JD Vance on 2028, Clancy Juror Dispute, NBA's LA Clippers Hit With Major Penalties: AM Update 9/4

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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Drushinsky, host of After Party and The Megyn Kelly Wrap Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111
It's Friday, September 4th, 2026 This is your AM Update.

**JD Vance** (0:33)
We also know that Democrats have explicitly promised that they will pack the United States Supreme Court if they're given additional power.

**Emily Jashinsky** (0:40)
Vice President JD Vance hosting the first White House briefing since Karoline Leavitt's departure, taking questions on 2028, the midterms and the future of the Supreme Court. The Lindsay Clancy jury returning for a seventh day of deliberations after the judge rejected a defense request to remove one member of the panel.

**Pablo Torre** (0:57)
When Kawhi got the slap on the wrist, the thing the Clippers had been threatening the entire time went away.

**Emily Jashinsky** (1:04)
The NBA dropping the hammer on the Los Angeles Clippers, five first round picks gone, a $30 million fine and owner Steve Ballmer suspended over an alleged kickback style scheme involving Kawhi Leonard. And Gloria Steinem, the journalist and activist who became a defining figure of the modern feminist movement has died at 92
All that and more coming up in just a moment on Your AM Update.

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**Emily Jashinsky** (2:27)
Vice President JD Vance taking over the White House briefing room yesterday, leading the first press briefing since Karoline Leavitt stepped down as press secretary at the end of August. With the White House yet to announce her successor, the Vice President fielding questions on everything from data centers and the upcoming midterms to the 25th anniversary of 9-11 and the Supreme Court.
Mr. Vance first pressed on the growing backlash against massive data centers. A recent Fox News poll finding 70% of voters want to slow their construction in their own communities. The Vice President arguing much of that resistance comes from Americans fearing the facilities will drive up electricity costs.

**JD Vance** (3:05)
I've seen the same polls that you're talking about, that the political backlash over data centers, a very large chunk of it, not all of it, of course, but a very large chunk of it, is that people associate data centers with, my neighborhood is going to get worse, in particular, my power bills are going to go up. The way to bridge that gap is for people to do what the President of the United States has enabled. He's made it easier to build a nuclear power plant or any other power plant next to a data center. He's made it easier for people to put power back into the grid as opposed to take it out. And there's a broader and deeper issue. What the President is really trying to train, frankly, American industry to do is to build again.
We cannot be a country that says, we're not going to build more power. We're not going to build more rockets. We're not going to do anything because the regulations of the cost of the risk are just too high.

**Emily Jashinsky** (3:57)
The questioning then turning to next week's 25th commemoration of the September 11th attacks. Vice President Vance scheduled to represent the administration at ground zero in New York, while President Trump attends the commemoration at the Pentagon. That split prompting questions about whether heightened security concerns played a role.

**JD Vance** (4:14)