Exclusive Details From Nashville Shooter's Journals, Truth About Anti-Trump Rallies: AM Update 4⧸7
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We have at long last obtained the chilling journals kept by the Nashville Covenant School Shooter. The journals local officials did not want you to see inside the mind of a killer. I m talking about what feels like a tangible shift in momentum in favor of a rising opposition. Nationwide protests against Elon Musk and the Trump administration spring up throughout the weekend. Is this organic or astroturfed? And new details reveal how a controversial journalist might indeed have ended up in that group chat. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, April 7th, 2025. And this is your
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AM update. We begin this morning with a Megan Kelly exclusive. We have at long last obtained
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the chilling journals kept by the Nashville Covenant school shooter. The journals local
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officials did not want you to see a look inside the mind of a killer. I'm talking about what
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feels like a tangible shift in momentum in favor of a rising opposition. Nationwide protests against
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration spring up throughout the weekend. Is this organic or
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astroturfed? And new signal gate details reveal how a controversial journalist might indeed have ended
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up in that group chat. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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Breaking news. The Megyn Kelly Show has exclusively obtained from the FBI the full set of journals
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written by the Nashville Covenant School shooter. These have never been published or released before.
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Moreover, they appear to have been mischaracterized by Nashville authorities last week.
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We here at the Megyn Kelly Show do not name school shooters, but so as not to confuse listeners,
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we mention here that the shooter's birth name was Audrey. She was female. This same set of journals
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also sent to the House Intel Committee, whose chairman received a letter from the FBI reading,
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quote, Director Patel is leading the FBI toward increased transparency with Congress in order
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to restore trust, and we hope these documents assist in that regard. The documents, more than a
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thousand pages, contain minimal redactions. The FBI says only were necessary to protect identifiable
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details of other individuals and or sensitive information. Over the weekend, the Megyn Kelly team
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reviewed these documents. We have permission to report on, but not post them. The information
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contained within the pages is dark, deranged, and newsworthy. It provides clear insight into the
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depraved mind of the killer. Critical context excluded from the 48-page report released last week by the
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Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and withheld now from the public for two years. Within the Nashville
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report, acknowledgment of an autism diagnosis, mentions of writings retrieved from journals,
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and the killer's feelings. The Nashville report briefly references the killer's desire to transition
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genders, but notes she had not yet done so. It says she began using the name Aiden and he-him pronouns
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in the years prior to her death. And that is all it says about her gender obsession. No detailed
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psychological analysis, no exploration of the killer's gender struggles, feelings of racial animus,
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or of how those factors contributed to the slaughter. The families of the victims do not wish for this
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information to be public, nor do we typically spend much time quoting killer manifestos. However,
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the public's interest in understanding the full motivation behind this act compels its publication.
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What follows is a carefully selected portion of the killer's writings, shared solely to provide the
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necessary context omitted by Nashville police and hidden from the public for two years. On March 27,
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2023, the killer entered the Covenant Presbyterian Church and School just after 10 a.m., killing three
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third-grade children aged nine and three adults before police fatally shot her. Nashville police initially
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acknowledged recovering journals from the killer's vehicle at the school, though declined to release the
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contents, citing the ongoing investigation. In their final report, Nashville police write, quote,
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early in the investigation, it was suggested Audrey left behind a manifesto detailing her motives and
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intentions. By definition, a manifesto is a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an
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individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their
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actions. The Nashville report goes on to conclude a true manifesto is a single document outlining all
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of the factors motivating the event. Because the killer did not leave behind a single document, but rather a
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trove of documents, the Nashville report picks and chooses from the killer's writings, purporting to
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summarize them, omitting critical details and sugarcoating the killer's struggle with her gender identity as if it were
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irrelevant. In fact, the killer is highly focused on gender identity. In November 2023, radio host Stephen
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Crowder published three pages of the document we reviewed, received from an anonymous source. Those pages
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revealing a timeline for the planned attack and messages expressing resentment against white people and
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their privilege. The killer herself was white. The notebooks dating from 2020 until just days before the attack
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in 2023. One of the final pages reading, quote, I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific
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way possible that no one will ever forget the end, end quote, signed Aiden, the killer's preferred male name.
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The pages detail a deeply disturbed individual planning meticulously over years to carry out a mass shooting
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and then kill herself. The killer discusses her autism diagnosis, race, and her desire for, quote,
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black love and acceptance, as well as her hatred of her own whiteness. Many of the writings are sexual in
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nature, expressing frustration with her virginity. The killer is scribbling lots of information about guns and
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her training with firearms. Other school shootings, well documented within the pages, in particular references to
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the gods who committed the Columbine school shooting. The words dark abyss consistently pop up, whether a
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direct reference or scribbled into the margins, accompanied by an image resembling a radioactive symbol.
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The logo created by the killer to represent her all-consuming depression and commitment to gaining notoriety
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via a mass shooting. The journals contain many pages expressing the killer's belief that she was a man
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and was born in the wrong body. In one entry dated April 12th, 2022, titled Let Kids Choose Their Sex,
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the killer writes, quote, I only wore some nice girl clothes as a cover-up from the truth, which I denied
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myself all these years, and I hated all of it. It was miserable being raised a girl because I had no choice.
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There was lack of education research and medicine to help society or parents better understand
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transgender. I didn't know trans existed. I thought you could only be gay or bi, and that's the fate you
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had. But transgender is transcending way deeper to the core. There is still medicine to be approved by
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the FDA, and so little research has been done. If I had puberty blockers back then, I would have
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transitioned a long time ago, but I didn't know you could possibly change your sex. I'm mad that no one
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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
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years. By the time that happens, I'm 30. And then 10 years later, I got a bald spot on my head and look
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like an old man. Hell no. It's best to start it at 16 for shots. But my youth is over, way past now.
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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
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it. Much more, I'd like to dispose my vagina. We should all choose our gender. The next page is titled
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Transman. The killer writes, quote, I knew I was a boy the moment first memories and development
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formed. Being a tomboy wasn't a phase. Parents forced children into which the way they were
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biologically born. I don't care what authority says, but no adult is fair when they don't let
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their children want to choose being a boy or girl because they think children don't know anything.
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The title of the following page is, quote, F me, where the killer writes, quote, how does it feel to
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grow up the gender you were born with and are comfortable and happy with it? Well, I don't
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know that feeling. I never did, you senseless people, that you don't know WTF comes out of
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your mouth telling me I am female. Female pronouns make me feel like I want to die, especially called
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woman. I never was ever. I hate being in a woman's body. Need to die. The next page is called Killer
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List, and it is a list of the killers from Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, DC Snipers, Jeffrey Dahmer,
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Tim McVeigh, Jim Jones, and others. Around the names, hand-drawn images of guns and bloody
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knives. Later on in the journal, three pages that appear to have been printed and affixed
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into the journal titled, I Hate the American People. In it, the killer writes, quote, white
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people who want to take away instead of adding more. What do you call that? America is not the
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land of the free. It's a land full of idiots. It will only get worse in this country. Not near
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enough gods like me, America and its people, all destined to soon be destroyed. The entry
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signed, quote, I hate you all, Aiden. After she killed six people, the shooter herself was
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killed by police. We will have more of the disturbing writings of the Nashville Killer on
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The Megyn Kelly Show later today, and we'll fully contextualize them all. Coming up, a weekend
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of nationwide protesting against Elon Musk and the Trump administration, a grassroots movement
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or a highly coordinated left-wing activist campaign. National Security Advisor Mike Walsz
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somewhat vindicated for accidentally adding a reporter to a group chat involving attack plans
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against the Houthi rebel group. All that and more in just a moment.
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the best shape of our lives. Go to getjackedup.com. Over the weekend, dozens of rallies popping up
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across the country, protesting Elon Musk and the Trump administration. The media openly cheerleading
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it. The MAGA backlash is officially here. Labor organizations, civil rights groups, veterans,
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LGBTQ groups, election activists, and others organized around the idea of telling Trump and Elon Musk
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hands off. Do you feel it yet? Like a tremor before the earthquake? Today, in all 50 states and the
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District of Columbia, thousands poured onto the streets to demonstrate against President Trump's
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most harmful policies. His opponents are taken to the street this weekend, holding hands-off demonstrations
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to speak out against government staffing cuts, mass deportations, and the administration's
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ongoing dismantling of civil rights protections for all Americans. Rallygoers across the nation
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all appearing to conform to similar talking points.
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Dallas showing up, y'all. Hands off, motherfuckers.
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Hands off! Hands off! Hands off! Our personal data!
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Fighting Donald Trump the Trump visit ever since he came down that escalator 10 years ago. I'm down
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here in Bryant Park with tens of thousands of other New Yorkers telling Donald Trump, hands off our
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democracy. The event officially billed as Hands Off, a highly coordinated campaign organized by more than
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150 left-wing activist groups. The ACLU, the Women's March, Move On, Democratic Socialists of America,
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Planned Parenthood, all working together, quote, in opposition to Trump and Musk's attempts
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to steal our public services and our democracy. Progressive activist group Indivisible playing a
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significant role in organizing the events. If that name sounds familiar, the organization is also
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responsible for coordinating the protests at GOP town halls in recent weeks. Trump and his people
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are booing very rapidly for a dictatorship and an organizing. This is the Doge program.
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Like him or not, Elon Musk has brought a lot of really smart people.
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Those raucous town halls also picked up by fawning media and portrayed as organic events.
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You see how it works? Next will be the opinion polls showing how Elon's and Doge's popularity are
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falling. In reality, many of these events, whether town halls or hands-off events across the country,
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are coordinated with help from Indivisible. The leftist organizing group founded by
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activists Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg in the wake of Donald Trump's 2016 election. The group
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growing into a powerful network with chapters across all 50 states, accepting more than 7.6 million in
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total from George Soros' Open Society Foundations. They've got cash and are ready to spend it.
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New reporting about how National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added a reporter
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to a private group chat on Signal. Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic generating a
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media frenzy with an article titled, The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war
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plans. Mr. Goldberg reporting he was accidentally included in a chat with high-level intel officials
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discussing the merits of assaulting the rebel group in Yemen. Despite many calls for resignations and
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firings, President Trump, standing behind his national security team, determined not to give the media
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the satisfaction of a scalp. Reports that President Trump was more irritated that a member of his
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team appeared to have Trump antagonist Jeffrey Goldberg as one of his contacts than he was at
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the mistake of adding him to the Signal group chat. National Security Advisor Waltz maintaining that
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Goldberg was not one of his contacts. So you've never met Goldberg? He's out there saying you guys have
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met in the past, but you've never met him? No idea. Wouldn't know him if I bumped into him,
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if I saw him in a police lineup. Do now. Knew him by reputation about lying for lying about the
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president over and over again. What I can tell you for certain, certainly wasn't reaching out or
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talking to him at all. Why would I? Well, look, a staffer wasn't responsible. And look, I take full
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responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated.
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But how did the number? I mean, I don't mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number?
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Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else's
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number there? Oh, I never make those mistakes. Right? You've got somebody else's number on
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someone else's contact. So of course I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone
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else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something
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we're trying to figure out. On Sunday, The Guardian exclusively reporting the details of how the
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mishap allegedly took place, citing three sources within the White House. And it sounds similar to
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what Mr. Walsh said. The Guardian reporting NSA Walsh, quote, mistakenly saved Mr. Goldberg's number
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months before under the contact of someone else he intended to add. Jeffrey Goldberg had emailed a
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member of the Trump administration about a story he was working on. Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes
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forwarded the content of that email, including Jeffrey Goldberg's signature block containing
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Mr. Goldberg's phone number to NSA Walsh. The Guardian reporting, quote, according to the White
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House, the number was erroneously saved during a contact suggestion update by Walsh's iPhone,
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which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number
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to an existing contact that it detects may be related. The White House did not officially comment on the
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story. Mr. Goldberg saying, quote, I'm not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Walsh
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beyond saying I do know him and have spoken to him. Tonight, the Florida Gators take on the Houston
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Cougars in the NCAA March Madness final. On Saturday, the Gators beating the Auburn Tigers 79-73 in their
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final four matchup. The Cougars overcoming a 14-point trail in the final eight minutes of the game,
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beating the Duke Blue Devils. I don't want to talk about it. Cooper, Tyrese, what happened?
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Tip office tonight at 850 East. Hope your bracket's still intact. That'll do it for your AM update. I'm
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Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east,
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