Charlie Kirk's Widow Erika and Family Face Alleged Assassin Tyler Robinson in Utah Courtroom Hearing

[00:06] >> Dana: FOX NEWS ALERT.

[00:08] THESE COULD D BE TENSE AND

[00:09] EMOTIONAL MOMENTS INSIDE A UTAH

[00:11] COURTROOM THIS MORNING.

[00:12] FOR THE FIRST TIME CHARLIE

[00:13] KIRK'S WIDOW, ERIKA AND HIS

[00:16] PARENTS ARE SET TO COME

[00:17] FACE-TO-FACE AT A PRELIMINARY

[00:18] HEARING WITH THE MAN ACCUSED OF

[00:20] KILLING HIM.

[00:21] MATT FINN IS OUTSIDE THE

[00:23] COURTHOUSE IN PROVO, UTAH WITH

[00:25] MORE.

[00:26] HI, MATT.

[00:27] >> HI, DANA.

[00:29] THIS WEEK MARKS TEN MONTHS SINCE

[00:30] CHARLIE KIRK WAS ASSASSINATED

[00:32] HERE IN UTAH.

[00:34] HIS ALLEGED ASSASSIN HAS YET TO

[00:36] EVEN ENTER A PLEA.

[00:38] HIS DEFENSE TEAM TRIED MULTIPLE

[00:40] STRATEGIES TO GET THE

[00:41] POSSIBILITY OF THE DEATH

[00:42] SENTENCE OFF THE TABLE AND DELAY

[00:44] THE BEGINNING OF THE PRELIMINARY

[00:46] HEARING SCHEDULED TO BEGINNING

[00:47] THIS MORNING AND LAST ALL WEEK.

[00:49] IN UTAH IT'S USED TO DETERMINE

[00:51] IF THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE TO

[00:53] MOVE FORWARD WITH A MURDER

[00:55] TRIAL.

[00:55] LATE LAST WEEK THE UTAH SUPREME

[00:57] COURT DENIED THREE APPEALS BY

[01:00] ROBINSON'S LEGAL TEAM WHICH

[01:01] PAVEED THE WAY FOR THE PRELIM TO

[01:03] BEGIN TODAY WITH A CAMERA IN

[01:05] COURT.

[01:05] TYLER ROBINSON IS CHARGED WITH

[01:08] AGGRAVATED MURDER IN THE

[01:09] ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE KIRK.

[01:10] IN COURT THIS WEEK THE STATE HAS

[01:11] INDICATED IT IS GOING TO PRESENT

[01:13] A VIDEO THAT SHOWS ROBINSON'S

[01:15] FORMER ROOMMATE AND LOVER, LANCE

[01:18] TWIGGS, TELLING POLICE THAT

[01:19] ROBINSON CONFESSED THAT HE

[01:21] ASSASSINATED CHARLIE KIRK WHO

[01:23] WAS MURDERED LAST SEPTEMBER 10TH

[01:24] AT UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY.

[01:27] INVESTIGATORS SAY TYLER ROBINSON

[01:29] SHOT KIRK WITH A RIFLE FROM A

[01:30] ROOFTOP AND THEN IN TEXT

[01:32] MESSAGES CONFESSED TO HIS ROOM

[01:36] MAT LOVER.

[01:36] TWIGGS TEXTED WHY?

[01:38] ROBINSON REPLIED, WHY DID I DO

[01:41] IT?

[01:41] TWIG SAID YEAH, ROBINSON SAID I

[01:44] HAD ENOUGH OF HIS HATRED.

[01:45] SOME HATE CANNOT BE NEGOTIATED

[01:47] OUT.

[01:47] IF I'M ABLE TO GRAB MY RIFLE

[01:49] UNSEEN I WILL HAVE LEFT NO

[01:51] EVIDENCE.

[01:52] THE PROSECUTION HAS INDICATED IT

[01:54] IS PREPARED TO FOREWARN THE

[01:55] FAMILIES OF TYLER ROBINSON AND

[01:58] CHARLIE KIRK IF GRAPHIC VIDEO OR

[02:01] TESTIMONY IS ABOUT TO BE

[02:02] DISCUSSED IN COURT.

[02:03] THIS MORNING WE HAVE A BRAND-NEW

[02:05] STATEMENT FROM ERIKA KIRK AND

[02:07] CHARLIE'S FAMILY.

[02:08] IT READS IN PART EVERY COURT

[02:10] PROCEEDING SERVES AS A PAINFUL

[02:12] REMINDER OF HIS DEATH AND THE

[02:14] LOSS THAT HAS IMPACTED OUR LIVES

[02:15] AND THE LIVES OF HIS CHILDREN.

[02:18] THE PROSECUTION HAS INDICATED IT

[02:19] PLANS TO CALL WITNESSES

[02:21] INCLUDING A STATE INVESTIGATORS

[02:23] AND UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY

[02:25] POLICE, DANA AND BILL.

[02:26] >> Dana: THANK YOU.

[02:28] >> Bill: WANT TO BRING IN JAMES

[02:35]

[02:36] GAGLI -- THE PROSECUTIONS CASE

[02:38] IS THIS.

[02:39] OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE AND SET TO

[02:40] PROVE IT.

[02:42] HOW DO YOU SEE THAT?

[02:43] >> YEAH, AND BILL, THE STANDARD

[02:46] IS SO LOW IN A PRELIMINARY

[02:48] HEARING.

[02:49] YOU AREN'T TRYING TO PROVE

[02:50] BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.

[02:51] YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO SHOW

[02:53] ENOUGH OF THE EVIDENCE SO THE

[02:54] JUDGE CAN GO AHEAD AND ALLOW THE

[02:56] TRIAL TO COMMENCE.

[02:58] LOOK, UTAH IS A PECULIAR PLACE

[03:00] IN THEIR CRIMINAL COURT SYSTEM

[03:02] YOU DON'T GET ARRAIGNED BEFORE

[03:03] THIS.

[03:04] SO WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN A PLEA YET

[03:06] FROM TYLER ROBINSON.

[03:07] THAT MAY HAPPEN THIS WEEK, MAY

[03:10] HAPPEN AFTER THERE IS A SEPARATE

[03:12] ARRAIGNMENT.

[03:13] >> Bill: THIS IS LIKE THE GRAND

[03:15] JURY PROCEEDING.

[03:17] USUALLY THAT'S DONE IN PRIVATE

[03:18] AND NOT IN PUBLIC.

[03:19] AM I RIGHT ON THAT DEFINITION?

[03:21] >> YEAH, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE

[03:24] IN PUBLIC.

[03:25] AS PART OF THE PRETRIAL

[03:27] MANEUVERINGS WHAT WILL HAPPEN

[03:29] WITNESSES WILL BE CALLED BY BOTH

[03:30] THE PROSECUTION AND THE DEFENSE.

[03:32] THE DEFENSE ARE GOING TO CALL

[03:34] THREE DNA AND FORENSIC EXPERTS

[03:36] FROM OUT OF STATE.

[03:39] THE PROSECUTION WILL CALL FOUR

[03:40] STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

[03:41] FOLKS THAT COLLECTED THE

[03:43] EVIDENCE AS WELL AS A UTAH

[03:44] VALLEY UNIVERSITY POLICE OFFICER

[03:47] THAT WAS THERE WHEN THE FIRING

[03:49] HAPPENED.

[03:49] AND ALSO THEY ARE GOING TO CALL

[03:52] TO THE STAND, WHICH WILL BE

[03:54] PRETTY EXPLOSIVE BUT DO IT

[03:57] THROUGH SOMETHING CALLED AND

[04:00] 1102 AT THE SAME TIME.

[04:02] LANCE TWIGGS IS THE ROOMMATE AND

[04:06] TESTIFYING THROUGH AUDIO VIDEO

[04:08] AND NOT IN THE COURTROOM TODAY.

[04:11] >> Bill: ERIKA KIRK NOVEMBER OF

[04:14] 2025 AND HOW PUBLIC THIS CASE

[04:16] HAS BEEN.

[04:16] >> THERE WERE CAMERAS ALL OVER

[04:19] MY HUSBAND WHEN HE WAS MURDERED.

[04:21] THERE HAVE BEEN CAMERAS ALL OVER

[04:24] MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

[04:29] WHY NOT BE TRANSPARENT?

[04:31] THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE.

[04:34] LET EVERYONE SEE AND KNOW HOW IT

[04:37] HAPPENED, HOW IT EVEN GOT TO

[04:39] THIS POINT.

[04:40] THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD

[04:41] IMPACT A GENERATION AND

[04:43] GENERATIONS TO COME.

[04:44] >> Bill: SHE IS GETTING HER WISH

[04:46] IN THE FOLLOWING WAY.

[04:48] IT IS GOING TO BE AS PUBLIC AS

[04:50] OUR LEGAL SYSTEM ALLOWS AND THAT

[04:52] IS CAMERAS IN THE COURTROOM FOR

[04:55] ALL OF US TO WATCH.

[04:57] >> YEAH.

[04:57] THE JUDGE HAS BEEN VERY

[04:59] RESISTANT TO DEFENSE MOTIONS TO

[05:01] DISALLOW THIS.

[05:02] AND LOOK, YOU KNOW, AS JUSTICE

[05:05] SAID, SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST

[05:08] DISINFECT ANT.

[05:10] IT IS MORE ABOUT THE PERVERSE

[05:13] IDEOLOGY THAT TYLER ROBINSON WAS

[05:17] BEHOLDING.

[05:17] IT ESTABLISHES A MOTIVE AND

[05:19] THERE IS EVIDENCE BEYOND

[05:20] EVIDENCE BEYOND EVIDENCE.

[05:22] WE CONVICTED MURDERERS ON 10% OF

[05:24] WHAT THE STATE HAS RIGHT NOW.

[05:26] THE QUESTION IS, WHAT DOES THE

[05:29] STATE CHOOSE TO SHOW NOW AND

[05:30] I'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW

[05:32] THE CROSS EXAMINATION OF

[05:34] WITNESSES GO?

[05:34] >> Bill: WE'LL SEE A LOT AND ALL

[05:37] THERE ON CAMERA.

[05:39] PRELIMINARY HEARING THAT WILL

[05:40] LAST FIVE DAYS STARTING IN A FEW

[05:42] HOURS.

[05:42] GOOD TO HAVE Y