The Megyn Kelly Show - BONUS： Megyn Kelly on the Need to Fight For Our Kids, Fani Willis, and State of the Media, at CPAC

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, The Better View.

00:00:05.660 Please welcome journalist and host of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly, and CPAC Senior Fellow, Mercedes Schlapp.

00:00:21.200 What's going on? Hi.

00:00:24.840 Hi, guys.

00:00:26.400 Thank you.

00:00:27.800 Hey.

00:00:30.000 Wow, that's a reception. That's amazing.

00:00:33.480 How's everybody doing?

00:00:35.720 Come on.

00:00:36.640 The media told me nobody was here. Look at all these people.

00:00:40.940 Megan, this is your inaugural CPAC appearance.

00:00:44.080 Yes, I was never allowed to do this kind of thing when I was at Fox, and now I'm free.

00:00:48.860 You're free. You're free.

00:00:51.100 And let's talk a little bit about this. So there's this rise of alternative media.

00:00:55.840 I don't even want to call it alternative media, but it is this media that's trying to present the truth.

00:00:59.780 It's trying to present a more comprehensive picture.

00:01:02.420 How have you seen media change in your career?

00:01:06.000 Oh, my God. Hugely.

00:01:07.040 I mean, when I was a lawyer back in the dark ages, I remember seeing clips of this woman, Jessica Savage.

00:01:14.840 And if you're old enough, you remember who that is.

00:01:17.500 And if you're young, you've never heard of her.

00:01:19.180 But she was on NBC, and she was beautiful, and she rose at the same time as Connie Chung and made it at a time when very few women were even in news.

00:01:28.400 And that was the era of, like, straight facts, no personality, just the facts.

00:01:34.960 And that was a golden era in some ways.

00:01:37.800 It wasn't completely infected with left-wing bias.

00:01:40.360 It was there, but it wasn't as bad.

00:01:41.820 And then you flash forward to during the Trump era when they openly declared their bias.

00:01:46.340 They leaned into it.

00:01:47.460 They thought it was important to say their own opinion. 0.95

00:01:50.920 He's a bigot. 1.00

00:01:51.600 He's a racist. 1.00

00:01:52.260 He's a this. 1.00

00:01:52.760 He's a that.

00:01:53.600 And completely sacrificed their objectivity and, in so doing, sacrificed the industry.

00:01:59.080 I mean, it was, I've said before, it was an assisted suicide.

00:02:02.060 Trump helped them, but they did it to themselves.

00:02:04.700 Yeah, but we just saw, for example, when President Trump won the Iowa caucus, and you saw Rachel Maddow come out on MSNBC saying, no, no, we're not going to put out the whole speech.

00:02:16.240 Yes.

00:02:16.820 No, no, because they want, because she wanted her voice to be heard and not allow the viewers, now we know the viewers there are, you know, lean left, to listen to what Donald Trump had to say.

00:02:28.540 I mean, this is pure propaganda.

00:02:31.240 So this is her problem.

00:02:32.860 She never had children, and she decided her audience must be her children.

00:02:37.620 They need to be babied like little toddlers because their mommy can't allow them to hear any of the naughty words that Trump is going to speak because, she explained, they traffic in truth at MSNBC, which is the biggest lie we've heard out of anybody over there.

00:02:53.620 Yes.

00:02:53.720 I mean, after all the years of Russiagate, for her to actually look at the audience and say, we don't traffic in lies and we can't allow a non-true thing to be said to you, and I'll be the policewoman of it, please.

00:03:05.280 I mean, people know it's a lie.

00:03:06.080 You're right about that.

00:03:06.880 The media is this leftist media, this propaganda machine.

00:03:11.060 They literally line up the Democrat talking points, and it is so much of this Trump hatred like I've never, ever, ever seen.

00:03:19.340 And quite frankly, they hate the Trump activists.

00:03:23.320 They hate the MAGA voter.

00:03:25.200 They are insulted by the MAGA voter.

00:03:28.820 What is that disconnect?

00:03:30.100 Is it just New York and, like, the New York media, that kind of elite media that is not understanding where the rest of America is?

00:03:37.300 It's not just them.

00:03:38.380 I mean, it's really all media other than alternative.

00:03:41.020 But this is, I think, what CNN is struggling with right now.

00:03:44.540 At least MSNBC has kind of owned how much it hates Republicans for a long time.

00:03:49.260 They're not faking it.

00:03:50.320 I mean, they're fake news, but they're not faking it.

00:03:53.280 Right. There's a distinction there.

00:03:55.780 Right.

00:03:56.300 But CNN, you know, back when I was on the primetime of Fox News, I used to watch CNN as I was getting ready for the Kelly file.

00:04:02.280 They were kind of boring, but they were straight down the middle.

00:04:04.560 And, like, you know, you get the basic facts.

00:04:07.520 Then during Trump, they completely broke.

00:04:09.740 I mean, Trump broke CNN.

00:04:11.760 He ruined CNN.

00:04:12.740 They ruined themselves, but, you know, he gave them the invitation, and they took it.

00:04:15.700 Right.

00:04:16.380 And now they want us to see them as possible to trust.

00:04:20.840 You know, now we're supposed to look at the same anchors who said, not only do I disagree with you, I hate you.

00:04:26.380 Yeah. 0.82

00:04:26.820 I can't stand you. 0.99

00:04:28.600 Your children, everything that is important to you, I loathe.

00:04:31.740 And you're supposed to say, he could be fair.

00:04:34.540 Sure, I trust her.

00:04:36.160 It's, of course, a broken model.

00:04:37.740 And I do think that's one of the reasons why alternative media is doing so well.

00:04:41.360 Well, the Trump derangement syndrome grows even further when we're talking about lawfare.

00:04:45.120 This is something that, you know, we see the propaganda machine, something you would see in an authoritarian regime.

00:04:50.560 Then you're moving towards this sense of lawfare, which is really, I think, a scary tactic that's being used by the left.

00:04:59.680 But then it gets interesting.

00:05:01.080 I felt like I was watching a soap opera when I was watching Fonny Willis and her love interest, Nathan Wade.

00:05:10.000 Right?

00:05:10.580 Yes.

00:05:11.140 I mean, that was one of the craziest court, TV court, I mean, you know, that you can imagine.

00:05:18.760 It was like a soap opera.

00:05:19.600 It was like a soap opera.

00:05:20.820 I love what's happening in that case.

00:05:22.460 I'm not going to lie.

00:05:24.900 Tell us more.

00:05:26.500 I was not going to do a show today because I was coming here to be with all of you.

00:05:30.640 So I took the train down.

00:05:31.960 Yeah.

00:05:32.640 And I took the train down.

00:05:34.540 But then I don't know if you saw today's news on Fanny Willis.

00:05:37.300 Oh, please tell us.

00:05:38.260 Just tell us.

00:05:38.440 It's amazing.

00:05:39.760 And so we did a show.

00:05:41.020 I just did a show from the hotel room before I came down here.

00:05:43.540 And it'll be out later.

00:05:44.380 The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:05:45.220 Download for free.

00:05:46.900 In any event, it's insane.

00:05:49.140 So these two prosecutors, Fanny Wade and the man she brought in, Nathan Wade, admit that they had an affair.

00:05:55.160 They denied it started.

00:05:55.920 Fanny Willis.

00:05:56.400 You already changed her name.

00:05:57.540 I go with Fanny. 0.54

00:05:58.560 I think we all know it's Fanny.

00:06:00.440 Okay.

00:06:02.060 Fanny Willis.

00:06:02.880 I keep saying Fanny Wade. 0.98

00:06:04.040 I thought you said Fanny.

00:06:04.940 You said Fanny Wade.

00:06:05.780 She's Fanny Willis. 1.00

00:06:06.760 But I keep saying Fanny Wade. 0.91

00:06:07.940 I mean, I'm hoping something good could come out of this for them.

00:06:12.940 So they both took the stand in this trial.

00:06:15.260 They denied that they had an affair any time prior to her hiring them.

00:06:18.480 And now, bit by bit, we're learning, of course, it appears very much the opposite.

00:06:22.920 And what happened today was the Trump team got, they subpoenaed the cell phone records of Nathan Wade during 2021.

00:06:32.200 And according to the private investigator, who's got expertise in analyzing cell phone tower data and cell phone data, he called her.

00:06:42.160 They spoke on the phone in 11 months, 2,000 times, 1,800 texts.

00:06:50.140 I averaged it out.

00:06:50.920 It was about 180 texts a day.

00:06:55.860 I went back and looked at mine with my husband.

00:06:57.920 We were at one-fifth of the ratio that those two were.

00:07:00.960 He was allegedly over there, according to the cell phone analysis, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. and then midnight and 5 a.m.

00:07:09.820 And according to CBS News, she's going to get ready to defend this today by saying, he was part of my, like, kitchen cabinet team.

00:07:18.400 Oh, yeah.

00:07:19.020 For discussing random cases.

00:07:20.720 Uh-huh.

00:07:21.420 Because, you know, when you have business to discuss.

00:07:23.120 Sure.

00:07:23.720 Who doesn't have their platonic colleague over at 4 a.m.?

00:07:27.460 We were saying it wasn't a booty call, it was a fanny call. 0.91

00:07:35.420 Too much?

00:07:36.500 No, not at all.

00:07:38.060 Keep going.

00:07:39.820 So, but anyway, can I just put a pin on that?

00:07:42.760 Oh, please, please, no.

00:07:43.200 So, I do believe they're both going to get booted off of this case.

00:07:46.300 Really?

00:07:46.780 I believe they lied under oath to this judge to save their own skins.

00:07:50.860 They're prosecuting Trump and his colleagues for lying.

00:07:54.040 That is one of the main things that she's accusing them of.

00:07:56.280 And the reason it's so delicious is because the same thing I believe that made Fannie Willis lie under oath,

00:08:01.960 despite the fact that it would be wrong for a civilian, but it's really wrong for an officer of the court,

00:08:06.440 is the same thing that made her bring this BS prosecution.

00:08:09.100 It's her partisan, dishonest nature. 0.70

00:08:13.480 She wanted to get Trump, just like Letitia James wanted to get Trump and Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith. 0.90

00:08:18.940 And I really think that the brilliant lawfare artists on the defense side in Georgia should have a talk with the other defense lawyers in these other cases.

00:08:27.420 Because if this is how we're going to fight, dirty, below the belt, making up charges, breaking our system of rule of law,

00:08:33.760 which didn't use to prosecute political enemies, then we should fight back the same way.

00:08:37.720 It should be brought right back on all these prosecutors. 1.00

00:08:39.800 Going into what we've seen with all of these cases, I mean, you've got the Stormy Daniels case against Trump as well.

00:08:48.760 That's going to be heard here shortly.

00:08:50.760 You've got Jack Smith's obsession, obsession with Donald Trump.

00:08:54.620 You've got, obviously, the civil fraud case in New York, Judge Enderon, who $340 million.

00:09:03.300 It's going to be $450 million.

00:09:04.680 $400 by the time we're done with this?

00:09:06.480 Yeah.

00:09:07.200 I mean, how would...

00:09:08.720 They're just trying to break this man.

00:09:10.520 They're trying to destroy his life, destroy his family, all for political persecution.

00:09:17.520 We've really crossed the Rubicon.

00:09:19.440 Yeah.

00:09:19.800 We just, we never used to do this to each other.

00:09:22.240 Like, we would fight.

00:09:23.180 We knew we disagreed.

00:09:24.320 We'd fight, you know, bare-knuckled brawling the two sides.

00:09:27.780 But we would never put a man's freedom at risk just because we disagreed with him.

00:09:32.860 Right.

00:09:33.040 We would never try to devastate his business and disincentivize any good man or woman for running for office.

00:09:40.320 Right?

00:09:40.460 Like, who would run?

00:09:42.080 Don't you know, like, a couple of great people in your life, and you're like,

00:09:44.660 God, you'd be great to run, you know?

00:09:46.860 Who that's sane would run if you thought this was a likely outcome?

00:09:53.300 You know, I asked Trump about it.

00:09:54.620 I interviewed him in September, and I was like, what are you doing this for?

00:09:58.060 You already were president.

00:09:59.900 You could be in Scotland doing the golf, which you love, and enjoying your grandkids,

00:10:04.300 and he isn't built that way.

00:10:06.840 And I do think he thinks he's got unfinished business for the country, you know?

00:10:11.220 And I think the country feels the same.

00:10:13.040 So, what legal advice would you give Donald Trump?

00:10:18.240 Honestly, keep at it.

00:10:21.420 Because I'll tell you, Trump's got four criminal trials coming his way.

00:10:25.500 And in order to avoid, I heard Rob and J.D. talking about, is he likely to, you know, go to jail?

00:10:31.620 And I do think J.D.'s right.

00:10:33.220 They'll, Senator Vance.

00:10:34.900 They'll try.

00:10:35.860 They'll try to make him go to jail.

00:10:38.060 But Trump needs to pull an inside straight in order to avoid jail.

00:10:41.680 And can I tell you something?

00:10:43.100 He's doing it.

00:10:44.780 He's doing it.

00:10:45.560 I've been watching these cases very carefully.

00:10:48.220 It's not a lock, but it's going as well as it can go.

00:10:51.460 He's obviously got very good lawyers around him.

00:10:53.980 The New York case is BS.

00:10:55.460 He's not facing real jail time in that one.

00:10:57.320 That should be a slap on the wrist.

00:10:58.540 And he is going to be convicted.

00:10:59.800 But it's such BS.

00:11:01.440 He allegedly paid a porn star to be quiet.

00:11:03.780 And then they're mad he didn't document his hush payment.

00:11:06.100 That's the very nature of a hush payment is that you don't write it down and tell everybody about it.

00:11:10.940 Anyway, so that's that one.

00:11:13.240 Then you've got the two Jack Smith litigations where it's all, you know, January 6th and the Mar-a-Lago documents.

00:11:18.700 Well, the Mar-a-Lago documents is getting slow-rolled and slow-rolled and slow-rolled because it's so complex.

00:11:23.700 Does the jury need security clearance?

00:11:25.680 Do the lawyers need security clearance to see the documents he had?

00:11:29.180 This is not getting tried before November.

00:11:31.080 And if Trump can win, both of those federal prosecutions go away.

00:11:34.720 He doesn't need to pardon himself.

00:11:36.560 He just needs to pull the DOJ off of the cases.

00:11:38.960 That's it.

00:11:39.640 All he needs to do is delay those two cases until post-November.

00:11:43.740 And it's happening.

00:11:45.340 Now, the one in D.C., she really wants to try this case.

00:11:50.040 Judge Chutkin would love to put Trump behind bars.

00:11:53.280 And that one he's vulnerable in because of the jury pool.

00:11:56.900 But that one, too, has got the main heart of it, of the obstruction charge.

00:12:02.120 And I'm trying not to bore you, but the main charge is the obstruction charge.

00:12:05.080 You obstructed a proceeding of Congress on January 6th.

00:12:07.900 That's going up to the Supreme Court through the other January 6th defendants.

00:12:11.800 And their case is very strong.

00:12:13.640 So the heart of that Trump case could get thrown out through a proceeding that's going up with other defendants.

00:12:19.980 And that leaves us with Georgia and my girl, Fannie.

00:12:23.160 Girl, Fannie! 1.00

00:12:25.060 Go, Fannie! 1.00

00:12:26.240 And if Fannie Willis is thrown off this case, her entire office is thrown off this case. 0.98

00:12:32.200 And there are real questions about whether there is another prosecutor down in Georgia who would take it and wants to try it.

00:12:38.800 Yeah.

00:12:39.240 Fannie Cash.

00:12:40.420 Fannie Cash.

00:12:41.520 Yeah.

00:12:41.900 That should be her name.

00:12:43.220 Shifting gears here, obviously, you're a mom, you know, and you have two boys, one girl.

00:12:50.540 We were having this discussion as a mother of five girls, and parents out there, they're freaking out.

00:12:58.000 They're looking at the fact that this leftist agenda has penetrated into their schools.

00:13:03.560 This is a topic we've been discussing here, where you have 14-year-old girls having mastectomies. 0.99

00:13:09.820 They're getting puberty blockers.

00:13:11.780 You have the medical industry supporting this.

00:13:15.400 How do we stop this?

00:13:16.780 If you take nothing else away, I hope, from anything I say tonight, please take this away.

00:13:23.860 Fight.

00:13:25.420 You have to.

00:13:26.700 You can't remain silent to protect your reputation or how people feel about you.

00:13:32.080 Parents need to stand up against this.

00:13:36.000 Your child's safety, and apart from their safety, their opportunity, their chance at winning,

00:13:43.480 the chance of having the glory of crossing the finish line first.

00:13:46.780 It's all in danger if you don't say anything.

00:13:50.180 And I know it's scary.

00:13:51.460 You're afraid.

00:13:52.600 You want to be seen as empathetic and not a bigot, not a transphobe.

00:13:57.860 Eventually, hopefully, you'll get to the point where many of us are, which is, I don't care what you call me.

00:14:02.900 Exactly.

00:14:03.620 I couldn't care less what you think of me when I'm standing up for children's rights.

00:14:09.480 A couple of things here.

00:14:10.500 Number one, they tell us that the puberty blockers into the cross-sex hormones, it's fine. 0.97

00:14:15.560 Puberty blockers are just a pause.

00:14:17.120 It's a lie.

00:14:17.960 Ninety-seven percent of kids who go on puberty blockers will do cross-sex hormones immediately thereafter.

00:14:22.880 And you know what that does?

00:14:24.160 That will sterilize your child. 1.00

00:14:25.740 Now your child is more than likely going to be sterile and zero sexual enjoyment for the rest of his or her life.

00:14:33.660 Did you know that?

00:14:34.660 There will be no sexual pleasure for your child.

00:14:36.780 You want to make that decision for a 13-year-old?

00:14:39.240 You think they know what they're giving up?

00:14:40.520 There was a detransitioner recently who managed to get pregnant, which is against all the odds. 0.99

00:14:46.380 And she was in tears at the birth of her baby, not fully tears of joy, but also because she couldn't breastfeed.

00:14:51.740 She had had her breasts chopped off when she was a teenager, a young teenager. 1.00

00:14:56.620 And you know, Mercedes, it's like when I had my child, my first child, I, of course, went through the nine months of pregnancy.

00:15:03.400 The moment I felt like I really became a mother was when they put that baby to your breast and you're like, holy mother of, right?

00:15:12.180 It's this before and after moment.

00:15:14.440 Don't men, what is it, chest feed?

00:15:16.680 I can't.

00:15:17.020 Is that what it is?

00:15:18.860 And the male pregnancy, that's the one I'm like, really, people? 0.98

00:15:24.260 Chest feeding is child abuse.

00:15:26.960 They pump these men through full of hormones so they can produce something approximating milk. 1.00

00:15:32.220 And then this poor, tortured baby is in agony trying to get enough out of there. 0.88

00:15:36.800 It's a lie.

00:15:38.180 It's a lie.

00:15:39.020 Megan, but this is the thing.

00:15:41.520 The left has hijacked our language.

00:15:44.800 They have changed what is what would be common sense, just language.

00:15:50.600 We have to now do pronouns.

00:15:52.760 Every time I see these young people out there where they on Instagram and they're like, she, her, they.

00:15:58.060 It's like, no, seriously.

00:15:59.900 No, no.

00:16:00.940 Pronouns are for English class.

00:16:02.600 Don't do them.

00:16:03.060 Not for, for, but it's like, how can these parents get to their kids and their grandkids

00:16:07.200 and basically say, please stop this?

00:16:10.360 You're being brainwashed.

00:16:11.560 You have to inoculate them at home. 0.86

00:16:14.260 You know, I mean, you have to get them.

00:16:15.560 They're going to be in a leftist world.

00:16:17.480 It's a leftist media, leftist sports, leftist corporate America, not to mention the academy,

00:16:23.780 you know, the universities and so on.

00:16:24.820 You have to inoculate them at home by talking about it.

00:16:27.500 Right.

00:16:28.400 We've told our kids, don't say your pronouns.

00:16:30.680 If somebody asks you what your pronouns are, you just say, I'm not comfortable with that.

00:16:34.360 You don't have to do it.

00:16:35.520 Just because some leftist tries to make you, you don't have to do that.

00:16:38.440 And let me tell you something.

00:16:39.620 There was a great piece online, and I love the line, the title of it.

00:16:42.860 Pronouns are rohypnol.

00:16:44.820 They dull your senses.

00:16:46.700 It's the way the left controls language is to make you behave the way they want you to behave.

00:16:51.980 You know, like, this is racist.

00:16:53.300 This is transphobic.

00:16:54.220 This is so that you won't do the thing.

00:16:55.700 You won't say the thing.

00:16:57.160 And saying the pronouns is how they get you to bend on gender ideology.

00:17:01.580 They dull your brain to the incongruity of calling a he a she.

00:17:05.960 And they're doing it intentionally.

00:17:07.620 They want you to get dulled to that fake reality they're shoving down our throats.

00:17:13.460 Right.

00:17:13.620 You have to resist.

00:17:14.560 First, you can say with all due respect, I don't do that.

00:17:18.640 And look, if I'm sitting across, and I've actually had this conversation with Caitlyn Jenner,

00:17:22.880 but if I were sitting across from Caitlyn Jenner, would I intentionally be like, he, he, he? 0.99

00:17:27.360 No, I'm not looking to be a jerk. 0.98

00:17:29.300 But I would not say, you know, what's it like to be a woman? 0.97

00:17:34.720 How about being, you know, being a girl, being a...

00:17:36.500 No, that's a lie.

00:17:38.000 And I do think we need to reject pronouns and the lies of language because otherwise we're pulled in.

00:17:44.560 That's part of the problem.

00:17:45.740 And then on the biological men playing in women's sports, which again, I cannot believe that we are talking about this now.

00:17:53.280 Like, I just cannot believe that we have to face this where our girls have to be put in a situation where they can actually get hurt.

00:18:00.140 And they are getting hurt.

00:18:00.840 Yeah, and they are getting hurt.

00:18:01.880 There was Peyton McNabb in North Carolina who still has permanent injuries, including mental issues, brain issues, and paralysis down her arm after a male volleyball player posing as a girl spiked the ball so hard in her head that she suffered permanent damage.

00:18:18.900 There was a girl playing field hockey in Massachusetts just a couple of months ago who got all of her teeth knocked out as a boy pretending to be a girl slammed that field hockey ball hard into her face.

00:18:29.220 There were three girls in Massachusetts this week in Lowell, Massachusetts, who were hurt playing basketball against a six-foot-tall boy pretending to be a girl.

00:18:39.180 That's the way you should say it.

00:18:40.300 There's no such thing as trans anything. 1.00

00:18:42.100 It's a boy pretending to be a girl who hurt three girls to the point where they had to end the game early, and the coach pulled the team. 0.98

00:18:50.580 Someone's going to die. 0.80

00:18:53.400 Someone's going to die.

00:18:55.880 Find your voice.

00:18:57.340 Fight.

00:18:58.040 It's not fair, and it's not safe.

00:19:00.280 And I think I will say in this room we've got the fighters.

00:19:04.560 These are the people who go back to their community, and they make a difference.

00:19:08.340 They are so incredible in terms of getting involved in their communities, and so many organic groups have come out of CPAC,

00:19:14.780 and they are the ones involved in so much of the election process as well, which is incredible.

00:19:20.040 God bless.

00:19:20.640 I want to move to the college campuses.

00:19:23.480 We know we had a panel up here, Would Moses Go to Harvard?, which I loved.

00:19:28.660 Of course, Schlapp comes up with these great panel names.

00:19:31.600 It made it on Jimmy Kimmel, which was kind of funny, kind of.

00:19:35.660 So let me ask you this.

00:19:40.580 There is, again, you stay shocked because you're wondering, how can so many young people not understand the role of Israel

00:19:49.460 and not understand the Hamas terrorism propaganda message that's being pushed through TikTok, through social media, to these young people?

00:20:01.380 And then you've created this animosity on campus for Jewish students.

00:20:05.920 Yeah.

00:20:06.700 Well, I think there are two things going on there.

00:20:09.140 Number one, back to the inoculation point, I don't think anybody could do this to my kids.

00:20:14.480 No one's going to do this to your kids, Mercy.

00:20:16.220 They know.

00:20:16.780 No, we disown them, quite frankly.

00:20:18.480 No, I'm not.

00:20:19.040 Well, we've gotten in early with our children.

00:20:20.980 We've shared our values, and we've talked to our kids about what is going to be done to them on college campuses.

00:20:26.160 And we, in our family, do not allow our children to use social media, which parents misunderstand.

00:20:31.000 You can give them a phone.

00:20:32.280 Yeah.

00:20:32.580 You can give them a phone, and they can message.

00:20:33.980 Yes.

00:20:34.300 And they can, we actually do some YouTube, which I know is technically social media, but, like, my daughter watches Dance Moms on it.

00:20:40.560 It's not, you know.

00:20:41.100 Oh, don't talk about Dance Moms. 1.00

00:20:42.520 But TikTok, Snapchat.

00:20:43.780 Rumble, like rumble.

00:20:45.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:20:45.760 But I'm talking about, like, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook.

00:20:49.760 Like, these are not appropriate tools for children.

00:20:52.160 And in particular, TikTok is where this begins.

00:20:55.400 So I do think keeping them away from social media and the young formative years and you reinforcing your own values and what's true is important.

00:21:03.240 And keeping the right news sources funneling to them so they're hearing facts that you know are real and not leftly.

00:21:08.620 It's not like, don't leave Al Jazeera on the TV while you go off for your run.

00:21:11.800 But I also think that, like, when they get to the university, they're going to need to find their spines and their friends. 0.94

00:21:21.560 This is one of the reasons why I love Turning Point.

00:21:23.980 Like, we have to get to young people and make sure they know they're not alone.

00:21:27.920 You may feel like you're the only conservative voice on campus, but you're not.

00:21:31.100 The TikTok in particular is a problem because that is really funneling pro-Hamas information and pro-Bin Laden.

00:21:36.940 And pro, yes. 0.98

00:21:37.780 You saw that, like, literally these morons were like, you know that Bin Laden really, you have to hand it to that Bin Laden. 1.00

00:21:45.200 He has a point. 1.00

00:21:46.940 No, you do not have to hand it to Bin Laden.

00:21:49.640 That's right.

00:21:50.460 You've got to actually do some study and some homework.

00:21:52.580 So the only plus of the anti-Semitism that we've been seeing on college campuses, the only upside to all of this in the wake of the horrific October 7th attack,

00:22:03.200 is that our Jewish friends, who were more left-leaning and believed the DEI lie, I think are now seeing the truth,

00:22:11.700 which is that it's pernicious and it's actually really dangerous.

00:22:16.180 And so, like, it's not okay to, whether it's black and white or Hispanic and Jews, whatever, like, it's not okay to divide us by race or ethnicity.

00:22:25.840 Like, we're all the same.

00:22:26.880 That's why I don't like the black national anthem. 0.99

00:22:28.500 There's only one national anthem.

00:22:30.020 We don't need it by color or by creed.

00:22:32.920 Right?

00:22:33.440 So, in any event, I think all that's important messaging, but the number one thing is to shore up your child before he gets there.

00:22:40.540 No, that is true.

00:22:42.160 Although I've met a lot of parents that say, my kid was conservative, they go to college, and then I lose them.

00:22:48.380 And that's a challenge for these parents, right?

00:22:50.880 It's like, it's heartbreaking.

00:22:52.680 And then you're just, literally, I feel like we have to constantly be, I say, pray every day for your kid.

00:22:57.400 Pray every day.

00:22:58.880 Because they have to understand, when you, being here, you know you're going to get persecuted.

00:23:05.540 You know you're going to suffer.

00:23:07.000 And you went through it.

00:23:08.540 I mean, they tried to destroy you.

00:23:10.300 Yep.

00:23:11.040 But you rose up again.

00:23:13.100 Well, there's a lovely feeling to that.

00:23:16.240 I'd rather people try to destroy me and me keep going than people never try to destroy me at all.

00:23:22.380 You know, you don't know how strong you are until somebody keeps knocking you down and you keep getting back up.

00:23:28.520 And I really, like, I think it's true for my kids and I think it's true for me.

00:23:32.180 You know, mine are little.

00:23:33.120 They're 14, 12, and 10.

00:23:35.640 But in the same way, like, I really kind of hope, I know it sounds weird, but I hope they all get their hearts broken.

00:23:40.960 I hope they get rejected.

00:23:42.580 I hope they have a big failure.

00:23:44.680 I hope they strike out.

00:23:45.980 I hope all those things happen to them because I want them to be strong.

00:23:50.020 They're going to have to be.

00:23:51.540 And you don't get strong if nobody ever challenges you or hurts you or comes at you.

00:23:56.600 And I think for all of you guys, you know, you're active and you're activists and you're out there fighting these good fights.

00:24:02.260 Like, it's a blessing.

00:24:05.260 It's an important role.

00:24:07.160 But you also have to be tough.

00:24:09.380 And you, just like I, have to realize that there's a difference between the you, you and the branded you.

00:24:16.700 Right?

00:24:16.900 Like, Megyn Kelly is, it's a brand because it's on a show name and people know it from news.

00:24:21.800 But Megyn Kelly, the person, is also there.

00:24:23.680 And when I see the attacks and people write the terrible things, I never take that as an attack on Megyn Kelly, the person.

00:24:31.280 That's Megyn Kelly, the brand that they're attacking.

00:24:34.180 You know, the public-facing Megyn Kelly.

00:24:35.800 And that's fine.

00:24:36.400 For me, that works to make that distinction.

00:24:39.280 And it makes it very easy for me not to hold a grudge and to continue fighting and to continue seeing these people and not to become bitter.

00:24:46.620 Yes.

00:24:47.120 Right?

00:24:47.380 To be a happy warrior.

00:24:48.760 So you have the same thing.

00:24:50.320 You're going to put your public face out there and you're going to say these things that are controversial.

00:24:53.680 And nobody else is saying them.

00:24:55.180 And they're going to call you the names and maybe ostracize you.

00:24:58.020 Maybe you don't get invited to the best cocktail parties.

00:25:00.580 Those aren't the best.

00:25:02.180 And you make the distinction in your own life between the professional you that's got to make these points to keep your kids safe, et cetera,

00:25:09.780 and the real you who they don't know and they couldn't possibly be criticizing.

00:25:15.920 What message of hope do you want to give this group?

00:25:23.680 Look, we're in, I would say, one of the toughest times of our country.

00:25:28.300 We feel not, we don't feel safe.

00:25:31.660 We feel there is so much chaos all around us.

00:25:35.060 And people are worried.

00:25:36.940 They're worried.

00:25:37.940 I understand that entirely.

00:25:40.020 I think, look, I think you guys should feel great because the country is divided,

00:25:44.860 but I actually happen to think it's not as bad as many think.

00:25:48.460 Look at the left.

00:25:49.480 The left is coming over on immigration.

00:25:54.340 Right?

00:25:54.740 They're coming over on some of the Trump economic programs.

00:25:58.420 They're a little slow.

00:25:59.740 But I'm just saying the right is winning these fights.

00:26:03.140 Right?

00:26:03.720 They're winning.

00:26:04.380 It doesn't happen overnight.

00:26:06.200 It takes Governor Abbott sending the busloads up to New York and Chicago and California.

00:26:10.840 Yes.

00:26:11.780 Like, these people have to feel the actual effects of their policies,

00:26:15.060 and then slowly but surely they start to see reason on the gender stuff.

00:26:19.240 Seventy percent of the American population believes that boys should not be playing in girls' sports,

00:26:23.540 no matter what they declare themselves.

00:26:25.420 That's something on which there's common ground.

00:26:27.280 And DEI, as I said before, that people are starting to shift on that and see the folly of this dividing us by race.

00:26:33.420 And even those who aren't seeing it are going to have to live with it because we have a great U.S. Supreme Court right now

00:26:39.380 that is issuing ruling after ruling, setting things straight.

00:26:42.800 Right?

00:26:43.240 From Dobbs to the affirmative action case, and we're going to get a whole lot more like it. 0.98

00:26:48.640 So that's not to say that they haven't crossed a lot of disturbing norms with the lawfare and so on.

00:26:54.640 But I do think regular Americans aren't as divided and are starting to see the wisdom in a lot of these fights

00:27:02.840 the right has been fighting for a long, long time.

00:27:06.380 Let's fight.

00:27:07.320 Let's win.

00:27:08.260 Ladies and gentlemen, Megan Kelly.

00:27:11.420 Thank you.

00:27:12.900 Oh, that's nice.

00:27:14.500 Thank you so much.

00:27:16.280 It's nice to see you.

00:27:24.640 It's nice.

00:27:26.240 Thanks.

00:27:26.800 It's nice.

00:27:27.100 Bye bye.

00:27:29.380 Bye bye.

00:27:29.700 Bye bye.

00:27:33.840 Bye bye.

00:27:33.980 I'm out.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - February 25, 2024

BONUS： Megyn Kelly on the Need to Fight For Our Kids, Fani Willis, and State of the Media, at CPAC

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