The Megyn Kelly Show
RFK Confirmed, Trump Makes Kennedy Center "Hot" Again, and Unearthed Blake Lively Video, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1007
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
Megyn Kelly is joined by Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, hosts of the Ruthless podcast, to break down why the left’s lawfare against Trump's agenda is failing, the way it's disrupting his administration already, the left's resistance to attempts to cut bureaucracy, waste, and fraud, institutional capture in D.C., how Trump's administration is fighting judicial activism, Sen. Mitch McConnell as the only Republican to vote against RFK and Tulsi, McConnell's political relationship with Trump, Megyn's direct role in helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s monumental comeback from deplatformed everywhere to HHS Secretary, the way the Biden White House worked with the media to make RFK into a villain, the role of independent media in RFK's rise again, Trump’s plan to make the Kennedy Center "hot" again, how he’s cutting out the "woke-y" agenda, Trump's cultural relevance from his performances on SNL and the Emmys, the latest drama in the legal fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, a new video of Blake Lively showing how she takes over movies she's in, her "poisoning" a past castmate, and more.More from Ruthless: https://ruthlesspodcast.com/Done with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com/Firecracker Farm: Get 10% off with code MK at https://Firecracker.Farm/ 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: How did RFK Jr. become Secretary of Health and Human Services?
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. As President Trump declared on Truth Social, three great weeks, perhaps the best ever. And it honestly might be, at least when it comes to presidential politics. And this morning, an incredible win for the Make America Healthy Again movement.
the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This just happened on the Senate floor.
In this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 48. The confirmation is confirmed.
There was one holdout on the Republican side. Again, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Now he's gone against Hegseth, he's gone against Tulsi, and he's gone against RFKJ, even when here with RFKJ, Murkowski and Collins, and with Tulsi, those two voted for her. So he's become the chief antagonist to Trump among Republicans, but nobody's following him.
I mean, he's voting like a Democrat, and I'm not sure exactly what he's up to. We have the perfect guest to ask, though, today. Yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in as the president's director of national intelligence. We mentioned that to you. We will get into the Trump cabinet plus an insurrection at the Kennedy Center as Trump makes America hot again.
We'll explain with the fellows from Ruthless today, Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook. You can find all of their work at RuthlessPodcast.com. And congratulations are in order. Ruthless is taping its 500th episode live on February 19th in Washington, D.C., Four years of crushing interest rates, runaway inflation, and reckless government spending, and who is paying the price? You are.
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Chapter 2: Why is Mitch McConnell against RFK Jr.'s confirmation?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's literally –
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
They would agree with nine-tenths of what Elon Musk has talked about in terms of where this USAID money is going.
Right. Oh, for sure. These cuts are going to have majority support. And so far, the polling shows they have majority support. Elon's struggling somewhat in his approval ratings, depending on who you ask, which pollster you ask. But people like Doge and they like cuts and they're not on the side of the federal bureaucrats and they love Trump. I mean, his numbers are great.
I mean, Elon's the forward facing, you know, sort of picture of all this. So he's a controversial guy just because of X and so on. So liberals don't like him. To your point, Smug, Trump said something very similar yesterday. He's had enough of the nonsense of funneling all this money to these left-wing causes, to these illegal immigrants, and not to actual Americans who are suffering.
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Chapter 3: How is Trump's administration handling lawfare?
Trump was at the game. He got a big thrill because some of the crowd booed Taylor Swift when they put her up on the Jumbotron, which of course made Harry Conman Sr. very happy. He posted three times about this. After the game, he wrote, the only one that had a tougher night than the Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got booed out of the stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving.
Well, she didn't get booed out of the stadium. Unlike you, she stayed for the whole game. And it was the Eagles fans who were booing her. But you're right. It's all about you. It's always all... Trump's just jealous of Taylor Swift because she has more followers and more money and no kids than he does.
Okay. By the way, I was there all the way through and she was gone. She was missing in action for most of the second half. So I don't know what he's talking about. Trump left at his previously designated time, which was, I think, 8.02. That had been scheduled and that is when he left.
And it's a little harder, Jimmy, when you're the president of the United States, because if you leave when everybody else is leaving, you completely F them over because no one can move anywhere. It's total gridlock in the city. Hello? Hello?
Yeah, where are the jokes in his late night show? That's a thing. That's what I want to know. You know, I mean, like, I think Taylor Swift got out pretty easily. Usually when Philly fans show up, they bring batteries.
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.
Right? Like, please like me, Taylor. Please pat me on the head like a good little boy. I don't know. I really think that Taylor Swift's magic has left the building. I think people are over her. It's not that she doesn't have any fans left. She does. She'll still sell lots of records. But I think she peaked and is already on her way down because of overexposure and she got political.
Those two things really hurt her. It's too much. There's a reason you don't see everyday pictures of Angelina Jolie going to Starbucks or going to work out. It's not because she never does those things. It's because she doesn't call the paparazzi and have them photograph every time she does, or Julia Roberts, for that matter, who I don't love, but she doesn't do this to herself. J-Lo,
Every turn she got overexposed and she damaged her own brand. And the same happened to Taylor. She said yes to everything. She was too out there at the heiress tour in your face at every turn, every chiefs game dominating the NFL. She didn't have to sit. at every Chiefs game right in the front row when she knew the cameras would get her. Truly. I mean, I was just in one of these suites.
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