The Megyn Kelly Show - March 06, 2024


Trump's Huge Win, Haley Drops Out, and MSNBC Melts Down, with Vivek Ramaswamy and Rich Lowry | Ep. 739


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 9 minutes

Words per Minute

200.52339

Word Count

13,869

Sentence Count

941

Misogynist Sentences

27

Hate Speech Sentences

32


Summary

Nikki Haley officially bows out of the Republican presidential race, and her campaign trail nemesis, Vivek Ramaswamy, comes on the show to discuss it. Plus, MSNBC's top anchors mock voters who are worried about illegal immigration.


Transcript

00:00:00.580 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:12.320 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. A massive news day and we are
00:00:16.980 going to try our best to get it all jam-packed into today's show for you. Former South Carolina
00:00:22.620 Governor Nikki Haley officially bows out of the GOP presidential race. She was still running.
00:00:28.360 We didn't talk about it a lot. She wasn't really putting points on the board. She won
00:00:33.360 D.C. and yesterday she won Vermont. But it was obvious that this was over for her long before
00:00:40.880 she actually made it official this morning. And guess who's here to discuss it? Her campaign trail
00:00:46.400 nemesis, Vivek Ramaswamy. He comes on live in just a bit. Plus, MSNBC's top anchors mocking voters who,
00:00:55.660 these losers who are worried about illegal immigration. Let me tell you that Rachel
00:01:02.360 Maddow with her $30 million a year for one hour of work a week, she doesn't have to worry about
00:01:11.680 the illegals the way you losers do. And she thinks it's funny that you're so afraid. Not just her,
00:01:17.740 but her millionaire colleagues, Joy Reid and Jen Psaki, they also think your fear is funny.
00:01:24.880 You amuse them with your fright for your children, maybe on college campuses trying to get fit so they
00:01:32.000 can go out and have a nursing career and have some fear about illegals. You're so scared. You're so weak.
00:01:39.340 You're so weak. That's MSNBC. As they like to say in their motto, this is who we are. We'll get to it
00:01:45.740 a lot today. And Ashley Merchant, defendant Michael Roman's attorney in the Georgia case against Trump,
00:01:55.280 testifies herself before a Georgia State Senate committee that's investigating Fulton County
00:02:01.120 District Attorney Fannie Willis. And while there was actually a lot of interesting stuff that just
00:02:05.260 happened in that hearing, it started off slow, and then it got spicy. And we're going to bring you
00:02:10.440 a second episode today just on that. We thought we'd squeeze it into the back of this show, but there's
00:02:14.920 too much. So it's a packed day. We've got a packed lineup. And we begin today with Rich Lowry, editor in
00:02:22.640 chief of National Review. Rich, great to have you back. So it's official. Nikki's out. She left. She did not
00:02:32.300 actually endorse Trump, but she did mention him. Play a little bit of that here in SOT 1.
00:02:38.480 I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America's president.
00:02:45.660 Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. I have always been a conservative Republican
00:02:53.820 and always supported the Republican nominee. But on this question, as she did on so many others,
00:03:02.360 Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote, never just follow the crowd.
00:03:09.920 Always make up your own mind. It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and
00:03:16.980 beyond it who did not support it. And just a nit, Rich, it's it's as somebody who reads a lot of
00:03:24.280 prompter and has for, you know, the past 20 years, there really is sort of an art form to it. And she
00:03:29.700 doesn't have it. You know, every sentence can't sound like you're addressing a third grade class.
00:03:40.280 As Margaret Thatcher said, this is the way it should be. That's that's a pretty good impression.
00:03:47.520 Right. It's just annoying. You can tell she's reading and what it telegraphs is. This is not
00:03:51.720 sincere. This is inauthentic. I don't believe she believes anything she's saying. This is just
00:03:56.840 something someone wrote for her. Maybe she does believe I'm just saying this is the effect of a
00:04:00.700 listener. And it is one of the reasons why she didn't she didn't resonate, because this is how she
00:04:05.240 kind of always sounds. But anyway, she's gone. So what do you make of it? Well, she she overperformed.
00:04:11.200 She ran a good campaign, a much better campaign than any of the other non-Trump candidates, including
00:04:15.900 very much Ron DeSantis. I just counted her at the beginning, didn't pay a lot of attention to her.
00:04:20.380 And she kind of shouldered her way in with some some debate throwdowns with your your future guest
00:04:27.440 here, Vivek Ramaswamy, and then just owned a part of the party. Now, a 25 percent, 30 percent
00:04:34.700 part of the party. But that that was more than DeSantis had. It was enough when the conditions
00:04:39.460 were just just right to get kind of close to Trump, you know, in New Hampshire and respectable
00:04:44.280 in South Carolina. But she could spend a lot of money and a lot of time in those places.
00:04:48.860 And she was from South Carolina. New Hampshire lined up ideologically for pretty well. But that
00:04:54.180 wasn't true of the rest of the calendar. And as the contest started coming more quickly,
00:04:57.960 then her results were kind of regressing towards her national poll standing against Trump,
00:05:04.400 which is like 15 percent. So she was she was maybe she was there a couple of places last
00:05:08.380 night. But she she did better than that. But that's where she was heading. And this was
00:05:12.380 clearly there was nothing there's no reason to stay in. I'm surprised she lasted this long
00:05:17.680 and she's gotten out. I'm not sure how this this non endorsement, you know, Trump's got to earn
00:05:21.740 a thing is going to work. Is he really going to earn it? You know, in her terms, is she just
00:05:28.800 done with being a Republican politician is not going to endorse? I don't know. So she may have created
00:05:33.440 a kind of a box cannon for herself there. She's a politician, so she's going to endorse eventually.
00:05:39.420 And she's going to take a post in his cabinet or administration if he offers it. That's my
00:05:44.220 prediction. They never put money on a politician holding to principle like that's just not where
00:05:52.040 the smart money is. They protect themselves and their political longevity. And I get it. That's a
00:05:57.340 different game they're in. But there's zero chance she's not going to ultimately endorse him
00:06:01.180 and go back and kiss the ring if he wins. Yes, she wants she wants a political career.
00:06:07.020 Yeah, I would think she wants to run again 2028. And yeah, she has to endorse. Given that I would
00:06:14.040 have just endorsed today. You know, I don't I don't see that. I'm not sure how much leverage she has
00:06:18.920 over Trump. I just would have done it in the way DeSantis did, you know, do it in a dignified way,
00:06:25.620 do it in a way you know, you're not gonna be the veep. So you're not gonna be standing behind
00:06:28.920 Donald Trump like Tim Scott, you know, with pom poms and all that. But just do it and get it over
00:06:33.380 with. And then the question is done and you move on. And, you know, Nikki Haley's proposition clear
00:06:38.300 thought here is she'll be the I told you so candidate if Trump loses. Now, there's some
00:06:42.820 chance that that he will lose. But no one's going to want to hear I told you so. It's gonna be 10
00:06:47.940 years since she was UN ambassador. And, you know, her favorable ratings weren't that high this time
00:06:52.820 around. I just don't see I don't see a future for her, unless it's with a position with with Trump,
00:06:58.780 which would be awkward, given what she said, it's not just like, I don't like the way he conducts
00:07:02.600 himself, or I don't like his trade policy. It's like, he's not up for this anymore. You know,
00:07:06.980 so that's a little hard to get harder to get around. And yet, you know, Trump is very good
00:07:11.000 at forgiving people and moving on what basically the way it goes with Trump generally is he does
00:07:14.860 something outrageous, then they say something not nice about him. And then he forgives them because
00:07:21.480 he wants them for some reason, and he's willing to look past their responsive slight after he
00:07:27.980 attacked them. That's generally the pattern. But that's, you know, whatever. So I think they'll
00:07:32.660 probably make up because he really does need her voters. He needs every single Republican he can get
00:07:38.500 to win this race and independents who are more attracted to her. I don't think he's gonna kiss
00:07:43.580 her ring, though, at any point soon. He didn't last night. He didn't mention her. He was he was
00:07:48.740 posting on truth, social negative things about her. And so I think there's room for them to make
00:07:54.300 up. But this is for what it's worth. This is how he sounded last night wasn't about her. It was about
00:07:58.480 how things are going to go for him on a go forward basis. And he took a shot at Joe Biden. Here it is.
00:08:06.520 I think it's SOT 7. And they're coming from rough places and dangerous places. And we had that
00:08:13.140 shutdown. We had everything going so beautifully when Joe Biden goes to the beach because somebody
00:08:18.900 on his staff thinks he looks very good in a bathing suit until he can't get his feet out of
00:08:25.640 the sand or lift the chair, which weighs about nine ounces. Joe Biden, if he would have just left
00:08:31.580 everything alone, he could have gone to the beach. He would have had a tremendous success at the border
00:08:35.540 and elsewhere. He's so good at picturing like he calls up the image we all have in there. You know,
00:08:45.100 everyone's on that picture. Yeah, the skeletal figure struggling with the lawn chair. And that's
00:08:50.980 fine. You know, I think mockery has a place in and in politics. And he's absolutely right about the
00:08:55.480 border. And this this is just I wrote about this the other day, February 2nd, 2021. Within two weeks
00:09:01.720 of being inaugurated, Biden's issues, this executive order that just this is one executive
00:09:06.060 order. He had many others on the border, but must have repealed 10, a dozen Trump proclamations,
00:09:12.080 policies, statements. Most important, Biden made it his policy to repeal remain in Mexico
00:09:16.540 and the safe third country agreements. Safe third country goes within days. Blinken says it's gone.
00:09:21.940 And then there's a legal struggle over remain in Mexico. But they fought to end remain in Mexico.
00:09:26.180 They fought in court to end remain in Mexico. Mayorkas had to reissue an executive order repealing it.
00:09:31.220 And everyone knew it was going to blow up the border, open it up, create a disaster. They
00:09:35.960 were warned. It was predictable. And they did it anyway. And that's all going to be around Biden's
00:09:40.160 neck in November. So Karl Rove was over on Fox News last night, and he's not a big Trump fan.
00:09:47.640 He is a lifelong Republican, and he got George Bush, the second, 43, elected twice. But he was zeroing in.
00:09:56.460 And I realize Trump doesn't like this and Trump supporters don't like this, but let's talk about it.
00:10:00.400 Um, on the numbers that Nikki Haley did amass and sort of the missing Trump support in places like
00:10:07.640 Virginia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Maine, and Vermont. Now, you know, Virginia matters in this race.
00:10:13.900 North Carolina matters in this race. And, um, you know, he's pointing out, let's say, uh, in Virginia,
00:10:20.980 a third of the vote went to Nikki Haley, a quarter of the vote in North Carolina went to Nikki Haley.
00:10:27.920 And his point was, there really is still some work to be done to unify the Republican Party.
00:10:33.740 Now, Rich, all along, I've been saying, I get it, but you and I, in acute and memorable ways,
00:10:40.980 both lived through 1516. And the Republican Party, it was extremely divided over Trump back then.
00:10:51.920 And the party came home. He got over 90, I think it was 93% of the Republican vote turned out for him.
00:10:59.100 I would submit they are less divided over Trump now than they were back then. And I know if there's
00:11:04.620 another option on the ballot, they're like, I prefer her. There's some 30%. They say, I prefer her.
00:11:10.240 But this, I do not believe tells us that when it's Trump v. Biden, that they will say,
00:11:15.720 I won't vote Trump or I will stay home and just allow Biden to ride in.
00:11:21.100 Yeah. So I had this experience, this coming home experience in my own family in 2016. My mom,
00:11:26.100 she was quite elderly then. She would vote early in Virginia. And she was kind of a moderate
00:11:31.200 Republican, didn't really like Trump, but hated Hillary. And she called me like,
00:11:35.360 what can I do? I don't want to vote for either of them. And I looked and I didn't lobby her to do
00:11:39.420 this or push her to do this. I said, what about this guy? Ed McMullen's on the ballot there in
00:11:42.320 Virginia if you want another option. So she goes, votes early, you know,
00:11:45.280 three weeks before the election, whatever it is for Ed McMullen. And then like a week before the
00:11:49.220 election, he calls me, Richie, who's that idiot you had me vote for? I want to vote for Trump.
00:11:52.760 You know, so she felt that coming home and she was a suburban, relatively moderate Republican.
00:11:57.380 And that happened all around the country. And it was enough to get him over the top.
00:12:01.540 So I basically agree with you. The party's more united now. And Steve Karnacki actually wrote an
00:12:06.660 interesting piece over at NBC about this weird disconnect where you look at the primaries and Haley
00:12:13.520 does well among independents or wins independents in these primary races. And then you look at the
00:12:18.020 national polling as Biden and Trump is winning independents. So how does that make sense? And
00:12:22.060 his explanation was the independents who are going and voting against Trump in these primaries are the
00:12:26.980 most committed anti-Trump independents. The average independent does not share the same view. And I
00:12:33.300 think the same thing is true of the Republicans voting for Haley. That's not the, you know,
00:12:40.040 she's winning 30% in these states and Trump's winning 90% in the national polls. So I think
00:12:46.120 they're more committed to being anti-Trump, but a lot of them will come home anyway. But none of that's
00:12:51.740 to say that Trump should be giving up any of these votes. He needs every single one he can,
00:12:56.060 because unless something crazy happens, this is going to be a close election.
00:12:58.740 Well, and not only that, I do believe Trump cares what happens to the country, but I know for a
00:13:03.840 fact he cares about what happens to him. And if he doesn't win, there's a very good chance he's
00:13:08.940 going to go to jail. So, I mean, he really does need to win. Although it is sort of an interesting
00:13:15.040 question to think if he doesn't win and therefore he cannot pull Jack Smith's DOJ off of these two
00:13:23.600 federal cases, what happens? I think the Democrats see it through. I don't think the Democrats take
00:13:29.320 the pedal off the floor on the criminal prosecutions. They're committed to getting
00:13:34.660 Trump, whether he's in the White House or not. Yep. Yeah. So if Trump loses, our friend and
00:13:41.700 colleague, Charlie Cook, wrote a piece arguing this the other day. His legacy is totally wiped out.
00:13:46.800 I mean, Biden will get Supreme Court appointments. You know, everything that's been reversed will stay
00:13:52.400 reversed. And he'll be known, you know, not to all the supporters, because Trump will argue this
00:13:57.120 the second election is rigged too, but he'll be a two time loser. And that's very unusual. It's hard
00:14:01.780 to do that. You know, a couple of people in American history, you can, can say, say the same. So the
00:14:06.760 stakes are huge. Then there's a legal thing. And I'm just, I've been radicalized against Jack Smith.
00:14:11.580 This is so wrong, what he's trying to do. The idea that he would really have Trump in a courtroom,
00:14:16.100 you know, whether it's in DC and or in Florida over the classified documents thing from July until
00:14:22.620 November of a presidential election, it's insane. It's insane. And he knows exactly what he's doing.
00:14:29.480 And you saw it in the reaction when the Supreme Court took up the immunity pleas. You know,
00:14:33.080 the left-wing commentators are like, well, justice won't be done. And this is very bad. But they're
00:14:36.540 also like, oh my God, Biden could lose because Trump's not going to stand trial and be convicted.
00:14:41.120 And that's just a rank distortion of our system. Oh yeah. It was, I mean, we talked about yesterday,
00:14:47.340 Andy's piece where he was quoting Politico and they're saying, you know, well, what could happen
00:14:51.780 for is Chutkin could, once she gets the green light, we assume in the summer by the Supreme
00:14:56.380 Court to go ahead with these cases that Trump's not immune for everything and potentially not immune
00:15:00.460 for the cases going up there. She could just, you know, floor it. She could floor it in that
00:15:05.180 litigation. They could have the trial going on in October and all the way up through November 5th.
00:15:11.300 And that Trump could be allowed to campaign potentially on weekends when he's, you have to
00:15:17.540 sit there as a criminal defendant. You have to be, or nothing happens on a Friday in Washington, D.C.
00:15:22.980 Or they said, Rich, possibly they do half day trials and he could just campaign in the mid-Atlantic
00:15:28.280 states. Yeah. Virginia really worked Virginia hard. Yeah. It's insane. It's so, it's so deeply
00:15:35.720 wrong. And it's also going to delegitimize the election either way. So let's say he doesn't get
00:15:39.440 the trial. Trial doesn't get off the ground. It doesn't happen before the election. What,
00:15:42.440 what are Democrats going to say? This is an illegitimate election. He's an illegitimate
00:15:46.120 president because it's really important central trial to our history and to our fate of a nation
00:15:50.440 didn't happen. And the Supreme Court helped stop it from happening. Right. So let's blow the whole
00:15:54.700 thing up. Trump, he doesn't have to have any other rigged argument, except if this goes to trial and
00:15:59.720 he's convicted and he loses, he'll just say the justice system was rigged against me and he'll,
00:16:04.120 he'll have a legitimate case. Yeah, he'll be right for sure. This time he'll have a far more
00:16:09.280 legitimate claim this time around than he did the last time around. And it really was rigged against
00:16:13.300 him. So he won't, he will definitely not be calling himself a two-time loser. I think we can both
00:16:16.940 agree on that. Yeah. Charles' piece is about, you know, the perception. Okay. So in the meantime,
00:16:23.140 or on the other side of the aisle, we're getting a report now. Uh, this is from Axios that Biden,
00:16:30.240 first we heard earlier, uh, that CNN was saying Biden's direction delivered to his senior most
00:16:36.160 staff is to significantly ramp up the campaign's efforts to highlight the quote, crazy shit Trump
00:16:40.460 says, which we were mocking on this show. Cause it's like, Oh, no one's ever tried doing that
00:16:44.260 before. Gee, I'm sure that'll get it done. Okay. But now today there's a piece in Axios,
00:16:48.880 Biden's new strategy, colon, go for Trump's jugular. Biden is privately pushing for a much
00:16:54.700 more aggressive approach to 2024. Go for Trump's jugular. He's convinced he will rattle Donald
00:16:59.940 Trump. If he taunts him daily, Biden has told friends, he thinks Trump is wobbly both intellectually
00:17:05.900 and emotionally and will explode. If Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him quote, go haywire in public.
00:17:13.740 As one advisor put it, other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight. Now, this actually
00:17:20.400 is a little bit more interesting to me, Rich, because, you know, Trump does not like to allow
00:17:25.860 attacks on him to pass unresponded to. And I do think he has a history of proving he can be easily
00:17:32.240 goaded into these fights. Yep. And it probably makes more sense than talking about infrastructure,
00:17:37.720 right? Everyone's in favor of infrastructure. So polls strongly and they think, Oh, infrastructure's
00:17:41.800 our, our Trump card, but who really cares deeply about infrastructure, right? No one opposes bridges,
00:17:46.460 but that doesn't mean you're going to vote for a guy because he's spending more money on bridges,
00:17:50.920 certainly at the presidential level. Uh, so this, this does make sense. Obviously Trump hates being
00:17:57.340 criticized. He has to, you know, as he always, as I said in 2016, I'm a counter puncher. He is,
00:18:03.120 you know, he can barely let anything go. So I don't think this is a crazy strategy. The problem
00:18:07.520 though, maybe for the white house is having broadcast it, maybe you create an extra incentive
00:18:12.760 for Susie Wiles and Chris Lasavita and the smart people around Trump to say, Mr. President, don't
00:18:18.100 go there. See what they're trying to do. Look at this news article about what they're trying to get
00:18:21.880 you to do. Talk about the economy tonight instead. I don't think they'll have a hundred percent success
00:18:27.120 on that. Uh, if history is any guide, but Steve Bannon in, in 16, a kind of crucial final weeks,
00:18:33.720 you know, the reports, he was in the plane with Trump on the plane with Trump and kept on saying,
00:18:38.420 they're trying to get you to, to say X, Y, Z instead, stay, stay on message. Just talk about
00:18:43.400 trade. Talk about how the elites ruined the working class. And he had some, some success
00:18:47.960 there at the end. So it's never going to be perfect keeping Trump on message, but I think having
00:18:52.380 broadcast it, this is, they want to get him off message. It might be a little easier to keep him on.
00:18:57.000 Yeah, that's right. Okay. So meanwhile, I don't know if you're aware of this, but voters on the
00:19:01.780 Republican side are not voting on the economy. So they shouldn't be touting that they're voting
00:19:05.880 on race and racial animus. So says Joy Reed. This is her big master takeaway from last night's,
00:19:13.120 um, basic nomination of Donald Trump. Take a listen, Sato. But Republican voters don't vote
00:19:19.660 that way. They don't vote based on economics or based on the benefits they're getting economically
00:19:24.300 from the president. They're increasingly from the tea party on they're voting on race. They're voting
00:19:29.540 on this idea of an invasion of Brown people over the border. The idea that they can't get whatever
00:19:34.820 job they want. A black person got it. Therefore drive all the blacks out of the colleges, get rid
00:19:39.280 of DEI. That is what they're voting on. They're just voting specifically on racial animus at this
00:19:45.040 stage. It isn't about economics. No. You see the blacks want to, or the Republicans want to get all the
00:19:52.720 blacks out of the colleges. Didn't you guys have an article on that national review? How do we get the
00:19:58.500 blacks out of universities? This is so absurd. It's so insulting, but it's kind of hard to get
00:20:03.860 insulted by Joy Reed now. She's just such a comical figure. Yeah. Well, they look, look through
00:20:08.940 everything and everything through racial means and want to preserve all these, uh, poisonous racialist
00:20:16.220 arguments and structures in American life. And the idea that there's only like white people that
00:20:21.580 care about border security is deeply insulting. I mean, we, plenty of, uh, Latinos care about as
00:20:29.480 well. Plenty of, uh, African-Americans care about it as well. And it's a, it's a top, you know, um,
00:20:35.580 top issue, maybe the top issue, depending on the poll for a reason. Right. And it's, it doesn't just
00:20:41.520 affect, um, border States. Rachel Maddow was mocking people in Virginia, caring about the border.
00:20:46.500 It's like, Oh yeah, Virginia has a border with West Virginia, but these migrants come in and
00:20:51.380 they go everywhere. Right. Why is Eric Adams exercised about illegal immigration? New York
00:20:56.200 state isn't, isn't a border state, right? It doesn't border Mexico. So this is like totally
00:21:02.500 out of touch. And, but it's a sign of where the left is. And this is a reason Biden has gone on for
00:21:08.560 three years or more now without fixing a totally unsustainable situation at the border. That's bad for
00:21:14.600 the country and, and catastrophic for his political prospects. It's, uh, everything is reduced to
00:21:20.300 race. We don't, you don't, you're upset about illegal immigration. You don't like Brown people.
00:21:23.940 You're upset about illegal immigration. You want blacks out of colleges. What, what, what are you
00:21:28.360 saying? All the blacks in the colleges are illegal immigrants. I mean, if I said that you'd be calling
00:21:33.660 me a racist pig, Joy Reed, it's no better when you say it. Um, then here's the comment that you just
00:21:40.140 referenced. I mean, the most disgusting comment of the night and that's saying something because
00:21:44.260 MSNBC is really giving itself a run for its money each night. Uh, they all triple down on who could
00:21:48.880 be the worst. And in this particular clip, you've got three of the faves. You've got Joy Reed, Rachel
00:21:53.760 Maddow and Jen Psaki scoffing. I mean, just sneering at this notion that Virginia voters are going to
00:22:02.800 vote based on immigration or care about immigration. Look at this. I mean, if you look at some of these
00:22:08.900 exit polls, I mean, I live in Virginia, immigration was the number one issue. Of course. I mean,
00:22:13.920 again, these could change in, in Virginia. Virginia does have a border with West Virginia.
00:22:19.420 Very contested. What? I mean, when I was in New Hampshire, people were talking about the Northern
00:22:25.520 border as a threat because Trump has indoctrinated people with this fear of people who do not like,
00:22:32.240 look like them being a threat to that. You know, I mean, and every, you know, every election cycle,
00:22:37.520 when, and there's, it's particularly when there's a democratic incumbent, we get reminded about the
00:22:41.100 borders and the borders become a thing again. But they, the only difference now is they,
00:22:46.580 they drop the every four years part. And now, I mean, all the programming about cities of crime
00:22:52.340 and crime. Meanwhile, on earth one, the FBI reports that violent crime in America is at a 50 year
00:23:00.040 low. And migrant crime is not a thing. And migrant crime is not a thing. And you live on earth one.
00:23:08.540 I like, there's so much to do there, Rich. Migrant crime is not a thing. Tell it
00:23:12.660 to the family of the 14 year old girl in Campbell County, Virginia, who was just sexually assaulted
00:23:19.040 by an illegal from Venezuela. Who's now been arrested and charged, uh, after he crossed illegally
00:23:25.560 into El Paso, Texas in September of 23, this past September and released into the United States
00:23:30.620 by the feds. Um, Stephen Miller online responds one in eight, about one in eight Virginia residents
00:23:37.240 today was born in a foreign country. One in four very young people has a foreign born parent in
00:23:43.580 Virginia and Fairfax County, uh, public schools, roughly 20% of students struggle to speak English.
00:23:49.580 Migration has completely reshaped the Commonwealth of Virginia, where I used to live as well. This
00:23:56.220 is, they laugh and sneer at their own peril. They'll learn in November what the truth is.
00:24:02.260 Yeah. Well, Rachel Maddow should, should go to South side of Chicago and, and meet with the
00:24:07.620 local residents who are outraged. You know, we, we also saw these clips or clips from the community
00:24:13.360 meetings or, uh, interviews on the street. Migrants are being moved into their community center,
00:24:18.640 right? They want the community center for their teenagers. They're at risk teenagers,
00:24:22.320 the kind of people that Rachel Maddow is supposed to care about. And there's no reason that people
00:24:28.040 from another country should just walk into the country and, and go to their community center.
00:24:32.060 That's how they feel. And it's totally commonsensical and reasonable. Do they not listen to anything
00:24:37.400 that Brandon Johnson says, or Eric Adams says, these cities being overwhelmed with the housing and the
00:24:43.620 costs associated with it from illegal immigrants? So this is a national crisis. It's not a manufactured
00:24:50.900 thing. If Trump didn't exist and no Republican was talking about the border at all, people would still
00:24:56.640 feel this way, right? Cause they see it all around them. And even, you know, Steven is absolutely right
00:25:02.400 about how immigration's changed the demographics of Virginia. But even if you never, you know,
00:25:07.660 you're someplace in the middle of the country that literally never, you never encounter an immigrant,
00:25:11.620 it doesn't mean that you can still not be outraged by what's happening at the border, right?
00:25:16.000 There are tons of people who are outraged and fearful of climate change, who will never encounter
00:25:20.480 a climate change event that's in any way threatening to them, right? So this is, this is ridiculous. It
00:25:28.260 just goes to just how radical they've gotten on this issue. Joe Biden, 20, 30 years ago, did not sound
00:25:33.360 the way he does now on the border. He says, we have to stop illegal immigration. Bill Clinton said,
00:25:37.500 we have to stop illegal immigration. But even doing that now is, is considered a nasty and retrograde
00:25:44.560 and only people in the throes of deep racial fantasies believe in it. That's a, that's a crazy
00:25:50.820 place. To say in the wake of Lake and Riley's murder, you know, days ago, a week ago on the
00:25:58.240 university of Georgia campus, that migrants, they're not linked to crime. They are, they are too. And we
00:26:03.960 talked about this on our show yesterday, pivoting on what I heard on your show, the editors with
00:26:08.020 Charles CW Cook saying even one is too many American citizens committing crime is one thing.
00:26:13.180 We don't applaud it. We don't want it. We try to punish it in certain jurisdictions,
00:26:17.140 but we don't have to deal. We shouldn't have to deal with illegals coming over here and committing
00:26:22.400 crime. Even one is too many. And, and the, as, as this girl, her family is still mourning that,
00:26:28.360 that, that grave is freshly dug and they are out there sneering about how migrants don't commit
00:26:34.640 crime. Yeah. And it's, it's entirely avoidable, right? That's what makes it so maddening and
00:26:41.100 outrageous at any number of junctures that, that guy, he never should have gotten the country in
00:26:45.020 the first place. He should have been deported at any number of junctures. If we're just following
00:26:49.260 our own laws, it never would have happened. And that's, that's a huge deal to anyone who has an
00:26:55.460 ounce of common sense, but that doesn't apply to many people on the set at MSNBC.
00:27:00.320 Meanwhile, here's Corrine Jean-Pierre on the subject of Lake and Riley's murder. Listen.
00:27:05.420 Will President Biden publicly address Lake and Riley's murder allegedly at the hands of
00:27:11.060 an illegal immigrant who was released by law enforcement multiple times on Thursday night?
00:27:16.240 This is such a tragic story and obviously situation. I don't have anything to share
00:27:22.960 about the president's speech as it relates to that particular question that you have.
00:27:27.200 I would be remiss if I did not continue to say that Republicans rejected a bipartisan proposal
00:27:33.460 that came out of the Senate. I mean, she's just going to keep doing it. By the way, just FYI,
00:27:39.820 Bill Malugian of Fox News reporting. CPB reports another 7,000 migrant encounters at the southern
00:27:47.840 border yesterday. That's the fourth day in a row of 7,000 a day. The slow months are right now. These
00:27:56.500 are the slow months of January, February, early March. And he says now that's likely in the rear view
00:28:02.680 and the annual spring surge is being teed up, which means we're going up from 7,000. And I guess
00:28:08.760 they're just going to sit there going, the Republicans, they didn't like the deal.
00:28:14.600 Yeah, that's exactly what they're going to do. I don't think they're going to get much mileage
00:28:17.280 out of that a little bit. But this is one thing, you know, Trump says he's going to solve the war
00:28:21.100 in Ukraine in 24 hours. He's not going to do that. But the border crisis will, at least initially,
00:28:25.760 for like the first three months, if Trump's elected, end, right? There'll be an enormous,
00:28:29.940 like biblical wave if Trump wins in November, December, January. Then as soon as he's in office,
00:28:34.360 it'll just stop. And then it'll start up again, and he'll have to actually implement policies for
00:28:39.980 more rational order. But this is one thing, the difference couldn't be more stark. You either
00:28:44.160 get a continued border crisis with Biden, or it ends with Trump. And Democrats are so,
00:28:50.780 I don't think they really, on top of having a kind of cracked lunatic morality when it comes to borders,
00:28:56.020 they also don't know what happened. I think Pete Buttigieg was on Squawk Box yesterday and was pushed on
00:29:02.260 Biden reversing Trump policies. And he said, either he was lying through his teeth or just doesn't know.
00:29:08.220 So, you know, the only thing Biden ended was the separation of child separation, right? So Trump
00:29:14.580 tried that for about a week. There was outrage over it. It was a debacle. And he ended it in about a
00:29:20.160 week, you know, years ago. This is the one thing that Biden didn't reverse because it was already
00:29:24.900 reversed. He reversed all the stuff that was working and that didn't have any significant
00:29:29.040 humanitarian consequences. But here's a guy who's supposed to be plugged in, who thinks all they
00:29:33.380 did was end child separations. And they kind of view everything Trump did as child separation. It
00:29:38.380 was inherently wrong and had to go just because Trump did it without any sort of rational consideration
00:29:44.300 of the consequences. Well, so, yeah, I mean, he changed it because he thought we were being
00:29:49.740 inhumane. We wanted to be more humane when Joe Biden took office, not about the kids, but about the
00:29:54.740 border, about border enforcement. And we've seen what that's gotten us. You know, we've
00:29:58.300 gotten deaths of American children of innocence going for a jog. We've seen fentanyl crossing
00:30:03.680 the border and record levels. We've seen record level levels of border crossings to the point
00:30:07.980 where, as you point out, school centers are being shut down. Schools are being taken over
00:30:11.040 by illegals coming in. You can't even speak English in half of these classrooms because you
00:30:15.640 have to have a different person who can speak all the languages, at least in New York.
00:30:19.240 That's his humane policy. And same thing on crime. They wanted to do this out in San
00:30:23.160 Francisco. We need to be more humane in our crime enforcement. And look where we are just
00:30:26.840 a couple of years later. Chesa Boudin, that prosecutor has been booted because crime was
00:30:30.900 just too rampant. And now you see the ballot initiatives out in San Francisco that these
00:30:35.060 that the San Franciscans approved to have to make it easier on cops to make arrests and to pursue
00:30:44.020 felons. And there's a couple other ballot initiatives out there, too, that show that city's
00:30:48.100 not quite as blue as it once was. So what did you think when you saw that?
00:30:52.160 I mean, it just shows you can push anyone too far. You can push even San Francisco too
00:30:57.960 far. And the level of disorder that they have to put up with on their streets and the sense
00:31:01.780 of threat is just intolerable. And it doesn't matter whether you're conservative in the middle
00:31:05.800 or progressive. If you're scared, if you're disgusted by what you see, if you see human
00:31:11.560 feces on the sidewalk, you're going to react. And so you've seen a reaction even in San Francisco.
00:31:18.100 I don't think it's as you know, we're not going to see it other places. Unfortunately,
00:31:22.060 the other cities are just going to seem content to think beneath the waves. But it is a sign that
00:31:26.880 people can be pushed too far.
00:31:29.520 On that front, just breaking New York Times, Governor Kathy Hochul amid a series of violent
00:31:34.600 crimes on the subway said she would deploy 1000 members of the state police and National Guard
00:31:38.840 to the transit system. But there's no crime, Rich. We're at 50 years, year lows. There's nothing to worry
00:31:45.860 about. We don't know why they have every single deodorant in Walgreens locked up. It's a mystery
00:31:52.180 that they're jumping off the shelves themselves. It's always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you for
00:31:56.860 being here.
00:31:57.400 Thank you so much. Talk soon.
00:31:59.140 All right. See you soon. When we come back, Vivek Ramaswamy. So much I want to talk to him
00:32:04.140 about. And we have more MSNBC insanity queued up for him. Stand by.
00:32:12.700 Joining me now, Vivek Ramaswamy, former 2024 presidential candidate and author of Capitalist
00:32:19.260 Punishment. Vivek, welcome back to the show. It's great to have you.
00:32:23.080 It's good to see you, Megan.
00:32:24.040 So your main rival, I mean, I guess it's fair to say Nikki Haley in the presidential race is now
00:32:29.700 officially out several months after pretty much everybody else got out. Your reaction to her
00:32:36.120 bailing out without endorsing Trump?
00:32:39.580 Look, I'd say better her getting out of the race late than never. I'd say that she's irrelevant in
00:32:44.320 this race going forward. So I prefer not to waste a ton of airtime, you know, adjudicating Nikki Haley.
00:32:50.080 But I'll say I'll share with you what my thoughts are is she's a representation of a strand in the
00:32:56.420 Republican Party that still continues to exist. I mean, Nikki Haley was a representation of many
00:33:00.720 other candidates who filled that same ideological vision, which I think is more interesting than,
00:33:05.440 you know, talking about her as an individual. I think that vision is one in which you have the
00:33:10.300 United States playing an interventionist role in the world, taking actual liberties and infringing
00:33:15.720 on them at the margin when necessary to advance certain national security driven agendas,
00:33:21.400 what you'd call the neoconservative vision. And that's different than I think the future
00:33:25.240 direction of the Republican Party that I'd like to see in the direction that it's headed,
00:33:28.960 which is more of a libertarian nationalist movement that says the people we elect to run
00:33:33.020 the government should be the ones who run the government and that they owe their sole moral
00:33:37.280 duty to the citizens of this country rather than another one. So I think that ideological divide
00:33:43.140 continues to persist and continues to outlive Nikki Haley's candidacy. And I think will be an
00:33:48.460 interesting area of intra party debate going forward. But for the rest of this year, I think you're going
00:33:53.480 to see amended over at least temporary alliance to say that it's worth beating Joe Biden. And I think
00:33:59.140 it is worth beating whoever the Democratic candidate is going to be. I personally think it's not going
00:34:02.280 to be Biden, but I think that's what we're going to see for the rest of this year. But that's not
00:34:06.140 going to change the underlying ideological fissure. And I do think it is that within the Republican
00:34:10.860 Party, that's going to have to be resolved, I would say even more clearly in the years to come.
00:34:16.700 Okay, so what about that? Because as the party is still somewhat divided, you know, America First,
00:34:21.660 MAGA, that's a large portion of it. It's Trump's party, clearly. There's still this other faction. You
00:34:26.980 know, there's definitely still a number of Republicans who are more, I don't know if you want to call it
00:34:31.540 Ronald Reagan aligned, George W. Bush aligned, but just sort of different policies, certainly when it comes to
00:34:36.340 international conflicts and so on, she would say she's in that vein. So that's why some people say,
00:34:41.200 oh, he should make her his VP, because the party must unite. The number one thing is to beat the
00:34:46.760 Democrats. And if they have to swallow this medicine, they don't want to swallow to get the big W,
00:34:53.480 then do it. What do you make of that logic? Well, I'd say a couple of things. First is I do think we
00:34:57.760 need to dispense with the Reagan analogy. George W. Bush, fine. Reagan, not fine. I think a lot of the
00:35:04.400 neoconservatives of the modern 20 years have managed to co-opt and rewrite Ronald Reagan's
00:35:09.520 legacy. Reagan was actually an America First conservative. He believed in strength. I think
00:35:13.040 America First today ought to and does believe in strength as well, the power of a strong military.
00:35:18.960 Strength is different from intervention. Often forgotten in Reagan's legacy was his decision
00:35:22.900 to exit Lebanon when actually there was a catastrophe in Beirut. Today's neoconservatives
00:35:27.660 would say that was running with, you know, them firing at your back. What Reagan actually asked
00:35:32.100 in the face of a crisis was whether or not our presence there advanced American interests. And
00:35:37.280 so this rewriting of Reagan's legacy in the modern neocon mold, I do think is an error. It's just
00:35:43.560 factually inaccurate. And I do think the likes of Nikki Haley who have tried to appropriate that mantle
00:35:48.140 do it only to find that that mantle doesn't actually fit the vision they're advancing. I think it's much
00:35:52.380 closer to a George Bush post 9-11 view. Now to the question that you ask about VP, look, that's
00:35:57.900 Donald Trump's decision to make, who he makes as vice president. But I will say this is coherence
00:36:02.360 is really important in a governing agenda. I think one of the learnings from the first term,
00:36:06.460 and I do think Donald Trump and many of the people around him appropriately have, I think,
00:36:10.720 taken a lot of learnings from that first term to go even further to advance America First in the
00:36:15.400 second term, is that you need people who are aligned with the core principles, right? There's good
00:36:20.100 room for reasonable debate. Debate's always a good thing within any organization, including an
00:36:24.900 administration. But if the fundamental principles aren't aligned, the John Boltons, the Nikki Haley's
00:36:30.240 of the world that were in that first administration, I think that that's going to frustrate advancing the
00:36:35.520 agenda of Donald Trump as the next president more than it will advance it. So that's my personal
00:36:39.960 opinion when it comes to a Nikki Haley. But it's less about her and more about the need for alignment
00:36:45.760 to advance a coherent agenda. And I think Donald Trump understands that. I think it's actually going to
00:36:50.640 be a unifying agenda. The beauty of the America First vision, Megan, is it's not strictly a partisan
00:36:55.940 Republican versus Democrat divide. You go to places like the south side of Chicago, where I visited
00:37:01.600 during the campaign, I saw more alignment for our view on making sure that we're funding American
00:37:07.460 border protection more than Ukrainian border protection, making sure that we're actually
00:37:11.560 funding. They better pay attention, Vivek, because Charles Barkley was on CNN saying he's going to
00:37:17.140 punch any black person in the face who's going to vote for Donald Trump. If I see a black person
00:37:23.360 walking around with Trump mugs, I'm going to punch him in the face. Charles. No, Gail. Gail. You really
00:37:29.220 can't say that because, A, you don't mean that. Oh, I mean that sincerely. I'm going to just tell you
00:37:34.340 something. And then you will be arrested for assault. And then what? I'm going to bail myself
00:37:38.400 out and go celebrate. Look, there's no question that Biden's going to win the black vote. But
00:37:44.280 there's no question Trump's share of it is polling higher than we've ever seen with a Republican
00:37:49.040 presidential candidate. Go ahead. Yeah. And look, I think that that's actually promising where this
00:37:53.580 old school vision of the Republican Party of, you know, a narrow set of ideological agendas relating
00:37:59.060 to economic policy and foreign policy intervention. And we expand that aperture to say, no, no,
00:38:04.220 this is about all Americans first, actually. America first includes all Americans. That's a
00:38:09.880 powerful vision. It transcends black versus white. I'll tell you, a lot of black Americans rightly
00:38:14.800 look at illegal migrants in schools ranging from Chicago to New York, being converted to
00:38:19.320 encampments for migrants in the inner city, rightly asking, what the heck about me when you're
00:38:23.520 spending $7,000 per migrant per month, forking over $200 billion to Ukraine while we have Americans
00:38:29.640 struggling here at home? I think that's a powerful vision. It's a vision that goes back to
00:38:34.180 even George Washington's vision for this country in 1776 that are going to bring a lot of orphaned
00:38:39.900 Democrats and independents and libertarians along with us. That I think that's actually far more
00:38:44.960 promising as a future of the Republican Party than reciting slogans memorized in the post 9-11
00:38:50.000 era from Dick Cheney and George Bush, which is what certain Republican candidates I think today are
00:38:55.140 still trying to cling on to. I think that's withering away and it's going to melt away to
00:38:58.920 irrelevance. But I do think that that's, you're asking about the last candidate exiting from the
00:39:03.600 Republican primary field. I think that's the most interesting takeaway is what it has in terms of
00:39:08.500 implications for the future of a Republican Party, where we're seeing that ideological vision
00:39:13.340 kindly go to the dustbins of history where it should.
00:39:16.100 Uh, okay. We've got to get a little bit of the reaction that we saw in the media last night to
00:39:21.660 Donald Trump essentially securing the nomination, not officially in terms of delegates, but it says
00:39:25.540 it's done. Um, it was a freak out, but it, it was, I've covered a lot of these Vivek. I mean,
00:39:31.980 I've covered a lot of super Tuesdays. This is more like a snoozer Tuesday because we knew it was going
00:39:36.040 to happen. And what happened, like the rhetoric being employed in this clip, you watch, it's got all of
00:39:42.280 our favorites in there is beyond anything I've heard, even with respect to Trump here. It is in
00:39:47.000 slot six. What's wrong with you people? Why do you hate America? Why do you vote for a guy that says
00:39:53.760 America is terrible? That it's a third world country. So this is not somebody who cares about
00:40:00.600 anything other than himself. There's something so heavy about covering what could be the last election.
00:40:06.140 And we're not, you know, I think talking in hype hyperbolic terms because Trump is now running
00:40:12.600 as a guy who said, quote, I'll be a dictator on day one. He has remade the party in his image. There
00:40:17.980 are, there are still some Republicans who are trying to take it away, like take it back,
00:40:21.940 right? That's over. That's over. There's no back that party, that party doesn't exist anymore.
00:40:26.240 And that we're actually going to be covering a general election between these two men where one
00:40:30.140 isn't running on a promise to continue to have elections at all.
00:40:35.320 Okay. Kicks off with why do you, why do you hate America if you're supporting Trump? And then you
00:40:40.300 heard this is just so heavy as this could be the last election we ever have. He's not going to leave.
00:40:47.340 We heard Rachel Maddow say the same the other night. Yeah. So look, I think that it's a bit Orwell-y
00:40:52.220 and a bit of projection here where you do have a political party and a movement that is literally
00:40:57.000 trying, but for the Supreme Court, to remove one of the two major candidates from the ballot
00:41:01.860 in states across this country. And that means you don't have a nation left, right? If you want a
00:41:05.460 patchwork framework where certain states can disallow certain presidential candidates while other ones
00:41:10.600 allow them, we don't have a country left. So if we wanted to adopt the histrionics, I think we would
00:41:15.460 have a stronger case in the reverse direction. A political party in power, where literally the
00:41:19.880 prosecutorial force of a department of justice reporting into the U.S. president, who's one of those two
00:41:24.760 candidates on the ballot, is using the apparatus of that federal government to go after his political
00:41:29.680 opponent in the middle of an election. So I think you're seeing a lot of projection here. The lack
00:41:34.540 of self-awareness is stunning. But I do think, Megan, it's the beginning of the next layer of
00:41:39.920 histrionics you're going to see to do whatever they can to keep this man out of the White House.
00:41:45.020 And I continue to believe that though people have a lot of complacency in the Republican camp
00:41:49.700 after Super Tuesday, I think the real race hasn't really even begun. I don't think Biden is going to
00:41:56.040 be the nominee. I think they are already planting the seeds, laying the breadcrumbs that make it
00:42:00.380 evident that they're preparing to move him out of the way. What I see right now is the Democrats
00:42:04.320 seeing an advantage though in prolonging that as much as possible. The more Republicans fall into the
00:42:09.400 trap, and I do see it as a trap, and I do see some Republicans falling into it, of focusing the agenda
00:42:14.820 on defeating Biden, talking about his age, talking about his frailty, his mental errors, his lack of
00:42:21.340 mental acuity, even some of the corruption relating to Biden, his relationship with Hunter,
00:42:25.740 all worthy topics to interrogate about any US president. But the more we fall into the siren
00:42:30.940 song of that as our trap, as a lightning rod for our message, in some ways, the better it is for the
00:42:36.160 Democrats if you get to this summer, all of that political capital, energy, messaging capital,
00:42:41.340 and even just raw inertia, right? A force moving in a certain direction, if that's your message,
00:42:46.680 criticizing Biden as your agenda, they pull the rug out. It's not Biden as the nominee.
00:42:51.420 That then by the middle of the summer works to the Democrat advantage. So I think that's exactly
00:42:55.180 what's happening is they're slow playing the switcheroo that's coming this summer. Republicans
00:42:59.580 to some extent are falling into that trap by focusing the message on Biden, when in fact Biden's going to
00:43:05.280 be about as irrelevant as Nikki Haley. That is so interesting. Well, we know that Biden's
00:43:10.340 message is all about Trump and Trump will be the nominee. So maybe it's smarter. There's no switcheroo
00:43:14.520 coming on the Republican side unless Jack Smith manages to get Trump in jail before November,
00:43:19.440 which is looking less and less likely and nearly impossible. But this is fascinating. I do want to
00:43:23.440 talk to you about, because I know you think the switcheroo is coming. Just this week, Michelle
00:43:27.540 Obama's office put out a statement saying she's not running. She does not want to be president.
00:43:32.580 She's not running for president. So do you believe that? And if they do the switcheroo,
00:43:38.220 how and with whom? Well, the lady doth protest too much, I would say right there. We'll see about
00:43:44.660 that. And you know which lady is not protesting too much as Hillary Clinton. She is vying for this
00:43:49.440 in every which way she knows how. It's kind of funny actually to watch, right? But I care less
00:43:55.340 about which specific person it is. If you believe in the modern left's religion, it has to be somebody
00:44:00.900 who checks off at least one identitarian box, which is why I think they're going to have a tough time
00:44:04.920 putting Gavin Newsom there unless they make Kamala Harris the VP again, which allows them to stomach
00:44:09.140 that. But I'm not in this and I wouldn't, you know, I'm not some sort of analyst that has
00:44:13.920 a particular opinion in the betting markets of whether it's going to be Gavin or Michelle
00:44:17.700 or Hillary Clinton or somebody else. And I think in some ways we still risk falling to that same
00:44:23.000 trap if we obsess over that question versus what I think the Republican Party needs to be doing,
00:44:27.160 which is focusing on our own affirmative agenda, irrespective of who we're running for,
00:44:32.300 running against on the other side. And first of all, I think that's necessary because I think
00:44:36.460 it's not going to be Biden. We had, you know, even in the very debate that you moderated and
00:44:40.220 I participated in, we had the Beat Biden Pledge. And I told Ronna McDaniel, this was a pretty silly
00:44:45.160 pledge where we are not focusing on our own agenda or even focusing on our nominee, but instead focusing
00:44:50.480 on beating Biden when he's not going to be the nominee. I've thought this for a long time,
00:44:54.240 but I think that that's a bit of a trap that the Republicans are falling into. And it's an easy trap to
00:44:58.940 fall into because it's a lot easier to criticize an individual than it is to actually articulate
00:45:04.360 and affirm an agenda and a vision of your own. But that's what I think we need to level up and do
00:45:10.720 in these coming months, such that when that switch does come mid-summer, late summer, who knows when
00:45:16.500 it is, it matters less who they put up because we've already immunized ourselves against the effect
00:45:21.720 of that to say that, okay, you have that politic, internal democratic politic game going on over there.
00:45:27.040 We're running there. We're focused on a nation with borders, actually behaving like a nation on
00:45:32.480 economic growth and the pursuit of excellence without apologizing for it on a national identity
00:45:37.240 grounded in the 1776 principles that set our country into motion. We'll go straight down the
00:45:42.420 list. That's what making America great again is all about. You hear the subtext of that a lot in
00:45:48.500 Trump's message. And I would say in the last couple of months, maybe even more clearly. And I think
00:45:52.760 that's a good thing. I think of the Republicans out there, Donald Trump has been doing a better job
00:45:57.800 about incorporating messages relating to free speech, relating to national identity, relating to
00:46:03.820 national unity in his themes. Even in this past week, his reaction to the Supreme Court, I thought,
00:46:09.260 was amongst the better speeches he has given. I think that any candidate has given. The way he handled
00:46:14.720 that, I thought, was well done. That's the direction we need to go even further in that direction to
00:46:20.920 protect ourselves against the otherwise bait and switch trap that the Republicans are going to
00:46:25.360 fall into. I got to tell you something. You mentioned the founding fathers. And at this
00:46:29.780 moment, we have to say a little prayer as we go to break. Then we'll come back because little
00:46:33.660 Thatcher Brunt, my 10 year old, is right now, right at this moment, starring in the afternoon
00:46:38.980 performance at his school of the American Revolution. And he, it's an all boys school. So the boys have to
00:46:47.020 play girls roles too, but he is starring as Betsy Ross and he's going to have to wear a little
00:46:51.700 bonnet, Vivek. And I'm sorry, but it's like basically all I can think about. I'm going to
00:46:55.760 the evening performance. I cannot wait. This is the theater event of the season.
00:47:00.360 I'm excited. Tell him congratulations. And hopefully Nike doesn't cancel him for the Betsy
00:47:04.560 Ross performance, you know, but that's good. You know, it's so crazy. It's like, thank God,
00:47:08.960 as you know, we left our insane New York city schools, which are pushing all sorts of things,
00:47:12.680 including to hate America on us and on our kids. And we're so happy that we're at this school that
00:47:17.220 actually is teaching the children about the States and about the models and what they mean
00:47:20.580 and about the founding fathers and doing a whole play called the American Revolution and showing
00:47:24.940 them, you know, who was King George, who's John Jay, who's Roger Sherman, all this stuff,
00:47:29.020 even Betsy Ross. So, um, maybe I'll run a little clip that doesn't actually show, uh, the faces tomorrow
00:47:34.780 because I cannot wait. All right. Stand by because there's much, much more to do with you. I,
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00:48:56.140 So, Vivek, I've got to get your take on the sneering, ridiculous
00:49:06.760 disdain showed by the MSNBC anchors last night on the subject of illegal immigration and how this is
00:49:17.500 becoming a bigger issue in places like Virginia, which they refuse to accept. Look at this.
00:49:22.660 I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls, I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the
00:49:28.000 number one issue. Of course, I mean, again, these could change in, in Virginia. Virginia does have
00:49:33.100 a border with West Virginia. Very, very contested area. Build the wall. What? I mean, when I was in
00:49:38.800 New Hampshire, people were talking about the northern border as a threat because Trump has
00:49:44.800 indoctrinated people with this fear of people who do not like, look like them being a threat to them.
00:49:50.140 But, you know, I mean, and every, you know, every election cycle, when there's, particularly when
00:49:54.760 there's a Democratic incumbent, we get reminded about the borders and the borders become a thing
00:49:59.200 again. But they, the only difference now is they, they drop the every four years part. And now,
00:50:04.860 I mean, all the programming about cities, the spread of crime and crime.
00:50:09.220 Meanwhile, on Earth One, the FBI reports that violent crime in America is at a 50-year low.
00:50:16.480 And migrant crime is not a thing. And migrant crime is not a thing. And you live on Earth One.
00:50:23.880 I don't, like, Rachel Maddow makes $30 million a year for doing one hour of television a week.
00:50:29.680 All those women sitting up there are multimillionaires, Vivek. You and I
00:50:32.900 well, no, they're not the ones who are going to have to deal with the consequences of what's
00:50:37.900 happening at our southern border. The influx, 7,000 a day right now, never mind what's been
00:50:42.500 happening since Biden took office. Look, I'd love it for them to face down the mother of a 22-year-old
00:50:49.400 young woman who was killed by an illegal migrant who should have never been in this country in the
00:50:54.020 first place and who was released, who should have never been released in the first place either.
00:50:58.380 And that condescension, the sanctimony around it, I think is what's bothersome. It's one thing if
00:51:02.840 you're undereducated or if you have a policy difference to say that notwithstanding the
00:51:06.660 cost of illegal mass migration, here's still the case for it. By the way, I haven't heard
00:51:10.420 anybody make that case, but at least respect somebody, even if I disagreed with them,
00:51:15.000 who actually took the problem seriously and still made an argument for it. But that's not what we've
00:51:19.060 seen from anybody on the left. What we now see is this level of derision. And I'm the kid of
00:51:24.200 legal immigrants to this country, Megan. And I can tell you that most kids of legal immigrants
00:51:29.160 and most legal immigrants themselves find this type of discourse insulting. People have waited
00:51:35.320 for years to come to this country the right way. And yet you have millions. Now it'll be close to 12
00:51:40.860 million, maybe more by the end of Biden's term. That's actually something that is an insult to the
00:51:46.580 fraction of those numbers that we're actually recruiting to this country who we'd actually want
00:51:50.360 to have here. I played tennis the other day. Megan, you'll appreciate with my shirt on this
00:51:54.940 time. It's a discussion for another day. But because I knew you had some feedback on that the
00:52:00.060 first time around. But I was playing tennis with a guy who is, he's like a phenom in every respect.
00:52:05.320 He was top 200 in the world, much better than I am. Good pianist. He's a concert pianist. He does a
00:52:11.040 Rubik's Cube in 30 seconds. He's gone to Harvard Business School in Princeton, some of our best
00:52:14.660 institutions. I don't like him. Too much. I'm just saying it's at the level of almost too much,
00:52:20.500 right? But it'd be the kind of person who you would think if he's got a successful real estate
00:52:24.600 job, whatever it is in this country, 15 years, has not gotten a green card. The sad part of this is
00:52:30.880 the best advice somebody could give him if it were the legal thing to do would be to board a flight to
00:52:35.880 Mexico and cross the southern border to get into this country. That's how broken immigration is in the
00:52:40.500 United States. It's broken in both directions. And so anyway, I think that level of condescension for
00:52:45.500 what I do think is appropriately the number one issue that the next administration, without asking
00:52:51.400 Congress for permission or for forgiveness, by the way, the next administration can address by
00:52:55.900 enforcing the laws on the books. That I think is insulting to Americans to say that the administration
00:53:01.460 doesn't have an obligation to do it. And I also think that that's part of why the Biden administration
00:53:05.700 is now scrambling to reverse the script and pretend to care about this issue by putting
00:53:10.480 up what I view as an artificial piece of legislation to say that a Republicans shot it down when the
00:53:15.280 real failure is to enforce the laws that are already on the books. And I think that that's
00:53:19.540 something achievable. And I think it'll be a win for the country. The nerve to say, oh, they trot this
00:53:24.520 out every four years. This is what the Dems do with some police involved shooting or unfortunate death
00:53:31.540 of a black person being arrested. They trot that out every four years and put it on loop. This is their
00:53:37.620 trick. That's why Rachel Maddow has it at the ready. And she's projecting it onto Republicans
00:53:41.800 saying they do this with immigration. The reason immigration has become the number one issue even
00:53:45.580 amongst Democrats is because of the numbers you just cited, the 12 million who have crossed the
00:53:50.080 southern border. That's why Mayor Eric Adams in New York City just said we have to stop being a
00:53:54.840 sanctuary city now. We can't do it anymore. That's why you have Democratic mayors across the city saying,
00:53:59.520 uncle, uncle, we give up. That's not a Republican talking point. That's happening.
00:54:04.460 Um, they, she can ignore it all she wants in her high rise condo and her multiple houses,
00:54:09.160 however she's living, but the family of Lake and Riley and others are going to have to live
00:54:13.260 with it in a very different way. And it's disgusting that the absence of heart or any
00:54:17.000 empathy they showed there. Um, all right, let me move on. Cause I don't have you for that long.
00:54:20.740 And I want to ask you about this, your battles with the press as you were running for president
00:54:26.380 were among the best we've seen. It was my own personal favorite of just your campaign. You went
00:54:32.760 into the lion's den repeatedly and you were very good at it. And no matter how disdainful the
00:54:38.960 interviewer, this is how we found them. You took them on, you stood your ground and out on the
00:54:44.660 campaign trail, your critics would come and fight with you and you'd welcome them in. You'd say,
00:54:47.640 come inside. Let's have the debate. I want to hear you with the media. You knew how gross they are
00:54:52.280 and you battled them. We put together some highlights that we thought we'd take it down memory
00:54:56.020 lane here. Let's watch. Do you believe punctuality is a vestige of white supremacy, Dasha?
00:55:02.080 Look, because if you don't, then you have a disagreement about many of the people who
00:55:04.700 are defining those terms or the written word or the use or the nuclear family. This is,
00:55:09.380 these aren't my words. These are the words of intellectual proponents from Ibram Kendi
00:55:12.660 to the Iona Presleys to BLM that have said, these are vestiges of white supremacy. So
00:55:16.940 we can't have it both ways. We have to have an honest discussion.
00:55:21.020 As a racist or conspiracy theorist.
00:55:24.900 What's wrong with what's wrong with people of color?
00:55:26.640 First of all, let me just pause right there. Let me just pause right there. This is a legitimate
00:55:30.920 discussion for us to have. And my view is I don't care about skin color.
00:55:33.620 That language, they live like vermin. Do you believe that that is, as your Republican colleague
00:55:40.440 Chris Christie has said, neo-Nazi rhetoric?
00:55:42.960 This is a classic mainstream media move. Pick some individual phrase of Donald Trump.
00:55:51.540 Focus on literally that word without actually interrogating the substance of what's at issue.
00:55:56.680 The word?
00:55:57.180 If you are a black skin and you live in this country, then you can disagree with me. But
00:56:01.380 we're not. You mentioned that there are three different shades of melanin in here.
00:56:03.840 Don, I think we have to be able to talk about these issues in the open, regardless of the
00:56:06.680 color of our skin. Black Americans today to say that, compare that to 1865 and 1964.
00:56:11.400 I think to you to compare it to 1865 and 1964, you have equal rights to this country.
00:56:16.480 So good. All right. So what did you learn, Vivek? Because you were not a stranger to media
00:56:21.140 before you ran for president. You'd been out there, but not in this way. You know, contentious
00:56:25.240 exchange after contentious exchange. So what, how do you view the media now, having been through that
00:56:31.500 washing cycle?
00:56:33.360 Well, so I actually learned to draw a really important distinction, Megan, and you alluded
00:56:38.760 to it where sometimes you'll go to college campus and you'll have somebody who asks a
00:56:42.600 question from the audience or even not a college campus elsewhere who earnestly disagrees with
00:56:47.000 you, maybe even a protester at an event. I view that as largely in a different category
00:56:52.380 from the so-called disagreements you get from much of the mainstream media, because one of
00:56:56.680 those is earnest and the other of those is cynical. And so the way I think to deal with
00:57:01.840 earnest disagreement is to actually engage your opponent, to give them a chance to speak
00:57:07.520 as long as you get to be heard in return and actually try to change minds. At the very early
00:57:13.120 stages of the campaign, I wrongly approached my interactions with the media with that same
00:57:18.640 assumption of good faith. Probably one thing I would do differently over the course of this
00:57:22.980 campaign, if I were to do it again, is there's all these times you would spend having relationship
00:57:27.300 building or off the record conversations with the person on the other side, treating them
00:57:31.580 as though they're a human being. And many of them maybe individually are, but they're still
00:57:35.060 in organizations that then won't print the kind of reporting that they otherwise are beholden
00:57:39.300 to do. That was a mistake. And so I quickly learned that over the course of the campaign.
00:57:43.180 If you're dealing with a good faith actor who disagrees with you, the right answer is not
00:57:46.780 to shut them down, but to give them the space to actually speak even when they disagree.
00:57:50.400 By contrast, 99 out of a hundred times, when you're dealing with the mainstream press, especially
00:57:56.140 covering someone like a presidential candidate, you have to throw that assumption of a good
00:58:00.680 faith assumption out the door and understand that everything they do is designed to achieve
00:58:05.900 a cynical portrayal of either you or what you stand for, because that's their job. That's
00:58:10.020 their function. That's what their bosses and their organizations and their incentive structures
00:58:13.740 reward. And once you see it that way, you're able to actually smoke that out for the
00:58:18.860 public to see. And I think once the public sees it, that itself is a, I don't mean to
00:58:24.500 be self-important about this, about me or anybody else doing it. That itself is a form of public
00:58:28.240 service right now, revealing and holding the media accountable because the media is supposed
00:58:32.320 to hold the government accountable. When the media fails to do that, the real question
00:58:35.960 is who's holding the media accountable. And it comes back around, I think, to political
00:58:40.200 candidates who were able to see through that smoke screen and call it out. And I tried to do
00:58:44.360 the best job of that I could, especially in that latter half of the campaign.
00:58:47.940 Well, it was very interesting to watch because you went everywhere and did battle, as I say,
00:58:52.040 in the lion's den. DeSantis did something else. He said, we're not dealing with these people.
00:58:56.380 They're not honest brokers. I'm not even going to deal with them until his campaign was really
00:59:00.420 flailing. And then he said, okay, I'll go everywhere. I'll try it. And kind of went back to
00:59:04.600 the DeSantis we saw during COVID, where he was much more pugilistic. He would engage.
00:59:08.560 But it was too late. So we know that, to pugilistic, that would be a fair term for Donald
00:59:14.160 Trump. So what does he do with this media that you and I are describing from this point forward?
00:59:19.560 I mean, I've never seen a media so dedicated to defeating a candidate. I mean, notwithstanding
00:59:23.900 their own self-interest, they know their numbers are going to go up if he wins.
00:59:26.840 They are going to do their level best to ruin him over the next nine months. So what would you
00:59:32.040 advise him to do now? I'd say stay the course. Because at this point, especially in the media's
00:59:36.680 relationship with Donald Trump, the people of this country have seen through the act for what it is.
00:59:43.180 And so in some ways, the more that mainstream press, especially against the backdrop of these
00:59:47.660 politicized prosecutions, is unfairly depicting Trump, I think people have now been trained to
00:59:52.420 see through it. I don't think people are sheep, not forever, at least, Megan. And so in 2015,
00:59:56.880 that might have been one thing. I think today, I think most people understand, fool me once,
01:00:01.660 shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. And understand a lot of what they've been fed about the
01:00:06.240 Russia collusion hoax was a lie. The next lie they're fed, they're not going to be force-fed
01:00:10.880 that and swallowing quite as easily. They see through these prosecutions. I mean, look at the
01:00:15.280 likes of Alvin Bragg or Fannie Willis, or the likes of, you know, even just the other prosecutors who
01:00:20.300 are bringing these cases. These aren't the luminaries who we once thought they were presented to be.
01:00:25.060 Letitia James. I mean, think about just Fannie Willis, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg. You hear these
01:00:30.800 people actually speak and make their case or look at the history of what they've said, and then look at the
01:00:34.380 way they're bringing these cases against Trump. I think people are able to see for themselves and
01:00:38.560 draw their own conclusions what's behind this. And the same goes for the media's prosecution of
01:00:43.280 Trump as well. And so my advice would be, don't really fall for the bait of falling into the trap
01:00:50.120 of airing the grievance against the media, because I think people already have that native grievance for
01:00:55.220 themselves of having been duped once eight years ago by a press that lied to them. And again, even four
01:01:00.480 years ago that suppressed stories that they were told were false, Russian disinformation, like the
01:01:05.480 Hunter Biden laptop story, or the fact that COVID or the origin was actually in a lab in China,
01:01:10.560 people have been lied to enough that I think people have a good sixth sense now, much of our
01:01:14.900 electorate does, to see that if that media is actually going after Trump with that agenda driven
01:01:20.260 of an angle, in some ways it has a reactionary backlash that could cause many independents to
01:01:25.180 actually run to Trump rather than away from him. And so I think in that sense, at least,
01:01:29.420 he's going to be in a good spot. It's already happening. So how about you? You were very,
01:01:36.520 very busy over the past year and a half. I mean, you were running for president. You were everywhere.
01:01:41.800 You went to every event. You spoke so many different places. You were doing a podcast at the same time.
01:01:45.360 You still have your companies. You're a family man. I'm exhausted just thinking about it, Vivek.
01:01:49.920 Honestly, I can't. So now it's somewhat the calm after the storm. I know you're out there
01:01:56.080 stumping for Trump and talking to him and his team, but it's got to be instead of zero to 60,
01:02:02.080 60 to maybe 30. So how's that feeling for you? What does life look like now?
01:02:07.640 So I'm not natural in this new temporary habitat I've been in the last six weeks, but I have really
01:02:13.020 enjoyed a lot of time taken with the family, maybe making up, if I'm being honest with it,
01:02:17.140 for I think especially in the late part of last year, my kids are young and we don't get that time
01:02:22.320 forever. And so now I'm doubling down and really making sure that we're getting the extra time
01:02:28.360 that we might've missed in December and January. But I am enjoying that and relishing that for what
01:02:33.860 it is. Look, a lot is going to depend on what happens in the next 10 months. I'm intensely focused
01:02:38.380 on making sure Donald Trump is elected decisively as the next president. I'm doing whatever I can to
01:02:44.240 be helpful on that front. And I hope to be involved in whatever future that entails in the next
01:02:49.120 administration. But I think we can't take that for granted. I've also learned over the course of
01:02:54.320 my life, politics aside, Megan, that whenever I have made elaborate personal plans for myself,
01:03:00.240 and I've lived in phases of my life where I've done this, you know, okay, if thing X goes this way,
01:03:05.300 then I'm going to do that. If not, I'm going to do this. It never works out according to that plan.
01:03:09.800 Anyway, most of your plans are stupid, or at least most of mine have been stupid when it comes to
01:03:14.500 long-term life planning. And so, you know, I'm at my best where I'm called by a sense of purpose and
01:03:20.020 the same purpose that led me to run for president, which is my level of care and love of this country
01:03:25.280 and gratitude to this country, right? I'm not in a phase of my life where I need to accumulate more
01:03:29.840 things for myself. To the contrary, this country has allowed my wife and I both independently and
01:03:35.660 together to have lived an American dream that either of our parents would have never imagined when
01:03:40.720 they came to this country. That's what called me to run for president, to have the biggest possible
01:03:45.320 impact that I could by using the gifts that I've been given. The people of this country made a clear
01:03:50.360 decision that it's going to be Donald Trump leading the Republican Party to do that next.
01:03:54.640 But whatever I do next, I think is going to still be guided by that same purpose. And to tell you the
01:04:00.060 truth, whatever specific form it takes, I'm open to that. Inside government, be that after Trump's
01:04:05.780 reelected and be it outside government in the meantime, even this next year, there's a lot of impact to be had.
01:04:10.520 And so I started Strive a few years ago. I'm proud of everything that Strive has accomplished.
01:04:16.120 I have written a number of books. I enjoy writing. Maybe I'll write another one, even if it's not
01:04:20.560 published, even if it's just for me. Writing is something that helps me, I think, anchor what my
01:04:25.360 actual convictions are. And spending time with family, that's going to be plenty for a number of
01:04:30.860 months ahead. You know, in a way, it was a blessing not to win and certainly not to win the presidency at
01:04:36.940 this young age, because I look at somebody like Barack Obama or even Bill Clinton back in his day,
01:04:42.080 and I almost feel like it came too soon for them. I'm all for young presidents. Don't get me wrong.
01:04:46.460 I mean, we look at what's happening with Joe Biden now, but but what happens when it's over?
01:04:51.700 You know, Barack Obama is kind of kicking around out there. Like he did a podcast, which is fine.
01:04:56.140 Obviously, I have nothing against podcasts, but like he was the president of the United States for eight
01:05:00.160 years. He was the leader of the free world. Bill Clinton's got the Clinton initiative.
01:05:04.200 I just I think it's very hard to find that level of adrenaline flow and achievement and fulfillment
01:05:10.380 once you've had at a very young age. So I my own hope for you is that you continue with your
01:05:15.800 businesses and maybe you continue in government, you know, serving in a Trump administration,
01:05:19.060 what have you, and that you throw your hat back in the ring at a point where there's not so much
01:05:24.840 runway on the other side that everything else is a disappointment. It's an interesting perspective,
01:05:30.260 Megan. I've always lived my life in chapters where the chapters that I'm in are not necessarily
01:05:37.240 resembling the chapters that came before. And so, you know, I thought about that before running for
01:05:41.180 president. And I would have I would have been if I was elected this time after two terms, I would
01:05:44.880 have been, what, 48 when I left the White House. Our kids wouldn't our kids wouldn't even be in high
01:05:50.220 school yet. And so that's amazing. Are you going to the movies yet? I like I always forget just how
01:05:55.300 young you are. No rated R movies. No, we're we're four years old. My my older son just turned four.
01:06:02.520 We took him to the Daytona 500 as his gift. And so he he was thrilled about that. My younger son is
01:06:08.160 about a year and a half. And so that's it. Are you 39? I keep forgetting exactly. I'll be I'll be 39 in
01:06:14.740 August. Yeah, it's a baby. Such a baby. You have so much you can do. It's insane to me that you've
01:06:21.140 done as much as you've done at 39 that you're the kind of person that makes my assistant Abigail
01:06:25.760 fine and depressed. Right. I'll tell you, you know, you look, look to Thomas Jefferson or look to
01:06:31.760 Alexander Hamilton. He was Alexander Hamilton was 21 or 22 when he was one of our founding fathers.
01:06:37.160 Thomas Jefferson was 33 when he wrote the declaration. Well, one thing is people are living
01:06:41.160 longer. What happened to that? Let's let's start with that. Life expectancy has gone up. Although
01:06:44.940 Jefferson lived, I think, well into his early 80s. I think part of what's happened is we have this
01:06:51.060 culture that tells you you're not allowed to do certain things because you're in certain lanes
01:06:55.840 at certain times. And think about Benjamin Franklin, right? The guy invented the Franklin stove.
01:07:00.240 He invented the lightning rod. It was actually a major discovery at the time. The Franklin stove was
01:07:04.760 a big breakthrough in the field of thermodynamics. He invented the bifocal spectacle.
01:07:08.740 Absolutely. Dabbled in a remedy for the common cold. And he was a co-signer of the Declaration
01:07:14.940 of Independence. I think if you look at Thomas Jefferson, the same thing, the polygraph,
01:07:18.740 the swivel chair. There's a number of inventions that are credited to Thomas Jefferson. Nearly
01:07:23.440 bankrupted himself, by the way, spending even on the library, public libraries in the United States
01:07:29.080 to the wine cellar in the White House. Today, you have public officials trying to enrich themselves
01:07:33.300 privately. Here, this guy was using his limited private fortune, almost bankrupted himself
01:07:37.780 several times over through his public service for the country, the Lewis and Clark.
01:07:42.380 And don't forget Betsy Ross.
01:07:43.180 Sending people out West.
01:07:44.300 Betsy Ross, right? Of course, your son won't forget Betsy Ross today, right?
01:07:47.700 And so I think we're in a moment where we can bring back that founding spirit, especially for
01:07:52.860 young people to tell them, your son included, and the people in that play with them, that you can
01:07:57.220 achieve anything you want in this country. You don't have to be some expert that has a degree in
01:08:02.560 whatever you're doing at a given time. You don't even have to define yourself based on what you do.
01:08:08.320 You can actually define what you do based on who you actually are. And that might be something
01:08:13.020 different at different phases of your life. Be it an entrepreneur, a U.S. president, a parent,
01:08:17.480 or a grandparent, you can have different phases of your life where you do different ones of those
01:08:21.760 things. And so I was never worried about what came after the post-presidency, personally. But
01:08:26.840 suffice to say, I take your well wishes in a good sense. And I'm not going in. Yeah, silver lining.
01:08:31.920 Is what I'll tell you. Yeah. Good. Well, and by that, what we really mean to say is you're going
01:08:36.620 everywhere. And we look forward to watching it and covering it. Vivek, all the best to you.
01:08:41.300 Good seeing you. Thanks, Maggie. Likewise. Well, so great to talk to him, right? So I actually kind
01:08:47.240 of love it when they get off the campaign trail and they go back to like normal human. That's not a
01:08:51.480 politician where we can just have normal conversations. You know, everything changes when people run for
01:08:54.740 president. And as a journalist, you have to, you have to treat him differently, but it's great to
01:08:58.260 have him back on because we started friends. Wonderful to see him. Thanks for listening to
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