The Megyn Kelly Show - Biden Staff Discussed Wheelchair, DNC vs. David Hogg, Cassie Testifies in Diddy Case： AM Update 5⧸14

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, May 14th, 2025, and this is your

00:00:08.160 AM Update. But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really going on behind the

00:00:12.500 scenes. The first excerpts from a book exposing the behind-the-scenes operation to conceal

00:00:17.440 the extent of President Biden's decline are released. But what's the real backstory? DNC

00:00:23.520 Vice Chair David Hogg faces another attempt to remove him from his party position no sooner

00:00:28.480 than he obtained it. The star witness in the Diddy trial takes the stand. Forging a future where the

00:00:35.260 Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos. And President Trump outlines a vision of prosperity

00:00:41.680 and mutual cooperation in the Middle East. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM

00:00:47.200 Update. One in two adults have high blood pressure, and many don't even know it. That's a ticking time

00:00:55.500 bomb. But here's the good news. You have the power to take control naturally with 120 Life.

00:01:01.660 120 Life is a blend of great-tasting super fruit juices that can actually help lower your blood

00:01:06.920 pressure naturally. 120 Life is formulated with ingredients that have been shown to support healthy

00:01:12.080 blood pressure levels. It's trusted by hundreds of health professionals, and people have seen real,

00:01:17.420 measurable results. You can try it yourself, risk-free, with their two-week trial. Just go to

00:01:22.700 120life.com and use the code MK to save 15% and get free shipping. You can track your progress with

00:01:28.880 a simple blood pressure monitor, watch your numbers drop, and feel the difference. They are so sure that

00:01:33.780 120 Life can noticeably lower your blood pressure in two weeks that they will give you your money back

00:01:38.560 if you're not satisfied. Go to 120life.com. That's 120life.com. And remember to use code MK to save 15%

00:01:46.940 off your order. A new book set to delve into the effort within President Biden's closest circle

00:01:54.900 to hide the true extent of his mental and physical deterioration leading up to his withdrawal from the

00:02:00.940 2024 election. CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson set to release Original Sin, President

00:02:08.020 Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again next Tuesday, kicking off the

00:02:13.900 media blitz this week. By the way, they'll be here that day. Thompson and Tapper interviewing more

00:02:20.000 than 200 people, they say mostly Democratic insiders, on the final two years of the Biden presidency,

00:02:26.380 finding the White House remaining determined to conceal the reality of Mr. Biden's condition,

00:02:31.420 even at risk of the president's health. In a preview of the book published by Axios,

00:02:36.980 the author's writing, quote, Biden's physical deterioration, most apparent in his halting walk,

00:02:41.880 had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a

00:02:46.400 wheelchair, but they couldn't do so until after the election. The book outlines an effort by Biden

00:02:51.640 staffers to spin the president's stiff, shuffling walk as a complication from a November 2020 foot

00:02:57.920 fracture instead of revealing he was dealing with significant spinal degeneration. And by spin,

00:03:04.160 we mean lie. The authors report President Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, had long expressed

00:03:10.140 concerns about the physical toll the office was taking on Mr. Biden, quote,

00:03:14.660 O'Connor sometimes quipped that Biden's staff members were trying to kill him while he, Dr.

00:03:19.820 O'Connor, was trying to keep him alive. The Guardian, also previewing an advanced copy of the book,

00:03:25.880 detailing Mr. Biden's mental decline, writing, the June 2024 debate in Atlanta was no anomaly.

00:03:31.880 Since at least 2022, Biden has been increasingly prone to losing his train of thought

00:03:37.800 and struggled to remember the names of top aides. When he proved incapable of delivering a two-minute

00:03:44.160 video address without stumbling, aides filmed him with two cameras so the edit would be less obvious.

00:03:51.440 Newsflash, it was obvious. Some of us knew. The authors, quote, one senior aide admitting,

00:03:58.140 quote, we attempted to shield him from his own staff. So many people didn't realize the extent of

00:04:03.160 the decline beginning in 2023. President Biden last week on The View denying he's suffered any

00:04:09.500 cognitive decline. Original Sin, this book, also describing the lead up to President Biden's

00:04:14.600 decision to drop his reelection bid and the fallout within the Democrat ranks. Democrat heavyweights,

00:04:20.180 including powerful fundraiser Ari Emanuel, the agent, and Senator Chuck Schumer behind the scenes,

00:04:25.580 urging the president to withdraw from the race. Some blaming the delay in his dropout for Kamala Harris's

00:04:31.320 loss. Former Obama advisor David Plouffe telling the authors Mr. Biden, quote, totally effed us,

00:04:37.500 describing the 107-day campaign window for Kamala Harris as a, quote, effing nightmare. The details of

00:04:43.980 the book, scandalous, but for many in this listening audience, they're not exactly shocking. For years,

00:04:50.300 questions about Mr. Biden's sharp decline, raised almost exclusively by right-leaning or independent

00:04:57.540 journalists were called outrageous and conspiratorial or ableist. It's now safe for establishment media

00:05:05.620 figures to report on the story without risking their precious careers or status. And it is now safe

00:05:11.100 for Democrat operatives to admit what many outsiders could see plainly without needing super secret

00:05:17.040 sources. Joe Biden was rapidly deteriorating physically and mentally while in office.

00:05:22.620 Mr. Tapper here on a Tuesday CNN appearance. Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as were lots

00:05:29.920 of other reporters, trying to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line is the

00:05:36.420 White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their

00:05:40.860 own cabinet. They were lying to White House staffers. They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to

00:05:47.900 donors about how bad things had gotten. And then after the election, we found out all of these things

00:05:53.680 that when you looked at what was going on with President Biden at the time, it probably doesn't

00:05:59.380 surprise you the extent to which he was deteriorating. But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was

00:06:04.180 really going on behind the scenes with details that Democrats wouldn't share with us until after

00:06:09.180 Election Day. Mr. Tapper himself regularly defended President Biden's verbal mishaps as symptoms of a

00:06:14.840 childhood stutter. Radio host Buck Sexton, Tuesday on The Megyn Kelly Show, reacting to the media's

00:06:20.780 sudden curiosity about the inner workings of the Biden White House. Everybody, everybody knew that

00:06:27.300 Joe Biden was in a state of cognitive decline from just watching him on television for years. On my show

00:06:33.300 with Clay, the Clay and Buck show, we were making comments about how this was the weekend at Bernie's

00:06:39.420 presidency. We all knew, all these reporters knew they are lying now because they have to figure out

00:06:46.800 a way to regain some credibility and to regain some ground, even within their own side, because they

00:06:52.340 made a mockery of their own audience. They didn't miss it. They sold their souls to defeat Trump and

00:06:57.120 they failed. And now they're trying to buy them back off of, you know, layaway. Like this is not

00:07:02.440 something that's hard to understand when you look at it in the totality.

00:07:05.720 Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, again, will join The Megyn Kelly Show on Tuesday.

00:07:10.880 Should be interesting.

00:07:12.920 David Hogg, progressive activist turned DNC vice chair, now facing a second attempt to remove him

00:07:19.380 from his position. Mr. Hogg running into conflict with party leadership following Hogg's PACs,

00:07:24.800 pledged to spend 20 million bucks primarying Democrats in safe blue districts. That effort,

00:07:30.600 Mr. Hogg says, is meant to freshen up his party. DNC chair Ken Martin, heading an effort to force

00:07:35.660 all DNC leadership members to sign a neutrality pledge or to vacate their party positions.

00:07:41.720 Mr. Hogg fighting that effort, the vote is set for the August DNC meeting. Meantime, in a second

00:07:47.880 challenge unrelated to the neutrality pledge, a DNC member who lost her bid to fill one of the vacant

00:07:53.780 vice chair positions, filing a different challenge within the DNC. Kaylin Free, alleging David Hogg and

00:08:00.760 another male vice chair, won their seats based on a flawed and sexist process. Ms. Free says the DNC

00:08:07.660 violated its own rules, amounting to a procedural issue she says gave male candidates more chances

00:08:14.260 at winning a seat, making it virtually impossible for female candidates to win. To achieve gender parity 1.00

00:08:20.840 across leadership, including male, female, and oh, of course, non-binary candidates, the DNC developed a

00:08:28.080 convoluted process. Listen here to one DNC official laying it out ahead of the elections earlier this

00:08:34.500 year. Rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary

00:08:42.700 individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced.

00:08:48.980 With the results of the previous four elections, our elected officers are currently two male and two

00:08:56.460 female. In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender. 0.74

00:09:08.280 So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race. Even that guy sounds confused.

00:09:14.880 The DNC panel agreeing with Ms. Free in a 13 to 2 vote to void the elections of Mr. Hogg and Malcolm

00:09:22.260 Caneta. The resolution now must be voted on, though, by the full DNC. If it passes, Hogg is gone,

00:09:28.800 and so is Caneta. Mr. Hogg reacting to the decision in a statement, quote, while this vote was based on

00:09:34.060 how the DNC conducted its officers' elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to

00:09:39.740 ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party, which loomed large over this vote. The DNC has

00:09:46.000 pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort. The full DNC vote,

00:09:52.000 not yet scheduled, it may be held in the August meeting, or it could be held virtually ahead of

00:09:56.880 that meeting. Hogg and Caneta will remain in their positions until that time. Good luck. Coming up,

00:10:03.420 the star witness in the criminal case against rapper Sean Diddy Combs takes the stand, and President

00:10:08.880 Trump delivers remarks in Saudi Arabia, inviting the Iranian regime to join in a new era of peace and

00:10:14.760 economic partnership.

00:10:19.760 If you haven't heard about Riverbend Ranch, listen up. They have just introduced their Riverbend Ranch

00:10:27.380 steaks to the marketplace, and you need to try them. Riverbend Ranch raises their own beef on

00:10:34.660 beautiful mountain meadows only a few miles from West Yellowstone. Unlike most ranches, Riverbend Ranch

00:10:40.840 never uses growth hormones or antibiotics. They treat their animals humanely and with respect.

00:10:47.300 There are advantages of buying directly from the ranch. They can track the health of every animal

00:10:51.460 from the day it is born and can guarantee that it has been healthy every day of its life.

00:10:57.280 Riverbend Ranch has its own state-of-the-art processing facility on the ranch that has received

00:11:02.280 several national awards as one of the best in the U.S. But most importantly is the quality of the beef.

00:11:08.260 They age their beef to perfection for 21 days. You simply cannot buy beef like this in a grocery

00:11:14.260 store. You cannot. Shipped directly from the ranch to your home, you get a much better price than going

00:11:19.500 through the middlemen. Order directly from riverbendranch.com and use promo code MEGAN to get

00:11:26.540 $20 off your first order. That's riverbendranch.com, code MEGAN. And be prepared. Once you taste it,

00:11:33.700 I think you're going to be coming back for more and more. Again, riverbendranch.com, code MEGAN.

00:11:40.480 The Diddy trial kicking off this week. Opening statements delivered in the federal criminal

00:11:47.460 trial of rapper Sean Diddy Combs in New York City. Mr. Combs pleading not guilty to charges of

00:11:53.180 racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

00:11:58.660 Prosecutors aiming to prove Mr. Combs led a criminal enterprise using force, coercion,

00:12:03.780 and manipulation to traffic women for sex with help from his inner circle. If convicted,

00:12:08.880 Mr. Combs could face life in prison. The criminal investigation gaining momentum following a civil

00:12:14.320 sexual assault suit filed by Cassandra Ventura, known professionally as Cassie, the on-again, 0.98

00:12:20.720 off-again girlfriend and employee of Mr. Combs. Her lawsuit was settled right after it was filed in

00:12:26.860 2023. The New York Times reporting an eight-figure payout by Combs to Ventura. Dozens of civil suits

00:12:33.940 against Mr. Combs followed Ms. Ventura's case. Federal investigators also kicking off a

00:12:38.700 criminal investigation into Mr. Combs, raiding his L.A. and Miami homes in March 2024. Agents seizing

00:12:46.060 guns, ammo, drugs, and large amounts of baby oil. Prosecutors argue Mr. Combs coerced Ms. Ventura and

00:12:53.220 two unidentified women into sex with him and male prostitutes in events known as freak-offs.

00:12:59.620 In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson telling the jury, quote,

00:13:03.500 during this trial, you are going to hear about 20 years of the defendant's crimes. But he didn't do

00:13:08.600 it alone. He had an inner circle of bodyguards and high-ranking employees who helped him commit

00:13:13.420 crimes and cover them up. They've already put on witness testimony from a male sex worker talking

00:13:19.860 about how Sean Combs paid him to have sex with Cassie. The Fed's outlining instances of alleged

00:13:26.540 violence against the women in graphic detail. Prosecutors will show security footage of Mr. Combs

00:13:31.980 throwing Ms. Ventura onto the floor of the Hotel Intercontinental in a public hallway,

00:13:37.660 kicking her and violently dragging her. Defense lawyers arguing Mr. Combs' sexual habits were

00:13:43.200 consensual and part of a swinger lifestyle. Defense attorney Tenny Garagos, daughter of famed attorney

00:13:49.420 Mark Garagos, telling the jury, quote, you will hear about swinger parties. They will testify about

00:13:54.580 things that should never be heard in a federal courtroom that he liked to watch. You may not like that,

00:13:59.700 but you are not here to judge him for his sexual preferences. The defense saying it's not a crime

00:14:04.380 to use baby oil, imploring the jury to keep an open mind. Ms. Ventura, now the star witness of the

00:14:10.680 criminal case against Mr. Combs, taking the stand on Tuesday, describing various graphic sexual

00:14:16.180 encounters, at times in tears. Ms. Ventura describing physical abuse, quote, he would knock me over, drag me,

00:14:23.400 kick me, stomp me in the head, telling prosecutors there were no conversations about her preferences 1.00

00:14:28.900 during these freak-offs. Trials expected to last eight to ten weeks. 0.96

00:14:35.380 President Trump delivering keynote remarks at the Saudi U.S. Investment Forum following a day of

00:14:40.760 high-level meetings and royal pageantry with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and senior Saudi officials.

00:14:47.420 The conference bringing together global business and political leaders to spur investment and

00:14:51.560 cooperation between U.S. and Middle Eastern nations. President Trump striking an optimistic tone,

00:14:56.940 outlining a prosperous vision for the Middle East built on economic cooperation.

00:15:01.140 Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired

00:15:07.340 divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos,

00:15:14.220 where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations,

00:15:19.320 religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence. We don't

00:15:27.040 want that. The president setting his administration apart from past U.S. Middle East policy. Far too

00:15:32.940 many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of

00:15:39.460 foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins. They loved using our very powerful

00:15:47.180 military. I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment, my job to defend America and to promote the

00:15:56.640 fundamental interest of stability, prosperity, and peace. Mr. Trump also extending an invite to this new

00:16:02.800 vision to Iran. Yet I'm here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran's leaders, but to offer 0.95

00:16:10.120 them a new path and a much better path toward a far better and more hopeful future. As I've shown

00:16:17.760 repeatedly, I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable

00:16:23.640 world, even if our differences may be very profound, which obviously they are in the case of Iran. I have

00:16:31.400 never believed in having permanent enemies. I am different than a lot of people think. I don't like

00:16:38.080 permanent enemies. Some of the closest friends of the United States of America are nations we fought

00:16:44.180 wars against in generations past, and now they're our friends and our allies. The Trump administration

00:16:51.140 is in ongoing talks with Iran to secure a new nuclear deal, one that may allow the regime to retain its

00:16:57.160 civilian nuclear program. While the president expresses openness to a working relationship with the

00:17:02.380 Iranians, the positive talk also coming with a warning. Iran can have a much brighter 1.00

00:17:07.920 future, but we'll never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack.

00:17:15.360 The choice is theirs to make. We really want them to be a successful country. We want them to be a

00:17:21.260 wonderful, safe, great country, but they cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is an offer that will not

00:17:28.100 last forever. President Trump's Middle East trip extends through Friday. And that'll do it for your AM

00:17:33.980 update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the Megan Kelly show live on Sirius XM Triumph channel

00:17:39.000 111 at noon east on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly and on all podcast platforms.

00:17:48.540 Your business doesn't move in a straight line. Make sure your team is taken care of through every

00:17:53.900 twist and turn with Canada life savings, retirement and benefits plans. Whether you want to grow your team,

00:17:59.920 support your employees at every stage or build a workplace people want to be a part of Canada

00:18:05.180 life has flexible plans for companies of all sizes. So it's easy to find a solution that works for you.

00:18:11.240 Visit Canada life.com slash employee benefits to learn more Canada life insurance investments advice.

The Megyn Kelly Show - May 14, 2025

Biden Staff Discussed Wheelchair, DNC vs. David Hogg, Cassie Testifies in Diddy Case： AM Update 5⧸14

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript