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People will make everything seem very concerning because that's what people do in politics. Fresh off winning the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate in Maine, scandal-plagued Graham Plattner finds his next fight may not be against Republican incumbent Susan Collins after all. We'll explain. Minnesota assassin Vance Belter pleading guilty admitting to shooting two state lawmakers and their spouses. And a last minute lawsuit tries to stop the historic UFC fight set to take place Sunday on the White House lawn. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Everybody'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 you're not interested in painful weekly injections? That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called lean and the results could be remarkable. 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Regarding his new choice, the president posting to TruthSocial yesterday that Clayton is quote very highly respected, pointing to his work as former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, former head of the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, and now U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The nomination which requires Senate confirmation coming after more than a week of bipartisan blowback over Mr. Trump's plan to install loyalist Bill Pulte as acting DNI. Unlike Clayton's nomination for the permanent job, Pulte's acting role does not require Senate confirmation. Pulte currently serving as the head of the federal housing finance agency, Mr. Trump tapping Pulte to temporarily replace outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard with Pulte expected to assume the acting role on June 19th. 38-year-old Pulte has no intelligence background, and he's used his position to help the president find alleged legal violations by certain political enemies like Letitia James. According to the New York Times, President Trump wants him to use the temporary role to keep cutting down the DNI office after Gabbard already made deep reductions. Democrats fear he'll use it to target them. The DNI position sits at the top of the U.S. intelligence structure, coordinating work across 18 agencies. Pulte's appointment quickly triggering alarm from Democrats and some Republicans, who question why a housing official with no national security experience would be put in charge of the nation's intelligence community temporarily or otherwise. The fight now threatening Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the surveillance authority allowing U.S. agencies to collect communications from foreign targets overseas without a warrant, which is about to expire, and which several lawmakers refuse to extend if Pulte is the one overseeing its use. Democrats warning they would not support an extension unless the White House dropped Pulte. Yesterday, the House rejecting a three-week extension of FISA, 198-218, with 19 Republicans and nearly all Democrats voting no. The rejection especially notable because despite long-running privacy concerns around the program, lawmakers in both parties were prepared to renew it under a compromise deal. The law now set to expire at the stroke of midnight tonight. The Times noting with the House leaving town for a week and some lawmakers reportedly heading overseas scheduling another vote before the deadline would be extremely difficult. Speaker Mike Johnson accusing Dems of gambling with national security to pressure the President over Pulte. Is it time for President Trump to pull back his appointment of bill penalty and choose somebody else to let this important critical tool be unveiled? The President of the United States is fulfilling his responsibility. The President has named someone who would serve for a very short period of time while he seeks a new direction of national intelligence. The responsibility, the questions for the Democrats in the House and Senate, why they're willing to jeopardize the lives of millions of Americans to make a political point. Because they have a disagreement about someone that the President has appointed for a short-term position, it is absurd. There is no way to defend it. And all the questions that everybody in the Capitol Hill press should be chasing every Democrat before they go get on planes and leave, so proud of themselves that they just jeopardize the safety of every American citizen. I pray, I'm going to be praying that we do not have an event on our shores. There will be a lot to answer for if we do. Democrats argue the President created this problem by nominating Pulte in the first place. The new guy, Jay Clayton's nomination, now potentially giving both sides a way forward. Senate Majority Leader John Thune praising Clayton as, quote, a very qualified professional. Democrat Congressman Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intel Committee, also welcoming the pick, calling Clayton a, quote, terrific choice for DNI. Still however, for now, the standoff continues and the law is set to expire. The House began its recess yesterday with the next votes not expected until Tuesday, June 23rd. Speaker Johnson not appearing eager to call lawmakers back early either. Meantime, President Trump yesterday from the Oval standing by Pulte. Do you intend to have Bill Pulte continue to serve as the acting director of national intelligence? And do you think it's unreasonable that some Republicans have concerns that he has no intelligence experience, even if he's serving in this acting role? But he's intelligent, unlike a lot of other people. But do you think that's a failure? No intelligence? He's only there for a little while. He's running it for a short while, while we get a very talented person, Jay Clayton. Bill will run it for a short while. He's done a fantastic job at Fannie Mae Freddie Mac. Created tremendous, it's probably worth a trillion dollars now, trillion. He's done a great job. He's a smart guy. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, says even if the program lapses, most fies of powers will remain in effect until 2027, thanks to a built in safety mechanism. Graham Plattner, fresh off winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in May, Tuesday night, now facing a new set of challengers, Democrats. As Plattner gears up to face five term Republican Senator Susan Collins in November, in a race Democrats widely view as central to their hopes of taking back the Senate, NBC News reporting some Dems are already working behind the scenes to see whether Plattner can be pressured to withdraw before Maine's mid-July deadline to replace him on the ballot. The concern? Plattner's victory coming after months of damaging revelations. Plattner effectively cruising through the primary after Maine Governor Janet Mills dropped out in April. Early in the campaign reports surfacing about a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, along with some dicey Reddit posts. Back in January, Plattner telling CNN there was nothing else out there that could damage his campaign. But this month, more stories dropping. First reports the Plattner sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women while he was married. Then new allegations involving his treatment of women, including one woman accusing him of becoming physically threatening during their relationship. Plattner denying some of the allegations, including any physical abuse, confirming some other of the messages, but insisting he's not going anywhere. Earlier this week, Plattner asked again on MSNOW whether more damaging information could still come out. OK, so you say there's nothing out there that could be concerning. And this may seem a little bit rich. I just want to make this clear. There's there's nothing out there that's actually concerning. People will make everything seem very concerning because that's what people do in politics. Not exactly a denial. As Plattner attempts to calm voters and Democrat Party strategists. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal pressing a senior Plattner strategist who is straight out of central Democrat casting, as you're about to hear, on how a candidate with this much baggage made it through the vetting process in the first place. At this point, you hadn't vetted Graham Plattner. You hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him? We paid. Yeah, we paid a we paid a nice firm a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back, some of what you've seen on the news. We got back other stuff. We didn't. Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial? No. The Reddit posts, did that turn up in the vetting process? The firm sent us a thing and it had some of the posts, but it didn't have all of them. And what did you think about that? How did you, how did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media? I said none of this will or should stop him from becoming a US senator. That answer now feeding into fears inside the Democrat Party. If Plattner's own campaign didn't know the full extent of his baggage before voters did, what exactly might Republicans know? NBC News reporting some Democrats are privately discussing whether Plattner can still be pressured to withdraw before Maine's July 13th deadline. Republicans reportedly watching that same deadline. One unnamed GOP strategist involved in Senate campaigns telling NBC the Republicans may be holding back their opposition research file until after July 13th out of fear Democrats will quote Biden him. A reference to Joe Biden being pushed out of the 2024 race by members of his own party. National Republican groups already starting to capitalize on Plattner's existing scandals in ads. Listen to this one. Susan Collins spent time as a kid picking potatoes in Maine. Graham Plattner spent time as a kid at a $70,000 a year prep school in Connecticut. Susan Collins doesn't have a Nazi tattoo and she doesn't have an account on a notorious predator's paradise app. Graham Plattner did for years and this was his profile picture. Oh gosh, please, please get that off the screen. Anyway, Susan Collins, a senator we can be proud of. Despite the internal concern, Plattner advisor Rebecca Katz telling NBC quote, the Democrats of Maine have made clear who their choice is and the rest of the party should honor that choice. The general election set for November 3rd, but more shoes are sure to drop before then. 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Belter knocking repeatedly claiming to be police, then opening fire on Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Both Hoffman's survived life threatening injuries. As part of his plea, Belter also admitting he attempted to shoot their daughter, Hope from there, Belter driving to the Brooklyn Park home of former Minnesota house speaker, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, arriving around the same time police were conducting a welfare check following the Hoffman shooting, officers finding Belter outside of the Hortman home near a black Ford Explorer made to look like a police vehicle with police style lights flashing moments later, Belter firing into the home, killing Mark, then rushing inside and fatally shooting representative Hortman. Belter also shooting the family dog, Gilbert, who later had to be euthanized according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. Belter getting away after opening fire on officers, triggering what officials later described as the largest manhunt in Minnesota history. For about 43 hours, federal state and local law enforcement searching for him across Minnesota, before finally tracking him to a field in Green Isle about a mile from his family home, police searching Belter's SUV, recovering five firearms, including semi automatic assault style rifles, a large amount of ammunition and notebooks listing dozens of Minnesota state and federal elected officials, often with their home addresses, investigators finding a handwritten letter addressed to FBI director, Cash Patel in Belter's vehicle. Prosecutors alleged that in that letter, Belter admits to the attacks while also making a series of bizarre claims, including that he had been secretly trained, quote, off the books by the U. S. military and had carried out missions overseas. Belter also claiming Minnesota governor Tim Wals, a Democrat, had approached him about killing Democratic senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. Now nearly one year after the attacks, Belter changing his initial not guilty plea to guilty in federal court after the DOJ agreed not to seek the death penalty. The 58 year old pleading guilty to all six federal counts against him, including stalking firearms charges and a federal statute that makes murder with a firearm and offense that carries a penalty of up to life in prison or death. Under the terms of the plea deal, prosecutors will recommend two consecutive life sentences followed by another 40 years in prison, the judge approving the deal and calling for an expedited sentencing with the goal of having Belter formally sentenced before the end of July. The final sentence still up to the court, but the judge indicating he is likely to accept the recommendation, according to CBS News. U. S. Attorney for the district of Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, speaking to reporters yesterday, political violence is a scourge, plaguing America in our times, the murders of Speaker of the House, Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, shooting of Senator John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman and the attempted shooting of Hope Hoffman are among the worst political violence crimes that we have seen today. The United States achieved the admissions and the agreement necessary for the perpetrator of those crimes to spend the rest of his life in prison without possibility of release. Those that would commit political violence at any level should take heed that the Department of Justice will seek and obtain the longest prison terms available for your crimes. Belter also facing separate state charges, including first degree murder, attempted murder, animal cruelty and impersonating an officer. A conviction on a first degree murder count carries a penalty of life without parole. Almost time for fight night at the White House as UFC Freedom 250 is now just two days away. Set for Sunday, the first ever UFC cage match on the White House salt lawn, kicking off a summer of events marking America's 250th birthday while also landing on Flag Day and President Trump's 80th birthday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio previewing the event yesterday with UFC President Dana White. The American 250 celebration belongs to the people of the United States for them to be able to see this event with their White House in the background as part of our celebration as a country in our 250 years, I think as a gift to the American people. We could have had a band and we have great bands. We could have done a Shakespeare in the park production. There are a lot of things we could have done with it, but this one will have people watching probably over what a billion people all over the world, a billion people all over the world will be watching America celebrate its 250th birthday with the White House in the background and some of the best athletes in the world and that octagon with the octagon already going up in a full weekend of programming planned, a last minute federal wet blanket lawsuit now trying to stop the whole thing. The lawsuit filed by the public integrity project on behalf of two Virginia residents, arguing the event violates national park service rules governing sports events on federal park land. The plaintiffs also blasting the event itself, arguing it's not really about America's founding, but about President Trump, UFC and what they call a quote hideous spectacle on some of the country's most symbolic public rounds. Hideous spectacle. Where were they when President Biden had trannies on the White House lawn showing their nude fake breasts? Attorney Brendan Ballew calling it quote, a corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments for private gain. CBS News reporting US district judge Ahmet Mehta and Obama appointee deciding yesterday not to hold a formal hearing on the request to stop the event, but rather saying he will make a determination based on the written court filings. It's unclear when a decision is expected, but the fights begin in just 48 hours. DOJ attorneys firing back, accusing the two plaintiffs of trying to use the courts to quote, impose their idiosyncratic preferences on the rest of the country and quote, ruin an event designed to celebrate the United States of America. In a sworn declaration to the court, White House management and administration director Joshua Fisher laying out just how much is already in motion. Fisher describing a massive multi-day production months in the making with the UFC federal agencies, security teams, contractors and outside production crews all involved. The price tag topping 60 million bucks with the UFC covering quote, production, labor, construction and promotion costs and the feds handling law enforcement security, emergency services and medical help. The footprint enormous filings show roughly 4000 guests expected on the South lawn, plus more than 120,000 expected at the ellipse for a watch party. CNN reporting the buildout has been underway since May 20th with 20 to 30 trucks each day bringing in UFC equipment, staging, lighting and technical gear all screened before getting onto White House grounds. And then there are the porta potties. According to CNN's review of planning documents, the National Park Service requiring at least one restroom for every 300 guests. So planning documents call for at least 116 near the Lincoln Memorial and at least 350 more near the ellipse as crowds pour in across the weekend. The programming begins today barring a court order with a UFC press conference and face offs at the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday bringing ceremonial weigh ins, fan events and a Zach Brown band concert at the ellipse. Then Sunday night, seven mixed martial arts fights from the White House South lawn with President Trump, Melania Trump and other top officials expected to attend. The event set to conclude with a fireworks show. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show live on series XM's the Megan Kelly channel one 11 at noon East on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly. And on all podcast platforms today on the show, we will have Jeff Metcalf, the father of Austin Metcalf killed by Carmelo Anthony. Don't miss that. Yeah. When you put the right things together. Boom. Great things happen. 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