Showing posts with label The Kelly File. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Friday, July 10, 2015

[VIDEO] Megyn Kelly: Why Is Obama Silent on the Murder of Kate Steinle By an Illegal Immigrant?

MEGYN KELLY, HOST, "THE KELLY FILE": Breaking tonight, the young woman gunned down by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco was just laid to rest. Surrounded by friends and family. It does not appear at this hour that anyone from the Obama administration was in attendance.
Welcome to THE KELLY FILE, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Funeral services were held this evening for 32-year-old Katherine Steinle. Her loved ones remembering her as an avid traveler who loved connecting with people until her life was cut short a week ago. That's when Kate was shot and killed while in her father's arms, police say by this man, Francisco Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times from this country and had racked up a string of felonies while in the U.S. The San Francisco sheriff had Sanchez in custody as recently as April but released him pursuant to San Francisco's sanctuary city policy where they have rules against handing over anyone to the Feds who might be deported.
This sheriff himself a convicted criminal says, he stands by the city's policy. Kate's murder has since exploded into a national debate on illegal immigrant, sanctuary cities in crime. With the White House ducking the issue of its own acquiescence in these city's decision to flout the federal immigration laws which were duly enacted. When asked repeatedly this week to speak to this case, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest declined to weigh in other than to refer folks to the Department of Homeland Security. A stark contrast to what we saw after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. A man we now know was attacking a police officer at the time of his death. His funeral saw three Obama officials in attendance, his death drew comments from President Obama personally. And the administration also sent in the DOJ and 40 FBI agents dispatched to Missouri after Michael Brown was killed.
Where is the swarm of agents in San Francisco? Then there was Freddie Gray in Baltimore, a repeat drug offender who was killed in police custody. Here again his funeral was attended by three Obama administration officials and again the President spoke personally to Freddie Gray's death. And again, sent the DOJ in to investigate. When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida, the President spoke to his death which was later ruled to be in self-defense. But Kate Steinle, nothing. No comments, no swarm of FBI agents, no DOJ investigation, nothing. Why?
Marc Thiessen is a FOX News contributor and the former chief presidential speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Richard Fowler is a nationally syndicated radio host. Thank you for being here, both. Marc, why?
MARC THIESSEN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, the silence from President Obama is absolutely deafening. He had plenty to say when it came to Trayvon Martin, when it came to Michael Brown, when it came to Freddie Gray, but all of the sudden a woman is killed by a criminal alien, and all of a sudden the President is tongue tied. He's got nothing to say. Why is that? The answer is simple. In all of those other cases, he had liberal policy points that he wanted to make about gun control, about police bias, about racial profiling. In this case he has no policy points he wants to make because the policies that he supports are the ones that got this woman killed. His support for sanctuary cities, his support for releasing criminal aliens into the communities. So he doesn't want to highlight this because there's no political gain to be made from it.
KELLY: Richard, do you disagree with any word that Marc just said?
RICHARD FOWLER, NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO HOST: I disagree with about 90 percent of it. I think this president is outraged that we haven't passed comprehensive immigration reform. Since this president is coming to the White House --
KELLY: Where is the comment on Kate Steinle's death?
FOWLER: Over and over and over again about comprehensive immigration reform. This president has said number of times --
KELLY: But if you could just answer my question, Richard? Could you answer my question?
FOWLER: I am answering your question, Megyn.
KELLY: Where is the comment about Kate Steinle's murder?
FOWLER: The reason why Kate Steinle's murder happened, and the White House will tell you the same thing, is because we have a broken immigration system. George Bush tried to fix it and Republicans blocked it. Now, the President has tried to fix it. Marco Rubio even tried. It was so bad that he ran away from it.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

An Issue of Race or Police Under Siege? What Really Happened at This Texas Pool Party?

MEGYN KELLY, HOST, "THE KELLY FILE": Breaking tonight, angry protesters hitting the streets over what they call the latest incident of racist policing in America. What the folks in the middle of this mess say the video today seen by millions only tells part of the story.
Welcome to THE KELLY FILE, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. The Black Lives Matter protest group has tonight organized what they call a march for justice in McKinney, Texas just getting underway there. It started with the Friday evening party in McKinney that quickly went bad. Residents say a rowdy group of teens first started trespassing. Then began harassing the neighbors. Then the confrontation turned really ugly. With alleged racial slurs, fights and one police officer caught on camera. Now being held up as the latest in a media narrative about cops out of control. Here are parts of the video.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Move! Move!
(INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It was that guy. It was that guy.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Get on the ground.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I told you to stay.
Get down on the ground. (Bleep). (Bleep).
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Sir, we just got here. Sir, we just came to a birthday party. Please.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Sean Hannity plays conservative kingmaker

Presidential candidates launch their bids in different cities -- from Louisville to Lynchburg, Miami to Addison -- but, for many Republicans, the first stop on the campaign trail is the same: "Hannity."
In the last two months, four GOP hopefuls have given Sean Hannity dibs on their first interviews as candidates and been rewarded with hour-long "special events" on his primetime Fox News program. Others have tried to land an interview with the conservative host, campaign sources said, only to be turned down -- either because they had given their first interview to another media outlet, or because they weren't popular enough.
On Thursday, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry will become the fourth Republican to get an hour-long special on Hannity's program. Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were all given the same hour-long special the night after they formally announced their bids.
For Republicans, Hannity provides instant access to the highly coveted conservative base. His show averaged more than 1.5 million viewers a night in May, according to the network's most recent ratings report. While that's lower than the viewership for "The O'Reilly Factor" or "The Kelly File," the bulk of Hannity's viewers are, like the host, reliably conservative. He also hosts a daily talk radio program that is second only to Rush Limbaugh in terms of listenership.
"Sean Hannity has a loyal following among the viewership of Fox News," Sergio Gor, a spokesperson for Paul, told the On Media blog. "He is one of the most influential voices among republican primary voters, and it doesn't hurt that with every year he's becoming an even greater lover of liberty."
Rick Tyler, a spokesperson for Cruz, said Hannity "has a big target audience and his questions are from a center-right perspective. In other words, he brings up the issues Republican primary voters are interested in."

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

What New Obamacare Problem Got Megyn Kelly So Angry?

Megyn Kelly kicked off her show Tuesday night utterly bewildered at a report she touted as striking another blow for Obamacare, after two whole months of problem after problem plaguing the health care website. This time, it’s about the payment mechanism for the site, and Kelly was astonished to discover that because no one is able to actually pay for plans on the site yet, the plan is to “estimate” the cost of each plan and for the government to just work out that estimate with insurers.
Yep. A program designed to provide affordable health care to millions of people will be temporarily whittling the payment system down to a crap shoot.
Kelly cited a new report from Reuters on a “short-term” fix for the Obamacare site’s payment system as they get the kinks sorted out.
The administration is planning a “workaround” for payments, said Daniel Durham, vice president for policy and regulatory affairs at America’s Health Insurance Plans.
Health plans will estimate how much they are owed, and submit that estimate to the government. Once the system is built, the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the plan data to “true up” payments, he said.
“The intent is to make sure plans get paid on time, which is a good thing,” Durham told Reuters.
First of all, the very fact that the payment system isn’t working was too much for Kelly. She cried, “How does the system work without a payment mechanism?! There’s no cash register!”
But for the government to just estimate the cost of health care plans… to say Kelly was flabbergasted would be putting it in the mildest possible terms.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Obamacare Architect: President’s Administrative Fix Could Be ‘Death Spiral’ for Law


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A key architect of the Affordable Care Act Harvard economist David Cutler warned President Obama’s administrative extension of individual health insurance policiescould be the beginning of a “death spiral” for Obamacare Thursday on The Kelly File.
Last week, appearing on the same program, Cutler said if there is a dearth of enrollees in the new healthcare exchanges consumers shopping for individual policies could see premiums spike significantly:
Tonight, given President Obama’s announced administrative extension of cancelled individual policies, Cutler cautioned the exchanges could become unbalanced in the next year.
If this is a temporary condition, Cutler said, it is not problematic in the long term. However, according to the Harvard economist, if healthier people ultimately stay away from the exchanges completely today’s presidential waiver could precipitate a “death spiral” for Obamacare:
MEGYN KELLY: When you were on last week I asked if they don’t get enough people in the exchanges, then what happens? You said then the premiums go up very, very high. Now was that ball put in motion today?
DAVID CUTLER: We don’t know yet. What the president is trying to do is to say the website isn’t working. The exchanges are not working. Let’s slow down the process and delay it by a year. If it turns out to be a delay of a year then we can work through that. It will be uncomfortable as it has been for the last month, but it will turn out okay. If it becomes a permanent situation that people who are healthier stay away and people who are sicker go into the exchanges that becomes a very big problem.
KELLY: Is that the beginning of the so-called death spiral?
CUTLER: That could be the beginning of a death spiral. That is, you could have a situation where people in the exchanges are very unhealthy people with high premiums. There are a number of provisions in the law to reduce the probability of that, but that’s the scare scenario that people really want to avoid.

Brit Hume: Obama ‘fix’ meant to ‘shift blame,’ says media has turned against him


On Thursday’s “The Kelly File,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained to host Megyn Kelly why even the so-called fix President Barack Obama proposed earlier in the day was fraught with problem of its own — and that it was meant to shift blame away from the administration.
Kelly asked Hume if Obama helped himself during Thursday’s press conference.
“Probably not very much, Megyn,” Hume said. “This is such a small effort here with all kinds of problems associated with it — whether it’s even possible for it to work, even if he’s legally authorized to have done it. I mean, I keep thinking about some insurance company going to federal court saying this is illegitimate. There is no constitutional or other legal authority for the president to have done this.  And poof, whatever effect this has could be done. And the other thing, of course, is his answers while he was more apologetic than before in some ways and was saying the blame was on him. I think a lot of people’s answer would be, ‘Yeah, no kidding.’”
Obama’s new maneuvers could be deeply problematic for the insurance companies as well, he said.
“I must say, Megyn, I have my doubts as to whether he can,” Hume continued. “I also have doubts as to whether this is possible. You know, we have talked about the insurance companies, unlike the Obama administration, were ready for the law to roll out. And they took all the measures the law required them to take — to participate in the exchanges, to stop selling the no longer qualifying policies and all the rest of it. And what the president is now saying, ‘Oh, oops, well you can go on doing things kind of the way you were for another year.’ Well, they are really in no position to do that.”
As far as Obama’s objectives, Hume said it didn’t appear to him Obama was looking for an actual solution, but instead for a way to avoid blame.
“[H]e’s not looking to accomplish anything,” Hume said. “He’s looking to shift blame. He doesn’t want his law, and his party and himself to be blamed for cancellation notices. So he’s created this apparent fix that says, ‘OK, folks, you really can keep your policies. Sorry about that.’ Well, you know, I’m not sure that will work. When you think about it, it shouldn’t work. It’s dishonest.”
Hume predicted another wave of cancelations as the more of the law takes effect — and noted the media may have turned against Obama in a way it has never before.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

[VIDEO] ObamaCare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel Blames Fox News for Website's Failure



MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS HOST: Back now to our top story tonight. The administration releasing the first ObamaCare enrollment numbers just a few hours ago. Less than 27,000 people have selected a plan from the Feds. Less than 80,000 people have signed up through the state exchanges. A few weeks ago one of the architects of ObamaCare joined me. And I asked Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel about this very issue. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KELLY: We are not on track. We are not anywhere near on track for that right now.
DR. EZEKIEL EMANUEL, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS SENIOR FELLOW: Excuse me.
KELLY: The latest numbers we have and Ms. Sebelius won't tell us exactly what it is. But the latest numbers that we have from the research service suggest it's about 129,000 people.
EMANUEL: Ms. Kelly, as I have repeatedly said whatever the number is today is totally irrelevant. Because people are not going to buy until round about thanksgiving.
KELLY: All right.
EMANUEL: For a January 1st start line.
KELLY: All right. Here's my last question.
EMANUEL: You cannot project from today's enrollment.
KELLY: Understood. OK. I get your point. Here is my last question here.
EMANUEL: So, you are claiming we are not on track. You have no idea whether we're on track or not.

Via: Fox News
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Military members, veterans missing out on key ObamaCare provision

One of the most touted benefits of President Obama’s health care overhaul law is the provision allows parents to keep their adult children on their health insurance until age 26.
However, Trace Gallagher reported on “The Kelly File” Monday, this benefit is not being extended to a significant group of Americans: members of the U.S. military.
TRICARE, the Department of Defense program that provides health coverage to active duty and retired military members and their families, only covers young adult dependents up until age 21, or age 23 if they are enrolled full-time in college.
TRICARE recipients can then purchase a plan for their young adult dependents, according to their website.
Air Force veteran Eddie Grooms said he was disappointed to learn he could not add his 21-year-old daughter to his insurance provided by the military, as he thought he had been promised under the health care overhaul.
“It’d be nice if they leveled with everybody and let them know so that people could make plans, because this is going to hit all, I mean it’s going to hit thousands of retirees over time,” Grooms said.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Cancer Survivor Edie Sundby Fights Back After Being Attacked By White House


Edie Sundby wasn’t trying to be political, she is an independent. But because she isn’t political, her story is all the more poignant, because it’s about saving her life, her right to her choice of doctors, her choice of her health plan. Her simple right to choose, as she put it, the insurance that she loved, and the doctors that she loved to keep herself alive.

Friday, November 1, 2013

CNN Falls To Lowest Primetime In Over A Year; Fox’s Megyn Kelly Returns To Cable News Ratings Top Spot

A busy news day of combative Congressional Obamacare hearings and Presidential speeches didCNN no favors in primetime last night. The Jeff Zucker-run cable network hit its lowest primetime time result among adults 25-54 in over a year Wednesday despite all the cable newers being up double digits over the day before during Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius’ morning testimony. Between 8 PM and 11 PM last night, CNN had a mere 67,000 viewers among the key news demo. That’s the worst its done in the demo since August 10 last year. With the Olympics were on NBC last August, CNN drew just 62,000 among the 25-54s that Friday. Not only was CNN behind rivals Fox News Channel (396,000) and MSNBC (127,000) but also it did worse than sister station HLN (93,000) and CNBC (79,000). The most watched show on CNN last night was Piers Morgan Live at 9 PM which got a soft 83,000 in the demo and 340,000 viewers overall. Overall CNN had 285,000 viewers in primetime last night compared to MSNBC’s 683,000 and FNC’s 2.312 million.
As CNN tanked, FNC’s The Kelly File was back at No. 1 last night for the first time since its October 7 debut week. Building on her O’Reilly Factor lead-in, Megyn Kelly’s 9 PM Fox News Channel show pulled in 445,000 in the adult 25-54 demo Wednesday. Kelly first topped heavyweight Bill O’Reilly on the second night of her show on October 8 with 623,000 in the demo to The Factor’s 578,000. The spread wasn’t so big last night with O’Reilly drawing 433,000 among the 25-54s. Kelly won again with 376,000 to O’Reilly’s 343,000 on October 10 before settling into second place ever since. In total viewers, O’Reilly remained first last night with 2.96 million watching to Kelly’s 2.350 million. Against her time slot rivals however Kelly was the easy winner. In fact, her show had more in the demo than CNN’s Piers Morgan Live had in total viewers. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show was second in the 9 PM slot with 810,000 total viewers and 136,000 among the 25-54s. Now moved from his previous 9 PM slot to 10 PM, FNC’s Hannity lost some of Kelly’s crowd with his demo at 305,000 and total viewers at 1.59 million. Still that was better than CNN AC360 Later (52,000 in the demo and 193,000 total viewers) and MSNBC’s Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell (139,000 in the demo and 679,000 total viewers) put together in both categories. 

Breaking: Docs Show ONLY 6 People Signed Up For Obamacare On Day 1


FOX News' Megyn Kelly reported that documents released by the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), show that a total of six Americans signed up for Obamacare on Day 1.
Watch below, from The Kelly File:



Thursday, October 31, 2013

[VIDEO] MEGYN KELLY WAS ALMOST AT A LOSS FOR WORDS AFTER THIS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING OBAMACARE INTERVIEW WITH DEM REP.

Megyn Kelly battled Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) over President Barack Obama’s promise that all Americans would be able keep their health care plans under Obamacare, a claim that has proven to be false. While some Democratic lawmakers have admitted the president should have been more clear about the regulations, Obama and other administration officials are blaming insurance companies for causing what is predicted to be as many as 10 million Americans to lose their individual plans.
Rep. Pallone made the latter argument, telling Kelly that insurance companies got “caught” selling “lousy” plans that offered little coverage at a high cost. Under Obamacare, the companies will now offer what he says are better plans at an “affordable price.”
“But that’s only partially true,” Kelly argued. “Some of the insurance companies said, ‘alright I’m going to cancel the policies,’ because that happens in the insurance market. But many, many other policies…are being canceled because the regulations imposed on them by Obamacare left them with no choice.”
“That is absolutely not true,” Pallone shot back.
Megyn Kelly Battles Rep. Frank Pallone Over Obamacare Promises
(Fox News)
Kelly reminded the congressman that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius herself admitted any insurance plan that went up by as much as $5 would not be eligible to be “grandfathered” in due to Obamacare regulations. She played the soundbite just to emphasize her point.

Friday, October 25, 2013

[VIDEO] BOOM! Megyn Kelly Does Killer Report on ObamaCare’s Broken Promises

Are ObamaCare's promises panning out?
Insurance customers see an increase in premiums, cancellations

TRANSCRIPT OF 'THE KELLY FILE' REPORT - 10/24/13:

MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS HOSR: In the midst of the troubled health care roll out the president and Democrats have assured the American people that the law itself remains a good one. In fact the law was passed based on the same promise and many, many others, but are they panning out?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: You've got health insurance. You like your doctor, your plan, keep can keep your doctor. You can keep your plan -- you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody will have lower rates.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. This is for people who have health insurance. You will save money -- if you like your health care plan you will be able to keep your health care plan, period.
SENATOR HARRY REID (D), MAJORITY LEADER: Obamacare has been wonderful for America.
Via: Fox News
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Teachers' unions fight bill that would bar sex offenders from schools

A bipartisan bill that would stop convicted sex offenders from working in schools has been passed by the House but is running into a foe as it heads to the Senate: major teachers' unions like the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
Kyle Olson, with the Education Action Group Foundation told Megyn Kelly Wednesday night on “The Kelly File” that the unions’ objection to the bill proves “unions are out to protect the adults…they are not out for the interests of the children.”
“We should have zero tolerance for issues like this,” Olson said. “We have zero tolerance policies for weapons, a kid who bites a Pop Tart into a gun or has a Hello Kitty bubble-maker will be suspended or expelled if they have those sorts of things…”
The measure would require school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and secondary school students, and for people seeking those jobs. Workers refusing to submit to the checks would not be allowed to have school positions.
In letters to lawmakers, the unions have claimed the measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Megyn Kelly revisits how Obamacare was shoved down our throats…

I must say I’ve been more than impressed at the topics Megyn Kelly has covered on her new show The Kelly File. And on last night’s show she took the time to remind America how Obamacare was passed in the first place, or as I like to put it, shoved down our throats. In doing so, she’s basically giving credence to the fact that so many Americans still so passionately oppose Obamacare.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

MEGYN KELLY PULLED OFF SOMETHING MSNBC’S PRESIDENT SAID WAS ‘IMPOSSIBLE’

It turns out Megyn Kelly’s ratings did double on the second night of her primetime Fox News show, despite the president of MSNBC calling it “impossible.”
Phil Griffin actually said there should be “some investigations” after ratings for “The Kelly File”increased 100 percent on the show’s second night.
Megyn Kelly Pulled Off Something MSNBCs President Said Was Impossible
Megyn Kelly, host of Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” rehearses for the debut of her new show, in New York, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. (AP)
“Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic, on the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours,” Griffin said last week. “Tuesday–you guys should be doing some investigations–I have never seen it in all my years of cable, same overnight, same everything, and they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible.”
The New York Daily News reported that ratings tracker Nielsen conducted an investigation and, sure enough, Kelly’s numbers were accurate.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Ed Henry: Sources Say Obama Admin Aides Knew About the Denial of Death Benefits For a Few Days

On ‘The Kelly File’, Ed Henry reported late Wednesday evening that sources say aides in the Obama administration have been aware, for a few days , that the government would not be able to pay death benefits to fallen troops' families.
This report came after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that he was unsure when President Obama learned that fallen troops would be denied death benefits during the government shutdown. 
Ed Henry: It seems simple, when the President says he’s outraged about it through Jay Carney, so when did he learn about it? And how quickly did he move on it? What we do know that on September 27 the Pentagon comptroller told reporters way back then a few weeks ago, that if the government shutdown on October 1, they would not be able to pay out these death benefits. Nobody is suggesting that the President was briefed way back then but I did some more digging tonight and inside the administration people are saying unofficially that aides around here knew about this a few days ago. Now how quickly that filtered to the President, we still don’t know, they haven’t answered that question. But if the President knew about it 2, 3 days ago that would suggest maybe it would be politically embarrassing for them, if they were to say that he knew back then but didn’t actually move quickly to issue an executive order or whatever may be the case. The bottom line is that Jay Carney did tell me, we should say in fairness that there is one way to solve this, there’s one way to deal with the death benefits, to reopen the World War two memorial , Grand Canyon you name it and that in Jay Carney’s words is for the Republicans to reopen the government, so that battle obviously tonight still goes on.

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