The Megyn Kelly Show - August 11, 2026


Key Primary Battles in Minnesota, Fauci’s Private Vaccine Texts, Tupac Trial Begins： AM Update 8⧸11


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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, and this is your
00:00:08.320 AM update. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up and work with the President
00:00:13.520 of the United States. Minnesota voters among those heading to the polls today, choosing
00:00:18.380 nominees in a field of notable names. Thus far, no red flags about that, about pregnant 0.83
00:00:24.880 women. Newly released Dr. Fauci text messages revealing private concerns about a possible
00:00:31.140 miscarriage risk from COVID vaccination just days before he publicly said officials had seen
00:00:37.040 no red flags for pregnant women. President Trump reportedly considering an off-ramp from the war
00:00:43.420 with Iran even without securing a new nuclear deal. And nearly 30 years after hip-hop artist
00:00:50.420 Tupac Shakur was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting, the man accused of orchestrating the
00:00:56.600 murder now heads to trial. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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00:02:12.780 urgentcarekit.com slash mk. Voters in several key states heading to the polls today,
00:02:20.840 including Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont, and special elections in South Carolina and Alabama.
00:02:27.280 In Minnesota, Democrats and Republicans choosing nominees in a pair of closely watched races
00:02:32.060 for U.S. Senate and governor featuring notable names. The Minnesota Senate contest deciding who
00:02:38.480 will compete for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tina Smith, with 0.98
00:02:43.820 both parties holding competitive primaries. On the GOP side, former NFL sideline reporter
00:02:49.060 Michelle Tafoya entering Election Day as the overwhelming polling favorite, facing a nine-candidate
00:02:55.620 field that includes former Navy SEAL Adam Schwerzy and former NBA player Royce White, who recently
00:03:02.240 declared his eligibility for the 2027 WNBA draft. President Trump has not yet issued an endorsement
00:03:09.640 in this race. Tafoya dominating the race despite Schwerzi winning the Minnesota Republican Party's
00:03:15.580 official endorsement at its state convention in May. The three most recent polls tracked by Real
00:03:21.500 Clear Polling showing Tafoya leading her nearest rival by 29, 31, and 35 points. The Republican
00:03:28.600 winner will advance to face the victor of a much tighter Democrat fight between moderate
00:03:34.060 Congressman Angie Craig and Progressive Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, perhaps best known for 0.99
00:03:40.400 her t-shirt showing a sharp knife, a flower, and the words protect trans kids on it. And by protect,
00:03:47.860 she means trans them. Polling in that race all over the map, the latest KSTP Survey USA survey
00:03:54.580 showing Angie Craig ahead by two, while another recent poll showed Flanagan leading by double
00:04:00.240 digits. Prediction markets more bullish on Flanagan, who's got name recognition there.
00:04:05.740 Polymarket currently putting her chances of winning at 71 percent.
00:04:09.960 Whichever Republican candidate emerges faces a long-running political reality in November.
00:04:15.360 No GOP candidate has won a statewide election in Minnesota since 2006.
00:04:21.140 Tafoya yesterday on Newsmax, making the case that Republicans have a real opening in Minnesota
00:04:26.100 after years of failed Democrat leadership.
00:04:29.400 Well, in those last 20 years, this state has traveled 100 miles per hour in the wrong direction.
00:04:35.360 And Minnesotans are worried about it, very, very worried about it.
00:04:39.140 And look, it's happened under the leadership of, you know, single-party rule,
00:04:43.860 under the establishment candidates, the career politicians who have been in office,
00:04:48.840 that have brought us to a place that your reporter just described,
00:04:51.620 a place where a lot of people are embarrassed by our state,
00:04:55.540 the fraud, all of the crime,
00:04:57.800 all of the things that are going wrong in education, the taxes.
00:05:00.920 It's an embarrassment right now, particularly the fraud.
00:05:03.600 So we feel very good about bringing those people into our campaign
00:05:07.440 and into our tent, as it were,
00:05:09.900 and running through the tape and winning this thing,
00:05:11.840 certainly tomorrow and all the way into November.
00:05:14.020 The career politicians haven't done their jobs.
00:05:17.120 We tried it their way.
00:05:18.200 It didn't work. Let's try another way. In the state's gubernatorial race,
00:05:23.100 MyPillow founder and longtime Trump ally Mike Lindell entering primary day with a slight
00:05:28.100 polling advantage over his Republican rivals. Lindell securing President Trump's endorsement
00:05:33.140 last month, the president writing on Truth Social, quote, Mike will be spectacular.
00:05:37.880 He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment.
00:05:42.980 He can do it. The endorsement giving Lindell a boost in a three-way fight with Minnesota House
00:05:48.640 Speaker Lisa Daymuth and businessman Kendall Qualls, who won the state Republican Party's
00:05:54.140 endorsement. The two latest surveys tracked by RealClearPolling showing Lindell ahead of the
00:05:59.000 field by six and nine points, respectively. The Republican winner expected to face Democrat
00:06:04.980 Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is not facing any meaningful competition in her own primary.
00:06:10.760 Senator Klobuchar jumping into the race in January after Governor Tim Walsh, a Democrat,
00:06:15.660 abandoned his bid for a third term amid mounting scrutiny over widespread fraud involving Minnesota government programs.
00:06:24.280 During a candidate forum last Tuesday, Lindell arguing his relationship with the president
00:06:28.560 and experience as a businessman would give him an advantage as governor.
00:06:33.260 The farmers have a problem right now with the FSA going there, and you don't get the communication because a lot of them are gone because of what the federal government's done.
00:06:44.080 You don't have them there right now.
00:06:45.560 Well, I know a guy.
00:06:46.880 I have an advantage over everyone up here.
00:06:49.160 I can call up and work with the president of the United States to get these people back in for all of you.
00:06:54.960 So we have this communication.
00:06:56.820 And also, I'm very good friends with other governors that have set up other programs, so I'll be reaching out to them.
00:07:03.260 like a businessman. Lindell facing a substantial deficit if he makes it to November. The current
00:07:09.140 RealClear polling average of general election surveys showing Senator Klobuchar leading him
00:07:14.440 by nearly 20 points in the race for the governor's house. Polls close tonight at 8 p.m. Central. We
00:07:20.740 will have results from Minnesota and other key races later this week. Newly released text messages
00:07:28.440 from Dr. Anthony Fauci's government-issued cell phone
00:07:31.320 revealing the former NIAID director
00:07:33.900 privately raised a theoretical concern
00:07:36.380 about a possible link between the COVID vaccine
00:07:39.020 and first trimester miscarriage.
00:07:42.000 Just days before publicly saying,
00:07:44.100 federal officials had seen no safety red flags
00:07:46.600 among pregnant women.
00:07:48.380 Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
00:07:50.500 and Rand Paul of Kentucky
00:07:51.840 releasing the messages yesterday,
00:07:53.720 part of a January 2021 conversation
00:07:56.400 between Fauci, then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, and former Surgeon General Vivek
00:08:02.320 Murthy, who at the time was awaiting Senate confirmation to return to that post.
00:08:07.320 The exchange beginning with a discussion about whether the two-dose vaccine regimen might pose
00:08:12.040 different risks depending on when during pregnancy a woman received the shots.
00:08:17.120 Fauci initially saying there was no data or theoretical reason to favor vaccination earlier
00:08:22.520 or later in pregnancy, while dismissing concerns that mRNA from the vaccine could alter the genes
00:08:29.160 of a woman or of her developing baby. Fauci then following up, writing, quote,
00:08:34.580 I asked around a bit more, and another issue came up that you need to be aware of.
00:08:38.920 Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the second dose,
00:08:44.320 this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester.
00:08:49.160 A cytokine storm referring to an unusually intense immune reaction in which the body
00:08:55.280 releases large amounts of inflammatory signaling proteins, potentially causing widespread
00:09:00.720 inflammation and, in severe cases, organ damage. Walensky responding that the first trimester issue
00:09:07.860 Fauci raised was, quote, definitely a good point, especially after dose 2. About a week after that
00:09:14.540 conversation, Fauci publicly telling the Journal of the American Medical Association this.
00:09:20.720 There have been now over 10,000 pregnant women who have said and have been in the trials.
00:09:25.680 The FDA, as part of the typical follow-up you have following the initial issuing of an EUA,
00:09:35.200 have found thus far, and we've got to be careful, but thus far no red flags about that,
00:09:40.600 about pregnant women. Interestingly, many of the pregnant women 0.53
00:09:44.200 were healthcare providers who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and said,
00:09:49.720 I would rather take my chances with a vaccine than getting infected while I'm pregnant because
00:09:55.300 of the adverse effect and adverse outcome on pregnancy. The CDC later formally recommending
00:10:03.500 vaccination for pregnant women in April 2021, citing additional safety data. The Trump
00:10:09.860 administration has since retracted the recommendation for pregnant women to get
00:10:13.800 vaccinated. The newly released exchange, representing only a fraction of the material
00:10:18.820 now under review, Johnson and Paul saying Fauci's government phone contains more than 34,000 text
00:10:24.780 messages and 522 voicemails after the Department of Health and Human Services turned the records
00:10:30.620 over to Johnson's office last week. According to the senators, just three contacts are saved by
00:10:37.340 name on the device, though investigators say it remains too early to determine whether any data
00:10:42.940 was deleted. The release coming less than a week after Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security
00:10:48.660 and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, following his
00:10:54.100 repeated refusal to answer any questions about the government's handling of COVID-19, notwithstanding
00:11:00.280 the fact that Joe Biden issued him a sweeping pardon. Fauci invoking his Fifth Amendment right
00:11:06.300 against self-incrimination 111 times during testimony last month.
00:11:13.020 Coming up, President Trump reportedly lowering the bar for ending the war with Iran as the
00:11:18.900 latest deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz appears to fall apart. And nearly 30 years
00:11:24.760 after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas, the man accused of orchestrating his killing
00:11:30.680 now going on trial.
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00:12:44.080 number 989898. A pair of new reports suggesting President Trump may be lowering the bar for
00:12:52.640 ending the war with Iran. The Wall Street Journal reporting Mr. Trump is privately telling senior
00:12:57.920 aides, he may be willing to declare victory if only the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens,
00:13:04.260 as it was before the U.S. launched this war, even without a new agreement over Iran's nuclear
00:13:10.420 program. This, a notable shift after months of President Trump insisting Iran could never be
00:13:16.280 allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon and saying that was the key reason we attacked them,
00:13:21.540 with the president repeatedly threatening more devastating military action against Iran
00:13:26.040 unless it signed a new nuclear deal, now suddenly deemed unimportant.
00:13:31.700 Just last week, a new agreement to reopen the strait appearing close.
00:13:35.720 Axios reporting the U.S., Iran, and Oman had negotiated an agreement
00:13:40.300 with Qatari and Pakistani mediators expecting an announcement last Wednesday.
00:13:45.040 That announcement, never coming, as divisions inside the Iranian government widened
00:13:49.640 and Iran ultimately returned with a new list of demands over the weekend.
00:13:54.580 The journal reporting those demands include billions of dollars in compensation,
00:13:59.320 the removal of American troops from the region, and an end to the U.S. naval blockade.
00:14:04.620 Now the president telling Axios, quote,
00:14:06.840 we are low-keying it, saying the U.S. is only, quote,
00:14:10.500 semi-negotiating while Iran's economic problems worsen.
00:14:14.280 The president describing the country as in, quote,
00:14:17.220 very bad shape, with little money and difficulty paying its troops.
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00:14:25.660 deal rests largely on his belief that the June 2025 strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities
00:14:31.600 already effectively destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities, a point critics of this war
00:14:37.380 have been making and getting attacked by the president for making from the start.
00:14:42.480 The pressure to find an exit only growing as the midterm elections rapidly approach,
00:14:47.180 with gas prices still higher than before the war started,
00:14:50.840 as the president looks for a way to declare victory and move on.
00:14:55.960 Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas,
00:15:00.860 the only man ever charged in connection with his killing now going on trial.
00:15:06.020 Dwayne Keefe D. Davis, facing one count of murder with a deadly weapon,
00:15:10.480 with prosecutors alleging the former Southside Compton Crips leader,
00:15:13.900 orchestrated the 1996 attack that killed one of the biggest stars in hip-hop.
00:15:19.800 25-year-old Shakur shot on September 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting near the Vegas Strip,
00:15:27.200 the rapper riding in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marianne Shug Knight,
00:15:32.480 while a white Cadillac reportedly pulled alongside them at a red light and someone
00:15:37.060 inside opened fire. Shakur struck multiple times, dying from his injuries six days later.
00:15:43.900 The shooting coming just hours after Shakur and members of his entourage were involved in a fight
00:15:49.640 at the MGM Grand with the defendant Davis's nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson. Anderson
00:15:56.920 later denying any involvement in Shakur's killing before himself being fatally shot in Compton less
00:16:02.360 than two years later, according to CBS News. The killing unfolding amid the bitter East Coast,
00:16:08.540 West Coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s, with Shakur feuding at the time with Christopher
00:16:14.480 Wallace, better known as the notorious B.I.G., who would himself be shot and killed in Los Angeles
00:16:20.700 six months later. Shakur's murder, remaining one of the country's most notorious cold cases
00:16:26.100 for decades, that is, until Davis began talking. The longtime suspect giving investigators his
00:16:32.580 account of the shooting in 2008, before discussing it publicly in interviews and documentaries,
00:16:38.540 and eventually releasing a 2019 memoir called Compton Street Legend. In the book, Davis reportedly
00:16:45.400 describes getting a gun and riding through Las Vegas in a Cadillac with three other men while
00:16:50.440 looking for Shakur and Knight following the casino fight, before eventually finding their BMW
00:16:56.340 and pulling up beside it. According to a copy of the book available on archive.org,
00:17:03.160 he goes on to claim that Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach for something before
00:17:08.520 quote, pulling out a strap, and that's when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back
00:17:13.920 seat grabbed the Glock and started busting back. In 2023, four years after the book was published,
00:17:20.600 a Nevada grand jury indicting Davis for murder. Prosecutors reportedly preparing to rely heavily
00:17:26.300 on Davis's own words from his memoir, media appearances, as well as interviews with law
00:17:31.740 enforcement. Prosecutors not expected to argue that Davis personally pulled the trigger,
00:17:37.260 instead planning to prove he orchestrated the attack
00:17:39.700 and supplied the gun used to kill Shakur,
00:17:42.760 according to the Associated Press.
00:17:45.220 Davis pleading not guilty
00:17:46.680 and now disavowing the various previous accounts
00:17:49.580 prosecutors plan to use against him,
00:17:51.840 blaming ghostwriters for the incriminating statements.
00:17:55.580 If convicted, Davis faces life in prison
00:17:57.940 without the possibility of parole.
00:18:00.440 In an exclusive interview with 8 News Now
00:18:03.100 in Las Vegas late last month,
00:18:04.760 Davis insisting he did not actually write the memoir carrying his name,
00:18:09.840 citing references therein to figures like Winston Churchill and others,
00:18:14.020 men Davis suggests he knows nothing about.
00:18:16.860 Did you have anything to do with the murder of Tupac Shakur?
00:18:21.300 No, ma'am. No, ma'am.
00:18:23.660 Or even in Nevada.
00:18:26.220 Or even in Nevada, period.
00:18:28.580 Do you regret the book and the interview?
00:18:31.160 you. Davis also telling the outlet he has no intention of accepting a plea deal,
00:18:52.200 citing his innocence, age, and past health problems. The trial expected to last about a month.
00:19:01.160 And that'll do it for your AM update.
00:19:03.320 I'm Megan Kelly.
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