The Megyn Kelly Show - July 27, 2026


Berlin Islamic Terror Suspect Killed, Troy Jackson’s Abortion Shift, Trump Does WHCD： AM Update 7⧸27


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00:00:30.000 good morning everyone i'm megan kelly it's monday july 27th 2026 and this is your am update
00:00:39.180 we will not allow our way of life and our way of living together to be taken from us
00:00:45.960 a known islamist accused of carrying out a deadly attack near berlin's pride celebration
00:00:51.340 despite already being on authorities radar laners just can't trust troy jackson on a
00:00:57.660 He earned a 100% rating from Maine Right to Life.
00:01:02.800 Maine Democrats replacing Graham Plattner with longtime party insider Troy Jackson,
00:01:07.840 as the new nominee's own abortion record threatens to complicate this campaign
00:01:12.280 against incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. 0.99
00:01:16.260 Paper dolls with interchangeable genitalia,
00:01:20.100 reportedly coming this fall to Minnesota educators and clinicians working with very young children.
00:01:25.660 and President Trump returning for a do-over White House Correspondents Dinner
00:01:30.180 after an armed attack forced the original event to be called off.
00:01:34.460 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:45.580 The suspected Islamist behind Saturday night's deadly attack near Berlin's Pride celebration,
00:02:51.260 shot and killed by police Sunday evening, ending a nearly 24-hour manhunt across the German capital.
00:02:58.100 21-year-old Abdul Balut, a German-born citizen of Lebanese descent, accused of using a rental
00:03:04.620 van and machete to kill one person and injure 29 others in Berlin's Tiergarten Park. The attack
00:03:12.600 unfolding shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday as the city's pride parade and festival, known as
00:03:18.060 Christopher Street Day, was wrapping up near the historic Brandenburg Gate. Authorities
00:03:23.640 emphasizing the attack did not occur inside the festival, along the parade route, or at its
00:03:28.580 closing party, instead taking place several hundred yards away on a path through the sprawling park.
00:03:34.840 Police say the white van plowed through a group believed to include both Pride Parade attendees
00:03:39.600 and other people visiting the park before smashing into a tree. Some of the victims also suffering
00:03:45.360 wounds from what investigators describe as a, quote, bladed weapon, raising questions about
00:03:50.620 whether Balut carried out the attack alone or had help from others who fled after the van crashed.
00:03:57.060 Witness Eric Muller describing to Sky News the fear and confusion spreading through the nearby
00:04:01.940 crowds as conflicting accounts raced across the festival grounds. We go to the main station,
00:04:08.800 directly to the main station, and then we saw a big crowd of people come towards us. And at
00:04:15.100 First, we didn't know what happened.
00:04:17.280 We thought maybe the main stage was closed.
00:04:21.000 We saw many faces, sad faces, crying faces.
00:04:24.500 All those people crying, running away.
00:04:27.860 I was shocked.
00:04:29.260 So we hear everything.
00:04:31.540 We hear, yeah, there are two cars, there are three persons, there are a knife with a man.
00:04:37.900 And we hear so many information and we don't know what is right, what is wrong.
00:04:42.320 So it was a really, really crazy time.
00:04:45.720 Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner addressing the city amid early suspicions of an Islamist terror attack.
00:04:51.240 We will not allow our way of life and our way of living together to be taken from us.
00:04:58.740 Reuters reporting more than 2,200 officers were deployed across Berlin to protect the Pride festivities.
00:05:04.880 A BBC journalist describing the response at the scene.
00:05:08.380 So this is a massive police response.
00:05:11.880 They have shut down basically the entire park area where this happened in central Berlin, known as the Tiergarten.
00:05:20.340 This is a huge park, similar to Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London.
00:05:28.460 It's just right outside the medieval walls of the old Berlin, the former hunting grounds of the Kaiser.
00:05:36.720 This is a very large area right near the Brandenburg Gate for people who know Berlin.
00:05:42.960 So, you know, this is a very intense police response.
00:05:48.480 Nobody is getting in or out at the moment.
00:05:51.980 The manhunt ending around 6 p.m. Sunday evening.
00:05:55.060 Authorities locating Ballut in a community garden area in western Berlin.
00:06:00.360 Police say Ballut charged towards officers carrying a bladed weapon, prompting them to open fire.
00:06:06.520 Emergency crews attempting to revive him before declaring him dead at the scene.
00:06:11.240 The German-born citizen of Lebanese descent,
00:06:14.200 previously traveling to Lebanon in 2025 while allegedly attempting to reach Syria and join ISIS.
00:06:21.100 Prosecutors say Balut made contact with people he believed were members of the terror organization
00:06:25.700 before Lebanese authorities arrested him and a military court sentenced him to three months behind bars.
00:06:32.360 German authorities arresting him again after his return to Berlin in November 2025,
00:06:38.080 eventually charging him with preparing a serious act of subversive violence
00:06:42.600 and distributing ISIS propaganda online.
00:06:46.040 Balut convicted in a juvenile court in May,
00:06:49.140 given a suspended sentence of one year and ten months
00:06:52.060 after a court concluded he appeared to have distanced himself from the terror group,
00:06:57.100 according to the Associated Press.
00:06:59.720 CBS News reporting police searched his Berlin apartment on July 3rd over a possible weapons
00:07:05.260 violation, leaving after finding only a toy gun and closing the case. The attack renewing scrutiny
00:07:12.100 of Germany's ability to contain known extremists following a string of deadly vehicle attacks
00:07:17.540 across the country. International terrorism expert Raphael Bassang speaking to German outlet DW News
00:07:24.700 saying these attacks are part of a familiar pattern.
00:07:28.220 I mean, this is about the eighth or ninth attack of this kind
00:07:31.640 in Europe also more broadly.
00:07:35.220 Unfortunately, this kind of improvised method of vehicle ramings
00:07:39.880 is something that has, well, been a successful strategy
00:07:44.080 ever since the attack in Nice many, many years ago
00:07:46.740 and also 10 years ago, I mean, 2013 and 2016 then in Berlin.
00:07:51.300 I don't want to sound cynical here, but thank goodness
00:07:53.740 this was only a sort of normal car and not like a large lorry as we had 10 years ago.
00:08:00.740 And the Islamic State, early on, always asked its followers to take any measure possible,
00:08:07.700 improvised attacks, knives, cars, anything they can get their hands on.
00:08:11.840 Despite members of the gay community apparently being targeted in an Islamic terror attack,
00:08:17.660 organizers warning yesterday against using the violence to fuel a broader backlash against Muslims or immigrants.
00:08:23.740 We do not want this deed to be instrumentalized for political ends.
00:08:31.860 We don't want any groups to be placed under suspicion for this.
00:08:36.160 People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others.
00:08:40.560 As a CSD in Berlin, we will not allow this.
00:08:44.860 Maine Democrats officially selecting former state Senate President Troy Jackson
00:08:49.240 as their new candidate to challenge Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins in November.
00:08:55.480 Jackson winning the Senate nomination by a vote of 566 to 5 Saturday at a hastily organized party
00:09:02.640 convention. The longtime state lawmaker and fifth-generation logger replacing Graham Plattner,
00:09:08.280 who withdrew from the race after facing multiple sexual assault allegations, allegations he denies.
00:09:14.840 Jackson now trying to win over the grassroots activists who had rallied behind Plattner's lightning rod campaign.
00:09:21.340 This is the absolute honor of my life to accept the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.
00:09:27.560 There is a place in this campaign for all of you.
00:09:31.320 There is work for you in this movement.
00:09:33.600 And I will spend every day now through November earning that trust because today we turn the page.
00:09:42.860 Today, this becomes a general election campaign, and today we'll be in the work of defeating
00:09:49.320 Susan Collins in November.
00:09:51.080 The main Democrat party expected to submit Jackson's nomination to Secretary of State
00:09:56.100 Shanna Bellows when her office opens today.
00:09:59.080 Jackson will then formally be running in one of the country's most closely watched Senate
00:10:03.380 contests, with Democrats viewing Collins' seat as critical to their chances of regaining
00:10:08.520 the majority.
00:10:09.300 In his Saturday acceptance speech, Jackson outlining his platform.
00:10:14.200 I am running to pass Medicare for all to take on corporate price gouging and build housing that folks in the state can actually afford.
00:10:26.120 And I'm running to protect Social Security and Medicare.
00:10:30.160 They're not going to touch that.
00:10:31.600 And give every worker the freedom to organize a union without intimidation or retaliation.
00:10:46.380 And I will fight to restore abortion rights nationwide.
00:10:51.300 I'm going to stand shoulder to shoulder with our LGBTQ manors.
00:11:00.100 And stand up to Donald Trump and ICE when they attack our workers, terrorize our neighbors,
00:11:11.040 and threaten the freedoms generations of us fought to secure.
00:11:15.260 Jackson now campaigning on a conventional progressive platform, despite facing years
00:11:20.320 of criticism from the left over positions he held earlier in his political career.
00:11:25.320 CNN uncovering candidate questionnaires from 2004 and 2010
00:11:29.480 showing Jackson once took a sweeping anti-abortion position.
00:11:34.080 Jackson reportedly responding to a 2010 survey
00:11:37.420 at the time he was 42 years old
00:11:39.600 that abortion should never be legal,
00:11:42.320 declining to select exceptions involving rape, incest,
00:11:45.360 fetal disability, or to protect the mother's health.
00:11:47.640 The questionnaire also recording Jackson's support
00:11:50.220 for requiring women seeking abortions
00:11:52.080 to receive information about the procedure's risks, available alternatives, fetal development,
00:11:57.620 and fetal pain, along with viewing a fetal monitor or ultrasound before proceeding.
00:12:02.900 Jackson's position shifting substantially over the following decade, eventually supporting the
00:12:08.400 creation of a federal right to abortion and earning perfect ratings from Planned Parenthood
00:12:12.580 beginning in 2017 when he was 49. By the time he was Maine Senate President in 2023 at age 55,
00:12:21.360 Jackson was co-sponsoring one of the most extreme abortion laws in the country,
00:12:25.760 allowing the procedure after fetal viability whenever a physician determines it necessary.
00:12:31.580 Questions about the sincerity and timing of his evolution surfacing earlier this year
00:12:36.560 during Jackson's unsuccessful campaign for the Democrat nomination for governor.
00:12:41.400 A profile published as recently as 2022 in local outlet Maine Public reporting that Jackson had
00:12:48.500 come fully around on same-sex marriage, but pointing out he, quote, admits to struggling
00:12:53.400 with abortion. 314 Action Fund, a Democrat PAC supporting his then-primary opponent,
00:13:00.220 later using that admission to attack Troy Jackson.
00:13:03.400 Mainers just can't trust Troy Jackson on abortion. He earned a 100% rating from Maine
00:13:09.800 Right to Life, voted for legislation that could ban abortions. Jackson said abortions should be
00:13:16.600 illegal, even when the life of the mother is at risk. He even stuck to his pro-life position
00:13:23.380 after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Troy Jackson checked the record. Extremely wrong for Maine.
00:13:31.540 Jackson denouncing the ad as false at the time, pointing to what he called his, quote,
00:13:35.580 sterling abortion rights record over the previous decade. CNN noting Jackson's positions during his
00:13:41.280 first decade in office, however, were substantially more restrictive than even Senator Collins.
00:13:46.600 stated views. The long-term Republican senator identifying as an abortion rights supporter,
00:13:52.940 backing bipartisan efforts to codify Roe, and calling the decision overturning it,
00:13:57.560 ill-considered. The election now just 99 days away, a University of New Hampshire poll last
00:14:04.020 week finding Jackson with a slight lead at 49 percent compared to Senator Collins' 46.
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00:14:19.100 professionals working with children as young as four and president trump roasting the press and
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00:16:13.240 with the dolls and, quote, talk about gender and bodies in groups. They are set to be made available
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00:16:24.900 The Post. The dolls reportedly feature gender-neutral names like Sam, Rory, Avery, and
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00:16:50.300 on its website. The project reportedly originating inside the University of Minnesota Medical
00:16:56.340 School's Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. Two medical school professors later turning the
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00:17:07.540 a licensed psychologist and co-founder of the My Gender Dolls. Berg, defending the project in a
00:17:14.080 now-deleted article published by the University of Minnesota Foundation's Discovery Magazine,
00:17:19.260 quote, it's really important to address the belief, I'm not a real boy because I don't have
00:17:24.120 these private parts, versus I am a real boy, whatever my anatomy looks like. The Post reporting
00:17:30.600 the university's medical school receives $15 million a year from the state to expand its
00:17:36.180 research capacity, while its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health reportedly operates with a
00:17:41.580 roughly $1.4 million research budget. It remains unclear whether parents will be notified or allowed
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00:18:12.460 President Trump appearing at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Friday
00:18:16.720 night after skipping the event throughout both of his terms until this year. The gathering
00:18:21.700 serving as a scaled-down replacement for the April dinner, which was postponed after an
00:18:26.220 armed man charged toward the venue opening fire before being taken into custody.
00:18:31.500 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen is charged with attempting to assassinate the President of
00:18:36.200 the United States, among other charges, and faces up to life in prison if convicted. He has pleaded
00:18:41.900 not guilty. Mr. Trump spending roughly an hour at the lectern Friday repeatedly acknowledging the
00:18:47.600 muted response from a ballroom dominated by reporters and media executives deeply hostile
00:18:53.520 to him. The president on several occasions referencing the security breach that derailed
00:18:58.520 the original dinner, including a joke about members of the press refusing bulletproof vests
00:19:02.780 because they would rather die than look 20 pounds heavier.
00:19:06.200 Mr. Trump also working rapper turned ally Nicki Minaj
00:19:09.420 into his retelling of the panic that followed the gunfire.
00:19:13.400 But after hearing the gunshots, many people yelled,
00:19:16.760 get down, get down,
00:19:18.680 which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking.
00:19:23.680 Do you believe? 0.99
00:19:25.060 Get down.
00:19:27.340 She's the only one that really understood what that meant.
00:19:32.780 It's quite an evening. But tonight we come back together to answer that heinous attack with
00:19:40.060 unwavering resolve. And every one of us here this evening to show that in America,
00:19:46.800 we do not yield to political violence. We don't. We can't do that. Can't do it.
00:19:55.400 Mr. Trump also taking aim at members of his own administration.
00:19:58.900 I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire very delicious beef tenderloin.
00:20:06.920 Very special beef.
00:20:09.240 And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy is right here.
00:20:12.540 Personally ran over the cow in his car.
00:20:18.660 And he cut it up and he brought it here for you to eat tonight.
00:20:21.900 So it's very fresh.
00:20:22.900 And Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill.
00:20:32.620 But we drew the line at that, Cheryl.
00:20:35.160 We said, no, we're not going to do that.
00:20:37.380 We're not doing that.
00:20:38.900 We love Bobby.
00:20:39.780 I tell you, he's a piece of work.
00:20:41.420 You think it's it is fun, but he is a very different kind of a person.
00:20:45.580 I will tell you.
00:20:47.220 The president closing by saying he plans to return next year, unless that is the press
00:20:52.260 spends the coming months being, quote, really, really nasty. More on this later today on The
00:20:57.480 MK Show. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan
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