Left Turns on Nicki Minaj, Fauci’s New Title and Immigration Madness with Kmele Foster, Matt Welch, and Michael Moynihan | Ep. 161
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Summary
Join hosts Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch, and Camille Foster as they discuss the latest in the Nicki Minaj vs. Joy Reid saga, including the rapper's refusal to attend the Met Gala, the White House wanting her to get vaccinated, and more.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. There is so much news to get
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to today and I've got with me three of my all-time favorite guests to help cover it all. They are the
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hosts of the Fifth Column podcast, which I love. If you ever just want to be entertained and have
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a good time and hear interesting discussions, go listen to it. Michael Moynihan, who's a
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correspondent for Vice News Tonight. Matt Welch, who's editor at large for Reason Magazine. And
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Camille Foster of Freethink Media. They're all in on this together and now they're all with us
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together. And we're going to dive into all things COVID, Afghanistan, Nicki Minaj, going nuclear on
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Joy Reid and so on. Hey guys, great to have you here. Morning. Hi, Megan. That's fun to be able
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to see you. Well, we can't see you. What's going on here? I know. We got to figure that out. And
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for people who don't know what we're talking about, we actually have, um, you can see the show now at
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youtube.com slash Megyn Kelly. We post it like a couple hours after the show is over, but yeah,
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this is the only place you can get it live. Uh, all right. So I don't even know where to begin.
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Um, but I feel like the Nicki Minaj place is actually as good a place as any, the most, it's like
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the most weirdness I've seen all at once in cable news, uh, in a while. Nicki Minaj sends out a tweet
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saying, I'm not sure. I'm not going to go to the Met Gala cause I don't want to be told I have to get
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vaccinated and I'll make up my mind later if I want to get max vaccinated. And she tells some story
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about her cousin's friend who allegedly got the vaccine and his balls gotten flamed.
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Okay. I got balls into the first minute of our show. Yep. And then joy read went after her,
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you know, and her nasty, she's always angry. I actually think we have the joy read soundbite.
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Um, and let's get it ready and then we'll play it. Yeah. Let's listen. And people like Nicki Minaj,
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I have to say this. You have a platform sister that is 22 million followers. Okay. I have 2 million
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followers. You have 22 million followers on Twitter for you to use your platform to encourage our
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community, to not protect themselves and save their lives. My God, sister, you could do better
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than that. You've got that platform. It's, it's a blessing. It's a blessing that you got that,
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that people listen to you and they listen to you more than listen to me for you to use your platform
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to put people in the position of dying from a disease. They don't have to die from. Oh my God,
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as a fan, as a hip hop fan, as somebody who was your fan, I'm so sad that you did that. So sad that
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you did that sister. Oh my God. Yes. There's three sister. Brother Camille.
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Nicki Minaj apparently, you know, ticked off joy read in the left in a massive way. And she's been
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taken incoming ever since she got an invitation from the white house to either go to the white house or
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have a phone call with a white house doctor. It depends on who you ask. Tucker Carlson's defending
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her that sent the internet into a meltdown last night because Nikki retweeted a Tucker segment
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defending. I mean, it's like, I didn't recognize that Nicki Minaj had this much power. I guess that
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was my, my bad, but you tell me, I'll start with you, Camille. Why, why has this become such a huge
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thing? Because the entire world has gone crazy. Like everyone, everyone is insane. The, the,
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the mere fact that Nicki Minaj is disseminating, I guess, health advice or public health advice
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with relate with respect to the COVID vaccine, um, tells you all you need to know. Every aspect
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of the pandemic has been politicized. And this has been true since almost the outset before it was the
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left who was telling you not to panic at all. This is all fine. You can totally go to the, the Chinese
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new year parades. And it was the right who was somewhat skeptical and was interested in maybe
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shuttering borders. Um, and now the entire world is completely flipped upside down. Um, I, I don't
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know if we've learned anything at all from Nicki Minaj gate. It'll be a, or do we call this like
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balls gate? I'm not sure, but it'll be a couple of days before we know if, yeah, if, if someone at
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the white house is able to persuade her that she's all wrong about this. Um, but at a minimum, I mean,
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we do have like some very real material challenges and it's interesting to see just how much time
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nonsense like this ends up sucking up in a country where we still do have a pandemic that we're trying
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to figure out how to navigate balancing our health concerns with our economic concerns. We've got
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genuine economic difficulties with inflation starting to creep up. It'd be nice if we spent a
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little bit of time talking about those things as well, but I suppose it's nice to have some,
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some distractions occasionally. I'm not going to lie. Cause I'm not going to lie. I'm enjoying the
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Joy Reid, Nicki Minaj fight. Is it just me? I have to say, Megan, I was unaware that we were going to
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discuss this yet. I still do have a screenshot of a Nicki Minaj text on my phone, uh, between on my
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phone. I took in bed this morning. Cause I was like, I'm totally mad. This is the thing that
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happened this morning. A tweet about balls. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's a day ending and why
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yes. Grote gate, uh, 1.0. So I'm, I, I took a screenshot of this and I'm thinking when I took the
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subway into the city, um, you know, it's what I've always said about the incredible thing that
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New York is not full of libertarians, because if you try to get on public transportation, it's like,
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holy shit, they cannot do anything in the city. Nothing works. The same thing is kind of true
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about celebrities these days and, you know, kind of being annoyed by the left because once they kind
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of interact with them, they realize how difficult it is. You know, like Rose McGowan is the latest one.
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This is Nicki Minaj's tweet this morning. I'll get rid you part of it. Cause for some reason,
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it's like 8,000 characters. She's a lot of people aren't human anymore. I don't know what that
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means. If you're black and a Democrat tells you to shove marbles up your ass, you simply have to.
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Now that's one way of phrasing it. I wouldn't have done so myself.
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Camille is, I mean, I hope you're not a Democrat.
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But yeah, that was the Nicki Minaj. And I also enjoyed a Cardi B who, uh,
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what was about a couple of years ago when her, her first record was like selling tons of copies
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and she was making all this money. She took to Instagram to talk about tax rights. She was like,
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holy shit, I have to pay all this money to the government. I'm like, look, see, interacting with
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the real world can, uh, can change your politics a little bit.
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I just am really happy that Tucker Carlson is talking about balls, uh, openly on every night.
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Again, the look on his face in general, that sort of pinched Tucker face with the word balls
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You know, I think, you know, apparently speaking of wasting a bunch of time, the, um, the government
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of Trinidad and Tobago where Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend allegedly resides, uh, says it's invested
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way too many hours trying to track down the allegedly impotent man who claims his impotence is due to the
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vaccine. Now you tell me guys, I'm just thinking like they can't find said man, but I'm thinking
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like a guy's in the sack and things aren't going that well. And you're like, it's the vaccine.
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The last thing you want is to be, is to be seen photographed video, perhaps interviewed now that
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you're not functioning in the way that you thought. And maybe you confided in your cousin
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privately, hoping that she wouldn't tell the entire universe.
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And she is also making a homage as Joy Reid playing 20 million followers. But I love the fact
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that Joy Reid also got in that I have 2 million followers, which was like, it was like the humble
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She did sound, she sounded a little bitter though.
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Yeah, she's a little bitter. And she was definitely code switching there. But, um, I do appreciate
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that Trinidad and Tobago is taking up this, this issue and this video and they're talking about,
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we've invested all this time as the American government's trying to like get people out of
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Afghanistan, Trinidad and Tobago is where like, we're trying to find the swollen man.
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It's as if the, you know, the governor of Alaska would have gotten into, you know, someone
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saying, Oh yeah, my, my girlfriend, uh, is, is, is in Alaska. Uh, and that's why, uh, well,
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you haven't seen her, uh, and it's, uh, we're looking for her.
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This sounds like a former camp trauma that, uh, that many men have gone through. I swear she
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exists. Wait, is it the cousin that has the balls or is it the cousin's friend? Okay.
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It's the cousin's friend. A story from a cousin abroad who said he was declining to be vaccinated
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because his friend got it and became impotent. Okay. So it's the cousin's friend who you raise
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a good point. So Nikki Minaj has a cousin in Trinidad and Tobago who, whose friend confided
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in him, maybe not even knowing that he was Nikki's cousin, but certainly not expecting it to become
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an international story. He's not raising his hand to say, I am the man whose balls are enlarged
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and equipment is not functioning. And we wonder why. All right. Just letting everybody know I'm
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with Camille Foster, Matt Welch and Michael Moynihan. These guys are the hosts of the fifth
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column, which we love. And you should listen to if you're not already. So I don't know.
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I, to me, it's like, it is sort of emblematic of COVID disinformation, which, you know, I have no
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idea what happened to that guy's testicles, but, um, there are all sorts of stories about side effects
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that may or may not have been caused by the vaccine. You get these anecdotal reports and then
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people are like, yes, see, you see. And even with long COVID for that matter, it's like,
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I haven't had COVID, but God, I feel like I might have long COVID right now. I'm tired.
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I, you know, a lot of the symptoms that they report, I'm like, I got that right now.
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So you just never know in some of the medical reporting that we're getting now what to believe.
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And Victor Davis Hanson has a really good piece out today talking about how
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right down to the very science itself, you know, the, the science, Dr. Fauci,
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we don't know what we can believe and what we can't believe. I know the Guardian just named him
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sexiest man alive. I don't, I don't know that he's the most trustworthy news right there.
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No, I think it's fake news. He's, he's objectively not the sexiest man alive back in. I'm sorry.
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Yeah, but this is how a lot on the left think. I mean, they, they look at him like he is a
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One of the, uh, the problems that you flag here is, uh, you know, we're 18 months into this and
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we actually know some stuff, right? We've learned about things and yet you don't see that reflected
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in the news media. There's been a spate of headlines along the lines of, um, you know, uh,
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even though kids are back in school rates of COVID are falling, even though like this is a,
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this is a surprise. This is something that we've seen happen now for the most part, uh, in most
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every country for the last year, at least when kids go back to school rates fall because kids
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don't really get, um, COVID. Um, and that's, that's the expectation, not the opposite, but
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that kind of basic kind of literacy of where we have gone and what we're doing hasn't penetrated
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to the people who are supposed to be disseminating this 10 degree. I mean, there's a, you guys have
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all probably seen the, uh, the kind of viral picture that was tweeted out by a union in New
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York of, uh, you know, they're really proud to say, look, we're protecting the, uh, our classrooms
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and guys walking around in like the worst jury rig, like hazmat suit spraying upwards, some
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kind of, you know, I saw something or other to the ceilings in a classroom. We're doing this now,
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18 months later. Um, I, I have a lot of blame for the news media in this because it, we, we know
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better than this. We shouldn't be wiping down groceries anymore or writing as if that's how
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the stuff gets spread. Yeah. We talked about it. Didn't we talk about the last time you guys have
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kids in New York? Yeah. I, I have, uh, two kids, uh, in who go to school 13 and six, um, eighth grade
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and first grade and pulled the younger one out of the public school system because there's no, um, uh,
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there's no expectation that they're going to manage this normally. Um, they're going to do there right
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now. If you have one kid who tests positive in an elementary school, uh, classroom, everybody has to
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go home for 10 days. Um, that doesn't seem to be a recipe for, and they're, you know, they're testing
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often enough that you're going to catch some people who are going to have it and not have any
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symptoms. Um, that's just not a recipe for keeping kids in school. So, I mean, I'm quite happy with
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the private, my, my daughter goes to private school. Um, and she managed one day of school, uh, on Monday
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before we shut down, um, because a teacher tested positive and, you know, all things last year over
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at the Hugo Chavez Academy, my daughter goes to school in Brooklyn, um, was great actually, because they did
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not react the way that the public schools reacted. And she was in school most of the year and they,
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uh, handled it in a totally, uh, smart, mature way. Not, there's no intervention from idiotic,
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uh, teachers unions. There's no intervention from some mega bureaucracy. There was a small
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coterie of people that discussed it and came up with an actually decent, uh, strategy. I thought it
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was slightly overblown at times, but at least she was in school and that wasn't, that was important to
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us. Megan, where'd you, you pulled your kids out of your private school, right? Because you were upset
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with the wokeness brigade. Yeah, we left, we left New York because of the crazy far left
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indoctrination being shoved down our throats in these schools. And we were in the private schools.
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It wasn't, it really wasn't a COVID thing. It was, it was a crazy hard left indoctrination thing
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and found, found schools. We moved to Connecticut and we're in a district now or, I mean, it's,
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we're at a private school, but it's reasonable. You know, they're, they're not anti-diversity,
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equity, inclusion and all that, but they're not signing on to this, you know, hard racist
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agenda that we're seeing in the New York schools or hard trans promotional agenda. I would say what
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I've seen so far is they're, they're non-bullying. They're about support. They're about sort of the
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way things used to be, right? Like we're, we encourage kids to be good to one another and
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kind and accepting and loving and not just about the so-called anti-racist agenda or, you know,
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DEI agenda. We have six DEI officers who are looking for nails to hammer all day long.
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Um, but I will say they're, they're very uptight when it comes to the COVID restrictions. Um,
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and even this week we saw our, our 11 year old outside the day was 82 degrees and they all had
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their masks on while they're doing squat thrusts and sit-ups and pushups and planks. And our son was
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telling us that some of the boys were in full face sweat masks, completely dripping wet while they're
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doing these exercises outdoor. And I was like, you will not do that, that you, you are not allowed
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to do that. It isn't safe. And there's been a followup between us and our school, but it's just that
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the insanity is not science-based and it's maddening, maddening. Yeah. Yeah. On the, on the podcast, we've
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talked a lot about the parallels between nine 11 and all of the various actions that happen
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subsequently. And one of the most prominent features of the post nine 11 world is the security
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theater. And that is precisely what we see playing out in schools. It's the person spraying Lysol into
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the air in the classroom, uh, that Moynihan and Welch were alluding to a moment ago. Um, it's the
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masks outside on the playground. Um, I am very grateful for the private Montessori school that I
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send our three-year-old to that we send our three-year-old to my wife to hear me. I don't make
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lateral decisions. I don't do it all the time. Doug's like, yo, it's a partnership. Um, but you know,
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the security theater is just so out of phase with this ridiculous mantra, believe science,
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which we know at this point that we don't so much believe science as arrive at conclusions
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and stick to those conclusions as much as possible. And anytime new facts emerge that seem to conflict
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with the previous thing that we believed, we tend to be pretty rigidly holding on to the previous,
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uh, previously believed previous beliefs that we had. Um, and that's not how science works. Science
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is about falsifiability. Like you believe something until new evidence comes along. Oh,
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but you know that our approach to public health is all about politics and not about science. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, people are science signaling. Uh, it's a sort of virtue signaling in the sense that
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like, you know, you're anti-science if you believe that the, you know, they're in vaccine shedding
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and some of the nonsense that you hear from the like furthest precincts of the kind of, uh, Trumpy
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right. Uh, but you're not considered anti-science if you're running by yourself on the East river with
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the mask on, you are a lunatic. You clearly know nothing about science. If you're overcompensating,
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that's considered a positive thing. That's not considered anti-science because it's science
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signaling because you're showing everybody that I care about all of you who are about a half a mile
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from me and might walk by me and that I'm not going to infect you. I mean, look at the California
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recall, right? Gavin Newsom, uh, stomped. He survived in a huge way. Um, and what was the,
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what was his message? What was the message of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and everyone who traveled
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into the state? It was like, you have to vote no on the recall because we are in favor of science.
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This is a governor who yellow tape playgrounds in December, 2020. He yellow in California.
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That was science tape. Yes. They were putting the pouring sand on skate parks. They were pulling,
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you know, skin borders out of the water in Malibu. You have the greatest natural climate possible to
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deal with COVID, which is that you can have your school out outdoors. You can open the window. It's
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California. And, and they didn't do any of that. And yet they are, they are congratulating themselves
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for doing a great victory for science, uh, this week in California. I would be terrified if I were
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a Californian because it will clearly, if you listen to Gavin Newsom, after winning the recall,
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he's like, all of my policies have been affirmed. This was a vote for my, my anti, my mandatory
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vaccinations and my mandatory mask policies and cracking down on, you know, COVID. That's how he
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wants to say it. What he's doing is, um, as much as humanly possible. You know, I think he thinks
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this is a thumbs up for lockdowns. Uh, and I do think there are some signs now that Californians,
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notwithstanding how they voted on the recall, they didn't want Larry Elder. I get it, um,
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are starting to get a little sick of this nonsense. I don't think this was a vote for all of his
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policies. And by the way, all the CRT stuff, critical race theory stuff, he took it as an
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affirmation there. And just today in the news, there was, um, a national review had an article about
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how there is what looks like it's going to be a successful push to recall three members of the
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school board in San Francisco guys, San Francisco, because of their crazy, it's sort of COVID and CRT
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combined policies of keeping the schools closed while they focus their efforts on getting Thomas
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Jefferson's name or Abraham Lincoln's name off of the various schools out there. That's,
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that's their priority. My favorite of that one is that, uh, one of the names they took off
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was a person whose name was attached to a museum that's who had a statue that they didn't like,
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even though that statue like was put up 20 years after the person had anything to do. Like the,
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the chain of the, of custody was insane. But that that's happening all around the country.
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There's been a huge backlash uses of recall mechanism where that's available. And, you know,
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California is going to soon make the recall mechanism much less available now in the wake
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of the recall, which I think is a, a terrible move, but, um, this is happening where people
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are running for a school board because they're coming face to face with both of those policies
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at once. And when they're juxtaposed next to each other, that's when it's especially maddening.
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We just got, you know, all the emails and stuff from, uh, our middle school, um, public middle
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school, where my daughter goes to, um, you know, welcoming back. It's the first time
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five day a week school that we've had since March, 2020. So it's kind of a big deal.
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And, um, most of the messaging associated with it was all about equity teams, um, and, uh, and
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strike forces and, and all of this stuff. And I'm like, okay, can we, uh, do we talk about the COVID
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where we, where's the COVID and keeping people in school and making sure that things are open.
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It was totally de-emphasized. Democrats in general are going to realize that Americans are slightly
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slow on this stuff. Um, it usually catches up with them, but it's not an immediate thing.
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And if Gavin Newsom is taking a victory lap and thinks that it's an affirmation of having homeless
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people, um, overrun San Francisco, like the Michael Jackson thriller video, that's not an
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affirmation of that. And essentially all of these, um, policies will catch up, particularly tax
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policies. I mean, California is essentially like Norway West at this point, tax wise, uh, the homeless
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problem, which is, you know, taken over entire beaches in your home city of LA lost population
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last year. It's never happened. It's the first time ever in New York. People are feeling today
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listening to people who maybe they didn't want Larry, but they weren't really in love with Gavin
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Newsom and they got stuck with him. And now he's like, yes, I'm resolved in all of my policies more
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than ever. And this isn't even touching on his disgusting hypocrisy with all of his mandates
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while he went to French laundry without his mask on. And it continues, right? We're going to get into
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this next. Um, not only what we saw at the Met Gala, which was disgusting, the hypocrisy there,
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but now the NBA, the NBA is not going to require vaccines for the players, not mandatory vaccines,
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but for all the surfs who are around the players. Yeah. Guess what? It's going to be a different
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policy. We're going to talk about all the privilege, uh, involved in that move in just one second.
00:21:43.140
Stand by. Welcome back everyone to the Megan Kelly show. So happy to be bringing you the hosts of the
00:21:53.120
fifth column today, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch, and Camille Foster. So yeah, it just comes out today
00:21:59.220
that the NBA is not going to require vaccines for the players. As for the refs, the arena staff and
00:22:06.120
other game day personnel whose duties require them to be within 15 feet of the players. Well, they all
00:22:12.180
have to get one. Just like if you want to kneel down next to AOC at the Met Gala, you better have
00:22:18.100
your mask over your face, but she's not going to have hers. And this is becoming a theme, you know,
00:22:23.380
from Gavin Newsom and the French laundry to, um, you know, all these politicians that we've seen
00:22:28.840
throughout trying to skirt the rules, sort of issue these mask mandates, and then skirt off to the city
00:22:33.500
limits to go have a maskless outing. Um, and now it comes to sports. What do you make of it?
00:22:39.200
The NBA has been working on this for, for a long time. I mean, many, many months ago,
00:22:42.840
they mandated that everyone essentially who is not a player pretty much has to have a vaccine.
00:22:49.240
So that's the referees. It's the folks who work on the team, the, the players association or one
00:22:54.540
of these team team, uh, people who represent the players themselves says that 75% of the players
00:23:00.060
are vaccinated. And they've been going back and forth about this insane scheme by which they
00:23:05.020
would separate players and have lockers for the unvaccinated on the other side of the arena.
00:23:09.380
And you'd have to ride in a different section of the plane. You have to eat separate from everyone
00:23:13.240
else. There are a couple of things come to mind immediately. It is hard for me to believe that
00:23:17.320
if that 25% included mostly just marginal players, as opposed to superstars who've been,
00:23:23.080
I don't know, a little cagey when asked directly whether or not they want to get vaccinated or have
00:23:28.420
been vaccinated LeBron James. Um, so I, I think if it wasn't for the big money guys saying no to this,
00:23:35.960
that they would probably move on and just do the mandate for all of the players and the players
00:23:41.560
would do it because the WNBA is apparently like 99% vaccinated and has been for some time now.
00:23:47.940
Look, look at the situation we're now in. Thanks to Biden's executive order. We've got nurses who
00:23:52.400
have had COVID who have natural immunity, who are about to get their asses fired if they don't get
00:23:57.200
a vaccine that they do not appear to need. Um, but so they're going to get fired and they're not
00:24:02.300
going to be able to take care of people who are going to the hospitals who didn't get vaccinated,
00:24:05.800
right? They won't be there anymore to take care of them because they think their natural immunity
00:24:10.240
ought to be good enough in the same way Rand Paul thinks his ought to be good enough. And the studies
00:24:13.840
are suggesting you may even have better, uh, better immunity if you had COVID, but you can have,
00:24:19.840
you can have basketball players running around on the court because I guess Biden's order doesn't
00:24:24.020
encompass them, um, who are unvaccinated. And that's just fine because what science I'm,
00:24:31.060
I'm thinking it's more like money and elitism and their ability to earn a bunch of money for
00:24:36.400
people who own sports teams and arenas. Well, one part of it, at least they're not
00:24:41.040
the basketball players, uh, are not, uh, themselves being, uh, hypocrites about it.
00:24:46.760
They're not spending all of their time telling everybody that they really need to get vaccinated
00:24:49.920
and come on, stop being all, all, uh, uh, hesitant in the South or wherever they're not doing
00:24:56.020
that. That's unlike, no, they're like, did you hear what happened to Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend?
00:25:00.400
I guess you're free. Just for the record, I don't think it was the big testicles. That
00:25:09.640
was the problem. Allegedly. It was the alleged impotence that followed the big balls.
00:25:14.120
Megan, you're really following this story closely.
00:25:20.240
I'm just saying it's kind of interesting. What happened? Like how big
00:25:23.460
all of this stuff, um, makes me realize that the, the world is gaslighting me and is gaslighting all
00:25:38.340
of us because, you know, if you go back, you know, a hundred years, 75 years, et cetera,
00:25:44.400
you look at people who would identify themselves as socialists and as working class. And let's take,
00:25:51.140
you know, just a certain acronym to politician, uh, supposedly from Queens, AOC who referred to
00:25:58.440
herself. So not from Queens, by the way. No, no, she's from, she's like from Yorktown Heights is a
00:26:03.180
nice area in Westchester, which is a rich. She's from, she's from Westchester. Uh, she referred to
00:26:08.800
herself as a, as a working, uh, a working class woman of color, you know, who, you know, is a celebrity
00:26:15.240
and drives a Tesla and is in Congress and is on television all the time, like, like the average
00:26:19.680
working class person. Right. And we are asked to believe that somebody wearing a tax, the rich
00:26:25.780
dress and started to transition to this, but there's so much overlap between the NBA and this
00:26:30.120
is the most offensive thing about this. And good God, it's hard to keep track of the offensive things
00:26:34.880
about this was the initial video of the Beatles like crowd pulling their hair and screaming,
00:26:41.240
taking photos of her as she was getting into her limo, uh, and a masked person, a masked pleb,
00:26:47.880
or as Megan referred to them as serfs, the serfs behind them, holding the train of her,
00:26:53.280
what? $30,000 dress, whatever it was to get into a car, the working class woman with, uh, the designer
00:27:00.100
who sells $2,000 boots and her, uh, boyfriend who was the son of Edgar Bronfman, the, uh, owner of
00:27:07.500
Seagram's a billionaire. Um, and then we're supposed to be told, we're told the same day
00:27:12.080
that this is a working class person. There's a point at which I got to figure out what drugs I'm
00:27:16.940
taking in the morning and not realizing it. She was like, she was a bartender. So I guess she gets
00:27:24.060
to claim that she's working class forever. Mark is like, I w I used to be a cocktail waitress.
00:27:27.760
So am I still working class? So I get to just pretend nothing happened from that point to this
00:27:32.120
great. I'm working. I don't think that works. I don't think that works. Yeah.
00:27:35.300
And those pictures, Camille, those pictures from the Met Gala are infuriating. It's, it's,
00:27:40.720
it's so many things, right? It's like the serfs down on their knees, literally while these
00:27:44.480
pretend stars, these wannabe stars walks, step over them with their masks off. It's the fact
00:27:50.600
that your kids and mine are in school all day with these muzzles over their faces, which I don't want.
00:27:55.780
And I can't do anything about it, but they can go into the Met, which by the way, has a vaccine
00:28:00.600
mandatory policy and, and requires masks and they didn't follow it. Nobody gives a damn.
00:28:05.300
Uh, and they can parade around without their masks all day long. While these guys, including
00:28:08.860
Mayor de Blasio are the very ones who are responsible for kids like Matt's having to
00:28:12.680
wear masks all day in school, but he didn't, he can parade around the Met mask free because science
00:28:16.820
again. Yeah. The stated goals of these mandates are our health and getting the unvaccinated to
00:28:23.080
actually decide to finally get vaccinated. But when we've looked at polling related to the people
00:28:27.760
who've said that, yeah, I'm not vaccinated. Most of them say they don't plan to get vaccinated
00:28:32.840
for various reasons. Um, but for the ones who are just sitting it out because they're a little
00:28:37.540
nervous, they're uncertain. I mean, I know from personal experience, I've been talking to my mom
00:28:41.420
who is among the unvaccinated. She's skeptical. She's afraid. I haven't seen her in a very long
00:28:46.240
time. And I'm encouraging her to do this thing. We were making progress. Once the mandate came down,
00:28:52.660
I found myself at starting block again, trying to persuade her that this is something we should
00:28:59.320
work on. I'm not sure she knows who Nicki Minaj is, but she does, but she does hear what the
00:29:04.660
president says. And, and I have to, I have to think that for a number of people, the insistence that
00:29:10.140
you have to do this or else, um, the insistence that you must do this right now, because it's
00:29:15.600
totally fine. And that's how we're going to force you to do it. Also, we need to protect the,
00:29:19.800
the vaccinated by keeping the unvaccinated separate from them. It's almost so incoherent.
00:29:26.840
And I don't think that this is the most sane strategy to try to get people to actually trust
00:29:32.580
that this makes sense. Family members are working with people. Community members are working with
00:29:36.860
people. I've been making progress with her and it really does feel like the, the push,
00:29:41.660
the insistence that, that she do this or else, um, actually created more of an obstacle for us to
00:29:47.240
overcome as opposed to making it every turn. He's undermined his message, right? He's like,
00:29:51.300
he's out there saying we've got to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated. It's like,
00:29:55.460
well, why isn't the vaccine, the thing that's going to protect me now I have to get it because
00:30:00.320
otherwise I'm still going to be really at, you know, vulnerable to people who choose not to get
00:30:04.500
it. And him constantly wearing his mask, even though he's six feet away from everybody,
00:30:08.340
he's in a completely safe space. Kamala Harris to both of them undermining the vaccine was,
00:30:13.200
when Trump was president saying they wouldn't take it under him. And now suddenly, because
00:30:16.820
again, science on January 20th, 2020, uh, 20, yeah, everything changed. People get it. People
00:30:23.280
like your mom are like, uh, you know, I'm, I'm losing faith in you and your messaging. And I don't
00:30:29.540
know. I just think people are ticked off guys. I feel like, you know, the thing with AOC, it's become
00:30:33.340
a national story. Not just, it's like the Met Gala and whoever the hell pays attention to the Met
00:30:37.120
Gala outside of New York city. But those images are bad. And if I were a celebrity,
00:30:42.160
JLo or whoever else is there, I'd be embarrassed to have been in the midst of it with my mask off
00:30:48.160
with the, you know, Glenn Greenwald had a great, of course, as usual, he had a great write-up of
00:30:52.780
the whole thing. I'm not going to be able to do it justice, but he was talking about, you know,
00:30:55.960
the elitism that was on display there, how gross it was and how, um, basically what they were
00:31:00.860
trying to say was, um, there's no need for noses or mouths or other identifiable facial features
00:31:07.100
for those who are converted into servile robots. He said, um, once again, what we're seeing is
00:31:13.980
elites prancing around in the middle of a pandemic maskless while those paid an hourly wage to serve
00:31:18.540
them or desperately trying to snap a photo of them were required to keep their pointless faces
00:31:26.060
This is the thing. I mean, people tend to forget this about Glenn, who's a frequent guest on our
00:31:31.560
podcast, been on a bunch of times, uh, is that Glenn is an old school leftist in this is a classic
00:31:36.620
issue for an old school leftist class warrior, right? You see these rich people, whether they're
00:31:41.620
AOC or not. I mean, I can't imagine, you know, uh, Lenin or, or, you know, Stalin being like,
00:31:47.460
I'm going to go to the ball, uh, that the Romanovs are throwing with this really fancy
00:31:51.540
tunic on that says, you know, uh, shoot, shoot the Romanovs. I mean, it's insane. Like,
00:31:56.140
can you imagine, honestly, can you imagine Bernie Sanders doing this? I've interviewed Bernie a
00:32:00.140
couple of times. I have respect for Bernie. I disagree with almost everything he says on a
00:32:04.460
policy level, but you know, I have a certain level of respect for him. Bernie's not going to
00:32:09.200
the Met. There is a dignified way from the privacy of his three houses. Yeah. Yeah. He's like,
00:32:15.420
I'm staying in the one in Vermont tonight and he's not, I'm not going to New York and he's,
00:32:21.540
he's a New York accent. That's the only thing you need. But it is into the point about messaging.
00:32:26.400
I think this is really, really important and often overlooked. And Megan, you pointed out when,
00:32:31.540
when Biden came up and said, you know, we have to protect us vaccinated people from the unvaccinated
00:32:37.360
and whether it's somebody like Camille's mother, whether it's just the average person trying to
00:32:42.500
figure out what all this stuff means in what the public health officials have done is that they
00:32:48.720
treat Americans like dumb children. So they err on the side of the worst case scenario. What does
00:32:55.220
that do? It undermines confidence in the efficacy of the vaccine. Cause you say there's breakthrough
00:32:59.940
cases. You could spread it. You could do this. They never talk about the very, very small amount of
00:33:05.600
breakthrough cases relative. We heard so much about what happened at bear week in Provincetown. If you
00:33:11.480
don't know what I'm talking about, Google it, but just not on your work computer, and there was the
00:33:17.400
X number, 800 people in a very, very particular scenario, right? And this is what started the
00:33:22.580
Delta panic. And how many people were hospitalized? A handful. How many people died? Zero. That's not
00:33:28.840
what we heard. We heard, this is what can actually happen. These are the breakthrough cases. So we've been
00:33:32.880
relying so heavily on trying to scare people into getting a vaccine. But the irony of it is the scare
00:33:40.140
message undermines the idea of the efficacy of the vaccine, which is just, no one is noticing it.
00:33:46.300
Andrew Sullivan came on the show and he explained bear week. And then he lives in Provincetown and he
00:33:50.980
explained bear week. And he said that there's a different week. I think it's the, before bear week,
00:33:54.860
there's circuit week. Circuit week, he explained is for gay men who are on like the gym circuit,
00:34:00.740
who are ripped. They don't, they wouldn't be caught dead at bear week. That's, you know,
00:34:04.680
that's like the older, softer gay man's week. And then he, I said, are you, which one are you?
00:34:09.820
I, I, I, I dissed him inadvertently by saying he was a bear and he told me he's a daddy.
00:34:15.660
Anyway, it was a great interview and he was his normal, clever self. You should go listen.
00:34:26.120
I would be remiss not to share with, uh, with the listeners and viewers that Andrew Sullivan came
00:34:31.260
on the fifth column pod podcast. And for 10 minutes talked about balls in Provincetown.
00:34:37.100
It's a theme world pools. And yeah, conservative people are doing it.
00:34:42.800
But here's the thing. Not only, I mean, it really is infuriating because we lectured by these virtue
00:34:48.000
signalers all the time. And they all, they also change policy in a way that affects us, our kids
00:34:52.560
and so on. And we're, we're at their mercy right now. You know, people are going to get fired because
00:34:56.220
of Biden's order. Uh, and I'm pro vaccine. I took the vaccine. I hope everybody takes the vaccine,
00:35:00.600
but I don't like the shaming and the demonization of whole classes of Americans. I was thinking about
00:35:05.000
you guys. Cause I really don't like the big thumb of big government and you know, you guys are
00:35:09.120
libertarians and to see like that thumb is everywhere. It's everywhere. We turn from our
00:35:14.780
lives to our schools. And there was this one clip that sort of espoused, it sort of shows the
00:35:19.700
attitude of those enforcing these policies with our kids, with others. This one's out of Illinois
00:35:24.020
where, take a listen to this school worker who catches a kid not wearing his mask properly.
00:35:30.220
Oh no. You're playing? Are you playing? No, I'm not. Otherwise I will call the police.
00:35:35.180
I'm serious. Are you serious? Yeah, I am serious, man. I am having enough of it. I knew you were
00:35:43.680
going to take off your mask the moment I turned the corner. So enjoy BIA. That's a school suspension
00:35:52.080
where you have to sit in the room with the military guy all day because you're a piece of
00:35:57.240
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. That's amazing. That guy needs help. He needs a vacation. He's well,
00:36:04.900
he lost his job. He was forced to resign, which fine. Oh, that's good. I'm happy. I have to say
00:36:11.920
I'm happy because you can't have that a guy like that, that uptight, that torqued up working around
00:36:17.080
kids who, you know, oh yeah, try to skirt the mask policy here or there. I mean, Chicago was one of
00:36:22.220
the worst situations for keeping schools closed, not just in their, the union's intransigence on
00:36:30.400
the issue, but the way that they messaged it. There was a message directly from the Chicago's
00:36:34.620
teachers union in December, 2020, saying that people who want to open schools, which is what
00:36:42.420
schools are supposed to be open, educate kids. Uh, people who want to do that, uh, that, that was
00:36:47.240
a function of white supremacy. Of course that it was, uh, that it was racism. And, uh, I was writing
00:36:52.940
about it at the time and, and kind of looking into some of the, um, the messaging by the union by
00:36:58.360
teachers. And they would say that all the time. There'd be guys like that guy writing with the same
00:37:01.980
pitch. Like you just want to kill all of the minorities. It's like, well, or, or we want kids who
00:37:11.120
are minorities, but predominantly in the Chicago system to stop being so poorly served by remote
00:37:16.160
learning and go to the safest possible place, which is a school building. Um, that's kind of
00:37:20.540
the opposite of what you were just talking about there, but that is what, uh, so many teachers and
00:37:25.620
teachers union message anytime. And you know, you, all you guys know this, anytime you, uh, express in
00:37:31.120
a public setting or in social media, anything like, Hey, we ought to have the schools open. Um, you will
00:37:37.300
get someone who is either a teacher or claiming to be a teacher come in and say, you want to kill
00:37:43.380
children and people. You want to kill me while, you know, uh, I I'm working in such a dangerous
00:37:48.840
setting. Um, and also you're probably racist. It's, it's bananas and it's totally widespread.
00:37:54.860
Yeah. I mean, to be a racist murderer is just especially bad.
00:37:58.700
Yeah. That's what, that's what's driving my friends in New York crazy. I've told the story before
00:38:02.940
my one friend went to an open the schools rally. That's it. She's wanted to open the schools.
00:38:06.740
We wanted two little kids to go back to school and she was called a white supremacist. And she
00:38:10.400
was like, wait, what? Um, but wait, she's, she's, you have to see, you have to put on your special
00:38:16.700
glasses to see it. She's in good company because apparently all of our founders and now the
00:38:21.000
national archives are being accused of white supremacy. And there was a push now to put
00:38:25.860
trigger warnings all over our founding documents. I'm going to bring that up right after this very
00:38:31.380
quick break with the guys. Very happy to have the guys from the fifth column podcast,
00:38:35.480
Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch, and Camille Foster. We're going to get into that and we'll talk about
00:38:39.720
what's happening with, um, general Millie in just a bit.
00:38:47.640
Welcome back everyone to the Megan Kelly show. Joining me today, the hosts of the fifth column
00:38:51.540
podcaster here, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch, and Camille Foster. So we've got to talk about
00:38:56.280
the national archives. Um, I love Jonathan Turley's blog. It's been so good for so many years. He's
00:39:02.900
brilliant. He's, uh, inside the college system. He's a, he's a professor and he keeps an eye on
00:39:09.660
all things legal. And in particular, all things inside the beltway, the national archives mistakenly
00:39:16.320
created some anti-racism task force. And what they have found is a need to quote, re-imagine
00:39:22.860
our national archives. You guys are going to love this. So if you ever gone to DC, you go to the
00:39:27.220
rotunda there, the national archives, and you see like these, this beautiful murals, uh, the
00:39:31.980
declaration of independence, the constitution, the bill of rights. And what this group has concluded
00:39:36.680
is that these are an example of structural racism. They objected the display in the rotunda because it
00:39:43.660
lauds wealthy white men while marginalizing BIPOC, right? That's, um, black indigenous people of
00:39:51.060
color, women, and other minority communities. And what they want is for an, a re-imagination of the
00:39:57.960
space to be more inclusive, including possible dance and performance art because that'll solve it.
00:40:11.460
Okay. There's more, but let's just start there. I'll get to the more in one second. What do you
00:40:16.240
think? I want to do the third, the third amendment shuffle. I was so, I was so astonished to learn
00:40:24.060
that this was, was actually a real thing. Um, and then to go to the national archives website and to
00:40:29.100
read the warning, the potentially harmful content warning attached to the constitution of the United
00:40:34.900
States, the document that Frederick Douglass referred to as a glorious liberty document.
00:40:39.640
If only he knew that he was completely infected by white supremacy. So infected that he believed this
00:40:46.200
great departure from a history of our species generally being in bondage, right? Like our,
00:40:53.540
our entire species had pretty much known that the United States was a departure from a past in which
00:41:00.860
most people had been subjugated in some way, shape or form. And the attempt to set up an experiment where
00:41:07.620
we would have people generally have a certain amount of Liberty and the government be constrained
00:41:13.640
in some sort of way and an expectation that we would improve on this thing over time. And the
00:41:18.500
notion that these people think that we need a warning on this is just so it's, it's outrageous,
00:41:23.340
but it's also one of those things where I think at some points, like it's important to leaven our,
00:41:28.380
our outrage and our contempt with ridicule, like just good natured ridicule and maybe a little
00:41:33.800
sympathy for these cool brains dopes who think that it's absolutely essential for them to slap
00:41:40.320
warning labels on anything that might be remotely offensive. At this point, it seems that anything
00:41:44.900
but, you know, a cup of, of clean water, like at room temperature, not too cold, not too hot is,
00:41:50.820
is unacceptable and potentially dangerous to someone in America. And there's something dreadfully wrong
00:41:56.520
How weak are these people? You, you tell me, cause they, you imagine somebody coming over
00:42:01.340
from Europe, from wherever to take a look at this incredible place and these incredible documents
00:42:06.540
and what they see is going to be, thanks to this group, new signage that would contain trigger warnings
00:42:12.380
to protect tourists from trauma in seeing the founding documents. Visitors would now be warned
00:42:20.640
that the documents may quote contain harmful language that reflects attitudes and biases
00:42:27.000
of their time. Well, duh, what they want is, uh, trigger warnings all over the place that would
00:42:34.020
forewarn audiences of content that may cause intense psychological and psychological physiological
00:42:47.680
I mean, most people who would have that reaction are institutionalized. They're not going to the
00:42:53.640
national archives. They are not institutionalized by sweating, screaming at the top of your lungs
00:43:01.640
because you read the bill of rights. There is something wrong with you. We should not cater to
00:43:07.940
the 0.001%. I mean, Camille's thing is right. It just ridicules the best thing because these,
00:43:13.020
the people that are running America's national archives, these are the crown jewels of the
00:43:18.500
American system of governance and of American history are this dopey and stupid that we have
00:43:24.820
a major, major issue. And the thing is, of course, that they presume that everybody in America is dopey
00:43:29.900
and stupid, that they cannot actually adjudicate, you know, right from wrong looking at documents of the
00:43:36.240
past. There's a myth that undergirds a lot of this stuff and we really, really have to get rid of it,
00:43:41.820
but it's impossible to do is that people don't know about this stuff. Otherwise, if you go to
00:43:47.420
Florida and I went down there to cover the CRT stuff and I went to the school board meetings and
00:43:51.920
the statewide ones, local ones. And, you know, people don't recognize this. It is law in Florida
00:43:59.000
that you teach about slavery. This is not something that is being alighted by the schools.
00:44:03.980
It's not as if some kid is going to the national archives and if they're, you know, five years
00:44:08.940
old, they're not going to get anything anyway, but who is 18 years old, 17 years old, who has never
00:44:13.700
heard of slavery and this, this original sin of America. But we are very, very obsessed at the
00:44:20.300
moment with casting the past in the most negative light possible, because as I've said before, you can
00:44:26.800
do this and try it. You can write a book, you can teach a class where it is all unalloyed positive
00:44:33.240
things about America and it will be true. You can also do a class, a book, whatever that is all
00:44:40.120
unalloyed negative things about America and it will be true. History is complicated. Don't tell
00:44:45.640
people that you're going to hurt, get your feelings hurt. If you read a document that actually reflects
00:44:50.580
a different time in history. And as Camille pointed out, we have been in a state of, you know,
00:44:56.240
enslavement and enslaving people for thousands and thousands of years. It's endemic in every culture.
00:45:01.000
And William Wilberforce comes along and, you know, you know, William Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator,
00:45:07.380
we have a great, great history of that too, which we should actually look back on and celebrate and
00:45:13.000
say, we did some positive things in a very, very negative environment with some negative aspects
00:45:17.400
to our history. Megan, you said that, that, you know, they shouldn't have, it's unfortunate that
00:45:22.300
they have this task force. Well, it's a underreported thing about the Biden administration is that
00:45:26.600
literally on day one of his administration, he signed a whole of government executive order,
00:45:32.020
um, uh, tasking every single department agency, um, uh, anything with doing a full kind of equity
00:45:40.660
body scan, essentially to, to make sure that, uh, the hiring, uh, is reflective of, uh, needs of equity,
00:45:48.580
uh, that, uh, the, uh, outcomes of whatever that the department is doing of its laws are doing.
00:45:54.840
So this, you know, there is an entire, uh, infrastructure of people who are being hired
00:45:59.040
up. They need things to do, and this is what they're doing. And if you're going to do it at
00:46:03.380
all, which you shouldn't, but if you're going to do it, I mean, it's really all about the
00:46:06.400
Declaration of Independence. Anyways, all that savage stuff. Like it's pretty rough. Yeah.
00:46:11.720
It's like, you're going to go look for equity and inclusion back at, you know, in 1776,
00:46:16.280
you're not going to be fine. A lot of women are people of color. That's just the facts,
00:46:19.660
but to say that, and this is part of the pitch, we must create safe spaces at every facility
00:46:26.060
run by the national archives. And we have to do something about that famous mural because it's
00:46:30.600
an homage to white America. I mean, history was what it was. That's who was running the country.
00:46:35.180
That's who came up with the founding documents. It like, that's who feels upset about it. It's a
00:46:40.560
lamentation that that's how we got started, but we fixed it. You know, it's not perfect,
00:46:44.920
but I don't look at the fact that in the Declaration of Independence is all men are
00:46:48.260
created equal and feel upset. I have to go to a safe space. And it's pathetic to me that anybody
00:46:53.920
would. Okay. We have so much more to cover with the guys, including what's happened with General
00:46:58.720
Milley. And now the Biden administration requiring immigrants coming over the border to be vaccinated.
00:47:04.560
That's what they claim. It's actually not true. We're going to pick it up there in just a couple
00:47:08.460
of minutes. Welcome back everyone to the Megan Kelly show. Joining me today, hosts of the fifth
00:47:17.460
column podcast, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch, and Camille Foster. At the bottom of the hour,
00:47:22.060
I'm going to be taking your calls. We're new, you know, sort of figuring out the call situation
00:47:25.080
and it's been too squeezed so far. It's been too like, we don't know if somebody's going to call.
00:47:29.460
We don't leave too much time. What if nobody comes? We throw a party, nobody comes, right? So
00:47:33.380
today call in and we're going to get a bunch of calls and we're leaving enough time. That is my
00:47:37.780
promise to you today. I'm throwing the party. You better come. 83344 Megan, M-E-G-Y-N. That's
00:47:43.660
8334463496. All right, guys, let's talk about General Milley. Yeah, you can call back. I'll say
00:47:51.540
goodbye to you guys. You can call back in just in case. Calling in Megan's mom again. She's like,
00:48:00.100
I'm sick of that Dr. Fawcett. That's what my mom said. Dr. Fawcett. I should get Camille's mom.
00:48:06.460
Yeah, she doesn't know. She would say the same thing, actually. She's not aware he was sexiest
00:48:12.040
man alive and the Guardian really seems to mean it. By the way, wait a minute, let me see if I can
00:48:16.680
find it because the quotes on that were so good. Hold on. What did I do with them? I'll come back to
00:48:20.660
it later because it's worth reading what they said about Dr. Fawcett. But first, let's talk about
00:48:24.840
General Milley. This is a shit storm. General Milley, I think, did some stuff he really shouldn't
00:48:30.100
have been doing. And I actually I'm not one of those to be like, and he should go and he should
00:48:33.400
go. But I think General Milley needs to go. So I'll just tell you what I think on it. General Milley,
00:48:38.660
it comes out now. We haven't seen the book, but the early accounts of Bob Woodward's latest book
00:48:43.280
are that General Milley in the final days of Donald Trump's presidency, two days after the January 6th
00:48:49.940
attack and then thereafter, was doing a couple of things. He was he quote, single handedly took secret
00:48:56.380
action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear
00:49:00.420
weapons, according to this book, which is called Peril. He worried that Trump could go rogue.
00:49:05.860
He called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8th to review the process for military
00:49:11.460
action. This is from a report from CNN, including launching nuclear weapons, speaking to senior
00:49:17.340
military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room.
00:49:21.140
General Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was personally involved.
00:49:28.960
He was afraid based on, quote, Trump's erratic erratic behavior. And in addition to all that,
00:49:35.500
you know, pulling aside the top military brass and saying, do nothing without going through me first.
00:49:39.980
He also had two back channel phone calls with his counterpart in China,
00:49:44.620
alerting this guy that he, Milley, would let him know before anything happened.
00:49:51.140
Like if Trump issued some sort of an order with respect to a military strike, what? That's not
00:49:58.760
OK. I'm no military expert. That's not OK. And we were seeing we're seeing a lot of people,
00:50:03.220
top military guys left and right, say, sorry, but no, that's civilian. That's taking civilian command
00:50:08.940
over the commander in chief who's been, you know, duly elected president of the United States.
00:50:14.000
And he still was as of that date. Your thoughts.
00:50:17.040
And this is another demonstration about of, you know, how partisanship and particularly,
00:50:22.180
you know, Trump hating partisanship has demented the brains of so many people. I mean, this is so
00:50:27.400
clear. If if Bob Costa and Bob Woodward, who wrote this book together and, you know, Woodward's had some
00:50:34.540
accuracy problems in the past, Robert Costa has not. I have a lot more faith in him. And,
00:50:39.580
you know, General Milley did release a statement and the White House. No one denied this at this
00:50:44.700
point. So it seems as if it is true. But, you know, when you saw Jen Psaki and, you know, can we
00:50:51.160
finally treat her like we treated Sean Spicer? We know that the job of these people is to lie.
00:50:57.360
But she does it with such eagerness and alacrity in this whole thing. She got the January 6th
00:51:04.800
insurrection into the question from one of the Ducey boys. It sounds like a gang. The Ducey boys.
00:51:13.900
Steve Ducey? Is it which one? Yeah, yeah. Peter Ducey asked the question and she's like, you know,
00:51:18.440
we were dealing with an insurrection at the time and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, yeah,
00:51:22.200
no, that's not how it works. This is literally not how this works. And if you ask people
00:51:25.800
in the military chain of command, they will say very much the same thing. The most disturbing part
00:51:30.840
about this, of course, the quote that you read, Megan, which is when General Aldrich Ames decided
00:51:38.060
to tip off the Chinese and say, hey, I'll tell you that. No, you don't get to do that. Who told
00:51:44.820
you you could do that? Somebody tell General Milley. That's you can't do that. And the amazing
00:51:49.640
thing about this is that the Biden administration is defending it because the president is,
00:51:55.800
a lunatic, you know, I mean, fine. You can have that argument. What was that word? What
00:52:00.180
is that? Probably on your side in some way. But but there was no sense that there was going
00:52:06.460
to be like, really, is anyone trying to quantify that there was actually a threat of a nuke
00:52:12.580
attack on China? No, no. I mean, we discussed this the other day. All three of us discussed
00:52:17.440
the other day. Donald Trump's foreign policy over four years in the aggressive nature of
00:52:24.380
it was the continuation of the ISIS campaign, which was a good policy and throwing 75 Tomahawk
00:52:31.340
missiles into the desert in Syria. And it was not hyper aggressive when it came to foreign
00:52:36.980
policy. So it's a very odd thing that he believes that he's going to launch a nuclear war and decides
00:52:42.560
to do an end run around the chain of command at the last minute, which is not his remit.
00:52:48.260
And keep in mind that General McChrystal spoke to, you know, out of turn in front of, I think,
00:52:54.900
Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter in Barack Obama fired him as he should have.
00:52:59.540
And Barack Obama wrote in a kind of apologetic way in his memoir, like three or four pages about this.
00:53:05.200
And his argument is entirely solid. He said, look, I don't want to do this,
00:53:08.480
but you cannot go. There is a chain of command. He actually uses that phrase in the book.
00:53:13.740
And if we think that's okay, and what they should have done, what he should have done,
00:53:17.340
Millie, if he had a problem, was do what General Mattis did. Walk away.
00:53:23.820
Fire yourself and say, this is the problem. Take it and speak out.
00:53:28.180
Let me play devil's advocate and get you guys to respond then. Okay. So
00:53:31.680
for people who are defending this, say like, well, Trump's a lunatic. Trump's insane.
00:53:36.060
Trump. Who knows what Trump was saying behind the scenes? No. At the time,
00:53:39.560
he wasn't talking about China so much as I was robbed. It was stolen and, you know, fraud.
00:53:44.800
But who knows what he was hearing? And isn't it good to have an adult in the room behind?
00:53:49.700
And if you thought really this insane lunatic president was about to launch a nuke
00:53:53.240
on China for some reason, didn't he have an obligation to protect us?
00:53:58.580
You have tools at your disposal. You can resign. You could you could use other members of Congress
00:54:04.440
in the Senate. You could appeal to many, many people who don't happen to be members of the CCP.
00:54:10.100
That is an option at all times. I think it's also worth worth mentioning. Well, two things. One,
00:54:15.940
General Aldrich Ames Moynihan. That's pretty good. That's bad for anyone who missed that.
00:54:20.220
That's good. You should rewind it and listen again. First, Google who Aldrich Ames is so you know.
00:54:24.220
You have to square this with other things that we were seeing said about the president and his
00:54:32.180
conduct at the time that the president was talking openly about if I'm leaving here, here's a memo.
00:54:38.380
These are the things I want to do. Get out of Afghanistan. Get out of Iraq and Syria.
00:54:42.280
Completely withdraw from Africa and Germany. Germany. Yeah. I had a very difficult time
00:54:48.220
understanding how anyone could think that it's likely he's going to release a bunch of nukes in that
00:54:53.340
moment. Also nuke China. Again, there are options. Well, you need those people in Germany to nuke
00:54:58.300
China, Camille. The thing about the thing about contacting the Chinese and saying, I'm going to
00:55:04.300
let you know, just in case he's about to launch a nuke up your, you know, you what? That's insane.
00:55:09.900
I mean, I can see why people are throwing around the word treason, because that actually could endanger
00:55:13.920
the United States. I mean, just putting that on the table like it's a thing that Millie's been
00:55:19.120
exposed to and feels so strongly about. He's got to reach out to his Chinese counterpart and,
00:55:24.660
you know, give him the flag on it. That that could create danger for U.S. citizens that didn't
00:55:32.340
exist prior to the phone call. And the fact that the Biden administration is giving this a big
00:55:37.360
shoulder shrug is correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Barack Obama's vice president was Joe
00:55:42.160
Biden. So he's lived through this in a way before, but not as severe is it's upsetting. I understand
00:55:49.320
loyalty. I guess I get that he likes Millie, but this is about something much bigger than liking
00:55:54.600
General Millie. And the thing that to Moynihan's point about how people's views on Trump warp their
00:56:01.100
brain and their assessment of various things. And also there's a kind of a default Washington
00:56:06.380
establishment feeling about U.S. foreign policy in the world that is probably more aggressive
00:56:14.460
and institutional than certainly than Trump, but also largely the American people. These things play
00:56:20.260
with one another. A thing that does not get as much outrage as a result of those phenomenon is that
00:56:26.760
a bunch of military brass, including Millie, at various points during the Trump administration,
00:56:32.160
openly lied to the president of the United States about troop levels and military adventures in
00:56:40.140
Afghanistan. They openly and bragged later, John Kelly bragged about Trump coming to him saying,
00:56:47.440
I want to get out of Afghanistan in 2017. And they basically filibustered him. They put him off.
00:56:53.460
They kept trying to prevent the president of the United States from making his commander in chief
00:57:00.520
decisions about withdrawing from America's wars abroad. This is not something that you should brag
00:57:06.020
out. There's a great piece in Axios from, I believe, May of last year that or May of this year that talked
00:57:14.180
in great length about how Millie and a bunch of other generals openly tried to prevent Trump from
00:57:22.080
carrying out his preferred foreign policy, which is to get the hell out of Afghanistan. That's a big
00:57:27.560
problem. You can't have the military lying to the president and not doing what the president wants.
00:57:33.320
And that's such a different category of problem than, oh, my God, he's going to nuke China.
00:57:37.060
Right. The foreign policy conception of Trump, which was almost always a weird and wrong and
00:57:42.400
reflecting of biases, was that, OK, he's just a lunatic, so he might do a lunatic thing.
00:57:47.020
And also somehow a lunatic thing would be to withdraw from 20 year wars that have no
00:57:53.320
real reason for continuing to exist. It's it's it scrambles the brain.
00:57:58.080
Well, the press on Afghanistan has been really disgusting. I mean, as of late there there they
00:58:02.860
were interested when it was falling apart. Now they've moved on. And yet you still have all these
00:58:06.900
aid groups over there saying the administration is still lying to us. There aren't 100 Americans
00:58:11.640
over there. There's more like a thousand. A lot of these aid groups are saying it's it's definitely
00:58:15.540
several hundred. And it's not just American citizens. It's green card holders. And that's so
00:58:19.800
that's not even counting the Afghan allies and all the others who we've left behind.
00:58:24.120
Here's my point. No one seems to care. And what we're being told by Blinken is that we're going
00:58:28.240
to lead with our diplomacy still. And the reports out right now are that the Taliban's going over
00:58:33.460
there, finding people who worked with the Afghan army or were in the Afghan army, despite their claims
00:58:38.520
that they would grant them amnesty, which we've decided to pretend we believe and beheading them,
00:58:43.880
beheading them. There was a report out this week saying a nine and 10 year old boy were beheaded.
00:58:48.540
There have been confirmed reports of multiple families having a father, a father within the
00:58:54.180
family beheaded in front of them. This, as these aid groups are saying, they're desperately trying
00:58:59.140
to get all these Americans and green card holders and allies out. They said that they've got between
00:59:04.700
two twenty five hundred and three thousand people fully vetted already. So we know that these are not
00:59:09.020
bad guys trying to sneak into the United States interpreters and so on. State Department will not
00:59:13.580
move on it. And we've got people getting killed every day who helped us. And meanwhile,
00:59:17.820
what you hear from Blinken is we're leading with our diplomacy.
00:59:21.080
Yeah. Diplomacy is not a policy. Diplomacy can be a number of things, but one thing it most
00:59:27.560
certainly isn't is some sort of blanket policy. I mean, you're right about I don't think that the
00:59:32.660
administration is naive about this. I just think they're lying about it because what do you do if
00:59:36.480
you don't say you're leading with diplomacy? Well, you have to say that. So you have to rechristen
00:59:40.800
things as Taliban Taliban 2.0, right? This is the new guys. They're different from the old guys.
00:59:46.600
But, you know, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And that's absolutely the case.
00:59:50.280
And what do we expect from a seventh century death cult?
00:59:55.580
Yeah. Well, they execute people who work with the infidels, with the Kufar Americans. So there's
01:00:03.560
nothing surprising about this. But what does surprise me, I was I was on the subway coming in today
01:00:08.900
and I was reading the news. There's a story this morning from the Associated Press.
01:00:12.500
And this is really remarkable. And I think that this is, again, what Trump has done to warp the
01:00:18.060
brains of so many people. Recall that everything that Trump said that was a lie and there were God,
01:00:23.220
there were lots of them. It would be followed with the the clause without evidence. Right.
01:00:28.620
Donald Trump said X comma without evidence. OK, let's stick to that because, you know, politicians lie.
01:00:32.660
That seems to have disappeared. Right. And not only has it disappeared, but they have just taken
01:00:36.800
the bait on essentially everything the administration says. And this is a piece
01:00:40.460
from the Associated Press today. And this is just the first sentence of it. Friction between pragmatists
01:00:45.720
and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified. Pragmatists. Pragmatists.
01:00:51.940
Claims that the leader of the pragmatic faction, Abdul Ghani Baradar, was killed. Such hopes were
01:00:57.800
disappointed with the formulation of an all male, all Taliban lineup last week. Such hopes.
01:01:03.140
Oh, man. They seemed shocked that they were that there was the government who's coming
01:01:08.520
in is the Associated Press. They're saying it seems to have been dashed.
01:01:16.020
The pragmatists. Soon they're going to be sitting in the safe rooms at the National Archives.
01:01:21.840
I wonder if there's trigger warnings in the Taliban.
01:01:24.820
You know, this is what we'll do. We'll just send them an envelope.
01:01:30.780
But no, it is an envelope full of stickers that they can embed to everything.
01:01:37.480
I understand that people are, you know, they're pretending, right? They're pretending on Afghanistan
01:01:42.180
in many ways. But I have to say, you know, you guys, I don't know. Camille, you're younger
01:01:50.060
I don't know how old you are, Megan, so I don't know if that's...
01:01:59.940
Exactly right. You figured out my whole routine.
01:02:02.380
But my point is simply this, that, you know, I lived through 9-11 when I was an adult.
01:02:05.660
I was 30 when 9-11 happened. I remember it very well. It was terrifying, and it was awful
01:02:09.760
for the whole nation. We felt it on a deep and visceral level, and it happened because
01:02:13.660
the Taliban was housing a terrible group, Al-Qaeda, and allowing them to, you know, plan
01:02:18.160
and ultimately carry out terrorist attacks on us because they hate us for what we are,
01:02:21.980
for what we stand for, none of which has changed. Not one thing has changed. We're just as much
01:02:25.740
the West as we were then. And now you've got the Pentagon, you've got the State Department
01:02:30.580
admitting that they think between the latest number, which dovetails nicely on what Millie
01:02:35.100
said about a week or 10 days ago to Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, within 12 months, they
01:02:39.640
think we could very well likely see an attack on U.S. soil launched by Al-Qaeda from a safe,
01:02:47.500
And of course, you know, the administration in defending this whole thing has said, oh,
01:02:51.260
they promised us they weren't going to allow that. They promised us they were going to
01:02:53.880
patrol Afghanistan. They were going to let it be a safe bed for terrorism. And I get that
01:02:57.980
we can't have endless wars and all that, but we could have kept a residual force there to
01:03:01.800
prevent the Cavalier probably within 12 months. Yeah, we're going to get hit. Well, who, where,
01:03:06.640
whose kid, whose person, whose town, whose home, whose friends? I don't feel Cavalier about
01:03:11.600
it at all. It's hard to know what what the risks are. I mean, one of the other lessons
01:03:15.940
of 9-11 is that we had a massive failure of our intelligence apparatus, organizations that
01:03:21.620
just were not talking to one another and a lot of inefficiencies there. And to the extent
01:03:26.740
we're going to keep the homeland safe, the reality is that it only takes so much to have
01:03:32.140
a Richard Reed shoe bomber type show up and attempt to take down a plane. We've seen lone wolf
01:03:39.600
actors do pretty significant damage in other circumstances. The reality is that what we need
01:03:44.380
is very serious, a very serious approach to counterterrorism, a lot of work domestically
01:03:50.440
in terms of developing sources and intelligence and being able to execute so that you're responding
01:03:56.020
to threats in real time here at the homeland. I suspect there's probably only so much you can do
01:04:01.360
to disrupt these networks abroad. And there's a very real sense in which we, we lost control of
01:04:06.460
Afghanistan a very long time ago that they'd been on. The Taliban had been on a trajectory where they
01:04:10.980
were gaining strength and the regime that we stood up over the course of two decades was completely
01:04:18.060
corrupt. And it was a failure that belongs to multiple administrations. And I don't, I don't have
01:04:24.080
any confidence that six more months or 12 more months, or even, you know, that residual force that
01:04:28.980
we had there was actually going to deliver much to us. In fact,
01:04:31.600
no. So I agree. Let me, let me jump in on that Camille and challenge you on that. I agree with
01:04:35.880
you. And I actually think that's a straw man though. It wasn't like we were waiting for the
01:04:38.760
magic point at which the Afghan army looked like our Marines. It was that when we had 4,000 troops
01:04:43.780
there, the system was working to an extent, to a, to a reasonable extent where they weren't able to
01:04:49.360
launch attacks on the United States from there. We had a counterintelligence force on the ground.
01:04:53.240
We were able to keep eyes on, on the bad guys and figure out what was being planned
01:04:56.760
and to thwart a lot of it. And so the, the, the joint effort for whatever it was worth was worth
01:05:02.840
prevent protecting the homeland in a meaningful way. Nor was this like Vietnam where people were
01:05:07.820
in the streets in America saying, bring them home, bring them home. Nor did the troops where
01:05:11.180
the troops sounding like that, you know, troops fight, troops understand this is part of the job.
01:05:14.660
Most troops, they want to be in the theater. It's not that they want to die or get hurt. It's that
01:05:19.700
they want to be theater in the theater. They don't feel about going to Afghanistan the way I do.
01:05:24.540
Right. So I just feel like I'm not sure exactly what problem we were solving and pulling out the
01:05:28.820
last 4,000. I get when it was 15, what we were doing. I don't see the urgent need to have pulled
01:05:33.360
out the last four. That system seemed to be okay. Go ahead. Yeah. I mean, the, the difference in
01:05:38.620
Vietnam obviously is the people protesting was because there was conscription versus an all
01:05:43.220
volunteer. I mean, people that are much more willing to, to do these sorts of things. And that's
01:05:47.240
what they signed up for. And they knew this going in. I mean, there were so many of these guys
01:05:50.440
were just born when 9-11 happened. Um, so yeah, to your point, Megan, I mean, I, I don't know where
01:05:56.340
I land on this because there's so many counterfactuals and there's so many things that are worthy of
01:06:01.260
writing novels and, you know, predicting what would have happened. Um, and none of it's falsifiable,
01:06:06.760
but I, you know, I would point out to your point, which I think is, is, is right in the sense that,
01:06:11.440
you know, when the Mujahideen that was, uh, fighting the Soviets, that was partially funded by the U S
01:06:16.800
partially funded by Saudi Arabia and there were different factions. We were not training
01:06:20.800
bin Laden by the way, but when, when the Soviet union fell and withdrew from Afghanistan, what,
01:06:27.020
you know, filled that vacuum, the Taliban and what was 10 years after the Taliban, uh, you know,
01:06:33.540
this is 9-11, this is, you know, what, 12 years after the fall of the Soviet union or the actual
01:06:37.720
fall of the Soviet union, 10 years. And, you know, you need, I mean, having a state like that,
01:06:42.580
which is functionally run by terrorists. I mean, we destroyed ISIS territory for that reason,
01:06:48.640
you know, look at the places that Osama bin Laden was, uh, you know, getting his passport stamped
01:06:52.920
prior to landing in Afghanistan. There were lawless places in which he could actually operate with the
01:06:58.200
collusion of the government. There are very, very few places like that in the world right now. Um,
01:07:02.440
and that's, that's the case with terrorism all throughout the 20th century. I mean, governments
01:07:06.340
that colluded with terrorists were East Germany, the Soviet union, various middle Eastern countries.
01:07:10.740
If you have a country that's going to give a nod to terrorism and say, okay,
01:07:13.780
our enemy is mutual here. Um, do what you have to do. We're not going to run you out of town.
01:07:19.320
It is worrying. Right. And, but, but also to Camille's point, it's, you don't need much.
01:07:23.720
And you look at the attacks mostly in Europe over the past 10 years, some of which have been
01:07:28.460
absolutely catastrophic, but Bataclan and things like that, where, you know, just dozens and dozens of
01:07:34.220
people mowed down. And those are people that grew up in Europe and their parents were actually
01:07:39.720
mostly they're homegrown terrorists. So there's a lot of concern in a lot of ways in this problem
01:07:44.520
hasn't gone away, but we do know from the Taliban and from factions of Al Qaeda, inspire magazine,
01:07:50.700
et cetera, that they are absolutely emboldened by this. And they said, they literally say we
01:07:54.780
defeated another empire. So the union first and American next. So that, that is a word.
01:07:59.120
I'm more scared than ever. I'm more scared than ever. Thank you, Michael. Um,
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the threats coming from every direction. All right, wait, let me see your balls and attacks.
01:08:08.380
It's just a terrible, no, no, I'm feeling better about the balls. Don't scare me. Um,
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I'm just going to leave it at that. I want to get to, uh, immigration because what's crazy is we're,
01:08:17.820
we're bringing back a lot of, uh, Afghani refugees and so on. You think we're vaccinating them?
01:08:22.360
Well, we're not. It's, it's not mandatory. Uh, it's, it's requested, not required. What that's
01:08:28.320
not true. If you're an American citizen, what sense does that make? Not to mention what's
01:08:31.580
happening at the Southern border. We're going to pick it up there with Michael Moynihan,
01:08:34.560
Matt Welch, and Camille Foster. And we'd love to hear from you on the topic of Nicki Minaj
01:08:39.740
versus Joy Reid. Whose side are you on? Call us at 833-44-MEGYN, 833-446-3496.
01:08:52.180
Welcome back to the Megan Kelly show, everyone. I'm back now with the guys
01:08:54.860
from the fifth column podcast, Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch and Camille Foster.
01:08:59.320
And in about 20 minutes, not let, not quite a little bit, a little bit less. I'm going to
01:09:02.500
be taking your calls at 833-44-MEGYN, 833-446-3496. Who's side are you on? Joy Reid's or Nicki Minaj's?
01:09:12.580
Um, okay. I've got it. I found the quotes about Dr. Fauci that I referenced before. So I've got to
01:09:16.740
kick this block off with that, you guys. So the, the guardian is naming Dr. Fauci as the sexiest
01:09:21.700
man alive. Um, there's also a documentary coming out about him titled Fauci. And these are the
01:09:28.040
quotes. Okay. From the documentary's co-director. This is amazing. Uh, Tony is the signal amid the
01:09:36.420
noise. People are able to sense that there's a lot of noise and their ears are trying to find the
01:09:41.500
signal. And Tony is the signal at the core of Tony's popularity is that people into it, but this
01:09:49.120
is a man who is speaking the truth and will not let anything stand in the way. And look at the
01:09:55.600
picture of him. He's like inside some weird game of Thrones type. I don't know if that looks like
01:09:59.620
the virus or the iron throne. I'm not sure what it is, but anyway, he is the signal guys. He is the
01:10:05.920
man who is speaking the truth and won't let anything stand in the way. He sounds like he's
01:10:11.700
stoned. Um, the weird thing, I went to a toy store the other day, and this is, um, something I
01:10:17.860
don't remember from being younger. I remember all the great toys, but I went into a very,
01:10:22.420
you know, kind of Brooklyn type toy store and about 40% of the toys, uh, had either Fauci
01:10:28.860
or Ruth Bader Ginsburg or AOC. And I'm like, God, I remember when there were like right wing
01:10:36.060
books in the two thousands and they got stories. It's true. You can look this up. There was a book
01:10:40.940
called like, uh, mom, Heather has two mommies. Oh no. The one that conservatives wrote, like there
01:10:45.460
were liberals under the bed or something it was called. And there were these crazy stories
01:10:49.480
in New York times. Like I cannot believe what these lunatics are doing to indoctrinate their
01:10:53.820
kids. And I go to the toy store and I'm like, do you guys have Legos that don't, that aren't
01:10:59.140
like, that aren't the January 6th insurrection Lego set? Can I just, something that's just normal.
01:11:07.960
My daughter doesn't like this stuff. So anyway,
01:11:09.780
Very weird. The left decides when they love or hate. It might be just a slightly bad idea to,
01:11:15.940
to make like public servants or people who are just public officials who are supposed to be doing
01:11:22.380
a really difficult, complicated job. And you understand when they make mistakes and when
01:11:26.160
they get it right, you, you applaud them and you hope they do a good job, but turning these people
01:11:30.400
into heroes, imagining that they, they're, they can do no wrong, deifying them. And that's maybe a bad
01:11:37.180
idea, especially maybe a bad idea for, you know, team. We believe in science. I, I, I can appreciate
01:11:43.700
the challenges associated with it in some, to some degree Fauci's job. I've been critical of him in
01:11:50.420
certain instances and I've lauded him in other instances. But this is obviously just a step too
01:11:57.180
far and in the direction of not being serious and kind of parsing the facts and trying to understand
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a complicated circumstance. This is something else entirely, and it's deeply unhealthy.
01:12:07.180
You can't talk about him as this like fearless truth teller with like, well, masks do nothing.
01:12:12.140
Oh no, everybody has to wear them. Herd immunity is at 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 95. Right. Uh, we didn't
01:12:18.000
fund any gain of function research in the Chinese lab and the definitely didn't come from a Chinese
01:12:22.060
lab. And, but you know, it's like, okay, please either you're not paying attention to your dishonest
01:12:25.660
guardian. And having read the guardian for many years, I think it's the latter. Um, okay, let's talk
01:12:30.260
about immigration because it's crazy to me that we are not vaccinating. We are, it is not a mandatory
01:12:35.580
vaccination for Afghan refugees. Okay. Um, nor is it a mandatory vaccination for folks crossing our
01:12:42.580
southern border illegally. And the Biden administration got such flack for that after
01:12:47.340
its executive order saying all of us have got to get it, whether we want to get it or not, or get
01:12:50.640
fired that they said, okay, well, we're, we're going to do something at the southern border. We are,
01:12:54.820
we are planning to begin vaccinating border crossers as they await processing. They're planning.
01:13:00.400
It's not happening. In fact, right now we checked, there's no requirement that immigrants caught
01:13:05.060
illegally crossing into the country, be vaccinated. Um, not even those who are allowed to remain
01:13:09.540
to pursue asylum. We're not, we're not requiring it. And so you tell me how people are supposed to
01:13:13.740
feel about the fact that they might get fired if they don't get it, but we're letting in, in August,
01:13:19.760
200,000 people came into the country illegally, uh, outmatched only by the month prior where it was
01:13:24.240
200,000 and six. These are records that we're setting in the, the arrest at the border, 21 year
01:13:31.580
high. No one's covering it in the media. So the bot, the border's a sieve and we're not requiring
01:13:36.720
vaccinations of anybody. And we're supposed to look at this administration and say, okay, I will
01:13:40.520
willingly take this vaccine or lose my job because, you know, I trust you. One thing about the border
01:13:45.320
being a sieve is that I think it's not the, the reason why you have 200,000, uh, arrests or 200,000
01:13:51.520
people. And you have a lot of arrests is that legal immigration has been choked off in this
01:13:56.500
country. Uh, it was choked off during the Trump administration and Biden hasn't done a whole lot
01:14:00.700
to change. We're not accepting, generally speaking, refugees. The Afghan, uh, refugees are an exception
01:14:06.540
to that rule. We're at, we're at, you know, 40 year lows in, and accepting people and granted COVID's
01:14:12.240
hard. COVID makes it a difficult question. Um, but it hasn't really changed. So when you don't have,
01:14:18.020
uh, a legal stance, we once did a thing and reason, um, any reasons of pro immigration,
01:14:24.640
generally speaking, when I was editor of the magazine, uh, we had a flow chart, uh, designed
01:14:30.060
of how you go through the proper legal channels, uh, to get in the country and how long it takes
01:14:36.000
on average. And the headline I put on it was get in line now, stay out. Uh, if you want it to be,
01:14:40.520
if you wanted to be a nurse from the Philippines to get in legally, it would take 18 years back in
01:14:45.620
the day. It's probably different now. Um, but so generally speaking, you're going to have more
01:14:49.920
illegal crossings when the legal option has been choked off. Other thing about the mandatory
01:14:55.060
vaccines, uh, on people, I don't like mandatory vaccines on people as a starting point. Um, so
01:15:00.520
I think it, it more, but you know, goose and gander, um, the goose and gander point is important.
01:15:06.320
That's why I don't want the president of the United States to use OSHA to make people get
01:15:13.520
vaccinated. It's not really good for social peace in general. It's not good for people who have,
01:15:19.400
uh, their own reasons. They want to control their own body. Uh, they might be scared that their 13
01:15:24.820
year old kid, you know, uh, we'll get myocarditis, um, if he's a boy and gets, uh, the vaccine,
01:15:31.980
which is a, you know, it's a low risk, um, but it's out there. It exists. And yet we're having the
01:15:37.500
LA unified school district and the Culver city school district make, uh, vaccines mandatory for 12 year
01:15:42.480
olds now. Look, and we talk about this in the context of schools. And if you look at the numbers,
01:15:46.120
as Matt has pointed out, uh, pretty frequently on our podcast, and I think in print pieces too,
01:15:51.320
that it is responding to a phantom problem in a lot of ways. And in this case, it is not. And people
01:15:57.740
tend not to pay attention to this. Just look at what's happening right now with Afghan refugees,
01:16:01.920
which I'm happy that a lot of people got out, not as many as, as should have gotten out,
01:16:07.960
particularly people who work with the, with the U S government. But I think there's 85,
01:16:11.360
hundred thousand people right now that are on various military bases, some in the U S some
01:16:15.800
not in the U S there has been a measles outbreak, which is kind of underreported. The fact that there
01:16:20.620
was a measles outbreak amongst Afghan refugees. So it's not COVID it's also very bad. And it shows
01:16:28.840
you when you house people in conditions like this, which is necessary for, for the, the volume of
01:16:35.000
people, um, that's, this is kind of crazy. And I think that if another administration was doing
01:16:40.180
this, you would be hearing a lot more about it. And to the point about people coming across the
01:16:44.280
border is that, yeah, no, there's the legal immigration has been choked off, but you know,
01:16:48.660
what we do with people who are detained. And I was down at the border in January and it was
01:16:56.300
astonishing. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. And the people, the border patrol people I
01:17:00.700
talked to and the Texas Rangers, they've never seen anything like it either. And they detain a lot
01:17:05.180
of people. They have incredibly sophisticated, uh, surveillance network and they pick all these
01:17:09.200
people up. A lot of the people expect to be picked up, picked up, but they don't expect to be sent
01:17:13.720
back to central America. They don't expect to be, you know, okay, time to go. We're not processing
01:17:19.140
you and we're not going to house you. So it is a broken system in almost every way it has gotten
01:17:24.380
more broken and whether or not you support, you know, a more liberal immigration policy or more
01:17:29.360
conservative one, we cannot ignore the fact that this administration and the previous
01:17:34.540
administration have had a completely cockamamie, uh, immigration policy that should not be ignored
01:17:41.100
in weirdly, weirdly. I'm not, I see AOC at the Met gal. I don't see her clinging to a fence
01:17:46.460
weeping anymore. Cause that was a good photo op. Yeah. They don't cover it anymore at all in the
01:17:51.700
press. I mean that I just pulled this from newsbusters, which they always take a look at the,
01:17:55.620
you know, the, the media, which we know is left leaning. They said in August, a total in August,
01:18:01.140
a total of six minutes, 28 seconds were devoted by the big three networks in the evening newscasts
01:18:07.220
to what's happening at the Southern border. Six minutes, 28 seconds, four minutes on NBC,
01:18:11.420
two minutes on CBS, zero on ABC. In July, it was four minutes and 20 seconds, um, which was a 94%
01:18:19.640
drop from March. So, you know, we, there was a month there where they were like crisis, crisis at
01:18:24.700
the Southern border. And I think that's because of the news cycle was kind of slow. So it was a story
01:18:28.700
for them to just fill time with. And now it's, the numbers haven't fallen. The numbers are
01:18:33.400
big coming across the Southern border. I know you guys have more, probably more sympathy for it
01:18:37.680
than I do. I, I know you're, and I wouldn't describe you as open borders, but you're probably
01:18:41.420
less, less of a strict border person. And I don't know if I want to describe myself as strict borders,
01:18:47.260
but I think I'm to the right of you. Um, but anyway, either way, I thought it was over.
01:18:52.520
That's why we don't hear about it. Who is she? Is she still the vice president?
01:18:58.000
I haven't seen her in a while. She, she, they, she's down in Joe, Joe Biden's basement,
01:19:02.120
which is probably a good thing for their administration, their poll numbers. Um,
01:19:05.540
okay. So speaking of people who are very unpopular, Kamala Harris, uh, let's talk about
01:19:11.280
justice Kavanaugh and let me run the soundbite that we are erroneously ran earlier because what's,
01:19:15.240
here's what happened. Um, justice Kavanaugh is still getting protested this time at his house.
01:19:21.300
I hate when people do this on the left or the right. Don't bother people at the dinner table.
01:19:26.920
Don't bother them in the restaurant. Don't bother them with their kids and don't bother them at their
01:19:30.540
house. There's a big, big, big building in, in DC where you can find justice Kavanaugh. He's the
01:19:34.820
only one of the nine who was actually going into the office to do his job. Go find him there. You
01:19:38.760
can protest there all day long, but don't, don't get the man at his house. Still. Here's what we saw.
01:19:45.300
A teacher in Chicago. I don't know. She needs some Klonopin or something. That's what is happening.
01:20:09.100
what are they even saying when abortion rights they're about abortion rights meanwhile that's
01:20:14.920
not all kavanaugh's fault it's like you know the supreme court like whatever the conservative is
01:20:18.480
going to do what they're going to do but i don't know this has been a trend now where we seem to
01:20:22.780
shrug our shoulders and people show up at the homes of people they don't like and i don't i
01:20:25.720
don't like that or dog them as they're walking to and from work i mean the camille talks about this
01:20:30.240
a lot um this has also been memory hold by the media but there was no when rand paul was assaulted
01:20:36.300
i mean he was assaulted in his in his house but he's also just walking what was the event there
01:20:41.340
was an event that there were there were a lot of the rnc convention it's rnc convention yeah so a lot
01:20:48.000
of uh antifa types well just menaced people walking to and fro and the justifications for all of this
01:20:55.940
that you would hear from people and occasionally you know from a blue checkmark journalist as well
01:21:00.520
as like oh you know they have such control over lives they need to be confronted for what they've
01:21:04.860
they need to sort of see uh you know up close and personal it's like no that's that's a bright
01:21:10.160
line you just don't go after people in public settings you can boo the politician when he
01:21:16.700
throws out the first pitch booed bill de blasio that's one of the greatest things new york has ever
01:21:20.680
did not electing him twice by landslides but at least booing the hell out of him whenever he throws
01:21:25.140
out a first pitch at shea stadium or city field um but like you don't go after them and get into
01:21:31.120
their physical private spaces and and it's a it's a sign of the current sickness of our culture that
01:21:37.040
people are finding twisting themselves in knots to justify this in fairness um democrats have been
01:21:43.140
pretty good on this too dick durbin came out um washington post had an unsigned editorial today
01:21:47.460
saying this stuff is all wrong and crazy the thing that i find amazing about it and i know that megan you
01:21:53.660
talk about um uh court stuff quite a bit uh considering your background i follow it a little less
01:21:59.240
closely but the the thing that stuck in my memory in the past year and i just did a quick google
01:22:04.040
search this morning is that going after kavanaugh is a pretty interesting thing these are the headlines
01:22:09.540
of the past you know year brett kavanaugh emerges as unlikely liberal hope for supreme court to the
01:22:15.580
liberal rescue wall street journal robert kavanaugh give liberals win on conservative court and and you
01:22:21.140
know this keep going and going and going because there was a minute where conservatives were totally
01:22:25.360
outraged that kavanaugh trump too outraged that kavanaugh was not uh uh ruling in their quote
01:22:31.800
unquote in their favor and you realize with these psychopaths who show up and screech at somebody's
01:22:38.540
house and by the way if you're doing that there's something wrong with you you need help you need a
01:22:43.060
hobby you need to do better things read a novel these people need perfection from a concern you can't
01:22:49.500
just sit there and say you know he's actually surprised us in a lot of ways he has not been
01:22:53.880
scalia like he's not been thomas like he's been kind of malleable on a lot of these issues
01:22:58.140
no he's not you know on our team we're gonna go mau mau him at his house that is insane and the people
01:23:05.320
who do it should be utterly ashamed of themselves but they're not capable of shame it's a good point
01:23:09.720
why aren't they at thomas's or alito's house they couldn't find him on the phone book the cultural
01:23:15.940
tendency towards a liberalism is is something that i found pretty disturbing i mean we've all
01:23:20.900
bear born witness to it we've seen it happen we saw last summer um and i suppose i can still say
01:23:26.320
that right even though it's like middle of september now um but but up to january 6th but like you can't
01:23:32.100
forget it wasn't just politics like uh jeff bezos had a guillotine erected in front of his home in
01:23:38.100
washington dc like we can't normalize stuff like this it's important to call it out on on all sides
01:23:44.160
when we see it happening it is certainly the case that there are going to be political outcomes that we
01:23:47.860
dislike and protest has its place uh but it is certainly the case that we probably aren't at
01:23:53.680
the point where we ought to be suggesting that we're going to murder one another uh if we don't
01:23:57.660
get our way i just don't see the benefit in in any of this nonsense he's got kids too you know it's
01:24:03.980
like reminds me of what happened with tucker and his wife and he's got kids at home we saw it with
01:24:07.900
certain bank executives 10 years or so ago closer in time to the financial crisis like anybody it
01:24:14.260
shouldn't be done to anybody but it really shouldn't be done to somebody who's got kids at home
01:24:17.280
it's just so uncivil it's not it's not tolerant you know sort of the tolerant left that shoots larry
01:24:22.380
elder's security guard in the rear end throws an egg at his face shows up at justice kavanaugh's
01:24:27.440
house when they easily could have just gone to the supreme court like it like like uh pro-choice
01:24:32.260
protesters have been doing since the dawn of time their point is clear we get it they get more coverage
01:24:36.840
that way because the news media is standing there all day um i don't know i feel like the only way
01:24:41.860
to speak out against it is to just keep covering it even when it's lame and the lady with the drum is
01:24:46.580
trying i mean it's like they weren't scary but they were obnoxious and i just want to give them
01:24:51.000
you never want to be the lady with the drum just make sure in life that there's never a position
01:24:56.040
that you're in the lady with the drum unless you're a drummer in prince's band or something
01:25:00.200
what are you what do we want new chant please any new chant that's what we want she could come back
01:25:08.260
as the flautist in the next iteration it's been wonderful you guys love talking to you thank you so
01:25:14.020
much for all the time michael moynihan matt welch and camille foster let's do it again soon
01:25:18.240
thank you megan thank you megan all the best guys next up let's have a conversation i would love to
01:25:23.960
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what do you think about the fact that you have to be vaccinated mandatory but the afghan refugees
01:25:41.360
don't and the immigrants coming across the southern border don't oh great uh we'll be right back
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welcome back to the megan kelly show everyone we're taking your calls right now at 833-44-MEGYN
01:25:55.100
m-e-g-y-n that's 833-446-3496 and um i think we're going to kick it off with andrew from virginia
01:26:04.180
andrew you've been waiting 40 minutes i appreciate that thank you so much what's on your mind
01:26:07.800
well you know i was interested about the uh millie situation because what's so egregious about what
01:26:15.260
millie did is that he is not even in the chain of command if the president was disabled he would
01:26:22.780
nowhere in no way be the person who would make that call after a whole slew of anybody else um
01:26:30.440
he is an advisor to the president uh so for him to have stepped in and say these decisions are not
01:26:39.200
made without my you know input is is beyond that's not like mike pence stepping up and going hey you
01:26:47.440
know let's get the cabinet together and you know because the president may be unstable if that's your
01:26:54.440
opinion he completely jumped everything yeah it's true if you if you look at uh you know designated
01:27:02.280
survivor or lone survivor who who comes down the chain of command he's not there we get down to
01:27:07.640
maybe the the house speaker but we don't get to general millie he's forgive the term but the
01:27:12.420
executioner he's the person who actually has to press buttons and make it happen and at no point did
01:27:18.240
the general public empower him well somebody in the military has got to do i don't i don't know who
01:27:23.520
actually presses the button no no no he's not a military person at that point he it would be the
01:27:28.340
sec deaf who would do it if you want to talk about whoever in the military but he's not even a button
01:27:33.740
pusher no no that's not his position well i actually don't understand exactly how it would go if we
01:27:39.620
launched a nuclear attack but i do know this that he took all of the generals and apparently made them
01:27:44.220
take an oath that they were going to be loyal to him in that moment and do as he instructed which is
01:27:51.080
and that's really all you need if that's true and and we're going to hear from general millie who's
01:27:54.880
testifying before congress next week so let's hear what he has to say if that's true he's got to go
01:27:59.780
um anyway i thank you for calling andrew i appreciate it and then let's get down to uh sandy in
01:28:05.340
mississippi hey sandy hey um i just wanted to say um i'm a breast cancer survivor and i do not think
01:28:15.360
that the vaccine should be mandatory um i i think that's not in my best interest right now to take
01:28:21.920
it because we don't know what that has to do to our body in the future fighting cancer now are you
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employed are you a danger of of losing your job if you don't get it no not it's not at this time no
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i'm not what about do you worry about not you can't get on an airplane you know you can't go to
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the museums in new york you couldn't go to the restaurants more and more you're going to be banned
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from going into these places unless you have a vaccine proof right right and i just don't think
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i think everybody should be able to make the choice on whether or not they want the vaccine
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what does your doctor say well um i have several doctors but two of my doctors who deal with my
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hormones and um oncologists they did not recommend the vaccine for me and so i just hope that if that
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time comes that they'll be able to write me something that says hey you know she doesn't
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need to take the vaccine you know um i just you know and of course you know the regular primary
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care doctor they say you know get the vaccine get the vaccine but i just don't think that's the
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best thing for me and i want to be able to make that decision myself yeah that's the thing you've
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already been through a massive health challenge and this is joe biden who's telling you he knows
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better that's what's so infuriating about it he's really inserting himself between the citizenry and
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their medical professionals it feels wrong to me too i thank you for calling uh i want to get to
01:29:47.840
brendan down in florida brendan what's on your mind hey just about this illegal immigration stuff i mean
01:29:54.500
i was in the board show came in under reagan went through you know all the way through obama and then
01:30:00.520
trump there at the end and what hypocrisy i mean where's fauci in all this you know he's lecturing
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everybody about wearing the mask get vaccinated and all these illegal immigration you know illegal
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immigrants coming across willy nilly it's just the hypocrisy is just amazing i know and and it's
01:30:22.360
undermining this the speech that biden makes you know how important it is to get vaccinated and he's
01:30:28.240
sort of doing this for the good of the community and it's like well why are you treating american
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citizens worse than you're treating immigrants refugees people who are breaking the law to get
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into the country like if anything they should be held to higher standards and instead he's looking
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at i mean the medical personnel are the ones that really drive me nuts because it's like those guys
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have already made massive sacrifices and risked their lives so many of them got covid and they're told
01:30:51.780
too that they need a vaccine even though the data shows they probably already have immunity more so than
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the vaccine they're going to lose their jobs but the illegal immigrants who cross the southern border
01:30:59.460
they don't have to get anything and they'll probably get a job and if it wind up taking
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social security and so on oh no no no and there's me too movement you know all these women open borders
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are not compassionate they're subjected to all kinds of bad stuff coming through mexico not to mention even
01:31:18.400
in the wall street journal they had an article about these women getting gang raped coming through
01:31:22.240
panama these venezuelans you know it's awful it's truly it is a humanitarian crisis and if it were
01:31:29.380
happening on trump's watch we'd hear a lot more about it but they've gone totally totally silent
01:31:34.520
um on it you know okay all right want to get another caller in let's go to rick in indiana
01:31:38.420
middle of country megan how are you good rick how you doing doing great hey the core issue of
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everything you're talking about today you're talking about immigration and the border you're talking
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about vaccination and body rights the big problem we have that no one's talking about is there's a
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war on free speech and authentic speech people are getting canceled they're afraid to speak out you
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can't have debate these days the way we did even 15 20 years ago heck even three years ago i want to
01:32:08.380
know your thoughts on the authenticity of speech and what you think about the importance of that
01:32:12.260
well i basically think if it comes from a politician i don't believe it and i don't care whether it's
01:32:16.860
trump or biden or harris i don't believe these politicians if their mouths are moving they're
01:32:20.720
lying and it's one of the reasons why i refuse to put on a team jersey for either of the sides i think
01:32:25.300
when you meet somebody an authentic politician it's so refreshing right like i did this thing with dan
01:32:29.920
crenshaw that i mentioned the other day i think that guy's an he's an honest guy he's a truth teller
01:32:34.080
which makes him an anomaly and maybe maybe it'll make it hard for him to ascend beyond uh you know his
01:32:39.180
congressional level up to the very top but i hope not um but i think you're right people are scared
01:32:43.720
and the polls show that they're very scared to speak their minds and it's totally un-american
01:32:48.100
go ahead you saw it with the democrat party as well with tulsi gabbard the way she got shut down by
01:32:53.700
the establishment left it's not a right left thing it's a it's an american thing amen i think it's
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it's very frightening for the future of the country and i and i think everyone who's listening today
01:33:04.580
should wake up speak up speak out and uh exercise free speech couldn't agree with you more rick thank
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you all right so we did better today we did better on the calls we're gonna do it we're gonna figure it
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out you guys and we'll have a more robust call segment like this i hope each day thank you for
01:33:20.260
being part of the show tomorrow i'm excited because glenn greenwald will be here we'll talk about why he
01:33:24.940
says the media constantly cheer for war his take on the fall of afghanistan and the new class system
01:33:30.880
emerging between the unmasked elite and the mask wearing serfs today's show is also going to be
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