(upbeat music) - Good morning, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. It's Tuesday, November 10th, 2026, and this is your AM update. - I will say the Rubio impresses everybody. He's a mix of, I get Trump, and I get what the Bush years were like. - The Neocon wing of the GOP seemingly making its move to try to stop Vice President JD Vance from securing the 2028 nomination following a massive GOP loss in the midterms. Someone apparently lied to someone there, and that is the kind of thing the boards and directors generally don't like. - Nvidia CEO, Jensen Wong, admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, triggering a corporate investigation and raising questions about his future. Former President Joe Biden will have a book out next week, but don't expect to see him on a book tour, and a 19 year old college sophomore, riding the Democrat wave to victory in Arizona, now preparing to oversee hundreds of government employees, all that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update. - Everyone'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, and yet you're not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of the intense side effects? Well, 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 diet or looking to lose just a few pounds. The doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created lean for frustrated dieters who have 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 for your discount. That's promo code
[email protected]. Republicans are confronting an increasingly uncertain future following last week's devastating midterm losses as knives are out for Vice President JD Vance from the more Neocon wing of the GOP. According to the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdock, a longtime Vance Comfortant, texting him on Election Day, suggesting he might sit out the 28 presidential race, other allies telling the journal, they doubt any Republican can win the White House in 28. Democrats flipping seven Senate seats so far, including Mr. Vance's old seat in Ohio, and winning governorships in Texas and Georgia. The losses exposing fractures in President Trump's political coalition, particularly over the war in Iran. Vice President Vance, a notable critic of the war, bluntly identifying it as a large portion of the reason for the backlash in the midterms in a lengthy social media post last week. The VP, also assessing voters want to see a change in the party's relationship with Israel. The comments raising questions about possible divisions within the White House prompting reporters to press President Trump on his relationship with the Vice President. Has JD Vance's comments about Iran questioning some of those decisions? Has that impacted your relationship at all? No, not at all, but a lot of people didn't like his comments, but not me. He was right other than one thing he should have made one other statement, one statement that I think is very important. If you had it to do again, would you do it again? The answer is yes. I can tell you, if I had it to do again, this historically for history will go down as one of the best things we ever did. Because if they ever had a nuclear weapon, they would blow up the world. You know why? 'Cause they're crazy. The New York Post, another Rupert Murdoch media property, which initially backed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2024, publishing two sharply critical opinion pieces over the weekend. One accusing Vice President Vance of abandoning President Trump, the other warning that his economic agenda could hurt Republicans. Governor DeSantis, among the potential alternatives, attracting donor interest in the days following the GOP's massive loss. The Washington Post reporting Governor DeSantis is positioning himself for another possible presidential campaign following his unsuccessful challenge to President Trump in 2024. The Governor delivering a blunt assessment of the Republican Party at a press conference last week. This is going to last far beyond just two years. You look ahead to 28 election, a presidential election. You are not as Republicans going to be able to retake the Senate under this current map, just two years from now. And with all the house seats that have been done, probably not viable to take that back as well. So this is really going to have an impact in two years, four years, six years, maybe even longer before Republicans could exercise unified control in Washington again. DeSantis is coming to the end of his tenure as governor and failed to secure traction in the GOP primary back in 2024. Another potential contender attracting attention, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, host Brian Kilmeade of Fox News, another Murdoch property, offering his assessment of the two potential contenders in an interview on the Clayton Buckshaw. I will say the Rubio impresses everybody. He's a mix of, I get Trump and I get what the Bush years were like. And people just seem to like him. They like him on the world stage, they like him on the domestic stage, they like the Hispanic background. And so far, JD Vance is leaning way to the right, like the extreme right, the anti-Israel right. And I think it's getting a lot of people nervous. And I think that there's some concern. And there was not alleviated by his ridiculous and subordinate posting on X or wherever he put it on his personal account. Secretary Rubio previously indicating he would support Mr. Vance if the VP runs fueling speculation about a possible joint ticket in 2028. The Washington Post reporting, however, some donors now urging Secretary Rubio to run on his own. The Secretary for now showing little interest in entertaining those questions. I'm not going to talk about 2028 any longer. I'm just not going to talk about 2028 anymore. I'm just asking about a comment. And I'm just telling you that, okay, here's my answer. You ready? I'm not going to discuss 2028. I'm not going to discuss it in any form or fashion. The real clear politics polling average has the VP leading the potential Republican field with 38% support followed by Secretary Rubio at 26% and Governor DeSantis at eight. 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The Times reporting last year that the Commerce Department was investigating whether mega speed helped Chinese companies evade US chip export restrictions. The alleged espionage, raising broader national security concerns, given Jensen Wang's close relationship with President Trump and his efforts to loosen restrictions on advanced AI chip sales to China. US surveillance of Alice eventually uncovering her close relationship with the Nvidia CEO and evidence that she was communicating directly with Beijing. The newspaper reporting last month that President Trump had been briefed on the findings roughly a year ago, but chose not to intervene. The Times reporting last week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw a classified memo this spring, detailing intelligence that China had recruited Alice specifically to target the tech CEO. Jensen insisting to Bloomberg last month that his dealings with Alice were strictly professional. On Sunday, Wang publicly admitting that they had an affair, apologizing to his wife of more than four decades and their children. In a letter to Nvidia employees, Wang writing, quote, "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry." The company's board announcing Sunday that independent directors assisted by outside legal counsel would investigate the allegations. In its statement and video maintaining that it had no evidence of compromised company secrets or national security information while promising to examine all available evidence. The board expressing confidence in Wang's leadership, allowing him to remain as CEO during the review. President Trump coming to Wang's defense at a press conference yesterday. He built a great company, American company, and I think he's a very honorable guy, and I asked him about that. And he said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy. I asked him that question. Did you have any idea that she was a spy? He said, "I had no idea that she was a spy, and I really believe him." Despite that support, Wang's future at Nvidia remains uncertain. CNBC's senior Washington correspondent, I'm in Joverd.
yesterday pointing to two significant obstacles. One is the relentlessness of the sources here for the New York Times and the FT. So there seems to be a real commitment on the part of somebody inside the U.S. government to push Jensen Wang out of this position. And the second thing is clearly there was some effort to misdirect the public by Nvidia last week. Nvidia put out a statement suggesting that Jensen Wang's relationship with Alice Wang was business as usual and then a couple of days later forced to admit actually he had an affair with her. So someone apparently lied to someone there and that is the kind of thing that boards the directors generally don't like and it's just difficult from a corporate governance standpoint to move forward. The steady stream of disclosures continuing yesterday afternoon, the New York Times reporting new details about a federal investigation into mega speeds suspected smuggling of restricted and video chips into China CNN reporting and video shares falling more than 20% from their peak last month, erasing their gains for the year. This a dramatic reversal for the chipmaker whose stock has surged more than 1200% over the past four years. Coming up former president Joe Biden will limit promotional appearances for his upcoming memoir as he continues undergoing cancer treatment and a 19 year old college student defeating a former state senator in Arizona becoming the unlikely new boss up nearly 700 government employees. Good news. Birch Gold has extended the Veterans Day silver offer through November 11th. So act now to get a free one ounce silver coin for every $10,000 purchase. 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An announcement on Mr. Biden's ex account indicating the 83 year old is unable to participate in the interviews he initially planned for the book, pointing to his battle with cancer as the alleged reason. The former president also declining to narrate the audiobook version himself. He has previously worked with ghost writers for other memoirs. President Biden announcing in May of last year that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer which had already spread to his bones. Since then he's undergone radiation and hormone therapy. In August his son Hunter telling the BBC that the cancer had spread even further describing his father's condition as extremely painful and debilitating. The health update renewing attention on Mr. Biden's age and physical condition issues that dominated the final months of his presidency and ultimately contributed to his decision to abandon his reelection campaign in July 2024. When Mr. Biden remained in the race and defeated President Trump, he would now be approaching the halfway point of his second term with more than two years still left on the clock. In an excerpt of the book published yesterday in the Atlantic, Mr. Biden describing a surprisingly friendly oval office meeting with President-elect Trump following the 24 election. Mr. Trump reportedly praising Mr. Biden's record on job creation and suggesting the two could have been friends if it were not for politics. The excerpt then taking a sharply critical view of Mr. Trump's second term, accusing him of reversing Biden-era policies and undermining American democracy. A 19-year-old college sophomore becoming one of the most unlikely winners of last week's midterm elections, defeating a former Republican State Senator to take charge of a major government office in Arizona. Democrat Sebastian Mata, winning more than 760,000 votes, to become the next clerk of superior court in Maricopa County, the fourth largest county in the country. Mata capturing roughly 53% of the vote against 50-year-old Jeff Dyle, despite having virtually zero political experience and still attending Arizona State University. The teenager studying philosophy, politics, and law, balancing his campaign with college classes and a paper about a jury trial two later this month. His improbable victory coming amid a sweeping Democrat wave in Arizona where the party captured both chambers of the state legislature and retained the governor's office, securing full control of state government for the first time in 60 years. According to ABC 15 Arizona, Mata did not even hire a campaign manager until roughly three weeks before the election. The young Democrat initially discovering the position while browsing online for offices he could potentially run for, eventually securing help from the local Democrat Party to gather the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. A surprising victory prompting a concession call from his 50-year-old Republican opponent, a moment Mata recalled last week on Jimmy Kimmel. "Your opponent is 50 years old. Did he call you to concede?" "Yes, it was a very brief 30-second phone call while I was eating a bullet to put away." "30 seconds, did he cry at any point on the hang of the phone?" "You seem pretty happy to me. I think he's a fine guy, you know, I have nothing bad to say about him. He's been a good guy, you know, honorable opponent, but somebody's got to win." Mata now preparing to oversee a government office with nearly 700 employees, responsible for managing court records, processing legal filings, and handling millions of dollars in public funds. The 19-year-old still living with his parents, although his new job comes with an annual salary of approximately $97,000. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK Show, live on SiriusXM's The Megan Kelly Channel 111 at New East on youtube.com/megankelly and on all podcast platforms.
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