Hegseth's Media Mic Drop on Iran Strikes, "Daddy" Trump, and Mamdani's White Guilt Win, with Ruthless Hosts | Ep. 1096

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly begins the show by breaking down the historic and newsy Pentagon press conference with Secretary Hegseth, the mic drop moments of Hegseth sparring with the press, the terrible coverage of the successful Iran nuke mission, and more. Then Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook, hosts of the Ruthless podcast, join to discuss how the left and the media tried and failed to downplay the successful Trump Iran mission, the truth about the effectiveness of the strikes, some of the worst TDS partisan media reporting this week, Jake Tapper suddenly lecturing about the job of a journalist, Natasha Bertrand’s terrible Iran strikes reporting this week and her history of awful fake spin for the intel community, Megyn's parody of Michelle Obama’s podcast which will premiere tomorrow, how consistently negative Michelle sounds in her episodes, Barack Obama celebrating himself, Trump's "Daddy" moment at NATO this week, the respect he's earned from prominent world leaders, ridiculous media coverage of the trip, the rise of deranged white guilt on the left that led to Zohran Mamdani's victory in NYC, leftist youth disillusioned by capitalism, whether Eric Adams has a chance to stop Mamdani's win, and more. More from Ruthless: https://ruthlesspodcast.com/ Done with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com FYSI: https://FYSI.com/Megyn or call 800-877-4000 SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off & your first month free! Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/megynkelly and use promo code MEGYN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. We begin today with reaction to a historic press briefing at the Pentagon this morning. Wow, did this one deliver? We haven't seen
0:23.8	anything like this in a very long time. Nothing's coming to mind in my history as a reporter.
0:29.1	Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Raisin-Kane,
0:34.8	delivering an update on President Trump's strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites
0:39.2	over the weekend. And it was fascinating. Secretary Hegseth calling the bombings quote a resounding
0:45.8	success and said it was the most complex and secretive military operation in history.
0:52.0	And I don't know about that. Like developing the atom bomb was,
0:54.6	that was pretty big. It was complex and it was secretive. But I take his point. It was one of.
0:59.1	I think that's probably what he meant to say. He said the bombings directly led to a ceasefire
1:03.5	agreement, true, and an end to what the administration is calling the 12-day war between Israel
1:09.0	and Iran. And the defense secretary took the media in
1:12.7	that room to task because the Pentagon media has been a failure, a total and utter failure in
1:20.3	reporting on this administration and in particular this mission for not playing it straight on this.
1:27.2	I mean, yes, it's the Trump administration. So they would
1:29.9	love praise. But that's not the media's job. But just play it straight. You know, normally,
1:37.0	there's not an instinct or shouldn't be to shit all over the military heroes after they risk
1:43.1	their lives. That's really not been our thing since Vietnam.
1:46.6	And then we learned those lessons.
1:49.1	It is a strain of leftism.
1:52.3	They veered dangerously close to doing that when the Iraq war got launched.
1:56.9	But for some reason now, because Trump is the commander in chief,
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