The Megyn Kelly Show - Pratt and Hilton Closer to Runoff, and CBS News WAR Between Pelley and Bari Weiss, with Adam Carolla | Ep. 1331

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

Megyn Kelly begins the show talking about the election results for California governor and Los Angeles mayor, the alarming delays in getting the final tally, Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton seemingly making the runoffs, and more. Then Adam Carolla, host of The Adam Carolla Show, joins to discuss the emotional factors that influence Los Angeles voting behavior, how Karen Bass could possibly be re-elected, shifting political dynamics that could see Spencer Pratt actually win, California politician Scott Wiener and his bizarre campaign that won last night, Pride Month starting and some companies focusing on it more than others, Jennifer Lopez’s Pride Month message and announcing her daughter now becoming her son,  the growing chaos inside CBS News, Scott Pelley getting fired and attacking his former boss Bari Weiss publicly, why every side is at fault, Pelley’s smug and biased tenure at 60 Minutes, the war of words between the two sides now, the public outrage and protests in the UK following the murder of Henry Nowak, Nigel Farage calling for "rage" in response to the shocking killing and treatment by the police, his longtime friendship with Jimmy Kimmel despite their political differences, Carolla’s path from working-class beginnings to becoming a millionaire, and more.   More from Carolla- https://adamcarolla.com/   Supersure Insurance: Simplify your business insurance and get a free coverage report at https://Supersure.com/Megyn Quo: Make this the season where no opportunity slips away. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go tohttps://www.Quo.com/MK SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off any new system! Pure Talk: Dial #250 and say keyword MEGYN KELLY to switch to Pure Talk and get unlimited data for just $34.99 a month!     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 Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and happy Wednesday, where we still do not know the results of yesterday's key California elections. My God, they're so slow. This is third world crap. Honestly, why? Why in 2026 America does it take a state three days to figure out who won an election? But shouldn't we be doing better than this by now?

It's embarrassing. Take a lesson from Florida. You know, you're both sunshiny states. Yeah, that pretty much ends the similarities. But you could take a lesson from Florida, which got its act in gear after the 2020, sorry, 2000 election Bush v. Gore when it was a nightmare. So they figured it out, and they've had it figured out ever since, and you could take a lesson. Anyway, what we know so far tells us there are some encouraging signs that I don't want to say,

I don't want to be too optimistic here. It definitely feels like Lucy in the football. But it does at least look like Steve Hilton's going to make it into the final two for the gubernatorial race. And Spencer Pratt is holding his own. I don't trust them. I'm not a big, as you guys know, I think my audience would like me to be much more open-minded to the possibility of election stealing. I'm not big on that. I just, I don't tend to believe that government's that organized.

However, California takes so long. Last time Karen Bass was behind and then suddenly surge to become the way. I just, I don't know. Are they actually going to let Steve Hilton or Spencer Pratt take a leadership post out there? I don't know. I don't want to be too conspiratorial, but we'll see. Here's what we know. It's an open primary for governor, start at the top here.

and our friend, Republican Steve Hilton, is currently in first place with about 28% of the vote, with just under 60% of the results in. So that's good. More than half of the votes are in, and he is leading with about 28% of the vote. He just has to be one of the top two to go off to the general election, which happens in November. In second place right now, former California Attorney General and Biden Administration Health and Human Services Secretary Javier Bacera. He's got about 25%. They're still counting at the other 40% of the vote. In third right now, with about 20% of the vote is far left loon, pro boys and girls sports billionaire Tom Steyer. This man is absolutely bizarre.

And I'm sorry, he's too weird even for Californians. He is. He's too weird. You can't do it. That guy, I'm telling you right now, he's got some sort of weird skeleton in his closet. I don't know what it is, but there's something that guy's hiding that's probably going to come out because he's like, I'm going to show you his final campaign ad of the season. You know, he's been paling around with all the trannies out there while he's taking it next level now. The top two, regardless of party, advanced to face off in the general election this November.

The race has not yet been called, of course, because they don't have enough in the vote in yet. But the betting markets, for what it's worth, give Bacera over a 97% chance to advance. And Hilton is sitting in the low to mid-80s, even though he has more than Bacera right now. The bettors understand what California normally does. Steyer's around 20% in the betting markets. That's good. poor Katie Porter's not even going to make in the top three. And now she's really got something to yell about.

I hope she doesn't give up. Don't give up, Katie. We need you on the national scene. Don't be discouraged. Find a way to stay in the national conversation. And in the state's biggest city, Los Angeles, amazingly, incumbent Democrat Karen Bass is projected to advance to November's election. My God. I'm like, what do you have to do?

as a black female Democrat in California, not to get reelected or almost reelected. She allowed half of their city to burn down to the studs. And they're running to keep her in this thing. Unbelievable. Shame on you. Shame on you. Like, the only thing I can think of when I look at what they're doing out there, like if Spencer Pratt does not make it, if they reelect,

Karen Bass. Truly, if they do, like, I will look at them. You know, I go on with Paul Murray of Sky News and I was just saying this to him. You know how like you have the friend and like the husband sheets on her? You're like, well, you have a nice marriage. Maybe it was like a momentary lapse. Perhaps you could work it out. And okay, they do. Then she comes back a year later. She's like, oh, I caught him again. Only this time it was like three strippers. Okay. You know what? That's not great. We might want to reevaluate. Doesn't seem like he's learned his Listen, 10 years later, he's had multiple affair partners, and now he's impregnated somebody outside of the marriage. And at that point, you look at the friend and say, take it to somebody else. I don't care. I'm not listening. I'm no longer in the market for this conversation. You made your bed lie in it.

That's the point I'm at with Californians who would reelect Karen Bass. I really hope they don't do it, but she's on her way. Somehow, she's managed to be in the top two. And the question is, who will be with her? Will it be that other left-wing loon nithia ramen? Or will it be Spencer Pratt, who is Trump-like in his media approach and his messaging in a good way? But do California voters consider that a good thing? I mean, like, they're definitely not in the mood for more Trump energy in most pockets of Los Angeles, so that could hurt him.

But then again, he didn't burn down in the city. His home was burned down. and he really wants to do something about it and the incompetence that's been blanketing that town. So I don't know. I don't know what they're going to do. Right now there's over 63% of the vote in for L.A. Mayor. Again, Karen Bass is through. And in second place right now is Spencer Pratt.

He's got about 30% of the vote. If that holds, it's going to be a one-on-one matchup between Pratt and Bass in November. Bring it. But a lot of the vote is yet to be counted. Batting markets giving Pratt a 65% chance of moving on, with Nithia Rahman holding a 35% chance of continuing to the runoff. She's actually doing better than expected in a few of the smaller districts. So you can't count her out entirely as of this hour. But right now, it's looking like Bass Pratt.

Still early. Speaking of changes to the establishment, there is. So much drama happening right now over at CBS News. They fired 60 Minutes star Scott Pelly. He's out. After he caused a scene and aggressively confronted the show's new executive producer in front of the whole staff earlier this week. I mean, this is like we are back in middle school only it's 60 minutes.

It's just so pathetic. In his statement after his firing, Pelley saying, he praised for the day when, quote, sanity, competence. and courage return to CBS News. Well, he's not expecting to get his job back anytime soon, obviously. And now this morning, Barry Weiss, who's the editor-in-chief over there, issued her nasty little statement about him, and he fired back again. It's a tit-for-tat situation.

No one wants to give up the last word. Can I tell you something? They're all behaving like children, in my view. I got a lot of thoughts on this one. We'll get to it in a minute. but first we're to bring in our guest. We are joined this morning by Adam Carolla. He's hosted the Adam Carolla show,

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I thought you left us in the dust after you got your star. Did they revoke the star? What has led you to Dane to spend time with we lowly plebs once again? Yeah. One of my publicists said we had to keep it short. So as much as I enjoy the praise, we're really kind of on the clocks. So that's me getting my star a week ago, I think it was. That's so cool.

Yeah, it was fun. You went and did something when you got that star that made me do something I promised I'd never do, which is... Love again. I have a soft spot in my heart for Jimmy Kimmel. I know it made me have a soft spot for Jimmy Kimmel. I'm not going to lie. here is what he said when you got your star

on the Walk of Fame. It's not one. Adam and I, as you probably know, don't agree much when it comes to politics, but I love him dearly. I've never worked with anyone funnier. I am proud of him.

I am. This is a guy who worked his way up from nothing to become literally a millionaire. And if you don't believe it, you'll hear him say it every single show. Adam is a true original. He is a,

he was a poor kid from the San Fernando Valley who was rejected by the management at Taco Bell and whose name will now forever be part of this filthy, disgusting intersection next to a bank that has been abandoned for like 35 years. It's true. That was great. You know, I got one more. This is you with a comment on him.

Listen here. I don't know if Jimmy is the first person who believed in me, but he's definitely the first person that ever did anything about it. Others sort of were like, hey, hey, nice one. And then they'd go their merry way. Jimmy took it upon himself to get me a career. And in a world with comedians can be pretty cutthroat and there's a lot of sour grapes and they don't like it if you make more money or get more famous or whatever that is. Comedians are famous for that. Not Jimmy.

Selfless. Always behind me, always promoting me. And always making sure that I did the right thing. That is really sweet. I love your friendship. It's a reminder that our partisan leanings don't have to divide us in our personal relationships. Good for him for showing up and saying what he did and for always having your back and for you as well. Adam, congrats. It's awesome. Thank you. Now, there's something that's interesting that was in there because Jimmy was joking that I would say I'm a millionaire, literally a millionaire,

going way back to the late 1990s when I was on K-Rock radio out here. And I would say it. I would say all the time, I'd go, well, you know, I'm a millionaire. I'm literally a millionaire. And the reason I would say it 25 or 30 years ago is because I was feeling what's going on now, this like attack the Bernie Sanders attack on success, attack on hard work, attack on millionaires. Now, back then it was millionaires.

Then Bernie became a millionaire. who upgraded it to billionaires. But there was this, even back then, 25, 30 years ago, people were trying to downplay their success because they didn't want a target on their back. And I felt that pressure and went the other way and would constantly go, I'm literally a millionaire, a millionaire all the time

because the K-Rock, the radio station would say, stop saying that. Stop it. Like they don't, I would say I flew first class back from New York and they'd go, don't say you flew first class. And I'd go, why not? I'm a celebrity. You know, they'd go, people will get angry if you tell them that. I was like, F yourself, I'm not here to pretend like I'm poor.

Get your shit together. Work hard. And then you can literally be a millionaire. I'm not going to pretend like I'm you. You aspire to be me. I like that. I think people won't hold. money or success, financial success against you, if, especially if you weren't born with a silver

spoon in your mouth and you earned it, you worked for it, worked hard. I think people respect that. And if you were born with the silver spoon, I think they'll forgive that too, just as long as you're not bragging about it like you did create it. You know, if you're honest about, I was very lucky and I inherited money from my parents. I don't think people will hold that against you. It's like the people to whom it's given who want to pretend that they're scrappy and weren't born on third base. That's annoying. It's like, just stop. And then the people who become super rich and want to ruin our society

with their money, like Tom Steyer. We all resent that. That guy's so weird. He's hard to figure out. And it's also kind of, there's something going on there. Who's running that guy's campaign? Like, he's like, Tom, we have to do the breakfast. Hold on. One more picture with a tranny.

And then we can move forward. It's like literally, he's a an old billionaire white guy made his money with prisons and oil and he's obsessed with trannies. Yeah. Weird. He is. And not only that, you tell me, when I saw this yesterday, my first thought was, oh my God, we're so lucky that we have Adam tomorrow.

Look at his final. It's an election day video. This is his closing message to the voters of L.A. SOT3. I'm Tom Steyer. And I'm about to ride the D. Oh, when he said ride the D. I thought the D was short for Dick, but okay.

Of course. Don't we all do? Why is he saying that? And then there's a guy wearing a T-shirt that reads, ride the D. This is a message to the California voters for the State House? I don't know. Who was just saying that there are bottom when they want to be a top or something?

I don't know what. There's some kind of weird. Oh, I think. Oh, it might not have been real, but it was Tala Rica. Tala Rica in Texas. Yeah. There's some kind of weird game. code thing that's going on.

And I don't know. I can't figure what it is. It's weird. It's like Carol Burnett used to... What straight man would say my final message is I want to ride the D. My God, what? I want to ride the D to Brownsville. I have no idea.

I mean, I don't want to get technical, but I think only a woman can ride the D anyway. Not for nothing. You may be right. so but here's the thing you know what i want to say to everybody in california who didn't vote um or in the in the gubernatorial race right the ones that voted for steyer or voted for uh... haviar basera or haviour baccaria as bideman call them all you guys who think it's a good idea to vote for haviar basera ten minutes a good you were all in on Swalwell.

So maybe your antenna's a little bit bent. Did you ever think that you could possibly be wrong with a vote? All the people that are now voting for Bracera were about to vote for Swalwell. Yeah. Maybe sit at home. Right. Maybe give it up. Yeah.

Maybe your instincts are not. That's okay. Maybe your divining rod is not great. Yeah. Well, I'm worried a little because the rule in California is, that you can mail in your ballot on Tuesday all day. You got to get a postmark on Tuesday. And as long as you have one, those ballots will be accepted by county election officials for another week. I'm all for mail-in ballots. If that's how, you know, a state wants to do it,

I guess. I don't know. They're not great. I'm not actually all for them. But if you're going to do them, okay. They should have to be received by election day. What is this nonsense of it's election week, and we have to sit here waiting because people decided to mail in on the day of. And what happened in 2022 was on election night, Rick Caruso. The real estate developer was in first place. Karen Bass was in second, and she did not overtake Caruso for several days as late arriving mailing mail-in ballots continued to pour in, which undermines faith in the elections. Agreed. Well, listen. you know, they always announced this the most important thing you can do is vote, you know, as an American.

Yet it's so slapped together the whole thing, you know, you should have to go in in person and vote. End of subject. And if you don't have the energy or wherewithal to do that, then sit home. Because, and I get mail in if you're in the military and you're abroad or something like that. This COVID mailing thing is insane. They used COVID to usher all of this nonsense in. You can go to the Trader Joe's and to look alike. It's packed with people.

Why are people scared to leave their house to vote when the rest of society was open and every market was crowded? Liquor stores were crowded. Theaters were crowded at that point. Why is COVID so unique as it pertains to voting? I don't, I didn't understand. understand it. The rest of society was open here in California by the time the vote came around. So it leaves the door open for fraud. And it also, it's like it's DEI. And here's why I'm saying it's

DEI. The most insidious thing about DEI is you being on Harvard campus, singing young black man, walk across the quad, and you think to yourself, is he really supposed to be here? or is that just a DEI thing? Is that just an affirmative action thing? That's the worst part about it, the part that you have to think that way. And so anyone who wins Karen Bass over Caruso or Spencer, you know, Nithia Rahman catches up to Pratt in the next two weeks. We all sit around and go, hmm, wonder what that's about.

I don't want, as a voter, I don't want to think that way. I just want to tally all the votes and get the conclusion that night. because everybody, especially any Republican in California and in Los Angeles, is dubious all the time. We're like, I don't trust that system. Why do we want a system that we don't trust? Adam, how are the citizens of L.A. even considering Karen Bass, given what happened in the Palisades. Truly, explain it to me.

Well, I have a unique perspective because I was raised by these people. My mom was this way. My grandmother was this way. My family is this way. And they think this way. That's it. Before my mom died, it was during the runoffs. I mean, she died maybe a couple years after the runoffs with Newsom and Larry Elder.

And at some point, she just said to me, I don't know who Larry Elder is, but I know who Gavin Newsom is. is and I'm voting for him. Basically, I'm a Democrat. That's how I vote. And I don't care if the entire city burns to the ground. I vote this way. Wow. I mean, it's so extraordinary. I get that. I'm a Democrat, and I vote Democrat. I get it. A Republican and vote a Republican. But like, she burned down the city. And she didn't like the match exactly. But she might as well have her policies, her DEI policies, no water in the reservoirs. Like, I, she was in another country. where she said she wouldn't be.

She had received alerts. She didn't care. She went anyway. She stayed over there while the city was burning. I don't get it. Like, the city burned down under her leadership. And even Gavin Newsom too, his leadership too. And they're thinking about trying to elevate him to the presidential level.

I just, what would it take for them to say you're too incompetent to lead? Well, Democrats are not pragmatic by nature. They're emotional. You know, they're really not pragmatists. So the stuff that bothers pragmatic people doesn't really bother them. And L.A. is not run pragmatically. It's run emotionally. Like Nithia Raman, who's a total dope, I think the last time I came on, I told you she blamed Toyota

for making catalytic converters too easy to steal on their cars. So she's a socialist dope. She said in an interview, she was kind of surprised by how this whole thing came about. And she thought she was going to be talking about bike lanes. She thought this election for mayor of Los Angeles with this homeless problem and infrastructure and fire and everything, she wanted to focus on bike lanes. She wanted to focus on road diets, meaning taking two lane highways and shrinking them down to one lane highways so people could ride their bikes. Like, honestly, that's what she was thinking about.

So that's what these dopes are up there. And Democrats are emotional voters. Like, oh, ICE is so mean and Trump is so mean. And he's cruel. They just play to dumb people's emotions all the time. And when dumb people get emotional, they go, I don't care if the city burns and I don't care if there's homeless everywhere. This guy's mean or that person. And they're literally running, Karen Bass was running on Spencer Pratt being rude to homeless people.

The guy's a fendell ad. He's a junk. By the way, these people deserve to be treated with dignity. He's got a load in his pants and he's shooting up behind a dumpster. Let's not worry about dignity for a moment. Let's worry about rehab. Dignity has left the station. Dignity's been gone for a long time now.

She was worried that he was being mean to homeless people. And also, Karen Bass is a world-class dope. All these people are dopes. And I know I sound redundant, but I will tell you this. The reason we have a homeless problem is because they will not understand the homeless problem. Karen Bass said when she was talking about Pratt calling these people crazy, she said, you sleep on the sidewalk for two weeks and tell me if that doesn't make you a little bit crazy. Oh my gosh.

The sidewalk doesn't make you crazy. You have to be crazy to sleep outdoors on the sidewalk. She acts like regular folk just lost their job and went and slept on a sidewalk. Gavin Newsom sat right here and told me all about homelessness. is insane what he think. They think these are mothers that got divorced that lost their job. One last point, Megan, they, Karen Bass also says, a lot of the homeless, these are elderly people who lost their job and now can't pay their rent.

Do you know how long in Los Angeles it takes to evict a person from your apartment building if they stop paying rent? The over and there's like 18 years. every law is on their side. You don't miss one payment and then you're out on the street the next day. If you're in an apartment building in California, in Los Angeles,

and you can't pay your rent, you can stay there for at least a year without paying rent with no consequence whatsoever. So what do you mean they lost their job and now they can't pay their rent? You lose your job, you can't pay your rent. You have about two years to get a new job. Yeah.

By the way, the other thing is, We see this in New York all the time, too, where there are similar policies. You don't have to live in L.A. Right. You don't have to live in New York. Right. You can go to parts of the country that are a lot cheaper if you are that destitute, if, like, you really actually do, you cannot afford the cost of living of an apartment there

because you lost your job. I mean, it happens. And young people deal with this all the time. They get out of college. Their first job isn't very good. And they have no choice but to move to a community that may not be at the top of their list for their long-term living. but they go someplace where they can afford it and build themselves up.

And if you happen to fall on hard times in L.A. and you lose your job and you can't get another one, you could either live off the public dime forevermore because that's an option for you, or you could go to a community that's a little bit more reasonable. You don't actually have to go right to the street, as she would like to pretend. Here's a guy. This is Making the Rounds Online. Something you said about Karen Bass reminded me. His name is Doug Ellen, and he's the producer behind the hit show, Entry. on HBO, which is based on Ari Emanuel's role as a crushing mega agent and his, you know,

and his stars who he represents. And here's what he said just yesterday, it's not six. LA Times gaslighters. It's weird. One of 15 cameras that I now have at this house. Two German shepherds, three legal guns, five years ago, didn't lock a door here. But you know what happened? Two animals invaded my house. And no, I'm not racist because they were wearing masks. I don't know if they were white. I don't know if they were Jewish. I don't know if they were fucking rabbis. I know they were animals because they invaded my house.

I know I don't care what their excuses are like a lot of you fucking care. I know invaders of home should get 20 years. But I'm not paranoid. So I don't believe you're bullshit about the stats and the crime because everyone in my neighborhood has got the same problem. They're fucking all putting cameras and hiring security guards because we're all getting broken into. It's not made up. It's not false. And this city has collapsed in the last five years.

There is no fucking denying it unless you have an agenda. And I don't know what that is. So right now, you're putting people in the same position that you did with Trump, who I did not vote for, by the way. You put them in by making sure we had no fucking options. Yeah. Amen. Right?

Sing it. I'm sure he speaks for a lot of frustrated left-leaning people in L.A. and California. I got to say, I was at Pratt's party last. night and I ran into a ton of people. First off, it's weird being in L.A. and having a bunch of people who agree with you in the same place because that's very rare for me. When you're you. When I'm me, and I always am. But I ran, it was a weird thing. I was like, there was a lot of black people. There were a lot of Hispanic people. They're all like, I agree with you 100%. We got to get Pratt in there. This is nuts. And I was like right in the middle of Hollywood basically.

And I was like looking around. I spoke and I won't say who their husbands were because they were they'd asked me not to say. But I ran into multiple women whose husbands were very prominent comedians and entertainers and household names, legendary type names. And they were all in on Pratt. They voted for Trump. They disagree with their husband. husbands insanely, and there's a whole group of them, and they're on text threads with other wives and other, and they're like, and I'm like, I can't even believe you people exist. And they're like, oh, yeah, there's a lot of us. We're not down with any of this.

And I'm like, oh, it's like some kind of quiet, secret underground Morano thing going on. And I couldn't believe it. I'd never seen it before, but there are a lot, and that number's growing. I'm not surprised because I think moms care about safety. That is one issue that can unite left and right. We want our kids to be able to have safe schools, safe travel to and from schools. We do not want them getting attacked by criminals in their beds or their homes. Or when they get off the school bus to have to step over zombies holding hypodermic needles that they might get stabbed with.

I mean, no mother wants that. And, you know, while the dads are the protectors of the family, the moms are mama bears over the children and will fight most dangers that they can identify. And in L.A., it's tough to miss. Like, listen to that guy, Doug Ellen, what he was saying. So I'm sure they're feeling it. Even though abortions always at the top of the list, they know that's taken care of in California. They know they're not going to lose their right to abortion. If Spencer Pratt becomes mayor, that's not something a mayor controls. So, yeah, why wouldn't you? You might, I think there's probably a secret. Pratt vote, same way there was a secret Trump vote or reluctant, you know, where they don't tell the pollsters, they don't tell anybody, but once they get in there, they pull the lever. Yes. You mentioned his party last night. Here was his final messaging going into, or was it today, actually. You know, it was when he found out that he was in the second place position as of now.

Anyway, well, let's hope he stays there because that'll move him on to the general. Here's top five. Obviously, God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor. So it's going to be a fun ride. I hope she's ready. Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this, clearly. All right.

So he's right. God wanted it. And let's just check in with how Team Democrat is doing. And Karen Bass, who decided to spend her final hours on this race with Kathy Griffin. And see if any of this messaging. is familiar to you at all in Democrat politics, Adam. Here we go. SOT 7. I really think a lot of the adversity comes your way because you're a black woman. It seems like the city council can be hostile toward you as well as L.A. Sheriff's Department and LAPD. What it's like

dealing with such maybe non-diverse groups as law enforcement, although they are diverse, but there's maybe some white nationalism and law enforcement, is my opinion. I think the greatest misunderstanding, though, is the fact that there's no way a city or a state or a county has power over the federal government. People would like for me to make LAPD arrests ICE officers, but what they don't understand, it's not that LAPD is giving me a hard time. LAPD does not have the power to do that. It's very important that I do everything I can to protect our immigrant communities, but it's also important for people to understand what I can do and what I can't do. All right.

A bunch of thoughts, a bunch of thoughts. Yeah, please. Okay. This thing where, first off, people need of color when you're being called, you know, all this race hustling is going on and they're calling LAPD racist or white nationalists or something, Stop nodding to say no. That's not the case. It's majority minority.

Stand up for them. Yes. Why do every all the black politicians are like when they're going, the country's built on racism and slavery and they just go, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. It's like it's bobblehead night at the Obama library. I don't know what the reference was, but stop it. Just say, no, you know what? That's not a situation.

I'm black. I was voted in as mayor. So I don't know what racism you talk about. But listen to me, Tom Bradley is black. Tom Bradley was the mayor of Los Angeles. When, 1973, before you were born, Megan, before you were born, my dear. Don't argue with me. I got eyes. Before you were born, we had a black mayor in 1973, over 50 years ago. And Tom Bradley was mayor from 73 to 93. He was mayor. I mean, I was literally like in the fourth grade, maybe the third grade when he became mayor.

By the time he got out of there, I was like working on a construction site with a beer and a cigarette in each hand. Like that's how long this guy. But LA's racist. But the voters are racist and the city council's racist still. And that's why there's been any blowback on Karen Bass. Right. And everyone liked Tom Bradley.

He was a Democrat. He was competent. He was a Democrat in the old school version of a Democrat, which is sensible and a pragmatic. And he ran the city. And it was fine. And nobody said, nobody said, word about his color ever. So that's that's number one with this stupid race hustle, which is insane. Also, we got our first female black mare and it didn't work out. Her name is Karen Bass.

We did the experiment. Great. Check the box. We had our first female black mayor. She sucked and ruined the city. Now let's move on to the guy with the British accent and see if we can get something done or Spencer Pratt. Yeah, those two guys. I like, I mean, on the Statehouse level, I like how it's looking. I'm thrilled that Steve Hilton appears, at least as of now, to be securely in the top two, and that Tom Steyer doesn't look like he's going to make it. Thank God, despite his plea that he would, his promise that he would ride the D.

I mean, by the way, that's not all. This is the other thing. So that was his closing message. And then on top of that, TMZ got his hands on video of him singing. with a bunch of drag queens in West Hollywood the night before the election. Look at Sot Vour. I'm so embarrassed for him.

You can't say you're going to ride the D and sing with the trannies and actually try to tell us that you're not going to back down and you're tough. These things are incongruous. Voters understand there's a lie happening here on like a visceral level. And I actually am kind of encouraged

that he's been rejected, God willing. I mean, the vote's not done. think as of now he's been rejected. That's a good sign, Adam. You know, like, this isn't working. This particular lane has been defeated as a viable way to win election even in California. Yeah, Tom Steyer's like a chicken in every pot and a dildo in every nightstand. He's a weirdo. He's a billionaire. Let me tell you something. If I was a 70-something-year-old weirdo billionaire, I would just go buy Epstein's island. and call it a life. You know, just call the life. What are you doing? Same. Me too. I'd be sitting

on the beach, St. Bart's, you know, watching the boats roll in. I would not be dancing with a bunch of trannies, which is just a naked, you know, attempt at pandering to a certain crowd in California. And I love that it's been rejected. He, so far, God willing, it's been rejected. Sadly, it was not rejected in the case of the vile, reprehensible, disgusting weirdo, Scott Weiner, who did manage to advance in the primary for Nancy Pelosi's soon-to-be-vacated seat. He's a state representative right now, and he's managed to advance to the general election for that seat. And that's very unfortunate because he is truly a devil. I can't stand this guy. Here he is in May, 2026.

Could be a Tom Steyer event if you look at this soundbite. With politics and hay and there's a choice monumental. It's an enormous tranny. They can't talk about him. A quiet bit of health care. He's got fights for Dariener. The winner is a girl's best friend. There may call a tad crow who spends all his millions.

We get it. We get it. This is a sanction campaign event. That's enough. This is got it. But for the listening audience, it's yet another tranny who's in baby clothes. It's like the trans baby is a thing now where he's got like the little pink ruffled, like little pants. She'd put on a girl like a toddler in a dress.

And they love to infantilize themselves so that people want to, what? I don't know. Like they were promoting pedophilia and trans. I don't know what they're doing. I know it's sick. Scott Weiner is sick. He's sick and he's going to win that seat at him. I just imagine like reanimating John Wayne and Charlton Heston and going,

let me tell you guys what's going on in your seat. city in 2006 and your state and they'd go, what is it? I go, well, most of the Democratic politicians are talking about the trans issue and they'd be like, transportation, good idea.

Finally going to widen that 405. No, no, this is something you guys never heard of. This is dudes who tuck their junk between their legs and mince about and they're fighting so they can do it in front of five-year-olds. And they'd be like, what?

the hell is going on over there. And I'm like, they all went nuts. I don't, again, I don't know how big a constituency there is for the trans. Like how you act like these people are 80% of the country or something. Like these are, it's a small number of mental patients who want to terrorize kids in libraries. Why is this your, why is this your hill to die on? I have to say, though, on the subject of whether we've made real progress on this front, notwithstanding Scott Weiner and the way Steyers spend his final days, we are making some progress on the LGBTQ fight. I'm all for the LG's.

I don't really believe in the B's. If you're a B, you're really just an L or a G. Right. But whatever. I'm four of the L's and the Gs, fine. But the TQs, it's a different matter. And for the first time in years, we're seeing very little on the pride front

as we celebrate Pride Month, because it's not enough to be like cool with somebody being gay or lesbian. There's a certain faction of this group that wants us to really celebrate, as Roger Ailes used to say, where you put your pecker. They want us to celebrate it.

You have to celebrate it. Like, I'm so thrilled. You put it there. Right. It's a no. I don't need to be celebrated for my choices in the bedroom, and I don't need to celebrate anybody else's. Now, GMA, Good Morning America, apparently didn't get the message. And that's no surprise because, of course, this is a Disney property.

You know, it's the Disney family over there at ABC. And so while we've had good things like Target for once, not really leaning in. the tuck-friendly bathing suits with extra crotch coverage that they had back in 2023. That's not really taking over anymore. So that's good. It appears that they've calmed down. Now, Good Morning America. Different story.

Hold on a second. I think we've got an example. Here's SOT 24. We're kicking off Pride Month with Tori Johnson and two business owners. that we love. Jason Wu, the founder of Jason Wu Beauty, and Christian Siriano, the founder of Runway, two incredible products that we're featuring today, Tor. Yeah, and so we're starting with, this is not just like a celebrity brand. This is like the real deal, clean and effective results that you're going to see and feel. Chris McMillan, right, making his product debut here.

Welcome back to GMA and Evelyn. So let's take a look at our GMA. camera is Ezra Sosa from Dancing with the Stars and here's his message hey Ezra what's up pride salsa it's Ezra Sosa from dancing with the stars and I have a very special message for you guys well wait Ezra why are you doing that why don't you just come out and tell us in person come out Ezra so I wanted to donate $10,000 for you guys you know how many butt plugs you can buy for 10,000 It's a lot. By the way, I forgot to tell you, over at Target on their homepage on day one of Pride, 2026, they have a USA section with straight, white, blonde people who are all part of the same nuclear male, female, led family, front and center.

So that's my evidence that Target has gotten the message since the days of the Tucket bathing suit, which, appear to have disappeared, at least as far as we could find or tell. So that's target, but GMA and Disney, different story. Pride salsa, 10 grand to, I don't know what that's going to do. You know, I hate all of this stuff. I hate all the, you know, black month, the gay month, the trans month. I don't want any of it. I don't like any of it.

I think it always sends a message that we need to fix. things that don't need to be fixed. Like every single Martin Luther King Day speech since I've been alive has always been, you know, we've made a lot of progress, but there's still a lot to go. Like we still need every single, you can see it every single year into modern times. They go, we've come a long way, but we've got a long way to go. And it's like, tell us specifically what you're talking about in terms of a long way to go. because that says to me, like, you're still, like, kind of Jim Crowey, you know, and maybe some of you can vote.

You'll never get there. You'll never get there. And also, at this point, who's holding you back? Whitey, the government, like, you tell, yeah, the long way to go is your families are effed up. That's what's in your culture screwed up, and you need to work on that. Somebody needs the honest conversation you want to have around race is that conversation. not a long way to go to get past racism. A long way to go.

Well, look, I mean, every time you take one step forward, it does feel a little like two steps backward. I would not be talking about this person if she didn't put her out there. But J.Lo has got a child who is female, who now was, quote, non-binary, which again is not a thing, and now has come out as fully trans. So now she wants us to call her a hymn and a he and J-Lo's down for it. Here's her message about her, about, well, Pride Month, stop 30.

Hi, beautiful people. It's Jennifer Lopez, star of office romance, and I am here to wish you a very happy Pride Month. Let's be honest, you deserve all 12 months of the year, so make sure this one is extra, extra special. In fact, you officially have permission to skip work. Just tell your boss, Jennifer Lopez said it was okay. I am sure they'll understand. But in all seriousness, I hope all of your months are filled with love, laughter, joy, and chosen family. And if you're not out yet, that's okay.

We're here and we're waiting for you whenever you're ready. No rush, no pressure. All right. Just love. Now let's get loud and proud this month. I love you. Happy pride. Okay.

So here's the problem, Adam. J-Lo has spent far too much time in front of the camera, looking for accolades, snaps, actual snaps with, you know, camera lenses and snaps like you go, girl, and far too little time at home. Otherwise, she wouldn't have this problem with her daughter, who is now so desperate for attention that she's declared. She's no longer going to be Emmy, Jailo's daughter. She's going to be someone named Oscar Munez and will officially become, quote, a man, which is not possible. This is an 18-year-old twin daughter of hers. It's not accidental, if you ask me, that her ex, Ben Affleck, is having the same exact issue with his daughter, who's pretending to be a man.

Yeah. This is like, they need to go home and spend time with their children who are clearly desperate for attention. Your thoughts. All right. Million, first off, she says pride should be all year round. Yeah, that sounds awesome. That'd be awesome. Pride month, which is pride year, and then it just rolled into the next year.

How about we alternate? Like, I'll give you guys pride year, and then the next year gets to be straight dude year where you guys shut the fuck up for 10 minutes and just leave us alone and don't make us look at you. Okay. And by the way, we got to get loud and proud. Oh, believe me, you're loud. I hear you in my sleep.

So enough of that. Check. Check that loud box. So as far as this goes, a couple of rules. I'd like to institute because we used to have trans. We had cross-dressers. We had pre-op. We had a bunch of different labels,

so we knew where everyone was at. So, like, I'll give me an example. When the New York Times talks about Robert De Niro's daughter, they say he, because she decided she was a he, So they want to respect that. So when the New York Times writes the article, they go, Robert De Niro's son decided he would trans and cross. And I'm like, well, now I'm confused.

Is it his son? Very. His son? No, his daughter, you idiots. Tran, his daughter became his son. But stop saying his son. Because now when you say, like we go, they'll write an article, go, JLo's son transitioned. Yep.

go, oh, so now it's a girl? Right. So we got to have some ground rules because I'm swimming here in your transing going on. She's a dope. She did a whole Super Bowl halftime show that was going to be dedicated to getting kids out of cages at the border. Remember that? And all she did was shake her bad ass the entire half-time show. So shut up. She needed to be thinking about her kids back at home. More with millionaire and true Hollywood star Adam Carolla after this. Don't go away. Missed calls and slow follow-ups are silent killers. That is how businesses leave money on the table without even realizing it.

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QUO.com slash mk. Back with me now, Adam Carolla. He's host of the Adam Carolla show, which you can find over at Adamcarola.com and on all podcast platforms and on the Megan Kelly channel on Sirius XM 111 in the mornings. Okay, so we've got to get into the drama happening over at CBS News because they're imploding over there. And when things are going poorly in the ratings, that's when everything falls apart. You know, I mean, it's no accident that there's so much infighting right now on all these firings because if they were at the top of the ratings heap, they'd be getting along and nobody would be finger pointing, but they're failing. And I'm sorry, but they're failing because CBS is a dinosaur that doesn't understand new media or what people

want, and then the person they brought in to fix it knows nothing about broadcast journalism. Nothing. Literally nothing. Barry Weiss knows nothing about broadcast journalism. She's never worked in television. So I'm sorry, you may think she's great. You may love the free press. That's not the person to fix a television news outlet. And only the Ellison's who don't seem to know much about television news either would be so misguided as to think somebody who, who is not of TV, in TV, or has any familiarity with it, would be the one to fix it. On top of that, it's been very clear to yours truly from the beginning, that CBS of all outlets would never accept an outsider. It has to be somebody from within their ranks that is the most

insular group within television news. You couldn't find one more insular. That would be more averse to an outsider being parachuted in and dropped in at the top. And you can say all day long, oh, screw them, the talent, who do they think they are, they're not the executives, they don't own it. Fine, you can say that. But what is your news organization? Unless you're going to fire them all, you're going to have to find a way to get buy-in from the ones who are there. And it's just not going to work to shove it down their throats and tell them that they have to like it.

And it hasn't been working. The ratings are in the basement. They've never been worse. Literally never been worse. For the morning show and the evening news show, they're both failing mightily. And 60 Minutes is now in trouble and has never seen so much turmoil. So what's, and just for the record, back in December, this is December 11th of this year, I predicted that Barry Weiss, who was newly installed over there, would wind up firing Scott Pelley.

I knew that she would fire him. I knew this would not work out. I also said at the same time that they would eat her alive from within, which is happening. but this is what I said about Scott Pelly, December 11th of 25. Scott Pelly now gets honored for the very report itself, and this will be him at the awards with his glasses down at the end of his news. I was right all along. I'm better than you.

And we all know that because I host 60 Minutes. And if Barry is the woman I think and believe her to be, she will fire his ass before we are half, through 2026. That's my prediction. He's fucking out of there. Look forward to that news. And it came. It came today. He's fired before we are halfway through 2026. And Barry let him go. And I don't blame her one bit. It was the right call. He is arrogant. He's a prick. His programming and his just narcissism and closed-mindedness on the air entitled him to a firing long, long ago. So this is overdue. But having said that, the way this shit is going down is completely unprofessional and Bush League. And I'll just tell you one thing, Adam.

So all the drama spilled out into the public. And the new executive of producer of 60 Minutes, who's brand new there and is not respected, nobody likes him either. He's never done any broadcast journalism either. He was from the New York Times, which is a print publication. He ran their documentaries unit and did some online videos here and there. This is not going to be respected at CBS News. 60 minutes. Get it through your thick heads. Okay, there has to be some massaging of the team of talent and producers who are there or fire them all. Do one or the other, but don't just try to say,

I will parachute in somebody with zero experience and you will respect him or else. That's just not going to work. That's not how it works. Anyway, so they try to parachute this guy in. He's not respected and he and Scott Pelly clashed. Scott Pelley wanted to know in front of the whole staff demanded answers on why this guy and Barry fired the old executive producer and all their top most senior correspondence last week without cause. It's been a bloodbath over there. And he's the managing editor and felt like he had the role of saying, how about some explanations, How about some answers to the rest of us here who are angry? And instead of, like, engaging Scott Pelly at all, and trust me, I can't stand to Scott Pelley.

But there is a way of managing talent and the best in the business like Roger Ales knew how to do it. Instead of managing him and actually trying to speak with him, it appears they just told him to fuck off. Okay, it's fine. I don't, that's fine. But you are guaranteeing yourself a media scandal. And I'll just tell you something about Roger, okay? Because I was very close with Roger. Yes, he's sexually harassing when I was young in my career.

but we got past it and we were very close for my tenure at Fox. And I watched him and I was his sounding board for many, many big decisions at Fox News. And he would almost never fire anyone. The only people he would really fire were people who tried to hijack him who were like, I want you to double my salary or I'm out of here. I'm going to MSNBC. And he would say, don't let the door hit you in the way out. By the way, I have the same policy.

anybody who tries to hijack me and or else, bye, everyone's replaceable. Get out. I will never be hijacked. But what he would do with talent he cared about or producing staff he cared about who had to be moved out of their position because they weren't making it in the ratings or their show was failing for whatever reason is he would make them think that they had gotten something close to a promotion. He would give them a better title and he would usually give them a raise, even though they were getting a demotion. And you know what that did? It kept them quiet.

I can count on one or two fingers the number of times that we had like an open talent war that spilled out into the news media in any big, huge way. While I was at Fox and it's because Roger knew how to manage talent. And Adam, it's not because he, Roger absolutely could have ruled with an iron fist. He was the most powerful man in news. Everybody at Fox News knew he was the only. he was the only man in charge. He was it. Not the Murdox, him. And so we all had ultimate fealty to Roger. But he still took the effort to manage us because he knew it was bad for Fox to have the entire staff fired or the top people quit in a fit. And so even the ones who he didn't personally love and whom he

was demoting, he would make them feel special, valued, and cared about for the good of the organization. What you have over at CBS News right now is amateur hour in the management ranks. And that is why we are seeing this very public dispute play out before our very eyes with Scott Pelley's confrontation of this new guy making the news. Now Barry issues a public statement trying to claim that they worked with him. The new executive. at a producer of this Nick Bilton from the New York Times issues a public letter explaining how Scott Pelly wouldn't dialogue with him. We shouldn't be hearing any of that from him. And now Scott Pelley's firing back with his own missive, reiterating what allegedly happened in

this meeting. We can get into all these details because they're interesting to us as outsiders. But that's my take on it. It's been mismanagement from a team of newbies that doesn't know what they're doing and doesn't have the confidence to act like true bosses. both for the good and the bad, and a prick, arrogant narcissist jerk, who's been in the top roll at 60 minutes for so long that he thinks whatever he says goes and has the temerity to question any editorial changes that come along with new management, some of which have been very good. Honestly, like the attempt to make 60 minutes somewhat more fair and balanced is a good thing. It's a noble thing, but he can't have it.

And that actually seems to be what he's truly objecting to. Any attempt, to massage the editorial at 60, which he thinks he has total control over, and he's learning the hard way he's wrong. So your thoughts on all that. I know Barry. I like Barry. I've done some events with Barry.

She is not experienced in that department. I completely agree with you on that. Scott Pelley, I watched his commencement address at Harvard or wherever it was Brown, and he's an arrogant douchebag, and he's a blowhard. Wake Forest. Wake Forest.

I used to watch 60 minutes religiously. And then I stopped watching because they became woke and left leaning. And, you know, when Leslie Stahl was talking to Trump, sir, sir, you can't prove that. I was like, okay, so you're no longer. You can't be verified. What an idiot she is. It's no longer a news organization in my mind. So I just stopped watching.

Why would I? Why would anyone watch it when it's so clearly leaning to the left? Now, you have to know that if someone like Barry Wise shows up to an organization like this, they're not saying, let's do a little nip and let's do a little talk. They're saying, we need to break bones and reset them. And Scott Pelling, the rest of those types are not going to go without a fight because they're leftists. and even though they claim to be journalists, my favorite part about Katie Couric or any of these idiots

is the second they go out on their own, we see just who they are after claiming their whole career to be fair and balanced. Do you know what I mean? And like, it'd be like me going, well, I only turn gay after the divorce. It's like, did you?

You were 51. Really? Well, I was married for 22 years. Something was going on. Really? You weren't gay in your 40s? Nope. It's like, come on. So all these people. Yeah, Jim Acosta. They all magically get super leftist and super liberal and super Democrat. It's like, well, that's who you always were because you're in your 50s, 60s when you're doing this job. So spare us this fair and balanced BS as a journalist. I like when they go, you don't know how I vote. Yes, I do. I listen to you all day. bag on Trump. This is insulting. So they probably should have just hired Barry Weiss and then just cleaned house day one that said, look, we're not going to have internal battles, especially

with the left who are so righteous. They really look at it as their job to battle everyone who may be perceived as anything right of center. They probably should have just shaken the whole thing like atch-a-scatch in this one. We're starting, Brian, now. Yep, I agree. That was an option. But if you're going to stick with the current staff on air and off, then I'm sorry to inform you, they do need to be massaged. Yes. They do. Not Scott Pelly. I'm not saying exactly like, go kiss Scott Pelley's ass. But for the good of the, is it good for CBS News to have this fight spilling out into the papers, this nasty, petty back and forth? It diminishes Barry Weiss. It diminishes this new guy, Nick Bilton, it diminishes Scott Pelley, all of them. It makes all of them

look bad. And if you were managing an organization, you would understand that's not good for the company. It's not good for the shareholders. And therefore, I might have to eat a piece of humble pie in order to maintain an outward facing humility and stability. And that is why, instead of going in and trying to fire the ex- because the one guy, Don, what was his name, who left, Steve? Oh, right. Oh, Bill. It was Bill Owens.

Yeah, sorry, sorry. Bill Owens left, and it was this big performative resignation, and they all liked him, but they were all super sad. And then they put in this longtime CBS guy's daughter as the new executive producer. And she did have some support because she was like this sort of lifetimer. And really, I think it was probably Scott Pelley running 60 at that point. So they had some continuity and they had some support going internally and 60 was chugging along and the way these leftists over at CBS wanted it to chug.

And what you should have done, if Barry and those who are making these decisions, is if you wanted to change the makeup, if you wanted this woman out, she should have been given a promotion and ideally are raised to go run the documentary. unit. That's where everybody goes. Okay? Whatever. Find a way of doing it. Roger was more clever than that, but you don't have to be. Some way for them to save face so that you haven't humiliated

women like Sharon Alfonci. I'm no fan of Sharon Alfonci. I thought she was an absurd correspondent. But the people inside 60 loved her. The people inside 60 loved the interim executive producer. They loved the other woman who got fired. So you need

to manage this by, letting them save face, letting them participate in where they're going next. And those people, trust me at CBS, think that Scott Pelly is great. He's been there, what, like 30 years? They think he deserves some measure of respect. I don't share in that. I'm enjoying watching him twist in the wind. But that's not how they feel inside CBS. So if you have responsibility for managing CBS, you need to manage this situation in a way that it stays as relatively smooth and quiet as you can. Instead of getting your backup that he disrespected you and then issuing your public statement and then it gets a back and forth every second of which you're losing market

share and respect. So it's a management fucking nightmare. Now, back on the subject of whether Scott Pelly should have been there at all, Adam, the answer is no. No, he helped ruin 60 minutes in CBS. He was no Mike Wallace. He was no Ed Bradley. This guy, I could be here all day. And we actually did this one day. We took up a whole hour showing 60 minutes clips and what they have become. And it's absolutely shameful in a shadow of its former self.

But let me just give you this one of Scott Pelley. The audience knows what I'm about to show. It is when he had on the Moms for Liberty founders, a great and noble organization. and tried to dismiss their concerns about disgusting, like, graphic sex books and LGBTQ advanced graphic books, making their way into elementary school and middle school and, of course, high school, school libraries. Watch. Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology. What ideology are they being indoctrinated into?

Let's just say, children in America cannot read. They often dodged questions with talking points. You're being evasive. 21% of Hispanic students are reading on great level. What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear? I think parents' fears are realized. They're looking at these books where sexual discussions are happening with their children

at younger and younger ages. Tiffany Justice read from sexually explicitly books written for older teens, but found in a few lower schools. Most people wouldn't want them in a lower school. But in a tactic of outrage politics, Moms for Liberty takes a kernel of truth and concludes these examples are not rare mistakes, but a plot to sexualized children.

He's such a dope. Adam, a case went up to the U.S. Court, not long after that, where it was acknowledged by the Supreme Court of the United States that these books are making their way into young children's school libraries to the point where parents needed to have an opt-out option, which the Supreme Court found constitutional on religious grounds. Did Scott Pelley go back and update his reporting to apologize to moms for liberty, for wrongfully chastising them for making these claims which were acknowledged by the Supreme Court of the United States, did he acknowledge to his audience

that he had misled them? No, he didn't. And so I have zero, zero tolerance for his waxing, poetic about the editorial changes coming to 60 minutes and how they're being, it's so wrong and he doesn't want it touched. So it's like, to me, there's no one to root for here. Because he's awful and he had no business being the main anchor at a property like 60 Minutes or at least the old 60 Minutes. And the way that CBS management has handled this has been abhorrent too. It's been wrong from the start. You know my favorite part about all the explicit material in the elementary school library is when one of the moms tries to read one of the books that's from the library in front of Congress and they tell her we don't allow that kind of language.

here in this house. Right, in front of these adults. In front of these, and then average age, you know, 64 and a half, we don't allow this, but we're arguing to put it in elementary schools. But this whole thing, it's kind of that Scott Weiner thing, too. It's like, I don't know. Why do we have to have this argument at all all the time? You know, it's like, well, the trans story hour, it's not only for the kids.

kids, there's some adults there. It's at a library. Sure. It's like, do we have to keep arguing this insane point that we just don't want kids exposed to graphic things at a young age? Can we just leave it at that or do we have to just keep arguing about this? Yeah, no, we do because of 60 minutes, because of its editorial take, which, let's face it, has been in desperate need of correction for years now. So I actually, I mean, I do applaud the effort to try to write that ship, but there's a right way and a wrong way of doing it. Just so because I said I would tell you what's being said, there was this open letter by this new EP to Scott Pelly, which reads in part as follows. I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the

wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans with you among them. For that reason, one of the first things I did in my new role was to call you and talk and invite you to dinner. It is a profound disappointment that you rejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable insolity and contempt. I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort. Yesterday's performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil

private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, this is so defensive and beneath an executive. You don't, and then he fired him. You don't do that. You say, dear Mr. Pelly, with the participation of senior management at CBS News, this is to inform you that your services are no longer required.

You are terminated, effective immediately. That, Nick Bilton, is the boss move. and it was up to your superiors because you're not his boss just because you're the EP of 60. You're not. You've been there two minutes. He's been there almost 40 years. You're not. But his superiors needed to handle him directly and never should have put these two together without somebody being there. And Barry didn't show. And Scott Pelly clearly had not been managed. And now Barry tries to tell the staff at a morning meeting over there that Scott has been let go. She says, I know I speak for myself and I hope I speak for everyone here when I say,

I'm only interested in working in a newsroom that's built on trust and mutual respect. We cannot do our work without it. That foundation was broken on Monday. And despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and find a way back, unfortunately, we weren't able to do so and we had to part ways. We didn't want it to happen, but that's the path he chose. That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work he's done for CBS and 60. Now he comes out, I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News Morning editorial meeting. Barry Weiss knows what she said is not true. In the meeting on Tuesday, in which I was effectively fired,

there was no effort of any kind to find a way back, as she said. At no point, did anyone in the Tuesday meeting suggest that there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Chabrowski, that's her number two, were openly hostile from the start. Firing was raised by him in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive at any time suggested a way back. To say so now is disingenuous,

and they know it. In fact, everyone refused to answer my questions. I asked her a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of 60 minutes a few days before and without cause. I'm not answering that question, she said. I asked why she didn't come to the 60 minutes offices to explain her actions. I'm not answering that question. Why did she fire the executive producer? I'm not answering that question. Why'd she fire Cecilia Vega? I'm not answering that question. Throughout the meeting, the CBS executives were abrupt, dismissive, and uninterested in dialogue. Suddenly, And to my surprise, Jabowski declared, this conversation's over. Why, I asked, I'm happy to answer your questions.

This conversation's over, he repeated, raising his voice and standing to show me the door. I'm happy to keep talking, I added. No constructive dialogue was allowed by the CBS executives at any point. I was stonewalled for about 10 minutes and then for no apparent reason. This conversation's over. I'm pained that the staff of CBS News was misled on Wednesday morning. These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists

I don't know how they get out of this now. I really don't. I have no love loss for Scott Pelly whatsoever, but the relevant point here is that's not the way the staff inside the building feels. So they're in the midst of a civil war. Good luck. In the U.S., a break-in happens every 26 seconds. Most systems only alert you after an intruder is inside, and by then the damage is done. But there's simply safe. With their new outdoor camera series, to an advanced AI, SimpliSafe does not just watch. It actually will act. If a threat is detected, US-based live agents can intervene to deter intruders before they cross the threshold. Going on vacation, you can check your feed and know that professionals are monitoring your home. Plus, the setup is a breeze. Get your system running in under 30 minutes. No long-term contracts.

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exciting news. I now have my very own channel on Sirius XM. It's called the Megan Kelly channel and it is where you will hear the truth, unfiltered, with no agenda, and no apologies. Along with the Megan Kelly show, you're going to hear from people like Mark Halperin, Link Lauren, Morin Callahan, Emily Dershinsky, Jesse Kelly, Real Clear Politics, and many more. It's bold, no BS news only on the Megan Kelly channel, SiriusXM 11 and on the Sirius XM app. Our friends across the pond are in a mighty struggle, Adam, because they've decided free speech is officially a thing of the past. And so is accountability. The murder of Henry Novak has turned into something beyond one crime. This 18-year-old kid on his way home who got stabbed by a man who was Sikh and was carrying a set of knives on him, which is allowed some knives under British. law, depending on how long they are. There was a real question about whether the knives he had were legal. And he stabbed Henry. And as Henry lay dying with five stab wounds in him,

Vikram Digua, the man who stabbed him, claimed that he was the victim of Henry's alleged racism, of which there is zero proof, zero evidence in the record that Henry did anything or said anything racist other than the bullshit claims of his murderer. And there's videotape. Henry was videotaping the moments, so we would know prior to his murder. The cops show up, and instead of getting Henry the help he needed as he lay there bleeding, they told him he hadn't been stabbed, they didn't call an ambulance right away, and they handcuffed a dying man and told him he was fine. The tape was released yesterday.

It's the day before yesterday. It's an outrage. It's actually hard to watch. And so far, all we've seen is one of the cops involved under enormous pressure by the community was allowed to retire. And then late yesterday, we got word that one had, quote, resigned. No one's been fired. No one's been charged. And by the way, if you retire or resign, you likely still get your pension and all your benefits. No one's been fired. And no one has been charged with accessory, with criminally negligent homicide, with anything. We had a legal

panel on yesterday that actually saw a number of crimes that they had potentially opened themselves to. And now there is true, there's outrage over there. There were protests for most of the day yesterday. I'll just give you a flavor of some of the protests and those speaking out. Here's Sot 22. Shathe won't get. Shatim Kyi your respect for Hymra. Your officers assisted in that man's death. Yes. And I'm going to do it legally. Justice for Henry. The police are getting out numbers now. A little bit of police brutality. They're chucking the stuff away over the people's sergeants.

Here we go. Stuff is getting chucked in. Wow. Okay. And now, okay, so now this is actually an update, per the constabulary that's overseeing the relevant police force. They confirmed that only one of the officers involved in the cases. is resigned. Okay, so the other one didn't retire. Only one is resigned, while the other three

are still serving. All of them are being treated as witnesses. The force said the officer who resigned did so at the end of 2025 and not as a result of this incident. This, Henry was stabbed in December of 2025. So we really have zero accountability. Now they're saying that the police internal investigation, they plan to report back on it. within the next three months, doesn't take that long. Your eyes and ears are really all you need. And there's been a dispute breaking out between the political leadership where Kier Starmor, who said nothing about this murder, nothing. December, January, February, March, April, May, nothing. It wasn't until we finally got a verdict. He didn't even say, I'm so sorry this has

happened. You know, I condemn the violence and the crime, whatever, nothing. Now he comes out finally and says something in Henry's memory. And you've got Nigel Farage, on the other hand, who stars on the rise over there in the UK. And Starmer goes out and decides to issue a direct attack on Farage, condemning the violence which broke out at this protest in Southampton we just showed you, telling the British public that this is, quote, not the time to rage, which was a direct response to Nigel Farage, who yesterday issued an emergency address to the nation in which he said the only way Britain should respond to this killing is with pure cold rage. And that's what we're seeing on the streets right now, Adam, because the British people have had enough of assuming

the white man who's dying in front of the cop's very eyes must be the perpetrator and bad guy because he's white. And the brown man standing with knives and claiming he was the victim of racism might in fact be the criminal who caused this whole thing and just took a man's life, who you're watching die before your very eyes. All right. Well, lots of thoughts. To progressive people, Democrats, if you said this guy threw a racial slur at that black man, he dropped an end bomb. So the black man stabbed him. Their thought on that was, well, that guy should have never said anything. I mean, they actually think that it's okay to perpetrate violence upon somebody if somebody said something that was racially offensive to that group. So they're sort of down with the cause

that way, which is a weird thing. Like they'll, they'll do it all the time. And I'll go, you understand, no matter what somebody says, it doesn't justify stabbing them, punching them, pushing them onto train tracks, whatever it is. Like, they look at that as a legitimate alibi. Like, yeah, I stabbed the guy. He called me something I didn't like. So, and most, a lot of white progressives will side with the person of color in that case. Also, this isn't so different than what goes on in sanctuary cities.

You know, there's always some poor person, some citizen who gets stabbed or shot. or beaten by somebody who's illegal, who shouldn't be in this country. And then, of course, the politicians have to side with the person they're protecting because they're in a sanctuary city. So there's an interesting relationship. The news outlets are progressive, you know, so they have to defend these people. And then the politicians are the ones who are defending them and bringing them into their cities so they can't apologize or say anything about it.

So if ICE shoots a white person, they have to do nonstop endless coverage on the white man or woman that ice shot. But if a black guy stabs a white kid, they go radio silent on it. Now, Europe is like a little foreshadowing of what we're asking for here in a lot of our major blue cities. You guys are letting in a bunch of people from bad cultures who let their knives, do their talking. You've decided to treat them as victims. They catch, whether it's Somalia, Somalis in Minnesota or this guy, they figured out real fast, play the race card, and you'll be protected by these politicians. So we're importing this into our country as well. It doesn't end good because these people come from countries that are failures.

because they're flawed, because their culture is a mess. And then we bring a bunch of them and we put them in any given city. And then they metastasize and they start breaking off and they take over the cities. And then, of course, the city is ruined, just like their country is ruined. I think this is about, this is like we're at a boiling point from how many years now of demonizing. white men. Yes. That's what's what's causing the rage on the streets. That's why Nigel Farage says this is a moment for rage. The white man was innocent. He didn't say anything racist. And to your point, even if he had, it wouldn't justify his murder. It's almost irrelevant. But he didn't.

There was a tape from his own phone. Believe me, if they had Henry Novak saying anything racist, We'd know. He didn't. He ran into a bad man whose skin happened to be brown and who was Sikh and who was covered in knives. And he stabbed Henry Novak. I don't know why. To this moment, I have no idea why he did it. But he did it. He wasn't sorry. He didn't tell the cops when he knew they were confused about whether Henry was in fact dying. He just let him die, which is why he's now going to go to prison. His mother covered up the crime and hid the murder well. She's also been found guilty. And the British populace understands that the police and the authorities involved in this case would be reacting very differently if the dead man who was ignored as he suffered to death in handcuffs were black or brown and the man standing over him with a bloody knife were white. They know. and the fact that they've done nothing to these cops.

And now we're saying, well, in three months, we'll have a ruling. For what? How does it take three months? It could take three days to investigate this. You know exactly who is involved. The police behavior is all on body cam. We've seen it. What do you need to investigate?

You know exactly what happened here. So it's an outrage. And the British populace is sick of this shit, Adam. They didn't investigate the Muslim rape gangs. They didn't care that these young white girls were being brutalized in the most awful, unspeakable ways possible. They didn't care about that. They don't care about this.

They've demonized white men for over a decade now. They've had it. They've had it. They proceed this way at their peril. And by the way, not for nothing, but Kier Starmer and all the others in power right now, all took a knee after George Floyd, made it into a huge thing immediately. how outrated wait for a three-month investigation or a trial. Trust me.

They got down on the knee immediately and started condemning racism and so on. So like all these protestations of like, there's a process. Let it play out our lives. Yes. Well, listen, we just lived through four years of dopy Joe Biden saying white supremacy was the biggest problem this country faced. And then his FBI director would get up there and say the same thing. We're living it as well.

And so there's a symbiotic relationship between the politicians and the press. The politicians lay this stuff out. Like, you know, less crime is committed by our immigrant neighbors and everything. And then all the newspapers and outlets and 60 Minutes and all the other woke news agencies, then also echo that. And so then if there is a situation like this, they all circle the wagons. And instead of doing their job, they try to protect themselves.

So the politicians are trying to protect themselves. And the news outlets are trying to protect themselves for spreading the lie initially. And then it's a two-parter. You have to sweep under the rug anytime there's a situation where black kills a white. And then if there's a situation where white kills a black, no matter what the circumstances, are even if it's self-defense, you have to build that up. So it's kind of a seesaw. You have to depress one side of the story, and then you have to search endlessly for anything.

Oh, there's a, you know, there's a crazy story. About five, six years ago in Oakland, a black man hung hoops on a tree at the park so he could exercise in the park. and the white female mayor of Oakland at the time announced that this was a hate crime. And the black guy said, no, no, it's not a hate crime. I put those hoops up and I hang off of those hoops. And that's how I work out at the park. And she said, I'm calling in the DOJ and we're going to investigate this as a hate crime. And the guy said, why do you have to investigate it?

I already told you. And she's like, you can't make assumptions. It's a crazy story. Your audience needs to look it up. It's about five years ago. It's when Oakland, it was right when Oakland was bottoming out. Because you had an in-and-out franchise that was moving. CVS franchises were closing. The A's were moving out. All your, the Raiders were moving out all this. And she wants a special unit to investigate a hate crime over workout apparatus at a park.

So they have to find it wherever they can find it, and then they have to sweep it under the rug when it actually does happen. And it happens a lot and know this insanity of like these immigrants commit less crime. Who started that? And who believes it now? Yeah. Yeah. The messaging now coming out, I told you what Kirstarmer is saying. It's just, I mean, it's, he doesn't understand how angry people are.

He doesn't understand why they're so angry. He truly is hashtag part of the problem. He really, he doesn't get it. He's like a Nancy Pelosi type. Right. A kneeler, you know, like self-flageating. Yes. And it's just not right for the moment.

He's not tapping in. Like Nigel Farage is getting it. And he feels it's authentic. That they're beyond being pacified, that they're very angry. And they want to see that you. feel it too. And Akir Starmer doesn't. He doesn't feel this the way he felt George Floyd. That's why he's not able to sell it. And here's the home secretary in the UK, Shabana Mahmood. By the way, this person spoke out right away after George Floyd. This is what this person said after George Floyd.

Many constituents have been in touch with me regarding protests across the USA after the murder of George Floyd. I share their anger at this unspeakable outrage. Hashtag black lives matter. See if you can detect a switch in tone in the latest messaging from Mahmoud. His murder at the hands of Vikram Digva was a horrifying act, falsely accusing him of racism. It was an evil act. Let me also be clear about one other thing, a dangerous undercurrent that I have seen in the reaction to this awful crime. Threats against police officers are utterly unacceptable. Misinformation and inflammatory commentary is making a dreadful situation even worse.

Yeah. The language police would like to chastise the outraged people about, you know, stay within the lines, okay? I don't remember this woman coming out and saying maybe don't burn your city down Minnesota's citizens in Minneapolis. Maybe, right? She doesn't care. She doesn't actually care about inflammatory rhetoric at all. only when it's on an issue that's near and dear to her heart, in which case we have to be word policed about our outrage over letting the white guy die from his stab wounds. Then she's got to

step in and remind us of the decorum responsibilities. By the way, you know, you really could use George Floyd answer to J6 and maybe COVID origins to figure out how insane people are. Like George Floyd was a junkie who OD'd O'D on 50s. fentanyl and was a career criminal and no other culture would embrace this guy. Now, white people don't embrace him either. They're just pretending to. But black people, this is your hero. That'd be like me going, you know who I love, Joey Buttafuoco.

That guy's Italian. I'm Italian. If you watch what you say about Joey Buttafuoco, like he's a dope, he's a criminal. That's insane. You should get as much distance as you possibly can from George Floyd, whether you're in the black community or you're in the white community and you're kissing the ass of the black community who's turning George Floyd into a deity. That's insane and especially that it made it across the pond and that you guys would take knees for this guy. It's totally and utterly insane to worship at the altar of George Floyd. And by the way, if you think J6 was a legitimate insurrection,

your nuts as well and lying. And if you think COVID came from a wet market and not a lab, then you're nuts and lying too. It's three questions. If you answer those three questions, I can figure out whether to believe you or not on anything. Yeah, that's so true, whether you're a sane, honest person. Right.

Well, is this person sane and honest? I give you Jill Biden. Yes, we're back to Jill Biden, who's still making the rounds on her book. She went on the view and said the following and sought 13. And he'd given so much of himself. And to see you even saying, like, I thought he was having a medical episode.

I was concerned. Was there any part of you that went into protection mode of like, Joe, you can't keep doing this? Like, this is, they're taking so much from you. But the doctors told me he was fine. I'm not a doctor. I mean, I am a doctor. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. She admits it finally. We know. Oh, we know. All right. So everyone knew. Remember they were doing those cheap fakes? Remember they were trying to sell those shots of Joe Biden

drifting off at the Juneteenth jamboree on the lawn? Or wherever he was doing with the thousand yard stare. and they were going, they were going, that's a cheap fake. That's a cheap fake. And I was like, I don't understand what that means. And they're like, well, it's edited.

It's a piece of videotape, but it's edited. It's not the whole tape. And somebody was trying to pass that bullshit off on me here in my studio. And I said, you know, the videotape of P. Diddy kicking his girlfriend in the hall of the hotel by the elevator. And they go, yeah? I go, that's an edited piece of tape. It's not the whole, the whole tape is 700 hours long. That's just the clip where he kicked her by,

that's a clip of him doing that in a surveillance tape that's on a loop 24-7. Are you suggesting we needed to watch the entire year's worth of tape? Or can we just watch a cut of him kicking her ass for 45 seconds? because that's what we're looking at with Joe Biden. This insanity, I was on Bill Marsh show years, you know, I don't know, it was like four or five years ago or something like that. And they said, is Joe Biden going to run for a second term? Do you think he's going to run?

And I said, run, he can't walk. And everyone looked at me. And I was like, you guys don't see what's going on with this guy? It's super apparent to everybody. And now is super apparent that you're all. lying or to cover for him. And the fact that you're trying to wordsmith your way around this is insulting. It really is.

She's a witch, by the way. She is insulting our intelligence. She's a bitch. And here's further evidence of it. So not only does she push this bullshit on us and expect us to swallow it, but she's out there once again, by omission, taking shots at her own granddaughter. Hunter Biden has a daughter by the name of Navy. We've interviewed her mother here on this program.

That's hurtful to see, you know, a matriarch of a family who is supposed to bring a family together purposely exclude someone, part of that family, part of that bloodline. And that's something that someday my daughter will read and my daughter will see. It breaks my heart to know that it will break hers to read and see the things that she's going to see about being excluded. And she's going to wonder, you know, why. All I can do is, you know, be there for her when she does, when she is old enough to understand these things. I have to tell her, you know, I can't explain, I can't tell you why. I can't explain other people's behavior for you. All I can say is, you know, that I'm sorry.

Is it true that when Jill Biden hung the white, House stockings for the six grandchildren, not seven, excluding Navy, that she also had stockings up there for the family pets, for the dogs? I actually did hear that. And so what does Jill Biden do on the view? This, SOT 18. And that's my way. Hunter is, oh my gosh, Hunter is doing so great.

And he's sober. He has a beautiful child. I mean, yes. Thank you. Who's named Bo? He named his son after Bo and Bo named his son after Hunter. So, yeah. Just shows the bond.

Yeah. Once again, no mention of her granddaughter, who's been acknowledged, Navy Biden, which is so hurtful. I'm sorry. Like, I'm sorry your son had a baby out of wedlock,

you know, stepson, whatever. Stop punishing the little girl by erasing her from current her history. I mean, she won't acknowledge this child. It's diabolical.

Well, look, as we've learned everything gets put through the prism of politics, right? I mean, everything is just someone's running all the time. And we got Graham Platner over there and they're all stumping for the guy of the Nazi tattoo

with all the DMs to kids. to young people or young women or whatever, whatever is going on. So they will pass everything through the prism of the next election. And that's all she does. Even if she's not running, even if her husband's not running. Could somebody find out who the big guy was?

Could somebody ask her who the big guy was? Hunter was keeping 10% for, is that question has never been uttered on any interviews. At 10,000 interviews, no one said, who's the big guy? Hunter, everyone else's name is on that list. Their full name.

And then there's the big guy. Who is the big guy? Tell us who that guy is. They don't care. They won't ask. They will never do the stories that are bad for their side. I would submit to the audience. That's one of the things that makes this show different from most, where we will.

We will criticize both sides. When the president does something we don't like, we will say so. We may agree or disagree, but he's not immune from criticism. But if you're a leftist, that's not the rule. That's not how you roll. Adam Carolla, a pleasure. Good luck. Good luck to you as we await to see whether Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton pull this off.

We're rooting for them and you. And we're back tomorrow with Maureen Callahan. Thanks for listening to The Megan Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.