The Megyn Kelly Show - Massie Loses Kentucky Primary, Trump Backs Paxton, Tyler Robinson Back in Court： AM Update 5⧸20

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, May 20th, 2026, and this is your AM

00:00:38.380 Update. Another scalp in President Trump's revenge tour this primary season as Kentucky

00:00:44.160 voters oust Thomas Massey. The president makes an endorsement in the highly contentious Republican

00:00:50.320 primary battle for U.S. Senate in Texas. The state has tried to make it abundantly clear

00:00:56.120 and throughout this process that we favor open hearings.

00:00:59.600 Tyler Robinson back in court as his team fights to limit what the public can see

00:01:04.360 at an upcoming hearing in the Charlie Kirk murder case.

00:01:07.700 So just to be clear, Tom, you don't pay anyone for endorsements, correct?

00:01:12.520 Content creator-wise?

00:01:13.860 No.

00:01:14.440 And Democrat candidate for California Governor Tom Steyer under investigation,

00:01:19.200 accused of paying influencers for their support while not disclosing the funding.

00:01:24.140 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.

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00:02:42.820 Kentucky voters heading to the polls yesterday in a highly contentious primary race

00:02:47.300 viewed as the latest test of President Trump's influence inside the Republican Party.

00:02:52.340 Incumbent Congressman Thomas Massey facing off against Trump-backed former Navy SEAL

00:02:57.220 Ed Galrine. At the end of the night, Kentucky Republicans proving President Trump still

00:03:02.460 holds considerable sway inside the party, choosing Galrine as their nominee. The race

00:03:08.340 called quickly by various outlets, with Galrine winning by a healthy margin,

00:03:12.680 Gal Ryan delivering remarks after his victory.

00:03:16.300 I want to thank President Trump for his support, his endorsement, and his counsel as I navigated

00:03:26.640 this campaign, which is a journey of and to itself, and for his courageous leadership

00:03:32.440 of our nation at this critical time.

00:03:36.620 Here, Massey acknowledging the loss.

00:03:38.780 I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Galrein in Tel Aviv.

00:03:48.200 I did get the call through, though. I have called and conceded the race.

00:03:52.760 We've been honorable the whole time, and we're going to stay that way.

00:03:58.060 You know, welcome to the most expensive congressional primary ever in the 250-year history of this country.

00:04:06.020 It's not just the most expensive.

00:04:07.960 This thing went on longer than Vietnam.

00:04:11.160 It started nine months ago, and they didn't even have a candidate, and they decided they

00:04:15.880 want to take me out.

00:04:16.840 The race shattering spending records, becoming the most expensive House primary in history.

00:04:23.080 According to Ad Impact Politics, more than $32 million spent on advertising in this race,

00:04:29.500 the highest total since the firm began tracking House primary ad spending in 2018.

00:04:34.280 Of that, 10.9 million spent supporting Galrine versus 6.2 million spent attacking him.

00:04:42.800 7.6 million going to support Thomas Massey with 7.9 million spent attacking him.

00:04:50.360 Congressman Massey landing on President Trump's bad side after repeatedly breaking with the White

00:04:54.680 House on some of the biggest fights inside the GOP. The congressman among the leaders in the

00:04:59.920 House effort to release the Epstein files, opposing foreign aid spending to all countries,

00:05:05.280 including Israel, and criticizing U.S. military action against Iran. Massey, one of just two

00:05:11.140 Republicans last year who voted against President Trump's signature legislation, the One Big

00:05:16.240 Beautiful Bill Act. President Trump, who endorsed the congressman in 2022, routinely bashing him on

00:05:22.960 Truth Social recently. In one March post, the president writing, quote, I predict that

00:05:27.460 Representative Thomas Massey will go down as the worst Republican congressman in the long and 0.64

00:05:32.340 fabled history of the United States Congress, even worse than crazy Liz Cheney. But President 0.95

00:05:37.740 Trump, not the only one aiming to take out Massey. The race also drawing millions from pro-Israel 0.79

00:05:43.780 groups furious over Massey's foreign policy record. According to Politico, the Republican

00:05:49.280 Jewish Coalition Victory Fund, spending more than $4 million on ads attacking Massey,

00:05:55.320 the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, reportedly dropping nearly $5 million on

00:06:02.240 the race. Congressman Massey last Friday telling Politico his resistance to sending U.S. taxpayer

00:06:07.800 money overseas does not equate to anti-Semitism, and that he is not against Israel, warning against

00:06:13.780 trying to equate criticism of the politics of Benjamin Netanyahu with anti-Semitism.

00:06:20.060 Galrine, selected by the White House to challenge Massey, pledging full loyalty to President Trump

00:06:25.300 and his agenda. In March, President Trump holding a rally for Galrine in Kentucky,

00:06:30.400 referring to him as, quote, a great patriot. 68-year-old Galrine has never held public office,

00:06:36.580 running instead on his military record as a former Navy SEAL and his roots as a fifth-generation

00:06:42.000 Kentucky farmer. Galrine declining multiple times to debate Congressman Massey. Galrine

00:06:47.320 will take on Democrat Melissa Strange in the November general election.

00:06:51.740 President Trump making his long-awaited endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate

00:06:58.140 primary, wading into a bitter GOP fight with control of the Senate potentially on the line,

00:07:03.800 choosing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn. The endorsement coming

00:07:09.840 ahead of a runoff showdown next week after neither candidate secured enough support to win the March

00:07:15.700 primary outright. Cornyn first elected to the Senate in 2002, positioning himself as a staunch

00:07:22.260 conservative statesman and a senior Republican dealmaker in Washington. Paxton building his

00:07:27.900 national profile as an aggressive legal combatant against Democratic administrations, filing dozens

00:07:33.900 of lawsuits against President Obama and more than 100 against President Biden. Cornyn's campaign and

00:07:40.080 Associated PACs reportedly spending about $100 million on attack ads throughout the primary,

00:07:45.980 hammering Paxton over years of scandal, legal fights, and ethics allegations.

00:07:51.040 Still, Mr. Trump opting to endorse Paxton, posting to Truth Social yesterday, quote,

00:07:55.460 Ken Paxton has my complete and total endorsement to be the next United States senator

00:08:00.080 from the great state of Texas. Ken Paxton will never let you down.

00:08:04.960 That runoff set for May 26th. The winner will go on to face state representative

00:08:09.900 James Tallarico, progressive Democrat who also frames his politics in Christian language,

00:08:16.180 once referring to God as non-binary, and whom Republicans view as a serious threat in November.

00:08:23.380 Senator Cornyn responding to the news yesterday by leaning hard into electability,

00:08:28.460 touting his record of voting with President Trump more than 99% of the time,

00:08:32.980 noting the president has, quote, consistently called me a friend in this race.

00:08:37.220 The senator continuing, quote,

00:08:39.520 It is now time for Texas Republican voters to decide if they want a strong nominee to help our GOP candidates down ballot and defeat Tallarico in November or a weak nominee who jeopardizes everything we care about.

00:08:52.500 I trust the Republican voters of Texas.

00:08:56.600 Coming up, Tyler Robinson's defense team asking the judge to close off parts of the upcoming preliminary hearing to the public.

00:09:03.660 and Tom Steyer's campaign for California governor under investigation,

00:09:08.440 accused of paying influencers to promote the billionaire Democrat without proper disclosure.

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00:10:37.000 Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, back in Judge Tony Graff's Utah

00:10:43.380 courtroom yesterday. His attorney's delivering arguments on two motions. The first asking the

00:10:48.880 judge to hold a hearing to decide whether to hold Utah County Attorney Chris Ballard in contempt of

00:10:53.840 court over his appearance on Fox News, where he discussed an ATF report tied to evidence in the

00:10:59.780 case. The second asking the court to deny media access to certain portions of Robinson's upcoming

00:11:06.240 preliminary hearing, where prosecutors will try to show that they have enough evidence to send

00:11:11.420 this case to trial. The ATF report at the center of the first motion, becoming a flashpoint after

00:11:17.060 Robinson's defense team highlighted that investigators could not conclusively match

00:11:21.580 a bullet fragment recovered from Charlie's body to the rifle allegedly tied to Robinson.

00:11:28.460 Prosecutor Ballard then speaking to Fox News and other outlets, arguing the report was being

00:11:33.560 mischaracterized. Ballard saying the bullet fragment was too damaged for a conclusive match,

00:11:39.160 but was still consistent with the type of round used by the rifle found at the scene.

00:11:44.540 Defense attorney Richard Novak arguing Ballard violated the court's gag order,

00:11:48.840 which bars both sides from discussing the case with media in ways that could prejudice the jury.

00:11:54.600 Novak adding that if prosecutors believed the defense had mischaracterized the report,

00:11:58.620 there were other channels to address it.

00:12:00.900 If Mr. Ballard and his colleagues thought that we mischaracterized the ATF report, which we did not,

00:12:08.100 but if that's what they really believed in good faith, they could have done at least three things.

00:12:13.200 One, they could have filed something with this court, a judicial communication, which said, we think that Mr. Novak and his colleagues have mischaracterized this ATF report.

00:12:24.920 Number two, they could have reached out to us and said, we think that you have either inadvertently or intentionally misconstrued or mischaracterized this ATF report, and we would like the parties to file something.

00:12:38.420 Instead, what they did was they drafted an email and they sent it to media entities like TMZ and they scheduled an interview for Mr. Ballard with Fox and Friends.

00:12:49.580 State Attorney Ryan McBride countering that prosecutors were allowed to publicly respond because the reporting had created its own risk of prejudicing this case.

00:12:59.320 In this case, there was a tidal wave of media garnering more than 10 million views in a matter

00:13:06.540 of hours that mischaracterized the evidence, that misrepresented the evidence, that misled

00:13:12.420 the potential jury pool as to what the evidence was. That media, of course, reached Utah County.

00:13:18.900 It was widespread, and it created an undue risk of prejudicing or tainting and tainting the jury

00:13:25.200 pool. Now, I've mentioned the misleading reports by the media, but I want to be clear, I don't

00:13:30.480 place the blame on this for the media. These are reports the media has repeated from defense

00:13:35.600 counsel's misleading statements. And I disagree wholeheartedly with defense counsel's statement

00:13:41.020 that their statements and their pleading was not misleading because it absolutely was.

00:13:47.060 Prosecutor McBride arguing the defense left out the other half of the finding.

00:13:51.940 ATF also could not exclude the rifle as the source of the bullet.

00:13:56.620 If that omission, that material omission was included here,

00:14:00.320 that the ATF was unable to identify or exclude the bullet,

00:14:04.900 everyone would know that this is not exculpatory evidence.

00:14:09.160 And that leads me to the second material omission,

00:14:11.340 which is the analyst reported that the bullet was a .30 caliber class bullet jacket fragment.

00:14:19.020 30 caliber class. What does that tell you? Well, that excludes a whole bunch of weapons

00:14:24.800 from possibly being the weapon in this case. And on the short list of weapons that are included

00:14:31.640 is a .30-06, the weapon that was found at the scene. The reason that omission is material

00:14:40.200 is because it shows that this evidence is not in fact exculpatory. By no stretch of the imagination

00:14:46.240 is the testimony of this witness exculpatory.

00:14:50.080 On the second matter of Robinson's upcoming preliminary hearing,

00:14:54.440 Robinson's defense team asking the judge to restrict media access during portions of the

00:14:59.780 proceeding. Judge Graff previously allowing cameras in the courtroom, but here the defense

00:15:04.780 arguing the media's access should be limited. Robinson's lawyer saying the public learning

00:15:09.400 about inadmissible evidence could taint the jury pool. Defense attorney Stacey Visser arguing the

00:15:15.740 case has already generated extensive adverse publicity, referencing the fight over the ATF

00:15:20.840 report as an example of how evidence can be misconstrued once it reaches the media and

00:15:26.500 potential jury pool. Our goal here is to prevent that from happening by avoiding publication of

00:15:33.920 evidence before there has been admissibility determinations. Most of the preliminary hearing,

00:15:40.480 as far as we can tell, is going to be based off of reliable hearsay. They're calling five officers

00:15:46.540 to discuss a very extensive investigation. The reports are lengthy and contain lots of statements

00:15:54.240 from other officers and people that collected evidence. And unfortunately, we're not in a very

00:15:59.520 good position right now to know what of that testimony is going to be based on personal

00:16:04.680 knowledge versus reliable hearsay. So our solution, what we see, is closing the preliminary hearing

00:16:13.000 and this court thereafter providing a transcript of what occurred during the preliminary hearing

00:16:20.140 that can account for all of the evidence that wouldn't be admissible at trial.

00:16:26.480 Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander drawing a line between limiting public access

00:16:32.180 to certain exhibits and closing the courtroom altogether. The state has tried to make it

00:16:37.460 abundantly clear throughout this process that we favor open hearings so that the public can trust

00:16:44.020 what happens in this courtroom. And public confidence increases when people can see justice

00:16:49.620 at work. Are there feasible and effective tools available to this court to ensure a fair trial?

00:16:55.780 We've talked about the idea of shielding the public from some of the exhibits

00:17:00.500 that are going to be offered into evidence.

00:17:03.600 We do favor, Your Honor,

00:17:05.960 we favor, Your Honor,

00:17:07.040 denying access to the public and the media

00:17:09.140 from physically handling the exhibits

00:17:11.660 and copying the exhibits that are admitted

00:17:14.080 during the preliminary hearing.

00:17:15.740 Many of the exhibits will be used at the trial

00:17:18.080 at some point in the future.

00:17:20.640 And having the media access those

00:17:23.100 and try the case in the public, if you will,

00:17:25.580 I don't think serves the administration of justice.

00:17:28.000 So I think we concur with the defense with respect to that.

00:17:58.000 motion on June 1st and the alleged gag order violation on June 12th. Robinson's preliminary

00:18:03.700 hearing currently scheduled for July 6th through July 10th. Robinson remains held on bond on

00:18:10.100 seven charges, including aggravated murder with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.

00:18:15.920 Robinson has not yet entered a plea. Billionaire Tom Steyer, a Democratic candidate for California

00:18:22.980 governor now facing a state ethics investigation over allegations that his campaign paid social

00:18:28.800 media influencers for promotional content without following proper disclosure procedures.

00:18:35.240 The Washington Post reporting Steyer's campaign paying, quote, thousands of dollars to individual

00:18:39.780 influencers who have championed his progressive policies and financial bona fides. In an interview

00:18:46.280 with creator Isaiah Washington, who has 1.8 million TikTok followers, Steyer casting himself as a

00:18:52.980 threat to the very same billionaire class from which he hails.

00:18:57.280 People, especially my age, have been scorned by capitalism.

00:19:00.740 You're somebody who has benefited greatly from it in your life.

00:19:04.100 How are you planning on gaining the trust of people who maybe are against the things

00:19:09.500 that you've succeeded in really well? 0.82

00:19:11.260 Every billionaire that we're seeing is behaving so badly, is so selfish, is so arrogant.

00:19:17.640 I've been thrown out of those rooms. 0.59

00:19:19.180 I don't share their values.

00:19:20.380 I'm opposing what they're doing.

00:19:21.800 I'm a threat to them. According to campaign finance records reviewed by The Post,

00:19:26.720 Isaiah was paid $10,000 by Steyer's campaign, but the partnership was not disclosed in his TikTok

00:19:33.280 post, which has now been deleted. Isaiah did not respond to The Post's questions for comment.

00:19:39.520 That interview, now part of a broader complaint, filed with California's Fair Political Practices

00:19:44.560 Commission. Under California law, online creators are required to include a disclaimer

00:19:49.320 when they are paid to support or oppose a candidate.

00:19:52.980 Last week, two California-based creators

00:19:54.900 who support former Biden health secretary,

00:19:57.940 Javier Becerra, another Democrat in the governor's race,

00:20:01.340 filing a complaint with the commission.

00:20:03.620 They allege that Steyer's campaign arranged payments

00:20:06.160 to, quote, perhaps dozens of outside influencers

00:20:09.360 who posted favorable content about Steyer

00:20:12.180 without the disclosures required under California law.

00:20:15.700 The complaint now prompting a state probe

00:20:17.660 into possible violations of California's political ad disclosure rules. One of the

00:20:23.100 complainants, creator Beatrice Gomberg, telling the Post she believes Steyer's strategy was

00:20:28.200 designed to make paid influencer content look like genuine political support. The Post reporting

00:20:34.740 Steyer's campaign paid more than $300,000 to strategy firm Gutsy Media for production services,

00:20:41.320 digital consulting, and other expenses. That firm paying out about $2,000 per creator for

00:20:48.000 positive content about Steyer. Some of those videos including captions disclosing that they

00:20:53.180 were made, quote, in partnership with Steyer for Governor 2026. But other posts from influencers

00:20:59.260 did not include any such disclosure. Steyer confronted on Monday by an ABC News reporter

00:21:05.720 regarding the investigation. So just to be clear, Tom, you don't pay anyone for endorsements.

00:21:11.320 correct content creator wise no absolutely what do you pay them for absolutely not we pay them

00:21:18.080 for their time but what does that mean that means that we pay them for doing work they did they

00:21:23.540 choose what to do they endorse us because they believe in our platform or they don't endorse us

00:21:28.980 you have no way in on the content they are independent businesses independent small

00:21:35.560 businesses we pay them for their time they do whatever they want to do the obvious question

00:21:40.100 is, if they don't choose to support you, do they still get the money? Gonna guess not, Tom.

00:21:49.060 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show,

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Massie Loses Kentucky Primary, Trump Backs Paxton, Tyler Robinson Back in Court： AM Update 5⧸20

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