The Megyn Kelly Show - Epstein Files Debacle, and Trump Spars with Zelensky in Oval Office, with Emily Jashinsky and Red Scare Hosts ｜ Ep. 1016

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00:00:31.000 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:42.960 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.

00:00:47.200 It's a busy end to the week today with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House this morning

00:00:52.680 in a meeting with President Trump that could be the first real step toward peace in Ukraine.

00:00:57.360 Plus, Andrew Tate back in America. Oh joy.

00:01:03.320 The Epstein files were a total bust and I have a lot to say about my day in Washington, D.C. yesterday

00:01:10.840 in front of all the media head honchos.

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00:02:30.800 I think between me, Anna, and Dasha, this is the most Slavic episode of the Megyn Kelly show ever.

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00:02:49.400 All right, let's start with the absolute bust of Epstein. This was such a joke. So I'm not,

00:02:56.580 everything about this was poorly handled. Like I'm a big Pam Bondi fan. I love that she's running DOJ.

00:03:03.680 One of the things she's doing right now, which I greatly appreciate, is she's dropping all the

00:03:07.760 bullshit Biden DOJ investigations into various police and fire forces across the country for not

00:03:14.620 lowering their test standards so that more women could get involved or changing the test so that 0.93

00:03:20.380 more African-Americans qualified than actually passed the test. They were getting sued by Biden's

00:03:25.780 DOJ left and right. Today, she's dropping them all. Great. She's doing a great job.

00:03:30.320 But the Epstein file thing was a disaster. They embarrassed themselves. And it seems like a

00:03:36.680 totally unnecessary thing. Like they stepped on a rake for no apparent reason. What happened yesterday

00:03:44.320 was a bunch of right-wing influencers were invited to the White House and they were given binders that

00:03:50.480 said like Epstein phase one, like the phase one release. Okay. That was interesting.

00:03:56.500 You know, it was, I'm not going to lie. This was a little awkward because it was very celebratory

00:04:02.580 and the Epstein story is about his alleged molestation and inappropriate behavior with very

00:04:09.500 young girls. So it's just one of those things you got to be careful because you don't want to look

00:04:14.540 like you're celebrating anything having to do with that. But I understand that the celebration was

00:04:19.980 around the fact that finally we might be getting the full story on Epstein. So they got those files,

00:04:25.260 those folders from Pam Bondi. They had sat in a meeting, according to them, with Pam Bondi,

00:04:29.760 who gave him the files. Like, here they are. Here's tranche one. And absolutely nothing was in

00:04:34.360 them. It came out later from those influencers, among others, who I think were also disappointed.

00:04:40.820 Nothing else, absolutely everything in there was already known. Not a single new thing was printed or

00:04:46.060 offered. And this whole thing had been some sort of a rope-a-dope. I don't think it was designed

00:04:51.260 to make any of the right-wing influencers look dumb, but they were not well-served by the DOJ 0.97

00:04:57.680 yesterday. The DOJ should have been more careful before they did that to some of the most ardent 0.94

00:05:02.520 allies to the Trump administration. It was kind of bullshit. I was pissed on their behalf. 1.00

00:05:08.420 And then by the end of the day, what you had was Pam Bondi firing off a nasty missive to Kash

00:05:13.360 Patel saying, where are my files? I demanded from the FBI that they all be given to me. They weren't.

00:05:19.300 I've been told by a whistleblower the FBI withheld certain critical Epstein documents. When I spoke

00:05:25.140 to you earlier, you were as surprised by this as I was. So then why did they go through the exercise of

00:05:30.480 doing this with the influencers? Because it looks like the timing on that was she knew before she 0.97

00:05:38.160 gave them those binders that she had been strong-armed or stiff-armed by the FBI. And so the whole thing

00:05:45.640 wound up being somewhat embarrassing unnecessarily for, I think, the well-meaning right-wing influencers

00:05:51.920 that showed up there willing to report on whatever news was given to them. P.S. It was nothing.

00:05:57.300 On Pam, on Kash Patel. And for what? Why? I don't, why did this have to happen?

00:06:05.320 I think you just hit on the crux of the problem for them, which is they were, on the one hand,

00:06:10.480 they're trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, they were saying this was a big document dump,

00:06:14.360 the first step towards total transparency. They're about to purge the deep state and expose names.

00:06:20.440 And that's basically what Pam Bondi said on Jesse Waters' show the other night, the night before all

00:06:25.220 of this happened. And then they want to have it the other way too, which is that, well, we always knew

00:06:30.440 this was going to be underwhelming because we were being thwarted by, as they're saying, SDNY,

00:06:35.720 the Southern District of New York. So it doesn't make sense that they actually went public and said,

00:06:40.420 this is a huge step towards transparency. And then at the same time also said, actually,

00:06:45.860 it's nothing because we're being thwarted by the deep state. Those two things can't be true at the

00:06:50.440 same time. And it seems like they were in a rush to get documents out because they're under a lot of

00:06:56.080 pressure. This was a huge Trump pledge to actually release all kinds of information, whether it's JFK

00:07:01.560 files, MLK files, Epstein files. This is going to be a really big problem for Pam Bondi. And Megan,

00:07:07.960 I don't know if you've sensed this. I've sensed the White House is really upset with the Department

00:07:12.140 of Justice over this, just talking to people in the last 24 hours. They feel this was a huge error

00:07:18.120 because the optics were so bad, because it turned so many people in MAGA world against each other so

00:07:24.420 early in the administration. It may seem like a silly sideshow thing, but I actually think it was

00:07:29.260 a pretty significant blunder that's going to have ripple effects in the days and weeks to come.

00:07:33.760 I felt bad for those influencers. I mean, many of whom I know and think a lot of who got, I'm sure,

00:07:40.840 very excited by the call to go meet with the attorney general of the United States. This is not like

00:07:45.780 somebody punked me who I'd never heard of before, who claimed he had Epstein documents. It's the

00:07:51.040 sitting attorney general. And they went, they're at the White House. Like, this is a big deal. I think

00:07:57.900 they went there totally in good faith and earnestly and trusted her and got humiliated by

00:08:05.540 this document dump that was a nothing. They, why would you take people who absolutely love you and

00:08:11.980 have been very good to you and embarrass them like this? I don't get it. I'm sure it wasn't intentional.

00:08:17.280 I think it was just incompetence, I guess. I don't, I'm not sure exactly how this went down,

00:08:21.520 but if I were any one of those people, I would be demanding an actual explanation of what was done

00:08:28.160 to me and the real information be given to me ASAP, right? Like now I've stuck my neck out for you.

00:08:34.620 You've humiliated me. I better be getting whatever the FBI and or SDNY, the Southern District of New

00:08:40.960 York has some of the documents, um, since they were the ones going after Epstein, I better be the

00:08:46.200 first one to receive this stuff, right? Like instead yesterday, we just seem to have the nasty

00:08:50.940 letter from Pam Bondi to cash Patel, like, gee, everyone's been duped. But again, the timeline

00:08:59.140 appears to be, she knew that before she gave out these documents. Then on top of it, they gave all

00:09:04.380 the right wing influencers talking points that, um, sort of explain what happened and like how great

00:09:11.600 this whole sequence of events was. And I guess they didn't tell them this, this is just guidance

00:09:18.040 for you. Um, and a couple of them tweeted out the exact same message afterward that reads as follows

00:09:25.340 today. I met with president Trump. Yeah. So it's not just Bondi it's Trump, president Trump, vice

00:09:30.560 president, JD Vance, AG Pam Bondi and FBI director cash Patel in the oval. They handed me a binder copy of

00:09:36.440 the Epstein files, the most transparent administration in American history. The best part, this is just

00:09:41.400 the start. A.G. Bondi confirmed there are thousands more Epstein file documents being secretly held in

00:09:46.580 the SDNY and they will be delivered to the DOJ in DC by February 28th, which is today. People will be

00:09:52.440 going to jail for what they've done. So she gave them this guidance to like tweet out, oh, this is

00:09:58.780 just the first tranche, but more is coming, which was an attempt, a nod at her knowledge that she didn't

00:10:04.200 have anything in there that was new, but that wasn't transparent, right? That wasn't actually made

00:10:09.680 clear. And then these guys are tweeting out the exact same tweet, right? Like they just,

00:10:18.360 and the way that's avoided is you say, this is a guide. This is guidance. This is like a suggested

00:10:23.440 tweet. I obviously I wouldn't send out this exact thing. We're, we're giving this to everybody.

00:10:27.460 These are kind of the points that'd be great if you could hit. Now, if you're a journalist,

00:10:31.420 you don't take that at all. You say, thank you for your tweet. Goodbye. But these aren't,

00:10:35.580 I don't think they would call themselves exactly journalists in the traditional sense,

00:10:39.460 which is one of the things we love about them. Um, but I just feel like the, if you wanted to

00:10:43.800 embarrass these, you know, 10 people, this is exactly how you would have run this whole thing.

00:10:49.140 You couldn't have scripted it better. No, I mean, it was incredibly humiliating. It makes them end up

00:10:54.160 looking like Pravda, like they're taking talking points and being the useful idiots for the 0.99

00:10:59.000 administration's complete blunder, um, on, you know, promising over promising and wildly under 0.99

00:11:05.180 delivering. So I actually think this is going to be a problem. I'm, I'm with you, Megan. Like I have

00:11:09.840 pretty high hopes for Pam Bondi and definitely for Kash Patel as well. But this to me, uh, feels like

00:11:15.720 it'll be a big problem going forward for Pam Bondi because people like, in fact, some of these

00:11:20.080 influencers, some of their staunchest allies on social media are not going to give up on looking for

00:11:26.580 these files and trying to get these files. Pam Bondi was the attorney general in the state of

00:11:30.560 Florida, uh, an attorney general in the state of Florida, uh, over the time period in which she was

00:11:34.940 there would know a lot of stuff about, uh, what was happening with the Jeffrey Epstein case,

00:11:38.700 presumably. Um, and so there's just going to be a lot of questions. Remember Alex Acosta,

00:11:42.940 Trump's first labor secretary, uh, was really involved in the sweetheart deal. Like this is,

00:11:48.320 this is the Florida connections aren't great here. Um, so I think this is going to follow Pam

00:11:53.460 Bondi unfortunately. I mean, everybody's still interested in Epstein. I think I heard some

00:11:58.260 people being like, who cares? I'm like, no, I care. I actually really would like to see what's

00:12:01.800 in the files. If, if look, I'm not expecting it to be like appointment Bill Clinton to see 13 year

00:12:08.780 old on Epstein Island, you know, June, 2006. I that's not going to be in there. That's, that's just a

00:12:14.900 joke. Um, but there could be a client list right now. It's just his contact list, which we've already

00:12:21.680 seen. And by the way, being a in Jeffrey Epstein's contact book does not mean anything. It really

00:12:26.820 doesn't mean anything. Like I have tons of people in my phone's contacts with whom I actually have

00:12:30.920 almost nothing to do, whatever. They, they like contact you one time. You exchange info. It doesn't

00:12:35.860 mean anything. What we need is more like who actually was a frequent, uh, repeat visitor on

00:12:42.460 Epstein Island, right? That would be good to know. We have some names. Um, but what's being

00:12:48.980 promises like there's more and it's juicy. And that's why it's been withheld by these people

00:12:54.440 and maybe something about his death. Like people have genuine natural questions about that. Do you

00:13:00.380 think we'll get any answers? I think it's gonna be really difficult for them to not provide answers.

00:13:06.860 And the question for me is, do the answers they provide continue to sort of look like what yesterday

00:13:12.100 looked like? And I mean that when it comes to JFK, MLK, and all of that, because Trump was on Joe

00:13:17.120 Rogan, um, as he was courting young men, uh, a very important, you know, demographic for him in

00:13:22.960 this last election, talking about how this stuff was all going to come out. And so is it just going

00:13:27.920 to be an underwhelming drip, drip, drip as a lot of cynics always predicted, or is there going to be

00:13:33.720 substantial information release? I have a really hard time seeing them politically getting away with

00:13:39.040 not infuriating all of the, like, again, some of the same people that were at the white house

00:13:43.220 yesterday. If, um, all this time goes by and they never produce anything, I think the hope

00:13:48.960 is that what they don't keep trying to do is manipulating the public by tossing scraps and

00:13:53.540 acting like it's a really big deal. Um, there are potential loopholes in the JFK EO. I actually

00:13:59.400 sent a comment request to the CIA a couple of weeks ago about whether they're planning to use some of

00:14:03.340 those loopholes and they gave me a non-response, but this stuff is going to build. We're a month into

00:14:07.960 office. So I don't really think they have a choice. One thing we know quickly that the FBI has

00:14:13.440 is discs that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse that have a blank name plus

00:14:20.180 a blank name on these discs. They said that these are things that they took from the Epstein townhouse

00:14:26.480 in New York. So there really are specific, tangible records. We know they have. And as those questions

00:14:33.540 keep building and building, good luck if you're going to continue ignoring that after promising

00:14:37.920 so much. I mean, it's, it's, um, I think it was Elon who tweeted out today, like things don't change

00:14:45.800 on a dime. And I think he was suggesting Pam Bondi's there, Kash Patel's there, but the whole staff hasn't

00:14:52.420 changed at DOJ or FBI and certainly not at SDNY. And so I think he was telegraphing, like, give him a

00:14:59.620 minute to try to get the troops in line. I agree with all of that. Yes. But then don't overpromise.

00:15:05.440 Don't make a big show of things. Don't embarrass your most loyal supporters by pretending you're

00:15:10.040 giving them some big scoop only to have the internet say there's absolutely nothing here

00:15:14.260 at all. That's new. Like all of this is just, like I say, it's like the procedure around it

00:15:19.900 was so poorly done. And then on top of everything we just discussed, for some reason, the house

00:15:25.100 judiciary committee, which I gather is run by Jim Jordan tweeted out like a joke about it.

00:15:32.980 Um, people expected, like the tease was suggested that they look, it reads a breaking it's at

00:15:40.780 judiciary DOP Epstein files released. And you click on this link and it shows you the, well,

00:15:48.340 here's what it shows you. It's Rick Astley is referred to as being Rick rolled, which is like

00:16:05.780 a punk. So they wound up having to delete that tweet because so many Republicans and conservatives

00:16:13.620 did not find it funny and were just generally pissed off about how the afternoon went yesterday.

00:16:19.140 Well, yeah, and it's totally missing the moment. It's completely tone deaf. And what they were

00:16:23.160 trying to do, I suspect from that was throw SDNY. They were trying to troll SDNY and say, you know,

00:16:29.380 this is what happens when you try to get records from the deep state. Um, you know, you're just

00:16:33.800 going to keep getting Rick rolled. So I think it was intended, uh, to have that target, but it was

00:16:38.960 indicative of how indelicately the situation was handled for a very serious matter to many,

00:16:45.700 many people in the whole country, but especially in the Trump base. Uh, it was just yesterday was a

00:16:50.760 real disaster for them and they kind of knew it. You sensed that they knew it as it was happening,

00:16:55.400 that it was a disaster and we're trying to cover their asses. 0.99

00:16:58.440 Here's the other thing that bothered me about it. There were people there like, uh, Chaya from 0.98

00:17:02.360 Libs of Tik TOK. Um, even Jack Posobiec who, with whom I have a very checkered past, like we haven't

00:17:08.980 gotten along well, but I have to say he he's, I I've grown to really like him and his Twitter feed

00:17:15.320 is fire. And he actually has had a lot of scoops. Um, he was one of them, Chad Pranther. Uh, he's a

00:17:22.580 good guy down in Texas, a podcaster. So dragging these people to the white house and using them in this

00:17:31.540 way, undermine their credibility to which I object like Libs of Tik TOK has been, she's been a heroine,

00:17:40.200 a heroine in this whole DEI battle in the whole gender madness battle. Like truly this to me almost

00:17:47.040 seems like a Biden psyop to try to undermine the growing credibility of independent people who have

00:17:54.000 been breaking big news and important voices in our country. And it was like, how can we take the legs

00:18:01.320 out from under them? Right. So it's like, look, they'll recover. Nobody's blaming them. I think,

00:18:06.420 you know, people understand this was done to them, not exactly by them. Um, but now you've also put

00:18:11.760 them in a position where they feel like they have to defend the white house because they were given

00:18:15.280 this quote scoop and met with the president. You know, it's like all very fraught and some,

00:18:20.860 I don't know. I'm not sure if somebody's head needs to roll, but like something should be done.

00:18:25.940 If I, if I were Pam Bondi, I'd definitely be giving these people the exclusive of the real information

00:18:29.860 so that you can rehabilitate the people you for some reason hurt.

00:18:34.140 Yeah. And part of what this looks like to me is they, they actually were trying to bring

00:18:37.620 influencers in and, you know, give scoops to people who have cared about the issue and have

00:18:42.620 been supportive of the administration. And when they realized, uh, that this was going to be like,

00:18:48.720 not what they promised, uh, they still tried to go ahead with it. And they laid the spin on extra

00:18:54.400 thick to make up for under delivering, which is a horrible, horrible idea. You can see how when

00:19:01.220 things are happening really quickly, like it's Veep behind closed doors in DC, you would do 1.00

00:19:05.800 something like this, but it's, it's really, really stupid. I think probably someone's head should roll 0.99

00:19:10.700 because they took a lot of built up credibility with these, uh, online influencers who have been

00:19:16.160 supportive of them have stuck their necks out for them. Uh, and this is a reputation blow. I mean,

00:19:21.160 I agree. I think they'll recover, but for some people they'll probably never have the same level

00:19:26.220 of reputation in a, in one way though, I think this could be a good thing, which is my advice to

00:19:30.920 people who start covering Trump world is that they are really friendly if you're supportive,

00:19:34.860 but if you want them to take you seriously, uh, you, you have to like, kind of be serious and,

00:19:41.600 and be, you know, show that you're willing to be extremely skeptical. The people that they take

00:19:45.960 most seriously are the ones that, um, are willing to like, you play hardball too. And so I think in a

00:19:51.760 sense for the influencers, this could be a good lesson that like you, you can be supportive. Like

00:19:57.480 if you support Donald Trump, great, like go support Donald Trump. But, um, you know, there are some

00:20:01.600 people in his orbit that aren't always going to have your best interests in mind. So be skeptical and

00:20:06.720 be rigorous when you go into situations like these. Well, it is complicated, right? Because there was a

00:20:10.840 report yesterday that Trump had an event, um, at the white house on, um, women in sports boys,

00:20:16.880 you know, playing in girl sports and women in sports and invited a group of outspoken women on 1.00

00:20:21.920 this issue to the white house. And online, there were, there were some complaints that some of the

00:20:27.220 women who had been invited to the first signing of the EO, like Riley Gaines and some of the others

00:20:31.920 who've been in commercials with her and so on were not invited back. Oh, this is because I think

00:20:36.620 because yesterday or the day before is about NCAA, the NCAA made a deal of like going along

00:20:43.200 with Trump CEO, like, okay, we're not going to allow boys and women's sports. And it turned out

00:20:47.800 to be full of loopholes. I mean, all of my women who I follow on this issue online have been jumping 1.00

00:20:54.720 up and down, very pissed off at the NCAA for trying to make it look like they're on board with the Trump

00:21:00.600 EO, but actually creating a policy through which any truck could be driven. And so they, the NCAA

00:21:07.060 hasn't satisfied team reality when it comes to sex and gender at all. And they've been outspoken about

00:21:14.400 it. And that includes Riley and some pointing out that she was not invited back the white house

00:21:19.680 saying, well, we just wanted to make room for other athletes, but look, let's face it. You know,

00:21:24.820 who among us hasn't been burned by criticizing? It could be the Trump white house could be the

00:21:30.340 Biden, whatever someone in power with whom you were getting along. And then you do something

00:21:35.160 that pisses them off and you get put in the penalty box. I will say my own experience with

00:21:39.400 Trump. And I think I'm a great person to speak to this is you may go into the penalty box for a time,

00:21:45.020 but you will come out of the penalty box. Trump can get mad at you. I'm sure his staff can get mad

00:21:50.000 at you, but they're not real grudge holders. So my advice to all these people is just hold on to

00:21:54.580 your integrity, you know, report it as, as it comes, whatever, whether it makes them look bad or good

00:21:59.640 and both your audience and the man you so admire will get past it.

00:22:06.660 Yeah. And, and, you know, be someone that they respect, not someone, I'm not saying they should

00:22:12.300 treat people flippantly. They shouldn't, especially people who have had their backs, but make them

00:22:16.160 respect you. Um, and, and the, this is a good lesson, I think for people in Trump in this

00:22:20.860 administration, like respect the people who have been loyal to you. Otherwise you end up looking like

00:22:26.720 jackasses. Um, and that's absolutely what happened yesterday. So, I mean, it seems like this was just 0.97

00:22:32.540 a, like moving catastrophe because they were rushing to get stuff out. They knew they were

00:22:37.260 under pressure. Um, and there are a million different ways this probably could have been

00:22:40.480 avoided and could have done better. But once the, you know, the wheels get turning in DC, things can

00:22:44.480 get messy really quickly. So maybe it's a lesson, but I also just think this created a problem that's

00:22:49.600 going to follow them. Like this is going to be a hole that they have to dig out of. It makes it the

00:22:54.580 demand on them, uh, to produce real records, like to really unseal things, to really declassify things,

00:23:00.580 to really release things. I think this actually just ratcheted up the pressure on them. They're

00:23:04.860 not gonna be able to get away as easily with not producing documents. I agree. So we've botched

00:23:10.520 round one of the big Epstein file release. Um, and at the same time in the news yesterday

00:23:16.620 was the return of the despicable Tate brothers to the United States. Now I don't know much about

00:23:23.060 the brother Tristan, but I've seen enough about Andrew Tate to realize he's a disgusting pig 0.99

00:23:28.580 misogynist and that's fine. You can be a disgusting pig misogynist and live in the United States of 1.00

00:23:34.040 America. It's really not much of my business. Um, I, his return to the United States. Okay. I don't 1.00

00:23:40.700 really care. I mean, he's an American citizen. He's got dual citizenship, U S and UK. So

00:23:46.040 I guess he's allowed to come back, uh, because supposedly these charges against him for sex

00:23:50.500 trafficking, et cetera, in Romania, some have been dropped due to some prosecutorial negligence in

00:23:56.980 the case and others are remaining. They're supposed to go back to Romania in the next year or so to go

00:24:02.880 answer more. They're also facing potential charges in the UK. Same type of thing. What I care about,

00:24:09.140 cause I don't know the legalities and I haven't looked into them, so I'm not going to, you know,

00:24:12.540 tie him up there. What I know is he's a disgusting, vile creature with whom I want nothing to do. 0.97

00:24:18.500 And the more influence he has over the young men of America, the more my stomach turns. 0.97

00:24:23.140 And it's because, um, Andrew Tate is not just an alleged criminal, put that to the side.

00:24:28.180 He's just a very bad man. And I'll give you an example in this budded thought that we've pulled,

00:24:32.480 uh, which will give you a feel for why I loathe him.

00:24:36.480 They didn't teach you in self-defense. Here's a little move. When I grab you by your neck and you

00:24:40.920 start annoying me, trying to resist. And I just, and then I grab you by your neck again. Then what

00:24:46.100 the fuck are you going to do when your face is collapsed and your fucking cheekbone's broken? 1.00

00:24:49.600 You ain't going to do shit, but cry. I guarantee I changed the way you look at sex forever. You're 1.00

00:24:54.000 going to be fucking crying. I won't cry. I bet you cry, bitch. I bet you fucking cry. You're saying 1.00

00:24:59.540 I wouldn't cry. You're challenging me to a fight. You're saying I can't hurt you. You're on your

00:25:05.480 fucking mind. I don't even have to fuck you. Forget the sex part. That's a distraction. 1.00

00:25:10.920 My dick can stay in my pants. I'll just start beating the shit out of you. How about that? 1.00

00:25:13.920 We walk in the bedroom. I start kicking your ass. No sex. No sex involved. But you cry then. 1.00

00:25:20.440 Perfected this in pimp school. When I got my PhD, we had to practice. If a girl comes at you, 1.00

00:25:25.260 ah, ah, you're cheating. You're cheating. It's bang out the machete, boom in her face, 0.82

00:25:30.920 and then grip her up by the neck. Shut up, bitch. Her panties get wet. Machete's on the floor. 1.00

00:25:35.840 Her panties are all wet. You go, fuck her. That's how it goes. Slap, slap, grab, choke, 1.00

00:25:42.140 shut up, bitch. Sex. These are the basic moves of pimp. 1.00

00:25:45.360 Okay. Credit to Milk Bar TV for putting together that montage. We have ones we could go through that

00:25:53.580 would take us all day with young women in tears about what they claim he did to them,

00:25:58.120 about alleged beatings. I mean, videotapes that purport to show that. We haven't been independently

00:26:05.900 able to verify this stuff, so I'm not going to put it on the air. I'm just saying there's a ton.

00:26:10.200 You could swim in an ocean of that stuff around the sky all day long, and for some reason,

00:26:16.500 his status has somewhat divided conservatives. There's a faction of the right that is celebrating

00:26:24.500 him, and I guess his brother too, their return to the United States. There was even a report that

00:26:30.940 Rick Grinnell, who has been getting hostages out of places like Venezuela, was instrumental in

00:26:38.320 orchestrating their return. He's denied it, but it's been admitted that he at least had a

00:26:45.160 conversation, I think, with the Romanian foreign minister about the Tates. Now he's claiming he

00:26:49.860 didn't insist that they be allowed home, but suddenly they got released to come back home.

00:26:55.760 So I don't know what the truth is there either, but I'll tell you what I do know, and that is that

00:26:59.620 there is a group called the Tampa Bay Young Republicans, which is a young Republican group

00:27:05.700 down in Tampa Bay that has decided to invite this guy and his brother to come speak to them.

00:27:14.700 This is what they tweeted out. TBYR formally welcomes these two guys to Florida. As free

00:27:19.480 speech absolutists, the Tates haven't been formally convicted of any crimes and are welcome to speak

00:27:24.560 to our group. We're old enough to remember when a convicted felon won the presidency. Like every claim

00:27:31.220 against any Republican is bullshit, Emily. And like all we really need to care about is whether 0.99

00:27:36.920 you're facing criminal charges as opposed to whether you're a piece of human excrement. 0.99

00:27:43.540 Which, by the way, actually makes it does no favors to Donald Trump to lump him in to let the law fair 0.98

00:27:50.300 against Donald Trump in with like extremely serious charges. And I also am not like I haven't gone deep

00:27:56.540 into the weeds on whether or not there's some legitimate law fair weaponization happening

00:28:01.040 against the Tate brothers. And they denied all the charges. I should remind people, but keep going.

00:28:06.260 Right. Yeah. And, you know, that's what the Tampa Bay Young Republicans statement. I actually thought

00:28:12.300 that was really interesting, too, because they are directly drawing this line Trump to Tate, which is,

00:28:18.540 I think, a pretty bad sign for the right. And when I talk to some young men, especially they'll I mean,

00:28:24.740 you could roll that montage for them and they would be like, yeah, we know we're not saying he's a good

00:28:28.440 person. We're saying he's right about masculinity and femininity. And so the argument becomes like,

00:28:34.340 don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Like we know this guy is awful, but he's doing some some

00:28:39.200 good things for young men. He's speaking to us and he's entertaining us and appealing to us for all

00:28:45.740 these reasons, because he's saying something about masculinity that the mainstream doesn't want to

00:28:51.660 hear. Thus, the charges against him are because people in the mainstream are just threatened and

00:28:59.200 they they don't believe in the differences between men and women, et cetera, which is true, by the way. 1.00

00:29:05.000 But opposing Andrew Tate is not something that you do just because you are someone who's gatekeeping

00:29:11.600 and are in the mainstream, which means that it ends up pushing people to affiliate with him.

00:29:17.080 And so as as much as I despise gatekeeping on the right and support free speech as the Tampa Bay

00:29:24.160 young Republicans do, there's such a difference between like appreciating the boundaries and

00:29:30.980 understanding that free speech is real and important and like actually then affiliating yourself with this

00:29:38.340 dude. So it's kind of unfortunate that we're just in this situation. And for young people,

00:29:43.240 they're lost. And it's no wonder that they end up going to gravitating towards someone like Andrew

00:29:49.580 Tate, who, by the way, he is so emotional. You think he was a woman, Megan. I mean, the is the least

00:29:56.000 masculine clips that I just saw. He's like running a multi-level marketing scheme, like he's selling

00:30:01.560 leggings on Facebook Marketplace and whining about his significant others.

00:30:08.180 And let's face it, I mean, only a sad little man would be talking about how he's going to beat the

00:30:12.700 hell out of a woman. And I punch her in the face. I punch her. All right. Tough guy. Okay. Right. And 1.00

00:30:17.920 no real man would actually behave that way. Nevermind brag about it. That's the thing. So it's like

00:30:22.560 I look at the men I know in the conservative movement and they're absolutely lovely. Most of them tend to be

00:30:28.980 married. They have long-term marriages. They have families that they love and support. And there's

00:30:35.100 there's absolutely nothing even questionable about their romantic choices or their love

00:30:39.720 life. It's not to say nobody's ever made a mistake. I'm just saying that this is not representative at

00:30:43.720 all of the new right. And when we talk about what's been done to men and boys on the right,

00:30:50.000 this is not the antidote. Like this actually is toxic masculinity, people. This is what the real

00:30:58.300 version of it. And in our push to say, stop using that absurd term over anybody who just stands up for

00:31:05.760 himself and man, manliness, masculinity, stop using that term. We're right. But then we too need to be

00:31:12.980 able to look at the Andrew Tates of the world and say, that's what you're looking for right there. And we

00:31:17.660 condemn it too. Yeah, it's so easy. And people like Josh Hawley and Ben Shapiro and you, Megan, have come

00:31:24.420 out and been really clear on this. Like you can be all for free speech and you can be against the

00:31:29.560 left's ridiculous standards about sex and gender. And so say this guy is a piece of garbage. He doesn't 1.00

00:31:34.100 need to be listened to. You don't have to pay attention to him. I think the problem is that there

00:31:38.560 are so many young men that have been poorly served by elites and by media that now they're way more

00:31:45.560 susceptible to people like Andrew Tate who come in and offer something that feels sort of

00:31:50.620 intoxicating and it feels like it's appealing to your masculinity. And it's like the problem,

00:31:56.960 it's really, really dangerous then for anybody in, I think, Trump world, the new right to play

00:32:02.540 footsie at all with Tate because it validates that there's something going on there. And with him,

00:32:08.560 there really isn't. I'm sorry that he has like a six pack. I don't think that makes him interesting

00:32:13.800 or compelling as an example of masculinity. At all. I mean, this guy's so vile. I really hope

00:32:20.840 he doesn't get platformed by any group, nevermind a Republican group. Talk about bad for the brand.

00:32:27.500 There is a world of difference between Donald Trump and Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate is what the left

00:32:36.100 thinks Donald Trump is. Okay. Try not to lean in young Republicans. Um, I really hope they reverse

00:32:44.460 their decision. There's been no formal invitation. There's been no acceptance from what I've seen,

00:32:49.420 but they're just proudly waving it around out there. Uh, like they, they think this is a virtuous

00:32:54.180 course. Um, okay. Shifting gears yesterday, I went down to Washington DC after I, I taped the show

00:33:01.600 yesterday early in the morning, which is why it's a little shorter than normal because I had to catch a

00:33:04.700 flight. So I go down because Ben Smith, formerly of the New York times, formerly of Buzzfeed now runs

00:33:10.520 and founded semaphore, which is trying to be a less partisan news outlet. Like they do more than

00:33:15.440 just politics. And he asked me if I would go down and speak at his like kind of conference. And I said,

00:33:21.840 yes, I know him a little bit from the summers. He and I go to the same place on the Jersey shore at

00:33:25.300 times. And, uh, so I said, yes. And well, I like Ben, I have to say my own experience was Ben doesn't

00:33:33.800 understand what we're doing at all. Not here at the Megan Kelly show, not with what you do Emily

00:33:39.020 online. He's still stuck very much still in legacy media. And I would submit to the audience that

00:33:44.480 his questions to me showed that it also showed a lack of familiar familiarity with what we do here

00:33:49.860 on this particular show and what I sound like in anchoring this show. So I put together some of the

00:33:56.540 questions just so you could see what I'm talking about and you'll get, you'll get a feel for his

00:34:01.980 questions here in Sot5. Was appear on stage with president Trump on November 4th, my birthday

00:34:06.860 in Pittsburgh and say, president Trump gets it. The reasons you're voting and list the reasons

00:34:11.960 you're voting for him. A lot to do with masculinity, which I want to ask you about later. Um, and I

00:34:16.540 wonder how you think about that in terms of, does it compromise you as a journalist? Do you benefit

00:34:21.540 from this environment in which people are losing trust in, in everyone else and turning to you?

00:34:26.060 I think that you probably, I think your audience probably, I would guess mostly voted for Trump,

00:34:29.260 but I'm sure I know lots of people who watch you and didn't. Do you worry that they can't trust you

00:34:33.280 that as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're in the tank?

00:34:36.300 But ultimately you depend for information on the people that you're criticizing, don't you? Do you

00:34:40.460 ever feel like it'd be better if you had a producer occasionally, like in the old days being like

00:34:43.660 Megan, maybe that's too much. I was talking to another broadcaster the other night and she said,

00:34:47.260 you know, one thing Megan does that is most of us don't do is go after other people in media 1.00

00:34:52.100 really personally. Like there's sort of a gentleman's agreement in a lot of media to not attack each

00:34:56.560 other personally. You had a very heated riff on, I'm forgetting her name, but the mother of Elon

00:35:00.740 Musk's latest child. The bulk of YouTube is always going to be, here is like an incredible monologue

00:35:05.980 that went viral. Do you feel like you've been shaped by the medium that you've been pushed into

00:35:10.140 these sort of like more heated monologues, these kind of, you know, these maybe more confrontation,

00:35:17.040 I don't know that there's something about that kind of monologue that's about trying to go viral.

00:35:20.280 Wait, what I said about Elon's partner and the baby would have been nothing, but she decided to 0.98

00:35:27.280 go public and then to play the victim. And my point was, you went after her. Okay. So perhaps you've

00:35:33.740 gotten a flavor of what Ben Smith thinks of the Megan Kelly show. Um, it does not appear that he is a

00:35:40.000 daily watcher. It feels that he's, it appears he's been consuming his information about us from

00:35:44.020 left-wing blogs, which is, I guess, not a surprise. Um, but I personally felt that that was a really

00:35:50.000 gross, uh, grossly unfair characterization in those questions. And that's, those are the questions he

00:35:55.960 asked. I think there was like, there were two others that weren't about, you know, my particular

00:35:59.120 show, um, that I just thought it was very slanted against what we do here. And he obviously, I think

00:36:05.820 has an upturned nose when it comes to digital media in general. And I'll give you one other, just to kick

00:36:11.040 it off, Emily. And that is, you heard him say there that you spoke for president Trump the night

00:36:16.280 before the election, and you were very focused on masculinity. Like that's why you were voting for

00:36:21.220 Donald Trump masculinity, which is also totally false. And not what I said at that rally, what I

00:36:27.400 said was he's under fire right now for having said he will protect women. And I believe he will protect

00:36:33.980 women. And I welcome that both on behalf of myself, my daughter and other people's daughters,

00:36:39.680 because I think he'll close the border and we won't have more Lake and Riley's. And I think

00:36:45.000 he'll close women's sports to men and boys. And we moat, we won't have more Peyton McNabs, 0.99

00:36:50.860 the girl who got hurt in North Carolina, thanks to the spiked volleyball in her face. 0.64

00:36:55.620 That's what I said. And I also spoke of the forgotten boys in this country, uh, and what's

00:37:00.620 been done to them as we've demonized boys over the past 10 years, not, it wasn't about 0.97

00:37:05.600 fucking masculinity, but that's what a leftist hears when you say that kind of stuff about 0.99

00:37:10.760 president Trump. Anyway, your thoughts on it. Well, I mean, it, it would be if, if he had been 0.99

00:37:16.120 peppering those questions to you as like a devil's advocate, uh, that may have been different,

00:37:20.500 but that's, I think you're right to say that's how he was actually characterizing the show.

00:37:24.120 And it sounds to me like he's not familiar with like what you do regularly on the program at all.

00:37:29.660 I agree because if you had been listening to or watching the show leading up to the election,

00:37:34.720 you would have had all of the context of how seriously you took those issues, how deeply

00:37:39.680 you covered those issues and how much they mattered to you, whether it was sports, immigration,

00:37:44.260 whatever, and all of that would have made way more sense. But if you're only getting your

00:37:48.400 information sort of dripped out through, you know, the coverage, uh, from liberal bloggers and

00:37:53.700 people on Twitter, then yeah, that sort of sounds exactly like my impression of, uh, the questions.

00:37:59.860 And by the way, another thing it misunderstands, I mean, I think even to ask the question about

00:38:04.200 whether you wish you had a producer, I thought the implication was that, you know, maybe you're,

00:38:09.280 you know, you're, you're going off the rails too much or whatever, but by the way, the reason people

00:38:14.040 like this medium is because of they, they get both the like level of the quality and analysis and

00:38:20.820 sophistication and political commentary, but they trust it more because they see you with no filter.

00:38:26.040 Uh, and that's the whole point. Yeah, exactly. Right. I, it's so funny to me that, you know,

00:38:32.120 here's this man formerly of the times formerly Buzzfeed looking at me, you know, the lady anchor,

00:38:37.900 like, wouldn't it be better for you if somebody were able to control you? So you didn't, you didn't

00:38:42.420 get, you know, go off the rails so much. Like, and I, of course I was like, no, I mean, just the

00:38:47.940 implication of it. Like I'm not responsible for what I say. And I, I wish someone could come in

00:38:52.720 to this show and put the bridle on poor Steve Krakauer just isn't able to do it. It's so

00:38:58.900 ridiculous. It's ridiculous. That's not how it's ever worked, frankly, between me and my producers, 0.99

00:39:04.280 though at Fox, I understood there were guardrails in terms of how to behave on cable news. So here he,

00:39:10.640 he pivots from that Trump speech I gave the night before the election into this. This is where he takes

00:39:16.000 it sought to. I mean, I think that you probably, I think your audience probably, I would, I would

00:39:19.640 guess mostly voted for Trump, but I know lots of people who watch you and didn't. Do you worry

00:39:23.640 that they can't trust you that as you cover him going forward, that they'll kind of think you're

00:39:27.040 in the tank? No, not at all. I mean, our numbers are huge. You know, I know you just had CNN on

00:39:32.340 in, in January, uh, last month on their YouTube feed, they got 155 million views and we were 147

00:39:43.140 million. Just me. Is your cost structure slightly lower? Is that what you're? Exactly. Well,

00:39:48.020 I'm just saying that's one show, the Megyn Kelly show, just me and my six producers versus every

00:39:52.400 single show on CNN, every single thing they put on YouTube. I was within six or seven million of

00:39:57.440 them. The month of the election, November, I beat them. I beat all of them. By the way,

00:40:02.340 I beat NBC. I beat CBS, all of them regularly, the Sky News. November, I beat them all, all of them,

00:40:07.560 ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, all of them. So I'm not having a trust issue.

00:40:11.780 Right. He's, he's suggesting people aren't going to trust you. They're going to think you're in the

00:40:17.440 tank. Like, aren't you a hack now because you spoke for Trump. And again, this is why I say,

00:40:22.040 like, he, he doesn't watch the show. He doesn't understand what we do. Everybody listening to the

00:40:25.940 show right now knows I do criticize Trump and his administration plenty. I mean, just look at our

00:40:32.540 show yesterday where we opened up is before I sat with him talking about how I, I did not agree with

00:40:38.080 what they were doing on the press pool, right? Like Trump didn't speak to me for the better part

00:40:42.300 of late 23, early 24, because he was angry about that interview he gave me where I pressed him on,

00:40:47.780 on some of the law fair questions. It's not pleasant. It's not pleasant to be on the wrong

00:40:52.320 side of the president. I like him. So I, I want him to like me, but my job and my integrity is more

00:40:57.000 important to me. But all of these questions were geared toward you've sold your soul. You've become

00:41:01.780 a hack. You just do things to get patted on the head by the president and YouTube views.

00:41:07.960 Yeah. And that's a, that's the other thing I thought was interesting from that question is

00:41:11.740 that again, like we spent the first part of the show talking about how the white house screwed

00:41:15.680 up yesterday. I mean, you don't need to, it's not like you, you have to like miss one episode and

00:41:20.360 then you're out of the loop. Like you do this all the time. That's why people like you and trust you.

00:41:24.160 So it's actually part of the trust. Part of the trust is built into you being like,

00:41:29.020 yeah, I think people should vote for Donald Trump. Here is why. And then you can assess

00:41:34.520 my coverage of Trump's policies. You can assess my coverage of Kamala Harris's proposals

00:41:39.100 through that lens. It's actually like the, his question is completely missing the point.

00:41:44.480 It's a difference between owning your bias and then proceeding, you know, accordingly,

00:41:48.900 trying to do the best you can as a fair commentator and journalist, or just pretending it doesn't

00:41:52.980 exist. And then leaning into your bias because you want to express it through the news coverage,

00:41:56.980 which you are pretending is fair and objective, right? It's like this way I tell you what I'm

00:42:02.240 rooting for. Then I try to give you fair coverage. And anything I say that's opinion, you know, is from

00:42:07.340 that perspective. What the mainstream does so-called is they don't own any of their bias. They claim they

00:42:12.080 have none and they just manifest it through their alleged fact reporting, which is just so pernicious.

00:42:18.560 I mean, that's why they're failing. Here was the capper, right? So we get to the question

00:42:25.460 about Tucker Carlson. Years ago, Tucker was doxed. These hateful leftist groups showed up at his home

00:42:31.960 in Washington, DC, where his wife was alone. One of his children may have been home as well. I can't

00:42:39.120 remember right now, but for sure, Tucker wasn't there and his wife was in there and scared.

00:42:43.140 They were angry and they were chanting and they were getting all in his lawn. He had been doxed

00:42:48.540 and now his wife was threatened. And Ben Smith actually tried to compare my comments the other

00:42:55.480 day about Rachel Maddow's sanctimony to that. Watch this. Years ago, protesters went to Tucker Carlson's 1.00

00:43:05.020 home. I think you probably both remember very vividly. You called it at the time stomach turning

00:43:09.180 and said it has to stop. But it's funny. I was talking to another broadcaster the other night

00:43:13.840 and she said, you know, one thing Megan does that is most of us don't do is go after other people in

00:43:18.880 media really personally. Like there's sort of a gentleman's agreement in a lot of media to not

00:43:23.000 attack each other personally. And that, um, I don't know if, I don't know if you think that's true

00:43:26.580 as a broadcast person. Why don't you do it? Google Megan Kelly NBC and tell me whether the journalists

00:43:32.840 don't go after each other personally. You recently talked about Maddow's public complaints and sort

00:43:36.020 of said, you know, said that she should put up or shut up basically, but also about her expensive 1.00

00:43:41.000 real estate, about her homes. And I'm curious, like, do you have any compunction by getting that

00:43:45.660 personal? No. I would never give out her address. That would be a bridge too far and it doesn't

00:43:51.080 compare to what happened to Tucker in any way, shape or form. But Rachel Maddow got out there and 1.00

00:43:55.720 tried to act like, oh, I'm, I'm a woman of the working class. I'm here to represent the poor

00:44:00.700 staffers who could lose their jobs now as a result of Joy Reid biting it. And meanwhile,

00:44:05.020 she's collecting $25 million a year. She's got multiple homes worth millions. You know what? 1.00

00:44:09.560 Why don't you take a $2 million pay cut and save 10 of those jobs? If you feel that said,

00:44:13.280 you don't even have to pay it out of your bank account. Just tell them, pay me $23 million next

00:44:18.720 year instead of $25. She won't do it. She wants to seem virtuous and sanctimonious, but in fact,

00:44:24.340 she's only the latter because she won't actually put any money on the line. And an example of the 1.00

00:44:28.480 exorbitant life she leads while she's trying to remind us, oh, I've worked so many jobs, 0.93

00:44:32.720 the jobs I've worked, puts to the point her hypocrisy.

00:44:37.820 What'd you make of that one, Emily?

00:44:39.840 That's incredible. I mean, the way that Tucker ended up getting all of these insane protests

00:44:45.220 is that people were actually doxing him and they were encouraging protests outside of his home to

00:44:50.400 make him uncomfortable. It was the point of the protest. So it was, I mean, that question is

00:44:54.600 grossly, grossly unfair. And also I think baked into it was that hilarious assertion laundered

00:45:00.100 through this broadcast person that apparently said, you know, it's just very unusual to go after

00:45:04.840 people. It's like, no, no, it's unusual for libs to go after other libs. Like, yes, the rich liberals

00:45:11.000 do not go after the rich liberals, but they will absolutely take shots at people that are not, you

00:45:15.840 know, couth in their like book club circles on the Upper East Side. Like, give me a freaking break. 0.94

00:45:21.220 That's right. They don't go after each other. If it's another liberal, that's exactly right. 0.93

00:45:25.100 But if you're a conservative, you've been fair game for a long time, which again,

00:45:28.440 Ben Smith does not understand. But just as a refresher, my team did put together a few examples

00:45:35.060 of people violating the gentleman's agreement about which we know nothing. And I've been in

00:45:40.700 cable news for 20 years. Here it is. Black Santa truther, Megyn Kelly. Of course,

00:45:45.940 there's more from Megyn Kelly who seems to be sometimes the world's angriest multimillionaire. 0.79

00:45:50.300 I mean, look, it works for her podcast, you know, magnifying minorities, picking up on fringe 0.68

00:45:56.520 issues. Megyn Kelly, the blackface expert, the Jesus and Santa, our white lady is not going to 0.99

00:46:01.740 crawl her way back to social relevance. She owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the 0.97

00:46:08.280 country. That's silly. And it's disingenuous. And it's just as ignorant and racist as the 0.79

00:46:13.500 statement itself. She said something stupid. She said something indefensible. 1.00

00:46:16.660 Those Kremlin propagandist, Tucker Carlson. The image he was portraying on Fox, it's,

00:46:21.060 I would actually argue it's un-American. It's a darkened heart. That's right. 0.98

00:46:26.140 That comes from a darkened heart. The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day

00:46:33.120 and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine. I think Tucker Carlson gives a lot of air time to

00:46:39.040 hate for the LGBTQ community. He is heinous. He is vulgar. He's atrocious. 1.00

00:46:44.260 Tucker and Laura Ingraham say every night, it could be written by white supremacists. And there 0.99

00:46:49.520 is a section of this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about people always say diversity

00:46:53.780 is strength. I can hear it in Tucker's voice. He says this all the time, right? But the Ben Shapiros 1.00

00:46:58.820 of the world say this. To our most prominent white nationalists, he arguably has done more on cable

00:47:04.040 television to spread the gospel of hate, fear, and paranoia than anyone since radio propagandist

00:47:10.660 father Coughlin in the Nazi era of the 1930s. The first thing about it is that Tucker to me

00:47:16.200 was always a dumb person's idea of what a smart bigot sounded like. The most racist show in the 0.99

00:47:22.680 history of cable news. It's weird how I didn't get the memo on the gentleman's agreement that Ben

00:47:29.500 Smith and his anonymous broadcast source received. Hello, wake up. As they say in that one of my favorite

00:47:36.600 movies, get in the game. These people have been slinging it at us for years. And if they can't

00:47:42.100 take some mild, hey, she's rich and sanctimonious pushback, what, I mean, there's, what more can we

00:47:48.740 say? No, I mean, the time they'll do it when somebody like transgresses the boundaries of their

00:47:53.960 ideological comfort zone. So that's the only way that you can break the gentleman's agreement

00:47:58.360 is just being like outside of what's like considered polite society and these like awful,

00:48:04.480 corrupt media circles. So, I mean, just, you're like the worst person to ask that question

00:48:10.880 because it's so obvious that the question is premised on something insane.

00:48:16.900 Well, it's funny because he said, you know, she said there's this gentleman's agreement and I

00:48:20.920 laughed and said, why don't you try Googling Megyn Kelly at NBC and say, and he had no interest in

00:48:24.980 following up. And the other thing was he said, I said, the relationship between me and my audience

00:48:29.640 is authentic and it's tight. We're close. And they've got my back in part, because if I do make

00:48:35.700 a mistake, I will correct myself. And he said, well, have you like what? And I said, well, like I

00:48:40.320 was way too, uh, believing of the COVID vaccines and the manufacturers that if something went wrong

00:48:45.980 or people had serious side effects, that they would do something about it. They would own it and do

00:48:49.180 something about it. And I was dead wrong. And I've owned that with my, and he moved on.

00:48:53.720 You couldn't have gotten off of that faster. He was like, oh shit, that's not what I was hoping 0.99

00:48:58.800 you were going to say. He was like, I was really hoping you'd say something that would be pleasing 0.99

00:49:02.600 to me and not this in my audience here. No, that's annoying. Cause like I, Ben is,

00:49:07.900 I think one of the smarter people in media and he can be really interesting. Semaphore can be really

00:49:12.100 interesting. So that's an unfortunate series of questions and tally perhaps. Well, I, I still like

00:49:19.260 Ben Smith. And I believe that if I were to sit with him again, he would do a better job of

00:49:23.360 trying to understand what it is we do here at the MK show. But as it was, it was kind of fun

00:49:27.560 being on the opposite end of adversarial media media always is Emily. Great to see you up next

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00:51:07.400 The Red Scare Podcast. We love it when they swing by the Red Studio. Anna Kachiyun. Well, I screwed it up.

00:51:14.180 Kachiyun. Kachiyun. Kachiyun. You got it. I always screwed it up, Anna. Sorry. Kachiyun. No bit. And Dasha

00:51:19.500 Nekrasova. Ladies, welcome back. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's great to have you. Great to be here.

00:51:24.080 And we've got our martinis made by Doug Brunt. So here's to Doug. Cheers, Doug. Love Doug Brunt.

00:51:30.360 Great to have you back. Great to be here. And perhaps appropriate for our Russian vodka. That's

00:51:36.900 nice. Or not, given the circumstances. President Zelensky is sitting in the Oval Office right now,

00:51:43.260 and it's not going well. This is just coming across the wires. We've got a soundbite. Apparently,

00:51:50.000 what teed this particular exchange you're about to hear off is Zelensky was maintaining that Trump,

00:51:56.300 he's sitting there with Trump and J.D., that Trump cannot trust Vladimir Putin.

00:52:01.280 And things went downhill from there. Watch. I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's

00:52:07.180 going to end the destruction of your country. Yes. But Mr. President, with respect, I think it's

00:52:11.920 disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American

00:52:15.460 media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you

00:52:20.940 have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this

00:52:25.480 conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?

00:52:28.960 I have been to... Come once. I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is

00:52:36.040 you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've

00:52:41.300 had problems bringing people into your military? And do you think that it's respectful to come to

00:52:46.780 the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to

00:52:51.120 prevent the destruction of your country? We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what

00:52:56.360 we're going to feel. I'm not telling you. Because you're in no position to dictate that. Remember this.

00:53:00.920 You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. We're going to feel very good.

00:53:07.140 We're going to feel very good and very strong. You will feel influence. You're right now not in a

00:53:12.620 very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right

00:53:17.880 about it. From the very beginning of the war, Mr. President, you're not in a good position. You don't

00:53:21.820 have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards. I'm not playing cards. But right now,

00:53:26.160 you're playing cards. I'm very serious, Mr. President. I'm very serious. You're gambling with the lives of millions

00:53:31.180 of people. You're gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III. And what you're

00:53:38.260 doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country. It's back to you.

00:53:45.620 OMG. Zelensky said this right before those exchanges. We signed a deal with Putin. He did

00:53:52.960 not keep it. What kind of diplomacy are you talking about? Saying that, you know, President Trump's

00:53:58.440 attempts to solve this diplomatically aren't going to work. And you can see that did not go over well

00:54:04.660 with either of the two men he really could use on his side. Just so the audience knows, you were born

00:54:13.120 in Russia. Yeah. And you're from Belarus. But it was the Soviet Union. Yeah. Right. So, I mean,

00:54:19.320 you understand this region of the world a bit. What did you see there? I feel like a child of divorce.

00:54:25.860 This brings me right back to, like, my parents' shooting in our living room.

00:54:32.400 I don't really get Zelensky. I don't have a good theory of mind for him outside of him being an

00:54:36.980 actor. And he always acts like he's like in a Liam Neeson or Tom Cruise action film. He seems kind

00:54:43.720 of uppity and entitled when people are trying to extend an olive branch.

00:54:47.660 Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, he's been doing his, like, begging for money tour for years. Oh.

00:54:55.580 Oh, no, you're good. You're good. You got it.

00:54:59.280 So, yeah, he seems frustrated.

00:55:01.160 Yeah. But it just, when I look at that, I'm like, why would you do anything other than be

00:55:07.120 magnanimous and, frankly, like, suck up to President Trump, who's got the deepest pockets

00:55:15.540 of anybody who's helped him and could help him and is very interested in striking a deal to wrap

00:55:22.260 this thing up? Now, whether he likes the terms or not, that can all be negotiated. But why put him

00:55:26.860 in an angry mood while you're in the Oval? He hasn't read the art of the deal.

00:55:31.620 No. No. He doesn't know how to strike it. Does he think that the money will dry up if he

00:55:38.960 plays nice with Trump because he's so used to receiving largesse from, like, the Biden

00:55:44.440 administration and establishment Democrats? Like, is that the reasoning there? I have no idea. I

00:55:49.840 assume so. And there's a new sheriff in town. Like, he's got it. This is the man right there.

00:55:53.560 That man with the crazy blonde hair needs to like you, needs to believe in you. And we'll play more

00:56:01.140 as we get it. But this is absolutely foolhardy of Zelensky. You get invited to the Oval Office.

00:56:06.660 There's really only one posture you can take. You maintain your dignity, of course. Yes,

00:56:10.440 as a foreign leader, you're entitled to do that on behalf of your people.

00:56:14.480 Right. He shouldn't be groveling. As Trump says, he's not in a good position. He has a very low

00:56:18.440 approval rating. People are not a fan of this war that, I mean, we've been saying it's obvious,

00:56:24.680 I think, is a proxy war. Right. And he's saying you're going to get us into World War III. You want

00:56:29.620 World War III? Trump's saying that. He's not wrong. I mean, Russia has nukes. This is one of

00:56:33.880 the reasons why people over here have been so concerned about the increasing aid we've been

00:56:39.440 giving, the increasing weaponry we've been giving. We do not want a nuclear war with Russia at all,

00:56:44.560 especially over Ukraine and whether it's going to join NATO or have this slice of territory,

00:56:49.660 it's or Russians. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was surprised by how contentious this exchange is. It

00:56:54.300 almost feels staged or something. I mean, I assume it's not, but I'm sure you guys are familiar with

00:56:58.660 like the Marco Rubio comments recently. He's been doing a pretty good job. And he was talking

00:57:03.480 about how historically when they try to negotiate with Zelensky, he kind of meets them halfway and

00:57:10.800 accepts some of their terms and then goes back and blabs to the media that like, no, I rejected

00:57:15.340 this decision or this treaty unilaterally. Which is what just happened on this minerals deal

00:57:21.220 where Marco, you know, they never have the presidents meet directly before they've had the diplomats

00:57:25.700 meet directly. And the diplomats are supposed to strike the deal. And only when the deal is struck,

00:57:29.060 do you then put the leaders together so they can just look like, yay, we're winners. Look what we

00:57:33.000 did. So Rubio said that he met with his counterpart in Ukraine and that they, they reached a deal on

00:57:37.880 the rare mineral earth materials that they were going to start giving us some portion of them to

00:57:43.340 pay us back for all of our investment there. And also to keep us economically invested in the

00:57:49.120 harvesting of those minerals on a go forward basis, which Trump sees as a security guarantee for Ukraine.

00:57:53.800 If we're over there, our economic interests are over there mining these minerals, Putin,

00:57:58.580 his theory is we'll be less likely to invade again or do anything to upset Ukraine. So that's where

00:58:03.520 they got Marco Rubio said it publicly. Zelensky suddenly said, there's no deal. Rubio comes out

00:58:08.120 and says, this guy constantly does this. You know, like we, we, we did have a deal. Now he's saying no.

00:58:13.780 Then the news came. Yes, there is a deal. And Zelensky comes to the oval and apparently uses it as an

00:58:20.620 opportunity to tell Trump. Once again, he can't trust Putin. I mean, this is just dumb. This is

00:58:26.160 dumb diplomacy on his part, but here's another sound bite. We just got, um, it is Trump telling 0.98

00:58:31.040 Zelensky. We gave him $350 billion of our money. Watch your country is in big trouble. Can I, no,

00:58:39.340 no, you've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know you're not winning. You're not

00:58:44.680 winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us. Mr. President, 0.97

00:58:49.880 we are staying in our country, staying strong from the very beginning of the war. We've been

00:58:54.300 alone and we are thankful. I said, thanks. You haven't been alone. In this cabinet. You haven't

00:58:58.400 been alone. We gave you through the stupid president, $350 billion. We gave you military 1.00

00:59:05.140 equipment and you men are brave, but they had to use our military. If you didn't have our military

00:59:11.100 equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two

00:59:17.160 weeks. He's not wrong. No, this did not go well, ladies. Listen to this. Here's some reaction. 1.00

00:59:25.580 Of course, the New York times, Peter Baker, who hates Trump with the passion of 10,000 sons

00:59:29.880 tweets out. Never has an American president lectured the leader of an ally in public like this,

00:59:36.100 much less the leader of a country that is fighting off invaders. Well, what if a leader attacks the

00:59:40.500 president and doesn't appreciate the amount of money that's been invested by his country,

00:59:45.200 Peter? Uh, the New York times reports the Lensky flashed a thumbs up as reporters were escorted out

00:59:51.380 of the oval asking my own team, did they escort reporters out before the meeting was over? Is

00:59:56.620 that what happened? Do we know? All right. That's what we think happened. Perhaps they were continuing

01:00:00.740 the meeting in private. Peter's wife, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker, who is horrid. I can't say

01:00:08.920 enough bad things about this person, uh, tweets out. This is the most shocking behavior by Trump

01:00:13.660 and Vance I've ever seen in the oval and ambush. Well, we'll have to go back and watch it from the

01:00:19.160 beginning. Tommy Victor Vitor, who's a former Obama guy and also a troll. I'm one of the co-hosts of 0.75

01:00:25.160 Pod Save America. These fucking assholes lecture and condescend to Zelensky and then fluff Putin at 1.00

01:00:32.220 every possible opportunity. Absolutely disgraceful. This is going to be talked about for a very long 1.00

01:00:36.540 time. We're witnessing a very important moment right now. What do you make? I mean, I think if

01:00:41.400 Peter Baker is against it, we're for it. Sure. I mean, I want the war to end. That's how I feel.

01:00:46.920 And I don't think it would have started if it had been enough. Okay. Sorry. Say again. Say again, Steve.

01:00:53.300 Oh God. What? There's a press conference that's going to start.

01:00:59.940 Oh wow. I don't like my chances on how well that's going to go. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I'm distressed

01:01:05.900 by this because we were close to getting this thing done. Like nobody else was close to getting it. And

01:01:12.060 it's not going to end in a way that the Ukrainians are going to like. That's just the truth. Yeah. 1.00

01:01:15.880 What happened was we were looking at forever stalemate and escalating war

01:01:19.240 for this where at least we stopped the losses. We come to some sort of an agreement in Ukraine

01:01:25.020 where we're at least there economically, which I agree with Trump would be somewhat of a deterrent

01:01:29.620 to Putin. But the other side that wants a better deal is not wrong that it feels like surrender and

01:01:36.660 that Putin is going to get to keep the territory. Well, you lose a war. That's the thing. It's like 0.53

01:01:41.760 the terms. Yeah. Didn't work out. It wasn't winnable. Yeah. And Zelensky almost feels like a

01:01:47.320 Patsy who was elected to facilitate a tremendous loss for Ukraine. And he's wildly unpopular.

01:01:54.900 He doesn't want to lose or he doesn't want to stop the war. No, I feel like. Do you guys

01:01:59.980 talk to, you know, people in the Eastern European community? Do you have a feel on how people are

01:02:05.440 taking this whole saga? I mean, I think in New York City, like the Russians and Ukrainians and

01:02:14.000 Belarusians that you meet tend to be on the liberal side. So they're pretty vehemently anti-Putin and

01:02:19.320 pro-Ukraine, whether or not they like Zelensky personally. Yeah. So it's not like an exactly

01:02:25.620 unbiased sample of people. I just don't talk about it. Yeah. With my parents. Are your parents

01:02:31.440 more pro-Zelensky? Oh, yeah. And you guys are not that pro-Zelensky? No. For the same reasons as

01:02:38.320 we've been discussing. Yeah. Yeah. That the war has been, to me, seemed very corrupt.

01:02:44.040 But how do you see through it? How did you manage to like see that as opposed to, you know,

01:02:48.260 it's like with that influence around you with people you love and trust from the region?

01:02:53.480 I mean, I guess I remember obviously like Putin is responsible for his actions. When the war started,

01:03:00.640 there was a whole narrative about whether or not he was crazy. And to me, he didn't, it didn't seem

01:03:05.320 crazy to not want NATO on your border. And that he was sort of provoked into starting the war,

01:03:11.300 which doesn't. Putin's not crazy. I don't think he's crazy. And he's a rational actor.

01:03:15.480 I've said before too, and this is controversial, but I actually don't think he's evil either,

01:03:19.900 which I know is also controversial. Yeah. But I just think if in Putin's head,

01:03:25.680 this is all very rational that he's got to protect mother Russia. He can't have NATO on his borders

01:03:31.040 and he will do what he thinks is necessary to protect his country and its long-term existence.

01:03:36.720 And also the hope of restoring mother Russia to her former glory. Yeah. Um, now I guess you could 0.92

01:03:42.300 use that same rationale to say, well, Hitler wasn't evil either because he believed he was doing the 0.87

01:03:45.520 right thing. But I just, I do think Putin is a rational actor who can be negotiated when that's

01:03:50.200 kind of what Trump has been saying, which is like this war never should have started. The whole NATO

01:03:54.740 discussion shouldn't have gone on. And frankly, the U S shouldn't have been meddling over there from 2014

01:03:59.940 forward. And I don't think NATO wants Ukraine. Yeah. It's, they certainly don't want to back them

01:04:06.040 now. Yeah. So I guess Zelensky is going to keep forcing the issue. I mean, I think traditionally

01:04:12.480 Russians are, um, who live in the West are like so against the old communist system. And I think maybe 1.00

01:04:19.180 they view Putin as an extension of that sort of authoritarianism and they can't kind of, uh,

01:04:26.080 get around that or accept that the world is different now. So that's probably part of their

01:04:31.980 reaction. I would love to go back and we will, you'll see this all weekend and you'll see it here

01:04:36.700 on the show on Monday to the start. Like what, what was the beginning? What set it off? How did

01:04:42.740 things start to unravel and how did it start to go downhill? This is going to dominate. This feels like

01:04:48.860 a very large news event and, uh, more on this as we get it. Um, as we get more sound bites too,

01:04:53.720 I'll play them for you. All right, let's move on to other more lighthearted. Let's get some

01:04:58.540 softballs. Actually, you guys were great people to have here, you know, given everything that's

01:05:04.000 happening. It's not like Israel and Hamas, but like you have some connection. Um, all right. So,

01:05:10.160 but it is a Friday. We do like to discuss some lighter cultural fair on Fridays if we can.

01:05:14.000 And that brings me to, um, Ashley St. Claire. Now I look, that was one of the other things that I had

01:05:21.120 with Ben Smith. When I went to his conference in DC yesterday, he was upset that I quote attacked

01:05:27.160 Ashley St. Claire, that I went after her. That's what he said. And he was acting like I was bullying

01:05:34.200 her in some way. Well, I never would have mentioned the name of Ashley St. Claire. She was not on my

01:05:38.400 radar. I I've never attacked Elon's other baby mamas. I don't care if like these women want to 1.00

01:05:44.920 strike that deal with Elon. It's none of my business. I good on him. If it works for everybody,

01:05:48.520 the difference with this woman is she knew completely what she was walking into. And then

01:05:54.840 when the benefit of that bargain came exactly as one could predict it would come, which is no

01:06:01.440 meaningful relationship with him, no Valentine's day together. She got upset, sent out a nasty tweet, 0.79

01:06:09.100 claimed a tabloid was doing an in-depth investigation on her, which never broke.

01:06:12.980 The only one who ever reported on this was the New York post because she gave them a photo shoot

01:06:18.620 inside the quote, lavish apartment with feet pics and a incorrectly arranged chess board.

01:06:24.340 Oh, I didn't notice that. Really? Yeah.

01:06:26.120 She is. Oh my God.

01:06:29.820 That's impressive. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. Here are the feet,

01:06:32.620 the naked feet with her Florida ceiling windows in an apartment almost certainly funded by him.

01:06:36.400 Yeah. Um, I think, well, she said that he kept her in isolation. Um, yeah, the knights and the

01:06:43.060 bishops are, need to be swapped, but, um, I'm impressed. Well, that's a true chess player to see

01:06:49.480 that in the photo. So what do you make of the fact that now she, you know, she, she wants us to feel

01:06:55.380 sorry for her. That's, that's what I believe. She's sad about her, the consequences of her own life

01:06:59.060 choices. And she definitely doesn't want publicity. Do not believe the pictures of her in the corset 1.00

01:07:04.920 in the New York post or doesn't want it. Yeah. She's wearing like a dark Lauren Sanchez look

01:07:10.000 where it's like the Lauren Sanchez inauguration fit, but all black. Um, no, I said this on our

01:07:16.860 podcast when we covered this topic, like sometimes I feel personally sort of undignified when we like

01:07:23.900 post selfies or shill our meme coin. And then there's like these influencers out there on social

01:07:30.240 media doing like Maury Povich paternity stuff. It's crazy. So now she has sued Elon that's in

01:07:36.360 the news today for paternity and accuses him of going dark on her. And Elon tweeted out something

01:07:43.760 to the effect of, I have taken care of every child I've ever fathered. And generously, if ever there's

01:07:51.520 been a breakdown, it's because the demands have been exorbitant. So he didn't name her,

01:07:56.060 but it seemed to be a clear reference to trust me, I'm going to take care of every child I sire,

01:08:01.660 but I'm not going to be made a fool of and start giving out billions to 26 year olds who I slept

01:08:09.200 with once in St. Bart's, which appears to be what happened here. We were sort of speculating on

01:08:14.460 whether they actually like knocked boots or if it was an IVF baby, because he has a record of that,

01:08:19.640 not really my business and don't care. But, um, yeah, people have dug up like old correspondences,

01:08:24.860 texts of hers or she screencapped. Yeah. Because they were disappearing. She was ready. Um,

01:08:33.000 and I'm to bed him. I'm not, I'm not that scandalized by that because, you know,

01:08:36.860 we women say all sorts of crazy things when we have our eyes on a guy. Yes. Like I wish he would 0.98

01:08:41.400 knock me up. That's not that outrageous. I've never said that. Um, but, uh, I think just her

01:08:50.080 conduct leading up to it, that she like leaked this herself on Valentine's day, um, that it was

01:08:56.460 kind of like a pre choreographed, almost Instagram, like post versus a tweet that it had the name and

01:09:03.200 email of her publicist who does crisis management and damage control for celebrities. She claims that

01:09:09.960 she was isolated in her home, that she wasn't able to take a walk with her baby. She, that her five

01:09:15.120 month old baby has never been out for a walk as if someone would recognize Ashley Sinclair at all.

01:09:22.560 Especially prior. Right. Like she was nobody. Right. Why would anybody care? That's what was

01:09:28.040 bothering her. Exactly. That's what, that was the problem. So the tweets to which you refer, um,

01:09:34.020 she had an exchange with another online influencer where she was talking about, um,

01:09:39.420 how she really wanted to have Elon's baby. I need his rocket babies. LOL. He 10,000% 0.94

01:09:46.740 saw my moon landing tweet. Then she writes to her friend, look, I'll take one for the team,

01:09:52.360 seduce Elon and get in a rocket to see what's up. Then she also said, I need a caption to seduce Elon 0.96

01:09:58.780 Musk. Thinking about the dangers of AI laughing emoji. Um, Elon replied to the thread revealing that

01:10:06.040 because it was the person with whom she was texting posted the private DM exchange on Twitter

01:10:11.540 and made it public. And Elon responded, Whoa, which I don't know what that means. Cause literally

01:10:16.460 Elon, I have news for you. Every woman you're sleeping with is doing it for the same reason 0.99

01:10:20.360 baby trapping. Like they're thinking they're going to get a private jet out of it. That's

01:10:25.940 probably a problem for most billionaires in dating newbies. But it sounds like he's on board with

01:10:31.480 that to some, like, I'm sure the Ashley Sinclair is taken care of in every regard besides the amount

01:10:37.160 of attention that she is getting. Which is not really up to him. It's kind of her, um, job in

01:10:43.040 life to make her own opportunities for attention. She can't count on him for that. Um, yeah, I,

01:10:48.480 I also want to point out that like when people say like, well, it's understandable why she entered

01:10:53.620 into this bizarre and unpleasant arrangement because, you know, it's, uh, she's set for life and, um,

01:11:00.960 think of the genes and so on. We were talking about this on the podcast. Like I, I don't think

01:11:06.560 that it, it doesn't seem that like fun or worthwhile or healthy to be chained to the

01:11:11.520 world's richest man financially, especially when you guys don't get along and he doesn't like you.

01:11:17.960 Right. I will punish you because you overstepped. And then the genetic argument is bizarre too,

01:11:24.000 because even if your kid has like the most maximized genes and the highest IQ, he's already 0.99

01:11:29.540 kind of screwed because there have been idiots like squabbling on the internet about him since 1.00

01:11:34.760 before he gained sentience. Yeah. I must rather have a child with a regular IQ and a father in 1.00

01:11:40.100 the picture. Yeah. Um, I, I don't know this person, but my strong belief is this wasn't about having a

01:11:45.840 baby with a high IQ. She wanted to be taken care of for the rest of her life. Yeah. She already had a

01:11:49.420 baby from another man. Then she hooks up with Elon, which was clearly her goal. Okay, fine.

01:11:54.920 Oh, it was fine. I actually know people who are gold diggers and it's like, that's a choice. You

01:12:00.140 know, if you're like a beautiful woman and you have a lot of rich men who want to like,

01:12:04.040 I don't really have a problem with it to be honest with you. I do have a problem with you

01:12:09.500 then playing the victim. Right. And wanting me to feel sorry for you when he's with somebody else

01:12:14.380 on Valentine's day. And when you're, you're lavish New York city apartment, isn't quite lavish

01:12:19.600 enough. Yeah. And I also just feel like I just do desperately want to remind young women,

01:12:25.660 you don't have to go this way. You can make your own money and still wind up with somebody

01:12:32.320 great. It is a possibility. You just have to start a podcast. They say in New York,

01:12:37.060 you can have a good relationship, a livable apartment or a good career, but you can only

01:12:41.800 have two of those three. I deny that. I know you think, yeah, but you're very, we saw your tweet.

01:12:49.040 When I started at Fox, I, I think my first job at Fox was $115,000 a year. I'm trying to remember

01:12:57.120 because we, we negotiated like a, no, no, it was, yeah, they wanted to pay me under a hundred. And

01:13:01.780 I said, I, there's no way I'm taking on under a hundred with 10 years of law practice under my

01:13:05.380 belt. I refuse just on principle. So I got it right over a hundred. It was like 105 or 110. I can't

01:13:10.340 remember. My point is now that's, that's a good salary for sure. But I wasn't rich and I had to live

01:13:16.920 in Manhattan, right? It was like, I had to be at work at five in the morning. Um, first DC and

01:13:21.820 then Manhattan. My point is, yeah, I have money now, but I did not always have money. I really

01:13:25.940 didn't. And my first job in TV only paid 17 grand a year. But if you love what you do, you put in

01:13:32.480 endless hours. It's a labor of love. And usually if you're a hard worker, you will do well in the

01:13:39.140 profession of your choice. She was making it. She had a million followers on X. Well, now I wonder,

01:13:44.100 now you're there, you're both making the same face. I do wonder how she got the followers.

01:13:48.320 I mean, she's like a influencer. Yeah. Right. Sort of already prostitute adjacent. 1.00

01:13:56.740 What do you mean? Are there influencers who are not prostitutes? She is not one of them. 0.99

01:14:00.940 Yeah. You know, she's in the, she was in that conservative men's calendar a couple years ago.

01:14:07.240 She has like assorted online history as sex laptop. Allegedly. Oh, I don't know. These are

01:14:14.200 things that I like absolutely don't judge her for. I don't care. Okay. Right. Whatever to each

01:14:19.140 his own. As you said, I wouldn't have known again who she was had she not exactly. Yeah. So anyway,

01:14:24.540 okay. That's enough of Ashley saying Claire, I think we're done with her now. Um, the Oscars are this

01:14:29.160 weekend. Are you guys going to watch that? I guess. Yeah. Oh, you're an actress. I mean,

01:14:33.380 I don't always watch the Oscars, but Conan O'Brien's hosting. He's funny. I enjoy him. Um,

01:14:38.780 our viewers may or may not remember that Dasha is a successful actress who started among other

01:14:43.960 things, succession. Yeah. Everybody's favorite. Did you happen to read the profile in New York

01:14:49.740 magazine on the Murdochs? It hit on the, in the paper version this past weekend and hit in the online

01:14:55.660 version a week or so earlier. You might find it interesting. They went back and found all the

01:15:00.180 actual court filings in this hideous fight that's going on between Lachlan and Rupert on the one

01:15:05.700 side and James and Liz and Prudence, uh, Murdoch on the other side. And there was this whole big

01:15:12.880 hearing out in Reno, Nevada on what's going to happen with his trust. And they got all the

01:15:17.240 transcripts. So you're seeing the actual testimony of the actual Murdochs and what's happening. You

01:15:21.920 might find it really starting that series. Um, but okay. So I used to watch the Oscars religiously

01:15:27.240 and I look forward to the fashion and just to see who the winners were. And it was a time when

01:15:31.860 there weren't 15 nominees for best actor and best picture. And when you'd seen all the movies. Yeah.

01:15:38.980 Now I was looking at the list. I think I've seen one, like I saw conclave. That's all I've seen.

01:15:45.800 I don't even recognize the names of the others. Yeah. And the ceremony itself has changed and they're

01:15:50.340 wokeified and they're annoying. And this Amelia Perez seems to be the favorite to win everything, 1.00

01:15:54.400 which is about some very manly tranny. Like I, I don't know. What are we rooting for? 1.00

01:16:02.680 Have, has anyone seen Amelia Perez? I'm really curious. No. Cause I can't tell if it's like a spoof

01:16:08.580 or what people are mad that it's not like, it doesn't actually offer like a, like a,

01:16:15.160 and not there's not enough woke ideology in it. Okay. That sounds promising. We have a clip. If you,

01:16:20.480 if you haven't seen the clip, you must, I think we may have seen the clip.

01:16:23.380 Here's a bit.

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01:17:21.540 Amazing.

01:17:21.800 Is there something in these martinis?

01:17:23.060 Or did that actually just happen?

01:17:25.220 That's, that's, that was, that's one of the best picture nominees and it's the favorite.

01:17:29.900 Well, it's a musical.

01:17:31.080 I'm willing to give it, you know.

01:17:32.540 I want to give it a shot.

01:17:33.760 I think it could have some merit, you know.

01:17:37.600 Here's why it's not going to win.

01:17:39.480 Mm-hmm.

01:17:40.080 Mm-hmm.

01:17:40.620 The lead trans, trans person is controversial.

01:17:46.260 Uh-huh.

01:17:46.680 Was tweeting out a bunch of stuff that does not make Hollywood happy.

01:17:50.100 No.

01:17:50.360 Um, okay, Carla Sofia Gascon, who is a man pretending to be a woman, um, has got a bunch 0.59

01:18:00.540 of tweets out there that criticize, like, George Floyd, um, hold on, let me get it.

01:18:07.320 Yeah, I'm trying to find it.

01:18:09.060 The Oscar ceremony itself. 0.95

01:18:10.680 Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity, and that urgently needs to be cured. 1.00

01:18:15.820 Then, about Selena Gomez, his co-star, she's a rich rat. 1.00

01:18:21.660 He's the poor bastard whenever she can, and will never stop bothering her ex-boyfriend, 0.99

01:18:26.340 Justin Bieber, and his wife. 0.99

01:18:27.680 Okay.

01:18:28.440 There's more.

01:18:29.040 Um, attached to a photo of a Muslim family he saw at a restaurant, including a woman in

01:18:34.780 a burqa, tweeted, Islam is marvelous.

01:18:38.220 Without any machismo, women are respected. 1.00

01:18:40.960 And when they are so respected, they are left with a little squared hole on their faces for

01:18:45.340 their eyes to be visible on their mouths.

01:18:48.320 But only if she behaves.

01:18:50.260 Although they dress this way for their own enjoyment. 0.79

01:18:52.080 How deeply disgusting of humanity. 0.57

01:18:55.360 And here's the last one.

01:18:56.620 There are more, but the last one I'll read here.

01:18:59.120 I really think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug-addicted swindler,

01:19:05.080 but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider black 0.92

01:19:09.860 people to be monkeys without rights, and consider policemen to be assassins. 0.91

01:19:16.260 They're all wrong. 0.62

01:19:17.880 And it goes on from there.

01:19:18.960 So, what does that do to Emilia Perez's chances? 0.99

01:19:22.560 Uh, well, didn't they kind of, um, drop her from, uh, the press?

01:19:28.280 From the Netflix.

01:19:29.580 Is going to attend the Oscars.

01:19:31.480 Yeah.

01:19:32.140 But I actually think Conclave's going to win because Pope Francis is on his death battle.

01:19:37.020 Yes.

01:19:37.580 So people become more interested in people on claims.

01:19:40.100 Uh, and they, they definitely want to suggest there will be an intersex hope on death in the 1.00

01:19:46.220 Catholic Church. 0.97

01:19:46.860 That's what we're hoping for, like, a trans black woman for the papacy. 1.00

01:19:52.200 It's about time. 0.54

01:19:53.040 Sure, sure.

01:19:54.340 I kind of low-key love Carla Sophia Gascon.

01:19:58.420 They're pretty moderate and pretty on point.

01:20:01.320 Welcome to our side.

01:20:03.060 Come on the pod. 0.61

01:20:03.760 Uh, no, no disrespect to George Floyd because we have the same music taste and I can relate

01:20:09.460 to him not knowing how to boil water, but she's right that this person was kind of sanctified

01:20:16.420 not for the stated reasons, which is that people were locked down due to COVID and were

01:20:21.080 mourning the loss of their own lives, not his lives.

01:20:23.900 They wanted to get out and protest because they were angry about everything being shut

01:20:27.960 down.

01:20:28.360 Well, it is funny because some of those are more incendiary, but the vast majority suggests

01:20:33.040 that this person is really a conservative and doesn't go along with these identity politics,

01:20:38.100 which makes the whole transition even more bizarre.

01:20:42.040 But I mean, we've got Caitlyn Jenner, who's not into identity politics either and has, you

01:20:47.360 know, done the so-called transition.

01:20:48.920 So I, like, I do think he's being treated the same way anyone who had been outed as a

01:20:54.480 conservative would be treated, which is with horror.

01:20:57.340 Yeah.

01:20:58.100 But it's crazy.

01:21:00.140 Yeah.

01:21:00.480 But he's nominated for best actress.

01:21:02.600 I know.

01:21:03.080 Yeah.

01:21:03.440 Just think about the sentence I just said.

01:21:05.080 I know.

01:21:05.620 I know.

01:21:06.220 I was thinking about this.

01:21:07.680 I want to, I wonder what your guys' take is on this because it's, it doesn't seem to

01:21:12.180 be the same thing as like, um, men competing in women's sports where they have a distinct,

01:21:16.900 like physical biological advantage.

01:21:18.980 This seems kind of more nebulous, but it is also kind of awkward and weird to have

01:21:23.460 a person who was a biological male compete in the best act.

01:21:26.820 I don't think he's got any advantage.

01:21:29.000 It is.

01:21:29.340 That is kind of funny.

01:21:30.260 Like there have been some of the sports where I'm like, where is there a natural male

01:21:33.560 advantage?

01:21:33.940 Like, um, pool billiards.

01:21:37.260 Yeah.

01:21:38.200 Yeah.

01:21:38.440 That was one where the women were like, no, we don't want the men here. 1.00

01:21:40.900 And I'm like, is that one where, but I think the, the complaint, what they say, yes,

01:21:46.460 chess.

01:21:48.060 Yeah.

01:21:48.540 Why?

01:21:48.980 Well, why, why is chess separated?

01:21:51.640 Well, men are, you know, smarter, not in like, you know, just in terms of strategic

01:21:57.640 thinking, the kind of thinking that chess is, that there's a reason.

01:22:00.980 Is that true?

01:22:01.660 I mean, there's a reason like all the grandmasters are men.

01:22:05.140 I mean, one does have, there are really good female chess players. 1.00

01:22:07.940 Yeah.

01:22:08.100 Like you're not saying net, net, they're smarter.

01:22:10.020 You're saying certain areas of thinking in like the excellent outliers of like competitive

01:22:15.400 sports and when it comes to directions, I guess, yeah, that's definitely another one.

01:22:20.840 And then we have the advantage over them when it comes to certain other things like how to

01:22:24.920 organize one's life and discipline with a soft hand.

01:22:29.660 Exactly.

01:22:31.260 Yeah.

01:22:32.380 But I think I love this story.

01:22:35.000 I just learned about it today and on the way here in the car. 0.99

01:22:37.800 And I just, I love when the kind of elites like woke politics come back to bite them in the ass 0.99

01:22:46.400 because they'll foreground, like showcase these people with like alternative identities. 0.99

01:22:52.900 And then it turns out that they don't always like fall in line or fit the bill.

01:22:56.680 And they claim to like respect identity.

01:22:58.760 But what they really want is to people to, they demand conformity, you know, and you can

01:23:04.320 be like gay, black, trans, disabled, whatever.

01:23:07.760 If you air conservative views, you are suddenly exiled from like the progressive stack. 0.95

01:23:15.420 Ask Caitlyn Jenner.

01:23:16.960 Ask Clarence Thomas.

01:23:19.780 Yeah.

01:23:20.400 Carol Swain was on the program last week, professor of all the elite universities.

01:23:24.700 But as soon as she started to think more heterodox, in a more heterodox way, especially on race,

01:23:30.240 she was kicked out of the squad.

01:23:31.660 Yeah.

01:23:31.860 Doesn't matter. 0.99

01:23:32.240 Black woman. 0.99

01:23:33.520 They loved her. 0.91

01:23:34.380 Nope.

01:23:35.220 Tulsi Gabbard.

01:23:36.220 She was like the next rising star on the Democratic Party.

01:23:38.840 She's like, she's non-white. 1.00

01:23:41.840 She's like, she's got a lot of firsts behind her.

01:23:44.980 Yeah.

01:23:45.420 When it comes to her religion and so on and a woman. 0.95

01:23:47.680 But she backed Bernie instead of Hillary. 0.99

01:23:50.620 She had to be taken out.

01:23:51.800 And then she said a bunch of stuff about the Democrat Party not being fair.

01:23:55.660 Her career was over.

01:23:57.220 And with the Academy, I mean, a couple of years ago, I think it was after Ellen DeGeneres was canceled.

01:24:02.060 She got mean-tuned.

01:24:04.260 Mean-tuned.

01:24:05.520 I enjoyed that one.

01:24:06.700 I'm not going to lie.

01:24:06.820 But they couldn't even find someone to host.

01:24:09.000 It was either the Oscars or the Golden Globes.

01:24:11.100 But like there wasn't anyone that they could even find because they couldn't.

01:24:14.240 There wasn't anyone who's never said anything non-problematic.

01:24:17.360 Right.

01:24:18.240 And who wants someone who's never said anything non-problematic?

01:24:21.300 In the arts?

01:24:21.860 I know.

01:24:22.420 Come on.

01:24:22.860 Boring.

01:24:23.440 Yeah.

01:24:24.100 And it stands to reason that if you're the type of person who would change your entire gender identity,

01:24:30.500 you probably have other problematic things going on in your life.

01:24:34.420 Good point.

01:24:35.260 A simple Google search might have served them well prior to that nomination.

01:24:39.900 I don't think that this person is going to win the best actress.

01:24:44.500 And that's a good thing for the other reasons.

01:24:47.200 All right.

01:24:47.380 Now wait.

01:24:47.700 More from the Zelensky meeting.

01:24:48.800 Fox just reported that the Zelensky-Trump presser is now canceled.

01:24:53.960 Oh, wow.

01:24:55.080 What a shock.

01:24:56.440 A statement from President Donald J. Trump.

01:24:58.660 Quote,

01:24:58.880 We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today.

01:25:01.660 Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.

01:25:06.000 It's amazing what comes out through emotion.

01:25:08.720 And I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved.

01:25:13.100 Oh, God.

01:25:14.120 Because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.

01:25:20.540 I don't want advantage.

01:25:22.360 I want peace.

01:25:23.220 He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office.

01:25:28.380 He can come back when he is ready for peace.

01:25:31.200 Oh, my God. 1.00

01:25:33.720 Damn. 1.00

01:25:34.380 This did not go well. 1.00

01:25:35.600 No.

01:25:36.600 I can think of another guy who disrespected the United States of America in the cherished Oval Office.

01:25:43.180 Bill Clinton?

01:25:43.800 Yeah.

01:25:44.360 Yeah.

01:25:44.740 Oh, there we go.

01:25:45.820 Yeah.

01:25:46.280 Well, that's in the news now, too.

01:25:47.920 Which is first a word on that Zelensky thing.

01:25:50.200 He will come back.

01:25:51.000 I predict he will come back to the Oval Office.

01:25:52.860 And he will come back on bended knee because there's no resolving that war without us.

01:25:56.240 I think he's going to grovel?

01:25:56.780 Yes, he will come back and he will grovel.

01:25:59.340 There is no resolving that war without us.

01:26:01.980 No.

01:26:02.300 I mean, we started it.

01:26:03.020 We started it.

01:26:03.840 We're paying for it.

01:26:04.900 If we just pull all of our support, it's over.

01:26:07.620 Russia will take Ukraine. 0.94

01:26:09.700 Yeah.

01:26:09.960 Europe can't do it without us.

01:26:10.960 Like Vance said, yeah, they don't even have.

01:26:12.720 I mean, they've lost.

01:26:13.640 They've had so many casualties.

01:26:15.240 They're like inscripting people.

01:26:18.300 Does he want.

01:26:19.120 Is he trying to foster a closeness between Putin and Trump even more so?

01:26:22.720 Like, yeah, as soon as we pull our support, it's over for him.

01:26:26.140 Yeah.

01:26:26.340 And he can't go in there and play tough guy.

01:26:28.560 Zelensky.

01:26:29.120 And of course, this isn't the Oscars.

01:26:30.640 This isn't the Oscars.

01:26:33.560 Because then Russia takes it all. 0.93

01:26:35.420 But I, I almost think it would be funny for America to rage quit and pull out. 0.75

01:26:39.760 And leave them to their own devices.

01:26:42.000 Right.

01:26:42.660 Well, we'll see.

01:26:44.400 I mean, Trump, he's a very good negotiator.

01:26:46.720 And this is, this feels like negotiating.

01:26:48.680 This is what you do.

01:26:49.480 Yeah.

01:26:49.900 When the other side's totally unreasonable.

01:26:51.180 And we learned this in law school.

01:26:52.720 And they don't have any leverage.

01:26:54.180 Right.

01:26:54.760 And when the other person's just being a douche, you get up and walk out.

01:26:59.060 Like you just, you don't even have to negotiate against that.

01:27:01.440 It's just, okay, bye.

01:27:02.540 Yeah.

01:27:02.720 And you know they'll call you because they need you more than you need them.

01:27:05.240 I don't know whether Zelensky was a douche.

01:27:08.060 I'm just saying if one believes one's negotiating partner is.

01:27:12.260 And he certainly did not sound like he was in the right emotional posture for somebody in his position without the cards.

01:27:20.940 Okay, wait.

01:27:22.100 Where are we just going to go?

01:27:23.140 To Monica Lewinsky, of all people.

01:27:25.160 This is the weirdest hour of news ever.

01:27:27.380 The original Ashley Sinclair.

01:27:28.680 Yeah.

01:27:29.300 All right, we have a break. 0.99

01:27:30.240 We'll take a break and then we'll talk about blowjobs in the Oval Office. 0.98

01:27:33.980 Standby on that. 0.98

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01:30:25.620 This just in, Zelensky just left the White House.

01:30:35.420 Kind of a good observation by Sagar and Jetty, who writes, keep in mind, Zelensky has probably been talking this way to Biden for years.

01:30:41.960 He's not wrong. 0.53

01:30:43.300 Yeah.

01:30:43.740 Right?

01:30:44.280 That's true.

01:30:45.100 Good point.

01:30:45.600 And before we get on to substantive news about Monica Lewinsky, so we're like at the bottom one-fourth, I'd say, of our Doug Brunt made martinis, which are absolutely delicious.

01:30:56.480 He's a good mixologist, no?

01:30:57.520 He really is.

01:30:57.860 He's amazing, yeah.

01:30:58.780 He's delicious.

01:30:59.120 This is what he does on his podcast called Dedicated with Doug Brunt, where he talks to authors about their books.

01:31:04.160 And what he does is he gets your favorite drink, and then he makes that for you during the show, and then he and the guests drink it and talk about their book.

01:31:12.540 Oh, that's so fun.

01:31:13.220 Is it a writerly?

01:31:14.320 He put it on YouTube as well now.

01:31:16.140 Yeah, so he's got a YouTube version, but he does it once a week.

01:31:19.520 We've actually gotten a lot of fun drinks out of that, like ones we never knew about.

01:31:23.880 This is more popular than I knew, but I never knew about the French 75.

01:31:27.680 It's, I don't know if it's half and half, but it's gin and champagne or Prosecco.

01:31:33.200 And like blackberry?

01:31:35.120 Or it's some kind of syrup.

01:31:36.560 I know, I might have forgotten this.

01:31:38.600 Oh, and lemon. 0.95

01:31:39.380 Lemon.

01:31:40.320 Well done, though.

01:31:41.500 Look at you.

01:31:42.180 That's a Cure Royale.

01:31:43.200 I used to make that when I was a waitress.

01:31:45.260 That's just the kind of thing you want to order.

01:31:46.760 That just sounds like Cure Royale.

01:31:48.260 It makes you sound cooler.

01:31:49.320 Yeah.

01:31:50.500 Here's what happened after the last time you guys were here.

01:31:54.080 This is, I only drink this when you come.

01:31:55.920 And it didn't go well when I had to read the ads after the show.

01:32:01.880 Here it is.

01:32:04.020 I've never done the ads after a martini.

01:32:06.600 Maybe I have, and I just don't remember, but I'll do my best.

01:32:09.740 Every day, the rhetoric gets more and more divisive.

01:32:12.560 There's panic with some people willing to say or do anything if they think it will help their side win.

01:32:17.160 There's so much uncertainty, which explains why so many people.

01:32:29.480 Designed to be incredibly breathable, it keeps you several degrees cooler for a night of uninterrupted rest with a durable weave.

01:32:37.260 That's so cute.

01:32:46.860 What is a durable weave?

01:32:48.740 Durable weave.

01:32:49.640 I don't know.

01:32:50.240 What were you?

01:32:50.760 I don't remember.

01:32:51.220 Sheet hawking.

01:32:52.120 It was sheets, but like a durable weave.

01:32:56.840 That's funny.

01:32:57.380 That's funny even without a martini.

01:32:59.000 And then ultimately, my husband, Doug, had to step in because he and I drank an eggnog in Christmas.

01:33:06.940 And when I tried to do it, the same thing happened.

01:33:08.520 He had to step in and read the last ad for me.

01:33:13.080 So you're not a big drinker.

01:33:15.840 I mean, I kind of, I guess I'm not.

01:33:18.040 I thought I could hold my liquor, but I don't usually have something like this quite this strong during the day.

01:33:22.920 Yeah, right.

01:33:23.460 This is why we've never gone beyond being an extremely niche cult podcast because we're just wasted all the time.

01:33:34.060 But, you know, I was just saying this to, I think it was my hairstylist today who I love.

01:33:39.320 I was like, this is what I love about these two because you both are so interesting.

01:33:43.140 You have that flat affect.

01:33:44.580 You've got this great sense of style.

01:33:46.380 You obviously love each other.

01:33:47.820 Like, I love your friendship.

01:33:49.080 But you say things that are totally unexpected.

01:33:53.460 There are too many people who say stuff that you've heard everywhere else.

01:33:57.860 And so while, like, you don't deliver it with all sorts of, right, the flair, physically or emotionally, the substantive points are always interesting and they're unexpected.

01:34:10.800 Yeah.

01:34:11.520 Yeah, that's what's special about you.

01:34:13.060 We appreciate it.

01:34:13.920 That's so nice.

01:34:14.480 So I would like you to unleash your specialness. 0.96

01:34:18.300 I'm Monica Lewinsky, who went on the sex podcast, Call Her Daddy. 0.89

01:34:21.480 And, I mean, I will give credit to the sex podcaster. 0.59

01:34:24.940 This is more your realm.

01:34:26.040 This is better.

01:34:26.740 You should stick to this instead of the Kamala Harris.

01:34:28.600 You did better here.

01:34:31.220 And here is, okay, here's, she asked her a good question.

01:34:37.340 What is the name of the sex podcaster?

01:34:39.880 Alex.

01:34:40.420 Cooper.

01:34:40.860 Thank you.

01:34:41.460 Thank you.

01:34:41.960 Forgive me.

01:34:42.380 She asked Monica a question that I don't think she's gotten asked before, and that's saying something about the Clinton scandal, which was, what would you have liked him to do when the whole scandal broke?

01:34:55.220 That is a good question.

01:34:56.400 That is it, right?

01:34:57.140 So I think we have that queued up.

01:34:58.880 Let's watch it.

01:34:59.500 Saw 39.

01:34:59.980 I think that the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was, you know, nobody's business and to resign, you know.

01:35:15.040 Or to find a way, to find a way of staying in office that was not lying and not throwing a young person who was just starting out in the world under the bus.

01:35:29.380 And at the same time, I'm hearing myself say that, and it's like, okay, but we're also talking about the most powerful office in the world, you know.

01:35:42.740 So I don't want to be naive either.

01:35:47.580 Interesting.

01:35:48.400 Did they fix up the set to look more presidential?

01:35:51.880 I'm not sure what was going on.

01:35:53.300 Right.

01:35:53.600 Did it cost $100,000?

01:35:55.120 It didn't look like the Kamala.

01:35:56.440 Why didn't the budget go into her pants? 1.00

01:35:58.800 I have a real issue with those black and white, black and red checkered trousers.

01:36:04.040 It's an issue.

01:36:05.020 I don't hate them.

01:36:05.860 I think she looks good.

01:36:06.920 You don't hate them?

01:36:07.500 She looks amazing.

01:36:08.300 She looks better than she did, as you pointed out, when the scandal originated.

01:36:12.740 I think we all look better than we looked in the 90s.

01:36:14.360 True.

01:36:15.020 I mean, you know, I have to say, she does too.

01:36:19.760 It's fine.

01:36:20.780 There's zero chance a president would ever resign, you know, in the wake of a scandal.

01:36:25.980 But I am of two minds. 0.97

01:36:27.440 Like, I'm really torn about Monica Lewinsky because Clinton is a douchebag in many ways. 1.00

01:36:32.500 That's clear. 0.96

01:36:33.380 Yeah.

01:36:33.560 He definitely metooed her, you know, with the power imbalance and all that.

01:36:38.060 Sure.

01:36:38.740 She really took a beating in the public eye, a severe beating in the public eye, and she 0.99

01:36:42.760 was very young.

01:36:44.480 But on the other hand, she made the choices she made.

01:36:46.800 When you're 22, you have knowledge about the risks.

01:36:50.360 She was young.

01:36:51.160 She wasn't, you know.

01:36:52.380 Yeah.

01:36:52.520 So how do you see it?

01:36:53.380 She was clearly attracted to his power, and she was flattered by the fact that he took

01:36:58.700 a liking to her as the leader of the free world.

01:37:02.840 Like, I guess, who wouldn't be?

01:37:06.320 The one thing I can say that really, I guess, red-pilled me against feminism was the reaction

01:37:11.480 of mainstream establishment feminists to Monica Lewinsky.

01:37:14.580 Like, Gloria Steinem, all the bigwigs, they kind of got in line and were like, she's a 1.00

01:37:20.480 slut. 1.00

01:37:20.980 She's a whore. 1.00

01:37:22.340 Because they had to protect him. 1.00

01:37:23.380 Yeah, because they're Democrats before they're feminists. 1.00

01:37:26.640 Exactly.

01:37:27.340 And I remember, you know, being like, wait, this isn't right.

01:37:33.460 This doesn't make sense.

01:37:34.460 This isn't consistent with your stated ideology.

01:37:37.280 She, but now she has like a, she's on a kind of redemption. 0.71

01:37:41.260 She went on to call her daddy to promote her own podcast, which is called, it's called,

01:37:47.020 what is it called?

01:37:47.680 It's like.

01:37:48.060 Don't worry about it.

01:37:48.880 It's called Reclaiming.

01:37:49.640 There's not a single listener who will be tuning in to this show.

01:37:53.620 But it's called, yeah, I think it's Reclaiming, and she's reclaiming her narrative.

01:37:57.800 But she already did a whole movie about that. 0.75

01:37:59.880 Exactly.

01:38:00.620 She's, it's been reclaimed.

01:38:02.940 She's an interesting case study in how things have shifted from, like,

01:38:07.280 nowadays we would never slut shame someone in her position. 1.00

01:38:11.840 I mean, I might, I might.

01:38:12.960 You might.

01:38:14.000 I'm not going to lie.

01:38:14.960 I might do it.

01:38:15.340 We might.

01:38:16.040 But the society at large would not.

01:38:18.740 The status would be seen.

01:38:20.100 Those leftist feminists. 1.00

01:38:21.140 Like a hallowed victim. 0.90

01:38:22.400 Yeah.

01:38:22.700 Yeah.

01:38:23.480 I don't know.

01:38:24.160 Like, I have, I really feel like she needs to move on.

01:38:27.240 Definitely.

01:38:27.980 That's sad.

01:38:28.400 Like, I'm sick and tired of hearing about this.

01:38:30.880 If you're going to launch a podcast, go for it.

01:38:32.320 But it's like, this is her only thing.

01:38:33.520 What has she done since then, other than she writes for Vanity Fair?

01:38:36.320 Great.

01:38:36.820 Okay.

01:38:37.060 That's fine.

01:38:37.840 But then you should be talking about the columns that you write and whatever your accomplishments

01:38:41.060 have been since 1995 when, or whatever it was for when I sat in the Barnes and Noble

01:38:48.980 of the World Trade Center and read the Ken Starr report as a young aspiring lawyer, or I

01:38:56.780 just started practicing law.

01:38:57.780 I can't remember which, but I must've just graduated from law school because I was in

01:39:00.900 law school, whatever.

01:39:02.480 It doesn't matter.

01:39:02.840 The point is, um, that's how long it's been and she's still out there talking about her

01:39:08.480 blow jobs with Bill Clinton.

01:39:09.900 It's too much.

01:39:10.980 It's sad.

01:39:11.840 I mean, but that's the real takeaway from all of these type of me too scandals.

01:39:15.920 I mean, she, when she was going through, it wasn't me two times yet, but there's like

01:39:22.320 a reluctance and inability to just move on, move past and their identities are forever

01:39:27.680 tethered to this traumatic episode.

01:39:29.480 And they have to re-traumatize themselves over and over.

01:39:33.200 And really it's like, it starts to feel after a while kind of cynical because it's clearly

01:39:37.720 like a ploy to promote their own work, their own content.

01:39:40.800 Yes.

01:39:41.420 It's like she, at this point she should be saying, I've said all there is to say on that

01:39:47.000 subject.

01:39:47.340 Like we're good.

01:39:48.140 Let's, let's talk about something else because I'm sure that interview did talk about her 0.99

01:39:51.620 new show and whatever.

01:39:53.020 No one cares.

01:39:53.860 The only reason they care about her is because of that scandal, which is why I probably,

01:39:58.280 if I were Monica Lewinsky, would have chosen a life in the private sector. 0.95

01:40:01.900 Just make, doing some good.

01:40:03.640 You can do some, you can achieve other things.

01:40:06.240 She could be like Pamela Anderson. 1.00

01:40:07.540 She could stop wearing makeup and do a photo shoot.

01:40:10.720 I have mixed feelings on that one too.

01:40:11.720 Me too.

01:40:12.320 I have overwhelmingly negative feelings as a Pam lover, but.

01:40:15.920 How do you feel about Vivek's naked feet in whatever interview he just gave?

01:40:20.040 Oh, don't make me say anything racist on a mainstream media.

01:40:22.940 Why is it racist?

01:40:24.100 You have racist thoughts on it?

01:40:25.500 Kind of a guru look.

01:40:26.660 Yeah.

01:40:27.340 I don't know.

01:40:28.060 Kind of not giving a simulated, you know?

01:40:30.840 He doesn't look very governory.

01:40:32.800 No.

01:40:33.440 No.

01:40:34.040 It makes him look vulnerable.

01:40:35.400 You should never, Achilles heel, you should never show your feet as a man.

01:40:38.780 Or your Achilles heel.

01:40:39.680 And as a woman, you should never show them for free. 0.64

01:40:44.660 Never show my feet for free?

01:40:46.340 Only on OnlyFans.

01:40:48.480 Or yeah.

01:40:49.600 You can make a lot of money showing your feet on OnlyFans.

01:40:51.940 A lot of money.

01:40:52.940 I bet people would love to see the souls of your feet.

01:40:55.000 I mean, they'd be horrified.

01:40:56.280 My toes are like my fingers, super long.

01:40:59.580 It's very weird.

01:41:01.280 I gotta go.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - February 28, 2025

Epstein Files Debacle, and Trump Spars with Zelensky in Oval Office, with Emily Jashinsky and Red Scare Hosts ｜ Ep. 1016

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