U.S. Senators condemn political violence after attack against Minnesota lawmakers

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Security Officials also told Senators that threats to members of Congress are on the rise in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker in her home over the weekend.

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00:00Melissa Hortman, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband, Mark, were murdered on Saturday.

00:07And John Hoffman, a member of the state Senate, and his wife, Yvette, were seriously wounded.

00:12I'm profoundly grateful to law enforcement that the alleged shooter is now in custody,

00:17and I look forward to seeing him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

00:22There's no place for this kind of violence in our country. None.

00:27These violent acts are an attack not just on the individuals who are targeted, but on our democracy itself.

00:37Public servants should never have to fear for their lives simply for doing their job.

00:42He could demand of Senator Lee that he take down his inflammatory, despicable posts about the deaths of the two people in Minnesota.

00:58They're gross. They're disgusting. They're the kind of thing that just riles people up.

01:07Let Trump call Lee up and say, take them down. Take those posts down.

01:13We have a responsibility as a public official to be really careful at this moment in the words that we use,

01:20because they can be instruments of hate and also incitements to violence.

01:25And I think we need to be very vigilant, and some of my colleagues need to be more careful.

01:33You can't do investigation or apprehension without resources.

01:38As a former prosecutor, I can tell you, protection is impossible without resources to apprehend or prosecute somebody who is threatening.

01:48And it is threatening, as well as action, that is against the law.

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