'WE GOT HIM' - Charlie's Killer In Custody | Episode 124

0:00Dan Bongino:Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Friday. It is so good to have you with us, the best audience anywhere. We have breaking news this morning, of course. The President of the United States announcing that the assassin, the suspect who is believed to have assassinated Charlie Kirk, has been taken into custody overnight. He's been captured. We've got the details ahead. And for those of you who are joining us live on Rumble, yes, we will carry this FBI press conference set to take place momentarily. So stay with us here. Stay locked in. We're going to have it all. Glad to have you with us this morning.

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1:45Dan Bongino:We do begin today with this breaking news that the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been captured. We now have a couple of details about him, and it's all going to be emerging more in a press conference just in just moments as we're carrying this live. Tyler Robinson is the name of the suspect, 22 years old from Utah. And they say that his father and a minister and a local U.S. marshal were all involved in bringing this suspect in overnight. A lot of developments overnight. The president of the United States was the man to break this News this morning appearing on the Fox News channel.

2:26Dan Bongino:Here's what the president said live on television. Cut one. Look at this. I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody, right? In custody. Everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor. Everybody did a great job. You know, getting somebody that you start off with absolutely nothing. And we started off with a clip that made him look like an ant that was almost useless. We just saw there was somebody up there. And so much work has been done over the last two and a half days. You know, it's amazing, actually, when you start off with that and then all of a sudden you get lucky or talent or whatever it is.

3:05But yeah, I think we're in great shape. And he's in custody.

3:10Dan Bongino:He's in custody. The president announcing that to that couch full of hosts on Fox who had no idea what he was about to say. They started, I think, with a little bit of small talk. He got right into a major announcement, and now we are getting a major announcement. Here is the FBI, Kash Patel and gentlemen and others stepping up. Take a listen here. At today's press conference, we will hear from Governor Cox, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Sheriff Mike Smith. We also have with us Utah DPS Commissioner Bo Mason, Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, fbi special agent in charge robert bowles and local and federal law enforcement partners following the remarks today governor cox director patel and commissioner mason will take questions thank you waiting on remarks everybody's getting assembled here good morning ladies and gentlemen we got him on the evening of september 11th a family member of Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident.

4:25This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office and seen investigators at Utah Valley University. This information was also conveyed to the FBI. investigators reviewed additional video footage from UVU surveillance and identified Robinson arriving on UVU campus in a gray Dodge Challenger at approximately 8 29 a.m. on September 10th in which he is observed on video in a plain maroon t-shirt light colored shorts a black hat with a white logo and light colored shoes when encountered in person by investigators in Washington County on September 12th, the early morning hours, Robinson was observed in consistent clothing with those surveillance images.

5:10Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years. The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to dinner prior to September 10th, and in the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU. They talked about why they didn't like him and the viewpoints that he had. The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate. The family member also confirmed Robinson had a great Dodge Challenger. Investigators identified an individual as the roommate of Robinson.

5:49Investigators interviewed that roommate who stated that his roommate, referring to Robinson, made a joke on Discord. Investigators asked if he would show them the messages on Discord. He opened it and showed several messages to investigators and allowed investigators to take photos of the screen as each message was shown by Robinson's roommate. These photos consisted of various messages, including content of messages between the phone contact name Tyler with an emoji icon and Robinson's roommate's device. The content of these messages included messages affiliated with the contact tire stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel.

6:43The messages also refer to engraving bullets and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique. Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fire casing read, Notices Bulges, capital O-W-O, what's this question mark? inscriptions on the three unfired casings read hey fascist exclamation point catch exclamation point up arrow symbol right arrow and uh symbol and three down arrow symbols a second unfired casing read oh bella chow bella chow bella chow chow chow and a third unfired casing read if you read this You are Gay LMAO. I want to thank the family members of Tyler Robinson who did the right thing in this case and were able to bring him into law enforcement as well.

7:49I especially want to thank the family of Charlie Kirk. Erica, Charlie's parents, his children. I want us to be thinking of them as we bring justice in this case. They will be involved in that justice. We will be working very closely with them as we move through this process as well. This is a very sad day for, again, for our country, a terrible day for the state of Utah. But I'm grateful that at this moment we have an opportunity to bring closure to this very dark chapter in our nation's history. with that i'll now turn the uh turn the microphone over to the director of the fbi cash who did not

8:36Dan Bongino:speak last night at the press conference they were hot on this guy's trail this is what happens when you let good cops be cops the fbi and our partners are proud to stand here today together to bring justice to the family of charlie kirk and honor his memory i want to express my deep gratitude to president trump the vice president and the entire white house who have been so incredibly supportive with both resources and just personally to the FBI as a team. They had our backs the entire way, and I just want to express my gratitude for giving us the resources we need to operate in this space to bring this sort of justice at this sort of speed.

9:11In 33 hours, we have made historic progress for Charlie. In less than 36 hours, 33 to be precise, thanks to the full weight of the federal government and leading out with the partners here in the state of Utah and Governor

9:27Dan Bongino:Cox, the suspect was apprehended in a historic time period. And I want to highlight what Governor Cox said. This would not have been possible without you, the media, and you, the public. That's why we went so public so fast and were so transparent and were committed to that transparency. Last night we had a total of approximately 7 ,000 interviews, excuse me, 7 ,000 leads. 7 ,000 tips. As of this morning, thanks to your great work, we have over 11 ,000 leads that were called in to the FBI. And we are running out every single lead that we can. Every one of those leads will be run out. Thank you again to our incredible law enforcement team who has worked so hard.

10:10Sheriff, I got a solid 90 minutes last night, so I'm probably the most well-respected person up here. Ladies and gentlemen, I get the microphone, so I hope you'll permit me a moment just to share a few more thoughts about where we are.

10:26Dan Bongino:This is Utah Governor Spencer Cox. Maybe a little bit of where we go from here. I don't want to get too preachy, but I think it's important that we, with eyes wide open, understand what's happening in our country today. I've heard people say, well, why are we so invested in this? There's violence happening all across our country, and violence is tragic everywhere, and every life taken is a child of God who deserves our love and respect and dignity. This is certainly about the tragic death, assassination, political assassination of Charlie Kirk. But it is also much bigger than an attack on an individual.

11:19It is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack on our ideals. this cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times. Political violence is different than any other type of violence for lots of different reasons. One, because in the very act that Charlie championed of expression, that freedom of expression that is enshrined in our founding documents in having his life taken in that very act makes it more difficult for people to feel like they can share their ideas that they can speak freely we will never be able to solve all the other problems including the violence problems that people are worried about if we can't have a clash of ideas safely and securely even especially especially those ideas with which you disagree that's why this matters so much

12:37over the last 48 hours I have been as angry as I have ever been as sad as I have ever been and it was As anger pushed me to the brink, it was actually Charlie's words that pulled me back. I'd like to share some of those. And specifically right now, if I could, I need to talk to the young people in our state, in my state, and all across the country. As President Trump reminded me, he said, you know who really loved Charlie? The youths. He's right. Young people love Charlie. and young people hated Charlie. And Charlie went into those places anyway. And these are the words that have helped me. Charlie said, when people stop talking, that's when you get violence.

13:44He said, the weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. Welcome without judgment, love without condition, forgive without limit. He said, always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. A few months ago, I referenced this last night, Charlie posted to social media, when things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it's important to stay grounded. turn off your phone yeah read scripture spend time with friends and remember internet fury is not real life yeah it's going to be okay yeah that's the christian take that's the adult said when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with it becomes a lot easier to commit violence he said what we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable agreement, being able to have reasonable agreement where violence is not an option.

14:49Now again, to my young friends out there, you are inheriting a country where politics feels like rage. It feels like rage is the only option. But But through those words, we have a reminder that we can choose a different path. Your generation has an opportunity to build a culture that is very different than what we are suffering through right now. Not by pretending differences don't matter, but by embracing our differences and having those hard conversations. I think we need more moral clarity right now. I hear all the time that words are violence. words are not violence violence is violence yeah and there is one person responsible for what happened here and that person is now in custody and will be charged soon

15:50Dan Bongino:and will be held accountable we have to be careful here the left though has inflamed these weak and vicious minds right now to do something different i want to thank my fellow of Utahns. You know, this bad stuff happens. And for 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn't be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country.

16:29Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say, hey, we don't do that here. And indeed, Utah is a special place. We lead the nation in charitable giving. We lead the nation in service every year. But it did happen here. And it was one of us. But I want you to look at how Utah's reacted the last two nights. There was no rioting. There was no looting. There were no cars set on fire. There was no violence. There were vigils and prayers and people coming together to share the humanity.

17:22Dan Bongino:That's conservatives. That, ladies and gentlemen, I believe is the answer to this. We can return violence with violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence is it metastasizes. Because we can always point the finger at the other side. And at some point we have to find an off-ramp or it's going to get much, much worse. Yes, that's right. But see, these are choices that we can make. History will dictate if this is a turning point for our country. But every single one of us gets to choose right now if this is a turning point for us. We get to make decisions.

18:08We have our agency. And I desperately call on every American, Republican, Democrat, liberal, progressive, conservative, MAGA, all of us to please, please, please follow what Charlie taught me.

18:28Dan Bongino:Christ. I'll just conclude with words I share often from a friend, an author you've all have been, who was asked if he was optimistic about our country. and he said, I'm not optimistic. He said, I hate optimism. God, that sounds bad. But he said, optimism is a vice. It's this idea that good things are just going to happen. He said, in the history of the world, good things have never just happened. He said, I'm not optimistic, but I am hopeful. And hope is the virtue that sits between the vices of optimism and pessimism. Hope is the idea that good things are going to happen because we can make them so.

19:18I still believe in our country, and I know Charlie Kirk believed in our country. I still believe that there is more good among us than evil, and I still believe that we can change the course of history. I'm hopeful because Americans can make it so.

19:39Dan Bongino:All right, what we're going to do is we're going to dip back into this in just a moment. We are learning a lot right now just about the killer, the suspect who's now in custody. That's Tyler Robinson, 22 years old. They talked about establishing the gray Dodge Challenger he used. They talked about how they were tracking the clothing that he was wearing. He confessed to his father that he was the killer. The father was involved in turning Tyler Robinson in. That all happened transpiring last night overnight. I can tell you that I know this morning that these guys definitely did not sleep last night.

20:18Dan Bongino:They were working throughout the night. Kash Patel, Dan Bongino working tirelessly over the course of the last 33 hours to bring this guy into custody. And again, in 33 hours now, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson taken into custody as the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, all of the evidence pointing to him. We will bring back that press conference in just a moment. I do want to thank our great sponsors who make this broadcast possible. You know those myths that we hear, like cold weather gives you a cold? We only use 10 % of our brains? Well, here's another one, thread count. Many believe higher thread count means better sheets, but it's really just a measure of fabric density.

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23:23One more thing, Governor. Could you just clarify the clothing issue you mentioned earlier? Was he changing outfits? Correct. Could you just clarify this? Yes, yes. So when he's first spotted on campus, he has different clothing on, and then he changes clothing on the roof, and then changed back into that clothing at some point so that when he was apprehended, when he was arrested, the clothing matched the clothing he had on before the shooting here at UB. Last question here.

23:54Dan Bongino:You said the suspect was from Utah. Can you kind of tell us a little bit more about where and was he a student here at this university, and is there any history of mental illness? Yeah. So I don't have any information on the mental illness part. He was not a student here at UVU. He was living and had lived for a long time with his family in Washington County. Thank you, everyone, for your great work in getting this information out. I would just say process-wise, this may be important. I know many of you aren't familiar with the process in Utah. I think it's important that you understand that. basically we have three days for charging documents to be filed a CI will be filed we'll have more information then more detailed information as those charging documents are filed in preparation for a preliminary hearing so three days so you know we would anticipate then that early next week those charging documents will be filed we will obviously be working the county attorney will be working very closely with with Mr.

25:00Kirk's family as as those documents and decisions are prepared and made. Thanks, everyone.

25:06Dan Bongino:All right. And that looks like that's it. I mean, it looks like people are walking away here. The various authorities to include Cash Patel, you see him there, the FBI director walking out. And that that's a big hearing. We were kind of on on the lookout for the FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, who's obviously very involved in all of this. He went yesterday to visit the crime scene. And as clearly things were winding towards this big event, which is that this shooter, this suspect has been taken into custody. And we do have some of the mugshots. Well, a couple of things. Tyler Robinson, as I pointed out, confessed.

25:46Dan Bongino:That's a big deal that they have a confession. Additionally, the mugshots here of the assassin have been released. This is Benny Johnson who's sharing this. You get multiple mugshots of the guy released. They're taken into custody right away. And they've got him. I do want to remind you that there's an element to this, which is there were a lot of people sharing artificial intelligence generated images that were allegedly, the claim was that they were cleaning up the shots. That they were like, oh, we've enhanced the shots. The effect of that AI stuff was not to enhance the shots. That's what we call generative AI.

26:24Dan Bongino:It just invented faces for the guy. And if you compare now the actual mugshots to some of that AI generated garbage, you'll realize that that's exactly what it was. And I hate that because it misled people into believing that, OK, I got to find somebody who looks exactly like this. And that's not what it was. In fact, here's a here's a guy who literally tweeted out the comparison. I mean, look at this thing. There's the generative AI does not look like him at all. and that's because people were literally just generating artificial intelligence images it just doesn't work that's not that's not going to happen uh so just just to give people some clarity there uh and also to try and up to stop any conspiracy theories from being born out of the generative ai being like that's a different person well yeah no kidding it's a fake person doesn't even exist um okay we've got uh a lot of things that have happened in the last 24 hours obviously the president of the united states just revealed all of this this morning on the Fox News channel.

27:22Dan Bongino:He revealed, yeah, we've got a suspect in custody. And here's the president detailing some of what we just heard cut to about a minister and the suspect's father turning him in. Take a listen. Here's the president. Essentially, somebody that was very close to him turned him in. And that happens when you had some of those good shots. Somebody is going to say, whether it's a parent or whatever, I'd rather not say right now, they're going to announce it today, sometime later, probably talk about that. but somebody close to him turned and they said, whoa, it's interesting. We had very good pictures, but not great, not perfect.