Colbert's PAINFUL Goodbye, Lemon's "White Men" Whining, and Trump's Hilarious Rant, w/ Stu Burguiere

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome. to the Megan Kelly Show. Happy Thursday. and happy last day of the Late Show. forever. Stephen Colbert's hosting the. final episode of the late night show. I. mean, finally. Tonight on CBS and the. left is reacting with existential dread. Blaming the cancellation on the evil and. fascist Trump and ignoring the fact that. the show hasn't been funny in a decade. and is losing a reportedly. astronomical sum of $40 million a year.

A year. A year. You don't need an MBA from Harvard. Business School to know that CBS cannot. keep paying Colbert a reported $15 to. $20 million a year to lose even more. What? Like, what are we doing? His weak competitor, Jimmy Kimmel, apparently thinks Colbert deserves to be. paid millions in perpetuity. and because he's not getting that wish, he is now urging viewers to watch. Colbert tonight and then never, ever.

turn the dial to CBS again. Oh gee, who. would that help? Watch. We will be off tomorrow night out of. respect for our colleague and friend. Stephen Colbert and the writers, producers, and staff and crew. at the Late Show. I hope the people who. did the pushing feel ashamed of. themselves tonight, although I know they. probably won't. I will be watching. tomorrow night. I hope that those of you. who watch our show will also tune in.

to CBS for the last time. Don't ever. watch it again, but watch tomorrow night. to wish Stephen and our friends at the. Late Show off on farewell. Not too clever. Then there's good old Bruce Springsteen, uh who's clearly become a woman, who. thinks Colbert is being taken off the. air because President Trump and the. owners of Paramount are just too. sensitive. Steven! I'm here in support tonight of Steven.

because. you're the first guy in America who's. lost his show because we got a president. who can't take a joke. And uh. and because. because Larry and David Ellison feel. they need to kiss his ass to get what. they want. So, these are uh. >> [music]. [cheering]. >> Anyways, Steven needs a small-minded. people who got no idea what the freedoms. of this beautiful country are supposed. to be about. This is for you.

>> [music]. >> Should we have you here to explain them. to us? Uh he should ride that guitar right off. into the sunset and be quiet. Just be. quiet. No one gives a what you're. saying, your weird little songs that. you've parodied up to make fun of Trump. It like during his performance, it was. truly like something out of a leftist. presentation in high school. Uh they had slogans projected on the. backdrop under like an American flag. that was up there. Resistance. Honestly,

this happened. Peace, truth, hope, unity. Okay, so. inspirational. People have their. marching orders. Hope, unity. That is such a typical leftist. move. They don't want unity. Those are. lies. They absolutely don't want unity. They want dominance. These are the same. people who are pretending to shoot. themselves in the neck to this day. In. the wake of Charlie's murder, they think that the people who are.

praising Louisi- Luigi Manjione have. started an interesting conversation. There'll be no unity. It's a no. And let's check in with Robert De Niro, who's even crazier than Springsteen. He's crazier than Rosie O'Donnell. He truly, I think, has the worst case of. TDS we've ever seen, ever known to man. I mean, that's saying something. Who got. Colbert This is Oh my god, this is. actually the most ridiculous thing. None of us watches Colbert, obviously. So, we didn't know about this tricky.

little thing he does, this fun little. trick he's been doing on his show for. years. This clever little cat and mouse. game he plays with his guests. What does. he do? It's an ongoing saga. Apparently, it's been going on for years. It's a. little Q&A where he he asks them a a. mystery question that he wants them to. guess the answer to. What is it? Is it. like. you know, number of gumballs in the jar? No, it's just. what number am I thinking of?

Okay, that's his game. What number am I thinking of? And this passes for like. $15 million a year entertainment. Um. this being his last week, he and Robert De Niro chose last night. to reveal. the the big answer. You we're finally. going to get to hear the number, and. apparently it's been. one number. It's not even like a clever. thing where night after night, just to. see if people are on his wavelength. He.

he changes his number and they That. would have been dumb and boring enough. I guess he's had the same number in his. head all these years. And if you get it, he doesn't tell you, and if you don't get it, I don't know. what he says. Who gives a This is. the most boring bit we've ever. discussed. How did this pass for. entertainment? Um. so he brings on De Niro to do. >> [laughter]. >> to do the big reveal. of the number, my friends. My god. And De Niro couldn't even spit out the. number. The whole bit was.

awkward. watch. What number were you thinking of? Uh there's a hint as to what the answer. is. Ethan Hawke immediately goes, I know. what it is. It's three. Yeah. That's the number. That that's the number I was thinking. of. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Cuz. I thought it would would have been 2.5. or 2.5 million. That's the number of Epstein files Trump.

still hasn't released. >> [cheering]. >> Is it over? Is it over? Actually, it is over. Thank. god. Tonight, after tonight, it's over. and we don't have to talk about him. anymore. Thank god. Like I'm sure he's going to, you know, launch a podcast or do something in the. independent lane and he'll probably do. quite well cuz he has some following. there. Not enough to justify paying him. $15 million a year on air at CBS. But he's the one who's chosen to treat.

it like a funeral. That's that's Stephen Colbert's choice. I mean, the. months of tributes have been a little. much. And wait until you hear. what Don Lemon is writing about this. cancellation. And I guess he's got a. Substack now. You'll be shocked to learn he makes it. all about himself. All about himself and. his arrest for allegedly violating the. FACE Act when he stormed a church in St.

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Okay, so. they are all very, very, very upset that. Stephen Colbert is going away. And we. have to pretend like this is some sort. of unprecedented free speech violation. by a network colluding with a president. and not the result of a network losing. $40 million a. year. Can you believe how pathetic and. lame the send-offs have been? It's incredible, especially from someone.

that has just not really made an impact, right? I mean, she went over there and. he start There's this big piece of the. New York Times just you know, again. another obituary for the show today. where they talk about how he started. over at you know, with this show, and he. tried to do a show that would entertain. people like every other late-night host. was doing for you know, many, many. years. That was the formula that. appealed to a mass audience, make some. jokes, the show's not super expensive to. produce. You make a bunch of money,

everybody's happy. He tried to do that, and it was failing. It was failing. miserably. So, Donald Trump comes down. the escalator, Colbert decides he's going to switch his. stick. I mean, he'd always been. obviously. critical of conservatives, but he was. trying to do something else, I guess, at. the beginning. And the way the Times. phrases it is, you know, he became. successful in a period where it was. still possible for a show to be. successful with a point of view. Uh. which is I thought an amazing way to put.

it. I missed the era where all these. networks were allowing conservative. points of view to be the lead parts of. their late-night shows and hardcore. conservatives being critical. I don't. remember, you know, Rush Limbaugh having. the late-night show. He did have a. syndicated show at one point that was. successful, but that's not the way that. they allowed this stuff to work even. with successful people. like Rush. It's a it's it's a joke. He. has not been successful. He's he's, you.

know, just shedding money like crazy, and he's, I think, if I give him any. credit on anything, he was smart to lean. into this sort of victim. situation, where he is now the victim of. the president. He can be seen as the the. the the white knight fighting for. everything that's good. It's such a lie, but it's much better than focusing on. the fact that you're losing $40 million. a year. Oh my god, yes, you're a loser. That's. the truth. Honestly, that is you're a.

loser and you got canceled because you. you've been a loser for a long time. To. quote the president about Rosie. O'Donnell. It's my one of my favorite quotes by. him. Rosie's a loser. She's been a loser. for a long time. As if it's like. quantifiable, like identifiable, the. date she became the loser forward. >> [laughter]. >> Scientific consensus. Uh it's same. Same for Stephen Colbert. So, let me give you a a taste for what's. happening. Of course, Jon Stewart is. also devastated at this, and he, you.

know, is part of the parade of honors uh. for Colbert on his way out, he's not. dying, he's just getting his show. canceled. John Stewart goes on and says the. following, watch it's not for. And let. me say this, and I mean this from the. bottom of my heart, not just for this. show, but for the country. The day, the. day, oh people, close your eyes and. dream. The day that the electorate in. this great nation we call home will.

repudiate this putrid administration, the day that that happens, my brother, >> [cheering]. >> my brother, >> [applause]. >> uh-huh, there will be, and I mean this, >> [applause and cheering]. >> the day that that happens, there will be. a joyful noise from the bowels of this. great country that will make Hungary's. repudiation of Orbán look like an Amish. Sabbath. >> [cheering].

>> That's what they're celebrating, right? Like, don't you worry, you know, it's. all Trump's fault, and Trump will get. his, the nation will repudiate him. This. has nothing to do with Trump other than. Stephen Colbert caught a very bad case. of TDS, turned his show entirely. political based on his obsession with. Trump, ratings cratered, and as a. business matter, he was no longer. viable, and his show went down. That's.

not Trump's fault, that's his fault for. making a bad calculation about what. people wanted in the so-called comedy. slot on nighttime TV. Yeah, I mean, I cuz I'm sure that. audience is very well versed in the the. policy profile of Viktor Orbán. I'm sure. they just cheered so loud for that. because they understood the reference. completely. Sure. >> trying to make him. he's always trying to show you how smart. he is, which is a tell, of course, that. he doesn't feel smart at all.

>> Right, exactly. You know, it's funny. because honestly, without Donald Trump, to be clear, you could say, "Okay, well, he's you know, he's Trump Trump has been. critical of Colbert." And that's. obviously true. They've warred in the. media. But without Donald Trump's presence, Stephen Colbert's canceled in like 2018. I mean, his entire. show, the only thing he ever says on the. show is an echo of what Jon Stewart just. said in, you know, just filling in the. controversy of the day into his crappy. jokes. This is his entire career at this.

point he owes to Donald Trump, at least. on this show. The fact that it lasted. that long is only because he went in. there and he did connect with a portion. of the country, a very, you know, left-wing hardcore. portion of the country, and and that gave him enough of a bump, just like MSNBC and CNN did in that. period. They went on hardcore against. Donald Trump, did basically TDS network, and were able to pump up at a their.

ratings at a time when, you know, there. was a lot of passion and everyone was. screaming about this new guy who was in. here and pissing everybody off. That, you know, got old. And you once you took. half of the audience and immediately. tossed them aside and tried to. continually hit the same audience with. the same jokes and the same monologues. and the same guests over and over and. over and over again, eventually they. just got bored of it. And when you got. to the point where they they, I guess, got what they want and they got a Joe. Biden presidency and that went so.

poorly, a good chunk of the audience. that was with them before left. And now. you have basically nobody outside of Jon. Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel watching, and. that's why the show's off the air. It's. got nothing to do with Donald Trump. yelling at Stephen Colbert. Yeah. Well, there's another Don who. thinks he has something to do with it, and that's Don Lemon. I like I can't. believe what I'm about to read to you. Of course, we don't keep tabs on what. Don Lemon is doing. No one cares. But, um he's apparently doing a Substack. And.

his Substack. reads as follows, okay? I'm going to. give you some of the lowlights, Stuber. Gear. He says, "Colbert. was the canary in the coal mine. I know something about that." He writes. Back Back to me. I gave one line to. someone else. Back to me. "On January 18th of this year, I was in. St. Paul, Minnesota, covering an. anti-AIDS protest at a city's church. And as an independent journalist, I. live-streamed it. I interviewed. protesters. I did my job. 11 days later.

at approximately midnight on January. 29th, the FBI and Homeland Security uh. investigators arrested me in Beverly. Hills, where I was there covering the. Grammy Awards." He goes on. >> [snorts]. >> Uh shortly after I appeared on Jimmy. Kimmel Live, Jimmy gave me a platform. when a lot of people were watching to. see who would Sure, the nation was on. pins and needles seeing who would. platform Don Lemon, public enemy number. one. I told him I was doing okay. I told.

him I wasn't going to let them steal my. joy, and I meant it. But, I also said, "This is very serious," because it is. And I said something else that night. that I keep coming back to. >> [laughter]. >> I was full of profundities that I just. can't get over. I was the canary in the coal mine. Not. just for what happened to me personally, but for what was coming for all of us. Here we go. Buckle up, Stu. Stand by.

The networks didn't like me asking. conservatives hard questions. Okay. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding. up every night. So, they pushed me out. [laughter]. This is the most. literally unbelievable revisionist. history ever. And I thought if it happened to me, it. will happen to others. It will trickle. down or up depending on how you look at.

it. Now it has trickled all the way to. late night television. So. his own firing which was as a result of. his terrible ratings, zero talent, misogynistic comments, and the outing of. some very dark incidents in his past at. CNN. all that's that's why he got fired. That is not to blame. Don Lemon wants.

you to know it's because they didn't. like me asking conservatives. hard questions on CNN. and didn't like the mirror I was holding. up every night. So they pushed me out. This. I it's just utter. It's amazing. Is there any Are. people reading the Substack like, "Yeah, right on, Don." What do you make of it, Stu? Well, if there's ever been a person.

in history who loves staring into a. mirror, it is Don Lemon. The guy. absolutely loves himself. Nobody loves. Don Lemon more than Don Lemon. He should know when writing a Substack. We have Substack as you mentioned at. predictableshow.com. He if you were writing a Substack, you. should know on your keyboard I is not. the only letter you're allowed to use. >> [laughter]. >> How many times did he say. How many times did he use the phrase. >> There's also M and E. >> [laughter]. >> So just mix it up a little bit. Just a. wild retelling of history here. Again,

these are the people we're supposed to. trust to tell us the news of the day. These are the people that are How many. years did they throw Don Lemon on TV and. act like he was a reliable. source that was supposed to explain the. world to us. Uh you see who this guy is. in in in real life. He's obviously. massively egotistic uh and that's, you. know, I guess. >> god. He's not alone in that when it. comes to television, I suppose, but uh. he. >> The unsupported hubris. Like Trump is a. narcissist, but he's a billionaire and a.

successful businessman and won the. presidency twice. So, he's got a few. things to back up his narcissism. Don. Lemon is an empty vessel and is just as, if not more in love with the sound of. his own voice and face, than Trump is. Yeah. I know certainly. And and of. course, the again, the only reason that. Don Lemon stuck around long long long. enough as he did was because he was. sitting here being constantly critical. of Donald Trump on CNN, which they were. encouraging, which everyone who's ever.

watched CNN understands this is the. stuff that they're encouraging. There. are two other reasons. There are two. other reasons, too. I'll let you try to. guess what they are. Here's a hint. Don. Lemon reminded us of them when his neck. was on the chopping block at CNN every. other night. >> Mhm. Yeah, they well yes, that's true. I. mean cuz you can find people to. criticize Donald Trump that are better. at it than Don Lemon was. So, there were. other reasons for sure. Lots of lots of. intersectional reasons why Don Lemon. remained there for as long I'm black and. I'm gay. He literally came out and said.

it. Like he explicitly referenced those. two identities in an effort to save his. job. I mean, it was just. it was so patent. So, now. Okay, so now listen to this. He tries to make it So, the guy who. fired Don Lemon from CNN was named Chris. Licht. And Chris Licht came over to CNN from. CBS Late Night, from Stephen Colbert's. short show, where he had been brought on in, I. think, 2006. Colbert's been on the air for 11 years. So, I don't know or 16. Um so, you can.

do the math on how long that was. But, he came over, let's say, halfway through. Colbert's tenure on the air or not. quite. And um. and then he left Colbert to go run CNN. when um Jeff Zucker went down. And he ultimately fired Don Lemon. And. so Don Lemon has it in for this guy, he. thinks this like his demise was a was a. Chris Licht problem which it wasn't. It. was not a Chris Licht problem. And he writes the following. He's got to tie it all together, you.

see. The world that produced The Late Show. and he means Chris Licht cuz he was the. executive producer of that show for a. time. The world of legacy media, cable news, and network television has long had a. problem nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been. extraordinarily good to a very specific. kind of person. Can you guess who those. kinds of people are, Stu? Uh In Don. Lemon's mind, the ones who succeed? >> White people probably, knowing Don. White straight people.

>> More specific. I don't know. Who? Who? Who is it? White men. White men. >> White men. You, my friend, you are the. problem here. >> As usual. White men who fail. spectacularly. and are promoted for it. The nerve of. Don Lemon of all people to be leveling. that charge. White men who make. catastrophic decisions and are handed. bigger offices for it. White men who are. visibly, demonstrably. unqualified.

Stand by. And are given more power anyway. I have. watched it for 30 years. I have been. managed by it. I have been. undone by it. He says he writes, "The executive. producer who ran The Late Night The Late. Show for years eventually left and. somehow landed in my world. That same. person from that same TV orbit.

eventually became my boss at CNN and. fired me. I won't name him. I don't need. to, but I will say this. It was one of the most spectacular. examples of a white man failing up that. I have witnessed in this industry. Profoundly unqualified, visibly. incompetent, elevated anyway. Now, talking like about failing upward, how. did Don Lemon ever get a show in the.

primetime of Fox News? The answer is I. refer you for you back to his identity. politics. Um, we it later came out that he, [snorts]. much younger in his career, allegedly, when he was co-anchoring with Kyra. Phillips, was so jealous of Kyra Phillips that he. sent her. threatening notes and she knew that they. were coming from him, but he wasn't.

identifying himself as the one behind. them and. he, it turned out, allegedly, he had. been doing it from a burner phone. so that he wouldn't be identified to his. co-host about the nasty, somewhat. ominous messages she was getting. There. was reportedly a whole human resources. investigation into him as a result of. this and it they he was not exonerated. and yet they kept promoting him up the.

line still. I'm sure that would have. happened to a white man, too. Oh, sure. Sure. Um, this is just one of many. problems there. Woman after woman came. out and gave an interview to the press. after his Nikki Haley comment about. women are only in their primes in their. 20s, 30s, and 40s. Like you could never have a woman in her. prime who isn't actively having babies. I mean, not for nothing, tell it to. Ketanji Brown Jackson. Cuz she got. appointed to the US Supreme Court at age. 54. I'm thinking she's prime.

That's prime time for any lawyer. or judge on Earth. Don, can you see it? Can you see it? Since it's a black woman. and not a white man or a white woman, are you Can you see it? Um okay, anyway. So, this is his new found explanation. for why he went down. It was the white. man Chris Licht. And then he goes on to. suggest that somehow Chris Licht may. have been. bringing down the Colbert show, too.

I don't even understand how. He says, um. I Okay, blah blah. I don't believe. Stephen Colbert. uh. for any of this stuff I'm talking about. But Colbert's brilliant. He He operated. with integrity. But I do wonder the. whether the man I just described, the. one who failed up from that world and. him into my professional life and. eventually fired me, had more to do with. the end of the Colbert show. He says, "That show than anyone wants to say out. loud. Maybe losing tens of millions of.

dollars a year wasn't just about the. economics of late night. Maybe it was. about who was running the building.". This is so weird. I mean, I Chris Licht. was no longer at CBS. He'd gone to CNN. and then gotten the boot. But I think. what he means is white white man. White. man made these decisions. White man is. running the world. White man has fired. What is Stephen Colbert again? Check. notes. >> [laughter]. >> Another white man. And this is to say nothing of the.

numbers, the ratings of Don Lemon's. programs right before he got fired, which I will talk about as well in in 2. seconds. But get your reaction to this. insane narrative. >> Quite catty uh there from Don Lemon. You. could tell this is just you know, he's. very very angry about losing his gig. But I don't even understand You kind of. hit on this. I don't understand what the. storyline is for these people. If you. look at the time where Colbert was, I. guess, moderately successful. Again, nothing compared to the late-night show.

hosts of the past, but if you can look. at the high points of the Colbert show, it's when Chris Licht was running it. That's when it was actually at its high. point. Again, incredibly critical of. Donald Trump that entire time. Uh but if. you had if there was a peak to this very. tiny mountain, it was when Chris Licht. was there. I would also argue, I don't. know that it's failing up to go from CBS. late-night to CNN. Yeah. Like I It seems. cuz I remember at the time there was a.

big conversation about Licht. >> of us had a lot of questions about that. move. That like why is Chris Licht doing. that? >> Exactly. It seems like a demotion, right? It seems like a Why would you. want to go to CNN where there's like 12. people watching when you have a network, you have this big show? Uh you know, you're constantly in the in the positive. spotlight. Why would you want to leave? And And at the time I if I remember, Licht was trying to make an argument. that he thought it was important. Like. it wasn't like, "Hey, this is a much. better gig." He's like he thought it. would be important to try to save this. network. Uh again, that didn't happen. I.

think some of the choices he made while. there were actually pretty good. I think. there was some improvement of CNN while. he was there. Which, of course, is the. reason why he was no longer there. I. guess you get tossed out the door. Yeah. You know, every once in a while CNN. would recognize that half the country uh. doesn't agree with their nonstop crazy. leftism. Right? And every once in a. while they would say, "Wait, weren't we. supposed to be the people We're not. supposed to be MSNBC. What if we tried. to at least We're supposed to be boring. Not biased. Or yeah, exactly. And.

honestly, like Megan, we It is boring. and it's terrible, but. It is boring. >> there's room for me in the media. sphere. I wish there was a place that. did what we're supposed to believe a CNN. does. Like a place that just doesn't. have the politics. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I liked the boring version. >> Yeah. And and honestly, I think they. always leaned left to some degree, but. at least I think there was a time at CNN. where a good portion of the people who. worked there tried. They were leftists. and and Democrats and stuff, but they.

would still attempt to do journalism. Uh. a lot of that is gone. Uh you know, there's still some good people who work. there. >> Yeah, you'd have to put on like a a a. serious filter when you watch them talk. about politics, but anything outside of. politics, you you could trust CNN. They. actually used to be really good for. that. Um and even the politics were. nowhere near as openly biased on CNN as. they became under Jeff Zucker and remain. to this day. So, yeah, I agree with you. There was a time where CNN. was okay and it was it was tolerable,

but that changed. And Don Lemon is one. of the main people who changed it for. you know, toward the worse. Um he now. wants you to think that it's because he. was black, I guess, that he got fired by. a white man. He hates white men. Okay, he's married. to a white man. So, I like I don't. understand it. Are they all bad? Is just. the one you married okay? Is there. anybody else who's okay? Like, how about. the white men who watch your show? Oh, wait, there are none. Okay, never mind. So, anyway,

he goes on to talk about how. you know, it back to himself and how sad. he is about he how he got fired. Um. The networks didn't like me asking. conservatives hard questions. Okay, here's the truth. When Don Lemon got. fired, his. morning show, remember he got booted. from the late night show because it was. in in the basement when it came to. ratings. He was he was getting. absolutely no numbers. Um do I do I have. his late night numbers here? I don't. know if I have his um evening numbers.

here. Oh, yeah, I do. When he got fired. from the late night show, or whatever. that the primetime show, he was. averaging 600,000 viewers. in the primetime. Okay? He was averaging 150,000 in the. demo. Just to give the audience. a feel for where that is. When I left my. primetime job at Fox, which was January. of '17, we were averaging about 3. million viewers a night. Okay, so he was getting 600,000. And we. had between 3 and 600,000 in the key.

demo given whatever any given night uh. in the news cycle. It I actually looked. it up. We we were averaging 500,000 when. I left. So, we were averaging half a. million in the demo. That was what he. was getting in the overall. That's why. he got fired. That's why they booted him. out of late night. He had no numbers. He. couldn't put any points on the board. It. was pathetic. Pathetic. I never even. looked at his numbers or anybody's. numbers on CNN. They weren't relevant to. me. They weren't even a competitor. It. was boring. for me to even consider them. Then they moved him to the morning as. his promotion, remember? They tried to.

spin it as a big promotion to go from a. solo primetime position to a. three-person morning show. uh with Kaitlan Collins and Poppy. Harlow, and it became the lowest-rated. program in a decade for CNN. >> [laughter]. >> That and then. he made his comments about Nikki Haley. Uh and that show, by the way, was. averaging about 360,000 viewers in the. morning. Fox and Friends was averaging. 1.2 million. And and MSNBC was averaging about a.

million, just under a million. That. Don Lemon, you were fired because you. failed. You failed in every role they. ever gave to you. Then you became. offensive on top of it. A failure and. offensive. That's what happened. Okay? Like. I I It's fine. You found a niche. You're. making it in the independent lane in a. decent way, I have to say. So, that's. good. That's good for you. But there's. no reason to rewrite history here. Your. firing had nothing to do with whitey. It. had to do with you and a lack of talent.

and offensive comments that you made. repeatedly and dumb comments. Everyone. knew you were dumb, which was one of. your major sins, which is not really. overcome-able, so I shouldn't hold it. against you. In any event, these are the. people who remain outraged about Stephen. Colbert getting. his proverbial head chopped off by. I guess the white man in the C-suite. still. Ah, those evil men and their. vendettas against other white men. Uh, that's what happens, I suppose. You. know, the other thing you mentioned of. of him being moved from a show that was.

completely failing in primetime to the. morning show. If I'm not mistaken, that. was a Chris Licht move, right? Like he. actually saved Don Lemon and put him in. the morning show. Again, he didn't make. all good decisions, but that was a. terrible one. Um, but it. >> He tried not to fire him. >> He tried not to fire him, and which is. what seemingly the central focus of this. entire media organization for years and. years and years and years was to figure. out a way to not fire uh, Chris Cuomo. and Don Lemon. I don't know why they.

were so dedicated to that cause. Didn't. work out all that well. Right. Uh, but. you know, it's you talk about those. numbers, you know, gosh, I remember. going back when we first started in in. in television, the the first, you know, major network that I worked at in the C-. it was in the building at CNN. We worked. for CNN, and at that time, they were. trying to say, "Hey, wait a minute. We've noticed half the country won't. ever turn us on. Maybe we should put a. conservative on that little ugly. stepchild's network that we have, CNN. Headline News." Uh, and they put on uh,

Glenn Beck. I'm I was working with him. at the time, and it was amazing to to. watch there where I mean, they had. nobody watching that network. I mean, nobody was turning the thing on. But our. numbers when we got on there were higher. than the numbers than you're talking. about with with Don Lemon. That's. embarrassing. That shouldn't happen. And. you know, there's been other. developments in that time period, certainly a rise of digital and other. things, but you're basically at the. point now where it's just sort of one of. those networks, it's like a prestige. play in a in a in some executives.

uh, you know, portfolio. It's not It's. They're not trying to do news or get. ratings or make money or anything else. It's just this thing everyone kind of. remembers CNN as they have this positive. view. Gosh, remember when they how they. covered the Gulf War? Hey, let's let's keep make sure this is. this continues to go on. Remember Larry. King? Well, yeah, we remember Larry. King, but that was a long time ago. This. thing has been dissolved and dissolved. and dissolved. They've tried to remake. it over and over again. It's like the. person who goes in for too much plastic.

surgery, right? At some point you get to. that place where this looks nothing like. the beautiful person we used to know. It. is this this It's just this sort of. revolting, weird, uncanny valley of a. network, and I don't think it's savable. at this point. It's so true. So, here's what's. happening over on NBC where Jimmy Fallon. was always sort of, I think it's fair to. say, the least political of the. late-night hosts. Seth Meyers is. he. He's a jerk. I'm just going to say he. he's such a jerk. He was such an.

when I was over at NBC. Like, I really I. couldn't stand him. I put his wife on. cuz she was pushing some initiative to. some charity charity and it was a favor. I was like, "Sure, okay, I'll put her. on." And then like a couple months. later, he was out there attacking me at. the upfronts where you make your pitch. to advertisers. Literally, he was out. there like making jokes about what a. racist I was. Like. I'm sorry but that you're just a dick. Like, if you do that. Like, what Who. would do that? Like, if you don't like. me or you think bad things about me, okay, no problem. We don't have to like.

each other. Why would you ask me to do you a favor. and to do a solid for your wife and then. I did it, which was a nice thing for me. to do, and then attack me publicly. You're such a douche. That's a. douche. Sorry for my language. Okay. Anyway, um. back to Jimmy Fallon, who is far less. political than Seth Meyers. Or is he? Look where he went. Um. Was this This is Wednesday night. This. is the last night. This is Jimmy Fallon.

who maybe starting to think he can fill. the shoes of Stephen Colbert. Listen. here. Trump had sued the IRS for 10 billion. What a mess. Trump controls the DOJ, told them make it go my way. So he got. immunity. No more audits, OMG. He's so. happy, LOL. Popping bottles like Cask. Cartel. DJT says DOJ, is it illegal? IDK. DJT stops IRS, is that sketchy? Y E.

S. Trump says NBD, okay, if FBI is MIA. Trump says okay, BRB, I got to watch the. UFC. IRS v DOJ SMH IYKYK NGL it's SUS. TLDR WTF. Oh my god, Stu. Oh my god. That is the worst thing I've ever seen. in my life. That should have come with a. viewer warning. >> [laughter]. >> Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sort of angry at. you, honestly, for making for for even.

showing that. Oh god. >> [gasps]. >> They they uh It's like. I I was recoiling, you know, it's like. it kind of hit my OCD in bad ways, too. I don't know, it was a I disapprove on. every level. Yes. I There's that weird. feeling that you get into There's. certain episodes of The Office that make. you really, really uncomfortable, like. Scott's Tots. That's the feeling that I. had watching that, as if I was. [laughter] being tortured. Uh you know, the the show that's going to replace, I. guess, Colbert is a show called Comics. Unleashed, which, you know, is from what.

I understand is, you know, gives. comedians like shots that, you know, that that maybe people didn't know who. they were. I work with Dave Landau on my. show, uh Stewart Dave Do America. He's a. comedian. Uh and he always tra- He. traces back the fall of late late night, and this is something he puts a lot of. thought into, into the Colbert vaccine. song sketch. Uh if you remember this. one. With the dancing needles. >> needles and it was the vax a scene s c e. n e and they tried to make it into this. hey, this catchy thing. You should take.

this. this shot. It's a and it's like. it became the exact opposite of what the. institution was supposed to be. It was. supposed to be something that was. pushing back against you know the the. things that. you know that you were hearing from the. government. You're supposed to be this. like you know this force. I I you know pushing against the tides. and and making fun of everybody and. instead it was like you know you have to. embrace the messaging coming from the. man, right? It is the exact opposite and.

and again it doesn't matter what you. feel about any of these issues honestly. It was it's always it's it's good to. have voices and comedian comedic voices. have always been the best at doing this. who will just just take shots at what. you know what we see. in in in Washington and you know from. our authority figures and from our. institutions. We should look at them. This is America. We're supposed to look. at them. kind of like with a side eye and and. always be suspicious of what everyone's. telling us. If you fold and say hey. everybody line up to take this.

medication what you know whether you. like it or not you're just sending the. signal that we've just given in and that. is what they did throughout the Biden. presidency. They couldn't find comedy in. Joe freaking Biden for four years. It was the funniest thing anybody ever. seen if it wasn't just for our lives all. collapsing. We needed the comedians then and they. abandoned their duty. No accountability. >> No. No accountability. Dead teenagers from that damn vax. No. accountability. Nothing. Nothing about. the.

glorifying Fauci who's honestly I think. a criminal felon liar. Nothing. No no accountability. whatsoever. We have the vaccine the. dancing syringes. sketch quote unquote. Don't don't don't show another one. No. >> [music]. >> I know. I'm sorry. He actually did this. Oh my god. >> [music].

>> It's so bad. It's so bad. >> [music]. [music]. >> Oh my lord. >> This is embarrassing people who work at. Pfizer. >> [laughter]. >> And that's saying something. Now they're. in the audience. Oh, those poor audience. members had to look like they enjoyed. that. That is just cruel. All right, that's enough. That's enough. I've. subjected to Stewie enough here.

>> Thank you. I just So, I know. I I like. you too much for this, too. I'm treating. you like an enemy here. [laughter] What. did I do to you, Megan? I don't. understand. I don't know. I guess we'll have to do. this one more day cuz we'll see what. ridiculous thing he does tonight may and. may or may not comment on it, but then. that's it. Like I'm so over him. I don't. care. He's irrelevant. Like no leftist. even is waking up, I think, asking. themselves, "What does Stephen Colbert. think?" He was never that guy. Rachel. Maddow, yes, they rely on her as their. queen or did when she was doing more.

than 1 hour of television a week, but. this guy was never the guy setting the. agenda or like the talking points or, you know, offering new ideas or new ways. of looking at leftists and leftist. candidates and and or even right-wing. candidates at all. He wasn't. So, whatever. Fair, farewell. Nothing. against him personally, but this is it's. too much. He's got to get over himself. Now, I just want to steal one moment if. you don't mind. You mentioned Glenn Beck, uh who I love, and Glenn, as we both know, is an.

enormous history buff. I mean, I don't. think there's a topic he loves more than. history. And he was so generous. He had. on my husband, Doug Brunt, who's just. published a new book called The Lost. Empire of Emmanuel Nobel. And it's all. about this guy named Emmanuel Nobel, who. was. being raised in um well, Sweden and then. moved to Russia around the turn of you. know, into the 20th century alongside.

another kid named Joseph Stalin. And one would become the richest oil. baron in the world and one would become. someone who wanted what that first guy. had. And uh the book is doing really. well and I just want to tell people cuz. the audience I had Doug on um. 2 days ago. So, the book is doing very. well. Thank Thank you to all of you for. buying The Lost Empire of Emmanuel. Nobel, but it's doing very well in the. reviews, too. Um here is something lovely from our. friends at Townhall, who wrote this.

unsolicited. We did not know this was. coming and a guy named Arthur Schaper. He writes, "Straightforward, simple, engaging, informative, all-encompassing. If you are looking for a grand story on. modern Russian history, if you're. interested in a crash course on the rise. of Soviet communism, or if you're simply. seeking a good read that connects so. much into one great history epic, The. Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel is the. book for you." And then I'll give you. one more. Apple Books has made it the. book of the month. Apple so enamored.

with Doug's book, it's their pick for. the month. And they write, "Whether you. are interested in the ideological clash. between capitalism and communism, or. you're a fan of fascinating historical. deep cuts, The Lost Empire of Emmanuel. Nobel is a gripping read." That's Apple. So, this is great. You got Not every. book can get a re-review from Townhall. and one from Apple, right? Which are. ideologically opposed, but it's not an. ideological book. It's just a fun, interesting page-turner of a story that.

actually will leave you. knowing a lot more about world history. and about the world today cuz it's like. as Doug was saying the other day, you. know, the the more things change, the. more they remain the same. With the oil. um. turf wars and oil ruling the world and. everyone fighting over it and. governments fighting over who's going to. control it. It's like and by the way, just such a fascinating background on. how communism came to be, which I didn't. know before I read it. Okay, so point of. personal order there. I appreciate you.

indulging me on it, Stuper Gear. Oh, yeah. I mean I can't First of all, I. can't wait to read this book. I know it. just came out, but I'm going to. definitely read it and you know, it's I. think like Glenn's level of of. of understanding of history and and the. reason why he loves it so much and I'm. sure the reason he wanted to talk to. Doug is because. history has that way if we just if if, you know, we let it go and we don't pay. attention to and we don't understand. those those lessons, we wind up. repeating it over and over and over. again. And we, you know, look, there's a.

lot of dark roads. When you're talking. about Joseph Stalin, there's a lot of. dark roads that we there's a I think an. increasing percentage of people who. look back at those days. I think we see. we see this a lot of times even on. social media. You look at these people. who are protesting outside of events. here in America and they start to. embrace the the the types of world views. that that influenced. Joseph Stalin to do all the terrible. things that he did. So, thank God he wrote this book. We need we. need more people pointing back bright.

light at history so we don't wind up. going down those dark roads again. Well, I'll tell you something. I I would. love it if the audience would buy a copy. and you can get one in time for Father's. Day, which is June 21st if you order. right now, you'll get it before they. sell out because they tend to sell out. and then you have to wait. So, order it. now, Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel and. do it please also because one of the. main competitions in non-fiction this. month is the Trump hating Andrew. Weissman who was at the DOJ and now is. an MSNBC contributor and we can't have.

that guy make the list and not Doug, who. you know, that's just wrong. Who's been. a Trump fan, who unlike his wife has. actually been defending the Iran war. Doug [laughter] and I are on different. pages when it comes to that. He's a. patriot and he's been very good to. Trump. So anyway, you got to support. Doug Brunt, please. I appreciate it. Okay, moving on. I There's so much to talk to talk about, but I'll I'll start with Spencer Pratt. because it looks like now Trump may or. not give him an official endorsement, which I think is probably smart given.

that he's not running for, you know, mayor of Houston. He's running for mayor. of LA and a Trump endorsement could do. more harm than good. But Trump is. telegraphing how much he likes. um Spencer Pratt now. And then Spencer Pratt, I think is. leaning in a little bit more. He had to. run as a partisan like a either. Republican or Democrat, so he chose. Republican, but he had said early on he. was an independent. And now he's leaning. a little bit more into his Republican. identities too, which is interesting to. me here in South 20.

Why are you a Republican? Well, you want to break some news here? Sure. It's in my you know, I've told this. before and this is the only time I've. ever said this. So this is breaking. news. Everyone's going to freak out. When I was a hated reality star, Yeah. I got so many death threats. I had so. much security and police and what did. they tell me to do? Get a gun. Mhm. This is where I know. people don't like guns, but LA was. dangerous if you're hated. So I got a. gun. My wife got a gun. And then we.

needed CCWs. Mhm. The only people that. supported a CCW. was. the Republican. That was what I aligned. with my safety, my personal safety, my. family safety. I know people don't like. guns, but when people are threatening. your life and your own security is. telling you you need to have home. protection, train to it's not like just. I went to the, you know, go through the. proper steps. That was my. That's it. Amen, brother.

I mean, you That's how it is, too, right? Everybody Not everybody, but a. lot of people don't like guns until you. need one, and then they're your best. friend in the world, and you're very. happy that you trained with them. But, if you live in the People's Republic of. California or New York, for that matter, they do make it very difficult for you. to get one unless and to carry unless. you can prove that you have a specific. threat, you know, like a stalker, etc. Yeah. >> So, your thoughts on um Spencer.

explaining that rationale, I mean, in. front of a California audience. It's an. interesting one. I mean, I look, I think. when you get to a position where your. family's life is in danger, you know, you you uh tend people tend to. see that Second Amendment as a kind of. valuable, and it is. Uh you should be. able to protect your family and protect. your own life from people who are. threatening it. This is something that I. do think that almost everybody agrees. upon in in principle. I mean, I think. that, you know, there's a a very, I. think, core part of progressivism in.

general, which. uh kind of pushes people to think that. everybody else can't handle themselves, right? We have to be able to help them. Um you know, when it's me, when it's my. family at risk, of course, I should have. a gun. We know this with people like. Michael Bloomberg, who who have armed. security, right? They can afford it, but. it's not like they don't want guns. around them. They want to ban you uh. from having a gun because they don't. trust you with your own life. They're. the educated ones. They're the ones that.

are your betters, and they're going to. uh help guide you through uh this this. world. I think Spencer Practi- It's a. risky territory. I mean, the the the the. Trump endorsement's in the same. way. Like, obviously, that would help. him probably raise money. There's a. bunch of things that would be beneficial. from that. But, on the other side, like, this is a This is an area that Donald. Trump lost 70 to 28 to Kamala Harris, Right? So, any any thinking of him as a. Republican is you know, it's why he's. looking around. He looks terrified. He's. like, my people are going to get on me. for this because reminding them that.

he's a Republican and not just a guy. just speaking common sense and saying, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't let our cities. burn to the ground." That's probably his. direct path to victory here if there is. one. Yeah, I think it was just honest. I. think he was like, "I'll tell you the. real reason." And I mean, I think a lot. of us have been there where you run. headfirst into the reality of leftist. policy and it can radicalize you. Um. yeah, I I can I can relate on a number. of levels. Stu stays with us, thankfully, uh but we're going to take a.

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Cry for the First Amendment. Cry for the journalist arrested in. Beverly Hills at midnight for covering a. protest at a church. >> [laughter]. >> Cry for me, he's saying. >> Don't cry for him. He's going to be. fine. Cry for me. I love how he refers. to him in the in the third or himself in. the in third person. The journalist. arrested in Beverly Hills at midnight. for covering a protest at a church. Cry for the comedian canceled 2 days. after he criticized the wrong. corporation's deal with the wrong. president. For every voice that has gone. quiet while we debated whether the.

economics made sense. And then he goes on, uh they will cancel Colbert. Watch what. he builds next. It never works out the. way they think it will and they never. learn. Show up. Okay, Don. All right, so he wants you to. be crying for him. Well, we won't. We're. not. And back to Spencer Pratt. Here is. what Trump said on camera about him that. wasn't exactly an endorsement, but. again, came close. That's 21. I'd like. to see him do well. He's. a character. I don't know. I don't know. him. I assume he probably supports me.

Does he support me? I think so. I would. say yeah, I heard he does. I heard he's. a big MAGA person. He's doing well. I don't know. You know, we have a rigged vote out there. That's. the problem. The votes are rigged. Yeah, I think he supports me. Does he. Does he support me? Um. So, that's the president coming close to. endorsing, but saying nice things about. him. And then I've got to show you this. A great new ad about Spencer Pratt.

This mayor race is really heating up. Who are you guys voting for? Haven't. decided. Same. Haven't really been following it. Same. Same. Same. I'm not MAGA or anything. But the city's kind of gone to. though, right? Oh, yeah. Jessica stepped [music] on a needle at. the playground the other day. I'm not MAGA or anything though. I'm not. MAGA or anything, but have you been. downtown lately?

Looks like an episode of The Walking. Dead. Not that I'm MAGA or anything though. Spencer [music] Pratt seems like he has. some good ideas. Not that I'm MAGA or anything. He does. seem really angry all the time though. Well, they did burn his house down. [music]. Also, apparently he's staying at the Bel. Air Hotel. Not the trailer on his property. Well, yeah. They burned his house down. Okay, we're. all adults here. How about on three we just say who we're. voting for? One, two, three. Spencer Pratt. Yeah.

Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt. Can you imagine if our wives knew? >> [laughter]. >> Britney, you are not alone. Vote Spencer. Pratt. >> We're all [music] voting for Spencer. Pratt, right? Of course. Obviously. I. wish I could vote like yesterday. So good. So that was created by not. started by, but created by. Damola Awoyeji who's been on this. program. And it's so good.

That that can happen. That could happen. even in LA where you're definitely not. supposed to be voting for Spencer Pratt. You're not to admit that you like. Spencer Pratt. You certainly shouldn't. be talking about openly voting for a. Republican to run the city. And yet. it's in the you know. in the way we saw before Trump's last. election where there were so many. crossover votes. I'm sure you are having. conversations where people are kind of. nosing up to it slightly still, you. know, like Spencer Pratt is interesting.

Or fascinating. Well, he's fascinating, right? And then seeing whether somebody. takes the bait. Yeah, I mean it's really interesting. I. remember those conversations having. those conversations with people in 2016. when they were like, I don't know. I. mean that I kind of like what Trump's. doing, right? Like that was a thing and. it's the same sort of. of of momentum that seems to be building. for Spencer Pratt. It's hard to know. whether it's real or if it's just an. online phenomenon. I guess we don't know.

that yet. We'll know eventually. But. it's so central to. to the to the possibility of a rise of. Spencer Spencer Pratt that you have to. by default do such a terrible job which. is what Karen Bass has done. >> Yeah. Like this isn't something that can just. happen. Like you know, like a Republican. can't get just elected because they're. interesting and they run a bunch of ads, right? Like you have to have your city. burned to the ground while you're in in.

Africa, right? You have to watch. homeless person after homeless person. Yeah, that really happened. Literally, her city burned down. She wasn't there. She doesn't seem particularly sorry, and. they're seriously thinking about. reelecting her. Yeah, well, I mean, and. she's leading right now. I mean, we talk. about prediction markets all the time on. my show. She's leading by a large. margin. Spencer Pratt's still only at. about a 25 26% chance of winning that. race according to these markets. And. this is after after I watched Karen.

Bass, while she's realizing this threat. is out there, to go out in front of people and and. talk about how. the big problem they have is that meth. addicts don't have teeth, and that she. needs to have full health care for. everyone not so that we can cure meth. addiction, but so that we can get nice. new choppers on. everybody's. on the mouth of meth addicts. So, I guess they can bite you more. efficiently. I don't I don't know.

She said, "You can't No, no thank you. I'm okay with that." And this is when. she knows she's already got a legitimate. challenge here. This isn't, you know, in. a period, you know, 12 years ago. I. mean, you know, when Barack Obama was. running, people were pulling out these. clips of him 5, 6, 7 years before the. election and saying, "Look at all these. crazy things that he believes." He was. smart enough to not say them during the. campaign most of the time. Karen Bass is. still out there just blathering on about. this stuff. And, you know, the ads are being run. some of the best ads running for Spencer. Pratt are ads running against Spencer.

Pratt. When they say, "Hey, Spencer. Pratt is against multiple millions of. dollars going to build homes for the. home for the homeless or the unhoused as. they called it in the ad.". There is a level There's a certain thing. that can happen in politics. It's pretty. rare where things can get so miserable, even people who are ideologically. opposed to a conservative viewpoint can. throw their hands up and say, "Look, we. just got to have this." I mean, it. happened with Rudy Giuliani in New York.

years ago. and it could happen here with Spencer. Pratt. It would be unbelievable to watch. that happen. Um today is Thursday, the Thursday. before Memorial Day weekend. Sadly here. in the Northeast, it's going to be a. complete washout. It's very sad. It's. supposed to rain all day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, well, part of. Monday. And um. that's going to hamper a lot of people's. weekend plans. I'm not sure if that's. the reason why Donald Trump Sr. isn't. really committing to going to the.

wedding of his son, Donald Trump Jr., which is this weekend, but this sound. bite just hit. Look at this. Mr. President Are you attending. Are you attending your son's wedding. this weekend, by the way? Uh he'd like. me to go, but it's going to be just a. small little private affair and I'm. going to try and make it. I'm I'm in the. midst I said, "You know, this is not. good timing for me. I have a big job in. Iran and other things. Uh that's why I can't win on. If I do attend,

I get killed. If I don't attend, I get. killed by the fake news, of course, I'm. talking about. No, but he's uh. got a very uh person who I've known for. a long time and hopefully they're going. to have a great marriage. Mr. President, >> [laughter]. [laughter]. >> He's. >> He'd like me to be there. >> Mhm. I'm so busy. >> [laughter]. >> In his defense, it's a second marriage.

um. and reportedly, this is out there, this. is not um I'm not revealing anything. that's not already out there, but. reportedly it's in the Bahamas, so it's. a hike. It's not like, you know, I'm. just popping over to Mar-a-Lago or if. they're in. in DC, you know, to wherever in in DC. So, um I don't know. I'm I'm thinking. I'd probably go. I know Trump adores his. children, but what do you make of that? >> It's It's mean look easy. >> [laughter]. >> It's very very very Donald Trump that. that entire. that entire clip. Look at me he's he is.

president of the United States. I'm sure. Donald Trump Jr. would of course. understand that if there was some big. breaking thing he couldn't be there. But it's funny like I I love how he's. like yeah, you know, I hope it's a good. marriage, you know, I I hope it lasts. for a while. Like. >> [laughter]. >> the way he thinks about the about. everything going on. there's not that necessarily that. that classic fatherly warmth that you. get out of the clip but I mean you do. get Donald Trump and again his kids have. turned out pretty well here. So he must.

be doing something right. The thing is. Trump does love his kids and actually is. very sweet with his kids. Like he he. always I think he only calls Don Jr. like honey. He calls all of his kids. honey or I think it's honey. And it's he's love he's very loving. toward them. Some of the behind the. scenes footage of him with his children. is actually quite heartwarming. So he he. definitely loves his child. I guess he's. just busy. I guess when you're president. it's different. Like I can't imagine. missing my child's wedding first or. second but he's is busy. There is.

another funny Trump clip that I have got. to show you. So Trump it is not a mystery to anybody. is obsessed with. looks maxing you might say. He he very. much appreciates people who are hot. >> [laughter]. >> He does. He remarks on it all the time. You know, he's very focused on looks and. let's face it looks based society. I focus on people's looks too. He's not. alone in that. So he goes to speak at the Coast Guard. Coast Guard graduation ceremony.

yesterday still and. let me play you what he said before I. show you what happened next. Sat 10. For the last four straight years which I. think may be an all-time record. Congratulations to Thomas Roads. Thomas. get up here, please. Want to see. >> [applause]. >> I want to check him out. Wow. Oh, he's. We're not going to fight with him. I'm. not fighting him.

I'm not This is not UFC. Please. understand that, Thomas. Look at this guy. Look at the muscles on. this guy. >> [applause]. [applause]. >> Just hit him on the shoulder. I hurt my. hand. It's like hitting a rock. That's great. Thomas, that's fantastic. >> [laughter]. >> Okay.

So, it's amazing because we've been. laughing and sharing behind the scenes. on on my team these videos by a guy. named Branson Deets. who. get Sorry, Gates. Uh, who long before. this has been taking various Trump. clips. It's not a politics thing. It's just a. comedy thing. And. like mouthing them. He does He mouths. over them with Trump's voice. as though he's gay like from the. perspective of being a gay man. Okay,

let me just I can't explain it. Just. watch. He just He did this one just now. Watch. I hate good-looking men. We also have the only cadet who earned a. perfect score on every single fitness. test. Now we're talking fitness. Do you know who this is already? Wow, this guy must be something. I mean, I. think we'll have to invite him up. I. want to check it out. Uh, congratulations to Thomas Roth. Thomas, get up here, please. Want to see.

>> [applause]. >> I want to check him out. Wow. Look at this guy. Look at the muscles on. this guy. Just hit him on the shoulder. I hurt my. hand. It's like hitting a rock. That's great. Thomas, that's fantastic. >> [laughter]. >> Over the podcast listeners, you just see. this guy who looks gay acting kind of. gay doing gay hand movements if there is. such a thing to that same soundtrack. It's very clever. The This is the way in.

which the the internet is used for good, too. Yeah, it is. And by the way, going. back to our previous conversation, here we are people who appreciate a lot. of the stuff that Trump does. You know, he's as president of the United States, we like many of his policies. Here we are laughing, right? Because. it's you can laugh at your own side. You. can they could have laughed at Joe Biden. on Colbert. They could have. It's not. that we have a problem that you're. making fun of Donald Trump. It would be. nice if you just did it in a way that.

prioritized the comedy, right? Like if. you actually care. Yeah, you make me. laugh. [clears throat]. >> Yeah, make us laugh. We can it brings us. together. That's what the late night. shows used to do. If you had a president. if you loved Ronald Reagan, you loved. you loved Barack Obama. In theory, it would be great that you. could you go on there. get someone who's criticizing your own. side, you laugh at it a little bit. I've. had a lot of laughs at Donald Trump's. expense over the years and he's had many. as well. >> Republicans are totally ready to laugh. They will laugh at Donald Trump. They. will they'll laugh with him, they'll.

laugh at him. They're not incapable of. doing that. It's just that. everything that these late night guys. produce is so full of bile that you're. not laughing, you're recoiling. I've got. one more. He goes by Bran Hatton online. Here's thought 11. There were a number of. people who were very very scared. Yeah. How worried were you. that there were going to be injuries? I wasn't worried. I understand life.

>> [snorts]. >> We live in a crazy world. I didn't want to see what was happening. cuz I I did watch cuz I could see what. was going on at the door. I also saw a. lot of very strong. uh physically strong. really attractive law enforcement people. come through those doors. And frankly, it made me feel very safe. Very, very safe. There was nobody going. to get by them. >> The counter assault team that comes in. >> were very impressive. I think they were. very impressive.

>> [laughter]. >> That's great. I've never seen those. clips. >> Playing with his necklace. >> Oh my gosh. >> to be so funny. It's such a funny. imagining of Trump. [laughter]. And it is funny, too. It is one of those. things where you you don't really think. about. about the words that he's saying. sometimes. He just kind of goes off of. on these That's a great a great bit. That That guy's incredible. I I don't know. I mean, I I. >> This guy's on the lookout for anything.

referencing, you know, somebody's. appearance. That was after, of course, the latest. assassination attempt, which was an odd. place to find Trump remarking on the. good looks and muscles of the security. team. [laughter]. But it's one of those things. I'll bet. you, just like every every gay man I. know. has wanted to know whether any. personality I anchored with at Fox News. was gay. I'll bet you there are a lot of. gay men out there who who want are. really hoping there's a chance on Trump,

cuz he's strong. He's older now, but. he's still like you know, most A lot of people like a strong man. Yeah, I don't know. He's had a pretty. high. appreciation of female beauty over the. years. So, I'm I'd hate to let those. these these gentlemen down, but I don't. think that that big announcement's. coming. >> [laughter]. >> Yeah. I think it's more about his. appreciation for looks than it is uh. any attraction. Uh a quick last one. here, slot 12. Look at the muscles of this guy. Excuse. me. Could you stand up? Look at that.

guy, you in the beautiful white shirt. Would you. Look at this guy. Holy mackerel, I'm looking at him. >> [cheering]. >> I always want to look like that. I just. didn't want to do the work. You look good. Don't let anyone stop. you. You look good. >> [laughter]. >> Those are incredible. So funny. Right? He's so good. I'm really into this guy. Behind the scenes we've been laughing. about this for a long time. Um okay, let's keep going.

Hollywood remains woke as ever, unfortunately. Just when you think like. they've learned their lesson, they prove. that you are wrong. And I think you guys. have talked about this on your show, but. the Odyssey Mhm. Now, first of all, who decided it would. be a good idea to make a movie out of. the book no one wanted to read and no. one enjoyed in high school, right? Like. [laughter] the Odyssey was like the It's. like a doorstopper book that you were. like, when will it end? Good gracious. It went on forever. It was so boring.

That's what I remember about the. Odyssey. Like who's like Homer? That's a. good idea. Anyway, >> [laughter]. >> they're doing it. And um. they're Hold on a second. I'm trying to. find my. my packet on this. Stand by. Um the guy. who produced. um Oppenheimer is putting this together, Christopher Nolan. And instead of for example, having. a white woman play Helen of Troy, said.

to you know, she's. mythologically be the most beautiful. woman in the world and described as. extremely white in the book. It mentions. that she's um. white-armed and or pale-armed. Uh and there are other references. It's. played by It's going to be played by a. black woman, uh by Lupita Nyong'o. Okay. So, at Matt Walsh. you know, he kind of put it better than. I could, but he writes.

Not one person on the planet actually. thinks that Lupita Nyong'o is the most. beautiful woman in the world. But Christopher Nolan think he knows. that he would be called racist if he. gave the most beautiful woman role to a. white woman. Nolan is technically. talented, he says, but a coward. Too. afraid to do anything other anything. that even slightly challenges the spirit. of the age. We're told we should not. object to Helen of Troy being portrayed. by a by a black woman and yet if a major. Hollywood studio made a film set in. Africa and cast a white woman as the.

most beautiful woman in Africa, those. same people would literally riot in the. streets. He's a 100% right. And it's not just the. role of Helen of Troy. Nyong'o also plays Helen of Troy's. sister. um from the novel. And in addition to. that, you've got. Elliot Page Hello, Ellen Page, who's. masquerading very badly by the way as a.

male these days, who's going to be cast. in it reportedly as Achilles. um. Who's male again, but the character is. male and they've chosen a fake male. who's not in any way heroic. um And and. Achilles was a tragic Greek hero. uh who Odysseus meets in the underworld. Odysseus played is played by Matt Damon. um So, you've got Elliot Page in there. And then you've got Travis Scott.

who. I think is the father of one of the. Kardashian babies and a singer. um. Is going to be in the movie as well as a. professional poet, singer, and. storyteller. um I don't know why, but we. both know that Hollywood has these. diversity rules now. that lead to all sorts of weird and. inappropriate casting decisions. And Christopher Nolan is. #partoftheproblem still. Yeah, it's it's a very strange story. I. mean, I you know, I I I you know, I get.

I I. granted these are mythological figures, right? I mean, I you know, it's not like. it. and then we wouldn't put this past. Hollywood where they have done this and. they've taken actual, you know, an. African-American actors and put them in. the role of real historical figures who. were white. I mean, it's you know, that's even more offensive to me than. this. Uh but again, you know, I I I look. at this and I say, you know, you're. trying to tell the story. There's no. reason to do this and you would as you. point out never do it the opposite way. I was looking back at this I think it's.

been about 20-some-odd years since. something like this happened, right? Where where the opposite occurred where. you put a white person in a role of of. an African-American. Um I uh. >> do that. You can't do that. And and nor, you know, look, it did happen for a real. long time. Like that was a real thing. that happened in our history going back. a long ways. Uh I don't think it's. something that we wanted we want to come. back. Having some sort of historical. accuracy and again, while it is a myth. um. mythology, they do say the pale arms.

thing is in there, right? Like there is. a description. So, it would make sense. Uh we saw this with Snow White, right? Where they're like, wait a minute, white. is in the title. You know, you think. that they would do this. Yes. And then. and then you have this the sad sad story. of Ellen Page who I think actually was. great. Like when she was I mean, Juno. was a great movie. I I love Juno. I. stand by that movie. I think it's a. great movie. Very pretty. And I honestly think that. whole movie, that particular movie, Juno, which you know, wound up being.

viewed positively by like pro-life. people like me, uh really screwed with her head, honestly. Every since that happened, she's been on this like constant tour to. prove she swears that she doesn't. actually like people who are pro-life or. something. There's been this kind of. retribution against what people went up. perceiving her as after that movie. And. again, you know, she's an actress. Again, I didn't think that she was. she agreed with me on that issue. She. just they just put a somewhat positive. light on.

50% of the country for for an hour and a. half. And that just that was seemingly. enough to throw her into this spiral. that winds up her being Elliot and. playing some role in this movie, which I. I don't know if it's Achilles or heard. that maybe it's not, maybe it's another. role, but whatever it is, it if if she's. credited as Elliot, she's already. playing a role before the movie begins. Yeah, that's exactly right. It's sad to. me. I what's happened to Ellen Page is.

sad to me. I mean, she was this pretty. and very talented actress who America. fell in love with in that movie. And. she's obviously very unwell. I mean, that's what's true. And she's obviously. very unwell to have done this to. herself. And we're supposed to celebrate. this. She she poses like proudly with. her scarred chest showing where her. breasts used to be and we're supposed to. celebrate her. And we're actually. supposed to buy the lie that she's a. man. This is like, you know, they just.

there's been a big debate on the left. about whether they should release the. DNC should release this autopsy report. about why it lost the 2024 election, which is like, okay. I mean, I don't. care whether they do or they don't. I. mean, I know why they lost the election. There are a lot of reasons. Number one. is Kamala Harris sucks. But the really. above that is. their far left insanity. You know, they're they're they're chopping off the. body parts of healthy children, okay? How's that? There I've summed it up for. you. You don't need to see your autopsy. Um but it is now they've released it, I.

guess. This guy that who's running the. DNC who nobody knows about. Um. What's his name? Ken Martin. He while under pressure from. the guys at Pod Save and elsewhere. finally said, "Okay, I'll release it.". It seems to be rather boring based on. what I've seen. I've just read a. summary. But, one of the one of the. things they do point out in the summary. is the trans stuff. And in particular, they point to that. transgender focused ad that Trump. released, "Kamala's for they/them. Trump. is for you." Remember? And it pointed.

out that she wanted to pay for the sex. change operations of prisoners in. California, which was a real thing. And And like Elliot whether it's Elliot. Page in Hollywood doing this and forcing. this character on us as a male, as like. someone who's supposed to be like a. badass male uh in in folklore. or it's. Kamala Harris trying to make us get. involved in. actually pay for chopping people's. healthy body parts off so they can.

pretend they're something they're not. This is what This is why Republicans. have still at least a shot in the. midterms still. You know what I mean? So, it's like They've been quiet. The. Democrats have been smart, very, very. uncharacteristically smart over the past. 4 months. They've kept their mouths shut. and let Trump twist in the wind over the. Iran war and the economy, where he. remains, cuz the latest polls out of. from Fox News are dreadful. uh for Trump and the Republicans. But, this kind of thing does remind us.

of what's behind the other curtain, and. it's no good. Yeah, no, you're totally right. I mean, really what they need to do is just get. out of the way. If they get out of the. way of themselves and allow nature to. take course in the midterms, likely. they're going to win. Not because of. anything magical that they have on their. own, but because of history, year. election after election after election. in a midterm, the party in power, when. it comes to the president of the United. States, almost always loses seats. outside of massively.

uh outlier type situations like, you. know, 9/11, right? It's very difficult. We did a thing on. this on on my show Predictable where you. go back and you look through history and. it's something like 9% of the time, 9%. of the time you're able to defend the. house going back a century. It's. incredibly difficult to do. Then add on. to that that we are looking at four and. five and six-dollar gas around the. country right now. You have a very. unpopular situation in Iran. This isn't. something that is is testing well at.

all. You have economic problems. You have. even you know, you look at the core of. of who moved toward Trump in 2024. A lot of those gains happened among. Hispanic voters who have been kind of. turned off as some of the of the. policies of this particular run for. Trump and you know, all that adding up. this should be just cake frankly for. Democrats. They honestly, if they just. don't yell out things like you know,

defund the police and that boy is. actually a girl because of a series of. magic words we've contrived. If they can. stay away from that stuff and they. should be playing they should be. wrestling against your daughter and. throwing. them to the ground and spiking. volleyballs into their heads. These are. not difficult policies to stay away. from. border is humane. >> Right. You don't need You don't need to. do a lot. Again, go back to Los Angeles. Just don't burn down the city and you. win. That's how easy this is, but they.

can't even stay out of their way that. much and because of you know, we were. you look at the you know, the prediction. markets had had the Democrats rise from. about 58% before November's election all. the way up to about 85%. that has now drizzled down a little bit. to 72-73%. largely because a lot of these rulings. when it comes to the redistricting. offerings of Virginia getting. overturned, the Supreme Court case that. has these Southern states now. redistricting and getting rid of some of.

these majority minority districts. All. that and boring stuff aside, it is. giving the Republicans now a chance uh. that if they can turn around some of. these things that are affecting real. people when it comes to the economy, when it comes to gas prices, when it. comes to them being uh seeing the a. vision of of a war that might not be. ending for years and years and years and. years, that type of stuff, if they can. you know, cure that, there's a small. window for it here in the next few. months, they can turn that around and. put it behind them, people could see. things going the right direction, there. actually is an opportunity here only.

because Donald Trump is based uh is. blessed with the dumbest enemies. possible, right? Like that is really. something he has, and if they just. continue to do the stupid things that. they continue to do, there is an. opportunity. There's a small window, it's not going to be easy for. Republicans, but it does exist. They're going to need it. They're going. to need to be reminded of what is over. on team blue because, honestly, like. these Fox News polls are so bad still.

Horrible. >> And people The audience should know, I. know the Fox News polling unit very. well. I I've worked with them for years. They're even though it's Fox, which. leans right, the polling unit is. independent. They they don't lean right, so. if there's ever like a. a good poll for Trump, the left will say, "Oh, well, it's Fox. News." You know, that's not how it. works. They they play it straight down. the middle. So, this one. will be no better or worse for Trump. than any other outlet. There In fact, Fox polls tend to be, in my experience, the best polls. I I trust the Fox polls.

implicitly. But, what they're showing is that he now. has an approval rating of 39%. It's down three points since last month. It's one point above Trump's lowest. number ever, which was October 2017. So, his lowest ever is 38. Fox News. showing him at 39% approval. His net approval on the key issues shows. on inflation, he's underwater with the. voters by 52 points. By 52 is negative 52 on inflation.

He's negative 42 on the economy. He's. negative 24 on foreign policy. They don't like the China summit. He's. underwater there at minus eight. He's. underwater on immigration minus eight. He's even underwater on border security. minus two. He's underwater with white non-college. men. who he was plus 17 with last March, March a year ago, 25. Now he's down. minus eight in the Fox News poll, which.

is a 25-point swing to the negative with. white non-college men. That's Trump's. base. His approval as is at an all-time low. amongst Republicans. It's at 80% but. that's an all-time low. And non-MAGA. Republicans, people who are now calling. themselves America first because Trump. says MAGA means you love Mark Levin and. many of us don't. Um. that's an approval rating of just 54%. So these are bad and I've got to play.

the sound bite for you of a woman named. Janet who's an MK show listener still. And you know, after we like we we do the. show live on Sirius XM 12:00 to 2:00 as. you know cuz you're here doing it with. me right now. Um. Monday through Friday and then we. release it as a podcast and a YouTube. show but. after our show on Sirius XM, Emily. Jashinsky hosts an hour of it's we call. it the wrap-up show and a lot of the. audience will call in. I actually love. listening to it like if I'm if I leave. and I can get to the radio. I always turn it on and I love listening.

to the audience. And some of them rip on. me and some of them agree with me but I. love them all. And this particular day, a woman named Janet from Long Island. called. This is just Monday. And listen to what she said. It actually. it's made some news this woman's call. Take a listen. Heading now to Janet in Long Island. You're on on Megan Kelly Wrap-Up Show. What's on mind? I'm feeling abandoned. I'm a Trump. die-hard. I'm 68, my husband's 69. We're. never going to stop working. He's a. contractor electrician. We built our.

house. We're going to have to move out. of Dix Hills cuz the taxes are $16,000. I don't want to quit working cuz. Medicare is too much money. So, I get. benefits where I work. He has abandoned. the middle class. He has to show us that. all those people on bar stools across. America, you know, hard-working construction. guys, plumbers, the people that stood up. to him when it wasn't popular to. stand up to him. He needs to help us. Give us back black tax, anything. Just. make our life easier. So, I think he's.

being listened to the wrong people. And. yeah, when he started that war, I didn't. sign up for it. When I had my first boy, I'm a girl I'm a I'm one of five girls. And when I had my son, the first thing I. just popped my head up and said, "Oh my. god, he could be drafted." I don't want. my children or my friends' children. dying in a war that has nothing to do. with us. Uh, it's very powerful. And by the way, thank you for calling in, Janet, and. sharing that. And I think. Stu, he's going to have to address. Janet's concerns and the millions of.

voters who are feeling the same, who are. triple Trump voters, if if he wants his party. to turn its fortunes around in in these. November midterms, which right right now. do not look good. No, they don't look good. Uh, and you. know, while there's been some maybe. beneficial movement when it comes to the. redistricting thing, you know, that's. not enough. You can't win even if things. were going pretty well, it would be hard. for for them to win. They come in with a.

two, three seat majority, right? Just a. minor minor losses is going to mean the. House goes away. That the Senate is. at risk, certainly. I mean, I think most. places see it as like a 50/50. proposition as the Democrats get it win. the Senate. That should not have been. The way the Senate is set up the. are should be heavily favored. I mean. there should be an 80 or 90% chance of. them winning and the fact that it's. 50/50 it's because of people like. Jenner. >> Or I'm sorry to put it so frankly or. your child has a chance of turning into. an Elliot Page. Like truly that's this.

can't happen. Like the Democrat Party is. the one pushing this trans madness on. us, open border madness on us. The only. one who's abandoned that is Rahm Emanuel. on the Democrat side. Gavin Newsom wants. an open border so does Kamala Harris. She's reportedly running again. I. haven't seen one other Democrat say no. that they would keep Trump's border the. way it is. The risks are extremely high. in stacking in particular the Senate. with more Dems. Sorry to interrupt keep. going. >> No no I it's true though. I mean I think. there is a.

one of the things that I think hits hard. about the trans issue in particular is. not necessarily about trans issues. I I. honestly would argue that most Americans. really don't want to think about it. You. know I I we understand that people go. through things and there's difficult. things they're dealing with and honestly. like I got enough stuff going on in my. own life. I don't really want to think. about what you're doing with with your. with your reproductive organs frankly. I. I I I I think the average American is. like I just want to look the other way. and and move on with my life and get to. the restaurant or whatever I'm doing.

Um but what where that hit I think. centrally to people as a as a campaign. issue. is that it hit at a very fundamental. thing that we need which is truth. We. must have we must be able to agree that. when a person is born a man or a boy and. they grow up and they become a man they. can't with a series of magical words. they can't say abracadabra or. Beetlejuice a certain amount of times to. change their gender. We all understand. everybody including those people on the.

left that embrace those policies and go. on television and act like they believe. them. None of them believe that is a. true thing. None of them believe that is. possible but they say it anyway and that. feels like people have abandoned. the fundamental precept of America, right? That we're going to be here we're. common sense people and we're going to. go forward and we're going to just say. the things that are true. And all of that is is really really. important and it is a core issue. But.

typically what happens when it comes to. elections and I would say even more. central with off year elections and. midterms is that if they are getting hit. in the face constantly with issues that. are affecting them more. The trans issue. is really important because it hits a. truth, but most people aren't. interacting with those issues on a. day-to-day basis. Some are and they're. really important to talk about. >> Janet's worried about her wallet. >> about her wallet. She's. >> paying her bills. >> or grandkids, right? That that that's.

what they care about and. in the absence of those issues a lot of. times people will be able to focus on. other important things. When those. things slap you in the face, the. ideology goes out of the window, I'll. honestly with a lot of people. Even if. they believe in a lot of the things that. Donald Trump cares about. If they. believe that he is doing a good job on a. good portion and I think there is a good. portion to argue on his behalf from this. presidency. If this stuff happens and. the result of it is. we have a president who's basically. trying to convince people that their.

economic situation is better than it is. Hey, you should recognize we actually. are in the golden age of America. I mean. Trump has made these arguments very. recently. We've done it. We're there. We've solved these problems. That's what. Joe Biden tried to do. with Bidenomics, right? He tried to say. Bidenomics is working and the American. people said, "No, it's not. We're the. ones dealing with it and we're saying. no.". There is an opening here, but it is. we're almost to summer here, Megan. You. know, the the the concept of turning.

this around is is evaporating. >> what happens, too. Let me tell you what. happens in the summer. um, as somebody who's been in news for. 24 years. In the summer, everybody's numbers go down. People kind. of turn off the news. Please continue listening to the Megan. Kelly Show. But, and also predictable. was due. But, in general, they they. always go. like softer in the summer because people. are out living their lives. They're. outside. They're enjoying themselves. They have time off. That is not a great.

time for Trump to then. burst onto the scene with new messaging. because people aren't going to hear it. Nowhere near the number he needs are. going to hear it. Now, they come back in. the fall, so he'll have that time. But, now we're really talking about a crunch. timeline. People go back to school the. beginning of September. So, now you have. 60 days until the midterms. It's not a. lot of time. Yeah. So, like. he needs to be laser-like focused on not. just talking about their economic. problems now, but actually fixing them,

you know, because. the messaging he's been saying lately, or what I heard him this week was saying. was. the market The market's doing so well. That no one cares about that. That's. something rich people care about. You. know, it's like the market is sort of a. luxury belief. You You might have some. 401k money in there, but that's. something you're trying not to tap into. when you're younger and not yet retired. It definitely isn't going to help you. with your grocery bills or your, you. know, tuition bill or your hope for a.

vacation this year, you know, like. they they need immediate relief on in. particular inflation, which he's minus. 52 on. That in particular. And honestly, like that's directly tied to the the. Iran war and the increased oil prices. and energy prices, which are driving. everything up from, you know, gas prices. to groceries. So, there is There is uh the honest truth. That's That's where it is. All right, stand by. We've got to take a break. Uh. but, we come back and we have more with. Stu Burguiere right after this.

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people. Um they've surrendered their culture to. an influx of people from some very. problematic countries who are now. objecting to the British flag flying at. all as somehow an act of aggression. Move shown the audience the videos. Um. and now this. There was a young man named Henry Noak. He was 18 years old and in his first. year of college studying accounting.

In December of 2023, he was walking home. from a night out with friends. and. he had been drinking but was still at. the place where he could drive legally. He did not have a high blood alcohol. contact uh um. blood alcohol content. He ran into a man named Vikram Digwa, who's Sikh, who's 23 years old, so 5 years older. than Henry. This guy, Vikram, was carrying an 8-in. long knife. and along with something called a.

kirpan, which is a ceremonial blade. Now, in the UK, you're not allowed to. carry. uh certain knives in public unless. it's a religious exemption. And this kind of knife is permitted. under one of those exemptions. So, you. can see this is the type of knife that. we're showing on the board, not the. actual. But my god, look at it. I mean, it's amazing that this thing is legal to. carry around. It looks like a long. curved dagger that you would not want to. find anywhere near you.

So, these two. ran into each other, and Nowak, Henry, managed to record a video on his phone. We don't have any of the elements cuz. they haven't released them, but it shows. that. that Henry was speaking to friends on. Snapchat when he came across Vikram. Digwa. They did exchange words. Henry is heard. saying, "In it, bad man. What bad man? You're a. bad man. Say you're a bad man. Go on.".

And Digwa responded, "I am a bad man.". Henry Nowak replied, "Are you a bitch?". before the footage cuts off. So, we. don't know what he was saying there. Um what we do know is shortly after. that, police were called to the scene. They placed Henry Nowak under arrest, and Digwa. claimed that he'd been racially abused. by Henry, which we understand is why. Henry was placed under arrest.

The. um. brother of Digwa said, "We've just been. attacked by someone racially. We got. attacked racially by some white person.". Uh the brother said, "They physically. attacked my brother. We're Sikhs. We. wear turbans, and he attacked my. brother.". The police arrived. Their their body cam. footage was shown in court. They're trying to place Henry Nowak. under arrest. as he says to the officers, "I've been.

stabbed. I've been stabbed. I can't breathe.". They put the handcuffs on him. He was. now lying down on his side, telling the. officers, "I've been stabbed. I can't. breathe.". They didn't believe him. The officer told Henry that he was under. arrest for suspicion of assault because. that's what Digwa and the brother were. saying. Nowak repeated, "I've been. stabbed. I've been stabbed." A male. voice believed to belong to the police.

officer said, "I don't think you have, mate.". The prosecutor alleges that Digwa. did not see seek help for the man, did not step in to say to the police, "He has indeed been stabbed. by me.". He knew he had stabbed Henry. Henry was. telling the truth, and he had stabbed. him in the lung. And the the man, as he lay dying, was. saying, "I can't breathe.".

Because he'd been stabbed in the lung. The cops did not believe him, and his. assailant, who was claiming to be the. victim of, quote, "a racial assault,". of which there is zero evidence, stood there and watched him die. After Nowak collapsed, the police. started rendering aid. Digwa's mother is also under arrest, by. the way, and on trial because she. removed the murder weapon from the scene.

and then hid it at her home, where. police later recovered it. Um. the defendant was interviewed by police. five times. He refused to answer any. questions. Instead, he submitted a. statement in which he said he was. walking toward his brother's car when. Nowak, who he said was intoxicated, "came at me and racially and physically. abused me." He claimed he was petrified. and, um, pulled out his phone to record. his attack. And yet, what we have here. is that the victim's phone was found on.

Digwa. He's he took Henry's phone, and he didn't help Henry. He let him. die. As the police didn't believe this kid, who happened to be white, was dying of injuries from that knife. stuck into his lung. This is so. horrific. Elon Musk is now promising to pay for. the legal fees. if Henry's family wants to file a. wrongful death lawsuit against the. police who did not believe him.

You know, as he lay dying. And what's. clearly going on here, I believe, is identity politics did not. allow the police to understand that. there could be a true dynamic in which. the white boy was the victim and the. dark-skinned man was the assailant and. that the claims of racial attacks were. apparently untrue. Your thoughts on it. >> Mhm. That's an unbelievable story. I I. you know, this is the stuff that shouldn't be. happening. I mean, I think you we could.

all rewind back 50 or 100 years and. think to ourselves, you could see a. situation where the opposite would. happen, right? Where maybe a time where. we where we're doing things the wrong. way and everyone can now acknowledge. that where maybe, and this has happened, there are stories of this, where white. people would claim they were being. attacked by a black person and the. police would show up and they would. just, you know, assume the black person. was the bad one in that action. And I. kind of thought we all agreed that was. the wrong way to do things. That pick, you know, deciding these incidents based.

on skin color was the wrong approach. Uh. and for whatever reason, the left wants. to bring that back. In Europe and in. England and and and all over. that entire vicinity, that seems to be. even farther along than we are here, but. we're on that same road. This suck that. stuff out. Stop thinking about identity. Stop thinking about whether if someone. is. take gender and take. take skin color and all these factors. out. These immutable characteristics. should not be the story. The and and.

over and over again, the left and the. media wants to make it the the. It's the wrong way to go. Go The. colorblind society was right. We got. something right. We should We should. continue to go after that ideal even. though it is difficult for human beings. to achieve it. Well said. Great to see you, Stu. Everybody check. out Stu over on Predictable and we will. be back tomorrow with Kelly's Court. [music] See you then.