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,
00:03:39.040it's a sincere question why are people telling me to ask you that and
00:03:43.780do you think Taylor Swift who apparently endorsed
00:03:46.780Carmela Harris just the other day will have I know I know I'm not here to endorse Taylor Swift trust me
00:03:53.240will this have an effect what's the significance of this
00:03:56.780I 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
00:04:05.440express 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
00:04:11.900had not registered to vote are not going to do it because of Taylor Swift
00:41:57.280They're going to try I don't know exactly how they'll do it they may
00:42:02.120resurrect this he committed an insurrection I mean they've said that
00:42:05.980they're going to he committed an insurrection and therefore he can't
00:42:09.000be on the ballot that ultimately winds up at the US Supreme Court and
00:42:12.360they're going to kill it so I mean honestly you know when you're when
00:42:15.380you're feeling down about the state of our politics or our country this is
00:42:19.440what I do I go to bed at night I get under my blankie and I think
00:42:23.180about the Supreme Court thank God thank God you have lawyer dreams I do I
00:42:33.300used to call Chief Justice John Roberts Chief Justice McDreamy until
00:42:36.720Obamacare he got downgraded I met him at an event one time it was a play in
00:42:43.360New York at some embassy and I saw him it was one of those things where like
00:42:47.260you're part of the play as an audience member you kind of stand there and
00:42:49.840you're having dinner with the cast members and they're acting it was actually
00:42:52.100very cool and I saw him after it was over and I went up to him and I said
00:42:56.040nice to meet you Mr. Chief Justice he said nice to meet you Megan and I said
00:43:00.040I'm a big fan I'm a big fan and he said oh you're the one and I said oh no no I
00:43:04.540admire you but Obamacare was not a principled decision and Doug was like
00:43:09.680honey but it wasn't what what what did he say he laughed yeah he's a good guy look
00:43:18.000he's he's got a different role in his mind on the court than the rest of the
00:43:21.680justices and you know I agree with it in part but I don't disagree I don't agree
00:43:25.620with the way he's been ruling but anyway we've got Alito we've got Thomas who
00:43:29.940seems great like in good in good health we'll see you know I had Gorsuch on the
00:43:35.420show the other day and I love how anti-regulation he is Gorsuch is hardcore
00:43:39.100anti-regulation just came out with a book talking about how big the
00:43:41.840administrative state has gotten I think he would like the Javier Mele point you
00:43:45.700know he would he would like to cut all the the federal agencies down by a lot so I
00:43:52.160like him although he is responsible for Bostock the one that said there's a
00:43:56.680mandate to put trans people in your workplace you can't exclude them based on
00:44:00.540the basis of being trans and that one's a little stickier anyway we've got a
00:44:04.340strong Supreme Court right now I've never seen a court like this in my
00:44:07.240lifetime where it's six three and it's gonna take a lot to unend it unearth it
00:44:12.020now if they win control of the Senate and the White House and they win
00:44:16.440control of the Senate by a lot they could get rid of the filibuster well they
00:44:19.900don't have to it's but already gotten they've already gotten rid of it for
00:44:22.420Supreme Court justices and they could expand the court potentially and then
00:44:26.980we'd have to march in the streets endlessly I mean that's civil war banana
00:44:31.540republic shit that we'd have to fight not not calling for violence but saying
00:44:35.880this would require every street America civil disobedience absolutely so I mean
00:44:42.000that is a stated goal they've said that repeatedly getting 16 year olds to vote
00:44:46.940having millions of illegal aliens vote and expanding the court they've all said
00:44:51.340that out loud do you think they will try the last one packing it to pack the court
00:44:56.440depends on what November looks like if they win how big is the victory right you
00:45:05.380know if it's razor tight I don't think they'd have the guts I I just I don't think so but
00:45:11.060if she goes in there thinking she has a mandate it's a terrifying thought it could
00:45:18.060happen it could happen it this is not Trump's locked up he doesn't have it locked up yet so
00:45:26.260people need to be really clear about what could be coming our way if she wins and get to the
00:45:34.140polls get your friends to the polls get a bus and get everyone you know in swing states to the polls
00:45:41.520and if she wins and thinks she has a mandate and starts doing the things she said she would do go
00:45:47.500look at her ACLU questionnaire that to his credit Andrew Kaczynski over at CNN unearthed and see what
00:45:53.620she wants to do about defunding ICE and making the entire country a sanctuary city she said it
00:46:00.860using your taxpayer dollars to fund sex change operations for prisoners and illegal immigrants
00:46:08.100the country will change dramatically and we'll have to do use every tool in our arsenal to fight it and
00:46:15.040that would definitely include lawfare you know challenges with the current Supreme Court to stop what
00:46:20.420they're going to try to do to it how would you assess her record in office as say attorney general
00:46:28.140in the state of California she's she refers to that a lot my read is a non-lawyer non-legal expert
00:46:32.860is that she doesn't have limits in her behavior she seems totally happy to prosecute people she doesn't
00:46:41.840like because she doesn't like them she's your worst nightmare Tucker because she she loves to go after
00:46:48.660the little guy like the drug users you know people with these small petty crimes and that's what she
00:46:56.800did trying to convince people she was tough on crime as a San Francisco DA and then as California
00:47:00.900attorney general and then as soon as she got on the national uh board she abandoned all that started
00:47:06.860bailing out BLM rioters started to go hardcore the other way backing people like Kim Fox you know the
00:47:14.240Soros prosecutor in Chicago and so on flipped all the way over the other way and is truly the daughter
00:47:21.420of a Marxist and has Marxist tendencies herself and is as far left as you can find I mean she's the
00:47:28.040most leftist presidential candidate we have ever had I think she's farther to the left than Bernie Sanders
00:47:34.880that's not what I read without his without his charm I read that she was the source of all joy
00:47:40.660have you have you read that yeah yeah so I hear although they've gotten rid of the joy since they
00:47:48.360had to kill the cackle the cat memes are my favorite it's still a creative oh my god it's amazing it's
00:47:56.720amazing have you seen the tiktoks then they're killing cats and they're killing dogs that that's
00:48:04.080a new tick a new cat they're eating the pets that's really that that was the high point uh in American
00:48:08.460politics I mean that too um so Kamala Harris as the not to go over what we just saw like in the last
00:48:19.940two months but how exactly did she become the democratic nominee without anyone voting for her is that
00:48:25.620how can that happen I've never seen somebody so good at failing upward right it's amazing
00:48:32.720I know you're not allowed to talk about this but she slept her way into California politics
00:48:38.860it's true I don't say it to be mean I say it because it's true she slept with Willie Brown which
00:48:48.020is its own skill I gotta say I mean maybe she just found himself he was so full of magnetism he was 30
00:48:53.360years older than she was I said she had no talents I mean that was not fair
00:48:56.820and he paved her way he paved her way into California politics he helped her get elected
00:49:06.060as San Francisco DA and once you're in that system as a far left dem you're good of course you're
00:49:11.380going to become the senator from that state when the opportunity presents itself never mind the
00:49:15.520identity politics aspect of it and before you knew it Joe Biden was running around promising people
00:49:20.140he'd add a black woman to the ticket because James Clyburn said you're not going to win South
00:49:23.940Carolina unless you do that so he did it now she's our vice president and then he falls apart after
00:49:29.000the big cover-up and next thing you know she's out there an empty vessel pretending she's the next
00:49:36.060Obama she do you guys know that there was a report by Mark Halperin who's very tied into these
00:49:43.140Democrat circles that before the Democratic National Convention speech she was prepped by CAA
00:49:50.360Creative Artists Agency the biggest Hollywood agency there is Brian Lord who runs it and top
00:49:56.020Hollywood talent on how to deliver her lines how to nail her speech now what are the odds that she
00:50:02.200when she was hauled up for those five or six days preparing for the debate didn't have help like that
00:50:05.840that's what she's got if you're the Republican candidate you show up you've got both of the
00:50:12.280moderators and your opponent against you you get interrupted in every answer you get fact checked
00:50:16.900erroneously in every answer you get the moderator's opinion coming at you as a fact check you get
00:50:22.460follow-ups on everything if you try to dodge or weave it all they will nail you to the floor
00:50:26.480but if you're Kamala Harris and you've said everything there is to say about fracking and then show up and
00:50:31.380say I've always been consistent it's thank you madam president the most interesting and newsworthy
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00:51:36.260so 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
00:52:06.020no 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
00:52:36.000presidential 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
00:52:52.520you know I always thought judging by David Muir's abs that he was a great journalist but I
00:52:58.920who is David Muir anyway you know he's managed to fly under the radar yeah that's one way to put it
00:53:07.420because 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
00:53:19.360coverage 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
00:53:47.840knew 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
00:54:00.400they 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
00:54:10.460he actually fact checked him with I didn't detect any sarcasm
00:54:15.960what 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
00:54:24.440that it was the most inappropriate thing I've ever seen and it masqueraded as a fact check and it of course
00:54:32.020tripped Trump up and just give you one other thing it's another moment of the debate
00:54:36.480they asked Kamala Harris about the fact that they did nothing about immigration until the last six months
00:54:40.740right obviously an election ploy to make the numbers look better
00:54:43.880they turned to her first she does her John Wayne routine like well I was tough on that there border
00:54:49.640back when I was an AG and now again sure sure Jan
00:54:53.400well she does have a gun so I kind of get it yeah sure she does
00:54:57.560so she gives that routine and then she immediately pivots to his rallies stink and people leave
00:55:03.040and of course for Trump that's like no he can't no here's a liver snap yes I know right and you're
00:55:11.140like 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
00:55:19.060you're like pivot back to immigration this is your best issue this is her worst issue pivot pivot pivot
00:55:23.300so he starts pivoting and that's when we got into the dogs and the cats
00:55:27.080okay I mean I mean it is a thing but maybe not our best example like you know the Babylon Bee had a
00:55:38.400headline the other day saying like Democrats fact check Trump nope no dogs and cats being killed just
00:55:43.200women and children so he pivots back to immigration with the dogs and the cats fact check not happening
00:55:51.980another inappropriate fact check this is a this is a matter up for debate right now we've had
00:55:57.080dozens now at this point of witness testimonials saying it is true and we have one unnamed city
00:56:02.480manager saying not that I could prove well what that's not that's not a proof that it's not happening
00:56:08.820another inappropriate fact check so he screws up Trump's momentum and then he interrupts to go to
00:56:14.640Kamala Harris I'm thinking okay this is it where he's going to go back to her and say the question was
00:56:18.560why did you wait until six months before no one's given me an answer you know we've done rallies and
00:56:24.260we've done dogs what's the answer and instead of saying that to her what does he say your response
00:56:30.920madam Harris madam vice president what that's not the toss so what does she do does she get up there
00:56:36.880and say let me let me give you an answer let me she says 200 Republicans have endorsed me
00:56:42.300and now we're off on that course and we never got back well I mean to be fair Dick Cheney was one of
00:56:51.000them yeah that's right like what do you mean did you ever think you'd wake up in a country where
00:56:56.120Kamala Harris was bragging about Darth Vader's endorsement like what yeah and they love him now
00:57:03.380the left loves some Dick Cheney and his horrible daughter the whole thing is like you're blowing my mind
00:57:10.680of all the Republicans who could endorse yes I'll take Dick Cheney just for the charm alone
00:57:17.440it's like what it's so true and by the way the left you listen to leftist media and they really
00:57:24.560think that's going to make a difference like they don't think that that Trump's going to recover
00:57:28.240from the Dick Cheney endorsement of Kamala Harris or the Liz Cheney a lot of a lot of Liz Cheney
00:57:34.140Republicans left it's just crazy I mean it is a kind of cleansing moment for the Republican Party
00:57:40.620actually it's like getting a giant bald splinter out after 40 years do you know what I mean
00:57:45.660that's like here's what we'll do all the people in our party who love killing people for profit
00:57:51.780you can have and she's like that's right enjoy we've got a big tent the water's fine but look
00:57:56.980at the Lincoln Project they're still out there doing these terrible ads about Trump after their
00:58:00.320pedophilia scandal like what now they survived that there's some guy there who was accused
00:58:06.880of behaving very inappropriately with young men I don't know exactly how young but the point is
00:58:11.400they're still Democrats giving them millions of dollars and they're running ads against Trump
00:58:15.980like he's the bad one you get Bill Kristol and Dick Cheney what a trade so awesome we get Bobby
00:58:21.760Kennedy I think it's fair um Kinzinger yes so um so just to just to end you're the best I just want
00:58:31.040to thank you for this conversation it's just put me in a great mood and it's wonderful to see you but
00:58:35.040I want to um just end on getting your views on a topic that I think is really hopeful and great so
00:58:41.800you have just painted a devastating portrait of the American news media and you're doing it from a
00:58:48.340place of deep knowledge and experience I mean you're Megyn Kelly like you're not making you're
00:58:52.780not guessing about this you work there um but then you leave NBC in the nastiest most dishonest as I
00:58:59.760said exit I've ever seen never seen anyone treated the way you were treated and then you built this
00:59:05.720kind of empire by yourself and it's amazing it's an amazing story and it's a tribute to your grit
00:59:13.620and your talent your native talent but it's also a commentary on like where we're going yeah I mean
00:59:20.960I'm not I didn't even think to call anybody at NBC News to join on this tour because people don't
00:59:27.280even know who works there yeah right so maybe your life is a testament to what the future of media will
00:59:35.480be and maybe that's great thank you my life and yours Tucker I think what we're proving is that
00:59:43.220the future of media is independent it's a direct relationship between the consumers and the
00:59:50.460journalist of choice people will make up their minds on an individual basis who do I trust who do I trust
00:59:57.540for news and information and who don't I trust and more and more especially post-pandemic people are
01:00:03.240really realizing you can't trust these large corporations they have agendas that they are secretly
01:00:10.240and not so secretly trying to shove down your throat without owning it you have an individual
01:00:15.480you can make up your own mind is is she a truth teller is he a truth teller do they take big risks
01:00:20.960and go against the grain even when it might hurt them do they apologize to me when they got something
01:00:25.540wrong or own it are they self-deprecating you're like the most successful slash self-deprecating person
01:00:30.900I know which shows your humility and you want someone with humility telling you about the news because
01:00:35.620sometimes we do get it wrong and we need to be able to say all right that one not my best that's and the
01:00:40.680audience is forgiving but you don't want people who are agenda driven especially not with some corporate
01:00:45.840overlords agenda so it was funny I was listening to this podcast recently and you came up they're very
01:00:52.860angry at you and um not the first time as a result they were trying to say that you he has no influence
01:01:00.460that he's very popular but with no influence and this made me laugh so literally you had the white
01:01:06.760house weighing in on tucker's interview last week okay like that it has absolutely no influence but
01:01:11.960everyone in the country feels the need to comment on everything he does and on top of that you just
01:01:18.120look at the don't don't take my word for it because I'm your friend you guys tell me who is more
01:01:23.920influential tucker carlson or wolf blitzer
01:01:28.400right truly like who has more sway with an audience right like um I'll take myself like yours truly or
01:01:41.100like mika brzezinski I like my odds I'm I'm good on that cage match nobody talks about these people
01:01:52.220now maybe a show here or there will make news but cable news is dead it was a suicide that was
01:01:58.180assisted by Donald Trump and it was one that needed to happen
01:02:01.460I can't improve on that and I just I should have said this at the outset in my introduction of you
01:02:13.480I said what a kind person you were which I think is evidence anyone who listens to you
01:02:17.700I said what a talented person you are which is obvious that's why you're successful
01:02:21.380but I forgot to mention the basis of your success and your happiness which is your honesty
01:02:26.620you're an honest person and I'm grateful for it I'm grateful to be your friend thank you
01:02:31.460Megan Kelly takes one to know one tucker thank you thank you
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