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	All right.
	Thank you, Scott Shannon.
	Thanks to all of you for being with us.
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	We do have John Solomon, Jason Chavitz, uh, all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly.
	Uh, he came out with his new book this week, uh, Confronting Evil, Assessing the Worst of the Worst.
	And yeah, here it is the yesterday, the 24th anniversary of 9-11, 2,977 of our fellow Americans were murdered that day.
	Uh those that died in the ensuing wars that followed, those that still to this day, those that died and those that suffer from 9-11 related illnesses are real, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
	I just got word from my TV team that uh we believe that Charlie's wife will speak to the country tonight.
	Uh obviously we'll cover that on Hannity.
	I I I just want to pause and pray for her and their two little children and this family and all the people in this country that loved him and what this young man was able to accomplish is so brilliantly inspiring.
	The idea, you know, ask me any question.
	Come on.
	Show me that I'm wrong.
	Prove to me that I am wrong.
	And he walk on to hostile environments, college campuses, these liberal indoctrination centers in most cases, and he would provide a couple of things.
	Number one, an opportunity for people to hear a voice they likely were not hearing or hearing very little of in the classroom, and that is a conservative voice.
	That's why I was hated by so many professors, and wait till I tell you, I have a whole list of what multiple teachers around the country have said about Charlie that it was repulsive and disgusting.
	And then he also offered affirmation for people that felt like, well, I'm like the only conservative here, and they were not.
	And let them know that you know what it's kind of it's all right to be I've always said conservatives are way more cooler than liberals.
	They really are.
	They just and and yeah, we do have people on the far right that uh I wish were a little more libertarian, a little more mind your own business, a little more freedom focused.
	Uh, we believe in liberty and freedom and you know, the the believe in the God-given talents that we were born with, and we want to provide opportunities for everybody.
	Well, most people that I know that are conservative are good.
	Let me tell you what we know, what we have learned.
	Uh one thing we learned, Washington Examiner had this is the authorities saying that the accused assassin, Tyler Robinson Robinson is his name, had become increasingly political in recent months.
	One point arguing arguing with family members about Charlie Kirk at the dinner table, saying it was full of hate, spreading hate.
	Robinson also mentioned Kirk was coming to Utah Valley University, objected to his presence on campus.
	Authorities confirmed that Robinson's roommate assisted law enforcement by showing investigators uh messages that included him and Robinson, these messages, uh I'm sorry, messages outlined what he did with the rifle used to murder Kirk.
	They discussed stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop, leaving the rifle in a bush.
	Messages related to a visually, you know, what people visually watching the area where the rifle was left and a message referring to have left the rifle rifle wrapped in a towel.
	Um I can tell you this, and and I hope I hope you won't be mad.
	I hope people will understand.
	I did know when I was on this program yesterday that they were much closer to finding him than was being publicly discussed.
	And I said on TV last night, I have a lot of faith in Cash Patel, and a lot of faith in Dan Bongino, and a lot of faith in Pam Bondi.
	And I know these three individuals.
	I have known them for years, and I know that this is deeply personal for all three of them.
	And as is every murder.
	I mean, there's so much violence and so much political violence, and the rhetoric is numbing people.
	I go back to and I repeat myself that the clo when the closing argument of a major political party in America is racist and Nazi, and your Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
	I mean, that that that pretty much sums it up.
	But, you know, we're learning more about Tyler Robinson and what we know about him.
	The Utah Sheriff, Mike Smith, FBI director Cash Patel, Utah Governor Spencer Cox provided a lot of the details uh on this investigation and the efforts, the work of law enforcement, you you cannot praise it enough.
	They they have done an incredible job in a very short period of time.
	A manhunt like this is not easy in any way, but they did a they have done a phenomenal job, and they deserve all of our thanks and and credit, as usual, law enforcement, you know, so much for the attitude of defund dismantle no bail laws.
	You know, a lot of good that's gonna do in moments like this.
	It's not gonna do any good at all whatsoever.
	Um I can tell you uh I know the president.
	I've had multiple conversations with him.
	He's pretty sure he's he's shaken up by it.
	He's heartbroken by it.
	Charlie loved the president, loved his family.
	You could see it in the interview, interviews that I had with both Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
	He loved the entire family.
	He was close to the entire family.
	And uh I think that all of us around this country really need moments of reflection, quiet reflection and introspection, and and really need to dig deep into the words that are being used that we've become,
	as I say, numb to, and that I would argue at times, I believe, for the weak-minded or mentally ill people, or people that you know can be convinced and indoctrinated into a belief system that they think they're doing good if they they they harm the people that they're being told repeatedly are Nazis and fascist.
	And Hitler and Staller and Mussolini.
	The uh he will face the death penalty.
	We do know that.
	Aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, capital, first degree felony conduct, the messages on the rifle.
	I kept referring to them as inscriptions.
	I knew what they were from the beginning, but I wanted to wait for law enforcement.
	And uh there were inscriptions, hey uh fascist catch, followed by an up arrow symbol, a right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols.
	Uh oh, Bella Cia see uh, I don't know, I even know what this means.
	If you read this, you are gay.
	L M-A-O, laughing my ass off.
	The accused uh assassin of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson threatening threatened to kill himself rather than surrender to authorities after his father confronted him about this sickening murder, according to law enforcement.
	The father recognized his 22-year-old son from photos of the suspected shooter that were released by authorities, leading the parent to confront his son when he returned home.
	Uh then he fessed up to the horrific shooting when his dad asked if he pulled the trigger, originally refused to turn himself into law enforcement.
	He told his father he'd rather kill himself, leading the parent to convince his son to speak with their youth minister, who also happens to be a U.S. Marshall Service Fugitive Task Force officer.
	The minister then called the deputy with the federal agency.
	The FBI took Robinson into custody.
	And, you know, one of the questions I have, and I want to make sure of, and I know that this is an ongoing investigation is, you know, were any people aware of this?
	Any other people involved in this?
	Utah Governor Spencer Cox was he's been amazing throughout this entire crisis.
	Didn't know a whole lot about him, but I've been very impressed with him.
	Uh, like the president on Fox and Friends.
	I had spoken to the president before his hit this morning.
	And I I knew at that point they had him.
	And I said, Are you going to disclose?
	He says no.
	And then if you ever want to keep a secret, I'll tell you one little fun fact about Donald Trump.
	Don't tell him.
	Um, but he he rightly, you know, gave all the credit to all the law enforcement to get to the bottom of it.
	Um, but he's he's been impacted by this, like he was impacted after Butler.
	I've I've I've I've known him for 30 years, and I know that this has changed him.
	All of this has changed him.
	And anyway, a roommate of Robinson shared with investigators messages affiliated with the contact.
	Tyler uh stated a need to retrieve this gun at this drop point, leaving the rifle in the bush.
	Robinson had different clothing on when he was first spotted on campus, change clothing on the roof.
	Robinson then changed back into that clothing at some point.
	Uh so when he was apprehended, um, there's one person responsible for what has happened here, and that person is now in custody and will soon be charged.
	I know for a fact that they are looking into any possibility that others may be involved in any of this.
	Um Cash Fattel highlights to my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, my brother.
	This is hard.
	We have the watch, and basically I'll see you in heaven.
	Governor said we'll continue to work with state and local authorities to develop the investigation to provide them the evidence they need for their ongoing prosecutions.
	We will be here to answer every call.
	They absolutely have, as long as it takes for as long as we need to find and apprehend whatever suspects might be involved, anybody that may have assisted in this on Fox and Friends this morning.
	You know he President Trump said they said Charlie Kirk was dead.
	When I was on the air that day, I knew that that message had been relayed.
	I didn't want to believe it.
	Linda, remember I said that privately.
	We have something called talk back, where it doesn't go out over the air.
	And I waited.
	Our friend Rod Arquette is a good friend of mine, dear friend of mine on our affiliate out in Salt Lake KNRS, and he saw that John Solomon reported it.
	He said, I didn't know what what it meant.
	I said, You mean dad?
	Charlie was shot?
	And I told these people, just get out, just go.
	You know, he should not be having a funeral right now.
	He should be out there.
	He had such a major impact on the election.
	I got so many young voters, and I give him so much credit.
	The radicals on the left are the problem.
	They're vicious.
	And we're gonna play montages on this program.
	We'll play them on TV tonight.
	And this has got to stop.
	This rhetoric has a dehumanizing impact on people.
	You know, urging Americans.
	Let me play one of them for you.
	This is Miranda Devine, and she put this out on X earlier today.
	Donald Trump and the Magor Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.
	Are they a threat to democracy?
	Yes.
	Are they going to take our rights away?
	Yes.
	Are they going to put people's lives in danger?
	Yes.
	Are they going to endanger the planet by not using climate change?
	Yes.
	People need to start taking to the streets.
	This is a dictator.
	I I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
	Maybe there will be.
	She's a genuine danger to American security.
	They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
	We have to preserve our democracy.
	Or speak out against lies and hate.
	There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
	We have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
	President Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat that the former president represents to our democracy.
	Donald Trump is an exescent kickback to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms.
	Kamala needs to stop saying that President Trump is a threat to democracy.
	It's now being deceived by some unhinged people as a call to action.
	Enough is enough.
	The author, J.K. Rowling, who has been brutalized In Great Britain herself for having opinions that are not popular with some, you know, literally just demolished the haters out there, you know, who couldn't wait to trash Charlie Kirk's memory.
	I'm gonna add one other thing here.
	If you are on social media, if I ever want to feel bad about myself, all I have to do is go on X and read comments about me.
	I don't.
	I never do.
	I don't have access to my accounts.
	I've stated that many, many times over the years.
	It's been years.
	When I post messages, I go through my team.
	They post them for me on my account.
	Uh I would say understand social media, these keyboard warriors, naked or in their underwear, anonymous in their basement.
	They are full of rage and hate and incendiary language.
	Just I would not waste a lot of time paying attention to it.
	You know, watch any of these shows that you know, things that are said about other kids and how it impacts kids, catfishing, all this other stuff that goes on.
	It's crazy.
	But protect your mind because it's cancerous.
	800 941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, we'll get an update on whether or not there is a possibility of any other people involved with John Solomon.
	We also have Jason Chaffetz, all things simple man Bill O'Reilly coming up.
	Hey there.
	I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
	You're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	We're going to get to our friend John Solomon and get an update.
	I know there is an ongoing investigation in terms of was anybody offering any material support, any other people involved.
	John Solomon was the first to report to me privately, they got him.
	And I always give him credit and attribution for the great work that he does.
	Um I wish the one day that he was wrong is when he first reported that Charlie had passed away this week.
	This has been a rough week for everybody.
	Uh we did learn, we did discover, and we knew a lot of this, but I really didn't want to get over my skis.
	I never want to do that.
	I don't want to rush to judgment.
	I don't want to put out information that's ever wrong.
	So sometimes I just take my time and wait.
	Hey, fascist catch.
	I'm talking about the inscriptions on the one one shell casing red, followed up by an arrow symbol, uh, a right arrow symbol, uh, three down arrow symbols.
	The arrow symbols are thought to be a reference to a video game called Helldiver 2, another casing read, Oh Bellasia, uh, and it goes on and on.
	It's an Italian song dedicated to resistance fighters during the Second World War who were fighting against the occupying Nazi forces, which goes to my point.
	Are we desensitized that has the Nazi fascist uh Hitler Stalin Mussolini comments?
	Are we dehumanizing conservatives, especially Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters to the point where people think they're acting doing an act of God if they hurt you know somebody or murder somebody like Charlie Kirk?
	Other messages, notices, bulges, OWO, uh an apparent reference to an internet meme connected with quote furries.
	If you read this, you are gay.
	L M A O, laughing my ass off.
	Uh, one other thing to report and one montage to play, then we get to John.
	Uh the very people shaping young minds of our nation.
	And this is what made Charlie Kirk's work so critical, and why he was so strong at what he did.
	He'd go into these liberal bastions of indoctrination, and he'd say, This, all right, let's have a debate.
	Let's discuss it.
	And and things that should be happening regularly in the classroom, but they are not.
	Little indoctrination centers, you know, the the 60s hippies gravitated toward academia.
	It slants very solidly left, woke DEI included.
	But anyway, um, as they point out, multiple features, uh uh multiple teachers around the country caught hearing Charlie Kirk's death.
	One example, special education teacher at King Elementary School in Massachusetts posting a video online of herself merrily singing God bless America, you know, with a grin on her face standing before a breaking news report of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
	This is sick.
	Naples, uh New York, another public school teacher, apparently called Kirk, an aspiring garbels talking about Joseph Goebbels referring to the heap propagandas of Adolf Hitler and his alleged Facebook folk uh posts good riddance to bad garbage.
	One teacher employed by the Department of Defense education activity, Fort Bragg, allegedly writing about Kirk on Facebook.
	He was a garbage human.
	I won't warn him for one second.
	Then threatened, we are at a point where things are gonna have to get ugly, messy, maybe even violent, to change this dumpster fire of a country, he said.
	And I can go on and on with example after example.
	Let me play one montage.
	Let me ask you tonight.
	Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
	Yes, I do.
	This is what kicking the sh out of fascism looks like.
	Try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that's been unleashed against us.
	So when we say Donald Trump is a fascist, fascism, a huge component of fascism is uniting racism, bigotry, a form of racist nationalism.
	This is we are now living in a fascist dictatorship.
	And so we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country.
	We're worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government.
	Not only to roll over to Donald Trump's will, but to roll over our democracy and allow him to take over this country as a fascist dictator.
	When fascism isn't just coming, it's already here.
	The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mark Milley said, no one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core.
	It starts with Kamala, ends with Tim Walls.
	John Solomon, founder, editor in chief, chief investigative reporter, JustHnews.com.
	Uh John has been working night and day, all week, you know, helping and really being ahead of the curve in terms of the investigation into all of this.
	Generously is always sharing uh what he's finding, the little I find I share with him.
	Um he's been a friend of this program for many, many years.
	John, thanks for being back with us.
	It's an honor to be with you, Sean.
	I love everything you do, and um, this is a sad week, but it ends on a positive note that at least we know we can now bring to justice the assassin that took Charlie Kirk from this country.
	And um, I did a little work because it it I don't think it's the public understands how extraordinary this arrest is.
	It is just 33 hours after Kirk is assassinated in the pit of that union area of the university that they brought um our killer to justice.
	They arrested him 33 hours to the month.
	Tyler Robinson, 22 years old.
	I did a little bit of research just to put it into perspective, some of the other big crimes of the last few decades.
	How long did it take?
	Boston Marathon bombers, the Zarnoff Brothers, five days.
	United Healthcare CEO Louisiana's assassin, five days.
	The Centennial Park bombing when we uh had the bombing right in the middle of the United States Olympics.
	Um yeah and ten months.
	The unabomber, Ted Kazinsky, 17 years and 314 days.
	Um it's pretty remarkable that in a 33-hour window that the FBI and the great uh men and women of Utah law enforcement were able to take this case with the help of the Justice Department, the FBI lab, and go from fragments of evidence to the a positive identification of the uh the defendant.
	And uh also making a call that in prior history of the FBI they often don't do.
	There was a bias in the FBI that you don't put the photo of your suspect out unless you're out of all leads.
	And in fact, the Utah authorities decided, hey, we're gonna do that in the 24-hour window, because we know that we don't know the guy, but we know what he looks like.
	And that had a profound moment because those photos led the father to recognize that that was his son, and the father gets the son uh uh in a position to be arrested.
	Um the law enforcement work on this is pretty remarkable.
	Thirty-three hours to catch a political assassin, and and for all the men and women in blue who played any role in this, they deserve an extraordinary applause and a moment of grieving in our country.
	You know, I said last night on TV and I meant it, and I in part because I I know Cash Patel.
	I've known him for years.
	You know of two very specific meetings the three of us and other people were in.
	Yeah, uh in Trump's first term.
	Uh that's a story in and of itself that will never be told.
	Um but all good, all for good reasons, all for the good of the country.
	Um I know Dan Bongino.
	I know Pam Bondi, I know the people at the DOJ.
	This is personal for them.
	They all knew love Charlie Kirk.
	They were on top of this.
	Uh because of a lot of what we were talking about behind the scenes, we were both very confident.
	At one point, maybe a little doubt, but confident that we were gonna get this uh sooner than later.
	I mean, you're right.
	Thirty-three hours, it really does put perspective on this.
	Yeah, for a guy who leaves this scene, it's hard.
	Once the once the defendant leaves the scene, it gets so much harder infinitely.
	Law enforcement did everything by the book.
	They let cops be cops.
	There was no political meddling.
	Uh, and you just saw every component of law enforcement working great together.
	The Utah State Authorities, the Sheriff's Department, the governor being an extraordinary asset all throughout, Pam Bondi giving Cash Patel every resource.
	Cash Patel, the second he's done with the 9-11 celebration in New York flying to Salt Lake City.
	And it's amazing.
	There's a moment in the press conference, and by the way, you got criticized for it.
	I'm like, why?
	He's he's saying we're taking this seriously.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	What uh what statement could there be better that the boss comes and tries to offer whatever he can on scene to help them get there?
	Um Cash Patel this morning going out of his way to say, I gotta thank the attorney general for getting all the resources we needed.
	Every component of law enforcement worked together because the politics was gone, even though there was a lot of personal grievement.
	Almost everyone you mentioned had a personal connection to Charlie Kirk.
	They they considered him a personal friend, the governor, Cash for sure.
	But they all work together professionally.
	They let cops be cops in 33 hours.
	A pretty extraordinary arrest.
	Uh, and um at least there's a little bit of solace for Charlie's uh family that at least the person who did this is in custody and about to face justice.
	Uh remarkable.
	You mentioned the gaming in the inscriptions, and I think this is an important part.
	Um we have a whole story in the inscriptions written by my incredible colleague Jerry Dunley, and we've tracked every one of them so we know where they are.
	These philosophies of anti-fascism, these philosophies that your fellow American is a threat to you if they don't agree with everything you believe.
	They're being rooted and injected into the system in multiple locations.
	Social media on TikTok, as Spencer Cox uh of the governor said.
	Uh the gaming world and in this uh Discord chat area, there's a whole set of communities of people trying to say that in the video game you should catch fascists so we can end fascists in the world.
	In schools, that concept is now being embedded by a new education of educators who believe their per political opinions are more important than uh the alphabet and the math and the science that prior generations of teachers did.
	But you're you've got a 360-degree immersion uh of the our young generations being surrounded by this anti-fascism, antifa type mentality, and that's how a vulnerable kid uh gets sucked up and ultimately wound up to be a political assassin.
	We gotta get a grip on this.
	We have too many examples, we have too many assassins, too many mass killers, too many uh school shooter uppers, and we're not getting to the bomb.
	The gaming world, the social media world, the education world, and many others have to step up and stop this culture from spreading further.
	We are dehumanizing our victims to the point when a shooter gets after, they don't even see a human anymore.
	They just see a target in a video game.
	We gotta get a grip on this.
	And I think that's what's so disturbing about the deep dive that Jerry Dunley we just did on this ammunition.
	You can see the cultural location where these phrases are drawn from the mindset of taking Soviet and Cuban and Iranian propaganda and imposing it into our children's minds until they become poisoned.
	And they get it in multiple places.
	A little bit of school, a little bit on the gaming online, a little bit on social media, and all of a sudden we're turning good kids into monsters.
	And I think that is an outcome that we can't just we can't rest now that we caught the killer.
	We gotta stop this immersion of our young people into this culture.
	You're right.
	They had a reference to the video game Hell Diver 2.
	By the way, I don't know my Italian songs well.
	It's Bella Ciao apparently.
	I apologize for mispronouncing it.
	But um here's the more important question.
	Yeah.
	Is there any belief or is the investigation ongoing of anybody that may have aided and abetted?
	I don't have a lot of time.
	I have a little over a minute.
	Yeah, there's uh they're still open to all those possibilities.
	They're looking at every end.
	Over the weekend, we're gonna have a really interesting story.
	Just a few miles from where Charlie was executed.
	Uh there's a group that's been coordinating with Cuba and uh Iran and other places recruiting young people under the same sort of terminology that is in the life of this young man.
	Now we don't know if they're connected at all, but in the Redis of States in those beautiful mountains is a Cuban elite aligned group operating on American soil, trying to poison the mind of children to show what that group looks like and what they're doing.
	Uh, we gotta get to the bottom of this.
	There is a lot of sweeps going on.
	They are not going to rest until they make sure that there's nobody else involved.
	They have some concerns, others involved, but they're not there yet.
	What do you make of the rhetoric of the left?
	Nazi, fascist, racist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Congresswoman O'Mar saying uh Charlie Kirk's supporters are full of Adam Schiff when they complain about left-wing violence.
	I mean, I I don't I don't see it stopping, John.
	If you want to excuse the the fact that you yourself boil the water, then don't be surprised that you burden your lips or you burden your fingers.
	The left has boiled this water.
	By the way, there are many in the right that did it for a long time too, but the left has boiled this water, and they uh they that boiled temperature combined, but this immersion into this anti-fascist rhetoric is creating a generation of monsters and killers that don't need to be there.
	Everybody has to look inside themselves and say, what have I done to contribute to this and what can I do to decelerate it?
	And right now I don't see anyone on the left that feels any remorse for the scenario scenario they've created.
	And that is a very serious dynamic.
	We gotta change it.
	All right.
	Uh John uh Solomon, he'll also be joining us tonight, nine Eastern on on the Fox News channel.
	Have you heard that that Charlie's wife may be speaking?
	Uh that's the latest that I heard.
	I hope so.
	Uh we would need to hear from her.
	She's a very strong woman and a woman of faith, and I think our country will be uh in some way touched by any words that she can utter to help us all get through this moment of grieving.
	But I have heard that she's gonna be making some words to name.
	All right, if that happens and we expect it will this evening, we'll cover it obviously tonight at nine on Hannity.
	We'll see John we'll see you tonight as well.

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