Hegseth vs. Top Generals, Air Traffic Control Nightmare, DOE Cuts Off Harvard Grants: AM Update 5/7
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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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That's shopbeam.com slash M-E-G-Y-N and use code Megan for up to 40% off. Sleep better, wake up stronger, and show up ready for your family, your work, and your country. A big win for the Trump administration on its executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. Several cases were filed challenging President Trump's executive order. In the most prominent two, a district court judge in D.C. and one in Seattle finding that the ban had no legitimate purpose, lifting the ban, allowing transgender service members to serve. as the cases moved through the courts. In one case, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court. In the other, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, which meant the ban was lifted, delivering a setback to Team Trump. The government appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, just overturned the Ninth Circuit, allowing the ban on so-called transgender people to go into effect while the case plays out on the merits.
Secretary Hegseth reacting to the ruling with a post on X as follows, no more trans at DOD. It is a piece of good news for Secretary Hegseth, who continues to take hits from the media. Since Monday, at least two new reports targeting the secretary. Reuters reporting on a January order for military supplies to Ukraine, which Secretary Hegseth reportedly canceled, possibly without the White House's blessing. The report, based on months-old information, notes that Hegseth's order was allegedly given to stop the supplies right after a meeting between Mr. Hegseth and President Trump. Reuters reports, however, that no instruction was given by Mr. Trump to stop the aid, but also reports that the White House is now saying Hegseth was following an order from Mr. Trump when he paused all aid to Ukraine. Reuters clearly skeptical of that claim. Many times since then, President Trump has publicly backed Mr. Hegseth.
The Wall Street Journal also coming out with an exclusive report headlined, quote, Hegseth used multiple signal chats for official Pentagon business. According to the report, Secretary Hegseth has at least a dozen separate chats on the encrypted messaging app, quote,
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