Senate Judiciary Hearings on Political Violence and the Kirk Investigation

Showing 6 Senate Judiciary Committee videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution held a dedicated hearing examining what its chair described as a sustained pattern of coordinated political violence in America, opening with a detailed accounting of recent attacks including two assassination attempts against President Trump and the killing of a healthcare executive, before turning to witness testimony on the underlying causes and possible legislative responses. Separately, FBI Director Kash Patel testified before the same committee's annual oversight hearing, which had been scheduled before Charlie Kirk's assassination but inevitably centered on it, revealing that more than 20 participants were part of the group chat containing Tyler Robinson's confession, while defending his own tenure at the FBI against pointed questioning. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley used a related session to accuse former Special Counsel Jack Smith of secretly collecting text messages from more than 40 members of Congress during the investigation of President Trump, a claim Grassley said contradicts Smith's own sworn testimony and has drawn bipartisan concern from lawmakers whose messages were reportedly included. A companion segment cited polling showing self-identified liberals expressing significantly more openness to political violence than conservatives, discussed as context for the broader hearing.