Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Transcripts (Day 2 Part 5) (9/22/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
- 0:03Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to get right back to the
- 0:04Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson prelim hearing, day number two. Question by Kathy Nestor. Okay,
- 0:12Speaker 1: and then you've been talking a lot about a timeline here.
- 0:15Speaker 1: That seemed you talked about it when you were watching
- 0:18Speaker 1: the video, but you also talked about the fact that
- 0:20Speaker 1: you developed the timeline. Is that right? Answer, correct. Question,
- 0:24Speaker 1: and can you pull up Poll one, please. I'm pulling
- 0:27Speaker 1: up on your screen your report that you prepared. Do
- 0:30Speaker 1: you recognize that? Answer, I do, yes. Question, and what's
- 0:33Speaker 1: the date that you drafted that report? Answer, it looks
- 0:36Speaker 1: like September 14th. It says, date created. Question, and that's
- 0:40Speaker 1: the place where, if you could, go to page two, please.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Do you see down at the bottom where you summarize
- 0:45Speaker 1: Sergeant Bricker's report listing the timeline? Answer, yes. Question, okay.
- 0:51Speaker 1: And so it was actually Sergeant Bricker that prepared the timeline.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Is that right? Answer, he prepared a timeline. Question, and
- 0:57Speaker 1: you incorporated that into your report. Answer, no, I created
- 1:00Speaker 1: a timeline. Question, you created your own timeline. Answer, yes. Question,
- 1:06Speaker 1: separate from the one that's in this report. Answer, yeah,
- 1:09Speaker 1: using information obtained in the investigation. Question, and when did
- 1:13Speaker 1: you create the timeline? Answer, over the course of the investigation,
- 1:17Speaker 1: over a long period of time, after a lot of
- 1:19Speaker 1: reviewing video, and investigative time. Question, okay, so as of
- 1:23Speaker 1: September 14th, Tyler Robinson had already turned himself into authorities.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Is that right? Answer, yeah, I believe he turned himself
- 1:30Speaker 1: in on September 11th. Question, so prior to that time
- 1:35Speaker 1: that Tyler Robinson turned himself in, had you all prepared
- 1:38Speaker 1: a timeline? Answer, a documented written timeline? Question, yes. Answer,
- 1:43Speaker 1: not to my knowledge. I don't know when Sergeant Bricker
- 1:46Speaker 1: produced his specifically. Question, and is it fairer? To say that,
- 1:50Speaker 1: as of the moment, Tyler Robinson voluntarily surrendered to authorities
- 1:54Speaker 1: in Washington County. As of the moment, you all did
- 1:58Speaker 1: not know who the shooter was. Is that right? Answer.
- 2:00Speaker 1: We had identified a person of interest, but we did
- 2:03Speaker 1: not specifically know who the shooter was at the time. Question. Okay.
- 2:07Speaker 1: And you became aware that Mr. Robinson was voluntarily surrendering.
- 2:10Speaker 1: How did you become aware of that? Answer. The information
- 2:13Speaker 1: came originally, I believe, from the Washington County Sheriff to
- 2:17Speaker 1: the administration and at the control center, at the university
- 2:20Speaker 1: on the evening of the investigation, or the second evening
- 2:23Speaker 1: of the investigation? Question, all right, we're going to go
- 2:26Speaker 1: back to that in a minute, but I just wanted
- 2:28Speaker 1: to get the timeline down, all right? Now I want
- 2:30Speaker 1: to go back to the videos that we've seen and
- 2:32Speaker 1: the question that I just asked before, which is, is
- 2:35Speaker 1: it fair to say that nothing about the video of
- 2:38Speaker 1: the individual on the roof revealed to you, you couldn't
- 2:41Speaker 1: see facial features, you couldn't see what they were wearing, correct? Answer, no.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Of the individual on the roof? Question. Correct. Answer. I
- 2:51Speaker 1: know that there was a meeting to discuss perhaps a
- 2:53Speaker 1: pattern on the front of the shirt that was observed
- 2:55Speaker 1: when the individual was jumping off the roof. Question. Okay,
- 2:59Speaker 1: that's fair. But at the time, as of the 11th,
- 3:01Speaker 1: before Mr. Robinson turned himself in, you all had not
- 3:05Speaker 1: been able to determine that. Is that right? Answer. Excuse me.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Determine who he was or determine distinguishing features. Question. Determine
- 3:14Speaker 1: distinguishing features of the video of the person on the roof. Answer, yeah,
- 3:18Speaker 1: we had a person of interest and those images were
- 3:21Speaker 1: released to the press. Question, you're talking about the ones
- 3:24Speaker 1: in the stairwell. Answer, correct. Nestor, from the parking garage. Answer, correct. Question,
- 3:30Speaker 1: but the video on the roof was not distinguishable, fair. Answer,
- 3:34Speaker 1: the video as a standalone. Answer, yes. Question, it was not, no. Question, okay,
- 3:40Speaker 1: and in fact, the video on the roof, well, strike that.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Is it true that you had some spectators that you
- 3:45Speaker 1: interviewed that had gotten a photograph a few seconds before
- 3:48Speaker 1: the shooting of someone on the roof? Answer, sorry, I
- 3:52Speaker 1: don't understand the question. Question, did you at some point
- 3:56Speaker 1: in your investigation collect from two young men who were
- 3:59Speaker 1: present at the event a video that had been taken
- 4:02Speaker 1: of someone on the roof about 10 seconds before the shooting? Answer, yes,
- 4:06Speaker 1: a video, yes, not photographs. A video was collected from
- 4:09Speaker 1: an individual who had a video. Question, and ultimately some
- 4:13Speaker 1: screenshots were taken out of that video, is that right? Answer, by? Question,
- 4:18Speaker 1: by you? Answer, not by me, no. Question, okay, that's fine,
- 4:22Speaker 1: it could have been someone else. Answer, okay. Question, but
- 4:25Speaker 1: did you see the video that those young men took? Answer,
- 4:28Speaker 1: if you're referring to the video that's looking north and
- 4:31Speaker 1: shows an individual dressed in dark clothing on the corner
- 4:33Speaker 1: of the roof. Question, yes. Answer, if that's the video,
- 4:38Speaker 1: I have seen that video, yes. Question, did you review
- 4:41Speaker 1: the interview of those young men? Answer, I did not. Question,
- 4:45Speaker 1: do you know how they described the person on the roof? Answer,
- 4:48Speaker 1: I don't know if I read it or if I
- 4:50Speaker 1: heard it, but my understanding was they believed it was
- 4:52Speaker 1: Overwatch or some kind of police Overwatch for the event,
- 4:55Speaker 1: if that's my recollection. Question, okay. And do you remember
- 4:59Speaker 1: anything specific about the person's build that they discussed when
- 5:03Speaker 1: they described the person on the roof? Answer, I do not. Question, okay.
- 5:08Speaker 1: There's a portion of the video after the individual jumped
- 5:11Speaker 1: off the roof, which we all saw here, where the
- 5:13Speaker 1: individual crosses, I believe, its campus drive. Is that right? Answer,
- 5:17Speaker 1: that's correct. Question, and there's a moment where the individual waits,
- 5:22Speaker 1: and there's two cars that pass in front of him,
- 5:24Speaker 1: right in front of him. Answer, correct. Question, and is
- 5:28Speaker 1: this the moment where you were submitting that he was
- 5:31Speaker 1: holding a gun in his hand? Answer, as he crossed
- 5:33Speaker 1: the road. Question, yes. Answer, I, from my observations, would
- 5:38Speaker 1: show that he's carrying an object in his hand that's
- 5:40Speaker 1: concealed or in a bag, and it's long and has
- 5:43Speaker 1: the appearance, based on my training and experience, it could
- 5:47Speaker 1: be a firearm. Question, but do you see a gun anywhere?
- 5:50Speaker 1: The actual gun? Question in the video? Question, yeah. Answer, no. Question,
- 5:55Speaker 1: all right. And did anybody that was driving by on
- 5:57Speaker 1: campus that day report to you or any other investigative entity, hey,
- 6:01Speaker 1: we just drove by a guy with a gun who
- 6:03Speaker 1: was leaving campus and he's standing right by my car? Answer,
- 6:06Speaker 1: we did not receive any reports to that effect, no. Question, okay. Also,
- 6:11Speaker 1: when you were revealing the timeline, exactly how long was
- 6:14Speaker 1: there between when the person was prone on the roof
- 6:17Speaker 1: and when the shot was taken? Do you recall? Answer,
- 6:21Speaker 1: if you would like to replay the video, I can
- 6:23Speaker 1: time it for you, but I don't recall. It was
- 6:25Speaker 1: my guess, my guess, I would estimate, between 15 and
- 6:28Speaker 1: 30 seconds. Question, so between 15 and 30 seconds to
- 6:32Speaker 1: lay flat, take a shot, get up, and run off, right? Answer, no.
- 6:36Speaker 1: I think you asked how long he was prone. Question right. Answer.
- 6:39Speaker 1: I think it took longer for him to crawl into position. Question. Okay. Answer.
- 6:44Speaker 1: And then establish position and then take the shot. He
- 6:47Speaker 1: appeared to be prone for approximately 15 to 30 seconds.
- 6:50Speaker 1: But the video would verify that. Question. Okay. Thank you.
- 6:53Speaker 1: All right. I want to talk to you for just
- 6:55Speaker 1: a minute about the video that was taken. And I'm
- 6:58Speaker 1: not going to get into. I'm going to show it.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Just show. In case anybody concerned about leaving the courtroom.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I'm not going to show it. but there was a
- 7:06Speaker 1: video that was taken by Mr. Ty Phillips, and that
- 7:08Speaker 1: was the individual that was speaking to Mr. Kirk. Answer, correct. Question,
- 7:14Speaker 1: and it showed that on view of Mr. Kirk and
- 7:17Speaker 1: his parts of his security team. Is that right? And
- 7:19Speaker 1: then you also have video that you described that shows
- 7:22Speaker 1: the back of the tent at the moment that the
- 7:24Speaker 1: shot happened. Is that right behind Mr. Kirk? Answer, you're
- 7:29Speaker 1: referring to the UVU video in the breezeway? Answer, yes. Question,
- 7:33Speaker 1: or question, yes. Answer, yes. We have that video, yes. Question, okay.
- 7:38Speaker 1: And can we pull up the last video? The last clip, 49?
- 7:41Speaker 1: I want to show you, just you, this clip, that
- 7:44Speaker 1: is a little clip from the video under the breezeway.
- 7:47Speaker 1: That's behind the tent, right? Answer, correct. Question, and just
- 7:51Speaker 1: to be clear, this area behind the tent would not
- 7:53Speaker 1: have been visible to anybody that was on the Losey building.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Is that fair? Answer, I can't answer that question. The
- 8:00Speaker 1: judge jumps in. Can I just interrupt for a moment?
- 8:04Speaker 1: And Ms. Nestor, as you're playing this, are you just
- 8:06Speaker 1: being cognizant if the sound is on or not? Kathy Nestor,
- 8:10Speaker 1: I don't want the sound, please. Judge, I just wanted
- 8:13Speaker 1: to clarify. Nestor, thank you for bringing that up. Thank you.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Kathy Nestor, no sound. I just want only the witness
- 8:20Speaker 1: to look at it. So can you just watch this
- 8:22Speaker 1: clip for just a minute? This one little clip of
- 8:25Speaker 1: behind the breezeway at the time of the shot. Judge,
- 8:28Speaker 1: that's fine. And also just a reminder to all the parties,
- 8:31Speaker 1: it's on your monitor. Please be cognizant of that. It
- 8:34Speaker 1: will not be displayed on the main monitor. Ms. Nestor,
- 8:37Speaker 1: you may proceed. Question, thank you. Is it playing? Okay,
- 8:41Speaker 1: do you remember that? Does that refresh your memory of
- 8:43Speaker 1: what's in that clip? Answer, yes. Question? And having reviewed that,
- 8:48Speaker 1: at the time the shot was fired, there was no
- 8:50Speaker 1: one standing directly behind the tent. Is that correct? Answer,
- 8:53Speaker 1: you'd have to show me again. I wasn't specifically looking
- 8:56Speaker 1: for that. Question, okay. Answer, but I can answer that
- 9:00Speaker 1: question if I can view the video again. Question, okay,
- 9:03Speaker 1: and just before you do that, I think you testified
- 9:05Speaker 1: that Mr. Kirk would have been dead center behind the banner,
- 9:08Speaker 1: is that right? Answer, approximately. Question, okay, so what I'm
- 9:12Speaker 1: asking is if anyone behind the banner, dead center behind Mr. Kirk,
- 9:15Speaker 1: if there was any people standing there. Go ahead. Answer,
- 9:20Speaker 1: so there's a videographer on the right side of the tent,
- 9:23Speaker 1: and then I can only see as far as the
- 9:25Speaker 1: video allows me to, so I can't speak to whether
- 9:27Speaker 1: there's anybody out of frame who could have been behind
- 9:30Speaker 1: the tent. Question, but what you can see, is there
- 9:33Speaker 1: anyone directly behind the middle of the tent? Answer, yeah.
- 9:36Speaker 1: There's a videographer who stood behind the tent. Question to
- 9:39Speaker 1: the right. Answer, yes, behind the tent. Question. Correct, but
- 9:45Speaker 1: directly in the middle of the tent. Is there anyone standing? Answer,
- 9:48Speaker 1: there is no one stood in the middle behind the tent. No. Question,
- 9:51Speaker 1: thank you. All right. I want to talk now about TP.
- 9:55Speaker 1: You can take it down off the screen. Thank you.
- 9:57Speaker 1: I want to talk now about TPUSA video. that you got.
- 10:00Speaker 1: That was the angle that was taken from behind Mr.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Kirk while he was talking, looking out at the audience
- 10:06Speaker 1: when the shot was fired. Do you remember that video?
- 10:09Speaker 1: Answer the video, the visual impulse videos. Answer. Yes. Question
- 10:14Speaker 1: or question. Yes. Answer. Yes. Question, all right, is it
- 10:18Speaker 1: true that Visual Impulse provided four videos? Answer, yeah, I
- 10:22Speaker 1: believe there were a total four videos that encompassed everything
- 10:25Speaker 1: that they provided to us, yes. Question, but then the
- 10:29Speaker 1: one that you showed, that's only one of the four
- 10:31Speaker 1: videos they provided to you? Answer, that one was shown
- 10:35Speaker 1: had a Bates number. It was an item that was
- 10:38Speaker 1: provided by the Utah County Attorney's Office. Question, okay, but
- 10:41Speaker 1: there are more that you haven't seen in the courtroom
- 10:44Speaker 1: in this prelim that you got from Gets cut off
- 10:47Speaker 1: by the agent. There's original footage. Question. Okay. But there
- 10:51Speaker 1: were other angles that they have not shown here in
- 10:53Speaker 1: this prelim. Answer. Yes. Question. Okay. That's what I was
- 10:56Speaker 1: trying to get to. Thank you. All right. Were you
- 10:59Speaker 1: involved in the gun that was located in the forest? Answer.
- 11:02Speaker 1: I was not involved in the search for the gun. No. Question.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Did you get noticed when it was located? Answer. From
- 11:10Speaker 1: the footage that we reviewed, we identified an area that
- 11:13Speaker 1: we believed could potentially be an evidentiary value of And
- 11:16Speaker 1: then it was secured. And then I was notified that
- 11:19Speaker 1: as a result of that search, a gun had been located. Yes. Question.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Were you involved in processing the gun? In other words,
- 11:26Speaker 1: boxing it, shipping it, sending it wherever it was going
- 11:29Speaker 1: to be analyzed? Answer. I was not. All right, folks,
- 11:32Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here. And in the
- 11:34Speaker 1: next episode, we're going to pick up with Kathy Nestor
- 11:37Speaker 1: doing the questioning. All the information that goes with this
- 11:40Speaker 1: episode can be found in the description box.