Russell Brand and Megyn Kelly speculate that it’s “God’s plan” for him to go to prison if he is convicted of raping and sexually assaulting women. Kelly: “As I’m listening to you talk, I have this fear in the back of my head, Russell Brand.” Brand: “Oh, no! What is it?” Kelly: “I’m worried about your criminal trial. I don’t think that you’re gonna get a fair shake in Great Britain.” Brand: “Oh, no!” Kelly: “They love to put people in jail.” Brand: “Oh, no! I don’t wanna go to jail!… It’s my strong preference to not go to jail.” Kelly laughs and asks “So what if you go to jail, what kind of jail time would you be facing if the worst happened?” Brand: “I think if you are convicted of being a rapist, you go to jail for a very long time. Which, if you are a rapist, I think is only right and only fair.” Kelly: “Yes, but what if you’re not and you get convicted anyway?” Brand: “Then that’s not fair, that’s not fair, that’s not… That would be what we call injustice.” Kelly: “Ok, but I actually have a worry that they’ll send you because maybe what if it is part of your path? What if you’re supposed to be like ministering to men in jail or changing the lives of the least fortunate among us? And this is part of, you know, God’s plan for you.” Brand: “If it’s God’s plan then there’s no point resisting it, is there? If it’s God’s plan, then off I go and I will serve him there. If that’s God’s plan. I don’t like that idea much cause I’d rather be with my little children and my wife…” Kelly: “But it’s so hard to defend yourself against something that you may or may not have done 20 years ago? Like that’s the problem that we have with, you know, like the case against Trump, the civil rape allegation E. Jean Carroll, which she won.” Brand: “Was that in the, in the changing room one?” Kelly: “Yes… it was 30-35 years earlier, it’s like how are you supposed to after all that time—or what happened to Justice Kavanaugh. Our Supreme Court Justice that got accused of sexually molesting a woman 30 years earlier, like you, you have no papers to show where you actually were that day. You don’t have a contemporaneous memory of. ‘I absolutely was not doing that with you because I was at a Starbucks and here’s my receipt.’ It’s very, very hard to disprove.” Brand: “But the legal standard Megyn is uh beyond reasonable doubt that this person did it. Beyond it, it would be not reasonable to doubt it. If you’re like ‘Hmm, I doubt that happened…’”

I compiled every reason Haley Stevens said Mike Rogers couldnt be in the Senate purely out of spite

Russell Brand and Megyn Kelly claim that raping children isn’t rape. Russell Brand: You know I’m aware it’s being filmed and broadcast and stuff like that, and I’m not stupid but what I’m saying is that I’ve never done anything where I’ve… I’ve manipulated consent, I’ve manipulated consent by conducting it, it’s a kind of energy conduction, but bypassing consent is when you make people do things they don’t want to do, not make things, do thing, make people do things they wouldn’t normally do. That is too young, you shouldn’t sleep with anyone really younger than you and if I’d had more, I mean I wouldn’t go…I don’t want to time travel back and be a more efficient womanizer. Megyn Kelly: I don’t think 14 years difference is in itself is scandalous it’s just given the age she was it was. If she were 25 and you were 39, I don’t think people would be looking at that. (They’re talking about Brand molesting a minor.) Brand: Yeah, it is young. But I don’t know if you remember from your own adolescence because I do that there were some young women, like you know girls… let’s call them girls that were 16 that were like kids and then there were others that were like women and like 25 year-old guys would pull up in cars outside the school. Like, it was just normal comprehensive, that means regular state school. Like, you know when all the girls in your year go out— Kelly: Listen, you don’t have to tell. I was called a pedophile enabler because I said there’s a difference between 15 year olds and 5 year olds when we were talking about what Jeffery Epstein is. And really the point I was making was that the term pedophile only applies to somebody who likes prepubescent girls, which is a very different thing than liking women who are in their, you know, late teens and then you get into the 15, 16 range and it depends, it really depends. Brand: I guess the law is the law, i’m in a legal situation. Morally it’s of course it’s wrong. Morally. But… Me as a 30 year-old I had no business having consensual sex with women that were just past girls, that were just over the age of consent. And I wasn’t really… it wasn’t like my thing. You know what I mean? Kelly: Yeah, yeah. Brand, waving his arms, says “it was just like oh this one, that one, this one…”

This is a despicable betrayal from Rep. Stevens. Senate Democrats are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed, because we know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors.

Russell Brand sets up Megyn Kelly’s conspiracy theory that Channel 4 did a “hit piece” on him, saying: “Look, when MeToo happened in 2015, I thought wow I’ve slept with lots and lots of women, I wonder if during this moment I’m gonna face some allegations and that did not happen…” Kelly: “Again that’s one of the things that’s very suspicious about the allegations against you is that no one did come forward then. It wasn’t until you got very outspoken in your more right-wing views that suddenly Channel 4 thought it would be a great time to do a hit piece on Russell Brand and found some women… I mean it would be the equivalent of like going around and finding all the women who had slept with Jon Bon Jovi and saying you ever have anything that didn’t feel 100%, you know, it’s just when you go to a man who’s been as exposed as you have, like a rockstar, as you were describing, if you really, really, really lift up every sheet and kick every tire you may find some women who are unhappy about their experiences. I’m not diminishing them, maybe they’re true, whatever, we’ll find out at the trial. But maybe they’re not true and maybe this did come up because there was a new agenda when it came to your name. And it was much more interesting to silence you and smear you and honestly Russell, like I’m not diminishing anybody’s story, I don’t know what happened, but I can relate to this to some extent. I just I have seen my own self get attacked by different groups over the years when you fly too close to the sun… or over an issue that’s this particular group’s favorite issue and they need you to say it in a different way or feel a different way, that I’m now very suspicious about massive harms that come to people when they speak out on a particular issue or in a particular way. It happens over and over and over.” Brand: “Yes, it is interesting… I do try to imagine that the way power operates these days is to first decide an outcome, this is the outcome we want. How do we get to that outcome?”