The Megyn Kelly Show - Truth About Elon's WH Exit, Trump Unveils Tariff Plans, Bombshell Biden Reporting: AM Update 4/3

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

The media hypes Elon Musk’s departure from his Trump-appointed role - but is it really news, or just recycled spin? President Trump unveils a sweeping tariff strategy from the Rose Garden, hitting China with a 54% rate and earning praise from the United Auto Workers. Former Biden aides spill behind-the-scenes details of his campaign’s final days. RFK Jr.’s top advisor Calley Means goes into hostile territory to talk about the HHS agenda.Patriot Mobile: Get a Free Month at https://PatriotMobile.com/MEGYN or call 972-PATRIOTDone with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com & tell them Megyn sent you!

Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Thursday, April 3rd, 2025. And this is your AM update. I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by $20 million within that time frame. A new Politico report claims Elon Musk is stepping back from his Doge role. But is it really news or just repackaged public info? We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us. President Trump unveils his terror strategy, ex-Biden officials revealing dramatic behind-the-scenes details from the final days of the former president's campaign, and RFKJ's top advisor faces a crowd of angry lobbyists, and how, defending his boss's vision for making America healthy again. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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Use promo code Megan and get a free month of service. That's patriotmobile.com slash Megan or just call 972-PATRIOT. Elon Musk obsessed media playing up a supposed scoop yesterday afternoon. Politico fueling speculation about Musk's role in the Trump administration, despite his long-scheduled exit, publishing a headline reading, Trump tells inner circle that Musk will leave soon. The article describing Mr. Musk stepping back as a recent decision, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt responding to the claims on X, writing, quote, this scoop is garbage. Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated

that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at Doge is complete. Elon Musk responding to the Post, quote, yeah, fake news. The article coming on the heels of a high-profile election loss in Wisconsin for the Republicans, Mr. Musk and his affiliated groups reportedly contributing more than $20 million in an attempt to flip the state Supreme Court there conservative, ultimately losing by 10 points. On Wednesday, media reveling in the loss and blaming Elon. What a massive loss it was for Elon Musk. Wisconsin clearly said we are not for sale. If you are a Republican candidate running in a swing state, you don't want Elon Musk anywhere near you. Yes, maybe you like the money, but you do not want his presence in your state.

You know what Donald Trump likes? Winners. And you know what Elon Musk was on Tuesday night? A loser. Political describing Mr. Musk's plans to go as a recent decision by President Trump. However, Mr. Musk's status as a special government employee has a 130-day term limit. Reporting that indicates Mr. Musk will be stepping back in the next few weeks supports the timeline of that 130 days, which would expire on May 30th. Last Thursday, Fox News asking Elon about this very thing. You technically are a special government employee and you're supposed to be 130 days.

Are you going to continue past that or do you think that's what you're going to do? I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame. So in that time frame, 130 days. And the process is a report at some point, 100 days? Not really a report. We are cutting the waste and fraud in real time. So every day that passes, our goal is to reduce the waste and fraud by $4 billion a day, every day, seven days a week. And so far, we are succeeding. The Doge website says it has cut $140 billion in contracts and grants so far.

Earlier this week, President Trump offering public support for Mr. Musk. Elon Musk's special government tenure is coming to an end, 130 days, I think another month. Do you want him to stay longer or is it time for him to go back to running his companies in Europe? Well, I think he's amazing, but I also think he's got a big company to run. And so at some point he's going to be going back. He wants to, but oh, I'd keep him as long as I could keep him. He's a very talented guy. The Doge Commission is set to conclude operations on July 4th of 2026, even after Mr. Musk's special government employee status ends. Political reporting, a senior administration official says Mr. Musk is likely to retain

an informal role, continuing to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. President Trump on Wednesday unveiling his global tariff policy in a Rose Garden speech billed as both Liberation Day and Make America Wealthy Again. After weeks of teasing reciprocal tariffs, the president announcing a scaled back plan. We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. It's our turn to prosper and in so doing use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt, and it'll all happen very quickly. The U.S. will impose a baseline of 10% tariffs on all imports with no exceptions. The worst offenders, identified by the President's Council of Economic Advisers, slap with a rate equivalent to half of what they

charge the U.S. China, for example, now facing an additional 34% tariff in return for the 67% duty it imposes on American goods. This brings the total Chinese tariff rate to 54%. President Trump also imposing a 25% tariff on all foreign-made automobiles, a decision applauded by the United Auto Workers Union. Mr. Trump sharing the podium with UAW member Brian Panabekker. I have watched my entire life, I have watched plant after plant after plant in Detroit and in the metro Detroit area close. There are now plants sitting idle. There are now plants that are underutilized and Donald Trump's policies are going to bring product back into those underutilized plants. There's going to be new investment. There's going to be new plants built.

And the UAW members, and I brought 20 of them with me, they're sitting right over here. We support Donald Trump's policies on tariffs 100 percent. Markets taking a slight hit in the after-hours trading, with the biggest losses coming from car companies and smaller businesses that rely on foreign parts and materials. Coming up, former Biden officials reveal stunning details from inside the final days of the former president's campaign. And RFKJ's top advisor faces a crowd of angry lobbyists and defends his boss's vision for making America healthy again. There's a lot of talk about government debt, but after four years of inflation, another real crisis is personal debt.

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In the lead up to the Biden-Trump debate, speculation swirling about Mr. Biden's mental acuity. Four months earlier, special counsel Robert Herr releasing a report on President Biden's handling of classified documents, describing him as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. And that was the reason he chose not to prosecute him. Mr. Biden was increasingly seen relying on note cards for basic talking points and requiring heavy assistance from handlers. Democrat officials told us all behind the scenes he was like a machine. I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly. His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as

good as it's been over the years. I've been speaking to him for 30 years. Joe Biden has vision. He has knowledge. He has a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president. The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and and detail-oriented and focused. Mr. Klain, who resigned from his White House role to run debate preparations, telling Mr. Whipple that in private, President Biden was, quote, fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged. Klain worried the debate was going to be a disaster.

Team Biden preparing two mock debates in advance of the big night. Mr. Whipple reporting, quote, the first was scheduled to last 90 minutes, but Klain called it off after 45. The president's voice was shot, and so was his grasp of the subject. Klain tells Whipple that Mr. Biden seemed out of touch with American politics, and that Klain wondered if Mr. Biden at one point thought he was president of NATO, not the United States. The second prep session called off after just 25 minutes. President Biden reportedly saying, quote, I'm just too tired to continue, and I'm afraid of losing my voice here, and I feel bad. I just need some sleep. I'll be fine tomorrow.

On June 27th, Mr. Klain's fears coming true on national television. And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either. Less than one month later, President Biden announcing he would not seek re-election. We will keep bringing you the latest reporting, which of course is more than a year late.

Top advisor to RFK, Jake Halley-Means, on Wednesday taking the hot seat in front of a hostile audience at Politico's Health Care Summit. The panel coming just one week after Secretary Kennedy announcing a significant restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department. The plan reducing the HHS workforce by 10,000 and consolidating 28 divisions into 15. Critics of the administration not pleased. I don't know how you cut nearly a fifth of the workforce and say you're not going to harm patients, harm Americans who require good health. It's just hard to believe. This will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of Americans. People in this country will needlessly

get sick and die as a result of these cuts. Journalist Dasha Burns questioning Mr. Means on the rationale behind the cuts. The NIH, whose goal is to promote American health, has overseen a devastation, just an abject devastation in American health over the past 20 years, with disease rates skyrocketing and America leading the world of almost every single chronic disease. How does cutting a bunch of HHS solve that problem? It is insane. It is insane for you to insinuate that the thing standing between us and better health is more government bureaucrats.

Like, that is demonstrably insane. That's not what I'm insinuating. That is what everyone's saying. Is that funny? It's not true. Is that not true? Has there been one single chronic disease medication in modern American history that has lowered rates of the chronic disease?

Mr. Means responding forcefully to hecklers in the crowd, many of whom he identified as lobbyists from the food and healthcare industries. According to the CDC, six in 10 adults have at least one chronic disease, four in 10 have two or more. Chronic disease accounting for seven of 10 of the top causes of death in the United States. And despite spending more money than any other country on earth on healthcare, the U.S. has a lower life expectancy than its European counterparts. Mr. Means saying the cuts to HHS are focused on streamlining the ability of scientists to conduct research. The administration has put out guidance that they want to direct and cut indirect funding. That fundamentally means more money is

going to researchers. The guidance that Bobby Kennedy and the Trump administration put out means more money is going to frontline researchers to do research. There is a very clear signal, demonstrably, with what is happening, which is that government bureaucrats are being disempowered and more money is going to actual researchers. They are hissing. They are hissing about changes to a system that has caused absolute devastation to American health. Direct funding covers the core of scientific research. It pays for lab equipment, study materials, data collection, and the salaries of scientists and researchers doing the work. Indirect funding covers everything from office janitorial services to university overhead,

admin salaries, and even facility fees that seemingly have nothing to do with the research itself. RFKJ aiming to steer HHS in a direction focused on understanding and eliminating chronic disease, not simply managing symptoms. In the crosshairs, ultra-processed foods. These food items containing little to no food. They're made up largely of chemicals and preservatives that maximize shelf life and prioritize convenience. Product offerings are typically cheaper than fresh, organic grocery store food, making them more appealing to low-income Americans, an argument often exploited by the food companies themselves. Mr. Means firmly rejecting the argument. How are you planning to bring down the cost of being

healthier in America? Yeah, one thing Bobby Kennedy is not going to do is entertain comments from food entry lobbyists using food prices as an excuse to continue poisoning children. I know a lot of you guys are doing that. And I think if you really back up, that's an evil argument. That's the only argument the food industry is making right now. They're trying to hold a gun on food prices to literally not even dispute the premise that Americans are being poisoned. We have 10,000 chemicals in our food that are not allowed in the other country. Mr. Means going on to say food companies often manufacture two versions of the same product, one made with synthetic additives for the American market, and another made with natural ingredients packaged and sold overseas.

What's easy enough to make for the Europeans should be easy enough to make for Americans. That'll do it for your AM Update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back here for The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east on youtube.com slash Megyn Kelly and on all podcast platforms.