The Megyn Kelly Show
Outrageous Actions After Brown University Shooting, and Rob Reiner's Son Arrested For His Murder, with Emily Jashinsky | Ep. 1213
15 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What happened during the Brown University shooting?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Wow. We have a big show for you today. News is breaking all over the world. Last night, we were trying to put AM Update to bed late. We opened it up after this horrific murder of Rob Reiner. The early reports were that...
Two bodies had been found. We had that in the script. Then it came out. Indeed, it was Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. Then we reopened the script to put that in. Then it came out that they'd been stabbed. We reopened the script to put that in. Then it came out that they'd been stabbed by their son, according to People magazine. Then we put that in.
Then the LAPD held a useless fucking press conference. Useless. Useless. Useless.
Chapter 2: Who was arrested in connection with Rob Reiner's murder?
And we had to open up the script again just to point out that they were denying the report about the son. And while all this was happening, the main story in our AM update was completely reversed. We were talking about the person of interest who was in custody over the Brown mass shooting that happened over the weekend and the idiots over in Providence talking about that at the presser.
announced that that guy was not a person of interest. The guy they had in custody for a day was not a person of interest after all. Oh, but there's absolutely no reason to be concerned. There's a murderer roaming the community who's shot a dozen people, but you're good. Just fucking fall on your sword at that point. Just come out and say, we got it wrong. We're doing our best.
Chapter 3: What struggles did Nick Reiner face throughout his life?
It's somewhat chaotic. here's what we're going to do to keep you safe. All students should go home immediately. There actually is cause to shelter in place. We don't know whether this person has been on a bus or a plane leaving the area or whether he means to cause additional carnage. What's wrong with people? He was the Providence mayor. He was utterly unimpressive.
As were you, Deputy LAPD Commissioner. Don't have a presser just to come out and say, flippantly, by the way, so flip this guy was. Nope, no information.
Chapter 4: How does addiction impact family dynamics?
Nope, we're not going to tell you who it is. Even though the family of Rob Reiner is literally at that moment and his wife, Michelle Reiner, releasing a statement saying we're devastated to announce that they're both dead. And the deputy police commissioner... Police chief, no, not going to tell you. You're going to have to wait for the coroner to come out. Not confirming anything.
No, doesn't mean anything. Not going to tell you how they died. Not going to tell you who found them. Not going to tell you whether anybody's in custody. Meanwhile, I was watching Fox at the time, and there was a former FBI agent on who lives in L.A. and lives in this neighborhood and had her own sources there. And she was saying they've got somebody in custody. I mean, they knew. And he...
Look, law enforcement's got to do better. This is all part of the breakdown that we have in the relationship and the trust with these authorities. I really actually think we can get past person of interest turned out not to be the person. I think we can get past it. But it has to require utter, blatant transparency and honesty. But I'm not going to lie. It's not good.
It's not good that our friend Kash Patel tweeted out they have a person of interest in custody and kind of patting themselves on the back when it wasn't the guy. None of this is good. I'm not trying to argue otherwise. But I do think if you're going to get past those issues, just total transparency is required.
Chapter 5: What occurred during the Hanukkah event shooting in Australia?
Total. In any event, OK, we'll get to all this. Rob Reiner is dead. Such an accomplished man. I don't even think of his politics when I think of Rob Reiner. You get there eventually. But I think of his immense talent as an American icon in the movie industry. Who that's of a certain age doesn't remember him as Meathead on Archie Bunker? He was young, Michael Stivick. He married Gloria.
He drove Archie crazy with his liberal politics, which would wind up being kind of funny, too, just because it was true to life for Rob Reiner. The arguments those two would have politically would be a harbinger of things to come in our country and, frankly, of the rest of Rob Reiner's life in that lane, arguing with people who disagreed with him. He was very passionate about politics.
But what did he do? He directed some of the best films in American cinema. From Stand By Me, which by the way, there's a report out today that when Stephen King, because it was based on a short story by Stephen King, when Stephen King saw Stand By Me, he was motionless.
He was immobile in the screening room because he had never seen one of his films brought so powerfully and effectively to life as Stand By Me. And you don't even think about Stand By Me anymore because it was so many years ago. Jerry O'Connell, who played like a little chubby kid, who was more like kind of geeky.
Chapter 6: How do strict gun laws affect crime rates?
Well, they were all a little geeky, but... In that film, sent out a beautiful tweet about how great Rob Reiner was to him on the set. I mean, Rob was like a father to him at that point. Jerry's my age. And Rob, as of last night when he died, was 78. His wife, Michelle, 68, found dead yesterday in their home in Los Angeles. TMZ reporting that their throats had been slit.
We're going to get into the details with Emily Jasinski in one second. Um, for now the headline is that their 32 year old son, 32, Nick is in custody. Bail set at 4 million. It's not enough. I gotta be honest. I don't know that he's got any of his own money, but obviously the family had a lot of money and I don't know that he can access it.
I don't know what his assets are, but that better, that number better be so high that he cannot access it. Uh, over in Australia, you've heard, uh, A father and son duo responsible for an anti-Semitic mass shooting Sunday targeting a Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Providence mayor's statements?
15 are dead, over 40 reported wounded. We're seeing videos that are too graphic to show, and we're actually still working to confirm that they are from Bondi Beach. But if they pan out, it's like an apocalyptic scene of just dead body after dead body on a beach. A beach is like... You associate it with joy and vacation and family and sandcastles. I mean, we're a long way from Omaha Beach.
It's not still the first memory that comes to mind. And just to see, I mean, because of course, Australia, it's summer there. They're all taking their summer vacations. And just to see the carnage, even in the videos that have been verified, is shocking.
And to see the number of minutes that these two shooters were taking aim at civilians like target practice without police or a good guy with a gun taking a shot at them, it's painful. It's excruciating because there are videos on X showing it. especially what I believe is the dad. The reports are the dad was on the top of the bridge. The son was underneath the bridge shooting.
And you could see the dad. It looks like he's just got a free-for-all on all these people down below who, I mean, I don't know. I want to know more because how could the shooting have gone on for that long? How could the murders have gone on from that long when people were in an open area of a beach? It wasn't, they were not, you know, trapped as far as I know. but he kept finding them.
And now 15 dead, over 40 reported wounded. We're starting to learn more, too, about the terror ties of the alleged shooters. Okay, first, though, this is just a crazy news day.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode connect personal stories to broader societal issues?
I was saying to Doug that the AM update felt like an episode of Dateline. There was so much death and destruction in it, and all for different and equally disturbing reasons. There is a manhunt underway right now in Rhode Island. And frankly, it has to be beyond Rhode Island because nobody knows where the killer is.
after a gunman killed two and wounded nine while students were in a final exam review at Brown University Saturday afternoon. Police on Sunday detaining, well, I think it began on Saturday into Sunday, a 24-year-old person of interest, that was Kash Patel's term in his tweet,
But as we told you in this morning's AM Update, authorities announced in a hastily arranged press conference late last night, it was after 11, that he was to be released because, quote, evidence now points in a different direction. They were making clear it's not him. They were making clear they had the wrong guy.
Officials are now asking anyone who has video of the shooting or the shooter to hand it over. And saying that they are still relying on the single, we're showing it now, video previously released to the suspected gunman. For the listening audience, it's a man, medium-sized build, all dark clothing, turning a corner on what appears to be a little campus block with a hat on.
Walking fairly briskly, not suspiciously briskly, and then heading out of screen. There's really nothing about him of note other than I'd say he's probably got a little bit more weight, like heft to his body than your average slender 19-year-old. And so I have no idea how old he is. I'm just saying it's the average age of your college student. And I don't know whether he is a college student.
Nobody does. Now, despite the fact that a mass murderer is still on the loose, no additional shelter in place order has been issued, nor are the Providence authorities particularly bothered by the fact that they lifted the shelter in place order while the shooter was clearly still a threat because they did not get the right person of interest in custody.
Here's the Democrat mayor, Brett Smiley, last night.
We want to inform the community that that individual will shortly be released from Providence Police. We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community. Ever since the initial call, now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community. And so the status of safety in our community remains unchanged.
And we believe that you remain safe in our community.
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