Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson urged legislators to “reduce temperature” in Capitol Hill after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“You will hear me, as I always did, I am trying to turn the temperature here. I always do it,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday.
Johnson, the emotional, said: “He still doesn’t feel the reality for me. Charlie Kirk was a good friend of me,” Emotional Johnson said.
“I will continue to do what I have always tried to do here, especially at a moment like this. We have colleagues on both sides of the corridor who are in a different place this morning from what they were yesterday. People vibrated this event,” he said.
However, many Republicans have doubled in rank and files only on their baseless allegations that the Democrats “caused” kirk killing.
Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson makes statements in the Capitol in the United States about the shooting of the personality of the media Charlie Kerk, September 10, 2025.
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Republican MP Anna Polina Luna, Kirk’s friend, told ABC News that she was standing alongside her fiery exchange in the House of Representatives Hall on Wednesday evening, which reached its climax in the members of Congress in Florida while she was screaming to the Democrats who opposed a second prayer for Kirk: “I caused it.”
Luna said: “They use their national platforms to say that we are fascists, and that we will remove their rights, which were mainly demons in office,” Luna said.
When the ABC News Capitol Hill Jay O’Brien correspondent was asked if the blaming of the Democrats has increased the temperature upward and did not retreat, Luna replied, “No, it’s accountability. She invites them to that.”
Kirk, 31, was shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. Currently for the militant. The shooter was unknown, but the governor of Utah Spencer Cox was called “political assassination”.
The Kirk killing crime sparked terror and condemnation of Republicans and Democrats.
But Luna refused to respond to the two parties, and said that she would not apologize for her comments on the house hall.
“What are the events that led to this? What are the responsible statements and speech? Everyone here knows that this is the speech that caused it. She said, “I do not apologize for yesterday.”
Representative Anna Polina Luna, Florida Republics, is walking on the members of the press after they left a closed door meeting with Jeffrey Epstein victims in the American Capitol in Washington, September 2, 2025.
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Nancy Maas, Deputy South Carolina, went further, saying that she was blaming the Democrats at all to kill Kirk.
Mas said: “This is what the left did to people who are really washing the brain who suffer from mental illness, already fragile of mental … This is related to fighting for what is right.
While many Republicans in the House of Representatives rushed to direct the finger to the Democrats, without knowing completely the shooter and remarkably deleted it recently on the Democrats such as the governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiru and the killing of Minnesota, MP Milisa Hortmann, and not all legislators.
“Everyone’s feelings are high. I will not direct the fingers to either side. Both sides have some guilt,” The Chairman of the House of Representatives Supervision Committee, James Commer, a fans in Kentucky, told ABC News. “So we hope we can, we can take a tragedy like this and try to do everything better. I think we can all do what is better – including me.”
Repeat the members on both sides of the corridor fears for their personal safety. MACE, who is currently nominating the position of South Carolina governor, said it will not do public occasions even “We have better dealing with greater security controls.”
“We are always exaggerating his reaction. We need to respond before. Driving is not very ready,” Tennessee told MP Tim Porschet correspondents. He added that he feared something “will really happen before we accomplish something here.”
“No,” Porsche said when asked if he was safe in Capitol Hill.
On the other side of the corridor, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer condemned the notes on Thursday the killing of Charlie Kirk as “ugly” and “coward” and called for the end of political violence.
Schumer, the largest democracy in the Senate, He also said that “fingering” will not help calm tensions in the country.
“There should be no finger because this is an attack on our democracy itself. If we fail to suppress these fires, our democracy will be governed.