The Megyn Kelly Show - Trump vs. Zelensky Oval Office Fight Fallout, Musk Reveals All, Cuomo for Mayor？： AM Update for 3⧸3

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Monday, March 3rd, 2025, and this is your AM

00:00:08.200 Update. I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate

00:00:12.140 this in front of the American media. The fallout from a shocking Oval Office meeting between

00:00:16.640 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump, which torpedoed the financial

00:00:21.700 agreement set to be signed Friday. What part did the Democrats play in swaying Mr. Zelensky,

00:00:27.200 and will European leaders be able to salvage the deal? It may be like a special computer that

00:00:33.360 only a handful of people can access. But then if none of those people tell Cash where the computer

00:00:39.040 is, how's he going to find it? Elon Musk pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the

00:00:43.840 Trump administration in a lengthy conversation on Joe Rogan's podcast. And disgraced former

00:00:49.800 Governor Andrew Cuomo makes it official. He's running for New York City mayor. All that and

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00:02:19.720 first. European leaders scrambled to repair the Ukrainian peace deal in the wake of a disastrous

00:02:28.580 Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky. Friday's 49-minute meeting began

00:02:34.980 on a positive note. Mr. Trump praising the Ukrainians for surviving against the Russians,

00:02:40.120 despite all odds. Your soldiers have been unbelievably brave. We've given them great

00:02:45.140 equipment, but somebody has to use the equipment. They've been unbelievably brave. This was supposed

00:02:50.560 to be over very quickly, and here we are three years later. So I give tremendous credit to your

00:02:58.320 generals and your soldiers and yourself. Mr. Zelensky then taking the opportunity to plead his case

00:03:04.500 in front of the American press. Can President Trump, I hope yes, with some other allies, to stop

00:03:11.880 Putin, withdraw these enemies, our enemies, withdraw these troops from our land? We will never

00:03:18.360 accept just ceasefire. It will not work without security guarantees. Security guarantees,

00:03:25.100 maybe the president is right about this document and other, but this document is not enough.

00:03:30.520 Mr. Trump repeatedly attempted to bring the focus of the conversation back to peace talks.

00:03:35.700 Vice President J.D. Vance chiming in with a point about diplomacy, how the U.S. is changing course from

00:03:41.280 isolating the Russians to engaging with them. The meeting seemed to hit a significant turning point 0.78

00:03:46.900 when Mr. Zelensky, who had been sighing and shaking his head repeatedly, addressed the vice president with

00:03:52.900 this. What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about? What do you mean? I'm talking about the kind

00:04:00.220 of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Mr. President, with respect, I think

00:04:05.640 it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the

00:04:09.080 American media. All bets were off. Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance fired back at the Ukrainian leader,

00:04:14.880 informing him of the stark reality of his position. Mr. Trump saying, you don't have any cards and

00:04:20.920 you're gambling with World War III. Shortly after the cameras exited the room, the Ukrainian 1.00

00:04:26.060 delegation exited the building with a message from Team Trump. Come back when you're ready for

00:04:31.180 peace. Democrats roundly criticizing President Trump for the outcome. The Sunday shows full of

00:04:36.920 Dems laying blame for the collapse of the deal on President Trump. The only winner in that exchange

00:04:43.780 is Putin. Millions of Americans are embarrassed or ashamed that you have a president of the United

00:04:50.420 States who says that Ukraine started the war. It is absolutely shameful what is happening right

00:04:56.680 now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. And the entire pretext for that meeting

00:05:03.300 yesterday was an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine.

00:05:12.060 That last voice was Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat. And here's some crucial context.

00:05:17.860 Prior to President Zelensky's meeting at the White House, he met with a bipartisan group of senators,

00:05:24.140 including Mr. Murphy. The New York Post reporting Democratic senators advised Mr. Zelensky

00:05:29.280 not to take the deal. Posting on X, Senator Murphy writing, quote,

00:05:33.920 just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian

00:05:38.820 people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no

00:05:44.380 security arrangements for Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio joining ABC this week,

00:05:50.360 countering Democrat criticism, saying talks of security guarantees with the Russians are premature.

00:05:56.800 Ultimately, like any truce, like any peace agreement anywhere in the world, those things will have to be

00:06:01.320 enforced. They'll have to be enduring. They'll have to be safeguards put in place. Everybody understands

00:06:05.560 that. But it begins with the first step, and that is engaging them to see if it's even possible.

00:06:10.240 Right now, there is no negotiation. Shouldn't we at least try to see if there is a way to end this

00:06:15.220 war in a way that's acceptable to both sides and is enduring and sustainable?

00:06:19.420 Journalist Mark Halperin teaming up with the pollster WIC, asking a group of 1,000 Americans who

00:06:24.820 watched the exchange if they side more with the Trump administration's approach to diplomacy or

00:06:30.100 Mr. Zelensky's. 49 percent say the Trump team has it right, just 37 percent siding with Mr.

00:06:36.400 Zelensky. Immediately following the meeting, international leaders taking to social media

00:06:40.820 in support of the Ukrainian president. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau writing on X,

00:06:46.880 Canada will continue to stand with Ukraine. The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kalyas, writing on X,

00:06:53.300 Ukraine is Europe. We stand by Ukraine. Behind the scenes, European leaders work to convince Mr.

00:06:59.180 Zelensky to return to the table and sign the economic agreement. The United Kingdom's ambassador to the

00:07:05.860 U.S., Lord Peter Mandelson, appearing on ABC this week. We need a very radical reset and the reset has

00:07:14.340 to consist of the United States and Ukraine getting back on the same page and President Zelensky giving

00:07:23.500 his unequivocal backing to the initiative that President Trump is taking to end the war and to

00:07:30.760 bring a just and lasting peace to Ukraine. President Zelensky arrived in the U.K. on Saturday,

00:07:38.500 convening with European and Canadian leaders on next steps for his country. Mr. Zelensky writing on

00:07:44.320 Telegram, quote, we are all working together in Europe in order to find a basis for cooperation

00:07:49.440 with America for a true peace and guaranteed security. The U.K. and France attempting to repair

00:07:55.480 the damage by preparing a peace deal to present to the United States. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer

00:08:01.820 announcing plans for European security guarantees yesterday. We will go further to develop a

00:08:07.460 coalition of the willing to defend a deal in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace. The U.K. is prepared to

00:08:16.240 back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Together with others, Europe must do the heavy

00:08:24.340 listing. But to support peace in our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong U.S.

00:08:33.060 backing. It is unclear yet if President Zelensky can be swayed to accept European security guarantees

00:08:39.260 without U.S. security guarantees as well, which Mr. Trump has maintained will be in the form of

00:08:45.800 economic investment only. And now even that's unclear. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told CBS Mr.

00:08:52.680 Zelensky's actions in the Oval threw off the intended sequence of events. First, the economic deal with

00:08:58.840 Ukraine, then a peace deal with Russia. Is the deal still on the table or has President Trump

00:09:03.980 instructed you to drop the project? Margaret, it is impossible to have an economic deal without a

00:09:10.900 peace deal. The sine qua non for an economic deal is that Ukrainian leadership wants a peace deal.

00:09:18.980 Sin qua non, Latin for the essential component. The Trump administration is not convinced at the

00:09:25.240 moment that Mr. Zelensky actually wants peace. And without that, they cannot do business. Mr.

00:09:30.280 Besant telling CBS at the moment there is no economic deal on the table. Mr. Zelensky told the BBC now he

00:09:37.680 would like to do the minerals deal. But Mr. Trump has not agreed to put it back on the table after what

00:09:42.180 happened on Friday. Coming up, Elon Musk pulls back the curtain on Doge findings and disgraced New

00:09:51.440 York Governor Andrew Cuomo makes his New York City mayoral campaign official.

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00:11:09.240 Elon Musk joining Joe Rogan over the weekend for a three-hour conversation, diving into Mr. Musk's

00:11:14.480 work at the White House. The official Doge website touts $65 billion in savings via canceled contracts,

00:11:20.960 fraud detection, regulatory savings, and more. Recently, the Trump administration announced the

00:11:26.680 cancellation of 90% of USAID's contracts. These contracts are typically with NGOs, non-governmental

00:11:33.620 organizations that receive the money in the form of grants. President Trump recently highlighting what

00:11:39.280 some of these organizations were up to. $19 million for biodiversity conservation in Nepal. $1.5

00:11:47.600 million for voter confidence. We want to give them confidence in Liberia. $14 million for social

00:11:55.380 cohesion in Mali. $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in South Africa.

00:12:02.300 Elon Musk calls the system a scam, quote, maybe the biggest scam ever.

00:12:06.500 Small decisions result in multi-billion dollar outcomes. So we saw one person was getting $1.9

00:12:13.700 billion sent to their NGO, which basically got formed about a year ago and had no prior,

00:12:19.180 really no prior activity. Basically, the government-funded NGOs are a way to do things

00:12:26.400 that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so-called

00:12:33.800 non-profit. The Trump administration's cuts to USAID total about $60 billion. Elon Musk providing

00:12:40.420 clarity to doge discoveries on social security fraud. We found just with a basic search of the

00:12:47.300 social security database that there were 20 million dead people marked as alive. What it looks like is

00:12:54.820 that most of the fraud is not coming from social security payments directly, but because they're

00:13:00.140 marked as alive in the social security database that they can then get disability, unemployment,

00:13:05.400 sort of fake medical payments and other things. Mr. Musk describes the government payment systems as

00:13:11.980 a whole series of big, dumb machines, saying the system is ripe for exploiting because across the

00:13:17.880 government, these systems don't talk to each other, making fraud easy. It's mostly not corruption. 0.97

00:13:23.220 It's mostly just waste and, and, uh, I don't know, uh, incompetence. By the way, a bunch of the

00:13:31.560 things that, that Doge is, is fixing were identified by the government accountability office many years

00:13:40.060 ago. So we're like doing tech support, we're like fixing stuff that is, you know, just broken.

00:13:45.360 The GAO or Government Accountability Office estimates the feds lose between 233 billion and 521 billion

00:13:54.380 annually to fraud. Elon Musk, a U.S. citizen since 2002 and longtime Democrat supporter,

00:14:03.820 explaining how the Democrat policy of open borders pushed him into the Trump camp.

00:14:08.600 They're importing voters. And, uh, and it's really just a matter of time. It is an attempt to destroy 0.98

00:14:16.340 democracy in America. If you take the, the, the sort of seven swing states, like often the margin of

00:14:22.920 victory there is like maybe 20,000 votes. If you put 200,000, um, illegals in there and they have 0.97

00:14:31.020 like a 80% likelihood of voting down. Uh, and it's only a matter of time before they become citizens.

00:14:37.680 Then those swing states will not be swing states in the future. And if they are not swing states,

00:14:43.520 we'll be a permanent one-party state country. Permanent, uh, deep blue socialist state.

00:14:51.960 Elon Musk weighing in on the Epstein files flop late last week. Originally, Attorney General Pam

00:14:57.080 Bondi promised to release all of the Epstein files, ultimately though, only posting documents that were

00:15:02.540 largely previously known to the public. Mr. Musk defending the disappointing drop saying AG Bondi

00:15:08.480 and Kash Patel of the FBI just arrived in office and are captains to a ship with a crew that hates

00:15:14.920 them. AG Bondi revealed last week, a whistleblower report indicating thousands of pages of Epstein files

00:15:21.320 may be hidden in a New York field office. Mr. Musk describing why retrieving the files may not be so

00:15:27.740 cut and dry. They're not going to enable it such that anyone at the FBI could access it. So there's

00:15:33.480 probably very few people. So there's not going to be, it's, it may be like a special computer that

00:15:38.680 only a handful of people can access. But then if none of those people tell Kash where the computer

00:15:45.000 is, how's he going to find it? AG Bondi set the deadline to return all of the files at 8am this past

00:15:51.420 Friday. There has been no indication any of the documents were actually received by her office.

00:15:58.080 Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces he is running for New York City mayor

00:16:03.340 in a 17 and a half minute video. We know that the first step towards solving a problem

00:16:09.800 is having the strength, having the courage to recognize it. And we know that today our New York

00:16:17.860 City is in trouble. The former governor describing a relatively moderate platform, increasing cops,

00:16:24.560 getting mentally ill homeless people off the streets, and not-tolerant pro-Hamas protests

00:16:29.360 that harass and intimidate the Jewish community. Of course, when he was in office, he governed as a 1.00

00:16:35.360 leftist, banning fracking, stopping nuclear power, and going soft on crime. Mr. Cuomo also acknowledging

00:16:41.900 his past scandals. Did I always do everything right in my years of government service,

00:16:47.600 of course not. Would I do some things differently, knowing what I know now? Certainly. Did I make

00:16:55.060 mistakes, some painfully? Definitely. And I believe I learned from them, and that I am a better person

00:17:03.220 for it. Mr. Cuomo resigned from the governorship in August 2021 following a report from New York

00:17:08.720 Attorney General Letitia James stating Mr. Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women and created a hostile

00:17:14.400 work environment as governor. A.G. James writing, quote,

00:17:17.860 The executive chamber's culture, one filled with fear and intimidation, while at the same time

00:17:23.100 normalizing the governor's frequent flirtations and gender-based comments, contributed to the 0.73

00:17:28.280 conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist. Democrat establishment quickly

00:17:33.540 revoked support from Mr. Cuomo. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the time called for him to step down,

00:17:38.220 as well as New York Senator Chuck Schumer. As he fell from power, Mr. Cuomo blamed his Italian heritage

00:17:43.980 and claimed he didn't realize the extent to which the line, as in the line for what kind of conduct

00:17:49.280 is appropriate at work, had been redrawn over time. Early on in the pandemic, Mr. Cuomo was lauded by

00:17:56.060 the media for his handling of the COVID crisis, even winning an Emmy for his daily briefings. That Emmy

00:18:02.020 was ultimately stripped amid his sexual harassment allegations, his approval rating so high, many

00:18:07.860 wondered if he would eventually run for president. Ultimately, that approval also collapsed. Mr. Cuomo's

00:18:14.080 biggest scandal was his March 2020 order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients, which he was

00:18:21.160 warned would cost lives. It created a political firestorm when it was discovered that his office then

00:18:27.200 underreported nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent. More than 8,000 nursing home patients

00:18:33.940 in New York died of COVID. The mayoral primary is in June. Mr. Cuomo will be running against current

00:18:40.500 mayor Eric Adams and several other lower profile candidates. And that'll do it for your AM update.

00:18:48.600 I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here today for The Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusX at Triumph Channel 111

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The Megyn Kelly Show - March 03, 2025

Trump vs. Zelensky Oval Office Fight Fallout, Musk Reveals All, Cuomo for Mayor？： AM Update for 3⧸3

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