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Men Banned From Competing in Women's Sports at Olympics, Trump Orders DHS to Pay TSA: AM Update 3/27
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In a major reversal and sign of a seismic cultural shift, the International Olympic Committee bans men from competing in women's sports ahead of the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. President Trump holds a newsy cabinet meeting where he talks Iran war and domestic policy, as reporting suggests he's considering sending as much as 15,000 American troops to the region. A major asylum case argued before the Supreme Court - Chief Legal Affairs officer at the America First Policy Institute, Leigh Ann O’Neill, gives her assessment of how it went. And President Trump orders DHS to pay TSA officers who were heading toward another missed paycheck today. Riverbend Ranch: Visit https://riverbendranch.com/ | Use promo code MEGYN for $20 off your first order. Firecracker Farm: Visit https://firecracker.FARM & enter code MK at checkout for a special discount!
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Megyn Kelly
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Good morning everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, March 27, 2026 and this is your AM update.
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Kirsty Coventry
The scientific evidence is very clear. Male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that rely on strength, power or endurance.
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Megyn Kelly
A massive shift in favor of fairness at the Olympics as men are officially banned from competing in women's sports. Hallelujah.
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Donald Trump
We have to stop him from BL blowing up the world, blowing up the Middle east and blowing up our country. And we did that.
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Megyn Kelly
President Trump holds a newsy cabinet meeting. The war in Iran and how it relates to domestic policy, a primary focus. A major case before the US Supreme Court this week with immigration and asylum implications. We'll break down all the angles and relief is coming to TSA workers and to America. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. If you are looking to make smarter choices for your health this year, consider Riverbend Ranch. Their steaks are not only delicious, they also contain real high quality protein that helps fuel your body. Beef is a complete protein and contains all nine essential amino acids your body needs to function. It also keeps you fuller for longer, reducing cravings and snacking. But here's the key. Not all beef is created equal. The quality of the beef depends entirely on on how it's raised and where it comes from. That's where Riverbend Ranch stands apart. For more than 35 years, Riverbend Ranch has been building an elite Black Angus herd, carefully selecting cattle for exceptional flavor and tenderness. All Riverbend Ranch cattle are born and raised right here in the usa. They never use growth hormones or antibiotics and the beef is processed at the ranch in their award winning USDA inspected facility. No shortcuts, no no middlemen. Just incredible, healthy and flavorful beef shipped directly to your home. Order today@riverbendranch.com and use the promo code Megan for 20 bucks off your first order. A massive victory for women's sports and team sanity. The International Olympic Committee, or ioc, announcing Thursday that its official new policy prohibits men from competing in women's sports. The rule kicks in before the upcoming Los Angeles summer Olympics in 2028, but it's not retroactive, meaning medals and results from previous Olympics will not be disturbed. The policy is clear for all disciplines on the sports program of an IOC event, including individual and team sports. Eligibility for any female category is limited to biological females, unquote.
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Wow.
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The number of people and the amount of work that went in to getting that reversal is unbelievable. Here's IOC President Kirsty Coventry, herself a two time Olympic gold medalist in swimming for her native Zimbabwe, announcing the new policy today.
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Kirsty Coventry
We, the International Olympic Committee, have published a policy on the protection of the female category. I understand that this is very sensitive topic. As a former athlete, I passionately believe in the rights of all Olympians to take part in fair competition. The policy that we have announced is based on science and it has been led by medical experts with the best interests of athletes. At its heart, the scientific evidence is very clear. Male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that rely on strength, power or endurance. At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat. So it's absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe. Every athlete must be treated with dignity and respect and athletes will only need to be screened once in their lifetime,
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Megyn Kelly
an incredible shift from just a few years ago when this sort of scientific and rational statement would have been unthinkable. Eligibility to compete as a female athlete in the Olympics will be determined by genetic testing and through saliva, cheek swab or a blood sample. IOC President Coventry recognizing the new policy's importance due to the elite nature of Olympic athletes and noting there may still be more questions about the rules ahead of the 2028 Summer Games.
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Kirsty Coventry
The IOC recognizes the importance of widespread participation in grassroots and recreational sports programs and the impact that sport has in society. However, the the Olympic Games has a focus on elite sport and in elite sport we must ensure the fairness, safety and integrity of all competitions within the Games. I know that there will be many questions and the IOC will work with all of our stakeholders to address these over the coming months. Publication of the policy is just one step in the process. There will be much more information to come.
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Megyn Kelly
The new policy is consistent with President Trump's February 2025 executive order entitled Keeping Men out of Women's Sports. President Trump Weighing in on Truth Social Taking a Victory Lap Quote Congratulations to the IOC on their decision to ban men from women's sports. This is only happening because of my powerful executive order standing up for women and girls. As a reminder, here is the historic moment on February 5th last year, right after he was sworn in, when Mr. Trump signed that order giving us that iconic image of dozens of young female athletes surrounding the president as he signed the policy into effect.
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Donald Trump
With this executive order, the war on women's sports is over. I'm going to sign the executive order right now and everything I said will go into effect immediately. Okay, thank you. You know, if you'd like to gather around me, I think I'm going to be okay.
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Megyn Kelly
Prior to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, only three so called top tier sports, track and field, swimming and cycling, had a ban on males who identified as females and had also gone through male puberty. Last year, Coventry becoming the first female elected as IOC president. According to the Associated Press, female eligibility was a major theme during last year's election and in June, Coventry set up a review of protecting the female category, the issue coming to a head in female boxing. During the 2024 Olympics, two individuals, Lin Yoting of Chinese Taipei and Emain Khalif of Algeria, won gold in the female categories after having previously been ruled ineligible to compete as women by the International Boxing Association. World Boxing, a separate organization, cleared Lynn to return to international competition earlier this week after completing a review of Lynn's gender eligibility. According to Reuters, Kalief reportedly told a French outlet that he has the SRY gene located on the Y chromosome, which is found in biological males and which would make him ineligible under the IOC's new rules, though he added, quote, I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions, end quote. His admission about his Y chromosome confirms he is biologically male. He told CNN last month that he would be willing to undergo genetic testing to compete in Los Angeles, saying, quote, they should protect women, but they need to pay attention that while protecting women, they shouldn't hurt other women. I'm not transgender. I'm a woman. So will Lynn and Kalief be allowed to compete in la? Stay tuned. President Trump Thursday making a surprise announcement about the war in Iran. Russia writing on Truth Social that he is pausing, quote, energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6, 2026 at 8:00pm Eastern Time Mr. Trump claiming the pause was due to a request from the Iranian government because, quote, talks are ongoing and despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media and others, they are going very well. The president's optimistic tone about a diplomatic solution coming in the face of numerous reports that the US Is strongly considering A ground invasion of Iran, which would be a dramatic escalation. The Times of Israel reporting yesterday that an official mediating between the US and Iran says President Trump appears to be leaning toward a major ground operation with the belief that the military pressure will cause the Iranian government to give in to the US's demands. Late yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reporting that Mr. Trump is considering sending another 10,000 ground troops to the Middle east in or near Iran, including infantry and armored vehicles. This would be in addition to the 5,000 he has already dispatched to the region. Reuters Ipsos polling from one week ago showing just 7% of the American people support a major ground invasion. Axios reporting that President Trump is weighing several, quote, final blow options against Iran, sending ground troops and also possibly a massive bombing campaign. President Trump at a Cabinet meeting yesterday framing the military operation as a success so far, claiming the Iranians want to make a deal.
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Donald Trump
So we estimate it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission. 26 days in, we're extremely, really a lot ahead of schedule. The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated. They're saying to people, this is a disaster. They know it. That's why they're talking to us. They're only, they wouldn't talk otherwise, but they're talking to us because they've got a disaster on their hands. They're defeated. They can't make a comeback. We're free to roam over their cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they're building. And we're doing that. They now have a chance to make a deal, but that's up to them. And they'll tell you we're not negotiating. We will not negotiate. Of course they're negotiating. They've been obliterated. Who wouldn't negotiate? They are begging to make a deal.
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Megyn Kelly
Dropsite News reporting yesterday that a senior Iranian official tells the outlet Mr. Trump's claim is not true. We have not submitted any request regarding potential US attacks. The President also indicating he's ready to get back to domestic priorities, declaring this conflict will end soon.
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Donald Trump
We're slashing regulations and investment is pouring in from all over the world. We have the most investment of any country in history has been put into our country in the last year. And again we had to take a little detour, won't be long, going to end soon. We had to take a little detour, go to Iran. And we had to put out a fire, very dangerous fire that could have blown up big portions of the world, if not the whole thing.
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Megyn Kelly
The latest Fox News poll shows the president's numbers on the war are falling. 58% now say they oppose the war. 64% disapprove of Mr. Trump's handling of it. Very few Democrats, just 12% support the war. 28% of independents do. GOP support remains higher, but the party is somewhat divided. 77% of Republicans say they back the war. 90% of MAGA voters back it. Just 52% of non MAGA voters do. The war continuing to have a major effect on energy prices. Oil selling at over $105 a barrel. Gas prices now at an average of $3.98 a gallon, according to AAA. A full dollar higher than they were a month ago. Bloomberg reporting the Trump administration is studying what oil prices that reach as high as $200 a barrel. Economy. Yikes. It's part of an effort to prepare for all possible scenarios in the conflict. A White House spokesperson denying that report. And Mr. Trump yesterday saying the war's impact on energy prices actually has not been as dramatic as he expected so far.
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Donald Trump
So as we end threats to America abroad, we're focused here at home on building the greatest economy in the history of the world. Now, before this started, The Dow hit 50,000. The S&P hit 7,000. Both of those achievements were not, were not achievable. Every one of you, most of you, I guess, said you'll never hit 50,000 during a four year period because it was too high a number. Well, we hit it in our first year. And I said, well, now we have to take an excursion to Iran and we have to stop this maniac who's no longer with us. The Supreme Leader wasn't so supreme. No longer with us. It's very sad, but we have to stop him from blowing up the world, blowing up the Middle east and blowing up our country. And we did that. And I thought, frankly, I thought the oil prices would go up more and I thought the stock market would go down more. It hasn't been nearly as severe as I thought.
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Megyn Kelly
Vice President J.D. vance believed to be a skeptic on military intervention in Iran. Also speaking at yesterday's cabinet meeting, making the case that the war has made it far harder for Iran to ever obtain a nuclear weapon.
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J.D. Vance
The Iranian conventional military is effectively destroyed. They don't have a navy. They don't have the ability to hit us like they could have even a few weeks ago. And what that does is that gives us options. Mr. President. Now there's been a lot of reporting about diplomatic options, about negotiations. There's, of course, Pete and his team. There are further military options. But what we have now that we didn't have when the president took over just a little over a year ago is the ability to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. Because when I say options, I think it's important the American people know options for what. And it's options to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest, it's not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people. That is the most important American national security objective that exists for any administration at any time, is you don't want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon. That's why the president is doing this.
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Megyn Kelly
Coming up, the US Supreme Court hearing a case this week that could impact President Trump's border policy and affect the way immigrants claim claim asylum when they arrive in the United States. A legal expert breaks down the arguments before the court and the most likely outcome. And for TSA workers and US Travelers, some good news thanks to President Trump. Let's talk hot salt. Firecracker Farm Hot salt, to be exact, the gold standard for its flavor, quality and heart. This is not just a great gift, which it is. It's the sea secret to making everyday meals special and quite frankly, delicious. If you are worried about it being too hot, look for Vanilla Heat. It's a wonderful mild blend created by the founder Alex and his daughter. Focused on gentle flavor over brute force, Alex and his family make every small batch on their farm packaged in their signature precision stainless steel push grinders that feel solid in hand and are very satisfying to use. Stop settling for generic. Ready to see what you've been missing? Go to Firecracker Farm and use code MK for 10% off your hot salt buy. Better get to know it now before they run out again. All right, get to it one more time. That's Firecracker Farm. The Supreme Court on Tuesday hearing oral arguments in a case over a federal immigration policy that allows officials to turn back asylum seekers before they reach the US Mexico border. After roughly 80 minutes of questioning, the justices appearing inclined to side with the Trump administration, according to SCOTUS Blog, a respected court tracking website. At the center of the case, when does someone actually gain the legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. under federal law, migrants can apply for asylum if they are physically present in the United States or when they initially arrive here. Typically, migrants arriving at a legal point of entry like an airport or a border checkpoint can tell the officer they would like to seek asylum, triggering the formal inspection and screening process. About 10 years ago, a border checkpoint near San Diego began experiencing a large influx of Haitian immigrants seeking asylum. To handle the flow, Customs and Border Protection officials implementing a policy called metering, agents stationed along the U. S. Mexico border began turning back migrants without valid travel documents, including asylum seekers prior to their entrance into America. The Trump administration later expanding this policy nationwide. In 2017, immigrant rights group Al Otro Lado and 13 asylum seekers sued the government over the metering policy. That case winding its way through the courts all the way up to the US Supreme Court this week, arguing for the government Assistant to the Solicitor General Vivek Suri saying the issue comes down to a simple geographic line. If you're still in Mexico, you do not yet have the right to claim asylum in America.
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Vivek Suri
Respondents position is that when Congress said arrives in the United States, it meant stopped outside the United States. That theory is wrong for the simple reason that it defies the statutory text. You can't arrive in the United States while you're still standing in Mexico. That should be the end of this case. But even if you see some ambiguity in the text, the court's decision in Sale should clinch the case for us. In Sale, this court determined that the protections of the Refugee Convention and the withholding of deportation statute do not extend to aliens outside the United States and further, that it is entirely lawful for the Executive Branch to prevent aliens from from reaching US Soil and claiming those protections.
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Megyn Kelly
Representing the asylum seekers, attorney Kelsey Corcoran arguing the policy breaks with decades of precedent and undermines the asylum system.
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Kelsey Corcoran
For decades, poor officers followed the statutory procedures designated by Congress for inspecting and processing arriving asylum seekers. It was not until 2016 that the government asserted for the first time that it can wholly avoid these mandatory duties simply by blocking asylum seekers just as they are about to step over the port threshold. Petitioner's theory of the statutory text isolates the word in at the expense of making the rest of the statute nonsensical. By petitioner's account, the phrase arrives in the United States has no meaning not already covered by President of the United States. Arrives means already arrived and amendments that Congress intended to include encourage non citizens to lawfully seek admission. In fact did the opposite Permitting border officers to effectively eliminate access to asylum at ports.
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Megyn Kelly
Several conservative justices appearing skeptical of that argument, focusing on the legal distinction between being at the country versus in the country. Justice Amy Coney Barrett questioning what qualifies as actually arriving in the US And Justice Samuel Alito pressing the point with a blunt analogy.
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Justice Samuel Alito
How do you know under your theory when the person is close enough that we could say they have arrived in or arrived in the destination? I mean, what if there's a queue and they're far back? Or what if they arrive not at a port of entry? How close do you have to be to the border? Could you say that someone arrives in the United States if they're at a portion of the border that does not have a port of entry? Like what is it if it's not crossing the physical border? What is the magic thing or the dispositive thing that we're looking for where we say, ah, now that person we can say arrives in the United States?
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Donald Trump
Do you think there is no difference between arriving at a location and arriving in the location? Does a person arrive in the house when the person is not in the house and is knocking at the door asking to be admitted to the house?
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Kelsey Corcoran
Yes, I think here the door is open. The officer is standing on the other side of the the threshold.
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Megyn Kelly
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raising concerns about how the policy plays out in practice, suggesting it could reward illegal entry over lawful behavior.
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Imagine a polite asylum seeker who wants to do everything by the book. He approaches the border but does not cross precisely because the law says you are not supposed to enter the United States with without authority. Why on earth would Congress have intended or meant for his asylum request to be discarded, not taken seriously, not entertained? But someone who manages to enter the United States unlawfully when the law says you're not supposed to do it and requests asylum, gets their application in entertained. That doesn't seem to me to make any sense that if we're trying to think about what arriving in means.
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Surrey responding that Congress deliberately created two separate systems, one for migrants outside the US and another for those already inside, with asylum protections only kicking in after crossing that threshold. We spoke to Chief Legal Affairs Officer at the America First Policy Institute, Leanne o', Neill, about this case. O' Neill saying the justice's questions exposed a major flaw in the asylum seekers argument.
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Leanne O'Neill
I thought that it was a little bit precarious. You know, one of the quotes that came from her in the case, in her exchange with Justice Alito, for example, he was raising the point that Catanjo, Martin Jackson and Justice Sotomayor were sort of confusing the terms arrive in and arrive at. And he called them out for siding with that attorney. And it was a little bit of an interesting exchange because he made the point, you know, if you walk up to my house and you're at the threshold, you haven't arrived in my house. In contrast, the attorney representing the other side said, well, here it's an open door and, you know, the question is whether you're preventing me from coming in or not. And I think that that really kind of illustrated where so many of the justices thinking was on this. And I am not optimistic that her reasoning will hold up there.
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Megyn Kelly
O' Neill telling us the government's argument, by contrast, was far more straightforward.
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Leanne O'Neill
I thought that the government made its case very clearly and it was very strong. I mean, I think that really the most illustrative kind of quote that came from the government in the case was, you know, if I'm still in Mexico, that I haven't arrived in the United States, and. And to any reasonable person who understands language, that is an entirely true statement and cannot be disputed.
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Megyn Kelly
As for how this case could come down, o' Neill predicts a familiar split at the court.
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Leanne O'Neill
It seems like it's probably going to split along the typical kind of six, three lines that we've seen in so many cases. But, you know, I do think that there is the possibility of it being even stronger, more strongly in favor with a 7:2. So we'll just have to see. I hate predicting how the justices will, gonna, will rule because that's a tricky business to be in. But it definitely feel very confident that the government will win this one.
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Megyn Kelly
An opinion is expected by late June. A breakthrough sort of in the fight over whether to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats refusing to authorize funding, demanding reforms to ICE a division of DHS. First TSA, another part of DHS running out of money, with some 50,000 officers working without pay for two pay periods, leading some 500 agents to quit, many others to call out and to bedlam at the nation's airports. President Trump late yesterday with a solution declaring a national emergency which allows him to bypass Congress and okay the TSA funds, which will come from the big beautiful bill. The president writing on Truth Social that he, quote, will not allow the radical left Democrats to hold our country hostage any longer. Ordering new DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen to immediately pay our TSA agents and to quickly stop the Democrat chaos at the airports. The rescue comes just in time. Congress is leaving later today for a two week Easter break. And with no deal on DHS funding TSA workers and travelers, we're looking at an ongoing rough start to spring. Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying the President's announcement takes the pressure off negotiations, at least for now. And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show live on SiriusXM's the Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on YouTube.com megankelly and on all podcast platforms.
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