Megyn Kelly relocates from NYC to Connecticut to escape left-wing school ideologies, citing race essentialism and gender terminology. She rejects radical trans agendas and expresses deep skepticism toward COVID mandates, vaccine safety regarding myocarditis, and the transparency of the CDC and NIH. Criticizing media bias on Hurricane Ian and Biden's cognitive decline, she predicts Trump will defeat DeSantis in a primary while warning that Harris might be replaced by a more diverse candidate if Democrats lose the midterms, ultimately highlighting the dangers of unchecked executive overreach. [Automatically generated summary]
Good, I realize that's quite an intro if I say this is the host of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly, and then I want to say your name to bring you in.
Well, I don't talk about what schools we're at or even what city we're in because I really have had some very dark security issues in my past as an anchor.
So just as a security measure, I don't do that.
And so I wouldn't be embarrassing.
It would take a massive fall down.
Even when I left the New York City schools, I haven't named them.
I don't talk about them by name.
My goal is not to embarrass anybody, but if they cross the line far enough, I would have to.
It's definitely an arrow in my quiver, and hopefully they won't necessitate it.
I will say if something happens, I've become a squeaky wheel.
There was a memo that went out by one teacher citing Kendi and anti-racist this, and immediately I was on the horn like, what's this?
And the school was already on it.
They had already taken care of it.
They were two steps ahead of me, so I knew I was in the right place.
But I can't really worry about that.
And I will say if I speak out publicly, because I, for example, my daughter's school, they were looking for a new head of school.
And we went to all the meetings and I listened to every single candidate and what she was saying on, you know, their vision.
And I asked all the tough questions about diversity, equity, inclusion, the lovely name that doesn't match up in practice.
And I had so many parents come to me after the fact saying, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
You know, it's like, you know how it is when you're out there, like you're out there with your opinions and so am I. People are grateful because they're still stuck on the other side.
They don't feel like they can especially touch those third rails.
And so they feel really validated when they hear somebody who can do so.
Well, I almost feel like I'm kind of the same, but the ground shifted beneath me.
You know, I didn't like radically change my own positions, but they've started to mean different things.
I used to think I was more liberal socially, but I can't say that now because what that means now is you're pro this radical trans agenda and you're pro race essentialism.
Do you think that can work, the independent thing, in sort of real politics?
I know it can work for you privately and personally, but in terms of just this craziness that we're in, it's either like, we're gonna usher in more of this woke stuff, or maybe we can stop it, but the middle thing is just getting harder to hold, in a way.
When you're doing your show every day, are there moments of frustration, or is it just pure, like, you're just getting the information in, and you kind of comment on it and talk to people, or does it wear on you ever?
Because I'm like, sort of, for the most part, I'm pretty much enjoying the show and all that stuff, but every now and again, like, I was on, as we're taping this now, I was on your show earlier today, and it's like, this Kamala thing with the communities of color and the equity stuff, It really was getting to me.
It really was.
Maybe that's a little bit of the new father thing, like I'm feeling this need for the next generation suddenly in a new way or something, but these are just horrible ideas and bad people.
Yes, and these culture wars in particular really upset me, and the COVID overreach really upset me.
The longer it went down, the thing that made me the maddest I've been in probably the past two years was The shaming of parents who wanted the masks off their kids, like you haven't done your part.
You don't care, you know, about society and the old people.
And it's like, we've done our part.
Our children have done our part.
This has been an absolutely senseless exercise, what you're doing to these kids.
And finally, parents had to stand up and basically raise the middle finger and say, it's on.
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans, it's on.
We're showing up at your school board meetings.
We're going to rhetorically torture you until you listen to us.
And you can call us terrorists.
You can send the FBI in.
We don't give a fig.
We're not going anywhere.
I felt it.
So many parents felt it.
And we won that battle.
That's why Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia.
And it's why the Democrats almost immediately abandoned those positions.
They recognized they were all going to suffer the same fate as Youngkin or The Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who only won by 2 or 3 points, who's expected to win by 30.
They got it!
And there's a reason those kids don't have masks on in their schools right now, and it's because of the parents!
That stuff fires me up when the weak, or the vulnerable, or the smallest among us can't fight for themselves.
And the kid thing was really annoying, because you had people like Randy Weingarten, like, they're resilient, they don't complain, they're little!
They don't know how to give voice to this stuff!
They're not loudmouths like you or me.
We're here for them.
Randi Weingarten is the enemy.
I'm sorry, but she is the enemy of children.
And she has to be identified and treated as such.
And frankly, Dr. Fauci is in exactly the same camp.
I'm so glad you just said that, because that's where I was going to go.
What do we do about these people?
I am not one for jailing our political opponents, and I don't want to throw them in gulags and all the things that they probably want to do to us.
But when you look at somebody like Randi Weingarten, who's now taking the reverse of all the positions, or claiming that she is taking the reverse of all the positions she had for two years, and Fauci, who, you know, not wearing masks at a baseball game while telling us to wear masks, all this stuff, everyone knows all this stuff.
And I really think this is one hopeful thing about the Republicans taking the House, which we believe they will.
I mean, it would take a massive disaster between now and the election day for the Republicans to lose the House.
But they're going to investigate Fauci.
And I know he went out there and said, like, I'll consider it if they play nice.
You know, I didn't I didn't appreciate the way I was treated before.
And I would expect to be treated You'll show up and you'll sit down and you'll answer the questions or you will be found in contempt of Congress.
That's how this works.
You don't get to say, maybe I'll come, right?
That's what a subpoena is for.
So we could get some real answers if the GOP takes over the house and investigates the COVID origins and more, maybe not more importantly, but equally importantly, the cover-up by our public health officials.
What the hell went wrong at the CDC and the NIH?
And how did they become such huge, behemoth, godlike institutions in the eyes of the media and the liberals to where their quote, science, TM, could not be questioned?
Because it's still happening, Dave.
I mean, I'm preparing for a big interview that's gonna hit soon, and I'm neck deep in this right now.
The vaccines and the information about the damage that the vaccines are doing, versus their efficacy is dark.
It's not turning out the way even vaccine proponents like yours truly wanted it to.
Why is it being buried?
Why can't we talk about it?
Even journals like Science and Nature and New England Journal of Medicine are starting to release the studies showing that there's a real risk in taking the vaccine and then you get COVID after you've taken the vaccine.
These are dark times.
They can take you to dark places.
And there's not an acknowledgement by people like Fauci.
He still wants vaccine mandates.
They refuse to acknowledge that the vaccine doesn't stop the spread, and yet we're still imposing the mandates as though they do, and then endangering people who get the vaccine, who don't need it, who then will probably get COVID anyway because it doesn't protect you from getting the transmission.
So you're really messing with your immune system in dangerous ways.
They won't acknowledge it.
The only answer is public accountability, an outcry.
I was never a pro mandate, but in the beginning I thought the vaccine was a miracle.
I was proud of American industry for coming up with this thing so soon.
And the first version of the vaccine seemed like the best one because there was, I believe still, some measure of protection against the spread of COVID.
And so that particular vaccine worked fairly well against that original version of COVID.
And it's just gone steadily downhill since then.
And so now I've got some serious questions about efficacy, about dangers, yes, side effects from the vaccine, but also what are we doing to our immune systems and other Other bodily systems, when we take the vaccine that won't prevent us from getting COVID and then we get COVID.
So now you've had at least a double shock to your immune system.
There are questions about what it actually does, if anything, to DNA.
There have been denials and so on, but more and more information is starting to come out now, as you would expect.
We're two years into having the vaccines and you can't trust the American public health services.
They have only one mission, which is to push more vaccines on us.
You have to start getting your information from the UK, from Sweden, from Finland, from Israel.
Like there are countries who are taking honest looks at this.
You know, and I mean, seriously, like there's now, like in the UK, you're not supposed to, they're not recommending the vaccine.
They don't, they won't give it unless there are special circumstances to kids under 12.
Here, at our school, there's a mandate in place.
Now, it doesn't kick in until you're 16, but there are still school systems in the country where you have to get it under age 12 or you're expelled.
That's what's happening in Washington, D.C.
They just had to hold off on it because it was gonna lead to half of their population, and that's a black school population, that wasn't gonna be able to go to school, so they cared about that, right?
But they're mandating it now for young people when we really have no idea whether it's actually gonna lead to increase in cardiac events for young children, myocarditis and beyond.
I featured friends of mine, Dave, on my show, friends of mine, who I got to know at the beach.
Their 17-year-old son, died suddenly of a heart attack, of a heart incident caused by myocarditis.
He wasn't sick.
He had COVID and he had the vaccine.
And the family doesn't know.
They don't know what led to his death.
But he was perfectly able-bodied.
Five months after he got the vaccine and about a year after he had COVID, he died of myocarditis.
There's just been too many incidents like that.
And if you look at the rise in cardiac events amongst young people now, It's disturbingly high and it seems to follow, if you look at the graphs, in these magazines, these aren't like far left or far right magazines, they follow spikes in the vaccination rate.
They don't follow spikes in COVID, like the outbreak of Omicron.
It's not like all the cardiac deaths were happening then amongst the young people.
They have been following the increases in vaccination rates country to country.
All of that disturbs me and gives me pause, and as a journalist says, I want to know more.
I want to know more, and I know where not to look.
I will not look at Rochelle Walensky or Anthony Fauci or anybody at the NIH or the WHO.
I mean, Fauci just gave another grant to Peter Daszak's group, EcoHealth Alliance, another $600,000 plus.
It's going to go up to $3.3 million to do more bat coronavirus research in China.
These are the people that we're looking to for answers?
Have you ever seen that compilation from the morning show?
Oh, I'll text it to you after this.
There's an incredible, it's like a three minute compilation of all of the news shows, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, everybody all going in and out of commercial brought to you by Pfizer as they're reporting on Pfizer. You can't and they're so rich. It's an unlimited
spend. You know, these companies are businesses. That was one thing I realized in my 17
years at Fox News. It was a business.
It was a business first. It's not a public service. None of them is. I mean, Fox is not
unique in that way. They want to put on programs that rate.
They're not looking to do in-depth reports on homelessness if they don't think it's going to
rate.
I remember the terrible earthquake down in Haiti and our biggest conclusion looking at the fall in numbers was Haiti, no Rady.
Like that's I remember we talked about it because it was just the dregs in terms of numbers and very quickly we and CNN and everybody else moved off of Haiti.
I can say whatever I want about whatever I want or whomever I want, and that's lovely because Well, Fox censored me far less than anybody else ever did.
I mean, NBC was far worse than Fox when it came to, this is how you have to say it, and this is the way we want it, you know, approached.
Well, I mean, everything, everything out of your mouth at NBC is controlled.
You, on my morning show, you'd have scripts, you know, that they put in the prompter, and everything would be run by standard and practices.
So the lawyers combed through every word with a fine tooth comb, would want to change, especially we did a lot of these Me Too stories that were breaking at the time, they would want to change it to this or change it to that.
And I as a lawyer would be like, that's not necessary.
That's overreach.
We're erring too far on this side or that.
And I was not in control.
They were in control.
Then I would want to ask my own questions because that's all I had ever done at Fox.
Nobody writes your questions at Fox.
And they would get upset.
They wanted the producers to write my questions, and that's where I said, I'm not doing that.
I draw the line.
That's literally what you're paying me for, to use my brain and come up with questions.
I had one case, we were discussing a Supreme Court case, and a producer had given me a packet.
She was not a lawyer.
They had just hired her from Al Jazeera, and she wanted me to ask her questions.
This, like, toddler from this other, I'm like, Okay, I practiced law for 10 years, I covered the high court for 3 years, and I've been a journalist for 17.
You can take a seat.
I will ask my own questions.
So that was a frustration at NBC.
And by the way, I did.
At Fox, it was more understood.
And I was on board with the Fox mission, that they were an antidote to the left-wing bias in media.
If you're going to work at Fox News, your goal is not to pick up the New York Times and put it on TV.
Your goal is to try to take another look.
at the stories that are out there and see what the media is missing, see if there is another side to be told.
And sometimes there isn't, but usually there is.
So yeah, but that's not my mission in my current job.
My current job is just to give my honest take on the day's news no matter where it lands and however the agenda is.
I don't care, like the viewers will come or they won't, but it's honest and it's definitely not ideological.
Do you wish that, at some level, mainstream media was better?
Or at this point, do you think the ship has just sailed, and it's like, people will find you now, they'll find me, and for better or worse, we're all just gonna go in our directions, and so be it?
They're gone but not forgotten, and I think they're just on their last legs right now, sort of wobbling around, about to fall, and I just think it's done for them.
I think it's too late to resurrect them.
So today, we talked about Chris Cuomo and his His new show.
And he goes out there and he says on News Nation, I'm going to be sort of the moderate voice.
Okay, I'm going to be the voice of reason.
Who's going to give it to you in a non-partisan way?
Give me a break.
CNN right now is trying to do the same thing.
After all these years of telling everyone who's in the center or right of, not just, we're not with you.
We hate you.
Now that they see that that's a failing business model, they want to turn everything around and say, you can trust us.
We're in the middle.
We're the voice of reason.
Bullshit!
Nobody believes that.
So that works to your advantage and to my advantage because I think in both of our cases we have a history of not being blinded by ideology.
We've been open to facts and new information.
And honest about that journey too with our viewers.
So that's our advantage.
It's not theirs.
And I don't think the media is gonna come back from what they did to themselves during Trump.
As I always say on the show, it's like for better or worse, whatever I'm saying on the show is coming out of my mind.
So it's like, it all falls on me.
But one of the things I'm always amazed about is on the network side, that these guys that screw up or get caught in massive lies or their ratings are horrible, they rarely get fired.
They just get shifted.
So Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, I don't even remember what it was he got fired for.
Yeah, well, they don't care because those people are on the right side ideologically, which is the left, right?
They would have gotten rid of them a long time ago if they hadn't been saying the things that the network executives wanted them to say.
I mean, the Don Lemon case really brings it home because as soon as they had a shift in management, he literally went out on the air and reminded everyone that he's black and he's gay.
Like, that's where we are in our society.
I mean, I should have tried this at NBC.
I should have been like, just in case you're thinking about getting rid of me, I have a vagina.
It's funny, because I heard Chris Cuomo say the thing about, I'm going to be the voice of reason or something, and it's like, well, what were you doing?
What do you think you did for the last five years?
He mea culpa'd over protecting his brother, not over being a partisan hack, turning himself into a pundit without admitting it.
Here's what's annoying.
Like, when I was at Fox News, I would make headlines a lot, inadvertently, you know, the media would just pick it up, because I'd have very contentious moments with very well-known Republicans, right?
From Newt Gingrich to Dick Cheney to Donald Trump and beyond.
But I would also make a lot of headlines for the fights I had with Democrats, from Donna Brazile to Anthony Weiner and beyond.
I have a history I can actually point to, to tell the audience I will challenge any politician you put in front of me because I'm not blinded by my own political opinions.
What can Chris Cuomo point to in his past that would back up his I'm the voice of reason to trust me to not get sucked into the harsh partisanship of TV news?
Bullshit!
It was a lie because he needs to turn over a new leaf and so he needs to hope and pray that people don't believe They're lying eyes that they've looked through for the past 12 years or however long he was there doing that.
So speaking of Chris Cuomo, you are a former New Yorker.
They got rid of his brother in the midst of this COVID craziness.
And I don't know if you know this, but so it happened during August, last August when they got rid of him.
So I didn't know about it for a couple of weeks because I'm off the grid.
And then Corolla is bringing me back on the grid and he says, you know, they got rid of Andrew Cuomo before he even said, Who he was being replaced with, I said, I guarantee you, whoever it is, it's going to be worse.
And it's fairly obvious that Kathy Hochul is far worse, even despite the fact that he killed all these people and our friend Janice Dean, what happened to her in-laws and all of this stuff.
I mean, do you think that New York, California, these places, do you think they can ever turn around or are they just going to be perpetually on that slide now?
I don't know, because both New York and California have had Republican governors.
They have large pockets of red.
Their statewide elections have been dominated by Democrats for years now, but upstate New York and Long Island parts of New York and western New York, still very red.
And obviously that's true in California too.
It just doesn't happen to be true of their major cities like New York City and LA, certainly San Fran.
So I don't want to say it's never possible to have reason restored.
And it wouldn't have to be a Republican, you know?
I mean, it could be an Andrew Yang type or a Tulsi Gabbard type Democrat, somebody who just had it and was ready to call BS.
I still think as a lifelong New Yorker, you know, not New York city-er, but New York state-er, that could happen in my state.
I have faith in the reason of most people living in New York.
You know, I think that what's happened in New York, And you know, you'd know better than I in California is the loudest voices have dominated the discussion and shamed the vast majority of their party into going along.
And now that's become policy.
And now we're seeing the real life results of that policy, for example, defund the police and slowly, but surely those policies are falling apart.
Now COVID is its own unique brand of insanity.
Our governor in New York is wearing a vaxed necklace to her public.
I can't help people like that.
They're gone.
They're too far gone.
We just need a new ruler, a new governor to replace her.
So I don't wanna say never, but probably no time soon.
Yeah, so you know I'm down here, obviously, in Florida now, and it's been a little hard for me to try to figure out what's going on with the mainstream media when it comes to this hurricane, but it's pretty obvious, because I don't have cable anymore, so I can't, you know, I only see Twitter clips now, but it's pretty obvious.
It's like, this machine would love for this disaster to have been worse to get to Santis.
Do you think that's too much to say that, or do you agree with that?
If they smell blood in the water, they love it when it's a Republican.
And there was just a report, I think it was Maggie Haberman in the New York Times who was saying something like, a lot of the times you have to wait, you have to wait to see the damage to know what kind of a job the leader has done.
So it's basically like, so far he's done a good job, but just let's hold our fire because I'm sure there'll be disasters popping up that we can blame on him later.
I think Trump sucks up all the energy in every room.
No matter what.
And even someone as skilled as a politician and smart policy-wise as DeSantis can't overcome that.
He can't.
The only way DeSantis is going to become the Republican nominee is if Trump chooses not to run and endorses him or dies.
Like, I just don't see a world in which Trump says, I want it.
Let's say he says, I want it.
And DeSantis beats him fair and square in the primary.
You really think the hardcore MAGA is going to abandon Trump for DeSantis?
They're not.
I talk to them all the time.
I take calls from them on my radio show, and they won't.
They like DeSantis, but they don't think it's his turn.
They think Trump was screwed out of his last election, that he was screwed out of his first term by all the craziness and the Russiagate and so on, and they think he is entitled.
He deserves another shot at it, and so unless Trump gracefully and graciously says, Get behind DeSantis.
By the way, I'm not even totally sure I want him to run.
I love Florida so much, and I know how much he loves it, and I know how this state is flourishing, that at some level, just at a, I suppose, a somewhat selfish level, it's like, no, stay here.
Let's keep running with this thing and see how great we can make this state.
And maybe the machinery of the federal government is just so broken, that swamp thing maybe is so all-encompassing that there's not much you could do there anyway.
It wouldn't be bad to just freeze the executive's powers, which have gotten too big.
And this version of the presidency of the executive branch was never envisioned by the founders.
It's gotten too big and too out of control.
However, if we froze it as it is now, if we're voting for gridlock from, you know, in 2024 and 2022 and 2024 and beyond, Well, then we're going to be stuck with a lot of bad Biden policies.
For example, due process for young men accused on college campuses, which is about to switch back to Biden's and Obama's worldview, unless this public comment period, which was very anti their changes, changes things.
But, you know, he doesn't want due process for accused men on campuses.
He wants trans girls to be competing against biological girls and girls sports.
There's a lot of stuff that Biden's done that needs to be undone.
And then if we could just undo it and put us back to stasis, then I'm all for gridlock.
I don't want a big executive.
I'd much rather see governors make policy and do police power things and so on.
All the signs of dementia, are present and increasing.
It's getting worse.
By the day, the being lost all the time, that's a sign.
The increasing... That's a sign of dementia.
The inability to remember who's dead and who's alive, even though moments earlier you saw a tribute to this representative from Indiana, Jackie Wolorski, and then you look around the room and say, where is she?
You just saw a tribute.
You wrote a letter to her family.
I realize he didn't do it.
He knew she was dead.
He'd been told.
It wasn't just a few weeks, it was two months earlier.
He forgot.
It's a sign of dementia.
Even the way we mock how he says something and then the White House comes out a day later and does the cleanup, you know, like, no, no, we're not going to go into Taiwan if China invades.
And it depends on if it's a minor incursion and, oh no, I'm for regime change in Russia.
All three, you know, right?
His minions at the White House or his controllers run out and say, didn't mean it, not a change in policy.
That's part of it.
He's not in control of what he says, of what he blurts out.
And he's the one who in that 60 minutes, Dave said, watch me.
The question by Scott Pelley was, are you fit?
And he said to us, watch me.
Well, we have, we are, and we're deeply alarmed.
We're coming up on November.
That's when the annual physical is.
There must be a cognitive test, the results of which must be publicly released.
Trump did it in 18 and Biden has to do it.
And it better be with somebody who we trust and not some hack.
I hate to tell you, but I don't think we're getting the results of that test.
Unless, unless, and I think this is probably what the move will be, which is if they get completely hammered in the midterms, they're gonna need the scapegoat and you just figure out a way to just dump it all on Biden.
He has to step down.
And I honestly, I'm not sure they'd give it to Kamala.
They'd figure out some weird way to get Gavin Newsom in there or something.
Isn't it incredible, though, how the media runs cover for them no matter what?
So, like, you know, you mentioned a couple of Biden's big gaffes, the Taiwan one, for example.
But it's like, do you remember, what was it, six weeks ago or so that Biden said he had cancer?
And then basically within two minutes, everybody was like, no, no, no, it's not that he has cancer.
It's that he has dementia.
So he just misremembered the can, and it's like, how do you guys, they're doing the magic trick right in front of us, and everybody falls for it every time.
I was basically raised Puerto Rican with Puerto Rican.
Oh, you mean in your state, which had 0.8% Puerto Rican population?
You had 3,000 Puerto Ricans out of 550,000 Delawareans, and you were raised by Puerto Ricans?
No, you weren't, right?
Like, the media doesn't care.
They actually wind up, If you try to fact check Biden on any of these absurd claims, they run out there and then they fact check you.
Like Kamala Harris, the thing that you kicked it off with and her racist comments about how you have to be a group in need of equity in order to get hurricane relief.
I think it was the Washington Post did a fact check on some senator who said she's making race the basis for relief.