The TRUTH About Jill's Treatment of Joe Biden, Bari Weiss' Leadership, and "Strangers" Accuracy, with Maureen Callahan  |  Ep. 1332 artwork

The TRUTH About Jill's Treatment of Joe Biden, Bari Weiss' Leadership, and "Strangers" Accuracy, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1332

The Megyn Kelly Show

June 4, 2026

Megyn Kelly begins the show discussing the ongoing delays in California election results, why it could take weeks to determine the runoff in the governor race and LA mayor race, legitimate concerns about confidence in California's election system, and more.
Speakers: Belle Burden, Megyn Kelly, Maureen Callahan, Drew Barrymore, Victoria Burke, Tony Dokoupil, Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Kroft, Jill Biden, Ted Danson, Kamau Bell
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**Megyn Kelly** (0:46)
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Channel 111 every weekday at noon East.
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, and happy Thursday. It's another day filled with breaking news from all over the country, and another day where we do not know who's moving on to the runoff in the major California elections for governor and Los Angeles mayor, because they really just have to wait for the mail-in votes to arrive. And there's apparently been a surge in mail-in votes, especially from Democrat areas of California. So, it's really just too difficult for them to predict how these races are going to come down. I'm sorry, but if you don't smell a rat, your olfactory nerves are not working. This is sick. This is no way to run an election. There will be no public confidence in this if it doesn't track the way the actual in-person vote tracked as of Tuesday. I mean, this is third world shit we're looking at right now, because you have Tom, sorry, not Tom Steyer, thank God. You have Steve Hilton leading in California, and you've got Spencer Pratt currently in second in LA, but they won't call it for either one, because they think Tom Steyer at the gubernatorial level and Nithya Raman at the LA mayor level may surge miraculously in the mail-in votes and overtake one of the top two spots, leaving the Republicans in the dust and not able to move on.
No one's going to accept this.
California is 39% Republicans. They have no representation whatsoever at the state level. And now, for the first time, half their city in LA burning down, and their state in tatters with homeless everywhere and hypodermic needles on every sidewalk. Now, the public gets to vote, and what we have to wait there saying, it could be weeks before we know the result. Weeks. Days or weeks.
You've got Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, rightfully ripping them, saying, we have 10 million voters here. We count it in a day. Get your shit together. That's not exactly how we put it, but that's what he's saying. And you've got a lot of Californians out there who want real change and have it available to them in like a realistic way. This could actually happen for the first time in a long time. And it just feels very much like it is in serious danger of getting stolen out from under them. And you guys know, I'm not a big stolen election person. You know, I'm not, I've never bought into that shit. I wanna see cold hard proof if somebody's gonna make allegations of a stolen election. But how are you gonna have confidence when they're talking about surge in mail-in votes, especially from Democrat counties, and more than half of the vote outstanding in mail-in balloting, more than half? So you can control any election. If you've got more than half of the vote outstanding, you can control anything. This is not just military vets who are overseas. This is like half of the populace there who they are letting, and you can mail in the ballots on election day. They don't have to be in by election day. I'm just like, okay, I'll give you the specifics as we get into this in just a bit. Then we also have got to get into this. All right, so for months now, I've actually been obsessing over this book. I've shared my thoughts with a lot of my dear friends over this book. I don't know why this book has struck such a chord with me and a lot of other women in particular. But now it finds itself immersed in controversy and for good reason.
It's a bestseller and it's called Strangers. Now, I actually saw it because my husband Doug's book is on the New York Times bestseller list thanks to all of you in large parts. So thank you. It's called The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel. I have an update on that in a second. But I looked at the Times bestseller list, which I don't normally do, and thankfully Doug made it and this woman, Belle Burden and her book Strangers is still at the top of it. It's an also nonfiction like Doug's book, and it's called A Memoir of Marriage. It's been 19 weeks on the bestseller list now, in fact. So wow, good for her. But it turns out that much like another book that our friend Maureen Callahan took a deep dive into and exposed as a fraud. And now the author of that other book is facing a lawsuit from the woman who claims her story was stolen. Just like that book, this book too appears to have taken some serious liberties with the truth in order to create a narrative around this poor me mom and wife, who was left by the evil financier husband that are now just coming out. It's coming out that this woman can buy you and your entire family. Okay. Like she wrote a whole novel, not novel, nonfiction piece about how her husband left her in the lurch for another woman, how her financial security was in tatters. She didn't know where to turn, what to do next. She was going to lose all her houses. And it turns out the New Yorker did a deep dive. She's worth $67 million.

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