Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - July 06, 2026


Human Events Primetime Special of Tyler Robinson Pretrial - Day One


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00:00:55.340 23-year-old Tyler Robinson, accused of shooting and killing Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University
00:01:00.800 last September, was in court for a preliminary hearing. The purpose of the hearing is to prove
00:01:05.940 to a judge that there's enough evidence to take the case to trial in front of a jury and if
00:01:11.100 prosecutors can't move forward in seeking the death penalty. They only have to show probable
00:01:15.780 cause and not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The first witness called in the hearing was a
00:01:20.960 police officer who is working at the university. What did you hear again? I heard a gunshot.
00:01:26.400 This is going to be a rough one, a rough five days as we hear great details about
00:01:32.520 how this went down, what happened to Charlie, and what happened at Utah Valley University
00:01:42.380 last September. Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, facing the accused killer for the very first
00:01:52.760 time. The week-long preliminary hearing is expected to give a detailed look at the evidence
00:01:57.200 and will decide whether the case against Tyler Robinson will go to trial.
00:02:01.360 Good morning. Mr. Robinson, good morning. For the record, the court also recognizes
00:02:07.200 is the presence of Ms. Erica Kirk.
00:02:09.500 Ms. Kirk, good morning.
00:02:13.080 And would you mind relating
00:02:15.480 what the doctor reports as the manner of death?
00:02:18.140 Yes, I misspoke.
00:02:19.280 It does say homicide.
00:02:20.780 And then the immediate cause of death.
00:02:22.940 Gunshot wound of the neck.
00:02:25.760 Nothing further, Judge.
00:02:26.920 The media was not going to film exhibits
00:02:33.960 and they are filming the ones that are on that screen.
00:02:37.200 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:02:45.200 This is special coverage, the hearing of Tyler Robinson.
00:02:52.200 Today is July 3rd, 2026, Anno Domine, and we are here live in Provo, Utah.
00:03:00.200 Today, I was in the courtroom, seated in the front row, along with Charlie's family, Don
00:03:09.180 Jr., a number of other TPUSA friends and allies.
00:03:16.640 Also in the courtroom were Tyler Robinson's family.
00:03:20.940 And in fact, Tyler Robinson himself, of course, sat just a few feet away from us.
00:03:30.200 And you know, a lot of people I've seen online have been saying that Tyler was laughing and chuckling along with his defense team, and I saw that.
00:03:46.940 But one thing that I noticed beyond that was that Tyler Robinson never turned back once.
00:03:58.040 Kept his back to his own family, kept his back to Charlie's family, never once turned,
00:04:06.900 never once expressed remorse, never once acknowledged their presence,
00:04:12.080 never once even
00:04:15.380 showed
00:04:16.580 one ounce
00:04:19.200 of
00:04:20.380 any kind
00:04:23.520 of
00:04:24.460 human emotion
00:04:27.260 towards
00:04:28.000 the amount of lives that have been
00:04:31.280 destroyed by this act.
00:04:36.980 Charlie's wife,
00:04:38.860 his widow,
00:04:40.460 Erica,
00:04:42.080 it was very emotional.
00:04:46.780 It was very emotional for everyone.
00:04:49.600 Charlie's mom and dad,
00:04:51.620 and even Tyler's own family, I'm sure,
00:04:57.760 were facing a lot of emotions.
00:05:00.760 Saw reporters there as well,
00:05:03.540 and then we had the entire team.
00:05:05.600 And each side had their respective teams,
00:05:09.220 lawyers, investigators
00:05:12.140 and above all else
00:05:15.480 we need to focus on the truth
00:05:20.120 here. We need to push through the emotion
00:05:23.760 we need to push through the anger
00:05:26.820 and understand that the truth must come out
00:05:32.200 and the truth
00:05:34.800 of the evidence that has now begun to be presented.
00:05:40.360 One side is pushing to release the evidence.
00:05:43.720 One side is fighting that.
00:05:45.620 One side asks that evidence be published publicly.
00:05:49.700 One side fought against even having cameras in the courtroom today.
00:05:56.340 One side says, let's put this evidence in court,
00:06:00.760 the other side objects again and again and again and so on the very question of transparency
00:06:08.060 accuracy truth it's very clear whether you're watching at home or you're watching
00:06:15.840 right there like i was but there only seems to be one side that's interested in actually
00:06:24.740 presenting the facts, actually getting all of the information out, and presenting it
00:06:32.120 to the courtroom.
00:06:32.780 Keep in mind, the jury isn't even there yet.
00:06:35.320 We haven't even got to that point because of all these delays.
00:06:40.480 I'll tell you something.
00:06:42.560 No matter how long it takes, no matter how much we have to go through, we will get justice
00:06:48.120 for Charlie.
00:06:48.640 and we will do so
00:06:50.900 and never
00:06:53.160 ever relent
00:06:54.600 we will never give up
00:06:56.220 we will never surrender
00:06:57.760 Turning Point will never surrender
00:07:00.680 the mission
00:07:01.540 Erica will never surrender
00:07:03.720 and the truth
00:07:05.500 is coming
00:07:06.880 and it cannot be stopped
00:07:10.780 it cannot be stopped at all
00:07:12.980 Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily
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00:07:41.580 Welcome to the second American Revolution
00:07:46.180 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec, we're back live here.
00:07:52.680 Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.
00:07:55.060 I want to thank the Real America's Voice team.
00:07:56.980 We're shifting, of course, the time slot here of Human Events Daily
00:08:00.760 so that we can do these nightly recaps with you guys.
00:08:04.380 Obviously, I'm here in Utah, so the time change is different from East Coast,
00:08:07.960 where I usually do it, but I wanted to get into the meat of this.
00:08:10.940 I wanted to talk about what I saw, but also from the legal analysis side,
00:08:15.400 and we're really excited that we have Dr. Wendy Patrick. She's a former prosecutor and career
00:08:19.940 trial attorney joining us right now. Dr. Wendy, how are you? Oh, it's a pleasure to join you,
00:08:25.740 Jack. Thank you for having me. Well, thank you. So you watched the hearing on live stream. You
00:08:33.780 know, I watched the hearing as well, having actually been there. Tell us, you know, looking
00:08:38.860 at it through your lens. I mean, I can view the body language. I can see the victim's
00:08:45.240 family. I can see the members of the press. I can see the defendant. But, you know, give us your
00:08:50.680 legal analysis of how you saw today play out and what nuggets do you think that we should focus on
00:08:57.340 for those of us who want justice here? That's right, Jack. So the legal analysis is a lot
00:09:03.000 more sanitized than what you saw, which is the raw emotion that must have just filled that
00:09:08.900 courtroom, given the fact that Charlie Kirk is a beloved public figure, Christian leader,
00:09:13.900 husband, father, inspiration. Legally, you know, everybody has to take a step back and say,
00:09:19.260 what are the elements of the crime that we're seeking to prove? And it's true. A preliminary
00:09:22.980 hearing is a probable cause hearing. There's a much less burden of proof than a real trial.
00:09:29.280 But at the same time, the prosecution has to establish the elements of the crimes that they
00:09:33.080 charge, including the death penalty. So what you saw all day today was exactly that. Some may think
00:09:39.640 it's tedious, but this is as it should be. You had witness after witness, element after element.
00:09:45.660 You had all the objections you might expect from the defense attorneys who are perfecting their
00:09:49.740 record for appeal. One thing that really characterized the morning as well as the
00:09:54.520 afternoon was it seemed to be very civil. There's no such thing as a routine trial,
00:10:00.740 but objections can be routine in the essence that you expect them to come. You expect there to be
00:10:06.420 objections to the most sensational evidence. And on that note, as you asked, the most sensational
00:10:11.760 evidence is the shot. And unfortunately, that's a part of the trial that nobody wants to see.
00:10:17.360 Again, certainly not the family members of Charlie. You even saw the judge had a tough time
00:10:22.360 watching that video. He watched it privately, but we watched his face as he did so.
00:10:27.560 And as you might imagine, this is really hard to see. It's the kind of footage that you have to
00:10:32.100 watch once if you've got to establish the evidence being there, but you probably don't
00:10:36.440 want to keep watching it. And I would imagine that's going to be the judge's ruling when we
00:10:39.500 get to trial. But we're really warming up to creating that foundational timeline upon which
00:10:45.600 the rest of the evidence will be put for the rest of the week. Well, and that's something too. I
00:10:52.160 mean, look, I was there when the judge had that reaction. Some members of the family did, of
00:10:58.900 course choose to walk out prior to that video uh being played in the courtroom and uh there were a
00:11:06.560 few of us that stayed as well and uh went through all of it look i've seen that video before
00:11:12.780 and uh many many times and in fact i've watched it myself slowed down sped up all the different
00:11:19.800 ways you can watch it but seeing the judge's reaction it really took me back to the first
00:11:26.100 time that I saw it and just the abject horror and the shock of seeing that happen to a friend
00:11:33.220 of mine and knowing what it would set in motion and knowing that this day would come and eventually
00:11:40.320 the final trial itself will come. But you're absolutely correct in that we also have to
00:11:44.860 understand that those videos are key pieces of evidence because they give us timing. They can
00:11:51.740 also give us things like trajectory, ballistics. Obviously, this will come up in the autopsy
00:11:57.040 report as well, which the autopsy report was entered today, although they did not get into
00:12:02.140 detail of the autopsy report. I was able to see maybe a glance of it, but no photos were shown
00:12:11.060 and we could really, you know, didn't even have the opportunity to be able to read anything.
00:12:15.480 But again, as harrowing as all of this is, as grueling as all of these have been, and it has been grueling, this is all absolutely key for getting over that hurdle of probable cause so that a plea can be entered and that the trial machinations can begin.
00:12:32.280 that's right and jack that's particularly important in a high profile case like this one
00:12:38.040 you know there's a case where the cameras are right there in the courtroom ready to catch any
00:12:41.620 mistake that's made prosecutors are probably being very cautious and putting in more evidence than
00:12:46.500 they think they need lest they make any mistakes and have to renew everything and at the same time
00:12:51.900 there's no reason to be overly traumatizing with pieces of evidence you don't need for
00:12:56.620 preliminary hearing like the autopsy photos or other types of photos you know that is the worst
00:13:02.120 of a case like this is when you know you're going into a murder case, you're going to have to see
00:13:06.120 evidence of the actual murder, hence the showing of that video. On a more clinical side, the other
00:13:12.120 thing you really saw today is all the different objections that were overcome. Everything from
00:13:17.700 authentication, admissibility, publication, relevancy, reliability. I mean, everything that
00:13:25.060 both sides needed to focus on to put in the evidence or to keep out of the evidence that the
00:13:29.640 case may be, was kind of the underpinning of the emotion. And by the way, Jack, that is one of the
00:13:35.200 things that the defense was asking for before we all saw the case today, before you were allowed
00:13:39.360 in the courtroom, is the defense wanted it to be closed, closed to the public, closed to the press.
00:13:44.500 The judge, in ruling that it's going to be an open proceeding, live streamed, really reminded
00:13:49.720 everybody that there are plenty of other ways to ensure due process for Mr. Robinson. That includes
00:13:54.960 everything from making sure you spend enough time with a big enough jury pool to be able to get
00:13:59.620 men and women who can be fair. Everything from making sure you don't have overly gratuitous
00:14:04.620 pretrial publicity. There are lots of ways in which he will attempt to rein in some of that
00:14:10.360 press pretrial. But as far as prelim and what we're seeing this week, it's necessary to put
00:14:15.900 in all of the evidence and it's necessary to make all the objections to perfect the record for
00:14:19.860 post-trial advocacy, shall we say. Because let's face it, if the court of public opinion is any
00:14:25.380 guide, you're going to see that same evidence we already know about put into a court of law
00:14:30.020 this week. That's exactly right. And so I believe that some of the evidence will be released. Some
00:14:39.300 of the exhibits that have come out for publication that they will be released. However, it's not
00:14:44.220 going to be as immediate as it has been for maybe some of the other trials that people have seen
00:14:48.060 live streamed, Kyle Rittenhouse, the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard trial that people are more familiar
00:14:53.020 with, because that was coming out in real time. This one, there is going to be that delay. But
00:14:58.480 at the same time, I'm someone who stands on wanting all of the transparency that we can get.
00:15:04.700 In fact, Human Events was one of the very first publications to write an open letter calling for
00:15:09.600 cameras in the courtroom, even before the rest of the media came out in this, in which they did.
00:15:14.620 The media did have a lawyer there who argued strenuously for various portions of this to be
00:15:19.140 continued in public. Because look, on any case, especially a murder case, there's always going
00:15:25.780 to be certain levels of misinformation. There's going to be certain levels of just basic factual
00:15:31.020 errors that people make. You know, for example, I keep hearing people say or, you know, constantly
00:15:37.920 hear people say, oh, was Charlie wearing some type of protection? Was he wearing some kind of
00:15:43.980 body armor when in fact he wasn't. And so that's just a basic factual, you know, mistruth that we
00:15:51.360 want to get corrected so that when this goes in front of a jury, that they have the actual truth
00:15:55.860 out there. But then also so that the public from, as you point out, the wider public court of
00:16:00.860 opinion also can know the actual facts of the case. And so, you know, that's just one example
00:16:07.240 I can think of that when we look at this and we see the evidence coming in now where we got today
00:16:12.940 the screwdriver. We got the gravel on top of the roof. We're starting to now get some of the
00:16:18.720 videos. Now there was a back and forth about specifics on videos because one of them had
00:16:22.800 been annotated. So they want the raw video, not the annotated video, kind of like when
00:16:26.700 they do a play by play in the NFL or something like that. And they annotate the, you know,
00:16:31.740 the instant replay. But the fact of the matter is, is that we're also getting new video and new
00:16:38.200 evidence that hasn't actually come out before. To my mind, the fact that Tyler Robinson had
00:16:45.660 arrived on campus and traveled there four times, not just on the day of the killing, but in fact,
00:16:52.000 also that sort of just after midnight arrival in the neighborhood, which was north of the campus.
00:16:58.900 And in fact, I went with the human events team here and our field correspondent, Kevin Posobiec,
00:17:03.280 and walked the UVU campus yesterday so we could have that sort of picture in our own minds, that
00:17:09.180 physical sense, we realize how close all of these places are. And so this is going to be a huge
00:17:15.020 challenge. You know, we're already starting to see some of the defense strategy come out, and
00:17:19.740 it's going to be a huge challenge because there's even more evidence that they're going to have to
00:17:25.340 overcome in order to try to find some kind of reasonable doubt. But ultimately, there seems to
00:17:31.420 be this mountain of evidence that's now being uncovered, one of which, of course, as we're
00:17:35.840 learning today about these four trips to the campus by the alleged shooter.
00:17:41.500 Right. And, you know, you talk about the evidence and many cases you have murders occurring behind
00:17:46.300 closed doors, surreptitiously at night. This was a murder in broad daylight. And we start with that,
00:17:53.100 that that is one of the things that distinguishes this case from so many others where a defense
00:17:57.680 might be heat of passion or mistaken identity or so many other things. And when it comes to
00:18:02.820 guessing what the defense is going to do in trial and how they're going to frame their strategy,
00:18:07.080 they don't have to disclose that at a preliminary hearing the way the prosecutor has to disclose
00:18:11.280 the evidence they have. I mean, obviously, through discovery, the defense has the evidence anyway.
00:18:15.840 But in terms of case strategy, it's all on the prosecution side, what they have to prove to
00:18:20.420 meet their burden, even though it's much lesser than reasonable doubt. But yes, Jack, you are
00:18:25.080 correct that you do get a sense of what's going to be important in the trial simply by the
00:18:30.880 objections that are made, the rulings that are made, the questions that are asked on cross
00:18:35.460 examination. We can still get a feel for the state of the evidence. And on top of all of that,
00:18:41.780 you have the emotional value of the case in that courtroom, which is the one thing a jury will not
00:18:48.360 be able to consider. They will have to make sure when they go back in that deliberation room that
00:18:53.280 it does not at all enter into their deliberations.
00:18:56.420 All they can focus on is whether or not the evidence in the courtroom, not the court of
00:19:00.840 public opinion, is sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt both the murder and the
00:19:06.480 death penalty, because that's how serious this case is.
00:19:09.120 So what you're seeing this week, Jack, in the courtroom is sort of a mini trial where
00:19:13.760 some, a lot of that evidence is being presented, the way it's being presented, because we're
00:19:19.640 going to see that and more when this case goes finally a trial.
00:19:22.320 We're getting some glimmers of that. We're getting some glimmers of that. We're on with
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00:22:23.820 So I want to get in breaking down some more of legal analysis that we're seeing.
00:22:27.940 We're on with Dr. Wendy Patrick. Dr. Wendy, when we look at, you know, some of the the the speed of all of this,
00:22:35.020 you know, I've got people like myself, you know, I want to move at the speed of Twitter. I want to
00:22:39.300 move at the speed of social media. I want things. I'm an East Coast guy, right? I like moving fast.
00:22:43.760 But, you know, we're now here in it's been almost a full year. It's been 10 months since the actual
00:22:50.800 shot rang out just a few miles from where I sit here in Provo, Utah. Is this something we should
00:22:56.580 expect? Is this expected to go on this long for murder cases or is this something that's more
00:23:02.960 routine? It's expected. It's routine in the sense that murder cases rarely move quickly unless
00:23:10.300 there's a defendant who's unwilling to waive time and have a trial sooner rather than later.
00:23:14.980 But in most cases, that does not benefit the defense strategy. Strategy includes having a
00:23:20.780 look at all of the evidence. We still, you know, there still may be angles or statements or other
00:23:27.200 things that are still going to be coming forward through witness testimony at a prelim. You do
00:23:31.840 expect that it's going to be a delay. In fact, I would say that 10 months from bullet ringing out
00:23:36.860 to prelim isn't bad at all in terms of everybody getting ready for a case this big, this high
00:23:42.520 profile and this heavily publicized. That is a really important point, too. And you mentioned
00:23:48.840 it. You know, you talk about you don't want people to be predisposed based on what they've
00:23:52.780 seen in the media. And that is exactly right, because much of what's been discussed in the
00:23:57.440 media is not relevant to the facts the jury is going to have to find and decide whether or not
00:24:03.060 he was wearing body armor, whether he should have been. You know, those are the kinds of things that
00:24:07.800 are not on trial. This is a murder trial. It's a death penalty murder trial. And those are the
00:24:14.260 elements that the jury is going to have to decide. And while no doubt all of the facts and circumstances
00:24:19.380 surrounding the day will come into play, that is not what they're going to be instructed to focus
00:24:24.220 on when it comes down to actually deciding whether or not the elements are there.
00:24:30.680 And so when they're digging through all of these elements, that's why essentially these,
00:24:36.880 you know, these objections keep coming up again and again, because all of this is going to play
00:24:42.220 a role into what evidence actually makes its way to that jury when they are eventually seated.
00:24:48.960 That's right. One of the biggest dangers when it comes to pre-trial publicity and making sure
00:24:53.800 everybody gets due process, is that far more evidence is, you know, sort of just released
00:24:59.260 into the court of public opinion shortly after the crime. And then there's only a narrow subset
00:25:04.060 of that evidence that becomes admissible at trial. You don't want to have jurors back there
00:25:08.620 deliberating on evidence that never came out in the courtroom, but rather is something that they
00:25:13.380 saw on TV, that they heard being discussed. And so, too, with some of the evidence that,
00:25:18.360 you know, that really has nothing to do with the facts of the case, but is political in nature.
00:25:23.800 It's not a case about politics.
00:25:25.580 It's not a case about Charlie Kirk being out in public and the different schedule that he had, except that it was public enough for the defendant to have used that information to plan the attack.
00:25:38.400 And as you just mentioned, one of the things that the judge heard is that he'd been there four times already.
00:25:43.120 So to that extent, it's relevant.
00:25:45.020 But those are some of the things that judge is going to be instructing a jury on when we get to trial.
00:25:48.820 We're a long way from that. But what both sides are going to be arguing at the end of this preliminary hearing is what type of facts that came out during these couple of days are most relevant to argue.
00:26:00.240 It either should proceed to trial or that it shouldn't. Is it the murder trial and the death penalty or is it some lesser charge?
00:26:07.840 That's what both sides have their ears attuned for. What facts are coming out that they can both argue.
00:26:12.280 right and and ultimately the facts to my mind all continue to point in one direction and in fact
00:26:22.700 actually dr wendy we originally only scheduled you for two seconds but if you would indulge me
00:26:27.620 could we how could we hold you over because i actually have some more questions i want to ask
00:26:31.700 you what do you say can you say on and hang on for just a little bit longer on this special
00:26:36.460 coverage with us on human events? Yes, I can. Thank you. Oh, that's phenomenal. So she's going
00:26:44.280 to hang back because there is something that I do want to ask her. And I'm looking at the clock
00:26:48.080 here and saying, you know what? I don't have enough time in this segment. We're going to get
00:26:50.960 to the next one. Again, folks, this is human events special coverage. We're talking about
00:26:55.740 what I saw in the courtroom coming face to face with Tyler Robinson here in Provo, Utah. Right
00:27:03.760 Back, Human Events Daily.
00:27:33.760 And Jack, where is Jack?
00:27:40.240 Where is Jack?
00:27:42.580 Where is he?
00:27:43.860 Jack, I want to see you.
00:27:47.500 Great job, Jack.
00:27:48.980 Thank you.
00:27:49.740 What a job you do.
00:27:51.160 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:27:52.560 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the
00:27:57.020 guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:27:58.340 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec, we're back live here, Real America's Voice, Provo, Utah,
00:28:07.620 special coverage of the pretrial hearing in murder case of Charlie Kirk.
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00:29:32.480 Our guest has been Dr. Wendy Patrick.
00:29:35.720 She's walking us through all of this because this is an absolute key, an absolute key of where we are on things.
00:29:44.960 And so, Dr. Wendy, I wanted to ask you, how do you think this is shaping up, right?
00:29:50.100 You know, we've only had day one, but when we look at it in totality, do you think that the evidence that it's coming, and it is drip by drip, but do you think the prosecution is making their case?
00:30:03.900 Yes, because it's drip by drip.
00:30:06.220 They are introducing a piece of evidence, making sure that all of the proper safeguards have been followed to ensure it's reliable, it's credible, it's authentic, it's, you know, it's admissible.
00:30:17.460 You know, that's the biggest thing I think both sides are looking at is what's going to be admissible.
00:30:21.620 But, you know, as we think through the state of the evidence and we think through the emotion that you mentioned, your clip at the beginning reminded me of another thing.
00:30:29.440 Just as President Trump is no doubt delighted that you're covering this case, he was also delighted Charlie Kirk was doing the job that he was doing out in the community for the Christian community, for the president's agenda and for his voters.
00:30:43.940 And so it's notable that not only did you have Don Jr. there today, you may have other members of the Trump family, but it's one more layer that both sides probably are thinking about as they're wrangling over what pieces of evidence are going to be admissible, because there are not only emotional overtones, there are political overtones to this case as well.
00:31:05.520 And we would hate to see false narratives tainting the criminal process and the process of justice for both sides, justice for Charlie, due process for Mr. Robinson.
00:31:16.440 But it's one of the things that you just can't get away from in this courtroom.
00:31:19.780 And it's probably something the judge is thinking about as well as he rules on each and every one of these objections.
00:31:26.260 You know, you probably, as well as the rest of us, were glad when the defense established a standing objection.
00:31:31.160 so they didn't have to continue reiterating the same talking points again and again.
00:31:36.300 That's good for the defense, good for the prosecution, good for the speed of the preliminary
00:31:40.040 hearing to be able to get this over with and stop re-traumatizing. I would guess, and you could tell
00:31:46.280 me if this is your experience, many of the people in that courtroom. It is hard enough to watch it
00:31:51.420 on live stream. I can't imagine how tough it is for those of you that are sitting, as you said,
00:31:56.320 feet away from the defendant? Well, look, it's grueling, not just from taking the emotional
00:32:05.880 side out of it. And it is emotional. And I'm not going to sit here and say that it's not emotional
00:32:11.040 for me to be sitting there knowing what happened, knowing why I'm there, knowing that I'm surrounded
00:32:17.140 by the family members, that I'm there with the defendant. It's extremely emotional and it's not
00:32:22.680 easy. But when you go through and you say you just want it to be over with, you just want to
00:32:29.840 be able to have this is the evidence. Do you agree with it or not? Ask the questions about it.
00:32:35.060 But the constant objections, especially with the judge saying over and over, this is allowed by
00:32:41.460 the Constitution of Utah over and over the same exact over rulings. It definitely got to the point
00:32:48.960 where people are asking, is this all the defense team has because we want an actual trial based
00:32:56.800 on the facts and the evidence? And it seemed to be that they were trying to block facts and
00:33:02.900 evidence from getting into the public sphere, getting into the courtroom. And it's their job.
00:33:08.440 It's certainly their job, by the way, to present those challenges. And there was only one real
00:33:13.480 cross-examination that we saw today. And she presented various pieces of challenges to the
00:33:18.460 investigator. It was a former UVU police officer who testified she got her cross-examination in.
00:33:24.200 You know, she asked certain questions. Did you view this on the tape? Did you view that on the
00:33:27.660 tape? All of that, I totally understand that's part of the process. But my goodness, the level
00:33:34.760 of objections and nitpicking over every single thing. Let me ask you this question for someone
00:33:40.420 who's got experience in this. If that doesn't sit well with me just observing, how does that sit
00:33:47.760 when you act like that in front of a jury. Not well, which is why you won't see that in front
00:33:52.880 of a jury. That is my prediction. You're seeing a lot of the objections now to perfect the record
00:33:57.680 and to be able to determine what will and won't be admissible at trial because a jury's not sitting
00:34:03.240 there right now holding all of this against the party that keeps objecting. The jury feels the
00:34:07.720 same way you do. They, you know, show me the evidence, tell me the timeline, let me hear the
00:34:11.900 witness testify in a stream of questions and answers instead of constant objections so you
00:34:18.080 will not see this at trial you are seeing this now in order to make sure that the defense makes
00:34:23.800 all the objections legally they have to uh gets a feel for what the judge is going to do down the
00:34:29.220 line regardless of you know whether it's going to be two months five months a year god forbid let's
00:34:34.860 hope it doesn't go that long but you're getting a preview of the judge's view of what is and isn't
00:34:39.680 going to be admissible at trial. So they won't be expending the same amount of effort at trial
00:34:44.300 because they've already hashed it out, including the statutes that control some of these rulings
00:34:49.620 here at the prelim. In fact, you saw, Jack, that the judge took a minute to look up one of the
00:34:54.700 statutes very clearly because, as he said on the record, he wants to be absolutely sure that
00:35:00.220 everything is done correctly. Sure he does, because he doesn't want to be trying the case
00:35:04.620 again either. He wants everything to go smoothly and accurately the first time.
00:35:11.780 Absolutely. And I totally understand the judge's perspective, you know, for him playing the role
00:35:17.820 that he has, where he knows that in a case like this, that if there if this goes all the way to
00:35:24.180 go to verdict, gets the conviction and being that it's a capital case, that means that if the death
00:35:31.840 penalty is in fact reached and is in fact imposed here, then the very first thing that's going to
00:35:37.880 happen is that this defense team is going to appeal this all the way up the chain to even
00:35:43.260 the Supreme Court if they can. And that means that in each level of those appeals, every single one
00:35:49.320 of these decisions is going to be incredibly scrutinized at a microscopic level. And so it
00:35:56.220 seems to me that he's thinking backwards from that and saying, I want to give as much leeway
00:36:02.540 to the defense as I can so they can't come back and argue that I was partial.
00:36:07.400 Exactly. That I was partial and that I made rulings that were not supported by law. Because
00:36:12.700 at the end of the day, that's what a reviewing court is going to look at. They're not going to
00:36:17.200 look at little credibility determinations that don't themselves implicate legal rulings. They're
00:36:22.960 going to look at what is the law? What did the judge find? What facts did he articulate on the
00:36:28.160 record that supported his finding? That's why you see this going as slowly as it is. I have to say,
00:36:33.600 you know, we still got through a number of witnesses today. Some preliminary examinations,
00:36:38.440 you don't even get that far. So I suppose there is some hope that now that we've gotten past some
00:36:44.680 of the preliminary objects on the timeline, the killing, the autopsy, the timing, when, who was
00:36:50.000 where, who saw what, when. Now we're going to be filling in the blanks with some more meat,
00:36:54.860 shall we say. We're going to be learning a little bit more about where was the DNA found.
00:36:59.120 What about the statements? And you've heard a lot of objections so far, but you're going to
00:37:03.120 actually see some of that evidence rolling in because as you mentioned, Jack, most of those
00:37:07.200 objections were overruled. Precisely right. And I just want to say thank you so much for joining
00:37:16.520 us. I hope you'll come on later in the week, because we know there's going to be more. I'm
00:37:21.160 sure there's going to be lots of questions that we're going to need your legal expertise and
00:37:26.060 analysis on. Dr. Wendy, tell people where they can go to follow you in the interim.
00:37:32.540 WendyPatrickPhD.com. My PhD, by the way, is in theology. So I was a very close follower of
00:37:37.820 Charlie Kirk as well. But that's the best place to follow me on X Twitter or the website. Thank
00:37:42.400 you, Jack. Well, thank you so much for saying that. I actually hadn't realized, and I really
00:37:48.800 appreciate that. And in fact, it was always Charlie's—it was always his love of Christ
00:37:56.680 and his crusade for Christ that was his actual central animating core. It wasn't politics.
00:38:04.900 It wasn't elections. Those were all supplemental. It was always about Christ. So thank you so much
00:38:10.900 for saying that.
00:38:11.820 Jack Posobiec, right back.
00:38:13.060 Last segment here,
00:38:13.840 Human Events Daily,
00:38:14.580 special coverage, Provo, Utah.
00:38:38.440 So we're going to call this
00:38:39.900 the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour. I can say confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro
00:38:44.700 would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec. And that is, I'll be honest.
00:38:57.340 All right, folks, back live here, Jack Posobiec, Kevin Posobiec, our field correspondent
00:39:01.860 here, Provo, Utah. Now, Kevin, yesterday, prior to going to the court today and the hearing
00:39:09.660 opening up, you and I had the opportunity for the very first time ever to go over to
00:39:15.000 the UVU campus, and it was very good that we did in a sense that we were able to see
00:39:25.540 a lot of the buildings and a lot of the layout from, you know, the perspective of the case
00:39:31.640 today because so much of this hinges on that.
00:39:33.820 And I'll just say, you know, having seen it, having stood in that spot, it felt like a solemn place.
00:39:40.880 It felt like a place where you could tell a great act of evil had occurred.
00:39:49.140 And an act of evil requires a response, requires a response.
00:39:55.380 It does, and I'm very appreciative that we did get to go there.
00:39:59.140 It was a Sunday and school was out of session, so it was honestly pretty surreal that we were the only ones there for a solid hour, Jack.
00:40:09.500 And, yeah, I'm glad we got to do that.
00:40:12.120 I know, you know, we were at the Charlie's Memorial, but it was also I felt honored to be there to pay my respects in some kind of way.
00:40:21.260 But also from an architectural point of view, I've studied architecture and, you know, distances between objects and proportions.
00:40:29.940 So that really helped me as well.
00:40:31.960 I felt, having seen this on video a million times and in photos,
00:40:42.960 I felt that actually standing there and walking the walk that we did,
00:40:47.280 going from the spot where Charlie was seated all the way to really the roof,
00:40:53.820 almost exactly where this prone position was that was testified about today,
00:40:58.380 and we made it there in less than five minutes,
00:41:00.700 that I didn't realize quite how short of a distance it was.
00:41:05.440 It felt so much smaller to me than, you know, kind of my mental image of it.
00:41:09.860 I don't know if you had the same experience.
00:41:12.200 It was about that much, yeah.
00:41:14.060 It was honestly a little farther than I thought away from the distance
00:41:17.780 from where he was prone, where he fired the shot to the booth.
00:41:22.720 But also it's a staggered campus, like split level.
00:41:26.340 So there was about seven to eight different levels.
00:41:30.100 but in such a way that wherever you have a quote-unquote ground floor also doubles as a roof
00:41:36.220 for the lower or the next level.
00:41:40.180 And then the actual roof Tyler was on, I believe it was designed that way
00:41:44.720 because if you look in the opposite direction of all the videos,
00:41:47.820 you have a gorgeous view of the valley there and the lake and the mountains.
00:41:52.480 Yeah, Utah Lake is right there.
00:41:53.360 And they were even saying that the Hall of Flags, the officer testified today
00:41:56.700 that that Hall of Flags was specifically designed so that people could view the lake.
00:42:01.900 Right.
00:42:02.240 So therefore, it created this horizontal plane so you could see across the campus in that
00:42:09.400 particular section.
00:42:10.680 No, it's a beautiful campus.
00:42:12.900 It's a beautiful design.
00:42:13.920 And I hate the fact that we had to go there under these circumstances because if I was
00:42:21.100 just touring it, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, you know, to your point, from the architectural
00:42:25.040 standpoint uh the courtyard itself is is it's a lovely spot yeah as far as right as far as it
00:42:32.400 just feels so incredibly tainted and in fact that's what um that's what satan does he takes
00:42:40.660 beautiful things and he he corrupts them well obviously whenever you design a building you
00:42:45.900 prioritizing the how secure it can be isn't high up on the list you try and make it as beautiful
00:42:52.200 as possible but i guess my point was we were able to tell you know okay that the roof that he jumped
00:42:58.880 off was about 16 feet you know just to confirm that and then was he really able to run that far
00:43:05.060 that fast how far away the shot was realistically it was like oh okay and actually we found out that
00:43:11.680 he could have had other vantage points but you know why did the sheer amount of stairwells and
00:43:19.420 And walkways and vantage points where you could look down into the courtyard were way more than I realized.
00:43:30.420 So people thinking that, oh, you know, it would have been so hard to get up.
00:43:34.960 No, no, it was actually very easy to get on.
00:43:37.320 We walked up on the roof, you know, and obviously the main portion that was testified about today with the two colors of the gravel, that was blocked off.
00:43:47.080 But, you know, had that fencing not been there, you could just step right around it and you'd be on the roof.
00:43:52.440 It was very easy.
00:43:53.500 It looks unnatural.
00:43:54.900 But then if you think, oh, they designed it so you could see the lake.
00:43:58.360 That was my point.
00:43:59.260 Yeah, the lake.
00:43:59.860 And so that's something that I realized that, you know, it was very easy to do so.
00:44:05.380 That's why, you know, and obviously there's been a lot of questions from people who haven't gone there and haven't walked the walk like we did.
00:44:13.340 And I think that when you actually go there and see it, it really changes your perception of the campus, and you realize, wait a minute, it wouldn't be hard at all for a person to get on top of the Losey Center, and it wouldn't be hard at all to be able to have that line of sight because, as the officer stated, Officer Bagley, that that line of sight from the top of the Losey Center on that fourth tier is straight to the courtyard.
00:44:40.900 That's one thing that I realized just yesterday because originally I thought it was too steep, but then once I realized how far back it really was, that angle becomes much more flat.
00:44:52.620 Well, and perhaps that, you know, and it seems as though the prosecution, they're saying that Tyler Robinson arrived there four times.
00:45:03.020 He traveled four times that day.
00:45:04.940 And so I'm sure that a number of those times their, you know, their argument is going to be that he was finding that perfect vantage point.
00:45:13.880 The vantage point.
00:45:14.900 And also, I would like to see more about how premeditated this was, like how smart Tyler really was.
00:45:22.440 Why did he pick UVU as opposed to a different campus?
00:45:25.260 But also, you know, we saw around UVU.
00:45:28.200 He said that that was a campus that was near to his area.
00:45:32.100 So that was why he picked it, because he felt that he had spent some time living in Salt Lake City and also had spent time in the area as well.
00:45:40.580 And so he felt like Charlie was, again, according to the documents that have come out, he felt that Charlie was invading Utah and creating a threat to his trans lover.
00:45:50.960 And so he wanted to defend his trans lover.
00:45:55.620 To speak to what you're saying, though, the ease of his path, you know, just behind the campus, there was like vacant lots.
00:46:03.080 And then it goes right into a residential neighborhood.
00:46:05.040 And we actually did take a drive, and just to say, we actually took a drive down there as well, and we were able, and we didn't want to put this on footage because, you know, obviously there's people who still live there, there's families that live there, but we were able to find very quickly where Tyler Robinson was on these ring cameras, the Nest cameras, where the car was.
00:46:31.220 Now, we also know that there was another video that came out today.
00:46:35.400 We didn't have that video before, I think.
00:46:37.540 You mentioned that, yeah.
00:46:38.440 In the night where he arrived.
00:46:40.880 They say his car arrived.
00:46:42.400 Someone opens it up, gets out, gets back in around, at least at 1238, so a.m. on the 11th.
00:46:49.420 On the 11th.
00:46:50.040 So that would have been the fourth time.
00:46:51.740 And we saw where those woods were.
00:46:53.060 We saw where that field was in between.
00:46:55.560 It's all right there.
00:46:57.020 It's really a small area.
00:46:58.940 it's not a bit it's not like some big expansive area it's it's really really self-contained i
00:47:04.900 mean you could see all of it um you know even if you were just walking you could probably walk the
00:47:09.160 whole thing in 10 15 minutes yeah as opposed to like you know on the east coast we're we're used
00:47:13.740 to like classic campuses with like sprawling entrances really big but this is just a stark
00:47:19.660 drop-off and then it's like boom like vacant lot or like right to the residential areas
00:47:25.280 So that was surprising for me to see. But also it seemed like, oh, wow, like all of a sudden you have the secure area, which most college campuses are nowadays.
00:47:33.900 And then all of a sudden it no longer is. And then it's just right into a neighborhood.
00:47:39.040 You know, and I think what can I say, though? It's, you know, it's our last minute here.
00:47:42.480 And I'll just say this. I appreciate you being here, having my back as well.
00:47:46.480 You know, give a special shout out to Allegiance Gold, of course, for providing us the protection that they are this week while we're out here doing this coverage.
00:47:53.960 and today was a quiet day in terms of that
00:47:57.020 and I hope it stays that way
00:47:58.180 but of course it isn't about us
00:48:00.900 it's about Charlie's family
00:48:02.240 and it's about getting justice for them
00:48:04.320 a debt is owed
00:48:06.700 and a debt will be paid
00:48:09.900 Jack Posobiec, Kevin Posobiec, Real America's Voice
00:48:12.940 ladies and gentlemen
00:48:14.060 as always you have our permission to lay a short
00:48:23.960 We'll be right back.