The Megyn Kelly Show
Maher's White House Visit, and Senseless High School Student Stabbing, with Michael Knowles and Ana Kasparian
Thu, 3 Apr 2025
Megyn Kelly opens the show by discussing President Trump’s new tariff plan to tackle global trade imbalances, the reaction to his "Liberation Day" announcement, why Americans on all sides should be patient and give him a chance, and more. Then The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show, joins to discuss the tragic and random stabbing murder of a high school football star in Texas by another student, the father of the boy already forgiving the killer but questioning the parents, why most in media will ignore the story for racial reasons, depravity in our society, the final Nashville police report released about the school shooting, the report ignoring the shooter’s writings about being "trans," the refusal by the police department to describe the writings as a manifesto, and more. Then Ana Kasparian, host and producer for The Young Turks, joins to discuss Kid Rock and Bill Maher’s recent White House visit, Bill Maher’s willingness to engage with Trump despite political differences, the importance of open dialogue across political divides,a viral video of a liberal young woman ending her relationship because she discovered her boyfriend was conservative, another viral video of a woman discussing her husband in a derogatory way, the backlash to "have it all" culture, Ashley St. Clair attacking Elon Musk again over their child, why many conservatives are defending Elon here, comedian Bill Burr’s previous jokes about Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione, his refusal to engage in politics on a recent red carpet, how Kamala Harris’s viral “brat” campaign was actually artificially funded by Dem donors, and more.Knowles- https://www.dailywire.com/Kasparian- https://kasparian.substack.com/ Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldFYSI: https://FYSI.com/Megyn or call 800-877-4000Angel 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 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 is Trump's new tariff plan about?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Is everyone nursing their Liberation Day hangover? I just, okay. There's going to be a bunch of tariffs. Pretty much everyone is against it.
There's a strain of diehard MAGA that is open-minded to doing something in a different way because while the system has worked well for the top 1%, it hasn't been working that great for the folks in the Rust Belt. I, for one, say we give President Trump a chance.
There's no way he's going to let a bunch of economic pain rain down on the country for the next three and a half years without doing anything about it. He's talking about short-term pain for long-term gain. We got the full announcement last night from Donald Trump about his new tariff plan.
It's basically 10 percent across the board for all countries and higher on top of that, depending on whether you're tariffing us or if there's some sort of trade deficit between our country and yours, even without tariffs that we find unfair.
Like there are certain regulations, for example, in Japan that make it virtually impossible for us to sell certain cars there because we will never pass the regulations. Is that fair? Is it hard to get a Japanese car in America?
So Trump is jacking up tariffs on Japan, not necessarily based on their tariffs, but based on a trade deficit because of regulations they've put in place that make it impossible for us to compete over there in the way they can here. That's what he's trying to rectify. The defenders of the free trade world say, yes, all of that sounds good on paper. The unfairness is a very easy argument to make.
But net net, we're still the strongest economy in the world because of our free trade. We actually don't make a lot of things domestically and won't start to just because of this plan. And that this is going to cause what's called stagflation, where inflation goes up and the economy slows. And eventually we could see job losses. They're predicting all doom and gloom.
Why don't we give them a chance? Why don't we see how this changes things? Because over the last 25 years, our manufacturing industry has been gutted. It's been sliced in half. In half. You know, I heard Adam Carolla talking about this the other day, and it was a good point. He said, as you know, half of L.A. burned. And he was like, you know who's out rebuilding it? Men.
Men in excavators and dump trucks with bulldozers and shovels and bricklayers. Men like that are going to rebuild the Palisades. Men who nobody in the Palisades probably gives two shits about. That's the truth.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the high school stabbing incident in Texas?
What I want to talk about is our country and some stories that are in the news today that are just shocking. And the number one is this poor kid who was murdered down in Texas, in Frisco, Texas, by the name of Austin Metcalfe. It's all over the news today. He was at a track meet in North Texas. I'm just reading here from WFAA.com, a local source there in Frisco, Texas.
He was, okay, it happened around 10 a.m. at a university down there. Frisco High School. Sorry, it was a Frisco High School track meet, but it happened at a university championship track meet. And it was being held with these independent schools present. The victim who died was 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. He was a student attending Frisco's Memorial High School.
His twin brother, Hunter, was there as well. He went to sit down and found another student in his seat from the sound of it and said, that's my seat or something to that effect. And that other student. reportedly turned around and stabbed him in the heart. This kid who got killed was 17. He had a 4.0. He was a football star. Sorry. And he was dead. It seems very soon thereafter.
His twin brother held him as he died and was barely able to speak about it. And The father, who seems like an extraordinary man, Michael, comes out and speaks to the cameras about what happened to his son. Here's a bit of Austin's dad. Take a listen.
I'm not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to attract me, and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place. They asked him to move. And he bowed up. This is murder. I don't know. I know they have someone in custody. And you know what? I already forgive this person. Already? Already.
God takes care of things. God's going to take care of me. God's going to take care of my family.
That poor man. His name is Jeff Metcalf. Already he's forgiven. It happened yesterday. It's happened Wednesday. They have a suspect in custody identified by police as Carmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old student at Frisco Centennial High School. He was taken into custody on a murder charge. His bond has not yet been set. This guy, Anthony, played football in...
for the school centennial and indicated on social media pages that he had been offered scholarships to play football for several smaller schools. This is just incredible.
So he had some sort of hope in front of him, the suspect, Carmelo Anthony, that he played football and that on social media, at least, he was claiming that he'd been offered scholarships to play football for several smaller schools.
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Chapter 3: Why is the media not covering the Nashville shooting manifesto?
They found that her parents, her mental health providers and the firearm retailers who sold her the weapons bore no responsibility and had no prior knowledge of her plans. And now they stay in this conclusion that she didn't leave behind a manifesto, Michael, because it wasn't laid out in one single document. that there's all sorts of justification for this. Listen to this.
They write, early in the investigation, it was suggested that this shooter left behind a manifesto detailing her motives and intentions. By definition, a manifesto is a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their actions.
Regardless of length, a manifesto is a single document that outlines all the factors, intentions, and objectives of an individual act or a series of actions. In this case, a manifesto did not exist. The shooter never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the act, why she specifically targeted the covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack. Really?
Now that's, now they've been saying for two years that it would be too dangerous. They didn't think we could handle it. It's too disturbing. Now suddenly it's, oh, it didn't exist because it was in the form of multiple documents and not just one.
I feel like we're looking at parallel stories in a way here where the shooter, the killer is in a protected group about whom you are not allowed to say certain things or ask certain questions.
The excuse might as well be that manifestos are always saved as PDF files. And this was a doc X, so not a manifesto, not going to release it. It's so flimsy. It contradicts what they've been saying for years at this point. But of course, they were going to ignore the central feature here. We've been talking about red flags. We've been talking about the...
ideological and cultural insistence that we not acknowledge what's before our own eyes so in this case you want to know what a red flag might be that you have a a person who is as mentally ill as it is possible to be a person who doesn't understand some of the most basic aspects of her own identity i would like to know that as the parent of someone who is at a school i would like to know if there are really crazy people
People who not only have a flawed perception of reality but who are part of a group that is singularly violent and committing violence not only against others but notably at unmatched rates against themselves. A group of people that has a real problem that a caring society would try to fix and remedy rather than affirm and make worse. That's the sort of thing that I would like.
But that has to be ignored because the culture tells us that we have to exalt falsehood and we have to deny truth. So then when one of these people flies off the handle, we all have to act surprised. I have been going out and speaking in public. for, I don't know, 10 years or something now is just part of my show and part of my public life.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion of race impact media coverage?
And the tape of this woman has gone everywhere. And I understand why. Trust me. I worked at Fox News for 14 years. There wasn't a teacher sex scandal we didn't cover there. But there's some level of depravity in our society. I mean, that's really what we're talking about. There's some level of depravity and in some cases mental illness.
And this woman, while, yes, she's a woman, so technically in one of the favored classes, that's not what this story is about. She is getting some press coverage. But there's something wrong with a woman, as she's accused of doing, who has—well, they're accusing her of raping a 15-year-old student. No one is saying that her student, who she allegedly raped—
sex without consent was special ed, but she was a special ed teacher at the school. So I don't know whether he was or he wasn't, but he was 15 years old. It happened in 2023. Reportedly that student's mother found disturbing text messages between the two of them when she logged onto her son's iCloud account after she bought him a new phone. Um,
He was a soccer player that she coached and she was also tutoring this young man. And the mother, of course, went bullshit when she found the text messages. So this woman gets pulled over. There's a couple of pieces of tape here. She gets pulled over by police with her husband in the passenger seat. She's in the driver's seat a couple of days ago. Here's a bit of that.
Sorry, back over here. So, we do have an investigation going on. We have to talk to you about it at the police department, okay? So, we're going to send everything to you there. It's not my investigation. I don't know the full details. We do have to bring you there, though, okay? So, I do have to put you in handcuffs and bring you to the police department. Just a downer. Fantastic.
Yes, unfortunately, yes.
I'm, like, willing to go with you.
I get it, yeah. Unfortunately, we have to do it that way. Do me a favor and just take this off.
Can I ask you what?
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Chapter 5: What is Bill Maher's recent interaction with Trump?
So this could be your future as somebody who is not necessarily in the Donald Trump fan club. I don't see you in the red hat. You too, if you know Kid Rock at all, or even I think I could do it, could get invited to the White House to sit down with Donald Trump. He brought Bill Maher. He was on Bill Maher's show. He convinced Bill Maher to go to the White House to the satisfaction of no one.
No one wanted to see this. It's kind of like when Mika and Joe went to Mar-a-Lago. And Bill did it, even though he really doesn't like Donald Trump. And he says he's going to talk about it on his show. I guess he's off this Friday, but I guess the following Friday.
But in the meantime, we're getting a flavor for what went down because Kid Rock went on Fox and Friends the next morning and said this.
Me, Bill, Dana White, and it could not have been better. Everyone was so surprised, so pleasant. The most shocking thing to me was, you know, Bill's obviously a very big liberal, been very hard on the president, but he's donated a lot of money to other politicians. You know, you've had Biden, Clinton, Obama, everybody. He had never been to the White House, and the president was so gracious.
He took us up to the private residence. We saw the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln bedroom, and I was like, you've never been here, Bill? And I was like, how about this? President Trump, you know... Extending this olive branch and, like, and we talked about things we had in common, you know, ending wokeness, you know, securing the border.
You know, the president was asking him what he thought about policy, you know, going on with Iran and Israel and things. It just blew my mind. I was, you know, very proud.
Amazing. And by the way, it was also added that Maher showed up with a list of terrible things that Trump had said about Maher. And he showed it, I guess, to President Trump, who signed it and gave it back to him. Wow. Classic. Classic. Anyway. Yeah. So what do you make of it? Because the left is very unhappy with Bill for doing this.
I don't know that the right is loving it either, but I think they're used to Trump doing this now because he's had a parade of liberals come to him from big tech people to media people. So what's your take on it?
Well, I have some experience with this, not necessarily meeting with Donald Trump, of course, but, you know, the culture where you're not supposed to talk to the other side at all. I mean, I've lost friends for my willingness to come on shows like this one because I think it's important to have these conversations. I do think that there are areas of common ground.
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