The Full BOMBSHELL Lance Twiggs Video, Plus New Robinson Texts Revealed, with Geragos, Murphy, Aronberg, Eiglarsh, and Frei | Ep. 1356

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What is the opening discussion about the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing and the judge’s handling?

Megyn Kelly 0:00
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
Megyn Kelly 0:12
Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. We are in day four of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing. It's happening right now. The man accused of murdering our friend Charlie Kirk with the most anticipated moment of the entire week. Expected any moment now. That is the recorded interview between prosecutors and Lance Twiggs, the alleged trans furry lover and roommate of Tyler Robinson. This has been a major point of contention between the prosecution and the defense. They have spent hours arguing over what would be played, how much of it and how much the public will get to see. The lawyer for Erica Kirk and her family has even now gotten involved filing this document demanding that they be able to see and hear what the court is going to see and hear.
Megyn Kelly 1:05
There's some restriction on what they're going to put out to the media. But Charlie's widow would like to know what the evidence is in her husband's murder case. It is ridiculous how weak this judge has been. He was only put on the bench last May. You can tell he's weak. Not confident. He is overly indulgent of the defense's objections, whereas a seasoned jurist would have dismissed most of them out of hand. Noted, overruled, let's move on. He takes every single objection as seriously as if the U.S. Supreme Court is going to weigh in on every single one. He doesn't have the confidence to put the ones that are serious and actually could get him in this trial in trouble in one category. And the ones that are obviously perfunctory and meant just to preserve a record in a different category.
Megyn Kelly 1:57
And it's delaying this proceeding interminably. It is unfair. And by the way, he is treating the Kirk family like they are bystanders there with absolutely no stake in this thing. So they've filed this motion saying under Utah law, the crime victims' families have a right. We have a literal right under Utah law to be informed of, to be present at, and to be heard at important criminal justice hearings related to the victim. And they say that that is no, that right is toothless if we're not allowed to see the evidence. How can we be excluded from the people who can see the evidence? The right to be present is hollow, they write, if the victim or his representative is physically in the room but is prevented from seeing the evidence the court is receiving.
Megyn Kelly 2:50
A right to attend that does not include the ability to perceive what is happening is not meaningful presence at all. consistent with statutory command that victims' rights be protected no less vigorously than the defendant's, the victim's family's presence must be a real one. The ability to observe in real time the evidence presented in the courtroom they are entitled to occupy. This judge is taking it under advisement. He's going to look at it. Okay. Right now, at 12.03 Eastern Time, they are still haggling over which lines from the Lance Twigg testimony will be removed from the public's hearing. We're not going to see the video. The defense won that objection. Why? Because they show him certain exhibits.
Megyn Kelly 3:36
That makes no sense that they're not in evidence yet. Okay, you could redact the video for those portions. Why don't we get any video? It's absurd. It makes no sense. It's a preliminary hearing. You can have a witness take the stand and look at non-introduced exhibits. And by the way, now the defense, our friend Brian Enten is saying, oh, many lawyers are saying that this is somehow a fatal flaw, potentially that Lance Twiggs wasn't cross-examined in this video and won't be able to be cross-examined. That's not true. Witnesses, you're not entitled to cross-examination at a preliminary hearing. That's not something that you necessarily get. That's not going to clear this deal. the prosecution is not doing anything wrong, and the judge is treating them like they're trying to pull a fast one here, indulging every single banal, baseless objection by the team representing the defendant that they make.

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