Leland Vittert’s War Notes: Let’s Be Honest🚨

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NewsNation Chief Washington Anchor and On Balance host Leland Vittert was a foreign correspondent for four years in Jerusalem. He gives you an early look at tonight's 9 p.m. ET show, delivered straight to your inbox.

OFF AIR 🔥: We've heard of a lot of people being fired for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, but we only know of one to lose their job for memorializing him.

📺 An anchor in Springfield, Illinois, Beni Rae Harmony, did a tribute to Kirk on air.
- She then posted it on her social media accounts, like she has for her other on-air segments.
  - ❌ The bosses told her to take that specific video down – she didn't.
    - The station suspended her.
    - She quit.

Watch tonight 📺: Beni Rae Harmony joins us.

Tomorrow 🌇: President Trump will wake up in London in the morning for his second state visit.

Not hyperbolic 🔙: This is akin to an American president visiting London in the 1930s.
Our biggest enemy is trying to take over Europe.
- 👎🏼 Putin's belligerence keeps getting worse.

Let's Be Honest 🤷🏼‍♂️

🗣️ We can now conclusively say Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin acted on the deeply irresponsible rhetoric of the Left.

📱 His text messages say it.
💭 His conversations with his family say it.
‼️ It's that simple, and it's important.
🛑 The only way to stop the wave of political violence is to be honest about where it is coming from.
- 💬 In messages to his alleged transgender partner and roommate, the shooter allegedly said he killed Kirk because "Kirk had too much hate."

📹 For the past week, much of the media has held out the fallacy that the shooter wasn't a left-wing loon.

🎤 Even today, Matt Guttman of ABC said the messages between the shooter and his alleged transgender partner and roommate were "very touching in a way that I think many of us didn't expect."
- ‼️WHAT?!?!?!?!

Not just Utah 📣: Crowds of supporters for alleged UnitedHealthcare assassin Luigi Mangione cheered when a judge threw out some of the most serious charges against him.

Watch tonight 📺: Bill O'Reilly and George Will will discuss the Left's celebration of political violence.

👀 Look back: Kirk predicted his assassination in a podcast with Bill Maher.
- Kirk said, "We have different jihadis that want to kill me. The purple-haired jihadis, the woke guys."

Does the Guard Work? 🪖

🚨 You're about to hear an enormous amount of criticism on Trump's announcement to deploy the National Guard to Memphis.

Local knowledge‼️: Memphis' murder rate is a few times that of D.C.
Look forward ⏩: You will hear that the National Guard doesn't work – in fact, the congressman for Memphis told us that during an interview last week.

ALERT 🚨: Someone should tell that to the Democratic governor of New Mexico.

📞 New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham called out the National Guard to deal with her crime problem months ago.

Watch tonight 📺: Brian Entin went to New Mexico to investigate if the National Guard really does help with crime.

Unforced Errors‼️

🐘 The Republican Party should be completely unified around two messages right now: The horrible killing of Kirk and their righteousness as the other side celebrates that killing. Instead, they are at war with each other.

😡 The Republican Party is fighting each other and doing to liberals what they had done to them.
- Getting people fired and prosecuting hate speech
❌ It's at a time when the Trump administration can't afford unforced errors.
- 🖨️ Attorney General Pam Bondi's promise and then walk back of going after "hate speech" and prosecuting Office Depot workers for not printing Kirk posters is not what Republicans need.
  - The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh delivered a devastating assessment of Bondi's performance.
  - Brit Hume, as well.

Watch tonight 📺: Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., will react to Bondi and the Right's newfound hobby of getting private citizens fired if they celebrate Charlie Kirk's death.

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