Kash Patel Responds Exclusively, WH Defends Boat Strike, Luigi Mangione in Court: AM Update 12/2
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. I think we've gone from bad to worse, but I'm going to muddle through it because I've got some news for you. It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, and this is your AM Update. AM Update with new and exclusive reaction from FBI Director Kash Patel to an attack on FBI leadership from anonymous agents.
Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes.
The White House confirms a second strike was ordered on a suspected drug vessel as President Trump's top advisers discuss next moves in Venezuela.
It shows a cold, calculated, premeditated murder. It is the lock that any prosecutor wants.
And Luigi Mangione in a New York courtroom seeking to exclude key evidence in his trial. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. We talk a lot about personal responsibility on this show. Well, here's one aspect that's really important, your health. And I'm not talking about following whatever the experts recommend. I'm talking about real data-driven decisions based on your body's actual numbers. We demand transparency in government, but most of us have no idea what's happening inside of our own bodies, nevermind inside of DC. Disease can develop silently for years before symptoms appear. By then you're playing catch up with expensive treatments instead of preventing problems when they're cheap and easy to fix.
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What details did the White House confirm about the second strike on a suspected drug vessel?
The Washington Post reporting Friday the, quote, double tap. was ordered by Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, this following an earlier order prior to the initial strike from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorizing kinetic strikes to take out these vessels. The Washington Post and subsequent reporting intensely focusing on the legality of Admiral Bradley's order, contending that the survivors did not pose an ongoing threat to the U.S., which actually has not yet been confirmed. As adjunct Cornell law professor and retired U.S. Army soldier Brian Cox has argued and will explain today live on the MK Show, if this boat were just disabled, as the Washington Post reports, and not entirely destroyed after strike number one, the order to strike again would be entirely legal.
Caroline Levitt from yesterday's briefing reading a prepared statement moments after denying that the order for the second strike came directly from Secretary Hegseth.
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war. With respect to the strikes in question on September 2nd, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated. And I would just add one more point to remind the American public why these lethal strikes are taking place. Because this administration has designated these narco-terrorists as foreign terrorist organizations.
The president has a right to take them out if they are threatening the United States of America and if they are bringing illegal narcotics that are killing our citizens at a record rate, which is what they are doing.
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