The Megyn Kelly Show - May 19, 2026


Deadly Mosque Shooting, Judge Rules on Mangione Notebook, Murdaugh Sues Court Clerk： AM Update 5⧸19


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00:00:38.400 Update. Officers arrived on scene and observed immediately three deceased, what appeared to be
00:00:46.140 deceased, victims out in front. Three killed in a shooting at San Diego's largest mosque in an
00:00:52.620 attack authorities are investigating as a hate crime. I find that the search of the backpack
00:00:57.680 at the McDonald's was improper, warrantless search.
00:01:02.560 A big ruling in the Luigi Mangione case
00:01:04.960 as the judge decides on whether prosecutors
00:01:07.200 will be allowed to introduce key evidence
00:01:09.820 in the upcoming trial.
00:01:11.500 The court clerk accused of tainting the jury
00:01:13.720 in the Alec Murdoch murder trial
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00:02:35.380 Three people, including a security guard, killed yesterday in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the city's largest mosque.
00:02:44.280 That's in addition to the two deceased shooters.
00:02:46.960 San Diego Police Chief Scott Wall saying the first active shooter call came in at 1143 a.m.
00:02:53.800 on Monday, with officers arriving on scene within four minutes.
00:02:57.960 Chief Wall walking reporters through what happened next.
00:03:01.160 Officers arrived on scene and observed immediately three deceased, what appeared to be deceased,
00:03:08.940 victims out in front.
00:03:10.260 They immediately began to deploy with an active shooter response into the mosque
00:03:15.860 and adjacent school. At about the same time we began to receive calls from just a couple blocks
00:03:22.800 away that we had more active gunfire. Officers were also responding to that call for service
00:03:30.120 at the same time. There was a landscaper that was doing his work that was shot at and fortunately
00:03:36.820 was not hit. Moments later officers were called to that location where they found a vehicle in
00:03:43.020 the middle of the street with who we believe to be the shooters in this incident, both deceased.
00:03:48.980 Authorities say the identities of the victims will be released after family members are notified.
00:03:53.940 Chief Wall crediting the deceased security guard with playing, quote, a pivotal role in assisting
00:03:58.940 from this being much worse, calling his actions, quote, heroic. No children in the adjacent school
00:04:05.520 were harmed. NBC citing two law enforcement officials reporting the names of the suspects
00:04:11.380 as 17-year-old Kane Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vasquez. Authorities say they died by suicide,
00:04:19.460 self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Police say they were first called two hours before the active
00:04:25.280 shooter notification by the mother of one of the suspects, who, according to NBC, said her son had
00:04:31.180 gone missing along with her firearms and her car, telling police her son was suicidal and probably
00:04:37.600 in the company of a friend, saying both young men were wearing fatigues. As soon as the call
00:04:43.200 came in about the mosque shooting, police immediately dispatching themselves there,
00:04:47.800 according to Chief Wall. The FBI is assisting in the investigation, Chief Wall saying it's
00:04:53.560 being investigated as a hate crime, quote, until it's not. CNN reporting unspecified hate speech
00:05:00.460 was scrawled on one of the weapons recovered by law enforcement. The suspect who reportedly took
00:05:05.740 the firearm from his mother's home, leaving behind a suicide note containing, quote,
00:05:10.640 writings about racial pride. Asked about what the hate speech included, Chief Wall responding.
00:05:16.640 There was no specific threat, especially no specific threat to the Islamic Center.
00:05:22.080 It was just general hate kind of speech that I think covered a wide gamut. I don't want to go
00:05:26.620 into any of the specifics at this point. Again, we are still actively investigating this as we speak,
00:05:33.040 but it was more generalized.
00:05:35.740 A split ruling yesterday in the Luigi Mangione murder case with a New York State Supreme Court
00:05:41.180 judge suppressing some of the evidence from the initial police search, but allowing prosecutors
00:05:46.140 to use two key items found in a subsequent search at the station, the alleged murder weapon
00:05:51.820 and Mangione's notebook. 28-year-old Mangione is accused of assassinating United Healthcare CEO
00:05:58.560 Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel on December 4, 2024. The brutal slaying captured
00:06:05.280 on surveillance video showing the suspect approaching Thompson, a husband and father
00:06:10.120 of two, from behind and opening fire at close range before fleeing, igniting a five-day manhunt
00:06:16.740 culminating about 230 miles from Manhattan at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
00:06:23.180 Police finding Mangione seated at a table eating breakfast, his laptop on the table in front of him
00:06:28.840 and his backpack at his feet. After asking him to lower his mask, one officer recognizing him
00:06:34.460 as the man wanted in the New York shooting. Mangione handing officers a fake New Jersey
00:06:39.960 driver's license before eventually admitting his real name. As more officers arrived,
00:06:45.500 police moving the backpack and laptop away from Mangione and onto a separate table. Mangione
00:06:51.320 then handcuffed and placed under arrest. Officers searching his pockets and clothing first before
00:06:57.560 turning to the backpack, where they began pulling out items including a red notebook,
00:07:02.400 cell phone, passport, wallet, computer chip, and loaded magazine. Police then stopping that search
00:07:09.440 before fully going through the bag, taking the backpack back to the station where officers
00:07:14.060 later found the alleged murder weapon, the silencer, and where they actually reviewed
00:07:19.480 the red notebook during an inventory search. Those events setting up the core fight at a
00:07:24.800 nine-day evidence hearing in December 2025. Prosecutors contending all of the items found
00:07:30.500 in the backpack should be allowed at trial, including the gun, silencer, ammunition,
00:07:36.120 notebook, and handwritten notes. The defense arguing police searched the backpack multiple
00:07:41.220 times before getting a warrant, making the evidence illegally obtained. Mangione's lawyers
00:07:46.640 also asking the court to suppress statements he made to police, maintaining that officers
00:07:51.300 questioned him before reading him his Miranda rights, then kept questioning him after he
00:07:56.280 indicated he wanted to remain silent. Judge Gregory Caro ultimately suppressing most items
00:08:03.040 pulled from the backpack during the warrantless search inside the McDonald's, including the cell
00:08:07.980 phone, passport, wallet, computer chip, and loaded magazine. But the judge allowing prosecutors to
00:08:14.500 use the evidence found later at the station during the inventory search, including the gun,
00:08:19.960 silencer, and USB drive, along with Mangione's red notebook, because officers the court found
00:08:27.100 did not open or search the notebook during the McDonald's search, but only reviewed it later
00:08:32.580 during the station inventory. Judge Carroll yesterday explaining why the first search
00:08:37.320 did not pass muster, but the second one did. I find that the search of the backpack
00:08:42.320 at the McDonald's was improper, warrantless search, that the backpack was not within the
00:08:49.240 control or grabbable area of the defendant and further the people fail to
00:08:55.000 demonstrate exigent circumstances. Therefore, those items found in the
00:09:00.280 backpack during the search at the McDonald's will be suppressed. However,
00:09:04.800 the people have established that the subsequent search of the backpack at the
00:09:10.240 station was a valid inventory search and therefore the items recovered at the
00:09:16.160 station will not be suppressed. The surviving evidence leaves prosecutors their two most
00:09:21.440 important pieces to proving their case, a gun they say is connected with shell casings recovered
00:09:26.580 from the murder scene, and a notebook they describe as a manifesto. In one entry dated
00:09:32.280 August 15, 2024, Mangione allegedly writing, quote, I finally feel confident about what I will
00:09:38.640 do. The details are coming together, and I don't feel any doubt about whether it's right
00:09:43.480 slash justified. The entry continuing, quote, I'm glad in a way that I've procrastinated
00:09:49.500 because it allowed me to learn more about UnitedHealthcare. Judge Carroll also suppressing
00:09:54.800 some of Mangione's statements to police, including answers he gave while officers were pressing him
00:09:59.980 about the fake ID before Miranda warnings were properly given and after he indicated he wanted
00:10:05.760 to remain silent. But the judge allowing basic identifying statements to be used, including
00:10:11.060 Mangione's name, date of birth, and middle initial. ABC News legal analyst Brian Buckmeyer
00:10:16.820 on how yesterday's ruling could impact the jury selection process. People are clearly watching ABC
00:10:22.040 and other networks and watching this. When jury selection happens and they ask the question of,
00:10:26.980 well, did you hear about the magazine or the passport or other things that might have been
00:10:30.160 evidence of flight or criminality? And they say, yeah, I heard about that. Well, did that impact
00:10:34.960 your way you're going to decide this case? Yeah, it kind of does. Those people are off the case
00:10:38.660 now. There won't be in the jury. We're going to find a much more narrow jury who hasn't heard a
00:10:42.680 lot of the evidence so far, and it's going to come down to people who can either push all that aside
00:10:46.800 or have heard very little or nothing about this case. Mangione is facing nine state felony charges
00:10:52.360 in Manhattan, including second-degree murder and multiple weapons-related counts. If convicted on
00:10:57.880 the top state murder charge, he faces 25 years to life in prison. Jury selection is set to begin
00:11:03.900 September 8th in Manhattan Supreme Court, with the trial expected to last roughly six weeks.
00:11:09.620 Mangione is also facing a separate slate of federal charges, but that case is expected
00:11:14.540 to move forward only after the state trial wraps up. Coming up, Alec Murdaugh now suing the former
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00:12:53.560 slash MK. Alec Murdaugh now suing the former court clerk accused of interfering with the jury
00:13:01.380 that heard his murder case, behavior which got Murdaugh's murder convictions overturned last
00:13:06.920 week. Murdaugh filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against Rebecca Becky Hill, the woman
00:13:12.960 who oversaw the jury during the 2023 trial. Murdaugh convicted in March of 2023 of murdering
00:13:19.040 his wife, Maggie, and their son, Paul, sentenced to life in prison in a case that captivated the
00:13:24.340 nation and shattered one of South Carolina's most prominent legal families. Just months after the
00:13:30.120 convictions, Murdoch's attorneys moving for a new trial, claiming they had uncovered evidence of
00:13:35.260 jury tampering. A judge denying that request in January of 2024, but Murdoch's attorneys
00:13:41.200 immediately vowing to appeal. And last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously
00:13:46.340 overturning the murder convictions, finding Murdoch was denied his right to a fair trial
00:13:51.300 because of Hill's improper influence on the jury, ordering the entire murder case to be tried again.
00:13:58.240 The justices acknowledging the enormous time, money, and effort spent on the original trial,
00:14:03.340 but writing it had, quote, no choice but to send the case back for a new one.
00:14:07.380 The court writing that Hill, quote, placed her fingers on the scales of justice.
00:14:12.000 After finding she suggested to jurors that they should not trust Murdoch's testimony,
00:14:16.340 telling the jurors not to be, quote, fooled or confused by the defense and pressuring the jury
00:14:22.880 to, among other things, reach a quick verdict. Now Murdoch's attorneys using that ruling as
00:14:28.640 the foundation for a new civil lawsuit against Hill. Attorney Jim Griffin announcing the lawsuit
00:14:34.180 yesterday. Today in the United States District Court, Federal Court, the Charleston Division,
00:14:41.220 we filed a lawsuit on behalf of Richard Alexander Murdoch, Sr. v. Rebecca Hill.
00:14:48.580 In this lawsuit, we filed it under the Federal Civil Rights Statute,
00:14:55.260 42 United States Code, 1983, to redress constitutional deprivation of rights.
00:15:03.500 Those rights were Alex's right to a fair trial,
00:15:06.960 a right that him be tried before an untampered, untainted jury.
00:15:13.520 With the South Carolina Supreme Court's ruling,
00:15:16.580 it has been adjudged as a matter of state law
00:15:19.740 that she deprived Alec of his constitutional rights,
00:15:24.120 deprived him of a right to a fair trial,
00:15:26.620 and as a result, we've got to do it all over again,
00:15:29.780 which nobody wants to do.
00:15:31.960 Murdoch's attorneys pointing to what they say was Hill's motive,
00:15:34.760 alleging she used her access to the trial and the jurors as an opportunity for personal financial
00:15:40.920 gain. The judge, who initially heard evidence of alleged jury tampering, found that Hill was
00:15:46.180 attracted by the siren call of celebrity. After the verdict, Hill co-authoring a book about the
00:15:52.720 case titled, quote, Behind the Doors of Justice, The Murdaugh Murders. Her co-author later telling
00:15:58.240 NBC the book generated about $100,000 in profits, 65% of which went to Hill and her husband.
00:16:04.760 The lawsuit claiming Hill pushed jurors into a guilty verdict in an effort to juice book sales. 0.66
00:16:09.860 Quote, she wanted to write a book about the most high-profile trial in South Carolina history so she could buy a lake house.
00:16:16.760 More here from Murdoch's attorney, Jim Griffin.
00:16:19.740 The damages that we've alleged include the over $600,000 that was spent to try the first case and other compensatory damages.
00:16:29.520 Now, let me be clear.
00:16:31.680 Alec Murdoch owes a lot of people a lot of money.
00:16:34.760 None of this money that is recovered will go to him personally.
00:16:39.880 And the purpose of this lawsuit is to hold Becky Hill accountable for what she did.
00:16:47.600 She has not been held account at all for her conduct.
00:16:52.060 And two is to investigate exactly what she did, which we'll be able to do through the course of civil litigation.
00:17:00.980 We have subpoena power. We can take depositions.
00:17:03.580 and so we're going to be able to understand the entire scope of her conduct. She's yet to be
00:17:11.200 thoroughly investigated by the state, and she's not been held accountable by the state.
00:17:18.900 Hill denies improperly influencing the jury, though she resigned from her position in 2024
00:17:24.000 and in 2025 pleaded guilty in a separate criminal case tied to the Murdoch trial,
00:17:29.300 admitting she showed sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lied about it in court.
00:17:35.460 The judge sentenced her to one year of probation. As for Murdoch, the 57-year-old remains in prison
00:17:41.740 on separate financial crimes convictions, serving a 40-year federal sentence after pleading guilty
00:17:47.060 to stealing millions from clients, along with a concurrent 27-year state sentence for similar
00:17:52.820 financial crimes. Forecasters now increasingly confident El Nino is on the way. For those who
00:17:59.940 don't remember middle school earth science, here's the BBC with the basic idea. El Nino is a natural
00:18:05.820 climate pattern where the tropical Pacific Ocean warms up well above normal levels. Think of the
00:18:11.700 Pacific like a radiator. When it's turned on, the heat transfers into the atmosphere, boosting the
00:18:17.520 global average temperature. You might have also heard of La Nina, and that's the cooler than
00:18:22.500 average phase. We were just in that phase last winter, but now the tropical Pacific is warming
00:18:28.380 up very quickly. And the latest data suggests we're already close to or even past the threshold
00:18:34.260 for El Nina to begin. It can bring chaos to weather patterns all over the world,
00:18:38.680 and it's expected to keep building, peaking in strength later this year.
00:18:42.840 The Pacific warming fast enough that forecasters say it could develop into what some call a
00:18:48.080 Super El Nino. Though not an official term, Super El Nino generally refers to conditions
00:18:53.620 where key parts of the equatorial Pacific run at least 2 degrees Celsius above average.
00:18:59.780 The last El Nino beginning in 2023, lasting until 2024, and the last Super El Nino occurring
00:19:06.240 in 2015, extending through 2016. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA,
00:19:14.120 releasing a report late last week estimating an 82% chance El Nino develops between now and July
00:19:20.560 and a 96% chance of sticking around through the winter. Raleigh, North Carolina-based outlet WRAL
00:19:27.200 reporting this El Nino could be one of the strongest events observed in more than 140 years.
00:19:32.900 And while that sounds dramatic, the effects are not as simple as
00:19:36.340 bigger El Nino, bigger disaster, as every El Nino behaves differently.
00:19:41.660 So what does this mean for the world? More here from the BBC.
00:19:45.940 We do know it's likely to have more of an impact to those regions around the Pacific.
00:19:51.220 So flooding in northern Peru and southern Ecuador is common,
00:19:55.080 but also potentially in East Africa, Central Asia, and southern portions of North America.
00:20:00.080 At the same time, other regions get the opposite effects.
00:20:04.200 But here in the U.S., El Nino could lead to at least one upside, a less intense hurricane season.
00:20:11.100 WRAL reporting that during El Nino years, winds high above the Atlantic get stronger,
00:20:17.260 making it harder, though not impossible, for hurricanes to form.
00:20:21.360 As for American skiers, Powder.com predicts the southwest, southern Rockies, Gulf Coast,
00:20:28.460 and Southeast have better odds for cooler, wetter weather, while the Pacific Northwest
00:20:34.000 and parts of the Northern Tier, including the Northern Rockies, look drier and warmer,
00:20:40.140 which means skiing in California looks pretty good. In Montana, not so much.
00:20:48.120 That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show,
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