The Megyn Kelly Show - Diddy Denied Bail, Kohberger Sentencing Ahead, and Deep Dive on Biden's Autopen： AM Update 7⧸3

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. And this is your

00:00:08.140 AM update. I kid you not. People are pouring baby oil on one another outside this court 0.99

00:00:14.500 house. A big win for Sean Diddy Combs as the mogul is found not guilty on the most serious

00:00:20.740 charges he faced, but he remains behind bars for now. Are you pleading guilty because you

00:00:26.320 are guilty? Yes. Brian Koberger pleads guilty on all counts in the vicious slaying of four

00:00:32.540 University of Idaho students in exchange for not facing the death penalty. And a closer look at

00:00:38.360 former President Biden's frequent use of the auto pen. Who was really in charge of running the

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00:01:50.640 The judge in the Sean Diddy Combs criminal trial denying the defendant's request for bail Wednesday

00:01:56.840 evening following his conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

00:02:03.360 Combs' mouth reportedly dropping at the no-bail announcement. Earlier in the day, the jury acquitting

00:02:08.920 the mogul on the three more serious charges, one count of racketeering and two counts of sex

00:02:13.600 trafficking. The jury returning the verdict shortly after beginning deliberations on Wednesday.

00:02:18.160 In total, the deliberations lasting about 13 hours across three days. Upon hearing the verdict,

00:02:24.500 Combs pumping his fist, mouthing, thank you, thank you to the jurors. Then, I'm going home

00:02:30.880 to his family. The defense asking for $1 million bond with travel restrictions while Combs awaits

00:02:37.180 sentencing. Lead prosecutor Maureen Comey requesting Combs remain in custody, saying, quote,

00:02:42.540 there is a real risk that he will flagrantly disregard orders from this court. A lawyer for

00:02:48.400 Cassie Ventura, one of Diddy's victims, submitting a letter to the judge requesting Combs not be

00:02:53.520 released. Quote, Ms. Ventura believes that Mr. Combs is likely to pose a danger to the victims who

00:02:58.580 testified in this case, including herself, as well as to the community. Deontay Nash, friend of

00:03:04.480 Ventura, who previously testified, submitting a letter to the judge, reading in part, quote,

00:03:09.220 If he is released now, I have no doubt he will see it as yet another license to continue

00:03:14.260 intimidating, threatening, and harming people who challenge or expose him. The defense arguing

00:03:19.920 the government failed to prove its most serious charge and pointing to Combs' young child and

00:03:25.120 elderly mother needing him at home. The judge, citing Combs' past violent behavior, noting the

00:03:31.960 defense attorney, quote, full-throatedly in your closing told the jury there was violence here,

00:03:36.720 end quote, concluding, quote, prior to the trial, the court denied bail and sees no reason to

00:03:42.180 reverse that now. Combs now faces up to 10 years for each count of transportation to engage in

00:03:47.920 prostitution. As the prosecution and the defense debated sentencing terms, a newly emboldened Combs

00:03:54.080 requesting to speak to the judge directly. No such exchange took place. A remote hearing is set for

00:04:01.000 Tuesday next week to address the sentencing scheduling. Brian Kohlberger accepting a highly

00:04:08.780 controversial plea deal on Wednesday, pleading guilty to all five counts against him, one count

00:04:14.420 of burglary and four of first-degree murder. Kohlberger admitting to entering a rental home near the

00:04:20.280 University of Idaho, stabbing 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, 20-year-old Zanna Kernodal, 21-year-old Madison

00:04:27.200 Mogan and 21-year-old Kaylee Gonsalves to death. Throughout the pretrial process, Kohlberger refusing

00:04:33.900 to speak, remaining silent even at his own arraignment. Wednesday in court, Kohlberger speaking

00:04:39.720 publicly for the first time and in a tone better suited for a trivia contest. Are you pleading guilty

00:04:46.520 because you are guilty? Yes. With respect to count one, burglary felony, how do you plead Mr.

00:04:52.360 Kohlberger guilty or not guilty? Guilty. As to count two, murder in the first degree as it relates

00:04:59.680 to the murder of Madison Mogan, how do you plead guilty or not guilty? Guilty. As to count three, as it

00:05:06.480 relates to murder in the first degree for the murder of Kaylee Gonsalves, how do you plead guilty or not guilty?

00:05:11.180 Guilty. As to count four, the first-degree murder of Zanna Kernodal, pardon me, a human being, how do you plead

00:05:19.780 guilty or not guilty? Guilty. As to count five, the first-degree murder of Ethan Chapin, a human being,

00:05:27.100 how do you plead guilty or not guilty? Guilty. Kohlberger avoiding the death penalty according to

00:05:32.200 the terms of this deal, the outcome shocking and outraging many, including the father of Kaylee

00:05:37.580 Gonsalves, who wanted a jury to decide Kohlberger's fate after a public trial and with the death penalty

00:05:43.920 on the table. Mr. Gonsalves releasing a statement after the plea that reads in part as follows.

00:05:50.680 The plea began with the defendant claiming responsibility for his actions with one-word

00:05:55.220 responses. All were sufficient for the court and the prosecution team, because that is what this plea

00:06:00.880 was about today, the court and the prosecution. A plea that makes everything go away for them and

00:06:06.460 lets them get back to their normal routine. This plea did not represent the victim's families.

00:06:11.160 It represented an easy way out and no answers. Former homicide prosecutor Matt Murphy Wednesday

00:06:17.420 on The Megyn Kelly Show. I'm kind of frustrated, actually. I sat on our death penalty special

00:06:24.140 circumstance committee for 15 years in Orange County. And essentially what you do in a special

00:06:29.360 murder like this, special circumstances murder, is you go through the law piece by piece and you

00:06:35.420 weigh the aggravating versus mitigating circumstances. And from that, we would make a recommendation to

00:06:42.280 the elected DA, who then makes a very somber decision whether or not to seek the death penalty

00:06:47.380 or life without possibility of parole. This case screams out for the death penalty. So my big question

00:06:53.240 here is what changed? Because it's unethical to file a death enhancement or to seek the death penalty

00:06:59.680 with the idea that you are extracting a plea. And when you hear the evidence, for me, listening to

00:07:05.960 the fact that he got a K-bar on Amazon before he moved out, this is an overwhelming case. So again,

00:07:12.520 what changed other than him deciding, other than Koberger asking to plead guilty, that changed the

00:07:17.980 assessment that this was a death penalty case? The big winner today, I hate to say it, is Brian

00:07:22.300 Koberger. And I am, I'm, I'm just, I was frustrated listening to that. Author Howard Bloom, who has

00:07:29.820 diligently covered this case with many exclusives, also criticizing the prosecutors over the plea deal

00:07:35.380 on the Megyn Kelly show. It is such a cynical decision on the part of the state to make this plea

00:07:41.860 bargain. And during the course of the recitation by Thompson, he kept on saying things, so many things

00:07:48.840 we don't know. He said, for whatever reason, we don't know exactly why he did this. The evidence

00:07:53.640 suggests these are answers that we will never get, that the families, more importantly, will never

00:07:59.180 get. The state, the town, the surviving families, they will never forget this. And I think they've

00:08:04.900 been done a real injustice by the state. Many family members of the victims appearing in court today,

00:08:10.680 visibly emotional in the presence of their loved one's murderer. NBC reporting Christy Gonsalves,

00:08:16.500 mother of Kaylee, sobbing at the mention of her daughter. Ben Mogan, father of Madison Mogan,

00:08:22.280 looking agitated, breathing heavily. The families split on the plea deal. Steve Gonsalves accusing

00:08:28.760 prosecutor Bill Thompson of making a deal with the devil. The Mogan family releasing a statement saying

00:08:34.100 they support the agreement 100 percent, believing it to be the best possible outcome. The Chapin family,

00:08:40.460 too, supported the deal. Kohlberger, now a convicted murderer, will not be allowed to appear in

00:08:45.700 civilian clothes for his sentencing hearing on July 23rd, as now he's lost the presumption of

00:08:51.760 innocence. Families of the victims will be allowed to make impact statements on that day. Kohlberger

00:08:57.580 will receive four consecutive life sentences for the murders, plus 10 years for the burglary charge.

00:09:04.460 Somewhat incredibly, he was not given life without the possibility of parole.

00:09:09.300 Coming up, who was really running the Biden White House? A look inside the investigation of who

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00:10:38.420 As America watched the clear cognitive decline of President Joe Biden throughout his presidency,

00:10:44.100 many wondered who was actually running the White House. A bombshell report by the non-profit

00:10:49.780 government watchdog The Oversight Project, finding the vast majority of White House documents with

00:10:55.620 President Biden's signature, were signed by AutoPen. An AutoPen is a mechanical device used to replicate

00:11:02.800 a signature. We spoke to the president of The Oversight Project, Mike Howell, about his investigation

00:11:08.400 and what it reveals about who was actually running the Biden White House.

00:11:13.400 We, like the rest of the country, were acutely aware of the fact that President Biden was

00:11:18.720 malfunctioning and not running the White House. And we were trying to look into the ways that

00:11:23.840 they could run a White House without a functioning president. And we basically centered on how are

00:11:28.600 they signing things? How's the paper moving as one of the ways? And so we pulled the signatures

00:11:32.580 and saw that, you know, a pattern emerged. And it was very clear that there was copy and paste

00:11:38.920 signature, not a pen device. And so we began pulling the paper to study the usage of it over time.

00:11:45.140 We basically have found that there are at least three. And there's a fourth one that we have

00:11:49.780 found that we're working on now. Versions of the signature that were used for various types of

00:11:54.380 documents to include executive orders, pardons, proclamations. And the usage of it picked up over time,

00:12:02.880 particularly in like weird scenarios in which Biden was actually in D.C. and able to sign other things.

00:12:08.980 Multiple investigations launching in the wake of these findings, including President Trump

00:12:13.280 ordering the DOJ to launch a probe last month. The House Oversight Committee also starting its

00:12:18.760 own investigation last week, summoning former Biden staff secretary Neera Tanden for more than

00:12:24.360 five hours of closed door testimony. Chairman James Comer later revealing Tanden testified she had

00:12:30.240 minimal interaction with President Biden. Howell describes the role of the staff secretary and just

00:12:36.020 how unusual it is for someone in this role to have limited face time with the president.

00:12:41.100 It is a very important job. It is the person who controls the paper flow from the president

00:12:45.900 and keeps things at the White House legal and organized traditionally, you know, a very,

00:12:50.980 very senior staffer. Neera Tanden famously was, you know, she's a Soros operative. It's her job

00:12:58.120 to basically ensure that the paper moves in accordance with, you know, policy procedure and is

00:13:03.360 legally sufficient. When you have White House senior staff that is basically not interacting with the

00:13:08.400 president, but is in charge of deploying his signature and his binding authority on documents,

00:13:14.740 it's a major, major break in past president and procedure. You shouldn't have someone in that

00:13:20.100 position of seniority that doesn't even like speak with the president to know that he actually approves

00:13:25.740 the things that you're putting his name to. She was taking orders via paper decision memos that went up to

00:13:31.460 senior staffers and came back to her. And so that the chain of commands was was was broken in that

00:13:37.440 regard. The signature was being applied without the person applying it, knowing that the president

00:13:42.680 actually signed off on it. Howell says Tanden's testimony raises questions about whether President

00:13:47.560 Biden knew what he was signing off on. She also spoke to a really irregular process in which written

00:13:56.000 decision memos would go up the chain of command from her and then would come back with just an

00:14:01.760 initial saying it's good to go. And that raises another major question. Is the decision memo the

00:14:06.820 actual text of the executive order or is it something different? One fact pattern that we could be

00:14:11.980 dealing with is a descriptive memo goes up to the president saying something to the effect of we're

00:14:18.700 going to do a bunch of executive orders. They will undo Trump's inhumane policies and they will make

00:14:24.320 everything sunshine and roses on the border. Everybody loves it. This is going to make you a

00:14:29.140 hero. And then the executive orders that come out are these really prescriptive and destructive

00:14:34.400 executive orders to undo every last aspect of border security. And so it could be something that is way

00:14:40.860 out of line with the presidential intent and dissent as to, you know, what is in the decision memo versus

00:14:47.300 what actually happens. And that's what I'm looking to see. Is there a mismatch there? That's one of the,

00:14:54.080 I think the big themes we're, we're zeroing in on. Howell describes a number of possible crimes

00:14:59.280 his group was investigating. We think there are crimes that are likely to have been committed.

00:15:04.160 Those would include impersonation. You can't impersonate a federal official. You can't forge

00:15:09.000 a signature. There could be forgery. I think there's a lot of bribery at play. I think the whole

00:15:13.640 story of the Biden family pay to play scheme over decades is one of bribery and foreign pay to play

00:15:19.100 and failure to register as foreign agents and doing work on behalf of foreign governments.

00:15:23.180 Also secondary to that, like the people who were aware that this scheme was underway and that they

00:15:29.220 were functioning the White House out of the constitutional order. And, you know, with all

00:15:34.180 these other crimes that I've mentioned potentially happening, could be guilty of misprisonment of a

00:15:38.160 felony, which is basically like a failure to report.

00:15:41.300 In June, the Biden office releasing this statement attributable to President Biden,

00:15:47.040 quote, let me be clear. I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about

00:15:52.660 the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn't

00:15:58.100 is ridiculous and false. But for now, the various investigations are ongoing. 0.71

00:16:03.480 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,

00:16:09.960 live on SiriusXM try-up channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megankelly, and on all podcast

00:16:16.120 platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - July 03, 2025

Diddy Denied Bail, Kohberger Sentencing Ahead, and Deep Dive on Biden's Autopen： AM Update 7⧸3

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