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The Megyn Kelly Show

Elon Musk Buys Twitter, and Free Speech Under Attack, with Charles C.W. Cooke and Yascha Mounk | Ep. 307

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Breaking News: Elon Musk is nearing a deal to buy Twitter. Megyn Kelly is joined by Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer at National Review, and Yascha Mounk, author of "The Great Experiment," to talk about the breaking news that Musk is buying Twitter, how Musk might change the platform, the left freakout over the implications, free speech in society, Gov. Ron DeSantis vs. Disney, whether what DeSantis is doing is legal and conservative, the messiness of the fight over woke corporations, the absurd CNN Plus failure spin, BLM's co-founder in trouble again, the disastrous cultural impact of free speech suppression and tech censorship, arguments over disinformation and fact-checking, democracies and the French election, how the American Dream is still alive despite the pessimism of both sides, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Florida Governor Ron

0:16.4

DeSantis remains in the headlines as he's now signed a bill revoking Disney's special

0:22.8

tax status into law. Now it doesn't officially happen for another year, so there's time for

0:30.2

negotiation, but it's on. I mean, it's definitely on. Disney has operated like its own city in

0:36.4

Florida since 1967, following Disney's campaign against the bill that its critics are calling

0:41.8

the don't say gay bill, even though that's a lie. Leaders in Florida are pushing back and

0:46.8

taking away its special privileges. But is this a good decision? Is it a good decision

0:51.4

for the state of Florida for Republicans and does it set potentially a dangerous precedent

0:56.4

for when it comes to government coming after corporate entities for their opinions? We're

1:01.4

going to get into all of that. Also, less than a month into the launch of CNN plus the

1:05.5

company is no longer it's shutting down leaders at CNN are now fighting the narrative of failure.

1:11.9

Arguing, oh, this is just this is corporate. It's just a corporate decision. The platform

1:15.6

just wasn't given enough time. See, they were thriving. It's just unfairly the plug was

1:20.4

pulled early. Okay. We'll talk about it. Also, it's looking increasingly likely that Elon

1:27.3

Musk will buy Twitter. Gotta get Peter Schiff back on to talk about he told us it wasn't

1:32.2

going to happen that he couldn't afford it. Guess again, because it looks like Morgan

1:36.3

Stanley is behind him and he's partnering with other financial firms and they're saying

1:42.0

we could get an announcement that it's happening as early as today, but there are a couple

1:50.9

wrinkles. Joining me now to discuss all of it is our friend Charles C. W. Cook, senior

1:54.5

writer for national review. Charles, welcome back. Let's start with Twitter. Yeah, it

2:01.0

looks like he's getting the money from a various group of people and that they could be

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