The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Dismantles Ed Dept, RFK Goes After Food Chemicals, American Released: AM Update 3/21
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
President Trump signs an order marking the beginning of the end of the Department of Education. A Georgetown student on a foreign visa arrested by the Department of Homeland Security. The sympathetic media largely ignoring his family ties to Hamas. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces a sweeping review of chemicals in food. An American citizen is released by the Taliban. New documents from the JFK files illuminate President Kennedy's frustrations with the CIA. Tax Network USA: Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN to speak with a strategist for FREE todayHungryroot: Visit https://Hungryroot.com/megynfor 40% off your first box PLUS a free item in every box for life
Chapter 1: What are the headlines in the AM Update for March 21st, 2025?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's March 21st, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all.
President Trump announcing an executive order aimed at shuttering the Department of Education.
Any new chemical that they want to add to our food is generally recognized as safe and gets no review.
RFKJ announcing a sweeping review of industry food standards aimed at ridding the food supply of potentially harmful ingredients. A Georgetown researcher on a student visa arrested by Homeland Security. The reporting largely sympathetic to the student, glossing over a key detail about his personal life.
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Chapter 2: What actions is President Trump taking regarding the Department of Education?
Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. In a few moments, I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the Federal Department of Education once and for all. My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the department. We're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good.
Completely abolishing the Department of Ed will require an act of Congress not likely to happen under the current slim Republican majorities. The order will instead, quote, begin to eliminate the department. Last week, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announcing a reduction in workforce amounting to half of the department's employees.
Prior to the new order, the DOE was responsible for developing federal education guidelines and initiatives like Common Core, enforcing civil rights compliance in schools, and administering federal student aid. Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt describing to reporters Thursday morning what tasks will remain under the department.
Pell grants and student loans will still be run out of the department in Washington, D.C., but the great responsibility of educating our nation's students will return to the states. The Department of Education plays a critical role in enforcing civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination. Who's going to do that now?
Any critical functions of the department such as that will remain, but again, we're greatly reducing the scale and the size of this department.
President Trump saying Pell Grants, a common form of undergraduate aid and Title I funding allocated toward children with disabilities, will be preserved in full and eventually handed over to other agencies. The details of how exactly the Trump administration plans to hand education back to the states remain unclear.
Randy Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and critic of the move, outlining her fears to left-wing journalist Molly Jong Fast.
They're saying, oh, don't worry. Let's block grant it. So we'll give it to a state education department. So and then let the state education department decide what to do. So we know, for example, what Texas would do.
They'll use it for vouchers. Math and reading scores for 13 year olds have fallen to the lowest level in decades. Six in 10 fourth graders are not proficient in math and standardized test scores have shown little to no improvement. In fact, per-pupil spending has risen by more than 245% since the 1970s, with test scores rising less than 2%.
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Chapter 3: What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stance on food chemicals?
In the petition for release obtained by Politico, Mr. Suri's lawyer arguing that his client is being punished because his wife, a U.S. citizen, is Palestinian. Is that it? His lawyer, Hassan Ahmed, also claiming the government suspects Mr. Suri and his wife oppose U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. Again, is it quite that simple? Badr Khan Suri is married to Mafizi Salah,
also a Georgetown University student. A February investigation from National Review identifying her as the daughter of Ahmed Youssef, a former advisor for Hamas, a terrorist organization. National Review reporting Ms. Salah, quote, "...has been open about her own role with the Hamas government.
She served with the Hamas government's Committee to Break the Siege in Gaza, which happened to be chaired by her father." Ms. Salah's father is co-author of a book titled The End of the Jewish State. Just a matter of time. A review of her own social media reveals the glorification of Hamas and the atrocities they committed on October 7th.
Just days after the terror attack resulting in the slaughter. Of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of approximately 250 people, including Americans, Ms. Salah posted on Facebook an image of a Palestinian hang glider, a reference to the vehicles used to infiltrate Israel, with the caption, We shall prevail. In a July post on Instagram, Ms. Salah writing in Arabic, America is the plague.
Do you believe these press reports? Scholar detained over American wife's Palestinian ties. It's a little more complicated than that, AP. Another Instagram post showing images of Israeli hostages in Gaza saying their smiles and healthy appearance indicated how nicely they were treated. I'm sure it was a real joy.
Many freed hostages have spoken out about their treatment after they were returned back safely to Israel.
There were lots of moments when they tortured us, when they moved us one of the times and they put black material on our eyes that we won't be able to see anything. And I hadn't found out where to put my next step while holding the wall. And I thought that I'm going to fall. And I thought that they're going to kill me.
Then we started a phase of almost two months of extreme starvation. And I couldn't walk for more than a month.
It's unclear how exactly or when the daughter of a Hamas advisor was able to obtain U.S. citizenship. The State Department has yet to publicly identify specific actions taken by Mr. Suri to spread Hamas propaganda. A Georgetown University spokesperson saying, quote, we are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity and we have not received a reason for his detention.
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