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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Trump stumps for Georgia Republicans as the party looks to unseat Democrat Jon Ossoff in one of the nation s closest races. Ice enforcement is accelerating sharply as agents make more than 43,000 arrests in a single month. A modeling scout who spent years connecting young women to Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his home outside Paris. And tropical storm Bertha is pushing west toward the Gulf Coast with potential for flash flooding in Texas. All that and more coming up in a moment on Your AM Update.

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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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