The Megyn Kelly Show - September 29, 2026


Midterm Warning Signs For GOP, UK Terror Suspects Released, Cornell Case Reopened： AM Update 9⧸29

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Trump Hannah Jones Matthew Van Houten Nicole Hannah-Jones Darlene Graham Scott Kretschmar John Doe Anne Andres Najah Hannah-Jones JonBenet Ramsey James Tallarico Lawrence Taylor Jonathan Newell Scott Peterson Lindsey Graham Shaundra Levy Maggie Blythe Thomas Giffra Jeremy Saland Harry Enten and 9 more
Madonna's Vile VMAs Performance, the Tom Brady Lesson, Plus How the GOP Can Avoid a Midterms ＂Nightmare,＂ with Mark Halperin ｜ Ep. 1407 Jack Smith Grilled, Trump Hosts AI Summit, NYT Executive Allegedly Killed by In-Laws： AM Update 9⧸30

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00:00:35 It's Tuesday, September 29th, 2026.
00:00:37 And this is your AM update.
00:00:39 The levy has been breached.
00:00:41 The blue wave is coming over the wall.
00:00:43 New midterm data giving Republicans agita, even in states President Trump, won handily.
00:00:48 Five men arrested near a U.S. bomber base in the U.K.
00:00:51 as investigators examine a possible connection to Iran.
00:00:55 A New York prosecutor reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell fraternity house
00:01:02 nearly two years after his office declined to bring charges.
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00:02:44 midterm elections now 35 days away president trump predicting success for the republicans
00:02:52 while new polling points to a difficult november for the gop asked in the oval office yesterday
00:02:58 for his message to midterm voters mr trump pointing to the border and the economy we have
00:03:04 great people and we're running against communists lunatics socialists and we have a strong border
00:03:11 We have the best economy, the biggest investment in the history of our country.
00:03:16 Think of that.
00:03:17 $21 trillion is being invested. 0.97
00:03:20 We have Iran.
00:03:21 We'll never have a nuclear weapon. 0.99
00:03:23 We're going to win that war very soon.
00:03:24 That'll be over.
00:03:25 And the gas prices will come tumbling down.
00:03:29 The Wall Street Journal reporting Republican candidates, strategists, and lawmakers growing
00:03:34 worried about November, despite the president's confidence.
00:03:37 One reason for their concern, a new journal poll finding just 37% of registered voters
00:03:43 approve of Mr. Trump's job performance. That's the lowest rating for a president
00:03:48 approaching a midterm in journal polling dating back to 1990. 11% of his 2024 voters
00:03:55 report that they regret their vote. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten comparing the president's
00:04:01 standing in key house districts with his position before Democrats won the chamber back in 2018.
00:04:07 The levy has been breached. The blue wave is coming over the wall, Speaker Johnson and
00:04:12 President Trump. And you can see it here. You can just look at President Trump's approval
00:04:15 ratings. There's not approval ratings in the year's key House district. You know,
00:04:18 back in September of 2018, when Democrats easily won back the House, President Trump
00:04:22 was at minus eight points. Not very good. His disapproval rating was eight points higher
00:04:26 than his approval rating. But look at this year. Look at the key districts this year.
00:04:30 President Trump is even worse. He's twice as unpopular in this year's key races in the
00:04:35 districts this year than he was back in 2018 when Democrats easy got back majority. He's now 16
00:04:40 points underwater in the key House districts. Simply put, mathematically, this equals a
00:04:46 Democratic majority for the House of Representatives. Democrats need to gain just three seats to take
00:04:51 control of the House. The Cook Political Report now shifting 15 race ratings toward Democrats.
00:04:57 At present, 17 Republican held seats rated toss ups. Just five Democrat held seats get the toss
00:05:03 up label. The Senate map also giving Republicans reason for concern. In Texas, Democrat State
00:05:09 Representative James Tallarico leading Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton by 2.9 points in the
00:05:16 Real Clear Politics polling average. A New York Times opinion discussion with 12 Texans who voted
00:05:21 for Mr. Trump in 2024, finding sharp criticism of Paxton among voters considering Tallarico
00:05:27 or unsure whether they will vote in the Senate race at all. Asked for their impressions of
00:05:33 Paxton participants, including Republicans, calling him a, quote, crook, amoral, and disgusting. 0.96
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00:05:45 object to his extreme views on social issues. One voter arguing Republicans picked the wrong
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00:06:39 holding a first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, hoping to give GOP candidates a lift.
00:06:45 RealClearPolitics' Tom Bevin summing up the post-convention polling this way,
00:06:49 quote, GOP's midterm convention bounce plus 2.5 for the Democrats.
00:06:55 Five men arrested near a UK base used by US bombers over a suspected terror plot now out
00:07:04 on bail. UK counterterrorism police say the men have not been charged but remain under
00:07:09 investigation. The case beginning early Sunday near Royal Air Force Base Fairford in southwest
00:07:15 England. Police reporting an initial call about three suspicious vehicles around 1245 in the
00:07:21 morning. A local farmer also calling authorities after finding three vans blocking a village road.
00:07:27 Here, she tells Sky News about the moment. We suddenly saw a large group of men and they were
00:07:34 panicking. And I think the reason, well, I suppose they're panicking because anyone saw them, but our
00:07:38 vehicle is quite similar to the patrol vehicles that they use. And we had our lights on main beam
00:07:44 because there wasn't another car. So I think we sort of dazzled them and they started to run.
00:07:48 it's such a flash moment of seeing them
00:07:51 but there were definitely more than five
00:07:54 we think maybe between eight and ten of them
00:07:56 were there at that point
00:07:58 and a lot of them had their faces covered
00:08:02 they were all wearing like
00:08:03 it looked like similar
00:08:04 almost you'd have thought perhaps
00:08:06 it was like what they'd been told to wear
00:08:08 quite similar like slim fitting clothes
00:08:11 so then I realised
00:08:13 this was probably something
00:08:16 a bit more unusual than undercover policemen parked in some vans.
00:08:21 The farmer saying armed officers arrived within minutes of her call,
00:08:24 arresting five men in Welford near the base on suspicion of explosives offenses.
00:08:30 Investigators later saying the men were also suspected of preparing a terrorist act.
00:08:35 Asked whether officers were looking for anyone else, Gloucestershire Police Chief Maggie Blythe
00:08:39 saying she believed the incident was, quote, contained. Police identifying the five arrested
00:08:44 as British nationals from London, ages 23 to 25, but have not yet publicly identified them
00:08:51 in accordance with the law. Investigators examining the three vans as bomb disposal
00:08:56 crews were called in and roughly 85 nearby households were evacuated. Police have not
00:09:02 said publicly what, if anything, was found in the vehicles. After questioning the men
00:09:07 through Monday, UK counterterrorism chief Lawrence Taylor announcing their release.
00:09:12 I can confirm that following extensive interviews and inquiries, the five men who were arrested
00:09:18 are being released on police bail this afternoon. To be very clear, this does not mean that the
00:09:26 investigation is over. They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and
00:09:31 contact with others. They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of
00:09:38 inquiries. Police say the men had been held under the UK's Police and Criminal Evidence Act
00:09:44 instead of under terrorism laws. The Wall Street Journal reports the law allows police to impose
00:09:49 bail restrictions while continuing their investigation, potentially for weeks. In
00:09:55 contrast, detention under the UK's terrorism laws generally requires authorities to charge
00:10:01 a suspect or release him without bail within two weeks, according to the journal. Royal Air Force
00:10:06 Fairford, serves as a launch point for U.S. bombers flying missions in the war with Iran.
00:10:12 Iran's Revolutionary Guards warning in July that any base used to launch those strikes
00:10:16 would be considered a legitimate target, specifically citing Fairford.
00:10:20 President Trump on Sunday praising the arrests, saying the U.S. had been investigating the men
00:10:25 alongside U.K. authorities and believed they intended to do major damage.
00:10:30 Yesterday from the Oval, Mr. Trump reacting to the suspect's release.
00:10:33 I'm surprised if they released him, I wouldn't have done that.
00:10:36 Look, they've been very good. They worked with us very closely.
00:10:39 We know everything about them.
00:10:42 We would not have released them.
00:10:44 The Journal reporting investigators are examining a possible connection to Iran or an Islamist group.
00:10:51 Coming up, prosecutors reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape at Cornell
00:10:57 after a former student files a civil lawsuit against seven fraternity members and the university.
00:11:04 and activist Nicole Hannah-Jones' daughter confronts her over a virtue-signaling school
00:11:10 enrollment choice that left the child struggling to catch up in high school.
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00:12:14 An Ithaca, New York district attorney reopening a 2024 investigation
00:12:19 into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house.
00:12:23 The decision follows a civil lawsuit filed this month by a former student
00:12:27 identified as Jane Doe, who was 20 years old at the time of the alleged incident.
00:12:33 Doe filing the civil suit in New York County Supreme in Manhattan, suing Cornell, seven
00:12:38 members of its Chi-Fi fraternity, the overarching fraternity and her own sorority organizations,
00:12:44 and other parties over what she alleges happened in October 2024. She is seeking unspecified
00:12:50 compensatory and punitive damages. Doe alleging she went to the Chi-Fi house to see a friend
00:12:56 after drinking at two bars. She alleges she was already visibly intoxicated when she arrived
00:13:01 and that two fraternity members then pressured her to use a substance they described as ketamine.
00:13:07 According to her complaint, they also gave her marijuana and more alcohol before several men
00:13:12 repeatedly had sex with her, she says, without her consent over the course of the night.
00:13:17 The lawsuit, including a screenshot of a message allegedly sent by Ki-Fi member Jonathan Newell
00:13:23 to the fraternity's Snapchat group at 1.42 a.m., telling members there was, quote,
00:13:28 free P-word upstairs. Doe accusing two members of taking her to another room later that night,
00:13:35 where she says they gave her more ketamine and sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated.
00:13:40 Doe reported the alleged incident to campus police three weeks later, but no charges were filed.
00:13:46 Her lawyer says the alleged assault caused her to leave Cornell.
00:13:49 In a written statement yesterday, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten
00:13:54 pointing to a six-page statement Doe signed in November 2024. Tompkins County covers Ithaca.
00:14:02 He writes that she recounted events substantially differently than she does now in her civil
00:14:06 lawsuit. According to the DA's summary of that earlier account, Doe described agreeing to sexual
00:14:13 activity and knowingly taking drugs. She also described refusing some sexual contact
00:14:18 with Van Houten writing that the men stopped when she asked them to stop.
00:14:23 He argues prosecutors could not bring charges based on the facts they were given at the time.
00:14:28 Van Houten saying, quote, to be clear, the credibility of the woman who described the
00:14:32 facts in excruciating detail was never in question. Van Houten has not publicly released
00:14:38 Doe's signed statement. Van Houten acknowledging, however, to ABC News that his office relied on
00:14:44 Cornell University police and did not conduct an independent investigation. He says prosecutors
00:14:50 were never given the Snapchat screenshot now included in the lawsuit. Jane Doe's attorney,
00:14:56 Thomas Giffra, disputing the DA's description of the original account, telling CNN in a written
00:15:01 statement that Doe's police report was, quote, not materially different from the allegations in her
00:15:06 lawsuit. He writes that after Doe spoke to the officer who took her initial report, no one from
00:15:12 the DA's office or anyone trained to interview sexual assault survivors contacted her. Jiffra
00:15:18 also telling ABC News that Doe did give campus police the Snapchat messages in 2024. In a written
00:15:25 response reported by CBS News New York, Jiffra describes Jane Doe as traumatized and struggling
00:15:31 to process what had happened when she first spoke to police. He writes, quote, it is challenging for
00:15:37 me to understand how a thorough criminal investigation could have been conducted.
00:15:42 Chiffer says Doe will cooperate with the reopened investigation.
00:15:46 The Ithaca Police Department, as opposed to the Cornell Police, telling CBS it never received
00:15:51 a report about the alleged incident. The lawsuit also alleges Cornell did not treat the allegations
00:15:57 seriously enough, claiming that the accused students were offered an opportunity to submit
00:16:02 essays to reduce their discipline. According to the court filing, Cornell temporarily suspended
00:16:08 the seven students and the Chi-Fi chapter when Doe reported the incident on November 8, 2024.
00:16:15 Cornell began its Title IX investigation around January 2025 and held at least 12 hearings that
00:16:21 May, per the suit. Cornell responding in a statement that its Title IX investigation
00:16:26 involved multiple days of hearings and resulted in sanctions, including suspensions and expulsions.
00:16:33 Doe's attorney noting two of the seven accused students were expelled.
00:16:37 The university writing, quote, none of the individuals charged were offered the opportunity
00:16:41 to write essays as a sole consequence of their involvement.
00:16:46 Cornell says it closed the Chi-Fi chapter in 2024 and continues to bar it from campus.
00:16:51 The national fraternity telling CBS it condemns sexual violence but cannot discuss the specific
00:16:57 allegations during litigation.
00:16:59 An attorney for a former student is disputing the allegations against his client,
00:17:04 Jeremy Saland, representing Scott Kretschmar, saying Kretschmar never sexually assaulted or
00:17:09 even touched Doe. Saland acknowledging Kretschmar made a separate, quote, immature comment on
00:17:15 Snapchat, but accuses Doe of, quote, intentionally victimizing an innocent person for a money grab.
00:17:21 Van Houten, the DA, says he is planning to present Doe's testimony and any new evidence to a grand
00:17:27 jury and let it decide whether or not to indict, saying if the grand jury does so, his office will
00:17:33 quote, zealously prosecute the case, but giving no timeline for when that will happen. 0.99
00:17:40 1619 Project creator Nicole Hannah-Jones, confronted by her own daughter over the schools
00:17:45 in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chose to enroll her. 16-year-old Najah Hannah-Jones
00:17:52 challenging her mother in a This American Life podcast interview, asking why her mother sent
00:17:57 her to schools that left her struggling to keep up. In a widely discussed 2016 New York Times
00:18:03 magazine essay, Hannah Jones the Elder describing choosing a predominantly Black, low-income Brooklyn
00:18:09 public school for Najah. Now, in a follow-up essay out earlier this month, Hannah Jones writing that
00:18:14 she is, quote, overcome with regret, and that Najah, quote, deserved better. In the new essay, Nicole
00:18:20 writing that she enrolled Najah in algebra tutoring, only to learn her daughter had
00:18:25 major gaps in elementary school math, including long division and fractions. The tutoring center
00:18:31 warning that catching Najah up would require intensive help. In the interview, Hannah Jones
00:18:37 arguing it would have been wrong to give Najah an escape from schools other Black children could not
00:18:42 leave. Najah rejecting the idea that her education should have been the sacrifice.
00:18:48 it's like why should my child be the one that's rescued like you should escape what we
00:18:54 consign so many other kids just like you to i just would never feel right about that um why
00:19:01 why it makes no sense you're talking about oh i'm just gonna give you the worst just because it's
00:19:07 not fair that you i didn't actually be bored all you're supposed to do is just like put me in a
00:19:12 good school like oh well i didn't want to put you in a great school and have you have advantages
00:19:16 over other kids. Isn't that what you want? Isn't that what you want me to have? Is that not a
00:19:21 normal thing you want me to have? Everyone's not your kid. You can't save everyone who doesn't
00:19:26 want to be saved. There's no benefit that came out of you putting me in those schools.
00:19:30 There's no benefit at all. Hannah Jones later letting Naja choose her own high school, 1.00
00:19:36 Naja selecting a competitive public school with mostly white and Asian students,
00:19:40 a choice Hannah Jones described as, quote, the exact opposite of her life's work.
00:19:46 The two returning to the question of what their years at NAJA's earlier schools had accomplished.
00:19:51 We've talked about, like, over and over, like, our lives are the products of people who didn't just say we think segregation is wrong, we think injustice is wrong.
00:20:02 Like, they were willing to put themselves, their families, their children on the line for that.
00:20:07 So you put me on the line to help a school, but it didn't work.
00:20:11 Yeah, I put you on the line in hopes of making a change, yeah.
00:20:16 I think I'm fine because I'm in the school I am now.
00:20:19 I feel like if I picked a different choice that you wanted me to,
00:20:22 I don't think I would be fine.
00:20:26 And that'll do it for your AM Update.
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