Trump Rallies GOP, AI Researchers Sound Alarm, Bombshell Netanyahu October 7 Report: AM Update 9/10

Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Drushinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Thursday, September 10th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. On election night, we're going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it. America belongs to those who love it. President Trump taking center stage at the GOP's first ever midterm convention, rallying Republican voters with control of Congress on the line. The AIs are basically doing the rogue Skynet behavior. I know this sounds crazy, but it is not. The people building the world's most powerful AI systems now warning their own creations could wipe out humanity. A new investigation alleging Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of a major Hamas operation days before October 7th, and a former attorney convicted of trying to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range in an attack captured on camera. All that and more coming up in just a moment. On your AM Update. Imagine this. 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And save 45 bucks with our promo code MK at UrgentCareKit.com slash MK. That's promo code MK at UrgentCareKit.com slash MK. President Trump taking center stage in Dallas last night, delivering the opening night keynote address at the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention. The president using the historic gathering to make his case directly to voters. With control of Congress, the president's first ever midterm convention and the future of his agenda on the line in November. Mr. Trump seeking to energize the Republican base at a challenging political moment, with a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll placing his approval rating at 33%, the lowest of his presidency. Mr. Trump drawing a sharp ideological contrast with Democrats, vowing the United States will never become a communist country. In this election, the Democrats have nominated the most extreme and dangerous group of candidates for the House and Senate ever to stand. These people are radical left communists. But America has beaten communism before and we will beat it again. We've beaten it before. But these are people who do not care if your country is invaded by illegal immigrants, if your home is burglarized, if your parks and city streets are turned to filth and squalor and death, if your loved ones are pushed in front of a subway train in New York City or stabbed in the middle of a field in any state you want. You want to pick. They don't care because they hate our country. And they are Democrats. And they're very, very wrong. But we're not going to let the communism happen. Not here, not in America, not in our 250th year. Mr. Trump urging his supporters to approach November. As though his own name were once again on the ballot. When I'm on the ticket, Republicans always do very well. We won the presidency three times. But for some reason, when a president wins, even if he's really a good president or a great president, there aren't too many of them. They don't win the midterms and nobody quite knows why. It's something deep down and psychological. We can't let that string be broken. So I'm asking you. To pretend that I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot. Just one more time. Because if we lose, you're going to lose your border. You're going to lose your tax cuts. You're going to lose your safety and security. Speaking in Texas, the president throwing his support behind Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton. Democrats have nominated James Talafrico for the Senate. Talafrico authored a plan to annihilate Texas oil and gas. That's good. I'm working my ass off to get you oil and gas. And I got a guy that wants to end it. Would Texas be willing to end all oil and gas drilling? And he stated that he wants to totally dismantle capitalism. Dismantle, quote, capitalism. He described himself as a person who hates Christianity, says that God is transgender. He called the American flag a complicated symbol of hate. He claimed that the Ten Commandments are a form of fascism. And when he was asked what he loved most in the world, he said, I love transgender children. So getting back, freedom-loving patriots of Texas are going to defeat Talafrico and elect Ken Paxton to protect the Lone Star State. Looking beyond the midterms, Mr. Trump outlining his priorities for the remaining two years of his term. We'll make all Trump tax cuts permanent so that the Democrats can't end them. And we'll pass the great health care plan. We call it the great health care plan to stop all government payments to the big insurance companies. We will make it legally impossible for any future president to destroy our country by having the right to open the border again. We will pass a no invasion of our country act. And we will win the war on fraud. And we will end no cash bail. And institute the death penalty for large-scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and murderers of our law enforcement heroes. And one way or the other, before or after, if it has to be after, I hope it's before, November 3rd election, we will pass the Save America Act. The president also paying tribute to Charlie Kirk, with today marking one year since the Turning Point USA founder was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. So exactly one year ago tomorrow, a far left extremist assassinated my great friend and conservative voice, Charlie Kirk, because Charlie Kirk spoke the truth. What shocked millions of American was not only the fact that Charlie was murdered as bad as it was, but also how many people made an excuse for it or cheered for it. They were cheering, some people, sick people. For a brief moment, the man, came off the radical left and you saw what they were really all about. And now those same people are trying to get power over you in this election. And they are all voting Democrat. Okay, they're all voting, every one of them. And you can't let it happen. We will not let them win. And in Charlie's honor, I just want to say we love you, Charlie. The two-day convention continuing tonight, with Vice President J.D. Vance addressing the crowd before the president-elect. The president returns to deliver the closing remarks. One former and two current researchers at one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies now sounding the alarm about the technology they helped create, warning the race toward more powerful AI could end with humanity losing control. Jacob Coxon announcing his resignation from Anthropic this week after spending the past three years conducting AI research at both Anthropic and OpenAI. Coxon writing on X, quote, Neither company is at fault, nor is it responsible. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. Superintelligence referring to the still theoretical point at which an AI system becomes more capable than even the most intelligent human minds. Coxon warning those systems could soon, quote, hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. He claims the researchers building those systems privately acknowledge the stakes, writing, quote, The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. Coxon arguing many employees at OpenAI have not fully grasped the potential consequences, while Anthropic understands the risk but continues racing to reach superintelligence first because its leaders reportedly do not trust competing companies to develop it safely. He is now urging AI researchers to reject the idea that the race to superintelligence is inevitable, while raising the possibility of a temporary ban on further advances in model capabilities if companies and governments cannot reach an agreement to slow down. Two senior Anthropic researchers then publicly backing his central warning. Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic's alignment science team, writing, quote, Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is greater than 10% within the next decade. Hubinger adding that he believes the danger from today's publicly available models remains low, but warning Anthropic does not yet have a plan for keeping a superintelligent system aligned with human goals. and is not clearly on track to develop one. concern involving so-called recursive self-improvement, where an advanced AI begins improving its own capabilities, potentially allowing it to become more powerful at a pace its human developers can no longer follow or control. Anthropic Scalable Oversight lead Samuel Marks adding, quote, AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction or similarly bad outcomes. This could happen in the next few years. Axios noting critics have long accused anthropic and open AI of exaggerating the potential power of their own technology, to increase their valuations and encourage regulations favoring the industry's largest companies. The warnings, however, following several documented cases of AI models behaving in ways their developers neither requested nor anticipated. Open AI acknowledging last month that models undergoing internal cybersecurity testing circumvented controls intended to isolate them from the internet, communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities, and compromised portions of open AI's own infrastructure and systems belonging to the AI platform. Hugging Face. Open AI saying those models were operating with reduced safeguards while announcing tighter security and greater monitoring in response. Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris yesterday on Fox News saying the danger is not limited to American AI companies, pointing to similar warning signs emerging from China. Now, Anthropic is calling on all companies to stop down and evaluate. That's how disturbed they are about this. That's right. And I imagine on some level, China is. They are taking all encompassing controlling society does not want this either. That's exactly right. And when we were I was last with you in May, and I talked about how China's model also went rogue. It started during training, hacking out of its system and then started mining for cryptocurrency when no one programmed it to do that. Again, China's models do this. Our models do this. This moment is like the August 6, 2001 memo that hit President George W. Bush's desk saying that Al-Qaeda was planning attacks in the U.S. This moment is the AIs are basically doing the rogue Skynet behavior. This is the moment where we have to act. We need someone strong enough and brave enough to do something about this right now. The warnings arriving as public concern about artificial intelligence continues growing. A new NBC News poll finding 70 percent of American adults are now more worried than excited about AI, with roughly two thirds saying the technology poses a high risk to society and opposing the construction of an AI data center. Near their own community, Coxon will join Megyn Kelly later today on the Megyn Kelly show. Coming up, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatening a lawsuit over a disputed report claiming he received advance warning of a major Hamas operation before October 7th and a former attorney convicted after trying to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range inside a crowded restaurant. Our sponsor, the Electronic Payment Coalition, says Washington politicians are always getting in your wallet and that now they're messing with your credit card. They say your credit card and the security it offers are under attack and that Senators Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall want to change the nation's payment system to benefit corporate megastores like Walmart and Target at the expense of everyday Americans. Credit cards can keep your payments secure and provide rewards that families use to help make everyday purchases more affordable. The Electronic Payments Coalition says the Durbin-Marshall mandates would let corporate megastores cut corners on credit card processing, routing transactions over cheaper, untested networks with weaker security and fewer protections. Find out more at GuardYourCard.com and consider telling Congress to guard your card. A new investigation from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz alleging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally received advance warning of a major Hamas operation before the October 7th massacre. The report published Tuesday, claiming the president of the United Arab Emirates warned Netanyahu about the potential attack 10 days before it happened. Netanyahu categorically denying the story, announcing yesterday that he instructed his attorneys to file a libel lawsuit against Haaretz journalist Shlomi Eldar and others involved with the report. The prime minister calling the allegations a, quote, malicious fabrication and, quote, sinister libel, intended to influence next month's election. Haaretz reportedly basing its account on the three senior foreign sources familiar with an alleged 45-minute call between Netanyahu and UAE's president. The claims remaining disputed and not independently established, with the New York Times saying it could not confirm the reported call between Netanyahu and the UAE president. According to the report, Bin Zayed warning Netanyahu that then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation against Israel. The UAE president reportedly fearing the operation could kill large numbers of people and trigger consequences across the Middle East. Including damage to the normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab nations. Netanyahu allegedly responding that the intelligence available to Israel pointed instead toward possible Hamas activity in the West Bank, while expressing confidence in the country's ability to respond to whatever developed. The alleged warning reportedly originating with a Palestinian intermediary who maintained contacts with both Hamas and Israeli security officials. During one reported exchange, Sinwar using the Arabic word zilzal, meaning earthquake, to carry out an operation against Israel. Hamas was preparing. He later allegedly boasted to the intermediary that an unprecedented and frightening operation was coming. The information eventually reaching both the UAE leadership and Israel's Shin Bet security agency, with the message reportedly delivered to Shin Bet on September 15th. Then-Shin Bet director Ronan Barr subsequently briefing Netanyahu about Sinwar's warning. Israeli security leaders gathering two days later to consider how the country should respond. According to Haaretz, Barr presenting officials with the information that Netanyahu would not respond to Israel's attack on the West Bank. Haaretz was on the phone with two possible responses, carrying out an immediate operation against the perceived threat or reinforcing Israel's security posture around Gaza and the West Bank. The meeting reportedly ending without a course of action being selected. According to the investigation, Bin Zayed deciding to contact Netanyahu personally after Emirati officials concluded Israel had not responded adequately to the information. Barr and then-Israeli military chief Herzi Halivi both reportedly telling Haaretz they were never informed about the alleged call between the two leaders. The newspaper, Haaretz, said that Haaretz was not informed about the alleged call between the two leaders. The newspaper separately alleging that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel delivered another warning to Netanyahu during roughly the same period, describing signs that Hamas was preparing an extraordinary operation. Netanyahu allegedly maintaining that conditions in Gaza remained manageable, with Israel's immediate security focus directed toward the West Bank. Netanyahu's office calling the report, quote, an absolute lie, insisting he neither spoke with Bin Zayed during the period in question nor received a warning from him. Netanyahu now saying Israel's national security council and his military secretary found no record of the alleged conversation. His office adding that if the UAE possessed any relevant information, it would have been shared through intelligence channels between the two countries. The UAE foreign ministry neither confirming nor denying the alleged conversation, saying it does not comment on media reports or speculation involving discussions between world leaders. The ministry adding that the UAE and Israel maintain open lines of communication and that relevant intelligence is shared when necessary. Netanyahu said that the UAE and Israel maintain open lines of communication and that relevant intelligence is shared when necessary. The dispute emerging less than two months before Israel's national elections has questions surrounding what Netanyahu and the country's security establishment knew before October 7th became a major campaign issue. Four opposition party leaders now citing the report as they renew their call for an independent commission to investigate the attack, while Netanyahu's government has resisted creating such a commission. A former Ohio attorney now facing up to 25 years in prison after trying to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range. Netanyahu's government has resisted creating such a commission to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range. Netanyahu's government now facing up to 25 years in prison after trying to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range. And they didn't want anyone else to get hurt, and I thought, I thought if they came, if other people came, they'd get hurt. Exton testifying in his own defense and acknowledging that he thrust the weapon toward Vallone's face while reportedly insisting he never intended to pull the trigger. Exton claiming he merely wanted to frighten his ex-wife into moving faster on the sale of their former home in Michigan so he could collect his share of the proceeds. The jury convicting Exton of attempting to murder Vallone, along with Vallone's assault counts involving Vallone and her mother. Jurors acquitting him of the remaining assault count involving Vallone's father, who testified that Exton never pointed the weapon toward him. The trial becoming nearly as chaotic as the attack. According to the Toledo Blade, Exton repeatedly interrupting prosecutors during their closing arguments, at one point shouting the word gun and making gun-pointing gestures toward a prosecutor. Judge Gary Cook reportedly sending the jury out of the courtroom several times to warn Exton about his behavior. The former attorney now scheduled to be sentenced September 21st. Ohio law license suspended shortly after the attack. That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Jaschinski, host of Afterparty. Go and check out more at afterpartyemily.com. 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