The Megyn Kelly Show - May 11, 2026


Spencer Pratt Surging in LA Mayor Race, DNC Autopsy Report Fight, UFO Files Released： AM Update 5⧸11


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Former reality TV villain Spencer Pratt is surging in the prediction markets and sparring with CBS News over claims of selective editing. Democrats ramping up pressure on their party chair to release a secret report on what went wrong in the 2024 election. The Pentagon drops a trove of newly declassified UFO files. And 17 Americans in the middle of a deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak are now off the vessel as health officials prepare to screen them in Nebraska. All that and more coming up in a moment on your AM Update.

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00:00:36.740 It's Monday, May 11th, 2026, and this is a special Mother's Day edition of AM Update, where we're giving our mom the day off.
00:00:43.780 We're living their experience right now. Their experience has failed us.
00:00:49.060 Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is surging in the prediction markets and sparring with CBS News over claims of selective editing.
00:00:57.560 What we don't need to be focused on is actually re-litigating 2024.
00:01:02.200 Democrats ramping up pressure on their party chair to release a secret report on what went wrong in the 2024 election.
00:01:09.560 The Pentagon dropping a trove of newly declassified UFO files.
00:01:14.960 And 17 Americans in the middle of a deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak now off the vessel as health officials prepare to screen them in Nebraska.
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00:02:33.560 Fresh off his performance on the Los Angeles mayoral debate stage last week,
00:02:38.180 former reality TV star Spencer Pratt dominating the political and cultural conversation.
00:02:43.600 The Outsider now seeing the prospects of his unlikely victory rising, with prediction markets signaling his surge in the race.
00:02:50.100 Pratt, best known for his role as the villain on MTV's reality series The Hills,
00:02:54.780 entering the mayoral race after his home burned down in the 2025 Palisades fire,
00:02:59.680 pointing to what he calls overwhelming failures by city officials to prepare for and respond to the disaster.
00:03:05.460 Since then, Pratt's campaign has evolved into a broader referendum on politics as usual in Los Angeles,
00:03:11.180 with the candidate hammering city leaders over homelessness, public safety, affordability, and basic city services.
00:03:18.300 He has been especially critical of the millions spent on homeless outreach and non-profit contracts.
00:03:23.960 Though he is a registered Republican, Pratt has tried to avoid becoming a national political proxy,
00:03:29.180 keeping his message almost entirely local and casting his campaign as a revolt against the City Hall establishment.
00:03:35.200 While no formal post-debate polls have been released, on Polymarket, Pratt has gone from
00:03:39.460 just a 13% chance of winning the race to 30% as of last night. Current Mayor Karen Bass rising as
00:03:46.020 well since the debate, up from 27% to 49%, largely thanks to the complete collapse of
00:03:51.980 City Councilwoman Nithya Rahman, who has fallen from 55% to 22%. On Kalshi, Bass at 51% and Pratt
00:04:00.160 at 30%. While not a substitute for polling, betting markets suggest traders now see Pratt
00:04:05.500 as Bass's closest challenger heading into the final stretch. Mayor Bass may be coming to the
00:04:10.260 same realization. On Saturday, the mayor pulling out of the next televised forum,
00:04:14.680 set for this coming Wednesday. Pratt previously declining an invitation,
00:04:18.720 citing scheduling conflicts. As Pratt has taken a higher profile, he's facing off with a national
00:04:24.080 media organization over claims of biased edits. Pratt's sitting down with CBS News late last
00:04:29.480 week for an interview on the burned out lot where his home once stood. The outlet condensing the
00:04:34.420 interview into a short package featuring clips from Pratt's reality TV villain days and its own
00:04:39.400 political analysis. Pratt first made a name for himself as the resident villain on MTV's hit show
00:04:44.940 The Hills. I got a sister crying in my face doing drama. He yelled at me. But the 42-year-old former
00:04:51.720 reality star who has no political experience is now a main character in the Los Angeles mayoral
00:04:57.620 race. Why should voters believe that you who don't have any experience in that realm can actually be
00:05:03.780 the solution? I may not have the experience, but I have the common sense to say this is not working.
00:05:08.560 It's going to be a hard road to convince a very blue city like L.A. to take a chance on not only
00:05:14.320 a novice politician, but somebody who has pretty much aligned himself with with Donald Trump and
00:05:19.600 with Republicans. Pratt responding in a series of social media posts accusing CBS of cutting the
00:05:25.300 interview into a quote hit piece quote cbs filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour
00:05:31.500 and they turned it over to karen bass's pr team to edit it into a comical five minute hit piece
00:05:37.020 with clips from the hills they can't beat my ideas they can't beat me in the debates so they
00:05:42.160 got to try to turn my campaign into a sideshow on saturday cbs news posting the whole 28 minute
00:05:47.880 interview to social media in the extended interview pratt elaborating on one of the
00:05:52.540 central arguments of his campaign, that political experience in Los Angeles is not an asset if the
00:05:58.200 people with experience are the ones who created the crisis. Why should voters believe that you
00:06:03.580 who don't have any experience in that realm can actually be the solution? Yeah, because we're
00:06:08.340 living their experience right now. Their experience has failed us. So what we need is somebody to come
00:06:14.460 in with common sense. They're going to continue their experience is to tell you that all these
00:06:19.280 people are just need a bed. We need more billions of dollars for these beds. The DEA has said 90%
00:06:27.180 of the people living on the streets in Los Angeles are drug addicts. Drug addicts do not
00:06:32.100 want beds. They want drugs. We need mandatory treatment. I don't mean jail. They don't all
00:06:36.880 need to get jail, but we need to get mandatory medical treatment to get people off of super
00:06:41.460 meth, get them off of fentanyl, and then we can work on getting them beds. In another moment,
00:06:47.280 Pratt addresses comparisons between himself and New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani.
00:06:52.080 The one thing I connect with is I know he promised his voters like the subway will be free.
00:06:57.500 And I'm promising my voters, the metro buses, the metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks.
00:07:08.220 So that's kind of similar. We both had free things for public transportation.
00:07:13.040 Early voting already underway ahead of the June 2nd primary.
00:07:16.140 If no candidate reaches the 50% threshold, the top two finishers advance to a November 3rd runoff.
00:07:22.740 An early April poll from UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs finding 40% of the electorate remains undecided,
00:07:29.500 with Mayor Bass leading the field at 25%, followed by Pratt with 11%, and Rahman at 9%.
00:07:35.660 But as we get new polls, we'll bring them to you.
00:07:39.700 Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin taking fire from fellow Democrats
00:07:43.720 over his refusal to release the DNC's full autopsy report on the 2024 election,
00:07:49.020 with rumblings the report may be coming out after pushback from his own party.
00:07:53.400 Martin ordering the review shortly after becoming DNC chair in February of last year.
00:07:58.260 The effort reportedly included hundreds of interviews across all 50 states,
00:08:02.660 looking at what went wrong in the presidential race,
00:08:05.140 down-ballot races, organizing, communications, fundraising, and spending.
00:08:09.500 The report, totaling roughly 200 pages,
00:08:12.200 initially expected to be made public, but in December, Martin abruptly reversing course,
00:08:18.000 deciding to keep the report a secret, releasing a statement, quote,
00:08:21.720 Here's our North Star. Does this help us win? If the answer is no, it's a distraction from the
00:08:27.180 core mission. The decision fueling backlash within the party. In mid-April, more than a dozen DNC
00:08:33.380 members calling on Martin to release the findings. Later that month, DNC Chair Ken Martin
00:08:38.680 appearing on the Pod Save America podcast,
00:08:41.400 where former Obama speechwriter John Favreau
00:08:44.220 repeatedly pressed him on why he will not release the full report.
00:08:47.620 So what changed between August and December?
00:08:50.220 I understand there are lessons, but those are not the full report.
00:08:54.320 Why not release the full report?
00:08:56.040 What's in the report that you wouldn't want to publicize?
00:08:59.140 Yeah, there's no smoking gun in the report.
00:09:01.040 And I know that's what everyone's so eager to learn, the smoking gun.
00:09:05.440 Guess what, John?
00:09:06.140 But if there's no smoking gun, why wouldn't you just release it then?
00:09:09.460 Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons.
00:09:12.560 Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way to look backwards,
00:09:19.220 to point fingers, place blame in a way that actually doesn't keep us focused on the upcoming election.
00:09:24.280 But instead, the navel-gazing of focusing backwards actually takes us backwards.
00:09:29.900 We're 189 days from this election, John.
00:09:32.960 What we don't need to be focused on is actually re-litigating 2024.
00:09:36.560 What we need to do is learn the lessons of 2024 and the years preceding that can help us win this upcoming election.
00:09:44.240 That's why we've been releasing them.
00:09:45.780 That's why we've been focused in on actually putting those lessons into action.
00:09:50.520 Former Vice President Kamala Harris also reportedly backing the report's release, according to NBC News.
00:09:56.780 Yesterday on NBC, Democratic strategist Ashley Etienne suggesting the pressure campaign on the DNC may be working
00:10:03.720 and that any release could expose some uncomfortable truths inside the party.
00:10:08.540 I'm being told that the Democratic Party is going to release the autopsy in a matter of weeks.
00:10:12.780 And it's going to include four things.
00:10:14.680 It's going to include, one, an assessment of the organizing infrastructure of the party,
00:10:18.980 an assessment of messaging and media strategy, as well as fundraising, and how and where the money was spent.
00:10:24.880 And that's going to be the most explosive part because there's speculations that decisions were made by campaign leadership to line their pockets rather than actually advance a strategy to win the election.
00:10:36.660 That is really the question that's on the table here that I think is causing a lot of people to want to discard and brush this under the rug.
00:10:46.000 And I'm also hearing that Ken Martin is suffering a lot of pressure.
00:10:49.040 He wants transparency, but there's pressure from within the party, the DNC and campaign leadership to bury this report.
00:10:56.920 Coming up, a new trove of declassified UFO or UAP files released by the Pentagon and 17 Americans who were aboard a cruise ship hit by a deadly virus now off the vessel with health officials preparing for their return to the states.
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00:12:28.160 In a long-anticipated disclosure, the Pentagon releasing a trove of declassified materials on Friday
00:12:35.220 related to the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, the updated government term for UFOs.
00:12:43.200 The Department of War launching a new website, war.gov slash UFO, posting the first batch of materials, including over 160 files, most of them PDFs, along with 28 videos and 14 image files.
00:12:58.260 Some of the records dating back to the 1940s, the Pentagon indicating more releases will come on a rolling basis over the next few weeks.
00:13:08.100 The release coming after President Trump directed the Secretary of War
00:13:11.760 and other federal agencies back in February
00:13:14.660 to begin identifying the release of government files
00:13:17.640 related to alien life and UAPs.
00:13:20.280 President Trump posting to Truth Social on Friday,
00:13:23.460 quote,
00:13:24.100 Whereas previous administrations have failed to be transparent on the subject,
00:13:29.040 with these new documents and videos,
00:13:31.080 the people can decide for themselves,
00:13:32.640 what the hell is going on?
00:13:34.840 Have fun and enjoy.
00:13:36.000 The New York Times and ABC News pointing to NASA transcripts from 1969 included in the release,
00:13:43.820 documenting a technical debriefing with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
00:13:51.840 In the transcript, Aldrin described flashes of light during the moon mission,
00:13:56.520 saying he saw what appeared to be, quote, a fairly bright light source,
00:14:00.620 with the crew, quote, tentatively ascribed to a possible laser.
00:14:06.000 ABC News highlighting one of the more notable cases in the files, a two-day encounter in the
00:14:11.420 western U.S. in 2023, where federal law enforcement officers separately reported seeing orbs or round
00:14:19.140 glowing objects, including one account of, quote, orbs launching other orbs. The Pentagon describing
00:14:26.320 the case as, quote, among the most compelling reports it has reviewed. 2026 is shaping up to
00:14:32.700 feature a summer of disclosure. The latest Steven Spielberg movie called Disclosure Day
00:14:38.340 hits theaters June 12th. 17 Americans are among the dozens of passengers who disembarked yesterday
00:14:45.780 from the MV Hondias cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. The ship anchoring
00:14:51.660 off the coast of the Canary Islands, where officials from several countries are now working
00:14:55.700 to repatriate passengers without risking further spread of the deadly disease. Hantavirus spreads
00:15:01.440 primarily through contact with infected rodent waste, the strain responsible for this outbreak,
00:15:06.520 the only type that can spread person to person through close contact. It carries a roughly 40%
00:15:11.920 fatality rate, though official stress transmission between people is rare. At least nine confirmed or
00:15:17.880 suspected hantavirus cases have now been tied to the ship, including three deaths, according to the
00:15:23.320 World Health Organization. The Americans met by a team from the Centers for Disease Control and
00:15:28.640 Prevention, or CDC, with the State Department arranging their flight back to the U.S.,
00:15:33.480 according to NBC News. The University of Nebraska Medical Center's National Quarantine Unit is
00:15:39.160 preparing to receive them for evaluation. Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya yesterday on
00:15:46.320 CNN describing what the next steps will look like for the Americans. We're going to interview them
00:15:51.300 and assess them for risk. Risk is a high risk if they've been in close contact with somebody who
00:15:56.600 was symptomatic. If they weren't in close contact with someone who's symptomatic, then we're going
00:16:01.600 to deem them low risk. At that point, we will offer them, you know, alternatives, including
00:16:05.640 offer to stay in Nebraska if they'd like, or if they want to go back home and their home situation
00:16:09.500 allows it to safely find them home without exposing other people on the way, and then be put
00:16:15.360 in the control, put under the auspices of their state and local public health agencies, which
00:16:21.720 with the CDC's support all the way.
00:16:24.240 A CDC official telling the Wall Street Journal
00:16:26.440 that passengers will be monitored for around six weeks.
00:16:29.760 Yesterday morning, the chief of the World Health Organization
00:16:32.280 telling reporters, quote,
00:16:34.040 this is not another COVID, and the risk to the public is low.
00:16:37.940 So they shouldn't be scared, and they shouldn't panic.
00:16:43.080 That'll do it for your AM update.
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