Biden Autopen Scandal Deepens, New Epstein Disclosures Possible, Trump's NATO Plan： AM Update 7⧸15
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The evidence is starting to come out, and it doesn t look so good. President Biden raising more questions than answers in a brief interview with the New York Times regarding the Biden Autopan. New reporting indicates more disclosures may be on the way, and President Trump announces a dramatic shift in U.S. policy towards supplying Ukraine with weapons. All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update with Megan Kelly ( )!
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It's Tuesday, July 15th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
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There's a reason you do an interview like that with a place like the New York Times.
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It's because the evidence is starting to come out and it doesn't look so good.
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President Biden raising more questions than answers in a brief interview with the New York
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I believe that there will probably be more coming on this, and I believe anything that
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they are able to release, I believe they'll probably try to get out sooner rather than
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The Epstein story lives on following massive outcry from Trump allies.
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New reporting indicates more disclosures may be on the way.
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And President Trump announces a dramatic shift in U.S. policy towards supplying Ukraine with
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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Late Sunday night, the New York Times dropping a bombshell in the Biden auto pen story.
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During the final weeks of the Biden administration, the White House granting commutations and pardons
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These acts of clemency all signed with the auto pen, a mechanical device used to replicate
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The lone exception was the unprecedented Hunter Biden blanket pardon, which the president personally
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At present, there are multiple investigations into the extensive use of the auto pen within
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the Biden White House, critics pointing to clear signs of Mr. Biden's cognitive decline
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and raising questions about who was making key decisions in his administration.
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Former President Biden, in an apparent attempt to defend himself from these accusations,
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Mr. Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the
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end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans liars for claiming his aides
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had used an auto pen to do so without his authorization.
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The Biden White House targeting thousands for commutations, including reducing the prison
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time of about 2,500 so-called nonviolent drug offenders and turning 37 death sentences to
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And of course, a set of preemptive pardons for the members of the staff of the January
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6th House Select Committee, Dr. Fauci, General Mark Milley, and certain members of the Biden
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The Times finding the auto pen was managed by White House Staff Secretary Stephanie Feldman
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after assistance to key Biden aides, including Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and White House
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blurbs describing President Biden's instructions.
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The Times noting, quote, the assistants who drafted the blurbs were not themselves in the
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According to the lists of meeting participants, the emails from the Biden White House imply that
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Mr. Siskel and Mr. Zients relayed what Mr. Biden had said to the assistants who then
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In other words, for pardons like that of Dr. Fauci and the January 6th Committee, there is no direct
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written proof that former President Biden approved and directed them.
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Meanwhile, the Times reporting one former aide saying the list of inmates provided by the Bureau
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of Prisons kept changing and, quote, rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions,
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his staff waited and then ran the final version through the auto pen, which they saw as routine
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President Trump, who previously ordered an investigation into the Biden White House's use of
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the auto pen on Monday from the Oval Office reacting to the latest reporting.
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The auto pen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years.
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I guarantee he knew nothing about what he was signing.
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We spoke to Mike Howell, president of nonprofit governmental watchdog The Oversight Project,
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the group responsible for discovering the widespread use of the auto pen, about these latest revelations.
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Howell says nothing about the Biden White House's auto pen process was routine.
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There's nothing routine about the frequency of auto pen usage in the Biden administration,
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and there's nothing routine about the level of incapacitation we saw out of President Biden,
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which the whole country witnessed when he malfunctioned on stage at the debate when they
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finally let him out unsupervised for a couple hours.
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And there's also nothing routine about President Biden being in the White House and signing some
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There's nothing routine about Neera Tanden's testimony where she said as staff secretary,
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she would rarely even see the president when she was the one in charge of moving the paper
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and limiting legal liability and things like this massive scandal of the century.
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There's nothing routine about setting up, quote unquote, decision memos to the president
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and then getting an initial back without seeing the president actually approve it and then spitting
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out an executive order, which for all I know may not have even matched what was in the decision
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You know, President Trump has said maybe Biden didn't even know he opened the border.
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And I think, you know, when you have this kind of process, that really buttresses the argument
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that maybe he didn't actually know what was spitting out of these executive orders.
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The New York Times separately releasing a write-up containing excerpts of its 10-minute
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phone call with President Biden, the short blurbs containing many verbal stumbles and
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Howell accuses the Times of running cover for Mr. Biden.
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I wonder why the New York Times didn't publish the audio of it.
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I would love to know how President Biden sounded in that because also a key element here is
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You know, it's his awareness of what was being done is one separate question from the fact
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of whether he was mentally there to sign off on those things.
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And so they don't address that issue whatsoever.
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And I think them not publishing the 10-minute audio of the interview probably leads any reasonable
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person to believe he probably didn't sound too sharp in that.
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MK Media star Mark Halperin, host of Next Up with Mark Halperin, questioning why the Times
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did not round out its piece with reaction from the appropriate people.
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Biden is now taking the position that he could delegate pardons, right?
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I don't understand that as a matter of journalism, and I guarantee you if it were Republican,
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They'd have some hysterical law professor saying this is an impeachable offense, and
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they'd have a Republican saying this needs to be investigated.
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Mike Howell also says the New York Times reporting vindicates the Oversight Project's investigation,
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In March, the New York Times published a piece calling us, or our investigation, a conspiracy
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theory, and so last night, I guess they did a full 180, admitted we were right and they
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I mean, it's clear their intent in that piece was trying to control the damage to the Biden
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legacy, but I don't think it was effective in that.
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You know, you can't get better validation than when the opposition says you were right.
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I mean, I knew we were right from day one, but when even the New York Times says you
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were right, it's, you know, you kind of dismiss any objections that may remain out there.
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They're just trying to say, oh, well, now we do admit it would have happened, but we
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There's a reason you do an interview like that with a place like the New York Times.
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It's because people, the evidence is starting to come out and it doesn't look so good for
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Coming up, the Jeffrey Epstein story takes on a new twist and President Trump announcing
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The Jeffrey Epstein story isn't going anywhere, not anytime soon, at least, despite the unsigned
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leaked DOJ memo indicating the case is closed and that there will be no further disclosures.
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CNN reporting two sources confirm FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino did report to work on Monday,
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though Bongino's long-term future as Deputy Director appears uncertain.
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Bongino reportedly taking a personal day on Friday following clashes with Attorney General
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Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein story.
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Vice President J.D. Vance reportedly spending the weekend mediating between A.G.
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On Sunday, President Trump praising Bongino on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
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The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro discussing Monday on The Megyn Kelly Show the nature of the conflict
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My understanding is that the actual outcome of the DOJ investigation is properly stated
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What he's upset about is if you oversell the story and you create a deliverable for the
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FBI and then the FBI doesn't deliver, then that falls on Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.
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She went out there and ran her mouth without the actual goods to back it up.
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And then when it turns out that it's Geraldo Rivera safe, then, of course, it makes Dan
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It makes the president look bad and all the rest.
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And if that's the nature of the dispute, then obviously I'm very much on Dan Bongino's
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Because, again, I think that Pam Bondi pretty clearly to the public made a bunch of statements
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that were unrepresentative of the final DOJ-FBI memo that was released.
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There is no way that Pam Bondi should not be doing a press conference where she at least
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At the very least, I need to hear it from their mouth that we're releasing everything that
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Many Trump allies concurring with Shapiro's view that A.G.
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Bondi could quell much of this criticism by holding an exhaustive press conference or
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sitting with someone like your humble reporter.
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Turning Point USA founder and informal advisor to President Trump, Charlie Kirk, Monday on
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his show offering some leniency to the administration after a weekend of people criticizing them at
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his Turning Point event, but stressing that the administration's handling of the Epstein
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Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein.
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Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being.
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I'm going to trust my friends in the administration.
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I'm going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it,
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Everyone knows my opinion about the Epstein thing, the messaging fumble.
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I would love to see the DOJ move to unseal the grand jury testimony.
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And I'm going to trust my friends, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi, all these
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guys, Todd Blanche, I'm going to trust them to solve it.
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I think that there was plenty of, let's say, speeches that were directed towards this topic
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Monday afternoon on The Benny Johnson Show, President Trump's daughter-in-law, Laura Trump,
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I do think that there needs to be more transparency on this.
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I mean, look, I don't know what truly exists there, but I know that this is something that's
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Everything we're talking about, because it's frustrated him as well.
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As it relates to the president, I know that this is probably not his number one thing
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he's focused on, but he hears all the noise and he hears all of the consternation out there.
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And I think he's going to want to set things right as well.
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So I believe that there will probably be more coming on this.
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And I believe anything that they are able to release that doesn't damage any witnesses
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or anyone underage or anything like that, I believe they'll probably try to get out sooner
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rather than later, because they hear it and they understand it.
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Last night, Benny Johnson posting on X, quote, just got off the phone with top federal law
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enforcement contact. The change in approach to Epstein has been dramatic.
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Expect more disclosures. Some very powerful people inside administration are now pushing
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for a special counsel and a full press briefing on Epstein findings.
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We'll have new reporting on this today on The Megyn Kelly Show and throughout the week.
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President Trump announcing a shift in U.S. policy towards supplying arms to Ukraine.
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The U.S. will begin selling weapons to NATO allies who will then send those supplies to Ukraine.
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Axios reporting the first wave of purchases will be worth about $10 billion, including missiles,
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President Trump on Monday from the Oval with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte signaling a shift
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The purpose of this is to say that this is a very big deal we've made. This is
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billions of dollars worth of military equipment is going to be purchased
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That's going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield. Ukraine will take it up.
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And, you know, say what you want about Ukraine. When the war started, they had no chance.
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And they still would have had no chance if the equipment, they had the best equipment,
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because we do make the best planes and missiles.
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And we make the best military equipment in the world by far.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly.
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