The Megyn Kelly Show
Hegseth vs. Top Generals, Air Traffic Control Nightmare, DOE Cuts Off Harvard Grants: AM Update 5/7
Wed, 7 May 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth charges ahead with bold military reforms, cutting bloated leadership, axing woke programs, and restoring a warrior ethos despite relentless media attacks. Air traffic control failures at Newark Airport trigger mass delays and cancellations. Catholic Cardinals begin the secretive process of selecting the next Pope. Education Secretary Linda McMahon informs Harvard it will no longer receive federal grants, citing antisemitism on campus and defiance of civil rights laws.Beam: Visit https://shopbeam.com/MEGYN and use code MEGYN to get our exclusive discount of up to 40% off.120Life: Go to https://120Life.com and use code MK to save 15%
Chapter 1: What bold military reforms is Secretary Hegseth implementing?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, May 7, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
When President Trump asked me to take this job, he told me, they're going to come after you. Boy, he was not kidding about that one.
As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sets out to dramatically reform the military, the media hits keep coming. But in the meantime, a big win for the Pentagon and the president.
We are going to radically transform the way air traffic control looks. We're going to build a brand new air traffic control system.
A harrowing systems outage leads to more than a week of dramatic delays at one of the nation's busiest airports, underscoring the need for an overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system. The highly secretive deliberations set to begin in the Vatican as senior church officials begin the process of electing a new pope.
And Education Secretary Lyndon McMahon tells Harvard, don't bother applying for any more federal grants. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Spending your nights tossing and turning, getting terrible sleep, and then dragging yourself through the next day on fumes can be a horrible cycle. It also makes you eat more. But consider Beam's Dream Powder.
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Chapter 2: What happened at Newark Liberty International Airport?
We're doing the work on behalf of the American people and the American war fighter. But then the president, after he said that, went on to say, I need you and I want you to restore the warrior ethos in our military full stop. And that's been my first priority since day one. We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns. No more climate change obsession. No more
Emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We're done with that shit. We're focused on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness.
Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, military recruitment is skyrocketing, reversing a decade-long slump marked by misquotas and declining enlistment.
Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the nation's busiest, grappling with widespread delays and cancellations following a critical systems failure, leaving air traffic controllers unable to see or speak to incoming flights for roughly 60 to 90 seconds.
On April 28th, controllers at the Philadelphia-based control center responsible for managing the Newark, New Jersey airspace lost radar and radio contact with the flights under their supervision. The union representing air traffic controllers saying operators were unable to see, hear, or communicate with the planes.
CNN reporting at least five controllers working during the outage now taking up to 45 days off under the Federal Employees Compensation Act. a law designed to allow federal employees time off to recover following a traumatic event on the job.
The CEO of United Airlines, Newark's largest carrier, slamming the controllers for, quote, walking off the job, further exacerbating already critical staffing shortages. Since Friday, the airport experiencing more than 400 canceled flights and more than 2,000 delays.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday turning the incident into a political attack against the Trump administration, once again recalling an early round of doge cuts.
So today, I'm demanding a full inspector general investigation as to what went on. The chaos at Newark could very well be a harbinger if issues like these aren't fixed. How much has the recent loss of several thousand experienced safety and support personnel due to Doge firings and resignations, forced and voluntary, contribute to the current chaos?
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Chapter 3: Why did Harvard lose federal grants?
Oh, he's just made it abundantly clear until they can come on board and fight anti-Semitism, obey the laws that the Supreme Court have put in place about the kind of admissions policies they should have, stop driving the Jewish students, you know, almost underground with their anti-Semitism and just many more things. And we've written, we've talked to them.
Their answer to us was filing a lawsuit on freedom of speech and i've uh... have said that is not the issue it's a civil rights issue on campus relative to the uh... anti-semitism uh... and they've just said that we're trying to dictate to them how they should run their university which is clearly not the case but why should taxpayers
continue to give money to a university that has an endowment of over $53 billion. It just doesn't make any sense.
The secretary going on to say the administration is looking into possibly revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status, which would basically take this to DEFCON 1. More from the letter, quote, Harvard will cease to be a publicly funded institution and can instead operate as a privately funded institution, drawing on its colossal endowment and raising money from its large base of wealthy alumni.
you have an approximately $53 billion headstart, much of which was made possible by the fact that you are living within the wall of and benefiting from the prosperity secured by the United States of America and its free market system you teach your students to despise.
Secretary McMahon slamming the university further, quote, Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America to its campus. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a separate probe into the disciplinary records of foreign students.
Following the events of October 7th, 2023, when the Hamas terror organization, unleashed its horrific terror attack on men, women, and children in Israel, 34 Harvard student groups co-signed a letter laying the blame for the murder of innocents squarely and entirely on Israel.
A recent anti-Semitism report commissioned by Harvard, highlighting numerous incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, reported on campus, causing genuine fear amongst Jewish students. 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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