Capitol Hill Moments From the Post-Kirk Political Landscape

Showing 10 Capitol Hill videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Capitol Hill surfaces here as the backdrop for several distinct political moments rather than one continuous story. In the hours after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Democratic lawmakers publicly condemned the killing while some pivoted quickly toward calls for new gun-safety legislation, prompting sharp exchanges with Republican colleagues who accused Democrats of politicizing the moment. Weeks later, President Trump's State of the Union address included a tribute to Kirk, though commentators noted visible divisions in the chamber as some Democrats declined to stand in a show of unity against political violence. A separate and unrelated hearing produced one of the most-viewed congressional clips in C-SPAN's history: Candace Owens's exchange with Representative Ted Lieu after he played an edited clip of her discussing Hitler and nationalism, which Owens says stripped her original argument, about Hitler's own global ambitions rather than nationalism itself, of its context. Older Capitol Hill business also appears, including Congressman Barry Loudermilk's claims about a delayed FBI response to the January 6th pipe bomber and Senator Chuck Grassley's accusation that former Special Counsel Jack Smith improperly reviewed lawmakers' text messages during the investigation into President Trump.