The Megyn Kelly Show - DC Mayor in Hot Seat, Trump Slams Kimmel, VA Boys File Suit in Locker Room Fight: AM Update 9/19

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser grilled on Capitol Hill over violent crime in the nation’s capital. President Trump weighing in on Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension at a joint press conference in the UK. Two boys suspended after questioning why a girl was allowed in their locker room, now challenging the punishment in federal court. Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.comLean: Visit https://TakeLean.com & use code MK for 20% off Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, September 19th, 2025, and this is your AM update. Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less safe? D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser grilled on Capitol Hill about crime in her city. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was sorry because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And President Trump weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension and other topics at a joint press conference in the U.K. All that and more coming up. in just a moment on your AM update. As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in Congress

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other city officials grilled by the House Oversight Committee yesterday in a tense hearing. President Trump's 30-day federal takeover of D.C. police expiring, last week, though multiple federal agencies and the National Guard continuing the surge, cracking down on crime in the nation's capital. Oversight Chairman James Comer kicking off the hearing with the results so far. Since President Trump mobilized the National Guard and took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has decreased 39 percent, robberies are down 57 percent, and carjackings are down 75 percent. Over 2,300 people have been arrested, nearly 950 illegal aliens.

have been detained by ICE, including 20 gang members from violent terrorist organizations. Sex offenders have been taken off the streets. Major drug trafficking operations have been foiled. Authorities thwarted a planned school shooting, cleared 50 illegal tent encampments, and rescued seven missing children. Mayor Bowser is still critical of the National Guard presence in D.C., but supportive of the broader federal surge, framing the crackdown as a continuation of a years-long trend of falling crime in the district. Like what happened in most jurisdictions across the country post-COVID, we experienced a violent crime spike in 2023. When I was last here, I explained how we would drive down those trends

and it is working. Today, compared to 2023, burglaries are down 34% theft, motor vehicle death, 37 percent, homicide, down 44 percent, robberies down 60 percent, and carjackings are down 71 percent. Overall, violent crime is down 53 percent compared to 2023. Republican congressman from Texas, Brandon Gill, always one to watch in these hearings, zooming out on the overall trend in D.C. crime. You've been mayor for about 10 years, right? Yes. Okay. And during that time, would you describe D.C. as a safe city? Yes. You would. Listen, Mr. Gale, just, and it was brought up earlier by the Congresswoman from Detroit.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C. is the fourth highest of any city in the country. Would you describe that as a safe city? What was the homicide rate in 2014 before you were elected? I don't know. It's gone up by about 70% from 2014 to 2020. I don't think that's correct. Those are from the Metropolitan Police Department. Do you know how carjackings have trended during your time in office?

I know that they have gone down. They're up over 500% since 20, from 2014 to 2024. That's not a safe city. I don't think any person would call that a safe city. Do you think that defunding the police makes our communities more or less safe? I've never defunded the police, nor would I. You may not have defunded the police, and that's a good thing, but you did provide a $125,000 grant to an organization lobbying to defund the police.

He's a star. Brandon Gill is a star. The five-hour hearing coming as Congress considers more than a dozen new bills focused on hardening D.C.'s crime laws. Juvenile crime in D.C. is rampant. The Washington Post reporting teens account for half of all robbery arrests. About 60% of all carjacking arrests from January to April of this year committed by juveniles. In D.C., the Youth Rehabilitation Act allows criminal defendants under the age of 25, 25 to petition the court to be prosecuted as a juvenile. The House passing two D.C. crime-related bills earlier this week, one, restricting the discretion judges have for sentencing offenders younger than 24, trying to put a stop to slap

on the wrist sentences. 30 Democrats joining with Republicans to pass at 240 to 179. The second bill passing with support from eight Democrats, 225 to 203, lowering the age in D.C. at which a juvenile can be tried as an adult for certain violent crimes from. from 16 to 14. Throughout the hearing, Democrats casting crime-fighting efforts as exercises in fascism and racism. One fiery moment between Democrat Congresswoman from Michigan, Rashida Talib, and GOP Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida. And I think it's really important we need to stand up against this. Fascist takeover. That's not a bad word. It's a fact. And here in D.C. and across the country, it is so incredibly important, Mr. Chair, that this committee,

does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington Z in a way that you all haven't really truly seen. You're just reading it, but you all live here, and you're not telling people the beautiful parts that you do see in our nation's capital. And no, no, no. It's just wrong how we're doing it. Chairman, I think it's insane that the gentleman doesn't have an argument, but she's going to refer to me and some of my colleagues.

Mr. Donald, we were from the third right. This is insane. It's insane. It's insane. The two bills passed in the House, now heading to the Senate where they require 60 votes, meaning it will require Democrat buy-in to send them to the president. Coming up, President Trump weighs in on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension as the left cries fascism and an update on the Virginia boys who were suspended for questioning why a girl was allowed in the boys' locker room as they were changing.

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And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent. Many on the left and in the media decrying ABC's decision to pull the show in the wake of Kimmel's vile, heartless, and completely untrue comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Critics accusing ABC of buckling to an authoritarian government, suggesting this is a First Amendment violation. The government interfering in what can and cannot be said

on the airwaves. Except it isn't a First Amendment violation because the government didn't take any action limiting speech here. And what it did do, the FCC chair told ABC affiliates to step up when it comes to decisions about whether to carry ABC's national programming is perfectly legal. Nextar, Sinclair, huge station group owners, came out publicly and told ABC, we don't want Jimmy Kimmel anymore. Critics say Nextar has a merger it needs approved by the FCC, so they were over a barrel. Sinclair didn't, and it took the very same position. Over at ABC corporate, things were going from bad to worse. CNN reporting the Disney bosses had told Kimmel, he needed to go on the air and apologize. After all, he had told a vile lie about MAGA at a time when the party was

in mourning, and when its top advocates were in fear for their safety. How did the late-night host react? CNN has the report. Jimmy wanted to go on his show last night, and in his monologue, I hear that he wanted to address the backlash from the right regarding his commentary about Charlie Kirk's charged killer, and I hear that that monologue was very hot. It very much took aim at MAGA, and that is when the executives said, we can't have him go on the air tonight. He was going to attack MAGA. Can you imagine the ABC phone lines? All this from a guy

hosting a show with ratings in the TV toilet. In 2015, Kimmel's show averaging 2.4 million viewers a night. By 2025, it was down to 1.6 million. In the advertiser key demo of 25 to 54-year-olds, Kimmel in 15, pulling a cool mill. This year, down to 261,000. Yikes, that's down over 75%. Not exactly a winning formula. And this, on a broadcast network, ABC reaches into virtually every single household in America. It's free. For comparison, Gutfeld on Fox News, only available to homes who pay for it, pulls in an average of 3.2 million viewers in the overall, with 381,000 in the key demo. President Trump in the U.K. also breaking some news about the Middle East.

We're going to leave Afghanistan, but we're going to leave it with strength and dignity. We're going to keep Bagram, the big airbase, that one of the biggest airbases in the world. We gave it to them for nothing. We're trying to get it back, by the way. That could be a little breaking news. We're trying to get it back because they need things from us. we want that base back. But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know,

it's an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So a lot of things are happening. The Biden administration's abandonment of Bogram Air Base seen by many as one of the most reckless and disgraceful decisions of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. President Trump slamming the decision many times before, both as a symbolic loss and in terms of Bogram's strategic importance. The state of the negotiations to take back Bogram,

is unclear. One reporter pressing Prime Minister Starmer about the state of free speech in his country. We still have 12,000 people a year here being arrested for social media posts for free speech violations. Does that not remain an important area that there is still a lot of disagreement on?

That has long lived in this country, free speech. It's one of the founding values of the United Kingdom and we protect it jealously and fiercely and always will and we will bear down on any limits on free speech. I draw a limit between free speech and the speech of those that want to pedophilia and suicide social media to children.

Virtually none of that appears to be true. The UK has been increasingly cracking down on speech it finds problematic, arresting people for silently preying near an abortion clinic for saying they intend to behave in a civilly disobedient manner. And then there's Irish comedy writer Graham Linnehan. He was arrested in early September upon arrival at Heathrow Airport in London over a few ex-posts deemed to be inciting violence for stating the truth about biological sex. An update on the two high school boys who were suspended in Loudoun County, Virginia,

for questioning why a girl pretending to be a boy, was allowed to use their locker room. The boys captured on video back in May in a secret recording taken by the so-called transgender student, a girl pretending to be a boy, inside the boy's locker room. That video obtained by ABC 7 News. The female student turns on her camera and walks into the boys' locker room at Stonebridge High School.

Most of the video is dark, but you can hear locker room sounds and boys' voices. This is the moment some of the boys in the locker room realized the female student is there. 30 seconds later, you hear this. That's when the female student appears to take the phone out of her pocket and aims the camera at the boys in the locker room. By the way, there is no indication that the female student faced any disciplinary action, despite violating rules about recording in the locker room. The school board then launching a Title IX investigation,

finding the two boys committed sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination against the female. The board slapping each boy with a 10-day suspension and a no-contact order with a female student, going so far as to bar them from sharing any classes with this girl. The founding Freedom Law Center immediately filing an appeal with a school board, the suspension paused as that process played out. Last week, Loudoun County Public Schools issuing a final denial of their appeal.

The school informing the boys the suspensions would stand. The case, however, is not over. America First Legal stepping in on Monday to join Founding Freedom Law, filing a case in federal court on behalf of both boys, arguing their rights under the U.S. Constitution, the Virginia Constitution, Title IX, and the Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act, have been violated. A federal judge granting the motion to,

to pause the suspension yet again. The lawsuit demanding the Title IX violations against the boys be dropped, the suspensions terminated, as well as, quote, monetary and compensatory damages, including punitive damages to the extent permissible by law. The next hearing is set for today. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the Megan Kelly Show.

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