SCOTUS Secrets During Dobbs Decision, with Mollie Hemingway, and Meghan Markle's FAILED Australia Tour, with Rob Shuter | Ep. 1299

April 20, 2026

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“She spat out her gum directly into my outstretched palm. I guess it was the only benefit of being invisible.” That is how celebrity publicist-turned-reporter Rob Shooter describes the reality behind the glamour in his debut novel It Started With a Whisper. On this episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly first spends substantial time on the Iran war and Supreme Court dynamics before shifting to celebrity culture with Shooter. The throughline connecting these segments is the gap between public image and private reality—whether in the White House war room, the Supreme Court’s internal battles, or the carefully staged photos of Meghan Markle on a beach.

The Iran War: Trump’s Miscalculation and the Nuclear Dust Problem

Kelly opens with a detailed assessment of the Iran conflict, drawing heavily on a Wall Street Journal report she calls “stunning.” Her core argument is that President Trump overestimated how quickly the war would go, based on assurances from Benjamin Netanyahu and his own success in Venezuela. “He believed that they could not take over the Strait of Hormuz. He was surprised and stunned to see that they did,” Kelly says. She reports that Trump was so anxious about the political fallout—fearing a “Jimmy Carter-like moment”—that his own negotiators isolated him from information flows during the search for a missing co-pilot.

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1 Timestamped Outline
2 (00:40) **Show Open & Iran War Update** - Megyn Kelly introduces the episode and delivers a detailed update on the escalating Iran conflict, the fragile ceasefire, and the Trump administration's negotiating position
3 (09:44) **Alito Retirement Speculation & Supreme Court Drama** - Megyn addresses the Fox News report that Justice Alito is not planning to retire, then introduces Mollie Hemingway to discuss her new biography of the justice
4 (19:24) **Inside the Dobbs Decision: How Alito Kept the Majority** - Hemingway reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how Alito wrote the landmark opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and held the fragile conservative coalition together
5 (24:53) **The Leak, Death Threats, and Liberal Justice Intransigence** - Hemingway details how the Dobbs leak endangered the conservative justices' lives and how the liberal dissenters refused to accommodate safety concerns
6 (30:44) **Media and White House Complicity in Justice Intimidation** - Megyn and Hemingway condemn the Biden administration, Merrick Garland, and press secretary Jen Psaki for refusing to condemn protests outside justices' homes
7 (33:38) **The Fractured Court: Liberal Justices Undermining the Institution** - Hemingway explains how the liberal justices have broken the norm of not attacking the court's integrity in public forums

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Show Notes

Megyn Kelly discusses the latest update on America's war in Iran, new reporting on what's really happening behind the scenes, the status of negotiations and what it will take to end the war, and more. Then Mollie Hemingway, author of "Alito," joins to discuss why Justices Alito and Thomas are likely to not retire this year, the potential Chief Justice Roberts is actually the one who might retire before the midterms, the inside story of what really happened at the Supreme Court during the Dobbs decision, how the liberal justices delayed their dissent putting the lives of their conservative colleagues in danger, the real role Chief Justice Roberts played behind-the-scenes, and more. Then Rob Shuter, author of "It Started With a Whisper," joins to discuss inside info about what it was like to work for J.Lo from her former publicist, the truth about J.Lo's relationship with Ben Affleck, why no one wants to work with Blake Lively in Hollywood, the truth about her talent and future career prospects, what will happen after the Justin Baldoni trial, thirsty Megan Markle and Prince Harry's failed Australia tour, why they will be doing this in more countries in the future, why the Today show didn't see a boost in ratings with Savannah’s return, the fake connections the anchors have, and more.

Hemingway- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mollie-hemingway/alito/9781541607132/

Shuter- https://robshuter.substack.com/

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