Trump On Potential MAGA Successors, Fetterman Hit Piece, Prince Harry Loses In Court： AM Update 5⧸5
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Trump names possible successors of the MAGA movement, former staffers to Sen. John Fetterman go on the record with New York Magazine, sharing a series of alarming claims about his behavior, health, and state of mind. Prince Harry says he is ready to reconcile with his family, whom he s called racist, and suggested were apathetic about his wife s alleged suicidal thoughts.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, May 5th, 2025, and this is your AM
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Ideally, a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward.
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President Trump names possible successors of the MAGA movement. Former staffers to Senator
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John Fetterman go on the record with New York Magazine, sharing a series of alarming claims
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Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things. I would love reconciliation
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And Prince Harry says he is ready to reconcile with his family, whom he's called racist and
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suggested were apathetic about his wife's alleged suicidal thoughts. Huh. All that and more
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President Trump on Sunday sitting down with Meet the Press in a wide-ranging interview
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covering topics from the economy to the future of the MAGA movement. Mr. Trump giving the clearest
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response to date about running for a third term. Are you seriously considering a third term,
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Mr. President, even though it's prohibited by the Constitution? Or is this about
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staying politically viable? I will say this. So many people want me to do it.
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But this is not something I'm looking to do. I'm looking to have four great years and turn it over
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to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward.
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You look at Marco, you look at J.D. Vance, who's fantastic. You look at,
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I could name 10, 15, 20 people right now just sitting here.
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The president then comparing the GOP to the current Democrat Party.
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And you know what I can't name? I can't name one Democrat. I mean,
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I look at the Democrats, they're in total disarray. They have a new person named Crockett.
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I watched her speak the other day. She's definitely a low IQ person.
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And they said, she's the future of the party. I said, you have to be kidding.
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I don't know what they're going to do. But I watched Bernie Sanders. He's a nut job,
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but he's still sharp. He's sharp as he's the same guy he was.
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Host Kristen Welker asking President Trump about comments he made last week
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regarding whether the tariff plan could lead to empty store shelves.
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President Trump responding, quote, maybe children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.
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Maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they normally would.
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If I wake up on Christmas morning and I run downstairs to find only two dolls under my tree,
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So Donnie two dolls thinks this country's kids are wildly oversupplied with dolls.
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The golden toilet guy is now preaching minimalism.
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Imagine if that had been Donald Trump's 2024 campaign message.
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You already have too much crap. You spoiled brats.
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The New York Post's cover story the following day, skimp on the Barbie.
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On Sunday, President Trump doubling down on the comment.
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Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.
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And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
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Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?
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No, I think your tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich.
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But you said some dolls are going to cost more.
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Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up?
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I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls.
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I think they can have three dolls or four dolls.
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Because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.
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We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
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When you say they could have three dolls instead of 30 dolls, are you saying your Americans could see empty store shelves?
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I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls.
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On Canada, President Trump reacting to the re-election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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After his victory, he says that you didn't talk to him in that call about making Canada a 51st state.
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Do you plan to talk to him about making Canada a 51st state?
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So will you talk to him about making Canada a 51st state annexing Canada?
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We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year.
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All I have to do is free it up from the environmental lunatics.
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Mr. Trump going on to say taking Canada by military force is unlikely.
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Prime Minister Carney is expected to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday,
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marking his first official visit since taking office in March.
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Coming up, an in-depth hit piece on Senator John Fetterman.
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And Prince Harry launches fresh shots at his family while also saying he'd like to reconcile with them.
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On Friday, New York Magazine dropping a lengthy hit piece based off testimony from former staff
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raising questions about Senator John Fetterman's struggles with his health and overall fitness for office.
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Democrat Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, rising to national fame in a highly contentious 2022 Senate race
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against Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, then-candidate Fetterman suffering a stroke
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His campaign acknowledged the incident, but critics later accused the team, including his wife, Giselle Fetterman,
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of downplaying the severity and withholding key details about his long-term health.
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Concerns about Mr. Fetterman's health and fitness for office coming into sharper focus
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during his one debate against Dr. Oz, where Mr. Fetterman clearly struggled with auditory processing and communication.
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Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.
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Despite the health issues, Mr. Fetterman narrowly eking out a win, capturing 51% of the vote.
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In 2023, Senator Fetterman checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for six weeks,
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Many at the time praised Mr. Fetterman for seeking the help he needed.
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In May of 2024, a year after he checked out of Walter Reed,
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Chief of Staff Adam Jentleson resigned from his post,
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citing his alleged alarm at Senator Fetterman's behavior
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and sending at that time an email to the senator's doctor outlining a series of concerns.
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Mr. Jentleson, at some point in the future, also reached out to Ben Terrace of New York Magazine,
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Mr. Terrace describes the former chief of staff as, quote,
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He's worked for a liberal think tank and written a book about the filibuster.
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Mr. Terrace says he met Mr. Jentleson back when Jentleson worked for Harry Reid,
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At some point, Mr. Jentleson apparently shared with Mr. Terrace
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the text of the email he sent back in May of 24
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to Senator Fetterman's doctor outlining his concerns.
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it contained a list of them, from the seemingly mundane, quote,
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he eats fast food multiple times a day, end quote,
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to the scary, quote, we don't know if he's taking his meds,
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and his behavior frequently suggests he is not, end quote.
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we often see the kind of warning signs we discussed.
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Jentleson wrote the physician, conspiratorial thinking, megalomania.
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For example, he claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around,
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but his sources are just what he reads in the news.
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He declines most briefings and never reads memos.
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High highs and low lows, long, rambling, repetitive, and self-centered monologues,
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lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room, end quote.
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The profile describes an incident where Senator Fetterman was driving a car against the wishes
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of his staff well over the 70-mile-per-hour speed limit when he smashed his Chevy Traverse
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into the back of a 62-year-old woman's Impala, totaling both cars.
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Mrs. Fetterman, a passenger in the back seat suffering from bruising of the lungs and spinal
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Senator Fetterman calling a staffer from the crash site, saying he fell asleep while driving.
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The officer on scene told the staffer it was a miracle no one died.
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While some of the stories from staff involved safety issues, some also involved political
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issues, leading to questions about whether this attack is politically motivated.
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As a senator, Mr. Fetterman has repeatedly defied Democratic norms.
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In the wake of October 7, 2023, Senator Fetterman becoming the most outspoken Democrat supporter
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Mr. Fetterman lining his office with the photos of hostages kidnapped by Hamas, that support
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leading to 16 of his staff members to quit and eventually write an anonymous letter calling
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the senator's support for Israel, quote, a gutting betrayal.
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Washington Examiner reporter Selena Zito, who has been following Senator Fetterman for a long
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time, arguing on Fox his Senate staff does not understand his politics.
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But I think that these staffers didn't have a fundamental understanding of who John Fetterman
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was before he had his stroke and was recovering from that and his depression.
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And, you know, leading up to 2022, Fetterman has always been a very independent elected official,
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whether he was mayor or lieutenant governor of the state.
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He's never really been the darling of his party.
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If I remember correctly, his party's never even endorsed him when he's run for office.
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Senator Fetterman, also the only Democrat to meet with President-elect Trump back at Mar-a-Lago.
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The sole vote to confirm Attorney General Pam Bondi as well, and initially signaling support
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Despite internal pressure, Mr. Fetterman told his staff he thought it would be a bad look for
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all Dems to vote against the person who would lead the armed forces.
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According to New York Magazine, the decision caused such internal stress,
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Quote, the back and forth led to what one person in his office at the time called a full-blown
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According to a contemporaneous text message from this staffer sent to a colleague,
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Fetterman had become so distraught about the Hegseth vote, as well as chatter in the media,
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that he might switch parties and become a Republican,
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that he spent part of the day locked in his office, fighting with Giselle, and crying while
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He says that they are trying to cancel him again, but we don't know who they are, a staffer said
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The piece describing many more incidents and seeming personality imbalances.
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Mrs. Fetterman telling the magazine any comments from the former chief of staff were part of an
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effort to damage her husband's reputation, claiming that she, quote, would talk to John's
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doctors about what Adam Jentleson was telling me, and they would be confused.
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Those doctors would tell me that their concerns were not with John, but with Adam.
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Senator Fetterman declining to comment on the allegations against him, quote,
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he said that no one in his staff would know about his personal health situation and that
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anyone who told me otherwise was simply misinformed, wrote Terrace.
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Quote, there's not really anything to respond when that's just not accurate, he said.
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Mr. Fetterman is not up for re-election until 2028.
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Prince Harry, fresh off of leaving his royal duties and then losing his legal battle to
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keep his UK taxpayer-funded security, firing new shots at the royal family, what else is
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Then insisting that he really, really wants reconciliation.
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On Friday, a senior UK judge rejecting Prince Harry's appeal in a case challenging a 2020
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decision downgrading his security status after stepping back from royal duties.
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Prince Harry argued that his security was unfairly downgraded after he quit being a working royal,
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leaving him and his family vulnerable while in the UK.
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According to the court's judgment, the judge acknowledged Harry made, quote, powerful and
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moving arguments, but concluded, quote, the Duke's sense of grievance does not translate
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The court ultimately finding that changes to his security were, quote, an understandable and
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perhaps predictable reaction to the Duke of Sussex having stepped back from royal duties
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and having left the UK to live principally overseas.
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The prince, who has his own private security and plenty of money for more if he wants it,
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visibly agitated on Friday, describing to the BBC the terms of the arrangement.
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If you're invited to the UK by your family, then we will give you security.
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If you come for any other reason, then you will get a very low amount of security.
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I'm not going to confirm what that is, but it is completely insufficient.
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Somewhere along the line, people have talked about the fact that it really,
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So, you know, no matter how much private security I have around me, there's only so much that
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I can do and operate and function within the UK when it comes to supporting my charities,
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I've been treated very, very, very differently.
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The prince then saying the security arrangement was effectively a form of blackmail meant to
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And it makes me really, really sad that we're sitting here today, five years later,
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where a decision that was made most likely, in fact, I know, to keep us under the roof.
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But then once you realise that that wasn't going to work, once they realise that, you know,
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myself, my wife and our kids are happier outside of the institution,
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then please just look at the facts, look at the risks, look at the threat, look at the impact
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that if anything was to happen to me, my wife or my father's grandchildren,
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if anything was to happen to them, look where the responsibility lies.
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There's a duty of care that has been completely thrown out the window.
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The prince casting himself, yet again, as a victim, saying if anything were to happen to him,
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Whether I have an official role or not is irrelevant to the security that the security needs that I
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Whether I have an official role or not is irrelevant to the threats, risks and impact
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on the reputation of the UK if something was to happen.
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Since stepping back from royal duties, Prince Harry and his attention-seeking wife, Meghan Markle,
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attempting to create a new empire in the media world.
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The couple airing out the royal family's dirty laundry across every platform available.
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Multiple podcasts, a memoir accompanied by a media blitz, reportedly earning them some
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$150 million, which also included a Netflix deal.
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They kicked it all off in 2021 with Oprah Winfrey and this moment.
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Potentially and what that would mean or look like.
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Oh, and you're not going to tell me who had the conversation?
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Those were conversations that family had with him.
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It was really hard to be able to see those as compartmentalized conversations.
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Because they were concerned that if you were too brown, that that would be a problem?
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I wasn't able to follow up with why, but that if that's the assumption you're making, I think
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Prince Harry offering no acknowledgement of any personal fault for his fallout with his
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Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book.
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Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things.
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I've always, I've, you know, there's no point in continuing to fight anymore.
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Um, I don't know how much longer my father has.
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Um, you know, he, uh, he, he won't speak to me because of this security stuff.
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Um, but it would be nice to, it would be nice to reconcile.
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King Charles is currently undergoing treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer.
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No word on whether Harry's latest grievances reached the King as he deals with his health
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