Megyn Kelly and Glenn Beck Break Down After Learning of Charlie Kirk’s Death Live on Air

Megyn Kelly and Glenn Beck were visibly rocked by the murder of fellow conservative media star Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, with Kelly and Beck shedding tears on a live stream immediately after hearing reports Kirk had died from a gunshot to the neck.

Kelly and Beck’s agony was seen by viewers on The Megyn Kelly Show on YouTube on Wednesday afternoon.

“We have lost one of the most important voices that we’ve had in my lifetime on the right,” Kelly said. “One of the most important messengers, someone sent by God to change minds and hearts on the most important, divisive, [and] difficult issues of our time.”

Her comment came a moment after she struggled to share reports that the 31-year-old Kirk had been shot to death an an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

“There are news outlets reporting the worst right now, Glenn,” Kelly told Beck. “I don’t know what I’m waiting for before I report it, you know. I trust Just the News, I trust Deseret. What, are we waiting for the AP to say it? We don’t trust them more than we trust these. They are reporting that Charlie has died — that he’s dead, at the age of 31.”

Right then, emotions overwhelmed both commentators. Kelly put her left hand to her head and started to cry, as Beck looked away from the camera and started to sob.

“There’s no way he survived that,” Beck said while choking up. “The only good thing is, it had to have happened quickly.”

Kelly agreed, saying the videos showed he was “spared the horrific moments” that Iryna Zarutska, the young woman who was stabbed to death last month aboard a North Carolina train, had to suffer. She noted that the “violence” in how Kirk’s body was jolted back by the gunshot reminded her of the jarring footage of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

“I don’t know how, but something good and glorious is going to come from this,” Beck said a moment later. “Because God is not neutral in the affairs of man. But neither is Satan. Neither is the darkness — that is real. And we are battling that, and the sooner people understand you are not fighting flesh and bone, you are fighting evil, the sooner we will be able to dismiss evil and go back to God.”

Kelly added the authorities must find the gunman, or else it will feel like “open season” on conservatives.

You can watch their reactions above, which come at about the 1:23:00 mark of the livestream, via YouTube.