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10/16 AM Update: Trump Highlights National Crime Crackdown, SCOTUS Revisits Voting Rights Act

10/16 AM Update: Trump Highlights National Crime Crackdown, SCOTUS Revisits Voting Rights Act

AM Update for 10/16/25: President Donald Trump and senior law enforcement officials hail “Operation Summer Heat” as a nationwide success, reporting steep drops in violent crime and record arrests since June. Mexican cartels are reportedly teaming up with U.S. street gangs to target federal agents in Chicago with cash bounties, according to a new DHS …

10/13 Trump’s Historic Middle East Summit, National Guard and Chicago, and Biden’s Cancer

10/13 Trump’s Historic Middle East Summit, National Guard and Chicago, and Biden’s Cancer

AM Update for 10/13/25: President Donald Trump arrives in Israel and Egypt to mark the historic ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, ending two years of war and launching a new Middle East peace summit. A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration temporary authority to federalize Illinois’s National Guard but blocks deployment …

AM Update: Judge Allows National Guard In Chicago for Now, Israel and Hamas Negotiate in Egypt

AM Update: Judge Allows National Guard In Chicago for Now, Israel and Hamas Negotiate in Egypt

AM Update for 10/7/25: A federal judge allows the Trump administration’s National Guard deployment to Chicago to move forward as state officials decry it as political overreach. Israeli and Hamas officials meet in Egypt to finalize President Donald Trump’s proposed peace deal on the two-year anniversary of the October 7 terror attack. Paramount acquires Bari …

9/8 AM Update: Immigration Crackdown Coming to Chicago, Trump Backs RFK, CBS Changes Editing Policy

9/8 AM Update: Immigration Crackdown Coming to Chicago, Trump Backs RFK, CBS Changes Editing Policy

AM Update for 9/8/25: President Donald Trump sparks outrage with an AI meme and threats of a “war” with Chicago as his administration readies a 30-day immigration enforcement surge in sanctuary cities. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashes with Democrats in a combative Senate hearing over his vaccine rollbacks, as President Trump defends his embattled HHS …

Ep. 1135 Chicago Mayor Rejects Crime Help, Trump vs. Fed Gov, and Taylor Swift Engaged

Ep. 1135 Chicago Mayor Rejects Crime Help, Trump vs. Fed Gov, and Taylor Swift Engaged

Megyn is joined by the hosts of The Fifth Column – Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch – to discuss the DNC summer meeting beginning with a ridiculously long “land acknowledgement,” how the Democratic Party continues to be out of touch, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson rejecting President Donald Trump’s help to fix crime in his city, …

President Trump Signs Two Executive Orders to Curb Cashless Bail in Latest Crack Down on Crime

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President Trump Signs Two Executive Orders to Curb Cashless Bail in Latest Crack Down on Crime

President Donald Trump announced a pair of executive orders Monday taking aim at cashless bail in deep blue cities.  In his latest effort to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., the president signed an action purporting to end cashless bail entirely in the nation’s capital. In a separate order, the Trump administration targeted the …

Chicago Mayor Rejects President Trump’s Offer to Help Fix Crime… But Is Trump’s Plan Even Legal?

Chicago Mayor Rejects President Trump’s Offer to Help Fix Crime… But Is Trump’s Plan Even Legal?

Megyn is joined by the hosts of The Fifth Column – Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch – to discuss Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson rejecting President Donald Trump’s help to fix the crime problem in his city, the reality of the crime rates in Chicago, whether federal law enforcement intervention is even legal, and …

Ep. 1134 Hypocritical Bolton Raid Reaction, Left Lionizes Abrego Garcia, and Trump’s DC Crime Success

Ep. 1134 Hypocritical Bolton Raid Reaction, Left Lionizes Abrego Garcia, and Trump’s DC Crime Success

Megyn is joined by Emily Jashinsky, host of MK Media’s After Party, to discuss a mortgage fraud investigation into Biden-appointed Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, the relentless focus by the media and the left on her race and gender, the way The New York Times is running cover for Cook by claiming the attention on her …

Black D.C. Residents Praise President Trump for Cleaning Up Their City While Left Melts Down

Black D.C. Residents Praise President Trump for Cleaning Up Their City While Left Melts Down

Megyn is joined by Emily Jashinsky, host of MK Media’s After Party, to discuss President Donald Trump’s successful federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., black residents praising Trump while the professional left melts down, the possibility Trump could move to clean up Chicago next, and more.

8/25 AM Update: Trump Eyes Chicago for Crackdown, FBI Raids Bolton, Parents of Missing Baby Arrested

8/25 AM Update: Trump Eyes Chicago for Crackdown, FBI Raids Bolton, Parents of Missing Baby Arrested

AM Update for 8/25/25: President Donald Trump prepares to send National Guard troops into Chicago after a murder-free stretch in Washington, D.C., sparks plans for more federal interventions. The FBI raids former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home over alleged classified leaks. The parents of missing 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro arrested for murder as investigators say …