The Megyn Kelly Show - Deadly Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility, FBI Seized ＂Classified＂ Docs in Bolton Raid： AM Update 9⧸25

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Mark Halperin, host of NextUp, filling in today for Megyn Kelly.

00:00:07.040 Great to be here. It's Thursday, September 25th, 2025, and this is your AM update.

00:00:13.340 I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of

00:00:17.480 targeted violence. A shooter opens fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one and injuring

00:00:22.620 others. Court documents reveal FBI agents recovered classified documents from former

00:00:27.360 National Security Advisor John Bolton's office, and Ukraine's President Zelensky reacting now to

00:00:33.220 the apparent shift in President Trump's Russia messaging. It is neglect of the highest order to

00:00:38.040 look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to protect you and we didn't do it. And Ben Affleck's

00:00:43.600 daughter scolds UN officials demanding a return to COVID mask mandates. All that and more coming up

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00:02:02.520 A shooter opening fire on a Dallas, Texas ICE facility yesterday morning, killing one and

00:02:10.440 injuring two before turning the gun on himself. Authorities confirming no law enforcement officers

00:02:16.320 were injured in the attack. Instead, all three victims are ICE detainees, the two survivors now

00:02:22.380 in critical condition. According to authorities, the attack occurring around 640 a.m. local time,

00:02:28.120 a sniper positioned on a nearby rooftop began firing indiscriminately at the facility,

00:02:34.240 including towards a van in a secured entryway. Fox News reporting the victims were inside the van

00:02:39.680 when they were hit. Multiple news organizations identifying the shooter now as 29-year-old Joshua

00:02:45.500 Yawn, his body found dead with a rifle nearby on a rooftop. Authorities recovering shell casings near

00:02:52.460 his body, FBI Director Kash Patel releasing a photo showing one shell with the words,

00:02:57.480 anti-ice, written on the side. Special agent in charge of the Dallas field office,

00:03:03.240 John Rothrock, at a press conference Wednesday morning.

00:03:06.380 I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of targeted

00:03:10.920 violence. It is unfortunately just the most recent example we've seen of targeted violence.

00:03:16.220 To include here in North Texas, where back on July 4th, we saw a coordinated attack carried out

00:03:21.940 against an immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas.

00:03:25.440 Special agent Rothrock referencing there a July 4th attack on an ICE facility.

00:03:31.140 At least 10 people armed with tactical gear and weapons allegedly attacking the facility,

00:03:36.500 shooting a local law enforcement officer in the process. That officer is expected to recover from

00:03:41.940 the injury. Yesterday's shooting marking at least the fourth violent incident or threat

00:03:47.100 against the Texas ICE or Customs and Border Patrol Protection Facility this year.

00:03:52.560 As President Trump ramps up immigration enforcement efforts aiming to conduct the largest mass deportation

00:03:58.960 effort in U.S. history, Democrats ramping up their rhetoric. Here, a sampling of some Democratic

00:04:05.640 talking points from recent months.

00:04:07.800 Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their

00:04:15.020 identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is not the

00:04:20.260 Soviet Union. We're not behind the Iron Curtain. When I see ICE, I see slave patrols. We will continue

00:04:25.860 to call out the terrorist organization that is ICE. If everything is legitimate and proper,

00:04:33.080 why are you wearing masks? This is not Germany. That's the SS and the Gestapo.

00:04:38.820 They're acting more like vigilantes than of agents of our government. Homeland Security reporting a 1,000%

00:04:47.260 increase in assaults against ICE agents, including doxing campaigns, compared to the same period in

00:04:53.320 2024. In March, several ICE agents doxed in Southern California, leading to widespread use of

00:04:59.860 masking by agents. Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signing into law the so-called

00:05:06.300 No Secret Police Act, attempting to ban law enforcement officers from covering their faces.

00:05:12.260 Governor Newsom Tuesday on Stephen Colbert's late-night show, saying left-wing rhetoric on

00:05:17.580 immigration enforcement is not hyperbolic.

00:05:20.440 Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight,

00:05:27.980 zero accountability, happening in the United States of America today. People ask, well,

00:05:31.860 is authoritarianism you're being hyperbolic? Bulls**t, we're being hyperbolic. If you're a black and 0.98

00:05:36.760 brown community, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing

00:05:44.720 the nation's first bill to address the issue of masking, also to require you have simple

00:05:50.500 identification, to your point. I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask

00:05:56.260 on, tried to grab me, I mean, by definition, you're going to push back. And so these are not just

00:06:02.780 authoritarian tendencies. These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.

00:06:07.580 Vice President J.D. Vance at a Wednesday event in North Carolina, slamming Democrats

00:06:12.340 in the wake of the shooting, calling out Governor Newsom directly and by name.

00:06:17.040 It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement. Because here's what happens when

00:06:23.280 Democrats, like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government.

00:06:29.400 When the left-wing media lies about what they're doing, when they lie about who they're arresting,

00:06:34.220 when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they're doing is encouraging 0.59

00:06:39.240 crazy people to go and commit violence. You don't have to agree with my immigration policies. 0.81

00:06:45.040 You don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policies. But if your political

00:06:49.480 rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and 0.97

00:06:55.220 you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.

00:06:59.660 FBI investigators recovering documents with classified markings in last month's raid

00:07:07.200 of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's D.C. office. That's according to newly

00:07:12.320 released court filings. On that same day, a team also raiding Bolton's home, although it's unknown

00:07:18.120 if any classified information was recovered from that location. According to the filings,

00:07:23.280 the FBI sees documents referencing weapons of mass destruction, the United Nations,

00:07:27.640 and strategic communications from Bolton's office. Several of the records marked as, quote,

00:07:33.280 confidential or secret, secret information as described in the court filings, could reasonably

00:07:38.580 be expected to cause serious damage to national security if it's disclosed without authorization.

00:07:45.440 Politico reporting the confidential designation is used for routine diplomatic communications.

00:07:51.860 Bolton's attorney, Abby Lowell, saying in a statement, quote,

00:07:54.600 quote, these materials, many of which are documents that had been previously approved as part of a

00:07:59.680 pre-publication review for Ambassador Bolton's book, were reviewed and closed years ago.

00:08:05.620 Lowell, then going on to describe the records as ordinary, saying many are 20 years old or more

00:08:11.640 and are the typical records of someone who's been in government over a 40-year career.

00:08:16.380 It's unclear if the recovered documents have been previously declassified.

00:08:20.020 This raid is the latest development in a years-long saga over potential wrongful handling of classified

00:08:26.320 information related to Bolton. The Justice Department under Trump 1.0 unsuccessfully suing

00:08:32.860 the former national security advisor to stop publication of his memoir, alleging it contained

00:08:38.160 classified information. Now, many on the left calling the investigation into Bolton just one

00:08:43.120 example of an authoritarian overreach, they say, by a president too happy to use the Department

00:08:49.000 of Justice as his own personal police force. However, last month, the New York Times reporting,

00:08:54.700 U.S. intelligence agencies under President Biden collected information appearing to show that

00:08:59.680 Bolton sent emails with sensitive information to people close to him on an unclassified system.

00:09:07.040 Information relating to that alleged attack is redacted in the newly released court filings.

00:09:12.060 Bolton is being investigated under the Espionage Act. So far, no charges have been filed.

00:09:19.160 Coming up, Vice President J.D. Vance weighs in on President Trump's apparent shift on his stance

00:09:24.620 towards the Russia-Ukraine war, and Ben Affleck's daughter makes a massed appearance at the United

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00:10:52.860 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky saying he was surprised by President Trump's Tuesday

00:10:57.480 True Social post with a drastic shift in messaging by the President on the Russia-Ukraine war.

00:11:03.960 President Trump suggesting for the first time, Ukraine could actually win the war with the help

00:11:07.980 of the EU and not have to give up any of the land Russia has taken in the process. Mr. Zelensky telling

00:11:14.300 Fox News, he believes the sudden shift is a result of passing time, allowing more U.S.-Ukrainian 0.68

00:11:20.020 communication, and allowing President Trump to learn Russian President Vladimir Putin's

00:11:25.180 true intentions.

00:11:26.180 It's good that we have often phone calls and meetings. And I think the fact that Putin was 0.78

00:11:34.640 lying to President Trump so many times also made a difference between us. We are ready to finish this

00:11:41.880 war as quick as possible. But he understands that Putin doesn't want, and he understands that he is not

00:11:49.020 winning, but he sails to everybody that he will win. And I was very positive signals from the side that Trump

00:11:58.620 and America will be with us to the end of the war. President Trump tried not to close this diplomatic

00:12:07.240 possibility of negotiations with Putin. Putin, as always, he just, I think, uses the situation,

00:12:15.420 used, sorry, he just used the situation. He've got images with President Trump. He sold to his

00:12:24.020 audience, Russian society. You see, I'm shakable with the United States.

00:12:30.460 Just over a month ago, President Trump and President Putin meeting in Alaska to discuss bringing the nearly

00:12:35.480 four-year war to an end. President Trump then announcing a desire for Putin and Zelensky

00:12:40.700 to meet face-to-face as soon as possible. But no such meeting ever materialized. And in the weeks

00:12:46.180 since, Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian populations have intensified. In addition,

00:12:52.220 Russian fighter jets and drones recently entering the airspace of NATO countries, including Poland,

00:12:57.700 Romania, and Estonia. President Trump on Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York acknowledging

00:13:03.040 the difficulty in bringing the war to a diplomatic end.

00:13:06.880 I've also been working relentlessly stopping the killing in Ukraine. I thought that would be of 1.00

00:13:14.200 the seven wars that I stopped. I thought that would be the easiest because of my relationship

00:13:19.880 with President Putin, which had always been a good one. I thought that was going to be the easiest

00:13:24.940 one. But, you know, in war, you never know what's going to happen. There are always lots of surprises,

00:13:29.700 both good and bad.

00:13:30.700 And Vice President J.D. Vance in North Carolina on Wednesday casting the shift as an acknowledgement

00:13:36.500 of the reality on the ground.

00:13:38.820 And one of the things I'll say about the president is that he is responsive to the reality on the

00:13:43.980 ground. And I believe the president is growing incredibly impatient with the Russians right now

00:13:49.240 because he doesn't feel like they're putting enough on the table to end the war. That's number

00:13:53.000 one. Number two, the president has grown very confident that this war is bad for Russia. You hear me

00:13:59.440 say this all the time. You hear the president say this all the time. The war is bad for Russia.

00:14:04.220 It's bad for Ukraine. It's bad for America. He sees the economic numbers that are coming out

00:14:08.920 of Eastern Europe. He sees the number of dead people, both Russians and Ukrainians, that are

00:14:13.000 happening in that war. And the president is telling Vladimir Putin it is time to stop the killing.

00:14:18.860 Look, if the Russians refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it's going to be very,

00:14:24.640 very bad for their country. That's what the president made clear. It's not a shift in position.

00:14:28.500 It's an acknowledgement of the reality on the ground. We're going to keep on fighting for peace

00:14:32.940 every single day in the Trump administration. Here's something a little different. The daughter

00:14:38.440 of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, 19-year-old Violet Affleck at the UN on Tuesday,

00:14:44.600 begging world leaders to bring back mask mandates. Violet outfitted in a KN95 mask,

00:14:52.380 obscuring most of her face, accusing policymakers of stealing away children's futures.

00:14:58.500 But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our

00:15:04.080 eyes. For adults, the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring, downplaying, and concealing both

00:15:09.760 the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID manifested in a series of

00:15:14.340 choices. It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, we knew how to

00:15:19.300 protect you, and we didn't do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease,

00:15:24.440 something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would

00:15:28.720 kill for, and we refuse to use it. And I shudder to think of where we will be in another five years

00:15:34.440 of unmitigated infection and reinfection. Violet pointing to her own mask as she referenced the

00:15:40.480 available technology to fight airborne disease. While these remarks sound like something out of the

00:15:45.780 2020 time capsule, they were indeed made just this week, two years and four months after President

00:15:52.020 Biden's administration declared an end to the national COVID health emergency. This appearance

00:15:58.560 reminiscent of the much-memed 2019 U.N. speech by Greta Thunberg when she dropped her famous

00:16:04.640 how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I'm one of the

00:16:13.320 lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the

00:16:22.320 beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic

00:16:30.540 growth. How dare you? Well, that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Mark Calperin, host of Next Up.

00:16:38.040 Megan is back tomorrow, and you can catch The Megan Kelly Show today, live on SiriusXM, Triumph Channel 111,

00:16:46.000 at noon east, on YouTube, at Megan Kelly, and of course, on every podcast platform ever invented.

The Megyn Kelly Show - September 25, 2025

Deadly Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility, FBI Seized ＂Classified＂ Docs in Bolton Raid： AM Update 9⧸25

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