The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump Meets Zelensky and Netanyahu, Biden Tapes Surface, Teen Lifeguard Saves Boy： AM Update 7⧸29

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Mark Halperin, host of Next Up with Mark Halperin. In today

00:00:06.600 for the great Megyn Kelly, it's Wednesday, July 29th, 2026, and this is your AM update.

00:00:12.580 President Trump hosting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister

00:00:16.860 Benjamin Netanyahu in separate White House meetings.

00:00:20.000 Some of this may be classified to be careful with it. I'm not sure.

00:00:24.720 Newly released audio revealing former President Joe Biden struggling with memory

00:00:29.040 while repeatedly referencing classified material during private conversations with his ghostwriter.

00:00:34.880 I'm certain that if the lifeguards weren't there, he wouldn't have gone home that night.

00:00:38.940 A heroic 16-year-old lifeguard battling thunderous ways to save a young boy,

00:00:44.120 now earning an invitation to the White House from President Trump.

00:00:47.940 A woman claiming she had an affair with convicted murderer Chris Watts,

00:00:51.580 speaking out, revealing a chilling detail about their relationship.

00:00:55.760 All that and more coming up here on your AM Update.

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00:02:06.600 President Trump hosting the leaders of Ukraine and Israel for separate White House meetings

00:02:11.060 yesterday as both countries remain locked in ongoing wars. Ukrainian President Vladimir

00:02:16.500 Zelensky meeting privately with Mr. Trump first, describing their conversation afterwards as,

00:02:21.760 quote, good. Zelensky saying the two discussed allowing Ukraine to produce American

00:02:26.640 Patriot missile interceptors under license, along with efforts to revive the diplomatic process

00:02:31.940 aimed at ending the war with Russia. The meeting coming as Ukraine claims its forces struck Russian

00:02:38.520 military targets in the Caspian Sea over the weekend, including vessels allegedly involved

00:02:43.440 in transporting military cargo connected to Iran. Notably absent from the Zelensky meeting,

00:02:50.160 Vice President J.V. Vance, who publicly clashed with the Ukrainian leader during

00:02:54.440 his disastrous Oval Office visit last year. Mr. Vance later joining President Trump for

00:03:00.140 his separate meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside Secretary of State

00:03:04.960 Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. The two leaders

00:03:10.920 discussing the ongoing war with Iran, the framework for peace in Lebanon, and a possible

00:03:15.660 expansion of the Abraham Accords, according to a White House official, the meeting taking place

00:03:20.680 amid emerging friction between Mr. Trump and Netanyahu over how Israel is handling the Middle

00:03:25.960 East conflict. Asked earlier this week about Netanyahu reportedly opposing the administration's

00:03:31.260 planned sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, the president aboard Air Force One making clear

00:03:36.820 the decision belongs to him. Look, Turkey's been a great ally for me. I think he's done a very good

00:03:44.200 job. Did a good job with Syria. He's a friend of mine. And nobody tells me what we should be

00:03:51.860 selling or not. Turkey has been a tremendous ally for me. It was up to Turkey. Turkey's not a big

00:03:58.960 fan of Israel. You know that, right? And not a big fan of Bibi. But they've been great for me.

00:04:06.480 Turkey has been great. Mr. Trump also criticizing Netanyahu yesterday on Fox News for publicly

00:04:12.120 announcing that Israel planned to present evidence Iran is rebuilding its military capabilities.

00:04:18.380 Well, I don't need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi's telling me that because he wants me to stay 0.55

00:04:22.380 involved. I mean, I don't necessarily. We have the finest because of Space Force. We have the

00:04:27.960 greatest cameras in the world focused. We know exactly what's going on. But no, I heard Bibi

00:04:33.400 announce that. I said, why don't you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?

00:04:37.680 I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe. It's not a big problem.

00:04:40.740 Netanyahu describing the meeting as, quote, a conversation of full partnership of mutual support with an understanding of the shared goal to ensure that Iran will not have nuclear weapons and also other goals.

00:04:53.080 White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt later describing both meetings as, quote, positive and productive.

00:04:59.340 Zelensky and Netanyahu then joining President Trump at memorial services for the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who died shortly after returning from a trip to Kiev, where he met with Zelensky.

00:05:10.740 former president joe biden's tape conversations with his memoir ghostwriter now coming to light

00:05:16.960 after a years-long fight over their disclosure the tapes capturing mr biden's conversations

00:05:22.300 with author mark zwanitzer the ghostwriter behind his 2017 memoir promise me dad special

00:05:28.760 counsel robert hurr obtaining the recordings during his investigation into mr biden's handling

00:05:33.860 of classified documents after leaving office as vice president investigators finding classified

00:05:39.580 material from Mr. Biden's years as vice president and senator inside his Wilmington, Delaware home

00:05:45.280 and at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The recording is becoming one of the most

00:05:50.400 damaging pieces of evidence detailed in her final report. Mr. Biden, reading aloud from personal

00:05:57.160 notebooks, investigators later determined contained classified information while appearing

00:06:02.820 at times to recognize the sensitivity of the material. Mr. Biden denying that he ever shared

00:06:08.420 classified information, telling reporters after its release, quote, guarantee you I did not.

00:06:14.400 The denial coming after Mr. Biden publicly expressed indignation over President Trump's

00:06:18.600 alleged handling of classified documents. Here he is speaking with 60 Minutes in 2022.

00:06:25.800 When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago,

00:06:32.820 what did you think to yourself looking at that image?

00:06:35.600 how that could possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible.

00:06:42.020 And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?

00:06:47.880 By that, I mean names of people who helped or et cetera.

00:06:51.940 And it's just totally irresponsible.

00:06:55.520 Her ultimately declining to bring criminal charges against then-President Biden,

00:06:59.500 the final report released back in February 2024,

00:07:02.240 concluding prosecutors would struggle to secure a conviction in part because jurors would likely

00:07:08.340 review Mr. Biden as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.

00:07:13.780 The Conservative Heritage Foundation requesting the records under the Freedom of Information Act

00:07:18.240 shortly after her report, with its oversight project later suing to force their release.

00:07:24.240 Mr. Biden's lawyers intervening in the case and successfully blocking the release of the tapes

00:07:28.280 until a federal appeals court ruled against him on July 20th,

00:07:32.200 Mr. Biden dropping his remaining legal challenges days later,

00:07:35.700 clearing the way for the tapes to be made public.

00:07:38.160 The conversations recorded in 2016 and 2017,

00:07:42.460 three years before Mr. Biden launched his successful campaign for the White House.

00:07:47.600 Mr. Biden can be heard repeatedly losing his train of thought.

00:07:51.340 Um, I was going to ask you something else.

00:07:53.940 Um, oh gosh.

00:07:58.280 i can't think what it is mr biden also making multiple references to classified information

00:08:05.100 here he is appearing to caution the author before discussing material from his notebooks

00:08:09.980 some of this may be classified to be careful okay i'm not sure i did not mark classified

00:08:16.320 but i just found all the classified stuff downstairs i wrote the president a handwritten

00:08:24.460 40 page memorandum another moment here and then uh next thing you have here is um

00:08:32.820 this is classified it's all of its goes to the 17th biden spokesperson tj ducklow condemning

00:08:41.540 the release accusing the trump administration of weaponizing the doj for political retribution

00:08:46.620 vice president of litigation at the oversight project jeff clark posting to x quote joe biden

00:08:52.240 shared classified information with a ghostwriter lacking a security clearance, and he illegally

00:08:56.980 retained those documents in the first place, period. Coming up, a fearless 16-year-old lifeguard

00:09:04.320 refusing to let go of a young boy has towering waves battered them both, the heroic rescue now

00:09:09.760 drawing an invitation from President Trump to the White House, and a woman claiming she had

00:09:14.460 a secret affair with the convicted family annihilator Chris Watts is speaking out.

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00:10:48.180 A heroic teenage lifeguard battling thunderous waves to save a young boy

00:10:52.560 from the Pacific Ocean, the extraordinary rescue now earning him an invitation to the White House.

00:10:58.380 The terrifying scene unfolding Saturday at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California,

00:11:03.980 as dangerous swells produce breaking waves reaching up to 10 feet. Witnesses saying the

00:11:09.540 conditions changed almost instantly. A boy believed to be about 10 years old suddenly

00:11:13.420 overwhelmed and swept further into the surf. A 16-year-old rookie lifeguard identified by Fox

00:11:19.720 News as Ryder charging into the water as towering waves crash around him. Dramatic video showing

00:11:26.260 Ryder wrapping both arms beneath the boy's armpits, refusing to release him as wave after wave

00:11:31.660 swallows the pair. Each time another wall of water approaches, Ryder appearing to draw breath before

00:11:38.040 diving underneath it, with the child still locked against his chest, the tremendous force of the

00:11:43.240 surf repeatedly dragging them several feet back toward the ocean, leaving Ryder to fight for

00:11:48.080 every inch of progress towards the beach. Several bystanders rushing into the water in an effort to

00:11:53.780 help. One man quickly knocked away as an enormous breaker crashes over the group, a second lifeguard

00:11:59.840 eventually reaching Ryder and the boy, the two rescuers continuing to drag the exhausted child

00:12:05.260 through the violent surf. Even in the shallower water, the powerful current repeatedly knocking

00:12:10.600 the group backward and leaving the boy unable to stand, the rescuers finally connected with

00:12:15.720 a human chain of people along the shoreline, allowing the group to pull Ryder and the child

00:12:20.640 the remaining distance onto the beach. Witnesses saying the battle lasting for longer than the

00:12:25.780 viral footage shows, with Ryder never once releasing his grip on the boy, the child reportedly

00:12:31.200 sustaining no serious injuries and was released to his parents. Scott Vander Doosen capturing the

00:12:37.100 rescue on camera, describing to local outlet NBC Bay Area how the ocean transformed without warning.

00:12:43.740 The waves were really, I wouldn't say they were tranquil, but they were what you would expect and

00:12:49.860 normal cadence and normal intensity. And then that just changed. And it changed in a heartbeat.

00:12:55.260 and it caught a lot of people off guard.

00:12:59.900 Unfortunately, this young man was overwhelmed and swept out in just a moment's time.

00:13:06.240 Yeah, I'm glad it ended the way that it did.

00:13:08.460 I'm certain that if the lifeguards weren't there, he wouldn't have gone home that night.

00:13:13.160 The video quickly going viral with Eric Trump calling the rescue, quote,

00:13:17.300 truly the best of America and urging the government to award Ryder its highest civilian honor.

00:13:22.920 President Trump posting yesterday to Truth Social, quote,

00:13:25.920 we're going to bring this heroic young man and his family into the White House with perhaps

00:13:29.620 the boy he saved to give him a high civilian honor. Very brave. He deserves it.

00:13:36.780 A woman who says she had a secret relationship with convicted murderer Chris Watts now speaking

00:13:41.480 publicly about the encounter in detail for the first time. Watts serving life in prison without

00:13:47.180 the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann and their

00:13:51.860 daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste in Colorado, in August 2018. Watts

00:13:58.260 initially appearing before local television cameras to appeal for his family's return

00:14:02.300 before investigators discovering their bodies at an oil site where he worked. Watts then falsely

00:14:08.060 claiming he killed Shanann after seeing her murder their daughters before ultimately pleading guilty

00:14:13.220 to killing all three. Amanda McMahon telling the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview she met Watts

00:14:19.220 through tinder while going through a contentious divorce and custody dispute of her own mcmahon

00:14:24.520 reportedly meeting watts in a chick-fil-a parking lot with watts claiming he was separated from the 0.97

00:14:29.660 mother of his children and accusing her of using the girls against him during a bitter custody

00:14:34.440 dispute mcmahon telling the outlet watts never described shenan as his wife instead reporting to

00:14:40.060 her as quote baby mama and portraying himself as trapped in a deeply unhappy relationship mcmahon

00:14:46.420 saying they eventually decided to watch a movie with Watts reportedly selecting the Leo DiCaprio

00:14:50.960 thriller Shutter Island. The film centering on a man who kills his wife after discovering she

00:14:56.600 murdered their children closely resembling the false account Watts would later give investigators

00:15:01.780 after Shanann, Bella, and Celeste were killed. Daily Mail senior reporter Steve Helling discussing

00:15:08.000 that disturbing parallel on the MK True Crime Show this week. So he has a movie date with Amanda

00:15:15.480 mcmahon his his mistress and he chooses the movie shutter island which is basically a man

00:15:23.000 about a man who kills his wife after she kills their kids which was a defense that he gave

00:15:29.400 first off he said oh yeah i didn't kill the girls she killed the girls so i killed her in a rage

00:15:35.360 which was of course an absolute lie and you know the idea that he watched this movie with his

00:15:41.200 mistress before he killed his family and then tried to use the plot of that movie as an alibi,

00:15:48.240 as an excuse, it boggles the mind. It's just a totally different level of delusion, of evil,

00:15:56.740 of manipulation, just all of that. McMahon also alleging Watts became frighteningly aggressive

00:16:02.800 during their first sexual encounter, pulling her hair and placing his hands around her neck.

00:16:06.940 she describes what came over him as a quote animalistic fury and saying the sudden change

00:16:12.560 left her afraid he might hurt her mcmahon originally telling investigators the encounter

00:16:17.400 was a one-time fling during the spring of 2018 she now claims the relationship actually began

00:16:23.300 around april or may of 2017 and continued intermittently for months explaining she

00:16:28.020 concealed its extent because she feared becoming connected to the murder case would damage her own

00:16:33.520 custody fight helling explaining the elaborate story watts reportedly used to draw mcmahon

00:16:38.820 into the relationship and the effect learning the truth later had on her she met him like he met all

00:16:45.440 of his girls on tinder and um he said that he was separated that his wife was a b word who was trying

00:16:53.440 to trying to keep the kids away from him he had this whole story um just to kind of get this woman

00:16:59.980 And then he, you know, they started a little affair there.

00:17:04.680 So Amanda explained the whole thing and said, you know, everything was fine and it felt good.

00:17:11.260 But then he started talking about his wife and getting more and more agitated.

00:17:15.380 And then she talked about some of the twisted sexual stuff that they did together and just how much it just sent her in a tailspin. 0.96

00:17:23.620 Once she found out that she, you know, had been sleeping with a guy who could kill his entire family.

00:17:28.860 mcmahon also reportedly alleging watts periodically contacted her seeking access to her prescription

00:17:33.960 opioids claiming he told her he wanted to get quote messed up she tells the daily mail she

00:17:39.220 eventually grew tired of his complaints late night messages and alleged requests for medication

00:17:43.660 ending contact by changing her phone number in march 2018 mcmahon reportedly recognizing watts

00:17:50.220 months later when she saw him on facebook appealing for information about his supposedly

00:17:54.560 missing family police interviewing her after someone forwarded investigators a facebook post

00:18:00.000 in which she described meeting watts on tinder mcmahon telling detectives at the time she was

00:18:05.120 quote 99.9 certain the man she met was watts and now she says she always knew his identity

00:18:12.080 watts denying he ever met mcmahon when questioned by police insisting his only

00:18:16.260 extramatital affair was with former co-worker nicole kessinger mcmahon initially offering

00:18:21.820 to provide text messages she claimed had recently been recovered from her iCloud before declining

00:18:26.760 because of their explicit nature and concerns her children might one day see them. The Daily Mail

00:18:32.020 reviewing several screenshots of the purported messages while acknowledging it could not

00:18:36.620 independently verify their authenticity. That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Mark Halperin,

00:18:44.600 host of NextUp. Find more at nextuphalperin.com and catch The Megyn Kelly Show today,

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Trump Meets Zelensky and Netanyahu, Biden Tapes Surface, Teen Lifeguard Saves Boy： AM Update 7⧸29

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