The Tucker Carlson Show - September 13, 2024


Megyn Kelly: Taylor Swift’s Extremist Transgender Ideology, Debate Reaction, & Cable News Collapse


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 3 minutes

Words per Minute

184.01624

Word Count

11,756

Sentence Count

12

Misogynist Sentences

52

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

Megyn Kelly is a force to be reckoned with. She's smart, funny, smart, kind, and smart again. She also happens to be one of the smartest people I've ever met. And she's a great human being. Megyn Kelly joins Jemele to talk about all of that and much more on this episode of Jemele's new show, What's the Deal with Megyn? with Jemele and Alex Blumberg. Plus, she's got some thoughts on Taylor Swift's new album and why she should have been on the campaign trail for the mid-term elections. Plus, why she's not voting for Democrat Carmela Harris and why you should vote for her. And why she doesn't need to be on the ticket to win the 2020 election. And why Taylor Swift should be on either side of the ticket in the 2020 mid-terms. And who should be the face of the 2020 Democratic primary race? Tune in to the Jemele show to hear all about it! Jemele, Alex, and the rest of the hosts and you'll get a special treat at the end of the episode. Thank you so much for coming on Jemele s show, and I hope you enjoy the show, because it's going to be a wild ride. . Thanks to Megyn, Alex and Alex for being here, and for being so sweet and gracious and gracious, and funny, and so many other people who helped make it all the way through it all. Thank you, Meghan Kelly, too, for being there and for supporting me, and supporting me and for letting me do my job and being so much better than I could ask for a chance to be there and I can't wait for you to come back to do it all in the future, and you're so much more than that, too much of a thank you, and thank you for being kind and I appreciate you, too many of you, so much of your support and I'm so grateful for your support, you're all of those words, so many of those who support me, you deserve it, you really deserve it. I love you, I really appreciate it, I appreciate it and so much so much, I mean it, so I can t say so much and I really do it, and it's so much I'm grateful for it, thank you. - Thank you for all the love and appreciation,


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I am genuinely honored to introduce Megyn Kelly who I could talk for like an hour about actually
00:00:06.360 since I know Megyn Kelly really well and I would just say a couple things about Megyn Kelly.
00:00:11.400 Megyn Kelly, she was at the company that we once worked for. It was a TV company based in New York
00:00:18.040 City on 6th Avenue and I got there after being fired from a couple of different jobs and so I
00:00:26.100 was like totally powerless and you know disgraced or there's I've had many firings but I was in the
00:00:30.840 middle in between firings at the time and Megyn Kelly was the was the dominant person there because
00:00:36.260 she was the most talented person in the building just like pure talent and Megyn Kelly for reasons
00:00:42.140 I've never even asked her I don't know the answer went out of her way to help me like to such an
00:00:46.980 extent I didn't even really know Megyn Kelly but Megyn Kelly went out of her way and I mean out of
00:00:52.460 her way like at risk to herself like in some meeting you know I don't know that guy he's
00:00:56.380 kind of a buffoon no he's good you should promote him and I don't know again I don't know why she
00:01:01.620 did that well I do know why actually because Megyn Kelly is actually a really decent person
00:01:05.740 and if you're which I shouldn't even have to say but if you're a lawyer on TV
00:01:11.540 which she is like you would not want to be cross-examined by Megyn Kelly at all
00:01:16.500 that would be a nightmare you would lose actually probably get the death penalty for whatever the
00:01:21.320 offense I'm just laying on my electrical bill to San Quentin you know she's tough
00:01:26.200 it's really striking to see what a truly graceful and gracious person she is and I've just lived that
00:01:36.040 firsthand she's also you know just the smartest and the coolest so with that ladies and gentlemen
00:01:40.960 Megyn Kelly
00:01:41.920 this is cool wow this is so beautiful
00:01:52.000 thank you
00:01:55.120 thank you for that
00:01:58.480 can I say one other thing about Megyn Kelly before I let Megyn Kelly talk I'm not going to say much
00:02:01.460 if so if you spend your life in a studio it's just so interesting you have total control over
00:02:07.520 everything and most people who don't who's to do that really don't like live events
00:02:12.880 I'm 99% in fact the most talented people you know on television and radio do not like to be in large
00:02:19.360 rooms full of people because they they're uncomfortable around people Megan is the exception to that and I think it just
00:02:25.040 shows her love of people and I just really noticed that today
00:02:28.320 can you believe he didn't know why I kept telling them
00:02:33.140 Tucker's good
00:02:34.220 trust me
00:02:35.140 he's the only one who doesn't understand that
00:02:38.280 it was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears what a star he was
00:02:43.120 whether it was weekend Fox and Friends or in the prime time of Fox
00:02:46.480 always been a believer
00:02:47.960 it was not obvious to everyone I will say that
00:02:49.840 including some of my relatives but thank you so much
00:02:52.180 it was obvious to the smart ones
00:02:53.460 so okay so I'm at lunch today we land we're in Tulsa this morning land here
00:02:58.920 land within 30 minutes I'm at a barbecue place behaving like an animal
00:03:03.720 overeating all kinds of stuff on my shirt I really disgraced myself
00:03:09.240 I am going to tell Casey Means about this when I see it
00:03:10.940 it was disgusting I have to get under control but this couple came up to me and they're like
00:03:14.820 oh we just came from Dallas because we heard Megan say
00:03:18.020 I said we're going to Dallas she's like yeah but we came to see Megan okay cool
00:03:20.440 and they're like you have to ask Megan about Taylor Swift
00:03:25.260 and no this happened to me it's just this I know
00:03:28.780 and I'm only dimly aware of who Taylor Swift is because I don't have a TV okay so
00:03:32.240 I don't go on the internet much and then I come here and someone's like are you going to ask her about Taylor Swift
00:03:36.200 I've got thoughts
00:03:38.060 so
00:03:39.040 it's a sincere question why are people telling me to ask you that and
00:03:43.780 do you think Taylor Swift who apparently endorsed
00:03:46.780 Carmela Harris just the other day will have I know I know I'm not here to endorse Taylor Swift trust me
00:03:53.240 will this have an effect what's the significance of this
00:03:56.780 I don't know whether it will have an effect I mean supposedly some 350,000 people have rushed to some website to register to vote or
00:04:05.440 express interest in potentially doing that but young people don't generally vote and I don't think people who at this point in the election cycle
00:04:11.900 had not registered to vote are not going to do it because of Taylor Swift
00:04:15.720 but let's set that to the side
00:04:18.300 screw you Taylor Swift
00:04:20.960 that's how I would like to begin
00:04:26.320 this woman
00:04:29.860 has got how
00:04:32.360 she's a billionaire
00:04:33.740 I saw her amazing mansion in Rhode Island
00:04:37.560 I went to some hotel there and there it is up on a cliff
00:04:40.240 you've never seen a more beautiful home
00:04:41.620 it's one of what 20
00:04:42.980 she's got so many gifts
00:04:44.900 thanks to all of you
00:04:46.060 thanks to your daughters
00:04:47.420 who you probably had to drag to her concerts
00:04:49.280 and you want to make your daughter happy
00:04:50.560 and so you didn't
00:04:51.200 and it's true whether you're a Republican or a Democrat
00:04:53.000 and how does she thank this nation
00:04:55.560 she turns around
00:04:57.140 not only does she pick a side
00:04:59.660 in a hotly contested presidential election
00:05:02.000 alienating at least half of her fan base
00:05:04.440 but she says the reason
00:05:06.600 she's voting for Kamala Harris
00:05:08.380 is because of Tim Walz's
00:05:10.820 LGBTQ
00:05:11.940 stance
00:05:13.400 do you know
00:05:16.460 what Tim Walz has done
00:05:18.200 on the LGBTQ front
00:05:19.920 Tim Walz
00:05:21.200 let me tell you what's going to happen
00:05:23.240 okay
00:05:23.940 here's what's going to happen
00:05:25.080 a little girl
00:05:26.800 sitting in Wisconsin
00:05:28.360 who's maybe on the spectrum
00:05:30.760 maybe has acne
00:05:32.340 maybe is a little heavyset
00:05:33.860 maybe feels upset
00:05:35.240 because the parents are getting divorced
00:05:36.300 something like that
00:05:37.080 is going to find herself
00:05:39.260 down a rabbit hole
00:05:40.280 on Reddit
00:05:40.800 and her parents aren't going to know
00:05:42.660 because they're getting a divorce
00:05:43.560 and they're not focused on her right now
00:05:44.940 and she's going to spend
00:05:45.660 hour after hour
00:05:46.460 on that thing
00:05:47.040 and Reddit's going to tell her
00:05:48.540 she's actually a boy
00:05:49.520 and she's going to get sucked
00:05:51.320 into this gender cult
00:05:52.500 and she's going to say
00:05:53.800 mom and dad
00:05:54.360 I want puberty blockers
00:05:55.480 and to cross sex hormones
00:05:56.400 which will sterilize her
00:05:57.700 and deprive her
00:05:59.020 of all sexual pleasure
00:06:00.100 for the rest of her life
00:06:01.000 and they're going to say
00:06:02.640 no
00:06:02.960 you're a girl
00:06:04.060 and she's going to say
00:06:04.880 but I want top surgery
00:06:06.420 this benign thing
00:06:07.420 this double mastectomy
00:06:09.040 where I'll have tubes
00:06:09.740 coming out of me
00:06:10.280 and I'll never breastfeed a child
00:06:11.360 I want that too
00:06:12.200 because I'm a boy
00:06:12.980 and they're going to say no
00:06:14.240 and she's going to go
00:06:15.820 to a judge
00:06:16.500 in Minnesota
00:06:17.580 and because of Tim Walls
00:06:20.160 the court will take custody of her
00:06:22.780 use the Medicaid funds
00:06:24.520 in Minnesota
00:06:24.980 to provide her
00:06:26.540 all of those things
00:06:27.940 chop off her breasts
00:06:29.300 sterilize her
00:06:30.280 with the puberty blockers
00:06:31.140 into the cross sex hormones
00:06:32.220 and when this girl
00:06:33.440 inevitably comes to the conclusion
00:06:34.900 that she didn't want any of this
00:06:36.320 that it only added to her problems
00:06:38.120 which were the divorce
00:06:39.080 and the acne
00:06:39.680 and the puberty
00:06:40.260 and not any trans issue
00:06:42.020 who is she going to go to then
00:06:44.020 this is all because of Tim Walls
00:06:46.840 that's what Minnesota
00:06:47.880 is doing right now
00:06:48.880 to little girls and boys
00:06:49.840 taking custody away
00:06:51.160 from the parents
00:06:51.960 so that they can have
00:06:53.020 these procedures
00:06:53.580 without any loving parent there
00:06:55.100 to help
00:06:55.900 and that's what Taylor Swift
00:06:58.020 just endorsed
00:06:58.960 for your children
00:07:00.020 so screw you
00:07:01.700 Taylor Swift
00:07:03.040 that is
00:07:05.620 first of all
00:07:08.760 thank you for saying that
00:07:10.140 and pardon my ignorance
00:07:12.340 this is one of those topics
00:07:13.420 that's so upsetting to me
00:07:14.600 I have too many children
00:07:15.560 I think
00:07:16.680 they can take custody
00:07:18.500 yeah
00:07:19.240 there's a law
00:07:20.180 that Tim Walls signed
00:07:21.060 that says the court
00:07:22.300 can take jurisdiction
00:07:23.560 which in this instance
00:07:24.540 means custody
00:07:25.180 over minor children
00:07:26.860 who are not getting
00:07:28.740 the gender affirming care
00:07:30.980 which is a lie
00:07:31.660 there's only two sexes
00:07:33.560 gender's bullshit
00:07:34.380 there's men and there's women
00:07:35.420 one cannot become the other
00:07:37.180 and he signed a law
00:07:40.420 saying that they can take jurisdiction
00:07:42.160 over minor children
00:07:43.080 who are not being affirmed
00:07:44.460 by their children
00:07:45.320 and get all of those procedures done
00:07:47.720 outside of any connection
00:07:49.340 your parents will have
00:07:50.100 nothing to do with it
00:07:50.700 they won't have access to you
00:07:51.740 that's so dark
00:07:56.560 yeah
00:07:56.900 I have to say
00:07:58.080 I look at
00:07:58.620 you were describing
00:07:59.260 how rich Taylor Swift is
00:08:00.860 why isn't she happy
00:08:03.120 good question
00:08:04.480 I mean listen
00:08:06.020 there's
00:08:06.860 what is she like 32
00:08:08.060 I don't know what she is
00:08:08.780 she's young
00:08:09.620 she's never had a relationship
00:08:11.200 that works
00:08:11.640 she makes a lot of money
00:08:12.440 off of writing about it
00:08:14.180 that could be part of the problem
00:08:16.240 like
00:08:17.080 for the reasons
00:08:18.160 you were just discussing
00:08:18.980 when you find true love
00:08:20.700 when you have somebody
00:08:21.300 who loves you unconditionally
00:08:22.580 you know
00:08:23.540 warts and all
00:08:24.160 that's everything
00:08:25.660 and she hasn't been able
00:08:26.860 to find it
00:08:27.340 she's made a lot of money
00:08:28.160 off of it
00:08:28.700 and I think she travels
00:08:30.120 from city to city
00:08:31.560 without the grounding
00:08:33.200 that you have
00:08:33.800 that I have
00:08:34.340 that hopefully all of you have
00:08:35.440 and maybe she's feeling untethered
00:08:37.580 maybe she's feeling empty
00:08:38.980 and lost
00:08:39.460 and maybe she wants
00:08:40.520 other people
00:08:41.120 to make similar decisions
00:08:42.700 in life as she has
00:08:43.820 because people feel validated
00:08:45.420 when you do that
00:08:46.140 and I think that's why
00:08:47.900 she's misleading these kids
00:08:49.360 she doesn't have the core
00:08:50.680 that you should have
00:08:52.500 before you ever advise somebody
00:08:54.600 on electoral politics
00:08:56.320 I totally agree
00:08:57.640 right
00:08:57.980 I completely agree
00:08:59.300 so it's a very dark day
00:09:00.920 and I feel like
00:09:01.560 she betrayed
00:09:02.400 all of the moms and dads
00:09:04.220 who took their little girls there
00:09:06.100 and fostered a relationship
00:09:07.720 of fandom
00:09:08.340 not knowing
00:09:09.620 that she would then
00:09:10.300 turn around
00:09:10.900 and try to trans your kid
00:09:12.660 or bless the man
00:09:14.540 who's doing it
00:09:15.340 whether he's the Minnesota governor
00:09:16.580 or God forbid
00:09:17.280 the vice president
00:09:18.020 boy you just made
00:09:18.720 such a deep point
00:09:19.820 almost offhandedly
00:09:20.920 as you do
00:09:21.520 almost parenthetically
00:09:22.440 but that
00:09:22.940 she doesn't have the grounding
00:09:24.340 to be advising
00:09:25.320 on a question like this
00:09:27.020 like would you buy
00:09:28.180 real estate
00:09:28.760 from a homeless person
00:09:29.640 or would you
00:09:30.160 take investment advice
00:09:31.580 from Bernie Madoff
00:09:32.460 like why would I ever
00:09:33.620 take an important
00:09:34.500 piece of life advice
00:09:35.900 from someone
00:09:36.820 whose life is a disaster
00:09:37.960 right
00:09:38.480 if she wants to tell me
00:09:39.920 how to sing the song
00:09:41.300 I mean
00:09:42.160 okay
00:09:42.840 I guess I'll listen to that
00:09:44.260 but you know
00:09:45.140 I think it was
00:09:45.560 the comedian Andrew Schultz
00:09:46.640 who said we'd just be
00:09:47.420 so much better off
00:09:48.140 if people would just
00:09:48.700 do the thing
00:09:49.120 they're supposed to do
00:09:49.840 right
00:09:50.760 if the actor
00:09:51.300 would just act
00:09:51.900 and the singer
00:09:52.300 would just sing
00:09:52.920 and the basketball player
00:09:53.640 would just play basketball
00:09:54.560 I don't want her life advice
00:09:57.760 on anything
00:09:58.240 but what's so pernicious
00:09:59.660 about this
00:10:00.240 is that we've inadvertently
00:10:01.520 thankfully not yours truly
00:10:03.360 but most parents
00:10:04.980 with tween girls
00:10:06.660 have inadvertently
00:10:07.800 fostered a relationship
00:10:09.260 between this person
00:10:10.080 and their daughters
00:10:10.720 and allowed her
00:10:12.180 to become a role model
00:10:13.640 to them
00:10:14.060 and now she takes
00:10:15.380 advantage of that
00:10:16.080 by looking at these
00:10:16.880 young girls
00:10:17.360 saying vote Harris-Waltz
00:10:19.120 because you can get
00:10:20.200 an abortion
00:10:20.620 at any age
00:10:21.680 and at any term
00:10:22.680 under them
00:10:23.440 because you can turn
00:10:24.700 into a boy
00:10:25.320 under them
00:10:26.300 because unlike
00:10:28.120 what they said
00:10:28.640 at the debate
00:10:29.100 you can try to abort
00:10:30.460 your baby
00:10:30.840 and it can be born
00:10:31.360 on the table
00:10:31.780 and we can just
00:10:32.260 let it sit there
00:10:32.980 without any medical care
00:10:34.080 under Harris-Waltz
00:10:35.240 that is a thing
00:10:36.180 notwithstanding
00:10:37.000 the fake fact check
00:10:38.380 by ABC News
00:10:39.600 it's sick
00:10:40.940 it's hard to see
00:10:46.380 though
00:10:46.900 Taylor Swift
00:10:48.200 in isolation
00:10:49.060 I'm just guessing here
00:10:50.220 but if she's really
00:10:50.920 in her early 30s
00:10:51.680 and she's made a billion dollars
00:10:52.760 in the music business
00:10:53.580 I don't have a ton
00:10:54.420 of her albums
00:10:55.020 myself
00:10:56.020 I can't even assess
00:10:57.760 her music
00:10:58.120 but she's the product
00:10:59.700 of a system
00:11:00.400 and she's got to
00:11:02.420 some large extent
00:11:03.240 be acting
00:11:03.840 on behalf of that
00:11:04.820 on the American
00:11:05.920 entertainment system
00:11:06.780 which is to some extent
00:11:07.640 a propaganda system
00:11:08.800 like this is an indictment
00:11:10.800 of a whole industry
00:11:11.600 kind of
00:11:12.160 I mean
00:11:13.400 the part
00:11:14.540 the problem
00:11:15.340 with big movies
00:11:17.880 and big
00:11:18.780 you know
00:11:19.460 rock and roll
00:11:20.140 or records
00:11:20.780 or pop
00:11:21.260 is a lot of people
00:11:23.320 who are drawn
00:11:23.880 to those industries
00:11:24.720 are empty inside
00:11:25.880 to begin with
00:11:26.540 and we saw
00:11:27.780 a flash of this
00:11:28.660 in a brilliant moment
00:11:29.580 at the Oscars
00:11:30.220 this year
00:11:30.600 where to his credit
00:11:31.640 Robert Downey Jr.
00:11:32.560 got up there
00:11:33.040 and he won
00:11:33.500 for best actor
00:11:34.280 I think
00:11:34.780 or supporting
00:11:35.580 one or the other
00:11:36.100 for Oppenheimer
00:11:37.140 and the very first
00:11:38.560 thing he said
00:11:39.020 was
00:11:39.220 I'd like to
00:11:39.920 thank my terrible
00:11:40.860 childhood
00:11:41.340 right
00:11:42.820 and some people
00:11:44.460 are self-aware
00:11:45.120 and they get
00:11:45.600 through that
00:11:46.060 and the vast
00:11:47.360 majority are not
00:11:48.160 and do not
00:11:48.740 and so they go
00:11:49.740 to these industries
00:11:50.380 like becoming
00:11:51.680 a pop singer
00:11:52.320 or becoming
00:11:53.160 a Hollywood actor
00:11:54.460 because they're
00:11:55.040 seeking fame
00:11:55.720 and to fill a void
00:11:56.840 and they think
00:11:57.980 that these artifices
00:11:59.120 are going to do it
00:11:59.960 you know
00:12:00.160 if I can just
00:12:00.660 become rich
00:12:01.320 if the people
00:12:02.320 will just love me
00:12:03.300 if people will
00:12:04.800 give me a golden
00:12:05.400 statue
00:12:05.920 somehow
00:12:06.840 I'll feel
00:12:08.100 validated
00:12:08.620 like I matter
00:12:09.540 like none
00:12:10.540 of the bad
00:12:10.920 stuff that
00:12:11.300 happened to me
00:12:11.880 is consequential
00:12:12.980 and what they
00:12:14.380 inevitably find
00:12:15.120 is it fills
00:12:15.920 no voids
00:12:16.580 it only adds
00:12:17.720 to their problems
00:12:18.500 all the emptiness
00:12:19.640 is still there
00:12:20.340 this is what
00:12:20.820 happened to
00:12:21.140 Matthew Perry
00:12:21.720 among many
00:12:22.820 many others
00:12:23.440 and I think
00:12:24.700 you know
00:12:25.020 I don't want
00:12:25.320 to psychoanalyze
00:12:26.160 Taylor Swift
00:12:26.640 but I don't
00:12:28.280 think this level
00:12:29.300 of fame
00:12:29.700 is healthy
00:12:30.120 for anyone
00:12:31.100 we've started
00:12:32.500 to make her
00:12:33.080 some sort
00:12:33.620 of an idol
00:12:35.240 and that's
00:12:36.360 sick on our part
00:12:37.280 I try to
00:12:38.840 counter program
00:12:39.480 this with my kids
00:12:40.060 all the time
00:12:40.360 saying she's
00:12:41.080 a singer
00:12:41.740 she sings
00:12:42.160 some good songs
00:12:42.740 that's it
00:12:43.780 that's it
00:12:44.480 she's not someone
00:12:45.460 to look up to
00:12:45.960 and let this
00:12:47.100 be a lesson
00:12:47.480 to us all
00:12:47.960 that we don't
00:12:49.000 foster that kind
00:12:49.680 of a relationship
00:12:50.220 with a stranger
00:12:51.020 who's chosen
00:12:52.260 to go into
00:12:52.700 one of these
00:12:53.100 very damaging
00:12:53.720 industries
00:12:54.200 because then
00:12:55.300 they've got
00:12:55.700 your kid
00:12:56.300 in the palm
00:12:56.740 of their hand
00:12:57.260 and they can
00:12:57.660 use that power
00:12:58.320 for evil
00:12:58.860 that is so wise
00:13:01.320 everything you've
00:13:03.840 said is really
00:13:04.320 wise
00:13:04.600 and I wonder
00:13:05.180 why
00:13:05.780 I mean you've
00:13:06.920 just said
00:13:07.620 directly or by
00:13:08.780 implication
00:13:09.280 more about
00:13:10.500 what it takes
00:13:11.280 to become
00:13:12.000 fulfilled
00:13:13.080 what a
00:13:13.640 what a
00:13:14.000 what a full
00:13:14.660 life actually
00:13:15.300 looks like
00:13:15.800 than I've heard
00:13:16.180 from any
00:13:16.740 leader in our
00:13:17.600 country
00:13:18.040 like maybe
00:13:19.000 ever
00:13:19.440 so why does
00:13:20.780 no one ever
00:13:21.500 get honest
00:13:22.340 with people
00:13:22.840 no one with a
00:13:23.300 position of
00:13:24.060 you know
00:13:24.940 authority
00:13:25.500 or with a big
00:13:26.180 audience
00:13:26.620 about
00:13:27.160 what it
00:13:28.040 actually looks
00:13:28.740 like to live
00:13:29.300 a happy
00:13:29.640 fulfilled life
00:13:30.400 oh wait
00:13:30.840 because
00:13:31.220 so we could
00:13:32.720 have added
00:13:33.420 politicians
00:13:34.520 into our
00:13:35.580 list
00:13:36.080 of the people
00:13:37.540 who go to
00:13:37.980 Hollywood
00:13:38.340 and the people
00:13:38.840 who go into
00:13:39.260 you know
00:13:39.600 the rock and
00:13:40.320 roll industry
00:13:40.720 to become
00:13:41.100 famous
00:13:41.620 just as easily
00:13:42.880 I mean this
00:13:43.580 is one of the
00:13:43.980 problems with
00:13:44.440 our politicians
00:13:45.000 today
00:13:45.460 I was talking
00:13:46.540 to the guys
00:13:46.880 from the
00:13:47.180 all in
00:13:47.540 podcast
00:13:47.900 you know
00:13:48.280 them
00:13:48.520 and they
00:13:49.260 were saying
00:13:49.800 you know
00:13:50.160 name a
00:13:51.200 politician
00:13:51.600 you like
00:13:52.200 I was like
00:13:53.340 you're gonna
00:13:54.460 have to play
00:13:55.040 the jeopardy
00:13:55.740 sounds
00:13:56.220 you know
00:13:58.400 it's really
00:13:59.320 hard to think
00:14:00.060 about somebody
00:14:00.700 yes there
00:14:01.220 are some
00:14:01.700 but you gotta
00:14:02.820 really think
00:14:03.300 about it
00:14:03.780 because we've
00:14:04.600 created this
00:14:05.260 congressional system
00:14:07.080 that produces
00:14:08.700 Kardashians
00:14:09.480 it's people who
00:14:11.400 want to become
00:14:11.880 famous
00:14:12.440 look at AOC
00:14:13.180 she doesn't
00:14:13.560 want to govern
00:14:14.140 she wants to
00:14:15.080 be famous
00:14:15.740 that's what
00:14:16.320 she wants
00:14:16.880 she's on
00:14:17.900 Instagram all
00:14:18.640 the time
00:14:18.960 looking at
00:14:19.460 herself
00:14:19.740 which is
00:14:20.100 just the
00:14:20.480 vainest app
00:14:21.400 it's just
00:14:22.060 the vainest
00:14:22.580 of the apps
00:14:23.080 because she
00:14:24.040 wants you
00:14:24.320 to be
00:14:24.560 looking at
00:14:25.040 her
00:14:25.200 half of
00:14:25.660 them
00:14:25.780 are posting
00:14:26.180 pictures
00:14:26.540 of their
00:14:26.880 bottoms
00:14:27.300 who wants
00:14:27.760 to look
00:14:28.080 at anyone's
00:14:28.780 ass
00:14:29.240 anyway
00:14:30.340 that's
00:14:32.360 they're using
00:14:32.780 please don't
00:14:33.420 answer that
00:14:34.080 they're using
00:14:37.520 it as a
00:14:37.960 springboard
00:14:38.680 for attention
00:14:40.360 they don't
00:14:41.180 actually want
00:14:41.600 to govern
00:14:41.920 us
00:14:42.260 you know
00:14:42.560 and they
00:14:42.740 want to
00:14:43.060 parlay it
00:14:43.520 into money
00:14:44.120 and use
00:14:44.940 all their
00:14:45.240 followers
00:14:45.740 and feel
00:14:46.460 like they
00:14:46.840 matter
00:14:47.200 with their
00:14:47.680 woke
00:14:48.000 ideology
00:14:48.680 because it's
00:14:49.120 mostly on
00:14:49.580 the left
00:14:49.920 there's
00:14:50.260 some on
00:14:50.600 the right
00:14:50.900 so that's
00:14:52.220 why we have
00:14:52.620 no one
00:14:52.920 we can
00:14:53.140 look up
00:14:53.400 to
00:14:53.560 there's
00:14:54.440 no one
00:14:54.820 in politics
00:14:55.320 you should
00:14:55.620 look up
00:14:55.900 to
00:14:55.980 we really
00:14:56.560 need to
00:14:56.840 look outside
00:14:57.280 of it
00:14:57.540 for our
00:14:57.940 leaders
00:14:58.200 what's
00:14:58.920 interesting
00:14:59.320 you don't
00:14:59.600 have to
00:14:59.820 answer this
00:15:00.220 question if
00:15:00.680 you don't
00:15:00.900 want but
00:15:01.460 just given
00:15:01.960 the pretty
00:15:03.220 amazing trajectory
00:15:04.140 of your own
00:15:04.700 life
00:15:05.080 you're a lawyer
00:15:05.780 in DC
00:15:06.160 like an actual
00:15:06.820 lawyer not a
00:15:07.420 TV lawyer
00:15:07.980 and then you
00:15:09.020 become you
00:15:09.740 know like the
00:15:10.020 most famous
00:15:10.460 person in
00:15:10.960 television
00:15:11.460 I mean that
00:15:13.380 actually happened
00:15:14.100 to you
00:15:14.460 you became
00:15:14.860 incredibly famous
00:15:15.940 I don't think
00:15:16.320 you set out
00:15:16.740 to be
00:15:17.020 you're a
00:15:17.320 lawyer
00:15:17.560 did that
00:15:19.220 experience
00:15:19.720 shape the
00:15:20.300 views that
00:15:20.720 you just
00:15:21.240 articulated
00:15:22.380 yes because
00:15:25.500 I never was
00:15:27.000 attracted to
00:15:27.580 fame if
00:15:28.780 anything it
00:15:29.140 was a
00:15:29.360 downside of
00:15:30.060 becoming more
00:15:30.720 popular in
00:15:31.480 what we do
00:15:32.040 right it's a
00:15:33.280 blessing in some
00:15:33.940 ways right because
00:15:34.560 people follow you
00:15:35.260 and they show up
00:15:35.860 and this is this
00:15:37.140 is a blessing
00:15:37.660 but the downside
00:15:38.940 is you lose
00:15:40.340 your anonymity
00:15:41.200 you lose your
00:15:41.900 privacy and
00:15:43.580 it's just another
00:15:44.660 false idol and
00:15:46.400 you really can't
00:15:47.580 fall into that
00:15:48.400 because otherwise
00:15:49.600 you become an
00:15:50.060 ugly person
00:15:50.620 you truly become
00:15:51.460 an unattractive
00:15:52.300 person and so
00:15:53.700 as I became
00:15:54.480 more well known
00:15:55.320 Doug and I
00:15:55.820 started to get
00:15:56.280 invited to more
00:15:57.460 fancy things
00:15:58.420 especially after
00:15:59.540 that debate with
00:16:00.140 Trump the left
00:16:01.260 loved me
00:16:01.880 remember that
00:16:02.560 and they started
00:16:04.240 inviting me to all
00:16:04.960 these fancy parties
00:16:05.920 and I was like
00:16:06.520 sure I guess I'll
00:16:08.000 go to this you
00:16:08.820 know huge Hollywood
00:16:09.800 party and meet all
00:16:10.600 these A-list stars
00:16:11.380 and see what that's
00:16:12.060 like I'll tell you
00:16:12.980 what it was like
00:16:13.480 torture it was
00:16:16.080 torture I felt
00:16:18.200 around them the
00:16:19.140 same you guys
00:16:19.840 would feel around
00:16:20.520 them I didn't know
00:16:21.700 what to say to
00:16:22.280 them I had
00:16:23.000 absolutely nothing
00:16:23.660 in common with
00:16:24.360 them it seemed
00:16:25.320 like a bunch of
00:16:25.940 vapid empty
00:16:27.180 people who only
00:16:28.140 wanted to sneak
00:16:28.920 a peek around me
00:16:29.700 to see who else
00:16:30.300 was there or
00:16:31.260 over there in
00:16:32.040 the mirror and
00:16:33.240 there was absolutely
00:16:34.500 nothing of consequence
00:16:35.240 to discuss with
00:16:35.980 anyone there who
00:16:37.260 they're obsessed
00:16:37.960 with their latest
00:16:38.520 movie or what role
00:16:39.680 they might get
00:16:40.120 nominated for all
00:16:40.820 I could think was
00:16:41.540 where is the
00:16:42.540 accountant who
00:16:43.440 planned this thing
00:16:44.220 who will talk to
00:16:44.920 me like a real
00:16:45.960 person so I
00:16:48.060 didn't enjoy
00:16:48.560 it and I
00:16:48.940 recognized that
00:16:49.560 it was false
00:16:50.140 you know that
00:16:50.740 it wasn't real
00:16:51.720 and I was always
00:16:52.640 very glad that I
00:16:53.200 had Doug with me
00:16:53.820 for these events
00:16:54.420 because he's very
00:16:55.680 grounded very
00:16:56.640 normal and I
00:16:58.240 would say one of
00:16:59.120 the biggest blessings
00:16:59.820 of sort of that
00:17:00.480 period of my life
00:17:01.680 ending was getting
00:17:03.320 away from those
00:17:03.860 people so you
00:17:05.560 didn't feel that's
00:17:06.640 just interesting
00:17:07.360 because a lot of
00:17:08.080 people who you
00:17:09.660 know go through
00:17:10.020 different periods
00:17:10.520 in their lives
00:17:11.020 like they're always
00:17:12.200 hoping to get back
00:17:13.100 to the Oscar
00:17:13.720 party oh god no
00:17:14.700 oh god no
00:17:15.680 no I mean I
00:17:17.160 went oh this
00:17:18.680 is another one
00:17:19.160 I went to the
00:17:20.340 Met Gala
00:17:21.220 Anna Wintour
00:17:22.880 I mean you could
00:17:24.300 freeze ice on her
00:17:25.100 ass
00:17:25.420 she so I went
00:17:28.520 she had me meet
00:17:29.640 with her at her
00:17:30.420 tower downtown
00:17:31.540 before this event
00:17:32.980 and it was she
00:17:34.420 thinks she's a
00:17:35.060 head of state this
00:17:35.800 woman I mean I'm
00:17:37.080 walking down the
00:17:37.880 hallway to go into
00:17:38.980 her suite and you've
00:17:40.760 got like 10 guys
00:17:42.200 with the Janet
00:17:42.740 Jackson headset
00:17:43.840 like and she's
00:17:44.740 we're walking
00:17:45.340 we're 10 feet
00:17:46.100 we're 5 feet
00:17:46.680 I'm like no one
00:17:48.160 wants to kill Anna
00:17:48.780 Wintour so just
00:17:49.720 like stop and you
00:17:51.740 get in there and
00:17:52.340 she's of course
00:17:52.780 eating like two
00:17:53.660 peas because she
00:17:55.080 has absolutely no
00:17:55.800 you're not allowed
00:17:56.140 to have any body
00:17:56.940 fat in fashion and
00:17:58.680 then she starts
00:18:00.360 lecturing me about
00:18:01.140 politics trying to
00:18:01.960 figure out whether
00:18:02.520 I'm pro-life trying
00:18:03.420 to figure out whether
00:18:04.000 I'm pro-church
00:18:04.520 like what business
00:18:06.480 is of yours
00:18:07.340 anyway it was
00:18:09.140 painful and the Met
00:18:10.060 Gala was downright
00:18:11.020 painful and all
00:18:11.700 these celebrities
00:18:12.340 who are all over
00:18:13.220 the Oscars and
00:18:14.080 these Academy Awards
00:18:15.040 and Golden Globes
00:18:16.300 lecturing us on how
00:18:17.080 to be better people
00:18:17.760 are in the ladies
00:18:19.040 room snorting coke
00:18:20.800 and dry humping
00:18:22.280 one another while
00:18:23.580 their spouses are
00:18:24.320 out there with my
00:18:25.260 own eyes and my
00:18:26.260 husband's all names
00:18:27.660 you would know
00:18:28.340 smoking in the Met
00:18:30.340 with like some of
00:18:31.660 our most precious
00:18:32.220 works of art are
00:18:33.200 absolutely totally
00:18:33.920 disrespectful and
00:18:35.340 what I realize is
00:18:36.180 these people are
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00:18:38.980 I want to do is go
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00:20:13.800 wow that is such a
00:20:30.060 vivid picture so I've
00:20:33.340 heard you report on the
00:20:34.480 Epstein story many times
00:20:35.820 and you never seem
00:20:36.600 shocked is this why
00:20:37.900 oh no I mean there's a
00:20:39.620 reason that that stayed
00:20:40.480 quiet for so long and I'm
00:20:42.340 you know there are a lot
00:20:42.960 of people who are still
00:20:43.620 quaking in their booths
00:20:44.740 scared to death about what
00:20:46.940 may come out you know and
00:20:47.900 I said this on my show and
00:20:49.640 I'll say it to you all too
00:20:50.780 it's not that Jeffrey Epstein
00:20:53.680 is alive I want to clarify
00:20:55.300 that at least not to my
00:20:56.320 knowledge but you will be
00:20:58.680 hearing from Jeffrey Epstein
00:21:00.680 I think at some point in the
00:21:01.780 next 12 months and I know
00:21:03.840 the person who is going to
00:21:05.340 bring it to you and I've
00:21:06.480 heard the thing myself this
00:21:09.220 is not BS you'll see
00:21:11.160 so without without divulging
00:21:16.120 you know the details that you
00:21:18.660 can't divulge and I should
00:21:20.720 just say I never I didn't
00:21:21.820 know what to think of that
00:21:22.540 story and I became I got to
00:21:24.100 know his brother pretty well
00:21:25.160 and yeah and I'm I think he
00:21:26.840 was murdered that's my view
00:21:28.100 yeah I never thought I would
00:21:29.340 think that but I do think
00:21:30.440 that um but how big is that
00:21:33.520 story do you think the one
00:21:35.620 that I'm talking about well
00:21:36.580 the Epstein story itself I
00:21:38.000 mean oh I mean I think it's
00:21:39.360 got tentacles everywhere I
00:21:40.740 mean I I really do think that
00:21:42.200 absolutely disgusting not just
00:21:44.740 I mean Jeffrey Epstein liked
00:21:45.940 young girls but he didn't
00:21:47.620 like eight-year-olds right but
00:21:49.340 I think that there are
00:21:50.200 multiple people in the
00:21:51.520 Hollywood industry in
00:21:52.280 particular who do yes ew thank
00:21:55.280 you and I think the same
00:21:57.000 people who are behind some of
00:21:58.220 the films that we seem see
00:21:59.420 right now where this starts
00:22:00.380 to get normalized in a way
00:22:01.940 where you know there's a lot
00:22:04.120 of sort of messaging in these
00:22:05.360 films you can't avoid it like
00:22:06.840 more and more it's getting
00:22:07.800 shoved down your throat they
00:22:09.560 start with like gay romances
00:22:12.400 in your face all over
00:22:13.740 Broadway like deep tongue
00:22:15.300 kissing all right I love my
00:22:17.540 gay friends but that's a lot
00:22:18.680 and then next thing you know
00:22:20.180 every man turns into a woman
00:22:21.560 in these productions whether
00:22:23.060 it's Hollywood or on the big
00:22:24.080 stage and it's not that you
00:22:25.640 have to be a pedophile to be you
00:22:27.180 know or you have to it's not
00:22:28.120 that gay people are more
00:22:28.960 likely to be pedophiles but if
00:22:30.700 you see these guys who are
00:22:32.220 trying to change the messaging
00:22:33.220 on pedophilia they use our
00:22:35.680 openness to people who happen
00:22:37.120 to be LGBTQ as the window to
00:22:39.800 get in like we're just on that
00:22:40.820 spectrum that's just us we're
00:22:42.800 just minor attracted people it's
00:22:44.660 nothing to worry about like it's
00:22:45.920 just another fetish that's all
00:22:47.320 it is yeah well I mean it's dark
00:22:50.580 so I I do think it's much more
00:22:53.380 widespread than people
00:22:55.140 understand and I had Corey
00:22:56.720 Feldman tell me that directly in
00:22:58.220 a heated conversation I had with
00:22:59.820 him five years ago
00:23:00.540 heated in what way he wanted
00:23:03.140 people to talk about this yeah
00:23:05.040 you know he grew up as a child
00:23:06.320 actor you saw what happened with
00:23:08.140 Nickelodeon you know I had some
00:23:10.400 of those kids on my show they
00:23:11.440 grew up at this with Nickelodeon
00:23:13.080 who didn't have their kids watch
00:23:14.060 Nickelodeon did you have any idea
00:23:15.960 it was such a perv fest with these
00:23:18.040 people taking advantage of young
00:23:19.340 kids and like pedophile after
00:23:21.000 pedophile and you know child
00:23:22.540 pornography it was absolutely
00:23:24.520 disgusting what a place to send
00:23:26.260 your child and the people running
00:23:27.760 it accused of pushing these
00:23:30.260 disgusting messages into our kids
00:23:32.260 television programming you look at
00:23:34.360 what that guy did to Ariana Grande
00:23:35.720 when she was a star on Nickelodeon
00:23:37.220 completely sexualized this girl
00:23:39.040 when she was 15 years old writhing
00:23:41.100 around on the bed like she was a
00:23:42.640 porn star so I just think there are a
00:23:44.840 lot of there are a lot of perverts
00:23:46.120 out there who control a lot of our
00:23:48.540 media whether it's the small screen
00:23:49.940 of the big screen and this is all
00:23:51.920 part of it's in a way it's like
00:23:53.540 grooming us getting a used to this
00:23:56.000 kind of stuff so when they take the
00:23:57.800 next step we're okay with it and
00:23:59.940 not to mention what's happening in
00:24:00.960 our children's libraries at school
00:24:02.340 right so I keep reading it there's
00:24:06.240 like a book-burning campaign against
00:24:08.300 great children's literature yeah no I
00:24:12.620 mean if great children's literature
00:24:14.560 includes this stuff we're in a lot of
00:24:17.060 trouble one of the most disgusting
00:24:19.900 things I've seen all year is 60
00:24:21.340 minutes when they had on moms for
00:24:22.920 liberty and Scott Pelley who is a
00:24:25.580 disgusting dishonest broker tried to
00:24:28.500 tell wait wait do you say and I think
00:24:31.060 I'm quoting Scott Pelley is a
00:24:32.440 disgusting dishonest broker correct
00:24:34.240 yes he's about as honest as his
00:24:36.100 friend Leslie Stahl who said the
00:24:37.400 laptop can't be verified it can't be
00:24:39.840 verified so he's got the moms for
00:24:42.440 liberty gals there and he's trying to
00:24:44.200 tell them that we are not seeing books
00:24:46.960 in K through 12 education that talk
00:24:49.440 about forgive me anal sex that talk
00:24:51.960 about the specifics of heterosex that
00:24:55.020 offer absolutely disgusting sex tips to
00:24:57.820 kids who are 10 and I've seen it with my
00:25:00.800 own eyes you guys have seen enough of
00:25:02.340 this out there with parents outraged at
00:25:04.200 school board meetings raising hell over
00:25:06.220 this to know Scott Pelley has his head
00:25:08.660 up his rear end it's happening and his
00:25:11.440 denial is hashtag part of the problem so
00:25:14.440 it I mean you've spent now I think a
00:25:18.020 couple decades in in or around the
00:25:20.500 American news media how is your so when
00:25:23.400 you first got into it contrast the
00:25:25.540 opinions you had of it then to the ones
00:25:27.120 you have now like what are your
00:25:28.100 conclusions oh wow I mean so much has
00:25:30.200 changed I mean when I got into news it
00:25:33.060 was 2003 or 4 and I was an unhappy
00:25:37.620 lawyer like I was done with the law and
00:25:40.200 I just wanted to try broadcast
00:25:41.880 journalism thought it would be really
00:25:42.940 fun thought it would use some of my
00:25:44.120 skills so I didn't care I was like I
00:25:47.000 got my interview at Fox and I went in
00:25:48.660 and Roger Ailes is number two guy was
00:25:50.160 like everyone wants to work for us now
00:25:53.040 that we're number one I was like they're
00:25:55.200 number one holy shit I'm never gonna get
00:25:56.500 this job I had no idea I didn't care I
00:25:59.660 wasn't about ideology I didn't you know
00:26:01.480 so I didn't know much I didn't know much
00:26:04.680 about the news I wasn't political when I
00:26:06.600 was a lawyer you have no time to be
00:26:08.300 anything other than a lawyer you're not
00:26:09.880 thinking about politics unless you're a
00:26:11.120 true DC lawyer like a lobbyist I was a
00:26:13.460 litigator trying cases for big
00:26:15.180 corporations and so it wasn't until I
00:26:17.960 started getting you know neck deep into
00:26:20.180 it that I realized how things worked and
00:26:22.420 thankfully I did grow up at Fox so I
00:26:24.460 never had the left-wing indoctrination
00:26:26.560 shoved on me and then in the past five
00:26:30.420 to ten years the ground has shifted under
00:26:32.620 all of our feet where I used to consider
00:26:34.820 myself you know center-right moderate and
00:26:39.740 now if you take one of those tests what
00:26:41.680 are you online I'm a far-right
00:26:43.440 conservative it's just this is what
00:26:46.580 happens I think I actually think the term
00:26:48.740 is dangerous extremist yeah I'm a
00:26:50.880 dangerous threat to democracy nice to
00:26:53.200 see you here well I definitely am that's
00:26:58.200 interesting so is that that you've
00:27:00.220 changed I mean you've seen a lot a lot I
00:27:03.260 know or that the definitions have
00:27:06.000 changed Tucker let me I'll give you one
00:27:08.040 example you know I used to fall for
00:27:13.240 believe in some of the woke nonsense
00:27:15.880 that's being shoved down our throats now
00:27:17.740 when it was just baby level right now it's
00:27:21.780 like grown into huge monster level but I
00:27:25.140 was one of the people on Fox defending the
00:27:28.200 whole transgender thing back in like 2013
00:27:30.940 and that's because like most people I
00:27:34.640 wanted to be empathetic I didn't want to
00:27:36.140 be nasty I didn't want to be bullying
00:27:37.460 and it was a very small problem back
00:27:39.680 then which so this seemed like an
00:27:41.640 appropriate reaction to it same thing on
00:27:44.600 the race stuff you know I would get very
00:27:47.300 upset when they would attack me for being
00:27:50.020 an alleged racist you know one time
00:27:52.000 there's a whole bunch of articles about
00:27:53.380 me being an alleged racist because I saw
00:27:55.940 these gangs beating up a woman and I said
00:27:57.840 these are thugs what a bunch of thugs
00:27:59.660 cue a week of media stories about what a
00:28:02.040 racist I was I was rattled I was upset I
00:28:05.240 was like oh my god I guess I can't use
00:28:06.480 the word thug I mean now I'm like they're
00:28:08.680 thugs right it's like it takes a while
00:28:12.000 yes so I needed that thicker skin and on
00:28:15.660 the gender stuff I mean I've completely
00:28:17.320 reversed myself and I see it entirely
00:28:19.620 differently so it's just with some growth
00:28:21.700 and while they've gotten more pernicious and
00:28:25.000 I've been paying attention my worldview on
00:28:26.740 these issues has entirely changed well but I
00:28:28.340 would also say that like a lot of people I
00:28:30.340 bet a lot of people in this room you had
00:28:33.300 your decency left leveraged against you yeah
00:28:37.200 you know you had the moral advantage but
00:28:40.680 the political disadvantage of really
00:28:42.780 sincerely wanting to be a good person and
00:28:44.400 not hurt someone's feelings I mean this is
00:28:47.420 like the way that people who are trying to
00:28:49.980 be good people think like I don't want to
00:28:51.800 hurt other anyone else I don't you know
00:28:54.120 there are a lot of hurting people they
00:28:55.080 don't want to make it worse like you
00:28:56.340 really try to be decent and they take
00:28:58.960 that instinct and they use it against you
00:29:02.320 yes and then you learn there's no amount
00:29:06.140 of subjugation that is okay for them you
00:29:09.840 must be on your knees forever and I do
00:29:13.400 think one of the reasons why can you stop
00:29:16.620 and explain that a little more that's
00:29:18.060 so interesting there's no enough there's
00:29:20.340 not enough ring kissing that you can do
00:29:22.360 because even if you kiss the ring I mean
00:29:25.120 let's go back to the Trump thing so the
00:29:27.240 left loved me after that Trump debate and
00:29:29.080 they thought that I was secretly you know
00:29:30.860 a Trump hater that I was I was a wolf in
00:29:34.460 sheep's clothing at Fox News and I was
00:29:37.060 going to take down the Republican Party
00:29:39.140 all I wanted to do is ask a really hard
00:29:40.920 debate question and I asked one of him
00:29:42.880 and I asked one of everybody just like I
00:29:44.380 had done it all the presidential debates
00:29:45.820 that I moderated so then they started to
00:29:48.540 love me right they're like oh we love you
00:29:49.960 we love you and then I got a job offer at
00:29:51.960 NBC and for all sorts of reasons I left
00:29:53.680 because my time at Fox was done for a
00:29:55.440 number of reasons some of which you may
00:29:56.660 have read about in the paper and so I go
00:29:59.800 over to NBC and the one of the first
00:30:01.380 things I said to them was just in case
00:30:03.200 you're thinking I am a secret liberal
00:30:05.540 waiting to let my liberal flag fly I'm not
00:30:10.100 I'm exactly who you saw me on the air as
00:30:13.320 you know I'm somebody who's more center
00:30:15.280 right in my political beliefs but I try
00:30:17.540 to play it straight on the air fine fine
00:30:19.940 fine do you think that that was my
00:30:21.820 experience when I went over there with
00:30:23.380 those leftists that was not my experience
00:30:25.920 but having said that that experience was
00:30:28.320 a gift to me such a gift to me I learned
00:30:32.040 so much and not just about like okay I
00:30:34.960 got fired so I learned things although I
00:30:36.740 technically wasn't fired my show was
00:30:39.640 canceled but the rest remains a matter of
00:30:41.440 contract mystery been there yeah but I
00:30:46.260 learned this lesson I learned this
00:30:48.340 lesson and I'll take you back to the
00:30:50.120 whole blackface controversy okay if I
00:30:52.180 may so I I the reason my show ended is
00:30:55.080 because we had a conversation on the air
00:30:56.360 about blackface Halloween costumes and I
00:30:58.180 was saying you know when did it become
00:30:59.500 racist because when I grew up in the
00:31:00.580 70s and I remember this was on TV is on
00:31:03.680 the movies it was on like the Christmas
00:31:04.860 specials like I'd seen it wasn't clearly
00:31:07.440 something that all the society was
00:31:08.820 saying don't do this not talking about
00:31:10.880 minstrel face blackface but talking
00:31:12.860 about these Halloween costumes and
00:31:15.200 that's it that's all I said and that was
00:31:17.860 that was the cardinal sin which you
00:31:19.800 didn't burn a cross on the set at all
00:31:21.560 that's not no no and by the way NBC was
00:31:24.020 airing like four shows within two years
00:31:26.300 of that comment with people in blackface
00:31:27.940 so okay I've never worn blackface I was
00:31:32.100 just trying to have a conversation but so
00:31:33.360 but that's irrelevant what I'm trying to
00:31:34.820 say is I learned that these people are
00:31:40.020 not sincere brokers they're not actually
00:31:42.620 outraged over anything I said or Joy Behar
00:31:47.000 would be fired over ABC News because she
00:31:49.020 put her blackface pictures on the air and
00:31:51.180 celebrated it I could go down the list
00:31:54.460 Ted Danson who was starring on NBC at
00:31:56.480 that moment in a show about heaven and
00:31:58.980 hell he wore minstrel show blackface
00:32:02.260 Whoopi Goldberg wrote the skit for him and
00:32:04.060 she too is a host on the view over at ABC
00:32:06.160 scrubs a couple of people wore blackface
00:32:08.980 on the air and they were pretty we could
00:32:10.940 go down the list and so for me it was very
00:32:13.040 eye-opening because at first my instincts
00:32:15.420 were I should go back out on the air and I
00:32:18.560 should explain to people no no no don't be
00:32:21.760 offended I can show you all these examples
00:32:24.040 of what I'm talking about I'm not endorsing
00:32:26.200 it I'm saying I noticed it and it changed and I
00:32:29.540 realized what are you doing these are not
00:32:33.120 people who are honestly mad at you for what
00:32:36.480 you said they're mad at the voice you've
00:32:39.500 been bringing because you probably didn't
00:32:41.620 watch my show at NBC nobody did but I was
00:32:45.920 saying conservative things I was defending
00:32:48.560 Brett Kavanaugh to the hilt I was merciless
00:32:52.000 on these stupid gang rape accusers and all
00:32:55.360 that BS and I do think people were starting
00:32:59.020 to recoil I attacked Jane Fonda brutally on
00:33:01.800 the air in a 20-minute monologue and so what
00:33:06.280 they wanted was my ruination and you cannot
00:33:10.000 bargain with those so no amount of on-the-knee
00:33:12.720 apologies playing their game trying to get
00:33:16.480 along or just be a nice person who tried
00:33:18.840 to look inside and say what did I do I'm
00:33:21.060 willing to self-examine would advance the
00:33:24.180 ball at all and then you finally if you go
00:33:27.980 through something like that graduate to the
00:33:29.380 point of not giving a damn what they say
00:33:33.720 about you and it is liberating
00:33:35.920 this is something he knows nothing about
00:33:41.520 I can just say having spent you know many
00:33:44.760 many many years in television I've never
00:33:47.580 seen crueler or more deceptive behavior
00:33:50.620 toward anyone than what they did to you at
00:33:52.200 NBC and I used to work there and I know
00:33:54.300 that they're loathsome I didn't realize they
00:33:55.700 weren't that loathsome but it sounds like
00:33:59.200 you're saying it's worth the suffering to
00:34:02.180 arrive at that point of liberation yes so
00:34:06.140 that's in the personal and professional
00:34:08.020 lane that that word liberation but I also
00:34:12.320 needed the growth I needed the life lessons
00:34:15.020 and this is one of the reasons why I do
00:34:17.040 believe in cancel culture I believe in my
00:34:19.360 being canceled and I believe in you being
00:34:21.500 canceled I enjoyed it yeah you know because
00:34:25.040 ultimately it separates you from a company
00:34:27.140 that you did not belong at for whatever
00:34:29.220 reason you know the value systems are
00:34:31.240 different and once you get through the
00:34:33.180 trauma you know when you're going through
00:34:34.720 trauma you're not thinking about the life
00:34:36.120 lessons but if you're an introspective
00:34:38.360 person then hopefully at some point you
00:34:39.840 sit back and you reflect on what did it
00:34:41.400 mean for me what did I learn from it and I
00:34:44.260 could say the same thing about you know Fox
00:34:46.000 in my last couple of years there and that
00:34:48.660 that's something you should be thankful for
00:34:50.180 I've grown as a person I've developed
00:34:51.720 muscles I didn't have I can handle
00:34:53.520 additional challenges in a way I never
00:34:55.520 could have before I've gotten closer to
00:34:57.820 who I really am and it's forced me to
00:34:59.920 examine my own values in a way few events
00:35:02.660 will all of that is a gift I love that
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00:36:43.700 I've never learned a single thing sitting on
00:37:00.440 the beach over vacation ever that's right
00:37:03.400 eating french toast in bed has not grown me
00:37:05.620 as a person though I've enjoyed it okay so
00:37:08.160 I have to I just have to ask you since I
00:37:10.580 do think you're the best legal analyst I've
00:37:14.620 ever watched let's just game out not
00:37:18.540 Jeffrey Toobin no he's better on zoom calls
00:37:24.000 but uh he's what a filthy and not just because
00:37:30.960 he's just a filthy person in every way but um
00:37:33.120 it's hard it's really
00:37:34.820 amazing um so let's just say so Trump is
00:37:43.560 at at least tied I think up in a in the
00:37:48.200 electoral count as of today that's my belief
00:37:50.380 based on the numbers that I saw this morning
00:37:51.920 let's say that can you you don't have no idea
00:37:54.140 none of us knows what's gonna happen but
00:37:55.520 let's just say that holds and he wins the
00:37:58.660 election first Tuesday in November
00:38:00.980 which I personally think I'm terrible at
00:38:06.360 predictions I'm always wrong but if I had to
00:38:08.200 bet money on it I would bet that happens
00:38:09.980 what happens then legally with the law
00:38:13.580 fair yes well first of all I know you're
00:38:16.300 going to talk to Charlie Kirk and you should
00:38:17.660 definitely be asking him about the ground
00:38:19.140 game because there's a lot in his hands thank
00:38:22.680 God for Charlie Kirk no but honestly this
00:38:26.040 applies to all of you because the Democrats
00:38:28.760 get out the vote effort is second to none
00:38:30.980 and there can not be any complacency none it
00:38:35.780 really is tight I think Politico had a headline
00:38:38.240 the other day like knife fight in a phone
00:38:40.460 booth and it is that tight um so everybody it
00:38:43.520 can't be in Charlie's hands it can't be in
00:38:45.280 Trump's hands and I mean and I and especially
00:38:47.660 anything resembling us or near a swing state
00:38:50.520 but what happens if he wins is the January
00:38:55.200 6th litigation and the Mar-a-Lago litigation
00:38:57.760 go away instantly because he'll be in charge of
00:39:00.720 the DOJ and he'll pull those attack dogs Jack
00:39:03.040 Smith and his cohorts off of those cases and
00:39:05.260 they're dead they're dead they're not they're not
00:39:07.500 gonna be resurrected so then we have Georgia
00:39:09.920 which is gonna go away because Fannie Willis and
00:39:11.960 Nathan Wade couldn't keep it in their pants so I
00:39:15.020 think she's going to be disqualified on this
00:39:17.060 appeal the trial court judge did not disqualify
00:39:20.100 him but or them but he begged if you read that
00:39:22.780 opinion he begged he said oh please please I have a
00:39:25.800 stench of mendacity fills my courtroom an actual
00:39:29.060 phrase from his opinion not disqualifying he's an
00:39:32.500 elected official she's very popular it's you know
00:39:35.260 Atlanta region so this appellate corps all three of
00:39:39.000 whom are Republican judges are gonna disqualify her I'd
00:39:42.360 be stunned if I'm wrong so that case is going away
00:39:45.240 because there's not gonna be another prosecutor who
00:39:46.460 will take it and that leaves us with New York and our
00:39:51.400 old friend Alvin Bragg and I understand yes boo and you
00:39:56.460 can we can keep it rolling for all those Soros
00:39:58.480 prosecutors who don't want to prosecute any crime unless
00:40:00.800 your name is Donald Trump Alvin Bragg has gotten his
00:40:05.840 conviction they're going to have a sentencing at some
00:40:10.080 point in my right now it's set for after the election and
00:40:12.760 I think the worst case scenario for Trump now is jail
00:40:16.160 time with a suspended sentence meaning he won't have to
00:40:19.900 serve it until an appeal goes up and I think there's no
00:40:23.320 chance that this conviction is going to stand because the
00:40:27.160 Supreme Court ruled in that immunity ruling you guys know
00:40:29.700 about that right they said not only can you not go after a
00:40:32.920 president criminally for most of his official acts but in any
00:40:36.600 case against him you can't introduce evidence of what he did
00:40:40.220 while in the Oval Office well the Alvin Bragg prosecution did a
00:40:43.960 lot of that what was Hope Hicks doing on the stand if they
00:40:46.800 weren't introducing evidence of what Trump was doing while
00:40:48.920 president and she was talking about her time anyway that
00:40:52.120 prosecution has to go at the conviction has to go because the
00:40:56.200 conviction was based in large part on evidence the Supreme
00:40:59.340 Court has said may not be admitted in any case that's just
00:41:01.980 one thing but even the jail time no one not named Donald Trump
00:41:06.140 would get jail time for this and as soon as that judge tries to
00:41:10.120 make this a jail time case he will appeal it up to the first
00:41:13.160 appellate division and I just don't think maybe it'll stand
00:41:16.060 there but once it gets to up to New York State Court of
00:41:18.100 Appeals those are still rational judges those are the judges who
00:41:21.320 threw out the Harvey Weinstein conviction they've got stones and
00:41:25.660 they're not that afraid of politics they're not great it's
00:41:29.560 not like our Supreme Court and I think Trump will prevail so I
00:41:32.800 don't think he spends one day in jail and I certainly don't think
00:41:35.360 there's a judge in the land who would put a sitting president or
00:41:37.440 president-elect in jail.
00:41:42.300 Are there legal mechanisms that Mark Elias and the rest of the
00:41:47.880 Democratic lawyer army can use to stop the electors from certifying
00:41:54.480 Trump president if he wins?
00:41:57.280 They're going to try I don't know exactly how they'll do it they may
00:42:02.120 resurrect this he committed an insurrection I mean they've said that
00:42:05.980 they're going to he committed an insurrection and therefore he can't
00:42:09.000 be on the ballot that ultimately winds up at the US Supreme Court and
00:42:12.360 they're going to kill it so I mean honestly you know when you're when
00:42:15.380 you're feeling down about the state of our politics or our country this is
00:42:19.440 what I do I go to bed at night I get under my blankie and I think
00:42:23.180 about the Supreme Court thank God thank God you have lawyer dreams I do I
00:42:33.300 used to call Chief Justice John Roberts Chief Justice McDreamy until
00:42:36.720 Obamacare he got downgraded I met him at an event one time it was a play in
00:42:43.360 New York at some embassy and I saw him it was one of those things where like
00:42:47.260 you're part of the play as an audience member you kind of stand there and
00:42:49.840 you're having dinner with the cast members and they're acting it was actually
00:42:52.100 very cool and I saw him after it was over and I went up to him and I said
00:42:56.040 nice to meet you Mr. Chief Justice he said nice to meet you Megan and I said
00:43:00.040 I'm a big fan I'm a big fan and he said oh you're the one and I said oh no no I
00:43:04.540 admire you but Obamacare was not a principled decision and Doug was like
00:43:09.680 honey but it wasn't what what what did he say he laughed yeah he's a good guy look
00:43:18.000 he's he's got a different role in his mind on the court than the rest of the
00:43:21.680 justices and you know I agree with it in part but I don't disagree I don't agree
00:43:25.620 with the way he's been ruling but anyway we've got Alito we've got Thomas who
00:43:29.940 seems great like in good in good health we'll see you know I had Gorsuch on the
00:43:35.420 show the other day and I love how anti-regulation he is Gorsuch is hardcore
00:43:39.100 anti-regulation just came out with a book talking about how big the
00:43:41.840 administrative state has gotten I think he would like the Javier Mele point you
00:43:45.700 know he would he would like to cut all the the federal agencies down by a lot so I
00:43:52.160 like him although he is responsible for Bostock the one that said there's a
00:43:56.680 mandate to put trans people in your workplace you can't exclude them based on
00:44:00.540 the basis of being trans and that one's a little stickier anyway we've got a
00:44:04.340 strong Supreme Court right now I've never seen a court like this in my
00:44:07.240 lifetime where it's six three and it's gonna take a lot to unend it unearth it
00:44:12.020 now if they win control of the Senate and the White House and they win
00:44:16.440 control of the Senate by a lot they could get rid of the filibuster well they
00:44:19.900 don't have to it's but already gotten they've already gotten rid of it for
00:44:22.420 Supreme Court justices and they could expand the court potentially and then
00:44:26.980 we'd have to march in the streets endlessly I mean that's civil war banana
00:44:31.540 republic shit that we'd have to fight not not calling for violence but saying
00:44:35.880 this would require every street America civil disobedience absolutely so I mean
00:44:42.000 that is a stated goal they've said that repeatedly getting 16 year olds to vote
00:44:46.940 having millions of illegal aliens vote and expanding the court they've all said
00:44:51.340 that out loud do you think they will try the last one packing it to pack the court
00:44:56.440 depends on what November looks like if they win how big is the victory right you
00:45:05.380 know if it's razor tight I don't think they'd have the guts I I just I don't think so but
00:45:11.060 if she goes in there thinking she has a mandate it's a terrifying thought it could
00:45:18.060 happen it could happen it this is not Trump's locked up he doesn't have it locked up yet so
00:45:26.260 people need to be really clear about what could be coming our way if she wins and get to the
00:45:34.140 polls get your friends to the polls get a bus and get everyone you know in swing states to the polls
00:45:41.520 and if she wins and thinks she has a mandate and starts doing the things she said she would do go
00:45:47.500 look at her ACLU questionnaire that to his credit Andrew Kaczynski over at CNN unearthed and see what
00:45:53.620 she wants to do about defunding ICE and making the entire country a sanctuary city she said it
00:46:00.860 using your taxpayer dollars to fund sex change operations for prisoners and illegal immigrants
00:46:08.100 the country will change dramatically and we'll have to do use every tool in our arsenal to fight it and
00:46:15.040 that would definitely include lawfare you know challenges with the current Supreme Court to stop what
00:46:20.420 they're going to try to do to it how would you assess her record in office as say attorney general
00:46:28.140 in the state of California she's she refers to that a lot my read is a non-lawyer non-legal expert
00:46:32.860 is that she doesn't have limits in her behavior she seems totally happy to prosecute people she doesn't
00:46:41.840 like because she doesn't like them she's your worst nightmare Tucker because she she loves to go after
00:46:48.660 the little guy like the drug users you know people with these small petty crimes and that's what she
00:46:56.800 did trying to convince people she was tough on crime as a San Francisco DA and then as California
00:47:00.900 attorney general and then as soon as she got on the national uh board she abandoned all that started
00:47:06.860 bailing out BLM rioters started to go hardcore the other way backing people like Kim Fox you know the
00:47:14.240 Soros prosecutor in Chicago and so on flipped all the way over the other way and is truly the daughter
00:47:21.420 of a Marxist and has Marxist tendencies herself and is as far left as you can find I mean she's the
00:47:28.040 most leftist presidential candidate we have ever had I think she's farther to the left than Bernie Sanders
00:47:34.880 that's not what I read without his without his charm I read that she was the source of all joy
00:47:40.660 have you have you read that yeah yeah so I hear although they've gotten rid of the joy since they
00:47:48.360 had to kill the cackle the cat memes are my favorite it's still a creative oh my god it's amazing it's
00:47:56.720 amazing have you seen the tiktoks then they're killing cats and they're killing dogs that that's
00:48:04.080 a new tick a new cat they're eating the pets that's really that that was the high point uh in American
00:48:08.460 politics I mean that too um so Kamala Harris as the not to go over what we just saw like in the last
00:48:19.940 two months but how exactly did she become the democratic nominee without anyone voting for her is that
00:48:25.620 how can that happen I've never seen somebody so good at failing upward right it's amazing
00:48:32.720 I know you're not allowed to talk about this but she slept her way into California politics
00:48:38.860 it's true I don't say it to be mean I say it because it's true she slept with Willie Brown which
00:48:48.020 is its own skill I gotta say I mean maybe she just found himself he was so full of magnetism he was 30
00:48:53.360 years older than she was I said she had no talents I mean that was not fair
00:48:56.820 and he paved her way he paved her way into California politics he helped her get elected
00:49:06.060 as San Francisco DA and once you're in that system as a far left dem you're good of course you're
00:49:11.380 going to become the senator from that state when the opportunity presents itself never mind the
00:49:15.520 identity politics aspect of it and before you knew it Joe Biden was running around promising people
00:49:20.140 he'd add a black woman to the ticket because James Clyburn said you're not going to win South
00:49:23.940 Carolina unless you do that so he did it now she's our vice president and then he falls apart after
00:49:29.000 the big cover-up and next thing you know she's out there an empty vessel pretending she's the next
00:49:36.060 Obama she do you guys know that there was a report by Mark Halperin who's very tied into these
00:49:43.140 Democrat circles that before the Democratic National Convention speech she was prepped by CAA
00:49:50.360 Creative Artists Agency the biggest Hollywood agency there is Brian Lord who runs it and top
00:49:56.020 Hollywood talent on how to deliver her lines how to nail her speech now what are the odds that she
00:50:02.200 when she was hauled up for those five or six days preparing for the debate didn't have help like that
00:50:05.840 that's what she's got if you're the Republican candidate you show up you've got both of the
00:50:12.280 moderators and your opponent against you you get interrupted in every answer you get fact checked
00:50:16.900 erroneously in every answer you get the moderator's opinion coming at you as a fact check you get
00:50:22.460 follow-ups on everything if you try to dodge or weave it all they will nail you to the floor
00:50:26.480 but if you're Kamala Harris and you've said everything there is to say about fracking and then show up and
00:50:31.380 say I've always been consistent it's thank you madam president the most interesting and newsworthy
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00:51:36.260 so you've got one candidate who shows up with the biggest most powerful Hollywood agency prepping her with voice coaches and the other candidate shows up with two cans of diet coke that doesn't seem like a symmetrical contest and a burger
00:52:06.020 no it's totally unfair and to me it's been so frustrating to watch people Republicans over the past 48 hours say well that's the way it is you have to do better you know that's that's just how it is everybody knows the media is biased this is not the right attitude what happened on that stage on Tuesday night was a complete dereliction of duty by those moderators they completely abandoned all journalistic integrity and principle and it's deadly serious we're talking about a presidential
00:52:36.000 presidential election here they actively inserted themselves to the point where you actually have to wonder whether they made a conscious decision at ABC this is the night we're going to do it we're just going to we're just going to lift the dress up and show them everything that we're not journalists that we are partisan hacks
00:52:52.520 you know I always thought judging by David Muir's abs that he was a great journalist but I
00:52:58.920 who is David Muir anyway you know he's managed to fly under the radar yeah that's one way to put it
00:53:07.420 because he lets his programmers his producers and his content selections speak for his bias you know Media Research Center did a study right before the debate it dropped showing that I think it was 92% of their
00:53:19.360 coverage on Kamala was positive 92 or 93 97% of their coverage on Trump was negative and they said that ABC was the worst of the three nightly newscasts NBC more fair than ABC CBS as well so he got chosen to do the debate and when David Muir was out there without the producers selecting the stories all of which were left you're left to say okay let's see you David Muir who are you and of course we already
00:53:47.840 knew because he has a say on content selection on his show but he really let us freak freak flag fly and and what they did up there I mean I'll just take the one moment which is really driving me insane
00:54:00.400 they asked Trump about his comment that he lost by a whisker recently on a podcast fair question that's fine you can ask him that and Trump says I was being sarcastic
00:54:10.460 he actually fact checked him with I didn't detect any sarcasm
00:54:15.960 what are you are you like one of those emojis from the emoji movie that can detect that's not sarcasm no that's a truth teller
00:54:24.440 that it was the most inappropriate thing I've ever seen and it masqueraded as a fact check and it of course
00:54:32.020 tripped Trump up and just give you one other thing it's another moment of the debate
00:54:36.480 they asked Kamala Harris about the fact that they did nothing about immigration until the last six months
00:54:40.740 right obviously an election ploy to make the numbers look better
00:54:43.880 they turned to her first she does her John Wayne routine like well I was tough on that there border
00:54:49.640 back when I was an AG and now again sure sure Jan
00:54:53.400 well she does have a gun so I kind of get it yeah sure she does
00:54:57.560 so she gives that routine and then she immediately pivots to his rallies stink and people leave
00:55:03.040 and of course for Trump that's like no he can't no here's a liver snap yes I know right and you're
00:55:11.140 like no Trump come back come back I know no don't do it so he did it he did it and then he did and
00:55:19.060 you're like pivot back to immigration this is your best issue this is her worst issue pivot pivot pivot
00:55:23.300 so he starts pivoting and that's when we got into the dogs and the cats
00:55:27.080 okay I mean I mean it is a thing but maybe not our best example like you know the Babylon Bee had a
00:55:38.400 headline the other day saying like Democrats fact check Trump nope no dogs and cats being killed just
00:55:43.200 women and children so he pivots back to immigration with the dogs and the cats fact check not happening
00:55:51.980 another inappropriate fact check this is a this is a matter up for debate right now we've had
00:55:57.080 dozens now at this point of witness testimonials saying it is true and we have one unnamed city
00:56:02.480 manager saying not that I could prove well what that's not that's not a proof that it's not happening
00:56:08.820 another inappropriate fact check so he screws up Trump's momentum and then he interrupts to go to
00:56:14.640 Kamala Harris I'm thinking okay this is it where he's going to go back to her and say the question was
00:56:18.560 why did you wait until six months before no one's given me an answer you know we've done rallies and
00:56:24.260 we've done dogs what's the answer and instead of saying that to her what does he say your response
00:56:30.920 madam Harris madam vice president what that's not the toss so what does she do does she get up there
00:56:36.880 and say let me let me give you an answer let me she says 200 Republicans have endorsed me
00:56:42.300 and now we're off on that course and we never got back well I mean to be fair Dick Cheney was one of
00:56:51.000 them yeah that's right like what do you mean did you ever think you'd wake up in a country where
00:56:56.120 Kamala Harris was bragging about Darth Vader's endorsement like what yeah and they love him now
00:57:03.380 the left loves some Dick Cheney and his horrible daughter the whole thing is like you're blowing my mind
00:57:10.680 of all the Republicans who could endorse yes I'll take Dick Cheney just for the charm alone
00:57:17.440 it's like what it's so true and by the way the left you listen to leftist media and they really
00:57:24.560 think that's going to make a difference like they don't think that that Trump's going to recover
00:57:28.240 from the Dick Cheney endorsement of Kamala Harris or the Liz Cheney a lot of a lot of Liz Cheney
00:57:34.140 Republicans left it's just crazy I mean it is a kind of cleansing moment for the Republican Party
00:57:40.620 actually it's like getting a giant bald splinter out after 40 years do you know what I mean
00:57:45.660 that's like here's what we'll do all the people in our party who love killing people for profit
00:57:51.780 you can have and she's like that's right enjoy we've got a big tent the water's fine but look
00:57:56.980 at the Lincoln Project they're still out there doing these terrible ads about Trump after their
00:58:00.320 pedophilia scandal like what now they survived that there's some guy there who was accused
00:58:06.880 of behaving very inappropriately with young men I don't know exactly how young but the point is
00:58:11.400 they're still Democrats giving them millions of dollars and they're running ads against Trump
00:58:15.980 like he's the bad one you get Bill Kristol and Dick Cheney what a trade so awesome we get Bobby
00:58:21.760 Kennedy I think it's fair um Kinzinger yes so um so just to just to end you're the best I just want
00:58:31.040 to thank you for this conversation it's just put me in a great mood and it's wonderful to see you but
00:58:35.040 I want to um just end on getting your views on a topic that I think is really hopeful and great so
00:58:41.800 you have just painted a devastating portrait of the American news media and you're doing it from a
00:58:48.340 place of deep knowledge and experience I mean you're Megyn Kelly like you're not making you're
00:58:52.780 not guessing about this you work there um but then you leave NBC in the nastiest most dishonest as I
00:58:59.760 said exit I've ever seen never seen anyone treated the way you were treated and then you built this
00:59:05.720 kind of empire by yourself and it's amazing it's an amazing story and it's a tribute to your grit
00:59:13.620 and your talent your native talent but it's also a commentary on like where we're going yeah I mean
00:59:20.960 I'm not I didn't even think to call anybody at NBC News to join on this tour because people don't
00:59:27.280 even know who works there yeah right so maybe your life is a testament to what the future of media will
00:59:35.480 be and maybe that's great thank you my life and yours Tucker I think what we're proving is that
00:59:43.220 the future of media is independent it's a direct relationship between the consumers and the
00:59:50.460 journalist of choice people will make up their minds on an individual basis who do I trust who do I trust
00:59:57.540 for news and information and who don't I trust and more and more especially post-pandemic people are
01:00:03.240 really realizing you can't trust these large corporations they have agendas that they are secretly
01:00:10.240 and not so secretly trying to shove down your throat without owning it you have an individual
01:00:15.480 you can make up your own mind is is she a truth teller is he a truth teller do they take big risks
01:00:20.960 and go against the grain even when it might hurt them do they apologize to me when they got something
01:00:25.540 wrong or own it are they self-deprecating you're like the most successful slash self-deprecating person
01:00:30.900 I know which shows your humility and you want someone with humility telling you about the news because
01:00:35.620 sometimes we do get it wrong and we need to be able to say all right that one not my best that's and the
01:00:40.680 audience is forgiving but you don't want people who are agenda driven especially not with some corporate
01:00:45.840 overlords agenda so it was funny I was listening to this podcast recently and you came up they're very
01:00:52.860 angry at you and um not the first time as a result they were trying to say that you he has no influence
01:01:00.460 that he's very popular but with no influence and this made me laugh so literally you had the white
01:01:06.760 house weighing in on tucker's interview last week okay like that it has absolutely no influence but
01:01:11.960 everyone in the country feels the need to comment on everything he does and on top of that you just
01:01:18.120 look at the don't don't take my word for it because I'm your friend you guys tell me who is more
01:01:23.920 influential tucker carlson or wolf blitzer
01:01:28.400 right truly like who has more sway with an audience right like um I'll take myself like yours truly or
01:01:41.100 like mika brzezinski I like my odds I'm I'm good on that cage match nobody talks about these people
01:01:52.220 now maybe a show here or there will make news but cable news is dead it was a suicide that was
01:01:58.180 assisted by Donald Trump and it was one that needed to happen
01:02:01.460 I can't improve on that and I just I should have said this at the outset in my introduction of you
01:02:13.480 I said what a kind person you were which I think is evidence anyone who listens to you
01:02:17.700 I said what a talented person you are which is obvious that's why you're successful
01:02:21.380 but I forgot to mention the basis of your success and your happiness which is your honesty
01:02:26.620 you're an honest person and I'm grateful for it I'm grateful to be your friend thank you
01:02:31.460 Megan Kelly takes one to know one tucker thank you thank you
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