'We Got Him!'
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening outbreaking news suspect captured, President Trump says officials have a man in custody for the killing of Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:09.0 | We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the Situation Room. |
| 0:16.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:26.3 | And we begin this hour with truly major breaking news. |
| 0:29.7 | Right now we're awaiting a news conference. |
| 0:31.6 | It's supposed to start at any moment. |
| 0:33.3 | Now a news conference in Utah on the killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:38.6 | This morning, President Trump said a suspect is in custody and sources tell CNN that person |
| 0:44.5 | is being questioned. |
| 0:46.0 | The sources are saying that the suspect confessed to killing Charlie Kirk to his father. |
| 0:51.7 | We're covering all the latest developments as the story unfolds. I want to go straight to John Miller to get the latest reporting from you, John. |
| 0:58.0 | I know you're talking to your law enforcement sources. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, the suspect who is in custody is a 22-year-old man from Washington, Utah. |
| 1:08.0 | This is apparently something that developed overnight as the father contacted federal |
| 1:14.0 | authorities saying that he had confronted his son about this, believing after seeing the |
| 1:20.4 | pictures that he might be the suspect and that his son made statements to him and he passed |
| 1:26.2 | that on to federal authorities who have taken him |
| 1:28.6 | into custody. What we don't know at this hour is whether he is sharing those admissions that he |
| 1:34.8 | allegedly made to his father with them, but we do know that we are waiting for this press |
| 1:41.2 | conference to unfold, which has been delayed several times, which |
| 1:44.9 | is an indicator that the leaders of the investigation and prosecutors are still sorting through |
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