Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos took their eponymous morning show’s normally frothy fare into politics-adjacent territory Wednesday, weighing in on the reinstatement of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and touching on the controversy that got him pulled off-air last week.

Disney-owned ABC had suspended the late-night talk show host after Kimmel’s comments about the suspected killer of activist Charlie Kirk hit a nerve, especially among conservatives.

Alluding to right-wing commentators’ attempts to pin the brutal shooting on a nonexistent leftist conspiracy , the comedian-host joked that MAGA adherents were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

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