English transcript

And then, you know, Charlie Kirk is killed publicly in a very horrific way, and we're not really even allowed to look into that at all.

And Charlie Kirk was one of President Trump's closest advisers, and he also advocated heavily against a war with Iran.

He was in the Oval Office in the lead up to the 12-day war.

I wasn't particularly close with Charlie.

He was very gracious to me when I was running for Congress, very, very supportive.

So we knew each other.

And the last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this earth was in June in the West Wing, in the stairway.

And I said hi to him, and he looked me in the eye, and he said very loudly—and it's a small—you've been in the West Wing, it's small, it's a tight space—and he said, Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran, very loudly.

He was single-minded.

And he walked off, and he went, I believe, into the Oval.

So when one of President Trump's closest advisers, who is vocally advocating for us to not go to war with Iran and for us to rethink at least our relationship with the Israelis, and then he's suddenly publicly assassinated, and we're not allowed to ask any questions about that, it's a data point.

It's a data point that we need to look into.

What do you mean when you say we're not allowed to ask any questions about that?

We've been told that this individual, Robinson, is a lone gunman, and maybe he is.

But the investigation that I was a part of, the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate.

And the FBI will say that they stopped that because they wanted to have—turn everything over to the Utah state authorities, everything's going to trial, it's very, very sensitive.

But there was still a lot for us to look into that I can't really get into, but there was still linkage for us to investigate that we needed to run down.

I'm not making any conclusions.

I'm not saying—

No, I don't think you are.

Because of this, this happened.

I'm not saying that at all.

I'm just saying there's unanswered questions.

We know the pressure because of the text messages that have been made public that Charlie was under a lot of pressure from a lot of pro-Israel donors.

And again, we know Charlie was advocating to President Trump against this war with Iran.