The Megyn Kelly Show - Dems Fight Over Possible Platner Swap, Farage Resigns, Charlie Kirk Case DNA Reveal： AM Update 7⧸8

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up

00:00:36.600 Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Wednesday, July 8th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:43.120 Democratic socialists gaining ground in blue state primaries as the party confronts a much

00:00:48.360 tougher test in the swing races that will decide the midterms.

00:00:51.920 Let me be absolutely clear. I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law

00:00:59.280 in any way at all.

00:01:01.200 Nigel Farage pushing back against financial allegations,

00:01:04.700 but also resigning his seat.

00:01:06.820 Item 8-sub-1 was interpreted as originating

00:01:09.440 from two individuals, one of whom is Twiggs.

00:01:12.380 A major DNA revelation in the Charlie Kirk murder case,

00:01:15.760 as prosecutors reveal Tyler Robinson's

00:01:17.940 so-called transgender lover and roommate

00:01:20.060 was also linked to key evidence

00:01:22.340 recovered during the investigation.

00:01:24.540 And Prince Harry loses another major battle

00:01:26.660 against the British press,

00:01:27.700 and now faces a potentially massive legal bill.

00:01:30.720 All that and more coming up in just a moment

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00:02:53.980 Some Democrats heading into the midterms increasingly convinced that the path back to power requires candidates who are angrier, more confrontational, and considerably further to the left.

00:03:04.580 A string of recent primary victories giving the party's Democratic Socialist wing new momentum while raising a far more consequential question.

00:03:11.880 Can the movement that is thriving in some of America's bluest districts actually win the competitive races that will determine control of Congress and key state governments?

00:03:21.380 New York City's Socialist Mayor Zoram Mamdani, in a recent interview with ABC News, pointing to the success of several congressional candidates he endorsed as evidence voters are embracing the movement's message.

00:03:31.980 When we're talking about these incredible congressional candidates, they won their races and they won their races with a vision of what politics should be and one that actually speaks to working people.

00:03:41.960 And for a lot of people who ask themselves, what does democratic socialism mean? And you can tell them the answer at a theoretical level. It's the choice to extend democracy from the ballot box the rest of their lives.

00:03:52.760 Those candidates, however, were running in heavily democratic districts where winning the primary essentially guarantees victory in November.

00:04:01.200 The real test, coming in the races where Democrats still have to win over the middle. 0.96

00:04:05.320 In Wisconsin, Democratic Socialist State Representative Francesca Hong 0.99

00:04:08.900 competing for the Democrat nomination for governor,

00:04:11.900 arguing that an unapologetically progressive economic agenda can succeed statewide.

00:04:17.520 The New York Times reporting Hong's growing strength alarming more moderate Democrats,

00:04:21.720 who fear a candidate embraced by the socialist left,

00:04:24.920 may struggle to capture the political middle in one of the country's most closely divided states.

00:04:30.220 Hong making opposition to new data centers a centerpiece of her campaign, an issue attracting 0.98

00:04:35.660 voters across traditional party lines. Her past positions, however, are fueling concerns

00:04:40.500 about whether that appeal can survive a statewide general election. Hong previously called for

00:04:46.080 defunding and eventually abolishing the police. Comments that have resurfaced as moderate Democrats

00:04:51.340 question whether her brand of politics can win enough voters in the middle. Meanwhile, Democrats

00:04:55.960 are already fighting over who should replace Senate nominee Graham Plattner, even before he

00:05:00.320 has agreed to leave the race. Plattner, a far-left progressive, now facing calls to withdraw after a

00:05:06.580 former girlfriend accused him of sexual assault, an allegation he categorically denies. Democrats

00:05:12.340 are demanding he withdraw before a July 13th deadline that could allow the party to replace

00:05:17.440 him on the ballot. The Times reporting the top Democrat super PAC now threatening to redirect

00:05:23.060 $24 million in Maine advertising to other states if Plattner remains in the race.

00:05:28.820 Now, many on the left insisting that party leaders cannot simply erase the result of a primary

00:05:33.740 in which voters rejected the Moore establishment option and selected Plattner. Independent

00:05:38.820 journalist Glenn Greenwald posting to X, quote, it would be anti-democratic in the extreme to

00:05:43.860 nominate some establishment hack with Democrat governor Janet Mills's politics rather than the

00:05:48.900 agenda, Maine voters ratified when nominating Plattner. The fight in Maine, adding to a broader

00:05:54.800 Democratic struggle over whether the party's progressive energy can translate beyond safe

00:05:59.260 blue territory. President Trump now working to make that question central to the midterms,

00:06:04.520 repeatedly tying the Democratic Party's socialist wing to communism. Here, several recent speeches.

00:06:10.820 Communism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it's very easy. I mean, the

00:06:16.760 The problem is, after two or three years, the country is a disaster area.

00:06:22.680 The country fails. They always do.

00:06:24.620 We're social democrats, they say.

00:06:26.540 They're not social. They're communists.

00:06:28.300 They want to destroy our country. We're not going to let that happen.

00:06:31.560 Communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world.

00:06:35.660 I think it's the biggest threat to our nation.

00:06:37.980 There is, maybe since our founding.

00:06:40.140 That includes World War I, World War II, September 11th.

00:06:44.200 It includes the Pearl Harbor attack.

00:06:49.180 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage resigning from Britain's parliament,

00:06:53.600 only to immediately announce he will run for the same seat again,

00:06:56.620 asking voters to settle the growing controversy surrounding millions of dollars in financial support he received before taking office.

00:07:04.140 Farage, one of the principal architects of Brexit,

00:07:06.840 spending more than two decades in the European parliament before finally winning his seat in Britain's House of Commons in 2024.

00:07:12.960 His anti-mass immigration reform UK party has led or placed near the top of British opinion polling for much of the past year.

00:07:21.820 Farage stepping down as the member of parliament representing Clacton yesterday, triggering a special election known in Britain as a by-election.

00:07:29.220 The dramatic political gamble coming as Farage faces increasing scrutiny over gifts and other financial benefits that critics argue should have been disclosed.

00:07:38.340 Parliament's Standards Commissioner, roughly the British equivalent of a congressional ethics watchdog,

00:07:43.200 is investigating whether Farage improperly failed to declare a £5 million gift worth roughly $6.7 million

00:07:50.380 from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harbourn.

00:07:54.420 Farage receiving the money in early 2024 when he was not serving in any elected office,

00:07:59.660 making him, as he argues, a private citizen when he accepted the gift.

00:08:03.400 Farage describing the money as an unconditional personal gift,

00:08:06.340 insisting it had nothing to do with his subsequent candidacy or political work

00:08:10.400 and did not violate any disclosure rules.

00:08:13.220 The controversy expanding over the weekend,

00:08:15.600 the Times reporting that Farage also received extensive support

00:08:18.480 from longtime political ally George Cottrell.

00:08:21.860 Cottrell previously serving eight months in an American prison

00:08:24.960 after pleading guilty to wire fraud.

00:08:27.680 Farage addressing the investigations and his political future

00:08:30.880 yesterday in a brief speech.

00:08:32.540 It seems to me that the establishment have now decided

00:08:35.480 that they can't beat us fairly so they've chosen to use foul means. Let me be absolutely clear

00:08:45.060 after the furore and the media pile on well not just the media the other political parties too

00:08:51.180 let me be absolutely clear I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at

00:09:00.060 all i have not misused public money and you know for the first two years of being an mp my personal

00:09:09.740 mp expenses are zero not of course that you'll read about that in mainstream media and yes of

00:09:18.460 course parliament has its rules about how members ought to behave and i believe i've absolutely

00:09:26.300 obeyed those rules and done so under getting good legal advice. Farage arguing the financial

00:09:33.680 assistance now under examination was necessary because of persistent threats against him and his

00:09:38.680 family. For over 20 years now, I have been subject to constant demonization by the press. And I am

00:09:46.240 the most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician of modern times. Repeatedly

00:09:54.960 over the years, I asked the Home Secretary for help. I was rejected again and again.

00:10:01.980 And in that period, when I wasn't in elected politics, between 2021 and 2024, I ran up

00:10:07.780 personally very, very substantial bills to make sure that I was safe. When I became an MP,

00:10:16.220 Parliament said, yes, we will help you with security. But almost unbelievably, just a couple

00:10:22.280 of days after the murder of Charlie Kirk, 70% of that security funding was withdrawn. I am going

00:10:30.780 to need security for the rest of my life, and I cannot even tell you how grateful I am to Christopher

00:10:37.740 Harbourn, because now I will never ever need to worry about whether I've got the resource.

00:10:44.300 Farage also directing his anger at Britain's news media, accusing the Times of London of

00:10:48.920 endangering his family while investigating his finances and property holdings. Farage triggering

00:10:54.140 a special election to fill his now vacant seat. The move raising an obvious procedural question,

00:10:59.480 what happens to the investigations if Farage leaves parliament, then wins the same seat back?

00:11:04.740 British outlet LBC explaining how that could play out. It's jolly technical and complicated,

00:11:10.380 but as I understand it, once he ceases to be an MP, the parliamentary investigation into him

00:11:16.020 also ceases and therefore he comes back re-elected as an mp and would not expect to face the same

00:11:22.800 kind of test by the parliamentary authorities that he's facing now i don't think that to be

00:11:28.360 honest is at the center of this it's part of it i'm quite sure um i think sometimes we have to

00:11:33.480 take people at their word i think he's genuinely absolutely livid about what he had what happened

00:11:38.840 to his daughter. Coming up, a new major DNA revelation in the Charlie Kirk murder case

00:11:45.760 comes out at the preliminary hearing, and Prince Harry dealt a sweeping courtroom defeat in his

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00:13:10.540 Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk last September,

00:13:15.460 back in a Utah County courtroom yesterday for day two of his preliminary hearing.

00:13:20.280 Prosecutors continuing their effort to persuade Judge Tony Graff they have enough evidence to

00:13:25.400 take Robinson to trial on seven charges, including aggravated murder. The hearing

00:13:30.320 producing a significant new revelation involving Robinson's so-called trans furry lover and

00:13:35.160 roommate, Lance Twiggs. Prosecutors revealing that Twiggs' DNA was found along with Robinson's

00:13:41.560 on both the screwdriver recovered during the investigation and the towel wrapped around the

00:13:46.480 suspected murder weapon. Twiggs lived with Robinson and was reportedly romantically involved

00:13:51.780 with him at the time of Charlie Kirk's murder, later turning over messages and other evidence

00:13:56.780 to investigators as he began cooperating with authorities. Prosecutors maintain that Robinson

00:14:01.960 acted alone, and Twiggs has not been charged in connection with the killing. Authorities

00:14:06.440 granting Twiggs limited immunity for a statement he gave investigators in April, meaning that

00:14:11.660 statement cannot be used against him in any future prosecution. That statement will be played this

00:14:16.940 week during the hearing. The DNA findings surfacing as Jennifer Famina, a sergeant who worked with

00:14:22.700 Utah's State Bureau of Investigation at the time of the shooting, walked the court through portions

00:14:27.760 of an FBI forensic report. Yes, male DNA was obtained from item 7 sub 1. Item 7 sub 1 was

00:14:36.100 interpreted as originating from two individuals, one of whom is twigs. The DNA results from item

00:14:42.040 7 sub 1 are 1.7 octillion times more likely if twigs and T. Robinson are contributors than if

00:14:49.840 twigs and an unknown unrelated person are contributors. Thank you. Let's skip down to

00:14:55.800 item 8.1. Do you see that bolded and underlined line there? Yes. And this is relating to swabs of

00:15:03.580 the handle area of the screwdriver. Is that right? Yes. Will you read those same two paragraphs

00:15:09.300 there? Male DNA ending with contributors. Male DNA was obtained from item 8.1. Item 8.1 was

00:15:17.460 interpreted as originating from two individuals, one of whom is Twigs. The DNA results from item

00:15:23.340 8 sub 1 are 30 quintillion times more likely if Twigs and T. Robinson are contributors than if

00:15:30.220 Twigs and an unknown, unrelated person are contributors. A quieter moment unfolding inside

00:15:35.580 the courtroom with Charlie's widow, Erica Kirk, once again attending the hearing. The Associated

00:15:40.280 Press reporting that Danae Branch, who had lined up with friends at midnight to secure one of the

00:15:45.060 limited public seats, began tearing up during the proceedings. Erica reportedly reaching over

00:15:50.060 and offering her a tissue. Branch, later telling the AP, quote, she didn't know if I was a friend

00:15:54.960 or not, and she showed love. Branch sang she had watched Erica cry at times and fidget with her

00:15:59.880 bracelet, and found herself becoming emotional as she watched Kirk's widow absorb another difficult

00:16:05.260 day of testimony. Prince Harry suffering a major defeat in his years-long crusade against the

00:16:12.260 British press, a judge dismissing every claim brought by Harry and six other prominent figures

00:16:17.520 against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. The group

00:16:22.880 accusing the company of gathering private information through illegal methods, including

00:16:27.200 phone hacking, intercepted voicemails, and investigators allegedly using deception to

00:16:32.100 obtain confidential records. The publisher denying the accusations, maintaining its reporters relied

00:16:38.200 on legitimate sources. For Harry, the verdict brings a bruising conclusion to the last major

00:16:43.580 case in a legal campaign he launched against several British newspaper groups beginning in

00:16:48.040 2019. The Telegraph's deputy royal editor, Victoria Ward, explaining why Harry entered

00:16:53.840 this case expecting another victory. Well, there's a huge amount at stake here because

00:16:57.980 for Prince Harry himself, it was the culmination of a seven-year legal fight against the tabloid

00:17:03.540 press. Obviously, he won against Miragut newspapers. He won against newsgroup newspapers.

00:17:08.660 He got a settlement on the eve of trial with that one in January 2025. This was his last big

00:17:14.480 hurrah in this moral crusade that he launched in 2019, and he had expected to win. His claim

00:17:22.280 comprised 14 articles that were published between 2001 and 2013. He had made it clear that he only

00:17:29.980 needed one victory in that raft of stories to show that he proved that associated newspapers

00:17:35.980 had been acting unlawfully and that would have been cast as a victory. The judge concluding

00:17:40.500 Harry failed to prove unlawful conduct in a single one of those 14 stories. He brought the

00:17:46.440 case alongside Elton John and his husband David Furnish, actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie

00:17:51.980 Frost, former lawmakers Simon Hughes, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence. The central problem was not

00:17:57.600 proving the stories contained private information. It was proving the Daily Mail obtained that

00:18:02.500 information illegally, Ward pointing to one example that hurt his case. He had claimed that

00:18:08.860 various pieces of private information that had found its way into the newspapers

00:18:13.040 could only have been obtained through hacking or other unlawful activity. But the journalists

00:18:19.160 involved made it very clear that they were picking up bits and pieces of this information

00:18:24.420 from legitimate sources from harry's friends from his associates from his wider social network

00:18:29.640 um and they had some um examples of how that had happened we saw these mr mischief emails uh that

00:18:36.640 had been sent between prince harry and mail on sunday journalist charlotte griffiths which showed

00:18:41.380 the level of um they were kind of on intimate terms they were obviously very well it was

00:18:46.100 so that seemed to go kind of go against what harry was trying to claim that he didn't fraternize

00:18:52.760 with journalists at all. Journalist Tim Stanley reading from the decision. Mr Justice Nicklin

00:18:58.320 said the allegations are serious and required more convincing evidence before they could be

00:19:02.080 said to be proven, but the claimants had failed to prove allegations of unlawful information

00:19:06.560 gathering. Rejecting the argument that simply because they could not demonstrate where the

00:19:11.640 information came from does not mean that it was gathered illegally. He concluded adding that as

00:19:17.080 with each of the claimants, Prince Harry has limited evidence to give on the contentious

00:19:21.100 matters in disputes. In other words, he's not saying Harry was lying. He's not saying that

00:19:25.760 the evidence he brought was false, but rather it's not sufficient. Associated newspapers

00:19:30.880 celebrating the ruling in a statement, quote, the reputations of our decent and hardworking

00:19:35.400 journalists were terribly impugned, and today they have been exonerated. Harry and another

00:19:40.880 member of the lawsuit responding with fury, calling the decision a, quote, complete and

00:19:45.120 obvious whitewash. Harry is already in the UK this week for a series of charity appearances,

00:19:51.020 The legal fight is not quite over.

00:19:53.120 Attention now turning to the enormous cost of the case

00:19:55.520 and how much of that bill could fall on Harry and the other claimants.

00:19:59.840 The Telegraph's Tim Stanley asking Deputy Royal Editor Victoria Ward

00:20:03.460 who could be left paying the enormous legal bill.

00:20:06.700 Let's talk about the costs of this trial.

00:20:09.080 Very, very expensive.

00:20:10.740 The figure that I have in front of me is an estimated 50 million pounds.

00:20:16.160 Who is going to pay that?

00:20:17.760 Well, it now looks like the bulk of the costs are going to land with the claimants, which is absolutely terrifying, I imagine, for all seven of them.

00:20:27.560 Especially for poor Simon Hughes. I can't imagine that the former lipped MMP has got that kind of cash.

00:20:33.000 They all had some kind of special insurance that covered them to a certain extent.

00:20:37.480 But whether it goes to this extent, we're yet to find out there's a cost hearing that's already been scheduled for July the 29th and 30th, where these issues are going to be thrashed out.

00:20:46.980 but at a hearing a cost hearing last year the judge specifically warned that this case could

00:20:55.760 spiral out of control and he expressed some concern about the the seven claimants and wanted

00:21:01.020 to know whether they fully understood the risks because he was concerned they weren't fully

00:21:05.100 abreast of exactly the financial cost and the implications if if they lost sounds like prince

00:21:10.640 Harry is going to need another

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Dems Fight Over Possible Platner Swap, Farage Resigns, Charlie Kirk Case DNA Reveal： AM Update 7⧸8

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