"I got you covered." According to the Kirk family's notice of claim, that is what Utah Valley University's police chief wrote back when a Turning Point official asked about roof access before Charlie Kirk's event. The notice, dated September 9, the day before the one-year mark, comes from Erika Kirk, Charlie's parents and his estate, and it names the State of Utah, Utah Valley University, the university police department, Chief Jeffrey Long and former president Astrid Tuminez. In Utah you must file a notice of claim before you can sue the state; the family has two years from his death to file the lawsuit itself. Family attorney Brett Parkinson, per the Deseret News: "His murder was entirely preventable and, in fact, would not have happened had the State of Utah and UVU followed through on their stated security promises, which included protecting the rooftops surrounding the quad where Charlie was speaking." ABC News quotes the notice: "Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie." UVU, per the Deseret News: "We are aware of the notice of claim. UVU addresses legal matters consistent with our established processes." Butler, then Utah, another rooftop, and this time a family is asking who promised to watch it. Chuck reads the filing as reported by the Deseret News, ABC News and The Gateway Pundit.
Also in today's episode: the House buries Al Green's latest impeachment of President Trump 232 to 147, and per NTD and CBS News, 147 Democrats voted to keep it alive, 18 voted to kill it, and 46, including Hakeem Jeffries, voted present after calling impeachment "a sacred constitutional vehicle"; the Commerce Department says retail sales jumped 1.2 percent in August against a 0.7 percent forecast, per the Associated Press, not adjusted for inflation; the House passes a resolution to pull U.S. forces out of hostilities with Iran, 220 to 204, with seven Republicans voting yes, per The Hill and UPI; Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Speaker Johnson sends the House home early, calling it a "stunt," per the AP; 60 Minutes opens its season to 7.94 million viewers, down 21 percent and its smallest premiere audience since at least 2000, per Nielsen figures reported by TheWrap; an 84-year-old man returns a magazine to a New Hampshire library 132 years overdue and owes nothing; and two men are lifted out of a tree over the Hillsborough River by deputies and a state wildlife officer after their boat flips.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Eight stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
