Deadly Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility, FBI Seized ＂Classified＂ Docs in Bolton Raid： AM Update 9⧸25
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A shooter opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one and injuring two others. Court documents reveal FBI agents recovered classified documents from former National Security Advisor John Bolton s office. It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to protect you and we didn t do it. And Ben Affleck s daughter scolds UN officials for demanding a return to COID masks mandates. All that and more coming up in a moment on Your AM Update with Mark Halperin ( )!
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Mark Halperin, host of NextUp, filling in today for Megyn Kelly.
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Great to be here. It's Thursday, September 25th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
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I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of
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targeted violence. A shooter opens fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one and injuring
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others. Court documents reveal FBI agents recovered classified documents from former
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National Security Advisor John Bolton's office, and Ukraine's President Zelensky reacting now to
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the apparent shift in President Trump's Russia messaging. It is neglect of the highest order to
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look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to protect you and we didn't do it. And Ben Affleck's
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daughter scolds UN officials demanding a return to COVID mask mandates. All that and more coming up
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A shooter opening fire on a Dallas, Texas ICE facility yesterday morning, killing one and
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injuring two before turning the gun on himself. Authorities confirming no law enforcement officers
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were injured in the attack. Instead, all three victims are ICE detainees, the two survivors now
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in critical condition. According to authorities, the attack occurring around 640 a.m. local time,
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a sniper positioned on a nearby rooftop began firing indiscriminately at the facility,
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including towards a van in a secured entryway. Fox News reporting the victims were inside the van
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when they were hit. Multiple news organizations identifying the shooter now as 29-year-old Joshua
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Yawn, his body found dead with a rifle nearby on a rooftop. Authorities recovering shell casings near
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his body, FBI Director Kash Patel releasing a photo showing one shell with the words,
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anti-ice, written on the side. Special agent in charge of the Dallas field office,
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John Rothrock, at a press conference Wednesday morning.
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I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of targeted
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violence. It is unfortunately just the most recent example we've seen of targeted violence.
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To include here in North Texas, where back on July 4th, we saw a coordinated attack carried out
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against an immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas.
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Special agent Rothrock referencing there a July 4th attack on an ICE facility.
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At least 10 people armed with tactical gear and weapons allegedly attacking the facility,
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shooting a local law enforcement officer in the process. That officer is expected to recover from
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the injury. Yesterday's shooting marking at least the fourth violent incident or threat
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against the Texas ICE or Customs and Border Patrol Protection Facility this year.
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As President Trump ramps up immigration enforcement efforts aiming to conduct the largest mass deportation
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effort in U.S. history, Democrats ramping up their rhetoric. Here, a sampling of some Democratic
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Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their
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identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is not the
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Soviet Union. We're not behind the Iron Curtain. When I see ICE, I see slave patrols. We will continue
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to call out the terrorist organization that is ICE. If everything is legitimate and proper,
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why are you wearing masks? This is not Germany. That's the SS and the Gestapo.
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They're acting more like vigilantes than of agents of our government. Homeland Security reporting a 1,000%
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increase in assaults against ICE agents, including doxing campaigns, compared to the same period in
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2024. In March, several ICE agents doxed in Southern California, leading to widespread use of
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masking by agents. Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signing into law the so-called
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No Secret Police Act, attempting to ban law enforcement officers from covering their faces.
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Governor Newsom Tuesday on Stephen Colbert's late-night show, saying left-wing rhetoric on
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Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight,
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zero accountability, happening in the United States of America today. People ask, well,
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is authoritarianism you're being hyperbolic? Bulls**t, we're being hyperbolic. If you're a black and
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brown community, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing
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the nation's first bill to address the issue of masking, also to require you have simple
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identification, to your point. I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask
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on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you're going to push back. And so these are not just
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authoritarian tendencies. These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.
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Vice President J.D. Vance at a Wednesday event in North Carolina, slamming Democrats
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in the wake of the shooting, calling out Governor Newsom directly and by name.
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It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement. Because here's what happens when
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Democrats, like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.
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When the left-wing media lies about what they're doing, when they lie about who they're arresting,
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when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing is encouraging
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crazy people to go and commit violence. You don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
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You don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policies. But if your political
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rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and
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you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.
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FBI investigators recovering documents with classified markings in last month's raid
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of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's D.C. office. That's according to newly
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released court filings. On that same day, a team also raiding Bolton's home, although it's unknown
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if any classified information was recovered from that location. According to the filings,
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the FBI sees documents referencing weapons of mass destruction, the United Nations,
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and strategic communications from Bolton's office. Several of the records marked as, quote,
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confidential or secret, secret information as described in the court filings, could reasonably
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be expected to cause serious damage to national security if it's disclosed without authorization.
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Politico reporting the confidential designation is used for routine diplomatic communications.
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Bolton's attorney, Abby Lowell, saying in a statement, quote,
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quote, these materials, many of which are documents that had been previously approved as part of a
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pre-publication review for Ambassador Bolton's book, were reviewed and closed years ago.
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Lowell, then going on to describe the records as ordinary, saying many are 20 years old or more
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and are the typical records of someone who's been in government over a 40-year career.
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It's unclear if the recovered documents have been previously declassified.
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This raid is the latest development in a years-long saga over potential wrongful handling of classified
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information related to Bolton. The Justice Department under Trump 1.0 unsuccessfully suing
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the former national security advisor to stop publication of his memoir, alleging it contained
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classified information. Now, many on the left calling the investigation into Bolton just one
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example of an authoritarian overreach, they say, by a president too happy to use the Department
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of Justice as his own personal police force. However, last month, the New York Times reporting,
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U.S. intelligence agencies under President Biden collected information appearing to show that
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Bolton sent emails with sensitive information to people close to him on an unclassified system.
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Information relating to that alleged attack is redacted in the newly released court filings.
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Bolton is being investigated under the Espionage Act. So far, no charges have been filed.
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Coming up, Vice President J.D. Vance weighs in on President Trump's apparent shift on his stance
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towards the Russia-Ukraine war, and Ben Affleck's daughter makes a massed appearance at the United
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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky saying he was surprised by President Trump's Tuesday
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True Social post with a drastic shift in messaging by the President on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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President Trump suggesting for the first time, Ukraine could actually win the war with the help
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of the EU and not have to give up any of the land Russia has taken in the process. Mr. Zelensky telling
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Fox News, he believes the sudden shift is a result of passing time, allowing more U.S.-Ukrainian
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communication, and allowing President Trump to learn Russian President Vladimir Putin's
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It's good that we have often phone calls and meetings. And I think the fact that Putin was
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lying to President Trump so many times also made a difference between us. We are ready to finish this
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war as quick as possible. But he understands that Putin doesn't want, and he understands that he is not
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winning, but he sails to everybody that he will win. And I was very positive signals from the side that Trump
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and America will be with us to the end of the war. President Trump tried not to close this diplomatic
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possibility of negotiations with Putin. Putin, as always, he just, I think, uses the situation,
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used, sorry, he just used the situation. He've got images with President Trump. He sold to his
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audience, Russian society. You see, I'm shakable with the United States.
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Just over a month ago, President Trump and President Putin meeting in Alaska to discuss bringing the nearly
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four-year war to an end. President Trump then announcing a desire for Putin and Zelensky
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to meet face-to-face as soon as possible. But no such meeting ever materialized. And in the weeks
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since, Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian populations have intensified. In addition,
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Russian fighter jets and drones recently entering the airspace of NATO countries, including Poland,
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Romania, and Estonia. President Trump on Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York acknowledging
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the difficulty in bringing the war to a diplomatic end.
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I've also been working relentlessly stopping the killing in Ukraine. I thought that would be of
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the seven wars that I stopped. I thought that would be the easiest because of my relationship
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with President Putin, which had always been a good one. I thought that was going to be the easiest
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one. But, you know, in war, you never know what's going to happen. There are always lots of surprises,
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And Vice President J.D. Vance in North Carolina on Wednesday casting the shift as an acknowledgement
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And one of the things I'll say about the president is that he is responsive to the reality on the
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ground. And I believe the president is growing incredibly impatient with the Russians right now
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because he doesn't feel like they're putting enough on the table to end the war. That's number
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one. Number two, the president has grown very confident that this war is bad for Russia. You hear me
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say this all the time. You hear the president say this all the time. The war is bad for Russia.
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It's bad for Ukraine. It's bad for America. He sees the economic numbers that are coming out
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of Eastern Europe. He sees the number of dead people, both Russians and Ukrainians, that are
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happening in that war. And the president is telling Vladimir Putin it is time to stop the killing.
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Look, if the Russians refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it's going to be very,
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very bad for their country. That's what the president made clear. It's not a shift in position.
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It's an acknowledgement of the reality on the ground. We're going to keep on fighting for peace
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every single day in the Trump administration. Here's something a little different. The daughter
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of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, 19-year-old Violet Affleck at the UN on Tuesday,
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begging world leaders to bring back mask mandates. Violet outfitted in a KN95 mask,
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obscuring most of her face, accusing policymakers of stealing away children's futures.
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But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our
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eyes. For adults, the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both
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the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID manifested in a series of
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choices. It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to
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protect you, and we didn't do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease,
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something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would
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kill for, and we refuse to use it. And I shudder to think of where we will be in another five years
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of unmitigated infection and reinfection. Violet pointing to her own mask as she referenced the
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available technology to fight airborne disease. While these remarks sound like something out of the
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2020 time capsule, they were indeed made just this week, two years and four months after President
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Biden's administration declared an end to the national COVID health emergency. This appearance
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reminiscent of the much-memed 2019 U.N. speech by Greta Thunberg when she dropped her famous
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how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I'm one of the
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lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the
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beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic
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growth. How dare you? Well, that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Mark Calperin, host of Next Up.
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Megan is back tomorrow, and you can catch The Megan Kelly Show today, live on SiriusXM, Triumph Channel 111,
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