The Megyn Kelly Show - Seventh Iran War U.S. Death, IED Attack in NYC, New Epstein Security Guard Questions： AM Update 3⧸9

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00:00:34.060 I'm Tom Bevin, co-host of The Real Clear Politics Show on the Megyn Kelly Channel.

00:00:37.980 It's Monday, March 9th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:42.400 We continue to resist as long as it takes.

00:00:45.840 The U.S.-Israeli operation in Iran entering week two, and it appears there is no end in sight.

00:00:50.900 Amir Balat, an 18-year-old man, lit and threw an ignited device.

00:00:57.220 Toward the protest area.

00:00:59.140 Two suspects in custody after a man threw an IED into an anti-Islam protest in New York City.

00:01:04.700 Authorities now investigating ties to terrorism.

00:01:07.300 Newly released Epstein files reveal shocking details about what a prison guard was doing

00:01:11.260 moments before the disgraced financier was found dead in his cell.

00:01:14.840 And a new poll signals potential trouble for President Trump heading into the midterms.

00:01:18.860 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:39.020 As the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continue this week, Central Command announcing yesterday

00:02:45.700 a seventh American service member was killed in action.

00:02:48.760 CENTCOM posting to X, quote,

00:02:50.440 The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1st.

00:02:56.960 The identity of the deceased has not yet been released.

00:03:00.000 The strike's continuing at full intensity, with more than 3,000 Iranian targets hit since the start of the operation.

00:03:05.260 Questions now emerging about one of the earliest strikes, launched on the first day of the campaign,

00:03:10.840 reportedly hitting a girls' elementary school in Iran.

00:03:14.100 According to Iranian health officials, as many as 175 people were killed, mostly schoolgirls, between the ages of 7 and 12.

00:03:22.340 CBS News reporting the school was located near two sites controlled by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

00:03:27.340 A CNN investigation of satellite imagery among multiple media outlets finding it likely that U.S. military forces were responsible for the destruction.

00:03:36.060 So nearly a week after a strike killed scores of Iranian students in Minab, it seems more and more likely that the U.S. was responsible.

00:03:45.140 A new satellite image shows an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base and an elementary school in southern Iran.

00:03:50.580 Here, you see craters in several of the buildings, including the school.

00:03:54.540 They were hit in their exact centers, suggesting precision strikes, experts say.

00:03:59.300 A wall separates the school and the base.

00:04:02.100 Satellite images from December show dozens of people in what appears to be a handball court at the school.

00:04:08.160 Reuters now reports that U.S. military investigators believe U.S. forces were responsible,

00:04:13.020 though they haven't yet reached a final conclusion.

00:04:15.760 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth telling reporters on Wednesday the U.S. does not target civilians.

00:04:20.580 But not disputing the potential for an accidental strike.

00:04:23.340 And noting it is currently under investigation.

00:04:25.980 President Trump, Saturday on Air Force One, offering a different theory.

00:04:29.520 We think it was done by Iran.

00:04:32.200 U.S. military.

00:04:32.980 They are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.

00:04:36.500 They have no accuracy whatsoever.

00:04:38.480 It was done by Iran. 0.98

00:04:40.020 Secretary Hegseth, at that same gaggle, reiterating that the matter is under investigation,

00:04:44.760 while emphasizing that Iran is the one that targets civilians.

00:04:47.520 U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, yesterday on ABC, conceding the possibility of an accident.

00:04:53.660 The New York Times did a meticulous look at that.

00:04:56.940 Satellite photos.

00:04:58.200 They're not saying the U.S. would do that on purpose.

00:05:01.340 But they said it appears that the U.S. is responsible for that bombing.

00:05:05.520 Why did the president say he believes it is Iran?

00:05:08.040 Well, I'll leave that to the investigators to determine.

00:05:14.200 We've seen instances, like we saw in Gaza, for example, where Hamas immediately blamed the Israelis.

00:05:23.540 The international community jumped on it.

00:05:26.020 And it turned out it was an errant rocket from Hamas.

00:05:29.580 So we've seen those kind of incidences in the past.

00:05:32.400 As Secretary Hegseth said, it's under investigation.

00:05:35.140 I could tell you as a veteran, in no uncertain terms, the United States does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties.

00:05:44.420 Sometimes, of course, tragic mistakes occur.

00:05:48.180 Meanwhile, President Trump rebuffing Iranian offers to go back to the negotiating table.

00:05:53.040 Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Mr. Trump saying, quote,

00:05:55.640 They're calling. They're saying, how do we make a deal? I said you're being a little bit late.

00:06:00.620 In an early Friday morning True Social post, the president writing, quote,

00:06:04.000 There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. 0.98

00:06:07.860 These statements coming as Iran fires hundreds of retaliatory missiles and drones at neighboring Gulf states,

00:06:12.940 damaging civilian sites like airports and hotels.

00:06:15.340 Iranian President Massoud Pazeshkian on Saturday morning apologizing to its neighbors,

00:06:21.320 saying Iran would halt strikes on the other countries if attacks against Iran launched from those countries housing military bases also stopped.

00:06:29.120 Mr. Trump responding with another True Social post early Saturday, declaring Iran, quote,

00:06:33.800 Is being beat to hell and, quote,

00:06:35.840 Will be hit very hard until they surrender to the U.S. or collapse.

00:06:39.520 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi releasing a statement, quote,

00:06:43.820 If Mr. Trump seeks escalation, it is precisely what our powerful armed forces have long prepared for and what he will get.

00:06:50.100 Overnight, Iranian strikes continuing.

00:06:52.900 In Saudi Arabia, two people reported killed when a military projectile landed in a residential area.

00:06:58.340 The Iranian Foreign Minister, yesterday on NBC, asked if Iran would consider unconditional surrender.

00:07:03.460 We never surround and we continue to resist as long as it takes.

00:07:08.740 We continue to defend ourselves and we are defending our territory, our people, and our dignity.

00:07:16.440 And our dignity is not for sale.

00:07:18.800 Last night, Iranian state media reporting Mojtaba Khomeini, son of the late Supreme Leader, selected as his father's successor.

00:07:25.900 President Trump previously saying he is opposed to the Ayatollah's son serving as the next leader of Iran,

00:07:30.380 insisting on U.S. input in the decision.

00:07:33.160 Back in the U.S., opinion on the operation split on the political right.

00:07:36.480 Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime leading advocate for intervening in Iran, yesterday on Fox, urging Gulf states to get involved.

00:07:45.100 Now, to our Arab friends, you're being hit, too.

00:07:48.140 Has any Arab country struck a run?

00:07:52.020 Now, if you want a treaty with the United States, you need to get in this fight.

00:07:56.440 Now, America's not going to the Mideast just to fight alone. 0.94

00:07:59.420 So I'm urging our Arab allies to fight back.

00:08:02.700 You're being hit, too.

00:08:04.420 Executive director of the American conservative magazine, Kurt Mills, last week on the Zero Hedge Debate podcast,

00:08:10.360 arguing the operation risks serious long-term damage to U.S. diplomatic efforts far beyond the Middle East.

00:08:15.920 I stipulate that the president can cut his losses.

00:08:18.340 I think currently the biggest macro problem, actually, is that the U.S.'s diplomatic word is getting crushed.

00:08:26.200 I mean, I think this really harms Trump's ability to make a deal with the Russians to end the war in Ukraine, for instance.

00:08:32.900 And I think that it harms the ability of this president to do positive things on the global stage.

00:08:38.000 But I think it also potentially could permanently scar any future president's maneuverability and diplomacy.

00:08:43.900 So I don't think that much has changed.

00:08:46.240 I think if you think the Iranians are bad dudes, they just replaced the 90-year-old Khamenei with a 58-year-old Khamenei. 1.00

00:08:53.900 And they very possibly further entrenched their military and economic elite, the IRGC, in control of that country.

00:09:01.660 And there's every evidence that we have politically vindicated the ultra-conservatives in that country and the hardliners,

00:09:08.160 which is that you cannot deal with the United States and that Donald Trump and that the U.S. only responds to force.

00:09:13.860 Israel on Saturday striking 30 Iranian fuel depots, lighting up the sky with bright orange flames and billowing black smoke,

00:09:20.980 reportedly far beyond what the U.S. anticipated.

00:09:24.040 By Sunday evening, oil prices surpassing $100 per barrel,

00:09:27.960 raising new economic headaches for the Trump administration as it grapples with domestic affordability.

00:09:32.300 The NYPD confirming an improvised explosive device, or IED, capable of causing serious injury or even death,

00:09:41.340 was thrown during dueling protests outside the mayor's residence Saturday.

00:09:45.060 The incident unfolding outside the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, on Manhattan's Upper East Side,

00:09:50.200 where one protest was organized by individuals associated with pardoned January 6 writer Jake Lang,

00:09:55.180 including about 20 people marching to, quote,

00:09:57.920 stop the Islamic takeover of New York City. 1.00

00:10:00.960 The counter-protest, called, quote,

00:10:02.560 run the Nazis out of New York City, stand up against hate, drawing about 125 people.

00:10:08.180 As tensions flared between the two groups,

00:10:10.040 one member of the anti-Islam group pepper-spraying a counter-protester.

00:10:13.980 NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch describing what happened shortly after that.

00:10:17.500 At approximately 12.38 p.m., a counter-protester, identified as Amir Balat, an 18-year-old man,

00:10:27.580 lit and threw an ignited device toward the protest area,

00:10:32.140 landing in the crosswalk of East 87th Street and East End Avenue.

00:10:38.160 Witnesses reported seeing flames and smoke as it traveled through the air.

00:10:43.460 Before it struck a barrier and extinguished itself a few feet from police officers.

00:10:49.800 Mr. Balat then ran southbound on East End Avenue toward 86th Street

00:10:54.980 and gets a second device from a man tentatively ID'd as Ibrahim Nick, 19 years old.

00:11:03.420 Mr. Balat lights the device and starts running with it.

00:11:07.040 He then drops the device on the west side of East End Avenue between East 86th and East 87th Streets.

00:11:15.620 Officers immediately secured the area and they took both men into custody.

00:11:21.360 Balat, seen on video shouting Alu Akbar as he threw the device,

00:11:25.780 later footage showing him repeating the chant as NYPD officers placed him in the back of a police vehicle.

00:11:31.560 Fox News reporting both suspects are believed to be U.S. citizens.

00:11:34.540 Fox reporting Balat's parents are naturalized U.S. citizens from Turkey

00:11:38.640 and Kuyumi's parents are naturalized from Afghanistan.

00:11:42.740 NBC News reporting the NYPD and FBI are also examining the incident as a potential act of terrorism

00:11:48.420 after one of the suspects allegedly referenced ISIS in statements to law enforcement.

00:11:53.500 The NYPD yesterday discovering another suspicious device in connection with the incident located in a vehicle.

00:11:59.320 The suspects are in custody. It's not yet clear whether charges have been filed.

00:12:04.540 Coming up, new Epstein files revealing something very strange a guard on duty did the night the disgraced financier died.

00:12:12.640 And new polling highlights some red flags for President Trump heading into the midterms.

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00:13:11.800 New details emerging about the night Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody,

00:13:17.660 with newly released Justice Department records raising fresh questions about the conduct of one of the guards assigned to watch him.

00:13:23.920 Metropolitan Correction Center guard Tova Noel and fellow officer Michael Thomas were on duty the night Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019.

00:13:32.880 Both guards accused of falsifying records to claim they checked on Epstein throughout the night as required,

00:13:38.680 though a federal judge later dismissed the charges under a prosecution agreement.

00:13:43.280 The New York Post reports previously undisclosed FBI records revealing Noel searched online for updates about Epstein just minutes before his body was discovered.

00:13:52.220 According to the documents, Noel typing, quote,

00:13:54.740 Less than 40 minutes later, at 6.30 a.m., Thomas discovering Epstein dead in his cell of an apparent hanging.

00:14:09.560 Prosecutors previously saying the two guards failed to conduct the required 30-minute security checks during their shift,

00:14:15.780 with Noel browsing online furniture listings and at times falling asleep,

00:14:19.540 and Thomas spending part of the shift looking at motorcycles online.

00:14:22.420 According to the Post, when questioned in a sworn 2021 interview with the Justice Department,

00:14:28.060 Noel denied making the searches, telling investigators, quote,

00:14:31.280 I don't remember doing that. I don't recall looking him up.

00:14:34.700 Separate DOJ records also drawing attention to Noel's finances.

00:14:38.580 According to a document released in the Epstein files,

00:14:41.120 Chase Bank filing a suspicious activity report with the FBI in November 2019,

00:14:46.060 flagging multiple cash deposits into her account.

00:14:48.460 Bank records cited in the files showing 12 cash deposits beginning April 2018,

00:14:54.200 totaling $11,880, including a $5,000 deposit on July 30, 2019, just days before Epstein's death.

00:15:02.720 Noel beginning work in the special housing unit where Epstein was held in early July 2019.

00:15:07.880 The Post reporting Noel was not asked about those deposits during her Justice Department interview.

00:15:11.960 The newly released files also containing an internal FBI briefing identifying Noel as the officer believed to be seen in blurry security footage

00:15:20.260 carrying linen or inmate clothing toward the special housing unit tier around 10.40 p.m.,

00:15:25.860 which investigators say was the last time any correctional officer approached the entrance to the area where Epstein was being held.

00:15:32.240 In her sworn statement, Noel told investigators the last time she saw Epstein alive was somewhere around after 10.

00:15:38.320 She denies distributing linens to inmates, saying, quote,

00:15:41.540 I never gave out linen, ever.

00:15:43.800 Asked by investigators whether she had any role in Epstein's death, Noel responding, quote, no.

00:15:49.040 The NYC chief medical examiner ultimately ruling Epstein's death a suicide with no foul play.

00:15:55.240 A new NBC News poll showing President Trump's approval rating at 44%,

00:15:59.400 with 54% of voters disapproving of the president's performance,

00:16:03.100 virtually unchanged from the one NBC conducted in October.

00:16:06.180 The poll conducted from February 27th to March 3rd as the U.S. began strikes on Iran.

00:16:12.040 NBC chief data analyst Steve Kornacki pointing out on Sunday a potential warning sign for Republicans heading into the midterms.

00:16:18.340 But I think for Trump here, in his first term, that 2018 midterm,

00:16:23.080 this is almost exactly where he was at that point, too.

00:16:26.200 Of course, there was a 40-seat Democratic landslide that year.

00:16:28.980 Democrats took back the House.

00:16:30.620 The survey finding voters increasingly unhappy with the president's handling of the economy and cost of living.

00:16:36.200 Kornacki with the details.

00:16:37.840 Asking folks, do you approve of how the president has handled inflation, cost of living specifically,

00:16:42.740 36% approved, 62% disapproved.

00:16:45.580 That's down a year ago.

00:16:46.800 It was 42, 55%.

00:16:48.120 It's twice as bad now for him.

00:16:49.660 Steve, that's a big dip on a critical issue for this midterm election.

00:16:54.060 Absolutely, Kristen.

00:16:54.880 Voters continue to say this one is of pretty central importance to them.

00:16:58.600 And then also, are they feeling it?

00:17:00.000 You know, have Trump's policies helped or hurt almost 50%?

00:17:03.140 They're saying they have hurt a majority of independents saying the same thing.

00:17:07.720 The poll also revealing a split in how voters view immigration versus border security.

00:17:12.400 On immigration, 44% approve of the president's handling of the issue, while 54% disapprove.

00:17:18.560 But when voters are asked specifically about border security, the numbers flip,

00:17:22.420 with 53% approving of President Trump's handling of the border and 44% disapproving.

00:17:27.440 On the generic congressional ballot, Democrats with the advantage.

00:17:31.600 50% of respondents saying they would pull the lever for a Democrat,

00:17:34.960 versus 44% who would prefer Republicans to maintain control of Congress.

00:17:39.480 The poll suggesting that edge may be tied to changing perceptions around one critical issue in particular.

00:17:44.420 Kornacki breaking down how voters now rate the two parties when it comes to handling the country's biggest challenges.

00:17:50.880 When you ask about threats to democracy, that's an 11-point advantage for Democrats there.

00:17:55.220 Democratic voters say that's their top issue.

00:17:58.120 Republican voters say that border security, immigration, more important to them,

00:18:02.080 big Republican advantages.

00:18:03.480 But, Kristen, this will be it.

00:18:04.980 It's the economy.

00:18:06.600 It's a tie between the parties.

00:18:08.460 Republicans have had the advantage on this issue for nearly a decade.

00:18:12.100 Now it's wiped away.

00:18:13.160 Question going forward.

00:18:14.980 Did Democrats actually open an advantage on the economy?

00:18:17.660 That could be key to them if they are going to have a big midterm.

00:18:20.540 The midterm is set for November 3rd.

00:18:24.760 That'll do it for your AM update.

00:18:26.580 I'm Tom Bevan.

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Seventh Iran War U.S. Death, IED Attack in NYC, New Epstein Security Guard Questions： AM Update 3⧸9

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