>> Cathy: IN THE NEXT HOUR WE'LL TALK WITH THE NEWLY ELECTED HOUSE D.F.L.

LEADER, A DUO OF EXPERTS ON BRIDGING THE POLITICAL DIVIDE AND CURBING VIOLENCE SHARES THEIR PERSPECTIVE, TANE DANGER HAS A SPECIAL ESSAY FOR.

>> DIRECTOR ANGELA, WHAT DID CHARLIE KIRK BRING TO THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT?

>> IN NLY 31 YEARS, HE HAD CREATED A YOUTH MOVEMENT, HE HELPED GET DONALD TRUMP ELECTED TWICE, HE WILL DEFINITELY HAVE A LEGACY AND WE'RE HEARING A LOT FROM HIS ACOLYTES THIS WEEK AS THEY MOURN HIS DEATH.

>> EVEN WHEN HE WAS ALIVE, HE WAS UNUSUAL IN THAT HE SAID, YOU KNOW, SOME REALLY AWFUL THINGS BUT HE DID IT WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF A CHARM.

HE WAS KIND OF A HAPPY WARRIOR, WHICH WAS DIFFERENT I THINK FROM A LOT OF THE OTHER MAGA LEADERS WHO CAME EVEN NOW, YOU KNOW, COME ACROSS AS SORT F ANGRY AND SOUR AND COMBATIVE.

AND WHAT CHARLIE KIRK I THINK KIND OF PATENTED ALMOST WAS THE ABILITY TO DO THIS AND SEEM LIKEABLE, FRIENDLY, OPEN.

YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT MET HIM EVEN THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIM SAID HE WAS ALWAYS POLITE AND SO ON.

HE MODELED HIMSELF EARLY ON AFTER RUSH LIM BAUGH, BUT WITHOUT LIM BAUGH'S HARD EDGES.

LIMBAUGH WAS, YOU KNOW, CAUSTIC CONSTANTLY.

AND I THINK WHAT MAKES THIS SUCH AN UNUSUAL CASE, AGAIN, EVEN BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION IS THAT KIRK KIND OF PIONEERED THIS SMILING VERSION OF MA GA THAT YOU DON'T REALLY SEE VERY OFTEN AMONG A LOT OF MAGA SUPPORTERS.

>> SO IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT HE WAS TRULY OMMITTED TO FREE SPEECH AND HE WANTED TO BE OUT THERE AND MIX IT UP VERBALLY BUT ONLY VERBALLY MIX IT UP WITH LIBERALS, OTHER PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OPPOSE HIM.

I MEAN, HE DID PLAY A POSITIVE ROLE IN MODELING A KIND OF OPEN INQUIRY, OR IS THAT AN UNFAIR CHARACTERIZATION?

>> YEAH, AND I THINK THAT'S THE WAY HE'S BEING REMEMBERED, I THINK A KEY PART OF THE VERY I THOUGHT MOVING OBIT FOR HIM THAT THE VICE PRESIDENT J.D.VANCE POSTED ON X THE OTHER DAY, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID IS HE EXEMPLIFIED THIS CONSTITUTIONAL VIRTUE OF FREE EXPRESSION.

HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO A COLLEGE TOUR AROUND THE COUNTRY, NOT JUST AT THIS UNIVERSITY IN UTAH WHERE THIS HORRIFIC KILLING TOOK PLACE, BUT HE WAS HEADED TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES WHERE HE WAS GOING TO DEBATE LIBERAL SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS.

AND I THINK HE'S BEING REMEMBERED IN THAT WAY BY A PORTION OF BOTH THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT.

BUT WHAT'S STRIKING TO ME RIGHT NOW IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE