The Megyn Kelly Show - Kash Patel Responds Exclusively, WH Defends Boat Strike, Luigi Mangione in Court： AM Update 12⧸2

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone.

00:00:33.900 I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:35.120 I think we've gone from bad to worse, but I'm going to muddle through it because I've got

00:00:38.700 some news for you.

00:00:40.400 It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:45.320 AM Update with new and exclusive reaction from FBI Director Kash Patel to an attack on FBI

00:00:52.160 leadership from anonymous agents.

00:00:54.760 Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes.

00:00:59.260 The White House confirms a second strike was ordered on a suspected drug vessel as President

00:01:05.200 Trump's top advisors discuss next moves in Venezuela.

00:01:08.540 It shows a cold, calculated, premeditated murder.

00:01:12.300 It is the lock that any prosecutor wants.

00:01:14.780 And Luigi Mangione in a New York courtroom seeking to exclude key evidence in his trial.

00:01:20.220 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:34.180 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt yesterday confirming reports that a second strike was

00:02:40.080 conducted on an alleged drug boat heading for America on September 2nd, as two suspected

00:02:46.100 narco-terrorists who survived the first strike clung to the battered boat in the sea.

00:02:52.660 The Washington Post reporting Friday the, quote, double tap was ordered by Admiral Frank Mitch

00:02:58.020 Bradley.

00:02:59.100 This following an earlier order prior to the initial strike from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,

00:03:05.060 authorizing kinetic strikes to take out these vessels.

00:03:08.000 The Washington Post and subsequent reporting intensely focusing on the legality of Admiral

00:03:14.360 Bradley's order, contending that the survivors did not pose an ongoing threat to the U.S.,

00:03:20.220 which actually has not yet been confirmed.

00:03:22.940 As adjunct Cornell law professor and retired U.S. Army soldier Brian Cox has argued and will

00:03:29.380 explain today live on the MK Show, if this boat were just disabled, as the Washington Post reports,

00:03:35.840 and not entirely destroyed after strike number one, the order to strike again would be entirely

00:03:42.660 legal.

00:03:44.000 Caroline Levitt from yesterday's briefing reading a prepared statement moments after denying that

00:03:49.480 the order for the second strike came directly from Secretary Hegseth.

00:03:53.200 President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist

00:03:59.900 groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war.

00:04:04.620 With respect to the strikes in question on September 2nd, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley

00:04:10.700 to conduct these kinetic strikes.

00:04:13.160 Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure

00:04:18.320 where the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.

00:04:23.380 And I would just add one more point to remind the American public why these lethal strikes

00:04:27.960 are taking place.

00:04:29.000 Because this administration has designated these narco-terrorists as foreign terrorist organizations.

00:04:35.060 The president has a right to take them out if they are threatening the United States

00:04:38.480 of America and if they are bringing illegal narcotics that are killing our citizens at a record

00:04:43.620 rate, which is what they are doing.

00:04:44.800 And under the previous administration, there was enough fentanyl trafficked into our country

00:04:49.520 to kill every American man, woman, and child many times over.

00:04:54.660 Levitt saying Admiral Bradley ordered the second strike, but stopping short of addressing whether 0.95

00:04:59.600 it was intended specifically to kill survivors.

00:05:03.440 The Post initially reporting four strikes total on the boat, two to kill everyone, and two more 0.71

00:05:09.400 to fully sink the wreckage.

00:05:10.620 The topic consuming about half of the briefing, with intense focus on the nature of the order

00:05:16.180 itself.

00:05:17.340 What was the initial order from Secretary Haig said, everyone be killed, and did that

00:05:22.660 come from President Trump?

00:05:23.780 I saw that quoted in a Washington Post story.

00:05:26.480 I would reject that the Secretary of War ever said that.

00:05:30.780 However, the president has made it quite clear that if narco-terrorists, again, are trafficking 0.93

00:05:35.180 illegal drugs towards the United States, he has the authority to kill them. 0.66

00:05:39.980 And that's what this administration is doing. 0.81

00:05:42.240 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reacting bluntly at a press conference.

00:05:46.260 The White House is lying, but that's no surprise, because they lie for a living, and the American

00:05:52.520 people know it.

00:05:53.740 The House and Senate Armed Services Committees, led by Republicans, launching inquiries into

00:05:59.100 the matter.

00:06:00.100 Secretary Hegseth posting on social media yesterday evening, quote,

00:06:03.640 Let's make one thing crystal clear.

00:06:06.060 Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support.

00:06:12.120 I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made on the September 2nd mission and all

00:06:17.140 others since.

00:06:18.480 Also yesterday, President Trump meeting with his national security team in the Oval to

00:06:23.400 discuss Venezuela.

00:06:25.000 CNN reporting Secretary Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Raisin-Kane, Secretary

00:06:30.380 of State Marco Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, among

00:06:36.320 those in attendance.

00:06:37.980 The president ramping up pressure on Venezuela in recent weeks as part of a campaign to crack

00:06:42.740 down on cartels trafficking drugs into the U.S.

00:06:46.620 U.S. military ships and troops amassing in the region.

00:06:49.780 Last week, President Trump saying operations to halt trafficking via land routes would begin

00:06:55.160 very soon.

00:06:56.200 On Saturday, President Trump posting to Truth Social, quote,

00:07:00.420 To all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers, please consider the airspace

00:07:05.400 above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety, leaving many to wonder if

00:07:10.600 U.S. intervention is imminent.

00:07:13.400 On Sunday, President Trump confirming he had recently spoken to President Maduro.

00:07:18.020 The New York Times reported that you had a phone call with Maduro.

00:07:20.980 Did you?

00:07:21.820 I don't want to comment on it.

00:07:23.340 The answer is yes.

00:07:24.460 And can you tell us a little bit about it?

00:07:25.580 No, I can't do that.

00:07:26.620 Did you say it went well?

00:07:28.240 I wouldn't say it went well or badly.

00:07:30.800 It was a phone call.

00:07:32.400 Last week, the administration designating President Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist

00:07:37.080 organization, saying he and other members of his government head the Cartel de los Solis,

00:07:43.540 a step U.S. officials say provides wider legal authority to conduct operations inside Venezuela.

00:07:49.400 Coming up, a new report goes after FBI Director Cash Patel.

00:07:56.060 Director Patel responds on the record to AM Update.

00:08:00.000 And accused murderer Luigi Mangione is in court seeking the dismissal of critical pieces of evidence.

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00:09:09.240 A new report compiled by a group of active duty and retired FBI agents

00:09:14.120 painting an unflattering image of FBI Director Cash Patel,

00:09:18.220 and to a lesser degree, his Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

00:09:22.440 The 115-page report, a mostly scathing assessment of Patel's first six months in office,

00:09:29.080 reportedly set to be presented to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees this week.

00:09:34.060 The New York Post's Miranda Devine getting her hands on the report,

00:09:37.960 which labels the FBI, quote,

00:09:39.540 a rudderless ship under Director Patel,

00:09:43.040 whom the document concludes is, quote,

00:09:45.060 in over his head.

00:09:46.220 The report, citing multiple internal FBI sources,

00:09:50.580 accuses Director Patel of lacking, quote,

00:09:52.640 the breadth of experience needed to be successful.

00:09:55.680 Another source saying the director, quote,

00:09:57.460 lacks the requisite experience to be FBI Director.

00:10:01.240 Devine posting on X yesterday that, quote,

00:10:03.700 for those claiming this report is from a bunch of disgruntled FBI staffers

00:10:07.440 who don't like change or are salty ex-FBI critics of Cash and Dan,

00:10:12.020 you're wrong. It's from an alliance of patriotic operational insiders opposed to the abuses and

00:10:18.680 corruption of the FBI, which accelerated under Joe Biden.

00:10:22.700 AM Update spoke exclusively with Director Patel about the report,

00:10:26.980 who rejected that characterization, dismissing the report as a, quote,

00:10:31.300 dossier compiled by anonymous, disgruntled sources, end quote,

00:10:35.980 whom, he argued, do not know what they're talking about.

00:10:38.600 He scoffed at the notion that the FBI is, quote, rudderless,

00:10:42.520 pointing out that under his leadership, the Bureau has made almost 30,000 arrests this year,

00:10:47.860 a 100% increase from 2024, 25,000 of those for violent crimes,

00:10:54.120 including over 100 MS-13 gang members and 200-plus Trenda Aragua members.

00:11:00.640 6,000 missing children have been found, a 22% increase over last year.

00:11:05.840 1,700 child predators have been arrested. That's up 10% from last year. Human trafficking arrests are up

00:11:13.340 15% from last year. Domestic terrorism arrests, up 30%. 1,900 kilos of fentanyl have been seized.

00:11:21.280 That's enough to kill 127 million Americans. Four of the top 10 most wanted criminals in the U.S.

00:11:27.880 have been nabbed under his leadership. That's the same number President Biden's FBI arrested

00:11:32.260 over four years. In short, Director Patel maintains, the numbers speak for themselves.

00:11:38.200 This FBI is succeeding beyond anyone's expectations. Director Patel also responding

00:11:43.440 to allegations in the report of his alleged behavior around the Charlie Kirk murder.

00:11:49.080 We will have that piece of the story for you on the MK Show later today.

00:11:53.100 Last week, MS Now reporting three unnamed sources saying President Trump is considering removing

00:11:59.860 Director Patel as top aides grow frustrated by the negative headlines. Caroline Levitt calling

00:12:05.340 that report completely made up, with the president himself weighing in, saying of Patel, quote,

00:12:10.460 I think he's doing a great job.

00:12:14.320 Luigi Mangione in New York State Court yesterday for the start of a multi-day pretrial hearing,

00:12:19.780 asking a judge to exclude evidence collected during his arrest last year. The defense arguing

00:12:25.960 Mangione's rights were violated when cops searched his backpack and questioned him before obtaining

00:12:31.300 a warrant and reading him his Miranda rights. 27-year-old Mangione accused of assassinating United

00:12:37.440 Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel on December 4, 2024. The brutal slaying

00:12:44.820 captured on surveillance video showing the suspect approaching Thompson from behind and opening

00:12:49.700 fire at close range before fleeing. Thompson hit in the back and in the leg, dying from his

00:12:55.420 injuries. Prosecutors say the words deny, delay, and depose were written on the ammunition, echoing a

00:13:02.520 phrase used to describe how insurance companies dodge paying claims. They argue that they have a

00:13:08.460 substantial body of evidence against Mangione, including video placing him at the scene of the

00:13:13.320 shooting and a manifesto obtained from his backpack upon arrest. The attack leading to a five-day

00:13:19.840 manhunt. Cops arresting Mangione at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, about 230 miles from Manhattan.

00:13:26.320 Former prosecutor Joey Jackson on CNN explaining the rules governing police interrogations and the

00:13:31.880 circumstances requiring Miranda warnings. Does the prosecution acknowledge they never told Mangione

00:13:38.400 he has a right to remain silent? Indeed they do. But however, there are other arguments, even though

00:13:44.300 they eventually did. But at the time that they were making an accusation towards him, if it's a custodial

00:13:49.320 interrogation, doesn't mean you're in cuffs. But if you're not free to leave and they're asking

00:13:53.020 questions that could incriminate you, you have to give Miranda. However, if you're simply investigating a

00:13:59.120 case and not really questioning him such that you're eliciting guilty statements, you don't.

00:14:04.140 And so there's a fine line with respect to investigatory information being supplied and

00:14:09.040 incriminatory, meaning you're looking for evidence to incriminate them. The police say we just needed

00:14:13.820 to know what the lay of the land was. And that was the basis upon which we asked those questions.

00:14:19.280 While cops were talking to Mangione, one officer searching his backpack, saying she wanted to ensure

00:14:23.900 there wasn't a bomb or anything inside. Mangione's team arguing that statement was

00:14:29.500 designed to cover up an illegal, warrantless search of the backpack. In the bag, cops finding

00:14:35.040 a loaded magazine, silencer, 3D-printed gun, electronic devices, and a journal. According to

00:14:41.840 court filings, Mangione's journal allegedly containing an entry reading,

00:14:45.280 quote, I finally feel confident about what I will do. The target is insurance. It checks

00:14:51.120 every box. Mangione faces life in prison on the state charges, which include second-degree murder

00:14:57.120 in addition to multiple federal charges. And that'll do it for a raspy AM update. Thanks

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Kash Patel Responds Exclusively, WH Defends Boat Strike, Luigi Mangione in Court： AM Update 12⧸2

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