As so many of us are mourning the assassination of Charlie Kirk, his friend — Vice President Vance – took over podcast hosting duties this morning to try to fill the gaping hole left by Charlie’s loss.

“Please join me as I pay tribute to my friend,” the VP wrote:

The last minutes of today’s program, J.D. Vance shared his thoughts about the events since Charlie was murdered, and how we can counter the awful evil that we are seeing in our country today.

Here is the entire podcast: