The Megyn Kelly Show - February 11, 2026


Person Detained and Released in Nancy Guthrie Case, Fiery ICE Hearing： AM Update 2⧸11


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A person of interest has been detained for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The FBI releases newly recovered still images and video from a Nest camera outside the front door of her home for the first time showing a suspect.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:00:34.900 It's Wednesday, February 11th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:39.420 I do believe we are looking at people who, as we say, are persons of interest.
00:00:44.760 A person has been detained for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
00:00:50.480 Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?
00:00:52.500 I'm not going to end.
00:00:53.300 Of course not.
00:00:54.400 A contentious ICE hearing topped Trump immigration officials standing by their performance as lawmakers clash over Trump's deportation policies and tactics.
00:01:04.000 The New York Times pivoting on pot, now pushing limits on high-strength marijuana.
00:01:09.840 Super Bowl 60 ratings are in.
00:01:11.600 A massive audience, but short of last year's record.
00:01:14.700 And how did the controversial halftime show do?
00:01:18.100 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:15.740 A person has been detained for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, per ABC News.
00:02:23.840 It happened south of Tucson in Rio Rico, Arizona, near the Mexican border, reports the New York Times,
00:02:30.620 with law enforcement preparing to search a location associated with the individual who authorities are not calling a person of interest, only a subject.
00:02:41.060 The news follows a huge break in the Guthrie case.
00:02:44.740 The FBI releasing newly recovered still images and video from a Nest camera outside the front door of Nancy's home, for the first time showing a suspect.
00:02:56.120 The chilling footage capturing an individual wearing a full face-covering ski mask, showing only the eyes and a mouth hole, revealing what appeared to be visible facial hair, a mustache and a soul patch, or hair right under the lower lip.
00:03:11.840 The figure, who appears to be male, approaching Nancy's front door with what looks like a small flashlight held in his mouth.
00:03:19.640 The person, sauntering up to the Nest camera, almost with nonchalance, seen lightly tapping the camera with gloved hands, then pulling plants from the rock garden and attempting to cover the lens.
00:03:32.120 The person detained yesterday, who does appear to share a physical resemblance to the masked figure in the photos captured outside of Nancy's home, released early this morning.
00:03:43.140 The man telling ABC-15 he wishes only to be identified by his first name, Carlos, speaking out early this morning.
00:03:50.680 How did this all start? How did they stop you here? You were driving here?
00:03:54.260 No, my wife was driving. 1.00
00:03:55.140 Your wife was driving? 1.00
00:03:55.920 Because they were following me. And once I saw they were following me, I pulled over. They didn't even have to put a traffic stop or anything.
00:04:01.060 I got off the car, and they arrested me as soon as I got off the car.
00:04:04.320 They didn't even tell me what was going on until the detectives got here, like, two hours before I got arrested.
00:04:09.020 And then the detectives got here. It was the FBI agent in Santa Cruz County. And they told me I was being detained for kidnapping. And I asked them, like, well, kidnapping of who? And they told me this lady, I don't know her name.
00:04:23.080 Nancy Guthrie? 0.61
00:04:24.180 Yeah, that's her. And I told them, I work in Tucson for GLS. I might have delivered a package to your house, but I never kidnapped anybody.
00:04:30.500 TMZ reporting the FBI had only just obtained the newly released images of the apparent intruder, releasing them immediately rather than holding them back.
00:04:41.320 Last night, former FBI Special Agent Stuart Kaplan telling Laura Ingram on Fox this tape is a game changer.
00:04:48.560 Facial recognition relies upon measurements, distance between the eyes, the width of the nose.
00:04:54.840 And so the FBI has already mapped out this person's face, run it through facial recognition technology where you could square it up and pick out a driver's license, meaning a person who may be a registered driver in the state of Arizona or in the state of California, wherever that person may reside, and get an identical match.
00:05:19.040 Which, notwithstanding, we're all looking at a person who has a mask on, and as you said, well, dark eyes, a potential mustache, well, facial recognition looks beyond that mask.
00:05:30.280 And I can tell you, Laura, as I said last night, we were on the precipice of this case being cracked wide open. It is cracked wide open.
00:05:40.500 TMZ also reporting law enforcement sources involved in the investigation believe the perpetrator is local to Tucson.
00:05:47.420 Law enforcement going door-to-door last night asking neighbors and local businesses for information on the newly identified person on camera.
00:05:56.420 The FBI's elite hostage team has been deployed to Tucson along with the SWAT team, which also remains deployed.
00:06:04.040 FBI Director Cash Patel telling Sean Hannity last night about some new leads.
00:06:08.780 Sean, without, you know, polluting the investigation, I will say we have made substantial progress in these last 36, 48 hours thanks to the technical capabilities of the FBI and our partnerships.
00:06:19.220 And I do believe we are looking at people who, as we say, are persons of interest.
00:06:24.780 But as you know, with any investigation, you are a person of interest until you're either eliminated or you're actually found to be the culprit or the culprits involved.
00:06:32.160 Last night, Tucson outlet KGUN confirming reports of some activity in the Bitcoin account listed in the ransom note, amounting, though, to less than $300, well short of the $6 million demand.
00:06:47.700 Anchor Mary Coleman of KOLD in Tucson reporting early this morning, the sheriff tells her there have been no signs of Nancy.
00:06:55.320 Coleman adding a life flight out of the area yesterday, which generated some buzz on X, was unrelated to the Guthrie case.
00:07:04.000 Anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit tips at tips.fbi.gov.
00:07:12.080 The Fed's offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Nancy's recovery or the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
00:07:19.700 Three top Trump immigration officials appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee yesterday, defending the administration's mass deportation campaign.
00:07:30.540 Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow touting what they describe as historic enforcement gains.
00:07:43.020 From January 20, 2025 through January 20, 2026, ICE has conducted nearly 379,000 arrests.
00:07:51.640 Among those arrests were more than 7,000 suspected gang members and over 1,400 known as suspected terrorists.
00:07:58.520 The numbers speak for themselves.
00:08:00.740 We have achieved record low illegal crossings between ports of entry.
00:08:04.380 Border Patrol apprehensions along the southwest border totaled over 90,000 for the entire year.
00:08:09.380 That's a number that used to represent a single month under the Biden administration.
00:08:14.280 Our fraud detection and national security team completed over 21,000 investigations identifying fraud in approximately 65% of those cases.
00:08:23.640 The hearing coming amid mounting fallout from the federal immigration surge in Minneapolis, where two agitators, Renee Good and Alex Preddy, were killed in confrontations with federal immigration officers.
00:08:34.520 Lyons and Scott repeatedly declining to comment about those incidents, citing pending investigations.
00:08:41.520 Lyons taking the brunt of Democrats' fire.
00:08:44.440 Congressman Eric Swalwell of California pressing him over five-year-old Liam Ramos, who was taken into protective custody after his father fled ICE agents on foot, abandoning his child.
00:08:55.860 Then, upon apprehension, telling agents he wanted his boy to stay with him in detention pending deportation.
00:09:02.480 Considering your honorable service in the past, and the dishonorable acts that those who have worked for you have conducted, and the disgraceful statements that the leadership above you have said, you now have a decision.
00:09:17.820 Will you stand with the kids who you're supposed to protect, or will you side with the killers bringing terror to our streets?
00:09:25.200 Mr. Lyons, will you resign from ICE?
00:09:28.620 No, sir, I won't.
00:09:29.480 Why not?
00:09:29.880 Because, sir, that child that you're showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement.
00:09:36.760 Time has expired.
00:09:38.040 Congressman Shree Tanidar of Michigan, who has introduced legislation to abolish ICE, and who co-sponsored a bill to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, neither of which have advanced, with this threat to Rodney Scott.
00:09:51.880 Do you believe President Trump will pardon you?
00:09:54.940 I'm not going to speak on behalf of President Trump, but I'll tell you, I signed up for this job to protect America, and I'm very proud of the service that I provide, and I don't need a pardon from anybody.
00:10:06.000 Well, you better hope so.
00:10:07.680 You better hope you get being pardoned, because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year.
00:10:18.480 Congresswoman LaMonica MacGyver of New Jersey presenting Lyons with this absurd line of questioning.
00:10:25.340 Mr. Lyons, do you consider yourself a religious man?
00:10:28.540 Yes, ma'am.
00:10:29.440 Oh, yes.
00:10:30.460 Okay, well, how do you think Judgment Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
00:10:35.940 I'm not going to entertain that question.
00:10:37.300 Oh, okay, of course not.
00:10:38.480 Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?
00:10:40.460 I'm not going to entertain.
00:10:41.140 Of course not.
00:10:42.640 How many government agencies?
00:10:43.800 The gentlelady will suspend. 1.00
00:10:45.140 The gentlelady will suspend. 1.00
00:10:46.860 Republicans largely focusing on operations to remove criminal illegal aliens from their communities and giving officials ample time to defend their agents operating under hostile conditions.
00:10:58.400 GOP Congressman Eli Crane of Arizona accusing Democrats of focusing more on immigration politics than the victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
00:11:07.820 Mr. Scott, Mr. Lyons, do you guys remember any riots?
00:11:10.740 For some of these victims that were assaulted and victimized by illegal alien criminals like Nate Baker, Lakin Riley, Fletcher Harris, Schuyler Provenza, Ivory Smith.
00:11:23.740 I've got a whole list of them.
00:11:24.860 Do you remember any riots from our Democrats or their constituents when any of these American citizens were victimized by illegal alien criminals? 0.79
00:11:34.580 No, sir.
00:11:35.560 No, sir.
00:11:36.340 Why do you think that is?
00:11:37.320 Because that's the question that I get asked all the time.
00:11:39.260 Congressman, why do the Democrats care more about illegal alien criminals than they care about these American citizens?
00:11:46.980 I cannot speculate, but when I look at the chaos that it creates and the corrosive nature that it creates, I go beyond the politics of the United States.
00:11:55.600 And I look at our nation state adversaries like Iran, Russia and China and their influence on social media to keep this negative discourse going.
00:12:04.520 And I think this is a much bigger issue than we're actually admitting that it is in here.
00:12:08.540 Coming up, the New York Times admitting it was wrong on pot.
00:12:14.280 Now advocating for a ban on ultra potent marijuana.
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00:13:21.740 The New York Times editorial board now acknowledging serious downsides to marijuana legalization, a notable shift from its longstanding support for the drug.
00:13:32.460 The new op-ed headlined It's Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem.
00:13:38.540 Back in 2014, the Times publishing a six-part series urging Congress to repeal the federal marijuana ban, writing that addiction and dependence were, quote, relatively minor problems,
00:13:48.940 and suggesting legalization would not significantly increase, use or cause major harm.
00:13:55.100 Now, the board conceding many of those predictions were completely wrong.
00:13:59.840 The editorial acknowledging legalization has coincided with a sharp rise in use, with roughly 18 million Americans now using marijuana almost daily,
00:14:09.540 far higher than in past decades and more than those who drink alcohol daily.
00:14:13.840 The Times pointing to mounting health and public safety concerns, including rising addiction rates,
00:14:20.060 increasing hospitalizations tied to paranoia and psychotic disorders,
00:14:24.500 and a growing number of innocent people injured in accidents caused by people driving under the influence of marijuana.
00:14:31.400 Still, the board stopping short of calling for prohibition, instead laying out a regulatory crackdown.
00:14:36.920 The piece ending, quote,
00:14:38.560 The unfortunate truth is that the loosening of marijuana policies, especially the decision to legalize pot without adequately regulating it,
00:14:46.440 has led to worse outcomes than many Americans expected.
00:14:49.920 It is time to acknowledge reality and change course.
00:14:53.520 Former New York Times reporter and one of the leading voices against marijuana legalization, Alex Berenson,
00:14:59.560 reacting to the Times' suggestion of capping THC potency at 60 percent,
00:15:04.940 telling us, quote,
00:15:06.160 The Times' suggestion sounds nice, but it will not solve the underlying problems with cannabis use or legalization,
00:15:12.540 and it will create a massive black market by criminalizing some of the industry's most popular products.
00:15:18.140 We'll be left with the problems of criminalization and legalization.
00:15:22.520 Berenson, author of Tell Your Children, The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence,
00:15:28.640 has long argued that marijuana is linked to catastrophic problems.
00:15:32.980 Last month on The Megyn Kelly Show, Berenson warning that many Americans misunderstand the strength of today's marijuana.
00:15:40.280 Fifty years ago, if you smoked, you know, if you smoked a joint, it had a few milligrams of THC in it.
00:15:46.900 Now it might have a hundred milligrams of THC in it.
00:15:49.480 The reason is that the industry has gotten really, really good at making what they call flour, herbal cannabis, a lot stronger.
00:15:57.700 So it used to be, let's say, one to three percent THC.
00:16:01.220 Now you couldn't sell that in a store.
00:16:03.060 You'd be laughed out of the store.
00:16:04.960 It's mostly 20 to 30 percent THC.
00:16:07.700 But it's not like joints have gotten smaller.
00:16:10.020 So it's just much, much easier to consume a ton of THC than it used to be.
00:16:15.000 The other issue is that a lot of people don't even use flour cannabis anymore.
00:16:20.160 They just vape. 0.99
00:16:21.520 So that's basically just ingesting a chemical, either inhaling it, you know, eating it in a brownie, possibly literally putting a little tincture on your tongue.
00:16:31.160 That's just pure THC.
00:16:32.660 And the idea, one of the things that people who use cannabis say is, oh, it's a plant.
00:16:37.120 It's natural.
00:16:38.000 This stuff is no more natural than anything else that comes out of a lab.
00:16:40.960 The ratings for Super Bowl 60 are now in, the game falling short of last year's all-time record.
00:16:49.180 An average of 124.9 million viewers tuning in across NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital and NFL Plus, according to Nielsen.
00:17:00.080 Viewership peaking in the second quarter at 137.8 million, setting the record for highest peak viewership in history as the Seahawks led the Patriots 6-0.
00:17:11.160 At that point.
00:17:12.360 As for the halftime show, despite massive social media promotion, Bad Bunny's mostly Spanish performance did not surpass last year's audience.
00:17:21.740 No bueno.
00:17:22.520 The halftime show averaging 128.2 million, about 5 million lower than rapper Kendrick Lamar's record-setting performance last year, which netted 133.5 million views.
00:17:36.040 The Turning Point USA alternative, which had 6.1 million concurrent views, no doubt contributing to that dip in millions, tuning out from Bad Bunny this year.
00:17:47.100 And that'll do it for your AM update.
00:17:51.240 I'm Megan Kelly.
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