Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) suggested “imbalanced” people are reading “hateful rhetoric” that is making them violent. Klobuchar appeared Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot.

A Minnesota lawmaker and his wife say they feel “incredibly lucky to be alive” after surviving a politically motivated shooting that left them with 17 gunshot wounds between them — and two of their friends dead.

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar tells PEOPLE about the legacy of her late friend Melissa Hortman, a longtime state legislator. Melissa and her husband, Mark Hortman, were fatally shot on Saturday, June 14,

Hours after Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a “politically motivated” shooting Saturday morning, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is remembering the lawmaker as a friend and a “leader like no other.

"When you hear about statistics about political violence and threats, I just want people to know who we're talking about," Klobuchar says of slain Minnesota lawmakers.

Senator Amy Klobuchar said Sunday morning on “Meet the Press” that the large-scale manhunt for Vance Boulter has spread throughout the Midwest, including South Dakota.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said the deadly shooting of state Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband on Saturday was politically motivated, noting that there was some “throughline with abortion” after his list of targets was found to include abortion advocates and facilities.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said that authorities believe Vance Boelter, the suspect in a pair of "politically motivated" shootings, is still in the Midwest, noting that authorities have put out an alert in South Dakota.