The Megyn Kelly Show - Get To Know The Incoming Trump Cabinet: Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and More
Episode Date: November 26, 2024Megyn Kelly dives into the incoming Trump cabinet and other appointments, including Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Marty Makary as head of the F...DA, Kristi Noem as Director of Homeland Security, Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and more.Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldJase Medical: https://Jase.com and entering promo code MK at checkoutTax Network USA: https://TNUSA.com/MEGYNFollow 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
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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. Well, today we've put
together for you a deep dive on the incoming Trump cabinet, the people President-elect
Donald Trump has selected to be his team when he's sworn in this January.
And to do that, we are bringing you some of their appearances on The Megyn Kelly Show over the past few years.
First up is Tulsi Gabbard, nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence.
Tulsi's been on with me many times over the years, but a notable appearance was episode 846 from July of this year,
right after the swap from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris.
Given her history with the Democratic Party, Tulsi was the perfect person to talk to about it.
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today. President Biden's selfless decision has given the Democratic Party the opportunity
to unite behind a new nominee. and boy, oh boy, are
we enthusiastic.
When I spoke with her Sunday, she said she wanted the opportunity to win the nomination
on her own, and to do so from the grassroots up, not top down.
She would work to earn the support of our party, And boy, has she done so in quick order.
So now that the process has played out from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today
to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. I'm clapping. You don't have to.
It's a happy day. What can I say?
And they didn't clap. And for the listening audience, while he's doing this bit,
he's pumping his fist like, yay, we can do it. Both fists together, swing swaying,
bottom up grassroots, just in case you didn't hear. Welcome back to the Megyn Kelly show. Who better to talk about all of this with than my next guest, Tulsi Gabbard. She was a 2020 presidential candidate
on the Dem side, and she is author of the book for love of country. Leave the Democrat party
behind. So you know how things went over there. Tulsi, great to have you back, especially so soon,
but why shouldn't we given the monumental developments since you were last
on? This was a grassroots, bottom-up, quote, process that was really given to the voters,
just in case you weren't aware, definitely not top-down. True?
Yeah, sure. If you buy what Chuck Schumer is selling, which I don't for a second. I was laughing as
you play that clip, Megan, because, gosh, it's just so telling in so many ways,
ending with him being the only guy clapping.
In front of loyal Democrats and campaign operatives, nonetheless.
Exactly. Exactly. It really said it all about who's actually made the decision here. And it's not the rank and file Democrats. And we got to go all the way back to when the Democratic had primaries and there were a lot of different
choices from voters to select from. How that that pre-curation and pre-selection process
occurred between the Democratic Party and the mainstream propaganda media back then
is another topic for another conversation. But at least there were many names on the ballot
and voters had the opportunity to go and cast their vote for the candidate of their choosing in this election now in 2024 many states
didn't even have primaries we actually had a few people who stepped up to run against joe biden in
the primary election and their their names are not allowed to be on some ballots in these states so
to say that first of all there was even a democratic process to select joe b allowed to be on some ballots in these states. So to say that, first of all, there was even a Democratic process to select Joe Biden to be the nominee is a pure lie.
And that lie is continuing on now as they try to create this new narrative and this facade of how the Democratic Party is going to the grassroots from the bottom on up to select Kamala Harris as the nominee.
None of that has happened.
What are we at? It's Wednesday now. This announcement was just made that President
Biden was not going to run on Sunday. Where was the bottom up grassroots voices being heard and
votes being cast now for Kamala Harris to be the new Democratic nominee? It's a lie. It hasn't
happened. They have decided that she will be the nominee,
but they're trying to pretend as though that this is a decision being made by the American people,
or certainly Democratic primary voters, to try to bolster her position rather than seeing it for
what it actually is, which is a coronation by the Democrat elite who've been calling the shots
for Joe Biden, who's been a figurehead for the
Democrat elite for the last three and a half years. And now they see in Kamala Harris,
someone who will continue to be a figurehead and who will, who will do whatever they tell her to do.
That's exactly right. She's going to owe them. She's going to owe them big.
It's right on brand though, Tulsi for the Democrat party. And what we've seen recently,
where we've just been through years
of them telling us not to believe our lion eyes when it came to Joe Biden's decline.
And then when it was no longer, you know, they were no longer capable of hiding it.
And Kamala subs in. Don't believe your lion eyes that this looked like a top down effort.
You know, she was made the nominee by Fiat. You guys really actually voted for it. This came from
you, the grassroots. And I have to voted for it. This came from you,
the grassroots. And I have to say, of all the ones who object, finally, you see BLM
coming out and saying, this is not OK. She's been placed in there. We object to this. We
do not support her. And shouldn't there be at least the semblance of democracy here?
I mean, this might be the first time I've agreed with the messaging coming out of that group. It is, it is very telling again, and it's a continuation of, of two things.
Number one is across the, the entire Biden Harris administration, they have consistently shown that,
that they believe if they say something that it is somehow true. And number two, that we, the American people,
are stupid enough to buy what they're saying and not pay attention to what they're doing.
We've seen this dramatically with their open border policies. Over and over again for the
last three years, President Biden, Kamala Harris, Secretary Mayorkas, over and over again telling
the American people, the border is secure.
The border is secure. There is no crisis at the border. Don't worry about this. There's nothing
to see here, folks. And then all of a sudden, because they see voters are looking at what's
actually happening, they're not buying their lie. President Biden does this last minute political
election year executive order to try to crack down on the on the border and actually acknowledge,
well, actually, no, it wasn't secure, but it's the Republicans' fault and it's Trump's fault. It doesn't make sense in
any way, shape, or form. They did the same thing with our economy. Bidenomics is working great.
It's one of our greatest success stories. The economy is going to be great. The recession is
not going to last very long. It's just a temporary thing. Don't worry about it. Nothing to see here.
Meanwhile, everyday Americans are noticing that they can afford less and less every time
you go to the grocery store, recognizing that our economy is not doing very well.
Everything costs more now. And when are these prices going to fall? When is inflation going
to go down in enough of a way that makes it so that people can not have to be so concerned about
how to cover the basic expenses of everyday life. We're seeing the same thing happen here. I think this statement
from Black Lives Matter is very telling because they're speaking the truth, first of all, but
second of all, also that it shows that they expect Black voters to fall in behind Kamala Harris
lockstep, once again, playing the identity politics game, rather than actually looking at what are the issues, what are the issues
that are of concern to African-American voters, to different demographics and constituencies
across our country. They're not actually focused on solutions to the real challenges we face.
Once again, focused on what they say and hoping we fall for the lie and the
optics of what they're presenting that are not reflective of the truth of the world and country
that we live in today. So on the subject of the economy, I believe that this is one of the reasons
Democrats are struggling so mightily. And I think it's so far we've seen Harris as well. It's only
been days. So take it with a grain of salt with young people because they're being directly affected. They
can't get into the economy. They can't get anything close to a running start. They're
dragging. They can't find jobs. I also happen to believe the over the top DEI messaging
that these young people have grown up with and been immersed in in high school and college has turned a lot of them on these Democrats. They don't want their skin color and their gender and
their whatever shoved down their throats. But look at this report from CNN. I've got two sound
bites here from this guy, Harry Enten, who watches the polls carefully for them.
They're very interesting, Tulsi. We'll play the first one and then we'll go to the second watch.
Joe Biden won voters under the age of 35 by 21 points. What do we see with Kamala Harris? Well,
she's still ahead, but the margin here is significantly less than what we saw with Joe
Biden back in 2020. She's up by just nine points. You may make the argument that was better than
Biden was doing before he got out. But compared to that Democratic baseline where Democrats have
historically in presidential elections, at least this century, been carrying that young vote by 20 or more percentage points.
She is way down from that. Democrats say they're more motivated to turn out after Biden left the race.
Well, we do see a significant portion of Democrats who say, yes, 39 percent.
The thing I was interested in was that disproportionately younger voters who said that they were more likely to turn out or more motivated to turn out.
And what we see here is it's 42 percent, not a big difference between 42 and 39 percent.
So this idea, again, that the vice president has unique potential to dig in and get young voters to turn out.
John, it's just not there in the numbers, despite all the Internet memes that are going around. They've only gotten a three point bump with young voters on enthusiasm since they announced her.
Let me play the second one, because this speaks more to party identification. And you and I both
know you used to be a Democrat. I did, too. When you're young, that's when the Democrat Party is
kind of usually most appealing.
Not necessarily right now.
Look at this.
I want to look at party identification again.
Voters under the age of 35.
Go back to 2020.
This is the Pew Research study.
This is one of the best studies that we have.
And look at that.
56 percent of young voters said that, in fact, they were Democrats.
They identified as Democrat or lean Democratic.
You look down at 2024, it's 49 percent. Look at the Republican jump from 39 to 49 percent. So when we say that Harris is doing worse than Biden, it's not that she's uniquely
bad. It's rather she's fighting uphill. She's trying to fight against a wave that is going
against the Democrats among young voters. And Harris may be unique in some ways. Maybe she
does slightly better than the generic Democrat, but not all that much. So for the listening audience, it shows that the
Republicans used to be at a significant disadvantage in getting young people to vote
and register Republican. And it's been completely erased. And Democrats have gone from having 49
percent of the young voters registered as Democrat to just 30. They've lost
10 percentage points off their share. So you explain that one to me, Tulsi, because that's
a problem for them. You know, what I think is encouraging of what we're seeing here is that
you have young people who are questioning. They're not just accepting whatever they're being fed.
Again, we can't
cast a broad brush and say all young people, this or that, but it's encouraging to see that there
are more young people who are not just accepting at face value what the Democratic leader is saying
when they say, hey, a boy can become a girl simply by declaring that it is so, and that boys should
be allowed to compete in girls' sports. I think
people are actually, I mean, this is young people, but I think across the board are recognizing the
literal and pure insanity of these woke radical ideologies of the Democrat elite are not only
advocating for, but pushing and mandating in our schools. The fact that in some schools now, for example,
a track team in my home state of Hawaii, a girls track team now has half of the team,
half of the entire team are biological males competing on a girls team, taking away those
opportunities from our young women and girls. I think every rational, open-minded person would
look at this kind of example and just say, this is insanity. It's crazy. And so this,
you mentioned some examples with regard to the economy. You look at examples related to
our open borders and how it's not just the border states now that are feeling the effects and
impacts of the almost four years of open border policies under the Biden-Harris administration.
It's small towns.
It's rural communities.
I was in Montana recently and was talking to some folks there.
This is Montana.
You couldn't get farther away from the border on any coast or the southwest than Montana. And even there, they are being impacted by the illegal immigration crisis and
an increasing presence of criminal activity by the cartels who have taken a stronghold there.
It is harder for everyday Americans, young people who are usually not attached to an
affiliation of one party or another from a generational standpoint. So it's encouraging
to see how people are using their
common sense, being critical thinkers, being independent-minded thinkers about, okay, well,
which party and which candidate is more accurately representing common sense and what is actually in
the best interest of themselves, their families, their communities in our country?
I was just talking to a couple of young people, young and in college, and they were each one of them, three guys, all telling me they had had
furries in their high school and seeing them at college, that the kids regularly showing up
wearing cat ears and tails and outfits and pretending that they were an animal during
school hours.
And all three of these young men happen to be white. They have zero question that this is a disadvantage for them in seeking job opportunities that interview after interview or going in another
direction, going in another direction. And invariably they hire somebody who's got some
sort of identity that the box that can be checked. I really think this is having electoral consequences
for the Democrats and it's showing up in some of these polls. And I think even they are going to
realize this. I don't know whether they'll actually do anything about it though. So mind meld,
mind melded into this ideology. I'm going to take a break and I'm going to come back because there's
a lot more to get to. I want to get to Kamala Harris and who she is on the crime issue.
Because as I was pointing out, she supposedly has this tough history from California.
But when she was elevated to vice president, her messaging changed dramatically. And now
even her party is starting to change on the issue of crime because it's gotten so bad.
And even Democrats are realizing defund police is not a good message. So what
the hell is she going to do? What's she going to say? Which one's going to emerge?
Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor
president. But I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but
she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana
violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row
until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use
them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
As the elected attorney general of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the
criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work
that needs to be done. And I am proud of that work. The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were
in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not. And worse
yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence
from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so.
There is no excuse for that. And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor,
you owe them an apology. So that was the July 2019 debate in one of the most memorable exchanges in
recent history between now presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris and our guest today, Tulsi Gabbard, former U.S. representative as a Democrat and author of For Love of Country.
Tulsi's had a just very negative experience with these Democrats who are now pulling the strings
around Kamala Harris, too. But, you know, we went back, even though we're friends,
and we fact checked everything you said. One 100% accurate. There isn't one word of that that was
off. And it was pretty telling that she didn't deny it. She just tried to pivot to, I'm proud
of my record. And so now she really is at a crossroads here because she's got to figure
out whether she wants to be the, no, cash bail is a good thing, Kamala Harris, or the no, we don't like cash bail because it
hurts minorities, Kamala Harris. And whether she's going to be the we want to prosecute marijuana
users, Kamala Harris, or the one who admitted to smoking marijuana for recreation purposes on a
show, right? Like she's tried to reinvent herself so many times. And now the cultural
winds have shifted such that I think she's going to be a little twisted on which way to land.
What do you think? You know, first, first, I think it's important to look at how how was it possible?
You said that was July 2019. Kamala Harris, I think, announced her candidacy in January of 2019.
How was it possible that I was the first person, the first
candidate running for president at that time, and really the first person, even when you count the
mainstream media, to actually call her out and question her? Very simply, as you pointed out,
question her on her record that she said she was proud of as attorney general. This is important
to point out because it's a sign of what we should expect here
for the next three and a half months in this election,
that the media is going to continue to push out
fluff stories about her.
They are not going to seriously
and honestly examine her record.
They're going to treat her with kid gloves
and even worse yet, create this
new false narrative about who Kamala Harris is and to try to reshape her record. So we should
be very clear eyed about that, because as you said, what I found there, as you and your researchers
probably found, it wasn't very hard to look at her record and what she's claiming to be proud of.
Second of all, there's far more to look
at than I had in the 60 seconds on that debate stage to bring up just a few. Defunding the
police. I have no doubt she will say with a straight face she did not support defunding
the police. But the fact is that she did. She may have called it reimagining law enforcement, but in reality, what she was so forth, literally because they have defunded the police.
You look back during her time as attorney general, she promoted charging parents with a misdemeanor for truth.
See if their kids missed 10, more than 10 percent of days in school. And she passed this into law, and it negatively impacted
so many families who, for one reason or another, maybe they had pulled their kids out and were
homeschooling them, or maybe a family member got sick and they weren't able to take their kids to
school for a whole number of reasons. She turned parents into criminals, charging them with
misdemeanors that could result in up to a year in jail,
hauling single moms out of their homes in handcuffs. This is the kind of top cop prosecutor
that Kamala Harris is proud of being. We look at her time as a member of the Judiciary Committee
in the U.S. Senate, where she was dismissing Article 6 of the Constitution that says there shall be no religious test.
When she questioned Boucher, who was nominated by President Trump to become a judge,
accusing him of being unqualified to be a judge simply because of his Catholic faith,
and he was a member of the Knights of Columbus, accusing him of being part of some nefarious group,
and in fact, implementing a religious
test in defiance of the Constitution. There are a lot of other examples that we can give,
but again, this is why it's so important that we point out her actual record. And when you have
someone who doesn't believe in the rule of law, as we've seen with the Biden-Harris administration's
lawfare that's been taking place,
politicizing our public institutions, the Department of Justice and Judiciary and law enforcement to go after their political opponents, foremost of which is Donald Trump,
but also including peaceful pro-life protesters and others who dare to challenge their agenda
and their position. She wants to be the top cop and the prosecutor
president, as she has claimed. We should be very concerned about that because she doesn't
respect the Constitution. She is not willing to uphold the oath that she took to support and
defend the Constitution. And so the lawfare that we've seen under the Biden-Harris administration,
we can only assume, would only get worse as
she seeks to exercise her muscle in that respect.
There has to be a reckoning with her record as attorney general, as U.S. senator, and
as vice president.
And I believe that most Americans, when presented with the truth, as you pointed out in that
moment in the debate, will realize how dangerous she would be if she
is to be given these levers of power to abuse. I mean, this is in addition to wanting Medicare
for all and to eliminate our private insurance plans, wanting to eliminate the filibuster so
that she can pass the Green New Deal and take away airplanes and cars and cows.
This is actually stuff she's on the record with, not to mention her abortion policies.
But here she is back in June of 2020, wanting to appease a riled up Democratic base in the
wake of the George Floyd situation, being pretty clear about how she felt about
cops on the street. Look at this. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward
to think that more police officers will create more safety.
A big part of this conversation really is about reimagining how we do public safety in America, which I support, which is this.
We have confused the idea that to achieve safety, you put more cops on the street.
You know, for far too long, the status quo thinking has been to believe that by putting
more police on the street, you're going to have more safety. And that's just wrong.
It's just that's not how it works.
So that's that's the new Kamala Harris, right? Not not the old one who is a D.A. and a prosecutor.
The new one is we don't need more cops. Fewer cops is the way.
And now here we are, four years later, we've seen what a disaster that's been,
in particular for communities of color.
Tulsi, those are the ones who got hurt the worst by that insane policy that she helped push.
You know, those clips, that string of clips you just played really once again exposes her lack of knowledge and understanding and intelligence to be so simplistic as to say, well,
more cops doesn't lead to safer streets.
Well, it's a much bigger challenge than this.
My sister served in law enforcement.
I have a lot of friends who are serving in local, state, county, federal law enforcement.
It's about investing in our fellow Americans who make this very selfless choice to go and put their lives and well-being and safety on the line
every single day to make our communities safe. It's not a matter of just mere numbers. It's
about investing in them, their training and their capabilities to be able to face the kinds of
extreme challenges that they do on a daily basis. It's about making sure that we have systems in place to be able to support them
as they deal with these very traumatic situations and make it so that they are in a position to be
most successful, building those relationships with our communities, investing in local police
officers who are serving their local communities, and making it so that they and their families
have that safety and security of knowing that they and their families have that safety and
security of knowing that they're cared for.
It's taking this holistic approach to this challenge that we've been dealing with, with
law enforcement and increasingly more dangerous streets, equipping them with what they need
in order to accomplish the reason why so many people become law enforcement in the first
place, which is to serve and to protect.
That is what we should be. She's got a record time and time again of demonizing the cops.
No matter the situation, she's against the police. When Jussie Smollett came up with his nonsense
story and said he was attacked and that anybody saying he wasn't was a liar. She sided with him.
She came out and
said this about him. Um, one of the kindest, most gentle human beings. I know I'm praying for his
quick recovery. This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their
life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate again, not
directly involving the police, but there was a race thing and that's underlying these attacks on cops. Then came Jacob Blake, who attacked cops. He went after cops with a knife and rather than waiting
for the facts. And by the way, you could see the cops were under threat in the videos that first
came out. If you were just open-minded, um, she piled on the cops there. And here's what she said in August of 2020, SOT 29.
We also see pain, hurt, and destruction in the aftermath of yet another black man shot by police.
Jacob Blake shot seven times in the back in broad daylight in front of his three young sons. It's sickening to watch.
It's all too familiar and it must end. But he is fighting for his life and he shouldn't have to be.
My heart goes out to the Blake family as they endure an ordeal that is tragically common in our country.
Tragically common with those terrible cops. And just to put a point on it,
this is the same woman who was bailing out BLM protesters, raising money to bail them out,
rioters. Here was Jacob Blake, the person she was, she said specifically, not in that clip,
she was proud of him. She's out there condemning the cops. was, she said specifically, not in that clip, she was proud of him.
She's out there condemning the cops.
It's all too common, you know, for these racist cops to shoot a black man who's unarmed and not a threat.
Here was Jacob Blake after the fact, giving an interview on Good Morning America.
I realized I had dropped my knife, that little pocket knife. So I picked it up after I got off of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him.
With an open knife in hand that Blake says fell out of his pocket,
he walks around the front of the vehicle towards the driver's side door.
What are you thinking at that point?
I'm not really worried.
I'm walking away from them, so it's not like they're going to shoot me.
I shouldn't have picked it up. Right. She never apologized to the cops involved in the Jacob Blake situation. She never owned up to her lies about Jussie Smollett. She's anti-cop now
because that's what serves her best politically. We shouldn't be surprised to hear
how that story changes here in the next few months as she recognizes how much of our country truly
values all that our law enforcement do every day. I think this is going to be one issue of many
where like what happened on the 2020 campaign, she will come up with whatever she feels she needs to say in order to try to win this election in November.
I think even back in 2020, it got to a point where her changing message and narrative really occurred from Monday to Tuesday.
You're not talking about a years-long shift in her belief and position on a specific issue. Her positions on many of the issues that we've talked about today flip-flopped
so many times within the course of a week. Even the New York Times and the Washington Post were
forced to call her out for this, saying that we don't actually even know what Kamala Harris is
advocating for. This is very likely going to continue to happen here. And we need to call
her out for it every time because her record speaks for itself. Meanwhile, you know, the
underlying left wing, obviously, you know, far left progressive California native is going to
take a beating on actual policies. I made reference to outside of law enforcement, some of the far left things she's pushed. This is coming up already. And this ad,
our first panel mentioned it. We have it. It's out of Pennsylvania where the Senate candidate
McCormick is running this against Bob Casey, who is the Democrat. Democrat is the is Casey.
Dave McCormick is the Republican. Casey is a three-term incumbent, and it's a Senate
race there. Casey's ahead by six points out there. It's easier when you're the incumbent,
but he just endorsed Kamala Harris. And Pennsylvania, of course, is ground zero in
this presidential contest as well. So we're watching the Senate, we're watching the presidential
contest. And take a look at this ad, which is already generating a lot of attention online.
Kamala Harris is inspiring and very capable.
The more people get to know her, they're going to be particularly impressed by her ability.
The nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most liberal senator.
I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a green new deal.
There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
Would you ban offshore drilling?
Yes.
What is the solution for voters in the fossil fuel industry?
Giving the workers an ability to transition.
We're not gonna treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals.
That's correct.
Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense
rather than a crime across the border without documentation.
Abolish ICE.
Yeah.
Is that a position you agree with?
We need to probably think about starting from scratch.
Outdated, it is wrong-headed thinking to think that the only way you're going to get communities
to be safe is to put more police officers on the street.
Why do you support changing the dietary guidelines?
Yes.
You know, the food pyramid.
Yes.
To reduce red meat specifically.
Yes.
People who are convicted in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be able to vote?
I think we should have that conversation.
We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program.
So for people out there who like their insurance, they don't get to keep it?
Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on.
I am opposed to any policy that would deny any human being public health, period.
The more people get to know her, they're going to be particularly impressed by her ability.
I mean, that is just devastating.
Those are her actual positions.
Those are her actual words.
That's a very compelling montage of Kamala Harris, the real Kamala Harris that people should
be paying attention to. These same policies that she's talking about in that montage of ads are
exactly what we've seen, quite frankly, reflected in the Biden-Harris administration of the last
three and a half years. As hard as she tries to perhaps run
away from some of these positions that she has very clearly taken for years in the past and that
have been shown through and reflected in the Biden-Harris administration, the most important
thing is for voters to not fall for it. I think that's a very powerful ad that represents who Kamala Harris is and frankly represents the positions of the Democrat elite, the power elite who have been pulling the strings and calling the shots throughout this administration and what their goals and objectives are.
Those who she will follow their orders and be beholden to as she becomes the Democratic nominee and if she
is allowed to become president of the United States. It's really crazy to hear her say she
wants to ban fossil fuels. She wants to ban fracking. We know she also wants to ban nuclear
power. She wants to do it all with windmills and solar power. Meanwhile, there was just a disaster with the windmills
in Nantucket, where one of these windmills came down and all of its toxicity is pumping into the
ocean to the point where on the nearby beaches, they're having to wear hazmat suits now to clean
up some of the shards of this thing. And that's their answer to everything. There's absolutely no care
for the environmental consequences of, you know, these new toxic fangled things like the windmills,
like the solar panels and how much digging they have to do. And not to mention the electric car
batteries, right? It's all just something that makes them feel better about green energy and
the consequences to the actual earth be damned. That's just one of the many things that I hope to hear more on in the coming days.
And we will actually be reporting more on that windmill disaster.
On this, Megan, I was on a long flight yesterday and was talking with one of the flight attendants
and she brought up politics and what's going on and the breaking news. And really for her,
one of the main takeaways I have from the conversation was she said, look, I care about having clean air to breathe and clean
water to drink. I just don't want to drive an electric vehicle. I want to be able to drive
the car or truck that I choose to. And I thought it was such an important statement that she made because it really cuts to the heart of the dichotomy and the huge contrast between what we're seeing coming from today's Democrat Party and the Democrat elite versus what we're seeing coming from President Trump and largely the Republican Party of today.
The Democrat elite wanting to take away our right to individual liberty, our freedom to make these choices for
ourselves. If you want to drive an electric vehicle, you should be able to do so. If you
don't want to drive an electric vehicle, you want to drive a Ford F-150, you should be able to do so.
And that really is the thing here that I think most Americans will recognize is we don't want
the government to force us to eat what they tell us to eat or to
drive whatever they tell us to drive. When it comes down to the choices that we make for ourselves and
our families, we should have the freedom to make those choices. And that to me, it comes down to
freedom. It comes down to liberty and one of very limited government going back to what our founders
envisioned for us at a federal
level, decentralization, valuing our individual liberty and freedom of choice, versus the
Democrats who believe in big brother, big government. They know what is better for us
than we do for ourselves. And so they will take away our right to make those individual choices.
And that is what is most dangerous about what today's Democrat Party and Kamala Harris represent and what their goals and objectives are.
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One of the appointments I'm most excited about is Marty McCary. He is a Johns Hopkins surgical oncologist. I mean, you don't get more accomplished than that. And he's been appointed by Trump to
take over at the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration. This thing has been
deeply problematic in keeping you sick. Go watch Dope Sick. Go pay any attention to what RFKJ has
been saying, the revolving door, the conflicts of interest, and just the ridiculousness that
that organization has been pushing on us for far too long on what's allegedly healthy and
what's not, what's allegedly good for us and our kids and what's not. Marty McCary is one of the
ones who saw through the COVID nonsense very early. And one of the other reasons I love him
is because he recently wrote a book that's perfectly in line with the Maha philosophy,
RFKJ and Cali means and Casey means and these others. And he came to this on
his own, given his expertise. He was on recently to promote it. It's called Blind Spots, When
Medicine Gets It Wrong. And just the name of it is encouraging, is it not? Anyway, I love this guy.
I think you will too, Dr. Marty McCary for FDA. Let's talk about, first of all, why you thought this was necessary.
Well, groupthink is a powerful force. And in medicine, we get sort of medical dogma that takes on a life of its own, and it permeates. And what we develop are these giant blind spots,
these areas of medicine and health that affect every aspect of everything we're doing, of every
person's health, but we never talk about them.
The microbiome, the poison food supply, the toxins we're exposed to, the bad recommendations that we put out there,
the fact that some of our modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment.
We said opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid epidemic.
Yes. We said we gave the wrong advice on peanut allergies, igniting the modern-day peanut allergy
epidemic. So when we use good science in medicine, we can help a lot of people. But when we use the
opinions of a small group of leaders and central planners in medicine where they issue these broad edicts,
we have a lousy track record. Food pyramid, the opioid epidemic, the obesity epidemic.
So we've got to take a step back and actually ask, why is cancer doubling in many areas of GI
cancer? My area of pancreas, I'm a pancreas specialist at Hopkins. We do more pancreatic care and pancreas
cancer than any hospital in America. Never at any point in my 20 plus years there, did anyone ever
stop and say, why has pancreas cancer doubled in the last 20 years? Now, they're all good people.
They're my friends. They're great doctors. But we have done this terrible thing to doctors. We've
put them on this war path where all they do is put out fires at the end stage. No one's asking the big questions. No one's asking,
why has autism been going up 14% each year for the last 23 years? Why are half our nation's
children obese or overweight? Why are nearly a quarter of them dealing with fatty liver and prediabetes? I mean,
this is a well-being issue for the country. It's a national security issue. It is a issue of the
economy. This entire over-medicated population is a massive burden. I mean, a four point seven trillion dollar economy that's expanding like crazy.
And we're sort of told by the politicians, oh, we were able to get Medicare to negotiate drug
prices and save six billion dollars in the first year. OK, that's great, but that's a drop in the
ocean. We've got this much bigger blind spot in modern medicine. So why is it like this? Is it all because
of the power of big pharma to line its own pockets and get people to go along with it?
Pharma controls the narrative. They've captured the big health agencies. They've
created this culture. First of all, it's very hard to do research unless big pharma is paying for it
or the NIH has a designated center. So who at the NIH is interested in the fact that sperm counts have gone down 50% in the
last five decades, or that the average age of puberty is going down each year, or that
kids feel sick more and more, that autoimmune diseases are going up, that attention deficit
disorder is now epidemic, or 40% of our kids will have a mental health diagnosis.
Who at the NIH is going to study the microbiome, pesticides, heavy metals, the poison food supply, these food additives that are engineered to be addictive?
So when you eat them, your appetite increases, even though you kind of feel full. And what's happening is all these
foreign molecules, these chemicals that are now rampant, including the derivatives of seed oils,
they go down the GI tract, which has a lymphatic system, an immune system in the wall of the
intestine. And it's not reacting to these foreign molecules and chemicals with a sudden reaction.
It's reacting with a low-level immune fighting of this stuff. And it makes you feel blah,
makes you feel sick and sad sometimes. And what are we doing? We have told doctors,
you only have your medications to do and your operations to do.
We haven't given doctors the time or resources or research funding to deal with the root causes.
And so they've lived in these blind spots. We never talk about them. We never talk about these
issues at the top medical centers. Trust me, I've gone as far as you can go in academic medicine,
all the accolades and tenure. And No one is talking about the biggest issues in health because of these blind spots.
I think we've got good people working in a bad system where the culture has said,
put your head down, do your job, you'll be rewarded. You'll make back all this debt that
you got in medical school. By the way, we take these highly creative students out of college. They want to save the world, have big ideas. They're alt them down with this old guard dinosaur curriculum,
memorize and regurgitate, memorize these thousands of drugs and learn to get an eye, a hawk eye for
when you can use them. And, oh, there's an indication. Here you go. There's an indication.
Here you go. We put them on this treadmill where they have 10 minute visits, 15 minute visits,
and they're just diagnosing and treating and doling out diagnoses
and meds. We've done a terrible thing to these doctors, to these young folks.
It's depressing. Like I went to my eye doctor the other day and the eye doctor is great, but
I could see the schedule, like I needed a follow-up and I could see they pulled up the
schedule. I mean, this person was double booked every day, all day for every 10 minute
interval for weeks. I thought, how much care can they be giving each of these patients?
It's a crazy hamster wheel. And I was on it and I got off of it. I said, I'm going to focus on
my passion, which is public health research. I had a degree in public health in medical school that I got. I got
basically walked away from medicine after three years of medical school, disillusioned. This isn't
for me. What are we doing? And I enrolled in graduate school for public health. I ended up
coming back to medicine. I missed the bedside care and I love being a surgeon. But after being
on this treadmill that everybody gets on,
I said, no more dangling bonuses at the end of the year. I don't care what my throughput is.
The system is designed for throughput and billing and coding. Why do you think we have 35% of
doctors burn out and doctors are one of the highest professions for suicide? We're doing
a terrible thing to these people. And a lot of doctors now are rejecting it.
They're saying, we're not going to have anything to do with this. Half of my students at Johns
Hopkins don't want to have anything to do with this crazy broken system. They don't care about
the big pay and the house in the suburb. They want to be a part of something bigger. They want to deal
with the root causes. They want to start businesses. They're entrepreneurial. They're getting second degrees. They want to spend time in a Medicare Advantage model where basically they
get paid on a lump sum for a population. They can spend an hour and talk about the sleep quality of
a person that affects their blood pressure, not just doling out antihypertensives. Maybe we need
to talk about school lunch programs instead of putting every kid onpertensives. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs instead
of putting every kid on Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes
instead of throwing insulin at people. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that
cause cancer, not just the chemotherapy to treat it. We're going backwards. We're watching all of
these chronic diseases consume our culture and we can give
got to get off this myopic focus so luckily good stuff is happening a lot of doctors are
speaking up they're getting off the treadmill they're spending time with patients they're
coming up with their own models for care financial models and a bunch of us docs are going directly
to the public to educate them about health.
Yes, it's so revolutionary.
And it's brave because these are very big, powerful forces that have a financial interest,
frankly, in keeping us sick who don't really want to see this.
The nutrition aspect of it is huge.
And it's almost never discussed at a medical visit.
You know, they might say you're obese, you're overweight, you need to lose weight. But actually, the stuff about, we talked before the show about Casey
Means and her new book, the stuff about seed oils that you mentioned, the stuff about
preservatives and the toxins in our food, the poisoning of the food supplies you point out,
all this herbicide or whatever, insecticide all over our fruit and our vegetables that some people don't even know
to really seriously wash off,
nevermind not buy if you can.
Not to mention microplastics in the air
and the water and our furniture
and then the fire repellents on our rugs.
And I mean, it's just a toxic world.
A lot of people don't even know about it.
And frankly, just me listing it,
they're like, I can't. I'm out. I got other things to deal with. I can't deal with all that.
Like a bunch of us are trying to give a different perspective than the perspective
the food industry and big ag and pharma have been putting in front of people for a long time,
telling doctors, you don't need to look into arsenic levels in the water. The EPA says you can have up to 10 micrograms per liter of arsenic in your water.
Where did they come up with that number from?
Oh, my gosh.
I didn't know that.
I mean, they're making stuff up.
I mean, this is where we get into trouble.
This is why distrust goes down in the establishment. So you draw the blood of a baby today through the umbilical cord,
and there's 287 forever compounds. How about research on those compounds? How about research
on the seed oil derivatives? How about research on the pesticides that have hormone effects
in children, which may explain the declining fertility and lowering age of puberty,
instead of research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan
and Japanese quail that they give cocaine to
when they watch their sexual activity.
These are real studies funded by the government.
So we have had terrible leaders in the medical establishment.
And so a bunch of us, Peter Attia, Casey and Kelly Means, Vinay Prasad, Zubin Devine, we
feel like now we're going to go directly to public and educate them about the real story
on health, because there is a huge body of literature on all these topics you talk about,
from microplastics to the microbiome.
And people need to know about it so they can make better choices every day. That's one benefit of COVID is it did expose our medical
leaders as agenda-driven and in many cases, not trustworthy like Fauci and the NIH. And we learned
to try to do an end around to find the doctors who we actually trusted.
You were chief among them.
I know you worked with Dr. J. Bhattacharya, who we love,
and we were the first, I think, to put him on when he and his colleagues wrote their paper,
the Great Barrington Declaration,
talking about focused protection.
So, and Vinay Prasad has been amazing.
I've watched all of his stuff on myocarditis
for young people, because I have three kids.
We did not get them the COVID vaccine,
and I'm thrilled we didn't.
I wish I could say the same for myself.
But anyway, I think it was a good lesson for us
in question everyone, to find end arounds.
In the same way, media, right?
Question everything.
Find the people you trust,
as opposed to entire establishments.
Yeah, we don't want to create cynicism or hysteria.
If you have an emergency, do whatever the doctor says.
But when it comes to chronic diseases, when it comes to irritable bowel or why somebody is developing autoimmunity, we don't really ever talk about this stuff in medicine.
You mentioned food and nutrition. I gave the keynote speech. I was invited to give the
keynote speech, uh, several years ago at the big nutrition conference. This is the biggest
conference on nutrition and doctors, uh, for dieticians, for nutritionists and dieticians.
And so, um, I gave my keynote speech. Of course, I like to push the field as you've observed. And afterwards, a woman who is from the milk lobby comes and gives
me her perspective when I talked about, why are we taking out natural fat and adding sugar? Like,
what are we doing? We're doing it backwards. Like, there's nothing wrong with natural fat.
Doesn't cause heart disease, like we thought. And she says says they're one of the two big sponsors of the
Nutrition Conference. The other sponsor, I find out, is Coca-Cola. Oh, come on. So this is a,
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Senator Marco Rubio might be seen as the most mainstream pick that Donald Trump has made in a very key role as Secretary of State. His confirmation should be an absolute breeze. You
already have some Democrats saying that they'll vote for him. Senator Rubio joined me back in
January of 2022. It was episode 241 to talk about the divisive rhetoric coming from
President Biden and the Dems and their failures when it came to the economy. With inflation now
at record high in 40 years, right? And the supply chain crisis is not over, not by a long shot. Have
you tried to buy a dishwasher lately? My goodness. Good luck. Literally, we were told we had to wait a year, a year. I mean, like, OK, he's decided to focus on voting
rights. Build Back Better fell apart. He couldn't get it through. And now his switch is to voting
rights, which helps the American people right now in their kitchen sort of table issues. How? I
don't know. But I want to give you a flavor and get you to react to
how he's describing the stakes, why he says he's so focused on this right now.
Here's a compilation of a speech he gave in Georgia on Tuesday. Listen.
Today, we come to Atlanta, the cradle of civil rights, to make clear what must come after that dreadful day
when a dagger was literally held at the throat of American democracy.
They want chaos to reign. We want the people to rule. Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things, voter suppression and election subversion.
At consequential moments in history, they present a choice.
Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?
Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?
Well, there you have it, Senator.
I guess he would say you're on the side of Jefferson Davis and Bull Connor because this is about his voting rights proposal, which essentially seeks to federalize elections.
But he would say it seeks to make them more fair and
protect voter rights. Your thoughts on his comments? Yeah, and there's a lot to unpack here.
The first thing I would say is that even some Democrats were sort of embarrassed by, you see
that in some of their statements, a little bit embarrassed by how far the speech went,
almost overcompensating, you know, I guess, for the failures and things of that nature. So that
kind of hyperbole actually backfires because people look at it and shake their heads. I would tell you
that most of the people I've talked to on real earth, you know, not Washington bubble, didn't
even know that speech happened. Didn't even know that this was happening. Doesn't make it
unimportant because they're trying to change the election law and have a federal takeover.
But I think your point is the number one issue, like if you went and asked people in this country,
what are the top 10 things on your mind?
This wouldn't even be on the top 50 because it's easier than ever to vote in America.
It just simply is. And the numbers bear that out. So there's two things at play.
I think the first is a desire for power. They certainly view this as the perfect issue in which to break the filibuster.
If they can break if there is no Senate filibuster, they can't.
They not only can pass this voting bill, they can pack the Supreme Court.
They can make D.C. a state.
There's all kinds of things that they could do if there were no filibuster.
And so, number one, it's about that.
And I think number two, frankly, is about politics.
I think Chuck Schumer is afraid to get primaried in New York.
AOC has not ruled out running for Senate against him.
I think a lot of Democrats, particularly Chuck Schumer in a state like New York, see that over the last few years, you've had longtime
incumbents taken out by people from the far left, and they're concerned about it. Maybe he thinks
he's still going to win, but doesn't want to go through that process. There's a tremendous amount
of pressure coming from the base of the party, particularly radical elements of the base.
And this month just happens to be the turn of those who are out there saying,
I know that there's some sort of, as he called it, Jim Crow 2.0, which is absurd. And most
Americans will tell you it's absurd. Can I ask you about politics? Because to me,
the politics of this whole voting rights thing has not made any sense. I know I am just a
journalist, so I don't totally get it. But it was clear that he did not have the votes
to get rid of the filibuster,
either for a limited purpose, like he says, you know, just to get the voting rights law through
or on a wider basis. And it was pretty clear he might not even have the votes for the voting
rights legislation itself. And yet he's running around saying we're doing it, giving speeches,
Chuck Schumer saying I'm bringing it to a vote. It's happening. And then, of course,
Kyrsten Sinema, you know, this week is like, yeah, it's not happening. I'm not not supporting
a Democrat. Right. So they don't have the votes. They knew they didn't have the votes.
So why were they making such a thing? It's like they did the same thing with Build Back Better.
Like we're going to do it. We've got it. And like Manchin was never on board. Why do they
keep embarrassing themselves? This is an easy thing to avoid. Yeah, there's a pattern in
politics. So what happens is you win an election, you have a 50-50 Senate, a very narrow majority
in the House, but your base, the most radical elements, the people who give you $50 a month
online, who knock on doors, who make the phone calls, who, if they're not energized, you
have no chance of winning elections.
Those people think we have a mandate.
And they say, OK, you won.
It doesn't matter if you won by one vote, one point, or you won by 20.
You won. And now we expect you to do all the things you promised. And so they go out
there and they try to do these things and they're not going to pass, but they're angry at them.
And they're saying, well, at least try, you have to at least try. It happens in politics. It happens
to both sides. In some cases, you know, you're not going to win something, but if you don't at
least show you're fighting, then your base gets really angry at you. Then they get turned off.
They won't show up. They won't give money. And you get destroyed because you can't win an election
these days if your base is not energized. So that's what this is about. It's not just about
Chuck Schumer personally. Think about how selfish this is. This may, he thinks, may help fend off a
primary challenge. But he has all these Democrats running in states that are somewhat vulnerable,
and they're being put on the spot on this thing. And they're going to have to go out there now and take positions on it
and dividing his own conference over that. But it's all a base fight because they have to be
able to go to the base and say, we tried, we fought, but these two guys over here and the
racist Republicans wouldn't let us move forward. And that's what this is. It's as simple as that.
They say, and I want to get to the accusations of racism because they're coming in by the
minute against Kyrsten Sinema now and others.
But they say, look, we have to have this new voting rights law because of January 6th,
because the Republicans are trying to change laws across the nation to make it easier for
the vote to be thrown out.
And January 6th proved that, you know, we need more federal control of
how these things get certified and go down. There was a moment where you tried to address
that rationale. We cut the soundbite because we found it kind of interesting. This is soundbite
five. I'm going to play it and then get you to add to it. I think almost everyone would tell
you that what happened on January 6th here was a terrible thing. It should never have happened
and it should never happen again.
But I don't care how many candlelight vigils and musical performances you have from the cast of Hamilton.
You're not going to convince at least most normal and sane people
that our government last year was almost overthrown
by a guy wearing a Viking hat and Speedos.
Okay. Well, they've issued their first arrest
for a guy charged with, quote, sedition.
Now, does that change your opinion?
No, I look at my opinion is that what happened on January 6th was a terrible thing.
Crimes were committed on that day.
And the people that are responsible for that should be charged to be put on trial and convicted should serve sentences for it.
And and I continue to believe that I believe that from the moment it started.
I don't care who you are. I don't care what your banner is. I don't care whose side you're on, who you voted for,
whether you agree with me on issues or not. You can't do what happened on that day. You can't do
it in the Capitol and you can't do it in the 700 different riots that took place in the summer
of 2020 across this country. You cannot do it. And those are crimes that need to be
prosecuted and people need to be put on trial and hopefully convicted for it. That is separate from the argument that somehow this was an
orchestrated effort to overthrow the government of the United States of America. That just is
not true. We were nowhere close to that. That was not going to happen. And so I think what happens
is when you exaggerate these things, you lose credibility. When you lose credibility, then we
lose the ability to analyze these things for what they truly are.
And in many cases, you sort of empower the worst elements.
You know, you go around calling if everyone is a racist, if that becomes just a throwaway line.
Numb to it. And then you really can't call out the people that are racist or that are doing things that are race-based as a result of it. And it's the same thing with this. You know, what happened that day, you don't have to be, most people, normal people, are able to do, to say,
what happened on that day was wrong and it shouldn't have happened. But it also is an
equivalent of Pearl Harbor, where the U.S. was pulled into a world war that ended up killing
3% of the global population. These are stupid things for people to say, particularly a vice president of the United States
is an example.
Yeah.
And that's how she opened her remarks the other day.
I mean, comparing it to 9-11 too.
It's like so disrespectful, I think.
The Democrats though continue
and the press helps trying to call the senators,
the lawmakers, anyone who's not in favor
of the voting rights bill
or eliminating the filibuster,
which is very controversial, or that Build Back Better plan, which, of course, is just a list,
a laundry list of Democratic wish items, wish list items, bigots.
This is a sample we have from MSNBC. They're going after Joe Manchin and some others because, of course, Manchin stopped Bill Beck better. He's also reportedly not in favor of eliminating the filibuster,
something Joe Biden opposed for almost his entire career until he became the president.
And Kyrsten Sinema is taking her fair shot of these accusations as well. This is Soundbite 9.
But if Chris Coons, Jon Tester, Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema, and Joe Manchin want to be on the side of George Wallace,
want to be on the side of Strom Thurmond and many others who stood in the way of civil rights.
Even Strom Thurmond came around on voting rights.
But if they want to go down in history as standing on the side of segregationists and those individuals who oppose people who look like me,
having free and fair access to the ballot, then we will remember them as such.
All right. So a clip from CNN. And here to add to that, Senator New York Democrat Representative Jamal Bowman today sharing his views of Kyrsten Sinema on Twitter,
retreating a picture of her and the late John Lewis, former congressman.
In the original image, Senator Sinema had tweeted my hero after Lewis died.
Bowman tweets out the following hero, a person who is admired or idealized for coverage,
outstanding achievements or noble qualities. Traitor, a person who betrays a friend,
country, principal, etc. He went on to say, John Lewis is a hero. You, cinema, are a traitor to his legacy, your constituents and our as a serious statement. I think the other is that it's poisonous and toxic and nasty. And I don't even have the words to describe how ridiculous
that assumption is. But it goes back to the point I made earlier. And that is,
this now, things like traitor, things like racist, things like bigot have become throwaway lines.
Look, there are bigots and there are racists in this country. There are bigots and there are racists on the
entire planet earth. It was one of the sins that bedevils mankind. And we should reserve our anger
for the ones that are really that and are motivated by that. But when you start calling everybody that
and every issue becomes on the basis of that, then suddenly that issue, you can no longer raise it.
In essence, you almost give cover to the people that are actually racists and bigots. And again, look, I think that this sort of language that we
just described that plays really well among a certain core constituency that watches CNN or
MSNBC or lives on Twitter and gives money to their campaigns. But to the overwhelming majority of
Americans, particularly the ones that are paying attention,
because most people aren't,
they would look at that and say,
this is a bridge too far.
I think sometimes we forget that the common sense
of real people is still there,
even if the people running the country
sometimes seem to be out of their minds.
I want to get to quite a few other things with you,
including Biden's 33% approval rating and what happened at the Supreme Court. We now have a decision on the vaccine mandates. But first, can I ask you quickly, speaking of bigotry, as we all know, the Chinese are engaged in an ethnic genocide against the Muslim minorities within China. And you've been taking the lead in trying to push for some accountability on this as we're on the precipice of the Beijing Olympics.
One of the things that jumped out at me as I saw I'm preparing for this interview,
you are asking for Olympic partners to acknowledge this genocide. You do that back in December,
penning a letter to these Olympic sponsors, calling them out for what you say is ignoring
an ongoing genocide. I looked at the list.
I cannot believe companies like Coke, Coca-Cola is so busy over here lecturing us on how terrible we all are. And yet they are a sponsor of these Olympics. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Nike,
others that are out there and they, but I'm not sure if Nike is a sponsor, but I'm sure they'll
be very involved in advertising around it because of the athletes that are out there and they, but I'm not sure if Nike's a sponsor, but I'm sure they'll be very involved in advertising around it because of the athletes that are performing. And what happens
with these companies is they, they have, they are very quick to order, you know, call for the
boycott of a state, uh, put up billboards and run commercials about how terrible the United States
of America is or how terrible some decision that was made by elected representatives of the American
people are, but they won't say a word about China.
And it's not just about the Olympics.
It is in general.
This is just true all the way across the board.
And that kind of hypocrisy needs to be called out.
I doubt you'll see any of these companies step forward because if they do, the Chinese
will shut them down.
And that would cost them billions of dollars and maybe get the CEO fired as a result of
it.
So I don't have a lot of hope we're going to get a response from him,
but I think it's important to continue
to call out this hypocrisy.
Coming up, part of my conversation with Kristi Noem.
Well, we were pretty critical of Kristi Noem's new book
that was out earlier this year
in which she talks lovingly
about shooting her puppy in the face,
but now she is slated to shooting her puppy in the face.
But now she is slated to be the next Homeland Security Secretary. And FYI, she had a different book out two years ago. And we were actually super supportive of that one. We had her on for a great
conversation in episode 346 here about her faith, her family, and the promise of America.
One of the things that you learned growing up in South Dakota was the importance of faith.
And you write that if the church doors were open, your family was there.
And so you grew up an observant Christian.
And I understand, you know, continue to have that faith in your life. So I'm going to guess that the two religious freedom cases just decided by the U.S. Supreme Court were welcome.
In your view, there was one saying public funds given to students in Maine who needed to find schooling could be used on schools that provided religious education.
And then the big one came out on Monday involving Coach Kennedy, who we actually had in this program not long ago, who just wanted to pray at the 50 yard line after
the games and didn't say anybody else had to come join him. But a lot of the students were faithful
as well and went and did it. And the school fired him. They fired him. And the Supreme Court in a
six to three decision said, no, you violated his free speech rights and you violated his religious
freedom rights,
saying in part in a decision written by Justice Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, learning how to
tolerate speech or prayer of all kinds is part of learning how to live in a pluralistic society,
a trait of character essential to a tolerant citizenry, and went on to say respect for religious expressions is indispensable
to life in a free and diverse republic. How about that?
It's a powerful statement. I love that opinion that he brought forward just because it's so,
it's the clarity that we need in this country right now of what was guaranteed
by us in the United States of America. So those
decisions were very, very important. And we have a lot of people that get confused about the role
of faith and government and government and faith and schools and how that interaction happens. And
in fact, even in South Dakota this year, I brought a bill that would have put a moment of silence
into a school day. It would have been a
moment every day where a student had an opportunity to have either a prayer if they wanted to,
pray to whoever they would like to, or a moment of silence or just a quiet time.
But it was to clearly draw a line in the sand that praying is allowed in our schools,
that it is facilitated, that every teacher, every administrator, every person in the state would know that that is something that you have a right to do. And it was killed by
Republicans. That bill was killed by Republicans because they did not feel it would be something
that the school should have to worry about. They didn't want the controversy of it. And so this
type of decision brings clarity to so many people about the fact that that faith is to be protected from the government.
It's not to protect our government from our faith and our religion, that this is one thing that people could use some direction from.
And I'm so thankful for the Supreme Court making a decision that truly sends that message to the country. Yes. And I appreciate your effort to do that because we are in a situation now as mothers, as people who have kids in the school
system where our kids have you're not even allowed to mention God or religion unless it's in a way
that's disparaging. That'll pass. And yet we're supposed we're called bigots if we object to,
you know, the LGBTQ pride parade with kink being shoved down in our faces left and right.
So we don't want our kids to see that. But if we try to mention anything about God, especially in the school setting, even if it's neutral, you know, like you're doing a moment of silence where you can think about God or just meditative about your life and its meaning.
That's not allowed. Yeah. Well, it was interesting because many of
these Republicans said, well, this isn't a problem in South Dakota yet. And I thought,
why do we have to constantly, it has been an issue now since legislative session got out in a couple
of school districts. And what's interesting to me is, is, is as leaders, you should lead,
be clear and bring clarity when you can, especially in our school districts, which
right now are kind of a war zone for people that have other agendas and other opinions and trying to indoctrinate
certain beliefs on our children. So it's interesting to me that the people that get
confused on religion and schools and government, I'm hopeful that we can bring more clarity with
decisions like this so that in our schools, our kids feel the freedom that if they want to stop for a minute by their locker and have a quick prayer with a friend, they can do that.
That's that's what this country is all about.
What do you when I hear you talking about taking on your own party and so on?
I mean, of course, I've got to ask you what everybody wants to know, which is.
Well, does that mean there could be higher aspirations for you politically? Could you
potentially do that on the national level, either as a Republican presidential candidate in 2024,
or potentially as a running mate to a man we all know very well? He was running a real estate
business and he was president from 2016 to 2020. You know, I honestly don't know.
That's, you know, people ask it a lot.
So obviously I've had to think about it a bit,
but it's just not something that's in my plans.
I'm running for reelection this year in South Dakota.
I'm hoping that people will trust me to lead
for another four years as governor.
Beyond that, I think anybody who's making plans
just maybe doesn't understand the volatility
of this political environment that we're in.
And I'm always a little leery, Megan, of people who dream of being president of the United States.
I think these people that grow up and plan it for years and years probably should never be president of the United States.
They more than likely want to be president of the United States. I'm just not convinced that it has to be me. Well, especially if Trump doesn't run. If Trump runs, a lot of people will decide
not to do it. But if he doesn't run, yeah, it's going to be a wide open field. And if he does run,
it seems pretty clear he's not running with Mike Pence. And then there will be a new right. Then
there will be a new spot open for somebody else. Somebody have perhaps they i know they've heard they called
you the female trump so it could be you he um you know i i i dearly love the guy he let me do my job
as governor and he helped me um you know when i was in congress with tax reform he was passionate
and truly did some big things in this country. So I appreciate his policies and what he did.
I'd love to have him back, especially compared to who we have in the White House today.
You know, the fact is right now, I don't think anybody can beat him in a primary.
So if he does run, you know, he's going to have to figure out how he wins a general election.
And I think the way to do that, because right now it would be difficult, it'd be a challenge.
I think he has got to put together a team that gives people confidence in the fact that he's got the right people together that are going
to fix the country, put it right the ship. You know, he's got to announce who his attorney
general would be. During that campaign, he'd have to say who his secretary of state would be,
who his vice president would be. That would be something that would reassure and unite
a lot of Republicans. I think Republicans really got to get it together and grow up a little bit, too, because they're all just trying to pretend that that he's not going to run or hope for it and make no plans.
We've got to figure out how do we put a strategy together to really win because our country is counting on it more than ever.
Yeah. And it's it's dicey with Trump, right? It's like he's obviously got a huge swath
of support in the Republican Party, but he's also such a divisive figure that cuts both ways. I
don't you know, for me as a journalist, it's easy because I get to watch and report on it and eat
the popcorn while you guys duke it out. But I know it's for people who are diehard Republicans.
They worry and the Democrats and they're worried about our country, too. I mean,
four more years of Biden. I like I'm not sure if it keeps going in this direction, what's going to be left? All right. Let me shift gears because enough about politics. I want to talk about you and the Snow Queen. How did that happen? This is the year was 1990. Is that the year? I want to talk about. Oh, my goodness. Yes, I do. I, I, I'm, I'm a shallow person. Um, I love the big hair.
Pretty successful for people don't know that much. Oh yeah. There we are.
From your book. What year was this? So that was 1990 in South Dakota. Um, especially back then.
And when you were a senior in high school, most of the girls competed in the
Snow Queen contest, which really was a local area contest where you gave interviews and speeches.
And they chose one to go on to the state competition. And through that, you got
scholarships. At that time, they gave a car, other items. And then you traveled throughout the Midwest or the country being an ambassador for your state to different festivals and different gatherings or whatever. So I did that with all my friends when I was a senior in high school, won the local contest and then went to the state contest with 52 other young women. And yeah, very interesting experience because I'm, you know,
if you remember, I was a ranch girl farm. In fact, when I won the state competition,
the headline and all the newspapers was farm girl wins snow queen. It was like everybody that
thought, um, wow, this is different. So, uh, but it was very good for me. You know, it's interesting.
You go back that far and to, to know that much about my state travel and get to be an ambassador for it, you
know, it really was a great opportunity for me to, well, a new car doesn't suck either.
Oh no, you know, you would have, you would have loved it. It was a black Trans Am with the sun
roof, but on the side of it, it had huge gold letters that said 1990 south dakota
snow queen on it and that's the car i took to college imagine me pulling onto campus with this
car that had big gold lettering on it it was yeah it was fantastic and i was in the dorm with
the entire football team so you know I didn't get any teasing whatsoever.
Oh, please. They would have done anything for there not to be a Brian Gnome already in your life.
Oh, that's true. You know, it's interesting. I totaled out that car too. So that was the last
year they gave a car to the Snow Queen. Well, I laughed in your book. You were talking about
when you first ran for office and the biggest controversy you faced was you had some speeding tickets and now it all makes sense.
Now, I mean, they're going to give you a black Trans Am at age 19. You're going to drive it
fast. That's what's the point of having it. You're not going to do that. Well, I, yeah,
I had a dad that was like, you get to where you're going fast and get back here with those parts for
that tractor or hurry up and go get this and don't make me wait. You know, that was how we were raised. So and if we got speeding tickets, we paid them and kept going.
But yeah, that was that was I don't want to revisit. That's a stupid controversy. But
whatever. I just thought when I seen the Trans Am that that brings it all together.
But I do want to talk about talk to you about your dad, because that was one of the saddest
and sweetest parts of your book. And I have to say, I can relate. I can relate. I lost my own dad when he was 45.
Your dad died in an accident, in an accident on your farm when he was 49. And you go through it
in great detail for the YouTube audience. We're putting pictures up of the governor's dad and mom.
And it was horrifying what happened to him in this corn auger. It was
like the auger couldn't be turned on to save him after having gotten sucked in because it would
have ensured his death. And you write in the book something to the effect of, I was sitting there in
the hospital waiting to hear if they could have revived him. In the same hospital you were supposed
to be late that same night for birthing classes for your child with whom you were eight
months pregnant. And instead they came in and told you there was, there was nothing they could do
and that he was gone. And you were in, you would, you were in sort of a fight with him over something
silly. And Christy, I sit the exact same thing happened with me. You know, I was only 15,
but I lost my dad that night and sudden heart attack in our case and was in a fight with him
over something stupid. And it's just one of those things where, you know, they would never want you
or me to be walking around feeling guilt or anything other than their love for us thereafter,
but you're only human. Yeah. Yeah. It, um, that's the one
thing I wish I could tell people is that you're not ever guaranteed another day. You're not
guaranteed. You're going to see these people again. We have enough tragedies in our family
and in our country that, that that's the reality. And, and sometimes you watch people just throw
people away in their lives that, that, you
know, is unnecessary.
So I, I talk a little bit in the book about having him be gone.
And, um, just the fact that I wish I hadn't complained so much when he asked me to do
stuff.
I wish I would have sat down and visited more when I had the chance to, he, he always hurt.
He is back hurt so bad.
He was always in pain because he worked so hard and he used to ask us to rub his feet at night. And I just remember
thinking, I wish that I just, you know, would have not once, you know, tried to sneak upstairs
without him seeing me. So I didn't have to rub his feet for him. So he would feel better. You
know, that's the kind of stuff that you just don't realize you're missing out on until they're
already gone. It was very difficult
because he was such a larger than life person. And I'm sure your dad was like this to you too.
You know, your whole life as a young girl revolves kind of around your dad. And, and when all of a
sudden they're gone, you can't even imagine what the next 24 hours is going to look like much less
the rest of your life. And you found these tapes where, in addition to talking a lot about corn,
he talked about you. He talked about you and your siblings and talked about how tough you were,
how he could see that you were such a tough kid. And that must have been so comforting in a way.
It's just sort of a way of shoring you up from beyond, I think. Well, you know, my dad wasn't a talker. He was
a doer. And so it was, it took me probably five or six months before I could clean out his pickup.
You know, farmers and ranchers live in their pickup, everything they have, their notes,
their pens, their tools. I know even I talk about the fact that he always had a case of warm seven
up and old candy bars or whatever in his backseat of his truck. And it was his
voice and it was just him talking. I had been running the farm then, a very large operational,
a lot of people working for me, a lot of men working for me that were middle-aged that didn't
want to be working for a 22-year-old pregnant lady or a lady with a brand new baby and getting
challenged on every decision I was making.
And here on these tapes was every answer I could have ever wanted. What soil type was the best for
what crop, what to do with cattle, what to do if we ever got into financial trouble. And then some
of these tapes were years and years old. In fact, he'd moved them from pickup to pickup. And when
he'd gotten a new pickup, he just moved them. And there was a tape in there almost 10 years old where he talked about us kids, what he
thought our strengths were, what our weaknesses were.
And it was just amazing because this is not something my dad rarely said, you know, I
love you, much less talked about us.
And it was that was when I knew everything was going to be OK.
I thought if God loves me this much, that he literally gave me all the answers that I needed in his own voice, then we're going to be fine.
And I think that was the first night that I finally could sleep because I felt the peace that I knew we were going to be OK.
I can't imagine that find and that feeling. I mean, I can remember in my own case, this is 1985 when my dad died and just re-listening
over and over to his voice on the answering machine tape.
I remember doing that, just playing the answering machine.
You know, you've reached the Kellys.
That sort of a treasure trove that there is some divine intervention there.
And I couldn't help, of course, but think, my God, if he could see you now,
he would be so proud of you.
I mean, it makes me root for you.
It makes me so glad you wrote the book
and so glad that you decided to lead,
you know, notwithstanding the many challenges
thrown your way.
Well, I mean, I appreciate it.
Sometimes I think you might think I'm kind of crazy,
but I think that, yeah, he was pretty incredible. And my mom is probably the only woman in the world that could have been married to him because all he did was work all the time. I remember her, you know, as we were going out the door to work all the time, her shoving food in our pockets and here, just eat this on the way to the field and, you know, facilitating everything and taking care of everybody. It was really unique, but you know what? We were together. And that's what I think
so many families don't make a priority today is that it just wasn't an option not to be with our
family. And I think that's one of the reasons why we turned out and we ended up with a value system
that really does give us this quality of life we get to enjoy. And one more for you, Stephen Miller.
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We are closing out with Stephen Miller, not the Stephen L. Miller, who sometimes comes on our show
as a pundit, but Stephen Miller, who's been working for Trump as a top policy guy since the
first term. He's the border guru, and he will serve
as deputy chief of staff for policy for President Trump. No confirmation hearings needed, which is
good because they can't stand him. But he was behind a lot of those policies that worked really
well under Trump. We had him on in May of 2023 and episode 549. And he's already been tapped for Trump to get right back to it.
Here's a little of Stephen. Is the goal just to create more Democratic voters? What what is it?
Is it bleeding heart liberalism? What why would they be allowing this kind of crisis to emerge
from our south and now be bused up to the North such that
virtually all these major cities are going to feel the pain?
People ask me this question a lot, and I've reflected on it a great deal because people
want to know, how is it possible that an entire administration and all the members of Congress who support that administration and
all of the outside groups that support that administration could be so willingly complicit
in a policy that's yielding so much human misery. You have human trafficking, sex trafficking,
and labor trafficking, as even the New York Times documented, particularly with minors on a scale
that has never been witnessed before. Hundreds of thousands of minors have been trafficked into the country. You have the
fentanyl deaths setting records year after year, families being separated in a permanent and
irrevocable way. The only way they can visit loved ones is at a cemetery, at a graveyard.
And then you have gangs that have operational control
of our territory that are abusing people and murdering people on both sides of the border,
the destruction of the labor market for the working class and the working poor,
and the decimation of our healthcare system and our education system, to name but a few social
ills. And I think the answer is exactly what you said. And it's very
straightforward. California was once the most conservative free state in the country. If you
wanted to live the American dream, you wanted to get your family in the station wagon, drive across
country and just strike out and see if you could start a small business or get a good job or just
earn a good living, you went to California. That's what you did. And this was the state
that not only elected Reagan governor, but also voted in presidential elections for conservatives,
for national office, for almost the entirety of the 20th century up until 1992.
And that was the tipping point. And from 1992 until today, only leftists for the highest office
in the land. And the reason for that is because mass migration turns politics leftward.
And there's a lot of reasons why.
I mean, one is that people who come from countries that have no history of limited government and no experience of limited government don't find that to be intuitive.
So that's one reason. Just the actual voters themselves, they would say, well, why wouldn't I vote for higher taxes on someone who's not me to give services to somebody who is me?
That's intuitive. It's very intuitive to say there's people who are richer than me.
So I'll tax them more and then you're going to give me more money. Right. That's intuitive.
It's not intuitive what we have or have had in America to say if more people who aren't you also have freedom,
then they will also be productive and they will also create more jobs and then those jobs will pay higher wages. But there's a secondary effect that pulls politics
left, which is the destruction of the middle class. When you have good, high-paying, middle-class
jobs, that forms the center of a conservative society, a strong family and a strong community
where people are able to get a job that can pay
a living wage, that can support a family, where you can have, if you want to, a one-parent working
home, if you want to, a two-parent working home, but either way, you're financially secure and you
have a good education system and a good healthcare system. When you completely destabilize the labor
market and the social safety net,
people then begin demanding more and more and more government services because the jobs aren't paying enough. So you need more earned income tax credit and you need to have more food stamps.
You need to have more public housing and the education system can't keep up. So you got to
keep funneling more and more money into that. And nobody has health insurance. I mean, how many years
have we heard, Megan? There's 30 million people that have health
insurance. We need socialized medicine. We need socialized medicine. The vast majority of people
in this country who do not have health insurance are not citizens of this country. There are many
American citizens that have health insurance, to be clear, and they should get it and we should
make sure they do have it. But the vast majority of people who do not have insurance of any kind, in any way, any shape or form whatsoever are not U.S. citizens.
And again, that's used by political parties to demand free government services. So an open border
both imports the voters who will vote for one party and one ideology, but it also changes the political
landscape of an entire community. So you end up with the Manhattanization of America, where you
have these very large cities where nothing works, nothing is functional, nothing is safe, nothing is
efficient. And the solution is always going to be you have to tax more and spend more.
It's bleak, Stephen. It's so bleak. I've been listening to the reporting on the
approach, the new approach by the Biden administration, and it's all over the board,
even amongst the left. I listen to NPR. I listen to the New York Times, the board, even amongst the left. I, you know, I listen to NPR. I listen to the New York
Times, the daily and read the times as well. And even they seem to be struggling with whether these
are going to be effective measures, whether they're going to be ineffective or whether they
might be even more effective than the Trump administration. They seem to actually want to
be toying with he's going to be with, he's going to be tougher.
He's going to be tougher with these reforms than Trump was on people trying to get across the
border because he's saying, if you try to do it illegally and you get caught, you're out,
you're out for five years and you can't reapply. So you better go through the proper channels to
get into this country or else, which is new for him. Yeah, right. So this version of events inquires us to believe that he canceled every single policy
that was working incredibly well and then put in place a whole series of policies designed to make
it as easy to enter the country illegally as possible. But it was really just secretly a
head fake to come up with some new and different and better plan. The people who are driving
immigration policy, I talked to Iceland, I talked to border agents, and obviously I know the names
of the higher ups at DHS, and of course in the White House too. Ideologically, the people who
are setting policy believe that borders are racist, that borders are wrong, and that we don't have any right morally or otherwise to deny people entry into this country.
The way they look at it, to be very blunt, Megan, is they see, and to use sort of the language of the day, they see America as a racist colonial superpower.
So this is their worldview.
They think that we stole wealth and riches and plundered and pillaged from foreign countries,
from indigenous people, from the developing world. And at a moral level, they see this as
the ultimate act of wealth redistribution. So, you know, we talk about reparations, Megan, they see an open border as reparations for the developing world that they believe, not just
America, but they believe the West, you know, from the going back to the times of the British
Parliament back when we were colonies. But they see that the West stole and plundered this wealth,
and they think this is a form of redistribution to those who they believe are rightfully entitled to the riches of this nation.
That is for the true believers.
Biden doesn't have much going on upstairs.
He's a party man.
And so he is doing what his party is telling him to do, and he is doing it completely.
But for the ideologues that are
driving this policy, that is absolutely what they believe. And that is why they are constitutionally
incapable of saying the sentence, illegal immigration is wrong. If you come into the
country illegally, you have no path to release. You will be detained. You will be deported. You
will be going home. And you, if possible, will be sent to jail. And if you try again, you will be detained, you will be deported, you will be going home,
and you, if possible, will be sent to jail. And if you try again, you'll be sent to jail for more than a year. One of the things that we did in the Trump administration is we aggressively
prosecuted. So we didn't just deport people, but we aggressively prosecuted immigration crime,
not just immigration fraud, but 1325, USC 1325, which is the misdemeanor illegal entry, and then 1326, which is the felony illegal
entry. And we aggressively prosecuted illegal border crossing to send the message that what
you're doing is criminal. This is criminal. And if American citizens go to jail for the
minorist violation, you get one little thing wrong in your tax forms or you make one little mistake interacting with a regulatory agency or you make one little mistake in Washington in terms of what box you check here or there.
And, you know, you spend years and years in jail. But if you come across the country illegally in plain violation of federal law, nothing happens to you.
That's wrong. We said that's wrong. So we prosecuted people for doing that.
And Biden has completely got it. All of our prosecution initiatives. I don't remember the
numbers. But here's how here's what he says he's coming back with just to, you know, I should have
been more clear about this at the top. OK, I mentioned the new rule that they say is going
to bar most people from applying for asylum if they cross the border illegally or fail to first
apply for safe harbor in another country. So they're kind of saying they are saying you now
need to apply for asylum in another country, which is just so obvious. Right. Of course,
if you're truly fleeing prosecution, you're fine with Mexico. You just need to get away from the
prosecution. That's not what it's about. They want to be in the United States and they want to do it
fast. They don't want to follow the rules. Migrants who get an appointment through the new app they're
putting out the one or any app set up by the border patrol will be
exempt from this threat um so you're supposed to go on some app and create an appointment to
you know have your i guess asylum claim scheduled for hearing then they say this is the the point
they say is in their favor the administration will expand expedited removal processes under
title 8 the decades old section of the U.S.
Code that deals with immigration law. This allows the government to remove from the country
anyone unable to establish a legal basis, such as approved asylum claims. It would bar these
migrants from the country for five years. So they're saying, if we catch you trying to get
into the country or in the country and you haven't made an appointment through the app and you haven't been processed as a true asylum seeker by applying for asylum in Mexico or someplace else
first, then we're going to be kicked out and you will be removed and you won't be able to come back
for five years. Is that a step in the right direction? This is not true. It's just not
what's happening. What is the article that you're reading from, just so I know? I'm trying to see the source on this. I'm reading
from my packet, which my team puts on there. Okay, sorry. Because I was going to say,
immigration reports are all over the place, New York Post, Political New York Post, and Daily Mail.
The thing about immigration reporting in this country is that so few people who do immigration
stories actually understand immigration law that they fall for literally any spin the administration pushes to them.
So I've been seeing for two years, they always announced, oh, there's a new crackdown in the
middle of the Haiti migrant camps. They were saying the administration has some tough new
crackdown plan. They push out this fake story every few months when the PR gets bad and I hope everybody moves on to the next thing.
If you really want to break it down, the regulation in question says that you have
a rebuttable keyword, rebuttable presumption of ineligibility if you didn't apply in a previous
country. The word rebuttable meaning that you can overcome it by asking, again, to see an immigration judge.
So in immigration law, Megan, there's no way for Border Patrol to remove that person.
If an alien shows up from Peru and tells a story and says, I couldn't apply in Mexico because the cartels threatened me.
So I need to see a caseworker and then I need to see
an immigration judge. Megan, that person is not going anywhere but to the city of their choice,
St. Louis, Omaha, Nebraska, New York City. After two years of this, you think immigration reporters will stop falling for the same crap.
The illegal aliens who want to get in will get in.
It's happening right now.
It's happening every day.
They show up at the border in the morning and they're on to the next city in the evening.
You see them on TV going on to the destination of their choice.
Then they text their friends and their family with their new phones and say, hey, I just got in.
The other point, though, about this is that in reality, the way it works on the ground is that when you have more aliens in your facility than there are caseworkers to interview them, the difference between those two populations gets released.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Tomorrow, we are bringing you another future member
of Trump's cabinet. It's on my full interview that made so many waves for which Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. himself has thanked us repeatedly saying it was the beginning of his revival,
of him being able to speak in forums like Facebook and Instagram without getting censored.
And you will see we had to heavily fact check him with his critics' claims throughout
just to get this thing to air, but it was worth it.
The man is probably going to be running health and human services now, and you will see tomorrow
the beginning of it all. RFKJ, tomorrow. See you then.
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