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The suspect arrested for this week's assassination of conservative voice Charlie Kirk, 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson, is facing multiple charges, including a murder count that could bring on discussion of the death penalty.
The charges were announced Friday against Robinson, who did not have a previous criminal record, to include aggravated murder, felony discharge of a weapon causing serious bodily harm and obstruction of justice.
The official listing of the charges isn't expected until next week.
But it is the murder count that could result in an option for the death penalty, according to a report at the Washington Examiner.
Authorities said Robinson was arrested after family members called police, after he "either confessed or implied that he assassinated Kirk."
The Examiner explained, "Authorities said Robinson had become increasingly political in recent months. At one point, he argued with family members about Kirk at the dinner table, saying he was 'full of hate and spreading hate.' Robinson also mentioned Kirk was coming to Utah Valley University and objected to his presence on campus."
Robinson is accused of engraving political and gender-ideology messages on the bullet casings found in the gun.
And authorities noted that Robinson's roommate showed investigators Discord app messaging outlining what Robinson allegedly did with the murder weapon, a rifle found in a wooded area near the shooting scene.
The report said the messages involved "a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel."
Robinson was booked into the Utah County jail and was being held.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the information about the charges now pending comes from a probable cause affidavit in support of the arrest.
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Commentator Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have announced, online, that they have launched a fund to help the family of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated this week during a free speech event at a Utah school
"We met Charlie Kirk when he was 18, through our friend Foster Friess, and have known him well since. He was an amazing person. It's hard to find the right words in a moment like this or to understand exactly what's happened.
"But in the meantime we want to do everything we can for Charlie's widow Erika and their two small children. We've set up a GiveSendGo page on their behalf and are seeding it with $1 million from Alp Pouch.
"The link is below,
"Every dollar will go to Charlie's family at: givesendgo.com/inlovingmemoryofcharlie
Announcements were all online but had this been published in an old legacy broadsheet, before the ink would have been dry, the total already was at $1.3 million.
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The suspect in a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado, this week has died of self-inflicted injuries.
That's according to a report from Fox affiliate KDVR.
Classes at the school, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 25 miles west of Denver, were canceled for the rest of this week.
Reports of an "active assailant" came in to authorities about noon on Wednesday, and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office revealed three students were injured.
One student remained hospitalized in critical condition on Thursday, another had less serious injuries.
The shooter died at the hospital from his injuries.
Jefferson County Public Schools Supt. Tracy Dorland said, "We cannot pretend this is just another tragic incident. The pain of this incident reopens old wounds. I know there are many in our Jeffco community hurting and grieving tonight, in Evergreen and beyond. The urgency this moment demands is undeniable. Student safety is not an abstract issue for us in Jeffco. It is the most important responsibility we hold. Safety is our number one priority every day, and yet, here we are once again, grieving with a community over gun violence impacting our students."
Dorland also bashed those of faith who respond to tragedies with their "thoughts and prayers."
"The nation is tired of statements filled with platitudes and 'thoughts and prayers.' What we need is courage. What we need is the collective will of our entire community. Violence involving our young people should never be normalized, and we must face the difficult truth that too often, it is," Dorland said.
KDVR also posted a list, from state records, of shootings at Colorado schools that have taken place during school hours, "not including suicides."
They include:
There have been additional shootings on school grounds, and the list does not include mass Colorado shootings in movie theaters and such.
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The United States now is in a "new and chilling stage" of what constitutional expert Jonathan Turley has described as the "age of rage."
In fact, his book, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," specifically addresses the issues that were involved in the assassination this week of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while holding a rally for students at a Utah university.
The killer remains at large at this point.
Turley, who not only has testified before Congress as an expert on the Constitution but also has represented members in court in constitutional fights, is a popular commentator and analyst on all things legal and constitutional, as well as the forces shaping America now.
He warned that the leftist agenda across the nation that now includes the assassination of Kirk, a popular speaker and speech rights advocate who founded Turning Point USA, could "succeed in forcing the thousands of conservative and libertarian students back into the shadows of our campuses and classrooms."
He said, "We cannot allow that to happen. Charlie Kirk challenged not just the left to debate but the right to be heard in higher education."
He explained the possible benefit for the nation.
"Yes, this is an age of rage. However, amidst the rage and the violence, there are a special few who have defied the threats and the attacks. The writer George Bernard Shaw once said that unreasonable people expect the world to conform to them. He then added that that was why all history is made by unreasonable people. Kirk was one of those wonderfully unreasonable people who refused to yield; refused to be silenced. Despite unrelenting attacks by the media and the establishment, he remained undeterred and unbowed. Students need to remember not how Kirk died, but why he died. His loss is Charlie's final challenge to all those today wringing their hands and muttering the usual expressions of shocked regret. Kirk would likely say, 'prove it.' Speak. Defy those who spend their time silencing others rather than speaking themselves. If you want to honor Charlie Kirk, speak out, speak boldly on both the right and the left. Prove them wrong."
Turley cited the two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump as among the "growing attacks on free speech around the world."
He explained, "Kirk came up with the brilliant idea of challenging liberals to simply debate issues from abortion to immigration. His group would go to campuses and invite debate with signs reading 'prove me wrong' and encourage liberals to engage in dialogue rather than violence."
That provided a reason, he said, for "the left" to hate Kirk.
"Campuses have long been the bastions of the left, reinforced by faculties which now have few, if any, conservatives or Republicans. Higher education has long been an incubator for intolerance; shaping a generation of speech phobics who shout down or attack those with opposing views," he said.
And Kirk hit the very heart of "that power base" by showing students "they could be open and bold about their views. He told them that they did not have to yield to orthodoxy and the groupthink."
The assassination, however bad, was not surprising.
"The response to TPUSA was all too often rage and violence. Liberals and anti-free speech groups like Antifa would trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police simply watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart and the tent carried off," he cited.
"Violent speech has long been acceptable on campuses so long as it targets conservatives. Teachers have called for others to 'take out' Trump supporters and for the Secret Service to assassinate him. University of Wisconsin Professor José Felipe Alvergue, head of the English Department, turned over the table of College Republicans supporting a conservative for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He reportedly declared, 'The time for this is over!' At universities, professors have called for 'detonating white people,' denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and supporting the attempted assassination of President Trump. One professor who declared that there is 'nothing wrong' with such acts of violence as killing conservatives was actually promoted," he wrote.
Some specifics:
_"At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez trashed a pro-life display of students, telling the students that 'This is bulls–t. This is violent. You're triggering my students.' When the students tried to engage the professor and apologized for upsetting her, Rodríguez yelled, 'No you're not — because you can't even have a f–king baby. So you don't even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.' In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table."
This wasn't enough for the school to dismiss her. That only happened after she "chased reporters with a machete."
_"At the University of California Santa Barbara, they did not even bother to fire a professor who pleaded guilty to assaulting pro-life students on campus. Professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young. She was later honored as a model for women advocates at the University of Oregon."
He explained why such violence is pursued by "anarchists, socialists, and other groups."
"What few today want to admit is that they like it. They like the freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility. It is evident all around us as people engage in language and conduct that they repudiate in others. We have become a nation of rage addicts; flailing against anyone or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths. Like all addictions, there is not only a dependency on rage but an intolerance for opposing views. The difference between rage and reason is often one's own views. If one agrees with the underlying grievance, rage is viewed as passion or justified fury at injustice. If one disagrees with those views, it takes on a more threatening and unhinged quality. We seem to spend much of our time today raging at each other. Despite the amplification of views on both sides, there is also an increasing intolerance for opposing views. Those views are treated as simply harmful and offensive—and, therefore, intolerable. Indeed, to voice free speech principles in a time of rage is to invite the rage of the mob."
He explained, "In recent months, some of us have warned Democratic politicians about their violent rhetoric. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) has called for people to take to the streets to save democracy and posted a picture brandishing a baseball bat. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would 'strike fear in the heart' of Trump. Liberal sites sell Antifa items to celebrate the violent group. California Governor Gavin Newsom declared, 'I'm going to punch these sons of b—— in the mouth.' It follows other violent rhetoric from Democratic leaders."
The result across America has been protesters "burning cars, dealerships, and even lawyers and reporters on the left are throwing Molotov cocktails at police. We have also seen a massive increase in attacks on ICE officers, who are now covering their faces to avoid doxxing or retaliation against themselves or their families."
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During The 2024 presidential race, the Democrats were in lockstep: Joe Biden was an amazing intellect capable of running the world's most powerful country like no other. And Kamala Harris was right with him regarding work, duties, goals and accomplishments.
That was before the election.
Now it's after, a catastrophic landslide loss, and according to Harris, Biden's team didn't support her and didn't even understand that her doing well reflected on him.
According to the Biden entourage, Harris never was good at her job.
A commentary at Twitchy said, "It appears the Biden folks aren't very happy about Kamala's new bombshell book. To be clear, Joe probably has no idea what is going on or what is being said or even what planet he is on. Jill and the rest her team are mad.
"Basically, they are saying all she did was complain, did no work, and was incompetent. Sounds about right."
The internal war is being documented on social media:
For example, Harris charges that, "None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him. His team didn't get it."
She further blasted the Biden White House for failing to push back when she was criticized.
"The White House rarely pushed back with my actual resume: two terms elected D.A., top cop in the second-largest department of justice in the United States, senator representing one in eight Americans.
She also claimed she had to "shoulder" the burden for the porous border, even though the issue had been "intractable for Democrats, and Republican administrations alike."
She was, after all, appointed by Biden to be the border czar.
But President Donald Trump, on taking office and eliminating Biden's pro-illegal alien agenda, reduce the illegal trafficking across the southern board to almost zero within just weeks.
The backlash wasn't hard to predict:
Said one report, "Bidenworld explodes at Harris over the book excerpt after years of simmering tensions. 'Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,' said one former Biden White House official. 'She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration's key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.' Biden is 'not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 [presidential] campaign,' the ex-official said. 'Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter. The independent variable there is the vice president, not Biden or his aides.'"
Harris, in fact, dropped out of the 2020 Democrat race without gaining a single delegate. She got no more in being crowned the Democrat candidate in 2024 because she was hand-picked by the party elites and party members never voted on her.
Twitchy's opinion, "Basically, they are saying all she did was complain, did not work, and was incompetent. Sounds about right."
Others blamed Harris' own team while VP: She was known as someone who was extremely hard to work for, and her staff proved that with high turnover rates.
The commentary concluded: "So, he had dementia and she was incompetent. Sounds about right."
A report at the Daily Mail documented how Biden insiders were spewing "venom" at Harris.
"The gloves are off in Biden world after former Vice President Kamala Harris released an excerpt from her new memoir, calling it 'recklessness' to let the octogenarian decide for himself whether to run for re-election," the report said.
"This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision," she said.
The report quoted a Biden "insider," saying it was a "sloppy, sort of craven, relatively unsophisticated attempt at deflecting blame."
Another accused her of "whining" about her failed presidential campaign.
Harris also complained that when Biden did drop out, after a disastrously failed debate with President Donald Trump, he didn't mention her until almost nine minutes into the 11-minute speech.
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Americans marked the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on their nation by Islamic terrorists with tributes, recollections, remembrances and more.
And one pilot took the opportunity to reveal how he thinks his jet, sitting on a runway that day, was intended to be the fifth aircraft hijacked and turned into a weapon of mass destruction.
Ceremonies were held Thursday in New York and at the Pentagon, both targeted that day, as well as in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a flight augured into the ground after a failed scheme to turn it into another weapon.
Nearly 3,000 civilians died that day.
Jennifer Nilsen explained to reporters that the loss of her husband, Troy Nilsen, is "heart-wrenching" every year.
Even those who weren't born by then marked the day.
But one man, Tom Mannello, has recollections that go a bit further.
He was to pilot United Airlines Flight 23 that day, and says it was his aircraft that was intended to be used as another "weapon of mass destruction" on that day.
But he said a terrorist's mistake saved the lives of those aboard.
In a report in the Daily Mail about a video documentary, he said, "I now believe that it is more likely than not that we were the fifth airplane. There's a good chance that somebody was planning to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction."
That flight was at New York's JFK airport, lined up to leave at about 9 a.m.
But it was called back to the gate after other jets hit the World Trade Center towers.
He said he learned afterward that box cutters – the weapons used by hijackers to gain control of other four flights – were discovered on an aircraft that was parked next to his jet that morning.
That craft was not due to depart, but it's number was one digit off of the one Mannello was flying.
He said he learned two box cutters were found in the seat pockets in the first class section in that empty jet.
"Connecting the dots, the captain now believes the box cutters placed inside the seats on the neighboring aircraft had been intended for his flight, which would have departed JFK at a similar time to the other deadly vessels," the report said.
He said he thinks the mistake was that someone, assigned to leave the box cutters for later use, left them in the wrong jet.
"If somebody was on the ground cooperating with them, they just simply made a mistake and put the box cutters on the wrong airplane," he said. "You have people who clean the airplane, people who load food on the airplane, who have access to the airplane."
Further, he explained that flight attendants on his plane later raised concerns about several passengers.
"Flight attendant Barbara Brockie-Smaldino recalled one individual dressed in a burka with a niqab, who she was convinced was 'really a man,'" the report said.
Another passenger even sought to take his son into the cockpit "to look around," a move that is strictly forbidden.
Further alarm bells rang when "attendants were trying to serve first-class passengers their food, but all onboard were insistent that they didn't want to eat." Instead, they wanted to take off.
A total of 2,977 people died when four jets were hijacked and intentionally crashed into New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.
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The FBI on Thursday released images of the suspect agents want to interview regarding the assassination on Wednesday of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university event.
"We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. 1-800-CALL-FBI," the announcement said.
The FBI also said it recovered a bolt-action rifle believed to have been used in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
And agents are investigating whether there are any usable fingerprints on it, whether footprints found near the weapon are significant and much, much more.
The assassin remained at large Thursday, after two individuals were taken into custody, questioned, and then released on Wednesday in the hours after the shooting.
There were reports, in an X post from Steven Crowder, of Louder with Crowder, that law enforcement found an "older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus."
"The location of the firearm appears to match the suspects route of travel. The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology," the report said.
That word comes on the heels of a long list of mass shootings perpetrated by transgender-advocating individuals.
A report in the Washington Examiner explained authorities confirmed at a news conference that the murder weapon was recovered in a wooded area near the shooting scene, a region that now has been swept and secured.
Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason also confirmed authorities have a "good video" of the shooter.
"The suspect was described as being of college age, and arrived on campus about a half hour before the murder. The assassin jumped off the roof after the shooting and fled into a nearby neighborhood," the report said.
The suspect, immediately after the shooting, was described to police as wearing jeans, a black shirt, a black mask, and a black vest, and carrying a "long rifle."
The shooter is thought to have shot Kirk from atop the Sorensen Student Center on the campus of Utah Valley University.
Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation, including the FBI.
An analyst said in the Washington Examiner report that police likely were using cell phone data, cameras, license plate readers and such.
The weapon is expected to provide some details, such as when and where it was purchased, where the ammunition was purchased and such.
The report noted, "The UVU campus will be closed for the rest of the week, and classes have been canceled for several days. Several Utah universities increased their security and/or police presence on their campuses, including the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, and Southern Utah University."
The individuals detained and released, the report said, were identified as George Zinn and Zachariah Qureshi.
Both were let go after being interrogated.
Radio traffic from Utah County Public Safety earlier in the day had a dispatcher saying: "Description on the male: All in black, long pants, black bag, aviator-style sunglasses with a long gun."
It is believed the shooter fired a weapon from a long distance, striking the founder of Turning Point USA who was speaking while seated under a tent.
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As memorial messages about Charlie Kirk, assassinated in cold blood yesterday, are arising from admirers around the world, one very moving and profoundly meaningful remembrance – and warning – comes from American author, speaker and radio host Eric Metaxas.
In his post, titled simply "My friend Charlie," Metaxas writes:
"Today is 9-11 and just as we will all remember where we were when that tragedy struck over two decades ago, I know I will never forget where I was yesterday. I was sitting on a weight bench in the gym. I read a text from a mutual friend confirming what I couldn't dare to imagine. It hit me hard. And I took my head in my hands and wept. The cliche is true: No words can suffice. Ever. And soon thereafter I realized that my friend Charlie is a martyr. Nothing less. He was murdered for his faith in Jesus. By forces that hate truth and hate love and hate God – and anyone who represents God."
Metaxas, who was a long-time friend of Kirk and his wife Erika, at first briefly reminisces about their relationship and good times together, but then gets to his stunning assessment of his friend, his work, and the meaning of his assassination:
Ever since meeting him I never had the slightest doubt that Charlie would be the president of the United States. Had he lived. And a truly GREAT president of the United States. He was simply one of the most naturally gifted human beings we have ever had. His level of talent – and what he did with that talent in such a short time – was truly awe inspiring and almost shocking.
But it's vitally important to say that at the center of his truly astonishing gifting was his deep faith in Jesus. He wasn't "sort of" Christian. He was outspokenly and boldly Christian. That was at the heart of everything he said and did – at the heart of his patriotism and conservatism. Jesus was at the heart of it all. Which is the one reason I don't need to mourn his death as the world mourns. No. Charlie is with Jesus. That is inescapably glorious, however much we will miss him, and of course we will miss him A LOT.
But we can rejoice that according to God's plans – which are not our own – Charlie fulfilled his assignment. And therefore Jesus says to him what we should all earnestly desire to hear more than anything in the world: "Well done, good and faithful servant." We should all live to hear those words from the Author of our lives. From the Author of goodness and truth and peace and love and joy and hope. There is nothing more wonderful. Nothing. I can rejoice today because I know that Charlie understood that and lived for that.
Metaxas compares Kirk's assassination with "the murders of JFK and MLK Jr. and RFK," the "inspiring leader[s] of a great movement – to whom millions looked for leadership, and who gave those millions hope," yet who were "killed in cold blood." He adds, "Everything in us recoils in horror at the very idea of it. It is inconceivable."
But then, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author zeroes in on the appalling current state of the American left.
[I]t has been a truly hideous and shocking thing to witness the degradation of the left in this country, to see what they have become since the Sixties. It seems that over the decades they have gone downhill and downhill and downhill. Today they seem to stand for nothing other than power and pleasure. It is truly horrifying to think of it.
When RFK was murdered in 1968 he represented a party that had noble aspirations. Caring for the poor. Ending the Vietnam War. Standing up for the little guy. What are their fundamentals now? They have stumbled downward to become the party of nothing much more than "I want total freedom to have sex for my own pleasure and gratification whenever I want WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES. And if there are consequences I want the right to legally murder those consequences." How horrifying.
But isn't that about it at this point? Is it any more complicated than that? So it follows that if anything gets in their way, whether it's an innocent baby in the womb or a brilliant young man who with his words makes me see the horrific emptiness of my positions – I will stoop to murder. I'm sorry to say that the left has become something seriously disturbing and ugly, has become the party of self-gratification and murder. But perhaps the murder of my friend Charlie will help some of them to see what they have become – and to ask God to lead them out of the abyss in which they now reside. May his tragic death wake some people up. May his murder lead some on the left to honest introspection about what they really believe and stand for. There is a way out of that abyss.
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They're dropping like flies. Another leftist has been relieved of his job thanks to insensitive remarks about the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
This time it's a high-school social studies teacher – Wynne Boliek of Greenville, South Carolina.
According to South Carolina U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who made a phone call or two back to her home state upon hearing about the teacher's X post, Boliek has been put on leave.
Boliek had posted Wednesday: "Thoughts and prayers to his children but IMHO, America became greater today. There I said it."
The comment is an allusion to President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, which Kirk enthusiastically championed.
The post was highlighted on X by the account Mostly Peaceful Memes, which has posted several comments made by users who are happy about the death of Kirk.
Fox Carolina posted the statement from Greenville County Schools:
"We are aware of an inappropriate message on social media attributed to Wynne Boliek, a teacher at Southside High School. Mr. Boliek has been placed on administrative leave while we fully investigate and follow the required due process. As this is a personnel matter, we are prevented from providing further details. As always, we expect all staff members to conduct themselves in a professional manner that best represents our district and schools. Thank you."
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President Trump on Thursday confirmed he will award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The ceremony for the posthumous honor is soon to be announced.
He was a "giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and inspiration to millions and millions of people," the president said.
The president revealed the plan while remarking on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, in which nearly 3,000 innocent people died.
"We miss him greatly, yet I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on," Trump said.
Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday while holding a free speech event for students at a Utah university.
He was shot in the neck and died of his injuries.
His assailant is the target of a wide-ranging hunt.
Kirk is survived by his wife, Erika, and two children, a three-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy.
Trump's comments:
Before we begin, let me express the horror and grief so many Americans at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk have felt. Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people. Our prayers are with his wonderful wife, Erika and his beautiful children, fantastic people they are.
We miss him greatly, yet I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on. I'm pleased to announce that I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The date of the ceremony will be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing, that we will have a very big crowd, very, very big.