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The Plan to Turn Charlie Kirk's Murder Into a Crackdown on the Left

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, prosecutors charged the man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk with aggravated murder, vowed to seek the death penalty and released a mountain of new evidence against him. Jack Healy, who has been covering the killing of Mr. Kirk for The New York Times, explains what the police have uncovered about his motives. Kenneth P. Vogel, an investigative reporter, discusses the emerging White House plan to use the federal government to crack down on the left-wing groups that it believes inspire political violence.

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0:00.0

From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.

0:04.0

This is the Daily.

0:09.0

On Tuesday, prosecutors in Utah brought formal charges against the man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk.

0:20.2

Count one, aggravated murder, a capital offense for intentionally or knowingly causing the death

0:28.0

of Charlie Kirk under service.

0:30.3

Vowed to pursue the maximum penalty under the law.

0:33.8

I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty. I do not take this decision

0:40.5

lightly. And released a mountain of new evidence against him. Robinson's mother explained that

0:47.3

over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left.

0:55.9

Today, my colleague, Jack Healy, on what police have and have not uncovered about the

1:04.2

suspect's motives, and Ken Vogel, on the emerging White House plan to use Kirk's murder as a rationale for cracking down on left-wing groups across the country.

1:20.9

It's Wednesday, September 17th.

1:29.3

Jack, we have spent the last few days trying to understand exactly what information police

1:36.8

have collected against Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson.

1:42.8

And on Tuesday, we got our official answer.

1:47.7

So tell us about what we learned.

1:49.8

Quite a bit.

1:50.8

The prosecutors in this case put out a 10-page summary of the charges and of the information that they are releasing in this case that contains

2:03.0

an enormous amount of detail about how they say he carried out the murder, why he did it,

2:09.4

and how they found him.

2:10.8

Well, tell us first about the new information related to how they found this suspect? Because that's something about which there

2:20.2

was some confusing detail in the beginning. Yeah, absolutely. There was a 33-hour manhunt,

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