FBI Director Reveals New Details About Alleged Kirk Shooter

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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The FBI director reveals new details about evidence in the investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Plus, what the Kremlin is saying about the chances of Russia ending its war against Ukraine. Also, the new deal announced to save TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tony Shalub loves bread.
0:02.0	On his new CNN original series, he's traveling the world to see how bread is the most delicious way to bring people and cultures together.
0:10.0	Tony Shalub, Breaking Bread, premieres Sunday, October 5th on CNN.
0:16.4	Did Charlie Kirk's killer confess in a Discord chat?
0:21.6	The lead starts right now.
0:23.6	Quote, I'm sorry for all this.
0:26.6	A message reportedly from the suspected assassin
0:29.6	and the Charlie Kirk murder.
0:31.6	What else was written?
0:32.6	As the FBI director himself reveals new details
0:35.6	about other evidence, including DNA evidence. Plus, exactly one
0:40.7	month ago, President Trump and the American people literally rolled out the red carpet for Russia's
0:46.4	Vladimir Putin. What the Kremlin is saying today about the chances of a next step towards
0:52.1	Russia ending its war against Ukraine.
0:55.0	But first, the New Deal just announced to save TikTok in the United States.
1:00.0	How much different might the wildly popular social media app look
1:04.0	just to keep its operations going in the U.S.?
1:15.1	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start in our law and justice lead.
1:25.4	The suspect accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk appears to have confessed to the murder in an online chat before turning himself in.
1:28.2	That's according to the Washington Post, breaking news this afternoon.
1:34.5	The Post reports that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson sent a series of messages to a small group chat on the online platform Discord. One of them says, quote, hey guys, I have bad news for you all.
1:41.0	It was me at UVU yesterday. That's Utah Valley University. I'm sorry for all this.
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