Security Failures Lead to Trump Assassination Attempt at WHCD, and Melania Calls For Kimmel To Be FIRED, with RCP and Pat Brosnan | Ep. 1304

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the shocking assassination attempt on President Trump this weekend at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, information about the background of Cole Allen, the glaring security failures that led to this moment, and more. Then Susan Crabtree, national correspondent for RealClearPolitics, joins to discuss the massive Secret Service security lapses at the WHCD and in other instances, what the "manifesto" says and Norah O'Donnell's ridiculous questions to Trump about it, and more. Then Pat Brosnan, host of "The Batcave," joins to discuss the shocking errors in security planning that led to the attempted assassination at the WHCD, why special forces should be involved in security going forward, and more. Then Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth of RealClearPolitics join to discuss the media trying to make themselves into heroes and victims after the WHCD shooting, young reporters making selfie videos instead of filming the actual news, Trump’s impromptu press conference calling for lowering the temperature with the left and media after another attempted assassination, the left refusing to play ball with that opportunity, the leftist virtue signaling from CBS host Margaret Brennan trying to make the assassination attempt about gun violence, her dress at the WHCD, and more. Finally Megyn discusses Melania Trump calling for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired after he joked about her as a "widow." Brosnan- https://www.youtube.com/@PatBrosnan Crabtree- https://x.com/susancrabtree Bevan, Cannon, Walworth- https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ Supersure Insurance: Simplify your business insurance and get a free coverage report at https://Supersure.com/Megyn Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Pure Talk: Dial #250 and say keyword MEGYN KELLY to switch to Pure Talk and get unlimited data for just $34.99 a month! Veracity Health: Head to https://VeracityHealth.co and use code MK for up to 65% off your order

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.2	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Happy Monday, everyone. And we begin with the continued fallout from yet another assassination attempt.
0:22.9	The third that we know about of President Donald Trump, I mean, really, I think it's the fourth.
0:27.8	You could argue it's the fifth, but I think it's the fourth.
0:31.0	There was that guy who breached the White House and like try to set it on fire.
0:37.2	Sorry, not the White House, the Mar-a-Lago perimeter.
0:40.4	It happened Saturday night, the latest in the Washington Hilton Hotel at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
0:48.5	The very first that Mr. Trump has attended as president, he's been refusing to go all the other times when they had it and he was
0:56.3	president because of his contentious relationship with the press. So this was a big deal that he
1:01.0	was actually going to show up. The entire cabinet basically was there. Several luminaries from Congress
1:06.8	members of. And that's the same hotel where President Ronald Reagan survived an assassination
1:14.4	attempt on him 45 years ago. We call it the Hinkley Hilton because it's where John Hinkley
1:22.6	tried to kill Ronald Reagan. And I've been to this thing many times. You go there for the radio and television
1:28.3	correspondence dinner. You go there for the White House correspondent's dinner. And it's basically just a
1:34.2	big, like, cattle call. You go in the front, you get your picture taken on the red carpet,
1:39.2	you mill about. You might go to a pre-party at one of the little smaller conference rooms on that sort of
1:47.5	first level. And then you take a very, very long escalator downstairs into the ballroom,
1:55.2	which is where the main event is. So this guy didn't get anywhere close to the actual main event, but he was certainly all over
2:03.7	that first floor and was intent on getting down to the level below where the president and
2:11.5	everyone else was. His name is 31-year-old Cole Allen. That's his name, Cole Allen.
2:18.0	He's 31.
2:18.7	He's self-employed.
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