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The Full BOMBSHELL Lance Twiggs Video, Plus New Robinson Texts Revealed, with Geragos, Murphy, Aronberg, Eiglarsh, and Frei | Ep. 1356
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Megyn Kelly plays the full Lance Twiggs recording shown during the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing, featuring Twiggs’ account of Robinson’s actions before and after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, new information showing Twiggs interacted with Robinson personally the day after the shooting, the new Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson text messages that were read in court, and more. Plus, "Turkey Tom" Tom Swanson’s reporting on the man alleged to have assassinated Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson, alleged new details from a source about Lance Twiggs and Robinson’s lives before the killing, and serious questions about Twiggs' mental state alleged by the source. And legal experts and hosts Matt Murphy, Mark Geragos, Dave Aronberg, Mark Eiglarsh, and Viva Frei, join to discuss the judge’s constant delays in the Tyler Robinson hearing, whether he's following protocol or if he's in over his head, the debate over whether the court is keeping critical information from the public, whether Lanc...
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Megyn Kelly
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Mark Garagos
That's not true.
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Megyn Kelly
The witnesses. You're not entitled to cross examination at a preliminary hearing. That's not something that you necessarily get. That's not going to queer this deal. There's. The prosecution is not doing anything wrong and the judge is treating them like they're trying to pull a fast one here. Indulging every. Every single banal baseless objection. By the team representing the defendant that they make, it's just maddening. So as they rail over each word that we will or will not be able to hear in the audio only portion of Lance Twig's testimony, we are going to do a deep dive for you on Lance Twigs, the man at the center of this hearing today. So we're going to get you up to speed on him and then as they bring us his testimony, we'll take that in real time. In September, a popular YouTuber by the name of Tom Swanson, who's known as Turkey Tom, that's his moniker at the platform, dropped a bombshell report about Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson. Swanson claims that a friend of Robinson's and Twigs reached out to him, providing him with new details about their relationship, what life was like inside their apartment and and the events leading up to the shooting. First, some background on Tom Swanson. He's very popular on YouTube. He has over 1.5 million subscribers. He puts out long form documentary style videos about online controversies, mostly to do with Internet and gaming culture. And that is clearly how this person found him. In September, he covered Charlie's murder in a 40 minute video that he posted to YouTube.
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Tom Swanson
Watch who was actually behind the assassination. A whole day and a half after the shooting, on the Evening of the 11th, the pictures of the killer in a cap and dark glasses were released. One of Tyler's friends, who was in the same Discord server with about 18 other people, sent the picture to their chat, jokingly remarking that it looked like Tyler and asking him where he was at. Tyler responded, saying that his doppelganger did it, to which someone else sarcastically replied, tyler killed Charlie. Clearly the mere concept of Tyler doing such a thing was something his acquaintances wouldn't even consider. He was a seemingly intelligent guy, as his mother proudly bragged on Facebook about his 4.0 GPA. He was a mild mannered indoorsman who gamed a lot. And although he wasn't a Republican like the rest of his family, he also wasn't even registered to vote and didn't express his opinions that much.
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Megyn Kelly
Swanson says after that, someone familiar with both Robinson and Twigs reached out to him. This person wanted to remain anonymous, he says, but says that they have been friends with Robinson and Twigs for six years and that this source, this friend, counted them as close friends of his. Swanson says this person provided Swanson with a multitude of information to verify this person's identity. They also provided photos from inside Twigs and Robinson's apartment drawings, allegedly made by Lance Twiggs and Discord archives of three servers that this person claims they that he was in along with Twigs and Robinson. Swanson says to his knowledge, the only other people who have the Discord servers outside of the people who were in them is the FBI. Now, we reached out to Swanson and he stood by his story. So to be clear, this is Swanson's reporting. We have not independently verified the messages sent by the anonymous friend. We did reach out to the FBI who told us they do not comment on ongoing investigations. The Swanson report was picked up by various outlets online, but others questioned it, some specifically wondering whether Swanson was being used by someone, possibly the government, to spread information they wanted into the public domain. Fair question. We have no way of verifying or dismissing those suspicions. But since the court has decided to allow such secrecy around the Twigs video, we decided to err on the side of more disclosure and let viewers decide of what value this is. Twigs has refused to speak with the media, including us, the Daily Mail reporter. The Daily Mail reports that he and his family have now moved to Texas, where the Mail caught up with Twigs en route to or from a Taco Bell, and they report that he refused to speak with them. Swanson, meantime, said he did reach out to Twigs after getting this report from the alleged friend and reports that Twigs told him he could not say anything due to the ongoing investigations. The Megyn Kelly show also attempted to connect with Lance Twiggs and with Swanson's source, but we received no response. A family member of Lance Twiggs did speak with Brian Entin of News Nation back in January. Here is what she said. Just to set this up about Twigs and Robinson and those now infamous texts that allegedly were exchanged right after the shooting.
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Agent Brian Davis
There's text messages between Tyler and Lance where they're texting after the event. A lot of people find them unusual.
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Megyn Kelly
The world that they were in, like this gaming world, like that was a normal way that they kind of spoke,
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Agent Brian Davis
that this wasn't an abnormal.
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Megyn Kelly
The way they spoke wasn't abnormal. The FBI has said all along that Twigs is cooperating with the authorities. First, we'll start with what this anonymous friend said about Lance Twiggs. We did not censor or redact these texts. Swanson said he did censor parts of the texts in order to keep his sources identity private. The friend was a wealth of information. For example, he told Swanson that Robinson and Twigs apartment would, quote, drastically shift from clean to super dirty depending on the state of Lance's mood. He said they would have friends over, but everyone would kind of get weirded out by all the trash. The friend said Twigs basically had layers of wires, random TEMU trinkets, decorations, random art projects, clothes and empty alcohol containers everywhere. And if anyone touched it, he'd get livid. The friend provided this photo, allegedly from inside the apartment. He said Twigs would have piles and piles of random messes like this all all over the home, but usually it was much worse than what you see in this photo. For the listening audience, it's a long table like you might set up at a Thanksgiving dinner, with just wires and electronics and a mess all over it. The friend went on writing Tyler, quote was always really level headed and easygoing, but Lance could be anywhere from too depressed to talk to to manic, wide eyes, crazy person, end quote. The friend said Tyler Robinson loved to talk about hunting, camping and gaming, but that Lance Twiggs had a different personality. If he became too depressed, he would take the day off work and just scroll online while vaping. He said Twigs also had a habit of doing experiments in the kitchen using Tupperware to grow mold. He also accused Twigs of doing all kinds of drugs, weed, lsd, DMT, and shrooms. He said Twigs consumed, quote, alcoholic levels of alcohol. DMT is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug that produces a brief but intense visual and auditory hallucinogenic experience. The friend gave details about Twigs's alleged relationship with his family, writing quote, Lance has always been a little weird and quirky, but never really crazy. He was constantly arguing with his mom every time he saw her and then ranting about Republicans and Mormons when he got home. Swanson reports that the friend told him that one day Twigs announced he was transgender. The friend did not give a time frame of when this exchange happened. Writing quote, he told me he was trans and that it wouldn't change anything and that I could even use whatever pronouns and he wouldn't care, end quote. The friend said after Twigs came out as transgender, Twigs started to clean up the house and became, quote, mostly normal. The friend group returned to having in person gaming nights and the friend said at first he didn't realize that there was a romantic relationship developing between Twigs and Tyler Robinson. Writing quote, One of my gym buddies was the first to pick up on Tyler and Lance being really close. I was in denial for months because I thought Tyler was straight and also I kind of did not want it to be true. Eventually I kind of snapped out of it like the ninth time I saw them asleep and cuddling on the couch. The friend said at one point he became uncomfortable seeing the pair constantly making out. The friend said they started noticing changes in Twigs as the presidential election of 2024 got closer. He claims Twigs started complaining about people staring at him, which the friend thought was weird, since Twigs did not care what pronouns people even used for him and had not done much to mask his biological sex besides changing his hairstyle and wearing mascara. Regarding Tyler Robinson, quote, Tyler wouldn't really get political until after the election. He'd sometimes just casually bring up the latest thing Trump had done and complain about what it would do to the country, but in a very level headed way, end quote. Then he continued, quote, after the election they became a lot more political, but not to an extremist level. By this point I could safely say Lance and Tyler were some flavor of left wing, but never anything I thought was like dangerous. The friend also describes Twigs quote, beginning to grow breasts. The friend does not give a time frame of when this happened, but it seems it would have been in late summer, early fall, 2025. Writing quote, a couple months before we noticed Lance had been growing breasts and said that he'd been taking black market hrt, which I do not know what that would entail, but I think it was making him very erratic. By black market hrt, we believe he's referring to hormone replacement medications obtained without a prescription or medical supervision. Obviously that would come with all sorts of risks, including the drugs being counterfeit, corrupted or the wrong dosage. The friend said that in January 2025, the group held another in person gaming night. Twigs threw cards and seemed erratic, writing quote, Lance had gone upstairs and gone into full tantrum mode and was thrashing around on the floor while Tyler tried to calm him down. This would be, by our count, nine months before Charlie's murder. After that, Lance went fucking mental. This is in quotes and he'd be super wide eyed with either a loopy grin or a rictus grin like the fucking Joker, depending on his mood. The friend wrote that Twigs began making weird drawings while giggling, performing more experiments and hardly ever slept. The friend telling Swanson, quote, the experiments got scarier too, like jugs of water with whisks full of aluminum foil that had two copper wires coming out of them. The friend also sent Swanson several photos of drawings he claims Twigs made and left all over the apartment. In this one you see the drawing reads stabilize and calm down. In this one near the crease, it reads, I'm alone. The friend sent Swanson numerous photos of the scribbles it's unclear when these photos were taken either before or after Charlie's murder. We don't know. But you see the drawings are on post it notes inside journals, books and letter paper. The friend, Swanson claims, told him that while these drawings look creepy, what was scarier was how Twigs would giggle as he drew the friend writing, quote, if I were religious, I would have called an exorcist. The smile was so fucking scary. Twigs also apparently started using ChatGPT to solve equations backwards. The friend said the chats went on forever and that Tyler Robinson said at one point that Twigs had been up for three straight days talking to ChatGPT. The friend writing to Swanson, again, that's Turkey Tom from whom we're getting this reporting. Quote, Twigs would sometimes just be sobbing in Tyler's arms and Tyler would be rocking him back and forth. We all thought Tyler was a trooper for putting up with Lance in that state. The friend also sent Swanson a photo of a condom on a bathroom sink and wrote, quote, crazily enough, while Lance was like that, Tyler was still hitting that. Obviously he means the pair was having sex. The friend said that at some point prior to Charlie's murder, Lance Twiggs had apparently begun seeing a psychologist, writing, quote, we all thought Lance would be okay because he had Tyler, who was basically his handler at this point, to take care of him. But then Twigs got in a fight with his grandfather and his car was taken away. The friend continued, quote, I imagine Lance was just alone with Tyler in the apartment, just driving Tyler fucking crazy. I'd be hard pressed to stay sane while living alone with Lance while he's like that. Swanson claims the friend told Swanson that the friend moved away but would still have discord calls with Twigs and Robinson writing, quote, lance joined and would say like one thing, then be silent and Tyler would talk just normally. Tyler even joined the call like two weeks before the assassination and acted completely normal, end quote. The friend also addressed Robinson's alleged confession messages to Twigs. In the messages, Robinson refers to Twigs as my love, which many people have remarked sounds odd for two Gen Z young men. Swanson reports that the friend told him it is true that Robinson would use that term of affection for Twigs. Writing for the record, Tyler 100% calls Lance my love when they are talking alone. That more than anything makes those texts real to me, end quote. The friend, Swanson claims, concluded by writing about Robinson's demeanor after Charlie's shooting. Quote, after talking to another friend, apparently right after he did the shooting, he joined a bunch of different Discord calls, asking if anyone had seen the news while breathing heavily. And literally the next day he was in the call, just chatting with people, playing one of his puzzle games. As we mentioned, the friend also appears to have sent Tom Swanson discord logs. They date back to 2020. Most of them are just back and forth jokes, but one of them is dark when you see these on the screen. Tyler Robinson is zealous monkey Lance Twigs. Twigs is flux. A lottle. Any other name in the conversation has been blacked out by Tom Swanson. A friend writes, quote, they should remake snakes on a plane, but instead of snakes killing people on a plane, Robinson responds, snakes on a peen. Twigs responds, gross. The friend responds, quote, nobody said gross when you said you wanted to f your 2 year old cousin Lance, end quote. Obviously, we don't know the context of that message or whether Twigs ever made such a statement. Maybe the friend was just joking around, but it's obviously disturbing. The friend, who Swanson says sent him these messages, made no allegations even remotely like that in his own messages about Twigs. It's unclear if the friend in the Discord chat is the same one who contacted Swanson, but there are a few more notable messages and they include this one from Tyler Robinson. It was written in 2020 and it reads, quote, I wish at least shit like anti vax wasn't protected under freedom of speech because it's speech that actively harms people. It's very interesting he's starting to make distinctions between speech that's okay and speech that's not okay and harmful speech being on the not okay list. Robinson also took issue with being called a furry by the friend back in 20, who also took issue with being called a furry by the friend back in 2020, writes this, the country's going to shit. I told someone I wasn't going to watch their anime one time and get called a goddamn furry. So he wrote there he didn't appreciate that. But then of course, he goes on to data furry and worse. I'm going to get to it in a second. In 2023, Robinson allegedly wrote about the trade school he was then attending. Quote, second day of electrical school, we're doing basic math, like learning fractions and shit. I paid tuition for this. In July 2024, Robinson purportedly wrote about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. Quote, snowflake liberals can't shoot straight because they're too busy being gay. It's very interesting that he's lamenting anti vax speak in 2020 and in 2024 talks about snow. No snowflake liberals who can't shoot straight. In September of 2025, we're told he shot Charlie Kirk because some hate can't be negotiated out. In June of last year, Twigs also posted about a no Kings protest against President Trump, asking if anyone wanted to go to it. It's unclear if he went or if anyone responded. Tom Swanson also detailed some of the other online accounts belonging to Robinson, who, according to Swanson, had been railing against being called a furry in 2020, but was now listing his pronouns as they, them and mentioning a furry website.
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Tom Swanson
Watch Tyler had a few blurbs of unusual online presence that I hadn't seen. For example, he had a DeviantArt under his older handle crafton247 where he lists himself as they slash them. It's not possible for this account to belong to someone else that creates created it after the assassination as it was created two years ago. Then we have another account with the same exact handle, this time on Fur Affinity, but there doesn't seem to be any significant activity on it. Just like on DeviantArt. And for those of you who don't know, Fur Affinity is like the the furry website. It's the number one furry website.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, then there's this final message. This is the full alleged discord chat of Robinson confessing to murdering Charlie Kirk to the group, which investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reported in the days following the shooting. Reading from the bottom up September 10th Charlie Kirk got shot dead. Another friend. I just saw the video. Holy shit. Rest in peace I guess bro didn't deserve to go out like that. Sad someone appearing to be Robinson then writes the next day hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. I'm sorry for all of this. I'm surrendering. Surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments. Thanks for all the good times and laughs. You've all been so amazing. Thank you all for everything. The next day a friend writes hey everyone, if you have not seen the news yet, Tyler's post above is true. He was taken into custody earlier today for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Regardless of the horrible actions that took place, we must take this moment to remember that God is a living and loving God who loves all his children. God calls sinners to be his saints and I ask that you all take a quiet moment to pray for Tyler and his repentance. While Charlie Kirk's politics were not acceptable to some, I ask that we all say a prayer for him and his family during these confusing times. Love you all. God bless. And of course, the FBI has alleged that Tyler Robinson did turn himself in through the help of a family friend who was retired deputy sheriff. The FBI has said that Twigs is being treated as a significant and essential witness and that he is not a suspect. And that's certainly going to be center stage moments from now as he speaks out in this much objected to courtroom video over which they continue to haggle. Now, 24 minutes after the hour, Erica Kirk's lawyers, they represent the family, not just Erica. Charlie's parents, too, and his sister presumably are up and down on their feet throughout this morning's proceedings trying to convince this judge to see reason. He is too soft. He's too indecisive. He is too indulgent. That's my take on it. We're going to bring in our panel and talk about Lance Twigs and his testimony. And as soon as they begin playing the audio, we will take it live. We begin with Mark Garagos and Matt Murphy, the hosts of in the well, which you can find at MK True Crime. That's a podcast that you should Google, but it's just our MK True Crime channel, on which we have lots of great legal podcasts following big legal news of the day. Including, of course, this case. When you sign your insurance policy for some brokers, that's the finish line handshake. They get their commission and then they're kind of done with you. You may not hear from them again until it's time for renewal, in which case, once again, they're your best friend. That's annoying. But your business runs all year and so do the gaps and the risk. And things happen. And this is why I want to tell you about Super Sure. If your company has more than 25 employees, whether you're the owner, the CFO or the HR manager, it can be too complex to just buy a policy online. Super sure is the Super Agency built just for you. It's licensed in every state for your business, insurance and employee benefits with year round support for you and your team. At supersure.com, you can access tools like Fine Print Facts, which translates your current policy into plain English so you see what's covered and what's not. Plus a business value calculator so that you can estimate what your business is worth and know what actually needs protecting. Go to super sure.comMegan One super agency. One powerful platform. All your policies in one place supersure.comMegan Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency. So, Matt Murphy, what do you make of the. Well, the profile that emerges from that lengthy report and also what we're about to hear in court and the non stop haggling by Judge Ito. Sorry, Garagos. Go ahead, Matt.
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Matt Murphy
Well, I see this kind of in the long, in the long form, Megan. I always appreciated careful judges and I'm going to go a little against the grain here. This is, there's a famous quote, it was a Supreme Court justice, I don't remember his name, but somebody said it seems like all you do in the Supreme Court is you split hairs. And he said, yeah, that's what we do. We split hairs, we distinguish the undistinguishable and we chop logic. And that's what we do. These rulings are all about the long game. Every single one of these things is going to go up and receive the highest level of appellate scrutiny. And again, this is just a preliminary hearing. If I had a nickel for every time I've seen Charlie Crook trial on the Internet right now. This is just a preliminary. All it is is a determination of probable cause. And this judge is trying to be careful and he's indulging the defense because this is an easy way to go through and kind of throw the defense some bones that won't have any impact on the long term proceedings. And these are all cheap gimmes to the defense as far as I'm concerned. So I think he's being very careful. I was surprised to learn that he hasn't been on the bench that long, but I think he's doing a pretty good job.
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Megyn Kelly
Wasn't. He's too indulgent, A more seasoned judge would say, noted, overruled, moved up and move on. Like every single objection. And this defense lawyer objects to everything.
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Matt Murphy
Yeah, so everything. So, so.
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Megyn Kelly
I mean, I was commenting on this the other day and he, he wants to hear argument on everything to the point where the defense lawyer has no argument. Repeatedly she's had to say, I stand on my earlier argument. She, she can't. She has nothing to add. She's just trying to slow it up. And meanwhile, Erica Kirk has no rights in there. No rights notwithstanding the Utah law. It's very aggravating that she and his parents can't even see the evidence that's being shown that I'm not talking about the stuff that gets redacted because they've decided it's too prejudicial to be considered for the prelim. The stuff that is being admitted but not shown to the media. She's being treated like media. She's not media. She's the victim. The parents are the victims. Why don't they get to see it?
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Matt Murphy
So this is, this is what's known as Marcy's Law. MEGAN so California has the same thing. And Mark, did you know that it's the same amendment to the, to the Utah constitution. It's Article 1, Section 28, which I don't know how that works statutorily, but it's literally the exact same statute with the exact same numbers. MEGAN so I do Marcy's law representation on behalf of victims, particularly in sexual assault case. So I'm really familiar with this. And you're right, it is in their comments about it being toothless. It is what is known as a right without a remedy. Victims have rights. It's recognized. But the person, the only people that can appeal it are the defense. So once again, the court has to be really careful about that because every single one of these things is going to go up and the Utah Supreme Court has already weighed in and this is all going to run through the 10th Circuit. What the judge is doing, I think, is he is ensuring that this thing withstands. He knows how strong the evidence is. He's going to bind him over, he's going to go to trial, he's going to be found guilty and he's going to be sentenced to death. And that's what this is all about. It's so the case doesn't come back and he doesn't have to put the family through it again. Like my Rodney Alcala case, we had to try that three times and the victim's family had to go through it three times, which is devastating for a family. I would caution doing Marcy's law work myself, I would caution their Marcy's Law attorneys like you. Don't you want to speak up for the victims, you want to make sure their voices are heard, but you don't want to actually interfere with the process and force the judge into making a ruling that's going to get the case dismissed. The time for the defense showing Erica
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Megyn Kelly
Kirk the exhibits and Mr. And Mrs. Kirk the exhibits is not going to get this. That's ridiculous.
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Matt Murphy
I agree.
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Megyn Kelly
It's not going to. There's no reason to exclude them from, to treat them like press. They're not press. Here's forget my word, first of all, and the other thing I've just got to say, it's, it's, it's a bone of contention. The judge continues to call her Ms. Kirk. She is not Ms. Kirk. She is Mrs. Kirk. She was very notably married to Charlie Kirk. That's why she's there. She's the mother of his children. She's his widow. Show some respect. Get it right. Yes. It's the same way judges should learn how to. Like in. In Idaho, how the judge still couldn't pronounce, you know, Madison Mogan's name and Zana Kernodle.
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Lauren Hunt
Right.
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Megyn Kelly
All the way up to the end of. It's like, learn the. The names of the victims and their survivors if you're going to say them as the judge. She's not a miss. He's not even saying miss half the time. He's saying miss. It's. It's annoying. And most women who take their husband's name or even just become married. I'm fine when people call me Mrs. Braun, even though I didn't take Doug's last name.
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Lance Twiggs
You.
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Megyn Kelly
The Mrs. Is an honorarium that is meaningful to you. Yes. It's an honor to your husband and to the union that you and especially in these circumstances. I know he's not doing it intentionally. He's just on my last nerve.
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Matt Murphy
Okay, Mark, wait, hang on. Let me finish that thought.
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Megyn Kelly
No, no, it's Mark's turn. But listen, I've got to play for you, Erica's and the Kirk's family lawyer, okay? This is him arguing. He's fired up this morning. Take a listen. And we appreciate the court is trying to balance here, but the Kirk family's waited 10 months for this hearing, and
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Matt Murphy
they have a right to be here,
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Megyn Kelly
and they have a right to hear the evidence. They have a right to see and feel what's going on in this courtroom.
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Viva Fry
Just like.
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Megyn Kelly
And they want to understand, Judge, what you were viewing. They want to see the evidence.
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Matt Murphy
And we understand you have to balance.
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Megyn Kelly
But at a minimum, this is.
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Matt Murphy
This courtroom needs to be open for the.
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Lance Twiggs
For.
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Viva Fry
For the evidence to be displayed openly
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Megyn Kelly
in this courtroom for them to see it. The Utah Constitution gives them the right to be here and to be here
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Matt Murphy
and not to see the evidence.
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Megyn Kelly
What's the point of being here? We ask you to let the evidence
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Matt Murphy
be seen in the courtroom, please. Thank you for your time.
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Agent Brian Davis
Thank you, counsel.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, Mark Aros, go ahead. You've been so patient.
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Mark Garagos
This may have been the most frustrating 30 minutes sitting here listening to this. And you know I love you, you know I adore you, and you know I've known you forever.
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Megyn Kelly
Let me have it.
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Lance Twiggs
It's fine.
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Mark Garagos
Yes, but you are so wrong on so many counts. And at Least Matt, who is the consummate gentleman. You know now why I always hated going up against him. I loved him as a person, but he's, he's lethal when you go up against him. He, I, he articulated exactly what this judge is doing. Contrary to the characterization that this is. By the way, I think Lance, for the OJ Case was one of, if he was on the short list to be at the California Supreme Court, he was one of the most well received judges. I know that he got caricatured by O.J.
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Megyn Kelly
but Lance, you're just completely undermining your credibility before you launch into your diatribe.
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Mark Garagos
I think nobody has ever done a full throated defense of who he was when before he did that trial judge. By the way, to Matt's point, there's no way you watch this judge and you think he's new on the bench. He's doing exactly.
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Megyn Kelly
Yes, there is a way because I watched him and I said this guy's new on the bench. He doesn't have the confidence. And my team checked and he's been on the bench since May and I was right. There is a way. It happened this morning.
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Mark Garagos
Come to this case through the. Even though you're not a former prosecutor, you look at this as kind of the rabid prosecutorial viewpoint and that is not the, the prison.
- [35:36]
Megyn Kelly
Not, not true. Not in this case. I'll tell you why you're normally right about me. 100% you're right. And my, my, all my instincts are more prosecution oriented. However, in this case, my friend was killed. In this case, I know the murder victim and what I really want is for the right person to go to prison. And so I, I think Tyler Robinson is the trigger man, no question. But I, I am not closed minded to his defense. I'm not, I actually like. Because it's more, what's most important to me here is getting it right.
- [36:02]
Mark Garagos
Well, so look you both those things can be right. He can be the trigger man, number one. Number two, this judge, to Matt's point, if this judge does not do what he's doing, you do not understand the legal colonoscopy that a death penalty conviction gets. When Matt talks about the 10th Circuit, you know what he's doing? He's damning with faint praise the 9th Circuit because he's been on the receiving end of the decade, gotten better law. Decades of law at the 9th and the IAC.
- [36:36]
Megyn Kelly
No, I know the 9th is ridiculous, but it has gotten better. I have to say we did a deep dive on this last year, Trump got a bunch of Judges on that 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and it's not nearly as bad as it used to be. But they're all generally not so great. They're all generally stacked with libs.
- [36:49]
Mark Garagos
But what you have to the stack of libs is the look, I'm old enough to remember when the liberals were the ones who challenged authority as opposed to wanted totalitarian authority, authority. So that's, that's kind of a, an ironic situation. But the fact is this judge has to do what he's doing. He's doing it very, very adroitly. And Matt's point also, and I found this out kind of ironically during Menendez last year. Marcy's law, which is the victim's right, which is a constitutional right, is a right without a remedy. And when I say in the Menendez case, it was on full dis. I have argued for years that the victims are a proxy for the prosecution, that when they are, when they support what the prosecution wants, the victims are right there front and center. When they don't support what the prosecution wants, they're kind of dismissed. But there is no real enforcement mechanism for victims. It's a right that's enshrined. And Matt, I did not know it's both Article 1, Section 28 in both constitutions. I. That's amazing. Kind of coincidence, but there is. Everything that lawyer is saying for Erica Kirk is true to some extent, but it's not really accurate when he says she's got a right to see all of these things. The prosecution is not limited in what they can show or share with her. So, yes, the courtroom is limited. Yes, the public is limited. That is so they don't have a challenge later on to a tainted jury pool. Because all judges usually kick the can down the road and say, I'll solve that. Pretrial publicity or prejudice in jury selection. But if you've got a jury selection and a jury pool that is completely tainted by all of the stuff that is now inadmissible, you just make your job infinitely harder so that he's doing the right thing. To your point about Tyler Robinson, yes, there is probable cause right now to have Tyler Robinson held to answer, which means bound over for trial. But I will tell you something else. I'd love to hear Matt's thoughts. I think right now you could clearly get Mr. Twigs, or whatever his name is also held to answer for trial as a co defendant. There is more than enough probable cause that's been developed so, so far on Twigs. This Idea that he's a subject and not a coconspirator is nonsense. He'd be held to answer 99 times out of 99 in almost every preliminary hearing court that I've ever been in.
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Megyn Kelly
I agree with you on twigs 100%, but they've given him use immunity. I'm sure Matt has a lot of thoughts on this exchange and wants to get in still on my Ms. Vs Mrs. I know, but. Yeah, well, why don't you do that and then I'll ask you about use immunity and why Lance Twig's not being charged.
- [39:56]
Matt Murphy
Okay, so number one, what Mark was saying just to. Just to pick up on that, the time to sit down with Erica Kirk and the lawyers is in the prosecutor's office and to show her everything. So the argument that she's not receiving all the information is a completely different one than what the public should see. And again, Mark's exactly right. That is. So they avoid the challenge long term of the jury pool was tainted because we saw that. We saw that in Coburger. Right. The jury pools maintained it and they had to do a change of venue. There's all kinds of problems that ensue from that. The place and I worked with victims, Megan. Every murder case I did, I sat down with the victim's family. I gave my personal cell number. I did that for 21 years. Okay, so I am. I am pro victim, victim oriented. I represent victims now. But the place for that is in the prosecutor's office, not in. Not in a courtroom if it's going to create issues. Because nothing is worse than a case coming back. I think the misses versus miss, of course, that's a. He's misspeaking. That's. You know, I can't take issue with that. You're right. He should. He should clean it up. But look, this is. This is about the long game. And in Utah, he's actually looking at the death penalty. And you want to be careful. There's a crass joke that I'm sure we've all heard about the two bulls standing on the hill. And it's probably inappropriate for me to share it, but it's like there's a young bull and an old bull and there's a whole bunch of cows down in the. In the pasture. And the old bull. And the young bull says to the old bull, let's run down there and have sex with one of those cows. And the old bull says, I got a better idea. Let's walk down there and have sex with all of those cows. That's how in a very crass way, you have to look at death penalty cases. It's step by step. You have to be super careful and super methodical because if you base one single call on. On emotion and look, Megan, I'm with you on this. I've had friends who were murdered. I've had two friends, actually three that were murdered. But a good friend of mine got murdered in law school. And we cannot base decisions ever on the emotions of the moment. You have to look at it long term. Long term is you have to go very carefully, step by step. And look what the defense is doing here. I'm seeing something completely different. There's the frustration of watching the antics. And one of the reasons why my friend Mark Yargos is so deadly in front of a jury is juries like him. The personalities of these lawyers is not
- [42:19]
Megyn Kelly
going to be likable. It's annoying.
- [42:20]
Matt Murphy
What's that?
- [42:21]
Mark Garagos
It's a lot.
- [42:22]
Megyn Kelly
He's so likable, it's annoying.
- [42:23]
Matt Murphy
No, I know. Listen, you have no idea what it's like going up against him. It's terrible because everybody likes the guy. But you look at this. We watched this during the Corey Richards case, right? That woman, it's the same defense lawyer. She got up and. And tactically, you know, they're going through the motions. As annoying as it is as a prosecutor, I love seeing that because their personalities in this. It's called Keenan Counsel. The other lawyer that's making a lot of these objections, he just kind of. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Listening to him talk, he aggravates the hell out of me. And as a viewer, you know, I want to throw peanuts on my screen. As a prosecutor, you love to see that because when you have somebody that stands up and makes obnoxious, obstreperous, pedantic arguments every 30 seconds, a jury is going to hate that. And they will have zero credibility when they get into the penalty phase. And that is the best thing for Erica Kirk and everybody who is friends with Charlie Kirk.
- [43:24]
Mark Garagos
Matt is so spot on. I have had cases where the prosecutor, or if it's a civil case where you're fighting over other people's money, the other person has zero jury appeal made on under understand it. They just don't understand how repulsive they are. Repulsive in the sense that repel people against them. What happens in a trial as opposed to a preliminary hearing in a trial, each side is the voice. Matt is up there giving voice to some. Normally because we did so many Cases that were. There were dead bodies, literally people who have no voice. I'm giving voice, hopefully, to somebody who never is going to take the stand. And so you become the proxy. If as the proxy, somebody doesn't want to help you in the jury, the last thing you're going to want to do. And I tell this to my new lawyers. Why would you antagonize the jurors? Why? I can understand actually antagonizing the judge sometime if the judge is not likable. Matt and I have always commented on that. When we're in a courtroom where the jurors don't like the judge or the judges issuing OSCs on jurors because they're five minutes late and the jurors want to revolt at that point, I almost purposefully will antagonize the judge. But absent that, that's your audience. You got 12 people here. Your audience is the public. You don't care. I have not had the pleasure of watching any of these lawyers in trial, but I push back on the objecting at a prelim. At a prelim, I think all bets are off. When you're on the defense, you should be pushing, you should be going after the witnesses, you should be objecting, you should be testing everything out. It's the only way as a defense lawyer that you can refine. It's a wonderful kind of a test runs.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, I got it. I got it. I mean, I disagree and I disagree that the judge has to indulge all of this. And, you know, you can sort of be. You can blanket. Got it. Your blanket objections. Unduly prejudicial on the statement. She's made it 25 times. We have to go through it each and every time. Each. Whatever. Okay, fine. But. But let's talk about Lance Twigs, because, you know, if you hear. It's a very. That Turkey Tom report, which we've been looking into for the better part of six months on our team, like, running it by the FBI. Like, we've actually done a deep dive on that report. And it hasn't fallen apart. It's been repeated by some others. It hasn't gone far and wide because the original source behind it refuses to come forward and identify him or herself. But it does paint a picture, Matt. I mean, literally with pictures of their alleged apartment of, like, a dark, destructive, sick home in which Tyler Robinson, for at least some large portion of the final year was okay. Was like holding it together while this roommate was on a trans spiral into the depths of. Of inhumanity. And it does make you wonder what happened and. But it also makes me much more inclined to believe he probably did know more than he's letting on. And now we've heard his DNA is on the towel that was used to wrap the gun. Okay, it's from their home. Maybe he just touched the towel. I get it. Also, the screwdriver that they found on the roof that the prosecution says was used to assemble the gun by Tyler Robinson. I mean, maybe he touched the screwdriver and making all his crazy, crazy concoctions on that table. I don't know. But he also was the one corresponding with Tyler in those text messages. That sound somewhat manufactured. It was not you, was it, Tyler? It was I, my love. I mean, I'm overdoing it. But you. This is why a lot of people think that it's a Fed behind this whole thing. Or it's some. It's a country or somebody's manufacturing these. Whereas it could be A real or B, the two of them doing this little cosplaying act to keep Lance Twigs out of the Fed's crosshairs. When Tyler knew he'd either be dead or arrested, as his own note says. Anyway, what do you make of it all?
- [47:50]
Matt Murphy
Well, the description of the house reminded me of the place I lived in law school. But look, there's an old adage. Crimes in hell don't have angels as witnesses. Okay? And we see this all the time. When you get a gang case like, your witnesses are often little gangsters. Or if you have a crime in jail, you always have criminals that are your witnesses. The question is, is he telling the truth? And the other thing is, the way I see it, and I'd love Mark's thoughts on this, I think all they have to do with Lance Twiggs is lay the foundation, right? Mark, you got a note written by Tyler Robinson which is incriminating as hell. The one found under the computer keyboard. And the text messages, all they really need him for is to talk about that. I'm curious to see what else he said. But there's also a love affair here. And this goes to motive by Tyler Robinson, that he's somehow defending the honor of his love, which is how he refers to Lance Twiggs. So the furry world is weird. The idea that Lance is weird kind of fits perfectly in my mind that this is going to be. Tyler Robinson's gone off the deep end. He's decided that he's going to embrace the trans community and. And whatever. But then going and committing a murder, you know, as a Result of it. It all kind of, it fits in a way. So that's my take on this.
- [49:14]
Megyn Kelly
Well, does it mean that Lance is getting use immunity, Matt, instead of getting charged as getting use immunity?
- [49:20]
Matt Murphy
He has to, Megan, they have to give him use. And especially I think, when they go through.
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Megyn Kelly
Can you explain that?
- [49:25]
Matt Murphy
Yeah. So there's two kinds of immunity. There's immunity immunity, or what's known as transactional immunity. That's like, you know, you confessed everything you did and you received complete legal absolution. Those are actually very rare. I only did that twice in my entire career. The other is what's known as use immunity. That's also known in the federal world. It's queen for a day where you sit down and they immunize you against the statements that you make in that interview and the derivative of that. But if independent evidence arises outside of your interview or what they learn or are able to gleaned from it, and in further investigation, anything else separate, they can still prosecute you for that. So in other words, you're given sort of carte blanche to talk about what happened, and then they agree not to prosecute you based on those sentences or those statements, if that makes sense. So that's the common way it's done. And they have to do that. Otherwise he would have a Fifth Amendment right against testifying when the trial comes around or even at the prelim.
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Mark Garagos
If he didn't have it, he'd expose himself federally.
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Viva Fry
That's right.
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Matt Murphy
He has to do it. He's going to, he's, he has a rights of counsel. They have to immunize him so that he can, so that he can participate in the.
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Megyn Kelly
Do they have a right to cross examine, Matt?
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Matt Murphy
Yes, ultimately they certainly do. But, but you, you hit the nail on the head on that one, Megan. The, There is no, there's no right to cross examine somebody at a preliminary hearing. Hearsay is admissible in Utah, just like it is in California that's been appealed to the umpteenth that's gone to the U.S. supreme Court. It's okay.
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Megyn Kelly
So why are you saying otherwise, MARK
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Mark Garagos
ARAGOS because in California, as Matt will tell you, when you do a hearsay prelim, we call it a 115 prelim. It was based on the proposition. The only way the California Supreme Court said that that still withstood constitutional scrutiny is there had to be a corresponding section, which there is in California called 866, which allows the defense to make a proffer to say, I want to either cross examine the declarant the hearsay declare. And here's why. Because there's exculpatory evidence that I can show on cross examination or I want to call.
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Megyn Kelly
Well, we're not in California anymore. Yeah, but I got to go federal. I got to go because we're 20 seconds to the heartbreak. Are we coming back with these guys?
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Judge
Steve?
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Megyn Kelly
Yes, we are holding over so I'll let you finish that on the opposite side of this break and hopefully we'll go to the Lance Twig's testimony as well. We'll be right back. Don't go away. Our founders believed that freedom wasn't just a word, it was a way of life. The freedom to move forward, the freedom to pursue what matters most. The freedom to live fully. But pain has a way of taking those freedoms away. And that's why Relief Factor exists. And I felt the difference personally thanks to Relief Factor more than once. Relief factor is a 100% drug free research based supplement designed to help support a healthy inflammatory response, addressing pain at its source, not just covering it up. Over a million Americans have tried Relief factor with about 2/3 going on to order more. So this year, as we celebrate 250 years of freedom, ask yourself a simple are you living with the freedom you deserve? Relief Factor gives you the opportunity to live a pain free life and get back to the life you love. To commemorate our country's birth, they are offering a special patriotic price, just $17.76, so you can celebrate your freedom from pain. Your 17.763 week quick start is ready for you now. Visit relieffactor.com or call 804. Relief on Deck is built to back small businesses like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team or bridging cash flow gaps on Deck's loans up to $400,000 help make it happen fast. Rated A by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of five star trust pilot reviews, Ondeck delivers funding you can count on. Apply in minutes@ondeck.com depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by Ondeck or Celtic Bank. Ondeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans an amount subject to lender approval. Back with me now are the hosts of in the well. You can find that podcast just by typing in in the well or MK True Crime in your little purple podcast button on your phone or check it out on YouTube.com Mark Garagos and Matt Murphy, two lawyers, criminal lawyers of lifetime experience who know what they are talking about. Guys, they're still in a break now and what we've been told is that now the prosecution. This is, like, never ending. Now, the prosecution has agreed to show the video in its redacted final form to defense counsel, which is what's happening right now behind closed doors, incorporating all the. Only the lines that have been agreed upon. And then they'll show it to us. Well, no, I mean, they'll play it for us. We'll be able to hear audio only, which, again, makes no sense. Why don't we get to see the audio or the video? It's stupid. Like, what constitutional right is violated by me laying eyes on Lance Twiggs then if he's holding exhibits? Don't show the exhibits. Why is this so hard? Everything's got. It's like, here's part of the problem. And I realized, like, we shouldn't be having this preliminary hearing for people who have their own theories about what happened here. But the reality is it actually, like, I think it's good for posterity. I don't think you ever convince a conspiracy theorist not to believe his or her conspiracy. You just don't. I've dealt with enough of them over the course of my life. They never. They never come out of it, ever. No matter what you put up in front. We literally could have Tyler Robinson on camera saying, I did it. I did it alone. I did it because there was too much hate. I did go confess to my parents, and then they called the deputy and I turned myself in. And the people would still say it's a lie. It's just I've had so many of these over my 24 years in news that I know this to be true. But just for posterity sake, I think it's valuable to have the video and the audio of the guy saying he confessed to me. Just the mere fact that he's not gonna be on camera is gonna set a lot of people off. Like, was he at a gunpoint? You know, like, how was he really giving this voluntarily? It's like, these are just games. They're. They're games that we're playing because of the defense's every objection. And it. It leads to a frustratingly incomplete record. I get it. For now. But who the hell knows when the trial is going to be? Matt Murphy. So this is what's going to be out there for months and months and months on end.
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Matt Murphy
Yeah. So going back to the judge for a second, Megan, Mark and I were talking off camera a second ago. One of the things.
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Megyn Kelly
Did you soften to my.
- [56:25]
Matt Murphy
But I want to say something in the hopes of Making you feel a little better.
- [56:29]
Megyn Kelly
Okay.
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Matt Murphy
One of the things that you see oftentimes is when you see defense lawyers engaged in this, that they're going through the process. But this is a long, it's a long process. Right. And we're going to get into a trial that's going to be a lot longer than this prelim. And the, the defense objecting like this and challenging the court on everything eventually wears down on every judicial officer, which means he's, they're going to get on his last nerve at a certain point, I predict probably halfway through the trial. And the jury will see that. And even though the jury's not supposed to take the cue from the judge, they always do. And this is going to, if, if this continues. And look, it's going to continue because we, we saw this in the Corey Richards trial with the same lawyer and that the guy that she's got up there right now is. He has half the personality that she does. And she is, she was not exactly sparkling in front of that other Utah jury. So this is, believe it or not, it's frustrating. Now this is good long term because this is the type of stuff that, that really will have an impact at the end. This kind of object to everything, nails on a chalkboard, slow everything down. It's going to get worse in front of the jury. The jury's going to hate it. And then there, there's going to be no credibility left when they stand up and say don't execute my client.
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Megyn Kelly
And by the way, especially at the trial, Garagos, that if we believe the prosecutor, Lance Twiggs is going to show up in person and be sitting in the witness box and this business of like that one line needs to come out and no one can see him and he can't be confronted with exhibits. That's all out the window. We are going to hear from Lance Twigs if he is willing to show up there and he'll get cross examined. But that testimony is coming out at some point.
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Mark Garagos
Yeah, but you have, you've answered kind of your question by that, that by saying it, it doesn't need mountain. It shouldn't come out now because you've got, you're not, you don't want to, if you're a judge, have to change venue. You don't want to pollute your jury.
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Megyn Kelly
But Mark, what's the typical rule? Well, like in a typical case, wouldn't the preliminary hearing be completely on the public record? On the record and everything accessible by the public?
- [58:42]
Mark Garagos
Right. And in a typical case, we're not going to be covering it breathlessly on a podcast. In a typical case, the. It's not going to be covered to this degree. It's not going to be what's called, what I always call a super size.
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Megyn Kelly
There were breaths. There were breaths. It was not breathless. Everyone here, one.
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Mark Garagos
The one thing. The one thing I'm going to say is, is during the break, Matt and I agreed that we would give this judge a A plus Marks. He is doing a spectacular job and a very difficult job. You can put your head in your hands, but it. He's doing what he needs to do. You can't. I know people want. There's this kind of short attention span or this immediate gratification. He's not looking. Looking at that. To Matt's point, the bull joke. He's got more guts than I do. I wouldn't have told that joke, but the bull joke. Having sex with every cow is basically what you have to do in a case like this because it's capital litigation. It's just no way around it. Matt and I were talking on the break. Some of the things he's been hoisted on and I've been hoisted on in murder cases, you. It would blow your mind. We could tell you stories, both of us.
- [60:01]
Lauren Hunt
You.
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Mark Garagos
You just can't do what. What you kind of reflexively want to do, which is just mow through this to get to the conviction. It doesn't work.
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Matt Murphy
I don't know, boss.
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Megyn Kelly
Megan, I got it.
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Matt Murphy
Who taught me how to do capital case litigation, which is death penalty cases, which is very, very specialized. And the old saying is death is different. And he used to say, his name is Brian Brown. He's a legend. I know Mark knows him well. He. He said, give them everything they want, referring to the defense. Give them everything they want until it's something you really need. Okay. And that's it. That's a good way of looking at it because like Mark just said, the things that you get reversed for can be so innocuous, and you just don't want to put the family through it again. You want to maximize the chances of this being withheld on appeal, being upheld on appeal. And so you never, never have to do it again. And you let the poor Kirk family put this behind them to the. To the greatest extent possible. Another thing they're dealing with is they're dealing with all of these insane conspiracy theories that are out there. And I think that's why we're seeing such a detailed preliminary hearing, Mark or I, on a regular murder case without a, without a capital case component to this, without a death penalty lingering out there. This is a one day prelim. You put on the rifle, you do the DNA.
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Mark Garagos
It's two hours.
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Matt Murphy
Yeah, yeah, literally two hours. And, and they're doing this. I think it's interesting because there's so. There's been so much public discourse. I've seen some insane things on the Internet, mostly championed by Candace Owens that are, it is so loony tinfoil hat out there. And I think that's hard on the, on the victim's family. So I also want to commend the prosecutor, prosecution for going through this even though it's five days, because it really does change the public discourse on it. We're about to separate those that are open minded to other defense theories from the actual lunatics. It's like the, the probers with Brian Coburger.
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Tom Swanson
Right.
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Matt Murphy
All the theories.
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Mark Garagos
Megan, you are right. It's the, the reason this is five days and I know Phil Holloway, he loses his mind over this. But the reason is five days clearly is they're trying to quell some of the kind of rumors or conspiracy theories. But your point is the most astute when it comes to that. Nothing is going to dispel that. You put something on. All that does is feed it and amplify it. And so that's, no, it's basically the prosecutorial version of no good deed goes unpunished. It's all it does is that stuff.
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Megyn Kelly
I mean, I don't agree with Candace's theory of this case, but I have to say I genuinely believe she was traumatized by watching her friend die. I can relate to it. And I think she's in earnest and I think she, she distrusts authority. I don't agree with her again, Matt, but I just like, and I know people have very strong feelings about her. I just, I think she's in her own search for what she believes happened here and she has zero trust in official words on anything she's made.
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Dave Aronberg
Zero.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah, I'm not quite. That's in a couple.
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Matt Murphy
She's making it harder for Erica Kirk and the entire Kirk family. She's also making things harder on the prosecution. And I, and look, I, I don't know her. I've never appeared in front of her. I got nothing against her. I got no ax to grind. But she's, she is making things harder for the good guys on this. And Erica Kirk asked her to, to stop with the stuff and she said she would. And then Erica Kirk asked her, I think Twice. And she's continued, she's, she's quadrupled down on it. And she sounds insane to me. And again, I don't know her. I would, I would debate her any time on, on some of this stuff because it's insane. Like the Israel didn't kill Charlie Kirk. Sorry. They just didn't. This is, this is, this is a murder case. It's a death penalty case. This is what they look like. This is what killers sound like. This is, this is how these things actually occur in reality. You got a guy who's in love with a trans guy who decides he's going to kill somebody because some, somehow that would help him. That's America today. That's, that's, that is, I mean, Charlie Kirk himself, I don't know. I'm sure you've seen the post assassination culture, you know, and Tyler Robinson proved him right. It's like, hey, buddy, you killed the guy and you proved him right at the same time.
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Megyn Kelly
It's like, all right, Matt, I mean, if we're going to go down this lane, then we can go down this lane. Because it was Andrew Colvett of Turning Point who turned over to the FBI Charlie's criticisms of his Jewish donors and his threats to leave the pro Israel cause right before he was murdered. That was Turning Point. And I love Andrew Colvett. And he did that because he's an honest guy. And he said, you know what, they should investigate everything. They should investigate who else had an ax to grind with Charlie and who else might be motivated. He's not some conspiracy theorist. Like why I was told this myself and it's now been reported by her and others that there were at least 11. There's a difference in 11 versus 14. Israel only cell phones on the campus of UVU that day. Like not from, from Israeli citizens. In other words, open accounts opened in Israel and the NSA knew that shit within two minutes because they lock those scenes down and they can tell you exactly what cell phones were on scene. I don't say that means Israel killed Charlie, but it's one of the reasons why. Both of these are reasons why all along I've said we should, we should be. You should not be saying to her or anybody else, you're not allowed to ask that question. You are allowed to ask questions. It is smart to say who else had a motive. And when it comes to these lone gunman assassinations, you know, Butler and now this, people always ask, was he put up to it? You know, is there some nefarious government source Some people could believe in CIA and MK Ultra. Some people believe the CIA actually killed like jfk. You know, you've heard them all.
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Mark Garagos
Sure.
- [66:01]
Megyn Kelly
And I'm like you, my instincts are as lawyers. I think the three of us are much more evidence based. Okay, great. You have a theory. Show me the evidence and persuade me with something that's admissible in a court of law that I can argue with.
- [66:15]
Tom Swanson
But I.
- [66:16]
Megyn Kelly
Well, that's where we are. But not everybody's like we are and it doesn't necessarily make them a nutcase to not trust the official government narrative.
- [66:24]
Mark Garagos
Well what about just. I didn't get Matt. Maybe I'll save it for in the well but I wanted Matt's reaction. You don't think there's enough to have in. To have charged Lance Twigs in this case?
- [66:38]
Matt Murphy
I think that you really need to show that there was some sort of something beforehand or even after where he's helping you need the DNA is not enough for me. And you know, Mark, I've done conspiracy cases where people have been yelling at me. Why I haven't included people sometimes I've included people that I heard the exact opposite. You know, how come. How come that person's involved and it just going along with what Megan just said. I follow the evidence and I call it as I see it and the DNA means nothing. You always get you always.
- [67:12]
Mark Garagos
I agree. I've got. I can't tell you the number of murder cases that I've had discourse especially with.
- [67:17]
Matt Murphy
With the.
- [67:17]
Megyn Kelly
What do you like Mark? What Mark? Then what do you like to indict Lance with?
- [67:21]
Mark Garagos
I think that Lance if on the before and if you read the.
- [67:27]
Tom Swanson
The.
- [67:28]
Mark Garagos
Actually I was going to say you're the one who put the idea in my head with some of the things that you had talked about five days before, four days before and then the text that referenced knowledge by him, by Lance prior to this. If I'm the defense, I'm all over that because there is something more to this. This idea of this, of Tyler Robinson doing this alone. So far, based on everything I've seen, I would be all over that. When Matt says the DNA alone, he's right. I've defended. That's not to say I have defended murder cases where guys got help to answer because I can think of one where his fingerprint was on a mattress frame where the. The stabbing took place. We got it dismissed. But that was enough to get you past prelim. Now you've got DNA on several items that were essential.
- [68:21]
Megyn Kelly
Let me pause you, Mark. I just let's check in with what's happening in the court because Agent Davis just took the stand and this is who they're going to get the video in through. So let's listen, see if they're doing it.
- [68:29]
Lauren Hunt
Finally, this meeting is to use your. Your statement here instead of your testimony at a preliminary hearing. Understand that? Okay. So here we go. In order to do that, to do that, I need to place you under oath and also give you a. An admonition about false statements. Okay. First, you do solemnly swear or affirm that the evidence you shall give in this issue shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
- [68:59]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [69:01]
Lauren Hunt
I also need to notify you that you are notified the statements you are about to make may be presented to a magistrate or a judge in lieu of your sworn testimony at a preliminary examination. Any false statement you make and that you do not believe to be true may be sub. May subject you to criminal punishment as a class A misdemeanor. Understand that? Yes, it potentially could be used as for punishment, punishment as a higher offense, as obstruction of justice. In addition, I just want to make sure that our recording here is clear that you've also been given a federal agreement and a state agreement granting you immunity from prosecution for materials that you discuss. Now, do you understand that first we're going to cover some of the things that you've already talked about, but to make it as part of this record, first, what's your name?
- [70:02]
Lance Twiggs
Full name with middle name or just first and last person?
- [70:04]
Lauren Hunt
Last is fine.
- [70:05]
Lance Twiggs
Okay. My name is Lance Twiggs.
- [70:07]
Lauren Hunt
And do you know Tyler Robinson?
- [70:10]
Lance Twiggs
Yes, I do. Or yeah, I do.
- [70:12]
Lauren Hunt
And this is the same Tyler Robinson that's been charged with the shooting of Charlie Kirk? Yes. And would you say when you first met Tyler.
- [70:22]
Lance Twiggs
I think it was 2023. I've known him longer than that, though. That was, I think, the first time I met him in person.
- [70:29]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And will you describe your relationship with. With Tyler when you first met him anyway?
- [70:42]
Lance Twiggs
When I first met him, I didn't know him super well. He was just a new roommate. So I knew he knew my friend group and I knew he liked playing games, but that's about it. When we first, like when he first moved in.
- [70:58]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. Before we go on, I realized my mic was immediately outset. I'm going to repeat those. Okay. So again, I place you under oath just to make a record. I'm going to do it again. You do, Solem, swear that the evidence you shall give in this issue shall be the Truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
- [71:26]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [71:26]
Lauren Hunt
And again, I'm g going to give you the false statement admission.
- [71:30]
Judge
Sorry, hold on. If they're seeing that, it's echoing.
- [71:35]
Lance Twiggs
So I think this one's mic is on.
- [71:37]
Lauren Hunt
Okay.
- [71:38]
Judge
Sorry.
- [71:40]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, that's fine.
- [71:42]
Judge
Okay.
- [71:42]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, so we should be good. All right. Is that mic off?
- [71:48]
Judge
Yes.
- [71:49]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, great. All right. Okay. Sorry about that interruption. All right. So you said when you first met. Met you were roommates?
- [71:58]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [71:58]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And. And then at some point, your relationship progressed to something more than just remix. Is that right? When was that?
- [72:06]
Lance Twiggs
I think we started dating two or three months after he moved in.
- [72:10]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, and where did you live at that time?
- [72:14]
Lance Twiggs
St. George, in an apartment complex.
- [72:17]
Lauren Hunt
And is that apartment the same place you lived when, on September 10th?
- [72:22]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [72:27]
Lauren Hunt
When you lived there with Tyler, were you in the same room? Did you live in the same room or different rooms?
- [72:32]
Lance Twiggs
Separate rooms.
- [72:35]
Lauren Hunt
And at that time, let's say September of 2025,
- [72:40]
Lance Twiggs
what was.
- [72:40]
Lauren Hunt
What were you doing with your life? Were you working school?
- [72:43]
Lance Twiggs
I was working. I was doing, like, bathtub and shower repair and stuff in new construction.
- [72:50]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. About Tyler.
- [72:53]
Lance Twiggs
I think he was both working. I think he was working for an electric, like an electrician company then. And he was also in a trade school for being a, I don't know, higher, like, ranking electrician. I'm not sure how the trade system works for that.
- [73:08]
Lauren Hunt
Okay.
- [73:09]
Lance Twiggs
But yeah, I think he was both.
- [73:11]
Lauren Hunt
What was his typical work day like?
- [73:15]
Lance Twiggs
I think he'd leave around school seven generally, and get back around three to four, depending on, like, where the job was and how long it was for the day. And then on certain days of the week during school, like semesters, you would then later in the day, I think around five or six, go to school. So. Yeah.
- [73:39]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, let's jump to September 10th. Did he spend the night in the apartment the night of September 9th into September 10th?
- [73:51]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah, he did. Yes.
- [73:53]
Lauren Hunt
Do you know when he left the apartment on September 10th?
- [73:56]
Lance Twiggs
I don't know an exact time. I just know he left early. I heard him leaving, and he just said he had a, like, long drive to work that day. So he was leaving early and so early.
- [74:10]
Lauren Hunt
Any guess as to what when that was?
- [74:16]
Lance Twiggs
I don't know. I would have thought it was 5am because that's when, like, an early work day was for him. But it was probably more like four.
- [74:24]
Lauren Hunt
Okay,
- [74:27]
Mark Garagos
I'm spat as gum just to
- [74:29]
Lance Twiggs
make sure that I can do that right in front of your laptop.
- [74:33]
Lauren Hunt
Here you go.
- [74:35]
Lance Twiggs
Thank you. Thank you.
- [74:41]
Lauren Hunt
All right, so what Time did you get up on September 10th?
- [74:45]
Lance Twiggs
Probably like 12 to 1pm you didn't
- [74:49]
Lauren Hunt
have to work that day?
- [74:50]
Lance Twiggs
No.
- [74:51]
Lauren Hunt
And did you hear from Tyler? Did he call or text you before then?
- [74:56]
Lance Twiggs
No, he sent that message in the group chat I mentioned, but I. He didn't message me directly at all that day.
- [75:02]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, when did you first hear from him on September 10th.
- [75:07]
Lance Twiggs
It was at 11 o' clock with that like automated message.
- [75:10]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, 11pm yeah. What about. He asks you here. Remember how I was engraving bullets. Was he engraving bullets before this?
- [75:23]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah. I don't remember exactly when, but he had said he was planning to go hunting with his family. And he asked me for a. If we had a. Like a Dremel to. Because he said he wanted to create messages on bullets. And I just told him where Dremel was and told him to make sure he doesn't like set off a bullet on accident in the house. But I didn't really think about it until then.
- [75:49]
Lauren Hunt
How long before September 10th was this that you. He asked about the Dremel?
- [75:56]
Lance Twiggs
I. I don't remember because he'd been talking about the hunting slash camping trip for a couple months, but I. I don't remember when he was specifically asking to in engrave the bullets.
- [76:11]
Lauren Hunt
So. So are we talking like a year before?
- [76:14]
Lance Twiggs
Oh, no, not, not that, not that long. It would have been, I'd say at most of the before. This was when he was asking.
- [76:20]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. Right. You talked about the note that he left. I want to bring this up and I should say that these text messages that we've been looking at here are Bates number 54. Okay. The notes have been titled 16.3 with a note and this is base number 58. Do you recognize that, that on the screen there?
- [76:54]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah. Yeah.
- [76:56]
Lauren Hunt
What do you recognize it as?
- [76:59]
Lance Twiggs
That was the note under his keyboard that he was referring to in the first text of that chain.
- [77:06]
Lauren Hunt
So where did you find us on.
- [77:08]
Lance Twiggs
On his desk, underneath his like computer keyboard.
- [77:13]
Lauren Hunt
And what, I assume you read it.
- [77:19]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [77:20]
Lauren Hunt
And then what did you do with it after you read it?
- [77:24]
Lance Twiggs
I believe I just put it back down on the desk after I took a picture of it.
- [77:28]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And again, the time you read it was probably around 11 o' clock or so on the 10th.
- [77:34]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [77:34]
Lauren Hunt
The night of September 10th. Right. And did you ever see that again after you placed it back on his desk?
- [77:44]
Lance Twiggs
No, I don't think I did.
- [77:46]
Lauren Hunt
And that was a desk in his bedroom?
- [77:48]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [77:49]
Lauren Hunt
And that's a separate bedroom than your bedroom?
- [77:51]
Lance Twiggs
Yep.
- [77:53]
Lauren Hunt
And I want to go to what's been titled 16.2. And do you recognize this series of messages here?
- [78:08]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah, that was the server like his friend that I was mentioning.
- [78:14]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And this is your phone again?
- [78:17]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [78:19]
Lauren Hunt
And I'm assuming you recognize it because the big crack up at the top and so this is a server. Is this Discord?
- [78:28]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah, this is Discord.
- [78:30]
Lauren Hunt
And who, who are members of this or I don't want names, just generally. Who are these people?
- [78:35]
Lance Twiggs
This is his friend group. They play D and D together every week.
- [78:41]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And I just want to scroll through this to make sure that get a chance to take a look at it. Go to the next page or.
- [78:51]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [78:55]
Lauren Hunt
So Tyler Icom. Who's that?
- [78:57]
Lance Twiggs
That's Tyler Robinson.
- [79:00]
Lauren Hunt
These other people are just others that are members of the server.
- [79:03]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [79:04]
Lauren Hunt
Jug Barnaby Marina.
- [79:06]
Dave Aronberg
Dm.
- [79:07]
Lauren Hunt
Yes.
- [79:08]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah, like DM means Dungeon Master. So this is, these are like most of them are names they're using in the, in the game they're playing currently.
- [79:20]
Lauren Hunt
Yeah, it looks like the last text from Tyler looks like it's 8pm and do you know what day this would have been? 8pm on the 10th or the 11th?
- [79:31]
Lance Twiggs
I would think that would be the 11th because on. least I think so, because I don't think on the 10th that he messaged anyone before me at like 11, so.
- [79:44]
Lauren Hunt
And he turned himself in on the 11th, right?
- [79:47]
Lance Twiggs
I thought so, yeah.
- [79:48]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, again we're just going to go through this so that we have a record of the messages. Is that an accurate recording of that thread?
- [80:03]
Lance Twiggs
To my knowledge, yes.
- [80:05]
Lauren Hunt
And that was sent, it looks like between September 10th and September 12th. Looks like the last day on this is September 12th. Screen.
- [80:13]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [80:16]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. All right. So again those messages covered from September 10th to the evening of September 11th. Now, September 11th, what time did or did you see Tyler on September 11th?
- [80:34]
Lance Twiggs
Yes.
- [80:34]
Lauren Hunt
When did you first see him? On September 11th. So this is the day after?
- [80:38]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah, I saw him when I woke up. Like I said, he was up and around doing a lot of stuff around the house and then I, I think I saw him after that message where I said I'll come home and say I'm doing laundry because I didn't want him going to my parents house. Right Then when he said there was probably cops outside. So. So I went back home and it was just him there and I said bye to him and then he drove off. So I just went back to my parents house.
- [81:15]
Lauren Hunt
So he acted erratically. Was he pacing? Was he just sitting down, relaxing?
- [81:22]
Lance Twiggs
No, he was, he was walking around
- [81:24]
Lauren Hunt
a lot and that's within the home. And did he talk about what he had done?
- [81:34]
Lance Twiggs
Didn't go into detail. He just. I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before and he said it was. I started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn't done it. And then kept going around and just doing stuff, I think to keep himself busy or distracted or something.
- [81:57]
Lauren Hunt
Did he talk about what he was going to do next.
- [82:04]
Lance Twiggs
And then eventually said that he would talk to his parents or turn himself over.
- [82:11]
Lauren Hunt
And when you left, was that how you, you left understanding that he was going to turn himself in or go to his parents house? Yeah.
- [82:19]
Lance Twiggs
And I didn't really want to be at our apartment while any of that was happening, regardless of what went down.
- [82:30]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. Before he came home, had you seen the press, the press releases, any of the media on this?
- [82:37]
Lance Twiggs
I'd seen one Instagram like link a friend of mine had sent in our group chat, but I have hadn't really looked into it at all.
- [82:48]
Lauren Hunt
And had you seen the images that were released of the suspect?
- [82:53]
Lance Twiggs
I did the next day. I don't think I saw any. On the 10th, I'm going to show
- [82:59]
Lauren Hunt
you a couple of those images. I'm on the FBI's website. You can see the URL there at the top. This is a press release about this event. And here on the screen you see these. There's looks like there's two rows of three images. Do you recognize the person in these images?
- [83:24]
Lance Twiggs
I wouldn't say with a hundred percent certainty just because of camera quality, but that looks like him in terms of the shoes he's wearing, the sunglasses. I don't think I'd specifically seen him wearing that hat, but he was usually wearing a hat and then jeans. So it definitely, especially the bottom, the last two definitely do look like him. Oh, they do look like Tyler Robinson.
- [83:55]
Lauren Hunt
And you talked about that with your friends, right?
- [84:00]
Lance Twiggs
His friends?
- [84:01]
Lauren Hunt
Yeah.
- [84:03]
Lance Twiggs
I don't know if I talked. I don't remember if I talked about it with any of my friends. And then since I didn't have my phone after that for a while and I still am not using social media, I don't know on my friend's end.
- [84:16]
Agent Brian Davis
Okay.
- [84:18]
Lauren Hunt
All right, I want to back up a little bit now. We've talked about September 10th, but let me get a little bit of context here. So did you game with Tyler?
- [84:29]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [84:29]
Lauren Hunt
What kind of games?
- [84:33]
Lance Twiggs
Played some just kind of party games together, like stuff, anything that would be multiplayer with a group of friends. There was one game he really liked called Sea of thieves, where he plays like a pirate and you can. You can fight against people, but most of it's just like, fishing, fighting sharks, skeletons kind of stuff. We played some co op games where it's like you both have to work together to win in whatever way. Way back when, like, when I was just out of high school, when I first knew him online, we played some, like, shooting games together, but I didn't know him very well, so that was just when we had, like, a whole friend group on to play, and he was someone that my friends invited.
- [85:16]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. Did you and he ever talk about politics?
- [85:21]
Lance Twiggs
He did more than me. I didn't really. Still don't really keep up with politics very much. He'd usually talk about stuff he heard on the radio on his drive to work in, like, their work car, since it sounds like their whole crew went in the same car most of the time. But I wouldn't say super consistently because it wasn't a topic I really contributed
- [85:46]
Lauren Hunt
much on about character. Charlie Kirk. Did he ever talk about Charlie Kirk?
- [85:50]
Lance Twiggs
I personally had never heard him talk about Charlie Kirk before, specifically.
- [85:55]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, how about political issues? So did you ever talk about gender identity issues and LGBTQ rights?
- [86:08]
Lance Twiggs
No, not. Not really.
- [86:12]
Dave Aronberg
Usually.
- [86:12]
Lance Twiggs
If you did talk about politics stuff, it was relating to Trump or current, like, policies being, like, issued or voted. Voted on, I think. Yeah.
- [86:28]
Lauren Hunt
Okay, so before that you have been
- [86:31]
Lance Twiggs
For a short time. Yes.
- [86:33]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And I understand you're going by Luna at some point.
- [86:37]
Lance Twiggs
To some people, yeah. But not as an overall thing.
- [86:43]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. Okay. I think that's all the questions I have for this portion. Let me check and see if I've missed anything. The dremel that you talked about, you said he had asked for that, Is that right? And had he told you it was to inscribe bullets?
- [87:06]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [87:07]
Lauren Hunt
And so did you have a Dremel then?
- [87:10]
Lance Twiggs
Yeah.
- [87:10]
Lauren Hunt
Okay.
- [87:11]
Lance Twiggs
It was in our, like, we had a. Our apartment. We had a section where we kept all our, like, random tools for household stuff in our, like, lower basement level pantry. So, yeah.
- [87:24]
Lauren Hunt
Okay. And did you give that to him or tell him where it was?
- [87:26]
Lance Twiggs
I just told him where it was, yeah.
- [87:29]
Lauren Hunt
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- [90:47]
Agent Brian Davis
Ms. Hunt.
- [90:48]
Judge
Thank you, judge. Agent Davis, I asked you yesterday, but I want to remind the court and those present, were you physically present at the interview we just watched in States Exhibit 16?
- [91:02]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I was there.
- [91:04]
Judge
And aside from the court ordered redactions, did it appear to you to be fair and accurate? Accurate about what? You remember that interview that day?
- [91:15]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, yes I do.
- [91:18]
Judge
During that interview, did Mr. Twiggs, was he shown or. Or referenced certain items of evidence?
- [91:25]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he was.
- [91:27]
Judge
What types of items of evidence was he shown?
- [91:30]
Agent Brian Davis
It was the text messages between himself and Tyler. Between himself and Tyler Robinson. A discord message. Discord chat messages and a handwritten note.
- [91:42]
Judge
And then we also saw in the video he was also shown the FBI release press release photos of the potential suspect.
- [91:49]
Agent Brian Davis
That's correct, yes.
- [91:51]
Judge
Have you reviewed all of those items as part of the investigation?
- [91:54]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I have.
- [91:55]
Judge
You're familiar with them?
- [91:57]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes.
- [91:58]
Judge
All right. I want to put just on the witnesses screen what's been marked for identification. Estates exhibit 16. And for the record, this is. This includes the edit that the court. The one edit that the court has previously ordered.
- [92:12]
Agent Brian Davis
Thank you.
- [92:13]
Judge
Let me know when you see that on your screen.
- [92:20]
Agent Brian Davis
I see it. I see it now.
- [92:23]
Judge
Do you recognize this?
- [92:25]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I do.
- [92:26]
Judge
What is it?
- [92:27]
Agent Brian Davis
This is a photograph of screenshots of text messages between Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs. This is a photograph of Lance's phone.
- [92:41]
Judge
So. Sorry, you said photograph. You also said screenshot. Can you differentiate or clarify there?
- [92:47]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, sorry. These are photographs directly from Lance's phone.
- [92:52]
Judge
How do you know that?
- [92:55]
Agent Brian Davis
In Lance's first interview he is shown. He's showing the FBI agents these, these text messages, describes them to the agents. And at that time those, those his phone was photographed.
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Judge
And you testified, I believe yesterday that Mr. Twig's first interview was the morning of September 12, 2025. Is the that correct?
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Agent Brian Davis
That's correct, yes.
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Judge
Were you physically present at that interview?
- [93:25]
Agent Brian Davis
No, I was not there.
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Judge
Have you spoken with the officers or agents that that were.
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I've spoken to one of those agents that was there.
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Judge
And you stated that that first September 12th interview of Mr. Twigs was recorded.
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. Audio, video recorded.
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Judge
Have you reviewed that recording?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I have.
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Judge
So you stated that we're looking in States Exhibit 16.1 at a picture of Mr. Twig's phone?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes.
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Judge
Do you know who took these photos?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it was Agent Larson with FBI.
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Judge
Did you speak with Agent Larson and confirm that?
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Agent Brian Davis
I did.
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Judge
And you. You kind of made reference to this already. But how did Mr. Twiggs initially show law enforcement the relevant text messages during that first interview?
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Agent Brian Davis
On September 12, he physically. He shows them the phone and then allows them to photograph the phone.
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Judge
And does he identify it as his phone in that interview?
- [94:27]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he does.
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Judge
Does he refer to any particular features of the phone that allows him to make that identification?
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Agent Brian Davis
I believe the second interview he refers to the large crack in the upper left screen that. So he identifies that from in his second interview that was given on April 20.
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Judge
And according to your review of the recording of his first interview, and in speaking with the agents that were there, did he have his personal phone with him at the time of the September 12 interview?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he did.
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Judge
And was this same text thread that we're seeing in States Exhibit 16.1 shown to him during his second interview in. Sorry, let me get the date right. April 20, 2026, at the Utah County Attorney's Office that we just observed part of in States Exhibit 16?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it was shown to him.
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Judge
Was he asked how Tyler Robinson is saved in his phone, like as a contact?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yeah, just as Tyler.
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Judge
Without saying it, obviously. Did he identify Tyler Robinson's phone number?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he did.
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Judge
Did you check the number that Mr. Twigs gave as Tyler Robinson's phone number against law enforcement records?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I did.
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Judge
And do they match?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, they match.
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Judge
Is State's Exhibit 16.1 A Fair and accurate representation of the text thread between or the relevant text thread between Mr. Twiggs and Mr. Robinson?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it is.
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Judge
As part of the investigation, was a cellbrite extraction performed on Mr. Twiggs phone?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it was.
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Judge
Did you personally review that extraction?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I have.
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Judge
And according to that extraction, did Mr. Robinson and Mr. Twigs exchange text messages on September, September 10th through 11th, 2025?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, they did.
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Judge
What time was that first text sent? According to the cellbrite extraction, the first
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Agent Brian Davis
text was September 10th at 11:00pm
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Judge
all right, Judge, I would move to Admit States Exhibit 16.1. And I. And then pursuant to court order, I would. I would move to publish it to the monitors.
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Lance Twiggs
So, Novak, we have no further objections beyond those that the court, of course, is very familiar with at this point in time.
- [97:00]
Agent Brian Davis
All right, I'll note the standing objections made by defense. Those objections are overruled. This 16.1 is admitted into evidence and may be published to the gallery as well as electronically distributed through the camera.
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Judge
All right, Agent, I want to. I'm not going to go through every single message, but I do want to have you read aloud certain portions of them. And I apologize to council, these are not actually given a page number. I have page numbers, but I'm happy to confer that we're on the same page as we go. So here we're looking at page one of States Exhibit 16.1. If you could start. If you could read a little more than halfway down where it begins. Wednesday, 11pm Will you start reading underneath that?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. So this would have been from. Tyler says, drop what you're doing, look under your keyboard.
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Judge
And I apologize. Let me stop you there. How do you know that message would have been from Tyler Robinson?
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Agent Brian Davis
That's just so. Any of the messages in gray would be from Tyler and message in blue would be from Lance. It's just the way the iPhone distinguishes the messages. And also Lance in his interview also acknowledges that who was saying what.
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Judge
And up at the top, who do we see that this thread is between Tyler. All right, sorry to interrupt you. So read that again, starting from look under the keyboard.
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Agent Brian Davis
So after that, then Lance responds. He says, what? And then he says, you're joking, right? And then Tyler says, fuck, I tried to delete that.
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Judge
Scroll down to page two and if you can continue reading along.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay. And Tyler says, I'm still okay, my love, but I'm stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but gotta grab my rifle. Still, to be honest, I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you. And then Lance replies, you aren't the one who did it, right? And Tyler says, I am. I'm sorry. Lance says, I thought they caught the person. And then Tyler says, no, they grabbed some crazy old dude and interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from the drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked up down. It's quiet, almost enough to get out, but there's one vehicle lingering.
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Judge
We could scroll down to page three. Continue reading.
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Agent Brian Davis
Lance says, why? And Tyler says, why did I do it? And Lance says, yeah. Tyler says, I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I'm able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence going to attempt to retrieve it again. Hopefully they have moved on. I haven't seen anything in the news about them finding it. We'll update you shortly. Or. Sorry, we'll update you by midnight. And then Lance says, all right, stay safe. How long have you been planning this?
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Judge
Scroll down a little bit, please, Kimberly.
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Agent Brian Davis
And Tyler replies, a bit over a week. I believe I can get close to it, but there is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot, but I don't want to chance it.
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Judge
We can scroll down to page four and continue reading. About halfway down. I'll. I'll stop you. About halfway down.
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Agent Brian Davis
This is while they were spot. But I don't want to chance it while they were parked there. If they had found it, I imagine there would be more commotion. Again, I'm sorry for you into all of this. You shouldn't have to worry about this. And Lance replies, does anyone else know? Tyler says, not to my knowledge.
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Judge
All right, I'll stop you there. Let's move to page five. So this should be page four. So just scroll down one, please, Kimberly. And if you could read. Starting. Sorry, Kimberly. Scroll a bit more down. If you could read. I don't know, about one third of the way up. That starts with guess.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay. Tyler says, guess. I'm. Guess I'm just sitting in my car watching reels for another hour, hoping this guy fucks off.
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Judge
And continue.
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Agent Brian Davis
And Lance says, are you okay still? And Tyler says, yes. Check and spot again now, Will.
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Judge
Sorry. Now we're on page six. Continue reading.
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Agent Brian Davis
We'll update soon. He continues. The squad car was moved further away enough that I should be able to move in. I backed off because I thought I heard footsteps. Maybe a foot patrol, but the crickets here are so fucking loud. Gonna see if the. If the road closer to campus is open so I can drive past and check shit out. Probably still closed off though. Getting worried. Hard to know for sure. But I'm not finding my rifle. Could be in the wrong spot. Lance says, do you think they found it? And Tyler says, dunno, they haven't published anything. If they have. And then Lance says, why did you leave it behind?
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Judge
Oh, sorry, Kimberly. If you could scroll down
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Agent Brian Davis
originally. Also, does it have a serial number?
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Judge
We could scroll to page 7. And I'll. Continue reading. I'll stop you on this page in a little bit.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay. So Tyler continues. Id If I had. If I had a serial number, but it wouldn't trace to me. I worry about prints. I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits. Didn't have the ability or time to
- [103:20]
Judge
bring it with and stop there, please. And then if we could go to the next page, page eight. And if you could start at the top.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay, so. So Lance says, was your change of clothes there or was that also gone? Or did you bring those with you originally? Anyway, you could replace the gun or would he notice? Then Tyler says, only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel. I'll bet that canine sniffed it out. Little snitching bastard. Replace it? Unlikely. I don't fully know what the gun was because it was old as shit and Gramps did some modifying. There was a four digit serial on it. God only knows who it's registered to. Hopefully some dead guy who gave it to Grandpa. And he continues, remember how I was engraving bullets? The fucking messages are mostly a big meme. If I see notices bulge uwu on Fox News, I might have a stroke.
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Judge
And then continue. I'll stop you in a moment.
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Agent Brian Davis
Says, all right, I'm gonna have to leave it. That really fucking sucks.
- [104:32]
Judge
Let me stop you there. And then if we could go on to the next page. Page nine. And do you see the first blue message we See on page 9? Can you start there?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. So Lance, do you need it for hunting? And Tyler says no, my dad wanted to use it to use a high caliber for the rifle hunt. Judging from today, I say, gramp's gun does just fine. IDK, I think that was a tooth. A 2K scope. Lance says, Geez. And then Teller says, OMW, home 3.5 hours. Lance says, Drive 6. And then Tyler says, delete this exchange
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Judge
and I'll stop you right there. And then. Sorry, we're on page nine. If we can scroll to page 15. And then the second second grade message on page 15, if you could start there.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay, so this is Tyler. I'm going to turn myself in willingly. One of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff. We hope to keep things sort of quiet here and then I'll stop you
- [105:58]
Judge
there and we can remove the exhibit from the screen. Thank you. Kimberly. We mentioned a cellbrite extraction of Mr. Twigg's phone. Do you know what time that last text was sent?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yeah, I recall it was just before 8:00pm on September 11th. It was, I think 7:42pm is my recollection.
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Judge
I'm sorry, September 11th?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes.
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Judge
Would September 12th make more make sense or you're saying September 11th.
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Agent Brian Davis
So September 11th was when we turned himself in? On September 11th? Yeah.
- [106:42]
Judge
Thank you. All right, I'm going to show just for the Witness. States Exhibit 16.2. Let Me know when you see that.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay, I see it.
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Judge
Do you recognize this?
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Agent Brian Davis
I do, yep.
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Judge
What is it?
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Agent Brian Davis
This is just more photos of Lance's phone. Sorry, these are the. Sorry, I had to play a brain. Sorry. Go with your question, please.
- [107:20]
Judge
I'm just asking what it is. So you said it's a photo of Lance's phone. Do you know if that's from the same time period as the exhibit we just looked at?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes.
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Judge
And what is it of?
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Agent Brian Davis
These are the Discord messages that Lance had talked about.
- [107:35]
Judge
How do you know that?
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Agent Brian Davis
So Lance, in the first interview with FBI, shows the phone. The photos are taken by Agent Larson, and then these images are shown to Lance during his second interview. And he confirms that these. These are those same messages. And this is photos of Lance's phone.
- [107:54]
Judge
You mentioned an Agent Larson took the photos. Do you know if he's the same agent that took the photos of this exhibit 16.2?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, same agent.
- [108:03]
Judge
And you spoke with him to confirm that?
- [108:05]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I did.
- [108:07]
Judge
Are you aware if Mr. Twiggs is actually part of this Discord thread?
- [108:13]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he is a part of it. He doesn't in. In this section. He doesn't reply to it, but he does state in his statement that he was part of the thread.
- [108:24]
Judge
Does he identify whether Mr. Robinson is part of that thread?
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Agent Brian Davis
He does.
- [108:28]
Judge
And when did that happen?
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Agent Brian Davis
He identifies that in this first interview with the two FBI agents, and then he again confirms that in the second interview.
- [108:38]
Judge
Did Mr. Twig say what username on disposal discord Mr. Robinson used, at least with respect to this thread?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it's the Tyler slash. Ikum. Ikum.
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Judge
And is 16 exhibit 16.2 a fair and accurate representation of that Discord thread?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it is.
- [108:59]
Judge
Did law enforcement send, as part of your investigation, did law enforcement send a subpoena to Discord?
- [109:05]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, they did.
- [109:07]
Judge
Were these messages recovered via that subpoena?
- [109:10]
Agent Brian Davis
They were.
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Judge
Did you review that?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I did.
- [109:15]
Judge
And in States Exhibit 16.2, that is before you, when is the first message from Tyler sent? 7.57pm and it says yesterday. Do you have any knowledge of what day that would have been?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, this would have been September 11th.
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Judge
So Tyler sends the first message that you're seeing on Exhibit 16.2, September 11, at 7:57pm yes, that's correct. You testified earlier that Mr. Robinson arrived at the Washington County Sheriff's office approximately at 9pm, is that right?
- [109:57]
Lauren Hunt
Right.
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, that's correct.
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Judge
And although you weren't physically present there yet, cuz you were flying down, how do you know that he arrived approximately
- [110:06]
Agent Brian Davis
around 9pm just based on the just the police reports I reviewed and and then go back and look at the video and such.
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Judge
Judge the the state moves to admit states exhibit 16.2 and publish it pursuant to court order.
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Matt Murphy
Mr. Novak, thank you.
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Lance Twiggs
We've already lodged all of our objections
- [110:34]
Agent Brian Davis
on all three phases.
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Judge
All right.
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Agent Brian Davis
Noting the objections standing objections by Defense states Exhibit 16.2 is admitted into evidence and may be published only in the the gallery not for distribution on electronic media.
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Megyn Kelly
SiriusXM Fans, if you are listening to us now, we've lost audio from the proceeding. We think intentionally on their part, they've turned off the mics. We believe right now to have a private consultation between the judge and the lawyers on whether the public can have access to the Discord messages of Tyler Robinson, Lance Twigs and others in their gaming group. There were at least three confessions alleged by my count. One was the letter that he left under Lance Twiggs keyboard. One was the text messages he and Lance Twiggs had about the letter and what he had done. And one was in the Discord Group message chat where he confessed, they said at 7:57pm on 911 the day after the murder, one hour before he showed up at the sheriff's office to turn himself in. Just we're going to go back in there when the, when they allow us to hear what's happening again. But what an extraordinary 40 minutes we all just had together. My God. Tyler Robinson went back home. He returned to his apartment with Lance Twiggs the day after the murder and they walked around together on 911 during the day and talked about what he'd done. Moreover, we heard we'll get to all of this. But moreover, we heard far more about their text exchange than has been made public. The text exchange we know about because law enforcement identified it in their what's called the criminal information, the thing that brings charges. And we had been reading from that. We've read from it extensively on the show this week. This is the first we've heard some of the additional lines that were eliminated by ellipses and the criminal information. And they were, they were interesting. They were, they were telling in some instances. But we're getting a much more full picture of the exchange that they had. Like states Exhibit 16.1, Wednesday at 11pm when what happened was Tyler Robinson had a preset text, like an automated text that showed up on Lance Twigg's phone that read drop what you were doing. Look under my keyboard. We're back. Standby. I'll get Back to you. Let's listen.
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Agent Brian Davis
I'm on September 10th. And so at that point, Lance finds this. This is the letter he finds under that keyboard.
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Judge
Okay, so to clarify, Mr. Twiggs gets a text from Mr. Robinson around 11pm on September 10th telling him to look under his keyboard?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. Correct.
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Judge
And this is what Mr. Twigs represented was underneath the keyboard?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. Yes.
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Judge
How did law enforcement get this photograph?
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Agent Brian Davis
So following Lance's first interview at St. George PD, his phone is recovered at that point, taken into evidence, it is downloaded. I believe it was the following day or shortly after that, the FBI transported that phone to the rcfl, which is the Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory in Salt Lake City. The phone was downloaded through cellebrite. And after that, following that download was complete, SBI received a flash drive containing that download. From there, it went to a SIAC analyst to go through that data of his phone to look for any pertinent evidence or information that may be on there. And at that point that this image of this letter was located.
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Judge
All right, I'm going to break down a few things you mentioned. I just want to make sure the record's clear. You mentioned Celebrate a few times. What is Celebrate?
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Agent Brian Davis
It's a downloading software that's commonly used by law enforcement. I don't do that myself, but it's commonly used to recover data to download electronic devices, particularly cell phones.
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Judge
And then you mentioned siac. What does that mean?
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Agent Brian Davis
It's the Statewide Information Analysis Center. It's a division within dps. It's a fusion center. They assist law enforcement with intelligence, various intelligence information for our investigations.
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Judge
You mentioned that you don't personally do Celebrate phone extractions. Have you spoken to the law enforcement officers that performed the cell bright extraction on Mr. Twig's phone in this case?
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Agent Brian Davis
I don't believe I specifically talked to. To those individuals, rcfl that did that. But. But, but they. Yeah, that was then provided to sbi.
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Judge
Did you speak with officers at sb, SBI that have recovered this photo that we're seeing in States Exhibit 16.3?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes. Yes, I've spoken to. Yeah, I have spoken with an ASIAC analyst who particularly in particular found this image. I've spoken to her personally as well.
- [116:18]
Judge
Was Mr. Twiggs shown what's been marked as States Exhibit 16.3 during his second interview?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, he was.
- [116:27]
Judge
And again, you were present for that?
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Agent Brian Davis
Yes, I was.
- [116:29]
Judge
There is Exhibit 16.3 a Fair and accurate representation of the photo law enforcement obtained from Mr. Twigg's phone and that he was subsequently shown in the second Interview?
- [116:40]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes. It's fair and accurate,
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Judge
Your honor. The state would move to admit exhibit 16.3 and then also publish pursuant to court order.
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Megyn Kelly
Mr. Novak.
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Lance Twiggs
Just noting the objections that have previously been made.
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Matt Murphy
And I think that the court's order
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Megyn Kelly
is that it may be published in the courtroom only.
- [117:02]
Agent Brian Davis
Thank you. Noting the standing Objection by Defense 16.3.
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Matt Murphy
Correct.
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Judge
Correct.
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Agent Brian Davis
Is admitted into evidence and may be published only in the courtroom and not be shown or videoed.
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Megyn Kelly
Once again, they've cut the mics inside the courtroom to have a discussion about. We don't know what they're planning on publishing that exhibit inside the courtroom, but not beyond for now. But we know what it is, at least in part. It's the note that we were talking about just as we tossed back to the courtroom that Tyler Robinson left for Lance Twiggs underneath Tyler Robinson's keyboard in his bedroom in the apartment that they shared on September 10, 2022. Sorry. 25. The day after Charlie was killed. Sorry. The day Charlie was killed, Tyler had set the text message on his phone, the text messaging function, to deliver an automated message to Lance Twiggs that read, drop what you are doing and look under my keyboard. We know from the criminal information, even though they're not showing us what was under the keyboard, that there was a note. This is. I'm reading directly from the criminal information. The roommate looked under the keyboard and found a note that stated, quote, I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it. End quote. Police found a photograph of this note. You heard them talking about that in court just there. They found that photograph on Lance Twigg's phone thanks to this celebrite technology. It was unclear to me whether that was still in his photographs as an easily retrievable photo or whether he had deleted the photo. And that's why they needed this technology celebrate to find it. Did not hear testimony about that. And then the criminal information adds the following text exchange then took place. And then you heard the long and back and forth on it. Let's go back into the court.
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Judge
How do you know that?
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Agent Brian Davis
I've viewed the FBI's website and I. I recall seeing these images released on September 11th.
- [119:15]
Judge
Does states exhibit 16.4. Is that a fair and accurate representation of what you reviewed from the FBI and that the FBI released?
- [119:23]
Agent Brian Davis
Yes, it is.
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Judge
The state moves to admit exhibit 16.4 and publish according to court order.
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Lance Twiggs
Mr. Novak, no further objections. Thank you.
- [119:37]
Dave Aronberg
All right.
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Agent Brian Davis
Noting the standing objection by defense overruling that objection. States Exhibit 16.4 is admitted into evidence and may be published in the courtroom.
- [119:51]
Judge
And again in the. In the discord.
- [119:57]
Megyn Kelly
Okay. Once again they argue and then they pop back up. I guess they're arguing. I mean, just. Just when they identify the exhibits, I guess they don't want us to hear what they're identifying. I'm guessing from what we heard at the tail end there, we know that 16.1 was, I believe, text messages. 16.2 was the Discord messages. Wait, 16.1? Yes, 16.1 was the text messages. You're joking, right? And then we heard Tyler add, fuck, I tried to delete that. That's new. That's new. That was not in the criminal information as something Tyler said, but. So he texted him, look under my keyboard. He looked under the keyboard. Then he responds to Tyler saying. And he reads, I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it. Then he texts to Charlie, what? With multiple exclamation or question marks. You're joking, right? And what we now know is Robinson responded, fuck, I tried to delete that. Very interesting. So I guess Tyler had sent this automated message. It's kind of interesting. And if Tyler's telling the truth, that he tried to delete that text to. To Lance, then Tyler was taken aback by Lance's text, which must have come out of the blue in a way, to him at, you know, 10:00pm that night. Saying, what? You're joking, right? And Tyler's first response was, f, I tried to delete that. And then they were off to the races with Tyler. There was a lot more in the actual text exchange than there was in the criminal information. And we have the screen grabs from the actual texts, which we will go through. I can't do that live on the air with you right now. But you heard them. A lot more details about why are they parked there, the crickets are loud. Does. Does anyone else know? Not to my knowledge. That was the first we heard all of those details. And then Tyler telling Lance, delete this exchange also so interesting. Did he? Again, I don't know if they got that text exchange off of Lance's text message records like we all have on our phones, or thanks to that Crime Brite technology that retreats it. Here's one we're showing. Can you text it to me, Steve, so I can see it up close? I can't read the monitor from where I am. So, yeah. Unclear to me whether Tyler actually had. I'm sorry, Lance had deleted all of this and they just recovered it. Or whether it was still on his phone. Either way, the efforts to cover it up by delete this exchange did not work. It's all there. For the first time, we're actually seeing the back and forth with like the text message. Here it is reading here, 7pm does that still work for you? Wait, hold on a second. Well, this is before the shooting, I guess. I'm trying to read it on my phone. I love you. Moi, moi. I love you more. So much. Much so. Moi, moi. They're doing the kissy sounds. These are. Okay. That's actually quite interesting. This is the lead up to his automated text alerting Lance that he's killed Charlie. And they talk. So you get a feel a little bit for how these two talk. This is earlier. I can't tell the date, but it's. It's prior to the murder. A day I can see. It's maybe the Sunday prior to the Wednesday murder. 7:00pm does that still, that still work for you? Yep. I love you. That's Monday. It's blurry, but I think I can read that It's Monday at 1:15. I love you writes I think Tyler. Yeah. Lance responds, love you too. Hope work's going well. Then Wednesday, Well, Wednesday, that was the day of the murder and it's 4:33pm well, that's fascinating. And Wednesday, 4:33pm Tyler texts Lance, love you. Mwah, mwah. Like M W A H typed out twice. And Tyler responds, sorry. Lance responds, I love you, Morzes. Moi, moi, moi. I mean, okay. Then that same day, Wednesday at 11pm Comes in from Tyler. Drop what you are doing. Look under my keyboard. And Lance responds. What? With the X clip with the question marks. You're joking, right? And then, fuck. I tried to delete that. Very interesting. And we're getting more. But truly the most interesting thing to me that we've heard in all of this is that he went, Tyler went back home on September 11, the day after the murder. That Lance said, I saw him when I woke up. He was walking around the house. I went home and it was just Tyler there. I said goodbye to him and I went back to my parents house. The prosecutor was asking if he was acting erratically, which. Which Lance had apparently signed on to and then said yes. He was pacing around a lot. Lance said he didn't go into detail about what he had done. But I asked him if what he said the night before was true. And he said yes. He cried and said he wished he hadn't done it. Unbelievable. What's that? We're back, Steve. Oh, no, we're not back.
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Agent Brian Davis
Okay.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah, he cried and said he wished he hadn't done it. He said he would talk to his parents or turn himself in when you left. Was that the plan? Yes. I did not want to be at our apartment when that happened or when you said possible law enforcement got there and went from there. And this is just. It's chilling. I don't know. It's just, you know, he cried and said he wished he hadn't done it. And what good does that do? He was crying on September 11th wishing he hadn't done it. Think of the condition of Erica Kirk and the nation. All of us, like, okay, so this is the first we've had any indication he's sorry. He's sorry that he did it.
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Judge
Great.
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Megyn Kelly
It's not going to spare his life. There's just something about knowing that not as forgiving as Erica. It's galling in some way. Okay, you're sorry. Maybe you should have thought about it a little bit more before you took out your. All right, we're going to bring in our legal panel and get their thoughts. Mark and Matt are out, but Dave Aronberg is here along with Mark Eiglarsch, as well as Viva Fry. Viva's a rumble host. Dave's former prosecutor of Palm beach county, and Mark is a criminal and civil attorney. Guys, pretty stunning. Pretty stunning stuff there. Like, my jaw was on the floor. We did get to see Lance Twiggs, first of all. Part of the video was played, which I thought was very helpful because you could see him. He was in a suit. He was dressed as a man, even though the defense keeps calling him Luna. He said he's only Luna for some people. But he was wearing a video. He was wearing a suit in the video. He had long hair. He was chewing gum. Here's a picture of him, which they then asked him to spit out, which he did. And to think of Tyler Robinson sitting in that courtroom. Dave Aronberg watching his roommate, former lover, whom he will never see again, in all likelihood in person or at least not never be able to touch, give it all up. You know, talk about the text messages, the. The letter that was found under the keyboard, the. The conversation the day after. An extraordinary conversation the day after. I can only imagine what the dynamic was inside that courtroom. Your reaction to what we just heard, Megan?
- [128:17]
Dave Aronberg
I thought that Twigs came across as credible. It sounds like he had no part in this, and he generally was shocked that Tyler Robinson did this. And these messages are really damning. I Know, there are a lot of people on the Internet that wanna believe what they wanna believe. There's nothing that could prove otherwise. That they think this is some international conspiracy or somehow Tyler Robinson was framed. But you've got a guy who confessed at least three and possibly four times. You have the note under the keyboard and then you have him saying he had forgotten he had sent the text that alerted Twigs to the note under the keyboard. Oh, darn. So, I mean, it's very typical for a moron like Tyler Robinson to act like that. Number two, you've got the subsequent one that he justified the murder because he had enough of Charlie's hatred. Then you had the discord chat later on and then you had. And I don't think we've heard it yet, but you're going to hear about how when his parents confronted him, he confessed to his parents according to reports. So four times. And for those out there who think, well, the wording of one of those confessions is so Shakespearean, it could not have come from an incel like this guy. No, you saw subsequent messages like his dismay that they could find the rifle and what is he going to do to replace his grandfather's rifle? And he was cursing and he was scared. That's who this guy is. They've got the right guy.
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Megyn Kelly
Even the, you know, like the kissy like that. Clearly they don't communicate the way some of us would conjure up in our heads. Like the gamers, these, you know, young gamers. Like these are two gay men, at least one of whom, maybe both are a furry. One of whom may or may not be trans. Like, I don't think we can be assuming how they talk. I think we need to be reading the text messages to glean how they talk.
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Dave Aronberg
Megan, that's such a good point. I was on our show MK True Crime and I was debating with Lauren Conlon about that, about the language used, and she said it does sound weird and unusual and I don't see it. I can't relate to it. I said, yeah, you're not a furry. Right? I mean, right. We're talking about a whole different universe of people here. And so we're supposed to be like, well, they don't comply with our current standards of decency and language. Come on. The whole thing is weird.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. I don't know a lot of 20 year old guys who are doing that to each other like that. Okay, we're in a different territory here already. On the preceding text, which came days before. So if this is like all some FBI plot to, like, come up with a text message. Boy, they did a good job. They went back days, they made the super gay exchanges between the two of them to set up phrases like my love, I don't, you know, whatever. But Mark Iguar listening to that whole thing was pretty extraordinary. But the Lance Twig testimonial and the evidence that came in right, right after from that agent who we listened to, that was Lauren Hunt, the deputy DA doing the cross examination and. Sorry, who? Say that again, Steve. Oh, Agent Davis. Oh, yeah, it was. Agent Brian Davis with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation. Your reaction to what you heard?
- [131:39]
Mark Eiglarsch
I thought the testimony was compelling. I think the state did a great job laying it out. Not just for the judge who again, I think in 20 minutes would have found probable cause, but for those independents. I'll call them, not the conspiracy theorists. They're never going to be convinced. It doesn't matter. This is nail in the coffin right here. It's so clear that he's guilty. But for those people, it doesn't matter for the independents, and by that I mean those who are reasonable, those who, like myself, have an open mind and say, okay, I wasn't there. I don't know what happened. I proved to me the chain of custody that there weren't some agents who said, let's frame this guy like the Mona Lisa for some reason, leaving the true killer out there for no reason at all, risking their life in prison to frame Tyler Robinson, which makes zero sense. I think they did a great job of laying this out. Now, I do want one other point. The fact that he feels sorry for what he did to me. There was only one thing that came from that. If ever politics get put aside and prosecutors choose to extend a life in prison offer where he waives his right to appeal and he goes away. No big trial, no more copycat folks because they're watching him and all the media attention he's getting. If they ever do that. It's more likely, in my opinion, that he would accept something like that because of that remark that he felt sorry for what he did. He's not one of these hardcore folks who can't wait to take the witness stand and read all the things that caused him to be so offended by what Kirk said that might have caused him to do this. He's not seeking his 15 minutes. It looks like he would likely take a play.
- [133:25]
Megyn Kelly
Viva your thoughts.
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Viva Fry
Well, I was going to say one thing to Mark's point. People are going to say guilty. Remind everybody this is just probable Cause, probable cause has been established.
- [133:36]
Agent Brian Davis
Period.
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Viva Fry
Full stop. People can still say it wasn't him in the video. Lance Twiggs is lying. Okay, you'll raise your reasonable doubt at trial. From a probable cause perspective, this preliminary hearing is over with a, you know, a big fat period at the end of it. I'm not convinced. You know, unlike Dave, I'm not convinced. Lance might have come off as sincere, but I'm more convinced now than I was before that he had some involvement in this. You know, one question I would have loved for, I think it was Brian Davis who asked him the questions in the video. Whoever was asking him the questions, I would have loved for them to ask
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Megyn Kelly
Lance if he was Ryan McBride.
- [134:12]
Viva Fry
Sorry. I would have loved for them to have asked if he knew what messages Tyler engraved in the bullets. Because if you're going hunting with your family, you don't need hay fascist catch on the bullet. I'm still thoroughly convinced people in the. Yeah, people. I'm convinced people in the Discord chats had advanced knowledge. I'm convinced there were more people involved in the planning and certainly now we're seeing in the COVID up afterwards people who aided and abetted Tyler Robinson after the act. And I believe that many of them had foreknowledge of what was coming beforehand. But from a probable cause perspective, it's over. And let people try to raise whatever reasonable doubt they think they can despite the evidence. But just to answer all those people on Twitter on X right now, it's the wrong guy, he wasn't the right height. Those exchanges were manufactured. You'll raise a reasonable doubt. But when it comes to probable cause, it's been established and Lance's testimony was the nail in the coffin.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah, and the other thing is you can hear the prosecution who's clearly, you know, they've been listening to the alternate theories, I'll say because they spent time asking him about the Discord phone, the Discord confession. You know, where he. The last thing he did before he put himself into custody with that sheriff's deputy friend was to go on Discord and confess again. And one of the theories out there has been that was clearly a lie because he was in custody at the time. That message on Discord was posted at 7:57pm on 911 the day after the shooting. And you saw the prosecutor there, the Lauren hunt, the deputy DA going through the timeline. And the officer said, 7:57pm that is when Tyler posted that message on Discord. And she said, and when did he arrive at the sheriff's office and he said 9pm so establishing the timeline again, that's not for the judge. That's to prove to the world he was not in custody when he posted that discord confession. He was still at his home. He had plenty of time to get down to the local sheriff's office and turn himself in. I do think it's interesting. Like I don't know whether the message, the photo of the message that was left under the keyboard and. Or the text messages were turned over by Lance Twigs or found by Celebrate. I to this moment don't know that. And let's not forget, Dave, one of the interesting things is he did not call law enforcement. Lance Twiggs did not call the cops. Didn't call him on 9 10, didn't call him on 911 when he got that message from Tyler. He didn't call him when he saw Tyler walking around the house and read double down on the confession. They had to go to him after Tyler turned himself in. So I don't know, I mean, in another world you could see the da, someone like yourself and the cops finding a way to slap charges on this guy. No?
- [137:07]
Dave Aronberg
Yeah, especially because Twigs DNA was found on the screwdriver and. And on the towel recovered with the rifle. They live together, so you could have an innocent explanation. But if you wanted to say that Twigs was an accessory, he didn't report it, you could try. The thing is, is that it's gotta be more than knowing about it and not saying. There's no, no Good Samaritan law that you have to report. But if he tried to cover it up, if he helped Tyler Robinson evade capture or cover it up, then he could be charged as an accessory. He's only been given use immunity for his testimony, so that means they could develop independently evidence against him. So he's not out of the woods yet. But my take, and I don't totally disagree with Viva, my take is that he sounded credible and I don't think he was an accessory to it. But I would keep an open mind that if they do have evidence that showed that he helped keep the heat away from his roommate, then yeah, then they should go after him too.
- [138:05]
Lance Twiggs
The.
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Megyn Kelly
I'm just going through my notes on his testimony, how he said, okay, they spent the night together in the same apartment on 99 the night before the crime. When did he leave? Early, he said maybe 5am could have been even earlier 1am saying that he had to work that day. He had a long drive to work that day and it wasn't until late that evening, 11pm or 10, according to my text here, that he received the automated message. He did cop to seeing Tyler engraved bullets earlier. Tyler told him that he was going hunting with his family. Told him to make sure. He told Tyler to make sure he did not set off the bullet in the house. Tyler asked about a Dremel to engrave. I didn't know what that was, but my team found a picture of a Dremel. And it's like a machine that. I don't know, it's like a carving, I guess.
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Viva Fry
Yeah, a mini handyman's tool. Like a dentist drill, but more powerful. You switch the end if you want to cut, engrave, whatever. It's a good, it's a good tool.
- [139:07]
Megyn Kelly
I mean, I have to be very precise. At the end of your engraving a
- [139:09]
Viva Fry
bullet, it's like it's a pencil tip. I mean, you can basically use it as a pencil for engraving and then you can buff stuff out of it. It's, it's, it's very useful.
- [139:18]
Megyn Kelly
I mean, that in and of itself, Viva really is suspicious. Like, they're sitting in the same room and he's engraving bullets and they're lovers, and he doesn't say, what do you have there?
- [139:30]
Viva Fry
What are you engraving? I'm telling you, it might be my own bias, because I'm coming into Lance's testimony already believing what I believe, and I want to find things to substantiate it, but that he's not even more shocked at what has happened, that he doesn't put. That he claims that he didn't put any of this together, and it's only late in the evening that it even clicks with him that Tyler might have done this. I've got great difficulty believing that, but one of my takeaways is, you know, listening to Lance talk about him waking up at, was it 12 or 1 o' clock in the afternoon because he didn't have work that day. What repulses me in all of this, and at the end of the day, you know, people are going to analyze this like a murder trial, and it turns into something, you know, a technical analysis is the humans behind this. You have these two degenerates, one more so than the other. And now at the center of the universe, it almost feels like they love the attention that they're getting right now. Lance is being asked questions about his childhood and, you know, the games that they used to play. And it's like it's all the attention in the world that they've ever wanted because they Snuffed out of this earth, an existence of a man that was incomparably, you know, a better human. It just makes it nauseous to actually listen to this testimony where they might even revel in the attention. And Tyler never got this much attention in his life before, and what made him famous was snuffing out the life of Charlie Kirk.
- [140:48]
Megyn Kelly
Oh, stomach turning. Who would have been a future president, without question, who led a movement, who led a Christian revival, who, at such a young age, had already made such a difference in our world. Just a profound impact on so many levels. And, yeah, these two losers sitting there with their pot and whatever else they were doing in that apartment, their stupid memes and their gamer life contributing next to nothing, took it all away. He was asked, did you read that note, that automated message? Yes. Around 11 on September 10th. They showed a picture of it. He said, then he read the note, and then he put the note back on. On Tyler's desk. We don't. Clearly, Tyler got rid of it because we've never seen the actual note. The only reason we know about that note that was under Tyler's keyboard that Tyler told Lance to go look for is because Lance took a picture of it. And the cops found that picture on his phone and ultimately found him after Tyler confessed. But they've never gotten the actual note. Clearly, Tyler went there and did some cleanup the next day, which is interesting. Let's see. He left a message. I don't think I'm gonna. He saw Tyler. We talked about that. Didn't go into detail. Yeah, I asked him whether what he said the night before was true. Yes. I mean, that's another confession mark that. We now have the confession in the note. We have the confession in the texts, we have the confession in the discord. We appear to have very close to a confession to his parents. I mean, it's as close as you can get. They don't use that word confession when he. They discuss what he said to his parents, but here is how they describe it in the criminal information. His. They agreed that the person in the surveillance looked like their son. They believed the rifle looked like the son, that the rifle they'd given him. The father contacted the son, asked him to send a photo of the rifle. Robinson did not respond. Robinson's father spoke on the phone with Robinson. Robinson implied that he planned to take his own life. Robinson's parents were able to convince him to meet at their home. Robinson implied that he was the shooter when they met, implied that he was the shooter and stated that he couldn't go to jail and just wanted to end it. When asked why he did it, Robinson explained to his parents, there is too much evil and the guy, Charlie Kirk, spreads too much hate. They talked about Robinson turning himself in and convinced Robinson to speak with a family friend and a retired deputy sheriff. At Robinson's father's request, the family friend met with Robinson and his parents and convinced Robinson to turn himself in. So I don't use the word confession, Mark, but I mean, might as well. And now we have a fifth. A fifth confession. When he saw Lance Twiggs the day after, and Lance said, was it true what you texted me? And he said, yeah, it was. I mean, once again. And that he wished he hadn't done it and that he cried as he paced around the apartment, said he would talk to his parents or turn himself in. I mean, how many confessions do we need, right?
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Mark Eiglarsch
One is good enough for me to run to the prosecution and define winning by begging them and pleading them and getting them to offer life. That's why I think that that's what the defense is doing. They're getting past this probable cause of hearing, which again, as Viva made very clear, I agree with him. The chances of this judge not finding probable cause, I equate to getting struck by lightning while you have the winning lottery ticket in your hand. It is guaranteed to happen. But let me go back to the crying, cuz I think I keep getting downloads as to why that's even more significant. A guilty verdict I think is going to happen at his trial, assuming this isn't resolved to a life sentence. You go to the penalty phase, you got 12 people who are deciding whether he should live or die. And death is different. However you feel about it, Megan, you would be like, all right, let's go straight to death, no questions asked. It's very personal. And when you start to hear things like him crying, him wishing he didn't do it, while that would have zero impact on you and maybe other panelists here, that could have an impact on at least one of the 12 jurors. And since they require a unanimous verdict to give him death, that's a concern. It's not a guarantee that you're gonna get the death penalty here.
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Megyn Kelly
And the other thing, just to continue that thought, Mark, is that everything we hear about Tyler Robinson, like we opened the show today with this reporting from this well known youtuber and this guy says he was contacted by a friend of the pair of them, Robinson and Twigs, and that that person gave this YouTuber a bunch of, like, we showed pictures from what he said was inside their apartment. A bunch of details on both of them. Tyler Robinson and Lance Twigs. And if you believe all of this, the takeaway is Lance Twigs was a hot mess and Tyler Robinson was kind of fine. Not thriving exactly, but not the problem. Like maybe realizing he was gay, but like, that's it. He, he wasn't the one manic and crying and doing experiments with mold and then whisks with metal on them trying to grow in the apartment and, you know, swaying between like huge bouts of depression and then manic maniacal smiling and giggling while he did these crazy drawings that was all Twigs. So I, I don't know if, I don't know if that answers anything about how Tyler Robinson one day pulled out his gun and shot Charlie Kirk, according to the prosecution. But it, it's not like hearing about Charles Manson, who is this, like, frothing at the mouth serial killer who loved killing.
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Mark Eiglarsch
Who's that?
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Megyn Kelly
That's for you, Mark.
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Mark Eiglarsch
Oh, it is for me. No. Agreed.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. Just.
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Mark Eiglarsch
Yeah.
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Megyn Kelly
It's not like a lifetime of crime.
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Mark Eiglarsch
Oh, absolutely, no. And again, that's another argument. I mean, I know it gets people upset to think that there's any way that he might not get death, but it's another argument to be made to the 12 people who are deciding whether he should live or die. The absence of the Charlie Manson, like, thought process, the record dating back to the disco crisis, which you would hope to find on someone you're following, finally going to give the ultimate sanction to what he did was abhorrent without question. But again, you've got to fine tune the argument and say why he should die and not spend the rest of his life in prison. And again, that is not a guaranteed. We've seen it over and over again in high profile cases where we think it's a slam dunk. And two or three jurors say, you know what, no, it'd be worse for him in jail. Let him live in prison and maybe he'll get killed there. Something like that.
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Megyn Kelly
Here's the sound bite, by the way, before I play it. It's interesting because what we learned at the top of the show where we talked about what the YouTuber reported, was that Tyler was in a caretaking role toward Lance Twigs. Tyler kind of had his act more together. He had a job and he wasn't having. I don't know if it's bipolar or what, but the, those huge emotional swings and he was. They, they described him as, as Lance's handler but like he had defaulted to a caretaking role of Lance Twigs and Lance is the one who is doing HRT according to this YouTuber, like really starting to do like, like off market hormone replacement therapy as he grew breasts and was trying to turn himself into a woman which in many circumstances drives people not nuts and they unleash violence on us. But it, you know, along this same line you're going to get an argument that he thought he was taking care of Lance Twigs that day too. You know this hate. He was so, he was so, he so objected to in Charlie was about this issue. That's, that's what we think they're going to be able to prove. And you know you see Luna sitting there in a suit with long hair projecting I don't know what, but this is going to be an ongoing theme that like this is some sort of a caregiving type situation in Tyler's head. Here's the soundbite from Lance Twigs about the day after the murder, seeing Tyler in their apartment.
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Lauren Hunt
And did he talk about what he had done?
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Lance Twiggs
Didn't go into detail. He just, I just asked, asked him in person if what he said was true the night before and he said it was. I started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn't done it and then kept going around and just doing stuff, I think to keep himself busy or distracted or something.
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Megyn Kelly
I mean, Viva, can I just say, like I don't believe that. There's no way they, he just said, is it true what you told me last night? Yes, it's true.
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Viva Fry
That's what I was just trying to look up in terms of when the first images of Tyler Robinson were circulated to the public to identify the individual. I think, I think Lance said in his, in his testimony. Oh well, Lance in his testimony. Yeah, I wasn't on social, I wasn't on social media much. First of all, I have trouble believing that. I'd like to know when the first images were circulated because to me there's no doubt in my mind that he knew it was true and he might have known before that text message went out to him. And when Tyler says, oh, I meant to delete that. I mean some people could say, well he meant to delete it to send another type of protection, self serving protection email to his lover, Lance Twigs. But I don't believe it. It's like that he comes in, he's admitted to what he's done, you've seen the news. I don't care if Lance is on social media or Not. But I believe he is. And I believe he knew earlier than that. And then he's like, did you really do it? And it's. That part is implied, plausible to me, except for the fact that his testimony has to cover his own ass because, you know, above and beyond his use immunity. He doesn't have blanket immunity, and he needs to cover his own. But while giving the prosecution what they need to go ahead and charge and. And convict Tyler Robinson. But no, that part doesn't make sense to me. And I. I would like to know what Tyler Lance Twig's social media footprint is, because I. Given their age, given what they're into, given their discord pro propensities, I. I don't think his social media footprint is. Is nothing. And I'd love to know what it
- [151:24]
Mark Eiglarsch
is I disagree with.
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Megyn Kelly
My team is telling me, Viva. That they released the pictures of the shooter. Okay. Again, none of us knew who that was. We just saw the pictures of the shooter, per the FBI, at 10:00am Utah time on September 11th.
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Tom Swanson
Okay.
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Megyn Kelly
So would have been, I think, by this timeline, right around when he was seeing Tyler Robinson in their apartment. He says, I saw him when I woke up. He was walking around the house. So, I mean, they were probably released by the time he saw him. And of course, the night before, he had received the text saying it was me. I'm waiting to get my gun. I gotta get my gun. It worked pretty good. Grandpa's gun got it done. It was only a $2,000 scope. I mean, he'd been given a lot of details by Tyler, but I just don't believe. I don't believe that just. Your lover has just committed a murder. A. A. Forgive the term, but sensational murder. And it's all over the news. There's a manhunt and, you know, everywhere. The FBI's got your lover's picture out
- [152:26]
Viva Fry
there, and he doesn't come back.
- [152:27]
Megyn Kelly
Lover's parents knew it was him. And. And you just say, is it. Is it true what you texted me? No. You're gonna be like, you're gonna know everything.
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Judge
Why?
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Megyn Kelly
Why'd you do it? What were you thinking? You know, now what are you going to run? And if you were in on it, the conversation is going to sound even different than that. I don't know Dave Aronberg. Like you're for. As a former prosecutor, I would think this is a stone you'd want to keep turning, like, keep digging under that stone to see how far we go.
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Dave Aronberg
Yeah, and this is precisely the point that defense lawyers will seize upon to cast doubt on his credibility. But as my co panelists said, this die is cast. I mean, this probable cause hearing is just for probable cause, not for beyond a reasonable doubt. They've got so much evidence. So really this is about trying to get anything you can to make life miserable for the prosecutors to force them to come to the table and take the death penalty off the table out of the equation. So.
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Megyn Kelly
But no, we're not there.
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Dave Aronberg
We're not there yet. That's for sure. It is. It is interesting. Is that true? You know, that. That does sound like Twigs is exaggerating what he said at the time. It does seem like that's not exactly what he said. Of course it doesn't.
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Megyn Kelly
Or under exaggerating, like under underplays. Yeah, yeah.
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Judge
Under.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah, he's downplaying what happened between the two of them.
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Dave Aronberg
Yeah, yeah. But, you know, they'll say, well, you know, he was. They're so shocked. This is the kind of thing they say. But yes, fair enough. None of it, though, casts any doubt upon who did it. And the fact that Tyler Robinson has so much information, including confessions, repeated confessions against him, that he's going down for this. But, but fair point. The extent of which Twigs is involved in this is still an open question, even though the authorities apparently couldn't the FBI think that he was not involved, and that's why they're going to go to the mat with him as a key witness with use immunity, thinking that he wasn't even an accessory. But I'm open to information if we find otherwise.
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Mark Eiglarsch
Megan. I guess I'm the only one, Megan, I'm the only one out of four here who thinks that it's possible that it happened exactly as Twig said. Now, I also would not be shocked if it didn't happen that way. But I'm picturing him saying, wait, is it true what you told me? Is that true? I totally can picture that. And I also don't see the prosecutors wanting to push any further, especially now because his testimony has been put into evidence. This is what his testimony is. And I don't know that they're going to push any further. Further because it advances the state's case and it's already been done. So I'm just saying I see it play out that way and I mean, how you would have handled it and, you know, you don't know what's in these people.
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Dave Aronberg
We are.
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Mark Eiglarsch
We are nothing like these people. So when he says, did you, you know, is. Did you do it? Is that. Is that Was it true what you said? Whatever he said? Yeah, I see him saying that it
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Viva Fry
is that, that he allegedly got the text message the night of. Then Tyler doesn't come back that evening, comes back in the morning when the news has been fleshed out. At this point, it doesn't matter from Tyler's perspective. The real question is whether or not Lance had a greater involvement or anybody else. And then to go all the way back to Joe Kent and his investigation or the rumors that he requested the cash. Patel look into foreign elements. The idea that they wouldn't want to complicate the prosecution against Tyler Robinson by further implicating Lance. Twitter Twiggs is a theory that others have said is one of the reasons why they may not have dug deeper or pursued investigations into Lance Twigs, because it might complicate the conviction that they want to get of at least Tyler Robinson in this case. And there was some great frustration in the public eye that it doesn't look like every stone had been unturned in terms of who else might have been involved in this plot and who else was on those Discord chats. But, no, to me, it doesn't. I mean, again, I, I, I, all of this is beyond human comprehension from anybody with a, with a, a moral compass, but I just, I don't believe what Lance is saying necessarily. Oh, was it really you? To me, it's more like, it's, to me, it's more like, let's cover this up and let's try to find a way to get you out of the country. And, you know, I didn't do anything, so I'll worry about that later. That that's how I would see it playing out the next day. Not I'm shocked and stunned. No, it's. Holy crap. I, I think I knew that this was coming, and I knew something since last night. And now what are we going to do?
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Megyn Kelly
Not even that. I'm pretty sure I knew that this was coming. I did know this is coming. And I told these other lunatics on Discord about it. That's why they've been posting messages saying, wait until you see September 10th and what happens. And then when September 10th came, I told you, you know, like, big news is coming at Utah Valley University. You wait. And then it came, bro. That was it. You know, it's like, I, I have to believe that the FBI looked into each and every one of those and somehow came away convinced that that was just meaningless talk. I mean, I'm going to guess this is what the FBI would have told Us, but there, because there's been no indictments. You know, viva that. Like nobody else got indicted beyond Lance Twiggs. And it could have been Tyler or Lance Twiggs who would have told them some such a thing on here. But there's no way the FBI didn't talk to the people who posted those messages.
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Viva Fry
I agree. And then, you know, if you say, well, I trust the FBI did a thorough investigation, you'll be accused of gobbling up what they refer to as fed slop these days. I know, but the problem is like to me, if they did not go in and examine each and every person in all of those Discord chats, whatever the hell they call, it's either dereliction of duty or, you know, they don't want to know who was in on those chats.
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Megyn Kelly
They did. I asked Cash Patel about that directly on this show. I asked him about whether they'd be doing that and he said yes. I just, he's not an idiot. He wants to solve this case. He wants anybody responsible. And I realize if you're, if you, if you think the government is behind this, you're saying, what are you saying? No, he doesn't.
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Judge
He wants to.
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Megyn Kelly
He's part of the COVID up. But I don't believe that. I think he wants to solve this case. And I would love, he would love to indict anybody responsible. Responsible or who had foreknowledge and had a role. But if he found people with foreknowledge but no role, we deserve to know that too. Because while they may not be indictable, as you guys point out, there's no good Samaritan rule. They, they're totally subjected to scorn. They, they are, they should receive all of our scorn. I'd love to know their names. What if somebody hires one of these lunatics? Like who the are they? I'm sorry, but from the beginning I've wanted to know who are they? They were predicting his murder when it happened. They said, told ya. And we've just been asked to kind of look the other way. And I feel like we've been asked to look the other way on Land's Twigs too. Maybe it's because they would preserve his credibility. I don't know. I don't care. But let me read you this quickly. This is, this is new from the text message. 3 hours ago There was an, there was an officer with a canine walking nearby the area hoping that pooch has a bad sniffer. I mean, there are reports that there was a bomb sniffing Dog or, you know, gunpowder. And he did not alert. And here's Tyler Robinson saying that. I'm wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle because it sounds like the police couldn't get in for a long while because of the traffic. Needless to say, I'm a be late coming home. My bee. And his response is just stay safe. That's Lance. I will, says Tyler. I'm more worried about what my old man would do if I didn't bring back grandpa's rifle. He's far scarier than any Fed, not gonna lie. Guess I'm just sitting in my car watching reels for another hour, hoping this guy fucks off. And then, Lance, are you okay? Still, I mean, this is not like somebody who sounds like he's gonna call law enforcement. And indeed he didn't call law enforcement.
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Agent Brian Davis
Right?
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Dave Aronberg
But it doesn't mean he's committing a crime. Right? He. He was being sympathetic to his lover and he was trying to support him and he shouldn't win any nice guy awards. He's not going to win a Good Samaritan awards. But to me, I still lean more towards Mark's side. That twigs probably had little or nothing to do with this. And I did think what he said on the stand was credible. So that's my take of it.
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Megyn Kelly
I don't know. Is that sitting. If I'm sitting next to Doug and he's engraving bullets, I'm going to know what's on them. I. I mean, I'm just gonna put myself out there right now and say I.
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Mark Eiglarsch
If dear Doug ever got to a point where he's engraving bullets, he will go to great lengths not to let you know what he's doing.
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Megyn Kelly
That's true. That's true. Dear Doug does not grave bullets. He doesn't do anything with bullets. And one of the many reasons I love him though. Using firearms for lawful purposes is fine, guys. Thank you. What a day. More tomorrow. We'll be back then. Thanks for listening to the Megyn Kelly show. No bs, no agenda and no fear.
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Megyn Kelly
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