Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said in an interview broadcast late Sunday that the assassination of Charlie Kirk still haunts him.

“That terrible awful video that I wish I had not seen. I hate, again, social media, that almost every person in this country, including our young people, have seen that video on a loop over and over and over again. And I can’t unsee it. I can’t stop seeing it,” Cox said on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

“Every time I close my eyes, that’s what I see.”

Video of Kirk’s fatal shooting quickly went viral, with Cox saying social media is to blame for political division being exacerbated as well as people from both ends of the political spectrum becoming more radicalized.

“I do believe that social media is a cancer,” he said. “These dopamine hits that get our young people and our old people addicted to outrage and hate that serve us up on a regular basis are absolutely leading us down a very dark path.”

Cox also called for unity in hopes of deferring political violence. 

“Stop hating our fellow Americans,” Cox said. “I get accused on the right all the time of — I just want people to have a ‘kumbaya’ moment. … I’m not asking for that. I’m trying to get people to stop shooting each other. That’s it.”

“We should be condemning at every chance we get political violence. Our democracy falters when we don’t. This is an American. This is a person. This is a person who lost his life in free speech. And there’s real grieving for that family. And it doesn’t end tomorrow. It will last a lifetime,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said alongside Cox during the “60 Minutes” appearance.

Political operatives in both parties praised Cox’s push for civility in the wake of Kirk’s assassination, noting it helped relieve tensions — even temporarily — and a public unease over the recent rash of political violence. 

Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, is set for a court hearing Monday. He is charged with aggravated murder.