DC Mayor in Hot Seat, Trump Slams Kimmel, VA Boys File Suit in Locker Room Fight： AM Update 9⧸19
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser grilled on Capitol Hill about crime in her city. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was sorry because he had bad ratings. And President Trump weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel s indefinite suspension and other topics at a joint press conference in the U.K. All that and more coming up in a moment on Your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, September 19th, 2025, and this
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is your AM update. Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less
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safe? D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser grilled on Capitol Hill about crime in her city. Well,
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Jimmy Kimmel was sorry because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And President Trump
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weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension and other topics at a joint press conference in
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the U.K. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in
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Congress aiming to undermine the Trump agenda is Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials grilled by the House Oversight Committee yesterday
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in a tense hearing. President Trump's 30-day federal takeover of D.C. police expiring last week,
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though multiple federal agencies and the National Guard continuing the surge,
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cracking down on crime in the nation's capital. Oversight Chairman James Comer kicking off the
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hearing with the results so far. Since President Trump mobilized the National Guard and took control
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of the Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has decreased 39 percent, robberies are down 57
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percent, and carjackings are down 75 percent. Over 2,300 people have been arrested. Nearly 950
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illegal aliens have been detained by ICE, including 20 gang members from violent terrorist organizations.
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Sex offenders have been taken off the streets. Major drug trafficking operations have been foiled.
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Authorities thwarted a planned school shooting, cleared 50 illegal tent encampments, and rescued
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seven missing children. Mayor Bowser is still critical of the National Guard presence in D.C.,
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but supportive of the broader federal surge, framing the crackdown as a continuation of a
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years-long trend of falling crime in the district.
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Like what happened in most jurisdictions across the country post-COVID, we experienced a violent crime
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spike in 2023. When I was last here, I explained how we would drive down those trends, and it is
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working. Today, compared to 2023, burglaries are down 34 percent, theft, motor vehicle theft 37 percent,
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homicide down 44 percent, robberies down 60 percent, and carjackings are down 71 percent.
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Overall, violent crime is down 53 percent compared to 2023.
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Republican Congressman from Texas, Brandon Gill, always one to watch in these hearings,
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zooming out on the overall trend in D.C. crime.
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Okay. And during that time, would you describe D.C. as a safe city?
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Listen, Mr. Gill, just, and it was brought up earlier by the congresswoman from Detroit.
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The murder rate in Washington, D.C. is the fourth highest of any city in the country.
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What was the homicide rate in 2014 before you were elected?
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It's gone up by about 70 percent from 2014 to 2024.
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Those are from the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Do you know how carjackings have trended during your time in office?
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I don't think any person would call that a safe city.
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Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less safe?
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You may not have defunded the police, and that's a good thing, but you did provide a $125,000
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grant to an organization lobbying to defund the police.
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The five-hour hearing coming as Congress considers more than a dozen new bills focused on hardening
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The Washington Post reporting teens account for half of all robbery arrests.
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About 60 percent of all carjacking arrests from January to April of this year committed
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In D.C., the Youth Rehabilitation Act allows criminal defendants under the age of 25—25!—to
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petition the court to be prosecuted as a juvenile.
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The House passing two D.C. crime-related bills earlier this week.
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One, restricting the discretion judges have for sentencing offenders younger than 24, trying
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Thirty Democrats joining with Republicans to pass it, 240 to 179.
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The second bill passing with support from eight Democrats, 225 to 203, lowering the age in D.C.
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which a juvenile can be tried as an adult for certain violent crimes from 16 to 14.
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Throughout the hearing, Democrats casting crime-fighting efforts as exercises in fascism and racism.
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One fiery moment between Democrat Congresswoman from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, and GOP Congressman
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And I think it's really important we need to stand up against this.
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And here in D.C. and across the country, it is so incredibly important, Mr. Chair,
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that this committee does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington D.C. in a way
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And you're not telling people the beautiful parts that you do see in our nation's capital.
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And no, no, no, it's just wrong how we're doing it.
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Chairman, I think it's insane that the general lady doesn't have an argument, but she's going
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to refer to me and some of my colleagues like we were from the Third Reich.
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You're going to look at 14, 15-year-olds as a bunch of criminals?
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The two bills passed in the House, now heading to the Senate where they require 60 votes,
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meaning it will require Democrat buy-in to send them to the president.
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Coming up, President Trump weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension as the left cries fascism
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and an update on the Virginia boys who were suspended for questioning why a girl
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was allowed in the boys' locker room as they were changing.
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President Trump holding a joint presser with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday, covering
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Mr. Trump offering his thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension beyond his celebratory
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Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else.
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And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.
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And they should have fired him a long time ago.
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So, you know, you can call that free speech or not.
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Many on the left and in the media decrying ABC's decision to pull the show in the wake
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of Kimmel's vile, heartless, and completely untrue comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Critics accusing ABC of buckling to an authoritarian government, suggesting this is a First Amendment
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The government interfering in what can and cannot be said on the airwaves.
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Except it isn't a First Amendment violation because the government didn't take any action
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And what it did do, the FCC chair told ABC affiliates to step up when it comes to decisions
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about whether to carry ABC's national programming is perfectly legal.
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Nextar, Sinclair, huge station group owners, came out publicly and told ABC we don't want
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Critics say Nextar has a merger it needs approved by the FCC, so they were over a barrel.
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Sinclair didn't, and it took the very same position.
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Over at ABC Corporate, things were going from bad to worse.
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CNN reporting the Disney bosses had told Kimmel he needed to go on the air and apologize.
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After all, he had told a vile lie about MAGA at a time when the party was in mourning and
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when its top advocates were in fear for their safety.
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Jimmy wanted to go on his show last night, and in his monologue, I hear that he wanted to
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address the backlash from the right regarding his commentary about Charlie Kirk's charged
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killer, and I hear that that monologue was very hot.
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It very much took aim at MAGA, and that is when the executives said, we can't have him
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All this from a guy hosting a show with ratings in the TV toilet.
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In 2015, Kimmel's show averaging 2.4 million viewers a night.
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In the Advertiser Key demo of 25 to 54-year-olds, Kimmel in 15, pulling a cool mill.
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ABC reaches into virtually every single household in America.
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For comparison, Gutfeld on Fox News, only available to homes who pay for it, pulls in an average
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of 3.2 million viewers in the overall, with 381,000 in the Key demo.
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President Trump in the UK also breaking some news about the Middle East.
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We're going to leave Afghanistan, but we're going to leave it with strength and dignity.
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We're going to keep Bagram, the big airbase, one of the biggest airbases in the world.
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We're trying to get it back because they need things from us.
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But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it's an hour away from where
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The Biden administration's abandonment of Bagram Air Base, seen by many as one of the most
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reckless and disgraceful decisions of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
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President Trump slamming the decision many times before, both as a symbolic loss and in
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The state of the negotiations to take back Bagram is unclear.
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One reporter pressing Prime Minister Starmer about the state of free speech in his country.
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We still have 12,000 people a year here being arrested for social media posts, for free
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Does that not remain an important area that there is still a lot of disagreement on?
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That has long lived in this country, free speech.
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It's one of the founding values of the United Kingdom, and we protect it jealously and fiercely
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And we will bear down on any limits on free speech.
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I draw a limit between free speech and the speech of those that want to peddle pedophilia
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The UK has been increasingly cracking down on speech it finds problematic, arresting people
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for silently praying near an abortion clinic, for saying they intend to behave in a civilly
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And then there's Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan.
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He was arrested in early September upon arrival at Heathrow Airport in London over a few ex-posts
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deemed to be inciting violence for stating the truth about biological sex.
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An update on the two high school boys who were suspended in Loudoun County, Virginia,
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for questioning why a girl pretending to be a boy was allowed to use their locker room.
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The boys captured on video back in May in a secret recording taken by the so-called transgender
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student, a girl pretending to be a boy, inside the boys' locker room.
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The female student turns on her camera and walks into the boys' locker room at Stonebridge
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Most of the video is dark, but you can hear locker room sounds and boys' voices.
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This is the moment some of the boys in the locker room realize the female student is there.
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That's when the female student appears to take the phone out of her pocket and aims the
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By the way, there is no indication that the female student faced any disciplinary action,
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despite violating rules about recording in the locker room.
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The school board then launching a Title IX investigation, finding the two boys committed
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sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination against the female.
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The board slapping each boy with a 10-day suspension and a no-contact order with the female
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student, going so far as to bar them from sharing any classes with this girl.
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The founding Freedom Law Center immediately filing an appeal with the school board.
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The suspension paused as that process played out.
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Last week, Loudoun County Public Schools issuing a final denial of their appeal.
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The school informing the boys the suspensions would stand.
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America First Legal stepping in on Monday to join founding Freedom Law, filing a case in
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federal court on behalf of both boys, arguing their rights under the U.S. Constitution, the
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Virginia Constitution, Title IX, and the Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act have been
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violated. A federal judge granting the motion to pause the suspension yet again.
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The lawsuit demanding the Title IX violations against the boys be dropped, the suspensions
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terminated, as well as, quote, monetary and compensatory damages, including punitive damages,
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