The Megyn Kelly Show - Marathon Iran Negotiations, Reflecting Pool Algae Battle, Trump： Starmer Will Resign： AM Update 6⧸22

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, June 22nd, 2026, and this is your AM

00:00:38.320 Update. We see a future where everybody can work together to promote peace and prosperity

00:00:44.300 for everyone. Vice President J.D. Vance kicking off negotiations with Iran as fighting between

00:00:50.220 Israel and Hezbollah tests the fragile ceasefire. If you damage, vandalize, and do anything to

00:00:57.420 impact something like the reflective pool, you can be prosecuted. The newly renovated D.C.

00:01:03.060 reflecting pool becomes the latest bizarre media fight with celebrations of algae blooms and

00:01:08.720 vandalism allegations. President Trump announcing U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will resign

00:01:14.600 with an official announcement expected soon. And sad news, according to a California news

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00:02:30.800 text MK to the number 989898 today. Vice President J.D. Vance kicking off negotiations

00:02:38.640 with the Iranians yesterday in Switzerland, the start of a 60-day effort to transform the ceasefire

00:02:44.540 into a permanent deal. Axios describing a marathon negotiating session that continued late into

00:02:50.660 Sunday night, with officials from Qatar and Pakistan serving as mediators. Mr. Vance joined

00:02:56.680 by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, opening the talks with an optimistic vision for

00:03:02.340 the future of the Middle East. I think it's important for the American people, but people

00:03:06.880 all over the world do appreciate that what's brought us to this moment is the president's

00:03:11.580 leadership and the president's willingness to see a Middle East that is much different 10 years from

00:03:15.860 now than it was 10 years ago. And what we're trying to accomplish here is something very simple

00:03:20.900 through diplomacy, through working together to transform the Middle East, where Iran and the

00:03:28.600 Gulf have been at war with each other, or at least have had very unfriendly relations, where Iran has

00:03:34.240 been a driver of regional instability. Now we see a future where everybody can work together to

00:03:41.820 promote peace and prosperity for everyone. The negotiations getting off to a rocky start,

00:03:47.600 despite the warm greetings. Iran's military command announcing Saturday that it was

00:03:52.240 closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon,

00:03:58.000 immediately straining the fragile ceasefire. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, however,

00:04:03.000 telling Fox News the waterway did not actually close, saying 67 ships passed through during the

00:04:09.120 previous 24 hours. President Trump posting on Truth Social early yesterday morning, quote,

00:04:14.820 Iran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble.

00:04:20.240 If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder.

00:04:25.420 The president ratcheting up the pressure hours later during an interview with Fox News,

00:04:30.500 telling the outlet he warned Iranian officials, quote,

00:04:33.460 you close the strait and you won't have a country. Mr. Trump emphasizing that the current memorandum

00:04:39.100 of understanding is only a temporary extension of the ceasefire, not the final agreement.

00:04:45.000 The president also floating the possibility that the U.S. could become what he called the,

00:04:49.280 quote, guardian angel of the Strait of Hormuz, protecting oil shipments and collecting tolls

00:04:55.220 from ships traveling through the critical route. The president responding to Iranian President

00:05:00.380 Masoud Pujeshkian, who declared yesterday that Tehran would not surrender its right to

00:05:05.860 enrich uranium. We will not give up our right to enrichment and they too will be forced to accept

00:05:12.820 it. You all know what the so-called president of the United States was saying. He had made a

00:05:19.460 complete 100 degree turn. He was saying that Iran must surrender unconditionally. Iran has no right

00:05:26.280 to do this. It has no right to do that. President Trump telling Fox News Pujeskian had better watch

00:05:32.660 his mouth and shape up, quote, or will take over the rest of the country. Iranian officials

00:05:38.060 reportedly taking offense to these statements. Lead Iranian negotiator Mohammed Ghalibov writing

00:05:43.960 on X, quote, the U.S. had better watch their words carefully. Our armed forces are ready to give them

00:05:49.800 a response in a different way. Early reports revealing the Iranian delegation left the meeting

00:05:55.560 temporarily stalling negotiations. An official familiar with the talks, however, later telling

00:06:01.080 the Associated Press that Iran remained engaged without any indication that they intended to

00:06:06.560 leave. Even with Iran still at the table, the continued fighting between Israel and Hezbollah

00:06:11.680 remaining one of the greatest immediate threats to the broader agreement. The New York Times

00:06:16.120 reporting negotiations were initially set to begin Friday but were delayed after Iran refused to

00:06:21.980 attend while the fighting in Lebanon continued. The interim agreement calling for an end to those

00:06:27.440 hostilities, though Israel and Hezbollah continued attacking one another over the weekend,

00:06:32.660 with each accusing the other of violating the ceasefire. VP Vance insisting the ceasefire

00:06:38.300 remains on the right track despite the latest flare-up. We've seen great progress over the

00:06:42.880 last just couple of days in ensuring that the ceasefire holds in Lebanon. These things are

00:06:47.440 always a little bit messy. If you go back to how much was happening three months ago and compare

00:06:51.880 it to three weeks ago, great progress has been made. If you go back to three weeks ago to three

00:06:56.800 days ago, additional progress has been made. The president has committed us to see a full

00:07:02.320 regional ceasefire. We found great partners in working with the Qataris, the Pakistanis,

00:07:08.460 our friends in Israel. We're all working towards regional peace. There, of course,

00:07:12.320 are going to be sometimes disagreements about precisely how to get there. But I actually feel

00:07:16.000 great about where we are in Lebanon. There's still some additional wood to chop, but we're

00:07:19.540 going to keep on working at it. Axios reporting Sunday's negotiations covered every major component

00:07:24.820 of a potential nuclear agreement,

00:07:27.340 along with Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz,

00:07:30.380 with the high-level talks expected to conclude on Monday

00:07:33.360 as technical teams remain in Switzerland

00:07:35.800 to continue working through the details.

00:07:39.460 A renovation of the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C.,

00:07:43.180 becoming the latest front in a bizarre political battle,

00:07:46.420 with critics celebrating the growth of algae

00:07:49.040 and President Trump alleging deliberate sabotage

00:07:52.180 as multiple people are now under arrest. The controversy beginning with the president's

00:07:57.280 effort to repair and beautify the 103-year-old pool between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington

00:08:03.140 Monument. The National Park Service closing the site in April to allow a third-party contractor

00:08:08.780 hired by the administration to clean the basin, repair its joints, and install a new lining

00:08:14.080 material intended to prevent leaks. The nearly $15 million project resurfacing the bottom in

00:08:20.400 what President Trump described as American flag blue, with paint that was meant to create a

00:08:25.560 clearer, mirror-like reflection of the monuments at either end. The project was completed and the

00:08:31.400 pool refilled on June 6th. Within days, however, algae beginning to spread across portions of the

00:08:37.260 pool again, a recurring problem that has plagued the shallow basin for years, and one of the items

00:08:42.960 on the to-do list of fixes when the reno took place, with the green muck obscuring the newly

00:08:49.200 installed blue coating and providing the establishment media with its latest metaphor

00:08:53.680 for the perceived failures of the Trump administration. Here, MSNOW, CNN, ABC, and CBS.

00:09:01.140 The most visually arresting metaphor for the entire Trump era is getting worse by the day.

00:09:06.940 We might call it the president's green water gate.

00:09:09.500 CNN's Tom Foreman joins us now live from the reflecting pool, our chief algae correspondent

00:09:14.300 on it for the day. Take a look at the water here. I mean, it's still as green as can be and just

00:09:20.320 plain filthy. It is, instead of American flag blue, algae green. The algae becoming something

00:09:27.180 of a liberal folk hero, with videos posted online over the weekend showing critics gathering around

00:09:32.820 the pool openly celebrating the blooms. Some protesters even chanting, quote, let's go,

00:09:38.680 algae. Let's go. Waving a banner, reading, quote, team algae. People have too much time on their

00:09:45.100 hands. The administration, meantime, deploying hydrogen peroxide treatments and swimming pool

00:09:50.260 style vacuums to kill and remove the algae. President Trump also accusing vandals of using

00:09:56.280 chemicals to try to destroy the newly installed lining, connecting the incident to earlier damage

00:10:02.160 on the National Mall, where a large 86-47 message turned up, believed to have been

00:10:08.120 chemically burned into the grass near the pool. In gang slang, 86 means to get rid of or kill

00:10:14.100 someone. In restaurant slang, it refers to canceling an order or being out of something,

00:10:18.520 or to refuse someone's service or kick them out of the restaurant. 47, an obvious reference to

00:10:23.880 President Trump, the 47th president. The president writing on Truth Social over the weekend that

00:10:29.020 vandals had, quote, done everything possible to hurt the inside surface of the reflecting pool,

00:10:34.520 alleging they used a substance similar to the chemicals previously used on the grass.

00:10:40.160 Mr. Trump noting roughly 75 percent of the algae had already been removed and that the vandalized

00:10:45.940 section represented only a small area of damage expected to be repaired within days. In a Saturday

00:10:51.880 evening post, the president offering new details on the extent of the alleged destruction,

00:10:56.640 claiming vandals used a knife or blade to carve a roughly 250-foot gash into the newly installed

00:11:03.620 surface in addition to pouring corrosive chemicals into the pool. The president adding contractors

00:11:09.800 may now have to drain much of the water again to complete the repairs while vowing to restore the

00:11:15.680 reflecting pool as quickly as possible. He wanted it to look nice in time for the 250th anniversary

00:11:22.420 on the 4th. In a separate post on Saturday, President Trump announcing that U.S. Park

00:11:27.620 police had arrested multiple people in connection with the alleged vandalism. The Washington Post

00:11:32.680 identifying at least one person arrested as 67-year-old David Hearn, a three-time Olympic

00:11:38.640 canoeist charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property. Hearn denying that he

00:11:44.460 vandalized the pool, telling the AP he merely reached into the water to examine a loose section

00:11:50.380 of the liner after completing a bike ride. He is set to appear in D.C. Superior Court on July 9th.

00:11:57.320 National Guard troops and U.S. Park Police now patrolling the area. U.S. Attorney for D.C.

00:12:02.480 Janine Pirro yesterday on Fox News issuing a warning to anyone thinking about damaging

00:12:07.440 federal property. Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize the

00:12:14.560 reflecting pool will face the criminal justice system in D.C. Look, the president has made it

00:12:19.940 a priority to make D.C. not only safe, but beautiful. And there are several citations

00:12:25.780 that have been handed out to individuals. And these are cases that will be prosecuted to the

00:12:31.500 full extent. If there are more serious products that are put into the reflecting pool to create

00:12:38.680 more algae or a bigger problem, then we'll consider more serious charges. But make no mistake,

00:12:46.500 making D.C. beautiful is a priority. And if you damage, vandalize, or do anything to impact

00:12:53.380 something like the reflective pool, you can be prosecuted.

00:12:58.260 Coming up, President Trump announces U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to resign as the

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00:14:40.220 President Trump announcing the imminent resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

00:14:44.940 as reports grow that the embattled labor leader could announce his departure as soon as today.

00:14:51.000 The president writing Sunday on Truth Social,

00:14:53.340 quote, Keir Starmer will resign as prime minister of the United Kingdom.

00:14:57.380 He failed badly on two very important subjects, immigration and energy.

00:15:01.940 I wish him well.

00:15:03.360 It is unclear whether the president has been told that Starmer is leaving or is

00:15:07.360 reacting to the growing expectation across the UK that the PM's tenure is nearing its end.

00:15:12.960 The two leaders meeting at the G7 summit in France last week,

00:15:16.340 though the Associated Press reporting Sunday that the two had not spoken over the weekend.

00:15:21.480 Starmer's office offering no new response on Sunday, instead referring CNN back to comments

00:15:26.640 he made on Friday, insisting he remains focused on the work he was elected to do.

00:15:31.580 UK newspaper The Observer reporting Starmer spent the weekend at the prime minister's

00:15:36.160 official country residence, discussing his future with his wife before making a final decision.

00:15:42.760 Starmer carrying his center-left Labour Party to a commanding election victory in July 2024,

00:15:48.680 only to see the party's support collapse during his first two years in office.

00:15:52.780 The AP pointing to Starmer's failure to deliver the economic growth he promised,

00:15:56.960 as British families continue feeling squeezed by the cost of living

00:16:00.220 and frustration persists over the country's public services.

00:16:04.440 More recently, Starmer facing backlash over the UK's grooming gang scandal

00:16:08.580 after an independent inquiry accused authorities of allowing predominantly Pakistani Muslim

00:16:13.940 networks to systematically abuse vulnerable girls across the country. The issue especially

00:16:20.180 damaging for Starmer, who once led British Crown's prosecution service, the agency tasked with

00:16:25.920 bringing criminal cases in England and Wales. A recent survey from UK market research agency

00:16:32.420 Opinium, finding the prime minister underwater by 42 points, with just 19 percent approving

00:16:38.540 of his job performance compared to 61 percent who disapprove. Starmer's collapse now dragging

00:16:45.220 the rest of his party down with him. Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party leads the field

00:16:51.120 with 27 percent support, followed by Starmer's Labour Party at 20, the center-right Conservatives

00:16:57.120 at 18, the left-wing Greens at 14, and the centrist Liberal Democrats at 12 percent.

00:17:04.380 Starmer's weekend of reflection now widely expected to end with an announcement later

00:17:08.400 today about his future. Senior labor figures reportedly preparing for the PM to either

00:17:13.520 resign outright or at least set a timetable for his departure.

00:17:19.240 Bad news for Oakland. Carjackings are way down. Why is that bad, you ask? Well, the local Fox

00:17:25.680 affiliate tells us it's because local auto glass repair shops are now losing business.

00:17:31.940 That is the rather extraordinary framing from local Fox affiliate KTVU, whose headline reads,

00:17:38.260 quote, auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline, end quote.

00:17:45.700 The outlet speaking to the owners of several Oakland area auto glass repair shops.

00:17:50.840 There is a door glass repair. You know, if there is any break-ins, vandalism,

00:17:55.680 that segment of my business has been down about 30 percent. About 35 percent, 35 to 40. Yeah,

00:18:03.080 it's a lot. It's we've taken quite a hit. It's a surprise, but I would say, you know,

00:18:07.860 from community point of view, it's a good surprise. One business owner reportedly

00:18:11.960 cutting his staff down from seven glass installers to four amid the decline in demand for repairs.

00:18:19.260 Oakland police data showing vehicle burglaries down 37 percent compared with the same point last

00:18:24.040 year, the decline extending well beyond shattered windows. Carjackings falling 49 percent, car

00:18:30.120 thefts down 39 percent in 2025 compared with the year before, according to the local outlet The

00:18:35.960 Oakland Side, an independent nonprofit news organization. A dramatic turnaround from the

00:18:41.540 pandemic-era crime spike that left Oakland nationally notorious for robberies, vehicle

00:18:46.760 theft, and brazen daylight attacks. Shop owners also telling KTVU they first noticed business

00:18:53.100 slowing down about a year ago, around the same time calls involving stolen catalytic converters

00:18:59.080 began drying up. The devices attached to a vehicle's exhaust system contain valuable

00:19:04.560 metals that can be stripped and resold. Thefts of the valuable parts surging during the pandemic

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00:19:16.100 states began cracking down on the resale market. California putting a slate of new laws into

00:19:20.900 effect in January of 24, designed to make stolen converters harder to resell. State Farm reporting

00:19:28.020 just over 2,000 catalytic converter theft claims in California during the first half of 2024,

00:19:34.100 down from roughly 5,400 during the same period one year earlier. Thoughts and prayers with the

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00:19:46.420 caused by all that pesky police work.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - June 22, 2026

Marathon Iran Negotiations, Reflecting Pool Algae Battle, Trump： Starmer Will Resign： AM Update 6⧸22

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