Clancy Holdout Juror "Black Man" Bombshell, and the AI "Superintelligence" Gambit, with Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz | Ep. 1397
September 14, 2026
AI Summary
5 min readClancy Juror Exposed, AI Alarm Grows, and Trump’s Midterm Ambivalence
The dominant theme of this episode was the extraordinary fallout from the Lindsey Clancy mistrial—specifically the media campaign to expose and discredit the lone holdout juror who voted for guilt. Megyn Kelly spent the bulk of the show condemning NBC Boston’s investigation into that juror’s past, while also covering new alarms about AI “superintelligence” from industry insiders and President Trump’s tepid commitment to campaigning for the 2026 midterms.
The Holdout Juror: NBC Boston’s Investigation and the Backlash
The Clancy case ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked 11–1, with the sole holdout refusing to find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity after she killed her three children. In the days since, that juror has been subjected to an extraordinary public scrutiny campaign led by NBC Boston’s investigative team. Kelly was livid.
“Wait a minute. Is the juror accused of killing his three children? No. Why are we doing investigations of jurors?”
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Outline
- 2 (01:00) **Show Open & Lindsey Clancy Case Background** - Megyn introduces the mistrial in the Lindsey Clancy case, where 11 jurors voted not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of her three children
- 3 (03:14) **Gail King's Reaction to Holdout Juror's Race** - Megyn plays and analyzes Gail King's shocked response upon learning the holdout juror is a Black man
- 4 (06:08) **NBC Boston's Investigation of the Holdout Juror** - Megyn excoriates NBC Boston for conducting an invasive investigation into the holdout juror's personal life
- 5 (08:50) **Details of the Juror's Past Allegations** - Megyn walks through the specific allegations NBC Boston uncovered about the holdout juror
- 6 (11:33) **Jury Questionnaire and Legal Questions** - Megyn discusses whether the juror's past would have disqualified him and the legal implications of potential nondisclosure
- 7 (15:38) **The Immorality of Targeting Jurors** - Megyn argues that investigating a juror because other jurors didn't like his verdict is "insane and deeply immoral"
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Show Notes
Megyn Kelly discusses Gayle King’s stunned reaction after the Lindsay Clancy trial holdout juror was revealed to be a black man, how corporate media is trying to smear the holdout juror who favored “guilty," NBC Boston bringing irrelevant details about his personal life to light, the reporting on the holdout juror’s unpaid rent, the dangerous effort to destroy the life of a juror by Clancy super fans, Oprah Winfrey’s absurd town hall and the way it somehow made the Clancy verdict about race, the bullying of those who supported guilty for Clancy, and more. Then Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz, co-founders of Axios and authors of "Simplify," join to discuss the truth about AI and why we need to take current threats seriously, the conversation about "superintelligence" that has exploded in America today, what's really behind the doomer narrative about AI, Anthropic’s CEO sounding alarmist about “superintelligence,” the political ramifications of the declining public support for AI, whether President Trump actually wants the GOP to lose the House, the Republicans' prospects overall in the midterms, their book and its primary message “do 50% more with 50% less,” the three ways to “simplify” your life as 'confront, delete, amplify,' and more.
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