Dems' Socialism Infighting, Three Firefighters Killed, Gracie the Giraffe Found Safe: AM Update 6/29

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**Megyn Kelly** (0:32)
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, June 29th, 2026 And this is your AM Update. From coast to coast this weekend, Democrats battling over socialism and the direction of their party.

**Mike Waltz** (0:45)
They saw that loud and clear over the last few nights where we'll continue to militarily, if needed, take down their infrastructure.

**Megyn Kelly** (0:54)
The US and Iran stepping back from further fighting for now after a weekend exchange of fire amid disagreements over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Three firefighters killed, two more injured in a devastating wildfire along the Colorado-Utah border.

**Nathan Johnson** (1:09)
You don't just load a giraffe into your car and drive her home.

**Megyn Kelly** (1:13)
And Texas' tallest fugitive finally found safe. But getting the 1200-pound giraffe home proving to be an entirely different challenge. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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The Democrat Party's identity crisis on full display this weekend as socialist candidates and progressive activists flexed their growing influence from coast to coast and a group of centrists attempted to push back. The party's leftward shift, most apparent in last week's New York primaries, where all three congressional candidates endorsed by Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani defeated candidates backed by more establishment party leaders. The victory is demonstrating that Mayor Mamdani's brand of Democratic Socialism is not only radical, but increasingly popular, at least in New York City, as the mayor last week successfully pushed through a two-year rent freeze, covering nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments. Some centrist Democrats responding to Mamdani's growing influence by attempting to draw a line in the sand, defining what it is for which the Democratic Party stands. Ten sitting members of Congress and five Democratic congressional candidates signing on to the so-called Promise to America, a manifesto declaring, We are capitalists, not socialists. The pledge also embraces secure borders, free speech, public safety, and what its organizers call confident patriotism. So basically, they're becoming Republicans.
ABC's Jonathan Karl asking Mamdani yesterday about the effort to formally separate the party from socialism.

**Jonathan Karl** (4:14)
We are capitalists, not socialists. We believe in a growing, fair, and competitive economy, entrepreneurship, ownership. I mean, this is a direct response. They've made it clear to what you did here on Tuesday.

**Zoran Mamdani** (4:25)
Well, I mean, you know, that's great, but what's a party if not its voters? And I'm proud to sit in front of you as the mayor of our city, having received more than a million votes a little over, a little less than a year ago.
And when we're talking about these incredible congressional candidates, they won their races and they won their races with a vision of what politics should be and one that actually speaks to working people. I'm not interested in writing a manifesto or frankly in reading one. I'm interested in delivering. And that's exactly what we've been showing.