The Megyn Kelly Show - September 11, 2026


Vance Takes RNC Stage, Charlie Kirk Honored, 25 Years Since 9⧸11 Terror Attack： AM Update 9⧸11


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00:00:58.400 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.
00:01:05.140 It's Friday, September 11th, 2026. This is your AM Update.
00:01:09.620 We can never, we will never let them win. We're going to beat them back in November.
00:01:15.380 Vice President J.D. Vance and President Trump making the closing argument for Republicans in Dallas, rallying voters in the fight for control of Congress.
00:01:23.280 If Charlie were standing here tonight with that microphone still in his hand, what would
00:01:29.160 he say to us?
00:01:30.520 I think he would say the work's not finished.
00:01:33.080 The Republican Party honoring Charlie Kirk one year after his assassination, remembering
00:01:37.640 the man who helped shape a generation of young conservatives.
00:01:41.700 The notorious Tate brothers denied bail in Miami as they fight extradition on dozens
00:01:46.760 of rape and sex trafficking charges.
00:01:48.960 and America marking 25 years since September 11th, 2001,
00:01:54.080 remembering the lives stolen, the heroes who sacrificed everything,
00:01:57.900 and the moment a wounded nation stood together.
00:02:00.240 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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00:02:56.780 Vice President J.D. Vance taking center stage on the final night of the Republican Party's
00:03:03.400 first-ever midterm convention before President Trump returned to deliver the closing remarks.
00:03:09.060 Mr. Vance using the nationally televised address to make the Republican case for retaining control
00:03:14.400 of Congress. The address also giving the vice president a major national platform amid growing
00:03:19.280 speculation about his own White House ambitions in 2028. Mr. Vance taking the stage one night
00:03:25.160 after the president delivered a nearly two-hour address, repeatedly warning that Democrats would
00:03:30.200 dismantle his agenda if they regained control of either chamber. The vice president presenting
00:03:35.240 Republicans as the party of common sense, drawing a broader cultural contrast with the Democrat
00:03:40.480 party. I'm here to tell you this is who the Democrats are now, my friends. They're not just
00:03:46.620 the party of little higher taxes, maybe some dumb regulations. They're not the party of FDR or JFK. 0.66
00:03:53.840 hell, they're not even the party of Bill Clinton anymore. The Democrats are the party of hatred. 0.98
00:04:00.860 They're the party that despises America and the people who built it. They're the party that can 0.95
00:04:06.400 find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9-11, but they say that people with names like
00:04:11.980 James Vance are incapable of loving people with names like Usha, and they couldn't be more wrong.
00:04:17.480 Ladies and gentlemen, because the Democrats have become such a nightmare, we can never, we will never let them win.
00:04:27.940 We're going to beat them back in November.
00:04:29.840 Mr. Vance pointing to the administration's record during its first two years, arguing Republicans have delivered on the promises that returned President Trump to the White House.
00:04:38.400 Donald Trump's administration, it's not just the first government in the last 80 years to actually stop a border invasion.
00:04:45.780 It's the first in the last 80 years to reverse the border invasion.
00:04:51.120 Under Donald Trump's leadership, we've created one million new jobs.
00:04:55.960 For my entire life, I saw corporations ship jobs overseas and be rewarded by Washington.
00:05:02.900 Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime to crack down on people shipping our jobs overseas
00:05:08.780 and fight for American businesses and American workers for a change.
00:05:12.920 We've seen the largest drop of violent crime in the history of the United States of America
00:05:19.440 because we've backed the police and throw the bad guys in prison.
00:05:22.920 It's not rocket science.
00:05:24.360 We did what generations of Democrat politicians promised but failed to do.
00:05:30.540 We actually took on big pharma and lowered drug costs for all of our citizens.
00:05:36.260 Mr. Vance taking aim at Democrat James Tallarico in Texas
00:05:40.060 as Republicans fight to protect a Senate seat
00:05:42.580 that has become unexpectedly competitive.
00:05:45.620 In Texas, you have Democrats, grown men,
00:05:49.680 who seem to be pretty obsessed with trans children.
00:05:53.760 I gotta say, the president's very good at nicknames,
00:05:56.500 but Tala Frico maybe tops the list.
00:05:59.460 This Tala Rico guy, he will not shut up
00:06:01.400 about how there are six genders.
00:06:04.040 He will not shut up about how, quote, God is non-binary.
00:06:07.200 I don't know what the hell that even means, my friends.
00:06:10.060 He won't shut up about having traditional Christian values makes you a bigot. 0.96
00:06:14.980 And I got to say, a guy that age who is so obsessed and focused on transgender children,
00:06:21.680 I don't know about you, but I never want to see that guy's web browser history.
00:06:25.440 President Trump then returning to the stage after dominating the opening night of the
00:06:29.660 convention, delivering a shorter closing address to send Republicans into the final weeks of
00:06:34.760 the midterm campaign.
00:06:35.700 Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats created the worst inflation in American history.
00:06:43.120 They gave us wide open borders with 25 million people pouring in from all over the globe.
00:06:50.500 They turned our cities into scenes of death and misery, murder, poverty and destruction.
00:06:56.440 We delivered the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest regulation cuts in American
00:07:03.920 history, the largest investment in our military, in the history of our country, and made America
00:07:12.660 the energy and military superpower of the world. We're the superpower of the world.
00:07:18.200 I built almost 2,000 miles of wall and created the strongest, most secure border
00:07:24.680 that America has ever seen. And it was just announced, you saw that, that we achieved the
00:07:31.520 lowest level of violent crime in 125 years since the year 1900. The president closing the two-day
00:07:41.500 convention with another warning about the consequences of Democrats taking power,
00:07:46.480 urging his supporters to give Republicans two more years of unified control in Washington.
00:07:51.120 If the radical left Democrats and communists win this election, they're promising to confiscate
00:07:58.300 your wealth, tax your social security, abolish no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. They're going
00:08:07.000 to defund the police, giving voting rights and welfare to 25 million illegal aliens, 0.99
00:08:14.720 destroy Texas oil and gas, thereby doubling and tripling your taxes, have men playing in women's
00:08:22.720 sports and set loose criminals to rob rape and kill like we had just two years ago but if the
00:08:31.900 democrats get in they'll destroy everything that we built they'll ruin our country so on election
00:08:38.140 day november 3rd you got to do me a favor you got to get out and vote and you're going to pretend
00:08:43.220 i'm on the ballot because in a way i am on the ballot because if they get in they're going to
00:08:49.620 take away all of the things that we got, and we can't let that happen.
00:08:56.320 The Republican Party also remembering Charlie Kirk, exactly one year after he was assassinated
00:09:01.680 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University. His absence, unmistakable, at a
00:09:06.980 convention filled with the leaders, activists, and young conservatives whose movement he helped
00:09:12.200 build. President Trump recognizing Charlie's widow, Erica, from the stage on Wednesday night,
00:09:18.040 prompting thousands inside the arena to rise and chant Charlie's name.
00:09:22.340 That outpouring continuing into the convention's final night
00:09:24.940 as the party honored Charlie's life and legacy.
00:09:28.280 Turning Point USA faith Vice President Lucas Miles
00:09:30.920 addressing the crowd on behalf of the organization Charlie founded.
00:09:34.840 For sometimes, the silencing of one voice does not produce silence at all.
00:09:40.260 It produces an echo.
00:09:43.060 And if the voice was true enough and the conviction deep enough,
00:09:45.940 the echo becomes a chorus. One year ago today, my friend Charlie Kirk was taken from us.
00:09:55.920 And yet one year later, there was something wonderfully defiant about the fact that his
00:09:59.820 voice has not grown quieter. It has multiplied. That growing chorus already visible across
00:10:08.600 Turning Point USA. Figures presented during the tribute showing the organization now operating
00:10:13.400 more than 1,500 college chapters, an increase of 64% over the past year.
00:10:19.980 It's Club America Network now spanning more than 3,500 high school chapters, growth of
00:10:25.180 192%.
00:10:27.380 Miles then turning to what comes next for the movement.
00:10:31.140 As Christians, we know Charlie is home with the Lord, and we want to honor him by carrying
00:10:37.180 forward what he did.
00:10:39.020 I remember in the week after his death, one prominent tribute took special note that he died with a microphone in his hand.
00:10:47.660 It's true that Charlie Kirk had a message to share with the world, a message undergirded by the gospel of Jesus Christ, our Savior.
00:10:56.520 You know, and I can't help but wonder today, if Charlie were standing here tonight with that microphone still in his hand, what would he say to us?
00:11:05.940 I think he would say the work's not finished.
00:11:09.740 There's still young people to reach.
00:11:12.260 There's still pastors to equip,
00:11:13.980 still a generation searching for truth,
00:11:16.240 still a culture desperately in need
00:11:18.480 of the clarity, courage, and conviction of the gospel.
00:11:22.680 The final word belonging to Charlie himself.
00:11:25.920 God will not honor our laziness
00:11:28.940 if we think being apathetic is going to save the country.
00:11:33.120 It's about using your agency,
00:11:35.980 using your ability to act.
00:11:38.600 We have a choice.
00:11:41.620 Choice A is a defeatist, negative attitude that the bad guys want you to embrace.
00:11:48.680 Choice B is to thank God that you get to be alive and have breath where the future of the greatest nation ever to exist hangs in the balance.
00:11:58.880 Every conversation, every new voter you register, every time you get to work, you get to smile at your Heavenly Father and say thank you for using me to try to save this country.
00:12:14.940 Coming up, a judge declaring the Tate brothers an extraordinary flight risk, keeping both men locked up as their international legal troubles deepen.
00:12:22.920 And for the first time, a seventh bell set to toll at ground zero today, as America marks 25 years since the attacks and honors lives still being claimed by their aftermath.
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00:13:48.340 Andrew and Tristan Tate remaining behind bars in Miami after a federal judge denies their
00:13:54.680 request for release while they fight extradition to the UK. The notorious social media influencers
00:14:00.060 arrested by U.S. Marshals in July after British authorities requested their extradition on a
00:14:05.100 combined 59 criminal charges. The allegations involving seven women and including rape,
00:14:11.020 assault, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, and offenses involving indecent images of a child.
00:14:17.480 The brothers denying every allegation against them.
00:14:20.240 U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Lewis siding with prosecutors who argue the Tates would pose both a danger to the public and a serious risk of fleeing the country if released.
00:14:29.700 Prosecutors pointing to the brothers' extensive international travel and frequent boasts about their wealth, private jets, and access to multiple passports.
00:14:37.700 The defense arguing those claims are theatrical exaggerations
00:14:40.640 intended to strengthen the Tate's online personas
00:14:43.520 while offering to surrender their passports and submit to GPS monitoring
00:14:47.280 and unannounced home inspections.
00:14:50.080 Judge Lewis remaining unconvinced,
00:14:52.320 writing that even if their purported fortune is exaggerated,
00:14:55.360 the brothers possess a, quote,
00:14:56.700 exceptional capacity to flee the jurisdiction.
00:14:59.800 The brothers' legal problems beginning in Romania in 2022
00:15:02.620 when they were arrested over allegations including rape,
00:15:05.840 human trafficking, and operating an organized criminal group. An initial indictment later
00:15:11.480 sent back to prosecutors over evidentiary and procedural problems, leaving the Romanian case
00:15:16.180 unresolved when authorities lifted the brothers' travel restrictions in February of 2025,
00:15:21.080 allowing them to fly to Florida. Their legal exposure in Romania now growing. Prosecutors
00:15:26.160 last week indicting Andrew Tate on charges including trafficking minors, sexual activity
00:15:30.900 with a minor, money laundering, and witness intimidation, while accusing Tristan of helping
00:15:35.680 his brother carry out and conceal the alleged crimes. One accusation involving a girl Andrew
00:15:41.540 allegedly recruited at age 15 and exploited through an online webcam operation, reportedly
00:15:47.700 generating more than $1.2 million for the brothers. Both men denying those allegations as well.
00:15:54.960 The UK now facing a September 16th deadline to submit its complete extradition case to the United
00:15:59.980 States. No date yet set for the hearing that will determine whether the brothers can be sent to the
00:16:04.920 UK, as the White House says the administration has no plans to intervene. A quarter century ago
00:16:13.080 today, Americans walked into school and work, expecting an ordinary Tuesday. Then the first
00:16:18.480 plane hit the North Tower, smoke pouring into the sky as people turned on their TV sets, still not
00:16:23.900 sure what they were seeing. A second plane hit the South Tower, erasing any hope the first had
00:16:28.960 been an accident. Americans across the country watching together as both towers came down
00:16:34.080 live on television, confronting the same terrible truth at once, that enemies abroad had turned
00:16:40.540 commercial airplanes filled with innocent people into weapons against this country.
00:16:45.180 The attacks killing 2,977 innocent people, setting the country in a path toward the wars in
00:16:50.900 Afghanistan and Iraq that followed. More than 7,000 American service members, ultimately giving
00:16:56.760 their lives across the post-9-11 wars and related military operations as countless others returned
00:17:02.060 home carrying wounds both visible and unseen. Memorial ceremonies taking place across the
00:17:07.740 country today reminding us not only of what was done to us, but of how we responded when our
00:17:12.420 differences seemed far smaller than what bound us together. President Trump set to speak this
00:17:17.180 morning at the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 struck the western side of the building
00:17:22.300 at 9.37 that morning. The attack killing 184 victims, 59 passengers and crew members aboard
00:17:29.500 the plane, and 125 military personnel and civilians working inside the Pentagon. A separate remembrance
00:17:36.720 beginning near the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
00:17:42.180 The names of the 40 passengers and crew members read aloud, followed by the ringing of the bells
00:17:46.660 of remembrance in their honor. Passengers and crew members learning through phone calls that
00:17:51.360 other planes had already struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
00:17:54.940 understanding that their own hijacking was part of the same coordinated attack.
00:17:59.380 They made calls to the people they loved, they formed a plan, then they moved toward the cockpit.
00:18:04.860 Their uprising forcing the terrorists to crash the plane into an empty Pennsylvania field at
00:18:09.540 10.03, before it could reach Washington. The 9-11 Commission concluding that their actions may have
00:18:15.620 prevented the destruction of either the U.S. Capitol or the White House, and saved an untold
00:18:20.360 number of lives on the ground. The wreckage leaving a scar on the earth, but no additional
00:18:25.280 grave in the nation's capital. At Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, Vice President J.D. Vance
00:18:30.760 representing the White House during the annual reading of the victims' names. Former Presidents
00:18:35.760 Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton also expected to attend, alongside New York
00:18:42.080 City Mayor Zoran Mamdani and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Family members taking turns reading
00:18:47.900 the names of those murdered in New York, at the Pentagon, and aboard Flight 93, as bells
00:18:53.140 mark the moments when each plane struck and when each of the Twin Towers fell.
00:18:58.100 This year, for the first time, a seventh bell acknowledging that the death toll did not
00:19:02.040 stop climbing when the fires went out.
00:19:05.080 The World Trade Center Health Program now recording more than 57,000 certifications
00:19:09.700 for cancers linked to 9-11 exposure among responders and survivors who breathe the toxic
00:19:15.020 dust that covered lower Manhattan.
00:19:16.680 The newly added bell expected to ring at approximately 12.30 this afternoon, followed by a seventh moment of silence honoring those who survived September 11th, only to lose their lives to its consequences years later.
00:19:32.300 That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party. Go and check out more at AfterPartyEmily.com.
00:19:38.640 Catch The Megyn Kelly Show later today for another 9-11 Tribute, live on SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at Noon East, on YouTube.com slash Megyn Kelly, and all podcast platforms.
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