Senator Van Hollen's El Salvador Trip and Charlie Kirk's Criticism
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Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland became a target of Charlie Kirk's criticism after flying to El Salvador on behalf of a Salvadoran national identified as an MS-13 member, in a case that had already drawn national attention over the administration's deportation policy. Kirk used the moment to needle Democrats broadly, contrasting the senator's willingness to travel for that case with reports of American citizens still held hostage by Hamas that received comparatively little coverage. Separately, Van Hollen appeared on the podcast Pod Save America with hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer to discuss Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University, in a wide-ranging conversation that also covered rising tensions with Russia over Poland, Israeli strikes on Hamas negotiators in Qatar, and the pattern of political violence in America stretching back to the shooting of Gabby Giffords.