The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump's Major Deal with Pfizer, GOP vs Dems on Crime, YouTube Settles with Trump： AM Update 10⧸1

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. This is your AM

00:00:08.840 Update. For many years, Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for

00:00:14.120 prescription drugs. It's being changed as of today. President Trump announces a new deal

00:00:19.920 with a surprising partner, Pfizer, in an attempt to lower prescription drug prices,

00:00:25.140 though not everyone is ready to make nice with the controversial COVID-vax manufacturer.

00:00:30.980 You say don't fund the police, but do fund programs that create safe spaces for two-spirit people.

00:00:36.640 Republicans and Democrats clash in a lively hearing on fighting crime. And YouTube agrees

00:00:42.600 to a pricey settlement with President Trump over his 2021 suspension. All that and more

00:00:47.780 coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:02.680 President Trump on Tuesday announcing two new developments in the drive to lower prescription

00:02:07.660 drug prices for Americans, a new direct-to-consumer website for discounted medicines, and a multi-pronged

00:02:15.100 deal with Pfizer, slashing prices on most of its products. More on the sudden coziness with the

00:02:21.440 much-criticized Pfizer in just a moment, but first, the details of the announcement.

00:02:26.880 The new website, TrumpRx, set to launch in early 2026. It will allow consumers to pay cash for

00:02:33.740 prescription drugs from the government website. Pfizer agreeing to sell some of its products

00:02:38.420 on-site at the discounted rates, including an arthritis drug at a 40% cut, a migraine medication

00:02:44.800 for 50% less, and an osteoporosis drug reduced by 85%. In terms of the broader Pfizer deal,

00:02:52.420 most of its products will be offered to Medicaid at most favored nation prices, meaning Americans pay

00:02:58.300 no more than the lowest price paid by other developed countries. And the company will invest

00:03:03.640 $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing and research. Pfizer is the first drug company to agree to all

00:03:10.320 of the demands set out by the Trump administration in a July letter aimed at lowering prices. At the

00:03:15.740 time, many analysts said it was unlikely to happen. Mr. Trump from The Oval. For many years,

00:03:21.820 Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription drugs. A major reason 1.00

00:03:27.760 is that the American consumers have been subsidizing research and development costs for the entire

00:03:32.420 planet. They put all of that on us, and yet they were the beneficiaries. So it's being changed as

00:03:38.020 of today. The United States had just 4% of the world's population and consumers. Only 13% of all

00:03:45.720 prescription drugs, yet pharmaceutical companies make 75% of their profits from the United States.

00:03:52.100 Now, Pfizer describes the deal as a voluntary agreement to help American consumers. But it raises

00:03:58.220 an obvious question. Why would a drug giant suddenly slash prices in its most profitable market?

00:04:04.780 Well, Pfizer has secured a three-year grace period from President Trump's tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

00:04:11.420 Starting today, the U.S. is imposing a 100% tariff on branded and patented pharma products unless the drug

00:04:18.660 company is currently building a manufacturing plant within the United States. President Trump saying deals

00:04:24.600 with other drug companies are in the works, specifically mentioning Eli Lilly, one of the

00:04:29.640 largest drug companies in the world. Pfizer's willingness to be the first to step forward is

00:04:34.960 of note given the negative reputation the company has among many conservatives, including some top-ranking

00:04:41.300 White House officials surrounding its lack of transparency on the potential harmful side effects of its COVID

00:04:47.040 vaccine. For years, Pfizer has been hammered for how it marketed its COVID shot, downplaying serious side

00:04:53.740 effects like myocarditis, especially among young males, and failing to be up front with the public as

00:04:59.820 the risks later emerged. White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro on the

00:05:06.080 Patrick Bet David podcast in 2023 saying the dishonesty surrounding COVID from Pfizer hampered the early

00:05:13.380 pandemic response.

00:05:14.540 If he had simply owned up to the fact that that thing came from the lab, we could have pressured the Chinese to give us 1.00

00:05:24.280 the genome sequence, which would have allowed us to design an effective vaccine rather than the crap we wound up 0.98

00:05:33.780 getting. And again, Trump got lied to about that, not just by Fauci, but by Pfizer, the drug company. 0.93

00:05:40.680 In what way?

00:05:41.760 They didn't disclose the side effects of that. And they weren't clear with him. They made him

00:05:47.000 think that it was a true vaccine when it's not. It's mRNA technology.

00:05:53.700 President Trump on Monday praising Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, saying he did a, quote,

00:05:59.180 fantastic job with COVID and a lot of things. Outkick writer Ian Miller posting to X, quote,

00:06:05.560 Albert Bourla once posted that Pfizer's vaccine was 100% effective in stopping COVID transmission,

00:06:12.820 which was demonstrably false and helped pave the way for vaccine passports and mandates.

00:06:18.520 I do not think he did a fantastic job. Founder of Americans for Health Freedom, Dr. Mary Talley

00:06:24.740 Bowden posting to X, quote, what an effing slap in the face to all of the people injured and killed by

00:06:31.480 Pfizer, really heartless and disrespectful. Hundreds of smaller accounts posting similar reactions.

00:06:38.720 Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a leading expert in vaccine safety and co-author of the Great Barrington

00:06:44.520 Declaration, along with now NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, is now chair of the Advisory Committee

00:06:51.760 on Immunization Practices. He says the lack of transparency by Pfizer continues to this day.

00:06:58.040 Dr. Kulldorff posting Monday on X, quote, in a randomized trial of their COVID vaccine,

00:07:04.300 Pfizer found birth defects in eight babies to 156 vaccinated pregnant mothers and in two babies

00:07:12.320 to 159 unvaccinated mothers. When asked at the advisory committee meeting, Pfizer did not explain.

00:07:20.520 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday not offering direct praise of Pfizer, but championing

00:07:26.680 President Trump's work to lower drug costs, something Democrats have been arguing in favor of

00:07:31.780 for years. However, here is how the secretary described Pfizer and other vaccine companies

00:07:37.500 in a 2020 episode of Mike Tyson's Hot Boxing podcast.

00:07:42.860 The thing that people have to understand is that the four companies that make all 72 of those vaccines,

00:07:50.480 which is Pfizer, Plaxom, Merck, and Sanofi, all of those companies are convicted felons.

00:07:58.200 And not only that, they're serial felons. Their business model is committing felonies. These companies

00:08:04.440 in the last 10 years collectively have paid $35 billion in penalties, damages, fines for falsifying science,

00:08:15.460 defrauding regulators, lying to doctors, and for killing hundreds of thousands of people.

00:08:21.160 It requires kind of a cognitive dissonance to believe that these companies that are lying and

00:08:27.320 cheating on every other pharmaceutical product, every other medical device that they create,

00:08:33.360 are somehow found Jesus with vaccines and aren't lying to us.

00:08:37.300 Coming up, Republican and Democratic differences on crime-fighting strategies come to a head

00:08:43.740 in a Senate Judiciary Committee. And YouTube becomes yet another big tech company to agree

00:08:48.680 to a settlement with President Trump over its decision in 2021 to suspend his account.

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00:10:01.260 GOP and Dem senators sparring yesterday at a Judiciary Committee hearing titled, quote,

00:10:06.700 Blue City Chaos and Tragedy, How the Trump Administration is Addressing the Human Cost of

00:10:11.820 Soft on Crime Policies. The hearing comes as President Trump surges federal agents across the

00:10:17.220 most crime-plagued U.S. cities and has spent weeks politely suggesting Democrat governors like

00:10:23.660 J.B. Pritzker of Illinois request National Guard assistance in their states. The GOP pointing to the

00:10:30.140 success of President Trump's D.C. crime crackdown as a model to rapidly clean up city streets.

00:10:36.120 In a matter of weeks, the D.C. murder rate reduced by 53%, robberies dropping 57%, carjacking falling

00:10:43.400 by 75%. That's according to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats often arguing that red states

00:10:50.200 actually suffer from the most violent crime, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican,

00:10:55.920 putting those statistics into context. Democrats missed a key data point when they assert that the

00:11:02.420 most violent cities are in red states. Almost all of those cities are run by Democrat mayors.

00:11:09.120 Axio reports that of the 20 cities with more than 100,000 residents and the highest murder rate,

00:11:17.520 19 have a Democrat mayor. President Trump is willing to work with these mayors,

00:11:23.460 but they keep turning down the offer for help despite the fact that President Trump's efforts

00:11:28.680 are working in places like D.C. and Memphis. Democrat Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker,

00:11:35.120 in his typical dramatic fashion, accusing Republicans of deepening political divides

00:11:40.400 for pointing out that Democrat cities often experience much higher crime rates.

00:11:45.520 Dear God, we continue in this nation to deepen partisan divide and to undermine the truth that

00:11:52.480 we share common cause, common purpose, and even common sense. And now I'm sitting in a hearing

00:11:59.060 that somehow wants to pit red against blue as if they're not Republicans and Democrats that live

00:12:04.940 in every county and every state. And all of us want the same thing, which is lower crime in our

00:12:10.120 communities. This committee right now is having a hearing that is not about finding common ground

00:12:15.820 and working to find solutions, but driving a false divide based upon a false pretext that somehow

00:12:22.500 places that vote for one party over another are more dangerous. And that's just not true.

00:12:28.960 Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois attempting to score points against the Trump

00:12:32.920 administration's pardon of January 6th rioters with D.C. police union head Greg Pemberton.

00:12:39.620 Here's how that went.

00:12:40.380 So what was your reaction when President Donald Trump gave a full and unconditional pardon

00:12:47.100 to 1,500 individuals who had been prosecuted for violence against police officers?

00:12:53.640 Well, it's frustrating to see that. But what I point to is since that day, since January 7th,

00:12:59.600 2021 through today, we've had 1,537 officers injured where someone has assaulted a police officer.

00:13:06.560 And 95% of those cases have been no papered by the U.S. Attorney's Office. So yes, it's frustrating

00:13:13.000 to have officers who are assaulted. But the vast majority of those people that assaulted officers

00:13:16.740 that day were arrested and charged and many of them convicted.

00:13:19.760 And should they be full and unconditionally pardoned?

00:13:23.300 My frustration, Senator, is that no one seems to care about police officers who were assaulted

00:13:27.000 after that day or before that day. It seems like people only care about police officers who were

00:13:31.900 assaulted on that day in the calendar. Police officers are assaulted all the time.

00:13:35.580 No one seems to care about it. And that's our frustration.

00:13:38.940 Senator Josh Hawley, Republican from Missouri, challenging former Biden Deputy Director of Gun Violence

00:13:44.740 Prevention, Gregory Jackson Jr., about a report he authored for the Community Justice Action Fund

00:13:51.500 on defunding the police.

00:13:53.760 This is so typical of what the Democrats do now after your policies have transparently failed and

00:13:59.120 led to the deaths of millions of Americans. Now you say you've never heard of defunding the police.

00:14:03.300 Your own report recommends it on page after page after page.

00:14:08.140 Instead of funding the police, here's what we ought to invest in. We need to invest in programs that

00:14:14.460 acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit,

00:14:21.760 trans, and gender non-conforming people. What's two-spirit?

00:14:25.560 Well, look, I don't know exactly. You guys are pulling some interesting quotes here.

00:14:29.240 This is from your report.

00:14:30.480 What is two-spirit? You say, don't fund the police, but do fund programs that create safe

00:14:35.560 spaces for two-spirit people. What is, what is, I just want to know. I don't know what that is.

00:14:39.540 I have no idea what that is.

00:14:40.700 Well, I, I, honestly, I'm not, uh, completely aware of the language or the spirit of how that

00:14:45.820 was written.

00:14:48.760 YouTube agreeing on Monday to settle President Trump's 2021 lawsuit over his account's

00:14:53.900 suspension for a cool 24.5 mil. Trump alleging in his lawsuit that YouTube,

00:15:00.120 which is a private company, violated the First Amendment, which doesn't apply to private

00:15:04.980 companies, when it prevented him from posting new videos on the platform in the aftermath of

00:15:09.880 the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. The streaming platform, now the third big tech company to settle

00:15:16.920 with the president since the beginning of his second administration. In total, Mr. Trump racking up

00:15:22.060 nearly 60 million bucks from Meta, X, and now YouTube. The lawsuits each filed after President

00:15:28.500 Trump left the White House in 2021. The Wall Street Journal reporting 22 million of this settlement

00:15:34.300 will go to the trust for the National Mall to build the new White House ballroom, which is expected to

00:15:40.840 cost 200 million. YouTube originally justifying the ban, saying Mr. Trump's account violated

00:15:46.780 policies against inciting violence in the aftermath of the January 6th rioting. YouTube reinstating the

00:15:53.740 channel in March of 2023. The platform releasing a statement at the time, quote,

00:15:58.320 we carefully evaluated the continued risk of real world violence while balancing the chance for voters

00:16:04.380 to hear equally from major national candidates in the run-up to an election. The settlement coming

00:16:09.800 after a federal judge in April ruled that YouTube's parent company, Google, had illegally monopolized

00:16:16.340 online advertising technology. Mr. Trump's DOJ is now seeking to force Google to sell off part of its

00:16:24.120 online advertising business. President Trump celebrating news of the settlement, sharing a

00:16:28.880 meme on social media depicting a sheepish-looking tech executive handing over a large check for 24.5

00:16:35.860 million on the White House lawn. And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megyn Kelly. Join me back

00:16:42.840 here for The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east,

00:16:47.180 on youtube.com slash Megyn Kelly, and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - October 01, 2025

Trump's Major Deal with Pfizer, GOP vs Dems on Crime, YouTube Settles with Trump： AM Update 10⧸1

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