CBS’ Nate Burleson: Republicans Should Moderate Their Language and Accept Responsibility for Charlie Kirk’s Death

BURLESON: “And as Tony mentioned, not everyone took to his words or his rhetoric. You know, at times they were offensive to specific communities. But with that said, this is not the time to focus on that. We are focused on this tragedy. Speaking of this tragedy, is this a moment for your party to reflect on political violence? Is it a moment for us to think about the responsibility of our political leaders and their voices and what it does to the masses as they get lost in misinformation or disinformation that turns in and spills into political violence?”

KING: “I say both parties.”

McCarthy: “I don’t even say parties, I say a nation.”

KING: “OK.”

McCarthy: “If there’s a moment in time —“

KING: “Even better.”

McCarthy: “— you want to look to, and I looked back and I watched this again when Robert F. Kennedy is running, he’s in Indianapolis and he just got the news that Martin Luther King was killed. And he has to tell the crowd, because we don’t have social media at that time. And it was remarkable, the words he said. He said, we have to ask as a nation, who are we and how do we want to move forward? We have watched this political attack on both sides. We watched what happened in Minnesota. We watched what happened to President Trump. We’ve watched this on both sides. This is not a question about parties. This is a question about nations. We cannot normalize this. But Charlie was not elected. Charlie was not doing something where you would sit there and one party say something wrong. He was honoring. He was doing it on a college, were ideas. This is what happened in the ‘60s. This is a moment in time for this nation to take this time to actually, to make a question about all of this.”

DOKOUPIL: “We don’t want to go back to the ‘60s.”

McCarthy: “We don’t.”

DOKOUPIL: “That was a more violent period than people were calm.”