The Megyn Kelly Show - March 03, 2026


Inside America's Iran War Planning, Migrant Murderer, Schlossberg Struggles on Trail： AM Update 3⧸3


Episode Stats

Length

20 minutes

Words per Minute

152.37323

Word Count

3,069

Sentence Count

209

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026, and this is your
00:00:08.080 AM Update.
00:00:09.100 We knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,
00:00:12.940 we would suffer higher casualties.
00:00:15.120 Trump administration officials defending the strikes against Iran amid mounting scrutiny
00:00:19.960 over the scope and point of the operation. President Trump recognizing three American
00:00:25.340 service members with medals of honor in a White House ceremony, a Virginia woman followed
00:00:30.660 off a bus by an illegal immigrant, then stabbed to death, the suspect with a long rap sheet.
00:00:37.180 Your campaign slogan is, believe in something again.
00:00:41.300 And Kennedy heir Jack Schlossberg defends his deeply disturbed social media antics amid a
00:00:47.700 crowded congressional field in New York. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:08.640 Yesterday afternoon, CENTCOM, the military central command overseeing U.S. operations in the Middle
00:02:16.200 East, confirming two more U.S. service members killed in action amid the U.S. strikes on Iran,
00:02:23.140 bringing the total to six American deaths so far. The bodies of the two service members recovered
00:02:28.880 from a facility struck by Iranian forces reportedly in Kuwait. President Trump previously warning that
00:02:35.680 more casualties are likely. Amid mounting questions about why President Trump decided to authorize
00:02:41.940 the strike, Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday on the Hill, arguing it was, as the
00:02:48.160 MK Show reported yesterday, because of Israel. It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack
00:02:54.520 by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the
00:02:59.900 United States. And so the president made the very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be
00:03:04.560 an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
00:03:09.140 And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,
00:03:12.960 we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed. And then we would all
00:03:17.860 be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. The secretary then pressed
00:03:22.000 directly on whether Israel's planned strike forced the U.S. into the conflict, Mr. Rubio instead
00:03:28.020 casting the decision as part of a broader calculation about Iran's expanding military capabilities.
00:03:33.940 No, first of all, let me two things I would say. Number one is, no matter what, ultimately this
00:03:37.820 operation needed to happen. That's the question of why now. But this operation needed to happen
00:03:42.000 because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning they
00:03:46.440 would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones, that no one could do anything about it
00:03:50.620 because they could hold the whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now. And this is a
00:03:55.080 weakened Iran. Imagine a year from now. So that had to happen. Obviously, we were aware of Israeli
00:03:59.820 intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of
00:04:04.220 it. But this had to happen no matter what. Meanwhile, reporting from the New York Times,
00:04:08.240 shining light on the months of behind-the-scenes buildup, leading to President Trump ultimately
00:04:12.780 signing off on the attack. U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner struggling to secure a
00:04:18.880 no-enrichment agreement from the Iranians in nuclear talks, even proposing U.S. provided free
00:04:24.560 nuclear fuel for a domestic energy program, the Iranians rebuffing the offer, leaving Wyckoff
00:04:30.680 and Kushner to advise President Trump that a deal could not likely be reached. All of it unfolding
00:04:36.020 as the Pentagon rapidly built up forces in the region, deploying two aircraft carriers, fighter jets,
00:04:41.620 and other military assets. For months, the Times reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:04:47.660 urging President Trump to hit Iran, weakened by the U.S. strikes against its nuclear program last June.
00:04:53.920 Few members of Mr. Trump's inner circle voicing opposition to military action, according to the
00:04:58.920 Times. In a mid-February meeting in the Situation Room, top officials including Vice President J.D.
00:05:04.560 Vance, Secretary Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and General Dan Raisin Cain, Chairman of the Joint
00:05:10.520 Chiefs, discussing military plans. General Cain reportedly offering up multiple options, from a
00:05:16.480 smaller, limited strike to a campaign to topple Iran's government. The general advising that all
00:05:22.120 options would be difficult, and toppling the government carried high risk of American casualties
00:05:27.560 and of destabilizing the region. Vice President J.D. Vance, who the Times characterizes as personally
00:05:34.180 leaning against military attacks, arguing that if strikes were to happen, limiting them was not the
00:05:40.420 way, instead saying that if the U.S. acts, it should, quote, go big and fast. The Times reporting that in the
00:05:47.380 days after that meeting, internal discussion increasingly centered on a joint U.S.-Israeli
00:05:52.440 operation aiming not just at military sites, but the regime's top leadership. CENTCOM stating
00:05:59.120 yesterday that U.S. forces sunk 11 Iranian Navy ships in the Gulf of Oman. President Trump telling
00:06:05.360 CNN on Monday the, quote, big wave has yet to begin. CNN's Jim Sciutto reporting last night,
00:06:11.960 the U.S. is preparing for a, quote, major uptick over the next 24 hours. President Trump hosting a
00:06:20.680 Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House yesterday, honoring three American service members whose acts
00:06:26.020 of extraordinary courage spanned three generations of war, World War II, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
00:06:33.200 The Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, awarded to members of the U.S.
00:06:38.140 armed forces distinguishing themselves through acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty,
00:06:43.700 risking their own lives in combat against enemy forces. The first honoree, the late Army Master
00:06:49.640 Sergeant Roddy Edmonds of Knoxville, Tennessee. Edmonds enlisting in the Army in 1941, rising through
00:06:56.340 the ranks, his unit overrun in 1944 by Nazi forces during the Battle of the Bulge. After marching for
00:07:03.060 days through bitter cold winter, Edmonds and his 1,200-soldier unit arriving at a German prisoner
00:07:09.580 of war camp. On July 26, 1945, a Nazi officer ordering that only American Jewish soldiers were
00:07:18.220 to report for roll call the following morning, warning that all who disobeyed the order would
00:07:23.120 be executed. President Trump describing what happened next.
00:07:26.860 There were more than 200 Jewish American soldiers in the camp, and Roddy knew their separation from
00:07:33.060 the group would mean certain death. So that night he summoned his team and devised a plan. The next
00:07:40.200 morning, all 1,200 American men fell in line together, shoulder to shoulder. Enraged, the Nazi commandant
00:07:50.100 rushed forward, drew his Luger pistol, and pressed the barrel between Sergeant Edmonds' eyes. He barked at
00:07:58.840 Roddy. They cannot all be Jews, he screamed. Sergeant Edmonds replied fearlessly, we are all Jews here.
00:08:09.920 The Nazi officer lowered his weapon and the soldiers erupted in cheers. With total disregard for his own
00:08:16.740 life, Roddy had saved over 200 of his fellow service members there. Camp was liberated two
00:08:23.160 months later. Edmonds passing away in 1985 at age 65, his son Chris accepting the honor on his father's
00:08:30.980 behalf. The second recipient, Army Command Sergeant Major Terry Richardson, who was present with Mr. Trump
00:08:37.840 at the White House on Monday, honored for his actions during the Vietnam War. On September 12, 1968,
00:08:44.200 Richardson and Alpha Company tasked with securing a hill behind enemy lines. Unaware, the terrain contained
00:08:50.680 about 300 enemy bunkers, with forces vastly outnumbering them. As his platoon came under intense machine gun and
00:08:57.960 grenade fire, Richardson repeatedly rescuing wounded soldiers. President Trump recounting Richardson's actions.
00:09:05.000 Where he spent the next eight hours calling in, tactical strikes completely exposed. An hour in, an enemy
00:09:12.700 sniper shot rang out and the bullet tore through his right leg violently. He was in bad shape. But Terry
00:09:20.220 disregarded that and pushed through. And after seven more hours of calling in, American fire from above,
00:09:28.380 the enemy retreated. Later that day, his team found him with both eardrums totally ruptured and a mangled
00:09:37.740 right leg and foot, but still barely living. But living, nevertheless. Due to Terry's actions above
00:09:46.220 and beyond the call of duty, 82 men, Alpha Company survived this battle. The final Medal of Honor presented
00:09:53.100 to the parents of the late Army Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis for his heroism in Afghanistan. On August 28,
00:10:00.140 2013, an insurgent launching an attack on Ollis' base involving a car bomb, followed by armed enemies
00:10:07.020 wearing suicide vests. Ollis, without any armor, carrying only a rifle, sweeping through a building
00:10:13.500 to check for casualties, locating a Polish coalition forces officer, the two soldiers moving toward enemy
00:10:19.980 fire. President Trump detailing Ollis' final moments.
00:10:23.660 At one point, shrapnel ripped through the Polish soldier's legs, rendering him unable to walk very,
00:10:32.540 very severely hurt. In that chaos of gunfire explosions and charred human remains, a terrorist
00:10:39.740 insurgent appeared, rounding a corner with his suicide vest fully armed. And you could see it,
00:10:46.220 it was going to happen. He charged the wounded Polish soldier. Without hesitation, Michael raised his gun
00:10:53.020 and forced himself between the insurgent and the man he just met, shielding him with his own body.
00:11:00.060 And in perhaps his final heartbeat, Michael fired his weapon and the terrorists detonated
00:11:05.980 his vest simultaneously. Staff Sergeant Ollis was killed just weeks before his 25th birthday and nobody
00:11:15.980 was any more brave than that. In his final act on earth, Michael absorbed the blast, sparing the life
00:11:23.180 of that Polish warrior. The Polish officer, who later named his son Michael in Ollis' honor,
00:11:29.260 speaking during the ceremony, thanking Ollis for his sacrifice, saying, quote,
00:11:33.180 I will see you in our heavenly homeland.
00:11:35.740 Coming up, a Virginia woman brutally stabbed to death at a bus stop by an illegal immigrant with
00:11:42.940 a long rap sheet. And Kennedy heir Jack Schlossberg defends his social media, vicious, deranged rants,
00:11:51.420 as he attempts to carve his path in a crowded congressional primary race.
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00:12:50.780 A Virginia woman fatally stabbed by an illegal immigrant who's now been revealed to have a
00:12:58.300 shocking criminal history, including more than 30 arrests. On February 23rd, authorities responding
00:13:04.540 to a 911 call from a community member about a woman found at a bus stop along Richmond Highway in
00:13:10.700 Fairfax County, Virginia. Here, Fairfax County Police Captain Chris Cosgriff.
00:13:15.740 The detectives believe that the adult female arrived to the bus stop between 6pm and 7pm. Officers responded
00:13:23.500 to a call for service shortly after 7pm and discovered her inside of the bus stop suffering from trauma to
00:13:29.660 her upper body. The officers rendered aid. However, she was pronounced deceased at the scene.
00:13:34.540 The victim later identified as 41-year-old Stephanie Minter of Fredericksburg. Investigators
00:13:41.020 determining through interviews and surveillance video that 32-year-old Abdul Jalloh was the last
00:13:46.940 person seen with Minter, the two exiting the bus at the same time shortly before the attack.
00:13:52.220 The following day, a liquor store employee calling 911 to report Jalloh for shoplifting. Authorities
00:13:58.540 initially charging him with petite larceny, detectives later connecting him to Minter's death,
00:14:04.140 charging Jalloh with second-degree murder. Police say Jalloh has no fixed address and is currently
00:14:09.500 being held without bond. According to DHS, Jalloh illegally entered the US from Sierra Leone on
00:14:15.980 the west coast of Africa in 2012, an immigration judge issuing a final order of removal in 2020,
00:14:23.820 determining he could still be deported to any country but Sierra Leone, raising the question,
00:14:29.740 what on earth was he still doing here? The Center for Immigration Studies reporting last year that
00:14:35.020 Fairfax County is among the least cooperative jurisdictions when it comes to ICE detainer
00:14:40.380 requests, declining to honor more than 1,150 requests over a two-and-a-half-year period. Since
00:14:46.940 arriving in the US, Jalloh arrested again and again on charges including rape, malicious wounding,
00:14:53.180 assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing, larceny, and more. Fox 5 DC reporting
00:14:59.340 prosecutors dropped the charges in many of those cases. DHS now calling on Virginia Governor Abigail
00:15:05.820 Spamburger, a Democrat, to, quote, commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal
00:15:12.300 from their jail without notifying ICE first. Jalloh has not yet entered a plea. He is due in court May
00:15:19.500 13th. Stephanie Minter described in her obituary as, quote, a beam of light in dark places is survived
00:15:26.940 by her mother, son, and a large extended family. Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President
00:15:35.100 John F. Kennedy, defending his deeply disturbed social media posts as he attempts to garner support
00:15:41.420 in his middling congressional campaign. Schlossberg, running for New York's 12th congressional district,
00:15:47.100 currently represented by 78-year-old Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler, who is retiring at
00:15:52.220 the end of this term. Schlossberg, announcing his candidacy last year, bringing limited professional
00:15:58.060 experience, including a one-month stint at Vogue magazine where he produced just seven articles,
00:16:05.180 among them a transcript of his own speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Schlossberg,
00:16:11.820 leaning heavily into social media provocation to generate interest and raise his profile,
00:16:17.100 and also apparently to raise suspicions that he is mentally ill. Though he has since deleted his
00:16:23.420 accounts, he could be seen offering multiple Nazi salutes, musing about Jew blood, and four ounces of
00:16:31.180 semen for a so-called Maha energy ball. He once thanked Elon Musk for, quote, letting China eat out your,
00:16:39.340 shall we say, backside while you piss on the Constitution. Charming. Another time, he asked followers to vote,
00:16:46.840 quote, on who is hotter, his own grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, or Second Lady Usha Vance,
00:16:53.280 whose child he jokingly claimed to have fathered. A laugh riot, isn't he? Perhaps his favorite target
00:17:01.000 has been his own cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posting a video in January 2025,
00:17:08.080 mocking RFK's degenerative voice condition. Hey, everybody, I'm trying to figure out the right
00:17:16.520 present to get Donald Trump for the inauguration. So I found a really rare animal and killed it,
00:17:24.420 and I'm going to give it to him. CBS questioning Schlossberg Sunday about his approach to social
00:17:30.220 media, including the suggestion that he fathered one of Usha Vance's children.
00:17:34.960 The joke being that you and she had a love child. Now, she's not elected. Is that crossing a line?
00:17:41.840 I think what's crossing a line is the propaganda that we see issued every single day by the White
00:17:47.400 House and Vance. Well, we know you think that. Right. So what are we going to do? Hold back?
00:17:53.060 Hold back on our sense of humor and not tease them? Make fun of them back? My grandmother wasn't
00:17:57.060 elected. My Uncle John wasn't elected. People feel absolute free reign to say whatever they want about
00:18:02.480 them. So I'm going to throw it right back at you, because you know what? The time is not now to hold
00:18:07.020 back. Sit on your hands and say, hmm, OK, well, why don't we just play it safe? Absolutely not. We've
00:18:13.360 got to get these people out of here. Schlossberg's cousin, Kick Kennedy, telling the New York Post
00:18:18.240 she hopes that Schlossberg, quote, gets the help he needs. His own mother, Caroline Kennedy, who has given
00:18:24.360 some money toward his campaign, has also reportedly said she does not want him to run. Gee, can you
00:18:30.860 guess why? No public polling currently exists in this race, with nine Democrats competing to replace
00:18:37.300 Mr. Nadler, the outgoing congressman endorsing his former aide, New York State Assemblyman Mika
00:18:42.620 Lasher, last month. Lasher also securing backing from several other prominent New York Democrats.
00:18:48.680 Schlossberg, by contrast, lacking in significant local endorsements so far, though receiving some
00:18:54.040 support from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, SNL creator Lauren Michaels and actress Bette Midler
00:19:01.000 among early donors. Schlossberg now attempting to rally voters with this bold vision. Your campaign
00:19:07.940 slogan is believe in something again. What do you mean? Well, believe in something again. America is
00:19:16.180 turning 250 years old this year. I'm a spiritual guy. I think it's coming at this moment for a reason.
00:19:22.680 From ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, to believe in
00:19:29.560 something, anything, or something. The primary is set for June 23rd.
00:19:37.820 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show,
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