i'm talking about megyn kelly. - wait. what did megyn kelly do?t on her new show, she acted like she didn't spend the last 12 years of her life as a soldier in fox news's culture war. listen to what she said about cable news-- the place she used to call home. - we've seen a lot of rude behavior in the news lately. - you can yell all you want-- - you're the one yelling at me. - i think you should take a chill pill, dan. - we're actually gonna cut your mic if you don't stop talking. - can't we all just get along? - "can't we all just get along?" oh, i'm sorry--now we're all supposed to be friends? now that you're at nbc, you're acting all peaceful like some sort of mahatma blondi? because let's not forget-- before she was nbc news's megyn kelly, for over a decade, she was fox news's megyn kelly, basically a pretty race-baiting puppet who roger ailes kept trying to put his hand up. - ooh! - oh, don't worry. she's on network now, and he's dead. they're both in better places. [applause] and seeing as megyn kelly doesn't remember what megyn kelly was li

hello. >> megyn kelly.o meet you. >> you're going to dance with me. >> reporter: keep your expectations low. >> they have their job cut out for them. >> reporter: i hope she has two left feet because i do. i will not teach you to dance. that would not go anywhere. however, we have an expert here for you today. derek hough. >> how are you? >> oh, my god. nice to meet you. >> reporter: that's the derek hough of "world of dance," and "dancing with the stars" fame. >> are you ready to dance? >> yes. >> i don't know if i'm ready. you're ready. how are you? >> we realized pretty quickly, derek's teaching style is like shooting you out of a canon. >> whoa. your feet are fast. >> perfect. there you go. nice. you picked that up straight away. that's fantastic. rock step. triple step. triple step. you're a triple step. hello. >> reporter: and right away, katie was nailing moves like the pretzel. >> keep up. keep up. boom. >> reporter: and the stop and go. >> okay. i'm in the same spot. >> that's it. >> reporter: and

when megyn kelly got involved, that was the end of roger ailes. >> o'reilly. >> good man. [applause] >> what is the moment when you find out the guy that literally the entire network was built on is not coming back to work? what happened there for you? >> for me personally -- >> you filled in for him? >> for the better part of four years. i probably did 2 or 300 o'reilly factors. i spent a lot of time with that crew, with his staff. when he took time off to his credit, he left. he went and, you know, he had a very capable staff and so i spent a lot of time with that crew. it was a shock to a lot of us that that went down. 12:05 in jeans and polo shirt and murdoch's secretary says mr. murdoch wants to see you now. i put on a suit and tie, i ran up to the office and he sat down and said, look, here is the deal, we have to -- our attorneys have said that we are going to have to part ways with bill o'reilly and we have an issue at 8:00 o'clock at night. i want you to know, murdoch, i want you to know you will stay at 5:00 o'clock, i really, really need to maintain the audience

i was sitting between you on my left and megyn kelly on my right. >> yes. >> stephen: very different. ( laughter ) that was amazing. i was thrilled by our table. we had the amazing john kern to our left and as people were coming up talking about selfies and fashion and isn't it amazing and so gorgeous, i remember we engaged in a conversation about psoriasis, which i really enyed. it somehow became our tab conversation, i was, like, it's real life. >> stephen: everybody is doing it now. everybody wants to talk about psoriasis these days. ( laughter ) you have a very busy year. i don't know why you have time to go to dinners because "big little lies," "twin peaks," you're in the upcoming "star wars" movie. ( cheers and applause ) >> i'm excited, too. >> stephen: one of the incredible things about you is -- i mean, i've known of your work since probably blue velvet was the thing i saw you in 1986. >> yeah ( applause ) >> stephen: citizen ruth, you're playing a huffer. >> that was type casting. ( laughter ) >> stephen: how do you avoid being type cast? what's your trick? >> i think being

some things that would step on a negative story and so all he had to do was send a tweet or take megyn kelly and the media was on something else. the other problem with that speech, i got the internal polling from the come -- the trump campaign. it got a lot of political attention but didn't seem to hurt trump with voters. bannon tells me at one point, pretty sure this is a direct quote, we polled all that stuff. it doesn't matter, the people who are offended by charges of racism are already on her team. she's not bringing over any new voters and i suspect that was right. >> in the book which i'm halfway through you mentioned this internet army bannon became aware of in the videogame industry. what i would like -- got a lot of press. i wonder if you have a sense of how important they really were in terms of that and if you have a sense of how important trump thinks they were? >> the old right didn't exist in most people's awareness, certainly not mine a year and a half ago or two years ago. basically there is no definition of what it is, clinton's speech crystallized it as being these armies

megyn kelly, megyn kelly? i used to work with megan. for ten years. >> she is in the front cover of some of the papers today. >> what happened? they canceled her snow. >> no, no, no, just divas, stuff, people dishing, page six. talking page is six today? yes, it is a page six day i think. but megan wilky. >> hold on, megan, christmas day might be really cool. i understands the eagles might be playing christmas day. >> yes, monday night. >> eagles. >> monday night. >> christmas is on a monday. >> yes. >> sixers may be playing on christmas? >> yes. >> could be a trifecta here, i think something else going on on that day. >> yes, chris ma. >> hearing about christmas. >> jesus christ. >> good one. baby jesus is born. >> i know about that one. >> flyers? >> sometimes they philadelphia international airport when they have the winter classics, that kind of thing. >> could you get tom louden on the phone? three things happening besides the birth of the baby jesus. the sixers and the eagles playing. what a day that's going to be. >> oh, and sant

he was fighting with fox news and megyn kelly. he famously went after the parents of the slain muslim soldier. this was very damaging to his standing in the polls. it looked as if he were spiraling to a blowout loss. lo and behold, steve bannon is put in charge of the campaign and the reason that republicans were so negative was that in his role as chairman of breitbart news, he had helped drive out house speaker john boehner. unless you are part of a very small subset of hard right ,epublican members of congress if you had any experience with steve bannon and breitbart, it was highly negative and it was clear that bannon gtmo is to be more outrageous and more extreme and aggressive than any mainstream political consultant would be. there was a fear that bannon, and his eagerness to blow up the presidential race would end up blowing up the republican party. and inhe president won response to your book, almost, tweets out. he has also said he was his own strategist. host: i think i will use that as a book blurb on the back of the p

con, the federal judge, our own megyn kelly, where republicans were tough, they came out in response they were tough. will this be one of those? >> it's possible. this is certainly the third rail of american politics are not neo-nazis. >> right. >> these are things that you can pretty safely criticize and not worry about much in the way of blowback. we certainly saw over the last few days republicans who already had started to distance themselves from the president. we saw the healthcare fall apart. we saw the president at 34% in the tracking numbers. interesting to see the president has given an endorsement in alabama that senate race to take jeff sessions old seat. does that do anything? the candidate he picked did not win. these republicans are unafraid of this president and what political retribution he can dish out but you're seeing some concern about the leadership they're getting from the white house. the great test is they don't build statues to senators who privately grumble or worry about the white house, they don't even give them to people who tweet negative things about t

just rewind to when megyn kelly was feuding with donald trump, her producer saw her ratings go down any time she said something that was critical of donald trump. so the sort of amplification of these outrageous trump voices that we see on hannity or fox and friends is really appealing to the core fox news viewer. >> i wanted to talk to you about whether or not what happened in charlottesville might change -- there was a report published about trump believing bannon is leaking and his leaks are targeting general h.r. mcmaster, putting bannon's job in jeopardy. could the one thing that could dislodge the bannonites, the idea he could push him out for leaking if not being on the alt right. >> i feel this is the third or fourth it racial that trump is not happy. first the "time" magazine, portrayals of steve as the man behind trump, the brain behind trump which obviously he didn't like. trump was upset about his cooperation and role in joshua green's book, and now this assault that we have seen from platforms like breitbart that bannon probably still controls out of the white house, going

. >>> roughing it our summer of yes takes megyn kelly out of the city and into the wilderness.. >> this is the first thing you did coming in from vegas? >> that's it. >> what happens in new york, stays in new york. you're a future al. you have to gain some weight and lose some hair. this is an interesting crowd today. say hi to everyone back home. >> hi everyone. >> that was weak try it again. >> hi everyone. >> that was still weak try it again. >> hi everyone. >> this time with feeling. >>> welcome back. thanks for joining us on this friday morning. let's get to our news at 8:00 because there's an awful lot going on. president trump is not easing up on his warnings to north korea. he spoke out on the crisis and talked about the russia investigation and discussed his frustrations with a key figure in his own party. kristen welker has this covered. >> reporter: he's escalating his war of worlds yet again, just twitting military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded should north korea act unwisely, hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. that coming after a wi

john mccain not a war hero because he was captured, attacking john mccain, mika brzezinski and megyn kelly. it seems like no what happens, they just continue to support him. do you think this time it's going to be different? david says they're not ready to jettison him now, throw him overboard. what do you think? >> i think david's right. that's the big question here. there are a lot of republicans saying i think pretty vocally that they disagree with the president's behavior, that they refuse to listen to his agenda that they believe that some of the things that he's said and done are not befitting of the office. at the same time, they kind of want the same agenda that he does. and when push comes to shove, when it's time to pass tax refor, he i think it's going to be hard for a lot of republicans to be on a different page from that. i mean, the devil will ultimately be in the details on some of this. i don't think we have seen yet the kind i have pushback in actual actions that would be required to making this moment something more than just i disavow what trump just said or did. but i'm

we had megyn kelly going after him in that first debate.fter that, they were trying to cultivate the other candidate. given that donald trump was trying to get into murdoch's favor is that someone he may listen to, and is that a good idea? >> the deeper connection with rupert is jared kushner. kushner is the one who talks with murdoch regularly. kushner, you know, eric was talking about -- what is it, of course octogenarian media moguls. he has a close relationship with rupert murdoch. rupert as you said, quite rightly was not totally on board with trump. murdoch is in favor of comprehensive immigration reform and against the wall. very interestingly katy, over the last few weeks, you've seen the wall street journal editorial page going after trump and the post going after trump, lashing out over his response to charlottesville. that's a complicated relationship. >> good with octogenarians. i don't think i've heard that before. thank you very much. glenn wimpel, thank you as well. >>> when it comes to business, sometimes your first response

case the president has never shied away from specifically naming who he's angry at, whether it's megyn kellyhe pope, he's always very specific and harsh on twitter, on statements, and he blasted president obama and hillary clinton for not being willing to name our enemies, not saying radical islamic terrorism, saying if we don't name them, we can't fight them. >> right, the president of the united states cannot utter the word terrorism himself. unfortunately, guys, we have to leave it there. appreciate you both being here on this sunday. thanks a lot. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> the events of yesterday, the latest in what's appeared to be an uptick in hate-related attacks. a look at whether these types of crimes are really on the rise and what could be fuelling them. we have just learned that virginia governor terry mcauliffe will speak at a vigil tonight in charlottesville at 5:00. we'll bring that to you live, as well. ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (

he's not presidential, he's attacking john mccain, he's attacking megyn kelly. this is who he is. he's not going to change. he's 71 years old. he got elected president of the united states against all odds and certainly against our predictions and certainly mine. this is how he operates and what has worked for him and the united states deserves to see who they elected and this is who they elected. >> that's true. that's true. that's true. >> part of the issue here is the north korea tweet. he was getting tons of attention and given his blumenthal and when you look at that, one could see russia and china on board and today is the 200th day of his presidency. when it comes to his legislative agenda, yay, he got neil gorsuch. here's the other things he said he was going to get done well before where we are now. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. i'm lowering your taxes big league. this will be the biggest tack cuts since ronald reagan. we will also repeal and replace the total disaster known as obamacare

i tried to ask him serious questions that megyn kelly didn't.and i just found that people like him and me, we are performance artists to a degree. we are, we do not mind being clownish although would not describe us as clowns. for the c-span art is a guess the best analogy would be - we do not mind people laughing at us if we are the only people telling the truth in the room. and okay, nobody in the court realizes it but everyone watching trent what the court is the american establishment, they don't get me. american journalists are the dumbest species in the world i have to tell you. i have met practice journalism in five different countries. american journalists are by a margin the dumbest people in the world. these people have iqs of 95 tried to interview those of us with iqs of - will i will not brag but - they are not capable of understanding things and where they detected they use it as an opportunity to declare racism. >> it is an easy accusation. >> for me, trolling is that if you tell the truth and you do it in an entertaining way that

our "summer of yes," takes megyn kelly and her family out of the city and into the wilderness. >> there'swoods. this is soul-renewing. >> today, friday, august 11th, 2017. ♪ >> it's your birthday. guess what. it's your birthday. how old are you? 28. >> old are are you? > >> 11. >> you're here from 08. ♪ >> this is the first thing you did, coming in from vegas. >> that's it. >> what happens in new york, stays in new york. >> you're a future al. you'll have to gain some weight and lose some hair. hi to everybody back home. >> hi, everyone. >> that was weak. try it again. >> hi, everyone. >> still weak. >> hi, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] >> this time, with feeling. >> exactly. welcome back, everyone. thanks for joining us on "today" on this friday morning. >> nice to have you along. >> nice crowd outside. let's get right to your news at 8:00. there's an awful lot going on. pru president trump is not easing up on his words to north korea. he spoke out on the crisis on thursday. and touch on the russia investigation and investigation with a key figure in his own party. kristen welker has

a great time for "what's trending" today and joined by megyn kelly. >> happy solar eclipse day. >> readythat you think you should view with a group of people, or something you think you should view in a more solitary fashion? >> i think a group. it's fun. everybody gets into it. >> not like church. it's not like you need to experience this in our own deep and personal way. i'd be -- >> depends on what you're looking for. i could see looking at it and having deep thoughts. and i could also see like drinking margaritas with you at a taco place. >> there are people who think they should be meditating this and soaking it in and want to make a solitary event. "new york times" had an article on this explaining why it's better to watch in a crowd arguing we are social creatures and we feed off of other people's energy. kind of like when you go to fireworks. you want to see those alone, or in a crowd? you want to hear the oohs and ahs of other people. what are other events much better with a crowd as opposed to doing them alone. >> whale watching. >> a good one. >> like, look, there he is! >> no

i tried asking the serious questions that megyn kelly didn't. i just found people like him, and me, with our performance artist to a degree. we do not mind being clownish, although i wouldn't describe us as clowns. for the c-span audience i suppose the best analogy is going to be falstaff. we don't like people laughing at us if we're the only people telling the truth in the room. and okay, nobody in the court realizes it but everybody watching the play does. the court as the american establishment, they don't give me. they are too stupid. american journalists are the dumbest species in the world. i have met and, i've met charles and practice journalism in five different countries, and american journalist are by clear margin the dumbest people in the world. the people with iqs of 95 to interview those of us with iqs of them well, i won't brag. they are just a capable of understanding subtly or nuance and what he detected the use as an opportunity to cry racism. anything remotely ambiguous and his racist. trolling is, for me, trolling is about swe

. >>> and roughing it, our summer of yes takes megyn kelly and her family on a road trip out of the cityre's just something about being in the woods. this is like >> "today," friday, august 11th, 2017. >> it's your birthday. guess what? it's your birthday. >> yeah. >> how old are you? >> 28. >> how old are you? 11? >> how old are you? >> 28. >> they're sticking with that story. you're here from oh. >> ohio. ♪ >> this is the first thing you did coming in from vegas. >> that's it. >> what happens in new york, stays in new york. >> hello. you are a future al. well, you are going to have to gain some weight and lose some hair. >> very interesting crowd today. >> say hi to everybody back home. >> hi, everyone. >> that was a little weak. try it again. >> hi, everyone. >> that's still weak. one more time. >> hi, everyone. ♪ >>> this time with feeling. >> exactly. welcome back, everyone. thanks for joining us on "today" on this friday morning. >> nice to have you along. >> nice crowd let's get right to your news at 8:00 because there is an awful lot going on. president trump is not easing up on

. >>> >>> 8:13, break time for what's trending today and we're joined by megyn kelly.clipse day. >> is this the event the total solar eclipse you think you should view with a group of op solitary fashion. >> i think a group. it's fun, everybody gets into it. >> it's not like church. it's not like you need to experience this in your own deeper personal way. >> i think it depends on what you're looking for. i could see look at it and having deep thoughts and i could also see drinking margaritas with you. >> there are some people who think they should be meditating during this and really soaking it in and they want to make it a solitary event. "new york times" had an article on this, explains why it's better to watch it in a crowd. it argues that we are social creatures and we feed off of other people's energy. kind of like when i go to fireworks. >> yeah. >> you want to see those alone? you want to here the oohs and awes of other people. what are some other events that are much better with a crowd as owes pod to doing them alone. >> whale watching. >> like look, there is

if you rewind in the campaign when megyn kelly got into her feud with trump, that they had to take donaldcause any time she did segments that were critical of donald trump, ratings went down. producers in the control room saw there was a net negative effect on the network's ratings when donald trump wasn't being praised. >> absolutely. one more piece, one woman came forward and said she was the person harassed. read a bit of a facebook post by care line heldman. she wrote bolling would contact me by phone and text after shows, sometimes to apologize for his behavior and then do it again and sometimes just to talk. he wanted to fly me to new york and do studio hits. once he took me to his office in new york, showed me his baseball jerseys, let me know his office was his favorite place to have sex. here he is in 2011 talking to mr. heldman on air. take a listen. >> boycotts are the most american thing you can do. >> i am shocked the great doctor said it is the most american thing you can do. >> joining me, former fox news guest who is the accuser i was talking about, accusing him of sexual

just rewind to when megyn kelly was feuding with donald trump, her producer saw her ratings go down anyid something that was critical of donald trump. so the sort of amplification of these outrageous trump voices that we see on hannity or fox and friends is really appealing to the core fox news viewer. >> i wanted to talk to you about whether or not what happened in charlottesvil charlottesville might change -- there was a report published about trump believing bannon is leaking and his leaks are targeting general h.r. mcmaster, putti putting bannon's job in jeopardy. could the one thing that could dislodge the bannonites, the idea he could push him out for leaking if not being on the alt right. >> i feel this is the third or fourth it racial that trump is not happy. first the "time" magazine, portrayals of steve as the man behind trump, the brain behind trump which obviously he didn't like. trump was upset about his cooperation and role in joshua green's book, and now this assault that we have seen from platforms like breitbart that bannon probably still controls out of the white house

she talked to megyn kelly about when she learned the news. >> i wish you gave this to me.areful what you wish for. >> reporter: just six months after her mother's diagnosis, a cruel twist of fate. maria herself began experiencing headaches and busine s ans and . she was slurring her spech and having tro teleprompter. she had a brain tumor. and on her birthday, she had that tumor removed. >> where the tumor was affected my balance. and that's what making me woozy and dizzy. >> reporter: the tumor was benign. there's a 6% chance of recurrence. for now, maria's focus on her own recovery and her mother's. >> i just hope that we can make her one of the long-term survivors. 'cause i'm worried about her. that's all i want. god, if i have to give everything up, just make sure she's okay. that's all i want. nobody wants to lose their mom. >> hi, maria. good morning. good to see your beautiful face. >> thanks. good to see yours. >> how are you doing? how is your mom doing? >> we're both doing well. we just celebrated my mom -- this past weekend, in connecticut. we had a big partyor

moving on to the megyn kelly show. >> i'm new to the group. you welcome med with open arms.u like no. >> she is going to start doing that dance. >> zoom into ally, everybody. >> next week, john cena, 9:57 is your time now on this friday, august 18th, 2017. good morning to you. you can bring more love into your home tomorrow by helping us clear the shelters. nbc 4 is sponsoring the pet adoption event. be sure to check out the nbc washington app for tips before you head out to pick up your fury friend. we also have a list of the shelters can you go to in our area. just search clear the shelters. >>> now let's check on chuck bell, tell us good news. >> the good news is it will be a lot more president anlt to plea the weekend than da hutsis mo we ha aoue unrswe acss par of southern maryland. we're under a slight risk for strong to severe storms later on today. highs to day upper 80s to near 90 degrees. for your weekend, still just as warm but way less humidity and a bright blue sky as opposed to the gray gunk we're looking that morning. >> something to look forward. to thank you

there were misogynous comments about megyn kelly. none of it had a blip. what makes this didn't, fferent really is different. i don't know anybody who is brave enough to say, you know something? i do want to fight that. you don't look at that iconic photograph of black and white limbs hurdling through the air in that car but say, y let me explain the other side of that issue. i dwell in the world of emotion, it's difficult to say, yes, there's another side of all of this the president has done that. >> what kind of value would he have for getting rid of steve bannon >> i don't know what the value is we're assuming that steve bannon is behind this one thing you see when you work in a white house is people feel a need to assign geniuses who master mine things and morons who screw things up regardless of whether or not they actually did it trump's lesson is what goes around does not come around. the way he's processing things is why would i get rid of steve bannon now i don't think that pays him the dividend that one would think it does >> eric, it's a longer

moving on to the megyn kelly show. >> i'm new to the group. you welcome med with open arms. on tv. no. >> she is going to start doing that dance. >> zoom into ally, everybody. >> next week, john cena, >>> coming up on 10:00 this friday morning. good morning. i'm tracy davidson. we have issued alerts for strong thunderstorms. bill. >> the main line gets in later on the day. mostly cloudy, there could be a few breaks or sunshine. that will only serve to heat things up. first round of thunderstorms moving through the area. now dry for philadelphia and redding, look to the west of harrisburg, central pennsylvania, this is the line of potentially strong storms. before it gets here, temperatures will warm up, warm to the 80s. with higher humidity, our entire area from 2:00 to 11:00 could see strong storms take shape, why we issued a first alert. heavy winds could lead to flash flooding and possible tornadoes and hail. >> pamela, what do the roads look like? >> so far they're looking pretty good at the schuylkill. traffic looking good in both directions. things also looking good on