He Has a Pulse: A Broadcast Report From the First Hours
Media pending. The media for this item is not held locally and has not been published, so it cannot be played here. The write-up below is drawn from the records that describe it.
What This Video Is
A clip of a live broadcast conversation between Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly, captured and posted to X by @Cashloren at 20:07 UTC on September 10, 2025 — within hours of the shooting. Recorded engagement: 461 likes, 72 reposts, about 80,000 views. The poster's caption: "Glenn Beck chokes back tears as he tells Megyn Kelly he is being told Charlie Kirk is alive and in critical condition after being shot at Utah Valley University at a TPUSA event. 'He has a Pulse.'"
No copy of the media is held. There is no local file and no visual description on record. A transcription of the exchange was preserved in the master investigation file, and it is short enough to give in full below.
What Is Said
The whole exchange, as transcribed:
Kelly: Glenn, start with you. Thank you for being here. I just read your tweet to the audience. Are you hearing that from people who are in a position to know — that Charlie is alive, and that he's in critical?
Beck: I am. I spoke to somebody in a position who knows, who said he has a pulse. So that's good news. Good news.
That is all of it. It is worth reading closely for what it does and does not establish.
It is a broadcaster relaying, live and at second hand, what an unnamed source told him. He identifies no one, gives no time for the observation, and does not say whether the source was at the scene, at the hospital, or relaying it themselves from someone else. He frames it, plainly, as good news — a man on air hoping out loud.
What it does document precisely is a timestamp on the information: at 20:07 UTC on September 10, a nationally broadcast programme was reporting, on the strength of an insider source, that Charlie Kirk was alive with a pulse. Kirk's death was confirmed publicly later. The gap between the two is the whole reason this clip matters. It is one of the anchor points for reconstructing what was believed, and by whom, in the first hours.
This page attributes no fault to anyone. Reporting a source's account in real time during a mass-casualty event is ordinary journalism, and being overtaken by events is the normal hazard of it. The clip is evidence about the flow of information, not about anyone's conduct.
What The Footage Shows
Nothing can be described first-hand; the media is not held. From the post text the artefact is a phone or screen capture of a live broadcast two-shot or split screen, with Beck visibly emotional.
The surrounding minutes on X are the useful context. Within about ninety minutes of this post, the same evening carried a National Desk eyewitness saying "it was like a direct shot to the heart", another eyewitness describing blood from the neck, and two separate accounts asserting a vest ricochet. The heart-versus-neck confusion, the alive-versus-dead confusion and the mechanism confusion all originate in this same short window, from people at distance working from partial information. Later reconstructions that treat those early inconsistencies as evidence of coordination have to reckon with how ordinary that fog is.
How It Connects
- Shot in the heart — early claims vs. what video shows — where the first-hours claims, including this one, are collected and compared.
- Emergency response — what was actually happening medically during the window this broadcast covers.
- Death timeline — the reconstruction of when death occurred and when it was announced.
- No ambulance, scoop and run — the transport decision that sits inside the same gap.
- Megyn Kelly and @Cashloren — the broadcast and the account that captured it.