The Megyn Kelly Show - February 18, 2026


Colbert Censorship Spin, Guthrie Sheriff Changes Story Again, US-Canada Hockey Final： AM Update 2⧸18


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Donald Trump s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV. Stephen Colbert cries censorship, but there s a lot more to the story. DNA testing in the Nancy Guthrie case finally uploaded to the database with no match. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at age 84. And Team USA s women s Olympic hockey team readies to take on top rival Canada in the gold medal match. All that and more coming up in a moment on Your AM Update.

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00:00:17.520 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.
00:00:19.840 It's Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:24.700 Let's just call this what it is.
00:00:26.080 Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV.
00:00:31.540 Stephen Colbert cries censorship, but there's a lot more to the story.
00:00:35.920 So you are no closer to a suspect as a result of the DNA test, at least.
00:00:40.880 DNA testing in the Nancy Guthrie case finally uploaded to the FBI's database with no match.
00:00:47.820 Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at age 84.
00:00:50.920 And Team USA's women's Olympic hockey team readies to take on top rival Canada in the gold medal match.
00:00:59.080 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:10.660 CBS's Stephen Colbert, still months from his show coming to an end, making waves Monday night,
00:02:19.600 claiming he was blocked by his network from hosting a Democrat primary candidate running for Senate in Texas,
00:02:26.000 James Tallarico, suggesting his network cave to pressure from the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission, or FCC.
00:02:33.920 Tallarico, a former school teacher and Presbyterian minister in training, currently running a primary campaign against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, among others.
00:02:44.660 Colbert offering his explanation for why CBS lawyers allegedly blocked Tallarico from appearing on The Late Show on his program Monday night.
00:02:53.580 You might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule, okay?
00:02:56.520 It's an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming,
00:03:02.020 that says if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate's opponents on as well.
00:03:08.660 There's long been an exception for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk show interviews with politicians.
00:03:16.540 But, on January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin, Brendan Carr.
00:03:25.760 In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes.
00:03:35.120 Let's just call this what it is.
00:03:36.540 Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV, okay?
00:03:45.000 Colbert then directing viewers to The Late Show's YouTube page, where the interview aired online instead of on broadcast television.
00:03:52.940 Here, a moment of the riveting content traditional viewers may have missed.
00:03:57.220 But if people are watching this right now, it's because they found us online, on YouTube.
00:04:03.320 I did an act of the show that's on tonight explaining why.
00:04:07.540 Do you mean to cause trouble?
00:04:08.800 I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about to flip Texas.
00:04:16.220 This is the party that ran against cancel culture.
00:04:20.520 And now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read.
00:04:26.320 And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture.
00:04:28.940 So Colbert and Tallarico say this whole kerfuffle is because the Trump administration is afraid of Tallarico and trying to silence him.
00:04:37.960 But CBS, in a statement yesterday, pushing back on those claims, indicating The Late Show was not prohibited from broadcasting the Tallarico interview.
00:04:47.160 Quote,
00:05:17.160 Congresswoman Crockett, addressing the debacle yesterday afternoon.
00:05:29.840 I have done Colbert a number of times.
00:05:32.160 We did receive information suggesting that the federal government did not shut down this segment, number one.
00:05:41.420 That is my understanding.
00:05:42.900 There may have been advice to just have me on, and then they could clear the issue.
00:05:48.880 It was my understanding that someone somewhere decided we just don't want to do that.
00:05:56.240 I don't have any love for the current FCC.
00:05:58.680 I don't want anybody to believe that I do.
00:06:00.800 I do not have any love for them.
00:06:02.220 I do think that there are additional layers at play here.
00:06:05.900 We spoke with constitutional attorney Daniel Sirr, president of the Center for American Rights, whose organization previously filed an FCC complaint against CBS over alleged deceptive editing of then-Vice President Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes interview in the run-up to the 2024 election.
00:06:23.620 Sirr explaining the legal foundation governing broadcast networks like CBS.
00:06:27.500 Broadcast television signals belong to the American people, right?
00:06:32.120 They're not the property of any one company or any one broadcaster or network.
00:06:38.540 And the Federal Communications Commission was created to regulate and license who uses those airwaves.
00:06:46.580 So it has always been the case that broadcasters are given a license from the government to use a public asset.
00:06:55.540 And that license comes with strings attached to protect the public.
00:07:00.820 When television programs feature candidates on the public airwaves, they owe equal time to other candidates, right?
00:07:10.060 We don't want television stations, which, after all, use the public airwaves to be misused to advance one particular candidate.
00:07:20.700 Sirr describing how the equal time rule works and how it's been used in the past.
00:07:25.440 So you may remember back October of last year, November of last year, Vice President Harris went on Saturday Night Live.
00:07:33.240 And as a consequence of the vice president going on SNL, President Trump got a free two-minute ad at the beginning of a NASCAR race to compensate for his equal time to make up for the SNL appearance.
00:07:49.700 And so in this case, CBS could have had, Colbert could have had Jamie Telrico on.
00:07:55.580 That would have been fine. It would have been legal. The FCC would have had no problem with it.
00:07:59.780 Just the law requires that CBS give equal time to Jasmine Crockett in the form of, say, 15 minutes of free ads. 1.00
00:08:08.760 Sir, offering a final thought on Colbert's version of the story.
00:08:12.000 The irony of all this is that Colbert is attacking Chairman Carr for supposedly being, you know, a Republican hatchet man executing on, you know, President Trump's revenge agenda against his enemies.
00:08:26.020 And had the rule been followed in this case, it would have just meant that Democrats would have had more free airtime to attack President Trump.
00:08:33.620 Right. And that's because Colbert is missing the point of the rule.
00:08:39.180 And the point of the rule is that it protects all candidates from all parties.
00:08:43.460 The primary is set for March 3rd. Early voting began yesterday and runs until the 27th.
00:08:48.500 A University of Houston poll earlier this month showing Tallarico trailing Ms. Crockett by eight points, 39 to 47 percent.
00:08:57.000 Although the Real Clear Politics average has the race tied at 41.
00:09:00.600 Whomever wins the Democrat primary will then face off against their Republican opponent for the seat currently held by Republican John Cornyn,
00:09:08.720 who is running for the GOP nomination and would like to keep his seat.
00:09:14.400 A long anticipated forensic step now complete in the case of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
00:09:20.820 DNA recovered from a glove discovered a few miles from her home uploaded into the FBI's CODIS database yielding no hits.
00:09:29.820 Fox News' Jonathan Hunt speaking to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos yesterday afternoon.
00:09:35.200 We had heard this morning that, of course, the DNA on the glove that was found two miles away was submitted for CODIS.
00:09:44.460 And I just heard that CODIS had no hits.
00:09:47.600 No hits on the DNA found in the glove?
00:09:49.940 Correct.
00:09:50.560 So you are no closer to a suspect as a result of the DNA test, at least.
00:09:55.300 As a result of CODIS, but we do have somebody's DNA in those gloves.
00:09:59.860 Is there a match on the DNA in the glove to the DNA, the unknown DNA that you found in the house?
00:10:08.560 There's no match to the DNA at the house.
00:10:10.420 So entirely separate DNA?
00:10:12.340 Correct.
00:10:13.280 Okay.
00:10:13.740 So that would mean if there's no, is there a CODIS match from the DNA in the house?
00:10:18.180 No.
00:10:18.440 Investigators are not even certain if the glove recovered near the home is connected to this case
00:10:24.120 at all, though it does appear similar to the glove worn by the masked figure caught on camera
00:10:29.420 outside Nancy's house on the night of her disappearance.
00:10:32.440 The sheriff also confirming that the DNA samples from inside Nancy Guthrie's home did not match
00:10:39.080 with the Fed's CODIS database of known felons or arrestees.
00:10:43.640 Law enforcement saying both this DNA and that from the glove will now undergo genetic genealogical
00:10:50.260 testing.
00:10:51.300 MK True Crime host Phil Holloway tells us what information investigators hope to collect with
00:10:57.000 this type of testing.
00:10:57.900 The genealogical testing is a type of DNA forensics.
00:11:02.320 It works by extracting the DNA from the samples, and then what they do, unlike traditional labs,
00:11:10.620 they use genome sequencing to examine hundreds of thousands of markers.
00:11:16.000 That data is then used to build a comprehensive genetic profile, and then it's searched against
00:11:22.780 the genealogical databases such as DNA solves and acquired family DNA and other types of DNA
00:11:32.020 profile aggregators to basically see if they can identify relatives of the subject, and then
00:11:37.360 they use that information like an arrow to point it in the direction of who they might want to look
00:11:43.820 at.
00:11:44.380 Yesterday afternoon, co-owner of Armor Bearer Arms in Tucson, Philip Martin, telling a Fox News
00:11:50.600 reporter FBI agents visited his store with three pages containing names and photos of about 18 to 24
00:11:57.300 people asking whether they had purchased firearms in the last year.
00:12:01.280 The FBI agent didn't tell me why he was here other than just he wanted to know if somebody or any of
00:12:06.660 these people that he had on the papers had purchased a gun from us. So I was able to look at the photos that he
00:12:13.140 was showing me, and I told the FBI agent, I was like, I'm no investigator, but my intuition is telling me based
00:12:20.860 on how these people's facial hair looks like, it looks like the guy that was on camera at that house doing the
00:12:29.740 kidnapping. And he honestly kind of just smirked and took a deep breath, and he was like, yeah, that's why I'm here. He was like, we're going to be going to different gun shops checking to see if any of these names that I'm showing you here, any of these people have purchased a gun in the last year. And then so I just went on to check on our system to see if any of those people that were on the sheet,
00:12:50.860 had been in here to buy a gun, but unfortunately, none of them had.
00:12:54.900 Meanwhile, Sheriff Nanos once again reversing course on the issue of whether the Guthrie siblings or their spouses have been cleared in this case.
00:13:03.500 On Sunday, the sheriff telling the Daily Mail, quote, nobody had been cleared. On Monday, the sheriff writing in a press release, the family, quote, has been cleared as possible suspects. NBC News reporting the change was not based on any new evidence. Then yesterday, the sheriff's office walking things back yet again, writing in its daily update, quote, at this time, the Guthrie family, including siblings and spouses, has not been identified as suspects.
00:13:31.800 So, not cleared, but not, quote, identified as suspects, at least at this time. What a mess.
00:13:41.080 Coming up, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dead at 84. President Trump reacting as the longtime activist and two-time presidential candidate leaves behind a historic legacy.
00:13:52.620 And the fiercest rivalry in women's hockey returns. Team USA and Team Canada set to clash for Olympic gold in Milan.
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00:15:05.600 Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84.
00:15:14.300 He passed peacefully yesterday morning, surrounded by family at his home in Chicago, after years of declining health.
00:15:20.940 Jackson suffered from a severe neurodegenerative condition called progressive supranuclear palsy, though the official cause of death has not yet been released.
00:15:29.780 In a statement, the family calling Jackson, quote, a servant leader, not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world.
00:15:39.060 President Trump honoring Jackson in a lengthy Truth Social post, reading in part, quote,
00:15:43.240 I knew him well, long before becoming president.
00:15:46.680 He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and street smarts.
00:15:50.940 He was very gregarious, someone who truly loved people.
00:15:54.680 Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left, Democrats all,
00:16:02.500 it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way.
00:16:05.200 I provided office space for him and his Rainbow Coalition for years in the Trump building at 40 Wall Street.
00:16:10.740 The Reverend Jackson and your humble correspondent crossed paths many times during the Fox News days and, if you will permit me, he was always affable, warm, and genuine.
00:16:22.340 Jackson, a protege of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., later becoming a prominent leader in Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
00:16:31.100 founded to fight segregation through nonviolent protests.
00:16:34.880 Over the decades, Jackson founding the Rainbow Push Coalition, advocating for social justice,
00:16:39.600 running for president twice in 1984 and 88, and becoming one of the leading voices of the modern civil rights movement.
00:16:47.120 Here, a moment from Jackson's 1988 Democratic National Convention speech.
00:16:51.280 I'm a working person's person.
00:16:53.720 That's why I understand you, whether you're black or white, I understand work.
00:16:57.520 I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
00:17:00.340 I had a shovel program for my hand.
00:17:03.860 My mother, a working woman.
00:17:06.380 So many days she went to work early, with orange in her stockings.
00:17:10.520 She knew better.
00:17:12.520 But she rolled orange in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks 0.91
00:17:16.840 and not be laughed at his school.
00:17:20.260 I understand.
00:17:21.280 Jackson's life was not without controversy.
00:17:23.960 In 2001, he publicly acknowledged fathering a daughter, Ashley, after an affair with a Rainbow Push staffer.
00:17:31.360 He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, their five children together, his daughter, Ashley, and grandchildren.
00:17:39.300 One of the greatest rivalries in international hockey returns this week.
00:17:43.600 The U.S. women's Olympic team set to take on Team Canada for the gold in Milan tomorrow at 1.10 p.m. Eastern.
00:17:51.940 The event marking the seventh Olympic gold medal showdown between the two powerhouse teams.
00:17:57.220 Team USA sealing its spot in the final round following a 5-0 win Monday against Sweden.
00:18:03.920 Canada defeating Switzerland 2-1 in its Monday semifinal.
00:18:07.580 Together, the rivals dominating the sport from the start, winning every Olympic gold medal in women's hockey.
00:18:13.960 Canada in the lead with five golds to America's two.
00:18:17.440 The Americans entering with the momentum undefeated 6-0 in the tournament with an overall score of 31-1.
00:18:25.560 In the preliminary round last week, the U.S. triumphing over Canada with a 5-0 shutout, Canada's worst loss at the Olympics.
00:18:35.180 Now, with gold within reach, Team USA says this is its moment.
00:18:40.800 Some of the stars of the team Monday following their semifinal win over Sweden.
00:18:45.200 These are the moments you dream of as being a little kid.
00:18:47.920 You know, everything on the line, the big moments, and to be able to do it with this room and this type of people is just so much fun.
00:18:53.880 And so, really looking forward to the opportunity.
00:18:55.640 And we really wanted to get to the gold medal game, and so we're just one step closer to our ultimate goal.
00:18:59.400 And I think this team is ready for it, for sure.
00:19:01.520 It's going to be the hardest game that we've played, and we're going to see two teams give their all.
00:19:08.160 It's going to be a dogfight.
00:19:09.480 Always excited to face off against Canada, and it's always a great game.
00:19:13.280 It's a huge rivalry.
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00:19:20.800 And that'll do it for your AM Update.
00:19:22.500 I'm Megan Kelly.
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