The courtroom heard the line everyone had been fighting over.

A recorded interview played in Provo, Utah, on Thursday, July 9, featured Lance Twiggs describing what Tyler Robinson allegedly said after Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck at Utah Valley University.

According to Twiggs’ account in the recording, Robinson came home, started crying, and said he wished he had not done it.

The statement landed on the fourth day of Robinson’s preliminary hearing in Provo, after days of legal fighting over whether the public would ever see it.

The Associated Press reported that the recorded interview featured Twiggs, identified as Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner, telling investigators that Robinson said he wished he had not done it the day after the shooting.

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That interview sits at the center of the preliminary-hearing fight because Robinson is charged with aggravated murder, has not entered a plea, and faces a death-penalty prosecution if he is convicted.

AP reported that Robinson turned himself in the day after Kirk was shot, while prosecutors have also alleged Robinson left Twiggs a note saying he had an opportunity to take out Kirk and sent a text suggesting a political motive.

The same report noted that Twiggs was given immunity for his statements, meaning what he told investigators cannot be used against him in a potential criminal case.

That immunity detail matters because the defense fought hard to keep the interview from public view, warning that prosecutors would present the statements as a confession and that airing them could harm Robinson’s right to a fair trial.

This was a central exhibit, the account from the person prosecutors say was closest to Robinson in the hours after Kirk was killed.

The key line came directly from the recording.

Fox News reported from the Provo courtroom that prosecutors played Twiggs’ recorded interview in open court only after days of argument over whether the public would be allowed to see it.

Fox described Twiggs as Robinson’s former roommate and romantic partner, and confirmed he had received use immunity for his statements to investigators.

Its live updates added several details from the recording, including Twiggs telling authorities that Robinson had asked about a Dremel tool roughly a month before the shooting, with an explanation tied to engraving bullets for a hunting trip. That gave prosecutors another timeline point to place beside the alleged statements after Kirk was killed.

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Fox also reported that Twiggs recalled Robinson leaving early the morning of the shooting and saying he had a long drive to work.

The hearing included further arguments over redactions, public access, and what cameras in the courtroom would be permitted to show, with the judge using a tiered approach to decide which evidence would be admitted, displayed to the courtroom, or shown through the camera to the public.

That fight over visibility became part of the story itself. The recording was played inside a hearing already watched closely by Kirk supporters, Robinson’s defense team, and national media; it became a public test of how much sunlight this case would receive before trial.

Twiggs also described how Robinson talked about politics.

The fight over whether any of this would reach the public did not begin with the media.

People reported that Charlie Kirk’s family pushed for evidence admitted during the preliminary hearing to be visible in open court, including the recorded interview involving Twiggs.

The family’s attorney argued that transparency was necessary to preserve trust in the proceedings, while Robinson’s defense objected that broadcasting the statement could prejudice a future jury.

People also reported that a Utah investigator testified Twiggs received use immunity during an April 20 interview, and that Twiggs was first interviewed on September 12, two days after Kirk was shot.

That timing is important: the first Twiggs interview came at the front edge of the investigation, and the later recorded interview became the evidence attorneys spent days battling over in court.

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The dispute went to the heart of the tension in this case between public access, the Kirk family’s right to see the evidence, and Robinson’s fair-trial claims.

For the Kirk family, the argument was simple: if evidence is being admitted in open court, the public should not be left guessing about what was actually said.

Robinson remains legally presumed innocent unless proven guilty. The charge is aggravated murder, the plea has not been entered, and any death-penalty phase would come only after conviction.

Still, Thursday’s recording explains why the Kirk family fought to have this heard in daylight. The country has now heard the account, and that is the kind of accountability Charlie Kirk himself spent his life demanding.

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