The Megyn Kelly Show - Key Primary Battles in Minnesota, Fauci’s Private Vaccine Texts, Tupac Trial Begins: AM Update 8/11

Episode Date: August 11, 2026

Minnesota voters head to the polls in closely watched Senate and governor primaries featuring Michele Tafoya, Mike Lindell and several other notable candidates. Newly released text messages show Dr. Anthony Fauci privately raised a potential concern about a possible miscarriage risk from COVID vaccination shortly before publicly saying officials had seen no safety red flags for pregnant women. President Trump is reportedly considering ending the war with Iran without securing a new nuclear deal, as negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz appear to falter. Duane “Keefe D” Davis goes on trial nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s killing, with prosecutors alleging he orchestrated the Las Vegas attack and supplied the gun used in the shooting.   The Wellness Company: Be prepared for late-night health emergencies by ordering your prescription Medical Emergency Kit at https://UrgentCareKit.com/MK and saving $45 with promo code MK today.   Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold 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 Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, and this is your AM update. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up and work with the President of the United States. Minnesota voters among those heading to the polls today, choosing nominees in a field of notable names. Thus far, no red flags about that, about pregnant women. Newly released Dr. Fauci text messages revealing private concerns about a possible miscarriage risk from COVID vaccination, just days before he publicly said officials had seen no red flags for pregnant women. President Trump reportedly considering an off-ramp from the war with Iran even without securing a new nuclear deal. And nearly 30 years after hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur was killed in a Las

Vegas drive-by shooting, the man accused of orchestrating the murder now heads to trial. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update. Imagine this. You're surrounded by fellow fans sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everyone remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. You wake up with a fever and your throat's on fire. Now what? Urgent care? Closed. ER slammed. Telehealth? Maybe, but the pharmacy's closed. That is where a medical emergency kit from the wellness company could come in. These are not first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infections, UTIs, stomach bugs, travelers diarrhea, and more on hand before you need them.

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being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tina Smith, with both parties holding competitive primaries. On the GOP side, former NFL sideline reporter Michelle Tofoya entering Election Day as the overwhelming polling favorite, facing a nine candidate field that includes former Navy SEAL, Adam Schwarzie, and former NBA player Royce White, who recently declared his eligibility for the 2027 WNBA draft. President Trump has not yet issued an endorsement in this race. Tofoya dominating the race despite Schwersey winning the Minnesota Republican Party's official endorsement

at its state convention in May. The three most recent polls tracked by Real Clear polling, showing to foya leading her nearest rival by 29, 31, and 35 points. The Republican winner will advance to face the victor of a much tighter Democrat fight between moderate congressman Angie Craig and progressive lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, perhaps best known for her t-shirt showing a sharp knife, a flower, and the words protect trans kids on it.

And by protect, she means trans them. Polling in that race all over the map, the latest KSTP Survey USA survey showing Angie Craig ahead by two, while another recent poll showed Flanagan leading by double digits. prediction markets more bullish on Flanagan, who's got name recognition there, Polly Market currently putting her chances of winning at 71%. Whichever Republican candidate emerges faces a long-running political reality in November, no GOP candidate has won a statewide election in Minnesota since 2006.

To FOIA yesterday on Newsmax, making the case that Republicans have a real opening in Minnesota after years of failed Democrat leadership. Well, in those last 20 years, this state has traveled 100 miles per hour in the wrong direction. And Minnesotans are worried about it, very, very worried about it. And look, it's happened under the leadership of, you know, single party rule, under the establishment candidates, the career politicians who have been in office that have brought us to a place that your reporter just described, a place where a lot of people are embarrassed by our state, the fraud, all of the crime, all of the things that are going wrong. education, the taxes. It's an embarrassment right now, particularly the fraud. So we feel very good about bringing those people into our campaign and into our tent, as it were, and running through the tape and winning this thing, certainly tomorrow and all the way into November. The career

politicians haven't done their jobs. We tried it their way. It didn't work. Let's try another way. In the state's gubernatorial race, my pillow founder and longtime Trump ally Mike Lindell entering primary day with a slight polling advantage over his Republican rivals. Lindell securing President Trump's endorsement last month, the president writing on truth social quote, Mike will be spectacular. He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment.

He can do it. The endorsement giving Lindell a boost in a three-way fight with Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Dameth and businessman Kendall Qualls, who won the state Republican Party's endorsement. The two latest survey, tracked by Real Clear polling showing Lindell ahead of the field by six and nine points, respectively. The Republican winner expected to face Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is not facing any meaningful competition in her own primary. Senator Klobuchar jumping into the race in January

after Governor Tim Walsh, a Democrat abandoned his bid for a third term amid mounting scrutiny over widespread fraud involving Minnesota government programs. During a candidate forum last Tuesday, Lendell arguing his relationship with the president and experience as a businessman would give him an advantage as governor. The farmers have a problem right now with the FSA going there and you don't get the communication because a lot of them are gone because of what the federal government's done. You don't have them there right now. Well, I know a guy. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up and work with the president of the United States to get these people back in for all of you.

So we have this communication. And also, I'm very good friends with other governors that have sent up other programs. So I'll be reaching out to them like a businessman. Lendell facing a substantial deficit if he makes it to November. The current real clear polling average of general election surveys showing Senator Klobuchar leading him by nearly 20 points in the race for the governor's house. Polls closed tonight at 8 p.m. Central. We will have results from Minnesota and other key races later this week. Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci's government-issued cell phone revealing the former NIAID director privately raised a theoretical concern about a possible link between the COVID vaccine and first trimester miscarriage.

Just days before publicly saying, federal officials had seen no safety red flags among pregnant women. Republican senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky releasing the messages yesterday, part of a January 2021 conversation between Fauci, then CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who at the time was awaiting Senate confirmation to return to that post. The exchange beginning with a discussion about whether the two-dose vaccine regimen might pose different risks, depending on when during pregnancy, a woman received the shots. Fauci initially saying there was no data or theoretical reason to favor vaccination earlier or later in pregnancy, while dismissing concerns that MRNA from the vaccine could alter the genes of a woman

or of her developing baby. Fauci then following up, writing, quote, I asked around a bit more, and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the second dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. A cytokine storm referring to an unusually intense immune reaction in which the body releases large amounts of inflammatory signaling proteins, potentially causing widespread inflammation and in severe cases, organ damage. Wollensky responding that the first trimester issue Fauci raised was, quote, definitely a good point, especially after dose two. About a week after that conversation, Fauci publicly telling the Journal of the American Medical Association this.

There have been now over 10,000 pregnant women who have said and have been in the trials. Okay. The FDA, as part of the typical follow-up you have following the initial issuing of an EUA, have found thus far, and we've got to be careful, but thus far, no red flags about that, about pregnant women. Interestingly, many of the pregnant women were health care providers who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and said, I would rather take my chances with a vaccine than getting infected while I'm pregnant because of the adverse effect and adverse outcome on pregnancy. The CDC later formally recommending vaccination for pregnant women in April 2021, citing additional safety data,

the Trump administration has since retracted the recommendation for pregnant women to get vaccinated. The newly released exchange representing only a fraction of the material now under review, Johnson and Paul saying Fauci's government phone contains more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails after the Department of Health and Human Services turned the records over to Johnson's office last week. According to the senators, just three contacts are saved by name on the device, though investigators say it remains too early to determine whether any data was deleted. The release coming less than a week after, Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, following his repeated

refusal to answer any questions about the government's handling of COVID-19, notwithstanding the fact that Joe Biden issued him a sweeping pardon. Fauci invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during testimony last month. Coming up, President Trump reportedly lowering the bar for ending the war with Iran as the latest deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz appears to fall apart. And nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas, the man accused of orchestrating his killing, now going on trial. You don't wait until your house is on fire to install a smoke detector. You don't wait until the wind and rain, hammer your windows, and the power goes

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he may be willing to declare victory if only the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens, as it was before the U.S. launched this war, even without a new agreement over Iran's nuclear program. This, a notable shift after months of President Trump insisting Iran could never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon and saying that was the key reason we attacked them, with the president repeatedly threatening more devastating military action against Iran unless it signed a new nuclear deal, now suddenly deemed unimportant. Just last week, a new agreement to reopen the strait appearing close. Axios reporting the U.S., Iran, and Oman had negotiated an agreement with Qatari and Pakistani mediators expecting an announcement last Wednesday. That announcement, never coming, as divisions inside the Iranian government widened, and Iran ultimately returned with a new list of demands over the weekend. The journal reporting those demands include billions of dollars in compensation, the removal of American troops,

from the region and an end to the U.S. naval blockade. Now the president telling Axios, quote, we are low-keying it, saying the U.S. is only, quote, semi-negotiating while Iran's economic problems worsen. The president describing the country as in, quote, very bad shape, with little money and difficulty paying its troops. According to the journal, the president's willingness to walk away without a new nuclear deal rests largely on his belief that the June 2025 strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities already effectively destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities, a point critics of this war have been making and getting attacked by the president for making from the start. The pressure to find an exit only growing as the midterm elections rapidly approach, with gas prices still higher than

before the war started as the president looks for a way to declare victory and move on. Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas, the only man ever charged in connection with his killing, now going on trial. D. D. Davis, facing one count of murder with a deadly weapon, with prosecutors alleging the former Southside Compton Cripps leader, orchestrated the 1996 attack that killed one of the biggest stars in hip-hop. 25-year-old Shakur shot on September 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting near the Vegas Strip. The rapper riding in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion Shug Knight,

while a white Cadillac reportedly pulled alongside them at a red light and someone inside opened fire. Shakur struck multiple times, dying from his injuries six days later. The shooting coming just hours after Shakur and members of his entourage were involved in a fight at the MGM Grand with the defendant Davis's nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson. Anderson later denying any involvement in Shakur's killing before himself being fatally shot in Compton less than two years later, according to CBS News. The killing unfolding amid the bitter East Coast, West Coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s,

with Shakur feuding at the time with Christopher Wallace, better known as the notorious B-I-G, who would himself be shot and killed in Los Angeles six months later. Shakur's murder, remaining one of the country's most notorious cold cases for decades, that is, until Davis began talking, the longtime suspect giving investigators his account of the shooting in 2008, before discussing it publicly in interviews and documentaries, and eventually releasing a 2019 memoir called Compton Street Legend. In the book, Davis reportedly describes getting a gun and riding through Las Vegas in a Cadillac with three other men while looking for Shakur, and Knight following the casino fight,

before eventually finding their BMW and pulling up beside it. According to a copy of the book available on Archive.org, he goes on to claim that Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach for something before, quote, pulling out a strap and that's when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the backseat grabbed the Glock and started busting back. In 2023, four years after the book was published, a Nevada grand jury indicting Davis for murder.

Prosecutors reportedly preparing to rely heavily on Davis's own words from his memoir, media appearances, as well as interviews with law enforcement. Prosecutors not expected to argue that Davis personally pulled the trigger, instead planning to prove he orchestrated the attack and supplied the gun used to kill Shakur, according to the Associated Press. Davis pleading not guilty and now disavowing the various previous accounts prosecutor's plan to use against him, blaming ghostwriters for the incriminating statements. If convicted, Davis faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In an exclusive interview with 8 News Now in Las Vegas late last month, Davis insisting he did not actually write the memoir carrying his name, citing references therein to figures like Winston Churchill and others. Men Davis suggests he knows nothing about. Did you have anything to do with the murder of Tupac Shakur? No matter. No, ma'am. Oh, I wasn't even in Nevada, period. Do you regret the book and the interview?

Yeah, I was just after the money, and they said I was covered. I did it for the money. You know, said? I didn't mind that book. I can't, you know, said, I don't know none by no. Winston Churchill, Franks and Notta. Just read the book. You know, I didn't know.

Davis also telling the outlet he has no intention of accepting a plea deal, citing his innocence, age, and past health problems. The trial expected to last about a month. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show. Live on SiriusXM's the Megan Kelly Channel 11 at noon east on YouTube.com slash Megan Kelly and on all podcast platforms.