Shock Details of Savannah Guthrie Mom's Abduction, New Busfield Allegations Exposed： AM Update 2⧸3
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A resurfaced deposition from the 1990s detailing multiple disturbing allegations against actor Timothy Busfield. President Trump announces the Trump-Kennedy Center is about to shut down for a while. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
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If I were a Democrat governor or whatever, I would call up Trump. I'd say, come on in, make us look good.
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President Trump highlighting crime-fighting success in cities that request federal help, calling on more Democrats to cooperate.
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There's a lot of things there that tell us, that indicate to us she was removed from that scene and it was without her consent.
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New details emerging in the search for NBC host Savannah Guthrie's missing mom.
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A resurfaced deposition from the 1990s detailing multiple disturbing allegations against actor and director Timothy Busfield as he now faces criminal charges tied to child actors.
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And President Trump announces the Trump-Kennedy Center is about to shut down for a while.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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The feds arresting two more participants in the January 18th protest disrupting a Christian church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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A.G. Bondi posting to X yesterday morning, quote,
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If you riot in a place of worship, we will find you.
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Then naming the suspects as Ian Davis Austin and Jerome D'Angelo Richardson.
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Austin and Richardson joined seven others, including YouTuber Don Lemon, charged with conspiracy against rights and violating the FACE Act.
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Prosecutors allege the defendants launched a, quote,
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coordinated attack on city's church, interfering with the congregants' federally protected right to worship.
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The arrests come as Minnesota remains a flashpoint in the broader fight over federal immigration enforcement.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announcing yesterday that,
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Effective Immediately, all federal officers in Minneapolis will be outfitted with body cameras,
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and the camera program will be implemented nationwide as funding becomes available.
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President Trump yesterday urging Minnesota leaders to help the administration get rid of criminals
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by allowing ICE to take into custody illegal immigrants getting released from local jails,
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Boarder Czar Tom Homan last week suggesting Minnesota's State Attorney General Keith Ellison
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had declared this cooperation a possibility in Minnesota cities.
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But on Friday night, Homan admitting local leaders who continue to say they will not help ICE
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Well, here's what we have, Sean, meeting with the governor and AG and Mayor Fry.
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The state prison system will honor our retainers, so we will continue to take those people in
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the custody of a safety and security of a facility and not have to go on the street and look for them.
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The AG said that sheriffs can honor our retainers, and I'm meeting with sheriffs across the state
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He said they can notify us before they release them, and so give us time to get there and take
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them into custody in a safety and security facility, and we're working on that.
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So if we get that cooperation, which we're working on, we've got some commitments here.
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That means we can draw down on the number of agents there because we're in the jails.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, says prisons in his state do cooperate with federal
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immigration authorities, though critics say that's misleading.
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While state prisons may honor ICE detainers, city and county jails in Minnesota mostly
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Mr. Trump contrasting the resistance with states and cities that actively invite federal help
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Memphis also, Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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We've cut the crime down by 64 percent within another month.
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If I were a Democrat governor or whatever, I would call up Trump.
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And we're taking people out, career criminals, who are only going to do bad things, and we're
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But where we've done it has been amazing, and we have a capacity to do it at much greater
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The latest example of such cooperation coming out of West Virginia.
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ICE announcing the arrest of 650 illegal aliens netted in a two-week operation spanning from
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Fourteen federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies working on the joint operation called
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Among the hundreds rounded up, Chinese national Ling Yan, who has a final order of removal
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and was convicted of two counts of endangering the welfare of children in Ohio.
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ICE also arresting a convicted child sex abuser, a criminal convicted of drug possession charges,
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and more, according to a press release from the agency.
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West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey, a Republican, releasing a statement, reading,
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A troubling update in the search for Today Show host Savannah Guthrie's missing mom, 84-year-old
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The elder Guthrie reported missing around noon on Sunday when a friend from church noticed
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she did not show up for the service and called one of her children.
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Authorities responding to the home finding what Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos called
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Sheriff Nanos telling Inside Edition yesterday afternoon, the evidence suggests Ms. Guthrie did
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Were there personal items of hers that were left behind?
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There's a lot of things there that tell us, that indicate to us she was removed from that
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Sheriff Nanos later telling CBS investigators believe Guthrie was abducted from the home while
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When asked by CNN later whether they have reason to believe that Nancy Guthrie was hurt, the
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sheriff demurred, saying he cannot speak to that right now.
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Nancy's phone, wallet, her ID, and car were all still at her home when detectives searched
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The front door was reportedly unlocked, but there were signs of forced entry and lights
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This was, in our opinion, someone who entered her home in the middle of the night and removed
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When asked by CNN last night if a ransom demand had been received, the sheriff said no, adding,
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However, Showbiz 411's Roger Friedman reporting last night, quote,
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I am told exclusively that inside NBC, the belief is that Nancy, 84, is still alive, that
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this may be a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
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At a press conference earlier in the day, Sheriff Nanos stressing that Nancy Guthrie does not
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suffer from dementia-related issues, but does have mobility limitations.
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I want to stress to you, and it is really important, Miss Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie, is of
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The family wants everybody to know, this isn't somebody who just wandered off.
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Her physical limits are based on just age and, you know, we get old.
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And so it's more physical, but clearly she is as sharp as a tack.
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She was last seen around 9.30 p.m. on Saturday at her home in Catalina Foothills, about 15 minutes
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Authorities are asking residents in the area to assist in the search and to turn over any
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security camera footage that could potentially help lead to the NBC host's mother.
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Sheriff Nanos warning that time is of the essence.
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More than 48 hours have passed, and without access to her required daily medication, the
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Customs and Border Protection is assisting with the investigation, as is the FBI, which
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is reportedly assisting with analysis of cell phone tower data near the Guthrie home.
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The sheriff, who had drones, an airplane, a helicopter, rescue dogs, and more searching
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for Ms. Guthrie on Sunday, says this has now shifted from a search and rescue operation to
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Authorities are asking anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Nancy Guthrie to
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please call the Pima County Sheriff's Department at 520-351-6278.
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Coming up, a newly unearthed deposition from the 1990s reveals disturbing allegations made against
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actor and director Timothy Busfield by Julia Roberts' sister-in-law.
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And President Trump announces big plans for the newly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center.
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New reporting shedding light on long-standing allegations against actor and director Timothy
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Busfield as he now faces criminal charges involving two child actors. The Daily Mail exclusively
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obtaining a 1994 deposition in which actress and casting director Eliza Roberts, who is married to
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Julia Roberts' brother, Eric, described Busfield as a, quote, creep who, quote, harassed and humiliated
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her. Roberts volunteering the sworn statement more than three decades ago after reading an article in
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the paper about a teenage girl then accusing Busfield of lewd and harassing behavior on set of the movie
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Little Big League. Roberts telling attorneys, quote, I was stunned to hear it because the same thing
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happened to me with him. That's when Roberts decided to come forward to report her experience
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with Busfield at a children's bookstore in Santa Monica. Roberts recalling that she had met Busfield
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a few times before through work, he approached her and began chatting. The conversation, she said,
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began with talk about kids, then Busfield turning to, quote, marriage and passion and sex and divorce.
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Roberts continuing, quote, he started to say how he was attracted to me. And I just kind of said,
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thanks for the compliment and see you later. And I went out to my car and went to put my keys in the
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ignition. And when I turned around to pull out of the space, he was right in my car window. That's when
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Roberts described Busfield making, quote, very graphic comments, including, reports the Daily Mail, a
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comment about a sex act he'd like to perform on her and a vile complaint about his own wife in bed.
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She went on to say Busfield followed her to a car wash, continuing to harass her. She says it
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was, quote, very hard to get rid of him and that the encounter left her with, quote, a sick feeling
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inside. Five other women also submitting sworn statements in support of the 17-year-old's account,
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according to the Daily Mail, the lawsuit ultimately settling out of court in 1995. On Friday, Roberts
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sending a new statement to the Daily Mail, quote, I stand by everything I said then. The reason why I
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stand by it is because it was true then and it is true now. The resurfaced deposition comes as Busfield
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now faces two counts of criminal misconduct against a minor tied to allegations from now 11-year-old
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twin boys who acted in Fox's series The Cleaning Lady when Busfield served as director. According to
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court records, the boys allege the inappropriate touching began in 2022 when they were seven.
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Busfield surrendering to Albuquerque police last month before being released on his own
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recognizance, with a New Mexico judge citing his lack of criminal history and no corroborating evidence.
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Prosecutors in court filings referencing multiple prior allegations against Busfield,
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including the incident on the Little Big League set, a separate allegation that he abused a
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16-year-old girl during an audition around 2001 and a claim that in 2012 he sexually assaulted a
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woman in a movie theater, reports the Washington Post. Busfield was not charged in any of those cases.
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Busfield denies the latest allegations, his legal team saying the alleged victim's parents are
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motivated by money and revenge and are a couple of con artists. The father was convicted of fraud in
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another case and was disbarred from being an attorney. The mother allegedly has multiple
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civil judgments against her for fraud. The criminal case involving the two young boys remains ongoing.
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President Trump announcing the recently renamed Trump-Kennedy Center will shut down for about
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two years, beginning July 4th to undergo, quote, construction, revitalization, and complete rebuilding.
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In a Sunday Truth Social post, Mr. Trump, who also serves as the chair of the center's board,
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writing, quote, if we don't close, the quality of construction will not be nearly as good,
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and the time to completion because of interruptions with audiences from the many events using the
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facility will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality
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result. Mr. Trump, yesterday from the Oval, further describing the project.
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Do you plan on tearing it down, and how much will all of the running operations cost?
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Probably around $200 million. It's in very bad shape. It's run down. It's dilapidated. It's sort
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of dangerous. Things fall out. Fall out of ceilings. You've seen it. We had a lot of great events
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here over the last year, but you can't do any work because people are coming in and out. We have a
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marble man over there the other day. He said, you know, every time I put down a piece of marble,
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people are stepping on the marble. They don't even have time to dry. And you can't do the same
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quality job. And so we're going to close it, and we're going to make it unbelievable, far better
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than it ever was. And we'll be able to do it properly. I was thinking maybe there's a way of
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doing it simultaneously, but there really isn't. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel.
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So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down.
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But when it's open, it'll be brand new and really beautiful.
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President Trump last February, replacing the entire board of the once-progressive center with
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allies and appointing Special Envoy Rick Grinnell as interim president. Grinnell tasked with ensuring
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the Kennedy Center promotes values aligning with the America First vision and stabilizing the finances
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he says were left in dire straits by past management. In an ex-post, Grinnell writing,
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quote, I'm grateful for President Trump's visionary leadership. I am also grateful to Congress for
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appropriating an historic $257 million to finally address decades of deferred maintenance and repairs
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at the Trump-Kennedy Center. On a March visit to the center, President Trump criticizing prior
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leadership over the state of the building. It's in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of
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our country, most of it because of bad management. This is a shame, what I've watched and witnessed.
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They spent a fortune, $250 million, and they built these rooms that nobody's going to use,
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rooms underground. And I've often wondered, what are the big cubes that they have outside that
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block the view? The cubes with a door in them, so that people can get down to rooms that nobody's
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going to use. And it's a shame. It's a shame. The president's sweeping takeover of the Trump-Kennedy
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Center, igniting backlash from Democrats and left-leaning art groups. Since the board voted
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in December to add the president's name to the center, the Washington National Opera, composer
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Philip Glass, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Doug Verone and dancers, and several other groups
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you've never heard of, pulling out of scheduled performances, according to Newsweek.
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And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show,
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