Fact-Checking the New York Times' "Daily" Podcast's Disinformation-Filled Russiagate Episode, with Michael Shellenberger and Aaron Mate

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Megyn Kelly gives a thorough fact-check of The New York Times' "The Daily" podcast episode focused on Russiagate this week, and reveals how it gets the story completely wrong. She's joined by Michael Shellenberger and Aaron Mate to discuss the way the podcast spreads disinformation about the reality of the Russiagate hoax, the way the New York Times has been emotionally invested in the Russiagate story since 2016, the collusion between intel agencies and the media, the way the New York Times distracts from the Russiagate hoax reality by focusing on President Obama personally, the tactics used by the press to smear Trump and his administration, the shocking gaslighting from the NYT "Daily" podcast about the Steele dossier, the host and guest's refusal to even say the word "Steele," the way the episode serves to misinform listeners and news consumers, and more. Maté- https://www.aaronmate.net/ Shellenberger- https://www.public.news/ Riverbend Ranch: Visit https://riverbendranch.com/ | Use promo code MEGYN for $20 off your first order. Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.edu

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
0:12.1	Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. When I woke up Wednesday morning and checked my podcast feed, I saw the New York Times's The Daily podcast, which I
0:23.0	often listened to, and they had finally gotten around to covering all of the Russiagate revelations
0:29.9	that we've been doing on this show for weeks. Host Michael Barbaro brought on the New York
0:35.9	Times investigative reporter Michael Schmidt.
0:38.9	I thought this is going to be really interesting because he is the reporter that we've learned
0:45.2	James Comey used for leaks through his Columbia law professor friend.
0:51.0	Comey used his Columbia law professor friends to leak to Michael Schmidt. And I
0:56.2	remembered that Schmidt won a Pulitzer Prize for his Russiagate reporting. So I thought, okay,
1:00.5	they've got a few things to acknowledge up front. And then let's hear what he has to say about all
1:05.4	this stuff. Of course, shockingly, the Times did not acknowledge any of that in its episode, none of it, that he is
1:15.6	personally involved in the controversy, that he is part of it because the media, acting like
1:20.7	lap dogs, taking what we now know was flimsy at best and, let's face it, false intelligence, and slapping it on the pages of their
1:30.3	magazines and newspapers without checking in an effort to smear Donald Trump is one of the biggest
1:35.9	media scandals of all time. And I would think if you're running the Times and the daily,
1:41.8	Schmidt is probably realistically the last person. You would want to
1:45.2	platform as the expert on this, given the fact that he's personally coming under fire daily
1:51.0	on the podcasts and the websites that are actually bothering to cover this new scandal. But no,
1:58.4	they platformed him like he was truly a trustworthy, the trustworthy one might
2:03.2	say, expert on Wednesday, and once again misled their audience about everything on this scandal.
2:13.3	Here he is on a different broadcast. This is over on MSNBC, and he decided the podcast was just so good
2:22.2	he needed to go on MSNBC to promote it, and he chose to do that on the show of his wife,
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