The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Wins at Supreme Court, Tariffs Market Madness, Truth About RFK and Measles: AM Update 4/8
Tue, 8 Apr 2025
President Trump gets good news at the Supreme Court over deportations. Dozens of countries line up to renegotiate trade deals with the US as President Trump's tariff strategy sends markets swinging. Israel's Prime Minister visits the White House. Media attacks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid a measles outbreak, but misses the real story. President Trump welcomes the LA Dodgers to the White House, including past critics, in a celebratory visit. Tax Network USA: Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN to speak with a strategist for FREE todayPatriot Mobile: Get a Free Month at https://PatriotMobile.com/MEGYN or call 972-PATRIOT
Chapter 1: What is the latest update on President Trump's tariff strategy?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, and this is your AM Update. Listen, we've got 50 countries that are burning the phone lines into the White House up. As markets yo-yo in response to President Trump's recently announced tariff strategy, White House officials say dozens of countries are lining up to renegotiate trade deals.
We're having direct talks with Iran and Iranians. They've started. It'll go on Saturday.
The Trump administration set to begin direct talks with the Iranian regime over its nuclear ambitions. RFKJ takes media fire amid a deadly measles outbreak. But the reports tend to gloss over one key fact. And the Supreme Court weighs in on two cases in favor of the Trump administration. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Chapter 2: What was the Supreme Court's decision on Trump's deportation policies?
April 15th is just around the corner. Act now before the IRS acts first. A big win for the Trump administration at the U.S. Supreme Court, which today lifted the injunction on Trump's deportations of suspected Venezuelan gang members, saying the D.C. court where they objected to their removal did not have proper jurisdiction.
The high court, in a 5-4 decision in which Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the three liberals in dissent, found that, as the Trump administration had conceded, the illegals deserve some measure of due process prior to removal, but that those hearings must be held in so-called habeas proceedings, which means before an immigration judge and in the jurisdiction in which the migrants are detained.
In this case, that's Texas, not Washington, D.C., Therefore, Judge Boasberg did not have the right to hear this case, and his orders trying to stop the deportations and turn those deportation flights around were improper. Bottom line, the Trump administration may continue to summarily remove these suspected gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
Individual hearings on the deportations, if at all, will happen in immigration courts where the detainees are held once arrested. The Supreme Court also weighing in on the case of the 29-year-old Salvadorian national the Department of Justice admits was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
The high court ruling the government did not have to meet the midnight Tuesday deadline set by a lower court judge to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Last week, U.S. District Judge Paula Zinnis ordering the government to return Mr. Abrego Garcia by 11.59 p.m. on Monday. He was in the U.S.
with protection from being removed to only one country, his home of El Salvador, after an immigration court earlier found a likelihood of danger to him there.
Judge Zinnes, appointed by President Obama, writing in this case, quote, "...as defendants acknowledge they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador, let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere." Authorities arrested Mr. Abrego Garcia on March 12th in Baltimore.
On the 15th, he was deported to El Salvador. He could have been deported elsewhere, just not to El Salvador, given the removal protection he received. ICE officials say Mr. Abrego Garcia was inadvertently included on a flight manifest that should have only included people cleared for deportation to El Salvador. The Trump administration maintains Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member.
In fact, two immigration courts have found evidence to support that. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin telling CNN, quote, whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the U.S., he should be locked up. The Supreme Court's Monday decision does not settle the underlying dispute.
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Chapter 3: How did the market react to Trump's tariff plans?
Eric Trump posting on X last week, quote, I wouldn't want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with Donald Trump. The first to negotiate will win. The last will absolutely lose. I've seen this movie my entire life.
While the White House canceled the official press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump invited the press pool into the Oval for an extended Q&A session with Mr. Netanyahu, along with high-ranking U.S. officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
President Trump announcing the administration will engage in direct talks with Iran.
We're having direct talks with Iran. And they've started. It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or, frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it.
So we're going to see if we can avoid it.
The Iranian regime declined direct talks on a nuclear deal in late March. What motivated the change of heart? Not yet clear. Iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, arming and funding groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, all of which carry out attacks against the U.S. or its allies. Relatedly, Secretary Hegseth providing an update on the U.S.
campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
It's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis, and it's about to get worse. It's been a devastating campaign, whether it's underground facilities, weapons manufacturing, bunkers, troops in the open, air defense assets. We are not going to relent. The Iranians as well, they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis, and that message has been made very clear.
So we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's new tariffs on China?
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HHS Secretary RFKJ visiting southwestern states as part of a Make America Healthy Again tour. Axios reporting White House officials urging Secretary Kennedy to take a more public-facing role. The tour coinciding with a measles outbreak largely affecting Texas.
Over the weekend, Secretary Kennedy visiting a Gaines County, Texas, Mennonite community suffering the loss of two young children due to complications from measles. A six-year-old passing away in February and an eight-year-old last week.
Secretary Kennedy on Sunday writing on X, quote, in early March, I deployed a CDC team to bolster local and state capacity for response across multiple Texas regions, supply pharmacies, and Texas-run clinics with needed MMR vaccines and other medicines. MMR standing for measles, mumps, and rubella.
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Chapter 5: What agreements emerged from Netanyahu's visit to the White House?
The Post goes on to say, quote, the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine. The media immediately seizing on the Post as an opportunity to smear RFKJ, a longtime critic of childhood vaccine mandates.
Measles outbreak in Texas is growing and a second unvaccinated child has died of the virus. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. was at the child's funeral yesterday and publicly backed the MMR vaccine as the most effective way to prevent the spread of the disease. Of course, that is raising the question, though, why did he wait until now to do that?
That was his most direct statement yet as someone who in the past has been a vaccine skeptic.
You know, it's amazing that like the lead of a lot of our news headlines on this, our top health official says that the MMR vaccine is effective. I mean, that's just sort of like that shouldn't be news, but it is news when it's RFK Jr. saying it.
Chapter 6: Which countries are interested in renegotiating trade deals with the US?
I would urge people to look at his statements, which seem to be on both sides of the coin. He did not have a full-throated endorsement.
Missing in those reports, critical context. Members of the Mennonite community are largely unvaccinated for religious reasons and have been long before RFKJ became the head of HHS. Many Mennonite families live in tight-knit rural communities. Vaccine rates are significantly lower in these groups across the board, not just for MMR. making outbreaks more likely.
Of the approximately 500 measles cases in Texas, Gaines County, home to a substantial Mennonite population, accounts for 315. President Trump on Monday hosting the L.A. Dodgers celebrating the 2024 World Series champions. President Trump praising the team in his remarks, calling team manager Dave Roberts, quote, one of the greatest managers ever to wear the Dodger blue.
Mr. Roberts in 2019 suggesting he would skip. a trip to the Trump White House if the Dodgers won the series, telling the LA Times, quote, we have to win it first, but one trip to D.C. playing the Nationals is plenty for me. The Dodgers did not make the series that year. Mr. Roberts explaining his change of heart to reporters last week, quote, this is not a political thing.
I'm not going to sit up here and make it political. We're looking forward to celebrating our championship team. Star player Mookie Betts, who skipped a Trump White House meeting in 2019 as a Red Sox player, also in attendance. Mr. Trump making a special shout out.
Including superstars, Mookie Betts. Oh, is he good. Mookie, that guy can play, can't he? I mean, unbelievable. You really, Mookie, I've been watching it. I don't want to say I watched him when he was on Boston, but I did. I didn't think that was a particularly good trade when they made it, and I happened to be right.
The only player not in attendance, first baseman Freddie Freeman, absent due to an ankle sprain. And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at New East, on YouTube.com slash Megyn Kelly, and on all podcast platforms.
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