The Megyn Kelly Show - Truth About Elon's WH Exit, Trump Unveils Tariff Plans, Bombshell Biden Reporting： AM Update 4⧸3

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

00:00:08.240 AM Update. I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit

00:00:13.180 by a trillion dollars within that time frame. A new Politico report claims Elon Musk is

00:00:18.220 stepping back from his doge roll. But is it really news or just repackaged public info?

00:00:24.540 We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us.

00:00:30.440 President Trump unveils his terror strategy, ex-Biden officials revealing dramatic behind-the-scenes

00:00:36.100 details from the final days of the former president's campaign, and RFKJ's top advisor

00:00:41.720 faces a crowd of angry lobbyists, and how, defending his boss's vision for making America healthy again.

00:00:49.940 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:06.420 Elon Musk-obsessed media playing up a supposed scoop yesterday afternoon. Politico fueling speculation

00:02:13.220 about Musk's role in the Trump administration, despite his long-scheduled exit, publishing a

00:02:18.720 headline reading, Trump tells inner circle that Musk will leave soon. The article describing Mr.

00:02:24.340 Musk stepping back as a recent decision, press secretary Caroline Levitt responding to the 0.99

00:02:29.340 claims on X, writing, quote, this scoop is garbage. Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly

00:02:35.000 stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible

00:02:40.340 work at Doge is complete. Elon Musk responding to the post, quote, yeah, fake news. The article

00:02:47.120 coming on the heels of a high-profile election loss in Wisconsin for the Republicans, Mr. Musk and

00:02:53.040 his affiliated groups reportedly contributing more than $20 million in an attempt to flip the state

00:02:58.540 Supreme Court there, conservative, ultimately losing by 10 points. On Wednesday, media reveling in the

00:03:05.720 loss and blaming Elon. What a massive loss it was for Elon Musk. Wisconsin clearly said we are not

00:03:13.720 for sale. If you are a Republican candidate running in a swing state, you don't want Elon Musk anywhere

00:03:19.080 near you. Yes, maybe you like the money, but you do not want his presence in your state. You know what

00:03:24.440 Donald Trump likes? Winners. And you know what Elon Musk was on Tuesday night? A loser. Political describing

00:03:29.940 Mr. Musk's plans to go as a recent decision by President Trump. However, Mr. Musk's status as a

00:03:36.520 special government employee has a 130-day term limit. Reporting that indicates Mr. Musk will be

00:03:42.700 stepping back in the next few weeks supports the timeline of that 130 days, which would expire on

00:03:49.200 May 30th. Last Thursday, Fox News asking Elon about this very thing. You technically are a special

00:03:56.140 government employee, and you're supposed to be 130 days. Are you going to continue past that, or do

00:04:03.300 you think that's what you're going to do? Well, I think we will have accomplished most of the work

00:04:08.920 required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame. So in that time frame,

00:04:14.140 130 days. And the process is a report at some point, at 100 days? Not really a report. We are cutting

00:04:21.480 waste and fraud in real time. So every day that passes. Our goal is to reduce the waste and fraud

00:04:27.560 by $4 billion a day, every day, seven days a week. And so far, we are succeeding. The Doge website says

00:04:33.440 it has cut $140 billion in contracts and grants so far. Earlier this week, President Trump offering

00:04:39.620 public support for Mr. Musk. Elon Musk's special government tenure is coming to an end, 130 days,

00:04:46.340 I think, another month. Do you want him to stay longer, or is it time for him to go back to running

00:04:51.700 his companies in Europe? Well, I think he's amazing, but I also think he's got a big company to run. And so

00:04:56.620 at some point, he's going to be going back. He wants to. But, oh, I'd keep him as long as I could keep him.

00:05:03.060 He's a very talented guy. The Doge Commission is set to conclude operations on July 4th of 2026,

00:05:09.700 even after Mr. Musk's special government employee status ends. Political reporting,

00:05:15.460 a senior administration official says Mr. Musk is likely to retain an informal role,

00:05:20.840 continuing to be an occasional face around the White House grounds.

00:05:28.060 President Trump on Wednesday unveiling his global tariff policy in a Rose Garden speech billed as both

00:05:33.860 Liberation Day and Make America Wealthy Again. After weeks of teasing reciprocal tariffs,

00:05:40.060 the president announcing a scaled back plan. We will charge them approximately half of what they

00:05:45.980 are and have been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. It's our turn to prosper.

00:05:55.320 And in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our

00:06:01.700 national debt. And it'll all happen very quickly. The U.S. will impose a baseline of 10 percent

00:06:08.340 tariffs on all imports, with no exceptions. The worst offenders, identified by the President's

00:06:14.080 Council of Economic Advisors, slap with a rate equivalent to half of what they charge the U.S.

00:06:20.080 China, for example, now facing an additional 34 percent tariff in return for the 67 percent duty

00:06:26.320 it imposes on American goods. This brings the total Chinese tariff rate to 54 percent.

00:06:32.300 President Trump also imposing a 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made automobiles,

00:06:37.320 a decision applauded by the United Auto Workers Union. Mr. Trump sharing the podium with UAW member

00:06:43.740 Brian Pannebecker. I have watched my entire life. I have watched plant after plant after plant in

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00:07:03.720 those underutilized plants. There's going to be new investment. There's going to be new plants

00:07:08.400 built. And the UAW members, and I brought 20 of them with me, they're sitting right over here.

00:07:15.100 We support Donald Trump's policies on tariffs 100 percent.

00:07:20.480 Markets taking a slight hit in the after-hours trading, with the biggest losses coming from

00:07:25.800 car companies and smaller businesses that rely on foreign parts and materials.

00:07:31.580 Coming up, former Biden officials reveal stunning details from inside the final days of the former

00:07:37.460 president's campaign. And RFKJ's top advisor faces a crowd of angry lobbyists and defends his boss's

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00:08:50.140 Former friends, staffers, and advisors to President Joe Biden dishing to authors about the final

00:08:55.780 tumultuous days of his campaign. In the coming weeks, no fewer than four books will hit the shelves

00:09:01.620 outlining the collapse of the Biden campaign and the Harris team scramble to fill the void.

00:09:07.020 Reporter Chris Whipple lifting the curtain on Biden debate prep with former chief of staff to

00:09:13.100 Joe Biden, Ron Klain, in a book titled Uncharted, How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the

00:09:19.660 Wildest Campaign in History. In the lead-up to the Biden-Trump debate, speculation swirling about

00:09:25.480 Mr. Biden's mental acuity. Four months earlier, Special Counsel Robert Herr releasing a report

00:09:31.440 on President Biden's handling of classified documents, describing him as, quote,

00:09:35.960 a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory, and that was the reason he chose not

00:09:41.400 to prosecute him. Mr. Biden was increasingly seen relying on note cards for basic talking points

00:09:46.920 and requiring heavy assistance from handlers. Democrat officials told us all behind the scenes

00:09:53.380 he was like a machine. When I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly, his mental acuity is

00:09:59.880 great. It's fine. It's as good as it's been over the years. I've been speaking to him for 30 years.

00:10:05.360 Joe Biden has vision. He has knowledge. He has a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president.

00:10:13.820 The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he

00:10:21.080 is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.

00:10:26.780 Mr. Klain, who resigned from his White House role to run debate preparations,

00:10:30.860 telling Mr. Whipple that, in private, President Biden was, quote, fatigued, befuddled,

00:10:36.460 and disengaged. Klain worried the debate was going to be a disaster.

00:10:41.000 Team Biden preparing two mock debates in advance of the big night. Mr. Whipple reporting, quote,

00:10:46.520 the first was scheduled to last 90 minutes, but Klain called it off after 45. The president's voice

00:10:52.120 was shot, and so was his grasp of the subject. Klain tells Whipple that Mr. Biden seemed out of

00:10:58.100 touch with American politics, and that Klain wondered if Mr. Biden at one point thought he was

00:11:04.120 president of NATO, not the United States. The second prep session called off after just 25 minutes.

00:11:10.500 President Biden reportedly saying, quote, I'm just too tired to continue,

00:11:14.300 and I'm afraid of losing my voice here, and I feel bad. I just need some sleep. I'll be fine

00:11:19.400 tomorrow. On June 27th, Mr. Klain's fears coming true on national television.

00:11:25.860 And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what

00:11:33.060 we're going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers. President Trump?

00:11:38.240 I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he

00:11:42.220 said either. Look. Less than one month later, President Biden announcing he would not seek

00:11:47.040 re-election. We will keep bringing you the latest reporting, which, of course, is more than a year

00:11:52.320 late. Top advisor to RFK, Jake Halley Means, on Wednesday, taking the hot seat in front of a hostile

00:12:01.140 audience at Politico's Healthcare Summit. The panel coming just one week after Secretary Kennedy

00:12:07.280 announcing a significant restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department. The plan

00:12:12.380 reducing the HHS workforce by 10,000 and consolidating 28 divisions into 15. Critics of the administration

00:12:20.080 not pleased. I don't know how you cut nearly a fifth of the workforce and say you're not going to

00:12:26.580 harm patients, harm Americans who require good health. It's just hard to believe. This will have a

00:12:32.740 devastating impact on the health and well-being of Americans. People in this country will needlessly

00:12:38.560 get sick and die as a result of these cuts. Journalist Dasha Burns questioning Mr. Means on the

00:12:44.840 rationale behind the cuts. The NIH, whose goal is to promote American health, has overseen a

00:12:50.040 devastation, just an object devastation in American health over the past 20 years, with disease rates

00:12:54.840 skyrocketing in America, leading the world of almost every single chronic disease. How does cutting a

00:13:00.060 bunch of HHS solve that problem? It is insane. It is insane for you to insinuate that the thing

00:13:07.280 standing between us and better health is more government bureaucrats. That is what everyone's 0.90

00:13:13.480 saying. Is that funny? Is that not true? Has there been one single chronic disease medication

00:13:19.200 in modern American history that has lowered rates of the chronic disease? Mr. Means responding

00:13:23.420 forcefully to hecklers in the crowd, many of whom he identified as lobbyists from the food and health

00:13:29.320 care industries. According to the CDC, six in 10 adults have at least one chronic disease. Four in 10

00:13:35.160 have two or more. Chronic disease accounting for seven of 10 of the top causes of death in the United

00:13:41.180 States. And despite spending more money than any other country on earth on health care, the U.S. has

00:13:46.480 a lower life expectancy than its European counterparts. Mr. Means saying the cuts to HHS are focused on

00:13:53.020 streamlining the ability of scientists to conduct research. The administration has put out guidance that

00:14:00.500 they want to direct and cut indirect funding. That fundamentally means more money is going to

00:14:06.620 researchers to do research. There is a very clear signal demonstrably with what is happening, which is

00:14:21.680 that government bureaucrats are being disempowered and more money is going to actual researchers.

00:14:28.360 They are hissing. They are hissing about changes to a system that has caused absolute devastation to

00:14:34.560 American health. Direct funding covers the core of scientific research. It pays for lab equipment,

00:14:40.200 study materials, data collection, and the salaries of scientists and researchers doing the work.

00:14:45.720 Indirect funding covers everything from office janitorial services to university overhead,

00:14:50.760 admin salaries, and even facility fees that seemingly have nothing to do with the research itself.

00:14:56.720 RFKJ aiming to steer HHS in a direction focused on understanding and eliminating chronic disease,

00:15:03.820 not simply managing symptoms. In the crosshairs, ultra-processed foods. These food items containing

00:15:11.280 little to no food. They're made up largely of chemicals and preservatives that maximize shelf life

00:15:17.440 and prioritize convenience. Product offerings are typically cheaper than fresh organic grocery store

00:15:23.460 food, making them more appealing to low-income Americans, an argument often exploited by the food

00:15:30.020 companies themselves. Mr. Means firmly rejecting the argument.

00:15:34.440 How are you planning to bring down the cost of being healthier in America?

00:15:38.160 Yeah, one thing Bobby Kennedy is not going to do is entertain comments from food entry lobbyists using food prices

00:15:43.300 as an excuse to continue poisoning children. I know a lot of you guys are doing that, and I think if you really

00:15:48.900 back up, that's an evil argument. That's the only argument the food industry is making. Right now they're trying to

00:15:53.140 hold a gun on food prices to literally not even dispute the premise that Americans are being poisoned.

00:15:58.200 We have 10,000 chemicals in our food that are not allowed in any other country.

00:16:03.160 Mr. Means going on to say food companies often manufacture two versions of the same product,

00:16:08.280 one made with synthetic additives for the American market, and another made with natural ingredients

00:16:14.480 packaged and sold overseas. What's easy enough to make for the Europeans should be easy enough to make 1.00

00:16:21.220 for Americans? That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan

00:16:26.640 Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111 at noon east, on youtube.com slash megankelly,

00:16:32.660 and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - April 03, 2025

Truth About Elon's WH Exit, Trump Unveils Tariff Plans, Bombshell Biden Reporting： AM Update 4⧸3

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