Friends In High Temples: Charlie's Final Call With Bibi... | Candace Ep 320

Episode of Candace · April 2, 2026 · 56 min

Candace Owens alleges a Netanyahu–Romney friendship links Utah, BYU, the CIA and defense contractors to Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Summary

Candace Owens devoted the episode to what she called a newly relevant thread in her ongoing investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk: the decades-long friendship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney, which she traced to their shared time at the Boston Consulting Group in 1976. Owens argued this connection supplied the missing link between Israel and Utah, and she tied it to her claim that Kirk's final phone call with Netanyahu was an "intervention" over Israel in which Netanyahu offered to take Turning Point USA "to the next level." She speculated that war profiteering, particularly around a potential war with Iran, could explain such an offer.

Owens then walked through a series of alleged personal and corporate connections around Timpanogos Regional Hospital and Brigham Young University. She described Zachariah Qureshi, briefly detained on September 10, as "decoy boy number two," noted that his father Ahmed Qureshi is a Navy O-6 and co-founder of the defense contractor Built Incorporated, and played a clip of Baron Coleman showing that Built received roughly $7.5 million in Air Force and Navy contracts in June 2025. She linked Built's other co-founder, Nathan Henderson, to Gina Romney Henderson and to a son who worked as an emergency room scribe at Timpanogos, and said Timpanogos CEO Andrew Zenger had been moved from Texas shortly before the shooting. Owens asserted, without hedging, that the CIA recruits from BYU and particularly from its Jerusalem Center, naming a firm she called Metro One Talent as a recruiting vehicle.

The episode also covered the FBI's revival of comparative bullet lead analysis, which Owens noted was first used after the John F. Kennedy assassination and was abandoned in 2005 after the National Academy of Sciences found it unreliable. She criticized Donald Trump for telling Erika Kirk at a White House Easter event that she should sue her critics, argued that lawsuits would force disclosure of information she wants, and said Kirk had been abandoning the pro-Israel cause under financial and personal pressure before his death.

Owens closed with viewer comments, praise for the investigative work of Baron Coleman and Lionel Nation, a request for help documenting how the Hild family is related to the Romneys, and an announcement that the show would take the following week off to research "Romney land."

Chapters

  1. 0:00

    A friendship dating to 1976

    Owens introduces the Netanyahu–Romney friendship as the key to linking Israel and Utah in her Charlie Kirk investigation.

  2. 1:12

    Charlie Kirk's final call with Netanyahu

    Owens revisits the Hamptons phone call she describes as an intervention over Israel and speculates about war profiteering motives.

  3. 4:49

    The hospital and the decoys

    Owens questions the absence of eyewitnesses at Timpanogos, the FBI's seizure of hospital footage, and the detentions of George Zinn and Zachariah Qureshi.

  4. 10:26

    Built Incorporated and Pentagon contracts

    Owens profiles Ahmed Qureshi's military rank and his company Built, and plays Baron Coleman's breakdown of its federal contract history.

  5. 16:03

    Henderson, Romney and BYU connections

    Owens maps ties between Built's co-founders, Gina Romney Henderson, their sons at BYU, and an emergency room scribe job at Timpanogos.

  6. 22:57

    BYU Jerusalem and the CIA

    Owens asserts as fact that the CIA recruits from BYU's Jerusalem Center and names Metro One Talent and Andrew Zenger's roommates.

  7. 27:44

    Robbie Hild and the Romney clan

    Owens reopens her inquiry into Robbie Hild, his alleged marriage ties to the Romney family, and the footprint posts near the crime scene.

  8. 31:14

    Bullet lead analysis and JFK

    Owens reports that the FBI is reviving comparative bullet lead analysis, a technique first used after the JFK assassination and later discredited.

  9. 34:48

    Mormon colonies and family genealogy

    Owens discusses Romney and Farnsworth family ties to Mexican Mormon colonies and the need for genealogical research.

  10. 38:09

    Trump tells Erika Kirk to sue

    A clip of Trump at a White House Easter event is played and Owens criticizes the advice, saying lawsuits would force disclosure.

  11. 42:43

    Viewer comments

    Owens reads audience comments on Turning Point fundraising, the 2012 RNC delegate rules, BYU and 9/11, and praises independent investigative podcasters.

Key points

What was said, by whom, with the exact words. Timestamps jump to the moment.

  • Candace Owens

    Owens speculates that the money promised to Turning Point could have been guaranteed by war profiteering tied to a war with Iran.

    “I have an idea that it may have been guaranteed from like war, war profiteering, war in Iran, particularly the issue that Bibi and Charlie were butting heads about”

    Listen from 0:00 · United States war with Iran

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says the Netanyahu–Romney friendship began in 1976 when both worked at the Boston Consulting Group and remains extraordinarily close.

    “a friendship which began, like I told you, back in 1976. When they were both working for the Boston Consulting Group”

    Listen from 2:21 · Boston Consulting Group

  • Candace Owens

    Owens argues it is suspicious that no bystander eyewitnesses have emerged from the hospital emergency room, suggesting it had been cleared.

    “as I reflect six months later, it's almost as if the emergency room had been completely cleared for Turning Point USA”

    Listen from 3:33 · Timpanogos Regional Hospital

  • Candace Owens

    Owens criticizes Kash Patel for seizing hospital footage during an active manhunt, calling it a bizarre priority.

    “when Kash Patel arrived, he had the FBI immediately seize the footage from inside the hospital. What a bizarre priority, right? Makes no sense”

    Listen from 3:33 · Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Candace Owens

    Owens claims George Zinn falsely confessed at the scene and later said he had been paid to do it.

    “First, it was George Zinn, jumped up and down immediately and said, I did it, I did it. He would later tell people at Utah Valley, where he was being treated, that he was paid to do that”

    Listen from 6:03 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Candace Owens

    Owens contends Patel's premature tweet that a suspect was in custody gave the real assassins an hour-and-a-half head start.

    “Kash Patel's mistake provided the true assassin or the assassins an hour and a half buffer to get away”

    Listen from 7:10 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says Zachariah Qureshi's father Ahmed is a Navy O-6 commanding officer with extensive Middle East ties.

    “Ahmed Qureshi, that is Zachariah's father, he is an 06 in the Navy. That means he's a commanding officer. That's the equivalent to a colonel in the Air Force”

    Listen from 8:07 · Built Incorporated

  • Candace Owens

    Owens claims the Qureshi and Henderson families lived in the same house in Keller, Texas, and their sons attended BYU at the same time.

    “the co-founders of the Bilt Company, who lived in the same house and work at the same place, also sent their sons to the same school at the same time, BYU”

    Listen from 16:03 · Built Incorporated

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says the Air Force provided most of Built's roughly $8 million June 2025 funding, with a smaller amount from the Navy.

    “7.4 million from the Air Force and just under a quarter million from from the Navy, bringing the total actually closer to $8 million that came in to them in June of this year”

    Listen from 16:15 · Built Incorporated

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says Connor Henderson worked as an emergency room scribe at Timpanogos and wonders whether he quit around the day of the assassination.

    “I'm wondering if he actually quit on September 10th. I'm wondering if he was working beneath Dr. Lee Trotter. It's a lead that should be pursued”

    Listen from 17:12 · Timpanogos Regional Hospital

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says Timpanogos CEO Andrew Zenger was appointed on August 19, shortly before the assassination, after working in Texas.

    “he was appointed the CEO of Timpanogos just ahead of Charlie's assassination. It was August 19th. And curiously enough, before that, he was down in Texas”

    Listen from 21:46 · Timpanogos Regional Hospital

  • Candace Owens

    Owens asserts as fact, not allegation, that the CIA recruits directly from BYU and specifically from its Jerusalem campus.

    “BYU has direct ties to the CIA. They recruit directly from BYU. And I am saying this with 100% certainty. It is not a conspiracy”

    Listen from 22:57 · Central Intelligence Agency

  • Candace Owens

    Owens names a firm called Metro One Talent as the company the CIA uses to bring young recruits on board.

    “They specifically use a company, and this will trigger them if they're watching, called Metro One Talent. Metro One Talent. That's how they interview their talent and set them on the path to joining the CIA”

    Listen from 25:21 · Central Intelligence Agency

  • Candace Owens

    Owens notes that comparative bullet lead analysis was first used after the JFK assassination and was later judged unreliable before the FBI abandoned it.

    “So the FBI came up with the road chemistry. because they needed to match a bullet in the JFK case”

    Listen from 31:14 · Comparative bullet lead analysis

  • Candace Owens

    Owens states that authorities know Tyler Robinson did not kill Charlie Kirk and calls the case an obvious patsy setup.

    “They know Tyler Robinson didn't do it”

    Listen from 32:28 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Linked moment · 33:44Skip to 33:44 using a listen link in the info box.

    Candace Owens

    Owens says the Romney and Farnsworth families were part of the Mormon groups that moved to Chihuahua, Mexico, after polygamy was outlawed.

    “I know the Farnsworth family. and the Romney family were part of the families that went down there”

    Listen from 33:44 · Mormon colonies in Mexico

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says her tracking of Egyptian-registered flights showed trips from Israel to Provo coinciding with bombing campaigns against Israel, which she suspects carried Netanyahu.

    “I'm saying there's a lot of evidence that these planes are in sync with the pattern of when there's bombing campaigns happening toward Israel”

    Listen from 34:48 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Donald Trump

    Trump says at a White House Easter event that he told Erika Kirk she should sue people who mock her because they are jealous.

    “I think you should sue them, but, you know. I told her, you ought to sue somebody. They're so jealous”

    Listen from 39:54 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says she and other critics would welcome a lawsuit because discovery would compel release of information they are seeking.

    “most of us welcome a lawsuit because then they would be required to give us the information that we're asking for”

    Listen from 41:00 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Candace Owens

    Owens says she would personally review the roughly 600,000 documents in the Robinson case for free if they were made public.

    “I will go through every single one of those documents if you give them to me. For free. You do not need to pay me. This matters to me”

    Listen from 43:47 · Jeffrey Epstein

  • Candace Owens

    Owens criticizes Turning Point USA for fundraising within 48 hours of Kirk's death and for mailers showing Erika Kirk at the memorial.

    “It was so the ick when I had reading this to switch the gears so quickly into how can we fundraise off of this. It's just dishonorable”

    Listen from 45:06 · Turning Point USA

  • Candace Owens

    Owens claims Kirk had decided to abandon the pro-Israel cause under financial threats and moral blackmail before his death.

    “he was actually abandoning the provisional cause because my husband was under a tremendous amount of stress in the end because they were pulling money from him and they were threatening him, you know, financially”

    Listen from 48:00 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • Candace OwensCan’t be judged

    Owens announces the show will take the following week off to focus research on the Romney family connections.

    “we will see you tomorrow. And then we're going to take a week break and dive into Romney land”

    Listen from 50:29 · Assassination of Charlie Kirk

People

In the conversation

  • Candace OwensConservative commentator and podcaster cited as a top-ranked show
  • Donald TrumpPresident of the United States whose conduct of the Iran war is the episode's main subject

Discussed

  • Charlie KirkAmerican conservative activist and podcast host assassinated in September 2025
  • Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel
  • Mitt RomneyFormer U.S. senator from Utah, 2012 Republican presidential nominee and Bain Capital co-founder
  • Erika KirkAmerican figure Trump reportedly told to sue over a comedy sketch
  • Tyler RobinsonSuspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination
  • Kash PatelDirector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Ahmed QureshiU.S. Navy captain and co-founder of Built Incorporated
  • Zachariah QureshiYoung man briefly detained after the Charlie Kirk shooting
  • Andrew ZengerCEO of Timpanogos Regional Hospital appointed in August 2025
  • Nathan HendersonCo-founder of Built Incorporated
  • George ZinnMan who falsely claimed responsibility at the scene of the Charlie Kirk shooting
  • Ron PaulFormer U.S. congressman and 2012 Republican presidential candidate
  • Ian CarrollIndependent podcaster and online investigator
  • Phil LymanUtah politician mentioned in connection with property near the shooting site
  • Elizabeth LaneJournalist who reported from Utah on the day of the shooting
  • Stephen JonesFormer BYU physicist known for 9/11 thermite claims

Topics

From the publisher

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Summary, chapters and key points were generated from the episode transcript on September 27, 2026. Quotes are checked word for word against the transcript.