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The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Well, you know, you're never in the room. I actually don't think we're going to lose Senator Collins. I think Senator Collins is very serious on defense. He's chairwoman of incoming appropriations. I think if he tells her, I will pay attention to your line items and we will fully fund it, not necessarily going to lose Murkowski either. They need those Air Force bases up there.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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They just moved a bunch of C-130s up to Alaska. I don't know about Leader McConnell. I doubt that too. Because again, DOD is so big. If you shoot to kill the SEC death, you better win. And everyone's got a lot to lose. And by the way, you don't know who's coming after that. And so Pete is well known. And I find it interesting that both you

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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and another former Fox colleague, Geraldo Rivera, who have no obligation to come to the defense of Pete Hex, have both stepped up to do so. That's very revealing. I don't know Pete except by interviews like this, and I've read his books, and I've talked to him a few times in the hallway or on a set, but I don't know him. You and Geraldo know him. You have no obligation to defend him.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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I think spouses know each other pretty well. But other than spouses, people who work in a network and who do shows together know each other very well. You know whether you're on time, whether you're late, whether you dress well, whether you don't dress well. You know everything about boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, children.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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You just spend a lot of time with your colleagues, which is why when you and Geraldo say Major Pete is great, I listen.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Yeah, somebody is Tomcatting. I like that. Let me ask you about the one, the people who could really write out Pete, makeup artists. I don't know how Fox does it, but PBS, when I did a decade with you. No, they loved him.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Thank you, Megan. And thanks for plugging the move today afternoon. I tell people morning drive radio, like got to get

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Josh's argument is a straw man, and it stands out. In a city full of battalions of straw men, Josh's argument stands out as a straw man because it is not responsive to, number one, why did they begin the inquiry when he was a Princeton guy and he did go in the military?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Number two, why didn't they tell us that West Point had misled them, which is itself rather significant since he's going to be the Secretary of Defense? And if the answer is because they have bad Then you just put it in. It's a one paragraph thing. We got a tip or we were concerned that he didn't get into West Point. We investigated it. It turns out that West Point was wrong.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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So we ought to now worry about West Point record keeping. Tom Cotton sent a letter over to West Point. He wants answers. My guess is it's innocent error by an incompetent bureaucrat. But unless until we know that it's a story, what we know is that ProPublica did not do it. Now, part two, Josh Gerstein. Remember? And he's been a critic of Thomas and Alito and their ethics the whole time.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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So he and ProPublica are washing each other's hands. They share a point of view about the court. So they're circling the wagons. Left-wing journos are circling the wagons around left-wing journals. And He got hammered in the comments because everyone said, yeah, that's actually not journalism.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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You should say that you were misled by West Point and that that was unfortunate and that you were hot washing the story. And that's what I hate that when you have an hour to respond. That's hot washing the story. And thank goodness he had good files.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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You know, it's interesting. I hadn't considered that their tip had come from within the academy. As you probably know, the academy is under an intense amount of focus for having become woke. And not one of them, but all three of them are under an intense amount of focus about what are you teaching our future warriors? Are they doing more social justice warrioring than they are?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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But I know we should look into it. And the people who are veterans in the cops, Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Michael Waltz, they're drilled down on this and they're not going to let it go. The best result for West Point is that ProPublica called us up. They called a file clerk. The file clerk got it wrong.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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She looked or he looked in the wrong place and we came up with the right answer and we immediately called him back. That's the only best case scenario for West Point. If they initiated the story,

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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If someone decided, you know, I don't like Pete Hegg said, and I'm going to blow the whistle on a claim that I heard him make once on West Point because I don't see it in my data file, that's a bigger story. Either way, ProPublica did not do its readers justice, and Josh Gerstein and the gang that are defending them are just tipping their hands at the fact that they're activists.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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When has a reporter ever paid for their hotel room? When has that ever paid for their hotel room?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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I can't be sympathetic because the president-elect has talked to Time magazine, to NBC, and to Jim Cramer at the Stock Exchange. All three of those were fairly in-depth. The Christian Welker was 30 minutes. I make my arrangements to talk to the president through Margo and his personal staff. And they are very professional. The Chung organization is very professional.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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But they are not giving away the candy the way that they did for eight years ago. Because eight years ago, they came in thinking that they were going to get a fair deal. And it turns out they don't get a fair deal from these people. So why bother? Why be nice to them at all? I like Michael Shearer, by the way. He comes on my show. I think he's a fine reporter.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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but no one is owed anything by the president-elect. And Megan, if they gave a lot of interviews, do you think they would start getting the one president at a time low back, which they're waiting to unleash on him?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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You know, I actually prefer Courtyard by Marriott because they don't give you espresso machines. They give you the old-fashioned Mr. Coffee. So that in the morning, you don't have to make that espresso machine work. I just got to say, for anyone who's ever gone to a convention, you're lucky if you're within 15 miles of the convention center. I mean, you just got to travel, travel, travel.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Don't you think it's interesting, by the way, that ProPublica did not report that West Point misled them? Would you report if someone misled you from the government? I would. That would be a big story.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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That's your boss. If you're going to West Point, You would at least use extreme care before responding. And in fact, you might want to call the transition team to inform them that you've had an inquiry about the nominees around the Department of Defense. How would you how would you advise us to respond? That's what a professional would be. But someone tried to do a head job on people.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Do you remember the fellow from Hamas who ended up being a star in video after video where they staged the death of young people? And he became kind of an Internet sensation because he was really good at pretending to be a victim again and again and again. And it's turned out to be a tried and true tactic of the Islamist resistance, wherever it pops up, to stage manage victimization videos.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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I don't know if this is true. I don't know, Clarissa. I doubt any reporter would set this up because the danger of your career, it would be an existential destruction of your career if you staged that. Are you insufficiently suspicious of it against the backdrop of what you've seen in other Syrian prisons?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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perhaps, because if I were the CNN editor, I might have raised these questions interspersed with the actual reporting. Don't you think that would have been safer to raise doubts about the possibility you'd been punked? Because reporters are punked all the time.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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In talk radio, we have a six-second delay because people call up all the time and punk us, and then you dump them when they go off in their own Little, they want to, Howard Stern's people used to do this to every other radio show in America. Yes, Baba Booey. Yeah. And so you always had a delay because people are in the business of punking people.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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And I just think they've got to be very careful when they corroborate everything.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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It's either a great scoop or a great dupe. It's one or the other. She either gets a bullet search. for being on the ground and being willing to go in a risky place, or there's going to be a hall of shame trophy here because it'll be a great do. What I am most suspicious of, three months in an Assad prison, you would expect manifestations of cruelty, not merely being hungry and thirsty.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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This morning, I had Shyam Sankar on the program. He is the chief technology officer for Palantir. And he's being tipped for the deputy secretary of defense under Pete Hegseth. He's Mr. Artificial Intelligence. And I said, what do you think of these drones? And Shyam said, they're terrifying. And I thought to myself, holy smoke, this security, whoever's in your space.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Five days without water is pretty bad. You could probably barely move. I did know

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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uh at sea between uh and she would drink from sierra leone to italy and her boat capsized off of tunisia before the first italian office and 44 people died and she lived so miracles happened she had hypothermia when she came out of the water but you can tell when people have been under stress i don't see did you see any wounds any scratches no any bleeding

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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In our favor, in our favor, who stands to benefit from this? Because I really don't think Clarissa Ward would stage it. So who stands to benefit from staging it? The guy who worked for Hamas was trying to generate international pressure against Israel. Well, who are they trying to generate international pressure against? Assad's gone. So who wins with it?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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break and a schizophrenic acting out of anger against anyone who randomly he picked out of a phone book and i do believe his shouting at the police indicated some kind of psychosis but elizabeth ford and aoc repulsive and disqualifying they have no facts upon which to base their speculation even if their speculation had a denied claim on the part of the killer that's not justification

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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In June of 2017, a man tried to kill you. He didn't like Republicans. And Scalise teed off on this because he cannot believe people stand with anyone using violence in any situation and trying to make an excuse on the basis of mythology. There are no facts and evidence that had anything to do with UnitedHealthcare or a denied claim. Nothing. Zero.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Yeah. And how many claims did he have given? And Brian Thompson has two sons who are without a father, and there is an incredible lack of empathy on the part of AOC's Ms. Empathy and Elizabeth Warren. I have a question for you, Megan. What are the manifesto rules? That when the Unabomber manifesto was released, it was a big controversy.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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The manifesto of the Nashville killer, the trans activist, was never released. It had to be leaked. I'm not sure where this guy's manifesto came from or why we know parts of it, but I haven't seen the whole thing. What are the manifesto rules? Do we always release them or sometimes release them?

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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And we have seen drones used rather effectively by the IDF, by Ukraine, by Russia, not so effectively by Iran. But people have got to wonder, what in the world is going on here? It can't be obvious, right? Can we eliminate hobbyists? There are too many of them, and it's too elegant a configuration. I don't believe in space aliens.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Thank you, Megan. Thanks for having me. Continued success of The Megyn Kelly Show.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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adversaries who exploit what Sankar called the orcs, the seams between our various agencies like DHS and the Pentagon, and they have to get much more serious and in a hurry, Megan.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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No, we have Area 51 to do our experimental stuff. We don't do it in New Jersey. But that's not, I don't think it's our team. We don't do it, our team. But I will say, Why would anyone at the White House expect us to believe them when they told us for two years that President believe anything they say. I don't.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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And therefore, when the Intel Committee gets a briefing and Tom Cotton comes out or Mike Waltz comes out of the House and the Senate Intel Committee and says, X, Y, and Z, I'll believe them and I'll believe Dean Trump when they get there. I'm not believing these two.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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I remember Independence Day, they were everywhere at once. But again, they picked New Jersey. So this doesn't make any sense to me, unless they're chess fans.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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The easiest explanation is it's the CHICOMs. They let the balloon float across the country, which I believe was the third or the fourth balloon, but the first one that the public saw. And this administration does not want to have a confrontation with China as it goes out the door. The only people that I think have the technology capability to do this are the Chi Coms, unless it's the MIT kids.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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The MIT kids used to blow up the 50-yard line between Harvard and Yale games. They would do funny things like that. So they have lots of tricks. But MIT's nowhere near New Jersey. I don't think it's the Rutgers people, much as we all love Rutgers. They're in the Big Ten. I don't think it's the Rutgers people. So I immediately think Chinese Communist Party.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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No, they don't really actually do science in Princeton. They do eating classes, I guess.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Yeah. And they're going to be airplane pilots. They're going to be fighter pilots. They're going to be people who know which they speak, who go up there and observe now. And the media is paying attention. Once the media begins to pay attention, answers begin to manifest themselves. Same thing happened with the balloon. If people remember the balloon sequence, there's no balloon. It can't hurt us.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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It doesn't belong to the CHICOMs. We'll shoot it down later. Now we can't find it. A series of denials that has to do with the inability of the administration to protect the country. Same sequence underway.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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I'd say number one, I wish I had a recording of the editorial meeting when they decided to do the story because they're stupid. If you get into Princeton, you will have certainly gotten into West Point, especially if you're a fit young man like Pete Exet. So it's presumably true.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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But you know what else corroborates that is that after he's done with Princeton, he goes into the military and goes into combat and is deployed three times twice per combat area. So there's no reason. And there's no reason to doubt that he was qualified to get into West Point. So what kind of editorial predicate did they have other than he's the most wounded nominee. Let's try and bring him down.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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They've made him stronger. We're a left-wing hit group. The best thing to come out of this, actually, it's two-part. One, the mask is off Republica. They've done some good work in the past that I've actually used on my show, usually having to do with international stories. But they've done horrible stuff in the last six months on the Supreme Court.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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And then, you know, sooner do they catch flack that Josh Gerstein over at Politico, another lefty, come to their aid. So they're circling the wagons around an exposed left-wing hit mob. And I just love that it's happening. They come, and I posted on X, had 300,000 views. People are getting to know ProPublica out of this. And I think it may have secured Pete Heggs that confirmation.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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Although on yesterday's program, you're talking to Josh Holmes and the and the gang from Ruthless, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from Ruthless, they were not certain about Pete getting through because hearings are hearings. And I remember the Clarence Thomas hearings, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. They've come up with anyone, people we haven't heard of yet, right? Just random X, Y, Z people.

The Megyn Kelly Show

Mysterious "Drones" Spread, Media Malpractice, and How Medical Journals Became Captured, with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Ep. 964

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And you're not going to have the chance to do what you did with your colleague from the Daily Mail or your sit down with Pete Hegseth. It's going to happen in 72 hours. And he's just got to go in Ollie North style. I don't think he can wear the uniform anymore. I don't think he's in the reserves. But he's just got to go in and hammer every allegation.