Kristi Noem said she believes that the killing of Charlie Kirk could be a turning point for the country.

Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative political activist, was fatally shot Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, 22, was taken into custody following a two-day manhunt.

“It feels like a grief has settled on not just the country, but the entire world. Something has changed,” Noem said in a Sept. 14 interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. "My hope is that we will use this as an opportunity to come together and unify."

Noem, the Homeland Security secretary and former South Dakota governor, went on to criticize what she described as "rhetoric we're seeing out of the left and out of political animals," saying it's "ugly and it's bit

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