President Trump details Operation Epic Fury's fifth week, claiming decimated Iranian forces while teasing intensified strikes on power plants if no deal emerges, despite 59% public opposition and soaring gas prices above $4. Simultaneously, Judge Allison D. Burroughs reverses the administration's migrant policy, restoring status to 900,000 individuals, a ruling critics call judicial overreach. The update concludes with NASA's successful Artemis II launch, sending four astronauts on a record-breaking lunar orbit mission. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm Megan Kelly.
It's Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, and this is your AM update.
We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
In a primetime address, President Trump vows to hit Iran extremely hard in Operation Epic Fury while announcing the U.S. is nearing its objectives.
A federal judge reinstating legal status for thousands of migrants admitted through the Biden era CBP1 app, blocking President Trump's effort to terminate their ability to stay in America.
Humanity's next great voyage begins.
And a historic journey underway.
Artemis 2 crew now heading toward the moon.
All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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President Trump last night delivered a primetime address from the White House, providing an update on the progress of Operation Epic Fury, now in its fifth week.
In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield.
Tonight, Iran's Navy is gone, their Air Force is in ruins, their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime they led are now dead.
Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak.
Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed and their weapons, factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of them left.
Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks.
The address coming as a slate of recent polling shows most Americans are not on board with the war effort.
New polling from The Economist, YouGov, finding twice as many Americans oppose the war as those who support it.
28% of adults support, compared to 59% who are opposed.
In this poll, 54% of Republicans identifying as MAGA, 29% say they're not MAGA, 17% are unsure.
Among Republicans self identifying as non MAGA, Just thirty three percent support the war, fifty six percent oppose.
Those numbers flipping dramatically from just two weeks ago when fifty six percent of non MAGA Republicans favored the war.
79% of MAGA Republicans still support the president.
8% oppose his war efforts.
Among independents, just 19% are in favor of the war, compared to 63% against.
As thousands of U.S. troops have been moved into the region over the last several weeks, questions mounting over whether the president is preparing to put boots on the ground, potentially pulling the U.S. further into another prolonged Middle East quagmire.
In last night's address, the president stopping short of announcing any ground troop actions.
But extending the war's timeline beyond the original four to five weeks, teasing what's about to happen over the next two to three weeks.
We are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly.
We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
Regime change was not our goal.
We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of.
All of their original leaders' death.
They're all dead.
The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.
Yet, if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets.
If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.
We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding.
Just 14% of Americans are in favor of boots on the ground in Iran, according to the economist YouGov.
A full scale ground invasion gets half that number.
Only 7% support that, according to a Reuters Ipsos poll.
Despite the relentless attacks on Iranian military infrastructure, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard managing to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed to the vast majority of its usual traffic.
Amid this shortage, the U.S. national gas average spiking above $4 per gallon this week, The highest since 2022.
According to a new CNN poll, President Trump's approval rating on handling the economy down to a new low, now at 31%.
65% of Americans, the highest of Mr. Trump's presidency, now say the president's policies have made the economy worse.
That's a higher percentage feeling that way than at any point under former President Biden.
Mr. Trump addressing economic concerns last night.
Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home.
This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.
The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat.
You all know that we built the strongest economy in history.
We were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far with no inflation.
Record setting investments coming into the United States over 18 trillion dollars and the highest stock market ever, with 53 all time record highs in just one year.
It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered.
It's known as the nuclear Iran.
Remember, because of our drill baby drill program, America has plenty of gas.
We have so much gas.
We are number one producer of oil and gas on the planet.
The president saying the U.S. does not need Middle Eastern oil.
Touting a fruitful new relationship with Venezuelan leadership following the U.S. military's capture of its former leader leading to increased oil production.
The president attempting at various points since the start of the operation to bring NATO allies into the effort, those efforts largely falling short.
The president expressing public frustration with NATO allies who are only obligated to help a fellow member when an armed attack has been launched on that member by a non NATO country, even suggesting Tuesday he is considering leaving the alliance.
Last night, the president urging countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz to take a more active role in securing it.
The countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage.
They must cherish it.
They must grab it and cherish it.
They can do it easily.
We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.
So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves.
I have a suggestion.
Number one, buy oil from the United States of America.
We have plenty.
We have so much.
And number two, build up some delayed courage.
Should have done it before, should have done it with us as we asked.
Go to the straight and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves.
Iran has been essentially decimated.
The hard part is done, so it should be easy.
We'll have more analysis later today on The MK Show.
Coming up, a federal judge orders the Trump administration to reinstate legal status for thousands of migrants.
Who entered the US through the Biden era CBP 1 app?
And NASA's Artemis 2 mission is officially underway.
The crew now hours into a mission that could take them farther from Earth than any humans in history have traveled.
Judge Orders Migrant Status Restored00:06:09
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A federal judge on Tuesday ruling the Trump administration unlawfully stripped legal status from tens of thousands of migrants who entered the U.S. using the Biden era CBP1 app.
Obama appointed Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts. ordering the administration to reinstate the lawful parole status pending asylum hearing for migrants who had such status revoked through an April 2025 mass termination email.
The order applying to those who used the app between May 2023 and January 2025 and who remain in the U.S.
The CBP1 app created under the Biden administration was meant to manage what had become a full blown surge at the southern border with thousands of migrants arriving daily, overwhelming both border agents and ports of entry.
Facing mounting pressure to get a handle on the chaos, the administration rolling out the cbp one app, directing migrants seeking asylum to schedule appointments at legal ports of entry instead of crossing illegally.
At its peak, the program processing roughly 1,450 migrants per day through scheduled app-based entry, according to the New York Times.
Those approved typically receiving two years of temporary parole, allowing them to live in the U.S. without being deported, many even granted work permits.
Roughly 900,000 people gaining legal status in the U.S. through the controversial program.
One of President Trump's first actions upon returning to office was shutting down the CBP1 system.
Later, repurposing it into the CBP Home app aimed at encouraging voluntary self deportation.
In April 2025, the administration sending a mass message to many CBP 1 users informing them their parole was terminated, telling recipients, It's time for you to leave the U.S. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate seven days from the date of this notice.
Do not attempt to remain in the United States.
The federal government will find you.
That move prompting a lawsuit from migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti.
arguing the action violated the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law requiring agencies to follow process and to justify their actions.
The Trump administration arguing it had broad authority to terminate parole and was simply exercising its discretion to end a Biden era program it viewed as unlawful.
Ultimately, Judge Burroughs sided with the plaintiffs, ruling that while the administration does have the authority to terminate parole, it did not follow its own procedures in doing so here.
When defendants terminated the impacted noncitizens parole without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations, they took action that was not in accordance with law.
DHS blasting the ruling in a statement to AM Update, quote, We disagree with this blatant judicial activism undermining the president's Article II authority to determine who remains in this country.
We spoke with CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, Sean Davis, who says this ruling amounts to legislating from the bench.
The judge in Boston effectively created her own law in order to justify her decision.
Under the law, with the attorney general, can allow people into the U.S. on a case by case basis on temporary parole while their claims of asylum are investigated.
And that when the attorney general feels that that parole is no longer necessary, he or she has the sole discretion to terminate the parole, send the individual back to the country he or she came from.
What the judge in this case decided was well, yeah, it says that.
The AG has discretion to grant parole, but we think the judiciary has the authority to determine whether the parole should have been terminated.
And it is a complete inversion of the law.
This judge, out of nowhere, created a right to judicial review that simply does not exist in the law.
Davis calling this the latest example of a broader pattern of judicial overreach.
The real tragedy of these types of lawless decisions from unelected, Low level district judges around the country is what they are effectively doing is they are crippling the administration of justice and the execution of the laws, which solely belong to the president.
And it may be some small comfort to people to know that, oh, in a year or two, or maybe three, or maybe even after Trump is gone, that eventually the law will prevail and these lawless judges will be smacked down.
But the problem is you can't get that time back.
And it is a perfect example of why you cannot have a nation that is.
Basically, ruled by hundreds of unelected district judges.
If the founders had wanted the president to get unanimous consent from unelected inferior judges, they would have put that in the Constitution, but they didn't.
And so I view these types of decisions as.
Just a total abomination and a lawless takeover of power that was never actually granted to the judiciary.
Artemis II Returns to Deep Space00:02:15
A historic return to deep space now underway.
For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way back to the moon.
NASA's Artemis II officially lifting off after a tense countdown marked by multiple last minute issues.
About 90 minutes before launch, engineers identifying concerns with a critical safety feature, the Flight Termination System, or FTS.
The FTS essentially allowing engineers on the ground to self destruct the rocket if it deviates from course during takeoff in a manner that could present a threat to public safety.
Sounds disconcerting for the astronauts.
With some troubleshooting, NASA resolving the issue.
Self destruct abilities restored, so yay!
At 6.22 p.m., each team involved in the mission giving the official go for the launch.
Then at 6.35 p.m., the twin solid rocket boosters igniting.
These two rockets responsible for 75% of the thrust required.
To lift the 32 story, 5.75 million pound Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket.
And then, moments later, lift off.
The crew of Artemis II now bound for the moon.
Humanity's next great voyage begins.
About one minute into the flight, the Artemis II already surpassing the speed of sound.
Several hours into the mission, the Orion capsule carrying the crew separating from the rocket that carried it into space.
The astronauts now settling into the first phase of a 10 day mission.
That could push them farther into space than mankind has ever been before.
The current record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, which got 248,655 miles from Earth.
Today's task involving orbiting the Earth while testing critical onboard systems, including life support, communications, and navigation.
Days two to four, the journey toward the Moon.
By day five, the Moon's gravity takes over as the dominant force guiding the spacecraft.
Then on day six, the crew expected to reach the closest it will get to the moon and the farthest it will get from Earth.
On day seven, the return begins, the crew using the moon's gravity to slingshot around it.
No fuel required.
Astronauts Test Critical Systems00:00:55
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Day nine marks the last full day in space, the crew preparing for reentry and splashdown somewhere in the Pacific while traveling 25,000 miles per hour.
The U.S. Navy will be on standby to retrieve the crew.
Godspeed, Artemis II.
And that'll do it for your AM update.
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