The Megyn Kelly Show - Exclusive Details From Nashville Shooter's Journals, Truth About Anti-Trump Rallies： AM Update 4⧸7

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, April 7th, 2025. And this is your

00:00:08.360 AM update. We begin this morning with a Megan Kelly exclusive. We have at long last obtained

00:00:14.660 the chilling journals kept by the Nashville Covenant school shooter. The journals local

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00:01:53.460 Breaking news. The Megyn Kelly Show has exclusively obtained from the FBI the full set of journals

00:01:59.940 written by the Nashville Covenant School shooter. These have never been published or released before.

00:02:06.140 Moreover, they appear to have been mischaracterized by Nashville authorities last week.

00:02:12.860 We here at the Megyn Kelly Show do not name school shooters, but so as not to confuse listeners,

00:02:18.200 we mention here that the shooter's birth name was Audrey. She was female. This same set of journals

00:02:24.800 also sent to the House Intel Committee, whose chairman received a letter from the FBI reading,

00:02:30.940 quote, Director Patel is leading the FBI toward increased transparency with Congress in order

00:02:36.680 to restore trust, and we hope these documents assist in that regard. The documents, more than a

00:02:42.340 thousand pages, contain minimal redactions. The FBI says only were necessary to protect identifiable

00:02:49.100 details of other individuals and or sensitive information. Over the weekend, the Megyn Kelly team

00:02:54.980 reviewed these documents. We have permission to report on, but not post them. The information

00:03:01.120 contained within the pages is dark, deranged, and newsworthy. It provides clear insight into the

00:03:08.140 depraved mind of the killer. Critical context excluded from the 48-page report released last week by the

00:03:14.800 Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and withheld now from the public for two years. Within the Nashville

00:03:21.460 report, acknowledgment of an autism diagnosis, mentions of writings retrieved from journals,

00:03:27.860 and the killer's feelings. The Nashville report briefly references the killer's desire to transition

00:03:33.780 genders, but notes she had not yet done so. It says she began using the name Aiden and he-him pronouns

00:03:40.740 in the years prior to her death. And that is all it says about her gender obsession. No detailed

00:03:48.060 psychological analysis, no exploration of the killer's gender struggles, feelings of racial animus,

00:03:54.220 or of how those factors contributed to the slaughter. The families of the victims do not wish for this

00:04:00.580 information to be public, nor do we typically spend much time quoting killer manifestos. However,

00:04:07.240 the public's interest in understanding the full motivation behind this act compels its publication.

00:04:12.840 What follows is a carefully selected portion of the killer's writings, shared solely to provide the

00:04:18.920 necessary context omitted by Nashville police and hidden from the public for two years. On March 27,

00:04:27.320 2023, the killer entered the Covenant Presbyterian Church and School just after 10 a.m., killing three

00:04:33.940 third-grade children aged nine and three adults before police fatally shot her. Nashville police initially

00:04:41.280 acknowledged recovering journals from the killer's vehicle at the school, though declined to release the

00:04:46.140 contents, citing the ongoing investigation. In their final report, Nashville police write, quote,

00:04:52.360 early in the investigation, it was suggested Audrey left behind a manifesto detailing her motives and 0.89

00:04:58.260 intentions. By definition, a manifesto is a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an

00:05:04.980 individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their

00:05:10.720 actions. The Nashville report goes on to conclude a true manifesto is a single document outlining all

00:05:18.080 of the factors motivating the event. Because the killer did not leave behind a single document, but rather a

00:05:24.520 trove of documents, the Nashville report picks and chooses from the killer's writings, purporting to

00:05:30.340 summarize them, omitting critical details and sugarcoating the killer's struggle with her gender identity as if it were

00:05:39.040 irrelevant. In fact, the killer is highly focused on gender identity. In November 2023, radio host Stephen

00:05:47.760 Crowder published three pages of the document we reviewed, received from an anonymous source. Those pages

00:05:54.760 revealing a timeline for the planned attack and messages expressing resentment against white people and

00:06:00.380 their privilege. The killer herself was white. The notebooks dating from 2020 until just days before the attack

00:06:07.160 in 2023. One of the final pages reading, quote, I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific

00:06:13.880 way possible that no one will ever forget the end, end quote, signed Aiden, the killer's preferred male name.

00:06:22.000 The pages detail a deeply disturbed individual planning meticulously over years to carry out a mass shooting

00:06:28.580 and then kill herself. The killer discusses her autism diagnosis, race, and her desire for, quote,

00:06:35.900 black love and acceptance, as well as her hatred of her own whiteness. Many of the writings are sexual in

00:06:42.520 nature, expressing frustration with her virginity. The killer is scribbling lots of information about guns and

00:06:48.160 her training with firearms. Other school shootings, well documented within the pages, in particular references to

00:06:54.920 the gods who committed the Columbine school shooting. The words dark abyss consistently pop up, whether a

00:07:02.300 direct reference or scribbled into the margins, accompanied by an image resembling a radioactive symbol.

00:07:08.480 The logo created by the killer to represent her all-consuming depression and commitment to gaining notoriety

00:07:14.980 via a mass shooting. The journals contain many pages expressing the killer's belief that she was a man

00:07:21.140 and was born in the wrong body. In one entry dated April 12th, 2022, titled Let Kids Choose Their Sex,

00:07:28.560 the killer writes, quote, I only wore some nice girl clothes as a cover-up from the truth, which I denied

00:07:34.420 myself all these years, and I hated all of it. It was miserable being raised a girl because I had no choice.

00:07:40.920 There was lack of education research and medicine to help society or parents better understand

00:07:45.700 transgender. I didn't know trans existed. I thought you could only be gay or bi, and that's the fate you 1.00

00:07:51.320 had. But transgender is transcending way deeper to the core. There is still medicine to be approved by 0.83

00:07:56.800 the FDA, and so little research has been done. If I had puberty blockers back then, I would have

00:08:02.000 transitioned a long time ago, but I didn't know you could possibly change your sex. I'm mad that no one 1.00

00:08:07.820 told me until I was 22. I feel I'm too old and too late to become a man. Now the process takes months to

00:08:13.320 years. By the time that happens, I'm 30. And then 10 years later, I got a bald spot on my head and look

00:08:19.000 like an old man. Hell no. It's best to start it at 16 for shots. But my youth is over, way past now. 0.73

00:08:25.680 And it's over, over. How dare God hand me a training bra when I didn't know WTF it was as a kid. I hated

00:08:32.720 it. Much more, I'd like to dispose my vagina. We should all choose our gender. The next page is titled 1.00

00:08:39.440 Transman. The killer writes, quote, I knew I was a boy the moment first memories and development

00:08:44.800 formed. Being a tomboy wasn't a phase. Parents forced children into which the way they were

00:08:50.820 biologically born. I don't care what authority says, but no adult is fair when they don't let 1.00

00:08:56.240 their children want to choose being a boy or girl because they think children don't know anything.

00:09:01.880 The title of the following page is, quote, F me, where the killer writes, quote, how does it feel to

00:09:07.600 grow up the gender you were born with and are comfortable and happy with it? Well, I don't 1.00

00:09:11.960 know that feeling. I never did, you senseless people, that you don't know WTF comes out of

00:09:16.880 your mouth telling me I am female. Female pronouns make me feel like I want to die, especially called

00:09:22.880 woman. I never was ever. I hate being in a woman's body. Need to die. The next page is called Killer 1.00

00:09:30.360 List, and it is a list of the killers from Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, DC Snipers, Jeffrey Dahmer,

00:09:37.580 Tim McVeigh, Jim Jones, and others. Around the names, hand-drawn images of guns and bloody

00:09:44.260 knives. Later on in the journal, three pages that appear to have been printed and affixed

00:09:49.080 into the journal titled, I Hate the American People. In it, the killer writes, quote, white

00:09:54.300 people who want to take away instead of adding more. What do you call that? America is not the

00:09:59.500 land of the free. It's a land full of idiots. It will only get worse in this country. Not near

00:10:04.560 enough gods like me, America and its people, all destined to soon be destroyed. The entry

00:10:10.160 signed, quote, I hate you all, Aiden. After she killed six people, the shooter herself was

00:10:16.900 killed by police. We will have more of the disturbing writings of the Nashville Killer on

00:10:21.180 The Megyn Kelly Show later today, and we'll fully contextualize them all. Coming up, a weekend

00:10:27.960 of nationwide protesting against Elon Musk and the Trump administration, a grassroots movement

00:10:33.420 or a highly coordinated left-wing activist campaign. National Security Advisor Mike Walsz

00:10:39.760 somewhat vindicated for accidentally adding a reporter to a group chat involving attack plans

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00:12:09.640 across the country, protesting Elon Musk and the Trump administration. The media openly cheerleading

00:12:15.300 it. The MAGA backlash is officially here. Labor organizations, civil rights groups, veterans,

00:12:20.960 LGBTQ groups, election activists, and others organized around the idea of telling Trump and Elon Musk

00:12:28.960 hands off. Do you feel it yet? Like a tremor before the earthquake? Today, in all 50 states and the

00:12:36.040 District of Columbia, thousands poured onto the streets to demonstrate against President Trump's

00:12:41.200 most harmful policies. His opponents are taken to the street this weekend, holding hands-off demonstrations

00:12:48.760 to speak out against government staffing cuts, mass deportations, and the administration's

00:12:56.200 ongoing dismantling of civil rights protections for all Americans. Rallygoers across the nation

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00:13:14.880 Dallas showing up, y'all. Hands off, motherfuckers. 1.00

00:13:18.620 Hands off! Hands off! Hands off! Our personal data!

00:13:25.060 Fighting Donald Trump the Trump visit ever since he came down that escalator 10 years ago. I'm down

00:13:29.660 here in Bryant Park with tens of thousands of other New Yorkers telling Donald Trump, hands off our

00:13:34.660 democracy. The event officially billed as Hands Off, a highly coordinated campaign organized by more than

00:13:41.140 150 left-wing activist groups. The ACLU, the Women's March, Move On, Democratic Socialists of America,

00:13:48.260 Planned Parenthood, all working together, quote, in opposition to Trump and Musk's attempts

00:13:53.140 to steal our public services and our democracy. Progressive activist group Indivisible playing a

00:14:00.160 significant role in organizing the events. If that name sounds familiar, the organization is also

00:14:05.100 responsible for coordinating the protests at GOP town halls in recent weeks. Trump and his people

00:14:11.260 are booing very rapidly for a dictatorship and an organizing. This is the Doge program.

00:14:28.060 Like him or not, Elon Musk has brought a lot of really smart people.

00:14:32.380 Those raucous town halls also picked up by fawning media and portrayed as organic events.

00:14:46.300 You see how it works? Next will be the opinion polls showing how Elon's and Doge's popularity are

00:14:51.640 falling. In reality, many of these events, whether town halls or hands-off events across the country,

00:14:56.900 are coordinated with help from Indivisible. The leftist organizing group founded by

00:15:02.080 activists Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg in the wake of Donald Trump's 2016 election. The group

00:15:08.220 growing into a powerful network with chapters across all 50 states, accepting more than 7.6 million in

00:15:14.540 total from George Soros' Open Society Foundations. They've got cash and are ready to spend it.

00:15:25.140 New reporting about how National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added a reporter

00:15:30.400 to a private group chat on Signal. Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic generating a

00:15:36.160 media frenzy with an article titled, The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war

00:15:41.260 plans. Mr. Goldberg reporting he was accidentally included in a chat with high-level intel officials

00:15:47.340 discussing the merits of assaulting the rebel group in Yemen. Despite many calls for resignations and

00:15:52.580 firings, President Trump, standing behind his national security team, determined not to give the media

00:15:58.020 the satisfaction of a scalp. Reports that President Trump was more irritated that a member of his

00:16:02.940 team appeared to have Trump antagonist Jeffrey Goldberg as one of his contacts than he was at

00:16:08.500 the mistake of adding him to the Signal group chat. National Security Advisor Waltz maintaining that

00:16:14.300 Goldberg was not one of his contacts. So you've never met Goldberg? He's out there saying you guys have

00:16:20.000 met in the past, but you've never met him? No idea. Wouldn't know him if I bumped into him,

00:16:24.260 if I saw him in a police lineup. Do now. Knew him by reputation about lying for lying about the

00:16:30.200 president over and over again. What I can tell you for certain, certainly wasn't reaching out or

00:16:36.000 talking to him at all. Why would I? Well, look, a staffer wasn't responsible. And look, I take full

00:16:42.840 responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated.

00:16:47.740 But how did the number? I mean, I don't mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number?

00:16:50.840 Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else's

00:16:56.160 number there? Oh, I never make those mistakes. Right? You've got somebody else's number on

00:17:00.360 someone else's contact. So of course I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone

00:17:05.100 else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something

00:17:10.180 we're trying to figure out. On Sunday, The Guardian exclusively reporting the details of how the

00:17:15.340 mishap allegedly took place, citing three sources within the White House. And it sounds similar to

00:17:21.120 what Mr. Walsh said. The Guardian reporting NSA Walsh, quote, mistakenly saved Mr. Goldberg's number

00:17:27.320 months before under the contact of someone else he intended to add. Jeffrey Goldberg had emailed a

00:17:34.580 member of the Trump administration about a story he was working on. Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes

00:17:39.240 forwarded the content of that email, including Jeffrey Goldberg's signature block containing

00:17:45.420 Mr. Goldberg's phone number to NSA Walsh. The Guardian reporting, quote, according to the White

00:17:50.700 House, the number was erroneously saved during a contact suggestion update by Walsh's iPhone,

00:17:57.400 which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number

00:18:02.860 to an existing contact that it detects may be related. The White House did not officially comment on the

00:18:08.800 story. Mr. Goldberg saying, quote, I'm not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Walsh

00:18:14.720 beyond saying I do know him and have spoken to him. Tonight, the Florida Gators take on the Houston

00:18:22.020 Cougars in the NCAA March Madness final. On Saturday, the Gators beating the Auburn Tigers 79-73 in their

00:18:29.960 final four matchup. The Cougars overcoming a 14-point trail in the final eight minutes of the game,

00:18:36.220 beating the Duke Blue Devils. I don't want to talk about it. Cooper, Tyrese, what happened?

00:18:47.280 Tip office tonight at 850 East. Hope your bracket's still intact. That'll do it for your AM update. I'm

00:18:54.000 Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east,

00:18:58.960 on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly, and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - April 07, 2025

Exclusive Details From Nashville Shooter's Journals, Truth About Anti-Trump Rallies： AM Update 4⧸7

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