The Megyn Kelly Show - James Comey Indicted, Trump Paves Way for American TikTok Deal, NJ Gov Race Tightens： AM Update 9⧸26

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, September 26th, 2025, and this is

00:00:08.540 your AM Update. Former FBI Director James Comey indicted.

00:00:13.800 We wanted to keep TikTok operating, but we also wanted to make sure that we protected

00:00:17.600 Americans' data privacy.

00:00:19.520 President Trump signs an executive order bringing the U.S. one step closer to making a deal

00:00:24.100 with China on TikTok. A new report shows spring economic growth was much stronger than

00:00:29.940 anticipated. He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel and to maximize

00:00:37.920 property damage. Officials released more information about the motive of the alleged gunman who opened

00:00:43.280 fire on a Dallas ICE facility. And the New Jersey governor's race is neck and neck. Could the GOP

00:00:50.540 flip the state red? All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:10.260 A federal grand jury in Virginia indicting former FBI Director James Comey yesterday on one count of

00:02:19.220 making false statements and one count of obstruction. The investigation into Comey

00:02:24.160 reportedly centering around alleged lies he told to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30th,

00:02:30.160 2020 regarding the Trump-Russia FBI probe nicknamed Crossfire Hurricane. The accusation? That he

00:02:37.100 authorized leaks of information to the press, then lied about it under oath and obstructed justice in

00:02:43.420 thwarting Congress's oversight of the FBI. The charge of lying to Congress has a five-year statute

00:02:49.160 of limitations, meaning prosecutors faced a Tuesday deadline to bring charges against Comey.

00:02:54.800 Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on social media, quote,

00:02:57.700 no one is above the law, a sentiment echoed by current FBI Director Kash Patel.

00:03:02.700 President Trump responding, quote, justice in America, one of the worst human beings this

00:03:08.540 country has ever been exposed to is James Comey. Comey himself posting this video to social media.

00:03:15.380 My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,

00:03:21.020 but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees,

00:03:26.440 and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of

00:03:32.600 a tyrant, and she's right, but I'm not afraid, and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are

00:03:39.720 engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it,

00:03:47.280 which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the

00:03:54.140 federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith.

00:03:59.640 The charge is brought by acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,

00:04:04.500 36-year-old Lindsay Halligan, the president's former personal attorney.

00:04:09.120 Attorney General Bondi appointing Halligan to the job on Monday, despite her lack of experience in

00:04:13.680 the criminal law and in prosecuting cases, to replace Eric Siebert, who left the position last

00:04:19.200 Friday, reportedly over his reluctance to pursue charges against the president's enemies,

00:04:24.420 including New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Siebert saying he resigned.

00:04:30.280 President Trump saying last Saturday he fired Siebert. Later that same evening, Mr. Trump,

00:04:35.380 in a post on Truth Social addressed to Pam Bondi, writing, quote,

00:04:39.280 What about Comey, Adam Shifty Schiff, Letitia? They're all guilty as hell, but nothing's being done.

00:04:45.880 Justice must be served now. The president's critics, including Maryland Democratic Senator Chris

00:04:51.180 Van Hollen, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Dem, and Connecticut Democratic Senator Dick

00:04:56.980 Blumenthal sounding the alarm. This is a political prosecution, pure and simple. It's exhibit A of the

00:05:05.520 corruption of this Department of Justice in our justice system. And it comes in line with all the

00:05:11.880 other lawless things President Trump is doing. Anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism

00:05:18.520 is wrong? We are there. Trump ordered this prosecution. He is literally weaponizing the

00:05:26.760 Justice Department. I think we all ought to be frightened today because if Donald Trump can

00:05:33.160 populate the Department of Justice with federal prosecutors throughout the country, nobody is safe.

00:05:41.240 Hmm. After Trump was indicted, all three of these lawmakers declared,

00:05:45.460 no one is above the law. Okay. President's critics say they're upset this indictment appears to have

00:05:52.700 been at the behest of the president. Guess they forgot the reporting in the New York Times, April 2022,

00:05:59.100 of the fact that then-President Joe Biden had been pressuring his attorney general before even a single

00:06:04.760 indictment had been sought against Donald Trump to get more aggressive, be more decisive, and to indict

00:06:11.860 Donald Trump, which the DOJ then did. Twice. Not to mention the state prosecutions in New York and

00:06:19.200 Georgia, both of which had federal help. Attorneys Mike Davis and Dave Ehrenberg will be on the Megyn

00:06:25.200 Kelly Show later today to unpack the charges, along with just the news journalist John Solomon.

00:06:32.900 President Trump signing an executive order yesterday clearing the way for American investors to run a

00:06:38.160 separate U.S.-based version of Chinese app TikTok in compliance with a ban signed under the Biden

00:06:44.760 administration, a deal for the app, one of the most widely used in the world, in the works since the

00:06:50.140 first Trump administration. President Trump yesterday from the Oval saying Chinese President

00:06:55.040 Xi Jinping is giving the green light.

00:06:57.060 I had a very good talk with President Xi, a lot of respect for him. Hopefully his, a lot of respect

00:07:03.160 for me too. And we talked about TikTok and other things, but we talked about TikTok and he gave us

00:07:10.120 the go-ahead. You know, it's run by American investors and American companies, great ones,

00:07:15.380 great investors, the biggest. You don't get bigger, I don't imagine.

00:07:19.180 In April of 2024, President Biden signing a bill to ban TikTok unless it was sold to a U.S. company.

00:07:27.000 It was a ban first floated by President Trump during his first term. Upon taking office the

00:07:32.680 second time, President Trump signing an executive order postponing the ban's effective date,

00:07:38.400 allowing the U.S. more time to make a deal with China. The law requires ByteDance to divest about 80%

00:07:44.620 of its U.S. assets. According to the executive order, TikTok's U.S. operations and a copy of its

00:07:50.520 highly addictive, highly coveted algorithm will be spun off into a new U.S.-based joint venture.

00:07:57.440 According to the executive order, ByteDance will own less than 20% of the company.

00:08:02.080 The rest of the ownership will be composed of American investors and run by an American board

00:08:07.320 of directors. American software company Oracle will oversee TikTok data and privacy.

00:08:12.700 The remaining ownership and just who's on that board, not yet clear. However, CNN reporting

00:08:18.580 that the ownership is likely to include several companies owned by right-wing billionaires,

00:08:24.140 including Mark and Drayson and the Murdoch family. Under the deal, these companies would,

00:08:29.340 in cooperation with the government, monitor the U.S. algorithm to ensure content is free from

00:08:35.040 improper manipulation or surveillance. Vice President J.D. Vance says this will ensure

00:08:40.160 user safety on TikTok. The fundamental thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted

00:08:44.820 to keep TikTok operating, but we also wanted to make sure that we protected Americans' data privacy

00:08:49.780 as required by law, both because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's a legal requirement

00:08:54.260 of the law that was passed last year by Congress. But this deal really does mean that Americans can

00:08:59.720 use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than they had in the past because their data is

00:09:04.180 going to be secure and it's not going to be used as a propaganda weapon against our fellow citizens.

00:09:09.500 However, the left wing has other concerns. CNN putting it this way, quote,

00:09:14.340 chances for potential Chinese manipulation of U.S. data would be much lower.

00:09:18.880 Chances for yet another right-wing takeover of a super popular social media app

00:09:23.620 just went up exponentially.

00:09:25.400 Coming up, Dallas officials release more information about the shooter who opened fire

00:09:31.580 on an ICE facility, pointing to a clear-cut anti-ICE motive. Will the liberal media report it?

00:09:38.680 And new polling shows the New Jersey governor's race. New Jersey is neck and neck. Could the Garden

00:09:45.200 State actually go red?

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00:11:01.840 Newly revised spring economic numbers revealing a much stronger economy than previously believed

00:11:07.660 surpassing expectations. The Bureau of Economic Analysis, now estimating second quarter GDP,

00:11:14.340 the broad measurement of economic growth, increased at a 3.8% rate, up 0.8% from the original report

00:11:22.140 and 0.5% from the previous revision. This marks the final revision of Q2 data, CNBC breaking down the

00:11:29.840 significance of this report.

00:11:31.360 Now, on the GDP side, this is our third time around the block on Q2, and we see a really solid

00:11:38.620 revision. 3.8%. I'm a bit shocked, to be honest. Usually the revisions as you get to second and

00:11:45.260 third become smaller and smaller. So 3.8% would be the best quarter going back to, and we have to go

00:11:51.300 back a ways here, to 4.4, and that was the third quarter of 23. Now, it is important to point out that

00:11:58.880 if you look at the first quarter final, down half a percent, there's a balance there. But the balance

00:12:04.340 is moving in favor, and momentum is moving in favor for better growth.

00:12:08.380 The growth, driven largely by an increase in consumer spending, a key force behind economic output.

00:12:13.840 This new data showing President Trump's tariffs have not had the negative impact on consumers

00:12:18.360 warned about by opponents to his economic tactic. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on X,

00:12:24.420 quote, Biden's economy could never reach 3%. President Trump's American First policies added

00:12:30.460 $100 billion and fueled our extraordinary economic growth. The experts doubted it. Trump delivered it.

00:12:40.100 Authorities releasing new details on the motive of 29-year-old Joshua Yan, accused of shooting up an

00:12:46.280 ICE facility on Wednesday in Dallas before taking his own life. Within hours of the shooting, FBI

00:12:51.980 director Kash Patel releasing photos of unspent ammo marked with the words, anti-ICE. Many in the

00:12:59.360 media attempting to downplay that information as ambiguous or ignore it altogether. Acting U.S.

00:13:05.840 Attorney for Northern Texas Nancy Larson on Thursday saying investigators executed multiple search

00:13:11.360 warrants confirming Yan's clear leftist anti-ICE motive. He called the ICE employees people showing up

00:13:20.420 to collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel and to

00:13:29.320 maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the

00:13:37.300 detainees and any other innocent people. It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm

00:13:44.500 them. It's clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. He also hoped his actions would

00:13:52.940 give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down. And he did this to induce constant stress in their lives. He hoped his

00:14:04.560 actions would terrorize ICE employees and interfere with their work, which he called human trafficking. And this

00:14:14.240 what he did is the very definition of terrorism. Authorities say the attack was planned months in

00:14:22.620 advance. The gun used in the shooting, a bolt action rifle, similar to the one used to kill Charlie

00:14:29.100 Kirk, was legally obtained in August. According to FBI Director Patel, the alleged shooter searched Charlie

00:14:36.520 Kirk shot video multiple times in the days leading up to the attack. Investigators believe Yan traveled to the

00:14:43.280 facility in his car around 3 a.m., bringing a ladder with him to access the roof. Around 6.30 a.m., Yan began

00:14:51.120 firing indiscriminately toward the building, shattering windows and striking a van carrying law enforcement

00:14:57.040 officials and ICE detainees. One detainee killed in the attack and two others were shot. No law enforcement

00:15:04.640 agents were injured in the shooting, despite the shooter's stated intent. Director Patel also confirming in the

00:15:10.920 lead-up to the attack, Yan used apps to track the movement of ICE agents. Press Secretary Caroline

00:15:17.160 Levitt posting on X, quote, three months ago, CNN irresponsibly gave free publicity to an app that

00:15:23.900 recklessly shares the location of ICE agents. Levitt calling the liberal media, quote, complicit in the

00:15:29.860 increased threats and violence against ICE. ICE Field Office Director Marcos Charles saying the creation of

00:15:36.180 these apps publicly available to anyone is, quote, no different than giving a hitman the location of

00:15:42.100 their intended target. And this is exactly what we saw happen in Dallas. This week's shooting is the

00:15:47.760 fourth attack in Texas this year on an ICE or CBP facility. With just over six weeks to go until

00:15:57.100 election day, the race for New Jersey governor is in a dead heat. An Emerson College poll showing

00:16:03.300 Democrat candidate and current U.S. Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill tied with Republican candidate Jack

00:16:09.240 Cittarelli at 43 percent, with 11 percent still undecided. Cittarelli appearing to surge in recent

00:16:16.220 weeks as Sherrill sits at plus 6.5 percent in the real clear polling average. This latest poll

00:16:23.320 surveying 935 somewhat and very likely voters in the two days following Sunday's debate, the first matchup

00:16:30.760 between the two candidates. Executive Director of Emerson Polling Spencer Kimball saying, quote,

00:16:36.400 both President Trump and Governor Murphy are underwater among Jersey voters. Sherrill is trying

00:16:41.780 to tie Cittarelli to Trump at the national level, and Cittarelli is trying to tie Sherrill to Murphy and

00:16:47.380 the cost of living at the state level. Cittarelli arguing during the campaign Governor Murphy's pro-wind

00:16:53.160 energy policies are largely to blame for the rise in energy costs, as Sherrill blames lack of

00:16:59.380 transparency from utility companies advocating for building more green energy sources. President

00:17:05.720 Trump, who has endorsed Cittarelli, posting to Truth Social, quote, wow, a just-out poll has Jack

00:17:12.300 Cittarelli essentially beating close to incompetent Mikey Sherrill in the race for governor of New Jersey.

00:17:18.180 Jack is tough on crime and cutting taxes, two things that people really demand today. He will be a

00:17:23.980 great governor. This election marking Cittarelli's third run for governor, narrowly losing in 2021 to

00:17:30.780 Governor Phil Murphy in a 51-48 result, that result coming in much closer than anticipated. In 2024,

00:17:38.720 President Trump losing the state to Kamala Harris by about 250,000 votes, also a much closer margin than

00:17:45.560 expected. Sherrill built her political brand on her service as a helicopter pilot in the Navy, 1.00

00:17:50.780 her campaign logo containing a chopper, the top of her website featuring the candidate in a flight

00:17:56.080 jacket. Just hours after the latest polling dropped on Thursday, the New Jersey Globe reporting

00:18:01.620 Sherrill did not walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy in 1994 amid a massive cheating

00:18:08.380 scandal. Two dozen midshipmen expelled after the answers to an electrical engineering exam were shared

00:18:15.420 among classmates in 1992. Sherrill rejected a request to release the records, though telling the Globe,

00:18:22.100 quote, I didn't turn in some of my classmates, so I didn't walk, but I graduated and was commissioned as an

00:18:28.300 officer in the U.S. Navy. The candidates face off in another debate on Tuesday next week.

00:18:35.060 And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show, live on

00:18:40.260 SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly, and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - September 26, 2025

James Comey Indicted, Trump Paves Way for American TikTok Deal, NJ Gov Race Tightens： AM Update 9⧸26

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