Vice President JD Vance announced he will host a podcast episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Monday to "pay tribute" to his friend.

Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative political influencer and long-time ally of the vice president and President Donald Trump, was shot and killed on Wednesday while speaking at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah.

The show opened at noon ET with a montage video of different clips of Kirk speaking at various events and photos of him with different political figures.

Vance said he was broadcasting from his office on the White House grounds.

"The last several days have been extremely hard," Vance began. "The thing is, every single person in this building we owe something to Charlie.”

Kirk founded Turning Point USA, a right-wing political nonprofit or

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