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BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM

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· 14 min · 2,202 words · 16 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM", an episode of Megyn Kelly published November 6, 2026 (14 min, about 2,202 words). It mentions 24 people, works and ideas, including Child sexual abuse material, Thomas Markle Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, Megan Kelly.

What this episode is about

The FBI arrested Thomas Markle Sr. in Florida on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material, including material stored in two Los Angeles-area facilities for nearly two decades. The DOJ claims investigators found explicit images involving minors and related documents linking him to hoarding CSAM.

Key takeaways

  • Even royal-family drama aside, the FBI’s stake in long‑term storage reveals how digital abuse lingers beyond headlines.
  • Auto-pay traps can outlive memory—steady payments expose hidden caches that investigations exploit, not just finances.
  • Dementia question marks aside, this case shows how public sympathy can collide with chilling evidence in high-profile claims.
  • Global extradition politics loom: local arrests intersect with international law, media narratives, and cross‑border justice.
  • Behind the sensationalism: the core issue is heartbreaking—modern child exploitation persists in silent, scattered crates.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Child sexual abuse material, Thomas Markle Jr., Daily Mail, U.S. Department of Justice
  2. – 6:00: Philippines, Los Angeles, Florida, United States (states)
  3. – 9:00: Child sexual abuse material, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Thomas Markle Jr., Philippines
  4. – 12:00: Child sexual abuse material, Los Angeles, Megan Markle, Philippines
  5. – 13:52: Child sexual abuse material, Megan Markle, Philippines, Doria Ragland

Notable quotes from "BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM"

  • Child pornography and potentially abusing children directly. We've told you before about the allegations that Markle Senior had child pornography in the Philippines and in Mexico where he's been living for the past 10 plus years.
    about Child sexual abuse material · at
  • According to the Department of Justice, the photographs found include sexually explicit photographs of Thomas Markle, Senior, with prepubescent girls, and they are using the term photographs and girls, plural. You can see on your.
    about Thomas Markle Jr. · at
  • We're we're allies with the Philippines and we do extradite to the Philippines and vice versa. But it seems the FBI has been considering what the story is with this American citizen since the news broke in the UK Sun paper su and.
    about United States (states) · at
  • Realized inflation is still a challenge and it's time to diversify into gold and silver. Text MK to the number 989898 today and speak with a birch gold precious metals…
    about Birch Gold · at
  • Second unit. pursuant to a judicially authorized warrant or two pursuant to judicially authorized warrants, FBI special agents searched two storage units registered to Mark. He…
    about Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · at
  • Deception a lot on this show just because of my relationship with Phil Houston and having taken his deception detection classes so many times and this is classic non-denial.…
    about Megan Kelly · at
  • Home, we now have alleged child sexual abuse material found in Thomas Markle storage units. Well, there's a dispute in the Philippines about whether they were found in his…
    about Philippines · at
  • Good move. You've finally learned that, huh? It was two weeks ago today that she rushed to put out her paper statement saying, I've known all along.
    about Megan Markle · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Thomas Markle Jr. — Person · Alleged subject/Defendant · 5 mentions · first at
    Central figure in the breaking news: arrested by FBI and charged with possession of child sexual abuse material; alleged to appear in some of the material.
  • Megan Kelly — Person · Host · 1 mention · first at
    Episode host providing narration, commentary, and analysis of the breaking news story.
  • Megan Markle — Person · Referenced family member · 4 mentions · first at
    Daughter of Thomas Markle Sr.; her response and past statements are discussed as part of the story and public reaction.
  • Bill Asalei — Person · Prosecutor (referenced) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney who commented on the seriousness of the allegations and prosecution intent (referred to in the episode).
    If convicted, he would face the statutory maximum of 20 years. I told you that. The first assistant United States attorney, Bill Asalei, works for Trump. Obviously, he's been in the news quite a bit. Says as follows.
  • Doria Ragland — Person · Referenced family member · 1 mention · first at
    Meghan Markle's mother; referenced in context of family history and letters discussed in the episode.
    Leg removed in the Philippines. So Megan clearly had been told by that letter from his first wife, her mom, Doria Raglin was his second, that he not only looked at images of…
  • Cash Patel — Person · Referenced commentator/official · 1 mention · first at
    Quoted in the episode as weighing in on enforcement and protecting children (quote attributed to 'Cash Patel'/'Kash Patel').
    Extremely serious and we will prosecute Mr. Markle to the fullest extent of federal law. Cash Patel weighing in as well, saying, quote, This FBI will use every single research…
  • Samantha Markle — Person · Referenced family member/source · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as having clarified where alleged materials were found (storage unit vs home) in the Philippines; part of family dispute/context.
    Angeles area storage units that he's had for nearly 20 years. We told you about this yesterday. We told you that his son Thomas Jr. had made clear that his father also has…
  • Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced indirectly when noting Bill Asalei "works for Trump" — used to contextualize the quoted prosecutor's political appointment/background.
    We're we're allies with the Philippines and we do extradite to the Philippines and vice versa. But it seems the FBI has been considering what the story is with this American citizen since the.
  • Phil Houston — Person · Referenced expert/instructor · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned by the host as someone who taught deception detection classes that informed her commentary on Markle Sr.'s denials.
    We talked about detection deception a lot on this show just because of my relationship with Phil Houston and having taken his deception detection classes so many times and this is classic non-denial. I'm not a pedoph. If I say to.

Companies & orgs

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — Company · Investigative authority · 2 mentions · first at
    Arresting and investigating authority that executed warrants, searched storage units, and arrested Thomas Markle Sr.
  • U.S. Department of Justice — Company · Prosecuting authority · 2 mentions · first at
    Issued the charging information referenced in the episode and is prosecuting the federal case against Markle Sr.
    According to the Department of Justice, the photographs found include sexually explicit photographs of Thomas Markle, Senior, with prepubescent girls, and they are using the term photographs and.
  • Daily Mail — Company · News source · 4 mentions · first at
    Referenced as the UK paper that originally broke aspects of the story and alerted U.S. authorities to Markle Sr.'s situation (mentioned in context).
    And vice versa. But it seems the FBI has been considering what the story is with this American citizen since the news broke in the UK Sun paper su and he's been living in Florida now for I think the better part of the last year.

Concepts & topics

  • Child sexual abuse material — Concept · Core topic · 10 mentions · first at
    The legal charge described in the episode; alleged material found in storage units and other locations; central to the DOJ/FBI accusation.
  • Deception detection — Concept · Framework/analytical tool · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced by the host when interpreting Markle Sr.'s denials and discussing how truthful denials would sound.
    Allegations as a bunch of lies and suggested he was being framed. Again, we talked about detection deception a lot on this show just because of my relationship with Phil Houston and having taken his deception detection classes so many.

Places & events

  • Los Angeles — Place · Setting (storage units) · 5 mentions · first at
    Location of the storage units where the FBI says CSAM was kept; central to the search and seizure described.
    Judicially authorized warrant or two pursuant to judicially authorized warrants, FBI special agents searched two storage units registered to Mark. He has rented both storage…
  • Philippines — Place · Relevant jurisdiction/setting · 7 mentions · first at
    Location where some alleged material was reported discovered and where Markle Sr. had previously lived; Philippines authorities were also involved or investigating.
  • Florida — Place · Setting (arrest location) · 4 mentions · first at
    Location where Thomas Markle Sr. was arrested (in a senior living care home) and where he was residing at time of arrest.
    Girls, plural. You can see on your screen now photos from the Daily Mail of Marl being taken into custody by federal agents at the 82-year-old's Maraveda Senior Living Care…
  • United States (states) — Place · Jurisdiction · 4 mentions · first at
    Primary jurisdiction of FBI and DOJ actions; referenced regarding extradition and prosecution decisions.
  • Mexico — Place · Referenced jurisdiction/setting · 3 mentions · first at
    Location where Markle Sr. reportedly lived for years (Rosarito) and where some alleged materials were reported found (storage there).
    But in facilities that are his in the Philippines in storage units in Mexico, Rosarto, where he lived, 10 miles south of the border. Why does an American go to live 10 miles south of the southern.
  • Maraveda Senior Living Care Home — Place · Arrest location · 1 mention · first at
    Initially referenced as the site of custody; correction aligns with sources mentioning Maravilla
    Girls, plural. You can see on your screen now photos from the Daily Mail of Marl being taken into custody by federal agents at the 82-year-old's Maraveda Senior Living Care…
  • Lakeland — Place · City of arrest · 1 mention · first at
    Specific Florida city where the senior living facility is located and where arrest occurred.
    Girls, plural. You can see on your screen now photos from the Daily Mail of Marl being taken into custody by federal agents at the 82-year-old's Maraveda Senior Living Care…
  • United Kingdom — Place · Media context/jurisdiction · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced as origin of some initial reporting (UK papers) and as the country connected to Meghan via marriage into the British royal family.
    And vice versa. But it seems the FBI has been considering what the story is with this American citizen since the news broke in the UK Sun paper su and he's been living in Florida now for I think the better part of the last year.
  • Pennsylvania — Place · Referenced past residence · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced as a place Markle Sr. briefly returned to before moving to the Florida care facility.
    He had come back to Pennsylvania, we are told, and then had moved into this facility down in Florida. And the FBI went to this facility in Los Angeles where he'd lived for the majority of his.

Sponsors

  • Birch Gold — Sponsor · Episode sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
    Sponsor of the episode; provided an on-air commercial with a promotional offer and call to action.

Full transcript with timestamps

We begin today with the breaking news out of Florida. The FBI has arrested Thomas Markle Senior, father of Meghan Markle. This is unbelievable. I mean, think of it. This couple on on the one hand has one father/father-in-law who is the king of England and one father on the other side or father-in-law who is now under arrest for hoarding troves of child pornography and potentially abusing children directly. We've told you before about the allegations that Markle Senior had child pornography in the Philippines and in Mexico where he's been living for the past 10 plus years.

But now the US Department of Justice says he has been keeping what's known as child sexual abuse material in two Los Angeles area storage units that he's had for nearly 20 years. We told you about this yesterday. We told you that his son Thomas Jr. had made clear that his father also has storage facilities in the United States in and around Los Angeles that they have been on an autopay for $700 a month for years now. he knows because he sees the automated receipts, he said to his email and he had made that clear uh clearly to the FBI and and the the press and indeed unlike the facility in Mexico which the father had apparently failed to pay the bill on which made it discarded which made it possible for that facility to allow the Daily Mail to go in there and search through the materials and they reported that they saw and found hordes of child sexual abuse material including Thomas Markle with underageed naked

girls. Um that he had photos of underageed naked girls and that there and that he was in some of at least one of these photos. Um this facility was locked up and not abandoned. So it needed to be searched if at all by warrant which the FBI promptly obtained. They had clearly done it yesterday or maybe by the time we had our discussion um or they'd been processing it. And today, this morning, he was arrested. According to the Department of Justice, the photographs found include sexually explicit photographs of Thomas Markle, Senior, with prepubescent girls, and they are using the term photographs and girls, plural. You can see on your screen now photos from the Daily Mail of Marl being taken into custody by federal agents at the 82-year-old's Maraveda Senior Living Care Home in Lakeland, Florida this morning. He is in a wheelchair. He has got handcuffs on. He is charged with one count of possession

of child pornography. If convicted, he would face a statutory minimum, sorry, maximum of 20 years in federal prison. Again, he's 82 years old. He He is also reportedly there in his facility getting dementia care, which of course the authorities will soon be probing whether that is real or feigned given the the trouble that he is in. There's no doubt that if in fact the feds have what they say they have, um we will be getting more charges. one count. To me, it seems like just a placeholder so that the American FBI could establish dibs on him as opposed to the authorities in the Philippines who had made an announcement yesterday that they were close to making an arrest. And obviously, we would work with them.

We're we're allies with the Philippines and we do extradite to the Philippines and vice versa. But um it seems the FBI has been considering what the story is with this American citizen since the news broke in the UK Sun paper su and um he's been living in Florida now for I think the better part of the last year. He had his leg removed in December of 25 in the Philippines due to some problem. And a as of December, you know, the following year, well, we're almost there. As of October, November 2026, he's been living in the United States.

He had come back to Pennsylvania, we are told, and then had moved into this facility down in Florida. And the FBI went to this facility in Los Angeles where he'd lived for the majority of his life and where he raised Meghan Markle and clearly got a warrant for those two storage facilities. I'll give you the report on what we know. Good news. Birch Gold has extended the Veterans Day silver offer through November 11th. So act now to get a free 1oz silver coin for every $10,000 purchased. This silver coin features the American flag and the Gadson flag and is a reminder that you saw the writing on the wall and did something about it. You realized we cannot afford the interest payments on our national debt. You realized inflation is still a challenge and it's time to diversify into gold and silver. Text MK to the number 989898 today and speak with a birch gold precious metals specialist. They will

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warrants, FBI special agents searched two storage units registered to Mark. He has rented both storage units since 2008 with his most recent payments on both made last month by autopay. Inside the units, agents seized approximately 78 items, including slides, film negatives, and books that contained suspected CSAM, meaning child sexual abuse material. The affidavit describes three of those images. They just they don't need to go into more detail. They just need to get their arrest warrant. So, you keep it bare bones. You get the guy under arrest. You can obviously always add charges and allegations, which I'm sure they will do. The first bullet is uh two images they say depict an adult man whom a witness identified as Thomas Markle Senior with a nude prepubescent girl.

The third image depicts a nude prepubescent girl in a room that appears to be part of a motel chain in the Philippines. The affidavit also describes additional photographs that appear to show Markle with children in various stages of undress. This is dark man. If convicted, he would face the statutory maximum of 20 years. I told you that. The first assistant United States attorney, Bill uh Asalei, works for Trump. Obviously, he's been in the news quite a bit. Says as follows. Quote, "Mr. Markle is accused of possessing child sexual abuse material, including photographs depicting himself with minor girls. These allegations are extremely serious and we will prosecute Mr. Markle to the fullest extent of federal law. Cash Patel weighing in as well, saying, quote, "This FBI will use every single research at our disposal to protect innocent kids. Any predator who targets children will have zero safe

haven in this country or anywhere they try to hide. Markle has not given a statement in response to the latest developments, but has previously strenuously denied any wrongdoing, specifically in relation to the possession of any child sexual abuse material. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, declaring, quote, "I'm not a pedophile. I've never done anything bad to a child. Never." He dismissed the allegations as a bunch of lies and suggested he was being framed. Again, you know, we talked about detection deception a lot on this show just because of my relationship with Phil Phil Houston and having taken his deception detection classes so many times and this is classic non-denial denial. I'm not a pedoph. If I say to you, I went through four boxes of your materials in a storage unit that I found and I found tons of images of prepubescent children naked in your things. Would you respond, I am not a

pedophile? Would you respond, I've never done anything bad to a child. Never. No. Think about it. you if if you truly were innocent and that was not your stuff, you would say that is not mine. I have no idea what that's doing in there. That's not mine. You might go on to add after that, I've never seen images like that, nor would I. But to go to I'm not a pedophile. Okay, because it's almost like a way of telling the truth while you're not telling the truth for for some people because who knows how his sick mind works. Maybe he actually thinks he's not a pedophile if he's guilty of this and we have to go with the if since he's denying it. Um but maybe he's like, "Oh, you know, a pedophile is a person who does the following 10 things and I only do nine of them." You know, it gives them wiggle room where they're more comfortable. But a truth teller, what do they do? They go right to the allegations because they're

very comfortable with the allegations and their denial of them. No, I have never never looked at an an image of a child being abused, of a child naked in a sexual act. Ever. Ever. Never seen one, never downloaded one, never paid for one, and never had one in my possession. And you will never find such a thing in my possession because of the fact that I've never seen or downloaded or or looked at one. Right? Ask me as many questions as you want. Let's go. Like, just for the people playing at home, we now have alleged child sexual abuse material found in Thomas Markle storage units. Well, there's a dispute in the Philippines about whether they were found in his home, as his son claimed, or in a storage unit, as daughter Samantha Markle later tried to clarify.

but in facilities that are his in the Philippines in storage units in Mexico, Rosarto, where he lived, 10 miles south of the border. Why does an American go to live 10 miles south of the southern border? Is California not beautiful enough for you? Are things better with Mexican laws somehow? Um, and now in Los Angeles, in a Los Angeles storage facility, this is very dark. And I'm sure we'll be getting reaction from the royal family at some point. Right now, what we're being told is Meghan Markle's team, she through a spokesperson, is declining to comment.

Good move. You've finally learned that, huh? It was two weeks ago today that she rushed to put out her paper statement saying, "I've known all along." So desperate was she to rehabilitate the accusations that she was cold-hearted for not seeing and keeping her children away from Thomas Markle for the past eight years that she rushed to tell us all she had committed a far more grievous sin. She sat idly by for eight years while he was obviously still participating in this behavior. I don't think someone who gets off to child sexual abuse material, magically is cured of it at age 74, which is what he would have been when that letter went from his first wife, Roslin Loveless, to allegedly the Metropolitan Police. And now it was in the paper that she sent one directly to Megan as well.

Either way, Megan knew for eight years that her father was accused not only of looking at child sexual abuse material, which does make you a child abuser, but of actually abusing little girls, like physically because Megan made sure through her leaks to the press that we knew she had accused him of that, of that second piece of it when she sent him the letter breaking up with him in December 2025 when he was getting the leg removed in the Philippines. So Megan clearly had been told by that letter from his first wife, her mom, Doria Raglin was his second, that he not only looked at images of the children, but actually abu physically himself was abusing them. And she sat by doing nothing.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM"?

Meghan Kelly (Host), Thomas Markle Senior (Guest), Bill Asalei (Guest), Cash Patel, Meghan Markle (Guest).

What is "BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM" about?

The FBI arrested Thomas Markle Sr. in Florida on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material, including material stored in two Los Angeles-area facilities for nearly two decades. The DOJ claims investigators found explicit images involving minors and related documents linking him to hoarding CSAM.

What is mentioned in this Megyn Kelly episode?

24 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Child sexual abuse material, Thomas Markle Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, Megan Kelly, Los Angeles. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "BREAKING: FBI Arrests Meghan Markle’s Father, Thomas Markle Sr. Charging Him with Possessing CSAM"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,202 words in 16 timestamped sections.

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