‘Just Remarkable’: MSNBC Panel Blown Away By Erika Kirk’s Memorial Speech

Erika Kirk’s strength and resolve during her memorial speech for her slain conservative activist husband, Charlie Kirk, blew away the MSNBC panel that followed the event on Sunday evening.

Mrs. Kirk spoke in front of a stadium full of mourners, as did President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other dignitaries and high-profile Republicans.

“I think what honestly I’ll take away from tonight is watching the weight of a woman, a mother, lose her husband,” NBC White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard said on MSNBC after Kirk spoke.

Hillyard continued: “Most people cannot say they’ve experienced losing a spouse at this young of an age, and I don’t know who we are to suggest how somebody should respond in real time. One week after her husband’s passing, she went in front of a crowd of 40 to 50,000 people, people watching all over the world. And she delivered remarks in which she forgave the assassin that shot her husband and killed him.”

“It was just remarkable,” agreed co-host Elise Jordan.

“A remarkable moment because in so many ways, where America stands in 2025 is, how do we respond going forward? And the woman that just lost her husband stood there in front of the world and said, ‘I forgive,'” Hillyard added.

Fellow panelist Ayman Mohideen spoke critically of President Trump’s political bent to his remarks, while also finding time to praise Erika Kirk.

“So, when you weave all of that into a eulogy and in a moment where the country is in sorrow and in pain because of what just happened, there is that split screen. There is that disconnect between the grief that a mother who is just going to bury her husband, the father of her children, and a president who’s talking about the the politics of this moment,” Mohideen said.

“And I think that’s what my takeaway was from that speech, you know, the opportunity for the president to try to heal and bring the country, as many had hoped he would, and not doing it in the way that many people would expect a president to do.”

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.