What did Megyn Kelly say about Dana Bash’s interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr?

Megyn Kelly said Dana Bash was 'out of her league' during the interview and should be embarrassed. She questioned whether Bash had read the news she reported and compared her to someone provoking a shark. The remarks were made on Kelly’s 3 August programme.

What topics did Dana Bash and Robert F. Kennedy Jr discuss in the CNN interview?

They discussed who was responsible for COVID-19 lockdowns, with Kennedy blaming Dr Anthony Fauci and dismissing Donald Trump’s accountability. Bash argued governors acted after hospitals reported overrun ICUs. The interview aired on 2 August on CNN’s State of the Union.

Which outlets reported Megyn Kelly’s comments about Dana Bash?

Only left-rated outlets covered the story, according to the material reviewed. OK! Magazine published a full report on 3 August, while no centre- or right-rated outlets carried the story in the digests or reports available.

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Megyn Kelly calls Dana Bash 'out of her league' after RFK Jr interview

Kelly criticised Bash’s handling of the CNN interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr on COVID-19 policies

MediaBias Comparison Desk

AI-assisted coverage comparison, editor-supervised

This article was written at the MediaBias News desk from the one-paragraph digests an aggregator publishes for each of the outlets listed below it, together with 2 of those outlets' own reports read in full. How we do it

4 Aug 2026, 09:46Updated 4 Aug 2026, 10:07

Who covered it

Left 17%(1)Centre 0%(0)Right 83%(5)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured 4 Aug 2026, 09:30.

Trust

66/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

55/100

6 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

Only 1 of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Source: The Megyn Kelly Show/YouTube; MEGAMegyn Kelly said Dana Bash should be 'embarrassed' after her recent interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · OK! Magazine (embedded from source)

What this story says

Megyn Kelly said on 3 August that CNN’s Dana Bash was 'out of her league' during her interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr the previous day.
The interview, broadcast on CNN’s State of the Union, focused on COVID-19 lockdowns, with Kennedy blaming Dr Fauci and dismissing Trump’s responsibility.
Kelly cited over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s pandemic-era diary, released by Senator Rand Paul before a 29 July Senate hearing.
No centre- or right-rated outlets reported Kelly’s comments, according to the material reviewed.

Megyn Kelly said CNN anchor Dana Bash was 'out of her league' during an interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr about COVID-19 policies. The remarks were made on 3 August during Kelly’s own programme, two days after the interview aired on CNN’s State of the Union.

The 2 August interview lasted 20 minutes and became heated as Bash and Kennedy disagreed over who was responsible for pandemic lockdowns. Kennedy blamed Dr Anthony Fauci and rejected the idea that then-president Donald Trump bore any accountability. Bash argued that governors acted after hospitals reported overrun ICUs.

Kelly, a former Fox News host, said Bash should be 'embarrassed' and questioned whether she had read the news she reported. Kelly referenced over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s pandemic-era diary, released by Senator Rand Paul before Fauci’s 29 July Senate hearing. During that hearing, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times.

What the coverage left out

None of the centre- or right-rated reports reviewed carried the story. The omission is established by the material in front of you: no digest or full report from those sides was published.

Tags:##USMedia ##COVID19Pandemic ##PoliticalInterviews ##AnthonyFauci ##MegynKelly

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

OK! Magazine led on Kelly’s direct criticism of Bash, quoting her description of the CNN anchor as 'out of her league' and 'too much of a P word to bring up Fauci’s diary entries'. The report carried Kelly’s full remarks, including her comparison of Bash challenging Kennedy to 'sticking your hand in the water' with a shark.
The article included the length of the interview, the date it aired, and the topics covered: lockdown responsibility, Fauci’s role, and Trump’s accountability. It also noted the release of Fauci’s diary and his Fifth Amendment invocations during the Senate hearing.