The Megyn Kelly Show - December 09, 2024


Daniel Penny NOT Guilty, Trump Spars with NBC, and CEO Assassin Possibly Caught, with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Amala Ekpunobi, and Link Lauren | Ep. 960


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 57 minutes

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177.10315

Word Count

20,817

Sentence Count

1,472

Misogynist Sentences

24

Hate Speech Sentences

50


Summary

Daniel Penny has been acquitted of the most serious charge in the Jordan Neely case. How on earth was he charged in the first place? And why the hell was Alvin Bragg even brought the charges against him? Megyn explains.


Transcript

00:00:00.400 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:11.980 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show where Christmas came early.
00:00:17.800 Thank God Daniel Penny has been found not guilty. Thank God. Thank God.
00:00:26.020 I think all of us are feeling the same thing. Thank God. And how on earth was he charged in the
00:00:31.540 first place? Right? And we are going to dissect those two questions. Well, thank God is something
00:00:36.460 we're thinking about a lot these days. I think since November 5th, a lot of us have been saying
00:00:40.100 that many, many times. Things are about to change in America for the good, in the world for the good.
00:00:45.200 They're already starting to. But this is, it feels like divine intervention because that thug,
00:00:51.760 Alvin Bragg, brought these charges where they never should have been brought.
00:00:57.480 And then as his case was falling apart on Friday, you remember we had Maureen here, Callahan,
00:01:02.500 he refused to accept a mistrial when the jury was hung. They were hung on the most serious charge
00:01:10.300 that had been brought against Daniel Penny, accused of killing Jordan Neely, just a Michael
00:01:18.800 Jackson impersonator on the subway. No, that's not what happened. Jordan Neely got on that subway and
00:01:23.640 was menacing, seriously threatening the other passengers. They were terrified and they testified
00:01:29.860 to exactly that in front of this jury. Uh, they never should have brought the case, but, but Bragg
00:01:35.560 charged reckless homicide against Daniel Penny, which is a very serious charge. It's, it's manslaughter
00:01:42.920 and the jury could not reach a verdict on it. The next rung down was criminally negligent homicide,
00:01:52.020 which is a lower burden, right? Recklessness is worth the negligence. Recklessness is you see the
00:01:58.120 risk and you recklessly disregard it. Negligent is you were negligent and failing to see the risk.
00:02:03.200 Um, but Bragg only charged that top charge to try to get to a compromise verdict on negligent homicide.
00:02:12.200 He knew he didn't have Daniel Penny on recklessness, that disgusting thug. Again,
00:02:19.200 he did this to Trump and now he did this to Daniel Penny. And now the final, finally a jury has given
00:02:26.340 him the double barrel bird of F off Alvin Bragg. Stop doing this shit. He won with his first jury
00:02:34.940 with Trump, as you know, but the American people overruled him. Um, so now the jury was sent back
00:02:43.580 to go deliberate on the serious, but less serious charge of criminally negligent homicide. And that's
00:02:52.500 where they were told to resume this morning at 9am. And the Alvin Bragg's play was that
00:02:58.040 once they couldn't get to a verdict on the most serious one in his mind, I think he thought they'd
00:03:03.300 been in the jury room and they'd say, okay, you know, his best case scenario was they'd go along
00:03:06.920 with him on that one. His next best was they won't go along with me on that and they'll acquit on that
00:03:11.700 one. But as a compromise verdict, they'll go for the negligent homicide. What happened on Friday was
00:03:15.660 they couldn't reach a verdict on the most serious charge. And that's the point at which the defense
00:03:20.700 lawyer asked for a mistrial and that request should have been granted. That's what should
00:03:24.780 have happened. But instead they allowed the prosecution to drop the charge, to drop the
00:03:31.780 charge. Like it had never been brought. Like we can just keep going. Let's just not pretend the jury's
00:03:36.860 deadlocked at all. We still have a viable claim in there. And the judge did it. And, and so there
00:03:43.000 was real risk to, can you imagine if the jury had gone along with this and it said, okay, all right,
00:03:48.680 fine. We will find him guilty of the one he was really going for all along the criminally
00:03:53.300 negligent homicide. Well, they didn't, they didn't, they saw through this farce of a trial
00:04:00.300 per Matthew Russell, who's with inner city press. He was inside the courtroom when the verdict was
00:04:06.200 read reports. He reports that applause rang out from Daniel Penny's side in the courtroom.
00:04:11.640 Meanwhile, someone over on Neely's side, he's describing him as the victim. He wasn't the
00:04:18.620 victim. He was the aggressor. He was the criminal on that subway car that day who was seriously
00:04:27.340 threatening other passengers. He had a long history of hurting them. And somebody on his side yelled out
00:04:33.620 in the courtroom, it's a racist country. Hello, madam or soothe, sir. That's not working anymore.
00:04:39.260 You're going to have to find a new line. I don't know what it's going to be,
00:04:43.500 but the BLM era is officially over. It's over. You had us in some sort of weird psychotic
00:04:52.700 headspin for four or five years and it's done. Trump's reelected and Daniel Penny is acquitted
00:05:01.520 in one of the most leftist jurisdictions in America, despite the fact that he is white
00:05:08.860 and Jordan Neely was black. And they're still yelling, it's a racist country. You fools,
00:05:16.400 you absolute fools. And by the way, it's not just someone over on Jordan Neely's side.
00:05:21.840 This is, we had news coming into today that the outgoing chair of the DNC said his party is insane.
00:05:28.620 If they think the message of this election was to rethink identity politics,
00:05:33.800 double down, sir, triple down, quadru, do it. Enjoy oblivion. Enjoy your desert island
00:05:42.980 where you have no one applauding anything you say and certainly no one voting for you.
00:05:48.900 I look forward to watching you there. CNN reports that Neely's father also had to be escorted from the
00:05:57.140 courtroom after shouting an expletive. Where was he? Where was he when Jordan Neely had
00:06:03.340 dozens of arrests over the years when he was punching 67 year old women in the face? Where
00:06:10.060 was the grieving dad then? I don't, I'm not sure. Now he's suing Daniel Penny. Oh, okay.
00:06:18.400 You're going to get your money. Now you're totally behind your son. I don't feel sorry for you.
00:06:22.600 I don't. Sorry. I don't. Meantime, the Associated Press did what that vile organization
00:06:29.340 always does. Sent out a breaking, a breaking news tweet on the verdict that read breaking Daniel
00:06:35.380 Penny, the veteran who used a chokehold on subway rider, Jordan Neely has been acquitted in Neely's
00:06:42.280 death. Yes. Neely who went on the train and you know what was just singing and dancing in his Michael
00:06:49.280 Jackson routine? Is that what he was doing AP? Or was there more than that? He actually was
00:06:53.320 shouting out at the commuters, someone's going to die today. He was on K2, some hugely intensive drug
00:07:04.000 that there was testimony that the drugs could have been the cause of his death. That's how cracked up
00:07:09.740 he was. And he's just a regular subway rider. Mean, terrible, racist Jordan Neely, for some unknown
00:07:19.560 reason, put him in a chokehold and died and killed him. Notwithstanding all the evidence we have about
00:07:26.360 what Jordan Neely was doing to the subway riders that day. Joining me now to discuss it all, Batya
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00:08:52.140 Batya, welcome back. What do you make of this verdict?
00:08:54.700 Thank you so much for having me on this great day for our nation. I think you're totally right
00:09:01.280 that this joins Donald Trump's massive victory in dispelling the mythology that the leftist elites
00:09:09.320 would have us believe that this country is divided by race, or still racist, or even divided by a
00:09:15.480 political party. I think what this verdict shows is that we are no longer under the grip of this
00:09:23.340 false myth that we're still racist, that we're divided by race, or even that we're divided by
00:09:28.380 political party. You know, you look at that jury, and that jury looks a lot like America. And I think
00:09:34.220 a lot of people were thinking, oh, you know, therefore, they're going to side with Jordan
00:09:37.960 Neely over Daniel Penny. And of course, they didn't. It's such a great day for America. And I just am so
00:09:43.740 grateful to God. I think the other thing that's happening here, Megan is, you know, the Daniel Penny
00:09:49.900 trial was really a mirror for a debate that this country is having about masculinity, right? We're
00:09:57.480 talking a lot about this idea of, you know, toxic masculinity, should men be embarrassed to be men,
00:10:05.840 to be macho, to be protectors, or want to be protectors, to be providers, or want to be providers?
00:10:12.560 Or are those things that a society actually needs? And I think that this trial was so much about that,
00:10:19.820 about a man standing up in a subway car full of women and children and saying, I will not allow
00:10:26.140 these women to be threatened in this manner, to be terrified when I am sitting here, because of course,
00:10:33.100 God probably put me here for exactly this reason. And I think the way that you saw this case was very
00:10:38.840 much what side of this debate do you fall on? Do you think that a society actually needs strong men,
00:10:44.940 providers, defenders, men who are proud to be men in order to function? Or do you think that we should
00:10:50.160 continue down the leftist path of demanding that men apologize for being men, just like we've demanded
00:10:56.700 that white people apologize for being white? And what this verdict shows, Megan, is that this is not a
00:11:02.900 divide between left versus right. This is a divide between a leftist crazy elite who hates this
00:11:11.220 country, hates men, hates white people, and the rest of us who are totally united around love of
00:11:19.120 country, love of our fellow Americans, regardless of their race, and the desire for women and children
00:11:25.580 to be protected and safe and for men to be able to take pride in being men.
00:11:29.400 As if Daniel Penny would have behaved any differently if Jordan Neely had come onto that
00:11:36.520 subway car, done exactly the same things, but had been a white guy. It's absurd. There's absolutely
00:11:43.360 no reason, nothing in his history, nothing to suggest any of that race had nothing to do with this.
00:11:51.280 It was Jordan Neely's behavior that had to do with this. This is from outside of the courtroom,
00:11:57.940 I understand. And it's a Jordan Neely supporter reacting to the not guilty verdict.
00:12:05.700 Got to stop that. We have to change how we impact each other. Jordan came on that subway car.
00:12:12.440 The first thing he asked for was food and he was killed. And the person who killed him
00:12:19.060 was not held responsible. We cannot allow this to keep happening.
00:12:23.800 That is such an outrage. I'll tell you, you know, full disclosure, nobody will be shocked.
00:12:30.440 A, I live in Connecticut and B, I don't really have to anymore. I don't ride the subway anymore,
00:12:35.040 but I used to ride it every day for years, for years to get to work, both when I was a lawyer and
00:12:40.300 when I was at Fox. And I've had countless, countless subway riders approach me for money or food or some
00:12:48.580 sort of handout. Countless. That happens to every New Yorker every day they're down there.
00:12:53.940 This was something entirely different. And how dare he try to lump Jordan Neely in with the vast
00:13:01.720 majority of people who are homeless, who are on the subway, who are trying to get some sort of a
00:13:05.900 handout. That's not what this was at all. He was in a class, not of one, but a smaller,
00:13:12.160 but more pernicious class of subway rider that, you know, you know, as a subway rider are genuinely
00:13:19.640 dangerous to you or your children. A hundred percent. I ride the subway all the time.
00:13:24.900 There are a lot of people who are on the subway who I wish weren't on the subway because of
00:13:28.640 the way that they are acting, the way that they smell, the way that they are talking to me or other
00:13:33.000 people. But the idea that they need to be restrained, I think none of us would have accepted
00:13:38.640 that. And you're totally right, that this was a completely different situation. You saw footage
00:13:43.600 that came out during the trial of women saying, I'm so glad that Daniel Penny was there because I felt
00:13:51.680 so scared. There was a woman there with a child who was trying to protect her child, people hiding,
00:13:57.900 people trying to get away from it. These are very different from the sort of average, although also,
00:14:03.440 you know, disturbing situations that one encounters very regularly on the subway, which would not have
00:14:07.600 warranted anything close to what Daniel Penny did. That said, there has been a lot of improvement
00:14:12.540 on the subway. I think, you know, Eric Adams really did take this to heart. He was very much on the
00:14:16.760 right side of this. He came out in defense of Daniel Penny and said that what he did was totally
00:14:22.200 legitimate. Former cop Eric Adams. And so I think they have been making an effort to really clean up
00:14:27.260 the subway in this way. But I think you're totally right about that, Megan. Andy McCarthy reporting today
00:14:32.480 for Fox News actually hit yesterday. In the real world, there wasn't anything racist in Penny's
00:14:38.280 interaction, intervention as Neely threatened passengers. Yes, the happenstance is that Penny's
00:14:43.120 white, Neely was black, but Neely was intimidating all of the train passengers, regardless of race.
00:14:48.780 Penny was assisted in subduing him by non-white passengers. Some of the best witnesses in the case
00:14:54.760 for Daniel Penny have been black passengers who have described how scared they were and how heroic
00:15:01.260 Daniel Penny was. One of the witnesses actually got up there and smiled and said thank you to Daniel
00:15:09.240 Penny for his behavior after she testified. I mean, the jury understood what we all understand, which is
00:15:16.300 you can look at it with 20-20 hindsight and say, oh, gee, he should have let him go or, oh,
00:15:21.100 gee, he should have handled it differently. A lot of us don't think that either. But you could. You
00:15:25.800 could look at it. But I mean, a minuscule number of Americans would look at this and say, he, Daniel
00:15:32.420 Penny, is a criminal. He should be locked up for what he did. And this is, I'll tell you, John
00:15:39.160 Podortz had the tweet of the day, which is great. Podortz is brilliant. And tweeted out the following.
00:15:45.800 Today is a day to celebrate the jury system and the fair administration of justice.
00:15:49.340 Tomorrow begins the relentless effort to get Alvin Bragg the fuck out of that office.
00:15:55.480 That's exactly right. Not just Bragg, but all of these left wing woke prosecutors who care more
00:16:03.160 about skin color and how it's going to play with their constituencies than they do about justice.
00:16:12.620 Yeah. And honestly, when I saw that there were black people on the jury, I was very relieved because
00:16:16.720 I knew that they would play a counterbalance or I suspected they would play a counterbalance to any
00:16:21.360 woke white progressives who are the main driving force behind the re-racialization of everything
00:16:27.500 in the woke leftist mindset. This is being pushed by people who are progressive and upper class and
00:16:33.040 people of means who never have to deal with the consequences of these insane policies like defund the
00:16:38.840 police and Alvin Bragg and decriminalization of, you know, horrible stuff that impacts working
00:16:43.540 class Americans every day. Meanwhile, it's working class Americans, working class people of color
00:16:47.960 overwhelmingly in New York who overwhelmingly favor more moderate policies and more moderate
00:16:53.180 people like Eric Adams. So I think that you're totally right again, Megan, and that we really need
00:16:58.840 to start seeing this moment for what it is, a moment being ushered in by Donald Trump and then all of
00:17:05.760 these down ballot and, you know, downstream effects of being able to see ourselves once again as the United
00:17:12.140 States of America who are organized primarily around the desire for every American, regardless of color
00:17:18.440 and regardless of creed, to have a fair shot at the American dream. Here's more from Andy.
00:17:26.740 Shamefully, quoting here, Judge Maxwell Wiley has allowed Alvin Bragg's prosecutors to refer to
00:17:33.540 Daniel Penny as, quote, the white man and, quote, the white defendant, notwithstanding that Penny's
00:17:40.680 whiteness is irrelevant. They're not being a scintilla of proof that he was bigoted. He says that
00:17:48.520 Drett Bragg's approach is transparently jaded appeal to any Manhattan progressives on the jury with a race
00:17:54.660 based ideological pitch that social justice demands finding Penny guilty. This is so gross.
00:18:02.660 It's so wrong. And it's such an injustice for this absolute prick of a prosecutor to try to unleash
00:18:08.760 on one of his citizens. His his job is to seek justice. That's his job. It is not to pander to the most
00:18:17.180 leftist woke part of the Democratic cult. And that's what he's been doing, both with the Trump
00:18:23.300 indictment. And now this he needs to be voted out of this office. He is a danger. He's a danger.
00:18:32.460 Here's some more from inside the courtroom. When the words not guilty were heard inside the courtroom,
00:18:41.880 Daniel Penny's lawyer slapped his palm on the defense table and turned to hug Mr. Penny, who had
00:18:47.400 a large grin on his face. It was the first smile Daniel Penny had smiled in court. Another of his
00:18:53.320 lawyers, Stephen Razor, stood and kissed his client on the cheek. Can only imagine the relief on his side
00:19:02.040 today and like the enormous exhale that he's finally going to be able to breathe. But the problem
00:19:08.440 remains, Batya, A, where do you go to get your reputation back? Right. And B, just the process alone
00:19:16.540 may really well be enough to discourage another would be good Samaritan from stepping in in the next
00:19:22.460 case. A hundred percent. I think you saw the same thing with Jose Alba, who was that bodega store
00:19:28.940 worker who was attacked by a young black man and who, you know, defended himself with a knife from being
00:19:35.480 physically attacked. The guy died. And then, of course, Bragg again, you know, arrested Jose Alba.
00:19:42.520 Now he let him go later because he's not white. So, you know, the law of wokeness allowed for him
00:19:48.340 to be released. That's right. It could be a jail free card. Exactly. How many, you know, bodega owners
00:19:54.720 after that would hesitate to defend themselves? And I think you're totally right. You see people saying
00:19:59.540 now all the time, I would never lift a finger to help a stranger in New York City after this,
00:20:03.620 because I don't want this to happen to me. The chilling effect that we see from the literal
00:20:09.460 criminalization of masculinity. That's what this was, right? Daniel Penny behaved as a man
00:20:15.160 should. He protected women and children and they criminalized him for it. They made him a criminal,
00:20:21.460 right? The criminalization of masculinity has such a dastardly impact on society and on men's ability
00:20:29.280 to say, look, this is what we were given the testosterone for, right? To stand up and protect
00:20:34.360 women. And Megan, like I said, I'm on the subway often and things happen. And you just think to
00:20:39.760 yourself, why do no men stand up and do anything? And this is why. Yeah. Oh, you're absolutely right.
00:20:46.580 That's such an interesting way into the whole case. Like that's one of the things that was being
00:20:51.260 debated. Do we still want that or don't we? And what men will continue saying, I will be a Daniel
00:20:56.780 Penny. I don't care if it causes upheaval in my life. I know what's right and wrong on the subject
00:21:02.320 of, you know, the white man, the white defendant. Um, and you know, just a subway rider killing just
00:21:07.820 as the black subway rider. Um, the New Yorker, Alex Berenson on Twitter was pointing this out.
00:21:13.420 The New Yorker described this case as, um, that of the subway dancer strangled by the ex Marine,
00:21:19.780 the subway dancer strangled by the ex Marine. My God. I mean, this is what we're up against.
00:21:28.520 This is what he was up against. This is what we're up against as a society,
00:21:31.820 this sort of blatant misrepresentation and spin. I mean, again, we go back to this a lot,
00:21:36.640 but it's true. Thank God. Thank God for the digital lane for X, for a whole new ecosystem in
00:21:43.680 the United States where truth can be discussed. And it's to the point now where the old mainstream
00:21:48.700 is just getting left behind. It's almost irrelevant what they say. It's like people are going elsewhere
00:21:53.520 for their information. They've been lied to so long. The system's working as it must, you know,
00:21:59.020 Darwinism is at work right now in our news media. And it's a glorious thing. Um, switching gears,
00:22:07.880 Jordan Nilley's father made remarks a moment ago outside of the courthouse. Here he is.
00:22:11.680 I just want to say, I miss my son. My son didn't have to go through this. I didn't have to go through
00:22:23.380 this either. It hurts really, really hurts. What are we going to do people? What's going to happen to us
00:22:35.900 now? I had enough of this system is rigged. Oh my God. The system's rigged. This didn't have to
00:22:48.180 happen. Correct. Maybe with some proper parenting, you could have reined in your son or given him
00:22:54.280 enough mental health skills that he would not have found himself this destitute drugged up and
00:23:01.220 seemingly without other options. I like, I'm sorry, but this guy suing Daniel Penny is a bridge
00:23:08.220 too far. He knows very well about his son's mental health problems and the number of people he hurt.
00:23:15.700 His son actually physically hurt and assaulted. There is every reason to believe another victim or
00:23:21.480 victims were about to be added to that, that, that the notches, uh, that day had it not been for
00:23:28.640 Daniel Penny. And now he wants us to feel sorry for him. And I think ideally engage in some sort of a
00:23:34.080 riot by using terms like this whole system is rigged against black defendants. That's the implication.
00:23:41.340 Really? Alvin Bragg, the black DA. Okay, sure. There's so much going on here. I mean, can you even
00:23:52.720 imagine Megan having abandoned your child in that manner to live the way Jordan Neely lived, to have
00:24:01.920 nothing in your heart while he was alive, to spare him from living on the streets in that manner,
00:24:09.760 only to turn around and try to capitalize economically off of your own child's death,
00:24:20.160 who you could not be bothered to lift a finger to help when he was alive. Now I have struggled to
00:24:27.320 find in my heart sympathy for Jordan Neely because he had been so violent to truly vulnerable people,
00:24:36.160 old ladies. I mean, it's very hard for me. I know that I'm supposed to, and I have really struggled,
00:24:40.840 but it has been hard for me because he was violent to the vulnerable, but his father,
00:24:47.360 you look at this man and you think, wow, I could see where that might've come from. I mean,
00:24:52.420 who wanted nothing to do with his son after he was traumatized by his mother's death,
00:24:57.240 left him to walk the streets of New York, a danger to himself and a danger to others. And now is trying
00:25:02.960 to get money off of the person who defended people from his own son who he abandoned. It's truly the most
00:25:10.680 loathsome thing I've seen in a very long time. He's going to wind up with the same result that
00:25:18.080 Alvin Bragg just got in this case, a disappointing one for his side. There is not going to be a civil
00:25:24.280 jury in New York who gives him one cent, not that Daniel Penny has it. This is, he is not a rich guy.
00:25:32.160 Thank God is all I can say, but the system and the rest of us should not have been placed in this
00:25:36.220 position in the first place where we had to worry about it, where we had our brave men
00:25:40.620 chastised, threatened their freedom, almost potentially withheld for doing what's right.
00:25:48.640 Alvin Bragg is to blame for all of that and must be held to account. Here is, um, more reaction now
00:25:56.000 from one of the central park five saying the outcome of this trial is a searing indictment
00:26:02.660 of the systemic failures that continue to plague our pursuit of justice for society's most vulnerable.
00:26:11.800 Jordan Neely's life mattered. That's not going to work. By the way, the whole thing about the
00:26:19.960 central park five, do a little searching. Just go, go actually familiarize yourself with their case.
00:26:25.800 Go read Ann Coulter, who is brilliant and a lawyer and has been following this all along
00:26:30.300 on exactly why they were charged. I, I love that they're, that they're the new heroes of the left.
00:26:35.980 Count me out. I'm out. And I don't give a shit about his social justice commentary. This guy,
00:26:42.220 Jordan Neely's life mattered. Tell it to his family, tell it to the system that actually didn't
00:26:48.240 lock him up to protect the rest of us, but let him free to go roam and threaten more inevitably
00:26:53.540 leading to a situation like this. I mean, he would have been locked up eventually probably for life if he
00:26:58.220 had killed somebody, but I don't want to hear it. If it mattered so much, where the hell were you
00:27:03.940 central park five when, when he was hurting, when he was locking or hurting old ladies,
00:27:08.860 when he was endangering children, right? Like it only matters once he can become a poster boy
00:27:14.220 for their social justice cause, Batya. Otherwise they don't give two shits about the, the Jordan
00:27:21.220 Neely's of the world. And I think that they're rallying around him. It's actually indicative of
00:27:28.180 the fact that they don't have a better victim, right? I mean, you know, that all of the people
00:27:34.260 that they used to rally around were actually victims. The fact that they've chosen somebody
00:27:38.160 who was a victimizer as the new poster child for the BLM movement just reveals once again,
00:27:44.660 how the supply of racism in America is so much smaller than the demand from the leftist elites,
00:27:53.020 right? They can't actually find these instances of, you know, racism resulting in murder anymore
00:28:00.120 because America is no longer a racist country. And this is something that black people, Hispanic
00:28:05.480 people are simply begging us to realize. They're really begging white progressives to stop the
00:28:11.900 infantilization, to stop the re-racialization. They're voting as, as Americans, you know, not as
00:28:18.980 black people or Hispanic people or Asian people or Jewish people. This is a very united country as we
00:28:25.100 just saw. And so whenever people see this language, you know, it's evidence of only how far the people
00:28:33.220 speaking in this manner stand, even from their own communities. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually right.
00:28:39.800 You point out correctly that there are black jurors in this case, and the whole case is brought
00:28:43.780 by a DA's office under a black DA. So how exactly is it rigged again? I mean, you want to talk rigged,
00:28:50.540 we can talk about what happened to Donald Trump. But in this case, if it was rigged in any one way,
00:28:55.060 it was rigged against Daniel Penny. And still that jury said, no, you've gone too far. And of course,
00:29:03.480 the reason that there have not been adequate police around New York City and on the subways for so long,
00:29:08.980 they've now tried to rectify it, is because of this whole movement to begin with. It is because
00:29:14.600 of BLM and its advocates and AOC. Can I just say a word on AOC? More and more, I'm seeing people on
00:29:21.380 the right offering like some praise for her, like, oh, don't count out AOC. And she's a fighter because
00:29:26.940 she seems to have some of the same base as Trump, people who want an outsider. Wake up, people,
00:29:32.160 wake up. She was 100% on the side of Jordan Neely here, throwing out all the racism accusations and
00:29:40.080 all that her woke identity politics playbook. She is no friend to reason. So stop, okay? Just stop.
00:29:49.460 The praise of AOC has to end from anybody who wants justice, wants reason, wants sanity to prevail and
00:29:56.540 isn't on the side of woke identity politics. Here's a soundbite from Eric Garner's mother.
00:30:02.140 Eric Garner, of course, was a New York City man who was, he also died in police custody as a
00:30:08.480 chokehold took place over him selling illegal cigarettes years ago.
00:30:13.540 Here we stand once again in front of this injustice. I stood here 10 years ago because they did not
00:30:24.500 give justice to my son with a chokehold. I fought hard to get the anti-chokehold bill passed,
00:30:32.220 which did pass. But it shouldn't only be for police officers, it should be for civilians also.
00:30:38.180 No one deserves to be choked to death. And you know, we're in that courtroom and people are cheering
00:30:47.480 for the verdict. They made the loudest noise. The judge did nothing.
00:30:55.140 But when his father spoke out, they put him out the courtroom. Is that justice or what?
00:31:03.260 We can't allow this to keep going on. We have to fight this system, but they don't do the same to
00:31:10.700 us. It's two justice systems. Actually, that's not true. According to
00:31:17.400 the Matthew Russell from inner city press, it was in the courtroom. The jury entered the clerk asked,
00:31:25.100 how do you find on Daniel Penny on count two? The four person said not guilty. The Penny side
00:31:30.520 started clapping and the judge said, be quiet. So she's wrong. The judge did not do nothing when
00:31:37.820 they started clapping. The judge was quick to tell them to stop that. And, um, as for her son,
00:31:45.760 he died in 2014. The death was ruled a homicide. The grand jury did not wind up indicting the officer.
00:31:51.560 The family did get damages from the city. The officer was ultimately terminated.
00:31:57.060 And back to AOC. Here's her tweet in 2023 on this case. Jordan Neely was murdered,
00:32:05.200 but because Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and
00:32:14.120 stripping services to militarize itself. While many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets
00:32:21.720 protected with passive headlines and no charges. It's disgusting. Well, of course he was charged,
00:32:29.100 but this woman is some sort of a faux populist because let me tell you, if you're a white man,
00:32:34.960 she doesn't see you as in need of any sort of help or protection, even when the system is working
00:32:41.120 to imprison you, right? Supposed to be one of her core issues, right? Over imprisonment and a justice
00:32:48.560 system that isn't fair. How about if it happens to be a white man who was trying to defend people,
00:32:54.300 black and white against a lunatic drugged up black man, threatening them. Nope. In AOC's world,
00:33:01.060 it's murder. It's murder because of white and black. All of this is just stirring. It's just
00:33:06.380 stirring because she's one of the last vestiges, Batya, of the woke left, which is being snuffed out.
00:33:12.260 Their identity is being snuffed out bit by bit, massively, thanks to 10, 11, five and Trump.
00:33:18.840 And this is going to help. But what this really is is more just a symptom that it really is happening.
00:33:23.760 It's even happening in New York. So I am going to be very curious how AOC responds to the verdict.
00:33:31.760 I'm going to be very curious how Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris and
00:33:37.640 Joe Biden responds. I'm going to be very curious how Joe Scarborough and how CNN and all of the
00:33:43.100 liberal media, the New York Times, how everybody covers this. Because, Megan, as you rightly point
00:33:47.520 out, since Trump, you know, won with such a massive victory, there has been so much talk on the left
00:33:56.020 about, oh, what did we do wrong? Maybe it's time to move on from identity politics. Now, you're right
00:34:01.320 that it's been equivocal. There have been voices saying, how dare you? This is our bread and butter.
00:34:05.200 But a lot of people have been doing a lot of soul searching. And while I think a lot of it
00:34:10.660 is performative, this is going to be the first test case. Did they actually learn the lesson that
00:34:18.140 the American people were trying to teach them on November 5th or did they not? And I hazard a guess
00:34:25.480 that AOC's tweet this time around is going to be very different from that one. But Megan,
00:34:29.840 we'll see which of us is right in about three hours, probably. Yeah, exactly. OK, so there is
00:34:36.240 other very big news today, and that is they appear to have nabbed the guy who they think killed
00:34:41.900 UnitedHealthcare CEO, the UnitedHealthcare CEO. And so that manhunt that's been underway has appeared
00:34:49.540 to have worked. Per CNN sources, a 26-year-old man was picked up at a McDonald's in Altoona,
00:34:57.340 Pennsylvania after an employee thought he looked like the man in the NYPD photos.
00:35:02.680 Right on, McDonald's. McDonald's should be Time's person of the year.
00:35:06.720 They're debating it right now. It should be McDonald's. That's amazing. God bless that
00:35:16.840 person. He had fake IDs. Presumably now we're moving on to what the NYPD found out about him,
00:35:24.520 not that person at McDonald's. Last I checked, you don't have to show your license to get a Big Mac.
00:35:29.520 He had fake IDs, including one NYPD believes was used by the killing suspect in New York.
00:35:36.740 Altoona police responded to the call, picked up the man and searched him. The sources said the man
00:35:42.200 also had some documents investigators want to examine as potentially relating to motive. Good,
00:35:48.980 though further details on those documents were not clear. Altoona police are waiting for NYPD
00:35:55.280 detectives who are en route. This is amazing. Oh, there's more. Hold on. Stand by. My team is
00:36:02.660 sending. Sources say he was found with gun with suppressor. I guess that means they were,
00:36:10.040 it sounds like the gun with a suppressor on it. Just, just like the one used in this murder. Yeah.
00:36:15.620 The gun, which had a suppressor, a silencer on it, just like the one used per CNN law enforcement
00:36:20.420 sources. So this is very interesting because this guy's been playing a game with the cops,
00:36:26.500 Batya, where he dropped a backpack. They believe, they believe it was him, uh, in central park as he
00:36:34.220 was fleeing successfully. And they found the backpack over the weekend. And inside of it was
00:36:39.040 monopoly money, which appears to be some sort of a, you know, an, a middle finger, right? A cat and
00:36:46.360 mouse sort of ha ha moment. Not sure. That's just my guess. Um, and amazingly he got away,
00:36:53.140 but the cops over the weekend found two additional pictures of the guy. I mean, it's like in 2024,
00:36:58.120 almost 25 America, it's very hard to stay off camera if you're going to commit a crime and they
00:37:02.620 have one clear as day. Can we, do we have it? We can put it up of, um, him sitting in a, I think it
00:37:08.580 was a, an Uber or taxi and looking out the window and my God, it's like, I mean, you can look, you
00:37:14.340 can see he's wearing one of those COVID masks, but the upper half of his face is as clear as you
00:37:20.200 could want. And they put this out and I can't help but think of like the Brian Kohlberger case out in
00:37:26.240 Idaho where that, you know, the one roommate who was home Dylan, but not killed could only remember
00:37:34.900 that he had a COVID mask on and had bushy eyebrows. And you look at this guy and it is very identifying
00:37:40.340 those bushy eyebrows. You can kind of tell about what age he is. You can tell he's male. Um,
00:37:46.940 it's noticeable that those eyes and that look is pretty distinctive. And I am still surprised that
00:37:53.600 the McDonald's worker put two and two together, but I bet you he was wearing his mask there too.
00:37:57.760 So it probably, it probably helped. I can't wait to hear more about how that went down. Your
00:38:02.700 reaction to that breaking news. You know, I've been following very closely the reaction to the
00:38:08.620 murder. Um, there's been this weird thing happening both among young people and the far left, but also
00:38:15.980 on the populist right, where people have seen this as an opportunity to both lionize him and talk about,
00:38:23.720 you know, our healthcare system more broadly. So there's been this very ghoulish celebration of
00:38:29.780 the killing. There was, um, a, a CEO murderer lookalike contest, um, in Washington square park,
00:38:36.980 horrible stuff. I mean, obviously murder is just horrible, horrible, inexcusable, but I think the
00:38:43.400 frustration that people feel with our healthcare system is very, very real. People feel really,
00:38:50.060 really angry at how hard it is and how unaffordable it is in many cases to get really good
00:38:56.420 healthcare coverage. And so I'm sort of thinking, well, how do we move forward from here? Obviously,
00:39:01.480 like, I don't want this to be an opportunity of any kind. This is a horrible murder. It's a tragedy
00:39:06.580 for his family. And I hope this person is the person who committed the murder and goes to jail
00:39:11.760 forever. Um, but at the same time, can we have this conversation about our coverage and how so many
00:39:18.620 people who work really, really, really hard feel that the basic coverage they need to be healthy,
00:39:24.840 which they want is out of reach for them that I'm sort of trying to find the middle ground there.
00:39:29.720 Like, is there a human way to have that conversation in this moment or not?
00:39:34.900 I don't know. I got to think maybe, but not now that's where I've landed on it. You know,
00:39:40.000 you do it now it's responsive. It's giving the guy what he wanted and it's just, it's too soon.
00:39:45.820 I mean, I will say this. You want to throw out our private healthcare system. Good luck.
00:39:49.980 Think you're going to do better under a Canadian system or what they have in the UK.
00:39:54.300 Talk to anyone, you know, Canadian Debbie. Hello. Um, it's, it's a nightmare. You, you,
00:40:00.920 you could get, you actually could find like a lump, God forbid, under your armpit by your breast.
00:40:06.360 And you could actually be waiting 12 months to get in for a biopsy. I mean, it's like,
00:40:11.840 that's a death sentence. It is no better when the government is actually running the system.
00:40:17.020 The wait times are absolutely deadly. And you know, you, you can't buy your way out of it.
00:40:23.380 You can't work your way out of it. You're, you actually, what you do is you come to America,
00:40:26.880 you go to a country that has private health insurance. It's not to say it's perfect by any
00:40:30.920 means, but I mean, let's not kid ourselves. The lunatics saying like, we need, but Canada has,
00:40:35.780 you know what you first, I'm not doing that. I mean, it's ridiculous. And listen, I haven't always
00:40:41.100 had enough money to pay, you know, the, whatever you have to pay on top of the insurance.
00:40:45.340 Most of my life, I didn't have that. So I understand, but the system is never going to
00:40:49.760 be perfect. Anyway, I think we do have the discussion, but not, not now because you just
00:40:54.240 can't, it's too responsive. And by the way, I mean, I heard a good discussion on the editors
00:40:59.460 the other day, the national review podcast with our buddies, and they were talking about how,
00:41:03.300 you know, there's a real fear right now about copycats. And I think they're right, right? Like
00:41:08.680 they were saying, Hey, they'd worry about this guy before he got caught, you know, going and doing
00:41:14.220 this to another CEO in the healthcare industry. So hopefully now that's done, but B, you know,
00:41:21.160 other people, cause there are a lot of Americans who have been hurt as a result of insurance that
00:41:25.800 they didn't think was fair decisions. They didn't think was fair. And, um, you know, all those
00:41:30.500 executives are, I realized a lot of them are fat cats and they're making, this guy was making what
00:41:34.160 $10 million plus a year, but that the system is what the system is. It's like a Bridget Phetasy
00:41:41.440 always says, you know, blame the game, not the player. She says it better than that.
00:41:47.880 Megan, do you think it's possible that it will turn out that this man was hired by somebody with
00:41:52.580 a personal motive? Do you think that's a possibility? Cause I can't help, but think like
00:41:56.220 he knew a lot about where this guy was going to be and when in a small window.
00:42:01.680 So originally I thought maybe, but now I don't because it turns out what they reported over the
00:42:07.320 weekend was that that gun he was using, they now believe was this similar, like a similar gun or
00:42:12.520 the same kind of gun that a veterinarian uses when they have to take down like some large animal where
00:42:21.520 you have to load a bullet in for each round that you're going to fire. And, um, that doesn't sound
00:42:28.180 like any sort of a professional assassin, right? Like that, I, I mean, that's fraught with peril for
00:42:35.580 a would-be assassin. And so it doesn't sound very professional. And I don't know, like, I don't know.
00:42:42.920 It just, while it was, forgive me for saying it this way, well executed, you know, like he got away,
00:42:48.760 he killed him and he got away, just seemed to be a little bush league to me. So my money is on
00:42:54.960 disgruntled insurance patient. And look, you know, just one other point. It's not just health insurance.
00:43:01.860 Insurance in general is fucking annoying. Have you ever had a fender bender and you just like,
00:43:08.380 you don't even report it. Cause you know that your insurance rates are going to go up so much higher
00:43:13.060 that it's not even worth it to you. It costs more to cash in on your policy than it does to
00:43:18.920 actually just use your policy. So that whole system is, you know, in all industries is very
00:43:24.420 messed up. I mean, by the way, we have a place in Montana. Good luck. You can't even get flood
00:43:29.540 insurance anymore. Um, yeah, there's like all over the country they're canceling. There was a big piece
00:43:36.240 in the New York times about a year ago on how the reinsurers are stopping the insurance for flooding
00:43:42.200 and other sort of home disasters. So everybody is just gonna have to pay out of pocket. It's just
00:43:47.400 like the whole system can be looked at maybe as Trump put underneath his picture at all of his
00:43:54.420 rallies, maybe quote, Trump can fix it. Uh, so far. No. Okay. Back to Alvin Bragg quote,
00:44:02.700 the jury carefully deliberated for four days. They requested readbacks of testimony and asked for
00:44:07.160 video footage to rewatch as well as written definitions of the law. Their lengthy deliberation
00:44:12.060 and the totality of the facts and the evidence underscored why this case was put in front of a jury
00:44:18.200 of Mr. Penny's peers. Oh my God. He's trying to say the fact that they really wrestled with this
00:44:24.540 is a vindication of me bringing the charges quote. The jury has now spoken at the Manhattan DA's
00:44:30.640 office. We deeply respect the jury process and we respect their verdict. Unfortunately over the
00:44:36.140 duration of this trial, talented career prosecutors and their family members were besieged with hate
00:44:41.800 and threats. You mean like the subway passengers were Alvin, the ones who you, your system was not
00:44:49.980 there to protect, but Daniel Penny was, I mean like cry me a river. Like, look, I'm not in favor of
00:44:56.880 threatening prosecutors, but it definitely goes with the job. It freaking goes with the job of being
00:45:01.540 a news anchor, nevermind a criminal prosecutor and his office. We played the sound, but on Friday
00:45:07.400 has been out there touting their social justice agenda and how they reduce penalties for minorities
00:45:13.780 only. So I'm sure people did feel like the system is rather unfair. I'm no one's crying for Alvin
00:45:20.260 to brag. Megan, what do you make of the fact that the jury could not decide on the higher charge,
00:45:27.920 but it was very easy on the lesser charge for them to like, how, who are the holdouts, right? Who
00:45:34.880 couldn't quite commit to the manslaughter charge? Like, what do you think made it easier for them in
00:45:40.180 the man's in the, um, the secondary homicide charge? Because that one was a higher charge,
00:45:44.720 right? Like it was, it seemed like it was the one that got thrown out. Yeah. Yes. The one that got
00:45:49.100 thrown out. What do you think changed for the jury between those two charges? I have no idea
00:45:55.180 because the fact that they couldn't reach a verdict on the most serious charge suggests there was at
00:46:01.220 least one juror who wanted to convict him. I mean, if they were all like he's guilty, they would have
00:46:08.900 found him guilty. If they were all saying he's not guilty, they would have said that, um, I, there,
00:46:15.220 there had to be at least one who wanted to find him guilty. So then the prosecution dropped it.
00:46:20.540 My only guess, this is a complete guess is maybe the fact that the DA just dropped the charge
00:46:25.900 was underscored for the jury. What a joke. This is about how the DA is not taking the case seriously
00:46:33.220 and neither should, should they, that this whole thing is just a farce. Obviously like we didn't
00:46:38.460 mean it. In other words, a telegraph, like just kidding, you know, nevermind. Oh, nevermind. All
00:46:43.600 that stuff we said, we'll just pull it. I don't know, but in New York, the jury can speak. So hopefully
00:46:48.440 they will. Uh, in the meantime, more reaction from outside the courthouse as, and you knew it was
00:46:53.960 coming. BLM takes to the mics, the New York co-founder Hawk Newsome. Take a listen.
00:47:01.200 We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump up and choke us and kill
00:47:11.080 us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? Right. I'm tired.
00:47:20.860 Tired.
00:47:24.300 So it's going well outside of the, outside of the court. We need some black vigilantes. That's
00:47:30.500 the solution. I think he's going to get charged from making threats.
00:47:35.460 I, it just, it's so racist to look at Jordan Neely and say the most important thing about
00:47:40.440 him is that he's black because it suggests that there's something about his behavior that is like
00:47:46.240 inherently black, which is of course nonsense. His behavior was threatening and the result of a
00:47:52.140 mental illness. Right. So I don't understand these activists coming out here and saying
00:47:57.080 the most identifiable thing about Jordan Neely, the most important thing about him was the color
00:48:03.120 of his skin. I mean, to me, it seems like that is an extremely racist thing to say when the truth
00:48:08.140 is, as you pointed out, Megan, he was threatening black people, black women stood up and spoke for
00:48:14.100 Daniel Penny saying they were glad he was there. Thank God he was there that he protected them.
00:48:18.580 Why do these activists always act like the black people who are perpetuating crimes are not also
00:48:25.860 perpetuating them against their own neighbors, their own members of their community? Why are the
00:48:32.220 victims of crime never taken into consideration in these grand proclamations? It's, it's, it's very,
00:48:39.040 very upsetting. And if you talk to black cops about this, they're very upset about this because
00:48:44.760 they're out there trying to defend black people. And then they have these elite activists who make
00:48:51.240 this job unbelievably impossible for them, who stigmatize the work that they're doing, which is
00:48:55.720 in effect, God's work. Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's, by the way, we have Heather
00:49:00.540 McDonald on the program tomorrow. She would happen to be booked to talk about Trump's cabinet picks
00:49:04.100 because she's got a lot of very interesting thoughts on them. But she's the perfect person to
00:49:08.280 follow up on this because she's the one who knows all these studies about how, you know, black women
00:49:12.680 in particular in the inner cities have been saying over and over and over, do not remove the police.
00:49:18.180 The last thing I want to see is fewer police officers in my vestibule, in my lobby. And so
00:49:24.040 they're not on board with this, right? It's like the Alvin Bragg and the BLM folks would like us to
00:49:28.720 believe that it's true, but it's not true. Here's that same guy. We just played the BLM New York
00:49:33.160 co-founder a couple days ago and sought 20. They will not find a white man guilty of killing a black
00:49:41.160 man in modern day America. And people who keep asking, are we gonna riot? Are we gonna protest?
00:49:46.660 Is that what's needed? Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in
00:49:53.160 America? We can't show up with peace. We can't show up with facts. We can't show up with evidence
00:49:58.660 and witness after witness. You give us nothing. And then you ask us to love this country.
00:50:05.560 America hates black people. Oh, okay. An uplifting message coming from BLM. I know you're shocked.
00:50:13.740 There were four black jurors on the jury of 12. Bacha stays with me. Quick break. And then we're back.
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00:51:30.340 So more details on what happened inside the McDonald's. I'm so into this story. It was not a worker. It was a
00:51:36.800 customer. And this is via the New York Times. The man detained in the McDonald's had written a, quote,
00:51:45.580 manifesto, according to two law enforcement officials. The handwritten manifesto found on the person of the
00:51:51.140 man detained in Altoona criticized healthcare companies for putting profits above care, according to a senior
00:51:57.400 law enforcement official. Great. So we're going to know it all. The man detained in the McDonald's in Altoona
00:52:03.000 had what investigators believe was a ghost gun, meaning it was put together with parts sold online that matches
00:52:10.300 the gun believed to have been used in the shooting, per a senior law enforcement official. The man who was
00:52:16.120 detained at McDonald's showed the police the same fake New Jersey ID that the man believed to be the gunman
00:52:22.360 presented when he checked into a hostel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on November 24th, per a senior law
00:52:28.340 enforcement official. Senior law enforcement official saying another customer. It was another customer
00:52:33.600 who recognized him and called 911. More on the customer. It was an elderly patron of a McDonald's.
00:52:42.280 Go boomer in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who provided the tip that led the authorities to hold the man for
00:52:49.300 questioning, per a senior law enforcement official. That is just too amazing. So an elderly, not just,
00:52:57.300 not just a boomer, an elderly person was in there, saw the guy. And again, almost certainly he had,
00:53:05.500 he'd probably be better off if he took off the mask at this point, you know, and, uh, said something.
00:53:11.980 Think, think about that position, right? Bocic is like, I don't know if I, I think I'd be like,
00:53:17.100 I don't know. It's the shooter of that guy. I don't want to cause trouble. Someone's going to say,
00:53:21.440 I was like profiling him because he's like, I don't know what his background is,
00:53:25.900 but he looks a little ethnic. I don't even know what kind, but I think I might pause
00:53:30.960 lest I, lest I get some innocent person in trouble, but they did it and they got him.
00:53:38.300 I truly wonder if he was wearing the mask when this elderly person identified him or not,
00:53:43.320 because I don't think I'm like, I don't think I would have had the confidence to say from that
00:53:47.780 little strip above the mask that I could tell that that was the person in the picture,
00:53:52.980 looking out the window from the car or at the hostel. Um, it's so little that's exposed by the
00:53:58.960 mask. So I really wonder if he, you're right, that he recognized the mask and the little strip.
00:54:05.960 And that's why he thought to call the police because it was so odd to see a person wearing
00:54:10.380 a mask in a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. I imagine there's not a lot of people masking there,
00:54:15.540 but it is truly incredible. I mean, that he got out of New York, that he got that far and then
00:54:21.680 was stopped by just an everyday American. It's so great. And you know, I will say this,
00:54:26.960 they they've done these studies where they'll show you just this part of a celebrity's face.
00:54:32.480 And for the listening audience, I'm just showing my eyes basically just like the half, the inch or so
00:54:37.120 around your eyes and your eyes. And, um, a lot of people have no problem identifying the celebrities.
00:54:43.060 Like if you're going to show one part of your face and you want to be identified,
00:54:47.620 it would be the eyes. Like he would have been better off to have some sort of sunglasses on
00:54:54.000 the whole time. Right? Like don't, don't show the eyes or wear a mask that covers the whole face or
00:54:59.340 wear a disguise. Like a disguise might've been smarter because it's so like, they did a great
00:55:05.640 job of getting that photo everywhere, everywhere. So I'm dying for more details. I want to know
00:55:11.240 everything there is to know about this elderly, uh, patron. Here's a little bit more New York
00:55:17.300 times noting. It's not the first time that a McDonald's customer identified a suspect,
00:55:22.700 a McDonald's or this McDonald's customer. Like, hold on the McDonald's, the McDonald's arrest in
00:55:29.940 Altoona echoed the arrest of Frank R James, who in 2022 set off smoke grenades inside a crowded subway
00:55:37.820 car in Brooklyn and opened fire injuring 10 people and was also arrested at a McDonald's
00:55:43.340 after a 31 hour manhunt. James was caught when someone recognized him at one of the chains outposts
00:55:48.400 in Manhattan. Mirror miles from the crime scene. Why don't you go through the drive-thru? I guess
00:55:52.060 you don't have a car. Like, would you steal a car and go through there? I don't know. Like,
00:55:57.320 how would you get food? I don't think seven 11, like, or just go to like a mat, put on a disguise.
00:56:03.880 I have no life in crime ahead of me, but you, but I'm just thinking it through. Like
00:56:07.180 this again, doesn't seem like a pro. Yeah. And I think that now that we know that he was sort of
00:56:15.040 a vigilante on behalf of people who feel wronged by the medical insurance industry, I think this
00:56:22.740 question of how to deal with this morally is incredibly, incredibly important, right? Because
00:56:27.760 a lot of people on the far left and also on the far right are going to see him as a vigilante for
00:56:35.020 some kind of justice. And I think it's so important as you articulated earlier, Megan,
00:56:40.520 to find a way to say, we cannot allow this to be an opportunity, even for a conversation people want
00:56:46.820 to have. Murder is absolutely wrong. This person is absolutely evil for taking a human life. There's
00:56:54.600 no justification for that. And to find a way to have that conversation going forward that's not
00:57:00.400 tied to this is going to be, I think, extremely important, especially for young people watching
00:57:05.460 this unfold. Okay. Let's talk about politics before you have to go. Donald Trump goes on Meet the Press
00:57:14.840 this weekend in an extraordinary hour plus exchange with Kristen Welker. And they got into what's going to
00:57:22.340 happen in his second term with respect to immigration. Here, I'm just going to play
00:57:28.460 some for you. Here is Sot 4. Take a listen.
00:57:33.640 You've talked about prioritizing people who have criminal histories.
00:57:37.080 Correct.
00:57:37.500 But is it your plan to deport everyone who is here illegally over the next four years?
00:57:42.900 Well, I think you have to do it. And it's a very tough thing to do.
00:57:47.800 You're saying, yes, you're going to focus on the people with criminal histories. But everyone
00:57:51.760 who's here illegally has to go.
00:57:53.420 I'm saying this. We have to get the criminals out of our country. And you see what they've
00:57:58.040 done in Colorado and other places. They're taking over, literally taking over apartment
00:58:02.320 complexes and doing it with impunity. They don't care. They couldn't. They just are. They're
00:58:08.040 in the real estate.
00:58:08.760 You know, the local police say that is not the case in Colorado.
00:58:12.000 Oh, it's totally the case.
00:58:13.460 Is it realistic to deport everyone who's here illegally?
00:58:16.200 You have no choice. First of all, they're costing us a fortune. But we're starting with
00:58:20.440 the criminals. And we got to do it. And then we're starting with others. And we're going
00:58:25.280 to see how it goes.
00:58:26.440 Who are the others?
00:58:27.320 Others or other people outside of criminals.
00:58:29.560 Okay. So there was that. And, uh, there is, there is a problem with Venezuelan, uh, gangs
00:58:37.440 in, uh, in, in Colorado. Take a look at the very in-depth piece that city journal did on
00:58:43.340 it. I don't know why she's pretending that it's not a problem, but, uh, you know, that's
00:58:46.440 NBC for you. Um, here is a little bit more on the subject of children and families in SOT
00:58:53.760 five. Talking about parents who might be here illegally, but the kids are here legally.
00:59:00.680 Your borders are-
00:59:01.260 You're talking about separation?
00:59:02.620 Yeah. Well, I mean, there are two aspects to this. Your borders are at Tom Homan said
00:59:06.900 they can be deported together. Is that the plan?
00:59:09.160 Well, that way you keep the- well, I don't want to be breaking up families. So the only
00:59:13.660 way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them
00:59:16.980 all back.
00:59:17.540 Even kids who are here legally?
00:59:19.460 Well, well, what you're going to do if they want to stay with the father, look, we have
00:59:23.360 to have rules and regulations. You can always find something out like, you know, this doesn't
00:59:27.340 work, that doesn't work. I'll tell you what's going to be horrible. When we take a wonderful
00:59:31.900 young woman who's with a criminal and they show the woman and she could stay by the law,
00:59:40.480 but they show the woman being taken out or they want her out and your cameras are focused
00:59:46.900 on her as she's crying, as she's being taken out of our country. And then the public turns
00:59:51.520 against us, but we have to do our job.
00:59:55.140 Good for Trump. I mean, he's exactly right that he he's anticipating where this plan is
01:00:00.260 going to meet significant pushback from the press, which is when there's a child to an
01:00:07.520 illegal or a sympathetic woman who's married to her with an illegal. And Tom Homan is saying
01:00:13.660 the illegals going. And if you don't want to separate the families, you have the choice
01:00:17.880 of going with them. And then the media will look at the rest of us who are favored deportations
01:00:22.280 and say, it's your fault, as opposed to the decision of this illegal who decided to bring
01:00:28.660 a child here or send a child here, notwithstanding the fact that they're they have no right to
01:00:33.200 be here. I really recommend people watch that whole interview. It's an incredible hour and
01:00:39.280 15 minutes, not least because of the way it was misrepresented by the headlines in the liberal
01:00:43.480 press. But I think when Trump, you know, writes his memoirs and looks back on his life, this
01:00:48.780 will be like the sweetest time. He's in his magnanimous era. He has been so thoroughly vindicated
01:00:55.880 on so many fronts. And it has brought out this unbelievably confident, magnanimous side of his
01:01:04.420 personality. You know, even when he's criticizing the journalist, he doesn't call her nasty in this
01:01:09.840 interview. He just says to her, you know, you have so much potential, which I thought was really
01:01:15.440 funny. That was like the most ad hominem he would go. He's in a really wonderful place right now. And
01:01:20.640 the three to me, the three headlines would have been if I was sort of covering this honestly would
01:01:26.220 have been the last question she asked him is, what is your message to Americans who did not vote for
01:01:31.080 you and did not support you? And his answer, Megan, was I love you. He said that he was invested in
01:01:37.420 protecting the dreamers, especially the ones who are older and middle aged and contributing a lot and
01:01:42.460 have good jobs. And he said that he was not interested in any kind of retribution. He said, again,
01:01:47.200 our success will be our retribution. He said he's not going to get involved in Pam Bondi's work or in
01:01:54.240 Kash Patel's work. He's going to let them do their jobs. I mean, these were real headlines that, of
01:01:58.720 course, nobody pointed out. As to immigration, I think you're totally right. You know, the homin is
01:02:05.820 so the perfect man for this job because he could care less what anybody thinks about him. He is an
01:02:10.820 unbelievable patriot and feels that it is his job to protect the American people. And honestly, Megan,
01:02:16.440 Trump is very sensitive to the headlines. He's thinking ahead about how to sort of preempt them,
01:02:21.320 how to protect himself from those accusations from the unfair media. But I got to say,
01:02:25.540 he was given a mandate by the American people to do exactly this. And the media has lost all
01:02:32.340 credibility because in opposing him in the most dishonest and vitriolic way, it was revealed on
01:02:39.240 November 5th that they were opposing the American people. Their hatred for Donald Trump was revealed for
01:02:45.100 what it is, which is hatred for the American people. And so when the media stands up and says,
01:02:49.980 look at this racism, look at this cruelty, how dare they try to deport these lovely families,
01:02:56.260 the American people are going to say, hey, that's me you're calling racist. I voted for this. And so I
01:03:02.860 think we're going to see a really different relationship between the administration and the
01:03:06.400 media. And if we don't, it is the media who's going to suffer, not the administration.
01:03:10.180 Moreover, tell it to the American families right now that are dealing with
01:03:15.200 schools that are overrun by children from these foreign countries who are not here lawfully.
01:03:21.820 And now in places like New York, you have to have a translator speak in the native tongue of all the
01:03:27.480 children who are represented. So no matter where they're from, they can't even find enough
01:03:31.120 translators. Nevermind ask them whether they have teaching capacities. It's absolutely unworkable.
01:03:37.660 So I think a lot of previously sympathetic Americans, I have had it voted for Trump to
01:03:42.760 get rid of. Yes, even the children, I'm sorry, but they have to go. If they, if you want to go
01:03:48.080 back home and apply for asylum or try to get in legally, like so many millions have done before
01:03:53.440 you, you should do that. But you have no right to break our laws to enter the country unlawfully
01:03:58.080 and then just play your sad violin and tell us we should allow you to stay here. There are procedures
01:04:02.820 for that. You flouted them. Hold on. Here's a little reaction after Trump appeared and saw 28.
01:04:10.460 You know, I was struck by how succinctly the president elect summed up his mandate.
01:04:14.120 I think one of the things that was most fascinating is he didn't seem very combative in this interview,
01:04:18.400 but he didn't want to fight with you. And I thought he looked very relaxed and confident.
01:04:22.740 Yes, the tone was different, but it doesn't mean it's a difference in his priorities.
01:04:26.860 So what struck me is more tone, not a difference in what he intends to do or what he wants the people
01:04:33.120 he's nominating to do. Jen Psaki with the still Hitler, still Hitler, notwithstanding the new tone.
01:04:40.860 Here's the last one I want to play for you, Bajit, and that is the discussion about whether he's going
01:04:45.060 to go after his enemies, in particular, potentially with Kash Patel, if he gets confirmed as head of
01:04:50.420 the FBI. Satzix. He has a list in his book of 60 people that he calls members of the so-called deep
01:04:57.620 state. Do you want Kash Patel to launch investigations into people on that list?
01:05:02.140 No, I mean, he's going to do what he thinks is right.
01:05:04.720 Do you think that's right? Do you think that's right, sir?
01:05:09.100 If they think that somebody was dishonest or crooked or corrupt politician, I think he probably has an
01:05:15.240 obligation to do it. Are you going to go after Joe Biden?
01:05:17.860 I'm really looking to make our country successful. I'm not looking to go back into the past. I'm
01:05:23.760 looking to make our country successful. Retribution will be through success.
01:05:31.240 Pretty remarkable in terms of tone, yes, but also Jen Psaki, the actual messaging,
01:05:36.780 retribution will be our success. Do you think that the media will accept it? And do you believe it
01:05:43.160 because he didn't rule out entirely Kash Patel going after his political enemies? He just said,
01:05:49.280 if somebody's corrupt or crooked, he'd have an obligation to do it. But I believe retribution
01:05:54.180 is achieved through success. Well, he didn't go after Hillary Clinton the first time around,
01:06:00.400 right? We have a record. That's what's so insane about all the accusations against him.
01:06:04.540 We were all there. It was four years ago. Like they act like that never happened.
01:06:10.420 It's so ridiculous. I honestly think Donald Trump only cares about two things. He cares about no
01:06:16.320 more wars. He hates war because he thinks it's wasteful. And he wants an incredible economy
01:06:21.260 that will lift up the working class, hardworking people who work and work and work and can't get
01:06:27.020 ahead. He really, those are his priorities. That's what he cares about. He really wants the people in
01:06:32.900 his cabinet to do what they view as the mandate given by the American people so that he can focus on
01:06:39.200 those things. The idea that he's on some sort of revenge tour is so, so ridiculous. And you know
01:06:45.580 what, Megan? It's just a pure projection. Every accusation from the Democrats is a confession.
01:06:52.900 They spent four years waging revenge against Donald Trump for beating Hillary Clinton.
01:06:58.300 They tried to put this man in prison for the crime of trying to elevate the American working class.
01:07:03.820 It is they who are hellbent on revenge. It is they who have politicized the Justice Department.
01:07:10.720 It is they who think that they are above the law. I don't know if you saw this, but Biden apparently
01:07:15.060 is planning mass preemptive pardons, meaning for people who have not even been yet accused of
01:07:21.300 anything, suggesting that if you are elite enough in the Democratic Party, you cannot even be accused
01:07:27.180 of a crime or indicted for a crime or investigated for a crime if you are close enough to the Biden
01:07:32.960 and family. I mean, it just it is this from the so-called defenders of democracy. So I think that
01:07:39.040 this is all just pure projection. And I really believe that Trump has no reason not to be this
01:07:46.080 magnanimous version of himself going forward, given the support and the mandate that the American people
01:07:51.400 have given him. He truly is a leader. He is a reflection of what Americans want. And he was that
01:07:58.000 before they knew that in 2016, when we were a little bit more divided around these issues. So
01:08:02.860 I think it's going to be a great four years. It's so crazy with the you know, the Democrats are the
01:08:08.120 ones who started the lawfare. They're the first ones to cross that Rubicon. They did it. And now
01:08:13.560 they're acting like, oh, he's going to target. You know, we've got to preemptively pardon people like
01:08:17.240 Adam Schiff and Adam Kinzinger. I don't know who else is on their imaginary list where I'm sure we're
01:08:22.500 going to find out as though Trump has done this before they did this. You know, my husband, Doug,
01:08:28.660 he used to watch our little dogs when we take him to the park. And like the male dog, Bailey,
01:08:33.460 he would pee on like a fire hydrant. And then another male dog would come and pee on it. And
01:08:37.860 then Bailey would pee on it. And then the other dog and Doug would just say, it's like a nuclear arms
01:08:41.220 race. Everybody keeps trying to escalate. And that's the Democrats. You know, it's like everybody
01:08:48.300 peed on the fire hydrant. That was the thing. But then they went and they peed on like the leg of an
01:08:51.840 actual human. And then and now they're worried that like our side is going to do that. It's like,
01:08:57.460 you know, you guys are the only ones who did that. You don't have to create some new rule
01:09:01.860 saying no one can pee on the humans. Like you're the only ones who ever did it.
01:09:10.260 It's such a good point. It's just have to keep in mind every accusation is a confession of either
01:09:16.580 something that they did or they wish they could do or wish they had done. And they just projected onto
01:09:21.480 Republicans and onto conservatives who are just trying to mind their business and lead their best
01:09:25.960 lives. Yes. I just want to make one point on Trump on what he really wants is is no new wars. And
01:09:33.200 things are very dire right now in Syria where Bashar al-Assad, while an absolutely terrible man,
01:09:38.680 has been deposed by a group that seems also absolutely terrible and has a history of
01:09:43.580 persecuting Christians and is linked to Al-Qaeda. I mean, this is not a good group.
01:09:48.460 And now they're saying things like overreformed. Okay, sure. So yet, yet again, another very
01:09:56.560 dangerous situation unfolding in the Middle East and Bashar al-Assad has left Syria and is
01:10:02.440 exiled now in Russia. And we don't know where this is going, but Trump tweeted and truthed out the
01:10:08.960 following message on 12-7. Opposition fighters in Syria in an unprecedented move have totally taken
01:10:18.460 over numerous cities in a highly coordinated offensive and are now on the outskirts of
01:10:22.240 Damascus. This is right before they actually got in and he fled, obviously preparing to make a very
01:10:28.220 big move toward taking out Assad, which now they've done. Russia, because they're so tied up in Ukraine
01:10:33.560 and with the loss there of over 600,000 soldiers, seems incapable of stopping the literal march
01:10:39.380 through Syria, a country they have protected for years. This is where former President Obama refused
01:10:43.740 to honor his commitment of protecting the red line in the sand and all hell broke out with Russia
01:10:49.620 stepping in. But now they are like possibly Assad himself being forced out. And it may actually be the
01:10:56.320 best thing that can happen to them. There was never much of a benefit in Syria for Russia other than to
01:11:01.660 make Obama look really stupid. In any event, Syria is a mess, but it is not our friend and the U.S.
01:11:07.980 should have nothing to do with it. This is not our fight. Let it play out. Do not get involved.
01:11:17.280 I mean, I think it's a very strong, important message right now as, you know, the never ending
01:11:21.680 war machine I'm sure is eyeing. This is yet another opportunity for the United States to swoop in.
01:11:27.700 It's amazing. You're seeing people literally out there praising this leader of the rebels who is
01:11:34.680 linked to Al Qaeda. It's just so crazy when they get some idea in their head that someone is linked
01:11:41.340 to Russia because they blame Russia for Trump winning the first time. Therefore, anybody on the
01:11:46.280 other side of that person must be our friend, including Al Qaeda itself. It's totally insane.
01:11:52.560 First of all, can you even imagine Kamala Harris tweeting something that coherent and smart and
01:12:00.100 on the money and obviously like in his own voice, right? But, but, but reflect a really well thought
01:12:06.600 out. This just in Kamala Harris with a message to Bashar al-Assad. Don't you ever let someone take
01:12:12.700 your power away from you? Never, never, ever. Don't you let them. Sorry. Keep going.
01:12:22.000 I love it. I love it. No, I mean, it's just the, the, the thought that he has clearly put into these
01:12:27.320 issues. You know, he doesn't express it like a person with a PhD. He expresses it the way an average
01:12:32.100 American would express to you like, oh, this guy's bad. This guy looks bad too. Not my business.
01:12:37.940 And the other thing I would say about this is just the perfect person to have in your cabinet to deal
01:12:43.720 with this is Tulsi Gabbard. Because as a Congresswoman recall, she was very aggressive
01:12:50.420 in criticizing the Obama administration over exactly this issue of building up our own enemies and
01:13:01.540 adversaries, people who were terrorists or linked to terrorists in an effort to fight against somebody
01:13:07.520 who was not our enemy. I mean, not our friend, but certainly not our enemy. And Tulsi Gabbard had
01:13:12.500 the most amazing quote, Megan. She said, when it comes to terrorists, I am a hawk. When it comes to
01:13:19.940 counterproductive wars of regime change, I am a dove. That is America first foreign policy. And that is
01:13:27.960 what you can already see Trump not only building his cabinet around, but he's basically already acting
01:13:33.540 like the president of the United States and already moving our foreign policy in that direction,
01:13:39.140 that America first direction. Right on. And by the way, in another piece of good news,
01:13:45.000 let's hope he's right. But Tom Cotton, Senator Tom Cotton, the great Senator Tom Cotton tweeted out
01:13:49.520 today a prediction that all of Trump's nominees will be confirmed. Oh, oh, oh, what does he know?
01:13:57.300 Batya, what a pleasure. What a day. Thanks so much for being here.
01:14:00.560 Oh my gosh. God bless you, Megan. Thank you so much for having me.
01:14:04.640 Oh, the pleasure was all mine. Okay. Up next, we've got Amala Akpanobi and Link Lauren. They are
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01:17:20.220 Join me now, Amala Epinobi, host of The Amala Epinobi podcast, and Link Lauren,
01:17:30.200 influencer and former senior advisor to RFK Jr. Amala, Link, welcome back to the show. So the big
01:17:36.700 news today is that they've got a suspect in custody in connection with the murder, the assassination
01:17:42.460 of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. And here's more about this guy via the New York Post.
01:17:48.720 The person of interest identified in the killing is an anti-capitalist former Ivy League student
01:17:56.400 who liked online quotes from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski raging against the country's medical
01:18:04.160 community. We're shocked. Shocked. Tech whiz, his name here, Luigi Mangione, 26 of Towson, Maryland,
01:18:13.040 was taken into custody Monday morning at McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania after an intense manhunt
01:18:17.940 following the execution. He has not been charged. The former prep school valedictorian was caught with
01:18:25.640 a manifesto that appeared to list grievances with the healthcare industry, including taking on their
01:18:30.360 enormous profits and allegedly shady motives, according to sources, again, still here quoting
01:18:36.180 from the New York Post. Mangione has subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate change causes in addition
01:18:43.300 to showing he despises the healthcare industry in this country, according to law enforcement,
01:18:48.720 who cite online activity gleaned by the authorities. On the Goodreads website, Mangione's account shows
01:18:54.940 quotes he particularly likes, ranging from Socrates to Bruce Lee to wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski,
01:19:02.060 the infamous Unabomber who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by planning deadly bombs before he was
01:19:06.900 nabbed in 1996. Mangione was valedictorian of the 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman
01:19:13.220 School in Baltimore, where he played soccer. According to online sites, high school tuition at the
01:19:18.580 All-Boys School is nearly $40,000 a year. He said at the time of graduation, he planned to seek a degree
01:19:24.680 in artificial intelligence focused on the areas of computer science and cognitive science at UPenn.
01:19:30.240 Again, that's an Ivy League school, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fish Bowl.
01:19:34.640 And there are some pictures now circulating of him online of the Luigi Mangione person who looks
01:19:41.980 identical to the person that we saw in the, I mean, identical to the person we saw in those
01:19:47.880 pictures. And indeed, the reports are that when they captured this person in the McDonald's,
01:19:52.000 who they do say is Luigi Mangione, he had a manifesto on him explaining why he shot Brian Thompson.
01:19:58.740 So it appears they have their man. Sometimes these things go haywire and we have to take that back.
01:20:03.640 So I'll put an asterisk on it for the audience, but I'll start with you on a link. What do you make
01:20:08.140 of those new details about this alleged shooter?
01:20:12.060 Well, first off, it's great to be back with you, Megan. Thanks for having me. I tried to get some
01:20:16.620 sun yesterday because I knew if I came on here looking like Margaret Brennan, you would rip me to
01:20:20.980 shreds. As for, I'm not saying she's a vampire.
01:20:24.800 That's all I'm asking for.
01:20:27.120 I'm not saying she's a vampire, but garlic does repel her. As for the man who was found at McDonald's,
01:20:32.860 does anybody remember a few years ago? I know I did because it was one block from my apartment.
01:20:37.300 They found the subway shooter out of McDonald's in the East Village. So what is with these shooters
01:20:41.920 going and hiding out at McDonald's? Also, I have to say this. The man had the mask on and the hood
01:20:47.400 and all you could see was his eyes. Michael Jackson tried this for 20 years. He wore the mask. He put
01:20:53.280 the little kids in the mask. Blanket and Babadu and Prince and Paris. Wear the mask. Everybody knew
01:20:58.080 it was Michael Jackson. Okay. So wearing the mask was probably, yeah, wearing the mask was probably
01:21:03.740 much more a signifier. I also saw the courtroom sketch from the Daniel Penny trial and there was
01:21:08.760 someone with a mask on inside. I thought, is that the healthcare CEO shooter on the jury? So I am
01:21:14.240 glad that they have found this person. I hope it is actually this person. And it's interesting. He
01:21:18.720 has such formal education. That's what really stuck out to me from this new information.
01:21:23.060 I mean, but it's interesting. You're being kind, but Amala, the truth is, is it really that surprising
01:21:27.660 that he went to an Ivy league school, that he was valedictorian? He probably got sucked into these far
01:21:32.620 left ways of thinking, the big climate change. Look, I'm not saying that happens to everybody, but
01:21:37.180 in this day and age, it's actually not a surprise at all.
01:21:40.040 Yeah. 100%. It's really interesting. I know we all have qualms with the healthcare system. And if
01:21:45.460 you've been through it or you have a family member who's, who's been in peril when it comes to their
01:21:49.020 health, I'm sure we all have grievances, but to take out your grievances in this way and to
01:21:54.020 assassinate somebody just on the street is such an interesting way to go about things. And we're
01:21:59.260 seeing this man be celebrated. And I can only imagine he's going to be a hero of sorts to certain
01:22:04.300 groups of people, but I can't stress enough. This is not the way to go about your, your grievances.
01:22:08.960 And interestingly with his, you know, intelligence and his education and what NY, the NYPD described
01:22:15.320 as a highly complex assassination attempt, you get caught in a McDonald's. My goodness. I mean,
01:22:21.940 he went through creating a ghost gun. He had multiple fake ideas. Uh, when the NYPD went over
01:22:27.640 the security footage to see where this guy tracked, apparently he had everything planned on how to get
01:22:32.440 out of the city and how to get to Pennsylvania. And then you get caught by an elderly citizen in a
01:22:36.980 McDonald's. It's just tragic. It's really crazy. I'm looking at now what we believe is his X feed
01:22:43.360 and, um, he's tweeting out like the Andrew Huberman podcasts, uh, Peter Thiel on the many great startups
01:22:53.840 being run by people suffering from a mild form of Asperger's and how we should view this as an
01:22:58.040 indictment of our society. I have no idea whether that applies to him. Um, a lot on AI and that this
01:23:04.840 obviously was an area in which he was very, uh, interested. Caffeine is really the only drug that
01:23:11.380 has achieved this level of social acceptance. Talking about first coffee in my morning. I don't
01:23:16.140 know, like the very quirky, interesting man. Um, and then the top tweet that he's pinned is seven
01:23:23.680 years ago. This is on December of 22. I gave my high school senior speech on this topic today. I'll be
01:23:29.240 talking to you about the future about topics ranging from conscious AI to human immortality.
01:23:36.380 Likely you will dismiss all of this pretty quickly as interesting, but just science fiction. And I think
01:23:43.340 he probably went on to argue it's not, you know, it's pretty crazy because you know that everybody
01:23:48.020 who went to Gilman private high school right now, it's an all boys school link is freaking out that
01:23:55.800 the valedictorian of their 2016 class is now in custody as a person of interest in this murder
01:24:02.400 that I think virtually every American has been made aware of and has significant advantages in
01:24:09.960 his background, $40,000 a year, number one in the class off to you Penn Ivy league. Like if you're
01:24:17.700 going to write down the resume of somebody forget, you know, radicalization. Yes. That's one thing
01:24:21.580 that that would be the exact path you take, but then to become murderous, right. To become murderous.
01:24:28.020 I don't know. He's of the age 26. A lot of these guys have a psychotic break. This guy doesn't seem
01:24:32.760 psychotic. He seems extremely well planned out. You know, I also graduated from an all boys private
01:24:39.260 school in 2016. So I just found this out, you know, not this one, not this one. So I actually,
01:24:46.100 you know, I just hope justice is served like with the Daniel Penny trial. It's always a nail biter.
01:24:50.380 If these things are actually going to come through and come to fruition. I've also been incredibly
01:24:54.420 dismayed and disgusted by the people online who are laughing at this, cheering this on,
01:24:59.660 you know, Taylor Lorenz profiled me back in April when I was working on the Kennedy campaign. So
01:25:03.980 I had my own sort of interesting encounter with her. I said, you know, I'm not sure I'm interested
01:25:08.700 in being profiled. And she said, well, we're going to write about you anyway, whether you talk to us
01:25:12.580 or not. So seeing her now come out and support this shooter is not necessarily shocking to me.
01:25:18.700 But if I were that guy, I probably would have gotten out of the country. I wouldn't be hanging
01:25:22.840 out at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. But as someone who went to a conservative all boys private school
01:25:27.920 in Texas, and then went to NYU, a very liberal woke school, you have to fight the indoctrination
01:25:33.760 happening in these classrooms. Because we had professors, adjunct professors, TAs, who basically
01:25:39.060 teach you that you're an oppressor, you're a colonizer, everything that's good is actually bad,
01:25:43.920 you really have to fight the indoctrination in these schools. So it'll be interesting to see
01:25:47.480 if this is the guy and if justice can be served.
01:25:50.880 Mm hmm. Oh, my God. I mean, colleges in general right now, Amala, are trying to radicalize all of
01:25:57.680 their students. There are a few exceptions, but the list is short. I mean, I could list it in with my 10
01:26:03.440 fingers and then we'd be done. The vast majority are woke indoctrination factories. Still, my friend is
01:26:09.380 going through the application process with her son. And it was Wake Forest, which is in North
01:26:15.740 Carolina, which is supposed to be like a normal place. And it was something like, would you like
01:26:21.340 to spend a few lines telling us about your thoughts on gender identity? I was like, I will give him
01:26:27.700 $10,000 if he will just write. There are only two biological sexes. Gender is a lie.
01:26:34.200 Right. Yeah. Sometimes these are the things you have to do. And I see a lot of students who are
01:26:40.960 in university and they're struggling. They're saying, you know, I don't know what to do. I
01:26:43.960 don't know what to say for these safe to these questions. They're trying, you know, desperately
01:26:48.200 to hold on to their values in a society that is constantly running dissident to them. And I imagine
01:26:53.860 we I mean, we've all seen it. These universities are radicalizing people at an extreme rate. And
01:26:59.380 they're really bringing these young people problems in the world that are not running in tandem with
01:27:04.840 reality. And when you have an ideology that is not working in tandem with reality, what's real and
01:27:10.040 what's natural starts to feel really oppressive. And on the other end of that, they're being told to
01:27:14.800 protest and and lash out. And we're seeing these protests very quickly turn to violence and to
01:27:20.100 riots as in 2020 with the BLM riots that we all suffered through for what, six months. So I don't know
01:27:26.420 what this guy's political affiliations are, but it does seem like we are trending towards these very
01:27:31.640 radical ideas when it comes to solving our problems or airing out our grievances in the public space.
01:27:37.580 And this is a prime example of that. OK, so to follow up on that, it's, of course, well beyond
01:27:42.880 the university. It's in our government right now, which is one of the reasons why Trump won.
01:27:46.960 I mean, it's all over our government. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris let it infect every single government
01:27:52.420 agency we have right down to the Defense Department, which is one of the reasons why Pete
01:27:56.500 Hegseth remains so popular, notwithstanding the media assault on him with these allegations,
01:28:01.460 because he's promising to de-woke-ify the military. But today you may or may not know,
01:28:06.860 as celebrated by our HHS, is pansexual and panromantic pride day.
01:28:16.560 Now, I had to look up what the hell that is. What is pansexual? And it's, I guess,
01:28:24.380 someone who's attracted to anyone irrespective of gender. And then I had to Google,
01:28:32.900 what is the difference between pansexual and bi? I'm like, why am I spending time on this bullshit?
01:28:41.840 And this is what the AI Google overview said. Pansexual means being attracted to people regardless
01:28:49.700 of gender. Bisexual means being attracted to more than one specific gender, implying that gender
01:28:58.080 might still play a role in attraction. What in the actual F? And how is our government tweeting out
01:29:05.780 that today we have to celebrate the pansexuals and the equally ambiguous panromantics?
01:29:13.140 Right. With everything going on in the world, this is their priority. But look at Rachel Levine,
01:29:19.140 look at Sam Brinton, the luggage thief, also Matt Damon's doppelganger. These are the people
01:29:23.580 who have been in the government around. He is Matt Damon's doppelganger. Let's just call it what it is.
01:29:30.120 But these are the people in the government and this is where their priorities lie. And this is why
01:29:34.600 Trump won in a historic landslide, popular vote, electoral college, House, Senate, because he said
01:29:40.880 enough is enough with the woke nonsense. Except for Caitlyn Jenner. We love Caitlyn. She's MAGA.
01:29:46.800 But everybody else, we're tired of the woke BS. We are tired. It's hard to get a size 14 heel.
01:29:52.340 Shout out to Caitlyn. But we are tired of the woke nonsense in the government. And also my audience,
01:29:58.140 the majority of my audience, 80% is female. Many of them are moms. The only people who come up to me
01:30:03.000 are these hot, amazing moms. And I talk with them all the time. I say, you know, I just graduated
01:30:08.400 from college. If you have a kid who's going off to college, maybe look into a trade school,
01:30:13.220 maybe do a little more research because you're going to go rack up thousands, maybe six figures
01:30:17.360 in debt. And then you're just going to be indoctrinated. You're going to have this debt.
01:30:21.200 You're not going to have a job. So I see this trend where a lot of people are saying, you know what,
01:30:24.860 I don't want to go to one of these woke schools. I'm going to go join the workforce,
01:30:28.200 learn a trade because in the future, we're not going to need, you know, queer theater majors
01:30:32.620 like my friends did at NYU. We're going to need plumbers, people who can put together chairs.
01:30:37.620 Yes. What does the queer theater major do for us? I mean, I guess they go on to Broadway,
01:30:42.820 which is fine, but Broadway is steadily making itself less and less relatable.
01:30:47.120 And it's like we have Latinx literature majors. I'm sorry, don't act shocked you can't find a job
01:30:51.920 when you majored in Latinx queer literature. You know what I'm saying? So I think we're going to see
01:30:56.540 just a reversal on this. And I think I'm very excited for January 20th to come again. It's
01:31:03.320 Latinx, but it's fine. It's there's a big debate about which way I guess you can go.
01:31:10.420 You can go either way. Oh, so to speak, just like a panromantic.
01:31:15.960 Well, back in my day, being gay was enough. It's like when I came out, being gay was shocking
01:31:20.580 and it was enough. Now you've got to be pan, poly, trans, non everything. I'm like,
01:31:25.280 you're a boy now, right? I'm normie. I'm boring. Yeah, no, but they totally would have tried to
01:31:30.320 trans you link back in the day. They would have said you're not allowed to be a homosexual
01:31:33.700 boy. You can't be a gay boy. There's you got to be a girl. We got to grow out link's hair.
01:31:38.980 I mean, it's sick. Like put the dress on. So many gay men are fighting back against this,
01:31:43.860 right? Because it's like a little conversion factory. What they're doing this translate is
01:31:47.060 very, very wrong. All right. Let's talk about some hard news. Uh, as we await more information,
01:31:51.720 all I want to see is a picture of the elderly patron at McDonald's who I deed this guy that
01:31:56.700 my day and week will not be complete until I get to celebrate this hero. I cannot wait to find out
01:32:03.600 more about this person. And by the way, if I find out elderly means 54 years old, I'm going to be
01:32:08.720 angry. Okay. Um, Oh, wait, we, we did this for you. Take a look at this link.
01:32:20.600 Oh, I rest my case. I speak nothing but the truth people. You might not like it, but it's the truth.
01:32:27.220 It's Sam Britton next to Matt Damon. There is an eerie resemblance. It's there. Have we seen them in the
01:32:34.060 same room? Have we seen them in the same room? Same with, same with what's the guy's name who
01:32:38.200 ran for president? We've got, uh, Eugene Levy and the other guy from North Dakota. What's his name?
01:32:43.560 Doug or Doug Burgum for president. Yeah. Doug Burgum. We've never seen them in the same room either.
01:32:47.900 Yes. Very strong unibrow. That's, that's the common trait. Um, okay. We were talking in the first hour
01:32:53.880 about Trump and, uh, his interview on meet the press, which was actually very interesting,
01:32:57.740 but also interesting was his trip over to France. He attended the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral,
01:33:02.980 which we were all thrilled to see happen. Uh, one of the world's treasures and, uh, a very
01:33:09.060 interesting moment where he sat one away from Jill Biden and the person in between them got up.
01:33:16.580 And so it was just those two for a moment. And they were super friendly with, here's a full screen
01:33:21.600 of it. Picture. They were smiling. And so many people had a million captions for this. I'll stay on
01:33:28.160 you for this one link. How would you caption that one with Jill and Trump smiling at each
01:33:32.960 other? The only times we've seen Jill Biden smile recently are when she's with Donald Trump. She is
01:33:39.740 smiling ear to ear in the picture. When he came to the white house recently, she's having the time
01:33:43.900 of her life, hanging out with him in Paris, Donald Trump. We don't need another season of Emily in
01:33:48.480 Paris. We need Donald Trump in Paris. He was over there having a great time. He was holding court.
01:33:53.960 I was shocked. He didn't come home wearing a beret, smoking one of those long obnoxious cigarettes. So
01:33:58.480 Donald Trump was having a great time in Paris. Jill Biden, she looks so happy. She looks like
01:34:04.040 she just got a pardon. And if Biden can pardon the turkey and Hunter, might as well give her one too.
01:34:09.500 She may wind up getting one. There are going to be a lot of Bidens who still get pardoned.
01:34:13.040 But it was very interesting, Amala, to see the two of them over there, chummy. It was to the point
01:34:18.140 where it became such a meme that Trump put out this full screen, this sort of like graphic ad
01:34:24.540 showing Jill and Trump together. Was it Trump who put this? Yeah, it was for Trump who put this out.
01:34:30.580 And it reads, a fragrance your enemies can't resist. And it says, fight, fight, fight. And it
01:34:36.860 actually is a Trump fragrance that he's trying to market right now. So what do you make of it?
01:34:42.300 Is there a, is there a, yeah. Are they, are they actually friendly? Did they both vote for the
01:34:47.000 same person? You know what? They, they just might have. We all saw Jill Biden on election day where
01:34:53.100 she was strutting around in that bright red suit of hers and she was smiling ear to ear and she has
01:34:58.420 been virtually ever since. Maybe it just felt good to be sitting next to a lucid president with Donald
01:35:03.620 Trump, but you can watch with everybody in the room, every single eye is on him. They cannot look away
01:35:09.620 from him. So I was thinking he might just very well might have that fragrance on because people
01:35:14.820 were gravitating towards this man. And we've watched over the past, what? I don't know, eight years
01:35:18.940 as these individuals have attacked him. They've cast him aside. They've, they've laughed at him in this
01:35:24.220 sort of move of political theater that we saw in reference to the Trump administration and to the
01:35:28.920 Trump campaign in this last election. But now that he's won, they are just gravitating towards him.
01:35:34.020 He's like a magnet here. We saw in that video, uh, that he was shaking hands with, uh, the Italian
01:35:40.380 prime minister. And we saw, um, uh, Prince William standing there shaking his hand and Trump after
01:35:47.600 the fact, like said something, is this, we don't have this on tape, right? Do we have that on tape?
01:35:53.420 Oh, it's via the New York post was commenting on how attractive Prince William is saying, um,
01:35:59.560 you know, he's such a good looking guy. And it was saying even more handsome in person.
01:36:05.920 He goes, he's a good looking guy. He looks really very handsome last night. Some people look better
01:36:12.220 in person. He looked great. He looked really nice. And I told him that
01:36:15.480 which is like the highest form of currency with Trump.
01:36:19.920 Well, one thing about Trump is he loves central casting. We're about to have the hottest cabinet in
01:36:25.860 American history. Okay. If you're hot, you're blonde, you're ripped, then you're probably
01:36:30.760 going to be in the cabinet with Donald Trump. You know what I'm saying? We've got Pete Hegseth
01:36:34.460 and everybody's all shocked about Pete Hegseth. I'm like, you think men with cheekbones and jaws
01:36:39.100 like that have been perfectly good boys their whole lives? No, it's central casting. And as for Prince
01:36:44.300 William, I think Prince William is thinking I've lost my hair up top. So I'm going to do the scruff to
01:36:49.920 sort of balance it out. But when I saw Trump with Prince William, the body language was great.
01:36:55.040 This is what we need with international relations. Prince William, unfortunately,
01:36:59.020 King Charles is sick. He will likely be king very soon. And I couldn't help but think about Prince
01:37:03.760 Harry and Meghan Markle waltzing around their McMansion and Montecito complaining about how
01:37:08.900 famous they are. I really think those two little hucksters thought they were going to be in like
01:37:13.640 Flint if Kamala Harris won because they're best friends with Oprah Winfrey. She was, you know,
01:37:17.960 out there campaigning for Kamala. Now they're going to have to sit there irrelevant as ever.
01:37:22.300 I know all she has left is her little jars of jam. Amala, she's not she's not going to be the first
01:37:29.660 lady of Montecito. She's not going to be anything other than a jam proprietor, which is fine. It's
01:37:36.000 fine. It's just wasn't her lifetime goals. She's out there with Tyler Perry and Oprah instead of
01:37:42.760 welcoming the incoming president as she of the United States as she might have if she had just
01:37:48.060 oh done the terrible work of sticking with the royal family.
01:37:52.420 Oh, yeah, it's so hard to be around those races who are concerned about her skin color. And I'm
01:37:57.300 sorry, did any of us think that Meghan Markle was really that black? Are we looking at the same
01:38:01.820 individual? I just really don't believe the narrative that she spun about this family.
01:38:06.260 And it's so interesting that everywhere she goes, this sort of victimhood mentality
01:38:09.920 follows her. And she claims she had no idea what she was getting into when when meeting Prince Harry
01:38:15.640 and could not even imagine what her life was going to be like on the other end of it. I'm
01:38:19.320 thinking, OK, we know you were a husband hunting and we know you had a scope on the right. Well,
01:38:23.640 you knew exactly what you were dealing with when you got in bed with that man. And now we're going
01:38:27.940 to see because with this move towards conservatism that's coming with Trump, I think we're going to
01:38:32.760 see this in Europe as well. And with Macron being there, France has been struggling in his sense with
01:38:38.920 an uptick in right leaning views. And I think all of them are going to be dealing with that
01:38:44.100 under this Trump administration. It's so true. Like Trump has provided everyone with a roadmap
01:38:48.980 of how to do it. If even Trump could get reelected after J six, after all the fascism claims and the
01:38:54.280 Hitler claims and the American people spoke overwhelmingly saying, we don't care. We want
01:38:58.640 a different way of living. We want to go back to basics here in America. We need a factory reset
01:39:03.160 on this nonsense. Then there's a there's a roadmap for other world leaders to say, I see what people
01:39:09.640 want. We've been led astray going in the wrong direction. I want to show you this, too.
01:39:13.940 Um, Trump shook hands with Zelensky at the LSA palace who was, they were there with, uh, Emmanuel
01:39:21.560 Macron on Saturday. And it was an interesting handshake. You know, Trump is famous or infamous
01:39:25.860 for his handshakes, the power handshakes where he pulls you in. He loves to pull you in. He's
01:39:30.500 holding him and holding him. Okay. So there we go. He held him. And now, uh, here's Macron next to him,
01:39:37.340 the three of them. And here we go. This is, this is back example where he pulls in Macron.
01:39:41.820 So like, there he goes. And then it turns into like, look, holding, he doesn't let go of him.
01:39:48.580 Look at him. He won't let go. This is what he met with Macron. What is it with Trump and the
01:39:53.600 handshake? What's happening? Look. Yeah. Look, look, look, there he goes again. Elbow up now. Elbow up
01:39:59.520 above, above Macron. It's like clearly a sign of dominance. Love to get a body language on,
01:40:06.040 uh, expert, but what do you guys make of the handshake? Well, as someone who is a body language
01:40:12.800 expert, I will tell you, this is just a man with bravado machismo. This is a guy who is totally in
01:40:18.960 control. Trump has climbed the highest mountain twice. And I said recently, everybody around the
01:40:24.280 world, all these world leaders, they either fear or revere Donald Trump. And those are two really great
01:40:29.720 places to be in because we're so used to Joe Biden shuffling in. They put him on the back of these
01:40:34.480 photos. Now at the summit, nobody respects him. Donald Trump is coming in and everybody's
01:40:38.820 attention has been heightened. So I was really happy to see this as for Zelensky. Could the man
01:40:43.800 not put a suit on? If I was going to meet my sugar daddy, the man who's been funding my country with
01:40:49.220 hundreds of billions of dollars, I would have put a suit on, you know? So I don't understand what
01:40:53.420 Zelensky, maybe he can't throw on a suit and tie, but Trump was definitely asserting his dominance.
01:40:58.740 I do want to tell you something funny about the handshake. My husband, Doug,
01:41:01.820 asked one of our friends who's CIA about the Trump handshake. And he showed us a way that like a man,
01:41:09.400 I mean, he doesn't do this to women, but that a man can like stop the crushing grip and then pulling
01:41:14.960 you in. It's like a maneuver that the CIA guys know, or like you can, you can Trump the dominant
01:41:21.240 pull in. And we were like, Oh, that's good. That's good. You know, we'll have to remember that.
01:41:24.920 Not me, but Doug. And then we talked to Jack Carr, famous author and Navy SEAL. And he said,
01:41:32.780 Oh no, that can easily be counteracted and showed us a double secret, triple secret move to counter
01:41:38.940 the CIA move. So now, I mean, poor Doug has got a lot to remember if he ever shakes hands with
01:41:44.400 anybody who special forces are in the government. So when I meet Doug, I'm just going to go for a
01:41:48.980 normal handshake. Okay. Yeah. Right. He won't unleash his newfound special skills on you unless
01:41:54.540 you're trying to dominate. He's coming on soon. Maybe we'll ask him to, to demonstrate some of
01:41:59.020 these on us. Okay. Also wanted to give you this new update from the New York times on this person
01:42:04.980 of interest, Luigi Mangione, who's been captured in this Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald's. It's back
01:42:10.340 now. First they said it was a McDonald's worker who ID'd him. Then they changed it to elderly patron at
01:42:15.800 the restaurant. And now they're back to, it was a worker. I'm actually really into this drama. I want
01:42:21.040 to know exactly who it was. Here's what the New York times is reporting. Joseph Kenny, the chief of
01:42:25.740 detectives describes Mangione as born and raised in Maryland with ties to San Francisco says he lived
01:42:30.940 in Honolulu until recently, no known criminal record in New York. Luigi Mangione was eating at the
01:42:37.700 McDonald's when an employee recognized him. So that's interesting. Maybe he was actually not only
01:42:41.260 getting his food, but had sat down if he was actually eating, or maybe they just use that term
01:42:45.580 colloquially, meaning he was getting his food to eat. Uh, for now he faces gun charges in Altoona
01:42:51.760 and the authorities will work on getting him to New York. Chief Kenny says Mangione was in possession of
01:42:56.520 a ghost gun and a silencer. Again, we heard that earlier. So that's not good news for Mangione. If he had
01:43:01.000 the gun on him, Joseph Kenny, the chief detective says the police in Altoona have the document that was
01:43:07.260 found on Luigi Mangione that there is no sense anyone else was in danger. Quote, it does seem he has
01:43:14.860 some ill will toward corporate America. According to his LinkedIn, the suspect in, uh, this shooting
01:43:22.300 volunteered for an assisted living healthcare facility, which was founded by someone with his same last
01:43:29.900 name. That's interesting getting that's per libs of Tik TOK, um, getting more and more interesting,
01:43:37.060 but it does appear. He was continues libs of Tik TOK, very familiar with the healthcare industry.
01:43:43.420 Hmm. Wow. You know, Bacia made a good point in the first hour, you guys, that as we learn more about
01:43:49.960 his particular grievances, we're all going to be faced with a tough decision on whether we actually
01:43:54.820 discuss them. Right. If he's not some psychotic, crazy, crazy guy, who's just making random ramblings,
01:44:01.380 you know, I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think we do. This is obviously not a well
01:44:07.200 person and that's exactly what he wants us to do. You know, and as I said to Bacia, maybe down the line,
01:44:12.700 you know, we're always talking about healthcare in American, how it can improve, especially with the
01:44:16.200 new president coming in. But I don't know. What do you think about it? I'm a lot. Do we,
01:44:19.740 do we delve into what drove this man? I guess it's just really just going to depend on what
01:44:27.140 he has to say. You know, they said he's inspired by, by Ted Kaczynski in some of these reports.
01:44:31.340 And if you go and read through some of the manifesto of the Unabomber, you're hearing
01:44:34.980 things and going, okay, uh, this guy was onto something in a certain respect and is clearly
01:44:39.060 very intelligent, but then goes on to do something so radical that it almost crosses out everything
01:44:44.720 that you've thought about in the past. Now I do believe a consistent and reasonable grievance
01:44:51.680 exists on its own. And these are things that we're already trying to tackle within our healthcare
01:44:55.820 system. So I don't know that we go through everything he has to say with a fine tooth comb
01:45:00.680 and, and really attribute our, our investigation of these problems to him. I imagine there are people
01:45:06.460 working on these things as we speak, but this is where, what happens when you, you have these
01:45:12.440 radical actions on the other end of your grievances, it does sort of make everything
01:45:16.440 you've said before, no matter how reasonable, look a little crazy. This is what we see with
01:45:21.640 these, uh, climate change activists. I know that you seem to have some, some grievances about how
01:45:27.180 we're treating our planet and, and the fossil fuels and the littering, but you just super glued your
01:45:32.440 hand to a Starbucks counter. So I'm not sure I want to hear you out on the things you're complaining
01:45:37.060 about. Right. You just tried to throw paint on a Monet in the Louvre. So yeah, no, I don't think
01:45:43.580 we should be listening to anything. This guy says whatsoever link. I don't think we should be
01:45:46.600 debating it. I think you air enough of it just so people understand motivation and that's it because
01:45:51.180 why, why would we care? Do we really want to go into, uh, the Trump assassins hatred of Donald Trump
01:45:58.320 and what drove him to actually, you would do it just to understand the motivation, but then you would
01:46:03.300 not have a serious debate about whether Donald Trump was bad in the way the shooter said he was
01:46:08.480 bad. And this is no different. Absolutely. And sometimes these people just want attention. They
01:46:14.700 want to be celebrities, especially with social media now. And unfortunately we turn them into
01:46:19.540 folk heroes on the internet sometimes in the far left woke corners of the internet. So I would not be
01:46:25.080 giving this guy that much airtime. I wouldn't be showing his picture, saying his name. Same with
01:46:29.620 Thomas Crooks who shot at Donald Trump on July 13th and Butler, you know, these people,
01:46:34.100 their pictures get plastered and then they find celebrity on the internet, but the ends do not
01:46:39.120 always justify the means. Maybe cause I grew up in church to evils do not make a right. So shooting
01:46:44.620 the CEO who has kids and I don't know what his relationship was with the ex-wife. It seems like
01:46:49.900 they were friendly. They were amicable, amicable, but someone who is a father who has friends and
01:46:55.120 family shooting him is not going to fix the healthcare system. And I'm very familiar with
01:46:59.840 all the issues in our healthcare system because that was the main focus of the Kennedy campaign.
01:47:03.960 We need a much more comprehensive look at chronic disease and our healthcare system,
01:47:08.100 which is deeply broken, but shooting people on the street in New York is not the way to get the
01:47:12.840 change you want. That's exactly right. And by the way, UnitedHealthcare and the other healthcare
01:47:17.020 insurance companies, while they, they leave a lot to be desired in terms of overall approach,
01:47:21.200 they've saved a lot of lives too. I mean, they, they've covered a lot of procedures
01:47:24.560 and preliminary testing and so on that you might not otherwise have had covered in another country
01:47:29.300 or under, you know, with no insurance whatsoever. So I, I don't understand like that, that they're
01:47:33.980 getting painted as these uniformly terrible organizations. They're not perfect, but they're
01:47:38.200 really important in, in, you know, what happens here in America. The number of our Unabomber episode,
01:47:44.960 which honestly is one of the most memorable we ever did. Like I, we had the FBI guy on who tracked
01:47:52.800 him down and caught him, who went into the cabin. It was episode two, two, seven. It's only like an
01:47:58.880 hour long, well worth your time. If you want to hear some of what apparently this Luigi character
01:48:05.040 felt very interested in and potentially motivated by episode two, two, seven. If you want to listen
01:48:09.460 to that on some driver on your weekend commute. All right. I have got to talk about, I know I could do
01:48:15.660 KJP, but I don't want to do that. I want to talk to you about Rosie O'Donnell because there is a
01:48:20.380 headline in the news today, and this is what it is. I made the headline and I, I made it for a
01:48:25.600 reason. Donald Trump gave Rosie O'Donnell herpes. He gave Rosie O'Donnell herpes. That is what she
01:48:36.920 says. And he didn't give it to her in the normal way that I think most people get herpes. He gave it
01:48:44.320 to her by the stress, the stress of being elected. This is what she's claiming. All right. I'm going
01:48:52.600 to walk you through the different iterations of Rosie's disgusting problems, just to name a few.
01:48:59.720 And by the way, speaking of a little bronzer, Link, here's her, here's her first video.
01:49:06.480 Saw 10. Well, hey, everybody. It's Friday all day, as my Nana would say. Oh my God. And look what I
01:49:13.600 have on my lip. Everybody's been saying you have herpes, you have herpes all this time. And I never
01:49:18.820 had a cold sore in my life. And now I have a cold sore. And it makes me think that perhaps this weird
01:49:24.800 pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore too. And so I talked to my doctor today and I did a
01:49:31.820 video telehealth and they said that it's not a cold sore. It's some reaction to the sun. So I don't
01:49:41.740 know. I will let you know tomorrow if I do in fact have herpes as some of the taunting from the MAGA
01:49:48.040 people in the last couple of weeks. Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen, to be standing in
01:49:56.340 direct opposition to everything he is and represents. And always have been. And always will be.
01:50:08.660 I don't know. Strange. Okay. This is the first chapter of our saga. It was filed on Friday,
01:50:15.980 this past Friday. So buckle in because, you know, the MAGA people caused her to have herpes as she's
01:50:22.500 oppositional to Donald Trump. And so she suspected or was it just from the sun? We got the update
01:50:29.460 on Sunday and this just in. Yep, everybody, it's a cold sore.
01:50:37.700 There you have it. Stress can do horrible things. Strange thing about my cold sore,
01:50:41.800 doesn't hurt. Not sure why I get a non-hurting cold sore. It's cold sore. I almost said coleslaw,
01:50:49.600 which would be weird. As she is. I mean, who goes on close up on Instagram and post video of their
01:50:58.520 cold sore, which is the herpes virus at issue. And just for good measure, she did talk about the one
01:51:06.420 reason she stressed outside of Trump and MAGA. It might be the UFOs. Why are you stressed?
01:51:14.080 A lot of reasons. I was on a flight today and I asked the flight attendant, had she seen any UFOs
01:51:25.160 in the sky? Because she flies all the time. She's like, what do you mean UFOs?
01:51:30.580 Like, you didn't hear about the UFOs all over the world and a tremendous amount in New Jersey and
01:51:35.760 over our nuclear power plants? UFOs, people. That's what it is. UFOs. But nobody seems to care.
01:51:42.620 See them and keep posting, everyone. Keep posting until they take away our TikTok in the
01:51:47.700 middle of January, because it's really the fourth estate, right? It's really the free press in
01:51:54.380 America. This is why I get cold sores, ladies and gentlemen. Hope, please. Or at least one.
01:51:59.340 I'd love to say I got it from making out with some really sexy people, but it's not the case.
01:52:05.200 I'm going to put on my Abriva on my cold sore. There it is. Shine bright like a cold sore.
01:52:11.640 All right, everyone. Have a great one. TikTok, you don't stop.
01:52:19.820 What's next? Like hemorrhoids?
01:52:23.540 Is there no privacy or dignity?
01:52:28.800 This is almost as bad as that Kamala Harris video when she was drunk and slurring and looking
01:52:35.040 demoralized and broken. This is almost as bad as that. When I saw the Rosie O'Donnell video, I'm like,
01:52:40.420 get the girl some Valtrex. Get her a prescription. Get her something. I don't know what's going on with
01:52:44.940 her. But she looks totally demoralized and broken down. And when she blames her second stressor on UFOs,
01:52:51.800 hasn't her daughter been arrested like three times recently for meth and all these other issues?
01:52:57.000 Maybe that would be stressing you out as well. So I don't know why she's blaming it on the UFOs.
01:53:02.500 That's a good point. I just can't imagine like what how is it empowering Amala to go out there
01:53:09.640 looking your absolute worst? I mean, I'm assuming I'm assuming that's her worst. Maybe she can go
01:53:15.020 a couple degrees down. I don't know. But like no makeup, like as unflattering in terms of your
01:53:21.340 aging as you could possibly make yourself calling attention to your pimples and your herpes outbreaks
01:53:28.260 and giving details about them to a public as you talk about how much you hate half the country.
01:53:36.800 This is not a well person. Megan, have you not met the modern woman? The modern woman is beautiful.
01:53:43.600 She rejects objective beauty standards. She shows herself to the world herpes and all. And she
01:53:49.520 posts videos of her putting putting a brief on them. And we've seen this from Rosie O'Donnell. She
01:53:54.200 loves to like detail her entire day. My advice to her, get a diary. You know, you can put those words
01:54:00.000 in there, close it up and not show it to the world. But instead, she decides to publicize all of it. And
01:54:04.940 she puts out these lengthy videos where she sits outside in the sun watching the squirrels that go by her
01:54:11.280 house. And I will tell her, sun is not good for cold sores. And neither is the stress that you have
01:54:16.200 surrounding this election. What are we going to get next? Like boils? Where, where exactly do you go
01:54:27.460 from your, your herpes? I, an anal fissure. I had just tried to think how bad could it get? I think
01:54:38.200 it could get worse. I don't think she's done. Whatever you're following, you should unfollow
01:54:43.800 wherever you're getting this information from. This is not a well person. As I said, I'm not sure
01:54:50.940 there's anything more to say. I will say there are some weird drones flying over New Jersey. She wasn't
01:54:56.080 wrong that that is happening. I don't know what that is. All I keep hearing is that
01:54:59.980 they're going to investigate. So it is weird what's happening with the New Jersey drones
01:55:05.420 over various places. I don't know that I'd pull a flight attendant aside to ask her what she knew
01:55:10.920 about the UFOs. That's like a slightly out there, but I do think she's like living proof link about
01:55:16.080 how Trump just lucks out by having the very best enemies one can have.
01:55:21.780 I mean, Trump broke these liberals brains back in 2016 and they thought it was over.
01:55:27.940 He really came in and demolished them now. And what's interesting, you have these celebrities
01:55:32.300 like Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin, who have total Trump derangement syndrome, but his policies are only
01:55:38.780 going to make their lives better. They live in these liberal cities full of crime. They have migrants
01:55:44.060 all over the street. There's dirt all over and trash everywhere. Trump coming in might be a beacon for a
01:55:49.620 beacon of hope for your failing city and your failing state led by Governor Gavin Newsom. So
01:55:54.240 I don't know why Rosie O'Donnell and all these celebrities are complaining, but the Trump
01:55:58.240 derangement syndrome has just reached a fever pitch. Yeah, I'd like a fever blister pitch, you might say.
01:56:04.640 Oh, no. Thank you, Amala. Thank you as well. Always fun. Great to see you.
01:56:12.660 Thank you so much. Thanks for having us. What a crazy news cycle and what a crazy
01:56:18.540 day, right? I can't believe the updates on this and we will continue to follow them. I'm sure we'll
01:56:25.000 have a lot more by this time tomorrow because they will have read that whole manifesto and we'll get
01:56:30.180 some more details. So thanks to all of you for joining us today. And don't forget tomorrow we are
01:56:34.600 back with the one and only Heather McDonald. I mean, there are like commentators on the news
01:56:41.120 and then there's Heather McDonald. It's like the smartest person in the country.
01:56:47.200 Absolutely love her. She's here tomorrow. Don't miss that.
01:56:54.180 Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.
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01:57:13.140 So, let's see.
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