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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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party, filling in today for
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Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, September 8th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
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President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.
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President Trump posts a meme and the left melts down as crime and illegal immigration in major
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Well, he's a different kind of a guy. He's got a lot of ideas and so do I.
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President Trump stands by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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after a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill and CBS announces a change in policy
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after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses the network of deceptive editing and brings the receipts.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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Democrats melting down over a meme shared by President Trump over the weekend.
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On Saturday, the president posting what appeared to be an AI image of himself styled as Robert
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Duvall's character from the classic movie Apocalypse Now.
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Standing in front of a flaming Chicago skyline with the caption,
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I love the smell of deportations in the morning.
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Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War.
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On Friday, the president signing an executive order renaming the Department of Defense
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Borders are Tom Homan Sunday on CNN saying the feds are planning to ramp up immigration
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You can expect action in most sanctuary cities across the country.
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The New York Times obtaining an internal DHS memo indicating federal officials are planning
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The meme posted as President Trump publicly feuds with Illinois Governor J.B.
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Pritzker as he intensifies the apparent pressure campaign to push the governor into requesting
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National Guard assistance in Chicago over the issue of violent crime.
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State governors can request help from the National Guard amid civil unrest or major emergencies.
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Without an invitation, the National Guard can't partake in domestic law enforcement operations.
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A federal judge ruled last week in a case about Trump's deployment to Los Angeles over
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Governor Pritzker responding to Mr. Trump on X, quote,
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
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Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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U.S. Senator from Illinois, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, Sunday on CBS.
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The President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.
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NBC White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor on Sunday asking President Trump if the U.S.
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Well, why are we with the Department of Defense?
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We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend.
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For the last 13 years, Chicago holds the record for the most homicides per year of any U.S.
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According to the Chicago Tribune, 278 killed so far this year, a decrease from this time
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As of Sunday afternoon, a local CBS station reporting five dead and 10 wounded in weekend
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On Friday, Vice President J.D. Vance telling reporters there are no immediate plans to
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There are no immediate plans, but the president has said he has the legal authority to protect
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American citizens, whether that's in Chicago or in Washington, D.C.
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Obviously, as the president has said, we want the governor to be a partner here.
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We would love it, Democrat or Republican, if we had governors who were willing to actually
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be partners in cutting down crime in our country.
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Unfortunately, it looks like that's not what we have in J.B.
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official confirming to ABC in August that the Pentagon is drawing up plans for a deployment.
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Any action without state permission is likely to face a swift legal challenge.
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facing mounting calls to resign following a fiery hearing before the Senate Finance Committee
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The MRNA technology is about continuing the research to be ready.
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I'm happy to have a detailed discussion with you about it.
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You have had this job for eight months and you don't know the data about whether the
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No, and that's the problem is that they didn't have the data.
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I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication.
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And I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator.
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RFKJ ruffling feathers, including some in the GOP, with changes regarding vaccines.
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In June, RFKJ dismissing the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the group
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that develops and sets vaccine guidance for the nation.
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In August, announcing an end to $500 million in funding for MRNA vaccine research, Kennedy
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also ending the emergency use authorization for COVID boosters, meaning they are no longer
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And recently firing the head of the CDC after just about one month on the job over a vaccine
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Every Democrat on the Finance Committee calling on Kennedy to resign.
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While some Republicans were openly critical, so far none have asked the secretary to step
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Democrat Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker not on that committee.
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Sunday on NBC echoing those calls and saying even more cabinet officials should be resigning.
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As you know, a number of Democrats have called for him to resign.
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Do you, Senator, think that Secretary Kennedy should resign?
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Now, I'm one of these big believers that when I see Justice Department officials and State
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Department officials and many other people resigning because the president of the United
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States is doing things that are immoral and dangerous, I believe, frankly, that all of
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his cabinet should be taking a moral position, especially those that are parts of agencies like Health
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and Human Services or the Justice Department, when you have a president that is acting in
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the way that he should, that all of them should be stepping down.
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RFKJ joining Fox News on Sunday, defending his work.
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They don't want to hear the answers to the questions that they asked me.
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They want to make a little speech and then shut me down.
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We did worse in COVID than any country in the world.
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We have more than we have 20 percent of the world's COVID deaths.
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We usually we literally are with the worst team in the league.
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And my job is to shake up the organization, to fire the people who are responsible.
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We literally did worse than any country in the world.
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And it was because we forgot about the science.
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And what we're going to do, what the Trump administration is going to do,
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is to return gold standard science and make this agency a lead agency for public health
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President Trump, who recently expressed support for some vaccines, Sunday from the White House,
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He's got a lot of good ideas, but he's got a lot of ideas.
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And that's why we have problems with autism and so many other things,
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because we're coming up with the answers for autism.
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We're coming up with the answers for other things that normal people, regular people,
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easy to get along with people, wouldn't be able to do.
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Coming up, after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses CBS News of deceptive editing,
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the network announces a major change in its editorial policy.
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CBS News announcing a major editorial policy change after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accuses
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the network of deceptively editing her interview last week.
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DHS releasing a statement saying nearly four minutes of the 16-minute and 20-second interview
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were cut, most significantly in answer regarding the fate of so-called Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego
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Garcia, who is actually, of course, a Salvadoran national, credibly accused of MS-13 membership
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Abrego Garcia is currently held in an ICE detention facility in Farmville, Virginia,
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as he awaits trial on human trafficking charges in Tennessee after being returned to the U.S.
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In a separate effort, the Trump administration is battling with the courts to deport Abrego
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Garcia to a country other than El Salvador in compliance with a court order.
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On CBS last week, guest host Ed O'Keefe pressing Secretary Noem.
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Shouldn't Abrego Garcia face trial on his charges before being deported again?
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The network ending the secretary's answer here.
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And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free
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Secretary Noem later posting the rest of her answer to ICE, which included the following.
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This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was
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a wife beater and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors.
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And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off.
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He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children.
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So he needs to never be in the United States of America.
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And our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
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Initially, CBS defending the move in a statement to The Hill, quote,
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the interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards.
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The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube and the full transcript was posted
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Five days later, the network releasing a new statement in response to, quote, audience feedback,
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quote, face the nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews subject to
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This extra measure means the television audience will see the full unedited interview on CBS
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and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.
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The change comes just months after CBS parent company Paramount paid $16 million to settle a
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lawsuit with President Trump over a 60 Minutes interview he says was deceptively edited to
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favor then Vice President Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
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And it also comes just weeks after new owners took over Paramount and signaled changes to the
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In 2019, Abrego Garcia receiving a withholding of removal order barring his deportation to El
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Salvador on the grounds that he faced a credible threat of harm if he returned home.
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Now that Abrego Garcia is back on American soil, still under final order of removal,
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the feds are seeking to deport him to a third country where there is no credible fear of
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On Friday, Fox News obtaining a letter sent to Abrego Garcia's lawyers from ICE reading as
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follows, quote, currently you are designated to be removed to Uganda.
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Your attorney has informed us, however, that you fear persecution or torture in Uganda.
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That claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed through
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your attorneys that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries.
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We hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa.
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Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
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It gained independence from the British in 1968 and is ruled by an absolute monarchy.
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Amid all of this, Abrego Garcia is reapplying for asylum in the U.S.
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Maryland Judge Paula Zinnis, overseeing that case, has ordered the government cannot remove
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Catch the Megan Kelly show today, live on SiriusXM, Triumph Channel 111 at noon east on
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