Activists Target Justices' Homes, and Meghan Markle's Woke Show Canceled, with Piers Morgan and Tom Bevan | Ep. 317
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Former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan is back with host Meghan Markle's ex-husband, Lord Andrew Yang, to discuss the fallout from Meghan's controversial comments about Princess Pinocchio in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Monday.
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congregated outside of the homes of Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts
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We still don't know who the Supreme Court leaker is.
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So we're gearing up for one hell of a royal party.
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they he was going to change the balance they did they
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moment for a lot of us watching he would not he
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would not cave he stood behind his nominee who is
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now one of the five votes so is gorsuch then comes
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amy coney barrett right before ruth bader ginsburg dies
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right before the election they didn't want it to go
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through trump pushed it through they did in four weeks
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they got um amy coney barrett on i mean it was kind of a
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miracle and those three are all in the majority confirmed by
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republican senate so i mean elections do matter tom we're going to
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be hearing a lot about that that's why the democrats say it's an
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illegitimate court well it was it was craftily done but it's not
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illegitimate uh but that actually could potentially inspire some voters i
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guess if this is your big issue these types of cultural things um and
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you're doing okay in the in the wallet in the wallet which would be the
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only way you're paying attention to this stuff yeah i mean the court is
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always uh a rallying cry for for both sides and look under a
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under a democratic administration um you know it's a republican senate
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would um be able to to perhaps stop some folks but um the senate's a
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little bit you know is going to be uh i think republicans are still a
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favorite but not as much of a heavy favorite as they are in the house and if
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republicans get control of either chamber right along with that comes in
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the senate obviously you have the judiciary and to your point that is a
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big deal um but if you get control of the house there will be oversight and
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that's another thing that you know it's going to be a it's going to be a
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different world uh in november if republicans win one or both of the
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political landscape different issue mix and and obviously this administration is
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going to be subject to the kind of scrutiny that it has not faced to this
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point i i do want to pick it up there right after this break i mean justice
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thomas is in his 70s um briar i think is the oldest and he's retiring and then
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there's justice thomas and you know i don't know whether he is going to stay
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for another administration if if joe biden or the democrats were to win a
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second term would justice thomas stay i'm sure he would he would never
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willingly pass the baton under a democratic administration but look ruth
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bader ginsburg felt that way and life does what it does um in any event even
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if one justice on the republican side were to retire or pass on it wouldn't
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change the balance right now the dems need two okay we're going to pick it up
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with what the midterms look like and what will it mean if the republicans take
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back the house and or the senate more with tom bevin the man in the know right
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after this quick break all right tom all eyes are on the midterms terms were
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what you know six months away or so and um there was big news last week in
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ohio when jd vance the trump back candidate won
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against two other republicans that with whom he'd been slugging it out the trump
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endorsement really seemed to help him it's funny how much the liberal media is
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it's a test of trump and then when jd vance the trump back candidate wins it's like
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crickets crickets if they wanted to be able to say trump's run out of power and
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influence they're dying to be able to say that and
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they cannot say that and uh people now looking at dr oz
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in pennsylvania what does it mean for him what does it mean for other trump
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back candidates going into the midterms what say you
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well i i it was a great night for trump last week i mean he went 14 for 14 in
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ohio not just jd vance but but other republicans that he backed in these house
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races won some of them you know big upsets and convincingly and so um and
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you're right i mean he picked jd vance up off the floor he was languishing in
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third place you know in the middle of april um and
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went you know straight to the top now jd vance was a good candidate though and in
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some ways i mean he obviously you know said some nasty stuff about trump but
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trump addressed that by you know in his in his famous way yeah um dr
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if i didn't back anybody who had ever criticized me there'd be there'd be
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nobody yeah said he said some nasty stuff but he
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didn't use the word stuff uh yeah but but dr oz is a little
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uh you know republicans even people who like donald trump a lot in
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pennsylvania were mystified by his choice of of oz over david mccormick and
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also kathy barnett don't sleep on her latest poll trafalgar poll came out
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yesterday has her at like 22 percent oz is up two points but it's a it's a
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three-way race there right now and and i think it's it's within the margin of
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error so anything can happen in pennsylvania which is a week from
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tomorrow and so um you know and the the other race that
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people point to about trump's influences is the governor's race in georgia where
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you know trump very much wants to have brian kemp not win re-election but
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trump's not happening candidate purdue is is uh not doing as well as many people
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thought he would do but but yeah this this whole month i mean we've got beyond
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pennsylvania you've got north carolina you've got um you know arizona
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missouri sorry arizona is in august uh missouri but a lot of you know trump
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endorsements are going to be on the line this month so i think we'll see when the
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dust settles uh how well he does but but he certainly got off to a good start in
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ohio last week and do we think ohio is an outlier just given its demographics
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and you know it's turning more and more red and has been for some time
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it wouldn't surprise anybody to see trump's influence still big there
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but what do you what are the early signs in terms of his
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influence in these other states even outside of pennsylvania which is
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more purple yeah i mean the candidate he endorsed north carolina ted budd is
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sort of running away with there and that's a state that's been trending
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republican um you know over the last couple cycles um i mentioned um you know
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i mentioned georgia that's obviously now a famously purple state um herschel
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walker seems to be holding up pretty well thus far uh obviously in the in the
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primary uh he's he's you know crushing it but um there are questions about
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whether he'll be you know he'll be one of those general election candidates
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that is able to get it done or not i mean we've seen this in in repeated cycles
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that republicans will invariably shoot themselves in the foot in one or two
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senate races you think of sharon angle in nevada you think of christine o'donnell
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in delaware or todd aiken richard murdoch i mean you can go down the list they
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invariably uh nominate a candidate for whatever reason uh because because of
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their profile their past or things they say on the trail uh just cannot get the job
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done even in a good republican year and that's certainly what this is going to be so
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um i think when all is said and done trump's gonna end up uh his endorsement he may not
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he's not gonna be perfect i don't think but but he'll be close to it i think his
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his strength within the republican party is still very real and and i think the folks who are you
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know establishment back candidates are fighting an uphill battle uphill battle at this point
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but meanwhile both sides do it because you just had this guy ryan the democrat in ohio suggesting
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to run against jd vance now suggesting to brett bear that he's for abortion all the way through the
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ninth month which is just be up to the mother which is definitely not in line with ohio voters
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so you know both sides say these outrageous things where you're like wait what what did he
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just say and like right they don't take him back they don't try to you know they don't do a
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very good job of cleaning them up so you gotta you gotta believe that they stand by them um all
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right so what's your feeling right now on you you still feel like the republicans are definitely
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taking over the house yes oh yeah i mean there there's a political article this morning that said
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you know democrats uh you know these are the races they need to have the chance at holding the house
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and i i tweeted that famous jim carrey uh jif of him in in dumber dumber was saying you know
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you mean there's still a chance you still got a chance what you're saying is there's a chance
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yeah uh i look i don't think there's any any pundit or prognosticator or political watcher who
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thinks that the democrats have a realistic chance i mean you just look at the you look at the toss-up
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races um go to cook political maybe and check out their ratings they've got you know 18 democratic
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toss-up races eight republican toss-up races so if republicans just managed to split the toss-ups
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they lose four theirs and they win nine of the 18 democratic seats there's your five seats i mean
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there it there's your republican majority and on top of that you've got you've got eight more seats
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that are democratically held that are rated liens or likely republican um and and and only one going
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in the other direction so uh it's just incredibly hard for democrats to have any chance of maintaining
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a majority i mean to lose only four seats in this environment uh with redistricting and and as i
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mentioned you know inflation economy all that driving the day um i i just think they have if the election
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were held today now things could still change six months is a lot of time i always like to throw that
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caveat in there uh but right now i mean it's yeah they have very little chance of approaching zero
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i'll get to the senate one second but when you mentioned redistricting redistricting you know
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the democrats did a very good job of it the republicans tried to do some as well the the democrats
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have seen some of theirs knocked down by courts which has been kind of interesting to watch because
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they've been too clever by half in their attempts and the courts have been like yeah no these lines
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make absolutely no sense so i'm sure you've been keeping a closer eye on it than i have but how
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how has that shaken out the the attempts to sort of jerry rig the election by changing the voting lines
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democrats versus republicans yeah i mean democrats were really aggressive i mean in my home state
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here of illinois they drew some crazy districts new york too yeah new york too maryland is another one
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uh you know and republicans republicans did the same uh in in some of their you know north carolina
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and obviously what ron de santis did in florida and i think that's going to be challenging court so
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we'll see um you know part of my my gripe about this which is always my gripe is the media you know
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and the the idea that you know when republicans gerrymandered when democrats do it it's just you
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know it's them exercising power when republicans do it it's it's the you know it's it's racism it's
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voter suppression it's the end of democracy um look this is what parties do and and it is
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unfortunate feature of our democracy that you that this is the way that we do it and it's leading
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to less and less competitive districts i mean personally i would like to see you know you know
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i was always held up as the gold standard they've got a non-partisan you know commission that that
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redistricts or you know sets their districts and we'd love to see more of that uh so they're not
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drawing these ridiculously crazy districts um and keep them more compact and in uniform but that's just
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not where we are um but i think the net of this is that republicans ended up you know with a slight
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advantage on redistricting initially it looked like democrats were going to come out with a little bit
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of advantage and then that kind of got wiped away with with what happened late in florida so um and
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again you know only having to win i mean you go look at the historical average of first-term incumbents
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uh you know they're facing their midterms it's like 28 seats that the party typically loses in about
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two and a half senate seats so historically speaking it'd be very very tough uh for democrats to
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to get to a point where they um you know held their losses even even to you know 10 or 15 seats
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that would even be a miracle but that would also mean a republican majority in the house of
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representatives that's right that's right and there's all sorts of investigations already being
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promised um into fauci and others the senate is the big question and a lot tighter how's that
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looking right now uh you know it's it's it's better for democrats but still not great you've
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got uh seven toss-up seats i think four four democrats three republicans and you know the
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democrats are the ones that we've been talking about it's mark kelly in arizona it's uh catherine
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cortez masto in nevada it's rafael warnock in georgia and it's maggie hassan in new hampshire
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and then on the republican side um you've got an open seat in north carolina which we talked
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about the primary there open seat in pennsylvania um and then you've got ron johnson who's running
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in wisconsin that's considered a you know wisconsin's been a a 50 50 state um i would you
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know ron johnson is a an incumbent which makes it you know a little bit better for republicans than
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an open seat um but you know again these democrats are all in very very tough races uh because you know
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i think democrats would like to look back to recent history 2018 where you know republicans
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really got thrashed in the in the house uh 40 plus seats in the house but picked up two senate seats
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and you go back and look at that and and you know this is trump said it was a red wave it was a it was
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a blue wave in the house it was sort of like a red ripple in in the senate and the reason that was
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is is the states that were in play uh like missouri for example they could really sort of flex their
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partisan muscles right um you know in rural areas it wasn't just in the suburbs where you know
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republicans lost a lot of these house seats in 2018 um they were in more red states the problem
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for democrats is these states are not blue states they're very much purple states i mean arizona and
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georgia and nevada uh and new hampshire are states that are basically you know two three-point
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states maybe even less than that um and so there isn't a lot of and they have they have republican
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dna in them so i think they're going to be uh there it's going to be a struggle for democrats
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um to to win those seats and you know if the landscape is as bad in november as as it is right
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now people aren't even talking about uh you know bennett in colorado uh which is another seat that
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that could potentially uh you know come on the board late and and be a real struggle you've got it you
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know uh washington state's another one that you know is is considered probably safe for
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democrats but in this kind of environment we don't know um we know it's bad but we don't know
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how bad it is how bad it'll be for for democrats right now the you know in the house you're looking
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at anything that's like a you know any biden any district that biden won by 10 points or less is
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potentially uh you know in play given what we saw in in virginia and new jersey about a 10 to 12 point
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shift um so i think it's i think the senate is the republicans are the favorite to take the senate
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there's no question they're just not a strong favorite as they are in the house and meanwhile
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the the issue that you keep you know mentioning inflation they're doing very little about right
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the fed raises interest rates a little bit they're not nowhere near enough to actually change what's
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happening on the inflationary front and immigration we're about to go in the wrong direction you know
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we're lifting title 42 we're gonna at the end of may is when that's happening so things are not
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going to get better mayorkas keeps telling us so we've got it under control no one believes that
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if you have it under control why is it so bad why is it at record levels of bad before we lift that
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those are issues people really do care about and that drive voters to the polls you know not as much
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abortion um but on top of that you've got a very woke administration that's very luxury and judgy and
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interfering with parents in the school you know boards and so on and you got disinformation
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departments stuff that hits people in their personal lives in a way that you know maybe the abortion
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motivates some democrats this stuff motivates a lot of republicans that's why we saw glenn young
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can you know surge to victory in virginia that's right and and we're going to get another inflation
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number on wednesday uh it's expected to be a little bit less than march which was 8.5 it's supposed to be
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8.1 but you know 8.1 is is still disaster territory for democrats i mean that number has to come down a
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lot between now and november uh for for this and biden's going to give a speech uh about it this he's
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he's talking about it more often which i think is probably you know smart and good but to your point
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there's not a lot that he can do some of the things that he's you know that have caused inflation
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you know first the administration i mean they've literally just bungled this from the beginning when
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inflation started percolating as an issue last spring they said no it doesn't exist and then
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they said it's you know oh it's temporary at the end of the year biden said it had peaked at 6.8 percent
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and then as i mentioned it went up to 8.5 percent they've taken sort of a dismissive attitude that
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you know oh well that's a you know upper class problem you remember jen saki with the supply chain
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issues um they just haven't and then they were blaming it on putin uh which clearly you know the
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public didn't buy and and now you know trump's going to sort of shift it and and and try and you know
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blame republicans for it and and say they can't be put in power so i just think the administration
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has not meanwhile it's it it rose quickly to the top concern among americans uh as as they dealt with
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higher gas prices and you know it's one of those things when you when you fill up your tank and it
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costs you know 70 or 100 the first time it's like whoa you know wow that's a lot um it's it's more
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shock when you've done it 10 20 50 times it's there's a cumulative effect and it turns to anger and why am
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i still paying this much and and so we've gotten into the anger territory now where people are uh and
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the washington post poll that came out last week showed this i mean i think it was like 44 percent
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of people are not just concerned about inflation they're upset by it i mean it really is starting
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to piss people off and the administration again hasn't done what i think is is match the level of
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urgency i mean joe biden should have set up a commission he should have an inflation czar he
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should be talking about it every day here are the things we're trying to do it should be all over it
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should be all over it and and just to because even if you don't believe there's a lot the
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administration can actually do to bring inflation down they can at least match the urgency of the
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american people on the issue communicate to them every single day we're not sleeping until this
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thing you know till we fix this problem this time i see it like you're you're in this svelte 120 pound
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body and you let somebody else you let somebody else control your body for a period of time and
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before you know it like in a year your body comes back to you at 860 pounds 860 you're like what did
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you do to my body and then the next month he says well now it's 810 pounds right what i i'm not
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satisfied and yes i'm angry i'm more than concerned i'm angry uh they're gonna have to deal with that
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no amount of saber rattling about you know the social issues is gonna be enough to turn the tide
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tom such a pleasure thank you so much for what you do love real killer politics and your whole team
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there thanks megan great to be with you thanks for joining us today tomorrow my old pal judge
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napolitano will be back with us we used to do oh gosh so many segments together when i was on fox
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news he's always entertaining haven't talked to him in forever looking forward to our discussion
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