The Megyn Kelly Show - Major Developments in Karmelo Anthony Case, Nonsense at Obama Presidential Center Opening, and Rosie O’Donnell to Fill in for Kimmel | Ep. 1344

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

Megyn Kelly breaks down new major developments in the Karmelo Anthony case, the shocking surveillance footage revealing what really happened under the tent, why the new evidence undermines the self-defense narrative pushed by Anthony's supporters, how Anthony's parents failed him, Jasmine Crockett and activists pushing disgusting claims about the case, and the ridiculous attempts to portray Anthony as the victim despite the evidence. Plus, Joy Reid's ridiculous comments on how black Americans will skip July 4th celebrations, Kamala Harris rambling about making hope a verb, Barack and Michelle Obama's Presidential Center opening ceremony, Michelle's remarks and prominent placement at the event, Jimmy Kimmel taking a two-month vacation from his late-night show, the decision to bring in Rosie O'Donnell as a guest host, O'Donnell's latest weird comments, and more.     Supersure Insurance: Upgrade your business insurance to a year-round SuperAgency at https://Supersure.com/Megyn ARMRA: go to https://tryarmra.com/MEGYN to get 30% off your first subscription order Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Shopify: Launch your dream business with Shopify. Sign up for your $1/month trial at https://Shopify.com/Megyn and start selling today!     Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKelly Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, and happy Monday. We have some major developments that happened over the weekend in the Carmelo Anthony case. Pretty shocking, actually, as the evidence that the jury saw is now finally being released. Not all of it, but a lot of it before they sentenced him to 35 years in prison for killing Austin Medcaf. And the bottom line is all the stuff that these agitators who refuse to accept that this guy committed murder is proof positive. I mean, it's just beyond any doubt, never mind a reasonable doubt, what happened here. And like the revisionist history by this activist class is just stomach turning.

And you look at this evidence and we're getting some more descriptions now of the stuff that wasn't shown. It's like the dishonesty of these people is just so patent who want to reframe this. It's absurd. It's absurd. I thank God that the vast majority of the American public understands what happened here, white or black or other color for that matter. And it's just this agitator class, like these folks who are outside of the courthouse down in Texas and then the more elite Jamel Hill overly educated types who have spent so much. time in the DEI web that they just are entangled in it. They're trapped like a bug in a spider's web. It's inescapable for them. They're going to live their entire life seeing everything through that prism. And unfortunately, we live in this world with them. So we're going to be subjected to the madness too. It was an eight-man, sorry, eight-woman, four-man jury. They reached their

verdict after hearing five days of arguments and testimony earlier this month. On Friday, Colin County judge John Roach, the same district judge that oversaw the trial, released some of the trial evidence to the public. But because no cameras were allowed in the courtroom, the public is seeing all of this for the first time. And it came out piecemeal. And of course, because it's a court, they don't release it in like an organized, understandable way. And to be honest, most of the media has been too lazy to actually organize it and present it the way it ought to be. So we got it. The released evidence includes surveillance footage showing chaos minutes after the Stabbing. Also a 911 call where you can hear Hunter Metcalf pleading for his brother Austin,

the victim, to stay conscious. And Carmelo Anthony telling cops, as we heard right from day one in this case, I'm not alleged. I did it. I'm not alleged. I did. Thank God he said that. Like, who knows where this crazy defense would have gone if he hadn't so clearly admitted it all on camera? I don't know what, if you're some lunatic out there who's going to paint Carmelo as the victim and Austin as the perpetrator, yeah, you might say he didn't even plunge the knife in. Oh, we would have heard something about how like white people can't tell black people apart. We've heard that before. But he's there. It's clear as day. He said he did it. They had no wiggle room. So they had to go with self-defense, which is a lie that's still being pushed.

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from the steps in the middle of the stadium. He's highlighted in this video. He comes up the stairs and heads down toward the tent where Austin Metcalf was standing with his teammates. I've got to say, like, throughout this, I don't see, like, the downpour that necessitated him. He had to go underneath the tent. I kept waiting to see, like, the monsoon conditions, like, where's the wind rattling the top of that tent to where, like, he had to do this thing that would be considered highly inappropriate under any other circumstance, which is to go into an opposing team's home camp and sit with them. It's not there. He was an agitator. He was trying to prove something. And obviously he was loaded for bear. Before we showed him. Before we showed him. He was a lot of the same. He was. He was show. He was

you more, want to remind you what Carmelo's father, Drew Anthony, told that idiot over at the breakfast club, Mimi Brown, on June 11th. The most pathetic interview I've ever seen somebody do. You've got the father of a killer. And by the time you were done with that interview, Mimi, you would all but convince your audience that it was the other way around. Nothing against her personally. Just the job she did that day was hideous. But here's a reminder on what the murderer's father said. The surveillance footage, which we had not yet seen, but he had, he said this about what that surveillance footage would show. Watch.

And so the video that you all, that they short showed in court, it, it shows him running away from. Yeah, he ran to a teacher. The teacher said the teacher he ran to, he ran to a guy. And the teacher he ran to actually, he hugged him because Camillo, he's not like that. He hugged the guy. He was freaking out. He hugged the guy. So the guy was hugging, he was crying hysterically, and they tried to paint as if he was trying to leave.

But then in court, they said it that he wasn't trying to leave. Yeah. Oh, M.G. These are what we call lies. That's unbelievable. That's not what happened at all. He made a run for it, and he was stopped by a teacher who put him in a bear hug to stop him from escaping. He needed a hug.

Okay. In addition to what you just heard, there were many rumors on social media that the surveillance footage was going to display a group of boys ganging up on Carmelo. He was surrounded. We heard that before he stabbed Austin in self-defense, terrified. Well, we have the footage that was shown to the jury now. It's a little hard to make out, and we're going to show you a zoomed-in version in just a moment. Okay, but screen left, you see a yellow tent. There's a group of students sitting underneath it.

Near the top, you see a brief altercation. And that's the moment when Carmelo Anthony stabs Austin Metcalf. You then see a figure highlighted running out. out of the top of the tent. That's Carmelo Anthony. See him running. He's highlighted here. He runs down the steps. He gets to the bottom of the bleachers, trips and falls. He gets back up and keeps running. He knows what he's done. He runs until he gets to the end of the stadium bleachers and then appears to start walking. Got to play a cool new people seeing you. Don't want to project panic. At one point, he turns back toward the stands and then starts running away again.

He can see people are coming. And as he's running, you can see people chasing him and pointing at him. He knows what's happening here. It is the equivalent of a car chase, only it's on foot as the perpetrator who commits a dastardly deed tries to get away. Carmelo slows his pace as he walks over toward a group of people. Okay, so to go back to Carmelo's dad, Drew, who's a liar, who tried to say the video doesn't show Carmelo trying to leave. That's, it's a lie. He is fleeing. And the reason he needed a lie is because fleeing a scene, a criminal scene, is admissible in court as consciousness of guilt. And that's exactly what was argued. Because we can all see that's what it is with our own damn eyes.

We're about to show you three critical up-close videos of what happened under the tent. These were enhanced by Robbie Harvey, a true crime social media journalist on X. In this close-up video at the top of the tent, you see Carmelo Anthony walk in and sit down under the tent where the murder occurred. Carmelo runs for another team. Again, there was no reason for him to be inside that tent, and he knew it was provocative to do this. A few minutes later, you see Austin Metcalf get up and move next to where Carmelo Anthony is seated. Witnesses say Austin was trying to get Anthony to leave the team's tent. about three minutes later you see two people appear to push each other.

Within seconds, Carmelo is seen running out of the top of the tent. By our count, it was about four seconds between the pushing and Carmelo running out of the tent. I mean, there was no built up. There was no long altercation. He shoved a knife in another boy's heart and then made a run for it. After Carmello ran away from the scene and to the end of the stadium, he's eventually brought back closer to the crime scene by teachers, not because he wanted to, but because they made him.

They made him. According to CBS, Texas, Memorial High School Athletic Trainer, that's where Austin went, Tiffany Whitaker first stopped Carmelo, and then handed him off to Heritage High School head football coach, Vincent Hooper. According to journalist Sarah Fields, who was inside the courtroom for the entire trial, Whitaker testified that she got in front of Anthony, he was running, put her hands up to keep him from leaving, and then yelled at Coach Hooper, hey, this kid stabbed someone. Don't let him leave. End quote. This is when Coach Hooper put his

arms around Carmelow in a hugging fashion to prevent him from leaving the stadium. Quoting there, I'm quoting. That's the testimony that was given. It's not a, he didn't need a hug. What a fucking liar. I'm sorry. The father's a liar. The parents are liars. they hired a lying spokesperson to represent them, a race hustler too, which appears to apply to the parents as well. Not to mention their core supporters and their grandmother, Carmelo's grandmother, who kept chanting, racist, biased, racist, biased after the guilty verdict. Why don't you try accepting responsibility, okay? Maybe if you hadn't had such an entitled attitude that's blind to facts, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.

Your grandson would be free and Austin Metcalf would still be alive. We also now have the video of Carmelo being taken into custody shortly after all of this, where Carmelo Anthony leaves no doubt as to whether he was the one who killed Austin. He tells the officer, I'm not alleged, I did it. Watch. It's the alleged suspect. I am. I'm not for the wrong.

I know how I go. I'm not alleged. I do. Okay. There it is. I mean, honestly, I'm not alleged I did it. We know. And there's body camera footage from a different officer as Anthony is arrested.

You're going to hear him sound emotional when he tells the officer who had not yet asked him any questions about the crime. Quote, he put his hands on me. Watch. Over there, guys. He put his hands on me. I'm going to know, he put his hand on me. He's not going to be okay. Honestly, at the end you hear Anthony ask,

is he going to be okay? And the officer says, I don't know yet, man. Carmeller doesn't fully understand that he just committed a murder. And let me tell you something. That I believe those tears. I believe he was upset. I believe it was sinking.

into him in that moment what he'd done. And this isn't to take agency away from Carmelo Anthony, but I'm sorry this is the fault of his parents. This is his parents' fault. When a 17-year-old behaves like this, he's been raised wrong. Some severe failure has happened inside the home. Some sense of entitlement, more than likely, some massive chip on one's shoulder that interprets regular teenage slights as existential as something so offensive and deeply wounding

that a man's life must be taken to avenge oneself. Oh, you're a tough guy, aren't you? He was so tough. Just five minutes earlier, now he's reduced to tears like a crying toddler. Keep in mind, not one second of that grieving can compare in any way to what I'm Hunter Metcalf was going through in the tent steps away to the pain and agony that Austin and Hunter's parents were about to receive when they got word what had happened to their son. But I accept Carmelo Anthony's tears and upset as authentic.

And I think he has himself, clearly, but his parents to blame. We have to teach our children emotional regulation. That's a parent's job. And by the way, I see this all the time as a mother of three. It's not just this extreme, you know, when you don't do it. I see, like, these kids who are running around so stressed out, so anxious, so, like, afraid of putting one foot in front of the other, so afraid of making a mistake, constantly looking at mom and dad for affirmation.

That is a parental failure. It's a failure. Same thing when I see a mother hitting her child in public. It's a failure by you, the mother, you're failing. Why are you smacking your kid around in public as he or she is crying? I've seen it so many times drives me nuts, especially a toddler. Who fucking hits a toddler? I'm sorry, it's disgusting.

You don't hit a toddler. Look, I was raised in a family that used spanking. I wasn't spanked as a baby. You know, it's like my mom and I've had many laughs over the spankings that I did take. But I'm just saying, like, you see a toddler who's hysterical. That child needs to be held. they need caring and loving to calm them down. They need a caring soul to hold them

and so they can feel the calm of the mother's body or the fathers and a stroking of their hair and calm soothing sounds until they can calm down. They can't express themselves well. It's extremely frustrating. I can't stand when parents don't understand this about their little ones.

And this kid, Carmelo Anthony, who was a kid, even though he was about to become a man, didn't have emotional regulation. I mean, I guarantee you, he went in there to be provocative. He wanted to play the tough guy because he knew he didn't belong in that tent. It wasn't pouring rain. It wasn't some monsoon happening down there. He didn't need to be there.

And he's not 11. He's 17. He knew the rules. You know you don't go over to the opposing team's home camp. You know that. You guys know I know nothing about sports. Even I know that. So he went there to be provocative.

And then immediately upon being told to leave, he essentially said, make me. You know, why don't you try to make me? And then Austin Medcalf put hands on him in a way that sounded about as gentle as humanly possible. The testimony was that he placed hands on Carmelo and the person sitting next to Carmelo didn't even have Carmelow bump into them. So it couldn't have been very forceful. And in that same moment, Carmelo shoved a knife into Austin's heart. He wanted to be tough.

It wasn't out of fear. It was out of a small, tiny ego and a need to prove that he mattered, that he was a badass, that he was some sort of a tough guy. It's a failure by the parents. This piece of evidence here shows Carmelo in the police cruiser with his hands in cuffs with what appears to be Austin's blood on his finger. It's awful. You can see it there at the tip. Literally has blood on his hands. In stark contrast to the relatively calm arrest are the dramatic and emotional 911 calls. Viewer discretion, a warning here. These can be, first of all, hard to hear. And second of all, just disturbing in exactly what they're saying.

In this first clip, a friend of Austin's details the scene. My friend just got stabbed. Give me a description of the person that stabbed him. He was wearing a gray essential hoodie. He was black. He's standing out on the judge right now. My friend's bleeding everywhere. The person that stabbed him, is he still there?

Do you still see him? There's adults on him. The person that stabbed your friend, is he still there? Yeah, he's still here. Okay. Like, I mean, like, coaches have him, he can't hurt him. Okay, when you say they have him, are they physically holding him down? No, they're just holding him walking around.

And in this 911 call, you can actually hear Hunter Metcalf pleading with his dying twin brother. Hunter is not the person calling 911 in this call, but you can hear him in the background. You're going to hear a couple of people, one man saying, staying with me. Austin's voice is the deeper one. You hear him saying, come on, come on, you can do it, fight through. as he begs his brother to keep fighting. We have an army veteran that's trying to keep compression on the wound. Okay.

Are you with him now? He is laying here. He is starting to go unconscious. Is he awake? No, he's going unconscious. Okay. Is he breathing? Not right now.

He's not breathing at all? No. Okay. Where was he stabbing it? Okay. Okay. Okay. I've got them coming, okay?

Stay on the phone with me, all right? Okay. Is he a statement still nearby? Okay, I'm here. Is he a statement still nearby? Stay with me, Austin. Come on, come on. I'm going to keep you with me, okay, until they're with you.

Is he breathing soon? He's trying, yeah, we're doing compressions and giving them mouth-a-mouth. Okay. Come on, come on. Okay. They're doing CPR on him. Okay. Keep going, okay?

Come on. Yes, ma'am. The medics are coming as fast as they can't. Keep me up to you, okay? Come on, yes, ma'am. Yeah, ma'am. Fight through, fight through, Ben. Bye through.

Awesome. Come on, come on. That is awful. So awful. These two sweet boys who grew up together from the moment, they first came into this world, in their mother's womb together, holding each other as all little twins do

when they're in their mother's womb. And ever since, and you can hear him because they both were avid sportsmen, tough competitors, and you can hear him thinking the only thing he can do for his brothers is to encourage him to find that toughness, fight through, fight through, fight.

But it was impossible. It was a feet too great even for Austin Metcalf. His heart had been punctured with a four-inch night. so deeply and so brutally that the bone behind it had been nicked. What we weren't shown, according to Sarah Fields, is the body footage, a body cam footage, showing Austin on the ground.

This was played in court. His face turning purple, gray. As Hunter was screaming, oh my God, please, God, please. That's my brother. That's my best friend. Please, God. That has not yet been released to the public. Sarah wrote that in her notes that she took,

during the court proceedings she could barely write because she could not see through her tears. The Metcalf family was shaking and sobbing in the court. She said, I was shocked that the body cam footage was shown while Austin's family was in the room. It was traumatic. It was haunting. The Anthony supporters did not shed a tear.

Stone-faced. hunters screams along with the coach yelling in this piece we did here stay with me austin stay with me on that 911 call will forever linger in my mind and now you've heard it too the court also releasing several heartbreaking photos this is the coat austin was wearing when he was stabbed you can see the bloodstains all over it and this is a photo of the murder weapon It was found on the bleachers where Carmelo Anthony threw it when he started running away. And honestly, it's like stupid. In addition to everything else, he appears to be pretty dumb.

This is your attempt to hide your evidence? Look at this thing. You could gut a fish with this knife. This is not some butter knife at the dinner table. This thing can obviously kill. The reason I have to remind you of that is, because Democratic Congresswoman outgoing, who failed at her Senate run, Jasmine Crockett, actually got on camera in the wake of this horrific tragedy and argued that clearly the knife

wasn't big enough to be a deadly weapon. Remember? Was it a switch? I don't know what he had. It was like it seemed like it was a multi-tool, almost like a Swiss army. Yeah, like with the little scissors and everything and whatever. So it was small. Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn't even think it's a daily weapon. And that's why. If it was one of the little, like, I don't know. Like, I do think.

Well, that's why he went to his coach and was like, but I don't think I heard him that bad. These are a bunch of idiots sitting together trying to opine on something about which they know nothing. The woman in the bottom right hand of the screen for the listening audience is, she's got a bigger close-up than anybody else with this smirk on her face that you want to smack right off of it. No, like, no. Look at this smirk on the woman bottom right. Fuck off. Okay, he was not a victim.

Of course, it's like they got to turn it into a black thing. It's so undermining to race relations, which are doing fine, by the way, notwithstanding the fact that you crazy-ass activists, and they're not all black, most of them are, actually white women from the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the like. Notwithstanding what you've tried to do to the country for the past six years, but we're actually doing okay, notwithstanding this kind of behavior, because we understand, thank God, you don't speak for black people. The vast majority of whom are normal and understand exactly what happened here. But fuck off to you people who are trying to minimize this and change the facts from what they clearly are.

It's infuriating, your little smirk. I got news for you, little lady. on the bottom right. White lives matter. Okay? Sorry, but they do. Crocket. She's such a race hustler herself with her like newly found black scent. She sounds like me. We all know this. We heard this after her $40,000 a year private high school and a campus that looked like it was something out of a New England movie for where the rich send their kids. She becomes a lawyer. She says, sounds like me. She sounds like anybody who's had an education, wasn't raised in the hood. And now she leans in. She's got to dial it up. What was that a switch? I don't even know.

You know full well what it was. It was a fucking knife. And you know how you know that it was a deadly weapon? Because Austin Metcalf is dead. He bled to death and his heart stopped working because Carmelo Anthony shoved this four inch blade into their heart. If you're so comfortable with the blade, Jasmine Crackett, why don't you try shoving one into your own heart? See whether you survive. See how you feel about the prospect of taking that knife and sticking it in your own heart. I'm going to guess it's a no. I'm going to guess when it's your own safety in danger. You would say, actually, now I see how dangerous that thing could be. Stop. All right, just stop. That's like saying a small gun, you know, like the kind that they put on like a female spies dress on her thigh so she can sneak.

into the Black Tie event. That, I mean, I might shoot myself with that. It's so small. Small but deadly. Just ask the Metcalf family. This knife was big enough to make this fatal gash in Austin's chest. This is a photo of the actual knife wound. Look at this.

Look at this. After being stabbed and left with this hole in his heart, Whole in his heart. McHaff ran down the bleachers grabbing his chest and telling those around him, get help. Please, get help. Those must have been his last words. Now, with all of this evidence released to the public, are any of these supporters beginning to understand why Anthony was found guilty?

Are they sorry for their incendiary rhetoric? Are they sorry for Hunter Metcalf and causing him more harassment and harm by starting a Change.org petition to have him arrested for assault, even though there's zero evidence he laid hands on Carmelo Anthony. They want the brother arrested. There are literally people out there saying that they should dig up Austin Metcalf and piss on his grave and on him. Are they sorry?

No. Certainly haven't expressed one word of that. one well-known Carmelo Anthony supporter, Tiffany Billions, hashtag Goals, who helped raise money for Carmelo after his arrest, writing on X, quote, releasing the footage of a terrified black teenager on Juneteenth is a slap in the face to all of Black America. Carmelo defended himself against monstrous bullies. Carmelo is alive because he defended himself. You can clearly see Carmelo Anthony being attacked. under the canopy. This is why we'll keep fighting until he's free. I just like, this is not about black versus white. This is about civilized versus uncivilized. It's about honest versus dishonest. It's about sane versus insane. You know, I just, these people do not speak for the black community. I will never accept that. This is deeply wrong. And all rational

people see it, irrespective of skin color. The red that Austin Metcalf bled is plenty evidence for most of us, that he was the victim, not the other way around. And as we've been outlining, the tape shows nothing of the sort that Tiffany Billions describes. It's just so upsetting. And it's, it's incendiary. It's incensing.

Right? You can hear it, I'm sure, because I can't stand this. The Metcalf family has suffered enough, and they don't need this additional pain heaped on them. So the record is straight. It reminds me of what they did to Charlie after he was assassinated, after he was murdered. And they came out and like immediately started saying the worst things about him, calling him a racist and a sexist and all the things. And it would, it wasn't just fringy. It was in the pages of the New York Times, which may be biased and unreliable in many ways, but is not fringe with Nicole Hannah Jones, who's a race hustler too, being given endless supply of ink to write all the hateful lies she wanted about Charlie.

It's just so infuriating. After they die, you can say whatever you want about them. And as long as it's a righty or someone who the right wing loves and the left wing can't stand, you'll get away with it. You know, we did a long fact check of that Nicole Hannah-Jones piece, which I am very glad we did. It's on our YouTube feed right now. If you just search, if you search probably my name

and Nicole Hannah-Jones, it'll come up in Charlie Kirk. It's worth your time because they're still telling those lies about Charlie now. Still, that Amanda Safe Read, that act, she's not a bad actress. I got to say, I saw her not too long ago on something. She was very good. I wish she was as good inside. as her acting skills are on the out.

Because she's now playing the victim. She's super upset that she felt threatened after she came out and shat all over Charlie Kirk's grave. He'd barely been dead, what a day? And she said he was hateful. Maybe a way to beat. You know, maybe give his parents time to like pick out a casket before you remind the world

how hateful you thought he was. I like honestly, I defy anyone to ever find someone like a collection of right wingers doing this. Try to find me ever saying that. I've been called hateful just in front of all the same ways Charlie was. Good luck. Try to find Charlie Kirk. There's tons of tape of him saying that about somebody on the left wing who had been assassinated. You can't. You won't. It's not going to happen. an American citizen, a fellow American citizen,

I've celebrated the death of terrorists. This is crazy what they're doing. The switched narratives, the posthumous, defamatory takedowns. They're just so beneath us, or at least I wish they were. I want to just do like a palate cleanser. There's a lot of other news to get to. But I want to do a pallet cleanser because that's so dark. So normally I would do, you know, flow.

But I think we need a pallet cleanser. Why don't we go to Joy Reid? She's also a race hustler, so the flow is okay. But she's a nutcase. And she kind of makes me laugh. Like, she doesn't upset me. She just kind of makes me laugh. These days, thank God she no longer has that show on MS now.

I realize nobody watches MS now. But they shouldn't be platforming people like that Tiffany Cross and Joy Reed. These are nutcases. Like, that's just freaking crazy. Just can't be doing that. And here's the latest example of why she lost her show and was too much even for them. Because in many ways, and with apologies

to my dear, spicy white friends, because I know that my white brothers and sisters do love a 4th of July. It is Independence Day. Everybody's barbecue, and it's a thing. I can promise you, black folks, we will take that day off. We will barbecue because we off. But black people that nobody black I know

is really excited about the first. 4th of July, because it is a, it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. It is the celebration of slave holders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the crown for their slave empire. And that is what it is. Okay, then you need to meet other black people, Joy Reed. Because there's not a black person I know who won't be celebrating July 4th, as avidly and excitedly as most of their fellow Americans. Like, still, 250 years later, still were hung up on, like, you know, women are not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.

All men are created equal. They don't mention women. Most of us have moved on. We're not like really holding a grudge that we weren't explicitly included. We understand the spirit of change was in the air and that eventually we would be recognized as full, uh, equal citizens. here in America. And same is true for black people. America's not perfect. We didn't get it right right from the founding. That just means you don't celebrate the country. All right? You need to meet

better black people, Joy Reid. Spend some time with Glenn Lowry, for example. He'll give you a little lesson. In fact, right here, we're going to drop in part of his rant on our show that my team knows is among my favorite clips we've ever generated here on the MK show, which has started almost six years ago. and he was defending America against charges like this lunatics nonsense. And as we head into the July 4th, what's it called? Fortnight, yeah, to quote our friends from across the pond, might be a good time to hear Glenn again. The narrative about the American story, the American project,

is fundamentally important. Is this a good country? Or is this a country that's founded on genocide and slavery. The impact of Western settlement in the Western hemisphere, the European settlement in the Westphrine on the native population was devastating. There's not any doubt about that. And the commerce and chattel, which was transatlantic slavery,

was of a huge scale, mostly going to Caribbean and South America, but of a huge scale. It was monumental in world history. It was monumental in the foundation of the events that led to, to the American nation-state. There's not any doubt about that. But the founding of the country, 1776, 1787, the creation of the United States of America

was a world historic event in which the Enlightenment ideals got instantiated in government institutions. And as a matter of fact, within the century, slavery was gone. And you know what? The people who had been African chattel became citizens of the United States of America,

not equal citizens, not at first. it took another century, but they became, in the fullness of time, equal citizens of the United States of America. The United States of America fought fascism in the Pacific and fought fascism in Europe and saved the world. American democracy became a beacon to, quote, unquote, the free world. We stood down under threat of nuclear annihilation, the horror, which was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

we have had the greatest transformation in the social status of a serfdom people, which was what the emancipation affected and the creation of the Negro of the African American, probably that you could find anywhere in world history, 40 million strong, the richest people of African descent on the planet, by far. This is a question of narrative. Are you going to look through the lens of the United States as a racist, genocidal, white supremacist, illegitimate force? Are you going to see it for what it is?

Which in the last 300 years is the greatest force for human liberty on the planet. That's worth fighting about. That these people at the New York Times lay down to a latter-day woke ideology and debase their country is despicable. By the way, my team looked up the episode number where we fact check Nicole Hannah-Jones. It's episode 1164 in our feed, so pretty easy to find. Okay, so that's Joy Reid. Now, I mean, while we're on the subject of lunatics on the left, we got to spend some time with Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris decided, I love when she decides we need to hear from her like we missed her. She's got things she wants to say to us, and she's there again. So it was Juneteenth. And first of all, she posted this to her own Instagram account, but no idea where she was. She just posted it with this message. This is the joy we're bringing all Juneteenth weekend. Let's watch. Okay.

So I wish this video had been around when we were debating whether she's actually black, because I don't think so. I think that's proof positive. It's a no. She can't dance. My God, what's happening there? I think I can dance better than that, and I can't dance. My friend has tried to teach me many times.

I just, I don't have it in me. Look at this. What is it? We're supposed to feel celebratory in watching it. Well, it's a no. We don't. Then, look at this. She's got like their hands above the midline.

It looks a little Trumpy, if I may say. Like it's got a little like Trump to the top. the top half of the body. Okay. She decided to sit down for an interview. I guess we're celebrating June Teeth with Don Lemon. And it's tough to say who was more absurd between the two of them, but I'm going to have to give it to the former VP. So well done, you know, because you had some stiff competition there. Well done. You won something. And in about, I don't know, 60 seconds or so, she managed to squeeze in every empty word of inspo that like the 16-year-old set online on Instagram, like girls in sophomore year of high school might shove at you in an attempt to

really make you feel great about something you've done. Only she's been the vice president, so you'd expect a little bit more. And possibly an actual profundity here or there. But no. Instead, we got this. this masterpiece. So then what's your case for hope then? You know, I believe that when we feel powerless, we are powerless. And when we feel powerful, we are powerful. We each have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and not allow an election or an individual to damp in that light, and instead let that light kind of carry us in particular moments of darkness,

that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. It is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that that. That should be a verb, which means that hope has to go hand in hand with action. That hope combined with the action will result in us winning the midterms. And that we will also understand that that hope is consistent with a commitment to the fight. The fight for equality. Do you get one more in? You get a set of steak knives.

If you can get one more empty inspo word in your little diatribe, even Don Lemon is sitting there looking expressionless into the camera like, where is this going? What is she saying? Please, God, please, I've been a good girl. Please let her run for president again. Please, I deserve this. I don't ask for that much. I almost never pray for myself. I'm asking for this one. Please, please, please let her run for president again. please give her the hope and the light in the info to fight the darkness. Just kidding, Lord, that wasn't a real prayer. He knows that already. He knows everything. There she is. Now, there's Don Lemon, on the other hand, who does not escape without dinging himself up.

He decided that he needed to bring up how evil this administration is and the DOJ and so on. and here's how that went. You'll notice there's no explicit mention of his own indictment, which I'm just going to say as a journalist seems like something you might feel compelled to disclose to your audience so they can factor in your bias

in making a point like this, but I report you decide. But I think that the people who deserve to be prosecuted or whatever it is for misusing the Justice Department and abusing, I believe, American citizens and American politicians or what do you want to say political rivals or whatever,

I think that they should face, you know, some sort of justice. Oh, well, I absolutely believe that. And I believe that there should be, that there should be accountability. Like Pam Bondi, like Christyneome, like, I mean, if you look at what's happening, I am heartbroken when I look at the civil rights division of the Justice Department. That has just been... It is criminal. If you are president, let's just say it.

28 you are elected. Will you make sure that there's accountability? Oh, I believe firmly in accountability. Yes. My Lord. Okay, neither one of these people is going to be anywhere near the presidency. I'm sorry to tell you. Her days are over. She blackmailed Joe Biden into the position by calling him a racist on the debate stage. And then he had to choose a black woman because the Democratic Party understands that's their core voting block. She wasn't chosen because she's particularly talented. There are very talented black women. She's not on the list. But even that moron there on screen left has talked about running for president.

Don Lemon thinks he can run for president too. Okay, great. I would love to cover that. I hope he does. So yeah, no disclosure in his criticisms of Pam Bondi, that she was DOJ Attorney General at the time he was indicted. And the nerve to rip on Harmeet Dillon, who's running civil rights, I mean, we've never had a greater head of the DOJ civil rights division. She is. a bad ass serious lawyer. She's handled all sorts of cases throughout her decades-long career. She's respected across the aisle. She was making a killing in private practice and took a serious hit financially to go and serve her country in this position, not to mention the fact that she's had a lot of loss in her personal life over the past couple of years, but she picked herself up, dusted herself off,

and said, yes, pick me, I agree to serve. I mean, she's a national heroine. But these two rip on her like she's some partisan hack like Merrick Garland was. And, again, without any disclosure on Don Lemon's part. So remember when I said that he was kind of like, what is she saying? I don't understand it. And you're starting to think, like, is it possible he's the smart one? Is he the smart one in this, is this exchange? Just when you're starting to think, maybe, maybe I misjudged him. maybe like he sees through her. Guess again.

He's there to remind you. Guess again. Watch. You know, as you were sitting here, we were doing this interview, I have to tell you, that I got a little bit overwhelmed, which I don't know where it came from,

because I'm sitting here with the first black vice president of United States, woman, first black woman president. And, you know, we're celebrating Juneteenth, and I never could have imagined that I would be sitting in the seat interviewing someone. unlike you. So we have made progress.

Yes, we have. But we've got to do a lot in order to keep that progress. And you are, you are a part of that right now. So thank you for what you do. And thank you for doing this, Madam Vice President. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Don Lemon. And thank you for continuing with your calling as a journalist. And always speaking truth, even when it may be at great personal risk and sacrifice. sacrifice. Okay. Don Lemon was not facing any great personal risk when he stormed that church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was creating chaos and danger for the peaceful churchgoers around him. Remember the report that somebody severely hurt her arm? There was one report. It was actually broken. And the children crying. He's an agent of

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Kelly Channel, Sirius XM 11, and on the Sirius XM app. You were probably celebrating Juneteenth with all of your family, and you might have missed the opening of the Obama Library. And the Hope and Change Lounge, remember? The Hope and Change Lounge, remember? The Hope and Change reception area with the hideous portrait of the two of them, where she looks like the president and he looks like backup girl number two, you know, like honestly, it's crazy. It's crazy that either one of them allowed this, you know, even if, I don't know, I guess if I ever became president and Doug were like the first gentleman, I guess I'd be okay with that portrait. I wouldn't want anything, anything at all that was emasculating for my husband.

I guess it wouldn't be emasculating if the woman had been the president and the man wasn't. But here, he was the president for eight years. She was the first lady and not a particularly great one. She didn't really accomplish anything. She did something on school lunches, which everyone seemed to hate. I was kind of into it because I do think school lunches should be healthier, to be honest. And she started the let's move campaign to get kids moving. Okay, that's good.

I'm not in favor of childhood obesity or adult obesity for that matter. So, okay, that's it. All right. Good. Terrific. Other than that, what she's going to be remembered for, well, now it's going to be her bitterness because she let that mask slide almost as soon as she left office, but especially since she launched that podcast.

But she's going to be remembered for all those Vogue covers that Anna Wintor gave her and their attempts to make us think she's a style icon. Okay, we don't. I'm sorry, but we don't. And just the fawning press coverage that she was given, notwithstanding the fact she hadn't accomplished anything. Like she was a lawyer at some Chicago law firm. Okay, it's like there's millions of lawyers in the country. They have an approval rating that is equal to that of a cockroach. See, I'm allowed to say that because I'm a lawyer too. Being a respected lawyer is only something you think is going to happen when you're in law school. And then you get out to the real world and you realize nobody respects lawyers.

That's not that we're not necessary. We're necessary, especially the criminal defense lawyers. But all lawyers are necessary. They're necessary cog in the U.S. wheel. However, is something great? Is something like, oh, wow, she became a lawyer. Oh, like, okay. She got into Princeton, thanks to the DEI program.

She's admitted it. Good for her. Affirmative action. So in any event, she's pictured front and center in their presidential portrait, not her husband who was the president. He's in the background. She's in the power seat facing camera, and he's more like side profile. It's crazy. And they had their opening.

And they had the Clintons come and the Biden's come. And it was all super, super chummy. And they decided not having received the message, even the Bidens, from 2024, where he was kicked out of office in part because of his woke policies that drove even some portion of the left, crazy. to begin the whole thing with, insert words here, a land acknowledgement. Watch. We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today. We honor the Nishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa and the Potawatwana bans. God bless you.

The Ojibway, the Potawatablamations. What? No one there knows what she's talking about. Everyone's eye rolling. The nerve, too. It's like, are you going to give the land back? Why did you build there? Chicago's very large.

Illinois's huge. Why did you build there if it's somebody else's land? Like, I'm virtuous because I feel bad about it. Unlike you conservatives, I'm virtuous because I feel bad about it, says Valerie. Okay. So there we get the land acknowledgement. So they haven't changed their tune, which is, again, why Kamala Harris will not be president again.

She's still on board with all of that, as is Obama. Remember, he was supposed to be the more reasonable one, apparently not. And then you've got Barack Obama talking about what people want right now. This is what they want. It's not 21. People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

that deep in our gut we want to find a way to turn towards each other again not further away. I believe this because I've seen it all across our country and cities that have worked together

to reclaim their streets from crime and rural communities that have rebuilt their economy and businesses that are finding new ways to make housing affordable and those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who brave frigid temperatures risk their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder

to look out for their neighbors and sometimes look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do. I've seen it. Okay. So people right now are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, he says, and tips his hat to the ICE protesters in Minnesota. I have I'm not sure he had his television on because they bit the fingers off of a nice agent. It didn't feel mutually respectful to me. And it's an obvious dig at President Trump, right? Mutual respect and fairness. He wants less division.

He was the most divisive president we had had in modern history during his term. Honestly, he was the one who. seized one-sixth of the U.S. economy, the health care system, and shoved a new system down the throats of Americans who did not want it. It was the first time ever we created a new entitlement in the United States that did not have majority support. He shoved it down our throats with lies. You can keep your plan if you like your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor so egregious that even his supporters, as time passed, would ultimately label those the lie. of the year. That's how egregious his falsehoods were about something as critical as your health care. And we knew it, those of us who objected to it back in the 2008 to 2010 time frame, knew he was lying

because the experts made it clear he was. He just continued to do it through his teeth. But you see, he doesn't get called out as a liar because he's not brash. He's not orange. He doesn't have the hair. So we had to believe in him. We had to believe hope and change wouldn't lie to us. We're doing politics differently now.

We're done with the division. There is no red state of America. There is no blue state America. There's only the United States of America. That's not how he governed. He shoved that plan down our throats with lies. And people died as a result. And when he shoved that plan down our throats,

he looked at John McCain and said, elections have consequences, John. They have consequences. Fuck off. right half of the country that doesn't want this. He was so glib and smug about it. He couldn't have cared less that old people were genuinely scared about what was going to happen to them and they were right to be.

He's the one who started commenting on legal cases in a way we had never seen before. Now, Trump does it all the time. Joe Biden did it all the time. Joe Biden was calling Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist when he was running for office long before we even had a trial. That was brand new ground when Barack Obama did it. We didn't used to have presidents weighing in on legal cases like that. Never mind the race of the perpetrators and saying things like if I had a son,

he'd look like Trayvon Martin. How dare you? Stay out of it. Don't prejudice a trial for either party. That was Barack Obama. He's the one who told us he couldn't do any more on immigration. reform until he magically took out his pen and his phone and found more that he could do extra-legally. He's the one who activated his attorney general to be his right-hand wingman

instead of an objective chief law enforcement officer. And now, I mean, those days are gone now. Now, now the AG basically just worked for the president. It's obviously true under the Trump administration. But we can thank Barack Obama for changing that previously existing norm. So I do don't want to hear any lectures from him about mutual respect or division, divisiveness, because he's the architect of it. He's very good at selling it in a much nicer way. He's a good orator. You know, he looks nice. He sounds nice. He's got good tonality in delivering his speeches. But make no mistake about it, he is far more divisive when it comes to the way he actually governed than even Orange Man Bad, according to these leftists who now sits in the White

House. Trump is much more moderate than Barack Obama ever was, ever. So this is all a facade. It's a lie that they're putting on camera there. And of course, they ate it up, hook, line, and sinker. Now, here's his wife, Michelle, who listened to it for a couple of things in this soundbite. Back to the fact that she wants us to believe she was really the president, right? The portrait. Why is she front and center? She wasn't the president. Sorry, but you weren't.

Listen for the key phrase in this next soundbite on that. And then listen to the substantive point because her substantive point is also not right. SOT 22. It's why during our administration, we threw open the White House doors to all sorts of folks who don't usually get to meet the president or first lady. The families pinch and pennies to send their first child to college. The teenagers who know that a hot afternoon means the bullets start flying. The military spouses and children serving and sacrificing just like their loved ones in uniform.

The native kids showing us that resilience and pride can never be stolen. The four-achers and FFA members with calluses on their hands from feeding livestock, the immigrants proving what it truly means to be a dreamer. These folks, these folks aren't Americans too. They are America. They are the beating heart of this country. Okay.

Now, I love that she now is worried about the inner city kids who have to worry about bullets flying. That's your hometown, madam. That's Chicago. What did you do to help them? Hmm? Because I saw a lot of protesting after George Floyd joining in on the George Floyd of Palooza. None of that helps Southside Chicago. None of it.

The only thing that's going to help Southside Chicago is more police, which wasn't done. will never be done. You don't seem to count those black lives in the tally. The black lives who get killed only seem to matter to the activist class if it's at the hands of a police officer, not a black gang member. Whereas actual black Americans want to be safe, just like Asian Americans and white Americans and Hispanic Americans. I know because they've come on my show time after time to say exactly that. To talk about their fear as neighborhoods got depoliced, thanks to Democrats like you, Michelle. And then did you hear the reference to our administration? What did you do? You're part of the administration. You were the first lady. Can you imagine Melania Trump ever talking like that?

Seriously, can you imagine Melania Trump ever saying our administration? She always says, my husband, my husband, my husband has done this, my husband's administration. She's respectful. She understands that she's not actually a political leader. She's more of a figurehead. The first lady does things like it puts on the Christmas party, oversees the Easter egg roll, does some sort of non-controversial initiative, like, let's move. But you're not actually part of the administration. You don't have a job that requires Senate confirmation. Like, who died and made you president? You never were.

Sorry, it was your husband, no matter what the portrait looks like. Then we get to the piece about immigrants, how much she cares, how these dreamers who are illegal immigrants. It's a nicer word for illegal immigrant who was brought here as a kid. By the way, read the room because now's really not the time to be celebrating the dreamers. One was allegedly just at the head of that scheme that targeted the UFC 250th event for terror, came up with the plan. The guys from Mexico. A dreamer, a sweet dreamer. Who could be against dreaming? Yeah, a dreamer from Mexico, according to the authorities, was the mastermind of the plot to have drones drop bombs over the UFC event that happened.

two Sundays ago, and then shoot people as they ran for their lives. So, read the room. We're not really feeling that warm and fuzzy about the dreamers, Michelle. But what did the Democrats do when actual illegals did come into the country and had the nerve to travel north of the Mason-Dixon? Now, that's when my pals on the Upper West Side and Michelle's pals at the Martha's Vineyard gatherings really find their spines. That's when like, you know, what's the, the rubber meets the road, okay? Because now we're going to have to get really honest about how we feel about dreamers and

illegal immigrants, I'm sorry, undocumented workers who come here just in search of a better life. That's all they ever want. It's not about causing mayhem. It's not about shooting dead Sheridan Gorman on a Chicago pier as she runs for her life at age 18 just off to college. No, it's not about assaulting sexually and killing Lake and Riley. It's not what it is. It's not about sexually assaulting and throwing over a bridge, Jocelyn Nungari. It's about a better life, a better life, okay? And we did see this experiment with our own eyes a couple of years ago when the brilliant Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, decided to take a bunch of illegals who found their way

into the great state of Florida and shipped them up to Martha's Vineyard by bus. Here are the pictures. Ron DeSantis may not be a great retail politician, but he is a brilliant guy. And he's a very effective leader, for sure. And he set these people to Martha's Vineyard knowing exactly what would happen. And it did. And this is all.

also one of our favorite soundbites. We've got the Glenn Lowry soundbite of the Megan Kelly Show tenure. Here's another one. This is one of our favorites, too. This is a gal named Lisa Belcastro, who was the coordinator for the Martha's Vineyard Homeless Shelter, Harbor Homes upon the influx of all the illegals, who Michelle Obama wants us to know that the doors were open to. They were open. When Democrats are in charge, the doors are open. But this was to be. 2022. And as far as I recall, it was a Democrat, who was in the White House then, and Kamala Harris too. She was the vice president then. And this is how things went down. Let's check in with Lisa upon the influx. The difficult challenges are we have at some point in time they have to move from here to somewhere else.

Right. We cannot, we don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants. And we certainly We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island. And so we don't, we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here. We don't have housing for 50 more people. You don't. Welcome to Texas's world. Welcome to the southern borders world. Arizona and beyond.

They too lack the facilities and the housing, Lisa. And in the meantime, did we see. Michelle and Barack Obama say, well, we live in Martha's Vineyard. We can help. You know, we're just kind of sitting around making millions off of Spotify now. We don't mind helping. We're going to, you know, put our money where our mouth is. Because they have a home that they bought in 2019, so they were there in 2022, worth more than $20 million. Do you have a home worth more than $20 million? Because they do. Michelle does. It has seven bedrooms, eight and a half baths, a large swimming pool, and a private beachfront. This is to say nothing of their home in Chicago, their home in Washington, D.C., which is

very stately. They're home in Hawaii. They've got all the friends with the yachts, David Geffen. They love to go out on his yacht. It's so fun to party on a yacht. I don't remember her offering up the yacht or the home, which was just the stones throw away in Martha's Vineyard. Has 30 acres, 30 acres in Martha's Vineyard. Do you know what, like, kind of money we're talking? about there. They didn't volunteer to have the illegals come there, even though she really wants us to believe that the doors were open under the Democrats to all sorts of folks who don't usually meet the president like dreamers. Don't remember it. Didn't happen, actually. One more on Michelle and then I got to do something with Joe, Joe Biden at this event. Michelle gave an interview

with Barack, right? I think Barack was there too, but Michelle was definitely there. Yeah, it was both. both, yeah, because he has a different answer than she does. To Robin Roberts of GMA in advance of all this, and you may have seen this because it went totally viral, listen to the different answers they give when asked to describe their next chapter

in one word. One word to describe your next chapter. One word. Fun. Me. That's what you call. Drop the mic. Oh, my God, Robin Roberts.

That's what you call drop the mic. You can't get mad at Robin Roberts. She's such a nice person. I like, she failed so mightily on that Justy Smollett interview. I mean, we know what kind of a journalist she is, but she is a nice lady. I actually happen to like Robin Roberts personally. But in any event, there was not a drop the mic moment at all. That was a drop the ball moment from a PR perspective.

Barack's answer was fine. Good for him. He should have some fun. He's worked very hard his whole life. His wife were finally in the Michelle Obama era? Finally? Okay. Forgive me for not noticing like the four covers of Vogue were not the Michelle Obama era.

She's really, this is just, like I'm kind of over her, but just quickly, she was bitter about getting married. She's bitter about playing second fiddle to her husband. She's very bitter about having children and having to raise them. She sees them as like they're the ball and chain to her. She's thrilled their launched, quote, launched, and that she doesn't have to parents. them anymore. And now, I guess, she's finally going to focus on herself. Okay, how? Because her podcast shows a woman who's utterly miserable, who apparently desperately needs, but hasn't gotten the therapy she needs. And she's launched a podcast, which is failing. It's not going well.

She doesn't seem to want to hang her shingle back out and do the career for which she was trained. Okay. So what are we going to, what is it? Because you wrote a book called becoming about yourself, how becoming you are. It seems like that might have been the you era. I don't, We didn't already have the Michelle Obama era with the Vogue covers and the magazine spreads and the fashion shows and the First Lady thing and the I'm Becoming number one New York Times worldwide bestseller. I'm confused. I thought that was the Michelle Obama era. I can't wait to see what the me era actually is. Remember like then you found yourself and you started wearing your braids and he gave us a lecture on how you couldn't do because we were also racist and we wouldn't allow it. But then you did it. You posed in your portrait for it a few years ago, and that was like the you moment where you were coming out, like, take a stand. Like, who is that for? Who is that stuff for? Who was the launching of the podcast for? Who is like, I don't, then you launched a whole other book. This is this past year of you and your fashion that were supposed to celebrate you once again, your great fashion choices.

Whose era was that? Having difficulty. Like, is it, the messaging is that it's important. possible for you to prioritize you or be fully in your own skin and comfortable with it and thriving and well and joyful if your children are still in the home. You've got to get them out because you cannot both tend to oneself and one's children at the same time. Challenge. Lots of us do it every day. Lots of us, Michelle. We don't need to scrub the deck of all people for whom we care and care about in order for us to prioritize our own wellness or happiness or era. She's not a mentally well person. I think that's been clear for a long time. Now we've got to spend a minute on Joe.

This is in its way the most infuriating clip that I've seen in recent memory. I think it'll be obvious why, but I'll explain it on the back end. But here, they were all there. Like I said, the Bidens, the Obamas and so on. And what we saw shortly into the event as they, I mean, not shortly into it, like as the event was wrapping up, was everybody starting to leave. And what we saw was in a moment just like at that California fundraiser before, like a month before the June 2024 debate when Biden had his meltdown. A month before that, he had had a California fundraising event with George Clooney and the guys from Pod Save America. and remember we saw him freeze up on the stage and Barack had to go get him

and hold his hand and get him off stage and then we were told that if we believed that we were just watching deep fakes and it never really happened. And those, of course, relies. Well, it happened again. You would think that Barack and Jill, of all people would know not to leave grandpa behind.

He needs care and feeding. You know, he's going to fall asleep in his tapioca unless he got him by the hand. And we should know that by now, but apparently we forgot. Here's video 10. Okay, he's walking. This is Barack and Jill walking off the stage.

Not even, not even like looking back. Now the camera pans back. There's Joe. There's Joe. It's funny, but it's also infuriating. It's a lot of things. He's standing there with his aviators on, giving the thumbs up, squinting out of the crowd. He looks totally befuddled.

He apparently says something like, where's so-and-so as if he's looking for somebody? Even the camera operator has to pan up away from him because he knows. This is uncomfortable. Nobody, they forgot Grandpa. They left him. Look, there's Barack, there's Michelle in the white jacket. No, you forgot Grandpa. Sorry, I mean, Jill. And here, here's what's so infuriating about. They actually wanted us to put him back in office the second term. They told us this person could be freeder leader of the free world for another four years. They told us that. They wanted him to be in charge of the nuclear codes. That guy we just saw right there for four more years and told us

there was nothing wrong with his mental competency. And if it hadn't been for a man named Donald Trump, they might have gotten away with it. And it's deeply scary, scary, alarming, a betrayal and immoral. It's immoral. So, yeah, that's the Democrat Party. And there's been no atone. ever after. We're still dealing with their lies about that era in our history. And it's, it's wrong. It's morally wrong. Okay, I want to spend a minute on Israel and Iran. Oh, wait, before we get to that, Jimmy Kimmel, my crack producer reminds me. Maybe we'll save Israel and Iran for tomorrow, because we have VDH coming. And he's, he's an expert on everything that's happening over there. So I'll save the Israel-Iran update for tomorrow.

even though we've got a really good Nancy Guthrie update to get to. We'll do that tomorrow too. All right, we're going to do Nancy Guthrie tomorrow in Iran. Probably the only show in all of media to do those two topics together. But there you have it. We'll end today with Jimmy Kimmel. Well, no, I want to end with Norway. So I've got six minutes because we're running at a time.

Jimmy Kimball's going on vacay. For two months. Do you have a two-month vacay? Probably not. Do you have 30 acres in Martha's Vineyard? Probably not. These are our bedders, you see. these are our moral betters because they do land acknowledgments, so they're better than we are.

Jimmy Kimmel's going on a two-month sabbatical, and guess who he has sub-hosting for him? It's a litany of left-wing comedians, most of whom you don't know very well because he's worried about his job security, so he's got to find people who are lesser than he is. But none more so than the next person, I'm going to show you, who actually gave an interview recently to Jim Acosta, and here's what she was saying in this interview. This is a two-week guest host out of the two months for Jimmy Kimmel, Sat 27. I mean, part of the reason that I left

is I never in a million years thought we would put a convicted felon who tried to start an insurrection back in office. How did that happen? I don't think it happened. I think Camilla won. I do.

Interesting. And I think that we're going to find all this out. It's going to come out. And it's, I'm not the first. person to say this. There are all these researchers who are saying it. I read it online again today. Oh, wait, she read it online. Then obviously it's true that Trump didn't really win the 2024 election. I was told by some reliable sources that election denialism is wrong and basically makes you an insurrectionist or a supporter. Interesting. Says Jim Acosta, interesting. Hmm,

interesting. Another word might be unsupported, made up, invented, but okay, You do you. So Rosie O'Donnell's going to be guest hosting the Jimmy Kimmel show. And we have real questions about whether Rosie will be offering bits like this speculative questioning she gave to us a year or so ago. And was it in the wake of the presidential election? It was right around then. I wonder if she's going to be bringing this up to Jimmy's audience, which is ever dwindling. Watch. Well, hey, everybody, it's Friday all day, as my nana would say. And look what I have on my lip. Everybody's been saying, you have herpes, you have herpes all this time. And I never had a cold sore in my life. And now I have a cold sore.

And it makes me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore too. And so I talked to my doctor today and I did a video telehealth. And they said that, it's not a cold sore, it's some reaction to the sun. So I don't know, I will let you know tomorrow if I do, in fact, have herpes as some of the taunting from the MAGA people in the last couple of weeks. Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen, to be standing in direct opposition to everything he is and represents and always have been and always will be. So Maga gave her herpes, and now she's guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel. Note to the guests, don't get too close. Do not do the hello kiss when you arrive on stage.

She later confirmed it was indeed a cold sore, i.e. herpes. And she blames Maga for giving it to her, the stress. Okay, in the minute we have left, Norway is playing in the World Cup against Senegal. went to Times Square and did this. Watch. It's tens of thousands of them from the look of it doing the row. It's a vibrant display ahead of their crucial game tonight against Senegal at MetLife Stadium and New Jersey. And they're pretending to row. It's like a thing for Norway. And it's amazing. They're so well organized. I love these guys. I love the Canadians. I'm loving all of our friends from across the pond who have come over to celebrate the World Cup. The United States

is crushing the World Cup, by the way, just in terms of our host cities and the displays that we're putting on. And I could not be happier to see our friends from overseas coming over and experiencing the best that America has to offer, fully enjoying it. And then putting on displays like that. Honestly, it's like patriotic for them. It's kind of patriotic for us. It reminds us who our friends are. And it's inspirational to have that many people that well organized in a place like Times Square. Time Square has never been that beautiful other than on New Year's Eve in its existence. Thank you all for listening. We'll be back tomorrow with VDH and both the Nancy and an Iran update. Starting something new, especially a business, is so hard. So much work goes into something that you're not entirely sure is even going to work out.

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