Trish Regan analyzes the mainstream media's post-Charlie Kirk tragedy apologies, praising Comcast for firing MSNBC hosts like Matthew Dowd while condemning Harvard's Larry Tribe and LA Mayor Karen Bass for inflammatory rhetoric. She highlights Hollywood's unified grief, Turning Point USA's surge with 37,000 new chapters, and the "Charlie effect" inspiring global conservatives against perceived left-wing extremism. Ultimately, Regan frames this moment as a pivotal shift where Americans reject hate speech in favor of civil debate, predicting continued electoral losses for the extreme left as they alienate moderate voters. [Automatically generated summary]
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Day of Reckoning for Media00:14:10
And we're live and what a weekend it's been, what a blur of a, you know, what last five days it has been, I think for all of us here.
But I'll tell you, at this moment in time, I'm actually, I'm heartened.
I'm actually heartened because I think I don't want to be naive.
And I'll believe it when I see it after, you know, we're into a month or so of the media letting up.
I think that there is some remorse.
Thank God, because this has just been an awful tragedy.
And I'll tell you, there's no amount of excuses I think they can.
Can get you to a place that we're ever going to be whole or certainly Charlie Kirk's family is ever going to be whole but but this is a wake-up call.
I mean, this is day of reckoning for the mainstream media.
For goodness sakes guys, now you finally get it.
Hello everyone, welcome to the program.
I am Trish Regan.
Wow, we hit a million subs over the weekend.
That was something yesterday morning.
I'm excited about it.
We're going to talk about it a little bit later on, because that is thanks to a lot of hard work on my part and a lot of hard work on your part, because you guys have been tuning in daily.
You have been part of this conversation together here with me.
I'll tell you what, I sure as heck wish that this could have happened at a better time because it's a very, very, it's a tough time.
I knew Charlie.
I was one of the first people to put him on TV 10 years ago.
We were colleagues at Salem Media.
I am still sort of in a state of shell shock, but I am heartened that we're here together and we're experiencing all this together.
So we will talk about that.
But you got the media, now the mainstream media coming out saying, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, gosh.
This is what it took, huh?
The media feels bad, as it should, as it should.
I mean, consider MSNBC.
They had a guy on MSNBC, Matthew Dowd, who, by the way, I used to work with at Bloomberg, who, by the way, still doesn't get it after he was fired because he started saying, well, you know, Charlie said all these things.
And when you say all these things, this is what you're bringing on.
I'm sorry.
There's no excuses here, ladies and gentlemen, for any of this.
And at least Brian Roberts and Mike Kavanaugh and some of the other people over there at MSNBC and NBC and Concast seem to be understanding that in this moment in time.
I mean, we need some adults, thank you very much.
I know they got rid of Joy Reid and they got rid of Matthew Dowd.
This guy right here, you see it on camera.
You know, I'm not even going to show his comments because you guys saw it on Friday and we don't need to go back to that.
A lot of people are saying a lot of despicable things and it just makes me sick to my stomach.
But I like to look at Glass Half Full and I'm happy that the Comcast executives fired this dude.
And by the way, I'm happy that they're telling all the employees to knock it off.
They issued a memo.
They issued a memo on Friday and let's go through it.
They say, Okay, enough is enough, guys, because this is kind of getting out of control, don't you think?
So they said we need to be respectful.
We need to have a respectful exchange of ideas like, duh, this is all we've been calling for.
This is all Charlie was calling for, okay, guys?
And yet you put Joy Reid out there and a few others I can think of that were certainly not respectful.
Nicole Wallace, I hope you're listening to this too.
Rachel Maddow, we'll see what we got in store from Rachel Maddow tonight on the show.
The executive CEO Brian Roberts and President Mike Kavanaugh and incoming Versant CEO Mark Lazarus are also referring to comments that have been made by that MSNBC political analyst, one Matthew Dowd.
I'll tell you, he's not that good on TV.
He's not that smart a political analyst.
And by the way, he said some really lousy, terrible things.
I mean, for goodness sakes, decency, humanity.
In a moment like that when you got breaking news coverage, And you don't even know if the guy's going to make it.
I'll tell you, I was live on the air.
I had heard from friends that had spoken with the family and the doctors, and they said he's probably not going to make it, and I didn't want to believe it.
And what do you know?
23 minutes into last Wednesday's show, I got the news.
We heard it from President Trump, and for the first time in my entire career, I started sobbing on set.
So thank you for being with me and tolerant and respectful of me in that difficult time.
But I'll tell you, over there on that network, you know what they were doing.
They were saying things that frankly, they should not have said, talking about oh, how he was filled with hate and it led to hate and this, that and the other, as though to excuse any of this.
I'll tell you, Charlie was never like that.
He was not filled with any hate.
He was one of the most wonderful people, one of the most religious intellectual, kind people who, by the way, was a brilliant, brilliant entrepreneur, and what he was able to build on a grassroots level.
And I'm telling you, it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger because he's got a wonderful wife in Erica Kirk and she is taking this on and taking it over and she is determined to make sure that her husband's legacy lives on.
JD Vance hosting his show.
I'm going to show you some of that today.
They wrote, you may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event.
They wrote, that coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions.
We should be able to disagree robustly and passionately, but ultimately with respect.
We need to do better.
Yeah, you better believe you need to do better.
Okay, guys, I'm glad that, you know, you're finally coming to the realization.
I hate the fact that it took the loss of one of my friends, one of my colleagues for you to get there.
But I better late than never, I'll tell you.
This guy's dense, though.
He's out there still saying he doesn't quite get it.
I said in the moment that we needed to get the facts because we have no idea what this could be, et cetera, et cetera.
And then he starts going on about the right wing media mob being ginned up and he does not want to accept.
He does not want to accept any responsibility.
He's saying that MSNBC reacted to that mob.
Oh, I see.
So he's panning his employer.
It's MSNBC's fault.
They're reacting to the mob.
Forget the fact that a guy was tragically killed, for goodness sakes, Matthew Dowd.
Shame on you.
I hope Maria, Maria Shriver, your gal pal, dumps you for this one because that is not acceptable behavior.
Anyway, MSNBC, they get it now, maybe sort of, or they're playing along.
They're trying to play along, right?
Because they're realizing, whoa, this is going to get ugly.
I mean, I'll tell you, we're getting a story right now.
Breaking news, the White House is talking about having some kind of broad crackdown on liberal groups.
You know, look, we need free speech, period.
End of story.
We need free speech.
You know, I believe in that.
Why do you think I play you all the liberal stuff all the time?
It's not to rile you up.
It's just so that you need to know what the other side is saying, right?
And I'm a big believer in that.
But we also have to be cautious about what's going on in terms of the tenor of the country, in terms of the aggression, in terms of the rabbit holes some of these people like this kid may have been going down.
That's a reality of where we are now.
MSNBC, Comcast, NBC, I think they're realizing this finally.
I mean, I can't believe that it it sadly took this, but they're realizing it.
And so they put a woman on the other night.
I think she hosts a podcast.
And she actually started saying, hey, you know, why have we demonized all young men, white men?
Why have we done that?
Yeah.
I'd like to ask you, why have you done that?
I think you guys thought that politically it was expedient.
And if you could just get everybody else to go out and vote for Kamala and forget about those white men, we don't need them, right?
That somehow she was going to get elected.
Except you forgot.
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
You know, it turns out, you know.
White men, they kind of matter too.
And by the way, a lot of women are married to them, or maybe women have fathers that are them or brothers that are them.
I mean, come on.
So she's kind of owning up to what has gone wrong.
And I'm encouraged by this.
Like, I'm happy to see this, but I'm also, how do you say?
I guess I don't fully trust it.
Is that fair?
Yeah, I think it's fair under the circumstances.
But nonetheless, it's good.
Here, watch.
Something that's just come to me throughout all of this is we all contribute to the society we live in.
You know, I've seen a lot of people pointing out Charlie Kirk's views on gun ownership.
And this is not the same, but it made me think about an email I got after.
After appearing on your show once before the election, I made a comment that I'd much rather be Kamala Harris because women were supporting her instead of being Donald Trump because he had a bunch of young men supporting him.
And I got a note that just pretty much asked me why I thought it was okay to cast young men, you know, blatantly as a group that a candidate wouldn't want support from.
And that's something that stuck with me because in a world where I'm saying things like that is also a world where a young man might feel marginalized and go into these online spaces where he's radicalized.
Find access to a gun.
And so I just want all of us to take this moment to think about the way we contribute to the society we live in and all try to do better.
I got to say, each one of us can do better and we all should try and hope it makes things better.
Yeah.
I'll take it.
Okay.
You know what?
I'll take it.
And I could play you a whole bunch of stuff as I have before about MSNBC saying horrible, horrible, horrible things about anybody on the right.
Including Charlie.
I mean, the day before he was shot you had CNN saying horrible things.
But you know what I?
I'm willing to turn over a new leaf.
Okay let's, i'll see it, we'll believe it when we see it.
Right, like you're telling me a good thing today.
Now we got to keep this up.
Okay, because we ought to be able to have conversations cat crazy, thank you so much.
He writes it uh, or she, because it's just cat crazy.
There have been uh, over 50,000 inquiries into the opening of NEW Turning Point Chapters.
That was on saturday.
This movement lives on.
Absolutely I i'm actually planning a whole section on that because Andrew Clovett, who is his Producer, whom I know and have worked with before, Andrew was on CNN just a short time ago talking about that excitement from a grassroots level.
In other words, this will live on, this will move forward.
And, you know, it's devastating that it took the death of such a pioneer who believed in sharing openly our ideas with one another in a civil debate style.
It is shocking that it took that.
But right now, we're in an environment where the legacy media is saying, wait a second, we better.
Catch up to this, because we have not been in the right in any of this, right?
I mean guys, think about this, think about what's going on.
It is a major mea culpa, right?
So you've got Comcast, you've got NBC, you even have that show that none of us like, right?
Even Whoopi Goldberg, on the VIEW, seems to be recognizing this moment in time because it is a powerful moment.
We've, for 10 years, right sat there and listened to them bash us over and over and over and over again and bash Donald Trump and call him all kinds of things, heinous things.
You know, some of the worst figures in history he has been compared to.
Charlie Kirk, likewise, has been compared to some of the worst figures in history.
Just look at what was inscribed, right?
And I don't want to get into it.
There will be time for that.
And once the FBI has completely come forward with all the information, we'll go through all that because we know what we think.
But I would just say this.
I would say this.
Everybody in the media needs to take a deep breath and say, look, we need to turn over a new leaf.
This is our turning point.
This is our turning point.
And we need to be able to have dialogues where we're not just immediately calling somebody a Nazi or Hitler because they disagree with us.
I mean, that's so disrespectful if you think about it, right, to history.
It's disrespectful to all the American lives that we lost in World War II.
It's disrespectful to the millions and millions of Jews that were lost in World War II.
It is disrespectful to our allies.
And yet they said this over and over again.
And it's like all of a sudden, click, they figured out they went too far.
You can't have 10 years of brainwashing the American public.
By the way, they didn't even succeed in brainwashing because guess who's back in the Oval Office right now?
One Donald Trump.
But they did.
Kind of poison a generation now, didn't they?
Here's Whoopi.
And she's taking a moment to think about it.
She's actually being kind of serious.
I don't think she's the most eloquent person in the world, so I don't think she's getting her ideas out quite the way she would like to.
But again, it's something.
Remember, is just because you take somebody out doesn't mean the message is going to stop.
And it's important to keep that in mind because when you look at our loss of Martin Luther King, or any name anyone who's been assassinated in this country, we continue to fight on.
And that's what America offers.
It says, listen, you have the right to say and feel however you want, that is a birthright.
You're born with that right.
You want to fight about something, then go to the ballot box, go elect different people.
Killing people doesn't do anything except make it a horrible world for their children.
America's Right to Fight00:07:50
We'll be right back.
You don't really have to take losing Charlie to get to that, guys.
I mean, she started down one path trying to say, like, it's not going to change anything.
You better believe it's not going to change anything in that it is getting stronger.
You've got conservatives coming out of the woodwork.
You've got Democrats that suddenly are saying, I don't think this is my party anymore because I don't like the fact that too many people are celebrating this.
Yeah, go over to TikTok.
That's what you're going to see, okay?
Not over here.
Not on the Trish Regan.
Channel, no way.
No way, Jose.
So anyway, Whoopi Goldberg is coming to this realization that you know, maybe things have gone too far.
You better believe they've gone too far.
And you know, her boss, Bob Iger, was trying to tell her it had gone too far.
The president of ABC was trying to tell her it had gone too far.
Everybody was trying to tell her.
I was trying to tell her it had gone too far.
Brandon Carr at the FCC, who's threatening to revoke the license of ABC NEWS, was trying to tell her it had gone too far.
But this is what it takes, Listen, Charlie did not die in vain.
Charlie was committed to breaking through the insanity that you see in these cable networks and the legacy media, because it's not just cable.
It's the regular programs too.
NBC News and World News Tonight and CBS Evening News, they're all kind of cut from the same cloth.
99% of the coverage, 92, I guess is the actual statistic, has all been negative on Donald Trump.
All was positive, majority positive, 99% on kamala Harris.
Well, America is starting to see through that.
Most of us anyway.
Not everyone.
Not these radicals.
And so you realize how dangerous this is becoming, right, as a society.
And so Whoopi's waking up to that.
Bob Iger has woken up to that at Disney.
They were flying the flag at half staff at Disneyland.
Right thing to do, Disney, okay?
Right thing to do.
A lot of actors, Hollywood is coming out in support of Charlie Kirk.
Imagine that.
Because I think everybody's saying, wait a second, you know, this has gone too far and we can't keep living like this.
It's wrong.
And you're seeing an outpouring like we've never seen before for these chapters for Turning Point.
So Turning Point is an organization that he started as a kid.
I mean, I think he went to like one semester of college when he was 18.
And he's brilliant, by the way, was brilliant.
He just was such a student of history.
of the Bible, the Old Testament, the New Testament.
He knew the Constitution inside and out.
By the way, not only did he know the U.S. Constitution, he knew like every Constitution in the 13 colonies, all right?
He was just this like savant of information, but not only was he a savant, he could communicate and he loved to communicate and he had a beautiful style of debate, incredibly Socratic, right?
And so it was entertaining to watch because he'd ask questions and he'd really probe and he'd try to understand the other side and he'd try to make sure that they understood him.
He was a in what he was doing.
And his reach was enormous.
I mean, you know, I can't believe how many young kids loved and knew Charlie Kirk.
And so there is now all of a sudden an outpouring.
I'm looking at Cat Crazy who's saying 50,000.
Andrew, who was his producer, Andrew Clubbett, was on this morning on CNN and Andrew mentioned 37,000.
Hey, maybe it's grown since then.
I don't know.
But listen, this is great.
Think about it like, you know.
I don't know.
It's kind of like the Boy Scouts of America, right?
You've got all these chapters all over the place in schools and communities, and it's all about teaching kids to be more civic-minded, to care for their community, to care for one another, to care about religion in their life, to adapt a good set of values and think about their future in new kinds of ways, as well as hopefully their political involvement for good.
He really was trying to inspire people, and guess what?
A lot of people are now super inspired.
His wife, Erica Kirk, just broke everyone's heart the other night speaking out on behalf of her husband, vowing to move forward with this organization turning point that he helped deliver the youth vote for, for Donald Trump.
Let's watch, Andrew.
At this point, we're over 37,000 inquiries just through our website, tpusa.com, saying, I want to get involved and start a chapter.
And to put that in perspective, Right now, we have 900 college chapters, official college chapters, and 1,200 high school chapters, and about 3,500 total.
So, 37,000 is enormous.
And so, it has galvanized the country because I think people are sending these clips around.
And Charlie spoke from a place of such integrity and just of what he believed and what he stood for that it just hits so hard.
And I've said that to other people.
I said, you know, two people could say the same thing, Pamela, and For some reason, Charlie's would go further, and it's because there was something in it.
The integrity of who he was and what he believed and what he stood for and his faith in Jesus was so powerful that it would just echo and spread.
And that's what made his voice so powerful.
And you're seeing that now with how people are so moved by it that they just can't do anything but try and get involved in some way.
And we've been just inundated with people saying, Hey, I run this kind of company.
Can I help?
It's totally free.
Hey, I do this.
Can this be helpful to you?
And then the students.
The students are devastated.
We're getting.
So many of those testimonials, and they want to see Charlie's legacy live on through Turning Point USA.
It's true.
I mean, I told you guys this last week.
I get three kids of my own.
One of my daughters was up very late with me.
I was crying my eyes out on Wednesday night.
And she was, you know, teared up too because she said, Mom, I feel like I lost a friend.
You know, she may have met Charlie once, maybe in the green room years ago.
She was too young to have ever remembered it.
But she said, I watched him every day.
I really feel like I lost a friend.
And what was incredible is his way of reaching out to people, right?
Think about it through a screen like I'm trying to do with you right now.
And, by the way, we've been very successful at doing, you know, a million subs and still climbing.
So thank you for that, guys.
But he had a way about him and he had a way of inspiring people, inspiring kids.
And my son said to me, gosh, you know, the thing is mom, what about like my kids and like my son's, only 12?
Right, so he's, he's thinking way in advance, but he's like, how do we make sure that everybody knows what he stood for and that his legacy really does continue on?
Because I'll remember this day.
But you know, when, you know, we got to make sure that generations and generations and, and this is what his wife is, is committed to.
I'll tell you, my son said this after he heard this one, I'm going to play you the sound bite from Erica, this one bit of sound from Erica Kirk.
He was in the room listening.
He was playing with his building blocks as I was playing her.
And he came over and stood by me and he put his arm on my shoulder.
And that's when he said how critical it was that everyone remember for generations to come the importance of open dialogue, of open speech, and what this man was trying to accomplish, whether you agreed with him or not, for goodness sakes.
But here's Erica.
Misinformation and Young Americans00:04:06
This will tear you up.
And I talked to her and she said, Mommy, I missed you.
I said, I miss you too, baby.
She goes, where's daddy?
What do you tell a three-year-old?
She's three.
I said, baby, daddy loves you so much.
Don't you worry.
He's on a work trip with Jesus so he can afford your blueberry budget.
And my goodness, am I so humbled to witness, Charlie, you alongside Jesus right now.
Yes.
And he is with Jesus and he is with God.
And you know, Charlie, with such a man of faith, I have a feeling.
I have a feeling he's looking down on all of this.
And he knows that there will be good to come.
There will be good to come.
I mean, you're going to have your haters out there, right?
I mean, Larry Tribe, for goodness sakes, the guy's a Harvard law professor.
I guess he's retired now, but, you know, he was one of Harvard's biggest, you know, just big, big deal lawyer, right?
You're not going to get bigger than Larry Tribe.
I mean, Dershowitz is the other example of this, but Larry's a big, big time Dem.
And I'll tell you, it bothered me because right after this happened, what was he doing the other night?
He was trying to blame MAGA.
And I'm like, okay, like, I'm sorry, but like, this is not the time for a blame game, okay?
At all.
Like, we're going to get all the information in from the FBI, but like, why are you blaming MAGA?
That one, I don't understand, Larry.
But he was reading a tweet from Occupy Democrats.
And the reality is, is that this kid, I don't even want to say his name.
You don't want to give too much attention to these people.
But anyway, this kid grew up in a family that was a Mormon family, was a conservative family, and Trump-supporting family.
And so automatically, like those on the left, they just assume, okay, so he was taken out by one of his own.
That actually is not believed to be the case.
The FBI is investigating a motive here in which they believe because of the person he was alleged to be romantically involved with who was a transgender.
It is believed that somehow that had a motivation and I don't want to go too far down that until we get more information but you've seen the reports, you've read the reports, it had nothing to do.
He had been radicalized at some point along the way and yet Larry Tribe is trying to blame it on the GOP and MAGA.
I mean look he quickly retracted it but I think it tells you something right like it just tells you something about where people's heads immediately go like just boom you know they don't have any doubt.
And for him to tweet that out was a pretty aggressive thing to tweet.
And then he's calling it back now, trying to say his reaction was premature.
And I'm sorry I reposted a tweet to that effect before deleting my repost.
So he's apologizing.
MSNBC is apologizing.
But I think as Jonathan Turley points out, look, you know what?
The shooter, Kirk Shooter was, assume that he was MAGA.
is actually taking disinformation to a whole new level.
And for somebody of Larry's stature, he really should have been a little more careful, shall we say, about what he was sending out, tweeting out, as though it were facts, right?
because that was in fact, it was all wrong.
So I think that it proves the point that we still have a group of people out there who have been indoctrinated in one side and one side only.
They immediately hate the other side.
They reduce everything to me versus you, us versus them.
Refusing to Lower Flags in LA00:02:18
And I'm just saying this is not the time and place, okay?
And I'm glad that some people, including even Whoopi Goldberg, imagine that, are realizing that at this point in time, along with Comcast, because if nothing else, Charlie deserves that.
JD Vance filling in for my friend Charlie today on his program.
And, you know, he said Charlie was just gifted, gifted at everything he was doing, including his political operation, which became quite massive.
Listen.
I don't think that I'm alone in saying that Charlie was the smartest political operative I ever met.
Everyone knew him as this fearless debater, this guy who would take the conservative message into hostile places and inspire younger generations to have courage.
One thing that's hit a lot of those young Americans over the last week was how Charlie was there for them when others were not.
When they were afraid to speak their minds, when they were afraid of what a professor would say, when they were afraid that they would be shouted down by their peers, Charlie was there showing them that they could be courageous and that they could be bold.
Yeah, you better believe he was.
He really was.
He was out there showing young people the way.
And it was such an admirable thing, but he also had a business plan to it.
And so when he says, you know, this guy was a political op, you better believe he was.
What he was able to create in terms of a grassroots organization was phenomenal.
Eric Trump was on with his wife, Lara, the other night on her show on Fox.
And one of the things he said to Lara was, you know what?
When Charlie first came to us years ago and said, hey, this is my business plan.
This is what I'm trying to do with Turning Point.
I really want to get the word out to this younger generation.
Look, he delivered on all of it.
He really did.
So he was a great debater.
He was great on television.
He was great on his podcast.
He was great in front of a crowd.
And, and he was a great entrepreneur business person.
I mean, this was a nonprofit, so I don't really want to say entrepreneur, but wow.
I mean, think about the skills you have to have to be able to pull all that off.
So JD's right.
You know, he gave kids a reason to push back.
And so you could push back maybe against the Larry tribe at Harvard.
What about Karen Bass, the mayor of LA?
Georgie Poo's Violent Character00:03:28
I'll tell you, not everybody's with the program here.
Not everybody.
Karen Bass refusing, this is disgusting, to lower the flags.
refusing to lower the flags in la this is the mayor of los angeles and so she put out a notice saying no no no no we're not going to do this and i'm just saying like what is wrong what is wrong with people come on karen does it cost you that much i mean he he you didn't agree with him but do you think he deserved that no No.
Okay?
No one deserves to be killed because of their political beliefs.
Period.
Full stop.
This woman needs to be voted out of office.
This is a bad move.
This is, you know, this is not the future.
I think the future is in front of us.
The future is that we're going to start to have more civility.
Because we're not going to allow for people like Karen Best to just double down on hate no more.
We don't want that.
Or this guy, you know, the Oxford Union debating president.
Do you see this?
Whew.
He's in trouble now.
He's going to be disciplined.
I guess the student council, the student union is going after him.
I say, expel that kid.
My gosh, what are you doing with a debate president that would say these heinous things like he had said?
You know, he had debated Charlie.
You see this guy on screen?
George Aubaronye.
I can't say his name, so we're going with Georgie Poo.
Not the Georgie Poo that I normally talk about, which would be the Georgie Poo on Sundays on ABC's this week.
This is the new Georgie Poo in the UK.
So Georgie Poo in the UK is the guy who, I guess after running the DEI chapter, then became head of the entire debate group there at Oxford.
But wow.
You know, he celebrated Charlie's death.
He actually put it out on Instagram, L-O-L-L, and then was putting it out on WhatsApp.
And there are obscenities involved and saying, let's go.
I mean, this is despicable behavior.
And I don't even want to read this stuff to you because I just think it's wrong.
But I'm going to give you a little insight into Georgie Poo's character because Georgie thinks that violence is okay and should be allowed when these institutions are not servicing everyone.
This institution is about to get rid of Georgie Poo.
Watch.
To effectively create change in the world we desire.
And Side Prop will argue that at times there is simply nothing else that can be required other than violent retaliation.
And this is a view I wholeheartedly agree with.
The view that some institutions are too broken, too regressive, too oppressive to be reformed, like cancers of our society.
They must and they should be taken down by any means necessary.
So, that guy's living in the past because you know what?
This is a whole new world.
And we're going to celebrate that it's a whole new world.
And it's a world where we can have discussion and we can have debate and we can love each other throughout the entire process.
And we're not going to talk about taking down the other side through any means possible.
You know that, Georgie Poo?
You need to be expelled from Oxford because we don't need people like that in places of leadership that do not have.
Human decency.
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That's what I'm calling for, okay?
I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
I just want you to care about human life and human beings and have some respect for that.
If you don't, then I don't think you're doing anybody any favors.
I don't think Oxford should be putting you up as head of their debate society, nor educating you at Oxford University.
You need to go back to square one.
Hey, oh, I don't know.
Maybe go read a Bible.
All right?
Maybe start with that.
Look, America's turning red.
This is a moment.
This is a turning point.
for the United States of America because people are looking at this and they're saying, how can that guy say that?
How can these kids on Twitter say that?
How can anybody justify any of this?
How can Karen Bass, the LA mayor, be so mean as to say, I'm not going to put my flags at half staff?
This is hurting people and they're starting to switch.
I want you to see this guy.
Gosh, I came across this one and I wanted to share this with you.
He just got a suit.
His wife bought him a suit and he's gonna go to church for the first time because well Charlie, Yeah, it's the Charlie effect, take a peek.
I Don't.
I don't come from any kind of money and I've never owned a suit before My wife.
She bought me this suit.
Our anniversary is coming up And we have a nice anniversary plan.
You know, we make a little bit of money now.
And I'm proud to say that because that's certainly not where either one of us comes from.
And I feel good in this suit, man.
Looks good.
And I just want my wife to know she made me feel good.
It's a $300 suit.
I ain't never had nothing like this before in my life.
And I tell you what.
Okay, video flip here.
So I'm going to lose some of you.
I didn't know Charlie Kirk.
Never met that guy before in my life.
And something else that I've never done before in my life is believe in God.
I'm going to wear this suit to church.
I'm going to go to church.
I'm going to try to be a better person.
Father, husband, and leader for my family.
They deserve that.
My phone fell down.
I guess that's the devil trying to fuck me up right there.
I'm going to try, y'all.
Look at this suit.
I look good, bro.
My wife made me feel this way.
Charlie's made me feel this way.
Yeah, message over.
Wow.
You know what?
What a guy.
And there's so many more where that came from, right?
Like he inspired people.
You should have seen the lines at church all weekend, right?
I mean, you couldn't even get in in some places.
Charlie Kirk, look what you did.
No parking.
No parking at all.
None.
Had to park like five blocks away from church because everyone wants to come now.
Amen.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Charlie.
He's inspiring a movement for sure.
Not just church, but a movement.
Well, towards the GOP, dare I say.
I mean, a lot of Democrats are like, what am I doing in a party that is celebrating something like this?
I mean, that's not what I believe in.
I'm a human being that loves other human beings and you're welcome to a different point of view, but you shouldn't be, you shouldn't be doing this.
Okay there's, there's no, no room for that, no room in the end.
So I want to show you a few of these that I came across.
We've been playing them in the shorts feed.
Let's take a look.
I keep hearing this.
I was an old school Democrat.
I will never vote a Democrat ever.
I was a Purple Party Independent.
You lost me.
I'm all red now.
You are and will always be part of the problem if you're rejoicing in that.
He was a family man.
He just came and was respectful to everybody.
It's pathetic.
And so has what the Democratic Party has become.
Well said.
Another Democrat disgusted, disgusted by his party.
It's disgusting.
It's disgusting.
Truly.
And the fact of the matter is this he was a father.
And whether or not I agree with his political opinions, all he truly wanted to do at the core was see this country be the best.
And I can fing respect that.
And to see people just be blatantly disgusting.
Man, we're the worst, man.
We're horrible.
Change parties.
The whole country's going red.
I keep hearing from libs that are leaving the party after what happened to Charlie Kirk.
I never thought we'd get to the point.
Where I would have to look at my own party and be like, oh, hold on, I can't support you anymore because everything that you are doing right now is against your political viewpoints and your values and beliefs.
To sit here and promote gun violence against your opponents is wrong.
And it arguably makes you worse than the other side because you're basically saying these people deserve to be unalived because our political beliefs are more important and should stand and should have more value than a human life.
Yeah, it's a problem.
Yeah, it is.
So I think that you're going to see more and more people starting to shift, starting to say, you know what, you know, it's a new day.
I can't condone that.
No one should ever condone that.
Meanwhile, Hollywood, Hollywood is coming to Charlie Kirk's defense.
What is going on?
I mean, you see Disneyland?
They actually had this.
Karen Bass wouldn't put her flags. in the city of LA at half mass, but Disneyland sure did.
Watch.
I'm not really into giving up my location, but they lowered the flag half staff at Disneyland.
Good move, Disney.
Very good move, Disney.
And you know what?
I don't say that a lot.
Very good move, Disney.
Bill Maher was talking about how great Charlie was about being willing to discuss things, being willing to come on and debate him in a way that so many on the left absolutely refuse because they just go, Like little kids, right?
Stomping their feet.
I'm not going to tolerate that viewpoint.
You're this, you're that, and lots of name calling.
And he said, That's the entire problem with them.
He's right.
Just the fight I have been having with the left.
While I'm, of course, the irony is a lot of people in my position are still a liberal, just a traditional liberal, not, won't go along with their, like a lot of the stuff that's just crazy out there too far, which gets Trump elected, blah, blah, blah.
As I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person.
You're just why she lost.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Took me a second.
Sorry.
Okay.
You know, they're the people who don't want to talk.
It's my main issue with them.
And Charlie Kirk was a guy who, like, he was always talking.
And I talk to him here.
You know, the right wingers say what you want about them, but they talk to you.
They're not into this leftist thing.
The left really has much more of a, I don't.
Talk to you.
I don't want to deal with you.
You're deplorable.
I can't break bread with you.
That attitude, and like all the right wingers, they don't have that attitude.
Now, again, I didn't vote for them.
And Charlie Kirk and I certainly don't agree on much politically, but he sat here.
He's a human being.
He's not a monster.
And a husband and a father.
Yes.
And I liked him.
I liked them all.
They're all nice people when you meet them in person.
And they're not.
As crazy as they would.
Nobody's as crazy as they make them out to be.
Well, that's true.
We don't bite.
And we are pretty nice.
And Charlie was one of the nicest.
And you know what?
Charlie made a lot of sense.
I was amazed.
Like the media, they love to take something that you say out of context and play that up as the headline.
And they were notorious for doing that with Charlie.
I think they were scared of Charlie.
They were scared of Charlie because you know what?
Charlie was everything, right?
He was smart.
He was well read.
He was steeped in history.
He was great looking.
He was tall and he could communicate and he kind of held the youth in the palm of his hand.
Well, that's pretty scary to the mainstream media and to the left and the libs and the Karen Basses of the world that won't lower their flags.
So he represented something that they were very intimidated by.
So they had to take him down and they tried to do that constantly in the media.
Well, a lot of people in Hollywood, I'm happy to say, are coming out.
For one, Charlie Kirk, Kristen Chetowit.
Remember her from wicked great voice, former Miss Ohio, operatically trained.
So you know I I have a lot of respect for her.
She's um, very religious as well.
She has come out for Charlie and uh, that was just great to see great great, great to see.
Let me see if I can share with you what she actually said, because it wasn't just her, there's been a few of them now that have come out and said, you know what this is wrong?
It never should have happened.
And it takes a little bit of bravery Selma Blair as well.
Let me see if I can get this one onto the screen.
Okay, here we go.
Selma Blair um, actually posted a comment on Instagram saying, what an incredible man, this incredible man who would go into the cauldron of indoctrinization and to use logic, to have dialogue.
And I am sick for his family, for all of us.
And then Kristen Chenoweth agreed.
And she said, you know, I agree with what you're saying, Selma.
Adding her own comment on Charlie, quote, I'm so upset.
Didn't always agree, but appreciated some of his perspectives.
What a heartbreak, his young family.
I know where he is now in heaven.
Well, their fans went bonkers.
Okay.
Their fans went bonkers, which also gives you a little bit of a read of the room.
So I'm encouraged that people feel comfortable enough to speak out right now.
I think that's important.
And so they have my backing for sure in that they're speaking out at a really, really important time.
I like seeing that they're coming to the defense of Charlie Kirk.
You know who else came to the defense of Charlie Kirk?
How do you like this?
Coldplay.
Chris Martin.
Great band, you know the guy that used to be married to Gwyneth Paltrow?
He's in London at a concert and what did he do?
He encouraged his entire audience to put their hands up and send love out to Charlie Kirk's family.
Watch.
And so with that in mind, for the final time for a few years in London, let's raise our hands like this and send love anywhere you want to send it in the world.
There are so many places that might need it today.
So here it comes from London.
You can send this to your brother or your sister.
Families of people have been going through terrible stuff.
You can send it to the families of people who have been going through terrible stuff.
You can send it to Charlie Kirk's family.
You can send it to anybody's family.
You can send it to people you disagree with, but you send them love anyway.
You can send it to peaceful people in the Middle East, Ukraine, in Russia, in Azerbaijan, in Sudan, in Somalia, anywhere that you think might need love from London.
Here it comes.
In five, four, three, two.
And everybody put their hands up.
And everybody sent love.
And he worked Charlie's family right into that.
Because no one deserved what Charlie got.
Deborah Messing, another one.
It's like the best picture I've ever seen of her.
Deborah Messing, who, by the way, was just awful to me.
Like she was like tweeting against me back in 2020 all the time.
I'm like, when did I suddenly bring on the wrath of Deborah Messing?
Oh, and Bette Midler was the other one.
Well, I think that she's actually become much more in touch with her faith as a Jewish woman.
And this is one of the things that Charlie really stuck up for.
He was a Christian, but he was also quite a Zionist.
And I think she's quite upset with what has happened.
To Charlie, let me share with you some of what she wrote.
She said, I couldn't sleep last night.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is so horrifying and devastating.
I'm with her.
I couldn't sleep.
I didn't sleep all last week.
I barely slept this weekend.
I wanted to come on with you guys this weekend.
We had some content, but you know what?
It was just, I needed a couple days.
I really did.
I really needed that.
It's a tough thing for all of us to be going through.
She wrote, I found many things he said offensive, but he was the father of two, a husband and a devout.
Christian, someone smart and articulate who believed in the power of debate over violence.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
The power of debate.
He was a nonviolent person who just believed in intellectual curiosity and debate.
And yet this senseless act happened.
She wrote, I am praying for Charlie Kirk's family, his friends, and the students who witnessed his killing.
I'm also praying for those who are celebrating, right?
Because that's pretty awful that they, anybody out there would do that.
They have to wake up to the darkness that they are endorsing.
We have to be better.
We have to be human.
Okay, I know, I know Deborah Messing has had her share of, you know, liberal nonsense, just like Whoopi.
And maybe they're just trying to save their careers.
I see some comments on that.
Like, I get it.
But you know what?
For a day or two in Charlie's memory, I'm willing, I'm willing to extend them the benefit of the doubt and hope that this is a moment of peace for the better.
A moment where we can come together.
A moment where, you know, the Karen Basses of the world that want to double down on all that bad stuff or any of those kids out there on TikTok doubling down on bad stuff, that they're the ones out in the cold, that the rest of the nation is going to come together and be one and think about how we have articulate, smart, thoughtful, respectful debates with one another.
We don't need like the guy at the Oxford Union Club, okay?
That's not respectful, honest debate.
That's I want to kill you because I don't like your side and if I have to resort to violence, so be it.
No, That is never what Charlie stood for.
That's not what our country stands for.
Chris Pratt, an actor from Parks and Rec, he got a lot of flack for this one.
But he just asked people to pray, to pray for Charlie.
Charlie.
Hey guys, just stop real quick and pray with me.
Lord, you say, Be still and know that I am God.
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Psalm 46 10.
Be still and know that I am God.
In this moment, please, Lord, calm my restless mind, quiet my anxious heart.
Help me set aside distractions and choose what gives life and gives peace.
Isaiah 26, 3, you keep in perfect peace those whose minds are stayed on you.
Lord, fill me with strength to turn my attention toward you, that I find rest and joy in your presence.
Amen.
Amen.
Okay.
Amen.
Amen.
I love that some of Hollywood is coming to his defense.
I think we all must come to Charlie's defense.
We are all Charlie Kirk right now.
No matter what side of the aisle you are on, if you believe in fairness, if you believe in this great republic, if you believe in our First Amendment, you must stand for Charlie Kirk.
And he cannot have died in vain.
This is the turning point for America.
We reached a million subs here on the Trish Regan channel just yesterday.
I've been working really hard over the last couple years, really religiously over the last year and a half being here every single day with you no matter where I am in the world to make sure that we are talking together about the biggest issues we're confronting of our time.
I mean we really are on the front lines of history in more ways than one in a very transparent way in a very different kind of way in a very very honest brutally honest way.
No teleprompters no middle management no bells and whistles just you and me and it's a very special thing that we've been able to create and I I'm so excited for us reaching that mark.
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But it also comes at a somber time, at a difficult time, at a time when, you know, I wish we had other things to be talking about, right?
It's natural to be excited.
And, you know, I want to have balloons and a cake and a big, big party.
But I'm not really in the mood for a party right now.
What I'm in the mood for is a chance for America.
to come to its senses, for America to be thoughtful and respectful of one another, To look out for each other in ways that we so deserve.
Because what we have seen, unfortunately, from a lot of people, and I don't know why they did this.
I don't know why.
You've seen the, we call them sots.
I mean, sound on tape, sot strings.
You string together all those sots, and I played them for you, of the left just bashing the right and.
bashing MAGA and bashing Trump over and over again and sending this terrible message to everybody.
Why?
When in politics have we ever done that?
I know they didn't like Reagan.
They called him stupid.
They didn't like Dan Quayle.
They called him stupid too.
Reagan was the actor, right?
They didn't like Bush.
I remember his daughter, Jeb Bush's daughter, telling me, I interviewed her once, and she was saying that it was awful when she was a student at Yale and she would have to, like her friends would take her down another path.
to get to wherever they were going because there were all these anti-Bush signs up everywhere.
Like, for whatever reason, the left has been able to just pound the right and call people things that you would not call them.
I mean, whether, you know, oh, we're going to say they're racist or they're Nazis or they're this or that.
I mean, it's like, wow.
Like, how do you get away with that?
Here's the thing.
You're not going to get away with it anymore.
Those days are over.
We're speaking up.
37,000 turning point chapters being started, new ones all across the country.
Conservatives coming out of the woodwork saying, hey, I got to defend myself, my family, my country.
If not for me, for Charlie.
I got to defend freedom of speech.
I got to defend the right for common decency and dialogue.
This is so important right now.
And it's important what we're doing here on this channel.
So I want to thank you all for being here.
Make sure that you subscribe.
If you haven't, there's a bell.
Then you know exactly when I'm live.
We've got a big week coming up outside of everything that's happening vis-a-vis Charlie.
We've got the Fed meeting.
They're talking about cutting by 25 basis points.
Hey, hey, maybe we'll get 50 basis points.
We shall see.
Lots going on on the economic front, on the political front.
A lot going on, of course, still.
With Charlie and keeping his memory alive.
So, thank you for being here, thank you for what you do.
Please make sure you give it a thumbs up, make a comment.
If you watch this after the fact, do know that I look at those comments and yes, amen indeed to all of you.
Peace in my mind was one of the first to tell me, hey Trish, you're at a million, you're at a million and it's amazing.
I'm excited, i'm thrilled.
Guys, we've done this together.
You have been such a big part of this, such a big part of this um, waiting on the lord.
Thank you for your generosity.
You know, you say these people are saying okay they're, they're moderate Democrats.
I've never heard of moderate Republicans of you.
Love watching your show.
God bless, it's true right, like they're, like you know, if you're a Republican oh, you're crazy, you're a total crazy person.
I'm like, i'm really not that crazy.
I'm really not I I, is it that i'm getting older is, is that it like where I I, you know kind of believe in simple things?
No no no, it's that the world's gotten crazier and crazier okay, And the left has gotten more and more extreme.
And I'll tell you, they'll keep losing elections if this is how they're going to play the game.
They will keep losing because don't forget, this moment in time has actually inspired a lot of people to say, this is not my party anymore.
I'm coming over to the red.
You have record numbers of young people registering to vote.
This is the Charlie effect, right?
As Republicans, there's a sea change going on.
This is the turning point for the United States of America and for the world.
Don't forget.
people from South Korea to the UK were all chanting in unison, we are Charlie Kirk.
We are.
Every one of us.
Thank you for being here.
I'll see you back here live on the Trish Regan Show again tomorrow.