Megyn Kelly: “I've been watching what Alex Jones has been doing lately, and I actually really appreciate it”
Kelly: “Now I'm much, much more suspicious about the narratives that I've been sold about many, many other people. ... Are they really crazy and conspiratorial or do they know something?”
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Megyn Kelly: "I've been watching what Alex Jones has been doing lately, and I actually really appreciate it"
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From the April 22, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): I wanted to read this to you because you mentioned Alex Jones. So, he and I have a very interesting history together. But I have to tell you, even at our worst, in terms of our fighting, I always said he has been right about so much. We had our big —
RUSSELL BRAND (GUEST): Would he attack you sometimes, or did you attack him?
KELLY: No, he never attacked me.
BRAND: Because you can do an attack once in a while.
KELLY: I went, I went — I can definitely do an attack, but I went to interview him while I was in NBC to do an in-depth profile on him. And it was not long after he had said that the Newtown families made up the murder of their children.
BRAND: Oh.
KELLY: So he was a very, very hot potato to touch at the time, but I thought it would be an interesting profile. And he had moved off of that, so I kind of thought we were just going to do a profile on Alex Jones, and we would touch on that, but it wouldn't be the theme of the piece because he was interesting, and I knew he had gotten a lot right.
Anyway, we went there and he kept doubling down on the Sandy Hook thing, which turned the whole piece into something that did look more like a hit piece because of course I had to get contentious with him because that's insane and wrong and it wasn't made up. Those kids were killed.
So anyway, then he taped me, he released the tape, it just was like this crazy, crazy ass shit time in my life. But having said all that, it's water under the bridge. And I've been watching what Alex Jones has been doing lately, and I actually really appreciate it. And I think he's been doing great shows and his messaging around the whole Israel thing has been must-see.
And I mean, like I said from the beginning, he's been right about a lot. Just today, there was a big piece of news last night, I don't know if you saw, Kash Patel announced that the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, which is supposed to be this great group that protects America from racism and all the isms, they'll be the first to call you out if you're a terrible person so that everybody knows Russell's terrible, Megyn's terrible, stay away, they're this or that and the other thing. And then turned into just this left-wing group that would bash anybody on the right. That's how it's been for years.
That they have been paying, paying members of the Ku Klux Klan, of the Aryan Brotherhood to go infiltrate — they say, oh, it's just infiltrate, they're like inside sources, we didn't pay them to create the event, just to infiltrate. That's not what the indictment says. And they've been exposed now as basically paying the very people they then look at their donors and say, pay me to protect you from that person I'm paying.
I'm going to use your money to pay him to cause hell, including in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Unite the Right rally that would just cause a massive headache for President Trump from the beginning of his first term, where he said because there were skinheads there, but there were also people who were just pissed off that we were pulling down statues of, like, Confederate generals or just even Christopher Columbus. And Trump said, you know what? He said, not the white supremacists, but outside of them, there were very fine people on both sides. And that quote was used against him unfairly for many, many years and still is.
Alex Jones, OK, back in August 2017, Charlottesville was a false flag run by Southern Poverty Law Center operatives who hired actors to pose as Nazis. Fucking A. The guy — I could give you so many of these by Alex Jones. After we did my interview with him, where it did get contentious, but I spent days with him, he said so many things. They sounded crazy, Russell.
We went back to the NBC fact-checking machine, which is good. NBC's biased, but they're not reckless, generally, when it comes to their reporting. Don't get me wrong. I understand what happened with Russiagate. And I'm not talking about MSNBC. I'm talking about NBC. They all came back true. Everybody's like, he's a lunatic. He says the frogs are turning gay, and they're turning transgender. We're like, he's a nutcase. True, true, true, true, true. It was amazing.
The Sandy Hook stuff was very, very wrong and untrue. It must be said again. In any event, he's on the list, right? Like, he's been, of course, due to his own behavior and due to just being right about a lot of the stuff that they don't want out there, they've otherized him. They've done it to Tucker. They're in the process of trying to do it to me. I'm a lot harder because I don't have the conspiratorial gene that a lot of these folks have. And their conspiracies in many places have turned out to be true. So it's like shame on me for not having more of one, but I just, I'm not built like that. I'm a lawyer. I'm a linear thinker, very, very fact based. I don't believe anything until it's really been proven to me with facts I can hold.
But they're trying -- they're trying to do it to me right now and it's infuriating. And now I'm much, much more suspicious about the narratives that I've been sold about many, many other people. Right? Are they really crazy and conspiratorial or do they know something? Have they hit on one of those soft spots that you're not allowed to touch?