The Megyn Kelly Show - Bill Gates' Shocking Climate Change Shift, Autopen Report Drops, Trump Files Appeal： AM Update 10⧸29

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, October 29th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:39.800 We have to frame it in terms of overall human welfare, not just everything should be solely for climate.

00:00:47.640 Leading climate activist Bill Gates changing his tune about the dire nature of climate change.

00:00:53.980 I have the advice of counsel. I must be expected to invite the answer.

00:00:56.980 The House Oversight Committee drops its report on the Biden White House's use of the auto pen.

00:01:03.020 An early 2028 Democratic frontrunner has emerged.

00:01:06.860 Wait until you hear who it is.

00:01:08.960 And President Trump appeals his felony conviction in New York.

00:01:13.080 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

00:01:15.980 As President Trump is settling into his new administration, one of the top Democrats in Congress

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00:01:59.920 Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, in a stunning memo dropping what he calls tough

00:02:09.900 truths about climate change in an obvious reversal of his prior stance. The letter beginning, quote,

00:02:17.180 there's a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this. In a few decades, cataclysmic climate

00:02:23.480 change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us. Just look at all the heat waves and

00:02:29.400 storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in

00:02:34.740 temperature. Yes, Bill, wherever did people get those doomsday views from? Oh, wait, it was from

00:02:41.320 you. You and people like former Vice President Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, and President Obama, to name

00:02:48.080 just a few. So certainly by the end of the century, you'll have permanent die-offs of all these

00:02:53.400 coral ecosystems. No beach you ever went to will be around. We're still putting 162 million tons into

00:03:01.680 it every single day. And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released

00:03:07.620 by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. People are suffering.

00:03:15.000 People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.

00:03:23.720 The future seems somewhat bleak. There are times where I am doubtful that humanity can get its act

00:03:29.560 together before it's too late. And images of dystopia start creeping into my dreams.

00:03:36.240 It's an all-out effort, you know, like a world war, but it's us against greenhouse gases.

00:03:41.580 Gates' Tuesday letter admitting, quote, fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate

00:03:48.480 change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not

00:03:54.360 lead to humanity's demise. Someone check on AOC immediately. Ahead of the upcoming climate summit

00:04:01.780 next month in Brazil, Gates attempting to completely shift the global conversation around the left's pet

00:04:07.560 issue. More from the letter, quote, although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else,

00:04:13.560 for the vast majority of them, it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and

00:04:18.840 welfare. The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been. Reminder,

00:04:25.000 Bill Gates once backed a venture to spray dust into the atmosphere in order to block the sun to cool

00:04:31.060 the planet. Tuesday morning on CNBC, Gates explaining the key goal of the Paris Climate Accord,

00:04:37.780 limiting global rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius, is not realistic, nor should it be a priority.

00:04:45.780 Climate is a super important problem. There's enough innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes.

00:04:52.720 We have to frame it in terms of overall human welfare, not just everything should be solely

00:05:00.000 for climate. The one thing about that accord that, you know, turned out not to be realistic was the

00:05:06.400 ambitious goal of staying to 1.5 degrees. We won't be able to do that. Even if you took all the money

00:05:12.880 away from health, you wouldn't be able to do that. Wasn't the goal here to improve human lives? And

00:05:19.600 shouldn't we, in our awareness of how little generosity there is to help measure, you know,

00:05:28.420 should we get them a measles vaccine or should we do some climate-related activity? And if we stop

00:05:36.140 putting all vaccines and that, you know, saved you 0.1 degree, would that be a smart trade-off?

00:05:42.640 Gates even admitting wind and solar energy options are not ready for primetime. Quote,

00:05:47.260 We don't yet have all the tools we need to meet the growing demand for energy without increasing

00:05:52.660 carbon emissions, calling for the world to focus on innovation and adaptation to improve people's

00:05:58.420 ability to live on a warming planet. Did he borrow this from Project 2025? Climate change scientist

00:06:05.200 Michael Mann responding on MSNBC.

00:06:08.500 Frankly, Bill Gates doesn't have any expertise in climate science, and he's failing to listen to

00:06:14.480 what the experts actually have to say. So when Bill Gates says, we'll just sort of try to engineer

00:06:19.800 our way out of it or innovate our way out of it, it's really tone deaf to the fact that there are

00:06:25.500 a very large number of people who will suffer catastrophic consequences if we continue to allow

00:06:31.680 the planet to warm up. Some on the left pointing to the change in administration as a reason for the

00:06:37.360 change in messaging. Gates among the tech CEOs who was at the White House with President Trump last month.

00:06:44.480 The House Oversight Committee late Monday night releasing its 100-page report into the Biden

00:06:50.600 White House's use of the auto pen, a mechanical device that replicates the president's signature.

00:06:56.580 Over the course of 47 hours of testimony from 14 former aides, investigators examining who

00:07:02.360 controlled access to the president's signature authority and how decisions were made involving the

00:07:08.120 auto pen. The report finding, quote, his staff abused the auto pen and a lax chain of command

00:07:14.120 policy to affect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact

00:07:19.520 authorized. It goes on, quote, there is no record demonstrating President Biden himself made all of

00:07:25.700 the executive decisions that were attributed to him. Therefore, quote, the committee deems void

00:07:30.860 all executive actions signed by the auto pen without proper corresponding contemporaneous written

00:07:36.520 approval traceable to the president's own consent. What exactly the import of that declaration is

00:07:42.940 remains unclear, though Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, did call on the DOJ to

00:07:49.500 conduct a review of the executive actions in question and investigate the Biden aides who pleaded the fifth

00:07:55.740 rather than testify. Those individuals include Mr. Biden's personal physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor,

00:08:01.560 former deputy chief of staff for operations, Annie Tomasini, and former chief of staff to First Lady

00:08:08.220 Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal, a man who figured prominently in the Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson book.

00:08:15.580 The oversight committee's report calling Dr. O'Connor, quote, central to the scheme to, quote, obfuscate the

00:08:22.020 truth about the president's true cognitive state. The report concluding Dr. O'Connor, quote, recklessly

00:08:28.300 never conducted a cognitive exam of the president. When asked by the committee if he was told to lie

00:08:34.800 about President Biden's health and fitness to be president, Dr. O'Connor responding as follows.

00:08:40.900 On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based upon the physician-patient

00:08:45.220 privilege and in reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. I am not a lawyer.

00:08:50.460 I must follow my lawyer's advice in this matter. Longtime political operative and Biden aide

00:08:56.000 Anita Dunn telling the committee, senior Biden advisors reached a consensus that the president

00:09:01.740 should not take a cognitive exam. The report delving into Dr. O'Connor's, quote, strong financial

00:09:07.760 and personal incentives to not break rank from the president's inner circle in the cover-up.

00:09:13.380 The report noting how Dr. O'Connor previously described his close relationship to the Bidens over

00:09:18.460 the years and how he, quote, ended up being involved in a lot of important family things.

00:09:23.760 O'Connor's financial ties to the Biden family, dating back to as early as 2017,

00:09:29.700 when, quote, Dr. O'Connor introduced Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, to medical leaders and

00:09:35.660 executives to support James Biden's business relationship with AmeriCorps Health, LLC.

00:09:42.420 The hookup was a bit odd because James Biden had no experience in hospital administration.

00:09:47.540 That company just months later, transferring $600,000 in loans to James Biden, $200,000 of

00:09:56.060 which was sent to his personal account. Later that same day, James Biden sent $200,000 to his

00:10:03.780 brother, Joe Biden, according to the Oversight Committee report. James Biden's attorney once

00:10:09.700 told the New York Times the doctor received no compensation for the connection provided to

00:10:14.740 James, but the doctor could not be asked about it at all, given that he pled the fifth.

00:10:20.460 A Biden spokesperson telling Fox News, quote,

00:10:22.980 This investigation into baseless claims has confirmed what has been clear from the start.

00:10:27.540 President Biden made the decisions of his presidency. There was no conspiracy,

00:10:31.640 no cover-up, and no wrongdoing. Congressional Republicans should stop focusing on political

00:10:36.420 retribution and instead work to end the government shutdown.

00:10:39.600 In July, former President Joe Biden telling the New York Times he made all auto-pen decisions on

00:10:46.520 his own. Coming up, looking ahead to 2028, an early Democrat frontrunner emerges. We'll tell you

00:10:54.380 who it is. And President Trump appeals the felony convictions resulting from the DA Alvin Bragg's

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00:12:11.280 A new poll out of New Hampshire showing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg emerging

00:12:20.440 as a presidential frontrunner for the Democrats in 2028. Mayor Pete leading the pack at 19 percent,

00:12:27.340 trailed by California Governor Gavin Newsom at 15 percent, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 14 percent,

00:12:34.900 former VP Kamala Harris at 11 percent, Senator Bernie Sanders at eight, and Illinois Governor J.B.

00:12:40.340 Pritzker at six percent, according to the Granite State Poll. For a little extra context, don't know

00:12:46.200 slash undecided coming in at 10 percent. The survey of around 600 Democrats planning to vote in the

00:12:52.680 2028 primary, also finding Buttigieg with the highest favorability among the pack at 81 percent favorable

00:12:59.060 to six percent unfavorable for a plus 75 net favorability rating. Senator Sanders with the second

00:13:06.180 highest favorability at plus 59, AOC in third at plus 56. Kamala Harris, who with each passing

00:13:13.960 interview gets closer and closer to saying she does plan to run again, notching just plus 38

00:13:19.920 favorability. Buttigieg becoming a national figure in the 2020 Democrat primary, running as an openly gay

00:13:26.840 former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ultimately dropping out of the race just before Super Tuesday

00:13:31.840 and endorsing Joe Biden. Buttigieg later rewarded with the role of Transportation Secretary.

00:13:38.280 During the supply chain crisis of 2020, Buttigieg was missing for about two months, later citing

00:13:43.920 paternity leave as the excuse for his prolonged absence. Current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

00:13:49.960 in August slamming his predecessor, accusing him of putting career ambitions ahead of the job.

00:13:55.840 A lot of people, when they have a job, they use that job to run for a different office. And I think

00:14:02.180 that's a huge mistake. And I think Mayor Pete was Secretary, Buttigieg was running for president while

00:14:07.740 he was the secretary of DOT and didn't pay attention to the basics. And so he had a focus truly on DEI

00:14:14.660 and climate and the cost of that to the American people. And again, when you're focused on, you know,

00:14:21.800 changing the names of cockpit to flight deck or airman to aero, not because you're concerned you

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00:14:33.880 helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. And you don't look at that. I don't know how you're going to run

00:14:38.700 for president on that record. You didn't do your job. And had he done his job, we wouldn't have

00:14:43.980 inherited all of the problems that we have right now that are going to take years to fix.

00:14:48.460 President Trump on Monday appealing his criminal conviction in the Alvin Bragg Manhattan business

00:14:56.040 records case, arguing the verdict should be overturned entirely. In a 100 plus page brief,

00:15:02.620 Mr. Trump's legal team writing, quote, this case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom,

00:15:07.160 let alone resulted in a conviction. The appeal challenging the 34 count felony conviction for

00:15:12.860 falsifying business records relating to payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors

00:15:18.920 allege the payments made to keep Daniels story of an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump out of

00:15:24.000 the press during the 2016 campaign were falsely filed as legal expenses, even though they were paid

00:15:30.920 out to Mr. Trump's lawyer. Prosecutors arguing Mr. Trump's desire to not record the words hush money

00:15:37.080 payments amounted to election interference. Mr. Trump's legal team accusing D.A. Alvin Bragg of

00:15:43.440 concocting a purported felony out of internal bookkeeping records by, quote, stacking time-barred

00:15:50.060 bookkeeping misdemeanors under a convoluted legal theory. The president's lawyers arguing, quote,

00:15:55.940 these charges against President Trump were as unprecedented as their political context.

00:16:01.780 They argued the convictions should be thrown out on multiple grounds, including the Supreme Court's

00:16:06.140 ruling on presidential immunity last year. From the brief, quote, the jury improperly heard extensive

00:16:12.320 testimony about at least four different kinds of official acts by President Trump, including

00:16:17.760 official presidential statements made on social media. Mr. Trump's team also saying Judge Juan

00:16:23.540 Mershon, who oversaw the case, should have recused himself due to conflicts of interest. The brief

00:16:29.420 citing three small yet improper payments by the judge to Biden for president and to two Democrat

00:16:36.000 PACs, including one called the Stop Republicans PAC. In addition, the brief citing Judge Mershon's

00:16:42.420 daughter's work at a political advertising company, quote, that was paid millions by the Kamala Harris

00:16:48.120 campaign and by other Democrats, including for running advertisements specifically invoking the district

00:16:54.500 attorney of New York's prosecution of President Trump in her father's courtroom. President Trump's

00:17:00.080 conviction handed down in May of 2024. In January of 2025, Judge Mershon delivering an unconditional

00:17:07.680 discharge, meaning after all that, a no penalty sentence was handed down just over one week before

00:17:15.520 Mr. Trump returned to the White House. But the conviction stands for now.

00:17:20.360 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show,

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The Megyn Kelly Show - October 29, 2025

Bill Gates' Shocking Climate Change Shift, Autopen Report Drops, Trump Files Appeal： AM Update 10⧸29

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