The Megyn Kelly Show - WH Backs Waltz, DOJ Says Khalil Lied on Green Card App, Judge Boasberg Deep Dive： AM Update 3⧸26

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, March 26th, 2025. This is your AM

00:00:09.420 Update. If it's not classified, share the text now. As the White House previously stated. Is it

00:00:15.800 classified or non-classified information on this text? A tense day on Capitol Hill for Trump

00:00:20.180 administration intel officials after the Atlantic's editor-in-chief was accidentally added to what he

00:00:26.360 calls a war planning group chat. The DOJ, claiming former Columbia student agitator Mahmoud Khalil,

00:00:33.940 whom DHS is seeking to deport, lied on his green card application. He's going to use his authority

00:00:40.500 unchecked until this point to lead the judicial insurrection, the judicial resistance to President

00:00:48.620 Trump and his administration. Reporter Julie Kelly does a deep dive on Judge Bosberg in an AM Update

00:00:55.460 exclusive and President Trump pardons Hunter Biden's ex-best friend. All that and more coming

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00:02:03.060 President Trump expressing confidence in National Security Advisor Mike Walz following a report that

00:02:08.560 Mr. Walz accidentally added the Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a private

00:02:14.520 group chat on messaging app Signal discussing war plans. Mr. Trump saying in a gaggle, quote,

00:02:20.640 Michael Walz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man. Mr. Trump saying the incident is the only

00:02:26.140 glitch in the two months since retaking office, and, quote, it turned out to not be a serious one.

00:02:31.680 Left-wing critics disagree.

00:02:33.620 Folks, apps like Signal are not government-approved platforms to transmit classified information.

00:02:39.680 You would think folks would know that.

00:02:41.240 There are systems in place for these classified conversations to take place. They're a bit unwieldy.

00:02:47.100 You have to use different phones, different equipment, different systems, but they are in

00:02:51.160 place so that you don't have to use something like Signal. These are national security professionals

00:02:56.800 at the highest levels of government. They should know better. Republican analyst Scott Jennings on

00:03:02.540 CNN saying much of the criticism is likely overblown. The Signal program was preloaded on a number of

00:03:09.440 devices and agency computers in this circuit when they got there. So, in their view, it was already

00:03:14.900 in use. Number two, in some of the messages, they talk about needing to go to the high-side

00:03:19.480 computers, which is the classified system. So, they clearly were knowing there was a line on what

00:03:23.740 you could discuss in a chat like this versus classified system. Number three, there is a

00:03:28.660 dispute over whether the term war plans is being exaggerated. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says no

00:03:34.260 war plans were shared. Jeffrey Goldberg telling CNN on Monday night they were.

00:03:39.520 He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans. When targets were going to be targeted,

00:03:47.380 how they were going to be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks

00:03:52.360 were happening. And I continue not to publish it because it felt like it was too confidential.

00:03:58.180 Mr. Goldberg saying in subsequent interviews he may release more of the conversation.

00:04:03.040 On Tuesday morning, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard,

00:04:06.180 FBI Director Cash Patel, and CIA Director John Radcliffe appearing before the Senate Intel Committee

00:04:12.380 on a hearing about global threats facing the U.S. It turned into a grilling on the Signal chat.

00:04:19.480 Both Directors Gabbard and Radcliffe, who were on the message chain,

00:04:22.880 saying no classified intelligence was shared.

00:04:25.880 Senator, I can attest to the fact that there were no classified or intelligence equities

00:04:30.960 that were included in that chat group at any time.

00:04:33.940 The Secretary of Defense is the original classification authority, and my understanding

00:04:38.480 is that his comments are that any information that he shared was not classified.

00:04:44.960 Democrats on the committee orchestrating many combative exchanges.

00:04:48.840 Did Jeff Goldberg, did he create a hoax that allowed him to become part of this Signal thread?

00:04:55.140 Please answer the question. You don't. Don't insult the intelligence of the American people.

00:05:01.880 It's hard for me to believe that targets and timing and weapons would not have been classified.

00:05:08.780 If it's not classified, share the text now.

00:05:13.460 As the White House previously stated...

00:05:14.820 Is it classified or non-classified information on this text?

00:05:17.780 Back at the White House, the administration embracing what they think of as the big picture,

00:05:22.380 like the attacks against the Houthi rebels, were a success.

00:05:25.640 We are looking into him, reviewing how the heck he got into this room.

00:05:29.840 But I'll tell you what, the world owes President Trump a favor.

00:05:33.720 Under Biden, global shipping was shut down.

00:05:36.620 Pinprick attacks, months between them, our destroyers being fired upon dozens of times.

00:05:42.800 President Trump took decisive action with his national security team,

00:05:47.860 took out the head missileer, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters,

00:05:51.800 knocked out communication sites.

00:05:54.600 And for once, as we hear, as you all hear from every one of our allies,

00:05:59.520 thank God for American leadership again.

00:06:07.080 New details in the Trump administration's fight to deport former Columbia University student agitator

00:06:12.920 Mahmoud Khalil.

00:06:14.340 Khalil objects to being deported, arguing in part that he has a green card.

00:06:18.780 In a new court filing, federal prosecutors saying Mr. Khalil lied on that green card application

00:06:24.160 by leaving out key information from his background.

00:06:27.520 Prosecutors alleging Mr. Khalil failed to report his role as a political affairs officer

00:06:32.540 with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees from June to November 2023,

00:06:40.180 a period that includes the October 7th Hamas attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed in Israel

00:06:46.020 and around 250 taken hostage, including Americans.

00:06:49.480 In January 2024, Israeli intelligence reported that at least 12 UNRWA employees took part in the

00:06:57.420 October 7th attacks, prompting the Biden administration to suspend U.S. funding to UNRWA.

00:07:02.960 A December 2024 UN Watch report further accusing UNRWA's leadership of allowing Hamas to infiltrate

00:07:10.040 the group and indoctrinate Palestinian children with terrorist ideology.

00:07:14.700 While Mr. Khalil's exact responsibilities at UNRWA are unclear, reporting indicates he was

00:07:20.940 enrolled in a Columbia master's program from 2022 through December 2024, overlapping with the period

00:07:29.240 prosecutors say he worked for UNRWA. It's not known whether he worked remotely, traveled to the

00:07:35.040 region, or both. Prosecutors claim Khalil also failed to disclose his continuing employment

00:07:40.660 with the British Embassy in Beirut after 2022. Finally, the filing claims that Mr. Khalil did not

00:07:48.160 disclose his involvement to the feds with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the radical activist

00:07:54.760 student group he joined on Columbia's campus, which reportedly expressed sympathy for Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:08:01.480 The group, for which Khalil was spokesman, organizing major protests at Columbia, including the takeover of

00:08:08.160 Hamilton Hall last year and the creation of the Gaza Solidarity encampment, both of which led to

00:08:13.920 hundreds of arrests. Mr. Khalil's lawyer calls the new charges, quote, completely meritless, saying,

00:08:20.080 quote, this case is purely about First Amendment protected activity and speech, and U.S. citizens and

00:08:25.620 permanent residents alike are free to say what they wish about what is going on in the world.

00:08:30.480 Coming up, a closer look at U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Bosberg, the central figure in

00:08:38.320 the Trump administration's legal battle to deport illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act,

00:08:44.300 and President Trump signing a pardon for Hunter Biden's ex-best friend.

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00:10:05.920 U.S. District Court Judge James Bosberg emerging as a central figure in the legal resistance to the

00:10:11.940 second Trump administration. So far, federal judges handing down at least 15 universal injunctions,

00:10:17.960 nationwide orders halting President Trump's executive actions that can take months or even

00:10:23.460 years to overturn. None drawing more intense scrutiny than Judge Bosberg's decision to block deportations

00:10:30.180 under President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Judge Bosberg first halting the removal of

00:10:38.220 five suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela, later broadening that injunction to cover

00:10:44.520 all non-citizens subject to deportation under the order. The move sparking fierce backlash from the

00:10:50.980 Trump team. Senior advisor Stephen Miller accusing Judge Bosberg and others of overreach. These radical

00:10:57.160 rogue judges that are usurping the powers of the presidency and laying waste to our entire

00:11:03.020 constitutional system. We spoke with Julie Kelly, reporter for Declassified on Substack, who has covered

00:11:08.820 Judge Bosberg's work extensively both in this case and during his oversight of the January 6th trials

00:11:14.980 in Washington, D.C. She says the judge's concern for Venezuelan deportees stands in stark contrast

00:11:21.080 to how he treated non-violent Trump supporters. He sentenced one man who had just told him that his cancer

00:11:28.200 returned. He sentenced him to 45 days in prison. He sent another woman, 60-year-old woman from

00:11:35.180 Pennsylvania on non-violent offenses, sent her to prison for 14 months. Her husband also had cancer.

00:11:42.640 You know, they're aware of how these federal prisons operate. They know exactly how these people are going

00:11:48.260 to be treated. So I think that's the real double standard here is his very cautious concern over not

00:11:56.120 just the alleged due process rights of these Venezuelans, but worried about how they're going to be

00:12:00.220 treated in an El Salvador prison when he demonstrated no such concern over how Trump supporters were going

00:12:07.420 to be treated in federal prisons. Under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the president has sweeping

00:12:13.880 authority during wartime, an invasion, or an incursion to deport citizens of hostile nations with limited

00:12:20.720 due process. Judge Bosberg has acknowledged that throughout the case, but continues to uphold his

00:12:26.060 injunction anyway, citing due process concerns for the illegal immigrants who are alleged gang

00:12:31.560 members. Ms. Kelly reporting that Judge Bosberg participated at a privately funded anti-Trump event.

00:12:38.800 Just the News detailing on Monday the legal conference featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed

00:12:44.080 clear anti-Trump sentiments, particularly on immigration and January 6th, and a theme that echoed the

00:12:50.680 Democrat Party's 2024 stated mission of, quote, saving democracy. He attended a big conference in Idaho

00:13:00.380 sponsored by several well-known anti-Trump donors and officials. The D.C. Bar Association that has done

00:13:08.920 all that it can to destroy lawyers associated with the president. As the chief judge of the D.C.

00:13:15.680 district court, you shouldn't be attending any event that has political tones to it or any political

00:13:22.880 angle to it. But he's showing up to show, to demonstrate, that he's going to use his authority unchecked

00:13:30.060 until this point to lead the judicial insurrection, the judicial resistance to President Trump and his

00:13:38.500 administration. Beyond Judge Bosberg's alleged political bias, Ms. Kelly pointing to signs of 0.93

00:13:43.440 coordinated lawfare, highlighting ACLU documentation, including testimony from the five unnamed Venezuelans

00:13:49.920 at the heart of this case. One claiming to have overheard, quote, two U.S. government officials

00:13:57.160 talking, end quote, saying there is an order saying we can't take off, but we already have.

00:14:03.840 There are groups of lawyers who are coaching illegals how to buck the system. So this

00:14:13.280 appears to be a very good representation of that, how these illegals know exactly what needs to be said,

00:14:22.560 exactly how to countermand what the administration is saying in court, and protect themselves from being

00:14:31.240 identified as part of this gang. So it was pretty interesting to read these sworn statements,

00:14:37.800 these declarations talking about what they saw and what they heard, but also saying that they don't speak English

00:14:46.400 and they were asked to sign documents, but they didn't because they don't understand the language.

00:14:50.000 So it just goes to the insanity of the whole process.

00:14:53.760 On Monday, attorneys for the Trump administration and the defendants presenting oral arguments before a three-judge panel

00:14:59.860 of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump administration asking the court to lift the pause

00:15:05.000 on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. The Obama-appointed judge on the D.C. Circuit

00:15:10.680 appeared skeptical of the administration's argument. Patricia Millett, highly doubtful of the government's claims,

00:15:17.240 she suggested that the Nazis were treated better under the Alien Enemies Act than the Venezuelan subjects.

00:15:24.220 Julie Kelly saying another Trump-appointed judge, Justin Walker,

00:15:27.460 was in fact more skeptical of the ACLU's arguments.

00:15:31.380 Judge Walker, on the other hand, kept pushing the ACLU as to why they didn't pursue habeas petitions

00:15:39.660 for these individuals. They didn't really have a good answer for that. He kept saying that that was

00:15:45.420 the appropriate remedy and asked, why did the ACLU choose to file that lawsuit in Washington, D.C.,

00:15:54.740 when none of the illegals in that lawsuit lived in Washington, D.C.? So it seemed like Judge Walker

00:16:01.620 was very skeptical and noted, I think, identified several problems with both the ACLU lawsuit and

00:16:10.300 Jeb Osberg's temporary restraining order. So because it's an emergency motion expecting some sort of answer

00:16:18.660 this week. So they might put a temporary stay on Jeb Osberg's temporary restraining orders to halt

00:16:26.000 those flights. And if they do, what the DOJ said Monday afternoon is, they would then go ahead and

00:16:32.260 restart those deportation flights of TDA members to El Salvador.

00:16:37.580 The third judge on the panel, Karen Henderson, is a George H.W. Bush appointee.

00:16:42.220 She remained very quiet at the argument, making her vote harder to predict.

00:16:50.640 Devin Archer, former business partner of Hunter Biden, on Tuesday receiving a federal pardon from

00:16:56.260 President Trump. Mr. Archer was convicted in 2018 of two felonies for his role in fraudulently selling

00:17:02.400 more than $60 million of tribal bonds on behalf of a South Dakota tribe. The judge sentencing Mr.

00:17:08.780 Archer to a year in prison, ordering him to forfeit nearly $16 million and pay $43 million in

00:17:14.520 restitution. Mr. Archer has since claimed Hunter Biden was also involved in the scheme, but he was

00:17:20.040 protected from prosecution. In August 2023, Mr. Archer testified in a closed-door oversight committee

00:17:26.420 hearing where he provided firsthand accounts of Hunter Biden discussing business dealings with then-Vice

00:17:32.620 President Joe Biden, contrary to what the Biden family had previously maintained. President Trump

00:17:37.960 signing a full pardon from the White House on Tuesday afternoon.

00:17:41.700 He was prosecuted relating to a fraud investigation, but notably the tone and tenor of that prosecution

00:17:49.800 changed dramatically after he began to cooperate with congressional investigators and serve as a

00:17:55.760 witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family. We believe that was an injustice, and therefore we're

00:18:02.080 asking you to pardon him. And many people have asked me to do this. I think he was treated very

00:18:07.860 unfairly. And I looked at the records, studied the records, and he was a victim of a crime.

00:18:15.000 Mr. Archer telling the New York Post, quote, like so many people, my life was devastated by the Biden

00:18:20.100 family's selfish disregard for the truth and for the peace of mind and happiness of others.

00:18:27.420 And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,

00:18:31.940 live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megankelly,

00:18:37.200 and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - March 26, 2025

WH Backs Waltz, DOJ Says Khalil Lied on Green Card App, Judge Boasberg Deep Dive： AM Update 3⧸26

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