Charlie Kirk Suspect's Alleged Texts and Confession Revealed in Court

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Back every day. And you're so great.

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So, just so you know, the audience really loves you. Yeah, Karah's gonna be on a lot now.

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**Karah Rainwater** (1:23)
Excited to be here.

**Branson Quirke** (1:25)
So today, obviously, is gonna be a little bit a dimmer episode.
We have a few stories. We're gonna be talking about the fourth day of, by the way, Tyler Robinson, he is back in court. This is the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This is the fourth day of his preliminary hearing, where they have been presenting new evidence that they say links into the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. So we're gonna go through all that we have seen so far on this live stream. It's been on TMZ. You can go watch that live stream of the court session. And there's a lot of details that are pretty shocking in this entire tragic situation. We also will be talking about, in my opinion, probably the craziest story.

**Karah Rainwater** (2:13)
I've heard all week.

**Branson Quirke** (2:13)
I agree.

**Karah Rainwater** (2:14)
I'm not gonna lie, this one took...

**Branson Quirke** (2:15)
Maybe all year.

**Karah Rainwater** (2:16)
Yeah, this is insane.

**Branson Quirke** (2:18)
A flight instructor who threw himself out of a plane in the middle of a flying lesson.

**Karah Rainwater** (2:24)
I wouldn't know what I would do if I was us. We'll get into it.

**Branson Quirke** (2:27)
We have details on potential lead up to this, what he was going through. They're still searching for a motive because it was not apparent at the time. The investigation is very much still ongoing. It's only been a couple days now.
And then we'll finish off with Taylor Frankie Paul. Once again, we're gonna quickly talk about she's back filming The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

**Karah Rainwater** (2:52)
I feel like that's expected.

**Branson Quirke** (2:54)
Yeah, if anything, I'm not surprised that she's back filming Secret Lives. It was The Bachelorette releasing that I would be more surprised about. But in terms of that, it's a very messy show. I wouldn't be surprised if they had her back on for the ratings. All right, well, let's go to what we're here to talk about. Charlie Kirk, the, again, fourth day of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing. Where they're presenting new evidence, they say links him to the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. The hearing is part of a five-day preliminary hearing, so tomorrow is the final day, where state district Judge Tony F. Gravjr will decide whether prosecutors have enough evidence to send Robinson to trial. These things are so complex, and there's a lot. So I mean, you remember the day that this happened. It was obviously very tragic. It was just unbelievable to start off. And in the aftermath, seeing footage of him jumping off the roof, and it went deeper than that. There was footage of him walking to the events where the event took place, that the assassination took place. And then also, of course, the details of the arrest and how that came to be. And then it was revealed that he had a partner, and now this partner knew a good amount in the aftermath.
So we're going to play a video for you.
But before we get to that, I do want to say he has not yet entered a plea.