First American Pope, Bidens Defensive on The View, Casey Means as Surgeon General： AM Update 5⧸9
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Former President Joe Biden sits through a rambling and defensive appearance on The View, and President Trump s new pick for Surgeon General Casey Means gets attacked by some in the Maha Movement. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Friday, May 9th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
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White smoke at the Vatican. There's a new pope. And for the first time ever, he's from America.
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The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn't see how hard
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Joe worked every single day. Former President Joe Biden plus Dr. Jill sit through a rambling
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and defensive appearance on The View. And President Trump's new pick for Surgeon General
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Casey Means gets attacked by some in the Maha movement. All that and more coming up in just
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White smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel late Thursday afternoon, signaling a new leader
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for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. But unlike every other time in history,
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an American-born man walked out on that balcony to the cheering crowds below.
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Robert Francis Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Born in Chicago and alum of Villanova University in
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Philadelphia, he has spent most of his time in Peru and is a dual citizen. He has been serving as head
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of the Dicastery for Bishops since 2023. The powerful position means he oversees the selection
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of new bishops. President Trump giving his congratulations shortly after the announcement,
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It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American pope. What excitement and what a great honor
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for our country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment.
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A shock pick. Little has been written in the weeks since Pope Francis' death about what sort of
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Pope Leo XIV might be. But that has not slowed down the internet speculation. Many reports describing
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him as a centrist. His home state of Illinois does not register voters by party, but he appears to have
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voted in several Republican primaries. However, an ex-account believed to belong to Prevost, used
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sparingly, sharing an article in February headlined, J.D. Vance, is wrong. Jesus doesn't ask us to rank
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our love for others. Additional tweets and retweets have been critical of Mr. Trump or his policies.
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Still, some conservatives see the fact that he chose a traditional papal name and wore the traditional
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papal garb, as Benedict XVI did and Francis did not, as encouraging signs. Much more on this historic
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day for Catholics and the world and on the new American pope in the days and weeks ahead.
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Former President Biden appearing for a lengthy interview on The View on Thursday alongside his
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wife, Dr. Jill Biden, for part of it. This comes as several books are being released about his final
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years in the White House, with implications of a cover-up of his cognitive decline.
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Through pre-scripted questions from the hosts, the former president gave rambling, at times
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incoherent answers. At one point, President Biden asked to address why his vice president, Kamala Harris,
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lost to President Trump, pointed to sexism and racism.
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Why do you think the vice president lost, and were you surprised?
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I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person
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to be president. She is. She's qualified to be president of the United States of America.
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But I was surprised. I wasn't surprised because they went the route of the sexist route, the whole route.
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I mean, this is a woman, she's this, she's that. I mean, it really, I've never seen quite as
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successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn't lead the country
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Sunny Hostin asked Mr. Biden about the way Ms. Harris answered Hostin's questioning during a campaign
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appearance on The View. She said that answer had been weaponized against Ms. Harris when Harris refused
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First of all, I did not advise her to say that, number one. Like I said, I was vice president. I
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understand the role, number one. Number two, I think it was, I think she was talking about she was,
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wouldn't have changed the successes we've had. Not opposed to that we wouldn't change anything at
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all. She has to be your own person. And she was, she was. And so I think that that was used
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in a way that is contrary to what she meant by when she said that. And, and I think that,
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you know, I, she, she was part of every success we had. We'd argue like hell, by the way.
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No, no, no, that's good. We'd sit and say, well, what about this version? No, Joe, I don't like
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that. Well, I, yeah, I, anyway, we worked it out. When Jill Biden joined the show, she cut in and
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interrupted her husband to respond herself to accusations of cognitive decline laid out in
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these recent books. We're also in a situation where we found ourselves, uh, unable to, uh,
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deal with a, a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won't go into it in the interest of time.
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And so we went to work and we got it done. And, uh, you know, one of the things that, that,
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well, I'm, well, and Alyssa, you know, one of the things I think is that
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the people who wrote those books were not in the white house with us and they didn't see how hard
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Joe worked every single day. I mean, he'd get up, he put in a full day. And then at night he would,
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I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book. And he was still on the phone, reading his briefings,
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um, working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop. It's the white house being president is not like
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a job. It's a lifestyle. And later, Dr. Jill addressed critics who said she was like Lady
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Macbeth during the last year of her husband's administration. I was with Joe day and night.
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I saw him more than any other person. I went, woke up with him. I went to bed at night with him.
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So I saw him all throughout the day and I did not create a cocoon around him. I mean,
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you saw him in the oval office. You saw him making speeches. He wasn't hiding somewhere.
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I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in some place. I mean, that's what she had.
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Was that hurtful to you when they were describing you as Lady Macbeth?
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Yes, it was very hurtful. It was very hurtful, especially from some of our so-called friends.
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And we may be hearing more from former President Biden soon. Politico reporting the Trump administration
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is weighing the possible release of the full audio from special counsel Robert Herr's interview
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with then-President Biden that took place in October 2023. The transcript was released last year.
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Coming up, President Trump picks Casey Means as his next Surgeon General. How'd that go?
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And Mr. Trump announces his first official trade deal with the UK.
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President Trump announcing Wednesday a last-minute switcheroo for his Surgeon General pick,
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pulling Dr. Jeanette Neshawatt just before her confirmation hearing,
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and instead picking Dr. Casey Means, a functional medicine doctor and co-author of the best-selling
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book, Good Energy, which she co-wrote with her brother, Callie Means. In making the announcement,
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President Trump wrote, quote, Casey has impeccable Maha credentials and will work closely with our
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wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure a successful
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implementation of our agenda in order to reverse the chronic disease epidemic and ensure great health
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in the future for all Americans. On the Megyn Kelly show last month, host of the MK Media show
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Next Up, Mark Halperin, described the board of directors for the Trump administration as the
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three most influential voices on the outside. And all three board members approve of Casey Means,
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quote, phenomenal pick by President Trump, wrote Charlie Kirk, while Donald Trump Jr. posted excellent
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pick, huge for Maha. Tucker Carlson, the third member, hosted Casey and her brother Callie on his
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podcast last year in a viral episode that introduced them onto the national scene. Casey has also been
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a regular guest on the Megyn Kelly show. In November, she joined the show to talk about the
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headwinds RFKJ would face when he took over HHS and the new administration. Headwinds she'll no doubt
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face too, if confirmed. Invite everyone to go to the HHS.gov priority document of priorities for America.
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This PDF mentions vaccines 27 times. It does not mention the words, chronic disease, diabetes,
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or obesity. The things that are costing trillions of dollars to the American healthcare system. I mean,
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70% of our GDP goes to healthcare, $4.5 trillion a year. And they're trying to essentially jam down
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our throat that health is found in a syringe. However, the positive response to the announcement
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has been far from universal. Nicole Shanahan, who was RFKJ's running mate and a leading voice of the
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Maha movement, posted a lengthy critique of both Casey and Callie Means on X, writing, quote,
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doesn't make any sense. I was promised that if I supported RFKJ in his Senate confirmation,
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that neither of these siblings would be working under HHS or in an appointment, and that people
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much more qualified would be. I don't know if RFK very clearly lied to me or what's going on. It has
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been clear in recent conversations that he is reporting to someone regularly who is controlling
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his decisions, and it isn't President Trump. With regards to the siblings, there is something very
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artificial and aggressive about them, almost like they were bred and raised Manchurian assets.
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Meanwhile, MAGA influencer Laura Loomer attacked Casey over a book her father wrote, which says it
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is for kids confused about their gender and sexual identities. Your humble reporter has spoken directly
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to Casey Means about the gender issue in children and can report that she is against the transing of
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children and will not support puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical procedures in this lane
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on minors. Ms. Loomer also attacked Dr. Means for using psychedelics and for not having an active
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medical license. Dr. Means allowed it to go inactive when she stopped seeing patients years ago.
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Like the confirmation hearings for RFKJ and others in the Trump administration, this one
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will be contentious and we'll have it covered for you.
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President Trump announcing the first of his post-Liberation Day trade deals with the United
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Kingdom. In a morning post on Truth Social, he explained why he started with the UK, writing
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quote, because of our longtime history and allegiance together. It is a great honor to
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have the United Kingdom as our first announcement. President Trump joined in the Oval Thursday morning
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to mark the occasion by his vice president, J.D. Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others,
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with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer phoning in.
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With this deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an
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essential and vital principle of international trade. The deal includes billions of dollars of
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increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing
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access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers.
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Prime Minister Starmer echoing President Trump's sentiments on the deal.
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This is a really fantastic historic day in which we can announce this deal between our two great
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countries. And I think it's a real tribute to the history that we have of working so closely
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together. Can I pay tribute, Donald, to your negotiating team as well, particularly Howard and
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Jameson, who've done an incredible job, a very professional job?
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The deal keeps the 10 percent across the board tariffs that the Trump administration put into
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place, but removes some of the additional tariffs that were on top of that 10 percent.
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For example, the 25 percent tariff on UK steel and aluminum will be removed, and the first 100,000
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vehicles imported into the U.S. will not be subject to the additional 25 percent rate. In return,
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the UK government will be removing the tariff they had on ethanol from the U.S. and agreed to,
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quote, reciprocal market access on beef. Commerce Secretary Lutnik pointing to President Trump
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This was the president's deal, and people think, oh, that's not the way it works. If you
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got to sit next to him, I have the best dealmaker to my left. And if you don't think that we take
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advantage of him calling the prime minister and getting that deal done, you don't understand
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who's the president of the United States. So he's the closer. He gets deals done that we could never
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get done because he understands business. He understands deals.
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President Trump posting on Truth Social, quote,
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many other deals which are in serious stages of negotiation to follow.
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