Committee. Senator, it's good to have you here. It's not what we expected that we would be talking about this evening.But can you weigh in on this. Your reaction to what took place, how we got here, and whether we need to have a serious conversation about Capitol Police security for lawmakers like yourself. Well, let me begin just by offering my condolences, my thoughts, my prayers to Charlie's family, to his spouse and to their children.This is not something that any of us on either side of any political a ...

Hogan Gidley, a friend of Charlie Kirk, who was just texting with him yesterday and he was on the House floor moments ago during a moment of silence. Hogan, first I am so sorry for your loss. You knew Charlie. Talk to me about what you remember about him and and and what this moment means right now. It is so incredibly sad for those people that were close to Charlie Kirk. Yeah, thanks Tom for having me. I I I just I remember working in the first Trump administration of the White House and Charlie would come ...

And Joe, I know this is a very fluid situation. We've gotten some information from authorities and now what appears to be some information from the president himself. Yeah, it's pretty remarkable to see this coming from Donald Trump.The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk, he writes, is dead. This is an individual who is part of a large collection. To your point, he started to make his name at a very young age. He was still very young when he died at 31 years old.And we should note he had a young family w ...

RIP Charlie Kirk. 💔Our deepest condolences go out to his family.There is absolutely NO place for political violence in our country. https://t.co/M8eXnNjPDS ...

on Capitol Hill. Members of both parties reacting in real time to the horrific incident. Charlie is a very actually a very good friend of mine.Um it's uh it scares you to death for he and his family. Just another horrible act of political violence that has no place in our country. I mean it's just u kind of a loss of words.It is u you know a horrendous thing to see and it happens uh all too often. Shocking and tragic. There is just no justification for the political violence that we're seeing in this countr ...

ExactlyFischerKing (@FischerKing64):The left-wing mainstream media, as well as figures like Gavin Newson claiming Trump plans to be dictator, has created a climate of hysteria against right-wing figures that could radicalize any number of unstable people to engage in political violence. Pray Charlie Kirk is ok. ...

In life and in death, Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark side by side. Their children grieving as Minnesota's governor Tim Wall served as a pawbearer carrying the weight of a loss that rocked their state. Melissa was an extraordinary legislator and Mark was her proudest supporter.During a private funeral in Minneapolis, former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, among the nearly 1500 people on hand to honor the couple, remembered for their service an ...