Carmelo Anthony learns his fate after being convicted of murder, then sentenced by the jury just hours later. A new House oversight report accuses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of ignoring years of fraud warnings. The U.S. and Iran are reportedly trading fire after President Trump ordered strikes against Iran in response to the downing of an American attack helicopter. And Nick Reiner, accused of murdering his parents, is now fighting to use the inheritance they left him to help fund his defense.
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00:00:57.540Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111.
00:01:04.880It's Wednesday, June 10th, 2026. This is your AM Update.
00:01:09.700I was not surprised. You can also tell by the quick verdict that this was going to be a guilty verdict on the most serious charge.
00:01:17.020Carmelo Anthony learns his fate after being convicted of murder, then sentenced by the jury just hours later.
00:01:23.900Clearly people weren't taking fraud seriously.
00:01:27.020Whether it rises to the level of a criminal violation, we're going to investigate it.
00:01:31.680A new House oversight report accusing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of ignoring years of fraud warnings,
00:01:39.180now becoming the basis for a DOJ referral from Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:01:44.200The U.S. and Iran reportedly trading fire after President Trump ordered strikes against Iran in responses to the downing of an American attack helicopter.
00:01:53.120And Nick Reiner, accused of murdering his parents, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner,
00:01:58.780now fighting to use the inheritance they left him to help fund his defense.
00:02:04.080All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:03:17.480slash MK. Carmelo Anthony is sentenced to 35 years in prison last night by a Collin County,
00:03:25.160Texas jury for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe at a high school track meet last year.
00:03:31.460He will be eligible for parole after serving half of that sentence. The sentence coming after jurors
00:03:36.420first convicted Anthony of murder, rejecting his claim that he stabbed Metcalfe in self-defense.
00:03:42.200The verdict coming after less than three hours of deliberation, Anthony facing a range of
00:03:47.660five to ninety-nine years behind bars.
00:03:50.540We spoke to the MK True Crime show host, Dave Ehrenberg, who says the speed of the verdict
00:04:06.480And the fact that the defendant did not take the stand, I think that was the end for him because I have never seen a self-defense claim in a murder case where the defendant did not take the stand.
00:04:21.460After the verdict, an unusual turn. In Texas, a defendant has the option of letting the judge decide his sentence or putting that decision into the hands of the jury that just convicted him.
00:04:34.240Ehrenberg understands why the defense may have wanted to avoid leaving his fate to the judge.
00:04:38.440The judge was a very no-nonsense, law-and-order judge who asked questions that were pushing the boundaries,
00:04:46.940like trying to ask people if they believed in American exceptionalism.
00:04:51.540And that's the kind of judge I can understand a defense lawyer may not want to be the one to choose the sentence.
00:04:57.820During the sentencing phase yesterday, the defense calling Anthony's mother to the stand, where she tearfully pled for mercy, telling jurors her son has shown remorse.
00:05:07.100Ehrenberg believes that kind of testimony can matter to a jury.
00:05:09.700I think it's powerful for a mother to plead for mercy from a jury and to say that her son is remorseful, even though her son did not testify.
00:05:20.740I think it's powerful, but it's also powerful that the jury heard the evidence of this senseless, brutal killing.
00:05:27.820So it's hard to know which way the jury is going to go.
00:05:30.620But I think on the whole, because he didn't have a lot of witnesses at this sentencing,
00:05:35.560it was a very cursory sentencing phase that the defendant's mother, I think, will have
00:07:13.000Ellison called to testify before the House Oversight Committee at a hearing titled Oversight
00:07:17.980of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota, Part 2. At that hearing, Republican Congressman
00:07:24.120Brandon Gill of Texas pressing the governor on allegations that whistleblowers were discouraged
00:07:29.160from raising concerns about fraud because officials feared accusations of racism or
00:07:33.880Islamophobia. Is it racist for a government official to identify fraud? No. No. Is it
00:07:41.400Islamophobic? To identify fraud? To identify fraud? No, I don't believe it would be. How come
00:07:47.640multiple whistleblowers have said that your administration told them not to say anything
00:07:51.940about widespread fraud across multiple agencies because doing so would be considered racist or
00:07:57.640Islamophobic? I can't speak to it because it's not anything I would say. And then we heard from
00:08:03.200Representative Kristen Robbins, quote, we have dozens of credible whistleblower reports saying
00:08:07.420the exact same thing that people were told not to say anything because they'd be called racist
00:08:12.060or Islamophobic, or it would hurt the state. Do you think it's racist or Islamophobic to
00:08:17.400highlight and try to stop fraud? It is not, and I certainly wouldn't know.
00:08:21.660It's not, but that was the message your administration was sending to multiple
00:08:25.140whistleblowers. Mr. Vance writing on X, quote, Minnesota state officials are not above the law,
00:08:30.800and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated
00:08:35.820whistleblowers, they must face justice. Mr. Vance, Monday on Fox, addressing the referral.
00:08:42.060We are not going to do what the Biden administration did and make judgments of the law before all the facts are in.
00:08:48.420But here's what's particularly troubling about this to me is, Jesse, you had people within Governor Walz's office who were saying, you know what, this looks like fraud.0.99
00:08:58.280It looks like these Somalian illegal immigrants are doing something that's very shady.
00:09:03.080And then you had people who shut them down, who shut these whistleblowers down and said, you know, you're a racist or you're a xenophobe for asking questions about where taxpayer money is going.
00:09:13.580What that means to me, Jesse, is that clearly people weren't taking fraud seriously, whether it rises to the level of a criminal violation.
00:09:22.340We're going to investigate it. And of course, if it does rise to that level, we're going to prosecute it. We have to.
00:09:27.800Governor Walsh and A.G. Ellison pushing back hard, a Walsh spokesperson referring to an
00:09:32.180earlier statement from the governor, quote, this committee has proven time and time again