Rittenhouse Two Years Later, and Markle's Story Questioned, with Richie McGinniss and Maureen Callahan | Ep. 383
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 27 minutes
Words per Minute
195.72882
Summary
Richie McGinnis was a video producer for The Daily Caller, and his job brought him to the front lines of some of the most impactful moments in recent American history: the stories that others would ignore, the reporters who wanted to stand on the outskirts of, say, the Black Lives Matter protests, and tell you that they were mostly peaceful.
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.
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Did you see the cover of the New York Post yesterday?
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Toddler and Tiara, in reference to Meghan Markle.
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We're going to speak with the author of that barn burner of an article later this show,
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while Nelson Mandela's family is responding to Markle's comments this week.
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Also, a little fact check by yours truly on her latest round of lies.
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But we begin today with an exclusive interview with someone whose work you definitely know.
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Richie McGinnis was a video producer for The Daily Caller,
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and his job brought him to the front lines of some of the most impactful moments in recent American history.
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The stories that others would ignore, the reporters who wanted to stand on the outskirts of, say, the BLM protests
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Richie was in the middle of them and is one of the reasons we know they were not,
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that they were not mostly peaceful, that they were violent, that people died, people got hurt, and so on.
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This is a guy who, as the very best journalists will do, runs toward the danger
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And as a result, he's found himself, especially his past couple years,
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in the midst of some of the biggest news stories in the country.
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The riots that we saw, I mentioned, from the summer of 2020,
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he was also there right in the mix on January 6th,
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that turned Richie McGinnis from a journalistic observer to part of the story.
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As he became involved in the Kyle Rittenhouse saga,
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and then a witness in the trial that captured the attention of the nation.
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For the first time since taking the witness stand,
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We haven't spoken since I watched you testify on the stand
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and felt nothing but pride for how you handled yourself with class,
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It was very clear you didn't care who it helped, who it hurt.
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but I would say you made more points for the defense.
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I think Kyle Rittenhouse certainly feels that way.
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But you were consistent from the start in what you saw that night.
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So before we get to Rittenhouse and all of that on January 6th,
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So are you referring to the first American tragedy or the second one?
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Because the first, I think, was pretty obvious why the shirt came off.
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Yeah, the Kyle Rittenhouse thing when somebody was dying.
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I don't know if you've ever been pepper sprayed
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to take your shirt off in the middle of January
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Don't make me direct people to your Twitter feed
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Well, you can see the photo on the New York Times.
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As a red-blooded American woman, I have no objection.
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Okay, let's talk about prior to those two massive events
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Didn't know about that until I read up on this interview.
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And when you went to Georgetown, did you want to be a journalist?
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No, I studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history.
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and studied Arabic five days a week for three years
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And actually, there's a bit of a deeper story there
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I told them I felt very uneasy about something.
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So I found out that my mom had lung cancer on 9-11
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the Iraq war, everything that happened subsequently,
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as the linchpin where all of that was able to happen.
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You know, when the WMD narrative was being spun up,
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So that kind of directed me towards interning at Al Jazeera.
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Then I worked at MSNBC as a production assistant.
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And then I worked for Mark Levin as a video editor
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And obviously Donald Trump factoring into that.
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that America projects power in the Middle East.
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Hillary Clinton took over the State Department.
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I mean, look at what happened to the Middle East
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in which the Obama administration handled that,
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So I guess I probably should have clarified that,
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how do you feel about having turned Virginia blue
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school issues and a lot of these culture war issues,
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it's hard to like put myself back in those shoes.