The Megyn Kelly Show - August 03, 2026


WNBA Coaches and Players Abandon Women, RFK Destroys CNN, and Mamdani "Doxes" His Rich Supporters, with Stu Burguiere | Ep. 1372


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00:00:30.600 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
00:00:42.320 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Monday and happy August.
00:00:48.500 It's happening. We're slowly inching our way back to the fall, but we still have a full month left
00:00:54.340 and Labor Day comes late this year. There's a growing controversy in the WNBA over men and
00:00:59.840 women's sports. And I got to tell you, I have a lot of thoughts on this. Sophie Cunningham has
00:01:04.660 shown incredible courage. Caitlin Clark has not. These women's coaches are absolute effing cowards.
00:01:12.500 And we have taken one step forward, two steps back when it comes to this issue. I am sick of
00:01:19.800 people who don't know anything about this spewing their ignorance all over the internet, whether
00:01:27.680 it's verbally or through their dumb t-shirts or the attacks on the Sophie Cunningham who simply
00:01:33.960 spoke truth about how it's not fair to allow men to compete in women's sports. This is the fact
00:01:41.820 that there's this much backlash against her shows we're not nearly as far along on this issue as I
00:01:47.620 thought we were. And I'm sorry, Caitlin Clark was directly asked to speak on it and she was cowardly.
00:01:54.280 She refused to do it.
00:01:56.980 It is one thing to inject politics into your sport where they don't belong, like Colin
00:02:04.400 Kaepernick kneeling in the middle of professional football games.
00:02:08.180 It's quite another when little girls are getting the shit kicked out of them in their sport,
00:02:13.400 and you are the most famous woman in women's basketball, and you're directly asked as the
00:02:19.900 issue rears its head in your sport, and you punt on it.
00:02:24.280 You won't say anything. You'd rather let the 12-year-olds handle it. F that.
00:02:31.920 I see them as very different. And I'm very disappointed in Caitlin Clark. And I'm very
00:02:38.000 proud of Sophie Cunningham, who, by the way, does nothing other than have Caitlin's back.
00:02:42.840 That's kind of one of her main roles. She scores points and she has Caitlin's back as Caitlin
00:02:48.060 gets attacked in her own league with refs who won't support her. You'd think she'd have some
00:02:53.520 empathy for the little girls who are getting attacked by men in her league. It's not all
00:03:00.100 about her. It's about other people beside her. But God, she had a huge opportunity. And let me
00:03:04.320 tell you that in this space, a lot of us women, a lot of us who have spoken out on this issue,
00:03:10.660 from Jennifer Say to Chloe Cole to Riley Gaines and and Sage Steele and many others have been
00:03:17.940 waiting for some professional woman who's currently playing in a major professional sport
00:03:26.080 to take the lead on this. It's one thing for, you know, Sage, at least, is a sportscaster.
00:03:31.860 Riley was a sports star at the college level. I'm in news. Chloe was almost transitioned by a
00:03:39.660 rabid industry that heard her say I'm gender confused and started chopping off her body parts.
00:03:44.260 What we need is a star professional female athlete who's currently playing her sport to risk it.
00:03:55.320 And we haven't had it until Sophie Cunningham, who I respect and I take nothing away from her, but she's not a household name.
00:04:03.240 She's not.
00:04:04.300 Caitlin is.
00:04:06.240 You know, even in women's tennis, Martina Navarro and I agree on nothing politically.
00:04:11.640 Nothing.
00:04:11.900 In fact, we've spent a lot of the past few years attacking each other on X over various
00:04:15.520 political issues, but I have nothing but respect for her on this issue.
00:04:19.500 She's been very outspoken.
00:04:21.600 Where's Serena?
00:04:22.900 Where's Venus?
00:04:23.960 Where's Coco Gauff?
00:04:25.400 Where's Naomi Osaka, who wore her BLM t-shirts and so on, spoke out on that when it was
00:04:33.560 an issue that didn't have anything to do with tennis.
00:04:36.460 This actually has to do with sport.
00:04:39.780 Where's all that courage now?
00:04:41.900 when we need it the most. I'm sorry, but this is a much bigger deal.
00:04:47.560 There are young women being hurt by the day. We showed you the videotape at a Lowell, Massachusetts
00:04:54.120 of those young girls in basketball getting hurt. I'm sorry, but you do have to say something. You
00:05:00.980 do. If you're just sitting on the sidelines, not saying anything, I don't respect it, but I
00:05:05.420 understand it. Look at this. Look at the six foot man who's brutalizing these girls in this school.
00:05:13.700 This is 2024. It's not ancient history. One girl after the other, after the other
00:05:20.140 got hurt in this game in Massachusetts at the charter school of Lowell girls basketball team.
00:05:28.380 They had to drop out of this game against the Kip school in Massachusetts. They forfeited
00:05:34.840 after one of Kip's players, who was a biological male,
00:05:38.140 injured not one, not two, but three of their players.
00:05:42.400 School officials said the team decided to forfeit
00:05:44.420 because other players were afraid.
00:05:47.140 They were afraid.
00:05:49.000 They knew they'd be getting hurt too.
00:05:52.580 Okay, I guess we are going to speak to it now
00:05:56.140 because I just did,
00:05:57.060 but we're actually not starting with that story today.
00:06:00.220 Stubergear is here and we're going to start with something else.
00:06:03.580 But there's a pin.
00:06:04.280 Let's put a pin in that one, because I come to you directly from X, where I've been arguing with people who just refuse to see reason on this.
00:06:12.760 They just refuse to see it.
00:06:14.520 There's still people all over the Internet defending this as like somehow unfair to trans people, attacking Sophie Cunningham as just wanting attention, saying, oh, Caitlin not speaking out is, you know, who could blame her?
00:06:30.820 I understand that.
00:06:31.740 I get it.
00:06:32.280 but she was the question was put directly to her and the teammate who's defended her more than any
00:06:38.320 other more than any other is twisting in the wind she's twisting in the wind they're attacking her
00:06:45.760 they're booing her at every match she could use a little support effort let's do let's do the other
00:06:51.340 story later we got to start with this one she could use a little support caitlin that's how
00:06:57.240 this generally works. It goes both ways. She's on your team. She always has your back. She could
00:07:02.440 use you having hers, but she refused. I'll show you what happened when Caitlin Clark was asked.
00:07:08.880 Here it is. South 14. Watch. Caitlin, first time I'm going to speak with you this week.
00:07:14.300 It's sort of a straight game, but the demonstration revolving around trans rights before the game,
00:07:19.560 just how have you and your teammates navigated this conversation that's happening on the outside?
00:07:24.480 for us like you know it's not really a discussion we really have in our locker room i think
00:07:29.720 it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions but our
00:07:33.420 focus is on basketball and that's what we talk about and how we can get wins and obviously we
00:07:37.320 didn't do that tonight so you need to find an area to improve in that way do you have any you know
00:07:42.660 reaction to the i just answered for you okay so it's up to the governing bodies of the leagues
00:07:50.660 to, quote, work with their athletes to find a solution. What are you? What are you?
00:07:57.480 Are you a leader or a follower? Are you strong or are you cowardly?
00:08:04.800 Yes, I realize she's already dealing with a lot of shit in that league. What's one more thing?
00:08:08.620 Who cares? Who cares at this point? They hate her. What are the people out there saying? Well,
00:08:13.820 she's dealing with a lot. Do you think she actually has a chance of winning these people
00:08:16.960 over. She doesn't. They can't stand her because she's white, because she gets all the attention,
00:08:22.980 because she's straight. I mean, newsflash, none of those things is going to change.
00:08:28.060 These people who can't stand her for those reasons are not winnable. They're not going
00:08:32.180 to become Caitlin Clark fans. She has the opportunity to stand up for young women,
00:08:37.260 which is far more important than the color of her skin or her sexual preference.
00:08:43.740 this actually is a chance to be a leader and to do something that matters for young girls in her
00:08:52.000 sport and she did not have the courage of Sophie Cunningham she clearly did not have the courage
00:08:58.740 of Sophie Cunningham who got this started when she was on a podcast and was asked the question of
00:09:07.000 what do we do about you know boys wanting to play in girls sports and she kindly said I just don't
00:09:13.720 think it's the right thing. You know, I believe in girls being able to play girl sports to keep
00:09:20.560 them safe and to keep it fair, paraphrasing. And for that, she's received nonstop abuse ever since.
00:09:29.420 Jennifer Say and Riley Gaines just went to an Indiana Fever game. That's both Caitlin's and
00:09:35.680 Sophie's team. And they said everybody was booing every time Sophie Cunningham was on the court.
00:09:41.800 They said they they they cheered as loudly as they could. God bless them. But they, too, got shit from people who were there. This this just happened. It just happened that this other coach. OK, there was an issue with the coach.
00:09:57.300 there's been a couple of coaches who have spoken out against Sophie Cunningham, all right?
00:10:07.360 And there's been a couple of coaches who have also punted, afraid to say anything. First,
00:10:12.120 I'm going to start with Minnesota Lynx coach, Cherry Reeve, okay? She's upset. And this is
00:10:20.240 where, I'm trying to see, I think it's number, yeah, yeah, it's not 11. Let's hear it.
00:10:27.300 Number one, we need to protect trans kids, every kid.
00:10:32.860 To me, it's a human rights issue.
00:10:34.860 Every kid has a right to schools.
00:10:37.060 Regardless of gender diverse, transgender, every kid has the right to access.
00:10:44.940 Now, what gets nuanced is when you're beyond puberty,
00:10:50.780 when you're an Olympic sport, when you have scholarships and that sort of thing.
00:10:55.460 That's where I say that common sense people get together and you find common ground to find a way to be inclusive.
00:11:03.820 The answer isn't no.
00:11:05.720 It is not the case that we have, quote, biological men in girls' locker rooms.
00:11:11.260 The way it's being phrased, the innuendo there that somehow transgender women are predators of some kind in the locker room.
00:11:20.000 There's a lot of narrative that is problematic that we need to address.
00:11:24.260 That is simply not what's happening. You don't know anything. You don't know anything. You're
00:11:30.280 an ignorant fool. You should take a seat, madam, and stop speaking about this. There are biological
00:11:38.860 men in women's locker rooms. Why don't you take two minutes and listen to Riley Gaines's account
00:11:46.620 of what it was like swimming against Leah Thomas in the NCAA championships?
00:11:52.360 Why don't you just take two minutes and listen to the testimonial of one of our most famous
00:12:00.140 athletes who is outspoken on this issue?
00:12:03.900 It absolutely is happening.
00:12:05.760 Ask any member of the UPenn women's swim team from two years ago who were told they needed
00:12:13.220 to get therapy when they said they did not want to change into their bathing suits in
00:12:17.460 front of an intact male, Will Thomas, who changed his name to Leah and was prancing around with his
00:12:23.400 penis out in their locker room. You absolute ignorant fool. I just think we should be inclusive
00:12:31.040 of whom? Truly, does Caitlin Clark, does Sophie Cunningham have the requirement? Are they required
00:12:41.820 to be inclusive of LeBron James? Answer it. Answer the damn question. Are they hashtag part
00:12:51.980 of the problem if they say no to someone of that size and strength coming into their locker room
00:12:59.940 and playing against them on the basketball court because they're not going to be, quote,
00:13:04.480 inclusive in your world? That's what we're talking about. I'm sorry, but it is a time for choosing.
00:13:11.820 I know you want to be inclusive.
00:13:13.960 I know no one wants to take a stance on this issue.
00:13:17.180 Trust me, Charlie Kirk and his family are very aware of what can happen to you if you
00:13:23.560 are too outspoken on this issue.
00:13:25.480 Many of us have been living under the threats by these activists, violent activists for
00:13:32.440 years now.
00:13:34.780 And I've got to tell you something else.
00:13:36.160 I've got another thing, another bone to pick.
00:13:38.460 Every time I comment on this issue on X, et cetera, only post the Israel commentary, by the way, which tells you something about who's ginning up the attacks on me.
00:13:48.240 People say, oh, what? Oh, is this you from twenty eighteen?
00:13:51.220 My NBC clips, which my audience is well aware of.
00:13:54.160 And, you know, that's part of my story on this issue.
00:13:56.840 Many of us back in twenty sixteen, seventeen, eighteen were much more accommodating of this trans crew than we are today because the evolution on it has been stunning and dramatic.
00:14:08.700 Do these people actually want to tell me that things are the same in 2026 America on the trans issue as they were in 2018?
00:14:16.500 Fucking liars.
00:14:17.820 Go F yourselves.
00:14:19.600 I was just saying to somebody on X today, yes, that was me in 2018 on NBC, something I've never tried to hide.
00:14:26.340 Do you have a search bar in your Google?
00:14:28.400 Could you pull up 2020, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26?
00:14:35.460 Get up to speed.
00:14:37.320 Many of us have sat around only to see our schools and our communities and our sports taken over by men in women's sport after sport after sport, locker room after locker room to the point of the farcical where Melody Wisehart up in Canada is swimming as a 12 year old girl, this 50 year old man.
00:15:00.580 OK, so we've evolved on this issue. When you see Chloe Cole telling her story as she did on this
00:15:06.680 show, one of the first places she came with her testimonial at age 15 about how her boobs got
00:15:11.400 chopped off as a pubescent girl only to within months realize she was just depressed. She didn't
00:15:20.140 want to change transition genders. It can radicalize you, you effing assholes. And you
00:15:26.440 know that, right? But any past stance that's not consistent with the current one has to be used
00:15:32.100 against you like you're dishonest as opposed to an honestly evolved person who's now avidly fighting
00:15:38.080 for the right cause. Take a look at Riley Gaines' evolution on this. She didn't stand up to Leah
00:15:44.000 Thomas. She swam against him. She did stand on the podium next to him. She was forced to. Do you
00:15:49.180 think the Riley Gaines of today would do that? Absolutely not. It takes a minute. It takes a
00:15:53.780 minute. When she first got active in this space, she was using the male pronouns or the female
00:16:01.500 pronouns for men. So was I. Many of us have taken some time to get comfortable with being honest
00:16:09.640 because we, especially as women, have been raised to be nice. We have been raised to be liked.
00:16:14.520 We have been raised to get pats on the head for being good girls. And it can take a damn lifetime
00:16:18.380 time of practice to break that cycle. Caitlin Clark appears to be still in it and needs needs
00:16:27.020 help. She needs help breaking out of it. Here's thought 12. This is ESPN's Rebecca Lobo, who heard
00:16:35.320 that same coach that we just played from the Minnesota Lynx, Sherry Reeves, Cheryl Reeves.
00:16:43.340 And this was her reaction, very different from the one you just heard here.
00:16:47.060 Well, we see Cheryl Reed wearing a shirt today in support of trans kids.
00:16:54.180 Trans kids belong on the shirt.
00:16:56.380 This is in the aftermath of Sophie Cunningham's recent comments.
00:16:59.780 We actually saw Cheryl and Sophie speaking at center court pregame.
00:17:05.880 And yesterday, Cheryl Reed spent a lot of time talking at length with the media about this topic.
00:17:12.140 I would encourage anyone to go and listen to Cheryl Reed's comments.
00:17:15.380 It's incredibly thoughtful, easy to find online, and just encourage anyone to go and listen.
00:17:26.760 Very thoughtful, easy to find.
00:17:29.540 I would encourage it.
00:17:30.460 Why don't you keep your mouth shut?
00:17:32.620 You have no idea what you're talking about, Rebecca.
00:17:35.860 I challenge you, Rebecca, come on this show.
00:17:38.500 Let's have a debate.
00:17:39.640 If you have any guts whatsoever, you come right here.
00:17:43.320 I will let you finish your answers.
00:17:44.620 I will make I will let you make all your points instead of just trying to propagandize the ESPN audience, which you would fall out of your damn chair if you saw LeBron James show up at an Indiana fever game.
00:17:57.900 You'd fall out of your damn chair.
00:18:01.540 These are such dishonest brokers.
00:18:04.560 This Cheryl Reeves is an ignorant person and should stop talking.
00:18:11.700 you find you find common ground to find a way to be inclusive the answer isn't no it's not the case
00:18:21.880 that we have quote biological men in girls locker rooms the way it's being phrased the innuendo there
00:18:27.340 is that somehow transgender transgender women are predators here's another thing cheryl they are
00:18:35.600 A large percentage of them are.
00:18:39.740 They are not in the women's locker room because they think they're women.
00:18:43.440 They're there because they suffer from a condition known as autogynephilia.
00:18:48.100 And this condition is a sexual fetish that causes you to become erect and get turned on as an intact male by showing yourself dressed as a woman to other women.
00:19:01.800 They are working out a sexual fetish.
00:19:04.080 Why don't you Google Cheryl Planet Fitness, California man jerks off in women's stall as a young woman came in there and we all clearly saw the shadow of a guy jerking himself off in the women's stall of that bathroom.
00:19:25.080 And the only reason I can say it to you so confidently is because she had the forethought
00:19:31.700 to whip out her phone and film the shadow, which you could clearly see what he was doing.
00:19:38.300 And she and her boyfriend bravely confronted this man because they can become violent.
00:19:43.080 We've seen that too.
00:19:45.080 Like, how dare you lecture these women on being inclusive?
00:19:50.100 How dare you?
00:19:51.840 These old hags sitting on the sidelines.
00:19:55.160 I'm sorry, I'm getting nasty now, but it's true.
00:19:57.580 They're old, fat hags sitting there trying to tell these young, beautiful women,
00:20:02.220 you just sit there and you'll be part of this fetish.
00:20:04.980 You let them get off to you.
00:20:07.080 You're a bigot if you call them out.
00:20:09.820 You're disgusting.
00:20:10.700 You're not inclusive.
00:20:11.820 You're nasty.
00:20:13.020 You're going to get booed.
00:20:14.280 And all the fans who appear to be part of the LGBTQ brigade
00:20:18.420 will, will deliver on exactly that promise. Boo. And Sophie, Sophie Cunningham comes out,
00:20:24.360 scare Caitlin Clark out of being the leader she can be and taking a stance on the most obvious
00:20:31.560 women's civil rights issue of our time. It's what's happened. Clay Travis today of Outkick
00:20:39.820 and now with Fox was tweeting. He wants to start a league, his own team in the league.
00:20:45.680 He wants to start his own team within the league,
00:20:47.320 and it's going to be all trans people.
00:20:49.200 It'll be all dudes posing as women.
00:20:51.480 They will kick the asses of every team out there.
00:20:54.680 I beg him to do it.
00:20:55.960 Beg.
00:20:57.000 Beg.
00:20:58.160 He's also saying that the number one team,
00:21:01.020 I think he's saying the all-stars,
00:21:03.000 but the number one team in the WNBA,
00:21:05.740 if they will play any team of high school boys,
00:21:09.900 like high school all-stars,
00:21:12.120 he'll pay the winner 10 million dollars that that i'm sorry but that's what needs to happen
00:21:18.960 that kind of display that just shows how absurd this is how absurd what you're asking these women
00:21:26.520 to accept is physical harm unfairness at the lower levels the loss of scholarship the loss
00:21:33.460 of the glorious feeling of accomplishment and and then when they dare speak up you shame them
00:21:38.480 as bigots. Or in the case of women who haven't consistently held this position, you shame them
00:21:43.840 for being inconsistent. Go F yourselves. It is beyond time for everyone to be speaking out about
00:21:51.500 this issue. It is obvious. It is plain as the nose on your face. Everyone who looks at it knows how
00:21:56.760 unfair it is. The picture of Leah Thomas next to all the young women at the NCAAs brought it home
00:22:02.960 more than any other. If you are still pretending that this is an issue of fairness to the trans
00:22:08.040 athlete. You're a liar. You're a dishonest liar. You should not be listened to. There were
00:22:16.040 protesters, um, who showed up at these games over the weekend and, um, they were on both sides.
00:22:26.140 Here we have, uh, the golden state Valkyries coach, Natalie Nakasi. This woman's a lunatic too.
00:22:34.100 I'm sorry, but she like, listen to where she stands. Okay. This is what Clay Travis was
00:22:39.820 apparently responding to, but listen to this nutcase. Just in terms of, um,
00:22:45.480 how I'm seeing it is if I could answer with like, for me, sports, sports is about belonging.
00:22:54.800 It's about inclusivity. It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. Um, you
00:23:01.540 You know, I'm big on that just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity.
00:23:08.420 I've been in those.
00:23:09.680 You shouldn't belong here many times.
00:23:12.600 And for me, I don't want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that.
00:23:18.260 So I'm all about women, little girls deserving to play.
00:23:22.200 And that includes trans women.
00:23:24.020 So I'm all about inclusivity.
00:23:27.260 You're an idiot.
00:23:28.420 I'm all about belonging and inclusivity. You can we replay the video of the girls
00:23:35.880 in Lowell, Massachusetts? Okay. You tell it to them. You tell it to them, Natalie.
00:23:45.800 Look at this girl get thrown to the ground. Try to get back up repeatedly. She can't.
00:23:52.860 she's in pain her she is wincing she is back down she cannot get up and it would happen again
00:24:03.640 and again and this is by far not the only example there are many other examples of this happening
00:24:12.080 how dare you sit there in your in your air-conditioned press conference and say it's about
00:24:18.460 inclusivity because I've been attacked because of what my height is that what she said are you
00:24:23.780 are you kidding me what is somebody actually talking about keeping tall people out of the
00:24:29.900 NBA now the WNBA what are you saying it's what we call a non sequitur I just I can I kind of
00:24:39.200 can't get over the absence of courage these are supposed to be leaders sports are supposed to
00:24:46.300 encourage leadership leaders to emerge because they have high stakes all the time all the time
00:24:54.720 you know I was just talking to my kids play tennis and one of their dear friends is a golf star and
00:25:01.000 I was just talking to them about this like those sports are very scary because you're out there by
00:25:04.980 yourself you know when you're playing a tennis match it's just you usually and the other person
00:25:09.420 same when you're a golfer you know you might be on a team but it's really like your score
00:25:13.480 is going to determine whether you win or lose and it really takes nerves of steel but it does
00:25:19.040 develop something in use a strength an inner strength an inner fortitude and resilience
00:25:24.700 and ideally emotional mastery of challenging situations and that goes for team sports
00:25:32.620 too especially the leadership aspect like where is that where is that why are all these coaches
00:25:40.560 who's so weak and desperate for the approval of deranged masses.
00:25:48.600 Caitlin Clark, I get it.
00:25:50.000 She's been through a lot.
00:25:52.040 That's not an excuse.
00:25:54.100 She's still stronger, richer, with more opportunity than all the girls coming up behind her.
00:26:00.720 All the girls.
00:26:02.080 I guarantee you they felt so let down by that answer.
00:26:06.840 And just one more thing.
00:26:07.820 All right.
00:26:09.160 Like, we've heard this repeatedly on how, like, it's such a small issue, allegedly.
00:26:14.060 Dave Portnoy, who's on the right side of this issue and who I like, but he was raising a
00:26:17.980 similar question, and I had them cut the soundbite watch.
00:26:21.040 It seems like such a small percentage of people.
00:26:25.480 I don't know how this story is so big and why people are so adamant both ways.
00:26:30.260 And I don't think it speaks to Sophie other than there's one issue.
00:26:34.020 Like, people try to say she feels this way.
00:26:36.160 She must be Maggie.
00:26:37.120 She must be this.
00:26:37.800 caitlin clark's getting dragged into it they're asking it's a nuclear story on something that i
00:26:44.580 don't know how many people it actually affects and here's how i look at it if you are born if
00:26:51.040 you can't have danny almonte little league superstar being like i want to be a girl and
00:26:56.020 dominating little league all-stars but if you have a bunch of kids and none of it matters and again
00:27:00.480 i don't get the age who cares so i i it's crazy to me that this story is that big and i don't
00:27:07.260 think sophie cuttingham said anything that that's great that is that crazy or worthy of this type of
00:27:13.380 controversy but like with anything in the wmba it takes on a a world of its own okay here's the
00:27:24.680 answer to that first of all it is irrelevant how many girls this is happening to one is enough
00:27:31.360 One girl like Peyton McNabb with brain damage as a result of a man posing as a woman, nailing her in the head with a volleyball is enough.
00:27:43.460 That is not the relevant question. Stop asking that. Not not mad at Dave Portnoy.
00:27:48.160 Just saying, stop asking that. It's irrelevant how many there are.
00:27:52.380 The answer is clearly there are enough. How many would be enough for the doubters?
00:27:57.140 not Dave, but again, this Minnesota Lynx coach was raising the similar questions, but not in a
00:28:01.580 genuinely searching way that Dave is. How many would be enough for her to say, let's stand up
00:28:08.140 for girls? How many have to get hurt? Exactly. Does my daughter have to get hurt? Does your
00:28:12.580 daughter have to get hurt? How many? Okay. So one is enough. That's, that's the actual answer.
00:28:19.420 And also if it's only a handful, then this is a non-issue. Let's ban them and move on.
00:28:24.540 if it's just a just a few we're not hurting many trans people so let's just move on
00:28:29.420 right okay no problem if it's so few then why do you object like this shouldn't be a big issue
00:28:37.160 it's not some big trans issue but secondly thirdly i guess um there there are significant
00:28:44.540 numbers of girls getting hurt having unfairness injected into their sport and potentially losing
00:28:51.660 scholarships, medals like we saw in the Olympics and so on. And here's some data that I pulled
00:28:58.800 from January 2025. It's from a pro trans outlet called Out Sports, who, if anything, has a reason
00:29:04.380 to understate the number of trans athletes playing in college sports. They state that there have been
00:29:09.320 well over 40 out trans athletes competing in college sports. Quote, Out Sports knows there
00:29:15.920 are countless other trans athletes who have competed at the collegiate levels who have not
00:29:19.860 been publicly out. They give examples. Fordham basketball player Bryson Kavanaugh decided to
00:29:27.300 forego his senior season and the WNBA draft to come out and begin his transition. There are many
00:29:33.300 others they go on to list. They go on to say three of these trans people have won a national
00:29:37.560 championship. Leah Thomas in swimming, CeCe Tefler in track and field, Brayden Abramson in bowling.
00:29:43.640 Several others have earned conference honors that did not belong to them, that were supposed to go to women.
00:29:52.500 As for high schoolers, the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Law put out these estimates in February 2025.
00:30:00.020 Quote, we estimate that there are as many as 122,000, 122,000 transgender youth athletes who could be participating in high school level team athletics right now.
00:30:12.320 ages 13 to 17, 122,000. A United Nations study revealed in October 2024 that trans athletes have
00:30:21.820 won nearly 900 medals in women's competition. These wins happened in over 400 competitions in
00:30:28.000 29 sports. The study concluded that, quote, male athletes have specific attributes considered
00:30:32.840 advantageous in certain sports such as strength and testosterone levels, which are higher than
00:30:37.800 average range for females even before puberty, even before, but especially after, thereby resulting
00:30:47.440 in the loss of fair opportunity, concluding males must not compete in the female categories of
00:30:53.720 sport. That is from the United Nations, all right? Not exactly known for their fair and balanced take
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00:32:28.040 Stu, welcome to the show. I'm just, it's like I'm over it.
00:32:33.840 I can tell. I can tell. And you should be over it. These are not controversial issues. We can
00:32:39.860 all pretend that they're controversial issues. We can all have these conversations and treat
00:32:44.240 these things like we're going back and forth about some 50 50 issue but that's not what this is
00:32:50.440 all people including every coach that you showed including every commentator that we heard from
00:32:55.780 all of them know what the truth is here all of them know that these people who are saying they
00:33:00.980 are women are not women and we all understand that if draw this to this logical conclusion
00:33:07.760 here, Megan. If inclusivity is what they want, if they embrace having men play their sport,
00:33:16.480 what we will have is a lack of existence of the WNBA, because there will be no women in it.
00:33:23.160 This isn't a knock on women. Women are incredibly talented and very important
00:33:27.460 in our society, of course. But when you're talking about physical ability, like running and jumping
00:33:33.300 and barreling over people,
00:33:35.960 you're talking about a situation
00:33:37.880 where men have certain inherent advantages
00:33:40.540 in those areas.
00:33:42.300 And I have a daughter who is 13 years old.
00:33:44.880 She plays volleyball.
00:33:46.600 She's going to volleyball today.
00:33:48.620 If she shows up there
00:33:50.240 and there's some dude who's 6'1",
00:33:53.100 who's potentially going to spike the ball at her head
00:33:56.180 and I'm going to wind up in the hospital
00:33:57.440 watching her being cared for for brain damage,
00:34:01.300 I'm going to pull her off that court
00:34:03.160 and that's not going to happen that is a real danger for uh kids uh you know in in these in
00:34:11.200 these situations and you know that the just you made about 5 000 points there and megan i agree
00:34:17.000 with literally every single one of them and was taught i did my own show while you were talking
00:34:21.660 and i was off the air coming back and forth so i'm going to miss a million of them but when when
00:34:26.300 you look at a situation uh like this and you see uh you know someone says something like oh gosh
00:34:31.480 it's a small percentage. I mean, percentage-wise, that's true, right? Of course, it is a small
00:34:35.260 percentage of people who will go across this. It's just really not an important thing. And I will say
00:34:39.800 if it might be one-tenth of one percent, I don't know what the percentage is, but if my daughter
00:34:45.760 ends up in the hospital for brain damage, it's 100% of my life. It's 100% of what I'm dealing
00:34:51.380 with. It's 100% of what she's dealing with. And none of these cases that you're talking about
00:34:58.520 are fine to brush off as if it's a small percentage.
00:35:02.060 A small percentage of people murder other people, too.
00:35:05.820 That doesn't mean we allow it.
00:35:07.780 So good.
00:35:09.000 So good.
00:35:09.800 Yes, exactly.
00:35:10.620 And tell it to the girl in Massachusetts
00:35:12.180 who got all of her teeth knocked out
00:35:15.040 by a male field hockey player posing as a female.
00:35:20.160 Imagine him hitting your daughter in the face
00:35:24.140 with a field hockey stick
00:35:26.060 with all the power and force of male testosterone behind it.
00:35:30.800 The other girls were so rattled,
00:35:33.840 many burst out into tears having watched it happen.
00:35:37.160 And Massachusetts is exactly the kind of state
00:35:39.880 that would turn around generally and say,
00:35:42.000 you gotta take it, you gotta take it,
00:35:44.520 you gotta be inclusive.
00:35:45.440 That's the same state where the basketball thing happened
00:35:47.400 that I just showed you.
00:35:48.540 And even those players on that team chose to forfeit.
00:35:52.260 They said, we just don't care.
00:35:54.380 We are seeing so many schools be forced to forfeit now if they have any desire to protect
00:35:59.740 their young women.
00:36:00.540 And the reason is our side has been too cowardly.
00:36:04.600 I'm sorry, but we've been too cowardly or we've been too convinced, too brainwashed
00:36:10.100 by the bullies on the other side that it's mean, it's quote mean to say what's real.
00:36:16.300 As somebody wise once explained it to me, being mean is not saying what is true, even if it's hurtful.
00:36:26.020 Meanness is saying something with the intention of hurting another.
00:36:30.520 That's what cruelty is.
00:36:32.540 I'm doing it because I want to hurt you.
00:36:35.820 Therefore, it is not mean to say a man cannot become a woman or it is unfair to have boys and girls sports.
00:36:41.060 That's not mean.
00:36:42.180 It is not mean to look at a child, a boy who says, I think I'm a girl and say, you're not.
00:36:46.300 And you never will be or can be. It is not mean it is true. And in fact, it is kind to all involved to stick with reality. Not not just the boy trying to get into the sports, but the girls as well. You know, I mean, they need somebody to protect them. And it's just we're not getting it. You know, and I'm like I said, I don't mean to make this all about Caitlin Clark because I admire generally what she's doing.
00:37:10.560 and she's got another host of problems that she's dealing with.
00:37:14.420 But I'm sorry.
00:37:15.340 Can we replay that soundbite of her?
00:37:16.740 I just thought this was, you can see her terror.
00:37:20.580 You can feel it in the tone and the body language.
00:37:24.280 Here it is, again, as she's asked by the reporter.
00:37:27.600 Caitlin, first time I'm going to speak with you this week.
00:37:30.400 It's sort of a straight game, but the demonstration revolving around trans rights before the game,
00:37:35.680 just how have you and your teammates navigated this scene?
00:37:38.160 conversation that's happening on the outside for us like you know it's not really a discussion we
00:37:44.560 really have in our locker room i think it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work with
00:37:47.860 their athletes to find solutions but our focus is on basketball and that's what we talk about
00:37:51.880 and how we can get wins and obviously we didn't do that tonight so you need to find an area to
00:37:55.540 improve in that way do you have any you know reaction to the i just answered for you
00:38:01.100 she wants nothing to do with it stew nothing to do she she's terrified no yeah absolutely
00:38:08.880 terrified i mean in fact you know if you're listening on the on the audio feed you might
00:38:12.700 not see this where she's looking down at a paper it seems she's handed essentially this statement
00:38:17.580 in the middle of of her answering it she glances over it then as she starts to read she checks the
00:38:22.720 paper again in the middle of reading the answer and like i gotta be honest with you uh megan i
00:38:27.720 really like caitlin clark like she's the main reason why i have any interest in the wmba whatsoever
00:38:33.700 i really like watching her play generally speaking i've really liked the way she's handled
00:38:39.100 the controversies she's had to deal with i mean she gets elbowed in the face and strangled on
00:38:44.920 court and they seem the wmba seems to be a large plot to murder uh caitlin clark i don't i don't
00:38:51.240 understand what's happening right now uh she is their their meal ticket she's the only reason i
00:38:56.220 think anyone really watches the league as a whole and and and i've actually really appreciated her
00:39:03.100 the way she's handled most of these controversies she's she's done a lot of what you just heard
00:39:08.240 which is taking the energy and the momentum out of the big controversies and and when she's being
00:39:14.640 hit she's being criticized you know the racial stuff pops up she's like look you know that's
00:39:19.800 got nothing to do with me i'm here to win games that's the right way to handle almost all these
00:39:23.660 situations you've hit on the one exception here right this is not the time to take the statement
00:39:30.100 from the team and read it we this is an easy thing we have to be able as a society to recognize
00:39:38.320 basic universal truths and that's all sophie cunningham did that's all she did she wasn't
00:39:46.600 critical she didn't come up with funny names to criticize trans people she didn't come up with a
00:39:52.180 hilarious joke or a one-liner to make everybody laugh at the trans people. All she did was say
00:39:59.080 it's important for women and girls to be protected in their locker rooms. That is not a controversial
00:40:05.740 statement. As a father, this is not a controversial idea. This is a basic human thing. We all
00:40:13.460 understand. We all know the truth here. And what we are being asked to do on a day-to-day basis
00:40:20.000 is to not just tolerate a lie, but involve ourselves with that lie.
00:40:27.820 Involve ourselves to spread the lie that men can become women with a series of magical words.
00:40:33.760 This is not a thing.
00:40:35.360 This is not a thing.
00:40:36.840 We can have empathy for people who are going through this.
00:40:41.120 We can talk about it.
00:40:42.020 I mean, you mentioned, and we've talked about this before,
00:40:44.780 There are certain issues that have continually been recognized by medical authorities as, you know, issues that people are dealing with when it comes to their identity.
00:40:55.300 These can be really serious and difficult for families to deal with, and I can't even imagine what it would be like to go through something like that.
00:41:01.860 That being said, we have empathy for those people, but we cannot express that empathy by lying to ourselves.
00:41:08.600 We cannot express that empathy by telling people things that are not true and acting as if they are.
00:41:15.580 Or endangering our girls.
00:41:17.200 And in the process of that, endangering little girls and their health.
00:41:22.380 None of this is acceptable.
00:41:24.060 You should be able to say, look, I understand that this is a complicated issue in certain realms.
00:41:28.800 All I can comment on is basketball.
00:41:31.660 And it is really important for girls to have the opportunities to play in this sport that I love so much.
00:41:37.420 That is not a controversial statement. I understand why she I mean, look, she wants to avoid it because of everything that's happening in the aftermath of it.
00:41:43.700 I get the PR strategy, but sometimes things are bigger than PR.
00:41:48.380 Yes. The Caitlin Clark was sitting there next to her coach of the Indiana Fever, who's also been a scoundrel on this issue.
00:41:56.940 Stephanie White. Listen to her here inside.
00:42:00.080 What is your stance on men or athletes who tested biological male participating in women's sports?
00:42:06.180 what's your personal stance yeah i mean i'm i don't know that i would say that i'm educated
00:42:11.260 enough from a scientific standpoint i don't ever believe that exclusion is an answer i just don't
00:42:17.180 um i i do think um you know when we think about various levels of sport um various governing
00:42:24.420 bodies of sport and things that go into that like i said i'm not i'm not educated enough at the
00:42:28.860 different levels um i know growing up i played with the boys all the time so you were girl sports
00:42:34.020 Would you welcome a biological male in WNBA?
00:42:37.960 Again, it's like, I don't know when we talk about biological male and scientifically where we are.
00:42:44.160 I think it's a totally different scenario.
00:42:46.880 You know, as I said, I'm not educated enough in terms of transgender and transitioning to give you a smart answer.
00:42:58.780 So dishonest. That is so dishonest.
00:43:01.660 First of all, she's not educated enough.
00:43:04.000 Boys have penises.
00:43:05.280 Girls have vaginas.
00:43:06.360 There, I educated you.
00:43:07.460 You got it.
00:43:08.200 Now you understand there is a difference between the two.
00:43:10.620 And that nonsense about I used to play with the boys all the time.
00:43:12.800 Me too.
00:43:13.200 I grew up in the 70s.
00:43:14.120 There were no girls sports.
00:43:15.520 I played with boys all the time in sports leagues and beyond.
00:43:18.540 And then you know what happens?
00:43:19.760 You get to the pubescent level and that stops.
00:43:24.080 Because even back then, they understood that there would be a danger to the girls in playing
00:43:27.100 against the boys past that.
00:43:28.660 That was obvious.
00:43:29.260 By the way, all the studies now actually do show that there is a male advantage even pre-puberty.
00:43:33.620 I used to be confused about that.
00:43:36.160 But there are advantages that boys have even prior to puberty, but they're very pronounced post-pubescent.
00:43:41.200 And it is very different for her to join a men's pickup game as the only woman.
00:43:47.320 Okay, because she was a star athlete in her own right as a basketball player.
00:43:49.660 It's very different.
00:43:50.220 So she says, can I play with you guys?
00:43:51.360 Can't find any other women.
00:43:52.800 Sure.
00:43:53.460 How are the men going to treat her?
00:43:55.200 They're not going to give it to her the way they give it to each other.
00:43:57.760 They're going to understand she's a woman.
00:43:58.820 They're going to have respect for her physically. They're going to let her, you know, whatever.
00:44:02.440 They're going to shoot, let her shoot points in a way they might not, a male competitor.
00:44:06.880 They're definitely not going to be as rough on her because most men are not complete cads and would understand when playing against a woman, there are certain things you do and don't do.
00:44:15.280 That is totally different from inviting a man into a woman's league, pretending that he's one of them and saying, have at them still.
00:44:24.220 Oh, gosh.
00:44:25.040 It's so ridiculous.
00:44:26.520 First of all, apparently the Indiana Fever coach would make a great Supreme Court justice
00:44:31.060 because she basically gave the exact same answer as Gataji Brown Jackson, which is amazing.
00:44:37.600 You know, she's all about inclusivity.
00:44:40.680 In every case, about inclusivity.
00:44:42.320 Is that true?
00:44:43.100 She doesn't want to exclude people?
00:44:44.500 Is that true?
00:44:45.460 I mean, there's thousands of women who play basketball who would love to play in the WNBA.
00:44:49.560 Why are they excluded?
00:44:50.660 I don't understand.
00:44:51.740 Oh, I don't know.
00:44:52.400 Is it because the players that are in the WNBA are likely better than them?
00:44:56.120 They're excluding them over merit.
00:44:57.820 They're excluding them over all sorts of different reasons.
00:45:01.260 This happens all the time.
00:45:02.420 Sports, in a grand sense, is very inclusive, right?
00:45:07.540 People can go out and play.
00:45:09.220 Like, my son and my daughter played on the same basketball team when they were five and six years old.
00:45:13.680 It wouldn't be appropriate now, necessarily, for them to do that.
00:45:17.440 And, you know, you kind of get this place where, you know, we've been in, you may have noticed occasional controversy around commentary that you've made, Megan, maybe once or twice.
00:45:29.580 I'm in that same boat.
00:45:31.240 Like, I get that this is our world and this is what we've chosen to do with our lives, say things that are controversial.
00:45:39.280 And some of these people haven't, right?
00:45:41.380 They're in a situation where they don't want to think about that.
00:45:43.880 They don't want to be in the papers.
00:45:45.400 They don't want to be played back on the Megyn Kelly show, and maybe this is what they're doing to avoid those controversies.
00:45:51.000 But on basic things you should be able to say, we should be able to say that these things are true and not true.
00:45:58.160 It's not a deep question.
00:46:01.260 These aren't hard calls.
00:46:03.440 Let me tell you something.
00:46:05.140 I agree with you, and I understand.
00:46:08.540 I'm not a fan of showing up at the Olympics and randomly asking every athlete who's there, how do you feel about this issue?
00:46:13.940 Don't do that.
00:46:14.500 that they're there to play sports. This issue has reared its head in women's basketball,
00:46:20.960 right? This is, this has been the main issue that's been discussed now for 10 days, two weeks.
00:46:26.100 And so it's going to come up. And obviously these coaches do have something that they want to say
00:46:31.380 or telegraph on it because that's clearly what they're doing. All right. So Caitlin Clark had
00:46:35.600 a chance. She had a chance to lead on it and she whiffed and I can relate to her in the following
00:46:41.920 way, made a different decision. But I never wanted any part of like a women's lib. I did not count
00:46:50.040 myself as a feminist. I said many times, and I still don't, that I don't consider myself a
00:46:55.880 feminist. I said it many times when I was on the air at Fox News and so on. Then the whole thing
00:47:00.360 with Roger Ailes came up and I had zero desire, zero to cloak myself in some sort of feminist cape
00:47:06.700 and go, you know, marching with the Salem people to go find ourselves a witch. But there's also
00:47:14.320 what's right and what's not right. And I believe me, I had no desire to decide with Gretchen
00:47:21.140 Carlson against Roger Ailes, one of whom I couldn't stand, one of whom I loved. And it
00:47:25.940 had been very good to me and my career anyway. But I but I did it. Why? Because I was concerned
00:47:32.940 that it might be happening to other girls, other women. I was concerned that there might at least
00:47:37.540 be the chance, and the whole story's been told many times. My point is simply, at certain points,
00:47:44.040 you do have to sacrifice yourself. Caitlin, at certain points, there is something more important
00:47:52.120 that's being asked of you. And this is her sport. She is the superstar in it. There's not a girl in
00:48:01.000 America playing basketball that does not look up to her, at least not one that hasn't been
00:48:06.420 completely moved by this weird race essentialism happening around her skin color.
00:48:11.860 There was such an opportunity for her to lead and she whiffed it. So I just very disappointed.
00:48:17.960 I want to read you this. There's there's Michael Peters who's on line. He's on our side on this
00:48:26.220 issue. And he, he posted the following yesterday. The fastest female 100 meter sprinter in recorded
00:48:32.040 history is American legend Flojo. She set the world record of 10.49 seconds on July 16th,
00:48:39.460 1988. Okay. For running the 100 meter, 10 seconds, basically in 2026, there were over
00:48:45.360 1000 high school boys that beat this record over 1000 high school boys. You read that correctly.
00:48:52.440 in this year alone, there were over 1,000 high school boys that beat the record of the fastest
00:48:56.440 woman in the world ever. If just one of those boys or a meager one-tenth of one percent decided
00:49:02.380 to compete as a woman, he would crush the women's world record. I'm not talking about a high school
00:49:06.780 record, he writes, or college or even Olympic or professional. I'm talking about the women's
00:49:11.300 world record that has held since 1988. Remind me again why you're not supportive of women's rights.
00:49:16.980 completely agree with this.
00:49:19.520 And then you've got the Clay Travis tweet,
00:49:21.500 which I mentioned.
00:49:22.740 He said, important announcement,
00:49:23.820 I'm upping my offer.
00:49:25.160 $10 million for a head-to-head basketball game
00:49:27.800 between the defending WNBA champs,
00:49:30.740 Las Vegas Aces,
00:49:32.080 and a boys high school state title team of my choice.
00:49:35.060 If the Aces beat my team,
00:49:36.400 I will give them $10 million.
00:49:39.360 It's never going to happen, Stu,
00:49:40.880 because in their hearts,
00:49:42.280 these coaches know exactly what the truth is.
00:49:45.640 they're all just too afraid to say it yeah and look i you know one more thing on caitlin clark
00:49:53.820 i get that you do what you want to be you want to be uh aside from this controversy but at the
00:49:59.800 very freaking least the thing you could say is this woman sophie cunningham who has defended you
00:50:05.520 and and and pushed people and and fought for you over and over and over again on the court at the
00:50:11.200 very least you could say look i don't want to get in the middle of this controversy but i will say
00:50:14.320 leave Sophie alone you know she said didn't say anything wrong stopped going after her just as a
00:50:19.880 teammate that she's in the middle of this she doesn't seem to mind it and she's going to stand
00:50:24.360 by her values but like this woman has had your back a thousand times you should have hers
00:50:29.040 she she let her twist in the wind but I mean at least Sophie Cunningham has got some money
00:50:35.540 she's stunning she's obviously very strong I admire her but these little girls in Lowell
00:50:41.460 Massachusetts, they don't have any of that. They needed her. And the girls who came after them
00:50:47.480 need her because Sophie Cunningham is not going to get this done in her sport alone.
00:50:53.980 We have more with Stu Bergeer. After this, he stays with us for the show. Don't go away.
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00:52:21.080 We have more to do on that Sophie Cunningham story, but we're going to do it tomorrow because
00:52:25.080 I have other things I want to get to today with Stu. Before we go to the next topic, I want to
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00:53:11.620 than that it's like it's like a movie it's a four-part series that together strings out
00:53:16.200 an incredible movie of our show the guests who you see most frequently on it um some of the
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00:53:42.560 four parts, as I said. And here's just a little snippet on how we make the sausage over here at
00:53:48.700 the show.
00:54:18.700 She's like, RVs, oh, the horror.
00:54:21.700 So my team knows exactly what I like.
00:54:24.560 They don't mean very well after all these years.
00:54:26.860 Who would be caught dead at an RV dealership?
00:54:31.360 This is Lauren Labruna.
00:54:32.300 She's a star.
00:54:32.860 She likes to the producer on the show.
00:54:34.280 Y'all start to Michelle Obama's thoughts for a victory.
00:54:36.600 What do we have?
00:54:37.420 What's the best one?
00:54:39.060 I do think it's the hair.
00:54:40.300 Let me explain something to white people.
00:54:43.120 We're straightening it to follow your beauty standards.
00:54:46.500 We are trapped.
00:54:47.540 death. Or grievance. Yeah. So that's good for Victor. I like Michelle. When I get up in the
00:54:52.400 morning, I wish I had hair. I wish I had Michelle's hair other than this. We're giving her like the
00:54:59.280 most interesting stuff for her to go to air with so that we don't waste anyone's time. And it's
00:55:05.980 like being a chef. You know, these are all my ingredients and I've got them out there. I don't
00:55:09.720 know until the conversation gets started, like what I'm going to need. Here it is. Hold on. You've
00:55:13.740 You've got to hear this.
00:55:14.580 Just listen to this soundbite.
00:55:15.980 Here it is in SOT 10.
00:55:17.120 And all these elements start coming together
00:55:18.500 that I wasn't sure exactly what order
00:55:20.360 they were going to be needed in
00:55:21.600 or what discussion I could fold them into.
00:55:24.240 I think I might do the Sydney Sweeney one
00:55:27.200 and the Jennifer Lawrence one.
00:55:29.220 Oh, do you hit those in the intro?
00:55:30.740 Okay.
00:55:31.580 That intellectual flow of the show
00:55:33.200 where you're like, yeah, this works.
00:55:35.100 And like the transitions feel relatively seamless.
00:55:37.700 You know, some days better than others.
00:55:39.740 That is one of the reasons why people like the show.
00:55:43.740 i love my staff and they're a huge part of the success of the program as as you know are you
00:55:57.960 i have loved hearing from all of you who have joined the documentary so far again that's just
00:56:03.100 episode one and episode two we didn't plan this but it's extremely timely um we go deep on this
00:56:10.320 whole trans debate and protecting women's spaces. I mean, truly it's like an in-depth, but fair and
00:56:17.460 balanced 60 minutes episode, this thing. It's like, you will learn a lot about how we got to
00:56:25.160 this level of insanity. You will be reminded of some of our best guests who have helped us over
00:56:31.380 the years get to where we are. And, um, I think you, you may laugh and cry just as I did and
00:56:37.880 watching it. This episode in particular was kind of emotional to watch. So head on over to
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00:56:48.140 a Q&A with yours truly soon. And maybe we'll talk about this insanity and hear from all of you
00:56:54.680 directly, especially after episode two posts. So check it out. Okay. I want to get to this epic
00:57:01.000 showdown yesterday on CNN with State of the Union co-host Dana Bash battling HHS Secretary
00:57:08.980 RFKJ over covid. She was out of her league. Here's a bit of how that went. You have been placing
00:57:17.260 nearly all the blame on the covid pandemic and the way that the U.S. responded to it squarely
00:57:24.840 with Dr. Fauci. But of course, he worked for President Trump. Does President Trump also
00:57:30.120 deserve some of the blame? Well, you know, President Trump, as you recall, wanted to
00:57:36.140 end the lockdowns. I think the thing that did the most damage to our country was the lockdowns.
00:57:43.920 Well, the lockdowns were done by governors. I mean, certainly Anthony Fauci and the president
00:57:49.380 had opinions, but the lockdowns were done by governors and largely because and largely because
00:57:54.720 largely because they were hearing they were hearing from hospitals saying that their icus
00:58:00.780 were overrun and they needed some help while that was happening that's just not true you're saying
00:58:06.720 it's not true no they were doing it because anthony fauci was telling them from the top
00:58:12.160 you need to lock down there were icus that were empty all over the country including in new york
00:58:17.660 at the height. She should be embarrassed that that's not even up for debate. Does she not read
00:58:25.400 the news on which she's reporting? Did she not see Fauci's own diary entry that Senator Rand Paul
00:58:31.020 made public last week? He's literally bragging about being responsible for the lockdowns.
00:58:36.140 Here is what he wrote on March 15th, 2020. That was like the first day of the lockdown.
00:58:42.640 Quote, I spoke with Bill de Blasio, that was the mayor of New York, and convinced him based on what
00:58:47.120 I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the New York City schools. I convinced
00:58:53.180 him. Then he goes on to say he'd already decided based on what I was saying on TV. I went on to
00:58:59.500 tell him he should close the bars and the restaurants in New York City. He said he would
00:59:03.280 base this on my recommendation. And lo and behold, he did. I had a similar call with Ann O'Leary,
00:59:09.280 the chief of staff of Governor Gavin Newsom of California, and said that based on my TV
00:59:14.580 appearances today and yesterday, the governor has decided to close the schools in California,
00:59:20.580 as well as the bars and restaurants. Though, as we would all later find out, the governor would not
00:59:25.800 adhere to his own bans as he dined at French Laundry, scuttling down wine by the barrel.
00:59:33.300 And Dr. Fauci bragged in his diary about texting with this biased anchor, Dana Bash herself. Maybe
00:59:38.960 that's why she's too much of a P word to bring up Fauci's diary entries, but she should at least
00:59:44.020 be reading them because she's in there. Okay. Here's his entry from April 17th, 2021 relating
00:59:51.520 to a Fauci exchange in front of Congress that aired on television with Congressman Jim Jordan.
00:59:58.360 Dana Bash sent me a text. He writes, I just watched the whole Jordan thing again. You're
01:00:04.200 a better man than I, as our friend Wolf Blitzer said to me yesterday, no one would have blamed
01:00:10.060 to you if you said simply, Mr. Jordan, go F yourself. I mean, this is like, it makes you
01:00:16.700 feel for Chris Licht. Remember Chris Licht, who is the executive producer for the Stephen Colbert
01:00:22.260 show, and they brought him over to run CNN when Jeff Zucker got fired. And he, he, while he had
01:00:28.640 come from Stephen Colbert, his mission, and he understood it, was to try to make CNN a little
01:00:33.080 bit more fair and balanced. They tried to have that Trump town hall, which Caitlin Collins showed
01:00:36.720 up with her nasty, unhappy face and was nasty to Trump in. He did a couple that he tried to make
01:00:43.200 it a little bit more fair and balanced. This is what he was up against. Our friend, Dana and Wolf
01:00:48.940 and Jake Tapper's having dinner with Fauci, exchanging how notes on how awful Laura Ingram
01:00:53.660 is. And then now these two, you go fuck yourself, Jim Jordan. I mean, truly. Chris licked. You
01:01:00.240 didn't stand a chance. What happened there was not your fault. Okay. It didn't stop there yesterday.
01:01:05.680 Dan Abash decided it would be a good idea to challenge Kennedy on censorship.
01:01:13.120 Oh, my God. That's like, this is such a pretty shark. I wonder what would happen if I stuck my bloody hand in the water.
01:01:20.060 Let's see. Look, it's such a pretty, pretty great white shark. Does he respond to blood?
01:01:25.960 Let's see. Here she is challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on censorship during COVID, as well as the efficacy of the vaccine when it comes to children.
01:01:40.920 How do you prepare for the next pandemic?
01:01:43.280 The principal thing that we need to do is we need to listen to what's happening to doctors on the ground.
01:01:48.300 The other thing that I would say is that we need to protect our constitutional rights.
01:01:54.840 that that is the primary obligation. What does that mean? Well, during COVID, we completely
01:02:01.300 dismantled our constitutional rights. Doctors who were saying you're doing it wrong
01:02:05.880 were being marginalized and vilified. And because because, again, I really want to move on.
01:02:12.500 But yeah, you were saying you were part of the problem. No, I wasn't. It was absolute
01:02:19.060 press malpractice you weren't allowing your mr secretary your job your job is a fierce skepticism
01:02:26.860 toward authority and you weren't doing that you were beating my job is no okay are you gonna you
01:02:34.540 want to sit here and attack me or do you want to have conversations about public i'm not attacking
01:02:39.120 you also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true you're
01:02:46.600 talking about therapeutics, fine. It is also factually true that the COVID vaccine worked.
01:02:53.040 Do you think the COVID vaccine protected children?
01:02:57.120 I think that what I have talked to scientists and doctors about.
01:03:01.420 Can you look, can you show me one study?
01:03:04.200 Yes, I can.
01:03:05.340 That shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine.
01:03:09.260 I can tell you that there are.
01:03:11.180 That vaccine did more good than harm to children. Can you show me one study that shows that?
01:03:15.780 i can tell you that when it comes to the vaccine there have been studies that show that because of
01:03:21.780 vaccine disinformation disinformation there could have been 100 to 200 000 lives in the u.s
01:03:29.140 saved you are saying nonsense you are saying something that you cannot show me a single
01:03:35.460 i am not saying nonsense you're talking nonsense you're making assertions you can't support and
01:03:40.820 And then when I call you on there, you're telling me that I'm arguing.
01:03:44.080 I am not saying that the entire way that the covid reaction was accurate.
01:03:50.160 It was a scary time and people made mistakes.
01:03:53.640 Absolutely. You were scaring people.
01:03:56.000 Why are you saying that? Because that was the job of CNN.
01:03:59.680 OK, OK, stop.
01:04:03.040 Here's OK. Adam Carolla put it best.
01:04:05.800 He tweeted this out. Remember, they are not defending Fauci for lying.
01:04:10.700 They are defending themselves for lying.
01:04:13.800 That's exactly right.
01:04:15.260 They are not defending Fauci for lying.
01:04:17.140 They are defending themselves for lying.
01:04:19.340 Here's a reminder of how Dana Bash interviewed government officials at the height of the pandemic in December 2020.
01:04:26.700 You are seen to many as a superhero, but you are a human being.
01:04:31.600 And you've been working nonstop since all of this began, communicating with the public, trying to get a handle on this pandemic in terms of the science.
01:04:39.640 So how do you keep yourself going in the face of all of this death and disease?
01:04:47.680 You know, Donnie, Dana, it's really just focusing on the enormity of the problem and the fact that I do have a role in the response to this problem.
01:04:56.320 You don't have time for feeling sorry for yourself that you're tired or that you feel like you just got to suck it up, as it were.
01:05:03.800 I use that because that's what it feels like sometime.
01:05:06.040 We appreciate your service.
01:05:07.800 Happy birthday to you.
01:05:08.900 And you've got a lot of work ahead in the Biden administration in 2021 and beyond.
01:05:14.340 Thank you, Dr. Fauci.
01:05:16.820 Thank you, Dana, for having me.
01:05:18.360 Appreciate it.
01:05:20.900 Superhero.
01:05:22.340 And here she is.
01:05:23.420 Look at this.
01:05:23.920 After then newly elected Joe Biden's first press conference on COVID in January 2021.
01:05:32.120 Watch this.
01:05:33.220 Take what you just saw and heard in totality.
01:05:36.020 anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched
01:05:45.000 that and said the adults are back in the room it it wasn't your fault chris licked
01:05:51.540 oh stuber gear host of predictable is still with us stew she was outclassed outmatched
01:06:04.360 and didn't know what she was talking about.
01:06:07.880 I mean, he said it so well.
01:06:10.580 You, quote, trusted the experts
01:06:13.740 and those experts were actively silencing
01:06:17.840 brilliant doctors who got it right.
01:06:20.740 And now your response when I'm sitting here
01:06:23.220 raising that issue is to say,
01:06:26.080 we need to trust the experts.
01:06:27.260 Here, I have new experts who are saying,
01:06:30.280 you're wrong again.
01:06:31.280 Like, they don't learn.
01:06:32.640 they they they will not ever learn no that's i think that's how they keep their jobs it might
01:06:38.580 be the number one job requirement is to not learn uh you know look she's right that it was a scary
01:06:44.460 time at the beginning in particular i mean lots of people said all sorts of things at the beginning
01:06:48.500 of that and and you know that they maybe look back i think even the president you know at times
01:06:52.840 you know when we and we had he mentions uh the criticism of the president which of course this
01:06:57.120 has to come back to criticism of donald trump as the first question of the cnn mouth which is
01:07:01.800 hilarious because uh you know if uh rfk jr were still running against trump uh the questions would
01:07:07.320 be the same they'd still be about criticizing donald trump uh but rfk jr is part of the
01:07:11.420 administration you know just does does donald trump deserve some criticism over the way that
01:07:16.780 it was handled well i think that's fair right i think it's fair to look at his his role in that
01:07:20.660 a little bit at the very beginning i think you know there was a lot of uh fear and people made
01:07:25.960 decisions that were uh that were uh i think wrong and i think it's probably saying to have some
01:07:32.620 grace for that at the very beginning of it as you go forward though you have to be able to take
01:07:38.480 responsibility for your actions uh and you know what rfk jr said there that i think is the most
01:07:43.400 important part about it is we have to protect our constitutional rights the reason we have a
01:07:48.460 constitution is for moments like 2020 right that you don't need a constitution when everything's
01:07:54.680 going great and the stock market's at all-time highs and everyone's got jobs and everything's
01:07:58.180 wonderful. You need the Constitution for those moments where everything seems chaotic and you're
01:08:04.340 terrified of it. And it's like, in those moments, what decisions do you make? Do you make a decision
01:08:09.700 to remove the ability for people to go to church? Is that the decision that you make? Or do you make
01:08:16.120 a decision to remove the ability for people to go to school, for kids to go to school, for people
01:08:22.580 to go to work for people to be able to keep their businesses open if you're in that moment where
01:08:27.660 things are admittedly difficult and what you fall back on is fear and well that expert said this
01:08:35.020 well you know what as a public official it is not your job to just listen to experts and do what
01:08:40.680 they do because if that was if that was the way this thing worked we just elect all the experts
01:08:45.220 there are people who want a technocratic society in which we don't vote for our representatives
01:08:50.660 is we just have a panel of smart people who make all the decisions for us that is not the way the
01:08:55.260 country is constructed we have a constitution that is very very clear here i mean the first
01:09:00.720 amendment guarantees your right to express your religion i you know i talked to i remember at
01:09:05.060 that time my mom who's going to she was living in georgia at the time and uh she was unable
01:09:11.940 the churches were all closing she was talking about friends who lived in other states where
01:09:16.520 they weren't even allowing them to go to church where churches would try to open their doors for
01:09:21.480 sunday services and they would be prevented we know the stories of people looking out the window
01:09:26.380 and watching uh their loved ones for the final time as they died inside of a hospital bed
01:09:32.660 through a window with no physical contact no final hug no final kiss none of it all that was
01:09:39.520 deleted for the society while we watched uh you know left-wing groups and uh you know politicians
01:09:45.660 able to attend their loved ones funerals we watch them be able to have their rallies and their
01:09:51.260 gatherings she shares none of our outrage like she looks at all that and was like yeah that's fine
01:09:55.280 i don't i don't mind she's probably one of the ones secretly going to the dinner parties along
01:09:59.280 with jake tapper and fauci and gavin newsom and i'm sure bill de blasio was probably doing it too
01:10:05.620 here here was another great exchange this one was especially great because he rfk we we had him on
01:10:14.680 You know, I mean, the audience knows we were we we were the show that resurrected RFKJ from the from the political deathbed.
01:10:23.460 He was banned everywhere and we put him on and it was this great, long, multiple hour event.
01:10:30.560 And we had to challenge him on virtually everything he said in order to get it to live in all platforms.
01:10:34.920 And it worked. And it was his first step back.
01:10:37.360 And I genuinely think he wouldn't be HHS secretary right now if that whole event hadn't happened because he did very well.
01:10:44.160 and all you really need to do is listen to him, give him a chance to explain himself and back up
01:10:50.260 his positions. You might not be convinced of every single one, but you would not walk away
01:10:54.380 thinking this guy's a nutcase, which is what he was being painted as. Okay, so anyway,
01:10:59.460 she made the mistake. Oh, so I was going to say in part two of that interview, which is still on
01:11:05.040 our YouTube feed, we talked about being a Kennedy, growing up Kennedy, you know, is the nephew of
01:11:11.720 the president he's the son of you know the attorney general and the probable president at one point
01:11:17.120 his dad rfk and we talked about what it was like to be a kennedy he talked about how at the dinner
01:11:22.100 table they had to read that day three newspaper articles and be prepared to present on those
01:11:27.560 newspaper articles like they practice oral advocacy at the table and they understood full well in that
01:11:33.160 family the importance of being in a strong order the value of the press uh and what the press's
01:11:40.040 job is and so on. And he spits it out here. Listen, I'm going to let you guys hear it for
01:11:46.540 yourself from his mouth. And I just couldn't, I couldn't agree more with it in this exchange over
01:11:52.800 vaccines. Do you want people to get the MMR vaccine? Yeah, I said that already. Okay. So
01:12:00.840 I know you're flustered now and it is. I don't, I'm not flustered at all. I am frustrated. You're
01:12:06.740 the HHS secretary and you are talking about things that that that lead to vaccine hesitancy
01:12:14.520 in this country. Let me ask you something. Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy or do you
01:12:22.640 see your job as telling the truth to the American? I see my job as telling the truth. And the truth
01:12:27.820 is that there is is study after study after study. It's one of the most studied things
01:12:33.860 out there in science and it is like a parrot you're repeating like a parrot so i've actually
01:12:40.400 read the science let's you you don't want to come out here and debate this i'm not debating this
01:12:45.980 of course you know because i'm not you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and
01:12:51.900 say trust the experts that's what you did during covid so now you're rolling out the experts again
01:12:57.640 to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of okay well guess what that is my job
01:13:04.720 to talk to people your job am i allowed to talk yes yes and my job is to get as much information
01:13:11.160 as i can and what we were doing what we were doing skepticism what we were doing in covid
01:13:18.040 and and still with regard to these vaccines is getting the best information the best science
01:13:24.120 that we can and putting it out there. Your job is to maintain a posture of furious skepticism
01:13:32.680 of government authority. Furious or fierce? I'm not sure which he actually said, but I totally
01:13:37.980 agree. Fierce skepticism of government authority. Totally absent from CNN's coverage of the COVID
01:13:46.780 debacle. And you'd think, you know, once bitten twice shy that now in an exchange with RFKJ who
01:13:54.200 had it right, you'd be a little humble still. Nope. No. She was so meandering and such a
01:13:59.880 lightweight in that whole discussion. My God, like, so are you. So are you. My job is to talk
01:14:07.120 to people. No. What are you what are you saying? You're not a talk show host. Your job is to
01:14:11.680 conduct an interview where you have to be armed with facts to challenge your guest if it is a
01:14:18.940 government official or a health official trying to push something as controversial as a lockdown
01:14:23.380 so that your audience walks away understanding what the weaknesses are in their position.
01:14:27.540 What the F? Why am I having to explain this to her? Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, I've watched you
01:14:32.680 do dozens of interviews with people that you kind of knew going in that you disagree with,
01:14:38.280 But we're kind of experts in what they believed, right?
01:14:41.620 People who are well-versed in what they believed.
01:14:44.000 RFK Jr. certainly is in that category.
01:14:47.580 But when you're a host of a show, when you're bringing on someone like that who really knows their stuff in that area, right?
01:14:54.680 Whether you agree with it or not, you have to be incredibly highly prepared to do an interview like that.
01:14:59.520 That's not why you walk in 15 minutes before taping.
01:15:02.080 It's exhausting.
01:15:02.660 Right.
01:15:03.040 It's really hard, right?
01:15:04.120 And because it's not your life on a day-to-day basis, getting yourself as a host into a position where you can actually do a good job at an interview like that is difficult, right?
01:15:14.040 It's really hard to do that.
01:15:16.140 It takes a lot of legwork.
01:15:17.560 And honestly, it seemed like she took the day off, frankly, when she was supposed to be preparing for this.
01:15:22.380 You know, RFK Jr., I really agree with him on some things and not on others.
01:15:28.360 Honestly, I'm not the biggest RFK Jr. fan in the world.
01:15:31.820 And a part of that goes back to when I used to hear him, I think, use a lot of the tactics that Dana Bash uses and CNN uses when it comes to the topic of global warming.
01:15:41.560 He was constantly appealing to authority.
01:15:43.800 He was constantly saying he is a Democrat at heart.
01:15:46.980 He is a Democrat at heart.
01:15:48.180 But what I will give him real credit for is the same thing kind of that you talked about in the first hour of the show, Megan.
01:15:54.440 You know, people go and they like take out this clip of you in 2018 saying something you don't currently agree with.
01:15:59.220 What did you do in that period?
01:16:01.080 You looked closer at the information, you grew, you learned, and because of that information,
01:16:06.660 you changed your mind.
01:16:07.960 I think the same thing happened to some degree with RFK Jr.
01:16:10.920 You talked about this a little bit in your interview that I remember, in that there was
01:16:15.560 a change in him.
01:16:16.400 He was hit in the face with government power, aligning with experts, and telling people
01:16:24.680 what they should and shouldn't do with their lives during COVID.
01:16:27.360 He was on the opposite side of where it was with global warming.
01:16:30.560 back in the day he was saying when you if you didn't agree with the government position on
01:16:34.860 global warming you should be you might be accused of treason that was his position that's right he's
01:16:40.400 changed on that position because he grew and he learned and he understood that the situation
01:16:45.180 changed that's something to be lauded and while i don't agree with him on everything
01:16:48.540 uh that is a really really important lesson all of us can learn and he deserves credit for it
01:16:53.500 so to me this is like that whole exchange is not about vaccines and it's not about
01:16:58.780 rfkj it is about media bias it's just that they're not going to change they're not going to learn
01:17:08.960 they've learned nothing they think about it stew like i do all the time look at my own positions
01:17:17.640 and say is that correct was i right on that do i need to rethink that is there new information i
01:17:23.580 I feel like that's a daily exercise for me because I hate being wrong.
01:17:28.560 So I'd love to be less wrong tomorrow than I was yesterday is my general philosophy.
01:17:32.700 Like to consider myself, I'll learn it all instead of a know it all.
01:17:36.860 And it's the opposite for them.
01:17:39.820 They have it all figured out.
01:17:41.300 They had it all figured out just as soon as they were given the Democratic Party playbook
01:17:45.020 at a very young age.
01:17:46.500 They're just going to stick to what's in there.
01:17:48.560 And it doesn't matter what catastrophe befalls the country or the world as a result of their wrongheaded talking points that they've been allowing unchallenged or spewing themselves.
01:18:01.440 They are on team blue and they will not deviate from team blue no matter what.
01:18:08.120 It's like that's why that's that's why they didn't cover Joe Biden's diminishing mental faculties.
01:18:14.760 That's why they're still pushing all the nonsense about how there's absolutely nothing controversial about the vaccines, which have killed people.
01:18:23.160 They have killed Americans, including teenagers.
01:18:26.540 So fuck you, Dana Bash, for not knowing that and at least acknowledging that there are still families grieving over what those vaccines did in too many cases.
01:18:35.840 It's just that we're never going to change them.
01:18:38.720 You know, I mean, I guess people already know that. But some every once in a while, somebody does something where it smacks you right in the face and you're like, whoa, OK, they're just as dug in as ever.
01:18:49.080 Yeah. And, you know, first of all, I hope that we have the same look back situation that we're having right now on the Fauci stuff with the President Biden and his mental capacity side of this.
01:19:01.820 We really need the same level of attention that we're getting right now with people like Iran Paul, who has just been an absolute bulldog on this from the beginning and has not given up.
01:19:10.800 And without someone like him, yeah, I really don't think anyone would be held accountable to this.
01:19:15.580 You know, he really has led the charge on making sure in the government, at least, that people are held accountable.
01:19:22.780 I hope that we find another bulldog in the government who does the exact same thing on Joe Biden.
01:19:27.760 We can't just let it go that we didn't have a president for multiple years.
01:19:31.640 This is a really, really important thing that you mentioned, and I want to make sure that we hit on that.
01:19:36.620 But I think you also make a hit on something really important.
01:19:38.780 And it comes kind of like one of the one of the greatest things about doing what you do and what I do at some degree.
01:19:46.160 And what we you know, I kind of started in the world of talk radio and applies to podcasting as well is, you know, you're always going to have idiots out there on social media.
01:19:53.680 You mentioned a bunch of them in hour one.
01:19:55.760 But part of that process is not only the idiots on social media, but also your audience.
01:20:00.520 When you're doing a podcast, especially one in the size that you have, your audience is so great because they will hold you accountable every single time.
01:20:10.680 They will listen to you talk about a story over and over and over again.
01:20:14.100 If you become inconsistent on it, they will challenge you in a comprehensive, but also a way to not be condescending or mean like they are on the internet, but just trying to say, hey, wait a minute.
01:20:28.020 That's what you said there.
01:20:29.160 You said this two weeks ago, and I don't think those two things make sense together.
01:20:34.220 And it's a great way to be able to challenge yourself constantly.
01:20:38.440 Your audience is always there to kind of push you and make sure you believe something and that you've actually thought it out.
01:20:45.920 And, you know, you came out of the gate today super fired up about the Sophie Cunningham thing and everything else.
01:20:51.740 And, you know, I find that stuff really irritating at times, but I love how it pushes me.
01:20:56.800 I love how it challenges me.
01:20:58.120 It makes me at times stronger and stronger in the position that I have.
01:21:02.280 I don't feel like I need to hold back at all because I've been challenged by people who are actually coming at me sometimes with real kindness, but sometimes with real anger.
01:21:12.500 Whatever it is, you're pushed all the time.
01:21:14.780 And it's the opposite with the media.
01:21:17.100 They are never put in a position where they are challenged.
01:21:21.080 They are never put in a position where they have to answer tough question after tough question after tough question like you saw in that RFK Jr.
01:21:28.200 That's why she seems so out of sorts.
01:21:30.560 It's like she used to play tennis in high school and is now in Wimbledon.
01:21:34.440 It doesn't make any sense to them.
01:21:35.840 They're not used to it.
01:21:37.660 And I think you saw it.
01:21:38.940 No, it was like she played baseball in high school and now was at Wimbledon.
01:21:44.140 I mean, it was like a completely different sport to her.
01:21:46.920 She was so clueless.
01:21:48.780 She didn't know what to do.
01:21:49.720 She's not used to being challenged by anybody.
01:21:51.400 and she does not have the intellectual rigor required to do intellectual battle with Robert
01:21:57.220 F. Kennedy Jr. Trust me, that's that is not a fool's errand. You need to prepare. You need to
01:22:03.300 actually prepare and have your studies. I mean, we were ready. We did our part. Half the time I
01:22:08.920 was challenging him. It wasn't necessarily stuff I agreed with, but I knew it was my job to raise
01:22:14.780 what his critics were saying. And I was never going to get him on the air without censorship
01:22:19.200 if I didn't. And we succeeded. He couldn't believe it. He and I were texting after the fact,
01:22:23.520 like, oh, my God, we get we got it on Facebook. We got it on TikTok. We got it on Snap. We got
01:22:27.900 it on YouTube. We got it on Twitter. I mean, that was back in, you know, before Elon had purchased
01:22:34.320 Twitter. So anyway, on the subject of they'll never change. This is last Wednesday. Lawrence
01:22:41.780 o'donnell on ms now watch this there is no higher calling than saving lives there is nothing we
01:22:50.140 could ever do more important than saving a single life and most of us will never know that feeling
01:22:57.760 of saving a life and all of us owe our gratitude to anthony fauci and many of us may owe our lives
01:23:05.960 to anthony fauci and anthony fauci owes nothing to republicans in the united states senate
01:23:12.680 he does not owe them an answer to a single question
01:23:17.360 his the listening audience his screen next to him reads i love you tony
01:23:23.820 still it's a lost cause i love it just does he think that you and i saved lives
01:23:34.760 when we expressed any skepticism
01:23:37.380 over the vaccine being given to teenage boys?
01:23:40.100 Is tomorrow night's episode
01:23:41.420 going to be about you and me?
01:23:42.780 I look forward to him expressing his love for me
01:23:44.880 because I did a lot of episodes about that.
01:23:47.180 Larry, where's my love letter?
01:23:50.060 It's not coming.
01:23:51.280 It's not coming.
01:23:52.000 And also he's creepy enough
01:23:53.040 that you probably don't want it.
01:23:56.760 It's this bizarre...
01:23:58.720 I think you mentioned the Adam Carolla tweet earlier,
01:24:02.640 which really drills into this.
01:24:04.480 wasn't that good yes it's so it's so true it's not and this is very human by the way you know
01:24:10.100 like they took a stand they went on television night after night i'm just gonna read it one
01:24:14.980 more time remember they are not defending fauci for lying they are defending themselves for lying
01:24:19.300 yeah it's true because they took responsibility they told everybody that you had to listen to
01:24:25.120 this guy he had all the answers over and over and over and over again and fundamentally if it's
01:24:29.480 proven uh that that the opposite is true that we and we've seen this happen uh through the emails
01:24:36.840 and and through the diaries that this man was look this man was lying and i think quite clearly
01:24:42.360 despite whatever you think about the vaccine committed a crime when he tried to convince
01:24:48.500 other people to delete emails that were records that should have been kept by the government he
01:24:53.380 was a government official encouraging people to delete emails that is a crime now look he got a
01:24:58.800 pardon from joe biden i don't know there's anything we can do about it i don't love the
01:25:01.500 pardon law rule i don't think it's a great thing for the country i kind of wish it would go away
01:25:05.820 at this point i think it gets manipulated by both sides and misused by both sides uh but it is part
01:25:10.960 of our system and i as unlike a lot of the people on cnn respect the constitution enough to deal
01:25:16.320 with that and deal with the realities it brings to us but that being said like that was a crime
01:25:21.040 this is a man who was who was not only wrong about a lot of things was lying to us was trying
01:25:27.600 to manipulate us to to do certain things that he believed were wrong at the time he's even
01:25:34.040 admitted to that he said look we didn't have enough masks so i told everyone not to wear masks
01:25:39.100 how can that possibly be a person who gets a segment that says he hasn't explained most most
01:25:43.300 of the lies but we don't need him to admit to most of the lies because they're just they're
01:25:47.500 obvious playing his nose on your face when you see what he said publicly next to what he wrote
01:25:50.960 in his diary so it's like it's amazing it's amazing like it's all about team what team jersey
01:25:56.380 you have on for them.
01:25:57.400 I can honestly say it is not that way for me.
01:26:00.960 It never has been.
01:26:02.240 It's why I'm, you know,
01:26:04.320 getting in so much trouble all the time.
01:26:06.420 I just, I'm not going to wear anybody's team jersey.
01:26:09.760 I'm just not going to do it.
01:26:11.440 And they have a very different philosophy over at CNN.
01:26:13.760 All right, stand by.
01:26:15.020 We have got to get to what's happening
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01:26:20.240 and the people who voted for him.
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01:30:15.620 So Stu, this is the story. Mayor Mamdani, who is a socialist, shock, shock, is doing socialist
01:30:27.100 things. But it's how he's doing them that is really upsetting the libs. All right, now I just
01:30:33.940 want to make sure that we explain to the audience. So on July 24th, in an ex post, he posted the
01:30:41.120 following. If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5 million, check your
01:30:46.440 mailbox when you're back in the five boroughs because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification
01:30:52.440 letters to property owners letting them know that our new pied-a-terre tax is coming soon
01:30:57.020 the best city in the world deserves the best parks libraries and schools in the world that's only
01:31:02.380 possible when we all pay our fair share because you know the millionaires of new york are not
01:31:09.520 paying their fair share sure sure by the way i just want you to know um because i mean it truly
01:31:15.380 it is bullshit like the amount that they pay um this guy is running for comptroller of new york
01:31:22.200 And he said, I looked into who's really paying our taxes in New York, and he said 0.2% of all businesses filing in New York, which is just about 800 corporations, carry 74% of the entire corporate tax burden.
01:31:36.280 And he said 99,000 millionaires, well under 1% of taxpayers, cover 44.6% of all income tax collected.
01:31:49.420 And then he said the top 200 individuals alone pay $5.5 billion to the state annually.
01:31:58.060 New York State relies on roughly 100,000 people.
01:32:00.700 New York State relies on roughly 100,000 people to fund its entire budget, he says, the entire budget.
01:32:08.300 He says our tax base, they're walking out the door.
01:32:11.480 They're walking out the door.
01:32:12.860 176,000 high earners left between 2018 and 2023 taking $50 billion in income with them.
01:32:18.640 I was one of them. Bye. Your crazy woke policies, your defunding of the police. I left. Connecticut's
01:32:24.620 not exactly a red state, but it's actually slightly more sane than New York. Okay. So
01:32:30.320 enter Mom Donnie, who's like drooling over these pied-a-terre taxes. They're so excited to tax
01:32:35.340 people who have a second residence in New York. Scott Galloway, who's been on this program,
01:32:41.780 but he co-hosts with the terrible Kara Swisher, that other terrible podcast that they do together.
01:32:47.480 and he was totally supportive of mom donnie and really really really believed that that lion would
01:32:55.840 eat him last stew and yet what mom donnie did last week has him rethinking his support mom donnie
01:33:05.180 published a searchable database identifying affluent property owners who could be the subject
01:33:11.340 of his new wealth tax. He lists their names and addresses, which is effing insane. And that's why
01:33:19.900 many of us didn't vote for Mom Donnie or didn't support him in that campaign. Here is Scott
01:33:25.100 Galloway realizing what he's done to himself. And I've been doxxed. You've been doxxed? What?
01:33:32.740 Tell me. So I don't know if you've heard, but Mayor Mom Donnie has decided to release a list
01:33:39.560 of the 950,000 residences with addresses and names
01:33:42.960 that might be eligible for his pied-à-terre tax.
01:33:47.700 I'm a fan of this tax.
01:33:49.500 I was supportive of it.
01:33:51.300 Rich absenteeism should subsidize a nurse in the Bronx
01:33:56.560 paying 40% of her income on rent.
01:33:58.700 I came out in favor of this tax.
01:34:01.540 This is the definition.
01:34:02.800 He's taken a legitimate source of tax revenue
01:34:05.560 and he's turned it into a wanted poster.
01:34:07.580 And the question I would have is, other than trying to identify and imply these people have done something wrong, and then 18 months after a health care CEO was executed in the street, and then published the list, what is the upside here?
01:34:23.640 Why is he doing this?
01:34:24.600 He's implying we've done something wrong because we're successful.
01:34:28.320 Right.
01:34:28.700 No, I agree.
01:34:29.840 New York is the last place you want to demonize success.
01:34:34.740 yeah the reason people moved to new york is they think i want to be successful on broadway i want
01:34:39.020 to be successful in business i want to be successful in the arts and no one's going to
01:34:43.280 get in my way if i'm really talented and work hard we're going to celebrate it we're not going
01:34:48.340 to we're not going to put a big r on your door and say you've done something wrong because you're
01:34:52.860 successful i don't think scott galloway was paying attention stuberg year when mayor mom donnie
01:35:00.520 wasn't mayor because many of us knew exactly what he was going to do, that he couldn't stand the
01:35:07.860 rich. And Scott Galloway's problem is that he underestimated the extent of Mom Donnie's hatred
01:35:15.360 for the wealthy class. Yeah, this is real with Mom Donnie. A lot of people say a lot of things
01:35:23.540 about, oh gosh, these rich people, they need to pay their fair share. There's a lot of lip service
01:35:28.480 that goes on to that with with some even on the left mom donnie's a true believer though the reason
01:35:33.800 why this got released in this way is because he does want to make these people the victims or the
01:35:40.660 the targets he does want them to be the people yeah who he this is this is really what his belief
01:35:47.080 system is he believes these people are bad and he wants them torn down now to separate the fact that
01:35:51.800 he came from a situation he grew up wealthy and he had every benefit that anyone could have in his
01:35:58.220 home country. And he came over here and now he's targeting people. Very important to mention what
01:36:05.040 happened with the healthcare CEO being executed in the streets. You know, you know, you're a
01:36:09.560 prominent person. You lived in New York. You go through great extent to make sure that it isn't
01:36:15.180 public what your exact address is, right? You know, I remember back in the day when we were
01:36:20.600 working in New York, there was the Gawker Stalker website that came out, which was a now
01:36:28.120 defunct website uh that actually would just publish people's current space they're walking
01:36:34.160 down the street and they would just be like hey this famous person was just seen on this block
01:36:38.140 and they would do it constantly and people were like what the heck like we have security we have
01:36:42.200 to up our security now because people are constantly coming up to us you never know when
01:36:45.760 when someone's going to have bad intent to put people's addresses in docks hundreds of thousands
01:36:50.840 of people which by the way hundreds of thousands of people will not be actually paying this
01:36:56.520 particular tax i've talked to two people in uh in new york that that i know that are friends of
01:37:01.840 mine that both got these letters and were both on all these websites um one of which has an
01:37:06.620 apartment that's not even close to five million dollars and it would not this tax would not apply
01:37:10.720 to them the other one uh has a very nice apartment but is also their only residence this is where
01:37:16.000 uh you know they live they don't have a second home so they would not qualify yet they're still
01:37:21.400 tossed out here this is basically there here's a bunch of rich people you should go harass
01:37:26.500 and that is a you know fundamentally part of the mom donny ideology and what makes him so
01:37:33.740 dangerous megan is it's not the aoc approach it's not the the uh bernie sanders approach which was a
01:37:41.020 angry fist-shaking finger-pointing version of socialism he's socialism with a smile
01:37:49.160 El Syed's trying to do the same thing in Michigan and trying to get through that primary here tomorrow on the same approach,
01:37:55.660 which is say all these things, hide what you're really going to do at the biggest extremes,
01:38:02.000 say the most popular things that people like to hear.
01:38:06.040 Like, we're going to lower your grocery prices by 30%.
01:38:09.780 Say those things publicly. Say it with a smile. Never get angry. Never yell. Never scream.
01:38:16.260 They've understood that that is something that the American people repel from.
01:38:20.160 But when we're not a policy-based society anymore, we're not a society that's well-read.
01:38:25.520 We're not the society that Ben Franklin said could protect a republic.
01:38:28.700 We're not doing a lot of those basic fundamentals anymore.
01:38:33.100 And so people get fooled by the smile.
01:38:35.900 They get fooled by the feel-goodery.
01:38:37.500 And they put people like this in power who are incredibly dangerous.
01:38:42.440 Momdani is a massive danger to not only that city, but our entire country.
01:38:47.820 Yeah, it is not safe for most of the people who have been outed to have their home address outed on a public website and called attention to by the mayor.
01:38:56.880 It is effed up. I mean, I don't have any disagreement with that point.
01:39:00.160 It's just, hey, you voted for it. You voted for it.
01:39:03.700 I guess you didn't glean how much he hated the rich by him talking about how there shouldn't be billionaires.
01:39:10.620 and he was going to try to do something about it.
01:39:12.940 Good Lord, sounds like he's actually trying
01:39:14.460 to cause them physical violence to get rid of them.
01:39:17.260 I mean, what would you do differently if you wanted that?
01:39:21.020 It's really crazy.
01:39:23.020 I cannot imagine because he's outed the addresses
01:39:25.860 by name of Woody Allen, Anna Wintour,
01:39:29.160 Cynthia Nixon, who works for him.
01:39:30.860 Like, it's really effed up
01:39:32.620 and he's not going to be paying for their security.
01:39:35.780 So that's, I feel for them,
01:39:38.780 but I also feel like if you voted for him,
01:39:40.620 You made your own bed because he didn't keep it a secret what he was about.
01:39:44.440 Now, by the way, he's going to he wants to do this like government owned grocery store.
01:39:48.580 Right.
01:39:49.360 And it's going to put all the local businesses out of business because it's all subsidized
01:39:54.320 by the government.
01:39:55.560 And they're not going to be able to compete with these government subsidized prices.
01:39:59.200 And he doesn't care.
01:40:00.020 He wants them all to go out of business.
01:40:01.740 But the word is out today that he's going to require people to show ID in order to shop
01:40:09.140 there to prove that they're New York City residents. So I thought I was reliably informed,
01:40:15.200 Stu, that that is racist and that black people are not able to get IDs by his party. Okay. So
01:40:22.200 which is it? Pick a lane. It's so predictable and ridiculous. It's amazing. The idea that,
01:40:29.800 you know, again, the one thing they don't care about is voting. That you should just be able
01:40:34.960 to walk in there's a big story in i think it was politico this weekend that was saying in new jersey
01:40:40.620 uh the the motor voter idea that they they have implemented there is essentially the honor system
01:40:47.720 to register to vote that is politico writing about that this is all real and and they continue to go
01:40:54.660 down this road but obviously the the idea of this grocery store is insane and and you're right if
01:40:59.700 you have a grocery store you've built it with your own money you're now paying taxes to the
01:41:04.160 government who's using that money to fund your competition is absolutely to put you out of
01:41:08.460 business yeah yeah it's amazing for all these years we've been told that we cannot have a mandate of
01:41:14.600 showing your id when you register to vote or when you go to vote because it's racist and minorities
01:41:19.860 can't do it they don't near live near a kinko's etc but if you're in new york city it's fine
01:41:26.020 to get into the grocery store somehow you you can show to the grocery store but then pretend you
01:41:31.240 magically weren't able to do it when you have to go to vote. I'm not sure how the logic works.
01:41:35.400 I just know it's leftist and they'll stick to it. Stubergeer, a pleasure. Tomorrow,
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