Hour 1 - Charlie Kirk's Assassination

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 1 – Charlie Kirk's Assassination
Date: September 11, 2025
Host: Clay Travis & Buck Sexton (iHeartPodcasts)

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Overview

This hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show is a somber, emotionally-charged reaction to the assassination of conservative activist and broadcaster Charlie Kirk, who was killed the previous day. The hosts process the news in real time, express condolences, and discuss the wider implications on American discourse, political violence, and the state of free speech, especially on a day already marked by the memory of 9/11. The episode is a mix of mourning, outrage, and analysis of the cultural and political consequences of Kirk’s assassination.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mourning Charlie Kirk and Initial Reactions

• Shock and Grief: Both hosts open the show expressing disbelief and heartbreak, recognizing how deeply listeners and especially young men influenced by Kirk will be affected.

  • Buck recounts seeing the news for the first time live, feeling sick, and the overwhelming sense that the event was both shocking and, to some extent, not unexpected given current political tensions.
  • Quote:

    "It's a day of mourning for the whole country because of what happened within the last 24 hours."
    — Clay Travis (06:35)

• Personal Impact: Clay shares how his sons' school in Nashville wore coats and ties in honor of Kirk, emphasizing the generational influence Kirk had—especially on young men.

  • Quote:

    "My two oldest boys, their entire school today in Nashville dressed up in coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk. ... The whole school wore coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk."
    — Clay Travis (05:25)

2. Details on the Assassination and Ongoing Investigation

• Circumstances and Suspect: The hosts provide the latest facts: Kirk was killed by a shooter with a bolt-action rifle from about 200 yards, on a college campus during an open mic event.

  • Suspect is described as “college age.”
  • FBI has released suspect photos; investigation ongoing.

• Premeditation and Motive:

  • Shooter demonstrated proficiency with rifles, indicating planning rather than randomness.
  • Political motivation is stressed; both hosts regard the act as a targeted political assassination.

  Quote:

  "This is someone who had some ability to shoot with accuracy. They're saying they think it's right now the person the main person of interest is college age."
  — Clay Travis (10:44)

3. The Political Climate and Rhetoric Leading to Violence

• The Role of Rhetoric:

  • Both hosts argue that repeated branding of conservatives as "Nazis" or "Hitler" by influential figures and platforms fosters a climate where violence becomes justifiable in the deranged minds of some individuals.
  • They directly blame prominent Democrats and social media echo chambers for inciting violence through extreme rhetoric.

  Quote:

  "When you say my political opponents are Nazis, Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, ... there's consequences. ... If you truly believe that Trump is Hitler or that Charlie Kirk is Hitler or all of you out there who voted for Trump are Hitler, then don't tell me right after you kill someone ... 'We condemn political violence' because it's a lie."
  — Buck Sexton (16:17)

• No Moral Equivalence:

  • Buck and Clay forcefully reject "both sides" arguments, asserting that targeted political violence comes overwhelmingly from the left.
  • They cite past events (Trump shooting, congressional baseball shooting) as patterns of left-wing violence, while asserting that "the right" does not engage in similar acts.

4. Social Media and Cultural Response

• Toxic Celebration on the Left:

  • Both recount observing widespread online celebration and gloating over Kirk's death (specifically citing BlueSky), painting this as evidence of a "demonic" sickness in the culture of the far left.

  Quote:

  "BlueSky ... it's so depraved. It is a giant echo chamber of people congratulating each other and cheering for what happened yesterday. It's the most appalling, honestly, just nightmare stuff."
  — Clay Travis (14:32)

• Contrast in Reactions:

  • The hosts note a profound difference: While conservatives are grieving and expressing empathy for Kirk’s family, left-leaning social media and even some members of Congress displayed either indifference or open derision.
  • Example: Moment of silence for Kirk in Congress was reportedly jeered or disrespected by Democrats (28:13–29:52).

5. Upholding Free Speech and Courage in the Aftermath

• Legacy and Remembrance:

  • Clay and Buck praise Kirk's contributions to free speech, especially his focus on debate and engaging youth on college campuses.

  Quote:

  "Charlie was doing really incredible work and returning in a lot of ways ... the conversation back to some of our core and most important founding principles. All right, let's talk about, let's have this debate, let's have this exchange of ideas."
  — Buck Sexton (08:09)

  • They urge their audience and themselves to remain courageous, continue speaking out, and not let fear or violence silence their beliefs.
  • Reference is made to the anniversary of 9/11 as a reminder that American freedoms have always had enemies, making courage essential.

  Quote:

  "We’re not backing off one inch off of what matters. We’re not backing off the truth at all ... and we know that Charlie, if he was here with us, would say exactly the same thing: Stay in the fight."
  — Buck Sexton (35:12)

6. Listener Reactions

• Caller Messages:
  • The show plays a message from Susan in Tampa Bay (43:27), who voices heartbreak, outrage, and a demand for accountability, asking when politicians who stoke this kind of violence will "pay."
  • Buck echoes her frustration and reiterates the argument that the rhetoric from the left leads directly to these outcomes.

7. Notable Remembrance Clip

• A short audio tribute from Charlie Kirk is played:

  "I want to be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith."
  — Charlie Kirk (23:34)

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Mourning and Legacy:

  "Charlie was a force of nature. Charlie was doing really incredible work and returning in a lot of ways ... the conversation back to some of our core and most important founding principles."
  — Buck Sexton (08:09)

• On Violence and Rhetoric:

  "You can't incite violence and then condemn it when it happens ... what is the equivalent attack that we like? 'Oh, you're a communist.' There is no right-wing equivalent to 'you're Hitler.' ... They think they're heroes. That's where this comes from."
  — Buck Sexton (43:57)

• On Callousness in Congress:

  "There was an attempt to get a moment of silence yesterday for Charlie in the United States Congress. And Democrats booed or jeered during this ... I just—Clay, we have to ask this question. It's not just the shooter. It's not just the shooter. What is wrong with these people ...?"
  — Clay Travis (28:13)

• On No Moral Equivalence:

  "There is no equivalent action on the right ... Violence is never the answer. Beat them in the court of public opinion. Beat them with your ideas, with your arguments."
  — Buck Sexton (31:39)

• On Courage vs. Intimidation:

  "Their goal is to provoke fear. Their goal is to create cowardice among people. And I think we have to respond in the exact opposite way and be braver and stronger and more courageous, even if that does sometimes entail elements of risk."
  — Buck Sexton (25:25)

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Timestamps – Important Segments

• 03:06–06:35 – Opening reactions: processing Kirk's death; impact on listeners and young men.
• 06:35–10:44 – Emotional fallout; details on the assassination and investigation.
• 13:55–16:17 – Social media reactions and the left's cheering of political violence.
• 16:17–17:40 – Analysis of dangerous rhetoric; connection between words and "justified" violence.
• 25:25–28:13 – Call for courage, broader context with 9/11 anniversary, generational impact.
• 28:13–31:39 – Congressional response; discussing patterns of political violence.
• 35:12–36:28 – Promising to speak the truth and not yield to intimidation.
• 43:27–45:37 – Listener message; direct accusation against political figures for incitement.
• 23:34 – Voice clip of Charlie Kirk stating his principles: courage and faith.

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Conclusion

The episode is an intense, personal, and at times confrontational examination of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as both a tragedy and a symptom of a deeper political and cultural crisis. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton mourn a friend and colleague, call out what they see as the mainstreaming of violent rhetoric on the left, and urge their listeners to resist intimidation by doubling down on truth and free speech. The discussion remains deeply rooted in the day’s emotional context, linking the event to broader threats against American values, and ensuring Kirk’s memory as a “warrior for truth and justice.”

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Welcome in. It is going to be a hard show. It is going to be a difficult show. I imagine that a lot of you are like both the Buck and myself. It's hard to sleep. May not have gotten a lot of sleep. Probably have been hopefully hugging your kids, your grandkids closer and trying to deal with the fact that we live in a world where if you have the wrong opinion, and I know many of you, sadly, including me, have expected things like these, we've been talking about it, unfortunately, for over a year after President Trump took a bullet to the earth. It's awful. We ended yesterday's show. Buck and I, if you watch on video, are regularly scrolling through our phone to make sure that we are the absolute best informed and get you information as fast as we possibly can. And Buck saw it first yesterday during the show. And I could see in his face that something was very bad. And unfortunately, about an hour after the show ended, Buck, you were basically on FOX News when it happened. And Charlie Kirk is gone, 31 years old. He leaves behind a young son, young daughter, very, very young son and daughter, loving wife. And they killed him because they did not like his political opinions. And we're going to talk a lot about this and have a big conversation with all of you. But I think at its essence, this is where words are violence leads to. I think if you have to boil it down, the left has accepted the idea that if you or I or any of us say something that they do not like, that violence is an appropriate response. And where this event, this assassination took place was in many ways perfectly reflective of the impact that Charlie Kirk has had in his life on a college campus with an open mic where anyone on the campus could walk up and tell him why he was wrong and they could debate anything under the sun. And he had done this, and he was so profoundly successful at it that he had particularly moved the hearts and minds of many young men. And Buck, I'll toss it to you here in a sec, but let me tell you this. My two oldest boys, their entire school today in Nashville dressed up in coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk. And you went to a school where you had to dress up sometimes. Let me tell you, these boys don't want to wear coats and ties. They usually are always complaining. They're like, oh, it's a coat and tie day, dad. The whole school wore coats and ties in honor of Charlie Kirk. And I understand some of you, maybe you're in your 60s, 70s, 80s, you might not have been the target audience necessarily seeing this content, but I would tell you, particularly if you have sons, grandsons, young people in your households, they may be hurting quite a bit and impacted by this far more than even you might have been so buck that it is just a devastating yet sadly not unexpected to me event.

[Clay Travis]

It's a day of mourning for the whole country because of what happened within the last 24 hours. And also it is the remembrance of 911 today. So it's a particularly hard and emotional day it was going to be before this horrific event happened. And now we sit here with you and we, we grieve with all of you because of what happened to Charlie and which is just horrific beyond words. I, we were, Clay saw me yesterday. I was, felt like I was going to throw up. When we were, I was reading the initial text messages about it and we were on the, we went into a commercial break at the very end of the show. Of course, I didn't want to say anything at first because you, this is. There are some news stories that, you know, you just cannot get wrong. You can't. And there's so much false information out there these days. And so, so we really wanted to be just bringing you the facts about this. And then I was on with Will, Will Kane, who's a been a friend of mine now for, I don't know, 15, almost 15 years. And, and Will texted me, said, will you please come on and talk about what's going on? And I got some, I got word when I was on the air. It was very early on in the show, Clay, but I had already been informed pretty reliably that Charlie wasn't going to make it. But then I, I, again, I, you know, we're dealing with the not certain. You know, you, obviously, I can't say that if I'm not 100% sure, but I'm thinking and I'm, you know, it's just all the processing, the grief, the trauma that people feel right now, we feel it with you. Clay and I both knew and liked Charlie and had tremendous respect for what he had built and what he had done. And in this last election playing a critical role, especially with the getting that Youth vote to start to see reality. And it's just one of those moments, Clay, where you go to bed at night to the degree you can even sleep, and it still just doesn't feel like this could have been what happened. It's so horrific and it's so wrong and evil on so many levels. I feel for Charlie's family, his wife, his two small children, his mom, his dad, everybody, all of his family is just, you know, it's. I don't know how it's possible for them to even begin to deal with something like this. Charlie was a force of nature. Charlie was doing really incredible work and returning in a lot of ways. I think, Clay, the conversation back to some of our core and most important founding principles. All right, let's talk about, let's have this debate, let's have this exchange of ideas. And you know, I know that there's this sense that, well, we are in mourning and so should we get into the politics of this right away? Charlie was assassinated. I mean, this was a terror act. This was an assassination. This was killed.

[Buck Sexton]

He was killed because of his politics.

[Clay Travis]

That's right.

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So it's impossible not to talk about politics.

[Clay Travis]

That's exactly what I want to express. Thank you. Yes. This wasn't a, you know, it would be tragic and horrible if he had, you know, died because of, you know, an armed robber who shot him or something like that. That would be horrible. That would be a terrible crime. But this was done because of who Charlie was. We all know that. In fact, the FBI and we'll continue to. I am hopeful that there will be an arrest while we are on the air today. That's not going to bring Charlie back. And I know that this is not going to be able to comfort the grieving right now in a meaningful way, but it will at least be the justice system beginning to do what it is possible for the justice system to do to create some accountability. I think this should be a death penalty case for the individual involved. I am hopeful that they will get this person. There's reporting that they, they have the weapon users a bolt action rifle. That is confirmed by the FBI. Watch the press conference this morning. 200 yards, perhaps 200 plus yard shot. So it's somebody who had an understanding of how to, you know, they, they had some practice. This is not someone who bought a gun and then the next day went. Just went on a shooting spree. This is somebody who had some ability to shoot with accuracy. They're saying they think it's right now the person the Main person of interest is college age. We'll see. I mean they've been a lot of. You have update on.

[Buck Sexton]

Let me just mention, I just retweeted they have shared photos of the individual that from FBI Salt Lake City field office. They have photos of the man that they believe is responsible for the shooting. And I just retweeted those. College age, as you were going to say.

[Clay Travis]

So they have clear video college age. I will note that there have been numerous photos of individuals of interest shared previously, including FBI statements that we have a. This is, this is where the investigative process can be a little confusing or can create some confusion, especially in the online ecosystem. A person of interest does not mean we have the person. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's. We think this is a person we definitely need to speak to. There have been a couple of those people in custody. Initially there was the. There was some crazy old guy who was saying, you know, and people thought that he had not. He did not. He was right there. He didn't have nothing to do with the shooting or, you know, it clearly wasn't him. So there's been a lot of iterations of this already. So, Clay, Yes. There's. There's video out there of this individual. The FBI has also confirmed that there are things written on the rifle and I believe on the shell casings from this morning's press conference, which is going to be going to tell us what the. We know the motivation is politics. We know this was an assassination. We might have a more direct sense, a more precise sense of what this maniac. And I agree with people say when you say maniac, that makes it sound like a person not of their right mind. It's really just demonic. It's a demonic act to do this to Charlie, to do this to Charlie's family, to do this to the American people. And one thing I can say to all of you and Clay, totally, I know he co signs on this. I know that he is of the same heart and mind on this as I am. If something like this had happened to a prominent Democrat, I also would have felt sick to my stomach. I also would have said what the heck is going on in this country? This is, this is disgusting. It is egregious. It is inhuman. And yet, Clay, last night I was on. I went on Blue Sky. Do you know about the. Have you been on.

[Buck Sexton]

I didn't go on, but I have seen the postings. I mean, this is not a fringe part of the left. There is malignant glee over this Assassination that is widely shared and disgusting. But I don't want you thinking, oh, this is. They're going to try to say, oh, this is just an aberrational individual. This is not reflective of ideas on the left. There is a huge toxic foundational core of, of the Democrat Party, of the far left in this country that is celebrating political violence and assassination of people they don't like.

[Clay Travis]

Blue sky, which I do not recommend any of you download or go on, but I felt like I needed to in advance of this show. And it's honestly, it's so depraved. It is a giant echo chamber of, of people congratulating each other and cheering for what happened yesterday. It's the most appalling. I mean, honestly, just nightmare stuff. You go, you look, what is wrong with these people? Charlie never advocated violence against anybody. Charlie never raised a hand against anyone. His whole thing was, let's talk, let's talk. And an assassin kills him. And we cannot think of this as something that occurred in a vacuum, Clay, or you use the word aberrant or that this is something. It was. Twice they tried to kill Donald Trump. These are all people of the same ideology. Twice they tried to kill Donald Trump. Now, we've had people shooting up. We had shooting up the church in Minneapolis because of radical trans ideology. We had the Nashville Manifesto hidden from us because it was a radical trans terrorist theory, by the way. I don't know what the stated ideology of this person is other than it's someone who hates Trump, hates. Charlie is of the left and therefore Clay is part of this. This just rotten. This, this fetid mass psychosis that Democrats think. And they can say any. You can't just run around saying people are Nazis all the time. Because a lot of people think that if you could go back in time and kill Nazis, that would be a good thing. I can't keep doing this.

[Buck Sexton]

I went off on this last night. I was on with our friend Sean Hannity in the evening. That, to me, is the crux of all of this. There are consequences. When you say, hey, my political opponents are Nazis, Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. They are fascists. They're going to overthrow the government. There's not going to be an election in 2028. The guy who tried to kill Trump in West Palm beach said he was doing it because he believed Trump was Hitler. If you truly believe, and some of these crazy people do, if you truly believe that Trump is Hitler or that you're Hitler or that I'm Hitler or that Charlie Kirk Is Hitler or all of you out there who voted for Trump or Hitler, then don't tell me right after you kill someone or attempt to kill someone. We condemn political violence cuz it's a lie. Political violence would be justified if we were Adolf Hitler. And in their brain, some of their crazy, deluded followers are taking that charge and they believe it. And they killed Charlie Kirk over it, I 100 billion percent believe. And they tried to kill Donald Trump over it. And they would try to kill you and they would try to kill me and they would try to kill anyone that they believe is Hitlerian because they think they're a hero in their diluted mental sphere.

[Clay Travis]

If this Charlie was. We knew Charlie, but he was also on our. On our team. He was doing what we do, meaning Clay and I and so many others. Do you know, he was doing a podcast and a radio show and he was spreading the truth. The truth. So they killed him. He was killed. He. An assassin's bullet took his life because he was speaking the truth. And to Clay's point, the same people cheering for this, which is. Which is just monstrous. And I had to know that it was true before I could tell you. But that is happening. A lot of people, a lot of people on the left, the psychosis of these people is really troubling for the future of this country. While people on the right and people voted for Trump are grieving and thinking about Charlie's poor wife and his kids. And people are crying and I'm getting text messages from people. I can't sleep at night. All I can think about is Charlie's wife and his kids and what have they done to us. And then I. And then there are Democrats who are acting. We can't ignore it, and we won't ignore it. We'll come back, we'll talk about this more. And we want. We'd want to take a lot of your. I know a lot of you want to weigh in and speak to us about this. You have things to get off your chest. You want to speak from your heart about this, so please do call us and let's. Let's all discuss this together as we always do. All right, look, our sponsor here is Birch Gold. Owning gold has always been a privilege. I've owned gold for a long time and it has been a sound investment, whether as a hedge against inflation or just for diversification. But Birch Gold Group also believes every American should own physical gold. They want to make it easy for you until September 30th, if you're a first time. Gold buyer Birch Gold is offering a rebate of up to $10,000 in free metals on qualifying purchases. To claim eligibility and start the process, request an info kit now. Text my name Buck to 989898 Birch Gold to help you roll an existing IRA or 401K into an IRA in gold and you're still eligible for a rebate in free metals of up to $10,000. Diversify with gold like I do from Birch Gold Group. Make now your first time to buy gold. Take advantage of a rebate of up to $10,000 when you buy by September 30th. Text my name Buck Buck to 989898.

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I want to be remembered for, for courage, for my faith. That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith.

[Clay Travis]

That was Charlie. And we're going to be playing some remembrance clips of our friend and a champion for free speech, for America, for the truth. Charlie Kirk going to be spending time in memoriam of him today on the show and continue also to look at the investigation. We want his killer in cuffs and facing the full might of the justice system as soon as possible. And I appreciate all the emails we're getting from you and the phone calls that are coming in. We want to talk to you all about this. This is, this is hard for all of us. We're all feeling this. And, and so we're going to have this conversation together today. So please do. Just be patient with us. But call in. We want to hear from you. A lot of your kids, I know in particular are just devastated by this. All right, Our sponsor here is Paradigm Press. Artificial superintelligence is something that really concerns me for the future. China got a lead on the US when it comes to artificial superintelligence under the Biden administration. But Trump is fighting back and there are programs in place and plans in the works that could help the US Gain that AI lead. Now this is just one of the topics that I cover in a new newsletter called Money and Power with Buck Sexton. And it takes insider access to government, Wall street and the tech sector and translates it into the critical stories you need to know, but also investment ideas and opportunities for the future. Please check out the full presentation on this. Let's go off air with this one. Go to offair25.com watch the video presentation about this exciting new project and subscribe. That's off air25.com off air25.com paid for.

[Buck Sexton]

By Paradigm Press I do think that you mentioned earlier, oh, politics. This is politics. This is the left deciding that they're going to use violence to shut down what they consider to be accurately and a powerful and articulate voice for basic common sense in America. And I think that everybody out there, regardless of what you do, just like I think it's not at the timing on this, the connection is to me quite self evident. With the 24th anniversary of 9 11, there are always going to be people that hate the freedoms that we have in the United States, whether it's freedom for basic human rights, whether it is freedom of speech. And I think it's incumbent upon all of us in whatever we do in life, everyone out there listening to rise up and ensure that people who want to silence speech and people who want to attack our freedoms, that they don't win because their goal is to provoke fear. Their goal is to create cowardice among people. And I think we have to respond in the exact opposite way and be braver and stronger and more courageous, even if that does sometimes entail elements of risk. And I said this to you off air and I talked to my boys. I'm just going to be honest with you guys. My boys are old enough, I think, to understand it. I talked about the fact that they were, I think it's fair to say, profoundly saddened and impacted in a way that because they're so young, I don't know that they've had to deal with things like this. And, and I talked about what their school and everything else. It could be any of us. I'm not surprised. That's what I'm saying. This field has felt just like when I knew and we talked about Trump was going to get shot. The nastiness, the pure evil, the despondency, the glee that you see for evil on the left, it's not ending, it's getting worse. There is a toxicity inside of their souls that is manifesting itself in violence against people that they see as threats.

[Clay Travis]

Well, there's a lot there and we are seeing it in the ugliness of it. And we saw it after Trump was shot as well, because there were so many people on the left who were very open that they were sad that the president was okay or that the soon to be president was okay. And also had not a single thought for the husband, the father who was killed in that field in Baltimore and lie about.

[Buck Sexton]

They said he didn't even get hit in the ear. Gavin Newsom shared a big thing of ketchup like, oh, he just made it up. It's not even real. That's what they said.

[Clay Travis]

But a man lost his life that day as well. And it was something that the Democrats and the left and they just completely ignored. Look, we have to deal with this. We have to be honest about what the response is here, because there was an attempt to get a moment of silence yesterday for Charlie in the United States Congress. And Democrats booed or jeered during this. Refused. Refused. These are representatives of the United States Congress and they paid by the taxpayers. Supposed to represent. I mean, I know some of you are going to say, well, that's absurd. But these Democrats are supposed to represent our highest ideals of this republic. And an American, a father, I mean, a husband, a fundamentally good man and an important man and a kind man, was fighting for his life, shot at a speech. And Democrats are jeering during the moment of. They won't do that. What is wrong with these people that I just. Clay, we have to ask this question. It's not just the shooter. It's not just the shooter. What is wrong with these people who don't understand that this was an assault on all of us, our most fundamental values, and this was a demonic act that undermines the most important things about what makes this a country.

[Buck Sexton]

I think it all ties together, actually, whatever you think about the United Healthcare Company, when the CEO was executed in cold blood on the streets of Manhattan, the guy who killed him became a pinup model for the left. They tried to turn him into a hero. When the high school track stabbing happened in the Texas area, Austin Metro killed.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

They raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the high school kid who stabbed the other high school kid in the heart and killed him at a track meet.

[Clay Travis]

And he still has a public defender. So that money was spent on houses and cars, is my understanding.

[Buck Sexton]

I think that's correct. You can string all of these demonic evil acts together and there is no. Both sides ism here. And certainly it connects to Butler, Pennsylvania, and all this. There is no. On the right, however you want to classify it, because I really, at this point, see much of this in the prism of good and evil. There is no equivalent action on the right. If, as we said on this program, you said it a little bit earlier, if. Who is. If Rachel Maddow were speaking on a campus and someone blew her head off, I would be horrified. And I think almost every one of you out there listening would be horrified, too. Whoever you want to say on the left is an articulate voice for what they believe. Violence is never the answer. Beat them in the court of public opinion. Beat them with your ideas, with your arguments.

[Clay Travis]

This is just. I'm observing. I'm observing something here on the right. We are, generally speaking, the ones with all the guns, not including state and law enforcement and military. But as civilians, we're the ones with all the guns. Right? And the Democrats will always say we're all gun nuts and we're the ones with all the guns. And yet look at who has been shot at, killed, almost killed in acts of political violence and assassination. Assassination attempt or an assassination, which is what happened to our friend Charlie. It all comes from the left. It all comes from the left. They talk about political violence on January 6. There was not a single person involved in January 6, which was a small group of the much larger group that was involved in what is basically a protest that turned into a riot. But the point is no one brought a gun. No one. There were no cops killed. That was a lie. The only person killed was Ashley Babbitt, as we know that is there. And Clay, they turn the FBI loose under Biden and they ruin people's lives for nothing. Under the. Oh, it's political violence. They had, you know, massive fencing and everything around Capitol Hill. Like we were under siege for months just to make their point. And I can sit here and say, ok, they shot at Trump, they shot him in the ear. They tried to shoot him again. There was a gunfire. You've seen that golf course, how close he got. They tried to kill.

[Buck Sexton]

Unbelievable that that happened.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, they tried to kill about a dozen conservative members of Congress. And people say, who's they? Leftist lunatics. Do I have to spell this all? Do we have to all pretend like we don't see this? People who believe the rhetoric, that's on MSNBC and that's on the New York Times editorial page, not on the fringes of the Internet. We're not talking about the dark heroes.

[Buck Sexton]

This is so Important. They think they're heroes.

[Clay Travis]

They put Djokar Sir Naev, the Boston Marathon bomber, on the COVID of Rolling Stone to make him look like some kind of a, you know, a hottie. These. There is something sick and demonic on the left. In the left, at the top. At the top. I'm not talking in the fringe. I'm not talk. There is something deeply wrong in the soul of the opposition to Trump and the right and yes, to our friend Charlie. And, and they killed him for it. They killed him for it. We know what happened here. And so this is why I, you know, there's, there's the, the, the, the deep sadness that we're talking about. But then there's also, we wake up today and look, I, I, I, I've already seen these emails from people. Those of you, some of you have been listening to me do this show for, or do it doing radio now for over a decade. Some of you've been listening to Clay since back in the outkick days and early in the morning doing this long. One thing I can promise you is we're not moving one inch off of what matters. We're not backing off of the truth at all because we care about this. We know how much the truth matters to the country in this moment in time. And we know that Charlie, if he was here with us, would say exactly the same thing. Stay in the fight. We're not backing off one inch. It's not going to make us change what we say, how we say it, how we bring tooth to people. But Clay, we also can't, can't avoid the conversation. It's a painful one about what is, what is the opposition, what are they doing? Where, where is the sense of decency? They want to do this. Both sides. There's no both sides ism. I can sit here and rattle off assassination attempts against people on the right. And by the way, to your point, it would be horrifying if this had happened to people on the left. But we don't do that. Our side doesn't do that. What is going on here? It's very clear.

[Buck Sexton]

And if a crazy person does do something, there isn't an entire apparatus like you pointed out of Blue sky where people are tap dancing on the grave of Charlie Kirk. It does not exist.

[Clay Travis]

Look at all the people who have been fired. We haven't even gotten into this. We'll talk about this. More people are getting fired for either, you know, in some cases openly celebrating this, which is just. I don't. You, you have no, there's just no contact with one's own soul and basic humanity to see what anyone saw yesterday. And we saw it. We saw the video. We didn't just read about it. And to have any feeling other than pure revulsion and terror at the evil inflicted on a human being. And I'm telling him, blue sky it. I'm disturbed, Clay. I'm disturbed by the reactions to it brought. And I mean hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands.

[Buck Sexton]

This is what we talked about that if 9, 11 happened today and you've talked about at your school, there was a small, at that point, it was a fringe of people that said, well, America's the bad guy. We deserve this.

[Clay Travis]

There was a flag burning. There were burning flags. I had a friend who was just finding out, well, the flag burning happened a couple weeks later, but I had a friend who was still grieving about the loss of her sister in one of the towers. And she was standing next to me because, Clay, they did this at a, at a bring the community together in grief meeting. Like we were all supposed to just sort of hug each other. And people showed up and burned flags and said, america got what it deserved. This is, this happened at my school 20 years ago.

[Buck Sexton]

I think it's far worse now 24 years ago. Look, we're doing a show. We're talking about very serious things. And occasionally we're going to have to transition. We're going to talk about things that are not very serious. And I will tell you this, we're going to play some cuts. Charlie was on with us in November and we got some cuts from it. And I shared this. Some of you may have seen me talk about it with Sean Hannity last night. Charlie was a warrior for truth and justice. He also to get away sometimes from serious stuff. We would text, he and I, just about college football, just about sports. He's a big sports fan. Loved the Oregon Ducks. Absolutely love the Oregon Ducks. Would build his entire events around making sure that he could watch Oregon Ducks football games on the field. When they beat Ohio State last year, some of you remember that game. And so Charlie was a sports fan, as many of you are. And I'm a huge sports fan. I'm going to be at a game this weekend. I'm going to try to get away sometimes from serious things in life. And price picks. We are going to give you a pick as we do every single week on Thursday on this show. And so you can go to prize picks. We won last week. Travis Kelsey, more than one half receiving yard. Derek Henry, more than one half rushing and receiving touchdown and Jaden Daniels more than one and a half touchdown passes. That's the pick. You can go to prizepix.com you can use my name clay that's prizepix.com my name clay and hopefully we'll be able to have some fun and get away from the awfulness for a little bit of time, which is what I'm going to try to do this weekend. I know many of you are as well and we will continue to take your calls and react as we roll through what is an absolutely devastating day of news.

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[Clay Travis]

Have a lot of remembrance of Charlie Kirk today on the show and also remembrance. It is the anniversary of 911 as we know. So it is a particularly solemn day today and we'll play clips from Charlie, but we know that he was a happy warrior in what he did and he would want us to continue to talk about the issues and certainly to continue to speak the truth and speak our minds. And we want to hear from from you as well. Let's take a talk back here. BB this is Susan who sent us a message from Tampa, Florida. Play it.

[Susan from Tampa Bay]

This is Susan from Tampa Bay, Florida. I am so heartbroken for Charlie's family and what happened yesterday and it is just unexcusable. But I want to know when are the people in our government that have been calling Trump Hitler and all of his followers maga, when are they going to pay because they're inciting all this?

[Buck Sexton]

Well, this is what I went off on on Hannity last night. You guys have heard me talk about it for a long time. You can't incite violence and then condemn it when it happens. It is just it's so dishonest. When you tell people they think these people are deluded in their brains. They think they're the hero of a film. In their mind, there's like a movie soundtrack playing in the background and they're the hero and they're killing Hitler. That's what they've convinced themselves. The guy, I guarantee you who killed Charlie Kirk, he bought into all of this and he believes, I guarantee you, he thinks he's a hero for killing Charlie Kirk. The guy who tried to kill Trump thought he was a hero. Both of them did. You can't incite violence and then condemn it when it happens and act like you had nothing to do with the initial incitement. And that's what the Barack Obamas and the Joe Bidens of the world, the Kamala Harris of the world, all of them, they what is the equivalent attack that we like? Oh, you're a communist. Which is actually sometimes very much true in the case of Mamdani. Right? Like, there is no right wing equivalent to you're Hitler. You're the worst person basically that anybody can think of. We have a debate, buck, where people are like, should you kill baby Hitler? And people go back and forth, hey, what would have been the right decision? They think they're heroes. That's where this comes from. This is directly a result of the rhetoric from the left and their leaders. This is like pretending otherwise is doing a disservice to basic, basic honesty.

[Clay Travis]

It's important to remember in the both sides ism and to the way to avoid falling into that intellectual dishonesty which they're going to try to foist on all of us is when Clay and I are talking about what is being said by the left, by the. It's the opposition to Trump, the opposition to maga, the opposition to Charlie and what he stood for. It's coming from the most powerful and most financially supported and most prominent voices in the Democrat Party. They all say that Trump is a unique threat to democracy. They all say that Trump and his supporters are like Hitler and they wanted to ruin everyone's life who was even present at the capitol on January, January 6th. So this is not a fringe thing with them and we have to address, address this realistically.

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