Kash Patel just gave his remarks at a joint press conference this morning and is rightfully taking a huge victory lap. Well done to all involved! I have the full press conference for you below, along with a text transcript, and I don’t want to look for ghosts behind every bush but I couldn’t help but notice Kash twice emphasized the number “33” in his remarks. It’s probably nothing, and so I’m not going to dwell on it, other than to say the Freemasons really love the number 33. Ok, enough on that, but it did catch my eye. Watch the full remarks here: FBI Director Kash Patel pic.twitter.com/WzbdtKWBu9 — Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) September 12, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: FBI Kash Patel. Thank you, Governor. This is what happens when you let good cops be cops. The FBI and our partners are proud to stand here today together to bring justice to the family of Charlie Kirk and honor his memory. I want to express my deep gratitude to President Trump, the vice president, and the entire White House who have been so incredibly supportive with both resources and just personally to the FBI as a team. They had our backs the entire way, and I just want to express my gratitude for giving us the resources we need to operate in this space to bring this sort of justice at this sort of speed. In 33 hours, we have made historic progress for Charlie. Governor Cox, our partnership has been absolutely incredible these last few days. Our partnership will endure. Your state and local partners, your sheriffs, your DPS community has been unbelievably impressive in the hardest of times. And a case like this cannot be solved, cannot be brought without partnering with your state and local authorities. The FBI has a certain role to play, and we will play that role, and we will lead out for the federal government. But Governor Cox, we are so grateful for your state partnership that led out on this investigation. A little bit of the timeline. Charlie was shot at 12:23 PM on Wednesday. The first FBI agents arrived on scene in 16 minutes with chiefs of police at 12:39 and secured the scene. The FBI immediately launched fixed-wing assets. We utilized these assets to transport personnel, specialty technicians, hostage rescue teams. We also utilized these assets to go back and forth from the East Coast and here in Utah to transport forensic evidence and other evidence that will be analyzed and is being analyzed at our FBI laboratories in Quantico and other laboratories, including the ATF. At my direction, the FBI released the first set of FBI photos of the suspect at 10:00 AM local time on 9/11. Then, shortly thereafter, the FBI reward of $100,000 was released at 10:45 AM local. Myself and Deputy Director Bongiorno arrived on the scene at approximately 5:30 PM on 9/11. The governor led a press conference last night at approximately 8:00 PM where, at my direction, the FBI released a never-before-seen video of the suspect. We also released new images to the public of the suspect. And just last night, the suspect was taken into custody at 10:00 PM local time. In less than 36 hours, 33 to be precise, thanks to the full weight of the federal government and leading out with the partners here in the state of Utah and Governor Cox, the suspect was apprehended in historic time period. And I want to highlight what Governor Cox said: “This would not have been possible without you, the media, and you, the public.” That’s why we went so public so fast, and we’re so transparent, and we’re committed to that transparency. The crime scene, just a little bit there. It is a large crime scene. State and local authorities along with federal authorities processed that crime scene quickly, and I even had the ability to walk through that crime scene and walk through the steps the suspect took to learn more about what was needed and what resources we needed to create a full picture for the FBI and leadership back in Washington. Furthermore, thanks to state and local partners, forensic evidence has been seized and continues to be garnered. Forensic evidence has already been evaluated at FBI laboratories in Quantico and state and local authorities here. We will continue to process evidence as we see it, as we collect it, and we will continue to deliver to Governor Cox and his team. Last night, we had a total of approximately 7,000 leads. As of this morning, thanks to your great work, we have over 11,000 leads that were called in to the FBI, and we are running out every single lead that we can. Every one of those leads will be run out. The arrest is a testament to dedication of good law enforcement being great and partnerships in law enforcement, which I’ve tried to highlight as my tenure at the director of the FBI. There is no better relationship for law enforcement than the FBI to partner with state and local authorities, and you’ve seen it here in these last few days. The FBI Salt Lake field office along with our offices in LA, Phoenix, Denver, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, our headquarters component in Quantico, all participate in the FBI. I want to express my deep gratitude to the employees of the FBI, the men and women, the evidence response team tacticians, the special operators, the agents, the support staff. You have done monumental work in historic time when the public, who had a right to demand such an expeditious solving of an investigation, the FBI answered that call diligently, critically important to our nation, and we delivered. And I’m proud to be their leader, and I’m proud to be the director of the FBI. This is very much an ongoing investigation, as the governor said, and we will continue to work with state and local authorities to develop the investigation, to provide them the evidence they need for their ongoing prosecutions. And we will be here to answer every call they absolutely have as long as it takes for as long as we need to find and apprehend whatever suspects were involved in this crime. Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, brother. Backup here if needed: WATCH: Kash Patel FULL Press Conference — “Caught In 33 Hours, To Be Precise” pic.twitter.com/SUp9GOdQR8 — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) September 12, 2025