The Megyn Kelly Show - October 27, 2026


The Ilhan Omar Age Evidence, Meghan Markle's New PR Spin, and Questions About Russell Brand Accusers | Ep. 1428

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00:00:59.580 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:01:11.240 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Tuesday.
00:01:15.300 Just one week to go until the midterm elections come.
00:01:19.080 And Ilhan Omar is stepping out for a private event along with America hater Hassan Piker.
00:01:24.920 Seems like a great idea.
00:01:26.300 It's playing right into the narrative about her.
00:01:29.260 This is the guy who said we deserve 9-11.
00:01:31.520 And he tried to sort of apologize for it weekly. 0.94
00:01:34.100 But this is, to say, controversially underestimates, understates the nature of why people object to this disgusting man, Hassan Piker.
00:01:44.140 And this is who she's decided to resurface with.
00:01:46.680 Very nice.
00:01:47.240 You know who I'd love to see her resurface with? Any original member of the Omar family. 0.57
00:01:53.920 The family that clearly let her and her sister and her dad claim they were Omars. They weren't. 0.95
00:01:59.840 They were Elmys when they came over here in 1995. Let's find an actual Omar. Can we?
00:02:07.020 And ask questions. Let's have some journalist anywhere ask Ilhan Omar,
00:02:13.700 do you have two sisters or just one?
00:02:19.660 You acknowledge Sarah, who came over here
00:02:22.680 with you and your dad in 1995.
00:02:24.960 She lives in Nairobi, Kenya now.
00:02:27.440 What about Layla?
00:02:29.220 Is Layla Nur Saeed Elmi your sister or isn't she?
00:02:33.740 She stayed in the UK with your Brisbane, Ahmed,
00:02:36.620 when you guys came here and your other brother, Mohammed.
00:02:40.260 Can somebody please ask her,
00:02:42.200 How many sisters do you have? Seriously, this does not require amazing feats of journalism, Chris Hayes. How many sisters do you have? Do you have any brothers? What are their names? Fucking do it. It's not hard.
00:03:03.220 This is not journalism 501. Any high school journalism student could manage to spit those questions out to her as she enters or leaves an event or God forbid you actually get into an event because she was barring reporters last night.
00:03:20.800 perhaps you could shout it, shout it there. Like the internet information now is all over
00:03:28.940 the internet as all of the random sleuths are finally catching on to the reporting that's been
00:03:34.780 done by Powerline over these years in Alpha News. And it's, it's actually amazing to me. I have to
00:03:42.020 say, as you guys, I think know on this program, I always cite other people's work when I'm using
00:03:46.020 other people's work. It is an ethical requirement in my view, and it's polite, and it's just a way
00:03:54.080 of honoring another person's good work that isn't your own. I am so grossed out by the influencers
00:03:59.260 and the online crowd who are trying to pawn off the work of these journalists as though they just
00:04:07.860 discovered this stuff, like they just figured it out. Give credit where it's due. No one who's
00:04:15.520 looking for clicks right now, just figured out this stuff about Ilhan Omar and the Brisbane,
00:04:20.580 the sister, the ties to the UK family, the stuff about how she had that car accident or she didn't
00:04:27.240 have a car accident. She got in the back of that taxi with her sister Layla years ago and filed
00:04:31.320 a claim that she'd been discriminated against and mentioned that her sister was with her.
00:04:37.000 That's not your original reporting. Just cite the reporters who actually broke those stories.
00:04:43.520 It's very annoying.
00:04:45.140 Okay, so, and by the way,
00:04:46.060 if you hear somebody trying to claim that stuff
00:04:47.620 as their own, turn the channel, click out, unfollow, 0.89
00:04:51.900 because that person is a dishonest person
00:04:53.860 who's just using you for clicks,
00:04:55.800 and you can't trust them.
00:04:59.040 Okay, so we are getting a bunch of information
00:05:01.840 on Ilhan Omar, though.
00:05:03.160 I will say our pals over at National Review,
00:05:04.940 they've been doing good reporting on her,
00:05:06.720 doing firsthand reporting
00:05:08.600 that I haven't seen every place else,
00:05:10.660 and that's great.
00:05:11.520 They're actually advancing the ball.
00:05:12.900 Will Chamberlain of the Article 3 Project, also same, so credit to him.
00:05:19.460 And there is a bunch of news in the Russell Brand trial, including some reporting that you will not hear anywhere else because virtually nobody is reporting the facts that are good for Russell.
00:05:35.500 I mean, we had to comb, comb the YouTube reports about this trial, every print report about this trial, and in virtually no outlet is the meaningful cross-examination that his lawyer is doing mentioned in great detail.
00:05:55.720 They hit a couple of the cross-examination points, and then they move on.
00:06:00.360 And trust me, I had to pore over the reports in order to find the details of how it's actually going in there.
00:06:08.600 Now, I don't know that it's going to change Russell's fate, but there are some important things you need to know about some of these claimants.
00:06:17.820 All right, we'll get to that in a minute.
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00:07:18.340 there's a bunch of breaking news here okay there's there there's at least three legal
00:07:25.620 developments that you need to know about number one trump is being accused yet again of rape
00:07:32.280 by some woman who the media wants you to think is the former miss switzerland i mean if we're
00:07:38.000 splitting hairs she was the runner-up i'm thinking if you are the woman who won you don't want this 0.99
00:07:44.760 gal being referred to as Miss Switzerland when she was just the runner up. But the Democrats
00:07:49.780 put together their own report on Jeffrey Epstein, you know, in whom they're super interested now.
00:07:54.240 And they want you to know that in that report, this woman who also also claims that she was 0.89
00:07:59.120 assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein, um, says she was raped by Donald Trump. We're going to talk about
00:08:04.100 that. James Comey, former FBI director is back charged again, uh, with criminal charges.
00:08:12.300 there's a question about whether these charges are timely. The charges were brought on October
00:08:19.160 5th. They've been under seal. James Comey wanted them unsealed because of course he's basking
00:08:25.100 in the glow of being Trump's target. He likes it. Okay. I get it. He wants to look persecuted
00:08:31.820 and perhaps he is, but we'll find out. In any event, we'll talk about that. And then there was
00:08:38.820 a raid on the home of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to some alleged billionaire mega
00:08:48.480 donor, Stephen Klubeck.
00:08:51.860 And this guy was housing Eric Swalwell.
00:08:55.980 He's a Democrat mega donor, I guess.
00:08:58.640 He was housing Eric Swalwell, the disgraced Dem who basically got pushed out of his role
00:09:05.040 because he had allegedly sexually assaulted a bunch of women.
00:09:08.820 um, when the claims came forward, he denied that, but then he quit his job. And, uh, they not only
00:09:16.600 they, they, they raided Eric Swalwell. I want to get my facts correct on that because
00:09:21.840 they already had confronted Eric Swalwell a while ago. They, uh, let's see. Yeah. Agents
00:09:30.540 confronted Swalwell with a search warrant a couple of months ago when he landed at San Francisco
00:09:34.760 airport. They seized his electronic devices, including a cell phone, as part of this federal
00:09:39.800 probe, potentially into whether he used his congressional office to threaten, coerce, or do
00:09:46.660 anything untoward with young women. So they are clearly investigating those. And now this man,
00:09:55.340 in whose home he lived for a period of time, has had his mansion raided. So that's interesting,
00:10:01.900 too. So we have two, well, three public officials accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing and
00:10:11.400 we're going to go through them together. First, I'm just going to start with the Ilhan Omar stuff
00:10:14.800 because there are updates in that. The age in particular, how old is Ilhan Omar? As you know,
00:10:23.360 it does matter because if she was 18 or older at the time her father was allegedly naturalized,
00:10:30.100 We have yet to see the paperwork. We have seen paperwork saying no such record exists. Look forward to seeing any proof that that is not a real record or a correct one.
00:10:43.200 But assuming that he did go through the naturalization process and managed to get his daughter Ilan naturalized at the same time, that was unlawful if she was over the age of 18.
00:10:55.520 And if she was 18 or over, then that was unlawful.
00:10:58.480 And that means she can't, at a minimum, sit in the U.S. Congress anymore, irrespective
00:11:02.020 of statute of limitations issues.
00:11:03.900 She will be booted out of the U.S. Congress. 0.83
00:11:06.660 She will.
00:11:07.180 She must be. 0.78
00:11:08.180 It is a constitutional prerequisite that you be a U.S. citizen to serve in the House of 0.90
00:11:13.280 Representatives.
00:11:13.720 So forget what the left is telling you about statutes of limitation and so on.
00:11:18.580 She will be booted at the U.S. Congress if it can be proven that she, that her birthday
00:11:23.320 was in October of 1981.
00:11:25.520 as opposed to October of 1982, as her staff tried to claim when they changed it
00:11:33.120 after A.J. Kemp and others came out, accusing her of being too old and to be naturalized
00:11:39.380 derivatively under her father's naturalization. Okay, so the question is, was she born in October
00:11:44.960 of 1981, as we believe, or 1982, as would save her. Here is, she currently claims she was born
00:11:56.220 October 4th of 1982, but the New York Post reporting that her birth date had been listed
00:12:02.140 in the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library as October 4th, 1981, as well as on reference sites
00:12:10.520 such as Wikipedia and in media outlets like the BBC
00:12:14.100 for the entire time she served in the statehouse.
00:12:18.140 Remember, she was in the Minneapolis, Minnesota statehouse
00:12:21.420 from 16 to 19 when she ran for U.S. Congress
00:12:24.660 and for several months into her congressional term, 0.98
00:12:29.640 which began January of 19.
00:12:32.340 But the Congresswoman's staff moved to shift the date forward
00:12:36.460 by one year, in May 2019, after a video from her political challenger for that U.S. Congress role,
00:12:45.320 A.J. Kern, went viral, claiming Obar was lying about her age. Okay, so part of this we had
00:12:52.860 previously reported to you, but that's the widespread publication of her birthday as being
00:12:57.640 October 1981 was previously unknown to us. We knew about that legislative reference library,
00:13:03.460 and we knew that her staff went back and scrubbed it.
00:13:06.600 But now we find out it was also in Wikipedia.
00:13:10.600 It was in media outlets like the BBC.
00:13:14.680 And it was there for several months
00:13:16.340 into her U.S. congressional term.
00:13:19.540 It's amazing because nobody at the U.S. Congress
00:13:21.620 checked to see whether she was a U.S. citizen
00:13:23.360 before they swore her in.
00:13:26.380 We are so derelict in this country.
00:13:28.460 What are we? 0.71
00:13:29.200 Like banana republic?
00:13:30.440 This is like, we don't check?
00:13:32.680 Come on.
00:13:33.460 You have to show a valid passport to get on an international flight, but you don't have to show proof of citizenship to be sworn in as a U.S. congressperson.
00:13:42.700 It's absurd.
00:13:44.500 The Post goes on that from Black Americans in Congress, published by the House Office of the Historian and the House Office of the Clerk, they write in 1995, Ilhan Omar's family was granted asylum to the U.S. and ultimately settled in Minneapolis.
00:14:00.640 Omar became a naturalized U.S. citizen at 2000 at the age of 17, something she's claimed repeatedly
00:14:07.520 as well. Okay, there's more from Will Chamberlain of the Article 3 project, who went through Omar's
00:14:16.140 book. We told you yesterday about something that Jim Garrity of National Review had noticed,
00:14:19.880 which is there's a chapter in her book talking about how when the Somali Civil War began,
00:14:25.120 By her date, 1989, she said she was eight.
00:14:31.680 1989 minus eight would bring you to 1981.
00:14:36.300 That would put her birthday in 1981.
00:14:40.660 So that's just one instance where in her memoir, she seems to be suggesting she was born in 1981.
00:14:47.340 But Will Chamberlain went through, all through the memoir.
00:14:50.040 and I'll just keep it short for you
00:14:53.340 because he goes through every single mention of age
00:14:57.040 and what he finds is that it's completely inconsistent
00:15:00.180 on the subject of age.
00:15:04.200 He says, I went through every age she mentions in the book
00:15:06.840 that could be tied to a specific date or dates.
00:15:09.340 Three of 11 contradict her official birthday.
00:15:13.540 Two more are questionable.
00:15:15.140 And I think he's being charitable to her
00:15:16.760 because he gives her the benefit of the doubt
00:15:19.760 on the start of the Somali civil war that Garrity referenced. So what we're seeing here is she's all
00:15:25.360 over the map on saying how old she is. Now, I don't know about you, but I know how old I am.
00:15:31.520 And I don't think I've ever been confused about it. I remember lying about it when I first joined
00:15:39.600 Fox because I felt like I was an old lady at age 33. And I told some people I was 32. I was a big
00:15:46.960 sleight of hand. I don't know. I was worried I wasn't going to have a long career in TV at the
00:15:50.840 time. And then I immediately told people that it wasn't true. I was 32. I was 33. And in any event,
00:15:56.900 the point is, um, I don't lie about my age and I think most people don't lie about their age. 0.94
00:16:03.500 And if they do it, it's usually a woman trying to make herself seem younger, or it's a 0.59
00:16:08.380 like late teens person trying to make themselves seem over 21 so they can buy a beer.
00:16:13.880 But it's very, very weird to be, you know, Ilhan Omar and in the U.S. Congress and writing memoirs as an adult and to not know how old you are.
00:16:24.540 You know, you could make a strong case.
00:16:26.120 That's the behavior of somebody who's got secrets to hide.
00:16:30.260 um we talked yesterday about all the evidence that her brusband is her brusband achmed over
00:16:40.320 in the uk who then came over here and married her and then absconded to kenya so that she could say
00:16:46.140 that he he he left me and i need a divorce and i have no idea how to reach him but the truth is he
00:16:51.820 was working for her sister sarah in kenya and was very easy to find he's also very gay so
00:16:59.500 this is not a legitimate marriage and everyone knows that. She just won't admit it. But just 0.84
00:17:04.660 wanted to remind you that he also, this guy, Ahmed Elmi, when asked by Alpha News's Preya
00:17:09.940 Samsindar, responded with, and we talked about this earlier, quote, nor do I recall being married
00:17:16.740 to anyone, at least from what I remember. So that's him as she's saying, not that I can recall,
00:17:28.040 not to my knowledge. I didn't marry my brother, not to my knowledge. And he says he doesn't recall
00:17:33.780 being married to anyone, at least from what he can remember. Again, what's the matter with this
00:17:38.700 family? She can't remember her age. She can't remember whether she married or she doesn't know
00:17:42.620 whether she married her brother and her brother can't remember whether he was ever married,
00:17:47.020 ever married at all. Sounds legit. No. How do you feel? So she has this event last night with 0.99
00:17:54.360 We Deserve 9-11 Hassan Piker. And they barred media from the event. My pal Rich McHugh of
00:18:03.820 NewsNation and I were texting about it. They wouldn't let him in. Minnesota Public Radio
00:18:09.200 was invited and then denied access at the last minute by that Omar Fateh. You know that guy? 0.50
00:18:15.700 He's a Minnesota state senator with the teeth everywhere. He ran for Congress.
00:18:20.420 he didn't get the nomination. But so he was there and he was turning people away. And
00:18:29.960 he said that they were being turned away because of space concerns, which is obviously a lie.
00:18:36.080 She didn't want to have to deal with the media. And I guess that memo wasn't widely circulated
00:18:40.640 amongst her staff because they had invited some, like Minnesota Public Radio, which obviously
00:18:46.540 would be in her corner when they were up on stage because they did stream it.
00:18:52.660 So it's not like we couldn't access it, but you couldn't ask questions. That's the point.
00:18:56.160 Like, how many sisters do you have? Ask that. Somebody. Ask that. Do you have a sister named
00:19:08.080 Leila Nur Syed Elmi. And then if you're really bold, ask the follow-up. If not, why have you
00:19:18.480 liked posts of her daughters and specifically called them your nieces? Why are there pictures
00:19:26.760 of you on horseback with her daughters? How do you know her? How do you know her?
00:19:34.860 Do you have a brother named Ahmed Noor Saeed Elmi, who was raised in the UK by Layla? Yes or no?
00:19:47.000 If no, if you have no relation to him, why is he liking a post of your newborn daughter 1.00
00:19:53.320 saying nieces straight out of the vagina? Why would he do that? Why are you calling Layla's 0.99
00:20:01.900 daughters your nieces? Why is he calling Layla's daughters his nieces? Why is he calling your
00:20:07.940 daughter his niece? And why did you reportedly have Layla with you in that incident where you
00:20:17.540 claimed that you were attacked with racist comments by a cab driver in Minnesota, and you
00:20:27.120 filled out police work saying you were with your sister, though you later had it redacted,
00:20:30.580 and you met with a local Somali representative that night
00:20:33.880 and introduced the woman who was with you
00:20:35.680 as your sister, Layla.
00:20:37.500 Why did you do that?
00:20:39.960 You do have a sister named Layla Nur-Sayed Elmi.
00:20:43.360 You have a brother named Ahmed Nur-Sayed Elmi.
00:20:46.180 You have a brother named Muhammad Nur-Sayed Elmi.
00:20:48.860 And you have a sister named Sarah Nur,
00:20:53.300 who used to be Nur-Sayed Elmi.
00:20:56.820 And you are Nur-Sayed Elmi.
00:20:58.800 You're Ilhan Noor Saeed Elmi.
00:21:02.960 So show us proof if it's not true.
00:21:06.180 Explain those social media posts.
00:21:08.940 Explain it.
00:21:10.320 Why is Ahmed Noor Saeed Elmi saying he can't remember whether he was married to you?
00:21:17.020 It's so absurd.
00:21:19.100 Okay, so here she was with Hasan Piker last night, avoiding those very basic questions
00:21:24.680 and instead suggesting that the real problem here is her good looks.
00:21:31.680 Watch.
00:21:32.680 I feel like the media has a tendency to highlight everything that you do,
00:21:38.440 some of the things that I do.
00:21:40.500 We're just normal Americans trying to go about our day-to-day
00:21:45.640 and trying to organize against the Trump administration
00:21:48.860 in the same way that white people are doing in general, right?
00:21:51.980 it's like why is this look really good on their screen that's why they like
00:21:55.620 you think that's why they get you this you think that's why they get you maybe a little yeah they're
00:22:00.160 like she's she's so charismatic i think that's what i think i could see that 100 i agree with
00:22:05.720 that but yeah it's it's very frustrating because like they get tired of looking at their you know
00:22:10.200 botox faces so let's see if we can get some nice natural so you're saying if the fascias were 0.97
00:22:16.200 hotter than they would get more. They would be less of us on TV. Yeah. That's that's fair 1.00
00:22:23.420 assessment. I see. So you see, it's the MAGA women, Republican women who get Botox, unlike the
00:22:32.900 Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. It's only right leaning women who get Botox. Maybe the reason 0.99
00:22:42.400 that Ilhan Omar, so hot as she wants you to know she is, isn't getting Botox is it's because of her 1.00
00:22:49.520 destitute financial status. Remember, she told us that in her interview with Chris Hayes about how
00:22:55.880 she was really just living paycheck to paycheck. And it was really challenging for her. By the way,
00:23:02.680 she's just a normal American. I mean, I don't know about you. I'm a normal American. I know
00:23:05.880 where I was born. I know how old I was. If I need to prove my citizenship, I could do it
00:23:10.700 in the course of 30 minutes, I would find my birth certificate and I would show it to you
00:23:14.780 and you'd say I was born in America. Born in Illinois, a Midwestern girl raised in upstate
00:23:20.100 New York, Ilan. That's how you do it if you actually have the facts. Always had a blue
00:23:26.100 passport, whole life. How about you? Just normal Americans who are hot. That's going to be a great
00:23:34.800 defense. But perhaps it's her financial destitution that has stopped her from getting even hotter 1.00
00:23:42.280 and taking care of whatever lines may be coming across that face, like the MAGA Republican women 0.99
00:23:48.360 who care about looks. Here she was with Chris Hayes on how, you know, stars, they're just like 1.00
00:23:57.000 us. Satu. They cited a financial disclosure for Congress that initially said that your husband
00:24:04.780 firm was worth 30 million dollars that was before an accountant put in the liabilities of that firm
00:24:11.140 which then brought the 30 million down to like essentially net zero 20 000 which did make me
00:24:17.700 worry a little about your husband's business to be honest he's not in them anymore i was like well
00:24:22.940 that seems like a big difference between 30 million dollars and 20 000 there was a congressional
00:24:27.520 oversight body that voted that there was no wrongdoing there's no evidence of wrongdoing
00:24:32.480 what is your financial situation i mean it's you know working working class i guess like
00:24:39.020 paycheck to paycheck still you know we've got four kids um and you know we we live i think like a
00:24:46.520 basic life i i have a toyota camry that's from 2016 it's my only car um i rent my dc place and
00:24:55.960 my Minneapolis place. And so, I mean, I don't know if that sounds like, you know, not majority
00:25:02.680 of Congress, but there's some of us that are, that don't come from wealth and don't have wealth.
00:25:07.940 Oh my God. I mean, I told you when this happened, she, she makes $175,000 a year
00:25:12.860 and she wants you to think she's on skid row, but we have more to report to you on this front,
00:25:19.580 because do you remember last week when we had on the free beacons, Andrew Kerr,
00:25:22.680 and he reported all about her current husband, Tim Minette, with whom she had an affair.
00:25:31.520 He was married and she was married too, I think. Definitely he was married and she was his boss.
00:25:36.240 She was working in the U.S. Congress and she used her campaign to pay him reportedly $3 million,
00:25:42.660 which is a little sketchy. And then he left the campaign and now they're married. This is the
00:25:47.620 third husband, not our brother, as far as we know. Anyway, Andrew had not, he wasn't able to fully
00:25:55.980 explain a few things about Tim Minette's businesses. We walked through how he formed this wine
00:26:03.300 business, E. St. Crewe, and he formed this investment firm, Rose Lake Capital, and he formed
00:26:12.560 this other company that was basically selling marijuana in South Dakota, a marijuana
00:26:19.920 investment firm. And none of them went anywhere and all had financial problems and multiple were
00:26:28.200 accused of fraud and sued for fraud. And one of the things that Andrew couldn't figure out at that
00:26:34.540 time was, how did Tim Minette and his business partner settle all the claims that were brought
00:26:44.380 by investors against those firms who said, you defrauded us. We gave you a bunch of money,
00:26:50.000 wanted to get in the wine or the pot or the investment business, and you misused it, or you
00:26:55.780 did something nefarious that caused us to lose all the value of our investment, and we want
00:27:00.900 to be paid back. And somehow Tim Minette managed to cut checks in his partner to these people
00:27:09.820 for, we believe, millions of dollars, like several million dollars. But none of these
00:27:18.080 companies had any money. So how are they cutting checks like that to settle the claims? Well,
00:27:23.140 Andrew has updated his reporting, and he's reporting on an $11.25 billion infusion they received from some Indian billionaire, an Indian billionaire named Baiju Ravindran, Baiju, B-Y-J-U, Ravindran,
00:27:47.420 uh, the billionaire owner of the now bankrupt educational technology firm by you. We do not
00:27:56.820 know why he sent them two wires in June of 2024, totaling $11.25 million. Um, we do not know why
00:28:05.660 it's, it's very strange. I'm sorry, I said billion. I should have said million. He's a billionaire
00:28:11.460 and he invested $11.25 million in their company.
00:28:16.520 We do not know why he would do that.
00:28:20.420 He's reporting, Andrew, is that there was a failed deal
00:28:24.060 to acquire the $1.2 billion leveraged loan
00:28:27.280 at the center of one of the bankruptcy cases.
00:28:29.640 So he was trying to take over the companies via bankruptcy.
00:28:32.700 But it looks like days after he sent them
00:28:37.240 this $11.25 million, he demanded the return of the funds.
00:28:41.460 And Andrew's reporting it's unclear whether Rose Lake Capital in particular ever returned
00:28:47.540 the $11.25 million.
00:28:49.420 So we just don't know.
00:28:50.720 There's some seemingly sketchy business dealings going on.
00:28:55.760 And I do wonder whether that's in part what's being investigated by Janine Pirro.
00:29:00.020 Her piece of the case, we believe, is financial.
00:29:02.840 And it could absolutely encompass all of this.
00:29:06.300 So yeah, query that.
00:29:08.360 But back to Ilhan Omar's claim of destitution.
00:29:11.460 And I did not realize this. We used to have a good friend in Congress, a friend of Doug's. And I guess he'll stay nameless for the purposes of this discussion just because I don't have his permission to tell this story.
00:29:24.600 but he has family dough. He went to Congress and he shared an apartment with somebody on Capitol
00:29:33.680 Hill when he went up there because he didn't want to have to foot the bill for like another home,
00:29:37.600 even though he could have afforded it. But, you know, he tried to spend as much time as he could
00:29:42.240 back in his home district anyway. That's what a lot of Congress people do is they, they like kind
00:29:47.600 of dorm together and they get an apartment and they have like a couple bedrooms in it and they
00:29:52.680 have sort of a shared living space, their own bedrooms, but they do that to save money because
00:29:57.300 a lot of our Congress people are not rich, speaking of Nancy Pelosi. But I guess in 2023,
00:30:04.460 they changed things such that the American taxpayer now will cover lodging expenses.
00:30:13.640 This is a fringe congressional benefit activated in early 2023. And so now we're giving them
00:30:20.220 housing stipends, and we're giving them meal stipends. What the hell? I mean, when you 0.50
00:30:29.160 go to take a job in, let's say you leave New York and you go to whatever, Chicago for a new job,
00:30:37.560 are they, do you expect your employer to pay for your rent? To pay for your meals? No,
00:30:44.300 that's what the paycheck is for. That's what the $174,000 a year is for, Ilan and everyone else.
00:30:50.940 Why are we doing this? How much money is that costing the American taxpayer?
00:30:55.840 But in Andrew's report, he points out that, quote, Omar's financial situation is anything
00:31:03.400 but basic. It includes enviable taxpayer-funded perks that she accepts as a member of Congress
00:31:08.500 to cover her living expenses, millions of dollars that her campaign paid her husband's
00:31:13.720 former consulting firm, and a mysterious $11.25 million cash infusion that her husband's
00:31:19.960 venture capital company received from an Indian billionaire in 2024. Omar mentioned none of this.
00:31:25.940 Gee, maybe some basic research by Chris Hayes before the interview to arm himself in case we
00:31:33.440 covered finances, which is very much at the front of her potential problems, would have served him
00:31:40.220 well. Oh, but that's right. He had zero interest in actually asking her any probative questions.
00:31:46.400 He writes that, um, her claim that she struggles to keep up with rent on her DC home defies belief
00:31:53.800 reading here. Taxpayers have paid that bill for the past several years. The Minnesota Democrat
00:31:59.480 has received $85,000 in taxpayer funds to cover her DC lodging expenses as part of a fringe
00:32:07.340 congressional benefit activated in early 2023. Omar, who earns a base salary of $174,000
00:32:14.800 before the housing stipend, has not had to worry about rising grocery costs either because
00:32:21.040 taxpayers have taken on that bill as well. She has raked in $33,000 from taxpayers since 2023
00:32:29.000 from another fringe benefit that covers the cost of her daily meals, according to House
00:32:35.920 spending records. That's incredible. In addition to that $3 million, her campaign paid her husband's
00:32:44.660 consulting firm between 2018 and 2020. $3 million over the course of, let's call it three years,
00:32:52.420 if it's the full 18, 19, and 20, much of which landed directly in her husband's pocket
00:32:58.280 after they married in 2022. So how many millions is that that she got to enjoy?
00:33:05.920 millions of dollars from her constituents who donated to her campaign and she appears to have 0.91
00:33:13.240 used it for herself as opposed to her campaign. That's how this sounds. I mean, it's basically
00:33:20.200 self-dealing where you're paying your boyfriend's lover slash husband $3 million. Okay, sure.
00:33:27.100 And meantime, the taxpayer is paying for her meals and her DC apartment and $174,000 in salary. 0.87
00:33:35.100 This is ridiculous. And she's calling herself, remember, like working class at all that? 0.62
00:33:41.580 That utter bullshit. More lies, Chris Hayes. You suck at your job. Good God, you failed. 1.00
00:33:49.260 So this is all so infuriating. Oh, by the way, not brought up by Hassan Piker either.
00:33:56.800 You're shocked. And for the listening audience, their little presentation last night looked like
00:34:01.080 a scene out of Wayne's World. Basement TV, the two of them on some shitty little like love seat. 0.88
00:34:06.620 Elon slouching down. Honestly, I'm going to give you the visual. The viewing audience already saw 0.79
00:34:12.580 but she's like down here. She's like way down. She's like sitting basically like a foot above
00:34:18.040 her tailbone or she's a Lilliputian. I don't know which. And she can't find like the proper seating 1.00
00:34:26.780 so she can sit up like an adult, like a professional,
00:34:31.440 and they're side by side.
00:34:33.380 There's not even like a proper table
00:34:35.680 for them to sit and have a real discussion.
00:34:37.740 It's just what a hack.
00:34:39.820 This whole thing has hackery all over it. 1.00
00:34:43.380 This is a woman who is used to not being questioned, 1.00
00:34:47.320 to just doing whatever the F she wants, 1.00
00:34:50.600 which is why she's got her little Somali rap song 1.00
00:34:53.180 threatening the Somali members of the Minnesota community who might rat her out on the whole 1.00
00:34:59.080 Elmi thing or the Somali fraud thing that it appears she slash a member of her family may
00:35:06.420 have been involved in. The finances thing, she knows what to do. She's the daughter of a colonel
00:35:14.600 in a warlord army, genocidal army. So she knows what to do and she's doing it. On the other side
00:35:22.520 is Trump and the Trump administration. And I got to say, I know a lot of my viewers are like,
00:35:29.580 nothing's going to happen to her. I think you guys are used to like, okay, we're going to,
00:35:34.420 yeah, Tish James, she's going to be behind bars and James Comey, sure. This one, I don't know,
00:35:42.000 this has got more than your average smoke. And I do believe there's fire there. So I'm open-minded
00:35:49.240 to a more positive outcome on this one, meaning at least she's out of Congress. It's not a U.S.
00:35:54.540 citizen. It's obvious. It's obvious. Multiple acts of fraud by this family, in my opinion,
00:35:59.540 and I think she will be balanced. The only question is whether she'll also be behind bars.
00:36:04.880 Okay, I want to keep going. This woman who has come forward now to accuse Donald Trump of rape.
00:36:11.980 Okay, so first of all, this is all over the papers today, as though it's a real thing, and it's not a real thing.
00:36:21.720 It isn't. That's pretty much what you need to know, but I'll just give you an example.
00:36:26.620 People Magazine. You should know People is a complete left-wing rag. I think you know that, but maybe you think it's apolitical.
00:36:33.520 It's not. It is not. It hates Republicans and Donald Trump.
00:36:36.640 People. Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Kuhl alleges Donald Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993. The New Republic. Woman says Trump raped her and then said the show must go on. Time magazine. New details of rape allegation against Trump revealed in House Democrats Epstein report. The Telegraph. Donald Trump has been accused of rape by a model in former Miss Switzerland. 1.00
00:36:59.260 in a report produced by the Democrat Party, Julie K. Brown, the one who helped break the Epstein
00:37:05.440 story. Breaking. She's another hard leftist. She's really foul, this woman. Donald Trump was an active
00:37:12.080 participant in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the mid to late 1990s, end quote. According
00:37:17.080 to a report issued today by Dems on the House Judiciary Committee, the report includes one new
00:37:21.740 rape allegation against Trump and calls for a special investigation of the Trump admins cover
00:37:26.220 up. Okay. Of Epstein's crimes. Let me tell you what this so-called rape accusation is. All right.
00:37:33.100 I'm going to introduce you to this woman, this, this woman, Beatrice Kohl, K-E-U-L of Switzerland.
00:37:42.300 Um, cause she's been around for a while. She's been telling her story. Uh, she came out a couple
00:37:50.100 years ago for the first time, I think it was 2024, when we first heard her harrowing tale
00:37:55.980 about what the evil Donald Trump did to her. And then there was a big New York Times piece
00:38:04.020 in December 2025. And her story was, up until now, that Donald Trump groped her, that he
00:38:16.040 groped her. And she repeatedly talked about how she is six foot one and that her size, quote,
00:38:24.260 saved her, saved her because she was able to wiggle away from him. That has been her story
00:38:32.860 up until today. Any decent journalist who felt the need to do a headline about this case
00:38:39.440 would write former runner-up to Miss Switzerland, Beatrice Cole, alleges Donald Trump raped her 1.00
00:38:48.000 in 1993. Original story was groped. It's something to show the audience in the headline.
00:38:58.500 This is a massive change from the story she's now been telling for years, all right? That's not in
00:39:05.940 any of these, not a one. You don't have to take my word for it. Here she is in December 19,
00:39:13.760 sorry, December 2025. I can't tell what the publication is here.
00:39:23.180 This is to the New York Times, December 2025. This is her written interview.
00:39:30.540 She was then a bank employee and part-time model from Switzerland. She said in an interview,
00:39:35.940 with the New York Times that during the event, one of Mr. Trump's employees asked her to meet
00:39:39.660 privately with him in a suite upstairs. Almost as soon as she arrived, Ms. Kuhl said, Mr. Trump
00:39:45.260 began groping her, kissing her, and trying to lift up her dress. I yelled, I screamed, I pushed him, 0.59
00:39:50.080 she said. He didn't want to give up. She said she was withholding some details of what happened
00:39:54.700 because she had been subject to anonymous threats. Ms. Kuhl first described aspects of the episode
00:40:00.620 to the Daily Mail last year.
00:40:05.480 And here is that report from October 2024 to the Daily Mail.
00:40:12.580 They write, it was only because of her height and strength
00:40:15.540 that Beatrice Cole could fight off the former president. 1.00
00:40:18.640 Quote, I think my size saved me, she said of the 1993 incident
00:40:23.360 in the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time.
00:40:26.780 She's coming forward now in October 2024.
00:40:30.580 What happened in November 2024?
00:40:33.060 Does anyone remember what happened?
00:40:34.880 Oh, wait, I remember.
00:40:37.040 Because she discovered the documentation for the trip from her home in Zurich, Switzerland,
00:40:42.900 sitting in a box when she prepared to move.
00:40:45.220 Oh, you see, it had nothing to do with the election.
00:40:48.180 People stop, okay?
00:40:50.320 She was just cleaning.
00:40:51.940 She was doing spring, well, fall cleaning.
00:40:53.900 and she found the box and that's why she waited 30 years to come forward and tell everybody that
00:41:01.660 she had been groped, violently groped by Donald Trump. It was just in a box, you see, and she was
00:41:07.340 moving and she found it. A longtime friend, Swiss writer Pascal Klaivas, told the Daily Mail that
00:41:14.860 Kuhl first told him her story of Trump's unwanted sexual advances 20 years ago and that her telling
00:41:20.160 of the incident has not changed in the intervening years. Oh, well, it would change a lot from October
00:41:27.040 2024 to now. A lot. Hate to break it to you, Pascal. But she decided to amp it up. The Trump
00:41:34.660 administration had denied it through Caroline Leavitt at the time. So here she is. She wasn't
00:41:39.980 content just to speak to the Daily Mail in October 2024 or the New York Times in December 2025.
00:41:46.140 But at the beginning of this year, January 2026, old Beatrice decided to give an interview to a podcaster whose show is called The Conspiracy Files.
00:41:57.460 And here is her describing why she went and saw Donald Trump that day.
00:42:04.920 That's the reason also I accepted to go and to attend.
00:42:08.660 And it was, how should I say, it was a dream come true.
00:42:13.240 You know, I was very positive. I was packing. I was happy. I was looking forward.
00:42:19.000 And then it happened totally differently than I imagined to myself.
00:42:24.060 And that's where I personally met Trump and Epstein at the press luncheon.
00:42:28.400 So everything started smoothly, you know, and then I turned from black to from white to black or black and white, as you want.
00:42:37.580 And then the incident that was already related, you know, in the press, you know, I cannot go into details because otherwise we have to stop the interview. I cannot talk about it just like that. But in one word, it was horror. That's all I can say. Horror.
00:42:55.180 okay so she can't talk about it now she can't go into the details but it was horror
00:43:01.660 great okay so i guess are we getting ready here to amp up our charges like are we already speaking
00:43:08.060 to the democrats what's happening well let's check back in with beatrice in june six months later
00:43:13.600 june of 2026 uh where she did a three-part interview with punched up a show um and let's 1.00
00:43:21.840 see if she uses the rape word here. I'm going to read it to you. Cool says Trump first, quote, 1.00
00:43:28.760 jumped on her, kissed her and tried to lift her dress. He was grabbing and touching my body 0.80
00:43:33.560 everywhere he could, she claims, adding it was violent. It was quick. It was intense. I was
00:43:37.540 screaming for help and nobody came. It was bad. She then recalls him telling her to keep quiet
00:43:42.020 about what happened. He threatened me. He clearly told me I must keep quiet. Otherwise, bad things
00:43:46.720 can happen, a remark she took as a threat to her safety. As Kuhl previously told the Daily Mail,
00:43:53.160 I was in a foreign country. I was scared that I could not go home or I couldn't come back. And so
00:43:57.280 she says, I promised him that I was going to keep quiet. Kuhl also alleges Epstein made moves on her
00:44:02.140 that day prior to Trump's alleged assault. Epstein had introduced himself to her, she said,
00:44:08.120 as Don's best friend, quote unquote, and told her she was supposed to be his, quote, prey,
00:44:12.820 inviting her to a party at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort.
00:44:16.400 Not a word about this alleged rape.
00:44:20.780 Nothing.
00:44:21.740 But now she's had the chance to sit down with a bunch of Democrats
00:44:25.620 preparing a report on Epstein, their new favorite subject. 0.98
00:44:29.480 And in there, she finally accuses Trump of having raped her. 0.88
00:44:37.660 They say that they interviewed her over several weeks 0.95
00:44:42.760 She said she was just 24.
00:44:44.660 She was at a press event for a pageant at the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time,
00:44:49.640 that he reportedly grabbed her from behind, or she told them that he grabbed her from behind.
00:44:58.280 He forcibly raped her in the process, tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body. 0.95
00:45:04.680 Oh, my gosh. Wow. It's amazing. 0.99
00:45:07.160 She didn't tell any of that to the Daily Mail or the New York Times.
00:45:09.420 Those are some details. Bleeding and bruising. She described the rape as brutal. Following the alleged assault, she claimed that Mr. Trump sat her on the edge of the bed, repeated his promises to arrange for a visa and admission to NYU, and made her promise she would keep quiet, saying the show must go on.
00:45:27.500 uh they do report in the telegraphs write-up of this that in her original claims in october 24 0.98
00:45:34.160 uh she accused mr trump of groping not raping okay so this is bullshit and of course caroline 0.94
00:45:43.300 levitt dismissed this stuff as fake um here the white house is also saying this is ridiculous and 0.99
00:45:51.380 and adding via a White House spokesperson
00:45:54.860 that Mr. Trump has been fully exonerated
00:45:57.520 of anything relating to Epstein.
00:46:00.160 So here we go again.
00:46:01.040 I mean, like how many elections
00:46:02.040 can we rejigger this hoax?
00:46:05.280 All right, like we already did that.
00:46:07.300 Isn't like, I feel like once is enough.
00:46:09.260 We did it in 2016.
00:46:11.300 Like then they tried to do it again
00:46:12.760 before the 18 midterms
00:46:14.580 because he was president.
00:46:15.920 And now here we are.
00:46:17.300 We did it again before 24,
00:46:18.980 probably did it in 2022.
00:46:20.020 I can't really remember that one.
00:46:21.380 And now it's like 20, he's not even on the ballot. Now it's 2026. We're going to do it again. More
00:46:27.320 rape allegations against Donald Trump. Like they're getting stale. I got to give you some
00:46:32.380 free advice. Find a new Republican. Like you should try this against somebody else. I'm joking,
00:46:39.140 of course. Do not make fake rape claims against anybody. But this is obviously fake. Like whatever.
00:46:45.700 I don't know what the actual truth is.
00:46:48.240 I just know this is absolutely not to be credited, given her amping up right before all the elections.
00:46:57.080 All right.
00:46:57.680 I'm sorry to tell you, Beatrice, I don't believe you. 1.00
00:47:01.760 I don't believe all women, and I definitely don't believe you. 1.00
00:47:05.980 All right.
00:47:06.820 Let's talk about James Comey.
00:47:09.560 There's precious little information right now.
00:47:12.200 And I don't feel very confident about this case because I'll just start with this.
00:47:20.760 The statute of limitations on this claim that they brought against James Comey, this criminal complaint, ran on as of October 5th.
00:47:29.320 They had to have charges against him by October 5th of this year.
00:47:33.300 And they filed what's called a criminal information in federal district court, district court in Washington this month.
00:47:40.640 meaning that prosecutors brought charges without immediately seeking approval from either a judge
00:47:46.360 or a grand jury. And Comey's team has already come forward to say that doesn't toll the statute,
00:47:54.500 like that doesn't stop the statute from running. You needed to get an indictment or an arrest
00:47:59.260 warrant before October 4th of 2026, and you failed. So we are now past the 10-year statute
00:48:07.080 to limitations. I mean, I've got to ask you, what are they doing on Team Trump? Like if you,
00:48:13.200 obviously they're very determined to prosecute James Comey. I mean, that thing about the
00:48:16.960 seashells, 86-47 is still pending. That one that was based on accusations of perjury under oath
00:48:25.040 about what he leaked and what he didn't got thrown out because the U.S. attorney that Trump had
00:48:31.780 had placed in the Virginia federal court in that jurisdiction got bounced saying she was
00:48:41.580 not properly appointed. So the Comey case fell away. And so that one's not coming back,
00:48:48.180 by the way. So it's like that case and this case are, I mean, right up to the statute of
00:48:54.760 limitations. So it's like, you know, he's going to file his claim and you know, there might be
00:48:58.120 irregularities, and you know you might screw up some part of the pleading. So what is this? Why
00:49:02.640 would you wait until the day the statute expires, statute of limitations, to file this claim?
00:49:10.220 Like, you've known about this for 10 years. What is the point? It's like, you didn't think you had
00:49:15.300 it. You didn't want to file it. Somebody leaned on Trump. This is how it looks to me. And they
00:49:20.900 pulled the trigger at the 11th hour. And for all I know, they're hoping it gets thrown out because,
00:49:25.520 you know, maybe the DOJ can be like, Mr. Trump, we tried. Well, guess what? That doesn't work.
00:49:30.940 I mean, he doesn't, he does not seem satisfied by attempts. He wants actual convictions,
00:49:37.040 as we saw in, for example, his public chastising of Pam Bondi for not bringing charges. And
00:49:47.060 that was a case where, you know, she'd been trying. She had brought some charges, 0.88
00:49:50.920 but not all could be brought legitimately, and he was chastising her, and, you know,
00:49:55.560 it was kind of the beginning of her end. But it's basically, not basically, it is based
00:50:02.160 on an allegation that when he was FBI director, he allegedly disclosed to the Times or to the
00:50:16.540 the press, something about a novel use of surveillance authority that involved Yahoo
00:50:24.060 and its emails. So there is suggesting that specifically he, looking for the exact word
00:50:36.860 so I don't misstate it, the article at issue described how Yahoo used a system intended to
00:50:44.600 scan emails for child pornography and spam to help satisfy a secret court order requiring it
00:50:53.680 to search for messages containing a computer signature tied to the communications of a state-sponsored
00:50:58.780 terrorist organization. I don't know what that means either. According to the article,
00:51:02.860 the Department of Justice obtained an individualized order from a judge, a FISA order,
00:51:08.560 a FISA judge, and Yahoo was barred from disclosing the matter. Prosecutors and court papers said that
00:51:15.660 the Times article, the New York Times had this article about it, it came out because Mr. Comey
00:51:20.580 sought to correct misinformation which had appeared in the press by way of Reuters the day before.
00:51:26.620 So he's saying something broke about this program. It broke erroneously in Reuters. He wanted it
00:51:33.220 corrected. He went to the New York Times or had his people go to the New York Times at his directive
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00:53:42.640 The latest on Meghan Markle.
00:53:45.260 Some bizarre news coming out in that case today.
00:53:49.180 So first, there is a report via, let's see.
00:53:56.800 Actually, I don't know who it's via.
00:53:58.780 Maybe it's the Times. Yeah, it could be the Times of in the UK. But the headline is that the UK
00:54:05.360 police misplaced the letter that had accused Thomas Markle of being a child sex predator.
00:54:14.100 And that you remember how she came out, she rushed to make her statement on Friday. I knew I knew
00:54:19.060 I'd received a letter forwarded to me by the Metropolitan Police back in, she said,
00:54:23.260 summer of 18 turned out to be January of 19. And then the Metropolitan Police said,
00:54:28.000 we're looking into it. We're looking into it. And then it came out, okay, indeed, it's true.
00:54:32.000 They were sent a letter by Thomas Markle's first wife, Rosalind Loveless, that they did show to
00:54:39.180 the Duchess, and they said it was January of 19. But we didn't investigate him then. We've never
00:54:45.580 investigated him since, and we never referred him for investigation since then. That's what
00:54:49.800 the Metropolitan Police said after she was the first to rush out with her statement.
00:54:53.680 Well, now the report is that the Metropolitan Police, they were forced to ask the Duchess of Sussex for a copy of the letter that she was saying they had sent her, notifying her of these serious allegations against her father.
00:55:07.340 that on Monday, October 26th, yesterday, UK newspaper The Times reported that the Metropolitan
00:55:15.260 Police failed to act on the tip-off and that they were unable to locate the original letter,
00:55:21.640 which was addressed to their fixated threat assessment center, a specialist unit that
00:55:27.020 assesses potential threats to the royal family and other public figures. Megan kept a copy of
00:55:30.980 the letter and shared it with the police at their request, according to the newspaper.
00:55:34.420 That was an important detail to share. I'm sorry. Like, I don't think Meghan Markle's manufacturing fake letters about her dad, but we don't really know what the hell is going on in this case. There's a lot of sketchiness around how this all came out.
00:55:49.100 And only now do we learn that they actually never found the letter allegedly in their possession. They only have whatever she showed them as, I guess, proving that they showed it to her.
00:56:06.660 I don't know, because what we have is a letter from this woman, the first wife, to the Metropolitan Police.
00:56:15.120 And then the report was that someone showed it to Meghan.
00:56:20.080 And then it came out that we believe it was the Metropolitan Police who showed it to Meghan.
00:56:24.720 And now the UK police or the Metropolitan Police are revealing, you know, via the UK Times, they couldn't find the letter.
00:56:31.800 But they actually don't have whatever letter was sent. Only Meghan Markle has it. Is there at least a cover letter from the Metropolitan Police saying attached is the first wife's screed on how your dad is a child sex predator? And what letter does she have? Does she have a letter from the Metropolitan Police or does she have the actual underlying letter?
00:56:58.120 I don't know, but it's a weird wrinkle in a chronology that has not been making perfect sense.
00:57:05.260 So there's that.
00:57:06.440 And then we get dueling reports.
00:57:09.320 Okay, listen to this.
00:57:10.360 This is just so classic.
00:57:12.320 So Hello Magazine reported yesterday, citing a Megan friend.
00:57:18.940 She's just really, really upset, a friend tells Hello.
00:57:23.040 Quote, she keeps looking at Lily and she's in tears.
00:57:26.620 She's thinking about all the children, the alleged victims.
00:57:29.760 She has young children herself.
00:57:31.680 It's just devastating.
00:57:33.820 It's devastating, okay?
00:57:35.320 So she can't stop crying.
00:57:37.640 She is in tears all the time looking at Lily and thinking about the children.
00:57:43.560 Oh, and by the way, she has a new gig hosting MasterChef Junior in Australia.
00:57:49.000 I'm not kidding you. 0.94
00:57:50.900 She's getting her friends to talk to hello, or they're just doing it.
00:57:55.300 just to let us know she's really, really sad about all the children that she failed to protect.
00:58:00.260 But at the same time, she really would like you to know she has a new gig.
00:58:03.640 She's back, baby.
00:58:05.300 She is relevant again.
00:58:07.100 And at the same time all this hits, we get this report from the News Australia,
00:58:13.240 which is exclusively revealing that Meghan Markle,
00:58:16.100 who recently relocated back to Britain with Prince Harry and their children,
00:58:19.400 will be one of the new hosts on the next season of TENS.
00:58:22.680 10s, I guess that's a channel, Junior MasterChef. A source close to the production confirmed that
00:58:29.520 the popular series will return in 2027, six years after its previous season, with Megan appearing
00:58:35.300 alongside MasterChef Australia judge Poling Yao. Production for the main series takes place in
00:58:41.700 Melbourne, where it's expected the children's spinoff will also be filmed, likely over a matter
00:58:46.360 of weeks early to mid next year. With Megan set to be based in Australia for the duration of the
00:58:52.020 shoot, an insider hinted with Harry that their kids, Archie and Lilibet, may well join her,
00:58:57.260 though no decision has yet been made. She may be too busy to see them. Harry may have to deal with
00:59:01.560 it. But this is unbelievable. This is so poorly and oddly timed. Why? Why? When you are trying
00:59:09.020 to tell people you are just devastated and crying all day over the poor children, do you then say,
00:59:14.500 but back to me. But news about me and how important I am. You recall that she went on
00:59:24.240 this channel. She already went on this show or some version of it, MasterChef. Maybe not the
00:59:30.520 junior kind. I don't remember. But she was a celebrity guest back in July. Here was that,
00:59:35.520 Sot 3. We've had MasterChef royalty in the kitchen before, but no one liked this. All the way from
00:59:43.200 sunny California, please welcome to MasterChef Australia, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle.
01:00:06.040 Okay. Something happened. She didn't like the way they referred to her.
01:00:10.360 You know, she ruffled feathers, but I guess she got the gig because they're looking for
01:00:14.960 attention and yeah, um, saying that she's going to be part of your program will get
01:00:20.720 you that.
01:00:21.500 And there's no way they would have released this though, without her approval.
01:00:24.940 I mean, everybody has got a deal when they sign a contract with the television network
01:00:31.100 on announcing the gig about how there will be joint approval of what the announcement
01:00:37.300 sounds like, looks like, and the date of it.
01:00:38.780 So there's just zero chance that she didn't approve of this announcement as she's trying to convince us she's in tears all day and like super sad about not reporting her dad, about her not reporting her dad so that he could get looked into because she just trusted the authorities who weren't investigating him.
01:00:55.560 but she wants us to believe, lied to her and said that they were, and that she mistakenly believed
01:01:01.360 that might take eight years. And gee, she was just really hoping and praying the whole time
01:01:06.820 that something was going on. Whatever. It makes no sense. So that's the latest out of Markleland
01:01:13.860 where no one wants to move. Now we've got to talk about Russell Brand because this trial
01:01:22.300 is continuing, and we have quite a few updates for you on exactly what's happening there.
01:01:29.020 We talked with our legal panel last week about how this is a grim case for Russell Brand in a
01:01:35.820 lot of ways. The procedures, as they're set up over in the UK, are extremely biased in favor
01:01:41.760 of the alleged victim and against the defendant. He has to sit alone in this little box, can't sit
01:01:48.040 next to counsel, can't whisper in counsel's ear like maybe this is something you could cross on
01:01:52.300 or, hey, this point she just made is not true. Nope, that's not happening. He's got to sit
01:01:56.380 isolated in the box like the boy in the bubble. And the witnesses can take the stand behind a
01:02:03.780 drape where virtually no one in the courtroom can see them. I believe the jury can see them
01:02:10.380 and the judge, but like the people in the gallery cannot. So they're deprived, the people reporting
01:02:16.860 on this case from the ability to report on, she was gobsmacked. She looked stunned. She was angry.
01:02:23.400 She lost her cool. That's really tough when you can't see the witness testifying. And their
01:02:29.020 anonymity is protected, quote, forever under UK law, forever. You cannot say their name or do
01:02:37.260 the jigsaw identification where like, you know, I say, who's Prince Harry marrying? Well,
01:02:43.760 she used to star on Deal or No Deal, but that's all I'm going to tell you. And then, you know,
01:02:49.340 Tucker comes out and reports, well, she's got a dad who's a California lighting director.
01:02:54.900 And then somebody else comes out and reports, well, she is mixed race. And, you know, before
01:03:01.380 you know it, you have the identification. You're not allowed as news organizations to even do that,
01:03:05.760 to issue like meaningful pieces of the jigsaw such that the identity could be unearthed.
01:03:11.760 And again, this is so unfair. Like, what if you have a serial accuser? Truly, if you have a serial accuser and you would not know that unless all the men she'd had she had accused could come forward.
01:03:25.180 If they all read in the paper, oh, hey, that's Jane Doe. I dated her. Then they might come forward to, let's say, Russell's defense lawyers and say, let me tell you, there's a long litany of us who she's accused.
01:03:36.740 you should know this, makes it a lot more challenging for team defense. In any event,
01:03:42.420 onward they go. And I have facts to report to you that have not made it everywhere in the press
01:03:49.300 because the press is just going with like the biggest highlights. And let me tell you, it takes
01:03:54.640 some digging to find the facts that were helpful to Russell Brand's defense. Last Thursday, whenever
01:04:02.400 we did this last, we talked about complainant number one. And for those of you who didn't join
01:04:08.220 us, there are six women. One alleges a vaginal rape, that's complainant number one. One alleges
01:04:15.980 an oral rape, that's complainant number three. And one alleges an anal rape, which is complainant 0.96
01:04:21.660 number five. The other complainants allege one, complainant two, has zero case. She's alleging he 0.56
01:04:30.460 grabbed her arm. I'm not kidding you. Her allegation is he grabbed her arm and she thinks
01:04:35.540 tried to pull her into a restroom. She told everybody at the time she thought it was for
01:04:39.520 consensual sex, which she didn't want. Only now, all these years later, does she allege it was
01:04:43.260 for a potential rape. And I have news on her case in a second. There was just breaking news in the
01:04:48.800 courtroom. So that's one. And the other two allege some, one alleges actual groping of like
01:04:54.160 breasts against her will over her clothes. And one alleges, in the workplace setting, 0.56
01:05:00.520 somebody insisted that she give him a massage on his shoulders. And she did, and she didn't
01:05:04.980 really want to, and that he placed his face in her nether region while she was fully clothed,
01:05:10.220 near her nether region. So, I mean, these are very, let's just deal with the real deals,
01:05:15.980 the serious charges, okay? Complainant one, complainant three, and complainant five.
01:05:21.100 But I will tell you on complainant two, the one who says he grabbed my arm, what are we doing here?
01:05:27.500 Why are we wasting our time?
01:05:29.060 The judge in the case, Justice Benathan, or is it Benathan, says the indecent assault, that's an indecent assault by her testimonial, grabbed her arm, tried to pull her in a bathroom stall, she wriggled out of it, will be reduced to attempted indecent assault at this halfway stage of the trial.
01:05:49.700 He tells jurors he has concluded, quote, there was insufficient evidence to support the indecent assault charge and that they should not find Russell Brand and that they should find Russell Brand not guilty of that allegation.
01:06:03.360 So he's reduced it to attempted indecent assault.
01:06:07.020 I mean, it's really like absurd.
01:06:08.160 How the hell do you know what he intended to do with her in there? 0.97
01:06:10.360 I mean, she's been telling people, according to the trial testimony, for a long time, she thought he wanted to have sex with her in there, not not to rape her. 0.94
01:06:18.000 And it wasn't until she saw that Channel 4, quote, documentary that her worldview started
01:06:23.940 to change.
01:06:24.720 And that has been a consistent theme by all of the women upon cross-examination.
01:06:29.840 The defense has made them all say that they didn't, they either didn't think that they'd
01:06:35.520 been assaulted or raped, et cetera, or they had no plans of ever saying anything about
01:06:39.940 it. 0.99
01:06:40.240 Many of them have on-the-record statements to others saying, like, I was an idiot, whatever, 0.97
01:06:44.240 There's no there there until they saw the Channel 4 so-called documentary.
01:06:48.740 And that Channel 4 documentary, which was put together by this one reporter in particular, who now we are told has served as a liaison for getting a lot of these women into the prosecution's crosshairs, was, I mean, about as one-sided a hit job as anyone could ever hope for who wanted to get Russell Brand in trouble.
01:07:11.240 I mean, one of the bizarre things about that documentary, which was jarring, no question,
01:07:15.260 and you may recall that I was very angry at Russell after I saw that because it revealed
01:07:20.620 the fact that when he was 30, he was having sex with a 16-year-old, which I just thought was so
01:07:25.860 beyond. And when he came into the Red Studio, I asked him about it, and I told him I was very 0.73
01:07:32.040 angry with him after I heard that allegation. And let me tell you something. He admitted that that
01:07:36.380 one was true. He admitted that he did have an ongoing relationship with a 16-year-old. I made
01:07:41.600 a lot of news when he admitted that on my show. And he did point out that the age of consent in
01:07:47.400 Great Britain at that time was 16, and he wasn't violating any law, and there certainly wasn't any
01:07:51.600 allegation of force that they did have a relationship. Anyway, but the rest of it was
01:07:58.200 very one-sided. I mean, the whole thing was very one-sided. And what they did was they used actors
01:08:04.200 to like reenact the alleged story
01:08:10.000 and the alleged tales around the story, 0.96
01:08:13.380 but it wasn't the actual women.
01:08:15.700 And if you really squinted, 0.98
01:08:17.600 you could see that disclosure
01:08:18.780 written in tiny print on screen, right?
01:08:21.460 You know, at the bottom, that kind of thing.
01:08:22.620 But like most people walked away 0.93
01:08:24.800 thinking the actual women
01:08:26.360 had taken part in that documentary
01:08:29.420 and given firsthand testimonials on camera,
01:08:32.760 so brave.
01:08:33.500 and here's just an example of how it looked and he's like please come just come and cuddle with
01:08:39.080 me so then i gave in he comes running out of the bedroom naked
01:08:44.820 he came at me with kisses and stuff which was kind of fun and then it wasn't that fun when i
01:08:58.100 couldn't move or i knew what he wanted from me he pushed me up against the wall i'm like no that's
01:09:05.760 not happening we're not doing that and at this point he's grabbing at my my underwear pulling
01:09:13.580 it to the side i'm telling him to get off me and he won't get off and he has that glazed look in
01:09:19.980 his eye again i was very distraught trying to get out of the house with him being so much taller
01:09:25.940 than me like holding me up against the wall pushing himself in me i couldn't move
01:09:36.660 and he finally comes and gets off of me and i push him away
01:09:42.980 he blocks the door he's like are you okay i'm like no i'm not okay get away from me
01:09:50.500 and he's like well let's calm down
01:09:55.940 Okay, so that's an actor.
01:09:58.200 That is not Nadia.
01:10:02.080 And for the listening audience, they are showing this woman's testimonial, like the screenshots of her, the video of her, is almost the way you would shoot a rape victim who wanted her anonymity.
01:10:13.260 Like they show just her eyes and forehead, or they show the back of her head.
01:10:17.260 This is an actress.
01:10:18.740 This is not the actual alleged victim.
01:10:20.780 But people walked away from that, quote, documentary and the scary music under the
01:10:27.600 track. I mean, all of this is a manipulation, friends. That is a manipulation. Thinking that
01:10:33.400 he was obviously guilty. Four women came forward. This one reporter put them all together and boom,
01:10:40.000 massive problems for Russell Brand, who, by the way, at the time was basically the UK's Joe Rogan.
01:10:46.200 He had huge influence over there, a huge YouTube show, and had gone from left to right.
01:10:55.120 His politics had changed considerably.
01:10:59.120 He was no longer a darling of the left.
01:11:01.200 He was very, very challenging of government authority, COVID lockdowns.
01:11:05.440 There was a UK minister when this thing came out who wanted him deplatformed.
01:11:09.680 YouTube complied.
01:11:10.620 I mean, it was like they wanted to make trouble for Russell Brand, whose commentary was white hot, controversial.
01:11:20.420 And boy, did they ever. Not one of those four women is involved in the criminal case. 0.94
01:11:28.820 Not one. No one was either willing or persuasive enough to prosecutors to make their way into the actual trial. 0.98
01:11:38.520 So they didn't actually want to participate, most of them, in the documentary and weren't chosen or didn't want to participate in the criminal trial.
01:11:48.320 So that left a problem, right?
01:11:51.540 And this same reporter who was behind the documentary, it's come out in the trial testimony, facilitated some of these women getting in touch with prosecutors so that the criminal case could be brought against Brand.
01:12:05.240 Um, now we have these women, again, a new set whose identity is protected forevermore. We'll never know who they are. And Russell, however, remains getting dragged through the mud by a whole new set of women, all of whom have said that they were inspired to come forward based on that documentary.
01:12:28.740 And I'll walk you through the change in some of their stories from what they had earlier told boyfriends and friends they believed was, you know, a non-criminal act into now it's a criminal act that they want him behind bars for.
01:12:44.420 Let me go back to the first claimant. Okay. She's the one who claims that she was vaginally raped by Russell. She claims that they were together at this fringe event that apparently had leftist leanings. This is back when Russell was very young and he was, I think, 23 years old at the time.
01:13:00.420 He was not famous. He was at this leftist event with her. She, it came out at trial, was older. She actually was older than he was by several years, I believe. And it turns out that this woman had reported that she'd been raped several times prior to this because she claims that she met Russell at this event, that he suggested they go to a pub and keep talking or a restaurant.
01:13:29.700 and instead she invited him back to her hotel room.
01:13:34.800 Last week I said apartment, it wasn't.
01:13:36.720 I went back and looked at this.
01:13:37.700 It was back to her hotel room after midnight.
01:13:43.200 Now, that's not great. 0.98
01:13:45.780 That is a very dumb thing to do 0.95
01:13:47.460 if you don't wanna telegraph to a man 1.00
01:13:50.060 that you wanna have sex with him.
01:13:51.260 I mean, it doesn't mean you have to. 1.00
01:13:53.080 I'm not suggesting you cannot be raped 0.98
01:13:55.000 under those circumstances, you can. 0.98
01:13:56.480 But this is a not smart move at all. It's like Jane Doe showing up at that Cornell fraternity
01:14:02.820 at 11 p.m. after she says she had 10 drinks. Very fucking stupid. Stupid. So this woman 1.00
01:14:11.240 invited him back to her hotel room after midnight. She was older. He was younger. He was not famous. 0.91
01:14:19.140 and she reported that she had been raped several times prior to this, including by a husband
01:14:27.880 in an arranged marriage. She later wrote a book. I'll leave it at that. Okay, I'm just going to
01:14:35.840 leave it at that. But she is somebody who had previously accused, who had previously alleged
01:14:44.880 she'd been raped several times. She invites him in. It's after midnight. He comes out.
01:14:53.520 She goes into the bathroom. And when she comes out, he's got his shirt off.
01:14:56.960 Now he's just half dressed. Again, where does she think this is going? The prosecution pressed her
01:15:02.200 on this. Like, what did you think was going to happen here? Oh, I thought he was gay. I didn't
01:15:06.760 think, you know, I was in danger at all. There was testimony that after the encounter, so she says he
01:15:13.440 he threw her down on the bed.
01:15:15.700 She was on the bed, I guess, seated on the bed.
01:15:16.980 And he got on top of her, took his pants off
01:15:19.840 and slid her pants down to her ankles,
01:15:22.100 did not take the pants all the way off. 0.93
01:15:23.760 And that he inserted himself in her 1.00
01:15:26.260 and raped her vaginally. 1.00
01:15:28.240 And he, after the fact, told her 1.00
01:15:32.920 that he would love for her to meet his mother
01:15:35.340 who was in town that day and also gave her his email.
01:15:39.700 That latter detail we did report last week. 0.85
01:15:42.160 but it is bizarre for your alleged rapist to tell you that he wants you to meet his mom
01:15:48.800 who was in town for the day. Um, she told no one about this for 23 years. She did tell several 0.96
01:15:58.620 friends and coworkers, Russell Brand, uh, once asked me out on a date when once asked me out
01:16:07.180 on a date. Okay. She'd never made a police report about him until after the channel four
01:16:12.580 report on Russell Brand. So all those years she'd been saying he asked her out on a date
01:16:17.700 and now she sees the channel four thing and she comes forward. And now it's a totally different
01:16:24.140 story. And here it is in part in SOT 10, courtesy of the BBC's reporter.
01:16:31.720 She alleges that once he pushed her, she ended up on the bed with him on top of her straddling her.
01:16:36.280 and she said what are you doing and he responds saying no it's fine it's normal and she says what
01:16:40.900 are you doing no stop no that was her testimony to the police during that video recorded interview
01:16:46.120 that she said no stop no out loud she then described russell brand taking down her trousers
01:16:51.400 and her underwear she said her top stayed on but he pulled down her trousers and her underwear
01:16:55.700 he didn't take it off her body she clarified that her feet remained inside of her trousers and that
01:17:00.360 she still had her shoes on she then says quote he put himself in without thinking how it would hurt
01:17:06.080 quote he just wanted to ejaculate she believes it lasted longer than five
01:17:10.340 minutes because she could feel the weight of his body on top of her crushing her
01:17:14.240 and making it difficult for her to breathe and she also said what was
01:17:17.900 going through her head was quote just don't kiss me don't kiss me I didn't
01:17:21.500 want his mouth anywhere near me he was doing quote lizard like things with his
01:17:25.400 tongue it was disgusting he tried to put his fingers in my mouth she continues 0.65
01:17:29.960 saying I remember thinking I wish it would stop I would have said get off me 0.62
01:17:33.380 no it hurts I completely closed my eyes
01:17:36.080 Okay. So that's complainant one. And the jury is going to have to decide whether they believe,
01:17:44.080 notwithstanding that testimony that she was giving others about that night for all this time,
01:17:48.720 that somehow she remembered or was finally willing to say that it was a rape after she saw this and
01:17:56.400 that her alleged rapist gave her his email, said he wanted her to meet his mother. And we don't
01:18:03.520 actually even know what Russell's full story is because he hasn't yet taken the stand. Well,
01:18:08.840 that's another thing. The prosecution said that they were, this trial was going to take eight
01:18:12.360 or nine weeks, that their case was going to take something like eight weeks to present. It's,
01:18:17.120 it's finishing today. We believe Russell's defense will start tomorrow after three weeks.
01:18:22.740 So the mountains of evidence that they had, I mean, maybe they're just super efficient. They
01:18:28.540 did have something like 27 witnesses, uh, to go before the jury the other day, because a lot of
01:18:34.040 them are just, um, videotaped statements or written statements that the, there's no reason
01:18:38.720 that the parties don't agree, don't disagree on them. You know, that this witness is going to say
01:18:42.800 the following, but like, we didn't, we're not having a nine week prosecution case here. We had
01:18:49.200 three weeks. Uh, so we'll see what they think about her. But I, I believe Russell Brand will 0.99
01:18:55.320 testify. As we discussed with our panel last week, the UK rules are very draconian in inferring
01:19:02.580 bad inferences around you if you don't testify as a defendant. It's the opposite of what we have
01:19:06.540 here. So not only is he going to have a bad inference if he doesn't take the stand in his
01:19:11.680 own defense, which over here would be unconstitutional, he needs to get up there
01:19:17.340 and say, I didn't do it, and to tell the story, right? I mean, these details that we're hearing
01:19:22.780 the cross-examinations clearly come from Russell. Like, where else would the defense lawyer be
01:19:30.180 getting all this stuff? So it sounds to me like he does have a story to tell, and we'll be hearing
01:19:36.980 it, I think. That's my prediction anyway. I have no inside knowledge, but given all that, I think
01:19:42.760 he's probably going to take the stand. And what's today, Tuesday? So it could happen as early as
01:19:46.360 this week. I imagine if you're the defense, you'd start with Russell. So we'll see. Okay, I want to
01:19:52.020 keep going. Let's go to the alleged oral rape. This is by woman number three. She claims that 0.99
01:20:00.060 Russell took her, that he, she went willingly with him into a bathroom and that in that bathroom,
01:20:10.520 he forced himself on her orally. Here's a part of her story as told by the BBC,
01:20:17.420 start 17 and they had sort of pleasant conversation for about a minute and then she said he leaned
01:20:23.760 forwards put out both his hands and grabbed her breasts she said this person who had just touched
01:20:28.660 my breasts lent towards me just both hands grabbing my breasts only one minute into the
01:20:32.520 conversation we were having she said she was reeling from the shock of him grabbing her breasts
01:20:36.080 when he grabbed her arm and began to pull her towards the toilet she couldn't quite remember 0.84
01:20:40.260 that he'd taken his penis outside of his clothing and that he was grabbing the back of her neck and 0.94
01:20:45.880 head and hair trying to force her face down to his penis she said to the jury quote he's holding 0.98
01:20:51.460 onto my head and hair quote every time I tried to move away he was strong and forcing me back 0.99
01:20:56.660 then she described to the jury that he did force his penis inside her mouth she said quote he wasn't 0.99
01:21:01.760 very well endowed quote but there was a lot of pushing right to the back of my throat she 1.00
01:21:06.800 continued saying if I do this maybe he won't try and rape me further do what he says and then you 1.00
01:21:11.940 are out of here. Complainant three also told the court that she closed her eyes and tried not to
01:21:16.200 be there during the alleged oral rape, saying, I couldn't even look at him. I was shaking. When
01:21:21.020 asked how the alleged assault ended, she did say, quote, he did ejaculate in my mouth and it went 0.96
01:21:25.700 down my throat. I remember trying to get rid of what was left. Okay, so this woman, this is 22 0.54
01:21:33.640 years ago. She has not alleged rape again until after she saw the Channel 4 documentary.
01:21:41.940 She, the next day after the alleged incident, she told her sister that Russell Brand tried to get her to give him a blowjob. 0.95
01:21:51.920 Not that it happened. 0.99
01:21:53.520 The next day, she told her sister he tried to get her to give him a blowjob. 0.99
01:21:59.640 Not that it actually happened. 0.99
01:22:01.400 She told the same to a friend of hers, a former boyfriend, that he tried to get her to do it.
01:22:08.200 Not that she actually did it. 0.98
01:22:09.380 When she was interviewed by police in 2023, she also said he tried to, he tried to get me to give him a blowjob. 0.95
01:22:18.280 Not that she did it. 0.78
01:22:19.220 It wasn't until her second interview that it morphed into he did.
01:22:25.120 So even when she first came forward, her story was that he tried to, and then it morphed to he actually did.
01:22:34.940 Now, when she got cross-examined, they pressed her on the fact that after this alleged rape, where she felt so disgusting, she had, you know, he ejaculated in her mouth, that she walked down the hall, you know, out of the bar and back to the friends.
01:22:49.980 She got into a car with Russell Brand and went to a second location with her alleged rapist.
01:22:54.600 We talked about this last week.
01:22:57.780 The cross-examination brought that up, and here's how that sounded in part, SOT 19. 0.81
01:23:03.100 The defense continues saying, so you're saying that after he ejaculated in your mouth, you went back to the party.
01:23:09.820 Complainant 3 said, I was in a daze. I was numb. I was shocked. I didn't know what was going on. 0.60
01:23:14.200 I was wandering around the event looking for a friendly face, someone that I recognized.
01:23:18.220 I was having an out of body experience.
01:23:20.580 Later on in the reexamination from the prosecution,
01:23:22.980 complainant number 3 said it was like watching myself in a movie, like I wasn't really there in my body.
01:23:28.060 The defense then went on to questioning Complainant 3 about them ending up in the car with Russell Brand traveling to the next venue.
01:23:34.540 And I'm going to say that Complainant 3, this was a consistent thing that came up over and over again.
01:23:38.540 They cannot remember the sequence of events that led them to getting in that car, whether they were shepherded or whether they just stumbled into the car.
01:23:45.180 They cannot remember. It's very hazy.
01:23:46.800 The defense said he invited you into the car and to the next venue and you intentionally went. 0.99
01:23:52.020 Quote, obviously you would want to go home if you'd just been raped in the mouth. 0.81
01:23:55.380 you behaved inconsistently with what you said happened well this is fair point i mean that 0.90
01:24:02.580 i think a jury could could actually believe that a woman who had just been forcibly raped
01:24:09.600 in a bathroom would not voluntarily get into the car which is essentially a locked box
01:24:15.380 with her rapist and go to another location together and that same person for years and
01:24:21.240 years and years would only say he tried. He tried to make me do this, but I didn't. To her sister,
01:24:27.480 to her former boyfriend, and even to the police the first time they sat down together.
01:24:32.940 So there are problems with these stories. You're not really hearing much about them
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01:24:46.640 Now, I told you, the judge is doing his level best to assist the prosecution.
01:24:52.700 As the defense made some points on the cross-examination of witness one, the judge intervened.
01:24:59.580 We talked about this with our panel last week and corrected the defense attorney, giving the witness a lifeline, saying, oh, no, you're impeaching her improperly, which she did say the following thing when she spoke to the police.
01:25:13.540 The defense was like, you didn't tell the police that you said no, did you?
01:25:16.640 you didn't tell the police you said no. And she was like, well, I don't know. He was on top of
01:25:20.400 me. He was smushing me with his body. And the judge intervened. You did. You did. You told
01:25:24.920 the police that you said no. Like, what the hell? This is not, you're not the defense lawyer. You're 0.94
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01:27:31.780 Hey, everyone. It's me, Megan Kelly. I've got some exciting news. I now have my very own channel
01:27:40.140 on Sirius XM. It's called the Megan Kelly Channel, and it is where you will hear the truth unfiltered
01:27:45.320 with no agenda and no apologies. Along with the Megan Kelly Show, you're going to hear from people
01:27:49.780 like Mark Halperin, Link Lauren, Maureen Callahan, Emily Jashinsky, Jesse Kelly, Real Clear Politics,
01:27:55.560 and many more. It's bold, no BS news, only on Megan Kelly channel, Sirius XM 111, and on the
01:28:02.820 Sirius XM app. I want to get to woman five. This is very graphic, and I just, there's like no good
01:28:14.120 way of talking about the details of this case without getting into the gutter. I am sorry in
01:28:20.000 advance for the language that's about to be unleashed on you. And we've had like a roll of
01:28:26.280 this through the Jane Doe case and then that disgusting filth, Alex Cooper and her evil mouth. 0.86
01:28:33.680 Now this, you know, this is not going to be a pattern. I take no pleasure in these disgusting 0.99
01:28:40.800 facts. But here is the story. Witness number five claims she went into Russell Brand's
01:28:51.120 dressing room after she watched him in a show, that she adored him, that she idolized him.
01:28:57.780 And this was actually brought out on cross. I'll just play you a little of the cross
01:29:02.060 by Russell's lawyer of complainant number five. Again, it's not the actual cross. It's the BBC
01:29:06.180 and their reporter describing the cross-examination.
01:29:11.100 And just listen to the level of sycophancy
01:29:14.500 by this woman toward Russell, Sat 23. 0.96
01:29:17.460 The beginning of cross-examination
01:29:18.860 focused on Complainant 5's feelings about Russell Brand 0.96
01:29:21.480 before the allegation of anal rape.
01:29:24.100 The lead counsel for the defense, Ian Winter, said, 0.58
01:29:26.600 you are quoted to have said you loved him.
01:29:28.640 This is in your VRI.
01:29:29.680 You idolized him.
01:29:30.900 You were obsessed with him.
01:29:32.520 Quote, do you think that your love caused you to do things
01:29:35.120 you wouldn't have done with anyone else, to which Complainant 5 responded no.
01:29:39.380 The defense continued, saying you knew he was extremely sexually active.
01:29:43.020 You knew he was the son's, quote, top shagger of the year three years in a row.
01:29:47.460 Now, Complainant 5 said they didn't know he was the top shagger of the year three years in a row,
01:29:50.880 but they were aware that he was extremely sexually active.
01:29:55.000 Shagger of the year. Good gracious.
01:29:56.540 That was the BBC's Fame Under Fire podcast with Anushka Mutanda Doherty reporting.
01:30:05.120 So you can hear the level of devotion she had to him, idolized him, she was obsessed with him, etc. So this woman testified that she went backstage with him after his show.
01:30:16.920 And, you know, the defense is trying to point out if you sit through a Russell Brand show, you are going to hear Russell Brand say some very controversial things about himself. 0.82
01:30:30.160 He talks openly about how filthy he is, about how basically if you're looking to have sex, come on backstage and you'll have it. 0.72
01:30:41.960 Listen, listen, I think maybe 30C is the best example. 0.97
01:30:45.160 You guys play it.
01:30:46.920 He's so well dressed, people think he must be gay.
01:30:48.920 No, no, that one. 0.98
01:30:49.920 Look at his wonderful haircut, he must be gay. 1.00
01:30:51.920 Look how sensitive and vulnerable he is, he must be gay. 1.00
01:30:54.920 That's right. 0.96
01:30:55.920 That means women feel safe around me, they trust me. 1.00
01:30:57.920 Then bang, pregnant, bang, pregnant, bang, pregnant. 0.83
01:31:00.920 There you go, love. Be careful because that's a low cut dress. 0.93
01:31:03.920 Oh, sorry. Okay. Um, wow.
01:31:05.920 I'm only flesh and blood, I've got instincts.
01:31:07.920 Oh, okay.
01:31:08.920 What do you think that gesture means, the way you're touching that bottle?
01:31:10.920 What does that indicate?
01:31:12.920 What's the subtext of that?
01:31:14.920 I think I've got a break. 0.84
01:31:15.920 You need to lose that ring, Mika, because it don't mean nothing to you. 0.97
01:31:19.120 There's chest hair. 0.88
01:31:20.080 It's a landscape.
01:31:20.940 It's a landscape.
01:31:21.800 What's going on on your landscape?
01:31:23.320 A little bit of sandburn.
01:31:24.520 Where can him go? 1.00
01:31:25.620 Look at them nipples. 0.99
01:31:26.960 They could lactate any moment. 0.99
01:31:28.840 All right, Liz, goodbye.
01:31:29.980 Thank you.
01:31:30.980 Well, it's been really a one-six nipple.
01:31:34.020 See you later, this.
01:31:35.900 Russell.
01:31:36.420 All right, take care. 0.99
01:31:37.940 Russell, how can I do your bra just like this?
01:31:42.120 Liz, I love you.
01:31:43.120 okay so you can see him in these clips he's being very handsy with male and female reporters
01:31:48.720 trying to undo the bra of an older female blonde reporter there at the end um there was also this
01:31:55.120 joke which was apparently i used more than once in stop 30b that they shouldn't be committing
01:32:01.780 fornication or sodomy is an act of love you're telling them the truth you don't hate them because
01:32:07.540 they tell you the truth oh i think yeah no i think it's i don't think you can say that that's
01:32:11.960 the truth. And also I'd be rather so annoyed if I couldn't have anal sex. It really cheers me up 0.99
01:32:15.280 sometimes. So no mystery there, but he did joke right from his comedy stage about how if you
01:32:24.580 wanted his autograph, I'm going to botch it, but it was something to the effect of he will give it 0.99
01:32:28.880 to you inside your uterus and semen. It's disgusting, but this is, you know, he regularly 0.99
01:32:35.400 made jokes about what a dog he was when it came to the sexual arena. And this woman complained 0.99
01:32:40.820 at five had just finished up watching him on stage and went immediately backstage and engaged 0.99
01:32:46.960 immediately in group sex with him. She and another woman participated in a group interlude with 0.52
01:32:52.740 Russell Brand. That instant, she went back to his dressing room and the report was that she,
01:33:01.960 the other girl was, I think, giving him a blow job. This girl would also, I think, give him a blow 0.99
01:33:06.200 job, but that because somebody was busy with Russell in the front, that she went around to 1.00
01:33:11.340 the back door and that she was messing with him in the back door while the other girl was messing 1.00
01:33:22.480 with him in the front. And there was testimony about this. They, they, they talked about this
01:33:27.740 at the trial about exactly what she was doing. And there was a back and forth about exactly what
01:33:34.300 she did and how far it went? This is the defense lawyer, Ian Winter, barrister. He confronted her
01:33:43.020 regarding the details of their first meeting backstage. He alleged that she had omitted
01:33:48.520 the full extent of their consensual sexual interaction from her initial interview with
01:33:53.900 the police. He put it to her explicitly that she had performed, forgive me guys,
01:33:58.620 quote, rimming on Russell, colloquially known as oral stimulation of the anus. 0.94
01:34:05.060 On Russell Brand that night, stating, quote, you inserted your tongue in his anus and on the 0.99
01:34:12.240 outside of his anus. They brought this up to prove that she was comfortable with and participating in 0.95
01:34:20.260 explicit sexual acts involving that part of the body from the moment they met.
01:34:25.760 trying to undermine her claim that when later they would meet back at Russell's place
01:34:34.360 and he said that the question, the questioning was that he explicitly said he wanted to have 0.96
01:34:40.400 sex with her anally and, um, that this should have come as no surprise. They'd been building 0.96
01:34:45.820 up to it and she had already violated him in that way. So like now she wants the painting
01:34:52.300 a picture on the defense of like, you want us to think this is such a horrid thing that he would 0.61
01:34:57.400 do to you. Like where this came out of nowhere, you were shocked, you were horrified. You did it
01:35:01.620 to him using a different body part, but you did it to him within moments of meeting him.
01:35:09.120 You went backstage and you stuck your tongue in and around that exact body part. I mean,
01:35:16.420 it's very graphic. All right. So what did she say? Um, the complainant. Okay. Let's see.
01:35:28.840 That's it. Uh, she maintained that everything that happened in the dressing room was consensual,
01:35:33.840 but she disputed the defense's specific wording regarding the back door answering. I said that
01:35:42.320 I kissed and licked that area, meaning his anus. I don't believe I inserted my tongue into it. 0.99
01:35:51.100 I mean, people, what are we doing here? What are we doing here? She knew him 15 minutes,
01:36:03.000 if that. She got called backstage and went down on her knees and started rimming the guy. 1.00
01:36:08.260 I'm sorry, this is very foul. It's not my behavior. It's hers. It's hers by her own
01:36:15.240 testimonial. That's complainant five, who now is just horrified, horrified, horrified
01:36:22.420 that Russell did wind up returning the favor when she came to his house.
01:36:30.700 And there was testimony advancing the story around this. We did not reveal that particular
01:36:37.700 piece of it the other day, but, um, there was testimony in court that when she got to Russell's
01:36:45.380 house, so they had that interlude backstage one day and then he invited her over and she came over
01:36:49.640 to his house on another day. And she says she had consensual vaginal sex with him that night 0.98
01:36:55.660 at his house. And then he flipped her over and her testimony is she was shocked. He started giving it 0.99
01:37:02.660 to her in the back door, which she didn't want. It was very painful. And she said no repeatedly.
01:37:08.880 And there's been a lot of testimony at this trial from friends and relatives of hers that she,
01:37:14.840 present day, when she's been telling the story, has said over and over, I said no over and over
01:37:19.720 and over again. Now there's a question about that, but she's at least claiming that. But
01:37:27.480 But it also has come out that even that night, even that night, according to the defense, there was discussion between the two of them about having backdoor sex.
01:37:39.200 I think we have this.
01:37:41.060 Let's watch it.
01:37:42.340 This.
01:37:42.860 Yeah.
01:37:43.540 Yeah.
01:37:43.840 Yeah.
01:37:44.000 This is this is via The Times Radio.
01:37:48.180 They're doing a show called The Trial of Russell Russell Brand, and they describe some of what came out here in SOT 25B.
01:37:55.840 winter did suggest an alternative set of events to woman five what did he say yes so he suggested
01:38:01.760 that at russell brand's house days later there had been a conversation between brand and woman 0.98
01:38:06.960 five where she apparently expressed that she had never had anal sex before um brand in was told 0.96
01:38:14.240 the court explained that he wanted to do so and would like to remove the condom which in winter 0.96
01:38:20.080 said she agreed to. Women of Five repeated several times emotionally, that's not what
01:38:26.760 happened. She told the court she did not consent to what happened, saying we are not here to discuss
01:38:32.340 my morality, but criminality. Women of Five said she agreed she had not painted herself in a good
01:38:38.380 light, but had been consistently clear on what was consensual and what was not. And this was
01:38:43.840 something that was picked up on a little bit later on when the prosecution barrister got
01:38:47.060 the opportunity to re-examine the witness real carmy jones uh she said uh to woman five during 0.91
01:38:51.420 that time you spent with russell brand was there any conversation about anal sex woman five replied 0.95
01:38:55.420 no real carmy jones said was any notice given to you about what he was about to do again woman five 0.76
01:39:02.380 said no in winter suggested woman five subsequently described the incident in different ways to
01:39:10.160 different people how so it's in winter made clear that she had told a lot of people at the time what
01:39:16.080 had happened to her but he picked out on various different accounts that he alleges she gave to 0.94
01:39:21.020 people um in winter said that she told her romantic partner that she had had anal sex with 0.96
01:39:26.260 russell brand that she didn't want it but came around to it and woman five said i didn't say 0.99
01:39:32.520 that i said he had forced anal sex on me in winter also said that it was her father who first used 0.98
01:39:40.400 the word rape in winter said when he said that's rape you said quote i did not feel that i had the 0.97
01:39:46.060 right to call it that and woman five said in response in that moment in time i went there
01:39:51.680 meaning russell brand's house willingly she said she carried a feeling of guilt and shame
01:39:56.980 for exactly the reason you were doing right here making me feel i brought it upon myself
01:40:03.000 okay so they're alleging russell asked for permission and received permission both to do
01:40:13.500 it in that way and to take off the condom. And I'm sure we will hear more from him if he takes
01:40:17.580 the stand on that. Since then, we've had friends of Complaint at Five take the stand or testify
01:40:23.420 in some way. A friend of hers who was with her at Brand's gig back in 2009, she told the court
01:40:31.060 that Complaint at Five told her about this interlude and said that Brand had anally raped 0.78
01:40:40.180 her. She told the court, I said specifically, did you say no? And she said yes, lots of times
01:40:44.820 in the defense's cross. Um, another witness who said her friend had claimed brand had without
01:40:51.800 consent raped her anally said complainant five may not have specifically used the word rape
01:40:56.380 actually in this conversation. Um, the prosecution reexamined and she said she and her friend did
01:41:02.960 have multiple conversations about the alleged rape and in them, the word rape was used. That's
01:41:07.400 very ambiguous, whatever. The point is they've gotten her, the prosecution has gotten her to
01:41:13.580 verify that at the time the girl said, I said, no, lots of times. Uh, there is an ex-boyfriend
01:41:21.340 who gave testimony on behalf of complainant five. And he recalled a similar story that she had said
01:41:28.220 she did not, she did not want to have anal sex with Russell Brand. She'd been flipped over by 0.99
01:41:33.660 him. And this boyfriend said she surrendered to it eventually. She did say no, but she surrendered
01:41:40.320 to it. On cross-examination, the defense brought up that during his initial statement to the police,
01:41:44.660 he had said that she did not want to have anal sex, but that she, quote, came around to it. 0.96
01:41:48.660 You heard that there reported in that soundbite as well. She came around to it. This ex-boyfriend 0.97
01:41:54.160 said he did tell police that, and he signed that statement and was happy with it, but it wasn't
01:41:59.540 quite what he meant. It was a summarized version, so he's trying to kind of get out of that.
01:42:03.660 The manager of Complainant 5 said her friend told the manager that she was bleeding back there, that Brand was very angry, and shouted at her.
01:42:16.380 We went over some of that.
01:42:17.560 A colleague of Complainant 5, this is the person who is connected to that reporter, Rosamund Irwin.
01:42:24.160 She recalls the complainant becoming very upset when she got a phone call from someone about the Channel 4 report.
01:42:30.800 and that Complainant 5, more present day,
01:42:33.520 told her and others about the alleged rape.
01:42:35.380 She said she didn't want it to happen.
01:42:36.800 She had said no.
01:42:38.400 She said Complainant 5, alleged Brann,
01:42:40.100 had said, I will be gentle
01:42:41.400 and that he said he would stop
01:42:43.160 if she wanted him to stop.
01:42:45.760 But then she says he didn't.
01:42:48.460 And then, by the way,
01:42:49.900 the witness said that years later,
01:42:52.940 the witness said that after suggesting
01:42:55.820 that she speak to this reporter,
01:42:58.660 the alleged victim said to this witness,
01:43:00.800 I'm not sure my story has much in it 1.00
01:43:03.760 I was an idiot young and stupid 1.00
01:43:06.240 probably as much to blame 1.00
01:43:08.900 we shall see my friends where this goes
01:43:12.440 more on this entire trial
01:43:14.780 as we get it
01:43:16.460 thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show
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