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Instant Politicization of Tragic Shooting, Investigators Speak Out on Haro Arrest: AM Update 8/28
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A mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school leaves two children dead and 17 others injured, with investigators probing the suspect’s anti-Christian writings and ties to the community. Mayor Jacob Frey and progressive commentators deflect anger over the attack by criticizing Christians and dismissing prayer. Prosecutors and sheriffs outline their evidence against the Haros, deny reports of a jailhouse confession, and say they are confident in securing a conviction even if they are unable to locate the body. Facing historic lows in favorability, Democrats weigh an unusual national convention ahead of the 2026 midterms to boost fundraising and media attention. All Family Pharmacy: Order now at https://allfamilypharmacy.com/MEGYN and save 10% with code MEGYN10 Lean: Visit https://brickhousenutrition.com use code LABORDAY25 for 25% off!
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Megyn Kelly
When work gets crazy, I like to stop by the bar after, have a few cold ones. I don't drink at all until 4 o'. Clock.
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San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykus
We limit ourselves to one bottle of wine a night.
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Megyn Kelly
Good morning everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Thursday, August 28th, 2025 and this is your AM update.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry
Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community has lost their sense of common humanity.
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Megyn Kelly
A mass shooting targeting Christian children at a Catholic school and church and the left quick to excoriate guns and prayer.
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Riverside County DA Mike Hester
Baby Emanuel was abused. Because of that abuse, he succumbed to those injuries.
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Megyn Kelly
Investigators speaking out for the first time about the arrest of missing Baby Emanuel, Harrow's parents and the evidence they have against them. And as Democrats struggle to appeal to voters, new polling insights offer an easy win. Crack down on crime, but will they? All that and more coming up in just a moment. On YOUR AM update, who's really on your side when it comes to your health? Insurance companies, bureaucrats, Pharmacies that refuse valid prescriptions. Not so much. Too many parts of our healthcare system are working against you, blocking proven treatments, jacking up prices, making you jump through hoops that are unnecessary. This is why I want to tell you about All Family Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy that's on your side fighting for your medical freedom, making it simple to get the treatments you trust without the insurance runaround. Just order online. A licensed doctor will review your request and your medication ships straight to your door. It's fast, simple and secure. Right now, ivermectin and mebendazole are 25% off, starting at just 2 bucks a capsule. And you can save another 10% off with code MEGAN10. Choose from over 200 medications, antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine, NAD, antivirals and more, all with a prescription included. Go to allfamilypharmacy.com Megan and use the code Megan10 to save today. That's all Family Pharmacy, where your health and your choice matters. New details about the horrifying attack on a Catholic church and private K8 school in Minneapolis. Students and staff of Annunciation Church celebrating the first mass of the school year when a shooter opened fire from outside, raining bullets through the stained glass windows. Two children ages 8 and 10 were killed. Fourteen more children wounded, along with three adults in their 80s. All those injured are expected to survive. Thank God. A fifth grade student telling Fox 9 News what he experienced.
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Fifth Grade Student
It was very scary. It was like my friend got shot in the back. He's in the hospital right now. I think he's gonna be okay. He was like laying on top of me, like making sure I was safe and he got hit. So that was really brave of him. It was super scary because like, we've never practiced it in the church. We've only practiced it in the, in the main school. So we really didn't know what to do. We just got into the pews and he shot through the stained glass windows.
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Megyn Kelly
We've only practiced it in the main school. Our poor kids having to grow up like this. The alleged suspect, whose name we choose not to report because doing so provides the infamy these mass shooters seek, is a 23 year old male who, identified as female. He turned the gun on himself at the scene. According to a yearbook obtained by CNN, he graduated from the school in 2017. His mother reportedly worked there until her 2021 retirement. Authorities say he had no prior criminal record, but a pair of YouTube videos he appears to have posted revealing a deeply disturbed individual. The videos show a demented handwritten diary with a sketch of the presumed killer staring into a mirror, seeing the devil's reflection in return. Another shows him stabbing a hand drawn picture of a church and shows a shooting target that has Jesus in its center. Also in the videos, the shooter showing off multiple weapons graffitied with phrases like Kill Trump, where is your God? And for the children. FBI Director Kash Patel posting to X. The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. Minnesota Police Chief Brian o' Hara Wednesday afternoon with details on the investigation as.
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Minnesota Police Chief Brian O'Hara
To the weapons used to perpetrate this horrific attack. There was a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. All three had been lawfully purchased by the shooter. At this stage, we believe that the shooter had acted alone. There is no indication of other suspects directly involved in in carrying out this attack. Our investigators are working with other agencies in the process of executing four search warrants. One is for the church itself where this crime occurred. The other three are residents residences nearby in the metro that are related to this shooter. Additional firearms are being recovered from those three residential locations as we speak.
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Megyn Kelly
Independent journalist Andy Ngo posting to X. Today's killing of Christian children at a church in Minneapolis occurred in the context of a surge in far left trans propaganda encouraging Trantifa and other leftists to take up arms to kill transphobes and fascists. Their targets Christians and conservatives. I have been warning and reporting on this phenomenon for years and am called a liar by liberal media and targeted with death threats by the far left. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry on Wednesday attempting to deflect from the facts I have.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry
Heard about a whole lot of hate that's being directed at our trans community. Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of love for our kids.
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Megyn Kelly
Her earlier in the day, Fry chastising Christians and others who would dare turn to prayer in the wake of this horrific act.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry
Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church. These are kids that should be learning with their friends.
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Megyn Kelly
Of course, Mayor Fry had no trouble kneeling in front of George Floyd's gold casket back in 2020. He seemed to understand the value of prayer then. Msmbs Now I guess we're really doing that. Host Jen Psaki ranting on X quote prayer is not freaking enough. Prayer does not end school shootings. Prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kid to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers. As if conservatives advocate for no change in the wake of these tragedies and but simply want more prayer, which is entirely untrue. They want soft targets like schools to be better protected for one thing. Jen and the suggestion that prayer is useless is equally wrong. Archbishop Bernard Hebta oversees the Catholic communities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. On Wednesday, he offered a very different message.
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Archbishop Bernard Hebta
Brothers and sisters, we have to be men and women of hope. Already today I've been receiving messages from all over our country promising prayers. And I think it's the prayers of the feet as well. Principal that is for me is a source of hope. Just as we see families stepping forward to help those who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy. Very grateful that Principal DeBoer spoke about prayer. Certainly that bell in the Catholic Church is always a call to prayer. So it's a reminder for us for sure to be praying. And we have to recognize that it's through prayer and through that prayer of the feet, through that action that we can indeed make a difference. That has to be the source of our hope.
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Megyn Kelly
Coming up, authorities reveal what they believe was the cause of death in the case of missing baby Emmanuel Harrow and why Democrats faced with record low favorability ratings just may want to borrow a page from the Trump playbook.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry
Foreign.
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Megyn Kelly
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Riverside County DA Mike Hester
The filing in this case reflects our belief that baby Emanuel was abused, victim of child abuse over time, and that eventually because of that abuse, he succumbed to those injuries.
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Megyn Kelly
That's what we believe, hester telling the press. Investigators believe they know where to look for the remains, but stressing that even without recovering Emanuel's body, prosecutors are confident they can secure a conviction.
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Riverside County DA Mike Hester
A nobody homicide is always difficult, but obviously with an infant we know that baby Emanuel didn't, you know, leave on his own or is not, you know, didn't leave town. Obviously it's a little different when you're talking about an infant, but we have a lot of experience trying in this county trying no body homicides and we're confident that we can gain convictions in this case.
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Megyn Kelly
San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykus elaborating on cooperation from the parents after Jake was spotted with a search team on Sunday in Moreno Valley.
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San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykus
I'm not going to go into grave detail about that, but there is some level of cooperation with the suspects involved in this. And our job is to follow every lead. We have to understand what you're dealing with is an experienced child abuser that is aware of a previous case, that is aware of evidentiary things that we are certainly concerned with. So we're going to take every step to not only work with any suspect or witness involved in this, because at the end of the day, we have to bring a case to Mike and they have to charge it. And we have to make sure that every single thing, no matter what is told or what we discover in terms of evidence, is the right thing. And that we followed up extensively on.
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Megyn Kelly
Wednesday, reports surfacing that Jake confessed from behind bars to killing Emmanuel DA Hester, flatly denying those reports, then saying his office is not interested in a plea bargain with either Jake or Rebecca, both parents, due back in Court on September 4, where they are expected to enter a plea. Bail is set at $1 million each. Democrats reportedly considering a national convention before the 2026 midterms as the party struggles to gain traction with voters, an unusual move as national conventions are typically tied to presidential election cycles. Axios reporting the event would allow Democrats to fundraise and score media attention in their bid to win back control of Congress in 2026 and could double as a launching pad for the potential 2028 presidential candidates on Team Blue. This as Democrats suffer from record low favorability. A Wall Street Journal poll from July finding 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the party compared to 33% who say their view is favorable. That is the worst showing for Democrats in 35 years. On Sunday, CNN data analyst Harry Enton spelling out more troubling statistics for Dems. Republicans are dominating voter registration in swing states.
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CNN Data Analyst Harry Enton
Look, the Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with the American voter as the crackle barrel racing rebrand has with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing? Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005. And all four of these key battleground states, well, let's compare it to this point during the first Trump administration, all the way back in 2017. Arizona, you got a Republican gain of three points. Okay, how about Nevada? Up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in the Southwest, a gain of six points. How about again, we come to the East Coast? North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans. And in the Keystone State, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again, we're talking about a gain of eight points. My goodness gracious for Republicans. They are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger, as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters, and it absolutely paid off for them back in the 2024 election.
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Megyn Kelly
This comes as many top Dems are vocally opposing the Trump administration's crime crackdown in D.C. something Mr. Trump would like to expand to other cities and states. One speaker from a criminal justice reform institute telling fellow Dems at the DNC summer meeting to lean into the debate, but not to get distracted by things that don't actually matter to Americans, like carjackings.
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Criminal Justice Reform Institute Speaker
Call out what Trump is doing and say the reason crime is going down, our communities are becoming safer is because of us. Where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the bait. Because most Americans are more worried about how are we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us. That's what you should be talking about. That's where you should be focused. Don't take the bait in talking about migrant crime, crime or carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans.
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Megyn Kelly
As it turns out, new AP polling showing 81% of Americans are in fact deeply concerned about crime in big cities. 55% say deploying the National Guard to assist local police is acceptable, compared to 37% who disagree. President Trump's federal takeover of D.C. police and reported plans to mobilize the National Guard to more troubled cities whose state governors invite them. Appearing to boost his favorability. Mr. Trump's overall approval rating rising from 40% in July to 45% today, his highest ever in that poll, with 53% of adults approving of Mr. Trump's handling of crime. It's actually his best issue. And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for the Megyn Kelly show live on Sirius XM triumph channel 111 at noon east on YouTube.com megankelley and on all podcast platforms. What does possibility mean to you?
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Fifth Grade Student
Um, that's a hard question.
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Megyn Kelly
Something that you can strive for.
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San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykus
I'm able to do anything I set my mind to.
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Fifth Grade Student
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