Trump Takes On Big Pharma with Historic Drug Prices Exec Order, and Michelle Obama's Bitterness, with Walter Kirn | Ep. 1070

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn, editor-at-large for "County Highway," to discuss Trump’s historic executive order challenging Big Pharma and outrageous prescription drug prices, how Trump and Bernie Sanders are on the same page based on Bernie's past comments, why other countries in the world are paying reasonable drug prices but the United States has huge upcharges, Big Pharma whining while making billions in profit, why the rest of the world and other countries need to step up now and pay more, how Big Pharma owns so much of the media and political elite, Trump's new potential Air Force One “gift” from Qatar, how the leftist media is using it as a "chew toy" to stay distracted from bigger stories, the market spiking after the Trump administration announced a major temporary trade deal with China, the details of the deal and what it means in the future, Michelle Obama talking about the joys of divorce, her constant negativity about her husband and marriage generally, Halle Berry's inappropriate videos, and more. More from Walter Kirn - https://countyhighway.com/ Everglades Foundation: Learn more about President Trump’s Everglades support project at https://www.EvergladesFoundation.org SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off & your first month free! Hungryroot: https://Hungryroot.com/MK | Get 40% off your first box PLUS a free item in every box for life! Cozy Earth: Visit https://www.CozyEarth.com/MEGYN & Use code MEGYN for up to 40% off

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:11.8	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. I hope everyone out there
0:16.5	enjoyed their Mother's Day weekend because the news cycle has quickly moved into
0:21.2	overdrive. Yes, for those of you who listen to AM Update, you are stuck with me for today's
0:27.3	podcast, not my three wonderful children who anchored the AM update today. If you missed it,
0:34.0	you missed a treat. It is still available on all of our podcast feeds and on YouTube.com slash Megan Kelly. More on that in just a bit.
0:42.8	It's another day of deals for President Trump. I mean, it's really insane what just happened at the White House, truly.
0:49.8	Like, what just happened with the prescription drugs is it is earth-shattering.
0:55.4	We're going to talk about it in just a minute.
0:58.5	Also, a sort of trade deal with China.
1:02.5	We're going to pause the retaliatory tariffs on one another for 90 days while we work it out.
1:06.7	But it seems like they have the framework for a deal.
1:09.7	And, you know, people like Charles Gasparino,
1:12.1	who's been defensive of President Trump saying, look, he had to do this because of the bond
1:18.0	markets, because of what was happening. There's just a trade war with China is not winnable,
1:24.5	is what he was saying, given our economic status right now, our debt and
1:30.8	how much we need to service it and so on. And so his take on why we have this pause with China
1:36.5	was we had to, that smart people went to Trump and said, you've got to stop this. The United
1:43.4	States economy cannot handle it. We need them as
1:46.2	badly as they need us. And so the White House is sort of saying, see, I'm playing chess and I'm winning.
1:53.1	And smart guys like Charles, who doesn't have TDS, he's a Trump fan, actually, are saying,
1:58.5	look, the reality is this was not a winnable war. So whatever,
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