The Megyn Kelly Show
Disturbing New Details About Would-Be Trump Assassin, Coal EOs, Hegseth Warns China: AM Update 4/9
Wed, 9 Apr 2025
Federal prosecutors say the alleged would-be Trump assassin tried to buy a rocket launcher from Ukraine. President Trump signs sweeping executive orders to revive the coal industry. The Supreme Court blocks a lower court order that would have forced the Trump administration to rehire thousands of fired federal workers. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth puts China on notice, vowing to keep the Panama Canal free from foreign control. A military parade for Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary is reportedly under discussion.We Heart Nutrition: Go to https://WeHeartNutrition.com & use code MEGYN for 20% offNimi Skincare: Get 10% off your order at https://www.NimiSkincare.com
Chapter 1: What are the new allegations against the would-be Trump assassin?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, and this is your AM Update. New details on the alleged would-be Trump assassins' plans, including plans to purchase a rocket launcher from Ukraine.
Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure, and powerful form of energy.
President Trump announcing a new slate of executive orders to boost the coal industry. The Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration for the third time in a week.
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Federal prosecutors writing in a court filing this week that alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Ruth attempted to purchase a rocket launcher from Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the planned attack.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump planning to revive the coal industry?
It's cheap, incredibly efficient, high density, and it's almost indestructible. Most importantly, we have more of it here in America than anywhere else on Earth.
Coal-powered energy became a political football over the last decade. In January 2016, President Obama issuing a moratorium on federal coal leases on public lands. Hillary Clinton made clear she wanted to kill the coal industry. President Trump reversing the Obama order in 2017 only to see it reimposed by the Biden administration.
President Trump announcing the administration is working to make the latest orders permanent.
We're going to give a guarantee that the business will not be terminated by the ups and downs of the world of politics. So should somebody come in to this very important office and say, oh, well, you spent hundreds of millions of dollars and you guys have given up your life. Because you want to be in coal and then all of a sudden you don't have a life anymore because it's what you know the best.
That's not going to happen. We're going to give a guarantee that it's not going to happen so that if somebody comes in, they cannot change it at a whim. They're going to have to go through hell to close you up.
These latest orders, part of a broader push to dramatically refocus the federal government via executive authority. CNN analyst Harry Enten breaking it down.
I think there was this concern among some folks that Donald Trump would come in for a second term and kind of be a lame duck. He ain't no lame duck. If anything, he's a soaring eagle. What am I talking about here? Let's talk about Trump executive orders in 2025. He's already signed 111 so far. That is the most at this point in a presidency in at least 100 years.
And Trump's approach to presidential power, I think the American people recognize what he's doing here is completely different. We're talking, get this, Eighty six percent of the American public believes that Trump's approach to presidential power is completely different from past presidents compared to only 14 percent who believe it is in line with precedent.
And we're talking about at least 79 percent of Democrats, independents and Republicans.
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Chapter 3: What warning did Defense Secretary Hegseth give to China?
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On Tuesday, the court blocking a lower court order demanding that the Trump administration rehire thousands of provisional federal employees let go in mass layoffs. The thinking had been they're provisional and would be easier to fire.
On March 13th, Clinton appointed District Court Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, ordering the administration to reinstate the provisional employees, approximately 16,000 of them across six agencies, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and the VA.
In a 7-2 decision, the court ruling the organizations bringing the case lack standing as individual workers who had been fired were not involved in the suit at all. The unsigned order leaving the door open for individual employees to commence their own challenges under the Administrative Procedure Act.
The justices yet to weigh in on a similar injunction from an Obama-appointed judge out of Maryland. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday visiting Panama in an effort to curb Chinese influence on the highly strategic waterway.
China did not build this canal. China does not operate this canal. And China will not weaponize this canal. Together with Panama in the lead, we will keep the canal secure and available for all nations through the deterrent power of the strongest nation. most effective, and most lethal fighting force in the world. We will do this in partnership with Panama.
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The visit on the heels of two major developments in the region. In February, Panama announcing an early departure from the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, an infrastructure agreement designed to force developing nations into dependence on China. In March, a Hong Kong company operating two ports on either side of the canal announcing a sale to American company BlackRock.
Secretary Hegseth laying out the vital importance of the canal to U.S. interests.
President Trump today recognizes the canal's rightful place as the center of our shared hemisphere. It connects two continents and two oceans, transporting over $250 billion in goods per year and 40% of U.S. shipping. 70% of the ships that pass through this canal are going to or from U.S. ports. It saves nearly 8,000 miles for shipping traveling between our coasts.
President Trump making control of the canal a day one priority of his second term. Mr. Trump not ruling out reclaiming the canal with military force. Possible plans of a D.C. military parade in the works. The Hill reporting an unnamed Army official saying, quote, there are plans for a parade that will involve the Army. Politico reporting the White House denies a parade has been scheduled, but D.C.
Mayor Muriel Bowser confirming discussions with the administration. The Army celebrating its 250th birthday on June 14th, the same day as President Trump's 79th birthday. The idea of a military parade in the capital, inspired by President Trump's 2017 visit to France on Bastille Day. Mr. Trump teasing French President Emmanuel Macron in a joint press conference months later.
I do want to say that I was your guest at Bastille Day, and it was one of the greatest parades I've ever seen. It was two hours on the button, and it was military might. and I think a tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France. And to a large extent, because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4th in Washington down Pennsylvania. I don't know.
We're going to have to try and top it.
In 2018, plans for a military parade scrapped following complaints of high costs of safety measures, estimated to be around $90 million, though this time around, Doge saves about that much every couple of hours. So we'll see. That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly.
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