The Megyn Kelly Show - August 03, 2026


Spain Migrant ＂Attack,＂ Reflecting Pool Vandal Battle, Guthrie ＂Ransom Notes＂ Update： AM Update 8⧸3

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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, August 3rd, 2026, and this is your AM
00:00:08.120 Update. To describe what happened yesterday as an attack, a violation of Spain's territorial
00:00:13.280 integrity, Ceuta is a Spanish city and what happened yesterday deserves our strongest reproach
00:00:18.380 and our firmest condemnation. Thousands of migrants heading back home after they stormed 0.97
00:00:23.400 the beaches of a Spanish city in northern Africa. Officials putting the blame on social media.
00:00:28.940 A clash within the Trump administration in the case over alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
00:00:36.720 If you have information, someone knows who this person is.
00:00:41.180 Someone knows something.
00:00:42.880 We want that person to call us.
00:00:44.780 We need that phone call.
00:00:46.600 Six months after Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home, investigators revealing new details about the case.
00:00:53.520 But caution, it's still far from solved.
00:00:56.200 and President Trump pulling back again from a major attack on Iran after hearing from some
00:01:02.200 Gulf allies. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:15.040 Authorities in Spain saying many of the tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into the
00:02:20.040 Spanish city of Suta late last week, have been escorted back to Morocco. The tiny city,
00:02:26.340 which is part of Spain, is located on the African continent across the Strait of Gibraltar from
00:02:31.420 mainland Spain. At least 72 people died attempting the crossing, their bodies recovered from the sea.
00:02:38.300 Officials are investigating what triggered the sudden surge. Many migrants, most of whom are
00:02:43.340 young Moroccan men reportedly acting on social media posts falsely promising easy entry into
00:02:49.800 Europe, according to the BBC. Multiple accounts, the BBC reports, show young people in wetsuits
00:02:56.220 and flippers or filming themselves already swimming, mixed with pictures from inside Spain.
00:03:02.180 Some of those accounts have only been active for weeks, while several have tens of thousands of
00:03:07.100 likes. While many of the migrants appear to have been attracted by these posts, some seemingly have
00:03:13.120 no idea why they came at all.
00:03:15.400 Here's what one of them told Reuters.
00:03:18.420 To be honest, I don't even know why I've come.
00:03:21.400 I'm heading back now.
00:03:22.740 It's that simple.
00:03:24.180 Let God's will be done.
00:03:26.560 You spent the evening away.
00:03:28.060 Did you eat, have dinner?
00:03:31.060 No, I haven't eaten since lunch yesterday.
00:03:35.360 Although I did bring some money with me,
00:03:37.280 just for taxis and stuff, and that's it.
00:03:39.880 That's all I can tell you.
00:03:40.940 I haven't slept yet.
00:03:42.240 the surge of Moroccan migrants into Spain reigniting the immigration discussion across
00:03:47.680 Europe. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says he considers the migrant surge an attack
00:03:53.560 on his nation. To describe what happened yesterday as an attack, a violation of Spain's territorial
00:03:59.240 integrity. Ciudad is a Spanish city and what happened yesterday deserves our strongest reproach
00:04:04.800 and our firmest condemnation. What lies behind this is the self-interested interpretation that
00:04:10.340 the criminal networks trafficking human beings have made of a Supreme Court ruling, which upholds
00:04:15.200 an earlier ruling by the High Court of Justice of Andalusia, stating that the repatriation at the
00:04:20.280 border of people who enter our territory by swimming has no legal basis. What we are doing
00:04:25.640 is speeding up everything related to the processing of cases and the repatriation of migrants who have
00:04:30.440 entered irregularly, mainly since yesterday. As you can see, many of these migrants are already
00:04:36.480 leaving. Cooperate, cooperate with the Moroccan authorities, whose willingness and cooperation I
00:04:43.020 also appreciate, so that these repatriations can be carried out as soon as possible and,
00:04:47.780 therefore, so that the migrants who arrived irregularly, mainly yesterday, can leave.
00:04:54.120 The Spanish Prime Minister criticizing some EU partners for their reaction to the crisis,
00:04:58.920 while singling out Italy, saying the leaders of that country politicized the incident instead
00:05:03.680 of offering support. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney posting pictures of the Suta
00:05:09.440 incident with the caption, quote, This is the Sanchez model the Italian left wing likes so much.
00:05:15.780 Maloney calling for joint action from other EU countries, quote, To strengthen external borders,
00:05:21.240 combat irregular immigration, fight human traffickers, make returns more effective,
00:05:25.960 and eliminate any factor that could incentivize new illegal entries. The Italian Prime Minister's
00:05:31.780 call to eliminate policies that are, quote, pull factors to Europe, signed by almost two dozen EU
00:05:38.040 heads of state. Over the weekends, Bain saying it will be deploying a floating barrier off the
00:05:44.180 coast of Ceuta, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department raising its
00:05:49.260 travel warning for the Spanish enclave, urging Americans to reconsider going there after the
00:05:54.400 massive migrant surge. The new Level 3 advisory highlighting, quote, unpredictable and dangerous
00:05:59.900 conditions. President Trump last week describing the scenes as a, quote, catastrophe and an
00:06:05.560 invasion, warning it could preview challenges for America. That same thing's going to happen to us
00:06:11.300 if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse, much bigger, much easier to get into,
00:06:18.120 despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do,
00:06:24.000 but we didn't have that forget it but we have the safest border in the world if
00:06:28.920 we're not in office our country will be invaded at levels that made spain look
00:06:36.240 small guy because when you look at what happened to spain they don't know what to
00:06:40.920 do and it's happening again today they're coming in by the thousands tens of
00:06:44.920 thousands it just is just invading the country and what that is is weak law
00:06:52.080 bad management, but very liberal law. President Trump blasting his own U.S. attorney for D.C.,
00:07:01.420 Janine Pirro, one of his top allies, after her office abruptly dropped felony vandalism charges
00:07:07.700 on Friday against a man accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro saying
00:07:13.680 the damage was caused by contractors, not vandals. In a pair of Truth Social posts Saturday, Mr.
00:07:20.320 Trump saying he, quote, disagrees 100% with Piro's decision, continuing, quote, I don't know what she
00:07:26.560 was thinking. To me, it was a pure case of vandalism. Look for yourselves at the vandalism
00:07:31.580 that took place at the reflecting pool. The material is being cut with a knife or a box cutter
00:07:36.460 for all to see. But in a 20-page motion filed by U.S. Attorney Piro's office, Piro writing the
00:07:43.260 damage appears to have been caused by a flawed installation by the contractor Atlantic Industrial
00:07:49.100 coating and not by the defendant, former Olympic canoeist David Hearn. Hearn indicted last month
00:07:55.920 on claims that he had, quote, forcefully and violently torn the bottom liner of the reflecting
00:08:01.660 pool on June 19th. The Justice Department now with an about face, saying, quote, it is difficult to
00:08:08.180 attribute the widespread damage to the reflecting pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that
00:08:13.680 fact beyond a reasonable doubt, end quote, dropping all charges against Mr. Hearn. DOJ
00:08:20.240 blaming the Interior Department for the error, saying Interior failed to make documents available
00:08:26.120 to justice prior to the indictment, writing, quote, had the Interior Department been forthcoming with
00:08:31.580 the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury
00:08:36.040 indictment. TV legal analysts quick to criticize the U.S. Attorney's Office hear former federal
00:08:42.020 prosecutor ellie honig of cnn this is how not to prosecute 101 first of all do not hold a press
00:08:49.460 conference for a nothing little case second of all do not overstate your evidence and third of all 0.54
00:08:55.520 to the point that caitlin just made do your work first do your investigation first it's ridiculous
00:09:00.860 now that the u.s attorney's office is saying well it's interior's fault well it's this person's
00:09:05.340 fault where it's that fault we didn't know this they didn't tell us that that's your job as a
00:09:09.380 prosecutor. You don't charge a person with a felony, which could have locked him up. The max
00:09:15.260 here would have been 10 years had he been convicted. You don't charge a person with a felony
00:09:18.960 until you know what you're talking about. And if Jeannie Pirro thinks that it's somehow
00:09:23.340 taking blame off her office to say, well, there's all these other things out there that we weren't
00:09:27.480 told. She's wrong. She's actually putting the blame on herself because they didn't know this
00:09:31.880 stuff. They didn't figure out before they indicted. That's how they should have done it.
00:09:36.480 Mr. Hearn's attorney, Norm Eisen, demanding an apology by the government to Mr. Hearn,
00:09:41.500 adding the DOJ's, quote, dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in
00:09:46.640 arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum
00:09:52.980 backing Mr. Trump's claim that vandals were responsible. The secretary writing on X, quote,
00:09:58.600 the evidence is clear. Vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the reflecting pool.
00:10:03.580 Some of these acts were even caught on camera.
00:10:06.220 Intentional damage done to the reflecting pool is no different than defacing any one
00:10:10.000 of our other national monuments.
00:10:11.900 We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.
00:10:17.420 Which is meaningless as to Mr. Hearn specifically, who appears to have been exonerated.
00:10:23.880 Piro's office saying it is also moving to dismiss at least one other of the three misdemeanor
00:10:29.220 cases against those the DOJ is accusing of vandalizing the pool.
00:10:35.800 Coming up, the Pima County Sheriff Department officially releasing the text of two so-called
00:10:41.220 ransom notes and other evidence as well in the Nancy Guthrie case as officials turn to
00:10:46.440 the public for help.
00:10:48.160 And President Trump again halts new strikes on Iran as the back and forth in the region
00:10:53.240 continues.
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00:11:50.580 The Pima County Sheriff Department in Arizona, the lead law enforcement agency investigating
00:11:57.960 Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, revealing more about the investigation over the weekend than
00:12:02.960 it had for months, although also making it clear the case is not close to being solved.
00:12:08.960 On Friday, six months after Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie,
00:12:13.800 was last seen, the Sheriff's Department posting to X about the state of the case.
00:12:18.820 The statement addressing the Nest doorbell camera video and photos released by the FBI
00:12:23.860 in the early days of the investigation, showing a man on the porch of Guthrie's home
00:12:28.440 in more detail than previously made available publicly. The statement describing the man on
00:12:34.140 the porch as, quote, an unidentified male who knows what happened to Nancy, and also noting
00:12:39.580 the videos, quote, may be from two separate days. The statement going on to say of the videos,
00:12:45.200 quote, they indicate he took steps to prepare for the event on the night of January 31st to February
00:12:51.640 1st. There has been wide speculation that the videos and images may have been from multiple
00:12:57.080 days because in one image the man could be seen without a backpack and gun visible. The department
00:13:03.480 also finally releasing what they describe as two ransom notes, which have previously been reported
00:13:09.380 on in near full detail by multiple media outlets, including Word for Word by Brianna Whitney,
00:13:16.600 who works for the Crime Junkie podcast now, but previously was employed by Arizona Family,
00:13:22.360 whose sister station in Tucson received both notes. In one, which was received February 2nd,
00:13:29.460 the sender making a clear ransom demand due by the 5th and also by the 9th of February.
00:13:36.840 The sender ending the note writing verbatim, quote,
00:13:39.540 she had a white smart watch on the floor of the foot of her bed
00:13:43.040 and the white floodlight in the backyard was destroyed.
00:13:46.480 The second note coming on February 6th, before the second ransom deadline,
00:13:51.360 in which the sender apologizes and writes that Nancy had, quote,
00:13:55.560 perished shortly after she was taken and that she is, quote, buried in nature now.
00:14:01.800 Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, speaking to a few media outlets over the weekend,
00:14:05.800 as well as releasing a brief video on the department's YouTube channel.
00:14:09.760 In that video, Nanos addressing why he put the notes out now.
00:14:13.640 Investigators felt like there's a number of pieces of information in these notes
00:14:18.340 that someone might, just might jar someone to say, you know, I've heard that.
00:14:25.300 Or the wording, the style of the writing is,
00:14:31.140 it might jog somebody to kind of think about who would have written this,
00:14:35.700 How was this done?
00:14:37.780 I think anybody who reads them, my investigators, we look at it,
00:14:41.400 and clearly there's things in there that are very concerning to our investigative team.
00:14:46.740 Nano's going on to ask the community for more help in solving this case.
00:14:51.280 A lot of people have called us with information,
00:14:53.980 but we also know a lot of people are hesitant to do so.
00:14:57.960 And so I hope that by constantly reminding the public,
00:15:02.220 we're here, we're not going anywhere.
00:15:03.980 if you have information, someone knows who this person is. Someone knows something. We want that
00:15:11.100 person to call us. We need that phone call. A lengthy Wall Street Journal deep dive yesterday
00:15:16.880 on the case, delving into the divide between local authorities and the FBI. The FBI, far from taking
00:15:23.300 ownership of the case, last week directed us to the Pima County Sheriff's Department for any comment
00:15:29.000 on the case. This after Director Cash Patel told Sean Hannity last week that had Sheriff
00:15:34.800 Nanos contacted the FBI earlier than he did, additional nest camera footage might possibly
00:15:41.460 have been recovered instead of deleted. Nanos trying to squash any perceived issues between
00:15:47.020 local and federal law enforcement, telling the journal that if FBI Director Patel quote
00:15:51.580 really believes that we tried to block them or keep them out of this or not share things,
00:15:55.840 I 100% want him to call me because that's the furthest from the truth.
00:16:01.080 The journal reporting Nanos says he and Patel have never spoken
00:16:04.580 during the entire six months of this investigation.
00:16:09.200 In the latest Groundhog Day episode of the Iran War,
00:16:13.720 President Trump ordering U.S. forces to hit pause on new strikes in Iran late Saturday night,
00:16:19.420 citing progress toward a deal to end the several-month-long conflict in the Middle East.
00:16:24.720 This after reports Mr. Trump was just hours from taking more serious action.
00:16:29.640 In a Truth Social post Saturday, Mr. Trump announcing allies in the Middle East
00:16:34.060 reached the outlines of an agreement to potentially end the war.
00:16:38.060 Mr. Trump writing the deal, quote, would include the immediate, complete, and total opening of the Hormuz Strait
00:16:43.900 and an end to Iran's nuclear threat.
00:16:46.960 The president promising the U.S. remains, quote, locked and loaded,
00:16:50.280 but was calling off the planned attack, quote, for the future benefit of the world
00:16:54.660 and likewise the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, end quote.
00:16:59.920 Mr. Trump's apparent de-escalation coming after days of threatening new attacks
00:17:04.400 before a reported phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman earlier on Saturday.
00:17:11.120 The Saudi leader expressing concern over U.S. plans for massive new strikes against Iran,
00:17:16.140 according to Axios. The outlet reporting other major powers in the region, including Qatar,
00:17:21.660 the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Pakistan, also pushing for a de-escalation in the war
00:17:27.320 for fear of a wider regional conflict. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have all come under
00:17:33.780 attack by Iran after previous U.S. escalations in Iran. President Trump addressing the decision
00:17:40.140 on Air Force One last night.
00:17:41.720 I was asked to by Saudi Arabia, by UAE, and by Qatar, and by Iran.
00:17:50.060 We were all set to go.
00:17:51.800 It's about at this time right now.
00:17:54.380 And it would have been a massive attack.
00:17:58.660 We were all set to go.
00:18:00.220 But when the Allies asked to call it off, you got to sort of say, well, let's see. 0.78
00:18:06.960 And the reason they asked is I think there's a deal.
00:18:09.060 there's a deal on hormones and then there will be a deal on the nuclear or you might call it
00:18:15.100 the denuclearization of iran i go with the denuclearization what do we expect we're holding
00:18:21.740 it we'll just see we can do it anytime we want but uh we were asked by the three primary
00:18:28.920 groups we were also asked by iran very strongly actually they said we'd like to make a deal now
00:18:35.600 You know, I don't know what they say, because a lot of times they'll say that to me,
00:18:39.080 and then they'll go out and say, we don't know what he says.
00:18:41.180 Obviously, they don't want to be attacked.
00:18:43.300 And they knew the extent of the attack because they saw it for me.
00:18:48.440 Mediation efforts are currently underway, a regional official tells the AP.
00:18:52.720 In a post on X, Iran's defense minister,
00:18:55.180 writing that the country remains on alert despite the announcement.
00:18:59.020 Of course, President Trump has signaled major strikes are imminent,
00:19:02.480 and then put them on pause in favor of last-minute negotiations many times since the war began at
00:19:08.900 the end of February, so we'll see. That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back
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