The Megyn Kelly Show - April 01, 2025


High Stakes Wisconsin Election, Le Pen Banned from French Office, Trump's First Trip： AM Update 4⧸1


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16 minutes

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2,695

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233

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

Wisconsin voters head to the polls on Tuesday in a crucial Supreme Court election that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. Elon Musk rallies Wisconsin voters in a Sunday night get-out-the-vote town hall in the critical swing state. Front running French presidential candidate Marie Le Pen barred from running for office following embezzlement charges. Law enforcement investigating a hate crime that has been deemed a hate crime in New Mexico. And what s really behind President Trump s third term talk? A possible media troll? All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. And this is your
00:00:08.460 AM update. What's happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House
00:00:14.900 of Representatives. Wisconsin voters turning out in the state Supreme Court election, an
00:00:19.860 election with national ramifications. Front running French presidential candidate Marie
00:00:24.380 Le Pen barred from running for office following embezzlement charges. This has been deemed a
00:00:30.360 hate crime. Law enforcement investigating a potential arson attack on the New Mexico state
00:00:35.360 GOP headquarters. And what's really behind President Trump's third term talk? A possible
00:00:41.940 media troll? All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update. As President Trump is
00:00:49.000 settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in Congress aiming to undermine the
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00:01:32.500 Today in Wisconsin, voters turning out to decide whether the state Supreme Court will maintain its
00:01:37.960 current 4-3 liberal majority or flip conservative. Conservative attorney Brad Schimmel running against
00:01:44.820 liberal judge Susan Crawford. The race holding national implications at stake, the balance of power in the
00:01:51.120 U.S. House of Representatives. If liberals retain control of the court, the current GOP-drawn
00:01:56.520 congressional map could be thrown out. And with it, two Republican U.S. House seats. House Minority
00:02:03.880 Leader Hakeem Jeffries, indicating Democrats, are planning a challenge. In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race.
00:02:11.040 Because we know Wisconsin's a 50-50 state. Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority
00:02:17.660 in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Why is that important? Because there are gerrymandered congressional
00:02:26.000 lines right now in Wisconsin. As soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that. The only way for
00:02:33.440 that to be even a significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court. And so,
00:02:41.600 you know, I think that's an incredibly important race. Elon Musk rallying Wisconsin voters in a Sunday
00:02:48.800 night get-out-the-vote town hall in the critical swing state. The very important election for Judge
00:02:54.320 Schimmel. Most people don't even know that there's an election at all. They think it's, well, it's just,
00:02:58.440 you know, some kind of judicial thing that's not that important. But it actually, what they're doing,
00:03:03.080 what's happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:03:11.220 That is why it is so significant. And whichever party controls the House to a significant degree
00:03:18.220 controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. Currently,
00:03:24.060 the Dems are 100,000 votes ahead. But if actually, if just if the people that voted for President
00:03:30.080 Trump simply vote on Tuesday, we will win. That's actually all it takes. Just vote. Boom. Done. Victory.
00:03:37.080 On Monday, the Trafalgar Group releasing a poll showing the candidates in a statistical tie.
00:03:42.900 Ms. Crawford coming in at 50.8 percent. Mr. Schimmel, 49.2. Much of Mr. Musk's town hall focusing
00:03:50.860 on national issues. Billionaire venture capitalist and Doge team member Antonio Gracias joining in to
00:03:57.160 lay out what he says is a process used by the Biden administration to grant social security numbers
00:04:02.480 to illegal aliens. Is when you come in the country, if you're illegal, there's a couple ways to come
00:04:07.900 in. You come in through a port of entry and you can tell them you're afraid. You'll get it. They'll
00:04:11.740 give you an asylum, asylum case. You'll get an interview. Then you get in. That's one way to do
00:04:16.500 it. Another way to do it. You walk up to a board of patrol officer and you tell them you want to come
00:04:21.100 in. They were told to do that, make an administrative offense on the last administration. And they give you
00:04:26.760 an NTA a notice to appear, which to appear at a judge. Once you're in the country and you've got
00:04:31.540 asylum, you can apply for a work document. And then social security administration automatically
00:04:38.000 send you in the mail your social security number. No interview, no ID. It was a massive, large-scale
00:04:44.460 program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the
00:04:50.140 United States. Non-citizens must be lawfully present in the U.S. to receive a social security number.
00:04:55.960 It's unclear whether the individuals described by Mr. Gracias are defrauding the system with false
00:05:01.380 documents, or if the social security administration is issuing numbers without properly verifying legal
00:05:07.980 status. Mr. Gracias followed up with a more concerning claim about these non-citizens.
00:05:13.380 And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records. And we found people here
00:05:18.520 registered to vote in this population. Yes. And who did vote? And we found some by sampling that
00:05:24.360 actually did vote. And we have referred them to prosecution at the Home Ed Secure Investigation
00:05:29.040 Service. Yeah. Already. Already. That is already happening. We'll have the results of this election
00:05:34.420 in tomorrow's edition of the AM Update.
00:05:40.780 Frontrunner in the 2027 French presidential election, right-wing candidate Marie Le Pen barred on
00:05:46.880 Monday from running for political office for five years. A French court finding Ms. Le Pen guilty of
00:05:53.640 embezzling European Union funds. Ms. Le Pen sentenced to four years in prison, only two of which have to be
00:06:01.240 served under house arrest and a 100,000 euro fine. Ms. Le Pen's party national rally ordered to pay 2 million
00:06:09.220 euros. The court finding that between 2004 and 2016, while serving in the European
00:06:15.340 parliament, Ms. Le Pen and her party allegedly misused approximately 4.4 million euros in EU funds. As a member of
00:06:24.000 European parliament, Ms. Le Pen was allotted funds by the EU to hire parliamentary
00:06:28.620 assistance. The court finding Ms. Le Pen diverted that money to national rally party staffers who were mainly working on
00:06:35.720 domestic political activities in France, not on EU parliamentary duties. Many on the right, in France
00:06:41.880 and abroad, drawing comparisons between Le Pen's case and what they view as legal lawfare tactics used against
00:06:48.380 Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on Monday
00:06:54.200 referencing Vice President J.D. Vance's warning to our European counterparts.
00:06:59.340 We have got to do more as the West than just talk about democratic values. We must live them.
00:07:04.900 Exclusion of people from the political process is particularly concerning, given the aggressive and
00:07:10.900 corrupt lawfare waged against President Trump here in the United States. We support the right of
00:07:17.160 everyone to offer their views in the public square, agree or disagree. And with that, I have nothing else
00:07:24.080 to add. Legal scholar Hans Monke writing on X, quote, what the media is breathlessly calling
00:07:29.880 embezzlement is nothing more than a ludicrously contrived campaign finance dispute. Le Pen,
00:07:35.400 as both an EU and French politician, paid some of her assistance from her EU account. Mr. Monke describes
00:07:42.180 the practice as, quote, perfectly normal. French writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy
00:07:47.480 Center, Pascal Emmanuel Gobry, writing on X, quote, to be clear, Marie Le Pen is not even accused of
00:07:54.120 personally profiting from anything. The charge is that some of her aides in the European Parliament
00:07:59.640 also worked for the party and not just on parliamentary work. This was a common practice
00:08:05.200 for a long time, and several other parties stand accused of doing the same, end quote. Prior to her
00:08:11.000 conviction, Ms. Le Pen leading the polls as the favorite to replace President Emmanuel Macron. Ms. Le Pen
00:08:17.420 challenged Mr. Macron in 2017 and 2022, the second time around, faring better, but still coming up
00:08:24.340 short at 41 percent to his 59. National rally, frequently cast as far right by its critics,
00:08:31.780 strongly opposes illegal immigration, advocated for tough-on-crime policies, favors French nationalism
00:08:37.860 over globalization, and aims to preserve French culture. Ms. Le Pen responding to her political
00:08:43.740 ban, saying, let's be clear, I am eliminated, but in reality, it is millions of French people whose
00:08:50.060 voices have been eliminated. Ms. Le Pen going on to say that she will appeal the verdict and continue
00:08:55.700 running if it is overturned, though that is unlikely to happen in time for the 2027 election.
00:09:02.440 Right-wing European populist movement surging across Europe in recent years, widely seen as a backlash
00:09:08.960 to the globalist policies defining the previous decade. In December, Romania's constitutional court
00:09:14.960 annulling the first round of presidential elections there, after right-wing candidate Kaleen Georgescu
00:09:20.820 took an unexpected lead. The court citing alleged Russian interference as the reason for invalidating
00:09:27.100 that vote, Romanian officials then postponing the election until May. In the first round of voting,
00:09:33.420 Mr. Georgescu securing about 23 percent of the vote, he now leads the pack with 37 support heading into
00:09:40.620 the rerun. Coming up, New Mexico officials discover an incendiary device placed at the state GOP
00:09:47.400 headquarters, the latest on the investigation. And what's really behind President Trump's third-term
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00:10:55.240 code MEGAN. Officials in New Mexico investigating the cause of a fire at the GOP HQ in Albuquerque as
00:11:06.220 arson. Around 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, the fire department responding to a call, the blaze enveloping
00:11:12.220 the entryway of the building, taking about five minutes to contain. New Mexico GOP chairwoman Amy
00:11:18.280 Barella telling Fox News the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
00:11:22.460 Well, it's still under investigation. We do know that there was some sort of device to start a fire
00:11:30.100 placed in front of the doorway about or around 1 a.m. and that the ignition was about 5 a.m.
00:11:37.300 This has been deemed a hate crime and I know that they're going to be back today to do more
00:11:42.460 investigations and collect more cameras from the neighboring businesses. So, yes, we are in close
00:11:49.720 contact with ATF and the FBI. And the attorney general did reach out to me yesterday as well.
00:11:55.280 Also discovered the words ICE equals KKK, a common slogan among leftist agitators,
00:12:01.940 spray-painted on the side of the GOP HQ building. An ATF official confirming to the Santa Fe New
00:12:07.420 Mexican newspaper, a joint investigation with the FBI and Albuquerque Fire and Rescue is underway.
00:12:13.080 While no suspects have yet been identified, this is the latest act of suspected political vandalism
00:12:19.020 following a series of similar attacks on Tesla facilities in recent weeks. The attack just one
00:12:25.120 day after Democrat Congresswoman from New Mexico, Teresa Legere Fernandez, making these remarks.
00:12:30.980 What more can you do? And we have a three-pronged project. Legislate, litigate, agitate. And you guys
00:12:39.860 are part of the agitate part. So don't feel like we are hopeless or helpless. When we express our
00:12:46.540 outrage and it is universal, they are forced to put it back. The Democratic Party of New Mexico
00:12:52.520 offering in a statement, quote, we firmly maintain that this sort of act has absolutely no place in
00:12:57.640 our democracy and that peaceful discourse and organization are the only ways to approach
00:13:02.340 political differences in our country. President Trump's first international trip of his second
00:13:10.860 term will be to Saudi Arabia. Axios reporting the president plans to travel to the Gulf Nation in
00:13:16.100 mid-May. Saudi Arabia also the site of Mr. Trump's first international trip in his first administration,
00:13:22.440 a break in tradition with past presidents who typically visit Canada, Mexico or the UK.
00:13:27.640 In early March, President Trump telling reporters in the Oval his reasons for visiting the Saudis
00:13:33.180 first. I'm going to Saudi Arabia because normally you'd go to UK first. And last time I went to
00:13:40.340 Saudi Arabia, they put up $450 billion. This time said, I'll go if you pay a trillion dollars,
00:13:47.160 $1 trillion to American companies, meaning the purchase over a four-year period of a trillion
00:13:53.760 dollars. And they've agreed to do that. So I'm going to be going there. In January,
00:14:01.300 the Saudi prince said the kingdom was prepared to invest $600 billion into the U.S. over the next
00:14:06.880 four years. An unnamed U.S. official telling Axios, quote, talks will focus on discussing foreign
00:14:12.200 investments, strengthening relationships with Gulf nations and ending conflict in the Middle East.
00:14:17.320 Last week, President Trump announcing his goal of adding more countries to the Abraham Accords,
00:14:23.100 a series of agreements establishing diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and several Arab
00:14:29.220 nations. Axios reporting those plans are on the back burner as the Saudis are demanding the creation
00:14:34.620 of a Palestinian state.
00:14:36.860 President Trump trolling, we think, the media with talk of a potential third term.
00:14:41.900 NBC reporting, quote, President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term
00:14:47.620 in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an
00:14:53.320 exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was,
00:14:58.540 quote, not joking. The rest of the media quickly picking up on the story.
00:15:03.040 Legal scholars are raising concerns after President Trump said he's considering a third term.
00:15:08.220 An idea that would require violating the Constitution's term limits for presidents.
00:15:12.540 We should consider it a constitutional threat.
00:15:14.480 It is against the Constitution. And actually, it's against what we stand for as Americans.
00:15:20.600 Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who taught constitutional law for 50 years,
00:15:26.320 says there is technically a way for President Trump to do it, but it is extremely convoluted and highly
00:15:33.500 unlikely. On Sunday night, President Trump waving off the frenzy from Air Force One.
00:15:38.200 I don't want to talk about a third term now, because no matter how you look at it,
00:15:44.460 we've got a long time to go. We have a long time. You know, we have almost four years to go.
00:15:50.400 And that's a long time. But despite that, so many people are saying, you've got to run again.
00:15:55.760 They love the job window. Most importantly, they love the job window.
00:15:58.880 Are you planning to leave office January 20th, 2029? Are you saying you might not?
00:16:03.800 Go ahead. Any other questions?
00:16:04.880 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Don't forget to be aware of April Fool's
00:16:13.240 jokes today. They're lurking everywhere, especially on the internet. What's not a joke
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