The Megyn Kelly Show - January 29, 2026


Trump Teams Up with Nicki Minaj, Details on Rep. Omar Incident, Rubio vs Senate Dems： AM Update 1⧸29


Episode Stats

Length

19 minutes

Words per Minute

160.85527

Word Count

3,097

Sentence Count

224

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

The Trump Accounts Program, signed into law as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, creating new tax-advantaged investment accounts for children under 18 through the Treasury Department, President Trump is touting the program as a generational wealth-building tool for American families.


Transcript

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00:00:33.320 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.
00:00:39.340 It's Thursday, January 29th, 2026.
00:00:42.140 And this is your AM Update.
00:00:44.060 Under this administration, we're going to leave every child with real assets and a shot at financial freedom.
00:00:51.100 President Trump, joined by rapper Nicki Minaj, touting the Trump Accounts Program to Boost Prosperity for American Children in Washington, D.C.
00:01:00.000 New details about the man who sprayed Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with a liquid during a town hall event.
00:01:07.240 This is not a frozen dinner you put in a microwave and in two and a half minutes it comes out ready to eat.
00:01:12.260 Secretary of State Marco Rubio defending the administration's progress in Venezuela and sparring with Dems in the Senate.
00:01:18.860 And Apple CEO Tim Cook faces backlash over an internal memo urging calm in the wake of the Alex Prattie shooting in Minneapolis.
00:01:27.800 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:39.200 The Trump administration holding a high-profile event yesterday spotlighting the Trump Accounts Program featuring rapper Nicki Minaj and others.
00:02:50.180 The Trump Accounts Program signed into law as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,
00:02:55.500 creating new tax-advantaged investment accounts for children under 18 through the Treasury Department.
00:03:02.740 President Trump touting the program as a generational wealth-building tool for American families.
00:03:08.480 Perhaps no provision of the Great Big Beautiful Bill will prove more consequential than Trump Accounts.
00:03:16.500 Parents, employers, churches, states and loved ones will also be able to add up to $5,000 in additional money for those accounts.
00:03:24.920 And with every modest contribution, Trump Accounts should reach at least $50,000 in value by the time the child turns 18
00:03:33.840 and could be very substantially more than that.
00:03:37.320 With slightly greater contributions, the typical account will grow to $100,000, $200,000,
00:03:43.400 and can even grow up to past $300,000 per child.
00:03:47.700 The size and scale of this wealth will dwarf all government programs ever created to benefit America's youth.
00:03:54.520 There's never been anything like this.
00:03:55.980 That's why everybody's talking about it.
00:03:58.640 Even really, people that truly hate me are making this investment.
00:04:03.640 Mr. Trump outlining why he sees the program as legacy-defining.
00:04:07.980 Every president in modern history has left our children with nothing but debt.
00:04:13.240 But under this administration, we're going to leave every child with real assets and a shot at financial freedom.
00:04:20.540 We'll ensure that Americans don't just end their lives with a nest egg,
00:04:25.640 but instead all Americans will begin their lives with a beautiful nest egg.
00:04:30.180 There's never been anything quite like this.
00:04:33.560 Eligible children born from 2025 to 2028 will receive $1,000 in seed money from the Treasury to kickstart their investments.
00:04:43.120 The Dell family paving the way in December with a $6,250,000,000 donation to the program.
00:04:51.440 Thanks to the Dells, the first 25 million American children aged 10 and under living in areas with median incomes below $150,000
00:05:00.840 will receive an additional $250.
00:05:03.580 Up to $5,000 per year can be contributed to the accounts, which the child can access at age 18 to pay for college, buy a home, or start a business.
00:05:14.700 If the child decides not to withdraw the money at that time, it then functions as a retirement account.
00:05:20.960 Stake and Shake, Broadcom, Intel, IBM, JP Morgan, Chipotle, Coinbase, and Comcast all announcing yesterday
00:05:27.680 they will begin offering matching contributions for employees.
00:05:31.780 Joining other companies like Charles Schwab, Uber, MasterCard, and Robinhood.
00:05:37.180 Visa now allowing customers to earn cash back rewards that go to Trump accounts.
00:05:42.760 Rapper Nicki Minaj also called to the stage during the event.
00:05:45.920 I don't know what to say, but I will say that I am probably the president's number one fan.
00:05:56.500 And that's not going to change.
00:05:59.080 And the hate, or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all.
00:06:06.360 It actually motivates me to support him more.
00:06:10.300 And it's going to motivate all of us to support him more.
00:06:13.280 We're not going to let them get away with bullying him and, you know, the smear campaigns.
00:06:18.480 It's not going to work, okay?
00:06:20.640 He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him.
00:06:28.200 Amen.
00:06:29.920 Minaj reportedly pledging to donate up to $300,000 to be distributed to accounts belonging to her fans' newborns.
00:06:37.760 The accounts are set to go live on July 4th.
00:06:39.640 Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota sprayed with a brownish liquid by a disruptor at a town hall event in Minneapolis.
00:06:50.720 A hazmat team confirming the substance to be apple cider vinegar, reports Alpha News.
00:06:56.500 The congresswoman was speaking Tuesday night when a man, seated in the front row, stood up,
00:07:01.280 approached the congresswoman, and sprayed her with a plastic syringe containing the then-unknown substance.
00:07:08.420 The moment, here.
00:07:10.040 Christy Noem must resign or face impeachment.
00:07:16.280 I don't know.
00:07:22.060 I need a napkin to know nothing.
00:07:24.440 We won't continue.
00:07:25.300 These fucking assholes are not going to get away with it.
00:07:27.040 The suspect has been identified by authorities as 55-year-old Anthony J. Kazmirzak.
00:07:33.640 He was arrested at the scene and booked into Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of third-degree assault,
00:07:39.480 according to the Minnesota Star-Tribune.
00:07:42.100 Kazmirzak's social media activity indicating support for President Trump.
00:07:46.000 A neighbor, Brian Kelly, describing him to the New York Post as a, quote,
00:07:49.720 pretty conservative guy who, quote, doesn't like Omar.
00:07:53.220 Kelly also telling the Post that Kazmirzak was involved in a past car accident that affected
00:07:58.940 his spine, saying he is heavily medicated and not physically able to do much as a result.
00:08:05.220 According to Kelly, Kazmirzak asked him to watch his dog before attending the town hall,
00:08:10.060 saying, quote,
00:08:10.960 I'm going to this Omar thing.
00:08:12.780 I might get arrested.
00:08:14.600 Omar was not injured and completed her remarks without receiving medical attention.
00:08:19.600 She later posted on X, quote,
00:08:20.940 I'm okay.
00:08:21.900 I'm a survivor, so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work.
00:08:26.660 I don't let bullies win.
00:08:28.300 President Trump responding to the event Tuesday night on a phone call with ABC's Rachel Scott,
00:08:33.320 quote,
00:08:34.020 I think she's a fraud.
00:08:35.280 She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.
00:08:38.320 Minneapolis police confirming yesterday the FBI is leading the investigation.
00:08:42.920 Federal charges are expected to be filed.
00:08:45.220 The U.S. Capitol Police, tasked with investigating threats to members of Congress, releasing a
00:08:51.100 statement, quote,
00:08:52.180 We are now working with our federal partners to see this man faces the most serious charges
00:08:57.600 possible to deter this kind of violence in our society.
00:09:02.820 Coming up, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill defending the administration's
00:09:08.260 recent work in Venezuela and Apple CEO Tim Cook sparking backlash over an internal memo to
00:09:15.240 employees and an appearance at the White House.
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00:10:38.500 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
00:10:44.720 yesterday, offering a progress report on the Trump administration's approach to Venezuela,
00:10:49.920 following the U.S. military operation that captured former leader Nicolás Maduro and
00:10:54.340 his wife earlier this month.
00:10:56.400 Secretary Rubio highlighting the administration's progress thus far in improving relations with
00:11:02.040 Venezuela, urging senators to be patient with the rate of progress.
00:11:06.140 First, I want to remind everybody, let's just go back six months, eight months, a year
00:11:10.100 ago at this time.
00:11:11.820 The Venezuelan challenge for us was frozen.
00:11:14.520 It was a frozen situation.
00:11:16.160 We had a regime that was entrenched.
00:11:18.260 Its opposition was either in hiding or had been forced overseas.
00:11:21.320 Edmundo Gonzalez lives in Spain.
00:11:23.300 Maria Corina is no longer, she's very brave, she stood there as long as she could, but she
00:11:26.720 had to leave.
00:11:27.900 The others are in jail.
00:11:29.420 Now, for the first time in literally a decade, there is the opportunity that something
00:11:34.620 could change.
00:11:35.260 There's not the guarantee that something will change, but there is the opportunity that
00:11:38.840 something will change.
00:11:39.500 We have changed that dynamic.
00:11:41.220 We want a Venezuela that has legitimate democratic elections.
00:11:43.940 We also want a Venezuela that's prosperous and a Venezuela that's aligned with the United
00:11:47.480 States.
00:11:48.500 But again, I remind everybody, on Friday, we'll mark the four weeks since this happened.
00:11:52.600 I get it.
00:11:53.080 We all want like something immediately.
00:11:54.460 But this is not a frozen dinner you put in a microwave and in two and a half minutes,
00:11:58.280 it comes out ready to eat.
00:11:59.580 And these are complex things.
00:12:00.700 News of the Maduro raid did catch many in Washington and around the world off guard, including lawmakers
00:12:06.840 on Capitol Hill.
00:12:08.460 Many Democratic senators publicly criticizing the Trump administration for carrying out
00:12:13.200 the operation without first notifying Congress or seeking authorization.
00:12:18.500 Democrats arguing that under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war and
00:12:24.280 that a U.S. military raid on another country should be subject to congressional approval.
00:12:29.660 The administration's characterizing the operation as a law enforcement action involving
00:12:33.780 military assistance, not a prolonged military invasion, and therefore contending that it did
00:12:39.140 not require prior congressional authorization.
00:12:42.740 Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, breaking with most of his party, pressing Secretary Rubio
00:12:48.600 on that logic.
00:12:50.020 If a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed our president
00:12:55.560 and blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?
00:12:59.760 It's hard for us to conceive that an operation that lasted about four and a half hours and was
00:13:04.660 a law enforcement operation to capture someone we don't recognize as the head of state.
00:13:08.720 But would it be an act of war if someone did it to us?
00:13:11.320 Nobody dies, few casualties, they're in and out, boom, it's a perfect military operation.
00:13:16.560 Would that be an act of war?
00:13:17.820 Of course it would be an act of war.
00:13:20.160 So my next question would be, let's say it's not a war.
00:13:23.840 So it's a drug bust.
00:13:25.680 What if a foreign country indicts our president for violating a foreign law?
00:13:31.680 Should we extradite our president or should we be okay if they come in and get him by force?
00:13:35.980 Look, I think ultimately we're always going to act in our national interest.
00:13:39.060 And so if somebody comes after our national interest, like the case you've described,
00:13:42.500 the U.S. always has the right to act in its national interest and to protect itself.
00:13:45.640 I don't know about this equivalency.
00:13:47.960 Does this justify them doing it?
00:13:49.620 We're always going to do what's best for the United States and America.
00:13:52.320 Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut questioning Secretary Rubio on whether the
00:13:56.740 administration would seek congressional authorization for any future use of military force in Venezuela.
00:14:03.140 The secretary insisting the administration does not anticipate further military action.
00:14:08.960 In the future, if the Venezuelan government isn't complying with your requests,
00:14:15.700 do you concede that if you're using military action simply to try to compel cooperation from the government,
00:14:22.360 you absolutely need congressional authorization for that?
00:14:25.400 Look, the president never rules out his options as commander-in-chief to protect the national interest of the United States.
00:14:31.060 I can tell you right now with full certainty we are not postured to,
00:14:34.640 nor do we intend or expect to have to take any military action in Venezuela at any time.
00:14:39.760 The only military presence you'll see in Venezuela is our Marine Guards at an embassy.
00:14:44.280 Okay?
00:14:44.520 That is our goal.
00:14:45.680 That is our expectation.
00:14:47.040 And that is what everything that outlines towards.
00:14:48.960 That said, if an Iranian drone factory pops up and threatens our forces in the region,
00:14:53.580 the president retains the option to eliminate that threat.
00:14:55.780 If we tell them we don't want to see drones from Iran, as an example,
00:14:59.600 pointed at the United States or threatening our forces or our presence in the region or our allies' presence in the region,
00:15:05.000 and they refuse to comply with that, the president does reserve the option in self-defense to eliminate that threat.
00:15:10.520 We don't see that.
00:15:11.400 We don't anticipate it.
00:15:12.640 But it could happen.
00:15:13.660 But we hope not.
00:15:14.380 We don't want it to happen.
00:15:15.280 And finally, Democrat Senator of Virginia, Tim Kaine, attempting a gotcha question.
00:15:21.380 Last question is this.
00:15:22.460 You talked about the speech in Davos.
00:15:24.420 Here's what something the president said in Davos.
00:15:28.240 I'm helping NATO until the last few days when I told them about Iceland.
00:15:31.720 They loved me.
00:15:33.200 They're not here for us on Iceland.
00:15:34.860 That I can tell you.
00:15:35.600 Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.
00:15:39.220 So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money.
00:15:42.480 The president repeatedly mistook Iceland for Greenland, right?
00:15:46.420 We're not mad at Iceland.
00:15:47.540 They haven't cost us any money.
00:15:48.760 The president just mistook the two countries for each other, correct?
00:15:52.180 Yeah, he meant to say Greenland.
00:15:53.440 But I think we're all familiar with presidents that have verbal stumbles.
00:15:57.180 We've had presidents like that before.
00:15:59.060 Some made a lot more than this one.
00:16:01.960 Apple CEO Tim Cook facing mounting backlash from the left following a leaked internal memo to employees
00:16:08.460 in the wake of the fatal Alex Petty shooting in Minneapolis.
00:16:12.120 The memo, first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, reading in part, quote,
00:16:16.760 I'm heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis, and my prayers and deepest sympathies
00:16:21.080 are with the families, with the communities, and with everyone that's been affected.
00:16:25.440 This is a time for de-escalation.
00:16:28.120 Cook, going on to emphasize Apple's long-standing values,
00:16:31.380 writing that the company believed America is strongest when it treats all people with dignity
00:16:36.020 and respect and embraces shared humanity, principles he has said Apple consistently advocates.
00:16:42.080 More from the letter, quote,
00:16:43.320 I had a good conversation with the president this week, where I shared my views,
00:16:47.140 and I appreciate his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all.
00:16:52.100 The memo quickly drawing criticism online,
00:16:55.000 replies to Gurman's post filled with hundreds of comments, many sharply critical of Cook.
00:17:00.180 One user, writing, quote,
00:17:02.140 Tim needs to focus on making the iPhone keyboard work again.
00:17:06.540 Another adding, quote,
00:17:07.640 Exhibit A for weak leadership 101.
00:17:10.680 The criticism coming amid another wave of backlash over Cook's attendance
00:17:14.400 at a private White House screening last Saturday of the Melania documentary.
00:17:19.020 The $40 million project, distributed by Amazon,
00:17:22.660 marking a comeback for director Brett Ratner,
00:17:25.340 who was, quote,
00:17:26.040 canceled in 2017 during the Me Too movement following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
00:17:33.160 Ratner denies the allegations and was never charged,
00:17:36.600 though Warner Brothers ended its partnership with his production company.
00:17:40.000 Also attending the screening, Mike Tyson,
00:17:42.760 Tony Robbins, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
00:17:46.260 Cook was photographed at the event alongside Ratner,
00:17:49.340 taking place the same day as the Alex Preddy confrontation,
00:17:52.780 which remains under investigation.
00:17:55.680 Washington bureau chief for liberal outlet Mother Jones, David Korn,
00:17:59.500 writing on Blue Sky, quote,
00:18:01.600 Tim Cook and Andy Jassy, and the rest,
00:18:04.480 are accommodating an authoritarian who is presiding over a secret police force
00:18:09.020 killing American citizens.
00:18:11.120 The blood of Renee Good and Alex Preddy
00:18:13.020 is on the hands of those who enabled Trump.
00:18:15.660 Hope they like the movie.
00:18:17.220 Totally normal response.
00:18:18.420 Apple has not publicly responded to the criticism.
00:18:22.000 We reached out for comment and did not receive a reply.
00:18:27.340 That'll do it for your AM update.
00:18:29.320 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.
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