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Well, I want to thank you very much Lee. You've been there from the beginning with us, Lee, and we appreciate it. Nobody can sing that song like Lee Greenwood. Thank you very much Lee, very much for being here. And his voice has not changed, you know. Pretty amazing. And a special thank you to Erica because today America is a nation in grief. A nation in shock and a nation in mourning. Less than two weeks ago, our country was robbed of one of the brightest lights of our times. A giant of his generation, and above all, a devoted husband, father, son, Christian and patriot, Charles James Kirk was heinously murdered by a radicalized, cold blooded monster. For speaking the truth that was in his heart, he was violently killed because he spoke for freedom and justice for God and country, for reason and for common sense. He was assassinated because he lived bravely, he led boldly, and he argued brilliantly without apology. He did what was right for our nation. And so, on that terrible day, September 10, 2025, our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal. He's a martyr now for American freedom. I know I speak for everyone here today when I say that none of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk. And neither now will history. Because while Charlie has been reunited with his Creator in heaven, his voice on earth will echo through the generations. And his name will live forever. In the eternal chronicle of America's greatest patriots, he will live forever. To Charlie's incredible and beautiful widow, Erica. We know the weight of this monumental loss is almost unbearable. But even in the midst of heartache and pain too great to even fathom, you have somehow found the strength and deep faith to be a comfort to millions and millions of people. And thank you very much, Erica. Thank you very much. Today, an entire nation wraps its loving arms around you and your beautiful children. We share in your immense and overwhelming sorrow. And we vow that we will do everything we can to ensure that your children grow up in a land where their father is honored and revered as a great American hero. That's what he is. To Charlie's parents, who lost their beloved son, and to the entire Kirk family, we know that no words can ever be enough to fill the void he leaves behind. That's a void that just can't be filled. But I hope the extraordinary outpouring of emotion over these past 11 days has comforted you with the knowledge that your son brought more good and love into this world in his 31 short years than most people, even very, very successful people, can bring in a lifetime. Charlie Kirk loved America with everything he had. And as we can see so clearly today, America loved Charlie Kir. And he could always draw a big crowd. Look at this today. Look at what's gone on. This is a big crowd here today. We have the Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance. We have the speaker of the U.S. house of Representatives, Mike Johnson. We have countless members of the United States Senate. And I'm Sorry, I'm not going to introduce you, but I'll be up here. They're all over the place. And likewise the House of Representatives. They're all over this big stadium. This is not an arena. This is a stadium. Our great cabinet. And this stadium packed with rafters of people, not to mention the one across the street that also has tens of thousands of people. And they're watching us on screen right now. And I'm sorry we couldn't get you in. If anybody would like to give up your seat, please walk across the street. But this is like an old time revival, isn't it? An old time revival. For millions of Americans, especially young people, it is agonizing and unthinkable to say goodbye to a patriot whose heart still had so much to give. It's so much. Raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Charlie was filled with the patriotic spirit from his youth. And he was an All American in everything he did. And one of the last things he said to me is, please, sir, save Chicago. We're going to do that. We're going to save Chicago from horrible crime. In high school, he was the quarterback of the football team and the captain of the basketball team. He was a good athlete. A lot of people don't know that about Charlie. He was an Eagle Scout who spent his school lunch breaks listening to another champion for liberty, somebody that he greatly admired, Rush Limbaugh. But what was even more important to Charlie than politics and service was the choice he made in the fifth grade, which he called the most important decision of his life, to become a Christian and a follower of his savior, Jesus Christ. Inspired by faith and his love of freedom, Charlie did something remarkable when he was just 18 years old. On the advice of a mentor who told him to put off going to college because he was doing so well. He devoted his life to converting young people to the conservative cause. How did he do? Take a look. How did he do in 2012, two days after graduating high school and with just $1,800 in his pocket, the young man from Illinois, who no one had ever heard of, started an organization whose grand ambitions were captured in its name, Turning Point usa. Great name. And I have a feeling it's going to be bigger and better than ever before. Does that make sense? It's going to be bigger and better than ever before. Look at what's happening. Twelve years ago, Charlie walked onto his first college campus, the very liberal University of Wisconsin at Madison. He set up a card table and put up a sign with three Big government sucks. Could you believe that, that's Charlie. That day, Charlie talked to every student who approached him. Most of whom were probably quite a bit older than he was. Finally, after many hours, he found the first ever Turning Point chapter leader. His first year out of high school, Charlie traveled 300 days raising money and taking his message to campuses all over the country. He lived out of his parents basement and they actually loved having him there. They loved Charlie. Everybody loved Charlie. And on the couches of friends and supporters. He lived off couches for two years, three years. Then life started getting a little bit different. But he was always the same. For five years he refused to take a paycheck. But day after day he worked from 5am in the morning till 11pm in the evening. Always. His staff remembers that he wore Walmart jeans and T shirts from the Goodwill store. Remember the Goodwill store? It wasn't easy, but Charlie wasn't in it for money at all. Never has been. Money was never his thing. He was always in it for the mission. As he liked to say, even back then, we have a country to save. This is what he did. He'd call me all the time, sir, we have our country to save. I said, charlie, thanks very much for telling me that. I appreciate it. Charlie volunteered for my 2016 campaign and traveled the nation with my son Don and Eric. I got to know him very well and saw immediately that Charlie was actually a master builder. Master builder of people. It was Charlie who first started organizing young black conservatives hungry for support and leadership. It was Charlie who stood up for persecuted Christians and Jews on college campuses. It was Charlie who helped bring online censorship, free speech and cancel culture to the fore of our political debate. He was right up there with me. It was Charlie who helped unite maga. And you know what Maha is. That's right. Make America healthy again. And tomorrow we're going to have one of the biggest announcement really medically, I think, in the history of our country. We're going to be doing it with Bobby and Oz and all of the professionals. I think you're going to find it to be amazing. I think we found an answer to autism. How about that? Autism. Tomorrow we're going to be talking in the Oval Office in the White House about autism, how it happens so we won't let it happen anymore and how to get at least somewhat better when you have it so that parents can help their child, their beautiful child. That's a big one. I've been bugging everybody over there, get the answer to that. You know, 20 years ago, 1 in 10,000 were born with autism 20 years ago. The most recent survey says 1 in 12. How bad is that? That's for young boys, baby boys, but also girls. A little bit better. It's about 1 in 20. But we can't, because obviously there was something really wrong. And we think we know what that is. It's going to be. I think it's going to be one of the most important news conferences I'll ever have. And I look so forward to it. And you know who else looked forward to it because he knew I'd tell him a little bit about what was going on was Charlie. He would have been front row center. Believe me, we'll be missing him tomorrow. It was such a big deal for him, too. He brought together Donald Trump, Bobby Kennedy, right here in the great state of Arizona one year ago. Remember that? What a night. What a day that was. And it was Charlie who was among the first to speak to me about a man from Ohio by the name of J.D. vince. Have you ever heard of him? He's doing a good job. But Charlie would often call me sometimes the night before a big event the other side of the country. And they'd ask me, I'd say, do you think you could come and speak at the event the following day? Right. I'd say, charlie, give me a. I'm the President of the United States. You want me to travel four hours by plane? And, you know, sometimes I did it. He was a very good guy. He was a very convincing guy. He didn't stop, but he would ask for things like that. Sir, could you be tomorrow in California? They said, charlie, give me a break, please. He just wouldn't stop. And he succeeded. But I almost always went. Because you never wanted to let Charlie down. He worked so hard. You just didn't want to let him down. I felt guilty. He'd make me feel very guilty. As president, many people asked me for things, but Charlie was one of the few who always gave more than he took. He was a giver, much more than a taker. And no matter how big Charlie became, no one was too small for him to notice. He was good to everybody. Didn't matter. Several years ago, a fourth grader asked Charlie to appear on his podcast, which was probably only watched by the parents of that fourth grader grader and Charlie, who was actually pretty hot at the time, to be honest. He agreed, and the boy asked for advice. Charlie replied, the left. The left. I call it the radical left. I call it sometimes the radical left. Lunatics. But Charlie didn't say that he Called it the left. He was probably right, but. But I can't help it. I can't help it. So he said, the left, radical left, lunatics may have all the money in the world, but they can never outwork me. I will wake up as early as I need to about himself. I will stay up as late as I need to, and I will never stop fighting for our country. And he did this until his dying breath. That's what he was doing. That's what he was doing. Think of it. Wow. What a horrible moment. I was in the Oval Office when I heard they came in, and I. It was like a surreal experience. A terrible, terrible. I had some very big people in the Oval Office, and I was in the midst of a very important conversation for our country. Big people, the biggest. And I said, you have to leave now. When they told me that, they told me in front of a group of very powerful people, I said, you have to leave now. Right now, Please. Right now. You have to leave. Go. By his own determination and skill, Charlie Kirk built Turning Point from his humble beginnings to beginnings that nobody believed could ever end up something like this, into a great movement and a juggernaut of American politics. And, you know, we have a massive stadium loaded up with people. But he got tremendous crowds before he had this kind of horrible news and before we had to hear what happened so terribly. He delivered more than 250 speeches a year at over 200 colleges and universities. And that was at a time when it was not really vogue to go to colleges and universities if you were a conservative. It really took great courage. And we used to talk, and I said, you know, I think they're much more conservative than we know. And he agreed. But it just wasn't something that was happening because the radical left would do very bad things, very dangerous things. But Charlie set UP chapters on 2,200 campuses and spoke at more than 1,000 churches. He launched a podcast and radio show that grew to an audience of 1 million Americans a day, one of the bigger shows on radio. And Charlie didn't just bring young people into the movement. All of a sudden, it started to grow by leaps and bounds. By 2024, we won more young people than any Republican candidate in the history of our country, including, for the first time in a majority of males under 30. Can you believe it? Remember when Republican presidential candidates would get 4%? No, we did, unbelievably, with young people. And he was a big, big factor. Unbelievable. But he made me work for it. Sir, you have to make a speech Here, you have to make a speech there. But we did it and we won. And our country is doing unbelievably well now. We had a country that was dead one year ago, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. And Charlie helped us make it that one of the great people. But through it all, the corps of Charlie's message and his basic method never changed. It never really changed. He stayed the same person. Also, at every campus event, Charlie asked the people who disagreed with him to come forward. And instead of silencing them, he handed them a microphone and let them speak. And he'd convinced so many of them. It was a pretty amazing thing to watch, actually. Shortly before Charlie arrived on campus the day he was assassinated, a staff member texted him that there were many critics and students who were opposed to his views and rather strenuously in the crowd. And that actually made him feel good because he wanted to convince them he understood. He really did. He understood what was right, and he was right about that. A lot of it was based on common sense. By the way, Charlie wrote back to the staff member saying, I'm not here to fight them. I want to know them and love them and I want to reach them and try and lead them into a great way of life in our country. In that private moment on his dying day, we find everything we need to know about who Charlie Kirk truly was. He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica. But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group and maybe they can convince me that that's not right. But I can't stand my opponent. Charlie's angry. Looking down, he's angry at me now. He wasn't interested in demonizing anyone. He was interested in persuading everyone to the ideas and principles he believed were good, right and true. Before each appearance, he prayed these God used me for your will. Always said the same thing, use me for your will. And that is exactly what God did. When you think that's exactly what he did. The more success Charlie had, and he was getting more and more successful, the more dangerous his mission became. On campuses all over the country, his quest for open dialogue was met with menacing hate. There were bomb threats, pulled fire alarms, and countless rage filled radicals who tried to shout him down. It was nasty. I used to say, charlie, this is nasty. Stuff you're doing. At one event, police had to build barricades to protect students from an angry mob of thugs. Many of these people, by the way, are paid a lot of money to do this. They're agitators. They're paid agitators. Remember that when you see they all have the same beautifully printed sign. Every sign is identical, comes out of a top level print shop. That's not the signs that are made in somebody's basement. Those are paid for by very bad people. And hopefully we're going to be finding out through the DOJ who those people are. At another college, antifa terrorists shattered windows, threw rocks and tried to storm the building where Charlie was speaking. It was a really bad one. Often dozens of police officers were needed to prevent left wing violence. And the violence comes largely from the left. You don't hear that from too many people, do you? And virtually every day for years before he was murdered, Charlie received these horrible death threats. People don't know. I used to talk to him about it. He said, I got some threats. He always felt that when they actually made the threat, they were not the ones to worry about. The ones to worry about were the ones that don't make the threats. I think you know what I mean. He knew the risks, but he and I shared a certain motto. Never back down and never ever surrender. Just don't surrender. Never back down. He believed in it so strongly. So strongly. And he's right. He's totally. He's totally right. The radicals and their allies in the media, sometimes referred to as my son, said the fake news media tried to silence Charlie for a simple reason. Because he was winning and he was winning big. He was taking over college campuses, colleges that had, in theory only, very liberal, or as they like to say, progressive. I call them liberal, but they like to call themselves because such a beautiful word, progressive. They're the opposite of progressive if you think about it. But they were really nasty. And he would go into these colleges, all of a sudden, within two years, three years, they turn into bastions of conservatism. It was really quite amazing to see. They lied about him because they did not want you to listen to him or to learn from him because what he was talking about and even preaching made so much sense. Everywhere he went, he won the debates, he won the hearts, he won the minds. And yes, he won the elections for people. He helped us, he helped other people. We won the biggest election in the history of our country. I believe Charlie Kirk was without a doubt among the most influential figures in the most important election in the history of our country. The election of, oh, that beautiful day, November 5, 2024. Do you remember that day? It was nine months ago. What a day that was. I mean, we had a pretty good day in the first one, and I must tell you, on the second one, we had a phenomenal day. But a lot of bad things happened, and now that's not even questioned. They cheated like dogs. But we got them back, didn't we, huh? Got them back. But we owe Charlie a profound and eternal debt of gratitude. Now, just like Charlie and Erica made Turning Point hot, we are looking at a country that has the chance to attain a level like never before. Tariffs are making us rich again. Richer than anybody ever thought was possible. And the only one challenging them are people that hate our country or foreign countries that are paying a price because they did the same thing to us for years. They took advantage of us. But we're. We're making money. We're becoming richer and richer, and we're taking care of our people better and better when we do that. And we can take care of other countries better and better, but we're doing unbelievably well. The tariffs have really been a hold. The election was big, but the tariffs, because of the election, came in. And remember, other nations do that to us. And Charlie understood that. He saw the money. He saw what was coming into our country. And we can use that for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, all of these things that we fight so hard for. And that's exactly what's happening. The numbers are incredible. When the news finally came out on election night last November, that the race was officially won came out pretty early in the night. Charlie was live on camera. In that moment, he was overcome with emotion. I've never seen him like this. He was so happy. For a long while, he said nothing. His eyes were filled with tears. And then he buried his face in his hands and he started crying. That wasn't the Charlie I knew, but in thinking about it, it actually was the Charlie I knew because he had a tremendous heart. He just wanted what was good for our country. And he saw us going in such a horrible direction. Lovingly, Eric. And this was so beautiful. Erica put a MAGA hat on to cover his bowed head. I like that very much. Maga we love. Does everybody love maga? Make America great again. When Joe Biden used to get up, remember the speeches? We will stop maga. We will stop maga. You know, he could barely get the words out. We will stop. I said, can somebody Inform him that MAGA means Make America Great Again. How do you say you're going to stop it? And Charlie understood that. When Charlie finally looked up and spoke, he smiled through the watery eyes and simply said, I am humbled by God's grace. That was his statement that night. I was watching. I was very impressed, actually. It showed he had a big heart. Every single American should take a long, hard look at the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would want to kill a young man as good as Charlie. To kill anybody. But to kill a man like this. He didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve this. Our country didn't deserve this. And anyone who would make excuses for it are just out of their mind. Charlie's murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement. It was an attack on our entire nation. That was a horrible attack on the United States of America. It was an assault on our most sacred liberties and God given rights. The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us. That bullet was aimed at every one of us. Indeed, Charlie was killed for expressing the very ideas that virtually everyone in this arena and most other places throughout our country deeply believed in. But the assassin failed in his quest because Charlie's message has not been silenced. It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And it's not even close. And it's rare that such a thing happens. But Charlie is bigger today than he was. Think about it just two weeks ago. He's bigger today than he was two weeks ago. Now that may not help his friends and loved ones, of which there are so many. It may not help Eric and those beautiful children who have to suffer so horribly through this moment. But they know it's true. He's bigger now than ever before. And he's eternal. He's eternal. And I just want to say we love him. And he's looking down at us right now and he's saying, wow, that's a great crowd. He's saying, that's a great crowd. And it's a great crowd of patriots. But that's why I will soon award Charlie the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the highest civilian honor. And we will do the ceremony at our beautiful White House in a very safe Washington D.C. a place that Charlie truly revered. You know, we stopped the crime in Washington. Took 12 days. Now you can go to restaurants. You can walk down the middle of the street with your wife. You can have your wife walk alone down the middle of the street. She's going to be in good shape. What a difference. What a difference good management really makes. But it's. I'm so proud of that. Washington, D.C. you know, it was one of the worst in the nation, in the world. And now it's considered a very safe city. And it's also. I passed it yesterday, I went through it, and the lawns are good. It's like a different place. It's like the tents are gone, the threats are gone, the gangs aren't there. We got rid of, you know, we took out 1500 career criminals. 1500. If you have three career criminals, that can make a big difference. But I'm so proud of Washington, D.C. and now we're going into Memphis and we'll get that one straightened out fast. And then we're going into some others. But we're going to go to Chicago and we're going to have Charlie very much in mind when we go into Chicago and we'll get that one straightened out. You have an incompetent governor who, he thinks it's okay when 11 people get murdered over the weekend. He thinks you don't have any crime when 11 people get murdered and 28 people get shot. He says he's got crime. No, they. They don't have it under control, but we'll have it under control very quickly. So we're going to be doing that. And Charlie loved what we were doing. He was so proud of what happened. He was there to see it. He so proud of what happened in Washington, D.C. as you know, the depraved assassin who planned and executed Charlie's killing has been arrested and charged with capital murder. God willing, he will receive the full and ultimate punishment for his horrific crime. It's a terrible thing because you can't let that happen. You can't let that happen. Can't let it happen to a country. The Department of Justice is also investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund, organize, fuel, and perpetrate political violence. And we think we know who many of them are. But law enforcement can only be the beginning of our response to Charlie's murder. Over the last 11 days, we have heard stories of commentators, influencers, and others in our society who greeted his assassination with Sikh approval, excuses, or even jubilation. You've heard that. So have I. Couldn't believe it. Some of the very same people who spent the last eight years trying to sit in moral judgment of anyone who disagreed with them about politics suddenly started cheering for murder. Incredible. You know the names, they're major Losers, by the way they'll be. That will be proven out in a short period of time. Some of the very people who call you a hater for using the wrong pronoun were filled with glee at the killing of a father with two beautiful young children. And the same commentators who this week are screaming fascism over a canceled late night TV show where the anchor had no talent and no ratings last week. We're implying that Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him. No side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people. But there's one part of our political community which believes they have a monopoly on truth, goodness and virtue. And concludes they have also a monopoly on power, thought and speech. Well, that's not happening anymore. We've turned that corner very quickly. Tragically, atrocities of this kind and the kind that we saw in Utah of all places are the eventual consequence of that kind of thinking. If speech is violence, then some are bound to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech. And we're not going to let that be justified. The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy. In many ways, it's the basis of our entire society. It's the right and inheritance of every free American, the greatest legacy of the Enlightenment and among the most treasured achievements of civilization. We will defend it at all costs, and we will carry forward the torch of liberty that Charlie Kirk held so proud and so high. He was so proud and he did hold that torch high. We will never, ever let it fail. We will never let it fail. But we're going to raise it higher than ever before. It's going to be raised. And this is the beginning. Perhaps it should be no surprise that Charlie, who spent his life speaking with the critics of these traditions, ultimately became convinced that we needed not just a political realignment, but also a spiritual reawakening. We did. And we have to bring back religion to America. Because without borders, law and order and religion, you really don't have a country anymore. We want religion brought back to America. We want to bring God back into our beautiful USA like never before. We want God back. Charlie would have been so pleased to hear his friends and colleagues today giving testimony and giving glory to God. Within minutes of the gunshot in Utah, millions of Americans, young and old, heard the news and dropped to their knees and started praying. Even many who rarely prayed ask God for a miracle. Please, God, save Charlie. But although Charlie's time with us on Earth has ended, those prayers for a miracle have already been answered. Look at what's happening. Look at what's happening. In the days since Charlie's death, we have seen how his legacy has touched so many millions around the world. In Calgary, Canada, thousands gathered at City hall to sing the American national anthem and raise up posters with the name Charlie Kirk. In Seoul, South Korea, crowds gathered to wave American flags and shout, we are for Charlie Kirk. His memory has been honored in the streets of Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Sydney, Madrid, London, Tel Aviv, and all over the world. So beautiful to watch. A man as far away as rural Australia texted a pastor, I'm going to come to church tomorrow. For the first time ever, the pastor is, why is that? The man replied, because of Charlie Kirk. Can you imagine? The lesson of Charlie's life is that you should never underestimate what one person can do with a good heart, a righteous cause, a cheerful spirit, and the will to fight. Fight, fight, have to fight. We're saving our country. And Charlie is a big factor. Such a big factor. Charlie Kirk started with only an idea to change minds on college campuses, and instead, he ended up with a far greater achievement. Changing history. He changed history. Today, Charlie Kirk rests in glory in heaven for all eternity. He has gone from speaking on campuses in Wisconsin to kneeling at the throne of God where he is right now. We grieve for the friend and leader that we have lost, but we go forward strengthened by his faith and bolstered by his courage and inspired by his example to defend the country he lived for, for the freedoms he died for and the values in which he so deeply believed he believed in, values that we should all believe in. Charlie created something very special. It's called Turning Point usa. And under the leadership and love of Erica, it will become bigger and better and stronger than ever before. So, Charlie, we all want to thank you. We want to say a very loud God bless you, Charlie. God bless you for what you've done is incredible. And God bless Erica and the children. God bless the United States of America. And could I ask. Erica, please come out? Erica, please come out. Thank you.
Steve Bannon
All.
Donald Trump
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. And good luck. God be with you. Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Ra and David Brody. Yes. Dr. Gina Mo Bannon joins us. What a conclusion. President Trump, powerful address at the end. Leaves with the widow to God bless America. Your thoughts?
Mo Bannon
Really beautiful. Gosh, how. How do you top this? You know, we were looking at people who probably never been to a church service. Elon Musk, as you said, probably never heard the gospel. Heard it today. Really just beautiful day. You can't say enough. Erica. Is a pillar of strength and beauty. She couldn't look more like an angel. And she had wings. Absolutely beautiful. And I think she's America's new hero for sure, David.
Steve Bannon
No doubt. We thought we were going to a memorial, a funeral, if you will. Today we did. We went to a revival, the beginning of revival. That's what happened today. As for Erica Kirk, let me just simply say the line. And it wasn't just a line. It was from the heart. That man, I forgive him. Wow. I mean, my goodness, was that the line of the entire. I mean, just in terms of the actual speeches I have, I actually tend to agree with President Trump. And by the way, it's already the lead across the world. Daily Mail, a Guardian, New York Times. I forgive him. Mo Bannon, you were down on the floor. Tell us, put us, put us down on the floor. What was it like? I mean, it was definitely revival down there a lot of. Especially during the worship. But when Erica spoke, you knew that Charlie left everything in good hands with Erica. She's a lioness. She's gonna leave Turning Point even greater than Charlie did. But she's a better woman than me to say, I forgive, I forgive him. So that's fair. And, you know, you could have heard a pin drop when she was talking. And let me just be clear. Some of her moments in that speech were. Those remarks were incredible. Amazing. You know, Charlie really had a focus on young men. Yes. Now comes the young women. Yes. Because there is a crisis among young women about self worth and being virtuous and all of that still today. You've seen the polling where the young men want to have families and get married on progressive, liberal women. I think it's. It's the lowest. I mean, it's a. We have a crisis among particularly college educated women.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
And hopefully Erica Kirk will put her great talents there. Well, and I think that Charlie brought young men. He brought young men out in droves to vote for President Trump. And young men are what saved this country in 2024. But I think that Erica Kirk is going to bring young women to this. Yes.
Donald Trump
Yes.
Steve Bannon
I also just want to. When Erica was speaking, the flag, the American flags were pretty still most of the day today. But when Erica was speaking and she was speaking about Charlie and their marriage, the flag kept waving. Wow. I honestly believe Charlie's actually here in the room. Wow. Talk to me, all of you. That, particularly for our audience that are maybe traditional Catholics or other faiths are just agnostic. What? This was an evangelical service all day long. Evangelical Preacher.
Mo Bannon
This was.
Steve Bannon
Tell us about it.
Mo Bannon
And I remember Steve going in, you remember this, you know, 2015, I was doing my hits on media and I would walk into to Christian women's groups and I would. And they would boo me off the stage because I was on TV defending Donald Trump for president and nobody was there yet, especially not, not evangelical Christians, not pro life groups. And I remember saying to them, I know you all have asked for and prayed for revival. What if we saw a revival happen because of President Trump? Listen, I don't know if you said that.
Steve Bannon
I guess you could hear a pin drop at that time. No, nobody was buying.
Mo Bannon
See, that's how that went. But today know, Charlie would have never been such a great defender, I don't think of any of the establishment rhinos that were out there that people wanted for president at that time. It was President Trump that brought him in. And we have seen revival.
Steve Bannon
Even President Trump's speech, three quarters of President Trump's speech was about religion and Charlie Kirk and his faith. That's why I think today people realize the hundred thousand, you know, the 75,000 people here at Cardinal Stadium, what the 15 or 20 across the street, they're taking every hotel in the area and putting it up on big screen. You know, we had 300,000 ticket requests, millions of people. The streaming numbers, everybody's numbers are huge because people want to see it. The key today, from 10 o' clock in the morning. We started here now to what, over at what, 4 o'clock in. No, sorry, 7 o' clock in the morning, Pacific Time, 7 o', clock, 7 o' clock in the Morning, all the way now to. To what, four in the afternoon. The whole service was muscular Christianity. This is why I put out the New York Times and MSNBC are going to lead tomorrow because, you know, they're melting down muscular, you know, a form of muscular Christianity, Christian nationalism, was put forward here in the, in the memorial service for a slain American martyr. Yeah, and they're going to freak out because you had the Director of National Intelligence, you had the head of the personnel office and the President, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Vice President, United States President of the United States. And not just Charlie's team and the widow, I mean, the most powerful people in the United States government in the world. And we've never had this, even in the 19th century or the 18th century, and we've never had that professed about a guy's lived Christianity. And what it's doing is people all over the world, especially governments all over the world are taking notice of what was preached here today by our governmental leaders on revival. I just want to break it down real quick because a lot of people, if you're not in that evangelical space revival, okay, it sounds great, but what does it really mean? Here's what it means. Get busy with God. And what I mean by that is you need to actually have God control your lives and control your life and really get right with God. And once you get right with God, that will change the churches, that will change the communities, that will change the nation. That's how revival works.
Mo Bannon
It orders.
Steve Bannon
It orders things. Hang on for a second. We've got, we've got Ed Martin over at the Justice Department. You know, David, myself and, and Dr. Gina, no doubt, Ed very well. All those years. Mo, you're going to stick around. Please stick around for a few minutes. Ed Martin, thank you joining us. I know you've been working all day in the Justice Department, but you for years were one of the leaders of the conservative movement with Phyllis Schlafly. I mean, this would, this would have been a day she would have loved and also a day that she never would think in a million years would come.
Ed Martin
Ed Martin yeah, yeah, you know, Steven, I know you know what I mean. And you've been around a while. It's a weird day, right? For me. I knew Charlie, like, as a kid coming up. He was younger. A lot of us flipped, as Gina said. We flipped when we started out thinking we were his mentor, and then we flipped because he was our leader. But to see this happen, I'm sort of haunted by it in a way that I'm surprised. But today was I've been watching it and had it on, as you pointed out in the office on the side. And, and I was energized by it. I was moved by parts of it, and I was energized by it. And quite a celebration does feel like a turning point for our country and for a lot of us, how we see things. But you mentioned Phyllis. Two couple of things. One is Posovic told a story. Gina, you'll smile because Gina had been getting together with Phyllis Schlafly and Eagles and all these things for decades. And Pesovic told the story that he came to Eagle Council a few years ago, and I said to him, hey, Jack, I need you to go to the airport and pick up this guy. He's coming in. And you may not have met him, Charlie Kirk. And that was the first time Posobeck and Kirk met. And they became great pals and great warriors together. But Phyllis had this way of connecting. She saw talent, she saw people with potential, and she sort of. She didn't have to guide them. She sort of let it rip. And she would get that. She would give the signal, sort of like the eagle signal would go out that they were legit. And she knew Charlie saw it. He was really young. He's from Illinois, you know, Phyllis was from Alton, Illinois, and she. Early on, he was just starting because she died in 2016, but she saw him and she met him and she heard about a guy not going to college who was doing this stuff, and she was excited. And then John Schlafly and I both believed in what he was doing, and he out succeeded all of us in terms of his vision. But. But it's. It's a. It's a wonderful day. I thought the President's speech was powerful. He's really an extraordinary capture of the moment. And like Charlie, he had the joy. Like Phyllis, he had the joy of the moment as well as the sadness. So it's extraordinary. And as you say, Steve, the movement will not be stopped. The questions are always, how do we find the new leaders? We lost a big leader. We lost one of the most talented generals. Now the question is, who's stepping up and how are they stepping up and how will they develop and what's coming next? And I'm more excited and more convinced of the golden age of Trump than I've ever been before watching today, Ed.
Steve Bannon
You'Ve been probably one of the most, two or three most attacked people in President Trump's orbit. And I know personally how much the president respects what you're doing. Doing in particular, respects the way you're fighting through things. You're getting so much done for him and for the country and for the Justice Department. You were relentlessly attacked. What do you think, particularly given your experience with Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagles, to have a Director of National Intelligence, to have a Secretary of War, a Secretary of State, a Vice President of the United States and the head of White House personnel, You know, the top, you know, five or six people in the government talk about their. Their live. The live Christianity, their professed Christianity, and why that was what really was the bond they had with Charlie Kirk. Sir. Yeah.
Ed Martin
You know, Steve, it's funny, isn't it, because you and I have been sort of there for years now, and even, you know, and some, in some ways, the. The sort of militant faith, you know, the part of the. Part of the original 2016, what we felt with President Trump was. It was a sort of calling. It wasn't just a political movement. It was a calling. And to see today, as you point out, you know, Hegseth is extraordinary. And by the way, Hexa, a million things are happening that people can't see. I needed somebody on my team. You guys know him, McCabe, he's in the army. Actually, Hegseth greenlighted a detail for that guy that it should have taken six months. It took like six days. You know, Tulsi, I go over to Tulsi's place because there's a group of people that are in there and they are after the deep state every day on the weaponization side. And Tulsi is letting that rip. Like the confidence of the people that you saw on that stage and them coming. You know, J.D. vance has become so articulate on the moment we're in, as you point out, it is. Steve, it is extraordinary. And I will pull back with you and say that we've had big rallies, been 100,000 people at rallies before, maybe, I don't know, maybe they haven't been. There's never been a rally where the through line, the thread through the through line was every single time was not just a relationship with a higher being. Right. We used to. The Creator or whatever. Christ. Right. Christ's mission on earth. Right. I mean, Marco Rubio sounded like an old time proselytizer. He could preach in a tent when he's talking about the kingdom will come and then we will be. I mean, you know, this is like something we'd never seen, as you say, not for hundreds of years. And again, the question is, how do you take the confidence and go pouring back out into our nation and transform things? It's, it's, it's a turning point. It really is.
Steve Bannon
I think that that's why Charlie's assassination was the beginning of an inflection point. And this is also part of it.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
The great pivot back to the foundation. This is really what's going to make America great again.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
To go back. Yeah. To our original, original, you know, foundational.
Mo Bannon
Beliefs, which was what Phyllis Schlafly always said. Ed, you and I were so blessed to be mentored by her and also by Andrew Breitbart and so many others who have gone before Charlie. And I just, I'm so curious, Ed, because you were so close with Phyllis. You were day by day with Phyllis, every single day, loyal to her until the end. You were the one who brought Phyllis to the table for President Trump And. And everybody needs to know that that was you that did that. You were the caveat, the conduit there. What would she say about this day?
Ed Martin
Well, first of all, don't let Bannon off the hook. You know, Bannon was also in there early. She loved Breitbart, by the way. You write about that, Andrew. And Bannon did a movie. That's how he first met her, ahead of everybody else. He was talking about these women, conservative women, before everybody ever, you know, put this together. I mean, you were there. Gina, too, but. But Bannon was on that, so don't let him. Don't let him slip away. He saw it ahead of time. Look, I'd say this. The thing about Phyllis, she used to say she told a great story. Clarence Thomas said to her, how do you do it, Phyllis? They beat the heck out of you. And this was after Thomas had been confirmed and gone through hell. And she said, there's a prayer I say from the malignant enemy, defend me. And she laughed as she said it. I say it every time I go out. Just like Charlie used to say, you know, let me do what yout will, you know, lead me the way I'm supposed to. Lord, she would say, from the malignant enemy, defend me. And she. And she laughed when she told Clarence Thomas. It's on audio. And the reason why. My point telling you that is she was real about it. There's real evil. There's not just evil in the world. There's evil, right? There's good and there's evil. There's Satan and there's God. And then Phyllis was clear. But she also said things with a smile. She had joy. Because if you know the truth, you can't stay depressed too long. You can have a bad day. You can be down and up and down, and things can get you down, but you have this joy. Charlie had joy. Charlie had that joy. Impish grin when he was younger. He was like. He almost looked a little too impish when he got older, he looked really. You know, I still look at the videos on the stage in those Play the Tent, and he's chewing like he always had gum or a mint or something. And it just made him look like he was like, they're hanging out in the dorm with the guys and the gals and all. And the thing that Phyllis would have seen today was amidst suffering, amidst all this that's going on, there was a fundamental. There is a fundamental joy. Trump has it, she used to say about him, that he gets it in his heart, not just in his head, not just in the politics. And she loved to laugh when he would call her, like on her birthday. And she laughed at that trumpet, the joy.
Steve Bannon
It was so controversial because she was a traditional Catholic and an icon of the conservative movement. And this and this time, Trump at Trump. When Trump was first starting out, he was not for her to embrace him because she saw downrange and that through Trump, you can get to a day like this.
Donald Trump
Right?
Steve Bannon
That's the kind of thing she could see through Trump because it's so controversial. Ed, I know you got to bounce. I want to appreciate you staying in your office and joining us here right afterwards, really. Ed Martin, you are a hero.
Mo Bannon
Doing a great talk.
Steve Bannon
Thanks to so many people out here, sir. You are truly.
Ed Martin
Thanks, guys.
Steve Bannon
God bless you guys. Put it on the line. We, we appreciate.
Donald Trump
God bless you.
Steve Bannon
Let's go. We got, we got David Zier. Do we still have Steve Gruber on the, on the riser? Do we have Gruber? Let's, we're going to go to 0 second. I know they're going to run Gruber out of here. Steve Gruber, if you're still there, can we get your, your assessment from the media riser? What a remarkable day, Steve. A day of emotion. And I mean, I saw, we were packed in here, packed all the way around us. And you see people crying and people hugging, then people laughing and people cheering. I mean, the range of emotion at a revival, I suppose, is what we witnessed here today. It was very evangelical, as you guys have been talking about, touching to me. I mean, it got me a couple of times emotionally. And when Erica Kirk said, I forgive him. Wow, what a moment. Talk about powerful. Talk about uniting people. Talk about galvanizing a group of people. Not just here, the millions watching. I saw the numbers multiplying, multiplying. The millions watching here. I just saw that they're watching in France, in England, in Australia. This was a global event. This wasn't something that happened in Arizona. It was something that was centered in Arizona. But a global event. This is a shockwave across. And you're right about the left. They're going to panic tomorrow because they saw a galvanizing moment.
Donald Trump
I saw David Axelrod and others online.
Steve Bannon
Today concerned about, oh, my gosh, the Christians are all united. Of course they are. Because of this moment.
Donald Trump
Yes.
Steve Bannon
Now what? People also want to know, Gruber, because we put you down in enemy territory. You're in the middle of media on the riser. We were talking about just having an altar call for the media. You were There you in the middle. And by the way, folks should know, I've never seen a media turnout like this in my life. It was, this is like bigger than the campaigns. What was the response, the personal response as you were down there and you had one speaker after another go Old Testament on you, right? What, what was the response to the media, by the media? Well, my wife Ivy's here with me and I, and I mentioned to her a couple times there's a couple folks down the line here. Does the word sour puss come to mind? Is that, is that a word I can use on the air? Because they just have this wrinkled up look on their face like my father used to say.
Donald Trump
My, my father used to say there.
Steve Bannon
Are some people that go through life with a pinched nerve and there's nothing you can do about it. You know, that's what I saw down.
Donald Trump
The line here today.
Steve Bannon
Several people's faces, they just have this wrinkled up face. I, I don't know. Sour puss comes to mind. Just nasty.
Donald Trump
Not happy.
Steve Bannon
There been an altar call here today. I think a couple of people here would have gone but a lot of these folks, look, it is enemy territory. You're exactly right. And tomorrow the New York Times, the Washington Post, msnbc, Chicken Noodle News. Msnbc, Christian National. Steve Gruber, your social media. Where do people track you down, sir? At Steve Gruber Show. At Steve Gruber Show. Find me all those places. We'll see you tomorrow afternoon at 3. Steve Gruber follows the Charlie Kirk show which will follow us every day. Jack Posopic and the Steve Gruber Eric Bolling. Then back to the war room. Mo, Any closing observations? I know you got to get on the road. Tell us what you, you were down actually down today on the floor. What was it like? It was, was very intense like Steve Gruber said, a lot of crying, a lot of laughter. And we did see some press down there that we were hoping would be converted, maybe open a Bible, maybe go back to church themselves. Hopefully I can say a prayer for him. However, you know, a lot of people we saw after Charlie was murdered go back to church, hadn't been in years, hadn't opened a Bible. This place was packed for Charlie and Charlie his he kept saying I want to make heaven crowded and he's going to and another way besides going to church and picking up your Bible that you can honor. Charlie is picking up the mic and continuing the fight and the mission he gave his life for. By the way you spent you and Grace Chung spent the last his last weekend of his life with him in South Korea. Half of it was political about helping these young people with the government that now is aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. The other half was totally spiritual revival call. But him, as busy as he was to take that time telling people, I had to do this, he had to go. It just. It speaks everything you want to see about the guy and then just have the young Koreans marching the street. I am Charlie Kirk. It shows you his impact. That and also how crowded it was here. The fact that you had an overflow, it just shows the impact. And all the vigils across the world, it just shows the impact of he had not just those who knew him and who called him a friend, but those who were inspired by him. Mo Bannon, thank you. Very well, Social. Social media. Mo, you can find me on Twitter and get her at Maureen Underscore Bannon. And also on Instagram at Real Maureen Bannon. Okay. And you know, like, the President Talked to Don Jr. Let's watch the hot takes. I haven't been posting a lot of hot takes.
Donald Trump
You've been good.
Steve Bannon
You've been very good ever since you joined the board of West Point. It's improved. Improved dramatically. But I just want to say I noticed JD has been listening to War Room because he did say Kumbaya. We're not having a Kumbaya moment, so I think that's probably out there, but thanks.
Mo Bannon
I personally loved you on air with my little guy out there.
Steve Bannon
That was great.
Mo Bannon
We got to see that as parents. We never thought we'd see that day.
Steve Bannon
Dude, that's great.
Mo Bannon
That was pretty powerful.
Steve Bannon
Your son's very, very articulate. Amazing. Let's go. We got. We have Zier and Berkwam. Let's go. Do we have David Zier? Mo, thank you you so much, honey. Appreciate you.
Mo Bannon
Love you.
Steve Bannon
Can we get. Can we get Brian Kennedy and get him suited up? Do we got David Zier? Zir outside? David. Yes, Dave, how are you? Most importantly, the people. Yeah. Incredible day. Give me, give me. Give us some interviews. Yeah, give us some interviews. People were the most important part of this. Come on. In the shop, we have Kathy and Marvin from Oregon today. You know, reports were this morning over 100,000 were coming here to the event. They had to close off the ramp to the freeway at about 5 or 6 this morning here. And the overflow. Guys, have you ever seen. Now you were in the desert. Diamond Desert arena holds about 20,000. It was almost full, right? It was almost full, yeah. Yeah, it was very full. Have you do you remember an event in your life where an arena and a stadium were filled up? That's at the same time. That's pretty amazing.
Donald Trump
He had an incredible impact.
Steve Bannon
Yeah, he impacted more than the U.S. it's a worldwide impact. What an incredible young man Charlie was. Yeah. It was such an incredible day here. And Steve, they were turning away people from the Diamond Desert Arena. This stadium behind us where you are was at full capacity at 9:40am the volunteers were telling us, and security by 11am this morning, where they were in the arena next door was filled up. Turning people away at 11am and our great cameraman Mason and I, we estimated five to 10,000 people had to leave the parking lot. What was your biggest takeaway today and how. How did the arena react when Trump gave them props in the neighboring arena?
Donald Trump
That was crazy because we were in the secondary, the overflow.
Steve Bannon
But everybody burst into applause. Just as important. Yeah, just as important. But he acknowledged us and we went all crazy.
Donald Trump
Yeah, the crowd went crazy when he. David.
Steve Bannon
Hey, the secondary venue there. Yeah. Steve, ask him why they would come from Oregon. Why did they come from Oregon to Phoenix, Arizona, for a memorial service.
Donald Trump
Yeah, why? Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Steve, a lot of people from Oregon today. Why did you make the trek here from Oregon?
Donald Trump
Oh, we love Charlie.
Ed Martin
We.
Donald Trump
I sent my clock by Charlie Kirk.
Steve Bannon
Every day, nine o'. Clock. Real America's Voice. We're watching.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
Are you hopeful the politics in Oregon may change a little going forward?
Donald Trump
Absolutely.
Steve Bannon
Are you near Portland? No, we're a little ways away. Thank God for that. Little more conservative country. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Because Trump's making a pledge, you know, after he's done with Memphis and Chicago. Maybe they're going to Portland.
Donald Trump
Let's go.
Steve Bannon
You want them to do that? Yes. I say, how does it make you feel when you see what happened there in the last five years?
Donald Trump
Years.
Steve Bannon
Oh, seven years. Disgusting. Yeah. Lawlessness.
Donald Trump
You let.
Steve Bannon
You let stuff like that go, it just runs rampant. That's what they're doing. Yeah. Unbelievable. Steve, I have more people standing by if you want, here. But the people on the ground today, today's event, so special. I do. Tell them, by the way, I'm gonna get some more people in with you. We're gonna go to Berkwan. But hang on. Tell them they're actually from Greater Idaho, not Oregon. Yeah, you're from Greater Idaho. Steve Bannon said. Well, Steve, you got that right. Yeah, I think they agree with that one.
Donald Trump
It was a revival in there. The Secretary of state, the vice president.
Steve Bannon
Speaking about the gospel. Yeah. Which was crazy cool. And that was Charlie's message. Jesus Christ.
Donald Trump
That's right, America.
Steve Bannon
Yeah.
Donald Trump
Constitution.
Steve Bannon
You heard it best from the. The people on the ground here. Steve, David, thank them. You stay right there. We're going to come back to more guests. Ben Berkwam, you're on the floor as the arena at this football stadium empties out. Your thoughts today, sir?
Donald Trump
Yeah, it was just an incredible day, Steve. One of the moments that really got me was walking.
Steve Bannon
I was walking up the stairs, you.
Donald Trump
See behind me, and they started playing.
Steve Bannon
Charlie's Daughter singing Jesus Loves Me and.
Donald Trump
Man, you talk about breaking somebody.
Steve Bannon
My daughters sing that same song.
Donald Trump
You know, we teach them that. One of the first things we teach.
Steve Bannon
Them, it's the song I sing to.
Donald Trump
My daughters to put them to bed.
Steve Bannon
And it just was so heartbreaking to hear that. You.
Donald Trump
Can you compare that, though, to the beauty of this event, what was said on stage?
Steve Bannon
And then Erica, you could feel it coming when she was quoting the verses from the Bible, saying, you could feel it. You know, Christ said, forgive them.
Donald Trump
They know not what they do.
Steve Bannon
And for her to say that, I forgive you, man, that was powerful. That was the most powerful. Not just the most powerful moment of the night. It was the most powerful moment in the last hundred years for Christianity in America.
Donald Trump
This event today was just.
Steve Bannon
It was divinely inspired.
Donald Trump
It was. You know, what the enemy.
Steve Bannon
We've said it all week. What the enemy meant for evil. God is turning to good, and he just unleashed the devil, Just unleashed a million Charlie Kirks across America and around the world. We've got some folks here.
Donald Trump
Some of you guys know and love them.
Steve Bannon
I want to get AJ over here. Lindy Ann, get him over here. We've got, of course, Bricksuit if you want to come over. Just, guys, what was your takeaway from today? What an incredible day. You know, it's amazing. I don't think in the history of.
Donald Trump
The United States that I can know.
Steve Bannon
Of, we've never had this many cabinet members outside of D.C. in one place. That's just logistics, though. The actual spirit that was in this building today was incredible. And for me, personally, I feel like it's helped me turn a corner from a place of just really grief and sorrow and on to the next stage.
Donald Trump
Of knowing what I need to do.
Steve Bannon
Next, which is continue on to forge that into resolve. And Erica, just amazing. Just amazing.
Donald Trump
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
And yet, Don Jr. Quoting scripture, who would have ever guessed that? Absolutely insane. You know, somber day. I think the takeaway for me is for Christians, this is not the end. Right? This is just the beginning. The church has dealt with this forever. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Charlie Kirk went into the places that the church has abandoned for so long. And because we were told, we were told forever that, you know, the institutions, these areas of politics, don't touch those because the church will be empty. Charlie went into those areas. He proclaimed the lordship of Jesus over every single area of life and revival takes place. We are sitting in a place right now filled with, did you see how many people gave their lives to Christ because one man defied the logic of every today's theological better. He went into the darkest place of our society. He proclaimed truth, victory, and the powerful gospel of Jesus. And revival is happening.
Donald Trump
Wow. I think today was something so phenomenal.
Steve Bannon
And significant in the spirit realm.
Donald Trump
There truly was a turning point for America. When I came here as a South African 2020, I had a dream about this event. And I actually dreamed that, you know, there would be a revival breaking out with the exact singers that were here today.
Steve Bannon
And so I just found myself weeping.
Donald Trump
Watching people experience God, the presence and the power of God. And I really think, I love these banners that they made the Here I am send me. And I think people really.
Steve Bannon
There was such a fire and a stir created underneath people's butts to go.
Donald Trump
Out there and actually spread the message.
Steve Bannon
Spread the gospel like never before.
Donald Trump
And so I think it was a.
Steve Bannon
Very, very proud moment and so many great people in one place.
Mo Bannon
What I got, the biggest weapon. The biggest weapon is the most powerful weapon is the truth. And we as Christians must defend it. We must defend the principles and the Constitution of the United States so that we as a people that we believe that our voice is the voice of freedom and our vote is our voice, the vote. And so I just want to thank God for everything here because it just draws us another step higher because it was just wonderful, touching to all of us, young and old. I saw young and old here. So it was no perspective.
Donald Trump
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Hey, Ben, just. Yeah, just hang on for one second. I'm gonna come right back. You stay right there. I'm gonna come right back to you. We're gonna go to David Zier outside. Ben Berkhoman, I might add. It's never an official MAGA rally or a MAGA get together or today a revival. Unless brick suit man is there. David Brian Kennedy, your thoughts on what you saw today? I thought it was a great day, Steve. I thought, Charlie Kirk's a great man. He was a martyr There will be unleashed. You believe he's a Christian martyr? Absolutely. And Cardinal Dolan compared him to St. Paul today, which was a pretty dramatic thing. The interesting thing, though, is that will certainly unleash a million Charlie Kirks, but we're living in a very demonic time. And there'll be a million demons out there, too, doing all things. They're very dangerous right now. I think in some ways they're. They are emboldened by this. They see they can kill one of our main voices, and they did. In line. I didn't make the. The media cut. Exactly. So I was in line with people for three hours talking to all the folks.
Donald Trump
Folks.
Steve Bannon
And they were Christians, and they were happy and they had families and they were lovely people. And I started talking to them, and they were happy and prayerful. And none of them that I spoke to believed that the shooter that they got and they've arrested actually did it. The war room posse. It's zero percent.
Donald Trump
They were.
Steve Bannon
And they were angry. They don't need. They don't. Not saying this guy's not a bad guy and an evil guy. Right. But they think something. And this is why Cash Patel did announce today that the FBI has officially expanded the investigation. My big fear was you would get a lone wolf, lone gunman, and Utah police and everybody want to shut it down. I think Cash said today that they've expanded it out because we have to. For every Ed Martin, there's the great Ed Martin that you interviewed. Great, great guy. I wish there were a thousand Ed Martins in the Justice Department. And until that happens, we're going to be behind the eight ball here. When you say it emboldened them. Before I go back out to zero outside. When you say embolden them, what do you mean? Look at aoc, look at some of these other Democratic leaders. They are free to criticize the killing of Charlie Kirk as if he deserved it. That is an outrage in American politics. It's a very.
Mo Bannon
How do we battle back at that? I think it's so important. I want to say just really quickly, Steve, if I may. I got a text from my friend's daughter in the middle of all this, and she received it and said, did I ever tell you that I never read a Bible? All those years of Sunday school and church and the whole thing, and I only picked it up when I had to. She said, yesterday, I ordered a Bible. I just want to challenge everyone, and myself included. Myself, actually, at the top of this list. This is our defense. Putting on the full armor of God. There's only one way to do that. That is to get your face in the Bible and that is to get your body in a fellowship of the Lord.
Steve Bannon
Because they're not, they're, they're. They're coming hard now. Charlie. Charlie. Because there's no grounds for. No, there's no, there's no. You know this whole thing about free speech debate. I say they embrace political violence. There's nothing to talk about. There's no unity. Charlie saw in sort of the last, this last year that the real danger was communists, Islamists and antifa. Yes. And right now they're on the march.
Mo Bannon
All godless.
Steve Bannon
All godless. And for every those million new Charlie Kirks, we're going to have to deal with all of them. Now, I believe we're completely up for the fight, but please let us everyone know it will be a fight. Hang on. We're going to go out to David's here. By the way, I want to thank our sponsors. We were commercial free all day. Want to thank Real America's Voice, our great sponsors. Birch Gold. Right. AMAC and Patriot Mobile. I mean those three companies are as good as you get. Go check out. We've got. We'll put. Mo and Grace will push out on Real America's Voice. You can go and get access to Birch Gold. We'll have a bunch. We'll talk about Gold tomorrow morning. Amac, Fantastic. An alternative to other these organizations. This one truly conservative. And Patriot Mobile, the best phone service out there and supports our, our, all our causes. Let's go.
Mo Bannon
Big weekend next weekend with a Mac, by the way.
Steve Bannon
Mac. You want to talk, talk about that? Where's it going to be?
Mo Bannon
Yeah, you tell us.
Steve Bannon
Yeah. In Virginia at Patrick Henry College. It's a boot camp. A Mac boot camp. Gina and I will be there. We'll host American Sunrise on Friday morning and Saturday is the big boot camp.
Donald Trump
Wow.
Steve Bannon
And what will the boot camp entail?
Mo Bannon
Well, it's training patriots. I mean it's more than just being a member of a group. Right. It's about training people, what they can actually do.
Steve Bannon
Yes.
Mo Bannon
Action. Action.
Steve Bannon
Action, Action, Action. Mobilization. And Patrick Henry College is old school.
Donald Trump
Oh, yeah.
Steve Bannon
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Let's go to David Zier in the parking lot with 300,000 people thereabouts that are leaving David Zier, what do you got for us? We have Stephanie and Paul here from the ever growing Gilbert, Arizona people still relocating out here. You're a big rav viewer in War room posse, right?
Donald Trump
Yes.
Steve Bannon
Also every morning watching Steve Bannon war room.
Donald Trump
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Real America's Voice with Terrence. And you're telling me you followed us the whole campaign, right? Oh, yeah.
Donald Trump
All right.
Steve Bannon
That's great. Okay, so you're a teacher, right? By the way, you were in the overflow arena. That was pretty packed, right? Yeah, it was still pretty packed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was pretty incredible turnouts here. Watch parties everywhere across the country, local hotels. So you're a teacher. What was the reaction in your school district when Charlie was shot? I think it caused everyone to take a little pause. Sometimes being in school, kids can't. We can't talk so freely like we want to, but you would hear whispers and then start those conversations. Okay. Relatively conservative district compared to most.
Donald Trump
Yes. Yes.
Steve Bannon
Okay. Well, that's good. Paul, I wanted to ask you. You know, Benny Johnson made comment. You know, you could kill a dictator, they go away. But if you martyr somebody, the fight just gets more powerful, right?
Donald Trump
Yeah, that's correct.
Steve Bannon
Yes, I resonate with you.
Donald Trump
Oh, yes, it did.
Steve Bannon
And I. I always tell people, it's. It's like Charlie Kirk was the bag.
Donald Trump
That held the rice, and now somebody opened the bag, and now we're all over the place.
Steve Bannon
And Posobic said, this is the turning point, right? Yes, all of us. What was your big takeaway, and what are you going to remember most about Charlie Kirk? My biggest takeaway was when Erica Kirk forgave her the assassin who killed Charlie. Do you have TPUSA in your high schools chapters? I believe at the high school, yeah, we do. Yeah. Well, 62,000 applicants in a week and a half asking for new chapters. Paul, what was your big takeaway from today? Just so many people that are coming to Christ, and it's just amazing. I felt like a revival. I feel empowered that the mission gets stronger from you.
Donald Trump
Yes, it does.
Steve Bannon
And, I mean, he's empowered me and.
Donald Trump
For me to do some more.
Steve Bannon
All right, guys, Everybody, Stephanie and Paul, more great, real American voices on the ground. Back to you. Make sure you thank him, David. We appreciate you guys watching. Is that like the 10th time we've heard revival from someone?
Mo Bannon
Yes. And the wheat and the chaff parable as well, from Matthew 13:24 30. Everybody should go back and read that, because what happens is when the wheat, you know, the enemy comes and puts the chaff, the weed, around the wheat, to try to kill the wheat off. But the weed then dies. It goes into the ground, and it comes back and it takes over bigger than ever. And that's the parable that God told us about.
Steve Bannon
This very moment, you know, we shouldn't get lost. When Erica Kirk talked about I forgive him, that's the big line. But let's unpack that a little bit. When she did that, there are a lot of folks that do not believe in Jesus Christ. And when they heard that, they're like, well, wait a minute, hold on. I forgive him. That is makes no sense to them whatsoever. Honestly, as Christians, we have a hard time with it. Right. But for those that don't know Christ, they're thinking about that. So that is a marinated moment, if you will, where people can start to go, well, you know what? Maybe I want to explore that God that allows her to get up on stage in front of millions and do that. Just something to think about.
Mo Bannon
The Friday night where she said, God is so good.
Donald Trump
Yes.
Mo Bannon
Who, who can say, where do you get the, that kind of strength?
Steve Bannon
While she answers, even with the individual, she's not talking about the radical ideology and the demonic ideology that brought. If it turns out to be that guy. But I'm telling you, with a broader, with a broader investigation, I think a lot of things are going to turn up that are demonic. Steve, if I could say one thing, what's really interesting here is that normally President Trump gets top billing. In any event, he's. That he was not top billing today. It was Jesus number one, Charlie, then Erica, then President Trump. And that's just kind of fascinating in and of itself. That's very tough, though, because by custom and tradition, the president always wraps up. It's quite tough to follow the widow of a slain martyr and a hero, particularly when she's so incredibly articulate. I thought President Trump's remarks were, were fantastic. And Don Jr. And the President. Half of the president's remarks were about religion, God, Christianity. You don't see that all the time from President Trump. And Don Jr. I thought was magnificent. Start off with his relationship with Charlie, about Charlie's relationship with Christ, and then end with it had a major arc to it. We've got Ben Berkwam has, the great Nick Sartor has been so fantastic for us in this entire endeavor. Ben, what do you got, sir?
Donald Trump
Yeah, Nick, same thing, by the way, that, that, that forgiveness, the hugest takeaway.
Steve Bannon
The other thing, just real quick before I go to Nick, that Erica said about the new Christians knowing that you're going to be under attack. And this is always the case whenever.
Donald Trump
You become effective, the devil tries to take you out.
Steve Bannon
And so my just encouragement to all the new Christians out there is get yourself close to other Christians, understand you've.
Donald Trump
Got to stay in touch with the.
Steve Bannon
Word, read your Bible every day, and understand that the enemy's going to come after you now that you're on the side of righteousness.
Donald Trump
So it's not an easy fight, but.
Steve Bannon
It'S the most important thing you do in your life. Nick, what was your takeaway from today, brother? It's really incredible to look that this was all put together in 10 days. I mean, the speakers out here. I mean, I was up in the front there, and I mean, you saw like, pretty much every cabinet secretary was here. You had Dan Bongino, you had Cash Patel. I mean, the entire administration seemed to be here. They took three of the presidential planes here today, just full of White House officials and admin officials. And we're in the State Farm stadium in Arizona. 70,000 people in here. There wasn't a single empty seat, and you had overflow next door. I mean, it's mesmerizing to me that all of these people came together from all over the world. I was out there Last night at 12 o' clock in the morning talking to these people, and most of them are from the other side of the country. Flew all the way in, paid thousands of dollars, you know, staying at hotels, renting cars and such, all just to come celebrate. Charlie Kirk and Benny Johnson at one point up on stage asking for people to stand up if. If Charlie had an impact on their spiritual life over the past couple of weeks. And I mean, pretty much the entire stadium stood up. It was crazy. I mean, they keep saying, oh, this is a revival. This is a revival. They're not exaggerating. That's exactly what this is. I mean, so many people have been brought closer to Christ over these past 10 days than I think ever in history.
Donald Trump
Yeah.
Steve Bannon
Incredible.
Donald Trump
Hey. Hey, Jack.
Steve Bannon
Can I get you for a second?
Donald Trump
Yep. All right, so last. Last question. We got the one and only Jack Posowic.
Steve Bannon
But final thoughts, guys. You know, I've never been so sad to see so many people that I know, but there's no place I would have rather been than here today. It's a tough one, but we're going to move on and we're going to win. Amen.
Donald Trump
I think what was so fantastic was.
Steve Bannon
To see suddenly it was like everyone's.
Donald Trump
Jesus came out, right?
Steve Bannon
Like, people that I didn't even know.
Donald Trump
Were Christians were preaching the gospel boldly. Politicians, like.
Steve Bannon
I felt like everyone just became so.
Donald Trump
On fire for God.
Steve Bannon
It was amazing. And I think that was really what Charlie wanted He said, if there's one.
Donald Trump
Thing I want to be remembered for is my courage of my faith and.
Steve Bannon
For people to get to know Jesus.
Donald Trump
So I want to encourage you, if.
Steve Bannon
You don't know Jesus, give your life to him today.
Donald Trump
There's never a better day and a moment than right now.
Steve Bannon
Thank you so much, Ben. Closing thoughts. Ben, we got a heart out here to clear out our studio. Real America's Voice. Been so great to, to put up.
Donald Trump
Just the most amazing day I've ever.
Steve Bannon
Been a part of. God turned tragedy into hope and direction and now I just can't wait to.
Donald Trump
See what comes out of it.
Steve Bannon
Fantastic. By the way, tell Nick Sorcher I would have never picked him out. I've never seen Nick anything but a T shirt and a ball cap and in the middle of danger somewhere. So tell Nick he cleans up very well. I think it's, I think it says a lot about Charlie and a lot about today. Can we get Brian Zier for some wrap up comment from Brian? Is he still out there? Or David Zier? No, no David Zier. Okay, closing thoughts. I'll start with Brother Kennedy. We got a couple minutes here. Your closing thoughts. And then David Brody and Dr. Gino. America should be very proud today of one of their great sons, Charlie Kirk. And the kind of outpouring of love and affection and displays of their faith of Jesus Christ was a very impressive thing. And President Trump was fabulous. Everybody was fabulous. But it was the people who were here really personified what is great about this country. I think it's two words now. What? And it's a question. I think until we answer that question, then this was, I mean personally was one, I would say the most amazing day I've ever been a part of in a news environment for sure. But what happens next? So that's one thing I'd say and then I'll just simply say this about the churches. Let's go. You know, time to step up. You talked about muscular Christianity earlier, right? About how the media is going to say this was muscular Christianity. Well, you know what we need actually more muscular Christianity inside the church. We got a bunch of, there's a lot of salt. There's no positive this was, there's no power on earth that can stand up to what you saw today. That's right. It's just not. I mean it was so at times it was solemn, at other times it was joyous.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
It was always about Charlie Kirk in this intimate relationship he had with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That was the foundation of everything that a lot of people didn't know. And you saw all the work and then you saw many people you see every night in a. In I guess a secular environment of the politics of and running the government of the most powerful nation on earth in a totally different light, including Don Jr, Benny Johnson and President Trump. In that through line. The entire way is like a spirit did take over early on, the Holy Spirit and played throughout the whole. My point to folks is that just go with the flow there. But you got to take action, action, action.
Mo Bannon
God did what he does best and that is he takes chaos and he turns it into to order. And I think today that's what we saw. Many of us just felt completely thrown. What's going to happen to our country now? I heard whispers of civil war. I know you guys did right after this. I heard horrible thoughts.
Steve Bannon
Whispers. I was shouting, yeah. And I still believe it. I didn't say it had to be violent. I didn't say it had to be violent. But there's no, there's. I, there's what you saw today cannot reconcile it with what caused us to be here. That's right. It's so demonic, so hateful, so against everything. And the more you find out about it, the sicker and more perverted and more systemic. It is right about this and so right.
Mo Bannon
But God doesn't use some things. He uses all things to the good of those who love him and live according to his precepts. And that's what he showed us today. He said, I'm going to take order. I'm going to take chaos. I'm going to turn it to order. And now the order is on us. So now we know what to do. We have our marching orders. You, you've got to get your face in a Bible. You've got to get back up. But also I thought what was so important, I believe it was Erica that said it's on those of us who are mature in our walk with Jesus. It's on us to mentor those who are new at it. Because yes, they are going to have challenges and trials. The evil is going to spawn like crazy. We have to be bigger, we have to be better. We have to have on the full armor of God.
Steve Bannon
I want to thank you guys particularly. I guess you are flying back to do American Center.
Mo Bannon
I will be there bright and early. Steven, been an honor. Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Amazing. Great.
Donald Trump
David, David, David.
Steve Bannon
Thank you so much. And you guys were just incredible all day. When I thank real America's voice.
Donald Trump
Yes.
Steve Bannon
The crew they had very limited time.
Donald Trump
To set this up.
Steve Bannon
I mean, Turning Point was amazing. Real America's Voice, the Denver crew running this just all day, the music, the how you put the images together, just incredible. What we're going to do, correct me if I'm wrong, it's 8 o', clock, coming on 8 o' clock Eastern Daylight Time, and we are going to now start at the beginning and replay the entire day's broadcast. So if you miss, particularly the early part, I will tell you, take a couple hours, don't cut on. You don't need to cut on Sunday Night Football.
Donald Trump
Right.
Steve Bannon
Or you can put that in the box, watch what you're about to see. Because as David Brody said, I think one of the most impressive, not just impressive, there's something about this day that was very different than anything else. Right. Anything else we've ever covered. Want to thank Real America's Voice, the war room, rav, American Sunrise, all the shows, all the correspondence we're now stick to Rav. We're now going to replay the entire day's commemoration of Charlie Kirk's life, starting at the very beginning.
Mo Bannon
God bless you guys.
Steve Bannon
President United States, about here. Vice President, many members of the Cabinet. It's going to be unique in American history. Never happened before. These people have lined up here. I've never seen a line of traffic like that, ever. President Trump is on his way to.
Donald Trump
Arizona as we speak.
Steve Bannon
Why is this event so important? And what if Charlie and turning point me to you.
Mo Bannon
We're celebrating the life of Charlie Kirk, a man that created a movement that.
Donald Trump
Has never been made before.
Steve Bannon
I mean, Charlie Kirk broke up an entire generation of people. I'm here today to tell you the why in what he did. The why is the one that Charlie wanted to welcome as the guest of honor. He's the king of glory. God has created a revival right here in this house.
Ed Martin
We will never, ever let them forget.
Steve Bannon
The name Charlie Kirk. Now is the time for us to step into the arena and to stand as warriors for freedom and truth. And fight, my friends, for Charlie. We must remember that he is a hero to the United States of America and he is a martyr for the Christian faith. On the cross, our savior said, father, forgive them, for they know not know what they do. That man, that young man, I forgive him.
Donald Trump
Charles James Kirk. He lived bravely. He lived boldly. I know I speak for everyone here today when I say that none of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk and neither now. While history.
Steve Bannon
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Date: September 22, 2025
Podcast: Real America’s Voice (RAV) — iHeartPodcasts
This emotionally charged episode of Real America’s Voice centers on the national memorial for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, following his recent assassination. The show features President Donald Trump’s keynote eulogy, reflections from RAV hosts, on-the-ground reports, and testimonies from political and cultural figures, all capturing what they repeatedly frame as a historic turning point, both politically and spiritually, for America.
Major Themes:
[02:37–43:51]
[47:56, 49:48, 72:34, 84:50]
[49:31–53:30]
[54:01–59:34]
[68:20–84:29]
[65:19–70:20]
[90:01–end]
“He was assassinated because he lived bravely, he led boldly, and he argued brilliantly without apology. He did what was right for our nation.”
— Donald Trump [03:06]
“At every campus event, Charlie asked the people who disagreed with him to come forward…he handed them a microphone and let them speak…and he’d convinced so many.”
— Donald Trump [18:35]
“The bullet was aimed at all of us…Charlie’s message has not been silenced. It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before.”
— Donald Trump [29:44; 33:09]
“That man, I forgive him. Wow…that was the line of the entire [day]…it’s already the lead across the world.”
— Steve Bannon (on Erica Kirk, quoting her) [47:56]
“It was not a memorial, it was a revival, the beginning of revival. That’s what happened today.”
— Steve Bannon [49:31]
“The lesson of Charlie’s life is that you should never underestimate what one person can do with a good heart, a righteous cause, a cheerful spirit, and the will to fight.”
— Donald Trump [40:57]
“Let’s go. We got to see that as parents. We never thought we’d see that day.”
— Mo Bannon, reflecting on the impact for families [68:09]
“If you’re not in that evangelical space, revival…what does it really mean? Here’s what it means: Get busy with God.”
— Steve Bannon [53:11]
“I want to encourage you, if you don’t know Jesus, give your life to him today. There’s never a better day and a moment than right now.”
— Jack Posobiec [89:42]
“Normally President Trump gets top billing…he was not top billing today. It was Jesus number one, Charlie, then Erica, then President Trump.”
— Steve Bannon [85:37]
The entire episode is both solemn and galvanizing, blending grief with energetic calls to action. The speakers move fluently between personal memory, evangelical zeal, and pointed political rhetoric. Trump’s eulogy and Erica’s act of forgiveness are the twin emotional pillars, around which the rest of the commentary resolves into a narrative of revival, both religious and political. The war room hosts and guests frame Kirk’s martyrdom as not the end, but the catalyst for renewed activism and “revival” in American society.
| Timestamp | Segment/Theme | Speaker(s) | Notes | |------------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:37–43:51 | Trump’s eulogy—Kirk’s life, mission, legacy | Donald Trump | Emotional, biographical, visionary, calls for faith and national unity | | 47:56 | Erica Kirk—Forgiveness reaction | Steve Bannon, Mo Bannon | “I forgive him”—widely cited as pivotal moment | | 49:31–53:30 | Revival framing/muscular Christianity | Steve Bannon, Mo Bannon | Political + spiritual renewal, event exceeds mere memorial | | 54:01–62:39 | Conservative leaders reflect on loss, future | Ed Martin, Steve Bannon | On finding new leadership, drawing from faith | | 64:07–72:18 | Attendee and media reactions | Steve Bannon, field hosts | Crowd energy, media divides, spontaneous global response | | 84:50–87:12 | The meaning and challenge of forgiveness | Mo Bannon, Steve Bannon | Non-believers and new Christians prompted to consider faith | | 90:01–93:50 | Call to action/next steps | Steve Bannon, Mo Bannon | “Marching orders”, revival as a movement, mentorship in faith |
This episode documents an unprecedented moment for the American conservative and evangelical communities, using the tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a springboard for collective resolve, religious revival, and political mobilization. At its center is a call to carry forward Kirk’s mission, deepen personal faith, and reshape America’s civic and spiritual landscape with his legacy as a guiding inspiration.
“Charlie Kirk started with only an idea to change minds on college campuses, and instead, he ended up with a far greater achievement: changing history.”
— Donald Trump [41:00]