Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar reflects on legacy of slain state lawmaker
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🗓️ 15 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. Once again tonight, we're tracking two big stories. In the Middle East, |
| 0:06.0 | Israel is broadening its attacks on Iran. But we start in Minnesota, where the hunt goes on for the |
| 0:11.4 | 57-year-old man who allegedly killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. |
| 0:17.6 | Police believe the gunman also shot and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife |
| 0:22.1 | a vet. The family members said both are awake and recovering. This afternoon, police searched |
| 0:26.7 | residences in a rural area southwest of Minneapolis after finding the suspect's car there. |
| 0:32.5 | Authorities told residents to keep their doors and cars locked. Senator Amy Klobuchar is the senior senator from Minnesota. |
| 0:39.3 | First of all, Senator, I want to tell you how sorry we are that you've lost a colleague |
| 0:43.3 | and a friend, I know. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, thanks so much, John. |
| 0:49.3 | She's someone that your viewers would have loved to meet many in Minnesota, loved her, Democrats, |
| 0:55.5 | Republicans, someone who, you know, starts out as a mom with little kids running for legislature, |
| 1:01.3 | door knocking every door in her district and juggles all of it, church Sunday school leader, |
| 1:08.6 | from Girl Scout leader to working her way up the ladder in the legislature, |
| 1:13.7 | becoming the Speaker of the House, a job which she was incredible at. |
| 1:18.4 | She would be able to get things done across the aisle like the budget this year with a tied legislature, |
| 1:24.4 | and then some landmark legislation with the governor from free school lunch |
| 1:29.4 | to paid family leave, a very progressive policy. |
| 1:34.3 | So she was a leader and her grace, her decency is something we're all going to miss. |
| 1:38.8 | And for me, just losing a friend like this to violence and political violence makes you realize that this isn't |
| 1:46.5 | just a statistic. This isn't just something we talk about at committee hearings. This happened. |
| 1:52.6 | You talk about her tenure as speaker. This morning I read in the newspaper, a former Republican |
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