Megyn Kelly stares down Oregon standoff leader Ammon Bundy, literally and unnervingly
Perhaps Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed occupation of a national wildlife preserve near Burns, Oregon, expected a warm welcome on Fox News. Instead, on Monday night's Kelly Files, he got some sensible questions and an icy stare from host Megyn Kelly. The first one was this: "How is what you are doing not lawlessness?" Bundy said he was following the "supreme law of the land," specifically citing Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution, which he apparently interprets to mean that the federal government can't control land or resources inside states. Kelly pointed out that the ranchers Bundy purports to be defending were convicted and sentenced under U.S. laws, going all the way up to the Supreme Court. "Isn't that the way it's supposed to work in our country when it comes to the rule of law?" she asked. Bundy responded with a question of his own, and that was a mistake. Watch the interview below. Peter Weber
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