FOX News host and “Washington Times” columnist Charlie Hurt reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on FOX News Channel’s “The Five.”

DANA PERINO, ‘THE FIVE’ CO-HOST: Charlie Hurt, you were most recently, I believe, guest hosting Fox and Friends Weekend with Charlie Kirk. Get your thoughts, thanks for being here today. CHARLIE HURT, FOX NEWS HOST: Yeah, and actually a group of us had a hunting trip set up for a couple of weeks from now, and I think he was going to try to make it as well. You know, obviously on a personal level, this is just incredibly shocking and sad, but also on a national level, it’s a cataclysmic day to think about the fact that, as you all have pointed out, I mean, Charlie Kirk was shot because of his efforts to speak with good faith and debate with people in good faith with whom he disagreed, which, of course, is the foundation of our country. That’s the whole point of the way a republic works is that we can debate about these things that we don’t agree with. All three of my kids are all either in college or just out of college. They’re all absolutely slack-jawed, stunned by this. All their friends are stunned by this, friends who agree with Charlie Kirk, friends who don’t agree with Charlie Kirk. They’re all absolutely sort of almost to the point of just, you know, it’s a day that they will never forget kind of day. Part of it has to do with the graphic video, and I’m at a loss of words to say to them except to say kind of what you were just saying, Jesse, which is that, you know, Charlie Kirk realized that there were threats against him. He did not live in fear. He lived his life with purpose every single day, and if there is a silver lining from this day, it’s that Charlie Kirk taught us all to live with that sense of purpose, and we should live every day with purpose, and hopefully, you know, that is the only way we might begin to sort of heal this country.

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