The Megyn Kelly Show - November 12, 2026


White House Warns Democrats, Biden Revisits 2024, Baby Buried Alive Rescued： AM Update 11⧸12

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00:00:30 Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Chyshynski, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up
00:00:37 Show on Sirius XM Channel 111. It's Thursday, November 12th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:00:43 We can't forget about these folks that are causing harm. Like,
00:00:47 you know, I think it's like, I mean, maybe it's because I'm like, I'm gay, but like,
00:00:51 you know, like pettiness is a thing. The White House warning congressional Democrats that their
00:00:56 planned investigations into President Trump's administration could cross the line into criminal
00:01:00 conduct. Former President Joe Biden opening up about his cancer diagnosis and revisiting his
00:01:06 disastrous 2024 debate. We found little koa, sharp, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life,
00:01:14 crying, the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby. A remarkable rescue in South Carolina
00:01:20 after authorities discover an infant allegedly buried underground by his own father. And former
00:01:25 Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor suing a newspaper for defamation, alleging a reporter who he once
00:01:31 slept with helped investigate his relationships with other women. All that and more coming up
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00:02:42 AM Update. The White House issuing a sharp warning to congressional Democrats preparing to launch a
00:02:50 sweeping series of investigations into President Trump's administration, cautioning that some of
00:02:54 their tactics could amount to criminal conduct. White House counsel Will Scharf sending a letter
00:02:59 Monday to Congressman Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,
00:03:05 who is expected to become chairman when the new Congress convenes in January. The warning following
00:03:09 a series of provocative statements from Congressman Garcia, who has made no secret of his plans to
00:03:14 investigate the president, his family, and current and former members of his administration
00:03:19 following last week's sweeping Democrat victories. Mr. Garcia posting on social media
00:03:24 after the election, quote, oversight Democrats are ready to take on the crooks, the conmen,
00:03:29 and the Trump crime family. Lawyer up. During an appearance Saturday at Crooked Media's
00:03:35 conference, Congressman Garcia teasing the scope of his planned investigations and his motivations.
00:03:41 Just because you're Kimberly Goldfoyle or you're Kristi Noem or you're Pam Bondi and you're no
00:03:46 longer in office, that doesn't mean that we're still not interested in accountability for all
00:03:53 of your crimes and grift. We're not going to forget, like, we can't forget about these folks
00:03:59 that are causing harm. Like, you know, I think it's like, I mean, maybe it's because I'm like,
00:04:04 I'm gay but like you know like pettiness is a thing like I I'm mad. Scharf appearing to take 0.77
00:04:12 particular issue with that rhetoric writing in his letter that the Trump administration will
00:04:16 not be quote extorted or intimidated by investigations motivated by quote animus
00:04:21 pettiness hatred or any other unlawful motive. The White House lawyer arguing that congressional
00:04:27 subpoenas must serve a legitimate legislative purpose rather than become a tool to harass
00:04:32 or intimidate political opponents.
00:04:34 Scharf warning that efforts to threaten administration officials
00:04:36 or use congressional investigations simply to instill fear,
00:04:40 quote, may cross the line into blatant criminality.
00:04:44 The letter citing Supreme Court decisions establishing limits on congressional investigations,
00:04:49 including a requirement that subpoenas serve a legitimate legislative purpose.
00:04:53 Democrats already outlining an expansive investigative agenda.
00:04:57 According to CBS News, potential targets include the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures
00:05:01 a $2 billion Saudi investment in Jared Kushner's private equity firm,
00:05:06 and Pentagon contracts involving companies linked to the president's sons.
00:05:10 Other areas under consideration including allegations of improper contracting practices
00:05:15 at the Department of Homeland Security, corporate donations toward the new White House ballroom,
00:05:20 and the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
00:05:24 Congressman Garcia pushing back on Sharf's warning, accusing President Trump of having
00:05:28 something to hide. In a statement, the congressman declaring,
00:05:31 quote, Congress's authority comes from Article 1 of the Constitution, not from the permission of
00:05:36 the White House. We spoke with Attorney Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article 3
00:05:40 project, who explained the significance of Scharf's warning and the legal limits on
00:05:45 congressional investigations. I think it's simply a warning that Garcia and a lot of other Democrats
00:05:51 have been extraordinarily aggressive with their rhetoric about what they're trying to do with
00:05:55 these investigations to the point that it doesn't really indicate any kind of legitimate legislative
00:06:00 purpose. They're just using it to harass. And there's there's binding case law that that's not
00:06:05 that's not what you're allowed to do with congressional investigations. The power to
00:06:10 prosecute and investigate for the criminal purposes rests with the executive branch.
00:06:16 The challenge for the White House, however, establishing that Democrats are crossing
00:06:20 those constitutional boundaries. Chamberlain suggesting Congressman Garcia may have
00:06:25 inadvertently made that task easier. Usually it's pretty difficult to prove, but the problem
00:06:30 here for congress or rather for garcia is that they've been all over the media talking about
00:06:37 what their actual purpose is meaning they've been saying repeatedly that their purpose is to harass
00:06:43 if they were smart they would have been a lot quieter about it and there would have been much
00:06:46 less to go on the dispute potentially setting the stage for a series of courtroom battles
00:06:52 the real impact of this stuff is going to be felt if and when the executive branch defies some of
00:06:58 of these subpoenas and then the Congress tries to go to court to get them enforced. That's when
00:07:03 the court will look at these out-of-court statements by Garcia and others and say that
00:07:07 there is no legitimate legislative purpose here and the executive branch is not obligated to comply.
00:07:13 As for how President Trump should approach the incoming Congress,
00:07:16 Chamberlain recommending a selective strategy rather than blanket resistance to Democrat subpoenas.
00:07:22 I think the Trump administration should evaluate each subpoena on its own individual merits,
00:07:26 look at the ones that seem, if they're connected to a legitimate legislative purpose,
00:07:30 you can go ahead and comply with those. For the ones that look like it's pretty clearly
00:07:34 designed to harass, that's where you should try and essentially not comply and essentially demand
00:07:41 that they be more narrowly tailored. And if Congress refuses to do so, that's when you litigate.
00:07:47 Former President Joe Biden giving what is being described as the only new interview to People
00:07:52 Magazine ahead of next Tuesday's release of his memoir, Promise Me America. The Biden ex-account
00:07:58 announcing over the weekend that the 83-year-old was scaling back planned appearances to promote
00:08:03 the book, citing his ongoing battle with cancer. Mr. Biden announcing in May of last year, nearly
00:08:08 four months after leaving office, that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate
00:08:13 cancer, which had already spread to his bones. Now, speaking to People Magazine, the former
00:08:18 President reflecting on his health during his final years in the White House and how his cancer
00:08:23 diagnosis might have changed the course of his presidency. If I had known that I was feeling
00:08:29 lousy because I had cancer, I would have resigned. I would have not gone forward because I don't think
00:08:36 an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running for, you know, but that wasn't the case.
00:08:43 President Biden undergoing radiation and hormone therapy following his diagnosis,
00:08:49 telling people that recent tests show no further spread of the disease.
00:08:53 The timing of that diagnosis raising questions from the outset,
00:08:56 as some medical experts express skepticism that a president receiving regular medical care
00:09:01 could have advanced cancer without it being detected sooner.
00:09:04 Among those questioning the timeline, leading prostate cancer surgeon Dr. David Samadhi,
00:09:09 who raised concerns during a May 2025 appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:09:13 someone who is in politics like this senators congressmen politicians they have like a lot of
00:09:20 attention they check their cholesterols they check their hearts they check from top to bottom
00:09:24 so you know it's true that over the age of 80 we don't want to be too aggressive with
00:09:30 psa screening because most likely people die from other diseases than prostate cancer
00:09:35 but someone like him who was just the president there's no way in the world that their doctors
00:09:40 would just not look at PSA and not look at the PSA in the last many years
00:09:46 and just say, well, he's old enough and there's no indication to do this.
00:09:49 That doesn't happen.
00:09:51 Mr. Biden rejecting suggestions that he concealed his illness while in office,
00:09:55 insisting that the public learned about his diagnosis at the same time he did
00:09:59 and maintaining that his illness never interfered with his ability to do the job.
00:10:04 Mr. Biden revisiting another major controversy from his final year in office,
00:10:08 his June 2024 debate against President Trump, the former president downplaying the significance of
00:10:14 that performance. Look, I don't know anybody had made a mistake in the debate. To me, it was not
00:10:20 very consequential. First of all, I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn't. But
00:10:26 notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't
00:10:32 consequential. A stark contrast to the reaction from his own wife, Dr. Joe Biden, revealing earlier
00:10:37 this year that she feared her husband was having a stroke as she watched the debate,
00:10:42 the former president struggling throughout the night. And I'm going to continue to move until
00:10:47 we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more
00:10:54 border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the
00:11:00 end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. The performance triggering
00:11:04 widespread alarm among Democrats, prompting growing calls for Biden to withdraw from the
00:11:09 race. Just 24 days later, Mr. Biden abandoning his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President
00:11:14 Kamala Harris. Coming up, a miraculous rescue in South Carolina. Police finding an 11-month-old
00:11:22 baby buried alive in the woods for nearly 24 hours. A former Wisconsin lieutenant governor
00:11:27 filing a defamation lawsuit, alleging a newspaper reporter he once had a sexual relationship with
00:11:33 helped investigate his involvement with other women.
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00:12:31 An extraordinary rescue in South Carolina.
00:12:33 Authorities finding an 11-month-old baby buried alive in the woods
00:12:36 after apparently spending 24 hours underground.
00:12:40 Koa Sharp discovered Tuesday afternoon inside a makeshift grave,
00:12:43 trapped in a dog crate allegedly buried by his own father.
00:12:47 Lexington County Sheriff Jay Kuhn announcing the discovery.
00:12:51 God is good.
00:12:52 Just a few moments ago, we found little Koa Sharp, 11 months old,
00:12:57 buried alive, clinging to life, crying on the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby.
00:13:03 The desperate search beginning Monday afternoon after COA disappeared while in the care of his
00:13:08 father, 25-year-old Michael Comer. According to Sheriff Kuhn, the baby's paternal grandmother
00:13:13 had left COA with Comer while running an errand, expecting another caregiver to arrive shortly
00:13:18 afterward. By the time that caregiver reached the home, both father and son were gone.
00:13:24 Deputies tracking Comer across Lexington County throughout the day,
00:13:27 eventually finding him hiding in a shed late Monday night.
00:13:31 Comer arrested on burglary and resisting arrest charges.
00:13:34 COA, nowhere to be found.
00:13:36 The search continuing into Tuesday as nearly 100 law enforcement officers
00:13:40 and first responders combed the area,
00:13:43 desperately hoping to find the missing baby alive.
00:13:45 Investigators eventually focusing on a wooded area near Comer's father's home,
00:13:49 where searchers noticed a patch of freshly disturbed dirt
00:13:52 beneath the pine straw. We searched that with our crime scene tech, our crime scene sled, and FBI
00:13:59 folks, and as they probed it and laid it out and started digging, you could hear
00:14:03 little Koa crying. So as you imagine, the race was on. Everybody's getting down there trying to get
00:14:09 him out. Investigators discovering Koa buried inside a two-foot-by-two-foot wired dog crate
00:14:14 wrapped in a towel. The sheriff believing the towel may have created an air pocket that allowed
00:14:19 the baby to breathe, while the chilly weather potentially improved his chances of survival.
00:14:24 Koa immediately rushed to a hospital for treatment and released into the care of relatives on Tuesday
00:14:29 night, Sheriff Kuhn expressing hope that the little boy will make a full recovery. According
00:14:34 to the Associated Press, court records revealing that Comer had been placed on probation just last
00:14:39 month after pleading guilty to domestic violence and aggravated breach of peace charges. Prosecutors
00:14:45 dropping a separate gun charge as part of the plea agreement and crediting Comer for more than two
00:14:49 months already spent behind bars. Comer's mother, Patricia, speaking to local television station
00:14:54 WACH, describing her concerns about her son's mental health. He has problems with schizophrenia
00:15:00 and manic depression diagnosis. Prosecutors now charging Comer with attempted murder.
00:15:08 He remains behind bars as the investigation continues. Former Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor
00:15:14 Mandela Barnes suing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for defamation, alleging that a reporter
00:15:18 who he had previously slept with, helped develop a story accusing him of using his political
00:15:23 influence to pursue women. According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday, the female political 0.78
00:15:27 reporter maintaining an on-and-off sexual relationship with Barnes for several years, 1.00
00:15:33 beginning in 2018. Despite that history, the reporter allegedly helping develop a story
00:15:37 about Barnes' relationships with other women. The reporter not identified in the lawsuit,
00:15:42 although she was not among those whose names appeared on the published articles.
00:15:47 Barnes' campaign learning of her involvement,
00:15:49 and notifying the Journal Sentinel of the conflict on July 30th before the story was published.
00:15:53 The newspaper removing the reporter and assigning other journalists to review portions of her work,
00:15:59 but publishing the articles later that same day.
00:16:02 In the July articles, the Journal Sentinel accusing Barnes of repeatedly using his political standing
00:16:06 to pursue sexual relationships with young adult women, citing three anonymous sources.
00:16:12 One of those sources acknowledging a sexual encounter with Barnes,
00:16:15 although none accusing him of abuse or mistreatment. The Journal Sentinel also reporting that the
00:16:20 Wisconsin Democrat Party hired an outside law firm to investigate allegations of inappropriate
00:16:25 behavior, Barnes denying that he exploited his political position to pursue women or that the
00:16:30 party conducted a formal investigation into his conduct. According to Wisconsin Public Radio,
00:16:36 Barnes' attorneys arguing that the newspaper misrepresented the party's handling of an
00:16:41 anonymous complaint, portraying a possible legal review as a full-fledged investigation.
00:16:46 The controversy coinciding with the end of Barnes' campaign for a Wisconsin governor.
00:16:50 Barnes withdrawing from the governor's race the same day the articles were published,
00:16:54 although denying the two were connected. Barnes telling WBAY-TV2 that the reporting had
00:17:00 nothing to do with his decision. It became very difficult to raise money. It became very difficult
00:17:05 to build a coalition that was needed to be successful as zero interest in running a
00:17:11 campaign that would have gotten me in second place. The journal Sentinel defending is reporting
00:17:16 rejecting Barnes' demand for corrections and retractions. Executive editor Greg Borowski
00:17:20 insisting the articles underwent the newspaper standard editing and legal review, and that
00:17:25 Barnes had an opportunity to respond before publication. Borowski also disputing the
00:17:30 allegations surrounding the reporter's involvement, maintaining she did not participate in reporting
00:17:34 or writing the published story. Barnes now seeking compensatory and punitive damages
00:17:39 and requesting a jury trial. However, as a public figure, the former lieutenant governor facing a
00:17:44 high legal bar, required to prove the newspaper knowingly published false information or acted
00:17:50 with reckless disregard for the truth. That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Jashinski,
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