BREAKING: The Charlie Kirk Show has started.

BREAKING: The Charlie Kirk Show has started. Charlie’s place is there, but it remains vacant.

“We are here today, although it pains us so badly to do this show for all of you today.

And I wanted the friends of this show and of Charlie, that knew him best, the Thought Crime crew, to be here in the studio to commemorate our friend, our dear brother, for this sacred and solemn moment, this occasion none of us ever dreamed we would have to do.

And here we are, because Charlie would want us to be here. He would be upset if we weren’t here.

And we, of course, have left his chair open and empty, because nobody will ever fill it, nobody could ever hope to. But by all of us together, we want to honor him and we want to be more like him and we want to be inspired by him and we want you in the audience to know him like we knew him and to be up close and personal to the front row seat to history, to a legend, to an American icon that we got every single day…”

It’s an incredibly heart-wrenching moment. Everyone is close to tears.