Kelly said that she understands why people are angry at Owens, but she defended Owens, saying, “Candace like literally just had a baby.” Kelly rebuked political commentator Ben Shapiro for “mocking” Kelly when she brought up the fact that Owens recently had a baby. “And I’m sorry, maybe Ben doesn’t understand, but that is a vulnerable position for a woman,” Kelly said. “And then her friend got shot in the neck, and so I did think she deserved a wide berth right after Charlie’s death to explore what she wanted to explore. I had real empathy for her.”
“And, of course, I don’t agree with what she’s said about Turning Point and Erika and she knows that,” Kelly continued. “But my point was simply that I thought maybe Charlie helped me understand to keep my powder dry in the whole thing, so that maybe I could be in a position to help it happen. It’s what Erika wants. Maybe Candace does want an off-ramp, and I’m willing to try.”
Erika and Owens “had a very good meeting,” Kelly reported.
“Now, will it last? Where does it go from here?” Kelly wondered. “I was joking earlier—like what’s more tenuous, the Gaza peace deal or this situation?”
“What I really want is for Candace to move on from Turning Point and Erika. I have no problem with her asking questions, but not about them,” Kelly said. “But I also object, for the record, to the people who have tried to shut Candace down entirely on inquiring into what, if any, role did Israel have here.”
“I want to make clear, I don’t think Israel had any role. I think Tyler Robinson killed Charlie,” said Kelly. “My only question is whether there was some Trantifa element that helped him.”
“However, it’s okay to ask questions about Israel,” she added. Kelly said:
And it was Andrew Kolvet, the executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” who sent those texts to the FBI of Charlie’s private messages…in which he said the Jewish donors to Turning Point were driving him up the wall and that he’d had it with them and that they were making demands of him that he was not prepared to meet and he was at his wit’s end. And he had told me personally that he found their behavior—and I quote—repulsive.
Kelly reiterated that she doesn’t believe Israel had anything to do with Kirk’s death, but she concluded by saying she was fine with Owens “asking questions.” She said, “Why did I have an obligation to stop Candace from asking those questions? I didn’t and I didn’t call her out because I favored her asking them.”
