The Megyn Kelly Show - Butler Secret Service Agents Disciplined, Crockett Eyes Senate, Why Walz Was Picked： AM Update 7⧸11

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:35.600 It's Friday, July 11th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:40.220 Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler.

00:00:43.600 Butler was an operational failure.

00:00:45.920 Nearly one year after President Trump narrowly dodged an assassination attempt,

00:00:50.440 the Secret Service says six agents were disciplined for the failures of that day.

00:00:55.600 If there is a change of heart at any point in time on my end,

00:01:00.000 it will only be because I truly believe that we collectively can get this done.

00:01:05.240 Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett potentially eyeing a run for U.S. Senate in Texas.

00:01:11.500 And a behind-the-scenes look at how Vice President Kamala Harris chose Governor Tim Walz as her 2024 running mate.

00:01:18.160 Hint, diet. Mountain Dew was involved.

00:01:20.760 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:22.200 This weekend marking one year since the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on then-candidate

00:02:27.800 Donald Trump.

00:02:29.000 The shooter firing eight shots toward Mr. Trump just minutes into his speech.

00:02:33.700 Take a look at what happened.

00:02:35.260 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:02:44.180 President Trump pumping his fist in the air, shouting fight, fight, fight to the crowd,

00:02:49.540 later saying he wanted everyone to know he was okay. 0.90

00:02:52.500 A single bullet miraculously hitting Mr. Trump's ear, millimeters from his brain, 0.52

00:02:58.120 thanks to Trump turning his head a split second beforehand.

00:03:01.620 Firefighter Corey Compertori fatally shot while using his body to shield his wife and daughter

00:03:08.000 from the hail of bullets.

00:03:09.880 Compertori's widow, Helen, speaking out Wednesday morning on Fox News.

00:03:13.500 We were all sitting ducks that day.

00:03:16.720 Their blood, our blood is all over their hands.

00:03:20.920 I'm angry.

00:03:22.020 I lost the love of my life.

00:03:25.020 Why weren't they paying attention?

00:03:27.240 Why did they think that that roof didn't need covered?

00:03:29.780 Do you think Thomas Crooks did this all by himself?

00:03:32.440 Honestly, I believe that he could.

00:03:35.440 I do believe, I mean, kids can do those things when they're mentally not right.

00:03:40.880 The Secret Service, Homeland Security, both chambers of Congress, all releasing scathing

00:03:45.760 reports on the catastrophic failures of the Secret Service leading up to that moment,

00:03:50.300 outlining communication breakdowns, insufficient manpower, and unclear coordination.

00:03:55.400 Then-Secret Service Director Kim Cheadle resigning 10 days after the shooting,

00:03:59.500 one day after a House hearing in which she called the incident, quote,

00:04:02.520 the most significant operational failure in decades.

00:04:06.000 On Wednesday evening, for the first time, Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn

00:04:11.100 confirming six agents have been suspended over the failures of that day.

00:04:16.060 CBS News reporting the penalties ranging from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits.

00:04:23.180 Quinn, handpicked by Trump-appointed Secret Service Director Sean Curran, telling CBS, quote,

00:04:27.860 we aren't going to fire our way out of this.

00:04:30.660 We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.

00:04:35.280 More from that interview.

00:04:37.500 Has the Secret Service done enough?

00:04:39.740 What's the answer?

00:04:40.780 The answer is that Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler.

00:04:45.800 Butler was an operational failure, and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again

00:04:52.180 and executing our strategic plan to increase technology, to improve communications,

00:04:57.440 to make sure our personnel are well-trained, equipped, and deployed.

00:05:02.200 In a one-year-later update released on Thursday,

00:05:05.280 the Secret Service announcing it is instituting sweeping reforms and emphasizing the importance

00:05:10.540 of accountability.

00:05:12.280 However, Real Clear Politics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree reporting Thursday,

00:05:17.500 quote, key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were working

00:05:22.740 on the final walkthroughs before the rally were never disciplined but instead received big promotions.

00:05:28.780 Going on to report that, quote, rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the

00:05:34.820 supervisors accountable, further sinking already low morale, end quote.

00:05:39.960 We reached out to Secret Service for a comment on this reporting.

00:05:43.000 They referred us back to their one-year update.

00:05:45.540 Democrat Congresswoman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, not ruling out a Senate run after two new polls show

00:05:53.700 her leading the pack in a hypothetical Democrat primary.

00:05:57.960 In a poll first obtained by The Daily Caller, the National Republican Senatorial Committee,

00:06:02.880 surveying 566 likely Democrat primary voters in Texas, finding Ms. Crockett leading with 35 percent

00:06:09.720 support, followed by former NFL player Colin Allred, who just lost a race for Senator Ted Cruz's seat

00:06:16.280 last year by over eight points at 20 percent.

00:06:19.960 Perpetual election loser Beto O'Rourke tying Congressman Joaquin Castro for third place at 13 percent.

00:06:27.760 Republican Senator John Cornyn currently occupying the seat is up for re-election in November 2026.

00:06:34.500 A University of Texas at Tyler poll released last month asking Texas Democratic voters

00:06:39.660 who, quote, most closely shares your values.

00:06:43.160 Congresswoman Crockett leading with 30 percent.

00:06:45.940 O'Rourke at 29.

00:06:47.540 Allred at 28.

00:06:49.020 Congressman Castro at 13.

00:06:51.420 Many on the left viewing Congresswoman Crockett as a rising star within the Democrat Party

00:06:56.080 since taking office in 2023, quickly becoming known for her fiery rhetoric and 0.62

00:07:02.040 confrontational approach to politics.

00:07:05.320 You randomly kidnapping folk and you throwing them out of the country

00:07:08.780 against their civil rights, against their constitutional rights.

00:07:11.860 If there's anyone that I am concerned about their mental acuity, it is the current occupant.

00:07:16.840 Violence doesn't come from Democrats, just to be clear.

00:07:20.080 I mean, obviously anyone can be a criminal, but it is MAGA.

00:07:24.040 Instead of publicly calling us the N-word, they use racist epithets and suggest that we're ghetto

00:07:30.700 or unqualified.

00:07:32.600 We in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey.

00:07:35.580 Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.

00:07:37.860 Come on now.

00:07:39.200 That last reference to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

00:07:43.560 She claimed the nickname was due to him bussing migrants out of the state.

00:07:47.760 Sure.

00:07:48.080 In the upcoming election, Democrats aiming to flip a seat held by Republicans since 1961.

00:07:54.320 Congresswoman Crockett on Wednesday on Instagram reacting to speculation on whether she may run.

00:07:59.480 There have been a lot of questions about what's going to happen in the Senate race in Texas.

00:08:05.820 There have been two different polls that have come out that have somehow thrown my name into them.

00:08:10.920 And one of them was released today that the Republicans put into the field, the Republican Senate Committee, allegedly.

00:08:19.000 And allegedly, it has me as topping the field for the Senate.

00:08:25.020 Listen, I have been so busy in the House, because that's where I am.

00:08:29.240 That's been my focus.

00:08:30.600 Depending on how many people reach out, we'll determine if there's something to actually consider.

00:08:35.720 But as of now, I am proudly serving Texas' 30th Congressional District.

00:08:41.340 It's going to take a lot to flip this state.

00:08:43.940 And if there is a change of heart at any point in time on my end, it will only be because I truly believe that we collectively can get this done.

00:08:56.280 This means raising a lot of money.

00:08:58.500 It means traversing a very, very, very large state.

00:09:02.580 It means connecting and meeting people where they are in a very short amount of time.

00:09:08.860 Blaze TV host Stu Bergeer posting on X, quote, there's nobody better.

00:09:14.880 Coming up, a look at the factors leading to Vice President Kamala Harris's gut decision to choose Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

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00:10:33.020 A new book lifting the curtain on Vice President Kamala Harris's disastrous decision to choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walls as her 2024 running mate.

00:10:42.060 Ms. Harris in September describing the selection process on MSNBC.

00:10:46.260 And you are running for a job that takes extraordinary instinct and guts.

00:10:50.500 Yeah.

00:10:51.140 What's the last time you were to make a gut decision?

00:10:53.420 This here is very prescribed.

00:10:55.120 It's very controlled.

00:10:55.980 Yeah.

00:10:57.080 Probably the biggest gut decision I've made most recently is to choose my running mate.

00:11:03.240 Yeah.

00:11:03.480 There were lots of good, incredible candidates.

00:11:07.540 And ultimately, that came down to a gut decision.

00:11:11.640 Journalists Josh Dossie, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf revealing the details behind that ill-fated gut decision in their new book,

00:11:20.200 2024, How Trump Retook the White House and Democrats Lost America.

00:11:24.520 The final three candidates reportedly Governor Walls, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro,

00:11:29.800 and U.S. Senator from Arizona and former astronaut Mark Kelly.

00:11:33.320 The Harris campaign prioritizing appeal to rural voters in the decision,

00:11:37.720 inviting the final three candidates to Vice President Harris's residence for final interviews.

00:11:42.560 According to the book, when asked what they would like to drink,

00:11:45.620 Senator Kelly and Governor Shapiro selecting water.

00:11:49.300 Governor Walls requesting Diet Mountain Dew.

00:11:51.900 And that's what did it, people.

00:11:54.480 This was reportedly a deciding factor in who should be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

00:11:59.940 This was her gut telling her he was the one.

00:12:03.860 My God.

00:12:05.080 As Governor Shapiro reportedly pushed VP Harris on what his role was going to look like,

00:12:10.020 Governor Walls reportedly offering up reasons why he should not be selected.

00:12:14.180 From the book, quote,

00:12:15.340 In his interview that Friday, he said he had never used a teleprompter before.

00:12:19.100 On Sunday, he told Harris,

00:12:21.160 I would understand if you went with somebody else because

00:12:23.380 I'm really nervous about the debate and I don't think I'll do well.

00:12:27.080 Why didn't she listen?

00:12:28.620 Still, the vetting team did not fully appreciate his tendency to

00:12:31.860 misspeak, write the authors, 0.81

00:12:34.560 his folksiness sometimes tipping into factual imprecision.

00:12:39.320 Factual imprecision?

00:12:40.800 You mean his lies about his alleged time in combat where he never was or that time he was

00:12:47.000 allegedly in China for the Tiananmen Square massacre?

00:12:50.560 No, that wasn't true either.

00:12:52.980 Governor Walls ultimately offering up a dismal debate performance against then-Senator J.D.

00:12:57.720 Vance looking like a deer in the headlights, stumbling on policy and delivering this bizarre

00:13:02.420 line.

00:13:03.260 Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but it's only later in your political

00:13:07.500 career.

00:13:08.180 Did you change your position?

00:13:09.420 Why?

00:13:09.880 Yeah, I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents.

00:13:11.880 I've become friends with school shooters.

00:13:13.560 I've seen it.

00:13:14.160 Look, the NRA, I was an NRA guy for a long time.

00:13:16.480 They used to teach gun safety.

00:13:18.220 I'm of an age where my shotgun was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football practice.

00:13:22.820 That's not where we live today.

00:13:24.760 Now, you can't say he didn't warn her.

00:13:27.080 And his gaffes kept coming.

00:13:29.000 Think about this. 0.82

00:13:29.840 When I was a kid growing up in Nebraska, being gay was illegal.

00:13:34.260 Still technically illegal.

00:13:35.600 Look, we get to turn the page on that, and I plan on waking up on November 6th with Madam

00:13:40.940 President.

00:13:41.580 I've tried to do the best I can, but I've not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at

00:13:45.740 times.

00:13:46.720 Governor Walls also spending much of the short-lived campaign defending his many past controversies

00:13:52.440 rather than advancing her arguments.

00:13:54.540 The Kamala Harris-Tim Walls ticket ultimately losing every single battleground state and

00:13:59.880 the presidency, despite nearly $2 billion in total spending and gushing coverage by everyone

00:14:05.860 in the establishment media.

00:14:09.400 And that'll do it for your AM Update.

00:14:11.320 I'm Megyn Kelly.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - July 11, 2025

Butler Secret Service Agents Disciplined, Crockett Eyes Senate, Why Walz Was Picked： AM Update 7⧸11

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