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00:00:33.080 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:35.420 It's Friday, August 1st, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:39.880 It was an attempt to stop Trump and also proves that the FBI had a hand in it.

00:00:47.580 A newly declassified annex revealing how the FBI helped bury intelligence

00:00:52.800 about the Hillary Clinton campaign's plan to falsely tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia.

00:00:58.800 Two female athletes suing the Oregon School Activities Association,

00:01:03.040 alleging their First Amendment rights were violated when they were punished

00:01:06.180 for refusing to share a podium with a male athlete.

00:01:09.820 Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days,

00:01:14.400 talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts together.

00:01:19.120 And former VP Kamala Harris drops a pair of announcements shining light on her potential

00:01:24.020 plans for 2028. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

00:01:28.840 What will the effect of the sparring between President Trump and the Federal Reserve be?

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00:02:34.240 Republican Senator from Iowa Chuck Grassley on Thursday releasing the now declassified annex

00:02:39.920 from the 2023 Durham report, a special counsel investigation into the Russiagate hoax against

00:02:46.580 Donald Trump. Durham's 2023 report sharply critical of the FBI's decision to open a full investigation

00:02:53.580 into alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia due to a lack of sufficient

00:02:59.800 evidence and heavy reliance on bogus intel, including the discredited Steele dossier, which the FBI knew

00:03:06.860 at the time was not reliable. The annex, containing raw intelligence reports and allegedly hacked emails,

00:03:13.620 reveals evidence that top FBI officials had received intelligence showing that the 2016 Hillary Clinton

00:03:21.060 campaign was working to deflect from her own private email server scandal by crafting a narrative that

00:03:27.700 Russian President Vladimir Putin was helping Donald Trump win the election. Despite knowing about this

00:03:34.440 Clinton-conceived plot, the FBI played right into the Clinton campaign's strategy, opening its

00:03:40.540 investigation into the Trump campaign instead of saying, wait, this is a Clinton campaign operation.

00:03:47.200 Senator Grassley on Fox News saying this annex is a bombshell.

00:03:50.540 It actually brings attention to the fact that there was either a Clinton conspiracy to make this happen or a

00:03:59.040 Russian disinformation. But either way, it was an attempt to stop Trump and also proves that the FBI had a

00:04:08.840 hand in it. And now after these eight years, three years of my trying to get the document,

00:04:15.500 we know that there was the Steele dossier paid for by the Democrats and the Clinton campaign,

00:04:24.200 that it was all effort of total distraction. And to make it look like Russia was playing a very major role

00:04:32.840 in helping Trump to be elected. And now we know none of that was true. And now with this Durham report

00:04:40.680 annex out, it finally proves that the FBI was covering up. The annex containing multiple troubling

00:04:48.800 pieces of information, including the allegation that the Clinton campaign brazenly expected the FBI

00:04:54.760 to help boost their manufactured story. In July 2016, one Clinton foreign policy advisor emailing a

00:05:02.300 member of the Intel community, quote, we're looking for ways to build on Franklin Four's great and scary

00:05:08.300 piece on Trump and Russia. This appears to be a reference to a piece in the Atlantic by Franklin Four

00:05:13.900 about Trump in July 2016, entitled Putin's Puppet. Returning here to the email. One thing I've heard

00:05:21.540 from a few folks is that the Russia desk at State has been tracking parallels between rhetoric, words,

00:05:27.900 methods that Trump uses, and Putin-supported European right-wing candidates. I'd love to get

00:05:34.000 my hands on details of what they are seeing. Can one of you help run this down? It is illegal for a

00:05:40.380 political campaign to coordinate with the U.S. intelligence agency, something this advisor seems

00:05:45.960 to realize, adding, quote, obviously need to be a bit careful here. The annex also implies that while

00:05:53.480 Hillary Clinton was determined to distract attention from her email scandal, she was also receiving secret 0.99

00:05:59.400 assurances from President Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she did not need to worry too much

00:06:05.780 about possible criminal charges. A Russian memo appears in the annex summarizing a meeting between

00:06:12.840 then-chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and two Soros Foundation

00:06:18.520 executives claiming that Attorney General Loretta Lynch privately told a Clinton campaign official

00:06:24.240 that she would make sure the investigation did not, quote, go too far. The newly released annex

00:06:30.760 reportedly discovered inside burn bags stashed in a secret room at FBI headquarters. Director of National

00:06:37.920 Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Wednesday on the Glenn Beck program saying the discovery has all the

00:06:42.820 hallmarks of a cover-up. A burn bag is something that you'll find in many offices throughout the

00:06:48.500 intelligence community, throughout these different workspaces in national security. Basically, if I

00:06:56.080 have a document that's highly classified, I read it, I review it, I'm done with it, my copy can then go in

00:07:04.500 the burn bag to make sure that it doesn't end up in the wrong hands, that there's not an unauthorized

00:07:10.180 disclosure of classified information. It's a very different story, however, if you use a burn bag

00:07:16.860 to try to get rid of evidence of which maybe there is only one copy of, and then hide it in a secret room

00:07:24.080 in the FBI. That is a tactic, obviously, that has been used by those deep staters, these bad actors within 0.88

00:07:30.340 the intelligence community to try to get rid of evidence. It is unclear why the stashed documents had not yet

00:07:36.120 been destroyed. In an apparent attempt to get ahead of the release of the annex, former CIA Director

00:07:41.460 John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper writing an op-ed in the

00:07:46.540 New York Times, accusing current DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard and current CIA Director Ratcliffe of

00:07:52.780 rewriting history, insisting all their work was above board. Brennan and Clapper writing to, quote,

00:07:59.300 set the record straight on a number of issues, including, quote, the so-called Steele dossier.

00:08:04.900 Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Ratcliffe have claimed it played an integral role in formulating the assessment.

00:08:10.780 We have testified under oath, and the reviews of the assessment have confirmed that the dossier was

00:08:16.080 not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions. Co-founder of

00:08:22.940 The Federalist, Sean Davis, who has been covering the story extensively now for years, says,

00:08:28.060 don't buy it.

00:08:29.400 I found two major things in their op-ed, which I found fascinating. The first was them referring

00:08:36.260 to the Steele dossier as largely discredited. That is a remarkable admission. It was Comey

00:08:42.440 and Clapper and Brennan who forced that thing into the ICA, something they continue to lie about,

00:08:48.540 because according to Brennan at the time, it rang true. So to see them now try to retcon and pretend that

00:08:55.960 there were always problems with it. I just find amazing. The second major thing that I found

00:09:01.700 fascinating in their op-ed was their claim against all evidence that the Steele dossier was never used

00:09:08.240 in that 2016-2017 intelligence community assessment. They used the Steele dossier to buttress their claim

00:09:15.500 that Russia wanted Trump to win and Hillary to lose. And we know this because the documents that Gabbard

00:09:21.120 released about that ICA showed us the exact line and text and quotes of them citing the Steele dossier.

00:09:30.620 And yet we have them going into the New York Times and claiming that never happened.

00:09:35.680 In the brazenness of that dishonesty, I find honestly shocking, even after having watched everything

00:09:41.520 they've done for the last 10 years.

00:09:43.340 Davis says this op-ed is telling.

00:09:45.380 That op-ed was fascinating to me because I think it showed, number one, how much trouble

00:09:51.580 they know they're in. We've now had Comey and Susan Rice and Barack Obama and James Clapper

00:09:58.260 and John Brennan come out and make statements. And these are normally people who are content to do

00:10:03.700 all their little maneuvering behind the scenes. So the fact that they're coming out and addressing

00:10:08.560 this, I think, is big.

00:10:10.140 D&I Gabbard, also on Glenn Beck's program, slamming legacy media for failing in her view,

00:10:14.900 to cover this story accurately or in some cases at all.

00:10:18.980 And if they do mention it, their approach is to try to diminish the effect and the impact of

00:10:27.120 the revelations, the historic revelations that were found in the documents that we declassified

00:10:32.040 and released, or to try to bring voice to detractors and critics who also just say,

00:10:38.600 oh, well, this is bizarre or this is crazy because they recognize that it would push forward a very

00:10:45.540 inconvenient truth for the mainstream media because it exposes their complicity in pushing

00:10:51.160 this lie and this hoax from not only day one, but throughout President Trump's entire first

00:10:58.080 administration.

00:10:58.740 Coming up, two female athletes fighting back after being punished for peacefully protesting

00:11:05.320 the inclusion of a male competitor in their girls' track and field state championship.

00:11:10.340 And former Vice President Kamala Harris drops two big hints about her political future.

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00:12:22.660 get started. Earlier this week, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launching an

00:12:30.700 investigation into whether the Oregon Department of Education is in violation of Title IX for allowing

00:12:36.120 male athletes to compete in girls' sports. There's certainly reason to believe so. In late July,

00:12:42.680 the America First Policy Institute filing a lawsuit against the Oregon School Activities Association

00:12:49.000 on behalf of high school track athletes Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckerd, who argue their First Amendment

00:12:54.740 rights were violated when officials punished them for a silent protest at the track and field state

00:12:59.900 championship, where they were forced to compete against a male athlete posing as a female. Both 0.97

00:13:06.060 girls were high school seniors, placing third and fourth respectively in the high jump in May at the state

00:13:11.060 track and field championships. In fifth place, a male athlete who previously had competed in the male

00:13:16.900 division. Anderson and Eckerd had planned to wear Save Women's Sports t-shirts on the podium, but were told by an

00:13:24.080 official to change, citing a rule that athletes could only wear school apparel. We spoke to Alexa

00:13:29.820 Anderson about what happened next. When we heard the announcer start announcing names starting in eighth

00:13:35.760 place, me and Reese Eckerd from Sherwood stepped off the podium. So when they read our names and presented

00:13:41.040 us our medals, we would not be joining that ceremony. Immediately after we stepped off the podium, we faced our backs

00:13:48.020 to the podium facing the audience and we were ushered out of the way by OSA officials telling us to get out of

00:13:54.040 the pictures if we weren't going to participate. We would have been in the pictures on the ground, but we were

00:13:58.660 ushered out of the way out of the podium and we never received our medals. I just wanted to create

00:14:03.860 attention and draw people's attention to this issue because I don't feel that it is fair and the people who are

00:14:10.640 in charge needed to be notified that us girls were not okay with the situations they're imposing upon us. 0.93

00:14:16.200 Anderson says two months later, she has yet to receive her medal. Eckerd only receiving her medal because

00:14:21.960 another athlete picked it up from the empty podium and delivered it to her coach. Executive General 0.95

00:14:27.780 Counsel at the America First Policy Institute, Jessica Hart Steinman, says what happened was not just

00:14:33.380 unfair, it was a violation of the girls' First Amendment rights. The official that day would not allow them 1.00

00:14:39.880 on the podium with those shirts, so they had to remove their t-shirts. Secondly, they tried

00:14:46.080 to, once on the podium, silently protest by stepping off and turning their back on the podium. And again,

00:14:53.100 this was silent. It was not disruptive. They were sidelined again by that official. And the official,

00:15:01.280 instead of respecting her rights, that official overseeing the ceremony ordered them to move aside.

00:15:06.880 And that's when it became suppression of their viewpoint. And that's when it became a First Amendment

00:15:12.700 violation. Steinman says officials crossed the line by selectively enforcing the rules,

00:15:18.460 allowing some students to wear expressive shirts, but punishing Alexa and Reese for theirs.

00:15:24.000 It would be completely different if they had a policy and they stuck to it and you could only wear,

00:15:29.120 you know, school-sanctioned shirts. But in this situation, they have let other students wear other

00:15:33.720 shirts. And here they did not let Alexa and Reese wear the shirt they desired to wear. So again,

00:15:40.220 that is them suppressing that exact viewpoint. And they did it specifically for what was said on the

00:15:46.000 shirt. We've seen the Oregon School Activities Association celebrate and be involved in other

00:15:51.720 forms of protest throughout the year. We've seen them be involved in Black Lives Matter and Pride

00:15:58.200 protests. But again, when it came to these girls talking about boys and girls sports, they did not

00:16:04.280 allow that viewpoint. And so they are picking viewpoints to back. With the lawsuit now underway,

00:16:10.900 Steinman spells out what they hope to achieve. The overall result that we would like from this lawsuit

00:16:16.500 is to have a declaration from the state of Oregon and their athletics association saying Reese and

00:16:22.780 Alexa's rights, First Amendment rights, were violated when they were not allowed to wear their shirts that 1.00

00:16:29.260 said Save Girls Sports. And when they were asked to leave the podium and leave the ceremonies that day

00:16:34.860 when they peacefully protested and stepped off. And additionally, specifically for Alexa, she has never

00:16:41.880 been given her medal from that day. Still to this day, the state has not given her medal for coming in

00:16:47.360 in the state championship coming in third. She would like that medal.

00:16:51.100 Anderson says she has received a lot of blowback in the wake of her silent protest. But she has no

00:16:57.140 regrets. A lot of people have definitely been very hateful, accusing me of hate and transphobia when

00:17:03.180 there is no motive like that at all in this issue. My motive is purely to let the people in charge who

00:17:09.420 are making these rules know that us girls are not okay with it. And we want our own protected and safe 1.00

00:17:14.500 division to compete in. It's not just about me or where I placed. It's about the girl in ninth who should

00:17:20.860 have had a place on that podium and scored for her team or the girl who didn't even qualify for state

00:17:25.920 because they were beat by a biological male in districts. It's not just about me. It's about

00:17:30.220 all of these other girls. And if we keep allowing biological men to take up space in women's sports, 0.99

00:17:35.440 we're going to see national titles, national records, everything like that being set by biological

00:17:40.640 men in the women's division. At this point, the case is still in its early stages. The defendants have

00:17:46.100 not yet filed a response and the court has not yet set any deadlines. The Oregon School Activities

00:17:51.140 Association did not respond to our request for comment. Former Vice President Kamala Harris with

00:17:57.740 two big announcements, both signaling Ms. Harris is gearing up possibly for another shot at the White

00:18:03.020 House in 2028. On Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Harris releasing a statement declaring she will not run 0.69

00:18:08.920 for California governor, quote, for now, my leadership and public service will not be in

00:18:14.980 elected office. I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people, helping elect

00:18:20.040 Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly and sharing more details in the months ahead about

00:18:25.960 my own plans. Then on Thursday, the former Veep announcing a new book reflecting on her failed

00:18:32.120 presidential campaign in 2024, launched after President Biden withdrew from the race.

00:18:37.120 Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. 107 days,

00:18:43.680 traveling the country, fighting for our future. Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time

00:18:49.960 reflecting on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts

00:18:56.100 together. In essence, writing a journal that is this book, 107 days. With candor and reflection,

00:19:05.280 I've written a behind-the-scenes account of that journey. I believe there's value in sharing what

00:19:11.240 I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward. In writing this book, one truth

00:19:19.400 kept coming back to me. Sometimes, the fight takes a while, but I remain full of hope, and I remain

00:19:27.100 clear-eyed. I will never stop fighting to make our country reflect the very best of its ideals.

00:19:34.260 Set to be released by Simon & Schuster in September, a preview of the riveting content readers can

00:19:40.860 expect. Quote,

00:19:42.300 Your Secret Service codename is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected Vice 0.98

00:19:48.740 President of the United States. The presidential election will occur on November 5th, 2024. You have

00:19:55.900 107 days. Specifics on the financial terms of the deal, not yet clear. Former President Joe Biden

00:20:03.080 reportedly selling his memoir to an imprint of Hachette for about 10 million bucks. That's less

00:20:09.460 than former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But what will the auto pen get?

00:20:16.720 That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,

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Buried Intel Bombshell Released, Athletes Sue over Trans Dispute, Harris’s 2028 Hints： AM Update 8⧸1

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