everybody, you know, these room full of reporters, everybody's trying to figure out who got hurt and what happened.
And, you know, I happened to be at the table next to Philip Wegman, who's now with the Wall Street Journal, used to be a real clear and Washington Examiner.
So I've known him for years.
I was like, Phil, what happened?
And he had eyes on President Trump getting escorted off.
So at least I kind of knew that.
Instantly, I beelined over for Erica's table.
And, you know, it was interesting.
I ran into Harris Faulkner and Martha McCallum.
And they were like, no, Erica got taken out.
She was escorted out by security.
And Harris Faulkner was like, I was under the table with Erica.
We were.
We were praying together, you know?
And so that was the moment.
And, you know, and to your earlier point, Glenn, it's like, oh, she's, it was all staged.
It's like, you know, yeah, it was all just some giant emotional production, guys.
That's really what we were doing.
We were playing 570 chess with everybody, and we just staged some Democrat who, you know, took a train across the country and assembled his weapons in his hotel room and Teacher of the Month and all this stuff.
We just did it for sympathy points.
You guys are real smart out there.
Real brilliant thinking.
I mean, literally the level of just, Idiocy and brain rot, and just, I don't even know what to make of it.
But there is such a desire to believe some sort of, you know, wild conspiracy, regardless of what the story is, Glenn.
Because, you know, sometimes the truth just isn't emotionally satisfying or psychologically satisfying enough for so many people.
And it's just really disgusting.
I was in that room.
My heart was pounding through my chest.
Everybody was shaken up.
You know, I'm not saying here I'm traumatized, Glenn.
I wasn't there.
On, you know, when Charlie was killed at UVU, obviously I didn't see anything crazy here.
It was just, you know, because it was the floor above and outside the ballroom.
But I will tell you, it was scary in that room and everybody was shaken up.
And so I'm just kind of disgusted, to be honest, that like whether it's the left or some fringe right crazy people that are still cannot be convinced that like, hey, there's bad people in the world.
A lot of them happen to be on the left and they want to kill people.
So, what is this going to mean?
I mean, I know Erica and the vice president were supposed to speak this week together.
Is that going to go on?
What does this mean for future events, not just for you, but for any of it?
Yeah.
I mean, listen, I think details are still getting worked out.
You know, I think when it came to the University of Georgia, you know, we weren't really coordinated as closely as we could have been with the Secret Service when JD's.
In an event, right?
We kind of take care of our own security.
We kind of take care of our own travel and to and fro.
I think that's one of the ideas that maybe we can coordinate better to make sure, you know, Erica's got a full detail and just kind of ride in with JD.
So that's kind of one of the things.
I mean, listen, every event's different.
Every event has its own security precautions and protocols that we need to put in place.
And so I don't want to make any broad generalizations or grand statements.
But yeah, I mean, it's a terrifying reality.
I mean, when we had the University of Georgia event, Where Erica had to step out.
I was grateful to step in and I was glad to do it, honored to do it.
You know, there was, oh, well, JD can get there and Erica can't, you know, it must have been he has lying or something.
Oh my God, he has secret service.
And secret service, let me tell you something, even my own family, when you have a key man who is on the person, the protectorate, they don't look around for others.
Their job is to get that one person out.
Secret service.
It is to get the vice president out.
It doesn't matter who's standing next to him.
Their job is to get him to security because of the Republic.
For the love of Pete, people, use your stinking brains.
In that, yeah, and Glenn, in that instance, and I actually appreciate your anger, the whole thing is so infuriating.
The issue wasn't necessarily the venue.
The Secret Service had been there, like clearing the venue, getting her to and fro.
She was getting docked, like actively by a bunch of accounts that were, You know, that was the real issue with travel.
But, anyways, it doesn't matter that.
Does she want to continue to do this, Andrew?
I mean, how much more?
I mean, listen, she's absolutely committed to, and I don't want to put words in Erica's mouth.
I think she's probably going to kind of clarify what this event has meant to her at some point this week and kind of where her head's at.
So I don't want to speak for her, but actually, she's completely committed and devoted to fulfilling Charlie's legacy and mission, and none of that has changed.
Obviously, this was a triggering experience in more ways than one.
And it wasn't just her as well.
Was at the event, and Mikey was just a few feet away from Charlotte UVU, and I know this was hard for him too.
And it's, you know, so in some ways, I'm the lucky one, you know, if you could call it that, where I haven't been up close to those events, and I've had to live with the fallout, certainly, but it's not hitting some, you know, deep sort of mental image.
So I'm grateful for that.
But listen, this whole thing is terrible, and I just think that we've got to do something because.
Our side thinks everything's Mossad or the Jews or whatever, at least not the fringy folks on our side.
And then we're still dealing with a radicalized, mainstream, violent assassination culture that is rising up on the left.
And I think that's the most terrifying thing about this, Glenn, you've got this guy was a fairly normie, indiscernible, and indistinguishable from so many of the other voices that you hear on the Nike news.
And that's the real issue here.
And you've got Hassan Piker talking about we need to soak the streets in capitalist blood.
And you've got, you know, they want to talk about social murder with the New York Times straight out of angles in the 1800s.
And we shouldn't be surprised when they are wrapping themselves in ideological pretzels to justify murder culture of conservatives.
You've got Destiny, who's a popular online leftist who says that conservatives, this is right after Charlie's assassination, need to be terrified about going out in public.
Like, this is what we're up against, you know.
And so, to the fringy folks on the right, not everything is Mossad or the Jews.
To the like crazies on the left, you need to stop, okay?
You need to stop exacerbating everything and blaming Trump for your own actions.
This is, I mean, this is not easy.
The problem is they're not going to stop.
The leaders won't stop because this is the chaos they want.
They know they are trying to collapse the republic.
They're not just trying to kill Donald Trump or something.
They're trying to collapse the United States of America and the Republic, period.
So they're not going to stop.
It's the normal people that are listening to this, that are marching with the No Kings rallies and all of this stuff.
They got to stop.
You've got to wake up and notice that you are surrounded by people who want to destroy the Republic, who want to bring this whole thing down.
They're not against Donald Trump and his policies, they are against.
Capitalism, the free market system, and the United States of America.
Period.
Wake the hell up.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to yell at you.
Yeah.
No, I'm with you.
I'm with you in spirit.
And I think there's a righteous indignation that all of us should feel because, listen, when we have political movements, and you saw it that night, you just walk outside of the Washington Hilton, and there's literal signs that say, Death to Tyrants.
This is how mainstream this has all been.
And you've got real mainstream elected leaders on the Democrat Party that speak at these No Kings rallies.
If you look at some of the signs, there's murder in the signs being advocated in the signs.
So they've been normalizing this for years.
And, you know, it's we really, you have to realize they're not going to stop because if they do, if they say anything and your name's not John Fetterman, if you say anything, you'll instantly get primed, right?
And John Fetterman will get primed too.
You know, there was a moment with John Fetterman and Erica that I heard about where, you know, he was pretty emotional and he just apologized for whatever he could.
I mean, he didn't need to, but it was a, I mean, there are glimmers of hope.
And yeah, that was after everything happened.
Oh, wow.
An emotional moment.
And I, yeah, good for John Fetterman.
That's a real moment.
So it's disappointing and depressing, but we got to do better, Glenn.
Please pass on to everybody at TPUSA.
All of our hearts and prayers are with you.
I think about you guys all the time and I pray for you all the time.
Thank you.
And Erica and all of you with so much respect, Andrew.
God bless you.
God bless you, Glenn.
Thank you.
You bet.
All right.
I tell you, I've reached out to John Fetterman a couple of times.
Just to say, you know, we don't agree on a lot of stuff, but you have been a remarkable man and very, very brave.
He's going to be primaried.
He will never win again.
And it's interesting to me that somebody who just says common sense stuff that is a Democrat, who doesn't agree with me, I mean, I'm not going to vote for John Fetterman, but who is just a Democrat, is so chased out of their own party.
They can't have anybody who is at all.
Not a radical.
They must have radicals in there.
And that's the number one thing.
Democrats, you know, you're not an innocent bystander at this point.
There's too much evidence.
There's just too much evidence.
You're not an innocent bystander.
These people want to destroy the United States of America.
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If you want a violent destruction of your country, you just keep going down this road.
Keep going.
We'll do everything we can to stop it.
We'll do everything we can.
To warn and to beg and to plead and to vote.
But you just keep going down with these radicals and you will get everything.
Your children and your grandchildren will suffer for generations.
Anybody who loses freedom like this will not get it back for at least three generations.
Your children and your grandchildren will suffer under Marxism and fascism and death and squalor, and you will be responsible for it.
Wake up.
I'm sorry, I should not be sorry, but I've had enough.