Glenn Greenwald on Trump and the media, MSNBC, and Edward Snowden | Ep. 1

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald for the premiere episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. Glenn and Megyn talk about "Resistance Journalism" and the decline of the media in the Trump Era, reveal some inside details about MSNBC, talk about Edward Snowden and how Greenwald came to that giant story, NBC and the media’s hypocrisy on the issue of blackface, counterproductive coercive tactics when it comes to social progress in 2020 and a lot more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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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 everybody, I'm Megan Kelly and welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.7	So glad you're here with me, so glad you're listening.
0:17.9	We're doing audio for now.
0:19.6	We may add some video at some point.
0:21.9	You know, the audio is kind of more intimate just to start with.
0:26.0	And I thought I'd just start by telling you why I'm here.
0:28.3	Right?
0:29.3	And the reason really is, I am deeply concerned.
0:34.9	I'm concerned about what's happening to our country, to our media and to us.
0:41.1	You know, the the press of which I've been apart for many years now is unlike anything I've
0:46.9	ever seen before, I feel like it has abandoned any semblance of objectivity.
0:53.3	And just having the luxury of being just a consumer for the past couple of years, it's
0:57.4	as plain as the nose on your face.
0:59.0	And it's really frustrating.
1:01.4	You know, I feel like the COVID pandemic really brought it home because like you, I was sitting
1:07.0	at my house thinking, oh, wow, you know, I really need to have honest information about
1:11.0	this.
1:12.0	And oh, wait, I trust no one.
1:14.4	You know, the truth is I didn't trust Trump to give it to me straight.
1:17.8	And I didn't trust the media to give it to me straight either.
1:21.1	And I actually sent out a tweet saying something like that in some of the sort of mainstream
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