The Megyn Kelly Show - August 14, 2026


Lindsay Clancy Trial Day 13, Leavitt Leaving WH, Deadly Army Helicopter Crash: AM Update 8⧸14


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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up
00:00:36.740 Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Friday, August 14th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:42.980 The murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy entering its 13th day
00:00:46.960 is jurors weigh whether she was criminally responsible when she killed her three young
00:00:51.020 children. Caroline Levitt announcing she will step down as White House press secretary at the end of
00:00:55.840 the month. It's only up to Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to do. New questions
00:01:01.020 emerging about the intelligence behind President Trump's elaborate Air Force One fakeout. It
00:01:05.880 crashed into a field. You could tell it was a violent crash. And a deadly Army helicopter crash
00:01:10.880 in central Texas, killing both pilots, sparking a fast-moving fire that forced nearby evacuations.
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00:02:28.640 The murder trial of Massachusetts mother, Lindsay Clancy, entering its 13th day of testimony
00:02:33.580 yesterday, more than three years after the deaths of her three young children. Five-year-old Cora,
00:02:38.760 three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan Clancy were killed inside their family's home in
00:02:44.040 Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023. Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, does not dispute that she
00:02:50.560 strangled the children before attempting to take her own life, suffering spinal injuries that left
00:02:54.660 her paralyzed from the waist down, Clancy pleading not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder,
00:02:59.920 with her lawyers arguing she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering
00:03:03.920 from postpartum psychosis.
00:03:06.180 Prosecutors contend Clancy understood what she was doing and acted intentionally, arguing
00:03:10.940 she arranged for her husband Patrick to leave the house before killing the children.
00:03:15.540 Under Massachusetts law, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy
00:03:19.740 was criminally responsible at the time.
00:03:22.140 The trial beginning July 27th, with jurors hearing from dozens of witnesses over the
00:03:26.220 first 12 days.
00:03:27.680 Patrick Clancy, the first to testify, describing his wife's deteriorating mental health in
00:03:32.180 the months before the killings and his return home that tragic night. Patrick telling jurors
00:03:36.880 he found the house unusually quiet before discovering Lindsay injured outside beneath
00:03:41.880 a second-story window and finding the children unresponsive in the basement. First responders
00:03:47.160 describing their efforts to save Cora, Dawson, and Callan, while doctors, psychiatrists, and
00:03:52.240 counselors have walked jurors through Lindsay's mental health treatment in the months leading up
00:03:56.080 to their deaths. Clancy checking herself into McLean Hospital, a prominent psychiatric facility
00:04:01.440 in Massachusetts on New Year's Eve 2022 and remaining there for several days after struggling
00:04:06.500 with severe insomnia, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Several medical providers
00:04:11.620 testifying they did not observe signs of psychosis while treating her. Clancy's attorneys say that by
00:04:17.140 January 24th, she believed a commanding voice was telling her to kill the children so she could then 0.93
00:04:22.760 kill herself. Medical examiners taking the stand Wednesday to testify about the deaths of Cora,
00:04:28.240 Dawson, and Callan, with Judge William Sullivan twice pausing proceedings as Clancy became
00:04:33.540 distraught. Here, Clancy bursts into tears as one medical examiner describes five-year-old
00:04:38.360 Cora's autopsy.
00:04:39.960 What about, um, injuries?
00:04:42.920 All right, Counselor, could...
00:04:44.580 Let me take a break this time, all right?
00:04:51.120 All right, all right.
00:04:52.600 Sure, let's post your notebook. Place them on the chairs for you.
00:04:55.100 Yesterday, prosecutors turning to digital evidence from the months and days leading up
00:05:03.540 to the killings. Massachusetts State Police investigators walking jurors through data
00:05:07.640 recovered from the Clancy family computer and Lindsay's iPhone, including internet searches,
00:05:12.200 personal notes, photographs, calls, and text messages. One investigator testifying that a
00:05:16.920 computer in the home accessed a webpage about suicide methods in August 2022, though on cross
00:05:22.060 examination acknowledging the device belonged to Patrick Clancy. Investigators could not determine
00:05:26.860 who was using it, and the page was reached while looking up country singer Tom T. Hall,
00:05:31.480 who died by suicide. Much of the testimony then focusing on Lindsay Clancy's phone.
00:05:36.640 Former state police detective Timothy Chiapini reading jurors' entries from Clancy's Notes app,
00:05:41.880 including affirmations that she was, quote, strong and brave, and would, quote,
00:05:45.980 overcome postpartum anxiety and depression. Chiapini reading from another lengthy entry.
00:05:52.060 I'm sad and depressed because I am not able to parent my third child like my first.
00:05:56.620 I'm sad that I stopped breastfeeding.
00:05:58.960 I feel not as connected with Cal now.
00:06:01.600 I think I sort of resent my other children because they prevent me from treating Cal like my first baby.
00:06:06.580 And I know that's not fair to them.
00:06:08.400 I know that.
00:06:09.760 I want to feel love and connection with all my kids.
00:06:12.840 I'm also probably having a bit of an internal conflict because my whole life I've wanted to have a lot of kids.
00:06:17.380 I still don't want Cal to be our last, but I have a lot of figuring out to do before I have another.
00:06:22.900 I'm on the fence about starting a new medication for anxiety slash depression.
00:06:27.120 I just want to feel happy.
00:06:29.180 I want to be able to relax and take care of my kids.
00:06:32.400 Prosecutors also zeroing in on Lindsay Clancy's activity on January 24th,
00:06:36.720 with her phone searching for the 3V restaurant, where Patrick later went to pick up dinner.
00:06:41.280 Along with a children's laxative, he also left the house to buy.
00:06:44.640 Prosecutors have argued Lindsay deliberately sent Patrick far enough from home 0.98
00:06:48.320 to give herself time to kill the children.
00:06:51.100 The phone showing the couple exchanging messages about the restaurant and medication 0.97
00:06:54.600 shortly before Patrick left, along with several calls between them.
00:06:58.800 On cross, the defense highlighting another set of searches on Clancy's phone
00:07:02.480 in the weeks and days before the killings,
00:07:04.600 including queries about bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, postpartum depression,
00:07:08.920 insomnia, and multiple psychiatric medications.
00:07:12.120 Five days before the children died, her phone also registering a search for hallucinations,
00:07:17.260 followed the next day by searches for psychosis and intrusive.
00:07:21.180 Hours before the children were killed, Patrick Clancy texting his wife, quote,
00:07:25.040 You're a good mama.
00:07:26.560 If found not criminally responsible, Clancy would be committed to a psychiatric hospital
00:07:30.660 rather than released.
00:07:32.180 If convicted of first-degree murder, she faces life in prison without parole.
00:07:37.660 We spoke with MK True Crime Show co-host Dave Ehrenberg,
00:07:40.580 who tells us Massachusetts law gives Clancy a more favorable path to a legal insanity defense.
00:07:46.380 Fortunately for the defendant, they're in Massachusetts,
00:07:50.540 which makes it much easier to sustain a defense of legal insanity.
00:07:57.120 In other states, it's much harder, because in other states,
00:08:00.920 you have to show an established medical condition
00:08:03.560 that prevents you from knowing the difference between right and wrong.
00:08:06.720 And the actions by Lindsay Clancy show that she seemed to know the difference between right and wrong.
00:08:12.920 She had evidence of planning, of premeditation, and then afterwards, by jumping out the window to commit suicide.
00:08:19.680 Why do you do that? Because you knew what you did was wrong.
00:08:22.380 You want to escape culpability. 0.98
00:08:25.040 And in other states, I don't think she could maintain an insane defense.
00:08:30.320 Despite that evidence of planning, Ehrenberg says he believes prosecutors may have gone too far by pursuing first-degree murder.
00:08:36.720 I do think prosecutors overcharged here. I don't think she'll be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on first degree murder. That is a steep uphill climb for prosecutors. I think it would have been better to charge it as one of the lesser offenses, like involuntary manslaughter, something that recognizes that she was not in her right mind.
00:08:56.800 I mean, she's sitting in front of the jury as this weeping woman in a wheelchair because she tried to commit suicide.
00:09:04.100 I think that when you see her in court in the wheelchair and her wailing at some parts of the trial,
00:09:11.680 I think that's going to endear her or at least get some of the jurors to sympathize with her.
00:09:18.460 And you don't need the whole jury. You just need one. And it's a hung jury.
00:09:21.840 We asked Ehrenberg what options jurors have if they believe Clancy was mentally ill,
00:09:26.500 but still criminally responsible for the deaths.
00:09:29.240 She could be convicted of a lesser crime. 0.97
00:09:30.960 I think first-degree murder is, I'd be shocked if that is the result. 0.99
00:09:35.160 Same thing with second-degree murder.
00:09:36.460 I think it's more of an involuntary manslaughter case,
00:09:40.600 which is an unlawful killing without malice.
00:09:44.520 It results from reckless conduct.
00:09:46.420 So if a jury, like, concludes that her mental condition rendered her incapable of forming that specific intent required for murder or the specific level of malice required for murder, but that her actions were still criminally reckless, yeah, they could return her involuntary manslaughter and you can get up to 20 years per count, but I don't think she would.
00:10:10.800 Ehrenberg says the defense still has more work to do to establish that Clancy was suffering
00:10:14.540 from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.
00:10:17.700 There was evidence that she was mentally infirm, that she had some real issues.
00:10:23.700 She was heavily medicated.
00:10:25.540 But I haven't seen an expert yet to conclude that she had postpartum psychosis.
00:10:31.700 And that's where there's still, to me, missing a bit, but we haven't seen the full defense case yet.
00:10:40.620 And so I think that will be coming.
00:10:43.740 But every time they talk about the mistakes made by the medical centers, the doctors, that's a win for the defense.
00:10:55.140 because the more they can shift the blame away from Lindsay Clancy and more towards her doctors,
00:11:01.100 the better it is for her and the more likely she'll be found not guilty.
00:11:06.500 White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt announcing Wednesday that she will leave her
00:11:10.120 role at the end of August. Stepping away is one of the most visible faces of the Trump
00:11:14.200 administration to spend more time with her young family. The 28-year-old giving birth to her second 0.85
00:11:19.120 child, a daughter, in May. Her first son, Nico, born July 10th, 2024, just three days before the
00:11:25.520 assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Leavitt cutting her
00:11:30.040 maternity leave short at the time and returning to her job as national press secretary for the
00:11:34.560 Trump campaign following the shooting. Leavitt describing that decision on The Megyn Kelly Show
00:11:39.080 in February 2025. The president was shot on the 13th. It was my first day home with him from the
00:11:45.780 hospital. And it kind of threw me right back to work much sooner than I would have probably
00:11:52.680 expected or hoped. Levitt's White House tenure, making history in several ways, Levitt becoming
00:11:58.080 just the eighth woman to serve as White House press secretary, the youngest person ever to
00:12:02.120 hold the job, and the first to give birth while serving in the role. Early in her tenure, Levitt 0.87
00:12:06.900 also reshaping who had access to the White House press operation. During her first briefing,
00:12:12.260 Levitt announcing the administration would open access to independent journalists,
00:12:15.780 podcasters, social media influencers, and other new media voices, while creating a rotating new
00:12:21.020 media seed in the briefing room. Levitt saying the changes were aimed at reaching Americans who
00:12:25.360 increasingly get their news outside traditional outlets. And after more than a year spent helping
00:12:30.180 redefine the public face of the White House, Levitt posting to X Wednesday, quote,
00:12:34.360 being a mother and welcoming a new baby while working in one of the most demanding jobs in the
00:12:38.340 world has been the most rewarding yet challenging season of my life, to say the least. Levitt
00:12:43.620 continuing, quote, The truth is, since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter,
00:12:48.020 I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve
00:12:51.640 while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House press
00:12:56.100 secretary, and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the
00:12:59.780 White House and embark on a new chapter in my life. Levitt adding she will continue serving
00:13:04.460 as a top outside advisor to President Trump, her departure met with an unusually warm public
00:13:08.980 send-off from the president and senior members of his administration. President Trump posting
00:13:13.320 to Truth Social, quote, Caroline has been a real leader in the White House and has done a phenomenal
00:13:17.700 job fighting for justice, liberty, and freedom since 2018, including our historic re-election 0.69
00:13:22.660 campaign of 2024. Caroline has been one of the best White House press secretaries in the history
00:13:27.580 of the office. Thank you, Caroline, for a job well done. Tributes also pouring in from across
00:13:32.600 the administration, many praising Levitt as a fierce advocate for the president and his MAGA
00:13:36.940 movement. It is not yet clear who will replace Levitt at the lectern, with her departure coming
00:13:41.520 less than three months before the midterm elections.
00:13:45.500 Coming up, U.S. intelligence officials reportedly doubting the seriousness of the Iranian threat
00:13:51.080 that prompted President Trump's secret switch off Air Force One last month, and two soldiers
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00:15:16.600 New reporting raising questions about the intelligence that prompted President Trump's
00:15:20.640 team to pull off an elaborate plane switch in Turkey last month.
00:15:24.120 According to The Washington Post, current and former U.S. officials say American intelligence
00:15:28.480 analysts were reportedly skeptical of the Iranian assassination threat passed along by Israel
00:15:33.200 ahead of the president's July 8th departure from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.
00:15:37.700 AM Update reporting earlier this week, Mr. Trump publicly boarded the legacy Air Force One in
00:15:42.160 Ankara before reportedly slipping off the plane without the press or public realizing it, being
00:15:47.800 driven across the tarmac inside an airport catering truck, then boarding an Air Force military plane
00:15:52.840 that secretly flew him and a small group of aides to the UK. The president later reportedly sneaking
00:15:58.020 back onto his presidential aircraft before returning to Washington, D.C.
00:16:02.280 The Post now reporting the threat warning originated with the Israeli government and
00:16:06.360 was passed to the CIA, where analysts reportedly did not find the intelligence especially compelling
00:16:11.200 and conveyed those doubts to Trump administration officials.
00:16:14.660 One U.S. official describing the threat as, quote, Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated,
00:16:19.340 and viewed as low confidence.
00:16:21.220 Even so, one U.S. official telling the Post, quote, the Secret Service has had three near
00:16:25.600 misses with this president, so they're not taking any chances. They did what they had to do.
00:16:30.320 Another U.S. official, familiar with the security discussions, reportedly questioning
00:16:33.960 how serious the threat actually was, pointing to the tens of thousands of Turkish security
00:16:38.860 personnel involved in securing the NATO summit. The Wall Street Journal first reporting last month
00:16:43.680 that Israel had provided the U.S. with intelligence about a possible Iranian plot to kill the
00:16:48.480 president. The Journal reporting Wednesday that the warning involved the possibility of Iranian
00:16:53.000 proxies using a shoulder-fired missile to target Mr. Trump's plane as it departed Ankara,
00:16:59.020 though some U.S. officials reportedly considered that scenario implausible.
00:17:02.980 The Post now reporting some current and former U.S. intelligence officials believed Israel
00:17:07.280 may have been sharing the warning not simply to inform the administration, but also potentially
00:17:12.320 to influence the president's decision-making and broader U.S. policy toward Iran.
00:17:17.080 One former official saying it, quote, fit a broader pattern of Israeli intelligence reporting
00:17:21.280 that some officials see as designed as much to shape presidential decision-making as to inform
00:17:26.020 it. That former official also reportedly understood Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been briefed
00:17:31.640 on both the Israeli intelligence and the Secret Service's planned deception, yet still chose to
00:17:36.380 board the legacy Air Force One. The White House declining to directly address the Post's questions
00:17:40.880 about the intelligence itself or how U.S. officials assessed it. President Trump asked earlier this
00:17:46.220 week about the switcheroo. Well, it's only up to Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to
00:17:51.340 do. So I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight,
00:17:58.200 a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it. So I do it. I do what they say.
00:18:04.560 I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of
00:18:08.720 threats. Iranian threats against President Trump and other senior U.S. officials dating back years
00:18:14.060 following the 2020 American strike that killed Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani,
00:18:19.020 those concerns reportedly escalating after Iran's supreme leader and other top officials
00:18:23.660 were killed at the start of the Iran War in February.
00:18:28.060 A U.S. Army attack helicopter crashing into a field in central Texas Wednesday afternoon,
00:18:33.580 killing both soldiers on board and sparking a large grass fire that forced nearby residents
00:18:38.400 to evacuate. The AH-64 Apache, based at Fort Hood, going down near Salado shortly after 1.30 p.m.,
00:18:45.960 about 50 miles north of Austin. The Associated Press reporting the helicopter was conducting
00:18:50.480 a routine training flight when it crashed. Bell County Sheriff's Office spokesman Cliff Coleman
00:18:55.620 saying the aircraft came down in an open field without striking any homes or other structures.
00:19:01.340 Coleman describing the scene to reporters. It crashed into a field. You could tell it was a
00:19:05.980 violent crash. Both soldiers on board pronounced dead, the army withholding their names until at
00:19:11.560 least 24 hours after their families are notified. Brigadier General Ethan Diven, acting commanding
00:19:17.040 general of the army's 1st Cavalry Division, offering his condolences in a statement, quote,
00:19:21.540 our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families, friends, and fellow troopers of those
00:19:25.600 involved during this incredibly difficult time. Texas Governor Greg Abbott also asking Texans to
00:19:30.900 pray for the soldiers' families and the Fort Hood community, writing on X, quote, Texas is forever
00:19:35.700 indebted to those who serve our state and nation. The crash igniting a major grass fire around the
00:19:40.800 wreckage, sending thick smoke into the air and forcing the evacuation of several nearby homes.
00:19:46.120 Local firefighters joining military personnel and law enforcement at the scene as the flames
00:19:50.440 reportedly spread across roughly 155 acres Wednesday evening. Officials initially struggling
00:19:56.340 to bring the fire under control, with containment steadily increasing throughout the evening.
00:20:01.600 The Salado Fire Department, later reporting the grass fire, was 100% contained.
00:20:08.740 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:20:10.460 I'm Emily Droszynski, host of After Party.
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