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- 0:00Speaker 1: Bombshell.
- 0:00Speaker 2: Tonight, straight out of the Charlie Kirk Assassin Hearings, the
- 0:06Speaker 2: so called assassin's furry lovers DNA on the gun towel.
- 0:14Speaker 2: According to claims, Wait a minute, we learned that the
- 0:20Speaker 2: long gun allegedly used in the shooting of Charlie Kirk
- 0:25Speaker 2: was covered with a towel likely drenched with DNA. Now
- 0:30Speaker 2: we learn that DNA allegedly belongs to the defendant, Tyler
- 0:36Speaker 2: Robinson's roommate, Mail roommate. The DNA is his roommates. As tonight,
- 0:47Speaker 2: another defense attorney's dream comes true.
- 0:52Speaker 1: A mystery mixture.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Of DNA on the so called gun towel, the towel
- 0:59Speaker 2: that was to drape the alleged murder weapon. Mystery DNA
- 1:04Speaker 2: on it, that brings up the specter of another shooter.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Good evening, I mean, see, Grace, this is crime Stories.
- 1:12Speaker 2: I want to thank you for being with us.
- 1:21Speaker 3: There was video being shown in the hearing of Charlie
- 1:24Speaker 3: Kirk being shot.
- 1:25Speaker 2: The defendant, Tyler Robinson was smirking and laughing, and a
- 1:32Speaker 2: few feet away, mister Kirk's widow, Erica was sobbing.
- 1:37Speaker 4: You know what's funny?
- 1:38Speaker 5: Do you find this funny.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk's dead body shot through the neck.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Was there a screwdriver that was collected from that rooftop?
- 1:46Speaker 5: Yes?
- 1:47Speaker 4: Is there a wooded area that's northeast of campus.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Yes?
- 1:52Speaker 4: What was found in that wooded area?
- 1:54Speaker 6: Well, it was found there was a long gun that
- 1:57Speaker 6: was wrapped in a dark colored towel.
- 2:00Speaker 4: So the gun went to the ATF lab. Is that correct? Yes,
- 2:03Speaker 4: the towel went to the FBI lab. Yes, And the
- 2:07Speaker 4: screwdriver went to the FBI lab.
- 2:09Speaker 6: Yes.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Did you receive reports back from testing that had been
- 2:13Speaker 4: done on those items?
- 2:14Speaker 7: Yes?
- 2:14Speaker 2: I did that video from inside the courtroom from our
- 2:16Speaker 2: friends at East Idaho News straight out to Nate Eaton,
- 2:20Speaker 2: joining US news director East Idaho News and star of
- 2:24Speaker 2: courtroom insider Nate Eaton. A defense attorney's sweetest dream comes true?
- 2:32Speaker 2: Is it true that on the so called gun towel,
- 2:36Speaker 2: the towel that was draping the elegited murder weapon. A
- 2:40Speaker 2: scientist at the lab states that there was three sources
- 2:46Speaker 2: distinct sources of DNA on the towel.
- 2:53Speaker 3: She said Nancy her very first report when she first
- 2:56Speaker 3: tested it, that there was likely or could have been
- 3:00Speaker 3: resources of BNA from three separate people.
- 3:03Speaker 2: But hold on, Nate eat, let me understand what I'm hearing.
- 3:08Speaker 2: The scientist writes three sources of d in a Joe
- 3:16Speaker 2: Scott Morgan joining US renowned death investigator, Professor forensics, Jacksonville
- 3:21Speaker 2: State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
- 3:25Speaker 2: star of a hit podcast Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan,
- 3:29Speaker 2: but death investigator with over ten thousand death sines under
- 3:34Speaker 2: his belt. Do you understand the bombshell?
- 3:39Speaker 8: Nate Ate and just reported, Yes, I do that there
- 3:44Speaker 8: was a thought that there would be a third contributor.
- 3:47Speaker 2: And wait a minute, Joe Scott Morgan, hold on. Philip
- 3:51Speaker 2: Dubay is apparently chomping at the bit, and I know why.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Philip Dubay is a veteran trial lawyer out of La
- 4:00Speaker 2: County Public Defender's Office. Philip Dubay has tried more cases
- 4:06Speaker 2: than many lawyers ever dream about. Let me explain, A
- 4:11Speaker 2: trial lawyer is a different breed.
- 4:14Speaker 1: We're not house pets.
- 4:16Speaker 2: We're not sitting behind the desk researching in a musty
- 4:20Speaker 2: court house looking through files of wheels and deeds. We're
- 4:25Speaker 2: in the arena, dirty, sweaty bloody, but yet still fighting. Dubay,
- 4:31Speaker 2: why are you so happy about right now?
- 4:36Speaker 9: Because I get to show a couple of things. First
- 4:38Speaker 9: of all, that this was a framed job, that he's
- 4:40Speaker 9: been railroaded, and that there's a third party culprit that's
- 4:44Speaker 9: still on the lamb. It is no coincidence that somebody
- 4:47Speaker 9: else's DNA is on that towels because somebody else did
- 4:50Speaker 9: it who may have had a connection to Tyler Robinson.
- 4:54Speaker 9: What a perfect way to throw Tyler under the bus
- 4:57Speaker 9: and make him face the firing squad and all marksmen
- 5:01Speaker 9: rather than the true culprit.
- 5:03Speaker 2: Look at the video, please look look how many people
- 5:06Speaker 2: do you see right there, Philip Dubay? I see one.
- 5:10Speaker 2: I don't see a crowd. This isn't a cocktail party.
- 5:13Speaker 2: There's no rave going on on top of the low
- 5:15Speaker 2: Ce building. There's one person there, one towel covering one
- 5:23Speaker 2: gun this video. What am I supposed to believe? You
- 5:26Speaker 2: are my lying eyes? That's from sharp man onyx. What
- 5:29Speaker 2: about a dobet you or my lying eyes?
- 5:33Speaker 9: I only need one jur to say that your eyes
- 5:36Speaker 9: are lying, and it could be one of those so
- 5:38Speaker 9: called conspiracy theorists or one who feels that the prosecution
- 5:43Speaker 9: is not proving their case beyond a reasonable doubt. A
- 5:47Speaker 9: jury should not have to guess, surmise, or speculate. The
- 5:51Speaker 9: evidence should be rock solid pointing to one person. Otherwise,
- 5:58Speaker 9: defendants should be joint in each other charage and tried
- 6:00Speaker 9: together before the same jury. But when you're trying to
- 6:03Speaker 9: pin it on one person and the evidence is not
- 6:05Speaker 9: conclusively presumptive of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, that's called
- 6:10Speaker 9: a not guilty.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Well, Philip Dubay, you may actually have a following. We
- 6:19Speaker 2: see someone trying to cast blame on a cameraman that's
- 6:23Speaker 2: just standing there that had absolutely nothing to do with
- 6:29Speaker 2: the shooting of Charlie Kirk. The conspiracy theories are running rampant,
- 6:34Speaker 2: and Philip Dbay, if you have your way, you're going
- 6:37Speaker 2: to have grrs feeding into this craziness. That's what you want,
- 6:41Speaker 2: isn't it.
- 6:42Speaker 9: Of course it's what I want, because remember what I
- 6:45Speaker 9: said earlier, I only need one to sway the jury
- 6:48Speaker 9: or to hang the jury. I don't need all twelve.
- 6:50Speaker 9: It would be nice so he doesn't have to face
- 6:52Speaker 9: a retrial. But the truth be told, there is in
- 6:56Speaker 9: evidence now a third party culprit at large. This is
- 7:00Speaker 9: not just speculative, Nancy. What you have is a third
- 7:04Speaker 9: party's DNA on a towel that was purportedly wrapped around
- 7:08Speaker 9: the murder weapon. Now, whether or not you want to
- 7:10Speaker 9: believe that all three were involved, that may well be.
- 7:13Speaker 9: But the state's theory is that Tyler Robinson was the
- 7:17Speaker 9: sole perp in this homicide. But the evidence belies that,
- 7:21Speaker 9: and a jury needs to have the full clear picture
- 7:24Speaker 9: of all the evidence and not just a one sided
- 7:26Speaker 9: glimpse into it. And when you have this third party
- 7:29Speaker 9: out there that's basically getting away with it, juries don't
- 7:33Speaker 9: like it. They don't want the underdog to take the
- 7:36Speaker 9: fall for the real killer's crime.
- 7:39Speaker 1: You know who you sound like?
- 7:40Speaker 2: You sound like f Leate Bailey and Johnny Conchran talking
- 7:43Speaker 2: about the real killer, Nate Ayton joining US news director
- 7:49Speaker 2: East Idaho News, who has combed over every word heard
- 7:54Speaker 2: in the courtroom. Then we have a big erase, erase,
- 7:59Speaker 2: Jurassic erase from the scientist.
- 8:02Speaker 1: What happened well.
- 8:05Speaker 3: In her preliminary report, she said that there were likely
- 8:08Speaker 3: three samples or could have been three different people. Within days,
- 8:11Speaker 3: she changed it to two after further testing, further analysis,
- 8:15Speaker 3: it was two people's DNA, and those people Tyler Robinson
- 8:20Speaker 3: and Lance Twiggs, his roommate who his romantic interest, the
- 8:24Speaker 3: one that he was texting with allegedly saying that he
- 8:27Speaker 3: had done it, that he had killed Charlie Kirk. All
- 8:30Speaker 3: of those postings that we saw about not only that
- 8:32Speaker 3: Nancy his DNA, the roommate's DNA was also found on
- 8:36Speaker 3: the screwdriver that was on top of the roof. And
- 8:39Speaker 3: the chances that anybody else's DNA was not these two,
- 8:43Speaker 3: the scientists said it would be like one in a million,
- 8:45Speaker 3: one in a billion. There definitely was their DNA on
- 8:48Speaker 3: these two pieces of evidence.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Let's go straight into the courtroom.
- 8:52Speaker 6: The DNA results from item seven some one and what
- 8:55Speaker 6: are one point seven o tillian times more likely of
- 8:59Speaker 6: Twigs and t Robinson are contributors than if twigs in
- 9:02Speaker 6: an unknown unrelated person are contributors.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Thank you. Let's skip down to item eight one, and
- 9:09Speaker 4: this is relating to swabs of the handle area of
- 9:13Speaker 4: the screwdriver.
- 9:14Speaker 5: Yes, will you.
- 9:15Speaker 4: Read those same two paragraphs there?
- 9:18Speaker 6: Male DNA was obtained from item eight sub one. Item
- 9:22Speaker 6: eight sub one was interpreted as originating from two individuals,
- 9:25Speaker 6: one of whom is Twigs. The DNA results from item
- 9:29Speaker 6: eight sub one are thirty quintillion times more likely if
- 9:33Speaker 6: Twigs and t Robinson are contributors than if Twigs and
- 9:36Speaker 6: an unknown unrelated person are contributors.
- 9:39Speaker 2: We heard Nate Eighton from East Idaho News explain that,
- 9:45Speaker 2: but Joe Scott Morgan, can you boil it down even further?
- 9:50Speaker 2: One point eight otillion times more likely that the now
- 9:57Speaker 2: two DNA contributors are Twigs, the romantic interest, the alleged furry.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Neither here nor there?
- 10:06Speaker 2: And Tyler Robinson, Oh there, he is dressed in an
- 10:11Speaker 2: animal outfit. I don't care if he's a furry. That
- 10:16Speaker 2: means nothing to me. I have put every imaginable witness
- 10:20Speaker 2: on the stan Joe Scott from nuns, priests, virgens, strippers, prostitutes,
- 10:24Speaker 2: you name, It doesn't matter. They can all see here
- 10:29Speaker 2: and explain what they observed to a jury.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I don't care if he's a furry. That said the
- 10:36Speaker 1: DNA explain what we know?
- 10:38Speaker 2: Is Nate Eaton correct the DNA on the gun towel,
- 10:42Speaker 2: as it is being called, the towel that was wrapping
- 10:45Speaker 2: up the alleged murder weapon has two DNAs on it,
- 10:50Speaker 2: Twigs the furry roommate and Tyler Robinson, the defendant.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Is that correct?
- 10:55Speaker 2: And what is one point eight it til he didn't
- 10:57Speaker 2: have to do with anything.
- 10:58Speaker 8: Well, it's talking about the percentage, the probability that it
- 11:02Speaker 8: could be anyone else, and Nancy, just to frame this out,
- 11:05Speaker 8: they also use the word the term quintillion as well,
- 11:09Speaker 8: which is even further out there. Nancy, this is this
- 11:14Speaker 8: calculation is more people than have ever existed on the
- 11:18Speaker 8: face of the planet. Just kind of wrap your brain
- 11:20Speaker 8: around that that it could be anybody else other than them.
- 11:24Speaker 8: And here's the one thing that kind of bolsters this
- 11:27Speaker 8: argument from me is that these two individuals are allegedly
- 11:31Speaker 8: in an intimate relationship. That means that they share a
- 11:34Speaker 8: common space with one another. These are not just two
- 11:38Speaker 8: random people that were out there. And for everybody that's
- 11:41Speaker 8: thinking about, well, maybe his DNA was planted there, Okay,
- 11:46Speaker 8: well okay, let's go with that. So you acquired both
- 11:50Speaker 8: his DNA and this partner's DNA as well in a
- 11:55Speaker 8: grand conspiracy to frame both of them. It's almost it
- 11:59Speaker 8: breaches into the absurd. At this point in time.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Back in the court room on the stand, Amanda Baker
- 12:05Speaker 2: from Quantico.
- 12:07Speaker 10: Well, why did you think that Twiggs was someone who's
- 12:11Speaker 10: DNA you would expect in those two samples.
- 12:15Speaker 11: So, from what I recall in speaking with the investigators,
- 12:19Speaker 11: mister Twiggs was a roommate of mister Robinson, and it
- 12:23Speaker 11: was thought that those items came from potentially mister Robinson's home.
- 12:30Speaker 1: And I don't.
- 12:30Speaker 11: Recall exactly if it was a situation where particular TAWE
- 12:36Speaker 11: was known to have been in that house. I don't
- 12:37Speaker 11: remember that exactly, but in talking to the investigators, based
- 12:41Speaker 11: on their investigation, it was important to assume potentially mister
- 12:46Speaker 11: Twiggs was present.
- 12:48Speaker 3: Right.
- 12:48Speaker 10: Did any investigator ever tell you that the towel did
- 12:52Speaker 10: not come from mister Robinson's home but was found in
- 12:56Speaker 10: a bush out at the university.
- 12:59Speaker 12: I was aware of that us, so you knew.
- 13:02Speaker 10: That that towel was not found in a place where
- 13:05Speaker 10: you would inspect mister Twiggs's DNA to be present.
- 13:09Speaker 11: That is correct, it was found outside of my home.
- 13:11Speaker 11: But again, based on speaking with the investigators, they had
- 13:17Speaker 11: information to suspect that that towel came from mister Robinson's home.
- 13:21Speaker 11: And I should utilize mister Twigs as an elimination.
- 13:24Speaker 2: East Idaho News inside the courtroom. Back to Nate Eaton
- 13:28Speaker 2: joining us, and he's director from East Idaho News. The
- 13:32Speaker 2: towel was not found, was not taken from the home.
- 13:38Speaker 2: It was out on a bush where it had been
- 13:41Speaker 2: discarded along the same exact route Tyler Robinson took from
- 13:47Speaker 2: the Lowcie building where he was perched up on top
- 13:49Speaker 2: at the time of the shooting.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Is that correct?
- 13:52Speaker 3: That's correct. And a lot of people, Nancy have said,
- 13:54Speaker 3: why did he have a towel, Why did he need
- 13:56Speaker 3: a towel? Well, he obviously had his grandfathers done allegedly
- 13:59Speaker 3: which long which was noticeable. A rifle. You're gonna want
- 14:03Speaker 3: to cover that up, and so you would assume that
- 14:06Speaker 3: he wrapped it in the towel. Maybe he put it
- 14:09Speaker 3: down his pants. There's video out there of him limping
- 14:12Speaker 3: that maybe there's some thought that he could have had
- 14:14Speaker 3: it in his pants. He was hobbling along and then
- 14:17Speaker 3: he discarded both the gun and the towel that he
- 14:21Speaker 3: wouldn't have either one of them on his person.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Notice how he's walking with a limp Okay, what because
- 14:28Speaker 2: he's got the gun stuck down his leg.
- 14:31Speaker 1: CoA.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Lor Moore told us yesterday you couldn't break that gun down.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Look at the limp, for Pete's sake. I mean, he's
- 14:39Speaker 2: like Quasimodo. Look, okay, soak it in. Soak it in,
- 14:45Speaker 2: just like the jury's going to do. From our friends
- 14:47Speaker 2: at TMZ. And here is the defendant, presumed innocent, jumping
- 14:52Speaker 2: down after the shooting and scurrying away running across campus. Okay,
- 14:59Speaker 2: there we go, yes, running running, running like a young gazelle.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Okay, Philip, do bay? What happened to the limp?
- 15:08Speaker 9: Just because you don't see him limping while running doesn't
- 15:11Speaker 9: mean he doesn't have a hitch in his get along?
- 15:14Speaker 9: You got to see him when he's let.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Me see him actually saying this just because again you
- 15:20Speaker 2: want me to not believe my two lion eyes and
- 15:23Speaker 2: believe you did you say, just because I can't see
- 15:25Speaker 2: him limping doesn't mean he doesn't have a what a hitch?
- 15:28Speaker 1: And his what it is?
- 15:30Speaker 9: Get along? Meaning that he's not limping when he walks.
- 15:33Speaker 9: Distinguish how you move when you walk from when you run,
- 15:36Speaker 9: And I think a jury can make that distinction, assuming
- 15:40Speaker 9: that that's.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Even getting me. Did you say his get along?
- 15:45Speaker 9: It's an old expression. It comes from your parts from
- 15:47Speaker 9: the South. I think it was coined by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
- 15:52Speaker 2: Actually, Okay, please let's leave him out of this. Okay,
- 15:58Speaker 2: that said, Nate, I want to all of Philip Dubay's
- 16:03Speaker 2: get along aside, Nate Eaton. I want to go back
- 16:06Speaker 2: to the DNA because this is critical. You know what
- 16:08Speaker 2: a stink bomb. This is going to be in the
- 16:10Speaker 2: courtroom for the state when it comes out that the
- 16:14Speaker 2: DNA scientists said at one juncture there was three contributors
- 16:18Speaker 2: to the DNA on the gun towel. The defense is
- 16:22Speaker 2: going to have a field day with that. But I
- 16:24Speaker 2: want to clarify something you told me, Nate, that she
- 16:29Speaker 2: first wrote three possible contributors in her preliminary notes, in
- 16:35Speaker 2: her notes. That's just like when I'm preparing a case
- 16:39Speaker 2: and I'm reading along and I write, Okay, defendant lived
- 16:45Speaker 2: at this address. Then I find out later that's the
- 16:49Speaker 2: wrong address, and I corrected. Those are my notes, my
- 16:53Speaker 2: work notes. Tell me where she wrote three DNA canes.
- 17:01Speaker 3: This was in her original report. Here's the interesting thing
- 17:04Speaker 3: about this, Nancy, this is a preliminary hearing where the
- 17:08Speaker 3: prosecution has to show the judge there's enough evidence that
- 17:12Speaker 3: Tyler Robinson likely did this. The defense flew in this
- 17:16Speaker 3: witness from Quantico, put her on the stand for three
- 17:19Speaker 3: hours to try to disprove that the DNA is valid.
- 17:24Speaker 3: They want the DNA thrown out. They're trying to show
- 17:26Speaker 3: the judge that DNA should be brought should not be
- 17:30Speaker 3: brought into this case. Personally, I've never seen anything like
- 17:33Speaker 3: this at a preliminary hearing where the defense attorney went
- 17:36Speaker 3: through the history of the lab, went through the history
- 17:39Speaker 3: of DNA and told this Quantico FBI expert that this
- 17:42Speaker 3: DNA shouldn't be counted one because you originally said that
- 17:46Speaker 3: there were three contributors, and two because there may have
- 17:49Speaker 3: been some flaws in the testing.
- 17:51Speaker 2: So those notes then turned into her report and her
- 17:57Speaker 2: final report. Nate eaton how many DNA contributors does she say?
- 18:04Speaker 1: We're on the towel.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Two Lance Twigs, the roommate, and Tyler Robinson, the defendant.
- 18:12Speaker 3: Lance Twigs has not been charged. We are expected to
- 18:15Speaker 3: hear from him in this hearing on a recorded statement.
- 18:18Speaker 3: He has not been charged and has been given a
- 18:20Speaker 3: limited immunity deal, so it will be fascinated to hear
- 18:24Speaker 3: what he has to say, and they may well have
- 18:26Speaker 3: asked him, did you touch the towel, did you touch
- 18:28Speaker 3: the screwdriver? How did your DNA get on this? And
- 18:31Speaker 3: that can lead to some further clarification about the Vietnam.
- 18:39Speaker 9: Two.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Doctor Sherry Schwartz joining US forensic psychologists specializing in capital mitigation.
- 18:45Speaker 2: She's the author of Criminal Behavior and Where Law and
- 18:48Speaker 2: Psychology intersect. You can find her at panthermitigation dot com.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Doctor Sherry. All it takes is one yourr to buy
- 18:59Speaker 2: into the mystery DNA claim that will be made by
- 19:05Speaker 2: the defense.
- 19:08Speaker 13: Yes, that's correct. It just takes one to at least
- 19:12Speaker 13: hang a jury. If they have a particularly strong personality,
- 19:15Speaker 13: they may be able to convince the other jurors that
- 19:20Speaker 13: they don't have proof beyond a reasonable doubt that this
- 19:23Speaker 13: particular defendant committed the crime. So the conspiracy theories can
- 19:27Speaker 13: be very damaging.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Straight out to James Hamilton joining US. Former FBI special agent,
- 19:34Speaker 2: founder of the Hamilton Security Group. He created the FBI's
- 19:39Speaker 2: Close Protection School. It trains agents for high stakes protection detail.
- 19:46Speaker 2: He served on the FBI Director's Protective Detail, FBI Swat Team,
- 19:51Speaker 2: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Coordinator.
- 19:55Speaker 1: He was a senior VP AT.
- 19:57Speaker 2: Gavin de Beckeren associates now with the Hamilton Security Group.
- 20:02Speaker 1: James.
- 20:04Speaker 2: Now, the conspiracy theories are attacking the law enforcement and
- 20:09Speaker 2: security guards there at the time. They are claiming because
- 20:15Speaker 2: of them, because there was not enough security guards present.
- 20:19Speaker 2: It's somehow their fault. They didn't catch the real shooter.
- 20:24Speaker 2: What does this mean to you?
- 20:25Speaker 1: Is it just noise?
- 20:27Speaker 7: Yeah, there's always gaps in security. It's American culture with
- 20:32Speaker 7: regards to assassinations. There's always been gaps, and assassins have
- 20:35Speaker 7: always taken advantage of those gaps, as we see in
- 20:38Speaker 7: this case. And there's no one absolute security environment, especially
- 20:44Speaker 7: someone like analyst Kirk, who was very approachable and wanted
- 20:47Speaker 7: to be out in the public, and the assassin took
- 20:51Speaker 7: advantage of it. No different than when the cop left Lincoln,
- 20:54Speaker 7: No different than Kennedy being in the convertible that day
- 20:58Speaker 7: when it's supposed to be in hard car. No different
- 21:01Speaker 7: than Reagan v and outside in eighty one. The assassin's
- 21:03Speaker 7: take advantage gaps, and that's what happened here in the
- 21:06Speaker 7: defense is trying to make an issue of it.
- 21:08Speaker 2: To Dave mac joining US Crime Stories investigative reporter, Dave,
- 21:12Speaker 2: what is the claim that somehow all of this is
- 21:15Speaker 2: because of lack of security?
- 21:18Speaker 14: Three thousand people showed up for an event where the
- 21:21Speaker 14: school had only prepared for about six hundred, and that
- 21:24Speaker 14: is a claim that is being pushed forward that it
- 21:27Speaker 14: was a lack of security that allowed this to happen,
- 21:30Speaker 14: that there should have been more there than was actually present.
- 21:34Speaker 14: And again, this was a promoted event, Nancy. You could
- 21:38Speaker 14: look at the history of what Charlie Kirk's events drew
- 21:42Speaker 14: and know that it was going to be more than
- 21:43Speaker 14: six hundred people. But they didn't plan on it properly.
- 21:46Speaker 14: And so that's why they have that to fall back
- 21:49Speaker 14: on now, to blame it on a lack of purity
- 21:52Speaker 14: that caused these lapses to take place.
- 21:55Speaker 2: What do you mean by the lapses that took place?
- 21:59Speaker 14: Well, okay, you have a guy that is able to
- 22:02Speaker 14: get up on a rooftop and lay down prone and
- 22:05Speaker 14: shoot Charlie Kirk, and there was nobody watching the rooftops, Nancy.
- 22:11Speaker 14: They didn't have the proper security to take care of
- 22:15Speaker 14: the perimeter, to take care of Charlie Kirk and his security.
- 22:19Speaker 14: This is a guy who has a lot of negative attention.
- 22:23Speaker 14: There are people that really don't like for him to talk,
- 22:26Speaker 14: and there was nobody watching out, not just in back
- 22:30Speaker 14: of him, but in front of him. So that's the
- 22:32Speaker 14: laps I'm talking about.
- 22:34Speaker 2: The security lapses, as Dave Mack has just called it
- 22:39Speaker 2: coming up in court.
- 22:41Speaker 12: Do you know how many UVU officers you guys employ
- 22:47Speaker 12: normally employed?
- 22:49Speaker 5: There was fifteen.
- 22:50Speaker 12: And do you know how many were assigned to cover
- 22:52Speaker 12: that event that day.
- 22:54Speaker 5: That were signed to cover it? There was six of
- 22:56Speaker 5: us that were there was patrol one and then five
- 22:57Speaker 5: others that was there.
- 22:59Speaker 12: With the chief. If you all have an idea there
- 23:01Speaker 12: were going to be thousands and thousands of people. There
- 23:04Speaker 12: was that a surprise to you had an idea and
- 23:08Speaker 12: you only had five officers? Yes, six, I'm sorry, I'm
- 23:11Speaker 12: counting you as thinking.
- 23:13Speaker 2: From inside the courtroom from East Idaho News. So there
- 23:17Speaker 2: you see the agent David Hull being grilled barbecued on
- 23:24Speaker 2: the stand as if somehow that's the reason Charlie Kirk
- 23:28Speaker 2: was assassinated. Will a jury fall for it? Well, whatever
- 23:34Speaker 2: the claims against the law enforcement.
- 23:36Speaker 1: That was there that day.
- 23:38Speaker 2: They managed to get something very right, and that is
- 23:42Speaker 2: capturing an image of the allegitutor.
- 23:47Speaker 12: As of the eleventh, before mister Robinson turned himself in,
- 23:50Speaker 12: you all had not been able to determine that is
- 23:52Speaker 12: that right?
- 23:53Speaker 5: Excuse me? Determine who he was or determined distinguishing features.
- 23:58Speaker 12: Determined distinguishing features of the video of the person on
- 24:02Speaker 12: the roof.
- 24:02Speaker 5: Yes, we had a person of interest and those images
- 24:05Speaker 5: were released to the press.
- 24:06Speaker 12: You talking about the ones in the stairwell from the correct,
- 24:10Speaker 12: from the parking garage. Correct, But the video on the
- 24:13Speaker 12: roof was not distinguishable fair.
- 24:16Speaker 5: That's video as they stand alone. Yes, was not?
- 24:19Speaker 7: No?
- 24:19Speaker 12: Okay, did you at some point in your investigation collect
- 24:23Speaker 12: from two young men who were present at the event
- 24:26Speaker 12: a video that they had taken of someone on the
- 24:30Speaker 12: roof about ten seconds before this?
- 24:32Speaker 5: Yes, a video, Yes, not photographs. A video was collected
- 24:34Speaker 5: from an individual who had a video.
- 24:38Speaker 12: Do you know what they how they described the person
- 24:41Speaker 12: on the roof.
- 24:42Speaker 5: I don't know if I read it or if I
- 24:44Speaker 5: heard it, but my understanding was they believed it was
- 24:46Speaker 5: overwatch or some kind of a police overwatch for the event. Okay,
- 24:51Speaker 5: that's my recollection.
- 24:52Speaker 12: And do you remember anything specific about the person's build
- 24:56Speaker 12: that they discussed when they described the person on the roof.
- 24:59Speaker 2: I do not know, Okay, to Dave Matt Crime Story's
- 25:02Speaker 2: investigative reporter or East Idaho News in the courtroom, Dave
- 25:07Speaker 2: mac they are stating very clearly that the security guards,
- 25:12Speaker 2: no matter how much they're being attacked right now, managed
- 25:16Speaker 2: to very quickly obtain the face of Tyler Robinson. How
- 25:22Speaker 2: did they do it?
- 25:22Speaker 14: It was a combination, Nancy, of the available video that
- 25:28Speaker 14: was there, being the surveillance video throughout the area that
- 25:33Speaker 14: allowed security, you know, to actually figure out who this is.
- 25:37Speaker 14: You're watching the video right there going down the stairs.
- 25:39Speaker 14: But you know, there was enough video provided by UVU
- 25:45Speaker 14: that the investigators were able to pull together fairly quickly, Uh,
- 25:50Speaker 14: the one person that they saw up on the roof
- 25:53Speaker 14: or looked at on the roof, and they were able
- 25:56Speaker 14: to carry it down to Tyler Robinson. And again, you know,
- 26:00Speaker 14: you're able to track Robinson's movements from the four times
- 26:04Speaker 14: he was on campus that day to going up and
- 26:06Speaker 14: down the stairs to going and jumping off the route.
- 26:09Speaker 14: So there's a lot of video of this guy and
- 26:13Speaker 14: being able to figure out who he is. It's not
- 26:15Speaker 14: a big lead, Nancy.
- 26:17Speaker 2: Speaking on that subject. Tyler Robinson all over the campus,
- 26:23Speaker 2: back and forth and back and forth, long before Charlie
- 26:26Speaker 2: Kirk started speaking, emerges in testimony.
- 26:31Speaker 5: At that time. He makes contact with some representatives from
- 26:35Speaker 5: TPUSA by quad area. Sorry, the Amphitheater is what I've
- 26:41Speaker 5: previously referred it to, a right.
- 26:43Speaker 15: So he goes about to campus, visits the Amphitheater area,
- 26:46Speaker 15: the courtyard or quad correct and then what do we
- 26:49Speaker 15: see here?
- 26:49Speaker 5: Now? He returns on footback to the same vehicle.
- 26:52Speaker 15: And what time is he returning back to the vehicle.
- 26:55Speaker 5: It's about nine twenty five am.
- 26:58Speaker 2: To Joe Scott Morgan joining us for expert, there's no
- 27:03Speaker 2: denying that's him. You can't get away from that. He's
- 27:09Speaker 2: all over campus before the Charlie Kirk shooting. He's up
- 27:14Speaker 2: and down the stairwells. He's scoping it out. Joe Scott Morgan,
- 27:18Speaker 2: how can you argue unless the defense wants to argue
- 27:20Speaker 2: it's an AI fabrication.
- 27:24Speaker 8: There's no way to argue against this. I don't believe.
- 27:28Speaker 8: And considering let's reflect just a second. Let's remember the
- 27:32Speaker 8: FBI is already involved in this case, all right. It
- 27:35Speaker 8: would not surprise me in the least to find out
- 27:39Speaker 8: that they have done some enhancementsography from the videography where
- 27:45Speaker 8: you will will they will have mapped out his face
- 27:49Speaker 8: and it will give you this imprint that matches back
- 27:54Speaker 8: to him. It would not surprise me if you hear
- 27:57Speaker 8: these people testify, because that's going to be one of
- 28:00Speaker 8: the big questions. You know, how do you verify the
- 28:02Speaker 8: provenance of these images that you're seeing. This is something
- 28:05Speaker 8: that's separate from DNA. So when you think about biometric concerns,
- 28:10Speaker 8: which is what we refer to as the mapping of
- 28:13Speaker 8: the face, mapping of the eyes, all those sorts of things.
- 28:15Speaker 8: Even with fingerprints nowadays, that's going to play into this,
- 28:20Speaker 8: I believe, from an evidentiary standpoint, Nancy.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Into James Hamilton, former FBI special agent, founder of the
- 28:27Speaker 2: Hamilton Security Group.
- 28:30Speaker 1: You see the video just like we do, just like.
- 28:33Speaker 2: The courtroom has done in the last hours, and like
- 28:37Speaker 2: a jury, we'll see it. There's no denying that's Tyler Robinson.
- 28:41Speaker 2: But he's also going back to his vehicle. Vehicles have
- 28:48Speaker 2: cracked so many cases. James Hamilton his vehicle. They can
- 28:54Speaker 2: enhance the tag, the license, They can probably get him
- 28:58Speaker 2: in the vehicle, his face driving the vehicle.
- 29:02Speaker 1: How critical will it.
- 29:04Speaker 2: Be that it's his car, not just his face, but
- 29:07Speaker 2: it's his car too.
- 29:09Speaker 15: Yeah, it's just more evidence.
- 29:10Speaker 7: It's more evidence for the jury to see putting him
- 29:13Speaker 7: there at the scene prior to the killing. And you know,
- 29:16Speaker 7: it's it's casing. It's it's absolutely you know, in line
- 29:19Speaker 7: with casing that environment, looking before you operate. It's what
- 29:23Speaker 7: they call pre operational surveillance. And yeah, the key, the
- 29:26Speaker 7: car's key. Him being there's key, I agree with the
- 29:29Speaker 7: other guests. Or will be some type of facial enhancement
- 29:31Speaker 7: by the FBI. But the jury's got a lot to
- 29:34Speaker 7: you know, see here, which puts the guy at this
- 29:37Speaker 7: at the crime, which is great evidence.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Let me understand something else. Dave Matc, Crime Stories, investigative reporter.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Is it true that Tyler Robinson went before the shooting
- 29:51Speaker 2: and spoke with TP Turning Point USA personnel.
- 29:55Speaker 14: Yep, he sure did, Nancy. He as we mentioned earlier,
- 30:00Speaker 14: he was just talking to them about the event. He
- 30:02Speaker 14: was just trying to blend into I'm guessing that he
- 30:04Speaker 14: was up close so he could see what the layout
- 30:07Speaker 14: was going to be. He knew where he was going
- 30:09Speaker 14: to be, and he needed to know everything that was
- 30:11Speaker 14: going on up there where exactly Charlie Kirk would be sitting,
- 30:15Speaker 14: where exactly everyone would be positioned, And so why would
- 30:19Speaker 14: he be bothering with that? He would be hunkered in
- 30:21Speaker 14: his position waiting. Instead he's rambling all around, going to
- 30:25Speaker 14: Chick fil A and then coming and talking to TPUSA
- 30:28Speaker 14: before he goes and takes his position from the crow's net.
- 30:34Speaker 2: To fillow debate. Veteran defense attorney joining us out of
- 30:37Speaker 2: the LA jurisdiction. That's your man, he is on camera.
- 30:42Speaker 2: How are you going to argue against he was there
- 30:45Speaker 2: casing everything out, walking with a limp where a gun
- 30:49Speaker 2: stuck down his pants.
- 30:51Speaker 1: I mean going up.
- 30:52Speaker 2: To TPUSA and asking specific questions about when Charlie Kirk
- 30:58Speaker 2: was going to take the stay, each where was he
- 31:00Speaker 2: going to be, just anything to get a chance to
- 31:03Speaker 2: see what was going on.
- 31:05Speaker 9: Well, first of all, they're going to have to verify
- 31:07Speaker 9: only a foundation that it was in fact him as
- 31:09Speaker 9: opposed to some young man making these inquiries. But even
- 31:13Speaker 9: assuming they could make the link, I can see and
- 31:17Speaker 9: anticipate the defense showing that this is simply pro social
- 31:21Speaker 9: behavior on his part. He's only there to assist, promote,
- 31:25Speaker 9: and help with the well being of others in his
- 31:28Speaker 9: Q and A. Now doesn't mean it's going to fly.
- 31:31Speaker 9: Maybe not. But remember what I said earlier. It only
- 31:34Speaker 9: takes one juror to have sympathy for this young man
- 31:37Speaker 9: to really see that maybe he was there to help
- 31:40Speaker 9: understand and maybe guide others away we perceived his harm's way.
- 31:45Speaker 1: He was there to help there to help help.
- 31:51Speaker 9: What and organize the event, to make sure that the
- 31:56Speaker 9: coast was clear that things were safe. The evidence is plea.
- 32:00Speaker 2: You're arguing that Tyler Robinson. It can be argued look
- 32:03Speaker 2: at the chaos this guy caused, Joe Scott. You've heard
- 32:07Speaker 2: a lot of witnesses on the stand, a lot of
- 32:08Speaker 2: any defense theories, but Joe Scott, would they dare to
- 32:14Speaker 2: argue Tyler Robinson was there to help organize the event.
- 32:19Speaker 1: It doesn't even make sense.
- 32:22Speaker 8: All due respect to Philip, No, it would not surprise me.
- 32:26Speaker 8: I've seen defense attorneys do multiple things over the years
- 32:29Speaker 8: that literally, you know, I had to put on my
- 32:32Speaker 8: shot face, as they say, But it's you know they're
- 32:35Speaker 8: trying to get their defendant off, but yeah, it's it is.
- 32:39Speaker 8: It is insulting when you begin to think of it
- 32:42Speaker 8: from that perspective. That was not his mission set in
- 32:46Speaker 8: this particular case, Nancy.
- 32:48Speaker 2: That video of the chaotic scene after the shooting is
- 32:51Speaker 2: from Life is Driving on X and Warm on it
- 32:55Speaker 2: zero R three. Let's go back into the courtroom regarding
- 32:59Speaker 2: Robin returning and returning and returning to campus.
- 33:04Speaker 5: This is mister Robinson returning to the campus on foot
- 33:07Speaker 5: from the neighborhood to the northeast. You can see he's
- 33:11Speaker 5: wearing the same clothing as in the previous video and
- 33:15Speaker 5: he's carrying a blue backpack.
- 33:17Speaker 15: Describe the clothing.
- 33:19Speaker 5: It's a maroon colored T shirt with gray or olive
- 33:24Speaker 5: colored shorts and then converse shoes.
- 33:30Speaker 15: And what time did he return to campus?
- 33:34Speaker 5: Just after ten am?
- 33:37Speaker 15: And does he leave the parking structure eventually he does?
- 33:40Speaker 5: Yes.
- 33:41Speaker 15: And during this visit, do you know where he goes
- 33:44Speaker 15: after he leaves the parking structure?
- 33:46Speaker 5: Yes, we were able to track his movements on campus.
- 33:48Speaker 5: He went to Chick fil A in the Sorenson Building,
- 33:53Speaker 5: purchased some food and satinate the food. From there, he
- 33:58Speaker 5: moves across campus, out across campus Drive into a wooded
- 34:03Speaker 5: area on what would be kind of the northeast side
- 34:06Speaker 5: of campus Drive, then returns back onto campus. We noticed
- 34:14Speaker 5: at this point that he's no longer carrying the backpack
- 34:16Speaker 5: that he was originally wearing. He moves through the Gunfa
- 34:20Speaker 5: Building and the Computer Science building, then goes across to
- 34:26Speaker 5: the railing that gives access to the roof of the
- 34:29Speaker 5: Loci building. From there, From there he comes back down
- 34:34Speaker 5: the stairs and walks off campus from that point.
- 34:39Speaker 2: You know what this is reminding me of to Phillip
- 34:42Speaker 2: Debet debate defense attorney. When Scott Peterson was approached, his
- 34:48Speaker 2: wife had been missing, his pregnant wife had been missing.
- 34:51Speaker 2: And he was approached and told that the bodies that
- 34:56Speaker 2: had just washed up at San Francisco Bay, that the
- 35:00Speaker 2: DNA test results were back, and those two bodies, a
- 35:04Speaker 2: woman and an infant, were his wife Lacy and unborn
- 35:11Speaker 2: son Connor. And within about eight minutes, guess what Scott
- 35:18Speaker 2: Peterson said, I want to see debay. Please, that's not debay,
- 35:23Speaker 2: there's debate. Scott Peterson within eight to ten minutes says,
- 35:30Speaker 2: you know, if you're driving through I'll take a double
- 35:32Speaker 2: double with cheese fries in a large shape. They just
- 35:37Speaker 2: told him his wife was absolutely dead, her dead body
- 35:41Speaker 2: had washed up at the San Francisco Bay and his
- 35:45Speaker 2: unborn child. It did not affect his appetite. And here
- 35:50Speaker 2: in the midst of all this, Tyler Robinson is caught
- 35:53Speaker 2: on video chowing down at Chick fil A. What is
- 35:57Speaker 2: wrong with him?
- 36:00Speaker 9: Well, first of all, you're making the assumption that it
- 36:03Speaker 9: was him all along. It is not uncommon to see
- 36:06Speaker 9: a student, first of all, carrying a book bag, wearing
- 36:10Speaker 9: a baseball cap, casually dressed, going to get a bite
- 36:13Speaker 9: to eat. And to suggest that this is just a
- 36:17Speaker 9: cold blooded killer. I don't think there's enough evidence there.
- 36:21Speaker 9: And as for Scott Peterson, if that were in the
- 36:23Speaker 9: state of Utah, he would get a special jury instruction
- 36:26Speaker 9: that any oral statements that he made that were not
- 36:30Speaker 9: recorded should be listened to and viewed with caution. Because
- 36:34Speaker 9: it's so easy for anyone else.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Well, Jue, who is not the state of Utah, quit
- 36:38Speaker 2: dreaming that Chick fil a photo from Candice Owens.
- 36:42Speaker 1: You know you're just you're grabbing.
- 36:44Speaker 2: A straws trying to claim anything other than what I
- 36:49Speaker 2: am telling you. You also claim, how do I know
- 36:54Speaker 2: is Tyler Robinson? Other than us seeing his face? There's
- 36:59Speaker 2: more to prove it is Tyler Robinson.
- 37:03Speaker 15: You believe this is mister Robinson returning to campus? I do, yes, okay,
- 37:06Speaker 15: And what do you believe it's mister Robinson. The shoes
- 37:09Speaker 15: are the same, and the images that we have are
- 37:17Speaker 15: from my viewing and seeing mister Robinson on the video.
- 37:20Speaker 15: It's the same person. He's noticeably wearing different clothing.
- 37:26Speaker 5: He is wearing different clothing, and he also is walking
- 37:29Speaker 5: with a gate or a limp in this video.
- 37:33Speaker 15: So when he leaves the parking structure, where does he go?
- 37:37Speaker 5: He comes up around Campus Drive. As you can see
- 37:40Speaker 5: on the video here, there is a there's a cut
- 37:43Speaker 5: through there north of the Lowsie building, and that's mister
- 37:46Speaker 5: Robinson coming up the sidewalk, has the noticeable gate or
- 37:50Speaker 5: limp in his walk, and then he moves south across
- 37:54Speaker 5: the run of the Loci building.
- 37:57Speaker 2: So, amidst all of his scouting and scoping and questioning
- 38:02Speaker 2: the turning point, USA staff doctor Sherry Schwartz, he built
- 38:06Speaker 2: up an appetite.
- 38:09Speaker 13: Yes, it seems that he wanted to make sure that
- 38:13Speaker 13: he ate before carrying out whatever deeds he carried out
- 38:18Speaker 13: that day. Mister Duby, the defense attorney, said earlier that
- 38:24Speaker 13: he was engaging in pro social behavior, and I would
- 38:28Speaker 13: say the opposite. From a forensic psychological perspective, I would
- 38:31Speaker 13: say that this is very clearly textbook antisocial behavior.
- 38:37Speaker 2: In addition to it being his car with his car
- 38:40Speaker 2: tag and his face and his clothing. The video ultimately
- 38:47Speaker 2: catches him here.
- 38:49Speaker 5: And again in the top left corner of the individual
- 38:51Speaker 5: is now seen running across the rooftop of the Loci
- 38:53Speaker 5: building to what would be the southwest corner of the building,
- 39:00Speaker 5: crouching down and then crawling to the corner of the building.
- 39:07Speaker 15: And this is it?
- 39:08Speaker 5: What time around twelve twenty three? I think a time
- 39:14Speaker 5: snap on the video is twelve twenty.
- 39:15Speaker 15: Two on the tent.
- 39:19Speaker 5: On September tenth, Yes, twenty twenty four.
- 39:21Speaker 15: We're clear. This is the roof of the low se building.
- 39:23Speaker 5: Correct.
- 39:26Speaker 15: Can you still see that individual?
- 39:29Speaker 5: Yes?
- 39:29Speaker 2: You can, laying prone according to prosecutors, Yes, alygn prone.
- 39:36Speaker 2: Ready to pull the trigger if you know or think
- 39:40Speaker 2: you know anything about the shooting of Charlie Kirk Dial
- 39:44Speaker 2: toll free eight hundred two, two five, five, three two four.
- 39:49Speaker 2: We remember an American Hero, Trooper, Michael pahera Pennsylvania State
- 39:55Speaker 2: police killed in the line of duty, leaving behind grieving
- 40:00Speaker 2: parents Michael and Patricia. American hero Trooper Michael Pahara. Thank
- 40:07Speaker 2: you to our guests, but especially to you for being
- 40:09Speaker 2: with us. Nancy Gray's signing off for tonight, but I'll
- 40:11Speaker 2: see you tomorrow night, and until then, good night friend.