The Megyn Kelly Show - March 05, 2026


Walz Grilled in Minnesota Fraud Hearing, Trump Preps Crucial Texas Senate Endorsement： AM Update 3⧸5


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19 minutes

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153.46112

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2,933

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202

Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:34.100 I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on Sirius XM Channel 111.
00:00:40.280 It's Thursday, March 5th, 2026.
00:00:43.000 This is your AM Update.
00:00:45.000 Is it racist for a government official to identify fraud?
00:00:48.740 No.
00:00:49.960 Lawmakers grill Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and State Attorney General Keith Ellison
00:00:55.020 over allegations of massive fraud in the state's welfare system.
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00:01:03.020 The U.S.-Israel joint operation against Iran continuing,
00:01:06.780 with American forces waging a relentless barrage of strikes.
00:01:10.660 A bitter Senate race in Texas brewing.
00:01:13.220 Democrats choose their candidate as the Republicans await a key endorsement from President Trump.
00:01:18.240 And Secretary Noem back on the Hill for round two of questioning from lawmakers.
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00:02:45.540 Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and State Attorney General Keith Ellison facing tough questions
00:02:50.840 before the House Oversight Committee yesterday
00:02:53.040 as lawmakers probe allegations of widespread fraud across Minnesota's taxpayer-funded welfare programs.
00:03:00.480 The Fed so far prosecuting and convicting dozens, mostly members of Minnesota's Somali community,
00:03:06.280 relating to three major schemes.
00:03:08.420 A meals program for needy children called Feeding Our Future,
00:03:12.300 a program for individuals at risk of homelessness,
00:03:14.600 and an autism therapy program.
00:03:17.400 The scale of the alleged fraud, believed to be at least $9 billion in plundered taxpayer dollars,
00:03:24.580 drawing such immense backlash, Governor Walls in January suspending his re-election campaign.
00:03:31.580 Congressman Pat Fallon of Texas, a Republican,
00:03:34.300 pressing Governor Walls on data surrounding the Somali community's use of state services in Minnesota.
00:03:40.440 Do you believe the 70,000-strong Somali community as a whole has made a positive impact on your state?
00:03:47.560 I do.
00:03:48.620 And do you have any idea what percentage of the native-born Minnesotans,
00:03:52.340 all races, live in poverty in your state right now?
00:03:55.020 I don't have specifically.
00:03:56.300 I'll share it with you.
00:03:57.080 It's 8%.
00:03:57.700 For the Somali community, it's 52%.
00:03:59.520 How about receiving food stamps?
00:04:01.860 I don't have.
00:04:02.300 All right, I'll run it down with you.
00:04:03.900 It's 7% and then compared to 54% in the Somali community.
00:04:08.340 And then one family member, at least, on Medicaid, it's 18% for Minnesota, 73% for the Somali community.
00:04:15.920 Governor, do you happen to know what the percentage is of all those who have currently been charged
00:04:19.460 in this staggering social services fraud scheme were native-born Minnesotans?
00:04:25.280 What percentage?
00:04:26.340 I do not have that.
00:04:27.400 I think it was 85 out of 98, which comes out to 13% Minnesotan and 87% Somali-Minnesotan.
00:04:33.980 The only way this kind of fraud can reach this scale is if there's people in power that are colluding
00:04:40.640 and collaborating and willfully blinding themselves to the realities around them.
00:04:46.660 Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas, a Republican, pressing Governor Walz on allegations that the
00:04:52.000 fraud ran undetected due to retaliation against whistleblowers, with officials allegedly wary
00:04:58.180 of backlash from Minnesota's politically active Somali voting bloc.
00:05:02.360 Is it racist for a government official to identify fraud?
00:05:06.780 No.
00:05:07.940 No.
00:05:08.340 Is it Islamophobic?
00:05:10.260 To identify fraud?
00:05:11.580 To identify fraud?
00:05:12.720 No, I don't believe it would be.
00:05:14.180 How come multiple whistleblowers have said that your administration told them not to say
00:05:19.060 anything about widespread fraud across multiple agencies because doing so would be considered
00:05:24.320 racist or Islamophobic?
00:05:26.360 I can't speak to it because it's not anything I would say.
00:05:28.820 And then we heard from Representative Kristen Robbins, quote, we have dozens of credible
00:05:33.460 whistleblower reports saying the exact same thing that people were told not to say anything
00:05:38.000 because they'd be called racist or Islamophobic or it would hurt the state.
00:05:42.880 Do you think it's racist or Islamophobic to highlight and try to stop fraud?
00:05:47.520 It is not.
00:05:48.120 And I certainly wouldn't know.
00:05:49.080 It's not.
00:05:49.560 But that was the message your administration was sending to multiple whistleblowers.
00:05:53.320 Congresswoman Emily Randall of Washington, a Democrat, tossing Governor Walz a softball,
00:05:58.980 asking why he thinks the Trump administration has become so, quote, obsessed with alleged
00:06:04.160 fraud in Minnesota.
00:06:06.040 The governor speculates.
00:06:07.360 I think it's been pretty clear the president does not like me personally.
00:06:11.520 I think he continues to tell lies about our electoral system, claiming that he's won
00:06:15.760 all three times when he lost all three times.
00:06:17.900 Um, I think he has people around him who were trying to find quotas around immigration and
00:06:24.080 they saw a perfect storm, if you will, that included some Somali folks and a whole lot,
00:06:30.980 you know, if we're, if we're going to condemn folks, there's no Somali folks in the Epstein
00:06:34.320 files, things like that.
00:06:35.820 We know, but I don't know.
00:06:38.160 It's an obsession.
00:06:38.920 And I come back to it again.
00:06:41.180 I think it's because we are so ideologically opposed to making children go hungry, people
00:06:46.580 go unhoused.
00:06:48.560 We invest in education, we invest in research, and we believe everybody has a place.
00:06:54.440 And so I think it's just personal about how we do business.
00:06:57.480 Meanwhile, Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a Republican, turning his focus to Minnesota
00:07:03.220 Attorney General Keith Ellison.
00:07:04.820 So you have the authority to lead your state's effort to respond to this massive fraud at
00:07:12.860 the state level from within the health care realm where government money has been stolen
00:07:20.240 at very, very high levels, unprecedented levels in your state.
00:07:25.180 Are you leading that effort for the state of Minnesota?
00:07:29.800 We are leading the effort to prosecute Medicaid fraud in Minnesota.
00:07:33.220 I'm not talking about Medicaid fraud.
00:07:35.560 Don't hide behind that.
00:07:37.440 You have the authority to prosecute anything criminally that the governor asks you to.
00:07:42.660 And this thing is big.
00:07:44.440 I'm giving you an opportunity, sir.
00:07:46.260 Are you leading the criminal investigative effort into this massive fraud across the board in
00:07:53.600 the health care spectrum in the state of Minnesota or not?
00:07:57.740 We are following the law.
00:07:59.480 You are not leading.
00:08:01.180 You're not leading.
00:08:02.700 I must say, Mr. Chairman, that the Attorney General of the state of Minnesota should resign.
00:08:09.840 As the U.S.-Israel joint operation against Iran enters its fifth day, U.S. military force
00:08:15.840 is releasing a relentless 24-hour barrage against Iranian military assets.
00:08:21.140 In a joint briefing yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
00:08:25.760 of Staff Dan Raisin Cain providing an update on the campaign.
00:08:29.880 Here, Secretary Hegseth.
00:08:31.420 The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.
00:08:38.560 The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
00:08:43.060 Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated.
00:08:47.240 Pick your adjective.
00:08:47.840 In fact, last night, we sunk their prized ship, the Soleimani.
00:08:54.220 Looks like POTUS got him twice.
00:08:57.660 Their Navy, not a factor.
00:08:58.980 Pick your adjective.
00:09:00.120 It is no more.
00:09:00.880 In fact, yesterday, in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play it on the screen there, an American
00:09:07.160 submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters.
00:09:14.200 Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.
00:09:16.560 Quiet death.
00:09:18.200 The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.
00:09:21.520 According to the Secretary, more American forces are en route to the region, even as General
00:09:27.440 Cain reports Iranian air defense capabilities are badly damaged, with a significant decrease
00:09:32.940 in retaliatory strikes.
00:09:34.960 U.S. forces striking more than 2,000 targets in the first 100 hours of the mission.
00:09:40.960 Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt yesterday announcing President Trump will attend the dignified transfer
00:09:46.420 service for the six Army soldiers killed in Kuwait amid the strikes.
00:09:51.520 The ceremony will take place at Dover Air Force Base.
00:09:54.780 The families of the fallen invited to attend.
00:09:57.440 The timing of the transfer has not yet been announced.
00:10:01.680 Coming up, a heated Texas Senate showdown intensifies.
00:10:06.180 Democrats lock in James Tallarico as their nominee, while Republicans brace for a looming
00:10:11.220 Trump endorsement.
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00:11:19.740 Texas voters now gearing up for a bitter Republican runoff campaign, setting the stage for a bruising fight ahead of November's general election.
00:11:31.680 On the Democrat side, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially conceding the race to State Representative James Tallarico yesterday morning.
00:11:39.300 Tallarico winning the primary with 52% of the vote compared to Crockett's 46.
00:11:44.080 The Congresswoman writing on X, quote,
00:11:47.080 Texas is primed to turn blue, and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person.
00:11:53.580 With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win.
00:11:58.000 I'm committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
00:12:03.500 Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who issued a last-minute robocall endorsement for Crockett,
00:12:08.620 now throwing her support behind Tallarico, calling on Democrats to unite behind the nominee.
00:12:14.980 With Tallarico securing his place on the November ballot,
00:12:17.980 Republicans quickly flooding social media with past videos and resurfaced posts from the Democrat,
00:12:23.500 highlighting his radical progressive ideas.
00:12:26.300 In a May 2020 thread on X, Tallarico writing about Ahmaud Arbery,
00:12:31.080 a 25-year-old black man from Georgia who was fatally shot while jogging by two white men.
00:12:35.860 Tallarico writing, quote,
00:12:37.260 Ahmaud Arbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism.
00:12:41.820 White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus,
00:12:45.880 but we spread it wherever we go, through our words, our actions, and our systems.
00:12:50.520 We don't have to be showing symptoms, like a white hood or a Confederate flag, to be contagious.
00:12:56.100 Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas also posting a clip from a public education committee hearing
00:13:01.460 in which Tallarico addressed the issue of biological sex.
00:13:05.320 I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.
00:13:14.380 In fact, there are six, which, honestly, Representative Hefner surprised me, too.
00:13:19.780 Surprised me, too, because I am not well-versed in this issue area.
00:13:24.840 I'm not a scientist.
00:13:25.400 I'm a politician, a lot worse than a scientist.
00:13:27.980 Tallarico now poised to face the winner of the Republican runoff between incumbent Senator John Cornyn
00:13:33.660 and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
00:13:37.220 Senator Cornyn emphasizing his voting record, arguing it aligns with President Trump nearly 100% of the time,
00:13:43.840 despite past clashes between the two.
00:13:46.580 Team Cornyn spending millions on ads highlighting Paxton's long list of legal battles and ethical controversies.
00:13:53.560 Paxton spending far less money on the race, focusing instead on his record suing Democrats,
00:13:59.980 while arguing Texas needs new leadership in Washington after Cornyn's more than two decades in the Senate.
00:14:05.840 President Trump weighing in on Truth Social yesterday, writing the race, quote,
00:14:09.700 Trump adding he plans to issue an endorsement soon, and will ask the candidate he does not back to drop out of the race.
00:14:29.820 The Atlantic reporting Trump is leaning toward Cornyn, as recent Emerson polling shows Cornyn as the stronger candidate against Tallarico.
00:14:38.440 The Republican runoff is scheduled for May 26th, at least for now.
00:14:44.040 DHS Secretary Kristi Noem back on Capitol Hill yesterday for round two, this time appearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
00:14:52.100 Lawmakers breaking largely along partisan lines with their questioning.
00:14:55.620 Ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland using his opening statement to sharply criticize the Secretary over a number of issues,
00:15:03.500 including two fatal confrontations between federal agents and protesters in Minnesota,
00:15:08.460 a costly DHS ad campaign prominently featuring Noem, and the department's purchase of private jets.
00:15:14.780 You're treating the billions of dollars our colleagues showered on your department like a personal slush fund.
00:15:20.940 You budgeted an astonishing $220 million for media consultant contracts,
00:15:26.460 so you can star in self-promoting photo shoots and lavish ad campaigns.
00:15:32.380 You're living rent-free in the official waterfront residence reserved for the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
00:15:39.860 You spent $172 million to buy not one, but two luxury jets for your travel,
00:15:46.280 and now you're using taxpayer funds to lease a third jet.
00:15:50.340 Secretary Noem, you're flying high now, maybe even a little bit too close to the sun.
00:15:55.620 But with all these free planes and houses and pilots, you've traveled a long distance from your actual job.
00:16:02.040 With Democrats offering the Secretary few opportunities to respond during lengthy monologues,
00:16:08.100 Republicans offering their own time to allow Secretary Noem to defend herself.
00:16:12.680 Here, Congressman Daryl Issa of California.
00:16:15.540 Is it fair to say that you and your family are at greater risk because of the job you're doing
00:16:22.160 than anyone who's had your job perhaps since 9-11?
00:16:26.020 Yes, sir. I can't speak specific to the threats, but...
00:16:28.460 And so when the ranking member spends so much time talking about your being in a protective housing,
00:16:35.860 by the way, one that is under your authority and one that the head of the Coast Guard normally would be in,
00:16:42.320 you're simply in the housing that he historically had.
00:16:45.400 Let me clarify a couple of things. I'm not in the commandant's house.
00:16:47.940 I'm in a Coast Guard house, but not the commandant's house. The commandant is in his house.
00:16:51.900 And I will also tell you that I rent that facility.
00:16:54.120 I rent where I stay and pay personal dollars to do that.
00:16:58.460 Democrats spending much of their time pressing the secretary on Operation Metro Surge,
00:17:03.520 the large-scale immigration enforcement operation targeting Minnesota's Twin Cities,
00:17:08.140 as well as ICE tactics and oversight of federal agents.
00:17:11.960 Are agents trained to break the windows of people whose cars they encounter and drag them out
00:17:18.780 forcibly without asking questions? Is that their training?
00:17:23.020 DHS is supposed to be protecting our residents and upholding constitutional protections,
00:17:29.080 but you've turned that on the head. You have actually turned the United States government
00:17:33.220 against its own residents.
00:17:36.300 And I want you to know that Americans will get accountability for the damage that you have done,
00:17:41.520 the lawlessness of aspects of DHS, for killing innocent Americans, for terrorizing children.
00:17:47.500 And they will get accountability.
00:17:49.560 Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, a Republican,
00:17:52.540 using his time to question the secretary about body cameras for federal agents involved
00:17:57.080 in immigration enforcement operations.
00:17:59.460 I want to ask you for an update on body cameras and your opinion on that. That's something that
00:18:04.420 the Democrats have demanded, but it's something that I think might just be common sense.
00:18:09.060 Yes, we certainly are working to get body cameras on all of our officers. CBP has had them on many
00:18:15.120 of their agents that interact with people for the last several years, but they haven't been
00:18:20.760 many times supported financially for running the systems that run the body cameras. Also,
00:18:25.300 ICE has body cameras deployed, but we're not funded for body cameras right now. So that's one
00:18:29.580 thing I'd like to ask you all to do. I have said that we will deploy every body camera that we have,
00:18:35.600 but clearly we need tens of thousands more. And I agree with you. Our, our officers overwhelmingly,
00:18:41.200 they support body cameras because they give you the full context, context of the, of the
00:18:46.500 interaction. Representative Massey joining me on After Party last night.
00:18:53.380 That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Drashinsky, host of After Party. Catch the Megyn Kelly
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