Noem vs. Dems, Abrego Garcia Released For Now, Tyler Robinson Smiles in Court: AM Update 12/12

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Megyn Kelly 0:02
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, December 12th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
Unknown 0:09
You are making America less safe.
Megyn Kelly 0:12
You all should be fired in my viewpoint. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem clashing with Democrats in a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill.
Caroline Leavitt 0:20
Abrego Garcia is present in our country illegally. He is a proven human trafficker.
Megyn Kelly 0:26
The infamous Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, scores a win from a U.S. district judge ordering his immediate release. But the Trump administration says it's not over yet. President Trump pushing for Lindsay Halligan's nomination for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, following a judge ruling her temporary appointment to the post is invalid. And Charlie Kirk's accused killer appearing in court yesterday for the first time, smiling.

What happened during the House hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem?

Megyn Kelly 0:55
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Megyn Kelly 1:42
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other top counterterrorism officials on the Hill defending President Trump's strict immigration enforcement in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to the nation. The president's immigration crackdown, an attempt to conduct the largest mass deportation effort in history, quickly becoming a top political target for Democrats and drawing dozens of lawsuits throughout the nation. Secretary Noem arguing the open border policies of the Biden administration necessitates the aggressive approach.
Kristi Noem 2:14
What keeps me up at night is that we don't necessarily know all of the people that are in this country, who they are and what their intentions are. We think up to 15 to 20 million people came in under the Biden administration on the invasion over the southern border. They were not vetted. They were allowed to pour in our parole programs, our asylum programs. Our visa programs were all exploited and the integrity was demolished under Joe Biden and the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security. And frankly, the entire department was neglected. And that is why we are so aggressive at making sure that we're going out and doing investigative work, finding those violent criminals, finding those people who shouldn't be in this country to begin with, and those that want to go after and to harm our American citizens.
Megyn Kelly 2:59
director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, with a stark warning on what counterterrorism analysts have uncovered.
Joe Kent 3:06
What we have identified is alarming. We just recently put out a warning, warning of the heightened risk of terrorist attacks posed to the homeland by terrorists pretty much of all stripes, but in particular from ISIS and from al-Qaeda. NCTC has been crunching the numbers and going through the sheer volume of known and suspected terrorists that are in the country that came in under the Biden administration. So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists. These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country, but yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country, and in many cases, facilitated their entry, just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.
Megyn Kelly 3:55
Democratic lawmakers largely focusing on attacking Secretary Noem throughout the hearing.
Unknown 4:00
You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee.

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