‘Start With the President’: Elizabeth Warren Responds To Calls To Tone Down the Rhetoric After Kirk Killing

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that any conversation about toning down the political rhetoric in the U.S. needs to start with President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday afternoon, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on the campus of Utah Valley University. His killer remains at large as of Wednesday evening.

Many suspect Kirk’s murder was politically motivated and prominent political and media figures have called for a cooling of heated political rhetoric in the country.

Hours after the shooting, CNN caught up with Warren outside the Capitol. The video was aired on OutFront, where host Erin Burnett teed up the clip and aired it:

BURNETT: Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren was asked about, you know, some of the Republicans out there who came out and said, “It’s Democrats. They need to lower the temperature. That is the problem here.” She responded to that with this.

WARREN [in clip]: Oh, please. Right. Why don’t you start with the president of the United States? Right? And every ugly. Mean he has. posted and every ugly word…

The clip ended there, and Burnett asked her guest, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), “Is that right or wrong?”

“Well, it was kind of broken,” Kelly responded. “I couldn’t hear everything, but I would say everybody needs to lower the temperature. You know, I’ve heard things said by my Democratic colleagues that are not helpful. I’ve heard things said by my Republican colleagues. And I think it’s important for people to understand, especially when they are in leadership positions, that your words have consequences.”

Kelly went on to say he believes that “this was a political assassination.”

Watch above via CNN.