The Megyn Kelly Show
Hegseth Goes On Offense, SCOTUS Arguments on LGBT Curriculum, FDA Fights Food Dyes: AM Update 4/23
Wed, 23 Apr 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes back against a media narrative of chaos, as the Pentagon investigates leaks and fires three top aides. The Supreme Court hears arguments from Maryland parents challenging a school district’s decision to mandate LGBTQ-themed books without opt-out options, in a case with major implications for parental rights. Health Secretary RFK Jr. announces plans to phase out all eight FDA-approved artificial food dyes within two years.120Life: Go to https://120Life.com and use code MK to save 15%Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com
Chapter 1: What updates does Megyn Kelly provide in the AM Update?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025. And this is your AM Update.
They've come after me from day one, just like they've come after President Trump. It's not hard for me to do this job. I know exactly why I'm here.
Secretary Pete Hegseth goes on offense against leakers with the Pentagon. And in media, looking for a win against the Trump administration.
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Chapter 2: What actions is Secretary Pete Hegseth taking against Pentagon leaks?
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's arguments on LGBT curriculum?
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Chapter 4: How is the FDA addressing artificial food dyes?
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Mr. Hegseth telling Fox News the attacks against him will not prevent the administration from accomplishing badly needed reforms within the Pentagon.
They've come after me from day one. just like they've come after President Trump. I mean, I've gotten a fraction of what President Trump got in that first term. What he's endured is superhuman. It's not hard for me to do this job.
I know exactly why I'm here, to bring warfighting and the warfighting ethos back to the Pentagon, to rip out the insidious ideologies and not compromise and not back down.
to bring in new press voices into the Pentagon, which we've done, to reestablish standards and accountability, to not tolerate leakers, to 100 percent operational control of our border, to get rid of trans lunacy in the military. We haven't backed down. So here's the thing. A lot of people come to Washington and they just play the game.
And it's you punch their ticket and get along to go along and, you know, start doing meet the press and and go into the Council on Foreign Relations and spending time with all the new cocktail sipping crowd. That's not why I'm here. I'm here because President Trump asked me to bring warfighting back to the Pentagon every single day. Right. That is our focus.
The Pentagon currently conducting an investigation into a series of leaks, including military plans relating to the Panama Canal and a planned briefing for Elon Musk allegedly regarding China and Ukraine. Amid preliminary results of the Pentagon's investigation, three of Secretary Hegseth's top aides fired and escorted out of the building on Friday. One aide, Senior Advisor Dan Caldwell,
a longtime friend of Secretary Hegseth's, going back to Mr. Hegseth's work at Concerned Veterans for America. Mr. Caldwell telling Tucker Carlson on Monday he believes he was fired not for leaking, but because he opposes military intervention with Iran.
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Chapter 5: What challenges does the Trump administration face regarding the deep state?
Chapter 6: What are the risks associated with a potential war with Iran?
They were Pentagon employees who leaked against their boss to news agencies in this room. And it's been clear since day one from this administration that we are not going to tolerate individuals who leak to the mainstream media, particularly when it comes to sensitive information. And the Secretary of Defense is doing a tremendous job. And he is bringing monumental change to the Pentagon.
And there's a lot of people in this city who reject monumental change. And I think, frankly, that's why we've seen a smear campaign against the Secretary of Defense since the moment that President Trump announced his nomination before the United States Senate.
Secretary Hegseth addressing head-on his longstanding ties to Mr. Caldwell and the other recently fired aides.
If one or two of these guys is exonerated after an investigation, great. That's what investigations are for. But we took it seriously. It led to some unfortunate places, people I have known for quite some time, but it's not my job to protect them. It's my job to protect national security, the president of the United States, and let the investigation go where it is.
So when that evidence is gathered sufficiently, and this has all happened very quickly, it will be handed over to DOJ, and those people will be prosecuted if necessary.
Steve Bannon, longtime Trump advisor and senior counselor to the president under Trump 1.0, telling The Megyn Kelly Show, while Secretary Hegseth's focus on rooting out leakers is understandable, it risks pulling attention away from key Trump 2.0 priorities.
We have to have a sense of urgency. Right now, we are burning daylight. We're 18 months away or however long away from the midterm elections where if they raise $2 billion and flip a couple of seats in New York and California, Hakeem Jefferson is going to speak at the House. They're going to impeach Trump in the first weeks.
And people are not at DOJ, at FBI and others are not moving quickly enough and fast enough with a sense of urgency and even CIA and DNI of taking down the deep state. These people are at war with President Trump. What's happening to Pete Hexeth is part of that war. They're dug in now more than ever and understand that. They need to get rid of Trump and they need to get rid of Trumpism.
Folks, you have to understand this deep state. This just didn't occur overnight. This has been 40 or 50 years. All those generals and field officers and civilians have been around forever as part of the deep state of the Pentagon. They're just not going to have Pete Hexeth come in with President Trump's ideas and a handful of people and say, oh, this is terrific. Why didn't we think of this?
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