The Megyn Kelly Show - August 19, 2026


Shock Florida Primary Victory, Brutal Graham Debate Answer, and Arday Debacle Fallout, with RealClearPolitics | Ep. 1382


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00:02:54.080 news. The Democratic Party's race to the left continues in earnest with a new win from a member
00:03:00.880 of the Democratic Socialists of America, this time in Florida, in Florida of all places.
00:03:07.740 What's next? Mississippi? Earlier this month, we told you about how DSA candidate Francesca Wong
00:03:13.000 lost her Democratic primary in the Wisconsin governor's race, was it a sign that the Democrats
00:03:19.000 were coming to their senses and rejecting the crazy DSA's radical proposals? Apparently not,
00:03:25.020 because last night, DSA member Angie Nixon defeated retired Army lieutenant colonel and
00:03:31.460 prominent hashtag resistance champ Alex Vindman in the Democratic primary for Senate in Florida.
00:03:37.220 This guy is a left-wing hero. So how'd she take him down? She's DSA. That's how.
00:03:43.000 Nixon advocates for abolishing ICE, free child care.
00:03:47.160 I love the word free.
00:03:48.480 What it means is actual contributing members of society will pay for the free child care
00:03:55.080 of people who do nothing.
00:03:56.600 And a nationwide rent freeze.
00:03:59.180 Okay, that's going to be super easy for the landlords to handle.
00:04:02.820 As costs go up and taxes and so on, they'll just have to eat it.
00:04:06.760 They'll just have to eat it.
00:04:07.700 And their tenants will never have rent go up.
00:04:10.460 This is like so crazy.
00:04:11.900 It's not the way life works. 1.00
00:04:13.000 Uh, in any event, Ashley, um, Moody is going to be the opponent of Angie Dixon. 0.93
00:04:19.960 Uh, and Ashley Moody is the current incumbent. 0.90
00:04:23.220 She got the job, um, thanks to, she's a Republican. 0.61
00:04:26.540 She got the job because Marco Rubio was elevated and governor Ron DeSantis appointed her to
00:04:31.660 replace Rubio when he became the secretary of state.
00:04:34.920 But now they're running to see who's going to fill out the last couple of years of Rubio's
00:04:38.720 term.
00:04:39.060 And, look, the Republicans should win because it's Florida and it's been since 2012 since we've had, I think, a Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate or to a higher office in Florida.
00:04:55.380 But who the hell knows, given the DSA is on some sort of a tear.
00:05:00.640 Angie Nixon, she certainly felt good about her chances, as she discussed in her victory speech last night.
00:05:07.280 Watch.
00:05:07.640 Oh, Florida, where working families can thrive, where we have what we need, like good-paying jobs, like a $25 minimum wage, affordable health care, so no one goes thankful simply for trying to stay alive.
00:05:30.000 They look at this movement and they call us extreme.
00:05:34.420 They call us radical.
00:05:36.880 But I think people see through that.
00:05:40.760 So Ashley Mooney can call it whatever she wants. 0.99
00:05:45.520 She can call us whatever she wants.
00:05:49.280 But in November, she will call me Senator.
00:05:52.040 them. Nixon went on to use the same line in an interview with CNN with honestly like a more
00:06:02.720 threatening tone. I'm not sure what she's what she's doing here, but watch. And so I look forward 0.93
00:06:08.180 Ashley Moody to taking you on and to whooping you in November and you will be calling me your
00:06:13.540 senator. State Representative Angie Nixon, thank you for joining. Okay, what happened to Laura
00:06:20.820 Coates' eyebrows. She was the CNN anchor in that clip. Where'd they go? Everyone needs eyebrows. 0.98
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00:06:30.840 and lashes for that matter. Look, where are eyebrows? Why'd you get rid of them? Especially
00:06:37.680 when you have such a prominent forehead, one might call it an eight head. I'm allowed to say that
00:06:41.780 because I have one too. I have a large forehead. You know, an eyebrow is important to break it up.
00:06:48.180 Okay, sorry. Here to break down all of this, they've got thoughts on the eyebrows, they've got thoughts on all of it, are the guys from Real Clear Politics, which you can hear just before this show at 11 a.m. on the Megyn Kelly channel on Sirius XM channel 111.
00:07:01.460 Tom Bevan, founder and president of RCP. Carl Cannon, their Washington Bureau chief, and Andrew Walworth, chief content officer for Real Clear.
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00:08:20.340 and as one of the eyebrow challenged individuals of which you were saying i was just on fox last
00:08:27.600 night and the makeup lady had to like darken my eyebrows because otherwise i look like mr clean
00:08:32.160 so it's it's good to have eyebrows you know especially yeah like without a ton of hair on
00:08:39.680 the top of one head once had it makes sense and as a woman if your hairline starts way back here
00:08:44.380 you need something to break up all the distance it's it's very simple there should be something
00:08:49.460 breaking it up anywho um so i don't know are they on a roll is that what we're seeing carl i'll start
00:08:56.260 with you on it are the dsa candidates on a roll this woman's not officially dsa from what i read
00:09:01.100 she's kind of calling herself dsa but the dsa is like yeah we're not officially behind this this
00:09:07.440 gal angie but or ashley trying to keep them yeah angie is the democratic socialist ashley is the
00:09:13.840 one she's taking on right well she she affiliated herself with dsa just a little while ago in the 0.94
00:09:18.980 middle of this campaign and sort of you know unclear to me why she did i guess she wanted
00:09:24.260 the nomination but i think that probably renders her unelectable in the general election tom thinks
00:09:30.380 Florida was a real long shot for Democrats anyway, but I think this assures that she'll lose it.
00:09:37.040 She was on she was and she was always trying to walk some of it back this morning on Morning Joe.
00:09:43.200 You know, she said, so do you favor abolishing prisons?
00:09:45.420 And she said, no, I favor abolishing privately owned prisons, which is like a mainstream view.
00:09:51.040 So I don't really know if she's DSA or not, but clearly in a Democratic primary, that affiliation now helps you all over the country.
00:10:00.380 What's up, Tom, with like the, you know, and she she's going to be calling me senator and I'm like, all right, it's a little much, you know, for like a U.S. Senate candidate.
00:10:13.060 Like, let's let's save the street threats for the street.
00:10:17.720 I mean, this is this is part of her personality and we'll see how it plays. 0.84
00:10:22.080 I mean, there's a clip going around of her with a bullhorn on the on the floor of the, you know, statehouse.
00:10:27.520 Well, wait, we have it. Yeah. Let me play it.
00:10:29.760 and then you take it on the back end.
00:10:32.000 I will not allow you to destroy our democracy.
00:10:36.520 This is a violation of the Constitution.
00:10:40.440 It is.
00:10:41.600 It's a violation of the Constitution.
00:10:43.600 I'm out of order because y'all are doing the legal
00:10:46.440 thing to the state of Georgia.
00:10:48.520 It is out of order.
00:10:50.640 It is out of order.
00:10:53.400 It is out of order.
00:10:56.320 All right. Just for listening audience, she's wearing a unitard, like a one piece bodysuit. 0.68
00:11:10.520 It's hot pink. Her megaphone is hot pink. Can't understand a word she's saying, 0.99
00:11:14.560 but she's blathering on about redistricting in the Florida legislature there. Go ahead, Tom.
00:11:18.300 Yeah. I mean, so look, politics typically, right. And Democrats, this both sides want
00:11:24.400 fighters, right? They want people who are going to fight and there has to be a level of indignation
00:11:29.440 and outrage, but you also, you want happy warriors. I mean, the sort of angry, bitter thing doesn't
00:11:36.080 wear well over time and certainly doesn't wear well in a general election setting. It may play
00:11:40.540 to the base, but you know, when she's trying to win over moderates and independents, being a sort 0.98
00:11:46.000 of angry, threatening person typically doesn't work. So I've, as Carl mentioned, I thought this
00:11:53.000 race was a long shot to begin with i think it's it's almost hopeless for the democrats now they're
00:11:56.920 not going to put any money or time in this thing and it does show the power of the dsa even in
00:12:02.160 places like florida i mean vindman was by all accounts a terrible candidate he didn't you know
00:12:06.740 he didn't have a lot of charisma he didn't do a lot of events or anything but he did spend 16
00:12:11.380 million dollars to her 975 000 and and she was able to beat him so i think it does you know there
00:12:19.340 was this there after wisconsin there was this uh a lot of stories is this the end of the dsa have
00:12:25.280 they hit a wall have they lost their momentum well francesca hong was not a very good candidate
00:12:29.660 and she almost she only lost by like 3 000 votes in wisconsin so to me it was the opposite which
00:12:35.160 is not the dsa initially it was you know it's only in these deep blue districts but now they've won
00:12:40.760 in michigan they almost won in wisconsin they've won in florida in statewide races and so i think
00:12:45.820 this proves that the dsa is is growing in stature among the democrats uh not not you know stopped in
00:12:52.960 any way the um this woman in my view andrew has zero chance of beating the republican ashley moody
00:13:02.900 not just because she's a socialist and she seems to be kind of militant which is going to be a 0.97
00:13:07.780 turnoff to more moderate voters but because she's a loon when it comes to cultural issues just like 1.00
00:13:15.220 most of these DSA types. They're very drunk on the wine of the transing of the children and the 0.94
00:13:20.480 drag queen. Watch this. This is top five. I don't understand. There's no sexualization 1.00
00:13:27.780 at a drag show. It's just people dressing up and singing and performing. I've taken my children 0.99
00:13:32.660 to drag shows and it's fun. It's entertainment. It's wholesome entertainment and there's nothing
00:13:39.740 wrong it's just like i don't i don't get it oh my god you're about to get it you're gonna get it 0.99
00:13:48.420 right in the pants as you get kicked out of this campaign for saying shit like that in florida 0.98
00:13:53.060 andrew yeah that um that clip i saw that this morning as well and it just it just makes the 0.99
00:13:59.060 point that she's unelectable statewide you know she did beat him handily though i mean it wasn't
00:14:04.900 close it was 56 44 percent that she beat him by um the other thing that dsa did that was helpful
00:14:10.420 to her in a way i guess is uh you know last weekend was the 100th anniversary of the birth
00:14:16.660 of fidel castro and the dsa put out a statement saying that fidel was an organizer a fighter in
00:14:23.160 the and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle goes on like that
00:14:28.100 that is not something you want to say uh if you're trying to get any sort of independent
00:14:33.620 to hispanic voters in florida to come your way so i don't think the dsa affiliation is going to help
00:14:39.700 her in the general a bit um and i agree with tom i think this is a sacrifice uh they've given up
00:14:45.780 a seat which they probably would have lost anyway um you know the attorney general former attorney
00:14:52.660 general now now senator she's won twice statewide she's a pretty good candidate she's vetted um 1.00
00:14:58.820 She's probably going to win this thing in a walk now.
00:15:02.160 Yeah, it's going to be great.
00:15:03.660 By the way, it is very interesting that this woman, Angie Nixon, is saying she's DSA, but even DSA doesn't seem to want her.
00:15:13.060 Fox News is reporting that Nixon told public radio in July she was DSA.
00:15:17.800 But DSA officials told Fox on primary night that she had previously belonged to a local chapter and unsuccessfully sought its endorsement, adding her current membership status was unclear.
00:15:27.800 Even they're like, I don't think so. It's a no. But how big a factor was the fact that Vindman sucks so badly? He just sucks. He sucks so much. He just does. I can't help but look at this guy and think even the Democrats were like, we'll take anybody.
00:15:46.380 So like the DSA doesn't want this, Angie, but the Democrats don't want this Vindman for as a reminder to our audience.
00:15:52.680 Here's Vindman. This is after. Let's see. This is from February of twenty twenty five.
00:16:00.900 This is after Trump Zelensky blow up at the White House where J.D. Vance, you know, got in his face and so on.
00:16:06.880 Here's here's Vindman back then, the guy who just lost the Democratic primary in Florida.
00:16:10.860 i want to know why our ally is allowed to disrespect the united states of america the
00:16:17.320 leader the current leader of the city vance owns but let me let me finish an apology
00:16:21.600 president trump owes zelinski an apology for the way he's treated for what i didn't i demand it
00:16:27.200 i demand it all i can think of when i see that tom is um a line from manhattan murder mystery
00:16:34.060 with woody allen i command i command you is this what you do when i command you because if it is
00:16:38.600 I won't be commanding very often. He's trying to get Diane Keaton to not go into the neighbor's
00:16:42.760 apartment. Great, great movie. Anyway, just like that guy is a wet blanket. Yeah. And that was
00:16:49.760 part of the problem. And again, I don't know that Carl and I were talking about this earlier. I mean,
00:16:55.920 for some reason, Democrats can't seem to find good candidates in the state of Florida. I'm not sure.
00:17:01.360 You know, we're talking about Andrew Gillum. Remember him? He almost beat Ron to say he was
00:17:04.760 almost the governor of florida the guy turns out to be a you know drug addict and a just a complete
00:17:09.420 mess so i i don't know why democrats have uh trouble finding good candidates particularly
00:17:16.920 statewide candidates uh in in the state of florida but vindman was never you know though he was ahead
00:17:24.760 in the polls i mean he he just ran a terrible race he's not a very charismatic guy like i said
00:17:29.520 And on top of that, from what, you know, I've heard and saw that he wasn't doing a whole lot.
00:17:35.500 He wasn't, you know, out and about.
00:17:37.220 I mean, there's a certain energy that comes with that you have to have to run a statewide race.
00:17:41.260 And he just sort of didn't have it.
00:17:42.940 So now Democrats are stuck.
00:17:45.240 But, you know, something else, Megan, this shows you what's going on in Florida.
00:17:48.860 I mean, people forget this.
00:17:50.320 It's not ancient history that it was a swing state.
00:17:52.620 Barack Obama carried it twice.
00:17:54.460 And 2016, Donald Trump won it narrowly, but he didn't even get 50 percent of the vote.
00:17:59.340 in the last 12, 10, 12 years, this has become this overwhelmingly Republican state. Tom knows
00:18:05.460 the figures we talked about it, I think earlier this week about party registration, but this is
00:18:11.000 a Republican state. And now the Democrats can't seem to feel credible statewide candidates. It's
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00:20:31.180 This DSA continues to push out,
00:20:35.100 I'm not referring to the actual humans themselves, 1.00
00:20:37.600 but trash candidates. 1.00
00:20:38.980 I mean, just people who are garbage dumps of terrible opinions, 1.00
00:20:43.420 like let's get rid of the U.S. Senate. 0.99
00:20:45.160 Let's get rid of the Pentagon. 0.89
00:20:46.220 Let's get rid of ICE.
00:20:47.080 Let's open the borders. Let's get rid of police. Let's get rid of the Supreme Court. It's like, what what the hell is this? And they have nothing to propose to replace it. You know, they have absolutely no ideas when it comes to what will come next. It's like one big legislative body that only answers to the people every couple of years like the House. That's all there will be.
00:21:06.640 So they're advocating the complete overhaul of the United States of America, getting rid of our Constitution.
00:21:13.940 I mean, it's just so radical.
00:21:15.880 They can't really be taken seriously.
00:21:18.120 Here's just a sampling. 0.99
00:21:19.920 OK, we just pulled some random Emily Gallagher as a state assemblywoman down there. 0.74
00:21:24.540 Is she in Florida?
00:21:25.380 I think she is.
00:21:27.480 And here's how she's referring to.
00:21:30.180 Well, I'll let you hear it.
00:21:31.820 Shoplifting. 1.00
00:21:32.360 She's New York.
00:21:32.940 Sorry.
00:21:33.140 It's not six.
00:21:34.180 Watch.
00:21:34.400 Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty, people who were stealing things like toothpaste, people who are stealing things like, you know, soap.
00:21:43.980 And that means if you're stealing those things, you need them.
00:21:46.940 And we are choosing to protect billion dollar companies like CBS and Walgreens over the people who are struggling to get by.
00:21:59.140 So I would say that the true crime is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city, that there are people who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need.
00:22:15.280 Wow. Wow, Andy.
00:22:18.020 So, well, all shoplifting should be allowed because the corporations are larger than the individuals doing the stealing.
00:22:24.660 Well, these are crimes of poverty. You have to understand that's a Marxist term.
00:22:29.140 um and this is right out of the sort of marxist playbook is that uh and and when they talk about
00:22:34.260 getting rid of prisons it's because they think that once they reach the sort of once the revolution
00:22:40.660 happens and we have created this sort of worker's paradise there will be no crimes of poverty and
00:22:45.860 you'll have to deal with true criminals but you'll deal with them in a different way than what we
00:22:50.260 consider uh prisons today so i mean i i tell viewers and listeners this all the time just
00:22:56.900 read what the dsa puts out on their own website that what you they are incredibly radical they
00:23:02.900 are marxist leninists they are not sort of uh you know what there's nothing democratic about
00:23:09.300 democratic socialism no and it's uh but it's all out there i mean it's it's amazing it's it's like
00:23:14.980 they they aren't pretending they will tell you exactly what they believe and yeah they believe
00:23:20.900 in getting rid of the presidency uh getting rid of the senate getting rid of the supreme court or
00:23:25.780 change the supreme court because what they believe in is direct democracy they really believe that
00:23:30.880 that if you took away any institution that wasn't based on one man but one vote you would end up
00:23:37.680 with a better system of government it would be truly more truly reflect the will of the people
00:23:42.420 that's what they believe you know it's crazy but that's i saw you tom tweeting earlier this week
00:23:48.460 about this poll that just came out socialism is absolutely on the rise within the democrat party
00:23:55.300 The numbers bear it out. Right. CBS News, you go poll over the weekend should 58 percent. So six
00:24:00.800 in 10 Democrats now have a favorable view of socialism and they have a unfavorable view of
00:24:06.500 capitalism. And when you take Democrats who have a college degree or more, meaning a master's or
00:24:13.000 PhD, that number goes up to 71 percent. So seven in 10. I mean, this is the problem that Democrats
00:24:19.420 have, right? Which is they like sort of, for a long time, Bernie's the OG socialist, right?
00:24:28.060 And for Bernie, it was mostly just Medicare for all, right? Healthcare is a human right,
00:24:33.400 as Bernie likes to say. But now you've got these other folks that have come to the party and they
00:24:40.260 are advocating all sorts of truly, truly radical things. And these candidates are winning and
00:24:46.960 they're getting elected. And meanwhile, the sort of young base of the party is open to socialism.
00:24:53.800 So you've got the Hakeem Jeffries of the world and others who are basically saying,
00:24:59.960 well, you know, we may not agree with the more radical stuff. We don't want to abolish the
00:25:04.860 Senate. But we have to, you know, they can't, they want the energy of the party. And so the
00:25:11.920 compromise is, well, it's just a big tent, right? We can disagree on stuff, but we'll figure that
00:25:15.920 stuff out later after we win elections. And it is a problem because when you've let the radicals
00:25:23.900 sort of in the room and they start to run things, then you could be in for some real trouble down
00:25:30.800 the road in the not too distant future. And this is clearly going to play out after November as we
00:25:38.160 head to 2028. I mean, it's going to be a real struggle for the Democrats when they go to choose
00:25:43.400 their 2028 nominee because they've got this this this faction of the party now which is ascendant
00:25:48.800 which is uh really really out of step with most of america but don't you feel like we have that
00:25:55.460 side of their team jeffries the main stand by one second andy uh he was on meet the press on sunday
00:26:00.180 and said the following thought seven do democratic socialists belong in the democratic party leader
00:26:05.600 jeffries well what i can say is that i do not support defunding the police i do not support
00:26:11.620 open borders. I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving problems
00:26:18.620 that hardworking American taxpayers want us to solve. Do you think, though, that there is room
00:26:24.820 in the Democratic Party under the tent of the Democratic Party for Democratic Socialists?
00:26:30.220 Is it big enough? Well, listen, I don't support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated
00:26:35.200 by the DSA itself. Now, you're going to have individual members who have been elected in
00:26:42.720 Democratic primaries. And if they are elected in the general in November, we'll be part of
00:26:50.280 the House Democratic caucus. It's going to be a broad caucus. I mean, like with all due respect
00:26:57.780 to the Democrat Party, this this isn't Democrats like what the DSA is, the Democrat Socialists
00:27:07.040 of America. They're not Democrats. They're socialists. They're pure socialists. They
00:27:10.560 should just be S.A., not D.S.A., and which is a problem for Hakeem Jeffries. He wants them under
00:27:16.340 his tent. He wants them to vote Democrat. But truly, what Democrat leader is enacting their
00:27:21.520 agenda? Nobody nobody in elected office right now is as radical as that. Maybe the squad would be
00:27:26.600 the closest thing but i'm not like this is a whole new party andy like this is this is like
00:27:33.420 i don't a tumor on the the body politic of democrats well and there's a debate within
00:27:40.100 the dsa over this over whether they should align themselves with the democrats or whether they
00:27:45.100 should just stand as their own party uh and they call it the dirty breakup that's a term you'll
00:27:49.880 hear it means that they're going to align themselves with the democratic party and
00:27:54.420 long enough to sort of infiltrate it destroy it and then they'll start the then they'll go back 0.99
00:28:00.320 to being the dsa and they will stand as their own party it's kind of a stupid argument because if 0.97
00:28:05.060 they end up destroying and taking over the democratic party why would they need to change 0.95
00:28:10.300 it they would just own it um what i find interesting about this too is that you know
00:28:14.260 you can see these sort of mainstream democratic uh hopefuls for 2028 already sort of tacking to
00:28:20.820 the left. You have Gavin Newsom talking about a wealth tax nationally. You've got Kamala Harris
00:28:29.560 talking about rethinking the Supreme Court. You have a bunch of them talking about getting rid
00:28:35.760 of the Electoral College. So these ideas are not just sort of so far to the left that they're sort
00:28:42.160 of beyond the pale. Maybe Open Borders is at this point, maybe abolishing the police, but not
00:28:49.260 abolishing ICE. And you'll just see, I think, between now and 28, the sort of Democratic
00:28:54.140 leaders sort of tacking further and further to the left as they try to capture this part of the
00:29:01.720 party. And then they'll have a lot of trouble tacking back to the middle in the general
00:29:05.400 election. So it's going to be tough for Democrats over the next couple of years.
00:29:12.120 Well, you guys were having a discussion, correct me if I'm wrong, Carl, but about
00:29:15.840 who is the most exciting flavor right now over on the Democrat side and the observation that
00:29:23.360 it didn't take very long for Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer to feel like yesterday's news,
00:29:31.460 they're kind of boring and old hat, not exciting at all. They sat down together recently and it's
00:29:37.540 like, who cares? No one's excited by them. Like their little window seems to have already come
00:29:42.640 and gone. That seems how fast this party's gone to the left. At the Democratic National Convention
00:29:48.340 in Chicago, where Kamala Harris was nominated, Gavin Newsom was like a rock star. He walked
00:29:55.440 into the press section and people would follow him, crowds of people really rushing after him.
00:30:01.440 It was cameras everywhere. He was this, you know, oh, here's our nominee in waiting. And yet when
00:30:08.100 And he and him and Gretchen Whitmer, people talked openly.
00:30:12.780 This is our dream ticket, Democrats said, in four years.
00:30:15.880 If Kamala Harris can't get it done, these are the people we want. 0.96
00:30:19.000 And then they did this podcast.
00:30:20.840 And you're right.
00:30:21.640 We thought, well, gee, who's even talking about them anymore?
00:30:25.620 And so we're talking about Ro Khanna and AOC as presidential timber.
00:30:31.620 It's dizzying how fast it's gone.
00:30:33.660 But I agree with Andy, and I think with you, Megan, Tom and I certainly agree with this, that what Hakeem Jeffries said, that's, you know, that's never been good enough for the media.
00:30:44.520 We don't, you know, when there are Nazis, you know, every once in a while, neo-Nazi will crop up.
00:30:49.840 We demand every Republican in office, denounce this person, separate themselves from him, say, they don't, they're not allowed to say, oh, you know, they have some good, we agree with some of the Nazi ideas.
00:31:00.940 we just don't agree with all the Nazi stuff. Democratic socialists is a term of art, but
00:31:07.100 these are hardcore Marxists, Leninists, Maoists. They're communists, and they praise communist
00:31:12.980 leaders. Andy's right. They don't really hide. And for Hakeem Jeffries and none of these Democrats
00:31:18.000 to say, I guess Rahm Emanuel has, but to say, no, they're not in our party. They're going to
00:31:23.540 have to change. They're going to be in our party. They have to adhere to our platform.
00:31:27.620 and hakeem jeffrey that was not a profiling courage and and i dare you know and i'll repeat
00:31:33.540 it's not the media wouldn't accept that level of obfuscation from a republican if it was some
00:31:39.500 far right nut can i we did just get new polling out about the the presidential race and i i found
00:31:49.240 this one really interesting uh a financial times poll almost 2 000 voters registered voters uh and
00:31:56.380 it showed over on team GOP that Vance was pulling at 45%. Rubio was the next closest at 20. So
00:32:03.940 still on the Republican side, it's Vance's to take or give up depending on what he just decides.
00:32:09.960 But on team Dem, Kamala Harris is way ahead. This is awesome. I love this. She's at 26. And
00:32:20.780 the next closest is Gavin Newsom at 15. Buttigieg remains high. He's he's kind of always high in
00:32:27.400 these polls at 13. Relatively high, I should say. AOC at nine, Shapiro at eight. But Harris at 26,
00:32:34.900 you guys like. Is it possible they really will do it again? I know the conventional wisdom is
00:32:42.560 you don't renominate somebody who already lost, but, you know, they did it with Trump and he won
00:32:49.500 and kamala harris has got the whole the whole 107 days excuse so honestly like she seems to
00:32:57.100 be tacking to the left too in like the way she's talking lately there was this one sound bite
00:33:01.320 this is like more on the cultural stuff but she sat down with stacy abrams and said the following
00:33:08.080 listen here to sat 29 part of the pain of this moment stacy is these so-called leaders who are
00:33:17.180 pushing this kind of this this narrative about who is a legitimate American citizen
00:33:23.980 among American citizens, this blood and soil narrative that's being pushed at the highest
00:33:31.820 levels of our government to suggest that, you know, once again, to hearken back to times when
00:33:38.600 it was explicit that there was a hierarchy among Americans and who was superior and whom
00:33:45.540 was inferior all citizens and that's what's happening right now okay that was an improper
00:33:54.920 use of the term whom um but you tell me talking about i don't know carl you tell me well there's
00:34:05.140 american citizens are american citizens i don't i don't know what she's referring to um do you do
00:34:10.880 Is it the birthright citizenship thing?
00:34:14.020 Well, look, and remember this.
00:34:16.060 You're right.
00:34:16.800 She's got that asterisk.
00:34:18.040 She lost, but she only had 109 days and she couldn't.
00:34:21.160 And she was following this president who she was stuck with his policies and he was accused
00:34:26.240 of being senile.
00:34:27.220 So but the truth of the matter is that she lost ground.
00:34:31.480 She started out higher.
00:34:33.100 The longer she campaigned, the lower she went. 1.00
00:34:35.560 And, and so I don't, I don't, if Democrats nominate her, she's going to have to, well, she's going to have to run a better campaign. Remember this, she didn't, she didn't hold a single press conference. 0.58
00:34:46.900 She's going to have to change her entire personality. 0.98
00:34:50.600 That would help. 0.99
00:34:52.140 I mean, Democrats are really, they are in trouble. I would, I would point out one thing, Megan, though, that what's interesting is, you know, the polls are saying one thing.
00:35:01.360 They're saying Kamala Harris is ahead. And most of the polls do say that. But if you go to the
00:35:05.640 betting markets, Kamala Harris is not in the lead. In fact, she's down in third or fourth and 0.99
00:35:12.160 sometimes even fifth place. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is on Polymarket. She's at 20%. She's 1.00
00:35:18.180 leading Gavin Newsom's in second place. So people who actually are betting on who the nominee is
00:35:22.940 going to be in 2028, because they know that Kamala Harris is a terrible candidate. She's 1.00
00:35:27.520 word salad she doesn't be such a wet blanket tom yes well sorry um these are just these are just
00:35:33.720 facts but to your point megan the democrats have they've gotten themselves in a a real problem
00:35:40.200 because they just confirmed that they're going to have south carolina is going to be the first state
00:35:44.420 so if if you know and that is a built-in advantage for kamala harris with african-american voters 0.98
00:35:49.140 african-american women in particular and so if someone is going to you know be able they're
00:35:54.040 going to have to withstand losing that first state most likely or they're going to have to go around 0.96
00:36:01.080 black women and go to just basically younger more progressive voters which is what is powers
00:36:05.720 powering all these dsa candidates around the country so the democrats have a real uh conundrum 1.00
00:36:12.200 on their hands for 2028 uh kamala seems like she would be the the establishment option if you will 1.00
00:36:19.960 right or they're going to go to the left and that could be you know rocana it could be aoc it could 0.80
00:36:25.720 be somebody else and uh that would also present some some interesting problems for democrats
00:36:32.040 potentially i mean the other thing that's interesting too is aoc is you know sort of
00:36:36.360 woke one was crazy you know ha ha ha that was so crazy the lives we ruined yeah right but but
00:36:45.160 where they're headed is, is way crazier. I mean, it's, it's the idea that if she's trying to
00:36:52.300 distance herself from woke one and yet here, the party is coming in with all, you know,
00:36:57.120 here, the DSA candidates are coming in with all these like super crazy ideas about abolishing the
00:37:02.020 Senate and all of this stuff. How is she going to reconcile that? I mean, how is she even going to
00:37:07.600 handle that? It's, it's going to be really interesting to watch.
00:37:09.980 it's true crazy talk all right wait we have to spend a minute on what happened with
00:37:15.800 south carolina uh of course senator lindsey graham died unexpectedly at age 71 and president trump
00:37:23.040 appointed his sister darlene to fill his seat but she's got a run for re-election just like
00:37:30.200 anybody would have and right now she's in a runoff with one other republican to see who's
00:37:36.080 going to be the republican nominee she's not secured as the republican nominee for the general 1.00
00:37:39.660 election contest for this seat. They had a debate last night. This is two Republicans,
00:37:44.080 Darlene and this guy Norman. And there was kind of a shocking moment when the issue of Taiwan
00:37:50.200 came up. It was hosted by Newsmax and my old colleague Greta Van Susteren asked the question,
00:37:55.000 watch this. Senator, are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the
00:38:01.740 United States? If so, why? I'm sorry, could you repeat the question? Are Taiwan and the South
00:38:08.800 china see national security issues for the united states and if so why or how i'm just going to be
00:38:16.440 honest here i'm not on national security that i'm not that informed on national security so
00:38:22.420 but i do support the military oh god i that i i'm sorry i know she's just pinch hitting but
00:38:33.940 that's disqualifying is it not probably yeah she's gonna be a united states senator she's supposed 0.97
00:38:39.180 to she she is a united states senator now she's supposed to vote on um you know appointments to
00:38:44.440 the pentagon and pentagon budget and it's all the more shocking because her brother that was his
00:38:50.700 that was that was she didn't get anything through osmosis from her brother about foreign policy
00:38:56.440 apparently i mean that's all he talked about nothing uh not even through osmosis not even
00:39:01.920 even through sitting in the Senate for the past couple of months, like that. I'm I'm mortified by
00:39:07.240 that answer. Like it's not really exactly her fault. Well, she did accept the appointment,
00:39:11.340 but has no one looked into whether she knows anything about politics, world events,
00:39:18.860 international events like this actually is an important thing to understand as a U.S. senator?
00:39:22.760 Yeah, I think she may have just lost the runoff with that one statement.
00:39:32.240 Ralph Norman actually answered the question.
00:39:34.100 He answered it pretty well.
00:39:35.240 It wasn't a knock it out of the park, but at least he had it.
00:39:38.280 But he didn't attack her, which was a lost opportunity, Andrew.
00:39:41.080 And he did not attack her.
00:39:41.740 Yeah.
00:39:42.100 I mean, look, she's a sympathetic figure, but he should have said, with respect, you 0.99
00:39:46.420 know, I understand Darlene is grieving her brother, but she has no business being a U.S.
00:39:51.540 senator and not able to answer that question that he should have done it. Guys are always too afraid
00:39:56.200 to hit women, you know, not not physically, rhetorically in a political debate. They're
00:40:01.340 afraid. And she's sympathetic, but she deserved to have a little, you know, the nose rubbed in
00:40:06.020 it in that moment just so he could finish off the moment. I think he was, you know, who knows,
00:40:11.140 but I think he might have been so stunned that she came up with that answer. You know, she was
00:40:17.000 named in the spot as sort of a placeholder and i think that's the way people sort of thought of
00:40:23.080 her initially and then she served but eight days and buried her brother and decided that she wanted 0.87
00:40:30.240 to keep the seat and the president is behind her and it'll be a question now how much energy does
00:40:36.020 the president put behind her at this point because in a sense i mean i guess it would be nice to have
00:40:42.640 there if you're trump but at the same time ralph norman is is is is not the worst thing in the
00:40:49.460 world for him is it so he's a serious person yeah so uh so it it'll be interesting to see
00:40:55.220 how the white house reacts at this point she may be just damaged goods i think trump is headed to
00:40:59.800 south carolina this week so it's it's going to be an awkward moment for him i mean i do think that
00:41:05.860 that the problem that she was facing right is that she's an unknown quantity right people don't know
00:41:11.560 anything. They don't know anything about her other than that she is Lindsey Graham's sister. 0.65
00:41:16.360 And now they know two things about her. Exactly. They had two weeks to find out. And this is the
00:41:22.920 thing that they found out, which is she knows nothing about foreign policy. And that's going
00:41:26.940 to fill the void. And it's a real problem for her. I think she did just lose this race.
00:41:32.520 I don't think she has any business running for the Senate. 1.00
00:41:35.000 i you know the the she doesn't you know also her whole that's like it's like look i understand she 1.00
00:41:41.820 was his sister and all that was like but if i were u.s senator and god forbid something were
00:41:45.880 to happen to me you you can't go get strudwick my my lab and make him a u.s set like you you have to
00:41:52.340 look for something more than did they love each other like you actually need some basic qualifications
00:41:58.220 and i think many of us gave her the benefit of the doubt and said okay she's she's going to enact 0.82
00:42:02.600 Lindsey Graham's agenda. You know, she's just a temporary place filler, but she has disqualified 1.00
00:42:09.140 herself with that. And like, it's a hard no. Can't we have one body at least of the Congress 0.86
00:42:14.120 that we can respect a little? I realize we have to deal with Maisie Hirono, but we don't need
00:42:18.700 another one. Yes. And typically, I would say most people, I bet you could find that polling would
00:42:27.640 show, most people, they don't like seeing elected offices, whether they're, you know, dog catcher
00:42:34.120 all the way up to senator, being treated as heirlooms to be passed along from one family
00:42:39.480 member to another, regardless of their, you know, qualifications. I mean, that's just not something
00:42:44.320 that, that's not how the country was conceived. And so even if you were a Lindsey Graham fan,
00:42:49.920 you might've felt a little uncomfortable with this. And now she's proven that she's not qualified.
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00:45:48.700 I want to move on to Jason Arday because the latest in that case is crazy.
00:45:54.160 It's getting crazy now.
00:45:55.760 And all three of you, in addition to being very smart politics editors, are journalists and understand what the rules would be and when reporting a big story.
00:46:04.120 And that's what this case has now come down to, whether the people who reported on Jason Arday's many, many lies are to blame, whether they were irresponsible in reporting the lies because he ultimately chose to take his own life when caught in the midst of his own created scandal.
00:46:23.940 And like the most galling thing, I've seen the activists.
00:46:27.980 They're still out there.
00:46:28.720 I'm going to play some of the sound, you know, saying, oh, you better, you know, you're in
00:46:32.420 trouble and we're threatening you and you caused his death. 0.64
00:46:34.600 OK, they're crazy. 0.97
00:46:35.780 We get all that.
00:46:36.760 But the Guardian, the Guardian, which is under fire for doing a couple of explosive pieces
00:46:43.660 on our day, they did their duty as a news organization and reported on the lies.
00:46:47.880 The Guardian is out with a piece attacking the right for its reporting and commentary around Jason Arde.
00:46:56.080 This publication is trying to have it both ways, and it's it's incredibly galling.
00:47:00.860 All right. So here's the story. They did a piece on August 12th on him.
00:47:05.740 They didn't a very in-depth piece shortly after that.
00:47:08.540 And now they have come out with a piece that is not signed.
00:47:14.020 it doesn't have like an author, but they are ripping on the media for having the nerve to
00:47:21.700 report on Jason Arday. And hold on a second. I'm trying to find the actual piece. Here it is.
00:47:26.180 Yeah. They write as follows. In Arday's case, alleged shortcomings in his record
00:47:31.580 rapidly became weaponized by the right in an argument about diversity and black academic
00:47:38.720 advancement. The Guardian sought to establish what was true. That is the proper function of
00:47:44.100 journalism. Reporters were contacted by Arday a year ago and worked extensively to verify what
00:47:50.240 he had told them. So Arday contacted them. He wanted to be in the paper. He just didn't want
00:47:55.520 them to report what was real and then got upset when they did. In many instances, they could not
00:48:01.580 verify what he had told them. It was right for The Guardian to publish his investigation. And
00:48:05.880 it is wrong that the journalists who did their job responsibly are now being subjected to an
00:48:09.860 onslaught of abuse because it's the Guardian reporters in particular who are being targeted
00:48:14.000 because they're of the left. And they know they're not going to shame the Megyn Kellys of
00:48:17.960 the world out of reporting on this, but they see blood in the water when it comes to Guardian
00:48:22.840 reporters. Then they go on to say, OK, in its journalism, the Guardian sought to meet
00:48:28.900 tests of importance and proportionality, covering the issue with nuance. This could not be said
00:48:34.700 of much of the right-wing media and its social media contenders. Arde became an exhibit in an
00:48:41.780 ideological, almost Trumpian campaign against diversity and inclusion. The allegations were
00:48:47.580 no longer simply about one academic's behavior or his past record. They were used to suggest that
00:48:52.940 Arde had never deserved to be there in the first place and that he had only been advanced because
00:48:58.720 of his race right because that's what was obvious that was the heart of the whole issue why are you
00:49:05.820 making it sound like that's dishonest now then they go on to say the attacks were relentless
00:49:10.980 often partisan and amplified without respite online like journalists have an obligation
00:49:18.820 to give respite to the to the target of their reporting what since when this this is racism
00:49:27.360 at work. White academics are generally allowed to fail as individuals. Black ones are not.
00:49:34.880 What's your evidence of that? What's your evidence of that, Guardian? This is so inappropriate. 0.99
00:49:40.340 And by the way, if they want to cast blame like it's right wing pundits who caused Jason Arde
00:49:45.300 to take his own life, who do you think Jason Arde cared about more reporting on him? The Guardian,
00:49:51.020 the Atlantic and the New York Times or right wing media, social media influencers online
00:49:57.980 noting that this guy was a serial fabulist. He didn't give a shit about the right wing. 0.99
00:50:02.780 It was his people, his leftist friends who were reporting on him, who I'm sure bothered him more 0.99
00:50:08.700 than any. And he freaked out. He was begging the Guardian not to do this reporting. This has become
00:50:14.220 a big deal. Oh, you had noticed people at the Guardian that he was not feeling well, that he
00:50:18.860 was deteriorating and you still reported i mean carl you tell me as our resident left-leaning
00:50:24.900 person but but honest journalist whether they have a point that you owe respite to a subject
00:50:32.600 of your reporting if he if he asks you for it no they're wrong and and and they're not even
00:50:40.660 i don't even think they believe half of that they're trying to they're trying to divert
00:50:45.860 attention and say, you know, we did reporting, but the right-wingers piled on. But I agree with
00:50:50.900 you that it wasn't, he didn't, look, suicide is a sign of a lot of things, mental health,
00:50:57.600 mental breakdown, but it's a cowardly way out. And he didn't want to face what he'd done,
00:51:02.140 which was create a career based on fraud. And it's sad to me because he had children, wife,
00:51:08.640 there's people, parents are people who loved him. And I think if he had, you know, owned up to what
00:51:13.500 he'd done and changed i think the guardian and a lot of people would have forgiven him and he
00:51:17.620 could have had a productive life he chose he chose to lie he chose to kill himself i i don't fault
00:51:23.860 the journalists who exposed it were doing their job it's really that simple yes and yet you get
00:51:29.800 the people like this um this is an author named kelechi akafor on the guardian take a listen to
00:51:38.780 this woman sup 19 because whilst i'm not uh you know a professional journalist i keep my boots to
00:51:44.260 the what the ground and i keep my ear to the what the streets and i've stumbled across some
00:51:48.700 information that i think would be in the public's interest to know that on the 31st of july you were
00:51:53.200 made privy to the fact that jason arday was not doing well with the media scrutiny archie catherine
00:51:59.460 now professor jason arday is dead right so why didn't you do your due diligence all of you need
00:52:05.340 to pay for this so i'm coming to you first katherine viner not because you're a woman
00:52:09.120 because i know that some of you will now try to run that you're the one that's going to need to
00:52:12.660 hold this and it's a shame because i pulled up your birth chart really quickly your astrological
00:52:17.000 birth chart i don't know your time of birth but to get a rough idea you have mars conjunct my venus
00:52:22.080 in scorpio in another life we would have gotten on right and my collective our community we're
00:52:27.800 showing up together to say baby by tuesday next week i think i want to see a resignation letter
00:52:33.080 If you try to hold on to this post, I'm only going to show up more because me, I'm like a dog with a bone, baby.
00:52:38.460 I'm not letting up because you were told that this was dangerous.
00:52:41.880 You were told that Jason wasn't in a good place.
00:52:44.480 So can you hear me clearly?
00:52:47.040 Is this my con?
00:52:48.320 Catherine, I'm going to need to see that resignation letter, baby.
00:52:51.980 And Archie, I don't mind yours either.
00:52:54.100 Pass it on through.
00:52:55.220 Lanre, I don't even have anything to say to you.
00:52:57.980 she's attacking the more senior people at the guardian and not exactly the author of the pieces
00:53:04.240 who we believe is black he's not white we know that he was the third one there so she's reserving
00:53:09.160 you know her her attack on him but clear threats to katherine viner who's high up at the guardian
00:53:14.600 tom uh what do you make of it preposterous i mean just just embarrassing look i agree this is a
00:53:21.500 tragic case, right? This guy taking his own life, this ending this way. But at the end of the day,
00:53:28.880 I mean, what were people supposed to do? Just continue to ignore all of this serial fabulism
00:53:36.620 that he was, all of these stories that he was putting out. I mean, he was held up as this
00:53:42.820 model, the youngest, you know, youngest professor ever at Cambridge. And it turned out it was all
00:53:49.640 based on fabrication and lies and so and plagiarism and plagiarism exactly and so um
00:53:57.240 you have a duty to expose that stuff it doesn't matter what your race is i mean we can't we can't
00:54:03.360 have we shouldn't have uh people getting in positions of power who who do that through
00:54:10.300 deceit so i don't understand and and you're right megan i mean the guardian is trying to have it
00:54:15.220 both ways they want to they're trying to basically say well we did responsible journalism but oh it
00:54:20.140 was the right wing that you know it was their problem that caused him to take his life because
00:54:24.440 they piled on and there's horrible people and they you know said he was a dei hire or whatever
00:54:28.900 so they can't have it both ways they have to tom that thing about they saying it wasn't just one
00:54:35.140 guy it became a stand-in for dei that's the public policy question here that is what journalists
00:54:41.020 is what journalists are supposed to do and institutions of higher learning they're doing
00:54:44.760 we elevated this guy why did we elevate him we bragged about his race when when we elevated him
00:54:50.300 and that we we made it clear that we were proud that he we had hired a young black professor
00:54:56.100 they that was their story and you know it reminds me of do you remember when elizabeth warren um i
00:55:02.240 will not repeat you know what trump says you know the word he uses for the the nickname he's given
00:55:07.980 her. Pocahontas. You're right. We call her chief lies a lot. We call her chief lies a lot.
00:55:13.600 She took great exception. And liberals just are aghast when anybody ever suggested that
00:55:18.960 her hiring at Harvard was in any way, you know, an affirmative action hire. But when Harvard
00:55:25.900 hired her, they put out a press release bragging, you know, it's Native American. And, you know,
00:55:30.760 this is what they wanted credit for. And so then you're not. And it is interesting, too,
00:55:36.120 that the Guardian points out Jason Arday contacted them. He wanted to be in the paper. He was he was
00:55:41.500 looking for PR. Well, he got it. I'm sorry that he was a serial fabulist and that he got it in a
00:55:47.940 negative way. But I mean, you tell me, Andrew, if if somebody comes to you and says, I'm going to
00:55:53.940 kill myself if you run this article, do you not run the article? That happened to me, Megan, once.
00:56:00.100 yeah i was writing about um catholic priests who was accused of molestation
00:56:05.820 and that he called me i still remember him he was an irish priest and said
00:56:10.760 that he would do something to himself and and it was a heavy thing and and he was being charged
00:56:17.040 criminally though and you know it was we wrestled with it and we finally ended up naming him but
00:56:23.800 and he did not kill himself but it was a it's a heavy thing it's something you can't you have to
00:56:28.900 weigh it because we're human beings and we you know what he did was not a capital offense it was
00:56:33.660 sinister but you know and i didn't want him to die see i don't think you have to weigh it i think i
00:56:39.220 think i would be negatively affected by it i would feel bad i would be disturbed but it wouldn't
00:56:44.020 pause me for one second from running well that's what that's the decision my editors made and we
00:56:48.760 ran it so yeah you have to you have a journalistic duty to do and unfortunately somebody's emotional
00:56:56.240 response to your true reporting is, not to sound too callous, their problem. He chose a life in
00:57:04.700 the public eye. No one forced him to do that. He chose to tout the DEI. He chose to tell us all
00:57:09.040 those lies. It was just a matter of time before it came back up on him. And he really should have
00:57:16.100 not been put out there by Cambridge because obviously he wasn't a well person. Obviously,
00:57:21.840 see somebody who's lying like that is not all there. And Cambridge had an obligation to see
00:57:26.100 that too. And at any event, even though Cambridge does have some blame, in the end, this was Jason
00:57:30.900 Arde's doing and it was his fault what happened to him. Guys, we got to leave it at that because
00:57:34.940 we're out of time. Great to see you all. We'll see you on the MK channel over on Sirius XM.
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