ICE Deploying to Airports, Illegal Arrested in Chicago Murder, Trump Iran Ultimatum: AM Update 3/23

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0:39I think you're going to see more TSA agents. They're going to quit or they're not going to show up. With the fight over DHS funding dragging on, TSA agents miss paychecks and call out of work as the White House prepares to send in ICE to assist at overwhelmed airports. An illegal immigrant from Venezuela now in custody after allegedly gunning down a young college student in Chicago. The president will take whatever steps it takes to achieve those goals. A new escalation threat from President Trump against Iran amid a deadline tonight, as new polling shows Americans growing increasingly uneasy about the war.

1:15And the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches into its seventh week as the Guthrie family delivers a pleading new public message. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.

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2:33Amid a continued impasse on Capitol Hill over DHS funding, a partial shutdown now dramatically impacting airports across the country. TSA agents are currently not being paid, leading some to call out sick to take other jobs, others outright quitting. The result, chaos at airports during a busy spring break, with several major airports facing hours-long security lines. Funding for the department lapsing in mid-February thanks to Democrats demanding reforms to ICE and Border Patrol before they will agree to a full funding package. Ironically, ICE and other immigration enforcement is still being funded thanks to the big, beautiful bill signed by President Trump last summer, but DHS as a whole is not, including other divisions like the TSA.

3:20Democrats pushing to finance some DHS departments like TSA and the Coast Guard until an agreement can be reached on ICE and CBP reforms. Republicans so far insisting on full funding for the entire department, triggering another failed Senate vote last week. 60 votes are required to advance the legislation, requiring at least some Democrat support. Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, so far the only Dem to cross party lines and vote to fund DHS. President Trump on Saturday floating a unique potential solution, posting to Truth Social, quote, if the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular our airports, be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever seen before.

4:09Border czar Tom Homan yesterday on CNN confirming plans are underway. Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports? ICE agents receive a high level of training. And, you know, ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already. They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigation on smuggling at airports. But, you know, there's, I mean, there's got TSA agents covering exits. You know, certainly a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit. It makes people don't go through those exits. Stuff like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines.

4:50So wherever we can provide extra security, I don't see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because we're not trained in that. There are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines. Travelers facing mounting delays at airports across the country. Here, reporting from Atlanta News First, Fox 26 in Houston, and PIX11 in New York City. This is another morning of very long lines for travelers trying to get through security at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Yesterday, at this exact same time, the security checkpoint was snaking through baggage claim four.

5:28Right now, it is all the way through baggage claim nine from one side of the airport to the other. Your TSA wait lines at Terminal E at Bush Airport still say over three hours this morning. Here at La Guardia, we saw the line stretching through the parking lot just yesterday. Right now, about 50 ,000 TSA agents are still working without their paychecks. Democrats criticizing the move. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries yesterday on CNN. The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them.

6:07We've already seen how ICE conducts itself. These are untrained individuals when it comes to doing the current job that they have for the most part, let alone deploying them in close exposure and highly sensitive situations at airports across the country. Back on the Hill, Homan, this past Friday meeting with lawmakers, discussing the nature of those talks yesterday on CNN. I'm invited there just to explain operations and how we conduct business within ICE and CBP. I mean, we have the same policies in place we had during Obama and Biden and Clinton and Bush one and Bush two. So the policies really hasn't changed.

6:47It's the execution of those policies that we're talking about. We certainly can't surrender ISIS authorities and their congressionally mandated jobs. So we're having those discussions. Well, but as you know, they want it to be codified. Things like agents wearing masks, the ability or the requirement to say who they are and things of that nature. So you're saying that the White House is not open to changing any of that? No, no. I'm saying the majority of it is about policy issues. And we're talking about identification, you know, badge number, name, either or. Because, you know, Borbettor has a name on their uniform.

7:30It doesn't have a name on uniforms. We're talking about clear identification. We're talking about, you know, access to detention and things like that. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warning yesterday on ABC the situation could get much worse. So I think as we look forward to Friday, that's when the next paycheck should come. And if this if this Homeland Security funding isn't resolved, I think you're going to see more TSA agents. They're going to quit or they're not going to show up. It's hard for these individuals already to make their ends meet. But with out getting paychecks, it's even that much more challenging.

8:03And so they're going to take other jobs to put food on the table and pay the rent. So I do think it's going to get much worse. More than 400 agents so far quitting since the shutdown began. Elon Musk on Saturday, posting to X, quote, I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country. It is unclear if the White House has responded to the extraordinary offer. A 25-year-old man identified by Fox News as an illegal immigrant from Venezuela arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Chicago.

8:44Gorman, a first-year student from New York, walking with friends near Loyola Beach around 1 a.m. Thursday, that's about eight miles north of the famous Oak Street Beach near Chicago's Michigan Mile, in a much quieter, more residential area, when a masked gunman approached the group, firing a single shot, striking her in the back for no apparent reason. Gorman, a first-year business student at Loyola University, Chicago, pronounced dead at the scene. Her family releasing a statement calling her the heart of the family, writing in part, quote, what happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

9:23This is not an abstraction. This is the loss of a daughter, the loss of a sister. The family urging anyone with information to come forward. Fellow classmates of Gorman's speaking out to ABC7. She was really sweet. It just makes me really sad because with everything that's going on, it does make you wonder, like, how safe can you be at night? She had a lot of friends. She was always smiling. It just reflects a lot about that person specifically. So knowing that, it's just horrible. You come here for an education. Gun violence should not be something that you should be worried about or if you should not be worried about walking to the beach and not expect to just get killed like that.

10:04DHS identifying the suspect as Jose Medina Medina. Fox News reporting he was caught and released at the border in May of 2023 under the Biden administration. Police arresting Medina Friday night while executing a search warrant at an apartment just blocks away from the beach, according to CWB Chicago. Investigators reportedly recovering a firearm inside the apartment, now undergoing ballistics testing to determine whether it was used in the shooting. According to the Chicago Tribune surveillance footage tracking Medina from the scene to the building, police identifying him in part due to what they describe as a distinct limp.

10:42DHS revealing he was arrested just one month after entering this country illegally for alleged shoplifting and released on his own recognizance. He later failed to appear in court leading to an arrest warrant, but was never rearrested. Did they even try? DHS yesterday lodging a detainer request for Medina, requesting that Chicago officials not release him. The Sanctuary City bars cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, specifically barring officials from honoring ICE detainers without a court order. As of now, authorities have not confirmed any motive here, and the investigation remains ongoing.

11:22Coming up, President Trump threatening a major escalation in Iran, and the search for Nancy Guthrie now entering its seventh week as the Guthrie family speaks out in a new statement.

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13:05allies in the region. The following day, however, President Trump issuing a stark ultimatum on Truth Social, warning that if Iran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the U.S. will, quote, hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. That deadline's set to expire at 7.44 p.m. tonight. The threat marking a notable shift, The president previously emphasizing that the U.S. was avoiding strikes on civilian infrastructure like power plants and oil facilities. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson yesterday on NBC pressed on the apparent change in strategy.

13:43This seems to be an escalation, a threat of escalation. And it seems to run counter to his statement that he, in fact, wants to wind down the war. Again, Kristen, the president's been very clear from the beginning that the goals are destroy the Iranian Air Force and the Navy to completely demolish their missile capabilities, demolish their ability to replenish those capabilities, make sure the Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon and stop their ability to project power internationally. And the president will take whatever steps it takes to achieve those goals. Secretary Besant asked whether the administration would consider boots on the ground to seize Karg Island, the hub for roughly 90 percent of Iran's oil exports, which the U.S.

14:31has already attacked and which President Trump says he will hit harder if Iran continues to block shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary Besant responding on ground troops that, quote, all options are on the table. Iran responding with threats of its own. A spokesman for Iran's Supreme Military Command headquarters, warning, quote, if Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, then fuel, energy, information technology systems, and desalination infrastructure used by America and the regime in the region will be struck. Desalination facilities are essential in the Middle East. Al Jazeera reporting the six Gulf states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, among the most water-scarce countries in the world, relying heavily on desalination to meet the needs of their people.

15:20About 80 % of Israel's drinking water coming through five desalination plants along the Mediterranean, according to Ben-Gurion University. In Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Abu Dhabi, some 90 % of the drinking water depends on desalination plants. Iran continues to drop missiles in the fight. On Saturday, a pair of Iranian ballistic missiles striking southern Israel, injuring at least 115 people. The Israeli Defense Force reportedly investigating how the Iron Dome failed to intercept them. Meantime, Iran reportedly firing two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, an island located 2 ,500 miles away, housing a joint U.S.-U.K.

16:02military base. One missile reportedly failing mid-flight, another targeted by a U.S. interceptor, though officials say it's unclear if our interceptor was successful, according to the Wall Street Journal. The attempted strike, suggesting Iran's missile range may extend far beyond what it has publicly acknowledged, potentially expanding the threat well outside of the Middle East, possibly potentially putting European targets within the Iranian regime's range. With neither missile hitting the base, however, it's unclear if they were capable of reaching their intended target. Al Jazeera reports that the Iranians deny that Iran was behind this particular launch.

16:41Here at home, the national gas average rising to $3.94 per gallon, according to AAA, up from$2.93 one month ago. Diesel is averaging just over$5 a gallon. One month ago, it was between$3.65 and$3.81. And new polling from CBS showing growing pessimism about the economy. 32 % of Americans now expect a recession within the next year. That's up from 26 percent before the start of Operation Epic Fury. In terms of the war, 57 percent say the conflict is going very or somewhat badly. 43 percent say it's going well, as confidence in the administration's messaging appears to be slipping. 68 percent now say the administration has not clearly explained its goals.

17:28That's up from 62 percent earlier this month. Overall, approval of the conflict also slipping. On March 4th, 44 % supporting military action against Iran. That number now down to 40. 66 % of respondents agree this is a war of choice. 34 % say it's a war of necessity. Breaking down approval by party, 84 % of Republicans approve of the war, 16 % disapprove, 8 % of Dems in favor, 92 % oppose. Just 31 % of independents support the war compared to 69 % who oppose it. The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, now entering its seventh week, with investigators still without a suspect or clear answers.

18:17NewsNation correspondent Brian Enten, who has been closely following the investigation, reporting the FBI is intensifying its focus inside Guthrie's Tucson, Arizona neighborhood. including on one home which was vacant at the time of her disappearance. Hear from Brian Enten Investigates last week. I have confirmed through sources that the FBI has been back in Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood over the last 24 hours or so, going back to neighbors' houses and asking more questions. Some of the things that I know that they're talking about is there's one neighbor that moved out before Nancy disappeared.

18:56And they have been asking more questions about that situation. Not to say that that has anything to do with what happened, but that is something that the FBI agents are asking about. And then also, and this I found to be particularly interesting, they are asking about, there are several houses that are under construction in the neighborhood, And they are asking specifically for names of contractors and workers who were working in the neighborhood on those houses, on those construction projects. And I'm talking about like specifics, like they want the names of all the contractors and workers who are working on those houses.

19:35Retired Pima County SWAT commander Bob Krieger telling Parade Magazine that vacant houses can serve as staging locations for bad actors needing to scout an area, allowing them to blend into neighborhoods. In a separate report, Pima County homicide detective Kurt Dabb telling Parade Magazine he believes there may be as many as four accomplices in this case, aiding the masked figure captured on security footage outside of Guthrie's door on the night of the abduction. Meanwhile, the Guthrie family issuing a renewed plea to the community Saturday night as part of a Bring Her Home special airing on local station KVOA.

20:13The statement reading in part, quote, someone knows something. It's possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31st and the early morning hours of February 1st, as well as the late evening of January 11th. January 11th being a possible date of one of those images of the perpetrator on Nancy Guthrie's porch, and also a date on which neighbors spotted a mysterious white van in the neighborhood. The statement urging community members to check everything from camera footage to journal entries and text messages.

20:52From the statement, quote, no detail is too small. Yesterday, Savannah sharing an image on Instagram featuring Jesus with two angels and the caption quote, I believe, I believe. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show live on Sirius XM's The Megan Kelly Channel, 111 at noon east on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly and on all podcast platforms. And before we go, a huge thanks to all of the AM update fill in anchors who did the pinch hitting while we were sort of on spring break doing the Megyn Kelly show for most of it, but taking a break from AM Update.

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