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So, Victor, you were continuing on on your narratives.

Your last one is...

And this is our Friday news roundup, so we're going to be looking at all the news stories.

Oh, this was that ABC correspondent, Matt Goodman.

And, of course, Charlie Kirk's assassination has topped the news this week as well, so we'll start with him.

So stay with us, and we'll be right back.

There's a couple of things I wanted to ask you about.

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So the Utah police in, I think it was in Oten or Olin or the name of the city.

Anyways, the Utah police said that they wanted, they were happy they allowed for him to have a gentle surrender.

I'm sorry, I never understood.

So Victor, there's lots of effort out there.

Charlie Kirk's death has had a huge cultural impact, not just in the United States, but world around.

Yeah.

There's one more thing, because all of those people who were not on the left and celebrating, etc., there were a lot of people who were both citing the problem that was present with this assassination.

And we've got lots of narratives from the West that are trying to explain away his murder.

There was a good Federalist article by Brianna Lyman, L-Y-M-A-N, and she wrote this both-siding the argument is crazy, and that the long and the short of it is he's a murderer, and there's a lot of other...

by the left, and the government, the powers that be really need to go after those who have been financing... Senator Eric Schmidt, who's been on our program, is a really smart guy.

And I was wondering if you could talk about that a little.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit more about the media in this assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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So I wanted to ask you because there's been some fallout from things people in the media have said.

So Karen Atiyah has been fired from the Washington Post.

She made up a quote by Charlie Kerr.

Yeah.

And then also even Jimmy Kimmel.

And his actually, I think, goes a little bit further than just his firing for a quote where he made up that it was a MAGA gang that was desperately trying to... He was just deliberately at a time of increased social tension and people were on edge and

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So, Victor, to return to the people that have fallen out from this, there was a young woman on ABC this week who gave a tribute to Charlie Kirk at the end of her show on ABC.

And she was really impacted by Charlie Kirk, which is why she gave the tribute.

And then she was taken off ABC.

I'm not sure if she was fired, but her show...

Oh, actually, take it back.

She was fired as an anchor on ABC.

There was a great New York Post article that was talking about Jimmy Kimmel, but they were talking about, and this is what I was thinking from the beginning, I don't think they fired Kimmel at ABC because he said it was a MAGA guy at some point in this investigation.

I think they're losing money.

And this article went all the way into all the affiliates of ABC, that these affiliates all want that.

Would you want him on TV?

Yeah.

I'm sure they are losing.

The article also said that the new chair of the FCC, because these are all FCC- He's a very good guy, Brandon Carr.

He's putting a lot of pressure on them as well.

So they're feeling the financial pressure, and they're feeling the pressure from the FCC to do things differently.

No, they arrested him and put him in the paddy wagon with a gun with one shot in it.

And he only blew off part of his jaw.

And they did it in the way that he was executing justice, which was no justice at all.

And that was to give him a trial one day, to convict him the next, and to guillotine him.

All right, Victor, so let's turn to another news story this week, and that was on Arctic Frost, which was an operation by the FBI, and they were investigating Trump, but it ends up that they expanded their powers to investigating 92 conservative institutions, including Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk.

Well, there was also this week a call, sorry, cops that were called to York County, Pennsylvania.

Three of them were killed, and it was a domestic violence call.

I don't think we know who did it.

Okay, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break, our last break, and then come back and talk a little bit about Trump's cases against various people.

But this time it's a case against The New York Times.

Stay with us, and we'll be right back.

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So, Victor Trump.

has various cases, actually, against different entities.

And in this case, they lied, smeared, and defamed Donald Trump.

And he's brought a case against the New York Times for that.

The amount being asked is $15 billion, I believe, which is extraordinary.

But there's cases that have succeeded.

Another topic this week, or some interesting stuff I came across, were polls.

And this was from YouGov.com, and they were taking polls on the latest violence, political violence, and just in general politics, asking people questions about them.

But there were some interesting things in this, and I'll read you the ones that are interesting.

71% say political violence is more likely of the population that they polled.

87% say political violence is a problem, either big or very big.

And 60% of those were the very big.

Is the U.S.

more or less divided over the last five years?

And this is the really interesting thing.

72% of Democrats say it's more divided, and only 52% of Republicans.

But the Democrats are responding to the five years.

Most of them were Biden's five years.

So that's an interesting thing to me because...

They're saying Biden was more divisive as far as I can see.

Well, I was surprised because I thought that the leadership of the Democrats is always trying to blame Republicans for their divisiveness.

But also just for the last statistic that was interesting in very much the same way.

Political violence over the last 10 years is more.

73% of Democrats and 66% of Republicans.

And the Democrats are the ones that are doing it.

They did have those questions, and the Republicans always voted much lower than the Democrats.

Well, let's turn to movies, and there's a great... And also, just a shout-out to this publication.

It's called Hollywood in Toto, and the writer at the site is Christian Toto, and he wrote on the Emmys that just took place, and he said that...

In this Emmy's awards ceremony, they completely overlooked the Charlie Kirk assassination, even though there was plenty of days for it to sink in.

And just like they overlooked October 7th, but these...

movie stars are never bereft of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian displays.

And he did give a few exceptions, like Jerry Seinfeld, of course, came out against the Palestinian freedom idea and stuff like that.

He said, but those exceptions are very few.

The rest of it, the Emmys are, as we kind

Well, we'll see.

Maybe these problems will be rectified in the new age that Trump's in.

Well, Charlie Kirk certainly was a model for the young generation.

And he did it better than they ever do it.

That's why it was so weird they've been playing that.

It's like my dad told me that.

Well, Victor, we are on a very hard end here, so we're going to have to go.

But we'd like to thank you for all of your wisdom today.

It was a great discussion about Charlie Kirk in particular and all the fallout from this assassination that's going to continue.

And it's changing the culture and it's changing the lives of people, I think.

Yeah, absolutely.

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