The Megyn Kelly Show - Neocon PANIC Over Blue Tsunami, with Jesse Kelly, Plus Shock Twist in Markle Investigation, and Blago on Prison and Freedom ｜ Ep. 1435

00:00:00.500 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:12.180 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:15.760 Well, Republicans are reeling after a bruising midterm election and the blame game is already underway.

00:00:21.980 Meanwhile, the fallout may mean changes in the Trump administration.

00:00:25.120 CBS News reporting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth could be on the chopping block.

00:00:28.980 with one source telling the network that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is being floated

00:00:33.400 as a possible replacement. I don't know that he would even want that job. He seems to be

00:00:38.760 trying to position himself as an outsider who can take on some of the boneheaded moves by

00:00:44.320 the administration. Why would he want to join it? I mean, unless he has no presidential aspirations

00:00:49.000 whatsoever. The post-election shakeup in Washington may just be getting started.

00:00:54.460 Here with me today is Texas's own Jesse Kelly. He is the host of The Jesse Kelly Show, which you can find each weeknight on the Megyn Kelly channel, Sirius XM 111.

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00:02:20.260 Jesse, welcome back. Haven't heard your take yet on Tuesday's results. What do you make of it? 1.00

00:02:26.400 Well, it's about as bad as you could possibly imagine. There are some good things that might

00:02:32.060 come of it, but it's about as bad as you could possibly imagine. It's to get wiped out in places

00:02:36.540 like kansas iowa texas south carolina is such an unbelievable repudiation on the honest on the

00:02:44.980 trump administration and republicans in general there's no other way to look at it people could

00:02:48.860 try to wash their hands of it but this was a punishment election all the polls show that 0.98

00:02:53.360 democrats are not popular everyone still knows they're sick evil and insane but they were very 0.93

00:02:58.380 very angry that the man they elected to lower prices instead raised them and then gave speeches 0.95

00:03:04.100 telling them that it's no big deal if they had to pay a little bit more it's honestly one of the

00:03:08.980 biggest political catastrophes of my lifetime the state text the state of texas is now blue i have

00:03:15.620 so many texas friends texting me and said well how did this i didn't even know what to do now uh it's

00:03:21.420 it is such a catastrophic disaster megan and i i'm not i'm not going to mince words on the whole

00:03:27.460 thing i can't i can't believe this happened two for two two for two on trump's terms his first

00:03:33.160 term he has everything going pretty well things are churning along listens to the wrong people

00:03:38.320 and shuts down the country for a chest cold destroys the whole rest of his presidency

00:03:42.340 allows democrats to steal an election just destroys everything um term two okay the tariffs

00:03:48.600 were a little rough or whatever deportations are going great he's done so many great things we are

00:03:53.160 making real progress and decides to just drop bombs on iran because uh the lindsey graham told

00:03:59.500 him to. I don't know what to say, Megan. If I sound frustrated, it's because I am.

00:04:05.840 Yeah, of course you are. We all are. We all feel it. We feel angry, just like the voters who voted

00:04:10.260 these guys out of office. They felt angry and dissatisfied. Those are the top two words that

00:04:16.080 they use to explain their votes. Republicans who voted Democrat, not in favor of Democrats,

00:04:21.840 but in favor of sending a message to the Republican Party, which was, we're burning it 0.99

00:04:26.500 fucking down that's what we're doing it is burned down to ash get your shit together that's really 0.99

00:04:33.800 what they were saying yeah it is what they were saying and actually that leads me with all this 1.00

00:04:39.060 anger which i'm sure i'll get back to in a moment that does lead me to a conversation i was having

00:04:43.120 with my producer before the show on you know let's try to find some sort of a potential silver lining

00:04:48.320 here obviously it's not good i'm not going to pretend that it's good that we got our doors

00:04:52.360 blown off from state houses to the senate to the house not saying it's good however remember those

00:04:57.940 15 loser republicans who sponsored that amnesty bill with maria salazar yeah two-thirds of those

00:05:03.480 people are gone that's just one example of how much gunk we did clean out here like it's not 0.76

00:05:09.920 ideal to get cleaned out like this ideally you want to clean out bad republicans in primaries

00:05:15.220 you don't want to hand the country over to the communists that's not ideal but if we have to

00:05:20.640 rebuild sometimes you got to tear the house down to the foundation and i'll tell you what we're

00:05:25.940 about as torn down to the foundation as you could possibly be at this point in time i think there's

00:05:30.600 a chance it makes rebuilding the gop into something that it has not been a lot better

00:05:35.700 yeah you're right we're down to the studs right now which is great i mean like as somebody who

00:05:41.700 just went through this problem um our house had mold it had mold everywhere it was it got into

00:05:48.720 the AC, the HVAC vents. And you know, the little vent that shoots the AC out of it in your house,

00:05:55.380 each one was covered in like black dots. We were like, oh my God. And you know what happened? We

00:06:00.940 had to take that house down to the studs and it had to be fumigated in the whole bit. Now it's

00:06:07.420 fine. But that's what had to happen. You can't fight that kind of a problem while keeping

00:06:12.460 everything intact just around the edges. I really wish you hadn't just told me that, Megan. I kid

00:06:17.640 you not on my life, my wife, Aubrey, you know, she says, hi, she calls yesterday and tells me

00:06:23.040 they found mold in our house yesterday. And now I'm sitting here with Megan Kelly telling me she

00:06:28.380 had to practically take her house down because of the whole thing. This is a disaster.

00:06:32.260 We did. We did. It, it was our house in Jersey at the, at the shore and it was a nightmare,

00:06:38.120 but it was, and I can walk you through offline exactly what you should do. And you should,

00:06:41.500 you should handle it early as opposed to what we did. We didn't even realize it was a problem

00:06:44.980 until it was far too late. It was far too infested. And then studs. And so that's where we are with

00:06:49.180 the Republican Party. We are at studs. They deserve it. And the question is how to rebuild.

00:06:55.100 But to your point, you cannot do that without being very honest about how we got here. And I've

00:07:01.500 been watching some of your online commentary. I did a long talking points memo yesterday on what

00:07:06.320 I think got us here. It was many factors. It was a complete repudiation of what Trump has been

00:07:12.460 focused on for the past year of his presidency. I think people were on board with the deportations,

00:07:18.760 maybe not the excesses that they saw in Minneapolis, but they were on board with

00:07:22.500 getting rid of the illegals who came in under Biden. They were on board with shutting down 0.73

00:07:25.480 the border and so on. And then he just lost his way. He launched a new Middle East war,

00:07:31.800 which spiked prices in an economy that was already suffering to some extent from tariffs and so on.

00:07:37.020 He talked all about the ballroom and renaming the Kennedy Center and the reflecting pool

00:07:41.680 and not about people's actual problems. Talked about how much money he was making,

00:07:45.700 quote, we were making something that no working class voter felt, alienating them and enlarging

00:07:51.580 the gulf between this elite sort of class of politicians and regular people who were genuinely

00:07:57.940 and are genuinely suffering. And so what we have now, instead of an honest accounting on

00:08:03.100 the disastrous launch of the Iran war, is the people who talk Trump into it, pretending that

00:08:09.620 had nothing to do with it. We are being gaslit yet again by the same crew that got us into this

00:08:17.220 about why this happened. Across the board now, you are hearing from all of the usual suspects.

00:08:26.360 Ari Fleischer put it in writing on X, but he was by far not the only one talking about it. It wasn't

00:08:31.380 the Iran war, Jesse, it was the ceasefire agreement. It was the disastrous ceasefire 0.59

00:08:39.600 agreement that the president agreed to. He used J.D. Vance to negotiate it. But you see,

00:08:44.080 this is their chance to hit Vance. They want him to bear the burden of their decision that

00:08:50.120 they pressured Trump into making in launching the war. They'd much rather get out of February,

00:08:56.000 March, when Trump launched the war after B.B. encouraged him to and all the hawks and the

00:08:59.900 neocons told him to do it and get to June when Trump sent in J.D. Vance to say, get this thing

00:09:05.740 off my back. It's a monkey that I got to get rid of. And Vance came up with a paper thin agreement 0.99

00:09:10.680 called a memorandum of understanding with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and they violated

00:09:15.480 it within two seconds. But it was popular because people just wanted an end to the thing. And now

00:09:19.820 that same crew that literally they they have blood on their hands. They have actual blood

00:09:25.440 of our troops on their hands. And now they have electoral blood on their hands as the Republican

00:09:29.280 Party is gone. Want to say all the problems around the Iran war come down to the ceasefire.

00:09:38.320 More than a decade, Megan. Donald Trump has been the leading voice in the Republican Party for

00:09:42.740 more than a decade. No question about it. He's been the unquestioned leader of the Republican

00:09:47.380 Party for more than a decade. Donald Trump has two years left in his presidency. What we're

00:09:51.920 experiencing, what you're describing right now is a succession fight. That's what this is all

00:09:55.800 actually about just like any other succession fight when the king is dead or dying the people

00:10:00.840 start people underneath start squabbling to see who's going to actually sit on the throne in the

00:10:06.040 end you mentioned the people and going after jd vance and things like that about 99 of the

00:10:11.780 political arguments you see from political people online now are simply a proxy war for the 2028

00:10:17.660 republican nomination they're a proxy war for that because jd vance and don't take this as an

00:10:22.920 an endorsement of jd vance i like jd vance a lot by the way but it's not it's not that jd vance

00:10:28.720 represents uh the biggest i'm not going to say a total separation but the biggest separation we

00:10:34.980 have seen in my 45 years on this earth from the traditional gop big corporate bring in as many

00:10:41.560 foreigners as possible bomb every inch of the planet jd vance philosophically represents the 0.99

00:10:47.220 biggest separation from that of my entire lifetime well all the people who've made their entire 1.00

00:10:52.880 living on that being the way things are they are they're now and they're going to continue to launch

00:10:59.160 an all-out war trying to stop his nomination because if donald trump endorses him he's the

00:11:04.240 vice president the vice president's usually the presumptive nominee anyway if he does that with

00:11:09.000 donald trump's endorsement the race is over it doesn't matter who else gets in and so what you're

00:11:13.220 seeing is a proxy war for that and all this stuff. It's a proxy war for that.

00:11:17.940 There was no one more in the president's ear than Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, Mark Thiessen,

00:11:26.400 and General Jack Keane. Those were four of the biggest neocons urging President Trump

00:11:32.700 to launch this war against Iran. So what happens last night on special report? Mark Thiessen is

00:11:39.800 there instead of saying, I was wrong. This was a disaster. The Republican Party has been

00:11:47.540 eviscerated because of my idea. No. What did he say? He reacted to J.D. Vance's statement yesterday

00:11:55.580 in which J.D. Vance said, let's get real. I've talked to the best pollsters in the business,

00:12:00.440 and the reason we lost was the war. He's not saying there were no other reasons. He's saying

00:12:05.620 that was the real reason. That's when support started to fall. And if you look at the reports

00:12:10.980 in the Wall Street Journal today, even the Wall Street Journal, which is as hawkish and neocon

00:12:14.860 as they get, is admitting it was the war that crushed Trump's approval rating. Things were

00:12:20.420 going well for him prior to that. So J.D. Vance says this honestly in his post yesterday. And here

00:12:25.480 is, of all people, Mark Thiessen on Fox last night. I was kind of shocked by that statement

00:12:32.580 that Vice President Vance put out.

00:12:34.840 It was, quite frankly, disloyal to the president of the United States.

00:12:38.140 If you heard what he just said, he said,

00:12:40.360 I did it and it might have affected the election,

00:12:42.700 but I would have done it again because it was the right thing to do

00:12:44.540 for our national security.

00:12:45.520 Dasha called him on her show yesterday and he said the same thing.

00:12:48.520 He's been saying over and over again it was the right thing to do.

00:12:50.500 I didn't see Vice President Vance say it was the right thing to do.

00:12:53.720 I didn't see him say Donald Trump is one of the most courageous presidents

00:12:56.600 in my lifetime because he took this very difficult political decision

00:12:59.400 and put the country ahead of his own political interests.

00:13:02.080 47 years uh iran has been waging war on us he's the first president to fight back i didn't hear

00:13:06.800 any of that all i heard was we lost because of the iran war and if you want to defend that go ahead

00:13:10.940 but uh but uh but uh you better make that case well that's the exact case that donald trump is

00:13:16.600 making he's saying it was it was the right thing to do why is his vice president saying something

00:13:20.980 different because he wants to run for president well he needs donald trump's endorsement to run

00:13:25.800 for president or he's not going to get the nomination go fox go your thoughts jesse you

00:13:32.760 know what really stood out to me of all the other things that were said there megan were

00:13:36.100 and i've seen a lot of this so i'm gonna he's not the only one who said this of uh donald trump

00:13:40.840 showed real political courage sacrificing his you know political popularity for whatever the

00:13:46.260 country or for whatever for the greater good this is our country it's not donald trump's country

00:13:52.400 Yes, he's part of it, too. Yes, it's not that guy's country. This is our country. You don't get to be courageous with my country. I live in a blue state today, Megan. It's known as Texas. Maybe you've heard of it. God and churches and cowboy hats. It was a red state like five minutes ago.

00:14:11.800 But because of these disastrous, disastrous decisions by Trump and this guy, I now live in a blue state. 1.00

00:14:19.220 Your courage is going to bring all kinds of gayness in the classroom and foreigners flooding into my country. 1.00

00:14:26.080 You were courageous with my life, with the life of my kids, with the life of my state. 1.00

00:14:31.060 You weren't courageous, you scumbags. 1.00

00:14:33.180 You screwed us all. 1.00

00:14:34.780 You speak for me. 0.99

00:14:36.840 All I want to hear from those guys is an apology.

00:14:41.400 That's it.

00:14:42.580 Either nothing or an apology.

00:14:44.820 That is it.

00:14:46.200 And instead, you've got the revisionist, oh, you know, J.D. Vance is disloyal.

00:14:52.080 Meanwhile, where is he saying that the Iran war was a great idea?

00:14:55.480 He's one of the ones who was on record as opposing it.

00:14:58.840 We all know that, which is why the neocons hate his guts.

00:15:03.440 They're all out there trying to do this spin.

00:15:05.560 No one's taking accountability.

00:15:06.700 There's a clip that's gone viral of Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro shortly before the midterms saying this.

00:15:13.720 Watch this.

00:15:14.880 When we look at the Fox survey, Iran is a four percent issue with the American people.

00:15:22.480 So whatever happens in the midterms, it doesn't appear that Iran's going to drive anything one way or another.

00:15:28.780 What's your take on this?

00:15:30.440 I think that's exactly right.

00:15:32.720 My God, that was September.

00:15:34.620 The exit polls show that the Iran war was either crucial or important to 74 percent of the voters yesterday.

00:15:45.800 Seventy four percent. 1.00

00:15:48.600 Those idiots were out there telling people it would have zero effect on the midterms. 1.00

00:15:54.240 They're also the ones I don't know about Shapiro. 1.00

00:15:56.680 He wasn't. I doubt the president talks to him. But Levin was 100 percent in the president's ear, egging him along the entire way.

00:16:06.020 Yeah. And I think we have to acknowledge something, Megan, of why the war itself is unpopular.

00:16:12.080 All presidents. In fact, this applies to kings, everybody who's ever led a country in history.

00:16:17.420 Their ability to conduct war is based on the willingness of the people to conduct that war.

00:16:23.980 FDR, he was elected president 9,000 times, and he kept getting to fight the largest war the world had ever seen before, not because he was so wonderful or because we could make a bunch of planes and things like that.

00:16:35.780 He was able to fight that for as long as he could because the American people were behind it.

00:16:40.420 It is the will of the people that that is the fuel that allows you to fight a war.

00:16:44.920 so if the people are not with you at all you are signing your political death warrant and the death

00:16:51.420 warrant of your party if you go fight one and many many people in america and throughout history

00:16:57.140 have discovered that after enough time if you'd like to talk to one of them you can his name is

00:17:02.420 george w bush who presided over the complete destruction of the republican party because he

00:17:07.220 wanted to fight a war that got extremely unpopular with the american people you cannot fight unpopular

00:17:13.380 foreign wars and it is the height of arrogance to think you can look at the people and say shut up

00:17:18.620 pay a little more quit whining about it this is what i have decided to do it's our country too

00:17:25.660 you come to us for permission to march the army off the war and raise gallon for raise gas four 0.91

00:17:32.660 dollars a gallon it's our country too you don't get to just screw us and if you do screw us you

00:17:38.260 don't get to say, hey, what's my fault? Hey, it was totally worth it. It was absolutely positively

00:17:43.460 not worth it whatsoever. I'm sorry. The gay race communists conquering the United States of

00:17:48.600 America is about 10,000 times more dangerous than Iran possessing a nuclear weapon. Not that I want 1.00

00:17:54.020 Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. I don't like Iran. Screw the IRGC. But to have the biggest 0.96

00:17:59.400 demonic savages I've ever seen in my life conquer my country is so much more important to me. I can't 0.80

00:18:04.900 even see the iran war that's how much more important it is to me it was michael brenda

00:18:10.540 doherty of national review was saying oh you know the neocons they got their regime change

00:18:14.700 it happened here not in iran it happened here we are having actual regime change here um the

00:18:21.900 wall street journal reports this listen to this how trump lost the midterms again keep in mind

00:18:26.720 this is the most neocony publication there is in mid-february one of president trump's economic

00:18:31.280 advisors arrived at the Oval with charts showing how the administration's policies might be making

00:18:35.380 America great again. Household income was up, particularly among low-income Americans.

00:18:39.720 Retirement accounts were strong, were soaring, and the nation's economic growth was even better

00:18:44.040 than projected. This is great stuff, said Trump. Within days, Trump made a decision that would

00:18:49.000 change everything. After campaigning on ending foreign wars, Trump wagered on one of his own,

00:18:54.780 triggering an open-ended conflict that has seen the deaths of more than 20 U.S. service members

00:18:59.020 cost U.S. taxpayers more than $47 billion and pushed up the cost of everything from freight

00:19:05.400 to fertilizer. That's it right there. That is the conservative paper of record, which was

00:19:12.180 cheerleading this thing all along, admitting that was the moment everything changed. And

00:19:19.460 there is zero point in denying it as the Ari Fleischers of the world would like to do. 1.00

00:19:26.760 But it does tell us one thing, Jesse, which is they won't change. 1.00

00:19:31.080 They can't be a part of when we when we build it up from the studs, they're out.

00:19:35.640 They cannot be a part of it. 1.00

00:19:36.980 They should form their own fucking party where it's just the pro war party. 1.00

00:19:41.120 They can just launch bombs if they ever manage to get somebody elected again. 1.00

00:19:45.120 And anybody with whom we have a conflict, obviously, they'll just take their directions from Bibi Netanyahu. 0.88

00:19:49.980 It'll work out great for them.

00:19:51.140 But they cannot be a part of the coalition because they're dishonest and they're dangerous.

00:19:55.480 Well, you said that there's no point in denying that, but I would actually probably disagree with you on that, Megan.

00:20:03.480 If you're on your last leg of political standing inside right wing circles, whatever that is, and the neocons most definitely are, you don't have any other options.

00:20:14.020 There are no more tools in your tool belt than to lie and deny about your responsibility for it.

00:20:19.640 The United States of America has been drifting away from foreign involvement for a long time, really since the GWAT, the global war on terror and all that.

00:20:28.160 And as Americans have watched their own standard of living decrease, which it has a lot in the last five years because people can't afford things, as people have watched their standard of living go down, there's even less and less desire for any involvement in any foreign country, any foreign war.

00:20:44.900 The people, when they cannot afford the power, when they can't afford health insurance, when they can't afford gas, they don't want to hear about any other foreign war or why anything is really important or this foreign country.

00:20:55.680 They don't want to hear it at all.

00:20:57.400 But back to these people, if your entire political career has been foreign this, foreign that, foreign this, foreign that, if that's your entire political career, it doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out you are nearing the end of your relevancy on the right.

00:21:13.240 So you sit here today. You are at least partially responsible for the largest Republican wipeout of my entire life by a mile, of most people's entire lives by a mile. You're partially responsible for that. How many are going to actually have the humility to step up and say, hey, my bad, that's on me? No, you're sitting there panicking because for you, it's a five alarm fire of political, you know, you're about to have no more political power, no more political influence at all. You're done.

00:21:43.240 Mm hmm. They're still just pushing him to amp up the war in Iran. Like what we really need to win it is ground troops. OK, this is I I don't even know what would happen to the Trump presidency at this point if he if he had the nerve to try to launch ground troops in Iran to wrap this thing up.

00:22:06.180 That that cannot happen. But there are multiple reports out today about Trump being bored with domestic issues anyway, that he's much more focused on his legacy and he thinks he'll make his legacy with a robust foreign policy, Jesse.

00:22:23.060 Well, so ironically, it seems what we're going to get in trying to rein in the foreign adventurism is more of it.

00:22:30.360 Well, one, let's hope that doesn't happen, Megan. But two, what you just described is not just the Donald Trump thing. It's so common to people, to all leaders throughout history.

00:22:43.600 I mean, you're you're crassus. You're sitting there in ancient Rome. You're the wealthiest man in Rome, extremely influential. You have all the power in the world, all the money in the world.

00:22:53.100 you can do whatever you want, but you're looking out over the horizon and wondering what you could 1.00

00:22:58.020 do if you marched an army over the horizon to fight the Parthians. And he went and he died and 0.69

00:23:02.940 his son's head ended up on the end of a spear. So that's generally how it goes. But this is the

00:23:07.820 thing. If I'm United States Senator Kelly, which we all know would never happen, if I'm Senator

00:23:12.440 Kelly from the state of Texas, am I going to care about Texas for a while? Sure. But what picture

00:23:18.600 is going to go on the mantle above my fireplace, Megan? When I visited Abilene and helped them

00:23:23.440 work out the water issues in Abilene, do I want to go to the pancake breakfast in Abilene? Or

00:23:27.960 I could go meet with a prince somewhere. I could go to Paris. What pictures are on the mantle?

00:23:34.020 It's always the exotic foreign stuff that seems sexy, and it's always to think presidents fall

00:23:39.500 into this, and members of the House of Representatives, senators fall into this.

00:23:43.300 Lindsey Graham, I don't think he ever visited South Carolina before he died. They just fall

00:23:47.360 in love with with these foreign adventures and it's again it's not just unique to one party or

00:23:53.620 america this has been the case for so for throughout history you fall in love with

00:23:59.140 marching an army over the horizon and look occasionally you find glory lots of times you

00:24:04.180 find your end now uh and here's here's a piece okay yeah this is from the journal uh they report

00:24:11.460 yeah every attempt at it with at a deal with iran blew up and the president was frustrated

00:24:17.040 How do you even negotiate with these people? He complained to advisers.

00:24:20.360 Then he thought midterms didn't matter. They write at times Trump told his aides he didn't care about the midterms at all, said a senior administration official who talked to him.

00:24:29.720 The president was tired of worrying about domestic political issues, and he didn't think that he didn't think mattered as much as foreign policy and his legacy.

00:24:38.880 Well, he found out the hard way that they did matter and that the people really did care about what was happening in Iran and they would make him pay for it.

00:24:48.740 This, as the New York Times, has another article out confirming many things that we knew.

00:24:54.460 But here's one of them, something I had suggested on the show yesterday.

00:24:58.160 Some days, Mr. Trump told advisers privately, we've got to win anything we got to do.

00:25:02.700 On others, he sounded as if he couldn't care less.

00:25:05.080 Quote, it says something very nice about me that they just can't win without me, he told aides.

00:25:11.980 It's the same thing that led him to give us two Democratic senators out of the state of Georgia, which not so long ago was a red state as well.

00:25:20.960 He seems to enjoy watching Republicans lose when he's not on the ballot.

00:25:27.020 He it it appeals to his vanity.

00:25:29.860 He doesn't really see it as a problem.

00:25:31.560 well i'll say this megan and this has really jumped off the page at me over the last two

00:25:37.300 years of trump's second term and i should note that i've enjoyed a lot of trump's second term

00:25:41.300 i've wanted these kind of deportations my entire life so it's not like i'm saying this has been

00:25:45.160 a complete failure but donald trump has spoken down to his supporters supporters more in his

00:25:53.160 second term than i ever remember him doing either when he wasn't president anymore or during his

00:25:58.040 first four years. And I don't know what that is, whether that's a level of possible arrogance from

00:26:04.480 being in that kind of power for long enough. But I mean, I remember back to I mean, you can point

00:26:09.200 out the time after time of the Epstein stuff, the Epstein stuff. You can even argue that they did

00:26:14.320 a lot of the right things with the Epstein stuff. But the messaging, hey, shut up about this. Hey, 0.96

00:26:19.880 why are you idiots even talking about this? What? Wait, whoa, what? Excuse me? There's been a lot 1.00

00:26:26.520 of that talking down shut up you can pay a little more a lot of that of why aren't you just doing

00:26:33.800 what you're told and i i do look it's not like i'm saying trump was ever an extremely humble man

00:26:39.240 that's part of what people love about him i'm not a humble man i'm not saying that at all but i think

00:26:43.520 that maybe that has possibly after enough time and power translated into some serious arrogance

00:26:49.200 where, I mean, it's, and that pride goes before the fall, Megan.

00:26:54.800 Well said.

00:26:55.720 The Epstein thing was the start where he came out, Epstein, who's still talking about Epstein?

00:27:02.040 It was like, what?

00:27:03.360 People were stunned.

00:27:04.760 And that DOJ memo that just got released, like, we will not be releasing any more documents

00:27:09.620 on Epstein with no explanation.

00:27:11.280 And just like, of course, yes, obviously you were all expecting this and we were supposed

00:27:15.140 to swallow it without question.

00:27:16.600 Then Trump, remember, he issued that truth social calling anybody who is still asking questions about Epstein his former supporters to all my former followers.

00:27:25.820 I don't want you anymore if you're still asking questions about Epstein.

00:27:29.020 The only reason there was a disclosure on Epstein that followed that is because it was demanded that there was a bill introduced Thomas Massey and others took a brave stand saying, oh, no, no, we will be forcing the release of these files.

00:27:41.620 And Trump realized that it was going to happen, that they had the votes to override a veto.

00:27:46.600 so he signed that bill into law with a bunch of loopholes in it, big enough to drive a truck

00:27:51.880 through. But that's how that got resolved after he shamed anybody who still had interest in it.

00:27:56.080 And then we had Iran where he didn't explain it, he didn't sell it, he didn't show the electorate

00:28:01.640 enough respect to actually just talk about what the real reasons were and why he thought it was

00:28:06.960 necessary for these 20 service personnel to die, and not to mention the endangering of other

00:28:12.480 Americans by rattling this saber. The murder of the 170 girls in that school, which we never took

00:28:20.300 responsibility for, which was absolutely our fault, not intentional, but that should have been

00:28:24.940 explained. Normally, our military will take responsibility even for grave errors like that.

00:28:29.720 It's what makes us human and humane and a better class of people than our adversaries. And then

00:28:36.480 his arrogance about the gas prices. It's worth it. It's worth it. All of that is worth it. You'll

00:28:41.360 pay it because it's worth it for Iran not to have a nuclear weapon, which nobody believed was the

00:28:45.520 exact trade off at all. And then when people started objecting to this war, which was hurting

00:28:50.680 them in the pocketbook, it was you're all out. You're not my followers. If you don't follow

00:28:55.040 Mark Levin and believe in Mark Levin, you are not MAGA. He literally issued a paper statement

00:29:01.920 saying that all the way up to present day where it was we're making so much money. We are making

00:29:07.380 so much money oh so who's we who well for a couple things megan first of all different people are are

00:29:17.220 good at different things right and the truth is that donald trump he he came up as you know a

00:29:22.620 real estate guy a fight promoter and donald trump just has this braggadocious personality where

00:29:29.780 everything everybody knows it by now everything's the greatest ever the best ever the hottest ever

00:29:34.360 the most handsome ever. Everything is going to be that for Trump. And honestly, there are so many

00:29:39.520 times where it's really endearing. And on the campaign trail, certainly when you're out of

00:29:43.900 power, like when Joe Biden's president, that's a great way to campaign. I'm going to make it the

00:29:48.380 best ever, and everything's going to be better than it was before. That's a great way to campaign.

00:29:53.040 But once you get elected, if you got elected because people couldn't afford things anymore,

00:29:58.260 you can't do that you can't run to the cameras every day and say it's a golden age you can't

00:30:06.660 tell people that this is the best economy ever you should talk more about it and this comes back

00:30:11.680 to the arrogance i said there's two things this is the second thing megan i'm gonna have to

00:30:14.780 paraphrase this because i don't have it in front of me i believe it was laura ingram on fox news

00:30:19.200 was interviewing donald trump sometime ago last year something like that she was interviewing him

00:30:23.920 and they were arguing i think it was about foreign workers if i remember right because

00:30:27.760 She was like, you got to stop bringing these in.

00:30:29.500 And he was talking about bringing them in. 0.74

00:30:31.380 And she said something to him along the lines of, hey, well, that's not very America first.

00:30:36.140 That's not very MAGA.

00:30:37.620 And this is when Trump jumped in and showed that arrogance I was talking about.

00:30:40.900 He said, first of all, I started MAGA.

00:30:43.160 I know what MAGA is.

00:30:45.500 Donald Trump did not start MAGA.

00:30:47.080 He's the first leader of the America First Movement and deserves a ton of credit for being the first leader.

00:30:52.600 MAGA, the America First Movement, is here because the American people wanted it.

00:30:56.560 After so many years of failure of both parties, there was a desire, there is a desire for something different.

00:31:03.260 Trump, to his credit, recognized it, jumped on that tidal wave, has led it well at times, other times not so well.

00:31:11.060 But he's not the creator of it.

00:31:13.080 He didn't create it in its womb, and it will exist long, long after he's gone, long, long after I'm gone.

00:31:19.700 This is so much bigger than him, and I'm not sure he knows that.

00:31:24.540 Here's the other problem.

00:31:25.740 While all of this is happening and people were hearing his, you know, let them eat cake attitude about their financial troubles, the stories about corruption have been in the headlines every day.

00:31:39.700 And unlike most of the terrible things that get published about Trump, they were true.

00:31:45.580 There actually was some there there.

00:31:48.560 Alina Habba being only the latest example. 1.00

00:31:51.160 She actually is getting $10 million a year from some daughter of a Venezuelan criminal as general counsel of a newly born corporation that, as far as I can tell, has no legal work, never mind $10 million a year worth. 0.99

00:32:07.220 For the next four years, ultimately, with her bonuses, it amounts to $50 million. 0.78

00:32:11.680 Oh, and guess what?

00:32:13.140 That Venezuelan guy got a pardon from Trump for his legal troubles.

00:32:17.260 Okay, that's just one example.

00:32:18.980 Like the reports, I I'm sorry, but the Kimberly Guilfoyle stuff, that's it's a huge black eye.

00:32:26.360 We send these people abroad to go do our business, not to make themselves rich, not to get so they can get paid for stints at George V in Paris on somebody's private jet. 1.00

00:32:38.200 People are sick of this fucking bullshit. 1.00

00:32:40.540 Obviously, the entire Trump family has gotten incredibly wealthy off of the presidency. 1.00

00:32:45.660 It's people watch it where maybe there's nothing illegal about it. 0.91

00:32:49.400 It feels disgusting. 1.00

00:32:50.700 We ripped on Hunter Biden for four plus years over this bullshit. 1.00

00:32:53.960 And now it's happening again. 0.99

00:32:56.620 And when you look at the exit polls from Tuesday, this is what they show.

00:33:01.220 Thinking about your vote for Congress, how important to you was government corruption?

00:33:06.160 Overall, crucial or a major factor, 90 percent.

00:33:10.980 90 percent of the voters rated that crucial or a major factor, including almost half of Republican voters, 43 percent who said crucial or major.

00:33:24.160 I mean, that's just the stench on that piece of the presidency is detectable through this lens.

00:33:30.940 And by the way, it's going to be one of the first things the Democrats start to investigate.

00:33:35.460 Yeah, look, I mean, I'll tell you this, Megan, I know you have a bunch of sources.

00:33:39.700 i have some people i talk to as well there's been a lot of a lot of whispering at me over the last

00:33:45.900 year year and a half of uh voices of concern about some of this stuff that you just laid out as in

00:33:52.060 if democrats do start investigating their this might not be a hoax like the last two impeachments

00:33:58.320 there might be some some meat on that bone there really might be and that that's obviously

00:34:03.240 devastating especially because as you pointed out part of the fact that the part of the reason

00:34:09.160 the democrats became so unappealing under joe biden was was the hunter biden stuff a lot of

00:34:14.380 the stuff they could never explain it away that dogged joe biden for his entire four years the

00:34:20.200 fact that hey it looked like you're handing out favors to family members and then and then all

00:34:25.440 the pardons and things like it just looked so corrupt that that that really did bring some

00:34:30.820 normies into republican circles trying to push back against that so if you walk in in that

00:34:35.940 environment you have to be cleaner than clean you can't have it's not just you can't do anything

00:34:41.420 illegal you can't do anything with that has the slightest whiff of impropriety or the voters are

00:34:48.280 going to freak because they put you there at least in part to stop that kind of a stuff and

00:34:53.960 i'm megan i'll tell you what it's going to be a rocky two years for a lot of people i i think

00:35:00.060 they know it, but it's going to be rough. Jesse, if the Democrats can prove that Trump or his aides

00:35:08.820 or those around him were selling pardons, that the people around Trump were getting rich

00:35:17.140 off of pardons, somehow their bank account was lined, somehow they got these sweetheart deals

00:35:22.940 like Alina Habba appears to have. It is a massive scandal in and of itself that is so

00:35:30.400 disgustingly corrupt and awful. There isn't a person in the country who would be able to defend

00:35:36.160 it. And they will get to the bottom of it. I do think that the pardons will be one of the first

00:35:40.520 thing the Democrats start to investigate. What's on their agenda? Well, we heard a little bit about

00:35:45.540 it from the incoming, we believe, House Oversight Committee chair, Robert Garcia. He's the one who

00:35:51.340 tweeted out Tuesday night before the dust had even settled lawyer up in all caps. And now he

00:35:58.080 gave us a little preview of where they're likely to go. Listen here to stop one. As we move forward

00:36:04.500 and I take over the chairmanship in January, we're going to be focused like a laser on four

00:36:10.680 major areas. And I want to discuss those with you. First is we're going to take on the Trump

00:36:15.740 crime family. The amount of grift and corruption

00:36:19.820 is unprecedented in American politics. You have

00:36:23.800 Don Jr., whose wedding is being paid for by a Russian oligarch.

00:36:28.040 You have Jared Kushner, who got $2 billion from the Saudis

00:36:31.740 when he left the White House. You have another son that is on, of course,

00:36:35.900 the board of companies that are getting contracts from the Pentagon.

00:36:40.860 The president himself is a crypto scheme where he's

00:36:43.920 making billions of dollars. This family is billions richer as the American public struggle.

00:36:50.800 Our second investigation is focused on DHS and the abuses of ICE. Our third major investigation

00:36:57.740 revolves around corporate corruption. Our last investigation is going to be focused on the

00:37:03.120 Jeffrey Epstein, the horrific, horrific injustice that's happened to so many women and girls.

00:37:09.080 I want to remind us that over 1,000 women have come forward as survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:37:18.440 So there's just a little taste what's coming our way.

00:37:21.580 Well, what's striking, Megan, is how much time you can see they've already taken.

00:37:26.480 He had the list.

00:37:27.540 He had it numbered.

00:37:28.460 He had it numbered in order.

00:37:30.320 The communists have been plotting and planning this in their back rooms for more than a year

00:37:35.400 now probably since the day kamala harris lost to donald trump they've been coming up with a game

00:37:41.120 plan on what to do once they come back to power now we have to we should have been smart enough

00:37:47.960 to know that that day might come and then that means you don't mind your p's and q's to do the

00:37:53.400 right thing i love me megan i always try to actually overpay a little bit in taxes why

00:37:59.320 because somebody gave me a piece of advice a long time ago because i do this for a living i have

00:38:03.980 enemies throughout the Internal Revenue Service. I can't be a penny short ever. I have to be

00:38:09.280 squeaky, squeaky clean, or I'm going to get audited and crushed and arrested and everything

00:38:14.040 else because that's what they would love to do. If you're the Trump administration, you know these

00:38:18.060 investigations are coming. You know they are coming. You know they're going to rip apart

00:38:22.280 every single part of your life. They've already done it to the poor Trump family over and over

00:38:26.220 again. So you know what it feels like, and you know it's coming. So I don't know if there's any

00:38:31.020 validity to anything that guy just said i'm not saying i don't have any idea on that stuff

00:38:35.300 but if there is it's going to be a rocky two years here's the other thing that i'm hearing

00:38:43.400 more and more about that the democrats because they took over not only the federal government

00:38:48.460 but state houses across this country they are in power up and down the ballots federal and state

00:38:54.340 across the country, that they now reportedly have enough to get rid of the electoral college,

00:39:04.580 that they actually may put a scheme in place. I don't totally understand it.

00:39:10.620 Here's something from truthout.org. With these new wins, Democrats have the opportunity to do

00:39:15.080 something considered nearly impossible, implement a popular vote model for electing future presidents

00:39:19.900 of the United States to replace the archaic and unpopular Electoral College.

00:39:24.380 Due to the mechanics of the Electoral College, five presidential winners in U.S. history

00:39:27.860 have taken office who did not win it, blah, blah, blah.

00:39:30.240 A constitutional amendment would be needed to formally abolish the Electoral College,

00:39:33.740 which is unlikely to happen anytime soon, even after this blue wave.

00:39:36.760 But there is a workaround called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which doesn't

00:39:42.640 require such an amendment.

00:39:44.620 Per Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, each state is mandated to appoint in such manner

00:39:49.280 as the legislature thereof may direct a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators

00:39:55.700 and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress. These electors wind

00:39:59.560 up voting for the president, the vice president. All states today direct their electors to vote

00:40:03.820 based on their own results in the presidential races. If a Democrat candidate wins in California,

00:40:09.340 for example, all 54 of its electors are people chosen to support that candidate in the electoral

00:40:14.700 College. But under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, that would change. States

00:40:20.100 that have agreed to abide by the compact would direct their electors to support the candidate

00:40:24.860 who won the national popular vote, not who their state alone voted for. And this this would be this

00:40:35.000 would mean we will never have a Republican president again, ever. I mean, the odds of

00:40:42.620 overcoming these numbers, the national popular vote, because granted, yes, Trump won it last

00:40:51.000 time around, but the Republicans have repeatedly not won it. And they've relied on the electoral

00:40:55.240 college because they have states like Wyoming in their pocket voting for them, but they don't have

00:41:00.020 a lot of actual electors. So, I mean, this is radicalism. And I do believe the voters would

00:41:05.580 punish the Democrats if they did such a thing. But this is just one of the probably unintended

00:41:10.160 consequences of what happened on Tuesday, about which it appears the White House was quite

00:41:16.040 flippant. I think it would be really sweet to find out that they won't vote for Republicans

00:41:20.640 when I'm not on the ballot. Well, Megan, communists use power to keep their power.

00:41:26.660 They reward their friends and they're punished their enemies. If you leave communists in charge

00:41:30.960 of any area, a town, a city, a state, a country, if you leave them in charge of any area for long

00:41:37.260 enough it takes some time they will put into place the laws and rules and systems they need

00:41:42.620 so you cannot get them out that is how it works that's why spencer pratt lost an election in los

00:41:47.660 angeles when everyone thought he was probably going to win he's a great guy amazing candidate

00:41:51.780 ran a perfect campaign raised a bunch of money never had a freaking chance because it was always

00:41:55.880 going to be stolen from him never had a chance he never had a prayer in the world because the 0.58

00:41:59.580 communists have been running la for long enough every leading democrat in the united states of

00:42:05.180 America, Dome News, Pete Buttigieg, all of them on down, every single one of them is now openly

00:42:12.540 discussing some of the most radical, insane things in the world. We're going to expand the Supreme

00:42:17.060 Court. We're going to make D.C. a state. We're going to make Puerto Rico a state. And we're

00:42:20.780 going to eliminate the Electoral College. Those are insane power grabs, but that's exactly what 0.96

00:42:26.580 they are, power grabs. If they are, God forbid, able to do those things, then the country is

00:42:31.800 finished it really is that that will be it we will never win another election they will get

00:42:35.880 into power they will lock their power down and the next thing you'll have is some kind of god

00:42:41.020 awful freaking civil war of secession and it'll be it'll be the word like the worst thing in the

00:42:45.460 history of the world but they mean it they're not they don't just campaign on this stuff and then 0.91

00:42:50.200 not do it if they have the power if they have it in their power to do it they're going to do it

00:42:54.000 It's coming.

00:42:55.440 By the way, on that L.A. mayor race, did you see Nithya Rahman won?

00:43:02.080 She she appears to have defeated Karen Best, the far left progressive who clearly did not win the primary like that.

00:43:09.020 It was ridiculous that she was one of the two in the rank choice, whatever, since Spencer Pratt wasn't. 0.71

00:43:14.680 We all know that they use homeless people to put her over the top in ballot harvesting. 0.81

00:43:19.560 that that was very obvious at the time just to get this super progressive woman over spencer pratt 1.00

00:43:25.000 and now she's won this crazy ass far leftist lady i mean karen bass is an idiot who burned down la 1.00

00:43:32.260 but i mean just the final cherry on top of the la sunday that nithya raman is going to be the 1.00

00:43:37.940 next la mayor yeah you know what they deserve it i hate to say it they deserve it and you know what

00:43:43.360 megan i how i didn't even think about this megan the olympics are coming i had to go to la i think

00:43:48.740 like six months ago something like that for a work thing and i always walk a city i love to walk

00:43:53.680 cities that's just how you get a good feel for them and when i did what i always do i was by

00:43:57.960 myself i just went out walking la just walking around megan i've walked some very dangerous

00:44:02.240 streets in this world uh all around the world that is as close to fearing for my life as i have

00:44:08.840 ever had in the united states of america that it was more than dirty it was flat out terrifying 0.83

00:44:14.940 The freaking ATMs are locked up behind steel and cinder blocks. 0.88

00:44:18.660 I've never seen that in the United States of America before. 0.99

00:44:21.220 It was like you were dropped into some third world hellhole.

00:44:25.440 This city has to represent the United States of America by hosting the Olympics.

00:44:30.680 I think it's like next year, two years from now. 0.99

00:44:33.360 And now you have this moron communist who's the mayor of this. 1.00

00:44:37.960 She's going to be in trouble. 1.00

00:44:39.640 It's going to be quite a scene.

00:44:41.600 Good luck.

00:44:42.660 You mentioned the Supreme Court.

00:44:43.960 I agree with you.

00:44:44.620 They will absolutely pack the Supreme Court. But here's the thing. They may not have to because Justice Alito said last month in an interview, he had a book out and he was giving interviews and he said last month in an interview, you remember NPR's Nina Totenberg inaccurately reported that he had announced his retirement from the Supreme Court bench.

00:45:03.680 She completely blew it. She embarrassed herself. She considers herself the goddess of Supreme Court reporting, completely blew it. And so Alito, when he launched his book this fall, was asked by various reporters, hey, how about that? You know, are you considering retiring? And he admitted maybe next year. Like he basically said, not right now, but I am thinking about it soon and maybe next year. And I can confirm that directly based on a source in a very good position to know.

00:45:30.460 So Alito is 76 years old. Justice Clarence Thomas is 78 years old. And by the way,

00:45:39.340 there are also reports that Chief Justice John Roberts has been considering retirement. He's

00:45:43.260 only 71. But it's, you know, whatever there. If you're 71, you could still live a pretty nice

00:45:49.200 retirement. The other two, I think, you know, Thomas would rather be taken out, you know,

00:45:54.000 toe tag first from the Supreme Court. I think he's committed to serve until he dies. But Alito,

00:45:58.980 No. And now, Jesse, he's he's looking like he might be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of of the Trump administration because he didn't retire when Republicans controlled the White House and the Senate.

00:46:13.780 There is zero chance that a Democrat controlled Senate is going to confirm any Trump nominee for any federal bench, never mind the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:46:24.100 And so now he's stuck there if he if he is willing to do it. He's stuck there for the remaining two years of Trump's term. And let's face it, the Democrats chances of winning in 2028 are looking pretty good, at least right now, before they fuck it up over the next two years.

00:46:42.320 And if they win the White House, now we're looking at Alito and Thomas and saying you've got six more years you need to stay in there.

00:46:49.720 Thomas will be 84, if God willing, and Alito would be 82.

00:46:55.820 And the odds of them doing that when we know Alito wants to retire right now are extremely slim.

00:47:02.260 So what we're effectively looking at is not only did Republicans lose the Senate and the House on Tuesday, they may likely have lost up to two Supreme Court seats.

00:47:13.040 I didn't drop bombs on Iran.

00:47:15.520 I had to look at just get used to it because I'm going to keep saying that a lot as we as we finally experience the all that there are endless consequences coming that you don't see, Megan, that I don't see.

00:47:25.940 There are horrible things coming when you hand communist power, and that's why you have

00:47:31.280 to prioritize never, ever, ever handing communist power. 0.99

00:47:34.780 And if you, in your arrogance or stupidity or whatever it is, do something that people 1.00

00:47:40.300 don't like, they will punish you and they will hand communist power. 1.00

00:47:43.480 And look, maybe the most devastating thing that happened on Tuesday night, Megan, was

00:47:47.340 the Senate, because even if we win in 2028, and I don't have any idea how 2028 is going

00:47:51.740 ago, but even if we win in 2028, we're probably, if you look at the map, if you look at the way

00:47:56.320 it shakes out, we're probably still not going to have the Senate. So it might be President J.D.

00:48:00.800 Vance or President Ron DeSantis who can't get a Supreme Court justice on there. This is a years

00:48:06.940 long punishment now for the egregious way the first two years of this term have been handled.

00:48:12.540 And the problem is it'll be a punishment for me and a punishment for you, a punishment for all

00:48:17.580 of us here it's not like you're just punishing donald trump or something like that it's we all

00:48:21.660 have to suffer now you there is literally a soundbite of mark levin saying on his radio show

00:48:27.840 it's not my fault it's not my fault like and that by the way this is his thing the supreme court

00:48:35.360 uh you know the justices the constitutional democracy all of it so now it it was worth it

00:48:41.780 Are we still saying it was worth it?

00:48:44.220 Supreme Court seats, the House, which may be held by the Democrats in such a margin that

00:48:49.240 we haven't seen in decades, the final vote's not done, the Senate, with more seats gone

00:48:54.260 to the Democrats than they could ever have dreamed, they may wind up with 56 seats.

00:49:01.180 By the way, that's four from 60, which is a filibuster-proof majority, and the map doesn't

00:49:06.800 get better for Republicans in two years.

00:49:09.220 It gets worse.

00:49:09.880 A different group of Senate seats will be up.

00:49:12.540 You know, they're staggered, unlike the House, which goes every two years.

00:49:15.560 And so the map for Republicans was always looking more challenging in 2028.

00:49:20.200 These guys could win an outright majority, a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the Senate.

00:49:27.160 And we have the messaging from the Levins of the world, it's not my fault.

00:49:32.200 And the ridiculous pre-midterm messaging of no one cares about the Iran war. 0.77

00:49:37.260 That's not going to cost anything. 0.88

00:49:38.240 I never want to hear from these people again. I don't want anybody paying attention to them. I want them to lose their status as public figures who have microphones in front of them, who anyone listens to. They're too severely wrong about too many things.

00:49:59.000 Well, the people will ultimately decide that, right?

00:50:01.620 It's the people who decide who gets listened to, who doesn't get listened to.

00:50:05.240 There's just nothing anyone else can do about that.

00:50:07.240 But you know what I would actually like to hear from these people, Megan, more than anything else?

00:50:11.160 I want to hear the honesty of, hey, I backed this because I thought it was worth it. 0.69

00:50:15.560 I felt like destroying the Iranian regime, I felt like it was a worthwhile risk, even if it meant handing the United States of America over to demonic communists. 0.76

00:50:26.620 I've not heard a single one of them honest enough to simply admit that, but they all feel it. 0.96

00:50:31.420 They know they have to lie about it.

00:50:32.680 They know how that sounds.

00:50:33.560 But I would really, really greatly admire the honesty of, hey, I thought it was worth it. 0.96

00:50:38.480 I care more about replacing Iranians' government than the United States of America. 0.98

00:50:42.860 And that's why I backed it. 0.96

00:50:44.440 Yeah, starting with President Trump and on down from there.

00:50:49.800 Jesse Kelly, we love talking to you.

00:50:52.280 Thank you.

00:50:52.920 We'll be right back.

00:50:53.740 Appreciate you, Megan.

00:50:54.340 Got more coming up right after this.

00:50:55.760 We've got thoughts on a couple of news stories. And guess what? We're also going to get a bit of a Dem perspective in the second half of our second half from Rod Blagojevich, who's definitely got some thoughts on what the Democrats will be up to. Don't go away.

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00:52:05.520 I want to update you on a couple of non-political items that we've been following.

00:52:12.920 By the way, Ilhan Omar won re-election.

00:52:15.020 You're shocked, shocked.

00:52:16.540 She's super happy.

00:52:17.760 Enjoy it while you can.

00:52:19.780 There are real questions, though, like once the Democrats take over House oversight, etc.,

00:52:25.500 on what the appetite will be for any investigation into her.

00:52:31.460 Now, this is being handled by the DOJ, the main principal criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar.

00:52:36.860 But, you know, eventually this could pitch back to the House if she's gotten serious ethical violations that they overlooked that don't quite amount to crimes.

00:52:48.280 And there's going to be zero appetite to do anything with that now that the Democrats are about to take over.

00:52:54.620 It's very good news for her.

00:52:56.640 So that's that, Ilhan Omar.

00:52:58.180 But there's a couple of other pieces of news.

00:53:01.460 This morning, we did a live stream on the Russell Brand verdict.

00:53:05.960 It came down this morning.

00:53:07.420 If you would like to see that, we're posting it as a separate podcast and YouTube video,

00:53:13.280 so you can check that out on our feed.

00:53:14.600 But he was found guilty of multiple charges, though not the fake attempted sexual assault

00:53:22.360 where the woman said he grabbed her arm, that one they said not guilty on,

00:53:26.540 and two of the three rapes they said not guilty on.

00:53:29.320 The alleged vaginal rape that happened back in 1999 when he was very young and not famous and got invited back to a woman's hotel room after midnight, they said not guilty on that one.

00:53:39.940 And the alleged oral rape where complainant number three said he dragged her into a bathroom and forced himself on her.

00:53:47.820 In that context, they said not guilty there, though they did find that he felt that woman up at the bar moments before that.

00:53:55.140 It's very strange. 0.56

00:53:55.920 So they believed her testimonial that he felt her breasts at the bar, but not her testimonial that she went into the bathroom with him and that he forced himself on her orally. 0.82

00:54:07.340 It's all very strange.

00:54:09.320 And now Russell's looking at basically five to 10 years in prison.

00:54:14.340 The judge refused to grant him bail pending sentencing, which is Monday.

00:54:18.400 He refused to allow him humanitarian leave where he could go home and say goodbye to his three children, said no.

00:54:24.420 He's been remanded to jail pending the sentencing on Monday, which we will have full coverage of then.

00:54:30.460 But this is just this is just travesty.

00:54:33.000 Just want to say one thing.

00:54:34.100 OK, one thing.

00:54:35.360 Again, you should watch our live feed on it, which is now not live, but posted as a video.

00:54:40.360 This is on X.

00:54:41.780 People are still they're just now getting up to speed on the Russell trial because most people haven't been covering it because it's a UK thing.

00:54:48.240 And the coverage has been so limited since they have such draconian rules around reporting on UK trials.

00:54:55.000 Michael Tracy, who is an honest reporter, irascible but honest, tweeted out,

00:55:00.380 here's one of the, quote, rapes that Russell Brand has just been convicted of. 0.98

00:55:03.820 It allegedly occurred after what the woman says was a consensual threesome with Brand followed by consensual vaginal sex. 0.99

00:55:10.820 It was then, according to the woman, that Brand committed, quote, anal rape upon her. 0.93

00:55:14.940 And he tweets out a report in which they say the woman who cannot be identified told the court that Brand anally raped her in 2009 when he was 33 and at the height of his fame. 0.63

00:55:24.460 He wasn't actually. Well, actually, no, he was. He was he was very famous in 2009.

00:55:28.940 Sorry, I screwed that up. They met after she watched Brand at his comedy gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in West London.

00:55:35.480 Afterward, she and another woman had a consensual threesome with Brand in his dressing room.

00:55:39.780 A week later, she went to his house in Hampstead after they exchanged texts. 0.99

00:55:43.700 They had consensual vaginal sex and then Brand anally raped her. 0.99

00:55:48.040 So he's letting people know that there's all sorts of consensual behavior prior to the alleged anal rape. 0.90

00:55:54.520 And I added to this, because I think people just aren't aware, all of you should be, based on the coverage we've done here.

00:56:01.480 I added the following. 0.93

00:56:03.320 She admitted that within moments of meeting Russell Brand backstage, she used her tongue on his anus as another woman was fellating him. 0.94

00:56:12.540 The only dispute at trial was whether she went inside with the tongue or not. 0.97

00:56:17.500 She admitted all around the outside of his actual anus.

00:56:21.900 Forgive me. 0.97

00:56:22.320 I know it's graphic and disgusting, but she did it.

00:56:25.000 And I added here because it's true.

00:56:27.100 They had not even been introduced.

00:56:29.740 That was the testimony. 0.99

00:56:31.900 She got down on her knees and gave him what's called a rim job without even having been introduced to him.

00:56:40.540 She hadn't later. She went to his place excited for sex, which they had. 0.97

00:56:44.680 The two discussed anal sex before having it. She said it was her first time. 0.99

00:56:48.940 Her friend testified that the accuser admitted to her that she agreed to it, that she told Russell Russell Brand, quote, be gentle.

00:56:56.440 Russell Brand testified that they watched TV together afterward.

00:56:59.460 When a reporter first contacted the accuser about Russell Brand, she said, quote, I'm not sure my story has much in it. 1.00

00:57:06.820 I was an idiot, young and stupid, probably as much to blame. 0.99

00:57:10.580 That is the woman whose rape allegation is now going to send Russell Brand to jail for somewhere between five and 10 years. 1.00

00:57:19.460 This is just an outrage.

00:57:20.960 It is an outrage.

00:57:23.440 And we'll have more coverage of it on Monday when we get the actual sentence.

00:57:27.740 I want to go to the Meghan Markle update because there's a couple of interesting ones.

00:57:35.380 First, The Sun, which has been breaking all the news on this, reports that the FBI, the American FBI, is going to search Thomas Markle's rented U.S. storage facilities for potential third stash of child abuse images after tip-off from The Sun.

00:57:54.140 They report lockups, I think they just mean storage facilities, rented by Thomas Markle Sr. in Hollywood are to be searched by the FBI as they investigate a potential third cache of child abuse images.

00:58:06.380 The U.S. agents were alerted to two units on the same site in Los Angeles following a tip from son Thomas Jr., 60.

00:58:16.120 Now, this is all very interesting. Just stay with me because Thomas Jr. is behind, I think, all of the tips that led to the big reveals. We know he was the one behind the one in the Philippines because he said he found the stash and he tried to alert authorities in the Philippines and the FBI and even state authorities.

00:58:37.760 I think he said in Florida, where Thomas Markle currently is, senior, and nobody showed any interest in his stash.

00:58:44.740 And then he called an expert, an IT expert, to show up at the facility and document the find.

00:58:51.320 And they went through the, you know, floppy disks and the files that were in Thomas Markle's storage facility,

00:58:58.940 which were reportedly replete with child sexual abuse material,

00:59:02.780 which reportedly included even pictures of Thomas Markle himself with girls in at least one

00:59:10.480 photograph. That all originated with Thomas Jr. His sister, full-blood sister, is named Samantha

00:59:18.060 Markle. And she said, this is all BS. There's been a falling out between the two of them,

00:59:23.700 junior and senior. And my dad didn't do anything. And Thomas Markle Sr. said, absolutely not. That's

00:59:28.860 the worst accusation you could make about a man. I didn't do anything. Well, then they found a

00:59:33.260 similar stash the Daily Mail did in Mexico, where Thomas Sr. had been living. The Daily Mail was

00:59:39.320 given access to the storage facility because it had been considered abandoned. He hadn't been

00:59:43.080 paying rent on it in two years, which will lead to a decision of abandonment. And the Daily Mail

00:59:49.280 went in there and found tons of what they say was child sexual abuse material, including what the

00:59:54.120 Daily Mail, which does not have a horse in this race, described as pictures of Thomas Markle

00:59:59.560 himself with young girls, underage girls, like actually on camera with them, which, if true,

01:00:07.680 could be potentially devastating. Now, here we're showing one picture they posted of him.

01:00:11.460 The girl's face is blurred out. They say it is a girl, an underage girl. They're sitting on a bed.

01:00:15.640 They're fully clothed. Now, that could mean something or could be nothing. And I don't know

01:00:21.080 whether the Daily Mail has something more, you know, a naked girl, et cetera. But they certainly 1.00

01:00:28.500 reported that that storage facility once again was brimming with actual childhood, child sexual

01:00:36.140 abuse material, including pictures of toddlers that then again, they say this belongs to Thomas

01:00:42.380 Markle Sr. and that all of this was found interspersed with his personal effects, things

01:00:47.980 that were meaningful to him, books of his and so on. Now, his defenders have been saying all along,

01:00:55.100 we suspect the son, same as Samantha Markle said, we don't trust that son. And we pointed out to you

01:01:00.920 that there is a picture of the son walking with some girl from the Philippines who looks like a

01:01:06.580 child. Look at this. I'm sorry, it's bizarre. I don't know what's going on with this woman,

01:01:10.500 whether she's got dwarfism, whether she's young, but she's like half the size of Thomas 1.00

01:01:18.540 Markle Jr. There's serious issues in this family. I think we can safely say that. But now we have

01:01:25.420 The Sun reporting that Thomas Markle Jr. was the person who gave the tip to U.S. agents about

01:01:36.160 the facility in Hollywood. So clearly, you know, he's definitely linked to the Philippines cache.

01:01:42.300 He's linked now to whatever's in this Hollywood facility. Was he the one who told the Daily Mail

01:01:47.820 that there was another storage facility in Rosarito, Mexico? I don't know. But they quote

01:01:53.360 Thomas Markle's son, Jr., as having been interviewed for two hours by the FBI over the potential third

01:02:00.420 cache of child sex images. And the quote attributed to him is, quote, my father told me about the

01:02:06.140 two units years ago in Hollywood. He's had them for about 15 years. One is stuffed to the brim

01:02:12.060 with Meghan's old furniture. The other is packed with boxes, books, photos, mementos for his career

01:02:18.480 in Hollywood, stuff from Meghan's college days, and God knows what else. Meghan Markle, of course,

01:02:23.380 being their half-sister, Thomas Markle's daughter, along with Doria Ragland. There's something else

01:02:29.140 there. There's something there. That's my gut feeling. I dread to think what the FBI might find,

01:02:35.180 especially given what has been found

01:02:37.100 in the Philippines and Mexico, said Thomas Jr.

01:02:39.900 He was interviewed at his home in Cordova, the Philippines

01:02:43.420 as part of an international multi-agency meeting

01:02:46.700 over Microsoft Teams.

01:02:49.180 Interviewed, I think they mean by the FBI

01:02:51.280 because that's what they were reporting

01:02:52.460 that he sat with them for two hours.

01:02:54.580 Thomas Jr. said his dad had been paying $700 a month

01:02:57.680 to rent the lockups in Los Angeles.

01:02:59.880 Receipts show that Markle Sr. paid a big brand storage firm

01:03:04.000 as recently as October 21st.

01:03:06.180 That's why you couldn't have the Daily Mail go in there.

01:03:09.060 He's up to date on that facility,

01:03:11.580 which means it hasn't been abandoned,

01:03:13.000 which means only law enforcement

01:03:14.620 could get in there with a warrant.

01:03:16.340 And that's why it is, quote,

01:03:17.720 to be searched by the FBI as they investigate

01:03:20.660 and appears they haven't yet gotten their warrant.

01:03:25.000 Thomas Jr. recalled his dad

01:03:26.300 mentioning the units several times

01:03:28.300 and his need to visit them.

01:03:30.400 He said, I remember when we lived in Mexico,

01:03:32.180 he would say he needed to travel to LA

01:03:33.860 to his storage units.

01:03:35.180 We tried to do this several times,

01:03:36.680 but he canceled every time.

01:03:38.200 At that point, I never really thought anything of it.

01:03:40.700 My dad lived in the city for many years,

01:03:42.580 so there could be stuff dating back years.

01:03:44.960 Quote, several family members offered to collect his stuff

01:03:48.340 and pack it up, but he said, no, no, no.

01:03:51.360 According to Junior, Junior continues,

01:03:53.960 I did go there once with my dad,

01:03:56.080 but I didn't go inside the unit.

01:03:58.080 Stayed in the lobby because he told me to wait.

01:04:00.580 What's so secretive that he wouldn't let anyone else

01:04:03.140 access them. I know he gets billed around 700 bucks for the two units every month on auto pay

01:04:09.100 because I still get the receipts emailed to me. He says, it's been a tough few weeks,

01:04:15.240 so it never really entered my mind to tell anyone about the units until the haul was found

01:04:18.740 in Mexico. I think it's important that the FBI search the LA units as soon as possible.

01:04:23.660 The more I learn about my dad, the more I am deeply shocked. He has given the address for

01:04:28.080 the facility to the FBI. It was not clear when agents will raid it. But now comes a report the

01:04:36.940 day after that hit, which was November 4th in the sun. Whoa, sorry. Is today the 5th? Gosh,

01:04:43.260 I'm losing track of my days after the election. It is the 5th. The Daily Mail reports today

01:04:48.940 that the police in the Philippines have extended their child sex investigation into Thomas

01:04:57.580 Markle Jr., Megan's half-brother. But they have not abandoned the father, who they say is likely

01:05:06.700 to soon be charged. So it's not an either-or, at least in the eyes of the Philippine officials.

01:05:14.140 It appears to be, are both of these guys potentially guilty here? Again, the Daily

01:05:20.060 Mail reporting that the police inquiry into the father has widened to include the son,

01:05:25.640 Thomas Markle Jr. The dramatic development was announced by the interior minister of the

01:05:31.940 Philippines, where officers are investigating possible child sexual abuse offenses. Interior

01:05:36.620 minister Juanito Victor Remula gave a press conference about the case in the capital Manila

01:05:42.840 and reportedly said, quote, there are indications suggesting that the son may also be involved in

01:05:49.800 the crime, but only as a person of interest so far. He is not yet treated as a suspect.

01:05:57.200 We have witnesses that underaged girls are brought to his house and we are following it up,

01:06:04.980 quoting here directly from the Daily Mail, who says it is quoting this Remula,

01:06:10.360 this interior minister of the Philippines. They write that he is the country's equivalent of a

01:06:15.680 home secretary. He described Thomas Markle Sr. as, quote, a possible sex offender of the grossest 0.80

01:06:21.700 kind, we told you this, when the story first broke last week after they had gotten their hands

01:06:26.040 on this trove of materials from his storage facility. Mr. Remula said police had asked

01:06:32.400 Mr. Markle Jr., who is 60, the father I think is 82, about the claim of underage girls and said

01:06:42.260 that he had, quote, claimed to be merely doing TikTok videos. What? Clearly, we need to know

01:06:52.260 more. Let me read that again. This interior minister said at this presser that police had

01:06:58.860 asked Markle Jr. about the claim of underage girls and said that he had, quote, claimed to be

01:07:05.760 merely doing TikTok videos. What in the F does that mean? What videos are they referring to?

01:07:13.760 Police in the Philippines are also said to be, quote, very close to bringing formal charges

01:07:19.800 against Thomas Markle Sr. after, well, I guess I shouldn't say that. The quote here is police in

01:07:29.240 the Philippines are also said to be very close to bringing formal charges against Mr. Markle

01:07:35.220 after child abuse images were allegedly found at his apartment.

01:07:39.700 I believe they are talking about senior here and not junior,

01:07:43.720 not close to bringing charges against junior, but senior.

01:07:47.140 Yeah, they are.

01:07:48.080 My team is just confirming in my ear.

01:07:50.420 Yes, they're very close to bringing charges against senior

01:07:53.800 as the investigation has widened to be looking at junior

01:07:58.500 as a person of interest so far, not a suspect.

01:08:01.740 And some weird comment about him allegedly saying,

01:08:05.220 He claimed to be merely doing TikTok videos.

01:08:08.860 Okay, this is so bizarre.

01:08:10.880 I don't know what the F is happening 1.00

01:08:12.140 with this disgusting family, 1.00

01:08:14.040 but they are so much more dysfunctional than anyone knew. 0.98

01:08:17.800 And I don't know what Junior's role is.

01:08:19.840 You know, we said this when we saw him.

01:08:22.360 Remember we said this when this broke,

01:08:23.900 and I was showing you the picture

01:08:24.880 of his so-called girlfriend who looks like a girl. 0.99

01:08:28.560 She looks like a girl. 1.00

01:08:29.540 If she's four foot five, it's a lot. 1.00

01:08:32.260 Like, that's bizarre.

01:08:33.140 And why did the son move to the Philippines? 0.98

01:08:34.740 I know you can move to the Philippines without being a child sex predator, but the odds of it being so are slim. 0.99

01:08:40.720 That is where you move if you like to molest young girls. 0.96

01:08:43.900 I'm sorry, but it is there in Thailand, which was another favorite of Thomas Markle Sr.

01:08:49.200 All this going on while Meghan swept it under the rug about her dad.

01:08:53.860 She's known for nearly eight years and wants us to believe she's serious, serious, serious, seriously upset about the news about her dad.

01:09:00.880 Meantime, also she's starring in MasterChef Junior in Australia.

01:09:04.640 And the news also hit that, hold on, I can't read this without my readers.

01:09:09.640 You know how it is.

01:09:11.300 That she and the Duke are set to visit Brussels next week.

01:09:15.560 They will deliver a joint keynote address at the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial in the European Parliament.

01:09:21.500 The brief trip abroad will see Harry and Meghan listen to addresses by European Parliament president and member of Parliament.

01:09:26.980 They will have between 15 and 20 minutes for their rare dual address, which they will use to speak about the importance of children's digital safety.

01:09:38.820 You've got to be kidding me.

01:09:41.940 Honestly, that later the Duke will join a panel discussion called Beyond Promises, building a digital future that works for children to discuss how to protect children online.

01:09:52.620 I have an idea.

01:09:53.880 I have an idea.

01:09:54.500 I would like to submit a suggestion into the suggestion box when you are told that there is a child sex predator exploiting them online and possibly in person living in Rosarito, Mexico, who then moves to the Philippines and then back to the United States in Pennsylvania and Florida. 0.99

01:10:11.120 Fucking say something. 0.97

01:10:13.420 I would like to put that in the suggestion box. 0.99

01:10:16.360 Someone, please, I'd like to make a motion to be heard.

01:10:18.540 this is ridiculous that now they are going to be platformed as two people genuinely concerned about

01:10:26.220 child safety online in brussels does brussels not read the news is there nobody there with 0.95

01:10:32.940 access to the internet to understand that these two have known about a child sexual predator

01:10:38.400 alleged but they've believed him to be for eight years and said nothing how the f are they getting

01:10:46.240 platformed as spokespeople on child safety online. This is ridiculous. 0.97

01:10:55.580 I'm in a mood today, you guys. I don't know about you, but I am in a mood. 0.93

01:11:00.360 It's just, it's a lot. The Senate is gone. The House is gone. The Supreme Court may soon be gone.

01:11:08.960 The Electoral College could soon be gone. We may be effed on the presidential election.

01:11:13.220 Russell Brand was convicted of anally raping a woman who giggled about anal rape with him and stuck her tongue in and around his anus without having been introduced to him and now will be separated from his family for five to 10 years. 0.97

01:11:28.720 And we have these two continuing to be platformed as advocates for children after knowing in their own minds for nearly eight years that they were related to a child sex predator and they did nothing. 0.97

01:11:42.840 That's where we are, okay?

01:11:44.740 So I don't think it's my Black Rifle coffee

01:11:47.180 stimulating my anger today.

01:11:50.260 I think it's the actual news.

01:11:52.880 I'll be fine.

01:11:53.760 This is my therapy, this show.

01:11:55.440 Being able to talk about it is helpful.

01:11:59.940 We're gonna bring on Blago in a minute

01:12:01.740 and he'll make us laugh because he's funny.

01:12:04.640 But first I wanna give you one other update

01:12:06.520 on other news items.

01:12:07.800 And that brings me to the Florida plane crash.

01:12:10.700 There is news.

01:12:11.800 the NTSB, 48 hours ago, held a presser and told us that they had found pieces of the jet

01:12:21.360 more than a mile away from the crash site. And they said that indicated separation of these pieces

01:12:27.920 before the impact. Now, that's actually very important. Hold on a second. We'll play that.

01:12:34.200 I think it's SOT-11. Yesterday, the majority of the aircraft's left elevator was located in three

01:12:41.540 pieces within a range about 1.3 to 3.8 miles away from the accident site. Those items are

01:12:50.020 being retained for analysis. For those not as familiar with aircraft components, the

01:12:55.720 elevator is a control surface located on the tail, which controls the up and down pitch

01:13:01.320 of the aircraft. Certainly it tells us that at least some components, some pieces of the

01:13:06.580 aircraft, important pieces of the aircraft, separated before the impact. What that means

01:13:12.220 exactly in terms of what caused the aircraft to lose control or whether the loss of this piece

01:13:19.600 was a result of the forces on the aircraft, we don't know yet. So it's going to take some more

01:13:23.240 analysis. But finding that piece is a very, very significant bit of evidence.

01:13:30.640 And that is just very disturbing and makes sense because we had Captain Steve explaining

01:13:36.420 to us that there's a piece on the tail of the Learjet. It's the horizontal stabilizer

01:13:43.740 that looks like it's missing. When you see the photo slowed down, you know, the freeze frame

01:13:50.760 of the jet going into the ground, it looks like it's missing. And he was saying without that

01:13:55.700 horizontal stabilizer, the plane is now basically just a dart that no pilot could stabilize it

01:14:02.660 after that. It's critical to maintaining flight. And now you hear the NTSB suggesting that it does

01:14:14.040 look like pieces of this plane had come off prior to impact. And that was another theory that we

01:14:23.100 discussed with Captain Steve, who said he believed, and he was waiting for more information, but he

01:14:27.940 believed at that point that the plane, when it asked to go up to 37,000 feet, was already under

01:14:33.520 a lot of stress. It had ice on the wings, and it was in danger of stalling, and they were in what

01:14:39.200 he called severe turbulence. It's a term that's ultimately up to the pilot to say whether it's

01:14:43.960 severe, mild, or moderate, but he said if the plane is raising and dropping some 700 feet as

01:14:50.640 the co-pilot described, he says that's severe turbulence. That's not moderate, even though she

01:14:55.420 described it as moderate. And that if you're suffering severe turbulence in the middle of a

01:15:01.700 thunderstorm, which goes high up, the thunderstorm goes high up, in other words, the weather system

01:15:06.800 goes on and on, and you can get sucked into an updraft. It's very dangerous. Almost every pilot

01:15:12.760 has said, if there's any doubt, there's no doubt, don't fly. If you're looking at thunderstorms,

01:15:17.180 they could have gone around. They could have gone around. It remains a mystery why they went

01:15:21.660 into the thunderstorm and whose fault that was. But in any event, his theory was that when they

01:15:28.140 asked for permission to go up to find better air, the plane couldn't take it. It was already under

01:15:32.820 too much stress. It stalled. And that is why we went from the co-pilot asking for permission to

01:15:38.600 go up one second and panicked the next second, saying they were dropping first 10,000 feet a

01:15:44.080 minute and then 22,000 feet a minute. And that Captain Steve was theorizing that that horizontal

01:15:51.240 stabilizer came off in the storm up there. And, and so between the stall and the loss of that

01:15:58.020 stabilizer, it was certain death from 37,000 feet or as high as 37,000 feet. Um, there, there was,

01:16:13.700 there was video, and this is a soundbite, of a Learjet. Let me just ask my team,

01:16:21.560 is this the Learjet or a Learjet months before? It's this, it is the Learjet. This is from May

01:16:28.640 2026. And it's about them experiencing turbulence. And again, to my team, I believe we hear what we

01:16:36.320 think is this same co-pilot, but it's not confirmed it's her? Yes, correct. Okay. So this

01:16:43.160 is making the rounds because here, this is the Learjet that was involved in this accident,

01:16:48.320 and we believe, though it's not totally confirmed, that it is the female co-pilot who was on the

01:16:54.960 doomed Learjet that just went down. It's from May of this year, and you can hear yet another

01:17:01.260 discussion between this co-pilot and air traffic control about turbulence occurring. Listen here,

01:17:07.320 SOT-12.

01:17:38.200 Two Bravo Delta, are you experiencing severe turbulence?

01:17:43.080 Affirmative. Affirmative.

01:17:46.000 So we don't know whether that co-pilot there is the pilot, the captain in charge, who is flying on board this flight that just crashed.

01:17:55.980 It's not uncommon to have the same team fly together, so it very well could have been, but I have no idea.

01:18:01.500 But you could hear there, too.

01:18:02.820 They were describing their turbulence as moderate, and it was air traffic control saying, that's not moderate.

01:18:08.500 What you are describing is severe.

01:18:10.720 And Captain Steeves, as well, said what they described as moderate turbulence this week was not moderate.

01:18:16.900 It was severe.

01:18:17.940 And severe gives you permission to do whatever the F you want.

01:18:22.240 Air traffic control will give you the route you want.

01:18:24.660 It changes the way everyone behaves because everyone knows how dangerous severe turbulence is.

01:18:30.040 So it does seem like there was potentially a pattern of underestimating the danger on board this Learjet, potentially by this same flight crew.

01:18:39.400 And let me tell you one other thing.

01:18:41.620 Melissa Chen, who is a very good, she's a conservative commentator and she's a very good ex-follow.

01:18:46.520 She tweeted out a soundbite of another plane on the day this Learjet went down this week, dealing with the same historic thunderstorms over Palm Beach.

01:18:57.380 And you can hear the air traffic control conversation between this pilot and ATC.

01:19:03.760 The ATC was telling him to go basically into the storm, the route that they had chosen for him.

01:19:09.340 And this male pilot says no.

01:19:13.640 He says, you're telling me to go right into the storm?

01:19:16.240 And they kind of confirmed.

01:19:18.300 2-5-0-8-0-2-40.

01:19:21.020 Unable. You're going to go 270 and you're going to go in a gap.

01:19:23.200 You can't go that way. There's traffic.

01:19:24.380 Okay, so you're going to make us go through a severe thunderstorm?

01:19:30.320 JetBlue 1971, I'm showing night precipitation where you're going through, sir.

01:19:33.800 Not from here, ma'am.

01:19:34.840 So we're declaring emergency, making a left turn heading 260 for severe weather avoidance.

01:19:39.700 JetBlue 1971, roger.

01:19:41.460 Everyone heading 240.

01:19:43.640 Roger.

01:19:44.700 Turning the left heading 230 to avoid severe weather avoidance, JetBlue 1971.

01:19:50.280 JetBlue 1971, roger.

01:19:51.620 And I copied the emergency.

01:19:53.180 Welcome.

01:19:54.060 You do what you're going to do.

01:19:55.160 We got to do what we got to do here.

01:19:56.700 No problem.

01:19:57.760 That plan will not work.

01:19:59.400 You have severe weather over there that he gave us previously.

01:20:02.800 That's why we declared emergency.

01:20:04.560 Roger, the supervisor knows already she's listening, and we just ground-stopped everybody.

01:20:08.720 All right.

01:20:10.460 He said, no, I'm not doing that.

01:20:13.600 He put his foot down.

01:20:15.620 He managed to avoid it, and he was safe, and he kept the passengers on board his flight safe.

01:20:22.560 So the NTSB this week confirmed that, of course, pilot error is one of the things that they will be looking at in trying to figure out what happened.

01:20:32.460 They were asked whether they are confident that the black box will be retrieved because that plane was demolished into nothing, into absolute nothing.

01:20:41.500 I mean, it hurled toward the earth at record speeds and was left just in a pile of rubble, if that.

01:20:50.480 And you heard the NTSB official, Thomas Chapman there.

01:20:54.160 What he said in response to that was,

01:20:55.740 I feel confident that they're going to find the evidence that they need within that crater.

01:21:02.300 So, I don't know.

01:21:03.840 He said it will be a lot of work to find the black box,

01:21:08.320 but he feels confident that they will find the evidence that they'll need

01:21:11.200 in order to figure this thing out.

01:21:13.260 I certainly hope that they do.

01:21:14.720 One final thing.

01:21:15.520 WPBF 25 News, a local news outlet down in Palm Beach, their investigative reporter, Terry Parker, obtained exclusive pictures of what appears to be twisted aircraft metal lying on the kitchen floor of a woman named Anna Escobar's home less than a mile from the crash scene.

01:21:36.880 This is chilling. Imagine being this poor woman, Anna Escobar, and tip of the hat to this Terry

01:21:43.300 Parker who actually found this woman. Escobar said the object tore through her roof and landed

01:21:50.180 inside her kitchen. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office received the suspected wreckage

01:21:56.260 Tuesday as evidence. It remains a minor, not minor, it remains a miracle that no one on the

01:22:02.520 ground was killed as this Learjet came down. Some speculate that the pilot may have tried to steer

01:22:07.880 it toward an area on the ground that did not have a cluster of houses, et cetera. I would like to

01:22:15.260 believe that. I don't know if that aircraft was steerable at all, but I would like to believe

01:22:22.200 that. We do know that the pilot, as it went down, was saying the Our Father, and either way, I think

01:22:27.620 we know who helped minimize the damage on the ground. And it was no mere mortal. Okay, we're

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01:25:03.440 Hey everyone, it's me, Megan Kelly. I've got some exciting news. I now have my very own channel.

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01:25:37.660 Our next guest has an

01:25:39.340 unusual distinction. He says he's the only man that a president has both fired and freed.

01:25:45.520 Radha Bogoyevich was governor of Illinois until December 2008, when FBI agents arrested him at

01:25:51.540 his home on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. He was convicted

01:25:57.800 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Before prison, he appeared on Donald Trump's Celebrity

01:26:03.920 Apprentice. Nearly eight years into his sentence, President Trump commuted it. Then in 2025,

01:26:10.520 Mr. Trump issued the former governor a full pardon. In his new book, Framed, Fucked, and Freed,

01:26:18.560 A Governor's Odyssey, Blago details his time behind bars, a world of prison gangs,

01:26:24.880 strange rules, and his relationship with his family. Rod Blagojevich, welcome back. How are

01:26:31.000 doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. You're very nice. Appreciate it. Good. Of course,

01:26:36.200 the title of the book is amazing. We talked about your experiences when you first got out of prison

01:26:41.500 and here you've documented them in very colorful form for everyone to read. It's a rip, roaring,

01:26:47.160 roaring read. I think people will enjoy it. And it all makes you really the perfect person to

01:26:51.780 comment on what we are likely about to see from another sort of gang, which is the Democrat Party

01:26:59.260 Now back in power, at least set to be now back in power.

01:27:03.080 What are your predictions?

01:27:04.720 Well, my predictions actually mirror my fears.

01:27:07.760 My prediction is that the Democrats are going to go crazy with weaponization, that they're

01:27:11.820 going to spend a lot of time, way too much time investigating President Trump, his family,

01:27:15.740 the people around President Trump, Pete Hexeth, people in Trump's administration.

01:27:20.300 They're not going to do what they're supposed to do, what they got elected on, which is

01:27:23.320 to address affordability for everyday, ordinary people.

01:27:26.260 they'll be hyper-partisan and hyper-politicized because the left wing, the socialist wing,

01:27:30.920 the Bolshevik wing of the Democratic Party now runs the show. And the moderate Democrats,

01:27:35.420 and I suspect still more of the members of Congress are more of that than socialists,

01:27:40.740 they're afraid of the socialists. So they're going to pander to them. And the pressure from the far

01:27:45.400 left and a lot of the voters that elected these socialists and Democratic candidates is going to

01:27:49.600 be so hard because they hate Trump so much. They love to hate Trump so much that I don't think

01:27:54.200 that the Democratic congressman, the leadership there is going to be able to resist the pressure

01:27:59.060 to blow this opportunity to govern in a bipartisan way, but instead they're going to go all into

01:28:05.160 investigations and impeachment. That's my fear. That would be the biggest gift they could give

01:28:10.060 to Republicans who want to take over as president after Trump leaves. It would be the best gift

01:28:14.740 the J.D. Vance's, Marco Rubio's, Ron DeSantis's of the world could ask for, for them to overshoot

01:28:20.660 their mandate, not focus on helping people make it just nonstop investorama.

01:28:26.320 On the subject of Pete Hegseth, there was a report that President Trump was possibly

01:28:32.020 thinking about asking Marsha Blackburn, who's now been elected as governor of Tennessee,

01:28:37.760 she gave up her Senate seat, now she's governor of Tennessee, allowing her to appoint Pete

01:28:42.460 Hegseth to take over her old Senate seat, now vacated Senate seat, and serve that out.

01:28:50.660 In an effort to sort of avoid some of the inquiries or the impeachment, the impeachment of him, because he would, you know, if he's not in office as the secretary of war, here's Trump responding to it during a gaggle he had at the White House ballroom construction project yesterday, SOT 3.

01:29:06.140 Are you considering replacing the secretary?

01:29:09.060 No, I think he's doing a very good job.

01:29:10.720 So you don't want him to bill Horace Blackburn in the Senate to be appointed?

01:29:14.560 Well, I think I think he's doing a very good job. And I actually think he'd be very popular if he did that. But I haven't heard that at all.

01:29:23.920 So so no, he says no. And I don't know. You tell me whether Ron DeSantis would have any interest in taking over that post if he's really interested in being the GOP nominee in 28.

01:29:35.860 You talk about Ron DeSantis or Pete Hexeth, which one?

01:29:39.180 Both. Both. Do you think that's a good move for Pete Hegseth? And do you think that because the

01:29:42.940 report is that maybe they'll replace Hegseth with Ron DeSantis? Well, first of all, I have advice

01:29:48.100 for governor, hard-earned advice for governor-elect Blackburn. Be careful what you say in the

01:29:51.820 telephone when you talk about whether or not you're going to make any kind of political horse

01:29:55.560 trade when it comes to appointing a senator, because that's what got me in trouble. Let me

01:29:59.260 also point out in July of 2015, Megan, the so-called fake sale of the Senate seat was reversed by the

01:30:04.540 public court, they called it nothing more than routine political log rolling. Now, with regard

01:30:08.580 to Pete Hegseth, if, in fact, the president wants to make a change at the Department of Defense,

01:30:14.040 that would be a good place and a good way to do it. And I think Governor-elect Blackburn

01:30:18.460 is apt to do it. She's been a very loyal supporter of President Trump. She's very capable.

01:30:23.180 People trust her. So that might be a good place for Pete Hegseth to parachute in if that's exactly

01:30:28.540 precisely what President Trump wants to do. Whether or not Governor DeSantis does something

01:30:33.040 like that. You know, here's the here was the rule because I know this like the back of my hand

01:30:38.080 because I went through it. All you need to do is live in a state for one day. And as long as you're

01:30:42.820 a citizen, you can be naturalized. You're 30 years old or old or older. You're eligible. You can be

01:30:47.780 a senator. And so, you know, Governor DeSantis wants to leave Florida and move to National

01:30:51.880 Tennessee, for example. And Blackburn, the governor elect, wants to appoint him to the Senate. That

01:30:57.160 can happen. Well, I don't think I don't think DeSantis. I guess you're right. That could happen.

01:31:01.660 But the report is that he would he would go in as secretary of war.

01:31:04.280 Obviously, he was in the Navy.

01:31:05.340 He was in the JAG Corps.

01:31:06.300 But he right now seems to be positioning himself to be a 2028 contender.

01:31:11.420 Of course, he tried in 2023 and the build up to 24.

01:31:14.120 He didn't make it.

01:31:15.300 Here's what he said to Jake Tapper.

01:31:19.040 Was this today?

01:31:20.320 No, no, I don't know.

01:31:21.100 I think this was yesterday.

01:31:22.900 Sot 5.

01:31:24.300 Are you considering running for president in 2028 to be part of that ideas debate?

01:31:29.080 So oftentimes here, oh, he's obviously planning this.

01:31:32.480 You know, I haven't planned anything.

01:31:33.840 I have a job to do.

01:31:34.880 The midterms was an important marker because you need to see what the political environment

01:31:39.020 is going to do.

01:31:39.600 I got some more things I got to do and I'll be a free man come January 5th.

01:31:44.080 Not that I'm counting down to that.

01:31:45.560 Last night was should be a wake up call for our party.

01:31:48.680 We really got blasted into oblivion.

01:31:52.440 I mean, you know, the way the minds of these politicians work, Rod, do you think a guy

01:31:56.520 like DeSantis coming off of the governorship of one of our largest states, Florida, would have

01:32:00.780 interest in serving in the Trump administration, which he's been ripping on for the past three

01:32:04.700 days. Like he's been talking about the corruption in it and the Iran war and how, you know, et cetera.

01:32:10.780 Would he give up the ability to do that by going into the secretary of war position?

01:32:17.160 If he has presidential aspirations, and I strongly suspect that he does after all he ran before,

01:32:21.960 He's a governor of a major state and had a record of accomplishment there.

01:32:26.380 And he won't do that.

01:32:28.500 He shouldn't do that.

01:32:29.260 He should be where he is now, former governor.

01:32:31.700 He taught his record, a lot like Ronald Reagan did with his record in California after he had been governor there from 1967 to 1975.

01:32:38.880 So if he has those aspirations and look, I know the business.

01:32:41.780 I was a governor myself.

01:32:43.040 I know how we think.

01:32:44.160 He's thinking of that.

01:32:45.820 And if that's the case, I don't think he's going to want to have a position in President Trump's administration.

01:32:51.300 And, you know, there's a question of DeSantis' loyalty to President Trump, because way back in the first election, while I was locked up, but I actually saw this while watching you on Fox News way back then on the white TV where the white guys watch the news because the televisions and prisoners are segregated.

01:33:05.700 The black guys watch CNN, as you can imagine. Right. But I remember watching that.

01:33:10.780 And, you know, he was running in a hard governor's race.

01:33:13.820 He was a congressman, not as well known then as he is now.

01:33:16.560 And President Trump was big time in helping him get elected.

01:33:19.420 then he decides to go challenge Trump himself. So there are those issues between the two of them

01:33:24.040 that I think are, you know, in the business, you remember, you know, loyalty, and you remember

01:33:27.680 people who weren't quite as connected or loyal to you that you might think should have been.

01:33:31.720 But having said that, Megan, let me just quote Harry Truman. He said, if you want a friend in

01:33:35.380 Washington, get a dog. It's a rough and tumble business. Don't expect loyalty from people in

01:33:39.660 politics. That's a rare, rare thing. We're talking to Rod Blagojevich. He's got a book out. It's

01:33:46.060 called Framed, F'd and Freed, A Governor's Odyssey. Well worth your time. A fun read and

01:33:51.560 actually shocking in some of its big reveals. What do you think? What was your take when you

01:33:56.660 watched Tuesday's electoral results roll in? What was your takeaway? I said, boy, the only

01:34:03.640 prediction I got right was the polls would be wrong. But I didn't realize it'd be wrong going

01:34:07.900 the other way. I thought the Republicans would hold on to the Senate. I thought the Democrats

01:34:12.260 were very likely to win the House, historical trends and all the other dynamics involved.

01:34:16.060 But I didn't see this coming. In fact, I rejected talk of that. Largely, for many reasons, not the least of which is the polls have been so wrong so many times before, and they've been balanced, you know, leaning against the Republicans and actually been used as weapons and political weapons for Democratic candidates.

01:34:34.160 So I was shocked. And the thing that really broke my heart and makes me afraid for America is that Texas, of all places, went Democrat as big as it did. And, you know, Texas is so important to American politics. You're still talking to a guy. I call myself a Trumpocrat, a Democrat for Trump. I haven't given up on me being a Democrat.

01:34:55.880 But this Democratic Party and how the socialists have taken over, and there's communists in there too. I know these people. I know they were there when I was in politics. They just weren't as strong. We need some check and balance to them. And we need a Republican Party that's viable and competitive nationwide.

01:35:11.880 nationwide. And let's just hope that Texas is briefly going to be blue and goes back to being,

01:35:18.100 you know, a sensible state, which it is that loves America, you know, and it's all about

01:35:24.260 providing energy to our economy, you know, good, decent people. I'm a Dallas Cowboy fans. I love

01:35:29.160 the Bears and the Dallas Cowboys. So let me say this. Texas had a bad, bad couple of days. The

01:35:33.840 Cowboys blew a game. They should have won. And look what happened on Tuesday.

01:35:36.140 my gosh who would you say is more brutal the uh democrats or the gangs you dealt with in prison

01:35:42.840 oh i mean that's a real good question the guys in the prison the gang bangers the

01:35:49.900 crypts and bloods the gangster disciples the sena lower cartel drug dealers who look up to

01:35:53.440 el chopo the drug lord like my daughters look up to taylor swift and frankly look up to you because

01:35:57.960 they really they read your book the book you said sent me settled for more um i was in there with 0.58

01:36:03.400 murderers. I went from a 50,000 square foot governor's mansion having access to that to a

01:36:07.080 six foot by eight foot prison cell. And I spent 2,896 days with those gangbaggers and some of

01:36:12.540 those violent criminals. And look, there were some real bad guys there, some wicked evil guys there.

01:36:17.980 There were con men there, of course, 2% of the 950 guys in the prison I was in for the first

01:36:22.740 three years were con men, very dishonest. They reminded me a lot of some of the Democratic

01:36:27.780 politicians I've gotten to know over the years. So if you're asking me, you know, who's more likely

01:36:32.600 to stab you in the back for sure, the politicians. If you're likely to ask me who's about to shiv,

01:36:37.660 stick a shiv right, you know, in your chest, it'd be some of those guys I live with in prison.

01:36:42.780 But you had a soft spot for some of them. You write in the book,

01:36:45.840 so as I made my last turn through the line of inmates, this is when you're leaving,

01:36:49.620 I seized the opportunity to say one final thing. Stopping abruptly, I turned to face those guys.

01:36:54.740 Thank you, fellas, I shouted. I'll miss you. I appreciate all of you. Best of luck. Never give

01:36:59.860 up. Always keep hope alive. Miracles do happen. Look at me. And one more thing. When I'm president,

01:37:05.860 pardons for all of you, motherfuckers. And I was gone, but not for long. As things turned out, 1.00

01:37:12.040 this would not be my last day in prison. What a moment for you.

01:37:17.200 Yes. And you're right. I had a lot of affection for a lot of the guys and still do. And they're

01:37:21.940 friends. I've got a blurb on my book on the front from President Trump. He says,

01:37:26.780 this this is an injustice should have never happened terrible thing and then on the back

01:37:30.340 my friend Walter Hill you know and he writes a a little blurb says you know friend and former

01:37:35.520 inmate so uh no I I made a lot of friends there and and you look most of those guys did what they

01:37:41.800 were there for too many of them were over sentenced you know there were some really bad guys of course

01:37:46.860 they were not my friends uh but by and large I was very lucky in the sense that I was treated so

01:37:52.580 well by those guys. And, you know, I have warm feelings for them. And I write about them. You

01:37:57.500 know, they have these names, you know, Socks and Slick and Smelly and Stinky and Honeybun. Honeybun

01:38:02.400 got the name because he won a honeybun eating contest in prison because you can buy those at

01:38:06.180 the commissary. It was modeled after the Nathan Hot Dogs 4th of July contest. And this guy blew

01:38:12.080 away the field. And so I tell stories about that in prison. I talk about my prison band,

01:38:17.140 G. Rod and the Jailhouse Rockers. I was the lead singer. We have a whole chapter on that. But

01:38:22.880 no, I mean, it was a hard eight years, but I learned that, you know, you can endure anything

01:38:28.500 if you have purpose. And for me, I write the final chapter of the book, which I hope people

01:38:32.140 read, because that's the one where I think I can help people who are going through their hard times,

01:38:36.680 just like you write in your book, you know, Settle for More. You talk about adversity and

01:38:40.040 embracing adversity. Well, that's what I write about in the final chapter. And I talk about,

01:38:44.820 You know, Viktor Frankl wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning, and he was a Holocaust survivor, had it a million times worse than me. 0.78

01:38:50.460 But he said that, you know, the last of the human freedoms is, even after they've taken everything from you, is our freedom to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. 0.80

01:38:59.140 And if you can find the why to live, you'll figure out the how.

01:39:01.440 My why were my little girls who I left behind, my wife, and my faith in God.

01:39:05.320 It was faith, hope, and love that got me through.

01:39:07.360 And I worked every single day on constructive things for those 2,896 days.

01:39:11.920 And it was a miracle that connected me to Donald Trump.

01:39:14.400 And eventually he was in a position where some of the same people were doing to him what they did to me.

01:39:19.220 And I was able to come home.

01:39:20.640 And as you said earlier, Donald Trump's the only president in American history to have fired and freed the same guy.

01:39:25.600 Even Lincoln didn't do that.

01:39:28.660 That's crazy.

01:39:30.180 Again, the name of the book is Framed, F'd and Freed, A Governor's Odyssey.

01:39:34.640 We're speaking with Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois.

01:39:38.280 You know, the news today, before we even got on the air for the live show, is that Russell Brand has been convicted of one count of rape, three counts of sexual assault.

01:39:51.140 I have very strong feelings about the case, Rod, just because we've been covering it very closely.

01:39:55.640 And the one count of rape on which he's been found guilty is just, it's a travesty.

01:40:00.220 This woman pursued him aggressively.

01:40:02.640 She was obsessed with him. 1.00

01:40:04.180 I won't even get into the disgusting things she was doing to him physically before she even had 1.00

01:40:09.000 been introduced to him. And now he's looking at five to 10 on these charges. And he, like you,

01:40:15.560 has three young kids. He has two daughters. I think they're 10 and eight and a young son who's

01:40:19.860 a baby who's three years old. What would your advice be to him as he's facing sentencing on

01:40:25.080 this on Monday? Yes. It's not about you anymore. It's about your little children and it's your

01:40:31.140 love for them. And you must endure, persevere, and overcome. You can never give in. You can't give up

01:40:35.880 and put your faith in God. But above all, beside God, it's your kids. And that's your purpose. And

01:40:43.000 you have to live your life now, always reminding yourself what's best for them and getting their

01:40:48.440 father back one day. Never, you've seen their father give up. That's important to them because

01:40:54.200 they're going through hard times too. And the stronger you can be, the more cheerful you can be

01:40:58.400 in the midst of the storm that you find yourself in, you're giving, you're providing a gift to

01:41:03.520 your children. And I found in my own experience, when I would go through periods in prison,

01:41:07.740 and they were hard, and there would be times, for example, when I simply wouldn't eat,

01:41:11.060 because I felt like, you know what, I want to like, I want to do, I want to sacrifice something

01:41:15.100 for my kids from far away. I got a certain sense of pleasure out of that, not so much pleasure,

01:41:20.060 but a sense of joy and accomplishment. Because it was a far away way of sending some love back

01:41:25.420 to my little girls. They were eight years old and 15 years old when they took me away. They were

01:41:28.740 16 and 22 when I got home. So my advice to Russell Brand is if you believe you're innocent,

01:41:35.400 never give up on that. Fight hard. The justice system is a broken system, but there can be ways

01:41:40.820 where it can be corrected. We as Americans must fix our justice system. I can tell you a million

01:41:45.940 reasons why, but when it comes to your personal travails, Russell Brand, remember those children,

01:41:51.260 your love for them. That's your purpose. You maintained your relationship with your

01:41:56.340 daughter somehow, notwithstanding the bars, and he's going to have to find a way to do the same

01:42:00.940 if his appeals do not pan out. The book is by Rod Blagojevich. It's called Framed, Eft, and Freed.

01:42:07.680 It's got his great sense of humor and the wisdom that comes from a life that's had its fairest

01:42:13.040 share of challenges and adversity, as you say. It's out next week. Go and pre-order it now and

01:42:17.260 support Rod in his current iteration. All the best to you. Great to see you. Thank you, Megan.

01:42:21.780 Appreciate you. Yeah, good luck with it. Check it out. Framed, effed, and freed.

01:42:27.940 Thanks for listening to The Megan Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - November 05, 2026

Neocon PANIC Over Blue Tsunami, with Jesse Kelly, Plus Shock Twist in Markle Investigation, and Blago on Prison and Freedom ｜ Ep. 1435

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