The Megyn Kelly Show - July 16, 2025


Waltz Grilled at UN Hearing, Cornell Civil Rights Complaint, NBC's Autopen Scoop： AM Update 7⧸16


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Former National Security Advisor Mike Walsh battles with Senate Democrats in a confirmation hearing to be Trump s UN ambassador, while getting grilled over Signalgate and more. And if we look at these emails, it s clear there s a discriminatory process in Cornell s hiring process.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning, everyone.
00:00:34.000 I'm Megan Kelly.
00:00:34.920 It's Wednesday, July 16th, 2025.
00:00:37.400 And this is your AM update.
00:00:39.420 It's absurd that the world's second largest economy
00:00:42.440 is treated as a developing nation.
00:00:44.820 Former National Security Advisor Mike Walz
00:00:46.940 battles with Senate Democrats in a confirmation hearing
00:00:49.740 to be Trump's UN ambassador
00:00:51.620 while getting grilled over signal date and more.
00:00:54.580 And if we look at these emails,
00:00:56.820 it is clear there's discriminatory process
00:00:59.600 in Cornell's hiring.
00:01:01.460 America First Policy Institute
00:01:03.020 filing a civil rights complaint
00:01:04.700 against Cornell University,
00:01:06.520 who it accuses of not wanting to hire whites.
00:01:09.800 And NBC News' big scoop
00:01:11.360 about the head of the House investigation
00:01:13.180 into the Biden White House's use of the auto pen
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00:01:17.120 All that and more coming up in just a moment
00:01:19.260 on your AM update.
00:01:23.720 As President Trump is settling
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00:02:07.320 Lawmakers grilling
00:02:08.200 former National Security Advisor Mike Walsh
00:02:10.600 on Tuesday in a Senate confirmation hearing
00:02:12.860 for Ambassador to the UN.
00:02:15.220 Mr. Walsh nominated for the position in May
00:02:17.540 following a string of controversies
00:02:19.080 leading to his exit
00:02:20.680 as the National Security Advisor.
00:02:23.140 As NSA, Mr. Walsh inadvertently adding
00:02:25.620 Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic,
00:02:27.580 Jeffrey Goldberg,
00:02:28.420 to a Signal Group chat
00:02:29.620 discussing airstrike plans
00:02:31.200 against the Houthis.
00:02:32.720 Many on the left demanding accountability,
00:02:34.980 accusing Mr. Walsh
00:02:35.960 of mishandling classified information
00:02:38.120 and demonstrating incompetence.
00:02:40.080 The administration insisting
00:02:42.120 no classified information
00:02:43.360 was shared in that chat.
00:02:45.340 Ultimately, the president
00:02:46.160 standing by Mr. Walsh,
00:02:47.940 but opting to replace him
00:02:49.120 as NSA,
00:02:50.120 nominating Walsh
00:02:51.320 to be UN ambassador instead.
00:02:53.960 Democrat Senators Cory Booker
00:02:55.260 of New Jersey
00:02:55.920 and Chris Coons of Delaware
00:02:57.180 tearing into Mr. Walsh
00:02:58.800 in regard to the Signalgate controversy.
00:03:01.360 At a moment where
00:03:02.360 our national security
00:03:03.420 was clearly compromised,
00:03:05.320 you denied,
00:03:06.540 you deflected,
00:03:07.780 and then you demeaned
00:03:08.620 and degraded those people
00:03:09.780 who objectively told the truth
00:03:11.540 and criticized your actions.
00:03:13.800 Smearing people,
00:03:14.700 attacking folks,
00:03:16.040 singling them out,
00:03:17.620 just furthers,
00:03:18.940 compounds what I think
00:03:20.240 is disqualifying about you
00:03:21.580 for this position.
00:03:22.780 It also, to me,
00:03:23.420 just shows profound cowardice.
00:03:24.880 I was hoping to hear from you
00:03:26.120 that you had some sense of regret
00:03:27.580 over sharing
00:03:28.680 what was very sensitive,
00:03:30.120 timely information
00:03:30.940 about a military strike
00:03:32.580 on a commercially available app
00:03:34.660 that's not,
00:03:35.340 as we both know,
00:03:36.360 the appropriate way
00:03:37.120 to share such critical information.
00:03:38.780 Senator, I think
00:03:39.440 where we have
00:03:39.920 a fundamental disagreement
00:03:40.980 is there was no classified
00:03:42.180 information on that chat.
00:03:43.860 Walsh's defenders
00:03:44.560 on social media
00:03:45.380 pushing back
00:03:46.120 on Senator Booker's comments,
00:03:47.740 highlighting the four bronze stars
00:03:49.460 earned by Mr. Walsh
00:03:50.960 during his service
00:03:51.840 as a Green Beret.
00:03:53.520 Walsh facing some friendly fire,
00:03:55.000 too,
00:03:55.240 from fellow Republicans,
00:03:56.760 Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
00:03:58.140 asking about Walsh's
00:03:59.360 hawkish voting record
00:04:00.640 as a congressman.
00:04:02.300 In the summer of 2020,
00:04:04.580 there was much discussion
00:04:06.080 of President Trump
00:04:06.860 that he intended
00:04:07.920 to draw down troops
00:04:09.020 in Afghanistan.
00:04:10.520 You were serving
00:04:11.060 on the Armed Services Committee
00:04:12.360 at that time,
00:04:13.280 and Liz Cheney
00:04:14.480 and Jason Crow
00:04:15.300 put forward an amendment,
00:04:16.980 and with that amendment,
00:04:17.900 they attempted
00:04:18.360 to circumscribe his power
00:04:19.920 to assign troops,
00:04:21.040 and you supported
00:04:21.740 that amendment.
00:04:22.560 I guess it just worries me
00:04:23.800 that you come more
00:04:24.700 from the Liz Cheney
00:04:26.340 wing of the party
00:04:26.940 than the Donald Trump
00:04:27.780 wing of the party.
00:04:28.840 Senator,
00:04:29.600 I am squarely
00:04:30.880 with the president,
00:04:31.900 have been with him
00:04:32.560 in every single election
00:04:33.520 I participated in
00:04:34.740 and him with me
00:04:36.160 in terms of the limits
00:04:38.680 on hard power.
00:04:40.920 I can tell you for certain
00:04:43.000 that people who hate war
00:04:44.500 the most are the people
00:04:45.620 that have to go fight them
00:04:46.700 and die from them. 0.97
00:04:47.880 I have many of them with me,
00:04:49.120 and I never want to attend
00:04:50.280 another funeral,
00:04:51.680 and I certainly support
00:04:52.880 the president's diplomacy first,
00:04:54.580 as I know you do,
00:04:55.820 approach,
00:04:56.680 as we just saw
00:04:57.880 in the Middle East,
00:04:58.700 his commercial diplomacy
00:04:59.660 that we're seeing
00:05:00.480 around the world,
00:05:02.100 and we'll do everything
00:05:02.920 I can,
00:05:03.820 if confirmed,
00:05:04.500 as ambassador
00:05:04.980 to the United Nation
00:05:05.780 to keep us out of wars
00:05:07.220 and to end conflicts.
00:05:08.840 Mr. Wall's also weighing in
00:05:10.100 on how he would confront
00:05:11.180 anti-Semitism at the UN,
00:05:13.180 condemn anti-Israel bias,
00:05:15.220 and lay the blame on Hamas
00:05:16.660 for perpetuating
00:05:17.600 the current conflict
00:05:18.600 in Gaza.
00:05:19.840 If I could probably spend
00:05:20.880 the rest of this hearing,
00:05:22.300 sadly,
00:05:23.180 highlighting the
00:05:24.280 anti-Semitic activities,
00:05:25.680 one aspect of which
00:05:26.960 is known as Article 7
00:05:28.700 in the Human Rights Council,
00:05:29.840 that Israel is the only 0.99
00:05:31.400 nation with a standing
00:05:33.820 mandate to highlight
00:05:35.960 its, quote,
00:05:37.260 human rights abuses
00:05:38.360 every single meeting,
00:05:39.820 and it's been going on
00:05:40.860 for decades.
00:05:42.600 I mentioned the number
00:05:43.800 of resolutions
00:05:44.480 just this year.
00:05:45.720 We're on track
00:05:46.560 for that same type
00:05:48.120 of disparity in 2025,
00:05:51.160 and I think we have to
00:05:51.920 take a step back
00:05:52.740 and address and work
00:05:54.040 with both Israel
00:05:55.440 and work with our allies
00:05:56.500 on why this continues
00:05:58.060 to happen.
00:05:58.880 I understand
00:06:00.220 the humanitarian crisis
00:06:02.280 in Gaza,
00:06:03.540 but I will say
00:06:04.340 over and over again,
00:06:05.920 if Hamas would 0.51
00:06:06.780 lay down their arms,
00:06:08.080 if they would surrender,
00:06:09.320 if they would stop
00:06:09.860 sacrificing their own people,
00:06:12.160 the fighting would stop today,
00:06:14.360 and I am confident
00:06:15.180 in working with Israel
00:06:16.280 in that regard.
00:06:17.520 Mr. Walls laying out
00:06:18.460 his vision for the role
00:06:19.380 on Tuesday,
00:06:20.400 pledging to counter
00:06:21.020 Chinese influence
00:06:21.800 and usher in Doge-style
00:06:23.320 reforms to the UN
00:06:24.560 if confirmed.
00:06:25.280 We must press
00:06:26.740 the Security Council
00:06:27.620 on length, cost,
00:06:28.880 clear in-states,
00:06:30.180 and focusing on peacekeeping,
00:06:31.780 not nation-building.
00:06:33.920 Countering China 0.96
00:06:34.600 is critical.
00:06:36.060 It's absurd
00:06:37.060 that the world's
00:06:38.360 second-largest economy
00:06:39.660 is treated
00:06:40.320 as a developing nation
00:06:41.560 in most UN agencies
00:06:43.940 that gives China 0.98
00:06:44.920 favorable status.
00:06:46.360 America must have 0.95
00:06:47.080 a strong voice,
00:06:47.800 and if confirmed,
00:06:48.480 I'll work with
00:06:48.920 Secretary Rubio
00:06:49.820 to challenge
00:06:50.560 this influence.
00:06:51.200 The U.S. pays 0.99
00:06:52.380 more than 183 countries
00:06:54.880 combined.
00:06:56.380 Meanwhile,
00:06:57.380 28 countries
00:06:58.220 contribute just $37,000
00:06:59.920 and $5,000
00:07:00.800 to peacekeeping.
00:07:02.380 The UN has ballooned
00:07:03.700 to over 80 agencies
00:07:04.900 with overlapping missions
00:07:06.160 that waste resources,
00:07:07.460 and if confirmed,
00:07:08.240 I'll push for transparency
00:07:09.300 like what we're seeing
00:07:10.280 in the Secretary General's
00:07:11.680 UN-80 reform plan
00:07:13.180 calling for a 20% staff cut.
00:07:15.460 It's worth remembering
00:07:16.320 that despite the cuts,
00:07:18.540 the U.S. is by far
00:07:19.620 the most generous nation
00:07:20.900 in the world.
00:07:22.340 Mr. Walsh is likely
00:07:23.340 to be confirmed,
00:07:24.220 though the vote
00:07:24.680 is not yet scheduled.
00:07:27.420 Coming up,
00:07:28.600 America First Policy Institute
00:07:30.020 filing a civil rights complaint
00:07:31.560 against Cornell University,
00:07:33.420 accusing it of refusing
00:07:34.600 to hire white people.
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00:08:46.360 Cornell University
00:08:47.720 facing a civil rights complaint
00:08:49.180 and possibly a lawsuit
00:08:50.540 over what whistleblowers say
00:08:52.300 was an illegal hiring scheme
00:08:54.260 designed to exclude white men 0.64
00:08:56.560 from applying
00:08:57.200 for an open teaching position.
00:08:59.000 An internal email
00:09:00.140 from December 2020
00:09:01.360 obtained by the
00:09:02.360 America First Policy Institute
00:09:03.820 revealing the school
00:09:05.020 bypassed its own
00:09:06.180 open search process
00:09:07.460 in favor of quietly reaching out
00:09:09.580 to a hand-picked list
00:09:10.920 of so-called diversity candidates
00:09:12.880 to fill a faculty position.
00:09:14.500 Evolutionary biologist
00:09:16.480 Colin Wright says
00:09:17.420 he never had the chance
00:09:18.660 to apply for the job,
00:09:20.020 not because he was unqualified,
00:09:21.660 but because he was disqualified
00:09:23.580 simply for being a white male.
00:09:26.640 Wright tells us
00:09:27.240 he had strong credentials
00:09:28.360 for the position
00:09:29.040 with a superior publication record,
00:09:31.360 better than the candidate
00:09:32.140 who ultimately got the job,
00:09:34.120 but because the search
00:09:34.980 was kept hidden,
00:09:35.960 he never had the chance
00:09:36.840 to even apply.
00:09:38.320 And so while I was in grad school,
00:09:39.600 I was probably published
00:09:41.000 more than any grad student
00:09:42.860 that I knew of.
00:09:44.200 I had about 25
00:09:45.380 peer-reviewed publications.
00:09:47.200 By the time I graduated,
00:09:48.600 I pursued two different
00:09:50.360 PhD topics side-by-side
00:09:51.960 in case one didn't work out,
00:09:53.160 but they ended up
00:09:53.760 both working out pretty well.
00:09:56.000 The median number of papers
00:09:58.080 like an average
00:09:58.740 graduate student has
00:10:00.580 while they're in academia
00:10:01.640 is actually zero.
00:10:03.740 The person who ended up
00:10:04.620 getting the job,
00:10:05.900 our CVs,
00:10:06.900 mine is on a peer publication
00:10:08.440 by publication basis,
00:10:10.100 mine exceeded per CV.
00:10:11.620 There's no saying
00:10:12.500 if I would have
00:10:13.180 definitely got an interview,
00:10:14.540 but I never got the opportunity
00:10:15.940 to even apply,
00:10:17.420 to even enter the pool
00:10:18.400 of applicants
00:10:19.000 to compete for this job.
00:10:20.860 And that's the main
00:10:21.960 gist of my complaint
00:10:23.280 where I would have loved
00:10:24.160 to have actually competed
00:10:25.580 based on merit
00:10:26.300 for the position.
00:10:27.300 In late June,
00:10:28.640 AFPI filing
00:10:29.620 a civil rights complaint
00:10:30.800 alleging systemic discrimination
00:10:32.400 in hiring,
00:10:33.520 scholarship,
00:10:34.060 and faculty policies,
00:10:35.760 all driven by what it argues
00:10:37.300 are illegal diversity, 0.55
00:10:38.840 equity,
00:10:39.100 and inclusion mandates.
00:10:40.540 We spoke to
00:10:41.800 Executive General Counsel
00:10:42.860 for AFPI
00:10:43.720 Jessica Hart Steinman
00:10:44.920 who says Cornell
00:10:45.860 did not just violate
00:10:47.080 basic fairness,
00:10:48.520 it violated federal law.
00:10:50.420 And if we look
00:10:50.940 at these emails,
00:10:52.160 it is clear
00:10:53.040 there's discriminatory process
00:10:54.840 in Cornell's hiring.
00:10:56.520 The first email
00:10:57.500 from 2020
00:10:58.740 talks about,
00:11:00.340 and it really outlines
00:11:01.740 how they pre,
00:11:03.020 Cornell pre-selected
00:11:04.360 their candidates,
00:11:05.380 not by,
00:11:06.640 you know,
00:11:07.020 competition and merit,
00:11:08.460 but pre's picked
00:11:10.100 certain diversity candidates.
00:11:12.500 Here they even say
00:11:13.200 they're, quote,
00:11:13.940 hoped for diversity hire,
00:11:16.640 and, quote,
00:11:17.740 this process is, quote,
00:11:19.020 a little out of the ordinary.
00:11:21.020 And again,
00:11:21.840 they explicitly talk about
00:11:23.440 in their email
00:11:24.140 how they're going to invite
00:11:25.580 just one person,
00:11:26.900 and they don't want to use
00:11:28.600 the typical search process
00:11:30.400 that gets them,
00:11:31.200 you know,
00:11:31.440 competition.
00:11:32.700 Cornell publicly responding
00:11:34.100 to the complaint
00:11:34.780 in a statement reading
00:11:35.700 in part,
00:11:36.620 in thousands of hiring decisions
00:11:38.080 in hundreds of departments
00:11:39.480 and units,
00:11:40.660 misunderstandings of policies
00:11:42.340 can occur.
00:11:43.640 The university does not tolerate
00:11:45.060 unlawful discrimination
00:11:46.100 in hiring
00:11:46.920 or any other aspect
00:11:48.260 of any university program
00:11:49.740 or practice.
00:11:51.060 Steinman rejects that claim.
00:11:53.380 We can see definitively
00:11:55.180 in this email,
00:11:56.400 it was not a mere misunderstanding.
00:11:58.240 This was a detailed process.
00:12:00.020 It steps out line by line,
00:12:01.700 step by step,
00:12:02.420 how they should hire somebody
00:12:04.240 by going around
00:12:05.280 the normal process
00:12:06.160 just to get their
00:12:07.140 hand-picked diversity candidate.
00:12:09.200 You can see from the emails,
00:12:10.820 this was a step-by-step process
00:12:12.940 that was carefully met on by,
00:12:16.420 it talks about here specifically,
00:12:18.020 the Associate Dean
00:12:19.020 for Diversity and Inclusion Met,
00:12:21.060 the Associate Vice Provost,
00:12:23.580 another Vice Provost
00:12:25.320 in the Office of Faculty,
00:12:26.840 Department, and Diversity.
00:12:28.640 So again,
00:12:28.900 this was all run
00:12:29.940 under the Provost's Office there,
00:12:31.820 and it's clear in here
00:12:32.680 there were multiple emails
00:12:34.300 from this,
00:12:34.900 there were meetings from this,
00:12:35.900 there were calls from this.
00:12:37.420 So, you know,
00:12:38.440 this is very in sharp congruence
00:12:41.320 to what Cornell had said,
00:12:42.620 that this was a mere
00:12:43.340 misunderstanding of a policy.
00:12:45.780 Steinman says
00:12:46.480 Cornell's discriminatory policies
00:12:48.200 go beyond the hiring policy
00:12:49.640 for this one position,
00:12:51.240 pointing to another email
00:12:52.440 from two years later
00:12:53.400 showing Cornell requiring
00:12:55.000 diversity statements
00:12:56.120 from applicants
00:12:57.000 using those responses
00:12:58.660 to filter out candidates
00:12:59.960 who don't align
00:13:01.300 with Cornell's ideology.
00:13:02.800 The second email
00:13:04.000 we've sent in
00:13:04.900 is an email
00:13:06.580 that talks about
00:13:08.180 how they have pre-filtered
00:13:10.600 to find the diversity candidate.
00:13:12.960 So here they ask
00:13:13.980 everyone applying
00:13:15.060 to send in a D&I statement.
00:13:17.240 From those,
00:13:18.460 they will use that
00:13:19.160 to filter out 0.99
00:13:20.180 who they don't want,
00:13:21.240 filter out who does not
00:13:22.400 meet their identity politics.
00:13:24.780 Here they again
00:13:25.580 go through the whole email
00:13:26.680 and they say
00:13:27.220 they've dropped
00:13:27.740 just one candidate
00:13:28.780 out of the 74
00:13:29.780 that quote,
00:13:31.980 the D&I statement
00:13:33.140 was so seriously
00:13:34.180 and unambiguously weak.
00:13:36.460 And again,
00:13:36.820 here what they're doing
00:13:37.740 is that they're using
00:13:38.600 a statement
00:13:39.360 to pick out someone
00:13:40.500 that doesn't agree
00:13:41.220 with their politics.
00:13:42.860 They would not be able
00:13:43.760 to get federal funding
00:13:44.700 if they asked
00:13:45.800 somebody's specific
00:13:47.260 political views.
00:13:48.660 And so they're not
00:13:49.140 just coming out
00:13:49.700 and saying,
00:13:50.540 you know,
00:13:50.780 how did you vote
00:13:51.440 in the election?
00:13:52.180 Or, you know,
00:13:52.620 do you believe in this,
00:13:53.700 you know, X, Y, and Z?
00:13:55.440 They're, you know,
00:13:56.280 having it under this
00:13:56.980 cloud of deception
00:13:58.020 because they're not
00:13:59.660 coming out
00:13:59.940 and just blatantly
00:14:00.800 asking somebody,
00:14:01.880 you know,
00:14:02.060 are you a Democrat?
00:14:02.840 Are you a Republican?
00:14:03.760 They instead are putting it
00:14:06.100 and trying to be able
00:14:07.220 to read between the lines
00:14:08.580 and then,
00:14:08.960 but using that
00:14:10.180 as, again,
00:14:10.860 like that litmus test.
00:14:12.380 AFPI filing
00:14:13.320 a civil rights complaint
00:14:14.480 with four federal agencies,
00:14:16.500 the DOJ,
00:14:17.140 the Department of Education,
00:14:18.380 HHS,
00:14:19.100 and the EEOC.
00:14:20.800 The Trump administration
00:14:21.640 making it clear
00:14:22.520 discriminatory policies
00:14:24.020 will not be tolerated
00:14:25.240 and federal funding
00:14:26.400 is on the line.
00:14:27.840 More here from Steinman.
00:14:29.260 Cornell University
00:14:30.340 in 2024
00:14:31.700 received $784 million
00:14:34.780 in federal research funding.
00:14:37.200 On top of that,
00:14:38.460 their medical school
00:14:39.500 has received
00:14:40.480 over $400 million
00:14:42.160 in grant funding
00:14:43.420 from NIH alone.
00:14:45.720 So, again,
00:14:46.140 Cornell is receiving
00:14:47.060 millions,
00:14:47.820 if not billions,
00:14:48.680 of federal funding
00:14:49.640 and then turning around
00:14:51.160 and using that funding
00:14:52.460 in discriminatory practices
00:14:54.500 that the American taxpayers
00:14:56.300 are not going to agree with
00:14:57.560 and, rightly,
00:14:59.340 are unconstitutional.
00:15:01.780 Cornell is no exception
00:15:03.500 to the rule.
00:15:04.840 So, we know
00:15:05.700 the federal government
00:15:06.680 is going to look into these
00:15:08.180 and that's why
00:15:08.780 we sent our complaint in.
00:15:10.280 The Trump administration
00:15:11.220 has been explicit
00:15:12.560 that we will not stand up
00:15:14.420 for discrimination
00:15:15.260 in our higher education facilities,
00:15:18.220 especially those
00:15:19.240 that receive federal funding
00:15:20.900 like Cornell.
00:15:22.760 This week,
00:15:23.340 the EEOC confirming
00:15:24.660 that evidence
00:15:25.400 is being collected
00:15:26.380 relating to the charge
00:15:27.420 of discrimination.
00:15:28.820 Steinman saying
00:15:29.500 her group, AFPI,
00:15:30.760 is considering legal options
00:15:32.160 on behalf of Colin Wright.
00:15:34.220 Wright believes
00:15:34.680 outside pressure
00:15:35.500 is necessary
00:15:36.260 to force reforms
00:15:37.660 within higher education.
00:15:39.280 I think branches of Cornell
00:15:40.920 who are studying
00:15:41.460 these types of policies,
00:15:42.980 I don't think they would
00:15:44.080 reform from within.
00:15:45.460 I think it is probably
00:15:47.140 going to take court cases
00:15:49.300 like the one I'm hoping
00:15:50.220 to bring against them
00:15:51.200 where they will specifically
00:15:53.680 not engage
00:15:54.520 in these types of practices
00:15:55.540 because they're racially discriminatory
00:15:58.940 and they are unconstitutional
00:16:00.260 and they will be forced
00:16:01.800 to pay damages
00:16:03.420 to the people
00:16:04.080 that these policies
00:16:05.200 are inflicting on people.
00:16:06.380 I hope that my suit,
00:16:07.940 I hope other people
00:16:08.800 would join in these types
00:16:10.180 of suits as well
00:16:11.520 in order just to draw
00:16:12.920 a firm line saying
00:16:13.800 that this is an unacceptable behavior.
00:16:15.760 If you just flip
00:16:16.340 the races around,
00:16:17.440 everyone on the left
00:16:18.180 would suddenly see
00:16:19.060 how terrible this is
00:16:20.320 and there's just no reason
00:16:21.280 why just changing
00:16:22.380 the skin color
00:16:22.960 changes the moral calculus
00:16:24.260 at all in this type of thing
00:16:25.420 and I think hopefully
00:16:26.580 we can get to people
00:16:27.460 across the political spectrum
00:16:28.640 to see how bad
00:16:29.660 these things are
00:16:30.200 and hopefully academia
00:16:31.100 will reform
00:16:32.040 with this sort of
00:16:32.800 outside pressure
00:16:33.460 that I think it needs.
00:16:36.380 NBC News widely mocked
00:16:38.020 on Tuesday
00:16:38.460 for running a piece
00:16:39.400 headlined,
00:16:40.160 quote,
00:16:40.300 lead investigator
00:16:41.500 into Biden's use
00:16:42.740 of an auto pen
00:16:43.680 signed letters
00:16:44.880 with a digital signature.
00:16:47.120 Chairman of the Oversight Committee,
00:16:48.640 Congressman James Comer,
00:16:50.120 investigating the controversial
00:16:51.400 and widespread use
00:16:52.660 of the auto pen
00:16:53.620 within the Biden White House,
00:16:55.300 probing whether it was part
00:16:56.280 of a potentially criminal cover-up
00:16:58.520 of Mr. Biden's mental decline.
00:17:00.860 Just this week,
00:17:01.560 the New York Times reporting
00:17:02.600 President Biden
00:17:03.220 did not personally sign off
00:17:05.160 on every name
00:17:06.100 granted clemency
00:17:07.120 in the waning days
00:17:08.060 of his administration.
00:17:09.120 NBC reporting,
00:17:10.960 quote,
00:17:11.480 documents show
00:17:12.340 that some of the letters
00:17:13.440 and subpoena notices
00:17:14.800 Mr. Comer has sent out
00:17:16.380 in connection
00:17:17.180 to his investigation
00:17:18.300 have been signed
00:17:19.840 using a digital signature
00:17:21.380 not written
00:17:22.600 by the congressman himself.
00:17:24.760 Many on social media
00:17:25.720 quick to mock this scoop
00:17:27.500 as a desperate attempt
00:17:28.680 to equate
00:17:29.260 a routine digital signature
00:17:30.980 with the use
00:17:32.000 of an auto pen
00:17:33.060 for potentially unauthorized
00:17:35.000 presidential pardons.
00:17:37.340 Co-founder of The Federalist,
00:17:38.460 Sean Davis,
00:17:39.120 posting on X,
00:17:40.180 quote,
00:17:40.740 imagine being so stupid
00:17:42.200 and corrupt
00:17:42.980 as to write this article
00:17:44.400 and think it's even
00:17:45.160 remotely analogous
00:17:46.560 to a cabal
00:17:47.480 of White House staffers
00:17:48.640 taking advantage
00:17:49.460 of a president
00:17:50.240 with dementia
00:17:51.400 and using his mental infirmity 0.68
00:17:53.440 as an excuse
00:17:54.200 to commandeer
00:17:54.980 the powers
00:17:55.600 of the presidency.
00:17:57.100 The report,
00:17:58.040 including this quote
00:17:58.780 from the congressman
00:17:59.720 last month
00:18:00.340 on Newsmax.
00:18:01.460 The president
00:18:02.120 used the auto pen
00:18:03.320 just like I use
00:18:04.440 an auto pen
00:18:05.120 or Jim Jordan
00:18:05.900 or anyone else
00:18:06.700 in Congress
00:18:07.200 to sign correspondence
00:18:09.000 to the massive amounts
00:18:10.480 of messages
00:18:11.160 that you get.
00:18:12.360 But no one uses
00:18:13.560 an auto pen
00:18:14.420 for legal documents.
00:18:16.920 I can't use
00:18:17.620 an auto pen
00:18:18.180 to sign subpoenas.
00:18:19.720 That's my legal document,
00:18:21.640 subpoenas.
00:18:22.160 I have to fly back
00:18:23.000 to Washington, D.C.
00:18:24.240 just to sign
00:18:25.080 one piece of paper.
00:18:25.920 The article also
00:18:27.140 containing a link
00:18:28.020 to a photograph
00:18:28.680 of one subpoena
00:18:29.840 sent in connection
00:18:30.780 to the investigation
00:18:31.640 appearing to show
00:18:33.300 an inked signature
00:18:35.380 from Congressman Comer.
00:18:37.240 Got you there!
00:18:38.880 Congressman Comer
00:18:39.580 posting a photo
00:18:40.760 of NBC reporter
00:18:42.060 Ryan Nobles
00:18:42.880 edited with clown makeup
00:18:44.800 with the caption quote,
00:18:46.260 There's still time
00:18:46.960 to delete this, Ryan.
00:18:48.380 Yes, Ryan.
00:18:49.560 Save yourself.
00:18:51.000 And that'll do it
00:18:52.040 for your AM update.
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