The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump Rally in PA, Pilot Reports Iranian Drone Swarm, DOJ’s Record Fraud Bust： AM Update 6⧸24

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00:00:17.680 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, June 24th,

00:00:21.540 2026, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:24.120 We have more factories being built, and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type than we've ever had.

00:00:33.160 President Trump returning to Pennsylvania, touting his agenda, promoting economic achievements, and shoring up support for a Republican incumbent ahead of the midterms.

00:00:43.460 A threat like that, it's really hard to defend against that.

00:00:46.460 A U.S. fighter pilot's account of a mysterious drone formation over Iran,

00:00:51.720 raising new concerns about the regime's military capabilities.

00:00:55.640 The DOJ announcing a record health care fraud crackdown,

00:00:59.520 charging hundreds of defendants in cases involving $6.5 billion worth of alleged false claims.

00:01:06.680 And Major League Baseball acknowledging it warned Giants players over Bible verses

00:01:11.780 before learning they had not been clearly told the team's pride caps.

00:01:16.460 or optional. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.

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00:02:28.860 near Allentown yesterday, his fifth trip to the state since returning to office last year,

00:02:33.720 as Republicans look to build momentum in a critical battleground ahead of the midterms.

00:02:39.660 Prior to the speech, the president touring a Mack trucks facility,

00:02:43.040 then taking the stage for roughly 90 minutes, surrounded by workers in yellow reflective vests.

00:02:48.440 The event marking the president's first rally since signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

00:02:54.000 In an unscripted moment toward the start of the event,

00:02:56.260 a member of the crowd shouting,

00:02:58.720 pedophile, before being escorted out.

00:03:01.460 Making trucks right here in eastern Pennsylvania, building the heavy-duty machinery that keeps our economy rolling, our factories moving.

00:03:10.200 The president ignoring the outburst, the remarks covering a wide range of topics beginning with a familiar America First message.

00:03:17.660 For decades, the workers of this Commonwealth watched globalist politicians, let other countries rip you off and close your factories, rob your jobs, take them away to foreign lands.

00:03:28.060 Then I came along. We stopped it very quickly. They put China first. They put illegal aliens

00:03:33.900 first and everybody else first but you. But we put you first by a lot. But at long last, 0.98

00:03:41.200 you finally have a president who is putting workers first, putting Pennsylvania first,

00:03:46.420 and putting America first. The president also making the case for his

00:03:50.760 tariff strategy from the factory floor. Right now, we have more factories being built,

00:03:55.960 and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type that we've ever had in the history

00:04:03.000 of our country by three times. That's because they didn't want to pay the tariff. How don't

00:04:11.440 you pay a tariff? You build your factory here and you hire American workers. It's quite simple 1.00

00:04:16.820 actually. But as you know, I placed a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles and very importantly, 0.99

00:04:23.540 opposed a 25 percent tariff on medium and heavy duty trucks so that Mack Truck could do very well

00:04:29.920 with this factory in Pennsylvania. But all American roads will be filled with American 0.97

00:04:35.220 trucks very shortly. Mr. Trump pointing to signs of economic stabilization following the Iran 0.96

00:04:40.680 agreement, announcing that 19 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday

00:04:45.940 and describing its impact on the market as a whole. The stock market hit a new high today again

00:04:51.460 And oil, for the first time in months, hit, think of it, $70 a barrel.

00:04:58.940 So we got a 70.

00:04:59.960 That equates to a very low price that oil is going to come charging down.

00:05:03.980 And with oil comes everything else.

00:05:06.400 The average price of gasoline nationwide is down 60 cents a gallon just from a short while ago.

00:05:12.640 President Trump then bringing the economic pitch closer to home,

00:05:16.240 rattling off a string of new investments and factory expansions

00:05:19.620 he says are already delivering for Pennsylvania.

00:05:22.600 And in the last few months alone, we've added 2,600 Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs,

00:05:29.940 and that number is going to go much, much higher as the factories start to open.

00:05:34.780 Because right here in Lehigh Valley, Eli Lilly has just announced, great company by the way,

00:05:40.200 drug company, a $3.5 billion investment in a brand new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility

00:05:46.560 right down the road. That's going to create over a thousand jobs, just that one.

00:05:51.900 Nokia is investing $30 million to expand its semiconductor testing and packaging operations,

00:05:58.700 thousands of jobs. And B. Braun has announced a $20 million expansion of its medical device

00:06:05.780 manufacturing operation in Allentown. The president later turning to the political

00:06:11.940 stakes of the trip, throwing his support behind incumbent Congressman Ryan McKenzie,

00:06:16.560 Congressman McKenzie now running for re-election against Democrat Bob Brooks, a firefighter union president in Pennsylvania's closely divided 7th District, a race the Cook Political Report currently rates a toss-up.

00:06:30.560 Mr. Trump inviting McKenzie to the stage in a way only he can.

00:06:34.800 We gotta get Ryan McKenzie elected. We gotta get Ryan. I'm not here for them, I'm here for him.

00:06:44.940 We got to get Ryan elected. Run up here, Ryan, fast. Nobody wants to hear you. Come on,

00:06:49.480 just run up. Nobody wants to hear you, Ryan. Well, Mr. President, I can't thank you enough

00:06:54.560 for coming here to the Lehigh Valley, highlighting the great men and women of Mack Trucks,

00:07:00.120 doing all the work that you do in Washington, D.C. for our veterans, our first responders,

00:07:04.880 and everybody across this country to continue to maintain America as the greatest country in the

00:07:11.760 world. You are the president that is fighting for all Americans. Thank you for being here, sir.

00:07:17.640 Wow, that's great. He learned something from you, David. That's great.

00:07:24.220 A U.S. fighter pilot rescued by special forces after ejecting over Iran,

00:07:29.680 describing an alarming sight in an exclusive report from CNN, quote,

00:07:34.120 multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one in a formation that resembled

00:07:40.440 a jellyfish, end quote. The outlet, citing four sources familiar with the matter,

00:07:46.120 reporting the pilot shared those details with intel officials in a debriefing that followed

00:07:50.780 his rescue, an account that, if accurate, could point to a significant leap in Iran's drone

00:07:56.460 warfare capabilities. The encounter, unfolding on April 3rd, shortly before the pilot and his

00:08:02.140 weapons system officer, were forced to eject from their F-15 over Iran. The shoot-down marking the

00:08:08.660 first time an American aircraft was brought down over Iranian territory during the conflict,

00:08:14.480 triggering an immediate search and rescue operation. The pilot recovered by U.S. forces

00:08:19.260 shortly afterward, while his fellow airmen remained stranded behind enemy lines for more than a day

00:08:25.320 before eventually being rescued. Investigators yet to determine exactly what brought down the

00:08:30.640 fighter jet. CNN, however, reporting initial assessments raised the possibility that the

00:08:36.020 mysterious drone formation may have helped Iranian forces target the aircraft. One source

00:08:42.280 telling the network the pilot described a, quote, minefield of drones in the air. Another

00:08:48.140 recounting the pilot's description as, quote, multiple drones interconnected and moving as one 0.99

00:08:53.420 with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs, real alien shit. The sources say the 0.99

00:08:59.880 technical term for the capability described by the pilot is, quote, one-to-many meshed networking.

00:09:06.020 which generally allows an operator to command several drones at once.

00:09:10.740 The pilot's account reportedly setting off intense debate inside the intel community

00:09:14.460 because previous U.S. assessments had not concluded that Iran possessed that level of drone technology.

00:09:21.080 Complicating that assessment, the pilot reportedly suffered a concussion in the crash,

00:09:25.740 raising questions among intel officials about how well he could recall the encounter.

00:09:30.800 It remains unclear whether the weapons systems officer who ejected alongside this pilot

00:09:35.800 also witnessed the alleged drone formation. If the pilot's account is accurate, CNN reports,

00:09:42.960 Iran may have developed the capability with help from Russia or China, both of which have

00:09:47.920 previously provided drone technology to Tehran. Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton

00:09:53.640 describing to CNN the serious challenge that kind of coordinated formation could pose to

00:09:58.960 American pilots and aircraft defenses. So that's going to be a real challenge for

00:10:04.300 the air force and and really all flying entities out there because a formation like this first of

00:10:10.060 all it was a surprise to the pilot i when he saw something like this and then the other part of it

00:10:15.500 is is that the the whole effort behind this is to create something that overwhelms the natural

00:10:22.300 defenses that the pilot has as well as the electronic defenses that the aircraft would have

00:10:27.620 for example an aircraft has something known as a radar warning receiver and it's designed to

00:10:32.820 really take a look at all the radar inputs that are coming that are possible threats to the aircraft

00:10:37.380 when you have multiple inputs or no input at all but a threat like that it's really hard to defend

00:10:42.680 against that so there is going to have to be you know probably an integration of artificial

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00:12:28.840 The DOJ yesterday announcing charges against roughly 450 people around the nation,

00:12:34.960 including 90 medical professionals accused of participating in health care fraud schemes

00:12:39.900 amounting to billions in stolen taxpayer funds.

00:12:43.800 This, the latest front in the Trump administration's effort to root out waste,

00:12:47.540 fraud and abuse across the federal government.

00:12:50.700 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

00:12:54.920 FBI Director Cash Patel, and other top officials

00:12:57.800 holding a press conference yesterday

00:12:59.920 detailing the alleged misconduct behind the coordinated crackdown.

00:13:04.440 Mr. Blanche on the scale of the nationwide operation.

00:13:07.220 We've charged 455 defendants across 56 U.S. attorney's offices

00:13:13.480 and 45 U.S. states and territories.

00:13:16.980 As alleged in the various indictments,

00:13:20.020 These individuals participated in health care fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs.

00:13:32.900 In total, our indictment charges 11 defendants for over $2 billion in fraudulent claims in connection to alleged wound care schemes.

00:13:42.800 The indictment also alleges that these individuals then used the taxpayer money to bankroll multimillion-dollar homes, luxury vehicles like a $135,000 Maserati, jewelry like an $865,000 Bulgari necklace, and to top it all off, to fund the construction of a $4.6 million hotel at a beach resort in the Philippines.

00:14:07.220 The bust marks the largest health care fraud takedown by number of defendants in DOJ history, with a $6.5 billion in alleged false claims representing the second largest dollar amount ever charged in a single enforcement action.

00:14:22.000 Under the Trump administration, Secretary RFKJ says HHS adopted a new approach to identifying and stopping fraud before it happens.

00:14:29.940 During the Biden administration, my predecessor implemented the so-called pay and chase system.

00:14:37.140 We know when billing, when invoices come into my agency, we can tell that some of them are fraudulent or probably fraudulent.

00:14:45.820 And the new system said we're not going to stop those payments.

00:14:50.600 We want everybody paid and then we'll claw them back at the end.

00:14:54.100 Of course, we never claw back anything.

00:14:56.740 They said that they were told to focus on enrollment and not fraud.

00:15:01.220 HHS is replacing the old pay and chase system with a detect and prevent strategy that identifies

00:15:08.000 suspicious claims before the taxpayer dollars ever leave the Treasury.

00:15:12.580 We are deploying advanced artificial intelligence and data analytics to identify fraudulent

00:15:19.440 billing patterns in real time, stop improper payments before they occur, and strengthen

00:15:25.460 oversight across federal health programs. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson

00:15:30.580 outlining one particularly grisly scheme. A nurse practitioner is accused of having

00:15:37.040 bilked Medicaid for almost a billion dollars in skin substitute allografts. But this isn't just

00:15:43.500 filing fake claims and trying to take money out of our pockets. She was performing these skin 1.00

00:15:49.500 substitute procedures on vulnerable elderly Americans in hospices and in nursing homes,

00:15:56.060 and then submitting those claims. She was using human beings, American citizens, as living

00:16:01.460 piggy banks, and that she took the money she got from those living piggy banks, and she bought 0.79

00:16:06.460 $865,000 necklaces that the department seized. She bought an almost half-million-dollar Ferrari

00:16:13.780 that the department also seized. We've heard a lot about the numbers today. We've heard how many

00:16:18.560 records have been broken by the Department of Justices and HHS's incredible efforts today.

00:16:23.360 But the numbers shouldn't be treated as an abstraction. This doesn't just affect the

00:16:27.580 whole country as taxpayers. Real human beings, American citizens, are physically maimed because

00:16:34.120 of this fraud. Yesterday's announcement coming just two weeks after the FBI launched its

00:16:38.980 Most Wanted Fraudsters list, modeled on the agency's traditional Most Wanted program,

00:16:44.240 but focused specifically on fugitives accused of major financial crimes.

00:16:49.120 Since then, the FBI announcing the arrest of two individuals on the list,

00:16:52.880 including one man accused of turning TV and internet ads for orthotic braces

00:16:57.460 into a pipeline for medically unnecessary prescriptions and fraudulent Medicare claims.

00:17:03.640 Here, Director Patel.

00:17:05.240 One of those individuals, Herbert Leon Kimball, was apprehended in the Philippines.

00:17:09.440 He's an American citizen.

00:17:10.460 He had been bilking, allegedly, the system against Medicaid for billions of dollars since 2014, $1.2 billion in telemedicine specifically alone.

00:17:19.360 That individual was apprehended in the Philippines and transported back to the United States of America where he will now face justice.

00:17:25.700 This is the reach of the United States government.

00:17:27.960 This is the reach of this team, the interagency and state and local partners focused on one mission and one mission alone to combat fraud and make sure the American public's precious taxpayer dollars go where they're supposed to go.

00:17:39.120 to the American people that need them the most, and not to these criminals who are stealing from us day in and day out.

00:17:46.500 Those days are over, and this should showcase to the world the length that we will go as an interagency and as a task force

00:17:53.280 to apprehend and arrest and bring to justice anyone who steals our dollars that are meant for our most vulnerable citizens.

00:18:01.400 Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred acknowledging in a letter to Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

00:18:07.900 that the league issued warnings to several San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses

00:18:12.760 on their team-issued rainbow Pride Night caps before learning they had not been clearly told

00:18:18.620 the Pride caps were optional. The controversy beginning June 12th when three Giants pitchers

00:18:24.380 added Bible references beside the Pride emblem on caps issued for the team's annual Pride Night.

00:18:30.760 Starting pitcher Landon Roop writing Genesis 9-12 through 16, citing the passage describing the

00:18:37.320 rainbow as the sign of God's covenant with Noah. MLB initially warning the players that the

00:18:42.500 additions violated its uniform policy, igniting accusations that the league was selectively

00:18:48.120 punishing Christian expression. The league later clarifying that the warning was not disciplinary

00:18:53.440 and had, quote, absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message, insisting players are

00:18:58.840 prohibited from adding any writing to the team apparel. Oh, but the rainbow emblem is fine?

00:19:04.300 Senator Hawley then demanding answers over what he called MLB's, quote,

00:19:08.520 apparent pattern of discriminating against Christians while promoting left-wing ideologies.

00:19:14.440 Mr. Hawley following the letter with a media blitz.

00:19:17.060 Here, an appearance on KCMO Talk Radio last week.

00:19:20.760 My view is if the commissioner persists in this and persists in violating these First Amendment

00:19:25.840 rights that belong to the players, I'm going to invite him to come testify before Congress.

00:19:29.480 He can take an oath.

00:19:30.400 he can explain to the entire American public why it is that his league is getting billions of

00:19:34.820 dollars in federal giveaways and yet is using it to persecute people for the basis of their

00:19:40.000 religious faith. On Monday, Senator Hawley sharing the response he received from Commissioner Manfred

00:19:44.860 late last week. Manfred, placing the blame squarely on Giants' leadership, arguing the

00:19:50.160 team failed to clearly inform its players that they were not required to wear the pride-themed

00:19:54.360 caps and could instead wear their normal uniforms. The commissioner reiterating the

00:19:59.280 league's prohibition on players adding messages to their apparel, regardless of the content.

00:20:04.500 Manfred also outlining how the Pride Night exception came to exist. Since 2023, teams have

00:20:10.520 generally been banned from altering uniforms for club-level theme nights. The league, however,

00:20:16.040 granting the Giants and the LA Dodgers permission to continue wearing Pride-themed apparel under a

00:20:21.940 grandfathered exception, on the condition that no player or staff member would be required to wear

00:20:28.180 According to Manfred, some Giants players did not understand that they had that choice,

00:20:33.020 leading them to add Bible references to the pride caps they apparently believed were mandatory.

00:20:38.160 The commissioner conceding MLB issued its oral warning before learning of the team's

00:20:42.940 communication failure and making clear the players were never fined or disciplined and never will be.

00:20:51.240 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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Trump Rally in PA, Pilot Reports Iranian Drone Swarm, DOJ’s Record Fraud Bust： AM Update 6⧸24

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