The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump Sets GOP Agenda, DOGE Staffer Assault Arrests, Brennan Referred to DOJ： AM Update 10⧸22

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:34.980 It's Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:39.880 Well, I'll tell you, it's amazing what we've done.

00:00:42.720 President Trump hosts GOP senators for lunch at the White House,

00:00:46.840 celebrating legislative victories so far and looking ahead to what's next.

00:00:51.000 He was then attacked by multiple suspects who then punched him repeatedly,

00:00:57.000 causing significant injuries to him.

00:01:00.000 Two more suspects arrested in connection with the August attack on a Doge employee.

00:01:05.980 Former CIA director John Brennan criminally referred to the DOJ for possible charges, again.

00:01:12.320 And the vile president-elect of the Oxford Union Debate Society

00:01:16.740 loses a vote of no confidence following his remarks celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination.

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00:02:49.120 President Trump hosting GOP senators for lunch at the White House Rose Garden yesterday,

00:02:54.380 celebrating legislative wins and laying out the next round of priorities

00:02:58.000 once the government reopens, that is.

00:03:00.840 And in a move that signals his transparency since taking office,

00:03:04.180 the strategy session was broadcast for all to see.

00:03:08.140 For those who have not been keeping track, this is the third week since Congress failed

00:03:12.160 to pass a spending bill, putting the government in shutdown.

00:03:16.000 Republicans have repeatedly offered a continuing resolution to simply maintain current spending

00:03:21.360 levels.

00:03:22.220 Democrats want to add spending. 0.59

00:03:24.480 Neither side is budging.

00:03:25.720 Round and round we go.

00:03:27.400 Mr. Trump providing the senators with lunch and a pep rally of sorts.

00:03:31.060 We've taken out 1,700 career criminals and people that came in through an open border.

00:03:37.900 They came in through Biden's open border and we've taken them out.

00:03:41.720 The thing having to do with all of the elements in the great, big, beautiful bill,

00:03:47.520 I'll tell you, it's amazing what we've done, $200 billion in costs for medical, what we've done,

00:03:55.060 $50 billion for rural hospitals. And remember, no tax on tips, no tax on social security.

00:04:03.560 Mr. Trump also congratulating Senate Majority Leader John Thune for pushing through a wave

00:04:08.460 of nominees for posts in his administration, made possible by a recent rule change allowing

00:04:14.440 lower-level nominees like ambassadors, general counsels, and undersecretaries to be approved

00:04:20.120 in bulk, clearing a significant backlog.

00:04:23.540 And after your pivotal changes to the Senate rules last month, as a result, this is what you

00:04:28.660 did, the unprecedented obstruction by the Democrats. We've confirmed more than 175 public servants,

00:04:36.140 people that are phenomenal, to keep posts. And that's just been over the last couple of weeks.

00:04:40.640 It's an unbelievable thing. And you passed the Lake and Riley Act to throw illegal alien criminals 1.00

00:04:47.160 out of our country. You passed the Genius Act and the Take It Down Act with the support of our

00:04:52.760 wonderful First Lady. She got, by the way, she got actual support from the other side. It was

00:04:58.000 bipartisan.

00:04:59.180 President Trump calling on Republicans to next pass Kate's Law, named after Kate Steinle,

00:05:05.080 a 32-year-old woman killed in 2015 while walking with her father in San Francisco. She was shot by

00:05:12.180 an illegal immigrant who had been deported from the U.S. five times. President Trump and many others

00:05:18.460 outraged in 2017 when a San Francisco jury found him not guilty of murder after defense lawyers argued

00:05:25.960 the shooting was unintentional. Another one I'm going to ask you to vote for, and it's in the House now,

00:05:31.500 it's Kate's Law. A young lady named Kate Steinle, I remember it so well. She was holding hands with

00:05:38.140 her father on the San Francisco pier, looking out into the water. It was beautiful. Everything was

00:05:43.340 beautiful. And she went down and she looked at her father, Daddy, Daddy, something happened,

00:05:48.080 something happened. It was so sad. Such a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful person. They wanted to pass what

00:05:54.320 they call Kate's Law. And it's now again in Congress. And basically, very simply, it says that

00:06:00.740 if you're an illegal alien and you come in and you get thrown out, if you come back and get caught,

00:06:06.660 you have to spend 10 years in jail. Very simple. If they would have had that, Kate Steinle would be 0.96

00:06:11.280 alive today.

00:06:12.420 With midterm elections just about a year away now, the president's message on that, a mix of confidence

00:06:18.140 and caution, warning the senators that even with this success, history is rarely on the incumbent

00:06:24.440 party's side. We should do fantastically well in the midterm. The only thing wrong with the midterms

00:06:29.700 is that statistically, when you look, a president gets elected and for some reason, and nobody,

00:06:36.420 even the great John Thune cannot explain to me, for some reason, even if he's a reasonably good

00:06:41.820 president, and we've had success like nobody. But for some reason, you lose the midterms. I don't know

00:06:48.580 why. I mean, the odds are tremendously against, like 92 percent or something. I don't know what it is,

00:06:55.060 but we have to win the midterms. Otherwise, all of the things that we've done, so many of them are going

00:07:00.080 to be taken away by the radical left lunatic.

00:07:03.460 Midterm elections set for November 3rd, 2026.

00:07:07.060 Two more young adults arrested and charged with the August attempted carjacking,

00:07:14.620 robbery, and beating of Doge employee Edward Corustein, known affectionately as Big Balls in

00:07:21.860 D.C. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Janine Pirro on Monday announcing the arrest of 19-year-old Lawrence

00:07:27.580 Cotton Powell and 18-year-old Anthony Taylor for their alleged role in the attempted carjacking

00:07:33.620 of Corustein, and a separate robbery that occurred just minutes before. According to Pirro, the teens,

00:07:40.220 among a larger group of friends that night, approaching 22-year-old Ethan Levine just before

00:07:45.940 3 a.m. outside of a gas station, attacking him. Cotton Powell and Taylor both charged with

00:07:51.840 assaulting Levine. Cotton Powell accused of stomping on Levine's head, the group robbing him of his sneakers

00:07:57.800 and his watch before taking off down the street. Ms. Pirro describing what happened next.

00:08:03.580 The group then walked in the direction of where another crime occurred. Edward Corustein,

00:08:10.900 a 19-year-old Doge person who was working in the administration, was walking a young woman to her car.

00:08:18.560 Approximately 10 suspects approached him and as they did, he pushed the young woman into the car and

00:08:26.980 he was protecting her from the group before he was then attacked by multiple suspects who then

00:08:33.300 punched him repeatedly, causing significant injuries to him. They got him on the ground and as they were

00:08:41.980 doing so, they demanded the car from the woman who was inside the car and had already locked the car. 1.00

00:08:49.600 They were banging on the car, they were pulling the car door, trying to get the car open and were

00:08:55.620 telling the woman in the car to hand over the keys. And the woman was, as I said, able to lock the car 0.95

00:09:03.320 door so they were unable to gain entry. The investigation into the gas station assault eventually

00:09:08.880 connecting Cotton Powell and Taylor to that attack. Pirro holding up Cotton Powell as a case study

00:09:14.760 in the failure of the D.C. City Council's soft on juvenile crime laws and the judges refusing to

00:09:20.500 demand accountability. On April 3rd of this year, Lawrence Cotton Powell was sentenced for a felony

00:09:28.660 attempted robbery. My office asked for jail time. Judge McClain made a decision to give Cotton Powell

00:09:37.020 probation. By May 4th, Powell re-offends. That same Judge McClain comes back and releases Cotton Powell

00:09:47.600 and tells him, basically, be a good boy. And on July 25th, another judge suspends his sentence

00:09:56.640 and decides that he should be on probation. So after a felony of attempted robbery conviction,

00:10:04.260 after a violation of probation, after a second crime, after a second conviction, after no compliance

00:10:12.260 with C. Sosa, the judges say do better and they let him go. And guess what? Within 10 days,

00:10:20.000 he's at it again with Ethan Levine and Edward Corstein. Unbelievable. Juvenile crime exploding in D.C.

00:10:28.940 The Washington Post reporting teens are responsible for about half of all robbery arrests,

00:10:34.500 with about 60 percent of all carjacking arrests from January to April of this year committed by teens.

00:10:41.040 Under D.C.'s Youth Rehabilitation Act, criminal defendants under the age of 25 can petition the

00:10:48.080 court to be tried as a juvenile. Last week, two other teenagers involved in the Corstein attack

00:10:53.860 pleading guilty to simple assault charges. The 15-year-old male and female sentenced by a D.C.

00:11:00.380 court judge to probation. Biden-appointed Judge Kendra Briggs telling the criminal duo she really

00:11:06.800 hopes they learn from this experience. Pirro slamming the D.C. council and judges, assigning

00:11:12.400 them some blame in allowing the violence to continue. And you've got the D.C. council that has passed laws

00:11:18.300 that make it almost impossible to sentence young offenders. And one of the defendants in this case,

00:11:22.920 who was convicted of a felony. My office asked for jail time. The judge gave him probation. So this

00:11:29.060 revolving door is apparently the common scenario in D.C. And we are fighting, fighting to make these

00:11:37.240 young people accountable and also to make judges accountable. Then we've got young offenders who are

00:11:43.200 absolutely convinced that they can commit these crimes and get away with it because they have.

00:11:48.400 We are covering and coddling these young criminals and they are going out in gangs or crews in D.C.

00:11:55.620 and beating the hell out of people. And judges are basically saying, oh, be better next time.

00:12:01.140 This is not the way the government should be run.

00:12:04.660 Cotton Powell and Taylor charge with two counts of robbery and assault with intent to commit robbery.

00:12:09.540 Those crimes carry up to 15 years per count. They also face an attempted carjacking charge,

00:12:14.840 which carries a reported maximum of five years in prison. Though if recent history is any guide,

00:12:20.640 they're more likely to be sentenced to a slap on the wrist. The pair of defendants do in court in

00:12:25.680 early November for a preliminary hearing. Coming up, former President Obama's CIA director,

00:12:32.660 John Brennan, referred to the DOJ for a criminal investigation accused of lying to Congress regarding

00:12:38.600 the widely debunked Steele dossier. And the Oxford Union Debate Society's president-elect loses a

00:12:46.480 no-confidence vote following vicious remarks made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

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00:13:39.900 Former CIA director under President Obama, John Brennan, referred to the DOJ for investigation

00:13:45.340 into whether criminal charges are appropriate by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. He's accused

00:13:51.580 of making false statements to Congress. Chairman Jordan accusing Brennan of lying when he denied that

00:13:57.860 the CIA relied on the Steele dossier, a Clinton-funded piece of OPPO research, while crafting the 2017

00:14:04.680 Intelligence Community Assessment, or ICA, in the waning days of the Obama White House. That document,

00:14:12.100 produced at President Obama's request, stating Russia, quote, developed a clear preference for

00:14:17.900 Donald Trump and, quote, aspired to help him win the 2016 election, neither of which is actually

00:14:23.980 supported by the available intel at the time. The ICA becoming the basis for years of frenzied

00:14:30.380 reporting, eventually leading to the Mueller probe and years of congressional investigations.

00:14:35.800 Chairman Jordan's letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi citing multiple allegedly false statements by

00:14:41.600 Director Brennan stemming from a May 2023 transcribed interview before the Judiciary Committee

00:14:46.920 originally relating to the Hunter Biden laptop probe. Congressman Matt Gaetz pressing Brennan on his

00:14:53.200 Russian disinformation expertise, quote, you were involved with analyzing the Steele dossier.

00:14:59.440 Brennan responding, quote, no, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first

00:15:05.200 time I actually saw it, it was after the election, and the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier.

00:15:11.280 It was in the FBI's purview, their area, not ours at all. We learned this summer from newly

00:15:17.740 declassified documents that senior CIA intel officials objected to referencing the Steele dossier

00:15:23.940 at all in the intel community assessment, citing its serious credibility problems. Director Brennan

00:15:30.540 overruled them, allegedly saying, yes, but doesn't it ring true? Chairman Jordan also citing a later

00:15:37.900 exchange in which Brennan testified, quote, the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or

00:15:43.760 inclusion of the Steele dossier in the intelligence community assessment. That's true if you don't

00:15:49.480 count the opinions of the CIA's director, Mr. Brennan, a rather material exclusion. Jordan writing,

00:15:55.920 quote, ultimately, according to documents declassified by the Trump administration,

00:15:59.840 the decision to incorporate information from the Steele dossier in the ICA was jointly made by the

00:16:06.180 directors of CIA and FBI. Brennan made the ultimate decision, along with then FBI Director James Comey,

00:16:12.840 to include information from the dossier in the ICA, and Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who

00:16:20.260 objected to the inclusion of the dossier material. Brennan is reportedly already under FBI investigation

00:16:26.960 following a criminal referral from current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, also relating to the 2016

00:16:33.080 Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Mr. Brennan has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

00:16:38.320 Oxford Union president-elect George Aberonnier fails a no-confidence vote following comments he made

00:16:47.700 celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination during a September campus event. The Oxford Union is one

00:16:54.000 of the world's oldest and most respected student societies at the University of Oxford in England,

00:17:00.300 known for championing free speech and hosting spirited discussions on politics, culture,

00:17:05.440 and current affairs, which is why many were shocked and disgusted when the president-elect

00:17:11.100 immediately celebrated the September assassination of the free speech icon Charlie Kirk with a comment

00:17:18.600 on Instagram, quote, Charlie Kirk got shot, lol, and another on WhatsApp, quote, Charlie Kirk got shot,

00:17:26.240 let's effing go. Aberonnier himself debated Kirk just a few months before. A moment of that here.

00:17:33.440 And what is your solution to bring about male happiness in the West? Mine is men get married, 0.92

00:17:38.600 have children, and provide. What is yours? That's a big question. I think an affirmation of

00:17:45.560 their emotions, their emotional states. We've tried that. I think men are free to live single, 0.79

00:17:49.280 men are free to be in gay relationships. I mean, respectfully, you're scrambling for an 0.89

00:17:53.880 excuse to get away from the truth that's right in front of you. Maybe men should get married and

00:17:58.480 have children because it's worked for 2,000 years. Charlie wiped the floor with him, respectfully,

00:18:05.940 but devastatingly. And this small little man couldn't get past it. The union initially releasing

00:18:12.640 a milquetoast statement condemning the comments last month, quote, the reported words and sentiments

00:18:17.900 expressed by the president-elect do not represent the Oxford union's current leadership or committee's

00:18:24.540 view. That's it? Those are the best sentiments a debating society could find? Aberonnier elected

00:18:32.020 president of the society in June, but not set to take office until 2026. Oxford College announcing

00:18:38.680 no disciplinary action would be taken against Aberonnier, calling the comments, quote, abhorrent,

00:18:44.380 but stating they do not violate policies on free speech, quote, or any other relevant policy.

00:18:50.040 Is there one requiring you to be, like, a decent human being? In a separate statement, the union

00:18:56.520 more forcefully sticking up for Aberonnier, who is black, quote, we are deeply disturbed by and strongly

00:19:03.340 condemn the racial abuse and threats that the president-elect has faced in response. No individual

00:19:08.760 should ever be attacked because of the color of their skin or the community they come from. Following

00:19:14.160 pressure from prominent U.S. lawmakers, including Senator Ted Cruz, former union leaders and more,

00:19:19.740 the union then releasing yet another statement days after Charlie's murder, saying they do not,

00:19:25.780 quote, possess executive powers to summarily dismiss a president-elect. However, the complaints

00:19:31.220 filed against the president-elect have been forwarded for disciplinary proceedings and will be addressed with

00:19:36.500 the utmost seriousness. After a protracted dispute over procedural issues, the vote of no confidence

00:19:43.120 against Aberonnier passing on Monday. The final tally, 1,228 in favor of his ouster versus 501 against.

00:19:54.100 Aberonnier is contesting the results, claiming he is still president-elect. Okay, Stacey Abrams,

00:20:02.240 the timeline on next steps not yet clear.

00:20:04.940 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show,

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The Megyn Kelly Show - October 22, 2025

Trump Sets GOP Agenda, DOGE Staffer Assault Arrests, Brennan Referred to DOJ： AM Update 10⧸22

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