The Megyn Kelly Show
Bessent Slams NYT, DHS Crackdown in New Orleans, Doc Sentenced in Matthew Perry Case: AM Update 12/4
04 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111. It's Thursday, December 4th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
The New York Times is no longer the paper of record.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant rips into the New York Times at a summit hosted by the New York Times. Democrats on the Oversight Committee released never-before-seen photos of Jeffrey Epstein's island. We're going to take these dangerous criminals off the streets of Louisiana. DHS arrives for an immigration crackdown in New Orleans with the governor's blessing.
And the first of five defendants sentenced in connection with actor Matthew Perry's overdose death. All that and more, coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Chapter 2: What did Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent say about the New York Times?
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Chapter 3: What new evidence was released regarding Jeffrey Epstein's island?
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant sitting down with The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times' dealbook summit for a wide-ranging conversation yesterday. The typically calm and measured secretary at times getting heated with the journalist, challenging him on several issues.
In one particularly fiery moment, Secretary Besant slamming The New York Times for a recent report headlined, quote, Shorter days, signs of fatigue. Trump faces realities of aging in office.
The Times analyzing the president's schedule finding, quote, Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips. He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to. Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m. on average.
Where was this intrepid reporting when President Biden would go days without any appearances or spent long weekends napping on a beach in Delaware?
Chapter 4: What is the significance of DHS's immigration crackdown in New Orleans?
Secretary Besant, yesterday.
The New York Times is no longer the paper of record. I read this article, like President Trump is slowing down. It is 100% fake. He only called me twice at 2 in the morning last week instead of three times.
Chapter 5: Who was sentenced in connection with Matthew Perry's death?
You're saying he called you? I believe that he called you at 2 or 3 in the morning. That whole narrative. You had what was one of the greatest scandals of all time. that the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden's diminished capacity, and the cover-up. And that's why it's probably fair to raise these questions. Where was the New York Times?
We just had a three-hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew. For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a cabinet meeting. How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president, which they didn't? That I hear from people in the Treasury building that I see President Trump more in a day than my predecessor saw Joe Biden in half a year.
Sorkin pressing Besson on recent reporting that President Trump pushed for Paramount to greenlight buddy comedy Rush Hour 4 as it attempts to buy Warner Bros. in a deal that would ultimately require regulatory approval. Brett Ratner, who directed a forthcoming documentary about Melania Trump set to debut on Amazon Prime Video, is the director of the Rush Hour movies.
Besson then flipping the script on Sorkin.
And people look at this and think that this is an example of that the president is trying to push him and they are trying to placate the president. What do you think of that? Not much. That a transaction of that size would be... But do you think it's appropriate for the president to be asking them to do something like that? I don't know. Is the Obama's contract with Netflix, is that appropriate?
My understanding is that came after he was the president of the United States.
Okay, so for the first son to have a contract with a Ukraine energy...
Well, and Don Jr. has a relationship, I don't know where Shane is, at Polymarket and with Kalshi. And so it's very complicated.
I'm curious how you think about these things. These things are very complicated. And I think if you want to start pulling at every thread, then let's start pulling at every thread of where Chuck Schumer's children work. Let's start pulling at every thread where every one of his former staffers work.
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Chapter 6: How did Scott Bessent criticize media coverage of President Trump?
brown people, and then going after these individuals and treating them like they are these significantly violent offenders.
On the flip side, Republican Governor Jeff Landry, Monday on Fox, welcoming federal assistance.
New Orleans is a crime-ridden city that we've been trying to keep people safe. It's something that we've been working on since I became governor here in Louisiana. What I don't understand is when fugitive apprehension teams around the country go in and take dangerous criminals off the street, We applaud them. We should be doing the same thing here.
Just because someone is committing crimes and is in the country illegally, they get a pass? That's what Democrats are saying. It's ridiculous. I'm welcoming them to come in. We're going to take these dangerous criminals off the streets in Louisiana.
The governor in September requesting up to 1,000 National Guard troops in assistance. President Trump saying on Tuesday soldiers will soon be deployed. It is unclear how long the operation is expected to last.
A doctor who pleaded guilty to supplying Friends actor Matthew Perry with ketamine weeks before his death, sentenced to 30 months in prison, plus two years of unsupervised release, a $5,600 fine, and a $400 special assessment. Perry paid Dr. Salvador Plasencia about $57,000 for the ketamine, which he sought out after doctors at a local ketamine therapy clinic refused to increase his dosage.
In the Los Angeles courtroom, the New York Times reporting Plasencia saying, quote, there is no excuse, turning to Perry's family to say, quote, I'm just so sorry. Perry overdosed on the drug in October 2023 at age 54. He was found unresponsive in the jacuzzi at his L.A. home after a lifelong struggle with addiction. The medical examiner ruling the cause of death acute effects of ketamine.
Placencia, who ran an urgent care center in Southern California, pleading guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, a powerful anesthetic. Prosecutors say he repeatedly supplied Perry with the drug over several weeks. Placencia is one of five people charged in connection to Perry's death in the first-to-face sentencing.
According to the DOJ, once Placencia learned of Perry's interest in obtaining ketamine, he reached out to another doctor, Mark Chavez, who ran a ketamine clinic to obtain the drug. Placencia, texting Chavez, was also charged in connection to the death, stating, quote, I wonder how much this moron will pay. Let's find out.
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