Trump Breaks News on Zelensky in Address to Congress, Canada Responds to Tariffs： AM Update for 3⧸5
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Trump delivers his first joint address to Congress and Democrats boo and jeer at him. Megyn Kelly gives us the lowdown on the highlights of the speech, and gives us a special shout out to Peyton McNabb, a former high school volleyball player who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a collision with a volleyball ball.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, and this is your
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President Trump's joint address to Congress celebrates his ferocious pace of actions in
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just the first six weeks of his presidency. Republicans were raucous. Democrats, not exactly.
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If he wants to destroy our economy and our families, I will shut down the electricity
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President Trump may dial back tariffs following a forceful response from the Canadians,
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and Attorney General Pam Bondi finally gets her hands on the rest of the Epstein files.
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Maybe. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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President Trump delivering a joint address to Congress, touting the success of his
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administration's wide ranging actions since taking office less than two months ago. Billions of
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dollars in new investments, illegal border crossings plummeting to historic lows, the unleashing of
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American energy and President Trump announcing President Zelensky sent him a letter saying
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Ukraine is ready to sign the minerals agreement. Today, I received an important letter from President
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Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as
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possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians, he said. I appreciate
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that he sent this letter. It's time to stop this madness. It's time to halt the killing. It's time to end
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this senseless war. The defining moment of the night, Democrat opposition to just about everything. Within
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moments, an unprecedented outburst from Dems, booing and jeering as President Trump highlighted his
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electoral victory. Texas Congressman Al Green shouting and waving his cane from his chair.
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Speaker Mike Johnson quickly squashing the outburst.
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Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum,
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the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
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In 2009, South Carolina Congressman Republican Joe Wilson was widely condemned by members of both
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parties for shouting, you lie, to President Obama in his first joint address. President Trump replying
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to the pandemonium, saying he could find a cure to a devastating disease or stop all crime, and the
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Democrats would not stand and cheer. To which the Democrats responded by scowling from their seats.
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Many of the Democrat congresswomen, dressed in pink, an homage to the pink hats that defined
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the leftist women's march, formed to protest the first Trump administration. Early on in his remarks,
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President Trump giving a special shout-out to former high school volleyball player Peyton McNabb.
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He smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her
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right side and ending her athletic career. It was a shot like she's never seen before. She's never
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seen anything like it. Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick
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the men off the girls' team, or they will lose all federal funding.
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President Trump calling participation of biological males in female sports demeaning to women, saying,
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we're not going to put up with it any longer, calling it part of his common-sense revolution.
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On Monday, Democrats blocked the vote on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
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The bill would have banned biological males from competing in female sports.
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President Trump highlighting the massive amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse discovered by Elon Musk and
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$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is.
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In the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
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$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.
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Elon receiving massive boos from the Democrats, many of whom held tiny little signs reading,
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President Trump taking the fight right back to his detractors, calling on Congress to pass
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And I'm sure that the people on my right, I don't mean the Republican right, but my right
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right here, I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts because otherwise I don't believe
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So I'm doing you a big favor by telling you that.
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But I know this group is going to be voting for the tax.
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Mr. Trump highlighting the first and so far only legislative achievement of his second term,
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The president acknowledging the presence of Allison and Lauren Phillips, the mother and
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Lakin was murdered by an illegal immigrant let into the country by the Biden administration.
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Last year, I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not
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That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention
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of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
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So Allison and Lauren, America will never, ever forget our beautiful Lakin-Hope-Riley.
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Lakin's mother mouthing thank you to the president.
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In an emotional moment, President Trump acknowledging another guest, Alexis Nungare, mother of 12-year-old
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Jocelyn, who was sexually assaulted and murdered by two illegal immigrants, her body left in a
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One thing I have learned about Jocelyn is that she loved animals so much.
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Across Galveston Bay, from where Jocelyn lived in Houston, you will find a magnificent national
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wildlife refuge, a pristine, peaceful, 34,000-acre sanctuary for all of God's creatures on the
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And Alexis, moments ago, I formally renamed that refuge in loving memory of your beautiful
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Stephen Miller posting on X, they, meaning Democrats, didn't stand for Jocelyn.
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They sat even when a 13-year-old boy with cancer was honored.
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President Trump turning to foreign policy, sending a message to Greenland.
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And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.
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We need Greenland for national security and even international security.
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And we're working with everybody involved to try and get it.
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But we need it really for international world security.
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Mr. Trump saying Greenland is vital to U.S. national security interests.
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Prior to the speech, the president's staff teased many surprises.
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One big one, the announcement of the capture of the terrorist who planned the 2021 Abbey Gate
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Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible
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And he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.
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Thirteen service members were killed and dozens horrifically wounded in the explosion amid the
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Last week, the president instructed the secretary of defense to investigate the withdrawal and
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deliver accountability to the generals responsible for botching it.
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President Trump winding down his speech with a bold vision for America, promising the freest
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and most dominant civilization on the face of the earth with the highest quality of life.
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My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of America has
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It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.
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Coming up, Canada threatens to escalate measures in the tariff wars and the latest on the Epstein
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President Trump doubling down on his commitments to those tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
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They've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing
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And they are, in effect, receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars.
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And the United States will not be doing that any longer.
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Though Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox Business earlier in the day, President
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Trump may be willing to compromise on a lower rate.
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I think he's going to work something out with them.
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It's not going to be a pause, none of that pause stuff.
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But I think he's going to figure out, you do more, and I'll meet you in the middle some
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And we're going to probably be announcing that tomorrow.
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So somewhere in the middle will likely be the outcome, the president moving with the
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This comes after the Canadians' forceful response to the 25% tariffs.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has resigned as head of his party and will be replaced when
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Canada holds an election, appealing to U.S. citizens yesterday morning.
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But your government has chosen to do this to you.
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They've chosen to sabotage their own agenda that was supposed to usher in a new golden
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And they've chosen to undermine the incredible work we've done together to tackle the scourge
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that is fentanyl, a drug that must be wiped from the face of the earth.
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Mr. Trudeau warning the U.S. that Canada is prepared to up the ante.
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And should these tariffs not cease, we are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces
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and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures.
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Measures which will demonstrate that there are no winners in a trade war.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford telling NBC News he's willing to cut off American electricity.
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We keep the lights on, the 1.5 million homes and manufacturing in New York, in Michigan,
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If he wants to destroy our economy and our families, I will shut down the electricity going
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Mr. Ford promising to direct energy producers to shut down energy exports to the U.S. entirely
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if Mr. Trump goes forward with his planned reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd.
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That's an additional set of tariffs on top of the 25 percent that went into effect yesterday.
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In the meantime, Mr. Ford says Ontario is slapping a 25 percent electricity export tax,
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President Trump justifying the tariffs on the basis of a national emergency, he says, related
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On Monday, he told reporters Canada would have to start building their cars in the United
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The Trump administration has yet to name any specific steps Canada or Mexico could take
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Canada's economy is heavily dependent on the U.S.
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The Times reports three-quarters of all Canadian exports are destined for the United States
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Simply put, the tariffs will plunge Canada into a recession.
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Canada's Chamber of Commerce predicts their GDP will plunge by a whopping 2.6 percent.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing her office has secured the rest of the Epstein files.
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The original release of the Epstein files last Thursday, a total flop containing just
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A source revealing to the Attorney General that the rest of the Epstein files were hidden
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away at the FBI's New York field office, located in the jurisdiction of the Southern District
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Bondi telling Fox News her office received a truckload of documents, supposedly the remainder.
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We got them all by, hopefully all of them, Friday at 8 a.m., thousands of pages of documents.
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I have the FBI going through them, and Cash is also, now that we have Cash here, it's a
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game-changer, of course, and Cash is going to, Director Patel, is going to get us a detailed
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report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents.
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Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel have committed to full transparency, though some information,
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And when we redact things, Sean, what we're going to do is not just pull pages out like
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If something's redacted, you will know the line, and you will know why it's redacted,
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a victim's name, identifying information of a victim.
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On Monday, the head of the FBI's New York Division, James Dennehy, was forced to resign
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Mr. Dennehy, writing in a letter to his staffers, quote,
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In addition to overseeing the office withholding the Epstein files from the DOJ,
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Mr. Dennehy made headlines in January thanks to an email he sent to staffers following the
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DOJ's request for a list of every agent who worked on the January 6th cases.
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Today we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own as good people are being
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walked out of the FBI, and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance
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His resignation is the latest sign from Team Trump that internal resistance will not be tolerated.
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Join me back here later for the Megan Kelly Show.
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We're live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east,