The Breakfast Club - Charlie Kirk Fatally Sh0t At University Event

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

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Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. We are the Breakfast Club.

Let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports. Thursday night football. The commanders take on the Green Bay Packers tonight. 8.15 p.m. That is on Prime Video. What's up, Mimi? First of all, I just want to say, yes, I am here. Don't play with me, because I don't know what you said before you got. Before y'all let me in the Zoom, but don't play me. And Mimi, you look pretty gooey.

I was trying to be you. I was like, what's up, Jess. Hi, that's what I did. What's up, Mimi? All right, y'all. Good morning. Jess. Good morning. Good morning. We're going to start this morning with breaking news out of Utah, a shocking and deadly shooting involving one of the most controversial voices in conservative politics. year old Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA and allowed advocate for expansive gun rights was fatally shot and killed yesterday while speaking at a debate hosted by his non-profit at Utah Valley University. Now, a manhut is still underway. Two people who were considered suspects were later released, according to police. Now, if you're not familiar with Kirk, he was hugely influential

among young conservatives, building Turning Point into a nationwide network on more than three thousand college campuses and high school campuses. He was also, though, very polarizing known for spreading election conspiracy theories, opposing gun restrictions, and pushing rhetoric that critics say fueled division. At yesterday's event, he was taking audience questions, taking audience questions about mass shootings and gun violence when he was killed. Now, we're going to play the audio leading up to the shooting. I want to warn you, it may be hard to listen to, but we do stop right before we hear the gunshots. Let's listen. So, do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?

Too many. Okay. Okay. Now, why it's a lot, right? I'm going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? Counting or not counting gang violence? Great.

So right after that, when he says gang violence, a single gunshot rang out, video circling on social media shows Kirk grabbing his neck as blood pours from his wound. You can also see people panicking, screaming, scrambling for safety. Now, Kirk, he often defended broad gun rights, even saying that some deaths were worth it to protect the Second Amendment. Now, video of that statement is also circulating on social media in the aftermath of his death, sparking a different conversation about gun laws and political extremism. And of course, as news spread, lawmakers on both aisles. They are condemning the shooting, but the blame game has escalated. A Fox News host, Jesse Waters, reacted to the shooting during his show. Let's listen to what he had to say.

Charlie spoke the truth. He said what he felt, and they killed him for it. The message is shut your mouth. And this isn't the first time this has happened. This is just the worst time. They shot Trump. They went to Kavanaugh's house with a rifle. They're firebombing Elon's cars, rioting in L.A. Trans shooters are killing our kids. Hell, Rand Paul got his real. broken by his neighbor ice agents have to wear masks because their families are getting death threats they're telling us we're at war and then there's a republican congresswoman nancy may she also spoke with reporters right after the shooting let's listen to that exchange democrats own what happened today i am devastated just because you speak your mind on an issue doesn't mean you get

shot. By that logic, do Republicans own the shooting of the two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota? Political. Isn't this, isn't this on both sides? Are you kidding me? No, I'm asking me serious question. We don't know what condition Charlie Kirk is in right now. Some raging leftist lunatic put a bullet through his neck and you want to talk about Republicans right now? No, I'm not at all. You said the Democrats have to. But I'm asking. Well, President Donald Trump has ordered flags to fly at half staff until September 14th in response to Kirk's death. And he called this a dark moment for America and blame the shooting on the radical left. Envy, what do you think about this?

I think that this shooter hasn't been caught yet. So I think our elected officials need to be a little bit careful before we place the blame. Charlemagne's here now as well. I do feel like the gentleman wasn't a politician, right? He wasn't a lawmaker. He had an opinion. Whether you believed his opinion, whether you liked his opinion, whether you disliked the opinion. Part of being in this country is the right of free speech

and the fact that he was shot and killed and he has two kids and he has a wife is absolutely positively sad. And I don't believe in that. You know, you should be able to say what you want to say whether people like it or love it or hate it. But the fact that you have an opinion and you're killed for it is very disgraceful.

And I feel sorry for that man's family. He has two kids. It's just disgusting in America to me. That's how I feel. Salome. I just sat down. Give me a minute. Let's start this show at 6 a.m.

all the time. Exactly. That's the time to say a little bit. I literally just said. What's up? What's up, Jess? Yeah, I don't really know enough about, you know, Charlie Kirk to have an opinion about the things he said when he was alive. All I know is that I did hear that he had a family and he was taken away from them

simply and that's just, that's messed up. So my heart goes out to his children and his wife but he's gone now. And so everything that he was, you know, judged for, or whatever. I mean, that's all over that really don't matter now because he's not here. Well, you know, we're also following another shooting, sadly, this one out of a high school in Colorado, about 30 minutes outside of Denver. Authorities there say a student opened fire yesterday at Evergreen High School. That's just around 12 p.m. wounding two students before turning the gun

on himself. Now, police confirmed the shooter died from a self-inflicted gun wound. Three students in total were rushed to the hospital. One remains in critical condition. Another is stable. And a fourth student was treated for other injuries. Now, after the shooting, the school went on lockdown. Officers, of course, they swept the campus. Students were evacuated and parents were reunited with your children at a nearby elementary school. The FBI and the ATF are assisting. The motive is still unclear. And the suspect's identity has not been released. So we're just seeing this was in Colorado. This was in Colorado. This was right outside Denver, or about 30 minutes outside Denver yesterday.

I just sat down. Do we have to start this show at 6 a.m. every day? Like, Cammy, can we maybe 6.03 and 6 o'clock? You know, and you know what the old I get? I want to adjust things for moments like this. Like, you just walk in and it's just heavy immediately off the top. I got to get my bearings. You're right.

Yeah, absolutely right. Yes, we started to move. We talked about the dogs. We play some music. My dogs. Whatever. My dog's pooped this morning. I had to clean up.

Tell him, I got a bike here about shit. I'm like, what dogs? We had a nice conversation. Jess came in. She was telling, like, it was a nice and then you just... You know. Did we tell him Medi Assange going to be here this morning? We did that.

Okay, do you tell him we taped yesterday, though? Just to be sure... We taped to yesterday as well. Yeah, yeah. We taped me yesterday. It's one of everybody to know that. And you know what? Because of all of these different current events that have happened.

I don't want, you know, to think that we're not discussing it. Good morning, Mimi. How are you this morning? Good morning, Shala. Well, I'm good. How are you? I'm blessed black and highly faithful. Good morning, Jess. Grab my phone charge.

You know how phone charges are up here. Charlemagne's using my phone charge. I want to make sure because Lauren stole his. I want mine back. Get it off your chest. Stay still in charges. She's going on the laptop charger. My job.

You did? Damn. God damn. Yeah, go ahead. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-10. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-105-1.

It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. B. J. N.V. Just hilarious. Charlemagne McGa. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Now, tonight, the command is take on the Packers at 815. So you can see that on-prime video. What's up, Mimi?

All right, good morning. So today marks 24 years since the September 11th attacks that took nearly 3,000 lives. And across the country, communities are honoring the victims and first responders with ceremonies, moments of silence, and a national day of service. In New York, the names will be read at Ground Zero. In Washington, there's a ceremony at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, families will gather at the Flight 93 National Memorial. Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife are expected to attend the New York ceremony, and authorities say security will be heightened around all official events. So you want to honor the victims of 9-11 this morning.

Absolutely. And we are learning a lot more about Vice President Kamala Harris' time inside the Biden White House. She's holding nothing back inside her new memoir, 107 days. In excerpts released to the Atlantic, Harris opens up about the tense months leading up to Joe Biden's decision to seek re-election. She says deferring to Biden and letting him and First Lady Jill Biden decide on their own wasn't just risky. She calls it recklessness. Now, according to Harris, advisors repeated some of the same lines over and over again. It's Joe and Jill's decision.

But looking back, she says the stakes were too high. to leave that choice to an individual's ego or an individual's ambition. She also reveals deep frustration with Biden's inner circle, accusing some staffers of feeding negative stories about her to the press and refusing to defend her publicly. Harris says that while Republicans labeled her the borders are and attacked her work, Biden's communications team rarely corrected the record or pushed back. And when reporters criticize her laugh, her tone, even her dating history,

Harris writes, she got little support from inside the White House, saying at times it felt like Biden's team decided I should be knocked down a little bit more. Now, despite all of that tension, Harris does make it clear that she stood by Biden against Donald Trump, writing that even on his worst day, Joe Biden was better than Donald Trump on his best. Yeah, listen, I cannot wait to read her book 107 days. I'm actually checking in my mailbox every day because I was supposed to get it sent to me yesterday. But this is the honesty she should have showcased during the campaign. I wish she would have broken away from Biden like this while she was campaigning, like that one line on the view when she said she wouldn't do anything different than Biden. I feel like that's what that's what really ruined her. But I'm happy about what she is sharing in this book.

I'm happy about what I read in the Atlantic yesterday because maybe it will give the Democratic Party the nuts to throw that old regime under the bus. I keep saying over and over, whatever the future of the Democratic Party looks like, you got to throw that whole old regime under the bus, especially President Biden. And I wonder what changed. I wonder what made her say now is the time I'm going to start doing this, because I feel like she shouldn't have no choice. If you sit down right in the book, you have to be honest.

Not to mention, you can't keep telling people they did not see what we all saw. I read the original sin by Jake Tabber. Before I read the original sin, we was up here having those conversations. and people were giving our hands and us our ass because we would be saying those things about President Biden. So I know she dealt with it

on a real level. You got Corinne John Pierre saying things like we can't be blindly loyal to the party anymore and I'm an independent now. The vice president, she was way closer to him than everybody else.

Does she not run again because that means she lied to the American people, right? That means all the things that we wanted her to do, she really felt like doing but she said the total opposite. I don't think this is about her running again.

We're still at the same time, right? if she had separated or even went against him earlier, still being his vice president, wouldn't that, like, mess with her safety? Wouldn't that would have cost her so much? I don't think so, because he was such an unpopular president. I don't think so. I think he was such an unpopular president.

No. I think people didn't like him, and I think they wanted a reason to like her more, and I think what her riding with him made people not like her just as much as not liking him. Absolutely. So I think this book, if it's anything like this little, you know, excerpt we saw in the Atlantic,

it should give the Democratic Party the nuts to throw that old regime under the bus. Because they got to build something new. That article in the Atlantic is really good. If you guys get a chance to check it out, her book, 107 days, is scheduled to be released on September 23rd. So we want to keep a lookout for that.

And while Kamala Harris opens up about her own struggles inside the White House, there's another conversation happening about the challenges that black women are facing in the economy right now. Congresswoman Ayanna Presley says the Federal Reserve needs to step up. A new jobs report shows that 319,000 fewer black women are employed now than in July, pushing unemployment for black women up 1.3%.

Now, Presley says this just isn't about the black community. It is a warning sign to the U.S. economy. Black Information Network anchor Andrea Coleman, she sat down with the Congresswoman earlier this week, and to talk about the impact of these numbers, let's hear what she had to say. All Americans should care because black women throughout history

have been the canaries in the coal mine. This alarming spike in black women's unemployment rate to 6.7% compared to overall unemployment of 4.3%. This is the highest in four years. And again, it's just further evidence of Donald Trump's irresponsible and chaotic economic policies.

And, you know, I do. believe it is also discriminant, precise, and targeted harm. Yeah, Presley went on to say that there's another layer. She wants the Federal Reserve to start tracking employment data specifically for black women. Without accurate number, she argues policies can't create real solutions to prevent further job losses. Now, this comes as overall job growth has slowed nationwide. Employers added just 22,000 jobs in August.

But for black workers, the impact of that is even sharper. jumped to 7.5% compared to the 4.3% nationally. Now, Presley also points to other factors that are making the situation worse, including cuts to diversity and inclusion programs, loss of thousands of federal jobs, and the growth of AI in hiring, which experts say is disproportionately affecting black applicants. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. She's tying it into politics, raising concerns after President Trump tried to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. She calls that firing a broader rollback of the black leadership and the highest level of government. So she says, again, this will affect the whole economy saying job losses that hit black women

first. The ripple effects are eventually felt throughout the country. So we will keep an eye on that. You know, I've always said that when people have these comments about protecting black women, you know, providing security for black women, a lot of that security got to be financial. You know what I'm saying? When the last time you put a check in a black woman's pocket? You know what I'm saying? When the last time you provided the, a black woman an opportunity if you can have you have the ability to do that when the last time you know you gave a black woman a job like you know people just be getting on their podcast and getting on their youtube and giving these long soliloquies about protect black women i don't hear

your lip service man what's up with that money rent that check that's some action behind those words yes right all right so and really quickly lastly if you live in new mexico there's some some news that could save your family thousands of dollars starting this november the state will become the first state in the country to offer free universal child care for every family, no matter your income. The governor there says the goal is to give parents financial relief, keep more people in the workplace, and make sure every child has access to quality care. Under the program, families would save about $12,000 per child each year. The state will either cover your child care altogether or reimburse you for the cost. The move is expected to

lift tens of thousands of people out of poverty. I love this. I think this is This is something every state should be working towards. Word. All right, well, that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me on social at Mimi Brown TV. And for more news coverage, follow the Black Information Network or download the free IHeartRadio app

and visit BINNews.com. All right, thank you, Mimi. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. Do you all finish or y'all done? I just normally do straight stand-up,

but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now.

Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the 1980s, modeling wasn't just a dream. It was a battlefield. It's a freaking war zone. These people are animals. The Model Wars podcast peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high-stakes game

where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Grigoriatis, this is the untold story of an industry built a ruthless ambition. Listen to Model Wars on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share bite-sized stories of missing and murdered black

women and girls in America. Stories like Erica Hunt. A young mother vanished without a trace after a family gathering on 4th of July weekend 2016. No goodbyes, no clues, just gone. Listen to hunting for answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you.

But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search emergency intercom and listen now. This is an IHeart podcast.