Tulsi vs. the Establishment, Kash on Hot Seat, & RFK's Final Push, w/ Glenn Greenwald & Calley Means
What this video covers
This is a full episode of The Megyn Kelly Show from January 30, 2025 — recorded in the middle of the Senate confirmation battles over President Trump’s cabinet nominees. The show is multi-segment: it opens with aviation experts discussing the deadly midair collision over Washington D.C., then Glenn Greenwald dissects Tulsi Gabbard’s and Kash Patel’s confirmation hearings, and finally Calley Means joins to discuss Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to lead HHS.
Means’s segment is a political intervention as much as an interview. His central act in the segment is a direct on-air plea to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy — the Louisiana physician-senator widely seen as the swing vote on the Senate Finance Committee — to vote yes on Kennedy’s confirmation. Means argues that the ferocious opposition to Kennedy, from both the left and the right, is itself evidence of how threatened entrenched interests are, and he urges senators to look past what he calls fear-mongering and distraction tactics.
The conversation also covers the substance Means says is being buried: toxins and children’s health, the corporate capture of health agencies, deference to pharmaceutical companies, and what he frames as the real project — restoring public trust in science by breaking industry’s hold on the institutions that produce it. The timing matters: Kennedy’s Finance Committee hearing had taken place the day before, and Cassidy’s vote was genuinely in doubt.
Key points
- Means makes a direct appeal to Senator Bill Cassidy to support RFK Jr.’s HHS confirmation, framing the vote as a hinge moment for health reform.
- He argues that attacks on Kennedy from both the left and the right reflect the bipartisan entrenchment of pharmaceutical and food-industry influence — his read of the opposition.
- On children’s health, Means contends that environmental toxins and ultra-processed food are driving the chronic-disease surge in kids, and that the confirmation debate is avoiding the real issues — his claims, attributed.
- He argues that public trust in science can only be restored by severing the financial ties between industry and the agencies, journals, and expert bodies the public is asked to trust.
- Means characterizes much of the anti-Kennedy messaging as deliberate distraction — an effort, in his telling, to keep the conversation away from corporate capture and onto personality and past controversies.