Charlie Kirk shooting suspect to be charged with murder as search for motive continues: Live updates

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro took a jab at President Donald Trump when he warned this morning that being selective about which political violence to condemn only further divides us.

Speaking in Pittsburgh, the governor said, “Unfortunately, some from the dark corners of the internet, all the way to the Oval Office, want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn. Doing that only further divides us, and it makes it harder to heal.”

He added: “There are some who will hear that selective condemnation and take it as a permission slip to commit more violence as long as it suits their narrative or only targets the other side.”

CNN’s Jamal Simmons said recent comments made by Trump and the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, were “absolutely a concern” regarding the future of the two-party system in the United States.

Harry Cockburn has the story.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson warned leaders not to call political opponents “fascists.”

He also defended employers who take action against employees whose comments go too far.

“In America…we do not censor and silence disfavored viewpoints… That said, if I’m an employer or I’m a government agency and I have someone in my employ, someone who is online celebrating the heinous murder of an innocent person… I can make the decision that they don’t deserve to work for me… That’s not the government censoring speech. That’s personal behavior and decorum and you have a right to enforce that,” the Republican from Louisiana said.

Johnson also noted that Trump has been called “the most despicable names,” and he urged all leaders to tone it down.

“Leaders cannot call their political opponents Nazis and fascists and enemies of the state because they disagree with their policy priorities,” he said.

President Donald Trump frequently used the term “enemy from within” to describe the Democratic Party during the 2024 election campaign.

An Illinois TV anchor resigned from her local ABC-affiliated station after she says she was suspended over an emotional “non-partisan tribute” to her first boss, Charlie Kirk.

Isabel Keane has the story.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared reluctant to directly endorse the performance of embattled FBI Director Kash Patel when speaking to reporters before departing the White House for London.

Patel, the lawyer and ex-podcaster who was confirmed to run the nation’s premier investigatory agency along party lines earlier this year, has been under fire for what critics say has been his lackluster and bumbling performance in the days since a gunman murdered activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week.

Numerous Democrats — and some from the president’s own party — have called for him to resign or be fired, with some critics noting the poor optics of Patel’s decision to patronize an upscale Italian restaurant in New York within hours of Kirk’s death.

Andrew Feinberg has the latest from Washington, D.C.

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting, FBI Director Kash Patel told Sen. Amy Klobuchar at today’s hearing that he is “willing to engage and explore new ways” to address gun violence in the United States.

“Whatever creativity we can use to eliminate even just one shooting, one horrific death, I am in favor of engaging with Congress fully to do,” Patel told the Minnesota Democrat.

Klobuchar later pressed him on whether he supports a ban on so-called assault weapons.

The FBI director said there are “instances on this legislation that could prevent future attacks,” but said he would not “weigh into the creation of legislation.”

Klobuchar noted that a study by the Cato Institute “found that terrorists from the right were responsible for six times more deaths than people from the left. I actually don’t want to go tit for tat on this. But what I am asking for is that this rhetoric of blaming one side or the other stop. If you could convey that to the president, and that we actually work on things that are solutions. So could you commit to me, Director Patel, that you will do that?”

He responded: “Absolutely, senator.”

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri asked FBI Director Kash Patel whether the Charlie Kirk shooting is being treated as part of a broader trend of violence against religious groups.

He responded: “We are investigating Charlie’s assassination fully and completely and running out every lead related to any allegation of broader violence.”

Asked further about the investigation, Patel said that they are working closely with local law enforcement to speak with suspect Tyler Robinson’s family and community.

He told the Senate Judiciary Committee: “We’ve conducted those investigations and interrogations with local law enforcement and were continuing to do that … We’re also going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat.”

Eric Garcia reports from Washington, D.C.

Office Depot fired an employee at its Portage store in Michigan two days ago after a video emerged of the staffer telling a customer, “We don’t print propaganda, it’s propaganda.”

Rhian Lubin has the story.