Trump's Reality-Based Iran Approach, Tyra Banks Sues Netflix, and How To Be a Great Dad, with Eiglarsh, Aronberg, Branca, and Berenson  |  Ep. 1342 artwork

Trump's Reality-Based Iran Approach, Tyra Banks Sues Netflix, and How To Be a Great Dad, with Eiglarsh, Aronberg, Branca, and Berenson | Ep. 1342

The Megyn Kelly Show

June 18, 2026

Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing what we're learning about Trump's Iran deal, the costs and benefits of a negotiated settlement, why the neocons are furious but Trump's deal will help Americans, Trump’s realistic and common sense compromise approach to ending the Iran conflict, Trump's...
Speakers: Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump, Phillip Patrick, Mark Eiglarsh, Andrew Branca, Judge John Roach, Charleston White, Gurpreet Digwa, Alex Berenson
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**Megyn Kelly** (0:56)
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. Happy Thursday. We've got an incredible Kelly's Court coming up for you. The judge in the Karmelo Anthony case is speaking out. Why didn't we have cameras in the courtroom? He gives an answer. Plus, Alex Berenson is here for a perfectly timed book on fatherhood. But we begin today with a quick update on the latest in Iran. A senior US official reading out the full text of the Memorandum of Understanding yesterday and media outlets printing it in full.
What we recited to you on Tuesday, right before our interview with JD Vance, we had it. Those were the outlines. Those are the bullets. The neocon hawks are not happy. They're not happy at all. They want this war to go on and on. Really, they want this war to go on and on. Well, it's not going to. Sorry. Israel is definitely going to do its best to continue this thing and will probably try to queer this deal over and over and over again. But the president has clearly had it. He has seen through Netanyahu and his puffery around the magic that is possible in Iran. It's over. Those lies will no longer be believed. So my money actually is on Trump refusing to go back in there, refusing to resume the bombing. He says he will. I don't think he actually will. And they're not happy about that. They wanted Iran bombed to smithereens. It's got 90 million people in it. It's nearly 10 times the size of Israel. And that really was never a realistic option, even when Trump was saying that complete annihilation was going to happen to Iran. And now it's really not going to happen. Iran's about to be richer than it's ever been. I mean, we're about to release a lot of money to Iran. And they will emerge from this whole thing, in some ways, much better off than they were before. They'll possibly be in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They'll definitely have hundreds of billions of dollars they didn't have before. And look, this is part of Trump's peace plan, in a way. He's trying, he tried the stick, now he's trying the carrot. That's really what it boils down to. And he feels like he can try the carrot because we obliterated their nuclear facilities last June. So he's not really that worried about the nuclear weapon. I know he had to say that to launch this war. As we've been telling you here, that wasn't a real concern. Tulsi Gabbard, the intelligence community had told him that they're nowhere near developing a nuclear weapon.
He kind of had to say it as a justification. My own belief is that what he really wanted to do over there was get rid of the Ayatollah. He did that. I think he believed, Bibi, that if he did that, there could be regime change and we might get some better people running Iran. Trump continues to say that happened. Time will tell.
We did degrade some of their missile facilities and their missile capacities. Unfortunately, we really degraded our own in the process. But look, the important thing is, we did the thing last June, which was very effective. The nuclear dust is a skyscraper buildings height underground. If they try to get it, Trump has told us repeatedly, we have satellite technology that will show us. In that case, we would go back in.
We're trying now to bring Iran out of the Dark Ages and make it more, I don't want to say twin, but maybe like more of a distant cousin to its other Arab state relatives, where like they're participating in the global economy in a meaningful way, that could make them rich, that could help the world, that wouldn't make them such a pariah, and I get it, virtually all of their critics say that's not possible with these guys. They're Islamic radicals. They can't be reasoned with. They kind of exist just to take aim at Israel and its big brother us. So what do you, like, this is a pipe dream, but President Trump has tried. He's going to try, and he's doing it in the context of getting rid of this war. To say, okay, we'll stop bombing you, we'll stop blockading your ports, and we will allow you to become cash rich. Frankly, I mean, that's what's about to happen. And, you know, the people who are very, very worried about Iran, which is not just the neocon hawks, I mean, I see the danger in Iran, and I'm not a neocon hawk. People are concerned about Iran getting all this money because they do want a nuclear bomb, whatever they say.

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