The Megyn Kelly Show - December 16, 2025


Disturbing Details Emerge After Reiner Son Arrested, New Pics of Brown U. Suspect： AM Update 12⧸16


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

143.64233

Word Count

2,596

Sentence Count

169

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner were found murdered in their Brentwood, California home on Sunday afternoon. The couple was found with their throats slit and stab wounds. A suspect has been identified, but no arrests have been made. President Trump has come under fire for a controversial tweet about the Reiners.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone.
00:00:31.900 I'm Emily Jashensky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.
00:00:38.040 It's Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
00:00:43.180 Dark new details revealed about the murders of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.
00:00:49.380 This is a very active investigation, very complex investigation.
00:00:53.500 Providence, Rhode Island releasing new images of a possible suspect in the Brown University shooting.
00:00:59.340 The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front.
00:01:06.000 A left-wing extremist group accused of plotting a New Year's Eve attack in Los Angeles.
00:01:11.320 And the jockeying for the 2028 Democrat primary begins with Kamala Harris at the center of it.
00:01:18.520 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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00:02:31.060 New details emerging on the grisly murder of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner.
00:02:37.800 The couple discovered with their throats slit and stab wounds at their Brentwood mansion on Sunday afternoon
00:02:44.320 by their 28-year-old daughter, Romy.
00:02:48.340 According to TMZ, Romy telling people her brother, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, was, quote,
00:02:53.840 dangerous and should be considered a suspect.
00:02:56.940 The LAPD saying Nick was arrested around 9.15 p.m. on Sunday night.
00:03:01.940 His whereabouts from that moment and the alleged murders unclear at this time.
00:03:06.500 Bail originally set at $4 million, but authorities later saying he is being held without bail.
00:03:14.200 Investigators say the case will be handed to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office today,
00:03:19.580 where charging decisions will be made.
00:03:22.300 Nick reportedly struggling with addiction and behavioral issues from a young age.
00:03:27.640 He is currently being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility,
00:03:31.480 a jail with extensive mental health facilities.
00:03:34.300 President Trump on Monday drawing negative feedback from even his own MAGA base
00:03:40.080 after posting a critical comment about Reiner on Truth Social.
00:03:44.520 Mr. Trump doubling down yesterday from the Oval.
00:03:48.680 A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob Reiner.
00:03:54.660 Do you stand by that post?
00:03:56.080 Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all.
00:03:57.920 He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
00:04:01.200 And he said he liked he knew it was false.
00:04:04.420 In fact, it's the exact opposite, that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia.
00:04:09.660 You know, it was the Russia hooks.
00:04:10.820 He was one of the people behind it.
00:04:13.360 I think he hurt himself in career wise.
00:04:15.980 He became like a deranged person.
00:04:18.460 Trump derangement syndrome.
00:04:19.980 So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form.
00:04:24.340 I thought he was very bad for our country.
00:04:25.800 Law enforcement officials in Providence, Rhode Island, releasing new images they believe show the Brown University shooting suspect.
00:04:35.120 Yesterday evening, authorities releasing three videos and two images showing what appears to be a husky male
00:04:41.280 wearing a dark beanie, pants, jacket and gloves with a black COVID-era face mask.
00:04:47.340 The image is recorded around 2 p.m. on Saturday, just hours prior to the shooting near the scene of the crime.
00:04:55.480 Investigators in Providence seen going door to door yesterday, searching for any digital evidence that might have captured the Brown University shooting suspect.
00:05:05.980 Agents also seen fanning across lawns, kicking through snow several blocks from the scene of the shooting,
00:05:11.780 appearing to look for any evidence that may have been dropped leaving the scene.
00:05:16.000 At a briefing yesterday, officials including Mayor Brett Smiley, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee,
00:05:22.520 and Chief of Police Oscar Perez insisting they are searching as hard as they can to apprehend the suspect.
00:05:29.540 They were so grateful for the tireless effort of law enforcement, not just to assist with the investigation,
00:05:36.380 but to help all of us feel safe in our home.
00:05:39.440 We want to make sure that all Rhode Islanders know that everything that is physically possible is being done
00:05:47.960 and partnering in with our federal, the FBI, our state law enforcement, and also the local law enforcement
00:05:56.060 to bring an individual and identify and bring that person to justice.
00:06:01.400 I want to remind you that this is a very active investigation, very complex investigation,
00:06:07.180 and there's no one that wants to put this individual in handcuffs than us.
00:06:12.400 As the officials ask the public to check doorbell cameras and other devices for potentially helpful digital evidence,
00:06:19.420 a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest now active.
00:06:24.140 Providence Mayor Brett Smiley continuing to assert residents are safe amid the increased police presence in the city,
00:06:32.720 encouraging parents to send their children back to area schools.
00:06:37.040 Attorney General Peter Nerona, on the other hand, telling CNN the suspect is still considered armed and dangerous
00:06:44.200 as no firearm has been recovered.
00:06:47.220 As reporters and the public grow frustrated with what appears to be a stalling investigation,
00:06:52.300 President Trump defending the FBI's recent track record.
00:06:56.600 Has Kash Patel told you why it's been so difficult for the FBI to identify who the shooter is?
00:07:01.640 Well, it's always difficult so far.
00:07:03.280 We've done a very good job of doing it with Charlie, with, you know, the various times this has happened.
00:07:08.900 They've done it in pretty much record time.
00:07:12.740 But you'd really have to ask the school a little bit more about that because, you know, this was a school problem.
00:07:19.100 They had their own guards, they had their own police, they had their own everything.
00:07:23.500 But you'd have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI.
00:07:27.440 We came in after the fact.
00:07:29.840 And the FBI will do a good job, but they came in after the fact.
00:07:33.960 Meanwhile, the second victim, who was killed on Saturday,
00:07:36.780 identified as 18-year-old sophomore Mukhammed Aziz Umrzikov,
00:07:40.980 his sisters describing their brother as, quote, gentle and extroverted, to the New York Times.
00:07:47.500 A naturalized citizen hailing from Uzbekistan, Umrzikov moving with his family in 2011
00:07:53.160 to a town outside Richmond, Virginia.
00:07:56.120 Umrzikov reportedly attending Brown with ambitions of becoming a neurosurgeon
00:08:00.880 to help children the way he was helped, with a childhood medical condition relating to his spine.
00:08:06.580 19-year-old sophomore Ella Cook, the other deceased victim,
00:08:11.420 vice president of the college Republicans,
00:08:13.900 remembered at her Alabama church as a, quote, bright light in the community.
00:08:19.700 Coming up, federal officials busting an alleged New Year's Eve bombing plot
00:08:24.520 planned by a left-wing extremist group operating out of Los Angeles.
00:08:29.240 And former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Governor Gavin Newsom,
00:08:33.560 each with a 2028 twinkle in their eye.
00:08:36.580 As President Trump is settling into his new administration,
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00:09:18.820 An alleged New Year's Eve bombing plot foiled by federal investigators in Los Angeles.
00:09:25.500 Four suspects belonging to an offshoot of the extremist group Turtle Island Liberation Front,
00:09:32.500 or TILF, arrested in Lucerne Valley, about two hours away from Los Angeles,
00:09:37.400 where authorities say they were set to test explosive devices.
00:09:40.860 U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Assaylee,
00:09:45.860 announcing the details of the plot at a press conference yesterday morning.
00:09:49.540 The four defendants are Audrey Carroll, 30 years old,
00:09:53.220 Zachary Aaron Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24, and Tina Lay, 41,
00:09:58.640 each from the Los Angeles area.
00:10:01.600 Each is charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device
00:10:06.220 in violation of Title 26, United States Code Section 5861D.
00:10:12.400 We intend to file additional charges in the coming weeks as we finish reviewing the evidence.
00:10:18.400 The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front,
00:10:24.160 which, according to their own social media, is an anti-capitalist, anti-government movement
00:10:30.000 that calls for their associates to rise up and fight back against capitalism.
00:10:35.720 One of the leaders of the organization, defendant Audrey Carroll,
00:10:38.880 helped organize an even more radical faction of the group called the Order of the Black Lotus.
00:10:45.160 Each of the defendants charged today was also a member of the Order of the Black Lotus.
00:10:50.260 Carroll described this group to her co-conspirators as,
00:10:54.160 According to the federal complaint, Carroll, quote,
00:10:58.700 provided a confidential human source an eight-page, handwritten document titled
00:11:03.620 Operation Midnight Sun that described a bombing plot.
00:11:08.360 The plan involving planting backpacks with improvised explosive devices
00:11:12.520 to be simultaneously detonated at five locations targeting two companies,
00:11:18.600 set to explode at midnight on New Year's Eve,
00:11:21.300 Assaylee declining to name the companies,
00:11:24.880 Carroll and Page leading the effort,
00:11:27.060 recruiting others to join them, including reportedly an undercover FBI agent.
00:11:32.720 Authorities showing aerial surveillance video of the suspects last Friday in the desert
00:11:37.080 appearing to prep a testing area for the explosives.
00:11:41.300 The defendants, according to the complaint,
00:11:43.360 were planning to target ICE agents and their vehicles with pipe bombs
00:11:47.220 after the New Year's Eve attack.
00:11:49.640 The suspects set to appear in court for the first time yesterday.
00:11:53.720 The outcome of those appearances, not yet clear.
00:11:56.980 Assaylee saying a fifth suspect tied to the group
00:11:59.700 was arrested in New Orleans in connection to a separate plot.
00:12:03.480 That suspect allegedly threatening agents upon execution
00:12:07.420 of a search warrant leading to his apprehension.
00:12:10.940 Details on that suspect are not immediately clear.
00:12:13.840 Former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris
00:12:20.980 reportedly prepping the beginnings of a 2028 campaign
00:12:25.280 as Democrat rivals go knives out against perceived frontrunner,
00:12:30.300 California Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:12:33.200 Axios reporting party leaders and donors are worried about a Harris candidacy,
00:12:37.840 despite primary polls showing her at or near the top of the pack.
00:12:41.880 Ms. Harris last week announcing new dates for her book tour promoting 107 days for 2026,
00:12:50.540 including stops in cities with large Black voting populations,
00:12:54.360 a key Dem primary voting bloc including Detroit, Michigan,
00:12:57.980 Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, as well as swing state, South Carolina.
00:13:03.260 Over the weekend, the former VP addressing the Democrat National Committee meeting in LA,
00:13:08.120 refining the typical meandering rhetoric into a sharper attack against a failing system and both parties.
00:13:16.920 Obviously, we must focus on the midterms, but Democrats,
00:13:21.920 we must also have a clear vision for what comes after the midterms and then after Trump.
00:13:31.400 We need to answer the question, what comes next for our party and our democracy?
00:13:39.120 And in so doing, we must be honest that for so many,
00:13:45.980 the American dream has become more of a myth than a reality.
00:13:51.140 Whether it's the cost of food, energy, health care, transportation or housing,
00:13:57.900 America is facing an affordability crisis.
00:14:00.760 A crisis that we are witnessing is fueling cynicism, fear, frustration and a lack of confidence in our systems.
00:14:13.360 Meanwhile, more than 20 Democrat operatives telling Axios California Governor Gavin Newsom is the clear frontrunner.
00:14:21.060 The real clear polling average showing Newsom in first at 24.6 percent.
00:14:25.380 Harris following closely behind at 22.2 percent.
00:14:29.780 Third place, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trailing at 11.2 percent.
00:14:36.420 Those sources, some of which work for possible 2028 contenders,
00:14:41.000 telling the outlet the 58-year-old governor comes with a lot of exploitable baggage.
00:14:46.600 In 2007, as mayor of San Francisco, Newsom publicly confessing to a prior affair with his campaign manager's wife.
00:14:56.640 I want to make it clear that everything you've heard and read is true.
00:15:02.840 And I am deeply sorry about that.
00:15:07.420 I've hurt someone I care deeply about, Alex Turk and his friends and family.
00:15:13.320 And that is something that I have to live with and something that I am deeply sorry for.
00:15:22.400 I am also sorry that I've let the people of San Francisco down.
00:15:27.880 As governor in 2020, Newsom busted having dinner at the fancy French Laundry restaurant
00:15:33.380 as he was telling Californians not to gather for the upcoming holidays amid the COVID pandemic.
00:15:39.460 Newsom appearing to attempt to get ahead of his past by releasing a strategically timed memoir titled
00:15:46.260 Young Man in a Hurry, A Memoir of Discovery, hitting bookstores in February.
00:15:53.060 Here, a social media promo.
00:15:55.800 This, this is not the book you'd expect me to write.
00:15:58.940 It's a story about the people that for, well, better or worse, make us who we are, made me who I am.
00:16:04.780 The hopes that drive us forward, the failures that send us reeling, and the immense burden of grief and regret.
00:16:12.380 Nobody's family is easy.
00:16:14.380 Nobody's story is tidy, and I'm no different.
00:16:17.300 A lot of people look at me, the stark white shirt, the blue suit, and yeah, the gelled hair.
00:16:22.760 And they think, oh, I know this guy.
00:16:24.360 I know this guy better than I'd ever want to know him.
00:16:27.100 I get it.
00:16:28.180 This is a story of a kid who always felt like he wasn't quite enough.
00:16:32.080 This is a truly vulnerable book.
00:16:33.920 It was incredibly hard, even painful, to write.
00:16:37.540 It's a story about living between two worlds, one of wealth and privilege, and the other of more modest upbringing.
00:16:43.400 The outsider on the inside, the interloper who learned to feel comfortable in many rooms.
00:16:49.440 It's a story of the personas we create to face the world around us.
00:16:52.960 The story of self-doubt, and yes, ambition.
00:16:56.600 Presidential ambition, that is.
00:16:58.860 The governor telling reporters last week that the memoir may be interpreted as a campaign strategy.
00:17:04.640 Quote, look, I'm not an idiot.
00:17:07.040 Everyone's going to see it through a cynical set of eyes.
00:17:09.820 I mean, it's a politician writing a book.
00:17:12.540 Let the 2028 games begin.
00:17:15.060 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:17:20.080 I'm Emily Dushinsky, host of After Party.
00:17:22.380 Catch the Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on youtube.com slash megynkelly and all podcast platforms.
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