From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavarro. This is the Daily.

Today, the political fallout from Charlie Kirk's murder and the manhunt for his killer.

I speak with my colleague, Nicholas Bogle Burroughs,

about why police are struggling to answer basic questions about the shooter

and to Alan Foyer about how the assassination may be a turning point for the conservative movement.

Music turning point for the conservative movement. It's Friday, September 12th.

Nick, we are talking to you at about 6.35 p.m. Eastern time.

And I just want to start by asking you what we know about who carried out this assassination against Charlie Kirk

and what we know about why they may have carried this out?

We know incredibly little about both of those questions.

We do not know who carried out this attack,

and we don't know that person's motivations.

It's been 30 hours since this assassination took place,

and everyone's seen all these videos that have come out from the scene.

There's an incredible wealth of information about what happened,

but almost nothing about the person who did this.

And it felt like from the very beginning,

there was a lot of confusion and mistaken identity. Absolutely. I mean,

as we've seen time and time again, unfortunately, there is a very quick response on the part of

people online, self-identified sleuths to try to figure out who it could have been. And in this

case, also some wrong guesses by the police, it seems.

There was two instances where people were taken into custody and questioned. And in both cases,

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