The Megyn Kelly Show - Karmelo Anthony Trial Begins, Bolton’s Expected Guilty Plea, Return of the Screwworm: AM Update 6/5

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

The Karmelo Anthony murder trial kicks off with dramatic testimony from those who witnessed him fatally stab 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Former Trump National Security Ambassador John Bolton is expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified information during Trump’s first term. The Department of Homeland Security is coming to the defense of its detention center standards, as two facilities come under scrutiny. A flesh-eating maggot called screwworm once thought to be fully eradicated in the U.S. has popped back up in Texas, as the Department of Agriculture looks to isolate thecase.     Supersure Insurance: Simplify your business insurance and get a free coverage report at https://Supersure.com/Megyn   SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYNto claim 50% off any new system! 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, June 5th, 20206, and this is your AM update. The murder trial of Texas teenager Carmelo Anthony kicking off with emotional testimony, describing the moments directly after the fatal stabbing. There is an arrogance in sharing classified information with one's family members. They don't have clearances. Former Trump National Security Advisor turned major critic of the president, John Bolton, expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified information. The Department of Homeland Security defending its detention center standards amid increased scrutiny this week.

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Opening statements and day one of witness testing. in the murder trial of Texas teenager Carmelo Anthony taking place yesterday in Collin County, Texas. Jurors hearing dramatic and emotional testimony about the moments surrounding the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet last year. Anthony, who was also 17 at the time of the incident, admitting to stabbing Metcalf during a confrontation in April of 2025, but his attorneys maintaining he acted in self-defense. prosecutors rejecting that argument describing the incident as, quote, an unjustified, unprovoked murder. In opening statements, prosecutors telling jurors Anthony entered a Memorial High School team tent

after it started to rain and refused repeated requests to leave. According to the state, Metcalf approaching Anthony, telling him to leave the tent before Anthony allegedly responded, touch me and see what happens. Defense attorneys painting a different picture describing Anthony, as an honor student, athlete, and oldest sibling, who found himself caught in a rapidly escalating confrontation. The defense arguing jurors will hear evidence supporting Anthony's claim that he feared for his safety.

Defense attorney Mike Howard telling jurors in his opening statement, quote, in that split second, Mello had a decision to make, how and when to act. Self-defense is useless if you wait too late to defend yourself. He reacts in a split second of fear, chaos. After Carmelo defended himself with that knife, he ran, he didn't stab again, he dropped the knife, he didn't stab anyone else. Texas law allows someone to use deadly force against another if they reasonably believe they face an imminent deadly threat. The law also will not allow a finding of self-defense if the defendant provoked the initial encounter.

Here's veteran criminal defense attorney Randy Zellin with more to the New York Post. From what we know, this was a verbal altercation where it almost seems like the defendant was provoking the incident himself by allegedly saying, touch me and see what happens as he's reaching into a bag. And then apparently he was touched. Touching someone is not deadly force. You cannot meet deadly force. You cannot stamp someone in the chest and kill them because they touch you. you. They've got to be coming at you with a knife. They've got to be coming at you with a gun. They've got to be coming at you with a metal pipe to split your head open. You can't be justified

in killing someone with a knife and stabbing them in the chest. If they were not about to use, immediately use, deadly force on you. There's also the claim circulating online that Anthony was quote, jumped by as many as four guys, including Austin. Attorney Todd Shapiro telling Fox News's Will Kane, those allegations are not supported by the video. It was one-on-one. You can absolutely make out that there's two people that get into a scuffle. It's very, very short in duration. The contact between the two of them probably lasted less than five seconds. And as soon as the push went the other direction, which presumably is when he was stabbed, you can see everybody, you know, completely, completely scatter.

Some of the most emotional testimony coming from those giving emergency aid to Metcalf. Athletic trainer Tiffany Whitaker testifying that she rushed to help him after hearing screams from the stands. She performed CPR alongside another trainer until paramedics arrived. Whitaker saying, after seeing the severity of his wound, she realized resuscitation efforts were what she described as, quote, false hope. Jurors also hearing from Heritage High School football coach Vincent Hooper. the coach testifying about his conversation with Anthony moments after the incident.

According to Hooper, Anthony telling him, quote, He put his hands on me, I stabbed him. Hooper testifying, he then warned Anthony that if the victim died, he had, quote, changed the rest of his life. Anthony allegedly responding, quote, he's not going to die. The highly publicized case attracting national attention and drawing large crowds to the Collin County Courthouse, The trial is expected to last roughly two weeks.

Anthony has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces a sentence ranging from five years to life in prison. Former Trump National Security Advisor turned top Trump critic John Bolton expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified information while working in the first Trump administration. Sources telling CNN, Bolton intends to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents and has also agreed to pay a fine of more than $2 million. News of the plea deal coming eight months after Bolton, who served as Trump's national security advisor from 2018 to 2019, was indicted on 18 counts of illegally hoarding and sending sensitive information.

A Maryland grand jury indicting Bolton on eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of such information after the FBI searched Bolton's Maryland Home and Washington, D.C. office in August of 2025, reportedly seizing multiple classified documents. Bolton pleading not guilty to all charges in October. Upon leaving the Trump administration in 2019, Bolton writing a book highly critical of his former boss

titled The Room Where It Happened. The Trump administration unsuccessfully suing at the time to stop publication of the book, alleging it contained classified information. Bolton maintaining the book went through a pre-publication review and was cleared for publishing. According to the indictment, Bolton's sharing, quote, more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as National Security Advisor, with two unidentified family members believed to be his wife and daughter. CNN reporting Bolton's guilty plea will not include charges related to the allegation that he took home or shared classified documents, only that he wrote down sensitive national security

information as part of his personal papers. The indictment in this case did allege that Bolton's misuse of classified information was done while preparing for his memoir, but sources tell CBS news that prosecutors in this plea deal do not allege any wrongdoing by Bolton in connection with the publication of his book. Bolton expected to submit the plea agreement at a hearing at the U.S. court in Maryland on June 26th. The docket in his case describing the proceeding as a, quote, re-arrayment. The plea deal will require approval from Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang. The sentencing range for the single count of retaining classified national security information is between zero and 60 months. If Bolton had gone to trial and lost,

he could have faced decades in prison. Neither the Justice Department nor Bolton has yet commented on the reported plea deal. Coming up, newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen addressing conditions at ICE detention centers as the issue takes center stage this week. And a flesh-eating maggot. I know, it's early. You still have your coffee. Thought to be eradicated decades ago in America may be making a comeback after a confirmed case in Texas. In the U.S., a break-in happens every 26 seconds.

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Correctional Center in central Louisiana, used, quote, prohibited techniques and violated the use of force standard. In one incident, an officer, quote, applied a chokehold on one detainee involved in a physical altercation with another detainee. Investigators also citing environmental and sanitation concerns throughout the facility, including leak events and ceilings, with staff reportedly using napkins and styrofoam containers to collect water from the leaks. ICE saying it is addressing the issues through corrective actions and additional staff training. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Biss releasing a statement describing the matters as, quote, minor infractions, writing, quote, ICE is working to address all of these issues, including by adding additional

training to facility staff. ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen earlier this week, defending his agency's detention standards on Capitol Hill. Here, Mullen being questioned about another detention center in the news this week, Newark's Delaney Hall. A lot of claims were made, and they just absolutely weren't true. The first one came out and said it was overcrowded. We have today, I believe, under 700 detainees there.

It's licensed for just over 1,000 beds. We have twice a square footage at Delaney Hall than the state penitentiary does in New Jersey. They said that the medical condition was horrible. We had twice as much medical staff per person than the state penitentiary does in New Jersey. As AM Update reported on Wednesday, the Delaney Hall Detainment Center at the Center of Illegal Battle in the state of New Jersey. The center also at the site of massive protests over the past several weeks, stemming from claims of a supposed hunger strike among detainees. However, a new report from the Daily Wire suggesting detainees might be skipping,

cafeteria meals, but are far from starving. According to data obtained by the outlet, commissary purchases at the Newark-based detention center jumping more than 160% over a one-week period, even as the facility's detainee population declined. In other words, the detainees are buying snacks, lots of them. Former ICE officials noting that detainees dining on snacks would not meet the traditional definition of a hunger strike. A flesh-eating maggot known to burrow inside open wounds. I mean, this is unbelievable. Of livestock, wildlife, and in rare cases, humans,

confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be found in Texas. Federal officials corroborating the presence of the New World screw worm, after a three-week-old calf in LaPriar, Texas, testing positive for symptoms consistent with the parasite. It's the first confirmed case in Texas since 1966. The screw worm is actually not a worm at all. It's the larval stage of a fly that lays eggs in its host. So gross. Once hatched, the larvae feeding from the inside out and leaving painful, often foul-smelling wounds. This is so nasty, but we got to get through it. The parasite is not a

risk to food safety, few, according to NBC News, but a wider outbreak could cause the livestock industry millions or even billions in livestock deaths, labor costs, and medication expenses. The newly discovered case, not totally unexpected. With nearly 2,000 active animal infections being tracked throughout Mexico, including two recently in a goat and a dog near the Texas border, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, yesterday telling the House Committee on Agriculture she knew this day would come. All models showed that this pest would be here by,

last summer, with the extremely aggressive action with the support of this committee and an entire across-government effort, we began to push back very significantly, starting February of last year. The aggressive action we took across the Trump administration and with our state and local partners bought us almost a year of critical time to prepare for what happened yesterday. We have now activated our new World Screwroom Response Playbook, which includes deep. detailed protocols and procedures for just this scenario. Rollins also walking the committee through how this maggot got here casting blame on the Biden administration.

Under the last administration and after having the Dary and Gap, which is the biological barrier between South America and Central America, which held the screw worm at bay since the 1960s, that barrier barrier and gap crumbled under the last. administration with open borders and the proliferation of the Mexican cartels and their illicit cattle trafficking, the New World Screwroom began to make its way north, hitting Mexico in 2023 and 2024. The secretary is saying for the immediate threat in Texas, officials establishing a 12-mile zone around where the potential case was found while implementing quarantines, movement controls, and surveillance in the region. Agriculture officials also

expediting a targeted release of sterile flies in the affected area to prevent the pests from reproducing. The same method used successfully decades ago to eradicate the fly, reports the AP. While Rollins remains confident this probable case in Texas will be contained, state officials down there are not so sure. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller advocating to local station KXAN, the use of multiple containment methods, not just the same. sterile insect technique. There's a call the swast system. It's a screw worm adult suppression system, and it consists of fly bait.

You put out the fly bait. It eliminates 85 to 95% of the flies. Then you can control the remainder with the sterile flies. But for some reason, USDA refuses to do this. I put that information in the hands of the Secretary of AgCulture, Brooke Rawlins. I put it in the hands of the head of the Texas Animal Health Commission three times. but they refuse to use it. Though Secretary Rollins has not publicly responded to Miller's suggestion on the

SWAS system, there may be some concerns about deploying large-scale insecticide-laced bait programs in response to a breakout of one. Miller wants more aggressive trapping and surveillance to ensure every case is detected and treated early. The USDA says response teams are on the ground while the CDC urges people to keep wounds clean and covered and report suspicious infections in animals immediately. Okay, back to your breakfast. Hopefully, it's like a muffin. Okay, and that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show, live on SiriusXMs, the Megan Kelly Channel 11 at noon east,

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