Tucker Carlson Exits Fox News, Don Lemon Fired by CNN, with Glenn Beck, Glenn Greenwald, Rich Lowry, and Steve Krakauer | Ep. 535

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

It's a massive media news Monday, with Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News and Don Lemon getting fired by CNN. Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Beck, host of BlazeTV's The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble's System Update, Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, and Steve Krakauer, Megyn Kelly Show executive producer and author of "Uncovered," to break down the stunning news that Tucker Carlson was leaving Fox News, whether this is a reaction to Dominion or Ray Epps on 60 Minutes, the other looming potential lawsuits, what Tucker could do on the outside in independent media, who could potentially replace him at 8pm, constant threats he and his family received, his unpredictable views and why it made him so valuable, and more. Plus Don Lemon getting fired by CNN, how it appears to be a bad breakup, whether Lemon will now sue CNN, reports about his constant diva and misogynist behavior, 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. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Absolute bomb shell in
0:17.6	the media world. Tucker Carlson is no longer a host with Fox News Channel. Fox News
0:23.3	releasing a statement moments ago saying the two sides have, quote, agreed to part ways.
0:28.8	Tucker apparently not even coming back to air a good buy show. His final show was last
0:36.3	Friday. In a minute, I'm going to bring in our executive producer on this show Steve
0:40.8	Crackauer, who's also a media analyst and has been for some time. He's been on Tucker
0:45.0	show many times as well. And we'll, we'll get to some analysis for you. But I want to start
0:50.6	by sharing my thoughts. This is a terrible move by Fox. And it's a great thing for Tucker
0:57.4	Carlson. I don't know what drove Fox News to make this decision. And it was clearly Fox News
1:03.0	decision because they're not letting him say goodbye. That's my supposition. That's not inside
1:08.4	knowledge. But this the irony here is that how did they get in trouble with dominion? They
1:16.6	called Arizona too soon felt their critics. And ultimately that proved to be the case. They
1:22.6	were under pressure by their audience to reverse the call. The audience started to leave
1:27.4	them in droves because they felt betrayed like they didn't understand the mission of Fox News,
1:32.0	which is to be fair to especially the Republicans who don't get a fair shake on other channels.
1:37.1	And they went into a panic as their audience started to flee. Then they over corrected by
1:42.1	covering the bullshit claims about dominion as though they were plausible and gave way too
1:49.4	much credence to some of those claims on the air. Then they got sued. And last week they
1:54.3	settled that case for about $800 million. Tucker Carlson had very little to do with that case.
1:59.1	Tucker Carlson was one of the few who went on the air and said, Sydney Powell is a liar.
2:03.5	She's a liar. And I've seen the proof and don't believe her. He was not he was not the reason
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