Vice President JD Vance hosted a two-hour episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" Monday from the White House to honor his friend who was assassinated on Thursday.

Vice President JD Vance hosted "The Charlie Kirk Show" Monday to pay tribute to his friend who was assassinated last week. File Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI UPI

Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President JD Vance hosted a two-hour episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" Monday from the White House to honor his friend who was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University on Thursday.

Vance, a longtime friend of Kirk's, paid tribute to Kirk, 31, with several right-wing guests who supported the hard-right activist. He also quoted Bible verses and recited a prayer.

Vance began "The Charlie Kirk Show" by expressing how the last several days "have been hard" for him, his family and the country.

"The thing is, every single person in this building [the White House], we owe something to Charlie," Vance said. "He was a joyful warrior for our country. He loved America. He devoted himself tirelessly to making our country a better place. He was a critical part of getting Donald Trump elected as president, getting me elected as vice president, and so much of our success over the last seven months is due to his efforts, his staffing, his support and his friendship."

Along with support for his fallen friend, Vance also raged at a woman he called a "hack" writer for The Nation, whom Vance said had "danced on" Kirk's grave. He meant writer Elizabeth Spiers who wrote an article about why Kirk doesn't deserve mourning.

"I thought of Erika [Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow] as I read that disgusting attack on Charlie," he recalled. "I said the Lord's Prayer."

He praised Erika Kirk's first public remarks, saying the country saw "raw grief and incredible courage all in the same moment," saying "that's what we need right now." He also mentioned a conversation he had with her when he flew to Utah to help escort Kirk's casket to his home in Arizona.

"She said to me that Charlie never raised his voice, that he never cussed at her, that he was never cross or mean-spirited to her," Vance said. "And look, I'm a husband. I'm proud of being a husband. I think that, on the great balance of things, that I'm a pretty good husband, but I can never say that I was never unpleasant with my wife. I can never say that I've never raised my voice to my wife. Like most husbands, even the good ones, we're sometimes imperfect. And I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband, and I needed to be a better father."

Vance talked about a friend who he said was targeted in his neighborhood by leftists after Kirk's death.

"We can thank God that most Democrats don't share these attitudes, and I do, while acknowledging that something has gone very wrong with a lunatic fringe, a minority, but a growing and powerful minority on the far left," Vance said.

"There is no unity with people who scream at children over their parents' politics; there is no unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder; there is no unity with someone who harasses an innocent family the day after the father of that family lost a dear friend; there is no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination," he said.

"And there is no unity with the people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers who argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagree."