Zelensky Comes to DC Again, Fake Media Narratives, and Comey's Weird Taylor Swift Video, with Walter Kirn

The Megyn Kelly Show

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4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Walter Kirn, Editor-at-Large of "County Highway," to discuss Zelensky’s visit to the White House for the first time since the major Oval Office blow up, Trump's major summit with Putin in Alaska, the media’s fake narrative being built around this process and how they seem to be rooting against peace, Walter's appearance on Bill Maher’s show Friday and how Maher won't accept the truth about Russiagate hoax, the media’s ridiculous and false coverage about Trump’s meeting with Putin, former FBI Director James Comey’s cringy video praising Taylor Swift and slamming Trump, whether he's starting to panic over a potential indictment, new information that could be heading for possible indictment of New York State’s AG Letitia James, the latest details about her various properties, Gloria Gaynor getting pushback for daring to receive a Kennedy Center honor from Trump, the hypocrisy from the left on culture and music, a must-watch episode of one radical leftist vs. 20 black conservatives on the “Surrounded" YouTube channel, and more. More from Kirn: https://www.countyhighway.com/ Incogni: Visit https://incogni.com/MEGYN for 60% off our annual plan SimpliSafe: Visit https://simplisafe.com/MEGYN to claim 50% off & your first month free! Byrna: Go to https://Byrna.com or your local Sportsman's Warehouse today. Jacked Up Fitness: Get the all-new Shake Weight by Jacked Up Fitness at https://JackedUpShakeWeight.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
0:12.2	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. We are back in the Red Studio.
0:18.0	The summer's coming to an end. It's happening. But on the bright side, the fall is
0:22.7	right around the corner. Pumpkin spice everything, fall clothes. And I don't know, you know,
0:29.5	the September start of the year is always like the real start of the year, much more so
0:33.4	than January, isn't it? Since you were a kid, it's when you started your new school year.
0:37.0	And it's the one our kids now are starting their new school years. And there's something
0:41.4	exciting about that. So anyway, onward. It may feel like it's the waning days of a slow
0:49.2	summer Monday, but not in Washington, D.C., where the future of world peace could be at stake today.
0:54.8	As Ukrainians president, Zelensky makes his return to the White House for a meeting with President Trump,
0:59.0	first time back since that disastrous meeting in February, plus a bunch of other European leaders tagging along.
1:04.4	Mark Arrubia says we invited them.
1:06.0	I mean, I guess it's good they're there.
1:08.0	It's nice to have other leverage points against Zelensky
1:11.0	besides just Trump and J.D. threatening him. I'm like, I don't know that he's going to do
1:16.2	what anybody wants, but at least they're in his neighborhood. Like, they have a bigger stake in
1:20.8	this than we do. So yeah, welcome to the party. This follows President Trump's high profile
1:25.7	summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, sent the media into meltdown.
1:31.2	Plus, James Comey is joining Substack and making a complete fool out of himself.
1:38.1	Joining me now on all of these stories and more are pal Walter Kern.
1:42.0	He's editor at large of the newspaper County Highway and co-host with
1:46.0	Matt Taibi of the America This Week podcast. We talk a lot about personal freedom on this show.
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