Sean Baker
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One last thing. I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a truly independent film. This film was made on the blood, sweat and tears of incredible indie artists and long live independent film. Yeah. OK, thanks.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2149 - Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting GOES TOTALLY NUCLEAR
I want to thank the sex worker community. They have shared their stories. They have shared their life experience with me over the years. My deepest respect. Thank you. I share this with you.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
I've been pretty outspoken about my stance on sex work. It's our oldest profession, yet it has an incredible unfair stigma applied to it. And what I've been trying to do with my films is sort of chip away at that very unfair stigma. Personally, I think it should be decriminalized.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
And I guess through my work, through hopefully humanizing my characters that are usually seen as perhaps caricatures in most film and television, it will help do that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Suspends Ukraine Aid, Canada-Mexico Tariffs Kick In, Major Address Tonight: AM Update for 3/4
I want to thank the sex worker community. They have shared their stories. They have shared their life experience with me over the years. My deepest respect. Thank you. I share this with you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Suspends Ukraine Aid, Canada-Mexico Tariffs Kick In, Major Address Tonight: AM Update for 3/4
It was so embarrassing to me as an American. I just want to say that publicly. This is not the way our leaders have ever behaved. This was a setup for the cameras. It was a play to his base.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
No. We don't need it. We don't need it. So off. Your thoughts?
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
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The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, Scalia, I mean, I wasn't a big fan of his Janus decision. And we probably have different opinions on right to work. I don't think right to work is good, but he heard us there. But as far as desecrating memorials, as far as desecrating the American flag, anybody that does that should be charged with a crime. I'm sorry.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Or if you speak the truth, you get a high five, right? So the RNC speech was great. Same thing. You've got the operatives in the RNC and. You know, I did the keynote speech, as you know, the Monday night of the RNC. So prior to this, you know, we're preparing our speech, my team, and it was a three, four week process going back and forth. And then we've got to submit the speech to the RNC.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Now, if you listen to my speech, I didn't choose a side in that whole speech. It was basically a message on behalf of American workers. I called out corporate elites. I've called out corporations. I called out the far left.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Today, the Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party. And I don't care about getting criticized. It's an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention. Think about this. The Teamsters are doing something correct. If the extremes in both parties think I shouldn't be on this stage...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
have whatever opinion you want, but one thing is clear. President Trump is a candidate who is not afraid of hearing from new, loud, and often critical voices. And I think we all can agree whether people like him or they don't like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough SOB.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So we submit the speech. And the RNC people were like, oh, no, you have to change it. You have to change all the narratives. This isn't what we want. And I'm like, I'm not changing the fucking speech. Sorry. And so we reach out to Susie Wiles. And I'm like, look, I'm not going to speak because I'm not changing my speech. You guys asked me to speak. I have to speak the truth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
She goes, Sean, I don't care what you do. Say whatever you want. She goes, do me a favor. Can you call DJT and just tell him? So I call him up. And I say, look, they want me to change my speech. I'm not going to do that. And he says, I haven't even seen your speech, Sean. He goes, this week said exact words. Say whatever the fuck you want. I'm fine with it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And so I was only supposed to speak for about like 15 minutes. It ended up being like a 30-minute deal. But it was pretty funny. And it was funny because in that whole speech – when we first started out and I said, he's one tough SOB, obviously those are my initials. So I tried to, I threw that in there. That wasn't on the teleprompter. And I got criticized for saying that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I'm like, the guy just took a fucking bullet to the ear two days before that. And he's back up like nothing happened. Like, I don't care whether you like him or you don't like him. I mean, that's some mental and physical toughness. And, you know, you get criticized, you get criticized for that. But it was a whole funny experience.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And it just showed you how, you know, the far left or the far right, in this case, the far right, didn't want a truthful narrative.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
No, I mean, she didn't answer the questions at all with any type of real substance. You know, it was funny when she was answering the questions and, you know, I check a few of the boxes, ADD, ADHD, OCD, whatever. And I just remember saying, this lady's not even answering this question. Maybe it's my OCD kicking in or something.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I don't know what it was, but I started I started thinking about Little League and saying if I swung the bat a little harder, maybe I would have hit the fence. I mean, it was just the answers. The answers were crazy. And it was telling at that point in time that, you know, she had a sense of entitlement to the position, not that she wanted to work at it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So the the eyes on mafia is blaming Joe Biden for not getting out of the race sooner.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Right. So here's the narrative that we heard. And again, this is secondhand information. You know, when President Biden was running, he was running as a transitional president. So the story that we got, and again, a secondhand story. But again, with all these books coming out, so I think it's safe to say that this is probably accurate, that the secondhand story was.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
went that they had a meeting two years into, and when I say they, his close cabinet team had a meeting with President Biden, said, you know, two years into it, this is a great time to say that you're not going to be, you know, running again. You're a transitional president. You've done some good things, passed some good legislation. Now it's time to step out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And I heard, and this was told to us by some reliable sources, that Everybody was in favor of him making that announcement, but one person. And that one person wasn't part of the cabinet or elected. It was his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. So that's true. You know, you're blaming the wrong people. I mean, look, you know, when I'm 78 years old, hopefully I'll still be alive.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
and enjoying retirement and grandchildren, not trying to get propped up and be made a fool of. And anybody that thought that he should have ran for another term and or was qualified to do it, you need to blame yourselves, not blame Joe Biden.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, I think what's important is to look back over the last 20 years. The Democrats controlled 16 out of the last 20 years, and we didn't get anything done. I mean, you look at the Obama administration. During the Obama administration, you had a full Democratic House, Senate, and President.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Our biggest objective was to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easy to organize, contract neutrality, no retribution or retaliation for joining the union. And remember, people forget all these bad trade deals that were done under the Clinton administration have come to surface because of the Trump administration. And we are finally realizing that we lost a lot of jobs.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
We lost a lot of manufacturing. We lost a lot of goods and services that were produced in this country. So I think that's part of the reason why there's a gravitation towards a Trump. Plus, look, I think And you look at the narrative from the Chuck Schumers of the world in the 90s and you look at the Hillary Clinton 2008 narrative on immigration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
It's all in line with what President Trump is doing right now. So it's not that the American people or the American worker has changed their beliefs.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
their morals and their beliefs we've remained constant uh it's the democrat party democratic party who has flipped the script and embraced billionaires have embraced technology and embraced everything that they once hated um and now they're criticizing tariffs and things that may be able to bring good american jobs back here um i think that's one of the reasons why in in you know president trump you know do i agree with everything he does absolutely not but do i agree what he's been doing i mean look i'll tell you this for the teamsters union
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Whenever there's a decision made on labor or how potentially this could benefit or hurt organized labor, he calls us. They call the Teamsters Union. And we've had frank discussions on certain things. And that's what it's about, having a dialogue. And it's great. I mean, look, the most recent thing is this taxing and tariffing these motion picture companies that are taking work.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I want to talk to you about that. Taking jobs out of the United States and going to Europe and Paris and masquerading Paris as New York City. Those people should be paying or those companies should be paying a tax for that. And he called me up and he said, look, Sean, I want to do this. Do you mind working with Jon Voight and some other folks in Hollywood? Because we represent Hollywood.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
you know, a vast number of members that work in Hollywood, Teamster members. And I said, absolutely not. He goes, push as hard as you can. I want to make this happen. So how do you criticize someone that is calling you up saying, hey, I want to bring American jobs back here. Please do me a favor, push as hard as you can. We'll work together on this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Now, there's some other unions that, you know, may be upset, federal employees, where there's been significant layoffs. And that that's that, you know, layoffs are tough and I get that. But the reality is for the teens perspective, when, you know, our members are fighting to protect jobs and keep keep good American jobs in this country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And the president is calling us up saying, you know, this is what we want to do. I think it's I think it's a pretty good start. It's more than we've gotten in the past. And like I said, the Democrats were in charge for 16 out of the last 20 years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, it's a global problem because it's the greediness of these studios and some of these actors that make a lot more money overseas than they would here. But I look at the film industry in the United States. And my father worked in the film industry in Boston. He was a transportation coordinator for the Teamsters Union. So I know a little bit about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I look at the film industry as we have some of the most creative people in in the world in the United States that have been making movies for hundreds of years. And I look at the film industry in America as like Major League Baseball is America's sport. You can't put the Boston Red Sox in Great Britain and call them the Boston Red Sox, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So, you know, people should look at filmmaking as the same as they would look at America's sport. We are at the forefront of We have a great opportunity to create hundreds upon thousands of jobs.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And the film industry not only creates hundreds of thousands of jobs, there's also a residual benefit or indirect benefit from all the goods and services, supplies, restaurants, hotels within the United States that employ millions of people. So that's the thought process. I mean, Robert De Niro, I mean, I've seen some of his antics. I was a big fan of his.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
But I'm a big fan of keeping American people working. And again, American films are right up there with American baseball. It's American.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, I think it's a great example of, hooray for me, fuck everybody else. Because if you look at average Hollywood actors, and we supported SAG, Screen Actors Guild, on their strike, there's only 4% or 5% of actors making the Robert De Niro, that type of money. Most people that film a movie, you give 35% to your agent, to whatever other payout you have to make. Your PR.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Yeah, your manager, PR, and everything else, right? So at the end of the day, These folks, they make a 16-week movie. The average person that's an actor or an actress makes a movie 16 weeks. They're making the minimal, and they're unemployed in 16 weeks. So it's easy for him to say or to get on his soapbox and pontificate about creativity and everything else. The guy's worth $200 million.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And you got some poor stiff that's actually very talented trying to make a living, grind out a living in L.A. or New York. I mean, you know, again, talk about not being in touch.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And I guarantee you, if it came to Robert De Niro working behind a strike to make some money, there'd be clear choice he would cross that picket line because he's actually crossing a picket line right now by going overseas and doing American film work where it should be done in America, not overseas.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Thank you very much. I appreciate you having us on the show.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, I think he's spot on as far as American companies doing work overseas. You can create these jobs and infrastructure in the United States. And, you know, I think the problem is, you know, you get back to the corporate greed and the wage disparity between, you know, the CEOs and the people that are actually providing the labor in the United States.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Although it's probably it's much cheaper to go overseas and do it. I don't think it's that cheap. It should be viewed as being cheaper. I think bring those jobs back here. Take a little bit more off your bottom line and give it to your workers, and I think it will be fine. I mean that's what we're supposed to be.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
CEOs shouldn't be making 2,000 times more than an American worker, especially when the American worker is doing all the work. So I think it's a great narrative.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Right. The profit margin would shrink. There's no doubt about that. But you'd actually be providing opportunity for people in this country, opportunity to have, you know, nice homes, good educations for their children. What's wrong with reinvesting in the American people, even if, you know, cost you a little bit more in a profit?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And, you know, look, you know, I think the one thing is and Trump was criticized saying he was beholden to Wall Street while he was running. Clearly, he hasn't given two shits about Wall Street right now because of, you know, he's announced these tariffs. He's announced a lot of things that have shook Wall Street. And it's a good thing. I mean, I talk about it all the time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Yeah, well, you know what's funny? We've been saying it since December of 2023. When I first took over the Teamsters Union, our goal was to work bipartisan and work with the people that are going to represent working people, whether it's Democrat, Republican, or Independents. And when we started down that road, it was ironic how fast the Democrats turned turned on us.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I'm like, I care about Main Street before Wall Street any day of the week. And that's where people should be focused in these corporations that American based but provide their labor in a third world nation. That's what they should be focused on as well. Main Street, not Wall Street.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Yeah, there's no doubt we have an abundance of people available for work in this country. We've got the brightest and best. And this is just an excuse by corporate American corporate greed on why they want to pay people less. Because, you know, the reality of it is there's plenty of people that need good paying jobs. There's plenty of Americans in this country that could do a lot of this work.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So I don't buy that bullshit at all. And let me ask you something. Are they putting ads in the Mexican paper to having these people come over here and say, hey, we got these jobs? No, they're actually trafficking people over here to do these jobs so they can expand their profits on their balance sheet. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, those corporations should be fined.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Like you said, they should be humiliated. And if someone doesn't act accordingly, they should be shamed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, that guy, I mean, clearly he's got on a little supplemental program. You know, he looked like he looked like Patsy Weber. And now all of a sudden he's trying to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, no, but the reality of it, look, it's I refer to Amazon as a white collar crime syndicate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
The way they treat their people, their employees, which they don't you know, they don't they have 150 percent turnover ratio there. They focus on distressed communities to build their fulfillment centers. And they hide behind a third-party leasing arrangement with their drivers called a DSP model. They're not a W-2 employer, 1099, these delivery drivers. Conversely, UPS is our largest employer.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
We have negotiated a $30 billion deal with We first came into office on behalf of 340,000 part-time and full-time members at UPS, where they get high wages, they get the best benefits, and they get pension for doing the same exact work. So Amazon is clearly... Jeff Bezos' attitude, and I'll tell you this, it's very smug. He doesn't respect the people that work for him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
He exploits distressed communities. And he thinks... that this should be the United States of Amazon, not the United States of America. And I love the fact when he stepped on his dicks, excuse my language, and he wanted to put what the tariffs would cost per piece.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Some of them, you know, they were very vindictive, very critical. But we knew that, you know, President Biden was failing. We could tell. I mean, you didn't have to be a rocket scientist or a medical professional to figure it out. And that we knew Kamala Harris wasn't the answer to what Americans needed, American working people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And I took it one step further and I said, why don't you put what your profits reflect on every single package by exploiting the DSP model, third-party leasing arrangement, the 1099 wage scam you have going on. I would love to see that on your packages. And, you know, he doubled down and, you know, typical, you know, hit. Now he's hiding. Didn't comment on one of the dumbest things he's ever said.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So that's a clear example of his wife or fiancée. Is it his wife now or fiancée? She's about to be.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Just think about this. You're better half. You're a significant other. buys you a separate yacht because he's embarrassed by your friends who he doesn't want to call mingling with the dignitaries. I mean, that should send a signal up right away. I mean, is he worried about like another version of a diddy party or something? I don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Like I stand by my friends. I grew up in a neighborhood and I, my friends come from, I always tell people, my friends are cops, robbers and clergy. Okay. And yeah. Whether they're good, they're bad, or indifferent, they're still my friends. I grew up with them. Loyalty.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I mean, what does that tell you about someone if they're not standing up for their friends because they might not be good enough or not come from the same class? Just think about how he looks at his workers who go to work every single day for him to make them the success.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
You think he's looking at them any differently than he's looking at his wife's friends where he exiled them to Gilligan's Island while he's somewhere else?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
So it's funny now, everybody had amnesia when, and no pun intended, amnesia when the election was happening. But now they saying that the Democratic Party had this code of silence and no one knew how bad it was. I mean, come on, that's that's a little far fetched, don't you think?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I get a better bad idea. Catchy phrase, right? Have her go work. If she's so concerned about social justice, have her go work in one of her husband's facilities and see the exploitation of American workers, see the social injustices that are happening in that workplace every day, and then maybe she can take credit for an award that she clearly shouldn't be getting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Oh, I had my youngest. I had my youngest. He's a sophomore at Suffolk University, plays hockey. And, you know, I have two kids. One's 24 and one's 21. Great kids. But again, like you, I grew up, I didn't grow up upper middle class or middle class. We were just beneath it. But, you know, we always want more for our kids. So we work that much harder, provide more for them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
But one thing that they needed to understand that there's a work ethic. No one gives you anything. No one gives you a home. No one gives you spending money. You got to go out and earn it. So my oldest is a plumber. He's in the plumbers union. You know, he works, he finishes apprenticeship program. He's 24 years old. And then I got my youngest who, I always say like he thinks he's a Kardashian.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
You know, he wants Lululemon. He's a hockey player, typical hockey player, you know. Does he have a very enormous butt? Oh, yeah. He's got a big ass and a big attitude to go with it. But, you know, my point is I made him work in the union at a cement company, a ready mix company. And just, I want to, this is where you come from.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
You know, if you want to do better in life, get an education, not that you're going to do better, but if you want an easier job that's less taxing on your body, you got to get to know the people that gave you the ability to enjoy your life that you have right now, these two paying members. Yes. And so I think, look, hard labor is great for kids in college.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Look, we've got tremendous amount of jobs throughout the United States where when I started out, I got a full scholarship to play football. The summer before I went to to play, I was in the union. I was throwing rubbish on the back of a truck in the city of Boston.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And I learned a good work ethic, but I was around people that I grew up around the dinner table with, hardworking people that were out there providing opportunity for their family. And there's nothing wrong with going to work every single day, providing that opportunity. But, you know, you can't forget where you come from. So your children busing tables, they're going to learn to respect people.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
They're going to learn to respect the people they work with. And hopefully when they rise up through the ranks and become successful and they're getting weighted on, that they'll take into consideration the trials and tribulations they went through. Yes. And obviously embrace and respect the people that are serving them.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
There's no better people in this world than people that are providing services, whether it's in restaurants or whatever it is. And I got to tell you, I've always told my kids, you always respect the people that are serving you in restaurants because they are trying to make ends meet. Some of those folks are working three and four jobs. But to your point, You want your son to go to work?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Let us know. If you live in Connecticut, we'll put them on the back of a rubbish truck. We'll put them in a liquor distributor. Yes. Whatever you want. And by the way, they'll get two educations because, you know, it's funny. My son's like, Dad, does everybody hate their wives? I'm like, no, not really. But, you know, it's just I go, it's like a locker room.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
People say a lot of shit that they really wouldn't have the balls to say in front of their significant others. So just let it go. It's just it's just workplace jargon.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Right. And you know what? They did him a disservice. I mean, when I met with him and I got to know him a little bit prior to the election cycle, and it was kind of, you could tell he was deteriorating. And I used to tell people all the time, it kind of looks like elderly abuse. Like, you know, people are forcing him into doing something he didn't want to do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I mean, I make, that's what every single parent and family does. They pay for their own food. They pay for their housing. They pay for their travel for vacation. I mean, are you shitting me?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, you know, it's funny. I mean, talk about security at the White House. You can't ask for better security than having your kids grow up in the White House. I mean, really?
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
But look, the reality, the reality of this world is, you know, I think we've got a great opportunity right now to reset the American culture, create opportunity for American workers and create the ability to have respectful dialogue without all this hatred and venom and all these people that are spewing all this bullshit, whether you're from the far left or the far right, need to take a step back and stop being an individual and do what's best for this country.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, I appreciate you. I'm a huge fan and I'm a subscriber as well.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Uncle Sean will take care of him.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
It's like, you know, you're taking your grandmother or grandfather's license away. It's hard, but it's necessary at times. And I think he got bad advice. And the Democrats are in this position, finger pointing, instead of taking a look in the We're responsible for what we don't agree with in this country.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Let's stop blaming everybody and let's blame ourselves for not having a strategic plan and or a vision to what they thought this country needed. And look, I'm a Democrat. There's no running from that. I grew up in the great city of Boston where I'm very proud, but we've got to call balls and strikes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And the candidates that they put forward after Joe Biden pulled out certainly is not the answer for this country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Look, I mean, I don't trust her, to be honest with you. The way she talked to people, the way she demanded support. Look, the one thing that myself personally and I think most Americans, they don't want to be told what to do. They want to be told what someone is going to do for them. I mean, we pay their salaries. We're their constituents.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And I know growing up where I grew up and I've been in trouble my entire life. When someone told me to do something, I always did the opposite, just to see what the consequences were going to be. And they didn't want to listen anymore. And, you know, they paid the consequence for it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Yeah. So ironically, we met with every presidential candidate. And I'll say this, President Trump, as soon as we reached out, because we've never done this before, we had a roundtable with rank and file members and our general executive board and We interviewed every single candidate. President Trump's team responded immediately in December of 23 saying we'd love to do it. Here's some dates.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
The Biden administration was very difficult to schedule, and they pushed back probably till like May. And then when he got out of the race. Kamala Harris came in and very difficult to deal with. I mean, we gave each candidate 16 questions, all the exact same previous to the meeting. Most of the candidates answered all of them. Joe Biden answered about nine out of 16.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And then when Kamala Harris came in to answer, her team was very clear that She was only going to answer a certain amount of questions. And halfway through, I got a note slipped under me saying that this will be the last question. And she only answered four of them. So it was a typical attitude where, you know, I'm going to be the president of the United States.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And she said on the way out after she gave her closing statement to us that I'm going to win with you or without you. So that's pretty arrogant. And, you know, we had a pretty diverse rank and file presence there, along with our general executive board. So, you know, it didn't sit well with us, didn't sit well with our members.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And look, we polled extensively and 65 percent of our members were voting for President Trump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Yeah, I mean, I just think it's the attitude of the party. I mean, for so long, the party has – and I can speak for the Teamsters Union in my own opinion. We've given the Republican Party millions upon millions – Democratic Party millions upon millions of dollars. And I think they just thought it was like 10th grade geometry was a given.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
They were just going to get it, tell us what we wanted to hear, and that they were going to win. And look – Our members are sophisticated. I think the American people are a lot more sophisticated and they pay attention. And, you know, the arrogance, I think, was a downfall. You know, they talk to people like we were schoolchildren, you know, telling us what we should do, what we shouldn't do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And she's just not a good candidate. And the funny thing is. You know, when she talked about her intention, she embraced technology. She embraced a lot of things that will destroy American jobs. And she was actually reflecting upon what the Republicans used to say 20 years ago. So it was like a script was flipped and, you know, she just wasn't resonating with us. And, you know, her running mate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I mean, really? I mean, that guy, he called me out saying this was hilarious. Calls me out saying all the courageous union leaders that endorsed our ticket, you know, they should be applauded. And the ones that didn't have the courage, you know, basically, you know, screw. And I'm laughing at him. I'm like, here's a guy that has a false narrative of his service for this country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And he looks like a creepy wrestling coach in high school that you wouldn't want your kids rolling around the ground with. So, you know, I just thought that was funny coming from him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
No, I mean, look, and again, I've never served in the military, regret I have, but I wouldn't look at him as a war hero. I'd look at him maybe as like a cub scout or a boy scout, but that's about it.
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Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Well, it didn't work because he embraced the social justice warrior rhetoric that was going around from the far left. And my members, I know my members better than anybody else. And I know working people. During this election, it wasn't about social issues at all. It was about the economy. It was about jobs. It was about taking home more on your paycheck. It was about less inflation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And that's not the narrative they spoke in, which further leads to a point where you've lost touch with the people that you should be representing. And you don't talk to the people you should be representing. So that narrative clearly blew him out of the water.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Look, I think this, and I often tell people this, the Teamsters Union, and I'm a fourth generation Teamster, we've been fighting social injustices through the work that we do on behalf of the members that we represent. We negotiate strong contracts. We make sure there's wage equality. We make certain... that people are promoted based upon their ability. And that's what unions are for.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
You know, I think embracing all of this rhetoric of the social justice system that they've basically doubled down on
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
it's not what the democrats or the democratic people in this country um and the other disturbing piece is you know i've been in conflict my entire life whether it was in my neighborhood i grew up with or my professional career and it's okay to have dialogue it's okay to have debate it's okay to have difference of opinions but this far left in this far left social justice revolution as i look at it uh if you don't agree with them and you don't look like them then you're automatically cast as a racist person
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I grew up in a very diverse neighborhood. I went to a very diverse high school. I've got very diverse friends and they're clearly off the mark. It's kind of like they lost the game and they're sore losers about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
Instead of like any other good team would do, step back, do a little adjusting, maybe get rid of some people on the DNC, embrace candidates that aren't so far left and that have the ability to work with people with difference of opinions, with different backgrounds and come to common ground and solutions to problems instead of creating problems.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
No, listen, being from Boston, we drop F-bombs better than anybody, right? And when you're out there looking like fucking Ward Cleaver, right, trying to drop F-bombs and it's not authentic, people see right through that. But, you know, the reality of it is, you know, you can't teach instinct and you can't teach, you know, a moral compass on certain people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
And, you know, some of these people that are trying to act out now and trying to be something they're not, that's not what people want. There's the only way to fix what's broken in this country is to stop pointing fingers. I mean, I got pissed off. And look, I've called Republicans out. I've called I call balls and strikes. And what happens is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
I was getting criticized from the far left because we didn't do what most people did. We did the normal thing and listened to our members. And I was getting killed from the left. I was getting killed from the far right, especially after the RNC speech. And I started calling out the DSA operatives for defaming historic buildings and statutes in D.C., burning the flag.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
But every time I called them out, they had an answer. Like I called someone on them. You think it's okay to burn the American flag? Their answer is, well, the Supreme Court doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. But morally, you don't think there's a problem with you burning the flag, taking a knee for the national anthem? That's bullshit.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
People fought long and hard, men and women, sacrificed their lives for the freedom of this country. Respect the fucking country. I mean, that's the reality of it. And that's where it's too far left.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Appeal to Working Class, and Michelle Obama's Wild Marriage Rule, with Sean O'Brien and RealClearPolitics Hosts | Ep. 1073
But isn't that troubling, though? Think about that. Like, you know, he couldn't interpret it the way he wanted to. Right. Because of his position. Right. We have an ability.
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Smug Elitists at Oscars, and What Zelensky Really Did Leading to Oval Blow Up, with Andrew Klavan, Link Lauren, and Christian Toto | Ep. 1017
I want to thank the sex worker community. They have shared their stories. They have shared their life experience with me over the years. My deepest respect. Thank you. I share this with you.
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We're going to make sure we've learned from this air disaster. We're going to pay it forward so there's not other families that have to go through the pain and anguish of losing a loved one like these families had to go through.
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Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
Because the police kept saying, the parents aren't cooperating, the parents aren't cooperating. It was like the mantra they were putting out on television. And it wasn't until after I got into the case I realized that was totally not true. They had spent 40 hours in questioning with the police. before I was brought into the case.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
These were people who were trying to help the police find their baby.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
Interrogation is not investigation. It's a strategy to get a suspect to make an incriminating statement, period. That's all it is. And so it's a really dangerous position for them to be in. The other thing that I found out later had been done Uh, was that they, they pulled a strategy on them that's called the prisoner's dilemma.
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Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
Uh, and what you do when you have two suspects in a case is you tell each of them that the other one is implicating them. And so they better start talking and get out ahead of it, or they're going to be the one left holding the bag. And, and so they did that with Jeremy and Deborah. Um, they had each done like a 10 hour videotaped interview. And they took a little snippet out of each one.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Baby Goes Missing, Mother Questioned - Part 1 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1022
And so the public impression was these parents had something to hide. And that came through on the news coverage.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Well, look, obviously this is a big issue in the election. Dan referenced it earlier. later before. I mean, the woke-ism, the pendulum swung way, way, way too far. And I think what Trump is doing is resetting that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
This is, again, where he can get some great wins on these things through executive order, that while he waits for reconciliation, some of the big policy issues to come in, really kind of score points with the American people, resetting the culture issues that swung too far. And so going through the museums, resetting these things, rebuilding these statues.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
And the funny thing is, it's been probably eight or nine months since I've seen saw any inside polling on this. But even when it comes to Confederate statues and renaming things like Fort Bragg, those were extremely popular. It didn't mean that anybody was a Confederate or racist or anything like that. I just I think there's an aspect of not whitewashing history that was important.
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Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
So there's this kind of covers a lot of ground that I think he's on solid ground with the base and probably the majority of Americans, regardless of party. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Sean says, yes, go for it. That's how we all feel. I have his back. Lean in. Lean in, brother.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Go ahead, Sean. But to your point, the caliber of these people, what he was talking about when Brett Baer was telling him, so you co-founded Airbnb. You're the CFO of Morgan Stanley. The credentials of these people. We talked about this a little on the morning meeting this morning that it was the illumination of just the – it wasn't like – you know, finding some buried treasure.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
The guy was like, yeah, we found out that the department of HHS has 40 CFOs, 40 CFO, I mean, 40 CIOs, chief information officer. There are 4.3, 4.6 million government credit cards and 2.1 million employees. There's obvious things that are like, that doesn't make sense. That doesn't compute. 8,000 American federal workers can retire in a given month
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
because that's all the system can handle because it has to take a manila envelope going down a mine a mine that's how many envelopes can go down in a month that's insane and the idea that they were talking about utilizing common sense technology reforms efficiencies to allow the government to run better and even elon when it came to social security made it very clear
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
that what 40% of the people who call the social security hotlines were fraudsters trying to steal the money of American retirees. And what they're trying to do is put processes in place to protect the American consumer from fraud. It's something that I agree with you. I was like, where has this been? I wanted to hear this for the last 70 days. And I finally am here. I was excited. I was fired up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
I hope they do more because I think that the more people hear about not only what really goes on in government, but how it's being corrected, the more support Doge and Elon will get.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Yeah, well, the scary part is that they're not alone. There's probably 1,400 people who do various other tasks. And as a guy who, look, I'm all about tech support. I've learned that you just power things on and off. And that's the extent of my tech support. So I get it. I appreciate that. And I welcome it. But I think 1,400 is a bit excessive. And unfortunately, it's not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Like I said, you go to HHS and they talk about having 40 chief information officers, 40. I mean, generally, when you're the chief, there's only one. But it just shows you the duplicity that exists. I think to your point, these individuals themselves did the effort a huge bonus by going out, the examples they gave, and then if we can add in the human element, the number of people who
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
you know, took a month to retire or who couldn't get a benefit or who had their money stolen. We're missing that third of the, of the piece.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
I was thinking about this as you were saying a moment ago, you know, the, the, the young gentleman that, that was so cool, um, during the state of the union, president Trump, I think did better than any previous president highlighting his policies through those individuals in the gallery.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
I think they almost need to embark on a very similar policy or a similar effort now, which is to go highlight individuals who've had struggles with the federal government, who haven't been able to retire, who were taken advantage of, who worked in the government but there was massive duplicity, et cetera, and start to literally – put faces to these problems.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
And by the way, continue to roll out members of Doge who are finding these things, not just the dollar amount and the programs, but the overall crisis that exists. Because that's not, to Mark's point, it's not waste or fraud, the fact that you can't retire, that you can only retire 80,000 people. It just doesn't make sense.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
In the military, we went to electronic medical records because literally you would have to carry your bulky medical record around with you wherever you went from assignment to assignment, station to station. And that's how we handled it until some genius realized, wow, we could just digitize this like everyone else. And it has made life a lot easier, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
If we can start doing that within the federal government, it's a win-win for the government. It saves us money. It saves us time. It cuts down on bureaucracy. In fact, I'm sure as one of those gentlemen alluded to, The federal workers themselves would probably like to go that route as opposed to climbing up 10 file cabinets high to grab somebody's record from 1979.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
How to retire.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Well, it's even worse than that, right? So that just laid out the stupid process and the amount of money we wasted on it. broadband. And people look at that and say, I had my own experience with like some tsetse fly in the backyard when they wouldn't let me put a shed up.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
But then they also look and go, wait a second, isn't there a thing called Starlink that you could get for like eight bucks that you don't even need to do all that? Right. I mean, it's worse than even that example that Ezra Klein was going through. That's that's just if you wanted to, you know what it takes to lay down broadband and do this. But then you go, OK, that's stupid enough as it is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
But there's actually an alternative that's cost like no money. And that's linking up to Starlink, getting you Internet, not having to lay down all that. The mindlessness of everything is. that the federal government touches is unbelievable. And you're right. Most people get it and they just need to have it validated in terms of the absurdity.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Yeah. If she still has that reset button that she handed Sergei Lavrov, maybe she wants to take a do of on this op-ed and get a reset there. I mean, this is the woman who literally brought a reset button to try to make a joke over our relationship with Russia and wants to lecture somebody else about that. I really wouldn't go there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Then to go into the classified issue after having kept all of your stuff on an unclassified server, wiping it with bleach blit. There are days when you go, you might want to sit this one out. This was one.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
I literally feel like she's the one who let someone in her chat that shouldn't have gotten in and wrote that op-ed. And it was her. I know. I wish she could have at least blamed that on somebody and used the reset button. But it's just embarrassing how clueless... and how unselfaware she is of her own vulnerabilities. Because it's not just that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
When she does stuff like this, it means that Democrats have to answer for it. We get to talk about it. This is one where you literally say, I'll write it for you and then hand it off to somebody else or just sit this one out or don't send it into the New York Times. Write it in your journal or put it on your unclassified server and keep it for yourself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Go ahead. But, but for, for, for just one thing we got, we lost in the conversation about signal gate was that the president and his team knocked out all of those hoothy targets. No lives were lost. Targets were hit. The Obama or the Biden administration lost 13 lives coming out of Afghanistan. She dealt with Benghazi.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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If we want to talk about missions and diplomacy and actions, I'll take the Trump record over her record, over Biden's record any day of the week.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Dan, do you think your donors on the Dem side or House rank and file House members were excited to see that op ed in The New York Times this morning?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, this is my big tell. I said this this morning. It's the manifest to Greenland is important today. More importantly, is the manifest is going from J.D. Right, so pay attention to the manifest on the flight home. Does anybody become the special envoy to Greenland and just get stuck in Nook? I hope it's not Usha. No, she's fine. I think everybody loves her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She bought, she bought a round trip ticket. But, but I do wonder if somebody ends up hanging around the commissary too long there at the, at the base.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, so there's two things. Not all sins are created equal. And I think in Donald Trump's eyes right now, the sin of allowing Jeffrey Goldberg into that conversation is greater than Pete Hegseth probably going beyond what he should sensitivity-wise on that chain, right? And the mission was a success. So I think Trump looks at it and says, who am I more pissed at?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Somebody who allowed this Jeffrey Goldberg guy into the thing who obviously is someone of dubious character to begin with. and obviously a never-comper. Suckers and losers smear. I think, Megan, the problem that a lot of people are having is, and I said this on the show, Jeffrey Goldberg is in my phone.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I had to call and yell at him during the transition because of a horrible, horrible story when I met him the first time that his reporter wrote that I called to chastise him about. I think if Mike Waltz said, hey, yeah, he was in my phone book because one time he was writing a profile on blah, blah, blah. I mean, I have a lot of people in my phone that- Good and bad.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But because over 30 years you that's I mean, I actually have Mark Halperin's contact information going back like 18 jobs time. I can do Mark's bio because I don't delete anything. But that's another story. The point is that like it wasn't if it doesn't. Jameson Greer might have been the who's the U.S. trade rep. It's J.G. Maybe that's who.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean that's – again, that's a whole separate thing. My point is it's an honest mistake. Instead of just saying, hey, look, the guy was in my phone book because I had to yell at him eight years ago or he did – who cares? Instead of trying to do this, I don't know how he got in my phone book. I think that that's going to – that could be the bigger problem because he's opened himself up to –
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think that we should investigate this. Well, at some point, I don't know enough about tech, but maybe there's some way of finding out the date that a contact entered into your phone book or something like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You might have met someone 15 years ago. I've had people work for me during my six years at the RNC who I haven't spoken to since because of some of the positions they've taken. They're still in my phone book. I don't spend time purging it. I don't think that was the big sin. This, to me, is going to be the rub.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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If there is something that comes of this, that's going to be a problem because a crisis should die after 48 hours if it's not given oxygen. I think this thing has lasted way too long.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I'm gonna go back to that. I'm sure as a lawyer, you know the case I'm gonna cite, common sense versus nut job, where it very clearly- Historic. The court ruled that you shouldn't have to argue that hard to get known gang members out of a country who came here illegally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I mean, this is on its face an insane idea that a president of the United States has to go all the way to the Supreme Court to argue that people who are known gang members coming illegally into the country have to go through some serious process to get sent back. I believe the court will side with President Trump, but I think it's sad that we actually had to go to this level to do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes. Yes. That's the biggest issue. Redistricting. I mean, that's when they're going to – that would be a huge issue that people should care about nationwide, not just the folks in Wisconsin. A lot of voter ID thing, a lot of early voting all goes through – will go through the state Supreme Court. So, yeah, for a lot of reasons, people should care about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think there's no question Democrats have the edge going to this. This is going to be a turnout thing, and that's why you're seeing Elon, Don Jr., others try to make the case, tell the town halls, personal visits, et cetera. Republicans could do themselves a huge favor – if they pick up the Supreme Court seat.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I would say that they're not favored to do it, but it's definitely one of those things as we head down the stretch that they have every ability to do. I can't think of any state.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So did Scott Walker. It tends to break to the right at the end. But that assumes a strong ground game. And as you know, these off year ones are just so, so. So reading an electorate is very difficult. So, I mean, you're absolutely right. That's the one piece of hope.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
Megan, if I can real quick, this is a win-win politically for President Trump. If the Supreme Court, which I believe it will, rule in his favor for all the reasons that you kind of enumerated there, then it's a political win. If by chance the court at the highest level rules against him,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think at least on the MAGA-based side, and I think for a lot of independents, after the four years that we were gaslit and told that there was no problem with immigration, that the border was sealed, that criminals weren't coming in, they'll give President Trump credit for fighting. And so this to him is a perfect issue because there is no downside. There's a downside for the country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking DOGE Findings, Elon vs. Sen. Kelly, and Hillary's Hypocrisy, with Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine | Ep. 1037
If the court rules against us, God forbid they make us bring criminals back into the country. But at the end of the day, I think this is one of those ones where you, if you're President Trump leading this, to Dan's point, you've put Democrats in a trap. They either have to side with you or with the criminals.