The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump Signs Epstein Bill, MBS and Elon Visit White House, Comey Case in Jeopardy： AM Update 11⧸20

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone.

00:00:31.820 I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.

00:00:38.160 It's Thursday, November 20th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:43.020 We will continue to follow the law again while protecting victims, but also providing maximum transparency.

00:00:50.760 With the passage of the Jeffrey Epstein Files bill in Congress,

00:00:54.260 new questions over whether a fresh DOJ probe could limit what's revealed.

00:00:59.140 Elon Musk returns to the White House as President Trump throws a ritzy dinner for the Saudi crown prince.

00:01:05.660 This was gobsmacking.

00:01:06.980 It was absolute silence.

00:01:09.120 The criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey hangs in the balance following a dramatic moment in court.

00:01:16.020 And a story about an elderly man swept up in the illegal immigration crackdowns

00:01:20.560 is not as the media would like you to think.

00:01:23.420 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:36.740 Yesterday morning, the Senate officially sending the Epstein Files Transparency Act to the White House for President Trump's signature.

00:02:45.500 Mr. Trump signing the bill into law on Wednesday.

00:02:48.240 After months of resistance, President Trump changing his mind last weekend, calling on Congress to pass the bill.

00:02:56.480 In an effort to move on from the case he calls a, quote, Democrat hoax, and an attempt to deflect from the White House's success.

00:03:06.040 Whether the passage of the bill will have that effect remains to be seen.

00:03:10.020 With the president's signature, the DOJ will have 30 days to turn over all Jeffrey Epstein-related materials, with the exception of classified information, child sex abuse material, and information identifying victims, and anything tied to an ongoing investigation.

00:03:28.160 Earlier this month, President Trump ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein's connections to Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton and tech billionaire Reid Hoffman.

00:03:39.200 A.G. Bondi, in turn, assigning the probe to U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton in the Southern District of New York.

00:03:46.860 Yesterday, at a press conference, A.G. Bondi questioned on whether the DOJ will withhold any materials.

00:03:53.540 The Epstein files, does the new investigation by the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney prevent the department from releasing all of the remaining files?

00:04:02.800 So, we have released 33,000, over 33,000 Epstein documents to the Hill, and we'll continue to follow the law and to have maximum transparency.

00:04:15.720 Also, we will always encourage all victims to come forward.

00:04:19.460 When you say follow the law, Attorney General, do you mean that you will provide all the files by 30 days?

00:04:26.620 We will follow the law. The law passed both chambers last evening. It has not yet been signed.

00:04:33.660 But we will continue to follow the law, again, while protecting victims, but also providing maximum transparency.

00:04:41.340 The bill requiring the DOJ to explain any redactions or withheld materials in a report within 15 days of the files being released,

00:04:51.020 barring the exclusion of any materials, quote,

00:04:53.840 on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.

00:05:03.760 President Trump yesterday speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in D.C.,

00:05:10.660 one day after hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House,

00:05:16.160 part of a broader effort to redefine U.S. relations with the Middle East.

00:05:20.760 The prince visiting the White House for the first time in seven years,

00:05:24.540 his last visit coming before the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.

00:05:32.240 President Trump's strategy in the region underscored during a diplomatic swing through the Middle East earlier this year,

00:05:39.460 mending fraught relationships through business deals and investments.

00:05:43.580 At the White House yesterday, MBS announcing Saudi investment into the U.S. will rise to $1 trillion.

00:05:51.160 President Trump yesterday at the Kennedy Center touting a global wave of investment into the U.S.

00:05:57.120 My message to all of the leaders and investors with us today, and they are the best in the world, is very simple.

00:06:04.040 Under the Trump administration, America is back and America is open for business.

00:06:08.940 In four long years, Joe Biden secured less than $1 trillion.

00:06:15.300 In nine short months, I've secured $18 trillion to rebuild our factories, create hundreds of thousands of jobs and bring back those beautiful words made in America.

00:06:29.900 So think of that. He did less than a trillion in four years.

00:06:34.520 And in nine months, we've done more than $18 trillion.

00:06:38.300 On Tuesday, President Trump and MBS signing several major agreements, including the sale of tanks and F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

00:06:51.640 Mr. Trump also elevating the Saudis to major non-NATO ally status, a designation streamlining arms transfers and deepening security cooperation.

00:07:01.680 Later that evening, President Trump hosting a formal dinner in honor of MBS, attended by dozens of high-profile guests, including Elon Musk, marking Musk's first visit back to the White House since his public split with Mr. Trump earlier this year.

00:07:18.260 Also in attendance, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang, Apple CEO Tim Cook, sales forces Mark Benioff, and Wall Street heavyweights, including Bill Ackman and Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwartzman.

00:07:30.620 And of all the power players in the room, the biggest burst of attention landing on global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays professionally in Saudi Arabia and is the most followed person on Instagram with 668 million followers.

00:07:48.100 President Trump giving him a special shout out.

00:07:50.440 This room is loaded up with the biggest leaders in the world, business, sports.

00:07:55.100 You know, my son is a big fan of Ronaldo, wherever Ronaldo is here, where Ronaldo and Barron got to meet him.

00:08:03.780 And I think he respects his father a little bit more now, just the fact that I introduced you.

00:08:08.920 So I just want to thank you both for being here. Thank you very much.

00:08:12.480 MBS closing out the remarks with this tribute to Mr. Trump.

00:08:16.440 Today, it's a special day.

00:08:17.580 We think the horizon of the economical cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the South America, it's bigger and wider in many, in many areas.

00:08:24.960 We've been signing a lot of agreement that's going to open the door to develop the relation deeper in many areas, and we're going to work on it.

00:08:32.000 We believe the opportunity is huge.

00:08:34.240 So we're going to focus on implementation and keep increasing the opportunities between our both countries.

00:08:39.180 So thank you again, Mr. President.

00:08:40.360 Coming up, the fate of former FBI Director James Comey's criminal case in question following a dramatic day in court.

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00:10:03.840 The criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey hanging in the balance as a federal judge questions whether Comey was properly indicted.

00:10:14.200 The case brought by U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey's legal team, back in court yesterday,

00:10:22.520 pursuing one of its multiple legal theories to get the case tossed.

00:10:26.500 Earlier this month, Comey's team challenging Halligan's appointment and sought access to secret grand jury proceeding materials for evidence of potential prosecutorial misconduct.

00:10:39.240 Yesterday, Comey's team arguing this case amounts to vindictive prosecution, a high legal bar as explained here by CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig.

00:10:48.060 You essentially have to show that you've been chosen, singled out for prosecution, either because of your political views

00:10:54.740 or because somebody in the government, in this case the president, hates you.

00:10:57.960 Now, I've seen plenty of motions brought along these lines that are almost always rejected by judges.

00:11:03.480 However, the case that Jim Comey has here is really the strongest one that I've seen in recent history for dismissal based on selective or vindictive prosecution.

00:11:13.760 You can never predict that somebody's going to win on these motions, John, because they're always long shots.

00:11:18.260 But Comey's got as good or better chances as anyone I've ever seen.

00:11:21.080 Comey's attorney, Michael Dreeben, telling U.S. Judge Michael Nachmanoff the case against Comey stems from protected speech and President Trump's animosity toward him.

00:11:33.540 Dreeben accusing President Trump of crossing a line using the, quote, full weight of the criminal justice system against Comey.

00:11:41.840 Comey's team submitting more than 50 pages of comments made by President Trump about the former FBI director over the years as evidence of vindictive prosecution, including a September Truth social post addressing Attorney General Pam Bondi, quote,

00:11:55.780 Pam, I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, same old story as last time, all talk, no action, nothing is being done.

00:12:05.240 What about Comey, Adam, Shifty Schiff, Letitia?

00:12:08.640 They're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done.

00:12:12.140 Justice must be served now.

00:12:14.880 DOJ prosecutor Tyler Lemons arguing there is no proof Halligan acted because of President Trump's truth social post.

00:12:22.400 And the case was indeed brought because Comey lied to Congress.

00:12:26.880 Judge Nachmanoff also pressing the DOJ on whether career officials initially recommended against prosecuting Comey.

00:12:35.100 Lemons declining to answer, saying that information is privileged and could not be shared without permission from the higher-ups,

00:12:42.480 although he acknowledged he had seen drafts of memos arguing for and against prosecuting Comey.

00:12:48.120 Judge Nachmanoff pressing the DOJ on an emerging irregularity on how the indictment itself was secured.

00:12:55.440 In September, Halligan presenting the case to a grand jury initially seeking three charges against Comey.

00:13:02.360 The panel rejecting one of the charges and approving two.

00:13:06.860 But today we learned that Halligan then revised the indictment to reflect the two approved charges,

00:13:12.180 but she never brought it to the full grand jury for reapproval.

00:13:15.800 Instead, Halligan had the revised charging document signed by the foreperson in the presence of just one other grand juror.

00:13:24.800 Halligan confirming to the judge that the revised indictment had not been seen by the full grand jury.

00:13:31.440 CNN reporter Caitlin Polantz, who was in the courtroom, describing the significance of that moment.

00:13:36.980 I've been in a lot of these hearings in politically charged cases over the years.

00:13:43.400 This was gobsmacking. It was absolute silence.

00:13:47.000 I've said before in this case that there have been moments where people gasped, but this was you could see the entire room shift.

00:13:54.220 And from then on, this was the only thing that was that was mattering in that case.

00:13:59.540 This is the only thing that the judge and that others were talking about.

00:14:03.600 The DOJ's lemons arguing the revised indictment was necessary because of the declined charge on the initial document.

00:14:11.060 Quote, they really had no other way to return it.

00:14:14.940 Comey's attorney pouncing on the moment, telling the court, quote, there is no indictment and pointing out the statute of limitations is now expired.

00:14:24.740 Judge Nachmanoff ending the hearing without a ruling, requesting more information from the DOJ about Halligan's handling of the indictment.

00:14:33.000 The DOJ responding in a Wednesday evening filing, quote, the grand jury foreperson as the representative of the grand jury endorsed the revised two count indictment by signing it and explaining on the record in open court that the indictment reflected the vote of the grand jury.

00:14:50.680 The constitutional function and purpose of the grand jury in all possible respects was achieved and respected in this indictment.

00:14:59.080 The trial is set for January for now.

00:15:03.000 A sympathetic news report out of Florida drawing scrutiny.

00:15:06.680 The Orlando Sentinel publishing a lengthy feature portraying a 79-year-old man as an innocent victim of President Trump's illegal immigration crackdown, while downplaying a criminal history including a rape conviction.

00:15:20.920 The piece begins with Paul John Boyerski, born in a German refugee camp to Polish parents one year after the end of World War II, legally moving to the U.S. with his family when he was five.

00:15:33.300 Quote, more than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford, Florida grandfather, still a man without a country, found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce.

00:15:52.200 Boyerski later transferred from Alligator Alcatraz to another holding facility in Miami, the Sentinel highlighting Boyerski's health struggles, complaints about treatment from guards, and lack of hot meals.

00:16:06.140 The toll of Boyerski's family also featured prominently, his stepdaughter moving back in with her elderly mother to help her through the ordeal.

00:16:16.020 The piece carefully documents Boyerski's long record of check-ins with immigration officials.

00:16:20.980 According to the Sentinel, in July, ICE telling Boyerski that if he did not voluntarily leave the country, he would be deported, quote,

00:16:29.080 but he could not make such plans as he has no passport and no country to return to.

00:16:34.360 It is true that Boyerski's birth circumstances are unusual, but the Sentinel does not describe any steps taken by him or his attorney to comply with ICE's explicit instruction to self-deport.

00:16:46.580 But why is Boyerski, who came here legally, under a deportation order to begin with?

00:16:51.560 By scrolling all the way down, the reader learns in paragraph 28 that Boyerski was arrested in 1966 for larceny and again in 1967 for receiving stolen goods, leading to a deportation order in 1968.

00:17:10.040 Boyerski was released from prison and permitted to apply for work authorization because West Germany, where he was born, and Poland, where his parents are from, refused to take him.

00:17:20.980 Just a few years later, in 1972, Boyerski was convicted of rape, sentenced to three years in prison, his wife telling the Sentinel he was innocent and swept up in a case involving other young men.

00:17:35.000 The Sentinel offering no independent corroboration and does not address the conviction beyond her claim.

00:17:42.120 Boyerski's lawyer now challenging the detention, requesting his client's release on bond while pursuing additional avenues to secure legal status.

00:17:50.980 Judge Romy Lerner on Tuesday, declining to make a decision, saying she needed more time to consider the complex case.

00:17:59.160 Boyerski remains in the Miami detention facility for now.

00:18:03.300 The timeline on the judge's decision is unclear.

00:18:06.460 A DHS official telling the court if Boyerski's current deportation is declared no longer valid, the government will issue a new one, seeking deportation to a third country.

00:18:16.380 That'll do it for your AM update.

00:18:20.960 I'm Emily Drashinsky, host of After Party.

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Trump Signs Epstein Bill, MBS and Elon Visit White House, Comey Case in Jeopardy： AM Update 11⧸20

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