The Megyn Kelly Show - September 19, 2025


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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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, September 19th, 2025, and this
00:00:07.980 is your AM update. Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less
00:00:12.560 safe? D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser grilled on Capitol Hill about crime in her city. Well,
00:00:18.080 Jimmy Kimmel was sorry because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And President Trump
00:00:22.080 weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension and other topics at a joint press conference in
00:00:27.700 the U.K. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
00:00:35.340 As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in
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00:01:15.720 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials grilled by the House Oversight Committee yesterday
00:01:24.100 in a tense hearing. President Trump's 30-day federal takeover of D.C. police expiring last week,
00:01:30.740 though multiple federal agencies and the National Guard continuing the surge,
00:01:35.000 cracking down on crime in the nation's capital. Oversight Chairman James Comer kicking off the
00:01:39.960 hearing with the results so far. Since President Trump mobilized the National Guard and took control
00:01:45.020 of the Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has decreased 39 percent, robberies are down 57
00:01:51.160 percent, and carjackings are down 75 percent. Over 2,300 people have been arrested. Nearly 950
00:01:59.260 illegal aliens have been detained by ICE, including 20 gang members from violent terrorist organizations.
00:02:04.700 Sex offenders have been taken off the streets. Major drug trafficking operations have been foiled.
00:02:11.860 Authorities thwarted a planned school shooting, cleared 50 illegal tent encampments, and rescued
00:02:17.520 seven missing children. Mayor Bowser is still critical of the National Guard presence in D.C.,
00:02:23.440 but supportive of the broader federal surge, framing the crackdown as a continuation of a
00:02:29.220 years-long trend of falling crime in the district.
00:02:32.600 Like what happened in most jurisdictions across the country post-COVID, we experienced a violent crime
00:02:40.700 spike in 2023. When I was last here, I explained how we would drive down those trends, and it is
00:02:49.440 working. Today, compared to 2023, burglaries are down 34 percent, theft, motor vehicle theft 37 percent,
00:02:58.200 homicide down 44 percent, robberies down 60 percent, and carjackings are down 71 percent.
00:03:06.360 Overall, violent crime is down 53 percent compared to 2023.
00:03:12.260 Republican Congressman from Texas, Brandon Gill, always one to watch in these hearings,
00:03:17.380 zooming out on the overall trend in D.C. crime.
00:03:20.600 You've been mayor for about 10 years, right?
00:03:22.860 Yes.
00:03:23.360 Okay. And during that time, would you describe D.C. as a safe city?
00:03:27.860 Yes.
00:03:28.700 You would?
00:03:29.580 Listen, Mr. Gill, just, and it was brought up earlier by the congresswoman from Detroit.
00:03:34.680 The murder rate in Washington, D.C. is the fourth highest of any city in the country.
00:03:39.300 I have heard.
00:03:39.360 Would you describe that as a safe city?
00:03:40.560 I have heard.
00:03:40.880 What was the homicide rate in 2014 before you were elected?
00:03:45.100 I don't know.
00:03:45.740 It's gone up by about 70 percent from 2014 to 2024.
00:03:48.940 I don't think that's correct.
00:03:49.520 Those are from the Metropolitan Police Department.
00:03:52.260 Do you know how carjackings have trended during your time in office?
00:03:55.820 I know that they have gone down.
00:03:57.720 They're up over 500 percent from 2014 to 2024.
00:04:01.560 That's not a safe city.
00:04:02.660 I don't think any person would call that a safe city.
00:04:05.140 Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less safe?
00:04:08.660 I've never defunded the police, nor would I.
00:04:11.080 You may not have defunded the police, and that's a good thing, but you did provide a $125,000
00:04:16.640 grant to an organization lobbying to defund the police.
00:04:20.960 He's a star.
00:04:23.000 Brandon Gill is a star.
00:04:25.140 The five-hour hearing coming as Congress considers more than a dozen new bills focused on hardening
00:04:31.120 D.C.'s crime laws.
00:04:32.780 Juvenile crime in D.C. is rampant.
00:04:35.320 The Washington Post reporting teens account for half of all robbery arrests.
00:04:39.460 About 60 percent of all carjacking arrests from January to April of this year committed
00:04:45.060 by juveniles.
00:04:46.600 In D.C., the Youth Rehabilitation Act allows criminal defendants under the age of 25—25!—to
00:04:53.720 petition the court to be prosecuted as a juvenile.
00:04:56.960 The House passing two D.C. crime-related bills earlier this week.
00:05:00.640 One, restricting the discretion judges have for sentencing offenders younger than 24, trying
00:05:06.480 to put a stop to slap-on-the-wrist sentences.
00:05:09.300 Thirty Democrats joining with Republicans to pass it, 240 to 179.
00:05:14.340 The second bill passing with support from eight Democrats, 225 to 203, lowering the age in D.C.
00:05:20.680 which a juvenile can be tried as an adult for certain violent crimes from 16 to 14.
00:05:27.680 Throughout the hearing, Democrats casting crime-fighting efforts as exercises in fascism and racism.
00:05:33.720 One fiery moment between Democrat Congresswoman from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, and GOP Congressman
00:05:39.440 Byron Donalds of Florida.
00:05:41.180 And I think it's really important we need to stand up against this.
00:05:45.100 Fascist takeover, that's not a bad word. 1.00
00:05:47.480 It's a fact.
00:05:48.900 And here in D.C. and across the country, it is so incredibly important, Mr. Chair,
00:05:54.020 that this committee does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington D.C. in a way
00:06:02.580 that you all haven't really truly seen.
00:06:05.180 You're just reading it, but you all live here.
00:06:07.620 And you're not telling people the beautiful parts that you do see in our nation's capital.
00:06:12.840 And no, no, no, it's just wrong how we're doing it.
00:06:14.780 Chairman, I think it's insane that the general lady doesn't have an argument, but she's going 1.00
00:06:18.600 to refer to me and some of my colleagues like we were from the Third Reich.
00:06:22.520 This is insane.
00:06:23.100 You're going to look at 14, 15-year-olds as a bunch of criminals?
00:06:26.220 The two bills passed in the House, now heading to the Senate where they require 60 votes,
00:06:30.400 meaning it will require Democrat buy-in to send them to the president.
00:06:34.080 Coming up, President Trump weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension as the left cries fascism
00:06:41.440 and an update on the Virginia boys who were suspended for questioning why a girl
00:06:46.600 was allowed in the boys' locker room as they were changing.
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00:08:03.520 President Trump holding a joint presser with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday, covering
00:08:11.860 a range of topics.
00:08:13.380 Mr. Trump offering his thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension beyond his celebratory
00:08:18.780 Truth Social post.
00:08:20.120 Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else.
00:08:23.940 And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.
00:08:27.620 And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person.
00:08:30.760 He had very bad ratings.
00:08:31.820 And they should have fired him a long time ago.
00:08:33.680 So, you know, you can call that free speech or not.
00:08:36.540 He was fired for lack of talent.
00:08:38.160 Many on the left and in the media decrying ABC's decision to pull the show in the wake
00:08:43.180 of Kimmel's vile, heartless, and completely untrue comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:08:49.740 Critics accusing ABC of buckling to an authoritarian government, suggesting this is a First Amendment
00:08:55.580 violation.
00:08:56.740 The government interfering in what can and cannot be said on the airwaves.
00:09:00.480 Except it isn't a First Amendment violation because the government didn't take any action
00:09:06.040 limiting speech here.
00:09:07.540 And what it did do, the FCC chair told ABC affiliates to step up when it comes to decisions
00:09:13.280 about whether to carry ABC's national programming is perfectly legal.
00:09:18.060 Nextar, Sinclair, huge station group owners, came out publicly and told ABC we don't want
00:09:23.640 Jimmy Kimmel anymore.
00:09:25.280 Critics say Nextar has a merger it needs approved by the FCC, so they were over a barrel.
00:09:30.740 Sinclair didn't, and it took the very same position.
00:09:33.920 Over at ABC Corporate, things were going from bad to worse.
00:09:37.560 CNN reporting the Disney bosses had told Kimmel he needed to go on the air and apologize.
00:09:43.080 After all, he had told a vile lie about MAGA at a time when the party was in mourning and
00:09:48.060 when its top advocates were in fear for their safety.
00:09:51.420 How did the late night host react?
00:09:53.540 CNN has the report.
00:09:55.280 Jimmy wanted to go on his show last night, and in his monologue, I hear that he wanted to
00:09:59.840 address the backlash from the right regarding his commentary about Charlie Kirk's charged
00:10:06.740 killer, and I hear that that monologue was very hot.
00:10:10.760 It very much took aim at MAGA, and that is when the executives said, we can't have him
00:10:16.240 go on the air tonight.
00:10:17.780 He was going to attack MAGA.
00:10:20.360 Can you imagine the ABC phone lines?
00:10:22.500 All this from a guy hosting a show with ratings in the TV toilet.
00:10:27.700 In 2015, Kimmel's show averaging 2.4 million viewers a night.
00:10:32.580 By 2025, it was down to 1.6 million.
00:10:36.600 In the Advertiser Key demo of 25 to 54-year-olds, Kimmel in 15, pulling a cool mill.
00:10:43.340 This year, down to 261,000.
00:10:47.780 Yikes.
00:10:48.660 That's down over 75%.
00:10:51.240 Not exactly a winning formula.
00:10:53.940 And this, on a broadcast network.
00:10:56.200 ABC reaches into virtually every single household in America.
00:11:00.020 It's free.
00:11:01.440 For comparison, Gutfeld on Fox News, only available to homes who pay for it, pulls in an average
00:11:06.940 of 3.2 million viewers in the overall, with 381,000 in the Key demo.
00:11:13.220 President Trump in the UK also breaking some news about the Middle East.
00:11:18.740 We're going to leave Afghanistan, but we're going to leave it with strength and dignity. 0.99
00:11:23.160 We're going to keep Bagram, the big airbase, one of the biggest airbases in the world.
00:11:27.240 We gave it to him for nothing.
00:11:29.300 We're trying to get it back, by the way.
00:11:31.340 Okay, that could be a little breaking news.
00:11:33.000 We're trying to get it back because they need things from us.
00:11:35.980 We want that base back.
00:11:37.180 But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it's an hour away from where
00:11:41.640 China makes its nuclear weapons.
00:11:43.760 So a lot of things are happening.
00:11:46.100 The Biden administration's abandonment of Bagram Air Base, seen by many as one of the most
00:11:50.660 reckless and disgraceful decisions of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:11:55.420 President Trump slamming the decision many times before, both as a symbolic loss and in
00:12:00.540 terms of Bagram's strategic importance.
00:12:02.940 The state of the negotiations to take back Bagram is unclear.
00:12:07.680 One reporter pressing Prime Minister Starmer about the state of free speech in his country.
00:12:12.420 We still have 12,000 people a year here being arrested for social media posts, for free
00:12:18.420 speech violations.
00:12:20.100 Does that not remain an important area that there is still a lot of disagreement on?
00:12:24.820 That has long lived in this country, free speech.
00:12:28.180 It's one of the founding values of the United Kingdom, and we protect it jealously and fiercely
00:12:36.300 and always will.
00:12:38.380 And we will bear down on any limits on free speech.
00:12:42.440 I draw a limit between free speech and the speech of those that want to peddle pedophilia
00:12:50.100 and suicide social media to children.
00:12:55.020 Virtually none of that appears to be true.
00:12:56.840 The UK has been increasingly cracking down on speech it finds problematic, arresting people
00:13:02.740 for silently praying near an abortion clinic, for saying they intend to behave in a civilly
00:13:08.520 disobedient manner.
00:13:10.220 And then there's Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan.
00:13:13.620 He was arrested in early September upon arrival at Heathrow Airport in London over a few ex-posts
00:13:19.580 deemed to be inciting violence for stating the truth about biological sex.
00:13:24.480 An update on the two high school boys who were suspended in Loudoun County, Virginia,
00:13:30.800 for questioning why a girl pretending to be a boy was allowed to use their locker room.
00:13:36.320 The boys captured on video back in May in a secret recording taken by the so-called transgender 1.00
00:13:42.140 student, a girl pretending to be a boy, inside the boys' locker room. 0.98
00:13:46.460 That video obtained by ABC 7 News.
00:13:50.140 The female student turns on her camera and walks into the boys' locker room at Stonebridge 0.98
00:13:54.620 High School.
00:13:55.540 Most of the video is dark, but you can hear locker room sounds and boys' voices.
00:14:00.420 Is that all in here?
00:14:03.020 Is that all in here?
00:14:04.360 This is the moment some of the boys in the locker room realize the female student is there.
00:14:09.680 30 seconds later, you hear this.
00:14:11.860 Why is there a girl? 1.00
00:14:14.200 I'm so uncomfortable with a girl. 1.00
00:14:16.500 Come on.
00:14:17.040 Female, bro. 1.00
00:14:17.940 Get out of here.
00:14:18.700 That's when the female student appears to take the phone out of her pocket and aims the 1.00
00:14:23.160 camera at the boys in the locker room.
00:14:26.060 By the way, there is no indication that the female student faced any disciplinary action,
00:14:31.040 despite violating rules about recording in the locker room.
00:14:33.860 The school board then launching a Title IX investigation, finding the two boys committed
00:14:38.700 sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination against the female.
00:14:43.540 The board slapping each boy with a 10-day suspension and a no-contact order with the female
00:14:48.400 student, going so far as to bar them from sharing any classes with this girl.
00:14:53.260 The founding Freedom Law Center immediately filing an appeal with the school board.
00:14:57.320 The suspension paused as that process played out.
00:14:59.640 Last week, Loudoun County Public Schools issuing a final denial of their appeal.
00:15:05.400 The school informing the boys the suspensions would stand.
00:15:08.720 The case, however, is not over.
00:15:11.160 America First Legal stepping in on Monday to join founding Freedom Law, filing a case in
00:15:16.140 federal court on behalf of both boys, arguing their rights under the U.S. Constitution, the
00:15:21.320 Virginia Constitution, Title IX, and the Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act have been
00:15:26.800 violated. A federal judge granting the motion to pause the suspension yet again.
00:15:32.480 The lawsuit demanding the Title IX violations against the boys be dropped, the suspensions
00:15:37.100 terminated, as well as, quote, monetary and compensatory damages, including punitive damages,
00:15:43.440 to the extent permissible by law.
00:15:45.500 The next hearing is set for today.
00:15:47.400 And that'll do it for your AM update.
00:15:51.680 I'm Megan Kelly.
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