The Megyn Kelly Show - First American Pope, Bidens Defensive on The View, Casey Means as Surgeon General： AM Update 5⧸9

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, May 9th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:13.660 White smoke at the Vatican. There's a new pope. And for the first time ever, he's from America.

00:00:20.140 The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn't see how hard

00:00:26.120 Joe worked every single day. Former President Joe Biden plus Dr. Jill sit through a rambling

00:00:33.760 and defensive appearance on The View. And President Trump's new pick for Surgeon General

00:00:39.200 Casey Means gets attacked by some in the Maha movement. All that and more coming up in just

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00:01:51.680 White smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel late Thursday afternoon, signaling a new leader

00:01:57.400 for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. But unlike every other time in history,

00:02:02.960 an American-born man walked out on that balcony to the cheering crowds below.

00:02:07.700 Robert Francis Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Born in Chicago and alum of Villanova University in

00:02:20.660 Philadelphia, he has spent most of his time in Peru and is a dual citizen. He has been serving as head

00:02:26.960 of the Dicastery for Bishops since 2023. The powerful position means he oversees the selection

00:02:33.080 of new bishops. President Trump giving his congratulations shortly after the announcement,

00:02:37.940 writing on Truth Social, quote,

00:02:39.200 It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American pope. What excitement and what a great honor

00:02:44.940 for our country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment.

00:02:51.080 A shock pick. Little has been written in the weeks since Pope Francis' death about what sort of

00:02:55.840 Pope Leo XIV might be. But that has not slowed down the internet speculation. Many reports describing

00:03:03.140 him as a centrist. His home state of Illinois does not register voters by party, but he appears to have

00:03:09.480 voted in several Republican primaries. However, an ex-account believed to belong to Prevost, used

00:03:15.700 sparingly, sharing an article in February headlined, J.D. Vance, is wrong. Jesus doesn't ask us to rank

00:03:22.600 our love for others. Additional tweets and retweets have been critical of Mr. Trump or his policies.

00:03:29.120 Still, some conservatives see the fact that he chose a traditional papal name and wore the traditional

00:03:36.080 papal garb, as Benedict XVI did and Francis did not, as encouraging signs. Much more on this historic

00:03:44.040 day for Catholics and the world and on the new American pope in the days and weeks ahead.

00:03:48.400 Former President Biden appearing for a lengthy interview on The View on Thursday alongside his

00:03:55.460 wife, Dr. Jill Biden, for part of it. This comes as several books are being released about his final

00:04:01.760 years in the White House, with implications of a cover-up of his cognitive decline.

00:04:07.160 Through pre-scripted questions from the hosts, the former president gave rambling, at times

00:04:11.360 incoherent answers. At one point, President Biden asked to address why his vice president, Kamala Harris,

00:04:17.200 lost to President Trump, pointed to sexism and racism.

00:04:22.080 Why do you think the vice president lost, and were you surprised?

00:04:27.520 I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person

00:04:32.020 to be president. She is. She's qualified to be president of the United States of America. 0.98

00:04:36.340 But I was surprised. I wasn't surprised because they went the route of the sexist route, the whole route.

00:04:44.000 I mean, this is a woman, she's this, she's that. I mean, it really, I've never seen quite as

00:04:50.700 successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn't lead the country 0.97

00:04:57.460 and a woman of mixed race.

00:05:00.480 Sunny Hostin asked Mr. Biden about the way Ms. Harris answered Hostin's questioning during a campaign 0.99

00:05:07.680 appearance on The View. She said that answer had been weaponized against Ms. Harris when Harris refused 0.98

00:05:14.380 to name an area of disagreement with her boss.

00:05:17.520 First of all, I did not advise her to say that, number one. Like I said, I was vice president. I

00:05:23.940 understand the role, number one. Number two, I think it was, I think she was talking about she was,

00:05:32.220 wouldn't have changed the successes we've had. Not opposed to that we wouldn't change anything at

00:05:37.520 all. She has to be your own person. And she was, she was. And so I think that that was used

00:05:46.200 in a way that is contrary to what she meant by when she said that. And, and I think that,

00:05:54.080 you know, I, she, she was part of every success we had. We'd argue like hell, by the way.

00:06:01.000 No, no, no, that's good. We'd sit and say, well, what about this version? No, Joe, I don't like

00:06:06.280 that. Well, I, yeah, I, anyway, we worked it out. When Jill Biden joined the show, she cut in and 0.80

00:06:12.180 interrupted her husband to respond herself to accusations of cognitive decline laid out in

00:06:17.300 these recent books. We're also in a situation where we found ourselves, uh, unable to, uh,

00:06:24.320 deal with a, a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won't go into it in the interest of time.

00:06:30.580 And so we went to work and we got it done. And, uh, you know, one of the things that, that,

00:06:37.160 well, I'm, well, and Alyssa, you know, one of the things I think is that

00:06:41.940 the people who wrote those books were not in the white house with us and they didn't see how hard

00:06:48.900 Joe worked every single day. I mean, he'd get up, he put in a full day. And then at night he would,

00:06:57.640 I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book. And he was still on the phone, reading his briefings,

00:07:04.020 um, working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop. It's the white house being president is not like

00:07:11.580 a job. It's a lifestyle. And later, Dr. Jill addressed critics who said she was like Lady

00:07:17.900 Macbeth during the last year of her husband's administration. I was with Joe day and night.

00:07:24.440 I saw him more than any other person. I went, woke up with him. I went to bed at night with him.

00:07:30.040 So I saw him all throughout the day and I did not create a cocoon around him. I mean,

00:07:35.480 you saw him in the oval office. You saw him making speeches. He wasn't hiding somewhere.

00:07:41.220 I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in some place. I mean, that's what she had.

00:07:48.560 Was that hurtful to you when they were describing you as Lady Macbeth?

00:07:51.820 Yes, it was very hurtful. It was very hurtful, especially from some of our so-called friends.

00:07:58.140 And we may be hearing more from former President Biden soon. Politico reporting the Trump administration

00:08:03.060 is weighing the possible release of the full audio from special counsel Robert Herr's interview

00:08:09.980 with then-President Biden that took place in October 2023. The transcript was released last year.

00:08:17.160 Coming up, President Trump picks Casey Means as his next Surgeon General. How'd that go?

00:08:22.880 And Mr. Trump announces his first official trade deal with the UK.

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00:09:40.620 President Trump announcing Wednesday a last-minute switcheroo for his Surgeon General pick,

00:09:45.600 pulling Dr. Jeanette Neshawatt just before her confirmation hearing,

00:09:48.900 and instead picking Dr. Casey Means, a functional medicine doctor and co-author of the best-selling

00:09:54.540 book, Good Energy, which she co-wrote with her brother, Callie Means. In making the announcement,

00:10:00.000 President Trump wrote, quote, Casey has impeccable Maha credentials and will work closely with our

00:10:05.460 wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure a successful

00:10:10.500 implementation of our agenda in order to reverse the chronic disease epidemic and ensure great health

00:10:16.740 in the future for all Americans. On the Megyn Kelly show last month, host of the MK Media show

00:10:22.120 Next Up, Mark Halperin, described the board of directors for the Trump administration as the

00:10:27.560 three most influential voices on the outside. And all three board members approve of Casey Means,

00:10:34.460 quote, phenomenal pick by President Trump, wrote Charlie Kirk, while Donald Trump Jr. posted excellent

00:10:39.720 pick, huge for Maha. Tucker Carlson, the third member, hosted Casey and her brother Callie on his

00:10:45.260 podcast last year in a viral episode that introduced them onto the national scene. Casey has also been

00:10:51.220 a regular guest on the Megyn Kelly show. In November, she joined the show to talk about the

00:10:55.480 headwinds RFKJ would face when he took over HHS and the new administration. Headwinds she'll no doubt

00:11:01.900 face too, if confirmed. Invite everyone to go to the HHS.gov priority document of priorities for America.

00:11:09.380 This PDF mentions vaccines 27 times. It does not mention the words, chronic disease, diabetes,

00:11:19.620 or obesity. The things that are costing trillions of dollars to the American healthcare system. I mean,

00:11:27.260 70% of our GDP goes to healthcare, $4.5 trillion a year. And they're trying to essentially jam down

00:11:34.880 our throat that health is found in a syringe. However, the positive response to the announcement

00:11:40.040 has been far from universal. Nicole Shanahan, who was RFKJ's running mate and a leading voice of the

00:11:46.460 Maha movement, posted a lengthy critique of both Casey and Callie Means on X, writing, quote,

00:11:53.280 doesn't make any sense. I was promised that if I supported RFKJ in his Senate confirmation,

00:11:58.200 that neither of these siblings would be working under HHS or in an appointment, and that people

00:12:04.460 much more qualified would be. I don't know if RFK very clearly lied to me or what's going on. It has

00:12:10.880 been clear in recent conversations that he is reporting to someone regularly who is controlling

00:12:15.680 his decisions, and it isn't President Trump. With regards to the siblings, there is something very

00:12:21.560 artificial and aggressive about them, almost like they were bred and raised Manchurian assets.

00:12:26.880 Meanwhile, MAGA influencer Laura Loomer attacked Casey over a book her father wrote, which says it 0.74

00:12:33.300 is for kids confused about their gender and sexual identities. Your humble reporter has spoken directly

00:12:40.260 to Casey Means about the gender issue in children and can report that she is against the transing of

00:12:47.760 children and will not support puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical procedures in this lane

00:12:54.540 on minors. Ms. Loomer also attacked Dr. Means for using psychedelics and for not having an active 0.83

00:13:01.000 medical license. Dr. Means allowed it to go inactive when she stopped seeing patients years ago.

00:13:07.100 Like the confirmation hearings for RFKJ and others in the Trump administration, this one

00:13:11.240 will be contentious and we'll have it covered for you.

00:13:15.640 President Trump announcing the first of his post-Liberation Day trade deals with the United

00:13:20.640 Kingdom. In a morning post on Truth Social, he explained why he started with the UK, writing

00:13:25.860 quote, because of our longtime history and allegiance together. It is a great honor to

00:13:29.820 have the United Kingdom as our first announcement. President Trump joined in the Oval Thursday morning

00:13:34.960 to mark the occasion by his vice president, J.D. Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others,

00:13:40.020 with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer phoning in.

00:13:42.820 With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an

00:13:49.600 essential and vital principle of international trade. The deal includes billions of dollars of

00:13:57.140 increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing

00:14:03.120 access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers.

00:14:11.640 Prime Minister Starmer echoing President Trump's sentiments on the deal.

00:14:15.800 This is a really fantastic historic day in which we can announce this deal between our two great

00:14:22.540 countries. And I think it's a real tribute to the history that we have of working so closely

00:14:29.340 together. Can I pay tribute, Donald, to your negotiating team as well, particularly Howard and

00:14:35.080 Jameson, who've done an incredible job, a very professional job?

00:14:38.820 The deal keeps the 10 percent across the board tariffs that the Trump administration put into

00:14:43.000 place, but removes some of the additional tariffs that were on top of that 10 percent.

00:14:48.400 For example, the 25 percent tariff on UK steel and aluminum will be removed, and the first 100,000

00:14:54.920 vehicles imported into the U.S. will not be subject to the additional 25 percent rate. In return,

00:15:01.580 the UK government will be removing the tariff they had on ethanol from the U.S. and agreed to,

00:15:06.880 quote, reciprocal market access on beef. Commerce Secretary Lutnik pointing to President Trump

00:15:12.400 as the closer in getting his first deal done.

00:15:15.520 This was the president's deal, and people think, oh, that's not the way it works. If you

00:15:19.540 got to sit next to him, I have the best dealmaker to my left. And if you don't think that we take

00:15:25.680 advantage of him calling the prime minister and getting that deal done, you don't understand

00:15:30.320 who's the president of the United States. So he's the closer. He gets deals done that we could never

00:15:35.900 get done because he understands business. He understands deals.

00:15:40.280 President Trump posting on Truth Social, quote,

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First American Pope, Bidens Defensive on The View, Casey Means as Surgeon General： AM Update 5⧸9

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