The Megyn Kelly Show
Clooney Lectures About Journalism, and Dems Lean on Bernie and AOC, with Ben Shapiro and Stephen A. Smith | Ep. 1033
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
Megyn Kelly is joined by Ben Shapiro, host of The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro Show, to discuss George Clooney trying to lecture the American people and the media about how bad President Trump is, a glowing profile of Clooney on 60 Minutes, trying to take credit for telling the truth about Biden's cognitive decline when he actually stayed silent for weeks, the Democratic party imploding, Bernie Sanders and AOC hitting the road with their their ridiculous “Fight Oligarchy” tour, Bernie suddenly sounding supportive of Trump on the border and AOC downplaying the trans issue, Trump winning in his fight against judges and leftist lawyers, woke universities bending the knee to Trump to keep their funding, Jeremy Boreing stepping down as co-CEO of The Daily Wire, Ben's push for a Derek Chauvin pardon, and more. Then Stephen A. Smith, host of The Stephen A. Smith Show and First Take, joins to discuss why he thinks he could easily win the 2028 Democratic primary but doesn’t plan on running, what he believes is going wrong within the Democratic party, how Ezra Klein and the Democratic elite are still unable to make sense of Trump’s win, their delusions about why Americans supported for Trump, Trump's dominance in sports and culture, why there weren't any upsets in the NCAA tournament, and more.Shapiro- https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-showSmith- https://www.youtube.com/@stephenasmithJust Thrive: Visit https://justthrivehealth.com/discount/Megyn and use code MEGYN to save 20% sitewideAngel Studios: Become an Angel Guild member today and get 2 free tickets to The King of Kings movie when you become a premium member. Visit https://angel.com/MEGYN Lumen: Visit https://lumen.me/MEGYN for 20% OffFirecracker Farm: Visit https://firecracker.FARM & enter code MK at checkout for a special discount!Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: What are the key topics Megyn Kelly discusses in this episode?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to The Megan Kelly Show and happy Monday. I'm back home after a couple of weeks away. You know, you know how they say if you're going on vacation with your kids, it's not a vacation, it's a trip. It's a trip.
But I'm happy to report that my kids are now officially at the stage where that is no longer true. They are very... very worthy vacation buddies. It takes a while. Like when they're in the single digits, all three of them, that's that I understand that saying very well, but we've crossed over into true vacation mode. Although last week, as you know, was on a vacation.
We, we were working, we were doing the show. We were just doing it from the Bahamas, which was quite nice. There's nothing to complain about. Anyway, it's nice to be home and there's plenty of news to keep us propelling forward. Uh, the Democrat Democratic party is in shambles. I don't know if you saw this anywhere. Yeah, it's, it's in shambles.
Like you cannot open up a paper, the internet, your podcast feed without seeing a show talking to you about how badly it has imploded, uh, according to the polls, according to the party elders, according to surveys that are figuring out why they lost. And it's just basically abject hatred by Democrats of their own party. I mean, it's just, it's, It's just good luck. I wish you well.
Also in the news, Tim Walls trashing Elon Musk. We talked about that late last week. Now he's pretending it was all a big joke. He wasn't really celebrating the downfall of Tesla stock. That was all just Tim Walls being super funny. Maybe you missed it. Bernie Sanders and AOC on a socialism tour out West. And apparently it's going over big.
Their sort of pocket of the Democratic Party is the only one that's left standing. Unfortunately for them, it's a very, very small slice of their party. But within it, they're stars. And now we get a lecture on journalism. In fact, a whole Broadway show from George Clooney.
You know, last year, my pals over at the Daily Wire asked me if I would do the voice of this cartoon character called Wendy Burcham in Adam Carolla's cartoon called Mr. Burcham about a shop teacher. So I was, quote, playing the wife of a shop teacher. Didn't make me the actual wife of a shop teacher. Never will.
George, just because you play some sort of a journalism expert, an old hand in a play or a movie or otherwise doesn't make you one. No one gives a shit what you think is wrong with journalism. And his preening and moralism and self-righteousness is on full display, apparently not only in this show, but last night on 60 Minutes. So we will get into all of that as well.
We have a great show for you today. We've got Stephen A. Smith in our second hour, and I will ask him about what's going on in my bracket. I'm sorry. This is the one sports thing I actually do participate in every year, and I love to pick the upsets. I always do because... My whole system is just picking the city with which I have some sort of personal affiliation.
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Chapter 2: Why is George Clooney lecturing on journalism?
You need us to take over your weird department on Middle East studies, which seems to be the place you go to learn jihad, and we need to take that over, and a bunch of other things. And Almost entirely, Columbia just caved because it wants its $400 million back from the feds. And then there's what he's doing to these law firms.
So he decides to target a couple of law firms, including Paul Weiss, who hired that one guy who wanted to prosecute Trump when he worked for Alvin Bragg. It was like a mission of his. And Trump was like, you know what? It's a Democrat law firm. They tried to target me or they at least rewarded somebody who tried to target me. And there's going to be all sorts of punishments to this law firm.
Like, I don't think the federal federal government wants to be in business with them, which is his prerogative. And it took about two minutes. for them to completely cave on everything Trump wanted. They went in there with a bouquet of roses and then some, you know, he only wanted roses, but they brought chocolates and diamonds and were on the knee begging him to let up.
So Trump is he's having success in these tactics, Ben. But I wonder what you make of the overall strategy and the successes and the not not losses so far, but the thwarting that we're seeing judicially.
I mean, I think that thwarting judicially isn't going to matter until we get to the Supreme Court level. So you're seeing all the Democrats complain. It's a constitutional crisis. No, it's not a constitutional crisis until you get to the point where the Supreme Court issues an order and then the executive branch just ignores the Supreme Court order.
Like maybe if they said that you're not allowed to unilaterally relieve student loan debt and then the administration just went ahead and tried to do it anyway, which happened like two years ago. But I think that the real question here for the Supreme Court is, was, and will be,
What restrictions are they going to put on district court judges and the district court judge's ability to issue these nationwide temporary restraining orders on the basis of I'm a judge in Texas. And now the entire country is now going to be governed by the thing that I say about a nationwide order from the White House.
The fact that the Supreme Court turned that down a few weeks ago was a huge mistake, in my opinion. And Justice Roberts kind of signing into chat to rip on President Trump for ripping on district court judges. Justice Roberts, I'm one of the few people on the right who objected to Justice Roberts back in 2005 when he was nominated by George W. Bush. I didn't think he was going to be a good pick.
And that was one of my predictions. I've made many predictions in my career that have been bad. That one was actually quite good. I think Justice Roberts has been a bit of a disaster as chief justice of the Supreme Court. And I think that his kind of notion that he restores the legitimacy of the court by yelling at President Trump is really stupid.
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