Zucker's Seismic CNN Exit, Whoopi's Suspension, and Canada's Freedom-Loving Truckers, with Rich Lowry, Melissa Cronin, Stu Burguiere, and Ezra Levant | Ep. 253

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Major breaking news today! Megyn Kelly is joined by Rich Lowry, editor of "National Review," Melissa Cronin, reporter for Radar Online, Stu Burguiere, host of "Stu Does America," and Ezra Levant, founder of "Rebel News," on the breaking news that Jeff Zucker is leaving CNN, how his affair with another CNN executive became an open secret, how Chris Cuomo is connected to the situation, the credibility crisis the network faces, the vindictiveness of the Cuomo family, Whoopi Goldberg suspended by ABC for her Holocaust comments, attempts to fire Ilya Shapiro from Georgetown Law School, the coddling of Georgetown law students, Biden's failure to return to COVID normality, Dr. Fauci's poor performance in the media, latest terrible Biden polling, Canada's truckers protesting over freedom and vaccine mandates, Trudeau and media response to the Trucker protest, 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. Major breaking news
0:16.5	just a short time ago, the media world rocked as Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, just
0:24.5	resigned for according to his statement, failing to disclose that he was having an
0:29.7	affair with another senior executive, though an underling to him at CNN. Radar online
0:37.6	actually broke this story not long ago, shockingly, no one in the media touched it after radar
0:45.8	broke it and now Jeff Zucker is officially out. Joining me now is the reporter who broke
0:51.9	the story for radar Melissa Cronin. Melissa, thank you so much for being here. How are
0:56.3	you?
0:57.3	Good morning Megan. I'm great. Thanks for having me.
0:59.5	All right. So you had this. I'm just looking back in a report dated January 4th, 2022.
1:07.6	And why don't let's why don't you bring us up to speed on what your reporting showed.
1:12.4	Yes. Today's news is a long time coming. We posted the story back in January on January
1:18.7	4th, but we actually have been working on this story and reporting it out for years.
1:24.5	We had photographic evidence supporting this story back last year when we spotted Jeff
1:29.5	and Allison at a Billy Joel concert together. So we really put in the groundwork to make
1:35.2	sure that we were 100% confident with this story. And in January, we decided that there
1:41.0	was just too much evidence and the world really needed to know about this just because it
1:45.4	was an open secret in the media world didn't mean that it was okay.
1:50.5	And of course, no one was interested in it because he run CNN and they didn't want to
1:56.0	take off Jeff Zucker. They want to get on CNN. They want to be seen. And I know you reported
2:02.4	in your piece, you were told to he's a vindictive guy and you better be careful.
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