‘Just Remarkable’: MSNBC Panel Blown Away By Erika Kirk’s Memorial Speech

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Sep 21st, 2025, 8:25 pm

Erika Kirk’s strength and resolve during her memorial speech for her slain conservative activist husband, Charlie Kirk, blew away the MSNBC panel that followed the event on Sunday evening.

Mrs. Kirk spoke in front of a stadium full of mourners, as did President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance , and other dignitaries and high-profile Republicans.

“I think what honestly I’ll take away from tonight is watching the weight of a woman, a mother, lose her husband,” NBC White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard said on MSNBC after Kirk spoke.

Hillyard continued: “Most people cannot say they’ve experienced losing a spouse at this young of an age, and I do

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