"And so the last thing I expected was to hear from him, Jones said. In fact, we were trying to deal with the wave of death threats and racial stuff that was coming at me in the middle of that controversy when my team called and said that he had been shot. So, that was the opposite of what anybody wanted. And we immediately denounced that killing."
"But it was the next day when suddenly my team called back and said, Charlie Kirk was trying to reach you the day before he died. I was like, What? He was trying to reach you. He had sent you a message. And so I saw the message. And it was a message saying, Let's talk about this civillyCome on my show. Let's be gentlemen. And he said, Let's disagree agreeably."
Van Jones received an unexpected text from Charlie Kirk the day before Kirk was shot dead while speaking on a college campus. The two disagreed politically and had recently clashed over the August murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte. Jones and his team were handling death threats and racial backlash when they learned Kirk had been shot, and they immediately denounced the killing. Jones later learned Kirk had sent a message asking to talk civilly, inviting Jones onto his show and urging them to “disagree agreeably.” Jones emphasized Kirk was not seeking to censor him or promote violence but conversation.
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