Live updates: Trump says suspect in Charlie Kirk killing in custody
President Trump told Fox & Friends that a suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination is in custody.
Trump made the surprise news in an appearance at Fox News studios in New York.
Vice President Vance and second lady Usha Vance accompanied Kirk’s family in returning his casket to Phoenix late Thursday on Air Force Two, a day after the Turning Points USA co-founder and top Trump ally was gunned down on a Utah university campus.
Trump told reporters that Kirk’s widow, Erika, was “absolutely devastated.” He added that progress was being made in the investigation.
Trump is expected to speak with Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning. He will spend the day in New York City.
Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are wrestling with the fallout from Wednesday’s assassination, which stunned the country, sent shock-waves through Washington and sparked new talk — and new fears — about congressional security in an age of heightened political animus.
Also Friday morning in Washington, Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was set to give a deposition in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into former President Biden’s fitness for office.
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- Democrats fear falling into GOP trap on government shutdown
- States debate homeschool rules as enrollments rise
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