4.6 • 32.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East. |
0:12.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Oh, this morning, our staff, |
0:17.8 | along with the world, woke up to incredible news involving a story we brought to you on Monday. |
0:24.4 | That ballerina we told you about, Cassinia Carolina, she's on her way home. |
0:30.3 | It's like, it's unbelievable. It's a miracle. I'm, I can't believe it. I'm so thrilled. |
0:35.7 | I'm so grateful to President Trump and Secretary of State |
0:38.7 | Marco Rubio. She has dual citizenship, Russian and American. She's an amateur ballerina over here. |
0:46.1 | And for the last 15 months, she has been wrongfully detained in Russia on these trumped-up, |
0:51.9 | bogus charges. And now she's free. This morning Secretary of State, |
0:57.2 | Marco Rubio, posting to X, quote, American Cassinia Carolina is on a plane back home to the United |
1:02.7 | States. She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and President Trump secured her |
1:07.0 | release. The president of the United States will continue to work for the release of all Americans. Last August, Cassinia was convicted again. These are ridiculous charges |
1:18.4 | in Russia as she visited family there of state treason and handed a 12-year prison sentence in a Russian labor camp. Her crime, she donated $51 two years prior |
1:34.4 | while in the United States as a U.S. citizen to a U.S.-based nonprofit that helps children and |
1:41.6 | elderly impacted by the war in Ukraine. Fifty dollars, you guys. The details of what |
1:48.6 | happened to her are downright frightening. So she traveled to Russia for the first time in three |
1:54.5 | years to visit her elderly grandmother. Her family still lives over there. First, she was |
1:59.7 | detained for 16 hours at the airport for interrogation. |
2:02.8 | She never even made it past the airport. Under suspicion, she might be some sort of a spy. |
2:07.5 | Then she was released, but they kept her phone. And boy, oh, boy, did they go through it. |
2:11.6 | That's how they found this payment on her Venmo. And they found the receipt of this donation. |
2:17.2 | On Monday, and by the way, and then |
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