The Megyn Kelly Show - Feds Charge Charlotte Suspect, Biggest Jobs Revision Ever Exposes Real Biden Economy： AM Update 9⧸10

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00:00:32.600 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, September 10th, 2025, and this is

00:00:38.140 your AM update. We have to be vicious just like they are. It's the only thing they understand. 0.57

00:00:45.080 The Fed's filing a murder charge against the suspect accused of slaying a young woman in cold blood

00:00:50.520 on a Charlotte, North Carolina light rail train. The full video is out, and it is

00:00:56.060 horrifying. New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani endorses a plan making it harder for

00:01:02.240 police to track gang activity. Job growth was vastly weaker during the Biden administration than ever

00:01:09.140 previously reported. Job growth was actually overstated by approximately 2 million jobs.

00:01:15.680 The biggest annual jobs revision in history, revealing President Trump came into office with a much weaker

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00:02:44.120 Department of Justice officials on Tuesday announcing a federal charge against the man

00:02:51.780 accused of murdering 23-year-old Irena Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina

00:02:58.240 in late August. Carlos Brown Jr., who we allege stabbed Irena Zarutska, is in state custody on

00:03:06.660 first-degree murder charges. But I'm here today to announce that we're going to supplement those

00:03:11.320 state charges with federal charges. These federal charges will go alongside the murder case in state

00:03:16.500 court. And we hope that they will ensure justice for Irena, for her family, and for the whole

00:03:21.820 Charlotte community. The charge we are bringing is in Title 18, which is the criminal code. It's

00:03:26.500 Section 1992A7, which is the law that Congress passed really for this situation. It is an act of

00:03:32.780 violence on a mass transportation system. The charge is one count of committing an act causing

00:03:37.820 a death on a mass transit system. The maximum penalty is life without parole or capital punishment.

00:03:44.800 U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson saying prosecutors may bring more charges in the future, including

00:03:49.820 potential civil rights violations. This, as newly released security camera footage, appears to show

00:03:56.200 the suspect, a black man, saying what sounds like, quote, I got that white girl. A second voice appears

00:04:03.840 to add, I think you stabbed a girl. Though further clarification from police is needed to be certain

00:04:09.640 exactly who said what. The tape is deeply disturbing, not for its gore, but for Irena's vulnerability,

00:04:17.540 her clear shock, and her apparent horror as we watch her struggling to make sense of what just happened to

00:04:23.020 her. The assailant, who is seated behind her on the light rail train, stands up out of nowhere and

00:04:29.240 stabs her quickly and repeatedly with a pocket knife, including in her neck. He pulls back, done with the

00:04:35.620 attack, and she is now cowering, still conscious, legs pulled up and held to her chest, in a defensive

00:04:42.120 position. She is looking up at her attacker in sheer terror. She looks down at her own body, almost as if

00:04:49.340 checking to see if and where she is injured. It is chilling and hard to watch, as the viewer knows

00:04:55.120 she's dying. She first covers her mouth, as if in horror, then her eyes, as she appears to be either

00:05:02.320 crying or about to. Her hands alternate between covering her eyes and her mouth. Again, she appears

00:05:08.880 confused. After about 15 seconds, she collapses over to her left side and down, off of her seat,

00:05:15.480 succumbing to her injuries. The passengers around her do nothing. For over a minute, no one helps her.

00:05:23.820 A woman in red, seated next to her, across the aisle, appears to look over at a suffering Irena, 0.99

00:05:30.880 and then looks away. One passenger gets up and walks away, seemingly in the direction of the

00:05:35.980 perpetrator. Finally, a fellow passenger appears, a man in a green shirt, who takes off that shirt and

00:05:42.600 tries to help stop the bleeding. The New York Post reports that some passengers did attempt CPR.

00:05:48.920 In the days since the first videos of the horrific attack were revealed to the public,

00:05:53.720 we've come to learn a lot about this suspect. His mile-long rap sheet stretching over more than a

00:05:59.000 decade. Fourteen arrests, including felony larceny, robbery, and assault, known by local law enforcement

00:06:05.620 to have schizophrenia. Most recently arrested in January for repeatedly dialing 911 to report,

00:06:11.900 quote, man-made material had been implanted in his body and was controlling how he walked,

00:06:18.100 talked, and ate. He was released without bond by Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes. Not only did Ms.

00:06:25.320 Stokes graduate from a law school with the lowest bar passage rates in America, she also serves as the 0.74

00:06:32.220 director of a mental health and addiction treatment facility, leading some to believe she was

00:06:37.480 conflicted and in no position to determine bail for defendants like DeCarlos Brown with a long rap

00:06:43.840 sheet and obvious mental issues. In July, at the request of his public defender, the court ordered a

00:06:50.300 psychological exam be conducted to assess Brown's competency for trial. That order from Chief District

00:06:56.860 Judge Roy Wiggins, who chose not to detain Brown pending the evaluation. Once again, his obvious mental

00:07:04.420 issues did not result in a lockup. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt taking some of this on from the White

00:07:10.440 House on Tuesday. This monster should have been locked up. An arena should still be alive. But Democrat 0.74

00:07:16.500 politicians, liberal judges, and weak prosecutors would rather virtue signal than lock up criminals

00:07:21.680 and protect their communities. And perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets

00:07:28.580 in this room decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a

00:07:34.220 preferred narrative. Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink trying to smear Daniel

00:07:40.580 Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City. But none of those same

00:07:46.880 reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer. Yesterday, prosecutors sharing more

00:07:53.720 about the life of the victim. In Ukraine, Irena earning a degree in art and restoration. She was

00:08:00.320 living in a bomb shelter before she left her home for a brighter life in the U.S. At the time of the

00:08:05.960 attack, she was returning home from a job at a local pizzeria. Officials say she also helped at a

00:08:11.720 retirement home, taking care of neighborhood animals as well. She had recently moved in with her partner,

00:08:17.880 U.S. Attorney Ferguson describing a conversation with her family.

00:08:21.460 After Irena's death, the embassy in Ukraine called and said, we'll help you bring her home.

00:08:27.800 And her family said no. They said she loved America. We're going to bury her here.

00:08:32.380 As folks in the media try to spin their own narratives, U.S. Attorney Ferguson directly

00:08:36.660 addressing accusations of political grandstanding.

00:08:40.060 What do you say to people who see what's happening here today and wonder if this is political

00:08:45.220 grandstanding? This is a heinous crime and we are going to remedy it. I don't know what the

00:08:50.780 politics is here. If this was a political grandstand, there would be an opposite side to

00:08:54.600 this. Is the opposite side, let's allow murders on our light rail? Is the opposite side, let's let

00:08:59.960 people out of state prisons so they can commit other crimes? There's no other side to this. There's

00:09:03.800 no politics to this. President Trump releasing a video from the Oval on Tuesday imploring Democrat

00:09:09.440 leaders to work with the federal government to clean up the streets. For far too long, Americans

00:09:15.380 have been forced to put up with Democrat-run cities that set loose savage, bloodthirsty

00:09:20.920 criminals to prey on innocent people. In every place, they control radical left judges, politicians

00:09:26.840 and activists. And they've adopted a policy of catch and release for thugs and killers. We cannot

00:09:33.460 allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction

00:09:39.120 and death throughout our country. We have to respond with force and strength. We have to be

00:09:45.060 vicious just like they are. It's the only thing they understand.

00:09:52.000 As America reels from another senseless act of violence committed by a repeat offender,

00:09:58.000 New York City Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate, frontrunner Zoran Mamdani, elaborating on plans

00:10:03.900 that could make life easier for alleged criminals in New York City. Mamdani speaking Monday at Columbia

00:10:09.900 University's School of Journalism, saying as mayor he would support abolishing New York City's so-called

00:10:15.940 gang database. Established in 2013, the database contains approximately 16,000 names, including some

00:10:23.320 as young as 11 years old, reportedly, long criticized by progressives and civil rights groups as racially

00:10:29.700 biased, unfairly targeting Black and Hispanic men. A bill to ban the database is currently stalled

00:10:35.680 in the city council. Here now, Mamdani. If city council legislation to abolish the NYPD gang database

00:10:42.560 were to pass, would you support and sign that? I have supported that proposal. It's one that I've

00:10:48.340 supported because of the vast dragnet has meant the inclusion of New Yorkers on the basis of whether

00:10:57.200 they go out late, photos they put on social media, so much of the facts of life of being a young New

00:11:03.800 Yorker. And yet it then becomes a mark of suspicion. There's no question that we have to take

00:11:08.540 gangs extremely seriously. And yet I find that a database that includes New Yorkers on such bases

00:11:16.040 is one that doesn't actually do exactly that. City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute,

00:11:21.680 reporting in March on a drop in New York City shootings to nearly pre-pandemic levels, citing

00:11:27.980 the database as a key law enforcement tool. Quote, gangs are responsible for 65 percent of the city's

00:11:34.800 shootings. When a gang member is shot, officers use the database to assess rivalries, anticipate

00:11:40.620 reprisals, and deploy resources strategically to contain escalating violence. Instead of piecing

00:11:47.000 together information from scattered sources, investigators can quickly identify suspects,

00:11:52.080 establish motives, and close cases faster. NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch defending the 0.72

00:11:58.200 database in the wake of Mamdani's comments on 1010 Winds Radio. Much of the violence that we've seen over

00:12:04.800 the past few weeks in the Bronx is gang-related. We know who the gang members are, thanks to our

00:12:11.060 criminal group database, and we know where they operate. And so you can be sure that we have deployed,

00:12:17.000 12,000 cops in the borough of the Bronx, on the streets, in the times we know the crime has

00:12:21.540 occurred. We are focused on precision policing, the right blocks, the right time, and we know who

00:12:27.580 the people are that are in these gangs, and we are going after the gangs. This year, we have

00:12:31.840 done more gang takedowns in New York City than we ever have. Mayor Eric Adams, running as an

00:12:38.460 independent, supports the database. Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo's stance is unclear.

00:12:43.500 Recent polling from the New York Times shows Mamdani leading the pack by double digits and

00:12:50.200 expanding his top spot in the four-way race. 46 percent of likely voters supporting Mamdani

00:12:56.320 compared to 24 percent for former Governor Andrew Cuomo, 15 percent for Republican Curtis

00:13:02.040 Sliwa, and 9 percent for incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. The number crunchers finding if the field were to

00:13:08.400 shrink to a head-to-head matchup between Mamdani and Governor Cuomo, the race would likely be much

00:13:13.980 tighter. Mamdani with 48 percent, Cuomo, supposedly, with 44. With election day less than two months away,

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00:15:06.160 Joe Biden's economy was even worse than we knew, according to new data released yesterday.

00:15:10.960 An annual revision from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, showing the U.S. jobs market was

00:15:17.760 much weaker than previously reported across most of 2024 through the beginning of 2025. Each month,

00:15:25.440 the BLS releases jobs data collected from two main surveys, one of homes, another of businesses and

00:15:31.540 government agencies. These monthly reports are early snapshots. The numbers are revised several more

00:15:37.480 times as delayed data becomes available. Once a year, the jobs data gets a full true-up, covering the

00:15:43.920 entire stretch from March of one year through the following March. In this case, the Bureau of

00:15:48.840 Labor Statistics dropping the largest preliminary revision ever recorded from March of 2024 through

00:15:55.400 March of this year. The BLS reporting 911,000 fewer jobs were created than initially reported. The average

00:16:03.960 employment gains revised downward from 147,000 per month to about 70,000. This is the second August

00:16:11.760 revision in a row revealing employment numbers were overestimated by nearly one million jobs. Last

00:16:18.660 month, President Trump firing the Biden-appointed head of BLS, accusing the agency of cooking the

00:16:24.420 books to create more favorable reports under President Biden. Critics of the move calling it a political

00:16:30.120 stunt, accusing Mr. Trump of trying to deflect blame from his own tariff policies, which they say are

00:16:36.020 driving up costs for businesses and slowing growth. Trump administration officials like National Economic

00:16:42.340 Council Director Kevin Hassett and Senior Counselor Peter Navarro, arguing data collection methods are

00:16:48.020 outdated and have only deteriorated since COVID. CNBC's senior economics reporter Steve Leisman putting the

00:16:55.960 latest revisions into context. There have been questions lately about how this process, this data,

00:17:01.580 the president raised it, he fired the BLS chief. Does this feed into those concerns about how the data

00:17:07.200 was so off? I think it should, and I'll tell you why, Sarah, because when I look at the history of

00:17:12.960 these as a percentage of payrolls, actually they do a pretty good job when you look at the revisions as

00:17:20.500 a percent, 0.1, 0.2, it's averaged about 0.3. This is 0.6. This is double the average, and it was 0.4

00:17:29.500 in 2024. So the last couple of years have been quite a bit above average in terms of the amount

00:17:35.400 of revision. What's happening here is we're getting jobless claim insurance data from the states. I

00:17:42.360 don't know if the problem is at the state level or if it's at the federal level. Whatever it is,

00:17:47.200 there's something not going quite as well as it used to go in terms of the ability of the BLS to gather

00:17:53.560 monthly data. The Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 initially dipping on the news, though rallying

00:18:00.060 throughout the day to finish in the green. Historically, weak job growth is a signal for

00:18:04.940 the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt at yesterday's briefing

00:18:10.060 saying these numbers bolster the president's call for the Fed to take action at its meeting next week.

00:18:15.840 This was one of the biggest revisions in absolute terms in decades. Between this revision and last

00:18:21.880 year's job growth was actually overstated by approximately 2 million jobs. And the Biden

00:18:27.340 administration stood up here and vouched for that data and told you that data was real.

00:18:31.940 And when President Trump calls into question the veracity of that data like he did before he took

00:18:36.620 the oath of office and even now as president of the United States, he was ridiculed for that.

00:18:40.920 And turns out this revision proves two things. Number one, the president was right. And this is why we

00:18:45.840 need new leadership at the Fed. And this makes it very clear that President Trump inherited a much worse

00:18:51.360 economy by the Biden administration than ever reported. And it also proves that the Federal

00:18:55.940 Reserve is holding our monetary policy far too restrictive. Interest rates are too high. The Fed

00:19:01.320 needs to cut the rates because of the mess that we inherited from the Biden administration.

00:19:05.500 This annual report will be revised one final time those numbers expected in February.

00:19:13.000 Nothing says fighting oligarchy quite like racking up hefty bills at five-star hotels.

00:19:19.080 Just ask U.S. Congresswoman from New York, Democrat Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or AOC.

00:19:27.120 The Washington Examiner reporting on the Congresswoman's Federal Election Commission

00:19:30.920 filings, campaign expenditures revealing large tabs at luxury accommodations, coinciding with stops on the

00:19:38.600 Fighting Oligarchy Tour launched earlier this year by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

00:19:43.600 AOC is a frequent guest on the tour, the AM Update reporting in April on the duo's penchant for flying

00:19:50.140 first class, or better yet, private, as they crisscross the country to raise money from regular folks in

00:19:57.440 their so-called fight against the oligarchs of the Trump administration. The Examiner noting the stark

00:20:03.280 contrast between AOC's message to the crowds and what her life is really like behind the scenes.

00:20:08.880 Last March in Vegas, AOC railing against income inequality, telling rallygoers,

00:20:15.020 quote, we don't have to live like this anymore, Las Vegas. We deserve better than this.

00:20:21.180 Only for the campaign to then drop $3,508.92 at the Vidara Hotel and Spa, according to the Examiner.

00:20:30.520 In April, after a Salt Lake City rally railing against the rich, expense reports show the campaign

00:20:36.940 dropping $3,445.59 at the Asher Adams Hotel. The Examiner reporting, quote,

00:20:45.120 retrofitted from a historical railroad station, the train-themed hotel houses a fine dining restaurant

00:20:51.740 offering wine as pricey as $900 a bottle, lobster towers, and $95 caviar for appetizers.

00:21:01.180 Altogether, the filings show more than $8,000 in luxury hotel bills over just two months,

00:21:07.240 thanks to the small-dollar campaign donors AOC claims to champion.

00:21:12.400 We don't have to live like this, indeed.

00:21:16.960 And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,

00:21:21.540 live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megankelly,

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Feds Charge Charlotte Suspect, Biggest Jobs Revision Ever Exposes Real Biden Economy： AM Update 9⧸10

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