Friday Five-Pack | AOTMA | Calling It a Year | 12/12/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, Daily News, News

4.9 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Robinson grins through his first in-person hearing on the Charlie Kirk assassination charges, Obama judge frees alleged gangbanger/human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Trump blasts Senate Republicans for stalling judicial noms as John Thune defends "blue slips," Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) grills DHS Sec. Kristi Noem and she owns him, Ilhan Omar calls Jewish Stephen Miller a "Nazi" and CNN won't let him respond—plus Ask or Tell Me Anything on fault lines in the right, COVID jabs in the military, the Sherrone Moore firing/abortion/affair mess, and more, with a final Ben cameo for the year.

Tyler Robinson court, Charlie Kirk assassin, Kilmar Abrego Garcia release, Trump blue slips, John Thune Senate, Kristi Noem DHS, Shri Thanedar impeachment, Ilhan Omar Stephen Miller, Sherrone Moore fired, Michigan scandal, Candace Owens demons

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0:00.0	It's Friday, December 12th, 2025, a Friday five-pack. Ask or tell me anything and time to call it a year next on the AM update.
0:11.4	Thank you yet again for making it through another week on the AM update with me and in this case another year.
0:17.3	On the AM update, we set records this year. We did a lot of good things, had a lot of fun
0:22.2	interaction as well. It's been a really fun year on this plucky little podcast, a side hustle for
0:28.5	me from what I do in the day job, but it's fun nonetheless. We have their regular fare for
0:35.5	a Friday, a Friday five pack,, an ask or tell me anything.
0:38.4	Starting with this story yesterday out of Utah, accused Charlie Kirkassass and Tyler Robinson,
0:44.3	was seen grinning in court during his first public in-person court appearance.
0:49.8	Several city blocks were cordoned off outside of the courthouse.
0:53.5	There's heavy, heavy, heavy security in and around the courthouse as Tyler Robinson was being transported to court.
1:02.7	Only thing of note that I saw is that his parents were not allowed to be in court during the closed court sessions.
1:09.7	So no major hard news other than just the videos and photos we saw in the courtroom of Robinson,
1:16.2	smirking and smiling.
1:18.0	That's the biggest storyline out of yesterday's court appearance.
1:21.0	And obviously it means one thing.
1:23.2	Death penalty.
1:24.1	Death penalty.
1:25.6	It's really quite astounding.
1:26.9	If you just go back and read the charging
1:28.7	documents, which I did for the first time since they came out, was that late September. Maybe it was
1:35.0	early October. I can't remember. I mean, they say they found his DNA on the alleged gun,
1:41.7	all over the alleged gun, on the trigger, on the spent and unspent shells.
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