Trump vs. Newsom Over Female Sports, New COVID Vax Guidance, Diddy Trial Fireworks： AM Update 5⧸28
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As parents rail against a biological boy competing in girls' high school track meets, President Trump sends Governor Gavin Newsom a warning, the FDA announces updated COVID vaccine recommendations, and week three of the Sean Diddy Combs trial kicks off with explosive testimony from a former employee.
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It's Wednesday, May 28th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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Boys, boys, girls are girls. This job did not belong competing against those girls, period.
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As parents rail against a biological boy competing in girls' high school track meets,
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President Trump sends Governor Gavin Newsom a warning.
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The FDA announces updated COVID vaccine recommendations.
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And week three of the Sean Diddy Combs trial kicks off with explosive testimony from a former employee.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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President Trump calling out Democrat Governor of California Gavin Newsom
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for allowing male athletes in his state to compete against females.
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He says in violation of his historic February 5th executive order entitled
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This week, a transitioned male athlete at a major event won everything
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and is now qualified to compete in the state finals next weekend.
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This is not fair and totally demeaning to women and girls.
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Please be hereby advised that large-scale federal funding will be held back,
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maybe permanently, if the executive order on this subject matter is not adhered to.
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The president adding an order to local authorities, who that is remains unclear,
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to, if necessary, not allow the transitioned person to compete in the state finals,
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The male athlete in question, A.B. Hernandez from Harupa Valley outside of Los Angeles.
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Hernandez placed first in the women's triple jump and long jump
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at the California Interscholastic Federation, or CIF, Southern Section Masters this past weekend.
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He jumped four feet longer in the triple jump than the real winner, Reese Hogan,
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and more than five inches farther on the long jump than real winner, Katie McGinnis.
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CIF Southern Section, in an obvious effort to appease angry parents,
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on Tuesday, just hours after Trump's post, announced a new pilot entry process,
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allowing, quote, biologically female student-athletes to compete in the upcoming
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state track and field championship that missed out on qualifying initially because of a trans-athlete.
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So, these girls will have yet another chance to compete against this biological boy,
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As of now, Hernandez is still allowed to participate.
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Here's what he said earlier this year about the state championships.
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I just keep telling myself, you are number one, and it's yours to lose.
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It's just to keep my phases longer, push more, work out more, get further,
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hopefully hit a 41 this year if it's possible, preferably at state so that you can possibly win.
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Hernandez has lost some events this season but has mostly dominated,
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winning one triple jump event by eight feet in February.
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Hernandez's wins at these events, a major source of contention in the community,
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one furious mother confronting A.B.'s mother at a March event.
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I have a right to speak truth. Boys and boys, girls are girls. This year I did not belong competing
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against those girls, period. What a coward of a woman you are allowing them. Telling girls
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to go and compete against a boy? How embarrassing. Mother, mother, stand up like a mother. I am a
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Some parents and spectators erupting with vocal support for the female athletes at different
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meets throughout the season, making their stance clear from the sidelines. After a May 17th meet,
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Reese Hogan, who officially finished second in the triple jump behind Hernandez, a result that was
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repeated last weekend, stood for just a moment atop the first place podium after the medal ceremony
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was over, receiving thunderous applause from the crowd in a show of solidarity. Hogan set a new
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personal record and school record with her jump. Kate McGinnis, the second place finisher in the long
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jump, also at the May 17th meet, speaking out on Fox News after her loss.
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I have nothing against this athlete as a person. I have nothing against the trans community.
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I watched AB do their jump and the numbers on the screen lit up to 19 feet, two inches, which
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was the furthest mark of that day. Normally something typical that long jump athletes will do
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is they start a clapping sequence kind of to gain momentum from the crowd and kind of feel the rhythm
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of the jump. And so I did that and I ran down the runway. I landed and I watched them measure my mark
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and it was 18-9. And I just remember thinking that there was nothing else that I could do,
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that that was it. Winning CIF has always been a goal of mine. And I just, I wasn't able to compete
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with someone who is genetically different than me.
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AB Hernandez is delighted with his wins, calling claims that he has male advantage idiotic because
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sometimes he has lost. His mother adding, quote, her identity does not give her an advantage. It gives
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her courage. Corrected with the proper pronouns, that sentence reads, his identity doesn't give him
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an advantage. It gives him courage. In March, Governor Newsom admitted to conservative influencer
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Charlie Kirk that boys competing in girls sports is deeply unfair. The governor following up on those
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comments a month later at a press conference saying the issue was low on his priority list
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due to the small number of trans athletes in California. Mr. Newsom also saying his administration
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We work with experts. We literally were talking to some international Olympic committee experts. We
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talked to our own state experts. We were trying to figure this out and couldn't figure it out.
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And that's my point of view, that I just couldn't figure out how to, quote, unquote, make this fair.
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According to California's legislative analyst's office, the state received roughly $8 billion from
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the federal government for K-12 education for the 24 to 25 school year, about 6 percent of total
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K-12 funding. While the Trump administration has signaled it may withhold funds from states that defy
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his Title IX protections for female athletes, it remains unclear how much of that $8 billion California
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could lose. Any move to freeze funding would likely trigger an immediate legal battle.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday announcing an update to COVID vaccine recommendations.
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As of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women
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has been removed from the CDC-recommended immunization schedule.
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Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot,
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despite the lack of any clinical data, to support the repeat booster strategy in children.
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There's no evidence healthy kids need it today. And most countries have stopped recommending it for
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children. We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America
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healthy again. The FDA's new framework for COVID vaccine wrecks, as published in the New England
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Journal of Medicine, still recommends the vaccine be made available for Americans over age 65 and younger
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people with one or more high-risk factors. High-risk factors include obesity and mental health conditions
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like depression. The Trump administration estimates that 100 million to 200 million Americans will have
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access to vaccines based on these guidelines. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary, who co-authored
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the New England Journal of Medicine piece, elaborating further on the Trump administration's thought process
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last week in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
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Administrations and related agencies. It's been four to five years since we've had a randomized control
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trial. And so we don't know the right number of boosters that a healthy American should take. Do we believe
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in giving 80 mRNA shots to a healthy girl born today in her average lifespan of 80 years? Is that the
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right answer? There's been no data to support it. So we are doing our job to say that if we're going to
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approve a COVID vaccine for younger, healthy Americans, we'd like to see some clinical trial data.
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Should we blindly rubber stamp a vaccine that creates a new protein in the body every year for the rest of
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our lives for the next 100 years? I don't think so. Coming up, former Sean Diddy Combs employee Capricorn
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Clark takes the stand in the mogul's criminal trial, providing more insight into the alleged incident
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between Combs and musician Kid Cudi. And Kamala Harris spreads her words of, she spreads her words in the land
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code Megan. Tuesday marked the beginning of week three of the Sean Diddy Combs criminal trial.
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Lead prosecutor Maureen Comey, yes, that Comey, she's the daughter of former FBI director James
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Comey, telling the judge the prosecution is ahead of schedule, anticipating resting its case in five
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weeks instead of six. Combs has pleaded not guilty. Taking the stand for the full day on Tuesday,
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Capricorn Clark, former assistant to Combs and Ventura. Ventura, of course, the prosecution's
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star witness who took the stand the first week of the trial. Clark testifying that she was once
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harshly shoved by Combs, threatened by him, subjected to a five-day lie detector test at his
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direction, and more, including a December 2011 incident involving Combs and Kid Cuddy. Clark claiming
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she was kidnapped by Combs, furious after finding out star witness Cassie Ventura was in a relationship
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with musician Kid Cuddy. Clark telling the jury that Combs, brandishing a gun, showed up at her
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home and directed her to, quote, get dressed, we're going to kill that N-word, saying they drove to
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Kid Cuddy's house where Combs entered, but Kid Cuddy was not there. The testimony dovetailing what
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Kid Cuddy told jurors last week, that there was a break-in at his home and he suspected Combs.
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On cross-examination, the defense suggesting Clark's horrific memory of Combs don't exactly line up
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with her more recent emails to him, pointing to a 2014 email from Clark to Combs after Combs fired
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her in 2012 that reads, quote, hopefully you'll forgive me soon. It's been long enough. I feel
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like you've forgiven everyone else but me. Clark testifying earlier in the day that she was
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officially fired for a vacation she took, but saying she believes the real reason was because Combs was
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upset that she knew about Ventura's relationship with Kid Cuddy and did not tell Combs. Clark, breaking into
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tears several times throughout cross-examination. Another email from Clark to Combs in 2015, quote,
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my hope for this year is that you make good on your promise to get over things and actually be my
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friend again. Clark telling the defense she wanted to work with Combs again because she missed working
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in the music industry. The defense also calling up a 2021 text message in which Clark writes to Combs,
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quote, did you ever know that I had the biggest crush on you before I started working for you?
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On Redirect, Clark telling prosecutors she ultimately returned to work for Bad Boy Records
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because she could not find work elsewhere, saying through sobs, quote, he held all the power as it
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related to me. If convicted, Combs faces up to life in prison. Former Vice President Kamala Harris
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resurfacing on Sunday, this time in the land down under. Ms. Harris appearing at the Australian
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real estate conference where tickets reportedly went for $999 to $1,695 a piece. It's unclear exactly
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why Ms. Harris was invited to participate in a Q&A session at the two-day event, but video surfacing
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on X shows the former Veep in her familiar free-flowing form. In this clip here, Ms. Harris answers the
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You have the ability to understand the context in which you live, the context in which others live.
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You're more likely to then connect with them and understand what's important to them.
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This is the thing that I've also known about life and I'm sure everyone here understands.
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The vast majority of human beings are very intelligent, regardless of their education level,
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regardless of where they're from, and intelligent enough to know whether when you are looking
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at them, you are looking at them with a level of respect. They will know that you are someone
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who is actually interested in their life and their reality and their fears and their dreams
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or not. It requires you to be self-aware enough to understand that you may not understand their
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life. Yes. And then do some work to figure out how you can understand it better.
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Ms. Harris also asked to offer advice to the young women in the room,
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I don't hear no. I eat no for breakfast. I don't hear no until maybe the 10th time.
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I cannot tell you the many times that it has been explicitly or implicitly said to me.
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And then what I love, oh, it's going to be a lot of hard work.
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try to tell a story, and then repeat her answer. Honestly, I lost focus every time she was explaining
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her answer. Honestly, Ella, we did too. But we look forward to the debut of Ms. Harris's
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Australian accent. G'day, mates. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back
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