The Megyn Kelly Show - June 26, 2026


SCOTUS Sides With Bayer on Roundup, DHS Secy Clashes With Dems, TX Giraffe Missing： AM Update 6⧸26


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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, June 26th, 2026, and this is your AM
00:00:38.520 Update. The U.S. Supreme Court siding with Bayer in a major ruling over cancer warning labels on
00:00:45.380 Roundup weed killer. Do not interrupt. Don't you point your finger at me. I will point my finger
00:00:50.640 at you. Don't you be a hypocrite then. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen clashing with Democrats during
00:00:55.600 a contentious congressional hearing. Denmark's left-wing government considering a national ban
00:01:01.160 on the Islamic call to prayer as it continues defying Europe's political playbook on immigration.
00:01:07.800 I chuckled when I got the first call because it's my first missing giraffe case.
00:01:12.820 And a giraffe is on the loose in Texas Hill Country. The search now hitting the two-week
00:01:17.940 mark. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:33.680 Comfort lives here. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday siding with German pharmaceutical
00:02:40.660 company Bayer in a major legal battle closely watched by the Maha community over cancer warning
00:02:46.960 labels on popular weed killer Roundup. Roundup invented in the 1970s by agrochemical company
00:02:53.480 Monsanto using glyphosate as its key active ingredient. The EPA approving glyphosate-based
00:03:00.240 pesticides for sale in 1974 and repeatedly determining the products do not require a
00:03:06.240 cancer warning. Bayer later acquiring Monsanto in 2018. In 2015, the World Health Organization's
00:03:13.900 cancer research arm, classifying glyphosate as, quote, probably carcinogenic, citing evidence in
00:03:20.040 animals and limited data in humans. That finding, helping to trigger thousands of lawsuits from
00:03:25.680 Roundup users diagnosed with cancer, even as the EPA continued to maintain that glyphosate did not
00:03:32.480 pose a cancer risk in humans. The case before the high court, Monsanto Company v. Durnell,
00:03:39.080 beginning with a 2019 lawsuit filed in Missouri State Court by John Durnell,
00:03:44.900 who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Roundup for about 20 years.
00:03:50.940 Durnell alleging Monsanto, now Bayer, failed to warn consumers about the weed killer's potential cancer risks.
00:03:57.400 Monsanto argued its label was federally approved.
00:04:01.240 A jury siding with Durnell on that claim, awarding $1.25 million in damages.
00:04:07.680 The Missouri Court of Appeals upholding the verdict last year,
00:04:10.920 finding the federal OK on Roundup's label,
00:04:14.360 did not shield Bayer from a state failure-to-warn claim.
00:04:18.560 After the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear the case,
00:04:21.380 Bayer appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court,
00:04:23.740 asking the justices to decide whether federal law governing pesticide labels
00:04:27.920 bars lawsuits seeking cancer warnings the EPA has not required.
00:04:33.440 The Trump administration siding with Bayer in the case,
00:04:35.780 arguing federal law preempted Durnell's claim. The position coming after President Trump in
00:04:41.480 February invoked the Defense Production Act to boost domestic production of glyphosate-based
00:04:47.680 herbicides, describing them as critical to maintaining America's agricultural advantage
00:04:53.160 and ensuring food safety, a move that infuriated Maha Moms nationwide. More on that in a minute.
00:05:00.860 In a 7-2 decision, the high court finding federal law does preempt state failure to
00:05:06.980 warn lawsuits over Roundup. Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing for the majority that
00:05:11.640 under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, or FIFRA, states cannot
00:05:18.840 impose labeling or packaging requirements that differ from federal standards. Because
00:05:24.120 Jornell's lawsuit would effectively require Bayer to add a cancer warning absent from the EPA-approved
00:05:30.020 label, the majority finding it conflicts with FIFRA's requirement for nationally uniform
00:05:35.660 pesticide labeling. Justice Kavanaugh writing, quote, all told in accordance with EPA's view
00:05:41.320 that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans, EPA has not required glyphosate-based
00:05:46.780 pesticides like Roundup to include a cancer warning on their labels. He continues, quote,
00:05:52.220 therefore, as a matter of federal law, Monsanto legally must use a label without a cancer warning
00:05:58.180 unless and until EPA approves or requires a change.
00:06:02.700 Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson, authoring the dissent,
00:06:06.040 joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, in an unusual pairing,
00:06:10.720 noting numerous state and federal courts have rejected Monsanto's preemption argument
00:06:14.940 and accusing the majority of misunderstanding the law,
00:06:18.140 leaving Durnell without a legal remedy for the harm he has suffered.
00:06:21.740 The decision expected to affect thousands of pending lawsuits against Bayer,
00:06:25.440 which has already paid billions of dollars to settle similar failure-to-warn claims.
00:06:30.620 Bayer praising the ruling in a statement,
00:06:32.540 quote,
00:06:33.160 The ruling should result in the dismissal of current warning-based claims and bar future failure-to-warn claims.
00:06:39.620 Bayer adding that it will continue seeking final approval of a separate proposed $7.25 billion class action settlement
00:06:46.880 aimed at resolving tens of thousands of existing roundup cases and potential future claims.
00:06:52.360 We spoke to Maha activist Vani Hari, known as the Food Babe, about this ruling and the Trump administration's decision to support Bayer's position in the case.
00:07:02.600 The Department of Justice went out of their way to recommend that the Supreme Court look at this case. They did not have to do that.
00:07:12.960 It's really disheartening to see that even a movement like the Maha movement, where so many people were in support of and came to the voting booth to vote for and had the hopes of really holding these companies accountable, reducing the amount of chemical exposure to the American diet.
00:07:37.740 This is what we were hoping for. And instead, we got more of the same, but worse, because, again, the Trump administration did not need to make this recommendation to the Supreme Court.
00:07:52.600 Hari calling this a defining moment for Congress.
00:07:55.260 There's three things that need to happen. The first thing that needs to happen is Congress must pass a bill to reverse this decision and make it law that pesticide companies are held liable for when they cause harm with their products.
00:08:09.580 The second thing that needs to happen is during the EPA's upcoming roundup review, truthful warning labels must be required so consumers can make informed choices.
00:08:21.720 So farmers can be warned that this product causes cancer.
00:08:25.800 I think the third thing that needs to happen is the Senate must remove the provision from the Farm Bill that would delay any critical EPA review.
00:08:35.800 Right now, there's a provision in the Farm Bill that would delay any pesticide reviews for up to five years.
00:08:42.960 And so that's just going to continue another five years of mass poisoning of America, and we can't stand for that.
00:08:49.480 Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announcing she will introduce legislation stripping pesticide companies of liability protections for harm caused by their products.
00:09:00.060 The congresswoman writing on X, quote,
00:09:02.360 DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen appearing yesterday before a House Appropriations Subcommittee
00:09:19.220 for an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security.
00:09:22.780 The hearing shifting between polite and heated,
00:09:25.340 with Secretary Mullen at several points getting into fiery exchanges with Democrat members.
00:09:31.300 Democrat Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut attempting to question the
00:09:35.480 secretary about roughly 3,900 children separated from their families under the first Trump
00:09:41.000 administration. The separations resulting from the admin's zero-tolerance policy,
00:09:46.600 which directed prosecutors to bring criminal cases against all adults caught crossing the
00:09:51.220 border illegally, including those traveling with children. Because minors cannot be held in federal
00:09:56.740 criminal detention facilities, prosecuting the adults meant separating them from the children
00:10:01.540 in their custody. Secretary Mullen turning the focus to the Biden administration's handling of
00:10:06.900 unaccompanied migrant children. Sir, again, it is my time. 3,900 children were separated from
00:10:14.440 their families. 450,000 kids were lost through the Biden administration. Mr. Secretary, do not
00:10:20.440 interrupt. Don't you point your finger at me. I will point my finger at you. Don't you be a hypocrite
00:10:24.320 then. You should be as upset about the 450,000 kids that were lost. He didn't say a word about
00:10:30.660 it. For four years, you never said a word. Mr. Secretary. Could you put him in his place for
00:10:35.040 you? You should be put in your place. A DHS inspector general's audit finding ICE transferred
00:10:40.880 more than 448,000 minors to the Department of Health and Human Services between fiscal years
00:10:47.200 2019 and 2023, 448,000, but lacked an effective system for tracking their locations and immigration
00:10:57.040 cases after their release. Secretary Mullen outlining his department's efforts to locate
00:11:02.840 those kids and determine whether they are safe. When we stepped in here, we had 450,000
00:11:09.160 kids missing. 450,000 kids that were given to sponsors that weren't vetted. No home checks,
00:11:20.560 no one was going by to see if they're where they're supposed to be, not even knowing that
00:11:23.800 they're in their same state. I'm not saying all of them had recovered. Some of them were where
00:11:28.000 they were supposed to be, but we've had some horrific cases where there was a ring of several
00:11:34.180 adults that were keeping kids in an underground bunker in a dungeon and the most horrific things
00:11:40.600 that I pray to God that you guys don't have to see because it permanently changes you. The stuff
00:11:45.540 that these adults put kids as young as two to as old as 12 through, you can't make a horror story
00:11:53.520 that bad. Secretary Mullen growing emotional as he reflected on the human toll of the previous
00:11:59.040 Administration's border policies and the work now facing his department.
00:12:02.860 What frustrates me the most is that this was preventable, and no one can argue that.
00:12:11.040 We have perpetrators that are doing the most horrific things to kids, and as a father to six
00:12:18.920 and three beautiful girls, when you see this, there's evil in the world. There's evil in the
00:12:27.920 world. And we fed it. The Biden administration fed it for four years and took the innocent,
00:12:35.660 the innocence that's in our kids' eyes that we pray to God never has to deal with this.
00:12:40.620 That innocent is permanently stolen. And we're trying to just restore some type
00:12:46.700 of comfort to these young girls. But let me explain to you, young boys too.
00:12:53.140 And unfortunately, we're seeing a rise of young boys being trafficked.
00:13:00.180 Earlier this month, the secretary announcing the administration so far has tracked down
00:13:04.040 146,000 children who went missing during the Biden administration.
00:13:10.880 Coming up, Denmark's left-wing government weighing a nationwide ban on the Islamic call to prayer
00:13:17.020 in another break from Europe's usual approach to immigration and assimilation.
00:13:21.780 and a giraffe vanishing into the Texas Hill Country
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00:14:58.640 Denmark's new center-left immigration minister looking into a nationwide ban on broadcasting
00:15:04.020 the Islamic call to prayer. Morten Birdsko, member of the Social Democrats Party,
00:15:10.020 announcing the government will revive an investigation into whether the practice
00:15:13.660 legally can be prohibited across the country. The call to prayer, summoning Muslims to worship
00:15:19.220 five times a day, sometimes through loudspeakers mounted on mosques or minarets, which are tall,
00:15:25.660 skinny towers built on or near a mosque. Birdsko making his position unmistakably clear,
00:15:31.200 telling Danish news outlet Ritzau, quote, the call to prayer should not be heard over Danish
00:15:35.700 rooftops. It has no place in Denmark, and you shouldn't be in any doubt whether you've ended
00:15:40.780 up in a suburb of Islamabad when you walk around Denmark. The minister adding that the signs of
00:15:47.240 Islam are, quote, taking up too much of the public space. Denmark now home to just over 6 million
00:15:53.400 people. The government does not formally track residents by religion, though international
00:15:57.700 organization Minority Rights Group estimates roughly 280,000 Muslims live in the country,
00:16:04.000 accounting for nearly 5% of its population. Outdoor calls to prayer are already effectively
00:16:09.500 blocked in some communities through local noise restrictions. Copenhagen's Grand Mosque, for
00:16:14.920 example, does not broadcast the summons outside under an agreement with local authorities,
00:16:19.860 according to the Telegraph. A national prohibition, however, has proven far more difficult.
00:16:25.180 Byrdsko now becoming the third Danish immigration minister to explore a national ban
00:16:29.820 following efforts launched by previous social democratic governments in 2020 and again in
00:16:34.920 2025. An initial review launched in 2020 was left unfinished and later shelved following
00:16:41.180 Denmark's 2022 election. Bird's Coast predecessor revived that work last year, but the government
00:16:47.380 has yet to determine how a nationwide ban could be written without violating the constitutional
00:16:52.140 right to worship. In a sharp break for much of Europe, Denmark's left-wing government making
00:16:57.560 this just the latest step in its hardline approach to immigration and assimilation.
00:17:02.700 The Social Democrats shifting sharply on the issue during the 2015 migration crisis,
00:17:07.400 when more than a million people, largely from the Middle East and Africa, arrived in Europe,
00:17:12.500 fueling a growing nationalist movement and helping make the anti-immigration Danish
00:17:17.020 People's Party the country's second-largest political force. Rather than cede the issue to
00:17:22.780 the right, the Social Democrats embracing tougher immigration policies while retaining an otherwise
00:17:27.760 left-wing agenda. Denmark already banning full-face coverings like burkas in public places in 2018,
00:17:34.100 with the government now pushing to extend that prohibition to schools and universities.
00:17:39.500 The country also becoming one of Europe's strongest advocates for processing asylum seekers
00:17:44.300 outside the continent, with Parliament approving a legal framework
00:17:48.600 allowing applicants to be transferred to a third country while their claims are reviewed.
00:17:54.900 Deep in the heart of the Texas Hill Country,
00:17:57.640 authorities are now two weeks into the search for an unusually conspicuous fugitive.
00:18:02.780 The missing resident standing several feet taller than any member of the search party
00:18:06.560 and answering to the name Gracie.
00:18:09.320 The roughly four-year-old giraffe disappearing from Cedar Hollow Ranch in Lakey,
00:18:14.420 a tiny city of about 700 people roughly 100 miles west of San Antonio.
00:18:19.840 Gracie arriving at the privately owned Exotic Animal Breeding Ranch in May.
00:18:24.200 Ranch manager Vic Jones telling the New York Times,
00:18:27.140 Gracie apparently found her way around a gate at the edge of the property,
00:18:30.500 then wandered off into the surrounding hill country.
00:18:33.920 The search proving far more difficult than spotting a giraffe would seem.
00:18:38.520 Rial County, covered by enormous private ranches, steep canyons, and thick brush,
00:18:43.600 with so few people spread across the area that Gracie could easily roam onto someone's property
00:18:48.320 without being spotted, reports local outlet Cron.
00:18:52.360 Rial County Sheriff Nathan Johnson, who is leading the search,
00:18:55.280 talking to local station Kens 5 on Wednesday about the effort.
00:18:58.720 I chuckled when I got the first call because it's my first missing giraffe case.
00:19:04.240 It's hired helicopters. They've flown it with drones.
00:19:06.900 We've got a lot of people in our county kind of keeping a watchful eye.
00:19:10.080 Mountain lions. We have other animals. We have a lot of coyotes.
00:19:14.640 And there are predators out there that could harm her, although she's a big animal.
00:19:20.480 Despite those dangers, Jones telling Cron he is not worried about Gracie's well-being,
00:19:24.780 noting the surrounding land offers enough food and water to sustain her,
00:19:29.300 with recent temperatures also remaining manageable.
00:19:32.240 For anyone in the area who happens to spot a giraffe roaming through the brush,
00:19:36.820 there are a few clues that it may be Gracie.
00:19:39.860 She is a reticulated giraffe,
00:19:42.500 a species recognizable by the clean lines surrounding their large brown patches,
00:19:47.320 and Gracie herself is distinguishable by her unusually rounded ears.
00:19:52.040 Jones warning anyone who spots Gracie not to approach or chase her.
00:19:55.880 The owner of the ranch now offering a $5,000 reward
00:19:58.960 for information leading to Gracie's safe return.
00:20:05.100 And that'll do it for your AM update.
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