The Megyn Kelly Show
New Trump Derangement Syndrome Examples, and How CNN Smeared a Navy Veteran, with Piers Morgan, Zachary Young, and Vel Freedman | Ep. 991
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Megyn Kelly is joined by Piers Morgan, host of "Piers Morgan Uncensored," to talk about his decision to take his digital show independent and start his own media business, how young people are driving massive changes in how media is consumed, the significance of ABC News agreeing to pay millions to settle a Trump defamation lawsuit, CNN settling their defamation case after being found guilty, the BS Russia collusion hoax and whether Trump should consider suing news organizations over it, examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the media already in the new presidency, the way American culture has completely moved on from that philosophy, the bombshell new Vanity Fair cover story unloading on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for their failures at Spotify and Netflix, the truth about how they treat people, and more. Then Zachary Young and his lawyer Vel Freedman join to talk about the defamatory report about Young that CNN aired that they were forced to pay tens of millions for last week, what they were really saying behind-the-scenes, how the report negatively affected Young's life, how CNN knew there were problems with their report on Young before it aired, the arrogance of CNN and their correspondent Alexander Marquardt, and more.Morgan- https://www.youtube.com/@PiersMorganUncensoredFreedman- https://www.fnf.law/attorneys/velvel-freedmanKars 4 Kids: Donate online today at https://Kars4Kids.org/MKHungryroot: https://Hungryroot.com/MK | Get 40% off your first box PLUS a free item in every box for life! 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 latest examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday. What a week. What a week I'm having, but in a good way. Especially busy for President Donald Trump, who got right to work after taking office on Monday, as we've been discussing.
Yesterday, he signed another flurry of executive orders, including one that got all of social media talking to declassify all remaining documents related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. Can you believe we haven't yet released those? I mean, this happened in 63 and 68 before I was born, before a lot of us listening to this were born.
They're still being kept a secret, but I mean, it's like, it's long overdue. It's kind of ridiculous that we're even having to beg for these things. Plus, a vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Department of Defense secretary is expected to happen late tonight. And it's going to be a close one.
And the Democrats are still slinging mud up until the 11th hour as we got a look at the Republicans who are likely to vote against the nomination. I also want to tell you that later in the show, I'm going to be joined by Zachary Young. Who is Zachary Young?
Well, first, this is his first long-form interview, and he is the military veteran who just successfully sued CNN for defamation, winning a $5 million compensatory damages award from them, and they were about to move on to the punitive damages phase where they were recommending the experts something like $120 million, at which point CNN... settled this case.
So this will be his first long-form interview, and I'm looking forward to discussing with him what it is CNN did to him and why they were so unapologetic. The jury saw it differently. Okay, but here to kick us off today is Piers Morgan. He's the host of Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, which is now available on all podcast platforms as well, and he's now going fully independent.
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Chapter 2: How did CNN defame Navy veteran Zachary Young?
I don't even think it's a risk. We've done the hard yards, you and I, I think in building our personal brands. And people, I think, like to hear what we have to say. They like the interviews we do. They like the debates we put on. And this is absolutely, to me, the future. And I think more and more people will take the leap and come with us on what is a pretty exciting journey.
I totally agree with you. And one thing that's great about YouTube and this other format is people can consume it the way they want. If they want to watch the whole show, they can watch the whole show. If they prefer to just watch sort of the hot clips or the things that interest them that were in the show, it's so easy for them to do it.
It caters to what is the desired user experience so much better.
Yeah, and I would add to that that they can watch it when they want to. The younger generation do not want to be beholden to conventional schedules. When I first started doing my show, I was doing it on YouTube, but also on a linear platform called Talk TV in the UK, which didn't last very long because it wasn't the kind of appetite for it that Americans have for cable newsletter night.
And that was fine because I could see that the numbers on the YouTube version were were going through the roof. And that was completely unencumbered by any kind of artificial schedule. You know, before I was trotting into a television studio at 8pm every night here in London, and there were advertising breaks and there'd be an hour, so maybe you get 47 minutes of airtime all broken up.
And you're like, why are we doing it like this? Why don't we just forget about the linear thing? Most of our audience actually don't want it. They're all gravitating to a YouTube version of of what we're doing here, which doesn't have any ad breaks in real time. We can go as long as we want. And people can watch it whenever they feel like.
And that has been, I think, the absolute eye-opener, not just for me, but for a lot of people in the industry. So with the recent election in America, the more people watched the election night on YouTube and watched it on cable and broadcast. And the latest numbers I saw as well a few days ago said that I think it's about 11.5%, 12% now of American television watchers
watch television on their smart TV through the YouTube app. That's an amazing statistic. And that means at this rate, I think the cable number is about 18%. The network number is about 23, 24. That means that very soon, probably in two years maximum, YouTube will be the number one way that most people watch television. They'll be watching it through the YouTube app on their smart TV.
It's a revolution that's happening actually very quickly. It reminds me of music, you know, when it went from vinyl to digital. Everyone thought it would take years. Actually, when it happened, the revolution came very quickly. And you're seeing the same with newspapers. I used to be a newspaper editor for many years in the U.K., Print versions of newspapers are basically dying out very quickly.
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Chapter 4: How has the media landscape changed with online platforms?
That's right.
They're afraid. For the reasons I said. But it's like if you approach your job earnestly and you do your – it's not to say you'll never – potentially defame somebody.
It's like, when you talk about people for a living, there's always that risk, but you have to have trust that you're, when your heart's in the right place and you have an honest approach to each of your stories that will rule the day because the defamation bar is high. It's high. So, you know, it's like, if you're quick to correct and you're honest about, did we make a mistake?
And do I owe this guy an apology? Did I screw it up? In my experience, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. And by the way, you know, you can times that by 100 when you're dealing with, you know, a former veteran, a veteran, because it's like there actually is a reputation there to harm. Like, you've got to be extra careful. You're talking about somebody who's served his country honorably.
Like, you really could hurt such a person. I want to show this, the correction by Pam Brown, which was aired Months later, the report, I think, was November of 21. And then the correction came March of 22. And then that corporate representative, the CNN senior VP, I think, at trial saying everybody on the editorial team disagreed with the correction. Watch these back to back, 28 and 29.
And before we go, a correction. In November, we ran a story about Afghans desperate to flee the country who face paying high sums beyond the reach of average Afghans. The story included a lead-in and banner throughout the story that referenced a black market. The use of the term black market in the story was an error.
The story included reporting on Zachary Young, a private operator who had been contacted by family members of Afghans trying to flee the country. We did not intend to suggest that Mr. Young participated in a black market. We regret the error. And to Mr. Young, we apologize.
Do you recall the Pam Brown apology? Yes. And you testified about it yesterday. Do you recall that? I did. And I believe you said essentially that you did it to try to avoid a lawsuit, right?
Yeah.
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