Jim Acosta
Appearances
Morning Wire
New Jersey Drone Saga & East Palestine Settlement | Afternoon Update | 1.28.25
After giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot, CNN offered me, I've decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I've spent here doing the news.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I wanted to end today's show by thanking all of the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network. You may have seen some reports about me and the show. And after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing in alternative time slots CNN offered me, I've decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN for the nearly 18 years I've spent here doing the news.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
People often ask me if the highlight of my career at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump. Actually, no. That moment came here when I covered former President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in 2016 and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro, about the island's political prisoners. As the son of a Cuban refugee, I took home this lesson.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I have always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on doing all of that in the future. One final message. Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear. Post it on your social media. Right. So people can hear from you, too. Fantastic.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
That's the word. Hey, guys. It's Jim. And let me just say this. I've had quite the day. But as you could see earlier today, this was my last day at CNN. And I did want to jump on Substack Live here for a moment and say welcome to my new venture. I'm going independent, at least for now. This is just the beginning. But I wanted to invite you to join me here on this platform.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on. Well, that's true. But they weren't actors.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
There are hundreds of miles away, though. There are hundreds and hundreds of miles away.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
If I may ask one other question. Are you worried? That's enough.
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Pardon me, ma'am. Excuse me. That's enough. Mr. President, I had one other question I may ask on the Russia investigation. Are you concerned that you may have indictments? I'm not concerned about anything with the Russian investigation because it's a hoax. That's enough. Put down the mic. Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?
PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541
Watch, watch, watch, watch. I think that's unfair.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology
Here it is. There's never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on going doing all of that in the future. One final message. Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone, record that message.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology
I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you, too. I'll have more to say about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all of you for tuning in. It has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years. That's the news. Reporting from Washington, I'm Jim Acosta.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology
If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
That's what I've come back to over and over again is to what end. And you're absolutely right. There's no way that somebody like Jersey or this guy, Dane Greathouse, who also had a lot of legal problems as well, that these are not the kind of characters who would be likely to be involved in some sort of high dollar, you know, baby stealing ring or something like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
If that even exists, it's incredibly uncommon. And that these guys would somehow get involved with it seems... you know, incredibly unlikely.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
We told you last week about that phone call. It was placed to a phone belonging to a woman named Megan Wright.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
I think if you start to look past the family, it's likely that it's somebody who at least knew the neighborhood to know that this baby was in this house. And so he's somebody that absolutely is top of mind. If not a suspect, because he's another person that the police said that they moved on from, that perhaps somebody in his world might know something more.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
Not that simple at all. First off, I don't believe the police have released the full records of those phones involved. And I think that that is information that they have purposely withheld to be able to use to their advantage in their investigation. So we know that at least one of those phones was used to make at least one call to Megan Wright's phone.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
I believe every single thing that Megan Wright told me within her ability to to remember things. But I don't think that she was making up any of it. She was very helpful throughout the entire thing. If she tried to help us meet people, she would give us phone numbers of people. She never asked me for anything the whole time that we were doing this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
And I think that she is exactly who she says she is. A troubled person, absolutely, but not somebody who had any direct involvement in this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
But the first couple of times I did this, this dog in the neighborhood went nuts, barked, came after me, very disruptive. Not just the kind of random barking, the kind of barking that a neighbor could possibly hear and say, what's going on back there? But after I did that a couple of times, this dog was actually very friendly and the dog stopped barking. So that's definitely something that I think
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
investigators were looking at and something I think is worth looking at.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
No reports said people heard a dog barking that night.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
One of the most troubling things that came to mind that I was aware of was, okay, so you have this Watson family that he was working for movie sprinklers. Then you have Mary Hurt, who lives next door, I think a very reliable witness. So she had a dog that disappeared the day that baby Lisa disappeared.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
And her next door neighbor, I know there's a lot to keep track of, her next door neighbor says she saw John Tanko take the dog. The dog pops up a few miles later, a couple of days later. But, you know, I can't say... how reliable that witness is that saw John Tanko. But the dog did disappear. The dog was not there. She, you know, reported the dog missing. The dog was found a few days later.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
But certainly people speculated that if anybody wanted to create an easier path for themselves to leave the neighborhood through here, getting rid of that dog would be key. And we know that police took footprints, impressions from her backyard the day after this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
He was a guy who had been in and out of trouble with the law. And just a few days after the disappearance, he was arrested on outstanding felony warrants. And I've chased a lot of people around jails and police stations and stuff. And it definitely gave me the sense that they were trying to hide him in the jail and judicial system.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
Nobody who gets arrested on a simple bench warrant gets moved from place to place the way that they were moving him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
So about a month, six weeks before Baby Lisa disappeared, Megan had lived for a period of time in this townhouse development that you could get to by cutting through these yards just around the corner from Baby Lisa's house.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
Her car was set on fire and she reported it and it was investigated. And she thought that John Tanko, Jersey, did it. But nobody was ever able, as far as I can tell, to confirm that he was the one that did it or what exactly happened there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
Nor have I. They only took fingerprints. They were prepared to take tool marks. That would be if somebody used a screwdriver or something to claw their way into a window. It was a very active investigation centered around the house. So there were searches. There were dogs. There were investigators in hazmat-type suits going in and out. They cut pieces of carpet that they took away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
They took soil samples from the backyard.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
We learned Friday that cadaver dogs had a positive hit at the foot of their bed, but last night the rug was still there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
They were taking DNA swabs from most of the people that were in the immediate homes on either side and family members down the line. That was one of the first things they did. A family that lived directly next door.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
So if you were to take Shane Beigley and James Brando and John Tanko and line them up, Tanko's about 10 years older, but they all, they look incredibly similar. Same builds, same general kind of haircut,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
When we in the media came across James Brando, when I was the first person to interview him, and there was a lot of, I don't know, perhaps excitement almost in people that were following this closely, that maybe this was a big lead.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
He was the focus of this investigation in the initial days. All of his alibi had been checked out by the police. They got surveillance camera tape from Walmart. They interviewed people that he crossed paths with. They checked his cell phone to whatever degree for its location. They placed him on the Air Force base where he worked. All of that stuff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
That to me says this was a very thorough investigation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
The person we have to talk about is this guy, John Tanko, who's from New Jersey, known as Jersey. And people describe him as being sketchy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
We know that the day that Baby Lisa disappeared, he was working for this family named the Watsons around the corner, moving some sprinklers around. for them. People in the neighborhood, some knew him and some had hired him to do yard work, that sort of thing. But he was a guy who was one rung above homeless.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Police Narratives, Mystery Man Holding Baby - Part 2 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1023
And if you got to know him a little bit more, there were some really disturbing things that come up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
NPR and PBS Grilled on Bias, Signal Story's Latest Details, Crockett Doubles Down: AM Update 3/27
In the D.C. area, editorial positions at NPR are He said he found 87 registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Is that accurate? We do not track the numbers or the voter registration, but I find that- Was award-winning journalist who worked 25 years at NPR, Mr. Berliner, was he lying when he wrote that?
The Megyn Kelly Show
NPR and PBS Grilled on Bias, Signal Story's Latest Details, Crockett Doubles Down: AM Update 3/27
He said he found 87 registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Is that accurate?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Do you defend what Donald Trump did, releasing these people from prison, pardoning them, commuting their sentences? Yes or no?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Congressman, that's just not true. That was covered on CNN. What you're saying, this is not Fox, Congressman. You can't just spin a tale and pull the wool over people's eyes. This is CNN. This is the news.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
Big, big.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
Oh, I don't blame you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
Okay, yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
It was beautiful. It was something that moved me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
Oh, I'm the most special dad in the world. Yeah, you are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
No, not at all. I tell people I pretty much knew you were gay at five or six. And then you saying to your mother and I, you know, mom, dad, I think you said it to her and she mentioned it to me that I think God made a mistake and put a girl in a boy's body. And, you know, that was, you just have to embrace it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
You have to understand, you know, there's these things called chromosomes and, you know, these assholes in the world don't quite understand that. And like you said to me, Dill, the other day, a while back is, Dad, what I'm doing right now is just like the gays 20 years ago, 30 years ago. And in 20, 30 years, it's going to be just the same.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Petitos Speak Out About New Doc, and "Snow White" Controversies and Baldwins Red Carpet Drama, with Link Lauren and Christian Toto | Ep. 1031
They won't be taken away. I'll kill somebody before that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Alternate Theories, Alarming Details - Part 4 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1025
Every indication that I got is that the Kansas City Police and the FBI were conducting a very vigorous and thorough investigation. Every time that I would uncover some new element or another reporter would uncover some new thing, the police had already been there generally a couple of weeks before.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Alternate Theories, Alarming Details - Part 4 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1025
And we saw lots of evidence that they were thoroughly tracking down people's alibis, that they were searching electronically that they were searching surveillance cameras, that would have been an asset for the family. And the family ended up treating them like they were the enemy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Alternate Theories, Alarming Details - Part 4 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1025
I don't agree with that. I think that they did a very thorough investigation. All of the key people that surfaced in the media that surfaced through my reporting had been thoroughly investigated.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Alternate Theories, Alarming Details - Part 4 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1025
I have seen not one bit of information to indicate that Deborah Bradley, Jeremy Irwin, or anybody in their family was involved in some sort of drug thing. And I'll tell you, Megan, I'm a drug addict in recovery. I've been clean for 21 years now, and I'm pretty good at figuring out drug addicts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Alternate Theories, Alarming Details - Part 4 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1025
The idea that Deborah Bradley or Jeremy Irwin were some sort of drug addicts in deep to dealers or something like that is ridiculous. I put... you know, as close to certainty that that is not the case as I can come not, you know, not blood testing people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Zeroes in on Greenland, Mysterious Former US Attorney Death, Snow White Bombs: AM Update 3/24
We plan on holding hearings, hearing from experts, talking about this whole kind of body of law, this whole situation. Again, everything is on the table. We're considering all options. That's why we pass legislation. There may be another legislative remedy we want to look at, but we do think it's important for us to gather information, get input on this issue.
The Megyn Kelly Show
ABC Pays Trump Millions to Settle, and Government Deflects About "Drone" Truth, with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson | Ep. 966
But it seems to me that there's a lot of this bending the knee going on. I mean, to me, it seems this is a time for our industry to stand firm because Trump is not going to change his ways when he gets back in the Oval Office. He's going to continue to say things that need to be fact checked.
The Megyn Kelly Show
ABC Pays Trump Millions to Settle, and Government Deflects About "Drone" Truth, with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson | Ep. 966
And you can't have the news industry worrying about this sort of stuff when they're just simply doing their jobs.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
So I think there's two possible answers to that. The first is, If it's somebody who you expect to have in the house, in any house in a crime scene, if you expect to find their DNA and their fingerprints, then that evidence is of little help to investigators.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
But I think what you're asking is really an incredible question, because as you try to run through, you know, potential scenarios in your head, guessing more than anything, they just so many of them lead to dead ends. Is there some way that Deborah Bradley or her husband, Jeremy, somehow did this themselves and were able to pull this off in a short matter of hours? It seems incredibly unlikely.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
Right. But then could some stranger somehow know that this was a house? that had a baby in it, where the husband was working a very rare night shift, where the mom was perhaps not at her best, having done some serious drinking that night, and then that's the night you stealthily get in and out of the house, making it through neighbors and everything else, that seems equally as unlikely.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
Showing up here to the house with metal detectors, homing the ground, going through the yard.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
This was a neighborhood not unlike where I grew up, a kind of a working-class-ish neighborhood, well-kept homes, but not the kind of families that would be prepared to deal with the onslaught of media, police, lawyers, and everything else that would be involved in something like this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
It's also a neighborhood that was shocked because, you know, this was a neighborhood full of kids and families, and one of their own was dealing with, I think, every parent's nightmare.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
He thinks this is weird enough that he phones her in the house from the car. and says, hey, come and take a look at this. And she sees this man walking up the street, holding a baby, not wearing clothes. And having been in the window where she could see this happening, and having been standing where his car was parked, it would not be a problem to view this, even though it's past midnight.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
There were plenty of street lights. So show me exactly what you did. You looked out this window, tell me where your husband was, and tell me what you saw. Nobody's mind immediately goes to, oh, somebody's kidnapping this baby. That's what she told me. She said, my mind did not immediately think kidnapping.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
But the first thing in the morning when she saw this commotion going on was she told the police about this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
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The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
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The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
The door was not locked. But keep in mind, that by her own admission, Deborah Bradley was drinking that night. I'm not sure that she could be trusted to confidently say whether she locked the door or not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
All along, police said Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, cooperated with police until Thursday night.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
He warned the free press is crumbling in this country. Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people's stories, to lift up voices that may not be heard otherwise, to shine a light on injustice and to hold the powerful accountable. I want to take a moment to show you something. A woman sent me this sign eight years ago. She carried it here at a march in Washington.
The Megyn Kelly Show
New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 985
She wrote on the back of the sign, to me and the press here in D.C., you have our support. To Nora, wherever you are, right back at you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
Well, first off, I want to echo the kudos to you, Bill, and your crew for getting this and going in there. That was not easy, and it definitely took guts and courage to do it. Well done. This struck me as somebody, remember, he didn't know you were recording him, who's scared that the next visitor is going to have a badge on them right after them. And he was...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
working whatever he could to try to find out what you might know, and then to feed back something that's going to make him look good. I mentioned this earlier in a previous interview, Megan, but I'm in recovery. I've used crystal meth, smoked crack cocaine, et cetera. 23 years I've been clean last year. And I work on a near daily basis with addicts in recovery.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
And there's a kind of person who does nothing but lie, even when there's no reason to lie. They lie. You ask him what color a blue car is, they'll say red. And this strikes me like that kind of person who just immediately is on the hustle, immediately is trying to weave something that's going to help him come out better at the end of the day. And with the phone question,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
This really has made me focus on the investigation back in Kansas City and by the FBI and why at this point they have not told us why they moved on from John Tango, why they have not revealed all of the details about the phone. And I think when this show comes out,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
It will be negligent if the chief of police there, Stacey Graves, doesn't immediately appoint a new detective who is not involved to make this a high-profile cold case, release whatever information they can that doesn't jeopardize an investigation, and bring this into the public eye again. And I would include men offenses with the family.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
I don't know who was responsible for that division, but it wasn't Lisa Graves. And she deserves better than that. And this investigation should be immediately reopened in a vigorous way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
And the police in Kansas City and the FBI on occasion told me they used the language they had moved on from John Tango, never, of course, being absolute about it. But I think it's clear they have because look where he is, you know, and I mean, none of these people have faced any kind of serious, you know, violence. investigation that they know after those initial weeks and months.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
Lives have just gone on. People's lives have gone on while the family and Lisa's are in suspended animation, you know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
It's inexcusable. No matter what they did or what the police did, somebody's got to get over this, right? And I think as part of reopening the case, the Kansas City police need to deal with the media, take their lumps, and get this case back out there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
No one's gonna come off looking great if they reopen this in a sort of more high profile way, but what other way is there to jog memories, to convince the community there in Kansas City that their children are being cared for, that they matter, than to start getting some of this stuff out there?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
One of the things I was really surprised to hear Deborah say was that they had taken hair from them to test for drugs. So if that's true and it was negative, then why would the police not release that at this point? Why not put out whatever can be put out there
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Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
that can close down avenues that people are discussing and maybe just somehow jog some other memory of somebody that may know somebody who knows somebody. Maybe it's not Tango, but someone who is tangential to Tango. Maybe not somebody who was in the house, but someone that was near and around the house that day. Somebody knows something.
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Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
There has to be a nexus to this house to know there's a baby there, to know that Jeremy's working that night. Something has to happen to change this. It's just unacceptable that it's up to people like you and people like Bill to be on this guy's lawn and not a much larger investigation.
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Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
And remember the investigation in those early days and weeks, the amount of searches of woods in that area, when the address came up, the area, the intersection that Cindy Short says he reported that the phone draft, I immediately put that into practice.
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Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
Google and looked at images, one of the very first live shots I did, the first weekend of this case, was a big search right there that included the National Guard and the FBI of that area. And all of those similar areas that are around this neighborhood that have open woods or something were heavily searched in that kind of search that would find any type of remains or something.
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Tanko Talks, Megyn's Hidden Camera Footage - Part 5 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1026
So I think that it's extremely unlikely that out in public, woods or anything, that there were any remains to be found within a mile or two radius of the house.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
And I know some of my friends over there at the White House press corps will say, hang on a second, how are we supposed to cover this guy? I understand that. It's difficult if we're not there. But, you know, I do think for a moment, let the American people out there see this image of this aspiring autocrat in the Oval Office surrounded by just his propaganda outlets and right wing hacks.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
That's not a good look for him. And I'll tell you something else about Donald Trump, Ben. He cares about having those cameras on him more than just about anything else in the world. If the press were to take those cameras away for a day or two, I think that there would be a lesson learned on his part.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I think he would say, okay, maybe I ought to rethink this idea of kicking the Associated Press out of there if I can't have the cameras with me. And so I definitely think, you know, more can be done. Not saying a boycott tomorrow. I'm not saying anything drastic like that.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
But I do think some serious consideration needs to be given to, you know, doing a bit more to stand up for our friends at the Associated Press because they're such a valuable institution.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Yeah, I mean, I think we've reached a point now where, you know, I think the press needs to do a bit more. And that's a tough nut to crack. As I found, you know, covering him the first time around, you know, it's a little like herding cats trying to get everybody in the press corps to act in a uniform fashion.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Absolutely. And I think they're trying to send a message. They're trying to say, listen, if you don't do things our way, there's a price to be paid. Now, I mean, we need to remind the viewers out there, the reason why they're doing this to the AP is because they refuse to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, which is the dumbest thing.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I think if you were to come up with a list of the dumbest things that Donald Trump has done as president of the United States, renaming the Gulf of Mexico would have to be in the top five. I mean, you know, obviously telling people that they can inject disinfectants into their body, that's probably still at number one, that's the reigning champion.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
But renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I'd have to put it in my top five. And because the Associated Press won't go along with that because they're serious journalists and they're not here to do the propaganda for the aspiring autocrat in the Oval Office, that's why they're being punished. And I worry it's a test case.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I worry that if they get away with this, they're going to start doing it to other news organizations, other journalists, and then it's a slippery slope from there.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
You know, I mean, it's hard to see somebody out Spicer, Sean Spicer, or out Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But Caroline Leavitt, she's making a run for it. You know, she just might get on Trump's all-star team of liars. You know, she might be on the bench right now. But if she keeps working hard, if she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
But when you have the White House banning the AP from the Oval Office, banning the AP from Air Force One, and just to explain this to people, I mean, the Associated Press, the AP, is an institution that's been around for over 100 years. They're in about 100 countries. They're in all 50 states. I believe their journalism is read and viewed by some 4 billion people around the world.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
It's a sad and sorry state of affairs, but what we're seeing right now from this White House is exactly what we saw during the first Trump administration. They performed for the audience of one, Ben. Sean Spicer did this.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
As I used to say about Sean Spicer, the problem for Sean Spicer was not that Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer, it was that Sean Spicer became Melissa McCarthy in that caricature that we used to all laugh about on Saturday Night Live. Caroline Leavitt, unless they've already done it on SNL, I would have to think that something like that is in the works because the skit writes itself.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
They're such bad liars. I mean, it's sort of like, you know, anybody has kids out there when your kid is telling you a tall tale and you're just looking at them like, okay, Johnny, sure. Yeah, I believe you. And you just walk away saying,
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
what the hell that that kid's you know not telling me the truth um that that's what's going on over at the white house right now but make no mistake they are performing for an audience of one and so she gets out in front of the cameras and starts telling the truth donald trump who is addicted to uh being on tv uh hearing about himself on tv reading about himself online he's
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
probably watching these briefings and and thinking to himself well wait a minute they can't go out there and tell the truth they have to tell it uh the way i i tell it which is you know all lies and it you know we're right back where we were in that first trump white house ben you know it is a very sad and sorry state of affairs and i feel i feel very sorry for the fact checkers out there because once again they're working in overdrive
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Yeah. I mean, take any poll that comes out right now that shows, you know, Trump's doing this well with voters or that well with Republicans or this well with them. Throw all that out the window. It's going to take some time for people to absorb what's taking place right now. You're absolutely right, Ben.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
When Trump was out there on the campaign trail, he said on day one, I'm going to start lowering prices in this country. That hasn't happened. He said on day one and perhaps even getting into the Oval Office, he said he's going to solve the war in Ukraine. Hasn't happened yet. And what is he doing? He's going to the Super Bowl. He's going to the Daytona 500.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
You know, it's like he's on the StubHub rapid rewards program. You know, I was talking about this on my show on Substack yesterday, Ben. The question I was asking was, you know, hasn't he gotten over the cool and fun part of being president of the United States? He had four years to do that.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
This is like that movie Dave, if anybody remembers the movie Dave, where Kevin Kline suddenly becomes president of the United States and he goes out and has a ball being president. You know, he's got the giant robotic arms at the one factory photo op. And he has a great time. But that's...
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
When you're Donald Trump and you're facing an inflation problem in this country that's very stubborn, when you've got a war in Ukraine that needs to be solved, you can't be out there doing laps at the Daytona 500. You need to be working in overdrive for the American people, and he's just not going to do that. He's essentially a part-time president who's delegated the presidency to Elon Musk.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
The question that folks are going to have to start asking, and I think they're already starting to ask, is what the hell did we vote for here? People did not vote for Donald Trump to act like Dave, Kevin Kline in the movie Dave and just go have a good time being president of the United States. He was elected to solve people's problems. He's just not doing that right now. Not even close.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
And just about every news outlet in the United States relies on the Associated Press. So when the White House kicks the AP out of the Oval Office, off of Air Force One, It has a major impact on the information that people are receiving around this country. And I just don't think it's something that should just be tolerated at this point.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Yeah, Ben, really building the plane mid-flight right now on Substack, really enjoying that experience, loving being in independent media, being an independent journalist. So if folks want to watch the show on Substack, we're airing pretty typically at four o'clock every day Eastern, but some of that slides back and forth depending on you know, things that I'm up to.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Also writing some articles on Substack, folks can find it there. And then the shows can be found also on Apple Podcasts and on YouTube. So I've got some other things in the works as well that I'll maybe put that tease out there, but there's more to come. So folks, stay tuned for that. Not to sound like a TV guy, but more coming.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
You bet. Great to see you, Ben. Love the Midas touch. You guys keep doing what you're doing. You're doing great.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I think that the AP should look at whether or not they should sue the administration. I think the AP needs to look at other options in terms of what can be done. And I think the rest of the press corps needs to start giving some serious consideration to whether or not it's worth sending everybody into the Oval Office, sending everybody on Air Force One, sending everybody into the briefing room.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
You know, I mean, she it's hard to see somebody out Spicer, Sean Spicer or out Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But Caroline Leavitt, she is she's making a run for it. You know, she just might get on Trump's all star team of liars. She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, she does her homework. She just might make it onto the team, you know.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
It's a sad and sorry state of affairs, but what we're seeing right now from this White House is exactly what we saw during the first Trump administration. They performed for the audience of one, Ben. Sean Spicer did this. And as I used to say about Sean Spicer, the problem for Sean Spicer was not that Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
It was that Sean Spicer became Melissa McCarthy in that caricature that we used to all laugh about on Saturday Night Live. And Caroline Leavitt, unless they've already done it on SNL, I would have to think that something like that is in the works because the skit writes itself. They're such bad liars.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
I mean, it's sort of like anybody has kids out there when your kid is telling you a tall tale and you're just looking at them like, okay, Johnny, sure. Yeah, I believe you. And you just walk away saying, What the hell? That kid's not telling me the truth. That's what's going on over at the White House right now. But make no mistake, they are performing for an audience of one.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
And so if she gets out in front of the cameras and starts telling the truth, Donald Trump, who is addicted to being on TV, hearing about himself on TV, reading about himself online, He's probably watching these briefings and thinking to himself, well, wait a minute. They can't go out there and tell the truth. They have to tell it the way I tell it, which is, you know, all lies.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
And, you know, we're right back where we were in that first Trump White House, Ben. You know, it is a very sad and sorry state of affairs. And I feel I feel very sorry for the fact checkers out there, because once again, they're working in overdrive.