The Megyn Kelly Show - April 03, 2026


Bondi Out as Trump Backs Gabbard, ActBlue Under Fire, UFO Allegations Raise Eyebrows： AM Update 4⧸3


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In the latest shakeup in President Donald Trump s cabinet, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out. Who will replace her? Act Blue under fire as its lawyers find weaknesses in its donation system that could expose the organization to criminal scrutiny. Aliens that were living were in forced breeding programs with humans. Former Congressman Matt Gaetz describes what he says was a whistleblower claim involving a secret military program with aliens. And Congressman Tim Burchett takes it all to an 11.

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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, April 3rd, 2026, and this is your AM
00:00:08.120 Update. In the latest shakeup in President Donald Trump's cabinet, Attorney General Pam
00:00:12.660 Bondi is out. Who will replace her? Democrat fundraising engine Act Blue under fire as
00:00:19.460 its lawyers find weaknesses in its donation system that could expose the organization
00:00:24.660 to criminal scrutiny.
00:00:26.840 Aliens that were living
00:00:28.720 were in forced breeding programs
00:00:31.080 with humans.
00:00:32.840 Former Congressman Matt Gaetz
00:00:34.340 describing what he says
00:00:35.820 was a whistleblower claim
00:00:37.380 involving a secret military program
00:00:39.880 with aliens.
00:00:41.480 And Congressman Tim Burchett
00:00:42.920 takes it all to an 11.
00:00:45.480 People start looking for
00:00:46.900 sources of meaning and purpose
00:00:48.580 and, you know,
00:00:50.200 they'll turn to religion.
00:00:51.900 A surge in Americans
00:00:52.860 joining the Catholic Church this Easter, with some regions seeing record-breaking growth.
00:00:57.880 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:01:58.880 your discount. That's promo code MK at takelean.com. Outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi
00:02:06.800 speaking publicly for the first time following her termination after President Donald Trump
00:02:11.600 announced yesterday she will be leaving the administration and moving to the private sector.
00:02:16.560 Bondi confirming she will spend the next month transitioning the role to Deputy Attorney General
00:02:21.160 Todd Blanche, who will lead the department on a temporary basis. Bondi posting to X,
00:02:26.800 quote, I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me
00:02:30.680 to make America safe again. The shakeup coming amid reported frustration from the president,
00:02:36.320 including over Bondi's handling of the Epstein files. Early in her tenure, Bondi publicly
00:02:41.860 suggested more disclosures were coming, including potential names tied to Epstein, before an
00:02:47.520 unsigned memo was released from the DOJ and the FBI jointly, indicating the case was effectively
00:02:54.120 closed, with no additional charges and no further information to be released. That reversal fueling
00:03:00.520 backlash on Capitol Hill and across the country, and ultimately leading to the passage of the
00:03:06.060 Epstein Files Transparency Act. According to the New York Times, the president had also grown
00:03:11.020 frustrated with what he viewed as a lack of aggressiveness from Bondi in pursuing political
00:03:16.520 opponents. Now, attention turning to who will replace Bondi in a permanent capacity. According
00:03:22.840 to multiple reports, Senator Mike Lee, Republican from Utah, is under consideration, along with GOP
00:03:28.700 Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri, formerly that state's attorney general. EPA Administrator Lee
00:03:34.660 Zeldin and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also said to be on the short list. Paxton currently
00:03:40.320 locked in a primary race with Republican Senator John Cornyn, which could solve two problems for
00:03:45.660 President Trump, though it's unclear how Texas voters would like that. Some reporting suggesting
00:03:51.080 Zeldin may be emerging as a frontrunner, reportedly already discussing the job with the president
00:03:55.880 earlier this week. Also, The Guardian reporting yesterday morning that President Trump is
00:04:01.100 questioning top advisers about whether he should keep Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
00:04:05.440 Gabbard in her role. CBS News reporting Mr. Trump had considered the idea of shifting Bondi
00:04:10.980 into that role, but sources now say the president wants Gabbard to remain in place.
00:04:15.980 The president's communications chief, Steve Chung, posting on X last night,
00:04:20.020 quote, the president has total confidence in DNI Gabbard and any insinuation otherwise is
00:04:25.960 totally fake news. This marks the second major cabinet shakeup in recent weeks after President
00:04:32.100 Trump demoted former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid growing controversy, replacing her with
00:04:38.020 Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Major Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue
00:04:45.040 warned by its own legal team that it may have misled Congress on its safeguards for vetting
00:04:50.680 foreign donations, according to The New York Times. ActBlue, a central engine for Democrat
00:04:56.200 fundraising, processing roughly $19 billion since its founding in 2004, with thousands of
00:05:02.920 candidates and left-wing organizations raising money from millions of donors. Concerns about
00:05:08.440 the organization's fundraising practices dating back years. In 2023, investigative journalist
00:05:14.100 James O'Keefe releasing a report alleging millions of dollars in suspicious donations tied to Act
00:05:19.920 Blue. O'Keefe reviewing FEC filings and identifying thousands of donations, often in small amounts,
00:05:26.800 linked to single addresses. O'Keefe questioning homeowners about the donations, finding time and
00:05:32.420 time again they had no idea about the expenses linked to their names and addresses. You did
00:05:38.600 donate to Act Blue, right? Yes, once in a while, yes. Did you donate a thousand and nine times?
00:05:47.980 I don't know.
00:05:48.720 I mean, once in a while I donate five or so dollars or something like that during election year.
00:05:55.800 What about $18,850?
00:05:58.100 I doubt that.
00:05:59.940 This raising widespread concern about the possibility of foreign actors exploiting the platform.
00:06:06.160 Multiple Republican-controlled House committees kicking off investigations into the organization.
00:06:10.520 A 2025 interim report from the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Administration Committees
00:06:16.920 finding internal ActBlue documents, quote, demonstrate a lack of commitment to stopping
00:06:22.380 fraud and paint a picture of complacency on ActBlue's fraud prevention team.
00:06:27.840 Those investigations remain ongoing. In 2023, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones sending a
00:06:34.880 letter to the House Administration Committee describing what she called multi-layered
00:06:39.300 safeguards, including requiring U.S. passport numbers for certain donors with foreign addresses.
00:06:44.920 The Times obtaining two internal memos from ActBlue's outside legal counsel,
00:06:50.740 white-shoe law firm Covington & Burling, from last year,
00:06:54.080 raising serious concerns about what ActBlue communicated to Congress.
00:06:58.740 The Times reporting, quote,
00:07:00.300 The Covington memos indicated that ActBlue did not have the rigor in its review of
00:07:04.700 overseas donations that was required or that it had described to congressional investigators.
00:07:10.120 One memo indicating, quote,
00:07:11.780 a substantial risk that some of the funds received were impermissible contributions
00:07:16.740 from foreign nationals. Under new legal counsel, ActBlue later writing to Congress in 2025
00:07:23.000 dismissing Republican-led investigations as a witch hunt while also acknowledging it had
00:07:28.360 strengthened its safeguards against foreign donations. In a statement released after
00:07:33.560 publication of the latest Times piece, ActBlue writing, quote, bottom line, we are not going
00:07:39.160 anywhere. We continue to be fully operational as the strongest and most secure infrastructure
00:07:45.120 for American democracy. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Jim Jordan,
00:07:50.820 posting to X, quote, we knew ActBlue's fraud prevention measures were wholly inadequate.
00:07:55.920 Now we know ActBlue likely misled Congress. Americans deserve free and fair elections.
00:08:03.080 Mr. Jordan promising the investigations into ActBlue will continue.
00:08:09.160 Coming up, former Congressman Matt Gaetz lays out a whistleblower claim
00:08:12.720 tied to a secret, disturbing alien program,
00:08:16.420 as Congressman Tim Burchett says what he knows would keep you up all night.
00:08:21.340 And this Easter, a big spike in Americans converting to Catholicism nationwide.
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00:09:33.400 scientists tied to sensitive U.S. space-related research keeps rising, as a former assistant
00:09:39.380 director at the FBI offers up a startling explanation. According to the Daily Mail,
00:09:44.720 61-year-old NASA scientist Frank Maywald died in July 2024. The cause of death never made public,
00:09:52.800 though Maywald's obituary did not reference any known health issues. Maywald worked at the
00:09:58.060 Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California since 1999 on projects related to advanced satellite
00:10:04.420 technology. Out of that lab, NASA running robotic space exploration missions and operating its
00:10:11.280 deep space network, tracking spacecrafts across solar systems, among other research projects.
00:10:17.860 Just 13 months before his death, Maywald reportedly led a major breakthrough in the search for life
00:10:24.300 on other planets.
00:10:25.960 Bywald working in the same lab
00:10:27.440 as another missing scientist
00:10:29.000 previously reported on by AM Update.
00:10:32.240 60-year-old Monica Reza 0.79
00:10:33.960 worked as a materials scientist,
00:10:36.660 inventing a new kind of metal
00:10:38.220 used in rocket engines.
00:10:40.480 Reza reported missing in June of last year,
00:10:43.020 her hiking companion saying
00:10:44.360 she vanished from the trail 0.94
00:10:46.080 at the Angeles National Forest in California.
00:10:49.480 Reza's research,
00:10:50.420 reportedly funded for years in part
00:10:52.240 by the Air Force Research Laboratory overseen by 68-year-old retired Air Force Major General
00:10:58.200 William Neal McCasland, also reported missing earlier this year, after he walked out of his
00:11:04.740 Albuquerque, New Mexico home in February, seemingly vanishing into thin air. Throughout his career,
00:11:12.000 McCasland overseeing advanced Air Force research programs, including leading its $2.2 billion
00:11:17.440 science and technology lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he's believed to have
00:11:22.580 been tied to space weapons and alleged UFO research. A former senior FBI official now
00:11:28.660 warning these disappearances could be deliberate. Chris Swecker, who previously led the Bureau's
00:11:34.300 Criminal Investigative Division, telling the Daily Mail the pattern could point to
00:11:38.480 foreign espionage. Swecker telling the outlet, quote, our scientists have been targeted for a
00:11:47.440 by hostile foreign intelligence services.
00:11:50.320 Swecker going on to say,
00:11:51.400 quote, I think we've even seen instances
00:11:53.320 where nuclear scientists have been assassinated.
00:11:57.680 Meantime, former Congressman Matt Gaetz
00:11:59.680 making an extraordinary claim
00:12:01.580 on the Benny Johnson show earlier this week.
00:12:04.880 Listen to this.
00:12:06.500 I had a guy who was uniform.
00:12:09.740 He was a senior enlisted
00:12:11.660 with the United States Army.
00:12:13.960 He came into my office in Crestview, Florida
00:12:16.400 in a non-classified setting. I had members of my staff there. And what they explained is that the
00:12:23.780 military ran a very secret program where aliens that were living were in forced breeding programs
00:12:32.320 with humans that had been abducted from war zones and from even the caravans of migrants.
00:12:41.480 Did he say forced breeding programs? Congressman Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, one of the leading voices in Congress, pushing for transparency on what the government now calls UAPs or unidentified aerial phenomena on Newsmax Wednesday, not exactly denying the claim.
00:12:59.700 Have you heard anything like that?
00:13:01.780 Well, I'm still a member of Congress, so I can't really comment too much on what Matt said.
00:13:07.340 I've been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is.
00:13:11.680 And I'll just tell you this.
00:13:13.620 If they would release the things that I've seen, you would stay up.
00:13:18.400 You'd be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff.
00:13:22.520 We just need to disclose it and all.
00:13:24.580 I'm sick of it.
00:13:25.440 I'll just tell you this.
00:13:26.460 I was briefed last week on an issue, or excuse me, two weeks ago, and it would have set the earth off.
00:13:34.620 This country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard.
00:13:40.120 They would demand answers, and we need to.
00:13:44.580 But, you know, it's never going to get, and fortunately, it just keeps getting covered up and covered up,
00:13:50.140 and the people that know are dying or disappearing, as the case may be.
00:13:54.120 Wow.
00:13:54.320 And for the record, I'm not suicidal, and I don't take risks.
00:13:58.960 And if that doesn't make you say a little prayer, this next story might.
00:14:03.440 This Easter weekend, thousands of Americans across the country preparing to formally enter the Catholic Church.
00:14:10.360 A new analysis from the National Catholic Register surveying 71 diocese or districts nationwide,
00:14:16.680 finding all but five are expecting increases in converts this year, many of them big ones.
00:14:22.940 The growth not limited to regions experiencing a resurgence in recent years, but more secular regions as well, like New England.
00:14:31.120 The Archdiocese of Boston reporting a 55% increase in converts compared to just last year.
00:14:37.160 In Oklahoma City, the Archdiocese expecting a 57% jump in unbaptized adults entering the church, rising from 635 in 2025 to nearly 1,000 this year.
00:14:49.980 In Mobile, Alabama, 603 new members set to join, the highest total since at least 2014.
00:14:56.080 And in Detroit, more than 1,400 people preparing to convert, the highest number in more than two decades, according to the New York Times.
00:15:04.300 The culmination of that journey coming Saturday night at the Easter Vigil Mass, when converts received the sacraments of initiation, baptism, Holy Communion, and confirmation, formally entering the church.
00:15:17.760 The surge coming after a pandemic-era dip in participation, but in many dioceses, this
00:15:23.180 year's numbers are not just a recovery, they're surpassing pre-COVID levels, according to
00:15:27.780 the Times.
00:15:28.780 And while long-term trends still show decline, the Pew Research Center finding the broader
00:15:33.600 Christian population in the U.S. now stabilizing.
00:15:37.300 As for what's driving the increase, church leaders point to a mix of factors.
00:15:41.880 Some cite a growing desire for community and structure.
00:15:44.680 others pointing to marriage and family ties, and some say younger Americans in particular
00:15:49.620 are searching for meaning amid uncertainty. And increasingly, that search for deeper meaning
00:15:55.440 begins online. Here, Bishop Robert Barron on the Word on Fire podcast.
00:16:01.680 Another corollary to that is the deep confusion and sadness that has been measured now for
00:16:07.940 at least a decade in the surveys of young people, rising numbers of depression and anxiety,
00:16:15.440 of suicide, of deep confusion. I put a lot of the gender business in that category too,
00:16:20.800 deep confusion about, you know, who we are. Well, that can't sustain itself in the lower run.
00:16:27.320 People start looking for sources of meaning and purpose and, you know, they'll turn to religion.
00:16:33.520 Here's my conviction. I'm very glad, I'll use this word on fire as an example, there are many others, but that when people wanted to turn to religion, maybe going to the local church, that wasn't their first idea, but they're online all the time, and they find people who are talking about faith online.
00:16:53.760 I think that should not be underestimated as a key factor in this.
00:16:58.540 I think they forgot one big factor that explains so many embracing their Christian faith,
00:17:05.200 Charlie Kirk.
00:17:06.560 To everyone entering the Catholic faith this weekend, welcome and happy Easter to all.
00:17:14.860 And that'll do it for AM Update.
00:17:16.880 I'm Megan Kelly.
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