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Bondi Out as Trump Backs Gabbard, ActBlue Under Fire, UFO Allegations Raise Eyebrows: AM Update 4/3
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Attorney General Pam Bondi is out in her role, but new reporting suggests President Trump is keeping DNI Tulsi Gabbard in place. Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue is under scrutiny after internal legal memos revealed weaknesses in its safeguards against foreign donations, raising the risk of potential criminal violations and misleading Congress. A growing number of missing or dead scientists tied to sensitive U.S. research fuels concerns about possible foreign targeting, as explosive claims from former Rep. Matt Gaetz and cryptic comments from Rep. Tim Burchett add to speculation about hidden government programs and UFOs. A surge in Americans converting to Catholicism this Easter, driven by a search for meaning, community, and faith, is pushing numbers beyond pre-pandemic levels in many regions. Lean: Discover why LEAN is becoming the choice for real weight‑loss results—shop now at https://TAKELEAN.com use code MK. PureTalk: Save on wireless with PureTalk visit https://PureTa...
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Megyn Kelly
Good morning everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, April 3, 2026 and this is your AM update. In the latest shakeup in President Donald Trump's cabinet, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out who will replace Democrat Fundraising Engine act blew under fire as its lawyers find weaknesses in its donation system that could expose the organization to criminal scrutiny.
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Matt Gaetz
Aliens that were living were enforced breeding programs with humans.
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Megyn Kelly
Former Congressman Matt Gaetz describing what he says was a whistleblower claim involving a secret military program with aliens. And Congressman Tim Burchett takes it all to an 11 people start looking for
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Bishop Robert Barron
sources of mean and purpose and you know they'll turn to religion.
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Megyn Kelly
A surge in Americans joining the Catholic Church this Easter with some regions seeing record breaking growth. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results can be so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. But what if you're looking to lose weight but you're not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those intense side effects? That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean, and the results could be remarkable. Lean says the studied ingredients in their product have been shown to lower your blood sugar, burn fat by converting it into energy and curb your appetite and cravings so you are not as hungry. But listen, Lean is not for the casual dieter. With only a few pounds to lose, the doctors at Brick House Nutrition created Lean for frustrated dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose. You could get started with 20% off and free rush shipping, adding Lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit takelean.com and enter MK to get your discount. That's promo code. Mkakelean.com outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi speaking publicly for the first time following her termination after President Donald Trump announced yesterday she will be leaving the administration and moving to the private sector. Bondi confirming she will spend the next month transitioning the role to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will lead the department on a temporary basis. Bondi posting to X I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to make America safe again. The shakeup coming amid reported frustration from the president, including over Bondi's handling of the Epstein files early in her tenure, Bondi publicly suggested more disclosures were coming, including potential names tied to Epstein, before an unsigned memo was released from the DOJ and the FBI jointly indicating the case was effectively closed with no additional charges and no further information to be released. That reversal fueling backlash on Capitol Hill and across the country and ultimately leading to the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, According to the New York Times. The president had also grown frustrated with what he viewed as a lack of aggressiveness from Bondi in pursuing political opponents. Now attention turning to who will replace Bondi in a permanent capacity. According to multiple reports, Senator Mike Lee, Republican from Utah, is under consideration, along with GOP Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri, formerly that state's Attorney general. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also said to be on the short list. Paxton currently locked in a primary race with Republican Senator John Cornyn, which could solve two problems for President Trump, though it's unclear how Texas voters would like that. Some reporting suggesting Zeldin may be emerging as a frontrunner, reportedly already discussing the job with the president earlier this week. Also, the Guardian reporting yesterday morning that President Trump is questioning top advisers about whether he should keep Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in her role. CBS News reporting Mr. Trump had considered the idea of shifting Bondi into that role, but sources now say the president wants Gabbard to remain in place. The president's communications chief Steve Chung posting on X last night, quote, the president has total confidence in Dni Gabbard and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news. This marks the second major Cabinet shakeup in recent weeks after President Trump demoted former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to amid growing controversy, replacing her with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Major democratic fundraising platform. ActBlue warned by its own legal team that it may have misled Congress on its safeguards for vetting foreign donations, according to the New York Times. ActBlue a central engine for Democrat fundraising processing roughly $19 billion since its founding in 2004 with thousands of candidates and left wing organizations raising money from millions of donors. Concerns about the organization's fundraising practices dating back years. In 2023, investigative journalist James O' Keefe releasing a report alleging millions of dollars in suspicious donations tied to ActBlue. O' Keefe reviewing FEC filings and identifying thousands of donations, often in small amounts linked to single addresses. O' Keeffe questioning homeowners about the donations, finding time and time again they had no idea about the expenses linked to their names and Addresses.
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Matt Gaetz
You did donate to ActBlue, right?
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ActBlue Donor
Yes. Once in a while, yes.
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Megyn Kelly
Did you donate a thousand and nine times?
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ActBlue Donor
I don't know. I mean, I mean once in a while I donate five or so dollars or something like that.
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Matt Gaetz
During election year, what about $18,850?
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ActBlue Donor
I doubt that.
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Megyn Kelly
This raising widespread concern about the possibility of foreign actors exploiting the platform. Multiple Republican controlled House committees kicking off investigations into the organization. A 2025 interim report from the House Oversight, Judiciary and Administration committees finding internal ActBlue documents quote, demonstrate a lack of commitment to stopping fraud and paint a picture of complacency on ActBlue's fraud prevention team. Those investigations remain ongoing. In 2023, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace Jones sending a letter to the House Administration committee describing what she called multi layered safeguards, including requiring U.S. passport numbers for certain donors with foreign addresses. The Times obtaining two internal memos from ActBlue's outside legal counsel, White Shoe law firm Covington and Burling from last year raising serious concerns about what ActBlue communicated to Congress. The Times reporting, quote, the Covington memos indicated that ActBlue did not have the rigor in its review of oversea donations that was required or that it had described to congressional investigators one memo indicating, quote, a substantial risk that some of the funds received were impermissible contributions from foreign nationals under new legal counsel. ActBlue later writing to Congress in 2025 dismissing Republican led investigations as a witch hunt while also acknowledging it had strengthened its safeguards against foreign donations. In a statement released after publication of the latest Times piece, ActBlue writing, quote, bottom line, we are not going anywhere. We continue to be fully operational as the strongest and most secure infrastructure for American democracy. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Jim Jordan posting to X, quote, we knew ActBlue's fraud prevention measures were wholly inadequate. Now we know ActBlue likely misled Congress. Americans deserve free and fair elections. Mr. Jordan promising the investigations into ActBlue will continue. Coming up, former Congressman Matt Gaetz lays out a whistleblower claim tied to a secret disturbing alien program. As Congressman Tim Burchett says, what he knows would keep you up all night. And this Easter, a big spike in Americans converting to Catholicism nationwide. You've been hearing me talk a lot about Pure talk lately. PureTalk is veteran led, so helping veterans is their North Star. They have donated over half a million bucks to America's Warrior Partnership, a fantastic organization that's on the front lines of preventing veteran suicide. And Pure Talk's creating American jobs with a US Only workforce. Yes, it'd be a lot cheaper to send jobs overseas like other companies do, but they're committed to delivering the best experience possible for their customers. 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Mywald worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California since 1999 on projects related to advanced satellite technology out of that lab, NASA running robotic space exploration missions and operating its deep space network, tracking spacecrafts across solar systems, among other research projects. Just 13 months before his death, Mywald reportedly led a major breakthrough in the search for life on other planets. Mywald working in the same lab as another missing scientist previously reported on by AM update. 60 year old Monica Reza worked as a materials scientist and inventing a new kind of metal used in rocket engines. Reza reported missing in June of last year, her hiking companion saying she vanished from the trail at the Angeles National Forest in California. Reza's research, reportedly funded for years in part by the Air Force Research laboratory overseen by 68 year old retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, also reported missing earlier this year after he walked out of his Albuquerque, New Mexico home in February, seemingly vanishing into thin air throughout his career. McCasland overseeing advanced Air Force research programs, including leading its $2.2 billion science and technology lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where he's believed to have been tied to space weapons and alleged UFO research. A former senior FBI official now warning these disappearances could be deliberate. Chris Swecker, who previously led the bureau's criminal Investigative division, telling the Daily Mail the pattern could point to foreign espionage. Swecker telling the outlet, quote, our scientists have been targeted for a long time, especially in the rocket propulsion area by hostile foreign intelligence services. Swecker going on to say, quote, I think we've Even seen instances where nuclear scientists have been assassinated. Meantime, former Congressman Matt Gaetz making an extraordinary claim on the Benny Johnson show earlier this week. Listen to this.
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Matt Gaetz
I had a guy who was, who was uniform, he was a senior enlisted with the United States army came into my office in Crestview, Florida in a non classified setting. I had members of my staff there and what they explained is that the military ran a very secret program where aliens that were living were enforced breeding programs with humans that had been abducted from war zones and from even the caravans of migrants.
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Megyn Kelly
Did he say forced breeding programs? Congressman Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, one of the leading voices in Congress pushing for transparency on what the government now calls UAPS or unidentified aerial phenomena on Newsmax Wednesday, not exactly denying the claim. Have you heard anything like that?
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Tim Burchett
Well, I'm still a member of Congress so I can't really comment too much on what Matt said. I've been briefed by just about every Alphabet agency there is. And I just tell you this, if they would release the things that I've seen, you would stay up, you'd be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff. We just need to disclose it all. I'm sick of it. I'll just tell you this. I was brief last week on an issue or excuse me, two weeks ago and it would have set the earth, this, this country would have come unglued. I think if they would have heard all that I heard they would, they would demand answers. And they, and we need to, but you know, it's, it's never going to get, unfortunately it just keeps getting covered up and covered up and the people that know are dying or disappearing as the case may be. And for the record, I'm not suicidal and I don't take risks.
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Megyn Kelly
And if that doesn't make you say a little prayer, this next story might. This Easter weekend, thousands of Americans across the country preparing to formally enter the Catholic Church. A new analysis from the National Catholic Register surveying 71 diocese or districts nationwide finding all but five are expecting increases in converts this year, many of them big ones. The growth not limited to regions experiencing a resurgence in recent years, but more secular regions as well, like New England. The Archdiocese of Boston reporting a 55% increase in converts compared to just last year In Oklahoma City. The archdiocese expecting a 57% jump in unbaptized adults entering the church rising from 635 in 2025 to nearly 1,000 this year. In Mobile, Alabama, 603 new members set to join the highest total since at least 2014. And in Detroit, more than 1400 people preparing to convert, the highest number in more than two decades, according to the New York Times. The culmination of that journey coming Saturday night at the Easter vigil Mass, when converts received the sacraments of initiation, baptism, holy communion and confirmation formally entering the church. The surge coming after a pandemic era dip in participation. But in many dioceses, this year's numbers are not just a recovery. They're surpassing pre Covid levels, according to the Times. And while long term trends still show decline, the Pew Research center finding the broader Christian population in the US now stabilizing. As for what's driving the increase, church leaders point to a mix of factors. Some cite a growing desire for community and structure, others pointing to marriage and family ties. And some say younger Americans in particular are searching for meaning amid uncertainty. And increasingly, that search for deeper meaning begins online here. Bishop Robert Barron on the Word on Fire podcast.
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Bishop Robert Barron
Another corollary to that is the deep confusion and sadness that has been measured now for at least a decade in the surveys of young people. Rising numbers of depression and anxiety, of suicide, of deep confusion. I mean, I put a lot of the gender business in that category, too. Deep confusion about, you know, who we are. Well, that that can't sustain itself in the long run. People start looking for sources of meaning and purpose and, you know, they'll turn to religion. Here's my conviction. I'm very glad. I'll use this word on fire as an example. There are many others, but that when people wanted to turn to religion, maybe, you know, going to the local church, that wasn't their first idea. But they're online all the time and they find people who are talking about faith online. I think that should not be underestimated as a key factor in this.
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Megyn Kelly
I think they forgot one big factor that explains so many embracing their Christian faith. Charlie Kirk to everyone entering the Catholic faith this weekend, welcome and happy Easter to all. And that'll do it for am update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join us later for the MK show live on Sirius XM's the Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on YouTube.com Megyn Kelly and on all podcast platforms.
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