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SCOTUS Sides With Bayer on Roundup, DHS Secy Clashes With Dems, TX Giraffe Missing: AM Update 6/26
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The Supreme Court sides with Bayer in a major Roundup ruling that could derail thousands of cancer-warning lawsuits and is drawing sharp criticism from MAHA activists - MAHA activist Vani Hari weighs in. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin clashes with House Democrats while detailing the administration’s efforts to locate unaccompanied migrant children the federal government lost track of under President Biden. Denmark’s center-left government considers a nationwide ban on broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer as it continues pursuing some of Europe’s toughest immigration policies. A giraffe named Gracie remains on the loose in the Texas Hill Country as helicopters, drones and local authorities join the search and her owner offers a $5,000 reward. Cozy Earth: Visit https://www.CozyEarth.com & Use code MEGYN for up to 20% off Supersure Insurance: Upgrade your business insurance to a year-round SuperAgency at https://Supersure.com/Megyn
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Megyn Kelly
One crunchy bite of a Hershey's Cookies and cream bar and I'm taken right back to college. Move in Day I was a little overwhelmed by the newness of it all. Boxes were everywhere. I needed a break from unpacking. But just as I was able to take a breath and open my Hershey's Cookies and cream bar, my new roommate Rachel walked in. I offered her a piece, but she said no. Then after a beat, she said, actually, those are my favorite ones. We left, the ice was broken, and we've been friends ever since. Hershey's. It's your happy place. Good morning everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, June 26, 2026 and this is your AM update. The US Supreme Court siding with Bayer in a major ruling over cancer warning labels on Roundup weed killer do not interrupt.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
Don't you point your finger at me. Don't interrupt me. I will point my finger at you. Don't you be a hypocrite.
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Megyn Kelly
Then DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen clashing with Democrats during a contentious Congressional hearing. Denmark's wing government considering a national ban on the Islamic call to prayer as it continues defying Europe's political playbook on immigration.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
I chuckled when I got the first call because it's my first missing giraffe
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Megyn Kelly
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Megyn Kelly
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The U.S. supreme Court yesterday siding with German pharmaceutical company Bayer in a major legal battle closely watched by the Maha community over cancer warning labels on popular weed killer Roundup. Roundup, invented in the 1970s by Agrochemical Co. Monsanto using glyphosate as its key active ingredient. The EPA approving glyphosate based pesticides for sale in 1974 and repeatedly determining the products do not require a cancer warning. Bayer later acquiring Monsanto in 2018. In 2015, the World Health Organization's cancer research arm classifying glyphosate as probably carcinogenic, citing evidence in animals and limited data in humans. That finding helping to trigger thousands of lawsuits from Roundup users diagnosed with cancer, even as the EPA continued to maintain that glyphosate did not pose a cancer risk in humans. The case before the high court Monsanto Co. Vs. Durnel, beginning with a 2019 lawsuit filed in Missouri state court by John Durnel, who was diagnosed with non Hodgkin's lymphoma after using roundup for about 20 years. Durnel alleging Monsanto now bare failed to warn consumers about the weed killer's potential cancer risks. Monsanto argued its label was federally approved. A jury siding with Durnel on that claim, awarding $1.25 million in damages. The Missouri Court of Appeals upholding the verdict last year, finding the federal okay on Roundup's label did not shield Bayer from a state failure to warn claim after the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Bayer appealing to the US Supreme Court asking the justices to decide whether federal law governing pesticide labels bars lawsuits seeking cancer warnings. The EPA and has not required the Trump administration siding with Bayer in the case, arguing federal law preempted Durnel's claim. The position coming after President Trump in February invoked the Defense Production act to boost domestic production of glyphosate based herbicides, describing them as critical to maintaining America's agricultural advantage and ensuring food safety, a move that infuriated Maha moms nationwide. More on that in a minute. In a 7 to 2 decision. The high court finding federal law does preempt state failure to warn lawsuits over Roundup. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority that under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide act or fifra, states cannot impose labeling or packaging requirements that differ from federal standards because Durnell's lawsuit would effectively require Bayer to add a cancer warning absent from the EPA approved label. The majority finding it conflicts with FIFRA's requirement for nationally uniform pesticide labeling. Justice Kavanaugh writing, quote, all told, in accordance with EPA's view that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans, EPA has not required glyphosate based pesticides like Roundup to include a cancer warning on their labels. He continues, therefore, as a matter of federal law, Monsanto legally must use a label without a cancer warning unless and until EPA approves or requires a change. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authoring the dissent, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, in an unusual pairing, noting numerous state and federal courts have rejected Monsanto's preemption argument and accusing the majority of misunderstanding the law, leaving Durnel without a legal remedy for the harm he has suffered. The decision expected to affect thousands of pending lawsuits against Bayer, which has already paid billions of dollars to settle similar failure to warn claims. Bayer praising the ruling in a statement. Quote, the ruling should result in the dismissal of current warning based claims and bar future failure to warn claims. Bayer adding that it will continue seeking final approval of a separate proposed $7.25 billion class action settlement aimed at resolving tens of thousands of existing Roundup cases and potential future claims. We spoke to Maha activist Vani Hari, known as the Food Babe, about this ruling and the Trump administration's decision to support Bayer's position in the case.
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Vani Hari
The Department of Justice went out of their way to recommend that the Supreme Court look at this case. They did not have to do that. It's, it's really disheartening to see that even a movement like the Maha movement, where so many people were in support of and came to the voting booth to vote for and had the hopes of really holding these companies accountable, reducing the amount of chemical exposure to the American diet. This is what we were hoping for and instead we got more of the same, but worse because again, the Trump administration did not need to make this recommendation to the Supreme Court.
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Megyn Kelly
Hari calling this a defining moment for Congress.
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Vani Hari
There's three things that need to happen. The first thing that needs to happen is Congress must pass a bill to reverse this decision and make it law that pesticide companies are held liable for when they cause harm with their products. The second thing that needs to happen is during the EPA's upcoming roundup review, truthful warning labels must be required so consumers can make informed choices, so farmers can be warned that this product causes cancer. I think the third thing that needs to happen is the Senate must remove the provision from the farm bill that would delay any critical EPA review. Right now there's a provision in the farm bill that would delay any pesticide reviews for up to to five years. And so that's just going to continue another five years of mass poisoning of America. And we can't stand for that.
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Megyn Kelly
Republican Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna of Florida announcing she will introduce legislation stripping pesticide companies of liability protections for harm caused by their products. The congresswoman writing on X quote, these companies purposefully omit labeling information, knowing their products cause cancer and other health problems. It is time they are held accountable. Enough is enough. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen appearing yesterday before a House Appropriations subcommittee for an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security. The hearing shifting between polite and heated with Secretary Mullen at several points getting into fiery exchanges with Democrat members. Democrat Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut attempting to question the secretary about roughly 3,900 children separated from their families under the first Trump administration. The separations resulting from the admin's zero tolerance policy, which directed prosecutors to bring criminal cases against all adults caught crossing the border illegally, including those traveling with children. Because minors cannot be held in federal criminal detention facilities, prosecuting the adults meant separating them from the children in their custody. Secretary Mullen turning the focus to the Biden administration's handling of unaccompanied migrant children.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
Sir, again, it is my time.
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Megyn Kelly
3,900 children were separated from their family.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
450,000 kids were lost during the Biden administration.
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Megyn Kelly
Mr. Secretary, do not interrupt.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
Don't you point your finger at me. I will point my finger. Don't you be a hypocrite. Then. Then you be as you should be as upset about the 450,000 kids that were lost. You didn't say a word about it for four years. You never said a word. Mr. Secretary, could you put him in his place for.
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Megyn Kelly
Don't yell at me. Put in your place a DHS inspector General's audit finding ICE transferred more than 448,000 minors to the Department of Health and Human Services between fiscal years 2019 and 2023. 448,000. But lacked an effective system for tracking their locations and immigration cases after their release. Secretary Mullen outlining his department's efforts to locate those kids and determine whether they are safe.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
When we stepped in Here, we had 450,000 kids missing. 450,000 kids that were given to sponsors that weren't vetted no home checks. No one was going by to see if they're where they're supposed to be, not even knowing that they're in their same state. I'm not saying all of them had recovered. Some of them were where they were supposed to be. But we've had some horrific cases where there was a ring of several adults that were keeping kids in an underground bunker, in a dungeon. And the most horrific things that I pray to God that you guys don't have to see because it permanently changes you. The stuff that these adults put kids as young as 2 to as old as 12 through. You can't make a horror story that bad.
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Megyn Kelly
Secretary Mullen growing emotional as he reflected on the human toll of the previous administration's border policies and the work now facing his department.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
What frustrates me the most is that this was preventable. And no one can argue that. And we have perpetrators that are doing the most horrific things to kids. And as a father to six and three beautiful girls, when you see this, there's evil in the world. There's evil in the world. And we fed it. The Biden administration fed it for four years and took the innocent, the innocence that's in our kids eyes that we pray to God never has to deal with this. That innocent is permanently stolen. And we're trying to just restore some type of, of comfort to these young girls. But let me explain to you, young boys too. Unfortunately, we're seeing a rise of young boys being trafficked earlier this month.
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Megyn Kelly
The secretary announcing the administration so far has tracked down 146,000 children who went missing during the Biden administration. Coming up, Denmark's left wing government weighing a new nationwide ban on the Islamic call to prayer. In another break from Europe's usual approach to immigration and assimilation. And a giraffe vanishing into the Texas hill country as helicopters, drones and local authorities join the search. When you sign your insurance agency, for some brokers, that is the finish line. It's a handshake. They get their commission done, then you may not hear again from them until it's time for renewal. And they need your money and commitment again. It's not exactly a great relationship. Your business, however, runs all year and so do the gaps and so does the risk and so do events for which you need insurance. And that is why I want to tell you about Super Sure. 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Denmark now home to just over 6 million people. The government does not formally track residents by religion, though international organization Minority Rights group estimates roughly 280,000 Muslims live in the country, accounting for nearly 5% of its population. Outdoor calls to prayer are already effectively blocked in some communities through local noise restrictions. Copenhagen's Grand Mosque, for example, does not broadcast the summons outside under an agreement with local authorities, according to the Telegraph. A national prohibition, however, has proven far more difficult. Birdsko, now becoming the third Danish immigration minister, to explore a national ban on following efforts launched by previous Social democratic governments in 2020 and again in 2025. An initial review launched in 2020 was left unfinished and later shelved following Denmark's 2022 election. Birdsco's predecessor revived that work last year, but the government has yet to determine how a nationwide ban could be written without violating the constitutional right to worship. In a sharp break from much of Europe, Denmark's left wing government making this just the latest step in its hardline approach to immigration and the Social Democrats shifting sharply on the issue during the 2015 migration crisis when more than a million people, largely from the Middle east and Africa, arrived in Europe, fueling a growing nationalist movement and helping make the anti immigration Danish People's Party the country's second largest political force. Rather than cede the issue to the right, the Social Democrats embracing tougher immigration policies while retaining an otherwise left wing agenda. Denmark already banning full face coverings like burkas in public places in 2018, with the government now pushing to extend that prohibition to schools and universities. The country also becoming one of Europe's strongest advocates for processing asylum seekers outside the continent, with Parliament approving a legal framework allowing applicants to be transferred to a third country while their claims are reviewed. Deep in the heart of the Texas Hill country, authorities are now two weeks into the search for an unusually conspicuous fugitive, the missing resident standing several feet taller than any member of the search party and answering to the name Gracie. The roughly four year old giraffe disappearing from Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leki, a tiny city of about 700 people roughly 100 miles west of San Antonio. Gracie arriving at the privately owned Exotic Animal Breeding Ranch in May, ranch manager Vic Jones telling the New York Times. Gracie apparently found her way around a gate at the edge of the property, then wandered off into the surrounding hill country, the search proving far more difficult than spotting a giraffe would seem. Rial county covered by enormous private ranches, steep canyons and thick brush, with so few people spread across the area that Gracie could easily roam onto someone's property without being spotted, reports local outlet Cron Rhial County Sheriff Nathan Johnson, who is leading the search, talking to local station Ken's 5 on Wednesday about the effort.
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DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
I chuckled when I got the first call because it's my first missing giraffe case. It's hired helicopters, they've flown it with drones. We've got a lot of people in our county kind of keeping a watchful eye. Mountain lions, we have other animals, we have a lot of coyotes and there are predators out there that could harm her, although she's a big animal.
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Megyn Kelly
Despite those dangers, Jones telling Cron he is not worried about Gracie's well being, noting the surrounding land offers enough food and water to sustain her, with recent temperatures also remaining manageable. For anyone in the area who happens to spot a giraffe roaming through the brush, there are a few clues that it may be Gracie. She is a reticulated giraffe, a species recognizable by the clean lines surrounding their large brown patches, and Gracie herself is distinguishable by her unusually rounded ears, Jones warning anyone who spots Gracie not to approach or chase her. The owner of the ranch now offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to Gracie's safe return. And that'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show live on Sirius XM's the Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on YouTube.com megankelley and on all podcast platforms.
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