The Megyn Kelly Show - Bill Gates' Shocking Climate Change Shift, Autopen Report Drops, Trump Files Appeal: AM Update 10/29

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Bill Gates publishes a new memo renouncing “doomsday” climate rhetoric and urging a focus on human welfare and innovation over temperature targets in a shocking and dramatic shift from his past rhetoric. A House Oversight report accuses Biden staff of abusing the presidential autopen to authorize executive actions without direct consent from the President. A New Hampshire poll shows Pete Buttigieg leading early among Democrats for 2028, ahead of Gavin Newsom, AOC, and Kamala Harris. President Trump files a sweeping appeal to overturn his New York felony conviction, citing judicial bias and presidential immunity. Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Walmart: Learn how Walmart is fueling the future of U.S. manufacturing at https://Walmart.com/America-at-work Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, October 29th, 2025, and this is your AM update. We have to freem it in terms of overall human welfare, not just everything should be solely for climate. Leading climate activist Bill Gates changing his tune about the dire nature of climate change. The advice of counsel, I must be expected to deny to answer. The House Oversight Committee drops its report on the Biden, in White House's use of the auto pen. An early 2028 Democratic frontrunner has emerged. Wait until you hear who it is. And President Trump appeals his felony conviction in New York.

All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update. As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in Congress aiming to undermine the Trump agenda is Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. And according to our. sponsor, the Electronic Payments Coalition, Senator Durbin has a new plan, a government takeover of your credit card. Today, Americans have thousands of choices in credit cards, but they say Senator Durbin's plan will result in less competition and less security, which means more

risk for your credit and your identity. You can learn more for yourself at guard your card.com, and you could consider telling your senators to stop Dick Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft in a stunning memo dropping what he calls tough truths about climate change in an obvious reversal of his prior stance. The letter beginning, quote, There's a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this. In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization.

The evidence is all around us. Just look at all the heat waves and storms caused. by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature. Yes, Bill, wherever did people get those doomsday views from? Oh, wait, it was from you. You and people like former Vice President Al Gore, Greta Turnburg, and President Obama to name just a few. So certainly by the end of the century, you'll have permanent diops of all these coral ecosystems.

No beach you ever went to will be around. We're still putting 162 million tons into it every single day. And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. The future seems somewhat bleak. There are times where I am doubtful that humanity can get its act together before it's too late. And then images of dystopia start creeping into my dreams. It's an all-out effort, you know, like a world war, but it's us against greenhouse gases. Gates's Tuesday letter admitting, quote, fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate

change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. Someone check on AOC. immediately. Ahead of the upcoming climate summit next month in Brazil, Gates attempting to completely shift the global conversation around the left's pet issue. More from the letter, quote, although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them, it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare. The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been. Reminder, Bill Gates once backed a venture to spray dust into the atmosphere in order to block the sun to cool the planet.

Tuesday morning on CNBC, Gates explaining the key goal of the Paris Climate Accord, limiting global rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius, is not realistic, nor should it be a priority. Climate is a super important problem. There's enough innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes. We have to frame it in terms of overall. human welfare, not just everything should be solely for climate. The one thing about that accord that turned out not to be realistic was the ambitious goal of staying to 1.5 degrees. We won't be able to do that. Even if you took all the money away from health, you wouldn't be able to do that. It wasn't the goal here to improve human lives. And shouldn't we, in our

awareness of how little generosity there is to help measure, you know, should we get them a measles vaccine or should we do some climate-related activity? And if we stop funding all vaccines and that, you know, saved you point one degree, would that be a smart trade-off? Gates even admitting wind and solar energy options are not ready for prime time, quote, we don't yet have all the tools we need to meet the growing demand for energy without increasing carbon emissions, calling for the world to focus on innovation and adaptation to improve people's ability to live on a warming planet. Did he borrow this from Project 2025? Climate change scientist Michael Mann responding on MSNBC. Frankly, Bill Gates doesn't have any expertise

in climate science, and he's failing to listen to what the experts actually have to say. So when Bill Gates says we'll just sort of try to engineer our way out of it or innovate our way out of it. It's really tone-deaf to the fact that there are a very large number of people who will suffer catastrophic consequences if we continue to allow the planet to warm up. Some on the left, pointing to the change in administration as a reason for the change in messaging, Gates among the tech CEOs who was at the White House with President Trump last month. The House Oversight Committee late Monday night, releasing its 100-page report into the Biden White House's use of the Autopen, a mechanical device that replicates the president's signature.

Over the course of 47 hours of testimony from 14 former aides, investigators examining who controlled access to the President's signature authority and how decisions were made involving the Autopen. The report finding, quote, his staff abused the Autopen and a lax chain of command policy to affect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were, in fact, authorized. It goes on, quote, there is no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him. Therefore, quote, the committee deems void all executive actions signed by the autopen without proper corresponding contemporaneous written

approval traceable to the president's own consent. What exactly the import of that declaration is remains unclear, though Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, did call on the DOJ to conduct a review of the executive actions in question and investigate the Biden aides who pleaded the fifth rather than testify. Those individuals include Mr. Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Annie Tomasini, and former chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal, a man who figured prominently in the Jake Tapper Alex Thompson book. The O'Reilly's report calling Dr. O'Connor, quote,

central to the scheme to, quote, obfuscate the truth about the president's true cognitive state. The report concluding Dr. O'Connor, quote, recklessly, never conducted a cognitive exam of the president. When asked by the committee if he was told to lie about President Biden's health and fitness to be president, Dr. O'Connor responding as follows. On the advice of counsel, I must be expectfully declined to answer based upon the physician-patient privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. I am not a lawyer. I must follow my lawyer's advice in this matter.

Longtime political operative and Biden aid Anita Dunn telling the committee, senior Biden advisors reached a consensus that the president should not take a cognitive exam. The report delving into Dr. O'Connor's, quote, strong financial and personal incentives to not break. rank from the president's inner circle in the cover-up. The report noting how Dr. O'Connor previously described his close relationship to the Biden's over the years and how he, quote, ended up being involved in a lot of important family things. O'Connor's financial ties to the Biden family, dating back to as early as 2017, when, quote, Dr. O'Connor introduced Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, to medical leaders and executives to support James Biden's business relationship with AmeriCorps Health LLC. The hookup was a bit odd because James Biden had no experience in hospital administration. That company just months later, transferring $600,000 in loans to

James Biden, $200,000 of which was sent to his personal account. Later that same day, James Biden sent $200,000 to his brother, Joe Biden, according to the Oversight Committee report. James Biden's attorney once told the New York Times, the doctor received no compensation for the connection provided to James, but the doctor could not be asked about it at all, given that he pled the fifth. A Biden spokesperson telling Fox News, quote, this investigation into baseless claims has confirmed what has been clear from the start. President Biden made the decisions of his presidency. There was no conspiracy, no cover-up, and no wrongdoing. Congressional Republicans should stop focusing on political retribution and instead work to end the government.

shutdown. In July, former President Joe Biden telling the New York Times, he made all auto-pen decisions on his own. Coming up, looking ahead to 2028, an early Democrat frontrunner emerges will tell you who it is. And President Trump appeals the felony convictions resulting from the DA Alvin Bragg's Manhattan Business Records case. When customers are walking through the aisles of their local Walmart, they're not just picking up groceries or supplies. They are supporting American businesses and their communities. The real story is what's behind the label.

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From farms to factories to final shopping cards, learn how Walmart is fueling the future of U.S. manufacturing at walmart.com slash America at work. A new poll out of New Hampshire showing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg emerging as a presidential frontrunner for the Democrats in 2028. Mayor Pete leading the pack at 19 percent, trailed by California Governor Gavin Newsom at 15. percent. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 14 percent, former VP Kamala Harris at 11,

Senator Bernie Sanders at 8, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, at 6 percent, according to the Granite State poll. For a little extra context, don't know slash undecided, coming in at 10 percent. The survey of around 600 Democrats planning to vote in the 2028 primary, also finding Budigieg with the highest favorability among the pack at 81% favorable to 6% unfavorable for a plus 75 net favorability rating. Senator Sanders with the second highest favorability at plus 59, AOC and third at plus 56. Kamala Harris, who with each passing interview, gets closer and closer to saying she does plan to run again, notching just plus 38 favorability. Budigieg, becoming a national figure in the 2020 Democrat primary, running as an openly gay, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ultimately dropping out of the race just before Super Tuesday and endorsing Joe Biden.

Buttigieg later rewarded with the role of Transportation Secretary. During the supply chain crisis of 2020, Buttigieg was missing for about two months, later citing paternity leave as the excuse for his prolonged absence. current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in August, slamming his predecessor, accusing him of putting career ambitions ahead of the job. A lot of people, when they have a job, they use that job to run for a different office. And I think that's a huge mistake. And I think Mayor Pete was Secretary Buttigieg was running for president while he was the Secretary of DOT and didn't pay attention to the basics.

And so he had a focus truly on DEI and climate. and the cost of that to the American people. And again, when you're focused on, you know, changing the names of cockpit to flight deck or airman to arrow not because you're concerned you could offend someone, all the while you have 84 near misses in the Washington, D.C. airspace

between helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, and you don't look at that, I don't know how you're going to run for president on that record. You didn't do your job. And had he done his job, we wouldn't have inherited all of the problems that we have right now that are going to take years to fix. President Trump on Monday appealing his criminal conviction in the Alvin Bragg Manhattan Business

Records case, arguing the verdict should be overturned entirely. In a 100-plus page brief, Mr. Trump's legal team, writing, quote, this case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction. The appeal challenging the 34-count felony conviction for falsifying business records relating to payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors allege the payments made to keep Daniels story of an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump out of the press during the 2016 campaign

were falsely filed as legal expenses, even though they were paid out to Mr. Trump's lawyer. Prosecutors arguing Mr. Trump's desire to not record the words, hush money payments amounted to election interference. Mr. Trump's legal team accusing DA Alvin Bragg of concocting a purported felony out of internal bookkeeping records by, quote, stacking, time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanors under a convoluted legal theory. The president's lawyers arguing, quote, these charges against President Trump were as unprecedented

as their political context. They argued the convictions should be thrown out on multiple grounds, including the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity last year. From the brief, quote, the jury improperly heard extensive testimony about at least four different kinds of official acts by President Trump, including official presidential statements made on social media. Mr. Trump's team also saying Judge Juan Mershan, who oversaw the case, should have recused himself due to conflicts of interest. The brief citing, three small yet improper payments by the judge,

to Biden for president, and to two Democrat PACs, including one called the Stop Republicans Pack. In addition, the brief citing Judge Mershan's daughter's work, at a political advertising company that was paid millions by the Kamala Harris campaign and by other Democrats, including for running advertisements

specifically invoking the district attorney of New York's prosecution of President Trump in her father's courtroom. President Trump's conviction handed down in May of 2024. In January of 2025, Judge Mershan delivering

an unconditional discharge, meaning after all that, a no-penalty sentence was handed. down. Just over one week before Mr. Trump returned to the White House, but the conviction stands for now. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the Megan Kelly show live on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 11 at noon east on YouTube.com slash Megan Kelly and on all podcast platforms.