The Megyn Kelly Show
Kohberger Family Whitewashing, Trump on Maduro Dancing, and Symphony DEI, with Glenn Greenwald, Rich Lowry, and Clarinetist James Zimmermann | Ep. 1224
06 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the New York Times' portrayal of Bryan Kohberger's family?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. We are off to a wild start to 2026 with news breaking left and right, including shocking comments from New York City Mayor Mamdani's tenant advocate who has gone full pinko commie. She makes AOC sound like Ronald Reagan.
Plus, we have updates on Venezuela and Maduro. Our friend Rich Lowry of National Review is going to be here soon. And later, we have an exclusive interview with a clarinet player who was not hired despite winning a blind audition, he says, because of DEI bullshit. You know, remember when Heather MacDonald was on a couple years ago? She's very sophisticated. She knows all about the symphony.
She was railing on what was happening to our orchestras. coast to coast, which are known for these blind auditions so that they can get the best people. Literally, they cannot see you when you go and you play your clarinet or your oboe or your flute, and they just choose the best player. Well, this guy was the best clarinetist, which as a former clarinetist myself, I can tell you, it's not easy.
It's not easy to be the best one at the Nashville Symphony or anywhere else, even the Bethlehem Central. symphony or band as we used to call it. And, um, This guy won it by a landslide, but as soon as they saw that it was a white guy who wasn't towing the DEI line at his last job, they fired his ass. They didn't give him the job. Well, he's here to tell you his story firsthand.
We're going to start today with Glenn Greenwald. He's the first guest in the history of the MK show, back with his first 2026 appearance on the show now. He's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and host of Rumble's System Update. I've been talking a lot about River Bend Ranch because I love their steaks. They have some spectacular beef bundles that are wonderful gifts to friends and family.
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Always great to see you, Megan. Thanks for having me.
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Chapter 2: How does Glenn Greenwald analyze Trump's comments on Venezuela?
He endured persistent bullying. He wrote online of having no emotion, little remorse, and feeling like an organic sack of meat with no self-worth. Later, he spiraled into heroin addiction. How did all that happen, by the way, in such a perfect family? Just reading Little House on the Prairie and spending so much quality time together. It's never addressed.
We were all worried that he was on the path to an early death, but then became so proud of him because he had overcome so much. And notwithstanding his socially awkward persona and his abrasive nature, he wound up never violent, by the way, she says, at the University of Washington pursuing his Ph.D. OK, then she goes on to say in the days before the raid, they'd gathered for Christmas.
They were hugging tightly. They played TV party games. I'm sure it's just the perfect of Norman Rockwell Americana inside this house that produced one of the most prolific young serial killers we've seen in recent decades. Ms. Kohlberger, Mel, was cleaning up in the kitchen.
A sharp edge of foil caused her finger to bleed and her brother, initially expressing disgust at the sight of blood, then helped clean the cut and cover it with a bandage. Of course... we don't get into the nature of the crime, which was by knife that he murdered these four innocents at the University of Idaho so brutally, Glenn.
Mike Baker, I guess, didn't think this was worth mentioning, but I realize this is why he included the detail in here, because this feigning disgust at the sight of blood, but this should have been brought home, was they were so bloody, these crimes, that the house itself began to bleed.
We saw in the police photos, which I am now putting on the board for the viewing audience on YouTube, this is the exterior of the home, the murder house on the University of Idaho, where blood is dripping outside of the house. That's how badly these young people were hacked to death and the amount of blood that they spilled.
So here he is feigning disgust, is the word used in the piece, at the sight of blood. And she says, Mel does, that she recalls in those days at home, Brian only briefly mentioning the Idaho murder, saying the investigators were still hunting for the killer. She says, now, here we get to it. Kohlberger, Ms. Kohlberger, Mel,
knowing that her brother had driven a white Elantra back from school, said she had briefly wondered if they were looking for the same model. But then she learned that his was from a different year, 2015, and they were only thinking that the model was between years 2011 and 2013. Now that right there is such an obvious lie, Glenn. Like you, I don't know if you have siblings.
All these years we've been together, I don't know what your family of origin looks like. But if your mind goes to my brother might be the homicidal maniac who took those four lives, but technically his white Elantra was built two years after the years they're looking for. I'm calling bullshit on you. You.
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Chapter 3: What are the controversial views of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's tenant director?
Enough said. Let's talk about Mamdani. What a mess. So he, not only did he get inaugurated, whatever, sworn in, and said the nonsense about we're going to enjoy the warmth of collectivism instead of the frigidity of individual rugged behavior or rugged individualism. Now, He it turns out he's got a director of the Office to Protect Tenants. And New York is all about the landlord tenant situation.
I mean, the high rise buildings are filled with people leasing their apartments, rich people, poor people, middle class people.
Chapter 4: What are Sia Weaver's opinions on gentrification and housing?
It's the dominant thing in New York. And he has an office to protect tenants, which sounds good because as between a tenant and a landlord, most people think of themselves as the renter. And you think, yeah, protect the tenants. Unfortunately, he's hired a lunatic. Her name is Sia Weaver.
And I'll get the name of the wonderful woman online who tracked Sia Weaver's accounts before she started deleting them all. And this woman did a great job. Michelle Tandler is her name, who pulled the screenshots of some of her most egregious posts. Like, okay, I'm just going to read a couple.
There's no such thing as a good gentrifier, meaning people who move into like poorer neighborhoods and have a little bit more affluence and are responsible for raising the property values and bringing nicer businesses in. Only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and those who aren't. Here's another one.
Rent control and public housing for everyone. Massive government interventions to solve gentrification. Here's another one. She writes, I agree with you unless you're talking about rent control. Rent control is a perfect solution to everything.
She goes on to write, I think pass really strong rent control is a more effective way to shrink the value of real estate than reducing rezoning applications. So what she wants is to shrink the value of real estate. And she thinks the best way to do it is to pass really strong rent control. Then we get to the racial stuff.
This country built wealth for white people through genocide, slavery, stolen land and labor.
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Chapter 5: How does James Zimmermann's lawsuit against the Knoxville Symphony relate to DEI policies?
White supremacy built the North and the South. Then she goes on to say, endorse, she endorses, endorse a no more white men in office platform. And then she adds, and no more reality TV stories for that matter. Obviously reference to Trump in 17. And then she writes, impoverish the white middle class. Home ownership is racist. Racist.
Chapter 6: What implications does James Zimmermann's case have for the future of orchestras?
failed public policy. Impoverish the white middle class is the stated goal of our new tenant czar in New York, Rich, which tells me it's just as bad, if not worse, than we expected. Your thoughts on SIA, the new tenant czar.
Yeah, it's just it's comically bad. Now, the ultimate problem is not her. It's Mamdani. These are Mamdani's views as well, although he's a good politician. So he did as much as he possibly could to obscure them prior to the election. But private property is not just the core individual right. It undergirds every liberty in Western civilization.
And rent control, wherever it's been tried, has been an abject failure, including in New York. You know, the famous phrase, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.
which is supposedly said during a world series excuse me broadcast uh in new york in 1977 wasn't actually said but there was a huge fire visible from the stadium and so notable that the broadcasters talked about it because all these buildings were burning because they were dilapidated or the owners didn't want them anymore because they weren't
weren't making any money off of them, and they couldn't possibly make money off of them. So they didn't invest in them and didn't have any incentive to keep them up. So what you do when you rent control a bunch of apartments, you ensure that their stock, their value goes steadily down.
And then meanwhile, everyone else who's not in a rent-controlled apartment has to pay even more because you've constricted the supply. abject failure everywhere. So on top of just these hideous, immoral views she has, she knows nothing about economics and nothing about the history of her own city.
Here's a little more on camera this time from Sia Weaver in Sat 9.
democratically controlled public housing is really important and that's why when Raquel was talking about the communities and that she's describing that you know that's a creative community where the people who are living there are like setting the agenda and so you know people like home ownership because they like control and that's been perverted by like deep racism and deep classism in our society so like we have to
not have a racist and classist society and so that's like something we need to think about like deeply but you know we it's about to me it's about control and why rent control is really important is because rent control alters the dynamic the power dynamic between renters and who owns the building
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