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Erika Kirk opened up in her first television interview since Charlie Kirk's assassination, recalling the chilling exchange she had with a police officer upon arriving at the hospital to see her late husband.

"What do you say to someone whose husband was just assassinated so publicly?" she said Wednesday in a "Jesse Watters Primetime" exclusive.

Kirk said the veteran officer warned her not to look at Charlie, but she refused, insisting she needed to "see what" his killer had done and kiss her husband goodbye.

"He said, 'I've been doing this for 30 some years. I will never tell you that you cannot see your husband, but, in my professional opinion, I think that you should wait to see him once he is at the mortuary, because I

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