Apple Invests Billions More in US, RFK Cuts mRNA Vax Funding, Staffers Slam Crockett： AM Update 8⧸8
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Apple is announcing that it will invest $600 billion, That s $600 B in the United States over the next four years. President Trump welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook to the White House to celebrate another massive investment in the U.S. And what s Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett like behind the scenes?
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, August 8th, 2025, and this is your
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Apple is announcing that it will invest $600 billion, that's with a B, in the United States
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President Trump welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook to the White House to celebrate another massive
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I want to give a measured nonpartisan response here.
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RFKJ moved to withdraw government funding for mRNA vaccine research, and the left seethes.
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Federal prosecutors announced hate crime charges against the suspect accused of gunning down
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two young Israeli embassy staffers in cold blood.
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And what's Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett like behind the scenes?
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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President Trump on Wednesday, flanked by Apple CEO Tim Cook, Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury
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Secretary Scott Besson, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, announcing a massive new investment
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Today, Apple is announcing that it will invest $600 billion, that's with a B, in the United
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That's $100 billion more than they were originally going to invest.
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And this is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America and anywhere else.
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This is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of ensuring that iPhones sold in the United
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States of America also are made in America with the mass infusion of capital it's announcing
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today, Apple will also build a 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility in Houston and
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invest billions of dollars to construct data centers across the country from North Carolina
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President Trump designing an economic agenda aimed at incentivizing companies to invest and
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The ultimate goal, shoring up national security and providing jobs for American workers.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook expanding on the specifics of Apple's latest round of planned investments.
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And I'm pleased to announce that very soon, this is for the first time ever, every single
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new iPhone and every single new Apple Watch sold anywhere in the world will contain cover
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In addition to the American manufacturing program, we're also significantly growing our investments
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in AI, including expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, in Nevada, in Iowa, in Arizona,
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So we're going to keep making investments right here in America, we're going to keep hiring
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in America, and we're going to keep building technologies at the heart of our products right
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Cook also announcing an expansion of semiconductor production in the U.S.
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In May, President Trump threatening Apple with a 25 percent tariff unless they start fully
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manufacturing and assembling iPhones in the U.S.
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This latest announcement falling short of that demand.
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One reporter asking Cook if iPhone production will ever move completely to America.
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He makes many of the components here, and we've been talking about it, and the whole thing
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is set up at other places, and it's been there for a long time.
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So in terms of cost and all, but I think we may incentivize him enough that one day he'll
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Look, he's not making this kind of an investment anywhere in the world, not even close.
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CNBC reporting, quote, moving production of a high-volume complicated electronics product
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like the iPhone to the U.S. would be economically infeasible and could take years.
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President Trump indicating incremental steps to reshoring production are acceptable measures
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What are the chances that you can actually make that happen?
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Well, if you look at the bulk of it, we're doing a lot of the semiconductors here.
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So there's a ton of it, and we're doing these for products sold elsewhere in the world.
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And so there's a lot of content in there from the United States.
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The whole thing is just the final assembly that you're focused on, and that will be elsewhere
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President Trump rounding out the event, offering more thanks to Cook and Apple in his unmistakably
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He's a great, great man, a visionary, a businessman, just about every quality he can have other
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HHS Secretary RFKJ announcing this week the cancellation of 22 mRNA vaccine development
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contracts with the feds, totaling about $500 million.
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Most of these shots are for flu or COVID, but as the pandemic showed us, mRNA vaccines don't
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perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract.
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mRNA only codes for a small part of the viral proteins, usually a single antigen.
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One mutation, and the vaccine becomes ineffective.
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This dynamic drives a phenomenon called antigenic shift, meaning that the vaccine paradoxically
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encourages new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics as the virus constantly mutates
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to escape the protective effects of the vaccine.
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After reviewing the science and consulting top experts at NIH and FDA, HHS has determined
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that mRNA technology poses more risks and benefits for these respiratory viruses.
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The reaction from some of those on the left, swift and seething.
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Chief among them, official mouthpiece of the resistance, Stephen Colbert, whose late night
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show is limping toward its death date in May of next year.
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Health Secretary RFK Jr. just pulled $500 million in funding for vaccine development.
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Now, we have 10 more months of this show, and I want to give a measured nonpartisan response
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Those sentiments echoed across the airwaves and legacy media.
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I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I've ever
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Eliminating all of this research and development at BARDA is a tragic mistake that is not based
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That last bit from Dr. Paul Offit, a former CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee member and chief
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mRNA vaccines have become a point of contention since President Trump's Operation Warp Speed
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helped bring COVID vaccines to the market in record time.
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Studies show them to have 80-90% efficacy in preventing serious illness, though they were
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oversold to the public by supposed health experts as having the ability to prevent infection
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mRNA, or messenger RNA technology, was discovered in the 1960s but was only approved for use in
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Critics of mRNA vaccines point to serious but rare side effects like myocarditis, as well
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as questions about whether the vaccines weaken immune response.
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There is not a scientific consensus on the topic.
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However, your humble reporter suffered an autoimmune response after taking the COVID booster,
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But the funding cut of approximately $500 million across the nearly two dozen projects will surely
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not end mRNA vaccine research and development either.
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According to National Review's John Puri, the average total cost to bring a new vaccine
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And vaccine makers will not abandon their projects if they simply have to cover a small amount more
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of the cost, around $23 million, that HHS would have provided.
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Pfizer, for example, raked in more than $80 billion in sales of the COVID vaccine in America alone.
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Additionally, while HHS is moving away from mRNA-based vaccines, the press release noting,
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other uses of mRNA technology within the department are not impacted by this announcement.
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Coming up, federal prosecutors adding hate crime charges against the alleged gunman accused
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of killing two Israeli embassy staffers, laying the groundwork for a possible death sentence.
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And a new report indicating Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is just as sweet to her staff
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On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for D.C., Janine Pirro, announcing a sweeping federal indictment
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against the man accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy employees earlier this year
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in Washington, adding federal hate crime charges, laying the groundwork for a possible death
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On May 21st, the 31-year-old male suspect from Chicago shooting 30-year-old Yaron Lashinsky
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and 26-year-old Sarah Milgram as they exited an event at the Capitol Jewish Museum.
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Two other unnamed individuals were injured in the attack.
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According to the indictment, after victims fell to the ground, the suspect continued firing
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at close range, including at Ms. Milgram as she attempted to crawl away.
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Mr. Lashinsky had been planning to propose to Ms. Milgram just days later during a trip
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Count one, murder of a foreign official under 18 U.S.C. 1116 for the murder of 30-year-old
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Yaron Lashinsky, a foreign official employed by the government of Israel.
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Counts two and three are hate crimes resulting in death.
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Counts four and five, the discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
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Counts eight and nine, assault with intent to kill while armed.
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C.S. and A.T., those are initials, with intent to kill a person.
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With the addition of hate crime charges, the government now must prove that anti-Semitism
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motivated this attack, Pirro outlining the evidence behind those charges.
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While on the plane, he traveled across multiple state lines and drafted a manifesto called
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His explication made clear his purpose in committing these crimes that I'm about to read to you
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was to demonstrate his hatred for the people of Israel.
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After he killed Yaron and Sarah, he entered the Capitol Jewish Museum,
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He demonstrated this hatred through his words' death to Israel and his violent actions against
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Yaron and Sarah and their co-workers from the Israeli embassy.
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He also posted one of his postings on social media,
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Please, please, please, God, please, vaporize every Israeli.
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The suspect has not yet entered a plea he is due in court later today.
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Congressional aides spilling the tea, as the kids say, on Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,
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She's the Anna Wintour of Washington, the Ellen DeGeneres of D.C.,
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the Meghan Markle of members, a narcissistic bully.
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Crockett frequently generating buzz with her brash, aggressive style,
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from calling the sitting president of the United States an orange orangutan,
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to this reference to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.
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Crockett later saying she was referring not to the governor's wheelchair,
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Then it emerged that she'd been liking posts calling Abbott hot wheels for years,
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Three sources who have worked with or for Crockett telling the Post,
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Crockett is often a no-show to the office unless cameras are rolling.
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She prefers to work from her luxury apartment building,
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where staff say she lies around refusing to come into the office.
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When she does bother showing up to her taxpayer-funded job,
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she is never in the office and is very disengaged.
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She does her bullshit that goes viral and then freaks out over the most random things.
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Crockett reportedly rents an Escalade or similar upscale vehicle each week,
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rather than deigning to sit in a staffer's car.
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One source saying she expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat,
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That staffer is expected to stand outside of the vehicle and open the door for Madam Queen.
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Staffers telling the Post she is mean, she's rude, she screams at them,
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not a dedicated member focused on her constituents.
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she is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer,
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live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east,