NBA's China Hypocrisy on Human Rights and COVID Reality, with Enes Kanter Freedom and David Leonhardt | Ep. 215

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Enes Kanter Freedom, NBA player, David Leonhardt, New York Times senior writer, and Karol Markowicz of the New York Post, to talk about how Freedom got involved in highlighting human rights abuses, the hypocrisy of LeBron James and Nike, Freedom's "morals over money" stance, what the NBA told Freedom about his shoes (and what he told NBA commissioner Adam Silver), Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest crazy COVID vaccine mandate for kids, the real risk of COVID for young kids, the reality of "long COVID," the truth about whether masks work, the psychology benefits of new COVID treatments, how COVID will "end," whether we'll ever find a middle ground on COVID in America, 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.
0:13.9	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show and happy Monday.
0:17.1	Christmas is coming and it's time to do your shopping.
0:19.9	We've got a big show for you today while you surf online or get about your business.
0:24.8	Just a bit later, we're going to be talking about the latest on COVID from vaccines to variants
0:28.8	with David Lee and Hart at the New York Times who has been doing some of the best reporting
0:32.6	on COVID of anyone in the mainstream media.
0:36.7	Really looking forward to that conversation and some new information just coming up today
0:40.8	on the booster shots.
0:42.3	If you've had double Pfizer's, should you get the third shot if you're going to get one
0:48.2	from J and J wait until you hear what they just found.
0:52.0	We're going to get to all of that plus New York City's mayor de Blasio has lost his mind
0:56.2	and so is Oregon.
0:57.7	We begin this hour with NBA player in his canter freedom who's taking on anyone he believes
1:03.8	is remaining too silent when it comes to China's human rights abuses Wall Street, big business
1:09.3	Hollywood and even the NBA's biggest stars.
1:13.0	Meanwhile he has become an American citizen in his place for the Boston Celtics.
1:17.3	He's currently in L.A. to match up against LeBron James's Lakers tomorrow night and he
1:22.0	joins me now.
1:23.5	And he's welcome and congratulations on becoming an American.
1:27.7	Thank you for having me.
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