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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Three killed in a shooting at San Diego's largest mosque in an attack authorities are investigating as a hate crime. A big ruling in the Luigi Mangione case as the judge decides on whether prosecutors will be allowed to introduce key evidence in the upcoming trial. The court clerk accused of tainting the jury in the Murdoch murder trial now being sued by Murdoch himself. And the Pacific Ocean may be heating up with a possible Super El Nino now on the radar. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, and this is your AM
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
00:01:15.780 now being sued by Murdoch himself.
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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
00:11:22.160 clerk accused of tainting the jury that convicted him of murdering his wife and son, and a possible
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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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