The Megyn Kelly Show - January 08, 2026


ICE Shooting in Minnesota Details, Massive Change to Food Pyramid, Oil Ships Seized： AM Update 1⧸8


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A woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis, and her death has sparked outrage across the country. All that and more coming up in a moment on your AM Update with Emily Jashinsky ( )!

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone.
00:00:34.040 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111.
00:00:39.920 It's Thursday, January 8th, 2026.
00:00:42.740 This is your AM update.
00:00:44.520 A woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over. 1.00
00:00:48.640 Tensions flaring in Minnesota after a woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer during an enforcement operation.
00:00:55.160 My message is clear. Eat real food.
00:00:58.200 The Trump administration unveils a dramatic overhaul of the nation's food guidelines.
00:01:03.400 U.S. forces seize two so-called ghost ships in its effort to crack down on the sale of sanctioned Venezuelan oil.
00:01:10.900 And Nick Reiner's attorney exits the case.
00:01:13.920 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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00:02:25.640 Riots breaking out in Minneapolis after a woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer amid a DHS operation surging 2,000 additional agents to the sanctuary city.
00:02:36.680 According to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, an ICE vehicle got stuck in the snow.
00:02:42.560 As law enforcement agents attempted to free it, a group of agitators began blocking them in and shouting at them.
00:02:49.840 Videos on social media showing a maroon Honda Pilot stopped perpendicularly on Portland Avenue.
00:02:55.960 The video is capturing only a portion of the encounter, not the events leading up to it.
00:03:01.560 Agents seen pulling up to the vehicle, commanding the driver to step out.
00:03:05.960 One agent reaches for the driver's door handle as two other agents approach the vehicle.
00:03:10.640 The driver reverses briefly, then begins driving forward into an area where one agent was standing.
00:03:17.840 The agent in the path of the vehicle, shooting his firearm multiple times.
00:03:22.320 First through the windshield, then the driver's side window.
00:03:26.220 The video shows the car speeding up before quickly crashing into other parked vehicles.
00:03:30.580 The 37-year-old driver identified as Renee Nicole Good.
00:03:35.340 Officials saying she was not a target of an ICE operation.
00:03:39.400 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defending the unidentified ICE agent yesterday.
00:03:44.440 It's very clear that this individual was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations.
00:03:50.140 Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he's been taught to do in that situation,
00:03:55.260 and took actions to defend himself and defend his fellow law enforcement officers.
00:03:59.220 Secretary Noem saying the officer was treated then released at a local hospital.
00:04:04.320 President Trump in a Truth Social post also characterizing the incident as self-defense.
00:04:08.700 Quote, the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, 1.00
00:04:13.180 who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer,
00:04:17.180 who seems to have shot her in self-defense.
00:04:19.980 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, a Democrat, quickly casting blame on the Trump administration yesterday
00:04:25.160 with inflammatory remarks at a press conference.
00:04:28.060 We've dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis.
00:04:36.160 What they are doing is not to provide safety in America.
00:04:40.240 What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.
00:04:44.860 They're ripping families apart.
00:04:47.100 They're sowing chaos on our streets.
00:04:49.580 And in this case, quite literally killing people.
00:04:52.480 They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense.
00:04:58.500 Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bullshit.
00:05:04.080 And I have a message for ICE.
00:05:06.820 To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. 1.00
00:05:09.400 The mayor calling the administration's assertions that the officer acted in self-defense a, quote,
00:05:15.360 garbage narrative.
00:05:17.060 Governor Tim Walz also blaming the Trump administration,
00:05:20.420 calling the operation a, quote,
00:05:22.200 dangerous, sensationalized threat to public safety.
00:05:26.720 Tensions flaring in the streets in the hours following the incident.
00:05:30.960 Video capturing civilians throwing snowballs at Minneapolis police officers.
00:05:34.720 Some agents seen deploying pepper spray amid confrontation with protesters.
00:05:40.120 Elsewhere in town, rioters bursting into the Minneapolis courthouse, shouting, quote,
00:05:45.100 ICE OUT NOW!
00:05:46.760 Governor Walz saying he placed the Minnesota National Guard on a warning order in anticipation of unrest.
00:05:53.280 The shooting is under investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and FBI.
00:05:58.880 Megan will have more on The Megan Callie Show later today. 0.97
00:06:01.660 The Trump administration releasing new dietary guidelines yesterday.
00:06:07.360 Flipping the old model on its head, literally.
00:06:10.420 Unveiling a brand new food pyramid, which is now inverted.
00:06:14.440 The new image showing a smorgasbord of meats, cheeses, dairy products, healthy fats, fresh fruits, and vegetables.
00:06:21.880 Tapering down to a small portion of whole grains at the bottom.
00:06:26.140 The administration saying the changes are aimed at confronting rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases,
00:06:33.260 including diabetes and heart disease, affecting a significant number of Americans.
00:06:38.440 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the White House yesterday outlining the new guidelines.
00:06:44.100 Today the lies stop.
00:06:46.040 The new guidelines recognize that whole nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs.
00:06:55.040 Protein and healthy fats are essential and were wrongly discouraged in prior dietary guidelines.
00:07:02.780 We are ending the war on saturated fats.
00:07:06.400 Diets rich in vegetables and fruits reduce disease risk more effectively than many drugs.
00:07:14.940 Whole grains outperform refined carbohydrates.
00:07:18.200 Added sugars, especially sugar-sweetened beverages, drive metabolic disease.
00:07:24.520 And today our government declares war on added sugar.
00:07:28.940 Highly processed foods loaded with additives, added sugar, and excess salt damage health and should be avoided.
00:07:35.860 As Secretary of Health and Human Services, my message is clear.
00:07:39.980 Eat real food.
00:07:41.200 Emphasis is placed on consuming foods in their original form, whether fresh, frozen, or canned, rather than opting for processed foods.
00:07:49.400 The guidelines recommending capping added sugars to 10 grams per meal, though saying children under 10 should not consume any added sugars.
00:07:59.420 The administration reversing course on previous guidelines, now endorsing whole-fat milk and dairy products.
00:08:05.800 The updated recommendations calling to prioritize protein with each meal, advising amounts that double the old benchmark depending on an individual's body weight.
00:08:16.380 FDA Commissioner Marty McCary explaining the rationale.
00:08:19.840 The old guidelines had such a low protein recommendation that we are increasing that by 50 to 100 percent.
00:08:27.720 Kids need protein.
00:08:29.420 The old protein guidelines were to prevent starvation and withering away.
00:08:34.360 These new protein guidelines are designed for American kids to thrive.
00:08:39.800 And they're based on science, not on dogma.
00:08:42.420 We have 40 percent of our kids now with a chronic disease.
00:08:46.240 It is not their fault.
00:08:48.260 This is something that is the result of bad advice from the government and a medical establishment that for decades peddled research from a flawed 1960s model.
00:08:59.280 The American Heart Association praising the emphasis on eating more fruit and vegetables while reducing processed foods and added sugars.
00:09:07.840 But saying, quote,
00:09:09.060 We are concerned that recommendations regarding salt seasoning and red meat consumption could inadvertently lead consumers to exceed recommended limits for sodium and saturated fats, which are primary drivers of cardiovascular disease.
00:09:22.140 Dr. Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on the projected savings from reshaping America's food culture.
00:09:30.200 Right now, we're increasing health expenditures in America at roughly twice the rate of the GDP growth.
00:09:36.360 We will correct that if we can get America to be healthier because you can't be a wealthy nation without being a healthy nation.
00:09:42.160 So 30 percent of health care costs are directly attributable to obesity.
00:09:46.700 I'm not talking about indirect associated expenses, which are also present, but a very conservative number, 30 percent are directly attributed to obesity.
00:09:54.080 That's about 300 billion dollars a year for just Medicare, just Medicare.
00:09:58.380 If we were to affect obesity by 10 percent, which is an incredibly conservative and justifiable assumption that has been borne out in evidence-based dietary experiments and trials, just that alone is 30 billion dollars a reduction of expenses for Medicaid, for Medicare, rather.
00:10:16.020 The guidelines help determine what is served in school cafeterias, military facilities and federal nutrition programs like SNAP, which provides food subsidies for poor people.
00:10:26.420 The White House saying the new guidelines will be implemented over the next two years.
00:10:32.800 Coming up, two oil tankers seized by U.S. forces, the latest in the U.S.-run blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil, and Nick Reiner's plea in court delayed once again.
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00:11:47.060 The Coast Guard and U.S. military counterparts yesterday conducting pre-dawn seizures of two oil tankers, including a Russian-flagged vessel.
00:11:56.460 The separate operations marking the latest enforcement actions under the Trump administration's expanded sanctions targeting Venezuelan oil exports.
00:12:04.980 One ship was coming from Venezuela, while the other was en route there, which is under a U.S. naval blockade aimed at stopping sanctioned oil tankers from trading Venezuelan crude.
00:12:16.940 U.S. officials say the ships are part of a so-called ghost fleet, tankers that frequently change names and flags in an attempt to evade sanctions.
00:12:25.820 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posting on X about the Russian-flagged ship, quote,
00:12:31.800 One of these tankers, Motor Tanker Bella One, has been trying to evade the Coast Guard for weeks, even changing its flag and painting a new name on the hull while being pursued, in a desperate and failed attempt to escape justice.
00:12:46.440 The Bella One crew renaming the ship Marinera as the U.S. Coast Guard tracked it across the ocean for the last two weeks.
00:12:52.820 The Russian Ministry of Transport confirming yesterday the ship was, quote,
00:12:57.040 Granted temporary permission to sail under the state flag of the Russian Federation.
00:13:02.120 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt stating the U.S.'s view is that the vessel was stateless and flying a false flag.
00:13:10.140 U.S. officials confirming the seizure of the Bella One this morning in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the British Isles.
00:13:16.640 U.K. Defense Secretary John Healy, whose country provided the U.S. with support in this operation, saying, quote,
00:13:23.140 This ship, with a nefarious history, is part of a Russian-Iranian axis of sanctions evasion, 0.80
00:13:28.880 which is fueling terrorism, conflict, and misery from the Middle East to Ukraine.
00:13:34.040 The second ship, called the Sofia, boarded in the Caribbean Sea.
00:13:38.260 CBS News reporting the Sofia had disembarked from Venezuela with oil on board.
00:13:43.160 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth yesterday telling reporters the seizure of sanctioned oil vessels will continue.
00:13:49.760 Two oil tankers, two overnight, were seized by the United States of America, stateless or sanctioned,
00:13:55.500 because the oil blockade, the quarantine of oil out of unsanctioned or stateless, sanctioned or stateless vessels continues.
00:14:02.880 That leverage will continue, as Secretary Rubio outlined.
00:14:06.440 So our military is prepared to continue this.
00:14:09.820 As he said, the president, when he speaks, he means it.
00:14:13.000 He's not messing around.
00:14:15.120 We are an administration of action to advance our interests, and that is on full display.
00:14:19.620 U.S. forces seizing two other oil tankers last month.
00:14:23.140 A curveball in the Nick Reiner case yesterday, as high-profile attorney Alan Jackson removes himself from the case.
00:14:32.980 The 32-year-old is charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances
00:14:38.280 in the brutal December stabbing deaths of his parents, famed director Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner.
00:14:44.900 Nick appearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, where he was expected to enter a plea on the charges.
00:14:50.020 Nick wearing a brown prison jumpsuit, white t-shirt, and shackles at the hearing.
00:14:55.660 Judge Teresa McGonigal appointing a public defender to represent Nick going forward.
00:15:01.460 Jackson addressing reporters outside the courthouse after the proceedings on his withdrawal from the case.
00:15:07.540 I'm legally and I'm ethically prohibited from explaining all the reasons why.
00:15:12.160 I know that's a question on everybody's mind.
00:15:14.200 We expect the public defender to step in.
00:15:16.300 They've already been appointed and very capably protect Nick Reiner's interests as he moves forward through the system.
00:15:24.640 But be clear.
00:15:25.820 Be very, very clear about this.
00:15:27.560 My team and I remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and to his best interests.
00:15:35.740 What we've learned, and you can take this to the bank, is that pursuant to the laws of this state, pursuant to the law in California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.
00:15:50.100 Print that. Print that.
00:15:52.800 MK True Crime host Phil Holloway tells us there are only two reasons in this scenario that a lawyer might withdraw from a case.
00:16:00.460 The first, Holloway says, is a conflict of interest, which he believes is unlikely.
00:16:05.500 Rather, it seems to Holloway, the issue is financial.
00:16:08.600 Oftentimes, clients make agreements to pay certain amounts of money, and for whatever reasons, they're unable to meet that commitment.
00:16:15.420 It seems like some of these beneficiaries of the Reiner estate might be trying to fund the defense of Nick Reiner.
00:16:21.900 And it's ironic because this estate is in a trust, and so you've got these beneficiaries who are maybe his siblings or other family members, and if part of them wants to pay his defense out of the body or the corpus of that trust, there might be other beneficiaries of that trust that say, wait a minute, not so fast.
00:16:41.820 So there's been speculation that the trust or the estate of Rob Reiner might be actually funding his defense, and I predicted early on that I didn't think that was going to work out in the long run.
00:16:53.860 Holloway believes Nick's team has two lanes of defense to pursue.
00:16:57.540 The first, that Nick is not guilty by reason of insanity, and secondly, that he is not mentally fit to stand trial.
00:17:04.940 However, Holloway is not confident those routes will succeed.
00:17:08.360 I think the evidence shows that he knew right from wrong.
00:17:11.880 He took steps to conceal his alleged involvement in the crime and to hide his identity, and things like that suggest that he knew right from wrong.
00:17:21.140 He may very well have been in the throes of some type of psychosis, but that doesn't mean he did not know right from wrong.
00:17:27.280 And if his psychosis was chemically induced, well, that gets cured by virtue of his being in jail and not taking drugs.
00:17:36.220 Therefore, he would be competent to stand trial.
00:17:39.600 So this is a long shot, either way you slice it.
00:17:42.960 It's something that the legal team is going to have to look at.
00:17:45.840 I just don't think it's going to work.
00:17:47.760 Nick's arraignment is now set for February 23rd.
00:17:51.020 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:17:55.800 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.
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