The Megyn Kelly Show - September 08, 2025


Immigration Crackdown Coming to Chicago, Trump Backs RFK, CBS Changes Editing Policy： AM Update 9⧸8


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The President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. President Trump posts a meme and the left melts down as crime and illegal immigration in major U.S. cities take center stage again this week.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party, filling in today for
00:00:37.900 Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, September 8th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
00:00:42.860 President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.
00:00:50.280 President Trump posts a meme and the left melts down as crime and illegal immigration in major
00:00:56.320 U.S. cities take center stage again this week.
00:00:58.940 Well, he's a different kind of a guy. He's got a lot of ideas and so do I.
00:01:03.040 President Trump stands by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:01:07.000 after a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill and CBS announces a change in policy
00:01:11.960 after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses the network of deceptive editing and brings the receipts.
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00:02:25.940 Democrats melting down over a meme shared by President Trump over the weekend.
00:02:30.020 On Saturday, the president posting what appeared to be an AI image of himself styled as Robert
00:02:35.660 Duvall's character from the classic movie Apocalypse Now.
00:02:38.740 Standing in front of a flaming Chicago skyline with the caption,
00:02:42.720 Chi-pocalypse Now. 0.99
00:02:44.160 President Trump adding his own caption, quote,
00:02:46.940 I love the smell of deportations in the morning.
00:02:49.740 Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.
00:02:53.340 On Friday, the president signing an executive order renaming the Department of Defense
00:02:57.220 the Department of War.
00:02:59.040 Borders are Tom Homan Sunday on CNN saying the feds are planning to ramp up immigration
00:03:04.480 enforcement this week.
00:03:05.700 Should we expect action in Chicago this week?
00:03:08.860 Absolutely.
00:03:09.500 You can expect action in most sanctuary cities across the country.
00:03:13.020 The New York Times obtaining an internal DHS memo indicating federal officials are planning
00:03:18.060 a 30-day surge in Chicago.
00:03:20.820 The meme posted as President Trump publicly feuds with Illinois Governor J.B.
00:03:25.080 Pritzker as he intensifies the apparent pressure campaign to push the governor into requesting
00:03:30.180 National Guard assistance in Chicago over the issue of violent crime.
00:03:34.500 State governors can request help from the National Guard amid civil unrest or major emergencies.
00:03:39.940 Without an invitation, the National Guard can't partake in domestic law enforcement operations.
00:03:45.160 A federal judge ruled last week in a case about Trump's deployment to Los Angeles over
00:03:50.000 Governor Gavin Newsom's objections.
00:03:52.260 Governor Pritzker responding to Mr. Trump on X, quote,
00:03:54.940 The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
00:03:59.180 This is not a joke.
00:04:00.060 This is not normal.
00:04:00.940 Donald Trump isn't a strong man.
00:04:02.580 He's a scared man.
00:04:03.680 Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator. 0.86
00:04:07.600 U.S. Senator from Illinois, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, Sunday on CBS.
00:04:12.400 Let's make it clear.
00:04:13.380 The President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.
00:04:20.700 This is not normal, Margaret.
00:04:22.420 This is not acceptable behavior.
00:04:24.000 NBC White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor on Sunday asking President Trump if the U.S.
00:04:29.400 is going to war with Chicago.
00:04:31.140 Mr. Trump's response.
00:04:32.620 That's fake news.
00:04:33.580 You say that, darling.
00:04:34.640 That's fake news.
00:04:35.400 Well, why are we with the Department of Defense?
00:04:36.960 Listen.
00:04:37.760 Be quiet.
00:04:38.560 Listen.
00:04:39.280 You don't listen.
00:04:40.220 You never listen.
00:04:41.400 That's why you're second rate.
00:04:43.400 We're not going to war.
00:04:44.860 We're going to clean up our cities.
00:04:46.680 We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend.
00:04:49.980 That's not war.
00:04:51.160 That's common sense.
00:04:52.160 For the last 13 years, Chicago holds the record for the most homicides per year of any U.S.
00:04:58.640 city, with 573 people murdered in 2024.
00:05:03.040 According to the Chicago Tribune, 278 killed so far this year, a decrease from this time
00:05:08.820 last year, but still a shockingly high number.
00:05:10.940 As of Sunday afternoon, a local CBS station reporting five dead and 10 wounded in weekend
00:05:16.960 shootings across the Windy City.
00:05:19.100 On Friday, Vice President J.D. Vance telling reporters there are no immediate plans to
00:05:23.180 deploy the National Guard to Chicago.
00:05:25.380 There are no immediate plans, but the president has said he has the legal authority to protect
00:05:29.340 American citizens, whether that's in Chicago or in Washington, D.C.
00:05:33.060 Obviously, as the president has said, we want the governor to be a partner here.
00:05:36.200 We would love it, Democrat or Republican, if we had governors who were willing to actually
00:05:39.840 be partners in cutting down crime in our country.
00:05:42.480 Unfortunately, it looks like that's not what we have in J.B.
00:05:45.060 Pritzker.
00:05:45.860 A U.S. 0.66
00:05:46.280 official confirming to ABC in August that the Pentagon is drawing up plans for a deployment.
00:05:51.300 Any action without state permission is likely to face a swift legal challenge.
00:05:58.060 HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.
00:06:00.200 facing mounting calls to resign following a fiery hearing before the Senate Finance Committee
00:06:04.640 late last week on Capitol Hill.
00:06:06.720 Some highlights here.
00:06:08.000 The MRNA technology is about continuing the research to be ready.
00:06:13.360 I'm happy to have a detailed discussion with you about it.
00:06:16.720 You're so wrong on your facts.
00:06:18.640 You're interrupting me.
00:06:19.640 And sir, you're a charlatan.
00:06:21.180 You have had this job for eight months and you don't know the data about whether the
00:06:25.820 vaccine will save lives?
00:06:26.680 No, and that's the problem is that they didn't have the data.
00:06:29.520 I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication.
00:06:34.440 When you said.
00:06:35.780 And I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator.
00:06:42.480 RFKJ ruffling feathers, including some in the GOP, with changes regarding vaccines.
00:06:47.580 In June, RFKJ dismissing the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the group
00:06:53.660 that develops and sets vaccine guidance for the nation.
00:06:57.080 In August, announcing an end to $500 million in funding for MRNA vaccine research, Kennedy
00:07:03.060 also ending the emergency use authorization for COVID boosters, meaning they are no longer
00:07:08.160 authorized for mass use.
00:07:09.800 And recently firing the head of the CDC after just about one month on the job over a vaccine
00:07:15.700 policy dispute.
00:07:17.100 Every Democrat on the Finance Committee calling on Kennedy to resign.
00:07:21.000 While some Republicans were openly critical, so far none have asked the secretary to step
00:07:25.620 down.
00:07:26.520 Democrat Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker not on that committee.
00:07:29.880 Sunday on NBC echoing those calls and saying even more cabinet officials should be resigning.
00:07:35.760 As you know, a number of Democrats have called for him to resign.
00:07:41.340 Do you, Senator, think that Secretary Kennedy should resign?
00:07:44.420 Now, I'm one of these big believers that when I see Justice Department officials and State
00:07:50.120 Department officials and many other people resigning because the president of the United
00:07:54.060 States is doing things that are immoral and dangerous, I believe, frankly, that all of
00:07:58.880 his cabinet should be taking a moral position, especially those that are parts of agencies like Health
00:08:04.400 and Human Services or the Justice Department, when you have a president that is acting in
00:08:08.400 the way that he should, that all of them should be stepping down.
00:08:10.600 So you're saying, yes, he should step down?
00:08:14.140 Yes.
00:08:15.360 RFKJ joining Fox News on Sunday, defending his work.
00:08:19.160 They don't want to hear the answers to the questions that they asked me.
00:08:23.080 They want to make a little speech and then shut me down.
00:08:26.440 The CDC is a broken agency.
00:08:28.460 We did worse in COVID than any country in the world.
00:08:33.600 We have 4.2 percent of the world's population.
00:08:37.100 We have more than we have 20 percent of the world's COVID deaths.
00:08:41.860 We usually we literally are with the worst team in the league.
00:08:46.060 I've been brought in as a new manager.
00:08:48.500 And my job is to shake up the organization, to fire the people who are responsible.
00:08:55.060 We literally did worse than any country in the world.
00:08:58.800 And it was because we forgot about the science.
00:09:01.080 And what we're going to do, what the Trump administration is going to do,
00:09:04.900 is to return gold standard science and make this agency a lead agency for public health
00:09:12.360 in the world once again.
00:09:14.120 President Trump, who recently expressed support for some vaccines, Sunday from the White House,
00:09:19.580 backing RFKJ.
00:09:21.040 Well, he's a different kind of a guy.
00:09:22.580 He's got a lot of good ideas, but he's got a lot of ideas.
00:09:26.460 You know, normally they don't have any ideas.
00:09:28.160 And that's why we have problems with autism and so many other things,
00:09:31.940 because we're coming up with the answers for autism.
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00:09:42.600 He's got a lot of ideas.
00:09:43.900 And so do I.
00:09:44.680 And we're going to do that.
00:09:45.380 Coming up, after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses CBS News of deceptive editing,
00:09:53.100 the network announces a major change in its editorial policy.
00:09:56.920 And where in the world is the DOJ planning to send so-called Maryland man,
00:10:02.260 Kilmar Abrego-Garcia?
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00:11:19.620 CBS News announcing a major editorial policy change after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses
00:11:28.360 the network of deceptively editing her interview last week.
00:11:31.580 DHS releasing a statement saying nearly four minutes of the 16-minute and 20-second interview
00:11:36.920 were cut, most significantly in answer regarding the fate of so-called Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego
00:11:43.900 Garcia, who is actually, of course, a Salvadoran national, credibly accused of MS-13 membership
00:11:49.760 and various crimes.
00:11:51.520 Abrego Garcia is currently held in an ICE detention facility in Farmville, Virginia,
00:11:56.200 as he awaits trial on human trafficking charges in Tennessee after being returned to the U.S.
00:12:01.400 in June.
00:12:02.500 In a separate effort, the Trump administration is battling with the courts to deport Abrego
00:12:06.600 Garcia to a country other than El Salvador in compliance with a court order.
00:12:10.880 More on that in a moment.
00:12:12.600 On CBS last week, guest host Ed O'Keefe pressing Secretary Noem.
00:12:17.380 Shouldn't Abrego Garcia face trial on his charges before being deported again?
00:12:21.540 The network ending the secretary's answer here.
00:12:24.740 And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free
00:12:29.040 in the United States of America.
00:12:31.100 Secretary Noem later posting the rest of her answer to ICE, which included the following.
00:12:35.680 This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was
00:12:42.020 a wife beater and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors.
00:12:48.960 And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off.
00:12:52.200 He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children.
00:12:55.900 So he needs to never be in the United States of America.
00:12:58.980 And our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
00:13:02.980 Initially, CBS defending the move in a statement to The Hill, quote,
00:13:07.980 the interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards.
00:13:12.700 The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube and the full transcript was posted
00:13:17.460 early Sunday morning at CBSnews.com.
00:13:20.860 Five days later, the network releasing a new statement in response to, quote, audience feedback,
00:13:25.980 quote, face the nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews subject to
00:13:31.800 national security or legal restrictions.
00:13:33.720 This extra measure means the television audience will see the full unedited interview on CBS
00:13:38.660 and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.
00:13:44.500 End quote.
00:13:45.700 The change comes just months after CBS parent company Paramount paid $16 million to settle a
00:13:52.000 lawsuit with President Trump over a 60 Minutes interview he says was deceptively edited to
00:13:57.700 favor then Vice President Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
00:14:01.600 And it also comes just weeks after new owners took over Paramount and signaled changes to the
00:14:07.500 direction of the legacy news network.
00:14:10.460 In 2019, Abrego Garcia receiving a withholding of removal order barring his deportation to El
00:14:17.160 Salvador on the grounds that he faced a credible threat of harm if he returned home.
00:14:21.460 Now that Abrego Garcia is back on American soil, still under final order of removal,
00:14:27.220 the feds are seeking to deport him to a third country where there is no credible fear of
00:14:31.920 persecution or torture.
00:14:33.540 On Friday, Fox News obtaining a letter sent to Abrego Garcia's lawyers from ICE reading as
00:14:38.640 follows, quote, currently you are designated to be removed to Uganda.
00:14:42.660 Your attorney has informed us, however, that you fear persecution or torture in Uganda.
00:14:48.080 That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed through
00:14:53.360 your attorneys that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries.
00:14:59.020 We hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa. 0.94
00:15:04.900 Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
00:15:09.540 It gained independence from the British in 1968 and is ruled by an absolute monarchy.
00:15:15.180 So good luck to him.
00:15:16.920 Amid all of this, Abrego Garcia is reapplying for asylum in the U.S.
00:15:21.660 Maryland Judge Paula Zinnis, overseeing that case, has ordered the government cannot remove
00:15:26.820 him before a hearing set for October 6th.
00:15:29.620 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:15:32.400 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.
00:15:34.660 Megan is back tomorrow.
00:15:35.820 Catch the Megan Kelly show today, live on SiriusXM, Triumph Channel 111 at noon east on
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00:15:44.640 God bless you.
00:16:01.660 Thank you.
00:16:01.780 Thank you.
00:16:02.200 Thank you.