Jack Smith Grilled, Trump Hosts AI Summit, NYT Executive Allegedly Killed by In-Laws: AM Update 9/30

Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Wednesday, September 30th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. You use your ability and the powers of your office to lie to the court, to lie to Congress, to lie to the American people. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith back on Capitol Hill facing hours of grilling over how deeply his investigations into President Trump intruded into Congress, Republican groups, and even the media. You'll now have one front door for every single question. Everything will be answered easily and quickly. President Trump putting artificial intelligence front and center yesterday, launching a new government website and meeting with tech leaders. A New York Times executive in the middle of an ugly custody battle gunned down in broad daylight. Police say the suspected killers are the victim's elderly in-laws. And remnants of a hurricane that hit Mexico. Mexico Monday night, now threatening to dump months' worth of rain on parts of southern Colorado as the flood risk spreads into Oklahoma and Texas. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. I have got to talk to you about Cozy Earth's Bamboo Stretch Knit Pajamas. I love mine. They are silky smooth and buttery soft, and you can feel it the second you put them on. They are naturally temperature-regulating and breathable, so they keep you completely cool without ever waking up hot or clammy. They are crafted from viscose, from bamboo, with just the right amount of easy stretch. The fit's relaxed, so you look completely put together, even while sipping your morning coffee or answering the front door or doing some small in-home errands. Plus, there is no real risk in trying them out because they offer an easy return and exchange window if the fit is not right. And as you can see, they are made from bamboo. Mr. Trump describing it this way. 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From there, the focus shifting from how the government uses AI to what Washington should do about the companies building it. Mr. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson hosting a White House lunch, attended by a who's who of the tech industry, they were all there. The gathering coming as some of the executives developing the most advanced AI systems, are calling for stronger safeguards. Somebody save us from ourselves. While the president has repeatedly warned against regulations he believes could slow American development and allow China to catch up. The closed door discussion reportedly lasting more than two hours. The president making clear he remains opposed to heavy handed government regulation of the industry. President Trump saying the discussion also focused on how much responsibility the companies themselves should bear for policing the technology. Well, there's a belief that. There should be tremendous self regulation. And we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that. But the self regulation is very important. There's something else that was discussed, and that's local communities. This is a group that loves local communities. They love our country and they're going to work with local communities for the data centers in particular. And they're going to work to make the community happy. That's might be supplying oil and gas. That might be supplying education. It may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially. The executives agreeing to a voluntary framework calling for advanced AI systems to undergo internal and outside review as lawmakers continue debating how much oversight the rapidly developing tech actually needs. Later in the afternoon, President Trump and the tech execs speaking with reporters outside the White House met a CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, describing the safety framework. I think. What we can all agree on is that the American public and our customers want to know that what we're building is working in the way that we all intend. So we drafted a set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology, coupled with multiple layers of of auditing and controls, starting with internal risk review, external auditors and evaluators, and agreeing that we're going to have all of our boards of directors. Independently review the reports that come from the auditors. I know these are good steps forward. Anthropic co-founder Dario Amadei, one of the leading voices for an AI slowdown, sounding cautiously optimistic. AI has incredible benefits. I've talked about the medical benefits of the technology. As the president has said, you know, whoever wins AI wins. I think that's very important. But I think the technology has very real risks. And, you know, the mechanism, how we address it. Those risks is still under discussion, but we all need to we all need to work together to make sure that we can win and we can win safely. If we if we do this right, we work with the president, everyone here, we can win. Coming up, a couple of married 77 year olds now in custody accused of gunning down their daughter's spouse who worked for The New York Times in broad daylight and a hurricane hitting Mexico Monday night, now sending a flood threat. North from Colorado down to Texas. 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 but are not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those intense side effects? That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean. And the results. Could be remarkable. 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Jonathan McKenzie pronounced dead at the scene. A Dublin police sergeant happening upon the shooting while driving near the complex as dispatchers reportedly began receiving multiple 911 calls. Witnesses helping officers locate Shou-Yung Zhang and Shi-Li Chen nearby within minutes. The married couple identified by police as Jonathan McKenzie's in-laws, both arrested on suspicion of murder and booked into Santa Rita jail. Witnesses telling the New York Post, two masked attackers approached McKenzie in the parking lot before reportedly taking turns firing. McKenzie, with the New York Times since 2023, most recently serving as director of engineering for their games division. Police have not announced a motive, but the killing comes amid an ugly divorce and custody battle between McKenzie and Candace Jang, the accused killer couple's daughter. The New York Times reporting Jang and McKenzie each sought domestic violence restraining orders against the other last year. Candace Jang accusing husband McKenzie in court filings of physical abuse, including an incident Jang says left her with a fractured vertebra. A separate police report shows Jang also accused McKenzie of striking the couple's six-year-old child in the face. Police responding to that complaint reportedly found the couple's two-year-old alone in an upstairs bedroom after dad McKenzie had gone shopping for more than an hour. All of which resulted in McKenzie being charged with two misdemeanor counts of, McKenzie pleading not guilty and being released on the condition that parenting classes be completed. A pretrial hearing had been scheduled for next month. McKenzie filed for divorce in December, seeking a separate restraining order against wife Jang. That filing revealing, guess what, McKenzie was actually a woman, but had undergone surgical procedures in order to appear male. McKenzie previously accusing wife Jang and Jang's parents of abuse, tied to, McKenzie's so-called gender identity. McKenzie alleging the mother-in-law called McKenzie a, quote, monster after McKenzie's young son began wearing his sister's dresses and accusing the father-in-law of punching McKenzie in the chest during recovery from double mastectomy surgery in 2010. According to booking records, Jang and Chen now facing charges including first-degree murder, felony conspiracy, willful discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, and child endangerment. They are said to be, and are said to be, later today. Hurricane Polo's tropical moisture driving a serious flood threat from the Rockies into the Plains after the storm made landfall in Mexico's Baja, California Sur region Monday night. About 28 million people were under flood watches as of yesterday, according to the Washington Post. By early this morning, what is left of Polo reaching eastern Colorado, where a separate weather system could pull it toward the mountains and keep it spinning over the region for much of the day. The next day, the National Weather Service in Pueblo, Colorado, warning wildfire burn scars are especially vulnerable to flash flooding. The danger spreading farther into the Plains today and tomorrow. The Post identifying heightened flood risks along I-80 from Nebraska through Des Moines and into eastern Iowa, and along the corridor from Kansas City through Wichita, Oklahoma City, and Dallas into the Texas Hill Country. Fox weather meteorologist Britta Merwin explaining why the first real drenching after a long, hot, dry stretch could be a problem. All of this mess in the southwest will continue to push farther east as we work our way through the middle part of the work week. And this is a huge threat to states like Oklahoma and Texas, who find themselves in a level three out of four flash flood potential on Wednesday and Thursday. Part of the problem here, folks, is the summer that we've had in the central Plains. No rain, triple digit heat for more than two months. And in fact, we haven't had more than 1/100 of an inch of rain in months. And the first real drenching rain that we're going to get is way too much. We're talking about over half a foot of rain in two days. So this is going to cause big problems. Again, similar to the Southwest story, this is fueled by tropical moisture. In Texas, rainfall totals could reportedly reach double digits by the end of the week, while today's storms could bring damaging winds or even an isolated tornado. 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 slash Megyn Kelly, and on all podcast platforms.