Megyn Kelly appears on The View to talk about her new book and her feud with President-Elect Donald Trump. Kelly was asked about her meeting with Donald Trump and the subsequent interview. Kelly called the interview "empowering" because she was "the one" who was going to get him to "stand down."



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Kelly, however, said she restrained herself in the interview. People, she said, "particularly who were left-leaning" "really wanted me to give it to him." Kelly said her plan was to march into Trump Tower, sit down, and get him to stop the "nonsense." She said after the interview "he did stop the nonsense."



From Thursday's broadcast of ABC's The View:





JOY BEHAR, "THE VIEW": In the middle of all the craziness and, you know, you interviewed Donald Trump at Trump Tower. I saw that interview. And I thought, well, he had threatened you, his supporters had threatened you. Your daughter was scared that some harm would come to you and yet I was a little disappointed in you that you didn't say to him, 'Donald, I'm getting threats from your supporters. What are you going to do about it?' Why didn't you say that?



MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS: If you read the book you'll see it fold out. A lot of people, I would say in particular people who were more left-leaning, didn't like that interview because they really wanted to see me give it to him and sort of call him out on the sexist comments and so on. And what I was trying to do in the sit down at Trump Tower in the interview that followed, it was an off ramp from a year of severe threats and I mean, real danger.



BEHAR: So you didn't want to confront him?



KELLY: I was looking to get him to stand down, Joy.



BEHAR: Okay, that's fair.



KELLY: What became clear to me after a year of that behavior was -- nine months -- no one was going to stand down but me. My boss at the time (Roger Ailes) had tried to get him to knock it off unsuccessfully. My friend Sean Hannity tried to. And he's obviously tight with Trump and he was then. He worked behind the scenes to try to lower the temperature.



It was just incredible to me how much anger there was over a debate question, a debate question that if you looked at Trump's history anybody could have seen was going to come at him in the general if he was against Hillary. And, so no one could get him to stand down, and so I just -- for me it was an empowering moment because I just resolved that I was going to be the one to do it, I was going to walk into Trump Tower, we were going to sit down together and he was going to stop the nonsense. And we had a very good meeting and he did stop the nonsense.