"America First" and Trump's "Don-roe Doctrine," and Tim Walz DROPS OUT Amid Fraud Scandal, with Walter Kirn and Aaron Mate | Ep. 1223

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Aaron Mate, co-host of the "Useful Idiots" podcast, to discuss Trump’s capture and arrest of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, why Mate is skeptical of the action and believes it amounts to kidnapping, the potentially major consequences and ramifications of the move, Trump’s comments about Cuba falling next while hanging with neocons like Lindsey Graham, what the "Don-roe Doctrine" is really about, and more. Then Walter Kirn, editor-at-large of "County Highway," joins to discuss why Trump’s targeted actions abroad are a display of American might without further intervention, the way Trump is teasing potential further action in Iran and Colombia, Tim Walz dropping out of the Minnesota governor’s race, his excuses like blaming Trump rather than addressing the Somali fraud scandal, the corporate media's attempt to suppress Nick Shirley's viral reporting on the Somali fraud in Minnesota, lowlights from CNN and CBS, why the CBS News rebrand of CBS Evening News will fail, why Tony Dokoupil is not the right messenger for the message, and more. Maté-https://substack.com/@mate Kirn- https://countyhighway.com/ Riverbend Ranch: Visit https://riverbendranch.com/ | Use promo code MEGYN for $20 off your first order. Delta Rescue:Delta Rescue needs our help. Visit https://Deltarescue.org ARMRA: go to https://tryarmra.com/MEGYN to get 30% off your first subscription order DailyLook: https://dailylook.com to take your style quiz and use code MEGYN for 50% off your first order.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.2	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. We're back. We're so happy to be back with you.
0:18.9	We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and new year with
0:22.5	your family and friends. I was just saying to the team, I love the time off. I love being with my family.
0:28.5	I love my kids are not in school and I can have so much time with them directly. But by the second
0:33.5	week, I was going a little stir crazy. I'm not going to lie. I miss being with you all. I miss doing the show. It's like my therapy. And without my therapy, I don't know what to do. I was like, weirdly idle. Weirdly idle. Like, I, you think you're going to do all these things. You get to read every book and you're going to do everything on your to do list and answer every single email. That's not really how it happened. I don't know about you.
0:57.1	I don't know what to do with myself. We did ski some, though the snow wasn't great in Montana.
1:02.7	If you haven't checked out my Instagram to see the bear that emerged on the ski trail because
1:07.7	it was so warm, you should. In any event, it's a long-winded way of saying,
1:13.4	I missed you. I'm thrilled to be back with you. And boy, oh boy, are we starting the new year
1:19.4	with a bang, a news cycle that is breaking on multiple fronts at this hour. Just getting ready
1:24.3	for the show this morning, we had Tim Wals announced that he's
1:29.3	dropping out of politics in the wake of that Nick Shirley report and other reporting on Minnesota
1:34.6	fraud, which has been out of control. We, of course, appear to have launched some sort of military
1:40.3	action in Venezuela. We're claiming that it was just in support of a law enforcement
1:44.1	effort, but, um, you know, somewhere between 40 and 80 people in Venezuela are dead. So,
1:50.6	query just how military and just how legal it was. We're going to get into that in detail.
1:55.9	We've got President Trump saying, um, Cuba needs to watch out. So does Colombia, Mexico, and Iran.
2:02.8	Oh, and possibly Greenland.
2:05.3	Okay.
2:06.2	All while Venezuela's former leader is in a New York City courtroom today, after having
2:11.3	been captured and arrested in this daring mission on Saturday by U.S. Delta
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