John Bolton Indicted, Jack Smith Speaks Out, Jay Jones Addresses Violent Texts: AM Update 10/17
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's a busy Friday, October 17th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
I think he's a bad guy. Yeah, he's a bad guy. He's too bad, but it's the way it goes.
Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton indicted on charges relating to improper possession of classified materials. A longtime State Department advisor arrested, accused of hiding federal secrets in his basement and meeting with Chinese officials, a possible real-life spy story playing out in Washington.
The idea that politics played a role in who worked on that case or who got chosen is ludicrous.
Former special counsel Jack Smith stepping back into the spotlight saying politics has no place in the DOJ. Uh, okay. And Democrat Jay Jones and Republican Jason Mieres face off in a fiery debate for the Virginia attorney general position. Jones is finally made to answer for his string of violent text messages. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Who doesn't want energy, metabolic, immune, and skin support? Meet Peak, a luxury brand transforming wellness.
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Bolton maintaining the book went through a pre-publication review and was cleared for publishing. According to the indictment, while serving as national security advisor to President Trump, Bolton allegedly sent classified information to two unidentified family members believed to be his wife and daughter who did not have security clearances via an AOL email account. a Gmail account, and an unspecified messaging app. 1,000 pages of diary notes about his day-to-day activities with entries the feds say reflect his knowledge that he was disclosing government secrets, such as, quote, the intel briefer said, end quote, end quote, While in the situation room, I learned, end quote. The indictment alleging, quote, on a regular basis, Bolton sent diary-like entries to individuals one and two that contained information classified up to top secret level.
One email allegedly teasing, quote, more stuff coming, none of which we talk about, prompting the response, shh, from individual one. According to the DOJ, one day before Bolton began as National Security Advisor in 2018, Individual 1 creating a group chat on a different platform containing Bolton and Individual 2. Quote, individual two asked the group, why are we using this now, the encryption? To which individual one responded, yup, why not? Bolton then responded, for diary, in the future, three exclamation points.
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