Josh Holmes
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The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Here it is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Also, special hats off to your researchers, Megan, who had to sift through Tim Miller and MSNBC and all of that. I mean, that's enough to give somebody brain damage. There should be some kind of a comp reward for something like that. Hazard pay.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Did you take the plug out? That's it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
You know, my email is running slow, Elon. Everything's going to junk.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Was this the NATO summit? Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
But it's also a perfect vignette into the larger problem that Democrats have when Smug was talking about their approval rating and what it is that they're talking about, this knee-jerk opposition to hugely popular things that President Trump is doing. Think about Jimmy's information flow. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Think about the information that comes to him on a day to day basis to one, conclude that that was in fact bourbon and two, that it's on the top of minds of everyone he's talking to. Think about the information that has to go into that man's head in order to conclude those two things in a congressional hearing and not feel entirely humiliated by the question in the first place.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
You know, these people are wrecked. Their brain is just broken.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
No, a little theater goes a long way, particularly at CNN. It makes the rest of the stuff go down a little easier. Well, it really does.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
The cadence of it is fantastic. He's like, oh, but there's a tweet about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Great to see you, Megan. Thanks for having us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that she lied under oath to Congress. I mean, look at the organization that she's running. I mean, this is not somebody who's faking leftism. You had a deep commitment to it over a period of time that like, I don't know if you just flip on the radio. I mean, that's what it is, folks. That's what it is. There's no secrets there. Remember the TED talk?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
The end of it is like, all right, who do I need to do?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Although it probably went down exactly like that with his buddies. It was like, well, yes, he did. There's a picture of it. I didn't know you were standing on the bar.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
A hundred percent. No question about it. I mean, we did our entire show basically on this today. And look, the upshot of this thing is that every administration makes some kind of mistake. The previous administration, their mistake cost their team Marines their lives. This administration added a reporter to a text chain.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
And then happened to run a flawless mission against the Houthis, which was a 17-month in the making problem where they had 175 separate attacks on U.S. Navy personnel. While the Biden administration did absolutely nothing, Donald Trump's in office all of eight weeks, boom, taken care of. Suez Canal reopened, an Iran-funded terror operation destroyed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Okay, you know, like in the matter of scandal, where does this rank? I mean, for me, overwhelming success. Now, granted, they shouldn't have any sort of external communication with the heads of national security apparatus that includes a reporter. They know that. They acknowledge as much literally the day afterwards.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I think I know what this is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
They did not want to include him. Right. And the president, in fact, took it straight on. He said, here's the way that I would prefer we handle this. And he talked about the lead ceilings and lead walls, basically describing the situation room. And that should make perfectly clear to anybody going forward the way the president sees this. It was a screw up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Tough to beat.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
He's standing by his people because, oh, by the way, they executed a perfect mission, which was the whole point of this. And by the way, an afterthought in the media. Yeah. But, but ultimately, yeah. I mean, that's why you stand by your national security folks. Clearly a screw up, but we'll do things differently and move on. The story's done as far as I'm concerned.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
How do you say?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Vinegar. We have some vinegar.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I have to confess that I love her. Yeah. I do. I just do. I love everything about her. She's fantastic. The best spokesperson for Democrats.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I mean, I just have such secondhand embarrassment every time you play the second half of those clips. You watch it, you're like, I want to get under the deck.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I mean, I just, for me, the Hilaria, what makes her special is, like, they all have this beautifully presented juxtaposition. But what makes her special is pretending that she didn't know the word cucumber. That is special. To me, that, I mean, you're talking about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
That's such a commitment to the bit, right? I mean, it's like, no, I don't understand the English language. I'm going to pretend that I don't know what a cucumber is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Two Bostonians in this, by the way, which is interesting. Maybe there's a regional issue there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
No, no, BU. You've got AOC. Oh, oh, oh.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Yeah. And I don't think she found that accent until she left Boston, right? I mean, I've seen some clips of her at BU where none of that. Yeah. She was like, looked like a sorority girl. No, honestly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
it's obvious what you're doing megan's doing oh hey what's going on uh we just got here in chicago just looking out for the crime on the streets and all that watching out for my wee ones okay um speaking of hilaria i think so we all agree we're all in agreement that hilaria won or would you guys like to disagree
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Yeah. Let's give her a do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
It's worth consideration. Megan, she has a full spectrum of options. Yeah. I mean, if you want Jamaican, we got some of that. Right. We can go urban. We can go southern. We can go southern. I mean, there's versatility. It's a best actor. It's multiple personality disorder.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
seamlessly transitions from Bob Marley to MLK. It's amazing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Oh, that's good TV. I can't speak currently. Oh, man. I've actually seen that clip. He ends it with saying, it had to be said. It had to be said.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
You know, we've got a lot that we explore on this topic. Probably not appropriate for the SiriusXM crowd, but we have many nicknames that we could probably share with people. Dong is a pretty common vernacular, but not necessarily one that you would use to describe your wife's ex-boyfriend.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
That's new to me. Also new. And I thought innovative was the clarinet.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Also alludes to how it was used, perhaps. I'm sorry. You know what? This is a classy show.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
You know, she's had a tendency in recent years. I mean, she started as a congresswoman from South Dakota. Wonderful. I got to know her staff and whatnot a little bit on Capitol Hill. But in recent years, if she's got a major glaring weakness, it's that she gets out in front a little too public of a way. I mean, one of the things that caught my eye
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Early on in the administration was them deciding that they were going to run a bunch of public service announcements using taxpayer dollars, but with her basically to camera. And I think the challenge for that is you're in Donald Trump's administration, and Donald Trump's the star of this show, right? It's not – Kristi Noem, and I think everybody sort of understands that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
At least it seems that this administration understands that a lot better than the first time around. But she's kind of getting herself into a territory where it's a little overexposed. I mean, everybody knows that Tom Holman is walking around literally showing up in a different place every day, deporting some incredibly violent gang member somewhere, and he's getting the job done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
And his only publicity at all is when some journo asks him a horrible question and he just dresses him down and moves on, right? I think that's a better approach.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
And by the way, there's ongoing. Right. Litigation. Litigation over exactly what it is that she's talking about there. I mean, that's guaranteed. I guarantee you will be entered as an exhibit in that courtroom.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
This is our resident nihilist. He's the devil on our shoulders.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I don't know. Doesn't it seem like it's almost a prerequisite in Hollywood? I mean, maybe things have changed a little bit. They are. Didn't they? Megan, tell me, isn't this the one where they actually took the dwarves out of the seven dwarves?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
OK. Yeah. Yeah. Because little people didn't need jobs either. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Yeah, but they're all lunatic. I mean... How many people in Hollywood, maybe not to this extent, but how many people do you hear about actors you love? You love what? Look at Robert De Niro. I love like basically every movie he's ever done. Every time that guy opens his mouth as a private citizen, I'm like, oh my God, you can't possibly believe that. You know what I mean?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
So it's like if you're trying to vulnerability study it, where do you start?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
And there are a few actors now that are less afraid of sort of showing their conservative views.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Maybe a formidable voice of the left.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Yeah, I do think it will continue at least for a while. I mean, all of these companies are ultimately in the business of making money and providing value to shareholders. And you look at election results and for the first time, they're not talking to just a far left shakedown artist. They're looking at the American people and they want to change it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
I think it's also worth a little trip down memory lane when we're talking about the press here. And you're right. They're trying to get a scalp, whether it's Pete or Waltz or whatever they ask incessantly about whether or not one of them are going to get fired. How many of those same journalists talked about Afghanistan withdrawal in the same way? Who is going to get fired?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
Of course, nobody got fired. Right. And it cost 13 Marines their lives. But also the story was sort of a process story about, well, Trump wanted to get out of Afghanistan to everybody wanted to do this thing and move on. And you look at some of the Democrats like Chuck Schumer, we had highlighted on our show. He had exactly one.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Absurd Signalgate Spin, NPR Exec Grilled, and Biggest Media Hacks in America, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 1036
thing on all of X over the last five years that contained the word Afghanistan, where there was no call for an investigation. There was no discussion about what went wrong. He condemned terror, right? Now he's saying that every single American's life is at risk because of an operation that happened 10 days ago, which was a resounding success. Like this doesn't, it strains credibility.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, there's something to be said about
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
having a frame of reference in knowing what you would do differently and i i think you said it really well if this is a much better outcome in many ways than a straight eight because you can't like reset midterm right if he's elected to a second term this way i mean not only did you get the separation of four years of people like stephen miller spent the last four years
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
you know, thinking about how you would do all of these things a lot more constructively. It also extends to Trump himself. Look, that stuff that he was talking about on the campaign trail, he didn't overpromise. He talked about a whole bunch of things that he knew he could do with the power of the executive order because he was there before.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
So when he talks about shutting down the border or ending DEI or all the various things that he's done over the last 48 hours, he knew he alone in his administration, if competently executed, could do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's amazing. It's perfect because he deeply understands it. Right. I mean, it's one thing if you're some politician who's told this is very popular amongst the American people and you're just trying to figure, you know, OK, I had to check this box because I said I would. Now, the way he explains it, he deeply understands it. It is not only divisive, it's racist. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Right, right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, it's really well said, really well put together. I think, you know, there's there's one sort of lasting lesson that I think, you know, anybody who's interested in running for president any time in the future should learn a lot from from Donald Trump is that in order to be a leader, you actually need to do all those things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's not enough to just sort of check boxes on a poll of what issues are above 50 and I'm for that. You actually need to move people. You need to create atmosphere in the American democracy where people identify with it and want to get on board with it. There's no way to make substantial change whatsoever unless you build a movement that moves a block of voters who you think are here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
to here because then the lesson is for people who were in opposition category is, well, you gotta wrap your mind around that too. And that's how change is made in this country. It's intentionally very difficult, but Donald Trump has really led a movement to take a look at China, to take a look at DEI.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
I mean, look, we're four years removed from people being terrified to even say the letters DEI in a negative connotation for fear that they would be canceled. And now you got a president of the United States signing an executive order, banning it, saying this is racist. Well, it's been racist all along, but it's everybody was afraid to talk about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, they definitely covered those riots. Remember the Chiron, mostly peaceful? Yeah. Police was on fire behind the guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
God, it just, you know, I don't think I'd be truly happy until Acosta is like selling cubic zirconiums on QVC.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
it's true, but you know, but even if he didn't, you know, maybe it's a good rule of thumb for journos when somebody is wearing a P hat and it's got your name, uh, that they're celebrating, that's probably not fair.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Guys, welcome back. Oh, Megan. So good to be back. It's just a good day. Golden era here in America. Golden age.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. And hats off to Katie Britt and others who are the champion of that bill for the last couple of months. I can't believe there was opposition to I mean, it just shows you how crazy people are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Totally. It's like Christmas presents each and every day. And his first full day. I mean, what a jarring culture change just in D.C. and the way the government works. Right. I mean, we heard eight good words out of Joe Biden for six months. You never saw the guy. If you did, he was kind of like shuffling or stammering around. They were hiding him from press. First full day Trump's there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
This is underpants gnome logic. You know what I mean? Like, imagine sitting there and being like, well, if you're even a Q, you may not have even done something wrong. Except for the fact that you're illegally here in the first place. That's the crime, right? I don't care if you mean shoplifted. Sure. Now we know who you are. Get the hell out of here. That was the whole point of everything.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
The crime, the underlying crime is that you're here illegally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
He does not one, but two totally free, unwielding press conferences where he's asked and asked and answered literally every question anybody could come up with. It was incredible.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Bad news for old Newscum.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
There it is. Oh, there we are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, well, I keep going back. I mean, remember at the beginning of the Biden administration when Biden appointed the intellectual heft of Kamala Harris to identify the root causes of illegal immigration and like, you know, you never got any answers. She didn't even go to the border for like three years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And then you think about it and it's like what you said about the flow and all this gets easier once people know you can't come and you don't get stuff. I'll tell you what, if you're going to look for a root cause, it's when you put a green light at the border and you tell people you're going to fly them to up to the northeast and resettle them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's a green light to the cartels, by the way, to traffic humans all the way up from Central America in order to do it. And they make a ton of money doing it with drugs, with human trafficking, all kinds of different things. By putting these things in place, remain in Mexico, solidifying the border, all this other stuff that he's doing. I think we're going to find out. People are like.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, maybe we can't go there anymore.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
A federal government app to tell you how you can get here illegally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Megan, you like that Smuggles did the math on all that? Yeah, he did that quickly. It was well done. I'm glad somebody else did it. It's just like, you're going to give me the number.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. I can't even imagine the justification for it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh, this is a beautiful one. People have been asking about this one for years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Seriously, you could get pretty deep blue in some of those districts with that kind of take. I just don't understand.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Post Malone, very concerned.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Well, and, you know, not only is he plain spoken about it, but but I think he gains power by the outrage. So after that clip aired, there was a whole bunch, you know, take to X, the journos and everybody saying he can tell by somebody is a criminal by looking at them. He's racist. You know, this, that and the other thing. But like that only builds power with Trump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And I think increasingly what we saw through his political prosecutions and all of these things, every time somebody just sort of winds up against Trump and tries to explain how he's a racist, a degenerate, a criminal, all these things, more and more of America is like, no, I heard what he said.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
That's the wildest part, right? You're doing it. It's one thing to do the American press corps, but you're like three days into a new administration. You're like, you know what? Let's take the world's biggest economic leaders. What you got?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's immoral. It's intentionally deceitful. They know the facts. It's in the story. So they know the material facts about the alleged victim of the abuse, denying the claim that's made by, you know, brother's ex-wife. I mean, it's just it's absurd. It's it's Kavanaugh all over.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, look, I'm hesitant to give Democrats advice on this because what they're doing and what the media does is the best whip operation a Republican leader could ever have. Right. I mean, there are more. Look, Pete's going to get confirmed. I don't know if there's going to be those last three senators that vote for him or vote against him, but I think he's got 50 in the bank.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's going to get confirmed. Had Democrats run a real confirmation hearing, keeping this nonsense out of the public discussion about the job of Secretary of Defense, about his view of our status of forces agreements, about what are we to do with Ukraine and American military and
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Taiwan and American, you can get into a scenario where Pete would have a bipartisan concern if you ask the right questions and he was unable to answer it. This is not it. I mean, if those three didn't vote for him, I can promise you it's not because of a story like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, so like by going back to that, well, time and time again, all they've done is make Republicans react to everything that comes out like this in a way that you circle the wagons. Yep. You know, no more questions. I don't need to hear any more. I know what you're trying to do to him. You did it to Brett Kavanaugh.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Sorry. Right here. No, like she's somehow got greater expertise than a prosecutor, detective in a sheriff's office. You know, they decided that this was in fact a false claim. They weren't going to pursue charges. I mean, it's so it's unbelievable. It's immoral.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It is immoral. And I don't but I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. I just don't. If they haven't learned the lesson in November of doing all of this, what would lead them to believe that they're not going to just keep on doing it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I love that they engage in just full-on character assassination at the same time they act like they're dismounting the boats at D-Day. It's like, oh my gosh, what we go through to cover this guy. And by the way, that guy's a rapist.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They're going to try. They're going to try, Megan. But we said it during the hearings. Once they presented the way that they did, they were so underprepared to know what it was that would divide Republicans and imperil this nomination. I mean, Johnny and I used to do this for a living.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We would put together strategies and plans to try to figure out how to kill Obama nominees that we thought were just wholly unfit to hold cabinet positions. And to do that, you have to do some examination of your targets. And what would drive a Republican away from doing that? What they did in terms of executing a strategy was unify Republicans. And the only thing was unify Republican.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And so like, you know, they want to take out Pete. Sure. They want to take out Pete. They're not going to get them. And the reason they're not going to get them is because of the strategy that they have executed upon. They only have themselves to blame.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, my God. Well, she's on to a wrong target. She she she figured it out. She finally got it. And, you know, sadly, she's going to have to register her menstrual cycles here soon with the Office of Management and Budget. That's right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. Yeah. I think that's right. I mean, clearly it has to be. And their little echo chamber. Yeah. Right. I mean, you listen to MSNBC and this is all they're talking about and all of their C4s and make work fail sons. Yeah. Not they're pushing papers their way, saying character assassination is the only way to go. Right. And Project 2025 alive and well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. Informed counsel. You're going to get informed counsel. All right. I mean, what? And this is so overdue. Yes. Because a couple of things. It's not just that they signed that letter. That was egregious in and of itself. Should have been enough right away. In fact, if you were being fair in a in a Democratic administration, you found out something was that wrong. much of a lie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You couldn't trust them with America's secrets, right? So you'd have to do it, but of course they didn't. The bigger problem here is that there is a cottage industry that both CNN and MSNBC and those three networks, which is why Margaret Brennan is upset about this,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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engage in, in that they put all of these folks under contract to talk about, quote unquote, national security issues, except for the fact that they have security clearances. And so they can give you sort of half truths and knowing nods. And well, you know, this is the case all through Russiagate. It was like, well, we've seen information that compels us to take action.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think that the right thing to do is to go through with a Mueller report and all of this and the other. when they hadn't seen shit. And this was all a partisan charade right from the very beginning. But you, the viewer, are watching this as a former CIA director, clearly still has his national security clearances. You're looking at, like, of course, he can't tell me the whole thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They can't give up America's secrets. But he's giving me that knowing nod, saying that this guy is guilty of all sorts of treason. So... You know, what choice do I have to believe him?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You're saying, well, the CIA director said it bears the hallmark. He surely knows what the hallmarks look like. Nonsense. It turned out to be all bullshit. But if you watch, if you really watch these people on the air, it is so much more sadistic than that. Yeah, because they take it into each and every little thing that they disagree with. Trump is obviously the target.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But even like foreign policy discussions where Trump is immaterial to the conversation, they give you information right up to the point where you're like, all right, we'll show us information. And they kind of give you the wink and they're like, we can't talk about all of it. Yeah, yeah. You know, because they're pushing the agenda. It is deeply, deeply problematic. I'm really glad he did it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I think there's two separate questions that your last point is is right. And I think that all of that requires review. Look, we know Mike Pompeo, the reason that he had and typically secretaries of state don't. But the reason he had Secret Service protection is that they were very credible agents. very realistic threats on his life from Iran.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And given the role that he played in the first Trump administration with a very aggressive posture towards Iran, those were real. And we don't know anything that's at all classified, but I can tell you that it was a thing. Now, whether it's no longer a thing, I don't know. And I don't know what would cause them to pull it. I honestly don't know that he was...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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ever at a point where he was sort of anti-Trump. So maybe this is a security.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That's the right question. Those are the right questions. And I think, you know, given what we saw over the summer, threats on President Trump, I mean, getting shot and all the failures of all of that, it does require an open review of all. And I don't know the answers to those questions, right? I mean, we don't have any idea.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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about what Secret Service details are out there and on whom and how far it goes back. Clearly, former presidents need something. But beyond that, you've got to make a justification. What I hope, Megan, is that the decision on the Pompeo Secret Service was based on an assessment of the security situation and nothing else. Because if it's nothing else, it's tough.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And like through the crystal ball, it's like, I'll be there for you. Jennifer Aniston. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, no, no, no. The way it works is you take the photo, you show it to the wife, you retake the photo and then, and then you get, and then you, and then there's always a couple of, you got to get the principal to sign off. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No. So here's the thing. And this is one of the theory of the case. Maybe Jennifer Aniston is is the Biden's answer to George Clooney here. Right. I mean, maybe this because I'll be honest, I have heard this sort of thing around in D.C. And there's some connections there with the like people what you would call reputable people because they served in an administration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Maybe they served in the Obama administration. They certainly served in the Biden administration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But I'll tell you what. next level.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It was jarring. All alone.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, yeah. I mean, just the spectacle of it all and then seeing him alone. I mean, it really did. Like, as a viewer, you knew she wasn't coming, but then you saw the visual of it and you're like, hmm. And then the Clintons were there together.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh my gosh. Well, we do know Dougie Emhoff's got a bit of a temper, right? I mean, there's some stuff that was problematic. I also think like this is a guy who is so used to running his own world for so long. And then all of a sudden he's just sort of like, basically a bag boy during the course of the six month election. I can't imagine that went over terribly well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, as you know, we take works of film very seriously here on the Ruthless Variety program.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And we exhibit most of our expertise through our resident thespian, Michael Duncan. So, Michael, I'd be curious as to your take – on the arts writ large and whether it is comporting itself with the electorate that is now seemingly unwelcome to their advances.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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This is genuine. This is a genuine review.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yes, yes, yes. Sure aside, Jesus is coming.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, John is one of the few and rare journalists, kind of the old school, who observationally understand, right? They don't deny reality, right? The sky is blue. And I think if you talk to the people who covered Trump for a long time, they kind of all come to a similar conclusion, which is this guy won a popular vote. Everybody knows who he is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It couldn't happen to a better group. We were pontificating between the breaks, Megan, about whether or not this was just like the best joke of all time. Like whether or not this entire project was- Keep going home, sorry. Whether or not this project was financed by like Leonard Leo or something like that, where they're like, I bet we can get the Academy to say- It's conservative. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, like maybe they will recognize what is, of course, an entirely ironic presentation. Like that song in and of itself really did look like a Matt Stone, South Park-like production.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It like definitively breaks the Academy Awards because they've just like fallen for the... Okay, so I'm not done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's incredible, right? They're just so predictable. Also, it seems to be a prerequisite, the unwatched movie. Yep. Like, it seems like the last, I grew up, you know, when you grew up, you'd watch the Academy Awards with your parents. You know, I remember doing that and you'd see all the movies and be like, oh, we need to see this. We need to see that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, there's not a single American wandering around who doesn't have an opinion on Donald Trump one way or another. And the majority of this country wants him. Right. So the fluke is gone. And that did burden him, I think, for the first four years. What a very different path.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's been like, basically my entire adult life where like, I never watch it, but if I ever like stumble through it and you see it on TV, you look at the nominees, you know, I have no idea what any of that is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Tom Hanks would have had to transition midway through in order to get a nomination. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And the thing that I find so interesting about this one is his lack of fear and his lack of hesitation to pursue exactly what it is that he said himself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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he would do there's no nuance there's no sort of sanding the edges to try to make things a little bit more politically nice for some edges of the of the electorate he's just doing his stuff and he's doing what he said he was going to do and like there's a confidence that exudes from that and you know with all of those executive orders and we can talk about you know them specifically but they all just basically are what the american people wanted to have happen yes
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And so, you know, if you're a journalist, what's not to understand about it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's really a... a testimony to that old adage that the only way to lose is to quit trying. Yeah. You know, I mean, he really, I mean, if you think about it that way and in context of everybody's lives, I mean, this guy had every reason in the world to walk away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know? Yeah. You give me that option to play 18 at Mar-a-Lago every day. I'm not sure I'm walking back into 1600.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There's no question about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That's a whole new connotation on the Sandinistas, isn't it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, look, a big part of the progressive left's agenda and what they've tried to accomplish basically since 1960 is institutional capture. And it goes everywhere from corporate America, entertainment industry, higher education to, in this case, one of the three branches of the federal government. And this is why it was so important.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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that what happened from 2017 to 2021 in terms of appellate court judges and the Supreme Court is ultimately what they've been trying to do at this federal court level, district court level, is have what you're seeing playing out in front of everybody right now, which is just a leftist agenda with no basis in law. Now, because of the work that Donald Trump did the first four years,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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that this is going to run up against a real life problem for the left and that they've got a whole bunch of courts throughout this country at the at the appellate level that actually interpret the law right and i think to your point it's a good one megan like yes it just it delays the process and it it makes everybody focused on the wrong things here but i mean your audience should have at least a little bit of confidence in that because of the first four years of work
The Megyn Kelly Show
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that the Trump administration has done, we will ultimately get to the right place.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, the idea that you can't actually look to see if 175 year old American is still receiving social security and not, I don't know, blow the whistle on that for fear that a 40 year old somewhere is probably not going to get their social security because they've been exhausted by fraud for generations before them. Like that is the kind of thing that is the reason you elect presidents.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And it's going to be thrown out, actually actually punted out of court at some level. But it doesn't completely alleviate the discomfort at the front end.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, look, all this stuff is everything is hard and they make their whole goal on the left is try to make any change extremely hard. Here's the good news. If you just do these things, these are things that the American people want done. But when you have a vocal opposition, then the American people make a political choice. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Guys, welcome back. Ah, so good to be with you, Megan. Thank you for having us. Very, very excited.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And what you've seen over the first three and a half weeks of this administration is everything they've done from transgender sports to securing the border to deporting illegals to you name it. It is a 60% proposition in this country in terms of where the American people are. And I think you're seeing a real-life realignment as a result.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Democrats have always, always been able to rely on a split, totally partisan country in order to safeguard what they want to do. But now that they're having this fight, all these fights out in public, they're losing traction. And you can see it when you've got a bunch of public employees who are in the middle of a Tuesday –
The Megyn Kelly Show
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out singing union chants about how they're being treated unfairly, being paid eight months for free to leave with a full retirement and everything else. Like that's exactly what the American people were talking about when they wanted this whole thing shaken up. But now they get to see it. Now they get to see it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It's in technicolor for everyone that creates political realignment in a way that I don't think we've seen, at least not my career in politics.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Here he comes. Hold on. Here's our chairman of standards and ethics here at the Ruthless Variety Program. Okay, Smug.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. Listen, he is a breath of fresh air. I mean, he's been on the show with us before too. And there's never been a time, I think, in America's history that needed just a jarring shakeup like the FBI does right now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, we've seen obviously how they handled everything during the first four years of Trump and then everything thereafter and all the lawfare that sort of sparked within the FBI. But it requires somebody like cash, right? I mean, this is not like a bureaucrat job where you can go push some paper around and hope that it all turns out OK. You need somebody who's going to break some China.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that is very clearly what I think he's going to be up to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think cash probably not prepared for it. I mean, they built the FBI. in this current iteration under the wrong pretenses. I mean, we saw it play out during the course of the terrorist attack down in New Orleans, where the first FBI special agent in charge rolled up and was like, well, there's no terrorism here. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then like 12 hours later, they're like, no, it's absolutely terrorism here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Doing here, you know, who's the authority?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, first off, I should say the last time I provided him any advice on how to vote was in 2014, 11, 11 long years ago. But I look, I think where this is the first my first takeaway is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Trump administration and John Thune and Barrasso in the Senate have done an incredible job to get nominees who entered into the public discussion in a very controversial place where there was some concern inside of a traditional Republican party about how RFK, for example, who's had, you know, sort of famously liberal positions on a whole bunch of healthcare issues.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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issues would fare in that in that context and throughout the course of the nomination process these folks work together in a way that i don't you know we haven't really seen a lot of even democrats are really not as good as what i've seen over the last three weeks in repairing those getting face-to-face conversations and getting people to a point where they're not going to lose any of these people
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Right. I mean, every single piece of the confirmation puzzle has has come together. Now, where does that leave McConnell? I think that's more indicative of the change in the Republican Party and his sort of the lack of pressure that he feels personally. You have a whole bunch of Republicans. And this is for this is for real. Like people don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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There's probably a third of that Senate conference. There's a little concerned about the way that Tulsi has talked about intelligence, uh, apparatus over the last 10 years. Right. And they're more than a little concerned if, if she was a democratic nominee, they would have voted to absolutely crush that nomination.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But the power, the political power of Trump and part of what he's done over the last three weeks in terms of picking issues and having 60% of the American people on side of it is, is forcing everybody to a position to reevaluate this. Ultimately they work for Donald Trump. And that's what it is that they're voting to support.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Do they have misgivings about Tulsi Gabbard or maybe RFK and the way that he's going to handle the question of abortion in HHS? Sure, they do. They're going to have issues with that. But ultimately, they trust Donald Trump. Where McConnell is comes into all of that is he's just sort of traditionally where he's always been. But the party has moved. And the party is very much a Trump party.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He is a Reagan Republican. And I think if you were to go back in time in some kind of like a Marty McFly DeLorean and look at the way a Republican party 20 years ago would have evaluated these nominations, it looks very much like the way that he has. I don't think that he's doing what he's doing out of spite for Donald Trump. It's just he doesn't feel the same political pressures.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah, exactly right. And he's obviously not going to do that. He thinks that Rubio is a terrific nomination from what I read in his statements. But I also think he's going to be a force for good in terms of the team as you get into these thorny issues of reconciliation and budget and taxes and all these things. Because his ideology hasn't changed a lick.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
It is just not reflected when you get into that more libertarian area of defense and foreign affairs in particular, where a lot of Republicans still have issues with that. He just doesn't feel the same political pressures as everybody else who's gonna vote the way he's gonna vote.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
It's gone both ways. But I think the story is not told yet, Megan. I think what's going to happen very quickly is we're going to get into a legislative discussion where the crux of the Trump agenda has to be litigated. And this is the hardest part. What he's done so far has been unbelievably great. But ultimately, you're going to need Congress to try to work some of these things through.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And your taxes are going up five grand for your average American if they don't. So there's real consequences here. I think somebody like McConnell, ultimately, there may be a point where he actually does have a significant amount of influence in trying to get people on board for the big win on the things that will actually come to define that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah, I think it is. I should warn your viewers and listeners that the last math class I took was actually called math. So, you know, this is not my area of expertise, but I do know how the process works. And ultimately, anytime you're working with razor thin margins, three votes in the Senate, two until April in the House of Representatives, every single member that matters, matters.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And ultimately where these things get settled out is if you get somebody who, you know, look, they haven't been on the team. They're not like a partisan stall where they're always gonna vote for the Trump agenda no matter what's in it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
When those kind of people end up coming to the rest of their colleagues and saying, look, this is really important for the country, it has added weight to it, particularly in somebody who led the Republican Party for years and years, the longest serving leader in history. So I think it is going to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And I ultimately believe that he's going to dig his heels in and try to provide as much legislative heft as he can on issues like that, where at the end of the day, the Trump administration will be judged based on the outcome of those reconciliation bills.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
It's the difference in the two chambers, right? The House of Representatives views one bite at the apple. They think that in order to get a whole bunch of fiscal conservatives who are concerned about debt and deficits on board with with extending the Trump 2017 tax cuts, which has a deficit number according to how CBO scores all these things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
In order to get them on board with that, they need extra incentives. They need immigration, border security stuff, probably need some energy provisions, certainly like, you know, all the way to things like spectrum. They need incentives to get on board with something that makes them a little queasy from a deficit perspective. In the Senate, it's a very different deal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
They have more unanimity around the issue that you don't have to pay for tax cuts. Like every time we've made tax cuts in this country, our revenue has exceeded what the revenue was before you cut the taxes in the first place. And the way that Congress scores the thing, they always say it's a big deficit. It never turns out that way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
But they have a longer view on all of that, and so they're not as concerned about it. They can wrap their mind around taxes. They also believe that this administration, first and foremost, will be most successful if you have a good, stable economy where businesses can actually – plan over the long term, and we can end up with an economic boom like the likes of which we saw in 2017.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And the only way you get that is if you do the tax piece and you get that part done. The other piece is no less important, but they're very confident that that is something that they can negotiate in and of itself because there's a lot of moving parts in it that have nothing to do with the core issue of taxes. So that's the two differences of views between the House and the Senate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Now, ultimately, they're going to have to come together on this might end up being one big thing that the Senate takes two parts in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
But because of what's happened with these confirmation hearings and because of the unanimous sort of Republican support within the Senate, I think the Senate's probably going to take the lead on some of this stuff because the House has been, you know, they've been arguing a little bit about amongst each other about how they go forward.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
I also think it's a perfect object lesson to the power of independent media. Yeah. And particularly you, Megan, and what you have done with your show and this incredible. run that you've had that I think everybody in our line of work admires deeply and admire because you've helped us out in the process.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
But your decision based on reading a book and talking with people and trying to get a real sense of the facts led you to a point where you're like, no, it's a conversation that's worthy of happening when the entire media industrial complex was saying, nope, you can't hear from them. You'll get banned. Don't do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Your decision to do that very likely triggered a larger conversation amongst the American people that ultimately led him to be confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary. It's an incredible domino, isn't it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Let's keep it rolling.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Well, look, Megan, I think... On one hand, you're absolutely right. It is completely nonsense. And the fact that there is a cottage industry of liberal funded think tanks and 501c4s, they're going to make a mess out of everything. It's just a reality. And when you can't win politically, Democrats try to do it through the courts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah, and your power is in your authenticity and what you do so well, Megan. And we said this from the first moment that we came on your first show. This is not Megan trying to figure out how to tell a story. She's telling you exactly what it is that she thinks. And for people who saw you on Fox or saw you on NBC, like they had an image of you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And then all of a sudden they got the raw, uncut Megyn Kelly. And they were like, whoa. I'm tuning into that. Yeah, yeah. I got to get some of that. Like, that sounds fantastic. And it's interesting, provocative conversations, the kind of which we should have at every dinner table across this country that the left has been saying, like, don't do it. It's dangerous. And I think it is right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Totally. But it's the fearlessness of people like Megyn who can give people the confidence to know, I'm not crazy. I've not shifted myself. Like she gets it. She knows what it is that I'm talking about. And if she can do that, well, let's have that conversation at the dinner table.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
I mean, that's why the first Trump administration was so important that they reshaped an awful lot of courts. But of course, they're venue shopping here and they're trying to find the last vestiges of liberal courtship.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
I love that so much. Also, clearly she was a better student than we were. Yeah. You know, like my math and science or English or whatever was like, who's the hot girl I can sit next to in first period? That was basically it. Basically the sum and substance of my academic portfolio.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
We've had harder fundraising experiences than it would be to raise money for the candidates. Exactly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah, for sure. And, you know, for those of you who haven't been in D.C., like that place has been lit up in a rainbow flag for the last four years. Literally every night it's lit up like a rainbow flag.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
A real cut and runner.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Ben folds five. Ben does fold.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Maybe he was just trying to like amp the brand a little bit. I don't know. I mean, but you get the sense that all of these people who are resigning are the same kind of people that posted the black box on Instagram.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Everything is a virtue signal. The interest in making sure that fine arts are preserved come very secondary to whether you can virtue signal your empathy for something. It's just so pathetic.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
You know, the other thing he definitely wasn't doing there is hitching his wagon onto the Taylor Swift following. He definitely wasn't influenced at all by mentioning her name.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Well, incidentally, as a very famous person yourself, Megan, maybe you could tell us here at the Ruthless Variety Program who we need to call to get TMZ to show up and photograph us on a day-to-day basis. I don't know if you know, but we now have a White House correspondent sitting here at the end of the day. It's a very famous man.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
It wouldn't kill any of us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And it wouldn't kill if he got a little bit of FaceTime out there. That's all I'm saying.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
The funniest part about it for your audience, Megan, is that this guy has made a 20 year career in Washington, D.C. as being the person that all of those journos met. have to call to get what the story is, right? They all call Ashbrook for 20 years. It's like the first call of, all right, how do I sort this story out?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And then for all of them, you know, dedicated their careers to it, to have to watch him march into the White House briefing and do their job too was just hilarious. I mean, that is like what Ruthless is in a nutshell. And then to ask, is the media out of touch?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Well, I think you got married to your doctor this week, didn't you? I did, thankfully.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Thankfully cancer-free once again.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And we collectively forced each other to do it because like, just like you are talking about Megan, like the last thing, if you're feeling good, you're fine. And you don't need to worry about it. Like we collectively as a group forced each other to have an annual executive physicals for this reason. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Because, you know, it'd be pretty damn shame if somebody on Ruth was, we're a three-man show.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
I don't think we recover for something like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
A little bit. I mean, it's all over the tabloids, so you got to see it a little bit. I don't know if we're an expert. All over the tabloids. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
That's just wild to me. I mean, the plumber thing is absolutely perfect. I mean, you hire somebody to do a job and they're like, well, hold on a second. I've got a different vision for your toilet. I'd like to create a bidet. Here's the other piece of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
It's like all I do is buy soccer teams that win, sell to Kegel that people like or Vaca or whatever it is. And he's like the generally state above. And all of a sudden he is in the dirt with this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Be very, very careful with your marriages, folks.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Little dragon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
I'll just leave it at that. That's awesome. Megan's dishing some hot goss.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Yeah, no question about it. And that money, by the way, was FEMA money. And tell the people of Western North Carolina, right, Smug?
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Oh, it's fantastic. I mean this is one of the progressive left's biggest multi-decade victories in the world. NGOs and what you do through like USAID, which has come under great scrutiny over the last two years – or last two weeks I should say. The initial intent behind all of it is sort of soft power. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Whereas the United States can exert economic leverage against people who may not have our best interests in mind in a bunch of regions throughout the world where we need some help, whether it's a footprint from the United States is against terrorism as it was for much of the first.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
20 years I guess of this century, you could have programs that were set up to basically buy some influence within a country that could be helpful or unhelpful. The intent was right. What happened over time is the progressive left took this as a pot of money to social engineer internationally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
And because it was so not prescriptive in terms of where they were awarding this money, they have these NGOs that are like in Tanzania doing transgender studies. Right. It's true.
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
no literally literally and if the more you dig into it the more you find out that the use of this money is not about keeping the american people safe at all there is some of that and those people unfortunately have to suffer the same result as everybody else because of what the progressive left has done and perverted this entire program to a point where i mean there's not a single american taxpayer
The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
They would agree with nine-tenths of what Elon Musk has talked about in terms of where this USAID money is going.