The Megyn Kelly Show - Creep Swalwell Floodgates Open with NEW Accusers, and Sydney Sweeney's Shock Baby Scene, with Ruthless and Steve Hilton ｜ Ep. 1295

00:00:00.520 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:12.220 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:15.440 The fellas from Ruthless will be here in just a bit with the latest on Trump's feud with the Pope,

00:00:20.540 plus a controversial scene involving Sidney Sweeney from the season premiere of the hit HBO show Euphoria. 0.65

00:00:26.760 They have her dressed as a sexy infant.

00:00:32.800 That's sick. 1.00

00:00:34.660 That's beyond effed up. 0.72

00:00:36.540 There should be absolutely no such thing in modern America, cinnamon, big cinema, big screen or small screen. 0.89

00:00:45.540 It's disgusting and it says a lot about the creator of this show.

00:00:50.620 We'll get into it.

00:00:52.080 And there is a disturbing photo that they're using to promote it.

00:00:56.040 First, though, the latest with the dramatic and swift downfall of Eric Swalwell.

00:01:00.920 Yesterday, we did a deep dive on all the allegations against him.

00:01:03.820 You should listen to that.

00:01:04.680 It's the second hour of the show, and we've gotten a lot of very positive feedback on it

00:01:09.380 because it goes through each woman's account and exactly what she's alleged, what their

00:01:15.520 patterns are, and what the arguments are on his behalf and, of course, obviously, on the

00:01:22.040 women's.

00:01:22.860 We told you that the Democrat congressman had dropped out of the race to be California's next governor amid sexual misconduct allegations.

00:01:29.360 And if you want to know what he's really been accused of, you go back and listen to that.

00:01:33.640 Since then, though, the pressure only increased on Swalwell, and he announced last night he's also resigning from his seat in Congress.

00:01:40.120 That was a question we and many others had been asking.

00:01:42.300 Why is he fit to be a U.S. House member but not California governor?

00:01:47.620 In about 30 minutes, we are expecting a press conference where a new accuser is set to reveal more about what Swalwell allegedly did to her.

00:01:56.400 We don't know whether this is somebody who's been represented in the CBS piece at all.

00:02:01.440 That's really the one, the CNN piece, I should say.

00:02:04.400 And CBS did a piece this morning in which we had two accusers speaking out for the first time.

00:02:09.960 So we're getting, they're coming out of the woodwork.

00:02:11.580 and we're keeping our finger on the pulse

00:02:14.320 so that we can figure out what the narrative is

00:02:16.920 and make sure we're not having duplicates here

00:02:18.820 that we report as new accusers. 0.86

00:02:20.920 But there was a woman on CBS this morning

00:02:23.680 who seems honestly like she handled this very well.

00:02:27.700 Her name is Annika Albrecht

00:02:29.260 and she says Walwell began sending her inappropriate messages.

00:02:33.080 I think while she was still in, was it college, right?

00:02:37.840 Still was sending her inappropriate messages.

00:02:40.180 While while she was still in college after they had a group event with him as like their congressman and then an individual message popped up from him to her after the event.

00:02:53.600 And ultimately, he invited her to meet him at a hotel.

00:02:58.220 Annika Albrecht was still in college when she says she got what she thought was a big break.

00:03:03.380 California Congressman Eric Swalwell offering to stay in touch

00:03:07.400 after meeting with her student group in Washington, D.C.

00:03:10.980 He offered to mentor me.

00:03:13.360 Wow.

00:03:13.640 That was, as someone who knew virtually nothing about politics at the time or no one,

00:03:19.420 that was just an incredibly generous offer that I felt very lucky to have.

00:03:26.200 She says Swalwell created a group chat with all the students

00:03:29.260 and then added her as a friend on the messaging app Snapchat.

00:03:32.740 chat. She says Swalwell, who was then in his late 30s, started out talking politics,

00:03:37.740 but his messages soon turned flirtatious. Ultimately, it reached a point where he

00:03:43.800 invited me to a hotel to meet him. It was very clear what the connotation was.

00:03:53.580 At that point, I completely stopped responding. What I keep thinking back to is how lucky I am

00:04:01.840 that I didn't go to that hotel.

00:04:04.560 Good for her.

00:04:05.860 She knew it.

00:04:07.120 This reminds me of my interview with Pamela Anderson.

00:04:10.000 She sat on my set when I was at NBC

00:04:12.740 and it was the height of the Me Too movement. 0.98

00:04:16.540 I mean, she's Pamela Anderson. 0.98

00:04:18.020 Hello.

00:04:19.220 Virtually every man in Hollywood took a shot. 1.00

00:04:21.680 She was like the world sex symbol 1.00

00:04:24.160 during the peak of her fame, 1.00

00:04:26.900 post Baywatch and she was doing barbed wire and all that.

00:04:29.860 and she would never take a meeting in a hotel room she's Canadian she has a smart family and

00:04:38.880 a good mom who said to her like they're super nice up in Canada but she knew nice does not

00:04:44.800 require me to say yes to going to meet a director in his hotel room she knew not to do it and she

00:04:50.800 told me that it was actually a great interview she was very smart and now we're seeing that side of

00:04:54.780 her you know at the time we only knew her as the sex symbol but she's obviously very layered and 0.99

00:04:58.540 very interesting. She's been doing the no makeup thing and so on. But that's why like, it's very 0.99

00:05:04.300 hard to take the women who are like, and he had me meet him at his hotel room, all that seriously. 0.96

00:05:11.460 Like there's only one reason they want you to meet them at their hotel room. Okay. Unless there's 0.93

00:05:16.640 another person with you and it's like a group meeting, do not go to the damn hotel room. So 0.99

00:05:22.500 this young woman who was not connected and had no power and really probably could have used this

00:05:27.760 connection was very smart and said, not only did she say no, she cut off all contact. Good for her. 0.88

00:05:35.940 Ladies, take a lesson. We also heard this morning from Allie Samarco. She was featured in that CNN

00:05:42.500 story about the four women yesterday, which included the one woman from the San Francisco

00:05:46.500 Chronicle who's got the alleged rape story. We dissected that yesterday. And three others.

00:05:53.580 Ali Samarco is one of the three others who now makes her first on-camera appearance with CBS.

00:05:59.680 Watch.

00:06:00.700 In 2021, she sent Swalwell a supportive message on Twitter.

00:06:05.300 And to her surprise, he messaged right back.

00:06:07.880 I was so excited.

00:06:10.080 I was a low-level staffer who had no real political background.

00:06:14.760 And he was this established figure in Democratic politics.

00:06:17.900 They began to text, but she says he soon asked if she, too, was on Snapchat, where messages and photos automatically get deleted after they're viewed.

00:06:28.060 How did the tenor of his conversation change?

00:06:33.180 It started out as professional and platonic, and then slowly they became more and more explicit, asking me what I was wearing.

00:06:42.420 then one night he was on a trip and he was laying in his hotel room bed and then he sent me a photo 0.99

00:06:50.060 of his penis oh okay that's lovely classy guy um i just want to state again for all men out there 0.99

00:07:00.040 no woman wants that women don't work the same way men do when it comes to getting turned on 0.99

00:07:06.420 all right you maybe send a picture of your bicep or depending on your situation your wallet 0.99

00:07:12.060 just being honest about some women but the dick pics it doesn't work like that pretty much all 1.00

00:07:20.940 men would appreciate a naked photo of a woman women aren't dying to have a naked photo of the 0.99

00:07:25.940 guy like it's just not the like maybe show a picture of a guy like coddling you know being

00:07:33.780 nurturing of a baby or playing with a kid on the baseball field you're like that stuff turns on a

00:07:39.260 woman. It's like caregiver, loving husband, loving partner. You know, that's hot. We don't need a 0.99

00:07:45.420 dick pic ever. That doesn't work. That's for you. It's just like the sexy lingerie at Valentine's. 0.97

00:07:51.640 That's for you. Okay, so there's some free advice for you. Now, this is all terrible news for Eric

00:07:56.600 Swalwell. Well, no one gives a shit about him. What does it actually mean for the California 0.99

00:08:01.120 gubernatorial race? That's something we do care about. The Golden State has a unique primary

00:08:06.220 system where the top two vote getters go on to the general election, regardless of political

00:08:10.780 party. The primary schedule for June 2nd, but early voting begins early May. Currently in the

00:08:15.920 Real Clear Politics average of all polls, which only includes polls conducted before Swalwell

00:08:20.800 dropped out, Republican Steve Hilton, our friend, yay, leads the field at 15.5, where he's been

00:08:27.800 steadily all along. He's followed here by Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer at 13, Swalwell here in

00:08:33.800 third at 12.5, and Republican Chad Bianco in fourth place at 11.8. Meanwhile, betting markets

00:08:42.100 show that Steyer's odds have surged into the lead since Swalwell's departure. What about Katie

00:08:48.100 Porter? What do you mean? If we're going to have to deal with a Democrat for four years,

00:08:52.120 it needs to be the angry one for me, really, just for entertainment value. I'm sorry to the people

00:08:57.500 of California. If you're smart, you will vote for Steve Hilton, and you will get a better life and

00:09:01.460 a better state. Here to react to this entire scandal and the latest news is our pal Steve

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00:11:02.280 which we've been talking about from the beginning. So your reaction to what's happened to Eric 0.96

00:11:06.460 Swalwell, what he did to himself. Yeah. Well, there's lots to say, Megan. Great to be with

00:11:11.320 you. First of all, I think the Katie Porter thing needs to be the mashed potato lady. I think that's 0.99

00:11:15.900 very important that we focus on that. She is also an alleged abuser. Exactly. I don't know. Also,

00:11:23.180 thank you for the advice um i i don't have a smartphone as you probably know so i have this

00:11:28.100 flip phone um which we when we met you saw so i even if i wanted to which i never would uh

00:11:35.220 appreciate the advice i couldn't send those kind of pictures but i never would you're welcome so

00:11:40.840 let's let's look i mean look first of all the amazing thing about this it's isn't it always

00:11:45.980 the guys who are the most loud and insufferable. I'm with women. I stand with women. Me too. I'm

00:11:53.660 a champion. I mean, he's been going on about that for years, Eric Swalwell. It's just incredible.

00:11:59.200 It always turns out to be those guys that are the worst. And these stories are just incredible.

00:12:04.420 First of all, I think it shows the incredible arrogance and contempt for all of us, for regular

00:12:09.960 people, for voters, that Eric Swalwell ran for governor and thought he could get away with this.

00:12:15.500 that you know clear of course allegations we get it but there's so many um and it's not just

00:12:22.860 this is all coming out now it's been an open secret i've used that term because i'd heard

00:12:28.220 about this for months i'd heard about from heard about it from reporters from those close to

00:12:33.760 democrats and you've got to believe that the democrat establishment that was moving behind

00:12:40.140 swalwell remember so what was happening until this all blew up was that the key democrat figures and

00:12:47.380 organizations in california politics were getting behind swalwell as their guy the big unions the

00:12:53.560 teacher unions seiu you saw the nancy pelosi machine getting behind him with all her acolytes

00:13:00.460 adam shift the leading one a bunch of members of congress all endorsing swalwell so there was this

00:13:05.600 sense in sacramento for example you talked in the last few weeks everyone in sacramento they were

00:13:09.940 saying yeah it's going to be swalwell he's going to be the guy but they all knew and they backed

00:13:14.780 him anyway now they have their statements of outrage and distancing all the rest of it they

00:13:19.020 knew if i knew then they knew it's so it shows you their total hypocrisy they have no interest in

00:13:27.860 anything other than their own power and if he's the useful guy that they can put there as their

00:13:33.460 puppet doesn't matter about any of this stuff and so i think that we've really got to focus on the

00:13:38.640 the rottenness of this democrat establishment particularly in california where they've been

00:13:43.620 in power 16 years of one party rule no constraint at all they've got so arrogant they're so out of

00:13:49.140 touch with regular people of course their record is a disaster that's you know the basis of my

00:13:53.700 campaign and setting out a positive alternative but the fact that they're now collapsing into

00:13:58.520 chaos and sleaze and scandal i just think it's one more reason that despite the odds and despite

00:14:04.060 how people look at California, we really do have a shot at kicking them out this year.

00:14:09.840 Yeah. I mean, you've been the front runner since the beginning. I noticed Swalwell initially when

00:14:14.720 he thought he could still save his, his, you know, himself in this race, kept saying, but I'm the

00:14:19.820 front runner. I'm the front runner. And I was, of course, I've been watching this because of you.

00:14:22.680 I'm like, he's not the front runner. Steve Hilton is the front runner. You've been the front runner.

00:14:26.080 He might've been the front running Democrat, but he has not been the front runner in this race.

00:14:30.820 you have been. And we'll get to whether that's what's behind all of this. But before we go there,

00:14:37.260 you mentioned Nancy Pelosi. She's shocked, shocked, shocked to hear about Eric Swalwell.

00:14:42.460 She would have us believe. Listen to this. She doesn't sound right. She seems to be spiraling

00:14:47.640 here just in tone. Take a listen here to SOT5. Some Republicans and others are saying that

00:14:53.800 Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they knew what he was up to. That is absolutely positive.

00:14:59.340 And it's true that they may say that, but it is absolutely not true.

00:15:03.000 You had no idea.

00:15:03.880 None whatsoever.

00:15:05.300 None whatsoever.

00:15:07.400 I had none whatsoever.

00:15:08.740 What happens in California now?

00:15:11.240 He was, in many of the polls, the leading candidate.

00:15:13.820 Yes, he was.

00:15:14.840 That's gone.

00:15:15.920 There's an army of candidates out there.

00:15:19.040 And California has this quirky law, because it's ranked primaries, right,

00:15:23.060 where you could end up with two Republicans on the ballot.

00:15:26.080 How does that?

00:15:27.000 I agree that it is a quirky law.

00:15:28.940 I do not agree that there'll be two Republicans at the top.

00:15:35.120 She's she's she's seen to that.

00:15:37.200 I mean, that's my belief.

00:15:38.180 She made sure she I think she knifed him because she needed support to consolidate behind somebody.

00:15:46.140 And she did know there.

00:15:48.260 Of course, you tell me, Steve, is there any way Nancy Pelosi, who's San Francisco is her district?

00:15:55.380 This is her state.

00:15:57.060 This is where he's from, too.

00:15:58.940 that she didn't know this. I mean, the women are coming out of the woodwork. By the end of the day, 1.00

00:16:04.120 we could have maybe a dozen. Yes. Let's just be really precise. Okay. I don't know. We don't know

00:16:10.140 whether she knew, but it's, here's what we can say with certainty. She had heard, right? It must be

00:16:17.160 the case that she had heard. The idea that she didn't pick this up, someone like her who prides

00:16:22.860 herself on this iron grip on her caucus and all the rest of it. And exactly as you say,

00:16:28.280 the california democratic party which is you know she's the queen of that and you know her

00:16:33.220 district in san francisco of course she'd heard it now she may not have seen evidence let's say

00:16:37.360 or whatever but she absolutely would have heard this because this is not new let's just remind

00:16:43.840 ourselves over a year ago but before you even thought about running for the race there was a

00:16:48.760 video and you've you've had you've had you know independent investigative journalists putting out

00:16:53.080 videos of this you know there was a leaked conversation overheard in a washington restaurant

00:16:57.360 where Swalwell was talking in disgusting terms

00:16:59.960 about how he was, I think I'm quoting, 1.00

00:17:02.420 a board with his wife

00:17:03.480 and he would only sleep with someone who was a 10.

00:17:06.300 This is all on tape.

00:17:07.000 That was over a year ago.

00:17:09.100 Also another thing, very important.

00:17:10.440 And Steve, on top of that,

00:17:12.460 on top of that, she saved him

00:17:14.800 from the Fang Fang controversy.

00:17:17.540 That whole Fang Fang Chinese spy situation

00:17:20.280 got him into a lot of trouble.

00:17:22.320 A Chinese spy was working for him in his office

00:17:24.100 and there was a question about whether they had an affair.

00:17:26.460 He denied it. I mean, now that denial seems less plausible than ever. And Nancy Pelosi saved him.

00:17:33.420 There was a push to kick him off of the intel committee. And she was like, no, she totally got behind him.

00:17:38.860 She didn't have any interest in figuring out whether it was true. She just ran cover for a fellow D.

00:17:44.760 Exactly, because that is what they are. The machine comes first. Their power comes first. 1.00

00:17:50.120 All their endless lectures, their sanctimonious lectures about their values and all this is such total BS.

00:17:57.380 And we can see that now. There's another thing, very important detail.

00:18:00.660 So, I mean, he's this guy's been a hot mess for a while in this campaign.

00:18:04.480 It's been scandal after scandal. One of them was whether he even lived in California.

00:18:09.940 And of course, he doesn't. His home is in Washington, D.C.

00:18:13.160 So there's been a lot of reporting around that and the fact that he's got this fake address in his district,

00:18:18.020 which is basically a room in a house where he's never been the california post did some great

00:18:23.040 reporting there talked to all the neighbors they'd never seen him but what was discovered

00:18:27.200 in his campaign finance reports was endless hotel bills in his district and in the bay area

00:18:35.200 including five-star hotels that's all public and he's charging his donors for that now why would

00:18:41.340 someone who claims to live in his district be billing his donors for hotel rooms in his district

00:18:49.120 or hotel rooms in the bay area good question that's been out there for ages and it totally

00:18:53.420 connects of course to the the the tape you just played of those people and their testimony about

00:18:59.660 asking him them to go to hotel rooms so all of the you know the idea that they didn't know or

00:19:04.380 hadn't heard that i just want to be really good hadn't heard this stuff and therefore the fact

00:19:08.240 that they were so eager to get behind him which is exactly what was happening in the last couple

00:19:13.720 of weeks is just unbelievable the business community everyone there was a real sense

00:19:17.880 that he was the guy that they were consolidating behind one thing i'd say is that one of the things

00:19:23.000 you hear in the chatter around all of this and is particularly coming from the katie porter camp

00:19:28.880 is that actually it was tom styer who kind of engineered this coming out now i don't quite

00:19:34.360 understand the theory of how that happened, because the stories have been out there for a

00:19:39.660 while. Well, but it makes sense. There's no question in my mind that the Democrats did this,

00:19:44.980 that they got this out because what they saw was the possibility, maybe, God forbid, on their view

00:19:50.920 of two Republicans making it to the general election, which they didn't want, or more

00:19:55.740 realistically, because the other Republican is trailing a bit, you would make it and Swalwell

00:20:01.740 would make it. And then this would come out in the general, and thus ensuring your election.

00:20:08.260 And so like, to me, this is a big move against you. It's not a big move against Swalwell. I think

00:20:13.740 they understood he was never going to get there because it was getting too hot. Too many of the

00:20:18.980 women were speaking to CNN, now to CBS, to the San Francisco Chronicle. The one woman who was 0.98

00:20:24.580 on CBS this morning talked about how she made a blog, like a blog post saying, you know, this

00:20:28.660 guy's a creep, right? A bunch of young women are going forward because her friend, this Annika

00:20:32.460 came to her and she's like, all right, I'm going to do a video. So they knew, so they had to turf 0.96

00:20:36.840 him before the vote so that you were not going to be facing Eric Swalwell, who you could defeat if

00:20:45.120 this had hit after June. What do you think? I think that's right. I mean, look, this is the

00:20:49.960 arrogance again. They just, they think it's unthinkable that you'd have a Republican governor

00:20:55.180 of california even though their record is so disastrous like let's just remind ourselves

00:21:00.280 how bad it is we have the highest poverty rate in america tied with louisiana the highest

00:21:05.980 unemployment rate of all 50 states the highest cost of living by far on everything that matters

00:21:11.120 u.s news and world report ranks california 50th out of 50 states for opportunity uh wallet hub

00:21:17.900 50th out of 50 for affordability chief executive magazine ranks as 50th out of 50 for business

00:21:23.480 climate 10 years in a row, homelessness, crime, the school results with disaster, literally

00:21:28.800 everywhere you look, it's a total disaster. So they know that they're vulnerable, because people

00:21:34.080 want to change. I mean, you look at the polls on the state going in the right direction or wrong

00:21:37.860 direction, it's completely flipped on the Democrats. Like in the last couple of years,

00:21:41.520 it's gone to a majority who say we're on the wrong track, you know, and sometimes that number

00:21:46.360 is over 60%. So they know that they're vulnerable. And I think you're right, you know, they're so

00:21:51.080 intoxicated with power they think they own this state that they they have the right to rule it

00:21:56.560 forever regardless of what they do and that kind of arrogance and cynicism i think is totally

00:22:01.440 reflected in this story what's amazing listening to you rattle off those stats is the current

00:22:09.180 governor of california is considered by many to be the front runner for the democratic presidential

00:22:14.940 nomination i mean right now according to the last poll we saw it's between him and kamala harris

00:22:19.240 who's also from California, California senator before she became vice president.

00:22:24.000 It's amazing, Steve, how these these politicians out there can continue running their state into the ground.

00:22:32.420 I mean, Gavin Newsom has ruined California and still be treated as credible national candidates.

00:22:39.920 Yes. And I just want it for everyone who's listening.

00:22:42.060 And if you may see him watching and you see Newsom out there, you know, promoting his pathetic book and doing his campaign.

00:22:48.360 I just want to unpack, you know, preemptively the talking points you will get from him.

00:22:53.180 Number one, oh, we're doing a great job because we're the fourth biggest economy in the world.

00:22:57.340 That is true statistically.

00:22:58.980 We're the fourth biggest economy for two reasons.

00:23:01.300 One, because of the dominant technology sector, which I'm proud of and we want to be leading in that.

00:23:09.800 But it generates a huge amount of revenue, but very few jobs.

00:23:12.880 That's why we have the fourth biggest economy side by side with having the highest unemployment rate and the highest poverty rate.

00:23:20.520 Secondly, that number for fourth biggest economy, that includes the government.

00:23:25.300 That includes just the size of the economy.

00:23:28.340 They've massively, you know, they've doubled the budget of the state of California in the last 10 years.

00:23:35.520 They've just bloated the government.

00:23:37.920 That's why we have the highest taxes in the country for the worst results.

00:23:41.140 So that fourth biggest economy, that's not the private sector apart from technology.

00:23:45.640 That's the government. So you remember that. And then when he talks about how we're dominant, he uses that word all the time.

00:23:51.540 You listen to him. We're dominant in manufacture. We're dominant in this and that.

00:23:55.760 Yeah. What he means is we've got the biggest.

00:23:58.460 But of course, we've got the biggest because we're the biggest state with the highest population and the largest number of most things.

00:24:05.660 But when you look at the rate, the proportion, for example, of our population living in poverty is the highest of any other state.

00:24:13.200 So we've got to read. He's so sneaky with this stuff, gaslighting everyone on a great job.

00:24:18.000 He's I give one pathetic example. He did an event the other day about his ridiculous high speed rail thing. 0.99

00:24:24.120 Right. And he after, I don't know, like nearly two decades, still isn't built billions of dollars spent.

00:24:30.440 It's now going to be like 20 years late, 100 billion over budget.

00:24:34.100 the last leg of it is now going to be a bus if you can believe it so he does it's a total disaster

00:24:39.700 like symbolic of the catastrophe of the whole thing he does a press conference right listen

00:24:44.720 to how he speaks and he stands in front of a train which is not a high-speed train like

00:24:49.280 pretending everything's happening and he literally says this we are and he has got some you know like

00:24:54.480 slogan about high-speed rail on track and he says we are now entering the track laying phase

00:25:01.320 the words he is like making out that they're finally after nearly 20 years going to be

00:25:06.220 laying the tracks they haven't laid any tracks and there's no plans to lay any tracks and they

00:25:11.160 haven't got the money to lay any tracks but he's trying to spin it as something positive he says

00:25:15.700 we're entering the track length phase this guy's just so full of it as if it's progress i know

00:25:21.120 amazing so all right what happens now steve what do you think because i mean as i said if we have

00:25:26.000 to have another Democrat in the, a Democrat in the top two. I'm voting for Katie Porter. I would

00:25:31.440 like to cover her for four years if I have to. But here's, realistically, walk me through it,

00:25:36.880 because even though you're the front runner in this wide, weird primary, if you add together

00:25:42.480 all the people who are backing the Democrat candidates in that primary, and you add together

00:25:46.300 all the people who are backing you and Chad Bianco, the Democrat number is much higher.

00:25:51.620 It's not much higher. It's like nine or 10 digits higher, which doesn't bode well because this is a blue state and the odds of them electing a Republican have always been kind of a long shot. So what are you hoping for right now?

00:26:05.240 So let's just take it in two phases, the primary and the general election.

00:26:08.520 The primary, it's very important that we understand something now.

00:26:11.520 And it's exactly what they want, right?

00:26:12.960 Which is now that Swabwell's out, you've basically got two candidates in the top tier.

00:26:18.020 You've got a bunch of what I call the LPDs, the low polling Democrats, who've got no shot.

00:26:22.720 They're all under 5%.

00:26:23.940 And then they're never going to make it.

00:26:25.420 It's Porter and Steyer.

00:26:26.600 It's Porter and Steyer, exactly.

00:26:27.560 According to the latest polls up there.

00:26:28.140 100%.

00:26:28.660 It's those two.

00:26:29.380 It's going to be one of those two.

00:26:31.140 Now, here's the thing.

00:26:31.960 if you do get consolidation behind them some of swalwell's votes obviously that's got to go

00:26:37.420 somewhere it's likely that it'll split roughly equally between the two of them i don't know

00:26:41.800 we'll see there's no polls since he dropped out those two could move up and so actually and this

00:26:46.720 is what i've been saying all year the more likely scenario than two republicans in the top two

00:26:51.380 is actually two democrats unless we really consolidate further on the republican side

00:26:57.780 And that's why my argument to Republicans has been, OK, we've got to get behind the leading Republican candidate.

00:27:05.200 That's clearly me. All the polls show that. You just showed the average.

00:27:08.700 Yes. It's very important that Republicans understand that this idea of having two Republicans in the top two, if it was ever realistic, it's gone.

00:27:17.360 We've got to be we've got to be practical, get behind the leading Republican.

00:27:21.660 Then we'll be fine because there's enough Republicans to to get me into the top two.

00:27:26.880 And at this point, my expectation and my plan, although we're the opposite of complacent, we're working harder than ever, is that I'll win the primary.

00:27:35.040 Now let's look at the general election. The starting point for how we can win is what I said earlier.

00:27:39.840 There's a majority for change in California. Well over 50 percent say we're going in the wrong direction.

00:27:45.980 That is a good starting point. Secondly, in a midterm election, it's all about turnout.

00:27:50.760 it's about who gets their voters out and actually this november we've got two things that are on

00:27:55.820 the ballot ballot initiatives that have qualified for the ballot that will really help drive

00:28:00.780 republican turnout one of them is save prop 13 that's about tax increases very popular with

00:28:05.840 republicans the second one the really big one is voter id whatever happens with the save america

00:28:11.600 act and all of that in california we will have the chance to vote for voter id this november

00:28:18.400 that's going to really get republicans out every i'm doing town halls up and down the state

00:28:22.760 every time i mention voter id huge cheers big enthusiasm the third thing is the fact that you've

00:28:28.460 got these terrible candidates styer and porter i mean then they're not sending their best that's

00:28:34.980 an asset to us in terms of winning and then the final point i'd make something big is happening

00:28:40.020 in california particularly with the business community they've reached a breaking point

00:28:44.580 And so for the first time in 20 years, you're seeing real engagement of business prompted by the fact that everything's such a disaster, but also this ridiculous billionaire's tax and they're getting engaged in the fight.

00:28:57.820 And Steven Spielberg and so many others have moved out where I am.

00:29:01.200 And so, you know, I've got an event in L.A. tomorrow night. It's mainly Democrats.

00:29:05.100 And so there's a sense of, you know, we can't go on like this. Something's got to change.

00:29:10.100 Even if, you know, we don't have to sort of become Republicans, but it's 16 years of one party rule is not healthy.

00:29:15.960 We need a bit of balance. And so I think that actually I understand that it's going to be difficult.

00:29:21.900 I'm the opposite of assuming that the terrible results of this Democrat rule will turn into an automatic victory.

00:29:29.880 But people are really changing in California.

00:29:34.400 And so the point about the business community is that for years, Republicans have faced a totally uneven playing field because you've got the unions, especially the government unions, massively spending to elect Democrats.

00:29:46.740 And the business community has kind of been absent, honestly.

00:29:49.580 That's changed.

00:29:50.320 they've had enough and so i think that actually as we go into the general election and if it's

00:29:56.100 me against styer or me against porter the business community in california is going to say that is

00:30:01.200 unacceptable we cannot let that happen and so for the first time in at least 20 years

00:30:06.160 we may have a fair fight in terms of the uh the resources that we'll have to get our message out

00:30:12.300 there i think you would do best against katie porter because at least styer has a reputation 0.58

00:30:19.020 of being more reasonable. 0.99

00:30:20.400 She doesn't.

00:30:21.400 And you should be getting ads made for her right now

00:30:24.140 talking about how she's been treated wrongly 1.00

00:30:27.640 because she's a woman,

00:30:28.960 about how anger is an acceptable emotion

00:30:31.320 and that people have been too hard on her.

00:30:34.180 Try to rehabilitate her a little, Steve,

00:30:36.200 so that she can be the one.

00:30:38.520 Do it for me. 0.86

00:30:39.640 I would love to watch that race. 1.00

00:30:41.540 There's no way she beats you. 1.00

00:30:42.960 I'm seeing her at the next TV debate

00:30:45.020 is next week, the 22nd.

00:30:46.600 So we'll see how that all plays out. 1.00

00:30:48.560 yeah oh i i have one piece of advice for you stay the fuck out of her shot she doesn't like that 1.00

00:30:54.040 exactly exactly by the way one last thing okay tiny thing watching make it just a very quick 0.96

00:30:58.700 thing just an indication that this is going to be possible the first tv debate it was me against

00:31:04.220 six democrats statewide tv audience they canceled it no no the one before that the very first one

00:31:09.540 isn't that a couple of months ago it was me against six democrats statewide tv audience not

00:31:14.020 a Republican audience and they said, who won the debate? Who made the best impression? They were

00:31:18.420 all basically under 10% apart from one. I won that with 66%. So that tells you something about

00:31:24.920 the appetite for change. Something's happening in California. Plus, you're very charming. They're

00:31:30.680 just getting to know the charming men we've known for years and they're responding well. So this is

00:31:35.480 great. I never thought you'd be this strongly positioned only because it's such a blue state.

00:31:40.180 So I'm thrilled that you are. And you raise a good point about the other Republican.

00:31:44.860 Chad, no offense, but get out. Consolidate behind Steve. Do it for the love of country.

00:31:49.640 Great to see you, my friend. We'll continue watching.

00:31:51.320 Thank you, Megan. Great to be with you.

00:31:53.300 All right. Coming up, the fellas from Ruthless are here.

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00:32:56.960 So much more to get to on Eric Swalwell and a lot more.

00:33:00.400 Joining me now are pals, Josh Holmes,

00:33:02.580 Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook,

00:33:04.560 the fellas from the Ruthless Program.

00:33:07.600 Welcome back, guys.

00:33:08.620 Great to see you.

00:33:09.140 Great to see you too, Megan.

00:33:10.720 It's, you know, we were comforted by you

00:33:12.440 keeping such a low profile

00:33:13.840 and being so uncontroversial since we last chatted.

00:33:20.940 You know, it's sometimes fun,

00:33:23.240 sometimes not fun being on the pointy end of the spear,

00:33:25.420 but usually fun, usually fun.

00:33:26.680 Usually fun.

00:33:27.440 So good to be back with you.

00:33:29.600 It's like my old pal at Tom Lowell Fox used to say,

00:33:32.380 um uh darlin you like to go to the place that hurts that's what he used to say

00:33:37.100 so good it's very true okay so you may have missed the top of the hour where we gave free 0.96

00:33:44.420 advice not that you guys need it but don't ever send a dick pic just don't do it period 0.94

00:33:50.600 end of report it's it shouldn't be a thing yeah but it's amazing to me that this eric swalwell 0.96

00:33:56.020 was sending i mean think about like as a as a sitting congressman and this is this is your

00:34:00.140 business right advising these politicos who want that job that he has and think about like the

00:34:05.020 recklessness of like texting young college girls who had just met you on capitol hill on a one

00:34:11.060 like a one-on-one come come see me at a hotel or like hey that bathing suit picture but think of

00:34:16.700 the hubris it takes to actually take down your pants and send a naked photo of your member it's

00:34:24.720 What is that? 1.00

00:34:26.000 Because that's what she wants.

00:34:28.780 They're all begging for that.

00:34:30.680 I mean, a couple of observations off the top.

00:34:34.300 We have long contended here in the Ruthless Variety program that the first time that you see something like that is most definitely not the first time somebody has done it.

00:34:43.060 That is a tried and tested move.

00:34:45.520 It's not something that you just sort of like do, you know.

00:34:48.800 I mean, we've thought about that all the way back.

00:34:50.800 Just try it out.

00:34:51.380 Yeah, right.

00:34:51.940 i mean it's just like this is part of the plan apparently like sending an emoji yeah right it's

00:34:57.140 like wow totally same thing uh but then like the second lol observation was the circumstance in

00:35:03.460 particular with which this one uh arose with swalwell which is you had a young democratic

00:35:09.060 staffer who is interested in working on capitol hill uh had met eric swalwell somehow they exchanged

00:35:15.620 numbers he agreed to have an interview with her and like lo and behold a couple days later powie

00:35:20.820 right in her inbox, you know?

00:35:22.460 It's like, what?

00:35:24.900 It's so hard to even process.

00:35:28.060 Like you said, the hubris, the arrogance, all of that.

00:35:30.100 But on that junior staffer,

00:35:31.480 she's what I'm calling accuser number one 1.00

00:35:33.500 because she's the most prominent one.

00:35:35.480 She hasn't yet gone on camera.

00:35:37.860 Well, she has, but not outside of silhouette.

00:35:41.260 And an important fact on her allegations,

00:35:44.800 I'm not excusing anything Swalwell did,

00:35:46.860 but the way she told the story was

00:35:48.840 he first asked her if she would send him nudes and she did come on so i gotta say in his defense

00:35:56.720 at that point you're probably feeling okay about sending your own that might be don't hate the

00:36:02.020 player hate the game uh territory i mean good success do we want to do we want to stay married

00:36:10.000 after this segment because i have a lot of thoughts about this but like you know i i think

00:36:15.720 it's interesting your wife agrees oh yeah 100 yeah but what strikes me megan is these california

00:36:22.420 democrats who live this charmed life and i know you had you had hilton on earlier where they've

00:36:28.040 they've ruled the state for so long that they have gotten incredibly reckless right and he was

00:36:33.920 like a made man in the pelosi orbit for a very long time and clearly that went to his head

00:36:40.380 but now that she's sort of on the way out what is she speaker emeritus some made-up title like

00:36:45.500 it's tenured a tenured professor yeah uh clearly that's all sort of crumbled now yeah she doesn't

00:36:52.420 get and she's just on camera we played it with steve hilton of her being like no idea i had no

00:36:57.180 idea i mean you guys tell me whether that is plausible it's it's it's absolute nonsense i

00:37:03.140 mean they're under under no circumstances is it true that she had no idea that she uh in swalwell

00:37:10.400 share a team yeah like swalwell's one of swalwell's fixers went to work for nancy pelosi like a hundred

00:37:18.400 percent she knows oh like an actual team she is lying through her teeth as she often does

00:37:24.000 but the the point is democrats have gotten away with this for a very long time and they always

00:37:30.040 do and you look at other states and maybe it's not as explosive as the swalwell situation

00:37:35.360 but in every single state where Democrats have full control of not just the legislature in the

00:37:42.740 governor's mansion but also the media they are never asked tough questions nobody ever presses

00:37:48.280 them and therefore they get away with things year after year after year and then they start getting

00:37:52.840 loose and they start thinking they can get away with it and then next generation of Democrats

00:37:56.540 thinks they can get away with a little bit more and so I mean I blame Democrats but I also blame

00:38:02.320 the media here because easy press makes well i mean i think that's a really good point megan

00:38:06.520 like can you imagine a scenario where some democratic leader has appointed somebody as

00:38:12.160 the attack dog the number one voice of opposition to an incumbent president that person is on tv

00:38:18.400 all day and every day and imagine that person is a republican do you think for one second 0.99

00:38:23.560 that if it was widely known on capitol hill that they were sending dick pics and propositioning 0.98

00:38:28.840 women and worse that that wouldn't have come out of course because if you're a republican 0.98

00:38:33.480 and you are the point person it doesn't matter whether you did something or not somebody's 1.00

00:38:37.880 going to allege it and the media is going to report it holmes they took mit romney's binders

00:38:43.240 full of women and made him into a misogynist they turned him into harvey wine can you imagine

00:38:51.920 a republican basically has to adjust himself through his pants and they will i mean that's 0.93

00:38:57.440 it he's done never mind like he's rubbing himself on the airplane and sending me pictures on camera

00:39:03.240 with a woman like and he still thought he could withstand it like the first couple of days he's 0.99

00:39:07.680 like i'm not going anywhere like he's like bitch i'm eric swawa i got nancy pelosi in my back pocket 0.99

00:39:13.660 you don't want to know what i have in the front pocket and i'm going to weather this storm 1.00

00:39:18.180 sort of like a baby carrot if i'm just saying i'm not saying i'm just saying

00:39:25.320 Well, you all thought it.

00:39:26.700 Allegedly reportedly.

00:39:27.580 Yeah, you all thought it.

00:39:29.180 It could be.

00:39:29.680 But you know, the way that the media is patting themselves on the back in the wake of this

00:39:35.540 Swalwell story is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in modern journalism.

00:39:41.020 I don't know if you saw Brian Stelter, who went on CNN and starts talking about how great

00:39:45.700 the media is doing these investigations.

00:39:48.520 One thing that we know about the mainstream media is that they only attack a Democrat

00:39:53.800 If it's in service of a second Democrat, you just had a great conversation with Steve Hilton.

00:39:58.640 I hope to God that that guy can get over the finish line in California, because what good would it do for the state?

00:40:04.020 My but my point is the media, while they're patting themselves on the back about how well they're doing on Swalwell, all of a sudden, you know, they have no interest.

00:40:13.360 You know, that video, for example, there's a famous video that's flying all over Twitter of Swalwell French kissing some, you know, sex work. 0.63

00:40:21.340 I love French kissing. 0.96

00:40:24.400 He's grabbing her and pulling her back on a bed.

00:40:26.800 I've never once heard a single reporter ask, who took that video?

00:40:31.380 Who is that sitting next to you on the bed?

00:40:33.780 Whose Nikes are those?

00:40:34.840 Whose beard is that?

00:40:36.020 I'm not saying it's Ruben Gallegos because we have no evidence.

00:40:39.580 He hasn't said it's him or hasn't said it's not him.

00:40:42.600 But nobody's asked the question.

00:40:44.420 This is a guy who Eric Swalwell.

00:40:46.400 And he loved to travel with Eric Swalwell.

00:40:48.260 That was his BFF.

00:40:48.840 He was the chairman of his presidential campaign.

00:40:50.700 And the video was taken during the time that Eric Swalwell was running for president.

00:40:54.760 My point is, if this, you know, what you said earlier, if you were Republican, it would be very different circumstances.

00:41:00.360 If you were Republican, every mainstream media reporter would be like, who took the video?

00:41:05.440 Who is that in there with you?

00:41:06.660 And make him deny it.

00:41:08.480 Very true.

00:41:08.940 In a weird way, in a weird way, Hilton being so successful in this jungle primary is the reason all this Swalwell stuff is coming out.

00:41:16.000 A hundred percent.

00:41:16.440 Right?

00:41:16.800 Because they are so nervous.

00:41:19.000 They're going to get locked out of the runoff in this thing.

00:41:21.340 And so the Democratic establishment, these other campaigns, the whole grassroots component of the Democratic Party are now trying to, you know, get rid of Swalwell for that reason.

00:41:31.480 And, Duncan, you saw it.

00:41:33.180 He is charming.

00:41:34.620 Steve Hilton.

00:41:35.640 Yes, he's a Republican.

00:41:36.760 Yes, it's California.

00:41:37.920 But Hilton is charming in a very disarming way that I'm sure they find extremely threatening.

00:41:43.420 And to your point on the media, what would the San Francisco Chronicle have done if this woman came to them when it was a general and it was Steve Hilton versus Eric Swalwell?

00:41:56.040 Oh, you know what they would have done.

00:41:57.540 Oh, yeah, that would have been a real catch and kill situation.

00:42:00.920 They would have been like, ah, they would have been doing the fair and balanced report that I did yesterday, which brought a little bile into my stomach because I have zero desire to help Eric Swalwell.

00:42:11.160 Well, but I did take a hard look at the allegations and I raised points about she sent him the nudes first, according to her testimony, you know, like all those points.

00:42:19.560 They would have read all that and they would have been like, she's not really not a credible accuser.

00:42:25.640 I don't think we can go with it.

00:42:27.640 You know, this is you're in the middle of a general campaign.

00:42:30.800 You know, you don't want to interfere in a way that's unfair.

00:42:33.600 That's how it would have gone down.

00:42:34.700 They all jumped on board. It was like CNN, Sarzesko Chronicle, CBS News, queuing up these women like within hours because they knew he had to go.

00:42:46.060 The stakes are too high.

00:42:47.440 We played a great clip on our show this morning of him during the Kavanaugh era.

00:42:52.560 I think he was on with Ari Melber or somebody from MSNBC back in the day and was saying like, well, either four women who have never met each other, don't associate with each other,

00:43:01.820 but all have similar stories about Kavanaugh, are telling the truth,

00:43:05.640 or he's the most unlucky person in the history of the world.

00:43:08.900 Meanwhile, he's got all that going on.

00:43:11.080 And no one asked him the question.

00:43:14.920 I guess that's the point, right?

00:43:16.400 It was widely known now, according to X,

00:43:19.180 and you read all the stuff that beat reporters were talking about.

00:43:23.280 My favorite, by the way, was like, oh, yeah, I knew all that stuff,

00:43:25.740 but it wasn't my beat.

00:43:27.220 I couldn't report it.

00:43:28.780 I couldn't talk about that.

00:43:31.540 They are actually saying that.

00:43:32.720 But here's the question.

00:43:34.200 Okay, so San Francisco Chronicle's interested in the story.

00:43:37.160 Got it.

00:43:37.520 And he's from the San Francisco region, right?

00:43:39.780 I think that's his hometown or it's near his hometown.

00:43:43.660 And so they're super interested in the Eric Swalwell story now.

00:43:47.320 Where were they over the past three, four, five, six years?

00:43:52.100 Okay, because Ronan Farrow, had he been hired by the San Francisco Chronicle,

00:43:58.000 would have been looking at this 100%.

00:44:00.000 As it turns out, he's devoted the past four years to taking down Sam Altman in a devastating piece that he just released.

00:44:05.900 But my point is simply, if you have the interest in this kind of story, you do hear the rumblings.

00:44:13.020 Yeah, I'm wondering about The New York Times.

00:44:14.900 Like, where is Megan Toohey?

00:44:16.400 Like that sort of those the Me Too beat reporters. 0.95

00:44:19.680 Where were they?

00:44:20.840 Because the whiff around this guy for years now has been he's a perverted creep from Fang Fang, which was very public and in front of the scenes.

00:44:30.000 to like look how little it took one little thread was pulled by the san francisco chronicle like

00:44:35.800 the one woman and now they're in the midst of a press conference i'm going to play you the sound

00:44:39.760 bite in two minutes of the latest accuser like they came they came running running just one 0.97

00:44:45.760 reporter need to pull a little thread so yeah where was the interest from the san francisco 0.70

00:44:51.000 chronicle and others two three four years ago he's a useful pervert he's a useful pervert he

00:44:57.060 was out there willing to say the most incendiary things possible about donald trump and republicans 0.53

00:45:02.640 that's it and that's it right there it's because in this whole story we can't lose what a trump

00:45:09.460 antagonist he has been he's been like the face of trump antagonism and he and adam schiff who just

00:45:16.580 got promoted to senator from what state oh california right and then there's nancy pelosi

00:45:22.220 Oh, wait, where's she from? Okay. Right. So it's like the cabal protects its own until you're no longer useful. And then you will get Nancy Pelosi's stiletto up your ass.

00:45:34.380 yeah no it's true and you know look like we used to have johnny and i used to work in 0.99

00:45:39.260 in senate leadership and if allegations surfaced in any material way certainly like that video that

00:45:47.340 that um you were talking about last segment where you know he's talking about i only bang tens and

00:45:52.860 things like that like if that stuff comes out you have a very serious conversation with your

00:45:56.860 member you certainly don't appoint them to be the point person right to attack a sitting president

00:46:01.420 the united states because you know the liability associated with that they didn't feel they didn't

00:46:05.820 think anybody would care and they thought they could just steamroll the media it doesn't matter

00:46:09.900 what information people have it's the information flow that they think that they control that

00:46:15.900 matters here and that is the way that democratic leadership has worked in perpetuity for so many

00:46:21.020 generations it's crazy you get a new media environment and some of this stuff starts

00:46:26.060 coming out like that that video that we were just speaking about but it didn't really take hold in

00:46:30.300 the mainstream media until he presented a liability to the democratic party now everybody's

00:46:36.860 interested in it the women can't wait to come forward everybody's talking about it it's like

00:46:41.260 i don't think that you can divorce anything that we've learned here in the last 48 hours

00:46:45.980 with a partisan opportunity that democrats have by having eric swalwell exit stage left they do

00:46:52.220 control the information flow that was very well said and it's not just eric swalwell you were

00:46:56.540 We're talking about Katie Porter and her volcanic temper. 0.99

00:47:00.780 Old potato. 1.00

00:47:01.380 Yeah, we call her mashed potatoes and crazy over here at the Ruthless Variety Program.

00:47:05.600 Katie, can we, just before you make that point, let's just, you know, for old times sake, let's watch Thought 10.

00:47:12.180 Let's just watch that.

00:47:14.040 Oh, yes.

00:47:14.900 This is why I didn't want to, I need the lights off, the bright lights.

00:47:18.360 I'm so sorry, but I am about to get on.

00:47:20.980 Bernard, I need you to turn these off.

00:47:23.300 Oh, I wrote these that are killing me.

00:47:25.240 Oh, no, Bernard.

00:47:25.880 Hang on one second, everybody.

00:47:29.300 Yes, yes, we should have.

00:47:32.620 Yes.

00:47:33.400 Okay, everybody.

00:47:34.560 I'm not that dark.

00:47:36.780 It's too dark.

00:47:38.880 There's the turn.

00:47:41.500 Oh, God.

00:47:42.160 Just a minute.

00:47:42.600 No, it's back on.

00:47:44.000 Okay, everybody.

00:47:45.120 I'm sorry about that.

00:47:46.520 I am in a TV studio getting ready to go on Cuomo.

00:47:51.100 And so I had all those studio lights on me.

00:47:53.500 and i couldn't see myself or see you guys oh we have more coming of course we've got the money 1.00

00:48:01.120 shot as well that everybody wants to see but keep going she's an absolute lunatic and that that 1.00

00:48:05.980 divorce filing that described her throwing the steaming mashed potatoes on her husband's head 1.00

00:48:12.560 it also described how she took a broken coffee pot and went after him with the glass like there

00:48:19.140 There's story after story about her very early in her career.

00:48:22.880 This is 2018 when she first ran for Congress and a lot of reporters were presented with

00:48:29.080 this filing and they were like, nah, I don't want to write it.

00:48:32.400 You know why they didn't want to write it?

00:48:33.760 Because she was an acolyte of Elizabeth Warren. 0.85

00:48:36.940 She was a made woman in their machine.

00:48:39.520 And therefore, the media was not going to tell the true story about her. 0.59

00:48:43.820 She was running in a primary against other Democrats.

00:48:45.980 There was a Democrat who probably would have voted up and down for Pelosi.

00:48:49.700 She was closer to Elizabeth Warren and closer to the power structure.

00:48:53.040 Therefore, she was protected.

00:48:55.200 And it wasn't until like three cycles later that the media was like, OK, well, you know what?

00:49:00.480 We're willing to write the story based on the divorce filing, which is a court document.

00:49:06.000 You know, it's not all available.

00:49:07.340 It's not like some Republican researcher digging something up and saying, no, trust me, this is a story.

00:49:13.360 These are official documents. 0.98

00:49:14.680 And her temper, obviously, you've got great video you just played and more to come. 0.73

00:49:20.620 It wasn't until a Democrat pitched the story.

00:49:23.340 Everyone knew it.

00:49:24.560 It wasn't until a Democrat pitched the story so it's in service of another Democrat that you learned anything about Katie Porter, which is the same as Wola. 0.91

00:49:31.680 You don't even have to read the divorce filings if you just watch that video and you see her eyes change.

00:49:36.740 It's in the eyes. 0.94

00:49:37.480 Oh, yeah.

00:49:38.000 You can tell.

00:49:38.820 Crazy eyes are definitely a thing.

00:49:40.500 There was another great interaction that she had with a reporter from CBS.

00:49:45.020 The reporter's like, so why are you running for Congress? 1.00

00:49:47.420 And she was like, fuck you. 1.00

00:49:49.980 How dare you ask me that question? 1.00

00:49:52.560 She just loses her mind on this kid.

00:49:55.760 Out of her mind.

00:49:56.900 No, it was amazing.

00:49:57.760 That's why I kind of secretly love her.

00:50:00.000 Her absence of anger management makes her very interesting and fun to watch. 1.00

00:50:03.340 Whatever she does, it needs to be higher office. 1.00

00:50:05.220 Like, I don't care if it's California. 1.00

00:50:06.440 She needs to, like, she needs to become more prominent in the Democrat Party. 1.00

00:50:09.180 I think she should consider throwing her hat into the presidential race. 1.00

00:50:12.240 A1 content. 1.00

00:50:13.500 But yeah, so she, whatever, we'll see whether she's the one who takes on Steve Hilton. 0.99

00:50:18.780 But they knifed him.

00:50:20.900 There's no question they knifed Eric Swalwell.

00:50:22.620 The Democrats did it.

00:50:23.740 They were the ones who knew it.

00:50:24.760 I don't know how they orchestrated it.

00:50:26.340 But they're very good at orchestrating.

00:50:27.760 They are. 0.99

00:50:28.380 And now we have this other woman coming forward right now. 1.00

00:50:31.920 I'm going to show you this soundbite.

00:50:33.200 It's actually rather disturbing. 0.87

00:50:34.660 I mean, this guy, he may be some kind of monster. 0.99

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00:53:33.000 get out of my fucking shot i wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect it's not that it's 0.58

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00:53:59.700 team k that's the next governor of california possibly right there welcome back to the megan

00:54:04.520 kelly show the fellas from the ruthless variety program are my guest today guys how can you not

00:54:09.760 love her a little yeah i mean that's the way smug operates with all of us around here it's a

00:54:13.660 shame he's gone today but that's that's basically yeah he's not at all in our shot today yeah it's

00:54:19.120 It's the same feel that we get. 0.69

00:54:20.840 I mean, she's just such a monster. 0.99

00:54:23.060 It's hilarious because you're right about the crazy eyes. 0.97

00:54:26.200 Like you see there's something that provokes and then all of a sudden she flips into like pure sociopathy.

00:54:32.800 No, I'm telling you, I'm Team Katie. 0.50

00:54:35.860 That girl should not have been in the shot correcting her as she was issuing her information.

00:54:40.600 I don't care.

00:54:41.280 I'm on Team Katie there. 0.85

00:54:42.340 I think she should give me an interview.

00:54:44.180 I think we would bond.

00:54:45.880 I would be like, you know what?

00:54:47.340 She had no right.

00:54:49.120 doing that to you what the it would be everybody would watch this okay wait there's more though 0.95

00:54:58.140 so now now it just got shit's getting real for eric swalwell so we we found out yesterday that 0.55

00:55:05.400 alvin bragg the da in manhattan infamous da is opening up a criminal probe into swalwell because 0.96

00:55:12.220 the young woman who is alleging that she had not one but two extremely drunken interludes with him

00:55:18.340 including what both where she says they had sex which she says she was blacked out if that's true

00:55:26.260 that's there's not consent and it could potentially be rape legally and the second of those incidents

00:55:31.540 happened in new york city so alvin bragg is now opening a legal probe into swalwell which now

00:55:37.020 that's serious as a heart attack and now this woman they had teased that she was going to come

00:55:42.040 out i said to my team let me guess with gloria allred it's gloria allred's daughter lisa bloom

00:55:47.080 her lawyer yeah uh that's the lawyer and so you know they anybody i have to be honest anybody who

00:55:53.080 comes out with all red or the daughter there's a segment of the population that's going to say i

00:55:58.880 don't believe a word you say because you're looking for publicity i will say these are good

00:56:03.440 lawyers um you know they know what they're doing so you know keep an open mind but here she is this

00:56:09.880 latest accuser and i mean this is next level her name is lana drews she says this happened in 2018

00:56:18.420 she's in the entertainment industry she's not a journalist um one thing just to point out as i

00:56:25.180 said we for an hour we went through the swalwell allegations yesterday as we knew them and the one 0.98

00:56:29.780 thing i kept saying was that these women seem to be intimating that there might have been a date 0.97

00:56:35.180 rape drug used by him. No one said it explicitly, but the women, there was a pattern emerging as 0.98

00:56:40.660 you looked at the stories of like, I was extremely intoxicated. I blacked out and he was on top of

00:56:47.660 me. And, um, no one said it. I just was gleaning that they might've been intimating. Well, this

00:56:54.960 woman does more than intimate. Listen. In 2018, while I was living and working as a model in 1.00

00:57:01.700 Beverly Hills. And I also owned a fashion software company. I had contact with Eric

00:57:10.020 Swalwell on three separate occasions after meeting him socially. He offered me connections

00:57:18.880 to further my software company. And I also had an interest in local politics. He invited

00:57:28.880 me to two public events, I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant.

00:57:41.400 He was my friend. On the third occasion, I believe he drugged my drink. I only had one

00:57:54.360 glass of wine, he, we were supposed to go to a political event and

00:58:06.040 he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.

00:58:12.200 When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and

00:58:18.280 I couldn't move my arms or my body. 0.98

00:58:24.360 he raped me 1.00

00:58:26.660 and he choked me 1.00

00:58:31.260 and while he was choking me

00:58:35.360 I lost consciousness

00:58:36.420 and I thought I died

00:58:40.780 I did not consent

00:58:43.600 oh my god

00:58:46.980 different level

00:58:48.420 one more, this is from her lawyer

00:58:50.200 Lisa Bloom

00:58:51.040 immediately we will be filing a police report with the los angeles county sheriff's office

00:58:59.100 which is the law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over incidents that happen in west

00:59:06.000 hollywood lana is committed to fully cooperating with law enforcement and we will do everything

00:59:14.900 possible to assist and support her in that we will be providing all of her evidence there

00:59:22.980 including text messages journal entries photograph and witness information

00:59:32.600 lisa bloom also adding that three more women have contacted her about swalwell

00:59:41.000 Guys, this just took a turn in a very, very dark one. 0.99

00:59:45.240 It's one thing if he's just like a pervert and it's quite another if this is some sort of a date rape, serial rapist. 0.99

00:59:53.720 He denies all charges. 0.98

00:59:55.280 He claims they're completely untrue.

00:59:56.980 The ones that are accusing him of sexual assault, he says.

00:59:59.920 He says everything else is a matter between him and his wife.

01:00:02.840 And we don't know anything about this woman, I have to say, in his defense.

01:00:05.320 We have no idea what her credibility is, whether she's got an ax to grind.

01:00:08.840 All of that needs to be investigated.

01:00:10.160 but just on its face that's extremely serious and devastating no kidding no i mean it's where

01:00:15.960 it travels from being a creep to being a monster right and you know you hate to hear it and you

01:00:22.000 can see the pain in that woman's face it's just it's it's awful i and i do understand conceptually

01:00:28.400 the idea that when a whistle is blown on a potential monster as as is being alleged

01:00:35.040 of Swalwell here, how other women could find the courage to come forward and wouldn't do so

01:00:41.300 before. What irritates me about this entire situation is that her pain or somebody else's

01:00:49.960 could have been prevented in the first place if somebody did a little bit of due diligence on what

01:00:54.620 appears to be a pattern over a long period of time. But as long as this man was saying the

01:01:00.360 right things to the right people and the wrong things about the right people he was fine in

01:01:06.100 democratic party politics he was protected he was a made man he was put in charge of things i mean

01:01:10.580 this guy sat on the intelligence committee for crying out loud will you trust this guy with your 0.94

01:01:14.920 secret i mean i guess he knew how to keep a secret but other than that what an absolute monster and

01:01:20.300 it's just it's the sickening part of politics and in particular democratic politics where they think

01:01:28.020 if you don't find out about something that's perfectly fine as long as somebody like eric

01:01:33.100 swalwell is in service of their larger mission which is to try to destroy conservatism donald

01:01:38.800 trump or republican party and not for nothing guys but that was 2018 she said i mean he got

01:01:45.940 married in 2016 and as you heard her say his wife was pregnant at the time which she knew when she

01:01:53.400 was you know seeing him but um it's just it's just so disgusting not that not that it's great

01:01:58.480 to cheat 10 years in either but like two years you didn't even make it two years before you

01:02:04.460 cheated on your pregnant wife like that that's just next level demonic but homes unfortunately

01:02:11.280 it's not just democrats because this guy tony gonzalez is going to go too and his allegations

01:02:16.660 are awful they're awful now they're not the same as swalwell but he's now being forced to

01:02:22.920 resign early because he had an affair with a junior staffer who was married, and he was married

01:02:31.840 with six children, and he was sending her inappropriate texts. There's a record of them.

01:02:38.960 Her husband found out. Her husband was livid, and she set herself on fire and killed herself.

01:02:48.060 And this guy has been lingering on in the House.

01:02:53.720 He said, I'm not going to seek re-election, but he didn't step down and no one made him step down because the Republicans have a very, very slim majority in the House.

01:03:04.920 I mean, and now in the wake of Eric Swalwell being forced out, he's like, OK, I'll go to, you know, and now the Republicans are like, OK, we can we can sacrifice one because they're losing one, which is also very skeevy.

01:03:17.300 Yeah, I think it's different, honestly. I mean, if you look at the sequence of events on the Gonzalez thing, which is horrible, absolutely ridiculous in both in terms of power structure within that office, the fact that it was a staffer, the fact that obviously there was mental health issues involved in what ultimately became in a very tragic situation.

01:03:38.400 But when all this came to light, it was presented to Speaker Johnson and he immediately said, this guy needs to go. You should not run for reelection. I mean, it was very close in proximity to when this comes out. And it wasn't driven by Speaker Johnson. Like these were evidence. These were things that were happening that we were all learning at at the same time. And appropriate action was taken. Now, should he have had a vote to expel him?

01:04:05.620 i mean that's an argument that you could make certainly um but as this happened republicans

01:04:11.400 had no it was all harm and yet he went out and said he should not run for re-election when he

01:04:17.500 was in a tight re-election race thereby risking the seat altogether there's not a single democrat

01:04:22.840 that did that in fact swalwell it wasn't until he posed a problem to the democratic party that

01:04:30.300 we started learning this, and I would suggest this whole thing was pitched by the Democratic

01:04:35.260 Party to begin with, which is certainly not the case with the Gonzalez thing in terms

01:04:40.480 of its politics.

01:04:41.360 Now, in terms of its practical impact, they're both horrible situations, obviously very different

01:04:46.560 in a lot of different ways, and they should both have no business representing anybody

01:04:50.720 in the United States Congress, but there is a different political impact in how the leaders

01:04:55.400 have handled each situation.

01:04:58.540 Yeah, and it doesn't stop.

01:04:59.980 I don't know. It doesn't stop with those two. I don't think we can rehabilitate anybody on Tony

01:05:03.220 Gonzalez. He's disgusting. He's a filthy pervert. To her credit, Anna Polina Luna was among the 0.97

01:05:09.980 first to say, he's got to go. Get him out of here. And he is getting out of there. But like,

01:05:14.320 and look, this is, I think the Swalwell thing suggests a conspiracy at every level of Democrat

01:05:20.100 politics. I just think, I think Nancy Pelosi knew. I think Hakeem Jeffries knew. I wonder if Gavin

01:05:26.000 Newsom knew. I think Adam Schiff knew. Totally. This is just my supposition based on their power

01:05:31.880 and their party and the fact that this seemed to be an open secret. And they know everything.

01:05:36.360 They're California Democrats. So I just think it's very different if you know you've got a

01:05:40.800 serial possible rapist on your hands versus a guy who's a disgusting, filthy pervert who had 1.00

01:05:46.260 an affair with one woman. And by the way, there's a second woman alleging he sent her dick pics 1.00

01:05:50.660 and had naughty texts with her, another staffer in his office. 0.99

01:05:54.900 So he's going, this Gonzalez character, but they're equally,

01:05:59.820 I mean, they're both awful, but there are degrees of awfulness.

01:06:02.600 Well, yeah, Megan, I mean, the thing that makes me a little bit uncomfortable

01:06:05.540 in this whole thing is, you know, this is the United States Congress.

01:06:09.660 It's like not the NFL draft.

01:06:11.220 It's not like two teams that get to trade picks with a player determined later.

01:06:14.440 It's like who we kick out of Congress.

01:06:16.440 I think it cheapens the whole process.

01:06:18.240 and what I would hate to see happen is it's like, oh, well, you get one, we get one, they're both

01:06:23.940 gone, we wipe our hands, and then we don't actually get to the bottom of all this stuff

01:06:27.980 with Swalwell. That's really my concern, is like, there is a process of justice here that victims,

01:06:33.740 if they are actual victims, deserve. And I don't like entering into that political sphere.

01:06:39.440 You won't read anything about Eric Swalwell in three weeks. They solved the problem.

01:06:45.220 they solved the problem so true there is no problem how many other problems are yeah well

01:06:51.020 yes but it's not until it becomes a problem for the democratic hierarchy that you learn about it

01:06:57.000 and once that's solved it's over like this victim i feel horrible this tape that you just played

01:07:01.680 she's not going to read a single thing about any justice administered until or unless they bring

01:07:09.480 charges and he has to stand before a court it will not be covered the problem is solved from a media

01:07:15.440 perspective everyone's talking about this old madison cawthorn soundbite he was a member of

01:07:24.080 the house who got pushed out for being kind of awful i don't like what was the general buzz around

01:07:29.440 him no that's i think that's a fair assessment but and now he's renewing this comment online

01:07:36.380 And there are some who are in the House saying, take a seat, Madison, which I guess is not the best phrase because he is wheelchair bound.

01:07:44.460 But here he is in a warning about what really goes on behind the scenes in Congress before he was pushed out in 2022.

01:07:55.600 The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington.

01:07:57.560 I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington with the average age of probably 60 or 70.

01:08:02.820 And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I've looked up to through my life.

01:08:05.820 always paid attention to politics guys that you know then all of a sudden you get invited to like

01:08:10.140 well hey we're gonna have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes you should come 0.99

01:08:14.360 what did you just ask me to come to and then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy 0.99

01:08:19.580 or the fact that you know there's some of the people that are leading on the movement to try

01:08:24.100 and remove you know addiction in our country and then you watch them do you know a key bump

01:08:28.020 of cocaine right in front of you and it's like wow this is this is wild I mean okay I don't know

01:08:36.140 that I've been invited to an orgy if you fellas where where where was this stuff when I was 22 0.78

01:08:40.620 yeah I mean that was like that at 22 that would an orgy I've been like you got to be kidding you

01:08:46.780 think you would have done it no he'd have been in on the orgy Megan he's he's not telling the

01:08:52.680 No, the funny thing is you hear this stuff from time to time and that guy is like the least credible person in the history of the world to talk about any of it.

01:09:02.200 Maybe that was his experience.

01:09:03.600 I would suggest it's probably the friends that he chose that provided that opportunity for him.

01:09:08.580 But, you know, you hear about this from time to time and either it's totally untrue or

01:09:16.740 the 20 years that I spent in and around Capitol Hill were a charmed existence and one that

01:09:24.320 Or just nobody, nobody wanted you to homes.

01:09:27.020 Do you think?

01:09:28.620 Megan, that's harsh. 0.98

01:09:31.240 I feel like I'd be invited to orgies. 0.99

01:09:34.000 That's unbelievable. 0.98

01:09:35.940 I think you would.

01:09:37.140 I just say, I think you would.

01:09:39.160 My friend.

01:09:40.600 But this is, I mean, look, I don't know if I'm just like most blessed to have had the experience that I had.

01:09:49.320 Or unblessed.

01:09:49.940 Or unblessed.

01:09:50.680 I mean, look, there would have been some things to write a great tell-all if I would have had a different experience.

01:09:55.940 It's like Trump.

01:09:58.500 Unfortunately, that's just the way it's been. 1.00

01:10:00.400 Women let the celebrities grab them by the P word and they don't complain. 1.00

01:10:03.840 Unfortunately or fortunately. 1.00

01:10:05.780 i wasn't famous i wasn't famous they didn't let me do it

01:10:10.940 okay i don't know what's going on in capitol hill but i will say you know having lived on

01:10:16.260 this earth as a professional for a long time every business is gross there are gross people

01:10:22.500 in every business who are going to pervert it corrupt it do the wrong thing it's it's life

01:10:27.600 you know maybe some industries are worse than others i would certainly say you know news is

01:10:32.320 pretty disgusting up and down the business. Politics seems equal. They're kind of the same

01:10:38.540 gig. I would say my law days, I didn't see this kind of stuff. Lawyers can be skeezy. At my level

01:10:44.500 where I was, it wasn't like this. Lawyers have to take a whole ethical oath and test to pass the

01:10:50.480 bar. And I think they work so hard for their careers. They know they could lose them so easily

01:10:54.740 and get disbarred. I don't know. Maybe I'm being a Pollyanna about the law, but I just, I don't

01:10:58.620 remember anything like this stuff there were affairs and things like that but like this is

01:11:02.620 crazy um so i don't know um i'm disappointed to see so many of our elected representatives be

01:11:08.600 disgusting and i really i'm very very pro throwing them out like as soon as we find out get out yeah

01:11:13.700 but there's another one but i also but i also want to caution that a touch in that a that has

01:11:18.540 not been my experience but b you know i was reminded uh when people are surfacing these

01:11:24.560 kind of things about how like you yourself being a public figure had to undergo just incredible, 0.97

01:11:30.740 salacious, ridiculous, rumor mongering, untrue bullshit in your career, just simply because you 0.99

01:11:37.480 were successful. And the network you were on was successful. And so people wanted to talk about it 1.00

01:11:43.440 and allege things and almost became incumbent upon you to sort of defend yourself and with

01:11:50.660 completely untrue things that are being said about you. I don't want to do that to Congress

01:11:56.080 as a whole. Are there some bad folks? No question about it. I genuinely believe, and at least

01:12:01.780 it's been my experience, the vast majority of them that are up there are doing the people's

01:12:06.900 business and they're doing the best thing that they possibly can. I do not think that

01:12:11.560 there are swole wells at every corner. And so I just to it myself to get the throw the

01:12:18.900 bums out get them all out of here they're all jerks and pedophiles and thieves and everything 1.00

01:12:24.020 else and i just don't think that personally that is the case see this is why you don't get invited 1.00

01:12:29.100 to the orgy i know it's why i'm not at the orgy it's just no this this would get him involved

01:12:35.600 this is what gets you invited where he's like yeah let's let's be slow to judge i'll defend

01:12:40.820 I don't know.

01:12:43.380 I didn't see anything myself.

01:12:45.400 The heart wants what it wants.

01:12:50.300 I want to correct myself.

01:12:51.920 I can't imagine if you're mad.

01:12:54.180 I think we got an audio issue. 0.98

01:12:56.060 I just want to say, because Tony Gonzalez did not send a dick pic. 0.99

01:12:59.180 He solicited a nude photo from another staffer, and he sent sexually explicit messages. 0.99

01:13:05.260 So just to be clear, he wanted the sexual photos to be incoming.

01:13:08.760 he didn't yet send one outgoing as far as we know um so that's that i don't know i i will say this

01:13:15.540 like the the odds of getting accused by like a dozen people of the same exact thing um and there

01:13:25.020 being no truth like that that just that's a bridge too far it's one thing like well you take the

01:13:29.940 gonzalez situation like if if it had been one staffer who came forward and it was like well

01:13:34.040 is this a consensual affair that these two had and whatever but like this thing spun so out of 1.00

01:13:38.380 control and the woman's results were so devastating. You know, I mean, she died by

01:13:43.320 suicide in the most horrific way. She clearly was very manipulated and traumatized by this guy,

01:13:49.400 but then she was manipulated and traumatized by the fact that her husband found out about the

01:13:52.240 affair. That was part of the driving factor there. Um, it just, it couldn't be ignored.

01:13:57.140 I mean, it's just, it couldn't, but, but with Swalwell, it's like, I don't know how many we're

01:14:01.700 going to get total. And the, and it seems to be on a downward slope toward more and more severe.

01:14:05.640 It's just like in my experience, you don't get a dozen accusers coming forward when there's there's absolutely no they're there with Trump.

01:14:14.000 It was different because he was at the highest levels of politics and they threw everything at him.

01:14:20.500 And he had had years as like a playboy man about town where, you know, he admitted that he was a bit of a bore with women. 0.92

01:14:29.360 And so it was hard with Trump to actually understand exactly like what's the boorish behavior of a celebrity playboy and what's a Me Too situation, you know, like that ridiculous person who sued him claiming that he raped her and Bergdorf Goodman. 0.70

01:14:45.980 I didn't believe one word from that E. Jean Carroll, not one word, which is my right, by the way, E. Jean, in case you're getting any ideas of suing me, I don't believe you. 0.51

01:14:55.520 That's my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.

01:14:57.780 In any event, okay, let's keep going, because there's other news to get to on Capitol Hill, and I want to get to a lot of it.

01:15:03.780 But before we do Capitol Hill, now we're on the subject of perversion.

01:15:06.700 Can we talk about Sidney Sweeney for a second?

01:15:08.660 Terrific.

01:15:09.500 Yes.

01:15:10.560 Yeah.

01:15:11.660 So Sidney Sweeney, who I think you're in favor of.

01:15:15.080 Yes.

01:15:16.120 She stars in the show Euphoria, which I've never seen.

01:15:20.180 But that's how I guess she kind of became a star, starring in that.

01:15:24.800 And then she was in a couple of other things.

01:15:27.660 But this is where her main vehicle.

01:15:29.800 And they are teasing the next season of Euphoria.

01:15:34.360 This thing is made by Sam Levinson, who is a filmmaker and actor and the son of director Barry Levinson, who's very famous.

01:15:42.320 He, Sam, is the creator of Euphoria.

01:15:44.000 and they have just teased the third season of euphoria with the following with a little like

01:15:51.800 video showing what's going to be happening with sydney sweeney's character where i guess she's

01:15:56.340 going to become a social media influencer and she's going to be like an only fans uh

01:16:02.960 actress and i'm sorry forgive me viewer warning this is her spread eagle

01:16:08.480 Megan

01:16:09.360 Good God 0.64

01:16:12.020 On a couch

01:16:13.000 Definitely R-rated

01:16:14.360 Sorry

01:16:14.840 Oh and we're zooming in

01:16:15.800 I'm sorry

01:16:16.160 Yours

01:16:17.600 Forgive me

01:16:18.620 Holy God

01:16:19.320 This is going to change

01:16:20.380 The trajectory of my day

01:16:21.820 Megan

01:16:22.240 You could have given us 0.72

01:16:23.120 A heads up 1.00

01:16:23.860 She's dressed 1.00

01:16:26.580 As a baby 0.96

01:16:27.880 She's in 1.00

01:16:29.240 A baby's outfit 1.00

01:16:30.700 She's sucking 1.00

01:16:31.720 On a binky 1.00

01:16:32.620 Pacifier 0.98

01:16:34.000 And her legs 1.00

01:16:35.000 Are completely spread 1.00

01:16:36.340 And I

01:16:37.760 like it's you can have a laugh of course because it's just i shocked you but the truth is this is

01:16:43.640 like this is sexualizing infancy that's what this is and some of the write-ups about this are like 0.60

01:16:51.240 it's a pretty common kink what wanting getting turned on by a baby like what what do you what 0.93

01:16:59.040 i've never heard no um okay so this is sick and this guy is promoting this i i can't believe she 0.89

01:17:06.180 agreed to this frankly and was in this like we just took the screen grab from the trailer there's

01:17:11.880 also a picture of her dressed as a dog being led around on a leash and i think this guy's sick

01:17:18.220 this guy sam levinson like because there are reports of him injecting nudity into the sydney

01:17:23.820 sweeney scenes so often she went to him and said please stop doing this it's very gratuitous and

01:17:29.300 now all these other women have come forward saying he injected nudity into their scenes too he

01:17:34.360 constantly wants the women to take their clothes off for like scenes that don't require them to

01:17:38.860 be nude at all. And he just keeps putting in every scene and all these women want to be stars. And so,

01:17:44.140 you know, few say no, but the ones who do somehow it leaks, you know, because they're clearly trying 0.99

01:17:49.140 to tell us that this guy is at a minimum, a jerk and more than likely a problem. So I think this 0.98

01:17:56.300 is another example guys of hollywood not understanding at all where the line is and how

01:18:04.320 most normal people are going to recoil even sydney sweeney fans in response to what's essentially the

01:18:11.520 sexualization of of a child of a baby it's like seems to be wanting to bring down your defenses

01:18:18.580 on the most disgusting crime imaginable on earth your thoughts well it makes you question the

01:18:25.800 strength of the plot line yeah yeah you have to wonder how that meeting went when they're going

01:18:29.700 through the script they were like okay is this essential or is like is like to your point megan

01:18:35.200 is the director working out some own his own sick fetish here through the production of this show

01:18:41.160 it's like the quentin tarantino thing allegedly you know he's really in defeat oh you know yeah

01:18:45.860 yeah yeah yeah so maybe it's something like that but i also i have no context to this because i

01:18:51.560 and watch you for you i hear the whole show is disgusting like this but like like i have to

01:18:56.600 wonder because i assume a lot of this stuff was in context of this character starting an only fans

01:19:01.140 pages maybe it's a commentary on the sickos who are asking her to be the excuse yeah to do these

01:19:07.760 things so maybe it's a commentary on that although having seen some of the clips online it seems like

01:19:12.560 the entire show is just perversion yeah probably other ways to present that sort of commentary

01:19:17.380 Yeah, it's just, you know, my own opinion.

01:19:19.820 I feel like Hollywood is just begging for the San Andreas fault to ship, you know, like there.

01:19:25.940 It's like they're throwing up prayers every day.

01:19:29.180 San Andreas, move, put California into the Pacific Ocean.

01:19:34.020 So true.

01:19:34.380 You know, they also don't even see.

01:19:35.980 My geology professor in college told me that that was going to happen within like 10 years, that California is going to fall into the ocean as a result of the San Andreas.

01:19:43.800 Here we are all these years later.

01:19:45.200 Keep going.

01:19:45.500 Oh, it's just 10 years, Megan.

01:19:46.860 That seems about right.

01:19:48.480 Ten years ago, that feels right.

01:19:50.580 This might be the year.

01:19:51.800 Almost there.

01:19:53.080 You never know.

01:19:54.180 This might be the year.

01:19:55.040 And it may be biblical. 0.63

01:19:56.160 Exactly.

01:19:57.380 Yeah, no kidding.

01:19:58.140 The rapture is upon us.

01:20:01.000 Speaking of nudity in California, that brings me to Lena Dunham.

01:20:04.280 Oh, Jesus.

01:20:05.020 And I know this is, yeah, come on.

01:20:07.040 I'm giving you lots of content for the Ruthless Variety Program.

01:20:10.440 Lena Dunham is back.

01:20:11.860 She's hawking a memoir that she's written, and she's got a lot of thoughts.

01:20:16.500 She wants to talk about her body image because she's very large now.

01:20:22.100 She's gained a lot of weight and she's not afraid to discuss it.

01:20:28.320 She wants to talk about how the intense rage she faced about her body, like as a result of that show, Girls, etc., have like really affected her.

01:20:41.160 And also here she is talking about how people cannot empathize with her on the weight issue.

01:20:46.220 here's top 47 let's start there and I felt sad that that person didn't have a sense that she

01:20:53.900 it's not even just about being normatively beautiful although like the I although the way 0.56

01:20:58.800 that I was spoken about I mean that's what so many women's bodies look like that's not what

01:21:04.580 my body looks like anymore but it was I was like full of light and if and it's interesting as I

01:21:11.400 looked at the photos over the course of the show I could see it's such a cliche but it was like the

01:21:17.120 lights just went out somehow my health picture kept getting less clear not more clear which also

01:21:22.880 makes it very I understand very hard for other people to empathize with because it seems abstract

01:21:30.700 amorphous like they lose sympathy or think you're making it up and the highest value is just to be

01:21:37.120 able to go and go and go. And it took me a really long time to understand that wasn't like my only 0.90

01:21:44.040 value that actually I could have a fragile body and a strong mind and have a lot to offer without

01:21:52.520 like betraying my own physical self over and over and over again.

01:21:59.320 Okay. Now I pardon you if you're confused by her messaging, but she appears to be saying

01:22:04.700 that when she did Girls, which was a hit,

01:22:07.380 I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, whatever it was,

01:22:10.980 she was objectified, you see.

01:22:13.200 And she was thin back then.

01:22:14.980 And people talked about her in a way that was objectifying 1.00

01:22:18.380 and it created rage in her. 1.00

01:22:20.820 And so now she's fat. 0.98

01:22:22.180 Now she's morbidly obese. 1.00

01:22:24.000 I guess because she ate her feelings, 1.00

01:22:26.580 because we all created rage by objectifying her 1.00

01:22:29.920 when she looked like most women.

01:22:31.820 And I am here to tell you that if anybody objectified

01:22:34.640 Lena Dunham on the show Girls.

01:22:37.340 It was Lena Dunham.

01:22:38.880 Because let me tell you something.

01:22:40.420 I watched a little of this show when it hit.

01:22:43.340 And my poor husband, Doug, was dragged along for the ride.

01:22:46.820 Poor Doug.

01:22:47.360 And he was tolerating it.

01:22:49.360 You know, he's a good guy.

01:22:50.800 He's like, all right, fine.

01:22:51.980 And then it was this scene that Doug said, I'm out.

01:22:56.240 And I had my team pull it because I remember the moment vividly.

01:22:59.660 Watch.

01:23:03.360 It's a ping pong table.

01:23:04.420 I haven't played this a lot, but I'm just, I'm very naturally gifted athletically.

01:23:07.920 She's naked.

01:23:08.960 We blurred it.

01:23:09.840 I don't do that many sports, but when I do them, people are impressed.

01:23:14.800 What'd you got?

01:23:19.300 This is her. 0.98

01:23:22.540 She's got underwear on, but no top, and she's exposed. 0.84

01:23:26.840 That, so now she wants to do a revisionist.

01:23:29.620 people made comments about my hot body when i would look like that which is why now i look like

01:23:36.180 this all society's fault for objectifying me guys this is not a well person you guys get the feeling

01:23:43.280 that megan like when they produce the show when we come on and she's like can i get these guys

01:23:48.840 to break yeah like can i can i break them like maybe if we do sydney sweeney and then lena dunham

01:23:56.720 like they won't be able to talk about it.

01:23:58.580 That's really tough bookends. 1.00

01:24:00.000 A topless Lena Dunham, I'm not sure they can handle that.

01:24:02.980 But nothing tells me that Doug Brunt is a normal dude,

01:24:05.980 quite like when he gets to that point, he's like, ah.

01:24:08.760 Okay.

01:24:09.420 Listen, I'm going to go watch baseball.

01:24:13.100 I've had it.

01:24:14.060 This is it.

01:24:15.980 Oh, man.

01:24:17.480 That was it?

01:24:18.360 We never watched the show again?

01:24:20.180 It was so in your face.

01:24:22.780 You know, she and the thing is, back then she was kind of known as being a little chubby, like she talks about herself now, like she was Elle McPherson.

01:24:30.720 But like she was known as being like a little on the chubby side, but like very, very quick to take off her clothes on throughout this series.

01:24:39.040 And now she's like blaming whatever positive feedback there was about that body on her. 0.60

01:24:45.420 She blames her eating problem on it. 0.94

01:24:47.240 At least that's how I glean her.

01:24:48.660 She's very she's almost incomprehensible now.

01:24:51.000 And on top of that, she's ripping on her co-star, Adam Driver, suggesting that he has been, like, violent, that he's been throwing things around.

01:25:03.480 Do we have that, you guys, where she accuses Adam Driver of being a hothead and throwing the chair?

01:25:09.100 Oh, jeez.

01:25:09.980 Oh, it's not a stop, but she did allege that.

01:25:12.900 So, in any event, this is, again, to your point about the San Andreas, John.

01:25:17.460 Yeah, shifting very soon.

01:25:19.340 I, you know, the thing is about all of this, and you alluded to the, when you said, I don't really remember any of us forcing her to go be public and have a public career, but there's few things on this planet that I find more annoying than somebody who foists themselves in the public spotlight and then complains about the, their own way of dealing with it.

01:25:41.760 it's like no dude you could have just been an accountant yeah you could have done what i like

01:25:47.020 nobody's you're fat you're thin lena dunham i haven't thought about her name since it was 0.98

01:25:52.620 foisted upon me 15 years ago with that shitty show right you know like i've never and now she 0.97

01:25:57.800 is she's back she's like well now i'm fat and unhappy because of all the things that right i 0.56

01:26:02.660 never remember asking about it then or now about how she's doing she could have just written the 0.72

01:26:08.480 show yeah she didn't have to be topless playing ping pong horribly by the way she's very bad at

01:26:13.760 ping pong that's really what did it for doug yeah it was the acumen the acumen of the of the ping

01:26:21.860 pong that's right he's a very good ping pong player i'm sure you objected that i was just

01:26:27.840 thrilled another person who's been complaining this gal i'm about to show you to your point of 0.75

01:26:33.080 trying to break you guys she's complained too about her media coverage she doesn't like when 1.00

01:26:38.100 the press comes down on her at one point she actually i think said she was quitting music

01:26:42.120 altogether because she didn't like what people were saying about her and that woman is lizzo

01:26:46.300 and the reason i'm raising that is because lizzo has decided to appear at coachella um recently

01:26:53.460 and uh she went here's the here's my team's note lizzo twerking with life-size labubu on stage at

01:27:02.440 Coachella. I only understand two

01:27:04.420 of those words. Here it is

01:27:06.040 in thought 40. Right? Is it thought

01:27:08.400 40? I think that's the one. It's either 40

01:27:10.360 or 39.

01:27:23.380 They're basically

01:27:24.300 she's doing

01:27:26.600 her twerks with him basically

01:27:28.140 doing 0.95

01:27:30.540 her from behind. I don't know

01:27:32.420 Here's another one.

01:27:33.760 What are you doing to us?

01:27:37.260 We're going to keep going until I hear the words surrender.

01:27:40.300 Here is SOT 39. 1.00

01:27:45.680 Sexy girl. 0.94

01:27:47.940 I got the red key. 1.00

01:27:52.300 Sexy red with her. 0.99

01:27:53.980 Oh, my God.

01:27:54.600 Look at this.

01:27:54.960 Oh, my God.

01:27:55.960 What?

01:27:56.640 We go.

01:27:58.480 He's like, you know.

01:27:59.660 What do you got?

01:28:00.300 He's like, you know.

01:28:00.860 Entertainment media will see that and write up like, you know, she's an accomplished flautist and nobody, nobody will present it that way.

01:28:14.440 The brave introduction of the flute in today's R&B world.

01:28:18.080 Exactly. 0.98

01:28:19.760 She's basically naked, jiggling like a hundred pounds of fat through cellulite on stage with no clothes on while playing the flute. 1.00

01:28:30.860 This passes for entertainment in 2026 America. 1.00

01:28:35.760 Remember when they used to sing at these events like Coachella?

01:28:39.320 That was nice.

01:28:40.060 They go out there.

01:28:41.800 Yeah.

01:28:42.560 Remember those days?

01:28:43.340 Or like, remember when it's like low cleavage was considered risque?

01:28:47.320 Yeah.

01:28:47.840 And we'd have talks about whether, like, how low did it go?

01:28:50.040 The J-Lo dress that went down to the navel.

01:28:51.860 Oh, my God.

01:28:52.860 Like, we are now at full exhibitionism. 0.94

01:28:56.460 And you are a sexist if you notice or comment on it.

01:29:00.580 That's really the other side of this coin.

01:29:02.460 You know, I wasn't so sure about Lena Dunham's Dick Tracy get up with the silver ribbon on the lapel.

01:29:08.680 Yeah, did you notice that?

01:29:09.580 I wanted to talk about that, too.

01:29:10.660 But I was kind of wishing that that was... 0.99

01:29:12.520 She looked like Secretariat. 0.99

01:29:14.500 Oh, my God.

01:29:16.940 You can get away with it.

01:29:18.280 We cannot.

01:29:19.800 Oh, my Lord.

01:29:22.500 You were wishing that Lizzo had something?

01:29:24.400 Yeah, I was kind of wishing that was the costume they chose for the night of that concert that we just saw.

01:29:28.680 Not much of a concert, though.

01:29:30.400 And I think part of the problem here, Megan, you're talking about our exhibition culture, like an event like Coachella, it's not even about the music anymore.

01:29:37.860 People show up there to be influencers or quasi-influencers and take a bunch of pictures in the VIP lounge.

01:29:43.760 It's not really about the music anymore.

01:29:45.240 It's about being seen at the thing.

01:29:47.200 So the quality of what you see on stage is kind of secondary or tertiary, really.

01:29:52.380 Yeah.

01:29:53.360 I think there's something in what Lizzo is doing where she's trying to say, like, I can be sexy even though I'm 250 pounds.

01:30:00.760 But if I have to choose.

01:30:01.680 I'm still saucy.

01:30:02.520 But if I have to choose Lizzo or Lena Dunham.

01:30:06.100 I'm going Lizzo.

01:30:06.760 I'm going Lizzo.

01:30:07.580 Yeah, you know what?

01:30:08.280 There's talent there.

01:30:09.240 Yeah.

01:30:09.640 At least, you know, she's being her and she's not, you know, making it our fault.

01:30:15.000 Right.

01:30:15.600 She's not complaining that we were the problem. 0.99

01:30:18.840 Should we drop Sydney Sweeney in there? 0.91

01:30:20.740 Oh, don't you dare. 0.99

01:30:22.620 Don't you dare talk negatively about Cindy, sweetie.

01:30:26.820 You haven't turned on her because of the poor decision making.

01:30:30.120 No, I mean, there's director's issues.

01:30:32.020 There's producer's issues. 0.75

01:30:33.380 You know, I mean, she's an actress. 1.00

01:30:34.360 She's blameless. 0.97

01:30:35.060 She's doing what she needs to do.

01:30:36.600 The agent.

01:30:37.320 Simply trying to make a living, Megan.

01:30:40.020 It's a hard world.

01:30:40.680 I think Lizzo is trying.

01:30:45.300 She's like making us think that this is sexy.

01:30:48.960 Like it's sexy whether you know it or not.

01:30:50.940 I'm going to get up there. 0.98

01:30:52.120 And I'm going to jiggle this enormous bottom with all the cellulite in your face. 1.00

01:30:57.900 Like you will watch the jiggly cellulite and like it or you are a pig or you are the sexist pig. 1.00

01:31:05.260 And I'm sorry. 1.00

01:31:06.040 It's just it's gross.

01:31:07.100 It's like it's disgusting.

01:31:08.540 It's it's really it's beyond exhibitionism.

01:31:11.400 It's just like offensive.

01:31:12.480 And it's not something to be celebrated. 1.00

01:31:14.140 It's not it's not to be celebrated with a skinny girl. 0.89

01:31:16.160 It's not to be celebrated with a fat girl.

01:31:17.920 But I really don't want to watch it. 0.99

01:31:19.500 And then you play the flute.

01:31:20.820 Really.

01:31:21.020 To your point, like, what a demeaning way, right?

01:31:26.100 Like, can you imagine every other flautist at, like, you know, the philharmonic?

01:31:31.160 First chair. 0.98

01:31:32.960 Lazy boy.

01:31:33.780 Can't we just play the instrument?

01:31:35.220 Why do I?

01:31:36.220 I feel like the tuba would have been more appropriate there.

01:31:39.240 Yeah.

01:31:39.820 Yes.

01:31:42.940 The old sousaphone.

01:31:45.780 What's with the giant stuffed animal?

01:31:48.060 That's the thing I don't understand.

01:31:50.000 Well, those are a thing now.

01:31:51.020 Where does that come from?

01:31:51.220 What's the labubu?

01:31:51.760 Those are a thing now. 0.99

01:31:53.120 They're apparently hard to get, and you've got a whole rash of moms who are trying to 1.00

01:31:57.560 get these things for the kids, playing absorbent prices. 1.00

01:31:59.980 Why do they have to get sexualized? 1.00

01:32:01.100 Yeah, I know. 0.93

01:32:01.540 That's just part of it.

01:32:02.040 Why did the one have to do her from behind?

01:32:03.680 You know what's so crazy?

01:32:04.760 Look at this.

01:32:05.180 I know.

01:32:05.920 I know.

01:32:06.860 I don't want to look at this. 1.00

01:32:08.800 Hose. 0.60

01:32:09.320 Maybe there's a nexus between, you know, you read a lot about how this youngest generation 0.74

01:32:14.980 is not having sex.

01:32:17.820 They're not having fun.

01:32:18.920 they're not they don't know how to interact they're all online or whatever and then you

01:32:22.460 you see the toys banging lizzo yeah maybe we figured out where the problem is here they're

01:32:30.120 like yeah that doesn't look great yeah that's weird that's something maybe i'm not interested in

01:32:36.260 why but it's like it's kind of similar to the sydney sweeney thing if you think about it which

01:32:40.040 is like sexualizing something having to do with children it's terrible like you take a child's

01:32:44.500 toy you put you put it on stage and by the way who owns la boo boo because you would have had to

01:32:49.040 have a licensing agreement to have the the the animal stand up there in the costume right like

01:32:55.500 if you can't just like show up you can't have like a guy in a goofy costume show up at a lizzo

01:33:00.280 concert and have him start pretending to do her from the butt from the back back um but the what

01:33:06.640 Megan I think I think you you hit the nail on the head with your point about

01:33:20.700 they're not singing you know there is there's an audience in this country who

01:33:25.060 once goes to a concert because they're like oh this person is gonna sing oh

01:33:28.820 they have talent oh there's a song that's pretty clever and I like going

01:33:32.080 concert to listen to that sort of thing and yet the people who produce this sort of content are

01:33:38.820 completely disconnected from that audience which makes up the majority of our country it's why

01:33:45.180 like you know i'm not going to a taylor swift concert but so many people want to go to that

01:33:49.580 because she sings and she does you know plays musical instruments i mean it's the same thing

01:33:54.040 with hollywood and the clip or the the screen cap of sydney sweeney it's like it's like they didn't

01:34:00.540 even see the jeans ad you know and most people interacted with or talked about the jeans ad

01:34:05.380 because it was a little bit more normal than what this show is about to like produce i also think

01:34:11.020 the shock factor is so high now and a huge part of marketing all of this stuff forever has been

01:34:17.500 how do you get to public consciousness by just shocking yeah well that's probably and now we've

01:34:22.600 verged into just outright offensive in order to get anybody's attention at all and i do think it's

01:34:28.600 part of the marketing. It's sad. I wish

01:34:30.720 there would be like a revolution of normal

01:34:32.720 at some level.

01:34:34.620 Which I kind of thought that Gene's ad was

01:34:36.600 to be honest with you.

01:34:38.780 Yep. One step forward, two steps

01:34:40.780 backward, obviously.

01:34:43.000 Okay. We have

01:34:44.440 to finish with the straight of Hormuz.

01:34:46.540 No, just kidding.

01:34:48.640 We're going to go there. I was just going to say

01:34:50.460 that's a real transition.

01:34:54.960 Normally you do the hard news first

01:34:56.740 and then you move to the cultural stuff.

01:34:58.600 So I think we're just going to stick right over culture for now.

01:35:01.660 In no world do you go from Lizzo's enormous bottom to the straight.

01:35:06.540 Thank you.

01:35:07.140 It's never been done in the history of broadcasting, and it won't be done here.

01:35:12.920 Okay, so we're going to stick with culture.

01:35:15.420 And Meghan Markle, your favorite topic.

01:35:17.260 Oh, boy. 0.92

01:35:18.820 She, those two grifters are back at it.

01:35:21.720 So do you remember when they were dating, they went on an Australia tour together?

01:35:27.660 And that was the tour in which she allegedly famously said, I can't believe I'm not getting paid for this. 0.98

01:35:32.940 I can't believe I'm doing this crap for free. 0.97

01:35:35.600 And she was exhausted. 0.99

01:35:38.280 She was like, oh, my.

01:35:39.300 It was so, I was so tired, you know.

01:35:41.380 It was so hard for me because I was pregnant when we did that tour.

01:35:44.980 And it was like, you were royal.

01:35:47.600 You had a whole, like, cabal of people there to massage your feet at night.

01:35:52.640 You know, no one cared that you were pregnant. 0.99

01:35:55.860 so she's back at it they have terrible publicity their approval ratings are in the basement

01:36:00.800 and so they've gone to australia to have another tour this is where diana crushed and she thinks

01:36:09.400 she's diana so she's back there um i think the australia are just like grateful when

01:36:14.280 whenever anybody comes i don't think they get visited that often it's like it's far you know

01:36:19.040 it's like i just think like anyone could lena dunham could show up there they'd be thrilled

01:36:24.320 When they stopped sending the prisoners, they welcomed everyone.

01:36:28.480 Yeah.

01:36:29.340 So she gets there.

01:36:32.320 And what does she do?

01:36:33.320 She goes to a children's hospital where they focus on cancer victims and makes it into a photo op for her. 0.78

01:36:46.480 Of course, God forbid they just go and visit the sick children in Melbourne.

01:36:51.780 No, no, no, no, no.

01:36:52.960 They have to have cameras.

01:36:54.320 and get their cheers and applause reports the daily mail on their trip to meet young cancer

01:37:00.900 patients in the hospital where they spent 45 minutes chatting. And we of course have video

01:37:08.640 and pictures of it guys, because does it ever matter if it's not on camera, right? Like how

01:37:14.600 many times have you gone to do a charitable work and you just make sure you've got your cameras in

01:37:20.460 toe so that you get the credit. That's the bottom line. Sick, dude. I mean, but that's been,

01:37:29.140 it's kind of what you've come to expect, right? It's unearned contracts to do Netflix movies and

01:37:38.000 podcasts and things like that. And then it is attempting to portray something you are not,

01:37:43.620 which is a selfless individual. Meanwhile, I mean, everybody knows the backdrop of all that. I mean,

01:37:49.220 i guess people like to show up and still see them i i don't know i don't know the whole thing kind

01:37:54.180 of feels schizophrenic it's like did you want to be part of the royal family or not right you know

01:37:58.680 like i thought you didn't like doing any of these things so why don't you just go away but i think

01:38:02.900 at the end of the day a person like megan markle is just addicted to the attention and so she's

01:38:08.680 going to try to get that attention any way she can like holmes said i mean when they made this

01:38:13.820 whole schism with the royal family it was nothing but netflix deals and a podcast that never got

01:38:19.560 produced and all these sorts of things and it all fell apart and so now she feels like she's sort of

01:38:24.360 crawling back to the public consciousness by doing all the things she complained about when she was

01:38:30.140 in the royal family it makes no sense she's a fake royal now yes so she's she shows up after the

01:38:36.120 children's uh cancer hospital uh she went solo as she served frittata at a woman's refuge

01:38:43.260 wearing 1100 heart 1100 heart earrings princess diana's cartier watch and a tiffany gold bracelet

01:38:52.960 so there she is just just one of you she said just call me meg meanwhile we know that she requires

01:39:00.240 you to yell out duchess of sussex before you meet her at a townhouse in new york city as a journalist 0.53

01:39:05.040 It's just the two of you.

01:39:06.060 So who is she kidding?

01:39:07.060 When the cameras are there, though, oh, it's just Meg.

01:39:09.060 Just call me Meg. 0.97

01:39:09.800 And she wears her Cartier jewelry while she's helping women's shelter females who come to see her. 0.99

01:39:16.900 Nice.

01:39:17.680 Right on brand. 0.99

01:39:19.340 And then finally, she jets off to do her, like, little, her girls weekend.

01:39:26.080 It's $1,400.

01:39:27.500 That's in pounds.

01:39:28.400 So it's, what, about $2,000 per person girls weekend, a retreat in Sydney,

01:39:33.240 which they billed as being sold out almost as soon as it started.

01:39:36.760 It's not sold out.

01:39:37.680 They're still begging people to buy tickets.

01:39:39.880 They cannot get just the 300-person event sold.

01:39:43.520 Wow, 300 people.

01:39:44.720 The retreat has failed.

01:39:45.720 They can't get 300.

01:39:47.100 Just an intimate 300 guests, which they can't get people to fill.

01:39:51.180 And no one wants to spend her best life weekend with Meghan Markle 1.00

01:39:57.360 because they know she's a grifter. 0.96

01:39:58.780 It's $3,100 for a VIP ticket, $2,700 for a regular ticket.

01:40:04.300 If you go, if you pay for the VIP experience, she will give you a group photo.

01:40:10.460 All the VIPs can spend several hundred dollars, and you just get a group.

01:40:14.620 You don't even get a one-on-one.

01:40:16.280 Not like on the MK Tour.

01:40:18.000 Our audience knows that's not how it went with us.

01:40:20.940 So you tell me, is her 15 minutes finally up, guys, or what?

01:40:24.420 I think so. 0.98

01:40:24.960 you know the last time her name before you've raised it came up i saw an ex did she date rory

01:40:30.320 mcelroy at one point oh did are you did she oh well there's pictures of them together they were

01:40:35.040 at least friends but you know she sort of has a type a little bit if if that's she likes the limies

01:40:41.040 well and rich and famous well yeah he's a star effort sort of sort of so to speak which i think

01:40:46.960 is very consistent with what you've just outlined for us megan so i appreciate it yeah i mean harry

01:40:53.520 was the first dope to actually go for it she tried with a lot of guys he it's just like swalwell he

01:41:00.420 told that one accuser the one who's in shadow on cnn i've never cheated on my wife with anyone

01:41:06.260 other than you which is like the worst line in the history of lines and now like this woman too

01:41:14.620 predated that way all of them predate like he's cheated so many times like women don't believe

01:41:20.040 that. Don't believe my wife doesn't understand me.

01:41:22.180 Don't believe you were the first one

01:41:24.000 ever. Don't believe I love you when he's

01:41:25.960 got a wife and children who are not you.

01:41:28.760 So we end where we began.

01:41:30.340 Harry fell for it. Lessons from Megan.

01:41:32.320 Good advice.

01:41:33.860 There we go. I didn't hear the magic

01:41:35.960 word of surrender, but it's never too late.

01:41:38.160 You got close. You got really close.

01:41:40.240 This was as close as it's been.

01:41:43.080 It's great to see

01:41:44.020 you guys. Great to see you.

01:41:46.180 Alright, we'll do it again soon.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - April 14, 2026

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