The Megyn Kelly Show
Details on Alleged DC Pipe Bomber, NYU Assault Suspect's Past, Air India Crash Cause: AM Update 12/5
05 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, December 5th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
We were going to track this person to the end of the earth.
After five years, the FBI arrests a suspect in connection with the pipe bombs planted in D.C. on January 5th, 2021. New details on the lengthy criminal history of the man accused of assaulting an NYU student earlier this week.
You look at the facts, and the facts right now say the guy killed all of them.
A former Navy pilot exclusively weighs in on whether the Air India crash was caused intentionally by the pilot. And a major climate change paper that set off alarm bells last year now retracted. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Think about December.
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Chapter 2: What new details emerged about the alleged DC pipe bomber?
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Chapter 3: What is the criminal history of the NYU assault suspect?
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pipe bombs discovered on January 6, 2021. Cole is charged with one count of interstate transportation of an explosive with intent to kill, injure, or damage a building, in addition to maliciously attempting to damage or destroy by explosion. One pipe bomb found lying near the DNC, another near the RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. Neither went off, but investigators did determine viability.
Upon taking office, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, renewing the Fed's drive to find the suspect, seen on video wearing a hood and face mask, planting the devices. Attorney General Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, along with Patel and Bongino at a presser yesterday afternoon.
The FBI, along with U.S. Attorney Pirro and all of our prosecutors, have worked tirelessly for months, sifting through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden administration for four long years.
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Chapter 4: How did investigators determine the cause of the Air India crash?
reexamined every piece of evidence, sifted through all the data, something that the prior administration refused and failed to do.
We were going to track this person to the end of the earth. There was no way he was getting away. This case involved millions of pieces of data, and it is a huge win because it was like finding a needle in a haystack.
the affidavit laying out the forensic trail that led the feds to Cole. According to investigators, both devices were built from similar component parts, including a 1-inch by 8-inch pipe with end caps, 14-gauge electrical wire in red and black, alligator clips connecting the wires, a 9-volt battery and connector, a white kitchen timer, steel wool, paperclips, and homemade black powder.
FBI officials obtaining credit and banking records belonging to Cole showing purchases corresponding to the items used in the devices from October 2019 through December 2020. Cole purchasing galvanized pipes the same size as the ones planted in D.C. in June and November of 2020. And caps matching the ones on the device purchased from Home Depot on multiple occasions.
Cole buying five 9-volt battery connectors near the end of 2019 and two white kitchen timers in June 2020. The affidavit also detailing cell phone tower records, placing Cole's phone in the areas around the RNC and DNC, the night the bombs were placed, his phone pinging cell towers in the area approximately seven times during the period the devices were planted.
Cole's height is listed as 5'6", video analysis of the suspect in security video estimating earlier a height of 5'7", plus or minus an inch. Officials executing search warrants on Cole's home in Virginia, where he lives with his mother and other family members. Janine Pirro yesterday on Fox describing what agents found.
When the FBI went in this morning, they found a lot of other products and pieces for pipe bombs. Like what? Other pipes, other wires, other timers. He was into this, very much into this.
The family home, a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house valued at $611,000. Cole graduated from high school in 2013 and did not attend college. His mother's social media calling him, quote, the other part of my heart. A neighbor describing Cole to the New York Post as, quote, very antisocial, very. He keeps to himself. Another saying, quote, he seemed very quiet.
He would never make eye contact, almost like he just didn't see you. Cole worked for a bail bonds company run by his father. The company, according to the Daily Wire, worked to free illegal immigrants from ICE facilities.
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Chapter 5: What were the findings of the major climate change paper that was retracted?
investigators clashing with Indian officials on the cause of the Air India crash this summer that killed more than 250 people. And a doomsday climate report that caused all sorts of commotion last year now retracted.
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Chapter 6: What evidence led to the arrest of Brian Cole Jr. for the pipe bombs?
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U.S. officials now say Air India Flight 171's pilot, Captain Sumit Sabharwal, deliberately caused the plane crash in June, killing 241 people on board and 19 more on the ground, according to the Wall Street Journal. Only one passenger survived.
News that the crash may have been deliberate broke over the summer, but the Journal now reporting on significant tensions between Indian officials investigating the flight and American officials assisting. The National Transportation Safety Board, along with reps from the FAA, Boeing, and GE Aerospace are working with India on the crash inquiry because the plane was manufactured in the U.S.
and it was safety certified by American regulators. According to the journal, tensions beginning almost immediately. American investigators first arriving in India shortly after the crash. the chief of India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, reportedly telling them, quote, We're not a third-world country. We can do anything you all can do. We have the same capabilities.
Indian authorities initially refusing to allow U.S. officials to take their own photos of the wreckage and moving some pieces before they could be examined. U.S. investigators also struggling to get Indian investigators to download and analyze crucial information from the black box.
which contains flight data and a voice recording from the cockpit in the moments leading up to the crash, but ultimately Indian officials complying with U.S. requests. From the journal, quote, the data showed someone in the cockpit moved the switches that cut off the engine's fuel supply.
The data also showed that Sabarwal, the captain, did not pull back on the yoke in the final moments of the accident. In other words, as the plane was descending, he did not try to make it ascend.
The report released by the Indians providing a vague summary of the moments, failing to identify the pilots by name, just that, quote, one pilot asked the other why he moved the engine cutoff switches while the other pilot denied doing so. The engine switches moved back to run about 10 seconds later, according to the report. U.S.
officials believe it was the captain who cut the engines, as the data shows the first officer did pull up before the plane crashed. The journal reports its sources are worried the Indian government will not accept pilot suicide and homicide as the conclusion and instead will point to non-existent problems with the plane or engines.
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