The Megyn Kelly Show - July 02, 2026


DOJ Charges Tren De Aragua, Kamala Courts Progressives, Daredevil Lovebirds in NYC： AM Update 7⧸2


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00:00:00.400 All right, full-time thoughts. Craig, who stood out?
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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
00:00:36.780 Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Thursday, July 2nd, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:43.100 As America turns 250 years old, we look at this remarkable man, and we recall that with effort,
00:00:50.800 determination, and drive, there is nothing that Americans of competence cannot do.
00:00:56.940 President Trump traveling to the North Dakota Badlands to honor Theodore Roosevelt, drawing lessons from the former president's life ahead of America's 250th birthday.
00:01:06.540 We have seen specifically as it relates to Trende Aragua, a 519% increase in arrests.
00:01:12.360 The DOJ announcing new charges against eight alleged Trende Aragua gang members.
00:01:17.460 Former Vice President Kamala Harris quietly courting the Democratic Party's progressive wing.
00:01:22.180 Amid increasing speculation, she is preparing another run for the White House.
00:01:25.860 and two lovestruck daredevils
00:01:28.260 climb to the tip of the Empire State Building,
00:01:31.100 pulling off a sky-high proposal
00:01:32.340 that ends with a ring for her
00:01:33.680 and cuffs for them both.
00:01:35.920 All that and more coming up in just a moment
00:01:37.600 on your AM Update.
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00:02:52.100 President Trump traveling to the North Dakota Badlands yesterday,
00:02:57.340 becoming the first official visitor to the newly completed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
00:03:02.280 The president making the trip aboard the new Air Force One,
00:03:05.200 taking the Qatari-donated Boeing 747 on its inaugural presidential flight.
00:03:10.200 Upon his arrival in Medora, the presidential motorcade escorted across the prairie
00:03:14.260 by a ceremonial troop of Rough Riders on horseback.
00:03:17.360 The original Rough Riders were the volunteer cavalry regiment
00:03:20.640 commanded by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War,
00:03:24.440 earning lasting fame in the 1898 Battle for the San Juan Heights in Cuba.
00:03:29.540 The library offering an artificial intelligence version of Roosevelt,
00:03:32.860 allowing visitors to question the former president.
00:03:35.560 Mr. Trump asking his digital predecessor whether the Panama Canal was his greatest accomplishment,
00:03:41.440 the virtual Roosevelt taking pride in the canal,
00:03:44.260 while also pointing to his conservation record, public health reforms, and other achievements.
00:03:49.540 The president later delivering his remarks with the modern-day Rough Riders standing behind him,
00:03:53.960 dressed in blue shirts, tan suspenders, bandanas, and Roosevelt's signature wide-brimmed hats.
00:03:59.640 Unlike the standard Trump rally address, the president devoting much of the speech to Roosevelt's extraordinary life
00:04:05.360 and the lessons he believes it offers the country as America approaches its 250th birthday.
00:04:10.860 Mr. Trump presenting Roosevelt as part of a longer American tradition,
00:04:14.020 One built by men and women willing to take on challenges others considered impossible.
00:04:19.200 As America turns 250 years old, we look at this remarkable man,
00:04:25.200 and we recall that with effort, determination, and drive,
00:04:29.800 there is nothing that Americans of competence cannot do.
00:04:35.260 Nothing.
00:04:36.460 From winning our independence to laying the railroads,
00:04:40.220 taming the West, and planting our flag on the moon,
00:04:43.060 nothing great that america has ever done has come without staggering effort and
00:04:49.680 it has never come easy this country was built on the conviction that just because something is
00:04:58.400 hard to do that only means that americans try even harder and they succeed almost all the time
00:05:06.220 because whatever the obstacle, whatever the challenge, it's no match for American grit.
00:05:13.800 President Trump then using the Roosevelt connection to celebrate a major Supreme Court
00:05:17.960 victory handed down earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowing the president in a 6-3
00:05:22.600 decision to fire Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission, giving presidents far
00:05:27.560 more control over independent federal agencies. We had something that gives back tremendous power
00:05:34.240 to the president of the united states and we won that i think six to three and it was taken away
00:05:40.980 from another roosevelt it was taken away from fdr in 1932 was taken away and for almost a hundred
00:05:50.660 years that's been up for grabs slaughter it was called the slaughter case and a lot of people
00:05:58.020 didn't think it would ever be won, and we won it two days ago in the Supreme Court. It gives
00:06:03.800 power back to the president at a time where the president really needs power. It's a great
00:06:11.420 decision. It was the most important, and we want some others to, it was the most important decision
00:06:16.480 of all of them, I think. The president ultimately weaving five lessons from Roosevelt's life
00:06:21.080 throughout the address, arguing those principles remain just as important to America's next 250
00:06:25.980 50 years, as they were during Roosevelt's rise more than a century ago.
00:06:30.120 First of all, the life of Theodore Roosevelt reminds us that Americans never give up. We
00:06:38.720 don't give up. And second, Theodore Roosevelt reminds us all that to be a great nation
00:06:44.540 and to be a free nation, we must have courage. Without courage, you have nothing. As T.R. once
00:06:52.700 put it, freedom is not a gift that lasts long in the hands of cowards. How about that? Third,
00:07:00.720 Theodore Roosevelt believed in the America that really works and worked. He refused to accept
00:07:08.580 failure, mediocrity, corruption, decay, or decline, and neither should we. Fourth,
00:07:17.020 Theodore Roosevelt believed in an America that thinks big.
00:07:21.760 He thought big. He was a big thinker.
00:07:23.880 Finally, Theodore Roosevelt understood that whatever our background, we are all Americans.
00:07:30.440 We're Americans first united under one flag.
00:07:34.880 The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library officially opening to the public this Saturday, America's 250th, July 4th.
00:07:41.360 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Cash Patel, and other top DOJ officials
00:07:48.400 providing an update yesterday on the Trump administration's campaign against Venezuelan
00:07:52.800 gang Trende Aragua, or TDA. The department announcing two separate indictments charging
00:07:58.200 eight alleged TDA members with a pair of brutal kidnappings and murders in Texas and Illinois.
00:08:04.560 TDA beginning as a prison gang in Venezuela before expanding into a transnational criminal
00:08:09.780 organization with operations across Latin America and the U.S. Federal authorities tying its members
00:08:15.640 and associates to murder, kidnapping, sex trafficking, drug and weapons trafficking,
00:08:20.460 robbery, and sophisticated financial crimes. All eight men charged in the new cases are
00:08:25.320 Venezuelan nationals who, prosecutors say, entered the U.S. illegally between December 2021
00:08:30.240 and April 2024. President Trump on his first day back in office ordering his administration
00:08:36.520 to begin the process of designating Trende Aragua and several other cartels and gangs
00:08:41.400 as terrorist organizations.
00:08:43.840 The State Department formally adding TDA to the Foreign Terrorist Organization list
00:08:47.860 one month later on February 20, 2025.
00:08:51.220 That designation gives federal authorities additional tools to target the organization's
00:08:55.100 members, finances, and support network.
00:08:57.760 A.G. Blanche outlining the administration's progress since President Trump returned to office.
00:09:02.900 These violent crimes and murders happened because under the Biden administration,
00:09:06.520 Open border policies left our borders wide open, and hundreds of suspected and now convicted TDA terrorists poured through those borders into our country.
00:09:20.100 Now, President Trump stopped this madness on January 20th of last year.
00:09:24.060 That same day, President Trump designated TDA as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:09:29.680 In the 18 months since January 20th, and President Trump did that, nearly 350 members and associates of TDA have been charged and or convicted of horrific violent crime, murders, sex trafficking, kidnappings, along with weapons charges, drug trafficking, robbery, ATM jackpotting, and other widespread financial crimes.
00:09:55.700 FBI Director Cash Patel describing a dramatic increase in enforcement against the gang.
00:10:00.720 Gangs are the reason why so many drugs, guns and violence are deployed onto our streets and onto our community and take so many innocent lives.
00:10:08.760 We have seen specifically as it relates to Trende, Aragua, a 519 percent increase in arrest.
00:10:15.160 As the attorney general laid out, you've seen hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Trende, Aragua, violent gangsters and thugs picked up and arrested and taken off our streets permanently.
00:10:25.160 for crimes ranging from kidnapping, to murder, to drug trafficking, to firearms, violence,
00:10:30.640 and more. We are safeguarding American citizens and American communities because President Trump
00:10:36.280 decided to put law enforcement first, give us the resources that we need to do our jobs and
00:10:41.700 safeguard our communities, and make sure that the details that you're about to hear never happen
00:10:46.220 again to another community in Dallas or Chicago or anywhere else. The first indictment arising
00:10:50.780 from the alleged August 2024 kidnapping of a father and two children in the Dallas area.
00:10:56.240 Northern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould describing the alleged crime leading
00:11:01.080 to the indictment. On August 24, 2024, in the middle of night, a man and two kids had their
00:11:08.160 hands zip-tied and were kidnapped by TDA members who demanded that they pay them money. Once the
00:11:14.980 TDA members realized the man could not pay them any money, they pulled over by a bridge in Dallas
00:11:21.240 and told the man to jump off. When he refused to do so and attempted to flee, a TDA member gunned
00:11:29.380 him down, execution style, in front of the two children. The Farmers Branch Police found the man
00:11:35.780 on the side of the road, abandoned and bleeding from the head because of a single gunshot right
00:11:42.200 between his eyes. This led my office to initiate an international investigation of this transnational
00:11:49.280 criminal organization. A federal grand jury in North Texas now charging five alleged TDA members
00:11:55.100 with participating in a racketeering operation stretching across state lines and international
00:12:00.200 borders. The indictment accusing the group of murder, kidnapping, and ATM jackpotting, a scheme
00:12:06.020 in which criminals install or deploy malware that forces cash machines to dispense money on command.
00:12:12.200 The second indictment coming out of Chicago, where federal prosecutors are charging three
00:12:16.620 alleged TDA members with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and carrying out a kidnapping that
00:12:21.860 resulted in death. Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros describing what
00:12:27.340 prosecutors allege happened less than two months ago. On a spring afternoon in May of this year,
00:12:33.640 just less than 60 days or so ago, a victim was walking with two other men near a particular
00:12:39.580 Park in Chicago, which houses a large green space on the south side of Chicago with three
00:12:45.220 playgrounds, a basketball court, and a baseball field. The defendants captured the victim and
00:12:51.180 then forced him into a car where he was initially driven to a Chicago apartment.
00:12:57.800 There, the defendant and their co-conspirators bound the victim's wrists behind his back,
00:13:03.620 held him against his will, and kept him in there for hours. They later exited this apartment
00:13:09.460 with the victim, where now the victim's hands were tied behind his back.
00:13:14.400 They transported the victim to an abandoned building in Chicago,
00:13:17.960 where he was shot multiple times in the head and in the body.
00:13:21.960 The victim's lifeless body was left face down in the bathroom,
00:13:27.420 partially in the bathtub, in an abandoned unit.
00:13:31.620 A.G. Blanche, emphasizing that all eight men charged in the two cases
00:13:34.900 allegedly crossed the southern border illegally during the Biden administration.
00:13:40.300 Coming up, former Vice President Kamala Harris reaching out to key figures on the Democrat left.
00:13:45.760 And the latest signs she may be laying the groundwork for another White House campaign.
00:13:49.740 And two daredevil lovebirds scale the Empire State Building,
00:13:53.260 unfurling a peace banner and getting engaged before getting arrested.
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00:15:12.060 In the latest indication, Kamala Harris may be preparing to run for president again,
00:15:16.360 the former vice president reaching out to some of the Democrat Party's most powerful progressives,
00:15:20.700 including socialist New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani and activists who opposed the Biden
00:15:25.380 administration's handling of the war in Gaza. Axios first reporting, Harris privately called
00:15:30.620 Mamdani last Thursday to discuss the future of the party, with the two planning a longer
00:15:35.200 conversation. The call coming is Harris reportedly works to strengthen, and in some cases repair,
00:15:41.060 relationships with the left ahead of a possible 2028 campaign. Gaza emerging is one of Ms. Harris's
00:15:46.580 most persistent political problems during the 2024 campaign, with anti-Israel demonstrators
00:15:52.060 repeatedly interrupting her events. And he intends to end the Affordable Care Act.
00:15:57.480 You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that, otherwise I'm speaking.
00:16:03.700 The protests reflecting broader frustration on the left over Harris's refusal to put greater
00:16:07.880 distance between herself and then-President Biden's support for Israel. In her 2025 campaign
00:16:13.400 memoir, Harris claimed she privately urged Mr. Biden to show greater empathy for Palestinian
00:16:18.680 civilians. The former vice president also reportedly reaching out to activists connected
00:16:23.560 to the uncommitted movement, which formed in opposition to the Biden administration's policy
00:16:28.040 toward Israel and the war in Gaza. Many of its supporters feeling abandoned by the party,
00:16:33.440 dividing over whether to support Ms. Harris against President Trump, the movement ultimately
00:16:38.200 declining to endorse Ms. Harris, even as several of its most prominent members announced they would
00:16:43.380 vote for her over President Trump. Last week, Ms. Harris meeting in Detroit with uncommitted
00:16:48.040 movement co-founder Abbas Alaouia, now a Democratic candidate for the Michigan State
00:16:53.140 Senate. During the 2024 campaign, Alaouia telling CNN he personally planned to vote for Harris
00:16:59.080 while explaining that a formal endorsement from the movement would require a major change
00:17:03.180 in her policy toward Israel. You're voting for Harris, but your organization not exactly
00:17:10.020 endorsing Harris, what's the difference there?
00:17:13.560 Yeah, in our view, an endorsement is a very specific thing.
00:17:16.800 And we made a public offer to Vice President Harris
00:17:20.420 that if she embraces a different approach,
00:17:22.740 if she endorses a policy that would truly implement
00:17:26.040 U.S. law and stop the flow of weapons to Netanyahu
00:17:28.980 for his mass killing campaigns,
00:17:30.780 killing babies to the tune of over 16,000 babies,
00:17:34.380 then we would come out and publicly endorse.
00:17:36.040 And that would mean we would mobilize people
00:17:38.020 here in the state of Michigan and elsewhere.
00:17:40.020 Ms. Harris reportedly meeting in April with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:17:44.720 Democrat Socialist from New York, during the Power Rising Conference in Chicago,
00:17:48.640 a three-day gathering organized for Black women and their allies.
00:17:52.200 All of it adding to speculation that Harris is attempting to rebuild
00:17:55.340 the progressive coalition she would need for another White House campaign.
00:17:59.440 With less than two years before the first presidential primary votes are cast,
00:18:03.380 Vice President Harris remaining the early national frontrunner.
00:18:06.080 The current RealClearPolitics polling average placing her at 27.3%, followed by California Governor Gavin Newsom at 17%, Pete Buttigieg at 12.6%, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez at 11%, Josh Shapiro at 6.6%, and Mark Kelly at 5.6%.
00:18:22.720 Two daredevils arrested yesterday after scaling the Empire State Building without permission or safety equipment.
00:18:30.620 The pair emerging around noon, dressed head-to-toe in black and wearing masks.
00:18:34.960 The woman completing the look with a pair of sharply pointed Catwoman ears.
00:18:38.820 Together they climbed to the top of the building's antenna,
00:18:41.680 1,454 feet above the streets of Midtown Manhattan.
00:18:45.880 Once there, the couple unfurling a massive black banner reading, quote,
00:18:49.220 When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.
00:18:54.020 The message whipping through the wind as news helicopters circled
00:18:57.080 and New Yorkers below tried to figure out what exactly they were watching.
00:19:01.000 Apparently in no rush to return to solid ground,
00:19:03.780 the two knuckle-headed lovebirds lingering at the top of the antenna before beginning their descent.
00:19:09.300 Then, after reaching a slightly less terrifying platform at the base of the spire,
00:19:13.920 the stunt taking a romantic turn, as narrated by ABC News.
00:19:18.320 Oh dear God, Kira, this guy is getting down on a knee, perhaps proposing to this individual?
00:19:24.020 Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Aaron, I think that's exactly what could be happening. I wish WABC would just move a little bit more around so we could see what he's doing down on his knee. This is crazy.
00:19:38.280 If it's a proposal, it's an elaborate one. And I hope she said yes. But it is undoubtedly going to end in their arrest.
00:19:46.480 Correct on all counts. The pair embracing, kissing and posing for pictures more than a quarter mile above the city.
00:19:54.020 The newly engaged couple eventually making their way back to street level,
00:19:57.560 greeted by New York's finest and placed into custody shortly after 1 p.m.
00:20:03.000 The two identified as Russian climbers Angela Nikolo and Yvonne Birkus,
00:20:08.240 the stars of the 2024 Netflix documentary Skywalker's A Love Story.
00:20:13.340 Love is like heights.
00:20:16.180 The fear never goes away.
00:20:18.300 You just get better at facing it.
00:20:20.100 sometimes i would look down at the city and i couldn't believe how we had gotten here
00:20:25.820 illegally climbing buildings known as rooftoppers their videos are exploding across the internet
00:20:31.700 this extreme life this expanded state of mind it's essential for me vanya made it into a career
00:20:39.100 but i had the creative touch as an artist you need to express yourself now we were more than
00:20:45.360 just daredebils. Now we are telling a story, a love story. The couple reportedly living together
00:20:52.080 in East Orange, New Jersey. Nicolope housing her own close-up of the ring on Instagram before
00:20:57.160 beginning the rest of her descent, holding her newly decorated hand against the Manhattan skyline.
00:21:02.780 Still unclear is how the pair managed to carry their camera equipment and enormous banner
00:21:07.160 through the building, then make their way onto the restricted antenna, as visitors and their
00:21:11.260 belongings are required to pass through security screening. A source familiar with the incident
00:21:15.540 telling the New York Post the couple allegedly breached a mesh gate on the 102nd floor, allowing
00:21:21.300 them to reach the 103rd floor, a restricted level used exclusively for maintenance. Police sources
00:21:27.160 telling CBS News the pair could face trespassing and reckless endangerment counts. No injuries
00:21:32.400 reported. The Empire State Building assuring visitors the unauthorized climb never placed
00:21:36.940 its tenants, tourists, or observation deck guests in danger. The landmark operates public observation
00:21:42.900 decks on the 86th and 102nd floors, its representatives reminding any other romantics
00:21:48.760 tempted to follow the couple's lead that scaling the antenna is not actually necessary. Quote,
00:21:54.360 it is to be emphasized that the Empire State Building observation deck atop the
00:21:58.320 world's most famous building in the center of New York City does offer a practical way for
00:22:03.720 the most memorable marriage proposals.
00:22:08.340 That'll do it for your AM update.
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00:22:25.840 All right, full-time thoughts.
00:22:27.340 Craig, who stood out?
00:22:28.340 Brazil's lime cheesecake started bright, didn't let up.
00:22:30.880 Nah, for me, Italian cappuccino
00:22:32.480 was to stand out in the box.
00:22:33.940 But if we're talking decadent performance,
00:22:35.860 that's all France.
00:22:36.780 Chocolate creme brulee had the richest finishes.
00:22:39.180 Canadian fireworks really showed up big too.
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