The Megyn Kelly Show - October 26, 2026


Trump and Obama in Michigan, Cornell Jane Doe Ruling, Rubio's CIA Offer to Cubans： AM Update 10⧸26

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00:00:34.860 It's Monday, October 26th, 2026. And this is your AM update. The big thing is that does not describe
00:00:42.300 a giant blue wave. That would be a fairly historically narrow House majority. A new
00:00:50.200 CBS News poll showing Democrats maintaining their lead in the battle for control of the House,
00:00:54.760 though Republicans still have a narrow path to holding on to their majority.
00:00:59.880 A judge allowing Jane Doe to remain anonymous in the Cornell gang rape lawsuit,
00:01:05.100 despite the fact that she named all seven men she's accusing. 1.00
00:01:09.340 We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from around.
00:01:12.320 Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging Cubans to secretly work with the CIA
00:01:16.560 as President Trump threatens military action against the island's communist regime.
00:01:22.580 And a Coast Guard rescue swimmer describes his harrowing effort to save 16 people stranded
00:01:27.960 in the Pacific, battling towering waves and near total darkness.
00:01:32.700 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:38.460 A new CBS News poll showing Democrats maintaining their advantage in the battle for control of the
00:02:43.900 House, though Republicans still have a chance to hold on to their majority as both parties make a
00:02:49.360 final push to get voters to the polls ahead of next week's midterm elections. According to the
00:02:55.100 latest CBS News YouGov survey, Democrats leading Republicans 53 to 45 percent among likely voters
00:03:01.760 nationwide, with Democrats estimated to win approximately 229 House seats, enough to take
00:03:08.300 control of the chamber, but short of an overwhelming majority. The poll finding the
00:03:13.080 economy and inflation remain top concerns for voters as most Americans express pessimism about
00:03:19.120 their financial futures, regardless of which party controls Congress. More voters expecting
00:03:24.400 their finances to worsen under Republican control than Democrat control, although neither party
00:03:29.640 enjoys majority confidence in its ability to improve the economy. The survey also finding
00:03:34.820 that neither party has convinced most voters it has a clear plan for governing, with 4 in 10
00:03:40.440 Democrat voters acknowledging they don't believe their party has a clear plan, but supporting its
00:03:45.460 candidates primarily out of opposition to President Trump. CBS finding Democrats' projected gains have
00:03:51.440 remained relatively steady in recent weeks, and Republicans still have a narrow path to maintain
00:03:56.980 control of the House. CBS News Director of Elections and Surveys Anthony Salvato explaining yesterday
00:04:03.920 why the outcome on Election Day remains far from certain.
00:04:07.640 The big thing is that does not describe a giant blue wave.
00:04:12.600 That would be a fairly historically narrow House majority.
00:04:17.840 Number one, turnout is a big factor.
00:04:20.200 It does favor Democrats.
00:04:21.960 Right now, more Democrats tell us that they are definitely going to vote or already have
00:04:26.380 than Republicans do.
00:04:28.160 But here's the thing about the Republican side.
00:04:30.600 If you look at the voters who say, well, there may be going to vote.
00:04:33.920 More of them are Republicans. They're just planning to stay at home right now.
00:04:38.580 If they get activated or motivated, then yeah, this thing could shift or change a little.
00:04:44.140 President Trump embarking on an aggressive campaign schedule,
00:04:47.640 holding rallies in Iowa, Florida, Georgia, and Michigan over the past several days,
00:04:52.500 with additional stops planned every day this week. In Michigan, one of the country's most
00:04:56.980 closely watched Senate races, drawing national attention. As President Trump intensifies his
00:05:02.440 criticism of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who is facing Republican former Congressman Mike Rogers.
00:05:08.980 The two candidates competing to replace retiring Democrat Senator Gary Peters as Republicans hope
00:05:14.260 to win their first U.S. Senate race in Michigan in more than three decades. President Trump
00:05:19.640 repeatedly calling El-Sayed a jihadist and questioning his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:05:25.280 The Washington Post confirming El-Sayed was listed as a signatory on a 2012 letter supporting
00:05:30.980 Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Post report
00:05:37.060 detailing social media posts from El-Sayed's half-sister, describing their family's history
00:05:42.260 with the Muslim Brotherhood, including their mother's involvement, as well as campaign donations
00:05:47.080 from individuals affiliated with organizations previously scrutinized in a Hamas financing
00:05:53.140 investigation. El-Sayed denying any personal affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood and
00:05:58.640 accusing Republicans of targeting his Muslim faith. Former President Barack Obama coming to
00:06:03.940 El-Sayed's defense during a campaign rally in Detroit Saturday as he makes stops in Michigan
00:06:08.980 and Ohio in the final days before the midterms to drum up support for Democrat candidates.
00:06:14.600 They will use lies, and they will use fear, and they will use division, and they may even use
00:06:21.440 your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and
00:06:29.160 less patriotic and less American than they are. We have seen this movie before. I starred in it.
00:06:38.560 I've got a long form birth certificate to prove it. This stuff didn't work on me,
00:06:44.220 not in Michigan. It's not going to work on Abdul. Abdul's as Michigan as it gets.
00:06:50.380 Rogers was asked about President Trump's comments about El Sayed yesterday on NBC. 0.72
00:06:55.780 President Trump says your opponent is a violent terrorist, violent. Again, there's just no proof
00:07:02.100 of that. And he has denounced. He was asked directly if he denounces the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:07:07.020 He has. Do you agree with calling him a violent terrorist? That's not true. Hold on. Do you agree 0.71
00:07:11.220 with calling him a violent terrorist? You know what he did? He said, the guy said,
00:07:14.060 are you going to answer the question? Hold on. Will you disavow? And he said, yeah,
00:07:18.160 Absolutely. I'll answer the question. He never answers the question. Is that up to your standard?
00:07:23.340 No, I don't. I've never called him a terrorist. I've never called him a terrorist. This election
00:07:27.560 is about me versus Abdul. I mean, he's a Democrat Socialist of America aligned candidate who has
00:07:34.380 these pretty radical support groups that don't like America. President Trump doubling down last
00:07:40.960 night while speaking to reporters on his way to Michigan to rally for Rogers, where he appeared
00:07:45.540 with rapper Nicki Minaj. We don't want to see a jihadist senator. We don't want to see a member 1.00
00:07:52.660 of the Muslim Brotherhood in our Senate. And we want somebody very capable. And I think Mike 1.00
00:07:58.660 Rogers would do a great job. He's going to be a great senator. Mike Rogers is apple pie. He's
00:08:04.540 a perfect guy for our country. The latest Real Clear Politics polling average shows El-Sayed 1.00
00:08:10.260 leading Rodgers by just 1.9 points, 47.9 to 46 percent. Prediction market Calci giving El-Sayed
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00:08:49.400 the woman accusing seven former Cornell University fraternity members of gang rape can remain
00:08:55.080 anonymous as her civil lawsuit moves forward. The woman filing her civil lawsuit September 16th,
00:09:01.260 alleging Cornell and others failed to protect her following the alleged assault. Manhattan's
00:09:06.700 Supreme Court Justice Phaedra Perry Bond issuing the eight-page ruling Friday,
00:09:11.700 citing concerns about harassment and retaliation amid an online campaign to uncover Jane Doe's
00:09:17.660 identity. The woman alleging that seven men drugged and sexually assaulted her at Cornell's
00:09:22.880 Chi-Fi fraternity house in 2024, though text messages by the alleged victim in the days
00:09:28.880 following the incident seem to suggest it was consensual. All seven men deny the allegations,
00:09:35.000 the local DA declining to pursue criminal charges in 2024 based on the accuser's own
00:09:40.860 sworn statement. New York Attorney General Letitia James now overseeing a reopened investigation
00:09:46.580 following criticism of how the case was originally handled. In her ruling, Judge Perry Bond pointing
00:09:52.520 to the highly publicized nature of the allegations and what she describes as, quote, widespread
00:09:57.080 reports of certain malicious actors' behavior, noting none of the defendants opposed Jane Doe's
00:10:03.400 request to remain anonymous. Under Friday's order, court filings must continue identifying the woman
00:10:08.920 as Jane Doe, and the defendants and their attorneys are prohibited from publicly revealing her
00:10:13.520 identity. They can still privately share that information with potential witnesses and others
00:10:17.900 when necessary to investigate the allegations and prepare their defense, provided those
00:10:22.460 individuals agree to keep the information confidential. The decision following a wave
00:10:27.200 of online efforts to identify Jane Doe, an analysis commissioned by the New York Times
00:10:32.180 finding more than 25,000 posts on social media purporting to name her in just one week.
00:10:38.020 The judge also suggesting additional privacy efforts for the accused men and potential
00:10:42.260 witnesses, inviting attorneys to propose an agreement providing, quote,
00:10:46.180 all involved parties with some degree of protection regarding their sensitive personal
00:10:50.800 information. The defendant's names already public in court filings thanks to Jane Doe,
00:10:55.980 the proposed protections instead focusing on sensitive personal information like home
00:11:01.140 addresses and phone numbers. Separately, one of the accused men, Diego Sarabia, filing a motion
00:11:07.000 Friday seeking to dismiss the civil claims against him, arguing the allegations involving him amount
00:11:12.260 to a forced kiss rather than rape, and that the claims were filed too late or lack sufficient
00:11:17.600 legal grounds. His attorney contending Jane Doe's lawsuit broadly accuses all seven men of sexual
00:11:23.480 assault, despite alleging very different conduct by individual defendants. The university itself
00:11:30.040 facing scrutiny over its handling of the allegations, hiring former Deputy Attorney
00:11:34.680 General Sally Yates to conduct an independent review of its sexual assault policies and
00:11:40.000 procedures. Coming up, Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging Cubans seeking political change
00:11:47.200 to secretly cooperate with the CIA. And a 24-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer
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00:13:28.620 Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging Cubans who want political change to secretly cooperate
00:13:35.780 with the CIA as the Trump administration steps up its campaign against the island's
00:13:40.700 communist government. In a Friday ex-post, Secretary Rubio writing, quote,
00:13:45.940 to those who seek to create positive change in Cuba, now is the time. The secretary pointing
00:13:51.120 to the regime's broken promises, corruption, and privileges enjoyed by the ruling elite,
00:13:55.860 urging Cubans to, quote, seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discreet
00:14:01.080 partnership with the CIA. The CIA subsequently sharing Rubio's message, along with a Spanish
00:14:07.220 language appeal and a video explaining how Cubans can contact the agency. Secretary Rubio's appeal
00:14:13.560 coming shortly after President Trump renewed his threats against the Cuban government during a
00:14:18.200 Friday campaign rally in Fort Myers, Florida. We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran. 0.98
00:14:23.720 with this. We'll do a little stopover. No, we'll do a little stopover. Actually, what we're going
00:14:30.640 to do with Cuba is we're going to come back from Iran, those beautiful ships. We'll pass Cuba.
00:14:35.960 We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands. And then 0.99
00:14:41.360 we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal. The latest warnings from President Trump
00:14:46.740 and Secretary Rubio come amid a months-long campaign to pressure Cuba's communist regime
00:14:52.300 into making major changes. The administration imposing an oil blockade earlier this year,
00:14:58.440 cutting off critical fuel supplies as Cuba struggles with widespread blackouts,
00:15:02.640 crumbling infrastructure, and shortages of basic necessities. The new restrictions adding to more
00:15:08.320 than six decades of U.S. economic sanctions against the communist government. In May,
00:15:13.040 the DOJ bringing criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro and five others,
00:15:18.320 accusing them of involvement in the 1996 shootdown of two American civilian planes that killed four people.
00:15:26.160 Castro denying the allegations.
00:15:28.620 Secretary Rubio taking a leading role in the administration's efforts to spur political change on the island,
00:15:34.940 issuing this warning to Cuba's leadership during a Fox News interview last month.
00:15:39.060 The truth is Cuba's already fallen.
00:15:41.080 It doesn't have a functional economy and it's governed by people who continue to preach about some revolution
00:15:47.580 that has been dead for 20 years.
00:15:49.080 It's never worked. 1.00
00:15:50.160 We're hopeful that Cuba will choose a different path. 0.82
00:15:52.860 We're hopeful that the people that today
00:15:54.680 sort of control the arms and the repressive regime,
00:15:58.840 that there'll be some people in there
00:16:00.040 that open their eyes to the reality
00:16:01.340 of what they're facing.
00:16:02.500 Unfortunately, the people that continue there
00:16:04.520 to chant revolutionary slogans,
00:16:06.320 too many of them still believe
00:16:07.960 that they could wait out this administration
00:16:09.480 and make no changes or do nothing.
00:16:11.480 They are wrong and they will learn the lesson
00:16:13.180 the hard way if they don't correct.
00:16:14.720 The admin continuing to apply economic pressure in recent weeks, imposing new sanctions earlier
00:16:21.080 this month against a Cuban state-owned bank that U.S. officials accuse of providing financial
00:16:26.220 services to an Iranian bank already under American sanctions. The White House also leaving open the
00:16:32.360 possibility of a negotiated resolution. Mr. Trump predicting last month that the U.S. and Cuba would
00:16:37.860 eventually reach an agreement without military action, although the status of those discussions
00:16:42.420 remains unclear. Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, pushing back against Secretary Rubio
00:16:48.360 in a social media post Friday, writing, quote, we reject any threats stemming from U.S. ambitions
00:16:54.200 toward Cuba. A 24-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer recounting his extraordinary effort to
00:17:01.360 save 16 people stranded in the Pacific Ocean, battling towering waves, darkness, and exhaustion
00:17:07.860 after their boat capsized over the coast of Mexico earlier this month.
00:17:12.480 Josh Law describing the harrowing overnight operation in an interview with the Associated Press.
00:17:18.260 The ordeal beginning around 1 a.m. on Friday, October 16th.
00:17:22.220 The Coast Guard receiving a distress call from a sinking boat
00:17:25.340 roughly 140 miles off of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.
00:17:30.640 By 2 a.m., Law and three other crew members taking off from a Coast Guard air station in Ventura, California.
00:17:37.720 Helicopter pilot Lieutenant Miyako Miller facing the difficult task of locating the sinking vessel
00:17:42.920 in near total darkness. With no moonlight to guide them, Miller relying on night vision goggles
00:17:48.980 and the stars to navigate across the open ocean. As the crew approaches the boat's last reported
00:17:54.840 location, Miller spots faint lights in the water, revealing survivors scattered across the ocean,
00:18:00.640 some clinging to wreckage or one another. Law then lowering himself into waves reaching
00:18:06.460 six to eight feet, the helicopter's powerful rotor blades whipping up even more turbulence.
00:18:12.920 Law swimming to each survivor and towing them to a rescue basket lowered from the helicopter.
00:18:18.280 The crew lifting survivors into the aircraft one by one, Law's protective suit slowly beginning
00:18:23.400 to fill with water, weighing him down. After nearly two hours in the ocean, Law telling the
00:18:28.940 AP, the physical toll, was catching up to him. Quote, I was experiencing exhaustion at that
00:18:34.180 point. Adding, but what I was experiencing was nothing compared to what they were. I just had
00:18:39.700 to keep that in mind. With 16 people rescued and the helicopter running low on fuel, the crew
00:18:45.300 heading to San Diego, where ambulances were waiting. During the flight, law treating three
00:18:50.260 survivors with serious wounds, including injuries the Coast Guard says were consistent with shark
00:18:55.320 bites. The crew are returning back to their base later that morning, completing what law says was
00:19:00.600 the longest rescue mission of his career. Eleven others aboard the boat were never found, with the
00:19:06.300 Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, and Mexican authorities searching more than 2,400 square miles before
00:19:11.960 calling off the effort two days later. Federal authorities now investigating what the boat was
00:19:16.820 doing so far off the Mexican coast. According to the Mexican consulate, all 16 survivors are
00:19:22.700 Mexican nationals. The boat traveling through an area frequently used by migrant smugglers,
00:19:28.460 although authorities have not confirmed whether the passengers were attempting to enter the U.S.
00:19:32.980 illegally. Customs and Border Protection interviewing the survivors,
00:19:37.340 with U.S. officials telling the AP nearly half have since been returned to Mexico.
00:19:44.460 And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show,
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