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Megyn Kelly | All-In Summit 2024

September 12, 2024 / 36:31

This episode features Megan Kelly discussing her departure from NBC, her new independent broadcasting career, and her views on cancel culture, media bias, and political issues.

Megan Kelly reflects on her cancellation at NBC and how it has led her to embrace independent broadcasting. She expresses satisfaction with her current role, stating that she feels more engaged and excited about her work.

Kelly shares her thoughts on cancel culture, emphasizing that it can separate individuals from companies whose values do not align. She also discusses her approach to producing content, focusing on free speech and presenting what she believes to be true in the news.

The conversation touches on various political topics, including her views on trans rights and the implications of allowing biological men in women's spaces. Kelly argues that this issue has become a social contagion and discusses the potential dangers involved.

Finally, Kelly offers her perspective on the current political landscape, particularly regarding Donald Trump and the upcoming elections, and expresses concerns about the integrity of politicians in the current system.

TL;DR

Megan Kelly discusses her independent broadcasting, cancel culture, trans rights, and the current political landscape in this episode.

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well Megan Kelly looks to be parting
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ways with NBC her show is now cancelled
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Megan Kelly just landed a new gig why
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would she given a platform in the first
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place we're doing this program because
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we believe there's an urgent need for
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independent voices in the media
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landscape I know the audience you have I
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can reasonably guess it it's
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enormous podcast Rumble YouTube Twitter
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with Elon that's the problem a lot of
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people in cable news Megan are fighting
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yesterday's War they're not the problem
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now you're the problem ladies and
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Gentlemen please welcome Megan
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Kelly kid great to see you thank you for
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coming hi thanks for being here all
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right Hi Megan how are nice to see you
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hey Megan did you get to hear Peter teal
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Megan I did just the tail end just a bit
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what do you think of Peter he's
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brilliant yeah yeah I mean thank God for
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him right it's like there's a few guys
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in Tech with a lot of money keeping
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Republican candidates alive and we need
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every single one of
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them go he starting early um I think all
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of them were here today
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um
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[Applause]
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um you seem incredibly uh happy as an
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independent broadcaster and running your
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own show maybe uh number one am I right
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that you're just just absolutely engaged
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and excited again about broadcasting
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because it seemed like the tail end of
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your working for the machine was
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particularly challenging oh yeah tell us
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that's a polite way of saying it I'm
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trying to be polite no it's fine yeah
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you are well the last time you kind of
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blew remember when you called him a
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prick on on TV I do I do it was it was
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good natured it was good um yeah no I'm
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so I'm so much happier and it's really
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changed my whole view on on cancel
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culture you know I really I'm a Believer
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in cancel culture now I think it
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separates individuals from companies
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where they do not belong where the
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values are not aligned and I really
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can't
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imagine being right now at NBC or
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frankly at Fox News in this environment
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and having to comport with their rules
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on how we talk about these very dicey
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issues that are all over the news today
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I I could not do it it was just a matter
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of time before I was cancelled yeah talk
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about producing a show now that is the
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largest you're now the largest
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broadcaster in in the news category on
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YouTube crushing everybody else CNN Fox
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their YouTube channels uh now bow down
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before you and you are an independent
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company with I understand six people
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yeah um six producers six producers um
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so that is how many people at the peak
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NBC Fox did you have working in your
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group well I probably had about 15
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producers but Fox is always lean CNN
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Anderson Cooper show which was you know
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across from us for a while minus one
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hour had something like 100 staffers so
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think about it so we did not in July we
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did not beat CNN but we had two-thirds
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of CNN's YouTube audience two-thirds
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every single Dollar in the multi-billion
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dollar CNN audience went into obviously
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their live broadcasts which we Crush we
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Crush their numbers you know dollar to
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dollar in terms of like the podcast and
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so on but let's just look at YouTube so
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all those resources go into their
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YouTube feed as well and it's got every
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show on CNN every single talent and our
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one show with my six producers crushed
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the well came close to crushing them all
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and did Crush CBS and NBC which was a
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particularly
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nice when you
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left my understanding of these deals
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when Tucker left on Lemon um and you
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leave those broadcast ones it's kind of
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like they're paying you to not compete
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you can't go work for another Network so
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were you was that the case with you if
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you can say it and and then you were
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kind of forced to become an independent
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broadcaster I wasn't forced I was only
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forced to have my show end at NBC and
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beyond that I don't think I'm at Liberty
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to speak of the specifics but um I was
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free to get another job I just wasn't
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sure I would there was a couple of years
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there that were dark and depressing and
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my industry is incredibly disgusting and
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toxic and awful perhaps you've watched
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the news and you know um and I just sat
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on the couch thinking why would I go
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back into that that was terrible and it
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makes you a bad person and unhappy and
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all they do is stimulate outrage all the
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time and then get rich off of it and you
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have to push somebody else's agenda and
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I don't want to do any of that and it
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wasn't until the first the pandemic hit
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and then you know we started to lose our
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minds on all the mandates and then
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George Floyd and then we really lost our
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minds and seeing those people in the
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streets trying to make people put down
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their burgers and say black lives matter
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is when I got up off my couch and said
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now it's on like I I can't stand when
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people make me do things I really I
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can't stand bullies and it's in my DNA
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to stand up against them and so I had to
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get back on the air and I said to my
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therapist who is really
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underpaid
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um what if nobody watches you know what
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if nobody listens it was just a podcast
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at the time no Visual and uh he's from
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South Africa and he said well I'll
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listen I said okay great he said and
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Doug will listen my husband I'm like
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well I got two and that was four years
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ago and now it's going great how has
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your approach changed if at all in terms
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of what you want to produce and what
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conversations you want to have because
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you no longer have to think well what
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does Roger ell's think or this NBC
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person or or everybody in between you
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you actually the buck stops at your desk
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at your microphone you're the decider
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now so how what what is your framework
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for deciding what to put on there
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because you do also now um suffer from
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hey you're in YouTube if it bleeds it's
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lead leads if it has rage associated
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with it it's going to get more clicks so
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how do you mitigate that you know well I
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I love my producers and a few of them
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have been with me for over 10 years 15
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years plus from Fox News from the
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earliest show I ever did in 2007 to now
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so they know me very well and they know
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what lights my fire and if I feel that
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fire in the belly does it's usually not
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outraged it's just fire in the belly
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over the news then it's a good story for
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me and that differs host to host you
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know what what drives you nuts what what
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do you need to have your say on and so
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for me speaking of therapists it's like
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therapy to go out there on the set and
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say what I know is true right just say
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what's true about the news and then we
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can argue about the meaning and our
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opinions on what's true but what's true
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should not be so Up For Debate um but
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yeah I have a few through lines that my
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team always knows will get me excited
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and since the beginning Free Speech has
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been one of them and the thing about the
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cops it's not coincidental that that's
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what got me up because I've been at Fox
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you know 14 years I was there and I have
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a brother who's a police officer he's a
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retired lieutenant and one of the most
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Honorable Men you'll ever meet in your
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life and I am just so sick and have been
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so sick of the lies that have been told
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about cops it's brutal we have law
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enforcement in my family as well and
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it's really hard to watch this yeah yes
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it's so egregious this is is not to
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excuse the few bad apples that you see
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on the news but they are so not
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representative of your average police
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officer absolutely not and it's these
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guys make no money you know they they
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don't get a lot of Glory they risk their
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lives they risk their lives every day
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for us right and now on top of all that
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they're treated like absolute by
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everyone the news media absolutely no
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qualms about ruining these guys' lives
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before any due process and that's what
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the media has been doing with everyone
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in the past five years no due process
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you are you're accused of anything
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you're guilty and there's really no
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Jones to figure out whether it's fair
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and so you know given my legal
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background because I practiced law for a
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decade that's another piece of it that
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always gets me fired up somebody being
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unfairly railroaded I think the topic
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you've been most on fire and I think
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it's very brave is the issues around uh
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trans issues trans rights and maybe
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young children um you're not a bigot but
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you're being framed as that when this
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discussion comes up maybe you could
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explain just what is your position
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on biological men in locker
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rooms you know and and maybe kids
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receiving hormones or having their
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bodies mutilated because they maybe feel
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like they're the opposite gender I don't
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want to lead the witness here but I
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think we're more in sync on this issue
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than maybe most yeah I don't care what
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they call me they can call me a bigot a
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Turf a trans misogynist which is not a
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thing
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um I will speak truth men cannot become
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women
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period women can't become men either and
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men and boys do not belong in women's
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spaces whether it's a bathroom a locker
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room or a sports event they
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don't and good men do not wish to access
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those
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places and by the way even if you have
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some empathy for someone who's genuinely
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struggling the problem is the camel's
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knows because as soon as you allow one
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person who may be genuinely struggling
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with this issue into your 17-year-old
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girl's locker room that opportunity will
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be exploited by openly Bad actors and
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when girls start getting hurt in these
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private spaces as they already have been
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listen to Riley gain's testimonial about
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what happened to her with Leah Thomas
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about how he was in there he was looking
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at her she was naked she had no idea an
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intact male was entering her locker room
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the humiliation she felt that counts as
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injury but we could go well beyond that
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because it's crossed over to actual
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physical so I am willing to fight to my
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dying day against that without judging
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trans people themselves what you do in
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the privacy of your own home or your own
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life is your business not mine unless
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you make it my business and then you
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will hear from me and if you make it my
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child's business times 10 and in your
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answer is empathy for somebody who is
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suffering from gender dysmorphia and and
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who's struggling with that issue uh um
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and you don't have a problem with those
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individuals as you said two or three
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times in that one answer yet you could
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give that disclaimer you could say you
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have empathy or sympathy for them and
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the only thing they're going to hear is
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you know something they project into it
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so it got a lot easier for me on the
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name calling in response to this issue
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once I realized the vast majority of
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people who want to call me a bigot or a
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Turf are men they are men posing as
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women so these are men trying to shame
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me out of standing up for my daughter
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and myself and my fellow women on our
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safe spaces it's that's the end of it
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they can take a seat because these men
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don't know the first thing they're
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showing up for at for mammograms you
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ladies know what it's like the older
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ones like me sitting in the mamogram
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office where you're out there waiting to
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go in and you're in your little robe and
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you're worried you're nervous you got to
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do it when you hit a certain age you're
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but you're you know what you're there
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for you guys have it on the other end um
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you're like I I hope I don't have cancer
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they say I need to go here I got to find
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it early you're sitting looking at other
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women and now we're having men men sneak
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in there not because they're actually
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worried because a very very small
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percentage can get but because they want
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to feel like women same thing at the
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OBGYN get out get out of our spaces I'm
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sick of this what I have
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empathy for is us women and girls
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somebody else can worry about the
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feelings of the men who want to access
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have can I
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um do you think that there are
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individuals who have been historically
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repressed
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and have now felt the freedom to come
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out and say that they are a different
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gender or do you think that there's
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something else socially going on what's
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what's what's going on and and you know
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why do you think that this has become
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such a prominent issue of late in the
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last couple of years yes 100% it has
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exploded as a social contagion and
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that's been documented by many people
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from very smart woman at Brown to
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Abigail shrier and her mustre book
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irreversible damage and Beyond uh but
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this is a social contag this is not
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populating in the way that it is just
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because we're more accepting now and if
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that were true you would see it
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everywhere um but what you're seeing it
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is more concentrated in more leftist
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States cities regions and that's because
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the more of it kids are exposed to the
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more they gravitate toward it and in
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that way it is like anorexia I just had
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Kelly J Kee in a pre-tape show today
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she's airing tomorrow she's an activist
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on this issue and she was saying if you
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go on YouTube and you Google anorexia or
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bulimia they won't show you the videos
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but if you Google top surgery which is
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the super sweet way of saying a double
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myectomy usually for 15 or 14 year old
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girls you can see all you want all day
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long and what's happening more and more
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is autistic children or children
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someplace on the
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Spectrum stumble on to this and in many
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cases have obsessive thinking to begin
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with and go down a rabbit hole that
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takes them hours on end down Reddit or
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one of these other websites sites and it
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does become an obsessive thought and
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then obsessive behavior and then you
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have a medical community that has
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submitted to affirm the standard is
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affirm not are your parents going
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through a divorce did you have really
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bad grades was there a sexual assault in
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your past which is so often the case for
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a lot of the young girls in particular
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no you're not even allowed to go there
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or you're considered engaging in
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conversion therapy it's crossover that's
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it puberty blockers cross- seex hormones
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those two things alone in that order
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high high likelihood you are sterile you
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are sterilizing yourself and your
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parents are allowing it just puberty
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blockers into to cross- seex hormones
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that's it never mind chopping off body
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parts and then they'll go to school and
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they'll say I'm no longer a girl and the
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school will hide it from the people who
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love that child most their parents if
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the parents aren't on the affirm
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board in New York City where I fled with
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my children because they were trying to
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do this to our schools and our classes
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that's the that's the policy private and
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public you do not tell the parents it's
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a secret what kind of country are we
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getting to be where we allow secrets
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between grown teachers and minors that
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the parents aren't allowed to know
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that's what we used to call
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grooming right it opens up a very
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dangerous
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door and why has this become politicized
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and how has it become politicized that I
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don't understand I don't understand how
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frankly anyone can vote Democrat right
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now I just don't get it I know that
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there's a priority of issues right and
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for some people
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it's oh David's here he just woke
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up for some people s or democrat
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what it's abortion or it's uh you know I
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can't think of the issues that would
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make you vote Democrat even though I
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used to vote Democrat I'm a registered
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independent I voted in eight
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presidential elections I voted Democrat
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four times and Republican four I'm about
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as independent as you can get well let
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me can we let's shift gears to the
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election then so um yeah you piak his
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interest I didn't think that was going
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to be funny but so Megan I mean in
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addition to being a great broadcaster
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you actually are a great uh political
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pundit I would say and prognosticator I
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remember being on your show at the
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beginning of the Republican primary when
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DeSantis was riding High making the case
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for DeSantis obviously that was totally
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wrong and you're like no you know like
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it's going to be Trump you know the
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Republican part is not done with Trump
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and you were exactly right
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um do you what's your take on where
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things are at right now and do you do
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you have a take on who's going to win I
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mean of course we all want to know that
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right that's why we follow these polls
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religiously because we want to Peak into
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what's going to happen I mean I think
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Trump right now is better positioned to
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win than he's ever been in any election
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before if you look at where he is let's
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take the New York Times Sienna poll that
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just dropped that's the gold standard
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that's the best poll if you ask most
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pollsters huge sample and likely voters
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and it's got Trump up one which is
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basically a tie up one this time four
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years ago Biden was up nine over Trump
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and that election was this tight and it
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had Biden up nine it said the
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statistical probability of an electoral
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college for Trump was
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99.7% yeah if you look at the swing
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States Nate sil's interpretation of that
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poll that came out yeah and Nate now the
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left is turning on Nate inexplicably
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really I mean other than his data but
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they loved Nate and they created Nate
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but now that Nate's numbers aren't going
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their way they're like who's Nate
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connected to who's he working for Nate
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like most prognosticators wants to be
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right but look I'll say this and by the
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way in 16 it showed Hillary up too at
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this point so and Trump won that
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election you know the general wisdom is
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that the Democrat has to be up some four
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points or better in the National polling
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given the fact that they usually win the
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popular vote G just given how blue the
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urban centers are in order to win in
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order to cross over in those swing
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States and right now she's not I mean
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that New York Times shows her down you
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were in the middle of the 2016 election
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I find this comparison very interesting
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so I'm curious your take contrast and
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compare Donald Trump versus Hillary
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Clinton what day is it today
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September
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9th of that election and Donald Trump
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and kamla Harris September 9th
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now Trump had some advantages back then
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that he doesn't have now including his
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genuine Outsider status it was very
00:18:04
attractive to a lot of Voters who had
00:18:06
never voted before speaking of getting
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up off your couch um that really worked
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for him and Trump was incredibly vibrant
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feisty fiery fun you know provocative
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obviously controversial and new you know
00:18:23
we all knew Trump but we knew him as
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this crazy n businessman with a lot of
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color and suddenly he morphed under the
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itical field like unlike anything we'd
00:18:31
ever seen I mean there was a reference
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to penis size and a presidential debate
00:18:35
yeah I was
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there um so that happened this time
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around people are a little bit more used
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to Trump's bits right his routine he's
00:18:45
obviously a little older but still
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vibrant I mean could any of you have
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stood on that presidential stage and
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given a nearly 2hour address a week
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after someone shot you in the ear like I
00:18:59
was falling asleep and I was seated and
00:19:01
fine you know I'm like I didn't need so
00:19:03
he's got a lot of energy but he's not an
00:19:06
outsider exactly anymore he's he is
00:19:08
still one he's not taking like all the
00:19:09
money these fat cats and ready to kiss
00:19:11
their bottoms necessarily but he's lost
00:19:13
that what he's gained is a record you
00:19:16
know now Trump can go on this debate
00:19:18
stage tomorrow night with some real ammo
00:19:21
you know if you were you better off four
00:19:23
years than you are today and really
00:19:25
point to his policies one of the great
00:19:27
tragedies of the Trump era has been his
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policies have been incredibly good for
00:19:34
America yeah it's just his rhetoric is
00:19:39
Sox divisive toxic depends on who you
00:19:42
ask right depends on who you ask that he
00:19:45
activating that the majority of
00:19:46
Americans dislike him and then what
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about Hillary versus K oh god well
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Hillary was smart
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[Applause]
00:20:00
that they didn't they didn't hide
00:20:03
Hillary Hillary did interviews right I
00:20:05
had this I had this conversation just
00:20:07
this morning you can say what you want
00:20:09
about Hillary Clinton but she is
00:20:11
incredibly competent yeah incredibly
00:20:14
competent she's competent and she could
00:20:17
have done the job how she did it and
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with what level of honesty and
00:20:21
Corruption would be a different story
00:20:23
but I I really think the problem for KLA
00:20:26
Harris is she's not smart she's not a
00:20:28
deep thinker
00:20:29
she's very surface level yeah she's
00:20:31
giggling just like that all the
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time
00:20:39
spicy Megan tell us how you feel really
00:20:42
be honest and it's a cover it's an
00:20:44
obvious cover right it's like she gets
00:20:46
to the point where she doesn't know what
00:20:47
she's saying even she doesn't know what
00:20:48
she's saying and it's
00:20:50
like and so you feel uncomfortable
00:20:53
watching her and then she gave her first
00:20:55
interview to CNN and suddenly if that's
00:20:57
drunk Comm suddenly we're dealing with
00:20:59
hungover comma like my values haven't
00:21:03
changed like clearly somebody had told
00:21:05
her you cackle we're out of here yeah
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what did you think about her bringing
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her emotional support white guy exactly
00:21:15
her emotional support Governor he was
00:21:16
her big white blankie like I it made no
00:21:18
sense like it seemed like a terrible
00:21:20
strategic decision like who's making the
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decision to do that I agree I objected
00:21:24
to the whole thing I think he was there
00:21:25
for two two purposes uh one was yes in
00:21:29
case she got in real trouble he could
00:21:30
step in yeah and the other was to suck
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up some of the air times so she had a
00:21:35
couple of fewer questions to answer what
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did you think of the job just
00:21:39
broadcaster or broadcaster Dana Bash did
00:21:41
um because she she did ask some tough
00:21:42
questions she did probe a little bit no
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not enough she did terribly
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okay I mean I don't I don't think it was
00:21:50
particularly hard but but that was not a
00:21:52
good job okay explain why what would you
00:21:54
have done differently so many things go
00:21:56
back and listen to my podcast the day
00:21:57
after cuz I took it apart forensically
00:21:59
bit by give us the top three here there
00:22:01
where were the follow-up questions where
00:22:02
were the hard-hitting follow-ups when
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she said her nonsense like specifically
00:22:07
how what exactly caused you to change
00:22:09
your mind walk me through the process
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and hit her with all of them not just a
00:22:13
couple and Tim Walls grammar the grammar
00:22:17
excuse that's why he said he carried a
00:22:19
weapon into war it was his grammar what
00:22:23
kind of BS was that and no followup yeah
00:22:25
yes and honestly all taken was do you
00:22:28
really want our audience to believe you
00:22:30
said you took weapons into war as a
00:22:33
soldier Okay because every every actual
00:22:36
service Personnel knows you don't
00:22:37
exaggerate something like that that's
00:22:39
hollowed ground you don't say you went
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into war when you didn't and he's
00:22:42
already on the hot seat for having said
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you know he was a command sergeant major
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and he he didn't retire such and so on
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anyway all it would have taken was you
00:22:50
really want this audience to believe
00:22:51
that was a grammatical error is that
00:22:53
your story no that she none of that was
00:22:56
done and it was just irritating because
00:22:59
there's so much for kamla Harris to be
00:23:01
cross-examined on she just she went to
00:23:03
sleep I mean the follow and the followup
00:23:05
question is just such an easy thing to
00:23:08
do you don't even have to say it as
00:23:09
aggressively as you did you just say
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Okay so to be clear let me repeat back
00:23:12
to you grammar is the reason you said
00:23:15
but let me tell you something let me
00:23:16
tell you something some aggression was
00:23:17
warranted this is the problem her her
00:23:20
timidity is part of the problem because
00:23:22
I I challenge anybody go back and look I
00:23:24
did an interview with Trump in
00:23:26
September we've been through a he and I
00:23:30
well yeah that's an interesting
00:23:32
relationship it's a very interesting
00:23:34
relationship and I saw him at a
00:23:36
turningpoint event the previous August
00:23:38
and I said I'd love to sit down with you
00:23:40
he said great I'll do it so we sat down
00:23:42
September of last year it was a great
00:23:44
interview it was challenging he was not
00:23:47
in love with
00:23:48
it good which part where I hammered him
00:23:51
on the legal stuff yeah it had a
00:23:53
crescendo and a de Crescendo like every
00:23:55
good interview should you know we
00:23:56
started up off with some stuff that he
00:23:58
would like Joe Biden's old how about
00:24:00
that and then you built you warmed him
00:24:02
up a classic strategy right so on on the
00:24:05
on the legal on the law fair so judge
00:24:07
meron just moved the sentencing date
00:24:10
from I guess it was supposed to be a few
00:24:11
days ago to November 18th it occurs to
00:24:13
me that's two weeks after the election
00:24:15
so if meron wants to send Trump to
00:24:18
prison but is afraid to do it now
00:24:21
because it'd be a huge backlash right
00:24:23
before the election seems to me that's
00:24:25
kind of what you do you set the date two
00:24:26
weeks after do you
00:24:29
I mean what's your take on that do you
00:24:30
thinked if Trump loses the election do
00:24:32
you think he's going to Rikers no I
00:24:34
don't you don't think so I think there's
00:24:35
a possibility Maran will sentence him
00:24:38
because this whole case which was about
00:24:40
him writing down something in a book no
00:24:43
one ever saw it was in a book that
00:24:44
stayed on the Shelf at Trump Tower
00:24:47
didn't have the right thing it didn't
00:24:49
say hush money to Stormy Daniels it said
00:24:52
Legal Services no one ever saw that just
00:24:56
someone came knocking because they
00:24:57
wanted to mess with Trump found it and
00:24:58
said this isn't recorded accurately it's
00:25:00
a fraud and he got prosecuted and I
00:25:04
think judge Maran and has allowed Alvin
00:25:06
brag to turn it into you tried to steal
00:25:09
the election because now guys I'm sorry
00:25:11
to tell you but if you ever want to run
00:25:13
for office you have an ethical
00:25:14
obligation to let any woman accusing you
00:25:17
of any bad stuff come forward and say it
00:25:19
to everyone and if she says I won't hurt
00:25:22
you publicly whether it's true or not if
00:25:24
you just give me $130,000 you may not
00:25:27
pay her or you going to go to jail so
00:25:29
you must let yourself be blackmailed let
00:25:31
someone say this stuff about you true or
00:25:33
not or you're going to prison that's how
00:25:36
that case was tried that is now the
00:25:38
position that every politician is in
00:25:40
theoretically I mean the the case made
00:25:42
sense as a misdemeanor but not as a
00:25:44
felony I think you would Age no sense it
00:25:46
as a misdemeanor the statute of
00:25:47
limitations had expired sure but I mean
00:25:49
it clearly was escalated to a point but
00:25:51
I wonder how you think as with family
00:25:53
members you know in the um uh you know
00:25:57
that are cops um how you look at the
00:25:59
other cases um and if you think there's
00:26:01
any validity to them because there are
00:26:02
five cases we're talking about he's
00:26:04
guilty of the first three so far out of
00:26:05
three some of them feel trumped up um
00:26:08
but what about the last two you know the
00:26:10
the documents and the January 6th one do
00:26:11
you think there's any validity to them
00:26:13
no no validity the only the only thing
00:26:15
that Trump was potentially in trouble on
00:26:17
and the thing I hit him on when we
00:26:18
interviewed was not turning over the
00:26:20
documents once he had a subpena which
00:26:22
would have been so easy to do yes which
00:26:24
was dumb but he's Trump he should have
00:26:26
he always does self-destructive stff
00:26:28
gone away now too because of Jack Smith
00:26:30
not being properly appointed down there
00:26:32
but in answer to your question on on
00:26:33
Judge michon I think um he he almost is
00:26:37
in a position where he might have to
00:26:38
sentence him to jail given how big
00:26:40
they've tried to make it you stole an
00:26:41
election you stole but it'll it would be
00:26:44
at a suspended sentence it would be
00:26:45
immediately appealed and I think Trump
00:26:48
on appeal will win there are so many
00:26:50
holes in that case so I don't think
00:26:51
Trump will ever do one single day in
00:26:53
jail so Megan if um we look at the five
00:26:56
cases you know six months from there a
00:26:57
year from now let's assume all five of
00:26:59
them go to trial um he's guilty of three
00:27:01
so far wait what do you what do you mean
00:27:03
he's guilty of three so far he's been
00:27:04
convicted of three sorry what do you
00:27:05
mean know he hasn't um the ell uh no EEG
00:27:10
EEG Carol was guilty that was not a
00:27:12
conviction that was a civil case well
00:27:14
yes so that's what I'm talking about so
00:27:15
that okay but there's a big difference
00:27:17
it's still he was convicted he was
00:27:18
guilty of that you got a settl um in
00:27:23
the yeah in the Trump organization
00:27:26
they're guilty there
00:27:28
liable liable yes of course but these
00:27:30
are the cases we're talking about and in
00:27:32
the third one you know she's a lawyer
00:27:34
right yeah of course and in the third
00:27:35
one I'm just talking about the five
00:27:37
cases yes some are civil obviously and
00:27:39
and some some are not some are criminal
00:27:41
but if we look at all you said three
00:27:42
convictions now you're walking it back
00:27:44
I'm not walking it back there's three in
00:27:45
which he was you should walk it back so
00:27:48
glad Megan is here the five three of
00:27:50
them he's either guilty or he got a bad
00:27:52
result yeah got a bad result there are
00:27:55
two more if he is found guilty of those
00:27:57
two more mag
00:27:58
um and five of five he had a bad result
00:28:02
um way to frame it um will will you
00:28:06
chalk all five up in your mind to five
00:28:08
different jurisdictions five different
00:28:10
prosecutors five different juries and or
00:28:12
judges all conspiring to get him 100%
00:28:17
okay yes that's all I wanted to hear
00:28:19
your answer to five of five five
00:28:22
different jurisdictions you think it's
00:28:24
Carol they they changed the law so that
00:28:25
she could bring a civil lawsuit against
00:28:26
him and she did New York Jury New York
00:28:28
went 87% for Joe Biden that that that
00:28:32
fix was in right from the start the
00:28:33
fraud trial that Leticia James brought
00:28:35
against him has never been brought
00:28:36
there's no victims the banks who were
00:28:38
involved said we didn't lose a penny
00:28:39
what are we doing here we weren't
00:28:40
damaged nobody was complaining except
00:28:42
Tish James who ran for office saying I
00:28:44
will get him then you have Alvin Bragg
00:28:47
who's a George Soros funded prosecutor
00:28:49
who doesn't like to prosecute any crime
00:28:50
in New York City where I live for 17
00:28:52
years except if your name is Donald
00:28:53
Trump let's go down to Georgia where
00:28:55
Fanny Willis and Nathan Wade couldn't
00:28:57
keep their libidos in Jack long enough
00:28:58
to actually bring this case against
00:29:00
Donald Trump it's a repeat of what was
00:29:03
happening in January 6th up in the case
00:29:05
with judge chuckin who loathes Trump and
00:29:07
has sentenced almost every j6 defendant
00:29:09
to way more jail time than their
00:29:11
counterparts would get those are falling
00:29:13
apart because of presidential immunity
00:29:14
which was handed down by the Supreme
00:29:15
Court who said you cannot bring a
00:29:18
criminal case against a sitting
00:29:19
president for any official act those
00:29:21
cases have have been gutted also a
00:29:23
Supreme Court ruling saying the same on
00:29:25
January 6 defendants in general and that
00:29:27
leaves us with Florida and the documents
00:29:29
and Trump has torn that apart because
00:29:31
Jack Smith wasn't properly appointed and
00:29:32
isn't the right Council but there are
00:29:34
other issues they haven't even gotten to
00:29:36
presidential immunity there and so that
00:29:39
one's going nowhere as well and by the
00:29:41
way they're going to peel it up to the
00:29:42
11 circuit she just threw it out the 11
00:29:44
circuit is conservative and thank God so
00:29:45
is the current Supreme Court they're not
00:29:47
going to tolerate that nonsense let me
00:29:48
ask you about
00:29:53
um I think let me I think J Cal I think
00:29:57
J Cal just lost lost his right to ever
00:29:59
bring up lawfare
00:30:00
again no we're we're done with your
00:30:03
it's over I didn't give we're
00:30:06
not here to hear my opinion I didn't
00:30:08
give my opinion I wanted me let let's um
00:30:11
the Democratic party and the Republican
00:30:13
Party 2028 post all of this okay um I
00:30:19
suspect because of your influence I I so
00:30:21
tell me if this is not even true but
00:30:23
upand cominging folks are probably
00:30:24
trying to meet you all the time because
00:30:26
they want to build a relation ship build
00:30:28
a rapport so that when it's time for
00:30:29
them to get you know interviewed or
00:30:32
whatever there's a so you must see a lot
00:30:34
of people just give us a state of
00:30:37
politicians post this current
00:30:40
batch what is the same I don't feel very
00:30:43
optimistic okay is it getting worse yeah
00:30:46
it's getting worse because of Instagram
00:30:47
and AOC that kind of
00:30:49
person yes her specifically but not just
00:30:52
her um I say more
00:30:56
they they want these are congressional
00:31:04
Kardashians can I tell you something my
00:31:07
experience in the news business dealing
00:31:09
with politicians leads me to believe
00:31:10
that the people in this room and on this
00:31:12
stage over your two-day conference are
00:31:14
the people we need to be looking to for
00:31:15
our future leaders and ideas and to save
00:31:18
the country it it's not Washington DC
00:31:21
all the incentives to be a good person
00:31:23
are gone it's not that there aren't any
00:31:25
good ones there there definitely are and
00:31:27
there's some you know true Patriots who
00:31:29
are still trying to serve and even who
00:31:31
are who are two people just on on either
00:31:33
side that you would just tell us to look
00:31:35
out for or even they are already doing
00:31:37
the job where you say these two people
00:31:39
are like good
00:31:43
people you should play the little
00:31:45
Jeopardy music right
00:31:47
now um no one's coming to mind off the
00:31:49
top of my head but I know that there are
00:31:51
some uh look I like Rand
00:31:55
Paul I think Rand Paul is a good andon
00:31:58
man don't run a giant deficit it's not a
00:32:00
bad I mean all of them lie so I'm not
00:32:02
trying to excuse all of that they all do
00:32:05
but if you watch people long enough you
00:32:08
find the ones that stand up for the
00:32:09
right issues and seem to have some
00:32:12
integrity that's one that comes to mind
00:32:14
I there used to be a day where they
00:32:17
where they would reach across the aisle
00:32:19
and they actually weren't just there for
00:32:21
clicks or to make themselves famous or
00:32:23
and those days are few and far between
00:32:26
now I just think with look I supported
00:32:29
the Supreme Court's decision in citizen
00:32:30
United and I think big money in politics
00:32:32
was always going to happen but it's
00:32:34
corrupted the system in a way that you
00:32:36
know most politicians only have to
00:32:38
answer to their one group of big donors
00:32:40
or their one small constituency and
00:32:42
their one very red or very blue town and
00:32:44
there's no more incentive to compromise
00:32:46
there's only incentive to get reelected
00:32:48
which is one of the frustrations we have
00:32:49
when we watch Washington nothing gets
00:32:51
done or size of relief in this Congress
00:32:55
where we watch Washington and nothing
00:32:57
gets done right right now I'm all about
00:33:00
going back to the original founding
00:33:02
version of this country where government
00:33:03
was as small as possible the presidency
00:33:05
was as small as possible and these
00:33:07
people do as little as humanly possible
00:33:10
while they're in I feel Megan I feel
00:33:11
like someone should do like a modernday
00:33:14
recap of the Federalist Papers like an
00:33:18
understanding of the basis of the
00:33:20
foundation of the Republic like were
00:33:22
what were the founding philosophies and
00:33:24
and then understanding how far astray
00:33:26
we've we've gone but let me ask you a
00:33:28
question what constitutional amendments
00:33:30
would you pass to fix the incentive
00:33:32
problems if you could have your brothers
00:33:33
pass any Constitutional Amendment or two
00:33:36
what would they be to address the
00:33:38
incentive issue that's causing a lot of
00:33:41
the integrity and misalignment I don't
00:33:42
think it it starts like that I think it
00:33:44
it is just like KLA Harris's Choice as
00:33:47
Biden's uh replacement it's bottom up
00:33:50
it's bottom up that's the LIE remember
00:33:52
they told us Chuck Schumer it's bottom
00:33:53
up we chose the people chose her
00:33:55
literally nobody's voted for her to be
00:33:57
the nomin
00:33:58
um I think this one does have to be
00:34:00
bottom up like if we're going to change
00:34:02
the way we elect politicians and the way
00:34:04
we govern ourselves you know we're so
00:34:07
it's so much more complex than just what
00:34:10
what laws are written down and you Tech
00:34:12
has a lot to do with it how divided we
00:34:14
are how disconnected we are how lonely
00:34:16
we are I mean right now the latest
00:34:20
strain of the argument is interesting
00:34:21
which is all the processed foods are
00:34:23
making us weird and unhealthy and dying
00:34:26
and and dividing people further because
00:34:29
it's driving our hormones nuts and our
00:34:30
behavior is getting weirder and obese
00:34:33
yeah and obesity so I mean there's just
00:34:35
a lot we need to reconsider about the
00:34:38
way we're living and I do think one of
00:34:40
the main things is we need to see each
00:34:41
other again we need to like look each at
00:34:43
each other in the eye across from the
00:34:45
table we need to ban our kids from
00:34:47
playing on the devices when they get
00:34:49
together for playd dates we must insist
00:34:51
that they play outside without any
00:34:53
devices and actually connect with nature
00:34:55
we must make sure that they do the same
00:34:57
we must get out of the coastal cities
00:34:59
and go to fly over country and go to a
00:35:02
rodeo in Montana something like that you
00:35:04
know I we all we have to start loving
00:35:07
our country again that's a huge piece of
00:35:09
it and that again is community you know
00:35:11
speaking of rodeo and Montana we went we
00:35:13
go out there we have a little ski cabin
00:35:15
there which we love and uh we went in
00:35:17
the summer brought our kids to a
00:35:19
rodeo they started playing the national
00:35:21
anthem and my little guy at the time was
00:35:22
like five and he was a little slow to
00:35:24
get up right like he knows to get up but
00:35:26
he was five and there's this old cowboy
00:35:30
sitting right behind us with the big hat
00:35:32
and the jeans and the belt and he goes
00:35:34
boy you better get on your feet and my
00:35:38
son was like oh yes sir that was me
00:35:41
but I was like right on that's great
00:35:43
right on that's what we need right like
00:35:45
more of that and more of looking out for
00:35:47
one another not with forced taxes and
00:35:49
through the eyeballs and all that
00:35:50
nonsense but like your neighbor's sick
00:35:53
go make him a casserole your old older
00:35:55
neighbor is housebound go m lawn that is
00:35:59
the stuff that used to make us us and as
00:36:02
we just Retreat into our devices and our
00:36:05
television screens and all of it we lose
00:36:08
that and we lose us all right well said
00:36:11
ladies and gentlemen Megan
00:36:14
Kelly thank you w standing out that was
00:36:19
awesome really awesome
00:36:21
[Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • Megan Kelly's New Independent Venture
    Megan Kelly discusses her transition to independent broadcasting and the importance of independent voices in media.
    “We believe there's an urgent need for independent voices in the media.”
    @ 00m 14s
    September 12, 2024
  • Megan Kelly on Cancel Culture
    Megan Kelly shares her views on cancel culture and its impact on individuals and companies.
    “I really can't imagine being at NBC or Fox News right now.”
    @ 02m 13s
    September 12, 2024
  • Megan Kelly's Stance on Gender Identity
    Megan Kelly expresses her strong views on gender identity and women's spaces.
    “I will speak truth: men cannot become women, period.”
    @ 09m 02s
    September 12, 2024
  • Hillary Clinton's Competence
    Despite criticisms, Hillary Clinton is recognized for her competence and capability.
    “She's competent and she could have done the job.”
    @ 20m 14s
    September 12, 2024
  • Kamala Harris's Emotional Support
    The discussion revolves around Harris's choice of a supportive figure during interviews.
    “What did you think about her bringing her emotional support white guy?”
    @ 21m 10s
    September 12, 2024
  • The Need for Community
    A call to reconnect with one another and foster community spirit.
    “We need to see each other again.”
    @ 34m 40s
    September 12, 2024

Episode Quotes

Key Moments

  • Independent Voices00:14
  • Cancel Culture02:01
  • Gender Identity09:02
  • Women's Safety11:46
  • Hillary's Competence20:14
  • Emotional Support21:10
  • Community Connection34:40

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