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Jack Posobiec (0:00)
Charlie Kirk did not have a choice about his murder and about the manner of his murder and the fact that he would be murdered on live stream on essentially public TV in front of the entire world. And that video will live forever. His children will see that video one day. We know they will. It's just the nature of things, but at the same time it exists. Charlie didn't have a say in that. Only his assassin had a say in the manner of Charlie's murder.
Isabel Brown (0:26)
Foreign A new debate is going viral and has ensued as the trial is set to begin for Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson. On whether or not we should be having cameras in the courtroom available for live television coverage and and live streams of the trial itself. In particular, Tyler's defense attorneys have motioned to the court to prohibit to ban any recording of the trial via camera in the courtroom because in their minds, they claim that they don't want to violate the integrity of the trial and unfairly bias the jury by creating a media spectacle and driving more court of public opinion arguments rather than the court of law. Literally thousands upon thousands of people are weighing in on this at this point. But most media organizations, particularly the independent and new media that started largely after being inspired by the work and role of Charlie Kirk in the conservative movement, are fighting back and a new effort that's being led by Jack Posobic from Human Events Daily, the host of Human Events Daily with Real America's Voice. They have created this new crusade essentially to make sure that the ban on recording of the trial is not instilled by the judge in this case, but instead public transparency is allowed to thrive because people everywhere have a vested interest in what is happening as justice is unfolding in real time, particularly as it pertains to Tyler Robinson and and the death and assassination of Charlie Kirk. Jack and Human Events ended up publishing a letter publicly that's going viral on social media in the last day or so written to the Utah court in particular. We'll pull this up for you here so that we can read through it together because it's a powerful, powerful letter written to the honorable Tony Graph, who is the judge presiding over this case regarding the state of Utah versus Tyler James Robinson. Dear Judge Graff, they wrote, Human Events Media Group, a national news organization committed to transparent and accountable reporting, respectfully urges this court to deny any motion to prohibit video, photographic or live stream coverage of pretrial and trial proceedings in the capital prosecution of Tyler James Robinson for the murder of conservative activist and leader Charlie Kirk. Such a ban, they argue, from Human Events would violate Utah law and United States Supreme Court precedent, First Amendment protections and the public's fundamental right of access to judicial proceedings. Interestingly, they reference Utah state law in this letter, and I'm excited to hear more about this today as we bring Jack on in just a few minutes to talk about this fight for transparency in the trial. But they talk about Utah law in this letter, which is unique from other states across the country. Utah presumes, meaning they preemptively are anticipating the fact that the public has access to court proceedings because there is a right. Yes. To parties for a fair trial, personal privacy and safety. But the presumption is under Utah state law that electronic media coverage shall be permitted in public proceedings where the predominant purpose is journalism or dissemination of news to the public. That is fascinating to me because this has been an ongoing debate for many, many years on whether or not cameras should be allowed, video and audio recordings should be allowed in these high profile cases. We have obviously seen these arguments through the Kyle Rittenhouse and the Derek Chauvin trials that have had a very politically charged edge to them. But Utah already preemptively presumes that that the public has a right to understand what is going on in these cases of high profile interest. After citing Utah state law, Jack and Human events letter specifically references the United States Supreme Court and previous court precedent in various cases regarding press access and public interest in these trials as a constitutional imperative. They cite several different examples of that here in this letter, and they end this letter with a powerful gut punch as to why we should be pushing for public transparency as much as possible. The defense for Robinson claims that the prospective jurors might see him in jail, clothing and shackles, and perceive that he is guilty and asks that this be remedied by limiting media coverage, video, photographic coverage, period, so that his physical appearance is no longer the substance, the subject rather of interest. This ask is made in addition to the request that he appear in civilian clothes. But they already have safeguards about all of this. Limiting a camera isn't going to limit the fact that this guy is on trial for murder and they are still going to see him visually as the defendant in a murder case. And they say this at the end. The victim, Charlie Kirk, was a prominent national political figure. The case involves allegations of targeted political violence, law enforcement response and capital punishment. Open access is essential to public confidence that justice is administered evenhandedly, regardless of your ideology. They skip ahead down to the end here. Banning cameras would shroud these proceedings in secrecy at the Precise moment that transparency is the most urgent. Who? Transparency is an interesting word as it pertains to this case. And honestly, it's just still so surreal. Like, I talk about this trial as if it's a TV show that we're watching and it feels like I'm talking about a TV show or like a totally theoretical, out of body, not pertaining to someone that I directly know trial. It's just a political thing that we talk about. It's the latest conversation happening in the media and in the news apparatus. It really still doesn't feel real that we're talking about Charlie Kirk and his assassination. But transparency has been a word thrown around by many, many, many, many other podcasters, influencers, tick tockers to already spin a media spectacle out of this process of investigation leading into pre trial proceedings and eventually the trial. I don't need to explain any of that further to you. I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. That it feels like every podcaster is trying to get their opportunity to make a name for themselves by insisting that so much has already been shrouded in secrecy, partially because this is how the law enforcement process plays out. But there's been this increased push for transparency in the investigation into Tyler Robinson and in particular how justice is going to be administered in this particular case. For his defense attorneys to say, yeah, we don't want transparency is a really smart move on their part, but is directly in contradiction to the vested public interest in this particular case. More than any other high profile political trial in the last several years, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was incredibly in high demand for public consumption at that time. The Derek Chauvin trial, the police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, whether you agreed with that conviction or not through that trial, was incredibly well invested in by the public. And neither of those things remotely hold a candle to how much the average American cares about Charlie Kirk's assassination and feels a personal vested interest in it. Because how many times have we said over the past couple of weeks, America discovered seven, eight weeks ago that not only do we live in a society where the President could reasonably be assassinated by the crazy other side of the political aisle, for espousing the views that the President holds, but we real people, average people, could be assassinated for saying that we believe in Jesus Christ, for trying to reinstitute the First Amendment on college campuses and engage in the free exchange of ideas, to encourage political discourse and debate, and to invite dialogue with people who you disagree with, if that is truly warranting assassination in our country, then we no longer live in the United States of America. Regardless of whether you ever agreed with a single thing that Charlie Kirk ever espoused or said publicly or privately, we no longer live in the country we thought we did. If trying to have a dialogue with people you disagree with is grounds for a violent public execution, and that is why the public absolutely deserves to see what's happening inside of Tyler Robinson's courtroom. In the continued fight for truth in our country, it has to start with truth for our kids too. Have you ever noticed lately how many shows kids are watching these days that are teaching very harmful, very secular messages, Even the ones that look incredibly innocent at first are pushing things like gender confusion on 7 year olds or younger. You cannot possibly monitor every single idea that your kids encounter. I'm not naive enough to suggest that. But you can decide who gets to shape your child's general worldview. And that is why I love what Brave Books is doing. Brave is a Christian children's publishing company that helps parents raise kids with character, with conviction and and a clear sense of what is right and wrong. 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People from across the political world are weighing in in the aftermath of this letter being written and published by Jack Posobic and sent to the judge presiding over the case, the executive producer of the Charlie Kirk show and a longtime friend of mine, someone I worked with at Turning Point for many years with Andrew Colvette, quote, tweeted something from Jack Posobic this week. Jack said Charlie did not get to decide whether or not his murder would be live streamed. Only his assassin had a say in that. Charlie's life was public, his execution was public and the trial of the suspect in his murder was should be open to the public as well. To which Andrew quote tweeted and said 100% this these are the people who knew Charlie better than maybe anyone else except for his immediate family, people who worked with Charlie day in, day out, until 3, 4 in the morning most days because Charlie never slept. And those who absolutely understand that this is not just about Charlie Kirk. This is about the future of our country. It's not just people who work in the industry and who work in conservative media weighing in. Ordinary people are talking about this on their Twitter posts as well. Someone took to X the last couple of days to say, today I searched Erica Kirk's Instagram account, says HR Johnson, as I wanted to see her latest post in related accounts below on Meta. The video of his assassination was playing multiple times. I didn't ask for it. How horrifying for his family make the trial public. Hmm. That, of course, was in response to Riley Gaines saying Charlie Kirk's murder was incredibly public. I can't unsee the video that I've seen and how many millions of people watched that video either the day that it happened or in the weeks since, even when just searching for Erica Kirk's Instagram account and will never be able to unsee the graphic footage of Charlie's life being so violently taken from him as he proclaimed the gospel on an American college campus in a red state, by the way, and was executed for it. On the note of Erica's Instagram, there's a new video. Oh, this is hard to talk about, sorry. There's a new video that she published this week of she and Charlie's beautiful daughter Gigi driving into the Turning Point USA office where there is still a beautiful poster of Charlie mounted to the fence outside of the TPUSA office complex. And the world's heart is breaking watching this video. If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can hear it for yourself. Charlie Kirk. I see Daddy. Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk. Erica's Instagram caption on this video was incredibly powerful and is becoming part of the national discourse for why this trial should be made public, why everyone seems to have a vested interest in what happens to Tyler Robinson and why cameras specifically should be in the courtroom. Erica's caption to that video is her saying your name as she witnesses all you've built and continue to build proves that love never dies. It just changes form. It breathes through our children. This is her legacy also. And as she grows up and continues to say your name, I'll be reminding her each time that heaven leans in to listen. The truth is, Charlie's legacy was never just about Charlie. And he would be the first person to tell you that. I said this in a speech the other day, but he literally had a small plaque on his desk that said, it's amazing what you can get done when you don't care who gets the credit. He woke up every day, gave his life and said, here I am. Lord, send me every day in service to other people. So that the legacy could be so much bigger than himself. So that he could build a movement for an entire generation of people. An entire generation who, by the way, have substantively changed the fabric of American culture by returning to the roots of Western civilization and becoming the most conservative generation of America has seen, at least since World War II, if not ever. This legacy belongs to his daughter, to his son, to every student involved in Turning Point usa, of which there are now hundreds of thousands across the country, not just the few thousand of us. From the ragtag good old days, every other podcast host that owes their start to Charlie or their continued growth to Charlie in conservative media. Every tiktoker inspired by the work that he has done to proclaim the truth to people in the digital space. And as I mentioned before, every American, regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum. Because if we truly live in a society today where a public, livestreamed, politically motivated assassination, violent execution of a young 31 year old father of two and husband becomes the political norm, then we don't live in the United States of America anymore. I'm really excited to be bringing on Jack Posobec to the show. He's been a longtime friend of mine, we worked together for years at Turning Point usa and to see him continue picking up this torch in the wake of Charlie's death and to give such humble servitude to the conservative movement, I think has been really, really powerful. Jack joins us now to talk about the future of this fight for transparency in the case. Exactly what real American citizens, not just media organizations or podcast hosts, can continue contributing to this and what we need to learn about how to restore public trust in the justice system again. Please join me in welcoming Jack Posobic to the show. Jack, I'm so excited to have you on the show. I think I last saw you at Charlie's Battle of Freedom ceremony a couple of days ago and I'm just so grateful for the voice that you are using to continue honoring the legacy of our friend and in particular trying to do something really meaningful and productive going into this trial. We have just read your letter from Human Events here on the show to talk about why you are pushing for these cameras to be available in the trial room. Walk us through what this means, why you care so much about it and why we should be paying attention.
