The Megyn Kelly Show - Hegseth Battles Dems on Capitol Hill, Showdown at SCOTUS, Artemis II Crew at WH： AM Update 4⧸30

00:00:00.080 Book a loved-by-guess property with Vrbo, and you get a top-rated vacation rental that's loved for all the right reasons.

00:00:05.920 Ugh, I love my Vrbo for the location.

00:00:08.180 Good reason.

00:00:08.860 Oh, and for the pool, because pools are cool.

00:00:11.180 I feel the love. Book a Vrbo that's loved by guests. If you know, you Vrbo.

00:00:17.800 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM, channel 111.

00:00:25.040 It's Thursday, April 30th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:29.220 Why would Congress permit review of the procedural aspect when really what everybody cares about much more is the substance?

00:00:36.920 The Supreme Court weighing whether the Trump administration can end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of migrants.

00:00:44.880 Underground, they're buried and watching 24-7.

00:00:48.400 So we know where any nuclear material might be.

00:00:51.140 time. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a fiery hill hearing offering lawmakers their first

00:00:56.440 opportunity to publicly question the secretary on the ongoing war with Iran, and a White House

00:01:02.340 welcome for the Artemis II crew after their successful mission around the moon. All that

00:01:07.500 and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. When the dollar's convertibility into

00:01:16.420 gold ended in 1971, gold was fixed at $35 an ounce, 35. Fast forward to today and the U.S.

00:01:23.980 dollar has lost more than 85% of its purchasing power. Gold, on the other hand, has increased

00:01:28.860 in value by over 12,000%. And that's why major firms like Vanguard and BlackRock hold significant

00:01:35.180 positions in gold. And it's also why you may want to consider diversifying your savings with physical

00:01:40.820 gold from Birch Gold Group. But it starts with education. Birch Gold just announced that their

00:01:45.860 Learn and Earn Precious Metals event is on. This free online event rewards you for learning the

00:01:53.220 basics of investing in precious metals. Sign up to get free silver on your next purchase.

00:01:58.760 Get even larger incentives as you go. The more you learn, the more you can earn. But you do have

00:02:03.660 to act now as this special event only runs through April 30th. Time is a-wasting. Text

00:02:11.120 my initials MK to the number 989898 to join Birch Gold's Learn and Earn Precious Metals

00:02:16.560 event by April 30th. That's MK to 989898 today. The U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments

00:02:25.680 yesterday considering whether the Trump administration properly revoked temporary

00:02:30.480 protected status of Syrian and Haitian immigrants. Temporary protected status, or TPS, grants certain

00:02:37.220 foreign nationals the legal right to live and work in the U.S., avoiding deportation if their

00:02:42.800 home country faces war, natural disaster, or extreme circumstances. TPS issued for set periods

00:02:49.580 but can be renewed as it reaches expiration. If the government does not announce whether it will

00:02:54.840 extend or end a designation at least 60 days before it expires, the status is automatically

00:03:00.600 extended for an additional six months. Yesterday's arguments centering on the status of immigrants

00:03:05.940 from two countries, Syria and Haiti. Syrians originally granted TPS in 2012 under then-DHS

00:03:12.740 Secretary Janet Napolitano due to a, quote, brutal crackdown waged by dictator Bashar al-Assad.

00:03:19.700 The status continually renewed, providing about 6,000 Syrians with legal status in the U.S.

00:03:25.860 Haiti granted TPS in 2010 following a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of

00:03:31.440 people and caused major damage throughout the country. That status, too, renewed regularly

00:03:36.880 in the years since. Approximately 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. are here under TPS.

00:03:44.520 Last year, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem moving to end temporary protected status for

00:03:50.180 Haiti and Syria, arguing conditions in each country had improved and that continuing the

00:03:55.320 program was no longer in the national interest. Haitian nationals then filing suit in Washington,

00:04:00.860 D.C., while a group of Syrians challenged the move in New York. In both cases, federal judges

00:04:06.600 blocked the Trump administration from ending the protections, finding the decisions likely

00:04:11.360 violated federal administrative law. With appeals courts citing against the administration,

00:04:16.880 Trump's DOJ taking both cases to the Supreme Court. In yesterday's oral arguments, Solicitor

00:04:22.380 General John Sauer arguing for the government, Attorney Jeff Pippoly arguing for the Haitians,

00:04:27.860 and Alianti, a rule in Otham, arguing for the Syrians.

00:04:32.400 Sauer arguing the law shields the DHS secretary's TPS decisions from court review entirely,

00:04:38.260 including the steps leading up to them.

00:04:40.040 The provision thus bars judicial review of both the secretary's ultimate decision

00:04:44.620 whether to designate, extend, or terminate,

00:04:46.940 and of each antecedent step along the way to that determination.

00:04:51.180 Both challengers agreeing that federal law prevents courts

00:04:54.240 from second-guessing the merits of a TPS decision,

00:04:56.640 but they argue the administration failed to follow the required consultation process

00:05:01.060 before trying to end the program.

00:05:03.460 Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett pressing that position.

00:05:09.260 Would you be kind enough to say what else is reviewable despite the jurisdiction stripping provision?

00:05:19.260 Because it seems pretty broad.

00:05:20.900 It says there is no judicial review of any determination of the Attorney General.

00:05:25.600 We have to say, look, determination is a very broad word.

00:05:30.760 It's used all the time in many different statutory provisions.

00:05:35.840 It's used all the time by this court.

00:05:38.000 If we apply ordinary meaning of that term here, I really don't understand how you can prevail.

00:05:45.400 I mean, if it's just kind of a box-checking exercise, I mean, why would Congress permit review of the procedural aspect

00:05:50.880 when really what everybody cares about much more is the substance?

00:05:55.180 The lawyer for the Haitians also arguing race was a driving factor in ending TPS for the country.

00:06:00.320 Liberal Justice Elena Kagan questioning how that component fits into this case.

00:06:04.740 You can argue that there was just like a across the board, we have to get rid of all these TPS and the statutory requirements weren't followed and all of that.

00:06:15.500 But the injection of this racial component into it, I guess I don't quite see how that operates when all of these programs went.

00:06:26.060 The lawyer pointing to statements from President Trump and former Secretary Noem and contrasting them with policies favoring white migrants, arguing that pattern shows the decision was driven by racial bias.

00:06:37.700 A decision is expected by early July. 0.97

00:06:39.900 We spoke with the Center for Immigration Studies fellow in law and policy, Andrew Arthur, who says this is a clear-cut case and the government is right.

00:06:49.300 What this comes down to is this is a temporary protection. The word temporary appears 42 different times in the statute. And yet, immigrants advocates have managed to turn it into a quasi-permanent form of protection by challenging every determination that the Trump administration has made attempting to end temporary protected status regardless of the country. 0.97

00:07:17.180 You know, this is a pretty straightforward statute. Congress plainly intended that there

00:07:23.420 wouldn't be any judicial review. And unfortunately, it's reflective of the highly politicized times

00:07:29.580 in which we live. The district court judges think that they have the ability, let alone the

00:07:36.060 obligation to interpose themselves in political decisions that Congress has placed outside of

00:07:42.760 their jurisdiction. As for the Haitian plaintiff's claims that race factored into the decision,

00:07:47.860 Arthur points out a flaw in that argument. They're going back to statements that President

00:07:52.440 Trump has made in the past, denigrating statements about Haiti generally, in order to say that

00:07:59.360 improper racial animus has weighed into this decision. But the argument basically goes as

00:08:05.580 follows. One, the president has said that, you know, Haiti is a bad place. TPS is based upon

00:08:12.000 the idea that Haiti is temporarily a bad place. And therefore, it almost defeats their argument

00:08:19.640 to bring up the fact that the president has talked about issues in Haiti. So, you know,

00:08:26.980 it may almost be too cute by half to make the argument. But in the public sphere,

00:08:32.440 it's probably the most compelling argument that they could make. I just don't think it's a valid

00:08:37.040 one. On The Bigger Picture, Arthur predicts the justices will side with the Trump administration,

00:08:41.520 using this case to send a broader message to the lower courts about their role.

00:08:46.180 One of the issues that the Roberts court has contended with as long as Donald Trump has been

00:08:51.420 president is immigrants' advocates who have used the courts as a way to stymie the president's

00:08:58.960 political decisions. And I think that the Roberts court wants to send a message to

00:09:04.960 the inferior courts, the district and the circuit courts, that when Congress says there is no

00:09:11.240 review or that certain things aren't reviewable or aren't reviewable at the district court level,

00:09:17.300 that Congress means what it says so that the Supreme Court doesn't have to continually return

00:09:23.560 to the issue to tell inferior courts that they don't have jurisdiction or that they've gone too

00:09:31.560 far. This court wants to get itself out of political questions. Coming up, Secretary of War

00:09:38.620 Pete Hegseth clashing with lawmakers on the Hill over the war in Iran. And President Trump hosts

00:09:43.700 the Artemis II crew at the White House following their successful mission around the moon.

00:09:52.660 Here's a question. How many brokers does it take to insure your business? If you are like most

00:09:58.720 business owners, the answer is too many. Multiple policies, multiple applications,

00:10:03.480 no clear view of how it all fits together. And when questions come up, it's not easy to get the

00:10:08.180 clarity you need. My God, just the word insurance, it's like you cower in fear. But SuperSure

00:10:13.840 changes all that. Truly, listen to what they do. It's a one-stop shop for all of your business

00:10:19.560 insurance. You don't have to have this policy with that guy, this policy with that gal. Try 0.75

00:10:23.680 to figure it out when something goes wrong. Who do I call? Which policy is it? What's included?

00:10:26.980 What's not? This is backed by a team that's going to work with you year round, not just at renewal.

00:10:32.040 And if you've ever stared at a policy wondering what in God's name it actually covers, Super

00:10:38.220 Sure has a fine print fax tool that will translate the legal jargon into plain English so you

00:10:44.160 know what's covered and what's not.

00:10:45.900 Right now, you can go to supersure.com and get a full report on your current policies

00:10:50.360 with zero obligation.

00:10:52.560 Find out if you're overinsured.

00:10:54.080 Maybe you have too many policies or you've paid too much for them, underinsured, or somewhere

00:10:58.720 in between.

00:10:59.200 Go to supersure.com, one super agency, one powerful platform, all of your policies in

00:11:06.500 one place and somebody to help you understand them.

00:11:10.740 Go to supersure.com slash Megan today.

00:11:13.540 That's supersure.com slash Megan paid for by Supersure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed

00:11:18.900 insurance company.

00:11:21.840 Secretary of War, Pete Heigse, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin

00:11:26.640 Cain and Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules Hurst appearing in front of the House Armed

00:11:31.300 Services Committee yesterday on the Pentagon's 2027 budget request. The hearing presenting the

00:11:36.900 first opportunity for lawmakers to publicly question the officials since the beginning

00:11:41.060 of Operation Epic Fury in Iran. Hurst testifying that the estimated cost of the war with Iran so

00:11:46.940 far is $25 billion, with most expenditures covering munitions, maintenance, and equipment

00:11:53.280 replacements. The Pentagon requesting a budget of $1.45 trillion for the fiscal year 2027,

00:12:01.000 the largest ever request from the department. In his opening statement, Chairman Mike Rogers,

00:12:06.180 Republican from Alabama, warning America is not keeping pace with its adversaries.

00:12:11.040 All of our adversaries are spending more of their GDP on defense than we are. Meanwhile,

00:12:17.160 our defense spending as a percentage of GDP has been steadily falling since World War II.

00:12:23.280 Our defense industrial base, long the envy of the world, has atrophied significantly.

00:12:29.320 We're no longer capable of manufacturing for our warfighters at scale or speed.

00:12:35.240 Just look at shipbuilding.

00:12:37.180 China builds 47 percent of the world's ships.

00:12:41.440 The U.S. builds one-tenth of one percent.

00:12:45.340 Our global munition stockpiles are low, and we lack the capacity to rapidly restock magazine depth.

00:12:52.380 Many of our defense supply chains are reliant on the very adversaries we seek to deter.

00:12:57.460 Much of the hearing focusing on U.S. military action against Iran.

00:13:01.160 Democrats and Secretary Hegseth clashing often on the financial toll, domestic impact, and end goals of the mission.

00:13:07.980 Secretary Hegseth blasting critics in Congress.

00:13:11.020 President Trump, unlike other presidents, has had the courage to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, and he's ironclad in that.

00:13:19.460 We have the best negotiator in the world driving that deal.

00:13:23.080 The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.

00:13:35.660 Two months in, I remind you, two months in to a conflict.

00:13:40.360 Lest I remind you, and my generation understands, how long we were in Iraq, how long we were in Afghanistan, how long we were in Vietnam.

00:13:48.320 Two months in, on an existential fight for the safety of the American people, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb.

00:13:55.940 We are proud of this undertaking.

00:13:58.180 Ranking member of the committee, Adam Smith, Democrat from Washington, and the secretary in a heated exchange.

00:14:04.740 You have to stare down this kind of enemy who's hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon and get them to a point where they're at the table giving it up in a way that they never have it.

00:14:14.160 so they haven't broken yet okay we haven't gotten there yet for all of the well their nuclear

00:14:19.360 facilities have been obliterated underground they're buried and watching them 24 7 so we

00:14:25.180 know where any nuclear material reclaiming my time we're watching a second here we had to start this

00:14:31.640 war you just said 60 days ago because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat now you're saying

00:14:39.720 that it was completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions and they had a

00:14:44.540 conventional shield of thousands. So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance.

00:14:49.840 It left us at exactly the same place we were before. So much so. Their facilities were bombed

00:14:55.520 and obliterated. Their ambitions continued. Democrat Congressman John Garamendi of California

00:15:02.200 accusing the secretary of lying about the war. Secretary Heseth, you have been lying to the

00:15:07.820 American public about this war from day one, and so has the president. You have misled the public

00:15:14.480 about why we are at war. You've misled the public about the progress of the war. The strategy has

00:15:21.880 been an astounding incompetence. The president has got himself in America stuck in the quagmire

00:15:28.520 of another war in the Middle East. When I said reckless, feckless, and defeatist of congressional

00:15:33.580 Democrats at the beginning. That came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this

00:15:38.420 morning, a quagmire. Don't say I support the troops on one hand and then a two-month mission

00:15:43.420 is a quagmire. That's a false equivalence. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for?

00:15:48.880 I know the American people support that mission despite your loose talk and words like quagmire.

00:15:56.560 Polling consistently shows declining support for the war. According to a survey from Reuters

00:16:01.500 released Tuesday, just 34% of Americans approve of the U.S. conflict with Iran, down from 38%

00:16:08.460 in mid-March. The hearing comes hours after President Trump posted an AI image to Truth

00:16:14.820 Social featuring a version of himself wearing sunglasses, carrying a machine gun, walking away

00:16:20.020 from explosions in the background. Text on the image reading, quote, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Mr.

00:16:25.640 Trump writing, quote, Iran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear

00:16:30.300 deal. They better get smart soon. On Sunday, Axios reporting the Iranians presenting the U.S. with a 0.51

00:16:36.100 new plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and postpone nuclear talks until a later date.

00:16:41.540 Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday rejecting the idea on its face, telling Fox News Iran's

00:16:47.020 nuclear program is, quote, the reason why we're in this in the first place. That fundamental issue

00:16:51.480 still has to be confronted. That still remains the core issue here. From the Oval Office yesterday,

00:16:56.760 President Trump saying talks are continuing via phone.

00:17:00.360 They make a call or I have my people make a call and you know the answer. I always like face to face.

00:17:08.240 You know, I consider it better. But when you have to fly 18 hours every time you want to have a

00:17:13.040 meeting and you know what the meeting is all about and you know they're going to give you a piece of

00:17:19.060 paper that you don't like before you even leave. It's ridiculous. They've come a long way. The 0.96

00:17:24.700 question is whether or not they're going to go far enough. So at this moment, there will never

00:17:29.760 be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons. President Trump welcoming the

00:17:37.520 Artemis II crew to the White House yesterday following their successful mission around the

00:17:41.580 moon and back, landing safely in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month. President Trump congratulating

00:17:46.860 astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. It takes people like

00:17:52.680 this to make our country great and again i've never seen anything everybody i knew they wanted

00:17:59.200 to see the launch and they especially wanted to see a successful landing and we're very proud of

00:18:05.200 these people they have unbelievable courage unbelievable a lot of other things too by the

00:18:10.180 way to get in there you have to be very smart you have to do a lot of things physically good

00:18:14.640 so i would have had no trouble making it and physically very very good uh maybe a little bit

00:18:20.400 of a problem. I don't know, I'm sure. We'll have to try it sometime. Is a president allowed to go

00:18:25.020 up in one of these missions? We can get working on that. We have no problem, right? We'll launch

00:18:29.740 more rockets. We'll have to try it. Congratulations very much. On a separate but possibly related

00:18:36.780 point, one reporter asking about a timeline on the release of more information about UFOs.

00:18:42.700 Well, I think we're going to be releasing as much as we can in the near future. For some reason,

00:18:49.280 and i guess it's just a reason it's been in the minds of people for a long time

00:18:54.340 and that is such they want to find out about the ufos and uh anything having to do with ufo

00:19:01.160 or related material and we're going to be releasing a lot of things from that we have

00:19:05.700 and i think something's going to be very interesting to people i've i've interviewed

00:19:09.840 people my first term primarily but i interviewed some pilots uh very solid people and they said

00:19:17.340 They saw things that you wouldn't believe, so you're going to be reading about it.

00:19:21.500 Disclosure day incoming.

00:19:25.800 That'll do it for your AM update.

00:19:27.580 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.

00:19:29.540 Catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Channel, 111 at noon east,

00:19:34.540 on youtube.com slash megynkelly and all podcast platforms.

00:19:37.820 Hey, Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and see what our newest exclusive,

00:19:48.240 the Price is Right Fortune Pick, has to offer. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based

00:19:53.360 on the iconic game show only at BetMGM. Check out how we've reimagined three of the show's

00:19:58.800 iconic games like Plinko, Cliffhanger, and the Big Wheel into fun casino game features.

00:20:04.100 Don't forget to download the BetMGM Casino app for exclusive access and excitement on the Price is Right Fortune pick. Pull up a seat and experience the Price is Right Fortune pick, only available at BetMGM Casino.

00:20:16.360 Bet MGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly.

00:20:19.660 19 plus to wager, Ontario only.

00:20:22.000 Please play responsibly.

00:20:23.380 If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you,

00:20:26.660 please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge.

00:20:34.480 Bet MGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario.

The Megyn Kelly Show - April 30, 2026

Hegseth Battles Dems on Capitol Hill, Showdown at SCOTUS, Artemis II Crew at WH： AM Update 4⧸30

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript