The Megyn Kelly Show - June 30, 2026


SCOTUS Drama Over Presidential Power, Trump Pushes SAVE Act, Murdaugh Retrial Set： AM Update 6⧸30

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SAVE Act and Supreme Court rulings Murdaugh retrial set bathhouse ban repeal
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Megyn Kelly
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Trump Alec Murdoch Lisa Cook Deborah McCaslin Rebecca Slaughter Jakari Jackson Sonia Sotomayor Maggie Murdoch John Roberts Elena Kagan Jacob Fry Councilmember Jason Chavez Amy Coney Barrett Brett Kavanaugh Mitch McConnell Lisa Murkowski Susan Collins Robin Wansley Bill Cassidy Tom Tillis and 10 more
Dems' Socialism Infighting, Three Firefighters Killed, Gracie the Giraffe Found Safe： AM Update 6⧸29 SCOTUS Fallout, Kean's Return to Congress After Odd Absence, New NBA Gambling Scandal： AM Update 7⧸1

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the President has wide-ranging power to fire appointees of these independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies. The ruling is drawing the expected alarm across legacy media, drawing the ire of the left. Plus, a new weight loss supplement that could help you lose weight. All that and more on today s AM Update.

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00:00:38.480 Update. The president now has wide-ranging power, it seems, to fire appointees of these
00:00:44.400 independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies. Fallout from two major U.S. Supreme Court
00:00:49.100 rulings over the president's power to fire government employees. Pundits in legacy media
00:00:54.540 sound the alarm, even as the high court draws a firm exception around Federal Reserve independence.
00:01:01.340 Because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising,
00:01:06.200 the SAVE Act is even more important. President Trump turning up the pressure on Republicans to
00:01:11.340 pass a sweeping election integrity bill after a Supreme Court ruling leaves mail-in ballot
00:01:17.040 deadlines largely in the hands of the states. Alec Murdoch has a retrial date after his murder
00:01:23.440 convictions were overturned. And Minneapolis putting the finishing touch on Pride Month
00:01:29.200 by repealing a decades-old ban on adult bathhouses popular with gay men.
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00:03:01.880 Major fallout from a series of Supreme Court rulings yesterday on the president's power to
00:03:06.500 fire government officials in the executive branch. The justices ruling 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter
00:03:13.480 that presidents may remove officials running roughly two dozen agencies and commissions
00:03:18.320 within the executive branch without first proving that the firing is for cause. The decision
00:03:24.720 falling along ideological lines with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and
00:03:29.960 Ketanji Brown-Jackson dissenting. The case centering on former FTC Commissioner Rebecca
00:03:35.420 Slaughter. President Trump fired Slaughter last year. He fired her and another Democrat on the
00:03:41.040 FTC, which enforces consumer protections and antitrust laws for ideological reasons after
00:03:47.160 concluding her continued service was inconsistent with his administration's priorities. The question
00:03:53.140 here was, is that legal? Slaughter reacting to the ruling yesterday on MS Now. I am very sad for
00:04:00.840 America, honestly, first and foremost. I'm very worried about a future where presidents like
00:04:08.980 President Trump can wield this enormous grant of executive power that the Supreme Court just
00:04:15.640 handed to him in order to reward his friends and punish his enemies and do so with impunity. I
00:04:22.360 think that that is incredibly sad. The ruling drawing the expected alarm across legacy media
00:04:29.220 here, CNN, CBS and MSNOW. The president now has wide ranging power, it seems, to fire appointees
00:04:37.840 of these independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies at will. All of these boards
00:04:42.420 that Congress has created as independent boards are no longer independent boards in that respect.
00:04:47.580 You know, he's won more at the Supreme Court. He's been able to effect his agenda in a much
00:04:55.260 more powerful way than he was the first time around. And it's just a remarkable thing to see
00:05:00.680 what a president can do after getting a second bite of the apple, becoming further radicalized
00:05:07.240 in the four years that he was out of office and learning from the mistakes. Despite the warnings
00:05:12.060 of a coming presidential power grab, President Trump yesterday from the Oval saying he does not
00:05:17.340 expect the ruling to trigger a wave of mass firings. On the slaughter case, the Supreme Court
00:05:22.220 just affirmed your right to fire the heads of independent agencies.
00:05:25.600 Should we expect more firings as a result of this ruling?
00:05:28.740 I don't think so.
00:05:29.340 It gives me the right, and not me, it gives a president the right to do what the president
00:05:33.880 should have the right to do.
00:05:35.120 And it's very interesting.
00:05:37.040 It's a big ruling.
00:05:37.780 It's been going on for almost 100 years they've been working on this.
00:05:42.640 And, you know, that it comes down at my term is a very great honor.
00:05:45.940 But it bestows additional powers, or maybe the same power on the president.
00:05:50.380 The president has the right to do this.
00:05:52.220 The court, however, drawing a more clear boundary around the Federal Reserve.
00:05:56.820 In a separate 5-4 ruling, the justices allowing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump
00:06:02.380 also fired, to remain in office while her underlying lawsuit against the administration
00:06:08.020 plays out, refusing the administration's request to let the president remove her immediately.
00:06:14.080 The unusual majority crossing ideological lines with Chief Justice John Roberts and
00:06:18.540 Trump appointee Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the high court's three liberal justices. The court
00:06:24.620 treating the Federal Reserve differently from the agencies covered by the slaughter ruling,
00:06:29.160 acknowledging its longstanding protection from direct political control. President Trump
00:06:34.620 attempting to fire Cook over allegations she claimed homes in both Michigan and Georgia as her 0.78
00:06:40.340 primary residence within a short span of time, potentially allowing her to secure more favorable
00:06:46.440 mortgage terms. Cook disputing the allegations, which involve mortgage documents, she signed
00:06:51.900 before joining the Federal Reserve. Cook welcoming the ruling as a victory in a statement,
00:06:57.100 quote, I am grateful for this decision, not for my sake, but for the sake of the American people,
00:07:02.060 whose economic well-being depends on a central bank that answers to its mission,
00:07:06.480 not political intimidation. Justice Kavanaugh, though, noting in a concurring opinion, quote,
00:07:12.640 Today's interim ruling does not decide whether the president may lawfully remove Governor Cook
00:07:17.780 for cause, end quote. That issue has yet to play out in the lower courts.
00:07:24.360 President Trump increasing pressure on Republicans in Congress to pass the
00:07:28.440 Save America Act, following yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving
00:07:32.900 state's ability to count some mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
00:07:38.080 The 5-4 decision upholding a Mississippi law that counts ballots postmarked by Election Day
00:07:44.180 and received within the following five business days.
00:07:47.980 Justice Amy Coney Barrett writing for the majority in a coalition that crossed the court's usual ideological lines.
00:07:54.420 Joined by fellow conservative Chief Justice John Roberts and liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:08:02.620 Meantime, the Save America Act is a sweeping election integrity overhaul, requiring proof
00:08:08.360 of citizenship to register for federal elections, photo ID to vote, and tighter limits on mail-in
00:08:14.620 ballots, one that lacks majority support in the Senate.
00:08:18.960 President Trump arguing yesterday during an unrelated Oval Office event, the High Court's
00:08:23.660 decision makes passage of the legislation even more urgent.
00:08:27.020 What do you make of the Supreme Court ruling today in regards to the mail-in ballots and what comes next for the SAVE Act after today's ruling?
00:08:34.920 Well, because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, gives people more time to vote illegally, let's say.
00:08:44.060 But the SAVE Act is even more important, and that's the right.
00:08:48.580 You have to be a citizen of our country.
00:08:51.540 OK, you have to show you're a citizen of our country called citizenship.
00:08:54.220 it, voter ID by photo, photo voter ID, and no mail-in ballots, unless you're in the military
00:09:02.180 disabled, you're ill or you're away, or even on a vacation, we're being very open about
00:09:07.640 it.
00:09:08.060 It's pretty easy.
00:09:09.680 And we'll have honest elections.
00:09:11.360 But the ruling, which a lot of people were waiting for, that was a ruling that was, I
00:09:16.620 think it was very detrimental to honest elections.
00:09:19.760 The measure currently stalled in the Senate, where it lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster under existing rules just to get a vote,
00:09:29.700 and doesn't even have the 50 GOP senators required to pass the bill were it to get past the filibuster.
00:09:37.000 The president maintains he would have the votes if the filibuster went away.
00:09:41.760 Who do you see as the biggest hurdle to getting this across the finish line?
00:09:45.300 Well, it's held up in the Senate. And frankly, if you terminated the filibuster, you just need 50 votes and we have 53. And then you have J.D. So the Democrats are going to terminate the filibuster. But if you did reconciliation, you could do it with 50 votes. I mean, the best would be to terminate the filibuster.
00:10:05.860 President Trump yesterday naming Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins
00:10:11.140 of Maine, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Mitch McConnell of
00:10:16.120 Kentucky among those opposed to the measure. He can only afford to lose three. Mr. Trump reiterating
00:10:23.160 he has little interest in any other legislation until the SAVE Act is passed. Earlier this month,
00:10:29.040 the president canceling a public signing ceremony for bipartisan housing legislation in an effort
00:10:34.580 to keep the focus on the Save America Act.
00:10:37.620 Asked yesterday what he now plans to do with the housing bill,
00:10:40.940 President Trump brushing it aside.
00:10:43.240 What are your plans for the housing bill, Mr. President?
00:10:45.620 I don't know.
00:10:47.480 I think it's so unimportant by compared to the Save America Act.
00:10:53.060 I think the Save America Act is exactly what it says.
00:10:56.720 It's saving America from crooked elections.
00:10:59.560 And the housing bill is a bill that can get approved.
00:11:02.040 They worked on it long and hard.
00:11:04.080 It's very bipartisan.
00:11:06.900 That means the Democrats like it.
00:11:09.100 It's a yawn.
00:11:10.360 Some people say it's wonderful.
00:11:12.180 To me, compared to the Save America Act, just about everything is a big yawn.
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00:12:51.520 Disgraced former attorney Alec Murdaugh returning to a South Carolina courtroom yesterday morning
00:12:58.820 for the first time since the state Supreme Court threw out his convictions for murdering his wife
00:13:04.560 and son. Murdaugh entering the Lexington County Courthouse in an orange prison jumpsuit,
00:13:09.640 shackled at his hands, waist, and feet, sitting quietly throughout the proceedings.
00:13:15.000 The 200-seat courtroom, packed with reporters, local TV crews, international news agencies,
00:13:20.220 and podcasters as one of the country's most closely watched true crime cases prepares to
00:13:26.060 do it all over again. Newly assigned judge Deborah McCaslin acknowledging the crowd as
00:13:32.060 she opened the hearing. I see we have a full house. Good morning. For those of you who've
00:13:38.980 never been to Lexington County, welcome to the Lexington County Courthouse. Murdoch convicted
00:13:45.600 in March of 2023 of fatally shooting his 52-year-old wife Maggie along with their 22-year-old son
00:13:52.560 Paul. He maintains his innocence in the killings, though he has admitted to stealing millions of
00:13:58.500 dollars from clients and his family's law firm. The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously
00:14:03.680 overturning the murder convictions in May, ordering a new trial after finding former
00:14:09.000 Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill improperly influenced the jury. Murdaugh's
00:14:14.700 defense team asking the judge to resolve several major issues before another jury is seated,
00:14:20.080 including where the retrial will be held, whether DNA evidence can undergo new independent testing,
00:14:26.160 and whether Murdoch can access a secure laptop in prison to review trial materials.
00:14:32.380 As for the venue, Murdoch's lawyers arguing the publicity surrounding the first trial
00:14:36.800 makes it impossible to see an unbiased jury anywhere in the 14th Judicial Circuit,
00:14:41.680 which includes Colleton County, where he was first tried.
00:14:46.160 Judge McCaslin urging both sides to see whether they can agree on a new venue,
00:14:50.960 saying if they cannot, then she will make the decision.
00:14:54.080 On the DNA, the defense asking to retest material recovered from beneath Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails,
00:15:00.720 which investigators previously traced to an unknown man unrelated to the family.
00:15:05.980 Murdaugh's attorneys arguing newer technology could reveal more than the original analysis
00:15:10.580 and offering to pay for testing at a private Texas lab.
00:15:14.920 Judge McCaslin pressing the defense on how long the additional testing could take.
00:15:19.620 I'd like to know how long, Mr. Griffin, it's going to take to analyze exactly what it is you're asking for.
00:15:29.320 And I believe it's genetic.
00:15:32.240 Yes. Yes, Your Honor.
00:15:34.020 And the state's response says, give us somebody to talk to at the lab.
00:15:38.740 I will convey to them this morning, the CEO of Othram's name, email, and telephone number.
00:15:48.780 They have received the VP of Law Enforcement Division at Othram, his cell phone number,
00:15:57.340 and the client intake person that we use, that I've been interfacing with.
00:16:02.300 And they will be better able to answer specifically how long it will take.
00:16:08.040 we've agreed to pay for it. And just background information. I'm going to let you pay for it.
00:16:15.500 Despite the judge's quip, she did not approve the additional DNA testing just yet.
00:16:20.780 A ruling is expected by the next pretrial hearing. Judge McCaslin, new to the case and telling both
00:16:26.680 sides she has not followed its history, setting the retrial for next spring and warning attorneys
00:16:32.600 not to expect further delays. I'm thinking April the 5th. And let me tell you this,
00:16:38.880 tell both of y'all, I think y'all know me pretty well. When I set a trial date, I don't do
00:16:45.640 continuances. I don't do it. So how does April the 5th sound, Mr. Waters?
00:16:53.080 Yes, ma'am. We'll be ready. Mr. Harpooley? We'll be ready with some contingencies if the DNA takes
00:17:00.400 longer, for instance, or... I will have that information by next pretrial. If I need to extend
00:17:08.420 it out a couple of weeks, I will, if that's the case. Please do not think that this case is going
00:17:14.300 to be tried a year later, because it's not. We're going forward. The retrial is scheduled to begin
00:17:19.660 April 5th, 2027, with the next pretrial hearing set for August 14th. Regardless of the outcome,
00:17:26.800 In the murder case, Murdaugh will remain behind bars on separate financial crimes convictions,
00:17:32.120 serving a 40-year federal sentence after pleading guilty to stealing millions from clients,
00:17:37.620 along with a concurrent 27-year state sentence for similar financial crimes.
00:17:43.340 With Pride Month mercifully coming to an end, the Minneapolis City Council clearing the way
00:17:48.900 last week for adult bathhouses and sex venues to return to the city. Nearly four decades after
00:17:56.060 banning them during the AIDS crisis. Minneapolis once had three of the adults-only establishments,
00:18:02.480 which typically offer spa facilities alongside private spaces where consenting adults can engage
00:18:08.840 in sexual activity. As AIDS spread rapidly during the 1980s, public health officials in cities
00:18:15.380 across America feared the venues were helping to transmit the deadly disease. Cities like San
00:18:20.980 Francisco and New York shutting down the venues in the mid-'80s, Minneapolis following suit in
00:18:25.980 1988. With the rise of modern drugs that can suppress HIV to levels at which it cannot be
00:18:32.380 sexually transmitted, gay activists now arguing the old ban had outlived its public health rationale,
00:18:39.740 some even presenting it as homophobic. And so, in Governor Tim Walz's state and Mayor Jacob
00:18:46.560 Fry's city, the council voting 9-2 on Thursday to repeal the 38-year-old ban. Because what we
00:18:53.960 really need more of is public gay sex. Local outlet Fox 9 explaining what the vote means 0.99
00:19:00.820 for the city. The bathhouses ordinance passed. No more ban on bathhouses. They got the thumbs up.
00:19:06.880 Doesn't mean that bathhouses are going to open in Minneapolis in the next few weeks or the next
00:19:11.220 few months. What it does is kind of pave the way for the city to create a regulatory framework
00:19:16.420 so that one or more can eventually open.
00:19:19.760 Councilmember Jason Chavez presenting the repeal as a civil rights imperative
00:19:24.240 at last week's city council meeting.
00:19:26.880 These are gathering spaces for queer people, especially gay men,
00:19:30.020 at a time when being out in public could get you fired, could get you beat, could get you arrested.
00:19:36.040 These are places of refuge, and I think it's important to acknowledge 0.96
00:19:39.520 that these establishments were even picketed by signs that said AIDS kill and avoid gay bathhouses.
00:19:45.180 Council member Robin Wansley, who also voted to remove the ban, explaining why this repeal is vital to the city.
00:19:53.580 I think it's important to address this, the weaponization of hypersexualization of our queer communities as a means to also bring forward repressive policies that limits their existence and their ability to be in community with each other.
00:20:09.080 The idea that this policy has been repeatedly framed as facilitation of brothel or sexual activity as if folks just want to go out and have sex, which, you know what?
00:20:20.260 Maybe that might help actually bring more joy into our city.
00:20:26.440 But to say that this policy is essentially the facilitation of legalizing brothels is not what's happening.
00:20:34.380 More joy. Bans on public sex are repressive, you see.
00:20:39.620 Mayor Frye signing the bill into law yesterday and posting to X,
00:20:42.760 quote, Minneapolis stands with our LGBTQIA plus neighbors.
00:20:47.060 We always will.
00:20:48.300 That's why I'm proud to have stood with members of the city council and community advocates
00:20:52.680 to sign the bathhouse repeal ordinance and pride in policy package into law.
00:20:58.820 Why these men can't simply hook up in their own homes like everyone else in 2026 America
00:21:03.860 remains unclear, except that is for the joy.
00:21:10.080 And that'll do it for your AM update.
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