The Megyn Kelly Show - Tense Testimony at Russell Brand Trial, Trump Cancels Ft. Hood Execution Livestream： AM Update 10⧸16

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly wrap-up show on Sirius XM Channel 111.

00:00:37.620 It's Friday, October 16th, 2026. This is your AM Update.

00:00:41.800 As soon as the cross-examination began, Russell Brand looked straight ahead through the glass of the dock.

00:00:47.240 Tense moments inside a London courtroom as a woman accusing Russell Brand of rape takes the stand and faces questions from his defense attorney.

00:00:54.900 That decision to stay home for a week sent my opponent and his conspiracy theorists spiraling.

00:01:02.500 James Tallarico back on the campaign trail in Texas, bolstered by a record-breaking fundraising effort.

00:01:08.360 President Trump reversing course on plans to live-stream the execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter,

00:01:14.100 following overwhelming public opposition to the broadcast.

00:01:17.220 And new details emerging about the man mauled to death by a tiger at a wildlife park in England,

00:01:22.940 including revelations about his mental health history

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00:02:49.020 emotional testimony and heated exchanges inside a london courtroom yesterday as a woman accusing

00:02:56.020 him of rape more than 25 years ago testifies in the trial of actor and comedian russell brand

00:03:01.320 the 51 year old on trial at london's suffolk crown court facing seven criminal charges involving six

00:03:07.620 women including three counts of rape three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent

00:03:13.400 assault, the allegations dating from 1999 to 2009 during Brand's rise from stand-up comedian to

00:03:19.800 Hollywood celebrity. Brand pleading not guilty to all charges, maintaining that he has never

00:03:25.180 engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. Prosecutors opening their case Wednesday by

00:03:30.580 portraying Brand as a ruthless and manipulative sexual predator who used his growing fame to 0.99

00:03:35.520 exploit women. Yesterday's testimony focusing on a woman who alleges Brand raped her in a hotel room 0.99

00:03:41.220 in 1999 after they met at a political conference. According to the BBC's courtroom reporting,

00:03:47.240 the woman telling jurors she initially believed Brand was gay, describing him as friendly,

00:03:51.600 soft-spoken, and effeminate. She said she felt comfortable spending time alone with him

00:03:55.900 until his behavior suddenly changed inside her hotel room. The woman, recalling that Brand

00:04:00.860 emerged from the bathroom wearing only his underwear, began dancing around the room and 1.00

00:04:05.360 demanded that she take photographs of him without a shirt. Those photographs later shown to the jury.

00:04:11.220 The woman describing Brand as frightening and aggressive,

00:04:14.260 telling jurors he went from friendly to, quote, 0.95

00:04:16.640 monster-like before allegedly raping her.

00:04:19.840 Jurors also watching a police interview recorded in 2023

00:04:22.800 in which the woman described the alleged assault

00:04:25.320 and her confusion afterward.

00:04:27.420 Brand watching the recording from the defendant's area

00:04:29.780 of the courtroom, remaining largely motionless

00:04:32.500 as the woman recounted her experience.

00:04:35.220 The woman telling jurors she cried after Brand left

00:04:37.480 and feared she might be pregnant.

00:04:39.520 She said she blamed herself for what happened and initially stayed silent because she feared

00:04:43.560 the allegations would damage her career. Under cross-examination yesterday, Brand's defense

00:04:48.840 attorney, Ian Winter, challenging the woman's account, questioning whether she had welcomed

00:04:52.800 Brand's romantic attention and why she agreed to be alone with him. The woman repeatedly rejecting

00:04:58.340 the suggestion that she had been attracted to Brand, insisting she had felt safe in his company

00:05:02.940 but never consented to sex. The questioning growing increasingly contentious as Channel 4

00:05:08.240 news journalist, Achele Conner, described in her account of the proceedings.

00:05:12.320 This afternoon was so intense, I cannot stress it enough. But as soon as the cross-examination

00:05:17.540 began, Russell Brand looked straight ahead through the glass of the dock. So he sat very

00:05:21.940 still, looking straight ahead. And Woman A was asked twice if Russell Brand was being

00:05:26.860 flirty to her, to which she replied, you're putting words into my mouth. I just saw him

00:05:31.840 as someone that I wanted to speak to. So tensions were rising. There was a back and forth between

00:05:36.480 the defense and woman who was in the witness stand at the time. The defense attorney also

00:05:41.560 pressing the woman on why she had not attempted to escape when Brand removed his clothes.

00:05:45.940 She responded by questioning where she could have gone, explaining that she had no phone,

00:05:49.860 did not know her surroundings, and feared Brand might follow her. The woman pushed back against 0.97

00:05:54.460 questions about why she had not reported the alleged rape to police in 1999, explaining she

00:05:58.880 was ashamed and believed no one would take her seriously. The allegations against Brand first

00:06:03.820 attracting widespread attention following a 2023 documentary investigation into his alleged sexual

00:06:09.140 misconduct. All six women involved in the current prosecution came forward following that

00:06:13.960 investigation, although the women featured in the documentary are not among the complainants

00:06:17.940 in this trial. The trial is expected to continue for approximately six weeks.

00:06:23.560 A record-breaking fundraising haul in the closely watched U.S. Senate race in Texas.

00:06:28.820 Democrat State Representative James Tallarico raising $64 million during the third quarter,

00:06:34.080 more than any Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, according to his campaign.

00:06:39.100 Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raising $18 million during the most recent quarter.

00:06:44.020 The announcement bringing Tallarico's total fundraising to more than $130 million

00:06:48.000 since entering the race last year, compared to about $30 million for Paxton.

00:06:53.140 Paxton, last week on Fox News, questioning where much of Tallarico's money is coming from.

00:06:58.060 Look, we were behind because we had a three-month runoff.

00:07:01.880 And he had three months to go out to California and New York and raise his money, which he's been doing.

00:07:05.960 He did it just before he disappeared.

00:07:08.780 He was at a fundraiser in New York with Robert De Niro.

00:07:11.080 He did a Hollywood fundraiser.

00:07:12.800 So his money is largely coming from out of state.

00:07:15.780 California's trying to get a third senator.

00:07:17.040 So the key here is now that we're up on TV two months after him, we are highlighting his actual record,

00:07:23.180 not the one that he has changed it to recently, but his actual record of boys and girls sports,

00:07:28.780 you know, transitioning kids, state income tax, voting against every border bill that we had to

00:07:33.460 secure the border, putting money into defunding the police in Austin. I mean, his views are very

00:07:38.320 radical for Texas, but he doesn't talk about those views now. More than $500 million already

00:07:44.300 spent on advertising in the Texas Senate race, including outside groups, according to Ad Impact,

00:07:48.800 as the latest polls show a close contest between the two candidates.

00:07:52.720 The RealClear polling average showing Tallarico holding a narrow lead, 48.1 to 45.5 percent.

00:07:58.980 Tallarico returning to the national spotlight Wednesday night during a CNN town hall in Fort

00:08:03.200 Worth, following a highly publicized absence from the campaign trail that he attributed to a severe

00:08:08.280 case of the flu. The Democrat addressing the rumors that circulated about his whereabouts,

00:08:12.980 including the unsubstantiated claim that he had been receiving psychiatric treatment in Ohio.

00:08:17.260 That decision to stay home for a week sent my opponent and his conspiracy theorists

00:08:23.760 spiraling. I opened up social media and learned that I apparently had dropped out of the race,

00:08:30.420 had flown to a mental hospital in Ohio, that I had died. This is crazy. I mean,

00:08:37.220 these false claims got millions of views online. And this is an example of what I call the rage

00:08:43.880 economy. Tallarico also facing questions about his past statements on religion and gender,

00:08:49.100 including his 2021 declaration that God is non-binary. I think what I was saying is actually

00:08:54.820 not controversial theologically. The idea that we can't define God using human categories,

00:09:01.760 not only did I say that, but the late Charlie Kirk said that. The late Pope Benedict said that.

00:09:08.800 And so, yes, I was doing it maybe in an annoying way. I can admit that.

00:09:12.920 I think we have to be careful using modern cultural terms when talking about God.

00:09:18.100 Sure, I think that is very fair criticism.

00:09:20.940 Tallarico referencing his frequently criticized remarks from 2021,

00:09:24.520 where he declared that God is non-binary and invoked scripture to express his support for transgender children.

00:09:30.060 God is non-binary.

00:09:32.060 In Genesis 1.26, God speaks of God's self in the plural, saying,

00:09:38.700 let us make human beings in our image to be like us. That's the infinite multitude of God,

00:09:49.740 the masculine, the feminine, and everything in between. Trans children are God's children,

00:09:58.160 made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with them, nothing at all. They are perfect,

00:10:05.960 They are beautiful and they are sacred.

00:10:10.640 President Trump offering his own assessment of the Texas Senate race yesterday. 0.97

00:10:14.720 The guy in Texas is a con man, total con man. 0.63

00:10:18.700 Guy gets lost for 12, 14 days. 0.92

00:10:21.320 He says that he's got the flu.

00:10:22.600 I never heard of a flu that lasted that long, but maybe he had a different kind of flu that

00:10:28.260 we don't know about.

00:10:29.420 And he said bad things, talk badly about Jesus, talk badly about many things.

00:10:34.620 Now he says, oh, well, I was only kidding or something.

00:10:37.880 And we have a good guy.

00:10:38.860 Look, Ken Paxton's a guy that, whether you like Ken or not, honestly, I mean, I understand

00:10:43.160 some people are controversial, et cetera.

00:10:45.440 I don't happen to be a controversial person, so I'm very happy.

00:10:49.040 But Ken is a little bit controversial.

00:10:51.280 And he was the best attorney general in the history of Texas.

00:10:56.280 Coming up, President Trump's scrapping plans for a public broadcast of the Fort Hood shooter's

00:11:00.960 execution, and new revelations about the man killed in a tiger attack at a wildlife park in England.

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00:12:11.240 slash Megan. Check it out. President Trump calling off plans to live stream the execution

00:12:18.160 of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nadal Hassan,

00:12:21.360 reversing an announcement made by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just one week ago.

00:12:25.820 Hegseth announcing last Thursday that Hassan would be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood

00:12:30.300 and that the public would be able to watch.

00:12:32.940 No-brainer. Execution by firing squad. 1.00

00:12:36.480 Army major betrays his country, radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. 1.00

00:12:41.040 Of course we're going to do it at Fort Hood. 0.78

00:12:42.620 We're going to do it on a Thursday.

00:12:43.800 We're going to do it at 1 o'clock, which is when he did it.

00:12:45.580 And it's going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.

00:12:49.240 And we'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things.

00:12:58.820 The former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 terrorist attack at the Texas military base.

00:13:07.460 Among those killed was a pregnant soldier whose unborn son also died in the attack.

00:13:12.000 President Trump approving Hassan's execution by firing squad earlier this month,

00:13:15.960 the execution scheduled for December 3rd.

00:13:18.700 Vice President J.D. Vance expressing skepticism about the live stream

00:13:22.000 during an exchange with reporters last week.

00:13:24.780 Whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution,

00:13:27.760 I hope that people don't forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people.

00:13:32.800 Now that said, I mean, look, if it's ultimately live streamed, I'm not going to be watching it.

00:13:37.340 The debate reaching the White House,

00:13:38.980 where the president was privately reconsidering whether to allow the execution to be broadcast.

00:13:43.300 According to CNN, Mr. Trump was unaware that Hegseth planned to announce a public live stream

00:13:47.440 and initially expressed uncertainty about the decision.

00:13:50.500 The president also telling advisors he had not realized Hassan was paralyzed from the waist down

00:13:54.540 and in a wheelchair, an injury he sustained when authorities shot him during the 2009 attack.

00:13:59.680 A new Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll released yesterday morning

00:14:02.920 finding 80% of Americans opposed to live streaming Hassan's execution.

00:14:07.680 A narrow majority of 53% supporting his execution by firing squad,

00:14:11.460 highlighting a significant distinction between support for the punishment itself

00:14:14.480 and allowing all Americans to watch it.

00:14:17.280 Opposition to the live stream extending across party lines,

00:14:19.840 including among 64% of Republicans, 83% of Independents, and 91% of Democrats.

00:14:26.460 Just hours after the poll's release,

00:14:28.320 President Trump announcing on True Social that he was canceling the live stream.

00:14:32.280 The president describing Hassan as an evil man

00:14:34.420 and arguing that broadcasting his execution could have served as a powerful deterrent to

00:14:38.800 terrorists around the world. Mr. Trump adding, quote, he will die as scheduled by firing squad, 0.98

00:14:44.200 but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person 0.64

00:14:47.860 by the immediate families of the victims if they so choose. Hassan's December 3rd execution set

00:14:53.060 to become the first carried out by the U.S. military since 1961 and its first execution

00:14:58.760 by firing squad since World War II. New details emerging about the deadly tiger attack at a

00:15:05.740 wildlife park in England. Authorities identifying the man earlier this week as 24-year-old William

00:15:10.940 Chapman, a former child actor who was mauled to death Saturday at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in

00:15:15.380 northern England. During a coroner's hearing yesterday, officials revealing Chapman climbed

00:15:19.680 over two fences before approaching a five-year-old Siberian tiger named Altai. The tiger attacked

00:15:25.220 Chapman causing extensive injuries that killed him within minutes, emergency responders pronouncing

00:15:30.340 him dead at the scene. According to the BBC, an initial autopsy determining Chapman died from

00:15:35.440 multiple traumatic injuries, although authorities are awaiting a more detailed report. The hearing

00:15:40.300 also revealing Chapman had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered previous episodes of

00:15:44.760 psychosis. Despite his diagnosis, Chapman was described during the hearing as highly independent

00:15:49.960 and capable of living without additional care, although he remained under supervision of local

00:15:54.760 mental health services. Chapman's family now raising concerns about the treatment he received

00:15:59.240 in the months leading up to his death. The Guardian reporting the regional health care

00:16:03.140 provider has launched its own investigation into his care. Witnesses previously described Chapman

00:16:08.260 walking around the park wearing headphones and dancing before asking other visitors to photograph

00:16:12.760 him near the tiger enclosure. The coroner's investigation is scheduled to resume March 18th

00:16:17.580 of next year as local authorities continue a separate investigation into safety conditions

00:16:21.740 at the park. Yorkshire Wildlife Park reopening today for the first time since the deadly attack,

00:16:26.880 including the tiger exhibit. Park officials also confirming outside will not be euthanized and

00:16:31.600 remains under the care of the park's animal staff. Upstating a report from yesterday,

00:16:37.340 federal prison officials denying reports Sean Diddy Combs suffered a head injury during a

00:16:41.600 fight with another inmate at Fort Dix last weekend. The Bureau of Prisons telling TMZ

00:16:45.740 the alleged altercation never happened, but declining to say whether Combs was injured or

00:16:49.840 explain his previously reported trip to the hospital.

00:16:55.040 That'll do it for your AM update.

00:16:56.560 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - October 16, 2026

Tense Testimony at Russell Brand Trial, Trump Cancels Ft. Hood Execution Livestream： AM Update 10⧸16

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