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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, We got him.

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Speaker 1: The FBI identified twenty two year old Tyler Robinson as

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Speaker 1: their suspect and the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 1: Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of murder and weapons offenses.

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Speaker 2: On the evening of September eleventh, a family member of

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Speaker 2: Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend who contacted

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Speaker 2: the Washington County Sheriff's office with information that Robinson had

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Speaker 2: confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident.

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Speaker 1: Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday during an event at Utah

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Speaker 1: Valley University.

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Speaker 3: Tyler Robinson is twenty two years old, and as far

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Speaker 3: as we understand, he had expressed that he was no

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Speaker 3: fan of Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Senior National security reporter Miles Miller.

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Speaker 3: He didn't like his ideology. He told this to family

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Speaker 3: members during a dinner recast and knew that he was

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Speaker 3: coming to Utah and that is all part of the investigation.

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Speaker 3: Much of what he did he talked about in a

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Speaker 3: discord server with friends, and his roommate shared that information

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Speaker 3: with law enforcement, where he hit the gun, how he

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Speaker 3: fled this investigation. Now we'll focus on how much of

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Speaker 3: that is true, If he was self radicalized, if he

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Speaker 3: had any support to do this, where he got the gun.

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Speaker 3: There's still so much we don't know.

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Speaker 4: Over the last forty hours, I have been as angry

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Speaker 4: as I have ever been, as sad as I have

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Speaker 4: ever been.

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Speaker 1: During the FBI press conference, Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned

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Speaker 1: those watching and listening against further violence.

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Speaker 4: History will dictate if this is a turning point for

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Speaker 4: our country, but every single one of us gets to

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Speaker 4: choose right now. If this is a turning point for

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Speaker 4: us to make decisions, we have our agency, and I

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Speaker 4: desperately call on every American Republican, Democrat, liberal, progressive, conservative, maga,

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Speaker 4: all of us to please please please.

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Speaker 2: Follow what Charlie tuppy.

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Speaker 4: I still believe that there is more.

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Speaker 2: Good among us than evil.

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Speaker 4: And I still believe that we can change the course

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Speaker 4: of history. I'm hopeful because Americans can make it so.

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Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the big take from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News today. On the show The Latest on the

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Speaker 1: assassination of Charlie Kirk, Miles Miller covers national security for Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: He's been closely following law enforcement's investigation into the killing

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk and he reports that, according to a

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Speaker 1: person with knowledge of the investigation, Robinson's father recognized him

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Speaker 1: as the suspect and the photos released by police and

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Speaker 3: His father says, you look a lot like that guy

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Speaker 3: in the photo. Were you responsible for this? He says, yes,

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Speaker 3: I was. Then he says, you need to turn yourself in.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to call our youth pastor at our church.

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Speaker 3: The youth pastor just happens to be a task force officer,

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Speaker 3: which is a local cop who is assigned to a

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Speaker 3: federal task force, the one that actually is looking for him.

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Speaker 3: He calls a deputy, a deputy calls the FBI, and

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Speaker 3: they bring him in. He makes statements, and they arrest him.

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Speaker 3: Parallel to that happening, the FBI is doing their own

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Speaker 3: And so once they did get some information about him,

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Speaker 3: So one thing is that the person who jumped from

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Speaker 3: that roof had a Dodge challenger. Okay, this person that

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Speaker 3: same person. One thing that's really interesting is that the

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Speaker 3: FBI got about eleven thousand leads, and just because this

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Speaker 3: They'll continue to track all of it down because you

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Speaker 3: have to figure out if anybody gave material support, who

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Speaker 1: And Tyler Robinson has been taken in as the suspect,

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Speaker 1: But what evidence has been shared with the public so

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Speaker 1: far that links this man with this The car that.

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Speaker 3: Was used as part of the getaway, the fact that

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Speaker 3: said that he inscribed bullets. All of those things are

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Speaker 1: If we're going to be passing through all those details

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Speaker 1: want to talk about those inscriptions on the casings. What

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the inscriptions talked about fascism. Another one

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Speaker 1: These are very online references, it seems.

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Speaker 3: Like, very much so, and so part of our reporting

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Speaker 3: today is to figure out how online he was. In

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Speaker 3: of his public profile being meme driven and all that

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Speaker 3: Usually twenty four hours after any incident, we get some

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Speaker 3: to like parse through that. Oftentimes they'll highlight in incidents

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Speaker 3: piece together the ideology that thinking behind all of this.

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Speaker 1: More on the next steps of the investigation. When we come.

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Speaker 5: Back, I hope you'll permit me a moment just to

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Speaker 5: share a few more thoughts about.

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Speaker 4: Where we are and how we got here. Social media

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Speaker 4: is a cancer on our society right now, and I

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Speaker 4: would encourage again, I would encourage people to log off, turnoff,

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Speaker 4: touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do

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Speaker 4: good in your community.

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Speaker 1: On Friday morning, Utah's Republican Governor Spencer Cox spoke at

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Speaker 1: a press conference updating the public on the status of

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Speaker 4: I absolutely believe that this is a watershed in American history. Yes,

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Speaker 4: the question is what kind of watershed and that chapter

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Speaker 4: remains to be written. Is this the end of a

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Speaker 1: I watched the press conference this morning. After the updates

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Speaker 1: on the investigation, Governor Spencer Cox went back to the

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Speaker 1: shooting means, how he's making sense of it. What was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Governor's message was that, like, everybody needs to

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Speaker 3: making a very online message, which is to get offline

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Speaker 1: He literally said touch grass.

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Speaker 3: I was surprised by that because I feel like those

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Speaker 3: But the one thing that was really interesting that the

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Speaker 3: China and Russia are using this incident to try to

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Speaker 1: And is there evidence of that?

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Speaker 3: You know, I have not seen it, but I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: What can we say about the role of the FBI

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Speaker 1: of different information coming out over the past few days.

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Speaker 1: The FBI announced they had apprehended someone, then released them.

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Speaker 1: How typical is this process for an FBI investigation.

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Speaker 3: I cover Cash Bettel pretty closely. I talk with his

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Speaker 3: for those two tweets announcing that someone was in custody.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to be a more modern FBI director. And so,

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Speaker 3: you know, getting out and being more transparent about when

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Speaker 1: And what do you make of those eleven thousand leads

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Speaker 3: Somebody may have seen him at a gas station, which

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Speaker 3: is good because and it helps investigators figure out, okay,

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Speaker 3: was a credit card use? Whose credit card was it?

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Speaker 3: You have to track every lead down, some of them

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Speaker 3: and then probably the bulk of them are incorrect. You know,

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Speaker 3: I saw a lot on social media. Social media was

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Speaker 3: very involved, as you know, with this case, identifying people

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Speaker 3: who had nothing to do with this, or as people

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Speaker 3: But you know, when they do an appeal for information,

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Speaker 3: And that's the reason why they don't let these leads

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Speaker 1: Miles says. The shooting Wednesday is part of a marked

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Speaker 1: increase in political violence in the US, and it's got

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Speaker 3: You know, and talking with the Secret Service and talking

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Speaker 3: you know, It's something that law enforcement around the country

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Speaker 3: When Kamala Harris, now with no secret service, comes to

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Speaker 3: Will that happen around the country, That's the thing that

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Speaker 3: you will have to look out for.

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Speaker 1: So are there conversations going on about increased security measures

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent. Just look last night to Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: at the Yankee game with a big bulletproof barrier at

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Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium. That barrier didn't exist before, but it sure

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Speaker 3: does now. Let's look back to Butler, after Butler, than

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Speaker 3: anytime Trump was in public, the big barricade, And the

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Speaker 3: only reason they didn't have that is because it's so

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Speaker 3: military planes. That is the new normal, at least for now,

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Speaker 3: until some of this sort of settles.

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