The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump-RFK Alliance Terrifies Elites, and Brilliant "Make America Healthy Again" Message, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 870
Episode Date: August 26, 2024Megyn Kelly is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of "The Case For Trump," to talk about the incredible moment when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorsed former President Donald Trump, how this could be ...a hugely consequential moment in 2024, RFK's trajectory from censored nearly everywhere (except the Megyn Kelly Show) to now, RFK's ability to expose the Democrats for who they truly are, what role he might serve in a Trump administration, Kamala Harris' losing strategy vs. Trump's winning strategy, the Trump-RFK brilliant messaging of MAHA or Make America Healthy Again, the true danger of unsafe chemicals and toxins in the environment and our food, VDH's emotional story about how this has affected his family, the merger of Big Pharma and Big Ag, the Kamala Harris campaign now trying to change the debate rules, Harris' weakness in speaking off-the-cuff, the absurd new column about why Doug Emhoff is a sex symbol, the disgusting media coverage of this race, the key issue of abortion in 2024, how the media and left is trying to spin Trump's real position, an emotional moment during the Theo Von interview where Trump talked about losing his brother to alcoholism, the Trump campaign strategy of reaching young men, the truth about Trump's personality, RFK's family attacking him in a cruel way, and more.Hanson- https://www.amazon.com/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson/dp/1541606434 Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.eduTax Network USA: https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Monday. Gosh,
is it Monday? Where did the other days go? The summer's ending. Oh, it's that time of
year where you feel kind of like, oh, what happened to the summer? But you know what? The fall is great. The election season is going to be exciting,
amazing, tense, an incredible news event as it always is. And, you know, putting on those
sweatshirts and getting the fall nights with the fireplaces, that's always something to look
forward to. So whenever God closes a door, he opens a window back to the election. This race has
been completely upended in the last 48 to 72 hours as independent presidential candidate,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFKJ. Don't you feel like we go way back with him, this audience and he
were together back in, what was it? March of 2021, Steve Krakauer, where we put him on.
Nobody would have him on. He was totally banned. It was March of 2021. He was banned. He was on the
persona non grata list that the White House was putting out, the disinformation dozen.
And we put him on for four hours. And can you believe he did come back or was it 22? Okay. Um, he did come back to life.
He was banned on Instagram, on all social media, and he's been very kind in crediting this show
with helping that door reopened to him. It was absurd. They were banning this man from public
conversation. You can love him. You can hate him. That's your business. But banning a serious person like this with a lifetime of
environmental legal activism behind him, not to mention his Kennedy name, because his ideas are
too controversial, is just crazy. So it's thrilling to see him back in the national conversation.
And boy, is he ever. It's not thrilling if you're a Democrat. The Kamala Harris supporters are very
angry that he's back in the
national conversation. He dropped out of the race while suspended his campaign. That's the way they
all say it these days, though his seems to be a little bit more of a real suspension than an end.
And he threw his support behind former President Donald Trump on Friday night in a barn burner
of a speech. My gosh, one hour he railed and ripped. And if you've been paying
attention to the news cycle and the censorship and the, just the disgusting elite cabal that
runs the country and doesn't give two craps about most of us, it was wonderful to listen to him.
And I don't know whether, you know, Tucker was on the show last Thursday. He talked about his interview with Callie and Casey means, which was amazing.
You should go listen to this in full. Um, and RFKJ referenced it on just because RFKJ is running
now on not MAGA, but is it MAHA, MAHA, M-A-H-A, Make America Healthy Again?
And it's playing right into some of the messages
from that podcast, from Callie and Casey Means,
two brilliant brothers and sisters
who have been trying to sound the alarm
on how the medical industrial complex
has sort of merged with big ag to get us sick
and then charge us to make us well, but they never make us well enough to actually get
out of the cycle. So anyway, all of this fired up RFKJ, who's been railing about this for quite
some time and has injected a whole new, not just endorsement for Trump, but line of argument for
Republicans in this whole race. Joe Biden took the cancer moonshot. It didn't work.
People are still getting cancer, even though they told us he cured it.
And this is a new thing altogether. People care about public health. You remember Peter Atiyah
when he came on this show? He wrote the book Outlived. It was on the New York Times bestseller
list, I think, for 14 months. This is a strain in the American
culture right now that is growing with rapid and rabid fervor. Americans are catching on to what's
being done to them with processed foods and seed oils and a medical complex that doesn't care at
all about wellness. They just care about
their bottom line. Sure. They'll cut off your child's breasts at age 15 because it pays well.
They will perform open heart surgery on you without talking to you about nutrition because
it pays really well. So anyway, all of this is very fascinating what happened in the past 72
hours. And it really could be a genuine game changer in the entire election. It's a massive moment. And how do you know for sure that it's a massive moment?
Well, the left and the corporate media are in full freak out mode right now. They didn't want
RFKJ running and they definitely tried to take him out because they realized he could hurt Kamala.
But now you would think he was at the top of the ticket. The amount of attacks that are coming out about him now, now that he dropped out.
But his endorsement clearly matters to them or they wouldn't be treating it the way they are.
Joining me now to discuss that much more, Victor Davis Hanson, VDH's back, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the book, The Case for Trump, which has been updated and re-released, very timely,
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BDH, welcome back to the show.
Thank you for having me, Megan.
So what a seismic event at a time when we weren't exactly expecting seismic news.
It kind of leaked a couple of days earlier that he might be dropping out endorsing Trump.
And then sure enough, on Friday, he did it. And then they appeared together, um, at, uh, Trump rally. And I want to start with that moment when he walked out with Trump, Debbie Murphy, who's been
my editorial producer since 2007, we've been together a long time. She's she's I, I liken her
to Holly Hunter from broadcast news. She just doesn't live, eat, sleep, or breathe unless there's news related to it.
She saw this walkout with RFKJ and she said, this was so amazing. It was a great TV moment.
It's perfectly produced. She then contrasted it to the sad Ron DeSantis audio announcement of his
campaign where he has the beautiful family and he missed the chance to
show off anyway. But look at this moment between Trump and RFKJ. Fire all over the stage.
Wow. Trump later said he had never seen applause like that for someone other than himself. And it was produced, not surprisingly, by our friends at Turning Point.
That's the Charlie Kirk Group, which does know how to do pageantry and pageantry is helpful in presidential politics.
Victor, what do you think of it?
It's pretty amazing. I know the conventional wisdom says that in a close election that 40,000 votes in 2020 made a difference. He can make a difference. That's all true. But I think it's more insidious for the question in a way that Trump doesn't, maybe even that J.D.
Vance doesn't.
When he recites the litany of what the DNC is doing, sabotage, trying to get him off the ballot with suits, but putting spies into his campaign, that gets people very angry.
And the more that he repeats that and expands on it, the more it feeds into the Kamala Harris narrative that
she won't meet with the press and that the press and the media and the DNC are fused.
The other thing is it's going to encourage other people.
Jill Stein came out, not that these people have a lot of constituents, but she said they
were doing the same thing to her.
And even Cornel West, who despises Trump, he has been criticizing as much the DNC.
So it's kind of a, he broke the ice and all of a sudden people are coming out and citing
all the things the DNC is doing.
And we remember the Beyonce con, all of that stuff kind of force multiplies into a narrative
that these people will do anything.
And that helps.
The other thing is it makes it for some independents that are left wing and don't like what Harris is doing or Biden, the idea of voting for Trump, if you talk to him, it's just beyond the pale.
But when he comes out and says that he will do it, that will add some that I don't think are picked up
in the polls.
The other thing is that everybody says, well, you know, Trump can't ever put him in an
administration because he's too volatile or way out there.
But there are certain areas in which they are in absolute agreement with not only Trump.
He's in absolute agreement with the MAGA movement.
So the perfect job for him, Megan, would be the head of the national broadcasting company,
PBS and NPR.
If they put him in that, that would be wonderful because he's a free speech advocate and he
knows what they have done to him and he knows how to correct it and he would have the full
support of all the MAGA people.
So there's a lot of lines to this argument that I think
they're going to increase. Even Phillips, the congressman that ran, he said the other day
that he might have an announcement that he would be willing to serve in either administration.
That would be amazing. And RFKJ is saying, you just wait until you see the team that Trump is
putting together right now. Had many people speculating who will be on it. Could it be Tulsi Gabbard? I mean, she's definitely, I think, going to vote
for Trump. So it'd be all these sort of favorites who are almost politically homeless right now,
but open-minded to Trump's messaging, of course, because as you know, he is not some far right guy.
Trump's actually more moderate in a lot of his politics than, you know, let's say Ted Cruz is. And this
would be very attractive to said people. Um, if they could just check their Trump derangement
syndrome, the media would see that and would see it coming. Um, I want to play a little bit more
and talk a little bit more about this. Cause it's, I do think this has the potential to be
a true game changer in this. When RFKJ stood up on Friday and announced why he was leaving, one of the things he did was
eviscerate the media, the Democrats and the media, which, as you point out now, all of the Democrats
trying to run from Dean Phillips. I mean, he's already been complaining. But to Jill Stein and
Cornel West, all of them are putting the lie to the Democrats talking point about them being the
party of democracy. They are the ones who will protect and hold inviolate your vote.
Here's a little bit of that on Friday.
In the name of saving democracy,
the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it,
lacking confidence in its candidate. The DNC waged continual legal warfare
against both President Trump and myself.
It deployed DNC-aligned judges
to throw me and other candidates off the ballot
and to throw President Trump in jail.
They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020
without winning a single delegate.
My uncle and my father both relish debate.
They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee
who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters.
This is profoundly undemocratic.
Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon
nothing. Based upon nothing. He's got it, Victor.
Yeah, I mean, right there, he outlined in just a few minutes or seconds even,
the entire indictment of the Democratic Party in a way that other people haven't.
And so he's kind of serving the role of J.D. Vance.
Everybody attacked J.D. Vance.
And the more you see him go on the media and battle with him or even the Tom Cotton, he's in that category.
And they really they don't just repeat talking points.
They try to analyze.
And when they do that, it really shows the poverty of the entire Democratic Party. You know, we haven't even emphasized one of the cruelest things they did. I was watching MSNBC and CNN and Fox when they were interviewing a lot of people at the DNC and they were trying to trace down these traffic rumors and beyonds. And all of these people were really sincere. They really believed it. And they said, we're going to stay here and she's going to be the finale after Harris.
And either they deliberately planted that or somebody planted it and they found it useful.
But that was just representative or illustrative of that entire DNC attitude,
that from the trivial to the existential, they'll do anything to win.
And that's all predicated on the idea that Donald Trump supposedly represents this existential
threat.
And therefore, that end of getting rid of him justifies any means necessary.
And I think that's what Kennedy and Vance are trying to explain to the American people.
I think they're going to be pretty effective, especially it feeds into this, as I said earlier, this illusion that she's that she's ever going to go out and talk to people.
She's not because they know that in one minute she could destroy the entire campaign.
It reminds me of a famous anecdote, Megan, about World War One and the Battle of Jutland, they said that Admiral Jellicoe was the only man in the British Navy who could lose the war in a minute if he got the home fleet destroyed.
And that's kind of what she is.
She's got the ability to go out there and do a word salad that would confirm every stereotype of her.
And they know that.
And so they're going to keep her. And the longer they
keep her hidden, the more anxious she's going to be and the more worried. And it's just going to
be a doom move. So they should get it over with early in the campaign and get her out there. But
they're not going to do that. It's actually really interesting now, Victor, because Trump is
blanketing the field with alternative media. You know, he sat down
with Theo Vaughn last week. We're going to play some of that's interesting, a very different kind
of exchange for Trump. And it was good. And then, uh, this week he sat down with Sean Ryan, who we
love. He was on our Memorial day podcast, uh, former Navy SEAL, very interesting, thoughtful,
great, great guy. And JD Vance is all over the mainstream media doing battle with NBC
and CBS and CNN and you name it. So it's, it's actually a very clever strategy. And what seems
to be happening lately is her absence is no longer really helping her. Like, yes, I realize
she's not articulate, but they, they've got the whole field available to them.
They're dominating the media again now that the DNC is over.
You know, the headline everywhere on Friday was RFKJ.
And it's been that way all over the entire weekend.
And there's I think they're soon going to realize silence may not be the best option for them.
They're going to go only with friendly interviewers, but they can't have two months with Trump and J.D. Vance owning every single headline while she just stays behind
closed doors or does her teleprompter speeches. Yeah, and that same logic applies to her policy
or the lack of it, because if you go to Trump's various websites, you can find out what he's for.
If you go to hers, you can't. And the
reason you can't is that in that DNC speech, she renounced everything that she's been, not just an
advocate, but an emphatic advocate. Of course, I'm a radical. I'm not. Yes, I'm woke. I want
everybody to be woke. She always doubled down because she was in front of a receptive left-wing
audience. So now she's in another doom loop because if she lays out this
kind of pseudo-MAGA agenda that she outlined at the convention, she's going to inflame the entire
base who are very radical, just like she is on the New Green Deal, on crime, critical race theory,
all that stuff. So she's just waiting and waiting and waiting and just sort of vaguely talking about what she could
might want to do but it's not really contradicting but it sort of is and that's not going to work
she's outsourced all the explanations to her aides that sort of correct well she's not really to
she's not really interested in buying back guns anymore she's not really interested in buying back guns anymore. She's not really interested in
single-payer health care. She's not really interested in banning fracking. But they don't
really say, no, our policy is to encourage fracking and allow people to enjoy their
Second Amendment rights. She won't say that. And I think that is going to hurt her just as much,
the more that she hedges and flips and triangulates. Because it just feeds into that
narrative. She doesn't know who she is. And she knows that if she outlines what she stood for her
whole life, people don't want it. They don't want that agenda. They've seen what it's done.
This idea that Donald Trump is the incumbent the last four years, that's getting very tired. People
are not going to buy that. They keep asking. That narrative is going to get stronger and stronger. You people are,
we're in power. Why didn't you do what you're talking about now? And you have six months less
on your term and you can do it in six months. Just go at it right now. And they don't have an answer.
Especially if you're going to use the FTC to institute some sort of price regulation,
go ahead and do that.
That's a federal agency. Let's see you do it. Yeah. But they have no, no real plan and no desire
to do it. Um, on the, on the subject of Beyonce, I said this last week that I did believe that
Beyonce was a big head fake to boost her ratings and it worked because the numbers are in and it looks like 2.89 million watched Harris's acceptance speech.
25 million watched Trump's.
I actually don't have the details on these.
I'd be interested to see how many watched the first half an hour of Trump's because he went on for 90 minutes and she went on for 40 minutes, which would be helpful to your rating.
So it'd be kind of interesting to see 40 to 40.
How did that go?
I'm sure Trump's numbers dwindled as he kept going and as it got late. But the point is,
her little ruse worked because I do think that there was a fair amount of people out there
thinking Beyonce was about to come on or possibly Taylor Swift. This was one of the other things
that was out there. And I'll get to that because I actually do think the media's role in complying with that and pushing it is important. But I want to stay with our FKJ for right now and we'll move on to media in a second. I mentioned at the top, I think you say, yes, he could be very important in a number of roles for the administration. I mean, Don Jr. was saying possibly, you know, excoriating and
investigating the CIA and deep intel. I mean, he actually would be fascinating in that role.
In public health, that's where he's been most active for, you know, the most, the bulk of his
campaign censorship, as you point out, huge. He would definitely get to the bottom of that.
And Trump seems to be considering him for some sort of a panel, which is good because it wouldn't have to be Senate confirmed.
Some sort of panel or commission that is, among other things, interested in public health and what's being done to us.
Here is RFKJ on that topic on Make America Healthy Again. Saw five. Millions and millions of Americans
who want clean air, clean water,
and a healthy nation
have concerns about toxins in our environment
and pesticides in our food.
That's why today I'm repeating my pledge
to establish a panel of top experts
working with Bobby to investigate
what is causing the decades-long increase
in chronic health problems
and childhood diseases. Oh, you want to know that the food that you're feeding them
is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease.
And don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again?
Victor, this is so uplifting to me because I have to say, as somebody who's covered
this for a while on this show, no one's talking about this. RFKJ was one of the only ones to even
bring it up. Trump never brought it up. Kamala never brought it up. This is not something they
talk about over on the Dem side. These are all their friends who run these industries that are
poisoning us and then getting rich off of the poisoning. So it was wonderful to hear this not
only being said at a presidential rally, but elevated as like a critical piece of the Trump messaging at this point.
And it's dangerous.
Well, you know, I'm speaking from my farm, Megan, and it's been in my family since 1870.
And the early generations that lived here lived into their 80s. But with the advent of organophosphate, organochloride
pesticides, and I'm talking about someone who put them on for 30 years myself, because I was told
they were absolutely safe. My sister-in-law died of leukemia at 51, living on the farm here. My
daughter died at 26 of leukemia, working side by side since she was four years old with me.
My mother died of 65 of a brain tumor.
Her sister, who grew up here, died at 49 of breast cancer.
And I've had an immune problem for about 15 years.
Every time I get COVID, I get long COVID.
And so I don't know what the cause is. I'm not a conspiracy
advocate. And I know that we've really cut back, the industry has cut back on some of the things
like Paraquat that are deadly or, you know, Parathion, which can kill you. And all of these,
the point I'm making is when people use those chemicals, it wasn't like I'm breaking the law or this is too risky.
It was this chemical is so safe you could probably drink it.
That's the kind of message we got.
And then you use it and then you find out that DBC is in your well and it causes male sterility.
So then you don't drink your water.
And that's just the story of agribusiness.
And the problem is if you live on your farm and you're a family farmer
and you're, say, 150 acres, 20 acres, then you live there.
So you are very careful about the types of chemicals you use.
If you own 20,000 acres or 10,000 acres and you're not living there,
then it becomes more of an abstract experiment, if you see what I mean. And so when he says that and everybody says, well, he's a
kook and all these chemicals are safe, they're getting safer all the time, but they're only
getting safer because people like him are bringing it to people's attention. And, you know, when I look at my family that was working all during the 80s
and 90s together, and we had a collection of 10 children, but among us, and we were bathed in
chemicals and we had organic of, we have organic acreage as well, but some of it was just traditional
ag. The ag guy came out and he said, you've got to use
this, Victor. You've got to use this. You've got to get a thousand boxes an acre. The only way you
can do it and break even is do this. We've tested it. It's absolutely safe. And then you put it on
and you get sick. And the family farmer doesn't hire employees who take the risk. He does it himself.
So then you're much more sensitive to a message by RFK. So I really appreciate what he's doing.
And I look back at my family and I think, wow, my grandfather in the age before this lived to be 86.
My grandmother lived to be 93.
Her mother lived to be 93,
my great-grandmother, and no one has gotten past really 70 years old. And most of the people died in their 40s or 50s, and that's kind of scary. Victor, that's terrible. I'm sorry. I didn't
know any of that. It's certainly not about your daughter. I'm so sorry to hear it.
We had tomatoes, and she would be covered with tomatoes, and we went out in the plums and peaches.
She worked since five, six, seven, eight, nine years old.
And it was very sudden.
She got a very lethal form of leukemia that came within two weeks and killed her. And my mother was a appellate court judge in that time of her life, and she got a brain tumor.
And my sister-in-law was only 51, and she got leukemia. And of course, lymphomas and leukemias,
and those are the types of blood cancers that people associate with this toxicity.
And there are certain chemicals that every farmer who farms knows that they'll kill you.
Because you see, Megan, the farmer is putting them at 100 times more than the spray or maybe even 1,000 times.
If you have 500 gallons of water in your
spray tank, you put a gallon in there. Well, then it's diluted 500 times. And RFK is talking about
that diluted material that vaporizes onto the crop. And then it doesn't break down in time for
people when they consume it. But if you're the farmer, you're putting 500 times that amount in the pure
form into the tank. So that means your hands, your face, it splashes. It's very dangerous to do.
And of course, now it's much safer and we have more knowledge, but we're still living with the
effects of that. Well, I mean, it's not, of course, the problem's not solved in any way
for the American consumer, nevermind for farmers like you who actually have to deal with it at the source. And this is one of the things like Casey and Kelly. Kelly Means has been out there for a while sounding the alarm on this very smart guy. And his sister, Casey, is a Stanford educated surgeon. She went to Stanford Medical School, top of her class,
was actually working as a surgeon for many years
and then realized this system is corrupt.
What we're doing is we're in the business
of keeping patients sick
and then charging them per body part
to take them out, to fix them up,
and then just keep them on the revolving wheel of sickness.
And they were making the point to Tucker
that one of the best things
that the American health
system wants to see is a sick child, because then you get them on some sort of a medication.
They're sick for life. You've got them paying into the system. And she's not some kook. She's
not saying, oh, it's a government like they really want sick children. They just look at them as
financial cogs in their wheel. And they don't behave in a way that would reflect a desire
to make that child well,
nevermind an adult.
But the children are the most lucrative ones because that's a lifetime of being hooked
on medication.
And they were talking about, among other things, the merger of Monsanto and Bayer.
So you've got one of the biggest chemical companies in the United States with one of
these medicine companies that's supposed to get us well.
So it's like this never ending loop of illness. We'll fix it. Illness. We know we'll create the
illness and then we'll, we'll quote, fix the illness, which never gets fixed. This is what
they're trying to talk about this. And RFKG is also talking about, and so are the means about,
um, the ultra processed foods that were shoving down our children's throats and our own throats and how
good luck avoiding it. If you're a regular American shopping at any American grocery store,
no one's calling attention to this. No one. But there's a reason Peter Atiyah did so well in his
book. There's a reason guys like Mark Sisson, who's been calling attention to this. He's been
on the show too. I've been jumping up and down about this stuff because Americans know everybody's got a story about young people, their friends, their family getting cancer at an alarmingly young age and
dying quickly from it. No one's taking it seriously because all the financial incentives are for the
system to perpetuate. So it's wonderful to see a ball buster like RFKJ, who clearly does not care what anybody thinks of him inside this system,
come out and say, I am defeated in this contest, but I am not defeated in my fight against all
this nonsense. And to see somebody as powerful as Trump elevate him and say, I'm into it and I'm
platforming you and I'm going to continue. Like, I really think
that even like the California, Tucker and I were talking about this, you know, like
Birkenstock crowd is going to be giving Trump a second look if this is his plan.
And that message about the health care and ag business industry, it's analogous to what he's saying about the big media, too, that they're corrupt, that they tell us lies, that they go on there with a straight face and feed us this propaganda night after night after night.
And people know that it's wrong. They increasingly know that it's wrong, that it's inaccurate. They never apologize. They never backtrack.
You know, and when I saw Leon Panetta on the stage at the DNC, and I thought to myself,
you used your prestige over a lifetime, and you were director of CIA, and you put your
name, or you were one of the primary signage of that 51 intelligence authorities
that said that that laptop of Hunter's was Russian disinformation, and you knew that that was cooked
up by Anthony Blinken, and you knew it was right before the debate, so it would fuel Joe Biden's
lies, and you knew it would affect the the election and you knew the FBI had that laptop
in its possession and knew that it was authentic and you knew that what you were doing was a lie
and you knew on national TV you would never apologize when you were asked to. And yet,
we're supposed to believe that he's a grandee with a sterling reputation because the media,
and that's just typical of John Brennan and James Clapper and
Andrew McCabe. So I think a lot of people are just saying, Michael Hayden, he was comparing
Trump to Auschwitz with cages on the border. At least twice he's compared Trump to Hitler.
He has. And then I could go in, I won't get into the names of four-star retired generals, but I
think people, and look at Fauci, people look at those people and they say they either lie
under oath or they do things that if we did, we would be put in jail.
And I think RFK is a voice that is not afraid to articulate.
And he articulates so well.
And he's bulletproof.
I don't want to use that metaphor, given his family.
But my gosh, he's pretty courageous.
He doesn't really care what people say about him.
Trump doesn't either.
Trump's sensitive, but he doesn't really care.
And J.D. Vance has taken the heat.
And the more that they persevere, Megan, the longer he doesn't
retaliate or go to the ad hominem and the more they do against him, it turns out that when he's
magnanimous, he rises in the popularity and they look smaller. And when he talks about the issues,
he's really good at it. He's better than he is about the insults. So I think this is going
to help too, that when he outsources this, if he can come into the, what he's really good at is
this is what she is. This is what I am. This is what I did. And then it really, and then they get
angrier and angrier and call him all sorts of names. He's a coward. He's a criminal. He's a
felon. And they look smaller and smaller.
They don't do that very well. I think he's got sort of a, I don't know, he's got a formula now.
And I think these appointments, like, I don't know if they're appointments, but the more that he
embraces Tulsi Gabbard or RFK, these are eccentrics, they think, and they're highly individualistic, and they're very
talented. And the more he can get them in his campaign and talk about the issues and unity,
unity, getting Brian Kemp with him was a brilliant move. If he gets Haley and DeSantis on the stage,
brilliant. And he becomes the unity candidate candidate and they are more and more angry and
polarizing when they get, because the only way she's going to come out and speak and give an
unscripted interview is if she starts to fall behind in the polls by two or three or four points,
then she'll beg to come out, even though that won't be good for her.
The RFK hashtag is Unite America. And that's what they're trying to jumpstart here, that it's on, that reasonable
people of all stripes and political persuasions are coming together to stop the madness.
And meanwhile, you have over on Team Kamala, as you pointed out earlier, just like these broad
policy, you know, opportunity economy pronouncements, which allows people to just fill in
the blanks. But it's worse than that
because there was I had my team just pull this. It's worse than that because here is a DNC delegate
Kaven Shroff on ABC last week talking about how she really hasn't gotten specific. And in this
time of record inflation and now revising the job creation number down by nearly a million jobs,
we'd really like to hear some specifics from the person who's number two in the current administration,
nevermind the democratic nominee for a sec for another administration.
Listen to what he says. Vice president Harris has been incredibly brave to roll out an ambitious
economic agenda because we all know how this works. The more details you share, the more your
policies are going to get picked apart. That was, she was brave to do the thing on price gouging.
Listen to this, but she's saying, I trust the American people. I trust the journalists to
explain these policies and our values to folks. And I think when that happens, it will be successful
for Democrats. You see, it's the American people and the journalists
who are going to fill in the blanks, Victor, on opportunity economy and turn it into it is
whatever you wish it to be, Democrat voters. Well, it's exactly what Biden did in 2020. He
was in seclusion and then he counted on this on this fusion media to fill in the blanks.
He ran, remember, he ran as a uniter.
He said, let's stop the madness, the chaos.
I'm good old Joel from Scranton.
And to a lesser extent, well, the same extent Barack Obama did.
He had hope and change.
He has joy and vibes.
But it was predicated on the same thing. The only thing I think she's going
to be different is that if you remember, Barack Obama at least had in his arsenal, the unpopular
Iraq war and the 2008 meltdown. And when Joe Biden ran, he was playing, when he ran, it was
the COVID lockdown and all of this turmoil in the economy because of COVID.
But she doesn't have that.
She's not running after an oppositional administration.
She was not only she's not only running after an administration of her own party.
She was instrumental in it. She said to the American people that she was the last person in the room when Joe Biden made that decision on Afghanistan and by extension on other decisions.
So the idea that she's got a program is another doom loop, because if she outlines her program
and it's different from what she was supporting the last three and a half years, and it better
be because all of those initiatives pull less than 40 or 45 percent.
Then what does she do?
She's trying to outsource the idea that she differs from Joe Biden.
And that means she differs from herself until, I guess, somewhere in late July, July 21st, when Biden stepped down. And then she's counting on the media.
And I saw that really good exchange with Tom Cotton and John Carl when John Carl basically said, but she's changed. And he said,
she hasn't changed. She has not refuted specifically one of her left-wing issues.
She has the aides do it. And he says, yeah, but everybody knows she's moving to the center. And
he said, how do you know that? Hold on, Victor. We have a bit of that.
Let me play it.
And then you take it on the back.
It was really brilliant, Tom Cotton.
What do you mean taking away health insurance?
What are you talking about?
She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance
on the job.
170 million Americans, John.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, that is not her position now.
She, how do you know that?
How do you know that's not her position?
I mean, she, she says, you know, she has not said that. She has you know that's not her position? I mean, she says she no longer supports Medicare
for all. She has not said that. Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that. But the
last thing that she said on most of these times. This was not a radical convention. I mean,
as you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders, she is not taking positions on the far left of
her party. When she campaigned for president in her own right, she did, in fact, promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration and taking away.
But that's a position she's clearly changed on.
And she said she has changed.
Yes, yes, yes, she has.
No, she has not.
She has not said that.
Oh, Victor, Tom Cotton had him.
He had him.
She she's never disavowed that position only through an aid and a written paper statement. And he switched once Cotton brought the goods to. Well, but this wasn't a radical convention. He got out of bounds. successfully, it's kind of like what we call in classics, a palimpsest. She's taken one position
or paper and she's superimposed another one on top of it, but she hasn't rejected the other one.
The other one's just like a piece of, I don't know, plastic that she'll peel back off. So she
has never said, I'm against the new green deal or I'm against Keystone or I'm against, I mean,
I'm against, she's never said I'm not for that anymore. She's
just sort of wink and nod. I'm flexible now. And then she's going to peel that off and go back to
her original left wing. I shouldn't say original. It's what she always has been, but she's very
careful. That's what was so good about Tom Cotton. She's not coming out and saying, I am no longer for the new Green Deal. I am no longer,
I no longer think that Afghanistan was a successful operation. She's not saying that.
And the reason she's not saying that is because she understands she could lose a lot of votes
if she flips overtly. So what she's doing is she's just sort of adding new positions to her old ones, but the new ones that she adds are antithetical to them.
And so she's kind of like a one-eyed jack.
We have one side we don't see, and now we see this new side, but it doesn't mean the old side's not there.
Here's what I want to see.
Okay, so now she's claiming she's no longer for pulling all of our private insurance away from us and putting us all on the government Medicare program, which is what she is on record as having said very, very clearly and forcefully.
A smart, honest interviewer would sit her down and do to her what they do to Republican candidates who were pro-choice when they were younger and become pro-life.
And they always do this.
And they start testing the Republican candidate to see if it's a, if it's a real change of heart, like
what made you change? How did you go from being pro-choice to pro-life? And most Republicans
will give you the same answer, which is soon as I saw my wife's ultrasound or my ultrasound,
if it's a woman, um, and saw the beating heart, it changed me. Right. And that's a plausible
answer, whatever, but I've seen this done to Republicans a million times. So let's see that done to her.
What what changed your campaign? Aid said in a statement that you've changed your position on
taking away people's private health insurance. What changed your mind? Walk us through the
reasoning. You once said you were in favor of not deporting any illegals and giving them all
health insurance. What what changed your mind on that? You once said you wanted to ban all fracking. Now,
through a paper statement, you say you're not. Walk us through your logic and your reasoning.
See if her mind is even fast enough to come up with the lie that will cover for,
gee, my team told me I had to reverse myself if I wanted to win.
It's not going to happen. You know why? Because she can't. She can't intellectually. I mean,
it's logically she can't, but she's not. I don't want to be condescending, but she is not equipped
to think on her feet and come up with a plausible explanation or even a plausible
excuse. And they know that. They've caught her twice, Megan, in, I would call
it ambush impromptu snippets. And the first was when the hostages came back from Russia.
And for a moment on the tarmac, if somebody stuck a camera, what do you think about this?
And she started talking about the art of diplomacy. The art of diplomacy was very
important. And Joe Biden, no one is better than the art of diplomacy than Joe Biden. And she just
went in that same wash, rinse, spin cycle. And then they caught her again when she was giving
a riff on democracy. Democracy is very important. We all-
There's a duality.
Yeah, duality. And it's the same thing. And then they, you,
each time that you look at those clip, you look at Joe Biden's face and it's like,
what is she talking about? And then it's Tim Walz is looking at her when she's talking about
democracy and it's like, stop, please stop, stop. And you can lose it in one minute if she'd gone on for two minutes. And people know that.
And so they know it's that's what is so important about having these other voices and Trump trying to point these out and people like Cotton and J.D. Vance, because there is no solution to it.
They know that you cannot be a hard left radical and then suddenly try to stage a pseudo mega convention and reverse everything you've said, but not specifically renounce what you are really for because of your base. democracy or democracy dies in darkness by republicans and then deliberately take a
candidate who never won a single delegate never entered a single primary was anointed by a bunch
of donors and back backroom politicos and then suddenly turn her into barack obama but with the
qualif you know barack obama couldn't stop talking he wanted because he was good at it he was out
everywhere and they they can't pull that
off. And so they're going to run out the clock if they can get away with it. And it's the most
anti-democratic thing I've ever seen in my life. She's saying now, NBC reporting that the pair of
them, Kamala and Tim Walz, have committed to doing a joint sit down interview with someone this week. We don't know
exactly who they're talking about or when or what the format will be. But it's also interesting that
it's both of them. Right. She's got her emotional support governor with her for her first interview.
So she can't answer. She's got the good talker right next to her. But the media will allow this and they won't pressure her to save their own dignity because
because their politics are more important to them than their dignity.
They want her to win more than they want anything.
And I'll just give you one example.
The latest we have so many.
But here is CNN.
Watch what CNN does when RFKJ is out there starting to knock on Kamala Harris and the media for allowing her to stay completely dark and silent when it comes to dealing with the press. who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter
with voters for 35 minutes.
We've been listening to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from Phoenix outlining
what led him to his quixotic quest for the White House to now dropping out. And how amazing is that flagged by Western
lens been on X? You know, we got to wrap. Yes. And you made a good point that she will not appear
by herself and he will do most of the talking and she will smile and giggle a little bit.
Not too much because they've told her not to, but it won't be a one on one-one interview. Even the left-wing people, though, they're very narcissistic and they're getting angry because they all want to have a one-on-one primetime interview where they throw her softballs and say, look, look, I interviewed her.
I got her up in the polls by two or three points.
I really did what she couldn't do on her own.
And they're not even getting that opportunity.
Remember, and every once that Lester Holt famous interview he did with her on the border,
it was, he was very throwing her softballs.
And he finally just said, have you been to the border?
I have been to the border.
No, you haven't.
Well, I haven't been to Europe either.
And it was just deadly.
And that was designed to help her. And they all want that attention that I'm the one that interviewed Kamala and made her look really good. But why don't know how she's, this is not going to help her, Megan. You made a good point.
When she has him on there, everybody's going to say, we don't see J.D. Vance and Trump together giving interviews much. Why? We never see anybody do that. Why are you doing this?
It doesn't work. Trump can do it all by his lonesome. It's one thing to do it together
once you've made your pick. And then the two of you give one or two together, that's normal. But we haven't heard from her at all since she became the Democratic nominee, the heir to the throne when Joe Biden passed this baton five weeks ago.
So to make the first appearance, a joint one again with her emotional support governor says everything.
Stand by more on that and all the news. We're
going to take a quick break. VDH stays with us for the show. We'll be right back.
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So Victor, on the subject of the dishonest media trying to help her,
there are reports everywhere today about this presidential debate scheduled for September 10th on ABC.
Now, this was scheduled between Trump and Biden and the terms were agreed to between Trump and Biden.
And they had apparently all the same rules as the CNN debate between between Trump and Biden, where the mics were supposed to be cut.
There wasn't supposed to be a studio audience, no notes allowed, no opening or closing statements.
And when Harris subbed in as the nominee, there was some back and forth about whether
they should renegotiate, you know, and maybe go to Fox, maybe not go to ABC.
No, they want, team Harris wanted it as is
leave it in place. You already agreed. You already agreed. They kept telling him and Trump was like,
okay, I'll do it. And then you should also do one at Fox. And she, on the night, I think it was of
her debate. It was on a late on a newsy night. She's put out a paper statement saying, oh,
we won't be doing the Fox debate. It might've been Monday night when Biden spoke. Anyway, so she won't do anything on territory she considers even neutral.
She will only go to places like ABC where her best friend is the person in charge.
So now she's gone back on the ABC debate to say, and I want to change the rules now. Now I want open mics while the other person
is speaking. Um, and according to team Trump, she's also saying, and I want it to be a sit down
at a desk situation. And I want notes and I want to be able to do opening statements.
Her team saying that's not true, but that's what team Trump is saying through a representative.
Uh, and her team is admitting that they are trying to open up the mics, meaning while one candidate is
speaking, the mics would be back open. And the press is running out saying that's the norm.
That's the norm, which it is. They're right. Until the Democrats changed the norm and Trump said,
fine, I'll do it your way. And Trump did very well with that situation and realized,
I'm sure, hey, this works pretty well for me. I kind of like this. Helps me stay more disciplined.
I can just make my point when they come to me. I can control my worst instincts,
you know, which is to like jump all over the candidate. And that makes me look better.
And so he's like, no, let's stick with the original rules. And her team is out there. And so is the media saying he's chicken. He's chickening out. And Trump did send out a truth social post over
the weekend saying, should I do this debate? Are they going to be fair to me? Trying to change all
the rules. ABC hates my guts. Look at the recent coverage. She's best friends with the person who
runs it. Look at Jonathan Karl. Look at like this. This network can't stand me. Look at the woman who asked me that question at the National Association of Black Journalists event.
She's an ABC or look at ABC News's coverage of Trump and the Trump messaging last week versus
how they covered the Kamala Harris message at the DNC. I watched almost all of it. Anyway,
the media running cover now saying Trump is the one who's trying to change the rules
and Trump has to answer for this whole
Mike's open thing or not. Yeah, I don't think that's going to work because even somebody on
CNN, I watched it and he said the problem with dealing with the Harris team about interviews
is they have all these conditions and the conditions is, is somebody going to edit it and who is
going to interview us and how long is it going to be?
And, and in other words, they haven't experienced that before and they're now talking about
it.
And that feeds into this old narrative that whatever it is, it's always a qualification.
It's always, yes, but maybe sort of should, should have, kind of. And, you know,
it all shows you. And he said, when he, the CNN person, and maybe I can find it,
or your team can, but he said, the problem is that they know her, and I think this direct quote, as I remember, was the worst moments of her vice presidency were when she did unscripted interviews.
The worst moment.
And they know that.
And so they're fixated on that.
And that can't be hidden.
And everybody knows that.
If everybody starts with the premise, which they do now, is that she does not want to give an interview under any conditions, then everything makes sense. The more qualifications, the more backtracking,
all of that, the more projecting her reluctance onto Trump. And everybody knows Trump will speak
to anybody about anything, anytime, anywhere. He does. He likes that. That's how he made his celebrity career on television. And so that's not going to fly that suddenly Trump is getting reluctant to debate her. And so she's going to put up all of these pseudo Trump is hesitant because she's just going to make all these demands. Why would anybody debate somebody when they were sitting down with
a notebook? You know what I mean? That's just crazy. If you're going to have notes, then you
might as well not debate. I think I've done maybe a hundred debates in my life and not one, not one
was I allowed or my opponent allowed to have notes. It just wasn't done. Nobody does that.
Not only that, it would be a horrible debate. Can
you imagine when he's like, you, you are terrible borders are, and she's like, stand by, hold on.
I've got, I, I, I was never the borders are, I, I was addressing root causes. I mean, by the way,
on that front, it's so absurd, Victor, because, okay, let's go with that. You had the limited
role of addressing root causes of immigration.
How'd that go?
How how'd that work out?
Because we have record illegal immigration.
So clearly you did not solve the desire from these countries for their people to migrate
to America, which was, by your own admission, your job.
To the contrary, she's now reinventing herself as a border hawk. Can you deal with the hubris?
And that's exactly why Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer had that initial hesitation
for three or four days, because they really did think when they removed Joe on that sort of palace
coup that they were going to have an open
convention or at least an open something because they had grown up with her. They knew her and they
did not want to just anoint her. And then they found out that within 24 hours, that momentum
was there and they were not going to deny a black woman who was a person in waiting as vice president
that opportunity. And so they caved, but they were very wary. And that narrative didn't come from you. It didn't come from me.
It didn't come from Republicans or conservatives. That narrative for three and a half years was,
you cannot get rid of Joe Biden. He will not step down because he has a spiral agnew insurance
policy called Kamala Harris.
And even people were speculating on his side.
Maybe he picked her.
It wasn't so stupid to announce in advance the gender and race of his running mate.
Maybe it was smart because she was so inept and she was so unable to speak publicly or
in an impromptu fashion that nobody would ever impeach him, no matter, impeach him or
25th Amendment or ask him to step down because the alternative was just like Agnew and Nixon
until Agnew got in legal trouble and stepped down.
And so that was the reputation that she had among the kingpins of the Democratic Party.
And they know that.
And the media knows that too.
Everybody knows it.
And that's what's getting kind of embarrassing when everybody knows it and they know it and the public knows it.
Then they expect every time the issue comes up what they're doing. Everybody said, of course, when they mention an interview or debate or a town hall, they will have qualifications.
Oh, they will back out the last. They will switch the rules. And that's just going
to feed on itself. There's still 70 days. And, you know, that's not a lot, a long time, but it's
long enough to cement that image in people's mind that she won't be able to speak. And, you know,
while we're talking right now, we've had a serious exchange of fire, you know, in Hezbollah, 100 Israeli jets and preempting
and Hezbollah sending rockets. Joe's on vacation. And she's why? Who are we going to hear from?
Does anybody talk about what's going on in the Middle East? Or there's a huge offensive into
Kursk. It's in the mother Russia. Russia's said some ominous things about it. We don't hear anything
from Joe. He went from vacation in California to vacation in Delaware. She's the vice president.
You'd think that she would stop for a minute and act presidential and say, you know, I'm running
for president, Joe, and it's the Biden-Harris position that we want to caution or whatever
she says, but she can't even do that.
No, but there's nobody in control right now.
Oh, no, there's really no one in control. And we talk about Biden's schedule because he's going on another nine day vacation.
But on the subject of the flip floppers on the Democratic side, how they, you know, a
couple of weeks ago were admitting she can't do this and now see her as the second coming.
I give you Kathleen Parker, who for a time was considered the more conservative opinion columnist. Right now,
she's at the Washington Post. And here she was on March 15th, 2024. Kamala Harris could help her
party and the country by stepping aside. She goes on to say she was a colossal failure as border czar.
Her role was to be quiet in this administration, lest she embarrass her boss with her sometimes
inane rambling remarks and a laugh that erupts from nowhere about nothing obvious to others.
She was picked by Joe Biden because she was black and female, a combo tantamount to job security.
Now that she's become a burden to the Democratic ticket, Biden can't fire her. because she was black and female, a combo tantamount to job tantamount to job security.
Now that she's become a burden to the Democratic ticket, Biden can't fire her.
The seriousness of this situation situation can't be overstated. His diminishing faculties are concerning. Her performance as second in command has been disappointing. And there's no reason to
think her ranking would spike where she suddenly to be promoted to the Oval Office. Most signs
point to disaster. I propose with all due respect that Harris step
away from the ticket. Please, Madam Vice President, do it for your country. Okay. Same woman.
Same woman. Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Same woman, Kathleen Parker,
looking at the Democratic convention, nominating her talks about how, um,
if, if only Kamala Harris and Tim walls can do this, muster the votes they need to defeat the
arch enemy of America's promise. As Oprah said, now is a time for grownup conversation and say
it with me for joy, enter Kamala and Tim, surely the happiest presidential ticket in recent American history.
This isn't sarcasm. I actually, it was like, oh, is this sarcasm? No, no, this is serious.
The president from Hope, Arkansas said it was time to make Harris the president of joy.
If a thousand watt smile can be equated to joy, then Harris has no rival. Again,
she's not about to drop the hammer on Harris. The whole thing is Kathleen Parker on her knee. The glaring omission of fathers in the Democratic narrative,
including Harris's very much alive father, was filled by Tim Walz. So she's got love for him,
too. She goes on to suggest that Oprah Winfrey was amazing and should win the Nobel peace prize. She talks about Michelle Obama
saying she she's no lady Macbeth. Her conscience and hands are clean for her spectacular soliloquy.
She takes home the Oscar for best supporting actress, though I suspect many in the audience
were wondering why she was not leading the ticket and then goes on to talk about how,
what a devil Trump is and how he must be
stopped. And Harris is the one to do it. That's the press. What? What did I say? Nothing. I've
always been Team Harris. She's amazing. Yeah, well, I mean, it's I don't want to be hyperbole,
but it's right out of the old Soviet Union, the Pravda, the official narrative just switches.
You know, you have one day you have Brezhnev on the dais watching the May Day and he's It's right out of the old Soviet Union, the Pravda, the official narrative just switches.
One day you have Brezhnev on the dais watching the May Day, and he's obviously incompetent and unhealthy.
And then the next day he's gone, and it's Andropov or somebody.
And it's like he never existed.
And then all of a sudden, this guy is healthy and he's wonderful. And then he disappears. And then and they just they do it.
This is actually, if you think about it, kind of the fourth coup they've had.
They had the first one in 2020 when Joe Biden had not won Iowa or New Hampshire or Nevada, and he was headed nowhere.
And he was losing to Warren and Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders in the poll.
And then all of a sudden they decided that he was going to be the candidate.
And after South Carolina, they just all like dominoes dropped out. They anointed him. And then suddenly,
it was he was going to be a useful megaphone. And he was going to his real policy was going to be
outsourced to the Obama wing of the party. And then the third time was, well, we're going to
get rid of him. Suddenly, after we said that we would never do that. And then the third time was, well, we're going to get rid of him suddenly after we said that we would never do that.
And then the fourth was, all of a sudden, we're going to reinvent her and she's going to be Cicero, but she's never going to talk to anybody.
And it's always the same pattern in those four different iterations.
It's always, we're going to change the narrative.
Everybody's going to get in line.
And if anybody objects, we're going to call you a racist or crazy or not.
And after a while, you know, when you add all of that together, I think the people are starting to see it.
I really do.
Well, these people are very scary.
I don't think we understand how scary they are.
They're very scary.
Here's the other example.
So J.D. Vance married a working
woman. He married his wife, Usha, who was who he met at Yale Law School. Obviously, she's a
professional woman and who clerked for two justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and has a job at a great
law firm. And she had three kids with him and she's raising the kids with him. I mean,
this is, this woman's firing on all cylinders by anybody's measure. And he is 100% on board
for all of it. I realized he got a lot of people upset with his childless cat lady comments. They
were looking to be upset that I don't, I don't believe that that was sincere. They wanted to
tear him down. They would have found a way to do it no matter what, whether he'd given that
interview on Tucker or not. But in any event, let's put that to the
side because even before those remarks, they were ripping on JD Vance and couldn't stand the guy.
I didn't see a single piece about, you know what, to his credit, the guy supports a working wife.
He supports having a wife who's like not only working, but frankly, her legal
career crushed his. She she achieved heights that ninety nine point nine nine percent of lawyers
will never achieve. And he was OK with that. He was definitely the B team player in the legal field.
He went to work for Peter Thiel. He didn't like it. He did it for five years. He came back to
Ohio and started a foundation to try to help people get jobs and help improve Ohio.
She was the big money earner for that period.
And honestly, her legal resume would be second to none.
I didn't see the pieces praising him for being a man who can handle that, whose ego is strong enough that he can let the wife be in the starring role.
And yet today, this is very interesting.
Okay, this is- Well, I mean, you remember on The View-
It's by Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post. The piece is Doug Emhoff, Modern Day Sex Symbol.
And I'm going to read you some of what she writes, but you know who Catherine Rampell is? That name
may ring a bell because she's the one who wrote the piece ripping Kamala's economic plan to shreds on the price gouging saying this is ridiculous when
they're accusing you of being a communist. Maybe don't propose communism as your economic plan.
And she got killed by her readers on the left. So a week later, she writes this drivel trying to rehabilitate
herself with the left about the current second gentleman. A man who, may I remind you,
cheated on his first wife with the nanny whom he impregnated. They either aborted the child
or he abandoned the child. Either way, no bueno. This is her writing
about him. His most appropriate title, progressive sex symbol. Move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern
female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first gentleman. Emhoff is secure
enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his wife's ambitions
over his own in italics. What a hunk. Whatever his previous marital drama, that makes him the
working woman's ideal partner today. He's a high achieving alpha, but isn't threatened if his wife is too. He loves his job, but he loves his wife more. He knows that
supporting one's family is about more than financial support and that temporarily setting
aside his own professional ego makes him no less of a man. The media is absolutely disgusting, Victor.
Yeah, and I remember in The View also, and also I think Joy Reid said that when J.D. Vance said that, he was trying to advocate for more white reproduction when he has biracial children.
So all of that's disconnected from reality. And, you know, when they went after him on that childness,
it was, and then the theme, or I wasn't even the subtext, the theme was abortion, abortion,
abortion at that DNC. And Trump took a big hit, remember, Megan, from a lot of conservatives like Mike Pence, that he was willing to follow the Roe versus Wade overturn and have the states decide, and he wasn't going
to have a national ban on abortion. And he said equally that for rape and incest, women should
have access to abortion, but partial birth abortion or late term when the fetus was viable
outside of the womb was going to be stopped in his opinion, but he wouldn't go intervene.
That was about as liberal as you could take in the Republican Party, and yet they attacked him
on abortion. And the weird thing about it was, you know, that issue is so dominant now, and you saw
all of the imagery they had at the DNC about IUDs and all these weird contraptions
outside. And then they kept talking about, they don't even use the word abortion. They just keep
using this word reproductive rights, reproductive rights, reproductive rights. Well, it's really not
about reproduction. It's about deproduction or unproduction. You're terminating the chance of
reproduction. And yet they keep saying reproduction. And then you would think that the United States has a 3.5 fertility rate, but we have 1.6.
And the last year was almost a record year of abortions, over a million abortions.
So here you have a situation where Donald Trump is basically as liberal as you've ever seen a Republican nominee on the issue of abortion.
It's now up to the states. We've had over a million abortions. We've got one of the lowest
fertility rates in our history. We're going to shrink. And yet they're saying that there's no
abortions. It doesn't make any sense. And they hit that issue again and again and again.
And I think after a while, people are
going to get tired of that too, because that was the theme, and they call it freedom to reproduce.
It's not. It's freedom to deproduce, which is okay if that's what you believe in, but
they're never explicit about what they want. They never use language that reflects reality on the border, on abortion,
on crime, on energy. And it all represents this insecurity that they're way out of touch with the
American people. And the American people have views that are diametrically opposed, and they
have to be fooled. They have to be tricked. They have to be suppressed to get elected and retain power. And they've been very good at it.
But maybe their only solution is to do that and then paint Trump as the extremist by making up
his positions. They just refuse to accept. He has said it repeatedly that he does not want to
legislate abortion at the federal level, but he is happy it is now a state's rights issue.
Here is, well, here's Trump.
Well, no, we've already played this one.
He believes in exception abortions.
We've said that and that it's a state's rights issue. Here was J.D. Vance just on Sunday trying to reiterate this point.
Can you commit, Senator, sitting right here with me today.
This woman's obsessed with abortion.
That if you and Donald Trump are elected, that you will not impose a federal ban on abortion.
I can absolutely commit that, Kristen.
Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible.
I think it's important to step back and say, what has Donald Trump actually said on the abortion question?
And how is it different from what Kamala Harris and the Democrats have said?
Donald Trump wants to end this culture war over this particular topic.
If California wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio,
then Ohio has to respect California and California has to respect Ohio.
Donald Trump's view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their
unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because we don't want to have a
nonstop federal conflict over this issue. Kristen Welker is obsessed with abortion. She can't stop asking
about abortion. She devotes some two thirds of interviews sometimes to abortion. I don't know
what is in her past, but this woman's got a serious thing with abortion. She loves abortion.
She really wants to make sure we can have as much of it as possible. Here is Elizabeth Warren,
then responding to JD Vance with more lies. American women are not stupid. And we are
not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly
bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country.
No, they haven't. Look, right now where we are is if Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take the White House,
they have current law, the Comstock Act, which with the right person that they put into the
Department of Justice and one of their extremist judges out in the world, they can actually ban
all access to abortion all across this country. And understand, when I say ban access to abortion,
I don't mean with, oh, exceptions for rape or incest or a 16-week ban. I mean ban it for every
woman anytime she needs it. They just will pretend the truth is other than it is, Victor. They just keep pretending.
Yeah, they do.
And that's not unique on this issue.
They keep doing the same thing with the Project 2025.
He's sincere.
He didn't know much about it. There's things in there that I've read about 400 pages of the 900 and something pages.
Some of it is very sensible. Some of it gets into some areas that
I think are kind of, you know, redundant or they don't need to be said or they're wrong,
but he's never endorsed it. And yet they keep hammering on that and they keep hammering and
hammering and hammering. And they did, Joe Biden did that. You know, he said that Donald Trump or Kamala Harris said that Donald Trump ordered or encouraged an armed mob to occupy the Capitol.
Of all the people that was arrested in the Capitol, they never found one person with a firearm.
And they just keep doing this big lie again and again and again.
And again, there's a reason for it.
And that is they do not want to talk about the issues because they don't poll well.
And they don't know what to do about that. They don't know whether to renounce them and flip
and offend their base and sound insincere or really go to the center for a while or just a month.
And it's the same thing about they can't be transparent about her inability to speak.
And this is not new.
What's sad about it is they did the same thing with Joe Biden.
They reinvented him into a fake moderate during the campaign.
And then he just on spec reverted to one of the most left-wing administrations we've ever had.
And he was old Joe Biden that was going to talk to people.
And the only reason he was in the basement was because of COVID.
And then that just extended. They had to hide that debility. She has a linguistic debility
that's every much as serious as his cognitive ability. And they just can't be transparent.
And when you superimpose that, Megan, on this facade that, you know, this election's about
democracy and they're the people who are transparent.
Finally, the lies and the contradictions are so overt and shameless, it seems like I don't think they're going to be able to sustain it.
And the more that they keep going, I think it's going to turn off people.
It really is. But so far, they have one strategy, and they have so demonized Trump that anybody who publicly or unabashedly says they would vote or support Trump, it's got all of this social baggage or cultural disdain for you if you do that. other people like that that will stand. Tulsi Gabbard's another person. And the more that they can get people like that who didn't really agree originally with
Trump but came to see that compared to the alternative, he was far superior, that's going
to allow a lot of independent people and some Democrats to say, you know what, I don't really
care.
And you're starting to see that in certain groups, young males, the African-American
male community, some of the Latino males, they're starting to say, I don't really care what you say.
And that's new.
And that can snowball if they do it effectively in the next, you know, two and a half months.
I want to talk about both those things, young males, and then some of the reaction to RFKJ, including from his family.
I promised this, so I want to tell you.
President Biden's on vacation again. Again. He just finished a vacation. reaction to RFKJ, including from his family. I promised this. So I want to tell you,
President Biden's on vacation again, again. He just finished a vacation. Then he came out for one day to give a speech at the DNC. Then he went right to California on another vacation.
And now he's coming back and they released his schedule saying that he's returning not to the
White House, but to his Rehoboth Delaware Beach House.
Not until Miranda Devine posted this saying, I thought it was Tuesday. They said Tuesday.
She thought they meant tomorrow. They mean Tuesday of next week. He's back from his vacation
to do another nine days of vacation. We don't have a sitting vice or sitting president. We don't,
we kind of don't have a sitting vice or sitting president. We don't, we kind of don't
have a sitting vice president either because she's out there campaigning. So we don't have
anybody in charge right now in Washington. I don't know what to do about that, but that's just a fact
just to just a little news update for you on the subject of the young male vote. Okay. I,
I love to get your thoughts on all of this, but I do want to get this in.
That's why Trump's doing all this independent media, uh, Theo Vaughn and Sean Ryan, who I love, love, love. Sean Ryan's amazing. I don't know Theo.
Um, but he's very popular. He sat down with Theo Vaughn and what's great about these interviews
is you honestly, with all due respect to us news folks, it's great to hear him talk with somebody
who's not in news, who will ask him totally different questions and get different stuff out of him.
And that's what Theo Vaughn did. And they got into, in some detail,
the death of Trump's brother, Fred, from alcoholism. Take a listen to this.
Did you see, like, with your brother, did you, could you see it or anything?
Oh, yeah.
Man.
I was amazed because he had so much going and everything going.
I think he probably,
it happened in college at a fraternity maybe,
or I don't know,
somewhere along the line it happened.
And all of a sudden,
you know,
this is not unique.
This is a very common story,
unfortunately,
but,
uh,
and then the family would see it and start to notice it.
And it didn't get better.
It didn't get better.
I was amazed.
You know, he lived for so long in bad conditions, you know, in terms of –
I was amazed that his body could hold out.
It held out and it had bad moments.
But his body was unbelievably strong that it could withstand this.
Yeah, it's a body.
Why are you so resilient?
Yeah.
Do you remember the last time that you saw him or spent with him?
I do.
I'm sorry to ask you about it.
Yeah, I know.
Well, you know, the reason it's good talking about it is it might help other people.
If it helps one other person, it's worth the conversation.
He was wise
in a sense. I mean, think of it. He's got this problem and it was very important for him to
convey to me not to have this problem. And I couldn't have been successful if I had that
problem. Yeah. If I had that problem. And I think maybe I'm a personality type where I could have
had the problem if I drank. But if you don't drink, you're never going to have it. Victor, just a quick thought on that. This is classic. Anybody he likes, loves, or has,
you know, any positive thoughts towards, he will find a way to say something nice about them.
You know, he, look at this, this is his brother who died of alcoholism. And he points out,
I'm amazed at how strong his body was that it could hold out.
That's Trump. That's classic Trump trying to find like a way to compliment his brother who was
riddled with this disease. He talks about how he was wise because he, he conveyed to me, don't do
it. And he's the reason I never took a drink. I haven't had a drink or a cigarette in my whole
life. And it's easy to avoid it when you don't do it at all. He goes on in that interview to talk
about what an amazing pilot his brother was and how other pilots would come and learn from him. It's just classic Trump
where as long as you're not out there attacking him, his general instinct is to build you up,
not tear you down. But what do you make of his media strategy right now?
It's very good. And the key takeaway line was when he's, I mentioned that earlier,
when he's self-deprecating, he said, you know, I might've been prone to that. And he said that
before when a press conference, when his brother died, someone asked him, as I remember,
and did you ever drink? And he said, can you imagine me drinking? In other words, I have that
same excessive personality that would lend itself vulnerable to alcohol. And that's what he was saying again. And when he does that, he comes across as very human. And the more that he can
do that, the better. And the funny thing about it is when they keep saying he's going to destroy
democracy and he's going to do this. And when you look at all the people that he hired and he fired. He didn't even get vindictive about it. I mean, Steve Bannon,
he fired him. Steve Bannon gave a terrible interview about him. Steve Bannon is, I guess,
still friends with him. He fired H.R. McMaster, and H.R.'s got a memoir, but he hasn't been
critical of H.R. And he didn't weaponize the FBI. He didn't weaponize the DOJ.
He didn't weaponize the CIA.
He didn't weaponize the director of national intelligence.
They did all that.
And that's what's so strange about it is that if you look at how Biden and Obama have, I mean, the whole Steele dossier did not start with Donald Trump.
It started with Barack Obama when he weaponized the
DOJ and he knew about it. And yet, my gosh, it's just a complete reversal of reality.
And that's the thing about Trump is that he talks a great game about being angry and mean,
but when it comes down to it and you actually calibrate, was he vindictive? Did he go out and try to destroy somebody's
career? Did he try to use that? And they impeached him over that he said that the Bidens were corrupt
and he wanted to suspend for a while until they got the corruption cleared up. And that might
have been unconventional, but it wasn't quite like Joe Biden telling Israel, we have 3,500 bombs that
have been congressionally approved and you're in an existential war at this moment. And we're not
going to give it to you unless you are more conducive to our point of view, because we have
to win this election and we have to appease 250,000 voters in Michigan. Therefore, that's
going to affect my election and therefore my election is going to affect congressionally approved offensive weapons that you need. And nobody
thought about impeaching Joe Biden. So he didn't. That's what he suffers from, this reputation of
the media and also that he's very vocal sometimes. But when you actually look at him, that's more
Donald Trump than the other Donald Trump.
I think it's very smart. And he's reaching out to these young men who have just been the butt of so much vitriol, nastiness, condemnation based on nothing other than gender and race by the left.
And good for him for going out there and saying, you matter to me.
I am here asking for your vote. Your vote's important. I mean, the Democrats better watch it
because this RFKJ thing, this new line of argument and this media strategy looks very smart. This is
somebody over there is thinking. All right, stand by, quick break. We'll come back with the Kennedy family meltdown over RFKJ and then a little bit more on the media and what they did
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And my whole family will be fighting so hard to reelect Kamala Harris and Coach Waltz.
And I think if my dad were alive today,
the real Robert Kennedy would have detested
almost everything Donald Trump represents.
I'm outraged and disgusted by my brother's gaudy
and obscene embrace of Donald Trump.
And I completely dig it out and separate
and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr.
And this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father's memory.
That was RFKJ's sister, Carrie Kennedy, ripping on her brother with Jen Psaki.
Welcome back to The Megyn Kelly Show. My guest is the brilliant Victor Davis Hanson. By the way, it's interesting. She
said she seems to have the same voice issue that he has. You could you could hear that. I'd never
heard her speak before. This is disgusting. The the the brothers and sisters, there were,
I think, 11 originally and two died. So there are nine, including him. So he's got eight brothers and sisters
and five of them have come out to attack him.
Six, six of them.
Okay, I'm trying to get my numbers.
Douglas Kennedy, I don't think is one of them.
He used to be my colleague at Fox News.
He's a good guy.
Anyway, they're disgusting.
They're not only are they attacking him, Victor,
they all are saying my father would be disgusted.
So it's not enough for them to say, I totally disagree with my brother, who I love.
You know, obviously we have different politics, but they've got to say our dad would have hated him and Trump.
Right. So it's like such a low blow.
And they can't stand that the rest of us have our own independent opinions of people like RFK senior.
And you know what, Kerry Kennedy? I reject your assessment. I think RFK Sr. would have loved what RFK Jr. is
doing and would have actually found a lot in common with Donald Trump in the messaging and
the politics. So take that. We don't accept you as the final arbiter of what RFK Sr. would have
thought. He's all of ours. He's not just yours. And as if she knows him better than RFK Jr.,
who's the guy's namesake.
Yeah, I think there's two things going on.
One is the asymmetry between people who are for Trump
and people who aren't.
In other words, the people for Trump
are not proactively demonizing everybody.
They're
just concerned about the MAGA agenda. But the other people, they see Trump in 360 degrees as
culturally, socially, economically, politically unpalatable, the Prince of Darkness, and they're
just obsessed with him. And that's part of it. And by that, I mean, if he had endorsed earlier McCain or Romney,
they would have been angry, but not to this degree. This is something that they just can't
fathom because they hate Trump so much. The other thing is they're invested in the name Kennedy,
and that's part of who they are, and that's part of their livelihood. And so when a Kennedy comes
out in their worst nightmare and supports Trump,
a lot of people don't distinguish, you know, Robert Kennedy from any of these Kennedy names.
They just say Kennedy. And they feel, wow, he's tarnished my brand. And that's going to hurt me
in my persona, my sense of self, my career, my remuneration, and he's really done damage to our family label that we count on.
You know, I grew up in a Democratic family, and my mother was, I think, the second appellate
court judge in California, and she went to Stanford Law School, and she was, I think,
the third person as a woman in 1946. Very strong, Harry Truman Democrat. And I'm the only one in my family
that was conservative. I mean, she was conservative, but in the old democratic sense.
And I have members of my family that comparing great things like the Kennedys to my small family,
it's the same idea that I really love my family and my siblings and everybody, and I don't talk about them.
And when people ask me about them or my family, I always say positive things about them because I feel that way.
But they feel that I have been an apostate or I have ruined the family name, and they don't speak to me.
They really literally don't speak to me.
And it's the same idea that Trump,
it's something about Trump that they get obsessed at.
We see it with the never Trump people who,
if they ask themselves, do I want to destroy my career?
Do I want to renounce everything
that I've advocated for 40 years?
Yes, if it's Trump.
And it's a derangement syndrome
as people have remarked upon.
Wait a minute.
I can feel what he's-
Did you just say your family does not speak to you because they think you're an apostate?
Yes.
They don't speak to me.
They don't speak to me.
Oh, my gosh.
This is crazy.
And I have a twin brother.
I mean, I have a twin brother that I love very much.
He's a wonderful person, but he and his wife don't speak to me.
And I've reached out, but they feel that
I've misrepresented the family in the way that, you know, that they know people and then they say,
what happened to you? And they associate, you know, in liberal circles or so. And so,
it's the same thing. When you have a twin brother that you were very close to, it's,
and I don't want to go on because I don't want to draw and do
attention to him, but in the sense that might hurt him or anything, but they feel that I,
for the last 20 years, did not represent the democratic. And rather than saying, that's good,
that's the way we were brought up. And my parents were wonderful parents. I idolize them. I still do. But it's the same idea that you were bad
enough when you were conservative, but my God, you lent the family name to this person. How dare
you do that? And I don't think they realize what they're doing and their ostracism of a family member or how they react. And I can see
he hasn't done anything wrong. He's just exercising his freedom of speech. He doesn't
speak to the other Kennedys. And if they want to clarify it, all they had to say was,
we're a happy, loving family. We tolerate dissent. Most of us are traditional Democrats and liberals,
but Bobby is not.
And we respect his right.
We're going to oppose him politically and he's going to oppose us.
And that's what, that's fine. But they can't do that.
They have to get into personal insult and act as if he's some kind of crazy apostate.
And I've experienced the same thing.
And it gets depressing, especially as you get older and you think, wow, we're all getting into late 60s, 70s. And it's about, you can see the end down the tunnel and it's time to reconcile.
But, and I think, why would they do this when he's getting into his 70s, late 60s, 70? Why would they
want to cut off somebody who had been a sibling? And I don't understand that.
On some level, they should say, we're proud of what he's accomplished. We disagree with him,
and we're going to work to defeat him and his ideas, but we love our brother. That was kind
of what he said. He and I talked a little bit about this and how he was raised. It actually
sounded wonderful. They were raised by two parents who used to make them read, I think he said,
at least three newspaper articles every night, every morning. And then at the dinner table, they would have to stand up and do a little
presentation and take a position and defend the position. So they were raised to debate
and understand the news and have, if you're debating, you have different opinions by necessity.
But the family's fallen away from that. At least the majority of them have. Here he was on Fox News Sunday responding to the very nasty attacks.
It was not just Kerry. His was it his his brother Max came out and said our father would have despised Donald Trump.
Trump was exactly the kind of arrogant, entitled bully my father used to prosecute.
My father would have so admired another former prosecutor, Kamala Harris.
My father was an anti-racist. Donald Trump is a lifelong racist. I love Bobby, but I hate what
he's doing to our country. It's worth it worse than disappointment. We're in mourning. Here's
RFKJ responding. Well, I love my family. I feel like we were raised in a milieu where we were encouraged to debate each other and debate ferociously and passionately about things, but just to love each other.
So, you know, they can, they're free to take their positions on these issues.
There are many, many members of my family who are working in my campaign, who are supporting me.
I have a very big family.
There's a few of them that are troubled. But, you know, I think we all need to be
able to disagree with each other and still love each other.
Meanwhile, the same people are saying that this is a betrayal of the values our father
and family hold most dear. It's a sad ending to a sad story. That's their messaging
about him. Yeah. You know, Robert Kennedy was a maverick. I mean, people, they think he was
just a doctrinaire. He started out working for Joe McCarthy as a Senate aide, you know,
when McCarthy was trying to find a communist under every bed. He was pretty tough. He was
attorney general, but he didn't
really come around to Martin Luther King until they felt that it was politically viable. That
was a different... He had all sorts of positions is what I'm trying to say. He wasn't just
predictably left wing. He challenged his own party. And a lot of people were blaming him
for injuring Hubert Humphrey. And so the point I'm making is that Robert Kennedy did things that were off the grid,
or he said things, or he switched positions.
And so I don't understand how they can say that their father would be ashamed.
He was a pretty mercurial, you know, he's a great politician,
and he had all sorts of different ideas at different times.
And, you know, he he was very embarrassed that he worked for he had been associated with Joe McCarthy as a young person.
And he was very embarrassed that he was pretty tough on the FBI was, you know, surveilling King in the 60s under the Kennedy administration.
And he regretted that. But he, I don't know,
I don't get this idea that our father would have had this concrete, predictable career,
and therefore he would say that his son is a disgrace. That's not true.
I know. It's just so petty. And it represents a fear.
Here is,
so his RFKG is married to Cheryl Hines,
the star of one of the stars of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
She played Larry David's wife,
now his ex-wife in the series.
She's brilliant.
She's very funny.
And she put out a very middle of the road,
ambiguous statement.
It was loving toward him,
but she didn't take a political position once he withdrew and endorsed Trump and basically says, I want to
thank everybody who worked for his campaign. Um, they've achieved ballot access across the country,
despite roadblocks and lawsuits brought against them for the sole purpose of keeping Bobby off
the ballots. So no one would even have the opportunity to vote for him. I deeply respect
the decision he made to run on the principle of unity. I've
met some extraordinary people, Democrats, Republicans, and independents in this process.
It's been my experience. The vast majority of all parties are truly good people who want what's best
for our country and for each other. That is perfect. Not according to Bradley Whitford,
this Hollywood tool who starred in the West Wing and thinks he actually is a politician
as a result, who attacks her saying, hey, Cheryl, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband
throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental
rights. Gutsy, great example for the kids, profile and courage. The wife must be brought down, too.
And you and I both know if Cheryl Hines said anything stronger than what she did, her career would be over.
It might be over already.
Well, I mean, that's what the left does, BC, because they control the institutions. And even where I work, and I won't get into that, if you are overtly for Trump and you're not shy about it and you try to defend positions that have been misinterpreted, you're socially ostracized and you're culturally ostracized.
And I have lost maybe 50 or 60 close friends.
I've lost friends that were co-authors of books.
I've lost family.
I've lost, and I'm not unique.
And that's one of the powers of the left exercises when they control Silicon Valley, social media, traditional media, K-12, academia, foundations, entertainment, Hollywood, professional sports. They have this whole iron dome over them, and they
can exercise all sorts of direct and covert pressures, and that affects people. And that
is one of the reasons that they've been successful neutering Donald Trump, because they create an
atmosphere among friends and families, and they think it's socially unacceptable. It's a cultural
black mark against your name that you would stoop to support this ignoramus. That's how they feel,
and they've been able to exercise a lot of pressure in the media and professionally in
Hollywood. I really admire Hollywood actors that have been pretty much overt that they're still going to vote for Trump.
A few of them say that.
Our professors, our people in the media, because it's a career-ending experience.
And then culturally in our bi-coastal elite, if you come out and you're a professional and you say you're for Trump, you're going to be attacked and attacked and attacked. And I have a column on my website
called The Angry Reader, and you should see, I try to answer every once in a while, these are not
lunatic people. These are people highly educated, and they think they're important, and they will
write these letters, and they're just full of hatred and vitriol. And I don't see it the other
way. I really don't. I really don't
see people on the Trump side saying, I mean, everybody says we got to cool the tempo and
we're a divided country. I don't see that. I don't really see that. I see it that the left
is acting and reacting to Trump in a way they did. They did a little bit with George Bush. They call him a Nazi.
They've done that with Romney.
Ryan was going to push the grandmother.
They do that stuff, but they didn't just completely get obsessed and lose it.
And we never saw the never Trumpers, too.
It's something that's really scary.
He's in the category of one when it comes to bringing out the crazy in other people.
They try to destroy families.
They destroy friendships.
They do that.
Well, I'm so sorry to hear that you personally have been the victim of that, Victor.
I did not know that, and it's deeply wrong, but I will say.
I'm not trying to be a victim.
I'm just saying.
No, I know you're not.
That's not your character.
But you have been a victim.
We had a really good.
We love you.
Yeah.
Well, I just finished. I have a wonderful colleague, that's not your character, but there you have, we had a really good, you know? Yeah. Well, I just finished. We had,
I have a wonderful colleague, Scott Atlas, you know, Scott,
he was very outspoken about,
and I wrote a number of op-eds saying that he had a right to speak.
He was a wonderful person and boy, the, uh, you better shut up.
You're out of your lane. How dare you do that? We're going to get these
people against you. You're going to da, da, da. Even the Stanford practice.
Being heterodox on COVID was another sin. That's another reason why they don't like me on KJ.
I got to run. I am going to get to the whole, the full Beyonce story tomorrow because we ran
out of time and much, much more with Stu Bergier and Red Steeze, Stephen L. Miller. But Victor, what a great conversation. Thank you so much. You're always
so forgiving. Thank you. Professionally and personally. Great to see you. Thank you.
And we'll see you all again tomorrow. Got a lot in store for you. You're going to enjoy it. See you
then. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.