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Donald Trump and the Fox News host Megyn Kelly met at Trump Tower on Wednesday morning, people with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney.
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes was not in attendance, the people said. An NBC reporter spotted Kelly entering Trump Tower shortly before noon.
Representatives for Trump and Fox had no immediate comment. But Kelly is planning to discuss the meeting on her prime time program Wednesday night.
Kelly reached out to Trump's office to set up the meeting, one of the sources said. The face-to-face chat raises the possibility of a Kelly-Trump interview sometime in the future.
Kelly is known to be seeking high-profile guests for a Barbara Walters-style prime time special on the Fox broadcast network in May. Trump's intense dislike of Kelly -- who he has called unfair, overrated and even "crazy" -- has been one of the subplots of his run for president.
Trump has essentially said she started it by treating him unfairly during the first GOP debate of the season last August. The candidate and the journalist did not speak for months afterward. In fact, he skipped the next Fox debate, in January, which she co-moderated.
But he did attend a third debate held by Fox, in March, and treated her kindly. Later in the month, he resumed his insults, accusing her of stacking her 9 p.m. show with anti-Trump guests. Fox shot back: "Donald Trump's vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land."
Several weeks have passed since then. He has not attacked Kelly via Twitter since April 1. At that time, he wrote, "Is it possible for @megynkelly to cover anyone but Donald Trump on her terrible show. She totally misrepresents my words and positions! BAD."
snip "To be honest, every time I prepare an invitation to sit down with him, he attacks me on Twitter or elsewhere," she told Variety.
"I had always been hoping I could reach out to him at a time when he wasn't angry. I don't think it would be a good interview if he was angry at me — but then he never stops with the attacks." She added, "I was just about to ask him to sit down with me two weeks ago, but then he started up again out of the blue."
******* “We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be influenced and molded by the political class and by the media. That is going to destroy us," he said, remarking that it's "kind of sad" that the press is the only business protected by the Constitution "because they were supposed to be the allies of the people." Dr. Ben Carson
As you know, the NY primary is coming up, so the candidates are here campaigning (just as an aside, I've lived in NY for over 25 years and this is the first time I remember our primary being of any significance.)
Our local 3-7 pm radio talk show host (Buffalo) scored a phone interview with him - and he addressed the whole Megyn Kelly brouhaha (and their "secret" meeting)
He didn't say a lot except that he did confirm the meeting took place and that it was amicable (and that Kelly had reached out to him.) Perhaps the agreement was that she would talk about it on her show tonight and he didn't want to upstage her. I hope that's the case - whatever side one falls on in the "Kelly vs. Trump" feud, I see it as a net loss for Trump the longer it goes on.
We need to update the old saying that comes from the beginning of the last century - the old Hearst Newspaper days: "Never pick a fight with someone who buy ink by the barrel
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