Trump Pushes SAVE Act, Antifa Cell Sentenced, Camp Mystic Files for Bankruptcy: AM Update 6/25

Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Thursday, June 25th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. I think we had a really great meeting, and we're very proud of the party. President Trump escalating pressure to pass the Save America Act, meeting with Republican senators on the Hill to push for the election overhaul legislation. Eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell receiving a combined 450 years in prison after prosecutors detailed an armed, organized attack on an ICE facility. Camp Mystic filing for bankruptcy nearly one year after the deadly Texas floods, as families suing the camp vow the legal fight is far from over. All of a sudden, everything just shut, the curtains, the bed, the refrigerator, everything just shut. A powerful earthquake rattling Northern California, triggering widespread alerts, knocking out power, and ranking among the strongest ever recorded in the region. 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The delayed legislation, known as the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, designed to address the nation's housing shortage by clearing regulatory barriers, accelerating construction, and limiting the number of existing single-family homes large institutional investors can acquire. U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a co-author of the legislation, blasting President Trump yesterday following the cancellation of the ceremony. We should be here today to celebrate because we should have a housing bill that is now law. This may be a battle, but I guarantee we will get this bill passed. We will get it passed while the Republicans are still in control, or damn it, the Democrats will take over and we will get it passed with the Democrats in control. The president has not said he will veto the housing bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson telling reporters after speaking with Mr. Trump that he still expects the president to sign it within the constitutionally permitted 10-day window. Absent a signature or veto, the measure would become law automatically once that period expires, provided Congress remains in session. The sudden cancellation marks the latest and most dramatic step in the president's campaign to force the Save America Act through a resistant Senate. The bill would require Americans registering to vote in federal elections to present documentary proof of citizenship. The measure would also establish a nationwide photo-identification requirement for federal voting, impose new identification rules on mail-in ballots, and direct states to take additional steps to locate and remove ineligible voters from their registration lists. Democrats remain firmly opposed, arguing the requirements would create new barriers for eligible voters. A recent attempt to advance the Save America Act as an amendment failing 48-50, with Republicans Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina joining Democrats in opposition, leaving the legislation short of even full Republican support and far below the 60 votes normally required to advance. The president nevertheless pressing Senate Republicans to find a way to pass it, bringing that pressure campaign directly to Capitol Hill yesterday during a lunch with GOP senators. CNN reporting lawmakers discussed several possible paths, including breaking the legislation into smaller pieces or using budget reconciliation, a special process allowing qualifying legislation to bypass the Senate's usual 60-vote threshold as long as it meets strict budgetary requirements. The lunch reportedly growing tense at times, with the president also confronting several Republican senators over recent votes against his agenda, though Mr. Trump offering a far more upbeat assessment as he left the Capitol. I think we had a really great meeting and we're very proud of the party. We like our leader. We like everybody really in the room. I don't like a few people, but that's okay. I think you know who they are, but I'll give you that information someday. But for the most part, we have a really well-unified party. On the House side, Speaker Johnson yesterday outlining how Republicans might give the Save America Act the budgetary connection needed to qualify for reconciliation. We believe that if you create a grant program that ties it to reconcile the budget and you allow blue states, if they come to their senses and they want to avail themselves of election integrity proposals and ideas and policies, they can draw down from a federal fund and use those funds. We're willing to invest heavily in that. And House Republicans will put together a reconciliation bill, Reconciliation 3.0, that will have that. I talked the president through that in detail this morning, as I have in the past, and he said, can we do it? I said, we can, if the Republicans will stand together. Speaker Johnson set to meet with the president on this topic later today. Eight members of what prosecutors identified as a North Texas Antifa cell receiving a combined 450 years in federal prison Tuesday for an armed ambush at an ICE detention facility that left a local police officer shot in the neck. The sentences following the defendants' convictions in March on charges involving rioting, explosives, material support for terrorism, obstruction, and, in one case, attempted murder. The attack unfolding late on July 4th of last year at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, near Dallas. According to testimony, roughly a dozen people dressed in black military-style clothing arrived carrying firearms, body armor, and medical kits equipped to treat gunshot wounds. Members of the group setting off fireworks and vandalizing the facility, attempting to lure officers outside, according to prosecutors. When Alvarado police lieutenant Thomas Gross arrived and began issuing commands, Antifa operative Benjamin Song could be heard on police body camera footage yelling, quote, get to the rifles. Song then opening fire, striking Gross in the neck as two unarmed detention officers ran for cover. Gross has since made a full recovery, Song escaping the scene and remaining on the run for 11 days before his capture. A federal jury ultimately convicting nine defendants following a 12-day trial featuring 46 witnesses and more than 210 exhibits. The Justice Department calling these the first sentencings of defendants affiliated with Antifa since President Trump designated it a domestic terrorist organization last fall. The AP describing Antifa as, quote, not a single organization, but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations. That broad characterization, however, does not capture the level of organization prosecutors documented within this particular North Texas cell. Trial evidence showing the group had an identified leader, recruited members, provided firearms and combat training, and held a gear check the night before the attack. Participants also conducting reconnaissance at the facility, concealing their identities and disabling or shielding their phones to prevent tracking. The group arriving with 11 firearms, body armor, and 11 military-grade medical kits equipped to treat gunshot wounds. Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor calling their actions, quote, an assault on democracy. Song, who was convicted of attempted murder, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, rioting, providing material support to terrorists, and carrying explosives during the attack, receiving the longest sentence at 100 years. One defendant receiving 70 years, five receiving 50 years each, and another receiving 30 years. A ninth defendant convicted alongside the group is scheduled to be sentenced July 1st along with seven others who pleaded guilty before the trial to providing material support to terrorists. Each faces up to 15 years in prison. Song's attorney, Philip Hayes, speaking to the Associated Press after the sentencing. Our issue with this case has always been, this isn't a bunch of terrorists. This is a bunch of kids and young adults who really have a really big heart and really wanted their voice to be heard. It was never intended anybody get hurt. It was never intended that any shots would be fired. They really just wanted their voice to be heard and to make the people who they felt were unjustly in prison, make them feel that. Make them know that they've got people out there. Hayes says his client will appeal the sentence. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche releasing a statement, quote, the sentences handed down today will make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice. Coming up, Camp Mystic seeking bankruptcy protection as lawsuits mount over the deadly Texas flood and victims' families promise to keep fighting for justice. And a strong earthquake rocking Northern California, sending tremors across the region and triggering alerts for hundreds of thousands of people. What does it feel like when your clothes actually feel good? This summer, Cozy Earth makes a strong case that what you wear at home matters just as much as what you wear out. 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Camp Mystic filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, almost one year after the devastating flooding that killed 25 campers, two teenage counselors and the camp's owner and director, Richard Dick Eastland. The case filed in US bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Texas after months of investigations and multiple wrongful death lawsuits accusing the camp of failing to protect campers and counselors. Chapter 11 allows a business to keep operating while it works out how to pay what it owes under the supervision of a bankruptcy judge. Per court records, Camp Mystic's managers authorizing the company to pursue either a financial reorganization or the sale of its assets if the business cannot continue. The filing covers Camp Mystic and several related companies, reporting between $10 million to $50 million in debt and between $1 million and $10 million in estimated assets. The documents providing little additional detail about the camp's finances. Camp Mystic is currently facing five wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of children and counselors who died in the July 4th flood. The cases each seek more than $1 million in damages, accusing the Eastland family, which has owned and operated the camp for generations, of ignoring known flood dangers and failing to move campers out of the lowest areas before the Guadalupe River overwhelmed the property. Investigators finding Camp Mystic had no written plan for evacuating during a flood. Counselors had received little emergency training, and camp leadership had become complacent about a danger the property had faced for decades. Previous hearings detailing warnings that went unnoticed or unanswered, and the decision to leave girls inside their cabins until rising water made a safe evacuation nearly impossible. In March, a Travis County judge ordering Camp Mystic not to demolish, repair, or rebuild the flood-damaged cabins and several other areas along the Guadalupe River. The ruling requiring the camp to preserve those locations as potential evidence while the family's lawsuits move forward. That order did not prevent Camp Mystic from reopening another part of its property that escaped the worst of the flooding. The Eastland family was preparing to welcome nearly 900 campers back this summer. However, that plan provoking outrage from victims' families. Lawmakers also questioning whether the camp could safely reopen as legislative, state, health, and law enforcement investigations remained underway. Camp Mystic ultimately deciding in April to abandon plans to reopen. Now, the bankruptcy filing could dramatically change how the family's legal cases proceed. Sarah Foss, the global head of legal and restructuring at DebtWire, telling NBC News the lawsuits are now temporarily paused. Foss explaining, quote, Whether those lawsuits ultimately proceed in the bankruptcy court or the courts where they are pending, victims' families will be treated as creditors who must seek compensation from a limited pool of money in the bankruptcy case rather than through individual jury verdicts. Attorneys for the families making clear they intend to keep fighting. Paul Yetter, who represents seven families suing over their daughters' deaths, telling the Austin American-Statesman, quote, Bankruptcy will not stop all responsible parties from being held accountable. These innocent girls deserve justice. Mark Lanier, representing six families, telling the outlet his firm anticipated the filing and is now reviewing whether it can ask the bankruptcy court to allow the lawsuits to continue. Lanier accusing Camp Mystic's owners of trying to avoid scrutiny, adding, quote, We're fighting them every step of the way. A magnitude 5.6 earthquake rattling northern California yesterday morning, striking Mendocino County about 115 miles northwest of San Francisco. The U.S. Geological Survey placing the epicenter roughly seven miles north of Redwood Valley. The shaking beginning at 8.10 a.m. Pacific time, about five miles beneath the surface. A magnitude 2.5 aftershock following roughly seven minutes later, with several additional smaller earthquakes subsequently recorded in the same area. Residents reporting feeling the initial jolt across a wide stretch of northern California from Eureka, roughly 115 miles north of the epicenter to Sacramento, about 110 miles southeast. The earthquake triggering smartphone warnings for nearly 657,000 people across the region. Ukiah resident Daniel Alonzo describing the moment the shaking reached his home to KTVU, Fox 2, San Francisco. All of a sudden, everything just shook, the curtains, the bed, the refrigerator, everything just shook, and it was very severe, almost where I got very dizzy, and it was like very scary, almost like a freight train was running right through our house. So, yeah, it was very scary incident. And then we had a little aftershock about maybe about a minute later after that. The earthquake knocking out power to more than 7,400 homes and businesses across Mendocino County. Yesterday's earthquake ranking among the strongest recorded in that region since 1900, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The only larger quake on record was a magnitude 5.9 near Leggett in Mendocino County in 1931. That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party. Catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Channel 111 at Nuneast on YouTube.com slash Megyn Kelly and all podcast platforms.