The Megyn Kelly Show - July 23, 2026


Record ICE Arrests, Epstein Associate Found Dead, Tropical Storm Threatens LA and TX： AM Update 7⧸23


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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Draczynski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up
00:00:37.000 Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Thursday, July 23rd, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:43.320 John Ossoff and the Democrat communists want to let the Marxists into power bankrupt your
00:00:50.180 families and leave. You're totally undefended. President Trump stumping for Georgia Republicans
00:00:56.520 as the party looks to unseat Democrat Senator John Ossoff
00:01:00.140 in one of the nation's closest races.
00:01:02.460 The numbers are up.
00:01:04.020 Last month, June, highest numbers of arrests
00:01:06.700 in the history of the agency.
00:01:09.560 Ice enforcement accelerating sharply
00:01:11.620 as agents make more than 43,000 arrests in a single month.
00:01:16.440 A modeling scout who spent years connecting young women
00:01:18.980 to Jeffrey Epstein found dead in his home outside Paris.
00:01:22.380 And tropical storm Bertha pushing west along the Gulf Coast
00:01:25.920 with potential for flash flooding, threatening Texas.
00:01:29.080 All that and more coming up in just a moment
00:01:30.880 on your AM Update.
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00:02:51.720 TakeLean.com. President Trump speaking yesterday at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia,
00:02:58.880 using the appearance to rally support for the state's Republican ticket ahead of November's
00:03:02.680 midterm elections. Mr. Trump joined by several of the party's top candidates,
00:03:06.880 including gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson and Congressman Mike Collins,
00:03:10.980 who is challenging Democrat Senator John Ossoff.
00:03:14.440 The president highlighting his administration's work to tackle crime nationwide
00:03:18.400 and slow the flow of illegal drugs into the country.
00:03:22.400 Nationwide crime has been the lowest numbers that we've had in many, many decades.
00:03:27.280 Last year, we achieved the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded
00:03:31.820 to the lowest level in 125 years.
00:03:34.920 That's since 1900.
00:03:36.820 That's before my father was born.
00:03:38.420 And my father, before my father was born, think of it, from the year 1900, lowest murder rate.
00:03:44.900 And that's despite the fact that we had millions of people poured into our country who were, in many cases, very, very dangerous people.
00:03:53.580 We cut the flow of fentanyl across our border by 67 percent.
00:03:59.860 And drugs coming in by ocean, sea, by water was cut 97 percent.
00:04:07.120 Mr. Trump traveling to Georgia after participating in the dignified transfer of four fallen American
00:04:13.340 service members at Dover Air Force Base. The president observing the return of 28-year-old
00:04:18.540 Angel Rampersad of New York, 30-year-old Michael Swinton of North Carolina, 25-year-old Tyler
00:04:23.900 Feehan of Hawaii, and 19-year-old Isabella Gonzalez of Texas. All four killed over the
00:04:29.820 weekend amid the renewed fighting with Iran. After learning that Lieutenant Feehan's parents
00:04:34.440 and uncle were heading home to Georgia, the president inviting them to make the trip aboard
00:04:38.560 Air Force One. Mr. Trump recognizing Lieutenant Fien's family from the stage. This is a son who
00:04:44.400 is like a flawless, perfect person, beautiful, beautiful son, handsome in every way, brilliant,
00:04:53.460 respected by everybody. His sheet read so beautifully, and I told them that. Their
00:04:59.180 beloved son and it's uh his name was lieutenant tyler feehan and he was a person that was going
00:05:08.480 all the way he was going to be a general he would have been a general very quickly he was heading in
00:05:13.460 that path but i just want to thank tyler's mother sherry his father stephen and his uncle david
00:05:19.240 great people i got to know him a little bit on the plane and standing there watching this site
00:05:24.700 which is very tough to watch, to be honest with you.
00:05:30.220 I think it's the toughest thing I do.
00:05:31.620 If anything, I do all this stuff, but I think it's the toughest thing I do.
00:05:35.800 But to Sherry and Stephen and David, we will carry Tyler's memory in our hearts forever.
00:05:40.760 And I just want to thank you.
00:05:41.820 It's an honor to have you here today.
00:05:44.520 Please.
00:05:45.820 The president drawing a sharp contrast with Democrats,
00:05:48.980 warning that the party's growing embrace of DSA-backed far-left candidates
00:05:52.680 poses an existential threat to the country.
00:05:56.080 Communism is, in my opinion,
00:05:58.520 communism is the single greatest threat to our country and its history,
00:06:03.020 including even World War I and World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9-11.
00:06:08.020 I think it's the greatest threat that I've ever seen to our country. 0.98
00:06:10.700 These people are stone cold crazy. 0.67
00:06:12.860 And it is the enemy of the free people everywhere and everywhere in the world. 0.96
00:06:17.440 You see it happening, and every time it starts to happen,
00:06:20.180 And the areas where it's at, whether it's blue states, you see the blue states are all going bad. 0.98
00:06:25.720 They're all going bad because communism is a loser. 0.99
00:06:28.720 The concept, the policy, it's a loser. 0.99
00:06:30.900 And it always has been. 0.94
00:06:32.200 And it always will be.
00:06:34.160 And, you know, they want to give everyone everything away.
00:06:37.340 You want free rent?
00:06:38.560 You want free house?
00:06:39.460 You want to.
00:06:39.880 What they don't say is that a year from now, there'll be absolute squalor, turmoil and death.
00:06:45.700 And that's the way it's happened all the way.
00:06:48.060 It goes back thousands of years by different names, but that's the way it happens all the
00:06:53.600 time.
00:06:54.120 The president then turning his attention to Democrat Senator John Ossoff, who has represented
00:06:59.100 Georgia in the Senate since January 2021.
00:07:02.260 John Ossoff and the congressional Democrats voted against securing our border.
00:07:07.940 They voted against our massive tax cuts that you have.
00:07:11.660 They voted against the Trump accounts for your children.
00:07:14.720 They want to raise your taxes by a lot, not lower them.
00:07:18.060 We lowered your taxes.
00:07:19.100 We gave you the greatest tax cut in the history of our country twice now.
00:07:22.520 And they want to raise your taxes substantially. 1.00
00:07:24.960 They voted in favor of the transgender mutilization of your children 0.98
00:07:29.860 and in favor of men playing in women's sports. 1.00
00:07:34.680 Isn't that lovely? 0.99
00:07:35.960 They voted against lower energy prices, lower car prices, and bigger paychecks for everyone.
00:07:42.080 They voted against every one of these things.
00:07:44.840 John Ossoff and the Democrat communists want to let the Marxists into power, bankrupt your
00:07:51.640 families and leave.
00:07:53.100 You totally undefended with wide open borders, but we will not let that happen to our country.
00:08:00.200 We're not going to let it happen.
00:08:01.600 The latest RealClearPolitics polling average showing Senator Ossoff with a slight edge
00:08:06.620 in the race, leading Congressman Collins by just 2.3 points.
00:08:10.020 The president also renewing his call for Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster,
00:08:15.320 arguing it is the only way to overcome Democrat opposition and pass his signature election
00:08:20.200 integrity legislation, the Save America Act.
00:08:23.100 They should terminate the filibuster and approve everything, because the Democrats are going
00:08:28.340 to do it.
00:08:29.940 The Democrats are going to terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance.
00:08:35.340 And then they're going to approve Puerto Rico and D.C. as a state.
00:08:38.520 They got four more senators. They're going to get up with 12 more congressmen. They're going to get
00:08:43.580 like 40 electoral votes. If they are allowed to do that, by that time, I'll be sitting home
00:08:51.560 and I'm not a big crier. I don't think you want to see me cry. You know,
00:08:56.720 there are some people they do very well when they cry, but you don't want to see me cry.
00:09:01.500 But I may be crying when I I'll be sitting home and I'll say I told them they got to really
00:09:07.020 terminate the filibuster, get everything approved right away. Because you're going to have a
00:09:11.240 stoppage. You're going to have a stoppage in September. The Democrats won't approve everything.
00:09:16.460 They've become deranged. ICE agents arresting a record number of people in June, according to
00:09:23.040 CBS News' analysis of newly released agency data. The agency recording more than 43,000 arrests over
00:09:29.520 the course of the month, its largest monthly tally of President Trump's second term. The
00:09:34.160 increase unfolding without the kind of sweeping, highly visible operations previously launched in
00:09:38.880 several major cities under the direction of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Homeland Security
00:09:44.120 Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen telling reporters last Friday the department is deliberately keeping a
00:09:48.940 lower profile under his leadership while intensifying enforcement and setting new daily
00:09:54.020 arrest records. 442,637 total deported last year in 25. To date, well, these are yesterday's
00:10:06.420 numbers. We have 403,294 that we've done in 2026. Our arrests are up. We're hitting single-day
00:10:15.640 records every single day. But what we've done is I've turned down the temperature of the stove
00:10:21.160 to try to get it correct without boiling over.
00:10:24.480 70% of the arrests we do daily are felons or have pending felony charges.
00:10:31.980 70%.
00:10:32.580 We should all be able to work together with that.
00:10:35.400 Total removals is 3 million.
00:10:39.360 The record-setting June total marking a sharp reversal
00:10:42.300 from the drop in ICE arrests earlier this year.
00:10:45.100 White House boarders are a Tom Homan attributing that slowdown
00:10:48.020 to the partial shutdown of DHS during a major budget standoff in Congress.
00:10:52.640 I've been frank from the beginning.
00:10:54.140 Numbers were down for a few months because the department was shut down.
00:10:57.540 Of course, numbers are going to go down when targeting less and officers,
00:11:01.520 you know, less overtime and all those other reasons.
00:11:04.280 When you shut the government down, there's going to be less to do.
00:11:07.980 And I was very honest from day one, the numbers were down 12 to 16 percent.
00:11:13.080 But now the numbers are trailing up 40 percent because we are fully funded.
00:11:16.120 I saw they're doing their job.
00:11:17.280 But I'm really tired of the false narratives going out there about what this administration is doing.
00:11:24.180 The numbers are up.
00:11:25.760 Last month, June, highest numbers of arrests in the history of the agency.
00:11:32.940 Coming up, a modeling scout tied to Jeffrey Epstein found dead outside Paris
00:11:37.900 just months after French prosecutors identified him as someone they could question.
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00:13:11.900 a modeling scout whose extensive communications with Jeffrey Epstein placed him under growing
00:13:17.080 scrutiny. The 69-year-old was found dead Monday evening at his home in Cologne, just outside
00:13:23.340 Paris. An autopsy is expected to reveal the cause of death, Siad emerging as a potential witness in
00:13:29.600 two broader French investigations involving Epstein's network. Paris prosecutor Laura
00:13:34.840 Bicot identifying him in February as one of the people investigators could question,
00:13:39.560 though she said in May that the inquiries remained in their early stages and interviews
00:13:43.460 had not yet begun. French prosecutors were also examining a complaint from former Swedish model
00:13:48.860 Ebba Carlson, who accused Siod of raping her at a villa on the French Riviera in 1990.
00:13:54.760 Siyad denied the allegation.
00:13:56.940 His connections to Epstein documented across thousands of pages released by the DOJ earlier
00:14:01.600 this year, the records showing years of regular communication, along with tens of thousands
00:14:06.820 of dollars in payments from Epstein to Siyad.
00:14:10.540 Their correspondence repeatedly focused on young women and teenage girls Siyad encountered
00:14:15.500 through the modeling industry.
00:14:17.260 In one 2009 email, Siyad describing a Latvian woman, quote,
00:14:21.280 She's 20 years old, but she looks younger.
00:14:24.060 Another exchange from 2014 discussing a 15-year-old French girl
00:14:27.780 hoping to begin modeling, along with other girls who were 16 and 17.
00:14:32.720 And in 2018, years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor,
00:14:38.420 Siad told the disgraced financier he was searching for a young, attractive assistant to work for Epstein.
00:14:43.840 Siad telling CNN last month that he had connected Epstein with roughly a dozen models over 15 years,
00:14:50.340 while insisting none had ever returned to him with complaints.
00:14:54.120 CNN confronting Siad over why he continued helping Epstein even after his conviction.
00:14:59.540 You didn't think in that time that sending young women, young models, to the U.S. to meet Epstein,
00:15:07.860 after he had a conviction for child sex offenses, that there may be any risk in that at all?
00:15:14.160 He has been very professional with me. 0.89
00:15:17.120 But you're not a young woman. 1.00
00:15:19.220 Sorry? 0.98
00:15:19.700 You're not a young woman.
00:15:20.560 No, no, listen.
00:15:20.840 My work with him has been strictly professional.
00:15:25.380 I never doubt that, because I never heard anything from anyone I introduced him
00:15:30.720 who came back to me, that they had a bad situation with him.
00:15:37.800 You sent an email in 2018 that said you were looking for a good-looking young assistant.
00:15:42.740 If you're looking for models, why are you then looking for an assistant for Jeffrey Axton?
00:15:47.400 He asked me for assistance.
00:15:50.100 Maybe he was not on the phone, but when I met him in bed...
00:15:52.760 But was that your job?
00:15:53.980 Sorry? No.
00:15:55.380 But because I trust in him, I believe this guy is a professional person.
00:15:59.980 He needs somebody. He knows I have good connections around.
00:16:02.640 If I find the right person who can assist him, I am honored.
00:16:08.200 SIAD's attorney, Menya Arabte-Green, releasing a statement yesterday
00:16:11.460 stressing that her client had never been charged or formally placed under investigation
00:16:15.640 and had consistently maintained his innocence.
00:16:19.140 Siad is now the second prominent modeling figure
00:16:21.360 connected to Epstein to be found dead in France.
00:16:24.540 French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel
00:16:26.300 was found dead in a Paris jail cell in 2022
00:16:29.380 while awaiting trial on charges
00:16:31.180 that included the rape of minors.
00:16:34.600 Tropical storm Bertha crawling west
00:16:36.740 along the northern Gulf Coast,
00:16:38.600 threatening communities from Louisiana to Texas
00:16:40.540 with torrential rain, gusty winds,
00:16:43.180 and rising coastal waters.
00:16:45.260 Bertha is the second-named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season,
00:16:48.680 developing just a few hundred miles from the United States
00:16:51.020 in what AccuWeather meteorologists call a homebrew tropical storm.
00:16:55.220 The storm moving near the Mississippi coast yesterday
00:16:57.560 before beginning a slow journey along or across southern Louisiana.
00:17:01.380 The National Hurricane Center expecting Bertha to continue west
00:17:04.860 toward the upper Texas coast today with tropical storm conditions
00:17:08.040 possible in portions of southwestern Louisiana and coastal Texas
00:17:11.860 by this afternoon or tonight.
00:17:14.340 Bertha packing sustained winds of roughly 50 miles per hour yesterday, 0.96
00:17:18.660 already pushing Gulf waters 2 to 3 feet above normal in portions of the Florida Panhandle,
00:17:23.300 Alabama, Mississippi, and southeastern Louisiana, according to AccuWeather.
00:17:27.340 That surge expected to continue spreading along the Gulf Coast.
00:17:30.320 The storm expected to bring 1 to 4 inches of rain from northwest Florida to southern Texas through Friday,
00:17:36.960 with isolated totals reaching 6 inches and the potential for flash flooding, particularly in urban areas.
00:17:43.520 Bertha arriving during what forecasters expect to be a quieter-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season.
00:17:48.920 The National Hurricane Center says that is partly because of a strong El Nino,
00:17:53.240 a weather pattern that raises average global temperatures
00:17:55.740 and generally suppresses hurricane activity in the Atlantic.
00:18:01.860 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:18:03.880 I'm Emily Droszynski, host of Afterparty.
00:18:05.740 Go and check out more at afterpartyemily.com.
00:18:08.160 Catch The Megyn Kelly Show later today.
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