Date: September 12, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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As Jim noted, “There’s more paper than minutes,” so much ground was covered on this edition of the “Round-Up.” Here’s a sample:
–Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was killed earlier this week while speaking at Utah Valley University. Jim provided audio from Governor Spencer Cox of Utah who commented on the killing, along with news that the alleged perpetrator (Tyler Robinson) had been captured.
–Vice President J.D. Vance escorted the casket of Charlie Kirk home to Arizona.
–President Trump said he will award the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Charlie Kirk.
–President Trump said that Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika, wants to keep Turning Point USA, Charlie’s conservative youth organization, operating following his assassination.
–Secret Service agent Anthony Pough said Charlie Kirk, a Christian husband and father to two young children, deserved to be murdered in cold blood.
–Conservative podcaster Steven Crowder has announced that his company has been subpoenaed by the ATF after he received a leaked document from within the agency claiming that a weapon found near the site of Charlie Kirk’s assassination was equipped with cartridges etched with symbols and phrases tied to transgender and Antifa ideology.
–Audio of Charlie Kirk presenting the Gospel in 70 seconds.
–The Secret Service is tightening security for President Trump in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
–Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska stabbed to death on the light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina, allegedly by repeat offender Decarlos Brown.
–North Carolina lawmakers are calling for the removal of the judge who released the man accused of fatally attacking Iryna Zarutska.
–A 16 year old boy who had been radicalized by an unspecified extremist network, fired a revolver multiple times during an attack at a suburban Denver high school that wounded two students.
–At least 89 Christians have been slaughtered by jihadists in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
–President Trump said he’s ready to ramp up sanctions against Russia after Moscow launched the largest aerial attack of the war with Ukraine.
–Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace on Wednesday during the large Russian air attack on Ukraine. Article 4 of NATO’s treaty was activated.
–President Trump issued his final offer to HAMAS regarding release of the hostages.
