New Casey Anthony and JonBenet Ramsey Revelations, and Overcoming Envy, with Mark Geragos, Marcia Clark, and Dr. Laura | Ep. 438
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1 hour and 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, Dr. Laura joins me to discuss the JonBenjem Ramsey case, Elizabeth Holmes is getting a sentencing hearing, and the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to spiral out of control in Los Angeles. Plus, we talk about Tom Brady and Giselle Tessitore s divorce and why they may have fallen apart.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
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It's a big day here. Today happens to be my birthday. Yay, Scorpio.
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And I'm super excited to be spending it with you and with Dr. Laura.
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Also, later today, we're going to be joined by an all-star, all-star Kelly's court, Marcia Clark and Mark Garagos together.
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This is going to be so fun and there's a lot going on.
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This is kind of, I don't know if it's provocative, if it's telling, but there's a pretty significant update in the JonBenet Ramsey case.
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Also, Elizabeth Holmes is going to be sentenced today.
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The Harvey Weinstein case has gotten out of control in L.A.
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First, though, we are joined by one of my favorites, Dr. Laura, host of the Dr. Laura program on Sirius XM, which airs right after this program on Triumph 111.
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And if you just want, I mean, they have withstood the test of time.
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I have them on audio, the ones that I can get on audio I love.
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And I just put them on and I, you know, whatever, do my housework or I do my makeup.
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Everything she said, even in 2000, you could play it today, use it just as much.
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This life's problems continue to recycle, is what I've noticed.
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She shares her much-needed wisdom with millions of fans every single day.
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And you can listen to her for three hours, which I often do.
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Thank you for that lovely greeting and for doing that live on the air.
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I'm so delighted that they booked you for today.
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I feel like I have so many things that I want to go over with you.
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There's so many things I want to ask you about that are in the news or just bugging me or whatever.
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This is a weird place to start, but I've been dying.
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As the person who wrote The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriages, can we talk about Tom Brady and Giselle?
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I know you can't diagnose them, but it's weighing on me.
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We've met them a couple of times and I've seen them.
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They looked like the perfect picture of happiness to me.
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And now the reports are that they've filed for divorce and that she's in Costa Rica where they used to go all the time together with her karate instructor.
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And they say this marriage has fallen apart because he wouldn't give up his football career.
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I mean, the guy has six or seven Super Bowl rings and she wanted him to give up his career.
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Because to me, it just seems like who would let a beautiful marriage fall apart because of football?
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And it wasn't most likely, therefore, really a beautiful marriage.
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You must know, because you know so many people in the business, that when there's a husband and wife and they're both hot celebrities,
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that it becomes business to portray a certain image because that's part of the marketing.
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You understand what I'm saying without saying it to them?
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That doesn't mean that what you saw was real, but it was a business agreement.
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Do you think I mean, I think about this in the same way Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fell apart after 10 years, they renewed their vows.
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And I think within a week he served her with divorce papers.
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I think on the outside, we do see these beautiful people with these, quote unquote, perfect lives.
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And we buy it because we're meant to buy it in the same way that the iPhone manipulates us in ways we don't fully understand.
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And it creates these images that we even smart people who are skeptical wind up believing.
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And then when it all comes crashing down, we think, huh, I'm so curious.
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And it's pernicious because we hold ourselves to similar standards that are unattainable.
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Well, remember, let's see, Sonny Bono and Cher.
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And one day I was watching the show and I went, the marriage is over.
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And that was a case where, according to Cher, she wanted to go out and be on her own.
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He sort of discovered her, she said, and mentored her.
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And they were wonderful together, but she wanted to be her own person.
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So there are lots of reasons people get together, stay together when they're in the public view.
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She came to the place where the public view was not enough for her.
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So there are a lot of different kinds of situations.
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And I think in a more private life, I don't know, you have to make sacrifices for your marriage.
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You have to make some professional sacrifices for your marriage, which I think people don't think about as much as making sacrifices in their marriage for their professional career.
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Well, I had a call from a 30-something-year-old male who sounded almost like an AI.
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And that was his problem, dealing with feelings, something he wouldn't go near.
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And he asked me, and his career was everything to him.
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It was the most important thing in the world, but he wanted to have a relationship.
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And he wanted to know what quality is, first and foremost, if there is a first and foremost.
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And it's funny what you just said, because I said to him, both people have to be willing to sacrifice for the happiness of the other.
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If both are not doing that, I mean, if only one does that, that's, to me, almost an abusive relationship.
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But if both are doing that, that's the perfect marriage.
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But that's the one thing we need to be able to do, sacrifice.
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I've heard you talk to people before, and I think you've written about it in your books, about how, okay, if you do it, if you make a sacrifice for your partner, then there's another piece of it, which is not then holding it against them for eternity.
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Resentment is because the manipulation didn't work.
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Like, you're trying to get him to be different.
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I gave up this for you, and now I'm expecting to get this.
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It's not the same thing as, I love you, and I want you to be happy, so this is what I'm giving to you.
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You've talked about how looking at others, because I'm thinking about this and the way we perceive these quote-unquote perfect marriages, and the way we perceive these quote-unquote perfect people on Instagram, on TikTok.
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Young women deal with this a lot about how it can lead to a deterioration in confidence.
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People ask you all the time, how do I be more confident in myself, or how do I help my child become more confident?
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And one of the things I know you say you're not supposed to do is compare yourself to other people.
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But it's very hard in today's day and age, which is so visual.
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These images are being pushed on kids and teens, forget kids who aren't really supposed to be on there, but let's say 22-year-olds, on Instagram with the filters and the magazines and so on, and like the ubiquitousness of celebrity culture at every turn.
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And even in one's personal life, you know, they have their Facebook friends and their couple from college they knew, they've got everything, and I don't.
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So what do you say to the people who are struggling not to take that leap of making a comparison between their own life and somebody else's?
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Well, I remind them that they're making a comparison about an ongoing video, their own lives, and a snapshot of somebody else's.
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I remember I got an email last week from a woman who said she was at some lake, and she was watching a family that she was related to.
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She was watching a family, everybody was fighting, nasty, and annoyed, and tired, and pissed off, and not being nice to each other, and then they took a family picture and put it on Facebook.
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You can't compare because you're not comparing the same thing.
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Anybody, if I had a very unhappy person, I could still find something in their day that was good and take a snapshot.
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What about that feeling of envy that creeps up?
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I mean, in this business, I remember at Fox News, it was, you would see it everywhere.
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And Roger told me young in my career, early on, he said,
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Other people will try to imitate you, but there will only ever be one you, so you don't have to worry about them.
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And that was a release for me, because that does happen.
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You know, sometimes you're like, you're irritating.
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But I think people do it as a form of flattery, as a form of envy, potentially.
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But when you are feeling envy, it's a terrible feeling.
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Well, it means you've dismissed the value of yourself, because it looks like somebody else has more or is better.
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And there was a talk show host in Los Angeles, and he would start his show by saying, somebody would say to him,
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You know, callers tend to do that, so how are you?
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I'm prettier than some, not as pretty as others.
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There's a whole spectrum, and you're somewhere on the spectrum, which means there are people behind you who are looking at you and going,
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It's actually kind of insane how, the shape that you're in.
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Oh, honey bun, that's going to catch up on you.
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So, and I know you've got to put those deposits in right now.
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That's what's going to happen to all your body parts.
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I, it's like, I know this intellectually, but it's so hard to force myself up off of
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I, and once you start, you get into a groove and you can keep it rolling, but it's hard
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And I don't sit there and go, oh, goody, oh, goody, goody, goody, goody.
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Go on one of the apps, which shows you 30 years from now, a whole body.
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Maybe that'll motivate you to work out, but, you know, collagen disappears and gravity
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But the more you work out, the healthier you stay and the better you're going to look, even
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Have you been fighting it every step of the way?
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Most of the, well, I'm going to be 76 in January.
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Nonetheless, I look in the mirror and go, shit.
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So, but, you know, I'm so active that I don't sit and fret about it as long as I can still,
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as they say, kick ass in the gym and on the water racing my boat and everything else.
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As long as I can still do the things that give me purpose in life, I'll tolerate the
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fact that, you know, I have smile lines when I'm not smiling.
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I heard you telling a story on your show one day about how you were in an exercise class
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and you had your legs bent up like over the top of you and sort of seeing the skin sagging
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down and thinking, whoa, this is not a good position.
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Well, it was downward facing dog and I had shorts on.
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You don't see that when you get in that position that all the skin above your knee crinkles up.
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So there I am upside down going, what the hell is that?
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That was my first notion because when you're standing up, you know, it all looks okay.
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I have to think about it more as like a discipline.
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I always used to say when selecting a mate, you know, when selecting a life partner, you
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know, how a lot of these Chinese marriages are arranged.
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Put yourselves in the shoes of the Chinese parent.
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Make a decision that you think is best for you on paper.
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Don't let it be all heart because some people you can see intellectually are not right for
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you or you don't have shared values or you don't.
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If you're very religious, you marry somebody from another religion.
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Like put yourself in the shoes of your own parent.
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I would make me get up earlier and do the damn workout.
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It could be 30 minutes, could be 20 minutes or at least a couple of times a week.
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You make a decision like when I'm in the house, I go, OK, I'm going to go down there
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The buyer at the last, at the last moment freaked out.
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So I've decided I'm going to do some of the cosmetic things I've always wanted to do.
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And I'm going to stay here because I have almost 280 degrees of ocean.
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And you have to be thinking about, I know you took a tumble and broke your wrist.
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You have to be thinking about making it safe, right?
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Because we all do get older and things get like a fall.
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Actually, Megan, you're, you're walking into it now.
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I didn't fall because I'm old and fragile and dizzy.
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I fell because this brand new pair of sneakers caught on some Velcro like stuff on a stair.
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But, you know, I'm not worried about stairs or any of that.
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Well, here's what somebody, here's what my, my sister-in-law sent me this morning.
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Well, having fallen and nobody laughed, but they, you know, I was running down the stairs
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I can stand on one foot and do the rest of this interview the whole time on one foot.
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You're five and a half years younger than my mom.
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And I, I don't think my mom would mind me telling you, she is nowhere near this level
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And she is definitely at the stage where you're like, oh my God, she could tumble at any second.
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Like, it's a more inspiration to work out and get that sort of muscle base going into your
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seventies, you know, long before you get there.
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But also, I don't know, be, you know, you do need to make your environment favorable to aging.
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Hopefully you're going to be with us for another 25, 35 more years.
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So you could probably stay in your house forever, right?
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I was just like, I'm seeing these arms, please.
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Um, there's been a lot of buzz in female circles, um, that I'm on, like on online about
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Um, but there's, it's certainly not going to be Kamala Harris versus Kristi Noem.
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It's not maybe at the number two level, but there's not going to be a female presidential
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candidate who really has got a chance of winning.
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And then that expands to where are all the female CEOs?
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Why are so few fortune 100 and fortune 500 companies being run by CEOs?
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And I used to ask these same questions thinking it was somehow reflective of a societal problem.
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And the more I've thought about it, the older I've gotten, the more I think
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it might be reflective of a societal plus in the female category of women understanding
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And I feel like women, they intentionally make other choices.
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This may not be a problem that society has to solve at all.
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I'm so happy to hear you say this because it's absolutely correct.
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If you said you wanted to run for some kind of office, they'd support you.
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Women, by and large, don't want to sacrifice that much.
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They're in war much more than women are, except civilians if you're in the Ukraine.
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And then we diss men as being some kind of ugly patriarchy.
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Are women out there with pitchforks and hammers and nails and laying tracks down for railroads?
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So, I mean, this country is pretty much glued together by the work of men on their backs.
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And yet we complain about, guys, I think it's terrible that we are disrespecting what men have provided.
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And if, you know, women still, we want to be the ones who nurture our kids, except for some strange circumstances.
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Like, I think it was a woman, and I don't remember her name, but I think she was the CEO of one of the bubbly drink companies that I don't want to say.
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And she talked about how her kids ask her, please, to spend time.
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And, you know, she feels bad for them, but this is her career.
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I was on with Katie Couric one time on the Today Show, and she stunned me by going into, her kids are very supportive of what she does.
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And I said, you know, the cheering is supposed to go the other way.
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So, there are women types who are different, but by and large, women want to be taking care of family, interspersed with work.
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But we didn't make the work force us to sacrifice our kids.
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So, yeah, I don't think women, by and large, want a lot of these jobs.
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You don't see them clamoring to be in coal mines.
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I don't want that kind of scrutiny in my life, even.
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I mean, I have some, of course, but that's next level.
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I would like to be free once my kids are out of the house to spend days reading books, doing something more leisurely.
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I really don't want to be immersed in the toxicity of politics or even a CEO job at that level, which is completely dominating of your waking hours.
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I don't even know how you can discuss politics without your eyes rolling around in your head.
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Seriously, that I applaud you for being able with a straight face to do interviews about politics.
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You know, I've maintained my sense of humor and I don't get too bummed out by any electoral result or too excited by one either.
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I kind of think the system as a whole will correct itself if it goes too far.
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Because it's such a depressing business otherwise.
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My best quality as a news anchor has sort of been the ability to say, hey, all right, whatever, you know, like I don't really care that much about what you're saying or what you're doing.
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There's certain things, something something is going to severely hurt my kid, you know, but for the most part, I'm like, you're going to be here today, gone tomorrow.
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I'm going to be interviewing somebody just like you in two weeks, you know, like you're really not that important.
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Now, wait, while I have you, I have to thank you for the beautiful.
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It's got a little purple flower, a little yellow flower, a little orange flower and beautiful silver bracelet.
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And this this is not the only one, because this is part of a charity that you help troops through our American veterans.
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I raise money for the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation.
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They give college scholarships to kids whose parents were killed in combat.
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These are earrings that I made for the holiday boutique.
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Like how how do you make a real flower into a piece of jewelry like this?
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Well, interestingly enough, my main source of dried and pressed flowers is from a woman in the Ukraine.
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But I connected with her on Etsy and she has the most beautiful display of flowers.
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And she's I don't know how to say it correctly.
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It used to be Kiev and then they changed it to Kiev without telling us.
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Well, you know, I went into Etsy, looked at the flowers, ordered them.
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And then when it came, I thought, oh, my God, I didn't even realize it was coming from the Ukraine.
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You know, she's sending flowers around the world while she's getting bombed.
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Does she have any idea who she's corresponding with?
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She could probably really use instead of your your money, a trade deal in advice.
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And what I do is I find people who are very when I take on a new art form.
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When I take on a new art form, I immediately try to find out who's really good at it in the country and read their books.
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If they have books, look at their tapes, if they have tapes and actually call them up and ask a million questions.
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And I have found that people are always so happy to be helpful to somebody who is enjoying their art form.
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I just one day I walked in there and went, I'm done.
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It's so pretty and it's it's elegant to I'm just showing it again.
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Hopefully the audience can see this on the YouTube, but it's so elegant.
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It's it's this bracelet that I have here is like a little understated, but still with some pop and some color.
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It's eye catching, but it's not too much either because I don't I don't go too much in my jewelry.
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I noticed that you're understated in your jewelry.
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And I also wore, you know, sleeves for you today because I know you don't like when your news anchors are showing skin.
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I'm I'm going to go I'm going to go get an ad in because, you know, we work for Sirius and it's important to keep them in business more with Dr.
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So she is doing a corny joke day on Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
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You're going to have your corny jokes ready for getting back together with your family.
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So let me play a little bit of of what happened last year just to give you a taste of what to expect.
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What did the blonde say to her husband who would not let her get in a word edgewise about how to cook the corn for Thanksgiving?
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Oh, just just just just just just just just I know you hear me.
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I mean, he's got a lot that have to do with bathroom bathroom issues.
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His other candidate was a man goes for an interview at a job and they say, I see here
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And the man says, well, an elderly woman came in and she said, I need to check my balance.
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I used to be more blonde, but now I'm just totally platinum.
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What did the blonde say when she looked inside the carton of Cheerios?
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This isn't actually this isn't a corny joke, but I do love this joke and it's rather quick.
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Old man, he's like 95, decides to get married to this 25 year old woman and he's concerned
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So he goes to the doctor before the wedding night and he says, hey, doc, you know, I'm
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He says, you know, anything I need to know about anything you want to let me know.
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Sex could be potentially fatal, could be lethal.
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And in response to which the old man says, well, she dies, she dies.
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Just get people laughing before they go home for the holidays.
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And this is something you've long been telling people like a few helpful hints before you
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We're going into the stretch, you know, the six week stretch where it's as holidays, parties,
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And people sort of have to gear up with do's and don'ts for this season to remind themselves
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how to manage it because it can be stressful, too, for people.
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Well, the first thing I tell people is have the courage not to go where you really don't
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Oh, I don't want to go to that party because their son molested me when I was six.
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Now, the other one is if you've got a bone to pick with anybody, don't pick the bone
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You're not obligated to be anywhere that you don't want to be.
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I like to tell people to distinguish between relatives and family.
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There are people who, by marriage or genetics, are related.
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That doesn't mean they're warm, loving, reasonable, kind, compassionate people you want to be with.
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Because typically, you want to go see your mom, for example.
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There are 364 other days to see them if you don't want to be there at the same time as
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other people who are dangerous or drunks or whatever.
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The amount of family time can be stressful for people who, like, you've got to go see
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Let's say, you know, you are going to be with your husband's family.
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This is not my situation, so I just want to make sure my mother-in-law doesn't think I'm
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But there are a lot of people who feel like they've got to do it, and they've got to spend
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time with their husband's family or the wife's family.
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And it can be very stressful for them to manage.
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They do it for their loved one, but it's a stressful thing to manage.
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Like, if you can't get out of it, hold your tongue?
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For example, if you're a woman whose husband has family that's very mean to her, or let's
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just go for mean to her, tell your husband, go, not on Thanksgiving, because that's our
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family's time, and just see your parents some other time.
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And any spouse that would want you to put yourself in a situation where you're being bullied or
00:34:41.520
harassed, hurt, is not behaving in a very loving way.
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So I have a whole different way of looking at this.
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Do not put yourself in a situation to be abused.
00:35:09.720
So that reminds me of another thing I've been wanting to ask you about friends.
00:35:14.200
I know you say that you, you don't do in your real life what you do on your show.
00:35:19.940
You're not running around just offering advice to people.
00:35:25.340
But I know you're not sort of running around to cocktail parties saying, well, you made the
00:35:40.980
I'm having this, this debate right now with some friends.
00:35:43.660
If you have a friend whose behavior you object to, who you, who you would like to weigh
00:35:48.420
in with, you would like to say, I don't think what you're doing is good for you.
00:35:59.640
I have a group of friends that's saying you should do that.
00:36:02.160
If you have a friend who you want to say that to, you should air it out.
00:36:06.340
And I've been more in the camp of it's not my business.
00:36:10.360
Like my friend will lead their lives according to how they want to lead their lives.
00:36:14.880
And it's not for me to tell them, I think it's wrong and I don't like what you're doing.
00:36:19.380
I'll just have to decide on my own whether I want to be around this person anymore.
00:36:22.820
And they're more in the camp of no fight for it.
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You are right because it is none of your business.
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Now, the only time I make an exception is when somebody's hurting a kid.
00:37:09.300
Friend or not, I've been in a store where somebody was, one husband was holding a kid and it was 9 o'clock at night and the kid's crying and he slams the kid.
00:37:19.500
And I walked over and this guy could have squashed me like a bug.
00:37:30.860
So when there's a child involved, I don't keep quiet.
00:37:35.560
But I don't worry about adults making their own stupid choices.
00:37:41.440
And if the choices are so egregious that I believe they cannot be a friend, then that's it.
00:37:50.200
But I don't intervene in people's lives other than intercepting an adult hurting a kid.
00:37:57.820
Do you give advice to friends who ask you for it?
00:38:06.200
They don't ask me for advice, interestingly enough, now that you ask me and I'm thinking about it.
00:38:12.500
Like, this is happening at home and I'm kind of frustrated and tired about it.
00:38:18.300
And we just talk about it like two friends talk about something.
00:38:31.680
Well, this parlays into something else on the advice front.
00:38:41.640
They are still very much, I think, in the phase where they need my advice.
00:38:46.200
They need us to help develop character and help them figure out how to make judgments and, you know, how this whole process works.
00:38:55.340
But at some point, I've heard you say this to people a million times, like they have to solve their own problems.
00:39:01.200
Mommy and daddy can't swoop in and be there for every single one.
00:39:08.800
The line is when, as I am certain, because I've known you for a while now, I am certain that your kids know that no matter how dumb they've been to do something really stupid, that they can come to the two of you.
00:39:23.860
So when kids know that, you don't have to lecture them.
00:39:28.960
They're going to come to you and say, what should I do?
00:39:35.540
They're going to come to you and ask for the advice.
00:39:40.200
And that's going to be, you know, as they get closer to 20.
00:39:45.300
So it'll be obvious, like they'll be seeking it out.
00:39:53.920
That's the thing that most parents don't think about.
00:39:56.140
They just want to become over-controlling and micromanaging.
00:39:59.620
But if your kids know that you will not just sit in judgment and go crazy, but you will listen and have a conversation about it, then for the rest of their lives, they're going to come to you because they know they don't know everything.
00:40:15.360
I can talk about this freely now because they're so young, so people know that none of this has happened in our lives.
00:40:19.640
But what if, I mean, what if one of them starts having premarital sex and they're, they come and they tell me, not like an accident happened, but they want to admit that to me and they want help and advice on how to handle that.
00:40:34.380
Or what if they get in trouble for, I don't know, God forbid, drug driving, something terrible where it's like, your instinct would definitely be to offer some judgment, you know, some, we need to go over the family values again.
00:40:47.020
But you also want to be, make them comfortable coming to you, especially in those potentially dangerous situations.
00:40:54.560
Okay, well, the sex talk should be happening by the time they're five and you go through the pros and cons of, gosh, sex really feels good.
00:41:06.120
However, when it doesn't have a context of love, commitment, trust, you know, it's going to be painful at some point.
00:41:15.960
So, they're getting the philosophical points at a very young age and you just keep driving with it.
00:41:23.460
Now, eventually, they will make a choice and I've had young women call and they decided to do it anyway and then realized it didn't add anything wonderful to their lives.
00:41:35.420
And so, then they had to discuss feeling guilty and shamed and all of that and I tried to erase that part and you had a wonderful revelation of a value that's going to benefit you for the rest of your life and make you understand that certain things are special.
00:41:52.320
Frankly, I'm always stunned when somebody walks up and knows who I am.
00:41:56.820
I don't know why I have that problem, but she ran up to me and she was not happy and she said, I don't like your position on, you know, shacking up.
00:42:11.520
And so, instead of going into a whole lecture about that, I said, okay, imagine this.
00:42:15.700
You have this beautiful wedding and you're wearing a beautiful white dress and you actually earned it and after the party and all the wonderful loving things people say, you go to the place you're going to stay and he picks you up, holds you in his arms.
00:42:32.860
And for the first time, there's something special about you having combined lives and he carries you over the threshold, which is a promise of always taking care of you and loving you and being there for you.
00:42:51.200
So, the way I try to handle these things is make them reflect on what they give up to say, I can do that.
00:43:08.360
This is like when I stole from Kmart when I was 12 and my best friend Kelly McGinnis and I got dragged down there by my dad.
00:43:16.480
And we had to confess our crime and give our cheap plastics, big star earrings back to the man in the brown leisure suit who then walked us through exactly what would happen if we had gotten caught and how he sees it happen all the time to young girls and put the fear of God into both of us.
00:43:33.940
And, of course, there was no stealing ever again.
00:43:36.780
I mean, I got it because he didn't just tell us we were bad people.
00:43:39.620
He just walked us through exactly what would have happened if we had been caught.
00:43:43.520
Well, children in particular don't think past the moment's urge.
00:43:48.380
So, if you give them scenarios like he gave to you, then when that moment of an urge happens, the bigger picture suddenly comes into view also.
00:44:00.760
I don't think she'll mind me telling you this, but last time my friend Melissa Francis called in.
00:44:10.700
Well, she's got three great kids and the youngest is a little girl.
00:44:14.720
And we were talking about this subject and life lessons with kids.
00:44:18.960
And apparently her daughter was in class, she's six or seven, and there was a little girl who had made a ghost around a pencil.
00:44:26.380
And all the little kids thought it was really cool and they wanted to learn how to do that.
00:44:29.400
But class was ending, school was ending, so the teacher said, you're going to have to make it at home.
00:44:36.060
And Melissa's daughter kind of inched to the back of the class and sidled up to this girl and had her own pencil and said, show me how to do it.
00:44:48.360
And the teacher turned to her and said, Gemma, I said, you can only make this at home.
00:44:55.220
And she looked at the teacher and said, I did make this at home.
00:45:10.280
Like the little kids, they don't realize how obvious the lies are.
00:45:16.060
I loved it because Melissa was telling me that later she sat with her and she's like, what made you lie?
00:45:20.560
You know, and the daughter was like, I was scared I was going to get in trouble.
00:45:23.520
And, you know, she explained to her that's a natural instinct.
00:45:25.960
But it's so much better to just make a mistake and then own it than to compound it by then lying.
00:45:33.580
Anyway, I love that because it's like, yes, for sure I did.
00:45:41.980
So now we're going to be getting a whole lot more of you next week.
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You will be getting ready for the Dr. Laura 48 hour marathon on Sirius XM.
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00:46:55.960
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And so we put a whole bunch together for an hour and then we have all these different hours
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00:47:16.600
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00:47:22.680
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00:47:30.760
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00:47:48.580
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I can't believe the amount of legal brainpower about to join this set.
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Marsha Clark is a lawyer and New York Times bestselling author.
00:48:30.700
She is known for being the lead prosecutor in the case of The People versus O.J. Simpson.
00:48:36.920
Of course, a double murder case that would become infamous in its reach.
00:48:43.840
Mark is a trial lawyer and managing partner of Garagos and Garagos.
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His list of some high-profile clients include people like Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson.
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I was just telling Marsha that it's been years since I've seen her, way too long.
00:49:11.400
This was a great birthday gift that you're giving back.
00:49:19.360
Yeah, because you're both California litigators.
00:49:23.540
Well, Marsha, I think for people to say best known as OJ's prosecutor, I get it.
00:49:31.780
But Marsha was, you know, let's not, she'd blush, but she was one of the most kick-ass
00:49:37.460
prosecutors in that criminal courts building when I was coming up and was legendary, actually.
00:49:48.780
And likewise, I was very gifted not to have to be with you.
00:49:54.700
No, we talked about when Marsha came on not long ago, we did a profile on her and some
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And she was just, she was a crusher as a prosecutor.
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And, you know, we dissected in great detail what happened in the OJ case.
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But in any event, I'm so, like, it's perfect to have the two of you here today because it
00:50:09.940
just so happens that the cases that we have on today's docket, for the most part, involve
00:50:13.540
these very famous, not exactly celebrity trials, but the people became kind of like celebrities
00:50:21.800
And I should tell the audience right now, as we go into Kelly Squirt, we are awaiting
00:50:27.420
It should be happening right now, any second, in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
00:50:30.640
This judge has had the case for a year to contemplate the jury's verdict.
00:50:34.420
And we expect a ruling any second now to find out that in the range of possibilities include
00:50:42.160
her attorneys are asking for no more than 18 months in prison.
00:50:45.540
This is the woman who started Theranos with the blood prick on the finger and turned out
00:50:55.780
And an independent probation officer has recommended nine years.
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OK, so we'll get back to that when we have news.
00:51:07.300
I got to tell you, I can't believe that they're doing this, that NBC is doing this.
00:51:17.200
This is like, speaking of OJ, Marsha, this is like, if I did it, his his stupid book where
00:51:25.080
he purported to reveal if he did it, how he would have done this double murder.
00:51:30.600
I haven't read it, but I've seen the Daily Mail reports on and the people.
00:51:35.180
It just seems like a bunch of new lies about why she didn't do it and somebody else is
00:51:45.460
There's this preposterous setup where she talks about she was asleep with little Kaylee in
00:51:53.320
bed, taking a nap, and then she wakes up to find that Kaylee is gone.
00:51:57.760
And then her father comes in holding Kaylee, who is soaking wet and unconscious, and tells
00:52:05.860
She was in the pool and then I'll take care of this.
00:52:10.640
I mean, and she says, okay, I was just watching.
00:52:17.300
That's seeing your baby in his arms, obviously near comatose?
00:52:25.600
If you saw somebody holding your baby, I don't care who it was in that situation, you'd be
00:52:31.440
I mean, so, you know, and then it folds out from there and one thing after another.
00:52:36.460
And of course, the stuff that was documented on camera in her interactions with the police
00:52:42.040
lying repeatedly about Zanny the nanny and whether she was at work that day and then
00:52:47.320
pretending she had a job when she didn't have a job that she had to stop midway through
00:52:52.420
their interview as she's trying to walk them to her office, which she does not have.
00:52:58.220
So, yeah, but the one problem is you give Jose credit.
00:53:03.220
He got an acquittal in that case against the defense lawyer.
00:53:09.780
He's like, Scott Peterson didn't do it and Michael Jackson didn't do it.
00:53:15.580
They're like, okay, Marsha and I, more prosecutors were like, you know, when you live with them,
00:53:22.080
I mean, look, there have been clients that I've had that I've defended who I will candidly
00:53:27.260
admit, not publicly, that I know they're good for it.
00:53:30.200
I mean, you have little or no doubt because their felony is stupid.
00:53:34.760
But there are other clients who, and Scott is one of them, I'm telling you, I have never
00:53:40.240
for a moment thought since that trial that he was guilty.
00:53:44.720
That's why it's somewhat comforting that they're going to do a, that they've already reversed
00:53:51.500
the death penalty and that they have coming up.
00:53:54.160
And I believe the court is going to announce it from open court sometime in the next 60 days
00:53:59.540
on the order to show cause on the guilt phase too.
00:54:03.080
I mean, if that's a retrial, it will be the retrial of this century.
00:54:07.120
Can you believe the fact goes back to trial again?
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No, do you, would you, would you think you'd be trial counsel?
00:54:16.380
I, you know, it was almost, it's almost been 20 years.
00:54:19.240
I may have my daughter do it, but let her, let her try the case.
00:54:23.400
And I think eight years old at the time watching, watching it's now she's practicing in New
00:54:31.080
Well, if we get that ruling, we'll, that'll definitely be on the docket of Kelly's firm.
00:54:34.880
So she seems to be contending in this interview.
00:54:38.720
Haven't seen it yet myself, but she seems to be claiming, as you point out, Marsha, that
00:54:43.380
she, that the father came to her with the baby wet from the pool, maybe in distress from
00:54:53.240
And that he, he basically said to Casey Anthony, okay, you leave, you know, I'll take care of
00:54:59.600
So she left and that he didn't let her say anything about it.
00:55:04.760
And he instruct, he commanded her to act normal.
00:55:17.760
And this is why every person in America hates her guts.
00:55:22.480
And then she danced on stage at like sexy mama contests and had absolutely no remorse.
00:55:27.720
So now she's trying to say, I did it because my dad made me.
00:55:31.700
And she completely demonizes this father who Jose Baez without foundation accused of being
00:55:38.820
the killer in his opening statement and also made an allegation about sexual assault that
00:55:44.420
And she renews that here against him and her brother, both of whom have absolutely denied
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So realize that we're talking about statements she's making that are uncross examined and never
00:56:02.280
So they do say that she was not given any editorial power in terms of this Peacock special.
00:56:13.140
But that doesn't mean that she or her statements are being challenged in the manner, for example,
00:56:17.140
Mark Garagos would challenge them in court or I would.
00:56:19.720
You know, there's no substitute for the machine of cross-examination.
00:56:30.100
And it only stands up for even one second for the moments that she's speaking until you
00:56:39.960
And, you know, we've proven seven ways from Sunday how guilty she really is.
00:56:44.740
So I'm not sure why Peacock went for this, honestly.
00:57:14.060
So, I mean, when you put it all together and then we reinvestigated the case for the show
00:57:23.200
We came up with even more evidence against her, if you can imagine that.
00:57:32.980
But can I ask you, Mark, so just to follow up on where we were on the new revelations
00:57:37.000
that she allegedly says in this piece, she claims, as we pointed out, her dad, George
00:57:43.260
Anthony, was allegedly standing there holding little Kaylee.
00:57:58.640
He immediately softens his tone and says, it's going to be OK.
00:58:04.780
Then she went to stay with her boyfriend, Tony Lazaro, but didn't tell anyone what happened.
00:58:08.900
She says she wasn't under the impression that Kaylee was dead.
00:58:13.340
She was under the impression that her child was alive.
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That's just an impression you didn't think it was important to follow up on?
00:58:32.000
When she was young, when she was young, she claimed he would put a pillow over my face and smother me to knock me out.
00:58:42.880
I'm sure there were times when I was incapacitated as a child where my body was limp and lifeless.
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So he he knew just how much to smother you to where you'd come back and not actually die.
00:58:59.460
I mean, this is this relates to the research you did on your show, Martha, about what was on Marsha, about what was on her computer.
00:59:07.780
Because some of that one of the things that was Googled on her computer was something like suffocation and chloroform and how to use it and all these damning terms for somebody who has a dead child coming in their family.
00:59:23.800
Wait, so Cindy, in the early searches that were done by the police when the case first broke and people were not nearly as savvy, I want to say, in terms of being able to search histories and not as savvy about computer lore.
00:59:37.700
So the initial search for chloroform, they touted to be eight times that she searched for that turned out to be once.
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And then Cindy, the mother, took responsibility for that.
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However, then what they didn't discover is that if they had used both search engines, both Mozilla and Firefox and something else, can't remember which ones, but there were two.
01:00:02.840
And when it was two that were searched later after the trial was over, it was discovered that she had done searches for foolproof suffocation and other related topics that at a time when at a time when only she was in the house.
01:00:20.160
His computer expert did come up with that information.
01:00:22.740
Of course, he doesn't have to turn it over to the prosecution.
01:00:25.660
He claimed that the timing of those searches for foolproof suffocation occurred, were done by George, the father, as a means of suicide.
01:00:36.060
What we determined, actually, there was a glitch in the software.
01:00:39.100
The true time was at a point when George was at work and when Casey Anthony was the only one in the house.
01:00:45.680
So she did all those searches for foolproof suffocation.
01:00:49.020
On top of that, it was also shown that after her first interview with the police, when they first started accusing her, they dropped her back at home.
01:00:56.540
And immediately that that history, that search history is deleted at, again, point in time when she's home alone.
01:01:04.220
And who else would even have known to delete that search history except the person who conducted that search history?
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So, you know, I mean, all of these things just add up.
01:01:14.420
And these are not squishy eyewitness kind of my opinion.
01:01:22.200
These are data searches that she made and she alone made and then deleted.
01:01:38.040
The interesting thing that I always find is the she didn't or he didn't act right evidence.
01:01:46.480
It drives me crazy because I don't know that there's ever a playbook of how anybody's supposed to act when you're accused of some heinous crime.
01:01:54.780
But I will agree with you that data and searches can be damning.
01:01:59.800
I mean, I've sat in courtrooms where you have to try to explain why a search was done at a certain time.
01:02:06.360
And it's amazing to me, I don't know if Marcia's got the same experience, but it's always stunning at how little these so-called experts know about what they're doing in this area.
01:02:18.860
I mean, you just ask them a couple of questions and it becomes apparent that they haven't thought of or done the apparent search and they don't know.
01:02:27.400
The timing is incredible because I've asked countless times to witnesses on the stand, what time did this take place?
01:02:39.740
They may be a time stamp, but they don't know if it's actually actually happened at that time.
01:02:47.000
Well, as Marcia says, you can make sure she makes a good case for stuff that they never found or that they didn't know what they had at the time.
01:02:54.800
I really wonder whether people are going to watch this, because in the same way that there was backlash against OJ, when they had to pull that book, that book was pulled by Judith Regan because there was so much outcry.
01:03:06.900
I remember because I was at Fox at the time and it was being published by Harper owned by the Murdochs.
01:03:10.680
I wonder what's going to happen is there's already been backlash to Peacock.
01:03:19.680
And then I would like to ask you if you think, as I know, Nancy Grace has said she refused to participate in this documentary because she 100 percent believes this woman killed her child and she's not going to try to sanitize any of it.
01:03:35.880
My daughter's been missing for the last 30 months.
01:03:38.200
It's happening, the most closely watched case, certainly since OJ Simpson.
01:03:46.920
As to the charge of first degree murder, not guilty.
01:04:05.040
Did you do everything in your power to protect your daughter?
01:04:07.760
The public thought that Casey didn't want to be a mother.
01:04:10.680
The lies make you think that she did murder this child.
01:04:27.100
Oh, my God, I'm sorry, but let me tell you something.
01:04:33.020
We did some Casey Anthony stories over the course of my time at NBC and Fox.
01:04:38.100
And can I tell you, because people love crime, as you guys know, they love crime stories.
01:04:44.780
This case numbers would fall every time you touched it.
01:05:01.540
Especially if the victim is a little girl, a little child.
01:05:13.100
I'm happy to hear, particularly about Casey Anthony.
01:05:26.880
So that people would say, enough of your pathological lying.
01:05:30.240
I don't know why you're getting a platform for this.
01:05:32.260
I actually don't know why she's getting a platform for this.
01:05:34.940
And it would be, to me, good news if people just didn't tune in.
01:05:41.080
You guys are a lot more optimistic about human nature than I am.
01:05:57.940
I mean, any way you look at it, it's a compelling story.
01:06:00.240
Just listening to Marcia rattle off facts that weren't in the trial is compelling.
01:06:09.900
Did A&E do well with yours on the numbers, or do you not know?
01:06:16.580
But I have to say, it was an entire series based on, we're going to take another look
01:06:25.720
It's a different story when you have the defendant just amplifying the same stuff.
01:06:30.320
I'm going to be nice, that you said before, that you know.
01:06:36.180
I think you may be right that, you know, it's going to do very well and people out of curiosity
01:06:44.880
But, you know, I'm probably doomed to disappointment.
01:06:47.200
Well, I can't turn on Netflix and not see Dahmer doing apparently number one constantly.
01:06:53.900
And, you know, I suppose maybe fitting in with Megan that he was convicted or apprehended
01:07:02.240
Maybe the, the, uh, an acquittal does not do you any good in the court of public opinion.
01:07:07.720
I'm not like, I have no problem with a journalist interviewing somebody who's gotten away with
01:07:12.160
I really don't like that's, it's kind of part of what we do, but I do, I do hope it doesn't
01:07:18.340
I hope the American public says we don't need to hear more of her lies.
01:07:21.740
Like we've, she's gotten her lies out for years now through her attorneys and others.
01:07:25.500
We know that she's trying to blame it on her dad.
01:07:32.820
And now she's trying to extrapolate into, oh, he, he abused me for years when I was,
01:07:37.540
when I was young and therefore he had total control over me.
01:07:43.560
So all that stuff, taking the people on the wild goose chase through universal studios,
01:07:48.680
through this apartment complex, looking for a nanny who didn't exist.
01:07:52.260
That was all just my pathology that was passed down from my father.
01:08:00.400
You make a very, you raise a really important point that I don't think should get lost.
01:08:06.700
The journalist has the right, in fact, the duty to report.
01:08:10.260
And, and if a defendant who I want to celebrate a case like this wants to make a statement,
01:08:14.740
um, the right to have that kind of thing, uh, put out, you know, to present it and to interview
01:08:28.080
That's separate from whether you should watch this kind of thing.
01:08:31.600
You know, you have a right to make that choice.
01:08:36.500
It's different than saying, shut this down and don't let it out.
01:08:46.280
I don't know if you guys felt the same, but even reading her stupid lies, my blood was
01:08:54.320
And I have to be honest, I wasn't too impressed by that reporter doing the questioning and
01:08:58.460
that, in that tease and that trailer, um, and even her description of, right.
01:09:03.360
I don't heard her description of the show makes it sound like she's in Casey's camp.
01:09:06.980
I mean, I could be misreading it, but she makes it sound like, oh, you're going to look
01:09:14.080
I will not be looking at her in a new, um, okay, let's move on to John Bonnet.
01:09:22.260
They're, they're now they're, they're, it's like a new unit, like a cold case unit, the
01:09:30.120
cold case review team that is now going to be taking on this case.
01:09:35.220
And they're going to speaking, be speaking with private DNA labs.
01:09:38.700
The Boulder police department, uh, is going to consult on this.
01:09:41.380
So all three of these, the cold case review team, the Boulder police and private DNA labs
01:09:46.120
taking a fresh look at the John Bonnet Ramsey case.
01:09:51.100
Well, because I think that clearly the, uh, the advancements in DNA that have happened
01:09:56.060
since this occurred, uh, it's worth another look.
01:09:59.400
I don't see any reason in the world not to, I mean, it's, it's another case that captivated
01:10:05.400
And, um, this one, there's been so much misinformation surrounding it and accusations surrounding it
01:10:13.520
that, uh, I, you may find something this time around.
01:10:16.280
I mean, I've seen some startling things in the DNA field in the last couple of years.
01:10:21.660
So it would not surprise me in the least if they found something that they hadn't been
01:10:29.400
This case, Marsha, for our viewers, just a refresher happened in 1996.
01:10:34.960
This little girl, obviously very beautiful, was a pageant queen.
01:10:47.060
My team is telling me and, uh, couldn't find John Bonnet.
01:10:51.400
They find a ransom note, a weird ransom note demanding $118,000 for, uh, her safe return.
01:11:05.120
And then the police said, why don't you, uh, to the dad, take a closer look, see if anything
01:11:11.600
And he found John Bonnet downstairs dead on a blanket, uh, in like long johns.
01:11:19.240
And, um, she, it did appear that there was evidence, some evidence of a sexual assault,
01:11:27.800
So that's relevant on the DNA front, but she had been strangled by a garage, right?
01:11:31.600
Which is, I think it's just any sort of rope or, uh, strangulation device.
01:11:37.000
And, um, that in particular, Marsha, I think is what they're looking at now for potential
01:11:42.800
Oh my God, it's almost 30 years now since that case happened.
01:11:46.300
I mean, did think of what's happened in the DNA field.
01:11:49.740
So now we have touch DNA, which is back in my day, you basically had to have huge droplets
01:11:59.180
And the only form of testing was restriction fragment length polymorphism, affectionately
01:12:07.200
The testing now is all PCR based, um, polymerase chain reaction, which means that they amplify
01:12:12.860
tiny, tiny amounts of DNA in order to produce a result.
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And the fears that they had raised before about that form of testing causing contamination
01:12:22.800
or amplifying contamination have now been pretty much laid to rest.
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And so, uh, you can now, it's been advanced to the point where they can literally lift enough
01:12:32.380
DNA if you touch a surface, not always, but if you touch a surface, it's possible to find
01:12:40.480
And that means that with the sensitivity of the DNA testing today, they may come up with
01:12:45.460
something better and they may come up with results that they couldn't come up with before.
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However, the fear I have is that the amounts of DNA that they have are so small, they will
01:12:55.600
get consumed in the testing and you will not be able to go back and test when we have even
01:13:00.340
better DNA methods of analysis, which we certainly will because they keep advancing like every five
01:13:10.060
So, you know, there's a danger in going after these, the, whatever samples they have right
01:13:15.660
now with the tools we have today, knowing that we may have better ones tomorrow.
01:13:23.940
There have been so many stories circulating about this case that it would be lovely.
01:13:28.980
It would be a relief to finally get some definitive answers here.
01:13:34.380
You know, the, the dad in this case, Mark, he did not want this to happen.
01:13:39.040
He, he thinks this is kind of a cover to give it to this cold case review group.
01:13:43.660
I think he just wanted to work with private DNA labs.
01:13:46.480
He doesn't think that the state has done a good job investigating this case and he doesn't
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I mean, here we are 25 years later, they haven't solved it.
01:13:58.560
He, he basically said, this sounds like more of the same.
01:14:07.740
I mean, he was savage, um, and, uh, unfairly so during the entire thing.
01:14:12.840
I mean, first of all, finding your daughter has got to be the most unimaginable, uh, event,
01:14:18.440
uh, and then have being accused and then watching your wife, her mother, but kind of die from
01:14:25.540
the, uh, the, uh, the accusations and the heartache, uh, and, uh, in a slow moving car wreck of an
01:14:32.960
I mean, it, uh, for those who aren't familiar with it, I mean, the, uh, the investigation
01:14:38.380
itself was, was bungled in so many different ways and so many different people, uh, were
01:14:44.680
playing politics with it that I can imagine that, uh, the father is angry or at least very,
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um, suspicious of the motivations at this point.
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And then he, for a while, was dating Beth Holloway.
01:15:08.160
It was like a crazy, it was a crazy cable news event.
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Cause it was like, wait a minute, Greta Van Susteren show is like going crazy.
01:15:16.420
It was like all of her, her biggest stories coming together at once.
01:15:23.860
Well, not at the time, but in 2008, uh, new DNA testing technology had been developed and
01:15:33.420
Like you said, Marsha, I think this is touch DNA on objects at crime scenes.
01:15:37.180
And they tested it and they came back on a pajama legging with a positive for at least
01:15:48.100
It was after that, that the DA wrote a letter to Jon Ramsey stating that her office does not
01:15:52.060
consider him or his wife, Patsy, or anyone in their immediate family to be under suspicion
01:15:59.040
And so now they're looking at, like I say, maybe there was that touch DNA on the garrot,
01:16:06.040
Maybe, maybe there wasn't, maybe the guy was wearing gloves.
01:16:09.060
We, you know, and on the other hand though, maybe, maybe some guy did leave DNA and maybe
01:16:14.500
that guy's in the system now where he wasn't in 2008.
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Which, by the way, happens with great frequency as well.
01:16:22.900
And remember, as an interlude here at one point, there was also the man who was brought, extradited
01:16:31.960
And for a while, they, yeah, they, they, uh, the, the, the rumors were rampant that they'd
01:16:46.780
That was that when, and it was really funny when that came out and he, he surfaced.
01:16:56.820
The thing that worries me about the DNA analysis in this case, the evidentiary issues is that
01:17:05.520
Imagine that the police go into search and never go to the basement.
01:17:10.220
And that's why the father wound up finding her body is because they didn't even bother
01:17:16.740
And then they start to remove things from her body, the garage, et cetera.
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I can imagine that even if they do finally zero in on a suspect, it's going to be very
01:17:38.120
The Boulder police did not distinguish themselves in this case.
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I mean, the fact that it hasn't been solved is an embarrassment.
01:17:46.300
This is, I hadn't heard this, but there's another dad in the neighborhood whose daughter
01:17:50.400
was attacked and sexually assaulted less than two miles from the Ramsey home.
01:17:55.320
The very next year, uh, his daughter was 12 and he's saying that he went to the police
01:18:05.480
Uh, and that the police blew him off and the, the, uh, Boulder police have decided not to
01:18:11.860
comment on that allegation that they, they dropped the ball.
01:18:14.640
But he says a 12 year old girl, his daughter, uh, was, she attended the same, same dance
01:18:21.600
And that one night the, the mother had tucked the little girl in.
01:18:25.580
I think the dad was out of town or something, but the mother had tucked a little girl in.
01:18:29.520
The mother heard some sort of a scuffle and went back to the daughter's room to find this
01:18:35.720
And he had sexually assaulted the daughter and he jumped out the window and ran away.
01:18:43.840
However, shadowy figure, a lot of similarities between these two cases and given the proximity
01:19:00.760
That was always very suspicious, but what, what do you glean from all that, that the, that
01:19:04.700
they dropped the ball or that this is just another person trying to get in the news.
01:19:12.780
It, you know, it may very well not be connected.
01:19:15.080
And as you bring up, I mean, the ransom note kind of takes the John V. Ramsey case a little
01:19:20.080
out of the normal loop, normal, if there is such a thing of a kind of attack that they
01:19:27.380
So there are some kind of glaring inconsistencies too.
01:19:33.240
What I, what I found remarkable in that story is that they didn't even try for a composite
01:19:37.620
sketch with the mother who, who did get a glimpse.
01:19:43.100
And, and then if you must distinguish it and say, really, there is no connection, fine,
01:19:49.080
And I, it could very well be that I'm just not informed enough, but it doesn't appear
01:19:58.200
The dad is saying the dad of the other girl is saying, uh, they were completely uninterested
01:20:03.940
They didn't even really seem to care about the John V. Ramsey case.
01:20:06.320
I would contact them regularly asking if they'd looked into this or that.
01:20:10.100
We asked to see some mugshots of sex offenders in the area to see if my wife or my daughter
01:20:18.280
Asked them to send someone over to make a composite sketch.
01:20:22.620
Even the Denver PD offered to help the Boulder PD, but they said they had it covered.
01:20:26.320
They knew what they were doing, but they would not hear anything about this being linked
01:20:31.500
The level of incompetence was pretty impressive.
01:20:33.980
Again, the spokesperson for Boulder PD declines to comment on the claims of disinterest.
01:20:39.040
Well, let's hope they do it right with these private DNA labs.
01:20:42.600
I agree that that's if they're going to do anything, they can't waste it.
01:20:45.640
They have to have the best of the best of the best.
01:20:48.700
Uh, even if they can't prosecute at this point, it would just be good for the, for the country
01:20:56.060
We're going to check in, uh, see if we have an answer out in the Elizabeth Holmes trial
01:21:01.720
And we're going to talk about the latest in Harvey Weinstein and the white sign language interpreter
01:21:07.520
being fired from the lion King because of his skin color.
01:21:15.760
Just getting updates from the people who are inside the courtroom with Elizabeth Holmes.
01:21:19.260
This one is, uh, from an NBC reporter, I believe saying we're now inside the courtroom, Elizabeth
01:21:25.980
Holmes and several of her family members are here.
01:21:30.000
Prosecuting attorney claims Elizabeth Holmes at one point, again, this is the one who wants
01:21:35.120
her to have a 15 year sentence at one point wrote quote, they don't put attractive people
01:21:41.260
like me in jail and quote, that got some people shifting in their seats.
01:21:49.120
I would venture to guess you disagree with that conclusion.
01:21:54.960
And, uh, I do not think the prosecutors are going to get their way.
01:21:58.060
I don't think this judge is going to, uh, hammer her and give her 15 years.
01:22:02.460
Uh, I suspect it'll come, it won't be double digits, but it's going to be a substantial amount
01:22:10.780
Again, just to remind the audience, the prosecution wants 15, she wants 18 months and this independent
01:22:19.180
And I think probably nine or 10 is where it's going to land.
01:22:21.960
Um, that said, I have to tell you what Elizabeth Holmes did.
01:22:26.700
If you read the book and I highly recommend that you do, it's called bad blood by John Kerry.
01:22:30.920
And it's very well written and well, very well researched.
01:22:34.140
Um, she's a very dangerous person who did horrible things.
01:22:38.300
And she knowingly misrepresented this, um, system that she had of testing that she represented
01:22:45.620
could create multiple test results with one tiny prick of blood.
01:22:49.800
And for the people who need constant testing, this was a huge life changing thing that really
01:22:55.420
would have been a quality of life game changer for them.
01:22:59.880
And they were misled to their substantial detriment by her when she knew her system did
01:23:04.920
not work, when she knew it was all fake, when she was representing results that never occurred.
01:23:09.800
And the book really does, um, expose all of that.
01:23:17.040
This went on for quite a period of time, even after results were shown to her that it made,
01:23:22.240
it was made very clear to her what you're doing to these people.
01:23:24.840
And some of these are cancer patients for God's sake, uh, continue to do this and to perpetrate
01:23:30.540
So I would be in favor of her getting the maximum, honestly, but, uh, I do not think that she
01:23:36.000
I think they will kind of, as Mark said, they'll find kind of a middle ground here.
01:23:39.960
Carrie, you know, just tell, you know, Carrie who's in there, Wall Street Journal reporter
01:23:46.380
who broke this Theranos scandal open, no fewer than nine members of Elizabeth Holmes's
01:23:55.000
Well, I, what I was going to say, what always troubled me about the prosecution was, and
01:24:00.460
I thought part of the reason that she had at least a shot in the defense was that she
01:24:07.620
She didn't sell as that the height of when this, when she could have, and she had quite
01:24:12.920
accomplished people on both on her board and as advisors.
01:24:16.680
And I thought that that was a telling, uh, you know, this wasn't a pump and dump style fraud
01:24:23.860
that she, uh, that she apparently, uh, at some point had, uh, fervently believed in what
01:24:30.580
And so I thought that that might've, uh, given her the ability to successfully defend this
01:24:36.860
and who knows, I mean, there, there have been some post trial disclosures and this judge
01:24:41.840
ordered a evidentiary hearing, uh, to surrounding that, uh, she may, she may have a better shot on
01:24:49.400
appeal than most federal criminal defendants do.
01:24:51.960
Oh, well, let me just say, Mark, that's a good cover.
01:24:57.020
Of course you make it, but to me, uh, I think that she's smarter than that.
01:25:02.420
She had people around her that were smarter than that than to do the pump and dump, which
01:25:09.300
So she did kind of, uh, have a shred of a blanket cover, but I do not think ultimately
01:25:15.020
it shows that she did believe in her process and her system.
01:25:19.020
I think that she just knew better than to make it that obvious that she knew it wasn't
01:25:25.740
I mean, Scott Peterson is attractive of all of his terrible faults, like being a sociopathic
01:25:40.140
They know they're with, they're with her on my side.
01:25:43.700
I don't want to spend too much time on this letch.
01:25:45.680
I mean, it's just, but it's interesting because his New York appeal is being heard and that
01:25:56.060
And of there are at least four women now accusing him of sexual assault or rape, including most
01:26:01.080
notably the wife of Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, uh, who has taken a stand and
01:26:11.060
The women for the most part follow a pattern, Marsha, and the defense is making the most out
01:26:21.980
They didn't hit him while he, you know, they kind of froze and submitted and it was awful
01:26:28.880
and they didn't, they didn't want to be doing it, but the defense is trying to make the most
01:26:32.800
out of the fact that it, you know, it wasn't like, ah, get off of me.
01:26:40.960
And here's another wrinkle that is actually helpful to the defense.
01:26:44.020
And this is the thing I wanted to discuss with you guys, because this, the thing that
01:26:49.640
I think the defense goes after a lot, which they should, is that these women continue to
01:26:53.920
meet with Weinstein, even after the assault, after the attack and, and for the benefit of
01:26:59.320
themselves, but in order to publish a book, in order to get a part in a movie, these things,
01:27:03.900
you know, it's a quid pro quo as, as, as one of them said, um, when she tried to resist
01:27:12.220
So those of us in Los Angeles, and I mean, I'm probably everybody in the country by now,
01:27:16.240
but certainly here in industry town, we all know that there is a quid pro quo that a lot
01:27:21.340
of men in the past, I don't know about as much now have gotten away with a lot of assaultive
01:27:26.220
behavior, harassed behavior, because they had the power, the power to give you work, the
01:27:30.900
power to withhold work from you, the power to cast you or never get you casted again.
01:27:34.840
So this, they hold this power over you and then you're afraid to report.
01:27:39.280
So even though they may have suffered a true rape, they were raped righteously.
01:27:43.820
So they don't behave the way you expect the rape victim to behave because they're afraid
01:27:49.280
And the power is wielded in that manner and was here.
01:27:52.260
So the defense repeats over and over again, but you never told anyone, but you went back
01:27:57.440
You met with him five more times, this sort of thing.
01:27:59.800
And I'm wondering though, because it is being tried in Los Angeles, where people know a great
01:28:04.840
deal about this kind of these power dynamics, whether that will influence the jury who will
01:28:11.800
She had to keep having a career, earning a living.
01:28:19.420
Well, you know, it's also interesting, Marcia and I were talking about this before we went
01:28:24.340
You know, this is being tried in the criminal courts building downtown on the ninth floor,
01:28:31.880
The jury's been out for either two or three days on the Danny Masterson sexual assault case.
01:28:37.440
So you have these two cases that involve allegations of sexual assault that happened
01:28:46.580
And that jury in the Masterson case is probably Friday afternoon, bewitching hour, you'll get
01:28:56.580
One of their first questions I was telling Marcia was they wanted Phil Cohen's closing
01:29:03.220
I mean, for a criminal defense lawyer, it doesn't get much better than that one.
01:29:08.820
I laughingly told Marcia the only thing that beats that is a civil case where the jury asks
01:29:18.720
And Mark Workman and Alan, who were trying the case for Harvey, they understand that he's
01:29:25.680
got a real shot, as you mentioned, of New York.
01:29:28.500
New York's highest court took his conviction, if you will, under review.
01:29:34.380
And I watched the intermediate court oral arguments.
01:29:38.580
I would have bet in real time that they would have reversed it on grounds of bringing in this
01:29:44.840
other acts evidence, what Martian idea called 1101, they call it Molyneux evidence in New York.
01:29:55.020
But there clearly, clearly were issues in that case.
01:29:58.920
If he gets that reversed in New York and hangs this case here in L.A., which if I'm going to
01:30:06.460
prognosticate, I'm going to guess that he gets a hung jury in this case.
01:30:10.380
Several accounts were dismissed already when one of the complaining witnesses would not
01:30:17.020
And by all accounts in that courtroom, the defense is doing a bang-up job of making this out to
01:30:24.520
be transactional encounters and not assaultive behavior.
01:30:30.660
If that happens, Harvey Weinstein could be walking free or wheeling, wheeling free.
01:30:35.380
I mean, like the thought of that guy wandering around society as a free man is absolutely
01:30:43.580
Whatever you think about, you know, these particular allegations, there have been scores of women
01:30:49.900
who have come forward to say he did this little trick where he masturbated himself on them
01:30:55.380
or it just suddenly was like exposing himself and fondling them.
01:31:00.900
And the descriptions of his genitals are too disgusting for me to read, even on our explicitly
01:31:07.460
I mean, and the court drawings of them, the courtroom drawings of them are just repulsive.
01:31:23.740
Why don't you plant your testicles in your thigh?
01:31:34.200
Anyway, legally, it's trickier than it is morally.
01:31:38.380
We got to get to this last case, this Lion King case.
01:31:40.980
So the sign language guy, the guy who signs the Lion King on Broadway for people who are
01:31:48.280
struggling to hear or hard of hearing, Juan is his last name, has sued alleging race discrimination.
01:31:56.740
He's an American sign language interpreter because he clearly got fired.
01:32:02.900
He got fired because his skin is white and he has emails saying you need to back out of
01:32:13.600
They say that it's important and necessary that the sign interpreters match the cultural
01:32:24.920
He has to match the physical representation on stage.
01:32:27.580
It's not appropriate, she stated, for a white interpreter to represent black characters
01:32:39.720
I mean, there are humans in the cast as well, but this is absurd.
01:32:43.280
And he's saying it's race discrimination against him because he has white skin.
01:32:49.980
You know, this is a tough one for me, believe it or not, because I can see both sides of this
01:32:55.780
You have the cast is black and you have these sign language interpreters who are on stage
01:33:02.400
And so what you want is you want the comparison to be made.
01:33:09.660
You want them to appear to be the same as the characters they're interpreting for.
01:33:15.960
And for example, if he were standing behind a screen where you could see the movements in
01:33:20.720
silhouette and you didn't see what his skin was, then it would be a different story.
01:33:25.740
But here I can see that you really want these things to line up.
01:33:33.780
That said, there is another side to this, which is this was just for one performance
01:33:37.720
because they have three BIPOC sign language interpreters.
01:33:42.740
So for this one appearance, you know, they slotted people in that ordinarily would not be in
01:33:51.660
This becomes a little tough, but I do understand wanting to give the people who put their hard
01:33:57.380
earned money and took their time to go and see the show to give them the experience
01:34:03.680
But it's it presumes that they're not getting it because of his white skin.
01:34:08.000
You know, it's like they're it does they're deaf.
01:34:09.880
They're probably just delighted to have this guy up there interpreting it to that to them
01:34:16.060
I why how is it lawful to fire a guy because of his skin color, Mark?
01:34:21.320
Well, the interesting thing is if he he has, I guess, the emails that say in this environment,
01:34:34.040
So I it's almost like turning it, turning it on its head.
01:34:37.800
I understand the point that Marsha makes that this was a one off, if you will.
01:34:45.540
But, you know, there are people find a lawyer and the lawyer wants to sue.
01:34:51.220
I think it's one thing to say we don't like your hair color, but it's a different thing
01:34:57.160
Even if you're trying to be sensitive to a group who I guarantee it was not offended
01:35:00.620
because I guarantee there was nobody who was offended by the white signer who was potentially
01:35:05.000
going to go out there and do his sign language thing.
01:35:18.480
We'll be right back with a little bit of the MK Mailbag.
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Happy birthday, Steven, along with Mickey Mouse.
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I listened to your interview with Doug on my way to my third annual CAT scan.
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Can you bring Doug back and ask him about his upbringing as you do with a lot of your
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In fact, I happen to know that Doug's got some very interesting news from his latest guest,
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And perhaps I will pop him up and he will tell you about his upbringing in Philadelphia,
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He's the third of four children, and they're all really sweet, just like Doug.
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In any event, thank you all so much for being with us this week.
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Next week, we're going to have Clay Travis, Vivek Ramaswamy, deep dive into Alec Baldwin's