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2026-07-10T22:00:00Z

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The Decline and Fall of Bernie Sanders

2026-07-10T17:31:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

To say that Bernie Sanders went all in with Maine’s Graham Platner is an understatement. Despite the Nazi ink, rape fantasies, and grotesque behavior, Bernie never wavered, insisting that Platner would absolutely, positively be in the United States Senate. Even as other Democrats bailed on the so-called oyster farmer, Sanders stood firm. Until he didn’t. On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders finally advised his protégé to step aside.

In a highly unusual move, Democrat John Fetterman demanded that his fellow Democrat apologize for promoting such a horrendous and despicable man. Fetterman accused Sanders of ‘pushing this kind of predator more than anyone.’

So Bernie is down, but not quite out. His next big test comes in Michigan, where he is backing Abdul El-Sayed. While Graham Platner is odious personally, it’s El-Sayed’s anti-American radicalism that carries a rancid stench. Last month he celebrated the opening of a mosque with a Muslim cleric who denies the horrors of the Holocaust and praises Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis. El-Sayed has also campaigned alongside podcaster Hasan Piker, who notoriously declared that the USA deserved the 9/11 terror attack.

Simply put, nominally-Jewish Bernie Sanders is throwing in with a man who hangs with virulent antisemites who despise both Israel and America. Beyond that, El-Sayed has repeatedly called himself a ‘physician,’ which he is not. But who cares? Abdul El-Sayed shares Bernie’s radical positions.

Namely:

- No voter ID

- Defund the police

- Government-run health care

- Abolish ICE. Not mere reform, but total elimination

- Supreme Court ‘reform,’ a code word for packing the court

Abdul El-Sayed has another prominent socialist in his corner - he’ll soon be out campaigning with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They are all looking ahead to August 4th and the Democratic primary, where El-Sayed will face slightly-less-radical Democrat Haley Stevens. The winner will then take on Republican Mike Rogers, former FBI agent and Congressman. If El-Sayed is elected to the Senate, it will be a sign that Bernie Sanders retains his sway over Democratic voters. But if he goes down in flames, so will Bernie’s already-tarnished reputation.

Bernie Sanders would perhaps retreat to one of his three homes to ponder what comes next. Or he could vacation in the country where he and his wife honeymooned in 1988. Oh, never mind. The Soviet Union has disintegrated, much like Bernie’s fantasy of a socialist utopia in the United States.

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

Problems in America

2026-07-10T14:11:00Z

Let Greenland Go

2026-07-10T07:18:00Z

Last week, President Trump met with NATO leaders in Turkey. The international alliance is now pledging more money, resources, and munitions to help fight Bad Vlad Putin in Ukraine.

Mr. Trump got what is most important. The press will never give him credit for that, but it’s the truth. Since his first term, the president has convinced the Europeans and Canada to increase military spending by $1.2 trillion. That’s a big deal, particularly for the American taxpayer who would have picked up the tab.

Back to Greenland.

Earlier this year, I put forth that a deal can be made with the Danes. It was similar to Panama, when Mr. Trump saber-rattled that American troops might have to run the Canal.

Didn’t happen because Panama made a deal with the USA that benefited both countries. No takeover was necessary.

However, at this point, the Greenland endeavor is not worth it.

President Trump should celebrate his NATO victory and move on. Take the win.

O'Reilly & Sid on the Downfall of Graham Platner

2026-07-09T17:25:00Z

Bill and WABC’s Sid Rosenberg analyze the exit of Graham Platner, the controversial Democrat who hoped to be the next Senator from Maine. Bill also scrutinizes Donald Trump’s latest strategy to tame the leaders in Iran.

The State of America's Public Schools

2026-07-09T16:17:00Z

Alvin Lui, founder and president of Courage Is a Habit, discusses the decline of public schooling and how we got here.

Iran Deal Collapse: What's Next?

2026-07-09T16:15:00Z

Bill breaks down the latest on the Iran deal and why Trump says the ceasefire is over.

O'Reilly & Cuomo Spar Over Communism and Affordability

2026-07-09T16:05:00Z

Bill joins Chris Cuomo on NewsNation to go back and forth on Zohran Mamdani, communism and affordability in America.

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We'll Do It LIVE! - Jillian Michaels

2026-07-09T16:00:00Z

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Killing Time with Jillian Michaels

2026-07-09T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY All right, continuing now with Jillian Michaels. So, I kind of like you, in the sense that I'll interview people I don't like. I mean, I got a list of people that I...

MICHAELS I'm sure.

O'REILLY I have no use for it all, but you know I want to hear what they have to say and I'm unless you're disrespectful to us, I'll try to be respectful to you. But I like you because you seem to be guile-less. You don't have guile coming out of you. You're not a calculator. But I don't know you that well. I mean, I don't know what you do day to day. But in L.A., where you made a big success, guile rules, how were you able to handle that?

MICHAELS Honestly, I don't know any other way. What you see is what you get. And even the people that really hate me, at the very least, they know that I'm not trying to manipulate them. They know that whatever comes out of my mouth, I believe whether they agree with me or not, whether they hate me for it or not. And I do think that authenticity has been instrumental with regard to the longevity of my success.

O'REILLY Right. Americans like authenticity. It usually works even if you fake it. I could give you a whole bunch of people, who they go, practice authenticity. No, no, you're either authentic or you're not. You can't practice, but it's worked for you. But you built up a fan base, people who follow you that trust you. They don't think you're a charlatan, they don't think you are trying to mislead them for any purpose, nefarious purpose. And that is a very important part of the communications industry. But so many others have succeeded by being full of guile. And sometimes that tees me off. I think that's my problem rather than anybody else's. But when I see a phony, and man, there's so many of them, I just want to go in there and go, Hey, this guy, he's not what you think he is. And you know, I wrote a book, it'll be out in September, called Confronting America: What Has to Change. I name some names in that book about people like that. You get a glowing review. So you're fine.

MICHAELS Do I? Can I guess, can I guess? Can I guess any?

O'REILLY Go ahead.

MICHAELS Tucker.

O'REILLY No, I come at him in a different way, Tucker Carlson. I don't know him that well because he was in Washington and I was in New York and we were both at Fox. And I, over the years, have watched as he has built a very successful business. Now, would I build it the way he's built it? No. It's not really my business to tell him what to do unless he's hurting people. So if he's hurting Jillian Michaels, then I'm going to come in and I'm gonna hit him with the power lawnmower. But if he is just doing what he does, whatever that may be, okay? I mean, if you go Tucker Carlson, I'll go Abby Phillip, all right? If you go this name, then I'll go another name because they're in business to get people to watch them. That's the goal. All right. Now, I want people to watch me and I'm sure you want people to watch you, but I'm not willing to sell my soul for it. Not to say that Carlson did, but he built a unique brand, all right, and I don't see that brand hurting anyone. So therefore, he's in business, I'm in business. We'll compete. Does that make sense?

MICHAELS It does, but there are certain elements of the messaging, like defending radical Islam and suddenly leaning into socialism that I'm starting to wonder about, Bill. It sounds a heck of a lot...

O'REILLY So what? I mean, he's not Trump. He's not Vance. He's anybody that can do anything as far as advancing any cause at all. He just tells you, I like Abu Dhabi. All right, do I really care that you like Abu dhabi? No. All right.

MICHAELS Good point. I get it.

O'REILLY Yeah. If it's important--

MICHAELS I see what you're saying.

O'REILLY And social media usually is not important. Okay, then I'll take a look. But people ask me all the time, I was on Piers Morgan the other day, and they're going, wow, what about this one? Then I go, what does that have to do with me? I'm fact-based. I'm giving you the facts. If you wanna listen to them, that's what America's all about, go ahead. Go ahead, two million people watch The View, okay? Am I mad at those people for watching The View? No, I'm not mad at them. You wanna watch The View, go head. You're gonna shorten your life for about eight years, but that's your decision, not mine.

MICHAELS Got it. I see where you're going. I see where you're going. It's not an existential threat. I got it. I appreciate it. That actually helps me out quite a bit. You have no idea because it's I found it so, so alarming, but I feel a little better about it now.

O'REILLY It's not, it's a piffle. I'll give you just one example. When Barney Frank came on my program, and if you haven't seen it, everybody can Google it, just like We'll Do It Live. When Barne Frank came, he lied to my audience. And there was no doubt about it, because I had a piece of video tape that I played before he came on, and I go, what are you talking about? You were in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You did all these phony loans, you made the economy go over the cliff because these people couldn't pay the money back. Oh no no no, so I laced him because he had power and he was doing bad things with it. Now that's where I come in. You call me from the bullpen in the little cart when you have Barney Frank. You go the big right handers coming in, but the other people? No influence other than the people who want to give them influence. I don't care about them.

MICHAELS Got it. Thank you for setting me straight on that. I actually feel a heck of a lot better about it.

O'REILLY Did I what?

MICHAELS Thank you for setting me straight on that, because I actually feel a heck of a lot better about it.

O'REILLY The key to my success is A, authenticity, B, I come from humble beginnings, Levittown, and C, I'm a no BS guy. I know the serious people from the pinheads. I don't want to deal with the pin heads unless they're hurting you. Then I have to deal with them. And so it's made my life a lot easier, because I used to boost these confrontations and all it did was help them. Come on The Factor, and O'Reilly laces you, and then everybody in San Francisco, ah, hey, that person must be great because O' Reilly said that, you know, that kind of thing. And I went, you know, I don't need to do that I got enough problems getting the facts out rather than lacing somebody on social media. I don't know who they are. I'm telling you, my son knows. Oh, did you see what the bar stool sports said? What? Who? Dave Portnoy? Is that him? I know Dave's face, but I don't know what Dave does or why he's doing it. And I don't have time there to follow Dave around. I'm sure I'd be amused if I did have the time, but I don't. One more question for you. So in your life, you're in your early 50s now, You're very successful and as I said you rescued a child from Haiti, which to me, that puts you in the top ten of achievements whenever you rescue somebody who's really going to get it. In your life, what would you change?

MICHAELS Nothing.

O'REILLY No hair, no makeup person, you're not changing any of that, no personnel decisions?

MICHAELS You know, I've had a lot of, look, lot of failures, lot of mistakes, lot a hard times that have cost me a lot. I'll tell you, even the Abby Phillips altercation probably cost me ton of money, but I have enough money. Don't need more money. I do fine. I'd rather have my integrity in, at the end of my life on my deathbed, I want my family there, and I want no regrets. And despite the fact that my decisions may have caused me pain or problems, I don't regret them. So I'm gonna say nothing.

O'REILLY Well that's very impressive. You might, we might have a gathering of all the politicians and you and you can tell them I don't regret anything and all you people, all you do is regretful stuff so let's try to merge. I'm going to put you in charge of common sense in the American government. It's so nice to talk to you, and I appreciate you taking the time. Very few people want to talk with me for more than two and a half minutes, but we're going on 50. It's like impossible. I understand it. And I hope I see you again soon. Thank you, Jillian.

MICHAELS Thank you, boss. I really appreciate you. Keep doing what you're doing. God knows we need you.

Killing Time with Jillian Michaels

2026-07-09T16:00:00Z

Jillian talks to Bill about her authenticity, Tucker Carlson, and The View.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Jillian Michaels

2026-07-09T16:00:00Z

Fitness guru, commentator, and host of the "Keeping It Real" podcast, Jillian Michaels joins Bill to discuss her unique background, problems in America, communism, RFK Jr., health and more.

Iran Deal Collapse

2026-07-09T14:10:00Z

Killing Time

2026-07-09T14:08:00Z

The Specter of Communism

2026-07-09T07:30:00Z

The Communists are causing trouble, and this took me by surprise. I did not expect the emerging anti-capitalist movement in our country.

This week, the Godfather of Socialism, Senator Bernie Sanders, quoted Mao Zedong. The Chinese Chairman is the worst mass murderer in history. At least 45 million dead. And that’s who Sanders wants to emulate?

If you’re wealthy, and they consider you a so-called oligarch, they’re going to come after you. This is what Communism is. The government controls what “we the people” do.

There is no “freedom” in Mao’s utopia.

The Second-in-Command is Zohran Mamdani. It amazes me how many New Yorkers voted for a hardcore Marxist to run the nation’s largest city.

This is a growing movement. They are powerful; they are wealthy. If you dismiss them, you’re doing so at your own risk.

I never thought this would happen in America. But here we are.

Poltroon

2026-07-09T02:00:00Z

[pol·troon] an utter coward.

Father Robert Sirico on the Church's Fight Against Communism

2026-07-09T00:50:00Z

Father Robert Sirico, President Emeritus of the Acton Institute, discusses why Pope Pius XII excommunicated Catholics involved in the communist movement.

Iran Deal Collapse: What's Next?, Russia Returns to the 2028 Olympics, the State of Public Schools With Alvin Lui & America's Affordability Crisis

2026-07-08T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 8th, 2026. Stand up for your country. President Trump was standing up in Turkey for the NATO meeting. This is my favorite quote from the meeting. There was a lot of love in the room. Oh, OK. I'm a little skeptical about that, but that's what he said. Uh, is it true? That's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. First point, so the president says that the ceasefire with Iran is over. Why? Because Iran violated a central condition of the June Memorandum of Understanding. Alright, for God knows what reason, Iran attacked three commercial vessels over the weekend, July 6th and July 7th. The U.S. 5Th Naval Base in Bahrain was attacked by Iran. Okay. The Ali al-Salam Air Base in Kuwait, where we have troops, attacked. And a U.S. Reaper drone, which Iranian forces shot down. Now the president's threatening to bomb Iran tonight. Nobody knows what's going to happen because these threats come and they go. But this has got to stop. And I don't see any other way but military to stop it. And I made a mistake with the Iraq situation. And that haunts me to this day. And the reason I made that mistake is that I didn't fully understand the facts of the matter. I was taking reporting from the New York Times and others that said Saddam Hussein. Was harboring deadly weapons, okay? And I said, if that's true in the press, because the Times hated Bush the younger, and Colin Powell, Secretary of State at the time, confirms it, then I gotta go with that. Turned out to be wrong. Iraq didn't have any weapons of mass destruction, and the chaos that ensued brought a lot of pain on America. I was wrong.

Okay. There's a reason I was wrong, but that still haunts me. In Iran, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see any other way here. I don't see any way. You're gonna have to just blast their infrastructure and make it almost impossible for the Persians to exist day to day. You have to blow up all their facilities, all their power, all of that. Because they're just not. There's no reason why Iran would attack anybody after signing this memorandum. They don't want the war to stop, they being the Revolutionary Guard, which controls what happens in Iran. The mullahs don't control that, the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard control. Okay, so I predicted that President Trump would have to do this on June 10th, go.

"Now, I don't have any inside information, but I believe Iran's going to get hit militarily very soon. President Trump has to reignite his momentum, and the Mullahs are just not cooperating, and I don't think they will cooperate until the pain level gets very, very high."

All right, so there's my prediction, and I'm sticking to it. The other big thing, there were two other big things, the NATO conference, which Trump didn't want to go to, by the way, but he went because Aragon, the president of Turkey, has helped him out. Okay, and he went over. The other two were congratulating NATO on finally, finally paying their dues as far as the military expenditures are concerned, finally. Remember, if you know anything about World War two, we rebuilt Europe with the Marshall Plan, and all we've gotten from them is scorn, laziness, and corruption. This is true. So anyway, Trump gave them their props, but the NATO people are more interested in Ukraine than they are in Iran. Okay, so the secretary-general of NATO, Mark Rucci, said this, go.

"You have a very good relationship with President Trump. You've been credited as sort of being the Trump whisperer on behalf of this alliance. You're shaking your head."

"The point is this, I just like the man. I think what he is doing for NATO is great news. Because yes, there's Russian threats, there's Ukraine, so we had to step up in Europe anyway. But he was what was necessary to bring this extra impetus to the debate to really get all these nations on the famous old 2% and now to agree to the 5%. And as I said yesterday in the pre-conference presser, Canada and Europeans are now already at almost 4% when it comes to defense spending. So in one year, on this trajectory to 5% in 2035, we reach to 4% in 2026."

Well, that makes sense, right? I mean, if Putin's a threat and he is, then you have to have enough money to buy munitions. And President Trump is touting that they'll all be sold by the USA to NATO. Okay? And the other thing is that Spain is the NATO country who will not cooperate. So look, Trump said this, and I don't know whether he'll carry through on it or not. He's going to ban all trade with Spain. That includes going there. So if you're an American and you want to travel to Spain, you might have some visa problems there. Just a forewarning because I know somebody would plan a trip to Spain, and I'm going, that's a 50-50 now. So if the President of the United States puts a ban on travel to Spain and you go, you might not be coming back anytime soon. So he and Spain isn't paying its dues and is obnoxious and wouldn't let U.S. Planes refuel, that's because of the Meloni thing in Italy. And Meloni handled it poorly, so did Trump. They both did, Meloni, you should apologize, and say, well, we made a mistake, and now we're going to help you. No matter how. That's how you solve this kind of thing, and Trump would have forgiven her. Okay. So, the other headlines from this meeting, and Trump's on his way back now to the USA, is that for the first time, the president is going to help Zelensky in Ukraine with heavy weapons. Go.

"One of the things I think we're going to be talking about today. I just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make patriots. We'll show them how to do it. It's very complex actually, but it's...You'll figure out the complexity quickly."

Okay, and then the final thing was a mistake. He brings up Greenland again. The president does we take the win. Take the win. Greenland, we can deal with later. It is important, and it should be discussed, but I am a hundred percent sure that the United States could make a deal with Denmark, which, of course, administers to that place. But why do that now? You know, NATO doesn't like you anyway, but they're kind of leaning in our direction. Leave Greenland a couple of weeks down. My opinion, if I'm White House Chief of Staff, and of course Trump's not gonna listen to me, but that's that. And that's the memo.

All right, the central part of President Trump's remarks today was directed at the homeland, us, we the people. He's already in campaign mode. And what the president has decided to do is link the Democratic Party with Communism. And he made two fairly explicit statements about that in the NATO meeting. Now, NATO doesn't care about that, all right? NATO probably, a lot of them would like to see Trump out. But this message was going to the American voter. Roll it.

"I want to get the word out because what's forming is a communism in the country, and communism is easy to sell. I would be the greatest communist in history. I'd be right up there with Lenin. I'd be as good as anybody. You've got free rent for the rest of your life. What they don't say is that you'll be living in squalor in 12 months. You've got the free house. Would anybody like to have a free house? We'll take it away from somebody will give it to you. You'll have murders all over the place. Communism's a disaster. It's been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but same thing. It's very important. And you know, it's funny. One of the reasons I do so well with Hispanic people, I set a record with Republicans. I get great numbers for the election, helped me get elected in a landslide. The Hispanics, because a lot of them came from countries that were essentially communist. You know, whether you call them radical socialists or communists is not that much, but there's a little difference."

All right, so the signal is out. Republican party gonna link the Democratic Party to the Communist movement. Democratic party doesn't have it. What are they gonna do? So far, they haven't repudiated it at all. So, that's a factor, along with gas and food and all that, but this is rising, so you know. Might work, that strategy might work, but again, people are interested in their own situations, they don't know any communists in Tulsa, they do know they're paying more for food and gas, so it's a tough one to predict.

The IOC, that is the International Olympic Committee. They say now, in the 2028 Summer Games held in Los Angeles, that could be a disaster because Los Angeles is just tottering, okay, that Russia will be allowed to compete. Huge mistake. Why? Why? Putin's tearing apart an innocent country. He's killing, murdering civilians at a rate that just puts him in the atrocity hall of fame. And we're gonna let the Russians come to LA to participate, for what reason? So the IOC, which is run by a bunch of morons, they say, I'm not going to use a full screen on this, I'm just going to encapsulate, it's too long. We wanted to ensure all athletes with the possibility to compete at the Olympic Games not be held responsible for their government's actions. Sorry, when their government actions may cause World War III, you hold them accountable. You isolate them. Putin should be isolated, and so should every Russian athlete. Not the Russian athletes' fault, but they are part of that country. It's awful.

New York City, Mamdani. So the Success Academy Charter School, there's 60 schools all over the country, and they chronicle how the students, not only in the charter schools, but all over the city, 410,000 public school students, 43% of them go to failing schools. 43 percent. Okay, the report says that roughly 35 percent of all New York City students were chronically absent in a 23-24 school year. That's on the parents. Parents don't make them go to school. They run around, they don't go in, so of course they're going to be idiots. Of course, they're not going to know anything. All right. Now. What does the city do? Zero nothing because they're victims. You've got to understand, to Mamdani, these kids are victims. They don't have to learn anything. In fact, he doesn't want them to learn anything because then they figure him out. But they're victims. So you don't have to go to school. All right, this is unbelievable. So these kids, grades three to eight, are adrift. They're not showing up. There are kids now and public schools will refuse to take exams, just not taking them. And then they promote them, social promotion. The city does. So you can see, you know, my point is that most Americans know nothing or very little about their own country. It's getting worse.

Joining us now from Indiana is Alvin Louie. He's a national president of Courage is a Habit. So that's an organization that equips parents to at least deal with the collapse of the public school system in America. Not everywhere. I mean, there are some very fine public schools, but a lot of places like the big urban areas. Hi, Mr. Louie. Thanks for helping us out here. And I have a book coming out September 15 called Confronting America, where I'm simpatico with you. So I'm saying look, derelict parents, parents who don't give a hoot about their kids, combined with ideological teachers, teachers unions. Okay, we're shoving down, you're a victim. You're a victim, you don't have to take a test. You don't even have to show up. That combination is almost lethal to the future of the country. What say you?

"It absolutely is. It's a personal honor to meet you, sir. Thank you for having me on. You're absolutely correct. As my co-founder often would say, that education in the United States is the greatest national security that we face. Because you see a lot of parents still believe we start with the wrong premise. A lot of parents and a lot of Americans still believe that government K through 12 is about academics, meaning your basic reading, writing, and math. And so when you see students marching to protect violent illegal aliens, like we do, that we did earlier in 2026, what do people say, Bill? I can't believe it. Why are they doing this? Why aren't they in class? Why are they marching to prevent violent, illegal aliens? Well, our response is they're marching to project violent legal aliens because they were in class. Because the purpose of government K through 12 is to create social justice activists. It is to create angry young people and as you often say you just said it yesterday in your bonus video where you say that the Mandami and the socialists, Democrat-socialist, is to kill hope. Well, they don't have to kill hope because they kill them in K-12 because they're telling kids that your skin color matters and there's genocide for trans people and all those different things, and so you're not telling them at 25. You're telling them at five. And so when they get when they got older in voting age, socialism sounds great because they have no hope, they're angry, and they believe that America's racist and oppressive. And so that combination, like you said, is very lethal because what you're doing is, this is not an intellectual brainwashing, Bill. This is an emotional discipleship. They're not training kids in the academics, they're teaching them."

So you can't go home to Dad and Mom, and Dad and Mom go hold it. You know, this isn't really the way it is. Because it's a combination. Now, do you believe that the teachers across the United States, I mean, you've got some in the Union, you've got some not. How pervasive is the victimization they're trying to sell the public school students? You don't get this in private school. I went to Catholic school. You don't get you're a victim, you're never gonna succeed. That doesn't exist, okay? But in a public school, it exists. How pervasive is that point of view, and how did it get that way?

"Well, actually, today it is in a lot of the private schools as well, so you are not safe at all. We've actually done a lot of projects for private schools, both in Texas and Florida, and we found it equally as it was in the public schools. The pervasiveness is systemic. It's not in some schools, it's in all schools, it's the system. Whether you're talking about the teachers' unions, the teachers' colleges, and even more underlying that people don't see, undercover is the mental health. Anytime you hear mental health, that is the big Trojan horse to bring all these things into schools, and the schools spend hundreds of millions of dollars on mental health. So it's absolutely pervasive. It's systemic. It is the entire purpose of the system. So when you see these children marching against illegal aliens, when you see these children being so broken, talking about, you know, tax the rich and all those different things, climate changeism. When you see that, that is the purpose of it. And so when people are shocked and going, how come the academics are down? How come our budget is sky-high? What are they doing with the money? Well, that's what they're doing with money. They're teaching your children to hate America. And as my favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln is, the philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. And so when President Trump talked about it, you know, at NATO, when he says that it's more dangerous than let's say Pearl Harbor or World War II, World War I, he's absolutely right because those are physical attacks. Those are attacks that you can see, and you can beat what we're seeing in government K through 12 today, Bill, is actually in the heart and in the mind, and you can't see it until it's too late. Because they're not brainwashing children in terms of intellectually, but they're changing their values. And it's like a religion. And once you change a child's values, it's very, very difficult to get them out, even when you show them facts."

I was a high school teacher, you may know that for a couple of years, and of course it was a different world back then, but most of the teachers at the Catholic school that I taught in weren't radical left, they weren't anything, they didn't bring that in, they just taught their discipline, and then they went home. So I'm wondering, from a historical basis, how the teachers' industry, okay, and these people sacrifice. Teachers could make more money doing something else in the private sector. Most of them could. Okay, but they choose to try to do some good, I think, in helping kids in the classroom. But now it's like a tsunami. It's like every time you look around, whether it's Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or this college or that college, It's full of these Progressives who are teaching victimization. How did that happen?

"Well, there was really two major areas. When it came to government K through 12, it really started in the Obama administration when he changed the way the competencies were measured. Before, you were measuring math and science and your core competencies. But during his administration, he weaponized the Department of Education to measure emotions. And how do you measure emotions? You gotta take surveys. And that's when social-emotional learning came into schools. Not to say that before the Obama administration, there wasn't this kind of indoctrination happening; it was, but his administration put grant money strings on the grant money. And so that's what made it so pervasive, so that even in the red county, in a red state, you're gonna see the exact same critical race theory and queer theory. So that's how it got into the K through 12. As far as colleges go-"

Was there a litmus test, though, that the Obama administration put out to get the grant money, you know, in a stealth way that, hey, unless you toe the liberal line, you're not going to get any funds? Did that happen?

"No, it's a lot more sneaky than that. And we hear it all the time today. It's always dangling poor kids, black kids, brown kids in front of you. And it's always about helping those kids. And it is always emotional blackmail, kindness, inclusion, welcoming schools, social-emotional learning. Those things sound great. And if you're a teacher, if you are an educator, not the woke educator, but just a good educator, those things kind of tug at your heartstrings. It really, really does, and it still does today. And so a lot of that came in through that be kind, anti-bullying. It's not the anti- bullying, you know, that we classically know going to school because that was just about not shoving a kid in the locker room and not making fun of their shoes. Today, if you're a girl that don't want a boy in a locker room, your bathrooms, or your showers, you're the bully. And so they've, they've done something- what we call it- courage is a habit, we call that language contamination. And this is real easy for us to teach it. Language contamination is when they use your vocabulary, but not your dictionary. And so when the Obama administration came in, they didn't come in and say, Hey, we're going to go ahead and survey your kids and manipulate the data so we can shove in, uh, socialism and communism and teach your kids to hate America. Of course, they didn't show it that way. They said, we just want to help kids learn because if their mental health isn't good, then they can't learn.

I got it.

Sounds great.

I got it.

Mental health means something very different to them.

Well, Mr. Louie, very good. I learned a bunch during this interview about the overall evolution of this, which I believe, when you combine with the parents who don't give a hoot, it's really devastating. It's hard to come back from that, particularly if you go through the system, and the system gets more and more radicalized as you get older. Very hard to get back from it. We appreciate it very much. We'll talk soon. Thanks for helping us out.

All right. Half of Americans- this is gonna be a big thing, of course, in November- are struggling to afford groceries and gasoline for their cars. Now, I'm combining this hard news story with a smart life. I'm combing the two tonight. Okay, this is a Harris Poll. And it's 4,100 US adults. 95% believe the USA is experiencing an affordability crisis, and that people's wages are not enough to provide essentials. That's affordability. Okay, the left pounds and pounds and pounds this, that's their main issue. In November, affordability. And Trump's not doing anything about affordability, and that Republicans are mean, and they don't care about it. You know what it is. OK, 57%, according to Harris, say the overall economy is getting worse than better. That's not a good number for Republicans. There's no doubt about that. And 54% of independent voters, which Republicans are going to need. Say neither political party has a solution. Now, that's not a bad number for the GOP because that means that Democrats, they don't have anything, which is true. Okay. Now I went on NewsNation last night, Leland Vitterd, and I'm on there again tonight with Cuomo. Now Vittert is not an ideologue. He's a reporter. Chris Cuomo is a liberal man. And so there's a difference in their presentations. Now I got some heat in social media because I said, well, if you don't have enough money to buy groceries or to cover $1,000 emergency that you might have, whose fault is that? Is that Trump's fault? The Department of Treasury's fault, whose fault is that? It's your fault. You don't have enough reserve to keep yourself afloat in hard times. It's your fault. So, uh, Leland, and he picked up a good point because this is all over social media, he asked me about it. Go.

"A lot of Americans think the cash is an issue right now formal pointed out 95% of Americans, 95% say affordability is an issue. Here's you on the No Spin News sound bite number three."

"My portfolio is doing great because Trump is, his policies appeal to the big companies. But 40% of Americans don't participate in capitalism, and a lot of them are yowling about high prices. Come on, you get 4% inflation here. Live in the real world. So you younger people, you gotta get into the stock market."

"That doesn't sound exactly in touch with the folks I know, Bill. Kind of sounds like what Joe Biden used to say. What Donald Trump now says is, hey, don't worry about affordability, don't worry about prices, and the stock market's doing great, eat cake."

"Not- look. Just because the stock market is doing great doesn't mean you don't worry about high insurance premiums, and you can, you know, worry about them, but my point is ever since I was working at Scranton, Pennsylvania as a young reporter, I put away 10% of my money. Okay? If I had to suffer, I suffered. And I put away 10%, and then I got a stockbroker, and he invested in very conservative companies, and the Standard and Poor's and all of that. And now Trump has set that on a skyrocket."

So you have to participate in the capitalistic system, or you're gonna go down. That's the point. And the younger people don't get it, okay? So 58%, again, according to Gallup, of American adults have stocks or bonds, okay, but the rest don't. So what are they gonna do when they get fired? Or when they have a bill they're not expecting or a malady? What are they going to do? They don't have any money. Now the Democratic Party says, oh, that's not your fault that you don't have any money. That's the government's fault. It's Trump's fault, this is Bernie Sanders. This was the communist push. No, no, no. Not your personal fault. This is insane. So, if I'm a poor person, there are options not to be poor. So I saved 10%. That was not easy, making 150 bucks a week in the 1970s. Well, my father always said 10% right in, and we'll invest the money, and the money will grow, affording you protection. That was his guidance for one of the few times I took it. Now, you're poor. You can go to community college. It's free. You can go and develop your skills online plenty of jobs there. You can drive an uber. You can make some pretty good money driving a car, and you can save that money, and then you can build up to protect yourself. It's not taught. It's taught at all. No, the government owes you, no, no no no. And Trump does it too. We're going to send you a check, we're going to send a big beautiful bill, now they have the savings account, which I don't mind, don't bother me, I don't want people to be poor, but if you think that's not going to make them poor, you're crazy. So many, many Americans are simply too lazy to do what they have to do to prosper in a capitalist society. There are demands. They're too lazy. Some of them are too stupid, but most of them aren't. And so that was my point. Now I'm going to be on Cuomo again tonight, and he's going to hit the affordability thing. I'm gonna hit him with the same thing. I'm gonna say, listen, it's your fault. Now my fault that you're poor. I mean, if you talk to me for 10 minutes, I'll have a whole thing laid out where you can improve your circumstances in a year. A whole thing. That's why we have Concierge Membership on BillOReilly.com. Affordability? What do you want? Want the government to price everything? Yeah, that's what the commies want.

Jet fuel. Now, this is a downside of capitalism. So, jet fuel prices are down 40% from their peak at the beginning of the Iran conflict. 40%. No fare drops. In fact, fare prices in American Airlines, not American Airlines, but all of them across the board, are eight times their various prices. Are they kicking them back now? No, not kicking them back. Nope, because they know people are panicked. Now that's the bad side of capitalism. Exploitation. This Day in History: July 8th, 1947. Roswell Daily Record reports a flying saucer crashed into New Mexico territory. That was 79 years ago today. Then there were a spate of movies in the 1950s, Earth versus flying saucer, couldn't go to the movies without seeing aliens popping out of a little saucer, and all of these things are investigated. And the government said they're weather balloons or this or that, there was always something. But a lot of people don't believe the government, so they think there's a flying saucer with aliens somewhere in New Mexico. Okay, if that's what you wanna believe, people believe what they wanna believe. All right, I'd like a little more evidence, but it's a big industry. So every year, the Roswell UFO festival, brings in about two and a half million dollars, just a lot of jack for them. And these people come dressed up like aliens or whatever, and they have an alien weekend or something. But the original report of a flying saucer happened 79 years ago today. All right, we got a good mail segment, we got a final thought, some information you should have, and we'll be right back.

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Okay, first of all, we have a new YouTube bonus. My thesis contention opinion is that Mayor Mamdani hates America. Not only does he hate Jews, he hates all of us. I think lay out a pretty good case. So. That is on YouTube.com/BillOReilly. It is free of charge. We do this once a week, eight minutes. You'll learn a lot. To the mail. Steve Webster, Nampa, Idaho. "Why can't the government stop people like Soros and Singham, the crazy guy from China, from using their money to influence government?" Because they gotta commit a crime. So Soros has got a battery of lawyers saying, Hey, George, you can do this, you could do that, you can't do this, and you can't do that. Now Singham is more interesting. He lives in Shanghai, China, and he's tethered to the Chinese government in Beijing. I understand, but I cannot get it on the record that if Singham comes to the USA, the Department of Justice will arrest him immediately. I guess on espionage, but I don't know. So, Singham, I mean, he's in that zone, but Soros, he's got legal protection.

Nancy, Concierge Member, Nancy is under our protection. "If the Supreme Court let the states decide if biological men could play in women's sports, then how would that work for college teams in red states who do not allow it?" Well, they wouldn't play, they'd take it off the schedule. So remember, the Supreme Court has upheld the bans, and I think it's 28 states now or something like that, you can't have that, biological men competing against women. But you do have states that allow it, but the teams that don't allow it, they don't have to play those other teams. They can take it right off the schedule.

Johnny. "While I agree with the Democratic Socialists of America should drop the facade and call themselves what they really are, I don't think the proper term is communist. The proper term would be national socialist." National socialist is the Nazi Party. That is not what the communists are. Matter of history.

Michael Rourke, Anchorage, Alaska. "Why is Williamsburg, Virginia, never brought up people talking about US history in the Revolutionary War? Williamsburg was the colonial capital for a while." Yeah, but it was representing Virginia, not the United States. Remember the House of Burgesses? And know who the big guy was? Patrick Henry. The big guy, but they never represented the United States, they just represented Virginia. That's why it's not part of the revolutionary experience.

Rick Bunting, Port Charlotte, Florida. "We just got back from Norway. We can only get CNN and BBC. CNN coverage is more biased than in the USA." That's interesting. "Would it be helpful to report USA, Europe, CNN comparisons?" No. Look, CNN bought the airport stuff, and they bought the hotel stuff, all over the world. Early, that was a Ted Turner buy, but they can put on what they want.

Ralph Camasso, Spring Hill, Florida. "It appears that Mayor Mamdani's plan is to freeze rents when landlords don't keep up the properties, the city will take them over under eminent domain." Very possible. Mamdani wants to drive all private landlords out of New York City. No doubt about it. And he'll regulate that until it happens. In the meantime, the people living in those apartments are going to see a lot of mice and other rodents, roaches. It's horrible. And Mamdani's not gonna fix it.

Greg Bishop, Reading, California. "Just wanna thank you again for the awesome baseball cap. I think it's the best ever made since I purchased it. I've had compliments all over the place. So, America 250, American flag, fabulous gift. Wear it all summer. I don't think there's a better cap. I haven't seen one. You want to get it. Okay, word of the day, poltroon. P-O-L-T-R-O-O-N. And I called Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, a poltroon a few weeks ago. He knew what the word was. I think maybe his producer told him, but he knew what it was. And I thought I would get them. So I got another word I'm going to call him tonight. So that's News Nation at 8 PM. Okay, let's take a quick break, and then we'll be back with a final thought.

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All right, final thought of the day. As you know, we are taking over, not taking over but doing very well on YouTube. And we respect YouTube for the freedom that it allows Americans to hear and see things. So We'll Do It Live as our long form. And we do one a week. Glenn Beck, big success. Beck brought in the viewers. And then tomorrow, we're going to throw Gillian Michaels up there. Now, Gillian Michael's an interesting character. Entrepreneur goes against the showbiz grain. Independent thinker and wait till you hear where she lives now. I was surprised, I had no idea. So, she'll go up tomorrow, and again, this YouTube stuff is free, but you can easily get it on BillOReilly.com. But we're happy that Beck and Gillian cooperated with us. I think they were worthy for the long form. And I hope you will watch. Beginning tomorrow, noon for Premium and Concierge Members, 6 for everyone else on the planet. Thank you for watching and listening this evening to the No Spin News. We're closely following the Iran situation. We'll have updates as they happen. And then I'll have a brand new Sunday column.

Iran Deal Collapse: What's Next?, Russia Returns to the 2028 Olympics, the State of Public Schools With Alvin Lui & America's Affordability Crisis

2026-07-08T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down the latest on the Iran deal and why Trump says the ceasefire is over.
President Trump's comments on communism in his latest press conference.
The IOC lifts the suspension on Russian teams ahead of the 2028 Olympics.
Alvin Lui, founder and president of Courage Is a Habit, discusses the decline of public schooling and how we got here.
Is the United States experiencing an affordability crisis?
Final Thought: Bill announces tomorrow’s We’ll Do It LIVE! guest.

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2026-07-08T18:21:00Z

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World Cup Boosts U.S. Image Abroad

2026-07-08T07:47:00Z

Bill talks about the success of hosting the World Cup for the United States.

Why the World Cup Matters

2026-07-08T07:36:00Z

The international soccer exposition has been a major success for the United States. Game after game, fans from across the world are having a good time. No rioting, no hooligans heading to prison like you find in Europe.

These images are going out all over the world. The foreign press will never acknowledge this because they hate Donald Trump and American culture in general. But social media can now circumvent these traditional outlets.

Many of the people living abroad who came here to watch the games are ecstatic about being in the U.S.A. They’re discovering hospitality, natural beauty, and, of course, ranch dressing.

All of this goodwill is a tribute to us. We are a welcoming country. Our police are doing a fabulous job at keeping the fans safe.

All this positive attention goes against our global image that we’re onerous and educated.

This is the reason the World Cup is important to America. The United States rarely gets the credit that it deserves.

Picayune

2026-07-08T01:36:00Z

[picayune] a trivial or petty thing

O'Reilly & Mark Simone on Zohran Mamdani Controversial Message

2026-07-08T00:20:00Z

Bill joins Mark Simone and rips New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose July 4th message revealed his deep hatred for this nation. Bill also expounds on the disturbing rise of communism in some pockets of the USA.

World Cup Boosts U.S. Image Abroad, Democrats' Socialist Shift, & Father Robert Sirico on the Church's Fight Against Communism

2026-07-07T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill talks about the success of hosting the World Cup for the United States.
Bill argues that recent comments from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Zohran Mamdani (D) suggest they support a communist system.
According to a recent poll, do Americans believe socialism or capitalism is the better economic system?
Father Robert Sirico, President Emeritus of the Acton Institute, discusses why Pope Pius XII excommunicated Catholics involved in the communist movement.
The latest accusation against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Final Thought: Why do people like soccer?

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World Cup Boosts U.S. Image Abroad, Democrats' Socialist Shift, & Father Robert Sirico on the Church's Fight Against Communism

2026-07-07T22:00:00Z

Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Stand up for your country. So my life is hard. Right now I'm talking to you, but in my ear there is an echo, okay, that they can't seem to fix. Here's the earpiece. So what I'm saying to you I get fed back into my brain. Which may collapse at any time. So if you see me collapse, you know my brain is gone. Now, I expect that we were gonna have technical problems because we moved the studio east on Long Island, but that doesn't make it any easier. So I just wanted you to know, I think we'll get through the show, but I'm not entirely sure whether we're gonna get through with the program. Now I predicted this. I told everybody it was going to happen. Everybody nodded and it happened anyway. So what would you do? I can't fire people. That's not right. I can yell at them, but for what? All right. So for the techs, please continue to try to get the echo out of my ear. And for you watching all around the world, we will proceed.

So the World Cup is a big success for America. And I don't really care about soccer. I was a football, baseball, and hockey player growing up, and soccer guys are around, but you know, they kick the ball, they run after the ball. They kick the bowl. It takes three hours to score two goals. I, you know. But I'm looking at this from the point of view of PR, American public relations. It's huge. And that is the Subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Okay, so in Mexico, they had a game, Canada, USA, Mexico, and they have games, and in Mexico, 40 people were arrested. Cops are in the hospital, 64 tons of garbage left behind the stadium. The usual Mexican chaos. Sorry. It's the truth. It's got the highest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere, and it's not gonna get any better because the president is a communist. I mean, this is just it. And there's no order, and the cartels control the country, and everybody knows it. But anyway, you contrast that to Kansas City or to Dallas last night, where the USA team got whacked. And I knew that was gonna happen. I should have put money on it. But we're... Hockey, we're NFL, we're baseball, we're not soccer. And it wasn't even a close game. And I, you know, I was rooting for my country, but in the first five minutes, I knew it was not gonna turn out well, and it didn't. But anyway, time after time, game after game, everybody has good time. And there's no rioting, and there's no people in jail like you got in UK and France, none of that. People went to the game, paid a lot of money going to game. And they behaved, generally speaking, in the United States. And that went out all over the world. But the press, of course, wouldn't acknowledge it because they don't like us. But everybody saw it. And in fact, some of the people living abroad who came here to watch the games were ecstatic about being in America. Roll the tape.

"I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium. Americans are not rude, Germans are not rude, if we are together, we can achieve great things."

"Your thoughts so far? First impressions?"

"First impression, amazing, love the place. Amazing, great people."

"We've had such open arms, and we've been so welcomed into the city of Boston that it's just hard to sit there and think Americans are bad because every single person I've met that's American has been unbelievable. They've been welcoming, they've been such supporters of Scotland."

"So, the police have been very, very good. They've been standing back, letting the people enjoy themselves. If you go to Italy, if you go to Spain, the police cause a bit of trouble. But here, they've just let everybody enjoy themselves."

"The police have been really kind, really helpful. If you look confused, they'll ask you, is everything OK?"

Well, it's a tribute to us. It's a tribute to we are a welcoming country. And the police did a fabulous job everywhere. In all the American venues, they were beyond impressive. There were some people who tried, but they didn't get anywhere to disrupt the World Cup. So this goes against our image abroad, where we're onerous, and we're horrible, and all of this and that is the reason that the World Cup is so important because it's not true in the first place. We are a very generous nation. We give more money to help people than any other people on earth per capita. And we never get the credit that we observe. Now, the World Cup started on June 11th and then it ends on July 19th in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. And I like, I kind of like the Norwegians. With the big guy with the drum and they're going, row, row. And then President Trump has to wreck it by going to Turkey and saying, no, we need Greenland back. Can't we do that next week? We got goodwill all over the place, and there's the president going, now I have to have Greenland. Okay, next week. He just can't help himself. He just can help himself, and this was the height of capitalism, this whole World Cup thing. So the estimate is the United States will take in $620 million. And everybody, all the teams, $41 billion. And that's a lot of money. Everybody prospered, the image of the USA is good, and it was a big win, and I hope it stays that way. We still have a couple of weeks here, and that's the Memo. Now the communists who are, you know, they're causing trouble, and this took me by surprise, I have to be honest. I did not expect this. I did expect an emerging communist movement in this country. Socialism, yeah, but not hardcore. Seize your property, communism. Okay. So they don't like the World Cup at all, because it's money, it's the oligarchs, own the teams. So here's the godfather of communism in the USA, Senator Bernie Sanders.

"I believe that it may just be possible that this country is on the verge of the political revolution we have fought for, for such a long time. Now, I do not have a crystal ball to tell you what will happen next, but last night and the last several months have given me hope and optimism, and I hope it does the same for you. We need a party that is prepared to take on the greed and ideology of the oligarchs who now control the economic, media, and political life of our nation. And we need to create an economy and a government that works for all of us and not just the few. We need a democratic party that opens its doors to new people, new energy, and new ideas."

And that's the open border policy. Now, Sanders is quoting Mao Zedong. So if you read my book, Confronting Evil, you know Mao, the communist leader of China, was the worst mass murderer on earth ever. That's who Sanders likes. Likes him. Yeah, we need somebody who's prepared to take on the greed and ideology of oligarchs. That's what Stalin did, all right, and that's what Mao did, that's what Fidel did. Okay, if you're wealthy and they consider you an oligarch, all right, they're going to take your stuff. They're going to come after you. This is what communism is. The government controls what we the people do. So if you get wealthy with AI or you get wealthy with high tech or whatever, no, you're not entitled to that. Bernie Sanders is gonna take it away from you. This is really, really bad. Okay, so the second in command are really, it goes this way, it goes, Bernie Sanders, top communist, Zohran Mamdani, second communist, because of his father, traces family lineage back and you'll see that Mamdani's father was a hardcore communist. And then you have AOC and these people who don't know much, they're just kind of along for the ride. Well, here's what Mamdanis said on July 3rd, one day before the Independence celebration. He was sitting behind the desk of George Washington, the desk that Washington used. When he was in charge of the government in New York. That was the first step, went New York, Philly, D.C. Roll it.

"As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a Nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few."

Okay, so that's Karl Marx. Did the workers are getting screwed, we gotta rise up, kill the czar, behead him, kill his whole family, which is what happened. Okay, and then the power to the people, but the people don't run it. I mean, take it from me. I was in China this time last year, and people don't run anything there, they do what they're told. But this is the pitch. I mean, it's just amazing. I'm in New York, I was born in the Upper West Side of New York City. And to see this in the nation's largest city, to have Karl Marx running this show, I never in a million years thought that would happen. New York has always been a vibrant, you can make it, this is where you come to be successful, and the government allows that success, not anymore. Not anymore. All right. Now the media is in on this, whereas they don't condemn the communist movement. While I do, they don't. Because they are injecting a race card into it all. One of the worst is The View, you know the problems they're having with the federal government. Okay, here's Sunny Hostin. Go.

"And I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my 10th year on the show, and I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be the symbol of white supremacy."

I don't know anybody who does that. I mean, the woman lives in a totally different world, a totally different country than I live in, but I don't know anybody who uses the American flag as a symbol of white supremacy. And I know thousands of people. I don't know why. Now, the Democratic Socialists, which is the con name, they just should be honest and call themselves the Communist Party. They say on the 4th of July that their membership is now 120,000, the biggest membership they've ever had in the United States. And that the peak before this was in 1912, 113,000. Now they're at 120 and growing. So this is not a lot, that's not a lot of people. But they are powerful, and they're wealthy. And if you discard them, you do it at your own risk. Recent poll, YouGov, okay? June 26th-29th, 1,600 adults. Which is a better economic system? Socialism, 19%, capitalism, 44%, not sure, 37%. That is a troubling number. Because Americans don't know what Socialism-Communism is. They don't know. So 37% go, I don't know. Second question, Democrats, what's a better economic system? Socialism, 34%. Capitalism, 22. Not sure, 43. It's a big not sure. You have favorable or unfavorable opinion of socialism. Favorable, 32. Unfavorable, 39. That's close. Not sure 29. Democrats, favorable towards socialism, 58%. Unfavorable, 11. Not sure 31. So the Democratic Party has now morphed into a communist-enabling organization. I'm not a party guy. You guys have been watching me for years, decades. I think there are just as many loons in the Republican Party as there are in the Democratic Party. But now, the threat to us comes from the Democratic Party. Keep that in mind, midterms are coming up.

Here's an interesting piece of history. Pope Pius XII was running the Vatican for 19 years. And he was in World War II. And he's a fascinating man. He put out a decree that any Roman Catholic that subscribes to communism that joins, promotes, any of that is excommunicated. That means they can't receive the sacraments. That's heavy. Okay? And he did that because of post-World War II, you had the Cold War, you had Stalin taking over all these countries and enslaving them in Europe. And Pope Pius XII said, no, you can't be a part of it, or you can be a part of the Catholic Church. That was very interesting. Very few people know that happened. Okay, so why? Why did he excommunicate Catholics who were involved with the communist movement? Joining us now from Missouri? Father Robert Asurico, who is the President Emeritus of the Acton Institute and he's a scholar, but more importantly, his brother played Paulie Walnuts on The Sopranos. How about that? How about that, okay? And I'm sure you're proud of your brother. He's an excellent actor. And that's some family there, father.

"It's amazing. It's amazing. I grew up with Paulie Walnuts, and I know all his lines."

All right, why did, and I don't know whether that's still in effect. Is it still in effect, if you're a Roman Catholic, that if you embrace the communist movement, you are excommunicated? Is that still there?

"Yes, I mean, communism is a materialistic, atheistic ideology. By definition, you would excommunicate your own self from faith, from the Catholic Church. The problem is it comes in various forms with rationalizations and things like that. But we see what communism has done. I want to go back to something you said. It was a very important point you made. You said that people are not sure if they support socialism or not. The truth of the matter is that a lot of people are not sure if they support capitalism or not, because they don't understand what that is either. They see it as greed, they see it as power, racism, as you already demonstrated through the popular media. And I think what is incumbent upon us is to engage precisely that group that you identified who don't know, and help them to come to know both what socialism is and is not, because the essential claim of socialism is a moral claim. It pretends to be about brotherhood and fraternity and things like that. But also to help people understand that capitalism is more about human freedom, human action that's reciprocal. The cultural things that we saw from these Europeans describing commonplace things in American life really come from a commercial culture. A commercial culture is a culture that's predicated on reciprocity. I need a bottle of water. While I have a bottle of water, I need some money. And you exchange. You become valuable to each other. In a communist system, which has class struggle, you have division, the antithesis of fraternity, of community. Communism is false because it doesn't promote community. It doesn't prompt the social well-being, the social good. And parts of capitalism don't do this either. So we have a cultural problem on our hands and a moral problem."

Right, well, you know, greed has always been a part of human nature, which I think is what you're talking about with capitalism. And obviously, the people are greedy, and they don't care about other people that are amassing far beyond what they need to live a life of luxury or whatever they want to live. But I always go back to this with not only the Catholic Church, but Protestants as well, and Jews forget it. Communists hate Jews across the board, hate them. All right, they've been persecuted in every single communist country, but the communists don't want any God. They don't want anything like that at all. Why?

"They don't want anything above them. They don't want anything that has a moral claim on the human heart that goes beyond the Politburo, beyond the ideology of class warfare and redistribution of the wealth. The threat of Christianity in particular to communism is that Christianity lives with a communist claim to want. That is fraternity. That is looking for the well-being of other people. Many of the communists have, in particular Marx and Engels, said that early socialism existed in the New Testament. And what they're identifying is that people had things in common, where there was need, people helped those who were in need. And what the communists don't get, what the socialists don't get, is that that was the result of a conversion of a heart, a love of other people. Winston Churchill put it very well. You may know this quote because you've written so many books on history. Winston Churchill once said that the communism of the early church said All that is mine is yours But the communism today says All that is yours is mine. This really points to the flaw."

Right. Now, there is a split in the Catholic Church. You have the liberation theology movement, which is based out of South and Central America, where horrendous living conditions are driving good people, religious missionaries, to try to help the poor while at the same time they're looking up. And there's, you know, an oligarch or whatever you want to call them with everything. And that liberation theology can sometimes morph into a communist situation. Or am I wrong?

"No, I think you're quite right. In fact, the early liberation theologians explicitly utilize Marx's socialist analysis of society and use biblical imagery and stories to talk about class warfare and liberation from Egypt, that kind of thing, and then apply it to today. And I think you're right to have sympathy with those who combine a certain ignorance of what a free economy is all about with a burning passion and concern for the poor. This becomes volatile, and what liberation theology in effect attempted to do was to baptize Karl Marx, to make Karl Marx as though he was the epitome of what it means to create a good and truly social society."

But that's really a radical point of view, and I wonder how much it's embraced. I don't think Francis and Leo went that far, but certainly Leo is tottering around that area. I'll just tell you a little story. So you know Cardinal Dolan, right?

"Yes, yes."

Missouri guy. So, he catered to me one time, and he wanted to buy. A block full of row houses in Brooklyn, and you know a charming guy he is and you know that kind of thing, and I know him, and he said look, you need to help me buy this stuff, and I gave him a substantial amount of money to buy the row houses, which he did I assume. Okay, I didn't get a lot of thanks for that, but I'll get my thanks later, I hope. And if I don't, this is going to be hell to pay, pardon the pun.

"I'll mention it to him."

All right, okay. So anyway, my only dictum to the cardinal, to Dolan, was don't cause social disorder, all right? I know these people need to be housed. I don't expect you to go around looking at their passports. I don't expect that. But if you see people coming in that are nefarious, they've got tattoos from head to toe, you know, you're going to have to make some decisions about who's getting O'Reilly's full of row houses because I don't want social disorder, which is what massive migration leads to if I can only get Pope Leo's attention. So you can do more harm by allowing an open border on supervised people than you do being charitable and doing what Jesus commanded. You know, to the least of those, you have a responsibility to help, and I believe that. The story I'm telling you was that there was a conflict there. I don't know how Dolan worked it out. I didn't check it. As I said, it was the right thing for me to do. I'm an old altar boy. He played on my Irish Catholic upbringing, of which he knows so much. And I'm glad I did it. But when I hear Leo, and to some extent Francis, going, hey, let them all in, I'm going, no. That's not what Jesus wanted. He did not want social disorder. He wanted harmony.

"Of course he did. Of course, can I push back a little bit on the Leo remarks, because I have a different perception of Leo. Leo served as a bishop in Peru for 20 years. Now I don't know if you know, but Peru was the nation that gave us the founder of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutierrez, who was a priest. And Leo was there for 20 years, he had a lot of opportunity to identify with all of those socialist movements that were extant during his time in Peru. You find no traces of that. In fact, there is one book that he wrote, an introduction to on Catholic social teaching. It would have been the perfect opportunity to identify with socialism, and he doesn't do it. I think you have a very different kettle of fish in Pope Leo than you had in Pope Francis.

Okay. But it, but the Pope...

"Don't give him to the left. That's what I'm saying. Don't give Leo to the left."

The problem with Pope Leo is the message, not the messenger, but the message isn't getting out there. It's like a feud with Trump and all this, and that shouldn't be. Fascinating, fascinating, father. Thank you for taking the time, and say hello to your brother, and tell him that if he needs a loan or anything, I'm here to give.

"Well, maybe his brother, the priest, will come to you for that, but, or donation is even better. My brother, by the way, died four years ago."

Oh, I'm sorry, he passed.

"No, no, that's okay. In fact, this week, and maybe even today, I think it were fourth, maybe it's tomorrow, the fourth anniversary of his death."

Such an indelible actor. They all were. I'm friends with Shirripa, but he has some great stories. Thanks again, Father. We'll catch up with you again soon, I hope.

"Thank you. God bless, I'd like that. Take care."

Okay, so Donald Trump's in Ankara. I mentioned briefly that he brought up Greenland, and look, NATO is now pledging all kinds of money and munitions to fight Putin, and Trump got what is most important. All right, and he got it. The press is never going to give him credit, but he got it. This Greenland thing, it's not worth it at this point. Take the win. My humble opinion. Graham Platner, Maine. This was insane from the very beginning. It's about a million voters in Maine. It's gone from a conservative state to a liberal state big time, and now Platner got the nomination to run for Senate on the Democratic Party. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy, that's it. Bad guy, you Mainers, and you should know it. So now there's another accusation against him. And I looked into it, looks legit. You know, a lot of these are bogus accusations. A lot of them. This does not look bogus. Yes, the woman said she was raped by him, didn't go to the cops, didn't go to the hospital, okay, didn't do it, but dumped him, and there are other extenuating circumstances like therapy and things like that. So, Platner's gone, he's out, he's not gonna run. That means Republicans will probably take that seat with Susan Collins again. But you Mainers, I love Maine. I don't know what you're doing up there Okay.

Smart Life. US life expectancy will reach the highest level ever in 2026 This is according to CDC. Cancer and heart disease are still the primary killers, but because of technology and AI, AI is going to extend the lifespans of billions of people. That's the big benefit of AI. So we're all going to live longer. I could comment on that, but I'm not going to. California is another place. If you live in California, you deserve what you get. I'm sorry, I've got friends all over California. I know the weather's great. I understand it. It's a beautiful state. You deserve it. It slapped another 2.2 cents on their gallons, up to 63 cents a gallon of gas, just for tax. All right, here are the five highest gas prices. Hawaii, 5.46. California, 5.37. Washington state 5.02, Alaska 4.73, Oregon 4.55. And that's all tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. The price of oil is hovering around $70. 30 days ago, it was hovering around $90. So that's good for the world economy. But these Iranians, they're asking for it. They're begging for it. You know, I'm not a warmonger, but yeah.

This Week in History. July 6, 2017, France announces it will ban the sale of gas vehicles by 2040. All right, so they're are crazy global warming people over there, and I think there's a thousand people who died from heat because they don't have air conditioning, and when I say they don't have it, I mean, the government regulates it. There are a lot of poor people who don't have air, and they're dying. So anyway, nine years ago, France said, oh, no more cars. But they rescinded it. Because the EU said no. So no, you can't have a gas car, that's all gone. That whole global warming con, yes, there's global warming on the planet, but the way they're going about it is insane. Okay, we got a good mail segment for you. We got a final thought, I think you'll enjoy on the World Cup right back.

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Okay, YouTube, I'm gonna cut a new commentary tonight on Mamdani and why he hates America. And he does. He hates us. Mail. Joe Milligan Galeon, Ohio. "Bill I agree with you. The insurance companies are gouging us. I have State Farm, and I just saw Caitlin Clark on an ad. I went, how much is that gonna cost me at the end of the year?" It's going to cost you a lot. These insurance companies are running commercials like I've never seen, and all that comes off the marketing and then your premiums get raised. That's what's going on.

Vicky, Concierge Member, we are Vicky's bodyguards, or something. "The gas price gouging is one of the downsides of capitalism. I'm a staunch supporter of capitalism, however, there can be some oversight from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission." And Trump says there will be. I'm going to hold him to do that, but the president can really lay wood to these people if they continue to gouge us. He should.

Norman, Concierge Member. "I don't like Chuck Schumer." This is off my Sunday column, I hope you read it. Okay. "Never have. But he could at least hang on to his dignity by being loyal to his brand and quit pandering to the radical communists." He's not gonna do that. He's like Biden, they don't believe in anything. They don't.

Arthur, Concierge Member. "The Democrats' mantra for the past several years is saving our democracy. When you hear them all saying it over and over again, you start believing it." Not me. I don't believe it. They don't have any solutions to problems. Can you believe that? Saving our democracy? What a bunch of bull. Okay. I'm not buying it.

Max, Concierge Member. "Bill, having Glenn Beck on We'll Do It Live brought back great Factor memories. The two of you together are the best, and I live in Texas, so does Beck. We would welcome you to move here. We have a lot more air conditioning than when you were here before." There isn't enough air conditioning in the world to get me down in Texas in August. Okay, I'm just...talk about warming.

John Cooper, Overland Park, Kansas. "Just received my USA 250 hat, looks outstanding. I plan to wear it all summer long." Yeah, you can still order those 250 USA hats. They'll be good forever. Forever. The best hats in the country. I designed them, I guarantee it. I stand by them. Okay, Word of the Day: do not be picayune. Picayune! No good. Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com, name and town if you wish to opine. Back with a final thought in a moment.

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So Final Thought of the day. As I told you up top in the Talking Points Memo, I'm not a big soccer guy, but one of the things that amuses me is these guys are on the ground every 30 seconds. They're holding their knee, and they're writhing in pain. It's like, are you guys in the NFL or what? It's a soccer game. You got short pants on, but they hit the ground and are rolling around this and that. They're all in, they run out. Okay, and I'm going alright. This guy might be hurt. We gotta get him a stretcher. No, no! One minute later, there's a guy chugging down the street. What a recovery! You think they're faking it a little bit out there? I think so. But every two seconds in these games, they're on the floor, writhing arrest, like a five-year-old. I'm going, What is this? Okay, they can't be hurt that bad when they're running down a sideline two minutes later. Did you pick up on this? I mean, it would be, it's like...Okay, it's not the LA Rams versus the Miami Dolphins out there. It's Belgium versus the USA, and they're, you know, nice nifty cleats and all that.

But that's, I'm going, shouldn't there be a penalty for that, faking it? And it stops the game. It stops the momentum of the game, the broadcast, because they gotta let them writhe around. Maybe they're doing it for that. Maybe they're doing it to get on TV. I don't know, but I'm going, is it that rough? I played soccer a little bit. It wasn't that rough. Football's a lot rougher, so was ice hockey. You don't see ice hockey players writhing around the ice every two seconds. So anyway, it's my beef. I understand. The subtleties of the game probably elude me. And yeah, you can get kicked in the ankle, okay. People are kicking, so you might get kicked. But that doesn't mean you have to writhe around. Get in there! Get up! That is the final thought of the day. No flopping around. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

Zohran Mamdani's Fourth of July Address

2026-07-07T21:32:00Z

Sanctuary Showdown

2026-07-07T07:00:00Z

There are now thousands of innocent American citizens who have been gravely harmed by illegal aliens. This doesn’t mean all undocumented people are bad. That would not be an accurate statement.

On the other side are people like Renée Good. She was protesting ICE agents when an officer shot her to death inside her vehicle.

This situation has led to an amazing battle in the House of Representatives. The Right believes Sanctuary policies are leading to death and destruction for many Americans. The Left believes the illegals should all be let in. No vetting, no problem.

I am generalizing. But we had four years of Joe Biden’s open border. I did not hear any dissent from the Democratic Party about those policies.

While the conservatives have somewhat moderated their position, the progressives are running wild.

Here’s what should happen. If you’re an open border person, ADMIT IT. If you’re not, and you support Sanctuary Cities, then YOU must explain the difference.

That’s how honest people communicate. Not holding my breath.

O'Reilly on Michael Cohen's About-Face with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-07-07T03:32:00Z

Bill joins Rita Cosby, John Catsimatidis, and former Trump aide Michael Cohen on WABC radio. They scrutinize how Cohen returned to Donald Trump’s good graces after being the president’s archenemy. Bill also analyzes the latest Graham Platner scandal and the ascendance of socialism in the Democratic Party.

Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-07-06T22:00:00Z

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Celebrating America

2026-07-06T07:32:00Z

It was almost a relief to see so many respectful displays on July 4. As I have been reporting, most Americans love their country and believe in its nobility.

That’s very bad news for the progressive cadres who despise America. You saw them in Newport Beach, California, where looting and other criminal behavior broke out on the Fourth. Newport is an affluent community south of the Los Angeles airport. The radicals targeted the beachside town because of its prosperity.

Soon, federal and local police agencies will have to crack down on those trying to overthrow our system. Lincoln had to do it. So did Franklin Roosevelt to some extent. You cannot reason with the socialist/communist movement. Sedition will have to be confronted, or rebellion will erupt.

I know I have had quite enough of the destroyers and their media allies. They need to be confronted within the boundaries of the law.

Let’s get on that!

Schumer's Last Stand

2026-07-05T07:01:00Z

The Senate Minority Leader is done. 75-year-old Charles Schumer is up for reelection in 2028 after serving 26 years on Capitol Hill. Schumer will likely retire because a 36-year-old radical socialist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is poised to beat him.

Schumer’s thin scalp will not be difficult to take. He’s well past his prime and appeals to very few New Yorkers. He’s like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys before he passed; stumbling through the teleprompter looking like a zombie who needs an energy drink just to get to the piano. Daddy has definitely taken the T-Bird away from Chuck Schumer.

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A so-called moderate Democrat, Schumer was betrayed by radicals like George Soros who sensed blood in Chuck’s pudding. The minority leader is simply not progressive enough for old George, who has already donated millions to promote socialism/communism in the midterm vote.

Soros has had great success undermining the criminal justice system by financing radical DA’s who will not prosecute crimes unless, of course, you’re a member of the Trump family. Now Soros is using the same money strategy to pollute Congress.

Senator Schumer remained clueless about the Soros play for a long time. Then when he finally wised up, realizing he had become a progressive target, he made a pathetic left-wing pivot. It was like watching The Rock taking slenderizing medicine.

In 2009, Schumer said, “illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.”

But in 2022, it got a little complicated when the Chuckster said: “immigrants make us stronger now more than ever.”

The Senator also flip-flopped on the filibuster, crime reduction, and legalized pot. He danced, frowned, and shimmied just like his pal Joe Biden did.

Meanwhile, George Soros wrote another check.

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Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez must be thrilled. Her resume and experience are weak, but her progressive cred is strong. Soros and Bernie Sanders know the Congresswoman will do as she is told. One more vote for the communist cadre.

This is how it goes. Stalin and Mao hand-picked obsequious politicians who signed on to the totalitarian playbook. You don’t see Alexandria doing many interviews, even with her own kind. That’s because she doesn’t know much about history or anything else. If Ocasio-Cortez challenged Kamala Harris on Jeopardy, neither one would score any cash.

But Chuck Schumer does know public policy. However, he no longer cares about it. His only concern is keeping his Senate seat, so he’ll say pretty much anything.

But Chuck is toast no matter what he says. George Soros got him. The communist puppet master is now a powerful presence in American politics.

As Senator Schumer has decidedly found out.

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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-07-03T22:00:00Z

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The Democrats' Circus Tent

2026-07-03T15:29:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

Over the past week, we’ve heard the same two words ad nauseam.

- Rep. Pramila Jayapal: ‘Big tent means big tent.’

- Sen. Raphael Warnock: ‘We are a big tent party.’

- Rep. Robert Garcia: ‘We have to have a big tent.’

- Rep. Seth Moulton: ‘We’ve got to have a big tent.’

- Sen. Chris Murphy: ‘I want us to be a big tent party.’

It’s like a Bat Signal went out to Democrats throughout the land, demanding that all of them say the exact same thing. That is mainly because some truly odious people have crawled into that ‘big tent’ after being nominated to run as Democrats. Like the ancient Arabian fable warns, once you allow the camel’s nose into the tent, bad things are sure to happen.

Of course, anyone who wants to enter that tent must come in via the flap on the left. Democrats are open to Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed Maine Democrat and self-proclaimed communist. They welcome Darializa Avilia Chevalier, who tweeted praise for Marx and Lenin. No matter how far left you lean, the tent is open. But it is closed to anyone who doesn’t meet certain litmus tests. If you support Israel’s right to exist, forget about it. If you object to men competing in women’s sports, get lost. Want secure borders, tough punishment for criminals, abortion restrictions, or voter ID? Step back, Jack!

Let’s be real, the Democratic big top is very restricted, as some Democrats now know from firsthand experience. Rep. Dan Goldman checks almost all the far-left boxes, but he supports Israel and was trounced in the Democratic primary by a Mamdani-endorsed candidate. Then there’s Scott Weiner in California, a truly horrible man who wants leniency for pedophiles and implied that Charlie Kirk had it coming. But some San Francisco loons confronted Weiner last week, accusing him of supporting ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Scott Weiner may still be headed to Washington, but he’ll be opposed by his party’s ever-expanding Israel-hating wing.

Does anyone think loyal Democrat John Fetterman is welcome inside? He despises Graham Platner and the New York communists he calls the ‘dirtbag left.’ Going back in time, no way anti-communist John F. Kennedy gains entry; he’ll be on the outside looking in with Bill Clinton and other America-loving Democrats from the past.

In fact, that tent is a three-ring circus. On one side are socialists and communists who are loud, organized, and ascendant. On another side are a few moderates who are fighting back and trying to restore a measure of normalcy to the party. And the large center ring is filled with cowardly and frightened Democrats desperately clinging to power, even if it means embracing the radicals. They are embodied by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is on bended knee begging for acceptance by the new breed.

Jeffries has assumed the role of lion tamer, but he must be aware that over the years dozens of tamers have been mauled and killed. And communists and socialists can be far more vicious than lions and tigers. Meanwhile, the Republican elephants are looking on, enjoying the circus immensely and humming their favorite show tune: 'Send in the Clowns.'

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Rise of Progressivism

2026-07-03T15:12:00Z

Supreme Court Decisions

2026-07-03T07:06:00Z

The Supreme Court has ruled that individual states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day. The reason for that is the Constitution. The states control federal election laws, not DC.

If California wants to have this crazy stuff, they can have it. They’re still counting some votes in Sacramento.

Another decision: the justices upheld the concept of birthright citizenship. If you’re a Honduran woman, and you sneak across the border and give birth, your baby is an American. That has been in play since the Civil War.

I get plenty of mail on this subject. The concept of birthright citizenship may be wrong. It may be a ruse. The cartels certainly abuse it. But that doesn’t mean you can overturn the Constitution.

To end this, you would need two-thirds of the states to approve a new amendment, as well as two-thirds of the population.

That’s a very high bar, and it isn’t going to happen.

O'Reilly & Cuomo Debate President Trump's Financial Disclosure

2026-07-02T18:36:00Z

Bill joins Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, where the duo discuss President Trump's financial disclosure.

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O'Reilly & Sid on Trump's Financial Windfall

2026-07-02T17:46:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and analyzes widespread media accusations that Donald Trump and his family are abusing their power to reap illicit financial rewards. Bill also gives his latest critique of the Democratic Party's growing embrace of communists.

Jared Trujillo Debates Legal Exceptions for Religious Groups

2026-07-02T16:53:00Z

Jared Trujillo, Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, debates Bill on a legal case involving Catholic nuns running a medical facility for cancer patients and their non-use of preferred gender pronouns.

House Brawl Over Migrant Crime/ICE

2026-07-02T16:52:00Z

Bill examines the clash between Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) at yesterday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing.

Killing Time with Glenn Beck

2026-07-02T16:00:00Z

Bill and Glenn Beck on their personal relationship and Bill's "prickly" demeanor.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Glenn Beck

2026-07-02T16:00:00Z

BECK If Donald Trump is not replaced by a guy who thinks like Donald Trump, we're not in for good times. The story matters. And so the progressives cut that out.

O'REILLY They don't care to know.

BECK They don't care. The Democrats are just beginning to wake up now going, wait a minute, wait, a minute. This is starting to look scary. If you're on the other side, they won't even talk to you anymore. If you chase the rich out, who's going to pay for that?

O'REILLY Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another We'll Do It Live broadcast. Now, today we have an interesting guest, and his name is Glenn Beck. You know him. He has a dopey hat. I don't hold that against him. What happened was...

BECK 250. America's 250.

O'REILLY Yeah, our hat's a thousand times better than yours. So he was in 7-Eleven.

BECK This is not my hat.

O'REILLY Some kid was giving him a hard time. He just grabbed a hat. And now he's wearing it for us. Anyway, Beck, thank you for helping us out. We know you're really busy and mega successful and all that.

BECK Well, it's good to see that you've mellowed some, Bill. You're not as cantankerous as you used to be.

O'REILLY Well, that's a shame.

BECK You're still that nice, lovable guy.

O'REILLY We can go into the cantankerous mode, and we might get there during this long form.

BECK Oh, we're not there yet.

O’REILLY Give me a little time, Beck. I just started with you.

BECK Okay, all right, good. All right, good.

O'REILLY So, the communism thing you moved out of New York City had to be nine, ten years ago.

BECK Yeah, I got it.

O'REILLY But you were living in Connecticut, and you were here, and you basically said enough of New York, I'm going to go down to Texas and the far west. Why did you make that decision?

BECK Because I saw where it was going. A, it was just inhospitable to me and my family. I mean, you know, I don't know if you remember this, Bill, but there was an event, it was a movie in the park, and my and I went. And by the time the movie was over, I think I had six security agents on me. They had thrown wine at my wife, thrown things at my children, chanted at them. My children were genuinely afraid to be there, and I just said this is not, I mean, I would never do that to the person that I thought was wrong politically or I despised politically. I never would have treated anybody like that. And then on top of it, you could see the direction that the city was going. I'm saddened to see it strangely go towards Islamists. And socialism, but that you know that's the way it happened in Iran in 1979, and if we don't wake up, that's exactly the way it's gonna happen in many of our cities here in America.

O'REILLY You know, I don't know if the American people are going to buy the radicalism of New York City because it's a completely unique place here. So you're right in the sense that de Blasio was a signal holder. He was the mayor for two terms and he was a communist. When I say that, I mean that they don't believe in private property. They don't respect people who are successful. They want the government to run the means of production, which means housing and food and everything else. It's a classic Marxist play. Now, why do you think though in this eight and a half million city, why would people go wait, I don't want the government telling me how to live and what to do and capping my potential. I really want what made America great, competition...

BECK I have to tell you, Bill, there's a couple of things. First of all, you're gonna lose all of those people, as you know, I mean, Dallas, Texas, is going to be the home of the stock market, I'm convinced. They're serious about it. And when it's weakened enough, it will become the home of the stock market. Florida is becoming the home of all New Yorkers that have been disenfranchised with what's going on. So you're going to learn, you're gonna lose all of the people that can pay your tax bill. And it's just gonna go into worse and worse squalor. But as I was in New York, it is such a weird island. It seems like the center of the world. You are just one of eight million living on top of each other, and it doesn't reflect the rest of America. I mean, I think the easiest place to make socialism work in message, not actually work, but work in a message, is a city like New York, where, I mean, you've been trained, I remember living in New York and paying such high taxes. And I'm a guy who's, I'm not a socialist, I don't want the, I believe if we want the government to do less, we have to do more. And I'm walking into my office on 6th Avenue, and it's just newspapers and garbage blowing everywhere. In any other city, I would have picked up that newspaper, and I would've thrown it in the garbage. But I caught myself saying, how much money do I have to pay this stupid city for them to keep the streets clean? And that's when I first realized, oh my gosh, I'm changing. I gotta get out of here because I'm not seeing myself as responsible. I'm seeing myself as paying the city to do it. And I don't want to live like that.

O'REILLY Los Angeles is headed in that direction, San Francisco already there. Chicago is a different situation because of the gangs and the violence that has overridden any kind of political thing. And I do believe that... I did not call it, I wrote a book called Culture Warrior about 12, 13 years ago, where I predicted most of what would happen. But I didn't call this. And the reason I didn't call it was because I don't believe that, after all that we've been through, it's 250th birthday for the USA, that there are people who don't understand the country, the rhythms of the country, the vibrance of the country, the opportunity. Now, the people in Guatemala understand it because they're hacking through the jungle to get here. They got it, but we have a class of people who don't get it. They don't want to get it!

BECK Bill, I've been to your house before. You weren't there. I was stealing, it was at night, but I've been in your house, and I know that you collect history like I collect history. You know the story of America. Most Americans don't know the story anymore. They have no idea what the story is. You ask them-

O'REILLY And they don't care, they don't care to know.

BECK They don't care. And human beings are story-driven. If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going. The story matters. And so the progressives cut that out. They knew in 1920, when they started after Woodrow Wilson, they knew we have to destroy the Declaration of Independence. We have to destroy the image of George Washington and our founders. And that was their first attempt, those are the first two targets. And they went in, they changed our history books, and they changed everything, and started having us memorize dates and names to make history boring as snot. I mean, I know you were a history teacher. I can imagine your history that you taught was exciting and dynamic. You told the story. That's not happening anymore. It's beginning to happen again with homeschooling. It's beginning to happen again in some schools across the country. But mainly in red states, they're destroying our story, and that's critical to destroy a nation.

O'REILLY Yet there was a tremendous backlash against communism after 1945, and the Cold War began. So there were McCarthy, the senator from Wisconsin, people getting fired, they were hunting down people in Hollywood that espoused this progressive communist point of view. So it wasn't a clear line. There was resistance to this, but that resistance now, seems to be evaporating.

BECK So the progressives went, they changed from progressive because Woodrow Wilson scared the living daylights out of everybody. And so they changed from progressive, instead, they became liberal. They took that liberal chair away from the table, but it was all progressives. The Republicans were doing the same thing. And they slowly bit at that apple. Then in the 1960s, when they had the cultural revolution of the 60s, they realized after they lost that because they were, remember, they were marching with, you remember, they were marching with the posters of Mao and everything else, think of the song Beatles Revolution, and there were the group of them that wanted that same kind of stuff. When they lost that, they realized they didn't have the boardroom, they really didn't have the education yet, and they needed those extra pieces. So they have been spending all of this time getting the boardroom, getting corporate, making sure they have all of the teachers in the higher education institutions locked down. They thought they had everything. What they didn't have was the heart of red-state America. And quite honestly, I think a lot of the people who voted Democrat forever, who are now Trump supporters, who are not people who've always voted for Democrats, but they can't see them themselves as voting. You know, this week they came out 13 Democrats out of 257 in Congress and not all 13 of these are actually in Congress yet they're running for Congress, came out with a statement, kind of like the contract for America, their promise to America that they're not communists, they're not socialists, they love America, they love the free market system. And they came up, I think, with like 10 different points that sound like Ronald Reagan. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that that is a legitimate move on their part, that that is heartfelt. I'm not sure, but I do think that Democrats are just beginning to wake up now going, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is starting to look scary. You said you weren't these kinds of people, and now we're seeing you really are.

O'REILLY See, I don't see that. I see more radicalism in the urban centers, not in the rural.

BECK Oh yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that.

O'REILLY Okay, so, disband the police, no border control, no immigration control, let everybody vote. The big movement is now let everybody vote, starting in California. Basically, dismantle it by sheer numbers of people who are disadvantaged or who are victimized, the big victimization thing. And Obama was the flag-waver on that, or is to this day, hey, you didn't do it, O'Reilly and Beck. You know, we did it, and we just let you in the club, which is a bunch of bull. Now here's my next query. You and I are both media veterans. We know all the players, we've been to the highest part of the mountain, whatever it may be. The corporate media enables these progressives.

BECK They are these progressives.

O'REILLY Okay, but let's just say this. You got a Disney corporation. The Disney corporation runs amusement parks, everything, movies, you name it, okay? Why would they want to dismantle a capitalistic system that brings them so much profit? I don't know. Why would you want to do that, Disney?

BECK You know, I think you're seeing people like what's-his-name Wiener in San Francisco, who is a Democrat and a huge lefty, this weekend was shouted down and kicked out of the Trans Parade with true vitriolic hatred of him because he's Jewish and he won't, I guess, denounce enough of Israel, even though he has denounced Israel, that's just not enough for them. So, I think just like politicians, Chuck Schumer is another one of them, that they got into bed with these people and thought, A, I can placate them or B, I agree with some of the stuff that they're saying, but I can co-op them and I can use them and I can bring them into my house and my tent and we can all play together nicely. Now they're in the position to where Disney has been in this position for quite some time. They are, the inmates are running the asylum. Now you can't get rid of that culture. That culture is the Disney culture. And what are you gonna do? You'd have to shut the whole thing down and reboot.

O'REILLY But I don't understand how the board of directors, Robert Iger, is the CEO. These people are making literally billions of dollars off entertainment, and they want to shut down the capitalistic apparatus. They'll never admit it, but you don't parade out a View or a Jimmy Kimmel or even the Muir show, which has, you know, stacked with a liberal Washington correspondence. Muir himself is a weatherman, but the whole structure is, we don't like capitalism. I'm going, wait.

BECK Let's just say, let's say you were the head of CNN and you had been there for the whole time and you had let this thing grow and you now know there isn't there's maybe five of us in this company and we're at the top, that, you know, actually believe differently than everybody else that's working here. And we also know everyone we're going to get to replace if we could hire them are coming from the same well. So it's the same philosophy that I'm gonna replace them. What do you do? I think you stand, and I was saying you personally, but I think these people are the kind of people that go, I'm just gonna get mine. I'm just gonna take my billions of dollars, and I'm going to just check out when it's over. I don't care what happens in the future. I did my part. What else do you? What would you do at CNN? How would you replace everybody?

O'REILLY Oh, I could do it, believe me, and it wouldn't be hard for me, because I know what the deck is stacked, I know what they're doing.

BECK I know, but look at, look at CBS, Bari Weiss. I mean, she's trying to do it, and she's having a hell of a time getting it done. Hell of a time.

O'REILLY But they haven't taken over completely yet. So once the new management comes in and they're friends of Trump, once they come in, Weiss's life is gonna take a turn, and there'll be a Custer's Last Stand in there. Everybody's gonna go. Because they're not making the money that Disney makes. They're not doing well.

BECK Are there enough people, though, in your opinion, that are coming up through the ranks that are actual journalists who have gone through journalism school and know what an actual journalist is supposed to be like? Are there enough of those?

O'REILLY Nobody has them. So what you have now is on every network. You have people who are just saying what they're told to say. That's what you have. There's no semblance of journalism, other than the independent social media. And even there, you gotta be very careful. But every network, they are not people who go in, like Mike Wallace or people like that, analyze a story, find out what the crux of the story is, and how it applies to the American person. They don't do that. They're given a sheet of paper, okay, and they're saying, you do this. And you can see that on the bookings. So all of the networks have Sunday morning shows. They don't book any meaningful people from the right, ever. They just bring in the people who hate Trump. It's like a hate-Trump-fest.

BECK And I know you are the same as I am. I would have booked people on the left all the time. I would've had people on others...

O'REILLY That's what we did!

BECK Yeah, I know. But you can't do that anymore. No one will come on. If you're on the other side, they won't even talk to you anymore. So there's no, but that's the way it used to be.

O'REILLY But the rationale is like, he's so bad that we, Trump is so bad that we have got to counter him by doing foolish legislation like allowing foreign nationals to vote, like not having a border, like letting criminals out of jail, because this guy's so bad, we have to counter that.

BECK I don't think that that is what caused them to do it. I think it's what gave them permission to speed it up. I think this has been their plan the entire time. You know, they don't like America, they want to destroy America, but this gave them the rationalization to go after him.

O'REILLY Why are these progressives so anti-American? What is it about our society that they don't like?

BECK There is the actual progressive viewpoint, and I'm talking about the early 20th century progressive, the actual, nobody's going to admit this kind of stuff, but what's in their founding, in their history, is a progressive is somebody who does not believe in the Constitution and in the Declaration of Independence, at least as written, and they don't like the idea that people can control their own lives, they believe, and I'm not assigning a nefarious feeling behind this. They just believe that experts are better equipped to tell everybody how to live their life, and the experts in the government should make the choice for everybody, narrow them down, and nudge you into the right choices because they know better. So they don't like that. But beyond that, there are those now who have bought into every single negative about America, without any kind of legwork on it, no history behind it, there's no reason behind a lot of this stuff. You can't reason with some of these people and say, wait a minute, wait a minute, you're right about slaves and the founding and all of that stuff. You're about that. Now let's go a little bit deeper. What about all the abolitionists? What about the fact that Gettysburg, we lost an entire Vietnam in the battle of Gettysburg, and those were mainly white people, and half of them were fighting for the freedom of black people. Do you give any benefit of the doubt? How about the fact that we're the only country that stopped slavery and fought that way, and we're the only country in the world that feels badly about slavery? You don't see Africa kicking themselves about selling slaves. You don't see anybody in Europe kicking themselves about buying slaves. We're the only ones. We're the only ones. They've just made this story into such a cartoon that for a lot of people, the only rational or reasonable thing, if you're getting only that part of the story, the only reasonable response is, I hate this country.

O'REILLY Well, they hate it because they feel that the oligarchs, as Bernie Sanders would put it, have exploited the masses, particularly minorities, and built their fortunes.

BECK But Bill, how did that happen? How did that happened? Because this is one thing that I've really struggled with on capitalism is de Tocqueville was absolutely right in Democracy for America, in America. He said that eventually the rich and powerful will kick the door behind them so no one can follow the path that they did to become the rich and powerful. And that's what happened. And they did it through the power of government. They colluded with the government. So the only answer to this is not a bigger government, it is to make sure that these corporations and these rich and powerful have no more of a say than the guy who's voting down the street. That's the way to fix it.

O'REILLY Well, Teddy Roosevelt fixed it in the sense that he knocked out the JP Morgans and Rockefellers and all of those people who were doing what you just described.

BECK And then Wilson put them in with the Federal Reserve and codified it.

O'REILLY We're getting a little bit into the weeds, but there have been reformers like Theodore Roosevelt who saw that you can't have a country run by Putin-esque oligarchs.

BECK Correct, correct.

O’REILLY I don't see that, though, and maybe I'm blind to it, but I don't see that as a day-to-day factor in the lives of most Americans. Most Americans work for companies. Companies supply them with a salary, with health benefits, whatever it may be. There's a structure, and the companies provide, through the hard work of their employees, of course, okay, a decent...decent... A standard of living that dwarfs most middle-class countries around the world.

BECK There are three categories that we don't talk about, and two of the three Eisenhower warned about. You have the educational industrial complex, and that is almost an oligarch. I mean, it's not a single individual, it is a system that has so much money, and they have so much control over our children. In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned against this coming. He also warned about the military industrial complex, which I also think has too much power. But I would also go with the pharmaceutical industrial complex. Look at what happened with COVID. The things that I think people are seeing in their everyday life that they don't like is of Medicare, I mean sorry, medical care here, our health care, is all screwed up and why is that? Because the big pharmaceutical companies and the big insurance companies are all in bed with Washington and they've made all these laws to benefit them and not the people. So I think you have a real problem with that industry. You also, I think, have a real possible problem with the industrial, the military-industrial complex. I mean, and I think people are seeing that or feeling that through these endless wars. I personally think that's coming more from the progressive State Department and some of our politicians, but I don't know what's the chicken and what's egg here. Is it because we make so much money on those wars, or it's because we want them and then they make so much money? I don't know.

O'REILLY But most of the wars that we engage in are good versus evil. And Iran's an evil country. I mean, let's face it. And they have killed millions and millions of innocent people, and they will continue to kill them. And if they ever did get a nuclear weapon, they'd use a nuclear weapon to kill even more. So Trump understands that, tried to deal with them in a rational way, really tried to get some kind of control over this evil state. Trump never wanted to slaughter Persians in the desert, ever. He wanted to make it so attractive for the Mullahs that they would stop the madness, and they have not.

BECK Right, I think this has proven that the crazies are in charge. So what does he do now, Bill? Because I don't know. What does he do?

O'REILLY He's got to do military action. However, I think at the last possible moment, the Mullahs will sign the deal. They'll violate the deal down the road, but they'll sign it because they don't want to die themselves. Putin's in this category too. So you constrain Putin because you say to Putin, you're gonna die, and Putin doesn't wanna die, okay? But when you have an organization, which is what Iran is, that is going to say, I'm going to kill the Jews, we're going to the Jews. We hate the Jews, we like the Nazis, there's no difference between us, we're gonna kill the Jews, and then you're sitting there going, well, how do we stop them from killing the Jews? He was only one way, and that's force.

BECK I think that Iran is the only example in modern-day America that I can think of that is, like the Nazi, you have to kill them all. You just have to have to all of the leadership of it. Those who will be frightened by death will give, and then you just need to have a trial and see who was serious and who wasn't. But you have to kill the entire leadership.

O'REILLY I think that is on the way, but again, they are meeting, and meeting, and this, and we are close to the deal. I understand all that. Do you know anybody who hates Jews personally? Anybody in your circle?

BECK No. I'm just trying to think of anybody on my outer circle because I don't know anybody in my inner circle, surely, but I don't.

O'REILLY I live in New York. I live in the biggest Jewish community outside of Israel in the world. I don't know anybody who hates Jews. I mean, I'm looking to see.

BECK It's incredible to me, though, Bill, that we're getting a lot of people on our side now. And, you know, when the ADL was calling me, you know, an anti-Semite and everything else, it was because I was warning that this is coming. If you play footsie with it now, it will come. This is the way it always happens, always. And what I didn't see coming is the right. I didn't see our side starting to say the same kind of stuff. I think there's a real evil that is growing within our own midst. It's worse on the left, but there are seeds of it in the right. And we've got to stamp it out because that is the death. Now, once you turn against the Jews and you make it all the Jews' fault, and you've got to round up the Jews, cause we got to kill them all. Once you do that, it's the end of your civilization.

O'REILLY Well, that's right, but I don't think that there is a drive in America to do that. I don't know, you know me, I'm not an ideologue. I don't follow this crazy stuff, some of these guys' social media thing, and they say something, I don't care what they say. If it rises, then I'll take them apart. But usually I just go, look, we all know what this person is. We know they're making money by being provocative. It lasts one day, and then it's on to the next smear, but it is an interesting fact that I was brought up in a neighborhood in Levittown on Long Island where there were a lot of Jews. We have any... there wasn't any strife among the children.

BECK But you, but look at the people that were the money behind Mamdani. They do. Look at the Islamists that are in New York.

O'REILLY Oh, yeah, there's no doubt about it. That wasn't a factor when I was growing up, and it's really not much of a factor now. I just got back from London, where I'm doing a special for News Nation about the collapse of the UK, and the collapse of the UK is directly, okay, directly a Muslim intrusion.

BECK Yes.

O'REILLY Because they have let millions of Muslims into the UK. They don't know where they are, they don't know what they're doing. 60 Sharia courts in the UK. Six zero. They handle civil stuff, but they're still in the Justice Department. And you can see it. You can see it. You go up to Edgeware Road, it's...they don't want you there. There are no police there. I had my crew there with security, but we were happy to get out of there. And then we go over to the Jewish section, they're scared to death. Now, that can't happen here because the numbers of Muslims here are very, very low. It could happen with another group, okay, but not Muslims.

BECK I hope you're right. When the Muslims will take their prayer rugs and pray in front of Jewish schools on the sidewalk, when you have all the mosques you need to pray inside, why are you doing that? And the fact that the media doesn't ring the alarm, that only breeds more of it.

O'REILLY Yeah, well, the media is not going to do it because it would go against the progressive tenets.

BECK That's where that's how it started in London. It started in London. People are just like, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, ignore it, and they just kept letting more and more people in. Now, because of Donald Trump, we're not. But if Donald Trump is not replaced by a guy who thinks like Donald Trump, we're not in for good times, Bill.

O'REILLY No, look, but I don't think it's going to come from the Muslim world. The geography is too extensive. It'll come from other groups that, like in California, I mean, Ronald Reagan, two-term governor, and you had Gray Davis, you had Arnold Schwarzenegger, all these people. And now, you can't get one Republican elected in California because they've stacked themselves.

BECK And on that, you can't get an actual person that believes in the traditional American values elected. I mean, it's worse than not getting just a Democrat or Republican, you're getting socialists.

O'REILLY And a line that they use, not only in San Francisco, in L.A., but in New York City, is you're a victim.

BECK I think if we can get five more years, after the four more years after this president's term expires, if we can keep this going for another five more years at this kind of speed, I think we have a chance of saving the nation. I think, you know, through divine providence our 250th anniversary is happening. People are engaging, some people, are engaging back into the American story. We are doing a lot to revive, a lot to shore up, you know, traditional America. And if we can get back on our feet, we have a chance of surviving. I think if the Republicans screw this up or the Democrats somehow or another get to ride this socialist wave, I don't know if we make it again.

O'REILLY Are there any high-profile Democrats that you feel are willing to fight the progressive communists?

BECK I can't believe I'm saying this, but John Fetterman.

O'REILLY Yeah, Federman, I would say he's a libertarian, he's not a Democrat or a Republican.

BECK I remember he came in, and he was, I mean, he had the label of Marxist on him. He loved Marxism and everything else. That wasn't, that wasn't true, or at least it's not true now. I mean, he has, he's really shocked me, and, you know, it'll be interesting to see if he is able to hold onto his seat in Pennsylvania. If he is, that's really good news.

O'REILLY Is there anybody in the federal government now, in the Trump administration, or in Congress that you feel sees the country clearly and is looking out for the folks?

BECK I have to narrow things down because only in their in their purview. I think Marco Rubio is doing an amazing job and sees it clearly. He sees the socialists and the communists for what it is. I think he sees the Islamist problem for what it is. He sees the Iranian problem for what it is. I think he's doing a great job on all of these things. Domestically, I think I like the vice president. I'm still out on this. I just want to watch him some more, but he's really good at vocalizing the things that need to be vocalized. I'd like to see what he's going to do on corruption. I was impressed with Tulsi Gabbard, what she did on her way out, and what she was trying to do there. I thought she was in an impossible situation, but I think she was really good. I really like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I think he's doing a great job.

O'REILLY What do you like about Kennedy?

BECK I think Kennedy has been able to move things, for instance, the food pyramid. I mean, I think he's been able to move some things that seemed immovable, absolutely immovable. I like the fact that he's actually calling things out and saying we have a problem. I'm not sure what the problem is, but we have to find the problem. I mean, it's clear, you know, when you go over to Europe, the food is just different. It really is different. And I've never noticed that until recently. The food is just cleaner and different, and you actually feel different after eating the food over in Europe for a while. I think we have a real problem with our food system that's not that complex. We just have to say, stop putting so much crap in it. I never thought I would say, hey, we should follow Europe on a lot of things. And when it comes to our food and medicine, we should follow Europe. We should not be allowing so much stuff in our food. And I, I like the fact that he's moving that way, and I think he's doing it in a reasonable way.

O'REILLY But I don't know about reasonable. Kennedy was eating roadkill the last time I saw him. He was scraping it up on the highway. I'm not sure that's gonna go, but sugar is killing Americans, and that should be a warning on every sugar product, that hey, think tobacco's bad? Hey, hello diabetes.

BECK I know, I know.

O'REILLY The sugar is really, and with kids in particular.

BECK I know, and some of the things that we have done, you know, you got to remember it was John Rockefeller that actually helped put our health care system together. I mean, he really wrote the book on medicine in America. And so there's a lot of stuff that we did for petrochemicals that are not necessarily good. Petrochemicals brought us a lot of really good things. But I think we should reexamine a lot of the stuff that we did in the 20th century. I'm very concerned about, you know, GMOs and everything else. I think those are not necessarily the right way to go.

O'REILLY Europe is, let's see, they may have good food, Beck, but you don't want to live there.

BECK No, I don't.

O'REILLY Because of the socialism. And what I found out when I went to London a few weeks ago was that all of these millions of Muslims and other immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East who came into England are initially prioritized for the national healthcare. So that means granny up in the Midlands who's got a condition and used to see her doctor, government doctor, every three weeks, now sees the government doctor every three months because the line in front of granny is so big, she can't get in.

BECK I've got to tell you, I was with Liz Truss when I was over in England a few months ago. And Liz said, I just got back from England. And she said Canada is worse off than England or Europe. Canada is in real, real, dire...

O'REILLY The national health care situation.

BECK Yep.

O'REILLY So they have to come down to Tampa to get the knee replaced. Yeah, so that just shows you that it doesn't work. That if the government is gonna run the means of production that does involve your health, okay, you're not gonna get what you think you're gonna get. But it goes right over the head, well, I'm gonna get a free bus ride. And my rent's going to be frozen for two years, and Mamdani's going to...

BECK Who's going to pay that if you chase the rich out? Who's gonna pay for that? Mamdani, I think, had lived off his parents' wealth forever. You've got a couple of, what was it, somebody else that's a big socialist running a city that lived with their mother their whole life. Never moved out of mom's house. I mean, they don't know how life works.

O'REILLY But it's the people who vote for them that are most accountable, okay? So who's going to fix your water heater when it breaks if all of the apartments in New York City are rent frozen? You think somebody is going to come with a little wrench and fix it for you? They're not.

BECK Right. Government. I tell you, Bill, I'd love to hear your opinion on this. You know, when they say that women couldn't vote in America, they could vote in the founding. The women voted. If you were a widow because you owned the land, it was based on landowner. Do you have skin in the game? If you have skin in the game, you could vote. And I have to tell you. I think, you know, Franklin was right. Once more people are living off of the taxpayer instead of being the taxpayer, you're never going to get it back.

O'REILLY The country goes into decline.

BECK Yeah, I mean, I really think that we should consider if you're not a taxpayer, you don't vote, you're not allowed to vote.

O'REILLY Whoa, Beck! They want to let people from Paraguay vote.

BECK I know, I know, but I think if you're only taking, of course, you're going to vote for more. Of course you are.

O'REILLY We all know that, and that was the open border scheme.

BECK Yes.

O'REILLY That Biden put out there with his progressive cadre. And you know, for four years, they loaded it up to 15 million, and now we've got to deal with them. So we're gonna take a break and then come back with our Premium and Concierge members. I'm not sure if Beck has won, but we have a better hat than Beck. So if you sign up for Concierge Membership, but you can buy Beck's hat, then you'll have an O'Reilly hat and Beck's hat. Anyway, we're gonna take a very, very short break, and we'll let the rest of you guys go live your lives. I think this was a very instructive discussion. And you know, O'Reilly and Beck together, that's pretty shocking. That was pretty instructive. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it. We'll be back in a moment.

Killing Time with Glenn Beck

2026-07-02T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Okay, Killing Time is for our Concierge and Premium Members, only you get this. So Beck, you and I have known each other for a long time. You were at CNN, you came to Fox, I was a megastar at Fox, but I was still nice to you, Beck. And I always look back and go, why was I nice to Beck? I don't know, I do know, but.

BECK I'm not sure nice is the way to describe it. You were not hostile. Actually, you were very nice. You're the only person in the media in any real position that was consistently helpful and nice. And you gave me advice and mentored me. And I hope you know how much that meant to me.

O'REILLY Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out why it probably has to do with Jesus, but I'm not sure yet.

BECK No, Jesus had nothing to do with it. You know what you said to me, which I thought was an amazing thing, I don't know if you remember, well honestly, I don't know if you remember your own name at this point, but... I don't know if you remember saying this to me, but you said at one point, we were on a plane and I saw a moment where you weren't as prickly, and I said Bill, I have to thank you for being so kind. You have no reason to be so kind to me. And I appreciate it. And you said to me, it's not kindness, Beck, it's not kindness. Now, I don't believe all of this, but you said, it's not kindness. You said, I am a plane and I'm way up and I need fuel and you're gonna come up and you gonna refuel me from time to time so I can keep my altitude. And I thought, wow, being honest about what you're doing and not just saying, no, I just love you. You're being honest with what you are doing. And you were still went out of your way to be kind to me. So I've always appreciated that.

O'REILLY Well, the reason was, number one, you're a decent guy and I judge people by whether they are kind and whether they are nice to others and a whole bunch of other things, but you always fit that category. But the second one was I wanted to hear what you had to say, and a lot of people didn't. And the same thing with me, same thing with me. They didn't care what I said, I was O'Reilly and I'm the devil.

BECK Yeah. Yeah.

O'REILLY But when you would come on The Factor or even on your own program in the afternoon, I would say, all right, let's see what Beck has to say here, because he's not predictable. He's not pushing a party line, he's not in debt to anybody, he's not kissing anybody's butt. So, he's made it this far, big successful radio program, he's on television, this, that, and the other thing. I want to hear what he has to say. Now, at the time, that was very, very unusual. And I think it is now as well, as we discussed in the beginning of this interview. Most people don't even listen to what you have to say. Not just you, me, everybody. Because they've got their preconceived, what should I say that's not gonna get me in trouble and that my superiors are gonna like me? It's not like, I'm talking from the heart.

BECK Right.

O'REILLY Okay, and I can listen to that.

BECK It's really, it's amazing to me how many people have opinions on people that they've never really listened to, they've ever really talked to. I mean, even when I talk about the ladies on The View, I'll say, I don't watch their show, so I don't know. I can comment on this particular comment, but I don't know, because I don't watch the show. People don't take the time, and it is all about sides. We have to become intellectually curious again. And we have to be willing to stand on our own two feet. And that's why I think the progressive movement made it into tribes.

O'REILLY And you should be seeking out other opinions just to consider them. Now, I was right in the middle of The View, because I was friends with Barbara Walters. I was on the show about 15 times. I had the walkout with Whoopi and, that was the most insane thing ever, with Whoopi and Behar.

BECK Insane.

O'REILLY Right, when they were somehow trying to tell me that Muslims didn't attack us on 9-11. Somehow, they were trying to get to that point, and I go, did Norwegians attack us? I mean who, who did this? And then they bolted and they were smart to bolt because they were getting killed. They were getting crushed. Okay, so, I was right in the middle of that, but that's a good example that program of people who are making good salaries on television, who are saying what the choir wants them to say.

BECK Yes.

O'REILLY That's it.

BECK Well, I found it interesting with them, in particular, that it's a little like Bill Maher. He's got a cheering section. And Bill, at least, will say things. And once in a while, lately, he'll be booed or they'll be absolutely silent. You don't hear that on The View. I mean, it is just all about clapping and reinforcing the views of the women who are reinforcing the view of the audience.

O'REILLY The Maher phenomena, I was on there a few months ago with, promoting my book. He didn't do that with me because there's kind of a line, and he's smart enough to know where the line is, that if you're gonna pander, you know, I'm right there, okay, are we pandering now? What are we doing now? But one more thing, and I'll let you go, and you're very kind to do this. The fact that a guy like Glenn Beck, who, if you study Beck's life, has overcome a lot of stuff, and a guy O'Reilly, who's genetically, what was the word you were using, prickly, right? Prickly?

BECK Yes, genetically prickly.

O'REILLY Yeah, that was hundreds of years of DNA in the making.

BECK That's true. Hundreds of years of you being prickly. Yes.

O'REILLY Right, right. We go way back to the Germanic tribes that came to Ireland, so don't blame me for that. But the fact that you and me could become what we've become, and you can fill in the blank, audience people, it couldn't happen anywhere else in this country.

BECK Absolutely true. Nowhere else in the world. Nowhere else in the world.

O'REILLY It could not happen. Okay?

BECK Guarantee it

O'REILLY So when you're thinking progressive communism, if they were in charge, this would never happen. This conversation? No way.

BECK Our careers, I would be in the food industry right now. I would I'd be wearing a paper hat saying, would you like fries with that? There's no way.

O'REILLY Or checking people out. Is that yours, madam? Because you'd be good at that.

BECK Yeah, I'd be good. That's it.

O'REILLY You want an extra bag with that?

BECK Yeah, that would be me.

O'REILLY And me, I'd be in a penitentiary, okay? Cell block eight. That's where I'd been. All right, Beck, the best Fourth of July you've ever had. My best to your family.

BECK Yeah, you too. Happy Independence Day.

O'REILLY My best for your family, and I hope we get to see you soon, and thank you for helping us out.

BECK And Bill, thank you so much, and God bless, and sincerely, Bill, thank you for everything you've done for my career. I appreciate it. God bless you.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Glenn Beck

2026-07-02T16:00:00Z

Glenn Beck joins Bill O'Reilly to discuss communism, progressivism, President Trump, and the future of America. The duo break down the paths the country could take and the importance of history.

Democracy Debate

2026-07-02T15:23:00Z

A new poll from CBS News finds 73-percent of the population believe the US has achieved the ideals it was founded upon. 26-percent say no.

47-percent think the best days for the United States are in the past, 41-percent say in the future.

For me, the surprising figure is that 67-percent believe our democracy is under threat. That’s more than two-thirds of the population.

I do not understand that. My “Democracy” is not in danger, and I have the biggest mouth in the country.

Who bloviates more than me? Or louder than me? Nobody is curtailing my rights. So, what are these people talking about?

They don’t like Trump. They don’t like what he does. But it’s all fiction. If Trump does something, and the Supreme Court says he can’t do it, he doesn’t do it. THAT’S DEMOCRACY. Are you getting that MS-NOW?

I still think most Americans love their country. But you have to get out of the urban centers to find it.

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2026-07-02T15:11:00Z

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House Brawl Over Migrant Crime/ICE, L.A. Votes to Remove Noncitizen Voting & Jared Trujillo Debates Legal Exceptions for Religious Groups

2026-07-01T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, July 1st, 2026. Stand up for your country. First of all, I hope you all have a nice weekend. You know, I hope you can put politics aside. I know it's hard, but just enjoy your friends and family. Go out. It's going to be 112 here in New York. I'm going to be in the ocean. Where I am, it's not quite as hot. And I'm just gonna try to leave a lot of this stuff behind. I'll write a column, I think, for Sunday, but I might not, you know, if I'm lazing out on that beach. But there's nothing wrong with that. We all need a break, and we all need to admire our country ourselves. We don't need to convince anybody else to do that, but ourselves. So I wanted to get that point made. So President Trump is out in North Dakota, that's his territory, for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library out there. If you read my book, Confronting the Presidents, you know that President Roosevelt spent a lot of time in the West, and that's why his library is in North Dakota. He's got another one, I think, someplace. We have a thing on Long Island here that, his house and all that. Here's a fun fact about Theodore Roosevelt: he did not want to be called Teddy. He didn't like being called Teddy. You did not call him Teddy, and that's because when he was a child, he was very sickly, and everybody called him Teddy. And he didn't want to get that going again after he overcame his maladies and became a robust man.

Back in Washington, the strife between the two parties continues. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. A tale of two parties. Okay, I'm going to lay it out for you now. So you may remember Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student, Chicago. Shot and killed in March of this year by a Venezuelan illegal migrant. The suspect, Jose Medina, 25 years old, simply opened fire on a group of college girls, and Ms. Gorman was killed. Okay, Medina is pled not guilty. He remains awaiting trial. Also, Laken Riley, probably heard that name, got a little bit more attention. Augusta University, Georgia, nursing student murdered in February 2024 while jogging. Oksy, a Venezuelan illegal migrant, Jose Ibarra, pled not guilty, but then waived his right to a jury trial. And he has been sentenced to life without prison. With the two life in prison, I should say, without parole. Now, there are many, many others, thousands of others, of American citizens who were harmed by illegal aliens. As Geraldo Rivera would say, that doesn't mean all illegal aliens are bad. That would not be an accurate correlation. On the other side, you'll remember Renee Goode, a 37-year-old. In Minneapolis, she was protesting against ICE. She was violating the law, and an ICE officer shot her to death that was January 7th of this year, 2026. It was outrageous. About a week after that, two weeks after, to be exact, Alex Pretti, same thing interfering with an ICE raid, carrying a pistol, which was legal. And then he got shot to death by ICE agents. So you got a tale of two fatal activities, four if you add them all up. Now, this has led to an amazing brawl in the House of Representatives yesterday between Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a very, very hard-left progressive. And Congressman Mike Lawler from New York, who's a very conservative man, okay? The two went at it in a, let's say, vivid way. Roll it.

"So while some of my colleagues may not want to hear the truth. The same outrage you feel about Renee Goode and Alex Pretti, you should feel about Sheridan Gormans and Laken Riley and every angel family in this country."

"I do feel that outrage."

"You do not. Because if you did, you would not support sanctuary jurisdiction. You should be ashamed of yourself."

"You don't belong in this committee, you get the hell out of here. You don't understand the rules of the committee, you don't understand the constitution."

"You're a disgrace. You're an absolute disgrace supporting sanctuary policies."

"Say one word about it! Say one word about Alex Pretti and Renee Goode!"

"I did! I wrote a whole New York Times op-ed about it! You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves for not opposing sanctuary policies that resulted in their daughter's death!"

"The committee will be in order."

"Mr. Chairman, I just want to say we will not allow, thanks to Mr. Lawler's outrageous outburst, we will not allow this to happen again. This was an agreement between the chair and the ranking member, and unfortunately, you're not able to control your members. So it is time for us to proceed."

"Your opening statement was outrageous. You should be ashamed of yourself. I yield back."

"Get off of it!"

"Let's try to conduct ourselves in a civil manner."

Alright, so that's not going to happen. There's too much emotion. So the right believes that sanctuary policies are leading to death and crimes against Americans, and the left believes that they should all be let in here. Now I am generalizing, but we had four years of President Biden's open border. You didn't hear, I didn't hear, and if you did, please let me know. I don't hear any dissent from the Democratic Party about those policies. And that's what Lawler is getting at. Now, both sides have some point of view that's legitimate. So on the right, though, ICE has modified. You haven't heard of Homan very much. You have a new ICE chairman. They modified. There's no doubt they have. Leftists are still running wild with this stuff. Let them all in, let them in, let them protect them, protect them, protect them, them being illegal migrants. So there's a couple of truisms here. If you are an open-border person, admit it. Right off the top. And if you're not and you support sanctuary cities, then you have to explain that. All right? Whenever I ask somebody who is very pro-migrant if they are for open borders, they dodge. They dodge. Okay, they're not going to say, oh yeah, I am. No. They give you some kind of like humane, this, that, whatever. Is Pope Leo for open borders? I don't know. He won't answer a question about it. Seems to be. So the bitterness inside the house reminds me of the Civil War, because it is hot in there. And that is the memo.

In Los Angeles, they had a ballot measure where illegals could vote locally, not on presidential or gubernatorial, but locally. They pulled it because it's very controversial. So in 1924, all states in the union banned non-citizen voting in federal elections. And in 1996, Congress added criminal penalties. 18 U.S. Code 611 makes it unlawful for non-civilians to vote in a federal election. But the progressive left is saying, well, these aren't federal elections, these are local, school board, blah, blah, blah, blah, but still, the specter of foreign nationals, not American citizens, voting in any election is extremely controversial, almost as controversial sanctuary cities. So LA was gonna have a vote on it, would have passed, but they pulled it, the LA City Council, because it wasn't they didn't want to take the heat, is basically what it is. They'll come back Because becauseLos Angeles and other progressive towns want foreign nationals to vote. They want anybody here to vote in federal, state, local. That's what they want.

In New York State the dominican sisters run a home north of New York City for people with incurable cancer. Okay, they run the home, forty-two beds, and they have been ordered three times by the state of New York. To use preferred pronouns, that means if somebody doesn't want to be called a man, they're not called a man or a woman or whatever. They're called whatever they want. They can't have men-women bathrooms in the facility, okay, and there's a number of other things. This law was signed by Governor Hochul. All right, now the nuns are saying, hey, this violates our freedom of religion, because we are Catholics, and Catholics do not believe that there are more than two genders. Okay, and that's part of the doctrine of Catholicism. So we're not going to call Ted Shirley. We're not. And to force us violates our religious freedom. Now the state of New York says, well, if you don't do it, we're gonna fine you thousands of dollars and maybe put you out of business. Remember, this is a hospice for people with incurable cancer. This is insane. And I'll back it up by saying, hey, there are other religions that have been given exemptions. But first, let me read you the law, quote, "It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to discriminate against any resident on the basis of such resident's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, or human virus HIV status." So rooms are assigned by gender, but it's whatever gender the person wants it to be.

All right, now, the nuns are suing the state of New York in federal court, and they likely will win the lawsuit based upon other things that have happened. So the Native American church, run by Indians, they can use an illegal drug in their rituals called peyote, okay? Because they say, oh, we've been using peyote forever, and it's a hallucinogen. And the government says, well, peyote is illegal, but you can use it. The Amish don't have to send their kids to school. They don't have to register the kids for school because they're Amish and they wanna teach the kids at home. So those are just two exemptions. Joining us now from New York City is Jared Trujillo. He is an associate professor of law at City University. Where am I going wrong here? Cause I think you're on the other side of this, that the state has the right to force the nuns to do these things.

"Well, first of all, Mr. O'Reilly, thank you for having me on. What I would say as far as what you got wrong, so this law isn't about forcing the nuns to do anything. What this law is fundamentally about is ensuring that people that are LGBTQ, that people that have HIV are not discriminated against when they're getting palliative care, when they are at the end of life. Certainly, you know, what do I think the law ought to be, and what the likelihood of the sisters winning their lawsuit is, there's a little bit of a difference. What I would say as far as the likelihood for them winning their lawsuit, so the state can have generally applicable laws that just happen to have different burdens for different religious groups. So you spoke about people that are indigenous smoking peyote before. Well, actually, this whole law came about because of a case from 1990, Employment Division v. Smith, where the Supreme Court Scalia decision said that, no, Indigenous folks actually can't necessarily smoke peyote if there is a generally applicable state law that just happens to burden them. Here, the argument that New York would make is that this is not a law that targets the sisters. This is a law that just ensures broadly that people, sorry, go ahead."

All right, but let me stop you there. Do you think the sisters are discriminating against anybody?

"To my knowledge, I don't know that the state that the sisters have been accused of discriminating against anyone."

No, but their argument is we're not going to do this, we're not going to have unisex bathrooms, we are not going to call Larry Shirley, because it goes against the tenets of Catholicism. That's the argument. But I wanted to know if you, as an esteemed law professor, think that the nuns are discriminating against anybody in their hospice.

"Again, whether they are discriminating against anyone right now, I don't think there's actually been any accusations that they are."

There has not been one, there has not been one.

"Right. What I will say is that, and I say this as someone whose gay father went through palliative care just one year ago last summer, I would have been really offended if I hadn't been able to go down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to see my dad when he was in palliative care because of whatever religious facility that he was in..."

Why couldn't you see your father? This has nothing to do with access. You can walk in and see anybody you want in there if the person gives permission. It's the nuns' conduct that the state is threatening. The nuns, not you, not visitors. It is the nun. The state is saying the nuns are discriminating against the people they are trying to help.

"But Bill, what I'm saying is that the law that you are advocating for, the reading of the law that you're advocating for would not just say that, hey, this person who is dying doesn't have the ability to get access to have their pronouns respected, but it would also, the logical extension of that is that if this group doesn't believe in interracial marriage, that they would not necessarily have to let us...".

Well, that's a whole different thing. You're denying someone care based on their skin color. You can't do that. I mean, and that's clearly against the Constitution. But this case is, look, this is a situation where there's a record. There's a birth certificate. There is a driver's license. There is whatever it may be. Okay, and we're going to adhere to that rather than calling a person born a man a woman because our religion says we don't believe that. That's the argument.

"But Mr. O'Reilly, you said that that violates the Constitution. It actually doesn't. The Constitution prescribes state actors, the government, from discriminating against people. What actually prevents private institutions from discriminating against people is public accommodations law. This is a public accommodations. And that's why I bring it in..."

No, no, it isn't because it's a private facility. It's not a public facility. It's run by the state of New York. You have to go in, and you have to apply for admission knowing the rules.

"Public accommodations doesn't just mean a state, it actually doesn't mean a statement facility at all. It actually means like an institution that the public would enter. It's a reason why I could enter that a state, New York could not prevent you and me from going to the movies together. It's not because of the constitution, it's actually because of public accommodations law. That is what this is, is a public accommodations law. And that's why I bring up the example of my father. I would have been very offended if I had not been allowed to go to Baton Rouge to see my dad when he was in palliative care."

That would've been impossible. I mean, there's no way anybody could have prevented that without getting a massive lawsuit dropped on their head. This one the nuns are going to win, I think.

"But the thing is, you do realize that under the law that you are advocating for, if the nuns win this, they would also be able to prevent me from being able to see my father if they were to argue that, hey, we don't believe that if they were to argue that hey, our religion doesn't believe that gay people should be able to have children, and so therefore, we're not-"

I don't know about that. That's a stretch those nuns all those nun's are doing is following the record, not adding to it. They're not saying because you're gay or whatever, Trans, whatever it is, that you're not going to be admitted, that you not going get the care that straight people get. They're, not saying any of that they're just saying to Hochul, you can't force me, all right, to use language, because that's what this is, that's against my religion. You can't force me to use language that's basically against my belief system. Last word.

"Mr. O'Reilly, this is an anti-discrimination statute. Here, the discrimination that people are talking about is a use of language, but if the nuns were to be successful, they could anybody, and I'm not, of course, the nuns have the right to freely exercise their religion, but it would mean that religion could be an excuse to discriminate against people for other reasons as well. Even if you don't care about trans folks, this matters broadly because this isn't a law just about trans people. It's about a broad group, it's about all LGBTQ people and people with HIV."

I think it's going to lose in federal court. I mean, in New York, you know, New York. But in federal courts, I think the nuns are going to get an exemption. And so is any other religious facility that they don't have to force, can't the state can't force them to say anything they don't want to say. Hey, that was a good debate, Professor. We really appreciate you taking the time. Thank you.

"I appreciate you. Thank you."

Okay, let's go to Tennessee. So, Charlie Kirk. Hard story to report but I have to do it. So he was killed in September last year, 2025. Two days after that, a teacher at the University of Tennessee said some really vile about Charlie Kirk. Quote, "The world is better off without Kirk in it. The kids are better off living in a world without a disgusting psychopath like him and his wife. Well, she's a sick expletive for marrying him. I don't care about her feelings." This is a woman named Tamar Shirinian. So the University of Tennessee suspended her, had to, did the right thing, and took her out of the classroom. And then she sued them. So the university settled for 1.9 million bucks. She doesn't get her job back. And I don't think she'll ever, well, I shouldn't say it, she may get a job. But 1.9 million, this woman gets. And the university said, look, we would have spent significant time and money, resources better directed toward advancing the institution's mission, vision, and value. They just said they want to get it out. Because it would have cost them 10 million to litigate it. I understand they should not have folded. Okay, you're the University of Tennessee. This is not acceptable. To the state of Tennessee, to the university system, anybody, you should not have folded.

Smart life. So the communists on the march, another communist won in Colorado last night, she'll be in the House of Representatives, 29 years old, complete loon, doesn't know anything. And you're going to see this. It's going to mount. There's going to be a squad, there already is a squad. But it's going to basically be more, not that it will take over the House, it won't, but it'll be there, all right? So UBS Global Wealth took a survey about millionaires. And this is fascinating. So the USA added 440,000 new millionaires last year at 25. Half of all the new millionaires worldwide. It is the fastest expansion of seven-figure wealth on record, according to UBS. All right, now. The world, in the entire world, there are 58 million millionaires, the entire world. That's not a big portion of the population, okay? 40% of them live in the USA. Why? What's happening? Now, this isn't a tough one. So we are living in an age of innovation. And we started the age, Apple started it, with this stupid thing, all right? And entrepreneurs, people with vision, technically, maybe not morally, but technically, they could build these things, got in, formed companies, and the money flowed. And now we get the same thing with AI. The money coming into AI is unbelievable. And the people who are running the corporations that will sell the AI products are gonna be millionaires, billionaires. That's how capitalism works, okay? That you invent something or you run something that people need, and you become fabulously wealthy. That's it. Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world because he invents things that the people who live on this planet want. It's as simple as that. And the United States is the most robust capitalistic system, possibly with the exception of Switzerland, okay, in the World. So if you got a product, if you invent something, you ain't going to the Czech Republic or Ireland, you're coming here through corporations. You may not be a citizen here, but you can get in in a business manner. So when people go, this is all innovation. And we lead the league in innovation, and there's nothing wrong with that. Think polio vaccine. Think the telephone. Think the street lights on your block. Think automobiles. All these communists, none of that. I mean, maybe it would have taken place 30 years later. Okay, so I thought that UBS study was interesting, and I expect more of it, I do.

Donald Trump's annual financial disclosure. Now, probably gonna talk about this on Cuomo tonight on News Nation because he's gonna spin it that Trump is a gangster. I know what's going to happen. So here's the data. President Trump, when accounting for everything, real estate royalties to his brand made $2.2 billion in 2025. And he was compelled to give that information up by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. He had to do it. And he did it yesterday. 2.2 billion, okay? What we don't know is that's how much came in. We don't know how much went out, okay. So, for example, Trump says he didn't talk to anybody about any investments. That was his statement. I didn't talk to anybody. I have a trust, and it's executed by my two sons. They do all the stuff. I don't know if anybody knows this but me, but the sons are taking it right between the eyes by trying to develop property in Albania. Albania doesn't want them there. And they're losing a lot of money in Albania. Trump, on the other hand, is making a lot of money with his real estate, which I don't know how he got into Albania, but he's make him a lot of money and on crypto, okay? Now, crypto, I would never in a million years invest in any of it because I don't believe it's real. I don't believe it's a real thing, right? Just my opinion.

So there was a company attached to the Trumps called World Liberty Financial and 500 million in three years of coming in on crypto. Now, maybe that's not good. Maybe there's some chicanery there. Word of the day: chicanery. I don't know. Nobody knows because nobody's seen the tax return. I do know Nancy Pelosi made a fortune as Speaker of the House, and others have as well. That's not to justify, bad behavior doesn't justify other bad behavior. I don't know if it's bad behavior. If I could see the tax return, then I would know. But I can't see the return, okay? What I do know is Congress should pass more stringent laws about when you're in power, when you get a position of authority, how you can and can't make money. There should be new laws. So President Trump sells his watch, right? And he's selling watches. With Trump time, I don't know what it is. I see a commercial every now and then. All right, he's within the law to do that. He can do that, should he be able to sell the watches as president of the United States? I'd vote no. I think you should just put everything when you're at that level in trust. But he's going to argue, hold it, I got companies with my two sons, I have nothing to do with those companies. You're gonna you're going to not allow them to prosper. And there's no doubt that the president's using his name, and so are the boys. And they're getting a lot of money from the Middle East Gulf states too. In fact, the first flight on the new Air Force One donated by the country of Qatar, some people call it Qatar, okay, was today. Out to North Dakota. Now it was donated. Trump goes, what a great deal, they gave us a big plane and it's better than Air Force One, so we're gonna use it. But for me, if I'm a congressperson or senator, I'm going, mmm, we gotta have more oversight into this. I'd like to know what you feel. Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com, name and town if you wish to opine. And watch us on News Nation tonight. That'll be interesting.

This Day in History, July 1, 2015. Kate Steinle killed in San Francisco. I took this on, you'll remember, on The Factor. I tried to get Kate's Law passed. Kate's Law said, if you are an undocumented person and are deported and come back to the United States after deportation for any reason, okay, five years in federal penitentiary just for coming back. Mitch McConnell, Republican, killed it. I'll tell you the story in a minute. Anyway, Kate Steinle was walking with her father on a San Francisco pier when Jose Zarate shot her to death. And Zarate says, oh, I found the gun, and then I dropped it. And that's how she got killed. I didn't pull the trigger wanting to kill her. An idiot jury in San Francisco bought it, and Zarate was found not guilty on all of the charges except for gun charges. He's now been deported. This is his seventh deportation. Ted Cruz tried very hard, and others did as well. Couldn't get by. Harry Reid, awful man, awful. Mitch McConnell is not much better, so we did some investigation. I'll tell you in a moment what that reaped. But I did talk to Kate's father, Jim, about the situation, Go.

"We are hoping to get one million Americans to sign a petition on BillOReilly.com, which again, we'll deliver to Speaker Bainer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Joining us now from Pleasanton, California, Kate's parents, Liz Sullivan and Jim Steinle. So I'm talking to you over the weekend, Mr. Steinle, and you indicated that you do support Kate's Law. Why?"

"Well, I support Kate's Law because it would be a legacy in her name, and her death would not go unnoticed. For an apolitical family, we keep up with politics because we're citizens of the United States. You know, we feel the federal state and cities, their laws are here to protect us, but we feel that this particular set of circumstances and the people involved, the different agencies let us down, and we're just a little tired of the finger-pointing and just want to see some action, and if Kate's law saves one person, then it's all for good."

But it didn't get passed. And President Trump wanted it to pass, and I gave him a folder of everything we had, but hasn't gotten around to it, I hope he will, because we still have people being deported that are coming back, criminals, criminals, and doing horrible things without any sanction at all. In fact, they're welcomed by many states. Anyway, we wish the Steinle family, we hope that your wounds have healed a little bit. Kate Steinle killed 11 years, 11 years ago today. What I found out about Mitch McConnell was he didn't want to put a bill standalone on the floor of the Senate because of me. He didn't want a punk like O'Reilly telling him, you know, what to do. Maybe that's not true, but I have it from pretty good authority. The Turtle, Senator Mitch McConnell.

Okay, I got a brand new YouTube commentary. It's a free channel, youtube.com/BillOReilly. Millions are going into it. We hope you sign up. And this is about San Francisco, again, turning on one of its progressive politicians, a guy very close to Nancy Pelosi, over the Gaza stuff. And it's pretty nasty. Pretty nasty. So we hope you check that out. Let's go to the mail. Gerald Brooks, Boynton Beach, Florida. "Mr. O, it's a disgrace that the Governor of Healey of Massachusetts would not showcase the role the Bay Colony played in our independence. Healey and the Massachusetts Congressional delegation would be Tories today. Paul Revere, Sam Adams, John Adams, would be at the state fair, and John Hancock would have paid for it." You're probably right, Gerald. I mean, the fact that the Bay State doesn't show up is pretty disturbing.

Jim, Concierge Member, Jim is under my protection. "The Supreme Court blew it with birthright citizenship. The intent of the amendment was to protect the children of slaves, no one else." Not historically true. The intent of the 14th Amendment was people who are powerless, or were, because this was way back in the 1860s, cannot be denied essential rights that are in the Constitution, okay? So if you're here and you're born here, you can't be tossed out to Portugal. That was the intent. Most of it is driven by slavery, not all.

Glenn Staub, Kissimmee, Florida. "Now the Supreme Court has ruled against Trump's executive order denying birthright citizenship. Is there another way to address the issue?" Yeah, but it's not going to happen. I mean, neither party wants to get involved with this. And if Congress did pass a law, some kind of restriction against pregnant women coming here, I don't know what they could do. It would be immediately challenged. And the Supreme Court does not like that.

William Wood, Valparaiso, Indiana. "Can Guam and Puerto Rico be included as places for birthright citizenship?" Yes, they're territories in the United States. They're part of us. They're just not states.

David Bryant, Seneca, South Carolina. "I disagree with you, O'Reilly. I believe the SAVE Act is unconstitutional. The federal government is imposing voting rules on the states when it has no constitutional authority to do so." It has constitutional authority to enforce what's in the constitution, and that's what's happening with the SAVE Act. Okay, they want you to prove you're an American citizen. Which, as we went over earlier, all the states agreed upon.

Steve Shrom, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. "I voted for President Trump three times. I do not like his current statements about oil companies' price gouging. This instantly has people thinking the local gas they fill up with is a culprit." No, but the locals down on your corner are told what to charge. They don't make the prices. Trump's right on this. We're getting gouged.

Diane Braga, Mainville, Ohio. "As soon as the price of oil rose, we felt it immediately the next day at the pumps, however, when the prices drop, it takes weeks to see it at the pumps." Very good logic, okay, there's no doubt. All right, word of the day, no botology. It's a good word, I can't give it justice, okay? Final thought. So tomorrow, News Nation, 9 p.m. Eastern, Patriots and Plotters, special with Leland Vittert at 9 p,m. Eastern. And we go over the stuff you don't know about the Revolutionary War. But you'd like to know, okay? And the worst, one of the worst. You've heard the name, but you really don't know about him, is Benedict Arnold. Go.

"Benedict Arnold's treachery, his decision to turn against the colonists, against Washington."

"I think Benedict on it was just a bad guy.".

"In 1780 General Arnold commanded West Point, but the honor wasn't enough for him. Arnold wanted, he needed money."

"Yeah, his young wife was venal, and she wanted all kinds of money and wanted all kinds of status and gowns, and I mean Arnold was in it for money. It's unbelievable."

"But that wasn't the whole story. Arnold also thirsted for the glory he'd been denied."

"And it was because he was disrespected. He did not get the credit that he thought he received, and in some cases, rightfully so at Saratoga. But this all builds up to his betrayal."

"I'm the hero of Saratoga, and nobody will acknowledge it. I'm not getting any money from the Continental Congress, so I'm going to hand over West Point."

"And it's a massive betrayal because he is giving away the secrets of basically how West Point is fortified, the order of battle, and then he's weakening the defenses so that the British can come in and take it."

"And that would have been big, had that happened, and tries to, and fails."

Now, when I was in London a few weeks ago, I went to Benedict Arnold's house, and there's a plaque put forth by the British government that says, here resided the American patriot Benedict Arnold. I go, no, he was a traitor, but he got a commission in the British armed forces and fought against his own country, okay, after the West Point thing was discovered. You're gonna love this special. I hope you'll watch it on Thursday, tomorrow, 9 p.m. Eastern on News Nation. And I hope you have a good Fourth of July, as I mentioned. I'll see you on Cuomo tonight, and thank you for watching the No Spin News. Enjoy yourself.

House Brawl Over Migrant Crime/ICE, L.A. Votes to Remove Noncitizen Voting & Jared Trujillo Debates Legal Exceptions for Religious Groups

2026-07-01T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill examines the clash between Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) at yesterday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. The politicians argued over migrant murders and ICE aggression.
Can noncitizens vote in Los Angeles city and school board elections? Bill looks at the City Council vote.
Jared Trujillo, Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, debates Bill on a legal case involving Catholic nuns running a medical facility for cancer patients and their non-use of preferred gender pronouns.
An ex-professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville reaches a $1.9 million settlement after being fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk.
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Politics Over Patriotism

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Bill looks at which states are refusing to participate in the Great American State Fair.

The Great American State Fair

2026-07-01T07:18:00Z

The Great American State Fair is currently underway in Washington, DC. It’s sixteen days and doesn’t cost anything. If you’re in the capital, you can just wander around and enjoy the expositions.

Unfortunately, some states are not going to participate because they despise Donald Trump. That’s the only reason. If Barack Obama were President today, all of them would be there.

The boycott list includes the usual suspects: Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Vermont.

The question is simple: Why would the Great American State Fair have anything to do with politics? Its sole purpose is to honor the U.S.A.

Sadly, many Americans hate living in their own country. About 20-percent of the population fit into this category.

Here’s the truth: If you don’t show up, you’re unpatriotic. It’s that simple. You’re celebrating your nation; not the president, not your home state.

What’s happening is political poison. Pure and simple.

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Politics Over Patriotism, Breaking Down the Latest Supreme Court Rulings With Michael McConnell & Trump Calls Out Gas Price Gouging

2026-06-30T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill looks at which states are refusing to participate in the Great American State Fair.
Michael McConnell, a Stanford Law professor, weighs in on the three recent Supreme Court decisions.
President Trump calls democratic socialists the biggest threat to the nation, while Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) makes the same claim about the president.
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Politics Over Patriotism, Breaking Down the Latest Supreme Court Rulings With Michael McConnell & Trump Calls Out Gas Price Gouging

2026-06-30T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 30th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Supreme Court weighs in on three important issues for all Americans. Once again, I will remind you that the Supreme Court does not make law. It either upholds the law, ignores it, doesn't have to take the cases. Or says it's unconstitutional. That is a Supreme Court's role. Okay, so we're going to get to that in a moment. But first, I want to go to July 4th and the divisions in America. And that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

So the Great American State Fair is underway in Washington, DC, 16 days, free. You can just wander by the mall between 14th Street and 4th Street and look at all the expositions. Unfortunately, nine states, perhaps 10, are not going to participate because they hate Trump. Now, they'd never say that, but that's the reason. If Barack Obama were president today, all of them would be there. So we all know what the game is. Now, why would the great American state fair be linked to politics? Why? It's just honoring the tenor of our country, the history of our country. Now, I understand that there are Americans, about 20%, maybe 25, that despise their country. I got it, for a variety of reasons, none of which are valid, in my opinion, but, you know, hey, under the Constitution, they can despise their country. And I don't despise them unless I believe what they're doing is hurting you. Then I'm coming after you. Okay. So the mall, the Great American State Fair, is up. Each state has to cover expenses. So if they build a little display, they have to pay for it. But they don't have to pay anything to the government, or they don't have to do anything political whatsoever. But still, nine states say, we're not doing it. Those states are Connecticut. Now, I live very close to Connecticut. I worked at Channel 3 up there. I don't know what happened to the state. I can't tell you what happened. I don't know why it's so radical left, but it is. And it's a big Trump thing up there, so Connecticut's not showing up. Will it be missed? A little bit, because there's a lot of history attached to Connecticut and our struggle to be free from the King of England.

Maryland says it's going to show up and do something, but nobody really knows what. And that's because the Governor of Westmoor doesn't want to be put in a radical territory. Illinois gives no reason they're not showing up. It's Pritzker, the governor. You know what the history is there, so Illinois is not showing up. Maine. Maine is just out of control right now. So the office of tourism says the summer season is too busy. They can't come down and do a display at the Great American State Fair. Just throw down a couple of lobsters. I mean, come on. So Maine's not showing. Massachusetts, we know what that is. The governor of Massachusetts actually gave a quote. Maura Healey said, this guy, that would be the president of the United States. Tries to get money into his pocket any which way. He invited all the states to participate, and wants to charge us to go down and put something on his exhibit. Whatever he's creating for Freedom 250 is just ridiculous. So everything that he might create, Donald Trump, is ridiculous. And Healy wants the government to pick up the tab, the federal government, not the state, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And you don't get more left than Massachusetts. Used to be kind of, remember when Mitt Romney was governor there, the Bay Staters usually said, you know, we know the left are loons, but we like them for whatever reason, but we're always going to put in a Republican to run the state fiscally, because we don't want to be bankrupt, Taxachusettes. North Carolina, another like Maine, very chaotic state at this point. So they're not showing up. Oregon, unless they send an Antifa display, you know, and I lived in Oregon and it wasn't that way. When I leave, everything goes to hell, okay. Connecticut, Massachusetts, so Oregon, you know, it's just radical, radical left, and they're not showing up.

Rhode Island, very much like Connecticut. So a very hardcore democratic state, very hardcore. And it says that they have their own commemoration, so they don't have to do the federal. Well, Rhode Island didn't win the Revolutionary War or sign the Declaration of Independence. One of your guys did, but the feds did that. Vermont is just like Connecticut or Rhode Island. So Bernie Sanders is not going to let anything go down. Sanders is the most powerful politician by far in that state. And then Washington state, Seattle's got a communist mayor, and you guys who live out there know they're gonna strangle you with taxes. They're just gonna absolutely kill you. So it'll be a lot of people moving out of Washington. They say it's too expensive, we can't go to the fair. Okay, Vermont says we have to concentrate on what Vermont did. That would take about 30 seconds. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. That was Vermont's. There were a couple of battles there, but again, they were fought by federal troops under Washington. Ethan Allen was a renegade. All right, so if you don't show up, you're unpatriotic, as simple as that. 250 anniversary. You're honoring your nation, not a president, not an administration, not a state. Your state's just honoring the nation. You're one of 50. But no, poison, poison, poison, this is political poison, and it's really- to me- I don't care what these states do, I shouldn't say that, I live near New York City, they can't get me, but New York State can, and so I care about that, but what's happening in New Haven, Connecticut. Yeah, you guys. I can't solve all the problems. And that is the Memo.

Okay, CBS News poll about patriotism. CBS poll is so-so. We don't have a number that they sampled, but that's okay. First question: Has America achieved the ideals it was founded upon? A great deal, 30, a fair amount, 43. All right, that's 73%. And I think that's a fair number. 26 percent say no. Second question: America's best days are in its past, 47 in its future, 41 that's 88. It's a good number, right now, 12. US democracy today is secure, 33 percent threatened, 67 percent. I don't get that. I just don't get it. My democracy isn't threatened. I'm the biggest mouth in the country. I mean, who bloviates more than me or louder than me? And nobody's curtailing my rights yet. But what are these people worried about? They don't like Trump, and they don't know what Trump does, and Trump is this, and Trump is that, but it's all fiction. You know, if Trump does something, we'll get to it in a second. And the Supreme Court says, you can't do it, he can't do it, that's democracy. We all getting that? They don't get it in public school. I know that. And finally, how patriotic are you? Very patriotic, 39 somewhat 39, not very 22. Okay. That's a CBS poll. I still think most Americans love their country. You've got to get out of the bigger urban centers to find it.

All right. Supreme Court. So let's take them one by one. The first one happened earlier this week, that you can count ballots according to the Supreme Court, and that's top of the pops, you know, you can't get higher, there's no appeal. So if you are a state and you have mail-ins and the mail-in comes a week after election day, they can be counted, simple as that. And the reason that was made is based on a constitution that the states control federal elections. So if the state wants to have this crazy mail and stuff, then they can have it. Now, if voter ID and all that stuff ever got through, which I don't think it will under President Trump, you could circumvent that by a new law. All right, the second one is the big one, birthright citizenship. So this is your Honduran woman, and you sneak across the border, and you give birth to your baby in Texas. Well, your baby is an American. Just by the fact that he or she was born here. Birthright citizenship. That has been in play since the Civil War because the Congress, after the North defeated the South, said, you know what, these Southern states, they're gonna disenfranchise these black slaves and they're not gonna give them what all Americans get. So we have to pass a new law, and they did. All right, so I accurately predicted this on July 24th, 2025. Roll it.

"The Trump administration, as you know, does not want birthright citizenship. The law says now, and it's in the Constitution, that if you are born in the USA, you are automatically a citizen. Trump administration wants that done away with, and they are losing. The U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, California, took up a case, two-to-one ruling. Both liberals voted to keep the birthright. The judge that was appointed by Trump voted against it. Okay, this happened yesterday, but this is not gonna change."

And the reason it's not gonna change is that it's in the Constitution. So you can't start the Supreme Court. Remember what I said at the beginning of the program? They don't make the law. So you can't say, oh, it's in the Constitution. I don't like it. We're taking it out. You can expand upon the law, and you can do other things. But Congress is in charge of the law now. In order to change the 14th Amendment, which this falls under, you would have to have two-thirds of Congress and two- thirds of the American people vote for the constitutional change. That's a pretty high bar, it's not gonna happen. Not going to happen. And the reason is, if you are an independent thinker or a conservative, you can see that if the Supreme Court started doing this kind of thing, they could change every law. Every law could be changed. So yeah, you might get your birthright citizenship banned or tweaked, but then every law that the liberals don't like, the progressives don't like, would be subject to the same interpretation. There are three justices on the Supreme Court that believe the Constitution is a quote-unquote living document. That means you don't have to follow it. Whatever they want, they can do. That's not democracy. The six conservatives are basically, no, if the Constitution says it, we're going to uphold it, and that's what happened today.

Okay. So, six to three vote. Those dissenting were Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch, ironically all conservatives. You knew the liberals were going to vote for it because they want as many immigrants as possible to come into the country. You knew that. Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh all joined Kavanaugh for a technical reason. But, you know, I got mail on this, and they, oh, no, no. It's wrong, it's wrong. It may be wrong. It may be wrong. It may be a ruse. It may be a scam. Okay, border babies, the cartels do it. But that doesn't mean there's upheaval in the entire constitutional process. All right, the last one is the easiest one. There are 24 states that have made laws that women who were born men can't compete on athletic fields with women who are born women. Does that make sense? So if you're trans, you can't compete against biological women. And it just makes sense because you're stronger. You have a different DNA composition. You have an advantage. It's crazy. So 24 states, including Idaho and West Virginia, all right, who brought suit, and the Supreme Court says, yeah, six to three again. The states have a right under the Equal Protection Clause to carry out what they feel is in the public safety arena. So now, the other states, California and Massachusetts, all that want this, they can't have it. So the three dissenters were Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, all extremely liberal people. Jackson wrote the dissent, okay? And the dissent is interesting. It gives you a mindset on what these three liberal, three court justices are all about.

She says, quote, "Because the majority inflicts a hardship on those it disfavors," that would be trans people, "without giving them the fair and full opportunity the Constitution requires to litigate their contingents, I respectfully dissent." So it's, you know, it's another bureaucratic, throw it back into the hopper because this is so unpopular among the American people, every poll shows that. All right, so President Trump, I think, knew he wasn't gonna win the border babies thing. He's happy with the trans thing, and he's not happy with the mail-in, but again, I don't think he had an expectation of victory. Joining us now from Utah is Michael McConnell. He is a law professor at Stanford. He teaches constitutional law. He's a big expert, and that's why we have them because he knows more than I do, and not only is he a professor in the classroom, but he was a circuit court judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals tenth circuit for seven years, appointed by President George W. Bush. All right, first of all, am I flunking your class, or did you stay awake during my monologue, or what happened?

"Well, Bill, I think you got it almost entirely right. Maybe one, I would just point out one possible mistake, which is on the transgender athletics case. You indicated that the states that do want to allow transgender athletes to compete on female teams now can't do that. That actually isn't what the court held. It upheld the states that want to prevent that. But there was no holding that the Equal Protection Clause or Title IX compel states to stop transgender athletes."

So if you're a liberal state and you want to have this, you can have it until the next lawsuit that goes to the Supreme Court.

"Well, that's right. There will be arguments, there will be other cases, but this case doesn't decide that."

All right. On the 14th Amendment case, everybody, you know, I got letters that go, oh, no, it's not fair. It's not, it is not fair, okay, fine. But almost every legal expert knew that the Trump administration was not going to prevail. Do you believe that it should have been brought anyway?

"Well, I also predicted this, I predicted it on the first day of class last year, that this would be the way it would come out. Just one observation, Bill, that if President Trump was really serious about getting this accomplished, that he shot himself in the foot by doing this as an executive order. Because whatever you may think about the underlying issue, the president doesn't have the power to decide who is a citizen or not. And, you know, no justice supported the idea that the president can change the law. You were quite right in saying the Supreme Court doesn't make the law, but the truth is the president doesn't make the law either. And Justice Kavanaugh wrote a very interesting and plausible, I'm not saying it's correct, actually, in the end, I think the majority probably had it right, but a plausible argument that the Constitution does not compel this answer. But that Congress has legislated that both illegal and temporary persons in this country are citizens, and he takes a position that Congress could change that. I think if President Trump had gone to Congress and asked them, under their Section 5 enforcement power with the 14th Amendment, to legislate on this subject, that the case might have come to the court in a somewhat less loaded posture."

All right, but he never would have gotten it through the filibuster in the Senate. That would be impossible. But you're, of course, correct that Congress makes the laws, not the president. What the president did by writing the executive order was challenge a law that he believes is insane. It's a con. It's a ruse. It's an industry. And this is happening at a level that's hurting the country. So I think it was more of a statement that Trump was making on day one when he took over a second term than a hope that he was gonna win. I think he always knew he wasn't gonna win this at the Supreme Court.

"Well, that may be right, but I think most people who supported President Trump wanted results, not statements, not performative acts."

Oh, you'd be surprised, professor. That rhetoric...

"But let me also just say, there certainly are good reasons why the people involved here, you know, good reasons, why perhaps they shouldn't be made citizens. But to call this a ruse or a con is a real exaggeration because, however the case should have come out, the majority cited a great deal of history. I don't think it's even disputed."

Yeah, but I was coming at it from a different point of view than the historians. I'm coming at it. There is an industry in Mexico that smuggles people into the United States, a lot of people. And under Biden, they made more money and put more people who were born over foreign nationals into this country than anyone else in history. That's what Trump recognized, that I've got to stop this, I'm going to close the border. That is going to be one way to stop it, and I'm going to cut this industry that the Mexican cartels have formulated to make money, of course, by bringing in these pregnant women and having them give birth here. So I'm coming at it from not a legal point of view, I'm coming at it from Trump knew that what was happening was, in his opinion, injurious to the nation, but also an industry that should be wiped out.

"Well, you may very well be right about that, that there needed to be a change in the law, but he didn't argue for a change in the law. He argued that the law had been this way way back to 1868, and that's just not true."

Okay, but the law was formulated, as I said, to make sure that slaves were not denied the rights of citizenship, correct?

"Well, that's true, but during the debates over that, there were, other people were totally side issues. But for example, there was a direct discussion of Chinese immigrants and whether they could become citizens, and the answer was yes."

Yeah, but they had to go through an onerous process. You'll remember that. The Chinese workers on the railroads, they had to go, some of them were sent back to their own country. Some of the more isolated. I mean, it didn't make it easy for these people. It wasn't a snap like it is now.

"No, but their children who were born here were citizens from day one."

Yeah, there wasn't any challenge to that. It was, let's discourage the Chinese people from coming here in the first place.

"And in 1888, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which is, I think, not one of the more honorable moments in our history."

No, we're not going to be waving the flag for that on July 4th. And again, no country is perfect. I really appreciate your expertise, Professor. I hope you'll come back on legal matters because we do need some sanity in this. And happy Fourth of July to you.

"Thank you for inviting me."

Okay, see now, let me just deviate a little from the news script. You're not going to get that kind of debate anywhere else. You're not. Okay, factual debate based upon what happened, why the 14th Amendment prevailed, no ideological nonsense, you're not gonna get it. Anywhere and That's what separates us all right, so Socialism on the rise again. Remember, it is not against the law to be a communist or socialist in this country. So, you can be that if you want to be. So I'm getting mail, like well, we've got to stop it. There's nothing you can do, particularly when they're on the ballot. So President Trump is on it, he knows what's happening, and he commented yesterday. Go.

"Zohran Mamdani said in an interview this week that he was open to being the poster child for socialist candidates. Are you worried about more socialist candidates across the country?"

"Well, I think it's a big threat to our nation, actually, because it's not socialism, it's really communism. They use the word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it's really communism you're talking about. I think that it's the biggest threat to a nation there is, maybe since our founding."

Okay, now I don't see it as the biggest threat, all right, because it hasn't taken root in America's heartland yet. It's urban-driven, and it's driven by progressive loons, like Senator Murphy of Connecticut. Go.

"I will say, though, what binds together, I think, every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New York, is that they are standing up to protect American democracy, and right now the biggest threat to this country is we are not a handful of House candidates in New York. It is the president of the United States that is trying to destroy American democracy."

Yeah, okay. Nobody's trying to destroy my democracy. Now, did you ever wonder there are a hundred senators, and Murphy commands a seat on all three networks and CNN? Any of them he wants to go on, he can go on. Do you ever wonder why? Because he is the face of the progressive movement. Now, I don't know if the guy's a communist or not. He probably lives very well up in Connecticut. All right, so I don't know that. But I'm going, 99 other senators, why are we listening to this guy again? He says the same thing every time he's on.

Now, this one I'll take credit for. So, you know that I believe some American corporations are gouging us. Okay, food industry in certain areas is absolutely doing it. But most of all, the insurance industry and the energy industry, gasoline. Every time I say that, I get mail, oh no, oh, no, no. And then there's a big, long explanation about why gas prices don't come down nearly as quickly as they should if you use the free market as a barometer. So, I don't know whether President Trump watched my commentary but I believe he did and here's what he said, quote, "Gasoline retailers must get their prices down immediately. They're too high considering that oil is now at 68 dollars a barrel and heading south. The retailers must quickly react to this statement and do what they know is right. Drop your price for our great American people. There will be no gouging, which is totally illegal. If retailers don't do this, big problems lie ahead. Start targeting around $2.50 a gallon. California stopped charging such heavy taxes on their gasoline. Soon, the tax will be higher than the product itself. And the United States will not stand for it, nor will the people of California, who are being abused by those ridiculous taxes and by their own government. President Donald J. Trump." Well, the people in California are willing to amass abuse that I've never seen in any state ever.

Now, I did some snooping around. The reason that the gas prices, the reason that retailers, the people who are down on a corner where you go and put the pump in your car and fuel up, they're saying, well, they bought the gas under the old pricing, not $62 a barrel. And so they have to work that off. That's the excuse. Now, if they were patriots, which they aren't, most of them, they want to make as much money as possible off human misery, Iran, and what they do, they'd drop it anyway. All right, or at least have it. No. So we're being gouged. President Trump knows it. I'm glad he's calling them out. Next, Mr. President, the insurance companies. Outrageous what they are doing in the health area and with your car and your house.

All right, Iran latest, there's not going to be any high-fueled talks. I'm not even paying attention anymore to this because the mullahs are doing this on purpose. Yeah, we'll talk. No, now we're not going to talk. Yeah, no, we're not going to do it. They just want to drive Trump crazy. That's what they're trying to do. Now the Iran wars cost the American, individual American, $1,000 a head. It's expensive. We're doing the right thing. These are terrorists in Iran. That's what they are, they're terrorists. And they're close to a nuclear weapon. Now everybody admits that, except Chris Cuomo. I'm not quite sure whether he's there or not. You might remember I had a big debate with him about it. But most people, they know. Because Iran itself admits it. Admits it says, we have to develop the nuclear weapon. This is a quote from the Iranian foreign ministry, we have to. Okay, what more do you need? So anyway, I don't think the president's gonna launch military action before the Fourth of July. But next week, anything could happen. He's gonna have to get their attention. Can't keep going on.

Pope Leo. Father, forgive me. All right, so Pope Leo. Here's what he says about this. Quote. This is a report from the Vatican News. "Reflecting on how many conflicts affecting humanity, the Pope stressed that war is never worthy of humanity and is never blessed by God, because even if we are equipped with high-tech weapons, the creator has endowed us with intelligence and free will to resolve conflicts as human beings and not beasts." Unquote. Okay. So this is the concept of just war in the Catholic faith, that there are things you have to defend yourself. So my question to Pope Leo, and I'll never get to ask it, is, did you miss 9-11? Did you miss it? I mean, I know you were a missionary doing God's will, you know, what good things you did down in South America. I know. Did you miss that? So. This is going to continue, Your Holiness, unless somebody stops it. So Hitler would have continued unless they stopped him. We stopped him. That was a war. And it got way out of control. Hitler should have been stopped way before that. Way before that! So the Pope and I are not on the same page, and that doesn't mean I'm not a good Catholic or I don't respect the Pope, I do. I know where he's coming from, but those are just simple questions. So here are the religions that won't fight. Quakers, Buddhists, Hindu, Jehovah's Witnesses. All right? I don't know if the Pope's gonna try to make Catholics go into that realm. I don't think he will, but he might. He is a very left-wing man.

Smart Life, 61% of consumers in America changed their grocery spending. Good, okay. Because of higher prices, 71% are cooking more at home. 46% cut back on snacks and junk. 39% reduced beef, good. 34% have cut back on alcohol, excellent. You don't need alcohol. All right, consumers go to the grocery stores now to stock up during promotions. That's smart. 47% are switch to private label products. That's generic products like Walgreens or whatever, not the brand products. 40% shop at discount retailers more often. Okay, 38% visit multiple stores to find the best prices. I don't do that. I got my stores, but I don't buy if I think the price is too high. That rhymes. All right. Jill Biden. Does anybody like Jill Biden? Raise your hand. Nobody likes her. She's got a book called A View from the East Wing. Opened up at number one on the New York Times list, then it went to three. Now it's off. So it's a bomb. They had to pay Jill some money. And it's off the list completely. Disappeared. I don't know anybody on this earth, and I know thousands of people that would read Jill Biden's book because she's not gonna tell you the truth, so why are you bothering?

This Day in History, June 30th, 1950. The Korean War begins. Isn't this ironic? So now we have a rise of communism in the United States, and in 1950, we were fighting the communists. So what happened was, after World War II, there was turbulence on the Korean Peninsula, and the communists took over North Korea, the North Korean People's Army, and they invaded the Free South, which the UN and the USA supported, and it was a war, a bad war. So we're fighting communists just like we did in Vietnam, same thing, okay? And the casualties are unbelievable, all right? 36,000 Americans killed, 92,000 were wounded in the Korean War. 200,000 South Koreans killed, 400,000 North Koreans killed. 150,000 Chinese, because the Chinese came across the Yalu River and got involved. Now the big highlight of the Korean War was that MacArthur wanted to drop the atom bomb on Beijing, Peking, then. And Truman said no. And McArthur was in subordination and got fired. Okay, that was the big story. But in 1950, the Korean War began.

Let's go to the mail. Leland Pike, Ekron, Kentucky. "Bill, you said the country can't be split into two countries because of the constitution. Wasn't a constitution around 1860 when the Civil War started?" Yeah, but it was a rebellion. Okay, so the South tried to form a country, wasn't successful, that was Jefferson Davis. Okay, but for the North and for the United States, the Union Army, this was a rebellion. Wasn't like we were fighting the Chinese. Never reached that level.

Becky. Concierge Member. Becky is under our protection. "I agree a hundred percent with you, Bill. People have been dumbed down so much, they do not even realize what they're voting for unless they are the ones who will prosper." Well, yeah, and it's a selfish society too, Becky. We're getting more and more selfish here. No doubt about it in my mind.

Phil, Concierge Member. "The U.S. needs to finish what they started. Iran will keep doing what it wants, no matter what is agreed upon in the negotiation. Trump has enough military to take care of the Iranians." He will, I think. I think he's gonna have to.

Mark. "Bill, I believe President Trump will prevail sooner or later." It'll be later, because he doesn't want to kill civilians, as we have reported.

Neil de Simone, Lagrange Highlands, Illinois. "Since Dr. Fauci has been pardoned, he cannot hide behind the Fifth Amendment, correct? Is there a loophole I'm aware of?" No. He has to testify, and if he lies now, perjury, he can get prosecuted for anything. Pardon is just in the past, okay? So if he breaks the law again, now, I'm convicting him, but, you know.

Peggy Troth, Texas. "Thank you for We'll Do It Live," that's our long form. "I learned something I didn't know about Gene Simmons, never would have guessed about his mother, very good interview." So we got Glenn Beck coming up on Thursday. We got Simmons now. And Beck and me, it's rollicking. So that comes Thursday on We'll Do It Live. Okay, we've got a YouTube channel, we'd like you to sign up, it's free, youtube.com/BillOReilly. And what's on there now is, basically, San Francisco has turned against one of its radical left favorites, wait till you hear this. Very good story. Word of the Day, do not be truculent. Oh, truculent, T-R-U-C-U-L-E-N-T, don't be that. Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com. Name and town if you wish to opine.

All right, Final Thought on Thursday, July 2nd, two days away, big special on News Nation about heroes and villains of the American Revolution, but not the people that you know, like George Washington. No, no, no. People you don't know, the traitors. So there's a guy named Horatio Gates. He's an army officer for the British. He came over to the colonists' side. Gates wanted to replace George Washington. He wanted to be the head guy. Roll the tape.

"That brings us to General Horatio Gates, known to history as Granny Gates. He started out as a British Army officer with ambitions that exceeded his potential."

"Gates is a guy who knew he had no future with the British Army, okay, he wasn't in that clique, and he came upon Washington, and he put his finger up to the wind and said, yeah, we might win this, so I'm going to get on the team."

"So Gates is immediately, you know, given a, he's given a generalship over time. He takes over the Northern Department, which is in a bit of a shambles at the time, before 1777, and he is the general that has to deal with this massive invasion that's coming from Canada."

"In the meantime, he had to actually fight, but he didn't want to fight. So Saratoga was the big battle. 4,000 redcoats killed. Imagine that."

"So how's he a coward if he kills 4,000 of his former soldiers?"

"Guess where Horatio Gates was? About a mile away from the actual shooting. I don't think I want him in my foxhole."

If you love history and you want to know how your country broke away from England, you want to watch the News Nation special on Thursday at 9 p.m. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News tonight. See you again tomorrow.

O'Reilly & Mark Simone on the Handout Culture

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Bill joins Mark Simone and laments that many Americans are turning far left, even veering into communism, because they've come to expect lots of free stuff. Bill warns that this mentality could actually lead to the demise of American society as we know it.

Why Democrats Oppose the SAVE Act

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Joseph T. Burns, Republican election attorney and partner at Holtzman Vogel, joins the No Spin News to discuss the SAVE Act and the Democrats’ opposition to it.

America's Communist Revolution

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Bill breaks down why communism is being boosted in the USA.

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Bill joins WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis and denounces the far-left policies being put into place by New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Bill identifies Mamdani and other self-described ‘democratic socialists’ as dangerous, dyed-in-the-wool communists.

Democratic Socialists

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George Soros and his son have spent more than a hundred million dollars in five months to get progressives and democratic socialists elected in November. More than $100 million. There's nothing on the other side that counters that.

The media is compliant with this. The Disney's, the NBC's, they are sympathetic to this communist movement because they feel that the United States is not really a noble nation.

They believe that those of us who have prospered did that because of the government. Obama told me that in person, face-to-face during an interview. ‘It's not you, Bill. Your success isn't driven by you. It's the government.’ So of course, the government has the right to take anything I have.

Now most Americans have no blanking clue about what's happening here, none, okay? And they're voting for Democrats, progressives who promise them stuff. Zohran Mamdani’s free bus rides, discounted food, rent freezes, on and on and on. Health care and childcare, free. College tuition, free. That is the pitch for the communists. It's a pitch. And there are enough people who believe it that Mamdani is sitting there in Gracie Mansion as mayor of the largest city in the country.

It is shocking.

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America's Communist Revolution, Neville Roy Singham Under DOJ Investigation, & Joseph T. Burns on Why Democrats Oppose the SAVE Act

2026-06-29T22:00:00Z

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America's Communist Revolution, Neville Roy Singham Under DOJ Investigation, & Joseph T. Burns on Why Democrats Oppose the SAVE Act

2026-06-29T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 29, 2026. Stand up for your country. So I hope you read my column on communism. It's on BillOReilly.com Sunday column. It'll be there all week. And I felt the need to explain communism, because many people in America don't know what it is. And I have to confess that when I wrote the book Culture Warrior about 12 years ago, I never thought that a communist movement would have any credibility in this country. I knew progressives were coming on the march, I knew the far left was coming, but I never thought it would morph into outright communism. Okay, so, that's the Talking Points Memo. I call the column The Red Menace.

So communism is a belief system, a governmental system that says the state controls the means of production. So the capitalistic marketplace is banned in places like China, Cuba, old Soviet Union, on and on and on. So the government tells the people, this is what you can do, this is what you can't do in pursuit of money and business. Now, of course, there are exceptions. When I was in China last year, there were very wealthy people there. And most of them worked on behalf of the government, or there was some kind of entrepreneur. So there's a little bit of room in some of these places, not North Korea, no. So, in New York City, a communist was elected, Zoran Mamdani. He is the mayor here. Now, he does not admit he is a communist. He says he is a socialist, right? And that he believes in free voting and all that. Democratic socialist. There are no democratic socialists, that party doesn't exist, never has existed, never, because you can't impose rules of economic welfare and say that you're a democrat. So nobody's voting on these rules, it's you. Just last week, Mamdani said every apartment in New York City will be rent stabilized for two years, no rents go up. Wasn't like the landlords had any say about it, or the tenants. Your hot water heater goes down, who's gonna fix it? Not Mamdani, not gonna do it. But that's means of production, you gotta live someplace. And then Mamdani wants desperately to open grocery stores, to undermine the grocery stores that are there in the city now by regulations, okay? So the city is in charge of feeding you. So your city's in charge of your dwelling and your nutrition. Can't be democratic. Those are impositions, okay.

Now, in New York, there's a big disparity between the wealthy and the poor. Everybody knows that. If you move here, if you live here, that is the circumstance. In Des Moines, Iowa, you don't have that, or at least not close to what we have here. The next move, and it's going on in California right now, is a wealth tax. This is private property. Remember, communists do not believe in private property. Okay, so the wealth tax is a government official would come to your house, evaluate everything that you have and accumulated after-tax dollars. Okay, that you bought, and you get taxed on it. Do whatever the government says. This may pass in California, where there are just millions of migrants who have no tradition in capitalism and don't care about it, don't understand it. Okay, they want money given to them by the government, i.e., the wealthy, because that's where the taxes would go. All right, so all of this is taking on a momentum very, very dangerous. Now, on the history of it, we fought a Cold War against the Soviet Union, 1945 on. We won because we literally outspent them, the Reagan and Bush, the older administrations, and their economy collapsed. And then, subsequently, Putin says he's not a communist, but he is. Putin is controlling the means of production in Russia. Okay, there's no private property in Russia. Putin wants your Dacha, he's going to take it, and there's nothing you can do about it. But the big thing is that when you live under a communist system, your potential is severely damaged because there are things you can and things you can't do. So if you're an entrepreneur, if you invent something, if you wanna get something done, if you want to get a license, all of those things have to be okayed by the government. And I go through all of it in this column, which I hope you'll read.

Now, if you don't believe me, listen to this, George Soros and his son have spent more than a hundred million dollars in five months to get progressive socialists, democratic socialists elected in November. More than $100 million. There's nothing on the other side that counters that. The media is compliant with this. The Disneys, the NBCs, they are sympathetic to this communist movement because they feel that the United States is not really a noble nation. Those of us who have prospered, we did that because of the government. Obama told me that in person, face-to-face during an interview. It's not you, Bill. Your success isn't driven by you. It's the government, so of course the government has the right to take anything I have. Now most Americans have no blanking clue about what's happening here, none, okay? And they're voting for Democrats, progressives who promise them stuff. Mamdani, free bus rides, okay? Discounted food, rent freezes, on and on and on. Okay? Health care and childcare, free. College tuition, free, see? That is the pitch for the communists. It's a pitch. And there are enough people who believe it that Mamdani is sitting there in Gracie Mansion as mayor of the largest city in the country. It is shocking. And that's a memo.

Now the counterweight to this is Donald Trump. The Republican Party seems to be in disarray. They don't really know what they want. To tell the American people. What do you want to tell? What's your message? There is no message. Trump, though, is the bulwark against this kind of thing. His number is coming up, according to the Rasmussen Poll just out. July 9th, June 9th, I should say, Trump's approval rating, job approval, 40%. Now it's 46%. Disapprove on June 9th, 57, now it's 53. I was surprised by this poll. Now, not every poll is gonna subscribe to this because the polling is political, okay? But Rasmussen, they favor Trump. You gotta be honest about it. But this is a pretty interesting poll. Okay. I don't know whether it's gas prices. I don't know what it is. But he is standing between the communists and the people who don't want communism. And here's a fascinating story. You remember that last February I told you about Neville Roy Singham. Remember that? We're one of the few news agencies to report on this man. He lives in Shanghai, China. He is pumping billions of dollars and his association with the Chinese government into America and other countries to undermine capitalism. Okay, that's what he does. Well, now the Justice Department is investigating him. First up, here's what I said on February 3rd. Go.

"The president called me because he saw the No Spin news and our reporting on the China situation with this Singham guy in Shanghai funneling millions of dollars into the USA that are going to 501c non-profit radical left organizations to foster violence and chaos in Minneapolis, Portland, L.A., and other places. The president watches the No Spin News on a regular basis, comments a lot, but this one was serious. So, he asked me if i would send him our backup for what we have. Now, ordinarily, I would not do that as a journalist. I mean, what we assemble here in-house is protected by the First Amendment. But it's the president of the United States, and this is a horrible situation that is damaging our country. So, I decided to send him what we have. And I think I made the right decision."

Okay, so now the Justice Department is investigating Singham and his nonprofits for moving money and creating networks to sow discord in the United States of America. They were behind, at least partially, the Minnesota rebellion against ICE and other things, okay? About $300 million has flowed from Singham's organizations into this country. So that dwarfs Soros, all right? And what does he want? What does Singham want? Communism. That's what he's doing. So you've got this massive wave of money by these communists coming in here. And the federal government, the Justice Department says, okay, we're gonna investigate now all of these 501Cs to see if there's fraud and a whole bunch of other federal violations. Well, good. It took them a while. I was hoping it would happen, and it did happen. So we're on it like crazy because we were one of the first to break this. But at least the Trump administration is aware, Biden couldn't care less, okay, of the intrusion of communism into our capitalistic system. It's getting worse and worse and worse.

And then there is the Save Act. Now this is part of the whole movement. Safe Guard America Voter Eligibility Act, the SAVE Act. This would basically make it much easier for everyone to vote, including foreign nationals. Not one Democrat opposed to this, not one. All it says is, in order to register to vote or cast a ballot, you'd have to have a birth certificate, okay, and a government issued photo ID license, anything like that. Okay. Not one Democrat supports it. So therefore, it is stalled. It can't get a vote in the Senate. I think most Republicans would support this SAVE Act, but it's a mess. And I don't know if Trump's going to be able to cut through that mess. Joining us now from Buffalo, New York, is Joseph Burns. He's an attorney, specializes in elections. He is a Republican, and he's based in Washington, D.C. So, are you surprised that one Democrat wants to have voter ID in play? Are you surprised?

"It is a bit surprising, especially if you look at the polling on these issues. So the Save America Act has two main components to it. One is the photo ID to vote aspect, and then also the requirement that citizenship be proven when an individual registers to vote. If you look at the poll numbers on each one of those individually, well, number one, photo ID for voting. Not only does it have an overwhelming majority of Republicans and independents supporting it, but it also has a clear majority of Democrats. The other provision of the proposal, you have a recent poll from just last month said that you have majority of Americans that do think you should have to prove citizenship when registering to vote. So it is a bit surprising, and certainly those Democrats that come out of purple states, where they could have Senate seats, House seats that could go either way, it is quite likely to their political disadvantage to be opposing it."

Then why are they doing it? Why are they opposing it?

"You know, I think if you, I mean, to, to really get to the, to the bottom of it, to answer that question, I really think we have to go back a few years to the last time Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. They had their own election, quote, reform proposal called the For the People Act, backed by every Democrat in the House, every Democrat in the Senate as well. The only thing that stopped it from passing the Senate was the Republican filibuster. If you look through that, and it hasn't gotten a lot of media attention, but if you look through that Democratic proposal, every one of the provisions is way outside the mainstream of American politics, whether it's taxpayer funding for congressional campaigns, whether it's a requirement that every state have no excuse absentee voting, whether the requirement that you have automatic voter registration when any individual interacts with a government agency. I think that's their proposal. That's what they want to happen. That's how they voted last time they controlled Congress. And so, anything like the SAVE Act that stands in the way, they're not going to support. They are going to bide their time until they get back in charge in order to pass what they've always wanted."

All right. I think it's they want to flood the zone with foreign nationals to get those votes. Point to California that Reagan was governor for two terms, yet Arnold Schwarzenegger, a number of other Republicans that won statewide races. Now you don't have any, can't get a Republican elected there. And a lot of people believe it's by the foreign vote. The people come in, they get a driver's license from California, which will give you a driver's license, even though you're not a citizen. They show that the driver's license to the voter registration, they're on the rolls, and they vote liberal Democrat. And that's the plan. Am I wrong?

"I think certainly California's gotten a lot of very negative attention these last few weeks since they had their primary. Clearly, the state has any number of problems with election administration. I think what we saw a couple of weeks ago with their inability to count ballots could just be the tip of the iceberg. They've gotten some very fair criticism from, honestly, from people across the spectrum. Certainly, the criticisms come in from the president, certainly the criticisms come in for Speaker Mike Johnson, but even Gavin Newsom, the state's governor, a far-left Democrat, likely presidential candidate in 2028, even he has said that the state needs to do a better job. So, in my opinion, certainly, we started out talking about the Save America Act, certainly, that would be a good first step."

But that's a bureaucratic thing. I'm talking about a bigger plan. And the plan is to get as many ill-informed voters or dependent voters that need government assistance on the rolls to dominate the elections. It's a simple equation. That's what they're doing.

"And certainly, if you had something like the Save America Act in place, that would be much, much, much harder to do, no question about it."

So you don't have one Democrat, not one, who wants to toughen up the voter registration process or require a photo ID. It's almost unbelievable. Not one, nobody. And I think it's gotta be part of this is our plan to overwhelm Republicans and to take over. Last word.

"It's certainly hard to imagine. You've got a lot of those Senate Democrats from purple states, from very competitive states, and from states where they already have, in some respects, photo ID imposed at the state level. So, yes, it's incredibly hard to believe. Hopefully, the pressure's going to continue with these Democrats in the Senate, and maybe sometime in the near future, the dam will break, and we will see the Save America Act passed."

But you need to add on it, you need to know how many foreign nationals got in here under Biden. The estimate is between 10 and 15 million, and how many of them are on the voter rolls. That's what you need to find out. You could do that through the census, although people can lie on the census. But I think that my theory here, and I'm not a theorist, I'm a fact-based guy, I think it's correct. Counselor, thanks very much. We really appreciate your time today.

Iran, another merry-go-round situation, more meetings tomorrow. There was bombing over the weekend. The Mullahs don't really want to sign this deal. That's clear. Trump has got two options. He can walk away and look like a loser. I don't think he's going to do that. Or he can launch military action. I was on Piers Morgan out of London today. And I said, look, if you think that Donald Trump is going to give up his legacy and walk away and let Iran get all that money, close the Strait of Hormuz, and not let weapons inspectors in, if you that's going to happen, you don't know Donald Trump. Those are not going to happen. What is going to happen? I don't know. I mean, these Iranians are insane, and it seems like they want their country destroyed. Trump will destroy it. Minneapolis. So this is amazing. 110 Minnesotans have been arrested in connection with various fraud schemes to steal money from the American taxpayer. You know the story, right? All are federal, not one state charge. 110. Feds had to do all the lifting. State of Minnesota wouldn't do anything. In fact, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said this during Somali Independence Day. Go.

"We love our neighbors. In Minneapolis, we do not see you as immigrants. We see you as our family. You're our brothers, you're our sisters. You have done so much for this incredible city, and for that, we stand with you."

We won't investigate or do anything when you steal money. Great. I don't know how you live in Minnesota. Beautiful state. Used to be, I don't know, an accurate reflection of American values. Progressives wrecked it. John Bolton. So I told you from the very beginning, this guy was a charlatan, he didn't tell the truth. He was the national security advisor under Trump, wrote a book, The Room Where It All Happened, a White House memoir. And now he goes to court, he pleads guilty to 18 charges that he took classified information for his own personal use. Okay, so I knew this guy was bad from the jump. Here's what I said on August 11th last year. Go.

"So he'd rather have death and destruction in Ukraine than for Donald Trump to succeed. Is he a traitor?"

"So you think he doesn't-"

"Maybe?"

"Oh, come on. Come on, can't we have a reasonable disagreement about how to deal with Putin?"

"No, there's no disagreement. He has nothing. There's no two sides. All he does is Trump's an idiot. Trump's wrong."

Now, the reason I use that soundbite is because Bolton has been a charlatan from the word go. Okay, and now, and he denied all this. Remember how many shows did you see him on? How many cnn's did you see him on, or News Nations did you see him on, blasting Trump? Oh yeah, I guess I'm guilty. Now, he could get 10 years in prison. He's not going to. I don't know what he'll get, but he's not going to get 10. He has been fined more than two million dollars, which he's gonna have to pay. So, there's John Bolton's story for you. It's just, I'm shying because there's so many bad people, so many. Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll's $5 million verdict. Okay. Justice turned away Trump's appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump's arguments trial was unfair. So, he's gonna have to, Trump is gonna have to pay five million to Carroll. Okay, it's wrong, but that's what the Supreme Court says. That is our system. Overwhelming you with facts tonight. I'm sorry about that. You get a lot of stuff that you're not going to hear about in the other news expositions.

All right, July 4th, Cookout. Lots of people are having them. I am having one. And it's the highest cost in 10 years. Okay. So the average of this year, $74, it's going to cause you to cook out with chicken, burgers, pork chops, strawberries, potato salad, lemonade. Okay, here's a full screen. Here are the prices that have gone up. Ground beef is up 0.73 cents. A pound of cheese up six cents, hamburger buns up 18, chicken breast up 27, pork chops up 66, strawberries up 58, chocolate chip cookies up 25, ice cream up 30 cents. Now it doesn't seem too bad to me, but it does mount, I understand, but there you go. You want to have a cookout? You've got to bring 75 bucks. I don't know how much the 75 bucks, how many of that feeds, I guess a family of four. All right, Smart Life. So we have Gene Simmons on, We'll Do It Live. It's getting a lot of good buzz, and we're very happy with how that whole Do It Live is performing. One of the things that he said that I think people may be overlooking is that his mother saved him after he became famous. Go.

"I really wish I could be a rockstar. I really wish I was out there."

"It's a lot of fun. You can wear more makeup in higher heels than your mommy did, so..."

"No downside?"

"Yes, there is the downside, and it all comes back to you. You have a self-inferred fiduciary and otherwise duty to your own self, which is to say you're responsible, you're the guardian of yourself. So if you're namby-pamby and you have self-esteem, you are going to get washed away by the tsunami because it is a tsunami. When fame hits you, you get a lot of money and a lot of chicks throw themselves in your face, and all over, all that stuff. Fair weather friends, and you can quite easily be balled over and start to believe your own--"

"Did that happen to you?"

"No. Because my motivation has always been my mother. I didn't think I ever had the right to get high or drunk or smoke cigarettes because I didn't think I had the right to break my mother's heart after she raised me by herself because my father ran out on us when I was six years of age. So all I had was my mother, she went to work every day and sacrificed all her life just so that her only son can grow up and break her heart. No, that's not gonna fly. So it's because of my mother's wisdom, and I say wisdom instead of education because my mother was not educated. She didn't, at sixth grade, she was done. So she couldn't tell you where Timbuktu or Timbuck 3 was, but she understood the value of life, every day above ground is a good day, that's wisdom."

"That is a very profound statement that your mother guided you into a responsible life."

"That's it. If it wasn't for my mother, I would have gone into darkness."

"But there's another factor too. You got here, you got to America."

"If you get me started about that, I choke up."

All right, so the mother story, and his mother was in a concentration camp, Simmons, really struck with me because if he had done those self-destructive things like narcotics and booze and all that, that it would have hurt his mother, so he wouldn't do it. So that's the kind of stuff we have for you on Do It Live. I think it's the best of the genre now. And we hope you go to BillOReilly.com, we got a little switch, you go right over to YouTube and there it is. So in Europe, they don't have air conditioning because they think it hurts the environment. Well, yeah, a thousand people, more than a thousand, are dead because of the high temperatures in Europe. Almost every country, except for Ireland, Ireland's not warm. It's kind of the way it usually is. Because they don't have air conditioning. Some people are dying, literally dying. 150 million people living under extreme heat, schools are shut, all that, because of global warming. Isn't that ironic? If you're going to go to Europe, I don't know what to tell you to do.

This month in history, June 19th, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed and signed by Lyndon Johnson after an 83-day filibuster in the Senate. So the act was basically, if you have anything to do with the federal government, you have to be treated equally. That's pretty much it. And the Democrats in the Senate voted 69% in favor. Republicans, 82%. Keep this in mind now. So this is 1964, and more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. Here are some of the guys who opposed it. Richard Russell, Barry Goldwater, Robert Byrd, Jay William Fulbright, Strom Thurman, John Tower. So they opposed the Civil Rights Act. Biden's friends with most of them. Yeah, that's a cheap shot. I know. It's not Biden's fault, but pretty heinous being against it.

Okay, our YouTube bonus is on Robert De Niro, why I think you should leave the country. And I don't say that about very many people. But De Niro, I'm more than happy to stand up and say, Bobby, wherever you want to go, I'll buy you a plane ticket. Get out. You are not helping this country. That's on BillOReilly.com too. It's free, okay? YouTube.com/BillOReilly. Mail.

Bill B. "We're way beyond 30 trillion in debt. Closing in on 49," not yet. We're about 30. "The left will sooner or later wind up with what they want, universal free everything. No law enforcement and open borders." I'm not so sure. I think there's going to be a backlash.

Perry. "Hey Bill, I hate to be a pessimist, but sometimes it looks like civil wars are coming to America and other countries." Not here because we live too well. Even the poor live better than the moderate people in Europe. We're not going to have any outright war here. People have too much to lose. But certainly there's strife.

Lee, Concierge Member, Lee is under my protection. "Bill, I think it is ironic that the Iranian theocracy doesn't value life, so 10,000 civilians would mean nothing to that. Yet we are worried about civilian casualties. In Killing the Killers, you describe the Ayatollah and how his regime operated. How does President Trump thread the needle?" He can't thread the needle. He either kills or he doesn't. And if he kills civilians, then he'll be vilified. You know that all over the world. If he doesn't, then he'd be branded a loser. Tough spot.

Eric. "Let's face it, this country is going to be split into two countries in the future." No, it's not. That's not going to happen. Constitutionally, it can't happen, and it's just not going to happen.

Patricia North, Natick, Massachusetts. "Thank you very much for your excellent analysis of the communist takeover of New York, and why I'd hope that you can get through Chris Cuomo's thick head. I like Chris and Andrew Cuomo. Your interview with Andrew was very interesting. We have some real liberal loons in Massachusetts, yet the lunacy in New York City is a lot worse than in Boston." It is, you know, Boston, very liberal, but it hasn't really collapsed like LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Interesting.

Nancy Reynolds, Monroe City, Indiana. "There's an article in the Chicago Sun-Times. Dated June 17th, 2026, titled the Obama Presidential Center is not an official presidential library." So what? It's an untrue article. So the Obama Library is actually getting federal money. If it weren't an official library, it wouldn't get federal money, getting lots of Cook County money. Look, the Chicago Sun-Times, I mean, you'd be better off reading Mad Magazine, okay? I mean, these people have no clue, and nor do they care.

Shelly. "What I don't understand is how the communists can be allowed to do this. Mamdani is only the mayor, the governor is above him. The president is above her. Can they block him?" The governor can, not the president. The president can't insert himself into the states unless there is a federal violation. Okay, communism isn't a violation. However, Hochul, the Governor of New York, could block the madness, but she won't because she wants the money. Progressive money.

Robert. "California has billionaires taxed on the November ballot. It is pulling 70% approval and is likely to pass. Once passed, the state will lower the threshold until every individual has been successfully taxed." Well, everybody's taxed now, successful or not, but that will lead to another exodus out of California.

Pat Yokosuka, Japan. "The interview with Gene Simmons was outstanding. Very interesting. I never miss your program. Thanks, Bill." Yeah. We'll Do It Live. It's really working well. Didn't know it would. Can't take credit. We want you to get a 250 hat from us. Wear it proudly. It's a message. Patriotic message. So go to BillOReilly.com store. We got all my books and everything like that. Word of the Day: do not be a Visigoth. It's worth looking up. V-I-S-I G-O-T-H, you should know about the Visigoths.

Okay. So the rest of the week, Final Thought. July 4th, Saturday. Obviously not going to work on Saturday, and it's probably not going to be a column on Sunday. I need some time off on. Monday, I'll be back Thursday and Friday, we're going to put up our latest Do It Live with Glenn Beck. And it is really interesting for those of you who follow your country and care about your country. So Beck and I, we don't always see things the same, but I've known him a long time. And I think he gave the best interview I've ever seen him give to me. He had to, because I told him I'd go over his house if he didn't, and nobody wants that. So that will post on Thursday at noon for Premium Members on BillORiley.com at 6 p.m. For everybody else. And that's worth watching.

So we are here, obviously today, tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, then we'll be off, but Beck will drop on Thursday, he'll be throughout the whole weekend, and then we will be back in action on Monday. That is, unless, and this is absolutely a possibility, there's military action, I mean big time, against Iran. I don't think that President Trump's going to do that on the 250th anniversary. I think he's going to wait, but I think it's coming. Think it's coming. He can't let these people run roughshod much longer. He knows it. And I just am very sad that civilians are going to die over there. But it's going to happen. Unless the Lord intervenes or Allah says to these Mullahs, knock it off. Cooperate with the agreement. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

Iran vs. Trump

2026-06-29T16:56:00Z

They're on, they're off. They're in, they're out. All of this stuff. And I'm not even gonna bother getting into the minutiae of the situation with Iran because it's a game now. Who's going to win? Is Trump going to win or the Iranians going to win? That's what is in play.

I still believe that America will prevail, but that might be because I want to believe that. Remember my mantra: people believe what they want to believe. I cannot back up my belief that the Trump administration will break Iran.

President Trump does not want to kill civilians. Will that eventually have to happen? I don't know. Israelis have no problem killing Iranian civilians. And I'm not saying that in a derisive, negative way. I'm saying they understand the Netanyahu government that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it's going to be Israel first.

The question for us now is: when are we here in America and the world going to get relief? Nobody knows.

It’s very, very frustrating. Watch a new No Spin News tonight for the latest.

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Living in America

2026-06-29T07:00:00Z

American pride is at the forefront as we celebrate 250 years this Fourth of July.

Reasonable people are proud of our country and know we are a noble nation. They cheer for the U.S. soccer team during the World Cup and stand by the country through the wins and losses, like yesterday’s game.

But as I reported earlier this week, there are some who don’t feel that way.

An NBC poll asked, How proud are you to be an American? 21% of those polled say they are NOT proud. Republicans, 90% are proud to be American. Democrats, just 29 percent. That's the progressive influence.

We have a lot of hate on the side of not being proud, and again, I'll tell you, leave. I’m sure some other country would be happy to have you. That’s my message to Robert De Niro.

I never thought I’d be the person saying this, telling people to leave.

But if your life is so hateful and driven by the anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, or anti-Republican, whatever it may be, go.

Even KISS rock star Gene Simmons offered a similar sentiment in my latest edition of We’ll Do It LIVE! Talk about a guy who’s made the most of his opportunity in the United States.

Check out my YouTube Bonus and the Gene Simmons episode. There will be a new No Spin News Monday.

The Red Menace

2026-06-28T07:00:00Z

Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, and AOC are not “Democratic Socialists.” In fact, there’s no such thing. You can be a socialist or a communist, but the DS party doesn’t exist and never has in America. The Mugwumps had their day, but no Democratic Socialists.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a flat-out Marxist. He wants to control the means of production in the nation’s largest city. Just last week, Mamdani froze rent hikes. Landlords had no say. The city just did it.

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Next on Zohran’s Lenin wish list is food. The mayor will try to regulate how it’s distributed. Regulations will strangle grocery stores, and some will be replaced by city-run food depots. Nothing “democratic” about this. New York City will essentially be run by far-left bureaucrats who will dictate how the free market runs, what you can do, and what you can’t do. Where the food is and where it isn’t.

Mamdani and his Godfather, Senator Bernie Sanders, despise the free marketplace. They believe the “billionaires” control production, exploiting the folks.

Mao, Stalin, Fidel, and Ho all thought the same way. Millions died transitioning to communism. My book “Confronting Evil” chronicles this.

Mamdani doesn’t want vehicles in the city. So the speed limit is now 25 mph. Cameras monitor cars and trucks. An expensive ticket is sent to “speeders.”

That’s city-sanctioned theft.

Everything is taxed. It costs more than $10 just to drive into NYC, and at least $40 to park. Cameras watch at all times.

Want to open a business, Mamdani has to sign off. City “regulations” strangle entrepreneurs. It’s like the mob. The city always gets a “taste.”

But the private property situation is really the communist flash point. Old Bernie and his crew desperately want to impose a national “wealth tax” on private assets. That means if you have accumulated wealth, the government can simply take it away from you through taxation. More bureaucratic theft. The Supreme Court will soon have to rule on this assault on capitalism.

If you know a person who believes the government has a “right” to tax and seize individual assets, that person is a communist. The free marketplace does not limit compensation. A company’s board of directors does. Yes, there is corporate abuse and excess. That’s what is driving neo-communism in our country.

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Those who want a centralized economic system run by various governments are sacrificing their own freedom and supporting a police state. There has never been a communist government without one.

There are many foolish people on this planet, and the rise of progressive governance supports that statement.

In New York, Mamdani and his cadre have amassed significant power because of ignorance and apathy on the part of many voters. It looks to me like this trend will have to be confronted by Americans who understand that capitalism provides opportunity while communism certainly does not. Under that system, your life options will be severely curtailed.

That’s what the progressives want: to control your aspirations and success. To me, this is evil. I don’t want my life choices in the hands of Mamdani, Bernie, or AOC.

Call me crazy.

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PEOPLE.COM: Gene Simmons & Bill O'Reilly on 'Reaching the Finish Line'

2026-06-26T22:00:00Z

Bill's interview with Gene Simmons on the latest episode of We'll Do It LIVE! was covered by People.com.

"Gene Simmons is reflecting on getting older.

The KISS bassist and co-vocalist appeared on the Thursday, June 25 episode of Bill O'Reilly's We'll Do It Live! where he discussed his own mortality.

O'Reilly, 76, noted that Simmons, also 76, has been intentional in how he uses his time later in life.

'Use it or lose it," the rocker said. "Get up every day and pump that heart. A lot of people, a lot of seniors just give up, it's over. But I think they're missing the point.'"

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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-06-26T22:00:00Z

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Rooting for Pond Scum

2026-06-26T15:10:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

You may be familiar with the myth of Narcissus, a boy so stunningly beautiful that he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and couldn’t look away. More than a few of his modern counterparts, narcissists in love with their own images, are now employed in what’s left of the corporate media. And in recent days, they’ve focused on a pool that reflects very badly on their biases.

Washington’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been plagued with problems for decades. The Obama administration spent $35 million to renovate the pool and rid it of algae, but that project was deemed a massive failure – the pool was described as a ‘murky, smelly mess, filled with algae, bird waste and dead ducks.’ We heard little about that because the media treated the big guy more like Saint Barack than President Obama. Now there’s a different president trying to deal with this messy and lingering problem.

A couple of months ago, Donald Trump announced that he would make the pool beautiful and ‘American flag blue.’ But as soon as it was refilled with water, that pesky old algae showed its ugly face once again.

That’s when the media dove into the story headfirst. ABC’s senior correspondent, Jonathan Karl, ventured poolside and gleefully displayed some of the blue resurfacing material that had peeled off. Like Narcissus himself, Karl seemed to enjoy his reflection immensely, after which the president referred to him as a ‘Lightweight ABC Reporter.’ CNN, meanwhile, sent crack investigative correspondent Sunlen Serfaty to scoop up some water and have it tested by a professional ‘algae researcher.’

Back in the CNN studio, despite news going on all over the globe, a panel of pundits pontificated about this monumental algae story. Over on The View, of course, Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts spent tons of time and energy on the breaking story. Keep in mind that both ABC News and The View are under the purview of Disney, which might consider a sequel: ‘The Little Mermaid III: Ariel vs. The Algae.”

President Trump, as is his wont, didn’t do himself any favors. He pretty much promised that this would be the most beautiful, bluest, most perfect pool in the history of pools.

That’s what he does, and it is always an open invitation to his many media enemies to prove him wrong. This time, they amplified a minor story into a front-page saga that includes ‘no-bid contracts,’ alleged vandalism, arrests, lawsuits, and deceased waterfowl. The same dogged journalists who ignored open borders, illegal immigrant crime, Joe Biden’s decline, new COVID revelations, and many other stories became totally obsessed with the Reflecting Pool controversy.

We all know the media will eventually forget about this issue as soon as they find another ‘scandal’ that might embarrass Donald Trump. The only question is when they’ll move on – will it be a matter of days or weeks or months? Hey, here’s an idea. Maybe someone should start a pool!

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

Cancel Culture, Politics

2026-06-26T14:42:00Z

The Cost of War

2026-06-25T17:48:00Z

AJ Pasciuti, a former Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and author, reflects on his time in the Marines and patriotism in America.

Rise of Communism

2026-06-25T17:30:00Z

I believe that these communists who are being elected have no idea what communism is, and the people who vote for them are just clueless to a frightening degree.

Mao said the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism, which means what you have, has two outstanding characteristics. ‘One is its class nature. It openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat.’ That means you don't have anything. It's all owned by the people. Your house is owned by people, your car, any bank accounts you might have. The people own it, not you. Now, the people don't know they own it, but the government uses the people.

The other characteristic, essentially, is that taking your stuff isn’t a ‘pipe dream.’ Mao did it. Now, the communists in Beijing allow very, very few of their citizens to become very wealthy. Mostly tech people. They allow that. But tomorrow, if they don't like that person, then they will take all the stuff.

The three communists elected in New York City are Chevalier, Valdez, and Lander. And they're all Mamdani guys. What they're doing is trying to seize all the assets of New York City and distribute those assets to the poor. That's what the game is.

Now, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, could control Mamdani and his acolytes, but she will not. She is a progressive liberal. Therein lies the split. Hochul is not a communist, okay? But the Democratic Party is now the home of all the communists. It's not like the Communist Party runs on its own. It's attached to the Democratic Party. That will hurt the Democrats as more and more American citizens figure this out. They haven't figured it out yet because the media covers for this.

O'Reilly on Communism's Ascendency

2026-06-25T17:15:00Z

With Sid Rosenberg out of town, Bill joins the crew at WABC and lays out exactly how New York City voters elected an ultra-radical trio that will head to Washington to serve in the next Congress. He also offers a solution to stop the march of anti-American radicalism.

O'Reilly on the New York's Shift Toward Communism with Mark Simone

2026-06-25T16:36:00Z

Bill joins Sean Hannity’s guest host Mark Simone and dissects the communist red wave that swamped New York City Tuesday night.

O'Reilly & Vittert on President Trump's Lingering Issues

2026-06-25T16:32:00Z

Before he spoke, Bill O'Reilly and Leland Vittert run through the things President Trump needs to address.

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Killing Time with Gene Simmons

2026-06-25T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Alright, Killing Time, here we go with, he just called himself Richard Simmons, but he doesn't look like Richard. Certainly, the lifestyle is different than Richard, and here's Gene Simmons. Now you are, I'm not going to say obsessed with money.

SIMMONS What does that mean? Why is that a negative?

O'REILLY It's not a negative, you're attacking the messenger here. I didn't say it was a negative. I'm not one of those guys that... If you use the money for bad things, I'm coming after you. But if you make it legitimately, that's our system. However, there is this movement now in America, Mamdani here in New York, communist, like you made that money, Gene Simmons, hard work, creativity, all that. I want.

SIMMONS That's why you're allowed to move to Texas or Florida.

O'REILLY Yeah. What do you think about that movement?

SIMMONS I think you should be free to move to another state if you find the states. It's interesting to note that economically Texas and Florida are doing great. Red states tend to do right wonderfully. And I'm not talking about political leanings. California is a complete disaster between fire, by the way, they just caught the guy that set those fires, and I read the news, where you know why he set the fires that caused the Palisades fire? He was angry at rich people. That's literally a quote in the article in Los Angeles Times today. Look, there are all kinds of human beings on the planet and you have to be careful who your leaders are, and I prefer business people being in political positions. I prefer people who understand business to be elected because country, cities, states are businesses. The amount of, for instance, countries have imports and exports. Your imports should be less than your exports in terms of money. Otherwise, your debt keeps going up and we're in trouble.

O'REILLY With the debt.

SIMMONS And by the way, I'm for tariffs if they benefit us and doing whatever we have to do to improve people's lives. So I don't like politicians in general because their mandate, self-imposed mandate, is to get re-elected. They will tell you the tendency is what you want to hear and give undocumented immigrants the right to vote so that they can be voted back in. That's their modus operandi. And it should be people like Schwarzenegger, by the way, who I like a lot who was a republican, but a centrist in essence and took no salary. He was a rich man took no salary and got himself elected the governor of California, and did very well. So I'm not a political person as much as I am of pragmatists, people who want to get into government to serve.

O'REILLY Sure, that would be the ideal.

SIMMONS Not for self-engrandizement.

O'REILLY That's kind of a pipe dream at this point. But you yourself like money.

SIMMONS I haven't met a sane person who doesn't. Even God passes the hat. How do you buy your mother the hip operation she needs? How do give to charity? How do feed your children without money? Of course you love money.

O'REILLY But some people like money more than others.

SIMMONS Well let's say you meet a billionaire. May I say a-hole?

O'REILLY Well, we got it. Go ahead.

SIMMONS Okay, a billionaire, a person, not a nice person, who never gave a penny to charity, and he makes a billion dollars a year.

O'REILLY Don't like him.

SIMMONS And here's my point of view. Even the fact that A self-possessed, you know, person who doesn't care about other people, let's say on paper, leads a lifestyle, a billionaire's lifestyle. The very fact that he builds mansions and yachts and everything enables many people to feed their families, his lifestyle. So indirectly, even if his heart is in the wrong place, the fact that he leads a billionaire lifestyle enables regular folks to feed their families. Now of course ethically and morally it's much better, you're a better person to give money. Buffett gave most of his wealth away and Bill Gates has foundations and everything. That's great, you can point to that and say, look, he's giving the money away. But the very fact that you earn a lot of money and keep buying things enables people to feed their families. So I'm less judgmental about that.

O'REILLY How about for yourself though, is it a game, like a sense of accomplishment?

SIMMONS Yes. Because I don't really care about money, in essence. But I do care about money.

O'REILLY Success.

SIMMONS That's right. It's like athletes who perform at the Olympics, you're waiting for the judges to hold up a number. It's a gage of how well you do. So I'm in real estate and crypto, which I'm taking a look at now. All kinds of, spread the risk, as they say. And doing very well, it keeps getting better and better because I rang the New York Stock Exchange bell when we were under $8,000 at $7,000 something and then spoke at NASDAQ and all the best system and my personal piece of advice, my opinion to anybody out there who knows nothing about the stock exchange is stop going to bars and throwing your money away and buying 20-30 people drinks, take all the money would throw away in the course of a year. And put it into the S&P, standard and poor 500, the S&P 500 and never touch it again. You will bless me. In the matter of a few decades, you'll be a multi-billionaire.

O'REILLY That's an actually, I don't know if it's gone high, but that's actually very good advice. So that was fun. Thank you very much for taking the time. I was gonna wear the paint here, but.

SIMMONS Not for free, you don't.

O'REILLY That's right, I have to buy it and I can't do the internet thing so I'd probably be chasing some guy around New York City. Hey, can I have the paint? But anyway you've been a very, very interesting person for me to observe all these years and I'm very pleased to talk with you.

SIMMONS I appreciate it.

Killing Time with Gene Simmons

2026-06-25T16:00:00Z

Gene Simmons talks to Bill about his love of money.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Gene Simmons

2026-06-25T16:00:00Z

KISS frontman Gene Simmons joins Bill O'Reilly to talk about politics, President Trump, patriotism, cancel culture, and more. The outspoken duo also talk about his family history and being a rock star.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Gene Simmons

2026-06-25T16:00:00Z

SIMMONS Of the people, for the people, by the people. He won the election by millions. I am a firm believer that the wall should be built. Absolutely.

O'REILLY You don't want to persuade...

SIMMONS For what purpose? This idea of always agreeing with somebody is lunacy. I can break bread with anybody other than Nazis. I would stick my tongue out now, but the floor is a little dirty.

O'REILLY Hey, I'm Bill O'Reilly, and welcome to another We'll Do It Live today, this week. We have a great guest. His name is Gene Simmons. You know him even without the makeup. He is the driving force behind Kiss. He is getting an award, Songwriters Award in Manhattan.

SIMMONS Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Songwriters Hall of Fame award, whatever you're getting it.

SIMMONS With Paul Stanley, my partner.

O'REILLY You and I have a lot in common, although nobody would ever believe that.

SIMMONS We're human beings.

O'REILLY And we'll get into that while you are, and we will get into that. But I wanted to open up with this. I'm a big history guy, you know, and you were born in Israel.

SIMMONS I don't look Swiss, do I?

O'REILLY No. You were born in Israel. Your mother survived a death camp in Germany.

SIMMONS Nazi Germany, yeah.

O'REILLY So I wrote Killing the SS. I know a lot about this. Did you growing up ever speak to your mother about what she went through?

SIMMONS She often, most of the time, refused to talk about it because only later, in retrospect, I had the sense that she didn't want me to go through the horrific life that she had because she saw her whole family wiped out. And by the way, people often simplify history. They think it's just the Jewish Holocaust. That's not true. Of course, it's true. But you had two million Roman Catholics, two million gay folks, the Romani, anybody who didn't fit the master race thing were sent to the death camps. Even some Germans who politically objected, there were few of them, to Hitler coming to power. They were all wiped out, starved, beaten, and wiped out.

O'REILLY So your mom didn't want to talk about it.

SIMMONS No.

O'REILLY Did you ever break her down and get a little insight into it?

SIMMONS I finally, there was a movie called Sophie's Choice with Meryl Streep and I finally understood actually what happened and it was almost the same thing. My mother was 14 years of age and the Commandant, same thing happened in the film ironically and strangely. The Commandant had his family there. You know they had kids and his wife was there and during the daytime, as if nothing was going on over the other side of the wall. So they brought in, the commandant's wife wanted her makeup done and her hair done and everything, and my mother at a young age went to frisur, frisur, beauty school to learn how to do hair, makeup and all that. So my mother, at 14, and some other women who were starving to death were brought into the commandants' office, and I can speak German well enough. And my mother was telling me in broken German, because she learned how to speak some German, you had to, and Hungarian and Hebrew, because I was born in Israel. The story in this kind of trifecta of languages about how the luck of God or whatever, luck of the draw, she was not sent to the death camps and she survived. What happened was that the commandant's wife said, I like that one and that one, and that on, and then the husband stepped up. And said, can you speak a little German to the women in line? And the first one said, yes, I can. He just waved her aside and she was taken, God knows where. And my mother was close to the end of the line, understood that maybe she shouldn't let on that she spoke German. So by the time it got to her, she went, you know, I don't know. And she was picked. And in retrospect, my mother explained to me that maybe the fact that she looked as if she didn't understand German is what he wanted, because he didn't want any secrets or anything to get back to, you know, the marriage.

O'REILLY Didn't want to be overheard or anything like that.

SIMMONS So she survived on the scraps that were in the garbage, and she told me, breaks your heart to think of it, that she'd take these little scraps of half-eaten bread and all that and hide him, you know, under her clothing. And wouldn't dare tell anybody else in the barracks because you would get killed for those little bits of food.

O'REILLY When your mom got to Israel, there was an emotional attachment. There had to be, because that was your sanctuary for Jews all over Europe, and who had gone through this horrific situation. Does that alliance, allegiance, whatever word you want to use, pertain to this day?

SIMMONS It does. That doesn't mean you agree with every political move governments make or the course of history, but there are very few places, people who've been subjugated to violence and stuff. And it goes the same with Armenians. If it wasn't for Armenia, where are they gonna go? The Turks came in and slaughtered a million of them, and it's still not talked about today. So there is such a thing as a country or location that defines itself by the nature of the folks. So for history's sake and for factual sake, there are 67 Muslim countries in the world, 67. There's only one country in the world smaller than Rhode Island, which identifies as a Jewish state. However, within the Jewish state, you've got 20% of the population are Arab non-Jews and in the Knesset, which is the Jewish-Israeli version of Congress, you've got 20% representation by Palestinian Israelis who vote often against the government. Mosques are right next to churches, are right next the temples, you don't get killed because of your religion and you know, mostly it's a very democratic country. Once you cross the wall to the other side, the Shia will kill the Sunni. And forget about the Wahhabis who are in Saudi Arabia. Even within the same religion, they will kill each other. Never mind the other religions, Christians, Jews, or anybody.

O'REILLY All right, so I think you said say you do have some loyalty to Israel and that's understandable When you hear in the United States horrible things, how do you react?

SIMMONS It's not the first time, there's anti-Semitism, there's racism and homophobic hatred. There's all kinds of hatred going around. So I'm not here to wave the flag and say, poor little me, because in relation to history, this is nothing. This is not World War II where Jews were being rounded up and sent in cattle cars to be destroyed. Thank God there's a place called America where you've got legal recourse. Somebody says something about you, you can sue them. It's called slander. So you have some legal recourse there. I think the universities are doing themselves and America a disservice by being so subservient to wokeism. It's okay to be aware that there are groups who feel marginalized. I totally understand that. But when the educational system buckles its knees and starts serving a certain section of society, instead of being a freewheeling discussion of all different areas, all different faiths and so on. So I think the universities, coming as a former teacher myself of grade school, it's not the same school system I grew up in.

O'REILLY Do you know why this anti-Semitism has taken root in some of the nation's universities? You have any theory about, because I mean, 10 years ago we didn't get this, but this progressive movement had ushered in Israel's a fascist state, Jews are bad.

SIMMONS Yeah. If more countries define themselves as fascist and had free elections and allowed people who the rest of the world considers enemies to be part of the population and have every bit as many rights within the population. I don't know how you define it a fascist, but I do think it's worth noting that before, during, and after the October 7th massacre, I hope people agree, it was just a horrific event that happened. The Israeli Palestinians didn't go over the border to Gaza, in fact, none of them left israel. They stayed in Israel. They like the life so people call America fascist all the time, but we had anywhere from twenty to thirty million illegal immigrants. What are they doing here? Well, they want a better life because the countries they come from...

O'REILLY There's a lot of propaganda. I just wonder why it's taking place. I mean, what's driving this, even in New York City?

SIMMONS When you have a group of college professors who are trained in a certain thing, they come and they espouse their political points of views. I think it is...

O'REILLY It's crazy points of view.

SIMMONS I don't buy it, but I wouldn't mind it if they were opposing points of views evenly split in the same university. But I find the universities, and by the way, I think the government's doing the right thing, which is testing the legal system and suing them.

O'REILLY Yeah, if they're violating DEI or...

SIMMONS Yeah, if they're violating the tone and the sense of what the Constitution is all about. There's free speech, and then there's slander and hate speech. And I do think the professors in this country are doing themselves and their young students a favor by free speech does not mean you're allowed to stand up in a movie theater and yell fire. No, that's incitement to riot. It's a different political and legal term. Free speech just says, you know, my opinion is but when you're hurled superlatives at people and say, you're a pedophile. Once I say, not you, once you're a pedophile, that'll come out as a as a headline, and say oh, that was just my opinion But once it's out there, how do you subvert?

O'REILLY Yeah. How do you defend yourself? So you and I have a common upbringing, which is ridiculous just because of our career paths. So you were a teacher in Spanish Harlem, sixth grade, right? Okay. I was a high school teacher in a slum of Miami, Opa-Locka, and I never thought that I would reach the heights that I've reached. And I'm sure when you were...

SIMMONS Oh, I couldn't speak a word of English, I...

O'REILLY Big accent.

SIMMONS I talked like this, you know, with a clipped, I speak other languages as well, but with a clip, you now, kind of sound, which Israelis do. I wanna say something about patriotism, if you don't mind. I think we both agree on that. It is sorely lacking. When I was in sixth grade and the flag was raised in class, The children shut up. Put their hand over their hearts, I pledge allegiance to the flag, and so on and so forth. There was no such thing as sitting down or arguing or burning flags when I was a kid. And so, I really believe America needs to get back to the sort of basic idea that you can be an a-hole in this country and have the right to not love America. Of course, you can always leave if you don't like it, but I'm not a love it or leave it kind of a guy. You can stay here, not like it and try to change it from the inside. But the idea that you think you have the right to burn the flag after God knows how many Americans went overseas and gave their life, and some gave all to protect your right to be an asshole. And so I think there's got to be some pullback. Not all the way, because in the past women didn't vote, black folks couldn't get the equal rights and so on and so forth, but somewhere into civility where the nuclear family is still what it's about. And I don't care what your private life is like or if you worship a rock or if define yourself by different genders, that's great. Keep it to yourself, I'm not interested.

O'REILLY Okay. Would you like to debate Bruce Springsteen? I'd love to see that.

SIMMONS I've met, I've meet Bruce on a number of occasions. I don't think it matters and I'll tell you why, because he's so passionate about his point of view and there are people on the far left.

O'REILLY That's okay.

SIMMONS That's right, that's right and so I do have a point of view as a performer myself. You get up on stage, it's the place for art. I'm really not interested in famous people espousing their political beliefs. I don't want to go to Mark Ruffalo, this actor, and find out what his sense is of our foreign policy. In the same way that I don't know what Kylie Jenner's political points of views are, and I really don't give to...

O'REILLY I know, but wouldn't it be instructive to see two opposite points of view in the same industry, two titans, who both came up working class, right? No question about it. And they arrived at different intellectual...

SIMMONS Yeah, but my point of view is coming from another country and my mother was in a concentration camp.

O'REILLY But that's good though. That's part of your collective experience.

SIMMONS The perspective is that whatever you think is wrong with this country as soon as you and I'm not saying it shouldn't get better, we should always strive to make this country better and better. But if you place this country next to any other country on the face of the planet, no other country has more illegal immigrants. I'm an immigrant, but we came in through the legal system.

O'REILLY But Bruce not buying that.

SIMMONS And that's his right.

O'REILLY But wouldn't you like to debate him on it?

SIMMONS About what? That he wants to vote one way and I want to vote the other way?

O'REILLY Well...Collective experience.

SIMMONS I understand it but I just want to say this let's say we arrive at a point where we talk about the current president, who I knew before he became political, when he was just a citizen in these United States. You know, in social areas clubs and whatever. So, you can argue and hate the president and you're allowed to do that but you have to recognize the fact that of the people, for the people, by the people, means that the people have spoken. He won the election by millions, and the electoral college as well. End of story, you don't like it? You can wait until the next election and vote your conscience. And when I was growing up, nobody ever asked me, who did you vote for? What do you mean who did your vote for, who are you and what business is it of yours who I vote for? There used to be a curtain, you went behind it, you pulled the curtain because it was nobody's business. You vote your conscious. Leave politics out of it when we sit around and break bread. I can break bread with anybody other than Nazis who completely disagree. Well, keep your feelings to yourself and your power is in the voting booth.

O'REILLY You're not in the business to persuade, you don't want to persuade.

SIMMONS For what purpose?

O'REILLY Well, I mean, my business is persuasion and we're pretty successful with that because we're fact-based. The other thing is, in the music industry, and I know a little bit about it, but not a lot, is the Springsteen point of view...

SIMMONS Very popular.

O'REILLY It is prevalent. I put that on the agents...

SIMMONS On the performers, not the audience.

O'REILLY I put that on the agents and the bookers and you have to think a certain way to get in a club.

SIMMONS I'm, I'm not sure if that's accurate, but I will say the lay of the land I notice is mostly they are, in the same way that if you go to California it is a blue state. It's mostly Democrat and as you get to the major cities, it's mostly progressive far-left Democrats. I mean the runoff now in the Democratic Party are two people who I wouldn't vote for if you paid me for it. On the other hand, if you paid me enough, I might consider...

O'REILLY Well, it's all about performance.

SIMMONS I think Steve should be the next governor.

O'REILLY Well, Hilton has a one in five chance because the democratic machine is very powerful.

SIMMONS They'll prevent it. I'm not beholding to any political point of view or anything, I'm about issues, which is why I have friends from every area. I do business with all kinds of people. If I only did business with people who are Republicans and so on, it wouldn't make financial sense because people of all political beliefs do business. So business is not what your political beliefs are, it's whether or not we can both have a win-win relationship.

O'REILLY And you've done very well in the music business, but I don't know why it's not just musicians, it's actors too, and directors and all of that. I don't know why this monolith has developed in the entertainment industry.

SIMMONS The pendulum swings.

O'REILLY You think it's going to swing?

SIMMONS Well there's no question because you've seen how politics where, you know, sometimes the far left takes a hold and the pendulum goes this way and sometimes Republicans get into government and so on and so laws keep changing state to state.

O'REILLY I still believe that the music industry, and most of these people, over my 50-year career, are not informed. I mean, you know what you're talking about.

SIMMONS I think that's fair.

O'REILLY Right. They're not. They don't know.

SIMMONS It's difficult to have a conversation with people who are passionate in their hearts.

O'REILLY They don't know anything.

SIMMONS So how did you get along with Bill Maher? I find him refreshing.

O'REILLY I've known him forever. I get along with him fine, but I don't want him blowing pot smoke in my face.

SIMMONS I don't get high either. I never have.

O'REILLY That's another thing.

SIMMONS Well there you go. L'assez faire. He does that in his private life. Let it be, you know, it's like...

O'REILLY I won't arrest him. I want everybody to be cogent.

SIMMONS You don't wanna do that, he wants to do that and you both get along. Proof of L'aissez faire, but I find him refreshing because he has no problem having dinner with the president and then afterwards, getting on the show and say I don't like what the president did over here. Great. But people on both sides of the fence, I believe, have gone to the extreme so that it's my party says this is the way to do it, if you don't march along with exactly these things, which is why I'm much more a free thinker and closer to the center. On certain areas I agree with either party. I am a firm believer that the wall should be built, absolutely. The previous pope was a nice man and so on I respected him said It's inhumane to have a wall between Mexico and America, except for the fact that the Vatican has a massive wall around it for the same reason that we should. Border security, you wanna know who's coming into your border. Not that they shouldn't, do it through the legal system.

O'REILLY Has your freedom of intellectual thought cost you any work?

SIMMONS Yeah, you get there's such a thing as being canceled.

O'REILLY Have you been?

SIMMONS Yeah, a little bit. But, you know, I'm blessed. I'm putting my hands together When you get to a certain financial comfort zone, it doesn't affect..

O'REILLY No, but it's still offensive.

SIMMONS It's offensive, but I started... May I speak plainly?

O'REILLY May you? You absolutely should.

SIMMONS So I started a hashtag because you came out and warned me of course these are semantics but I'm not anti-semantic Bill. You came out, and said less poopy words. I don't usually say that except for the fact that a few decades ago I started, a hashtag movement. It's called #gof***yourself and anybody can use it. You're welcome out there because my life does not depend on tugging on somebody's shirt sleeves to find out if it's okay to have my thoughts and my beliefs. Be an individual, don't be ordinary, be extraordinary. Be an individual. I didn't always agree with my mother and I would give my life for my mother, this idea of always agreeing with somebody is lunacy. Sometimes they're wrong for you.

O'REILLY Can you tell us how you got iced on occasion?

SIMMONS There were maybe two or three shows where somebody asked me on camera locally as I'm doing interviews, what do you think of the president? And I said, I don't have any problem getting the Kennedy Center Awards at all. He's the president of these United States and he was legally voted into power. And if you don't like the man, you can at least respect the presidency. And this idea of just banding about Trump this and Trump that, no, it's president Trump. Just like a doctor, I don't like my doctor, but he's a doctor. Doctor, so-and-so. And that was not a popular sentiment.

O'REILLY Did anybody confront you?

SIMMONS Yes, I lost I lost those two or three shows, but I was considering buying the business. So it's a different...

O'REILLY Right, I know you don't need the money, Gene.

SIMMONS No, there's no such thing, Bill. That's why you get up every day and try to earn more.

O'REILLY I don't work for money.

SIMMONS Okay, well then give me the money you make.

O'REILLY Give it to you, that's socialism.

SIMMONS You don't need it.

O'REILLY I'll take my money...

SIMMONS I'll give you sweat equity for it. We'll figure that out.

O'REILLY I don't want you would Kiss on my front lawn. Are you kidding?

SIMMONS Oh, yes, you do because we can charge a lot of money for those people coming out to your front lawn.

O'REILLY Are you guys gonna tour anymore?

SIMMONS No. We sold KISS hook, line, and sinker to a wonderful company called Pop House. You know, they're a big company.

O'REILLY I know you got a movie in the works, right?

SIMMONS I'm a producer, so I have a company called Deepwater that's in every movie theater with Sir Ben Kingsley, Aaron Eckhart, Renny Harlan directing.

O'REILLY But no more live shows for Kiss.

SIMMONS I'm doing live shows with Gene Simmons. So I'm appearing with my solo band, doing 40 cities. We have a restaurant chain called Rock and Brews, two at LAX, 30 around the country. There's a lot of stuff. I'm trying to copy you.

O'REILLY Don't do that. You and I are just about the same age and I have to give you props.

SIMMONS No, I'm older than you are.

O'REILLY A few days.

SIMMONS But it's either you can't be a little pregnant. You either are, or you're not. Am I older than you?

O'REILLY You're older than me.

SIMMONS That's what I said.

O'REILLY But you are using your time on this planet.

SIMMONS Use it or lose it. Get up every day and pump that heart.

O'REILLY A lot of seniors just give up and it's over.

SIMMONS But I think they're missing the point. If life is a journey, or at least a race, I'm sure everybody agrees, when you see that finish line coming towards you, don't you speed up instead of slowing down? If I see the finish line, I've only got two, three, a year left. You know, you speed up. What are you gonna do, sit on your thumb and wait to die?

O'REILLY Why do people do that? You know, but you don't, I don't.

SIMMONS They'll be sad. They won't be able to sleep at night. They'll get heart troubles. The best thing to do is keep pumping that heart, kiss a pretty girl, eat a good meal, sleep a good night sleep, and get up at the crack of dawn the next day and just just keep moving. I'm more ambitious and Semi-possessed now than I ever was and I'll be 77 in August.

O'REILLY What don't I know about the rock world? So you gave 2,830 live concerts, you and the boys. It looks like it's fun, okay? So, most men, and some women, I would like to...

SIMMONS And some they/thems.

O'REILLY Whatever.

SIMMONS I'm kidding.

O'REILLY I really wish I could be a rock star. I really wish I was out there.

SIMMONS It's a lot of fun. You can wear more makeup in higher heels than your mommy did, so...

O'REILLY No downside?

SIMMONS Yes, there is the downside and it all comes back to you. You have a self-inferred fiduciary and duty to your own self, which is to say you're responsible, you're the guardian of yourself. So if you're namby-pamby and you have self-esteem, you are going to get washed away by the tsunami because it is a tsunami. When fame hits you, you get a lot of money and a lot chicks throw themselves in your and all over you, and all that stuff. Fair-weather friends and you can quite easily be balled over and start to believe your own...

O'REILLY Did that happen to you?

SIMMONS No. Because my motivation has always been my mother. I didn't think I ever had the right to get high or drunk or smoke cigarettes because I didn't think I had the right to break my mother's heart after she raised me by herself because my father ran out on us when I was six years of age. So all I had was my mother, she went to work every day and sacrificed all her life just so that her only son can grow up and break her heart. No, that's not gonna fly. So it's because of my mother's wisdom, and I say wisdom instead of education because my mother was not educated. She didn't, at sixth grade, done. So she couldn't tell you where Timbuktu or Timbuck-3 was, but she understood the value of life. Every day above ground is a good day. That's wisdom.

O'REILLY That is a very profound statement that your mother guided you into a responsible life

SIMMONS That's it. If it wasn't for my mother, I would have gone into darkness.

O'REILLY But there's another factor too. You got here, you got to America.

SIMMONS If you get me started about that, I choke up and not because you're here or somebody else on the left or right is here, I don't care, remember my hashtag. We were about eight and a half, I was, and my mother, we're living in a one bedroom in Williamsburg, 99 South 9th Street, right off of Bedford Avenue. See that's what happens when you don't get high, you remember all this stuff. And I was going to Yeshiva which is religious Jewish school to learn about, there's no thing as Old Testament. It's called the Bible, because 4,000 years... Before Rabbi Yesu Ben-Yosef, Jesus was born, there was a book called The Bible. And then there was the New Testament. That's called The Bible and the New Testament. At any rate, I'm sitting there and there's television and I'm watching this guy in a suit and a cape flying through the air. I'd never seen television in America. I was so fascinated that people were big and the sandwiches were big and people had cars and I just, in Israel, we didn't have that. There was no infrastructure. Every night, she, my mother let me sit up with her because there was a few, an hour or two, where we could be together because my mother worked until late, seven eight o'clock at night. I'd be doing my homework about nine or ten, I'd been finished and then television would go off the air at midnight. And there were only three channels NBC, ABC. And so right before it went dark, there was this noise, people don't know what that is. You'd have to be our age. The American flag would come over and start to billow. Black and white. Ba-da-da, ba-da. And there was even a jet, flying and go to the clouds and touch the face of God. You know, this other thing. But when the flag was going like this, I remember at age eight and a half, looking over at my mother and looking up and she'd be crying, you know, very deep heartfelt cry. And I didn't understand what that was until, and I'd start to talk to her and she's, and she'd watch until the very end. Then she turned the TV off, wipe away, and then put me to bed. I didn't understand until many years later that my mother was crying tears of joy. It chokes me up when I think about it and my mother lived to be 94 years of age. She was finally in a country where she could be free, Jewish or Catholic or anything she wanted and people wouldn't want to kill her just because of that. That flag represented something to my mother she never had in her life because Europe was full of hatred. You walk outside and all kinds of people are just walking by each other. My mother would always talk about that, and she'd stop off at Iranian Persian restaurants and have hummus and stuff like that, and eat soul food, and so she, you know, the great melting pot. My mother was the most patriotic American I ever met, and Americans should study how much my mother loved America, because every country has got its soft white underbelly but you can't touch this country. It's going to keep getting, it's going get better and better and better.

O'REILLY Because our country allowed her to fulfill her potential.

SIMMONS Her potential. If you're willing to work for it and do everything, that's all it is. I mean, look at me. I couldn't speak a word of English and now I can buy Rhode Island.

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O'REILLY So now we have to go to your potential. I suspect that you were a dopey kid just like me.

SIMMONS An idiot.

O'REILLY Right. So Simmons and O'Reilly. We have that in common.

SIMMONS Now it sounds like a law firm.

O'REILLY Okay. And...But anyway, you somehow, and you're going to tell us, I hope, had a vision of getting on stage.

SIMMONS No, not quite.

O'REILLY Differently.

SIMMONS No, not quite, when I was 12 years of age, I was aware that money, it's not a romantic notion, but that's the truth of life, and I've written some books about that. Me, Inc., Me, Incorporated, be an army of one. Be your own business model, you have a certain amount of money you make a week, you've gotta balance your own budget and stuff. You are the first corporate, you're LLC. You are first entity, you make a certain number of money, how much you spend, what are taxes, and so on. You learn the facts of life. And then you sort of get other people in your life and so on, but when I was 12 years of age, I was delivering newspapers and the lazy guy next door who was drinking and getting high, I said why don't you hang out. I'll take over your route, and I'll give you half the money I'll do your part. You can just sit back and get nothing, so I was making my thing and in a week I was making $35 a week. I said, oh, look at all this money and I'd show my mother and she'd go, that's my little man. And so I understood that this capitalist free market economy was the route, the route or route of achieving, anybody can achieve anything. I know there's hatred and stuff, but through money and through hard work, you can rise above whatever anybody has to say bad about you. I saved up $23,000 after tax, which in those days, big money in those days. I lent my mother 10,000 to put a 10% down payment on a house, because in those days you put 10%, you can buy a $100,000 house. Well, $100,000 house in those days was a big three room house in Long Island. That was a big thing. And only in America, the rest of the country. So I only got the bug for music when I came home Sunday night, and yes, I worked six days a week. Sometimes seven, I came in Sunday night and the Ed Sullivan program was on. 75 million of them were watching Ed Sullivan when he introduced, all right, let's say hello to The Beatles. I didn't know what that was. I was having a TV dinner. In those days, kids don't know what that is, you take out a thing and you had peas and mashed potatoes and a piece of meat, hamburger or something, and even a little dessert. So my mother would place the, my hardworking man, and she'd warm up the TV dinner and put those cross-legged tables, I don't know what that's called, and I'm eating peas which I hate because my mother's there, so I've got to finish the peas, and the Ed Sullivan show goes on and I stop eating because, she loves you yeah, yeah, and I was struck. Scientists call it a singularity. But the thing that hit me like a kick in the nuts, was the camera swung around, and the girls in the audience were screeching like people are stepping on their feet. You know, going out of their minds and I I had this epiphany which is a big word like gymnasium, I said man that's a good job. You have that stuff and you can sing and play music and then the girls won't hate you. That's wow! I started being in bands right away. I couldn't play an instrument, and I actually mimicked the English accent. If he took like that you know, and they're saying Oh, you're not from here? No, I'm not from just because the English thing was popular. And guess what? Girls liked it. And within a few years, we got a record contract. I learned how to write songs. And within the year and a half of the first Kiss record being released, without hit singles, without album sales, nothing, we're headlining Anaheim Stadium.

O'REILLY You had to have musical talent innately. I mean, you're one of the greatest songwriters that America's had.

SIMMONS I don't know about what's best and what's not. We became popular, still doing very well, now that Pophouse is with us. What's good and what bad, I don't know. But I'm glad this is happening while I'm alive. Unfortunately, a lot of the folks who meant something to the masses had to die then after the fact.

O'REILLY But I'm trying to explore, look, I have a talent for writing books. 20 number one bestsellers, it's a record.

SIMMONS That's all?

O'REILLY So you're a songwriter you guys, Kiss, sold a hundred million albums.

SIMMONS Yeah, that's true.

O'REILLY When did you discover the talent?

SIMMONS I was a little kid, I must have been 14, maybe, and I started to learn basic chords, C to G, because I'd watch the, I didn't have a teacher or anything, I was just watching the hands of people, and my mother bought me a guitar, and the first songs are, my uncle is a raft, and he always keeps me floating, he is so good to me, just the most idiotic songs you know, but they were mine like anything. The 10,000 step principle. I'm sure you're aware of it. There's a book. When you do something for 10,000 hours, you'll tend to get pretty good. And that's, just keep plugging away. By the way, people don't understand the rules of success. Just hit the nail on the head is not true. Not much happens when you hit the nailed on the head. It doesn't go very far. You gotta keep hitting that nail many times before it goes all the way in and makes impact. You got a hit? That's it. I've made it. No, that's not. You start to get nice ratings on Fox and stuff. That's it. I've made it. No, you've got to come in next day, and keep grinding away.

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O'REILLY The face paint. Was that your idea?

SIMMONS No, nobody can lay claim to that. In fact, we were on, not far from here, 10 East 23rd Street, and within a year and a half, we moved 10 blocks up to playing Madison Square Garden without hit records or anything. And within another year, we played three nights sold out Madison Square garden. Scientists call it a singularity. When you have the right thing, and nobody knows what that is until it works, at the right place, New York. As opposed to Riyadh, where we wouldn't have a chance in hell, not because Saudi isn't a great country, but because it just wouldn't resonate culturally. You're in New York, the center of culture on the planet. Right thing, right place, right time. You know, in the early 70s, when after women got the pill and the civil rights movement, like all these movements were happening. So it was very free, it was a free time. And if we were born in the time of woo-hoo, you know, the doo-wop, we wouldn't get anywhere because people wouldn't understand that me sticking my tongue out and everything. By the way, I would stick my tongue out now, but the floor is a little dirty. Otherwise, I'll give you a little pregnant pause.

O'REILLY But who is responsible for the paint?

SIMMONS Nobody in the band. There was a, it just happened, we're in a rat-infested loft at Tenney's 23rd Street and I recall, as if it was yesterday, one of us, I don't know who, said, hey, let's go to Woolworth's a few blocks away and buy clown makeup and put on makeup. We went, uh, yeah. We had no resume, no expertise.

O'REILLY Just threw it on there.

SIMMONS Yeah, we just went there. Bought clown makeup called Stein's Clown White, Stein's clown black, call that. Paul Stanley bought red lipstick, God knows why. And we bought two mirrors, kind of long, 15 bucks all total. And I was working, I was the assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Interagency Council. So I was making, I don't know, 20 grand a year. That was a lot of money. And because I could type 100 words a minute, I could do mimeographs or hexographs, like all those machines. So I was the man in charge. At any rate, we bought the mirrors and we wound up in the loft putting make-up on. And I remember because the mirrors were leaning against the wall, they would warp a bit. So as you got closer, your chin would get bigger or your nose would get better. And it was like a kind of a psycho circus, like a Twilight Zone thing. And as we were looking at each other, putting on the makeup, everyone put on their own makeup design. We went, wow, that looks cool. Like we were first recognizing how special that was. And strangely, here we are almost 60 years afterwards. I'm gonna give you the joke that I've said many times before. We have literally something like 10,000 licensed products, everything from Kiss Condoms, to Kiss Caskets, Bill. We'll get you coming, and we'll get, and we're get you going.

O'REILLY You are the ultimate capitalist, that's for sure. But the makeup thing got you a lot of attention.

SIMMONS Oh, yeah.

Because you had a myriad of groups trying to break out, trying to do different things, and then there's this group, and they like, the consumer likes the product, but now is compelled to watch you because of the makeup.

SIMMONS And it became more than about hit songs, it became cultural. What I mean by that is, you remember the Gallup poll. They used to randomly go out and ask Americans, all ages, who's your favorite this, what's your favorite food and so on. And for three years in a row, '77, '78, '79, Kiss was the number one band on the planet, above the Beatles. Stones, Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin, and whoever.

O'REILLY Everywhere in the world.

SIMMONS Everywhere. Africa, it was, and you couldn't figure out why. Because we didn't have hit singles. There was just something about the combination of the visuals, the live show, and those album songs. You bought the albums, not the singles, because you wanted to be. It was culture. And you went to the concerts, not like Stones concerts. You went to the concerts looking and dressing up like your band.

O'REILLY Right, and you went to see outrageous behavior.

SIMMONS Yes.

O'REILLY Which you provided in great quantity.

SIMMONS That was my job, Bill.

O'REILLY Okay, we're going to take a break now and we're gonna come back to our Premium and Concierge Members for Killing Time. Thank you guys on YouTube for watching Gene Simmons, who I thought was extraordinary. And we'll be back in a moment for our Concierge and Premium Members on BillOReilly.com.

The Communists Win in New York

2026-06-25T14:41:00Z

Killing Time

2026-06-25T14:40:00Z

The Communists Win in New York

2026-06-25T07:46:00Z

Yesterday in NYC, three candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani (D–NYC) won their Democratic congressional primaries. Bill explains why this will hurt everyone.

Mendacious

2026-06-25T00:45:00Z

[mendacious] not telling the truth; habitually dishonest, lying, or untruthful.

Bill & Buck Sexton on the 'Communist Cadre' in New York and Trump's Standing

2026-06-24T23:23:00Z

Bill joins Buck Sexton on "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" to discuss the big communist victory in New York City and President Trump's current situation.

"Mr. De Niro Should Leave!"

2026-06-24T22:43:00Z

The Communists Win in New York, ACLU Boosts Spending Ahead of 2026 Midterms, & AJ Pasciuti on the Cost of War

2026-06-24T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, June 24, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Yesterday in NYC, three candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani (D–NYC) won their Democratic congressional primaries. Bill explains why this will hurt everyone.
How Democratic turnout has changed since the last midterm cycle.
The enormous amount of money the ACLU expects to spend on the 2026 midterm elections.
Bill looks at the best and worst run cities, and which are the most and least patriotic.
AJ Pasciuti, a former Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and author, reflects on his time in the Marines and patriotism in America.
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The Communists Win in New York, ACLU Boosts Spending Ahead of 2026 Midterms, & AJ Pasciuti on the Cost of War

2026-06-24T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026. Stand up for your country. So yesterday, three communists were elected to the House of Representatives. They have to go through the general election, but they won the Democratic primary in New York City. That's a lock. All right. So three communists are going to take a seat. So I assume there's about 10 communists, maybe a little more in the House right now, I don't know of any senators or communists, but they're coming. And that far-left movement run by the progressives, George Soros, those people are gaining some momentum, but it's not going to help the Democratic Party. I'm going to explain why, and that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

So a few weeks ago, I picked this up. Very rare. It's Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, first edition, 1966. All right, printed in China. They sent it to San Francisco, of course. Okay, the customs people have a stamp in here, U.S. Customs people. Say, yeah, we'll let it in, but we don't endorse any of this stuff. And in the book, it clearly lays out Mao's, and he is one of the worst villains of all time. If you read Confronting Evil, he's on the cover, along with Putin and the Ayatollah, and killed 10 million of his own people. So I just want to read you just one little thing, because I believe that these communists who are being elected have no idea what communism is, and the people who vote for them are just clueless in a frightening degree. So Mao says the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism, that means what you have, okay, has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature. It openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. That means you don't have anything. It's all owned by the people. Your house is owned by people, your car, any bank accounts you might have. The people own it, not you. Now the people, they don't know they own it, but the government uses the people.

The passage goes on, the other, in its practicality, it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizing that theory is based on practice, in turn, service practice. So what Mao is saying is basically, this isn't just some pipe dream, we're going to take your stuff. And he did. Now, the communists in Beijing allow very, very few of their citizens to become very wealthy. Mostly tech people. They allow that. But tomorrow, if they don't like that person, then they take all the stuff. Okay. So, the three in New York City are Chevalier, Valdez, and Lander. And they're all Mamdani guys. Mamdani's a communist, okay? And what they're doing is trying to seize all the assets of New York City and distribute those assets to the poor. That's what the game is, okay. So when you see the numbers, they're fairly staggering. 44% of all of those working right now in New York City were born overseas, 44%. 38% of all New Yorkers were born overseas. So this is a migrant town, like London. London's falling apart. New York City will fall apart, just a matter of when. Okay.

Now... And I've got to phrase this because I don't want to come across as some kind of bigoted guy who's wishing ill on migrants. Most migrants that I know work very hard, extremely hard, but a lot of them don't want to compete. They come here, they're looking at apartments that cost $4,000 a month, they can't afford it. They're looking at high prices, they can't. They can't make it. And so they want money, that's what they want, free everything. And they vote for the communists, and that's all over the world, all over the world. That's the way it is. If you don't have, you want other people's stuff. Now, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, could control Mamdani and his acolytes, but she will not. She is a progressive liberal. Therein lies the split. Hochul is not a communist, okay? But the Democratic Party is now the home of all the communists. It's not like the Communist Party runs on its own. It's attached to the Democratic Party. That will hurt the Democrats as more and more American citizens figure this out. They haven't figured it out yet because the media covers for this. My monologue tonight would never be heard on any of the networks or CNN. I don't even think Fox would run it, okay? The big urban cities, L.A., Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, they are dominated by migrants now. And progressive left people run the show.

So there are three tenets. Number one, hating Israel. It cannot be a communist progressive unless you hate Israel. That's where that is coming from. No prison for criminals, even violent criminals. No prison. Rehabilitation, whatever it may be. And no border or immigration restriction, none. That's what happened in England, UK. So let everybody in, and now their social system is bankrupt. That's why Starmer got sacked, okay? Because England can't pay its bills. And you can't get a doctor's appointment because the migrants are vying for the same kind of medical attention. Now, what's gonna happen ultimately? It'll die out because liberal people, Hollywood, you know, some financiers, the liberals in your neighborhood or whatever, they don't want their stuff taken away from them. So you're gonna see a swing back in the Democratic Party, but not in time for the midterms, okay? Because the communist party is on a roll right now. Again, it's not really, it's a party, it's a movement. It's attached to the democrats. Liberals, they're not communists, but they help the progressive movement. And that is the memo.

Now, there is a study out of the Washington Post. We don't believe the Washington Post, but we've got to take it seriously in the sense that they studied 990 races for the House and the Senate. And they're finding that in Democratic House primaries, 12.6 million have voted, 8.6 Republicans. Big gap. And that's all anti-Trump voting. So there is a motivation on the part of the Democratic Party to vote in the upcoming midterms. President Trump is going on nation wide TV tonight. I'll be on News Nation before. Okay, I think he's gonna speak about 8:30, 8:45, and I'll lay it out, what he's going to say, why he's going to say it on News Nation. Now, the president has to level with the folks about a lot of things, particularly Iran. You know, oil's coming down hard, but the president's gotta make sure the retailers don't gouge. Well, he's got a lot on his plate. It'll be very interesting to see what he concentrates on tonight. It's not gonna be the reflecting pool. Iran is still causing trouble, but what do you expect? I didn't expect any differently.

The ACLU, which is now part of the Democratic Party, might be part of the communist movement. I don't know. They have pledged 50 million dollars to get democrats elected in the midterms. Now the ACLU is supposed to be a freedom of speech outfit. It's a political organization now, just so you know. Okay, ACLU expects to invest heavily in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Alright, Iran continues to defy America. It still has time to work this thing out. President Trump is convinced it will work out. I don't know, I don't know. These mullahs they don't care whether they die. They don't care whether their country people die, they don't care. It's hard. Okay, Hormuz, that's not a problem. I mean, the tankers are going in and out of there. What a problem is the weapons inspectors. And if Iran were a decent nation, it'd just say, come on in, and we'll settle this whole thing, but of course it won't. I don't know what Iran will do at the end of this 60-day period.

All right, back home, best and worst-run city. Okay, so, WalletHub, and we like WalletHub, that's a social media thing. They did a study, and it was based on military engagement, civil engagement, quality of city services, education, health, safety, economy, on and on. Here are the best-run cities in America, okay, the best. Provo, Utah, the Osmonds lived there, I think. Napa, Idaho, Manchester, New Hampshire, Boise, Idaho, Nashua, New Hampshire, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Virginia Beach, Lincoln, Nebraska, Mesa, Arizona. They're the best run. Here are the worst run, Tacoma, Washington. They're communists out there in Tacoma. Seattle area. Long Beach, California, mass chaos. Fresno, I'm surprised, Fresno. Baltimore has always been a problem. Philadelphia, the same. Chicago, unbelievably violent. Oakland collapsed. New York City, you know what's going on here, I just told you, Detroit. And the worst-run city in the country is San Francisco, which confirms my special report that I did on News Nation. It is so corrupt. It's staggering. All right, staggering.

And now we have the most patriotic. This is subjective. We all know that the most and least patriotic So this is based on Military stuff, people enlisting, people going to the Peace Corps, all that. Here is the most patriotic category. Virginia, a lot of bases down. Montana, Vermont, look at Vermont and all the hippies. Colorado, surprisingly, Oregon, very surprising, North Dakota, Washington State, Maryland, Minnesota. The most patriotic state in the union, New Hampshire, live free or die. Here are the least patriotic states. Arkansas, surprise. New York, no surprise. Louisiana, wow. Alabama, Florida, Texas, Indiana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia is the least patriotic states. And this is because people don't sign up for the military, or they don't get engaged in what they can do for the country, as far as, I'm gonna join this, I'm going to join that, I'm going to join this. They don't. That's how this comes down. It's WalletHub again. You can check it out.

All right, it is a fascinating story. So, let me explain what happened here, because I wasn't following this. On July 4th, 2025, almost a year ago, 11 people dressed in black arrived in Alvarado, Texas, wearing body armor and firearms, and they started mayhem. One officer, a police officer, was shot and had to go to the hospital. He did not die. He survived. Okay? But this was an insurrection, an armed insurrection. Investigators proved that it was Antifa. And you know, the liberals even deny that Antifa exists. Oh, it doesn't exist. Yeah, it does. The leader of the gang, Benjamin Song, okay? He was sentenced this week to one hundred years in prison. Whoa, second-in-command ,Marcelo Rueda seventy years and all down fifty years, fifty years, thirty years, combined sentence of four hundred fifty years in prison for eleven antifas. I don't even follow this. So, the Department of Justice is now, this is insurrection, that's why these people got this, okay? But those are heavy-duty. So they go, oh, we're not going to take the rebellion. Interesting story. I don't think it could have happened in California or in some other states.

Now, as we told you yesterday, according to Marquette, a school in Wisconsin, it took a poll. Most Americans still love their country. And the answer is yes. 66% of us love our country. 34% do not. Now that changes based on who is president, you know, what administration is in there. But I just want to remind you that with the 250, 4th July coming up, 66%, it's a good number. If you go to Germany, I don't think you'd get a number like that. Could be wrong. All right, so what does it take to love your country? What does it take to be patriotic? So we're gonna be talking about that for the next few days because of the 250th birthday. Joining us now from San Diego is A.J. Pasciuti. Okay, he is the author of a book called Dark Horse, Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life. He is one of the few Marines classified as a gunner. He's a sniper, and was engaged in Iraq mostly. Meritorious service, combat V, two combat action ribbons, on and on and on. So, AJ, you signed up for the military at age 17, I assume because of 9-11, right?

"That's correct. Thank you so much for having me on the show, Bill. I'm really excited to be here."

Sure.

"Yes, so signed up right after 9-11. I was a senior in high school. I'm a family of immigrants. My father was an Italian immigrant, and when he came to the United States, he fell into the idea of wanting to be, you know, like you mentioned earlier, was wanting to work for the betterment of the country, betterment of other people, and so he kind of raised me with that. So I was a Boy Scout and an Eagle Scout, and when 9-11 happened, I was searching for purpose and something, you know to be able to give back to my country and my community. And the Marine Corps felt like the next right option to do that. And so I embarked on an Odyssey for 21 years, deploying around the world, multiple combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa, and was able to find my own success through the career, and wanted to be able to write a book that captured not only the successes, but how they came to be. And Dark Horse itself is a person that is not necessarily the most prevalent of people to come to the, you know, front of mind. Success wasn't, you know, determined for me. It was people along the way that made me see my own potential and brought me to, you know, a successful career. One of the highlights of the career was being able to uh the only confirmed sniper versus sniper hunt. I hunted an enemy sniper named Juba, who you may remember from the mid-2000s, who was posting his videos online. And so the entire Marine Corps, you know, set out to try to find this elusive sniper in my team, and I were able to set a trap for him, hunt him, and eliminate him. And with that, we returned a stolen Marine, U.S. Marine sniper rifle, which is now on display in the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico."

Okay, so this is like the Eastwood movie American Sniper, not exactly, but that's, they were after a big-time Iraqi terrorist who was doing the same thing. I have a bunch of personal questions for you, AJ, I hope you don't mind. So, the Marine Corps has always taught discipline. It's not an easy road to go to Parris Island or to Coronado and become a Marine. I mean, they try to break you. And was that a good thing for you? Did that change you, that kind of Marine training?

"You know, I would say yes. I think that who I am today was not who I was when I was 17. And the Marine Corps, I owe everything in my life and where I'm at now to the Marine Corps and the people inside of it. The culture shock of being a civilian kid from Silicon Valley and then showing up at Marine boot camp in San Diego, I mean, the culture shock on that was absolutely huge. But what they're doing is they're indoctrinating you into a culture of how to be and who to be as a person. What we do inside of the Marine Corps is we always give everything back to the team. Everything goes back to the unit, to the service, to the country. So why we come together and why we work so well is because everybody's green when you join the Marine Corps, right? You're not black, you're not white, you don't come, it doesn't matter where you come from. The mission is what matters, and the Marine to your left and to your right. And so we wanted to cover that in the book, Dark Horse, and kind of write to that. What makes us special, what makes us unique, is the fact that we come from so many different places. But we have a common mission that we don't let anything come in the way of that."

Well, the common mission is to survive because they're kicking the hell out of you and whenever you're in a circumstance like that, you bond. Did the other young Marines buy into the vision, or were they going, I don't know whether I should be here, this is way too hard. What was the prevailing wisdom there?

"Oh, great question. You know, I actually, one of the cool parts about Dark Horse is I include letters from throughout my entire career. So when I was a private in boot camp, I was writing those letters, being like, I made a huge mistake. This is terrible. I'm never going to make it. The drill instructors are so mean. All the way through, you know, Operation Iraqi Freedom One and who I was as a young Marine then, Fallujah, writing the letters that I think are what we call death letters that your family reads after you die. All the way through the final act of my career, and writing the very last page of the book is called A Letter to the Leader. And that is what I encapsulate, 21 years of leadership lessons that I learned throughout my life. And so, yes, we are all filled with fear and anxiety, and that's what we wanted to be able to show in Dark Horse was that I wasn't a hero waiting for my moment. I was a young kid from a place not so different from anyone else's who was able to find his path. And by bringing people together, and by people jumping around, and being able to make that possible."

Okay, but there was one difference. You were motivated after we were attacked on 9-11 to do something about it. Okay, you were motivated. I'm 17, so I'm not going to get a job, you know, with Amazon. I am going to go and fight for my country. Do you remember that motivation? Do you remember that, you know, some people call it patriotism. I'm gonna stand up for my country. I'm going to do what it takes to advance the security and the benefits of the United States of America. Do you remember that motivation?

"Absolutely, and I still do, and what I think that is the young generation of Marines now, even before I retired, and now to this day, they still have that same desire, that same understanding. They want to give back to the country, you know, they want to be able to get back to this system that made them, that gave them these opportunities, you know. I'll quote, you know, an author of whom I've read before. It says the true heroes of America are the men, women, and teenagers who go to work for a modest wage, fulfill their responsibilities to their families and friends, and are kind and generous to others. That is what makes America special. And so military service, or service to the greater good, is what I want to be able to emphasize to people, is that we benefit so much. As an immigrant son, I understood how much we benefited and how great our country is. And so I wanted to compel the next generation, one, tell them that they're okay, they're gonna be just fine, they're going to have to work for it, just like every other generation ahead of them. But this is something so fantastic that they should want to serve it in whatever capacity. First responder, teacher, or military, as long as they're serving their communities and stepping into that, and if I can motivate one person to do that, then Dark Horse has done its job."

Yeah, and you will. But not everybody feels that way, AJ. There's a lot of cynicism about the United States right now. You just saw the poll. 66% love their country, the rest don't love it. I mean, a lot of it's Donald Trump, a lot of it's party politics, a lot of it is apathy, a lot of it is social media. So there's a wave now. It's not like after World War II. Okay, where everybody was, you know, let's go, we're all together, we just defeated Hitler and Tojo, so now we're going to go back and build American society. It's not like that now, it's divided. And the Marines aren't, I mean, you can't, you can operate in that system. You have to basically buy into the patriotism. Do you consider yourself a patriot?

"Unequivocally, yes. And I don't know that my service in the military quantifies me as more patriotic or less of a patriot than other people. I think that the idea of patriotism is that you're allowed to love your country, right? You're allowed to question your country. But the idea is that we believe in one another. I am open to it, and I see it just as much as the next person is that our country is oftentimes deeply divided. And when I look back to the 250 years before this, you know, this is...this time may feel unprecedented, but we've had hard times before, and I believe in people, I believe Americans. What I've learned in combat is that nobody gets through combat alone. It's always the team, it's always the people coming together. If we can take the responsibility as Americans, I'm frustrated just like the next person, right? But if we, as responsible Americans, don't look at other Americans as the enemy, and we can look at them for their potential to work together towards a common good, then I think we have a chance."

To the common good is the problem.

"That's the question. Right."

Right. Some people think the common good is doing what you did, devoting your adult life, a large part of it, to defending your country. You know, other people think the common good is Antifa blowing up ICE headquarters. That's always been the problem, even at the Revolutionary War. You had 50% of the colonists wanting to stay with the king. And they thought that was best for the common good. Last question for you. And the book, again, is Dark Horse Harnessing Hidden Potential in War and Life. When you're in there and in the middle of horrific combat, and you're hunting down a sniper, the Iraqi terrorist, and you're seeing your guys, your friends, some of them get blown to bits, all right, when you're in there, okay, were you 100% accepting of that circumstance? And I raise the question, because now with our Iranian situation, we've got people in this country because they have to pay a buck more a gallon at the gas pump, we're not going to do anything. We don't want anything to do with it. And I'm seeing kind of a flow there. So, in your circumstance, did you ever question the hell am I doing here, and, you know, my best friend just got blown up.

"I did. I did quite often. It's hard. To directly answer your question, yes, absolutely we did, because you see the natural, I would say, systems that happen inside of Washington and the policy that kind of goes back and forth and people and punditry talking about what happens in the war, but really what happens is I think I'm being careful because I'm not trying to be a politician, but I do think we should talk honestly about the cost of war. I think for the politicians in Washington, war may be about strategy or budget or policy, but for the people who fight it, me and my friends, the men and women that serve, who wrote a blank check to the United States of America, palpable with their lives, war to me are names and faces and memories of people that may not come home. So if we do choose to send our American service members to war, of which I'm not an advocate for or against war, it is a tool. But if we choose to send them there, it must be necessary, it must be lawful, and it must be worth the cost. Veterans are not victims. We are advocates of our own success. We are patriots, as we've mentioned before. But the same idea is that responsibility, to be able to send an American such as myself or my comrades to war, needs to be protected, and it needs to be wielded very carefully."

That's well said, AJ. Thank you for coming on and talking to us. Happy Fourth of July. My best to everybody in California.

"Happy Fourth of July, thank you so much."

All right this day in History, June 24th, 2019 the Iranian war started. It started on this day a year ago. Okay, and how it started was President Trump slapping financial sanctions onerous ones on the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khomeini. All right, and the president signed an executive order saying that Iran was a terrorist state, which it obviously is, killing a lot of people, including Americans, and they weren't cooperating with the Obama peace treaty or whatever you want to call it, which they weren’t. They were not letting the inspectors in when they were required to do so. So, sanctions got hit this day by President Trump, okay, and the sanctions hurt Iran, but it didn't crush them. And that's the problem we're dealing with now. That's what I'm going to have to deal with tonight on NewsNation, 8 o'clock Eastern. OK, that was a good interview with AJ. I'm glad we got to put him on. You know, when I get interview requests for authors, I gotta weigh what the book is versus what kind of information, what flow we're gonna have that day. And we made the right decision there. Okay, we got a lot of stuff to tell you about, mail, and final thought, be right back.

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Let's go to the mail. We got Michael Aschadle. Leland, North Carolina. "I'm Proud American. But these far-left loons that have been winning elections recently aren't. Which leads me to ask if these people are even qualified to hold federal office. A private citizen, per the First Amendment, can spout off about anything. But if you're elected, you have to take an oath to uphold the Constitution." Good question. You can take your oath, and you can say, I'm upholding the Constitution because that's what they do. Now, you may not think they're doing it. I think insurrection isn't upholding the Constitution, but people are gonna justify whatever they do. It's called rationalization.

A.F.R., Concierge Member, we hope you're pleased with the program. "Since Anthony Fauci received a pardon, who signed it? The auto pen? Can the president cancel that pardon?" No, and the federal courts won't cancel it either. Nobody knows what sort of thing because it won't say. Maybe there'll be a whistleblower or something.

David, Concierge Member. "Bill, I'm a pragmatist, and very jaded as well." I am sorry about the jaded thing, David, but I understand. "I can guarantee you, no matter what Rand Paul finds out about Anthony Fauci, nothing will ever happen to him." Probably right. But he will be thoroughly embarrassed, I am positive of that.

Sue Messer, Henderson, Nevada. "Mr. O, I heard the Obama Library isn't considered a presidential library because they didn't want to follow the guidelines." Sue. That's not true. And if you would tell me where you heard that, I would be very interested. Careful on the social media, I should make a song about it. Careful, careful, careful.

David Cash, St. Augustine, Florida. "I've read many conflicting stories about the donation of final disposition of the aircraft from Qatar. What are the actual facts? How long will it be Air Force One? Will it be donated to the Trump Library?" I don't know. None of that's been made public. The plane is in DC, looks spiffy to me. It is a gift to the United States, so I doubt it's gonna wind up in President Trump's hands.

Sherry Collins, Richmond, Kentucky. "Bill, I'd like you to clarify what using your credit card on the internet means for fraud prevention. I believe most people pay their bills online." Don't. Don't, because if you do and something goes wrong, and they don't receive your payment or somebody screws up, you're hosed. I write the check, a physical check, put it in an envelope, send it out. Okay, so I got a record backed up by my bank. I mean, you're gonna do anything on the internet financially, sooner or later, you're gonna get it right between the eyes.

Okay, we'll go to BillOReilly.com and get the best hat in the country, the 250 USA. And we got gremlins working around the clock to get you this. So, you want to get it now, you'll have it for the fourth and the rest of the summer. World Cup, right? The U.S. Team is pretty good. That's a nice thing to wear to the World Cup or while you're watching it. Word of the Day, do not be mendacious. Love that word, M-E-N-D-A-C-I-O-U-S. Don't be mendacious. Final thought about President Trump's speech tonight.

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Okay, final thought of the day. As mentioned, I will be on News Nation, 8 p.m. Eastern time to preview the president's address. He's gonna go up about 8:45. He'll probably be there for four or five hours. The President loves it. He loves to bloviate. Anyway, I'm going to set it all up. And my advice, I'd like you to watch News Nation in the segment, but my advice is going to be, look, a lot of Americans don't understand this Iran thing, and they don't like it. As clear as you can make it, that's what you do. Gotta be crystal clear, as Tom Cruise said in the movie, A Few Good Men. Alright? This is a time now for the president to spell out what he's doing and why he's doing it in terms that everyone can understand. I fully realize that he's promised 20 or 30 times that they had a deal, that they were going to do this, and that it hasn't come about. The reason it hasn't come about is that the president doesn't want to kill 10,000 civilians. I know that to be true because we discussed it one-on-one. And he's hoping that something will happen where he can get those inspectors in and calm all this down. But I'll bring a very, very precise analysis. I'm getting a little tired of the people who are denying the obvious, so I might have to figuratively slap a few people around tonight on News Nation. Always gets high ratings when I do that, but you know, I'm not in business to make you look foolish. I am in business to bring the truth to you and everybody else, that's what we do.

So anyway, we will be on News Nation tonight, we're very pleased to be on that network. The ratings are pretty good. They're coming up. You know, it's hard to cut through viewing habits. But they have good people over there at News Nation. I like the outfit, I like the tone. I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it, because why would I? Takes my time, why would I do it? But I think they run a pretty good operation. And then we have the special, a week from tomorrow night, on the villains and heroes of the Revolutionary War, far beyond George Washington. We're not giving you those guys, okay, you know about those guys. We're giving you the guys you don't know about, the sneaky guys and the heroic guys. It's a good special. You'll enjoy it. And that's a week from tomorrow night on News Nation at 9 p.m. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. Stay with us through the weekend @BillOReilly, you can find me, @BillOReilly. We'll have all kinds of stuff coming in. Thanks again, we'll see you on Monday.

Is Dr. Fauci in Trouble? John Solomon Explains

2026-06-24T15:46:00Z

CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, John Solomon, breaks down the situation involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and questions about whether he lied to Congress during the pandemic.

The State of American Pride

2026-06-24T15:44:00Z

Bill analyzes a new poll measuring how proud Americans are of their country.

British Politics

2026-06-24T07:26:00Z

It is safe to say that most Americans could not care less about British politics. Keir Starmer? Who? We know the royal family, but that’s about it.

When I was in London three weeks ago, it was clear the UK was tottering. Garbage everywhere, Muslim neighborhoods unpoliced, Jewish enclaves frightened.

Presiding over the chaos was Prime Minister Starmer, who was booted from office this week. And the reason he was sacked is progressive politics. Starmer’s tenure is called “Starmerite socialism.”

Some facts: the UK has become a welfare state overrun with third-world migrants, many of whom need government handouts. In fact, $441 billion a year is distributed to welfare-seekers (that includes government-run health care).

But the Brits take in $438 billion annually in taxes. So, the Treasury is quickly closing in on red ink. Taxes will have to go up. The average British worker cannot afford this.

And remember, Starmer and his pals spent little on defense and education; handouts are their big expense.

The USA is carrying a $30 trillion debt, but we have massive defense and school expenditures. The UK and many other countries hide behind America, draining our resources.

President Trump is trying to change that with tariffs and fiscal demands, but it is one rough road. That’s why there is a robust anti-Trump movement overseas.

Back here, the socialist thing that nailed Stermer is taking root. Entitlement spending is crazy in states like California and New York. Of course, those states are listed as citizens move out because of high taxes and the corruption that brings.

King George got his arse kicked largely because of taxes. Amazingly, the UK still hasn’t learned its lesson after 250 years.

Will the USA?

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

Priggish

2026-06-24T00:23:00Z

[priggish] someone who is self-righteously smug, excessively proper, and irritatingly fussy about trivial moral or social rules.

The State of American Pride, Trump's Economic Standing, Is Dr. Fauci in Trouble? John Solomon Explains & ABC's Battle with the FCC

2026-06-23T22:00:00Z

Hey Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026. Stand up for your country. Fourth of July 250 on its way. Summer always flies by, and you know, next week, party hardy, right? That's a troubled country, though. Right now, it's not calm. And we'll get into some of that. Because I don't like to see this. I want everybody to be happy and respect their country, like their country. But we're not seeing that. That's for sure. The progressive left has really come in hard that we're not a good country and those of us who respect the United States' values are bad. We're bad people. That is a progressive thing. And the country's really changed because about 25 percent of Americans are buying into this nonsense. Okay, according to polling. And we'll define it, that's the Talking Points Memo.

So, there's an article in USA Today, and usually that's not a first-rate publication, but this was good. This is a good article. Ingrid Jacques wrote it, she's a columnist. And she says that Democrats have lost faith in America itself. I don't, I'd say half of them have. Half of them. So the data she uses comes from NBC, it's a poll, and it says that 62% of Trump voters say they are extremely proud to be Americans compared to just 12% of Kamala Harris voters. Only 12% are extremely proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an American. If you know your history, if you read my Killing books and Confronting books, you'll know it. Man, this country's done more for this planet than any other country by far. It's as simple as that. Simple as that, blood and treasure. Among Republicans right now, 90% are extremely or very proud. Among Democrats, that number shrinks to 29%. Age and other factors, 36% of Americans 1834, say they're extremely proud, 75% aren't. Now, this always happens. During Vietnam, I knew hundreds of people, and a lot of them were really far left. Anti-Vietnam War people, they didn't like Johnson, they didn't like the system, they don't like anything. I'd say half right now are conservative people. Because life experience teaches you right from wrong and gives you a bigger perspective, okay?

So, a University of Michigan study polled way, way back to right after 9-11. Right after 9 11. And then 93% of Americans, 93, said they were proud to be an American. Only 2% said they weren't. Right after 9-11, the attack. And obviously now that totally has changed. Now President Trump is driving the change because he is a man that is very confident in his point of view. His point of views that progressives are harming the country. That's his point of view. So all the progressives despise him. But they just don't... It's not just political, it's personal. I think they'd hurt him if they could. I do think a number of Americans would hurt the man if they couldn't. So my next book is called, Confronting America, What Has to Change. And this is a book not on dissent, it's common sense that we can make the United States a better country in every way. If we follow what is in that book. And you can order it on pre-order it on BillOReilly.com. So I'm not some Pollyanna guy going, hey, everything we do is great. No, not me. I know what's working and what isn't working. I got a lot of stuff in there that's gonna shock you. That should change, okay? But you don't have to hate your country in order to make constructive changes. In fact, you can make an argument that those who love their country the most want things to get better. That is absolutely true. I mean, if you're emotionally invested in America, you wanna see it get better. And so that book is coming on up. Gonna be a very controversial book. You will like it.

And then it turns out that we are now the policemen of the world. Not a good thing. I wish we weren't the policeman of the world. But what are you gonna do? I mean, confronting evil. The book that's out now, I got the Ayatollah on the cover, I got Putin on the cover. What are you gonna do? Let them run wild? I mean, President Trump is trying to dismantle the terrorist state of Iran, which has caused tens of thousands of deaths through terrorism itself- Hezbollah, Hamas- and is trying to make a nuclear weapon, and it's close, okay? Him trying to do something about it is a positive thing. Is it not? He's taking on evil. Biden never do this. He never do it in a million years, Biden. Obama tried it, and the mullahs just basically said, okay, we're not gonna do what you want. We signed a deal, we gonna break the deal. But Trump actually wanting regime change, that's the reason we haven't gone in heavy with the bombers. You don't want to kill those people, the innocent people, the Persians. Now, it's funny because Cuomo last night on News Nation was making a big deal out of this schoolhouse where more than 100 children were killed by an American bomb. And you remember, the story happened very early on in this invasion. OK.

Well, I- My reply was, do you think the Pentagon people woke up and said we're going to kill children today? That's right, kill the children today, it's on the agenda, no, it is war, it was war. And when you have the most powerful weaponry the world's ever seen, civilians are going to be killed. And that doesn't justify anything. That doesn't make me a mean guy. I feel terrible that those children will never grow into adults. But it wasn't done purposely, and now it's being used to show how bad America is. Come on. You know anything about warfare, anything at all, you know the civilian casualty count is always horrendous. Always. So I'm sitting here, I'm going, what the deuce is happening here? And it's just that people want to think the worst of their country, the progressives do. We're not the bad guys. Now, you may not like President Trump and that. Is understandable, okay? He's a very bellicose guy, a pompous guy. Not pompous in the sense that he thinks he's better than anyone else, but he delivers his message in a populist style. So you can apply a whole bunch of adjectives to that. He's not mealy-mouthing. He's coming in and saying, this is how I see it and I wanna correct it. That's what he's doing. And we haven't had a populist president. Harry Truman is probably, and he wasn't that populist, but he didn't dig a lot of guff, Harry. That's it. We had very diplomatic presidents. So when a guy like Donald Trump comes in and he's like, okay, we're gonna do this, this, this, and this, people are like staggering, particularly people who don't like him and his party.

Okay. Finally, we have another bit of data for you. This is again the NBC poll. How proud are you to be an American? Now, this is a different poll than the first one: 78%. I think that's accurate. Not proud, 21%. I think that's right. Republicans, 90% are proud to be American. Democrats, 29 percent. That's the progressive influence. All right, and we got a lot of hate on the side of not being proud, and again, I'll tell you, leave. Mexico would like to have you. Go ahead! Go down, make friends with the cartel boys. Canada needs money, so go on up there, pay your high taxes, because you get free medical care up there. They'll take you. Paraguay, all the South American countries will take you. Uruguay will actually sell you a passport for about a thousand bucks You can become a Uruguayan, it's easy. Bahamas will take you. Europe a little bit harder, but not really, you just walk right in now. That's what's going on in Britain, so go. If your life is so hateful and driven by the anti-Trump or anti MAGA or anti-Republican, whatever it may be, go. I never thought I'd say that, you know, because dissent is what Confronting America is all about. And that's the Memo.

All right. New poll in the economy is another one. American research group, 1,100 adults, no voters. So these are just people floating around. You have to poll likely voters or registered voters if you want an accurate poll. Do approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump's handling the economy? Approved 26, disapproved 70. Okay. Republican 62, disapproved 37, Democrats 1% approve. Because we're not going on a socialist track. Okay, 98% of Democrats disapprove of the way Trump's handling the economy. Independence 20 approve, 74 don't. All is personally driven. Higher food prices, higher gas prices. But here's the help on the way. So yesterday, June 22nd, the price of oil worldwide, $77. When the Iran thing started, in late January, $72. So those oil prices, which once were higher than $100 a barrel, coming down fast. Now, I think President Trump has got a level with these American oil companies, and you better drop your retail. You better do that. You're not going to gouge. So I hope he does.

Social Security, a lot of people are writing me. They're very worried because the Freedom Foundation says in 2032, six years from now, Social Security Fund is gonna run out of money and your benefits are gonna be cut. Now that will not happen. What will happen is Congress passes a new law that tightens up who can get Social Security. Most people don't know this, but in the beginning, FDR, okay, Social Security was there for older Americans to afford to be old. Now it pays for welfare, pays for impoverishment, pays for drug addicts, pays all kinds of stuff that it didn't used to. All right, so this is what happened in Great Britain. They're gonna run out of money. They ran out of money in Great Britain. They can't pay their entitlements. They don't have any money. We're heading that way. What is likely to happen is a value-added tax on consumption. Now, you'd have to couple that with a lowering of income tax, but it would derive more income for Social Security, and Congress is gonna have to do that. They've got six years to do it. You have to. So if you're worried, don't worry, it will work itself out.

All right, let's go to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who many conservative Americans loathe. So you remember that Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 84 to 2022, chief medical advisor to the president- that would be Trump- from 21 to 22. Fauci was a big COVID started from animals, not from the Wuhan lab. And later we learned he took this point of view because his institution invested a lot of money with the Chinese in the Wuhan Lab. Well, now, Senator Rand Paul in Kentucky is investigating Anthony Fauci. He's going to be called in on Monday, a non-voluntary subpoena, and here with the inside story is the creator of Just the News and editor-in-chief, John Solomon. So why should we care about Fauci? You like him, or you don't. Is it more than that?

"There is. I think at this moment, there is a truth-telling consequence to what Rand Paul is going to do. Rand Paul has systemically, over the last four years, shown that Anthony Fauci did not tell Congress the truth. He got a little bit of help as Tulsi Gabbard, the departing director of national intelligence, who is leaving her job. She put out some extraordinary documents that show three things. One, that Anthony Fauci and the entire intelligence community knew that as soon as the COVID outbreak had occurred, that there had been a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was where the NIH was doing its own coronavirus research. It was funding research there. And that some of the scientists at Wuhan had gotten sick inside the lab. That is prima facie evidence that this wasn't a natural creation disease, but actually something that emanated from dangerous research at a lab that Dr. Anthony Fauci was funding the research for. Then, we know the CIA, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, found a video, and one of Dr. Fauci's collaborators, one of the guys he was funding, was caught on video saying, yeah, we're actually enhancing the virus to make it more deadly to humans, which is exactly what Anthony Fauci said his group was not doing at Wuhan Institute. And then third, we got to see that the inspector general of the intelligence committee got a whistleblower complaint. Someone in the intelligence committee who had access to the entire visibility of Wuhan came forward and said Anthony Fauci's lying to Congress. He should get prosecuted. And he goes through the normal whistleblower channels. And then the Biden administration catches it and kills it instead of allowing it to go to the Inspector General, from the Intelligence Committee Inspector General to the Chief Watchdog at Anthony Fauci's agency. They send it to a political appointee, and they kill it. They send to Secretary Becerra."

Is this like Comey, just perjury?

"It's just like, you know, in this case, what they did with Dr. Fauci is exactly what Comey did when he said, I'm going to just absolve Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing. They just wanted to let Anthony Fauci off the hook. Now the question that these new documents raise was, if Anthony Fauci had this much contact with the CIA, he's a scientist, he is a doctor. What's he doing at the CIA all the time? I think there are some broader questions that Rand Paul wants to get to. So, we know that in the end days of Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci got a pardon. He can't be prosecuted for anything before January 20th, 2025. But, if Rand Paul puts him on the stand next week, as he's going to compel him to do, and Anthony Fauci does not tell the truth this time, in the body of evidence that's there, he could be instantly prosecuted by the Trump Justice Department. If he does tell the truth, he's gonna have to admit he lied to us previously."

All right, so he's got a pardon by Biden already in his pocket, but then Paul's going to open up all these new doors. The money that was going into Wuhan from Fauci's organization for research purposes, was that taxpayer money? Was that U.S. Money?

"Yes, you and I paid for that research. We were paying to take a virus that wasn't naturally infectious to humans and make it deadly infectious to humans. There are a lot of reasons why that's concerning. One is that Barack Obama banned that research by executive order in 2015, so it would have been unlawful to do so. But even at a bigger level, when you take a virus that isn't lethal to humans and you make it lethal to humans, you potentially are in violation of the Bio Weapons Treaty that the United States signed with dozens of countries across the world. And so there's good reason for someone like Dr. Fauci, if he was involved in knowing this, to not want to admit to those two things."

I wonder why he'd go up against a Barack Obama executive order. Why would he put himself in that kind of jeopardy?

"We don't know the answer yet. And you know, I have a question. Again, I've done a lot of work on Anthony Fauci's career. Back in 2005, when I was at the Associated Press, I did a series of investigative stories that got him in a lot of trouble because he was testing AIDS drugs on vulnerable foster children who didn't have parents and they didn't have AIDS. They were testing the drugs as a control group on kids who didn't have any parents to watch out for them. So I've been tough on him. It was a big story back then. But I have some concerns when I look at this docket that maybe there's an intelligence community element to this that we haven't gotten to the bottom of. Were they maybe using Fauci to spy on China bioweapon labs and see what was going on? We'll see if that comes out with Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci next week. Rand Paul did something really interesting, Bill, last week. He put out this really lengthy timetable, and there's just so many contacts between Anthony Fauci, a doctor in the CIA, that you don't normally see in the intelligence community It does raise the spectre of whether he was working on some sort of intelligence project with the CIA or someone else. That may not be the case, but I think it's something worth exploring."

Well, that's what Gabbard thinks, after she was booted.

"Yeah. Clearly."

Yeah, she thought that there was a linkage between the US Intel and Fauci. So keep this posted, John. You do excellent reporting as always. Okay, so the hearing is coming up, and John Solomon is the best guy in the country, in my opinion, to make this cogent so everybody understands it. We appreciate it, John, thanks for taking the time.

"My pleasure. It was great to be with you."

Okay, onward. ABC battling the federal government. Good, interesting story to me. So, Disney owns ABC, right? And ABC is a powerful broadcaster. But it comes under the supervision of the federal government. There's four outfits that do that. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS. Why? Because they use the public airwaves, which means that we, the people, own the airwaves, just like we own the country. And the networks make money off of us, because the government allows them to broadcast their programs. So ABC is a Trump-hating outfit. And Trump doesn't like them, and has ordered the Federal Communications Commission to investigate ABC on a variety of things. And ABC now is fighting back. Here's a statement they issued, quote, "'The View' has welcomed your favorite guests for nearly 30 years. Now the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on a show. Tell the FCC to let the viewers decide. You have until July 6th." Well, I'm not telling the FCC anything because I know that ABC's The View refuses to book conservative traditional people. Now, lately they have kind of hidden that because they had Vance on, a couple of others, but for a year, they won't book anybody. I used to be on the show all the time. They're not putting me on. That's a violation of freedom of speech, but not to one of the co-hosts, Sonny Hostin. Go.

"Freedom of speech undergirds our democracy, and our founders were very, very clear on that. Our founders drafted the First Amendment specifically to protect the rights of citizens to criticize the government."

Okay, that's fine. Criticize the government all day long, and you do. The view does. Not the government, Trump. But then you are compelled by fair use to bring on somebody who doesn't see it your way. Not to have five people who hate Trump on every day, which is what they do. Kimmel, every blanking day hating Trump. And World News Tonight. It's essentially a weather forecast now, but if you look at their Washington core, they're all lefties. I worked there, I know what ABC is or used to be. So why would you do that? Why wouldn't you hire a non-ideological correspondent? They don't want that. Disney board of directors wants a liberal presentation. Okay, you may be in violation of the public airways. And that's what the FCC is investigating, okay? Very interesting case, which we are following. The View is part of ABC News. Not many people know that. They did it for budgetary reasons.

Chicago, another progressive paradise. So, Juneteenth weekend, three-day weekend, 39 people shot. Eight killed, city of Chicago. No arrests. Of course. No arrests. You got 39, you figure maybe one or two you would arrest. Maybe you have an informer that could tell you what happened. No arrests, none. And they all get away with it. Okay. Murder victims in Chicago for the past ten years. 6,413. That's a lot of murder victims. 6,413 human beings no longer on the planet in Chicago. Okay. The years 2016 to 2025, almost a 10-year period, 33,000 shooting victims in Chicago. Warzone? Yeah, warzone. Okay, so President Trump doesn't like the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Johnson, or the Governor Pritzker, and he puts out a tweet to embarrass them, quote, "Lots of killing going on in Chicago. 22 people shot, at least four dead. Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help? I could make Chicago a safe city in one month. In one year, it would be one of the safest. D.C. went from one of the worst to one of the safest in the USA under Donald J. Trump." That's Truth Social June 21st. In reply, here's what Pritzker said, go.

"I don't think that we should be listening to this president about promises that he makes or that he has any idea how to protect us in the state of Illinois. I am deeply concerned to make sure that we're keeping the people of Illinois safe. We've had some terrible tragedies that have occurred. It's why I have asked for help from the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, because going after guns and drugs and gangs is something that concerns me just like it does local residents."

Well, what have you done about it? You're so concerned, give me one thing you've done about it. One. You've done nothing about it. And that's a progressive hall. Don't punish the criminals. The criminals know it. We're not gonna get punished. Okay? We're not going to get punished. 39 over Juneteenth, no arrests. And then if they did arrest somebody, a judge would say, eh, not enough evidence. Eh, we don't want to really. Now Pritzker, I mean, he's the worst. I've always said he's the worst governor. He's, you know, you can say Newsom, you can a whole bunch of others, but Pritzker is the worst because he does nothing. Nothing. He's a progressive, but he just sits there, and Trump is mocking him. Now, the reason Trump was able to clean up D.C. To some extent, is because the feds have control over the District of Columbia. But we don't, the American system does not allow the federal government to go into the local towns and do what it wants. Got to be asked. New Orleans asked, Memphis asked, and Trump sent people, and it's working. Minnesota, no. No, no, no, they don't want part of it. Uh-uh. No way. And Pritzker, you just heard him. Just really a shame because these are, these are mostly minorities getting gunned down in the street. You would think the minority community would rise up, you don't hear a word. I don't hear a word.

Smart life. So once again, today, you know, we have Concierge Membership, and that's where you go to BillOReilly.com, you sign up, you have a problem, you come to us, we help you with the problem. It's a very simple service. I have said time and time and again on this program, the No Spin News, do not send money to the internet companies. If you do, odds are you're going to lose that money. So if you have a bank, you can walk into the bank, talk to a human being. The bank is regulated by the FDIC, and you know you can get access to your money unless you've committed a crime. You send your money to some company operating on the net or social media, kiss it goodbye. Now we've been pretty successful tracking down the leadership of these companies that will not refund money when they should to my Concierge Members. Now, your responsibility is to get me who you talk to, to get their contact information, then I can go in. We've done a pretty good job on it because we threaten them. And say, if you do this, not only am I going to go on television and tell everybody, but I'm going to help the person who's getting hosed file a federal crime against you, fraud. Because you're operating across state lines. Okay, that's what we're going to do if you don't resolve this. And I'd say 80% they resolve it. But it takes a while. And they don't want to give you the money back. And there's a lot of mortgage and banking and loans and all of this, and this transactional world that we live in, these companies set up because they know they can evade the authorities. You, they're going to hose you. I don't know how many. I must have 500 letters from Concierge Members saying, I can't get my money, I can get my money, I can't get my money, and they're entitled to their money. Smart life, do not do that. Do not send money to the internet. I don't know how much more clear I can be.

This Day in History, June 23rd, 2011. Moscow, Russia, a movie debuts in Putinland Okay, this is when Putin had not completely lost his mind. The movie, The Transformers: Dark of the Moon, starring Shia LaBeouf. Okay, but I, your humble correspondent, really carried the movie. Roll it.

"My next guest is a former American intelligence operative who has dared to speak out regarding our alleged military alliance with what many describe as a group of extraterrestrial mercenaries. He is the author of the best-selling book Codename Hero, former special agent Seymour Simmons."

"Bill, big fan, great to be here."

"Now, Agent Simmons, you would have us believe that it is in our best interest to formally take sides in this so-called alien civil war."

"Well, the other side wanted to spank us for breakfast, so I wouldn't exactly call it a toss-up. These decepticons are lethal."

"But polls show half the world will feel safer with the Autobots completely gone. Get them out of here. We don't need them here."

"I feel safer when I sleep with a hand grenade. Doesn't mean I'm always right."

"Now, agent, here's the fact that we have obtained documents that show you were fired by the Intelligence Committee."

"Chas, give me an interview. Downsize, Bill, budget cuts. Chas out."

"...Severe delusional tendencies."

"This is Ambush Journalism."

You want the truth? Buy my book! Buy my books! Before it's too late, people! You want a piece of me, Bill? You want to get naked? I'm ready! Interview is over!"

"You sound like a pinhead, agent, and I've got a suggestion for you."

"It's over, understand?"

"Damage control."

Now that movie, The Dark of the Moon Transformers, that plays on cable all the time. I still get calls. And I was going to Madison Square Garden in the city, I don't know, a couple of months ago, and I had all these guys going, oh, Bill O'Reilly, Transformers. Said, I don't know what I do, they don't know the No Spin News. Transformers, that's what they know. I said, yeah, me and Shia are buddies. That was a lot of fun. Michael Bay, movie grossed more than a billion dollars. A billion 124 million. My God. There were three Transformers, they all did very well. So we're always up for a little fun like that. Okay, we got mail, we've got a final thought about my special coming up on the Revolutionary War for News Nation. Back in a moment.

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Okay, brand new YouTube extra on Robert De Niro, I go after Bobby, you're going to like it. Free. Youtube.com/BillOReilly, youtube.com/BillO'Reilly, let me know what you think. Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com, name and town if you wish to opine. The mail, Larry Anderson, Jamestown, New York, "Although I support U.S. Action in Iran, I'm getting impatient with Donald Trump's multiple empty threats against that regime." Okay, understandable, but he doesn't want to kill civilians. I can tell you that for sure. So that is pretty much the holdup, but as I reported last night, something's gotta give.

Alan Schwartz, Trinity, Florida. "Bill, I don't know why President Trump keeps delaying the inevitable with 60-day negotiations and then another 60. Iran is stalling. These fanatics will never change. The conditions of peace are clear. They have had enough time. Time to start bombing, including their oil infrastructure. We can sell petroleum to the world." We could, but you're gonna kill 10,000 civilians. Just keep that in mind. 10,000 dead children, women, you do that. It's gonna happen. That's why this is so difficult. Okay. Pages stuck together. Oh, I love that.

David Bonnet, Las Vegas. "Bill, you wonder why Europeans will not support Trump's bombing campaign against Iran or let our planes refuel on a territory. I submit it's because of Trump's bombastic personality. 51st state in Canada, Greenland, on and on." Okay. There might be something to that, but I don't know if you jeopardize your country and the entire world because you don't like somebody's style.

Sandra, Concierge Member. "Bill, the media is still around. You have been predicting the crash of the MSM, Main Stream Media, for years, and yet it's still here." It'll always be here, Sandra, as I said. But it's diminished. Do you ever think 60 Minutes was where it is? And cable TV numbers are crazy. I mean, it's not nearly what it used to be.

Scott. "Bill, would you mind explaining this whole presidential library thing?" It's history. Presidents have a lot of stuff. So you put it in the library so you can see it, and you go in there. But the libraries are very instructive. I've been to almost all of them. A lot of history.

David Ferron, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Bill, please report on who has to pay the upkeep of the library. "The people who go to the library. You know, I mean, maybe Cook County will give the Obama team some money, it's possible. They can do that, but it's primarily a private situation.

Carolyn. "I appreciate your honesty, Bill, and depend on your research. I listen to other sources, but nothing they report makes much sense. I always come back to you." We're very pleased that you do. We're not gonna deceive you, we're not going to mislead you. All right, BillOReilly.com store, we got the hats. I think I can get them to you by the 3rd of July. Best hats in the world. We hope you will pick up a few. Word of the Day, do not be priggish. P-R-I-G-G I-S-H. Priggish. Good word. Okay, we have a final thought coming your way next.

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Here is a final thought on July 2nd, Thursday evening, News Nation, 9 PM Eastern. We have a special, Leland Vittert and me, about the heroes and villains of the Revolutionary War. You're gonna be stunned. Some of the people you think were real heroes, no. No. And there are a few bad guys who weren't bad. Here's a clip.

"250 years since July 4, 1776. Is there anything about the revolution we don't know?"

"Everything, because it isn't taught anymore. The urchins don't get it in school. I mean, they get Washington. Maybe they get Benjamin Franklin a little, but they don't give the why of it. They don't keep the sacrifice that was made by the Patriots to overthrow the most powerful man on earth, King George. They don't get any of that."

"Why is it important?"

"Well, if all you want to do is spend your life on a stupid machine, your device, then it's not. But if you love your country, if you have your emotion invested in the United States in your life here, I think you might want to know a little bit about it."

All right, so there it is. Again, July 2nd, 9 p.m. News Nation. You're gonna like it. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you tomorrow.

The State of American Pride, Trump's Economic Standing, Is Dr. Fauci in Trouble? John Solomon Explains & ABC's Battle with the FCC

2026-06-23T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill analyzes a new poll measuring how proud Americans are of their country.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy?
Bill explains what is likely to happen to Social Security finances.
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, John Solomon, breaks down the situation involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and questions about whether he lied to Congress during the pandemic.
The latest on ABC’s battle with the FCC and its ongoing investigation.
Final Thought: Don’t miss Bill’s NewsNation special on the Revolutionary War, airing July 2nd.

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O'Reilly & Mark Simone on Disney vs. Trump

2026-06-23T20:04:00Z

Bill joins Mark Simone and reports on Disney’s concerted effort to protect its Trump-hating talk show ‘The View.’ Bill contends that the panel on the ABC News program is ‘brutalizing’ Republicans and President Trump.

Does Iran Still Pose a Nuclear Threat?

2026-06-23T18:36:00Z

Nazee Moinian, Ph.D., Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute, discusses how close Iran was to producing a nuclear bomb and the chances of reaching a deal.

Bill & Batya Discuss Perspective on Iran

2026-06-23T16:23:00Z

Bill joins Batya Ungar-Sargon to discuss the current situation involving Iran on NewsNation.

Sign up for Premium or Concierge Membership on BillOReilly.com and get Bill's upcoming book "Confronting America" FREE.

O'Reilly on 'Progressive' Double Standards with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-06-23T16:22:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis and reports on still another example of blatant hypocrisy, this one involving entertainers at the opening of the Obama Center in Chicago.

The TRUTH About Iran

2026-06-23T07:32:00Z

Bill clears up the mass confusion about what's really happening in Iran.

Disney's FCC Dilemma

2026-06-23T07:01:00Z

ABC is asking its viewers to petition the Federal Communications Commission not to audit the network. Apparently, Disney, which owns ABC, is a bit worried that the Trump administration might wind up sanctioning the operation.

The problem here is The View, Jimmy Kimmel, and World News Tonight. President Trump is not happy with Disney using its media power to harm him. Understandable. It would be easy for ABC to moderate its approach. When I went on The View years ago, Barbara Walters was in charge. The ladies were mostly liberal but not hateful. Obviously, that has changed, and Disney signed off on it.

Mr. Kimmel has also migrated left and almost exclusively spouts a progressive point of view. Jim is a funny guy, but the Trump loathing is sophomoric as well as meaningless. Every night, Jim? Give it a rest.

ABC’s signature news program, World News Tonight, has stacked its lineup with left-leaning journalists. Why?

It has to be what the Disney Board of Directors wants. Hollywood is a leftist culture zone, and that might be what’s going on.

Doesn’t really matter. The feds are now scrutinizing Disney. And its audience will not save them.

Supercilious

2026-06-23T02:52:00Z

[cre·tin] a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).

The TRUTH About Iran: Does It Still Pose a Nuclear Threat? Dr. Nazee Moinian Weighs In, British Prime Minister Quits & Controversy Over the Obama Presidential Library

2026-06-22T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 22nd, 2026, stand up for your country. Well, I'm getting some good news behind the scenes, background. When a journalist is briefed on background, that means the journalist doesn't go public with it, but the news is pretty good out of Switzerland, where Vice President Vance is trying to sew up this deal with Iran. However, I'm not going to be cynical, but I am realistic of the Iranians. You know, what they say now, one hour from now is obsolete. They're not trustworthy people, and everybody knows it. The Iranians know it. They're also going around hanging people like crazy, dissidents inside Iran. But if they can nail this thing down, they, being the United States. And Iran signs into it, that'll be a huge victory for the world and for President Trump, and he knows. So I hope you all read my column on Sunday. We signaled that it was an important piece of analysis, and if you didn't read it, it's there. You can read it. But it's important that you know what the truth is and what's a bunch of garbage, because there's a lot of that floating around. And that is the subject of tonight's Talking Points Memo.

So the name of the column is Iran Unbowed. But there's mass confusion on the part of the United States citizenry and the world. Most people don't know what the deuce is going on. I'm not saying that in a supercilious manner, word of the day: supercilious. They just don't know. And why should they? They're not Middle Eastern experts, and they hear crazy stuff all the time on television and social media. Nobody reads newspapers anymore. Okay, so I got five letters, and I think this is the best way to do it tonight, based upon a column. I'm going to read you all five. I'm gonna reply to them. The first letter is from Frederick, all right? "O'Reilly said it from the beginning: big risk, but President Trump should have destroyed those terrorists at the very beginning. Now it will never happen." Well, in order to destroy the terrorists, you're going to have to kill thousands of civilians, Frederick. You're willing to do that? President Trump isn't willing to do that at this juncture. He might have to, but he thought he could get a deal. Okay, and he's close to getting a deal. Whether the Iranians will honor the deal, nobody knows, but you don't negotiate along those lines, because that's speculative. But you say Trump should have destroyed those terrorists. You'd have to go in and mass bomb Tehran and the whole country. You know the unintended consequence of that in the Muslim world? Okay, let's stay in the real world here.

Ralph and Joan, "Bill, did President Trump say no verification? President Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify." In a social media post today, President Trump said that he's gonna get the inspectors in. There wasn't any equivocation about it. And you write, President Reagan said trust but verify? How? If the leadership of Iran is not going to allow the weapons inspectors in, how would you ever be able to verify it? You can't. Real world.

Third letter. Philip. "At this point, Iran is still a nuclear threat." Potential nuclear threat. They do not have a weapon. A lot of viewers out there believe that Iran has a nuclear weapon. It does not. It wants one, it's working toward one, it does not have it, according to every piece of intelligence that we have.

Next one, John. "So we have to have our military out of there in 30 days. What do you think Iran's gonna do after the U.S. Military is gone?" Where'd you get that? Where'd you get that? There is no negotiation on U.S. Military withdrawal from anywhere. So right now, the American military's in Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, and UAE. They're not leaving. But I'm very curious, where did you get that? Who is saying that? Who is misleading you?

And the final one is from Harlan. "On Wednesday, O'Reilly, you denied ever hearing Iran has enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs. Just Google Iran has enough enriched uranium." Number one, Harlan, we do not report or analyze based upon Google, or Wikipedia, or any website. Now, on this program, we have had discussions, and one of the discussions was on June 17th. And it basically was that Iran has enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs. I can't confirm that. Nobody can confirm that, impossible. But you cannot confirm it. Now, there are people, weapons inspectors among them, and Witkoff, one of the US negotiators, who believe it. They believe it, so Witkoff says that the uranium the Iranians possess could have been enriched to weapons grade within 7 to 10 days. You know, where's the backup? I'm not doubting that, but I don't, there is no backup for it. So it's no wonder why everybody is confused. Now, in May of last year 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency and this is what I hammered Chris Cuomo with, okay, issued a report that said Iran's stock of uranium enriched to 60% purity was close to weapons-grade. The IAEA is out of Austria, and that's what they say. Okay, I don't know. I know what they said. I reported what they've said. Now Chris Cuomo, he doesn't wanna believe that, so he's not gonna believe it. No matter what you do, no matter what the IAEA says. Now, I'm not believing it either, but I'm not skeptical about it. I think it's entirely possible that that's true.

Bottom line on all this is it is impossible to know, anybody, what exactly is going on five miles below a mountain, Natanz. It's impossible. But the prevailing wisdom is, and what President Trump believes, that the Iranians were working feverishly to get this bomb, and they were very close. And that's the Memo. Okay, there's a poll. The memorandum of understanding. CBS, YouGov, so-so poll. Nothing special, 2,519 adults. Usually you go with registered voters or likely to vote, not CBS. First question, from what you've seen or heard about the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran to end the conflict, do you agree that it's better for the USA than Iran? 22%. Better for Iran than the USA, 37%. So if we sign a deal, the folks here at CBS who were polled say, well, Iran won. That's what they're going to say, about equal, 41%. Second question: do you think the US should end the conflict with Iran now, or should it continue until Iran gives up more? Should end 78%. That's the big number. Continue until Iran gives up more, 22%. Nothing much else on this poll. But Americans, they, again, if you don't know and you are confused and you're paying higher gas and food prices and utility prices, your tendency is to want to get the hell out. And that's what we're seeing in these polls. Joining us now from New York City is Dr. Nazee Moinian. She is an associate fellow for the Middle East Institute, which is, you know, down in the middle. It's not an ideological thing, which we don't want here, all right? And that seeks to increase knowledge in the Middle East. All right, so you read my column, you heard my monologue. Where am I going wrong here, doctor?

"Thank you, nice to be on your show, Bill. My brother was a huge fan, always talked about you. You're not going anywhere wrong. I think you hit the nail on the head on many points. I'm not a nuclear expert. It's not on my resume, but I know a few things to be able to address some of the data you just shared with us. The weapons-grade uranium and how far was Iran away from producing a bomb or three bombs or six bombs, for that matter, is not up for debate. According to David Albright, who's a nuclear expert- he's a physicist, he founded the Institute for Science and International Security- Iran was about three to four weeks away from producing four to six weapons- grade payloads."

But how would he know? How would he know?

"Because you know, that's another, that that's a great question and I wanted to tell you that the IAEA inspectors were in Iran. They were kicked out, and they were deceived on many levels, but they were kicked out, and now Iran is bragging that it has given up its nuclear weapons to the Americans because it's letting the inspectors in. The inspectors were always supposed to be in, by the way, as part of the NPT."

They got booted out in 2019, so that's seven years ago.

"No, they were there until 2024, when the last, I read the last report by David Albright, where they actually swapped many facilities, they found a 60% isotope, which is not supposed to be there, and they were not allowed to enrich up to that level. And from a 60% isotope to weapons-grade uranium, which has about 90-95%..."

But I'm glad you point out those inspectors were not allowed to go to see any kind of uranium lab or any kind like that. They did glean that Iran was cheating, and that was under Trump. I'm sorry, that was under Biden. It was under Biden, and it was an extension of the Obama deal with them. So that's why Trump, when he came in, he did it twice. In the free knock them out the first time because he didn't like the deal, he said nobody can verify, and then the second time, he used military action in coordination with Israel to try to kill these people because they were violating. But I'm not a doubter in the sense that I know, based upon, I had an IAEA inspector on this program, he said pretty much what you're saying. Okay, but there's no 100% surety, and the opposition to Trump worldwide, not just in the U.S., doesn't believe it because they don't want to believe it. Would that be accurate?

"Yes. Also, what's very accurate is that you can never get a surety out of the Islamic regime. It thrives on obfuscation and confusion and letting its hands open for the world to see what they're up to, how much missiles they're producing, how many drone factories they have, how much nuclear enriched uranium they have is a death knell for them. So they keep their cards very close to their chest."

But they're gonna have to do it. They're gonna, because Trump is not gonna make a deal unless they allow weapons inspectors in. Now they'll play hide them all, whack, you know, hide it here, hide it there, you know what they'll do. All right, but part of the deal is they're going to be weapons inspectors go in and look at their uranium capacity. Has to happen, or Trump's legacy is severely damaged.

"I agree, and it will happen for us Iran watchers, and unfortunately the synonym for Iran watcher is Iran cynics because we know what they're all up to, not the Iranians but the regime, is that for every performance we can verify, for every performace we can gage to understand how far along they've gone, there is almost certainly a clandestine nuclear activity somewhere else that we haven't been able to identify."

No, no doubt about it, but once you let people in to take a look around, you are in a much stronger position than they are now. The free world is now. Why do you think...you've been doing this for a while, doctor? Why do you think Europe and...I mean the Gulf states are with the USA. Israel is separated because of the Prohibition on them over, what did Trump say? The phrase he used was reacting too harshly. So they're kind of to the sideline now, they'll come back. But what is your reaction to why the world, why isn't everybody aligned with the United States trying to get these guys under control in Iran?

"Well, I share your sentiments, Bill, that there was a wedge driven by the Iranians, by Hezbollah, between Bibi and Trump, and the media jumped on that and made it much more magnified, more than it needed to be. But I'm reminded of World War II, 1940 to 1944. Charles de Gaulle of France and Churchill of England fought bitterly between themselves because they differed on war aims, exactly how Bibi and Trump are deferring on war aims. Should it be a regime change, or should we just weaken Iran so we can get a better deal out of them? But they ultimately knew that the enemy is Hitler, which needs to be defeated. And they collaborated, and we won the war. I'm not worried about the relationship between Bibi and Trump. They're both very hard-headed, very strong-personality world powers, and Israel is a regional power. That set aside, I think the Europeans, I'm reminded of. My great mentor at my grad school, Robert Jervis, who always said, if you want to know where the country relies on, what the country relies on when it comes to foreign policy, look at what tools they have in their toolbox. Americans have military power. We're the largest military power in the world. And it was showcased during all the operations, Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer, everything that has gone down since. Europeans were there in 18th, 19th, and part of the 20th century. They're no longer there, so they rely on diplomacy because everything else is too costly for them."

Yeah, but all the president asked of them was to allow our military to refuel on their territory. Yeah, he wanted a couple of ships from Great Britain, and that never happened. But it wasn't, look, you guys got to partner up and send your bombers in there. No. It was a very, very sensible request that was rejected outright by a very weak continent. And I was, and to this day, Trump's furious about it, absolutely furious that these NATO people, whom we've protected now for 50 years, would then turn their backs on something that's dangerous. Iran's a dangerous terrorist state. Nobody can deny that. And yet these people are looking away. I mean, I wrote a book called Confronting Evil. I said in the book, evil grows when you look away, and you're not going to let American military planes land on your soil and refuel. I mean, it's crazy.

"It is. It is, and I understand that you're angry. I was angry when Keir Starmer rejected the landing of allowing the American planes to land on British soil. I don't have an answer for that, unfortunately. I think this is a stain on the collective European foreign policy establishment. They know that Trump will step up and do what it needs to be done militarily, and they're not willing to do it because somebody else is doing it for them."

"Well, it's true, but that's so venal and so corrupt and so destructive to the rest of the world, because these guys are killers, and again, there's no debate on that. I mean, they're going to light up Lebanon, and I think Hamas is pretty much done, but they can make a comeback at Iran's request. They're going to start again, and Iran's going, well, we're not doing it. So anyway, it's just a mess. Last word on this, I am a bit more optimistic today than I was on the weekend, over the weekend. I do think there's a good chance now that the Iranians will make a deal. Do you?

"You know, optimism is a hazard in my profession, Bill, if you understand what I mean. We always tend to be on the side of cautious optimism, a little bit cynical, a little bit too realistic when it comes to the Islamic regime. I want your viewers and listeners to take the point away by listening to this conversation that obviously they know that the Islamic regime does not represent the Iranian people. 80 to 90 percent of the Iranian people are America-loving, Western-loving technocrats who are highly educated. They're perfectly happy to belong to the Western orbit, and it's the dream that's been hijacked by the Islamic regime. And the Gen Z of the Iranians right now is in revolt, and the people you see on the street are Gen Z and sometimes their parents. But it's known that this regime, if not targeted and gone away by the coalition of Arabs in the Gulf and the operations, the kinetic operations of the Americans and Israelis, it might implode on its own illegitimacy and unpopularity, which is something the Iranian Gen Z is hoping for."

Okay, but remember now, 250 years ago, we had a fight for our freedom here, and more than 200,000 colonists went down. And so the Iranians can sit there all day long and say, we don't like the mullahs. But they're going to have to do something themselves, whether it be a general strike. There are ways to do it without getting a rope around your neck. But we're not seeing that. And I don't know if we're going to see it. Certainly, the US government's not counting on that anymore. They did in the beginning, but they're not anymore.

"It's hard to risk your life, Bill, if you're confronted by ammunition that's military-style ammunition, and you're riddled with bullets to the tune of 30,000 to 40,000 people over a nine-hour period, three days, but nine hours."

I listen, I understand, but we had to do it. Other cultures had to do it, as I said, there are other ways than going out into the street put yourself in physical jeopardy, but we're not seeing much. Anyway, Doctor, thanks for the good discussion we really appreciate it.

"Thank you for having me. Really, thank you.".

Okay. All right, in Great Britain, Starmer quits, Keir Starmer. So I was over there, three weeks in London, as you know, doing a special for News Nation about the collapse of the UK in many, many different forms because of the migrant situation, where Starmer and a whole bunch of other PMs, prime ministers, just let anybody in. It's like Biden did. It's the same thing, come on in. That is putting an enormous amount of pressure on the economy of the U.K. Because the jobs that were once going to working-class people are now going to migrants, migrants work cheaper. And the big thing that nobody understands, and this is the subject of my special for News Nation, we don't have a date on it yet, but I'll tell you, is that England is a quasi-socialist country, and the people there, almost all of them, depend on the government largesse, particularly in health care. Okay, you know that. So government runs healthcare. Well, you're an old lady in the Midlands, and you got a condition, and you used to be able to get in to see your doctor in two days. It's now 10 days because the migrants flood in and they use the government entitlements. And that has backed up everything and the regular system is collapsing because they don't have enough money. London doesn't have enough money to support millions of migrants, give them free healthcare, free housing, free, free, free. They can't afford it, and number two, the lack of jobs. London was pretty vibrant when I was there. But I'll tell you what, all, I would say 80% of the workers were Arab descent, or North African descent. So that's why Starmer got hammered, because he had no solution. And it got worse and worse and worse and worse. So he's out. And I don't care about British politics. I think there are a bunch of pinheads over there. And thank God we're independent. But a guy named Andy Burnham used to be mayor of Manchester. It looks like he's going to be the new Labor leader. And if that happens, he'll probably be the next prime minister. I don't know much about the guy. The key to him, though, is he's got to crack down on the migrants. And I don't know whether any of them are the stones to do that. In the EU itself, all the European countries- remember, England, UK, is not part of the EU. They have the pound, they don't have the euro, they don't want to be a part of it. Which was at the time a wise move, I'm not so sure it's smart now. But anyway, over the weekend is a vote to repatriate all of these illegal aliens out of Europe, back to their home country. The vote was 418 and 218. That's a landslide. Get them out of here. And that is exactly what they were chanting. Go.

"Okay, we move to the next item on the agenda, the report by Mrs. Bricmont on the EU-Pakistan Agreement Modification of Concessions on Tariff Rate Quotes, vote on consent, my roll call vote, the vote is open. The vote is closed."

Okay, send them back, shame on you. The tide has turned in the UK, in the EU, and we were way ahead of the curve because that's why Donald Trump got elected for the second term. Because the migration is so far out of control, somebody had to step in because of Biden and fix it, which Trump did. We were way out in front, now they're trying to catch up. And you never hear about China in illegal migration, do you? You know, there is no illegal migration. Nobody wants to go to that system. And if they find you there without papers, you vanish. Okay, Lara Trump and Barack Obama. So out of all the Trumps' surrogates, Lara Trump is probably the most outspoken. She does not like, predictably, the Obama Library in Chicago. Roll the tape.

"The whole thing from start to finish has kind of been a disaster. Right, it's ugly to look at, it's over budget, the taxpayers are footing the bill apparently for parts of this, and then they had to open the ceremony with this, you know, performative morality virtue signal."

Okay, so we fact-checked it. The library cost $850 million, and $224 million of that was paid by taxpayers, mostly in Illinois and in Cook County, Chicago, not across the country. There was a federal grant given to the Obama Library, and I thought that was generous. You know, I hope Donald Trump gets the same consideration. It wasn't huge, but it was millions. And then the big liberal people stepped up, and they filled in the difference between 850, 224. Some of those people are Jeff Bezos, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pritzker family. He's the governor of Illinois. Michael Jordan, a basketball player, Oprah Winfrey, open society that's Soros, Steven Spielberg and his wife, they stepped up and donated a massive amount of money to get that thing built. Okay, so it opened on Friday to the public, and Thursday they had a big dog and pony show. What was interesting to me is they had Bruce Springsteen and Bono and the usual liberal suspects performing and schmoozing and all that. I didn't have a problem with that. Did you have a problem with that? I had no problem with it. If you like Barack Obama and you wanna support his library, you're in America, you have a perfect right to do it. But if that had been Donald Trump, any performer who actually signed on to help with that Trump library would have been blackballed. I know I'm overstating a little, but not much. Not much. So the left, they're big blackball people now. They're big cancel culture people now, where I believe the conservatives are a bit more accommodating in their thought process. If you object to Barack Obama having a library, please let me know. I'd like to know about that. Anyway, President Obama gave a speech. Roll the tape.

"But out of the fire and steel of a revolution, a different story took flight on this continent. A declaration that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, and that in the newly independent United States there will be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but only citizens. Each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective faith through an elected representative government."

Well, historically, that's inaccurate. And I'd like to talk to President Obama about this. So there were serfs, there were slaves, okay? The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, didn't knock out slavery because the new country needed the South. And if it had knocked out slavery, never would have gotten to be a representative government. The South would have said, no, we don't want to sign up. So there were always serfs, and there were always lords, the slaveholders. They bought them. So that's not true or even close to being true. But the whole tenor of it is that somehow you and me, we don't have the same rights that we did once President Trump was elected. So, outside of hellacious taxation, because I live in New York, I don't know any of my rights that are not there. Do you? Do you know any? Have you lost any rights? Since Trump's been in office? What? What are you talking about? Yeah. I continue to hear no, no kings. What kings? What are you talking about? Trump has to go through the system. So this gobbledygook is going to hurt the democratic party.

All right, the reflecting pool. So, under the Biden administration, this pool between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument got polluted. I have no idea why, and Trump wants to clean it up. So $15 million has been spent trying to clean this up. Now there is an accusation. Sabotage took place. There have been five arrests. Jeanine Pirro will prosecute, she says, the people who are trying to vandalize this reflecting pool. Interesting story. Not crucial, but they're going to clean it up by the 4th of July.

Smart life. Summer vacation. So it's kind of summer first day was what over the weekend. And here's what I've noticed. And I'm an observer of the American spectrum. People are going on vacation because I live on the eastern of Long Island, in addition to living close to the city. They're going, but they're not spending what they used to spend. Let me give you some examples. Hotel rates are insane. And then they slap on fees for you, smart life. Stupid fees, like if you go to a resort and you want a towel, you gotta pay for it. That kind of crazy stuff. So you need to get in line, all the fees are gonna slap on you, number one, on a hotel. And the hotel rate itself, you don't want to stay in a flea bag, but there are very clean B&Bs and things like that, that you can go to. Secondly, the really high-end, expensive restaurants are taking it right here on their chin. Nobody's paying $40 for an entree, except for the fat cats. Okay, so people are going out to eat, but they're not eating in the places that are ripping them off. So I have a little secret I shouldn't tell anybody, but in order to eat breakfast, where I live, you gotta bring 30 bucks, just for some eggs and toast. Maybe a little bacon, and I don't know, but it's 30, they want 30 bucks. That includes tax and tip. 30 bucks for breakfast, a little excessive. But I found a place on a dock that has a great breakfast for half. Half. So guess where I'm going? You can find it too, you gotta look. You gotta be a detective.

So a group, Best Money, another internet group, put out a thousand adults survey. And here's the data. Travel feels more expensive, 81%, because it is more expensive. Vacation is important for your mental health, 76, it's true. You spend a little bit more. And 11% of Americans who go on vacation, spend less than $500. Those are the camping people, or the RV people. Up to $1,000, 20%, up to 2,000, 26%, up to 3,000, 19%, up the 4,000, 10%. So you can see that between 1,000 and 2,000 is where most people come down. But you can save money. Now tomorrow on this broadcast, we are gonna revisit Anthony Fauci, the COVID guy. Anthony could be in trouble. But I'm waiting, waiting, waiting for the data, and I will have it by tomorrow. Okay, so set your clocks.

This Day in History, June 22nd, 1945, Battle of Okinawa goes the US's way. Brutal, brutal battle, okay? Okinawa was the last island in the jump toward Tokyo. And Marines and Army participated. And it was crazy. Okay. So hand-to-hand fighting, all of that, 500,000 U.S. Personnel involved in that operation. Fifth Fleet, 1,600 naval vessels. But the kamikazes, the guys who crashed the planes into the ships, did an enormous amount of damage. So about 50,000 US casualties, 12,520 dead. Listen to this. Japan lost about 115,000 soldiers on that island, and there were another 100,000 people who lived there that kind of vanished. A lot of that was ritual suicide and all that, but 115,000, and the U.S. casualties were about 50,000. So that happened, and then Harry Truman said, Can't invade Japan with this kind of carnage and that was the key, Okinawa, for Truman's decision to drop the atom bombs. Okay, we got some mail. We got a final thought, two books on the Revolutionary War I'm going to recommend to you. We'll be right back.

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Okay, YouTube, we got a brand new one dropping tomorrow. YouTube.com/BillOReilly. We'd like you to sign up free, free, free. I take on Graham Platner. So you'll be able to see that today, and tomorrow we'll have a new one. Mail, Nancy Adobow, Overland Park, Kansas. "Regarding the latest that Social Security is running out, will be reduced to six years. What are your thoughts on this important subject?" Congress will step in and do something. I don't know why, but remember the demographics that older people are in decline. Now the younger people can't support Social Security. So something's got to give, and Congress has got to do it.

Paul Zark, Rangel, Alaska. "Where do we stand on Trump's tariffs? They lose money, make money?" President says they make money, a lot of money. Okay, it's not being talked about. It's not gonna be talked about until the Treasury Department issues its report by the inspector general. Then you'll see the data. That'll come in October, end of the first fiscal year.

Clay McLeod, Jacksonville, Florida. "Hey, Bill, last night you questioned the non-inclusion of the Stair of Hormuz in President Trump's press conference about Iran. Why don't the Middle East oil companies build pipelines?" Because it takes years and years and years to do that. Probably why.

Patricia. "The We'll Do It Live with Leland Vittert was fabulous. I wish it had gone on longer. I watch Leland every night. Look forward to your segment with him on Monday." I'll be, Leland's on vacation, but I'll on a program on News Nation, 9 p.m. Tonight. It's always interesting over there.

Edward. "I am truly grateful to your crew for doing the Do It Live segments. I watch your program every day, but this is my favorite. I have a grandson who is autistic, so I can relate to the trials that Leland went through." It's a good segment. Okay, so We'll Do It Live on YouTube. You'll like the Leland Vittert segment, it's up now. Go to our store, we got the hats. Last call for them, if you want them for the 4th of July. Last call, because we want to get them to you. You know, we've got to mail them all out, and do all that, but believe me, you'll be happy with this product. Very happy. Word of the day, supercilious. I used it earlier. Great word. Super, then it's C-I-L-I O-U-S, supercilious. Okay, back with a final thought in a moment.

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Okay, so 4th of July, coming on up. I hope you have read my book Killing England. You'll get the whole view of what really happened there. But if you really want the micro, there are two very, very good books, both written by Rick Atkinson. First are The British Are Coming. Second, The Fate of the Day. He's writing a trilogy about the revolution. So if you're really into it, these are the books for you. I mean, they got every detail you could possibly want. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

The TRUTH About Iran: Does It Still Pose a Nuclear Threat? Dr. Nazee Moinian Weighs In, British Prime Minister Quits & Controversy Over the Obama Presidential Library

2026-06-22T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, June 22, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill clears up the mass confusion about what's really happening in Iran.
Nazee Moinian, Ph.D., Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute, discusses how close Iran was to producing a nuclear bomb and the chances of reaching a deal.
Why is British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigning as leader of the ruling Labour Party?
How the European Parliament reacted after lawmakers approved a sweeping overhaul of the EU’s migrant return system.
What Lara Trump had to say about the Obama Presidential Library and the big donors behind it.
Final Thought: Bill's July 4th weekend book recommendations.

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The Media Collapse

2026-06-22T07:39:00Z

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins says that Americans need a place where they can get “the truth.”

Well, yeah.

But where might that be?

Not by listening to the political parties. No way they are truth-seekers. Spin and self-advancement all day, every day.

Newspapers? No. Many are going out of business because they’re both boring and deceitful. Tough combo.

TV News? Come on. They have found fiscal magic by giving audiences exactly what they want - true or not. I took note of liberal Tom Hanks mocking MS Whatever the other day. Thanks for straight shooting, Tom.

Do you think social media delivers truth? It doesn’t. The game plan there is slash-and-burn. The internet assassins understand it’s cash for clicks, and gutter-sniping delivers the clicks.

Mr. Jenkins held up journalist Katie Couric as a truth teller. But when I tried to book her in the CBS chaos, she ran and hid somewhere in mid-Manhattan. Note for Holman: In order to report the truth, you have to actually stand up and say it.

The media collapse has badly damaged this country, no question. And that is the truth!

Iran Unbowed

2026-06-21T07:00:00Z

The cacophony is deafening. Iran won the war. No, the terror state is crippled. Wait, Trump is humiliated, and Israel weakened. No, the Mullahs are contained.

On and on.

Not here. I am going to tell you precisely what happened. Truth is on the way.

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We begin with some irony. For the first time in my life, liberal Democrats apparently want to fight. Its punditry is bellowing that President Trump “didn’t finish the job.” Or something. I guess the libs want thousands of bodies in the sand over there. “Let’s go get them” replaces “give peace a chance.”

The pro-Israel folks want more military action as well, so they’re teed off. In fact, most Americans are angry as well as confused. What the deuce really happened?

Here it is.

Plan A. In February, Israeli intelligence picked up a meeting of Uranian leaders where they would all be live, in person. President Trump green-lighted an air strike; the thinking being that the Iranian people might rise up once the leadership was dead.

However, the remaining power brokers in Iran quickly executed dissenters, and no overthrow happened.

Then the new regime increased its army to 190,000 and began economic warfare, disrupting the oil flow out of Hormuz. Worldwide prices began to rise.

Apparently, the Pentagon war gamers did not have a strategy in place to stop the Hormuz field of battle.

President Trump justified attacking Iran in the first place by saying the terror state was close to manufacturing a nuclear bomb. But the President did not provide specific backup for his assertion, giving his opponents at home and abroad an opening to undermine the war’s premise.

And undermine they did. Facing higher gas and food costs, the American public quickly turned against the campaign, labeling it “Trump’s War.”

Democrats then ran wild, saying President Obama’s treaty with Iran effectively contained the nuclear threat, so no war was necessary.

But that is not true. The last Iranian nuclear assessment, in which the U.S. participated, was made ten years ago, soon after Donald Trump’s first inauguration. Inspectors did find uranium at the Natanz facility.

President Trump believes the Mullahs are close to a nuclear weapon and points to the lax inspection demands contained in the Obama deal. That’s why Natanz was bombed a year ago. The Mullahs refused to allow inspectors access, so the bombers flew.

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Facts are difficult to evaluate because both American political parties are using Iran’s nuclear ambitions to gain power. It's propaganda run wild. In the meantime, Iran could allow inspections tomorrow but will not. Suspicious for sure.

Because Plan A didn’t work, Plan B is now in motion. Bribe the villains. The President faces depression/recession possibilities, so he has decided to buy some time.

The situation changes every hour. No one knows if peace can be bought, especially when dealing with terrorists. Few are telling the truth about the matter.

But now you have heard it. The terror villains in Tehran have survived for the moment. But don’t be deceived; more turbulence lies ahead.

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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-06-19T22:00:00Z

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Fathers in America

2026-06-19T15:38:00Z

Celebrations

2026-06-19T07:21:00Z

A tale of two events that took place simultaneously yesterday. The parade honoring the New York Knicks' championship and the opening of the Obama library in Chicago.

Both displays targeted working-class Americans who have emotion invested in the proceedings. As usual, the New York City cops kept order, and most of the miscreants took the day off. Everyone seemed to have a good time despite the throng. The only painful thing was listening to the cliches spouted by the broadcasters. So much trite analysis, so little time.

Over in Chicago, it was Michelle Obama’s show. As some of you know, I like the former First Lady. Years ago, she was very kind to my young daughter and, generally, is a woman of consequence.

But her library speech was confusing. She lamented the lack of power the regular folks possess.

Who? The millions of migrants who have arrived over the past decade? The theme of the day was that everyone should get a fair shot.

Good. Everyone should. Here’s my question: who isn’t getting a fair shot? It seems the prosperity pathway is open 24/7 in America if you care to do your part.

Ahhhh. Your part.

The Knicks suffered for their success, constant workouts, and unrelenting pressure. But they prevailed.

You can, too. There is no organized movement holding you back. You work your way through adversity. That’s part of the compact; part of life in the free lane.

Yes, life is harder for folks in working precincts. But we still have it better than anyone else. There is no insidious plot to keep you down. Don’t believe those who tell you differently.

Mourning in America

2026-06-19T07:13:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

Imagine you’re a host or producer at MS NOW, CNN, or The View. The nation’s 250th birthday is nearing, and most Americans will celebrate the world’s oldest surviving democracy. But even if you have an urge to join the festivities, you'll have to curb your enthusiasm if you want to remain in good standing with your left-wing peers. Any praise of this nation’s astonishing success must be tempered with heaping helpings of criticism. Maybe you’ll bring up slavery or internment camps or a lack of universal health care … or Trump! Just make sure you find something, anything, to downgrade the United States of America.

Most of you reading this probably believe we are fortunate to be living in the greatest nation ever created, but that’s far from a universal sentiment. According to one new poll, 87% of Democrats believe the USA is not living up to the ideals of its founding documents. 87%! Dig deeper into the socialist/communist nether regions, and the number is probably 100%. Only 29% of Democrats are ‘very or extremely’ proud of the country; fewer than one-third will fly the Stars & Stripes on July 4th. Sadly, there is a large contingent of Americans who believe the very worst of their nation. They’ve been indoctrinated by ‘progressive’ educators and got their civics lessons from the likes of Howard Zinn, whose ‘A People’s History of the United States’ is as influential as it is anti-American.

So while you’re celebrating Independence Day, consider that millions will be grieving because they believe the USA has been a negative force in the world. A few shameful examples:

- Some far-left groups are preparing to protest in many cities. It’s all being organized by ‘Next250,’ which wants to retell US history ‘from the perspectives and contributions of women of color and other marginalized identities.’ That word ‘marginalized’ is always a flashing red light indicating that you have entered the Twilight Zone of lefty insanity.

- The Atlantic, a favorite read among the chattering classes, includes this gem: ‘It’s our 250th birthday, and no one seems to know what we’re celebrating.’ How about the fact that no nation or system has ever given more people such an abundance of freedom and opportunity?

- Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, echoing other Democrats, also laments her nation and its history. ‘The next 250 years,’ she says, ‘cannot look like the last. The next 250 years must be about repair.’

The list of complainers and malcontents is endless. There are tens of millions of Americans who will never utter one good word about this nation, especially when Donald Trump (or any Republican) is in the White House.

As for our hypothetical left-wing TV producers, they will complain, bellyache, and carp about the USA. We offer them some advice that will certainly go unheeded: Down a few hot dogs, have a couple of beers, unfurl Old Glory, and give eternal thanks to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence and ignited the greatest experiment in human history. If the signers were magically transported to 2026 America, they would probably wonder why so many people spend their lives complaining about the freest and most prosperous nation on Earth, a land where their progeny are indeed able to enjoy precisely what they promised 250 years ago: ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

O'Reilly & Sid Rosenberg on Trump's Divisive Deal

2026-06-18T17:49:00Z

Bill and WABC’s Sid Rosenberg dive into the much-debated agreement between Iran and the USA.

Bill Talks About His Father with Leland Vittert

2026-06-18T17:31:00Z

Today's We'll Do It LIVE! guest is Leland Vittert. In this clip, Bill talks about his father, ahead of this weekend's Father's Day. The entire episode drops at NOON ET exclusively for Premium Members. It's on YouTube and everywhere else you get your podcasts at 6 PM ET.

O'Reilly & Cuomo React to President Trump's Press Conference and the Iran Deal

2026-06-18T16:36:00Z

Was it a good deal? Bill joins Chris Cuomo on NewsNation to break down the Iran deal.

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The Iran Deal

2026-06-18T16:04:00Z

Killing Time with Leland Vittert

2026-06-18T16:00:00Z

Bill and Leland talk about the lack of conservative voices on major cable news networks.

Killing Time with Leland Vittert

2026-06-18T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY All right, we're back with Killing Time. This is a special segment for Concierge and Premium Members. So one of the things that struck me after I read the book was, and I knew you were gonna have trouble with this, you were not booked on a lot of the mainline shows, even though the book helps people with autism.

VITTERT Yep.

O'REILLY They still wouldn't put you on. Why?

VITTERT We were never given a reason, which I think is amazing, but you think about this, going back to September, autism was in the news. There was a book coming out by a TV anchor about growing up with autism. Fox wouldn't put me on because of the obvious reason, since I had left Fox or been asked to leave Fox because of their 2020 coverage. So that was obvious why they wouldn't put me on, but The View wouldn't have me. NBC, ABC, CBS morning shows wouldn't have me, CBS Sunday Morning that does these kinds of stories wouldn't have me. The only answer I have is because it did not follow the progressive woke liberal elite mindset of a kid with a diagnosis must be coddled and must have the world adopted to them.

O'REILLY But they didn't read the book. They knew what the book was about because you got the press release.

VITTERT Right. And they also knew that I had worked at Fox News, and they knew that I worked at News Nation. And, they did not think that was worthy of their time, which is interesting because every host that did have me on, and by the way, I would say the exception to that is Joe Scarborough, who had me on. And you know what this means, Bill, for a 10-minute segment. And it was beautiful and masterful the way he did it. And that was really-.

O'REILLY It's good to hear about Scarborough.

VITTERT Yeah. But nobody else would. And I think it's very telling.

O'REILLY You know, it really is, we live in a rotten industry. Sorry, but it's true. But a story like this is no politics in Born Lucky none. It's about a hero father. It's a about a condition that millions of Americans-.

VITTERT One in 32 have. One in 32.

O'REILLY And you got Jane Pauley going, eh, eh. I don't want it.

VITTERT Does she still have a job?

O'REILLY She's the Sunday morning.

VITTERT Oh, yeah. Sorry.

O'REILLY And we traced her because she'd never put me on. She has one conservative author for more than a year. She's like her husband, Trudeau, you know, the cartoon guy. They're loons. They're crazy.

VITTERT Well, yeah, they have an agenda.

O'REILLY But it's more than that. Their agenda controls their behavior.

VITTERT Well, they're activists.

O'REILLY Even when their behavior is negative. Jane Pauley, if she was sitting here, you imagine what I would do with her? Can you imagine that interview?

VITTERT Yes, yes.

O'REILLY Because she could not defend it, couldn't defend it. What's the answer? Why didn't you put Vittert on? For what, six minutes? When you put every other crazy loon on that's from the left and you can't put this guy on?

VITTERT No, put it this way. I think had I been trans, and this was a story about how my dad embraced my trans hood, we would have gotten booked on everybody.

O'REILLY You would have got booked on everybody and there's no doubt about that. But it's not that far away from trans in the sense that-

VITTERT Hadn't thought of it that way, Bill.

O'REILLY It's in the news.

VITTERT That is very true.

O'REILLY In the news.

VITTERT And it was entirely in the news in September of last year when RFK was doing everything about autism and it was Trump having press conferences and everything else.

O'REILLY Yeah. It's contextual, it's a nice story, and it affects a lot of people that might be helped by that interview, and they pass. And I'm telling you.

VITTERT You predicted it.

O'REILLY I did. I told you what would happen. Because it's tribalism now. That's what it is. They're tribes, and the tribes don't want anybody else in their tribe.

VITTERT All right. You tell me if you think this is true, turn this around. Maybe you found this on The Factor. I find that in, I am known, you used to be known for doing tough interviews of everybody. Nobody got a pass. And on my show, Republicans don't get a pass, they will tell you that. You don't get a pass, but it is much harder for me to book Democrats because I think Democrats, by and large, are used to having a safe space in the media and they won't leave it or their staffs won't let them leave it. And conservatives, the number of conservatives that are willing to go on CNN and MSNBC is way more than the number of liberals who are willing to go Fox News.

O'REILLY It's generally true, but in News Nation, because it's not an ideological service, and you got Cuomo on for an hour before you, and even Cuomo can't book some of these progressives.

VITTERT Hakeem Jefferies won't go on.

O'REILLY Right, they can't get him. It's more of a we don't want to go in and have our view challenged, whereas conservative people generally speaking, although this Mike Pence dodged me. Can you imagine that?

VITTERT Did he really dodge you though?

O'REILLY Yeah, he did.

VITTERT How long did you give him to get back?

O'REILLY A couple of weeks. He kissed my butt Mike Pence I can't tell you how much he kissed my button it throughout his vice presidency, and he dodges me? I mean it was and he's going on, you know flipper. I mean, being interviewed by a dolphin because I make my people say, why aren't you, why won't you come on? And they never have a cogent reason. They can't say, well, I'm very scared of Bill because you know his reputation. He'll ask anything. And I won't ask anything, I am not going to ask questions that are undefined. I'm not going get into people's, like if I interview that nut from Maine.

VITTERT Plattner?

O'REILLY I wouldn't talk about his marriage. Because I wasn't there, I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. Why would I do that? I'm talking about what I know. So that's what the difference is. Conservative crews are a little feistier. They're a little less frightened of...

VITTERT They're more willing to do hand-to-hand combat.

O'REILLY Yeah, but it doesn't have to be combat.

VITTERT They're more willing to be challenged.

O'REILLY Yeah, I was when I did The Factor, I was ten times tougher than I am now. I only have one guest now, and I had six back then. I was ten times tougher. Now, I'm looking for information. My job has changed a little bit Because I was really the first news analyst of any note. I mean Eric Sebride Okay, I don't even know what he's talking about, and that's where we earned our audience from that kind of an approach. But now my job is to get information, not to make somebody look like they're seven years old, which I can do in a heartbeat, it's easy for me to do it. And so when that shift occurred, and I'm the designer of it, I said, you know, What this country needs is something on social media, because that drives their audience now, that's going to give them facts that are unassailable. You can't say they're not true...That's where I get into it with Cuomo all the time, because Cuomo just denies, and then I always bet him $10,000, as you know. That's my technique with Cuomo.

VITTERT That's Table Stakes for you.

O'REILLY Yeah, I'm going to bet you $10,000 that I'm right. And then he goes, no.

VITTERT There's not a lot of bets, if that bet ever happens, I hope that I get to adjudicate it.

O'REILLY So anyway, his brother, who was on this program, was more straightforward than Cuomo, Chris Cuomo. I was surprised by that.

VITTERT You said Andrew came. It was a good interview.

O'REILLY Yeah, Andrew, and Chris Cuomo helped me with that interview. I wouldn't have gotten that if Chris didn't make the call. But I was surprised, and I didn't go in and cut his throat. I went in because he knew about a lot of stuff...

VITTERT Yeah, he does.

O'REILLY That happened in New York State that happened with Trump and I got it on the record. So, anyway, look, congratulations on contributing a very positive thing to our society. Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, My Journey with Autism. And I'm glad you put up with me every week on your show on News Nation, nine o'clock Mondays.

VITTERT We'll see you there. Thanks, Bill.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Leland Vittert

2026-06-18T16:00:00Z

VITTERT My dad became my only friend, my protector, my therapist. All that mattered to him was that I had good values. You told the truth, worked hard, you were a kind person, and you had a good attitude. Talked to him every night after the show.

O'REILLY Does he tell you you're a pinhead like I do?

VITTERT Oh yeah, with you I can fight back. With him, okay, dad, you got anything else? Yeah, thanks.

O'REILLY Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to We'll Do It Live. Leland Vittert, everyone. Here he is. You see him with me on Monday on News Nation. He was at Fox when I was there as a correspondent in the Middle East. And he wrote a bestselling book that got a lot of attention and hit the New York Times bestseller list- not an easy thing to do- called Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism. So it's Father's Day, and who better than Vittert? How are you doing? All right?

VITTERT Fantastic. And on Father's Day, we're re-airing the Bill O'Reilly Leland Vittert special.

O'REILLY Oh yeah? We have another one with the revolutionary war. Have you seen it yet?

VITTERT I have not seen it. I'm working on the script though. You were brilliant in it.

O’REILLY Thank you. I appreciate that. That's a fun one that people, it's going to run on July 2nd, Thursday. So Vittert and I, we kind of collaborate on this stuff and it's worthy. So you're not a dad yet. What do you think, since your father saved you? Which is what Born Lucky is all about. Lucky was Vittert's nickname when he was born because he shouldn't have been born. The book is fascinating, you know, a dedicated father, grateful son, my journey of the autism. But anyway, the nickname Lucky was tagged on Vittert because he had all kinds of complications being birthed. So what do you think the most important thing for a father to have?

VITTERT It's interesting you ask that because you're right, I'm not a dad, so I don't have that perspective. The part that I think is so interesting that I have learned now since Born Lucky came out is how many fathers feel so scared and alone. My dad, as I learned when writing Born Lucky, spent a lot of nights crying because he felt as though the world had turned against him and turned against his son. He was downstairs in our house in Missouri, sitting on a blue couch. There's some picture windows, so it was all dark, and he would just sit there and cry because he had come down from my bedroom, where I would have spent a couple of hours yelling at him and taking out the frustrations and the emotional hurt and cruelty that had been inflicted on me, emotional and physical. And I think what is so interesting is for fathers to know they're not alone in this struggle. And that's what Born Lucky is proof of is that there are so many fathers out there, going through these struggles where they don't know what to do. They're scared. And as my dad showed, it still means that they can be exceptional fathers.

O'REILLY Okay, so your father, to use the cliché, felt your pain.

VITTERT He did, he felt my pain, and at the same time, he said, you're gonna go back to school the next day.

O'REILLY Yeah, well, he was a motivator. I mean, he wasn't going to allow you to let this define your life. But when you are a father, and I have two urchins, and something bad happens to them, at least in my case, you know, number one, you try to stop it as soon as you can. And number two, you feel terrible, you really, you know, because it's, and I'm talking about the good fathers. Unfortunately, in America we got a lot of bad fathers.

VITTERT And fathers who aren't even there.

O'REILLY Yeah, fathers who split and fathers who don't care, and they do terrible things in front of their children and all that. But most fathers are good fathers. I put the number in about, oh, 65% are good, 35% are bad, but that's a lot of bad. So in your case, you had a dad who has basically understood your problem. I mean, the problem I have to define for people who haven't read the book, was when you have autism, as you did, you're different.

VITTERT Yeah, very.

O'REILLY And when you're in any school, whether you're overweight, whether you are perceived to be gay, whether you have a bad complexion, because I taught high school, I know, you're going to get it. You're going to get bullied, you're gonna get demeaned, you're getting get mocked, and it's brutal. And it's worse now than when you were in school, and I was in school, because of the phones.

VITTERT The social media thing. My dad wrote the afterword to Born Lucky. He said, I don't know what we would have done without social, you know, had there been social media. I'll give you something though. It was not just the kids. It was the teachers too. So eighth grade, I'd been through five or six different schools, and we're in art class. So there's art, you know, hanging on the walls and big tables you painted on. And this teacher, before class ended, said loud enough for everybody to hear. He goes, hey, Vittert. So everybody turns and looks at Vittert. If my dog was as ugly as you, I would shave its ass and make it walk backwards. So if-.

O'REILLY And that got a laugh, right?

VITTERT A roar. So if the teachers are doing that, you know what the kids feel like they can do.

O'REILLY You know, you can't do that now if you're a teacher. You really get hammered. But there's some really bad teachers.

VITTERT Just cruel in so many ways. The principal said to my dad, and you know what this would mean having taught school, the principal said when I graduated, they said, we've had kids who've had it worse than Lucky did, nobody who survived.

O'REILLY They, all the others recede, and the damage stays with you your whole life, there's no doubt about it. Now, your father didn't want to do press with you, because I tried to book him.

VITTERT I tried to book him.

O'REILLY And he didn't want any of that. Why?

VITTERT He doesn't think of himself as a hero, and obviously the book makes him out to be that way, I certainly think he is, but he will tell you over and over that I am just a dad who was scared and did whatever I could to help my son.

O'REILLY He'll say he was scared?

VITTERT Terrified. Every day. Because he couldn't protect me when I went to school. He knew that if I was slapped with a label, then all the standards would get lowered and I'd never figure out how to adapt and work in the real world. And he said, I never knew whether what I was doing was right. You know, I would come home every day broken and in tears and crushed, and he would make me go back to school the next day. He will tell you he was scared. The thing that I think is most remarkable is the thousands of families we have heard from since the book came out and we did the special and did your show. All of them do a tee, say, I don't feel alone anymore. This is proof of what great fathers can do. And you think about the reception, Bill, from your show and Steve Bannon on one side to Joe Scarborough on the other. Universally, from hosts who are tough interviewers like you, there's a feeling that this story is something that people need to hear.

O'REILLY Well, there's a whole variety of reasons why people need to hear certain things. Most people don't want to hear them, that's number one. Bullying is one of the big ones in the United States. But I understand your father's reticence, but it might have done some good for him to come on out.

VITTERT What would you have asked him?

O'REILLY About the fear. See, my father, William James O'Reilly, Sr. Never in a million years would he admit that he was afraid of anything, ever. Because my family was so, not aggressive, but tough. You know, it's a word, you know, these are tough. These were tough guys, okay? They came over in 1868 from Ireland, where their farm was seized by the Crown, the London Crown. My ancestors who arrived in America did so on a coffin ship where they had to throw bodies into the Atlantic Ocean to get passage to come to Brooklyn from Galway. And then the ethos in the house was, tough it out. You tough it out. Now your father did it differently. He toughed it out, you toughed it out, but my experience with my father was there's no way he would ever admit that vulnerability. I never saw him admit anything like that. Naval officer, he was on his way to Japan to invade when they dropped the atom bombs. My grandfather dwarfed them all. He was a New York City cop who was a hero in Meuse-Argonne in World War I, where there was 75% of his battalion killed or wounded. He didn't get a scratch. But can you imagine how tough you've got to be? He's 19 years old. He's in a trench.

VITTERT Gives you a different worldview.

O'REILLY Right. So I never had any of that, all right? It was like, okay, this is what we do, and you better do it. There was no sensitivity training in the O'Reilly... And in Levittown, almost everybody was like that. When I was 17, I was gone. That was it, all right? We raised you to 17, have a nice life. Now, they weren't that cold. I mean, I'd go back for holidays and stuff, but there was no dependence on it. Never an admission by my father, who's too tough, particularly on his older son. He was too tough. And so when your father went through all of this pain because you were getting hammered, I would have liked to have heard, okay, you didn't expect us because I'm sure he didn't. You rose to the occasion, your own son has deified you in a book. But you don't want to really be known for this. You don't wanna be the poster guy for this, why?

VITTERT I've never met anyone who was more humble than he is in my whole life, and now you could make the joke that we both work in television, a place not known for humility. Most humble person who I think all that mattered to him in life, we wrote about this so I'm not sharing anything out of school, he lost his dad when he was 16, a defining moment in his life. And all he ever wanted to do in life was make his dad proud. He wrote a column, he wrote a column every week for a newspaper that he started. And one of the columns he wrote was that he would give every cent he'd ever earned when he was an entrepreneur, start his life all over if he could just to spend 24 hours with his dad. And if at the end of the 24 hours-

O'REILLY Did they have a close relationship?

VITTERT His dad was probably a lot like your dad. His dad was tough. His dad hit him every once in a while. I don't think with a closed fist, but his dad was an old boxer, came up through the Jewish ghetto. It was a rough, tough life, very similar to the way folks from your heritage came over. And he loved his dad and his dad loved him, but it was a different relationship. And he said, you know, all that would mean to me is if my dad told me he was proud of me. And the only thing that my dad's dad judged a man by was his character. That's all that mattered. It wasn't success, monetary success, or achievement or accolades. And so I think my dad, all that mattered to him was that I had good values. And that was the one standard. You think about things that dads grade their kids on. Are you good at school? Do you have friends? Are you popular? Do you, are you good in athletics? He didn't care about any of that. The only thing he had for me was you have to have good values.

O'REILLY So good values is a pretty broad subject.

VITTERT You tell the truth, you tell the truth, or his dad was going to put him in an orphanage. His dad threatened to put him in an orphanage if he got caught him lying again.

O'REILLY OK. Orphanage threat number one.

VITTERT He took him to the orphanage and showed him.

O'REILLY Showed him, showed him.

VITTERT Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

O'REILLY The room, the accommodations.

VITTERT Yes. You told the truth. You worked hard. When I was five years old, he was having me do 200 push-ups a day, five days a week because he wanted me to learn what hard work meant. You were a kind person, and you had a good attitude. You didn't ever think of yourself as a victim. So, there were very tough standards.

O'REILLY And he would state those values to you? He'd say, hey, Leland, you're going to do 500 push-ups because I want you to know...

VITTERT You did 200 push-ups a day because there was something to achieve.

O'REILLY But he would say that.

VITTERT Yes.

O'REILLY Would he explain that?

VITTERT Yes.

O'REILLY Okay.

VITTERT You set goals, and then you achieve them through hard work.

O'REILLY There are all kinds of ways to be a good father and a bad father. All kinds of ways. So what I did was, I call it the program. All right. You either buy into the program, or you don't. And when my kids were younger, they had no choice. They had to buy into the program because there's a six-foot-four guy standing there, and they know, I'm not going to hit them. I never hit my kids ever. I very rarely raised my voice to them, but I would explain this is what we do. And that number one was, if you say you'll do something...

VITTERT You do it.

O'REILLY You have to do it, because if you don't, you're not a person of respect. You have to do that. And by drilling it in, it got there. Okay, now my son, who's going to be president of the United States someday, if the country's lucky enough to have him because he's unbelievably brilliant, he bought the program right away. I never in a million years had a problem with him. No alcohol, no drugs, and it wasn't we'll understand, we won't understand. You're not getting stoned and living in this house. And both kids don't drink, don't take drugs, they don't do anything. But I had to be me, which is, for any kid, I would actually give them bonuses, cash. I said, you survived another month with your father, here's 10 bucks, okay? Because it wasn't that I was a martinet, how about that, for a word of the day? I wasn't. But they knew there were lines they couldn't cross. They couldn't. And so it worked, but. Other fathers that I know killed them with kindness. They were, you know, they were a bunch of sitcom fathers.

VITTERT My dad was Leave It to Beaver.

O'REILLY Okay, Ward.

VITTERT Yeah.

O'REILLY All right.

VITTERT Ward Cleaver was sort of in Father Knows Best, but that's how he modeled his house.

O'REILLY The best sitcom father ever was Mr. C. Happy Days.

VITTERT Oh yeah.

O'REILLY He's the best. Because he just thought the whole thing was a joke. He just thought Fonz was a joke, that Ritty was a joke, and he brought this unbelievable, like, okay, I expect you guys to be morons. And that kind of attitude worked. You know, I mean, I know it was a sitcom and all that, but there's a lot of different ways to be a good father. And I'm not a guy who intrudes at all, but I have seen bad fathers.

VITTERT Yeah, for sure. It's interesting how pop culture has looked at fatherhood, because it was where you talk about Mr. C and Oz and Herod and father knows best. And then over the recent history, fathers have always been the dunces, and that's starting to change now in pop culture. But you think about it, Everybody Loves Raymond and others. The dad was always the guy screwing it up.

O'REILLY Right, but there's even a deeper change, is that the woman now becomes the dominant force in the home, which is true to some extent, because she, the wife, the mother, is, we gotta go to work, she can go to to work too, okay, which not a great thing. I'm sorry, I'm all you feminists out there, but.

VITTERT You're not really sorry.

O'REILLY I don't want to offend anybody who's doing what they believe is the right thing to do.

VITTERT Or they have to do it.

O'REILLY All right. Yeah, for money reasons. But it's so much better to have mom in the house when you come home from school.

VITTERT If you can't, for families that can, it is an enormous difference.

O'REILLY I didn't want dad in the house when I came home from school.

VITTERT Sounds like it. Yeah.

O'REILLY Right. You did, and you needed dad.

VITTERT I needed dad, yeah.

O'REILLY Right. But if dad were in the houses every day, I would have run away. There's no doubt about it. But mom was nurturing, nurturing. But now what's happened is, I had this last week, so I'm talking to a very famous guy. And I'm saying, the guy has five houses. I go, what do you need five houses for? You know, he's a money guy. So he goes, my wife wants them. I said, your wife wants five houses. She goes, happy wife, happy life.

VITTERT I've been, I've only been married for a year. I've learned that. I got that. I got the drill.

O'REILLY BS.

VITTERT Oh!

O'REILLY BS.

VITTERT Okay.

O'REILLY If you're living your life because you want to make somebody else happy, and what makes her happy isn't good for the family, then you're an idiot.

VITTERT Well, that's a different story.

O'REILLY No, but this is like whatever they want...

VITTERT What if you marry the right woman with the right values?

O'REILLY Of course, then you don't have to deal with that.

VITTERT Right, then you don't have to deal with a woman who wants five houses.

O'REILLY I'll tell you, you mark down a happy wife, happy life. You're gonna find a ton of them because what they do is recede whatever she wants. Kids pick that up. Kids pick that up. They want dad to be not in charge so much but a presence. They don't want some whiny guy going, what color curtain should we have?

VITTERT My dad didn't pick out a lot of curtains. When my parents got married, the agreement was no house, no kids, because my dad wanted to live in a house. He didn't want to deal with it.

O'REILLY No house, no kids?

VITTERT He can't change a light bulb. Really, he can't. So he's just not inclined that way. His mind just doesn't work that way. Brilliant entrepreneur, built big businesses, but he cannot change the light bulb. So my mother, my dad, wanted a dog. So my mom said, if you get a dog, I get a house. And he said, great. He said, you let me know.

O'REILLY But that's not unreasonable. You should have a house!

VITTERT He said, you let me know when I need to come home from the office and go to the house rather than the apartment. She wanted to build a house, and one day she said, OK, honey, it's time to come to the-.

O'REILLY You can get the Beagle, but I get a house.

VITTERT It was a Newfoundland, but yes.

O'REILLY Okay.

VITTERT And then he got a Newfoundland.

O'REILLY Okay. Fathers in this country, in America, they don't get really the analysis that the moms get, or the single women, or it's the gender shift. I mean, we're all going to be trans in what, about 20 years?

VITTERT If you follow the chart, yeah.

VITTERT Everybody's going to be trans. But now, it used to be the man dominated, all right? But now, it's not. It's the female that dominates. And that on a boy has an effect.

VITTERT It's a fair point. Being a father has changed for some over time, yeah. I think what's interesting about Born Lucky is how it has resonated with fathers today and how many I have heard from, both of kids who have really serious issues and just dads who are dealing with the vicissitudes of growing up with their kids, of how they see the world differently after reading it. They see what the power of a parent is, and my dad would have told you during my time growing up, he had no idea how it was going to work out. He said, there were a lot of times I thought it wasn't going to work out. I thought you were going to just never be able to function in the real world, but that he had to try. That I think is very empowering to a lot of fathers, and certainly that's what they've written.

O'REILLY How old were you when you kind of figured it out your dad was a hero?

VITTERT Well, he was the only friend I had starting from when I was four or five years old, because kids wouldn't play with me. I was so off-putting to them. You know, some people have magnetic attraction, you know, they just attract friends and people, and we've all known guys like that. I was the opposite. I repelled anybody my own age, just totally repelled.

O'REILLY And you were aware of that?

VITTERT Yeah. I mean, it's obvious. You walk over to kids because they were playing, you know, kickball or soccer or whatever, and they'd all laugh and walk away. It was pretty obvious, the rejection. Starting when I was four, five, six years old, and by the time I was seven or eight years old, it was very clear even to my parents who would see me interact with kids, like my dad said to my mom, we got a real problem here. We all went on vacation. There was a little pickup soccer game going on, and I tried to run around with the kids, and it just didn't work. I'd push kids down because they'd look at me and wouldn't pass me the ball, and I'd get angry, and they'd try to joke with me, and I didn't know, and it was terrible. So, my dad became my only friend. And really, starting when I was six or seven years old, he was my protector, all through having to move schools, getting pulled out of schools, getting accused of doing stuff I wasn't doing at schools, and my dad standing up for me. That was my only option. You know, he still remembers when I was in fifth grade telling me that I wouldn't have to go back to this one school. In the middle of the school year, he pulled me out. And he said, I'll never forget, that you heard me and you took about 15 or 20 seconds, and then you just started sobbing tears of joy because of how awful every day was for you.

O'REILLY So, about 10, 11, 12, you realize that your father was your protector.

VITTERT Yeah, before that, but that was sort of the moment that it-

O'REILLY Right, kicked in, because fifth grade is that age. And then, was that enough? Was your father's love, because that's what it was, enough to see you through?

VITTERT It was. It had to be, but it was one person who believed in me. And that, for me, was enough, because it was enough. It was hard. And in the book, I don't think you would have done this, O'Reilly, but in the books, we didn't name any of the people who were mean to me. We didn't name the principal who told my parents I was weird. We didn't name the people that tried to kick me out of a school and make up a bunch of stuff. We didn't name any people who are mean. We only named the people who were nice. And there were a couple, there were couple of teachers, there were a couple of coaches. And there were a couple of my dad's friends who understood that I needed an adult to believe in me and to teach me, and they did.

O'REILLY It's a shame that they were in the minority, though.

VITTERT Vast minority.

O'REILLY Right, you know, when I was teaching school, I was teaching high school kids, and the kids, as I mentioned earlier, who were different in any way, got hammered, bullied. Now, I put myself up as the protector of these kids. I didn't even know you at the time. This was way back. My first job out of college.

VITTERT You were down in what Miami?

O’REILLY Yeah. And in the ghetto. So there were no holds barred there, and the administration couldn't care less. He did not care. One of the kids wound up life in prison, killed somebody because he was so damaged by the treatment that the other kids gave him, and I'm sure at home too. But anyway, what I did was that I made it a moral issue and I said to my students, Look, we all know that there are all kinds of people here that you deal with every day. Some of them you like, some of them you don't. That's fine. I mean, you're not compelled to like everybody or whatever. But if you're hurting those people on purpose, you're a bad human being. And if I find out about it, you've got a problem. That's all I had to say. I didn't wipe that out entirely, but I de-intensified it. And, you know, when a teacher talks like that, the students, particularly when it's a former college football player who had a big ruler I carry around with me as a symbol of my authority.

O'REILLY You taught history, and you carried a ruler?

O'REILLY Everywhere I went, I carried this yardstick, this big ruler. And I did it on purpose, obviously. Because I wanted...it was like that movie, Walking Tall. Remember that movie with the guy? So I wanted-

VITTERT Did you ever use it?

O'REILLY I never hit anybody with it. But I hit walls with it, and I made a very loud sound. I wasn't married then, I had no interest in getting married when I was 22 years old. But I understood the mentality of what was happening. I absolutely understood everything that was happening among these teenagers only three years younger than me. All right? I wasn't going to let it happen. I wasn't going to let it happen. It wasn't going to happen. And I would say, you want to come up against me? Do you? They'd giggle, and they'd laugh, but they didn't want it.

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O'REILLY So, in the fathering, and a lot of American fathers don't know this, your father does, and you do because you went through it, you have to make a decision. What kind of father am I gonna be? Am I gonna split? Okay, because that's happening at record levels now. Am I going to walk away from the child? I don't know how you live with yourself. You're not a man. I don't know what you are, okay? I don't. But how am I gonna raise them? How am I going to interact with the mom who's going to be protective? Usually that's what the role is. And what do I want to accomplish here? Because it goes fast. Oh my God, it goes so fast. Boom, boom, boom. And I don't think that's emphasized in this society at all.

VITTERT Well, it's actually de-emphasized, right? For the past 15 or 20 years, strong fathers have been demonized and then said that they're not needed. They're too tough on kids. Celebrate the single mom, celebrate that your strong father isn't needed. And in fact, you go through it. The statistics, at least, it is the single biggest determining factor of whether a kid ends up in jail or not is whether they had a father at home.

O'REILLY That's right. And I write about that in my upcoming book, Confronting America, is that that is the key to all social problems. Not that you're going to have a perfect kid, even if you try very hard, but at least they got a shot at it. If you don't have any male in that home that cares about you.

VITTERT Makes it very hard.

O'REILLY Yeah, that emotional, you know, just a fact that this guy... You know how many kids, you know, want to love their fathers and want to have, and the father just blows them off. I'm just like, what are you doing? And again, I saw that because of my son and his crew, and there were fathers who never showed up. They couldn't care less. And, you know, I didn't like those guys, and I would show it. And they never figure out why. You know, I'd just look at them, walk away, you know, that kind of stuff. But I think you're right that we have to change in America back to not a system where it's the man rules. That's not a good system. Or you do what I say. Why? Because I said it. That's what I got. Because you do it. Well, why do I have to do it? Because I say it. Do I want to live in Adolf's house? Not really, you know. You can explain it a little bit, the kid's got a right to know. If you want him to climb up and kill the wasps, why is he being selected for that?

VITTERT Yeah, I would say my dad would always explain the why, but you still had to do it.

O'REILLY No, yeah, I couldn't get out of it, even though I never got the why. It was like, hey, up there on the ladder. I said, all right. And I didn't get bribed either. I wasn't like, okay.

VITTERT Your kids had it easy. They got bribes.

O’’REILLY My kids got bribes because I wanted them to be happy.

VITTERT You were doing The Factor, and you only gave him ten bucks a month?

O'REILLY No, that was just a... I gave them a little bit more for surviving me in other ways. So they got first-class vacations. They got any game they wanted to go to, oh, I want to see the Mets, okay? They were in the second row. So they believe this was not the Dust Bowl. This was you're in the program, program has benefits.

VITTERT Understandable.

O'REILLY Right. But today, I think a lot of fathers get married too young.

VITTERT It's an interesting concept. You know, our buddy Geraldo gave me advice about that.

O'REILLY And Geraldo's married 80 times.

VITTERT I know, so you should take his advice.

O'REILLY He's got women from Tasmania.

VITTERT From however many...So the first time I came back from being overseas, I went around Fox News and met with everybody I could. I think you were too busy. Understandable. I was a little munchkin. But Geraldo saw me. It was a Friday afternoon. It was like 3 o'clock. I walked into his office. He had a corner office at Fox, and he had a bar in his office.

O'REILLY Of course. If you were Geraldo, you'd have one too.

VITTERT He said, You want something to drink? I said, sure. Just sat there and had a beer or something. And I said, you got any advice for me? You know, this is Geraldo Rivera. He's been all over the world, such a fabulous, famous correspondent. He goes, yep, stay single as long as you can. That was his only advice. I thought, really? That's it? I was 28 years old. And I called him when I got engaged. I was 42 when I got the age, 41, 42. I called Geraldo. I said, you know, Geraldo? I waited as long as I could. I'm 41. 42, is it okay if I get married? He goes, yeah, he goes, you waited long enough.

O'REILLY One piece of advice for you, okay? Don't spread it around you're taking marital advice from Geraldo.

VITTERT Oh, that's a good point. This was marital advice, this was...

O'REILLY Economic advice.

VITTERT Economic advice, pre-marital advice, pre-engagement advice from Geraldo.

O'REILLY And Geraldo's a good dad.

VITTERT He's a great dad.

O'REILLY Right. Just so the record will show, because Geraldo is an emotional dad, okay?

VITTERT He's an emotional guy.

O'REILLY I'm not an emotional guy. So Geraldo and I, we both have the same instinct that you've got to protect your children from evil, and you've gotta give them a foundation of behavior. This is how you should live. But he's an emotional guy, and I'm not an emotional guy, in the sense that I don't react, I think.

VITTERT You don't react?

O'REILLY I react to adults who are pinheads because they deserve no mercy. But not to the urchins. The urchins are just urchins. They're just growing up. So for me to go in and sit them down and, hey, did you know Abraham Lincoln? Come on now. So I'm not in that quadrant. There are a lot of emotional dads. You see them at the games. You see them at the soccer games, baseball games, where they'll beat you up if they think that you hit their kid in a cheap shot. You know, these are emotional dads.

VITTERT I thought you were gonna talk about the ones who would go beat the refs up.

O'REILLY All right, well, they're beating a lot of people up, and it's a game, that matters not. But what I do bring, or have brought, is a sense of humor. Okay, very important in my view of fatherhood. I would, I mock my kids all the time. I mean, gently, gently. It's not like I mock you and Cuomo, and you know. Gently, okay, but if they do something ridiculous, you know, can we see that again? You know, and they get it, and they like it because it's a form of affection. All right. You bring gentle humor into somebody's area, it shows you care enough about them to do it.

VITTERT I've tried it with my father. You're not a golfer, right?

O'REILLY No.

VITTERT You know what a gimme putt is?

O'REILLY You don't have to putt it., you're so close.

VITTERT And I can't tell you how many times I'm out on the golf course now with my father, and he won't give me a putt. It'll be three feet. Putt it, putt it. I'll give him four or five feet. It means what you do for your father.

O'REILLY It's competitive, he wants to beat you.

VITTERT Yeah, and I'll say to him, look, Dad, I wrote a New York Times bestselling book about you. Turned you into a hero. And you won't get me a three-foot putt?

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VITTERT My dad's got a lot of advice for me every night. Still, calls me every night, my dad after...

O'REILLY Does he?

VITTERT After every show. He's got thoughts.

O'REILLY Man, that's gold. I'll tell you what. That is gold. The only time that I ever spoke to my father about my career was when I was about to go to El Salvador to get shot at, okay, and you know what that's like. And he said, why are you doing that? I said, because if I'm successful, when I come back alive, that my status as a reporter rises, because not that many people cover shooting wars. He goes, not worth it. I said, I'll pay for the cemetery plot, don't worry about it, because he's a big money guy, my father. And so, there was no interaction. And the reason there wasn't any interaction, I was the first one in my family, remember, 1868, the first O'Reilly to break out of the working class. The first one.

VITTERT Well, you had made it to him. And why would you give that up?

O'REILLY Well, it was more than that. It was a fascination of this guy should be in the penitentiary. When I go back to my Levittown neighborhood, a lot of people still live there. They stare at me and go, How come you're not in jail? That's how rambunctious I was. I wasn't malevolent, but I was rambunctious. And nobody could believe it. I said, this is America. That's why. All right, I did what I had to do, and I enjoy my profession. But my father, never, ever. And the same thing with the girls I dated, or no, no, nothing, it's just you. And I didn't mind it. You know it wasn't like I it wasn't like you. It was like, he's here, he provides, he gives you a dose of reality. My father was certainly good at that. I don't need the touchy-feely. My mother will do that, okay? And that's the way I always saw it. And my neighbor who was like that, who was, you know, you guys hanging around and the kids are doing God knows what, It wasn't like therapy, family therapy, you would have gone bankrupt in two days in Levittown if you were a family therapist. Everybody's like, what?

VITTERT Well, you either have gone bankrupt or you would have had endless amounts of customers that needed you.

O'REILLY Well, they wouldn't ever admit it.

VITTERT But they needed you, yeah.

O'REILLY Oh, sure. I mean, you could have done a psychoanalysis. Now, today, you say you golfed with your father a lot, and that ... Do you guys talk about, now that you're successful, do you bring back the past, or do you just talk about-

VITTERT You know, it's interesting you say that. And I said about the book that we never wrote about the people who were mean. We wrote about it, but we never used their names. And I don't think we talk about the past a lot. I think telling this story, us both feeling like we were able to put this down, the story that the two of us had gone through together, It is, I think, how both of us deal with the past and talk about it and- sort of move past it and I think, at least for me, I find myself in a way all the more grateful to him.

O'REILLY So it was like therapy.

VITTERT Yeah. I never went to therapy as a kid, probably should have, but I didn't. My dad was my therapist. And interestingly enough, going to therapy on national television, sharing all these stories about my past and everything else is not exactly fun. It's kind of like sitting in a bathtub full of scissors. And I've said it is worth it because I really feel like it has helped people. But I think it's also helped me, too. I think it has also helped my dad.

O'REILLY But the fact that you take the time and you travel, to be with your father, play the golf and all that, I mean, that makes the bond stronger.

VITTERT It does. Look, I still talk to him two or three times a day. Talk to him every night after the show.

O'REILLY Does he tell you you're a pinhead, like I do?

VITTERT Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you see, with you, I can fight back.

O'REILLY Right.

VITTERT With him, OK, Dad, you got anything else? Thanks, thanks. I say, you know, Dad there's people whose job it is to tell me, you know, give this kind of thoughts. He goes, yeah, but none of them will tell you the truth. I'll tell you the truth, okay?

O'REILLY All right, Leland Vittert, the book is Born Lucky, I want you to pick it up for Father's Day, great Father's Day gift. Now for BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, we have Killing Time coming up, another 10 minutes with Mr. Leland. And for those of you who haven't really caught on yet, that, you know, Premium Membership to BillOReilly.com is going to enhance your life. We leave you now. Thank you for watching.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Leland Vittert

2026-06-18T16:00:00Z

Leland Vittert joins Bill to talk about fathers in America and the significance of his father in his life as he dealt with autism growing up. Bill also shares about his father and his own experience with his children.

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Killing Time

2026-06-18T15:32:00Z

The Iran Deal

2026-06-18T07:11:00Z

President Trump did well in this press conference on Wednesday. He mollified his base by explaining most of the memorandum that is supposed to be signed on Friday with Iran.

Two things, Mr. Trump didn’t get: weapons inspectors to monitor Iran’s nuke program, as well as who controls the Strait of Hormuz.

The overarch on the deal is money. The USA will allow Iran to sell oil and will also unfreeze cash frozen by sanctions. Money talks, even in the desert.

To justify that scenario, the President resurrected the ghost of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Trump is well aware that Iran’s intransigence could cause a worldwide depression that ruined Hoover.

So, there is a hope that the Mullahs might turn away from the terror state business. It’s possible. I believe the President will punish them militarily if they don’t. He doesn’t want a flawed legacy.

Finally, people believe what they want to believe. The Democrats will say the Iran conflict never should have happened because President Obama’s treaty had the Mullahs locked down. President Trump says the opposite. That debate will rage for years to come.

James S. Robbins on the 60-Day Timeline

2026-06-18T07:04:00Z

James S. Robbins, Ph.D., Dean of The Institute of World Politics, weighs in on the 60-day timeline, why the president praised China in his remarks, and how Trump’s approach compares to the Obama Iran deal.

Trump Addresses Iran Deal: What's Next?

2026-06-18T07:03:00Z

Bill's analysis of President Trump's press conference following the G7 Summit.

O'Reilly and Hannity the Iran Deal: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

2026-06-18T07:01:00Z

Bill joins Sean Hannity and thoroughly dissects the ‘memorandum of understanding’ between the United States and Iran. He identifies the proposal’s strengths and weaknesses and assesses President Trump’s performance at Wednesday’s press conference.

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Trump Addresses Iran Deal: What's Next?, James S. Robbins on the 60-Day Timeline, & DOJ Targets Illinois Reparations Program

2026-06-17T22:00:00Z

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James S. Robbins, Ph.D., Dean of The Institute of World Politics, weighs in on the 60-day timeline, why the president praised China in his remarks, and how Trump’s approach compares to the Obama Iran deal.
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Trump Addresses Iran Deal: What's Next?, James S. Robbins on the 60-Day Timeline, & DOJ Targets Illinois Reparations Program

2026-06-17T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News from Manhattan. Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Obviously, big news day. And it was so annoying because I had so much stuff beginning at 7:30 in the morning. And I'm whining now. I mean, I'm well paid for what I do. But it just was so intrusive. So I'm trying to lock in on what's going to happen. And then Trump's press conference was originally scheduled for 9:30. I think he got there about 11:20. So we're sitting around and going, oh, when is it going to stop? I got to go into the crazy city from Long Island, which can take three days with the traffic here. But anyway, we have the best, and I mean that literally, coverage of this Iranian situation that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

Always good to watch this broadcast with a pen and paper. And you're going to hear things that contradict the other news agencies. Trust us. We will back everything up. So President Trump, as you may know, is in France for the G7 meeting, but everybody's there, and the French and the Europeans and the Asians and the Japanese are all very happy about the cessation of hostilities between Iran, the USA, and Israel. And they won and did nothing, nothing, to help the United States and Israel tamp down the threat from this terror state, Iran. Zero. So they get the benefit of all of our tax money, and we'll get into that. Europe gets a free ride, free riders again. So why wouldn't you be happy? And they're all clapping for Trump, and they like him now. Gone is Greenland. Alright, so the president opens with what exactly the deal is with Iran. Go.

"And it's a memorandum of understanding if it doesn't get done in 60 days. That's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good but we might have to, because we're never gonna let them have a nuclear weapon."

So that was the headline today, that the Iranian pursuit of a nuclear weapon is dead. It's not dead, but it's badly, badly damaged. Now, people believe what they want to believe. The Democratic Party is going to tell you that President Obama had the Iranians locked down, that there was no threat. All right. I mean, it's a useless debate, it is useless. So we assume, and I hope I'm right, because I don't want to mislead you, that Iran did ramp up its uranium enrichment and was a threat. But we assume that is true. The Trump haters and his opposition will never believe that. You can take them down to mine, and they're not going to believe it. Now that was a justification for the conflict, along with a few other things, but that was the big one, okay? And the president addressed it. Go.

"Importantly, Iran has agreed that they will neither produce nor procure a nuclear weapon. Neither produce, because originally they said, they talk about that they will not develop a nuclear weapon. And some people found it okay. These guys didn't, in all fairness. But some people, but I didn't like it. Said it won't develop. I said, what happens if they should buy? I don't know. It's very dangerous for somebody to sell, because whoever sells them a nuclear weapon will get nuked themselves. If they sold a nuclear weapon. If only a few, they could do it, they would be nuked. They wouldn't have that country long. So it's a very dangerous thing for somebody to do. But I wanted it in there, so it's develop, procure, buy, anything. And you'll see that when you see the agreement, but it's appropriate that we release the agreement. And we did send a copy to Israel, by the way."

So the agreement is around now, and the media has said it's supposed to be signed on Friday. Then the money question is a lot of Americans that are outraged that we are buying, pretty much buying, Iran's cooperation. Again, it's a terrorist state, here's what the president said about that. Go.

"So we don't give them money. We don't give them any of that. And what happens is, with time, if they behave, if they be a citizen of the world, a reasonable citizen of the world."

And the president defined it further, that they're going to unfreeze Iranian money, which is held all around the world in banks, and that was frozen because of economic sanctions against Iran- violations, I mean, just endless violations- and the UN and other countries said enough, and we're going to freeze the money. So that money will be released, okay? And then, there will be money coming from the Gulf states when they make deals with Iran. Now, I don't know what the deals are. President Trump is a little foggy on this, but he believes that Iran, then, with all its oil exporting, will make up a lot of money. The number bantered around is 300 million. But he says flat out, we, the United States taxpayer, are not paying Iran. Obviously, I hope that's true. Okay. Then he talks about this as a legacy thing. I reported this yesterday. Trump's legacy versus Obama's legacy. And again, the Democrats are never in a million years gonna say the Obama-Nuke deal with Iran was a bad deal. Never, and Trump's never going to say if there was anything good about the deal, so forget it. It's a waste of time. But as an extension of that, President Trump said this. Go.

"And Iran got stronger and tougher. If we didn't blow them up the first time and then blow out those weapons, they would have been unstoppable."

Okay, he's talking about the bombing last June, a year from now, a year ago, I should say, that downgraded not only the uranium, but also ballistic missiles and across the board. Now, we can confirm the ballistic missiles and the other ordnance, military ordnance, a lot of it was destroyed. That's you can confirm that from space, but enrichment of uranium can't. So the president says, yeah, we we downgraded it. I would say most weapons people believe that. Certainly, ones we have talked to, the ones in Austria, but you can't prove it a hundred percent. So if Iran doesn't live up and you hear this all the time, cliches abound- well, you can't trust them, they kill this, say that, they'll lie. All that's true. But Trump says he has a very simple solution to any deceit. Go.

"We will bomb them. They will be bombed, just like I bombed them on Wednesday night and Tuesday night and was going to bomb them on Thursday night at a level that was three times greater, and they knew that. I will bomb them. Now that's with me as president. If you have a weak, pathetic president, maybe that doesn't happen, but I can only do the job that I have to do. I have a long time to go. I've almost three years, close to three years. Time is going fast."

Now, I know that President Trump doesn't want to bomb them, okay? It costs an enormous amount of money to do that, and he doesn't want dead bodies, civilians, all over the place. And I know that because I talk to him about it, eye to eye, man to man, one on one, okay. So I'm a primary source here. So far, according to the Pentagon, we have spent $30 billion on the Iranian conflict, $30 billion. A lot of money. Spain didn't kick in anything, as I mentioned. All right, so I wish you guys were all here if you have any other questions. The other thing that the president really didn't address and I was disappointed that he didn't. So we didn't get the weapons inspectors, he didn't get that. What about Hormuz? So Hormuz is open now, and the Iranians are shipping oil out of there through tankers, and every other country is shipping in and out, so it's open. But who controls it? Who controls that body of water? That was apparently that's not in any memorandum or any treaty or any anything. It's pretty important.

Is it A-line important? Did we go to war to open the Strait of Hormuz? No. But because the Iranians were effective in intimidating the insurance companies that spend an enormous amount of money on the tankers, insuring the tankers, a lot of tankers didn't move in there. It wasn't that Iran had all this ordnance that they would throwing, it was just a threat of it. And that paralyzed a lot of oil sales. And then Herbert Hoover made an appearance in the president's speech going, Trump said, I don't want to be Herbert Hoover and preside over a worldwide depression. And that was Iran's big weapon. That they would create so much chaos in the shipping of oil that the world would go into a recession or depression. And Herbert Hoover, and you know, I was complimented because Donald Trump read my book, Confronted the Presidents, and we went into the Hoover thing big time. And he knows that now. Did he use that from my book? I can't say, but I know he read it.

Okay, so there, let me just recap, there's a lot going on here. So Trump believes that he's got the Iranians receding from the uranium enrichment nuke weapons. He believes that. If they don't or go back, he's going to destroy the country militarily, going to destroy them, the military. So he said, I have an assurance because we've done so much damage on them. We'll do it five times as much. Hormuz is still undefined. Okay, we just don't know. What that's gonna be. I don't suspect it's gonna be a major problem, because again, money drives this. Money is driving this. And the Gulf states, and he mentioned all of them, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Emirates and all that, they're gonna make deals with Iran. Financial deal. Everybody's gonna to be in the Iran business for a while. And Trump knows that. And that was part of the equation to the mullahs, you know, you want to rebuild your country, this is the way to do it because we've destroyed your country. All right, now, dissent. It's the usual suspects, and I'm kind of wasting your time playing this stuff, but I think you need to know, and I am not going to play a lot of it, that the dissent against Trump will never stop, no matter what he does. And he brought it up today. And the press would go, no matter what I do, it's gonna be terrible. So the first one was NBC in the form of MS. Go.

"He's complaining about how much dropping American bombs costs $250 million and bombing for another two to three months wouldn't make a difference. That's an incredible signal to the Iranians, the Chinese, the Russians, that President Trump has no stomach, you know, for military conflict. It's amazing."

Yes, and now the most dovish network in the history of network news wants more military conflict. All right? And their number is wrong, the 250 million is wrong according to the Pentagon. All right, the second one comes from CNN, another reliable liberal Democrat source. This is from a guy named Ian Bremmer who runs a foreign policy operation. So, we, unlike the others, identify who were using on the air. And Bremer's a liberal, okay? CNN would never tell you that, but they couldn't wait to book Murphy in Connecticut. Every bomb thrower in the world that hates Trump, CNN is just lining them up, okay. Here's what Bremmer said. Go.

"Not a single one, not the ballistic missiles, not the nuclear file, not the support for terror or for proxies in the region, not choosing the next supreme leader, not rescuing the Iranian people. There was not a single war goal that the Americans decided that this was why they had to go and decapitate the Iranian regime that is being resolved by this agreement. Not one."

Well, that's simply not true, all right? We've got a framework that says this country is not going to pursue a nuclear weapon. You've got it in writing. So either Bremer doesn't know what he's talking about or doesn't care to tell the truth. And the second one is that because Iran is so bellicose and so aggressive, that Israel in particular wanted to downgrade their missile program, which happened, that happened. And you know that their leader was killed, and you know, so, I mean, guys like that just say anything, they're not fact-based guys. All right, one guy who is a fact-based guy is Jerry Baker, and he's a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Here's how he sees it. Go.

"We keep seeing very good numbers on jobs. Inflation has gone up a bit, but will come down again. The underlying performance of the U.S. Economy is really very robust, and that's why, again, whatever one thinks of the security aspects of this, getting the world economy back to some sort of an even keel and stability is going to be good for the U.S."

There you go, Jerry, all about money, and it is. And so, it's the usual stuff. Now, when I was watching President Trump, I watched the whole thing, I thought it was pretty good. I would have liked to have heard more specificity, particularly on how you're gonna be monitoring. He said, well, we got the space stuff, and we got eyes on the gates and the nuclear area, but three miles down on the ground, you don't. I would like to hear more about that. And then Hormuz, I still don't know what's going on there. I don't expect that to be big, as I said. And the final thing is Israel got screwed in this deal. Israel gets nothing out of this deal at all, and President Trump wants to constrain them. You know, his words were, look, every time they kill a Jewish person. And he's talking to Bibi Netanyahu, you don't have to blow up five buildings. Okay, and Israel got nothing out of this at all. They cannot be happy tonight.

MOU, Memorandum of Understanding. So this is what happens in a negotiation, all right? And then the formality is on Friday, as I mentioned, in Geneva, Switzerland, I believe Vance is going to be there, not Trump. Trump's getting out of Europe as quick as he can after he has dinner with Macron tonight. But I could be wrong about that. Maybe Trump will stay around. He said he might stay around, I can't see it. He wants to play golf over the weekend. I'm not saying that in a derisional way, but that's what he wants to do. And let's see, did I miss anything? That's pretty comprehensive. That's pretty comprehensive. I think I got it. I think you're up to date. Again, I wish you were all in his room so we could kick it around, but I got a guy who's pretty smart on this stuff. His name is James Robbins, he is a PhD, Dean of the Institute of World Politics at Reston, Virginia. He also writes a column for USA Today, and he joins us now from DC. Am I making any mistakes, doctor?

"Not at all Bill. I think you have it pretty much right where it should be This is not the final deal. This is just the MOU. It's just the framework for the 60 days of negotiations. So those people who were complaining about how it didn't contain everything in the kitchen sink really don't understand how this is only phase one of the process."

But if it doesn't happen on Friday, then the president takes a hit because his words were defining what this memorandum was. So you would assume that what he said is what's going to happen.

"Oh, absolutely. The only way that wouldn't happen is if the Iranians decided to start to play tricks, like they recently did with respect to the ceasefire in Lebanon, where they unilaterally added that, oh, by the way, all the Israeli forces have to leave Lebanon. That's part of the ceasefire. So that was Iran moving the goalposts. And it's possible that they could try to do something like that and say, you know, unless you do this, there's no deal, but... I also know from President Trump's book that part of the art of the deal is the ability to walk away from the table. So I think the Iranians shouldn't play chicken with the president, they should just get it done on Friday."

Well, they should, but who knows. But Trump will hit them militarily if they pull anything like that. He'll hit them hard. Now, there's a 60-day window for further specificity on the nukes. So they got 60 days. I don't expect anything to happen in the 60, and they'll probably do another 60 and all of that. Because President Trump knows that's his vulnerability. No weapons inspectors. Can't be 100% sure that they're upholding the deal, and then Iranians may try to get as much money as they can and then do whatever they do. So I didn't say that in my Talking Points Memo, but that 60 days, that's a little fraught too. I mean, they could be pulling a lot of tricks, but you know what, it struck me, and I'd like to get your opinion on this. Trump used his speech to praise China. He said that China could have helped Iran and didn't with Stinger missiles and other things. When out of his way, he even gave Putin a little shout-out, which Putin doesn't deserve, but Xi did. Xi could have caused an amazing amount of trouble there. By arming Iran against the USA and Israel. So Trump used this speech for a lot more than just a memorandum. You agree with that?

"Yeah, I do agree with that. And if you look at the MOU, the final point says that it will be secured, whatever comes out of the 60 days, and I agree with you, it's not going to be 60 days. It's going to probably take a lot longer. But whatever comes out of that process has to be confirmed by the UN Security Council. And essentially that gives China and Russia a veto. Over whatever comes out of this process if they choose to veto. So the fact that the president went out of his way to praise China and give a little nod to Russia, I think, is looking forward to the fact that, at the end of the day, those two countries are going to have to vote for whatever comes of this process."

Yeah, I mean, that's a symbolic vote because Trump's going to do what he wants. So if he sees that the mullahs are violating or aren't doing what they said they were going to do to him, he'll hit him militarily, and the UN is not going to stop him. The other thing about this that's fascinating is that Donald Trump didn't mention the midterms, but it was all over the place. And that he feels that he has to get the prices for consumers here in America down and down fast, or that he's going to lose power. Did you read it that way?

"Yes, and I think this is another reason why the 60-day timeline isn't the real timeline, because I have serious doubts that if this whole thing, you know, flamed out, that we would be going back to open war in the middle of August with the midterms coming up in October. I mean, there would be no chance to reset at that point."

So yeah, that's why there is another 60 behind the first 60. It's 60 days, it's renewable but what's on the president's mind is not just international. It's hey, I got a I got to get momentum back here in the United States. I think that was a paramount point, and the president kind of avoided that a little bit, but behind the scenes, I know that was big. Last word.

"Well, you're right, politics is a reality. I mean, there's the international dimension, but there's also the domestic. And I think the Republicans, even though people are already writing the obituary for the Republican Congress, I don't think that's true. I think that Republicans have a chance to retain everything, and President Trump wants to see that happen. So getting off the, getting off, the dance floor is important to him."

The legacy is the most important to him, and the polling is already tightening up, according to CNN, which I mentioned, and then the Democratic Party, they don't have a lot of response, other than Obama's deal was better. I'm just an aside. Do you think Obama's was better than—do you think it constrained Iran from developing a nuclear weapon?

"No, the Obama deal was terrible. It didn't constrain them from anything. It gave them all kinds of unlimited money, which they then used to fund their terrorist proxies. And ultimately it sunset it and basically gave Iran a timeline for developing a nuclear weapon. So I think the president's critique of the JCPOA was right on target. It's too soon, though, to compare this to the JCPOA because again, this is just an MOU. It's the framework for the negotiation."

Nobody knows if it's going to go down, although I think it will in the short term. But if another U.S. President is elected, Trump pointed that out, that's weak, then the mullahs will run wild again. Hey, doctor, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Nice to have you on the program. Okay, let's see other news. Nothing like that. And just keep in mind what we just gave you, and it was what, 26 minutes of analysis on a very important story, obviously, and if there's any mistake that I made or any factual thing that doesn't stack to you, you know, send me a letter, Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com, I'll read the letter, but then compare what you're going to see later on with the others on television. It's not even in the same hemisphere, and we pride ourselves in just telling you the truth, and if we don't know the truth, we tell you that we don't know.

Okay, Evanston, Illinois nice little town and they approved reparations $25,000 for African-Americans for slavery. Okay, now it's being challenged in court, obviously, and the Department of Justice is now involved, and they're going in saying, we want to be part of the lawsuit because it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which means that a group, African-Americans, are being treated differently. Now, in this case, they're being treated better because they're getting $25,000 ahead in Evanston, Illinois. Okay? But that's against the Constitution. You can't say I'm going to give Presbyterians $100,000. So that's an interesting thing that I believe the city of Evanston is going to lose. They're gonna lose this.

Minnesota. So the Justice Department charged 15 people with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers. This is on the ICE stuff. So according to the Justice Department, the defendants use a variety of tactics to interfere with federal operations, those were the ICE roundups, including tracking agents, alerting neighborhoods to enforcement activity, and using blocks of ICE to slow down government convoys. All right. Now the state of Minnesota in a million years would never do this, never enforce local law against ICE, but the feds are. Now are they going to win this? They've got a pretty good U.S. Attorney out there, a guy named Daniel Rosen, and Rosen says Antifa was behind the coordinated effort, and they actually had a name for Operation Metro Surge. So the Portland people came into Minneapolis-St. Paul to do all this, according to the Justice Department.

President Obama, back in the news, primarily because his library opens tomorrow for the swells. The swells get a preview tomorrow, and then everybody gets to go to the Obama Library in Chicago on Friday. Now, this is an interesting story that's very under-covered. The whole thing cost $850 million, okay? It was originally supposed to open a year ago, and the original cost estimate was $350 million. So it overrode its original cost by $500 million. Now, who pays that? Presidential libraries are constructed with private or non-federal funds donated. But the Obama people don't have enough money to cover it. Even though the library is built. And the contractors, the people who make the bathrooms and put in the escalators or whatever they say, they're not getting paid. Again, this story is suppressed. You don't hear anything about it. Now on the swell front, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson, Mark Anthony, Mono and the Edge are all supposed to show up tomorrow. Now, if this were the Trump Library and entertainers showed up, they'd be blackballed, Just keep that in mind. They wouldn't be able to work. But with Obama, and I don't mind that, I'd like to go. Okay, so we'll see if that goes anywhere, but they owe a lot of money. Washington Post. Can't really trust it. They say that President Trump knew the ballroom at the White House was going to cost the taxpayer money, even though the president denied that. Roll it.

"It's all donations. Rich people and people are putting up the money. Zero taxpayer dollars. Is that right, Scott? Zero taxpayer dollars. Stuff is all done for free, and I get sued."

All right, so I don't trust the Washington Post, but that doesn't mean it's not true. And I hope, I hope it's what the president said is true, because if it goes into Congress, Congress has to approve all of that, and it will be a big scandal, big, big, big scandal. We're watching that.

Smart life. This is a study out of the University of Arizona, 70% of kids, while they're eating dinner with their family, and parents are on the phone. 70 percent. That is parental neglect. Now I had that problem with the urchins. They wanted that phone at dinner time, not even close. Not even close. I would not allow it. You're gonna talk, you're gonna have a dialog. What's on your mind today? No phone. I just think that any parent who would allow that, and the parents are sometimes on the phone, crazy. Smart Life, if you care about your kids, you limit their phone.

This Day in History, Statue of Liberty showed up 141 years ago. France sent it over, nice of it, nice for France to do it. It arrived in New York Harbor, and it was a symbol of emancipation after the Civil War. So this was 1885, 20 years after the war ended, but France wanted a memorial to honor the enlightenment of emancipation. So the statue is copper, and it stains all over the place. It weighs 560,000 pounds. So Lady Liberty maybe goes on a little diet, a little aerobics out there. It was designed by a guy named Édouard Lade La Bouboulaye. My French is terrible, okay. It has been hit by lightning six hundred times. Six hundred times! And if it were constructed today, the Statue of Liberty would cost $22 million, and 4 million people visit it every year. And on the 4th of July, they have all the boats around it, and it's a spectacular, great place. 4th of July it shows up, the statue 141 years ago today. All right, I want to get to the mail real quick because we got a lot of dissent, a lot of swirl, and we'll be back in a moment with that.

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Okay, YouTube is free. This is our channel, YouTube.com/BillOReilly. I talk about Graham Plattner, the loon, who is now gonna run for Senate in Maine. And what do you hear about this guy? So it's worth signing up for our free YouTube channel. Let's go to mail. Mitch Fine Sod. It looks like Palmetto Beach, Florida. "Hey, Bill, I'm confused. Iran is saying death to America, death to Israel for years. They also said they've enriched enough uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs." No, they didn't. Never said that. You know, Mitch, you've got to get the info. I would be very curious to know who told you that or where you read it.

Robert Pitch, Colombiana, Alabama. "The professor from Duke is pushing the narrative the Obama deal was working to limit Iran's nuclear program when we know from Senator Graham and others that the Iranians themselves are bragging they would have enough enriched uranium to produce devices very soon." Number one, Lindsey Graham did us a big favor on our long form, and he was an excellent guest. But he's not a source, okay, he's not a resource. That's his opinion. Number two, we don't have rock-solid information about the uranium. It was blown up a year ago. We just don't know. Now, if some kind of uranium scientist emerges or something like that, that would be the thing.

Richard, Concierge Member. We will help Richard out if he gets into any kind of trouble. "Every morning I read the Fox page and compare the CNN page. It's like one is a positive outlook, the other is negative. CNN has increasingly become anti-patriotic, and it seems that it wants America to fail." It wants Trump to fail, that's what it wants. It's not a hard analysis.

Peter. "Bill, I can't believe you're okay with Trump saying he'll reveal what's in the agreement with Iran only after it's been signed." But he didn't say that. And that's why he had a press conference today. You see, you guys are getting this information, I know where you're getting it. You can't hide from me.

All right, Chief Anthony Giacanelli, Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania. "I'm a retired police chief from the Woodcliff Lake Police Department," it's up where Richard Nixon lived, okay. "I just want to let you know, I found your 2006 book, Culture Warrior, finished reading it, I am amazed at how on target you were." And that was 24 years ago, Culture Warrior. I will take credit.

Robert Pompeo, Las Vegas. "I've watched you for two decades. When you recently spoke about the 40% of us that don't contribute to the stock market, it's not that some of us don't want to, but low-income earners merely just get by, and they can't." Then don't be a low- income earner. See, why accept that circumstance? Particularly now, when you have all kinds of courses you can take online, community colleges. Come on, get a skill, go to a school, learn how to do anything. That's capitalism. If you're not making a lot of money, figure it out. You got talent, everybody has talent. Don't just sit there and go, oh, I don't have enough money. No. That's what they do in the communist societies. All right, hats. 250 American birthday coming up fast. We'd love you to order these at BillOReilly.com, and you'll love them, okay? Word of the Day, do not be pecksniffian. Now, if you say do not a pecksniffian, you are grammatically incorrect. It don't be pecksnifian. All right, I got a final thought about a Christian song I think you'll like, back in a moment.

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Final thought of the day. You know, there is a Christian record list on the Christian music industry. So number one in the Christian Music industry is a song called Blessed by Bo Davidson. Roll it.

"My fondest memory of World War II was the day when victory was declared over the Axis.".

"A good American cannot live without freedom. It's worth fighting for."

Alright, so that's a big, big hit. And you can find it on Real America's Voice, and you might want to check it out. You know it's a patriotic display, 4th of July. Good song. Right again, Bo Davidson, song is Blessed. Thank you very much for watching the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We got lots of stuff over the weekend. Just keep checking in with me. @BillOReilly is the tweet, I guess they don't tweet anymore, whatever it is, I don't know. And then Bill@BillOReilly.com and all of that, okay? Have a good weekend. We'll see you on Monday.

Bernie Sanders & His Endorsement of Graham Platner

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Bruce Jentleson Weighs in on the G7 Summit

2026-06-17T07:59:00Z

Political science professor Bruce Jentleson, PhD, discusses NATO's views of President Trump and their sincerity toward the U.S.

IRAN DEAL: Perception at Home and Abroad

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The latest on the U.S.-Iran deal as Trump and other world leaders meet at the G7 summit to discuss the conflict in Iran.

A High-Stakes Showdown

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As Leon Russell sang, President Trump is walking the “tight wire” with the Iranian deal. The Mullahs will portray themselves as victorious no matter what, but it is the American people who will make the final call.

It seems clear that Iran will benefit from increased trade; that’s a given. However, cash from the USA puts Mr. Trump into the Obama zone, a place Republicans definitely do not want to be. The President told the world the USA will not pay Iran. That’s a clear statement.

The most important part of the “deal” is allowing weapons inspectors into Iran. Again, that was the stated reason for the conflict, so it has to happen.

From the beginning, I said that attacking Iran was the biggest gamble Donald Trump has ever taken in his life. And the dice are still spinning. The President is set to hold a press conference this week, and the media will absolutely try to take him out.

Beware distortions and false analysis. Those things are now inevitable. The press senses blood and is loading up to attack. Only a solid deal that punishes Iran can deliver the President a victory he badly needs.

High-stakes showdown coming. Enjoy the calm before the proverbial storm.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

Odious

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[o·di·ous] extremely unpleasant; repulsive.

IRAN DEAL: Perception at Home and Abroad - Bruce Jentleson Weighs In, JD Vance's Big Role & Madness in the UK

2026-06-16T22:00:00Z

Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News Tuesday, June 16th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, the Iran Treaty or whatever you want to call it, I'm not sure yet, heating up, and there's a lot of very unusual things taking place, and we're going to point them out to you with a laser-like clarity. Okay. S,o as usual, we are not getting an honest perspective from the media And it's not even close Okay, they don't know. They don't care to know. If Trump did it, it's bad and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So Friday, in Bergenstock, Switzerland- I've actually been there, a little town close to Lucerne, beautiful- there's going to be a signature deal taking place between the USA and Iran. What's important here is not just the deal, as President Trump would put it, but Israel is out. And that could cause major trouble down the road. So Israel wants the ability to defend itself against Hamas and Hezbollah. If they send rockets in, Israel wants to shoot back. And so Netanyahu says, we're not going to sign on to this. The problem is, once Israel shoots back, the Iranians may say, probably will say, Oh, that blows the treaty up. You know, a treaty doesn't matter anymore, because Israel violated it or something. That's a key. Okay, keep that in mind. And that's one of the reasons that the president didn't put forth the text of the arrangement, because he's still working on Israel to try to get them on board. Did you hear that anywhere else? You did not, okay? Obviously, you know I have unique access to President Trump. I know what's going on here. And I'm not 100% behind this. I'm not. Because there are a lot of loopholes in this. But you're not getting close to the truth by the American media.

So the President says you're going to hold a news conference and word by word go over the deal and I assume that will happen Thursday, Wednesday. He's coming back to the United States from Europe on Wednesday. He may want to have that press conference here, but I don't know for sure. All right? But he's promised that he'll have a press conference. He'll answer all the questions. The questions will all be contentious. They're not going to be informational. It's going to be you said, you did, you said you did and how much of that President Trump's going to be able to take? I'm not sure. Okay. So on Iran, they're portraying this as a big win. But a while ago, we won this now. That's how they're selling it to the world, their own people as well. Okay, I got to see the text. I can't analyze this until I see what's in there. Right? So these morons and their dishonest charlatans yesterday that were objecting to everything. They haven't seen it yet- just appalling. Now oil prices continue to drop, which President Trump needs for the midterm elections. The stock market continues to surge. We'll get to the stock market a little later on. I'm going to scold the people who are not participating in our capitalist society. So the scolding is coming up in this broadcast. So today, Tuesday, June 16th, the president is meeting and schmoozing with all the G7 leaders and others. And they've been very supportive of Mr. Trump. And it's easy to figure out why, they did nothing. So, in Europe and the countries in Asia, they get the benefit of anything that constrains the mullahs without doing a thing. We did it all, like we always do. All right, let's run it down. So Great Britain is the number one ally for us, even though it's chaos. And before the president began meeting with Great Britain, France, and the others, he wanted to put to bed some controversy. Roll that tape.

"We have a deal that's a fair deal. It's a good deal. We are not investing any money in Iran, by the way. And the rumor got out there yesterday. It was ridiculous. We have the right to go in someday and do it if I want to do something or if somebody wants to do something, but we are not investing any money. We have no obligation to invest any money in Iran."

All right, so that knocks out all the reporting from Monday night. If you're watching on television, you're wasting your time, but they're 300 million, they're this they're that, whatever. Okay, let's start with Starmer of Great Britain. Go.

"I want first to welcome the breakthrough reached last night between the US and Iran. And I congratulate President Trump, the mediators from Pakistan and Qatar, and all those involved. This is a hugely significant moment."

Okay, remember before the treaty was announced, the American media said it was no good. But there's Starmer, and Starmer's got his own intel service, okay? Saying it's great, great. Here's Macron of France, go.

"I think yesterday was signed a very important agreement, a peace deal with Iran, and it's a very, very important, one because first it will fix the nuclear issue, and it's a very positive matter for peace for the whole world."

That's a bit optimistic. The mullahs could violate this deal at any time, and there's a likelihood they will. Okay. Then the Chancellor of Germany, perhaps the NATO's weakest major country, said this, Frederick Merz, quote, "I welcome the agreement with the U.S. and Iran and congratulate President Trump and the Iranian side on this diplomatic breakthrough. This can pave the way towards a reinvigorated global economy and a more secure Middle East, it is crucial to implement it with determination." Okay, remember that Merz was critical of the deal, he didn't want to help, and he didn't help. And here's a full screen that you'll read where all the governments got together in Europe, the G7 people, and said this. "We warmly welcome the announcement of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, congratulate the United States, the Iranian government, and all involved, including Pakistan, Qatar, and all other mediators on this diplomatic breakthrough." Okay, so it's across the board. Trump's a good guy, this is a smart deal in Europe. Not in the American media. Roll that.

"But this time around, the one thing that both sides agree on is that the one and a half page Memorandum of Understanding does nothing to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear..."

"Okay, so you killed all of those 40 leaders, but now the IRGC is in charge, okay? So that's who we're dealing with, and that's where we're supposed to stand next to on Friday and sign an agreement that nobody's seen or read, except for this is the most transparent administration in history, but we can't read it. Like, I can make all of these points."

"Donald Trump now has a secret deal, he says, to end the war in Iran. And that deal, if it exists, is apparently so humiliating to Donald Trump that he's keeping it secret."

That's not why he's keeping it secret. He wants to get Israel on board and iron out some of the last-minute text in the deal. So again, you're never going to get the truth from any of those people. They're not in business to tell you the truth. They're in business to tell you what their management tells them to say. Okay, now last night I was on Leland Vittert on NewsNation. Chris Cuomo came on before me and was harping on the same thing. Why can't I see the deal? Why can I see it? Why can't I see it? It's a mantra. Why can. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Here's what I told Vittert. Go.

"What is the fairest way to judge what the administration has put out and what the Iranians have said?"

"You can't judge it now because you don't have the facts. So I don't know whether you saw our friend Chris Cuomo demanding to know, 48 hours after the deal was announced by President Trump, what exactly is in it. Who would do that? Who would do that? Who would give critics of the deal and the opposition, the mullahs, five days to go disassemble the deal. What kind of a moron would do that? And I'm not calling Cuomo a moroon, I'm just saying it doesn't matter. If Friday is D-Day, if Friday the deal is signed or not, then we'll all know. But it's not like we're voting on a referendum on this deal."

All right, so I think I made my point pretty clear here. That the way to negotiate a very complex situation is to be methodical, all right, and you don't give the enemy any quarter, okay? You don't give them a chance to nitpick or do whatever they might do. And that's the Memo. So, Vice President Vance is the point man on the signing on Friday. He went on CBS Morning and here's what happened.

"Walk through some of this. The Iranians are saying that they're going to have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false?"

"Well, and that's the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation. I think that one of the things you're going to see, and people have to be skeptical of this, is that the hardliners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets while underemphasizing all the things that they have to concede and all the things they have to provide in order to get these benefits."

The key sentence there is the Gulf Coast Coalition, okay, so I'm not naive. They're going to up the trade level with Iran, and Iran will benefit financially from that. Okay, one of the things is we're trying to buy them. There's no doubt about it we're trynna buy them, but as long as my tax dollars don't go to the mullahs to kill people, and the Gulf Coast Coalition picks up the tab, it doesn't matter to me. Okay, now you are rewarding bad behavior somewhat. But remember, according to President Trump now, Iranians are gonna have to do a whole bunch of things to get any cash whatsoever. Joining us now from Floyd, Virginia. Is Dr. Bruce Jentleson, is a political science professor at Duke University in North Carolina. All right, doctor, you're smarter than I am. They wouldn't even accept me on a PhD level. Where am I making mistakes?

"Well, I think you're pretty smart, Bill, but don't worry about that. You know, what you're saying about the Europeans at the summit was classic diplomatic niceness. If you really want to know what those European leaders think, it's kind of like Republican senators, you know, what they say in public and what they say in the cloakroom. If you listen to Tom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn now, you know what they really think about Donald Trump, and it ain't pretty. And it's the same with Europeans, you know. You know, what they were saying there about greater security in the region and the global economy was, yeah, if you stop this war, you know, we will no longer have the problems that you, along with the Iranians, but you also helped create for us and for the rest of the world. So, you know, just to take it on surface value, you know, it's like being nice to the toast, but not really what people think."

So you're not believing the sincerity of our allies in NATO. You don't think that they know that Iran is a terrorist state and has caused trouble for what, almost 50 years now since the Shah got booted. You don't think that they're happy that Iran may be downgraded a bit?

"No, they know very well it is a terrorist state. In fact, more Iranian terrorism has happened in Europe than even in our own country. What they also know is that this war that President Trump started on February 28th has made the Iranian threat and problem worse, not better. And it's not a question of not seeing the threat. They disagree with the way he did it. You know, right now, Iran has a weapon that it didn't have on February 27th, and that's the Straits of Hormuz. You know, they never before tried to close it. You know, if we open it now, which is, as you said, the one piece that we've said we know that and ending the American naval blockade, Iran now has that as a weapon. And that's a problem for everybody that uses oil anywhere in the world. So they know darn well what the threat is, but the fundamental to this is making it worse."

If the Iranians continue misbehaving in Hormuz, they don't get any money.

"Well, they've been getting money elsewhere. They've been sending their oil out in other ways."

Come on, doctor, it's 80% inflation in the country and their economy is going down the drain, which is one of the reasons they had to come to the table.

"No, it's not. They were ready to negotiate. On February 27th, they sent a proposal to Washington with the foreign minister that's been validated by the Trump administration, in which they said, we're prepared to offer a deal on the nuclear issue to give President Trump more than President Obama got. And we all know that that's a big deal for Donald Trump to say he's better than any other president. What did we do? We started bombing that night, because we weren't interested in the diplomacy. We're interested in the bravado and supposedly bringing about regime change, and ending this, and much of the opposite is happening."

Okay, but they had an opportunity, they being Israel and the United States, to decapitate the leadership of Iran, which is, you know, you can't trust them, as you point out, in one swoop, which happened. And then the hope was that would be enough to spur the Persian people to overthrow whatever was left, which didn't happen. So I'm not sure that it was a naive or malevolent philosophy to try to take those people out. But anyway, let's move ahead. So what you said is you don't believe the sincerity of the NATO people. You think they're just playing Trump, just telling him what he wants to hear?

"No, you know, I'm telling you, they're very sincere about their commitment to NATO, and they'd love to see a commitment by us to that. What they're doing in a diplomatic setting is what we all do. You sometimes say polite things, so don't draw the conclusion, oh, he said that the NATO allies aren't sincere. They're doing what you need to do in a Diplomatic setting to try to not make the problem worse. But fundamentally, you know, this is a war that was imposed upon them, and it's not just that they wanted us to do it. They knew it was a bad idea, a bad policy. And they couldn't stop President Trump. Nobody could stop President Donald Trump."

If it turns out, when we see the text of the deal, that weapons inspectors, which is the key to this whole thing, are allowed to go in and monitor uranium buildup, will you change your opinion?

"That's where we were in 2015, Bill. That's what the Obama deal was, okay? And when Trump got out of it-"

There weren't any weapons inspectors there, Doctor. I had the...I had the guys from Austria on this program, and they had not been to Iran in six or seven years because the mullahs wouldn't let them in so...

"After 2015, I'm going to differ with you, I didn't see your program, but when he got out of the deal in 2018, not Netanyahu, the prime minister, but many of the top Israeli intelligence and military officials who know, said the deal ain't perfect, but it's better than getting out of it, okay. So that was Israelis, not just Democrats or others, saying that the deal was worth building on and improving, but not thrown overboard, and then having the Iranians build up without inspectors for all those years because there was no deal because we pulled out."

Well, but they were building up. That's why we bombed the tons about a year ago, and by all measures, the nuclear program from Iran was damaged, according to Mossad, according to the CIA, according to everybody. But if you can produce one weapons inspector who has gone in to look at uranium in the last seven years, I'll come to Duke and I'll do whatever you want, but you can't because there were no weapons inspectors allowed in, and that was part of the Obama deal. Now, I understand the Democratic Party, and I'm not accusing you of being a Democrat or a Republican. I know that's the narrative, that this is Trump's war, we didn't have to start it because the Obama Deal was just as good. Nobody can produce one weapons inspector, not one on this earth, that was allowed in there to look at the uranium.

"Yeah, and you just said in the last seven years, that dates to when Trump pulled out, and we were out of the deal before he pulled out the weapons inspectors were going in, okay. So that speaks to the point where he made the problem worse rather than better."

But even during the Obama administration, they were violating the weapons inspectors' mandate, according to the weapons inspectors who are based in Austria. It was a haphazard situation. And they weren't getting what they needed to get as far as what Iran was doing, enhancing the uranium. I haven't heard anybody say that Iran was acting in good faith to uphold the Obama deal. I've never heard anybody say that. All I've heard is politics. And it's a classic war of legacies, is what it is, just looking at it from a historical point of view. But I'm looking for a weapons inspector, and I'll go back until Obama left office. We can't find any, and we've been looking. Last word.

"Well, I'll tell you what, you know, go back, go talk to, look at quotes from Moshe Yalon, the former Israeli defense foreign minister, Gaddafi Aizenkot, the chief of staff, Ami Ayalon, the former head of the Mossad and the Shin Bet. They were saying this in 2018, that it was working pretty well, okay? So, you know, there were inspectors. Why would the Israelis say that it's working pretty well if they, of all people, were the most concerned about the Iranian deal? So, that's the way it was."

Why would the Netanyahu government argue with them? Because it was clear that Benjamin Netanyahu said they're within six weeks of developing a nuclear weapon. That's what he said. He's a leader of the government. Why would he contradict his own guys?

"He's done that time and again. His whole politics were based on pumping up the Iranian threat to distract from everything else that he was doing. And as military intelligence officials who genuinely cared about Israeli national security, not about Bibi Netanyahu's politics, were the ones saying, you know, it's working. It's not perfect. It is working. Use your credibility, Mr. Trump, to improve it and build on it, rather than throwing it out just because you don't like Barack Obama."

Would you concede there is a division of opinion on that item inside Israel?

"Very much so. That's why I quote the intelligence officials."

All right, because, you know, there's a whole crew that says, no, these people had the capacity in, I don't believe the six-week thing, but fairly soon that they could get a nuke up and running and then hand it off to somebody. Very good discussion, doctor. We really appreciate you taking the time. And if you can find any of these weapons inspectors, from Obama on, I would be very, very anxious to talk to them. We appreciate it.

All right, UK, so it's a mess. And as some of you know, I'm doing a special on the, we're calling it the Siege of London, but it's really the decline of the entire country. And it has to do with immigration mostly, but socially, the country's declining too. So they passed a law that'll be in place next year where kids under the age of 16, by law, cannot access TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X by law. Okay. Australia has the law. They're the only other ones. Now, I ask my staff, well, how are they gonna enforce this? You know, your kid's in his room, what are you gonna do? Kick down the door of his room and, hey, get off that TikTok. They're gonna monitor the British government, okay, the actual companies that distribute YouTube, Instagram, X, to see. Now I don't know if the technology exists, I guess it does, to pinpoint who's using your service and how old they are. But anyway, in the UK, you're not allowed to do that anymore. Now is that a good thing? Yeah, it's a good thing. Is that a violation of freedom of expression? Yeah, that's why it won't happen here.

Knicks, listen to this story. Even if you don't care about sports, I understand you don't care. But this is a money story. Money. So the New York Knicks won the National Basketball Association crown. Each player, because of the win, the playoff system, gets $770,000 in bonus money. $770,000. Whoa, that's pretty good, right? What? Not that good if you live in New York, where most of the Knicks live. Because they have to pay taxes: $285,000 in federal tax, $18,000 in Medicare contribution, $83,000 in New York state tax. $30,000 New York City tax which brings the $770,000 bonus down to $354,000. More than half of the players lose their bonus money to the tax man. Okay, half. Now, if you live in San Antonio with the Spurs and you won, it would be $110,000 less per player because it's Texas. And Texas doesn't have a state tax. So you would get $464,000 in bonus rather than the Knicks, who, once again, are getting $354,000. That's a big... That's a hundred and ten thousand more because we're taxed here in New York, where I am up to here. And they want more, because they want to take away all assets from successful people like the New York Knicks, they being the progressive movement, the governor of the state, on and on and on.

All right, smart life. So the mantra of why can't I see the text? Why can't I see the document? Why can't I see the treaty? Why can't I see the deal? I want to see it now, now, that's all you heard last night on TV. Show it to me, how come we can't see it? And I explain why. Now this has to do with patience. This is a smart life. Now for the first three quarters of my life, I was not a patient person. And even now, my staff will tell you, you know, I don't put up with a lot of wishy-washy stuff. There's no such thing in this operation as a miscommunication. That does not exist. All right, it's people screwing up or doing their job. That's it. So, patience. Most Americans are short on patience. Whereas you go to other countries. Mexico, okay? And, you know, we'll get to it. We don't have to do it now. We don't have to see everything now. I think, based on life experience, that's a better play than being hyped up. Because I know that there are things going on behind the scenes to strengthen this treaty for the United States. And I hope Israel signs on. Because if Israel doesn't sign on to the treaty, the treaty doesn't mean much. The Iranians are going to take the money they get, and then a month from now Israel bombs someplace, and they'll go Ah, treaty's no good. That's exactly what's gonna happen. It's not hard to figure that out. Patience is a very, very important part of life. Smart life.

Okay, so I have a friend who was trying to get from New York to Charleston, South Carolina. Couldn't get there. Why? Thunderstorms. Okay, so over the weekend, it was just Armageddon. 25,000 delays, airport delays. In one weekend, 25,000. And a lot of those flights were canceled. So it's summer. Once you go south of Maryland or Ohio or Indiana, once you go south of there, you're going to run into heat and humidity big time. Heat and humidity drive thunderstorms. It doesn't have to be raining when you get to the airport. On that little radar scope, if those air traffic controllers see a storm anywhere in the area, you ain't going anywhere. Okay, so my friend never made it to Charleston. Instead, she drove down there. Okay, that's a long drive. What I would have done, but I wasn't involved with this situation, was, number one, she should have known exactly what the weather forecast was going to be in South Carolina and Virginia, and number two, fly into Atlanta, because Atlanta is an easier airport to get into even under adverse weather conditions. So forget about New York. If you’ve got wind, if you got flying leaves, they're going to delay it. And then the game is the airlines pull back from the gate about 10 feet so they can say they left on time. And then they get air traffic control stops them, and they don't go anywhere. That's the game. That's a con. So my advice here is you've got to study where you're going. And you've gotta have a plan B. So what airport is the easiest to get to? So you go to Atlanta, you rent a car, you can get to Charleston in a decent amount of time. Driving from New York to Charleston, whoa. Okay, but that's what's happening. It's going to happen through October every day. Now the West Coast, they don't have that so much. All right, because it's not that humid, Arizona, Nevada, California. But boy, you get in the southern part, the Southeastern part of this country. There's a thunderstorm every day.

This Day in History. June 16th, 2010. Bhutan. Now, how many of you know the country of Bhutan? Raise your hand. It's one of the most isolated countries in the world. Bhutan bans all tobacco, and if you disobey the ban, you can go to jail. They'll put you in jail. So Bhutan is a Himalayan country. It is the highest country in the world I believe, and it's run by a theocracy, religious people really run it. There's a king, but they're nice. It has never been occupied by a foreign power. One of the few countries on earth never occupied; it's too high, it's too big. Beautiful, they tell me. It's on my list. I Gotta get there. All right. One of the things that is big in Bhutan is the Yeti. They still believe the Yetis are running around, okay? It is the highest country in the world, averaging about 11,000 feet above sea level, and it is one of the few carbon-negative countries in the World, because it has so many forests, so they don't give off a lot of pollution. TV and the Internet were banned in Bhutan until 1999. And even now, if you go, your cell phone's not gonna work. There are no red lights, no stop lights in the country, none. So most people are, you know, whipping around in little carts. Anyway, they banned tobacco, still in effect. You can't do that. Okay, we got mail, a lot of division on Iran, and a final thought that I think you'll enjoy. We'll be right back.

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So I just recorded another YouTube address. We call it a YouTube bonus. It's YouTube.com/BillOReilly. I got another plaque from YouTube because our audience is growing so big and this is about this guy, Graham Plattner, in Maine. We have avoided him mostly on the No Spin News, but he's bad. And we'll let that out for you. So, hope you sign up. Let's go to the mail, Bill King, Austin, Texas. "Per Fox News reporting, appears to be a $300 billion reconstruction fund that Iran will have use of." Okay, well, they were wrong, weren't they? Maybe they'll be right down the road, but initially, they're wrong. Is anybody surprised?

Marty, Concierge Member, Marty gets our help if he gets into trouble, we are on his team. "Iran peace deal will only work if there is actual verification." I agree with that entirely. Gotta have the inspectors go in on a regular basis. Have to.

Tanya. "Bill, you are chiding people for not celebrating the peace deal." No, I'm not. I didn't chide anybody, okay? "Shouldn't we find out what's in the deal before we start celebrating?" Number one, I wouldn't celebrate anyway. And number two, yeah, we should find out what's in the deal, and I am confident we will by the end of this week. Chiding!

Stephen, Concierge Member. "The Iran deal is a disaster, and it tolls on ship; it appears it's fine with Trump." What tolls? What tolls, Stephen? What? Come on, I mean, where are you getting this stuff? I know where you're getting it. You have to see it.

David, Concierge Member. "Bill, any person who can obtain a California driver's license has also issued a voter registration card in California. I've been saying for years, we have millions of illegals voting out here." Okay, I'd like to see an investigation into that. I don't think we'll ever get one.

Anthony Bassaccio, Wappinger's Falls, New York. "What's an example of how food companies prevent the government from putting warnings on labels?" Every single product that is laden with sugar, Anthony, every one, okay? They have food associations, big-time lobbying groups. They don't want labels.

Bob Vactor, L.A. "You keep referring to the Democratic Party as the Democratic Party. Why? There's nothing democratic about it, in my opinion." Well, Bob, if you want to rewrite history, that's up to you. But when the Democratic Party was founded, okay, Thomas Jefferson, it was the Democratic Party. So I mean, I don't inject politics into this, it's history. Okay, hats. Now we are changing a warehouse thing, you don't wanna know, but it's a pain in the neck. But we have hats, and we can send you the hats, but you gotta order them now. And the hats say 250 with the American flag, the best hats in the world. And you want them for the 4th of July anyway. You wanna wear them the rest of the summer, show your patriotism, show people you have good taste. But because we are changing our warehouse, we wanna give you a heads up that if you order now, it's gonna be no problem. You're gonna get those hats in a flash. If you wait, it's a new warehouse. So get them now. I hope you do. Word of the Day: do not be odious, O-D-I-O-U-S, odious. I know some odious people. So do you. All right, final thought. I'm gonna scold people in a moment.

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Okay, final thought. Record high in the stock market. You may know that. Oil prices coming down, that was easily predictable, and they'll continue to drop. We hope they go below $70 a barrel. Now the American oil companies will take their sweet time because they wanna make as much money as possible from us. Dropping at the pump, but it'll happen. But the most important thing is that about 40% of Americans have no stocks, no mutual funds, no IRAs, nothing. 58%, according to Gallup, have stocks. This is how you grow your money in a capitalist society. Now, if you don't have any stocks, what deuce do you think is going to happen to you when you get older? What do you think that the government is gonna provide a comfortable living for you? Is that what you think? You'll get social security, but that ekes by. You wanna live in a trailer? The stock market is the way to amass capital. And I'm not a speculator. I just tell my guys, I have a financial advisor, and you know you have to have one. By the S&P, the Standard & Poor's, that means that buy—and just hold it. My portfolio is doing great, because Trump is, his policies appeal to the big companies. But 40% of Americans don't participate in capitalism, and a lot of them are yowling about high prices. Come on, you get 4% inflation here. Live in the real world. So you younger people, you got to get into the stock market. Don't take big risks. Go with the conservative stuff. Final thought. Okay. We got a brand new YouTube. We hope you watch that. We will be in New York City tomorrow for the No Spin News. And I thank you very much for watching us this evening.

IRAN DEAL: Perception at Home and Abroad - Bruce Jentleson Weighs In, JD Vance's Big Role & Madness in the UK

2026-06-16T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: The latest on the U.S.-Iran deal as Trump and other world leaders meet at the G7 summit to discuss the conflict in Iran.
Bill examines Vice President JD Vance stepping into a leading role on shaping the Iran deal.
Political science professor Bruce Jentleson, PhD, discusses NATO's views of President Trump and their sincerity toward the U.S.
The United Kingdom plans to ban children under 16 from using social media apps. Will the U.S. do the same? Also, a look at the country's immigration issues.
The insane amount that taxes could cut from New York Knicks players’ championship bonuses.
Final Thought: Engaging in the stock market.

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O'Reilly & Vittert on the Iran Deal and Response

2026-06-16T20:33:00Z

Bill joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to break down President Trump and the current situation with Iran.

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O'Reilly on the Media Cheering Against President Trump with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-06-16T20:30:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis and accuses many corporate media figures of actively rooting against Donald Trump’s prospective deal with Iran. He also analyzes the eternal anti-Americanism of Jane Fonda and some other Hollywood types.

O'Reilly & Mark Simone on the Left's Urban Takeover

2026-06-16T20:29:00Z

Bill joins Mark Simone and identifies the American cities now being run by leftists and communists who despise capitalism and the country’s founding principles.

California's Election Fraud Concerns

2026-06-16T16:51:00Z

Bud Cummins, Former United States Attorney, weighs in on California's election fraud accusations.

Trump Unveils Iran Peace Deal

2026-06-16T16:49:00Z

After months of tension, Trump says the U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement to reopen the strait of Hormuz and end fighting.

The Anti-Trump Media

2026-06-16T07:20:00Z

It took CNN just minutes to trash the Iran deal after President Trump’s announcement over the weekend. Reporter Nic Robertson, a foreign policy expert, immediately ran down his list as to why the “deal” was flawed.

Robertson had nothing new and no pertinent information. Same old thing; Trump’s policies are bad.

CNN will soon have new management, and like CBS, there will be a purge. Hating Trump is not good journalism. Expect resignations.

Also, like CBS, the left will jump up and down with indignation. The progressive movement is losing its stronghold on TV news, and the left doesn’t like it one bit.

The whole thing started with the Iraq War and then supersized with Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton never had a chance against the man whom the liberal media portrayed as Moses.

Yes, there is hyper-partisanship on the right, but nothing like the progressive stance of the corporate media.

The good news: it will soon be over.

Varlet

2026-06-16T02:47:00Z

[varlet] a rascal or a dishonest, deceitful person

Trump Unveils Iran Peace Deal, the Corporate Media Claims Defeat for the President, & Bud Cummins on California's Election Fraud Concerns

2026-06-15T22:00:00Z

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Talking Points Memo: After months of tension, Trump says the U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement to reopen the strait of Hormuz and end fighting.
World Leaders including President Trump gather at the G7 summit which is expected to focus on the middle east.
Bud Cummins, Former United States Attorney, weighs in on California's election fraud accusations.
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Trump Unveils Iran Peace Deal, the Corporate Media Claims Defeat for the President, & Bud Cummins on California's Election Fraud Concerns

2026-06-15T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 15th, 2026. Stand up for your country. A lot of news. And I'm a little teed off tonight. I'll tell you why. Some really bad stuff going on. And you should know about it. And we're going to name names and do what we always do here. So President Trump is in Europe. Right after that dopey world, whatever they do, smash each other, you know, at the white house, where my son demanded to go to see this. Right after that, it was his birthday yesterday, Trump's. He goes on a plane. He goes over to Europe. I mean, the guy is, talk about the energizer bunny. Okay, so now he's in Europe. And before he left, he announced a deal with Iran, which is good if it holds, and every American goes, yes, but that's not what's happening, of course. Is this a real thing? I talked to the president on his birthday early in the middle of the night, as I usually do. He says it's a real thing. Okay, he's the president. I'm a loyal citizen I'm just reporting, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

All right, so the deal which has been on and off again since February, I guess, we signed electronically. Okay, we do not have the text of the deal, which is frustrating because the mullahs say one thing, President Trump says another thing, okay. So everybody should be skeptical, not cynical. Skeptic. Alright, so the formal signing of this deal is supposed to be this coming Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. All right, we're ready to rock, okay, and by that time there will be a text of the deal, obviously, but we don't have it now, that's important. So, apparently, these are news reports, so you've got to be very skeptical of them. Strait of Hormuz will immediately reopen, U.S. Will end the blockade of Iranian ports, they'll work out some kind of verification to see that the mullahs aren't working on nuclear bombs. Those are the big three things. Now, that verification isn't going to come instantly, and I believe there's money attached to that. So if Iran allows weapons inspectors in, they're going to get some cash. But I could be wrong, because that text, again, has not been released. But I think that's what's going on here. Almost immediately after the president made his announcement, and remember, this is a terrorist state you're dealing with. We all know that. Almost immediately, within five minutes, here's what CNN said. Go.

"Let's take a whole cold, hard reality check here. It has taken 60 days, plus plus, since the ceasefire came into existence at the beginning of April to get to this point, to get a point where two out of the mediators and one of the sides can say that there is an agreement. The other side seems to be slipping in that direction."

Here's some cold reality. CNN doesn't want a deal. They hate Trump. And this guy Robertson, he's been around. But why bring that up? Yeah, the mullahs get back out. And you can say that, but come on. That's not the first thing. That's not the headline. The headline is the deal, and Nick, your job is to find out what the deal is. Not to cast aspersions on it within five minutes. Drives me nuts. Now this always happens, because the Trump haters and the Democratic Party, which are pretty much one in the same now, the last thing on earth they want is for Trump to emerge with a solid deal. That's the last thing they want. Now you can say that's un-American, I believe it is, but it's also un-Planet Earth. But it's happening. But the markets, which are smarter than Nick Robertson and CNN, they're up. This is mid-afternoon, now we're taping. So gas dropped more than 5% to $82 a barrel before the conflict with Iran was $67 a barrel. So, that's a pretty big drop coming in the right direction. The stock market added 700 points by mid-afternoon. So the markets are believing this, but they want to believe it, but bear on that side because that's your money. But in the Democratic Party, there are some vicious, the most vicious guy, I think, is this guy Seth Moulton from Massachusetts. Here's what he says. Go.

"They're much closer to a bomb than they ever were under President Obama, and Trump started this war that he's losing, and at the end of it, it doesn't sound like he's going to get even a semblance of a nuclear deal. The deal to reopen the strait, which again was open, it was always open before he started this dumb war."

He's lying, Moulton. He may be too dumb to know what the truth is. So Iran's much closer to a bomb than they were under President Obama. He forgot about a year ago when the USA and Israel went in and wiped out the main capacity to build a bomb. Apparently, he forgot about that. So didn't link it together. All right, and then we're losing the war. How can we be losing the War? In what way? We have 13 casualties, 13. And now Iran is apparently doing what President Trump wants it to do, but we're losing. I mean, and the anchor person on MS, that's where that was, it sits there. Because A, she's not smart enough to know what's going on, and B, she gets paid to hate Trump. Okay, so the Democratic Party knows that if this kicks in the way Trump wants it to, that the midterms then slide back toward the Republican Party because the Democratic Party is so nuts, they're so crazy. And Americans, independent Americans, don't want to vote for that party. Yes, independent Americans are angry. They have to pay more for gas. But if it turns out that there is verification of nukes, that commerce goes through the strait, then all of that disappears, all of the advantage. But here's an incredible mistake. So second in command in the House of Representatives is Hakeem Jeffries from New York. Listen to this. Roll the tape.

"Do you agree if Democrats take back the House, will you move to impeach President Trump?"

"We haven't ruled anything in or ruled anything out in terms of accountability. What we have said is that our focus is going to be to make life more affordable for the American people. We have to drive down the high cost of living. We have to restore the American dream, which a lot of people understandably have concluded is broken right now."

So the guy won't say whether, if the House and the Senate go Democrat, particularly the House, that the impeachment circus starts again. You think most Americans want that. The Trump haters want it, but not most Americans. Colossal mistake. So, summing up, Friday is the day. I believe J.D. Vance, the Vice President, will be on hand in Geneva to sign it. I don't know what's in it. Based on what the president said to me, he got what he wanted. And we'll obviously continue all this week telling you what we know, and that's the memo.

So as mentioned, President Trump is at the G7 summit, that is a bunch of countries, USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK- and they all get together to talk about economics, okay. That's a good thing, right? We we like that and then they invited Zelensky and Modi of India and a bunch of shakes. And apparently President Trump's going to meet with Zelensky. Okay, Russia is not there, and China's not there. Russia's not here because it's banned. China's not there because why would they be there? They work against the West. So that's what's happening. It's an interesting story. I have a good source inside those meetings. If anything new happens, you'll be the first to know it. I don't anticipate anything new, but it's gonna be interesting to get a reaction from the Europeans. Who sat this whole Iran thing out. No, no, no. We don't wanna be involved. We would rather have the terrorist state Iran have a nuke than us get involved. Crazy. Now I don't know whether Trump's gonna walk in there, you know, triumphant, or I don't know. But we're keeping a close eye on that.

All right, back home, the LA Times, a radical left newspaper, soon to go out of business, on the print side, writes a front-page story that says any accusations that the LA vote was fraudulent are unfounded. Okay, how would you know? How would the LA Times know? Did the LA Times investigate already? No. Well, we like the outcome, so if you challenge it, it's unfounded. This is how corrupt the American press is. Now, there is a case out there, just concluded June 8th. This woman pled guilty. Her name is Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong. Apparently, she went around giving money to indigents. Providing some of them with her old home address so they could vote in a fraudulent manner. Now, that's just one. Okay, that's one. And it that's not widespread, which is what this fraud stuff is all about, but it could be It could be and the Justice Department is investigating, and today, Governor Newsom said that he and his wife are under investigation. Now, my opinion is that the legislature in Sacramento, California, has stacked the deck so much in favor of the Democratic Party, it doesn't really need to cheat because it's bringing in all kinds of after-the-fact votes in sacks. It's crazy out there what they're doing under the law. But the first assistant U.S. attorney, Bill Essayli is investigating aggressively not saying much, but he's investigating aggressively adjudicates now from Little Rock, Arkansas is by the comments. Now he was a first assistant US attorney for the Central District of...I'm sorry, I don't know if it's the Southern District of Arkansas. Anyway, he was there for a while and wanted to get his point of view about these fraudulent charges. So we've been hearing it since 2020, primarily from President Trump, that the elections are rigged in the United States and California would be the poster child for that. On a validity scale, do you believe that?

"By my definition, they're definitely rigged. I don't think the president is wrong at all to suggest that they're rigged, but they're rigged by the California legislature, like you mentioned. The central problem, Bill, is that California's legalized much of the machinery that you and I remember as the old political machines used to control elections. When they did it, it was illegal. But now, California has made all the steps that they had to fight their way through to steal an election legal. Those are the things we see. We see, you know, the slowness of the count. We see how many ballots, they mail ballots out to everybody now. They let people go out and collect those ballots, and there's no limit on how many one person can go out and collect to turn in. So by the time the ballots are collected, and then the votes are separated, there's no way to determine which votes are legal or illegal, and that's by design."

Don't the local voting precincts check to see if these bundled ballots are legal?

"Yeah, but if you permit me, let's go back and let's look at the history of how the votes have been stolen historically. Sometimes they went and stuffed fake, you know, the Pendergast, the Huey Longs, the Daily Machine, they would stuff fake votes in ballots. They would destroy ballots. But that was not their main expertise. Their main expertise was targeting, doing two things, they'd buy votes. Sometimes with cash, sometimes with whiskey, sometimes with gifts, but oftentimes with patronage. They had the grants, they had the jobs, they had the government contracts, and that's how they went out and bought votes. The second main area that we know that they did, that they targeted, including a guy named Sheriff Marlon Hawkins, who wrote a book, he's from Arkansas, he wrote a book called How I Stole Elections. So that's kind of a spoiler alert. But he was very good at going out and identifying people that they could persuade to vote for his candidate, getting them to fill out an application for an absentee ballot, getting the ballot, and voting it for them. But that was a lot of work. And because of the safeguards in the system, it kept the numbers down a little bit. California has made every bit of this legal. They mail ballots out to everybody. You don't have to file an absentee ballot application. In Arkansas, even today, a person that goes out and collects absentee ballots can only collect two in any election. In California, you can collect 2,000."

It's unlimited.

"You can go to Skid Row, you can go to the welfare office, you can go to poor people who've been told that, you know, rich people hate them. You can go to people of color that have been told that they're victims of racism, and you can convince them, maybe by paying money, maybe just because they're sympathetic to your cause, to give you their ballot and let you vote it for them, or they vote it in your presence; you can carry as many...But once they're voted by the person who's registered, and there's signatures on it, there's no way for the people at the precinct to determine how that vote got voted and how it got into the envelope...mailing a ballot to every single registered voter in California, where, by the way, voter registration requirements are almost nil. So in California, your vote matters about as much as it..."

And foreign nationals can vote too, right? If they have a phony Social Security card or an address or something like that, foreign nationals could vote in California, nobody's going to hunt them down.

"According to my understanding, you don't even have to have a legitimate ID."

So anybody can vote. It's a free-fire zone. Now, what is the federal government looking at here? The Justice Department's saying, okay, we're gonna go in, we're going to look at Newsom, his wife, and all of this stuff. Because the Constitution gives the individual states the power to regulate their vote, what do you think the feds are looking at?

"Honestly, I mean, they'll probably find that there's thousands of people on the street gathering ballots, thousands, tens of thousands. Most of them are being paid by somebody. They're turning in thousands of ballots. None of that is illegal. You can be paid to do all that. You can't be paid per ballot. That's the only rule."

But you can be hired as a bundler. You can be hired.

"So they may want to track and see where that money is coming from. But again, it's funding legal activity. That's how California has intentionally made their laws. Where in Arkansas, when I was a United States attorney, we would see it. If we saw a guy walking around the streets with a hundred absentee ballots and a witness could tell us about it, we were already into a fraud, you know, voter fraud case because that's illegal in Arkansas. That would be in California, but it's not going to be illegal."

But I'm not sure at this juncture whether the federal government is gonna come up with, particularly because the party that controls the state and the media working together, have already said it's unfounded. They've already said, no, we didn't do anything wrong. No, we're just following the letter of the law here. The legislature passed it, they have the right to do it under the Constitution. I'm seeing the way in here for the Feds. Last word.

"Well, I mean, they're playing word games. They're saying the president's accusations are unfounded. They're baseless. There is no evidence of fraud because the things that normal, honest people are complaining about are legal in California. It bothers me and it bothers you and it would bother anybody that wants a legitimate outcome that they're sending out these millions of ballots that people are collecting them and gathering them however they're gathering them through gifts and payments of cash or whatever. And that there's almost no way to enforce what little law they have out there because of the way that they've made all these processes..."

Yeah, there's no way in California...

"And the Dailies did so well back in the day. It's legal now in California."

All right, Councilor, we really appreciate you helping us out. Thanks very much. If you learn anything about this specifically, let us know. We're on it, that's for sure. That's why Pratt, who was the Republican in the Democratic primary, they call it the jungle primary, that's why he got knocked out because he was winning and then all of this other stuff, because remember this internal polling said, oh, we got to get all of these votes against Pratt, which they did.

All right. Let's go over to Switzerland. Doesn't have anything to do with LA, but this was a surprise. So there was a referendum on about 9 million people in Switzerland right now. And it said that they're going to limit the population at 10...once 10 million people are living in Switzerland that they're not gonna accept anybody else, any immigrants or anything like that. A lot of people thought that was going to pass, and it didn't. It went down 55 to 45, a big plurality. Okay, now I spent some time in Switzerland. I understand what the system is over there. I think I visited every canton, instead of counties, they have cantons, and I understand that people in Switzerland, they like order. They want the same lifestyle they've had for 300 years, okay? Remember, Switzerland didn't get involved with World War II, okay, and didn't side against the Nazis or anything like that, they just wanted to keep it the same. And I think that's what's in play here. Plus, Switzerland needs migrants who are very well-educated, and that's why I think it went down, but I was surprised on that.

All right, coming back here again, the Knicks. Now there's an interesting story. So the New York Knicks win the NBA championship, okay? And they win it in San Antonio, in Texas. They beat the Spurs. That was a good thing. Because had they won in New York, there would have been a lot of violence. There was violence anyway. So overnight, after the victory on Saturday, here's the sheet: 63 people arrested; there are more than that, but that's the number we have. 10 police officers hurt. 17 year old boy shot. Four people stabbed. Buses set on fire, and just the usual out of control stuff. Doesn't just happen in New York, but it's likely to in New York. Okay, now 99% of the people celebrating were law-abiding but the 1% were out for trouble. But here's the story: None of those people are going to get anything as far as legal Interactions against them even a guy even the ones that hurt the cops. They just walk. That's what the system is in New York City and New York State. We're not gonna confine you, okay? We're just not. So they're probably all these people, 63. It's hard to get the records as fast. Well, we'll get them. They're all out on the street right now. And then when their case comes up, it'll be dismissed by Bragg, the DA. He'll just say, nah, it's too small. Nah, they burned a bus, so what? This is anarchy. Anyway, the Knicks, you know, I'm a Knicks fan, some of you know. And I was very pleased to see Jalen Brunson do what he did, 45 points. And Wemby, the big 7-foot-3 guy, has got to grow up a little bit. I mean, he was... That was not a good performance by Wemby. And Brunson, I think, is 6'2". He just outplayed him like crazy. But the criminal element always comes out, always. Not just here, it's all over the world.

Okay, now, this is an important story. We have told you this before, but I'm trying to save your life, so please listen to this Smart Life segment. You go into any bodega, any deli, any grocery store, and you see the shelves lined with sugar drinks, sodas, and energy drinks, and it's unbelievable how much sugar are in these beverages, because I look. I'm always looking for stuff to drink that has no sugar. I'm drinking now iced tea without any sugar, all right? I don't like a lot of sweetener. I don't think that does you any good. But I'm always looking. And there's a few beverages out there that are decent tasting that don't have any sugar. But a lot of it is aftertaste. A lot of it is so-so. Okay. So now there's a National Cancer Institute study, million and a half patients. This is a big study, okay? And it says that if you drink sugar-laden stuff, that your risk of liver cancer goes through the roof. Not only liver cancer, diabetes, as you get older, all of these maladies hit you. I wish I had known this 25 years ago. I was never a guzzler, but I liked the Dr. Pepper now and then, and I didn't limit that very much in my life. I should have, because that stuff not only is going to make you fat, it makes you sick. So why doesn't the government put warnings on these cans? Because the food industry is so powerful, it blocks it. I mean, cigarettes are bad, chewing tobacco is bad, sugar drinks, almost as bad. Should have a big warning label on it, doesn't. So you know.

All right, the movies. . I can't even remember last time I went to one. What did I go? I think I saw Peaky Blinders in the movies because I know some of the people in there. But it'd been months. I used to go to movies all the time. So I asked the staff to track down a couple of big movies, see how they're doing here. Masters of the Universe. It cost about 200 million to make. You'd have to make 400 million to have a return on your investment. So far, 86 million. Not good. Spielberg's movie, Disclosure Day. Okay. So this cost 300 million. I'm sorry. 115 million. It needs 300 million to break even. It's got 93. First weekend. So, ole Steve has a chance, but they're not kicking down a door to see Spielberg's Disclosure Day, even though it opened pretty big for a Spielberg film, but not as big as it should have. And that's because people, number one, it costs a lot of money to go to movies now, particularly if you're going to recline seats and if you want to buy something to eat, you're out of your mind for what they're charging you. But people are watching streaming, and they're watching all this stuff at home. Why should they go out and pay $18 to watch this? They're not doing it. Particularly younger people. Dating used to be the drive on the movies. So you're gonna go out, you're going to pay 40 bucks, easy, if you want a soda. There you go with the soda again. So it's not good for the movie industry. It's dying. It is dying. Publishing industry is too. I'm the only one, I think, nonfiction that's delivering big numbers.

All right, This Day in History, June 15th, 1849, President James K. Polk dies, 53 years old. He was sick his whole term. Now, Polk spread out the United States from sea to shining sea. That's where that came from, Polk administration. Now, when I wrote Confronting the Presidents, I sent one to President Trump, as I usually do. And he read the Polk thing. And the next time I was at the White House, he goes, what's different about the Oval Office? I'm looking around. He's got gold everywhere. Trump does. And I said, well, a lot of gold. Glad I have my sunglasses. He goes, no, look at that. Big portrait of Polk. Because Polk was a guy who increased the power of the United States immeasurably with very little conflict. Yes, it was the Mexican-American War. Through the years, we kicked their butt, and we got all the Mexican territory in the North American mainland. Then we got the Oregon Treaty with the UK, because Polk was a very good negotiator. And nobody even knows his name. But there in the Oval Office, I'm sitting there, and he's got all the big ones, Lincoln and Washington, you know, Winston Churchill's bust. And he goes, look, look what I put up. There's a picture of Polk. I was a little flattered by that. Anyway, James K. Polk, Tennessee. He died 177 years ago today. He had a rough health situation. Okay. Mail, mail's all over the place. So it's interesting, and final thought, back in a moment with that.

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Mail. Frank John Lamero, Fleetwood, New York. "What happens if the Iranians break the rules of the deal?" It depends who's president. So, military action, not going to happen if the Iranians don't live up to the treaty. A whole bunch of things that could happen. But you don't go into a treaty saying, well, if they don't do what the treaty says. You have to have a plan B, and Trump does, military.

Eric is a Concierge Member. If you'd like to be one, it will enhance your life. Go to BillOReilly.com, sign up, and you got a problem? We'll help you with that problem. Eric says, "Come on, Bill, stop pushing sensationalism." Me. "War takes time. Did anyone think this Iran war was gonna be over in a week? Crazy, Trump is not in danger of a crisis. I'm not MAGA, but he's always 10 steps ahead of everybody." Well, Eric, look, your point of view is your point of view, but it's not based on polling. Can't be. Because in polling, he is in trouble. But if this deal comes through, you'll see his polling numbers surge.

Mark Davies, Pattaya, Thailand. "I understood that America doesn't negotiate with terrorists. So if that's true, why are we negotiating with Iranian leadership?" Because it's individual terrorists we don't negotiate with. If it's a terrorist state, sometimes you have to. And it's one of those times. You just can't go in and kill every human being that's living in Iran.

Phil Acrosler, Everett, Washington. "I hear you saying that America is not supporting President Trump because of the way the conflict with Iran is unfolding. As for myself and the people I know, we are willing to pay the price of high gas and food to get rid of that terror machine." Okay, Phil, you're part of the 31% that are willing to do that. Look, my analysis is fact-based. That's what people still don't understand. No emotion involved with this. Most Americans do not like the Iran situation, but now, if it comes out the way Trump wants it to come out, that's gonna spin fast.

Pete Dembeck, Middle Island, New York. "Similar to the prescription pricing, why can't the U.S. Government demand American-based oil companies extract their oil from inside the United States borders?" Well, they do. Where do you think we're getting our oil? We extract it from our borders. We have a pipeline in Canada. The problem is, when we have the oil, and it's ready to go, some of it is sold overseas to foreign countries. That's the problem. It's very hard for a president to interfere with private commerce. Okay, so you can say, and I would, hey, you guys better knock it off and keep the oil here, or something bad might happen to you. I would do that.

Maureen. "Great column, Bill. Many people believe their rights come from the government, not from God. How sad is that?" My column, God Versus Communism. Just posted yesterday, Sunday. We hope you read it. And if you have younger people, they don't know. That's why I wrote the column. You gotta say, look, this is like a five-minute read here. And you'll learn a lot. A lot of times they don't care to learn, but what are you gonna do?

Jim Gable, Morgantown, North Carolina. "Great interview with Anthony Scaramucci. Changed my opinion of him. That is up now on our long form. Okay, We'll Do It Live. Anthony Scaramucci is up. David Carvin, Lumberton, New Jersey, just watched the Scaramucci interview. One of the most...Interviews yet with great insight into the world of politics and a great follow-up to Victor Davis Hanson. I can't wait to see what you have on next." Neither can I. The decisions sometimes are made at the last minute. But we're doing, as I said, really well with that, thanks to you. But it's free, come on, let's get out, let go.

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So here's a final thought of the day. There was a counter demonstration over the weekend, led by Jane Fonda and her group. Got no coverage. We can't even find out how many people showed up in Washington. So there was old Jane, Julia Roberts, Bette Midler, Patty Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Joy Reid makes the cut. 400 organizations that support No Kings. Did you hear about it? I mean, it's like no coverage. I couldn't believe it. The wrestling thing got way more coverage than that. So Jane, it might be time to relax, you know? I think you're 88 years old. You put in a lot of, you're friends with Ho Chi Minh, all of that. You might want to go relax a little bit. Me and you, Jane. Okay, got a very busy week. I hope you'll be with us every night. Thank you for watching the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you tomorrow.

The Knicks Train

2026-06-15T07:00:00Z

It seems everybody is involved with the Knicks winning the NBA championship. This is what is called “front running,” and Americans are excellent at it.

I knew the Fonz had jumped the shark (Happy Days cliche) when Taylor Swift showed up to cheer on the Knickerbockers. With much respect to Ms. Taylor, who showed Mamdani how capitalism really works, what the deuce was she doing giggling and hopping around in the front row? Spike Lee ordered a double cup of Pepto Bismol.

We all know President Trump zipped into Madison Square Garden to discuss an NBA franchise in Tehran with Knicks owner Jim Dolan. And Barack Obama praised the Knicks in a speech.

No word from Joe Biden, who isn’t really doing much these days other than following Jill around asking, “Who do you love most?” Jill may have replied, ‘The Knicks.’ We just don’t know.

Anyway, even many New York haters got on the Knicks train, which was absolutely something to see. Next up, the Mets!

Naaaah.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

God and Communism

2026-06-14T07:00:00Z

The other day, I bought a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book. First edition. Every Chinese citizen is required to know it, so I wanted to keep pace.

As we document in “Confronting Evil,” the dictator is the worst mass murderer in history, exterminating at least ten million of his own people beginning in 1945, not that long ago. Hitler and Stalin combined were not as bad.

There are no pictures of Adolph in Germany and few of Stalin in Russia, although Putin is trying to bring him back. However, Mao’s image is all over China. Even at the Great Wall.

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The gist of Mao’s book is that human beings have no rights; the “state” dictates how everything is run. No real voting, due process, or dissent. You do what the leadership tells you to do or are charged with “crimes against the people.” Which could be anything.

Also, you cannot have assets unless the state says you can. All private property can be seized. This, of course, is state-sanctioned theft.

The Bible condemns theft and encourages free enterprise. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells the story of three workers given money by their employer with instructions to build the gift. Two of the workers do and are praised. The third buries the money and returns no profit. He is labeled “wicked.”

The gist of the story is that God has given every person gifts, and they should be used in a positive way.

But Communists often don’t believe in God or personal gifts. Everything you have really belongs to the state, which can appropriate your skills and treasure at will.

Incredibly, this kind of totalitarian thinking is taking root in America. Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Elizabeth Warren all say they are “democratic socialists.”

Balderdash. They are communists. They believe the free market is rigged and that the government should be running the economy. DC will dictate who gets what, not the private marketplace.

The United States fought the Cold War to stop communism. Now millions of Americans, especially younger voters, want Mamdani and others to make new rules that will punish the wealthy and distribute free stuff to those not prospering, like substance abusers.

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The new communists see themselves as noble and virtuous. They are on the march. Big money is behind the movement, some of it coming from China.

Most Americans don’t see the danger. But it’s in development and may be coming to a theater near you. This column is a preview of what could happen here. Wealth tax, me too, massive media propaganda, all contribute to state dominance.

It’s the Little Red Book vs. the Bible. Eventually, Americans will have to make the call.

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Playing Politics

2026-06-14T07:00:00Z

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2026-06-12T22:00:00Z

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Jasmine Crockett Exits in Shame

2026-06-12T07:00:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

The not-so-esteemed Jasmine Crockett will be leaving the House at the end of the year. That is fabulous news for most sane people, but very dismaying to radical leftists, racial hucksters, and MS NOW. As she prepares to leave, Crockett is apparently heeding the advice of poet Dylan Thomas: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night.’

The Congresswoman decided to weigh in on a murder case in Texas and poured aviation fuel on the fire. As you probably know, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death at a high school track meet. The facts were straightforward – Anthony ended a dispute by pulling out a knife and stabbing Metcalf in the heart. The jury took three hours to render its verdict, after which Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

The jurors saw the case in black and white, but Crockett saw it in Black and White. Karmelo Anthony is Black, and Austin Metcalf was White; all she needed to know. Jasmine dismissed the murder weapon as a tiny knife and used her considerable legal skills to come up with this exculpatory excuse: ‘If a 300-pound man is beating me, on top of me and beating me down, I’m not limited to fists.’ For the record, the late Austin Metcalf weighed about 225 and, according to witnesses, gave Anthony a light shove. The lovely Ms. Crockett then insulted the grieving family. ‘Black women who have Black male children,’ she declared, ‘live in fear and agony every single day … the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way.’ Bear in mind, the Metcalfs had just lost their teenage son to a senseless act of violence and will spend a lifetime in ‘agony.’

If that wasn’t enough, on Tuesday, the Congresswoman used a House hearing to slander Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King. ‘People of color do not feel comfortable or welcomed within your party,’ Crockett told Republicans. ‘That’s why you have to parade someone who has the name Dr. King attached to them so that people can be confused.’

Here’s a short stroll down memory lane and a few of Jasmine Crockett’s disgraceful remarks.

- She mocked wheelchair-bound Greg Abbott as ‘Governor Hot Wheels.’

- She made this specious claim on CNN: ‘The people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are White supremacists.’

- Another quote: ‘This is not America, this is a terrible nightmare. Somebody slap me and wake me the f*** up because I’m ready to get on with it.’

Jasmine Crockett is exiting the House because her district was redrawn and she ran for the Senate, losing to James Talarico in the Democratic primary. Despite her name recognition and endless TV appearances, she was defeated by a candidate who believes there are six genders. And she lost handily, not by an eyelash, indicating just what Texas Dems think of her.

When considering the imminent departure of Jasmine Crockett, six famous words come to mind: ‘And nothing of value was lost.’ Or, to put it more crudely, ‘Don’t let the door hit you …’

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

Deal Or No Deal

2026-06-12T07:00:00Z

Another day, another ceasefire. Or something. Not sure. But once again, President Trump is telling the nation a “deal” with Iran will soon be signed.

Yes, we’ve heard that many times. Maybe this time it will happen. Everyone should hope so. Everyone doesn’t hope so.

Whatever evolves, the Trump haters will hate it. Demean it. Scorn it. You will hear that Iran will violate the “deal.” That it’s too soft. Too hard. It took too long. On and on.

My instincts tell me a deal will get done. The Mullahs are watching their entire country evaporate. If you think there was unrest in Iran before, now there’s a nationwide bitterness.

Few will thank President Trump if he actually pulls this off, but I will. Iran has had a free pass to sponsor terrorism and death. The president is trying to stop that.

Most so-called leaders wouldn’t even attempt it. Americans should respect the effort, no matter what happens. That would be the fair thing to do. Somebody tell the media.

Anthony Scaramucci is on “We’ll Do It LIVE!” BillOReilly.com will guide you to it.

O'Reilly & Sid on Trump's War with the Media

2026-06-11T17:58:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and explains why Donald Trump ventures into hostile media territory and talks with reporters who obviously despise him. Bill also evaluates Donald Trump's dwindling options in Iran.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Anthony Scaramucci

2026-06-11T16:00:00Z

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci lasted eleven days in that role during the first Trump administration. Bill O’Reilly talks to him about his tumultuous time in politics, his blue-collar background, his journey from finance to politics, his falling out with President Trump, and being a Republican that supported Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Killing Time with Anthony Scaramucci

2026-06-11T16:00:00Z

Bill and Anthony talk about the war against wealth.

Killing Time with Anthony Scaramucci

2026-06-11T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Okay, this is a Premium and Concierge Member, spectacular, only for you guys. But Anthony Scaramucci has an unbelievable narrative in his life. I know Anthony lives in my town on Long Island and all of that, so you should know that. One of the things that you have accomplished is that you have amassed some wealth. Okay?

SCARAMUCCI Patiently. Mm-hmm.

O'REILLY Rich people are under attack by the progressive community now. We're bad. We're bad. Okay. You delivered Newsday, the newspaper, right now I set Newsday on fire. I shoveled snow and I did everything I could in Levittown to make a buck. Okay. And now these people are demonizing me and want to take my stuff away. That enrages me, but it's a growing trend. Do you understand it?

SCARAMUCCI You know, listen, I understand or remember, I've been on both sides of it, and so I'm gonna to tell a 30 second story, which I think you'll appreciate. I'm with Donald Trump. It's May of 2016. We are in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and there are so many people there. That's was something we didn't see on the Jeb Bush campaign: people. Bill, they're all there. And I crossed the security perimeter, I went to go talk to the people, and I had an epiphany. I said, oh my God, he's talking to my dad. My dad was born in '35. He didn't get college educated. He was a hard worker. He wanted...Bill, my father paid $16,000 for the house I grew up in. Okay, probably similar to your dad or something like that. And I went back onto the campaign playing with Trump and I said, oh my God, one guy told me, you know, you think you're in New Mexico? The New New Mexico will be Mexico. That's where our factory moved. And I said to Mr. Trump as we're flying to, President Trump, but he was Mr. Trump then, as we were flying to Brentwood, California for a fundraiser, I said if you Look at my dad's wages, Bill. They're down 26 and a half percent. So in other words, if I went to the local operating engineers, my dad's 1976 wages, priced inflation adjusted are down 26% in terms of their purchasing power. And I said to, we'll call him Mr. Trump because he was Mr. Trump at the time. I said, Mr. Trump, we took a whole group of people and we made them economically desperational. They were once blue collar economically aspirational. We have to fix this. And so, when you have a pocket of the country that is not doing well, they get upset and they want to hurt the system. They want to come after the Bill O'Reilly's, the Anthony Scaramucci's, the Elon Musk's. And then there's narratives. You can go right wing populism or you can go left wing populist. If you go left-wing populism, they want to burn it down. They want burn your house down. They want take my house from me. Mamdani is talking about nonsense about taking buildings from people, which thankfully isn't constitutional. And so not saying I understand it and I'm certainly not for it, but what I would say to you as a fellow citizen of America, we have to reconnect these people back into the system. We have to come up with ideas so that somebody that grew up like me or somebody grew up like you, we grew up in blue collar neighborhoods, but we grew with hope and we grew an idea. Your dad or my dad, however tough they were, my father thought I was going to make it. Do you understand what I'm saying?

O'REILLY Sure.

SCARAMUCCI Many of those people do not think they're going to make it. And I would say this, you have savoir faire. People don't know how charitable you are, but I know how charitable you are. You do a lot of things anonymously. I know what school you went to at high school. I know some of the charities that you work on with the church, and you do it anonymously and God bless you for doing it. But what I'm saying to you, we got to get more people like that, right? Because Teddy Roosevelt, there's a great book on McKinley. McKinley was an architect of a lot of really good things, and he was building the blueprint of the middle class, and then he got shot. One of the things he wanted to do was break up the robber barons. And Teddy Roosevelt-

O'REILLY Yeah, Teddy did it.

SCARAMUCCI Teddy did, but there's a very famous story. He got Henry Ford to double the wages at the Rouge plant.

O'REILLY Right. No, Teddy was was an absolute progressive.

SCARAMUCCI So we need that, Bill. We need that type of transformative leadership.

O'REILLY That brings me to the final question. If you're going to reconnect Americans who are not doing well, some of whom have lost hope, drug addicts, whatever they may be, I can't make it no matter what. The government has to be involved with that. That's going to lead to a bigger government apparatus to set up situations, where people who aren't doing well start to rise. Last answer.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, maybe. I think it's a combination. I think it's a hybrid of corp... and there's so many great innovations now with AI and everything else. I spend time working on City Harvars. I think that's one of the largest food banks in the country. We have 1.2 million of our fellow New Yorkers that are food insecure. It's a privately funded enterprise, and it's doing great work in the community to help people get their kids fed.

O'REILLY So you you envision a part partnership between the wealthy and the government.

SCARAMUCCI See, I think if guys like you and me got together with some policymakers and economists and even some people from the left and got together like the engineers did in Apollo 13. Remember that famous scene where they're trying to get the filtration system working? And we got together, said, okay, here's the problem. The problem is right here on the table. Country's experienced it before. In the 1900s, we experienced it. That, you know, we need another GI Bill, Bill, for other people. The GI Bill was one of the most transformative things. You had Jews from East New York, whose fathers were tailors, Italians whose fathers where Masons. They came out of the Second World War and they were able to become lawyers, accountants and doctors.

O'REILLY There was a pathway that was created.

SCARAMUCCI And I'm telling you, Bill, because I love the country the way you love the country, and I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it, because this country has been everything to me and everything to my family. Let's get together, dial down the rhetorics, we stop the fist fighting, and let's put down on the table, like Apollo 13, a process to rebuild the country and to rebuild the hope and renew the aspiration in the country. And I think we can do it, but we got to get it together. We've got to get together. The last two chapters of my book are like, look guys, this is what we did and this is how we could correct it. But let me give you the bad news. It's not a two minute solution. It's a five year plan on education, a 20 year plan-

O'REILLY And you need cooperation.

SCARAMUCCI And you need cooperation. Right. And you the rancor to dial down and it's got to be a little bit less left and right and more right or wrong. And I believe in this country, and I'll say this, I know we're running out of time, but I want you to think of this because you're a historian. We have no institutional culture in the country. Hear me out. The Italians do. They go back to the Roman Empire. The French do. The UK does. This is a 250-year-old brand new country teaming with immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants. You pick the immigrants. And so there's no anchor in the county. When we lose our generational memory, we dunk ourselves. 80 years after the civil, 80 years after the Revolutionary War, we have the Great Civil War. We cannot resolve the crisis and stain of slavery without killing each other. 600,000 people die. 80 years later, we have the Great Depression. It's the precursor for the Second World War. But guess what? Now, Bill, we're 80 years out again. And so as our generational memory dies off, we lose faith in our institutions and the ideas that welded us together. But this country on three separate occasions has redeemed itself, renewed itself after reflection. And I think we can do that, and I want to be a part of that, frankly.

O'REILLY Anthony, thanks for taking the time. It was very interesting. We appreciate it very much.

SCARAMUCCI Look, I'm a huge fan of yours. I just want you to know that I'm very flattered...

O'REILLY Well, dinner's on me and you'll be a bigger fan. You can even get an appetizer.

Killing Time

2026-06-11T16:00:00Z

We'll Do It LIVE! - Anthony Scaramucci

2026-06-11T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Eleven days, what the deuce happened?

SCARAMUCCI I'm fired by President Trump.

SCARAMUCCI I was not the right guy for that job.

SCARAMUCCI I'm not a bulls— I wasn't kissing Trump's ass like these sycophants.

SCARAMUCCI I'm a Republican. I've always been a Republican.

O'REILLY I'm not calling you a sellout.

SCARAMUCCI No, no, no, I got it.

O'REILLY We have the choir. Don't upset the quiet in it.

O'REILLY You see the light.

SCARAMUCCI Okay, I mean, you're fantastic by the way, but go ahead, keep going.

O'REILLY Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another long form. We'll Do It Live. Our guest today is an interesting guy. I know him. He lives in my hometown on Long Island. His name is Anthony Scaramucci. And I've got, I usually don't do note, extended notes in interviews, but I have to do it because he's got a resume. It's all over the place, and I don't want to get it wrong. He's got a book coming out in September. All the Wrong Moves, an economic book. Anyway, he's a rich guy, so he's worth listening to. Unfortunately for Anthony, his book comes out the same day my book comes out, Confronting America. So, you know, he has got to compete with me.

SCARAMUCCI Collaborate, collaborate.

O'REILLY You know. All right, so here he is, Anthony Scaramucci. Very impressive resume, a Long Island boy. What town?

SCARAMUCCI So I was raised in Port Washington. I was born in Mineola, Nassau Hospital. I think you remember Nassau Hospital, right? And my dad was the crane operator out on West Shore Road in Port Washington. And if you remember McCormick Sand and Stone and Gotham Sand and Stone down there, there's a beautiful golf course there now. And Ken Langone, someone you and I know well, put a monument there to all of the Irish and Italian immigrants that-

O'REILLY It's still an ethic area.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, still an ethic area. So my dad was a union guy, and he was a crane operator there.

O'REILLY I didn't get over to that area until very late in life. I was a Levittown boy.

SCARAMUCCI Levittown, yeah, I remember that.

O'REILLY So you got a law degree from Harvard, that's impressive, BA in economics at Tufts. And then you start your climb in the financial world, Goldman Sachs, you start your own company, SkyBridge Capital, you become a very successful, wealthy individual. What would you attribute your success to, first of all, before we get into the politics, which I think are fascinating, but why are you successful? Why?

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, I would say in the beginning, I'd say reasonably high IQ. My mother went to the 6th grade, and she came back from the parent-teacher and said, you have some kind of Q thing, I don't know what it is. My mother was uneducated, and I went back to the school, he was a Navy vet, his name was George Kestner, he told me I had a high IQ, so I think that was number one.

O'REILLY Okay.

SCARAMUCCI Number two, there was a lot of financial anxiety in my house. Which I think you experienced, because I've read some of your books.

O'REILLY We didn't have any money.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. And so I had a paper route, a Newsday paper route early, I worked at the local Key Food, the supermarket is now North Shore Farms, because you're from the area, it's right by DiMaggio's. I worked there from age 13 to age 18, and I was a hustler.

O'REILLY You're a smart guy born with it, work hard, as many Long Islanders had to do. And then you develop an interest in finance. Obviously, we're tapings in New York City, the capital of finance in the world. You develop an interest in this, and you become successful. Were you a good stock picker? I mean, what was the basis of success?

SCARAMUCCI It's a great question, but I have to go back a second because I think you'll appreciate this. I was clueless and sheltered by my parents. I was in a blue-collar Italian family. We did certain things at certain times, and everybody in the neighborhood, Bill, were putting in sheetrock, clamming, delis, pizzerias, landscaping. That was the neighborhood I grew up in. Okay. And so John Zanetti, my guidance counselor at Shriver High School, Port Washington, went to my parents, I mean, and this is old school stuff, they were drinking espresso out of a cast iron pot one night, smoking cigarillos in the kitchen. And he told them, send your son to the private school, Tufts University, not to the state school, Binghamton.

O'REILLY Okay.

SCARAMUCCI And my father didn't have any money. And so he said, Anthony will figure it out and so forth. And then my dad did something for me, which I think you would admire. He cashed his union life insurance policy.

O'REILLY To pay your tuition.

SCARAMUCCI He gave me a $10,000 check in April of 1982, and that did change my life, because I said, oh my God, this is so important to my mom and dad.

O'REILLY That they would do this.

SCARAMUCCI That they would do this, and they had so much pressure on them financially. It really set a light bulb off in me, and I worked very hard at Tufts, and that was a piece of luck, because Tufts was right down the block from Harvard, because, you know the area, you went to Harvard. And the provost of Tufts was very close to some of the people at Harvard. I had high test scores, high grades, got into Harvard Law School, which enabled me to be even considered for a job interview at Goldman Sachs, because they typically weren't at that time hiring people.

O'REILLY Yeah, sure. You saw what the upper echelon.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, but I went to Harvard in polyester, just need you to know that. I was in-

O'REILLY Oof. That's not good.

SCARAMUCCI I was all poly. Yeah, that's not. I didn't know better. Yeah. Okay. So I had to learn those lessons.

O'REILLY Yeah. Track suits are not good at Harvard law.

SCARAMUCCI Well, it wasn't track suits, but it was definitely like a Brooklyn undertaker look, Bill.

O'REILLY Okay, how many others siblings were there?

SCARAMUCCI So I have an older brother, and I have a younger sister. My older brother got an MBA from NYU.

O'REILLY And they're all gifted.

SCARAMUCCI He's a hard worker. He's a good guy. My sister has a fashion business.

O'REILLY Okay, so then you're a prince of the city, or a wolf of Wall Street, or whatever, whatever it is. Yeah.

SCARAMUCCI Goldman wasn't like that, to be honest, but if you know the guys at Goldman or not?

O'REILLY I don't know any of these people. My whole career has been journalism. I know finance only because of trial and error, but I don't know them, and I don't hang with them. But you become very well known in the city among the big money makers.

SCARAMUCCI Well, Rudy Giuliani made my, so I'll tell you this story. So I'm at Goldman. They give me a desk and a telephone, and they want me to be in the wealth management practice. I don't know anybody. My dad wears a greenie to work. He's a crane operator.

O'REILLY You don't know any rich people. How can you be in wealth management?

SCARAMUCCI How could you be in wealth management, okay? Also, I don't hit a golf ball, and I don't swing a tennis racket.

O'REILLY Right, right.

SCARAMUCCI But I have a degree and reasonably well spoken, reasonably well read, so now what am I going to do? Well, it turns out if you go to political fundraisers, Bill, you meet a lot of wealthy influential people.

O'REILLY So you start crashing the fundraisers.

SCARAMUCCI Start crashing the fundraisers. And do you remember Joe Margiata? Yeah. Okay. So Joe Margiata controlled my father's union. And so when I signed up at the Port Washington Post Office for the selective service at age 18 and to register for the draft, I turned to my pops, I said, Dad, am I a Republican or a Democrat? What am I? I don't know what I am. No, no. You're a Republican. You know, Margiata controls this union. And so I became a registered Republican, a lifelong Republican. Rudy is running for mayor. I go to work for him. He loses. I'm young Republicans for Rudy Giuliani. This is 1989. He loses the election, he goes to Whiting case, which is not too far from here, and he's gonna run again, and I start building a relationship with him, and he is introducing me to people. And then Rudy...

O'REILLY Were you a fundraiser for him?

SCARAMUCCI I was, I was a young fundraiser. My first political check bill was 250 US dollars to Young Republicans for Rudy Giuliani.

O'REILLY So then he gets elected mayor, and you do you stay with him?

SCARAMUCCI Oh, it was the best. Oh, no, that was the best. So Rudy gets elected Mayor.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI I have like the best parking pass in New York city. I mean, I can park the car on two wheels on a fire hydrant in front of like Radio City. And you know, I meet Tony Carbonetti and meet all these different guys. There's another gentleman that I know, you know. He goes to church with my father, St. Peter's church, 5pm mass, every Saturday. And that's Ken Langone. And so my father says, you know, my son is a young Wall Street guy. Could he come meet you? And so, okay, come and meet me. I go to 399 Park, the Seagram's building. I think it's the other building. Anyway, I go upstairs to see Kenny, and he helps me with my relationship. He introduced me to Dick Grasso. I think he also...

O'REILLY Are you with Giuliani still, or what are you doing there?

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, I'm with Giuliani.

O'REILLY You're building contacts now.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. So I'm with Giuliani as a volunteer. I'm with Giuliani doing some projects for him as a fundraiser. He's going to run for mayor again. He wins the mayor's race in '93. He is going to run again in '97. I am with him, I am with his team. And now the city is open. I worked for Bob Dole because of Mayor Giuliani. And this is the weird thing about Rudy.

O'REILLY Why did you want to get into politics when you are making all this money in the private sector?

SCARAMUCCI Well, because I wasn't at the time. I was getting my. I was drawing resources from the political game, and it's networking to create a clientele at Goldman Sachs. That's the way I built it.

O'REILLY So, you were melding the politics and the money. Not unusual in America.

SCARAMUCCI Not unusual in America, but also for somebody like me, with that limited upbringing, not tied to a boarding school, didn't know people in that genre, and I wasn't a country club member.

O'REILLY Alright, so let's then go into politics. So you get a profile in New York, and then you get involved with Barack Obama's campaign. How did that happen?

SCARAMUCCI So I'm with Dole, I work for Dole. I'm with Pataki, even though Rudy left Pataki to go to Cuomo, and I think you probably would remember that. I am with George W. Bush, but I'm not as politically active as a senior fundraiser. Barack Obama is a fellow Harvard Law School, not my classmate, I'm class of '89. He's class of 1991, he's two years behind me. But I know him. We're playing hoops in the Hemingway gym together.

O'REILLY So you knew him in school?

SCARAMUCCI Knew him in School. Not well, I'm not gonna BS you and say I knew him well, but we knew each other. And one of my buddies was working for him and said, you know, come to the university club and write him a check, help us out. And I said to myself, well, I'll never know a president, I'll ever meet a president in the United States, let me go and see him. And so I went to go see him at the university club, it was July of 2007. I handed him a check. I said, you know, we sort of knew each other in law school. I said, I want to be able to tell people that we knew each other really well. Are you okay with that? And Obama looks at me and says, hey, if you double the amount of the check, we'll take it back to Hawaii. Okay, and I ripped up the check, and I doubled it. He was a...

O'REILLY Charming guy, yeah.

SCARAMUCCI Let me tell you something, Bill. You helped him immeasurably. I'm gonna tell you how you helped him. He accepted an invitation from you to be interviewed by you during the Republican convention in 2008. And by the way, that viewership made him attractive to a very large group of independents.

O'REILLY That was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. You remember that? It was a shrewd move because he had to pull me out of Minneapolis to do it, but I had to take it. I treated Obama fairly, I mean, I'm not sure what anybody says, but I understood that he was a liberal man who believed that, unlike your background and my background, which are similar, but the... The government really helped us, because he said to me one time during an interview, a Super Bowl interview, you know, you didn't do this on your own, Bill, you had help from the government.

SCARAMUCCI Oh, that's Elizabeth Warren nonsense, yeah.

O'REILLY No, I didn't. I know government helped me do it. I mean, you might have the road out here, but I paid for that road with my tax money. So that was...

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, that's a misnomer, that bad philosophy.

O'REILLY But I never bought into his vision of how the country should be run. You apparently did.

SCARAMUCCI Okay. So this is, again, doesn't reflect well on me, but we're having a very honest interview. I wrote checks to the following people: Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton in 2000, and Barack Obama. I was a lifelong Republican, but like Donald Trump writing checks to Kamala Harris or to Chuck Schumer, I lived in New York. It's a democratic city.

O'REILLY Okay, we know what you're doing.

SCARAMUCCI I've got clients that are saying, hey, you got to write this check or write that check. So the buy-in was not there, Bill, but the check was there to fulfill an obligation to the client.

O'REILLY And this is a Democratic town.

SCARAMUCCI And it's a Democratic Town. And so that's the political reality of it. My fundamental philosophy, if you're asking me about it, is more grounded on the side of the Republicans. I'm probably more socially libertarian than the average Republican.

O'REILLY Yeah, because your buddy Ken Langone, the founder of Home Depot, who helped you a lot, he's a self-made guy. I didn't want to hear any of this.

SCARAMUCCI It's a phenomenal book. I love capitalism. Kenny wrote a phenomenal book.

O'REILLY He doesn't want to hear any of this, right?

SCARAMUCCI So I'm a Republican. I've always been a Republican.

O'REILLY which you kind of sold out a little bit.

SCARAMUCCI Tell me how I did that.

O'REILLY Well, by giving money...

SCARAMUCCI I probably did, but tell me how I did it.

O'REILLY Given money to the opposition, but it was going to help you achieve what you wanted to do.

SCARAMUCCI Okay. So if you-

O'REILLY Is that a fair statement?

SCARAMUCCI I think so.

O'REILLY I'm not calling you a sellout.

SCARAMUCCI No, no, no. I got it. No. I think you're being fair in the way you're measuring it. I would just say if you were a business executive in New York-

O'REILLY Which I never would have been.

SCARAMUCCI Right? Which includes Donald Trump because he-

O'REILLY No, he's there.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. He talked about it with me. You know, he wrote checks to Kamala Harris.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI He wrote to the Senate. A lot of American businessmen that are Republicans have written checks to Democrats in this-

O'REILLY You bet.

SCARAMUCCI If that's a sellout by definition, then I am one, but that's practicality in some ways.

O'REILLY My standards are pretty up there. I never gave a dime to any politician, not even George Santos. All right. I never gave a dime to anybody because my job is to watch them, not support them in financial matters. All right, you're with Obama, all right, but then you see the light.

SCARAMUCCI Now, okay, I mean, you're fantastic by the way, but go ahead. Keep going.

O'REILLY All right, and you're not with Obama.

SCARAMUCCI I'm not really with Obama.

O'REILLY You switch over to Romney.

SCARAMUCCI I gave Obama money, but I'm a lifelong Republican. I didn't know McCain.

O'REILLY Tell me about the switch, though. So you're with Obama. Obama wins, he beats McCain, and then all of a sudden Anthony Scaramucci, who has now a reputation- you're not some anonymous guy anymore- he goes, I'm going to go and support Romney against Obama. Why?

SCARAMUCCI Well, listen, first of all, I'm a lifelong Republican. Secondarily, there was one thing that Obama did that I said, wow, if we go in this direction, it'll be very bad for the country. There was a bankruptcy. General Motors had a bankruptcy. There was a restructuring that included the American government, and the government took equity in the company. Don't have a problem with that, but they jilted the bondholders of a portion of what they were obligated to. And that could have been a huge lawsuit, and maybe those bondholders would have won against the government. They didn't sue, of course. But it was a... You didn't like it. It was a taking. You know the Constitution, and the most important sacred thing for our economy is our property rights.

O'REILLY So now you're over back in the Republican side with Romney, who gets waxed, and it was largely his fault he lost, and then '16 rolls around. How well do you know Trump?

SCARAMUCCI Well, I don't think anybody super well knows him. You know him better than most anybody that I know. I would say that I have a relationship with him. I'm invited. I'm at CNBC as a contributor. He builds The Apprentice. I get invited to those parties.

O'REILLY But you know him, hi Anthony, hi Donald.

SCARAMUCCI Well, I'll tell you, we did three fundraisers in his triplex apartment for Mitt Romney in 2012.

O'REILLY So you conversed with him.

SCARAMUCCI I went to a Yankee game with him in Regis Philbin one night at House of I'm Better's box. Got it. Yeah. I have a relationship with him, I wouldn't call us friends.

O'REILLY But you support Jeb Bush over Trump when Trump makes the run in '16. Why?

SCARAMUCCI Okay, great quick story. I get invited to breakfast at Trump Tower the day after The Apprentice. And so I'm already with Bush. And you've been in that office, so Trump's desk is here. I'm sitting here looking up at him. And he says to me, I was great on The Apprentice last night. And I'm like, well, I was watching Bill O'Reilly last night, I wasn't watching The Apprentice. And he's, oh, you were the only one. My ratings were fantastic, blah, blah. You know how he talks over this. And then he says, but I'm done. It's my last show, I'm running for president, and I looked at him in the same way we're talking, I laughed at him. I said, you're not running for President.

O'REILLY That's what I said to him.

SCARAMUCCI You're just doing this for publicity. And by the way, that night on your show, because I watched your show every night, he was at 2% in the polls. You were showing the polls, and I said, you're at 2% in the polls. And then he said something that I will never forget, Bill. He looked at me, he said, you know, I am at 2 percent in the polls, guys like you and O'Reilly, you think I'm not running. But I'm serious. I'm going to go right to the top of the polls, and I'm gonna win. And he goes, you're good on TV, and you're a New Yorker. You should come work for me. I don't need a lot of money from you.

O'REILLY So he recruited you.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, he recruited me. And I said to him, I said, Mr. Trump, I'm with the Bushes. I'm Jeb. Don't you think Jeb has low energy? It's how he talks, right? I said no, I don't think so. Turned out he did. And then he said, okay, tell you what, if he comes out of the race, I want you to come work with me. And I leaned over. I shook his hand. And I think you remember his assistant, Rona. He came out of the race. I think Bush lost the South Carolina primary, if I remember correctly. Trump called me. I had Romney's deck of all the donors with me.

O'REILLY Ah, yeah.

SCARAMUCCI Okay. And I went to Trump Tower with Scott Brown. You remember Scott Brown?

O'REILLY Sure. The Massachusetts guy.

SCARAMUCCI And he was senator from Massachusetts. So Scott and I were at Tufts together. So I arrived at Trump Tower with my Romney deck, and Scott Brown and I said, Mr. Trump, this is what we can do. Here's what we could do. Here's the reach that we have. I'll start calling these people. He wanted me to be finance chair, but I was working at Fox News at the time as the host of Wall Street Week. So I don't know if you remember that show. It was on Fox Business. I bought the show from the Rukeyser family. I went to Roger Ailes with the show. And I said, you know, I would like to be the interviewer to all of these business people. We put it on Friday nights at eight o'clock, and then we ran reruns on the weekend, and Roger took the show from me. And I said, Mr. Trump, if I do that, I won't be able to host the show. I wanted to stay hosting the show, so we recruited Steven Mnuchin. I was on the finance committee, and then I went to work for Mr. Trump. I raised him a lot of money. I provided...

O'REILLY And he didn't hold it against you that you were a Jeb supporter or anything.

SCARAMUCCI Again, I want to be fair here. In fairness to him, he respected the loyalty to Jeb. He knew he was coming into the race late. And he was like, when he's out of the race, I want you to come over to work for me. And I did. I shook his hand, and I went and did that.

O'REILLY So then he wins.

SCARAMUCCI He wins, yeah. Surprisingly.

O'REILLY You were shocked?

SCARAMUCCI I think he was, too. You know, I'll tell you.

O'REILLY Were you surprised?

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, 6 p.m. I can tell you exactly where I was, sir, 6 p.m., November the 8th. 24th floor, Trump Tower. I was standing outside his office in the portico there, and he looked at me. So what are you doing tomorrow? So what do you mean? I'm doing he told me he was going to play golf. He thought for sure he was losing, and I looked at him. I said, well, okay, if you're going to play golf, I'm going back to work. And by three o'clock in the morning Wednesday, you know, he was the president-elect of the United States, and he was giving speeches...

O'REILLY I was shocked, and I wrote about that in Confronting the Presidents and also in the United States of Trump because Hillary had set up this big Jacob Javits thing that she was kind of a big blowout there.

SCARAMUCCI By the way, she was so shocked. She didn't make a concession speech that night.

O'REILLY I know.

SCARAMUCCI I remember that. Oh, she waited. She waited till the next day. But you know what, sir? We didn't sleep that night. I was with Trump at 11 a.m. in his office.

O'REILLY He never sleeps.

SCARAMUCCI The next day, but none of us did that night, and we were all standing there, and you know, he got double the Secret Service detail. It was a very exciting period of time

O'REILLY Okay, so a couple of months later, he's inaugurated, and you're down in DC, and you get appointed Office of Public Liaison, I don't know what that is. What is that? What do you do?

SCARAMUCCI So the OPL job is effectively like, you're like a mini commerce secretary inside the White House. And what Trump wanted me to do is be his chief networking officer. He saw me as having good networking skills, and it's public and private. So you're helping the president liaison to governmental officials, and you're helping him liaison to CEOs.

O'REILLY Then you get appointed White House communications...

SCARAMUCCI Okay, so I'm not- so, to be clear, I don't get the job. So Priebus blocks the job.

O'REILLY The liaison job?

SCARAMUCCI Yes, I don't get it. So he puts some other person in the job. Trump calls me, I have a blue badge. Okay, that means I have access to the residence. I have access to the West Wing. And I have to lanyard the whole thing. And Trump tells me to keep the badge. I said, keep the badge? He said, he didn't give me the job? Yeah, I know, keep that badge. You've got the security clearance. Keep the badge, we're gonna find something for you. I want you to come down and work for me.

O'REILLY Okay.

SCARAMUCCI And my wife didn't want me to do it, but I did, and so I let my ego get the better of me.

O'REILLY White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci. Was your father still alive by that?

SCARAMUCCI He was, yes.

O'REILLY Must've been very proud of you.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, it was a big moment for my family. The big moment was they were invited by the president to the January 21st swearing-in as OPL director, and then Wright's previous office called them and said that they were disinvited because I wasn't getting that job. Okay, so that was a secondary moment. And that probably, again, since we're having this very open conversation, the way I was snubbed in the first job. Probably motivated me and got my pride and ego in place to take the second job, which I was unqualified for, by the way.

O'REILLY White House Communications Director.

SCARAMUCCI Yep.

O'REILLY Now that's basically somebody who keeps the trains running. You're not the White House press spokesperson.

SCARAMUCCI No.

O'REILLY Although you can appear.

SCARAMUCCI Well, I did a press conference.

O'REILLY Right, and do that, but you're communications, who wants to talk to the president, who wants to do this, who wants to do that. You're in charge. Then you're out of there in a lightning fast.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, 11 days.

O'REILLY 11 days, you're communications are acting.

SCARAMUCCI That was rough.

O'REILLY 11 days, what the deuce happened?

SCARAMUCCI Well, there were a couple of things that happened, and again, I always own the mistakes. I never blame the president or...

O'REILLY Yeah, you cursed at somebody, right?

SCARAMUCCI Well, they blamed it on that. There were other things that happened, you know, but they blamed it on a New Yorker interview that I had where I said that Steve was committing auto-fellatio in his office. It was a little more graphic than that. And you know I was funny, but anyway, you know they blamed it on that, but it was more, I was not the right guy for that job. And I told the president that. So you've been there.

O'REILLY You weren't right because you're not diplomatic enough?

SCARAMUCCI No, I wasn't right because I didn't understand Washington culture. You just brought up Washington culture, the way we treat each other. I'm more of a New Yorker. I said that I was a front stabber as opposed to a back stabber. I'm a more upfront person. I was naive about the culture, if we're being brutally honest, but I also wasn't an experienced comms person. I can speak on television, I'm articulate, I'm well-trained at Harvard, but I'm not a comms person. When Trump and I were having the conversation on the 20th of July, I recommended Bill Shine, who's a friend of yours, and you know him well.

O'REILLY And he did a good job.

SCARAMUCCI He did eventually, because he got recruited after.

O'REILLY And he was a good, good communicator.

SCARAMUCCI He did a very good job. He was the right person for that job. I was the wrong person.

O'REILLY Okay. So...

SCARAMUCCI So I got fired.

O'REILLY You get fired by who? Who fired you?

SCARAMUCCI General Kelly.

O'REILLY Kelly, the chief of staff.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. I thought I made it. Okay. So here's what happened on Friday. Kushner told me, okay, if you can survive this, you're going to make it. Okay. I said, well, survive it until when? He says, until Monday. Okay, so I flew with the president to Long Island, MacArthur Airport. The president was giving a speech on MS-13 on that Friday. And I said, okay, looks like I'm gonna make it. Okay, Saturday, I was still online. Sunday. On Monday, the White House gives you that bat phone that's encrypted with all the anti-spyware, something that Pete Hegseth, I guess, didn't use and was using WhatsApp, Pete Hegseth says. But anyway, you're supposed to communicate with each other with the bat phone. I turned it on. And there was nothing coming in, Bill, and there was nothing going out. They had cut my air supply at 6 AM in the morning on that Monday, so I knew I was going to...

O'REILLY But you still had access to Trump because he was on a plane, planning on giving the speech. Did you ask him what the deuce was going on?

SCARAMUCCI He told me not to worry about it. He told me not to worry about it. He said he's a conflict avoider. I think you know that. He didn't fire me himself. He wanted me fired, but he didn't fire me.

O'REILLY You think that Trump wanted you out of there?

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, no question.

O'REILLY Why?

SCARAMUCCI I think he felt that...He told Sean Hannity that he made a mistake hiring me for that job. It was the wrong job for me. That's what he told Sean Hannity. And I believe that. I take that at face. Sean's a pretty straight-up guy.

O'REILLY Because, I mean, you're cursing at a New Yorker reporter.

SCARAMUCCI I think that was a big deal that Trump did not...

O'REILLY But he curses at everybody, Trump.

SCARAMUCCI I don't think...

O'REILLY I never thought that was a big deal.

SCARAMUCCI I don't think it was that as much as everything. You know, there was a couple of things that he wanted to do that I was uncomfortable with.

O'REILLY Like?

SCARAMUCCI Well, you know, he likes, you know, I'll give you an example. If you, if I gave you something to read, you're a very precise guy. I've watched you for 20 years, and I listened to your podcast, and I watched your O'Reilly Factor, you're a very precise guy. So I gave you something, and it was factually accurate. See, I said, gave you something and said it was 86%. And you would say 86%. You'd look in the camera, I don't think you would say 96%. I don't think you would need to. You're a fact-based guy. He does, he's not like...

O'REILLY He exaggerates.

SCARAMUCCI He exaggerates. So he wanted to say certain things, and he wanted me to say it's certain things and...

O'REILLY And you didn't want to exaggerate.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. So if you're Sean Spicer and you're getting into...this is the largest crowd that's ever been at any inauguration, and actually look at the crowd, and it's not the largest crowd.

O'REILLY But everybody knows that of him.

SCARAMUCCI Okay, but I'm not that.

O'REILLY Okay, so then you become...You go back to finance, making money, right?

SCARAMUCCI Yes, but there's a Shawshank Redemption going on. I got to go through the sewer pipe, right? Because I'm lit up by all the cable news pundits. I'm beaten pretty badly by the late-night comedians. I'm parodied on Saturday Night Live.

O'REILLY That lasted, what, three days? Not a lot.

SCARAMUCCI No, I get it. Well, you're a tough-skinned guy, so am I. So that wasn't that big of a deal.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI You know, my wife and I were fighting, you've met my wife. My wife and I were fighting with each other at the time.

O'REILLY About this?

SCARAMUCCI Yes, she doesn't like politics, and she didn't want me to do it, and she thought it was too ego-based. I missed the birth of my son, Bill.

O'REILLY Because you were doing some politics.

SCARAMUCCI My son was born on the 24th of July that Monday, and I was with the president in West Virginia at the Boy Scouts event, and there's, as you know, there's a 60-mile no-fly zone around.

O'REILLY Couldn't get out.

SCARAMUCCI Couldn't get out.

O'REILLY But your son will understand that.

SCARAMUCCI Well, yeah, listen, the whole thing has been healed. Deirdre and I are closer than ever, but there was a strain.

O'REILLY Don't worry about that.

SCARAMUCCI There was a strain going on in our marriage, let's put it that way, which thankfully we healed.

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O'REILLY All right. So, so far the narrative holds together. Makes perfect sense. Here's where it goes off the rails for me a little bit. All right, because I know you, and that's one of the reasons you're on this program, because I got you. I want to get people to tell the truth. You then become a Biden supporter.

SCARAMUCCI Not it. Well, that's unfair. That's unfair.

O'REILLY You voted for him?

SCARAMUCCI Okay, well, let's go back. I'm fired by President Trump. Right. I'm loyal to President Trump. I go on the Stephanopoulos show and say, hey, I deserve to be fired, serve at the leisure of the president. I'm loyal to the president, I'm loyal to his cause, I wanna help the president. I do a couple other shows. I'm on the Bill Maher show. You go look at the tape, Bill, cause you're a tape sort of a guy. I am defending the president on taxes, on judges, on policy. One thing comes up about the four women from the squad, and these are the African American and Hispanic women that are ultra left. They're in the Congress. The president puts out on Twitter, it's topical for that week, they should go back to the countries they originally came from. Bill Maher turns to me on the set, I'm defending Trump. He says, well, what about this tweet about these women going back to, now, three of them were born in the U.S. One naturalized from Africa. I flippantly say to him, Well, I don't like that. You know, I'm an Italian American. My grandmother used to cry about that in the 1920s when nativists told her to go back to the country she originally came from. He's the president of the United States. It's nativist. He should not talk like that. I'm going for a soda pop with Bill Maher at the end of the show. I'm backstage with me says something to me I'll never forget. He said, yeah. You're going to get lit up by Trump tomorrow on Twitter. I'm going to be lit up by Trump tomorrow? What the hell are you talking about? He said, I-No, no. You were seven for eight for Trump tonight. You got to go 13 for 10. And he's not going to like the thing you said about the nativism, and he's going to light you up tomorrow on Twitter. And I said, there is no way. And I bet him-

O'REILLY And he did.

SCARAMUCCI And then he did, and by the way, I'm a New Yorker. So if you're gonna light me up, I'm gonna light you up. I'm not a pansy like these other guys.

O'REILLY Sometimes that's not the way to play it, particularly in the short term. I'm more interested in...Look, I know, and you-

SCARAMUCCI But you want to keep going because there's a thread here. Then he starts attacking my wife. He goes after my wife on Twitter. He knows I'm having marital problems with her when I get fired, and he says ridiculous things about my wife, like he did about Ted Cruz's wife, like he did about Jeb Bush's wife. And that is a red line item for a guy like me. That is a Red Line item. By the way, Ivanka, deal with me. I never say anything about her or Don Jr. or Eric. I like them. They never say nothing about me, and they would never say anything about my wife. And I would never say anything about Mrs. Trump, the first lady, nor have you ever seen me say anything about them.

O'REILLY Not to justify anybody doing anything, but Bill Maher had it nailed, and you didn't.

SCARAMUCCI Which was what?

O'REILLY He's gonna get you. President's gonna get you.

SCARAMUCCI Yes, he was right. Yeah, you're correct. I got that wrong.

O'REILLY See, look, I've known him for 35 years. I know exactly what he's capable of doing.

SCARAMUCCI But you're critical of him.

O'REILLY I am.

SCARAMUCCI But he doesn't come after you.

O'REILLY Well, I think he understands that I cloak my criticism in the country, not him. There's a difference.

SCARAMUCCI Let me tell you something, okay? I worked for the guy. I gave the guy a million dollars on my personal dough, and you know, that's after-tax money. I gave him hundreds of hours...

O'REILLY So this was a revenge play.

SCARAMUCCI I gave him hundreds of hours...It's not even a revenge play. It's about having respect for myself and being able to go to a restaurant like Rao's or even in my neighborhood. You're coming after my wife after I asymmetrically did all of these things for you?

O'REILLY So you had to punch back?

SCARAMUCCI No question. No question, and by the way, I have five children, four sons. And let me tell you something, I want my sons to stick up for themselves. And last time I checked, we're in a free country with a First Amendment right. And these people work for us. We don't work for them. And if you're going to come after me and attack my family that I'm trying to repair, I mean, I'm on the verge of getting a divorce, Bill. And you know this. And I said something that I probably did say to him, that you break the bro code like that and you go after my wife on the presidential Twitter feed, that's a red line item for a guy like me. And by the way, you know guys like me...

O'REILLY Did he ever respond? Did the president ever respond to your argument about why you went into the Biden camp? Did he ever respond?

SCARAMUCCI Never. He's not an apologetic person.

O'REILLY Okay.

SCARAMUCCI His family did. His family did.

O'REILLY But you know what? If he were here right now, I think you guys would get along. Because he's not vindictive in the sense that he harbors...

SCARAMUCCI Always got along with him. I'm not a bullshitter, Bill. You know, you can tell.

O'REILLY No, no, no. But if you, you, me, and him went to the Knicks playoff game.

SCARAMUCCI We'd get along with each other, yeah.

O'REILLY Yeah.

SCARAMUCCI Bill, I did 71 campaign stops with him.

O'REILLY I understand that. But that's why it makes it hard for me.

SCARAMCCI You know what pissed off Priebus about him is the way I'm talking to you. I talk to Trump.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI I'm not a bulls- I wasn't kissing Trump's ass like these sycophants. I was talking to him.

O'REILLY What Biden and Harris did in the four years that they were in office was against everything you stand for, everything. Capitalism.

SCARAMUCCI The crypto stuff, in particular.

O'REILLY Traditional stuff, open border stuff.

SCARAMUCCI I was honest about all that.

O'REILLY But the criticism of Trump that you levied overrode the criticism of Biden and Harris.

SCARAMUCCI So, yes...

O'REILLY And let me tell you why it's important. Because CNN and others used you as a cudgel...

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, now you sound like Hannity, okay, yeah.

O'REILLY Right, they hit Trump.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah.

O'REILLY They used you.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. Maybe, maybe. But I, you know, I think you got to give me a little bit of a benefit of the out of my intellect that maybe I wanted to be used. It was not like they used me...

O'REILLY That's up to you.

SCARAMUCCI They use me without me being aware that they were using me.

O'REILLY No, no, no. I mean, you were a co-conspirator.

SCARAMUCCI I think I have to give you a little of a, you know, self-awareness judgment. Okay, you have to look at me that way.

O'REILLY But when I used to watch that stuff, and they do it all the time, by the way, if you are a person that gets into a beef with Trump, you're going to get booked like that. Whereas I'm the best-selling nonfiction author in the world, I can't get on the show because I might say something good about Trump and they don't want to hear that.

SCARAMUCCI I don't get booked on Fox anymore.

O'REILLY What?

SCARAMUCCI They book me all the time on Fox. They won't book me on Fox, you know, because I-

O'REILLY Because you're a critic now.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, but I can also debate, and I also can come with some facts.

O'REILLY Nobody wants that anymore. That's got, you saw it with me, you'll never see it again.

SCARAMUCCI But you say nobody wants it, but your podcast is flourishing because everybody wants it.

O'REILLY That's true.

SCARAMUCCI They don't want it on corporate media. The reason why you're doing well, you found an audience that actually wants it.

O'REILLY Right. The marching orders from corporate media is, we have the choir. Don't upset the choir, and that's why they book all of this.

SCARAMUCCI A hundred percent.

O'REILLY Okay.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah.

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O'REILLY But I know you, and I know you don't believe what Kamala Harris believes.

SCARAMUCCI It was very critical of her. I told her to her face the mistakes that they were making.

O'REILLY Like what?

SCARAMUCCI And well, the stuff on crypto was the most asinine stuff ever. You're blocking an industry from flourishing that could help transform technology. You don't have to believe in Bitcoin. You can say that's going to zero, but even Jamie Dimon would tell you that the blockchain technology is a valuable tool for creating permissionless transactions that are secure. And it would transform our economic innovation because you and I could go to a restaurant and we could bypass the three and a half percent credit card charge. There's so many different things we could do that would lead to innovation. So that's number one. The open border was ridiculous because I'm a Milton Friedman person, and I'll quote Milton Friedman here. You can't have a welfare state, which the United States does, and have an open border because free market forces dictate that people will cross the border to participate in your welfare state. So that's it, you know, to not understand that is asinine. But you see, what they did was whatever Trump was doing, and this is the problem with Trump, because he pisses people off in a way where their hair catches on fire. Whatever he was doing that was right, they did the opposite of just because Trump was doing it. You see what I mean?

O'REILLY That's an interesting point.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah. So, hey man, he's got the border tight. We hate Trump. Let's open the border.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI Okay, no American wants that. Oh, hey man, Trump is fighting the culture. You wrote a book maybe 10 years ago, 15 years ago, about the culture war.

O'REILLY Culture Warrior.

SCARAMUCCI Okay, so I bought that book in the Manhasset Barnes and Noble, and I read the book. And I said to myself, this guy, Bill O'Reilly, is a general in the culture war. He can see the battlefield that's out there. And if you go back to that book, which is 20 years old, probably by this time. You predicted a lot of things in that book that were going to happen, Bill. A lot. Let me tell you something about Trump. I told these people this. He is the General Napoleon of the culture war. Hear me out for a second. If you read Andrew Roberts' biography about Napoleon, he could see the whole battlefield, and he could anticipate where those generals were moving their troops before they even made the decision to move them. That's how he was a multi-dimensional thinker on that field. Trump does that. Trump understands the transgender thing in sports. He understands the woke culture. He gets the anti-woke culture. He understands The Bible Belt. He told me something once that I will never forget, and I'll share it with you. He said, you know, you're a Wall Street guy. I said, yes, I am. He goes, I bet you're fiscally conservative and socially liberal. And I said, I am. He goes, you what my base is? And I want you to think about this, Bill. Trump said that his base is socially conservative, but fiscally liberal, because a lot of his base are working-class people and they need the governmental help. They need the medication.

O'REILLY Yeah, they need some assistance.

SCARAMUCCI Which is why he never touches those items like Social Security or Medicare. He's not a cutter of those items because he's got very good political instincts, but it's also part of the culture.

O'REILLY Right.

SCARAMUCCI But he gets the culture, okay?

O'REILLY Last question, and then we're going to hold you over for our Premium Members just for 10 minutes. Anything you regret in your life?

SCARAMUCCI Oh my god, you don't have f***ing enough time for that.

O'REILLY Oh, just give me one. Give me one regret, because you've done an amazing amount of things, which is, you know, in this book.

SCARAMUCCI Well, that book is an economic tree. It's not a polemic on Trump.

O'REILLY No, but economics is part of your profile.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, that my...That book is an observation of my years on Wall Street, growing up in a blue-collar family, working in politics. We've made some wrong moves, bipartisan, I'm not indicting anyone.

O'REILLY No, but you, Anthony Scaramucci, anything you regret, like want to pull back?

SCARAMUCCI I have a lot of regrets. The first one is my first wife, who I was married to for 20 years. The marriage wasn't going well, and I am a conflict avoider. I'm not like that anymore at 62, but in my early 40s, if you really want to know my biggest regret, I needed to have remediated that marriage more honestly.

O'REILLY Okay, so personal stuff.

SCARAMUCCI Yeah, no question. I needed to have been fairer to her to express the-

O'REILLY That's noble.

SCARAMUCCI ...Issues, okay? I grew up, my dad was a very tough guy. He was a blue-collar guy. He was rough in the house, frankly, on all of us. And I think it led to me being a little bit of a conflict avoider because I didn't want to replicate his behavior, Bill.

O'REILLY Anything you did with your five kids you regret?

SCARAMUCCI Yes. The way I handled that divorce, okay, I have kids with Deirdre. I have three adult kids.

O'REILLY Yeah, coming out of it.

SCARAMUCCI And so the way I handled that divorce, I think, hurt my children. I don't think I handled the divorce well. It took me probably seven or eight years to repair that. I think I've done generally a good job of repairing that, and I think that comes with reflection.

O'REILLY Divorce is always rough on kids, no matter what happens. All right.

SCARAMUCCI How's that for honesty? Okay, that's actually...

O'REILLY That's why you're here, Anthony!

SCARAMUCCI That's creating forehead sweat.

O'REILLY Okay, I tell all of our guests, look, just don't lie to me, you know, Barney Frank passed away a couple of weeks ago.

SCARAMUCCI Remember that. I remember that.

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Immigration Tension

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The attempted beheading in Northern Ireland by a Sudanese immigrant signals more violence in the UK. Masked crowds in Belfast attacked the homes of migrants in a violent display.

This is the beginning of anarchy. It will not end well.

The central government in London is at fault, of course, just as the Biden administration is for opening the US border. There has to be accountability when millions of people are on the move,

England doesn’t have ICE or a robust immigration policy. It simply allows people around the world to enter unvetted.

That kind of lunacy almost always leads to death and destruction. It is not noble or compassionate. It is cowardly and irresponsible. The authorities in Belfast can see that clearly.

But don’t expect anything to be done, even though heads are rolling.

Media Bias

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Bill & Leland on President Trump's Iran Options

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Bill O'Reilly joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to discuss the escalation tension between the U.S., President Trump and Iran.

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Jejune

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[je·june] naive, simplistic, and superficial.

The Iran Crisis: Calls for Trump to Act, JD Vance Demands DOJ Fraud Investigation of Minnesota's Walz and Ellison & Where Hispanic Voters Stand With Chris Salcedo

2026-06-11T02:19:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Now, I don't have any inside information, but I believe Iran's going to get hit militarily very soon. President Trump has to re-ignite his momentum, and the mullahs are just not cooperating. And I don't think they will cooperate until the pain level gets very, very high. So, I am awaiting, as is my staff, some military action. Might not happen. The president has said before, I'm gonna get them, I'm going to get them, and has not. But remember, the American people are losing a little confidence in Donald Trump right now. And he knows it. And we got the midterms in November. So the situation, I believe, is urgent, and that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

So the Bureau of Labor Statistics put inflation today at 4.2 percent. That's high. And the last time we saw that number was March 2025, more than a year ago, President Trump had just taken office. And that's going to embolden the mullets because they're sitting there going, hey. The whole world is suffering, and that's true, because of higher prices everywhere for gas, food, and essentials. So why should we make a deal? Okay, that's why President Trump has to encourage them. Now, inside Iran, inflation is about 80%. That means people are having trouble buying food. When you can't feed your population, that's when revolutions start, and that's what the Trump administration was hoping for, that the Persian people would rise up and get rid of these fanatical moats. But that's a hope, it's not a strategy, because they don't know, we don't now, how much pain the Iranian people can and will endure. We do know that we have, along with Israel, the capacity pretty much crippled that country for a long period of time. And I believe that's going to be used. Again, could be wrong. On March 3, I said this, go.

"Certainly, if Iran goes south, the president is going to have some problems. This is a big gamble on his part. Now, if it turns out like Venezuela, he's going to be a hero, but boy, he is rolling the dice."

And I said, in addition to that, that this Iranian confrontation was the biggest gamble Donald Trump has ever taken in his entire life, because it's so complex. So many things can go wrong, and they have. Again, we're not losing, but it's a stalemate that is hurting the American people economically and people all over the world. Now the fact that the rest of the world, Europe and Asia, don't help remove the mullahs is a scandal. And it tells you all you need to know about the United States being the most noble nation on the planet. We understand the danger of the Iranian government. We understand they are killers. And now, President Trump is trying to eradicate them. Nobody's helping. It's really a scandal. I mean, really shocking. I never could have predicted that. Even Great Britain. My god. And that, again, is a victory for the mullahs. Oh, the rest of the world wouldn't want any part of this. OK. So now there's a quagmire. And President again today said it's going to be a big price militarily. Again, I don't have the sit-reps. The president gets in the morning from the Pentagon, from the CIA, from the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence. It all comes in. He sees it. What's vulnerable, what isn't in Iran, Strait of Hormuz, all that stuff. But boy, something's got to happen, and that's the memo.

In a survey by the European Council of Foreign Relations, only 11% of Europeans see the USA as an ally. Okay, it's your fault you don't see us as an ally, with a copy, with a footnote to that. But it's your fault that you guys over there are so cowardly. Now, I talked about this with Hannity on his radio program today. Sweden is one of the exceptions. Sweden was the most liberal European country, letting everybody in. And their society was wrecked by the unfettered immigration. And now they've passed the laws, and no, we don't want it. And the migrants aren't getting the entitlements in the Swedish government. Stockholm is saying we don't want any more people in here. That's the one exception to this crazy European Union, which is just they're socialists and they're open border people. Okay. So of course, they're going to see us with a robust Homeland Security operation as an ally, plus you have President Trump, who has scorned Europe many times. And President Trump doesn't help by saying we're going to invade Greenland. We're going to do X, Y. You guys are a bunch of cowards. That does not help. Again? Let's be fair, let's be honest. So 11% of Europeans are on our side. The number in November 2024, when Biden lost, was 22%. It's spiraled down 50%. President Trump is not going to make amends to Europe. He's not. He sees it clearly. He sees how weak they are. He's not gonna make amends. Do we care that 11% of Europeans see us as an ally? I guess we should care a little, but they're not going to help us anyway. Let's go to Maine, talk about radical left. So this guy Graham Platner is going to be running for Senate on the Democratic ticket in November. He's an oyster man, ran an oyster business, former Marine. He's as crazy left as you can get. Yet he won the primary because nobody ran against him on the Democratic side, which is a scandal in itself. Here's a sample of Platner. Go.

"Everybody I talk to understands that this is a war that has been started because Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and he doesn't want us reading them. Everyone I talk to understands that this war has been started because Benjamin Netanyahu has been begging for it for 30 years and finally found a president who is stupid enough to do it."

"Throughout history, the only thing that's ever beat fascism is a broad-based working-class coalition. And fascism is what we are up against."

Well, Mr. Platner should know he's got a tattoo of an SS- that's the Nazis who control the concentration camps- on his chest. In addition to all kinds of other stuff, yet he's the nominee against Susan Collins, a Republican, 73 years old and not in great health. Now Maine, 1.5 million people, not until recently crazy left. But it's changed. The only state in New England that isn't crazy left now is New Hampshire. I don't know why Maine changed. It could be economics, but Platner? That's the best you can do. And the Democratic leadership, Schumer and Jeffrey, never said a word about them. It's okay. Hey, let's see that Nazi tattoo again. Can we see that again? I'm pretty scandalous.

All right, the House has voted 214 to 212 to fund ICE after four months. There's our government at work. Okay, one Republican voted against funding ICE, Kevin Kiley, California. The beef was that ICE agents are too barbaric in their doing their duty to monitor and sometimes take into custody undocumented people. That was the beef, okay? But when you really get down to it, the Democratic Party wants an open border situation. They're like the EU, they want it. And let me prove it to you. So yesterday, 26 alleged gang members from a Dominican Republic gang were arrested in Massachusetts by federal authorities, not stateys, as they call them, in the Bay State, not local cops. Okay? This is a federal operation. This is Homeland Security, which was now re-funded after four months. Well, Massachusetts doesn't want that kind of law enforcement. It's clear they don't. Healy, the governor, doesn't it. They would rather have the gang members. Running around doing whatever the gang members are doing, then police them. They don't want to do it, not because there might be some innocent people caught up in those investigations. It's like God sending a message, OK? How many times is this going to happen before you wise up, Massachusetts, and the other progressive precincts? They want an open border. They don't want to inhibit anyone from coming here. And now we see in England, actually Northern Ireland, almost a massive amount of violence in North Belfast after a man tried to behead another man, and it was caught on videotape. So the perpetrator, the guy who was arrested for trying to beheaded the other guy, It's from the Sudan. I told you about my trip to London that special is in development. We're going to run it. We'll tell you when. But England, the UK, they don't have any restraints. They don't own homeland security. They're not funding ICE agents. They don't have them. Just come on in. Let's go. Now the natives of the UK and Northern Ireland's part of that, they're getting violent. Saying they're protecting themselves, but they're not really protecting themselves. Because in Belfast, they were throwing bombs, you know, Molotov cocktails, at suspected migrants. I mean, that's not protecting yourself. That's terrorism. But you're having this now. Here it comes. It's coming in the UK. I mean, it's not complicated. It's easy to see what is happening if you pay attention.

All right. Vice President Vance is in charge of the fraud investigation that's coming out of Washington, DC. He says, Vance does, that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison should be prosecuted for fraud because they knew, the Somalis, some who were arrested in Minnesota, were perpetuating, what is it, 300 million dollar fraud? Yeah, 300 million in federal child nutrition funds. Nine billion in Medicaid-related fraud, so Vance says, hey, the governor and the attorney general knew it and allowed it, and they should be prosecuted, which they should be. But here's the problem. How many times have we all heard, well, we're going to get these guys. We're going do this. We're gonna do that. And nothing happens. So am I confident this is gonna happen? No, I'm not, but Vance is trying to make it happen.

Okay. Hispanic Americans, they were a major factor in the re-election of Donald Trump. Trump got 46% of the Hispanic American vote in 2024, as opposed to Harris got 51%. So very close, and usually Hispanic Americans historically vote Democrat. What about now? Because in order for the Republicans to keep the House and Senate, they're gonna need Hispanic votes in November. Simple. We're going to need them. So a outfit called Libre is a pullout. And the first question is, how would you rate the current state of the economy? Excellent, good 18%, fair, poor 82%. This is Hispanic registered voters. That's a whopping repudiation of what's happening in Washington. Second question, inflation has negatively impacted my quality of life yes or no? 88% yes, disagree, 12. Now remember, most Hispanic Americans are working-class people, okay? So higher prices hurt them, and they know it. And these are big numbers, big numbers. Okay. Final poll comes out of UnidosUS, and the question is, do you approve of President Trump's job performance? Approved 30%, disapproved 67%. All of that polling, everything, all of it is not good for the Republican Party right now.

Joining us now from Texas is a guy who knows the situation very well. His name is Chris Salcedo. You hear him on KSEV radio in Houston, and he has a new book out, The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino: A New American Revolution. You ought to check it out, very interesting book. Okay, so are you seeing what I'm seeing, Chris, that Hispanic Americans, hard-working, here legally. Are getting hammered and are not pleased with the current administration.

"I think I'm seeing that there are economic headwinds, sure, that every American, not just Hispanics, are dealing with because of what's going on over in Iran that you articulated earlier. High gas prices, I've been saying this on my programs, that if high gas prices remain high coming into the fall, it's gonna be a big problem for the Republicans. President Trump, as you articulated, took a calculated risk here. But I'll say something about Unidos, I'll something about Libre that you were citing. You know, their posters, their press, in the Latino community, the Spanish-speaking community, is just as liberal and left-wing as ours is. So they ask a lot of biased questions. Now, and notice the questions they didn't ask. Are you satisfied with what President Trump has been doing as far as criminal illegal aliens breaking into the country? Has the Trump administration fulfilled their promise to stop the massive criminal illegal immigration into your neighborhoods that was destroying your neighborhoods under Democrats? Notice they didn't ask that question because that goes right to not the Republicans benefit, Bill, because there's a difference between Republicans and the America first coalition in my mind because the Latino community didn't switch over to vote for Republicans they voted over to switch they switched over to Vote for President Trump because he gave them something to vote for but they're they these questions are selectively asked to avoid all the questions that got President Trump swept him and you know on his coattails the Republicans into power.".

Okay. Do you think the answers to the questions, and I picked out the simplest ones, are erroneous, are wrong? They're not legitimate answers?

"I would have a look at the samples, and I'm not familiar with the polls. I don't know exactly how they asked for the methodology. I will say that in general, I think a lot of Americans are not happy about higher gas prices. That inflation report that you brought up today, nobody is happy about that. And of course, affordability is what President Trump ran on. But still, as bad as it is today because of what's been going on with the Iranian conflict, it still doesn't even come close to as bad as it got during the Biden regime. And frankly, we didn't see those polls coming out en-mass about..."

Okay, look, I'm not defending the pollsters at all, I'm trying to gauge whether the average working Hispanic voter is going to vote for the Republican Party and Donald Trump by extension or sit it out. That's what I'm trying to assess here.

"Yeah, and I think that right now with President Trump not on the ballot, I think the Republican Party, because of their lack of productivity, is going to be facing a lot of headwinds, not just because of the economic concerns around this country, but the Save America Act, you have the intransigence of the Republicans in Congress who, and Bill, you've seen this dog and pony show for years. Oh, just give us the House, and we'll make some change. We'll give them the House, change doesn't come. Give us the House and the Senate and we'll make some change. Well, give us the House and the Senate and the presidency, we'll make some change. The current Republican Party has done nothing in the affirmative toward the America First Agenda since last June. You can't win on something if you haven't done anything in a year to advance the America First agenda that millions of Latinos voted with 77 million Americans in total, for that change. The Republican Party hasn't done that."

Wouldn't the ICE crackdown, the border shutdown, the Venezuelan situation, Cuba soon to fall, wouldn't all that come under the banner of America First?

"Oh, sure, it would. And that's all courtesy of what President Trump has exclusive control over. What he has been able to do in foreign policy, I think, will redound positively inside the Latino community. What he's done on immigration, there's no thanks to Congress. Heck, you had both political parties agreeing to defund ICE and Border Patrol for a time, you know, on the promise that it would be refunded. Eventually it got there through reconciliation. But you know, we've endured a government that is dysfunctional, and you have, I'm sorry, a Republican party that seems to be going along with, what if we had three shutdowns courtesy of the Democrats, which we were told was a cardinal sin. But I think that right now, the Republicans who are running for reelection without President Trump on the ballot, they don't have a lot to crow about because they haven't been fulfilling on their end of the bargain, the America First promises that President Trump ran and won.

All right. Texas, your state. So, Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, kind of out there pretty far. And he's gonna be going up against, what's his name, the former Attorney General, Paxton, who's very conservative. I haven't seen any polling about Hispanic American preference there, what's your thought on it?

"I have seen some non-scientific polling that puts them neck and neck here in the state of Texas. You know, some of the stats you were pointing out about a near 50% split in the Latino vote in 2024. I'd also like to point out that males went for majority, males in the Latino community went majority for the America First Coalition in the last election. And I think you're seeing a lot of them based in Texas. So a lot of them will naturally gravitate toward the most conservative attorney general in the United States, Ken Paxton, and there's a lot of parallels between Mr. Paxton and Mr. Trump. They've been attacked by the establishment, they've been vilified by the establishment wrongly so and falsely so. And Bill, you and I are both Catholics. And James Tallarico is a sacrilegious individual who does not have a value system that meets Catholicism, which a lot of Latinos are Catholics as well. Doesn't meet that anywhere near the neighborhood, meet the criteria of Catholicism, much less Christianity writ large. James Tallarico, once the campaign gets going in earnest, is going to be revealed for the left-wing extremist that he has been and continues to be."

And you don't believe that Hispanics are going to go for the progressive programs.

"I don't believe they will, because if you look at, and again, the latest data I have been, and I write about it extensively in the book, The Rise of the Liberty Loving Latino, the counties that dotted right along the Texas-Mexico border had been Democrat forever, Bill, had been Democrats. And I had guys coming on my show who were Democrats saying, we're begging and pleading the Biden regime, please, please stop this influx, this massive illegal immigration influx. And they were given the proverbial hand by the Democrats. And those counties all flipped red in the last election, and they are recovering now. And I think that it's gonna redound positively for the more right-leaning conservatives here in Texas in particular in that Senate race.".

But you think the race is neck and neck at this point.

"According to the polling, I don't trust it because the race just begun because remember it was Cornyn-Paxton..."

Yeah, sure. I mean, we don't have a lot of data or debates, but I spent some time in Starr County, Rio Grande City, boof. Pretty intense place. But I agree with you that the Hispanic American workers that I know, and I know plenty of them, because I live on Long Island and that's 80% of the workforce, they're essentially conservative thinkers. They don't like this crazy communism stuff, because that's what ruled and ruined Cuba, Venezuela, and a whole bunch of others. Hey Chris, good luck with the book. We appreciate you coming on today.

"Bill, appreciate it."

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"I was not the right guy for that job, and I told the president that. So you've been there..."

"You were right because you're not diplomatic enough?"

"No, I wasn't right because I didn't understand Washington culture. You just brought up Washington culture. The way they treat each other."

"Right.".

"I'm more of a New Yorker. I said that I was a front stabber as opposed to a backstabber. I'm an up front person. I was naive about the culture, if we're being brutally honest, but I also was an experienced, calm person."

All right, we get into the DC culture and how they call it the game, all right, and Scaramucci had no idea about the game. Trump didn't for the first four years, first term, he didn't know what the game was. They call it The Swamp and all that. But it's true. It's true, there's a whole different ethical profile in Washington. And then where you live, or I live. I mean, I'm in Manhattan right now. And the San Antonio Spurs are two buildings down from me, staying at the Ritz-Carlton. I saw Wemby get off the bus to go to lunch. But New Yorkers are totally different than DCers in a bunch of ways. And Scaramucci had no clue. None. Plus, he's a pretty emotional Italian guy, and it's a very interesting interview. We'll teach you a lot about what happens in DC behind closed doors, and what happens at Scaramucci, and why he turned against President Trump. So we will drop that for Premium and Concierge members at 12 noon on Thursday, and everybody else can see it beginning at 6. And these long-form things, I told you yesterday, are working pretty well for us. Every one of them has been, I'd say, successful, some more than others, of course. But people are learning a lot. Victor Davis Hansen is the last one today. If you want to see it, you've got to go in there today. It's on YouTube. YouTube, YouTube carries our long form. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you tomorrow.

Where Hispanic Voters Stand

2026-06-10T23:04:00Z

Chris Salcedo, radio host and author of "The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino: A New American Revolution", discusses where Hispanic Americans stand in supporting Trump and the Republican Party.

The Iran Crisis: Calls for Trump to Act

2026-06-10T23:03:00Z

Bill declares that the situation in Iran has become a quagmire, and Trump needs to act soon.

O'Reilly & Hannity on the Democrats' New Radicals

2026-06-10T23:00:00Z

Bill and Sean Hannity assess the Democratic Party’s latest crop of far-left candidates, among them Graham Platner in Maine and James Talarico in Texas. Bill also predicts the president's next high-stakes move in Iran.

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The Iran Crisis: Calls for Trump to Act, JD Vance Demands DOJ Fraud Investigation of Minnesota's Walz and Ellison & Where Hispanic Voters Stand With Chris Salcedo

2026-06-10T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill declares that the situation in Iran has become a quagmire, and Trump needs to act soon.
A closer look at Graham Platner (D), who won Maine's Democratic Senate primary.
Should Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison face charges for alleged fraud? Why JD Vance has asked the Justice Dept. to investigate.
Chris Salcedo, radio host and author of "The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino: A New American Revolution", discusses where Hispanic Americans stand in supporting Trump and the Republican Party.
Final Thought: Anthony Scaramucci is our guest tomorrow on We’ll Do It LIVE!

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The Iran Crisis: Calls for Trump to Act, JD Vance Demands DOJ Fraud Investigation of Minnesota's Walz and Ellison & Where Hispanic Voters Stand With Chris Salcedo

2026-06-10T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill declares that the situation in Iran has become a quagmire, and Trump needs to act soon.
A closer look at Graham Platner (D), who won Maine's Democratic Senate primary.
Should Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison face charges for alleged fraud? Why JD Vance has asked the Justice Dept. to investigate.
Chris Salcedo, radio host and author of "The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino: A New American Revolution", discusses where Hispanic Americans stand in supporting Trump and the Republican Party.
Final Thought: Anthony Scaramucci is our guest tomorrow on We’ll Do It LIVE!

In Case You Missed It:

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Stephen A. Smith on Trump Attending the Knicks Game

2026-06-10T15:57:00Z

Stephen A. Smith, author and TV host, joins the No Spin News to discuss his objection to the president attending the New York Knicks game and how the crowd reacted to Trump being shown.

California Vote Sparks Fraud Allegations

2026-06-10T15:55:00Z

Bill looks at the media’s claims that Trump’s allegations of fraud in the recent California vote are baseless.

California's Voting Chaos

2026-06-10T07:27:00Z

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into California’s chaotic voting procedures, and Democrats are not happy about it. In fact, Sacramento will not comply with the U.S. Attorney’s request for information.

The Constitution gives each state the power to regulate voting. That’s because James Madison and the boys did not want a powerful federal government bullying states to vote a certain way. However, the Feds have oversight to make sure states do not allow cheating.

The progressive left and its media enablers are screaming that charges of fraud in California are “baseless.” But how would they know that? There has not been an investigation.

A phony assessment of California’s voting standards is baseless. Reality is another matter.

I have no evidence of voter fraud in the Golden States. But here’s what I know.

You can register to vote on Election Day itself with little or no documentation that you are a California resident or even a citizen of this country.

Anyone can collect mail-in votes and transport them to county offices in sacks or packages.

Undocumented folks can get California driver’s licenses, then use the credential to register to vote.

The deadline to have your vote counted is a week after Election Day.

Sounds like some potential corruption could occur. Or is that statement “baseless”?

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California Vote Sparks Fraud Allegations, Stephen A. Smith on Trump Attending the Knicks Game & Tom Homan Threatens ICE Surge in NYC

2026-06-09T22:00:00Z

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California Vote Sparks Fraud Allegations, Stephen A. Smith on Trump Attending the Knicks Game & Tom Homan Threatens ICE Surge in NYC

2026-06-09T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, mid afternoon, President Trump puts out a tweet they used to call it, I don't know what they call it now, saying that because Iran attacked some of American ordinance in in the Persian Gulf, that the USA will have to military strike back. Okay, this thing has got to play out quickly. So we're watching it tomorrow. It's gotta be tonight. I mean, you can't wait on something like this. Back home, we've got a lot of angst, one of my favorite words, A-N-G-S-T. Over the California vote. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So the first Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California, Bill Assele, has announced that his office, partnering with the FBI, is going to look at the California vote, particularly the Los Angeles mayoral situation. Now, you may understand that a guy named Pratt was running second to Karen Bass, Pratt is republican, then all of a sudden surge of votes came in for the third party person who is just a socialist crazy person and everybody's going around, well what's this? Where did this come from? And it took the city of L.A. almost seven days to count the votes. Come on. You gotta be a little suspicious. No, no, not the media. They're not suspicious at all. Here was ABC World News Tonight last night. Go.

"Now with Pratt trailing, Trump making baseless claims of fraud, citing how long it's taking to count the ballots, but this is typical for California. Ballots postmarked by Election Day can arrive up to a week later and still be counted, and election workers cross-check the signatures on those mail-in ballots. It's not fast, but it's meant to prevent voter fraud."

Well, that's an interesting spin. So President Trump making baseless claims- how would that correspondent, Kayna Whitworth, know that? How would she know that charges of fraud in the California vote were, quote unquote, baseless? How? Did Karen do an investigation? Did ABC News do one? No. And it would be impossible to do it in six days anyway. But it's baseless. Don't believe it. No, couldn't happen. No, those Californians, they, they're up front. They count everybody, isn't it true? There's no voter ID anywhere. Okay? You can put. A bunch of votes in what they call a bundle, whether it be a sack or a satchel, whatever it may be. You can give that to anybody you want, and that person can walk it in to the ballot box. Come on, it's ridiculous. It's absurd. Now, each ballot is supposed to have a date. Election day, you can't go further. But who's checking that? You check in all those dates from all those bundles. No one. So it's a free-fire zone. Every thinking person knows that. Now CNN, they did the same thing. So I'm sitting there before the Nick game, watching Erin Burnett, and all across the screen is baseless, baseless, baseless. Again, this is the mantra. This is what goes out. So Trump couldn't possibly have a point, couldn't possibly be any fraud. It's baseless! CNN Investigate? No. Erin Burnett, I mean, it's really, really disheartening to see what has taken place.

Anyway, the feds are involved. Remember, according to the Constitution, the states run their votes, but there is federal oversight about fraud. So here's what the U.S. Attorney put out. Quote. "We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies. On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters' behalf. That's the bundle. Practice known as ballot harvesting with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot. For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California's voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review some voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. Citizens are voting in federal elections. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply." What does that tell you? Well, California doesn't want federal oversight. They don't want anybody looking at what they're doing. This is our system. It is corrupt. And California leads the league. Other states have imitated it. Okay, the party in power are the Democrats in California. And we're going to keep them in power by allowing anybody and everybody to vote. They found a dog that voted out in L.A. A dog. And the only reason they found it is because the dog's owner said, my dog voted, brought it in, and wanted to make a point. Okay, now here's the fault of the government. It investigates a lot of things. It investigated 2020 voter fraud allegations, never issued a report. We never get anything from them. So this time, are we gonna get a report about the California vote, gubernatorial and mayoral? Are we gonna see something? I doubt it. They make a big deal out of, we're gonna, we're gonna, and then nobody sees it. That's the Fed's fault, okay? And it is happening all the time in the liberal states. And it's not hard. If you uncover something, Justice Department, put it out there. If you don't, put it up there. Not hard. Send the FBI out. Do what you have to do. Tell the folks what you found out. That unreasonable? I don't believe it is.

Now, President Trump at the Knicks game. You may think this is not an important story, but kind of is. And I'm gonna frame it for you. I was watching the game, I was on NewsNation at nine with Leland Vittert, but from 8.30 to 9, I was watching the game, and the star spangled banner, it was beautifully sung. And President Trump was saluting the flag and the banner, the song. Not with the press reported. Press reporter, he was saluting the crowd, and the crowd booed. All right, I'm sitting in my living room. I'm hearing what everybody's hearing from the ABC transmission of the pregame show and President Trump. I hear mixed. Roll the tape.

"The twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight..."

There's a lot of applause there, right? Am I delusional? I wasn't taking mushrooms. I'm going, all right. Madison Square Garden, New York, liberal city. Mixed reception. Am I crazy? Oh no, you got heavily booed. I opened the media, and I knew it. I heavily booed. Oh, look at this angle. No, I saw it. Oh, stop it. Now, does that matter? It does not matter. It does not matter. But then the president, as he's wont to do, gets into a controversy with Stephen A. Smith, who did not think it was a good idea for the president to show up in the first place because of logistics, because so many things had to be changed. Roll tape on that.

"This president has no business showing up in New York City. I am dead serious. It is selfish. It is narcissistic. It is ridiculous that he is coming to this game."

"I think he's a nice guy. But you need a certain aptitude to run for president. You need a high IQ. I'm not sure that Stephen has that. I don't think he does, actually."

So, what would anybody expect, okay? Joining us now from New York is the aforementioned Stephen A. Smith. From what I understand, you objected to Trump coming to the game for logistical reasons. You didn't want the city walled off, you didn't want all of that. Is that true?

"That is absolutely true. It had absolutely, positively nothing to do with politics. It was the inconvenience. His arrival was going to call to the congestion in New York City. Had this been in Texas or someplace like that with multiple, with arenas where you got multiple exits, exit points, and all of that stuff. It would have been different with all the years that I've been covering the NBA, but the Garden is a mess, and it's in the heart of New York City, most importantly. The watch parties that they were having out there, the vibe, the electricity in the air, all the momentum that the New York Knicks were riding. I didn't want anything to mess with that at all. I've been a lifelong Knicks fan. I know that President Trump has been one himself. A lot of people are talking, you know, because of their political views or whatever. Oh, why the hell is he there? Why the hell he's there? Stuff like that. I'm like, shut the hell up. Leave him alone. He's a lifelong Knick fan. I saw him plenty of times at the Knicks game. A matter of fact, if you recall, Bill O'Reilly years ago, he introduced me to you. At a Knicks game. He introduced me to you. You were there with him. So he's always been at the Knicks games. I know he's a fan, but he's the president of the United States. And with him comes a whole bevy of logistical nightmares that I thought would impede upon the momentum of the New York Knicks, and in the aftermath of it all, it turns out I was absolutely right."

All right. Well, San Antonio didn't have those problems. Now, in the in defense of Trump, the watch parties had 17 arrested. One cop in the hospital. So the president may have done the city a favor because they moved the watch party out to Central Park and uh, there was one, I think, in South Manhattan or Brooklyn, but the police were overjoyed there were no watch parties around the Garden. Are you aware of that?

"I was not aware of that, but I don't care, and I'm going to tell you why I don't care. If and when the New York Knicks win the championship, there will be a celebration, there'll be a parade, there's going to be mayhem in the streets, and we know more arrests are going to come, as has always been the case, whether it's the New York Yankees, whether it's anybody that you see. The reality of the situation is that hooligans and people who don't know how to act and lawless behavior does deserve to be addressed and punished. Nobody is is acting like that can't be the case that shouldn't be the case, but it is always happening. Any time you have a festive atmosphere, people are inebriated, they're drinking, they're acting stupid, they are doing a whole bunch of things. This is not beyond the pale. I don't give a damn what celebrates. You can talk to the 86 Mets, you can talk to the Yankees during their run, you could talk about the Giants, not the Jets because they haven't won since 1969, as you well know. But the point of the Rangers in '94, the list goes on and on. There are always, anytime you've got an environment like that, those kinds of behaviors take place. That's what happens. We know that."

Yeah, here's something interesting. You weren't in any arrests last night.

"Okay. Okay."

There was no mayhem.

"Okay. Okay, that's what I'm saying."

That thesis that it's always going to happen no matter what, I don't know if that holds, but I'm more interested in this.

"Well, they didn't have it at the event last night. They didn't have it outside the garden last night, that's what I'm saying, and they lost."

Well, we know they had two events, they just weren't around the Garden.

"Yeah, but they lost. So there was nothing to celebrate. Everybody go home.".

Well, they would have been mad if they lost, wouldn't they be mad?

"No, no, no. What I'm saying to you, my point is, is that usually the mayhem takes place after wins because people are so celebratory, they're in the streets acting crazy. You know that."

But I'll go back to the police were relieved. They did not have to police a rally close to the garden. All right, now, you're inside the arena. I did not go because I couldn't sell my house in time to get the money to buy the tickets, okay? I had it up for sale for four days.

"I knew you'd say that. You're so cheap. Like you can't, like you can afford it. I mean, unbelievable. That's just being cheap, Bill."

No, no, no. See, I give my money to charity.

"You can do that too, you got so much money, you can give the charity and to the Knicks. Stop it! Just stop! That's not what you're talking to!"

I'm not going to pay $30,000 to see a Dopey basketball game, unless it was one-on-one Madonna versus, you know, no, that's not even going to go ahead like that. But there comes a point where even people of affluence, you have to make a decision, and my decision was my money could be used better elsewhere. But you're in the garden. I'm watching on ABC, and I see that the guy who sang the national anthem was lights out. He was so good. And they, they cut to Trump twice. All right. The first time was he's saluting the flag and the anthem. Of course, the press, not the commentators, commentators are good. They say, Oh, he's saluting the crowd. He wasn't saluting the crowd. Okay. And there's a mix. You can hear it. We just played it. Before you came on, it was a mix of boos and cheers, which is what I expected because I was at Yankee Stadium in September for the 9-11 event, which was much more positive for Donald Trump than this one. But anyway, it was mixed. Would that be a fair assessment?

"They booed the hell out of him, Bill. No, no, no. I was in the arena. I couldn't, I was, I was IN the arena, so I wasn't by a TV screen hearing what you were hearing from the commentators. But I'm telling you, those booed, they booed the hell out of him."

No cheers. No, no USA, no clapping?

"I'm not saying no, no, they were chanting USA particularly when singing the National Anthem before they showed them and when he was saluting, when they showed him, they showed him for a quick second once and then they showed the second time and really planted the camera on him. They booed big time. So I'm trying to sit up here and say nobody, not a single soul in the garden, cheered. But in about 50 to 1, it was loud, and they booed the living hell out of him. But you know what? But I'm here to tell you something right now. You could look, and I said this before, regardless of people's politics and all of that other stuff, I'm here to tell you right now a lot of people were ticked off about the congestion, the difficulty getting into the arena, that kind of stuff. You know, and that might've been why they booed him as much as anything else."

Could have been, but this is a liberal city, and it's an affluent crowd, a different crowd from Yankee Stadium. Now, when the president insults you, do you care?

"No. I don't, and not only that, I didn't take it as an insult. Listen, that's his default position. When you do something that irritates him, he's going to question your IQ in most situations. He's done it with a bevy of individuals, both black. I know black folks in the community, in my community, they wanna sit up there and act like it's a racist thing and what have you. I've seen them call plenty of white people low IQ. So I'm not going there. It's not necessary. I didn't take that, I didn't the way that he probably wanted me to take it. And here's the biggest reason why. I've been critical of quite a few things of Donald Trump since he's returned to the White House. He has every right to clap back at me, you understand? And if he felt insulted, I'm a big boy, I can take it! It's not gonna get me to go on the air and call him out his name and disrespect him or anything like that. I meant what I said when I called him out about this. But let's look at the nugget of information that I threw out there. You were 26 years old in 1973 when the New York Knicks were last in the finals to win a championship, Donald Trump. You were there in 1971 when Willis Reed walked out of that tunnel. You were in 1973, when Walt Clyde Frazier put on the show and sent Jerry Weston, those boys home. And you were there all of these years of misery, the misplay ups by Charles Smith, the finger roll that wasn't by Patrick Ewen. The draft capital that went awry because it wasn't maneuvered in the right proper way. There are an abundance of things that the sports fan that I know Donald Trump to be is aware of. And that mojo, and that crowd, that fervor, that passion that propelled the New York Knicks to this point. The Donald Trump that I knew before he became president would have gravitated to that, fed off of that, and would have been in the mix, absolutely, because he would have known how valuable it was. But the Donald Trump as the president should have been sensitive enough to know that you could derail that because of the inconvenience, because of the eradication of the watch party, because of momentum and the fervor that the New York Knicks were riding, that you interrupted with your presence. You didn't need to be there. That's who I was calling out. I wasn't calling out some dude in the white house. I was calling out the president that has that cashe..."

We got the point, but I'm telling you that the watch party cancellation at the Garden, which was moved, as we pointed out, had no effect on the Knicks losing at all.

"Let me ask you a question. Now, answer your audience this. You tell me. You and I have gotten to know each other over the Last few years you'll tell me one time. We've agreed with each other on sports talk? You know I don't agree with you. Don't talk to me like...".

It's demonstrable.

"You believe what you believe. I believe, I believe if the New York Knicks had that watch party and Donald Trump wasn't there, they would have won last night. I believe that."

You're living in a fantasy world.

"I believe that the man messed with their mojo. Do you believe in mojo? Do you believe in momentum?"

No.

"Do you Believe in that passion? You don't believe in that, Bill?".

No, no.

"Now you're lying."

No, no, from what I saw, Trump was asleep most of the game, so he didn't have anything to do with it.

But I'm talking about going to the game.

The Spurs outplayed them. Watch party baloney.

"Listen, listen, the Spurs outplayed them. That's no doubt about that. But when you take into account the fervor that existed prior to the games, you're a visiting team. You're walking into Madison Square Garden, and you recognize that you ain't just going up against a team, you're going up against a city that's descending its momentum down upon you. The Knicks look worse than the Spurs. They look more nervous than the Spurs, to be quite honest with you. And I thought that the momentum that the New York Knicks were riding was compromised by a man that is a Queens native, that is a lifelong New York Knicks fan, that I thought was thoughtless, and dare I use the word superstitious? Not superstitious enough to recognize you don't get in the way of that stuff. That's who I was talking about. Not republic internet, GOP and policies and all of that stuff. I'm saying yo, you're a Knick fan. You ain't supposed to make that mistake."

You could say the same thing about you. Knicks lost because you're in the building and they were scared of you. They didn't want you to criticize...

"Time out, time out. I was in the building when they won games one and two. I've been covering the series. So how are you going to say that? You're wrong about that. Once again, Bill, this is sports. Now listen, I defer to you when it comes to the politics. You need to defer to me when it comes to the sports. You ain't been right yet going up against me, Bill. I'm telling you, I was the building when they beat San Antonio on games one and two. So that argument that you just posed makes no sense. You are wrong."

You won that point in that chess point. I'll give you my rook on that chess point. But I'm telling you, it had no bearing on what was happening on the court because, all right, the Spurs are a good team and they've been underestimated by most of America because of the hype of New York City.

"No, no, no."

They're a good team.

"They won 62 games this year. They were the second best team in all of basketball.

Right, a good team.

"They walked into these NBA finals as favorites over the New York Knicks. And here's how I will prove my point. They're saying that Donald Trump ain't gonna show up for game four tomorrow night."

No, he won't.

"Knicks gonna win tomorrow night, Knicks going to win tomorrow. Knicks gonna win tomorrow, Knicks are going to go up 3-1. And when the Knicks win, what you gonna say to them, Bill? He's gone, he comes, they lose. He's going, they win. What you gonna say?"

I'm going to say the Knicks were a better team tomorrow night if they won.

"And that's you. That's you!"

Yeah, I don't believe...I wrote the book Killing the Witches. I'm not into witchcraft. I don't think that Trump walking in, did anything to affect the scoreboard. Not a big guy, finally someone woke him up.

"When you haven't won for 53 years, you hold onto anything that you can hold onto, Bill. See, that's the problem. That's the problem. You know, you had too much success, Bill. You have too much, you're flying high, you are chilling, you are approaching 80 years old and still kicking tail with your shows and everything that you're doing. You just win. So guess what? It doesn't affect you that way. You haven't suffered for 53 years the way Knick fans have suffered every little nugget.

I root for the Knicks. I root for the Knicks.

"Really don't seem like it. You don't seem... Listen, if you really, really rooted for the Knicks, you would've called Trump and told him, don't come."

I was kind of mixed on the logistic thing, but after the police debriefed me, then I went over to the, this does more good than harm because of the 17 arrests and the one cop in jail. And you're correct that these nuts will use almost anything to cause trouble. But, but, if you want to contain the loons... There are easier ways to do it than to surround the garden with watch parties. I'm a logical thinker, but when we get onto the Knicks, I had no expectation last night of either team winning. I could, and if I'm a betting man, which I'm not...

You say you root for the Knicks and you had no expectation that they were gonna win last night?"

No.

I mean, what kind of rooting for the Knicks is that?"

Whoa, wait a minute! Just because I'm pulling for a team doesn't mean I think the team's a lock to win. I mean, what am I, some bookie someplace? I knew that the big seven-foot-three guy lost game two. Okay. This is what I knew. He lost the game. All right, Wembanyama, whatever his name is.

"Wembanyama."

I'm gonna he lost it. So in my mind, I'm going, this guy has got to be ferocious tonight to regain his credibility.

"I try, I try to look out for you. I try not to call you out. I really, really do. But I'm going to call out right now and show the world how disingenuous Bill O'Reilly is as a sports fan. He says, What am I a bookie or something? What do you mean? I don't expect them to lose. When I bring up the Jets, you expect them to lose? When I break up the Giants, you expected them to lose. When I brought up the Knicks last year, you expected them to lose. When I bring up the Mets, you..."

Yeah, but it was a different circumstance.

"Time and time again, you make predictions all the time, off the air. I know the Bill O'Reilly I talk to. He thinks he might as well be a bookie, the way you call out stuff. And you've been right half the time. So the point is, suddenly you're on camera, and you don't do that."

Listen to me. I don't make these decisions based on emotion I don't think a dopey watch party is going to affect the game. I knew that the seven-foot-three guy Wemby was gonna come in ferocious, and he did, and he blew away, what's his name, the other big man for the Knicks?

"Karl-Anthony Town, Karl-Anthony Town.".

Yeah, he blew him away. And I knew that was likely to happen, which I will tell you is excellent sports analysis by me. Excellent.

"It's not bad. You have your moments, you have your moments. I'll give it you, you have moments, okay. But here's the deal, Bill, here's the deal. You know, years ago the New York Knicks are playing Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the playoffs. New York Knicks going up 2-0, and they look good, and the expectations were we're gonna finally knock off Michael Jordan. And then the press gets wind of Michael Jordan taking a trip to Atlantic City. Right, or they were up 1-0, I'm sorry. And they were taking the trip to Atlantic City. He was going down there with his dad or whatever. He wanted to get, you know, get his head right, and he went to Atlantic City to gamble and they were writing all of these stories about Michael Jordan gambling. Does he have a gambling problem and stuff like that? And what was my response? Shut the hell up. Don't tug on Superman's cape. Don't get this man aggravated. Leave him alone. He's Michael Jordan, don't do this! New York Knicks proceed to lose four straight. Four straight. Wipe them out. Came out, showed up in game four..."

And wiped them out, right.

"I'm just saying, wipe them out! I'm just saying."

Because he was angry!

"No, no, what I'm saying is in sports, there are things that happen off the court that affect your mental on the court, which ultimately affects your game. That is what I was concerned about the New York Knicks. That is why Trump shouldn't have been there, period."

Ha ha. No, I disagree, but it's a gentleman's disagreement and a fun disagreement. Hey, Stephen A, I'll catch up with you on a little political stuff on News Nation hopefully soon. We really appreciate it. I know how busy you are. You got like 18 shows. You're always on the air. You're like Jerry Lewis Telethon. You're just never off the air. It's like 36 hours of straight, you know, I'll send a donation to give you a nap. I will send a donation.

"I appreciate it. I need all the help I can get. Thanks a lot, Bill. Thanks for having me. Take it easy, man."

I appreciate it. All right. Well, that was interesting. Not of Iran status, but it was interesting. All right, half of Americans say they're worse off financially than they were a year ago. This comes from the New York Fed. I think it's true. The gas and food and people are there. What's the word? Apprehensive. Okay. That's a selling point for the Democrats in the midterms. Unless it turns around, it could turn around fast. This is a good story. So, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, who will do anything, doesn't really stand for much, she signed a law to keep ICE agents out of sensitive locations in New York State, to allow lawsuits against ICE agents, which is insane. And to stop all New York State police from cooperating. In response, the homeland security czar, Tom Homan, said this. Go.

"I told her it's safer for the community. It's safer for the officers. It's safer for the aliens to have these cooperations with the jails. She signed the legislation anyway, so I made her a promise. You're going to see more ICE agents you've ever seen in New York City, and it's coming. I just reviewed an operational plan. I'm not going to tell you exactly when it's going to happen, but it's coming."

Now, that won't be good, you know Minneapolis is small, New York is big, a lot of agitators here so I hope everybody just steps back. Hochul is Hochul. She's a progressive not because she believes in a progressive cause, she doesn't believe in anything but power, and she knows that's where the money is in the progressive precinct, so that's why this is all happening. But I believe Homan is going to flood his own with immigration enforcement around New York City. Smart life. Half Americans say that their fun in their lives has disappeared. Well, you just had fun watching me and Stephen A. I hope you did, because that was a fun interview. Now, they have a whole bunch of gobbledygook here. This is from Talkers Research. It's pretty good. I like Talkers. Okay, but they say 48% feel their life is lacking in fun, they can't do what they used to do, they don't have time, they have to work too hard, da, da, da, here's smart life analysis. If you don't have enough fun in your life, you're not planning well. So I just went to Ireland with 21 guys. We do these trips every two years. These are all my old friends, a guy I know since I'm five years old, okay? And these are good guys, we have a lot of laughs, but I had to plan the fun, okay, and plan it out in a methodical way. You're not gonna have fun. I told my son, who's, you know, a younger guy, look, you've got to get it organized if you want to do something that's fun and worthy. You can't just say on Tuesday, I want to do this on Wednesday. So I don't believe any of this if you are lacking in fun, sit down, make a list of what you'd like to do, and execute it. Smart life.

Half of Americans say they're not going to participate in any America 250 events on the 4th of July. This comes from Elon University, a poll of 1,000 U.S. Adults. Okay, you're not going to participate? I will. I'm having a little soirée because I think it's a worthy holiday and I want to get people together. That's what we call planning for fun. If you want to sit around and watch old reruns of Andy Taylor and Opie. Hey, that's okay with me. The roads will be clearer with no less traffic.

This Day in History. June 9th, 1870, unbelievable story. Chief Red Cloud, very brave guy, Lakota Sioux, Indian chief. He goes to DC to meet with President U.S. Grant at Grant's request because it was so bloody in the West, and I wrote a book on this, Killing Crazy Horse, so bloody. A grant one to stop it. So they come to a treaty, a two-year treaty, okay, and immediately the American government violates the treaty. It's like, you know, I'm sympathetic to the Native Americans here. So Joseph, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph was another very brilliant Indian leader. So Red Cloud says, okay, I tried. I went to the White House to meet with the great white father, that's what they called Grant, and he said, okay, we'll do this, and they didn't do it. So then the wars really picked up. So in 1870 was that meeting, June 9th, and then by 1874, Custer was in the Black Hills of South Dakota. And, believe me, when I say, Custer was not a benevolent man. So if they came across Indian women and children, they were gonna kill them. And that happened at Wounded Knee. In 1877, the Great Sioux War erupted, more bloodshed all over the place, and then the Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25th, 1876, that's coming up the anniversary, where Custer and his entire unit was wiped out. And that Custer Battlefield that they have out there in Montana, woo, what a good display that is. You see the whole thing unfold. So anyway, Red Cloud tried, and then he got hosed. We got mail. We got a final thought of things that we have done for Concierge Members. We'll be right back.

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O'Reilly & Mark Simone on Lefty Madness and Media Zealotry

2026-06-09T21:14:00Z

Bill joins Mark Simone and ridicules a proposal in New York State that would replace the word ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent.’ He also analyzes the NBC News interview that infuriated Donald Trump.

The Future of 60 Minutes With Bernie Goldberg

2026-06-09T17:06:00Z

Bernard Goldberg, purveyor of BernardGoldberg.com, weighs in on Scott Pelley, Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes and Trump’s dealings with the press.

TRUMP vs. the CORPORATE MEDIA

2026-06-09T17:04:00Z

President Trump walks out of NBC News' Meet The Press after a questionable inquiry by host Kristen Welker.

O'Reilly Reacts to California Election, Spencer Pratt & Trump With Leland Vittert

2026-06-09T16:15:00Z

Bill appeared on NewsNation to discuss the "suspicious" results of the Los Angeles mayoral election, involving Spencer Pratt. Bill also talks to Leland about Kristen Welker's Meet The Press questions to President Trump about alleged 2020 election fraud.

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O'Reilly on Graham Platner with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-06-09T15:18:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis and looks north to Maine, where Democrats are about to nominate scandal-ridden radical Graham Platner to run for the United States Senate. Bill laments that today's Democratic Party has gone far off the rails.

Woke Gone Wild

2026-06-09T07:37:00Z

So now the nitwits in the New York State legislature have passed a law banning the words “mom” and “dad” from state correspondence. Instead, parents are to be referred to as gestating or not.

This is yet another example of woke gone wild. It’s insulting to biology. It’s so dumb it hurts.

Can’t wait for the Happy Gestation Cards.

No Republicans in Albany supported the madness, which was passed last week. It’s strictly a progressive-Democrat play. Governor Hochul has until the end of the year to sign it. She definitely will not sign before the vote in November. If she wins, she might.

That’s because the Governor stands for nothing. Power is what she wants. And she’ll throw mom under the bus to get it.

It amazes me that the culture destroyers have gotten this far. The radical left now controls New York, California, Illinois, Washington State, and most of New England. Voters have allowed that to happen.

History will not be kind. The USA is being dismantled. It’s one crazy thing after another. Ask your dad.

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Dogmatic

2026-06-09T01:49:00Z

[dog·mat·ic] inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.

TRUMP vs. the CORPORATE MEDIA, President Trump Walks Out on Meet The Press, Scott Pelley's Firing and the Future of 60 Minutes With Bernie Goldberg

2026-06-08T22:00:00Z

HeyBillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, June 8, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: President Trump walks out of NBC News' Meet The Press after a questionable inquiry by host Kristen Welker.
Bill reports on two separate, but revealing polls, exposing media bias and the political leanings of university faculty.
Bernard Goldberg, purveyor ofBernardGoldberg.com, weighs in on Scott Pelley, Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes and Trump’s dealings with the press.
California election update: vote counting drags into day 6.
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TRUMP vs. the CORPORATE MEDIA, President Trump Walks Out on Meet The Press, Scott Pelley's Firing and the Future of 60 Minutes With Bernie Goldberg

2026-06-08T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 8th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, more President Trump controversies. What day is it? Every day I awaken, and there's another one. This one, Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, on and on, and we got Bernie Goldberg warming up in the bullpen on it. I hope you read my Sunday column. Because there are actually two wars in place here. Iran and the president's conflict with the media. He's winning the media, Donald Trump is. Iran is shaky. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So the column is entitled War Notes, it's free. Just go to BillOReilly.com, and it pops right up, and you can read it. Same thing with the Messenger of the Day, they're different, but they're free. Column lays out that ever since Donald Trump decided to get into politics in 2016, the press has been on a mission to damage him. I think that's fair to say. I don't know if anybody could successfully debate that statement. But Donald Trump continues to go into places like Meet the Press on NBC that he knows are unfriendly. I asked him about it off camera one time, and he said, look, I want my case out there. That's what I want. If I can convince people, fine, but that's not the most important thing. I want to be heard. Okay. But the downside, the risk is that you're going to get slammed and many times unfairly. So the president goes into Meet the Press on Sunday and then walks out of Meet the Press in the middle of the interview. No surprise. The moderator is a woman named Kristin Welker. Kristen comes from an exceedingly Democratic family, has given much money to that party, and she is a liberal woman. And what I mean by that is, if there is a story that reflects poorly on conservatives or Republicans or the president, Kristen is going to do the story. If there is a story that reflects poorly on Democrats, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, whoever it maybe, there's a good chance Kristen will ignore the story. It's as simple as that. Okay. So right away, Kristen Welker gets into a Trump campaign promise. No new wars. Go.

"One of your consistent campaign promises was no new wars going all the way back to 2015. Did you break that promise to the American people?"

"I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country, from having a nuclear weapon because they'd use it. They'd blow up the world, they'd blow the Middle East, they blow up Israel, they'd come here, they would blow up Europe. They're nuts, okay? They're crazy people. I deal with them and very high-strung people.".

Okay, my answer would have been: had I been president and sitting across from Ms. Welker, things change. And our intel information was that Iran was violating the Obama deal and was very, very close to accomplishing a nuclear weapon. So when I said no new wars, I meant it. But when new circumstances that are threatening come to the fore, F-O-R-E, I gotta deal with it as president. That would have been the answer that I would have given. It wouldn't have been enough from Ms. Welker. I understand that. But most people, I think, understand the danger to Iraq. They don't like the policy, but they understand the danger. Okay. Now you can ask that question about no new wars in two ways, confrontational, as Ms. Welker did, you said, you've said, or informational, as I do. There's a new war, Mr. President. What has changed now? Now he'd give the same answer, but then you could follow up with, was there one Intel report that swayed you to get involved with this conflict? Just give me one. That's informational. Not, you did it, you said it, how come you said? That's confrontational. That happens all the time across the board. All the time. Okay. Now, the second one was just foolish on the part of Kristen Welker. Foolish. Donald Trump believes that the election of 2020 was rigged. Nothing is going to change his mind, nothing. This has been going on for six years. Everyone in the country understands the president believes there was fraud. Everyone who pays attention. Why are you going back to this? Roll the tape.

"You play right into their hands with this rep. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press. You know why I got that? Because you have no credibility. We're like a third-world country. Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN your one-sided crooked networks, right? Let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time."

Okay. Would I have walked out? No. However, what's the point? You haven't had any evidence. It doesn't matter. That's what the man believes. And you can take it or leave it as the American voter. So he believes. Why are you going back on and on and on and you could ask and it'd be a foolish waste of time. Is there the same thing you asked about Iran? Is there one fact that swayed you over to a fraudulent election posture. That's information. Now, chances are you're not going to get answers to those. I understand, but your presentation as a journalist matters. And now with the California debacle, and we'll get into that, Trump's got even more. You can't count the votes after six days. A surge from some left-wing crank in Los Angeles? You mean, you know, I don't have any hard facts to say the California election, gubernatorial and mayoral in LA, were fraudulent. I don't have any facts. It looks bad. And it's looked bad for decades. And they won't fix it. Why won't they fix it? You never get that from Kristen Welker, ever. Okay, so when we're in a situation where the president is under siege by the media, and he is, all right, he's going to hit back. That's the kind of guy he is. But there are legitimate questions that have to be asked. So according to a Washington Post poll, 61% of the American people do not support the action in Iran. Now, a simple question that Welker could have asked and would have been much more responsible is, why do you think that is, Mr. President? Again, informational. 61% is a big number, why? That's not rude. That is legitimate for a journalist to do. Okay, so you get a situation where Trump has defeated the media. I mean 60 Minutes and George Stephanopoulos and the guy at ABC, Terry Moran, and they're just...Colbert. One after, the other, after the other, they're dropping. Media hates that he's winning that. Iran don't know. Could turn it around, believes he will turn it around, the president does, but it's dicy, and that's the memo.

Okay. The this is a story, and this is just again drives Trump crazy and me too. So there is a poll by Marquette Law School, decent poll, they do polling, and it says democrats are running behind republicans on most important issues. Poll got no coverage, none. Nobody mentioned it on the network level. I don't believe CNN mentioned it or MS. I think Fox might have, but I'm not sure. All right, here are the questions. Do you think the Republican party, the Democratic party would do a better job handling immigration? Democrats 27, Republicans 46, that's astounding. National defense, Democrats 27, Republicans 42. Now that has to do with Iran, doesn't really stack. Crime, Democrats 19. Republicans, 41. Taxes, Democrats, 31, Republicans, 33. The economy, Democrats 35, Republicans 32. And healthcare, Democrats 44, Republicans 24. It's a big number for the Democrats because most Americans want the government to pay for healthcare. That's what that number is. Again, no reporting on the Marquette poll, what so ever. Joining us now from North Carolina, the purveyor of bernardgoberg.com. Bernard Goldberg, there he is, in person, live, as they say. Let me set you up here. You got a very fine website. We want people to go to bernardgolberg.com. You are in the exact same position as Pelley, the 60 Minutes guy who got fired. So you wrote a book called Bias, all right? And the book said, and you're working at CBS News at the time, they're not square. CBS News, not a square operation, not fair. Okay, you didn't get fired, you got iced, Rather and the boys put you on ice. So you know the Pelley story better than anyone. If you had to go back, would you have quit like Pelley quit?

"First, let me say the reason I didn't get fired is because Michael Jordan saved me. Not that Michael Jordan, the Michael Jordan that was the president and CEO of Westinghouse, the company that owned CBS at the time. And he did an interview with a magazine and essentially said, Bernie's got onto something. Bernie's gotta point. The people who watch television news don't trust it. And Bernie had some validity in his argument. Once the CEO says that, you know what, I'm probably not going to get fired. And I didn't. The reason I didn't quit, Bill, and Bob Schiepper said, if you don't like it here, why don't you leave? And my answer is, no, no. I didn't do anything wrong. I'm talking about liberal bias at CBS. You did something wrong. If somebody's going to quit, you quit, I'm not quitting. And I stayed around for five more years and then wrote Bias. Let me read you one very, very short thing before page one in Bias, it's a quote from Stephen Brill, who was an author, who was a journalist and a lawyer. He said, when it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good. He's right. There's a journalist, if arrogance were a crime, the super max prison in Colorado would be filled with journalists."

Okay. And let me just clarify something. You wrote the assessment of CBS's editorial posture in the Wall Street Journal.

"Yes.".

That's, and then Rather and the boys iced you. I was there at the time. So I know that. Yeah, you still lost all credit credibility with them. But and then you wrote the book, Bias, after the Wall Street Journal. Now Pelley. So Pellee makes a big martyrdom play here that he's the victim and that though people who are giving him a hard time are under the sway of Trump. What did you think about that position?

"I'm gonna tell you that there are two theories about that, Bill. And I'm asking you and the people watching us now, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just telling you what the two theories are. One of them agrees with Scott Pelley. One of them says that Bari Weiss, who was brought in to run CBS News, was brought in to make sure that what goes on the air at CBS News meets Donald Trump's approval. In other words, make CBS News something like the Donald Trump TV network. Why? Because the people who bought CBS also want to buy the company that owns CNN, and they're gonna need Donald Trump's blessings. So you bring Bari Weiss in, she makes CBS News friendly to Donald Trump, and the deal could go through to buy CNN. To back that up, to back theory up, One former executive. Who you know, Bill, and I know, and who you respect and I respect, told me that, he said, normally I don't believe in conspiracies, but there's one that I might believe in, and this is it. He said, Donald Trump doesn't like 60 Minutes. He doesn't Scott Pelley, and he doesn't like Stephen Colbert. Colbert is gone, Scott Pelley is gone, and 60 Minutes has a brand new boss. So Bill, you don't have to be paranoid to think, maybe there's something to the theory that Bari Weiss was brought in to make Donald Trump happy. The other thing..."

Let me, wait. Before you get to the other thing, let me challenge that.

"But the other theory deals with challenging that. I'll do it in 10 seconds. The other theory is very simple. Bari Weiss was brought in because the people who own CBS say there's a liberal bias there and we need to get rid of it and bring the CBS News to the middle. But CBS News journalists don't think they have a liberal bias, so they despise Bari Weiss."

Okay, and that's true. But you can back up the Pelley hatred of Trump, and not just Pelley, but others. In six years that the president has held office, we can find only one positive reference, one, made by 60 Minutes, and that was a short sound clip of somebody saying, hey, the tariffs might work. In six years, that's all 60 Minutes could come up with in a positive way toward the Republican president. That's insane, I'm sorry.

"Yeah. A former executive of CBS News told me flat out, this is a quote, Scott Pelley hates Donald Trump, but he doesn't hate him for political reasons. He doesn't hate him because he's a Republican. He hates him for the same reason that half the country doesn't like Donald Trump. I'm going to read you one thing Scott Pelley said at a commencement speech at Wake Forest University last year. He said, at this moment, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack, and a quiet, insidious fear is creeping through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. We fear to speak in America. Now, he never mentioned Donald Trump by name, but you have to be in a coma not to understand that Scott Pelley was taking a shot at Donald Trump. You don't do that if you're a CBS News correspondent and specifically a 60 Minutes correspondent. He said it while he was doing that, while he at CBS on the air. You just don't do that. And I can tell you this, a former 60 Minutes executive producer agrees that you don't do that. He shouldn't have been allowed to do that."

Okay, wasn't it interesting that all the objection to Scott Pelley's conundrum came from the left? You didn't hear anybody on the right. And there are some libertarians on the right who want freedom of speech. They don't want anybody, any government agency controlling the media. Not one stuck up for Pelley. So I think these guys at 60 Minutes live in a land of their own.

"They do."

Yeah, they can trot around this world like they're noble. They're doing the people's business. But in reality, they're not. They're not telling the truth. They're giving you the whole picture.

"Listen, it's...They live in a world of their own is absolutely true. They are a part of CBS News, and they are a apart from CBS News. They're in a different building from CBS News. They are a tight-knit family that fights with each other, but they don't like outsiders telling them what to do. Jeff Fager, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, told me on the record, 60 Minutes is a feisty place, his word, feisty. And that they fight with each other all the time. Arguments are not uncommon there. And the new guy coming in, Nick Bilton, should have been aware of the culture that he was speaking to and perhaps should have been more sensitive and less sensitive to what Scott Pelley said. I told Jeff Faker I thought Scott Pelley should have been fired because he crossed a bright line. Another person who used to work at 60 Minutes told me at 60 Minutes, FU is the way they say good morning every day. It's a tough place. It's insidious. It's an enclave. It's a state within a state, and they don't like outsiders telling them what to do. And here comes Bari Weiss. Here comes Nick Bilton. They don't like it. And they have all, as you correctly said, have all their liberal friends in the media sticking up for them. Now, all that said, Bill, again, and don't shoot the messenger, all that's said, they may be onto something with Bari Weiss coming in to make Donald Trump happy. The jury is still out on that. That may be the case. And if it is, that's wrong. We don't want that. Even Donald Trump supporters shouldn't want that."

You also have the situation where Steve Croft told me on our long form that he hated working at CBS at 60 Minutes, that it was horrible, debilitating for him. Um, so again, it seems that the powers that be in that place are not just ideological, but there, they eat their own. I mean, according to Croft, this was the most miserable time of his life.

"Mike Wallace and Morley Saper, two of the great journalists of our time. Mike, I'm told, would steal Morley's stories. Steal his stories, but Morley would be getting ready to do a story, and Mike would steal it out from under him. It's in corporate America today, and I know a little about this because I know people in big-time corporate America. This kind of thing, they'd be going to HR every day. I mean... What goes on at 60 Minutes is not what goes on in modern-day corporate America. They fight. They argue. They love each other. It's a family. I made a case once that CBS News was a family, it was the Manson family, but they don't like people coming in and telling them what to do. I told you, I read you the quote about arrogance. There's an arrogance there. There's a good arrogance and a bad arrogance. They have a kind of arrogance that we know what we're doing, we're the best. Don't you tell us what to do."

I don't think it's coming back.

"Let me make one other point, Bill, about journalism in general. Journalists like to look down everybody's throat. They look down the throat of military people. They look down the throat of sports people, they look down the throat of political people. But if you look down their throat, if you looked down their throat and you examine what they're doing as you're doing right now, Bill, they don't like that at all. They like looking down your throat, but don't you dare look down their throat."

Okay, I think 60 Minutes is done. I tried to watch it last night, it was boring, which is a cardinal sin for television news. Now they have three people who left, correspondents, and three that remain. And the ones that remain are really not difference makers. Is the nation, according to Bernie Goldberg, better off that all of this bias that you wrote about, is under siege, and that Trump seems to be winning this war?

"Yeah, I don't know if I agree with you that winning this war because I don't know what winning this war means.".

Well, he's getting people fired. He's getting news organizations and entertainment organizations turned around that they won't do certain things because they fear him.

"I don't like that. I don't like any president...I wouldn't like it if Barack Obama or Joe Biden decided they don't like Sean Hannity and they had the clout to get him fired, or they didn't like Brett Baier and they wanted to get him. I don't like that, that's not what a president should do. The president should be bigger and above it all. But as far as the bias is concerned, when I wrote Bias in 2001. When I wrote this book in 2001, it was a wake-up call. It was an alarm. Pay attention. Nobody in the liberal media, nobody paid attention. And now they're paying the price."

However, if Trump didn't take them on, nothing would improve, okay? So the whole structure of bashing Republicans, conservatives, and Trump by extension would remain if Trump did not take them on.

"Gonna remain anyway, and you know it."

Oh, I don't know about that. I think there are going to be big changes at CNN and CBS within the next 18 months.

"You're right about that. And that presents a situation that is a huge consequence. What if the people who bought CBS wind up buying CNN and they have both CNN and CBS News under their control, and the people we're talking about, Bill, are friends with Donald Trump, the Ellisons, Larry, who founded Oracle, and he's one of the two or three richest people on the planet, and his son, David Ellison. If they're friends with the president of the United States, any president, but in this case, Donald Trump, and they have a big say over two major news organizations, do you, Bill O'Reilly, think that's a good idea?"

I think it's subject to scrutiny on a case-by-case basis. So you had press in the tank for JFK. Okay, you want names? I can give you names all day long. You had a press and a tank for FDR, same thing, all right? And good journalists, honest journalists, people like you have to call it out on a case- by-case that if the president or anybody else in power so as you manipulate the news coverage and the information flow to the American people, that's got to be condemned right away. However...

"That's all I'm saying."

Okay, but if there is an industry-wide jihad against conservative republicans or any president that has got to be disposed and destroyed.

"My last word, absolutely, you're right. I'm with you."

All right, Bernie Goldberg with me. That means I have to read bernargoberg.com again today. Make sure my partner here is on the right track.

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Wow, 50% off, Goldberg. Okay. We appreciate it, Bernie. Thanks for taking the time. As we mentioned, California still can't count its votes, which raises suspicion like crazy. Right now, Spencer Pratt, who was well ahead, is now falling behind. There's Nithya Raman, who is some crazy left-wing person, because of votes that nobody really knows where they came from. I guess they'll have some explanation coming forward, but nobody knows. And this is what Trump is talking about. Okay. Now, on the gubernatorial side, Becerra, the former Health and Human Services Director under Biden, is in. And now Hilton's fighting it out with Steyer. Looks to me like Steve Hilton will be on the ticket, unless there's some mysterious votes that come in or something. California is a mess. It's a mess in every play, every, every. The only thing that isn't a mess is surfing, and now the sharks are eating the surfers. So there you go. New York State, unbelievable. Passed a legislation, it says the words mother and father are not to be used in state transactions. Mother becomes Gestating parent. Father becomes non gestating parent. Here's what Maria Bartiromo said. Go.

"Oh my god, we're not supposed to say mother and father. Now we can't say mother. And I mean, that's disgusting. Okay, that is disgusting. What a mother goes through a woman goes through to have a child and to raise that child, and parents that now we have to take that away from them calling the mother and father?"

So this reflects badly on the Democratic Party, which controls New York State. Now the governor has to sign it, Kathy Hochul. She's not gonna sign it until after the election. She's up in November running against Bruce Blakeman. Blakeman never signed it, okay? So Hochul's not gonna sign this because it's so outrageous, but once she gets elected, then she'll sign it. It's my prediction.

New study says college professors are only slightly less left than Bernie Sanders. It's unbelievable, it comes from the Foundation for individual rights and Expression, fire, and they're nonpartisan, but most of their money comes from right-wing people. And they've interviewed 100,000 faculty members from 55 institutions, and they found out that their political beliefs are on par with Bernie Sanders. Nice, huh? And here are the worst. DePauw University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois, Chicago, Columbia University, Brown University, University of Oregon, University of California, Davis. University of Washington, Seattle, Yale, Dartmouth, they're the worst. Okay, so if you got a kid or a grandkid, I'd steer clear.

Smart life. 26% of Americans say they spend more than they make. So this is a recipe for disaster, obviously. This comes from the financial industry regulatory authority. So you may notice that we source all of our information that we pass along to you. Okay, we source it. Here's where it comes from. And this organization is economic. And 26% of Americans say they spend more than they earn, 38% of Americans spend less than they earn. The rest don't know what they spend. And that's why they're in dire financial trouble. So there you go. 35%, according to this poll, would not be able to come up with $2,000. If there was an emergency, they couldn't come up with two grand. Oh, okay, We'll Do It Live. So in the beginning. I didn't know where this thing was going to go or not We gave it our best shot, and our best shot seems to be working. Victor Davis Hansen is our long-form guest this week. We'll do It Live. Right. It's on youtube, and millions of people are watching it. Here's a clip.

"But overwhelmingly, as the Saturday Night Live analysis this week shows, it is almost a monolith on social media, progressives good, conservatives, traditionalists bad. How much effect does that have on individual voters, in your opinion, Doctor?"

"I think it has a lot, and it has a lot on the issues. If we had had this conversation 15 years ago, and I would say to you, in Fresno, California, the champion of most of all of the regional high school track events is a man, a biological man, and he's competing, we would have thought we were crazy. And yet, that has been normalized to the extent that if you object, you're a transphobe."

Okay, so you'll enjoy this interview. I hope you check it out. This Day in History, June 8th, 2021. Donald Trump announces he will do a history tour with me, your humble correspondent. Roll the tape.

"If Iran has a nuclear weapon, they're just as powerful as everyone else then. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, these people are crazed. They will use it. This is a religious thing. These are fanatics. You can't let it happen. And under the Iran nuclear deal, they were going toward a nuclear weapon very rapidly. It also ended in a very short period of time. I ended it, and I had them on the run. They would have signed. And now Biden has led them back into the game, and now they don't even want to talk to America."

Isn't that interesting, huh? So five years ago today could be today. Now those tours, four shows, one in Lauderdale, one in Orlando, one in Houston, one in Dallas, phenomenally successful. But a lot of the same themes were discussed with the president and myself. And that happened, the announcement five years ago today. All right, we got to go to the mail. We don't have to go there, but it's fun. And then a final thought back in a moment.

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All right, so our YouTube channel is really perking. It's free, youtube.com/BillOReilly. Got the long form, you got everything there. And we want you to sign up, be a subscriber. Again, it's free. You will enjoy it. Mail, Richard, "I say good riddance in my own opinion. Scott Pelley's no better than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Leslie Stahl. Stop watching 60 Minutes, Many Moons Ago. Pelley was part of the reason. I thought he was all too often a pretentious jerk with a heavy twist of progressive liberalism." Okay.

Tom Han, Marietta, California. "Hey, Bill, why doesn't President Trump bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age?" Because then I estimate 25,000 civilians would die, and that would ignite a holy war between Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world. A lot of unintended consequences there.

Kevin Kennedy, Spanish Fort, Alabama. "E. Jean Carroll, if her legal bill was paid by somebody else, that should be taxable income. Did she report it on her taxes? How would I know? I don't get her taxes. That's private. What I do know is the lawyers who got the seven million, and that's not in dispute, they have to declare it on their taxes. I mean, sorry, you've got to understand the system. There's a lot of privacy laws in America.

Stuart McEgon, Whittier, California. "The Hansen interview was superb. We are very fortunate to have been able to watch a long-form interview with this great American. Your impressive skills and interviewer brought out his thinking on several important issues." It's getting the best reviews of all our Do It Live segments, I think. Victor Davis Hansen, brilliant man.

Martin Yala, South Ozone Park in New York in Queens. "Mr. O, your show with Dr. Hansen was very informative. I felt like I was back at Fordham U in political science class." I think we're a little bit better than Fordham. A lot better.

Avis Engel, Medford, Oregon. "The clip of the Bidens was absolutely bizarre." Yes, it was. Got no coverage. They're not going to touch Joe and Jill. Okay, we want you to get a 250 America hat. This is kind of getting down to it. If you want them for the Fourth of July, there they are. Best hats in the world. And we'd like you to have one of them. And you can order a bunch if you want to get them out. The 4th July celebrations. BillOReilly.com store has them. Word of the Day, do not be dogmatic. Dogmatic. We'll get a final thought on the Knicks game tonight in a moment.

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All right, final thought. The New York Knicks play the San Antonio Spurs tonight. Knicks are a better team. They should, I don't know if they're going to win tonight, but President Trump will be in attendance. Now, something about a controversy, but why? Why? I used to go to Knicks games with Mr. Trump on a regular basis. In fact, he told me at a Knicks game he was gonna run for president. And me, being a wise guy, said, of what country? I never thought he'd do it. Anyway, he's gonna be there, and it's all, oh no, we can't have it, oh no. Stephen A. Smith, coming on this program tomorrow night. Talk about what happens, what will happen. All that, that should be a fiery display, right? Tell your friends, No Spin News. Thank you for watching and listening to us tonight. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

Trump & the New York Knicks

2026-06-08T07:00:00Z

Why is President Trump attending tonight’s Knicks-Spurs game an issue? So what? The guy has followed the team for years. In fact, it was at a Knicks game that Donald Trump told me he was going to run for President. I replied: Of what country?

The media continues to be obsessed with Trump, and that’s why they are pounding the Knicks story. If President Biden were attending, no one would care. Old Joe rarely did social things because Jill wouldn’t let him. That was a good story.

There will likely be boos at Madison Square Garden when Donald Trump waves at the camera. And that will become another press-driven spectacle. But a negative New York City reception is not a lock. Last September, there was cheering at the 9-11 event at Yankee Stadium.

But the Knicks draw a different crowd than the Yanks. More affluent and liberal. Can’t predict what will happen, but will report it accurately.

It’s not that hard.

The media’s obsession with President Trump will continue until he leaves office. But the damage the press has done to itself will vividly remain.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

War Notes

2026-06-07T07:00:00Z

Here’s something strange. President Trump's campaign against the American media is going better than the attack on Iran. And no ordinance is needed against the press.

The once iconic “60 Minutes” is in shambles. Anti-Trump comedian Stephen Colbert is unemployed. Anti-Trump ABC News pundit George Stephanopoulos has gone silent since his network agreed to pay the President $15 million for George’s defamation. High-profile ABC News reporter Terry Moran - gone.

The Associated Press banished from the White House, Jimmy Kimmel suspended and tarnished. On and on.

It’s a wipeout.

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Meanwhile, the killers in Iran remain entrenched. What a crazy world we live in.

The media largely started the domestic war. It consistently demeans the President. It baits him, spins almost everything he does negatively, and is generally disrespectful.

Fairness? Sure.

Here’s a good example. It has recently been exposed that E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of raping her, did not tell the truth during her deposition in the civil case. Under oath, she testified that no one helped her file the motion.

But it turns out that a far-left hate-Trump group paid Carroll’s lawyers a whopping $7 million dollars, which the woman had to know about. Her well-paid lawyers now say her memory is “refreshed.”

But not refreshed enough for E. Jean to remember the actual year the alleged assault took place.

Paging fired “60 Minutes” reporter Sharyn Alfonsi. Pretty good story, correct? But you and your outfit had absolutely no interest in telling it.

That’s dishonest. All Presidents should be scrutinized, but crucifixion is another matter. And that’s the genesis of the war between Trump and the press.

We did extensive research and could find just one positive mention of the President in six years on “60 Minutes”. The program put on someone who said the Trump tariffs might work out. That’s it. One positive soundbite. Awesome.

You may have noticed that it is the liberal “community” that is most upset by the demolition of “60 Minutes.” So why would that be? I think you know the answer.

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My observation on both wars breaks down like this. Iran is holding on. Americans are not happy about that, nor should they be. The Mullahs need to be defeated. It’s not “Trump’s War.” It’s everybody’s war.

Back home, the corporate media is collapsing. Public opinion is divided on that. But, by every measure, Donald Trump has won the fight.

However, I don’t expect the press to surrender anytime soon. Hating Trump is a hard habit to break. The media won’t even try.

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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-06-05T22:00:00Z

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The Progressive Movement, Trump

2026-06-05T22:00:00Z

The Left's New Dreamboat

2026-06-05T07:05:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

Guess who some Democrats are touting as their next ‘Great White Hope’ for political office? Graham Platner? Nah, the Nazi tattoo and daily scandals are disqualifying, even for lefties. James Talarico? His politics are sufficiently radical, but he’s not exactly the macho type Democrats long for.

Actually, the correct answer is Scott Pelley, just fired from his long-held job at ’60 Minutes.’ One career news executive touted Pelley’s political prospects this way on social media: ‘Why not a trustworthy, worldly, even-tempered, smart, classy guy like Scott Pelley?’

But what are his qualifications, one might wonder, aside from having a square jaw and a boatload of pomposity? Scott Pelley’s primary asset is that he obviously despises Donald Trump. He is also exceptionally adept at playing the victim, a quality adored by leftists. CBS News executives are trying to right the ship, so to speak, after decades of drifting to the left, so Pelley donned the hero mantle a few days ago. He threw a hissy fit, screamed at his new boss, and strutted like a peacock. The next day, he was out the door.

It’s worth recalling a few times when Scott Pelley allowed his biases to show through:

- After a 2016 GOP debate: ‘It left many Republicans feeling that they were banging on the cockpit door of a party that had been hijacked.’

- While introducing an interview with befuddled President Biden in 2023: ‘When he’s tired, his lifelong stutter can creep back in.’

- He blasted ‘Moms for Liberty,’ an organization that wants to get rid of porn in school libraries, accusing them of engaging in ‘outrage politics.’

- Who can forget the intrepid newsman’s address to graduates of Wake Forest last year? ‘Freedom of speech is under attack,’ he self-righteously declared. ‘Journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes.’ And the attacker? Pelley didn't mention Donald Trump’s name, but there’s no doubt about the villain in our heroic crusader’s story.

So, what’s next for Pelley? The news business has changed dramatically, and he can’t command his estimated $7-million CBS salary. CNN or MS NOW could be a good fit – maybe he can make some pocket change as a regular contributor on one of those eight-person panels. Or Pelley may strike out on his own with a podcast. (given his lofty opinion of himself, it could be called ‘Great Scott!’) He can then take off the mask like other ‘objective’ journalists such as Katie Couric, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, and Terry Moran. After years of proclaiming their fairness, it turns out their politics are indistinguishable from those heard in a faculty lounge.

If Pelley does go into politics and someday pursue the biggest prize of all, we hereby suggest his ideal running mate. Another prominent Trump-hater with a fabulous jawline is MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell. They would make quite the handsome ticket, overflowing with pomposity and ego and anger. And for their campaign slogan, they might borrow from Teddy Roosevelt: ‘The Square (Jawed) Deal.’

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

Political Beliefs in Sports

2026-06-05T07:02:00Z

San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama, all 7-foot-4 of him, stood with his arms crossed during the National Anthem on Wednesday night. Nobody knows why because Vic isn’t saying, but it’s become a big deal in some precincts.

It isn’t. Unless tall Victor wanted to show disrespect.

But why would he do that? The 23-year-old is making millions in America, money he would not be accumulating in Europe. He’s lucky to be here.

Does Mr. Wembanyama understand that? I don’t know.

I do know that radical left coach Gregg Popovich is still associated with the Spurs. But it’s a leap to say he’s got anything to do with Victor’s posture during the anthem.

It is common these days for professional athletes to incorporate political beliefs into their day jobs. I have mixed feelings on that. The Constitution is on their side, but respect for the paying customer is not. I think it’s safe to say that thousands of folks paid good money to see Victor Wembanyama play basketball, not wax poetic on the American political system.

Let’s leave that to Springsteen and DeNiro.

So, I am pronouncing Victor innocent of disrespect until other facts emerge. That’s the American Way. Due process. Arms crossed or not.

Also, we have a major discussion with another Victor - Davis Hanson - posted right now on BillOReilly.com. Check it out.

Scott Rasmussen on the Elite Impacting America

2026-06-05T03:24:00Z

Scott Rasmussen, pollster and author of Out of Touch: The Elite One Percent and the Battle for America's Soul, breaks down who the elite are and why it matters.

O'Reilly & Cuomo on the Iran Saga & America's Pain

2026-06-04T17:51:00Z

Bill joins Chris Cuomo on NewsNation to discuss the evolving situation with Iran and what Americans are facing.

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O'Reilly & Sid on Iran, Israel, and the Midterms

2026-06-04T17:21:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and assesses the impact of the Iran stalemate on domestic politics. Bill optimistically contends that Iran’s crumbling economy and soaring inflation may lead to the end of the war and a political victory for President Trump.

California, Scott Pelley Fired

2026-06-04T16:17:00Z

Killing Time with Victor Davis Hanson

2026-06-04T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Okay, so let's wrap things up with Victor Davis Hansen. Again, one of my favorite guests, one of the smartest guys around. I was surprised that Pope Leo came out and engaged in a, not a feud, I wouldn't call it a feud. But a controversy with President Trump. Because it didn't seem like the Pope, who has moral authority probably more than any other human being on the planet, had thought it out very well. How did you see it?

HANSEN Yeah, I'm a render under Caesar, what is Caesars, I think he, as a cardinal, he had been active on social media. He was obviously a man on the left, which is fine, as the prior pope was. But I think that he was very naive. He didn't realize that most Americans, even if they're not explicit, see there's a dividing line between organized religion and American private life and political life. So when he ventures in there, across, and he started to comment on certain things, he just assumed that he had retained his exemption as Pope, but he didn't understand Donald Trump. Donald Trump basically is just, I'm taking, I don't care about your title or anybody, you go into my territory, I am going to go into your territory. And he did. And I think it hurt him. And then he seems to be naive in the sense that he gave an award. I know everybody said, well, this award to the ambassador to the Vatican from Iran was pro forma, they give it to everybody, but that government had killed 40,000 people of its own. So when you give any attention, even if it was, I don't know, indiscreet or an accident, it was a terrible blow to do that. So I think he's, if he doesn't watch out and keep away from these secular political issues. He's going to suffer the consequences or people are going not going to give him the exemption that the Pope is due is what I'm saying.

O'REILLY Well, I think he's lost, in America anyway, some credibility. But what I, as a Roman Catholic, I know the structure pretty well. And Pope Leo didn't do anything wrong, in my opinion. He preached the gospel. That's what he does. That is what his job is. And the gospel is peace, turning of the cheek. You nailed a guy to the cross who didn't do anything. And we had to accept that. It was preordained. So the pope preaches that, but when you then go up against somebody who says, well I'm trying to save lives, you can't have a terrorist state, enrich uranium and then have the possibility of making a nuclear weapon that's low level, you put in a suitcase and till 10,000 people in 20 minutes. And the Pope doesn't have a reply to that. He didn't deny, he didn't deny Iran was trying to do that, and President Trump said look, I'm trying to save lives, and you're hitting me on doing that. So, what's the deal? And the deal was never really explained. I didn't hear it.

HANSEN No, and he, I was kind of surprised. He's a scholar of Catholicism and Western literature, but there was a long tradition going back to Augustine of just war theory. And on the Eastern empire, the Byzantine, all sorts of religious figures had written extensively about a beleaguered Byzantium, Constantinople, and the need to defend yourself. You're on the walls of Constantinople in 1453, and mammoth the second is going to take your city he's got promising seventy two virgins for the people trying to kill you and the people in the wall are getting pennants, so they can kill somebody to save Christendom. That was kind of surprising, that as pope, I thought he might say we condemn all violence, but we have to preserve the innocent and the meek, and the sermon on the mount applies. We've got to protect the week and from the strong and the predatory. And especially in what was going on in Africa and Nigeria, Donald Trump, by bombing some of the Islamists that were butchering Christians, has, he had a moral voice that you could argue was in the real world was better for the people of Africa than the popes. We don't, we condone both sides, all violence. So I thought he missed an opportunity to go back to the early traditions of the church that had always established within careful limits and very carefully, that if you're attacked, you can use violence to protect the innocent from the predator.

O'REILLY Yeah, the pope didn't feel that the attack was vivid enough for him to support it. And if you look at the modern-day Catholic Church, they never support any kind of punitive action. I've never heard a pope, even in Nazi Germany, when the Germans had surrounded the Vatican, and we're clearly going to take it if the pope said anything negative about Hitler, but usually the Vatican stays above the fray. So I was like you, surprised that the Pope would get into geopolitics. I don't think it did him any good.

HANSEN No, it didn't. I agree entirely. I think it was sad, especially coming on prior Francis, who on occasion did the same thing, and especially because he was the first American pope. So I hope that doesn't prejudice against that they think we're politicized, but there were so many lost opportunities. And he's got a lifetime appointment. Let's hope that he learns from out and he stays on message. And I hope he does, but...

O'REILLY Yeah, he's pulled back. He has not done that and we hope that the president doesn't collate himself with Jesus. I don't know if that would be a good move either.

HANSEN No, that would be a bad move, and the Catholic vote came, I mean, that's very important tp Donald Trump.

O'REILLY And republicans have that vote, unless they blow it. Hey, Professor, thanks very much. I learned a lot from the conversation. I think anybody who takes time to watch what we did here on We'll Do It Live will feel the same way, and we wish you the best. If we can ever be of service, please let us know.

HANSEN Thank you, Bill. I learned a lot too.

Killing Time with Victor Davis Hanson

2026-06-04T16:00:00Z

Bill talks to Victor Davis Hanson about Pope Leo’s battle with President Trump over immigration and Iran.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Victor Davis Hanson

2026-06-04T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Progressive is good, conservative traditional, bad.

HANSON The Democratic Party became like a pyramid, a little bit of a cone on the top of the professional and the billionaire classes.

O'REILLY We are a nation now that is so distracted.

HANSON They get this progressive message 24-7, and they have no analytical tools. It's frightening.

O'REILLY Welcome, I am Bill O'Reilly, and this is our long-form podcast called We'll Do It Live, and it's done very well in the last, I guess it was like four or five months ago we started. So, now I routinely mix...all of the social media outlets, and once in a while straight television news picks up what we say here because we are serious people here. We don't go in to hammer other human beings, we don't make a living by besmirching people. That's not what we do. Sometimes I wish we did it, but not really. It's just cheap and easy, but that's the trend. Here you're going to learn something and we're not going to waste your time. I booked today Victor Davis Hanson, you probably know him if you are a conservative or an independent American that leans a little bit traditional. So Professor Hanson has made a huge name for himself at Stanford University, basically analyzing the news, what I do. But he does it from a point of view of being a farmer. I was never a farmer. I have trouble even buying farm products, but he came from the soil and then rose up to be, I think, one of the most effective educators and academics in the country. He joins us now from California. So what I got for you is this. The Democratic Party senses weakness in the Trump administration because of the high prices, the Iran situation, all of that. We know that. All the polls show that. What is holding the Democratic Party back is the progressive cadres who have taken the party over, almost completely aided by the media. So you're not just voting for Harry Truman anymore, you're voting for Nancy Pelosi's latest protégé, who wants open borders and free needles and everything else that traditional Americans are going, no. How did that happen, Professor?

HANSON Well, I think you can look at the, it's a good question, but I think if you look at the break at the end of the Clinton administration, when they ran in '92 and '96, and Mark Halpern and Mark Penn wrote their agenda at the convention, it was pretty much closed borders, tough on crime, balanced budget, which he and Newt Gingrich did. But I think we underestimate globalization because that really took off at the Millennium. And it basically said, we're gonna westernize the whole market world, then people woke up in this century, and they said, you know, if I have skills that transcend the United States, law, media, university campuses all over the world, corporate boardroom, international sports, entertainment, Hollywood, you know, movies were 85% of the revenue in these... And they became rich. They had a $7 billion audience or clientele or consumer base. And then there were others that traditional farming, manufacturing, assembly, they didn't have those skills, and they were outsourced or offshored. So that was the background. And then they made a post facto exegesis: the Democrats, or the people in these global, not everybody, but most of them were on the left or the democratic liberal side. They said we were the winners and we have these skills, and now we've got more money than we've ever had. So when I was at Stanford in the 70s, Silicon Valley was affluent. But it has $11 trillion now in market capitalization. It's just insane. But they made a self-fulfilling prophecy. They said, we are the brightest, we're the best, and the guys in the middle, the deplorables, irredeemables, clingers, garbage, chumps, they're the losers. We don't want those people. They didn't code, or they didn't get on it. So we've got enough money now that we don't worry about food or transportation. So we're going to go into utopianism. And part of that agenda was to shut down fossil fuels and nuclear plants. Part of it was we're guilty of creating the criminal, not the criminal himself. Part of it was we don't believe in a utopian world that we need borders. And in that process, they also replaced race for class. The Democratic Party used to say, we're gonna protect and enhance everybody in the lower-middle classes. But then under Obama especially, it became...It's not 90-10 affirmative action, black-white. It's 30% the victimized, regardless of their income, regardless of the circumstances. If they're not white, they are victims. And we, the coastal elite, who were so wealthy and are never subject to the consequences of our ideology, we're going to champion these people. So the Democratic Party became like a pyramid, a little bit of a cone on the top of the professional and the billionaire classes. And then a large subsidized welfare state, and they didn't care about class. So they had these absurdities that you've, here you have Mamdani talking about he's gonna go after the white nicer neighborhoods- when, on the basis of per capita income, the wealthiest group in the United States are his own Indian Americans. So I think globalization enriched the Democratic Party, the people in it, the Harvey Weinsteins, take the Obamas, they got out of office. All of a sudden, Netflix hands them this contract; they plugged into it, they ended up with four mansions, and that was acceptable, and then they basically say, the white middle class or the deplorables, they're very racist, they're terrible people, we've gotta protect the poor, but they want nothing to do with the poor. They don't live with them. And then the other thing, very quickly, Bill, is they don't have any power. You were right that that message of these boutique issues that they've, in transgenderism, open borders, illegal... It never affects them, and that makes them psychologically feel good about themselves at no cost to themselves. But they lost power, so we're speaking now, they don't have the House, they may have the House. But right now they don't have the House, the Senate, the White House, or the Supreme Court.

O'REILLY Or the goodwill of the traditional American. When you say they, is this a cabal? Do they meet in Switzerland?

HANSON Well, you know, that's a very good question. Molly Ball, B-A-L-L, wrote a very revealing piece right after the election of 2020. She was so ecstatic that they had won. It was in Time magazine, February of 2020, and she said, she used that term, Bill, cabal and conspiracy. She said, now we can tell how we won. We got the corporate boardroom, we got the media, we ran commute, we suppressed what she called misinformation or disinformation. Twitter, Facebook stopped the story on the laptop. We changed the ballot laws in 28 states. We suppressed people who were trying to mislead you, and we partnered, we used the street people, the 2020 demonstration. And it just entailed it, and the left got very angry when she wrote it. But she was basically saying that a group of elite people got together and they said, even though we have messages that nobody really wants, we can find power. And one of the ways they got the White House, of course, they took old Joe Biden from Scranton and passed him off as something out of the 70s, that he was this conservative blue-collar champion of the working classes. And then he was that coaxing effigy, and behind it were the ex-Obama people, Jill Biden and others, who used him as a surrogate to push through, I think, the most radical agenda we'd seen since the New Deal.

O'REILLY No, there's no doubt about it, and it was never explained, and the anonymity of the people still cloaks them to this day. The money is phenomenal that comes into the progressive movement. Now, we all know George Soros and these billionaires who interfere with local races now, with hordes of cash coming in to elect people who will carry out the progressive vision. Is it just individuals who are fueling the progressive movement financially, or are there other concerns that Americans don't know about?

HANSON Well, there's a large professional class. Basically, in California, it's San Diego to Berkeley, 50 miles within the coast, and New England down somewhere in the Carolinas, and then places like Austin or places in the Midwest around Chicago. And they are people highly skilled or at least degreed and entitled. They have letters after their names, and they're in these, in the media, in law, in the corporation, and they make a lot of money. And that's part of it.

O'REILLY And they just give the money to the Democratic Party or to various political action committees.

HANSON Various political action committees and foundations. And so you get this situation where they sold us on solar wind. Here's California. We have the highest kilo, we're higher now than Hawaii in kilowattage. When you look at it, China's building three coal plants a month, and they are selling solar panels below the cost of production to destroy the US market. And we're all buying that. And we think that we're going to reduce global fossil fuel emissions when what we're saving is just a fraction of what China's contributing. And if you look at where Europe was, the same thing has happened in Europe, where Germany was the powerhouse of Europe, it's been absolutely decimated by these suicidal policies. And so these left-wing people in their utopia, they don't realize how easily manipulated by the Chinese, for one example. And by the universities, for another, they gave millions of, they've given billions of dollars to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and they have no idea where the money is going except they want their name, the John Smith Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, the Bill Jones Professor of Environmental Studies. And then that money subsidizes these professors who are not subject to market reality as students, and they're turning out each year. Thousands of people on the left that takes them maybe 20 or 30 years to wise up. That's one of their strengths, so they feel that they don't have to govern. Even when they lose power, they're angry about it, but they have institutional power that transcends elections. Foundations media, as I said, corporate boardroom, sports entertainment, K through 12 teachers unions. And that's where the power is for them, the institutional. And that's why Donald Trump scares them so much, because he's the first president in my lifetime that didn't deal with the symptomology. He's actually going to, how do they fund the foundations? How do they use the university's work? Why do they get federal money? Are they racist in their admissions? And that's very alarming to them, that somebody's actually questioning, not the symptoms, but the cause of where their power is.

O'REILLY You know, it's funny because they're...Most of these people have conventions, and they show up, you know, CPAC and all that, and they wave the flag. You never see that in the progressives. Never see that at all. They don't seem to have learned anything from the Trump second victory. So, yeah, they got Biden in there, and Biden did a lot of damage. They won't acknowledge the damage, and the press won't either. The press is a big factor here because it enables the progressive movement. But the folks went out and said, you know, we don't like this. We don't like what Biden and his hidden cadre are doing. So we're going to put Trump back in with all his idiosyncrasies, let's use that. I don't think there's one progressive in the country that learned anything from that at all. I don't t see them.

HANSON No, they haven't, and so they are running in the midterms...I mean we have this candidate in Texas that says she wants to put Zionists in camps. We've got this Totenkopf, formerly tattooed person. They've even gone further. A rational analysis would have said you went way to the left. Their remedy is we lost the election because we weren't far left enough. They're running on basically two strategies: Donald Trump is the essential evil, and we've got to just say, in the debate on California, on the mayor, a gubernatorial base, if you watch them, it's nothing about the record of California. It's all Donald Trump. And then the second is, we don't like the system. We don't like the electoral college. We don't like the filibuster. We don't like the 169-year, nine-person court. We don't like the 50-state union. We don't like the electoral. We're gonna change all of this system because we have a message implicitly that people don't want. But if we can get power through these institutions, maybe we can still keep the progressive, hardcore, revolutionary fervor and get power again. And they have to be defeated at the polls one or two times. We saw a little bit, Bill, you remember, we're in the same generation, at the McGovern period. He really, he wanted to cut the defense budget in half and give this, and then he was wiped out. And Jimmy Carter came, and he had a Southern accent. It seemed like they could not nominate somebody without a Southern Accent after McGovern. I mean, it was Jimmy Carter, and then it was Bill Clinton, and then it was Al Gore. They understood that, that at least they had to seem moderate. And Clinton was, if we look back at him, he wasn't that much different than Mitt Romney or somebody. He was a...

O'REILLY No, he was a practical politician.

HANSON He was, and so I think they learned their McGovern lesson, and then they got lax, and they said, now we've done this, and Obama said to them, I got elected as a black man from the North, and I'm very liberal. I hid my liberality a little bit and deceived people, but you can go build on what I've done. And they lost that lesson, and I think that they're gonna have to learn it by electoral defeat.

O'REILLY Now, in the culture area, I want to know what you think about the...let's use the word preponderance of entertainment vehicles in the United States. They're all, I would say, 90 percent, maybe 80 percent, are progressive. So you get late-night TV across the board. Fallon doesn't care. But the others are very fanatically progressive. Morning shows don't matter anymore because they're just making omelets down there. They've kind of given up on any of that because women watch morning, and women don't want all this stuff. So they're out of the equation. The network news, the three of them, all tilt left. And then you have two very, very hard-left progressive cable outfits. And two, if you count Newsmax, conservative. But overwhelmingly, as the Saturday Night Live analysis this week shows, it is almost a monolith on social media, progressives good, conservative traditionalists, bad. How much effect does that have on individual voters, in your opinion, Doctor?

HANSON I think it has a lot, and it has a lot on issues. If we had had this conversation 15 years ago, and I would say to you, in Fresno, California, the champion of most of all of the regional high school track events is a man, a biological man, and he's competing, we would have thought we were crazy. Yet that has been normalized to the extent that if you object, you're a transphobe. Same thing about illegal immigration. We went from illegal aliens and then to illegal immigrants, and then you were not supposed to say legal or any prefixes, it was just migrants. And so all that came from NPR, PBS, the institutions that you mentioned, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller, the whole bunch of them. So they have a very profound effect in shaping public opinion. When you have the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, saying before Congress, as he did after the George Floyd, that he recommended that people read Professor Kendi, and then you see the performance of the military and the Afghan withdrawal or the 50 billion in weapons that were left behind. It's very profound what these cultural institutions do. People make fun of the university, rightly so, but the time from a crazy idea in the faculty lounge to the implementation by the democratic orthodoxy is about three years, I think, three or four years.

O'REILLY The distraction that this has brought to the world is profound. So that there are many people who have lost themselves in their own world now. I think we're seeing that with the Iran thing. You can't sell Iran having a nuclear weapon because number one, people believe what they want to believe, and if they don't believe that Iran has a nuclear weapon, they're not going to believe it. And number two, they go, well, they're over there. They don't bother me in Tulsa. We are a nation now that is so distracted based on TikTok or whatever they're consuming that millions and millions and millions of people don't know what's going on and don't care to know. How important is that to the progressive advancement?

HANSON It's very important. When I pick up my phone, I had never asked to be a subscriber to Apple News or Smart News, but all of a sudden this stuff pops up with all of it, and it's completely left-wing. And then all these things on YouTube, TikTok, they all have a particular, they're either left-wing, or they're a crudity or a diminishing of the cultural standards of tradition that we grew up with. That's the sin of commission, but there's a sin of omission, because if you look at the curriculum now, K through 12, these people- and I have been an educator for 50 years- they don't know what the judicial branch is. If you said to these graduates of very good schools, can you name five of the Bill of Rights, of the amendments? They could not. So they don't really have the capacity or the tools to make empirical decisions or analyses anymore. I don't think the general public realizes that the level that we have diminished. Part of it was DEI and trying to say, you know, at Stanford we're going to give 80% A's to everybody, and we're gonna have remedial math. And then the employers in Silicon Valley after four years said, wait a minute, these kids, I can get a better graduate at Georgia Tech, what are you doing? And now they're trying to catch up, and I don't think they are. But what I'm getting at, this generation is the first that lives by these appurtenances, iPads, iPhones. They get this progressive message 24-7, and they have no analytical tools. They don't know anything, you know, and it's frightening.

O'REILLY But what's interesting is the other side, the counter to the progressives, is the conservative traditional side. And what you are starting to see there is a fracture. See, there is no fracture in my estimation between the Democrats and the progressives. I don't know any mainstream Democrats anymore. Pelosi wiped them out by saying, if you're not a progressive, you're not getting any money to run for reelection. So you better be a progressive. That worked. That woman, she tamed that whole House. And every moderate surrendered right on the spot because they knew they were gonna be primaried, and they knew that they weren't gonna get any money from the Democratic National Committee, so they're gonna be a progressive. On the Republican side, conservative, traditional- you take what you want as a description- you're getting a fracture now between the Holocaust deniers, the anti-Semites, the people who will certify Donald Trump's actions no matter what he does, no matter what he doesn't, okay. So you're getting a fracture over there rather than a united front to logically take on a destructive progressive movement. Or am I wrong?

HANSON Well, I think you're right, though I might nuance it. I think the majority of the Republican Party would say, we don't want to lose nobly with McCain and Romney, and now we're willing to win if it's ugly. And so they overlook what you, I think, aptly called idiosyncrasies of Donald Trump. They wish he wouldn't tweet. They wish you wouldn't make fun of Rob Reiner after he died. But the message that he conveys that we've got to build a wall, we've gotta stop illegal migration, we've got to deport...They feel that prior Republicans were not willing to do that. And in their view, he's sort of like a Shane or somebody out of the classic Western that had uncouth skills but a skill set, and he comes in, he solves the problem, he rides off, and then the townspeople don't give him credit. They don't admit they couldn't solve it, and they dwell on his crudity. The other thing, what you said, I'm more worried about because the number of people who are openly anti-Semitic has grown. It's still a small percentage, but they have much more audiences than their numbers reflect. And the problem with that is when you had antisemites in the past, you had...It used to be when I was growing up, every farmer in this area said that the Jews in New York, they'd never met a Jew in their life, but Let's see. Every Jew in New York is controlling the commodity market. That's why we're broke. Then the left said, no, no, no, go look at Gentleman's Agreement or Hollywood. The left was stopping that. Now it's flipped. The left is Hamas, anti-Semitic, but we don't have that right speaking out. Now we have a right that is almost 360 with them. Candice Owens is, you know, they...Tucker's going to have Graham Platner on his show. Candice Owens is interviewing Tom Massie. They're gone completely. So when you have both parties have elements, the majority of the Democrats and a growing little minority, it's very hard. The only people that are speaking out are the MAGA people. I don't mean the extreme MAGA. I mean the all-spectrum of MAGA that so far have been sensible to say, wait a minute, there is a difference between Israel and Hamas. Wait a minute. The Jews don't control everything. They're a very hardworking people. Stop that. Wait a minute, you're lying about World War II. That's the only group in America that I can see hasn't lost its mind. And they're traditional Republicans or traditional conservatives or MAGA people. And they are very worried about people within this traditional movement that seem in their zealotry, or maybe it's desire for clarity, I don't know what is motivating them, but they've almost gone completely to the left.

O'REILLY But their point of view is suppressed, as many points of view are, by the media. They suppress it. So it used to be that Jewish Americans, and about six and a half million of them, not many, were 80% liberal. The Steven Spielbergs of the world, Hollywood moguls. If you were a conservative person, and I've had four movies produced, so I know what I'm talking about, we got lots of stuff turned down because I wasn't liberal, by Hollywood. And this was before the progressive craziness. This was standardized liberal people, and they would always vote Democrat. And in New York City, which is the largest population of Jewish people outside of Israel, a Mamdani could never have been elected, even 10 years ago, 10, 15 years ago. The Jewish vote and media would have risen up and crushed him. Now the majority of Jewish New Yorkers voted for Mamdani, and very few people can understand why. I don't even understand why.

HANSON Well, I think there's a lot of reasons. One is we're now six, five, six, four generations away from the Jewish diaspora. Reminds me of the Greek lobby. When I was in college, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, there was a huge Greek lobby in Congress that tried to stop Kissinger from tilting toward Turkey. They don't exist anymore. They've all been assimilated, acculturated. And what's happened to the Jewish community is that a lot of the young people are secular. They don't identify. They're intermarried with non-Jews. But for them, Israel is not something that they worry about. In fact, it's the opposite. For them, it is an albatross around their neck on a university campus. So that's hurt the Jews. Then the Islamic people who identify as Muslim, it's been, it's rocketed, it's almost five million now. And when you look at the money from the Middle East, from Qatar and UAE and Saudi, it is in the multi-billions. These huge Middle East programs, and they're embedded in the general curriculum. So you're getting a much stronger message from the Middle East, a very radical message. You're getting a diminished Jewish population, a secularized Jewish population. And you put into the equation that Israel is not 1947, 1967, this tiny little country. It's got a technological revolution. You go to Haifa today, it looks so much better than San Francisco. It's a powerhouse, it's running the Middle East as far as technology and finance. And so it doesn't have that empathy as an underdog, and people just resent it now because it's powerful beyond its numbers. And you put all of those centrifugal forces together, and I think... Israel's, I think, it just, they were there, but it was like clouds in a perfect storm. They've all come together, and it surprised everybody the level of antipathy for what is the only democratic, consensual, and tolerant society in the Middle East.

O'REILLY Yeah, and Donald Trump has been the most, the friendliest president toward Israel of any president we've ever had. And it is not even close. Truman would be second. And still, most Jewish Americans vote against him. And that's another thing. But I think your point about secularization watering down Jewish history. And Jewish traditional beliefs is probably the reason. And again, the industries that Jewish Americans dominate stem from financial to entertainment. They're in the big industries that affect people. Because I know them all. Believe me when I tell you, the Hollywood moguls, you can't get further left than these people. You cannot get further left. Now, they've got the gates, they've got the armed guards, the open border doesn't mean anything to them because you can get into their property anyway, but they're for it. They don't want any restraints on it. Homeless people, drug addiction, whatever, maybe they don't have to deal with it, but they're for it.

HANSON I don't think they realize, though, that it's, they make the distinction that they're more secular or less observant or less concerned about Israel, or they're not, they're married to someone. But the people who hate them don't make that distinction, and they think they can negotiate that. But I can tell you that I know a lot of students who would not identify as Jews, who are considered Jewish by the Hamas people, the River to the Sea...

O'REILLY By blood.

HANSON Exactly. And so I think they're going to find out to their dismay, if this continues, that as it happens in history, people will say, well, why did they come from me? I had an Iron Cross in World War I, I was a hero. And why am I in Auschwitz? And nobody could really explain that to them, that they didn't, they don't care. And I think that's kind of a hyperbole to compare it to that period, but I'm a little worried that a lot of people in the Jewish community either want to get on the bandwagon and criticize Israel or their own community, or they think they can negotiate with these people, an Ilhan Omar or Graham Platner, they can't, or Darrell Cooper.

O'REILLY You can't. It's like the Chinese. It's like going to China trying to negotiate with them. Yeah. Well, yeah, okay.

HANSON You know, a lot of people, I know them and you know them, from Fox, who are not at Fox anymore, and if we were to look at what they said 10 years ago, five years ago when you were an anchorman, or when I used to peer on Tucker's a lot, and Megan Kelly's, and it's not, it's what they're saying now is a complete antithesis of what they've said before.

O'REILLY Yeah, the economics are different there.

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O'REILLY I was looking yesterday at a survey. Both parties in Congress are below 20% approval rating. So Americans are like either party at this point. And the leadership of the Democratic Party is nil. There's no leader that I can see. Not one. Do you see any leader of the Democratic Party, anybody coming out a populist leader or a moderate Democrat or even a progressive? I mean, AOC gets all the ink, and now we got Kamala, you know, moving to Malibu saying she's going to give it a go again and this is it? Is that all they've got on the bench?

HANSON Yeah, I think it is. I mean, I think Gavin Newsom is going to have to say, I'm going to do to the United States what I did to California. Look at Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg. I mean there's nobody there in addition to the names that you mentioned. There are none. It's 2020. They had this problem in 2020, and then they basically had a coup, and they said Elizabeth Warren, you, Bernie, Cory, all of you, Buttigieg, you're out. And we'll give you certain prerogatives, but we're going to bring Biden in. And then Clyburn got the South Carolina primary in Nevada. And then all of a sudden, it was kind of like, they anointed him. And then when they wanted to get rid of him after the first debate, they got the same people to get rid of them. And they knew that, that they needed some kind of veneer, but I don't see a veneer that Fetterman, they would never run. So I don't know what they're going to do and accept and disguise their message. I mean, Kamala tried that. She said, she really didn't mean to, that she was against deportation. She said she wasn't really against fracking, but it just made it worse. Nobody believed her.

O'REILLY And she's one of the worst campaigners I've ever seen. And I wrote Confronting the Presidents, I've seen some bad campaigners. I've never seen anybody as bad as Ms. Harris. And she's just inarticulate, and you can't teach that. I mean, you just can't. Going forward in this country, we're becoming more divided. And you see the race hustlers now starting to emerge again. Sharpton's day is over. He's through, and Jesse Jackson passed. So, what you have now is some of the younger a lot of them are Princeton, the guy I listened to is from Princeton, who are trying to divide race. The African-Americans in the progressive movement, I don't see it. Do you see that they'll go in great numbers over to the progressive movement, black Americans?

HANSON No, and it's even worse than that because they have entirely lost the white working class. So we're not talking about, as we saw in 2024, you don't need 50% of the black vote. You need 15%, 17%, 45% of the Hispanic vote, and they can get that. And the problem that they're having is in those communities, and I'm speaking from a town that's 95% Hispanic. The issues that they're dealing with have nothing to do with the solutions that the Democratic left is offering. In my community, the police chief, all the policemen are Hispanic, the city council is Hispanic, and what do they do? They don't have any white racists to rebel against. They're dealing M-13, Norteña’s gang, Sereno's Gang, imported drugs, DUI's. Illegal aliens, they're very anti-illegal alien. They've swarmed the dialysis centers, the emergency rooms. That's what they're concerned about. When they look to the Democratic Party, all they tell them is, well, you're not very smart to know the insidious, covert racism all about you from white people. That's where Obama's message, remember in the 2024, he flew in, and he got some black democratic activists, young men, very proud people. And he said. You don't know what you're doing. I can tell you what's good for you. You have to vote for Kamala. And that was sort of what Joe Biden said, you know, you ain't black, or I'm gonna put you back in chains. That audience who said, put you all back in chains was very talented black independent CEOs and people. But their message is only for an elite like themselves, but it doesn't address the problems. That's why I think a lot of the hatred of Donald Trump was that he saw that, and he tried to substitute class concerns. So he was basically saying, if you're a Mexican-American electrician or a black truck driver or a white manufacturing assembly line worker, you all got screwed by terror, whatever the message he had. And that was a very radical message for the Democrats because they had wanted race, race, race, and he transcended that at least. And he also, as I said earlier, addressed the roots of their power. And it's, you know, if... Sometimes his message and his language and vocabulary hurt that message, but people were ready for it. They were tired of it. They were tired of the race, race, race, and they were interested in class, class, class, not in the Marxist sense, just sort of what the old Democratic Party appealed to and some parts of the Republican Party. And so, he doesn't need, you don't need, that's what the left doesn't, that's why they're so paranoid. They don't need large defections because They've lost the white working class, especially white working males, who vote in inordinate numbers greater than their demographics.

O'REILLY Yeah, and I don't think they're doing well with Hispanics, and blacks, the men, are starting to wise up a little bit, women, you know, with the preachers and the Sunday sermons and all of that is a great effect on the women, African American women.

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O'REILLY Last question, and we'll hold you over for a special comment for our Premium Members. Are you hopeful that this progressive movement, which I think is the most dangerous, even it's much worse than what we saw in Vietnam with the SDS and those people, those radical people back then. Are you hopeful that this is going to run its course, or are they going to get even more powerful?

HANSON I think it'll run its course, but it requires everybody, according to their station, to speak out. There's no room or time left to just sit in the shadows and think it's going to pass. And you were really good to make that comparison with the 60s and 70s. The difference from those people, I was a conservative, but I was at a radical campus, UC Santa Cruz. Those people were demonstrating in really destructive, self-destructive, and destructive manners, but their message was Nixon and all the right have detoured from the Americans. We wanna go back to the founding. We wanna be the real Americans. These people never liked America. They didn't like the foundational date, 1619. They're year zero Jacobins. Change the names of the months like the Jacobins, or tear down statues. They wanna completely erase our heritage and traditions and start anew. They're really different than the 60s hippies, know, tune in, drop. Kind of Timothy Leary type people, you know, Whole Earth catalogue. That's not... These people are Stalinists. They mean business.

O'REILLY They do mean business. But you think that their day is not assured.

HANSON They don't have the numbers, and they're not very practical. So the biggest thing that gave me encouragement, I never thought they would turn on the billionaire class, the Mark and reasons, the Horowitzes, the Elon Musk, even, and they did. And now they're really going to town. So it's going to make it almost impossible for the Ken Griffiths or the Jeff Bezos to be with those people. And they were one of their chief sources of funding. But when you have a billionaire's tax or a net worth tax, or even a millionaire's tax, that's where their strength was, the millionaire professional classes. And when those people start to get gored, they're gonna see the revolution's coming after us. And the same way that I think a lot of liberal Jewish people are gonna say the revolution is coming...These things get more and more radical, the French Revolution or the Roman, they get very dangerous, more radicalized. The Bolsheviks, it doesn't mean that minorities can't take power like the Bolsheviks, but if everybody calls them out and tries to form a coalition against them, something like Fetterman or something like that, you can stop it because nobody wants that message.

O'REILLY This is the best friend of the progressives, because it makes the accumulation of knowledge and perspective much, much harder when you live in a world of your own. So, Professor, I think you're one of the strongest voices in the country, and we know that you've had a little health thing going, and that makes it more extraordinary that you'd spend some time with us. I'm going to take a quick break here, then we're coming back with Killing Time for BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, and I'm gonna ask about the Pope.

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I am so tired of this. But there is little good people can do about it. The destructive progressive movement calls Iran “Trump’s War.” The truth is that when nuclear weapons are involved, it’s everybody’s problem.

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2026-06-03T22:00:00Z

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026. Stand up for your country. I'm reporting from Manhattan because we're doing another one of those long-form, We'll Do It Live stuff. We drop those every Thursday now. Victor Davis Hanson tomorrow, you're going to want to see that. I'm going to give you a little preview at the end of the program. Very scary display by Joe Biden here in Manhattan. Tell you about that. It's not an important story in the sense that Mr. Biden's getting older, okay. But remember, he could have been elected president. It was possible, but we'll get to that.

Talking Points Memo is on yesterday's vote in California, Maine, a couple of other places. We don't know. It doesn't really say much. I know a lot of people hyped it up. The cable TV networks, but at this point it looks like, but California simply cannot count their votes. They can't do it. They've never been able to do it. So we don't have, we should have, but we don't, exactly what happened yesterday in California with the LA mayor and the gubernatorial race. We don't have it. Nobody has it because they can't count the votes. All right. All right. So it looks to me, and I could be wrong, that in the governor's seat, you're going to have Steve Hilton, who's a Republican, used to work on Fox News, conservative man, against Xavier Becerra, who worked for Joe Biden, Health and Human Services. Remember, Becerra was in charge of homelessness. Okay. I don't know if that's something he's going to campaign on. So at least you'll have, as it appears now, a race in November, now. In LA, which is just about to fall off the cliff there into the Pacific Ocean, Karen Bass, the current mayor, she's going to be in it. And it looks like Spencer Pratt, the Republican, and he's a TV guy, is going to run against her.

Now, there were, if you combine the Democratic votes, however, in the primary, Pratt gets Murdered, okay. And that's what's going to happen. So the democratic machine, probably the most powerful political machine outside of Chicago, is going to kick in to put Democrats in office. That's what will happen. But again, at least the people of California will have a choice. Now, I don't expect them to seize upon the choice because of a variety of reasons that we'll get into down the road. But one of them is apathy. People just don't know what's going on, and they don't care. I predict that when all the votes are counted in California, far less than 50% of people would vote in the primary. And it's not interesting. They're interested in their own situations. Okay, so we don't learn anything that we didn't know on Monday. The progressive movement is still there, it's well-funded. California's a democratic state. Now Maine is just a crazy situation. Why would you elect a guy like, and he's gonna be the candidate against Susan Collins, a Republican, this guy. He's got the Nazi tattoo. I mean, I don't know what they're doing to Maine. I guess I'm gonna have to go up there and scold everybody, but it's crazy. But Collins may pull it out. Because this guy's a nut. Anyway, that's the memo, a short one today because I want to get into all the stuff that we have.

I did not know that Iran's inflation rate at this point is 77%. That means the 70 million people who live inside the boundaries of Iran, mostly Persians, are paying an enormous amount of money just for bread, just to eat. 77%. In the USA, it's 3.8%, up a little bit from when Biden was president. But not a disaster. Not yet. Okay. It's inching up. Can you imagine that? So the mullahs, all they have to do is say, okay, we're not going to do a nuke anymore, and everything goes away. 77%. So I don't know how these people in Iran survive. I mean, they can't even buy bottled water. So that was something I learned today when I was researching because this has got to stop. Got to stop. And I'm President Trump, I think, sees the same stats I see. He says, look, the country's going under. If we give it a little more time, it's going to collapse totally. He might be right. But he didn't have that much time. It's June. And Americans are still paying $4.50 for a gallon of gas. And food is ridiculous, and insurance premiums are ridiculous, and on and on, you all know. And the Democrats, they don't have any solutions to it, of course, but they're just saying, oh no, we're gonna make it better. How? They're willing to look away, and so is Europe and everybody else from the evil of the mullahs. It's not even in play for the Democratic Party. They don't even care about it. And it's not a partisan analysis, it's the truth. So yeah, they get nukes, the mullahs, the Democrats don't really care, and neither is the EU, or China, or Russia, or anybody else, we don't care. All right, they didn't care about Hitler either. I know the comparison is tired. I know it is tired, but it's valid.

Now, this is a positive coming, and again President Trump, I think, is weighing the economic negatives and positives before he goes in and obliterates Iran, which he may do. So, every taxpayer, 97% of people who file a tax return are going to get either a refund or a lower tax assessment, and that's because of the big, beautiful bill which the Democrats opposed. They didn't want the bill. They didn't want any tax cuts. They wanted more tax. Okay, most of the money goes to workers. 70% of all filers earning less than a hundred thousand, okay, get the biggest tax cut. The average is close to $900. That money is now coming into circulation. It hasn't hit full-blown, but it's going to hit very soon. What that means is that there will be a more vibrant economy, at least in the short term, because people will have money to pay the debts off or to buy what they want to buy. Not a lot of money, but a substantial amount. Now, there are, according to the Bureau of Labor stats, plenty of jobs open. Plenty of jobs. You want to work? Jobs are there. And 730,000 jobs are added just in the month of March in this country. So this is all a very big positive for the United States, that the economy remains strong. Even though everybody's paying more for stuff. This is the big picture that you're never going to get anywhere. But that doesn't mean that Iran can go on much longer, because it's hurting President Trump's legacy. He knows that. Joining us now from McKinney, Texas, is pollster Scott Rasmussen, who I've known for years, decades, and he's a very good analyst. He's got a book out. And I hope you consider it. It's called Out of Touch: The Elite 1% and the Battle for America's Soul. Wow. Number one, why should I care about the elite? Maybe I'm one of them, I don't know, but what is the elite, and why should I care about them?

"Well, the reason you should care is because the elite 1% do not believe in America's founding ideals. They do not believe in consent to the governed. They do not believe in freedom, equality, and self-governance. Who they are, people with a post-graduate degree who make a lot of money and live in densely populated urban areas, places like Manhattan, not like Cedar Rapids, but people who have a huge impact on the narrative. And unfortunately, they think the rest of us will be better off if we just follow their lead. These elites tend to believe that most Americans have too much individual freedom. They tend to trust the federal government and think that everybody else does too. And they're a little surprised when people push back with skepticism about political solutions."

Now, are they in both parties or are they in both ideologies, liberal and conservative?

"Among the elite one percent, there are more Democrats than Republicans, but I think it's really important to acknowledge that a Republican member of the elite 1% has very little in common with a Republican voter and a Democratic member of the elite 1% has very little in common with the Democratic voter. To just give you a sense of scale, half of these politically active elites think you should not be allowed to vote unless you have a college degree. They tend to believe that if a regulator thinks something should be done, and well, you know, voters hate the idea, well, they should ignore the voters and do it anyhow. This is true of elites in both parties. Now, look, anytime you and I have talked about this for 25 years, when you talk about polling statistics, it's never 100%. There are members of the elite 1% who recognize we don't have enough freedom, but by and large, this group thinks that the challenge is that we're not paying enough attention to our betters."

But isn't this all about control, that the wealthy, they call them patriarchy, want to control the unwashed masses and have the masses be manipulated into doing what the wealthy patriarchy wants them to do? It's a matter of control, correct?

"Yes, it's a matter of control. It's not just about wealth. That postgraduate part is really important. You know, over the years, people talk about a diploma divide that Republicans tend to have people without of college degree, Democrats tend to attract people with a degree. The biggest gap, though, is between people with a postgraduate degree and everybody else. Those people with the bachelor's degree actually have more in common with without a degree than the post grads. So it's not purely an economic issue. Now, when you take it back far enough, Woodrow Wilson in the late 19th century, I think you were just getting started in journalism about that time, was talking about the study of administration. He wrote a very influential article. He envisioned America, he wanted America to have a governing system much more like the Prussian system of government. Where you would have experts make the decisions. He openly spoke about the fact that voters should be cut out of the process. In fact, a little bit later, he said that the problem with the American people is they've never gotten over the Declaration of Independence. And Bill, by the way, I haven't gotten over it yet either. I still believe in it. But this idea that a group of experts should lead things started with Wilson. It has been growing for 140 years, and that's the battle we face today."

But here's the conundrum. Let's say the Bush family, they would be considered elite, right? By any standard, so they're elite, and the father and the son become president. The Obamas are not elite, although they have law degrees, and as you talk about, they're very well educated, but they come from, both of them, Michelle and Barack, very humble beginnings. So, it's hard to put them in the elite category, is it not?

"They're certainly in the elite category in the sense that they were very well educated at elite schools that had a postgraduate degree. They've done very well for themselves. They have a much different background than the Bushes. But I think that the common ground between both the Bush family and the Obamas is they looked at the political system as a top-down system of governance. The federal government should make the rules, and others will follow. I dedicated my book to the..."

Both do. Both the Bushes and the Obamas see it that way. So they have something in common.

"Correct. And in my book, I dedicate it to the nation's 519,000 state and local officials. I would like to encourage them to pull back our power from the federal government, not to ask, not to beg, but to find ways to actively bring decision-making closer to home."

Well, that's the states' rights movement. You see a little bit of that in the Supreme Court.

"Decision-making closer to home at every level. And look, if you're a city council member, maybe not in New York City, but in most places, you run into your constituents in the grocery store. You have a different relationship with them. And you have the benefit that members of Congress listen to you because you're an elected official. These are the people we want to elevate to challenge. That's a different way of thinking about our policymaking."

But in order to do that, then you have to kind of shrink the powerful party system that we have now. The book again is Out of Touch: The Elite One Percent in the Battle for America. So while I have you here, what is it with this communist movement? What is with this? It comes in the last, I don't know, eight, nine years maybe ten, out of nowhere. And now socialist this, communist that, Mamdani, the mayor of Seattle, and they're all as radical left. Does that have anything to do with the elite?

"Absolutely. In fact, when you talk about Mamdani, for example, despite all the hype about what a national story this is, and how it's changing the perception of the Democratic Party, this is a man who was elected by one out of 11 voters in Manhattan. This is a local story about a city that is more prone to be left-leaning. What has happened is we have a nation that is now I call it a 10-10-80 nation. We have 10% on the far left, these radicals on one side, fighting with 10% of the far right. And they are so consumed with fighting each other that they've forgotten about the 80%. And the 80% hate the political process. They wanna keep their heads down. They wanna avoid getting caught in the crossfire. And again, those are the voices that we actually need to elevate because they're the ones who still believe in freedom, equality, and self-governance."

All right, but it's impossible to elevate the regular folks if the media itself is part of the elite system, which it is.

"And that's where the good news comes and one of the reasons I'm very optimistic about America's future. You know, back in the 60s and 70s, there were three television networks that controlled 94% of the audience. The evening news. If you didn't make the evening news, your story didn't exist. And by the way, the three network anchors all read the same stories from the New York Times. That world does not exist anymore. In that world, you could not be doing your show. In that world, a Fox News never would have come around, or a CNN, and now we have the internet, and look, I know all the problems with social media, but it is a much better world that we have lots of voices springing up and the gatekeepers have lost control. That ultimately, that decentralizing of communications is good news for all of those who want to restore power to the ordinary folks."

Even if all of them or most of them hate the sitting president, Donald Trump.

"Most people hate this sitting president. Most people dislike the previous president. America is not defined by our elected politicians. We began long ago with the idea that the most important thing about being an American was you didn't have to ask permission from the government to do anything. Back in 1636, when they wanted to create a new college called Harvard, in those days, well, it was illegal to start anything without getting permission from the king. They just ignored that because the king would have said, you have to teach the religion that I believe in, not the religion that you believe in. Once that became known, once people began to realize they could start organizations on their own businesses or nonprofits or any kind of organization, that set in motion a chain of events that led to America's commitment to freedom. And that, the idea that we don't have to ask President Trump or President Biden for permission for everything, that's a good thing."

All right, Scott, appreciate it. Good book. Thank you for writing it and coming on the program. We'll talk soon. And while we're on the management side of the media, Scott Pelley. Yeah, I see Pelley. People know him, I guess. He was a CBS Evening News anchor, but he lost that job for lower ratings. Now he went to 60 Minutes, but it's not a big star. Anyway, quit saying that Bari Weiss, who runs CBS News, is trying to murder 60 Minutes. Okay, I don't think Mr. Pelley, who's not a stupid man, knew that he was going to survive saying that in public. I had a very similar situation myself, and Pelley and I worked at the same station, not at the same time, in Dallas, WFAA. So I was a very young reporter when I was down there in the late 1970s, and the news director hired this blonde bombshell to anchor the early news. And she wasn't qualified to do anything, and WFAA had a very good staff of reporters. So, in a meeting, when this woman's job was announced, me, your home correspondent, go, is she qualified to do this job? I got suspended, not fired. I got suspended for two weeks. That's how it works. You don't go up against the powers that be. Now, I learned a lesson, yes, and I didn't do it again because, you know, the jobs that I had, most of them were valuable to me and I didn't want to lose them. But Pelley knew. And he wanted to go out a martyr. But Scott Pelley is part of the problem. He hates Trump. And isn't it interesting that all of the people on social media who object to the firing of Scott Pelley are liberal? There aren't any conservatives that I could find today, and I scanned it, I didn't research it, that were appalled that Scott Pelley got fired. None. So what does that tell you, Scott? Talking to you now. It tells me and any other educated person that you were broadcasting for a leftist ideology. Because they like you. They don't want you fired. Whereas the independents and the conservatives, they don't care whether you're fired or not. Because they watched you over the years push a left-wing point of view, which is what this is all about. Bernie Goldberg wrote a book on this called Bias. I'm going to have Bernie on Monday. And Goldberg and I were at CBS News at the same time. He was much more successful there than I was. But everybody knew that CBS News was a liberal organization. But guys like Mike Wallace overcame that, didn't play that game. And that's how 60 Minutes built up.

Now, do you care? I don't think most Americans care at all. This is a media story. It doesn't put gas in your car or resolve Iran or do anything. It's a media guy. Doing something he knew was going to get him in trouble, and now he's gone. Is anybody going to be marching about Scott Pelley? No. There is a rumor he'll wind up at CNN, but CNN is part of this whole merger thing where the left believes that Trump got Pelley fired. I think Trump had a little bit to do with it, I'm sure, because he didn't like 60 Minutes at all. Remember Lesley Stahl saying to President Trump, you know, there's no proof that this laptop is real, talking about Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean, we're all sitting there going. What that was 60 minutes? And then Laura O'Donnell reading off the list of allegations against President Trump. That was about as unfair a piece of journalism as you could get. And the new regime that fired Pelley was in place when that happened, not when Leslie did what Leslie did. Anyway, the point is I went through exactly what Pelley did, I was a big mouth. I was offended that this woman could come in, she had no credentials. They had ten people in there who could have inked the five o'clock news and knew what they were talking about, and I said something You're not surprised, I know.

Okay, now here's another terrible California migrant story. And I only report this to remind you how bad the situation is out there in the nation's largest state. So this is Modesto, California. This is central California. So there's a guy, Joaquin Escoto, 28 years old. And he was deported, and he comes back, and he's got a whole bunch of DUIs on his sheet. He murders his girlfriend, 23 years old, a two-week-old baby, and the girlfriend's mother. Murdered all three of them. Then we find out that in Modesto, this guy was in jail, and Homeland Security asked for a detainer on him so they could pick him up, and this happened in 2025, right? So they knew he was a bad guy because he has a string of DUIs and he defied deportation. They let him out. The state of California let him out on sanctuary policies, and then he kills three people. I know who's responsible for that. The legislature in Sacramento and Governor Newsom. That's who's responsible for the deaths. Yeah, this guy is, but, you know, he's a thug. This is what sanctuary policies do.

Now, if Geraldo Rivera were sitting here right next to me, he would then leap up and say, well, Americans kill people too. That's what we all know it's at. You know, believe me, Google O'Reilly-Geraldo migrant debate. That's what Geraldo always says, and the progressive movement says. Americans do that. Why are you picking on Joaquin Escoto? Because he should never have been here. And was here only because of the dereliction of duty from the state of California. That's why. They won't accept it. The left will not accept it. I'd love to bring this story to Pope Leo. That's what I would love to do with all the respect in the world and say, what do you think? I don't know what he would say. I do know this happens every day in this country. All right, the Bidens. Another story that... Doesn't matter to you, I know. But it's a fascinating story anyway. So Jill Biden, who ran the White House show, and I'm on record saying that a long time ago. She ran it. It was like Nancy Reagan. Probably Jill Biden had more power than Nancy, and Nancy had a lot of power. Okay, she goes on Morning Joe because she has a book. Jill Biden has a book. That was fast. All right, and here's what happened. Go.

"Do you or does the president now regret dropping out of the race?"

"You know, I would never want anyone I loved to go through that again. It was so painful, not just for us, not for me and for Joe, but we have children and grandchildren, and to see them have to go through that was really a hard thing, a hard time for our family, and I would really never want to put our family through that again."

"But does he believe to this day that he would have defeated Donald Trump in that election?"

"I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election."

Well, you're living in dreamland, okay, because most Americans who are honest knew that President Biden was on the verge of senility. So, story gets better. Jill Biden then segues up to the 92nd Street Y, here in Manhattan, which puts on liberal people, and they have a subscription base. you pay them, and you go and hear them hear the liberal people talk. Okay. 92Nd Street Y, been there forever. In the body of the conversation, President Biden is standing off state. Roll the tape.

"Oh, Joe has a question. Like you couldn't ask it later?"

"Who do you love most in the whole world?"

"Whoopie."

"And so I'm going to do the last."

"No, I love you most, Joe. Is that the answer you wanted? Overwhelming. Well, that's what keeps him on his toes. He's never 100% sure. I always keep him guessing. Is that not true?"

Okay. Why don't you tell me what you think? I mean, to me, that's a... Former president intruding on his wife's interview. Who do you love the most? It's not really in the mainstream. Anyway, Bill@BillOReilly.com, let me know what you think is going on there. Maybe I am not seeing something here. Maybe it was just all affectionate and in good humor. I saw it, and I went, ooh. Now, I will tell you one thing. And I said this before. I'm sorry to be repetitive, but it's an important point. So last week I was in London, as some of you know, doing a special for News Nation. Don't know when it will air, but I will give you the date when I know. All right, in that special, there is a part of this. That shows that a whole country is changing for the worse, violence, because of the incredible infusion of Muslims. North Africa, Middle East, it's happening. Can't deny it's happening. Happened yesterday. Another incident over there. Okay, almost every day. If Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris had defeated Donald Trump, that'd be happening here. They never would have closed the border. They never would have established Homeland Security seeking out the miscreants that have already been here, ever. And it would have gotten worse and worse and worse and worse. Keep that in mind. Very, very important.

Smart life. So I'm checking out of the hotel in London to come back. And nice hotel, Marriott, beautifully run, everything is great. So I am a type of guy that supervises my finances. Okay, that means I don't. Give it to other people to do, I do it. And one of the things I've always done is check my hotel bill. But people don't do that now because it's all on credit cards, debit cards, and it goes through a system, they don't even get a receipt. They just walk out of the hotel, well, I'm done, I'll see you later, thanks. So I go to the desk, okay. And I look at my bill, and I said, can you print my bill? First of all, the young woman behind the desk is like, what? Not many people ask for this. So she prints a bill, she gives a bill. This is a big charge for a dinner at the hotel. I didn't eat at the Hotel. I never had dinner at The Hotel. I'm looking at him going, is there any backup for this? I didn't eat here. I didn't have dinner here. There was no backup. None, so they took it off right away. I didn't have to dispute it. And now I am me, okay. And they don't want trouble, the Marriott people, I understand, but it was like, oh, Mr. O'Reilly, but the fact of the matter is there it was and it wasn't a cheap dinner. Smart Life, check it. Check everything. I can't tell you how many Concierge Members write to me saying I got hosed, and I saay, send me the receipt, and they go. I don't have the receipt. What do you expect me to do about it? If you don't have the receipt, how can I solve this problem? It's a he said, she said. Okay, keep your records. All you've gotta do is have one folder. It says travel. Toss it on in, just in case some crazy thing happens. Because in today's world, nobody cares. They make a mistake, even if it's 80-90 dollars. You work hard for your money. Protect it. Smart Life.

This Day in History, June 3rd, 2010. Joran van der Sloot, remember him? So I'm at Fox covering this story, horrible story. So you'll remember that on May 30th, 2005, 21 years ago, an 18-year-old named Natalie Anne Holloway disappears in Aruba, where she was on a high school graduation trip, vanishes. Okay, the last person to see her alive was a Dutch citizen, because Aruba is run by the Dutch, Joran van der Sloot, okay, and he gets away with it. I will never go to Aruba, ever. I've had the opportunity, I'm not going. They didn't investigate this down there, and the judge is let him out. Let him out! So he goes to Peru, okay, van der Sloot does, it goes down there. And he murders another girl. And there the Peruvian authorities throw him in jail. So that's where he stays until he gets out of jail in Peru, and then he goes to Chile, a neighboring country, and the woman's name was Stephanie Flores Ramirez, who he killed, 21 years old. Same modus operandi, same thing. So Joran van der Sloot is now serving time in a Peruvian jail. But he's gonna get out on parole. It will be for a while, but he has not gotten life. So you remember that happened in America, poor... And they never found Natalie Holloway's body, and not only that, but Joran van der Sloot tried to extort her family, according to them, by saying if you pay me a quarter of a million dollars, I'll tell you where Natalie's body is. This guy. Oh, okay, we got lively mail, and then we got We'll Do It Live, Victor Davis-Hanson. I'll give you a preview of that in a moment.

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"We are a nation now that is so distracted based on TikTok or whatever they're consuming that millions and millions and millions of people don't know what's going on and don't care to know how important is that to the progressive advancement?"

"It's very important. When I pick up my phone, I had never asked to be a subscriber to Apple news or Smart News, but all of a sudden this stuff pops up with all of, and it's completely left-wing. And then all these things on YouTube, TikTok, they all have a particular, they're either left-wing, or they're a crudity or a diminishing of the cultural standards of the tradition that we grew up with."

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What's Happening in California?, Scott Pelley Out at CBS, Trump's Iran Strategy, & Scott Rasmussen on the Elite Impacting America

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Talking Points Memo: Bill gives an update on last night's primary races in California.
Iran’s annual inflation hit its highest level in 80 years. What does that mean for President Trump?
Scott Rasmussen, pollster and author of Out of Touch: The Elite One Percent and the Battle for America's Soul, breaks down who the elite are and why it matters.
CBS News fires “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley.
Bill reports on a case involving a previously deported migrant accused of killing his 2-week-old baby, the child’s mother, and grandmother in Modesto, California.
A look at the awkward moment involving Joe and Jill Biden.
Final Thought: A preview of tomorrow’s We’ll Do It LIVE! featuring Victor Davis Hanson.

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Ronald Coleman's Insights on the E. Jean Carroll Investigation

2026-06-03T16:06:00Z

Attorney Ronald Coleman of the Coleman Law Firm, P.C., joins the No Spin News to weigh in on the E. Jean Carroll DOJ investigation.

Is the Far Left Gaining Power?

2026-06-03T16:04:00Z

What you need to know about today’s political races in California and Maine.

CBS Fires Scott Pelley

2026-06-03T14:57:00Z

Most Americans don’t watch “60 Minutes,” but if you are over 35, you’ve probably heard of the CBS program. Thanks to Mike Wallace, Don Hewitt, Ed Bradley, and Morley Safer, the news magazine is a huge profit generator to this day.

However, former CBS reporter Scott Pelley, who was fired last night, says the new management, headed by Larry and David Ellison, is trying to “murder” the show. That’s overstated, I believe. They may want to rough it up a bit, but homicide is not profitable in this case.

Having worked at CBS News a long time ago, I can testify that a liberal culture took root after anchorman Walter Cronkite retired and Dan Rather took over. Bernie Goldberg wrote a book on that called “Bias.”

Mr. Rather did not like said book.

Now reform is in the air. No longer will Leslie Stahl be allowed to defend Hunter Biden’s laptop or other correspondents demean President Trump as Norah O’Donnell recently tried to do. That’s a good thing, correct?

Donald Trump is getting the blame for the culture adjustment, and the President is certainly involved.

But he is not an accessory to murder. The truth is, “60 Minutes” allowed an anti-Trump agenda to flourish.

That’s the real felony if honest reporting is the goal. See you this evening for the No Spin News.

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Is the Far Left Gaining Power?, Ronald Coleman's Insights on the E. Jean Carroll Investigation, & Mexico's President Makes Accusations Against the U.S.

2026-06-02T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: What you need to know about today’s political races in California and Maine.
Attorney Ronald Coleman of the Coleman Law Firm, P.C., joins the No Spin News to weigh in on the E. Jean Carroll DOJ investigation.
A look at the Trump administration’s new rules for Medicaid recipients.
Why did a Nantucket church cancel its Fourth of July celebration?
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum accuses the U.S. of interfering in her country’s politics.
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Is the Far Left Gaining Power?, Ronald Coleman's Insights on the E. Jean Carroll Investigation, & Mexico's President Makes Accusations Against the U.S.

2026-06-02T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026. Stand up for your country. A country that is moving left. It's a very interesting political story. This happened late 1920s. You had a communist movement here that took on some power, but now the difference is you have huge money behind the progressive philosophy, and we're going to go through this tonight in a very precise manner. So there's a vote in California, Los Angeles and the governor's race, the gubernatorial race. Tomorrow at this time, I will report what happened. But if you look at California, the Progressives have been running that state now for 25 years, it's a disaster. That's not just unique to the Golden State, the largest state in the Union. It is happening everywhere, in Maine. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

So the Progressive movement and the Democratic Party have merged, and the moderate Democrats, and they are not plentiful, but they're around have to shut up if they want money to run in the primaries because big money is coming from the far left. That's number one, you gotta know that. It's a money deal. Nancy Pelosi started it. You either vote my way, or we cut you off entirely. And now that is pretty much de facto daily for the Democratic Party. There is a strain of that on the right, the Republican Party, but not nearly what it is on the left. That's important to understand. So in Los Angeles, which is a disaster, and I mean that, it is a disaster, okay? Homeless, crime, nothing works, police don't answer calls, it's just anarchy. The woman who runs the place is Karen Bass. You know her because she screwed up the fires and just, you can't say enough terrible things about Karen Bass. She should be doing anything else but running the nation's second-largest city. She may win re-election. She may win. Our main competition is a TV guy named Spencer Pratt. I don't know much about him. He's a Republican 42 years old. He's around LA. He does projects. He owns a company called Pratt Daddy Crystals And he's been waging a pretty effective campaign so it'll be interesting to see how well Pratt does, whether people are going to put aside their ideology, because California is overwhelmingly Democratic, and vote for a change. How long are we going to do this? It's crazy. So at the same time, Angelenos will be voting for a mayor. We have a gubernatorial race. Bass, by the way, in L.A., in the mayor's race, is ahead of Pratt, but not by a lot. It's 25-22 according to the latest polling. And Pratt could do an upset, which would be very interesting. On the gubernatorial side, it looks like Xavier Becerra, who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Joe Biden, and who presided over the unbelievable homeless collapse in California. It looks like he's going to be the next governor. Now Steve Hilton, a former Fox guy, is giving Becerra a race. Tom Steyer, the multi-billionaire, is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars. He's in it too. So there's two, I would say, far-left guys against Hilton. Be interesting to see tomorrow what that brings.

Almost four million people, four million, have moved out of California between the years 2020 and 2024, according to the census. Four million people. And California's a nice place to live if you like the weather and all that, and there's a lot of opportunity, or used to be, there. Four million, people say goodbye. Can't cut it here, all right, because the government is too onerous, and it's all about taxation. It's all. Regulation, control, all that, that's Newsom. Newsom can't run again. He will try to run for president. So anyway, I'm watching these races not because I particularly care about who the people are, because I don't really know them. We can't follow every race across the country, but we are watching the ideology of people in L.A. and across the state of California. Because if you continue to vote for failure, you get more failure. You know, there's a whole bunch of cliches that demonstrate that. But that's what it is. We have the same problems in New York, where I am, but not to the extent of California. The progressives are trying here, there is a little bit more resistance here than out West. Now in Maine, population 1.4 million, tiny, tiny. Not tiny geographically, it's a big state if you drive it, but 1.4 million, they've got a guy running for the Senate, Graham Platner, you've heard of him, Nazi tattoos, crazy, crazy left guy, all right, he may be the Republican Susan Collins, who's passed her game and you know, but what are you doing up in Maine? What is going on up there? One of my favorite states. It's a beautiful place. Cold, but great in the summer. And Platner is what you want? What is wrong? Because this is as irresponsible as I've ever seen. This guy can't do anything. He's involved with controversies all over the place, with the Marines, with his wife. I mean, it goes on and on and on, this guy. He could win. I mean, that's shocking.

Then you have the, let's see what word I want to use here. Pundits isn't strong enough. The organized influencers. There you go, OK, who run around. These are far-left individuals. There are some on the far right, but not many, telling everybody we got to be communists. We got to hate the Jews. We gotta do this. We've got to do that. They're bad. So, there's a guy named Hassan Piker, and his uncle, Cenk Uyghur. You may have heard of these two. All right, so Great Britain, the UK, would not allow them into the country. I got led into the country very easily. Nobody checked any of my credentials. I just walked in from Ireland last week, but these guys, even the government of England, which is very left-wing, said no, not letting them in to the country, and here's reaction in the USA. Go.

"Is the UK going to ban everyone who criticizes Israel? Because if that's the standard, they'd have to ban billions of people around the world. So we can't let this go forward without a massive outcry, or we'll all be next."

"I've never heard you espouse any anti-Semitism, never heard you be hateful about Jewish people, or anyone because of their faith or their ethnicity. So I just don't understand what rationale the UK government could possibly have for banning you."

Well, I'll explain it to Mr. Morgan, anti-Semitism. So when I was there doing a special for News Nation, we will tell you when that will air, about how Jews in the UK are terrified. And I use that word literally, they are terrified. About 275,000 Jews in the UK, very small, all right? There are about five million Muslims. There are more than that, because the government doesn't know who's coming in. They don't monitor it. All right, this is what Europe has turned into. And there was an incident a few weeks back where some Muslim guy went into a Jewish neighborhood and stabbed a guy almost to death. The victim survived, but it was unprovoked. And that led to demonstrations and everything else. Well, the UK government does not want these two guys, Piker and Uyghur, who hate Israel, they hate that country. All right. And by extension, I don't know whether they. Hate Jews personally but certainly they are not friendly to Jewish people, and the government of the UK goes like, we can't handle this. All right, we don't want this provocateur attraction to come into our country. I understand that, unlike Piers Morgan, I understand it. Would I have banned them? I don't know. Piker has used the phrase Zionist pig. He's way out there. And the uncle, he's co-founder of the Young Turks, and he said, this is Piker again, that America deserved 9-11, and these guys are way out there. So, I might have come down on that. Now, behind all this, all this progressive movement in LA and California, and the influencers behind all this, is money coming out of... Communist China. Now, we broke the story in January. Neville Roy Singham, Neville Roy Singham, okay, and he lives in Shanghai. And he's pumping billions of dollars into the progressive movement to try to overthrow the capitalist system in the USA. Now the far left is starting to admit that. Okay, at first, no, they didn't want to talk about it, Singham. But now they're having to admit it. Roll it.

"It's like, totally f***ing ridiculous to... Um... To try and stop like the political advocacy of an American citizen, right? Roy Singham is an American citizen. He lives in China now, and he's a centimillionaire. I think he like has almost a billion dollars. Not sure how much money he has now, but like he's been a funding vehicle for a lot of like political, a lot of political movements in the country, like a lot of activism, and they hate that s***. Like the American government hates that s***, so they're trying to jam them up, you know. They're trying to hit him on anything and everything they possibly can."

Yeah, the American government and every loyal American should hate that blank, because Singham wants a communist America, okay? And that'd be a civil war; there'd be guns if that ever happened, okay, here. Because people like me are not going to let the government seize my private property. No. I'll fight for it. I'm not being provocative, but I'm telling you what could happen because of a guy named Neville Roy Singham. Now Fox News, and we have not been able to confirm this, ties the Soros boys into it as well. I don't know whether that's true. I don't know whether Soros' are funding, all right, these communist radical groups. I know they're funding far-left groups. I know they're paying for buses. I know they're sending people to New Jersey to attack ICE agents. I know that they're doing all of that through their political action committees, but I don't know whether they're on the overthrow the government level that Singham's on. It's frightening. It really is frightening. So, summing up, we've got a litmus test in California, in Los Angeles, again. If you go to LA, and I was recently there, it's falling apart, the whole place. And California is losing millions of people. There is a reason. You're going to re-elect that reason? Staggering. That's the memo.

Now yesterday we gave you a primer on E. Jean Carroll. And this is a terrible story. And this drives President Trump's thinking on a lot of other matters. So on June 21st, coming up, 2019, seven years ago, Ms. Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape and sexual assault. Okay. She said that Mr. Trump committed these crimes at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in either late 1995 or early 1996. E. Jean Carroll did not know, could not recall when she was raped. That might be a signal flag. Didn't report it to the police, didn't report to any Bergdorf official, didn't do anything, sat on it for what? More than 20 years, then presto. Now, this was the case where George Stephanopoulos from ABC called Trump a racist, and then ABC had to pony up $15 million for defamation to Mr. Trump's library, I believe that he's using the money for. Now, in depositions, this is a civil case, not a criminal case. Again, Ms. Carroll did not report this to any authority. There were depositions. And Ms. Carroll said in a deposition, which is a sworn document, nobody else is involved with this but me. Nobody's funding it. Nobody pushed me to do it. I'm just outraged, and I thought I had to do something. That's under oath. That turns out that a group called American Future Republic, run by a guy named Reid Hoffman, okay, gave Ms. Carroll's lawyers seven million dollars to use in this lawsuit. He admits it. He admits it. And now the Justice Department is investigating E. Jean Carroll. They have to. They have to, on possible charges of conspiracy, perjury, on and on and on, and so Hoffman admits that he gave the money. And then the lawyer for Carroll said, her recollection is refreshed. Oh, I see. She doesn't remember when she was allegedly raped. She didn't report it to anybody. She told the court under oath, nobody helped her or her lawyers, gave her any money at all. But now suddenly, her recollection is refreshed. Okay. Now I am all for this investigation. The progressive left hates this. Oh, it's Trump going after his, yeah. Yeah, it is. Now. E. Jean Carroll is entitled to due process. That means the FBI investigates her. It goes to a grand jury. If the grand jury finds that Ms. Carroll likely committed a crime, she'll be indicted. I hope she is. This is outrageous. And I'll remind you, here's what Donald Trump said about the case. Go.

"And know nothing about this nut job. She's accusing me of rape, of raping her. The worst thing you can do, the worst charge. And you know it's not true, too. You're a political operative, also. You're disgusting, you're a disgrace."

He's talking to her lawyer in a deposition, Mr. Trump. All right, joining us now from Newark, New Jersey is attorney Ronald Coleman, who's following this case. You know, I wonder whether most counselors, most lawyers give a hoot about this because it goes right to the heart of our justice system even though it's a civil case. You can make up anything about anybody, and I certainly do not believe E.G. Carroll on the up front about that. Okay, and then try to ruin them, and Carroll won. A jury awarded her five million dollars, and then a judge gave her another 80 million dollars because Trump allegedly defamed her. I would think that every lawyer in a country would be interested in this. Am I wrong?

"You're wrong, and you're wrong for the same reason that most of so many of us were wrong about how quiet lawyers, especially the criminal defense bar have been over the last 10 years with respect to everything involving Donald Trump. The rape if there's any rape that's involved with Donald Trump. It was the rape of the attorney-client privilege. The michael cohen business, all the things that have been done to Donald Trump that the ACLU and the extremely well-spoken criminal defense bar have had so little to say... Say perhaps Alan Dershowitz. Don't be surprised at all. This is negotiable virtue that they have and pretty much not much else."

Well, they don't care because Trump got hammered. But Sebenopoulos paid a price for what he did. However, there's silence across the country about this story. I guess it's well, it's gone away. Trump isn't gonna suffer for it, but the case is gonna come before the Supreme Court, correct?

"It is distinctly possible, and it's a real shame because it should have been dealt with. It's bad enough that this went through the New York District Court, but that the Second Circuit was so ready to rubber-stamp the decisions of the District Court is really disturbing. So many problems with, so many legal problems, so much procedural problems, so many constitutional problems. Now these kinds of things happen in lots of cases, and circuit courts ignore them lots of times. The only reason anyone is even hearing about this is because it involves the President of the United States."

The Justice Department is keeping very quiet about this. In fact, there's contradictory statements being made. The case is now in Illinois, the U.S. Attorney's Office. But we can't get any definition on what they're doing, if anything. Do you know?

Well, I certainly don't know. Even if I were a member of the Trump legal team, I wouldn't know, I haven't been for a couple of years. But it is not particularly surprising that those who do know aren't going to say whether they're on the Trump side or the Carroll side, or the government side, because it's still an investigation. And as you point out, Bill. The government has denied that there is an investigation with respect to Carol herself. They are looking at the Reed Hoffman business, and to the extent that his activities involve her, then she and this case would be part of the investigation."

All right. So Hoffman and his crew, the focus on whether they broke certain laws in the pursuit of trying to convict Donald Trump in civil court. Do I have that correct?

"Well, not convict, but to find him liable. I mean, they're not all that interested in either the 5 million or the 83 million dollars. They're interested in what the entire purpose of that lawsuit was, was to destroy Donald Trump's political reputation to make him unelectable."

So why isn't there more exposition on this? Because it seems to me that's a very high crime to take out a legitimate contender for the presidency with a false accusation. And I'm not even gonna get into he said, she said about it. But if the person, E. Jean Carroll, says under oath, nobody helped me, and then seven million dollars rolled into her attorneys. That's pretty serious, it looks to me. Is it not?

"It is pretty serious. And, you know, Bill, from a technical point of view, from what I understand, the Carroll team is taking the position that, well, she was always, and apparently the Second Circuit passed on this as well, was always walled off from the mechanics of it. But that means when asked the question, you don't answer, no, you answer, I've been walled off from the mechanics of it. Moreover, when the lawyer says six months later, you know, I've been thinking about this case. So kind of just going through the files and I just remembered about that $7 million check. $7,000,000 is a lot of money for most lawyers."

And I don't buy the E. Jean Carroll thing at all because she had to walk into a lawyer's office or be guided in, all right? She had to make a deal, whether it's a contingency deal or an hourly deal, she had to be involved in it, had to be.

"Of course."

That's how it looks to me.

"She was lying.".

Yeah. That's how they're going to portray her, is this doddering person. But if she's so doddery, how can you believe anything she says about the actual case?

"Well, if it involves Donald Trump, the rule always is you believe it, especially, you know, if you actually go so far as to name the source for the claim against Donald Trump. That's a home run. I mean, you can, you could say anything about Donald Trump and it's repeated breathlessly and immediately by the corporate media."

Yeah, none of the media has challenged this E. Jean Carroll as far as we can tell. I'm bringing it up because I just think it's not only dangerous for Mr. Trump, but it's dangerous for every single American.

"Every single American, and one of the things that, Bill, that is the most concerning about this is, again, the point that you brought up at the beginning: where's the legal profession? Where's the judiciary on this? The judiciary is supposed to be the neutral arbiter, supposed to be the last best opportunity an aggrieved citizen has or an accused citizen has to get justice. And they have so failed. Every court in New York, whether federal or state, failed so miserably with respect to the lawfare brought against Donald Trump. It's a gigantic problem, and it really presents a political and institutional problem for the Supreme Court as well."

And a jury participated in this whole charade as well. They found him guilty.

"Well, Jury's in-"

What happened to reasonable doubt? Lady, if you don't know when it happened, that's reasonable doubt to me.

"You would think that, and you would think even if the jury didn't find that there was reasonable doubt, you know, there are many opportunities for judges and reviewing courts to say there is insufficient evidence. It is very hard, Bill, to appeal from a jury verdict. And you sue people in certain jurisdictions because you know what kind of juries you're going to get in these political cases. And they guessed right just about every time."

All right counselor, thanks very much for your expertise. Let us know if anything breaks and you hear about it , and we appreciate it. Okay, medicaid. So one of the democratic talking points, not just progressives but democratic party is That donald trump is throwing five million people off health insurance government funded health insurance And that's medicaid for the states and medicare So, the final touches are being put on a new Medicaid litmus test, that you have to work, or volunteer, or go to school, or do something, 80 hours a month, 80 hours month, that's 20 hours a week in order to qualify for Medicaid. So, you just can't sit in your living room taking heroin. You have to do something to actively try to earn as much money to get off the entitlement. Well, the Democratic Party doesn't want that. And that's why you hear, oh, Trump's throwing people off the run. Okay. So basically this would go into effect in January 2027. You're gonna hear about it all day long until then. He's throwing the people off, throwing the people off, throwing the people off. Okay, five million people are gonna lose health benefits because of Donald Trump, on and on and, now to me, if you're ill or you can't do it, there are medical exceptions written into this requirement. And if you can volunteer in your neighborhood and help people out, you don't even have to look for a job. But no, progressives don't want it in any state. Here's what Trump said about it. Go.

"People that need it have to get it. I'm all for it. But people that are able-bodied can do a job. They leave their job because they figure they can pick this up. It's easier. That's not the purpose of it."

Alright, so now let's go to Nantucket Island in Massachusetts, a progressive bastion. So there is a church there, a Unitarian Church. I always got a kick out of the Unitarians because you can pretty much do anything you want, right? It's Unitarian, alright. There is a Reverend who runs the church named Erin Splane. She's a lesbian. She's married to a woman. For the past 25 years, the church, Unitarian Universalists, have read the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July. But now, Reverend, now the Reverend Splane says, we're not gonna do it anymore because of whiteness. Because of whiteness. What she is objecting to is voter ID. She says that because the government's demanding voter ID, this is going to throw people off the voting rolls and it's going to help white people, okay? They experience the rights and privileges conferred, but other people don't. So, this woman's a loon. All right, and I use loon in an affectionate way. Another church, thank god. St. Paul's Episcopal on Nantucket is picking it up. They are going to read the Declaration of Independence. I got a couple of friends of mine who live on Nantucket. And it's a beautiful place. My mother used to work there in a hotel when she was at Boston University. It's a Beautiful place. But crazy? Oh, boy. Let's go out of Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum is president. She is a socialist, hardcore socialist. She's one of the few world leaders who thinks that the Cuban government is really good. So the United States is arresting and indicting a number of Mexican officials for narcotics. Now, this has been going on for 50 years, 50 years. Ever since the Woodstock generation. Mexico's been pouring narcotics into the United States. Everybody knows that. Sheinbaum knows that, but he doesn't like the fact that the USA, for the first time, is now starting to hold these public officials accountable for their corruption. Roll it.

"An office of the U.S. Department of Justice has urgently requested the arrest of 10 Mexican citizens, including a governor, a mayor, and a sitting senator, for the purpose of extradition, without publicly presenting evidence to support that request. An event of this magnitude is unprecedented in the history of our bilateral relationship. A legitimate question arises. Is this truly a genuine legitimate interest in helping Mexico? Is it truly a legitimate interest in combating organized crime? Or are we perhaps witnessing how sectors of the American far right are using our country to position themselves ahead of their 2026 elections?"

Yeah, it's the far right doing it, sure, Claudia, you're right. So all of the thousands of people who are dead, you know, far right wanted them to be dead. You know, look, this is what we're dealing with now. She is a progressive. She runs a country. That's Mexico. Smart life. So I've been telling you probably too much, but I'm interested in your health and well-being. That sugar is gonna kill you if you overeat it. And now there's a new study coming out of the University of Colorado, Boston U, other schools that says fructose is driving obesity and metabolic disease, are more than science understood. So what's fructose? Well, It is a sweetener, and you get it in soda, all kinds of energy drinks, fruit juices, so you plow down that OJ, you're drinking a lot of fructose, ketchup, barbecue sauce, breakfast cereals, although not all of them. You can read the label, dried fruit, sweetened fruit, yogurt, a lot of fruit in there. So smart life. You gotta look at the label, you gotta cut it down, or you're gonna get, you're going to have insulin resistance. You may uptick to horrible diseases. You know, you've got to be very vigilant, especially when you get older, and you can't work it out. You can't work it off. You know, a mile or two a day, which is what I do, not going to do it. And I get blood tested at all time. Mine goes up and down, but I gotta fight it. When I was over in England and Ireland, they had the greatest desserts. Oh, you know, and I'm going, oh. But I had to temper it. You just cannot do it, or you're going to wind up with diabetes. You don't want to do that. Smart life, fructose, be aware. We'll Do It Live, our long form. We're going into the city tomorrow to tape another one. On Thursday, Victor Davis Hanson and I will discuss why the progressive movement is becoming so powerful in America. You don't want to miss this. So if you're a BillOReilly.com Premium or Concierge member, and I hope you will check that out on our website, you get it Thursday at noon, two days from now. And if you are a regular person, you get it at six p.m. Everybody can get it. It's really good. Well, you'll learn a lot. Hanson is a brilliant man.

This Day in History. June 2nd, 1774. The Intolerable Acts are enacted. This was the tipping point for the American Revolution. The guns came out, so the king did all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm not even going to go over it. You want to know what the king did, you read Killing England. King George, but the worst thing he did was force the colonists to house the British Army. In their own dwelling or in barns or whatever they had. So you had to feed and quarter the British military. Colonists went nuts. They had barely enough to eat. And now they got to support the King's Army? That was it. Okay, that was the tipping point. It all happened around Boston because that's where the concentration of the British Army and Navy and the colonial dissenters were. So, a fascinating day, 252 years ago, today, The Intolerable Acts. So we've got a lively mail segment. I like this. A lot of difference of opinion on certain things. We will read them. And then we have a final thought about Mike Pence, the former vice president. Right back.

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Okay, I just cut a new YouTube commentary, eight minutes long. And it's about the midterm elections. I don't think it's as dire for the Republicans as many believe. So it's free, youtube.com/BillOReilly. And we're approaching 2 million subscribers. We hope you become one of them. Let's go to the mail. We got David, Concierge, Member. We will help Dave out. "Our economy is being held hostage to the Iranian control of this trade of human war moves. President Trump does not live in the real world. He's not paying outrageously high prices for gas. The same with groceries, healthcare, insurance." All right. Okay, that's all true, but I think he understands the seriousness of the matter. I know he does.

We've got Bill Farrell, Milton, Delaware. "Looks more and more like President Trump will have to take a deal like the one President Obama had. He will need to address the plan, but it'll be basically the same." No, you've got to get the weapons inspectors there for the nukes, or it's a loss.

Danny Paul, Shelter Cove, California. "Bill, would you please clarify your statement: Israelis had no problem with killing Iranians?" Mortal enemies. There's your clarification, mortal enemies. No detente, no discussion.

Allen Bessel, Hastings, Minnesota. "Hey Bill, I have a question about President Trump. You're the only one I trust to give me an honest answer. Was he responsible for the January 6th insurrection? Did Nancy Pelosi have anything to do with it?" On the periphery. So Donald Trump gave a speech that jazzed up some of his militant supporters. But he obviously said, don't do anything untoward. But he did give the speech. Nancy Pelosi refused to protect the Capitol by ordering the National Guard in there the night before, knowing the speech was gonna take place. There you go.

David Concierge Member. "Yes, those various groups backed out of the 250 celebration. So now Trump has decided to stage a MAGA rally, which is the last thing the country needs." I don't know about that. I don't know about that. I mean, what is he going to do? Given to these people? I don't like political rallies anyway, but I don't think it's a disaster.

Karen Rossellis, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. "I hope you ride back in the States without any problems. Bill, I truly hope your vacation was a great getaway and that you took lots of pictures. Hope to see some. Karen, we have posted those pictures beginning last weekend on BillOReilly.com. That's where we live. It's always worth checking out. We have some great pictures up there. Hope you check them out. Okay, I wore my 250th anniversary USA hat. I'm telling you, everybody wants one, even the Brits, even the brits. Here it is. We're selling thousands of them. So if you want them for the 4th of July, and the rest of the summer, here it is. Bill O'Reilly.com has it. Beautiful hat. You'll love it. Word of the Day, do not be a puzzlewit. One word, P-U-Z-Z L-E-W-I-T. Final thought about Mike Pence coming your way.

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Okay, Final Thought. Vice President Pence and I had a pretty good relationship over the years. It's got a new book out. I'm not going to tell you the name of the book because Pence and his people over at Hashey Book Group have been disrespectful to us. We wanted to have him on the program for an extensive interview, and not only did they turn us down, they ignored us. They would even give us the courtesy of a turndown. Okay, that's disrespectful. We sell a lot of books here. So, in addition to being disrespectful, it's stupid. Whoever is running Hashay is dumb. Now, I understand why Mr. Pence would not want to come up against me. Even though we've had a great relationship, I did stick up for him on January 6th. He did the right thing. Shouldn't be any reason, but he doesn't like to answer hard questions. Didn't like to do it as governor, doesn't do it now. But not to even reply, no. Final thought. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

O'Reilly & Mark Simone Survey the Political Landscape

2026-06-02T21:29:00Z

Bill joins Mark Simone to analyze a plethora of issues, including the new crop of radical Democratic candidates, the big election in Los Angeles, the corporate media, and more.

O'Reilly & Vittert on NJ ICE Protests & Iran Developments

2026-06-02T17:19:00Z

Bill joined Leland Vittert on NewsNation to discuss the chaos involving anti-ICE protests in New Jersey and the latest developments with Iran.

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O'Reilly on the Invasion of the British Isles with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-06-02T16:56:00Z

Bill provides WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis with a recap of his visit to Ireland and the United Kingdom, where massive Muslim immigration has radically transformed the ancient cultures of Ireland and England.

Politics and Football

2026-06-02T07:02:00Z

Hope you saw last night’s No Spin News where I ran down the stories that broke during my trip to Europe. One small situation that is annoying me is the brouhaha involving the New York Giants football team.

A couple of weeks ago, quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Trump at a political rally. Mr. Dart was respectful and exercised his Constitutional right to expression. Well, a teammate of his, Abdul Carter, criticized Dart publicly because he doesn’t like Trump. That was wrong because who Jaxson Dart supports politically is NONE OF CARTER’S BUSINESS!

Get it, Abdul? Freedom of expression is an essential right. If your Quarterback wants your input, I assume he’ll ask. Otherwise, stand down.

Chances are, Abdul Carter voted for Kamala Harris. No problem. His choice, his right. Pro football is part of the American fabric. The rights of citizens don’t stop in the locker room.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

Noddy

2026-06-02T02:58:00Z

[nod-ee] a fool or simpleton

Bill's Update on Iran

2026-06-02T00:15:00Z

Bill breaks down the latest on the U.S. and Iran.

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BILL IS BACK!, The DOJ vs. E. Jean Carroll, New York Giants QB Under Fire for a Trump Rally Appearance, Tulsi Gabbard's Exit, & an Iran Update

2026-06-01T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, June 1st, 2026. Stand up for your Country. Well, I was out of my country for about eight days, and we had a very interesting trip. Not a lot of problems. Delta was very good. A salute, because air travel these days can get ridiculous. I visited Ireland R&R. Every two years my friends and I pick a destination and then we all go and about 21 guys, no arrests, which is always the benchmark. Everybody had a good time. And then I segued into England, to London, to do a documentary for NewsNation on the migrant crisis. And it is a crisis. Both in England and many EU countries. England's not part of the EU, I know that. They booted out of there, but boy, oh boy, what a problem. Now, at the end of this broadcast and the Final Thought, I'm gonna tell you a little bit about that. So, while I was gone, a lot of stuff happened here in the USA, important stuff that you should know about, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

Let's begin with Iran. So once again, the talks are off. They're on, they're off. They're in, they're out. All of this stuff. And I'm not even gonna bother getting into the minutia of all this because it's a game now. Who's gonna win? Is Trump gonna win or the Iranians gonna win. That's what is in play. Meanwhile, people all over the world are suffering. For a pint of Guinness beer in Ireland it's $8. Gallon of gas in Ireland, $9. I mean, we're shell shocked here, but over there, and not just Ireland, it's all being generated by financial chaos. Now, I still believe that America will prevail, but that might be because I want to believe that. Remember my mantra, people believe what they want to believe. I cannot back up my belief that the Trump administration will break the most. I can't. I do know that there is a lot of information that President Trump gets that is not public, particularly on economics, that the Persian people are suffering big time. And it's kind of a race on who can hold out. One sideline, you may have seen me on other venues debating people who say, well, Iran doesn't even have enriched uranium. Well, Iran admits they have it now, okay. So, it's not like they, if they didn't have it, this would have been done a long time ago. Because they would have said, sure, send the weapons inspectors in, took around, we don't have it. And then there wouldn't have been all this because Iran gets hurt too. So just remember that. When you see me debate somebody who said, they don't even have uranium enrichment. Okay. Gets a little frustrating. Two more people were executed, and again, I don't report this every day, but you should know this continues, today. They were hanged in the morning. So, if you dissent from the mullahs publicly or even privately, they'll kill you. That is why the population of Iran has not risen up. Maybe they will. I don't know, okay. Iran, you know, continues its pitiful military response, a couple of (inaudible) went over toward Kuwait, U.S. Forces blew them out of the sky. There's no doubt that if we wanted to, we being the United States of America, we could destroy that country militarily in probably 48 hours. And I did talk to President Trump about this. He does not want to kill civilians. Will that eventually have to happen? I don't know. Israelis have no problem killing Iranian civilians. And I'm not saying that in a derisive, negative way. I'm saying they understand the Netanyahu government that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, going to Israel first. Well, they got it. Okay, the problem now is when are we here in America and the world going to get relief? Nobody knows. And very, very frustrating for me, who has excellent sources, nobody knows. And now we're at first of June. And I don't have any insight into a timeline. And nobody else does either. If they're spouting that on television, just turn it off. Now there was a suggestion by President Trump that the United States would stop the federal gasoline tax to about $0.19 a gallon. And that would immediately bring down the cost of a gallon of gas. But no action has been taken on that. And the suggestion was made about four weeks ago. Congress has to approve it. The Democratic Party really doesn't want the situation solved before the midterm election. I can't imagine any Republican voting against that, but it's stalled for some reason. I'm working it, but its not close to being brought up on the floor. It's a little frustrating to me. I think that we should have updates on this, because a $0.19 decline would help the American economy and the American consumer, obviously. The Democrats are not, I'm not saying that they are unpatriotic or subversive. I'm saying that. They don't believe in a mission in the first place because they hate Trump, and they don't particularly care that Iran may have a nuke. I'm generalizing now. There are some Democrats who do. Most of the party, you know, why'd you start it? Shouldn't have started it, blah, blah blah blah. Chris Coons is a senator from Delaware, one of Joe Biden's buds, and he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Okay, so he's involved with this. Here's what he said yesterday. Go.

"Frankly, Iran is stronger than they were 90 days ago before this war because they've used their cheap and lethal drones, not just to close the Strait of Hormuz, but to attack our partners and allies in the region, harming oil and gas infrastructure, hitting our embassies and bases. And we need a stronger, better answer to Iran's ability to close the Strait of Hormuz at will."

Yeah, what's that answer? You know, these guys run around every show. What's the answer? What's your solution there, Senator? You don't have one. Democratic bar didn't have on. Iran's not stronger now than when this whole thing began. That's absurd. They haven't closed the Straits of Hormuz. Any American warship wants to get through there can get through. And if the warships escort tankers, as they have been. Particularly for China, the tanker will get through. 13 casualties on the American side. So, this is all a bunch of garbage. Now, does Coons know that? Probably not, because he doesn't want to know it. Anything that goes into his sphere that doesn't jive with what his political belief is, he's gonna reject. This is the same thing with the press. Press doesn't want a win for Donald Trump with Iran. And I'm talking about 80 percent. You know, Fox News does, Newsmax does, there's a few. Washington Post does, not Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, sorry Wall Street Journal, I didn't want to lump you in there. But all the liberal newspapers and TV, they don't want Trump to win this. Um, I could give you a thousand examples. Here's just one. Go.

"It really is going to be up to Trump to sort of brand this very different politically so that it doesn't seem as though the U.S. just went to war with Iran for no apparent reason only to end up with a deal that was similar to the one that the Americans had basically a decade ago."

No, that's the mantra. So, Obama had a deal and Trump dismantled it and Trump's gonna get a worse deal or the same deal or whatever. Again, I will remind you, the Straits of Hormuz will take care of themselves. That's not anything that can't be done quickly. It is the weapons inspections. So, if Iran would agree, the whole thing would be done in 20 minutes. And finally, with this Talking Points Memo, the world should be rooting for the Trump administration, right? You want a terrorist state, a state that supports Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis and the killed American soldiers and built bombs and hangs their own people and destroys whatever it wants to destroy? You want that country to have access to a nuclear weapon? That's what you want? Everybody should be with us. And that's the Memo.

All right, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. Told you a year ago that she was not going to last. I didn't think she'd last this long. Unfortunately, her husband Abraham has bone cancer. So, she had to resign from her position. I like Tulsi Gabbard. She is an isolationist. Does not want to get involved with any foreign intrigue. Didn't really support Venezuela. Certainly, did not support the Gaza-Israeli situation or Iran. So I knew she was not going to be there very long. And she herself was pretty upfront about that. Go.

"Political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers."

Well, I don't think that's true. I don't t think anybody's carelessly fomenting tensions. I think that the United States, as it always has, wants to safeguard democracy and wants to tamp the villains down. So, I think Tulsi Gabbard and I have a disagreement there. Here's what I said on June 18th, 2025. Go.

"That's it for Tulsi, she's done, okay. And when she was appointed National Security Chief, I like her, by the way. I mean, I've interviewed her a number of times and I think she's a woman of conviction, but her conviction is isolationism. And Trump should have known that. So, she's out."

And it doesn't really matter. She never had any power anyway; she was just there. But we do wish Mrs. Gabbard and her husband the very best. And she is a patriot. I want everybody to know that.

A story that really disturbs me is E. Jean Carroll allegation that turned into a fiasco in New York City, where justice is not really in play on any level, okay. So you'll remember that a jury civil case May 9th, 2023, found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming a woman named E. Jean Carroll. And they awarded Ms. Carroll, the jury did, $5 million, you remember all that, okay. And that's what got George Stephanopoulos in trouble and a whole bunch of others when they called Trump a rapist, all right, and they had to pay Trump for doing that. So, from the very beginning, E. Jean Carroll, I just did this on my own. I didn't have any help, nobody paid my bills, I was just outraged. I'm not gonna go through the case, but if you read the case, it's absurd. Oh, this is insane. I mean, I know Trump, and I know the world that E. Jean Carroll Inhabits, and I knew exactly what happened there. Anyway, it turns out that E. Jean Carroll did not tell the truth about that. That she had help to the tune of $7 million. And the guy who gave her this $7 million is named Reid Hoffman, who admits he gave her $7 million to sue Trump. Roll him.

"So, you know, it is a standard practice that happens a lot where there's outside funding of lawsuits. We didn't encourage the lawsuit to happen. We only got on board after she'd already filed it and was down on the road, so you're not trying to create something that isn't substantive real, that a person isn't really doing. My team looked at it and thought that her voice should be heard."

Okay, sure, how many other voices have you funded to the tune of $7 million dollars you crank. Now, this guy is the worst. He's not the worst, but he's in the top five. All right, so he admits that his political action committees funded E. Jean Carroll's false accusations in my opinion against Donald Trump, he admits it. All right. Ms. Carroll's own counsel now says yeah Ms. E. Jean has now a, this is great. Her recollection is refreshed. This is her lawyer, today. Oh yeah, recollections refreshed. Well, now the Justice Department's going after E. Jean Carroll. And they are investigating money laundering, obstruction, and conspiracy, not to mention perjury. I don't know if she said this in open court or not, but she's in trouble, and she should be. And this is taking place in northern Illinois, the U.S. Attorney there. Now I'm following this day by day. If this woman gets away with this, we're telling the whole world, oh no, I don't have any money coming in. Nobody helped me. And now, and it's more than $7 million, I mean, you say it's $7 million. You know, it's more. Pick up the tab. Awful. Okay, when your liberal friends and the rapist stuff, just remember what I just told you. Doesn't get worse than this. To make up stuff, because I believe it was made up. Could be wrong, wasn't there. But I know the whole environment here. And then an outside agitator, far left group, funds it. And nobody knows it. She denies it. She get away with that. Boy.

Alright and then there is the 250th birthday concert. So initially, it was announced by the White House that there will be a bunch of concerts from June 25th, coming up fast, to July 10th, on the National Mall as part of the Great American State Fair. These people were supposedly booked, Martina McBride, Bret Michaels from Poison, Young M.C. The Commodore is one of my favorite groups. Morris Day and The Time. They were all supposed to appear, okay. Well, they all backed out. And now Trump is going to do something, I don't know what he's going to. They all backed out. Why did they back out? Well, I have a lot of good show business contact because their agents said to them, you do this, you're not going to get booked. Nobody's going buy a ticket or even put on a show starring the Commodores or Martina McBride. Your business will go down the drain due to pressures from the anti-Trump entertainment corps. So, they all dropped out. Nice, right?

How about sports? There's got a young quarterback on the New York Giant football team named Jaxson Dart. On May 22nd, Mr. Dart did a campaign rally for Mike Lawler, a congressperson from New York. And President Trump was a speaker. Roll tape.

"What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here, and without further ado, I'm grateful, I'm honored, I am pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump."

"I want to thank Jaxson Dart. This is going to be a future Hall of Famer in my book. Thank you. Thank you, Jaxson. Right. A lot of talent."

Now for showing up, just for showing up and doing that introduction, Jaxson Dart has been crucified. Two reasons why. The sporting press, mainly liberal guys, I never knew that. I never had any idea that was in play until I did an event for the Mets. And I got all this heat, the Mets got all his heat. I threw out the first ball for a game. And I'm going, what are you doing? So, the sporting press crucified Jaxson Dart. And of course, the Democrats joined in, including a teammate of Dart's named Abdul Carter. Roll it.

"So first off, I'm want to say that some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things. Jaxson is one of our leaders. He's the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself and what he does, but he represents all of us. And that goes for anybody who wears a Giants uniform. But if he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world."

It's none of your business, Abdul. It's not your business. Jaxson Dart is an American. If he wants to support President Trump, it's none your business. You don't go out and try to embarrass him. I assume that you supported Kamala Harris if you voted, right? It's none of my business whether you did or did not. And if Mrs. Harris held a fundraiser and you were there, I wouldn't criticize you. You have a right as American to support what candidates you want to support. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you, Abdul? Do you not understand that each American has the right to support or reject anybody? In the public arena, okay. And for you to try to embarrass and denigrate your teammates' choice in the political arena, it's outrageous. It's outrageous that you would try to intrude on that. Now John Harbaugh, who I like, is the new coach for the Giants. And he's smart. He's doing it behind the scenes. He's not doing it in public because he doesn't want to rip the team up and he used to be the coach of the Baltimore Ravens and he's a brilliant coach. Harbaugh's got to step in on this stuff. This is like the Kaepernick stuff. He's got a step in this and explain in a tutorial, and I'll happily volunteer to go over to Giant Headquarters and speak to Abdul Carter about how our system works. And how outrageous his conduct is. Jaxson Dart can support anybody he wants to support, unless it's a Nazi or a murderer or somebody like that, okay. And I'm sure in his mind, Abdul Carter thinks that Trump's that in there or some soup like that. But anyway, I'm a sports guy, I follow the teams, and I'm looking at this going, what is this? You have no right to do that. Now they're going to have to play together. These are two very high-profile younger performers on the New York Giants. But if it were me, Harbaugh's got to take control of this. That's it. You are to respect your teammate's choice of whom he or she, because there are personnel in the New York Giants organization that are women, who they want to vote for or who they support. And everybody's choice should be respected. So outrageous. Now I understand that flamethrowers want to blow it all up, but this comes down to basic constitutional rights. And I'm not mad at Abdul Carter. I feel sorry for the man. He does not understand the country he's living in. He doesn't like Trump, fine, fine with me. I'd never run him down. I might have some questions for him. You know, like, okay, what's the big beef here? I'd like curious about it. I not going to run him down. So anyway, this is so unfair and so ridiculous. And I'm watching it just like I'm watching E. Jean Carroll. This isn't as bad as the Carroll thing. Carroll thing, bad.

Cheryl Alfonsi, Sharyn Alfonsi. I'm sorry, Sharyn. Again, here we go. Media, 60 Minutes correspondence, skilled person. Turns in a very shoddy report. And I'm to use that word, but it's absolutely accurate. On Luis Muñoz Pinto. Okay. So, there's Mr. Pinto. He wanted to file for asylum in the United States. Biden let everybody in the world in here who wanted the same thing. Okay? That's what Biden did. Come on in. So, Luis Muñoz Pinto gets here, and Homeland Security is interviewing him and sees a bunch of tattoos that are gang related according to the feds. And they reject his request for asylum. Now, I wasn't there, but I'll tell you what, if I'm making a decision about somebody's asylum request and they're covered with tats that are gang related, I probably are gonna turn that down. That guy down. All right. So, Pinto gets deported to El Salvador because he's a Venezuelan national and Venezuela wasn't taking anybody back. You couldn't bring him back to Caracas. So he goes to El Salvador, and he gets thrown in the horrendous CECOT prison in San Salvador. I know a lot about El Salvador because I covered a war there. Okay. CECOT is a horrible place. But it was built because MS-13 and other organized gangs were taking over the entire country of El Salvador and killing thousands of people in process. So, the government down there said, we've got to stop this. We're going to build this prison. We're gonna throw these people in there. Not our justice system. And anywhere Pinto winds up in this prison, whereupon Sharyn Alfonsi does a sob piece on him. Oh, he's a victim. He's, oh, oh no, look at this terrible prison. Oh, you can't do this. She doesn't even explain the basics of the story, Ms. Alfonsi. This is on 60 Minutes. The story runs. But it doesn't run right away, it's held back. Number one, because they didn't have anybody from the Trump administration in the story, and that's the administration's fault. They wouldn't put up anybody from Homeland Security. That wasn't smart. But there are a thousand think tank people who could have come on and said, hey, they needed this prison because the country was going under. Here's what Ms. Alfonsi said. Go.

"CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, was built in 2022. As a key part of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's sweeping anti-gang crackdown. The massive prison, designed to hold 40,000 inmates and its harsh reputation, are a point of pride for Bukele, who regularly allows social media influencers to tour it."

But she doesn't say why the El Salvadorian government had to build the prison. That's shoddy reporting, as is the fact they didn't have one person I would have gone on with her, saying this is why they put the prison up, and this is what Pinto wound up there, because Venezuela wouldn't take him back. Now, subsequently, alright, Pinto winds up back in Venezuela in a prisoner swap. That was nebulous too. What the hell is this guy doing out of prison if it's so harsh? He didn't even spend a lot of time in it. So, all in all was not a good report for 60 minutes. It wasn't. And now Alfonsi is saying, well, I got fired and I'm a victim for doing my job, okay. Here's a statement, quote, "The wall between editorial independence and corporate interests at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority of being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes, but lacks a courage and character to produce journalism that actually matters." I could have produced that story easily. Easily and gotten it on the air first round. One or two guys who explain the other point of view, conservative people, okay, and then why the government of El Salvador had to do this in the first place. That's not hard, but somehow Sharyn kind of missed it. You know what I'm talking about here. She didn't miss it because she's dumb, she's not dumb. She had an agenda.

Jill Biden's on a book tour. This is so outrageous; I can't believe it. So, she goes on to CBS Morning News, which doesn't book any conservative authors. None. Ever. But Jill gets a primetime slot on the Sunday morning program. Okay, so she's talking about the debate between Biden and Trump, which sunk her husband's re-election chances. Go.

"BIDEN: I wasn't horrified, I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never. BRAVER: Or since? BIDEN: Yes. Or since. BRAVER: You never seen him like that. BIDEN: Never, no. BRAVER: What happened? BIDEN: I don't know what happened. I mean when I as I watched it. I thought oh my god He's having a stroke, and it scared me to death."

It didn't scare her to death because she was the prime mover in having her husband run for reelection. You'll remember she was the one that didn't want him to resign. Well, if you were horrified, frightened, or whatever you were, why would you want him run again? CBS reporter... Oh, what a world, huh? What a world.

Smart Life. So, there's a study out of Massachusetts, Harvard, Boston U combined Brown University and Rhode Island helped out. And they analyzed 1.8 million children over 10 years. And they found out that mental health issues among young American kids is up big time, okay. So, anxiety, for example, is up 10 percent. And on and on and on, and they issued this report. Well, everybody it's the phones. The phones are killing the kids because people bully you on the phone and say terrible things about you and confusing things, and you see things that you don't understand. Yeah, that's what's happening. So, the study's good, but we need a why, and that's the why. Smart Life, your parent or grandparent, you have to monitor what your kid's doing on the phone. You have to.

Ebola Africa. Africa is a chaotic continent. Sorry, sorry, it's chaotic. Okay, 41 confirmed deaths. 1,100 people way more than that. Alright, they're burning down clinics in the Congo which are supposedly helping the Ebola patients, but they, some tribes don't like them or whatever they're doing. And I said this the first time around with this Ebola. Remember that when a woman died in Dallas? I said, you cannot be letting African nationals into this country as long as this epidemic is underway. And the Obama administration said, blank you, O'Reilly, we're gonna do what we want. And we were lucky then. So, this Ebola thing is heating up.

This Day in History, June 1st, 1962. Adolf Eichman, former SS officer and the architect of the Holocaust, one of them, was executed in Israel, hanged by the neck until dead. Of the worst human beings ever to live. I write extensively about him in "Killing the SS." If you really want to know, because it does pertain to Iran, you really want know what this Nazi culture was. This is the book. Iran is no different than these people. Anyway, how they tracked Eichman down is an amazing story. And we tell it, in "Killing the SS," they get him in Argentina, he got away. One of the few big time Nazis, he did get away. And it's a very compelling story, so I hope you check it out. This Day in History, Eichman goes. Eichman said when they were just about to pull the, whatever they pull to hang the guy, he goes, "I die believing in God." I hope there is a God, because you ain't gonna see him.

Okay, now, Final Thought about my trip, which I think you're going to find fascinating. I hope you do. We'll be back in a moment.

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Now, Mike McGuire, Bellingham, Washington, "Hey bill, been listening to you forever. My question, you always hear that someone in the Democratic Party filing a lawsuit against Trump who pays for that?" The political action committees usually pay for these lawsuits, just as we demonstrated with E. Jene Carroll. Okay, it's the Progressive Political Action Committees, Soros, these people.

Ryan Wolfson, Wellington, Florida. "'m no longer a Trump supporter. His handling of Iran specifically shows he has not accomplished what he promised to do. I can speak for everyone when I say that communication from his administration is absurd and insulting." Okay, I mean, you know, I don't, I'm not here to defend the Trump administration. And I know a lot of people feel the way that you do, Ryan.

John Sessler, Port Charlotte, Florida. "President Trump will always have my support because he needs to solve Iran. Gas prices are killing us. I support a great deal with Iran, but financially Americans can't wait for it." Well, we have no choice. But we don't have any choice. It's a wait out situation.

Sandra, Concierge Member, and we're back. All you Concierges Members, just come on in. I'm back here. We will answer any and all of your questions. You get in trouble; we'll help you out. Sandra, "it would be nice to hear someone ask the $10,000 question, how will you make things affordable once the prices go up, they don't come down. We live in a market economy." True. But it is a market-driven economy. So, you can make a lot of money undercutting your competition. And that's what I believe will happen. Although the prices didn't come that much under the COVID. They didn't. They should have they didn't.

Mark Wirth, The Hague in Holland. "Hey Bill, the most obvious questions are the most important and impactful. For example, have any of President Trump's policies actually hurt Americans? His opponents, of course, say yes. I can't think of one that has." Well, the terror thing, gotta be looked at. I think that's fair. That could be hurting working Americans.

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Okay, Final Thought, I had a good time in Ireland as I said up top. But in England, I worked. News Nation, one hour Bill O'Reilly special on out-of-control migration. Okay. The stats are amazing, and the U.K. is now under siege, antisemitism, crazy now. The complaints that they're getting, some Muslims, and they heavily outnumber the Jews, Muslims about seven or eight to one. And the stats are there's a flood of Muslim immigrants. Here's the key story. I get on a plane in Cork, Ireland, it's a 45-minute flight to London. I get off the plane in London, nobody says a word. I walk through the terminal, out to the car, drive to my hotel. Government doesn't know I'm there. They don't know who I am, what I've done in my past, nothing, nothing. No passport or customs control at all for any of my people on my flight, nothing. You can walk into that country and nobody knows it. Don't think you're gonna have problems? You got them. And we'll spell it out for you. And I was in Edgware Road, which is called Little Beirut. I don't know if they were happy to see me there. Whole neighborhood. When I lived there in 1969, Edgware Road was all white working class English people. Now, totally Muslim. The whole neighborhood, incredible. Can it happen here? That's what we'll explore in the News Nation special. I don't have an air date yet. As soon as I get it, you'll know. Alright. I hope you're glad I'm back. We really appreciate you watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly, we'll see you tomorrow.

BILL IS BACK!, The DOJ vs. E. Jean Carroll, New York Giants QB Under Fire for a Trump Rally Appearance, Tulsi Gabbard's Exit, & an Iran Update

2026-06-01T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, June 1, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down the latest on the U.S. and Iran.
Tulsi Gabbard announced that she is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation related to E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against Donald Trump.
Why is New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart taking heat for attending a Trump rally?
Bill breaks down Sharyn Alfonsi’s exit from 60 Minutes due to a clash over a segment El Salvador’s CECOT prison.
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Back From Europe

2026-06-01T07:31:00Z

Back from Ireland and England. Things went fairly well. Ireland was a vacation in the south, we were based in the lively town of Killarney.

Éire is one of the prettiest countries on the planet, and the folks there are generally very nice. Hard not to have a good time.

I have been to Ireland many times, and it is not generally a money-driven place. But this time was a bit different. Money from tourists was aggressively sought by the locals because of the punishing cost of living. Gas in Ireland is around $9 a gallon; a pint of Guinness is approximately $8 US dollars. Ireland uses the Euro, and cash goes quickly. It’s all because of the Iran conflict. Almost everyone is feeling it.

The aggressive pursuit of cash is eroding some Irish charm, no question.

In London, I was shooting a special for NewsNation on Muslim immigration into the UK. It’s totally out of control, and violence is beginning to arise. Anti-semitism is now common. The situation is far worse than in the USA.

On Monday, we will update all the big stories, so I hope you will join us for the No Spin News.

Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-05-29T22:00:00Z

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Faith, Career

2026-05-29T22:00:00Z

Stephen Baldwin on Fame & Fatherhood

2026-05-29T17:06:00Z

Bill talks to Stephen Baldwin about raising his famous daughter Hailey Baldwin.

Don't We Punish Violent Criminals?

2026-05-29T17:04:00Z

Bill confronts former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on no bail laws.

Who Was That Masked Man?

2026-05-29T07:00:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

Howdy! By now, you’ve heard plenty about James Talarico, the Democrat running to be the next Senator from Texas. His positions would fit well in California - he is anti-ICE, pro-immigration, and once urged Texan carnivores to eat less meat. He also seems to be fine with ‘gender-affirming care’ for children and cites the Bible and Jesus to sanction abortion. Talarico quoted scientists who claim there are six genders and even declared that God is ‘non-binary.’ (On that last one, who can actually claim that he’s wrong?)

But of all his woke missteps, one that stands out came in 2022 when Talarico addressed a crowd wearing a COVID mask. This was two years after pandemic mania and long after Texas became one of the first states to end mask mandates. There is certainly nothing immoral or illegal about that, but it just does not seem very … Texan! Ultra-caution is anathema to citizens who cherish the tradition of individualism and risk-taking. In fact, most Texans revere only one masked man, the Lone Ranger of radio and TV fame. As the fable goes, John Reid was the only Texas Ranger to survive an ambush. After being rescued by the Native American Tonto, he donned a mask and rode the Texas plains fighting criminals and protecting the innocent. His trademark was a silver bullet that symbolized justice and morality, and after he left the scene of another triumph came the inevitable question: ‘Who was that masked man?’

More recently, speaking of silver bullets, Texas Democrats have been searching for one of those for decades. The state has been a tempting siren, luring leftists with hopes that always get dashed against the rocks of political reality. In 2014, sneaker-wearing abortion advocate and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis was a great left hope until she was trounced by Greg Abbott. Then came the hipster Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke, who came tantalizingly close to defeating Senator Ted Cruz in 2018. Apparently a glutton for punishment, O’Rourke ran against Governor Abbott four years later and was left in the dust like a tumbleweed.

This time around, Talarico will face state Attorney General Ken Paxton in November, and lefty pundits are already predicting that this will be the year when Texas Democrats, the Buffalo Bills of politics, will finally win their version of the Super Bowl. Paxton has faced numerous accusations of fraud and was actually impeached by the Texas House. While he has never been convicted of a crime and there is no actual fire, there sure is a lot of smoke surrounding Paxton. Talarico is reminding everyone of his opponent’s brushes with the law; a few days ago, he boasted that he’s been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.’ He’ll also try mightily to portray himself as a good ol’ boy and, who knows, may even don a 10-gallon hat and Emmitt Smith jersey. But it won’t be easy when he has spent a career championing causes of the cultural left.

Right now, the betting markets list Paxton as a slight favorite to defeat Talarico, but Democratic leaders and donors are champing at the bit, drooling at the prospect of a Texas-sized upset. Talarico first has to convince voters that he is one of them and shares their dreams and values. He won’t be like the Lone Ranger, who never shot to kill. No, James Talarico will try to slay Ken Paxton, figuratively speaking, with attack ads and accusations. He desperately wants to be that silver bullet Texas Democrats have been longing for. But you know what they say about liberals in Texas: ‘All mask … no cattle!’

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

New WE'LL DO IT LIVE!

2026-05-29T07:00:00Z

Bill is back with a new No Spin News on Monday.

Today we have a brand new episode of We'll Do It LIVE! with Victoria Jackson.

She talks about being blacklisted for her conservative beliefs, SNL, and much more.

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We'll Do It LIVE! - Victoria Jackson

2026-05-28T16:00:00Z

Saturday Night Live alumni Victoria Jackson joins Bill O’Reilly on the latest episode of We’ll Do It LIVE! She talks about her career, her conservatism, her cancer battle, and her faith.

Killing Time

2026-05-28T16:00:00Z

Killing Time with Victoria Jackson

2026-05-28T16:00:00Z

Bill and Victoria talk about Jesus and her life choices.

Killing Time with Victoria Jackson

2026-05-28T16:00:00Z

O'Reilly Alright, we're back with Victoria Jackson, a legend on television, and she's got a new book out that just came out, and you guys should hold the book up for everybody to see.

Jackson This is my book. It's, it's like a textbook, you know, they should teach it in college. It should be called Victoriaology.

O'Reilly "Not dead yet."

Jackson And this is your book and they're both about Jesus. Now yours is very factual and I want you to sign it because my mom gave this to my husband in 2014 for Christmas.

O'Reilly Sure, I'd be happy to do that.

Jackson Thank you. And it's really good. I'm almost done with it.

O'Reilly You know, it's a good blend of "Killing Jesus" was a very big selling book, but it's a good blend with people who do believe in Christianity and Jesus because they're, as you know by being on Bill Maher's program, mocked, you know, people, some people mock you and this takes you right through what actually happened.

Jackson History proves Jesus did exist so either and, and than he was, it was said He rose from the dead and there were witnesses.

O'Reilly Right.

Jackson So, and you show that. So, Jesus said he was God so either He was a liar, a lunatic or Lord those are the choices and the whole thing of life is who do you say that He is.

O'Reilly Right. Well, I'm glad you liked it, and now it's passed on in the family.

Jackson Thank you.

O'Reilly Very nice of you to bring it in. It goes right on top of your book. Final question for you. If you had to do it all over again.

Jackson Wow.

O'Reilly You know. Because you do have time, I do this now as I get older, to contemplate, you know, you said earlier we're all sinners, absolutely true, but you have time to contemplate your life and what you've done well and what not so well. Where does that stack? Would you have changed anything?

Jackson That's such a good question. I think about it all the time and I wrote a lot of poems about it. Um I think when I first moved to L.A. and I was away from my family and my Christian influences, I didn't have a car or money. Instead of focusing on how to get an agent, I should have put my priority finding a church. I think I would have been around fellow believers and met a Christian husband instead of a fire eater who did not believe in Jesus. The Bible says, "be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship has light with darkness," I would have never gotten divorced, lost all my money, and had a difficult thing. And I think that pivotal moment when I was 20, I should have started hanging out with believers instead of the pot-smoking creatives, or I could have done both because I love both groups of people. But I was thinking, oh, I know everything about the Bible. I'm not going to learn anything from them. And if I only have this many hours in the day, I got to make a living, get a car, find an agent. Because I knew I had a short time, like only a little window, that I'd be young and not have a husband or children get to pursue a whim.

O'Reilly Right, right but here, let me just be the counter to that. So, you went off to pursue a career and use your God-given talent, right? Your talent's God-given.

Jackson Thank you.

O'Reilly And you did it to improve yourself. You know as we talked about earlier, you wanted to have a TV.

Jackson And a vacuum cleaner, and an air conditioner.

O'Reilly So you did it for the right reasons, but it might have been enhanced a little bit better had you then at the same time developed a community that believes the way you believe. Do I have it?

Jackson They would have protected me from my first marijuana. From alcohol.

O'Reilly Yeah, but most people don't, don't do that in my life. I don't know anybody who's really protected me uh, you got to make those decisions on your own. But the support system.

Jackson People start to behave like the people they hang out with.

O'Reilly I never did.

Jackson No.

O'Reilly No, I always went my own way, you know, because I knew that some of the conduct was not fitting into my philosophy of life, and I didn't care what they said or what they did. But I'm like a zombie. I'm somebody who's different. Most people aren't like me, and they do want to be accepted by the crowd.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly And sometimes that's good, sometimes it isn't. But I think that in your career, you've done amazing things with no uncle in the business. I mean, you did it on your own. The Johnny Carson stuff is unbelievable, because I have forgotten about that. That you're on there 20 times.

Jackson And you have to come up with something every time. I think God helped me and I think he gave me that platform so I could tell the gospel.

O'Reilly Listen, who's to say no to that? He gave you a pathway and now you're using the pathway to spread the word.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly Right, so you should be very, very happy about that. But most of all, I want to wish you the best on your health front. And if we can do anything to help you, all you need to do is contact me and we will certainly do that.

Jackson Well, you did help me because you gave me a mission and a fun experience. And they said, he wants you live. I'm like, live? Why can't we do it on Zoom? I was like, Live. I'll go to New York, I'll got to Broadway. So, you got me out of my bed.

O'Reilly There you go I got you going. That's a good thing when you're with Victoria Jackson, okay. You wanna go on eight cylinders, that's for sure. Thank you for coming in and talking to us.

Jackson Thank you so much.

O'Reilly Very, very nice to see you again.

Jackson Thank you.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Victoria Jackson

2026-05-28T16:00:00Z

Jackson A lot of people just think I talk in a fake voice. They don't know my depth. I'm not dead yet. I could hold a handstand for a minute.

O'Reilly A poet who does handstands.

Jackson There's worse things than cancer and death. Marriage. He's not laughing at my jokes. You're very serious, Bill.

O'Reilly Hey, Bill O'Reilly here and welcome to another long form podcast, "We'll Do It Live." And we have a very special guest here for you tonight. Victoria Jackson was one of the mainstays of Saturday Night Live when it was, you know, in its heyday. A lot of big stars came out of there, and she's flown up from Tennessee to talk with us. It's good to see you. Let's get the serious stuff out of the way first. So, how's your health?

Jackson I'm not dead yet.

O'Reilly That's the title of your new book. And it's a very interesting book. "Not Dead Yet: A Lifetime of Handstands, Art and Poetry." And Miss Jackson is doing a handstand pretty much everywhere. I thought Joe Biden shoulders was a bit much, but.

Jackson Yeah, that was a difficult one.

O'Reilly Ha ha ha.

Jackson Since he can hardly stand up.

O'Reilly But the book is just out, so you might want to check it out. So how are you feeling?

Jackson Bill, I'm so honored to be here, and I told my friend I was coming, and she said, he's a very smart man. And I was like, smart, yeah. So, then I was looking up recent things you've done, and I gotta tell you, I love how you explained what communism and capitalism is to Howie Mandel's daughter. Yeah. I was, like, you're such a good teacher, and nobody's being taught, you know.

O'Reilly The kids are not, on that subject. And we'll get back to your health in a minute. A teacher, you don't know this. But when you were living in Carol City, Florida.

Jackson I do know this. That's one of the things I wanted to do.

O'Reilly I was just down the street at Pace High School.

Jackson Here's all my notes to tell Bill. I was a Dade Christian. You were at Pace. We played each other.

O'Reilly In every sport and I didn't know you're up there in Carol City, but you had a just a normal upbringing just a regular, you know.

Jackson Yes and no. My dad was a gymnastics coach, which is unusual. And he was doing handstands all the time. And we had a gym in our backyard. Our backyard was a ghetto. Because Carol City, you know was a ghetto.

O'Reilly Carol City was a tough neighborhood, so was Opa Locka, where we were.

Jackson Yes, that's where I was born. So, my childhood, yeah, I was in church three times a week and in the gym every day. And that's not so normal, I don't think so.

O'Reilly Not anymore.

Jackson No.

O'Reilly No, but you...

Jackson We didn't have a TV.

O'Reilly No TV.

Jackson My dad loved show business, and he thought he would be um addicted...

O'Reilly More entertaining.

Jackson He would be addicted to it. And we would be, and he wanted us to be in the backyard doing sit ups and flips and handstands and.

O'Reilly And you did. You were a nice daughter.

Jackson So I didn't get brainwashed like my generation and.

O'Reilly Now, going back though, you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, stage four. Yes. You wouldn't know it just by looking at you.

Jackson Can I tell you some jokes about it?

O'Reilly In a minute, though, because I think people who know you, and that's a lot of people, want to know where you are on the health scale.

Jackson Okay, well I could talk for an hour. A friend of mine just told me every detail of his bloody thing and I was like I'm never gonna talk about my health again, but I will. Okay so I got cancer diagnosed in 2015 breast cancer. I let a stranger with an accent from Chile and a good bedside manner cut my boobs off. I don't know who she is. I signed a paper. It was in the hospital. This is kind of a joke, but it's true. She cut my boobs off, and I got radiation and chemotherapy. He's not laughing at my jokes. And then 10 years went by, and then I forgot about it. And then it came back. Two years ago, I was doing stand-up in Vegas in a small venue, because I'm not (inaudible) car you know, in the stand-up thing. But people laugh, but I was doing standup in Vegas, and I couldn't stop coughing. And the audience was kind of like, like they thought I had COVID, and I was gonna give it to them. And I went to the doctor finally, urgent care and they found my breast cancer had come back and was pushing on my windpipe. So, I couldn't breathe and was coughing all the time. It is a horrible thing to not be able to breathe. And I have so much compassion for all suffering people. I've always been healthy, took it for granted, of course, but there's a lot of people I'm seeing in hospitals now, and suffering is hard. But thanks to my faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, yay Jesus, this life is a vapor and it's gonna be over like that. And I'll have eternal life with Him in a place where there's no pain and no tears because He died on the cross for my sins. Can I give you a little example of what I learned at Florida Bible College at Hollywood, Florida? Okay. Dr. A. Ray Stanford, who actually ran away with one of the students, but we're all sinners. He used to do it like this, Romans 3:23, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." God is perfect and holy, and here we are. He created us perfect, and then we sinned, and our sin separates us from Him. So, he came, died on the cross for our sins, which is what your book is about. Factual historical angle of it. He died for our sins paid for them. So, we can be reunited with him He, He redeemed us. He paid for our sins Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." So, we can be reunited with Him. So that is why I, I'm not sad.

O'Reilly So that sustains you through this whole process.

Jackson In my whole life, I've read it, memorized it, sang about it.

O'Reilly You've been consistent your whole life.

Jackson Yeah, it's like do I really believe it? So now I'm putting it into action, and I do have peace and um yeah. So anyway, physically they got, radiated my tumor right here so I can breathe, so happy. And I got cancer, bone cancer as a side effect of radiation or something. So, I have cancer on five of my vertebrae and my pelvic bone. So, I have like this achy pain. They're not sure here. They're sure if it's from gymnastics or cancer related. But I have great pain pills. Pain pills are great.

O'Reilly Okay, it's especially when you need them like you do. But whatever happens, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, you're okay with it because of your deep faith.

Jackson Oh, my faith in Jesus, not just my faith in nothing, my faith in Jesus.

O'Reilly Your Christian faith.

Jackson Who you wrote about. And you are a great journalist, and you know what? You are neutral. I kept thinking you were a conservative like me, but you try to be like the way a journalist should be and be neutral?

O'Reilly Well, I'm a fact finder.

Jackson Yeah, this is all facts and it's all, it's just facts and the reason why I just stumbled on it, my mom gave this to my husband in 2014. She wrote in it, and I was like, hey, Paul, I'm going to see Bill O'Reilly. So, I started reading it because I hadn't read it yet. I'm this far, and it's super good, then I skip to the end.

O'Reilly Well, look if we can do anything for you, you know Mel Gibson just finished shooting it, wrapping his movie on the resurrection after the passion and we're talking to Mel, I know him a little bit. So, I'm a big believer and if you believe something. You being anybody okay, and it helps other people then you go.

Jackson Doesn't mean it's right though.

O'Reilly But the help.

Jackson It doesn't mean its truth. If you believe in something really hard...

O'Reilly Sure, people believe what they want to believe in a lot of his fiction.

Jackson And it might be stupid.

O'Reilly Okay, but if they believe what's fiction and at the same time, they're helping other people, I'm okay with it.

Jackson It's good to help people.

O'Reilly Yeah.

Jackson You know, both of our books are about Jesus, and they're from different angles. Yours is from a journalist, fact finding, accurate, truth-seeking journalist, and mine's from a truth seeking, accurate gymnast, ex-gymnast. They're both about Jesus.

O'Reilly Well, what I found interesting about your book, not only the proximity that I was teaching high school to where you were living much earlier, you're younger than I am. But how normal it appears that you were and then you burst into the Johnny Carson show. That's an amazing story.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly So, Carson an icon, of course, and you got on his show a number of times by doing handstands, correct?

Jackson Well, I went to Hollywood to try to be an airhead on a sitcom because I thought that's the only way I can make a lot of money in this lifetime. In heaven, you don't need to make money, but um, no, I just, I only, I could never be a doctor. I hate math, I hate, I don't hate science, I hate math. So, I thought, I don't want to be poor because I grew up in a ghetto. My parents used to argue over whether we afford the vacuum cleaner or an air conditioner, and I thought I never want to be like that when I grow up. I want both. And um... not have to worry. So, I thought, hey, if I could be an airhead on a sitcom. And I've been performing, you know, on equipment on a four-inch board doing a back handspring. So, I was used to being in front of people, not talking. But anyway, my first play was at Furman in South Carolina. I got the bug. I met Johnny Crawford from The Rifleman. He was the lead flown in to be the star of the play in Birmingham. He sent me a one-way ticket to Hollywood blah, blah, blah and when I was in Hollywood, I thought, how can I get an agent? How can I get a show? I don't know how. And Johnny didn't have connections anymore. And um so I thought stand-up comedy was the new thing in 1980. And there was very few women doing it. And I thought if I could do something at the comedy store and open my...

O'Reilly Did you have confidence that you could make people laugh?

Jackson I, uh, yes, because in high school I copied Lily Tomlin’s Edith Ann routine.

O'Reilly You're a Mimic.

Jackson 'My name is Edith Ann and I'm five and a half years old. I never asked to be born if I did my (inaudible) would have said no.' You know that routine? So, I got laughs with that.

O'Reilly I can do this.

Jackson So, I went to the comedy store on open mic night, and I did Edith Ann, because I got three minutes, 1 in the morning, and I was a secretary during the day at the American Cancer Society, and I served food to old people at the retirement hotel for room and board. After I did my Edith Ann thing, Mitzi, who, the boss of the comedy store, said, 'you never do someone else's material, especially if they're alive.' And I was like, oh, I don't know.

O'Reilly I don't know the rules.

Jackson I didn't know anything.

O'Reilly Right.

Jackson So, I thought I got to come up with some of my own jokes. And so, then I thought, well, I could hold a handstand for a minute. No one else can do that. That'll keep their attention. And then I'll say a poem because I was writing poems all the time. So, this has all my poems from when I was 10.

O'Reilly You're a poet.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly Yeah.

Jackson Even though...

O'Reilly A poet who does handstands.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly I don't think Shakespeare was in that crew.

Jackson Well, yeah, he couldn't do a handstand probably and then when I was on The Tonight Show, the talent scout, Jim McCauley, told me if you put a poem to music, even if you only know three chords, you know, like the Rolling Stones, 'I can't get no satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction.' You know, that would have gone nowhere as a poem. You'll make a lot more money. If you put your poems to music and I was like, well, I have a ukulele, I know three chords, I'll put all my poems to the music. So, then I got to sing ukuleles songs on Carson and Saturday Night Live. But anyway, the way I got on Carson was I was doing this ukulele handstand poetry thing every night for two years at the Variety Arts Center and the comedy store and the Improv and all-around town in LA. I was 21. And um The Johnny Carson guy, Jim McCauley, saw me and let me go on Johnny.

O'Reilly Very nice. Was Carson nice to you?

Jackson He was super nice to me, he got me. You know, Letterman never got me.

O'Reilly Right.

Jackson You were on Letterman 30 times, I heard. And he didn't like me.

O'Reilly Dave doesn't, you know, he's a little prickly.

Jackson Yeah, a lot of people just think I talk in a fake voice. They don't know my depth. But no, he didn't. Johnny got me. Johnny got me, had me back on 20 times. That's probably where Lorne Michaels saw me and offered me an audition for SNL.

O'Reilly Did you have uh did you have to audition for Saturday Night Live?

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly Who'd you read with?

Jackson Well, it was '86 and I had just been in a movie with Robert Downey Jr., my first real movie called "The Pickup Artist." I was in three scenes. I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but Robert Downey Jr. got fired that summer of '86.

O'Reilly From SNL.

Jackson And I was kissing him somewhere in New York in this movie. And, oh, my book's on audio tape, too. People can hear a lot of showbiz gossipy stories in the audio version, because I added them in. So, what happened was I had a baby, a three-month-old baby, and I was married to a fire eater musician. And he was out of work most of the time. There's not much call for fire eating um so.

O'Reilly You had to make the, you had to make the money.

Jackson Yes and so I got a call on my Kermit the Frog phone one day and they said, 'would you like to audition for Saturday Night Live tomorrow?' And I was like uh sure and they said 'a ticket will be waiting for you at LAX be there at 8 a.m.'

O'Reilly You had to fly to New York.

Jackson Flew to New York. I don't know how they got my number. They didn't go through my agent. It was like magical. It was mission impossible. The tape will just be destroyed now go up in smoke. So, I flew to New York. They said bring me your characters and your impressions. And I didn't have any. Cause I never watched SNL, and I didn't have a TV. So, I brought my six minutes of stand up from Johnny. And I brought my ukulele and my handstand. And they put me in a hotel with 12 other girls from all around the country, and they marched us past the Atlas statue to 30 Rock, and they put us in the Phil Donahue studio, and one by one we went in there and did our little six minutes.

O'Reilly And Lorne Michaels was there with his posse.

Jackson It was just Lorne, a video camera and a beautiful 20-year-old operating the video camera, and a bowl of popcorn.

O'Reilly Um, now he liked you right away.

Jackson You're very serious, Bill.

O'Reilly Not really, but I'm...

Jackson He, Lorne liked me, yes. Lorne liked and in the.

O'Reilly You know, I was on Saturday Night Live.

Jackson I saw you at the 40th reunion.

O'Reilly And I was on there making fun of the What Up guy, which was...

Jackson Yeah. "What up with that."

O'Reilly But I noticed while I was there, because I helped write that skit. Very intense. That's not a carnival in there.

Jackson It's a war.

O'Reilly Yeah. So, you guys got to compete for airtime, and you got to prove yourself almost every week, right?

Jackson Yes.

O'Reilly How did that weigh on you? Were you able to accept it?

Jackson I think I drank too much Chardonnay, and I heard alcohol leads to breast cancer, so maybe that's why, I don't know.

O'Reilly So your religion came into good effect there as well.

Jackson In what way?

O'Reilly You were guided through it.

Jackson Well, when I was there, no one was doing drugs that I saw because Belushi had just died, and Lorne was friends with him, and so drugs weren't cool anymore in '86. And I had a baby at home, so I didn't go out. I just went to work, went home, didn't wanna miss her first step or her first word or anything. It was very competitive, very stressful, but I would just pray and say, Lord help me. One time I went to Lorne's office I said, Lorne, we have to wait an hour to see Lorne because he's very important.

Jackson So you wait outside of his office.

O'Reilly I've heard that. I've got along with him, but I understand.

Jackson Well I love him. But you do have to wait.

O'Reilly Do you have a good relationship to this day with him?

Jackson He doesn't call me to chat.

O'Reilly No, he's a busy guy.

Jackson Yeah. I think all of the cast members love him, like a daddy, and we are like desperate for him to say we did good, and he doles out compliments very sparsely. So, we're always like please like...

O'Reilly No, he's in charge, that's for sure.

Jackson You know Machiavelli, the book "The Prince" by Machiavelli?

O'Reilly Yes, I do.

Jackson You know how it's about should you rule by fear or by love? I think he rules by fear.

O'Reilly Very possible.

Jackson He liked my audition, very quick interview the next day, and he said, I'm not, he said very funny audition. I'm not sure you're strong in characters or impressions. And he started walking me to his door to leave. I said I'm married; I have a fire eater husband, I have baby. And then I go, well, I can talk like this. And he's like, and I said, I could be a character like this, you know? And he was like, hmm. And he goes, what if I wanted you to be like a Midwestern housewife? And I go, well would, I, I am a housewife, and my parents are from the Midwest. And he goes, and then he goes or Diane Keaton. I go well, I would just wear men's clothes and look at the ground a lot. And then he's like, okay, thank you. So, I'm flying back to LA. I'm like, I'm so close, but I don't think I'm gonna get it. Then I realized I was gonna be on Johnny Carson in two weeks. And I thought, well, why don't I extend my audition on Johnny Carson? That's gotta impress him. So, I said to Jim McCauley.

O'Reilly That was smart.

Jackson Yeah. I go, Jim, could I do some impressions and see if Johnny can guess who I'm doing to extend? He goes, yeah, okay, but just don't say what the show is that you're auditioning for. We don't wanna get sued. So, I said okay. So, I went on Johnny in a pink dress, smaller than this one. I think I'm like a tree trunk and the rings, you know, every year I get a ring. Has, have people said that before? You're, you're...

O'Reilly No, I've never heard that, though.

Jackson Yeah, I've never heard anyone say it, but it's true. Like when you cut open a tree and there's rings. I have 66 rings. If you gain one pound a year. So I go on Johnny Carson, and I go, Johnny, see if you can guess who I'm doing, I'm auditioning for this show. And I go... oh watchy. I'm sorry, boy, the way Glenn Miller played, so long as they made the hate parade. And he goes, 'Edith Bunker.' And I go, yeah. And then I go... oh, I don't know why I'm here. Just go to a commercial. I don't have anything to say. And he goes, 'Teri Garr.' And I goes, yeah! And then, I go... what's love got to do? Got to do with it. And he goes, 'Tina Turner.' I go yeah. And so I go... John, why would you like to work for my company? And he goes, 'I don't know, Bette Davis?' And I go, no. And he goes, 'who is it?' And I go, I made her up. Because you're supposed to make up characters too. And everybody laughed so hard. And I knew in that moment that I got it. And then.

O'Reilly So Michael saw the audition on Carson, he saw the bit.

Jackson Well, I said to my manager, Dolores Robinson at the time, I said, what if he doesn't see us? And then she put the VHS in his mailbox.

O'Reilly All the pros and cons, that a good thing for you Saturday Night Live was a good?

Jackson Are you kidding? It was fantastic.

O'Reilly Because a lot of the players, they come off there a little embittered.

Jackson Well, it probably gave me cancer. But, you know, no, I think my marriage gave me cancer, actually. There's worse things than cancer and death. Marriage.

O'Reilly Especially if there's fire involved.

Jackson Well I'm on the second husband now, there's not fire involved, he's a policeman.

O'Reilly Well, that's better.

Jackson Yeah, I do support cops. I love cops.

O'Reilly Now you had Miller, Dennis Miller, on with you when you were on the show.

Victoria Jackson Yeah, I was with him, and I worked with Norman.

O'Reilly Miller, nice to you?

Jackson Miller is not soft and cuddly, but on the air, we had good chemistry.

O'Reilly Right. He's weekend update.

Jackson Yeah.

O'Reilly Right.

Jackson It was such a great experience. It changed my life. Everybody remembers me from it. I walked down the street. People are so nice to me. I'm so grateful. And it was hard to be a Christian there. I was the only Christian on the cast. So, I didn't talk about it or anything. People ask me like.

O'Reilly Well, the church lady was Christian, right? Dana Carvey.

Jackson Dana, I don't think he's in his personal life, I don't think he's...

O'Reilly No, just the character.

Jackson He might be leaning that way.

O'Reilly Yeah, he's endured. There's another guy named Phil Hartman who you work with who self-destructed.

Jackson No, his wife, his wife shot him.

O'Reilly I know shot him.

Jackson And I was in that house like a little while before that, visiting them. That was weird.

O'Reilly Yeah, was he a good guy Hartman?

Jackson Uh, Phil, to me, was very, um, kept to, to me, he kept to himself. Like, I didn't know who the real Phil was. Like, Jan Hooks and Phil Hartman were so brilliant at being everyone. But who were they? Like, my personality is so strong. It's very hard for me to be other people, but they are like a blank slate, and they can do it. Well, they have huge talent. I'm, I'm not saying it right. They, they personally, I don't know who they were, exactly, but they're geniuses at playing characters.

O'Reilly Sure, they're a very good performance.

Jackson They're fantastic.

O'Reilly Cuz I was surprised when Hartman went down like that. And then of course the most notorious of all is Chris Farley.

Jackson I worked with him he was so shy and sweet. He was very shy around girls when I was a girl. I was there when like the Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley work I was the old timer when they were the new timers and it's sad that the cast has to keep changing but Lorne stays there and then he just keeps getting young people we all get old and then he gets more young people and then... You know, after the sixth year, I couldn't think of any more ideas. I, you know...

O'Reilly That's about the average though, right? Five, six years?

Jackson My contract was five and I stayed six and people, I read an article that said I got fired because I was proselytizing my religion. That's ridiculous. That is a lie. Lorne said I could stay as long as I want. I didn't proselytize anyone. I... He said stay as long as you want and um... But I was going through a divorce from the fire eater and I had a four-year-old and I, I didn't want her to be home alone with a strange nanny.

O'Reilly So you still lived down on West Coast at this point?

Jackson Uh, I, when, when I left SNL?

O'Reilly Yeah.

Jackson When I left, I had a house in Connecticut, a house in LA, and I had, a show being written for me where George Clooney played my boyfriend.

O'Reilly George Clooney.

Jackson Whatever happened to him?

O'Reilly Yeah, he loves me. Did you ever get a pilot out of that or George show up?

Jackson We read the pilot, they were saving money, so they never made it. We read it out loud to NBC, ABC, and CBS, and everyone passed on it. It was called Victoria, and I was playing a Las Vegas showgirl who's naive from the Midwest. Anyway, it never happened, so I've been in a lot of pilots that never happened.

O'Reilly Yeah, a lot of things said, that's the business though.

Jackson Yeah, you gotta, you got to be able to take rejection like. The guy who wrote I Love Lucy, Schiller and Weiskopf, those two guys, they were assigned to write me my own pilot when I was right after Carson was like 24. And it was called "Twinkie." And I was playing the vice president's wife who causes trouble in Washington, D.C. And that never happened. But you know.

O'Reilly You remind me a little bit of Goldie Hawn during the laugh-in days.

Jackson Yes, I can see that. She, one day, 20 years after I left SNL, it's been 40 now. I've been not on SNL for 40 years. That's so weird. We didn't have a TV, but my grandmother did, and I saw laugh-in at her house when my parents went to the movies that were our movies without us. And one day, 20 years after I'd left SNL, I realized my brain took poems by Henry Gibson, airheadism by Goldie Hawn, the ukulele from Tiny Tim. This is how powerful TV is. And now kids are watching bang, shoot them up, kill people videos. It's very powerful for the human brain. It sticks in there. My dad said visual things will stick in your head forever.

O'Reilly Now, so far, you're...

Jackson I copied them all. So anyway, I copied. I didn't even know I was copying them. That was my act. My stand-up act was copying laugh-in.

O'Reilly And you did it subliminally.

Jackson I didn't even know I was copying laugh-in.

O'Reilly Right.

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O'Reilly So far, your Christianity hasn't interfered with your career. That you had a nice career and ascension and became famous, and you know, all things that accompany that. Did it ever, Christianity, your Christianity, start to interfere with your career?

Jackson Great question. When I was new on the cast, the only way you could tell I was a Christian is I didn't say God's name in vain. If it was in a script, I would just say Gosh or Golly or something. And I felt guilty about that because my dad taught me that those are euphemisms for God and Jesus, G and Golly. But I would say that. So, they might have noticed, hey, she changed the word. One time I gave the cast the Bible on cassette. For a Christmas present because I thought God has me here for a reason and they need to know about Jesus.

O'Reilly Yeah, they need the Bible.

Jackson They need a Bible, and we're all getting new cars and have a lot of money. Maybe they can slip the cassette in the, that was a new thing in the 80s, put a cassette in the car, and they could hear the whole Bible, because I can't tell them, I went to Bible college. I know the Bible so well. I study it every day still, my whole life.

O'Reilly How was that gift received when you gave it to them?

Jackson One cast member returned it with a note that said, 'I already have one.' But nobody else said anything. And then years later, I said to Kevin Nealon, hey, Kevin, did I really give you guys the Bible on cassette or is that like a dream I had? And he said, you did, you did hat. And I still have them on my shelf. I think I've listened to number three and number five, something like that. So, I really...

O'Reilly But I'm glad to hear that it didn't, because there are performers who...

Jackson Oh yes, you can be blacklisted for your beliefs, but let me get to that. Christianity didn't make anyone mad. What made me blacklisted was, well, I started being on Bill Maher's show, Politically Incorrect. I was on 12 times, and that was fine. He loved me on there because I was the opposite of him, and so it was good sparring. And I brought a Bible with me one time and read Ephesians 2, 8, 9 out loud. But and the audience clapped, they didn't boo, it was crazy. But anyway, what happened was when I joined the tea party in 2010 and I went on your show, when I went in your show, like people can deal with Christian but they can't deal with conservatism. That's where I started getting hate. Obama was running for president. He came out of nowhere. And I'd never been political. What happened was I was in LA, and I was trying to get my career back. My kids were almost all the way grown. And I said to my husband, I want to go back to LA and try to get in my career again. And I know they hate old women, but I'll give it a shot. Well, I go to LA, and I said, where am I, how am I going to network? I don't know anyone anymore. My gay friend, Dan. He goes, 'why don't you go to that underground group of conservatives you can network there.' There's like Gary Sinise and Jon Voight.

O'Reilly Yeah, Lincoln somebody.

Jackson It was called Friends of Abe.

O'Reilly Friends of Abe, right, right.

Jackson And I said, well, I'm not political. This was 2008. I know I'm not political. I didn't even know how to vote like till I was, till Clinton said, 'it depends what the meaning of the word is, is.' When Clinton said that, I went, okay. That's just running the country. I have got to get involved. Cause my husband used to watch you all day on Fox. He'd stand in front of the TV. He was a poli sci major. And he is passionate about politics. And I'm like, Paul, where do I vote? And where do we find out what they stand for? Where is it in the newspaper? You know, so in my 40s, I start my dad told me, just vote for anyone with an R next to their name. And he was right. Even though I learned what a rhino is. He's right. So anyway, I go to this underground group to network for my career, and I started learning. And I found out that someone was running against Hillary. No one ever heard of him. And who was his dad and who raised him? Oh, his white grandparents in Hawaii who are members of the Communist Party USA raised him. Oh, Frank Marshall Davis was his mentor. Oh, he's a communist. Oh, he said to Joe the plumber on the campaign trail, spread the wealth. That's a direct quote from the communist manifesto written by Karl Marx. I learned that in eighth grade at Dade Christian. So, we had to read the book 1984 by George Orwell. That's my first sentence in here, is a George Orwill quote. Anyway...

O'Reilly You got more and more involved with, uh...

Jackson The more I found out I was like I got a fire I'm like the America doesn't know someone has to tell him the media is lying.

O'Reilly Now did that hurt you once you went over to the right?

Jackson That's when I got blacklisted. My agent dumped me. My stand-up agent, I've been doing it 15 years after SNL just for money for the family because my first marriage I lost all my money. My agent said we can't, she was at APA, she's very powerful now, she said I can't represent you. All the club owners are liberals and you're too outspoken as a conservative. I was on your show.

O'Reilly Yeah, I remember.

Jackson And I said to you, Obama's a communist, and you went like this, oh come on, you don't really. You did that.

O'Reilly But he isn't a communist, he's got four houses, maybe he espouses...

Jackson Well communists are all wealthy they just don't, they want everyone else to pay the taxes not them,

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Jackson But I couldn't believe you didn't agree with me.

O'Reilly You know what's interesting though? A previous friend of yours maybe, but a previous performer with you, Rob Schneider.

Jackson I'm in touch with him sometimes.

O'Reilly Right. He is very conservative, but his career now is prospering. You know, he's hooked up with the Sandler crew and well.

Jackson I'm not best friends with Adam Sandler, and also Rob Schneider sold out Zanies Nashville for two weeks, and he is a great stand-up. I'm okay, but I'm no Rob Schneier at stand-ups, so he deserves to be doing well, but he has been affected badly for standing up for conservative values, and there's a couple that aren't. Some are doing well and but the, you know what the main thing that got me blacklisted. I wrote an article when I was trying to warn America about this creeping communism, which now we have to worry about Islam and communism those are the two threats to America.

O'Reilly Those are the ones that you feel are threats.

Jackson Oh, yeah. I have proof. So, I was writing articles for Breitbart. I knew him. You know, he was a great guy. And I was just doing, I think it was called ‘Make Me a Liberal,’ name of my column. It was like, I just want truth and facts. I just want truth in fact. I wrote an article, and I said something about the TV show Glee should not have a homosexual theme where two teenage boys are kissing because children are watching. They're brainwashing this generation. They brainwashed this generation in 10 years, and there's a book about it called "After the Ball," and two PR guys determined to change America's opinion of homosexuality, and they did it in 12 years by TV and everything. Anyway, you cannot say gay is a sin, or you're blacklisted, so.

O'Reilly Sure.

Jackson That so that was like that was it my agent in Atlanta said everyone in show business is gay I cannot get you any auditions and then my other agent dumped me and I was like well you know I get it I, I have gay friends I love everyone but I'm just trying to stand up for the, the word of God because no one else is. Why doesn't somebody just say the truth.

O'Reilly But you recovered a little bit from that, right.

Jackson All sins are equal, we're all sinners. The homosexuality in Romans chapter 1 is in the same verse with gossip. They're equally sinful to God.

O'Reilly Right, but, but I mean, your career...

Jackson Now, my career, well, what happens is, some Christian people like to hire me because they agree with me. Some Christians think I'm wild because I was on SNL, or I have my butt showing on every page of my book?

O'Reilly But you're doing a handstand.

Jackson I can't help...

O'Reilly I mean, how can you?

Jackson And I've gotten work, but I, you know, I've got work in Christian movies, small, independent, but I don't really want to work that much. I'm a grandmother of five. Right.

O'Reilly And you got to take care of your health again. We want you around, Victoria.

Jackson I can hardly walk anymore. It's a miracle that I'm just acting like a healthy person. But after this, I'm gonna lay in my hotel room.

O'Reilly But as I said, when I saw you, I would not have known that you were in, you know, that kind of a medical situation. So, whatever you're doing is working.

Jackson It's reading the Bible and listening to worship music. That's the secret.

O'Reilly Do you have any fear of death?

Jackson I'm kind of scared. It's a horrible thing. God did not want it to happen. You know, the Garden of Eden, He said, don't eat of that tree or you'll die. And they said, oh, and the devil said, you won't surely die. Anyway, I don't like death. It is a horrible thing. So, I prayed, and I asked God, could I please die with no fear, no pain and no sadness? I mean, it's the best day of your life if you're going to meet the Lord face to face.

O'Reilly Sure.

Jackson And live an eternity with Him, worshiping Him, serving Him. He invented music. He invented everything.

O'Reilly That's a good prayer though.

Jackson Yeah, so that's what I pray whenever I get scared. I go, Lord, you know, he knows me and my kids are doing great. They're happy. They're happily married. They love Jesus. They have healthy children like it's.

O'Reilly You've done your job.

Jackson Yes.

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Say, What?

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It is lazy writing to begin a column or letter or email with the word "I." Therefore, that sentence shields me from accusations of sloth because, now, this column really begins.

"I" am an American who likes to hear opposing points of view if they are honestly presented. No propaganda, however. No tolerance for deceitful people who spout gibberish for money. The so-called "pundit class" in this country is rife with corruption.

Also, I choose my associates carefully, having been betrayed as we all have been. Among my crew are a number of liberal people who are making the same mistake: they get agitated every time President Trump says something provocative, which is "a lot," as the Donald might opine.

Every day, I get missives bemoaning the President's over-the-top rhetoric: crocodiles in the Rio Grande, invading Greenland, 800 percent tariffs on Paraguay.

Mr. Trump's verbal bombs drive his detractors insane, which very much amuses the Chief Executive.

I explain all this in my book "The United States of Trump." For decades, Donald Trump has created chaos among those with whom he is negotiating or opposing. The tactic has generally worked well for him.

Best example. The first Republican debate back in August 2016. There's the political neophyte Trump on stage with a slew of career politicians who generally believe he's a nitwit. Trump's strategy was simple: channel Don Rickles.

Remember Boring Jeb, Lyin' Ted, Little Marco? Trump's verbal grenades unsettled his competition, throwing them off their game, especially Jeb Bush, the favorite at the time. The Bush family harbors a deep grievance against Trump to this day.

When my anti-Trump associates wail and gnash their collective teeth, I respond simply: evaluate what the President DOES, not what he SAYS. His words and tone can change from hour to hour.

Ask "Little Marco", who is now Secretary of State.

There has never been a President like Donald Trump, as I have pointed out in this space. He's not going to tone it down or change his strategy. He's taking his flamboyant style to the grave.

In three and a half years, we will be able to historically evaluate Mr. Trump. But I can assure you that bombastic rhetoric will only be a footnote to his legacy.

What he actually does and how well that works for the American people will define him for the ages, as it should.

*This column was originally published on July 13, 2025.

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The Baldwin Brothers

2026-05-22T22:00:00Z

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Our Optimist-in-Chief

2026-05-22T16:00:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

‘The glass is always half-full’ … ‘a silver lining in every cloud.’ Pick any cliché you like about unbridled optimism, and it applies to President Donald Trump. When it comes to looking at the bright side, he ranks up there with Dale Carnegie and Forrest Gump. But while confidence in the future is a worthy trait, it can also backfire and give ammunition to one’s critics.

One case in point, while not especially significant, is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that was abruptly canceled when the armed madman stormed the event. Trump’s immediate instinct was to vow that the dinner would be rescheduled and take place within 30 days. Even though a president has no real control over the event, he assured everyone that the second edition would be bigger, safer, and better. That 30-day deadline is here, and it seems increasingly doubtful that there will even be a dinner, let alone one that is bigger and better. To most Americans, that is no great loss, and this unfulfilled pledge is trivial.

Far more consequential are Trump’s always-confident predictions about the war in Iran and the U.S. economy. The war’s end is always a few days or a week off, he assures us, after which there will be a golden age of peace, prosperity, cheap gas, and a boom unlike any in American history. Every patriotic American hopes the president is correct – just imagine a world in which Iran’s terror threats are finally neutered, and Israel can live in relative peace (‘relative’ because the world is filled with too many Jew-haters for Israel to exist unthreatened).

That tendency to look at the world through rose-colored glasses differs by political party. With America nearing its 250th birthday, Pew Research conducted a poll about Americans and the future. Most adults in this country feel the country’s best years are behind us, but there is a sharp divergence on different sides of the political divide. 2 in 3 Democrats believe the country has seen its best days, and the most pessimistic Americans of all are self-described liberal Democrats. Their gloom is no doubt affected by hatred for the guy in the White House, but even before Trump, Democrats warned of impending doom from ‘climate change,’ AIDS, acid rain, overpopulation, pestilence, nuclear annihilation, starvation, and a host of other perils. There seems to be something in the progressive DNA that worries and warns, warns and worries. Today’s most prominent progressives, whether Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, always remind us that the very survival of our democracy, even our planet, is teetering on the edge.

President Trump might be well-advised to tone it down a bit, but that’s extremely unlikely. Optimism has worked for him in business and in life for more than half a century, and he’s not going to suddenly morph into a modern-day Cassandra, the doomsayer of Greek mythology. Donald Trump seems to follow the thinking of Albert Einstein: ‘I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.’ Of course, the most desirable outcome is to be both optimistic and correct.

Naturally, Donald Trump’s legion of enemies accuse him of blatantly lying when he makes grandiose predictions, but they might remember the wise words of that famed philosopher George Costanza, son of Frank and Estelle of Queens, New York. ‘Jerry, just remember,’ George told his best friend, ‘it’s not a lie … if you believe it!’

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

We'll Do It LIVE! Rolls On

2026-05-22T07:00:00Z

We'll Do It LIVE! is ramping up over the next few weeks. Saturday Night Live alumni Victoria Jackson, and Victor Davis Hanson are some of our upcoming guests. But before that make sure you check out my latest episode featuring actor Stephen Baldwin.

Baldwin is an interesting subject. His famous siblings are divided politically, he's conservative and a Born Again Christian with a long history in Hollywood. It's a very revealing discussion that's available now.

Killing Time with Stephen Baldwin

2026-05-21T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY Okay, here we are with Stephen Baldwin, the legendary Baldwin Brothers, for our Premium Members and Concierge Members on BillOReilly.com. We hope you are enjoying that, and this is Killing Time. When you were in the mainstream, filmmaking was it for you, that was your profession. In that world, that intense world, drives people, some people a little crazy.

BALDWIN No, I never lost my way, meaning I grew up with a dad, and it was kind of, I think the Baldwin boys would agree, it was kinda like a mini great Santini. My dad was the kind of guy who understood if you can't know yourself well enough to speak to yourself strongly enough to overcome certain things. So in other words, you cut yourself, you needed stitches, it was swelling, da-da-da. He didn't come over, like, hoo-hoo-hoo. My dad would be like, hey.

O'REILLY He took care of it.

BALDWIN He said, listen, we're gonna fix this, look at me. He talked to you like a coach, almost, but to try to get you through the navigation and the management of the pain or whatever it was, because he was one of those, you know, better stop crying or I'm gonna give you something to cry about. Because we were hooligans, we were getting in trouble, you know, all over town, you know, late for school, you know, booked for detention, lied to my dad, you know. He was a school teacher, so if I did something, if I mouthed off to a teacher over here, you know, in two or three weeks, it was back to him.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN Right, so he'd pull you out, he'd pull you aside. What happened with Mr. So-and-so? No, dad, listen, you know, he just, he kept you on a short leash.

O'REILLY So you always remembered that lesson.

BALDWIN I always remembered when I got to Hollywood. Forgive me, Bill, Hollywood to me has always just been a bunch of BS.

O'REILLY Oh, I agree.

BALDWIN It's just another industry. And whatever the thing is in that industry, you can throw strikes and make some money. God bless you. So that's kind of why when I became born again, and I came out of it, and I really learned who my friends were in Hollywood, kind of, sort of. And then I really learnt who my Christian friends were over the next 20 years...

O'REILLY That's a positive.

BALDWIN Yes and no, but I just mean all of the Hollywoodnessnessness that's Hollywood and Christian Hollywood is kind of the same thing. It's pretty much the same machine.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN You know what I mean? It's there to return a profit on an investment. Now, the one side of it is hallelujah. That's great.

O'REILLY Well, it's how you return the profit.

BALDWIN Right. But it's also what you produce. So what I'm getting ready to do now. I don't know if you...you won't remember this, but there was a great company back in the day in New York called the Shooting Gallery. If you see the actor now that's on the cowboy show that was married to Angelina Jolie, what's his name?

O'REILLY Brad Pitt?

BALDWIN No. The guy who drank the blood with her and all that, what's this name again?

O'REILLY No, I don't know. Angelina frightens me.

BALDWIN Billy Bob Thornton.

O'REILLY Billy Bob, right!

BALDWIN So Billy Bob Thornton made a movie called Sling Blade.

O'REILLY I remember the movie.

BALDWIN That was produced by Larry Meistridge, a guy who had a company called the Shooting Gallery. But that company, in a short time, made a lot of Sling Blade hit movies, like 20 titles that were really well regarded.

O'REILLY Noirs.

BALDWIN Right, that was one of the specialties of Larry Meistrich's company. So Larry is a new company now that, I might be going back, Bill, to the old school, kinda, you know, let's make great stuff again with a new company he has called Red Coral Universe. It's an app, it's this, it's, it's like a baby Netflix.

O'REILLY Yeah, there's a lot of that stuff.

BALDWIN But it lets the artist keep their stuff for themselves.

O'REILLY Well, we hope that works out. So I saved this question for last. It was a very interesting conversation we had throughout the whole long-form podcast. One of the things that came through that I did not know was that you have kept your tradition, working class, two parents who cared about you, siblings, five. You have kept those lessons paramount in your mind, where many other celebrities either forget the lessons or banish them. Was that a conscious decision, or did they force you to keep those lessons in mind?

BALDWIN I think, like anything, I think it's just what I was raised with.

O'REILLY Yeah, me too.

BALDWIN You know?

O'REILLY I've always kept them.

BALDWIN Some of those old cliches, you know, it's like today if somebody says like, hey, you know, you've had this much success, and you've been involved in some great films, and you know your kids are this or that, and now you're the youngest Baldwin brother with two grandkids, you know, blah, blah, blah, you've been blessed. What would you say? What's the one thing you can encapsulate is the reason that allowed that kind of motivation? I said, you know, I said to people, my mom always said, you know, you could really just do anything.

O'REILLY Upbringing.

BALDWIN But I was, but I remember my mom putting my cap on my head and moving my hair out of my eyes and putting my gloves on, and we were going to have a snowball fight and just... She'd be like, get out there and hit them all in the face, and if somebody bothers you, punch them in the nose, and you can do anything if you really set your mind to it. It was some of that, it was all that kind of stuff.

O'REILLY Right, right.

BALDWIN But for real.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN So between that and the mini Great Santini, it all kind of amalgamated, you know, interestingly.

O'REILLY Something that would hit big on commercial television would be the four Baldwin brothers doing a weekly.

BALDWIN Produced by Bill O'Reilly. Here we go. Let's go.

O'REILLY I'm afraid of Alec, so I can't, but if you guys went on and did an hour every week, with your different philosophies, your different points of view, your traditional backgrounds, Alec's 25 children. And all you have to do is basically parade one or two in an episode, and you get the whole year.

BALDWIN We'll zoom them in on the screen.

O'REILLY That would be enormous. But I wonder if they, Billy and I think Daniel would do it because he's just crazy. But I wonder if Alec and Billy would do it, because that would be a surefire hit.

BALDWIN Well, Alec just signed to do a new TV show. He's got 29 kids. I don't know what he's going to do in the future. I think you just, I know, I think like you, he likes working. He likes working, you know, you just said, Oh, I thought I'd be retired by now. Alec is the same as you right now. He thought he'd be retired by now, too, but he's also got seven kids.

O'REILLY But you see my point, right?

BALDWIN Sure.

O'REILLY You get the four of you guys who have different points of view on life, and you're all together, and you just explaining what the hell is going on in America. Boy, I think that the entertainment quotient on that'd be through the roof, and I don't want a consulting fee or anything.

BALDWIN We'll see!

O'REILLY Here's what I want.

BALDWIN We'll talk to Josh.

O'REILLY Once a month, I want to come in and make fun of all of you. Okay, and then I'll leave, and I won't even charge.

BALDWIN We'll call it the concierge minute. Just come in.

O'REILLY That's right.

BALDWIN Get us all.

O'REILLY Anyway, so nice to see you again.

BALDWIN You too, Bill. Thanks for having me.

O'REILLY I really appreciate you coming down. The conversation was very worthy. So thanks again.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Stephen Baldwin

2026-05-21T16:00:00Z

BALDWIN And I start screaming, and I, you know, start acting like a lunatic. Hollywood to me has always just been a bunch of BS.

O'REILLY We'll give Jesus credit for everything you've ever done.

BALDWIN I was a real pain in the ass.

O'REILLY You had to have attitude.

BALDWIN Chutzpah!

BALDWIN Bill, you're gonna get me in trouble.

O'REILLY Cheap shot, sorry.

BALDWIN No, just...I just, I had it coming.

O'REILLY Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to We'll Do It Live, our long-form podcast. You can see us pretty much every night on BillOReilly.com's No Spin News, which is a regular broadcast. We do this now once a week because it's been successful. And today we have a very interesting guest, Stephen Baldwin, part of the Baldwin Boys. Mr. Baldwin grew up near where I grew up on Long Island. And it was a rambunctious home, father's a teacher. It's got brothers, Alec, Daniel, Billy. I know them all. And here he is. Thank you for coming in, very nice of you. I know how busy you are. We'll talk about your podcast, One Bad Movie, in a little while. But I wanna get to this number that came in this week, 37% of Americans say that they have lost a friend or a romantic partner or even a family member they don't talk to anymore because of politics. And you guys are divided, the Baldwin brothers are divided. You got Billy and Alec, pretty liberal guys. And you and Daniel, fairly traditional guys. I think that's fairly accurate.

BALDWIN Sure.

O'REILLY Has that bled over into brawls or, uh, spaghetti fights?

BALDWIN Uh, no, there hasn't been one of those amongst us in a long time. I am officially Bill. So, you know, I'm retired from politics.

O'REILLY Good for you!

BALDWIN Stephen Baldwin's out, I host One Bad Movie podcast now, and I'm getting back in the business of just doing some content creation, hopefully following in the footsteps of somebody like yourself, sir.

O'REILLY Well, I wish you the best with it.

BALDWIN Thank you.

O'REILLY And, you know, it gets to the point sometimes where you have to retire or at least take a break from the political stuff because it just wears you down. But I know Daniel hasn't retired because he tackled me at the Joe Namath benefit in Florida about two weeks ago, screaming about some Trump thing.

BALDWIN He's a big guy. You recovered quickly.

O'REILLY I did. I gave him a faint like this. And then Alec, every time he sees me, throws things at me. So, he is not retired. But the family dynamic growing up, or when you guys were younger guys, now you're middle-aged, and you're getting into icon territory. Did that ever come into play?

BALDWIN Oh yeah. One time, my mom got in between Alec and Danny, and her dentures went flying. I'll encapsulate that story for you.

O'REILLY Your mom?

BALDWIN Yeah, my mom, Carol Baldwin, the legend. There was the four boys and my two sisters. And certainly, I was the youngest. I was number six. So I was the one that broke the Brady Bunch possible tie. When Stephen was born, it was four boys, two girls. And my dad was like, you know, football coach, massive high school, you know, history teacher, et cetera, et cetera. I was a real pain in the ass growing up. I was the most rambunctious, but not the most, you know, kind of diabolical. Daniel was the most diabolical, which is why he's...

O'REILLY Why?

BALDWIN Which is why he's tackling you now.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN But Billy and Danny would give me a whooping on occasion. And Alec was pretty good at protecting. He was my Vito Corleone.

O'REILLY How much older is he than you?

BALDWIN Nine.

O'REILLY So he's 69, you're 60.

BALDWIN Right.

O'REILLY And he protects you, good for him.

BALDWIN He looked out for me pretty good. But that's only because one time my mom put down a gauntlet, anybody gives the middle finger again, you're punished for a week. No more middle finger. I don't care what happened, if it's a sporting event, anything, whatever, you know, this, that. Okay, ma. You know, the next day, Billy comes up to me. She smacks me around a little bit. I give him the middle figure. He starts chasing me. I run behind my mom. She goes like this. He says, you just said yesterday, one week he's punished, that's it. He's not going out of the house. He just gave me the middle finger, and my mother goes, what else is he supposed to do to defend himself, the poor little-.

O'REILLY Ah, your mom turned on you.

BALDWIN No, she protected me.

O'REILLY Oh, she protected you.

BALDWIN She protected me. She said, he's the little baby.

O'REILLY Oh, I got it. Now, you've got four guys who are very flamboyant, talented, all actors. I would say your oldest brother, Alec, is an activist. And then on 9-11, because I had you on a factor, I don't know whether you remember. I do remember. I mentioned it. You changed not only your politics, but your religious point of view.

BALDWIN Sure.

O'REILLY All that happened after the World Trade Center got attacked.

BALDWIN Correct.

O'REILLY Did that cause any familial problems?

BALDWIN Not really family, family. You know, we kind of always were raised. My dad was a real, you know, kind of universal kind of guy in that sense, you know, respect everybody, do unto others, you know, my dad was pretty regular Joe Irish catholic.

O'REILLY Was he conservative or liberal, your father?

BALDWIN He was a Democrat, liberal, but with very traditional values. That said, my becoming born again, kind of getting out of Hollywood for quite some time, which I'm now getting back into with the podcast and some stuff. It's led to division, so to speak, because of political reasons and geographical, and I'm not blowing smoke in as much as nothing too bad outside the normal family crap.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN You know what I mean? But when my mom passed... You know, some stuff happened behind the scenes, you know, people were a little disgruntled, and you know blah blah blah, but listen, I don't think there's anything too dramatic happening.

O'REILLY If you had dinner tonight with the three guys. Cordial?

BALDWIN Yeah. But we haven't been spending much time together. That's the truth.

O'REILLY Why not?

BALDWIN Yeah. Location, everybody's in different states now. You know, I'm two hours north, Bill. I'm a farmer up north, upstate New York.

O'REILLY Well, Alec's still in the Hamptons, I think.

BALDWIN He's in the Hamptons and Vermont.

O'REILLY Mm-hmm.

BALDWIN And he's working like a dog because he's got all those kids.

O'REILLY You know, he's got 19 kids or something, right? How can you keep track?

BALDWIN I don't know.

O'REILLY I always had an affection for him, and he came on The Factor, too. I remember he was sweating a lot. And I said, look, I'm not gonna lay you out here. I'm just gonna try to understand where you're coming from. Because he moves up there with De Niro at one time. He has backed away from that. Is that a philosophy? Did you all four, except for Daniel, say, you know, maybe we shouldn't go down this road, and let's quiet it out on the political front?

BALDWIN Well, I think it's that plus, you know, as you get older, time, energy, you know, your own personal, you know, prioritization, you know, what, what you prioritize to be the things you want to spend your time doing.

O'REILLY Are you still born again?

BALDWIN Absolutely.

O'REILLY What does that mean? What does it mean now?

BALDWIN Okay, so, Nicodemus...

O'REILLY Nicodemus!

BALDWIN He was kind of like the Elon Musk of his time. He decides, look, I've been hearing about this guy, Jesus, too long, you know, they're saying he's doing this. Somebody, somebody said, like the fishes kept coming out of the thing, right? So he goes and sees him at night, and Jesus says to him, You know, the people have said that, you know, following me and knowing what it is to have salvation is all these other things. He goes, it's as simple as just knowing what it is to be born again. And Nicodemus says, well, what do you mean? I already came out of my mom. I can't come out of mom again. But that means in the spirit of your heart, because that physical part can't happen, that's the recommitment, that is the one-on-one between you and Jesus relationship and surrender that is being, quote unquote, born again. So when somebody says, what denomination are you? I say, I'm, you know, non-denominational, but in the Bible, it doesn't say Catholic, Protestant. ...

O'REILLY There wasn't Catholic yet. So, you've got to go through Jesus if you want to reach paradise. That's what I took the Nicodemus story to be.

BALDWIN Right, if you want to know eternal life connected to the Almighty of the Father, our Father in heaven, one must be born again through salvation in Jesus Christ and with Jesus.

O'REILLY And nobody in your family objected to that?

BALDWIN Well, no, because my mom, Carol, up there in Syracuse, her sister that we spent a lot of time with at family reunions and just growing up whenever we went to visit folks up in Syracuse, after we moved down to Long Island, my dad became a teacher down in Long Island. We were all born down here, but two, three decades, we'd go up to Syracuse for events. And my Aunt Louise was the... Almost like the SNL character, you know, like Satan? You know...

O'REILLY That church lady.

BALDWIN She was like, my aunt Louise was basically a church lady.

O'REILLY Did that coincide with you becoming a traditional political thinker, or had you done that before?

BALDWIN No, I think I had never been political until after I was a born again and kind of entered into politics just in the Republican Party as a conservative in my understanding, which, you know, you've got to walk that walk a little bit before you understand what these things really are, you know, in the inner workings of parties, you know. So, all of that said, I supported Republican people for, really, went to a lot of the conservative stuff because most of my constituency in the six degrees of Kevin Bacon of my political experience was through Christian folks. A friend of mine said, let's go to the prayer breakfast. And he was a Christian guy with a charity. So I was connected with more-.

O'REILLY That was your crew.

BALDWIN That was more the faith-based thing, yeah.

O'REILLY Before we get to the one bad movie thing, because I am interested in Hollywood to some degree. There were, and I, I need you to straighten this out for me. We don't invite anybody on this long form that we feel isn't going to tell the truth because I don't want to have to beat the hell out of you, you know, not physically, but you know. Let's have a nice conversation. In 1989, you did a movie called Casualties of War.

BALDWIN Yes, sir.

O'REILLY Brian De Palma was the director, big, big director. Okay, and you left the movie, and there were all kinds of stories about you, Sean Penn, and Michael J. Fox.

BALDWIN Right.

O'REILLY Wanna clear that up for me?

BALDWIN Before I forget, I'd like you to be on my show, One Bad Movie. You're gonna love this dovetail right now because I'm setting up some episodes for New York, and my first guest is Michael J. Fox when I do the New York.

O'REILLY Okay, good.

BALDWIN So now it's gonna be Michael J Fox and you if you're available, sir. So yeah, listen, listen. Do you wanna hear the whole thing?

O'REILLY No, I wanna hear why you left the movie.

BALDWIN I left the movie because Sean Penn was my idol, and when I auditioned, I auditioned thinking, wow, what a shot I got here.

O'REILLY Yeah.

BALDWIN Right? Wow. What an opportunity.

O'REILLY Spicoli.

BALDWIN Well, more than Spicoli. Okay?

O'REILLY To me, it'll always be Spicoli.

BALDWIN Me too!

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN But he's done, you know, Carlito's Way, and some other legendary stuff. So, I get this opportunity to go read for Art Linson, the legendary producer with De Palma. I read for Art Linson. I'm doing stuff in the script with the character that's not there. I added like a stutter, and I did some weird stuff, and just this is the character, forgive me. This is the character I came up with. I read from Linson, and he goes, it's not what's on the page. Why are you doing it like that? I said, it just what came to my mind. He goes, great. Can you go in two hours and meet De Palma? It's all in Manhattan. Oh my holy shit. Yeah, I'm going to see Brian De Palma. I go see De Palma at his house, Upper West Side, blah, blah, I sit down, I do the audition. He goes, that's not in the script. Why are you doing it that way? I said, this is just the character. This is what I came up with. He goes great. Sean Penn has final approval of the casting. Can you meet him in two hours at this restaurant on the Upper West Side? I'm laughing, like I swear to you, in eight hours. I go see Penn. We're at that white rocking horse on the Upper West Side, some fancy place. And we're in this back little booth, and he's smoking in the restaurant. I'll never forget it. I couldn't believe he was smoking in the restaurant. He sits down, he goes, okay, when we get there, I'm the sergeant, you're this, da-da-da, this is how it's gonna go, but you can't talk to Fox. When we get to Phuket, Thailand, with De Palma, and everybody, big movie, you gotta just shut your mouth and do what I tell you. I'm telling you, you speak to Fox once, your ass is grass.

O'REILLY Why didn't he want you to talk to Michael J. Fox?

BALDWIN Because it was a method thing he was doing.

O'REILLY That nobody talks to each other?

BALDWIN He, Penn, wanted absolute control in the wrath of his leadership as the sergeant in this story.

O'REILLY In the platoon.

BALDWIN Right. So he turns around. I am my father's son here, Billy, you know, you tell me not to do something.

O'REILLY You gotta do it.

BALDWIN So I get over there, and Fox is one of my heroes, too. I mean, what am I, I'm not going to piss on Michael Fox.

O'REILLY Or disrespectful, right.

BALDWIN You know, in some kind of a method actor way, because this guy's telling me this and that. Long story short, we were like two weeks into filming, Penn comes up to me during a lunch break, and he says to me, you know, everything all right? Everything good? But he knows I've been hanging, like I've been in wrapping, you know, the word got back to him.

O'REILLY With Fox, yeah.

BALDWIN Yeah. And he just turns around. He says to be, you know, okay, okay. As long as you're following my orders. The next morning, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Linson would like to see you before you head to the set. No, no, no. It's Thailand. So I get in the car, I go to his office. Now you're gonna love this one, Bill. I walk in, he goes, Stephen, this is the hardest part of a producer's job. I said, Art, we're already filming for two weeks. There's no way you're getting rid of me. He goes, we are sending you home. I said do I get paid? He goes absolutely. I said well, let me go get my stuff, and I'll just swing by the set and say goodbye to the guys. He goes, your room's already been packed, and your belongings will meet you at the airport. You're gonna go. Dude, forgive me, sir. Mr. O'Reilly, these guys demonstrated for me in that very extreme Hollywood way what it's like to get replaced within the system.

O'REILLY Were you angry at Penn?

BALDWIN Not now, I'm just turning 60 years old. No, no, no.

O'REILLY Back then, if you transport back to the future, like Michael J. Fox, you're in the car, were you mad?

BALDWIN Listen, Michael J. Fox makes a good joke. He says he's happy about Eric Stoltz because Eric Stoltz was supposed to actually do Back to the Future. It didn't work out. Michael J. Fox took his part. Okay. John C. Reilly. You ever hear of him?

O'REILLY Sure.

BALDWIN He replaced me in that movie.

O'REILLY In the movie. You would have been better, though.

BALDWIN Well, listen, John C. Reilly's a talented guy.

O'REILLY Right. But you, you were mad at Penn, pulling rank.

BALDWIN Well, only because, you know, it was a dream come true. It was the biggest jump in my career, as far as if I had remained in the movie, who knows? Yeah.

O'REILLY I don't know Penn very well, but a couple of times, and he wouldn't mess with me, he would be foolish too. But I asked Clint Eastwood about him.

BALDWIN Oh really?

O'REILLY Because, and this might be something for your podcast, they did a movie, Mystic River.

BALDWIN Yes, of course.

O'REILLY Up in Boston.

BALDWIN It's a brilliant film.

O'REILLY Right. And Penn is an edgy guy. Edgy, okay? You say smoking in a restaurant, it's not all he's doing in the restaurant.

BALDWIN But that was 30 years ago, go ahead.

O'REILLY Right. But you weren't allowed to smoke back then.

BALDWIN Correct.

O'REILLY So he's gonna do what he wants to do. So Clint Eastwood is a very level-headed guy.

BALDWIN Right.

O'REILLY But extremely powerful.

BALDWIN Yeah, and not a scaredy cat.

O'REILLY I said, how did you get along with Penn? I mean, my God. And he looked at me, he goes, no problem. One or two takes, he did it the way I wanted to do it because he's who directed it. And that was it. And Jack Nicholson said the same thing. Nicholsen loves Penn. And Nicholsen's no raving liberal, okay? So he's an interesting guy. Now, on your podcast, One Bad Movie, what movie and what guy or gal surprised you the most by saying that movie was terrible, and I'm sorry I did it.

BALDWIN What a fabulous question, because literally it's the person that's on right now.

O'REILLY You?

BALDWIN No, no, no. The guest, you mean?

O'REILLY Yes.

BALDWIN Yeah, yeah, so Brian Austin Green, famous for 90210.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN He's the current guest on the show. And we're about to drop part two on the YouTube channel. And like I told you, Bill, One Bad Movie podcast, hosted by me. It's like if I sat with you and said, Hey, did you do a cameo or did you play a part in something? Did you do a TV commercial? What's the thing where you ate the sushi for lunch, and you got food poisoning, and you were like, or, or the, the car ran over your toe, or, you know, somebody showed up on set, they were wasted, you know, like, what's the thing that was just the nightmare that now in retrospect is kind of humorous? So once we start doing all that, it becomes a lot more fun. You know, because now instead of me doing a direct, kind of like, you know, like, oh, what's your favorite movie you've done or what, you know? So, right now I sit down with Brian Austin Green, and I say to him, something like, and like, Oh, well, you know, I just think times have changed, and now you have a lot of, you know, actors who are moving into these kind of commercial, kind of corporate positions, and these titles and they're making tons of money. Some of these stars, you know, as I said, I said Margot Robbie in Barbie, you know, like...

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN This gal made $70 million on the back end. Now, God bless her. Go, Margot, go! But I'm just saying to Brian, you know, things have changed, and I just, I don't agree with it, and I don't think movies like that, which is kind of like a fictional kind of silly kind of...

O'REILLY Frivolity.

BALDWIN Right. Exactly. I said, I just don't think those are the great movies Hollywood could, you know, it could and should be making now. And B.A.G., Brian Austin Green came back at me, Bill, like you couldn't believe it. He's like, oh yeah, well, I disagree. And here's what, and he kind of very reasonably and quite logically from a financial perspective made a lot of sense. But I'm an old school guy. You know, I like Stand By Me. I like 16 Candles. Now, Brian likes that stuff too, but he's more of a contemporary open to this other stuff. Nobody believes me when I say this. If I got offered some huge movie tomorrow, but I had to be like in front of a green screen on hooks flying all around, Bill, I'm out. I don't care what you want to pay me.

O'REILLY Well, you were in one of the greatest ensemble movies that was a serious movie, The Usual Suspects.

BALDWIN Sure thing.

O'REILLY Now, when you're in a movie like that, and you have all of this talent around you, was there one-upmanship in that movie? Was everybody trying to be better than the next guy? And because I remember that movie, it was pretty intense.

BALDWIN Yeah, but it wasn't so much one-upmanship as much as it was like a dance partner. You know, people were showing up with such interesting choices in their characters.

O'REILLY Mm-hmm.

BALDWIN That all you could do was focus on your character and how to keep it as interesting, so to speak. And there was one story I love to tell, it's just one adjustment I had to make in my performance was you know, everybody loves the police line up where I say, give me the g-g-g-gun, and I start screaming and I, you know, start acting like a lunatic. A lot of fans come up to me on the street and say to me, they love that line. When I kind of worked out the character throughout the whole storyline, I had a few other moments where maybe he'd be more explosive. My character, he'd throw somebody against the wall or shoot his gun, or who knows. But Benicio shows up.

O'REILLY Del Toro.

BALDWIN Benicio Del Toro shows up, and he's this like Latin Road Runner. He like, just shows up and goes, meh meh, and then runs. And like, you know, the whole room goes, what did he just do? You know, so I had to pull back some of the choices I had, and kind of, and not have my character, McManus, do too much.

O'REILLY Right. Right.

BALDWIN In order to do that dance with all this other fabric, you know?

O'REILLY And that brings me to my next question. Were you guys all actors when you were kids? Were you going around reading Shakespeare? Because all four of you wind up in the movies.

BALDWIN Bill, we were all jocks. We were all jocks.

O'REILLY No acting?

BALDWIN High school choral, you know, you sang in the chorus, and you did the high school play, and you know, you did Zorro, and you had to, and you remembered the lines. But not until Alec did his first, what's the name of the soap opera? The Doctors. You'll remember the original.

O'REILLY I don't remember him, but I know his history.

BALDWIN So he started with a little soap opera. He gets a contract to do a soap opera. He's making more in a month than my dad is at Massapequa High School for the whole year. And all of a sudden, the Baldwins said...

O'REILLY Hey!

BALDWIN Sports scholarships or Hollywood? What's it going to be?

O'REILLY You ought to have Alec on One Bad Movie. He's made a few of them.

BALDWIN Yeah, we got him already.

O'REILLY You got him ready? All right, I want to see that. So you let me know when that is.

BALDWIN I'll let you know.

O'REILLY Talking about kids, Hailey. You have a daughter who's one of the most famous models. Would that be accurate? Model, celebrity?

BALDWIN Sure. Model, but now kind of business owner.

O'REILLY Business, all right. So when she was growing up, obviously, she had physical attributes that you knew. Did you want her to be in this world? Because that's a pretty intense world that she's in.

BALDWIN Yeah, but she's really navigated it quite well, Bill. And she's got a great team. And she had a vision, you know what I mean? Hailey probably could have become a professional ballerina. She was very gifted in dance. She could become an actress, still could, if she wanted to.

O'REILLY How old was she when you knew she had this kind of talent?

BALDWIN I would say she went to a lovely ballet school in the Nanuette area of upstate New York, where we lived for a while, and the Nyack area. She went to Coupe Studios there, and since she was 5, 6, 7, you know, she took little kid classes, goofing around, not serious, but then went on to dance every one of the lead roles in those Christmas performances over the next 7, 8 years.

O'REILLY Okay, so you knew that she...

BALDWIN So she danced all the lead roles in the Nutcracker. And it was one of those things where, okay, she's got some gifting. She's got the talents. Let's see what she wants to do. She took all of that and focused it into business.

O'REILLY Was there a point when you, as the father, had to sit down with her and warn her about certain aspects of show business, rough business?

BALDWIN She was well aware of it way in advance.

O'REILLY How?

BALDWIN Well, just communication with your kids. Yeah, just talking to your kids, you know, when my kids were coming to certain events around Hollywood people, you know, we're from Massapequa, so mom and I were kind of always making sure the kids understood the algorithm.

O'REILLY So from a very young age, she knew what you did, how you did it, what the industry was, and she wanted this a lot?

BALDWIN I can't speak for my daughter. I'm not even supposed to be talking about her now, Bill. You're gonna get me in trouble. But anyway, you're a legend, so I can talk about it.

O'REILLY She'll forgive you.

BALDWIN She'll- You heard it here, folks. No, I just think Hailey, like a lot of these young people that have grown up on screens, they have ways of learning things much more quickly on their own. You could really say to yourself, like, who's doing this over here, and who's doing what, and just kind of educate yourself about this and that. And her thing was wellness and the health of beauty.

O'REILLY Were you ever worried about her? Were you ever, you know...

BALDWIN Of course. Yeah. As a dad.

O'REILLY When you're getting in too deep, too fast, and you get the tabloid stalking her. That's always intrusive. Was there a point where you said, I don't know?

BALDWIN Not really, only because, you know, the oversight that my wife and I had at a certain age, when she was hanging out with some of her friends, she's still friends with now.

O'REILLY So you raised her traditionally?

BALDWIN Yes, sir.

O'REILLY Did she buy into the Jesus stuff?

BALDWIN Oh, she's a Christian, absolutely.

O'REILLY So you got her in there?

BALDWIN Jesus got her there.

O'REILLY Okay, well, give Jesus credit for everything you've ever done. That's fine. But you know, some of these kids in Hollywood, it's, you know, puff daddy better than Jesus. You know, I mean, we're talking in some extreme situations here. I'm glad you came out well, you know, I'm a dad, and I'm raised like you were on Long Island, and my daughter is a very beautiful woman, and I always worried about her. My son, I knew was gonna be okay, and lacrosse player, and you know. He bought into my system, but she was always a little bit on the, you know, O'Reilly guy, am I really...You know? That kind of thing.

BALDWIN That's funny.

O'REILLY But I spent an inordinate amount of time worried about her. Not that she was doing anything wrong, she wasn't. I just wanted-.

BALDWIN Just the world out there.

O'REILLY I wanted everything to turn out so well.

BALDWIN It's the old duck to water, Bill. You gotta let them fly.

O'REILLY No, I know, and we had two pools, so there's a lot of water, and she can get in there anytime she wanted.

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O'REILLY Now, you come across to me, I don't know you that well, but I know you a little bit, and each Baldwin brother has their own personality. Obviously, I'm going to...Alec is, you know, I wouldn't say problematic, but he's confrontational.

BALDWIN Used to be. He's more chill.

O'REILLY He's pulled back.

BALDWIN He's more chill.

O'REILLY Right. Because the kids won't let him out of the house. But if he ever gets out of that house, I'm telling you, he's going back to the confrontational.

BALDWIN We'll see. We'll see.

O'REILLY Billy, I never got a bad vibe out of Billy.

BALDWIN Sweetheart.

O'REILLY Yeah. I mean.

BALDWIN Married to China Phillips.

O'REILLY Yeah. And that Phillips family, they're crazy. John Phillips, totally out of his blanking mind, and she turned out really well, looked to me anyway, and then Daniel, I think, is hysterical myself.

BALDWIN You've got another Namath coming up, so be careful.

O'REILLY Yeah. And then you, I mean, that's quite a brood.

BALDWIN It's quite the lineup.

O'REILLY Quite a brood. I don't know of any other brood, maybe the Barrymores?

BALDWIN I don't think there's been four immediate siblings that have made as many films as...

O'REILLY You guys all together.

BALDWIN Paperboys boys. So, God bless Jerry Seinfeld. You're a huge talent, but we've made a bunch of stuff.

O'REILLY Do you know Seinfeld? He's out on the island.

BALDWIN I don't. Do you know Jerry?

O'REILLY I know him a little bit.

BALDWIN Tell him to come on One Bad Movie with me.

O'REILLY You know, if you tell him...

BALDWIN You know, it's life isn't just luxury cars and comedy.

O’REILLY Here's how you get him. You tell him you'll have a Hall of Fame Met guy there, New York Mets, he'll come. He loves the Mets. He's a big Mets guy.

BALDWIN Maybe we'll just hire a Met guy to come sit in the room.

O'REILLY Right, yeah. Howard Johnson will do it. Just give him a call. Howard will come right up. Seinfeld loves the...

BALDWIN The Mets!

O'REILLY Loves the Mets.

BALDWIN Die Hard!

O'REILLY Every time I see Seinfeld, it's not often. But I see him around once in a while, he tries to make fun of my clothing. And I always look at him, I go, is this what it's all about, Seinfeld, insults about nothing? You had a show about nothing, you made $200 million, now you're insulting me about nothing? So he's an interesting character. It's something about Long Island.

BALDWIN Sure. You've got a lot of fun characters coming out of there.

O'REILLY Right. You had to have attitude, or you got just...washed.

BALDWIN Chutzpah!

O'REILLY Well, you got washed.

BALDWIN Right.

O'REILLY If you didn't have attitude, raised in Levittown, you know, you had to. And that's what translated. So, on the One Bad Movie front, you told the story about the guy who sees it differently now about making movies. Was there a movie mentioned on your podcast that surprised you? But you thought, hey, this was a great movie, it turns out to be a terrible movie, and here's X, Y, and Z.

BALDWIN I have a similar thought bubble, but not about a movie. I had Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce and Demi. And I interviewed her because I just wanted to hear from her algorithm of young people. And I was interviewing her, and how do you say to her what Bruce Willis means to us from back in the day?

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN You know, from, you know... Not Moonstruck, what is it? Moonlighting. So Moonlighting was, you know, as like, but it's iconic as Seinfeld. I mean, obviously, you know, etc., etc. So I turn around and I say to her, not to be weird, but I just like, I know your mom and dad, just let me get this question out of the way. I said, what content, what thing from your childhood that your parents did is the one thing, it could have been Die Hard. It could have, you know, anything. And she picks that series.

O'REILLY Moonlighting.

BALDWIN She says, when I think about my dad's work and the stuff he's done, my favorite go-to binge-watch is Moonlighting.

O'REILLY And that was before her time. She's watching the reruns.

BALDWIN Right. She's watching it decades later.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN And it was just odd to see his kid, now a mom herself, actress, singer, super talented, just to bring up Moonlighting. And it caught me like that question you just said, like was there something that... She could have picked anything. She picked Moonlighting. I thought that was very cool.

O'REILLY When you now evaluate your life, and you get opportunities, and I like the podcast opportunity, I think that's going to do very well for you.

BALDWIN Thank you.

O’REILLY You've got to market it. That's always the hardest part of any of these things, but it's going to do well, because people still like the old-time Hollywood, like you were talking about, the traditional movies. I don't go to see the everything's blowing up. They're making that movie for people in Pakistan who wanna see everything blown up. That's what they're making a movie for. I was in Transformers. I was there. Me and Turturro.

BALDWIN We'll talk about that.

O'REILLY And I had four movies made myself that I exec-produced, like my books. So, I know the world a little bit. But I still don't waste time on what they're throwing out there now. I haven't been in a movie theater... when James Bond started weeping or doing whatever he did before they blew him up, that's it. Sean Connery never would have done that.

BALDWIN Exactly.

O'REILLY I'm not doing this anymore, okay?

BALDWIN You're funny.

O'REILLY Right. So when you have this podcast, if you can transport people back to that time...

BALDWIN That's what we do.

O'REILLY In history, where movies really meant something, people talk about them, people would style themselves after the movies. Now that doesn't happen. So that's why I think the value of this podcast, I wish I had thought of this idea.

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O'REILLY But when you're offered a project now, does the born-again stuff that you believe in enter into your decision-making?

BALDWIN If Mel Gibson called me and said I'm doing Lethal Weapon 9, and you can play the bad guy with your little mullet haircut, you know, the Swedish, you know, bank robber. You know, Sven.

O'REILLY Gotta have him, you gotta have a Swedish bad guy.

BALDWIN Sven and his sidekick, Olga.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN You know. Look, the guy wants to pay me a couple of million bucks to show up and do a big-budget movie...

O'REILLY You're going.

BALDWIN As long as I don't have to say the F word, and as long...

O'REILLY You won't say the f-word in the movies?

BALDWIN I won't say the f-word in the movies.

O'REILLY Whoa!

BALDWIN And it's bleeped out of One Bad Movie.

O'REILLY Ah, very interesting. So, no profanity by Stephen Baldwin.

BALDWIN Well, why put out negativity, Bill? Let's stay positive, right? If I can make my point creatively in the stuff I create, now don't get me wrong. There's a rodeo picture I'm gonna write, produce, and direct. There's another...

O'REILLY Because they do say, the rodeo, when the bull throws them, and they hit their head, they say the F-word. Okay? I can guarantee you that, in between the tobacco juice coming out, the F-word is coming out, too.

BALDWIN Sure. Yeah. With the appropriate motivation, obviously.

O'REILLY No, it's in context.

BALDWIN But you're making my point, which is within context, if there was bad language in material I produced, that would be different. You know, I'm not going to do a movie that's an urban movie with some characters that's like, you know, yo, homie.

O'REILLY You're not doing Superfly.

BALDWIN Well, I'm not doing something that's unrealistic, but as writer, producer, director, you can kind of shape all that. So I'm looking forward to kind of the challenge of what you're talking about.

O'REILLY But you do have parameters based upon your religious beliefs. There's certain things you won't do now that you would have done before.

BALDWIN Absolutely. I've kind of, I've made out with a couple of cute gals, Bill, in 40 years on screen, and I'm good now. I'm a grandpa. No more making out.

O'REILLY Did they have to pay those women extra to do it? Cheap shot. Sorry.

BALDWIN No, I just, I had it coming. I had it coming, sir.

O'REILLY So, now, your belief system, religious belief system does shape the way you want to produce entertainment.

BALDWIN Yes, but not like it used to. I'm...

O'REILLY Moderate it a little bit?

BALDWIN I'm almost third... Yes, of course, you know, like a fine wine, right? You kind of figure out the Bible for yourself. You've gotta figure out how to choose your battles. You've gotta figure out family, you know, as you progress up in your personal life. Hopefully, you know, with your business and career, it can spill on over into that as well. So right now, I'm doing One Bad Movie. I'm getting ready to do a bunch of kind of faith-adjacent content. That's the marketing words, Bill.

O'REILLY Faith adjacent.

BALDWIN So, yeah, it's not like the new Christian movies that are out, like I can only imagine, and all these other big, obvious faith, basically. If I do a rodeo picture, it is going to be a rodeo picture where there's a couple scenes, where they pray over the meal.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN And there can be Christianity within it, but my hope is that, as a storyteller, I can create stories and content that impart all of that, but in the old way of great filmmaking. You know, right now, Christian...

O'REILLY That's what people want.

BALDWIN Well, but the...

O'REILLY They want good stories.

BALDWIN It's getting better.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN Christian content's getting much better. No question.

O'REILLY Well, Gibson just finished his resurrection movie. I think it took him 18 years to shoot it, but he's just finished it. And that's going to reignite that whole genre.

BALDWIN Absolutely globally.

O'REILLY Right.

BALDWIN No question.

O'REILLY I thought The Passion was a little too gory for me. I remember sitting in the makeup chair next to Mel Gibson, who needed about 30 seconds make up while I needed four hours. So he was there, and I went, do you really need the last nail? I mean, could we've done... We got it...up there. So, I don't know what he's doing with the resurrection thing, but he spent a ton of money on it. Shot it in Rome, and they just wrapped it about two weeks ago.

BALDWIN Wow. It's gonna be, but it's still, but he's got two coming out. He's got...

O'REILLY Yeah, it's a two-parter.

BALDWIN It's a, yeah, it's Resurrection, and then another one comes out like a couple, like...

O'REILLY Yeah, I think it's six months ahead, behind.

BALDWIN It's gonna be interesting to see.

O'REILLY I like Gibson. He's crazy. Sorry, Mel, but you are. But I like him because he's honest.

BALDWIN Oh, yeah.

O'REILLY All right, you ask him a question, just like you, and you get an answer. So, Stephen, thank you very much for coming in. We're gonna hold Stephen over.

BALDWIN I got one more thing.

O'REILLY Go ahead, one more thing.

BALDWIN 90 seconds.

O'REILLY Sure.

BALDWIN You ready for this? This is one of the only ways, Bill.

O'REILLY All right. Massapequa Chiefs.

BALDWIN One of the only ways I can get even with Kilmeade, who thinks he's Mr. Massapequa.

O'REILLY And that's Brian Kilmeade, everyone.

BALDWIN Brian Kilmeade from my hometown, God bless him.

O'REILLY State of New York's trying to knock that chief thing out.

BALDWIN Bill, this is a 1989 original Massapequa High School wrestling zip-up.

O'REILLY Wow!

BALDWIN This is the old one, bro. This is literally double XL. This and my Burner High School shirt are the two last things I have from my hometown, and I'm giving it to you.

O'REILLY Aw, that's nice of you. That's very nice of you.

BALDWIN You know why? I want Kilmeade to see this, and he's gonna...

O'REILLY And be jealous.

BALDWIN Even Brian Kilmeade doesn't have one of these bad boys, bro.

O'REILLY You know what? I'm gonna wear it next time I see Hochul.

BALDWIN Please!

O'REILLY Yeah, and she'll love the logo on it.

BALDWIN She'll love it. I'm retired from politics.

O'REILLY Very nice of you. I appreciate that.

BALDWIN Appreciate it.

Killing Time with Stephen Baldwin

2026-05-21T16:00:00Z

Stephen Baldwin explains to Bill the importance of his parents and staying grounded in Hollywood.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Stephen Baldwin

2026-05-21T16:00:00Z

Actor Stephen Baldwin joins Bill to discuss his famous family, politics, and fame. Baldwin talks about his famous brothers, his faith, and navigating Hollywood.

Trump & the GOP

2026-05-21T15:44:00Z

Killing Time

2026-05-21T15:41:00Z

O'Reilly & Sid on the Ball Field and the Battlefield

2026-05-21T07:00:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and examines the importance of major league sports teams to their respective cities. They also take a serious look at the situation in Iran and the likelihood of a renewed US attack.

O'Reilly & Hannity on China, Iran, and More

2026-05-21T07:00:00Z

Bill turns the tables and interrogates Sean Hannity about his trip to China with President Trump. Turning to Iran, Bill and Sean concur that the president will soon give up on negotiations and start raining missiles on some key Iranian targets.

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Next Week

2026-05-21T07:00:00Z

Off to Ireland for some R and R, then to London to report on the race war developing over there. Very intense story that exploded because of illegal immigration.

Eire is always nice even when it’s raining. Easy trip, definitely worth your time.

We’ll be texting from over there and sending pics. I do expect some kind of action in Iran as time is running out for President Trump.

We’ll be back in action Tuesday, June 2. Stay strong. See you then.

Bilge

2026-05-21T00:52:00Z

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Trump's Influence Over the GOP, Massie Loses Primary, Paxton Takes Trump Endorsement, Edgar Dworsky Talks Shrinkflation, & Nancy Pelosi's Successor

2026-05-20T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Reporting tonight from Manhattan. We're doing a couple of episodes of the long form, We'll Do It Live. Okay, It's going on pretty well, right? I think so. Getting a lot of good mail on it. Barney Frank passed away today. Now, I've said before that one of the few things that I regret in my 50 years of journalism is that I openly derided Congressman Frank on television. You may remember that. If you don't, you can see it on Google and all that other part. Now, Barney Frank was a committed liberal, 16 terms in Congress from Massachusetts. That's 32 years. Not a good guy. I'm not speaking ill of the dead, but, you know, gruff, and it was his way or the highway. But you know I didn't think he was malevolent. He wasn't Nancy Pelosi. But anyway, he came on the program to talk about the collapse of the economy when people couldn't pay their mortgages. And since he was overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, I blamed him, and he denied it, and things got heated, and I was too mean to him. I was. I didn't have to be. And I've always regretted it. And I think I sent him a note one time saying, look, I'm sorry about that. I mean, you're still wrong. You still were misleading the audience, but I overreacted to it. Anyway, look, whether you like Barney Frank or not, he's a public servant. He served his country. He was the driver behind gay marriage, all of that. He died of heart failure in Maine, and our condolences to his family and friends.

Talking Points Memo. Okay. So Donald Trump did very well last night in the primaries, across the country, and he remains the most powerful politician in the country by far. So, 35 percent of the Republican, mostly Republicans, I would say to maybe a few independents, but 35 percent are just right there. They're MAGA, they love him, he can direct their votes, they are behind him. Nobody else is close in this country. No one else has a 35 percent constituency like that. So there's a guy in Kentucky, a congressman named Thomas Massie, and you might have to him. He opposed almost everything that Trump did. And he's a Republican. So he got waxed by a guy named Ed Galrain, who the president endorsed over Massie because Trump hates Massey. And you would, too, if you were president and this Republican was voting against pretty much everything you wanted to do. You've got to look it up, but he didn't want the tariffs. He didn't want the big, beautiful bill. He didn't want Venezuela. This is Massie. He didn't want anything. And he was just doing it to be a pain in the you-know-what. There wasn't any ideology behind it. Anyway, he's done. He lost by 10 points. That's big for an incumbent to lose that big. So he's out, and it is a very conservative district in Kentucky. So, this guy, Galrain, will walk right in unless there's some big scandal or something.

In Texas, the president has endorsed Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, the incumbent. Both Cornyn and Paxton are conservatives, but Cornyn didn't like the Mar-a-Lago thing, didn't stand behind Trump on that. That's what got him. That's what got Cornyn. All right, so Trump was infuriated by the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid, Cornyn said, you know, maybe it's necessary. Over. So Paxton has to run now a pretty aggressive race against a Democrat named James Talarico. The press loves him. So it's not a fait accompli that tech's going to have two Republican senators. Paxton's in for the race. But Trump endorsed Paxton and Cornyn. That was the end of Cornyn. So you can see, and this goes on and on and on and on. We don't cover a lot of this party stuff here. I think you know that if you've watched me for a while. We don't really get involved with party politics because there's no reason to. You know the way I think about major stories because I tell you. And I don't take a party line ever. And if you want the Republican Party's point of view, you watch Fox or Newsmax. You want the Democrats' point of view, you watch CNN or MS or the network news. That's it. Why do they need me in the middle of this? And I've got more important things to do, like your life, to be wandering around in party politics, which I do not want to do. I have never done it, and I never will do it.

The independent vote in November for the midterms, that's the vote. So Republicans are, you know, have an advantage because of the MAGA people. They'll all go Republican. Democrats have no leadership at all. Geez, Kamala Harris is back? Yikes. And the independents, though, man, they don't like this Iran thing. They do not like this. So you can't call it now because stuff's going to happen in Iran soon. We'll get to that in a moment. Summing up, President Trump remains the most powerful politician by far in the United States of America. His endorsement can make or break you. If I were Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska, I'd be a little bit worried. Be a little bit worried up there, Lisa. And others as well, and that's the memo.

All right, so the president says he's going to attend the G7 summit in Europe. He's going to a beautiful place on the border of France and Switzerland, gorgeous. And this is June 15th to 17th. And the G7 is, you know, the NATO members get together, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, not all NATO, but be allies, whatever. That ought to be wild because many of those countries do not like Donald Trump. But he's going, he's gonna strut around. And you know what they're gonna do? They'll be subservient to him. You wait and see. But they don't like him. But he announced that he's going, and he should go. I mean, we need to get partnerships around the globe. Iran, as I said, is coming to a head probably this weekend. I'll be in Ireland watching the Iranians get torn to pieces. And I think that's gonna happen because Iran is just beyond now. They're saying that they'll take the war beyond the region if Israel or the USA strikes the country again, okay. Enough of the threats. You won't negotiate at all. What do you expect to happen? So the most powerful man in the world says you're not going to have a nuclear weapon. You're not gonna have a new nuclear weapon, simple. It's a very simple equation. And I hate to see dead civilians, but you're going to have plenty of them. So that should, you know, they can't make another postponement. I don't think they can do that. They're still screwing around on, I don't know what, but President Trump gets weaker and weaker and weaker as this goes on longer and longer and longer. He knows it.

Raul Castro, 94 years old. Former Cuban leader Fidel's brother, awful human being, he was indicted years ago in 1996 in Florida, state charges, for killing three Americans who were trying to rescue Cubans fleeing that country. So three Americans were killed when their plane was shot down by a Cuban fighter jet. So now the U.S. Justice Department is holding Raul responsible and has charged him with four counts of murder, two counts of destruction of an aircraft, okay. And this is just a warning to the Cuban government. That's all. It is. And it could have been done a long time ago, but no president wanted to do it. But now Trump is doing it because he senses Cuba's going to fall, which it will. So there's a lot of stuff going on here, but Cuba is going to fall. Raul is retired, he doesn't have any power anymore, it doesn't matter. I don't know if they're going to snatch him or not, they might. U.S. Forces might go in and grab him. And he deserves it. They could have charged the Castro brothers with narcotics trafficking in 1965. I mean, Cuba is notorious for helping the cartels get narcotics into the United States, though. But murder is murder. So that's going on.

Now, on your front, in your house, most likely you're spending a lot more money on gasoline and food. All right, the raw stats are gas is up 46 percent since Donald Trump took office the second time. That's painful for every American. And food is up 3%. That's not bad. But food's gonna go higher because of the oil. Where I live, Stop & Shop has cut prices on Long Island, 46 stores. The CEO going, you know, we know everybody's hurting, so we're gonna give them a break. Good for you, Stop & Shop. Okay, you're not seeing any of the American oil companies cutting prices. So Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs are down 28%. Rotisserie Chicken down 13. Beef Top London Broil down 26. Tropicana orange juice, down 10 percent. This is all Stop & Shop. And I applaud that company for trying to make things easier. People on Long Island are suffering. People everywhere are suffering financially. One of the problems is not the outward cost of the item. It's that when you buy at the grocery store now, you're not getting as much as you used to get. It's called shrinkflation. Shrinkflation. Ten massive corporations, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Pepsi, and others, have all engaged in shrinkflation. That means you're not getting as much in the package as you used to get, and how would you know? It's printed in small print, but you don't know. So they're taking food out of there, charging you a high price, not giving you what you used to get. Now, more than 40 years ago, I worked at WNEV TV in Boston, and I anchored a show called New England Afternoon on that show. There was a man named Edward Dworsky who was our consumer guy. Here's a look. Go.

"If you have children or grandchildren, you will be interested in consumer editor Edward Dworsky's report on household poisons, but first, as he does every Friday, Edgar has an update on this week's consumer news."

"Well, that's right, Bill. On the top store is a new condominium conversion law, which went into effect on Wednesday in Massachusetts. It provides that most tenants must receive a one-year notice before facing eviction from their apartment."

Alright, how about that hair? Anyway, Edward Dworsky is now the CEO of consumerworld.org, based in Boston. He joins us from The Hub. I think I look better than you, but I'm not sure. Yeah, I know. I know, but you're still the best consumer guy out there, which is why you're on the program today. Now, you've been following some food, and I want to know what's going on here. Hershey's Dark Chocolate. That's a big shrink inflation thing?

"Absolutely. We're talking about shrink inflation, where the product is getting smaller. It's a backdoor, sneaky way to raise prices. So here on the left, you see the old package of Hershey's Dark Assortment, 29 ounces. The new version on the right is 23.9. You lost five ounces. If these were full-size candy bars, that's like losing four full bars in every bag, both bags are 19.99, and if you haven't read the fine print, you wouldn't know you were getting screwed."

Yeah, how would you know? So they haven't changed the price, they just changed how much stuff is there. Quilted Northern toilet paper. They're doing the same thing, right?

"Well, toilet paper and paper towels is one of the big categories of downsizing. Here, the old ones on the left, there were 295 sheets on the roll, and the new one on the right has 255. You lost 40 sheets. What's that? 15%, give or take? In the new package, when you add it all up, that's like losing one whole roll of toilet paper. Crazy"

And then cereal, I understand many cereals are doing this shrinkflation stuff.

"It's very common to have downsizing of cereal boxes. But to look at them side by side, they look identical. And that's what's really so sneaky about downsizing. There on the left is the Kellogg's Corn Pops. The old version was 18.1 ounces, the new one 16.4, so you lost a couple of bowls of cereal in every box. But they're both called family size. The one on the right is maybe slightly smaller, but how did they do it? If you turn them sideways, you'd see the new one is narrower. They're making these products so narrow, I don't even know how it stands up on the shelf anymore without falling over."

Yeah, maybe one of the kids ran away or something, and that's why they justified it. Coffee. Coffee is now, every time I read the Wall Street Journal, coffee's going up, coffee's gone up, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's the real situation with coffee?

"Well, because of some shortages and weather issues, coffee has gone crazy. Even the store brand of coffee, in this case, we have Great Value coffee, which is Walmart's brand. The old one on the left was 11.3 ounces, the new one's 9.6. So you've probably lost about five cups of coffee. But you remember when those cans on the left were a full pound? That was common when we were growing up. You bought a pound of coffee, and now it's a fraction of that, and you're paying more."

Especially if you drink it in some kind of Starbucks situation, then you're getting really hosed on it.

"Then you're really paying through the nose for that.".

Okay. Breyer's ice cream, my father's favorite, big shrinkflation there.

"Well, this is the history of Breyer's ice cream. Remember when 20, 25 years ago, you bought a half-gallon of ice cream, 64 ounces, that's the one on the left. Then they took out a full cup and became 56 ounces. But to see them side by side, it's really hard to tell there was a change, and you don't get to see them side by side in the store. And then on the right is the current size, 48 ounces. They took out another cup. Only if they had the product side by side and turned them sideways do you see the difference. So think how much we've lost. We've lost 16 ounces of ice cream, and we're still paying a pretty penny for it."

But this isn't new. A lot of these products they've been doing this over the years, kind of sneaking it in. But now, with the cost of food a problem, this really hurts.

"Well, absolutely. You see it more in times of inflation. You know, supermarkets tell me, you know, the cost of labor has gone up, the cost of gasoline, it's costing more to get stuff to the store. So they have some choices. They could raise the price directly, but they know consumers are price-conscious, and they'll catch it, and they might lose sales. They can reduce the contents in some manner, such as by using cheaper ingredients. That's called skimpflation, where they literally water down the product. Or they can do what we're talking about today, shrinkflation."

Just give you less.

"Give you a little bit less in the package. It's a backdoor price increase. It's the sneaky way to pass on those costs to the consumer."

And it's all legal, right?

"It's all illegal. You know, interestingly, in some other countries, Austria just passed the law last month that requires retailers to put a notice on store shelves if the product has been reduced. And a German court just last week found that Mondelez, which is a big supermarket product maker, they make candy bars in Europe, for example, the candy bar, the old one and the new one, the old was 100 grams, the new was 90 grams, they said that was deceptive. Consumers shouldn't have to read the fine print to figure out you're getting less. So they're requiring Mondelez to put on all their products a notice for four months when they shrink a product by more than 3%."

We should do that here.

"I don't think it's gonna happen in our lifetime, Bill."

No, the food lobby is powerful, and so is the oil lobby, we know that. Edgar's website is consumerworld.org, I recommend it. Thank you for helping us out, good to see you, Man.

"Thanks, Bill. 40 years flew like that."

I know, it was a good time in Boston, though. All right, let's go to San Francisco. It's not gonna get any better there. You might have seen my documentary on News Nation, and I said, this shouldn't be happening in the United States. There's people are all over the place, drug addicted. All right, if you want to watch it, it's there to watch. So one of the problems in San Francisco, perhaps the biggest problem, is terrible politicians. Nancy Pelosi leaves the league. She is retiring now, Pelosi. She's out of there. And she has endorsed her successor, a woman named Connie Chan. Who's more radical left than Nancy Pelosi. Roll it.

"For far too long, the immigration policy on a national level has been this bordering states issue that we see is far away for someone living in San Francisco or in California because we're a century city and a century state. But it's no longer the case when the Trump administration is sending ICE agents to kill people on our streets and violate our First Amendment and due process. Families are being detained. We cannot, and we will not accept that."

So Ms. Chan is an open-border person, let everybody in, not only let them in, but pick up their entire tab, housing, medical, everything. That's her vision. And she'll win. San Francisco. Justice Department agrees to drop any future IRS claims against the Trump family. Now this is a complicated story that has been dishonestly reported. Here is what's going on. So Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an agreement yesterday declaring the federal government will not seek any sort of audit or payment from the president, his family members, and companies on pending tax claims as part of Donald Trump's settlement agreement with the IRS. Remember, the president sued the IRS because he says that his position as a Republican politician led to the IRS investigating him. Now, there is validity to Mr. Trump's claim. In fact, if he, when he leaves office, there's a good chance the Democrats, if they are running the show, will go after Donald Trump and his family on a tax beef, just as they did in New York City on real estate stuff, and you know the story. He had to go into court, he had to hire lawyers, that's what this is all about. So Trump's protecting himself. However, it's in the past, so say one of the Trump family members did something wrong after yesterday, then he or she can be prosecuted. This is attached to the $1.8 billion fund that's being set up to give reparations to people who were attacked because of their political beliefs. And the January 6 riots lead the league on that.

Now, I am not in agreement that fund is necessary. Okay, because those folks broke the law, and they were convicted. Now, sometimes unfairly, sometimes their sentences were way too harsh, but there's an appeal process in this country, and the ones that were convicted were there. You can see it, there is videotaped evidence, but what wasn't reported is the 1-8 doesn't only include MAGA people, includes everybody. So Hunter Biden could say, I was politically attacked, and it cost me a lot of money, so I'm going to sign up for this $1.8 billion fund, which would be adjudicated by the Justice Department on a case-by-case basis. Now you say, Trump's out of there in two and a half years. Democrats might be in charge of the Justice Department. So it's a nonpartisan thing, but the press doesn't report that. However, I understand the president's desire to have his family not be prosecuted after he leaves office, which is almost certain that it would be because these Democrats are not going to stop hating Donald Trump. Smart life. So I take this job seriously. We have fun here, too. But ask any of my staff, and they'll tell you we don't mess around. Okay, we don't waste your time. We checked out everything you saw in the consumer segment we just did. We did the research on it. We had everything there for you. There is a growing trend in television journalism, and I don't even know if that exists anymore, television journalism, I don't even know if it exists. We're on television, on News Nation, and our broadcasts are carried on television. But we don't work for anybody. It's my corporation. Corporate television news, I don't know if it exists. So the big thing now is for commentators, well-paid people, to look at you and go, we'll see, this is what they're being paid to tell you. The obvious. We'll see. Roll the tape.

"And we'll see how this plays out."

"So we'll see if that actually ever happens."

"Okay, we'll see how these talks go."

"So we'll see how it plays out in this case."

"We'll see very early on whether that's actually happening."

"And we'll see what happens in Colorado when her race comes up."

All right, so this has got to stop. You're not being paid to say, we'll see. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows the future will unfold, okay? So if you don't have anything to say, don't say anything. Just throw it back or go, that's a wrap. That's all we have. Or, like I did, when I was reporting on the China-Trump meeting, I don't know. I told you that. Because we didn't have the information in some areas. Nothing wrong with saying you don't know if you don't know. But with this we'll see every blanking day, we'll see, we'll, see, we'll see, we'll see. I tell you, it wouldn't work for me. Those people would not last. I'd give them one warning, but they're addicted to it. And now everybody in the general population is going, well, we'll see, we will see. Yeah, all right, fine. Sun comes up, how many times are you gonna hear that? It's worse than at the end of the day. And I thought at the end of the day was probably the worst ever when every athlete started saying it. This is worse. So you interview a baseball player in the second inning. Hey, how's it going over there? We'll see. No, no. This is a pet peeve. I know I'm taking up your valuable time with it, but don't you guys do it, and notice when somebody else is going, we'll see. And if you knew how much these people were being paid to say, we'll see.

Okay, Smart Life. Nationwide, only 21% of the American population know what their retirement situation is. This is crazy. It was conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of Nationwide Insurance. Okay, 21% Americans correctly identify their full retirement age for Social Security. 74% feel confident managing benefits without the help of a financial professional, which is insane. You should have a financial profession. You don't, you're going to get hosed, particularly with this AI coming in. Okay, so, you retire everybody, not everybody, I'm not. I should. You don't know what you're entitled to. You work all these decades, and you don't know what your retirement age is or what you're supposed to get or what your pension plan is or your social security or Medicare. You don't know. Only 21% know. Put the burger down. Do some homework. I can't tell you how many letters I get from older people, senior citizens, no idea what their rights are. This week in history. 13 years ago, May 22, 2013, I go on the John Stewart Comedy Central program to promote a book called Keep It Pithy, number one bestseller. And Stewart and I had developed a back-and-forth relationship that was very clever and, I think, beneficial to the country. Roll the tape.

"Did they fire you here? You're going..."

"What?"

"Are you gone?"

"No, I'm leaving in a couple of weeks. I'm going on a mission."

"I heard you're gonna, you're gonna direct some werewolf movie?"

"No, it's I've joined the Mormon Church, and it's required that you go away for 8-10 weeks."

"Yeah, and you have to proselytize."

"Do you think you'd miss me? Will you miss me?"

"I would, I'm shocked. When they told me you got fired."

"You have great affection for me."

"I was shocked."

"I did not get fired."

"Well, why? Where are you going?"

"I'm going to the Middle East."

"The Middle East? And set up an exchange program...Is that what you're going to do?"

"I'm setting up a charity. I'm sure it'll be fine. It'll be above board."

"But you're gonna be gone, you're not gonna be here."

"I'm gonna direct a movie, that's right."

"Who's gonna be there? Who? "

"A young man named John Oliver, a British gentleman. He's tremendously famous. People love him."

"You should, you should come in and check up on me."

"Is he... Is he a Muslim, Oliver? Is he? You're bringing in a Muslim guy to take care of you?"

"That's right, I'm bringing in a Muslim guy. Well, if you really were sincere, you would."

"I re- What?"

"If you really cared about the Muslim community, you'd bring in a substitute Muslim host! Let's call it for what it is. Put up or shut up, Stewart."

"You know, it hurts me to say this, but some of the emails that the Department of Justice is finding for Fox News are probably between you and I."

"I delete them right away."

All right, so I don't know, what did we do? We did a big special that broke all records called the Rumble in the Air Condition Auditorium. And we did a bunch of shows. He'd go back, and I'd go on his show. Doesn't happen anymore. Well, the last time I was on it was like two years ago. And it should. Now let me tell you why it doesn't happen anymore. And this is not a slap at Jon Stewart. I like him. He's very witty. He only does one show a week. Maybe I can get that schedule going. But it's the Trump stuff. So all of the satirists hate Trump so much that anybody who might ever defend Trump is banished. Because they don't want to read the emails. They don't wanna say, oh, you're a sell-out, put you guys on who likes Trump. That's what we did yesterday with the Saturday Night Live crew. We used to be across the board, they would mock you. Now it's just they're mocking Trump and MAGA. That's what happened to Stewart. So that's why you don't see it anymore. It's not that I'm a big, I'm not in business to prop up Donald Trump, but if you're gonna be unfair to the man, I'm gonna point that out. But anyway, that was a nice taste of what we did. And that happened 13 years ago, my God. It's like a walk down memory lane here. Boston 40 years ago. Stewart, 13 years. But I enjoyed that stuff at Stewart, because it was a good match of wits. All right, we've got a mail segment, a final thought about News Nation and Cuomo and me, and we're doing some stuff over there. Back in a moment.

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Mail. Philip Crossler, Everett, Washington. "President Biden's government threw January 6th people in jail, held them for years. Why doesn't Trump's government put anti-government rioters in jail and hold them?" Because those are state charges. The difference, okay? State charges, federal charges. And federal charges are much more intense.

Alan Sachs, Pensacola, Florida. "As a proud American Jew, conservative in support of Israel, I deeply appreciate you shining an issue on anti-Semitism, O'Reilly. As you know, it's a chronic problem that historically spikes during economic downturns, when people are tough. Folks often search for a scapegoat. Unfortunately, Jewish people have frequently been targeted." This isn't about the economy, though. This antisemitism wave is about progressive politics. That's what it's about now.

Jordan Boutas, Alberta, Canada. "In my opinion, there are many sources for growing anti-Semitism in the West, but the main three are far left, far right, and a significant portion of the Muslim community that live here. It now mostly comes from the far left and those adjacent to them. Israel is a Western democratic capitalist and perceived as being inhabited by white European colonizers. This makes Israel, and by extension, all Jews, an ultimate target of the far left." I don't know about the colonizers thing. The rest of it is on. I just think that the progressives are hell-bent on demonizing Israel because of a variety of emotional reasons. It's hard to generalize one.

Message board, Wayne, Concierge Member, will help Wayne out if he gets into trouble. "The people who do not care about what happens in Iran are fools. Literally impacts the entire world. Everyone should want that government gone." What I say Wayne, why wouldn't you want them gone? Why wouldn't you help us? Makes no sense.

Gregory. "My patience with President Trump and Iran is starting to run its course. I just ended up paying $50 for a full tank of gas and a four-cylinder engine. I did not pay $50 dollars for gas under Biden. Now, would I rather have Biden than Trump? Absolutely not, but this conflict cannot continue another month." I think that's fair. I don't think the conflict can continue much longer. Certainly not another month.

Michael. "Bill, regarding the price gouging for sports in general and the World Cup in particular, it's capitalism. They only charge what people will pay for." Okay, big gouging, but people will pay it. I got it.

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All right. So, this is it for me. I'm going to Ireland on Friday night, then to London to do a special for News Nation on a civil war between Muslims, and let's call them, traditional English. Whew, getting bad over there. I'll be doing a report. So I will not see you again until a week from Monday, but we will have, We'll Do It Live. We're doing the Baldwin Brothers. That breaks tomorrow. Alec and Billy and Stephen and Daniel. Two conservative, two liberal. That should be pretty fun, right? Victor Davis Hanson. We got him. So there'll be a lot of stuff going on while I am in Erie. And I will be tweeting over there, sending you pictures on BillOReilly.com, doing all that. Okay, so stay with us. Time will go fast, it always does. Looking forward to Ireland. Thank you for watching tonight.

Trump's Influence Over the GOP, Massie Loses Primary, Paxton Takes Trump Endorsement, Edgar Dworsky Talks Shrinkflation, & Nancy Pelosi's Successor

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Talking Points Memo: Incumbent Congressman Thomas Massie loses in Kentucky and incumbent Senator John Cornyn loses out on Trump endorsement to Ken Paxton.
President Trump will attend the G7 Summit next month.
Iran’s weekend deadline to make a deal is readily approaching.
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President Trump reaches a settlement with the IRS.
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Trump's Best Friend

2026-05-20T07:00:00Z

The progressive movement is President Trump’s best friend. These far-left radicals make it difficult for clear-thinking Americans to vote against the Republicans because the progressives are now running the Democrats' entire operation.

If you think money is tight now, wait until you see the drastic tax increases the Dems want to impose. Yes, President Trump would veto those if Republicans lose the midterms, but the tone will be set: bigger government, racial preferences, amnesty for migrants, soft border enforcement, a diminishment of ICE, reparations for slavery, more regulations on energy; there will be nowhere to hide.

The problem is that many voters don’t understand how intrusive the progressive movement really is. Already, Kamala Harris is staking out a leadership position with Ocasio-Cortez right behind.

So big decision coming in November. Yes, many things will change over the next five months.

But one thing won’t change: progressives are Trump’s best friends.

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Progressives Pushing Antisemitism, The New York Times Defames Israel - Joe Tacopina Weighs In, & the Anti-Weaponization Fund Controversy

2026-05-19T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill talks about how young progressives have revived antisemitism.
Joe Tacopina, Trial attorney, gives legal insight on New York Times’ recent inflammatory article about the Israeli military.
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Progressives Pushing Antisemitism, The New York Times Defames Israel - Joe Tacopina Weighs In, & the Anti-Weaponization Fund Controversy

2026-05-19T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. Stand up for your country. So let's talk about anti-Semitism. Never got it. Never got it. Okay, and I grew up in a neighborhood where there were Jews and Catholics and every ethnicity except for blacks. They were redlined out of there by the Levitt brothers, who built Levittown, it was terrible what they did. But we had every other ethnic group in there and everybody got along pretty well. And the city, a little bit different because of the landlord thing, and there was some resentment about Jewish Americans owning a lot of the buildings and collecting the rents and all of that, but minor. Minor, minor, minor. And now we've got full-blown anti-Semitism all over the country. And it's all about Israel. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So why should you care? You're not Jewish, right? And even if you are, then I know why you care. But if you're not Jewish, why should you care? Because this is bad for USA. You shouldn't have this. And to me, as a historian, I'm looking at it. And it's acceptable now. The progressive movement has embraced it. And that's a large part of the Democratic Party. They despise Israel. And by extension, some of them hate Jews. Here's an example.

"And it makes me feel silly to consistently, you know, talk about what Hamas has done, especially when there has been an October 7 times a thousand, if not more than a thousand at this point, in the hands of Israel against the Palestinian population in its entirety. I mean, they're doing an October 7th to Lebanon right now as we speak."

"We have enabled Israel to carry out modern Nazi policies of ethnic cleansing, mass slaughter, land theft, border expansion. It's unacceptable, and we're the ones enabling it."

No, you're the one that's making it up. That's what you're doing, you are making it up, fabricating it. I spent some time in the Middle East, in Israel. I mean, they don't know what the story is, but a little history is instructive. Six million killed by the Nazis, you know that. But then there were another quarter of a million, at least a quarter of a million Jews after World War II had nowhere to go. Nobody would take them. USA, nope. FDR didn't particularly like Jewish people. Great Britain wouldn't take them. Canada, no way. Eastern Europe, they persecuted them. Stalin persecuted Jews. Cossacks, okay? So you’ve got at least quarter of a million people walking around, got nowhere to go. And then you had the rest of the Jewish population going, how could we lose six million people in the most destructive way possible? That can't ever happen again. That is the history of this. So I wrote a book called Killing the SS, if you wanna know it, there it is. Those two people you just heard, one of whom is running for Senate in Maine, are they liars or are they stupid? Probably both, but I'm not sure because I don't know them.

Alright, so after World War II, some had it happen, something had to give. So, Britain and USA got together and said, okay, we're going to have some land controlled by Britain in the Middle East, given to create a Jewish state, Israel. Alright. I mean, the land largely unusable except for Jerusalem and the holy sites. Nothing really going on there. Wasn't like they were given the Jews Beverly Hills here. So that happened. And then in 1948, the United Nations said it's part of our charter. And in '49, Harry Truman, a real hero to the Jewish people, said it's a new nation and I'm the first one who's going to sign a signatory and the president did. Okay, so from then on, there was war because the Arabs said no, it's our land. You can't give it away, Great Britain, the USA United Nations. We're not going to recognize this or support it in any way. So it didn't take long. So May 15th, 1948, even while this process was underway, okay, a coalition of Arab nations, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, all of them got together and invaded Israel. They had a fight. Now there's seven million Jews living in Israel. There weren't as many at that time because a lot of them emigrated in since. And there's about 6.3 million in the USA. In our country, we now have this movement, progressive movement, that says, no, Nazi's not that bad, Israel, that, no no, Hamas, nah, Hezbollah, nooo, terrorism, nah. All Israel's fault. All Israel's fault. Here's an example. This is a student at Towson University in Maryland. Talking to an Israeli soldier who came over here.

"Boooooooooooooo! Keep sucking our country drive, b***h!"

"Come and talk with me."

"No, f*** you! No, f*** you!"

"Why f*** me?"

"You're a fascist! F*** you."

"Come on! Come and talk with me."

"I don't want to talk to someone like you."

"I'm not fighting."

"I don't want to talk to someone who supports an inherently genocidal state."

"You're brainwashed, brother."

"I'm brainwashed? That's funny. That's funny."

"You ever been in Israel?"

"No, why the f*** would I go there?"

"So how do you know it's happening, what you're saying?"

"Because I can see with my eyes!"

"You can see with your eyes, you've never been to Israel, so you saw through the corner of your eyes."

"Oh, what is it, AI?"

"I don't know."

"Are children starving AI? Are there children starving in Gaza?"

"No. Okay, you're f***ed. Bye."

Okay, so that's never going to end. These idiots who hate Israel, Israel is doing this, Israel's doing that. Now we elevate it to the New York Times and a columnist named Nicholas Kristof, whom we've had trouble with before. So Kristof writes an article last week, May 11th, and the headline is, "The Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians." Kristof says that the Israeli government sanctions rape and atrocities against the Palestinian people, the innocent Palestinians. That's the basis of the article. 14 anonymous sources, 14. Three on the record. The three on the records are all pro-Palestinians. He doesn't get the other side. Israel's armed is a raping Palestinian, like mass rape, horrible things. Okay? Now, this guy, we've had questions about his accuracy for 15 years. I don't gotta go into the history of it, but forget this, he is way out there. But the Times puts his article, I guess, on page one. In the article, he quotes former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Omer, who says that he believes there have been some atrocities committed by the Israeli army. Probably so. That's probably true, okay? But after the article is published, Omer says, I don't know that for a fact. I don't know that to be true, okay, where it was presented as fact. So you see where this article is going. It's a smear hit piece. Now this has caused some problems for the New York Times, for the State of Israel, and all of that. How is it going to play out? Politically, I don't think most Americans respect the progressive party. I think the progressive parties are going to hurt the Democrats in the midterms more than they think because they're so far out there. But I don't know what's going to happen with Israel as Netanyahu, the leader, says they're going to sue in the case. And that's the memo.

Joining us now from Frankfurt, Germany, is New York City attorney Joe Takapina, who is following closely, and I understand has volunteered his services in this case. Is that true?

"Sure, I mean, I've been contacted by someone from Netanyahu's team and want to know if I'd be interested. And when I looked into it, interested would be an understatement, Bill. This, to me, is as close to a ground ball as you get as far as a defamation suit. Because look, the New York Times knew exactly what global reaction these accusations would trigger. And they published them anyway. So this case is going to turn, and I think they have a great defamation case. The case is going to turn on one question. Did the New York Times meet the extraordinary verification burden required when publishing accusations this inflammatory? Because when you publish something so outrageous, so inflammatory, so extraordinary, the level of verification has to go up. You know that. You're one of the top journalists of our century. And so you understand that verification has to meet the level of the nature of the accusation or reporting. So defamation law exists precisely for moments like this, when reputations are destroyed globally by allegations that may never, ever have been responsibly verified. And I've got to tell you something, you know, the Times has to understand if you're going to accuse Israeli soldiers of medieval style atrocities, and these are as grotesque as I've seen, as far as accusations are concerned. If you are going to accuse Israeli soldiers of medieval-style atrocities, you'd better have evidence beyond activism, beyond outrage, or anonymous narratives or partisan haters, anti-Semites. Because once those allegations hit the front page of the New York Times, the damage to Israel and to Jews worldwide is immediate and permanent."

Let me stop you there. So Israel is a foreign country, obviously. Do they have any hurdles to overcome to get this in a United States courtroom?

"Not even a little bit because it was published by a United States newspaper. You know, anyone can be defamed. You don't have to be a citizen of the United States."

Okay, so because the vehicle is a United States corporation, they can sue, they're basically suing the corporation. I don't know if they're suing Kristof himself.

"I would, if I were advising, if I was leading this charge, I would sue the New York Times and Kristof."

Yeah, because he's got a lot of problems, Kristof.

"He's got a history. Oh, yeah, I mean look, the New York Times took one of the oldest anti-Semitic smears in history, Bill, this is blood libel nonsense, right? And repackages modern journalism and it's it's...It was absolutely outrageous. When you would choose soldiers of barbaric crimes without actual proof, let's see the proof. I don't want to hear about some Hamas supporters or anti-Israeli individuals who were coming up with these, you know, accusations without proof.".

Yeah, I mean, remember Abu Ghraib and all of that problem that the United States had to absorb because soldiers did that, but it wasn't policy. And there are always going to be atrocities in war, no matter what. Now, do you understand, because I don't, the embrace of younger Americans, which is mostly what this is, the anti-Semitic embrace, the dance that they are doing now, not I wouldn't even say it's a majority of younger Americans, but there's enough of them out there on the campuses that we see them all the time. Why are they doing this?

"Bill, I listened to your monologue, your opening monologue, and you were right on. It's hard to understand. I mean, and I heard that little debate between the soldier and the activist. You know, it's repulsively unintelligent when you argue with someone that you don't really understand the facts, or you can't give facts. You just repeat stuff that's posted on social media or on these blogs or in these groups, these hate groups. I don't know why to do it, Bill. I mean, I went, look, I grew up an Italian-American, but I went to Yeshiva in Brooklyn because that was the best school that my mom could find. So I grew up in that community, and I couldn't for the life of me understand why someone would victimize an entire class of people like that. It's just amazing. And how anyone could be sympathetic to Hamas or any of these Hezbollahs or any of these terrorist organizations, it's mind-boggling to me, and the timing of this piece was amazing, too, because the timing of it was in conjunction with the recording of the atrocities from October 7th. So it's something was really wrong here. And I cannot believe this got past the editor's desk at the New York Times. The timing is what made so many people do this."

I can't get into that Structure over there, I just can't because I'm not inside it. I don't know the decision makers are. It used to be a Jewish-run paper, and the top editors were Jewish. But now it isn't, now it's... I don't know what it is, but I'm more interested in Americans who hate Jews and why...

"But they can't articulate why."

Yeah, why are you hating Jews? For what reason? We got a mayor in New York City, Mamdani, I mean, I'm not going to call him an anti-Semite. That would be irresponsible. But certainly, this man has no affection or wants to protect Jewish New Yorkers. He doesn't.

"No, he didn't. He doesn’t. He didn't participate in the Jewish festivals in New York. His wife has made many posts that are, I'll say, anti-Semitic. I mean, there's no ifs ands or buts about it. She's reposted things that were antisemitic. And if you read his previous, before he became mayor, some of his social media posts, I mean, you could argue with a straight face that they were anti-Semitic posts. Whether he is or isn't, I mean, I don't know, I don't know the guy, but he's not had a strong history. And you know, some people say he's a Jihadist supporter. So again, he's, he is not someone who's sympathetic. And I think he does feed into this, you know, this mindset of people who like, you know, just attack Jewish people because they're Jewish, not because they've done something wrong."

It doesn't, but it doesn't make any sense, and here's the kicker, and I get a lot of mail by people who don't live in the big urban centers, and they say, well, Jewish Americans, by and large, are liberal people, and they vote left, they vote progressive. But now the progressives have turned on them. It's just, I can't, and I'm usually pretty good at this, Joe, you know that, and figuring out why. These people are doing what they're doing. If you don't have a right to defend yourself, you have seven million Jews. Okay? What do you have? A hundred million Arabs? And you can't defend yourself against Hamas and Hezbollah? And that doesn't mean that the poor Palestinians aren't trapped. They are trapped. There's no doubt about it. Okay.".

"But they're hostages to Hamas."

But Israel has to be overly sensitive, not only to the Palestinians, but to Christians as well, that are in the proximity. So I'm appointing you Netanyahu's legal counsel now. What do you tell him to do going forward?

"We go aggressively. I mean, you know, I just don't know if the Times will ever be able to verify this accusation. Because again, the law is simple. The more shocking the accusation, the higher the journalistic duty to verify it. And having some anonymous sources who are pro-Palestinians or pro-Hamas or anti-Israel, that's not, that doesn't carry. For Star Magazine, that wouldn't carry, let alone the New York Times. You know, you just can't casually publish allegations. That Israeli soldiers, those allegations trained dogs for sexual assaults, Bill, and then hide behind that we're just reporting claims. That's not sufficient. That will not carry the day. So extraordinary accusations require extraordinary verification, especially in a war fueled by propaganda. And that's what you have here. And I'm surprised that the New York Times did this. I really am. You know, I know things have changed there, but I still hold them up as the New York Times. But, and I've never sued ever, a media outlet, a publication, anything. It's just not what I do. This would be different. I would absolutely do this here because I think..."

So you'd bring a straight-out defamation suit on behalf of Israel against the New York Times and Kristof. That's what you would do?

"I would do it, Bill, absolutely."

All right, counselor.

"I think that, I think it would be meritorious. I think they'd win. I wouldn't do this unless I thought they'd win, and I think they'd win. I think the New York Times would buckle quickly."

Yeah, I don't know if the state of Israel is going to do it or not. Stories cool down a bit, but obviously, if they get in touch with you and hire you, you please let us know, and we appreciate your time very much. Ironic, ironic, the counselors in Germany, where all this stuff really started, this anti-Jewish stuff. I mean, it's been going back for centuries. We all know that, but the Germans were unconscionable.

Okay. Iran. Here's what we've got. So I wrote a Message of the Day, and I had predicted that yesterday there would be military action against Iran, and it was that close until three of the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and two of the others, asked President Trump not to do it, and Trump said, okay, I'll give you until the weekend. So this is like the, 50th delay, and a lot of Americans are starting to lose faith in the president's will. I don't think that's fair. If you can spare 10,000 civilians, which is my estimate of how much the bombing would kill Persian people, if you can spare them and give a few more days. Am I optimistic? I am not. And I will tell you why. So the deputy foreign minister of Iran issued a statement today on X that mocked President Trump for calling off the military action and says that Iran will never surrender and would rather be martyrs. Okay, that might come true. Bessent, Secretary Bessent is urging Europe, which isn't going to happen, to help the United States in economic sanctions or whatever, Europeans are just going to sit it out because that's who they are. They're not really involved in this global struggle for freedom. Europe is a place that is looking out for itself, each individual country.

And I'll have some interesting reports when I get back from Ireland and England. I'm leaving over the weekend to go there. A lot of anti-Semitism in Ireland, and I'm gonna get to the bottom of that. And England's having a civil war over the Muslim traditional England forces that are clashing. So that's why I'm going. So I hate to predict something like this, but it looks to me like President Trump is not going to be given anything by the Iranians that comes close to his two demands to stop the uranium enrichment and to clear the Straits of Hormuz. It's easy, that's it. Doesn't look like that's gonna happen, then they're gonna get swatted. This is a very complicated situation, obviously. But I wanted you to know that I had written that without any consultation from the Trump administration. They did not give me a heads-up or anything. And it was that, it was a matter of three hours.

Okay, back home. This is an amazing stat from Homeland Security. Yes, that is under the Trump Administration, just keep that in mind. It says that in April, daily apprehensions at the border were about 300, okay, a day, people trying to sneak in here. At the peak of Joe Biden's open border policy, there were 336 apprehensions per hour. Every hour. So that's a very interesting stat. Also in April, seizures of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl increased 60%. Looks like they had that border situation pretty much under control. Anti-weaponization fund. Now, this is a story that's being misreported, of course, but there is some truth to the point of view of the story that President Trump wants to give his supporters, particularly at the Capitol, who were convicted of crimes and had to hire lawyers, some compensation. So it's under weaponization of the federal government. So if the federal government comes after you for a crime, an alleged crime, and you are innocent or even marginal, you could be found guilty, but it's a marginal beef that you would get reimbursed $1.8 billion as being set aside for that.

Here's what is not being reported. There are no partisan requirements to try to get the compensation. Hunter Biden could try to get it. Did you hear that? No. So, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche testified in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee today about this fund. Totally legal, but Donald Trump wants to send a message to the people who supported him, saying we'll try to help you out, and we don't want any more weaponization of the Justice Department. You know, I've got to see the wording on this thing, but... That's a noble, righteous thing, if we could stop that.

Smart life. So a lot of people are. Arguing about the Trump administration. Everybody knows that. There's a study by the University of California, Irvine, 3,700 participants published in a place called PNAS Nexus, which publishes research findings. And it says 37% of Americans report losing a relationship with a friend, family member, romantic partner, or co-worker, because of political differences. That's a lot. 37%. Among the findings, 62% lost a friend, 40% a family member. 29% a co-worker, 10% a romantic partner. 46% of Democrats have lost somebody. 29% of Republicans, that's a pretty big gap. 39% of independents. And finally, 96% of those studied experienced painful political splits that had happened after 2016, when Trump came on the scene when he was elected. All that makes sense to me. So what I've done off this is booked somebody for We'll Do It Now, our long form, named Stephen Baldwin. You may know him, he's an actor. He's part of the Baldwin Boys. There are four of them. Alec, Billy, Stephen, and Daniel. They're raised in Long Island, and two of them are very liberal, and two of them are very conservative. So on Thursday, we'll drop that on our long-form YouTube. We'll Do It Live, because that's a pretty intense situation. Got two brothers on one side, two brothers on the other side. Stephen Baldwin's kind enough to come in and explain the family dynamic. I'll be interested to hear that. So that is coming up this. All right, you wanna be on it.

Smart life, right? How much money do Americans really have in the bank? According to the Federal Reserve, here is the chart. If you're an American under 35 years old, you have 5,400 bucks in the bank. 35 to 44, 7,500. 45, 54, 8,700. 55 to 64, 8,000. 65 to 74, 13,400. 75 and older, just $10,000. Now, if you have a college degree, you have 23,000 plus in your bank account. If you have just a high school diploma, 3,000. So these nitwits who say don't go to college, it doesn't do you any good, they are misleading you. Smart life, it's always better to be smart. Okay, these are low numbers, though. So you get in trouble medically, or some other way, or somebody sues you or whatever, and you don't have any money in the bank. Boy, are you hosed. Boy, you are hosed! You gotta plan for the worst, okay? Plan for the worst and pray the worst doesn't happen. You people, you know, buying the, all I got is this stupid t-shirt, you maybe wanna cut back on that. Smart life.

Okay. This Day in History, May 19th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe shows up at Madison Square Garden, New York City, for a JFK birthday celebration. That's 64 years ago. The president was 45 years old. And Marilyn was the most successful performer, movie performer in the world. Roll it.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Mr. President. Happy Birthday to you."

Now, JFK could not have lasted in this era because the press back then was in the tank for him. They knew that he was a carouser, and he was, he had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, and he did, and all of that is in Killing Kennedy, my book Killing Kennedy, and the press knew it but wouldn't report it because they liked him. Washington Post in particular, okay, Kennedy knew he had the press in his pocket, so he wasn't as discreet as he might have been. Can you imagine, though, now if you're the most famous movie star in the world? Marilyn Monroe made 33 films and was paid 15 million dollars for all of them, and she died, what was it, three months after that exposition in Madison Square Garden. She was found in her bedroom in Brentwood, California, with all kinds of pills all over the place. And the subsequent autopsy says she died from a drug overdose. I guess it was accidental. Marilyn was kind of crazy, all right? And that's what we found out investigating Killing Kennedy. Very, very unstable, extremely so. So we don't believe there was any mob hit or Frank Sinatra or, it's all a bunch of baloney, okay. We do know that Kennedy did pretty much what he wanted to do, and the press allowed him to do it. So Marilyn Monroe, 64 years ago today. Okay, mail segment, a lot on Iran, and then a final thought, we'll be right back.

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We go to Zachary on the message board. Zachary is a Premium Member to BillOReilly.com. "March 1st, don't worry, this will be quick. March 20th, okay, just another week at most. We'll get to deal with Iran. March 15th, April 15th important week for the USA. A deal is close. May 8th, I promise a few more days on and on. Face it, Bill, this Iran thing is never-ending. All the warmongering rhinos like Lindsey Graham are loving this." I don't think so. I think they wanna win. I think they want to win, not loving the process.

Jesse James, San Diego, California. "Seems every week another headline. US close to a deal, military action is paused, Iran given another deadline, enough. US is starting to look weak." Okay, valid.

Larry, Concierge Member, Larry gets direct access to my team and me. Something should befall him. Larry asks, "In my opinion, President Trump looks weak in the eyes of U.S. Citizens in the world. It's time to open the Strait of Hormuz and finish off Iran." Just remember that would be a lot of civilian deaths. Okay, just remember that. It's got to be factored in.

Josh Sorensen, Bakersfield, California. "Long time listener. I agree with you probably 90 percent, but in your column, you said that Pope Leo understands terrorism and injustice. I disagree. If he did, he would surely understand the need for President Trump's actions." Not necessarily. He's preaching the gospel. That's his job. Not geopolitics. But the man does understand oppression and terrorism. But he's chosen to keep his job description in the gospel.

Larry. "My wife and I, like most everybody else, has to pay for medical insurance, including dental. Why should homeless people get it free? How long are honest, working people in America, raising their families, obeying the law, gonna put up with this?" As long as they keep electing progressives. Not a conservative in the country gonna do that. Okay, but the progressives will. They don't care. They just want a sound noble, virtue signal.

Jillian. "Franklin Graham's comments are spot on. It's time to stop whitewashing the truth. You could try to dress sin up and make it all fancy, but it's still sin." Here's the problem, Jillian. We live in a secular society. So it's sinful to you and to Franklin Graham, and to millions of others who follow various religions, is permitted by the Constitution, by the courts. That's the clash.

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Okay, Final Thought of the day. As I told you yesterday, I'm off to Ireland on, gonna leave about midnight on Friday. Then I got to go to London and do a documentary for News Nation on the civil war they're having there. That should be pretty interesting. Ireland is mostly for fun. Down in the Killarney area, we're going to be beautiful. In America, we've got an amazing summer already on the board. We got the World Cup, as you know, June 11th to July 19th. All the big cities in the country have games, and then you've got the DC 250 celebration that goes from June 25th to July 10th on the mall, and Independence Day itself, it's going to be a big blast. So, if you have not made your plans going to tough. They're gouging you at the World Cup already. It's like 300 bucks for a bus ride out there or something. It's insane already. This is what it is in America. Gouge, gouge, gouge. And it's capitalism. It's an abuse of capitalism. But there's no government controlling agency here.

But,if you want to go to a cup game or to the mall in DC or whatever, usually you can find a way to do it. But you've got to do research, there are cancellations in hotels, there are cancellations for Ubers, but you've gotta be on it because it's a very intense summer. It's gonna go fast, but there's a lot of good stuff. We need some good stuff! So don't get discouraged, but you've got to be investigating. If you want to go here, you've gotta figure it out. And expect to get hit right between the eyes financially because that's what's gonna happen. It's what always happens. Knicks are playing the Cavs tonight, I think the tickets are like $2,000, $3,000. It's insane. Capitalism. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

O'Reilly on the State of the World

2026-05-19T15:28:00Z

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California's BIG Medicaid Scandal

2026-05-19T07:00:00Z

Dr. Brian Blase, former special assistant to the President for economic policy, weighs in on Medicaid issues in California.

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Can We Trust China?

2026-05-19T07:00:00Z

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump make trade deals, as China agrees to help with Iran. Will they keep their word?

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The Lookaways

2026-05-19T07:00:00Z

Hours before President Trump said he is once again delaying a military attack on Iran, I posted that such an action was coming. Mr. Trump cited new negotiations with the Mullahs, but we have heard that story before. This time, however, a number of Arab countries requested the delay.

The reason I knew the President was ramping up the military option is the arrogance of the Iranian theocracy. Tehran well understands Mr. Trump cannot back down on the nuke situation, or he will look weak. Nevertheless, the Mullahs will not negotiate seriously. So, what’s left?

Yes, there are millions of people who don’t care about Iran’s uranium enrichment program. To them, terrorism is a word, not a reality. But President Trump has an obligation to protect Americans, even those who accept evil. I call them the lookaways. So, the conflict drags on. But resolution will come soon.

It has to.

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2026-05-19T07:00:00Z

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President Trump's China Trip Aftermath, California's Medicaid Fraud Controversy with Dr. Brian Blase, & L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Wants Taxpayers to Pay for Drug Addicts' Teeth

2026-05-18T22:00:00Z

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Talking Points Memo: Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump make trade deals, as China agrees to help with Iran. Will they keep their word?
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California gets caught in a Medicaid fraud scandal.
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President Trump's China Trip Aftermath, California's Medicaid Fraud Controversy with Dr. Brian Blase, & L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Wants Taxpayers to Pay for Drug Addicts' Teeth

2026-05-18T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another edition of the No Spin News, Monday, May 18th, 2026. Stand up for your country. This is very frustrating, trying to analyze the aftermath of President Trump's China trip. We're not getting a lot of information. And I have the best contacts and sources, as you probably know. I'm not getting it. So I don't know what the deuce happened there. The Chinese way is not to tell the press anything, although I did speak to a couple of powerful people in China, it was more of the same. You remember I was there in Beijing myself last year at this time. And the Trump administration usually lays out stuff, but it is being a little controlled here. Okay. So I can't tell you who won, who lost, and I can tell you that the reporting on it is dishonest, but that's not going to shock you. Whenever Donald Trump's involved with anything, there's dishonest reporting. But it is very, very frustrating for somebody like me, usually ahead of the curve, not to have a lot of information to give you, but the Talking Points Memo will go over what we know.

So the Trump administration says that America got $17 billion worth of agricultural trade deals. $17 billion. We have not seen any contracts. I don't doubt it, but I can't prove it. All right. Most of the trade is in agricultural products, beef, poultry, soybeans, soybeans, soybeans, okay, you got it, okay. And then in return, China is going to address in a nebulous way, the supply chain shortages of rare earth material, which is what Greenland's all about, and all that. Will China address anything? Probably not. Just guessing here, but oh yeah, we'll address it. Okay then, in October, last October, China committed to purchase 25 million more agricultural products. I don't believe they've moved out yet. China says it'll do stuff and then just lays there. The trip was cordial, I think that's the best word, and that's important. But there wasn't anything headline-making. So apparently, President Xi said, well, we'll help you on Iran. How? Nobody knows. I guess the president knows, but he hasn't said, so we don't know. It's not specific. The only thing Xi did that got attention was saber-rattle toward Taiwan. And I told you that. It's a very emotional issue. And every time I talk to the Chinese, Taiwan comes up. Does Xi want to destroy his own economy by invading Taiwan? Probably not. But the Chinese want it for their own reasons. The rest of the world doesn't care, other than Japan and South Korea, who are close by. The anti-Trump press is so boring that even the crazy networks are ignoring it now. I picked out two soundbites, one from a guy who runs the Midas Touch operation, which is far, far left. This man represented Colin Kaepernick. That's how nutty he is. But he got a forum to go on television and say this. Go.

"This trip by Donald Trump to China may go down in history as the most historic humiliation ritual for the United States ever. Donald Trump's just giving everything away to Xi Jinping, while Donald Trump is there in China giving speeches about Chinese food and Chinese restaurants in the United States, and as Donald Trump keeps on glazing Xi Jinping about how powerful you are."

And again, the guy's a loon, all right? Go down-to-history is the most historic humiliation ritual for the USA ever. It's just, you know, okay. If you guys, I know you don't watch it, but it's my duty to bring it to your attention. Of more substance is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Now remember, Schumer is pretty much at the end of the road. He cannot speak without notes. So he's literally reading every word he said. His job is to oppose everything that President Trump does. Roll it.

"So much for fighting against how China is hurting American workers and poisoning our communities with fentanyl. That would get in the way of Donald Trump and his family profiting off doing business with the Chinese Communist Party. Just hours in, and Xi Jinping has already threatened to quote, 'collide or even clash,' unquote with the United States if we continue our support for Taiwan. Trump apparently didn't say anything in response."

Now you see him reading this stuff off the paper, and Trump was smart not to say anything. You don't blow up a meeting like that based on speculation, you don't do that. You'd better not go into Taiwan, that gets you nowhere. And you notice Schumer's hunched over, reading the words off the papers, all of that. Now I will remind you that in 2023, Xi came to San Francisco. You remember that because the city moved all the homeless out, so Xi wouldn't have to see them, and the world would have to take a look at really what San Francisco has devolved into, and then two days later, all the homeless were back. Anyway, in that meeting, nothing was accomplished, nothing. All right, and Biden, well, you know, it was a total waste of time. Now you can make a comparison if you would like. We don't know yet whether China is gonna carry through on the trade deals or help in Iran or back away a little from Taiwan. We don't know. Okay, so summing up, I can't report any more than I just told you because I don't know. Will I get information? Maybe it's not the Chinese way. Okay, you know, it's funny because we have leakers here all over the place out of our federal government. If you leak federal government stuff in Beijing, you're executed. They kill you. Okay, just keep that in mind, and that's the memo.

All right, so I wrote a Message of the Day, and I hope you go every morning and read it, it's free. BillOReilly.com has it. And it says, likelihood of military action against Iran soon. I don't know what soon comprises, but we're at that point now, where the Iranians simply aren't gonna do anything about it, unless they're punished to an extent where they have to. And I assume with the polling numbers being terrible, and I would say 65% of Americans opposing the Iran action, where Trump's gonna have to wind it up, all right? When he does it, I don't know how it's gonna come down, I don't know, we're working it like crazy, but be prepared. All right, back home. So, lost in all of this Trump stuff is a very interesting case that the federal government has suspended $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to the state of California. That's a lot of Jack. And the reason is, like Minnesota and Maine and a few other states, probably more than we know, the states themselves were allowing phony hospice, hospital, phony stuff to be for, and then the states get reimbursed for that. So, we pay for it, really, but it was bogus. So, I asked my staff, get somebody who really knows what this is all about, and I think we have it. Dr. Brian Blase, coming to us from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He's the president of the Paragon Health Institute. He did once work for Donald Trump, you guys should know that. He follows these stories, and it's a grift, right? We're looking at, let's pinpoint California first of all. So, from what I understand, a whole bunch of hospices out there where people go and die, and they were either over-billing or they weren't in existence at all and said they were, and the state would just rubber-stamp the payments so the federal government would reimburse the state of California. Do I have it correct?

"Yeah, I mean, one of the things about the California hospices, Bill, is that nobody was dying. You expect that people go into hospice, a pretty high mortality rate, and actually, there was a very high survival rate with the Los Angeles hospice. So there's two programs. The one we're primarily talking about is Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, traditionally for lower-income, more vulnerable Americans like children, pregnant moms, people with disabilities. The key to understanding Medicaid is that the federal government provides an open-ended reimbursement of state spending. So the more the states spend, the more money that they get from Washington. That creates really bad incentives at the state level, creates a permissive environment for waste, fraud, and abuse. And it's really important when you have those incentives that the federal government provide meaningful oversight of state programs. And what we saw during the Biden administration, in particular, was sort of an anything, no-holds-barred approach to Medicaid. The program grew astronomically. In California, California now has a Medicaid program that costs more than $200,000 billion a year, about two-thirds of that is paid by the federal government. So a lot of this waste, fraud, and abuse in California's Medicaid program is paid by federal taxpayers, people outside the state of California. And while there's significant waste, fraud, and abuse in every state's program because of the incentives. California is really the hotspot, and probably the most egregious example in the country of a mismanaged, wasteful Medicaid program."

Now, California doesn't make money on this. It loses some money, but that money would go to the Medicare patients anyway, right? The ones that really need help. But what they've done to set up this grift is saying, well, we're going to pay people who don't need help. I understand there was one hospice in somebody's garage. I mean, that was how bad the fraud is in California. Now, does California have any kind of law enforcement looking at this at all to try to prevent the fraud?

"So Dr. Oz has done particularly good work here. He's flagged, I think, 400 hospices in Los Angeles that were fraudulent. You know, one-third of all hospices in the country are in Los Angeles, and they took action against these providers, and very few of them have appealed. You know, the state did some very minor oversight over the last couple of years. But just a fraction of the total problem, it really has been the attention that this fraud task force led by Vice President Vance, with Dr. Oz as the administrator for the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services, they've really brought additional attention and done significant action to close down these fraudulent hospices in Los Angeles."

What's the difference between the LA grift and the Somali thing in Minneapolis?

"So, I mean, one of the differences is the Somali problem was related to autism, so they were paying parents to have their kids diagnosed with autism so that they could maximize billing. The other problem out of Minnesota was those sham daycare centers. Now that's not a Medicaid program, but that is another federally supported program. In California, we've also seen an ethnic entity really involved with the fraud, the Armenians. And I think one of the factors that Dr. Oz is looking at is in a lot of these big cities, you have ethnic groups that have developed fraud schemes and are ripping off the federal government, and in many cases, taking the money, the loot that they get out of the country."

Okay, so Armenians, first I've heard of this, are involved with the fraud in LA, Somalis in Minneapolis. Now, Governor Newsom looks like he's going to run for president. Does he have a defense here? Can he defend saying, well, I tried to clean this up or I did whatever? Is there anything that he did?

"I mean, I think he's made the problem worse, Bill. If you look at Medicaid spending, the growth trajectory of Medicaid spending since he's been governor, California has one of the highest-growing Medicaid programs in the country. It is really unsustainable. They've also done a lot of financial gimmicks. One of the things that Paragon wrote about last year was a California, really this money laundering scheme, where they were able to get federal tax dollars to expand Medicaid to all unauthorized immigrants in the state. I don't think Gavin Newsom has a track record of being a good steward of Medicaid and protecting that program for the most vulnerable. And in California, it really is out of control. Almost 40% of all Californians are enrolled in this welfare program."

So almost 40% receive some kind of Medicare, Medicaid, I should say, and that includes undocumented aliens.

"It does. California expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state back in 2024. Of course, that had costs that ended up being much greater than expected. So they have looked to dial that back. But yeah, I mean, it was one of his main health policy agenda items a few years ago."

So did the state legislature in Sacramento okay that, or was it just an executive order by Newsom?

"So here's what the state did. And it took advantage of the open-ended reimbursement. It engaged in what was a legal money laundering tactic. The way that this works, the state taxed managed care plans. It taxed them, say, $10 billion. It then spent that $10 million right back on those managed care plants. That is an accounting gimmick. It was $10 billion going from the insurer to the state back to the insurer, but then what the state did was invoice the federal government as if that was an actual expense. So the state got about, I think, $10 billion in additional money from the federal government for that accounting gimmick. And then next year, they expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state. One of the good reforms in the one big beautiful bill was to shut down that loophole. So California can no longer take advantage of it, and other states can't either."

Was that under Biden?

"No, that was, so they expanded it to unauthorized immigrants. That was approved under President Biden. And it was shut down by the reconciliation bill that President Trump signed."

Okay, but Biden did know about it, he did approve it.

"That's correct."

All right, doctor, we appreciate the candor, and I hope we can talk again soon. Let us know if anything else breaks out there. And this massive fraud, and that's what it is, I mean, this is why people don't have any money, because we have to pay more and more and more taxes, and then go into corrupt situations like this under administrations that don't care, okay? And then, well, we need more money. We need more money. National debt rising, rising, rising, and so now at least the Trump administration is trying to do something about it. And, of course, they're attacked by saying, oh, you're inhumane. Oh, yeah, I want the hospice in my garage. Come on. But the expansion of this into the billions and billions of dollars because nobody was paying attention to it. On that note, LA Mayor Karen Bass wants to give drug addicts more comprehensive, whenever you hear that word, you know they're coming after your money, more comprehensive health care in the form of teeth.

"How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? They don't have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided to people."

Okay, so that means that drug addicts now, in California in particular, they can abuse themselves and we'll pay for their dental work and medical care, okay? They can be so irresponsible, they can't even afford to pay rent, but we'll give them a house or a place to live. On and on and on, and on, because what these people do is they get high all day long. And at least she was honest about it, meth rots your teeth. Well, who's taking the meth? Is anybody forcing them to take it? So the solution to this problem is, all right, you wanna rehab these people and get them back into the mainstream where they can hold a job, well, they gotta sign a reimbursement that once I get back on my feet, I owe the County of Los Angeles this much money. All right, and not only for your teeth, but for housing and everything else. And of course, they're never gonna do that. Okay, these drug addicts, they just want stuff. Just gimme, gimme. That's why San Francisco, if you saw my documentary for News Nation, it was like, okay, we'll give you everything, including cash, a debit card, so you can buy your heroin, your fentanyl, whatever you wanna buy, okay? But there's no downside for the drug addict. A drug addict just goes through life inebriated. And we have to pay for that. Does that make any sense to you at all? I mean, I am for cleaning these people up in clinics. We should have clinics that rehab drug abusers. But they don't have a choice to go, they have to go to the clinics. And then the same thing. Once you get back on your feet, you're going to pay to reimburse the American taxpayer. These people have no right to do this. They have no right to do these. Oh, Karen Bass. Comprehensive health care provided. Yeah, sure. That would be like you going out, and you're breaking a finger on purpose every day, and you go in, and you fix my finger. But I don't wanna pay for it. You pay for. And this is why the United States is rapidly getting out of control fiscally, because we pay for all of this stuff. It's got to stop.

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, he's fed up with the culture. I don't blame him. I mean, I think he's a little too far out there for me. I mean, I want gay people to have equal rights. I don't think they should be tortured or bullied or anything like that. The trans thing is a whole different thing. But I'm not as into that punishing mode that Franklin Graham is. But Graham makes some very strong points. He's one of the few that does. So on Sunday, yesterday, Rededicate 250 was a large Christian prayer and worship rally in D.C. Very few politicians showed up. Franklin Graham stole the show.

"America has become morally rotten, completely sick with sin, transgenderism, same-sex marriage, opening women's locker rooms to men are just the tip of the iceberg. Why do we need to rededicate ourselves? When God sent the flood and destroyed the earth, it was because man's heart had become so evil and violent. In the news, we see unimaginable violence, rapes, murders, mass shootings. On YouTube, there's so much violence. Movies, video games are full of violence. We have an insatiable appetite for violence. And I believe this grieves the heart of God and will bring His judgment if we don't repent as a nation."

That's pretty strong, but it's not just the United States that has this insatiable appetite for violence. I mean, in the Muslim world, insane. And if you go to any totalitarian country, I mean Putin, Xi, it's on and on and on and on. But in the United States, the difference is we have violence as sport. You know, these two women who fought over the weekend. I mean, it was a grift. The whole thing was a grift. And the thing lasted 15 seconds or whatever. I mean, it was ridiculous. Well, why are people watching that? They're watching it because they wanna see one or both of the women pound the other one. I'm going, this is not good for the culture. Yet, it's perfectly acceptable.

All right, in Africa, a place you gotta be very careful if you go there. I mean, very careful. There's no accurate reporting out of Central Africa at all. I mean there are people slaughtering each other, Christians are getting slaughtered by Muslims, and it's on and on, never ends. All right, so now there's another Ebola outbreak. This one started in the Congo. This is coming out of the World Health Organization. 400 suspected Ebola cases. That means it's probably 4,000. 100 deaths, that means it is probably 500 because they can't count them. I mean, it's life over there is so rudimentary. You can't go in, you can't get any stats at all. There's no central authority at all in these countries. So the Ebola thing, I remember going on the O'Reilly Factor, and this is very controversial. I said, look, these African countries, we have to pause letting anybody come here from them. This was way before COVID. This was the first Ebola outbreak. I remember a guy in Dallas got Ebola. We don't have an obligation to allow people with, and this disease is really insidious, it's really easy to transmit it. Now you'll get an argument about that, but it's not hard. So why are we letting airlines from Tinsheasha fly to New York? We suspend them for a while until this thing gets under control. I still believe that. Because this Ebola thing, I don't think this is going to erupt into COVID, but it's bad. And the only way to control it is to monitor who's coming into your country.

Smart Life. Americans are leaving the good old USA in record numbers. About 400,000 left last year, according to Brookings Institute. Brookings Institution, nonprofit public policy organization, a think tank in DC. About 400 thousand split. Fed up with the USA. A variety of reasons. Here are the main countries they are going to. Mexico. And you're insane if you move to Mexico. Sorry, I hate to be blunt, but you're crazy. You've got no protection down there at all. Fernando wants to pull a gun to your head and take all your stuff. Nobody's going to help you. Canada's second. Little chilly up there, but we can live in Canada fairly close to how you live in America. UK, and I'm on my way to London, I'll tell you about that at the end of the program, is third. Germany, fourth. Why anybody would go to Germany is beyond me. Australia, very close to the US in culture, is fifth. So if I had to pick one of those countries to go to, I would pick Australia. That's closest to the United States, and it's left-wing, but they're not crazy loons down there, and it has got enough going on. But people are leaving.

So this is Stephen Colbert's last week on the air. He did it to himself. I mean, he was warned and warned and warned, you can't be hating on the president every night and continue to be sponsored by a network, CBS. So he's out of there. Thursday's his last show. He's got the usual lineup of lefties. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Pablo Pasquale, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Bruce Springsteen, you know, the usual bench. I hope they have a good time. I've got no animus toward Colbert. I don't particularly like him as a human being, but you know, I respect that he has some talent, but am I gonna miss him? Can't remember the last time I watched that program. I cannot remember, gotta be years. Saturday Night Live, there's a study, and then, you know, I gotta give credit to the Media Research Center. It is a conservative right-wing organization, but boy, they do good research. So they analyzed SNL's first 19 shows, they're done now. The season's over. And the stats are unbelievable. 91% of all the jokes on SNL were targeted to conservatives. 91%. Trump, of course, is the big draw. And I don't get this because you can mock both sides equally. So this Saturday, of course, it was mocking Trump once again. Roll it.

"Well, it's time for one of my patented mid-work naps. Just gonna rest my head on this gold bar that Switzerland gave me as a straight-up bribe and sleep the sweet sleep of an addled, jet-lagged mind."

"Donald...Donald..."

"Who's there? Who's in here?"

"Don't worry, Donald, it's me, your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein."

"Jeffrey, but I, I thought you were dead."

"I am, remember? I killed myself. Wink! So, how you doing, Donnie, baby?"

"Not so good, Jeffy. My approval rating's in the 30s."

"Oh, the 30's, gross. Call me when it hits 17."

Okay, it's not funny, it wasn't funny at all. Will Ferrell thinks he's funny, he's not. But I get it because they say 91% of the jokes were targeted to conservatives, okay. Well, 95 percent of the audience of Saturday Night Live are liberal. That's who they play to, and they want to get ratings, they want to make money. That's who is clicking it on the social media. So they're just giving the people what they want, and it does get into the culture and all that, and you know, mock, mock, mock, mock. But I tell you what, they did one thing on Mandani. There are so many leftists that are just ripe for this kind of satire. No, they don't want to. The producers of the program don't want to alienate their audience. That's what's going on.

This Day in History, May 18th, 1920. Pope John Paul II is born in Poland. Extraordinary man. Athlete, actor, political activist. He helped bring down the Soviet Union and he was elected pope on October 16, 1978. And he served just for seven years, but that was a long time. Most popes, they're in their very short period of time because they nominate elderly guys to do it. And Pope John Paul II came after John Paul I, who died after 33 days, a lot of conspiracy theories about that. Okay, John Paul II was 84 when he expired, and then he was declared a saint by Pope Francis, canonized in 2014. Probably the quickest canonization of any saint in the Catholic Church. So it was the Pope's birthday today, he's a good pope, John Paul II, I think. Okay, we got good mail. When I say good, it's lively. And I'll tell you about my upcoming trip in a moment.

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We've got a lot of viewers on my dissection of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's view of the Constitution, the original Constitution, which is so loopy I can't even describe it. So you get it free, youtube.com/BillOReilly, youtube.com/BillOReilly. And you should check that out, and you'll like it. Mail. Jeffrey F. Berge, Lake Forest Park, Washington. "Bill, with regards to your remark about the Pope's deep concern for the treatment of illegal migrants, can you advise me how many millions have been welcomed into the Vatican?" Millions of people have visited the Vatican, but you're making a false comparison, of course. Vatican City is a very small place. One Pope's already been shot. The potential for violence there is colossal. So that doesn't really work.

Edward Wood, Edenton, North Carolina. "Trump has resolved nothing, Ukraine, nope. Iran's a damn mess, he's all mouth. China, they gave Trump nothing." Okay, Edward, you can make an argument there. I don't see it quite that way, but stuff's gotta start to happen. When I say stuff, I mean things favorable to our country.

Ruth Kay. "I'm still convinced President Trump is the best fit for our country in these turbulent days. Don't see anyone close on the horizon.".

Steven, these are on the message board. Become a Premium Member, you get to talk to other Premium Members, lots of fun. Steven says, "Mr. O, why didn't you accompany President Trump to China?" Does that all work for President Trump. I could have gone as a reporter, I guess, but then I would have to go through State Department credentialing and all kinds of stuff that, you know. I don't work for these people. I mean, it's not like I'm showing up at events.

Norman, Concierge Member, Norman will get all the help we can provide him with if anything bad happens to him. "American oil companies have an enormous amount of power. I don't like it any more than anyone else, but if the government imposes strict regulations upon the oil companies, they'll just shut down their drilling operations." They could come down a little bit, they being the Department of Interior on the oil companies, in my opinion. The oil companies aren't going to shut down.

Rod Etterberry, Dawsonville, Georgia. "O'Reilly, how much longer can the US sustain a 40 trillion dollar debt?" As long as the US dollar is the currency of the realm. The world runs off the dollar. And as long as that is in place, we can run up the debt because people buy U.S. Treasuries and dollar-denominated investments.

Kirk Overby, Dynamo Springs, Mississippi. "Enjoyed We'll Do It Live with Andrew Cuomo. Maybe Trump needs to have a sit-down with the governor, seems to support Trump on some issues you outlined. I agree, the Iran thing cannot keep dragging on.".

Kay, Rinebeck, New York. I think it's Kay Melly. "Thank you for the Cuomo interview. I appreciate the balance, tough questions without coming off as an attack. His answer to the question about his policy of putting coveted patients into nursing homes was a dodge.

Rosalie Padgilla, Howard Beach, New York. "I'm really enjoying the new podcast." That's long form. I hate that word podcast, but okay, We'll Do It Live. "Loved all of them. So interesting." Well, I'm glad you're watching them all, Rosalie. Very nice of you to do that. Okay, we want you to get the 250 hats. We just got a new shipment in, as I just tweeted over the weekend. So you want this for your 4th of July displays and have a good summer. Beautiful hat, you'll love it. And good cause, right? America. Okay, Word of the Day, nobody a quidnunc. Q-U-I-D-N-U-N-C. I have never heard a human being utter the word quidnunc other than me. Great word. Okay, final thought about my travels in a moment.

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Okay, here's the Final Thought of the Day. President Trump, while I'm sitting here, just issued another communicate of the nation saying that he was going to use military forces perhaps as early as today, but now new negotiations are taking place, whatever. We're on it. Okay, so on Friday, I'm flying off to Ireland with 20 guys. We do this every couple of years. We pick out a place. We all go. And half of them get arrested, but not me, because I'm law-abiding. So we're going down to Killarney, which is the Ring of Kerry, and Dingle. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So we're down there for four days, five days. Then I'm going to London from there to do a special for News Nation about the Civil War taking place in Great Britain, which has to do with migration, immigration, Muslims versus Christians, all of that. So I'm gonna get involved with that, it's an easy hop from Cork to London. I'll go over, I'll shoot it, and then I'll be back. So we'll take it a week off from our broadcasts and storming back with all kinds of good stuff for you. Looking forward to Ireland, one of my favorite places in the world. We'll have a few laughs, which is very important in life to do that. And get free breakfast in Ireland and England. When you have a hotel, they give you the breakfast free. It really bulks up on that. Okay. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'll be on News Nation at 9 p.m. Eastern this evening, and we'll see you again tomorrow.

Andrew Cuomo on the Rise of Socialism

2026-05-18T21:07:00Z

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on why young people are getting behind socialism.

The Price of Leadership

2026-05-18T07:00:00Z

With respect to Pope Leo, it looks like more military action will soon take place in Iran. The world is closely watching the Mullah’s nuclear defiance, and President Trump understands the USA cannot show weakness, especially to China, a violent country.

In other words, Iran will soon pay a major price for its terror strategy as the world looks on and essentially hides.

There is always a price for leadership. Americans are now paying it as our 250th birthday closes in. It’s not fair, but the alternative is to allow Iran to build its death-dealing capabilities.

The Pope is a man of peace, and I wish the world would embrace his vision. But it won’t. It never has. The Romans murdered a peaceful man by driving nails into his body. Pope Leo understands terrorism and injustice. It grows without violent confrontation.

So another round of violence is near. America protects the world from evil. We have done so many times at great sacrifice. Another round is on the way.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

Precarious Times at the White House

2026-05-17T07:00:00Z

Every President hits the wall. Washington had tax revolts, Lincoln had battlefield setbacks during the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt was totally unprepared for Japanese aggression.

Don’t even mention Herbert Hoover, who was crushed by the Great Depression, or James Madison, who declared war on Great Britain even though Madison had no army.

“Yeah, I knew I forgot something,” Jamey purportedly said to Dolley as she tried to save the White House furniture from the marauding Brits marching down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Now, President Trump finds himself in a dicey spot. Prices for essential stuff are on the rise, hammering working folks, and our adversaries around the world are sensing blood. Those adversaries include the American media.

The Chinese will provide dancing girls, and Beijing walk arounds with the President, but are really gaming the system as they usually do. The Communists want Taiwan as well as lucrative trade deals. They are not willing to give much back.

The nutty Mullahs in Iran believe the USA will cave on the nukes, so why do anything? They pray five times daily, eat some pita bread, and execute dissenters. Full day.

Putin continues to murder Ukrainian civilians for nothing. Word is his body is swelling up, and he can’t even go out to dinner for fear of being assassinated.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to figure it all out. Lots of incoming. The President remains confident that the USA will prevail. However, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries is trying on new Speaker of the House suits.

Nobody knows what Senator Charles Schumer is doing in the Senate because Schumer himself doesn’t know unless some staffer writes something down so he can read it.

Putin and Xi must be salivating at the prospect that Jeffries and Schumer may be in charge next year.

If they go to Beijing, there will only be one dancing girl and day-old dim sum.

At this point, President Trump must get a few wins. He can’t be the Mets racking up two singles every game. Mr. Trump’s swagger has been in the dugout for a few weeks now. That has to change.

Or else Hakeem and Chuck will ascend. That will lead to “a party on” display for our adversaries. Perhaps some sailing in the Hormuz.

The November vote is coming up fast. And the totalitarians know it. Let the festivities begin.

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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-05-15T22:00:00Z

Highlights from BillOReilly.com’s No Spin News. Watch the No Spin News weeknights - become a BillOReilly.com Premium Member to watch.

Far-Left Extremism, Trump

2026-05-15T12:50:00Z

Trump's China Trip Success

2026-05-15T07:00:00Z

President Trump’s excellent Chinese adventure turned out to be pretty good except for the Taiwan thing. As I reported, Beijing wants to control the island/nation and was blunt about it. Mr. Trump did not publicly engage, which was smart.

Taiwan is an emotional issue for the communists, even though its independence means little to the world. The controversy goes back to 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek escaped to the island just before Mao could cut his head off. We write about this in my book “Confronting Evil.”

China sees no reason to moderate its stance on Taiwan, so the situation will not go away. To America, it’s a distraction.

On the Iran front, it is likely China will help out somewhat. But we won’t know exactly how. That will be done secretly. But Xi understands Iran is bad for his business and has no loyalty to the Mullahs.

Expect the usual media undermining of the trip, even though the American press is essentially clueless about how the communists are behaving. We are not. We’ll have a full report on Monday.

Dr. Melanie Hart on the U.S.'s Relationship with China

2026-05-14T19:47:00Z

Dr. Melanie Hart, Ph.D., Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, weighs in on whether China has an interest in helping the U.S. with Iran and what she would advise President Trump to do.

O'Reilly & Sid Rosenberg on Trump's Chinese Strategy

2026-05-14T18:01:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and dissects President Trump’s goals in China and how he will negotiate with the Chinese leadership.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Andrew Cuomo

2026-05-14T16:00:00Z

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) joins Bill for a “no BS” interview about the Democratic Party, the rise of socialism/communism within, and the extreme taking it over. He talks about his mayoral loss to Zohran Mamdani, President Trump, and governing during COVID.

Killing Time with Former Governor Andrew Cuomo

2026-05-14T16:00:00Z

Bill and Gov. Cuomo talk about New York’s legal actions against Donald Trump, James Comey, Pope Leo, and immigration.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Andrew Cuomo

2026-05-14T16:00:00Z

CUOMO I am not left enough.

O'REILLY We are in a deteriorating country.

CUOMO It's easier to spin hate.

O'REILLY He's a communist, there's no doubt he is.

CUOMO He's never managed a candy store. Free everything.

O'REILLY Are they stupid?

CUOMO It's all political BS.

O'REILLY Bill O'Reilly here, and welcome to our long-form podcast called We'll Do It Live, and if you don't know why we call it that, I'm not going to tell you, but you can look it up. Now, today we have a very stimulating guest, and you know who he is. I do a weekly hit on News Nation with Chris Cuomo. Here is his older brother, and I had to introduce you that way, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and we're pleased to have him here. We've got a lot to talk about. What I've got to say, and you don't have to comment on this, I thought that your brother, Chris, got hosed by CNN because there are ways to do that covering stories that involve your family. And CNN seemed to have it out for him. I don't know the situation. I haven't delved into it. But the fact that he stood up for you in a controversial situation, didn't back away, I think, speaks very well for him.

CUOMO Well, you're right. I think he was treated unfairly. And look, you are a journalist. You are also a family member. You also have a First Amendment right to speak about your opinion on a situation. And he was very clear, Bill, always to differentiate.

O'REILLY And if they didn't want him to do it, they could have just said, look, you just tell the audience that because of your family ties, you can't cover the story. I mean, that's all. And how many times has that been done? A ton of times.

CUOMO 100%, 100%.

O'REILLY So anyway, I want to get that on the...because I beat him up enough that I have to give him a compliment from now on.

CUOMO Was that a compliment?

O'REILLY That was. He was a standup guy for doing that. I don't have a brother, but if I did, I'd like a brother like him. Don't tell him that though. Okay, so here we are, and I'm surprised that the Democratic Party has gone so far left. Now, I'm not a party apparatchik, I am a registered independent in New York, I don't follow party politics, I do not care about them. I want problem solvers in office. But what I've seen, and you were three terms as governor here, you know, at the end, you got a little left. You were elected, as your father was, to be a moderate Democrat. Would that be accurate?

CUOMO Yes, sir.

O'REILLY So what the hell happened?

CUOMO I am still a moderate Democrat. What happened to the Democrats is the Democrats lost, right, to Donald Trump, and then they became lost. This is a party in transition. This is a party with a simmering civil war. We're trying to figure out our identity as Democrats. And you have a far left, and you always had a far-left. But this far left is much further left and is much louder, and is much more aggressive, and they have frightened the moderates into submission. It's not that they're...

O'REILLY How do you do that, though? You're not frightened, are you?

CUOMO No, no. But they threaten, they threaten. If you're a moderate Democrat, they are going to primary you. And the extremes have always been very strong in the primary process, whether it was far right, Tea party days, far left. In the primaries, they are very strong, and they are open and aggressive and hostile. And if you are a moderate Democrat, they are going to come after you, and they're going to challenge you. And they have a lot of money and a lot of organizations on the socialist side, on the communist side, on the anti-Israel side, and they have frightened the moderate Democrats into submission.

O'REILLY On the surface, that answer makes a lot of sense, but you went up against the communist Mamdani in your hometown, and he beat you. I was surprised. I thought you were going to wax him.

CUOMO Yeah, well, look, but that is the point you have in the primary, the far left...

O'REILLY It wasn't a primary, it was you, it was him, and it was Sliwa.

CUOMO Well, in the general, let's get to the general.

O'REILLY That's what I'm talking about.

CUOMO Well, first in the primary, it was disproportionately a far left vote, a younger vote.

O'REILLY Fine.

CUOMO Anti-Israel.

O'REILLY But you had a chance one-on-one with this guy, and he beat you.

CUOMO Yes. One-on-one, if you take, it was a three-way, if you took Curtis Sliwa out of the race.

O'REILLY Seven percent.

CUOMO Seven percent, it's basically a dead tie. And if you'd take Curtis Sliwa out of the races, I would have beaten him because Sliwa was attacking me every day as a sideshow on the debate stage bill. I think it's objectively fair to say on the debate stage, I beat Zohran clearly, but you then had Curtis, who would come to his defense. One-on-one, I would have beaten him.

O'REILLY But you should have beaten him four on one.

CUOMO In the primary.

O'REILLY No, in a major election. I mean, you're a three-term governor. Your legacy is your father was a moderate Democrat icon. I went through my correspondence last night. I have two letters from your father, and he was very astute in politics. And I was wondering what Mario would have thought about a communist beating his son for the mayoral...

CUOMO Yeah, Bill, this is a different Democratic party.

O'REILLY So all these people who used to be moderates are all crazy socialists now?

CUOMO You now have, well look, you never had the word socialist, right? Ten years ago nobody was a socialist.

O'REILLY Eugene Debs.

CUOMO Yeah, that's right. Nobody was a socialist. Zohran shows up at the May Day rally as a communist.

O'REILLY He's a communist, there's no doubt he is.

CUOMO So this never existed before. You have a whole generation of young people who or socialists/communists.

O'REILLY How did they get that way?

CUOMO Recently, in reaction to Trump, Bernie Sanders, AOC, no King's rallies. All across the country getting hundreds of thousands of young people engaged. And then these false promises, free everything, free buses, freeze the rent, free food, everything free, and this sense of indignation and social justice, no kings. Do away with the billionaires tax the rich.

O'REILLY And they buy all this, are they stupid?

CUOMO They are young and they buy it, they are young, and they buy it.

O'REILLY You were young, I was young, I never bought it, I knew where communism was from the jump.

CUOMO Yeah, well, it sounds good, everything. You're gonna freeze my rent? Great. Free buses? Great. Free grocery stores? Great. Tax the rich. Yeah! Screw the rich, you know, they're rich. I'm not. So it sounds good, and you had a disproportionately, these young people voted in massive numbers, and they're very organized. There's a lot of money behind this far-left movement.

O'REILLY Is this Soros money, these guys?

CUOMO This is Soros et al money.

O'REILLY Do you know why a guy like Soros, who lives in Westchester, fairly near where you once lived and has got all the money he could possibly have, why does he want a communist nation? Do you know?

CUOMO This is his philosophy, has been for a long time.

O'REILLY Would you never talk to him about it?

CUOMO No, no.

O'REILLY Because this guy did a lot of damage. Now you worked secretary of HUD for Bill Clinton.

CUOMO Yep.

O'REILLY Would you say Bill Clinton pretty astute politician?

CUOMO I think he was great president, great politician.

O'REILLY So I've talked to him a number of times, and the guy knows politics inside and out. Okay. I was surprised that a guy like him, maybe Hillary, others, Barack Obama, didn't come to your aid when the far left of your own party attacked you here. Letitia James, Hochul, the governor. Your own people took you out, but we didn't hear from the other people who knew you and knew what your public service record was. Were you surprised?

CUOMO Look, if you want loyalty in politics, get a dog, right, is the old expression. First, many of them did. Bill Clinton supported me in the mayoral election. And you're right, I was HUD secretary. I was with him from day one to the last day of the administration. And we did great work for this country. But it's back to the first point. The far left, Me Too movement, there was a lot of energy around the Me Too Movement. Nobody wanted to stand up to Me Too. And the far left of the party wanted me out.

O'REILLY Why?

CUOMO Because I was not far left enough. Which is ironic, by the way, because all my life I'm too liberal, right? I'm the first big state to pass marriage equality. New York! Highest minimum wage in the United States of America, New York, best gun law in the nation, New York. I'm too liberal all my life, but they are then so extreme that I am not left enough.

O'REILLY Okay. So you just didn't toe, but Hochul, she's, whatever it is on Thursday. I mean, right? Hochul's not an ideologue. I don't see a, Letitia James, absolutely. But Hochul is like, and you made Hochul.

CUOMO Hochul was my lieutenant governor. Yes, she I told her that I was going to run again, and I was not going to run with her again as lieutenant governor.

O'REILLY That's what did it, huh?

CUOMO That didn't help, but she was a conservative Democrat.

O'REILLY Yeah, Erie.

CUOMO From Erie County, Buffalo, she was against... Driver's licenses for immigrants. Eliot Spitzer proposed immigrant driver's licenses, which we wound up doing years later. But she, as a Democrat, stood up against the Democratic governor and said she refused, and if any immigrant walked in, she would call the customs police, the immigration police. So she was a very conservative Democrat.

O'REILLY But now she's not.

CUOMO Now she's hugging Mamdani, right? Why? Or maybe she did a 180-degree philosophical change. Yeah, or maybe the moderates are afraid of the far left, and she didn't want a primary. So you placate the far-left.

O'REILLY Yeah, the guy the lieutenant governor was going to primary her if she didn't stay in line.

CUOMO That's right.

CUOMO Okay. I got the fear element now with your law enforcement background, I mean, you're attorney general of New York. You know what you're talking about as far as uh crime and punishment. I was surprised you didn't stand up against the no-bail laws as much as you could have. You signed it. What's that all about? Don't we punish violent criminals anymore here?

CUOMO Yeah, the no-bail law is not actually a no-bail law. The law I proposed was subject to judicial discretion because, let's go back.

O'REILLY Judicial discretion? You know how many loons there are sitting on the bench in the city?

CUOMO Yeah, but you're accused of a crime. You're just accused. No one has found you guilty of anything. You go before a judge, he sets bail. The only people who wind up going to Rikers and not making bail are the poor people. You could sit in Rikers, Bill, for two years before you're ever heard, before you are ever before a Judge. And you've never been found guilty of anything. So, now what is the...

O'REILLY You could have done a speedy trial, or you could have done a whole bunch of-

CUOMO We have speedy trial laws, but the court system is backed up, etc. So what's the inverse? If you're dangerous, then we're going to hold you.

O'REILLY But they don't hold them.

CUOMO Well, that's judicial discretion. I wanted the judicial discretion.

O'REILLY But you knew the chaotic situation of the jurist population in New York. Everybody knows it. You got the poor guy pushing in front of the subway train from a four-time violent offender because the judge let him out in the Bronx just last week.

CUOMO Yeah, but many states, that is, judges not doing their job, right? Many states have judicial...

O'REILLY But they don't do their jobs.

CUOMO But you can't then say, Bill, so what's the inverse? What's the solution? As soon as you're accused, you go to jail, and you wait two years, maybe you have a trial, or you wait 2 years, and really, what you have to do is take a...

O'REILLY So this was a poor, fairness, basic bill.

CUOMO Yeah, because there is basic due process still, and we wind up with a system where we just imprisoned anyone accused.

O'REILLY Not anyone, violent crimes. Hard to get into the system in New York with Alvin Bragg and these people, and you know them. It's hard to get into the system.

CUOMO Well, that has gotten worse.

O'REILLY He does not prosecute crimes. It's up to 60, 65 percent.

CUOMO Yeah, that has gotten worse.

O'REILLY Now, COVID. You and Trump are buddies. You're pals, saying good things about each other, getting the boat in here that nobody ever used. All right, docking the boat over there. Trump moved on up. You still friends?

CUOMO COVID, look, Donald Trump and I go way back to Queen's days.

O'REILLY Sure.

CUOMO And he was, we went back and forth on COVID. We had our differences, there's no doubt. I would do a morning briefing.

O'REILLY But you were respectful.

CUOMO Yes. Yes. And he did aid New York. And New York was ground zero. You know, COVID. We're listening to this now, Hantavirus on a cruise ship.

O'REILLY Yeah.

CUOMO I tell you, I have PTSD from COVID, and I hear about this Hantavirus and it reminds me of COVID because COVID was here for months, and we never knew. If you remember what happened, COVID came to California. We're all looking at California and the state of Washington. And we said, oh, it came from China and it went to California, no, it didn't. And went from China to Europe. Europe got on a plane, came to New York.

O'REILLY But the bigger picture is this, you and President Trump worked together in a respectful way.

CUOMO Yes.

O'REILLY Could that happen today?

CUOMO Plus or minus. Yes.

O'REILLY You have no beef with him?

CUOMO No, look, yes, I have beefs with him, and he has beefs with me, but-.

O'REILLY But not overall.

CUOMO Not that you can't have a functional relationship, because you have to have a functional relationship.

O'REILLY But we don't in this country.

CUOMO Well, that's because we've gone partisan, we have partisan paralysis. First of all, as a Democratic governor or a Republican governor, who am I to say, well, politically, I don't like the president, so I'm not gonna cooperate with the president.

O'REILLY Did you call Minnesota lately?

CUOMO Yeah, but that's not, I believe that violates your fundamental premise of being in office, right? I represent Democrats, I represent Republicans. This is the President of the United States. We have to work together. Well, you have political differences, fine. But you can't let your personal differences make the relationship dysfunctional. Otherwise, you abrogate your responsibility.

O'REILLY But you were okay with Trump, and to this day, if you called him, he'd take your call?

CUOMO Yes, I believe so. And again, we have many differences on many issues, but...

O'REILLY Say you called him on Iran, which could blow up in everybody's face here, what would you tell him?

CUOMO Iran, look, first, I wish him success and this country success in Iran. If he is successful, Bill, he will have accomplished something great not just for this country but for this world. Iran has been a preeminent threat for decades.

O'REILLY You buy the uranium-seeking nuclear weapons?

CUOMO Yes, yes, I do. Or I buy the threat that they have it, and that happens to be enough, by the way. Everyone's talked about it for decades, nobody's done anything, and here you have a president who said, I'm going to do something. Now, do I believe he could have stood up in more of an orchestrated way and made a case to the American people and brought our allies along? Yes, but put that aside. Now, he wants peace. He needs peace. Those gas prices are going up, the more times they come close. Don't leave the job half done, I would say.

O'REILLY So you're a hawk on this one.

CUOMO You have to make, you have to win. You have to make a deal. You're not going to get regime change. Okay. But you have to say there is an independent force that is on the ground. We're going to make sure the enriched uranium is gone. We're gonna make sure they can't create a nuclear weapon, and you can sleep well for 20 years knowing that.

O'REILLY But that's going to take infantry on the ground in Iran. And after Iraq, the Americans don't have the appetite for that.

CUOMO That we have put independent agencies, not U.S. Troops, independent agencies.

O'REILLY What does that mean? What's an independent agency that goes in?

CUOMO Independent agency, let the...

O'REILLY NATO's not going anywhere.

CUOMO No, the U.N. Put together an independent agency to...

O'REILLY The U.N.? They can't even do Haiti.

CUOMO There has to be, we can't leave the table with Iran saying, I promise.

O'REILLY I understand, but how do you rectify the situation without putting American soldiers on the ground in that God-forsaken country?

CUOMO This is the art of the deal, as the President would say, but there has to be a presence to police this. What, are you going to come home with a piece of paper and say, hey, they signed.

O'REILLY No, you got inspectors every two or three weeks, have to go in there. That's what you get.

CUOMO 100%. Right.

O'REILLY Right. But in order to impose that, you're going to have to send in troops to force the mullahs to sign it. They're not going to sign it.

CUOMO Well, he can't leave unless he has that inspection protocol in place.

O'REILLY And you don't have a magic formula yet?

CUOMO I don't have a magic formula, but look, otherwise you didn't win. What's the option?

O'REILLY He'll come off as the big loser, and the Democrats will win in November in a landslide, but it is a very complicated situation.

CUOMO It is complicated, and I'll tell you what gets me. You had the Strait of Hormuz there. You knew it. You knew that they used it before. It's like having the global economic jugular vein right in front of their country. And, you know, with these modern drones now, you don't need ballistic missiles. They have total control with that Strait of Hormuz. And why we didn't anticipate this to this degree, of course, they wouldn't close the Strait of Hormuz.

O'REILLY Fog of war. I mean, I don't, I can't answer that question, and Hegseth has not answered it. Hegseth says, Secretary of War, we control the Strait, and we can escort anybody in and out of there. That's what he says. Now, off the big national picture, all right, then you get back to a situation where not only has Iran at this point, and it could change in an hour, okay, paralyzed us, but the anti-Semitism that you grew up with, and so did Trump in Queens, you know, I'm in Levittown, I am right down the street, okay. That used to be under control in this city. That's why all the Jews came here. Now, it's out of control. Is that squarely on the progressive left?

CUOMO Bill, no. It started with the progressive left, but now the submissive moderates have jumped on board. And I tell you, I would never have believed this. You mentioned my father. God rest his soul. Thank God he's not here to see this. The Jewish community was integral to New York. They started coming in 1640, 200 years before your people and my people even thought about it. Yes, with the financial capital. They started finance for us. I have two Jewish brothers-in-law. We grew up together. How New York, New York has the highest incidence of anti-Semitism in my lifetime. Increasing exponentially, the ADL just did a report. It was a 182% increase in January, the month this mayor took office. This mayor ran basically, saying, I associate with Hamas. And look, you wanna be pro-Palestinian? God bless you. You wanna say that Israel was hyper-aggressive? God bless. But to then morph from, I disagree with Israel, to I'm anti-Semitic, and I'm gonna be hostile to American Jewish people. How do you make that transition? And how do we allow it to happen? And now the Democrats, everybody's afraid because the pro-Palestinian support is very high. My Democratic primary, close to 70% of the people, pro-Palestinians, Israel has been hyper-aggressive.

O'REILLY And that's why they voted for Mamdani.

CUOMO One hundred percent. And he would not back up an inch. I'm pro-Israel 100%. He would back up an inch. Associated with guys like Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9-11, which is the same theory that justifies? Hamas raping Israelis in the settlement right you deserve you deserved it. He didn't back away at all, globalized the Intifada, which means kill all Jews. He would not condemn the phrase.

O'REILLY Well, he didn't accept the law that would prevent people demonstrating near schools with...

CUOMO And think about that. He vetoed the buffer zone law, the buffer zone law.

O'REILLY The buffer zone law, which would make the city safer.

CUOMO Yes, but by the way, that was even a token. All the buffer zone laws said, it was passed by the city council, you can't harass students going into a school in a way that could impede their entering the school, and the police will set a buffer zone that's appropriate. You can still protest, but you have to stay 50 feet away, 20 feet away. You can't impede.

O'REILLY Right.

CUOMO People going into a school.

O'REILLY He didn't want it.

CUOMO He vetoes that bill.

O'REILLY Right.

CUOMO Why? First of all, it gave the police power. And part of the far left were anti-police, defund the police, police have too much power. And it would curb protesters, maybe limit free speech, which it didn't. You could still protest, curse, do whatever you want to do. You just couldn't harass, intimidate within that buffer zone to the school. And he vetoed it. You had two terrorists.

O'REILLY Do you think he's an anti-Semite, Mamdani?

CUOMO There, you have to look into somebody's soul. But is he anti-Israel? Yes. Does he associate with antisemitic people? Yes. Does he associate with pro-Hamas people? Yes. And has he done anything while this anti-Semitism is raging, and you have Jewish people in this city afraid to walk the streets, has he done anything to assuage that? No.

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O'REILLY Now, going back to your tenure as governor, one of the things that hurt you in the perception of Democrats, obviously, you running in the primary and all that, was the nursing home thing. Now, when I analyzed the story, it was chaos. I'm being honest here. I mean, I could have easily hammed you like everybody else did, but it's not what we do here. But the amount of people with COVID who had nowhere to go was more than a hundred thousand in the city of eight and a half million. I mean, people didn't know where to go, and they had the disease, so they wound up back in the nursing home, and then it spreads in there, and you get killed. All right, now some of the prominent media came after you for that. What was your thought process while this was going on?

CUOMO First, this was a case of first impression. It was chaos. Ironically, when you look back, not ironically, sadly, January, February, March, the number of deaths from pneumonia spike. March, they diagnosed COVID. January, February, those were not pneumonia deaths. They were COVID. The doctors didn't know there was any such thing as COVID. So it was chaos because as soon as it hit in this city with this density was everywhere immediately. No vaccines, no quarantine facilities, that's why I said the hantavirus reminds me. They're trying to come up now with a test for the hantavirus, and they don't have one. By the way, Nebraska is working on one, which brought me right back to there was no test, et cetera. Also, it became very political, right? And the deaths in nursing homes became a political topic. But I'll give you one fact that'll blow your mind. All is said and done, years, now years, right, five, six years. When you look at the final numbers, the percentage of death of people in nursing homes, by the federal government, CDC, Republican administration, Democratic administration, after all the numbers have been tallied, New York is number 38 in the country for the number of people who died in nursing homes. Number 38, which means 37 states had a higher rate of death in nursing homes, which is incredible, Bill, because we also had it first by surprise. The other states had notice. They knew what was coming. They watched us every day. We were number 38. A lot of political noise, a lot of smoke.

O'REILLY A lot of media.

CUOMO A lot of media. When the numbers come out, number 38.

O'REILLY Would you have done anything differently?

CUOMO Oh, I would have done everything differently. We were checking nobody at airports. We had no test. We had no quarantine facilities. We couldn't get masks. We were sending planes to China to buy masks. There was no laws that dealt with quarantine and hospitals, et cetera.

O'REILLY Right. A totally unique situation. Fauci, a fraud?

CUOMO I think Fauci did the best with what he knew at the time.

O'REILLY But he came across as going, I know everything.

CUOMO Well...

O'REILLY Come on. You know he did.

CUOMO Well, I think, look, I think Fauci was acting on what he knew, and he was trying to bring calm to the country. I did those daily briefings. You had New Yorkers on the edge, Bill. And in a situation like this, the real enemy is panic, right? And New Yorkers were close to panic. So I did briefings every morning. And I slowed everybody down. Let me tell you where we are today. This is the number of infections today. This is the number of lives lost today. This is what we learned today. Here's the information, and the information gives you a sense of control. You have some sense of control because you have the information. And I religiously did it every morning. I wasn't sleeping at night, but seven days a week, I did it. Just to give you that information, and here are the facts. They're not Democratic facts, Republican facts, they're just facts.

O'REILLY Yeah, but people believe what they want to believe, you know that.

CUOMO Well, in the beginning, before it became political, people, party had nothing to do with it.

O'REILLY No, but it came political real fast.

CUOMO It became political real fast because it was a presidential election year. And the Republicans were very nervous about getting blamed. And people started to say, well, where's the federal government taking control? Why are the governors in control? Why is Cuomo in control in New York and Newsom in California, and everyone has to buy their own stuff, and everyone else has to come up with their own policy, why doesn't, where is the federal government? That made it political. In the election year, Republicans pushed back, and they said, it's the Democratic governors because it started in the Northeast. So it was New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. It's the democratic governors who are at fault.

O'REILLY But nobody was at fault, I mean it was, what the public wanted was honesty, and when Fauci got into the Wuhan lab stuff, he came across as not being honest.

CUOMO Nobody wanted politics, it always becomes political. Everybody's pointing the finger. And COVID, months from an election, everybody was pointing the finger.

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O'REILLY This is a difficult question for me to ask you, but I think it's a valid question. So if your father were still alive and he was watching you get hosed by the far left, which kind of destroyed your political career at that time. What advice do you think he would have given you? Did you ever think about that question? Cause you're probably one of the smartest politicians ever.

CUOMO Sure, sure. Look, he was a man of tremendous principle, didn't really give a damn for the politics of the moment. He was about principle. And there is nothing that this far left is talking about, Bill, that he would adhere to, or I would adhere to.

O'REILLY Not even the trans playing sports against girls?

CUOMO This was not taking a step back. I was not, look, these, first of all, this is all political symbolism. This new mayor, he doesn't know anything about government. There's no government here, there's no professionalism here. He was a two-term legislator that never showed up for work, he's never managed the candy store, right? This is all a political symbolism, I'm a socialist, we're no kings. We're gonna take the money from the rich. I'm gonna give you free groceries, free buses, and everything free. It's all political BS. And no, no, he would, I would not be his son. He'd probably disown me if I were to capitulate to that.

O'REILLY So I would have said, fight it out, slug it out.

CUOMO Fight it out, you lose, you lose, but you fight it out, and that's what I did. My record, as a progressive, what a progressive originally meant, they're not progressives.

O'REILLY Theodore Roosevelt was the original progressive.

CUOMO Yes, and then FDR for progressive, I have one of the original posters, FDR, for progressive government. Yes, nobody was more progressive than me. Nobody was more advanced civil rights, civil liberties. Nobody was more activist as a governor. Look what I accomplished, right? Things that nobody wanted to go near. New LaGuardia Airport. Worst airport in the United States of America, but nobody did a damn thing. New airport, new Moynihan train hall after 30 years. Rehabbed the part of Penn that goes to the Long Island Railroad. You're a Long Island guy. New third track for the Long Island Railroad. Why? Because there were only two tracks for the Long Island Railroad.

O'REILLY But that's nuts and bolts. I mean, you know, look, the bigger picture is that, and you spotlighted it a few minutes ago, this is the ultimate power game. There are no rules in this game, all right? You got the media, which is a player now. They think they can shape the votes of people. Both sides, both right-wing and left-wing media, and they play to their choir. And they boom, boom, boom, it doesn't matter if it's true, they're just going to put it out there. And then you get the money men, the guy looking for advantage to make big money in Manhattan, you know, Mamdani's going up against them now, and they're all going, blank you, we're going to Florida. Then what? Okay, who's going to pay the taxes? Mamdani doesn't think that far ahead, he looks to me like he governs from day to day. Whatever emotion of the day is that he whacks in there. But when you have that deterioration of the political process, and believe me, we have it now, we are in a deteriorating country as far as politics are concerned. The rules have changed. Your father might not even get elected now, okay? Because he's not an ideologue. He's not going in there trying to serve one constituency. You know, he wanted to make things better. But if you do that, you come up against a powerful vested interest. Look at the New York Times. They think they're kinmakers, right? Okay, what's their latest? Their latest is that Jews are raping Arabs? That's what we got now?

CUOMO Look, this goes back to your first point, Bill. What they are doing is hurtful to the state of New York. We are hemorrhaging jobs. We are hemorrhaging wealth.

O'REILLY Chasing the big boys out of here.

CUOMO You're chasing not only the big boys out, but the taxes are so high, you're chasing middle-class people out.

O'REILLY Oh, sure.

CUOMO And they're going to Florida, they're gonna Texas, they're going' to North Carolina. You're chasing' the jobs out. This division and partisanship is a cancer. It is driving the extremes politically, because, let's be honest, politics for a politician? It's easier to spin the negative than the positive. It's easy to spin hate and combat. So you have the Democrats demonizing the Republicans, the Republicans demonizing more and more polarization. And then you have The Press, which is a player, and they're playing the same game, which is, you listen to MSNOW, Trump is the devil. You listen to Fox, you get a totally different story. So yes, you're putting a cleaver down this country that is pushing us to an irreparable abyss. And the redistricting is going to make it permanent in a way that will be irreversible.

O'REILLY But that's not going to work because of the skin color aspect. Do you think President Trump should tone it down?

CUOMO I think President Trump is looking at a midterm. I think the midterm is going to be problematic for the Republicans historically.

O'REILLY He's gotta ratchet it up

CUOMO No, I think part of what is going to hurt the Republicans, it's going to be Iran, it's gonna be gas, it's going to be all those symptomatic issues. But, and you're a student of history, which I appreciate, this country has always been skeptical of overly powerful government and autocratic government and feels more comfortable with a balance of power. Trump, our strength is our weakness. He is so dominant, so dominant, rolls the Republicans, there are no Democrats. It's Trump 24 hours a day. I think the Democrats are gonna say, people, the country is gonna say, let's bring some balance here. Let's reduce the drama. There's too much drama. I have to live my life, Bill. I don't wanna wake up every morning having to worry about who we bombed.

O'REILLY But people are entrenched. They are entrenched in their views of the country and politics. Now I'm going to take a time out here. Our Concierge Members and Premium Members are going to get another 10-15 minutes of Killing Time. We appreciate all of you around the world watching We'll Do It Live, and we'll be back in a moment with Killing Time.

Killing Time with Former Governor Andrew Cuomo

2026-05-14T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY What did you think when Donald Trump was being charged by the authorities in New York of Jaywalking and failing to keep his stoop clean? It was so outrageous. Eighty-three million dollars to some woman who says that she was assaulted at Bloomingdale's?

CUOMO Look...

O'REILLY Which is, I'm sorry, I've been to Bloomingdale's. It's pretty hard to do that.

CUOMO Look, you want to talk about the cancer that this society is facing? Yes, it's hyper-partisanship. Yes, it's political. The worst of it is when the justice system becomes a political tool. Now, who fired the first shot? Was it Attorney General Barr with the Mueller report, etc.? Was it Tish James? Who fired the first shot? Trump is now retaliating, but did Trump go first? Whoever fired the first shot, it has to stop because this is a politicization of the It's just a system that is...

O'REILLY But it helps them to do it. It helps Bragg to do it, the district attorney in Manhattan.

CUOMO Yeah, but shame on the American people. Shame on the American people, shame on New Yorkers. There was a poll that said exactly what you said, that they were supportive of Bragg charging Trump, even though they didn't know what the Trump charges were. That's not the justice system.

O'REILLY Right. No due process.

CUOMO I was an assistant DA, I was the attorney general. If I target you, I can indict you. You give me 10 years of your taxes, I will find a reason to indict you. I indict you, you're bankrupt, and your reputation is shot. Targeting people politically, that is the antithesis of what we're about.

O'REILLY There's a little bit more to it than that, and let's take Comey, for example. So President Trump believes this is a corrupt man who used the power of the FBI to do heinous things. That's what the president of the United States believes, okay? So because he believes it so fervently, he's asked his Justice Department to see if that's true, to come up with evidence, and the seashells aren't going to make it. You better have more evidence, or you're just going to get it thrown out, okay? But it's a matter of—and I think you and I have both in our lives gone through the same thing—when somebody does something heinous to you or your family, you don't want them to do it to another family. You see? And that's where Trump's coming from. He doesn't need it politically because he's a populist. He's got his MAGA people already in place. He's doing it because he is genuinely outraged about...

CUOMO I got it. I get it. I truly get it, and again, I was the attorney general, I was in the Manhattan DA's office, and look, you can believe a guy is a bad guy, but there are still rules.

O'REILLY Yeah, you gotta have the evidence.

CUOMO You have to have the evidence, and there are a lot of bad guys out there, but you have to a charge, and what I hope for Todd Blanche, restore the integrity to that position. What I don't like about Comey is what did the American people hear? Seashells on the seashore. That's why he got indicted. And you know what the American people say? More bullshit.

O'REILLY That's true.

CUOMO More political bullshit.

O'REILLY They gotta have more that they're gonna put out on it. But the theory is that you, and I wrote this in my book, Confronting Evil, if you don't confront evil, it gets stronger.

CUOMO But you don't do it with seashells, yeah, then you have to have a case. He wants, he believes Tish James is corrupt, great. But then you have to have a case.

O'REILLY Well, they've got a case against James, it's just not big enough.

CUOMO Yeah, it's not...

O'REILLY Because they'd have to arrest half of Virginia.

CUOMO That's right. Yeah, that is exactly right.

O'REILLY Right. But she did it.

CUOMO Yeah, but you, yes, but it's not enough. You have to have a real case, and when you don't have a real case, you erode confidence in the justice system, and then everybody believes everybody is full of it. That's what I don't like for Blanche with this Comey case. If he had evidence, he should have come with the other evidence and not seashells on the seashore.

O'REILLY Okay. Last question. So you're a Roman Catholic. I know your father went to mass all the time, right? I don't know whether you do. I'm not even going to ask that, but the pope versus the president. Where do you come down on that?

CUOMO First of all, I'm sticking with the Pope. No, no, no. You know, politics only goes so far. I'm sticking with the Pope. Catholic school education, elementary school, Marist Brothers, in high school, Archbishop Malloy, Fordham Law School, Fordham College, I'm sticking with the pope, Bill. When the day comes, and I'm at the pearly gates, I want to say I was with your guy.

O'REILLY Now, you know, it's all about migration, though. That's what drives the Vatican crazy about the people. Francis was the same way. But look, the argument is that you've got to render to Caesar. If Caesar's got a border law, you've gotta enforce it.

CUOMO And look, there is no doubt that on migration, the Biden administration made terrible mistakes, terrible. Roll back.

O'REILLY Ridiculous, incomprehensible.

CUOMO Incomprehensible, and what's worse is they knew it. I was head of the Governor's Association at the time. They redid the, they said during their campaign against Trump, we're gonna do away with Remain of Mexico. What was gonna happen when hundreds of thousands of Mexicans walked into Texas, and the border states, and those governors were saying this, they actually stopped the law for a year in court, and they were saying to the Biden administration, what's the plan? Where do these people go? There was no plan. And that's why the Southern governors, and I think, overreacted, but they put them on a bus and said, oh, yeah, go send them to New York, send them to Martha's Vineyard, but it was a terrible mistake. Trump was right when he started. We're going to deport the worst of the worst, illegal criminals. He was right. They went too far. ICE went too far. When you kill innocent American citizens, Bill, that is a problem, and people don't forget that. And Alex Pretti and Renee Good, that was a shock to the American people. I don't care if you're a red, blue, purple. That was shock to see that on video. Now, I believe the president has sort of self-regulated.

O'REILLY Yeah, he's walking it back.

CUOMO Yeah.

O'REILLY Okay, that was a good interview, and I really appreciate the time. I know you're busy, and I'm just a punk from Levittown. So, you know, you had to come down a little bit here, but I'm glad you did. And you know there'll be interesting things ahead for you. I'm going to predict that right now.

CUOMO Well, I've been watching you and Chris, and I can't let you guys have all the fun, you know.

O'REILLY Well, you know, you need to tell your brother, number one, when I speak, he listens, okay? That's number one. And number two, that he can lift as many weights as he wants. He's never going to be as smart as me.

CUOMO Well, first of all, he's always had a listening problem. That's not just you, Bill.

O'REILLY Thank you, Governor. Appreciate you coming in.

CUOMO Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Killing Time

2026-05-14T15:35:00Z

Iran, the U.S.'s Relationship with China

2026-05-14T15:33:00Z

Andrew Cuomo on We'll Do It LIVE!

2026-05-14T07:49:00Z

Interviewed Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday for our long-form “We’ll Do It LIVE!” podcast. Some surprising stuff. He supports taking Iran’s uranium by force. He explains how he lost the mayoral race to Mamdani. Also, he addresses the COVID nursing home thing and his relationship with President Trump.

This is an old school interview, no BS. Hope you will check it out.

In addition, we are closely monitoring the President’s China excursion. Frustrating story because the information flow is restrained. It will take a while to see if anything was gained.

We are on it, however, and we’ll get the facts. Enjoy the upcoming weekend.

Iran's Impact on the Economy

2026-05-14T07:45:00Z

Bill reviews new polling revealing the effects of Trump’s policies on Americans’ finances and the midterm elections.

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2026-05-14T01:07:00Z

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Iran's Impact on the Economy, Dr. Melanie Hart on the U.S.'s Relationship with China, the Future of Iran & Alejandro Mayorkas Criticizes Biden's Immigration Approach

2026-05-13T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another edition of the No Spin News. Wednesday, May 13th, 2026. Stand up for your country. We are reporting tonight from Manhattan, where in a few moments I'm going to interview former governor Andrew Cuomo for our Do It Live, long form. That should be interesting, right? For me, it will be. And, of course, we're tracking the Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but it's really hard to get anything solid out of that. They're having tea, and they're dancing, and all right, but what's really going on behind the scenes, I'm working it like crazy. But I don't have anything yet, really solid. Okay, I know the parameters of what President Trump would like to get, and Xi as well, but we reported that all this week, but I don't know the specifics. On the Western front, all is quiet. That was the name of a very famous book, with Iran, but that's going to have to change because, as we'll show you in a moment, the American public has turned with ferocity against the Trump administration on the Iranian issue. And the president knows it, I mean, he may not acknowledge it publicly, but he knows. And so something's going to have to give there. And we're all waiting. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

New CNN poll. Not a honest poll because it's U.S. Adults, 1,499. Not people who vote, not people who pay attention. And as we showed you the other day, when you have just adults, you can have a poll that has 14 percent of Trump supporters. How would you know? Nobody would know. So Donald Trump got 77 million votes, and he easily defeated Kamala Harris with that number, but CNN doesn't have to replicate that number. It can use any number it wants. So be skeptical, but I gotta give you the data. First question, how do you think Donald Trump's policies have affected the cost of living in your community? Increased 77%, decreased 8%, no effect 16%. 77 is a big number. Okay, second question, do you think Donald Trump's policies have... Improved economic conditions 22%, worsened them 65%, no effect 12, another big, big number that is going to matter if things stay the same. Now, if there is a breakthrough and we get the Iranians to sign a treaty, they will not enrich uranium, and the Straits of Hormuz will be open, things will turn around, in my opinion. But I think that's a foregone. So Iran has a huge advantage, and we've been over this. Xi and China knows all the Iranians gotta do is sit it out. They don't do anything because the American economy, inflation, is being harmed. And the world economy, including China, is being harmed, too. But I'm not sure China, you know, they want to hurt the USA. They're not our friends. They can have all the tea they want. Okay? Now, tomorrow wraps it up in Beijing. And then Friday, the president will be back. I'd hold a press conference, an extensive one and answer the questions. If I were Mr. Trump, I hope he does. You don't have to give away national security. You know, 77 percent, that's an overwhelming number if the Republicans want to hold the House and the Senate in November.

Now, it's a short-term gain, short-term pain for a long-term gain. I understand all that. But believe me when I tell you. People get worried about their finances, there's usually a regime change. No matter what country you're in. Now, yesterday, the media started to pile on because they despise Donald Trump. And the New York Times is the league leader in that. So they ran a story, the Times did, that says the Trump administration has overstated the military success in Iran. This is what the New York Times says. The problem with the story is it's all anonymous sources. Okay, there's nobody identified. And everybody knows The Times doesn't like Trump. So they can write a story like this, find somebody who doesn't like Trump in the administration, and just quote that person, sources close to the story. You know the game. And the game is being played every single day in order to hurt Donald Trump. So the piece basically says that Iran now has access to 30 missile sites that it did not have access to just a few weeks ago. Who knows? I mean, where does that come from? Is somebody from the New York Times overcounting them? You know, I'm very skeptical of any of this stuff. And in my Sunday column, which is still posted on BillOReilly.com, I show you. I show the proof of how this kind of stuff is bogus. But you go back to the polling. So, Atlas, which is a good polling center, never poll out, and they say, question if the midterm elections for the House were held today. Who would you most likely vote for? Democrat 55, Republican 40. So that's big, okay? Second one, provided that these candidates were who you would vote for in Democratic primaries, who are the 228 presidential election leaders? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, number one on the Democratic side, it's crazy. Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom. That's a weak bench. On the Republican side, we reported this yesterday, Marco Rubio number one, JD Vance two, Ron DeSantis three. So, the Democrats are gaining in a hypothetical midterm vote if we're held tomorrow.

Now, one more thing, and this is very important. So all of the high oil prices, which Iran is responsible for, and some people blame the USA, but come on, I mean, it's all about nukes, they, if Iran can moderate or Israel and the USA can destroy the structure there, which could happen militarily, those oil prices will go down fast. Because there's plenty of oil, you just can't get it out of there. So that is almost unique in the sense that it's not a hopeless situation, it can turn. And obviously, people who don't like Trump don't really want it to turn, and the people who do like Trump, obviously, they're on his side. Tomorrow, the president is expected to depart China about 6 p.m. Local time, remember China is 12 hours ahead of us, and then he'll be back on Friday. Okay, anything else here? I think that is my update for you, and joining us now from Washington is Dr. Melanie Hart, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, which is an outfit that develops strategies to address challenges posed by China's rising global influence. Would you say, Doctor, that you guys are hostile to China? Do you see them as an enemy to the United States?

"We see China as a competitor, sometimes an adversary, but also there's space for cooperation where it makes sense. And just to give you a concrete example, China's been developing some novel cancer therapies. If Chinese scientists come up with a new cancer therapy that can cure Americans, we'd love to have access to that, right? So we keep our minds open, where we can do great things cooperatively that doesn't injure American interests, let's do that. But where we need to compete to defend American interests, let's do that too."

But you know as well as I do that for every concession China makes to the USA, it wants something back. They're just not going to give stuff away. They're going to go, all right, we'll let you take a look at the cancer medicine, but you've got to do this for us.

"China always tries to have a tit for tat dynamic with the United States. So that's what President Trump will be dealing with in Beijing over tea, as you put it, with Xi Jinping."

Okay, but the overwhelming problem now is Iran. Do you have anything to bring to the table new about that situation vis-à-vis China?

"That may be the overwhelming problem for the Trump administration. That is not the overwhelming problem for Xi Jinping and the Chinese. Beijing does not intend to help the United States out of the Iran situation or the Strait of Hormuz, a Chinese tanker... Well, for example, a Chinese tanker made it through the Strait just today. They're doing fine on the energy front. And there, if you look at Chinese government sources and what they're saying about the US effort in Iran. They expect the U.S. to fail. So what you see China doing, if you assess their behavior, is they are calibrating their actions to avoid making this a fight between Beijing and Washington, right? So they're being careful not to provide missiles to Iran or to help them militarily, but they're still buying Iranian oil. And just the other day, Beijing ordered the Chinese teapot refineries that refine the Iranian oil, to violate U.S. Sanctions, the new sanctions from the Trump administration, trying to clamp down on the shipments of oil from Iran to China, Beijing said, don't abide by that."

So that's nothing unusual because Xi wanted to put himself in a position of asking for something from the United States, whether it be opening up talks on Taiwan or better trade agreements, which Xi needs. He needs that from the USA. So he's going to push it to the wall before the chats even start, right?

"I see no evidence to indicate that China is interested to make a deal with the United States on Iran. They have plenty of leverage over us with critical minerals. They'll use critical minerals in our dependence on China for rare earths to push the Trump administration for whatever it is that China wants, and they have a long list. They will also use the fact that President Trump wants China to buy large amounts of American soybeans, beef, Boeing aircraft. The Trump team wants a high purchase number. Buying goods from American farmers and American companies, that also gives Xi Jinping some leverage. There's just no, from Beijing's perspective, there's no reason for them to help the U.S. Out on Iran. They may, they will be careful to not cross the reddest of red lines, and that is being caught providing weapons to Iran. And I think we saw President Trump allude that they had caught evidence of that and that China had promised to back off. That's exactly what they did with Russia and Ukraine. We've seen that movie before."

Okay, and it doesn't really matter anyway, because the United States and Israel could destroy those weapons fairly quickly, and the Chinese know that. All right, I mean, that's certainly a pessimistic view of it, but probably realistic view. So then you come back to UDC, the president does, and he's facing 77 percent of the American public blaming him for higher prices on not just gas but food and everything else. So he has to do something militarily, I would imagine, against Iran. He has to move against Iran.

"You know, it's a good point with gas prices. You know, China's gas prices have risen a lot less than ours. Here in the US, our retail gasoline is up 51% since the war; China's is up only 39%. So they're not feeling the same pain at the pump as we are. We rely on oil and gas. That's about 70% of our energy mix. China relies on coal. So oil and gas is only about 30% of their energy mix. Where are things, I think the interesting question that you're really asking is, where is everybody's pain point? President Trump has a clear pain point that you are talking about with American voters, and at what point do we begin to decide that the costs are too high? China does have a pain point too; it's just a little further down the line. China's okay right now from an energy perspective, but China's problem is gonna be if the rest of the global economy is tanking from this energy shortage, they can't buy Chinese goods anymore. So China does have a pain point, it's just a longer fuse than ours. And then the other question is, what's Iran's pain point? You know, where are our relative leverage to each other? And I think we're gonna find out in real time, which is a bit of a scary thing."

And it's going to be very fast. China doesn't want disorder. That's the big thing for the Xi government. As you pinpointed, they have to sell their stuff abroad. And they don't want disorder in the worldwide marketplace. So that gives Trump a slight advantage. And I don't know whether Xi, on the sly, never do it in public, will say, look, we'll help you out here. But I don't know how he could help Trump out because these mullahs are so fanatical, they're willing to die, they don't care about their own people, it's not like a regular country, it is a terrorist state. And they've never respected their own people. They shoot them down in the street if they dissent. So I don't know how you put pressure on a government like that, the only way you're going to have to do it is just to destroy their communication centers. Seems to me I don't see option B.

"There's a good parallel between Iran and North Korea, you know, where they have that strict authoritarian system."

But China controls North Korea because it doesn't want disorder. And North Korea is so small and so weak that China in a day can go in there and do whatever it wants.

"China doesn't control North Korea to the extent that a lot of folks in Washington assume. Kim Jong-un is a tough character. He has nuclear weapons. He sometimes does things that anger Beijing. One thing that's common between the two, China doesn't fully control North Korea or the Iranians or the Russians, but China does want all three to stay in place because they keep the US on the back foot. And so China's in this weird situation between, on the one hand, they're happy to have us back-footed, but to your point, they don't want things to spiral out of control to the extent that Beijing takes a hit."

But if you're going to tell me that North Korea doesn't do what they're told by Beijing, I'm going to dissent from that.

"We'll have to disagree on that one then."

OK, that's all right. But the Chinese made it quite clear to Pyongyang, you get out of line, you launch a missile at somebody or something like that, you're going to get punished militarily by us. And the substructure in North Korea, and they're starving now. Those people are starving now. So they got no card to play. But let's get back to our final question on Iran. So you're a presidential adviser, OK? And Donald Trump comes back from Beijing, and he has no assurance that Xi or anybody else over there is going to help him with Iran. It was all nice, and they're going to announce trade agreements, and they were all friends, and they are going to have another conference coming up in another month. All of that will happen. But he doesn't have anything concrete to show the American people or the world markets. What do you do? Do you hit them militarily? Do you wait it out? What do you do if you are advising President Trump? What do you tell him to do?

"That's a great question. So, there's really two different American objectives left on the table. One is to eliminate Iran's nuclear program. The other is to open the Strait of Hormuz. The regime in Tehran has made it very clear that they have no intention of giving up their nukes. And if the United States goes in and attacks Iran and tries to destroy the nuked militarily, we run the risk that they just get dispersed across the Middle East and come over to the United States. And elsewhere through terrorist networks that are a lot harder to track than they are when they're in Tehran. In the meantime, it seems like getting to agreement on opening the Strait of Hormuz is a more near-term objective that's actually achievable. The entire global community, everybody but Iran, agrees that the Strait of Hormuz should be open. China has even stated publicly that they agree with that. So if I were advising the president, I would say, let's do that first. And buy some time to figure out what is a broader array of options on the nuclear program given that the regime in Iran is hunkered down and not giving any ground on that."

All right, but remember, President Trump has, you know, quite clearly said the reason for all of this is to stop Iran from getting enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon. And if he backs away from that, he looks weak, last word.

"I'll just say that from my perspective as an American, I would want the U.S. President to make decisions based on the information he or she has at the time. If that information changes, the decision should change and just explain that to the American people. I think people would respect a fact-based decision if the facts shift over time and there's openness about that."

Okay, doctor, very good interview. Thank you for helping us out. I hope we can talk again. On the social front, I'm going to use the word social, but it's more of an emotional thing. There are people, as we all know, that are rooting for the United States to lose. And I discussed that with Chris Cuomo last night on NewsNation. Go.

"So, if you're an American rooting for your country, you want it to all go our way over there, correct?"

"Uh, yes, but I think that it is unfair to accuse people of a lack of patriotism because they look at this state at all, but that's the implication. So if you don't, if you have any criticisms, if you have concerns about the setup and the factors and bringing over big business guys when you're supposed to be helping the American worker, that means that you want America to lose. I reject that premise. That's all I'm saying."

"Look, I didn't get into any of that."

"But it's by implication."

"I got into a very simple question."

"Right."

"Simple question is, this is the structure. This is what's happening. Do you want your country to win, and you answer it appropriately? I believe, yes."

"We'll see."

Okay, now I don't think Cuomo wants America to lose. I don't like the we'll see business. That's a fallback now for every television moderator. Oh, we'll see. What good does that do? Yeah, all right, fine. Why am I? It's like at the end of the day, how many of those are you gonna have to absorb? Okay, we're not gonna see anything. Things will unfold, but we don't know how. But if you're not rooting for America to have a positive outcome from this Beijing meeting. Then you're not patriotic. Remember Kenny Rogers, okay? There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done, not while it's in the process. Okay, so here I am, I don't know if my arm is long enough to pat myself on the back the way I want to, but this whole thing began on February 28th of this year, this Iranian thing. On March 3rd, just a couple of days later, here's what I said. Go.

"After the State of the Union, I said... President Trump's speech is going to swing independence over to the Republican side. Now, that might not last. Certainly, if Iran goes south, the president's going to have some problems. This is a big gamble on his part, big. Now, if it turns out like Venezuela, he's going to be a hero. But boy, he's rolling the dice."

And absolutely true, and I told the president that myself, but he is a gambler, he is willing to take risks, but it's not over, and there's no fat lady singing, okay? That's why this story is intriguing but frustrating. Okay, these are the food items that you're getting pounded on. Here they are according to the Bureau of Labor Stats. Fruits and vegetables up 6 percent, tomatoes just last month up 15 percent. Beef we know the problem up 15% over the last year, eggs are up again, poultry, fish, not a lot. 1.3%. That's not a lot, but it's up. Dairy, not a lot, 0.8%. Coffee, 2%. And then coffee has spiked 18.5% in the last year. Now, if you have money problems, you can get around all that by buying in bulk and going to Costco and all these other places that we have, and most other countries don't have. I wanted to give you that alert. OK, we are on Iran watch this entire weekend. I don't expect military action that fast, but I think it's coming. Other news, Mayorkas. You haven't heard that name in a while, right? So this is the story. Alejandro Mayorkas was the Homeland Security Chief under Joe Biden. He presided over the open border. Mayorkas did. Come on in. Ten to 15 million foreign nationalists said, OK, thanks, we're coming in. Mayorkas doesn't do press. But somehow he shows up on a Politico thing. Roll it.

"There were areas of disagreement within immigration policy and in other areas, but I voiced my views. I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action that I thought made reforms that were sensible and that proved successful."

"If those executive actions had been taken one or two years earlier, do you think Donald Trump would be the president today?"

"I am not in a position to speculate, but I will tell you that I would be far more better rested and less punched."

But what the Politico guy doesn't ask, shocking, and it's not really shocking when you know the state of social media, is why did you do it in the first place? What kind of administration crushes the border? Why? For what? Not asked. I mean, that's fifth grade. Okay, Florida plans to close Alligator Alcatraz, that's in the glades. Never a good look. I mean, you don't want to punish. That's what got Pope Leo all bent out of shape, that we were abusing or are abusing migrants, throwing them in the Alligator Alcatraz, and beating them up and killing them. So that's all changing now. And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says, oh, the feds aren't doing it, we're just doing it. Okay, fine. No more Alcatraz with the alligators. Alligators are probably real sad because he was throwing food out in the canals to all of these critters. Okay, the migrant thing is a big victory for Donald Trump. But in the aftermath, the more humane you can be, the better at this point in history. But I absolutely would continue the roundups, particularly on the criminal aliens, but be careful. You don't want to throw Granny in the alligators.

Smart Life. So I've been getting a lot of mail about people who are worried about their country, about their wallets, about their kids, about everything. And they're worried because of the news cycle. So they're hearing bad news every day, and now they're getting depressed. And they're asking me what... I'm not a psychologist, but I can tell you how I handle it because I've been doing it for 50 years. You've got to separate yourself when you cannot do anything about a situation. It's not just the news or Iran or Trump or anything like that, it's anything in life when you have done all you can do, and it's still not working out, that you've got to accept it or take steps to protect yourself, whatever it may be. Now, what steps can you take about Iran? You can buy food in bulk and cut back on your driving. I've told you, going up to Boston on the train could easily drive there, it would be quicker if I drove there, but I'm not going to because I know what's happening. Anyway, I can do that. But if you're depressed on the news, a lot of people then bail. They don't watch it. No. You want to be informed. It's important for you as an American citizen because we have so much going on here and so much at stake in November, all right? I mean, if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the most popular Democratic leader, you've got a problem here. Okay, and I do my YouTube bonus on it. You've got a big problem. You gotta stay engaged, but don't get depressed. Because there's nothing you can do. Right? Does that make sense? Smart life.

This Day in History, May 13th, 1994, Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance. So, Carson, for those of you who are younger or live abroad, we have a lot of foreign viewers and listeners now, was by far the most popular late-night talk show host in history. Steve Allen's probably the second. I know that these names are fading now, but these guys are titans. So Carson, he hangs it up after 30 years, but he comes back one more time. Roll the tape.

"All right, tonight's top ten list from the home office in Sioux City, Iowa. Now, this is not the list. Johnny, can I have the top 10 list?"

"Thank you, Johnny, nice to see you."

"What's the point? Like I'm going to continue after that."

"Really."

Okay, that was 32 years ago today. Notice the timing on Carson. Timing was always unbelievable. So he hung around a little bit, and he died in 2005 from smoking, respiratory failure arising from emphysema. Never did anything else. That was it. Did a little writing here and there, but never went back on television. Interesting situation with a Carson, but that's an interesting piece of tape, too interesting. That's a fascinating piece of tape there. You compare what he did to what they have now. My god, right? Okay, let's take a quick break. We'll be back with the mail and a final thought you will not believe, and I mean that literally, who we have on our long-form podcast, We'll Do It Live. That starts tomorrow. Hang in, I'll tell you. Back in a moment.

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All right. As I mentioned, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is the subject of our YouTube bonus on our YouTube channel, which is absolutely free. YouTube.com/BillOReilly. Millions of people going in there. You will, I think, enjoy that commentary. Let's go to the mail. We got Gino. "Are there any practical or economic reasons the Chinese want Taiwan?" It's all a motion. So it completes Mao Zedong's vision of a united China under the communist regime. Practical reason? It's emotion.

Robert Quinton, Wilmington, North Carolina. "Hey Bill, you mentioned in yesterday's broadcast the U.S. is trying to suspend federal gas taxes. And you believe President Trump will have the support of both parties, I respectfully disagree. Democrats and blue states can do everything in their power not to let this happen." Then they'll get hammered. That would be a gift to President Trump if the Democrats objected to a suspension of the federal gas tax. I mean, that would be amazingly self-destructive. You might be right, Robert, but I'd be shocked.

Gloria Likander, Kirtelaine, Idaho, very pretty part of the country. "Bill, during President Trump's first term, he asked many CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies to help the White House bring down the cost of prescription drugs. Therefore, why can't the president apply the same logic to oil and gas for Americans?" He could. He could. But it gets complicated when you're going to go in and look at books, and they're going to go world market and confuse everybody. But he could ask them, you know, give the American people a break. You don't need to double your profits in one quarter, BP. You know, I got a lot of heat, and I don't know why, but people defending the oil company. And they write me letters, oh, you don't understand. You're this, you're that. Once I put that BP state out, stat out, once I put it out, everybody shut up. One quarter, they increase their profits 100%. Hello?

Tom Murasinski, Tom does not tell me where he lives. Tom, got to get on it. "Longtime viewer, Trump voter, I have to disagree with your statement about Congress controlling all of the excessive spending. Congress did not vote for the war, nor were they given a chance to vote." That is true, it's not a bad point. Not a bad point. The War Powers Act, Congress did not approve the expenditure, which is about, I don't know, $50 million now, it'll go much higher. All right, I want you to get our hat. I'm wearing this hat up in Boston because I'm doing a Revolutionary War thing up there, that you'll see. Tt's a special. I'm going to wear the hat because it's supposed to be a deluge tomorrow. So if you see me walking around with the 250 American hat, know you can get it on BillOReilly.com along with all kinds of other stuff. Word of the day: do not be a ninnyhammer. One word, ninnyhammer. We don't want you to be one. Okay, back with their supersonic long form this week. I'll tell you all about it in a moment.

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All right, final thought. Governor Andrew Cuomo joins We'll Do It Live. Tomorrow at let's see, 6 p.m. On YouTube, and 12 noon on BillOReilly.com for Premium and Concierge Members. Another perk, so you get it six hours ahead, and then everybody in the world gets it at 6 p.m. So we're very happy to have the governor. I'm surprised we got him, but Chris Cuomo helped out on it. And we got a lot to talk about, a lot to talk about. You don't want to miss this. And that is it for us today.

Now, I have to go over to Penn Station. Let's see what time it is. I've got time. A couple of blocks from where we are, and then get on the Amtrak, go up the Connecticut coastline through Rhode Island into Back Bay, get off the train, and go to the hotel. It's okay, I've got lots of work to do. If the gas prices were what they were two months ago, I'd hop in my car, I'd be there about an hour shorter than taking Amtrak. But Amtrak does a decent job for me, I don't have any complaints, food is a little mmm. But I smuggle sandwiches on, which you have to do. Anyway, thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News and Bill O'Reilly News Sunday column. By that time, I hope we have information on Iran, and we are watching throughout the weekend. Remember, @BillOReilly is our handle for all of our tweets. I know they don't call them tweets anymore, I don't know what they call them, but stay with us over the weekend because things could happen. And read the column on Sunday, we'll see you again on Monday.

Iran's Impact on the Economy, Dr. Melanie Hart on the U.S.'s Relationship with China, the Future of Iran & Alejandro Mayorkas Criticizes Biden's Immigration Approach

2026-05-13T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

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O'Reilly & Cuomo Spar Over Iran, Talk China

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O'Reilly's Insight on Donald Trump's Visit to China

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Rubio's 2028 Chances

2026-05-13T07:21:00Z

A new Atlas poll spotlights Secretary of State Marco Rubio as being 15 points ahead of Vice President Vance with likely Republican voters for the 2028 election.

Not surprising. Rubio presents himself well and is articulate enough to explain problems like Pope Leo. He comes across as smart and non-threatening.

Mr. Vance has been a good soldier for President Trump, but he has been identified as favoring a few extremists. Also, he reportedly opposed the Iranian action, losing him credibility with the President, whose endorsement GOP candidates will avidly seek in ‘28.

If Marco Rubio decides to run, he will capture many Hispanic voters, which Republicans badly need. So, the Secretary of State is in a good position. If the primary were held tomorrow, he’d win.

On the other side, Democrats are without much leadership. High prices for consumers are keeping the Dems afloat. That situation could turn around fast, but even if it doesn’t, Marco Rubio has to be considered the favorite. The man Trump once called “Little Marco” has entered the big time.

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President Trump Heads to China, America's Growing Debt, Dr. Fran Walfish on America's Civic Obligation & Marco Rubio's 2028 Front-Runner Status

2026-05-12T22:00:00Z

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Bill reveals his conversation with Chinese officials.
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President Trump Heads to China, America's Growing Debt, Dr. Fran Walfish on America's Civic Obligation & Marco Rubio's 2028 Front-Runner Status

2026-05-12T22:00:00Z

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, the Chinese are always on time. Call came in right when it was supposed to, around noon, and I had a very lively discussion with some members, very influential members of the Chinese communist government in lieu, or in advance, I should say, of President Trump's trip over there this week. So I can't, it's an off the record thing, as it was last time, one year ago when I was physically in Beijing at their invitation, and they wanted to follow up. But I can tell you a few things that I gleaned from the conversation. Number one, the Chinese are like, why did you do this in Iran? Not for an ideological reason, as the Democrats are here. It's like they want order, O-R-D-E-R, because it's good for business to have order. Any disruption in the world is bad for business. The Chinese are all about making money now to feed their 1.5 billion people. That's what's going to be going on in the meeting between Xi, the president of China, and Donald Trump, the president of the United States. It's primarily an economic meeting. But as we reported this week so far, Trump would like China to help out with Iran. You tamp them down and say, look, you've got to stop the nonsense here. You're just disrupting everything. China, it's to their benefit to do it. They're never going to do it publicly. But behind the scenes, if Trump signals that he has some negotiating room on Taiwan, because she is crazed about Taiwan, crazed. They want that Chinese flag flying over Taiwan. But all you'd have to do would be kind of, all right, we'll discuss it. I think that would be enough at this point, because it's only a two-day meeting. They'd have to have another big meeting, probably sometime this summer.

So, what you have over there is the mood is good. I talked to the president as we reported yesterday on Sunday, and he was in a good frame of mind. The Chinese tell me that the Politburo over there is very, I don't know if excited is the right word, but they're optimistic. That this is going to be a good meeting. Now, my role in all this is an expediter. So I did debrief President Trump today about what was said because I have to. You can't just do this on your own. And I told him pretty much what I told you. I told him a few other specifics that I can't tell you because it was off the record. But he's going into a situation where everything is positive except Iran. The Chinese don't care about Iran. They couldn't care less about the Middle East, about Israel, about Gaza. They don't care. But they do not want chaos. And they want their 20 percent oil, which they get from Iran. And they don't want it held up in the Strait of Hormuz. So it's impossible, and I mean that word literally, to predict what the Chinese will do, because they'll never tell you. The only thing I got out of them was, why did you guys do this? And I kind of explained that a campaign promise was made by Donald Trump that the nuclear weapons were gonna be taken away from the Iranians. That was why, it's a campaign promise. This time, why now? Midterms coming up. I can't answer those questions, okay? But the action's hurting America. It is hurting us. And I get letters all over the place, why don't we go in? We're not going in, all right, with infantry, it's not happening. The American people do not want another Iraq, and that's what it would be. You'd have guerrillas, you'd have fighting, you'd have roadside bombs, it's not gonna happen.

Anyway, so you are up to speed, you're gonna get this nowhere else. I'm bragging now, but I think I earned the right to do that. World order is the big thing for the Chinese. Here's the schedule: two days in China. China is 12 hours ahead of us, so when the president comes back on Friday, he doesn't lose any time. He'll zip in there tomorrow. And this is a very tight schedule. There's a banquet, there's a lunch, there is a photo session, and there's the Q&A. President Trump's going to answer questions in the Chinese press. I hope he doesn't call them names, so he'll get confused about that, like he does with the American press. But it's all lined up, and the Chinese, of course, they'll never admit this, but they're flattered, because they know this is a big deal for a president of the United States to go to Beijing. The last time this happened was in 2017 when Trump visited then. All right, 16 CEOs, big shots. Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk, you can look it up if you want. They're all going too. And they are tasked with talking to their counterparts in China about deals, economic deals. Okay? So that's why they're going. We don't know who's going in the press pool. I think Sean Hannity is going. Doesn't seem to be anybody else on the sheet right now that would be out of the ordinary. I gave Hannity a few tips about, you know, stuff that happens when he shows up. Nothing ominous, but you know Hannity and I are friends, and you can listen to me. I believe that's coming up this week, but I'll let you know.

Board of Investment, Board of Trade, all of those things, trade, trade, trade. So anyway, all Americans should be hoping that this works out for the USA, right? But you and I both know that's not happening. We are a very, very divided nation. And the news is not good on the economic front for the Republicans. So inflation hit 3.8%. This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 12 months ending last month, April, up 3.80. The fastest annual pace since 2023, that's not a disaster. But it's up, and it's going, going, going, and going, up, up, up, up. This is inflation that will raise everybody's cost of living. All right, you know about the gas prices, now the food prices are igniting again. This is not good for us. And the president knows, and he's gotta try to tamp it down. And I can't predict it, I wish I could, but I can, because the mullahs are crazy, they're crazy people, and the Chinese know that. Because they deal with their own Islamic problem with the Uyghurs in Western China.

Also, the U.S. Treasury is now paying $3 billion a day in interest. They get a lot of mail on this. So the national debt under President Trump, never a spendthrift, okay, is rising and rising rapidly. You know, it's approaching $30 trillion dollars. So every day, the U.S. Treasury has to pay three billion in interest. It goes out every six months. Okay, who gets that money? So 81% of people who buy securities in the United States, that's U. S. Savings bonds, other treasury department, whatever, are regular investors. 81%. And the other are intergovernmental agencies. So, say if Medicaid has a shortfall that month, they'll borrow from the Treasury, but they've got to pay interest when they pay it back, the Medicaid people. That's where the money is going. But three billion a day, that's pretty much out of control. I don't know if it's ever going to be dealt with. Because Congress, remember, it's not Trump so much, it is Congress. Congress is in charge of the spending. Not the president. It's important for you to know that.

All right, new poll by Reuters, we've exposed them as being corrupt. Say 66% of the American people believe Donald Trump has not explained the war goals in Iran. It's almost impossible to believe this poll, okay? It's all about denying the mullahs the nuclear weapon. They don't understand that. I don't know what to say. I don't, I just don't know what to say. If you don't understand that by now, then you're so dumb, I feel sorry for you. That's what it's about. There are other smaller things, like terrorism, which isn't small, but it's the nukes. The question is, has Trump clearly explained his goals in Iran? 31% yes, no, 66%. And that kind of accurately reflects the engagement of the American citizen with information. About 30% of us pay attention. The others are all over the place. And that brings us to a very important question. If you or someone you know, perhaps a family member or a child, whatever, say, I hate this politics. I'm not going to even bother. I'm going to engage. I'm just not going to pay attention, I just don't want anything to do with it. Are you a bad citizen? Is that a terrible thing? So joining us now from Beverly Hills, California, is Dr. Fran Walfish. She is a psychotherapist. And I don't know if you're seeing a lot of customers or clients, as you call them, come in crazed about politics, but that's the question. If you don't wanna pay attention, if you won't pay attention, are you a bad citizen?

"The answer is not necessarily. All of us are born with a different constitution genetically, and we all have different experiences, both with our parents and in the environment. Each person can tolerate a different amount of anxiety level. And if you are weaker, and perhaps more fragile, you're not a bad person. Stronger people are perhaps meant to have stronger shoulders for the weaker ones to be carried upon. So I don't think, you know, we're a generation of shoulds and I don't think it's fair to expect people who are weaker, who may, if they take more on, sink into a sad state, depressive state, anxious state, perhaps obsessive compulsive state where they're more upsetting to us than they are to themselves.".

All right. I get it. They might fall apart and do damage to others and themselves because they can't handle the pressure of all the bad news and complicated things, but that still doesn't justify, and I'm being judgmental here. I know that shocks your, doctor.

"No."

It still, it still doesn't justify walking away from your country. I mean, we all have an obligation here to keep our country safe, honest, and a place where benefit is given to those who live here.

"I agree."

Yeah, to me, if I got some namby-pamby, who goes, oh, I can't pay attention. Number one, I don't respect that, and I should, and that's my fault. I'm gonna have to come see you about it. That's my fault, because right away I'm going, oh. If you really look at it, okay, every citizen has an obligation to make the country better. And if we didn't have the courage we had in World War II and the Civil War, if we didn't have that mass courage, because it was, the greatest generation, my parents, we would have lost it all. Am I wrong?

"I hear you, you're, no, you make a very good point, and I want to ease your self judgment by saying you're not as judgmental as some of your colleagues because you invited me on and you're giving some space for some people to walk away, which is great. Let me say that we all have an obligation for civic responsibility. So we cannot totally walk away, but where are the obligations and duties? Everybody should vote. There is an obligation. So we should all exert our right to vote, obey laws, and treat each other respectfully and kindly. So what does that mean? I think we all have the right to have differences of opinions. The same is true in relationships. You know, in the olden days, when I was coming up and dating, on, in dating space, there was a lot of difference in area of religion. Today, it's politics. It's a deal breaker. Guys and gals will not go out with you if you don't agree."

Particularly in California, those places that are loaded with ideology, not so much in the middle of America. I just wrote a book called Confronting Evil, and the theme of the book is that all these heinous people, and the mullahs in Iran, are included in the book, and the Ayatollah is on the cover. They have to be constrained, and if not enough people will volunteer, sign up to constrain them, then they'll run wild. That's what we're seeing in this world now with NATO, and I don't want to draw you into micro-politics too much, but they're just standing back, let America do it, or whatever it may be. And therefore, evil has a tremendous advantage in the world, no?

"You're right. And there's a tremendous amount of fear among people. You know, I am..."

Is it, is it fear or selfishness?

"Well, there's both. I think there is, you know, we raised a generation of very, very self-serving, sorry to say, narcissistic kids that are now in their 20s and 30s. And they're used to cell phones and computers and immediate gratification. So there is a certain amount of self-serving selfishness, but I think there is fear. And... "

Fear of what? What would be the fear? That they're not going to get a date with Sally, who's a progressive or a right-wing person?

"No, I... there are a lot of Jewish people in America that are afraid to stand up. They're afraid of being hurt, afraid of losing business because people have lost a lot of business. They're afraid of safety for their family. There are many Jews like we're talking about who are not afraid to stand up and protest and...You know, go like with what occurred at UCLA and so many college campuses, but there are many people hiding like what occurred in the Holocaust, and it's very sad, but there are people afraid, and it is, you know, I'm happy to see our president standing up for Jewish people and protecting them, because so many people. Are even afraid to say, I am behind Trump. They're afraid to say that."

That'll get you fewer dates in San Francisco.

Yeah. In Beverly Hills, too."

But my philosophy is easy, if you're that simple-minded or narrow-minded, I don't want to deal with you anyway. If you're going to reject a human being based upon who they vote for, say it. You're doing me a favor by not being around, but that's me again. Last question for you. You must see a lot of people in your practice who come in. And you used the word at the beginning of the interview with this tremendous anxiety, all right? Because nobody can tell the future, and now we're paying more money for everything, and people are having a hard time paying the bills, and they've got kids they gotta put through college, and yeah, it runs a gamut. Is there anything that you, as a counselor to these people, is there any relief that you can bring them at this moment in history when we're a divided country?

"Well, number one, the anxiety that I saw was at its peak during voting, during the election time. It seems to have leveled out now that the reality is here. And I'm, of course, in a more affluent neighborhood area, so, people are not as hit as hard with the financial burdens of what people are dealing with in the Midwest and in underprivileged areas, where they are suffering. So the answer is, of course, cutting back is, there are a lot of people that can't come back anymore, and that's very difficult. But being active, taking action is extremely helpful. And the other thing that's very helpful to people is self care, so active exercise, breathing exercises, healthy eating, good sleep, hygiene, going to sleep at the same time each night, waking up in the morning, talking to your kids, talking with your partner. Talking expels anxiety and causes a reduction in anxiety."

So in other words, you're creating normalcy, and the normalcy brings down the apprehension.

"Exactly. And the definition of anxiety is basically fear. It's higher levels of fear."

Right, and everybody's got it.

"We all do. We all do."

We don't want to lose what we have and on and on. Hey, doctor, very good discussion. We really appreciate you taking the time. If you ever return the favor, you let us know thank you. New poll by Atlas. Atlas Is the best polling outfit out of Brazil. We used them exclusively for, not exclusively, but they were our prime pollster for the presidential election of '24, and they were dead on. And so they came out with a poll about Marco Rubio, JD Vance. Alright, first question Provided that these are the candidates, who would you vote for if you are a Republican? Marco Rubio 45% JD Vance 30% the third is Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, 11%. Now that's a big spread, but you've gotta understand something. Rubio has been in the news, okay, a lot. And he comes across very well, in my opinion. And I didn't always hold that opinion. I was never negative on the Secretary of State. Always felt he was an honest man. I understand the culture in which he came from, down in Florida and his family had escaped Cuba. I understood all that. But boy, in my eyes, as an analyst, he's really risen. Now, JD Vance, what happened to him was he opposed the US action in Iran. Now, for Republicans, not, you know, everybody, that was kind of a shaky move. And so you haven't seen much of Vance. Vance is not going to China. Rubio is one of the main players over there. Now, Trump's not being nasty, I don't think. He's not icing Vance, he's just putting forth what he thinks is gonna work the best. So anyway, that was an interesting poll, and it was in question number two. Vance is going to be in Maine this week. Maine, with that nut running on a progressive level. So was there another question I wanted to get at? No, that's it for Atlas. And keep your eye on that. That's the best polling outfit, in my opinion.

So, here's a crazy story. Rod Stewart, I think he's 112, right? So I like him, okay. He's got some good songs. I don't know him, never met him. He signed a soccer ball for my kid, my son, when he was very little. That was nice of Rod to do that out in Caesar's Palace, where Miller and I sold out five executive shows. So he's on a receiving line at the Royal Albert Hall, Rod Stewart, and he comes across King Charles. Go.

When I first heard that, I said to my producers, check that out, that violates all protocol, calling a head of state a rat bag in front of the king. I mean, there are a lot of rules with the king, but apparently that's what Rod Stewart said. Why did he do it? He's got a concert tour coming up this summer. That's why I went, oh. Anyway, Rod, you don't know anything, okay? If you were sitting across from me, it would be embarrassing. Now I could go maybe Maggie Mae with you a few stances. You could not do anything with me. But that was uncalled for. Last night on the Kimmel, no, on the Colbert show, I can't tell them apart anymore. So Colbert brings in five talk show hosts, all of whom despise President Trump. This is on one show, he brings in 5 of them. Go.

"Did you guys, when you were younger, especially when you're starting out in comedy, did it ever occur to you that you'd be doing a job that the president of the United States would have strong feelings about?"

"No."

"No?"

"No."

"You know what's even weirder? We're doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about."

"Well, most of us have avoided that part."

"Yeah, yeah, that's true."

"Yeah. That's why you're at the end of the couch."

"It's amazing. It's an amazing thing to get in a group text. Just a text from Jimmy saying, oh, boy, and then a picture of Melania mad at him. You know? What a way to start the day."

"And then I sent a text to you guys, and I said, hey, don't be mad at me, but I liked it."

"I think she's got a point."

"We're all kind of happy when you get in trouble over there. And how do you feel when you wake up, and you see the attention?"

"The saddest part of it is I realized in those moments that the only four people who care are sitting right here."

Okay, harmless. Now, that's harmless right there, so that was a minute and seven seconds. Nothing wrong with that, but that's not what these guys do on a routine basis on their program. They hate Trump and anybody who associates with Trump, including Melania. That's the problem, gentlemen. Boy, I'd love to sit in the middle of that thing, huh? They wouldn't do it. We've asked Kimmel a couple of times, and he's turned us down. I'll see Fallon around, because he's got a home near me out in Long Island. I'm going to put the arm on him. All right, Smart Life, half of global consumers now use AI to guide investment decisions. Don't. I can't tell you, we have a Concierge service where you can write to me about anything you want, any problem you have, and we will try to help you. I gotta tell you 40% have to do with people taking their money and putting it on the internet or getting involved with AI or some kind of crazy thing where there's no human presence. They're getting screwed every single day. Don't do that. There are physical banks for a reason. The government has insurance to protect you. You've gotta read how much, and then if you're over, if you have too much, then you go to another bank. But I'm telling you, and when the letter comes in, what can I do? They don't know who they're dealing with on, they, the people who lost their money, they don't know who they're dealing with. They don't know. And this con is every single, I get them every single day. Oh, you have to contact the Apple office and pay this bill and oh, you'll have to do this. Gee, my God. Particularly older people, they're scared. So half now are doing this stuff. Don't do it. Smart life.

Smart Life 2. I got to go to Boston this week, and we're doing a special for NewsNation on heroes and villains in the Revolutionary War to run around the 4th of July, our 250th anniversary. Now, Boston from my house, it took me maybe 3:45 to drive up there, 3 hours 45 minutes. I'm not driving. I'm not giving these little gas companies my money. I'm getting on the dopey train, Amtrak, and I'm taking the train. I don't want to do that because it's a little more inconvenient than just to hop in my car and zip on up there, but I'm at. I'm giving them my money.

This Day in History, May 12, 1932, the body of the Lindbergh baby discovered. Okay, this was one of the worst crimes of the 20th century. 20-month-old. He's on the second floor of his home. Guy gets a ladder, climbs into the kid's bedroom, grabs him, and Charles Lindbergh, as you might know, was a big celebrity aviator, and then asks for $50,000 in ransom, which is a million dollars today. The press goes wild with it, everybody goes wild. So what happens is that they paid the ransom, the government provided the Lindberghs with gold certificates which had been out of circulation for a while, so anybody who had them was suspect. A few months later, actually more than a year later, yes, two years it took, a guy, Bruno Richard Hopman, is in the Bronx, New York. He passes one of these notes, a very alert businessman picks it up, calls the cops, they grab them. He killed that baby, this guy, on the day of the kidnapping. So he's tried, and he is executed in the electric chair. Can you imagine that 20 month old baby? And that happened 94 years ago today. I remember my parents talking about that. Okay, mail segment, lots of questions about the China trip and about Iran. And then we got a final thought that I think you'll enjoy, and we'll be right back.

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Josie Riverhead, New York. "I agree with you, O'Reilly, about the oil companies making profits. It's inexcusable. There's no reason other than greed to capitalize on a vulnerable situation. Shame on them. I do not understand if we have neutralized Iran's military capacity, why is the U.S. not opening the Strait of Hormuz with Navy escorts?" We are. We are, we escort ships through there every day. But the Iranians are over on the banks, on the sides of the strait, lobbing drones and things like that. Insurance companies aren't insuring the other ships. So that's a little complicated. But we're there, and we control it with our military power.

M.G., Concierge Member. "Bill, I concur with your statement that fuel prices in the USA should be addressed by President Trump. A free market guy also recognized that when dealing with oligarchs, it is necessary for the government to regulate them." So you and Teddy Roosevelt are on the same page. Okay, it can get out of control. BP making 100% profit in one quarter is out of control. I mean, I think I'm the only one reporting this. I don't think there's anybody else reporting it.

Alan. "The US has no possibility of defending Taiwan. Just look at the location. It's a few miles away from mainland China, half a world away from America. China will take it one way or another whenever it wants." If China does that, it'll be an economic boycott all over that country. They have to do it legally, they can't do it militarily. Plus, the Taiwanese will fight. They'll fight. And they are well armed, not like the Ukrainians. So it's not just walking on in there.

John. "I agree with you about insurance companies, but oil is a commodity traded on the world market. Nothing you can do about that, really." Of course there is. Why do you think they're releasing oil from our strategic reserves, John? If we couldn't do anything about the world market oil, why are we releasing our own oil? To get more oil into our marketplace so prices go down.

Judith. "Oil insurance companies aren't the only ones gouging we the people. Add grocery corporations to that list." Can't argue. Cannot argue with that. If they're going to capitalize, they'll capitalize. They don't care. I'm generalizing, but you know, I'm right.

Chad Coffee, Normal, Illinois. "I don't believe you're wrong when you say the pope is interested in promoting peace. What I think you are leaving out is that if the Iran conflict was being led by President Harris or Joe Biden or Barack Obama, the pope would have stayed silent." I don't believe that. I don't think he's a political player at all. He doesn't like the migrant thing, but he's not going to get involved with U.S. Politics.

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Okay, so I'll be on News Nation with Cuomo tonight. I'm usually on Wednesday, but we have to do other stuff tomorrow, so switch it over to tonight at 8 p.m., News Nation. Now, I've got some letters about Cuomo's shift changing, his point of view changing politically. And it has. He's become more skeptical of President Trump, and he was never a big fan to begin with. But in the beginning, now it's more intense. So it's going to be an interesting discussion tonight. But here's the advantage that Cuomo has. See, I'm not in business to bolster the Trump administration. That's not what I do. What I'm business to do is debunk untrue things said about President Trump or any other president. So there have been a slew of them. If you read my column, I mean, this Reuters outfit is outrageous. Absolutely outrageous what they're putting out there. And I, you know, I make the case, and nobody's challenged it. So tonight, I know that Mr. Cuomo is going to launch on Trump. I'm going to state facts and that's going to be a very interesting debate. So it's, I'm not going to say that Cuomo's a partisan, he's not MS, and those people in CNN, he's not there, but he doesn't like the way Trump is running the show. But I'm going to provide information that's unassailable. That is happening tonight, News Nation, 8 p.m. We hope you will check it out. And thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News this evening. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

O'Reilly & Mark Simone Look to the East

2026-05-12T20:31:00Z

Bill and Mark Simone analyze President Trump’s high stakes visit to China and Bill’s unofficial role as a diplomat. Bill predicts what will be at the very top of the agenda when Donald Trump sits down with Xi Jinping.

Is Trump's Polling Being Manipulated?

2026-05-12T18:25:00Z

John McLaughlin, pollster and CEO & partner at McLaughlin & Associates, argues Washington Post polls are misrepresenting Trump’s numbers.

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Is Trump's Presidency in Crisis? O'Reilly & Vittert Analyze

2026-05-12T17:07:00Z

Bill joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to discuss President Trump's trip to China, and Iran.

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China's Role in Dealing With Iran

2026-05-12T16:23:00Z

Bill breaks down his latest phone call with President Trump and explains that the U.S. needs China’s help with Iran.

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O'Reilly on Trump in China and a Criminal-Friendly Judge with 'Cats & Cosby'

2026-05-12T16:20:00Z

Bill talks with WABC’s Rita Cosby and John Catsimatidis about his Sunday conversation with Donald Trump in advance of the president’s crucial trip to China. Bill also identifies and denounces a judge whose leniency is literally costing lives.

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High Stakes in Play

2026-05-12T07:50:00Z

It’s complicated. That’s the cliche. But President Trump’s visit to China this week certainly is.

First, the Chinese could help end the Iran conflict because it buys so much oil from the Mullahs. If the communists purchase elsewhere, like the USA, Iran’s economy gets crushed.

But in order for Beijing to cooperate, it will want the Trump administration to stop protecting Taiwan. If the USA did that, the world would perceive America as weak.

Then there’s AI. China has been stealing US technology and doesn’t really care whether we like it or not. So how do we stop that? Extremely difficult.

You may remember I traveled to Beijing a year ago for a sit-down with high-ranking communists. The world is a much more chaotic place now than it was then.

Very high stakes in play. All loyal Americans should be hoping the talks this week go our way.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

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2026-05-12T02:53:00Z

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China's Role in Dealing With Iran, the Real Reason Oil Prices Are Rising & Is Trump's Polling Being Manipulated? John McLaughlin Weighs In

2026-05-11T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News from Monday, May 11th, 2026. Stand up for your country. I spoke with President Trump yesterday, Sunday, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So as you remember, I was in Beijing about a year ago, and I went there at the request of the Chinese government to talk about America-Chinese relationships, and I debriefed President Trump both coming and going. So now we're in another cycle, which is more complicated than it was one year ago. That's for sure. It is...I don't know if the word is complicated is... Underestimating is extremely difficult. So let me run it down. China needs America, no doubt about it, because China's economy is built on exports. People buy Chinese stuff in America and all over. And if the USA isn't buying Chinese stuff to the extent that it used to, then the Chinese economy is going to wobble. Got 1.5 billion people over there to feed. Okay, so they want a trade deal. What we want is help with Iran now. A year ago, it was with Putin. Okay, and now that situation in Ukraine has pretty much ground to a halt. We need help with Iran because they're totally irrational. Iran sells China an enormous amount of oil. If China did not buy that oil, Iran's economy, which is on the verge of collapse anyway, would go under.

So I expect, although the president did not tell me directly, that the offer will look, we'll take care of your oil needs, the USA. But you've got to get away from Iran, you can't be helping them out, and you've got to try to convince them to give up their nukes. Okay, it's not going to be easy because China is going to come back with, and I know this to be true, well, we'll do it, but you've gotta dump Taiwan. You can't be defending Taiwan anymore. Now, Taiwan is a very difficult situation, It's been going on since 1949, you can look it up if you'd like to, but the United States and pretty much every other free country does not want the Chinese taking over Taiwan. And if we allowed that, if we withdrew our support from Taiwan, we would look weak to the world, and China would proclaim a significant victory. They're not our friends, the Chinese, okay? So you see what we're doing here. All right, so President Trump's gonna be there on Thursday. And he knows, obviously knows, all of this stuff. And I don't know what they're going to do, what they're gonna offer, I'm not privy to that. As far as the gasoline is concerned. I'm going to tell you a shocking story in a few moments that, again, the president's going to have to think about.

Now, the final thing on the board, it's only two days. It's very hard to get anything done in two days, so this is like sets another meeting up. So not Thursday and Friday, they're not gonna be able to nail down a lot. It's AI. So China's stealing AI technology from the United States and everybody else. And China doesn't care whether you like it or not. What are we gonna do to them? They're just stealing it. And they did that with a whole bunch of other technology earlier on. If President Trump is under pressure to do something about it, I don't know what he can do about it. Other than arrest some Chinese people, swear out warrants for them, but it's a fairly big thing. And you have to keep in mind that the Chinese do not respect intellectual property at all. They're going to steal it if they can steal it. You also have to understand that we and China are not friends, they are our enemies, they are our rivals, but President Trump thinks he can make a deal with these people.

Okay. Now, the reason that I was on the phone with the President, and again, he called me, I don't call him, is because the Chinese want to talk to me before the President arrives in Beijing. It puts me in a very difficult position, and it's a unique position. I don't know of any other journalist ever who's had this kind of access. I have no access to the Iranians. But with China, plenty. So they, and they're so polite, I mean, it's amazing. So they ask, can we have a call with you? Well, I said, if the president okays it, then I'll do it because I love my country, and no harm. They're going to ask me questions. I'll answer them honestly, just like I'm talking to you right now, which the Chinese are watching. They watch us on YouTube. Okay. So, I got a message to President Trump yesterday, and I said look, the boys are back in town, they want to talk to me, what do you think? Because I don't want to interfere in what you're doing, and I don't know what you're doing. And he goes, No, you go ahead. So I got the imprimatur. And then afterward, if there's on the call, if there's anything that he should know, I'll get it to him. Because again, this is my job not only to report to you as a journalist, but to help my country if I can. This is a unique position that I am in, which is why I think you're watching and listening to me. Nobody has this kind of access. Nobody in the journalistic world. So, and if the Chinese go, this is off the record, I will honor that. I won't report it. But I have, but I'm going to go with the exception of President Trump, which is what I did last time. I said, I can't just have our conversation with you guys and not report back. I mean, come on, they understand. And that's the memo.

Now, the two big issues with Iran, and they're just playing games because they feel that this is hurting President Trump a lot. They don't want nuclear inspectors in there. That's number one. It's very simple. This is so simple. They don't want nuclear inspector. They say, oh, we'll move some of the uranium to other countries. That's a bunch of bull. They're going to keep that stuff buried as deep in the earth as they can keep it buried. Yeah, we're gonna...They’ll say, we'll do it, they don't do anything. We need those weapons inspectors in there and two, they want control of Hormuz, the Straits that come out of the Persian Gulf. It'd be insane to give them that. Nobody controls international waters. So they keep going back to that, and the mullahs know we're not gonna agree to it. So now, they'll probably get the hell kicked out of them next week. I don't think the president will do anything before he meets with Xi, the Chinese leader, but something's got to happen. Okay, now I have gotten, and I told you this, and I told you I'd look into it. I have looked into it. People go we have all this oil with self-sufficient oil. Why are our prices going up? When we have enough oil It's not supply and demand because we have enough supply to meet the demand in the United States. Well, the reason they're going up is that we sell an enormous amount of oil overseas American oil and here's a stat. Okay, the Energy Information Administration and we had to root this out here, eight million barrels a day of American petroleum products we send abroad. And that's what's suppressing, okay, the supply.

So the oil companies go, oh, well, you know, we don't have any, you get plenty. You're just making, you're selling it overseas so you can make more money and screwing the American people. We cited this last week, BP 100% profit in one quarter. Their profits increased 100 in one quarter. Well, who do you think's buying that stuff? Okay, so Today President Trump announced that he's going to stop the oil tax, the federal tax on oil. The Energy Information Administration says the sales overseas are at an all-time high. Sales of American petroleum product, all-time highs overseas. So they're going to suspend the gas tax, and that'll mean about three bucks, close to three bucks on a 15 gallon fill up that you'll get back. Now, whether the, there's a shift of hand or we don't regulate, we, the country don't regulate. This is a free marketplace. But I hope that the president is going to investigate these oil companies, because this is a national security issue. And under national security, you can go right in, just like they're investigating ABC and Jimmy Kimmel and The View. You can do the same thing with the oil companies. Just go in and go, what are you doing? National security, we've got all this problem, and you're selling all these products overseas to make more money?

Now, the one time in history this happened was Theodore Roosevelt. He clocked them, Rockefeller, oil, okay, Morgan, JP, and he won in the Supreme Court. They challenged him. And he broke those monopolies. Now, I don't know whether President Trump's going to do that or not. It requires an act of Congress that we suspend federal taxes on gasoline, Congress has to okay it but they will Okay, both parties will, because they don't want to go into the midterms and with no relief. And the money that it gets, the federal government gets, goes to repair roadways, transit products, on and on and on. Okay, so that's in play, and I'm going to watch it really closely to see how much relief that actually gives the American consumer. These oil companies, I'm telling you, man, they got everything that, oh, the next thing you're going to hear is, oh, our refinery capacity is, you know, we're having a lot of trouble on, you see. Okay, it's the new poll out. This is a Trump poll run by John McLaughlin, a buddy of ours. McLaughlin and Associates, 1,000 general election voters, people who have voted. Okay, first question, which of the following statements regarding President Trump and his policies comes closest? I approve of President Trump in his policies, 34. I disapprove of President Trump personally, but I like a lot of his policies, 15, so that brings you up to 49 on the policy. I disapprove of President Donald Trump and his policies, both his policies 46%. Okay, not a strong number, but not a catastrophe. Second question, agree or disagree the US military action against Iran, leadership of the Iranian regime, are necessary and warranted to protect American lives? Agree, 59, disagree, 32. You don't hear that in the mainstream media. Final question, if Iran were to develop and build a nuke, would they use it? Yes, 61, no, 20. You know, that's speculative. So joining us now from Blauvelt, New York, is John McLaughlin. So your poll is what they call an outlier. Washington Post poll just out. Totally different scenario than yours, but you say the Washington Post is not being straight up with the American people. How?

"Well, in that Washington Post poll, they did a poll of over 2,000 adults. They were not registered voters, not likely voters. There are people that responded to an Ipsos panel that get a buck or two to fill out the questionnaire, and they only have 29% Trump voters. 29. We got 50% of the popular vote."

You know, this is it. This is a key point, so 50% of Americans the last time around, '24, 50% voted for Donald Trump, but the Washington Post poll only has 29% Trump voters. That's what you're saying, right?

"Because they poll, they poll adults."

Now they have to know that.

"Yes."

But they ask the question...right.

"They do that on purpose."

Of course, they're putting out false data. They're stacking it out.

"Well, they want to turn public opinion against the president before the midterms.".

Sure.

"So, like our models are based on likely voters. People that say they're gonna vote in November, which is even different than 2024. But we have a point or two more of Trump voters in our surveys than Harris voters. And it matches up, ironically, we set it to the CNN exit polls. So it looks like a national sample, but when pollsters poll adults, and they only come out with 29 percent Trump voters, they have an agenda. And their agenda is to say that Trump's had a historic job approval lows and the Republicans are losing Congress by double digits."

All right, but they don't tell, when they release their poll, The Washington Post does not tell the public they are doing that, correct?

"Well, they put up the cross tabs that I could read it, but they don't tell the public when they run their headlines."

Well, no, it's way down on page 29 or something, right?

"It's in the internet, you gotta go find it."

You got, so you, you got to look at it. It's not what the Post has, right? All right. So the only conclusion, or a conclusion you could prove in a court of law, is that the Washington Post sets out to do polling that's gonna make Trump and the Republicans look bad. Correct?

"Our poll, the Republicans are losing the ballot for Congress by four points. But it's a closer race. And the president, we asked his job approval the way we did in the campaign. And you, by the way, you and I saw the president on 9-11 at Yankee Stadium, and the president said to me, my highest numbers ever, I said, no, your highest job approval was 57%, and your highest favorable was 51% on election day, because we ran a campaign. But when we saw him at Yankee Stadium that day, I said, you still have good numbers, those numbers were better. But this is how, the way we asked his job approval was to raise his favorables, to raise this popular vote. Now, they're in the government, they don't have the same campaign. It's not, and he's not on the ballot in November. So the Republicans have a lot of work to do, and President Trump, as you said, he's going to China, he's got Iran to deal with. He's doing the things that a president does, and the campaign needs to step it up behind it."

Now, when does your next poll come out?

"Oh, it'll be before Memorial Day. We'll do it, we do a monthly poll and we publish it. There's lots of polls we do every day, but we don't publish them all the time. We publish, we'll publish the monthly poll before Memorial Day."

In the next three weeks, there's gonna be a big change in what happens to this country because the Iranian thing can't, I mean, maybe it could, but I can't imagine. So something's gonna happen there. Something will happen with Xi and China. Now we have the federal relief on a gas tax. So just give us a heads up because we wanna have you back on the next polling now. Finally, you say that the Republicans right now, just across the board, in Congress, are running about four points behind the Democrats? Is that where they are?

"Correct. So they're even trailing President Trump's job approval, which, you know, I mean, they're at 43 percent, he's at 49. So the Republicans need to have a contrast election with the Democrats. Chuck Schumer's not popular, Hakeem Jeffries is not popular because their positions are unpopular. They're against voter ID, they for higher taxes, not lower taxes. And certainly, by the way, when you talk about backing up the brave men and women who are fighting the war with Iran to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, the Democrats want to invoke the War Powers Act and surrender, like they did in Afghanistan. I mean, at least President Trump's a commander-in-chief who plays to win, so the Democrats need to be held account. They need to be on the defense about their positions. Their positions are pretty radical and not and and not supported by the majority of Americans."

No, but if the economy gets worse and the expenses get higher for gas and food and things like that, and I noticed today that the United States is allowing more beef in to be imported in here, so obviously the Republicans and the Trump administration understands the danger that Americans will vote their wallet. Last word.

"Well, you're right. We need a growth package. Gotta win the war in Iran. We've got to have a growth package to keep the economy growing. Because President Trump, he's tried to grow the economy, but you have Chuck Schumer shutting the government down when he can. You have Jerome Powell keeping interest rates high. So they're putting sand in the engine because it's all about the midterms. And the Republicans need to wake up and play to win in the mid terms."

All right, John, thanks very much. As always, we'll talk to you in a few weeks when your new poll comes out. This is an outrageous story, and I wrote about it on my column, my Sunday column, on BillOReilly.com. It's free for everybody, you just go in. And the column is titled, So Help Me God, and it's about people lying, which is an epidemic in America. Everywhere. I mean, perjury is a joke. You go into court you destroy, you know, I swear to tell the whole truth, but no. And then you don't and it's proven you don't tell the whole truth, and you have lied. Nothing happens to you. Now the press leads the league in this. So Reuters news service put out an article last week. All right, and the article says Iran, this is the headline, no further from nuclear weapons than before the war. Okay, so all the bombing that Israel and the USA did, all the infrastructure decline, all of that, okay, knocking out their first administration, the Iranians. They haven't touched. The Iranian nuke situation is. This is Reuters, okay? And of course, the far left media, particularly MS, picks it up.

"Reuters reported that U.S. Intelligence assessments believe that this war has not impacted the timeline for how long it would take Iran to build a nuclear weapon at all. And Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio have all, of course, all justified this war by saying pretty much the exact opposite of that, by saying that this was necessary and successful because it has set back Iran's nuclear program."

Now the shocking part about this is not many media picked up this Reuters poll. I thought there was going to be tons of it. News Nation picked it up, Fox News picked it up, Japan Times, but not the networks, and not that many cables. They ignored it. Why do they ignore it? Because it's false. Two days later, the Wall Street Journal, citing a report from the Institute for Science and International Security, runs this headline. Quote, "US-Israeli strikes set back Iran's ability to build nuclear weapon." Exactly the opposite of what Reuters wrote. Exactly the opposite. It's just like John McLaughlin was saying, that the Reuters article was designed to undermine the campaign in Iran. But the Wall Street Journal, their data is actually taken from. The Reuters data is anonymous sources all throughout. One guy they quote at the end, who has no access to anybody, he's not in the government, he's nothing. All throughout, it's insane. So if you read my column, you'll see I cite all the crazy anonymous sources. Two days later, it's knocked out of the park. It's just really, and you know, I am down on a lot of my country people, used to be able to call them countrymen, you can't do that anymore, because they're lazy, and they're apathetic, and they don't know what's happening, they don't care to know, and that drives me nuts. But there is a large segment of Americans who want to know, and they can't get the information any longer. Because it's so dishonest in the media and the polling.

Netanyahu goes on 60 Minutes last night, and I knew this to be true. I mean, I don't get the whole anti-Semitic thing. Where I was raised in Levittown, a lot of Jews, Irish, Italian, Poles, we all got along. Okay? There was none of this BS, just none of it. And now, it's just, Israel is horrible. Jews are terrible people, all of that. It's almost like the Fourth Reich, all over the world, not just in America, all over the World. Here's Netanyahu's explanation. Go.

"You can say anything, because it's this, this is yours, right? You're not immune either, because you can penetrate this machine, you can penetrate this little instrument, and you can say about Major Garrett anything you want, and I can paint you as a monster, and if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it. I am not bemoaning this, I'm stating this as a fact."

I'm bemoaning it, okay, because it's true. People read his garbage over and over, and over again, and that's how it grows. Ten years ago, you didn't hear any of this anti-Semitic stuff. And now it's a movement within the Democratic Party, the progressive left. And people buy it because of these stupid machines.

CBS. A mess over there. They're gonna fire a Sharon Alfonsi. I don't know her. I mean, I'm assuming that Sharon is a left-wing soldier, but I don't know. I've seen in some of her reports. She's not Mike Wallace. Let's put it that way, but she's lawyered up, and they're kind of cleaning house over there at CBS. Putin he says the war in Ukraine may be coming to an end, number one. Okay, he looks like hell. Did you see him on the military parade honoring the end of World War II? The guy's bloated. He looks like he's on steroids. And maybe the Ukrainian war is coming. Well, I don't know, Vlad, you'd better get it over with because you've lost about 350,000 soldiers dead, Russian soldiers, in four years. Now, that number comes from the Ukrainians, so we cannot verify it. But they've lost a lot of people over there. And it's not going well, okay, for the Russians.

Okay, Smart Life. So many Americans are what I call conspiracy nuts. I hope you're not one of them. Usually, people who watch me aren't. They go to the conspiracy websites where everything is, you know, we didn't land on the moon, it was a movie studio, 18 guys killed JFK, yeah, you know the drill. Okay. So now a survey by YouGov, not reliable, all right, says that 25% of the American public believe the shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner was staged. 25 percent. Now, I was there, I saw everything as far as logistics are concerned, it was not staged. Now, that's a quarter of the population, believe it was, staged, based on what? Nothing. Some kook on the internet saying something, right? Now, this is a smart life segment. When I run into those kinds of people, I never debate them. I never try to persuade them, ever. I wrote a book, Killing Kennedy. You want to know what happened to JFK, you read the book. You don't want to, then live in a delusional world. That's it. Not my job to save people who are conspiracy thinkers.

This Day in History, May 11th, 2009, President Obama meets at the White House with CEOs of the healthcare industry who promised to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years. That would be 2019. Okay, and everybody was happy, and they're all toasting and got pictures taken, all of that. Okay. So did the healthcare industry cut $2 trillion off of healthcare for Americans? No. They didn't even come close. They didn't even try. And their excuse was, the industry's voluntary pledge was non-binding. So the cuts never happened. In fact, they're way more now than they were 17 years ago. There you go. Obama tried, it was just so screwed up. I remember grilling him about Obamacare, the computers didn't work, nothing worked. I said, come on, what is this? I was in an interview. All right, let's take a quick break, and we've got a lively mail segment and a final thought. Back in a moment.

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Angelo Di Donato, McComb, Michigan. "Hey Bill, you say the gas companies are gouging, it's true. Can our government impose a windfall tax on the oil companies?" Congress can. Congress is in charge of spending and taxing. That's called a budget. Do you think Congress is gonna do anything about this? You think they care we're all getting hosed? I don't.

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Brian. "I believe Marco Rubio is the most articulate member of the Trump cabinet, commands authority without being too aggressive." Secretary Rubio has really helped himself, no doubt about it.

Ralph, Concierge Member, that means Ralph has direct access to me. Ralph gets in trouble, gives me an email, we mobilize to help him. Check it out on BillOReilly.com. "So the people that are upset with gas prices think if Republicans are defeated, everything will go back to normal. Does anyone ask the Democrats what their plan is?" No. Democrats aren't big on plans.

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Okay. Final thought. I think this guest is gonna surprise you on Thursday for the Do It Live, the long-form that we do now every week. Do it live. We got Chazz Palminteri up there now. People are liking it. But the guest we have on Thursday, which I'll tell you about Wednesday, is political. Gonna surprise you. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Haven't done the interview yet. We're confident it will happen. Leland Vittert tonight, News Nation 9, Eastern time. I will be in the chair. I don't really know what Leland has on his mind. News Nation did buy that Reuters phony article. I might have to scold them for that. But I don't know what Leland, Leland's good, I like him because I really never know where he's going. And I like Cuomo because it's, you know, so opposite. His view of the world and my view of the world is so opposite, but he gives you a good idea of what the left, he's not a progressive kook, Chris Cuomo, but it is a liberal. Die hard liberal, and a lot of viewers don't, they don't know many liberals, and they don't t know what the thinking level is, so when I go on with him, that's what comes out when I go on with Vittert on Monday, I don't what's gonna happen. I assume they're gonna talk about the China trip, which is historical. You know, I'm talking to a lot of people about this, as you know, and I can't really...very, very hard.

Usually, I'm a guy who comes up and says, okay, A leads to B leads to C leads to D. But I know President Trump knows that as soon as the Iranian thing comes in, as we reported earlier, then Taiwan is gonna come in. You're the sitting president, and ever since World War II, America has protected the people who live on that island. I've been there. One of the worst places on earth. Why is it so bad, Taiwan? It's just packed with people, and they're all spitting. And I'm sorry if this is a comment that's derogatory. I don't mean it to be. It's like a baseball dugout in America. And it's like jam packed with people. And it was like, I stayed at a really nice hotel. But you know, me, I'm out and about and looking around. And then I went to the snake market in Taipei, where they kill a snake and drain the blood. And then guys pay a lot of money to drink the blood because it's viagra or something. Some crazy thing. I'm sitting there going... Oh, which way is Bermuda? See, that's all I wanted to hear. And I'm in Taipei. So I'm not a good spokesperson for Taiwan tourism, but those people do not deserve to be subjugated. And if an American president allows that subjugation, that's not gonna go over well. Most Americans don't care. But the world that would be perceived as a huge victory for the communists. So I got to deal with all that and this and that. But we'll have a good report tomorrow because I will have talked to the Chinese by then, by airtime tomorrow, we'll have talked to them, unless they cancel, they might. Thank you for watching and listening to The No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.

China's Role in Dealing With Iran, the Real Reason Oil Prices Are Rising & Is Trump's Polling Being Manipulated? John McLaughlin Weighs In

2026-05-11T22:00:00Z

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Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down his latest phone call with President Trump and explains that the U.S. needs China’s help with Iran.
New reports reveal Americans are paying more here because oil companies are selling their product abroad.
John McLaughlin, pollster and CEO & partner at McLaughlin & Associates, argues Washington Post polls are misrepresenting Trump’s numbers.
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Is the Ukraine war coming to an end soon? The latest on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Iran's Impact on Oil

2026-05-11T07:40:00Z

Big week for the USA as President Trump travels to China and the scoundrels in Iran decide on whether to accept a treaty or continue the madness.

China could very well stop the nuke situation because the Mullahs export so much oil to the communists that it can’t afford to alienate Beijing.

And while we’re on the oil trade topic, we have found out that American companies are selling so much product abroad, they will not moderate pricing here. Supply and demand with no restraint. The American consumer is competing with overseas buyers for gas. That’s why prices are so high for us.

BP doubled its profit in just one quarter, so the Iranian conflict is the Mardi Gras for them. It seems to me that the Trump administration should have a few words with these companies. This is wrong.

Also, harming we the people are Insurance companies that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV advertising. Guess who pays those bills? Regular folks, that’s who. Premiums are up significantly across the board. Another gouge.

I am a committed capitalist, but as Theodore Roosevelt found out, sometimes fairness has to be imposed!

This is one of those times.

See you later for the No Spin News.

So Help Me God

2026-05-10T07:00:00Z

In court, we are compelled to swear that the truth be told. If you lie, you commit a crime: perjury.

But few are concerned about perjury. Ask any attorney. You can fabricate all you want; nobody much cares.

The American people, generally speaking, also don’t care about truthful press reporting. CBS News is in open rebellion. So what? The View is under government scrutiny. Big deal. Fox News is facing another massive voting machine lawsuit. Yawn.

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We are a country that is being misled, conned, manipulated. What else is new?

Last week, the Reuters News Agency, generally hostile to the Trump Administration, released an article that said the USA launched the Iranian conflict when it didn’t have to. The piece said U.S. intelligence knew Iran wasn’t all that close to weaponizing uranium, so the attacks were unwarranted.

The Reuters headline reads: “Iran No Further from Nuclear Weapon than Before War.”

The reporting in the story is absurd. All anonymous sources. Here’s some wording:

- “According to three sources familiar with the matter.”

- “All of whom requested anonymity to discuss US intelligence.”

- “The unchanged estimates (on the nuke construction timeline) may also stem from a lack of major nuclear targets that can be readily and safely destroyed following last June’s military action, ACCORDING TO SOME ANALYSTS.

Some analysts? Who might those be? That lazy description is followed by “as far as we know,” “probably located,” and “it is possible.”

This Reuters reporting gives the word “shoddy” new meaning.

Nevertheless, it was picked up and peddled by the far left MS operation as well as NewsNation, and the Japan Times, among others. Surprisingly, the American corporate media stayed away from the journalistic malpractice even though it was apparently designed to hurt Trump.

And here’s the kicker: two days after the Reuters atrocity, The Wall Street Journal
reported the exact opposite Iran-nuke scenario.

The headline: “U.S., Israeli Strikes Set Back Iran’s Ability to Build Nuclear Weapon.”

The Journal cites a new report by the Institute for Science and International Security, quoting directly from it. No anonymous BS. The WSJ cites the scientific organization as saying six Iranian nuclear sites have been effectively bombed since the conflict began on February 28.

I guess Reuters missed ISIS’s report, the wire service being too busy tracking down those anonymous sources.

It doesn’t take Edward R. Murrow to figure out what Reuters is up to. And media falsehoods are aggressively protected by the First Amendment.

However, the giant takeaway is that “we the people” are now being routinely deceived on vital matters by an ideological and corrupt press. And many of us don’t even care.

No anonymity on that; you can quote me.

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Political Dishonesty and Culture in America

2026-05-08T22:00:00Z

Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News

2026-05-08T22:00:00Z

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The Democrats' Self-Sabotage

2026-05-08T17:15:00Z

The Afternoon Dispatch is written by BillOReilly.com staff.

Remember Christine O’Donnell? Hint: ‘I’m not a witch!’ Or Todd Akin? Another hint: ‘Legitimate rape.’ How about Roy Moore, accused of having ‘sexual contact’ with a 14-year-old. All three won their respective Republican nominations and ran for the United States Senate.

The predictable results: O’Donnell was trounced by Chris Coons by 17 points in Delaware. Akin lost to Claire McCaskill by 15 points in Missouri. Moore accomplished the near-impossible by falling to Democrat Doug Jones in crimson-red Alabama.

The Republicans nominated some very questionable candidates in the not-too-distant past, and it cost the party dearly. Even more recently, former football great Herschel Walker was thrown for a loss by Rafael Warnock in Georgia, and TV doc Mehmet Oz lost in Pennsylvania to John Fetterman, who at the time was recovering from a stroke. The point is that at times the GOP has sabotaged its chances of winning a larger majority in the Senate.

Well, now it may be the Democrats’ turn to self-immolate. Exhibit A, of course, is Graham Platner, running for the Senate in Maine against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. You know all about the now-disguised Nazi tattoo on his chest and his many excuses for that bizarre choice of ink. Less well known is what he said about rape victims, claiming they should ‘just take some responsibility.’

The always-charming Platner questioned why Black people don’t tip more in restaurants and wrote this pithy message: ‘F*** these cops.’ That’s in addition to his praise for the military genius of Hamas. But most Democrats are all in for Platner because he has a (D) behind his name. The Man With the Nazi Tattoo vanquished Maine’s Governor Janet Mills in the primary and will likely be the party’s standard-bearer in November. He has been raising money hand over fist and is always a most welcome and fawned-over guest on MS NOW.

To the west in Michigan, Democrats are likely to run another extremist. Abdul El-Sayed, heartily endorsed by Bernie Sanders and far-left lunatic Hasan Piker, has a slight lead in the Democratic primary. El-Sayed, striving to become the first Muslim elected to the Senate, is virulently anti-Israel and, of course, wants to abolish ICE. Those positions put him in the Democratic mainstream, but he is no moderate.

El-Sayed refused to celebrate the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei because many Muslims in the city of Dearborn were ‘sad.’ He also had no problem equating Iran’s fanatical mullahs with the MAGA movement. But many Democrats cherish El-Sayed for his fighting spirit, exemplified in a recent fiery speech. ‘When they go low,’ he said of Republicans, ‘we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out.’ That violent imagery is music to the ears of many Trump-haters.

Right now, the Republican Party is favored to maintain its majority in the Senate, but that obviously depends on the war in Iran and gas prices over the summer. The Democrats’ chances to eke out a majority may hinge on the unhinged Graham Platner winning in Maine.

But let us pose an interesting wild card possibility. This is what Senator John Fetterman said of his prospective colleague: ‘If Maine wants an a**hole with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, they get him.’ He added that he is ‘incredibly disappointed’ with his party. John Fetterman, despite being powerfully pro-Israel and in favor of the Iran war, has frequently maintained that he will remain a Democrat. But a victory by Graham Platner could change his mind and give the Republicans an additional seat, one occupied by a very large man in a hoodie.

The views expressed in the Afternoon Dispatch are those of BillOReilly.com staff.

No Agreement

2026-05-08T07:43:00Z

It doesn’t look like Secretary of State Rubio’s visit with the Pope accomplished much. Both men are sincere but travel different pathways; Rubio’s job is to protect Americans from evil doers, sometimes using force.

Pope Leo’s mandate is to persuade bad people to change their ways without using the hammer. The Pope also strongly believes in redemption.

Therefore, no agreement on fighting evil is likely to happen. The Trump administration has been successful in closing the southern border and confronting narcotics merchants using force. It hopes to use similar tactics to blunt Iran’s nuke quest.

It is difficult for Americans to turn the collective other cheek when danger is apparent. People of goodwill understand the Pope isn’t doing anything bad; he is simply preaching a non-violent theology.

Unfortunately, that rarely, if ever, works on the malevolent, and as with Hitler and his crew, brave nations must stop them, or mass violence will continue.

So, there’s the moral dilemma. It’s a big one.

O'Reilly & Katie Pavlich on Epstein's Note & Trump's Final Iran Proposal

2026-05-07T18:01:00Z

Bill joins NewsNation to discuss President Trump, Iran, and a recently uncovered suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein.

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O'Reilly & Sid Rosenberg on Trump's Biggest Challenge

2026-05-07T17:59:00Z

Bill joins WABC’s Sid Rosenberg and lays out exactly what Donald Trump must do if he is to claim victory in Iran. He also describes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a communist who will never change his stripes.

Killing Time with Chazz Palminteri

2026-05-07T16:00:00Z

O'REILLY When you look back at what you've accomplished, was there anything that you did in your career that you would not do again?

PALMINTERI I gotta tell you, Bill, you ask great questions.

O'REILLY Thank you.

PALMINTERI You do. And I've been interviewed thousands of times. Is there anything that I did that I would not do again? I remember when I, it was a stupid thing. When I wrote Bronx Tale in the very beginning, the first time I wrote it, and I started doing it, I used everybody's real name that was real. And then I got a phone call, I remember, that they heard that I was using these names. It's not a big thing, but they were like pretty upset by it. And they said, you have to change the names.

O'REILLY And you did?

PALMINTERI Immediately.

O'REILLY You did?

PALMINTERI I did. No, immediately.

O'REILLY Oh, okay.

PALMINTERI I changed him immediately. Immediately. And then they said, cool.

O'REILLY See, my view of you, and I don't know you that well, but we've been at Yankee games together and I couldn't have gotten closer to the stage for A Bronx Tale if I tried. I was just right there, because I wanted to see how Palminteri carried this one man show off. Because one man show...

PALMINTERI Toughest thing in the world.

O'REILLY Oh!

PALMINTERI Toughest.

O'REILLY Because you have to overlook every distraction, any cell phone that rings or anything.

PALMINTERI There's no there's no break you have to...if you're...

O'REILLY Locked in.

PALMINTERI You have to be locked in. If you're off for 10 seconds, the audience goes off.

O'REILLY And so I'm watching every everything, and that's what I always do for people who are successful. I know that you're a fair man, that your whole philosophy is based on fairness. You don't have any malice. You don't have that reputation in business. I wanted to get guys to say bad things about you. Shirripa almost punched me. He wouldn't say anything bad about you, nobody says anything bad about you because you're fair.

PALMINTERI I'm fair.

O'REILLY And that came from your parents and the neighborhood. I mean, that's what the code was. We get back, we started the interview with the code. The code was, you don't kick a guy literally when he's down.

PALMINTERI No.

O'REILLY You don't keep somebody in the head when somebody's laying on the ground.

PALMINTERI Right.

O'REILLY That code is gone now.

PALMINTERI Fairness means a lot to me. Be fair. You know, I don't want things for free because I'm a celebrity. Just be fair. Just don't rip me off. That's all I'm asking.

O'REILLY Or anybody else.

PALMINTERI Or anybody else. I don't like that. Somebody who lies and cheats. And again, I had a guy that worked for me for years once and I treated him great. I treated fantastic. His family, I bought his family things. I could bend over backwards, my wife and I. And then I found out he forged a check of mine. And I was like, well, why would you do that?

O'REILLY Did you ask him?

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY What did he say?

PALMINTERI He said he didn't do it, but I know he did.

O'REILLY So to the end, he...

PALMINTERI He just wouldn't cop to it. He wouldn't cop to it and I fired him.

O'REILLY Okay.

PALMINTERI But I couldn't understand why someone would do that, you know?

O'REILLY Right.

PALMINTERI It kind of hurt me. It took me like a little bit to get over that.

O'REILLY You never get over it, really.

PALMINTERI No, because it made me...

O'REILLY It's a matter of trust. It violated your trust.

PALMINTERI Violated my trust. All he had to do was ask me for the money.

O'REILLY Yeah, you would have given it to him.

PALMINTERI I would have give it to them. That's what I didn't understand. I still don't. I think about it and I go, why would he risk that, knowing how good I was to the family? I don't get it.

O'REILLY You know, the New York scene, you still live here a lot of it. I don't, I don't see you in Hollywood. No, do you ever live out there?

PALMINTERI Yeah, I did live in Hollywood. I did lived there from '86 to '91, maybe five years.

O'REILLY Yeah.

PALMINTERI I liked it.

O'REILLY Yeah. Out there in your black shirt on the Santa Monica Pier?

PALMINTERI Yeah. Well, you know what, I have to tell you, Bill, back then it was a lot nicer than it is now. It's 30 years ago, it was great, the weather was great. I came back because we were going to have children and my wife wanted to be close to her mother and I was coming back to do Bronx Tale with Robert De Niro and I said, okay, it's a good time to go back. That's why we went back.

O'REILLY But you are ingrained New Yorker, right?

PALMINTERI Yeah, I'm in New Yorker, yeah.

O'REILLY Because there's a fleet of guys around New York, Buscemi, you mentioned.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Okay. Shirripa.

PALMINTERI Shirripa.

O'REILLY These are guys that there's old school guys.

PALMINTERI Oh yeah, those are the guys, you know, there's Bob De Niro, there's Joe Pesci, there is Chris Walken, Harvey Keitel, all of us, we're New Yorkers, yes.

O'REILLY But you're all crazy. Do you ever think about that? You're all insane.

PALMINTERI Yes. I think you have to be a little off to do that. I mean, nobody wants to pay $400 or $500 a ticket to see a normal person on Broadway. They want to see somebody who's different.

O'REILLY Volatile. You could do anything at any time.

PALMINTERI Anything. That's what it makes a great actor.

O'REILLY And that's would that when I had dinner with Pacino, that's when you got off him.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY I didn't know whether I was gonna get Attica and on a table, or he was gonna do this and I had done it with Warren Beatty now I'm dropping names all over the place.

PALMINTERI That's all right.

O'REILLY But it was opposite It was opposite. Yeah. It was Opposite and you could see it. Okay So he got, you know, one icon, Pacino, who, no idea, and believe me, I grilled him about the Godfather. And then I talked politics with Beatty, a very left-wing guy. But I knew Beatty was under control, that he wasn't going to mess up a salad no matter what. With Pacino I might have got the salad on me. And that's the difference between New York which is all emotion, and LA, which is all calculation.

PALMINTERI Boy, do I got a story to tell you about that, but I won't say it on the...

O'REILLY Oh, come on.

PALMINTERI Nah, nah.

O'REILLY You don't even have to use the right name. I'll know it.

PALMINTERI Ah, no, yeah, well, he passed away. I did a movie where I wrote, and I hired a director myself, but I hired him with Bob, and we did the movie. And we had a tough time, very tough time with the director. And he just was so headstrong. He wouldn't listen, he wouldn't take my advice, he wouldn't take De Niro's advice. A great director. I mean, great director. Academy Award-winning director.

O'REILLY This isn't a Bronx Tale, is it?

PALMINTERI Oh, no, no.

O'REILLY It's another movie.

PALMINTERI This is another movie I wrote. And in the end, the movie came out, and it did okay. It's doing well now. Now people really like it. But at the time, it didn't do that well.

O'REILLY Come on, tell me the name of the movie, you can do that.

PALMINTERI Well, the move was Faithful.

O'REILLY Faithful?

PALMINTERI Faithful, F-A-I-T-H-F-U-L, Faithful.

O'REILLY Okay, and the guy's dead now?

PALMINTERI The director, yes. And a great director, let me say that for the record, a great director. And I was at a party, and I don't know if this is bad, but I know when you told me the story, I went, damn Bill, you're so on the money. And Warren Beatty came over to me, because Warren was a very good friend of his. And he said, hey, hey Chazz, how you doing? I said, Hey Warren, how are you doing, we start talking. And he says, what ever happened with your movie? How did that all happen? Because he knew there was trouble on the set. So I told him, and he looked at me and he went, thanks.

O'REILLY That was it.

PALMINTERI That was it.

O'REILLY Right.

PALMINTERI And I was just like, damn. That was calculated. And I don't know Warren, I hear he's a great guy. But the man just looked at me, got the info and went...

O'REILLY That's it.

PALMINTERI Thanks.

O'REILLY Right.

PALMINTERI All right. I have my answer, boom. But I was like...

O'REILLY They're compartmentalized out there and I'm generalizing now.

PALMINTERI And I was, like, gee, Warren.

O'REILLY So there is a huge difference. It's like the L.A. Dodgers and the Yankees.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Okay, so Dodgers are mercenaries, they're out there. They come to the games.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY They so what they do. The Yankees have got a... They're looking back at Mickey Manil. They're looking back at Joe DiMaggio. Dodgers ain't lookin' at anybody but the nice-lookin' woman in the third row, okay? It's a big, big gulf that people don't understand.

PALMINTERI People yeah, I'll never forget that it was like... And I wanted to talk to you about Korea. I couldn't wait to talk you about life, about...

O'REILLY But he's gone.

PALMINTERI He was gone and I was so disappointed because I wanted her to speak to him about shampoo. He's made some of the great movies.

O'REILLY Bonnie and Clyde.

PALMINTERI Bonnie and Clyde, Splendor in the Grass.

O'REILLY Yeah.

PALMINTERI I couldn't wait to talked him and he just kind of just said, okay. Thanks. And I was like, wow.

O'REILLY I'll try to set that up.

PALMINTERI I would love to talk to him about that.

O'REILLY Yeah, he doesn't want anything to do with me, but if I say, Hey, Warren, I'm coming over unless you talk to Chazz.

PALMINTERI I was such a fan of his, you know, I really was.

O'REILLY Don't take it personally.

PALMINTERI I got hurt. Like I went, damn.

O'REILLY No, no, no. No, Warren's never going to be from the neighborhood.

PALMINTERI Yeah, I guess so.

O'REILLY Never. Warren lives in his own neighborhood and there's only one person in it. Warren.

PALMINTERI Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. I'd like to ask you a question, but maybe we'll do it off the air.

O'REILLY No, you can do it if you want.

PALMINTERI I this this is a question and maybe you could just tell me, Bill. Why is it... Why is it that the left, especially the academia, hates the right, capitalism, the billionaires, so much? And I say to myself, okay, because I try to read and learn about it. And I go, well, capitalism, because I love to learn, I want to learn. And it's like, if you look at Dale Carnegie, Rockefeller, I mean, they did some horrible things, but capitalism builds things. The railroads, they build things. Without that rockets, who knows? Academia doesn't build anything. They have ideas. And in their ideas, it's almost like they're jealous of people who build things. Why is it that it's always capitalism against academia? I never get academia who's a capitalist.

O'REILLY Well, number one, you're a beneficiary of capitalism.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Because you created something that people want to see. And they have rewarded you financially.

PALMINTERI Right.

O'REILLY Very simple. Number two, for some convoluted reason, many academics, and I attended Harvard, as you may know, okay. Believe that you couldn't have done what you did. In fact, Obama said this to me, without the government. Are you blanking kidding me?

PALMINTERI But that's not true.

O'REILLY Of course not, but he believes it and so do his acolytes in The academic circles many many many of them, that... Okay, slaves and Native Americans with the land and everybody who got hosed in our country...

PALMINTERI Right.

O'REILLY Contributed to Palminteri and O'Reilly living large. And they don't like it. That's the answer to your question.

PALMINTERI You know, and I voted for Obama, and he did, look, he did some things, he started at least caring about the Obamacare, worrying about other people, and I respect that. He did start that.

O'REILLY He wasn't a bad president.

PALMINTERI No, and, I respect that, but I, no, I'm sorry, the government didn't make me do anything.

O'REILLY No.

PALMINTERI No, I'm sorry.

O'REILLY Right, and the same thing.

PALMINTERI No.

O'REILLY Just get out of our way.

PALMINTERI Just get out of the way and leave me alone.

O'REILLY Right.

PALMINTERI No, no.

O'REILLY Chazz Palminteri. Thank you very much for taking the time.

PALMINTERI Thank you.

O'REILLY It was a great discussion and we really appreciate it.

PALMINTERI Thanks a lot.

Killing Time with Chazz Palminteri

2026-05-07T16:00:00Z

Bill talks to Chazz Palminteri about Hollywood, politics, and living in New York.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Chazz Palminteri

2026-05-07T16:00:00Z

PALMINTERI Bush lied, nothing happens, Hillary lied, nothing happens. Everybody lies, nobody goes to jail. That's a lie.

O'REILLY So that keeps your Italian up.

PALMINTERI That gets my Italian up.

O'REILLY Am I allowed to say that?

PALMINTERI Yeah, you are allowed. Black and white is white. Two and two are four. Can I curse? I gotta be careful here. I gotta get fired up.

O'REILLY Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to We'll Do It Live, our long-form podcast. So a friend of mine agreed to do the program, and a lot of my friends won't do the program because they know how obnoxious I am, and so they won't do it. But Chazz Palminteri and I have been friends for about a decade, and we have a lot in common, which you wouldn't think. I mean, you get the Irish guy, get the Italian guy, got Bronx Chazz, and a Levittown O'Reilly. But we're both baby boomers. Both came up under the same kind of family situation, whereas Chazz's father was a bus driver. My father's a low-level accountant. We didn't have a lot of money. We had used cars. My parents couldn't get rid of me, go out, go play, be back when the streetlights are on. But it was the kid world, it was not the parent world. And Chazz, you're up a lot of the same way. Now, this is an amazing stat. He has had a play called A Bronx Tale. 37 years, that play has been viable. And here he is. I can't believe this play is 37 years, of course, there was a movie with you and De Niro.

PALMINTERI Yeah, it was a play first, then a movie.

O'REILLY Right, and now you're going to London to do it. Yes, and you've got what, 19 shows coming up or something?

PALMINTERI I got 19 shows coming up in the United States, and then I decided to do it at the West End. I sold out at the Leicester Square Theater on the West End. I sold out June 6th in 24 hours. Then I'll be in Portugal at the St. George Theater June 10th. And I sold it out there.

O'REILLY So it's a universal thing.

PALMINTERI It's amazing, Bill. I really mean it. I'm so humbled by it. I really am. You know, it was a big hit as a play, a big hit as a musical, a big hit as a movie, and it just rolls. The musical is still running out of town. It just rolls on.

O'REILLY And I don't really understand why somebody in Leicester Square would wanna know about the Bronx, who would wanna know about the ethnic upbringing of an American working class in the Bronx, but they want to know.

PALMINTERI It's been a brand for me, it's my brand that's been there for 37 years. And people just can't get enough of it. It is like, you don't just see it once. People see it 10, 20, 30 times. I think it just, it says something. It says something about the way America, I think, I could be romanticizing, used to be. Father, son, mother, values. It's really, really...You see, it doesn't make, where, where Goodfellas was one of the great movies of all time, that was about black and white. My play is about gray and gray. Sonny is telling the boy exactly the same things as the father.

O'REILLY And he's the mob guy.

PALMINTERI But he's a mob guy, but he's saying, stay in school, make something out of yourself. Don't be like these jerk-offs around here. You know, do something with your life. Don't do what I do. And so it's so weird, and so, it's like the essence of you have to navigate with him how do you tell what's good and what's bad? Sometimes it looks good, but it's a little, like my father was the salt of the earth. But if he thought his son was dating a black woman, he would have been upset by that. Not because he was prejudiced, because my father also was a trainer and he had black fighters. It was because he looked at me and said, I don't want this kid to go through this. In this neighborhood, where Sonny, you would think he was prejudiced, he wasn't.

O'REILLY But your father could have been a mob guy. Anybody in the Bronx could have been a mob guy.

PALMINTERI My dad was just always so sweet and humble. Me, I could have been. Absolutely. No question I could've been.

O'REILLY Okay, but your father, who came, obviously, before you, chose to be a working person and to forgo the easy money of shaking people down and doing what the mob did.

PALMINTERI More than that, Bill, he was offered $150 in 1960, $150 was a lot of money. Our rent was $38 a month. And all he had to do was pick up numbers. A guy was going to hand them a slip of paper on one bus stop. He was gonna go to the end, the last stop, and hand it to another guy. That's all he had to for $150. He would not do it.

O'REILLY Did he ever explain to you why?

PALMINTERI Well, yeah, when I got older, he explained to me, he said, because once they get their hooks in you, that's it. He says, if you're gonna say no, you have to say no from the beginning. He says the worst thing to do with wise guys is say yes, do it for a while, then say no. Can't do that.

O'REILLY No, they don't like that.

PALMINTERI They don't like that.

O'REILLY So you mentioned that it was a different era, a different country, you know, the United States coming off World War II, you're a baby boomer, so am I. And we lived according to a code. And you're Catholic.

PALMINTERI Yes, I am.

O'REILLY Okay. And the code was, you don't lie, particularly to your friends. I mean, I lied to my parents. That was big, that was huge.

PALMINTERI So did I, yeah.

O'REILLY And you're loyal.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Almost to a criminal extent, look the other way, if your friends are in trouble. You're not a rat.

PALMINTERI You're no rat.

O'REILLY And it was a simpler way of life because there was a code, particularly here in New York.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Where you were, and I was. And that code is gone.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY So the question then becomes, and you have to keep it, and you mentioned it, the African-American experience as well. Was it a better country post-World War II, when you and I were kids coming up, than it is now?

PALMINTERI Well, no one's ever asked me that question like you just did. Was it a better country? I think, I don't know if it was a better country because I still believe we're the greatest country in the world. Was America as a whole in a better space? You know, there was really bad racism back then. That I have to say. So, I can't say it was better. But I say it was less out in the open, the problems. I mean, the racism in the 50s and 60s was pretty bad, so I wouldn't want to have that again. But in some ways it was better, in some ways it's not.

O'REILLY I think that's a fair answer.

PALMINTERI I think so, yes.

O'REILLY That we are a country even today that's struggling to do the right thing about certain social problems that are very, very difficult, and people see things a different way. I mean, look, you and I in a million years would never have voted for Mamdani.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY In a million years.

PALMINTERI Never. No.

O'REILLY Okay, because our experience is you're self-reliant, you make it on your own.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Okay. You go into the arena, you fight the fight, and you come out either bloodied or successful.

PALMINTERI I think that's what makes, that's what made America great, is that you had to do, you can do it, but you gotta do it, you know, the old cliche, pick up yourself by your bootstraps and do it. The greatest gift my parents ever gave me was poverty. They gave me so much love, but they didn't have money. So to me, I was like, you know, my age now, I still work as hard as ever.

O'REILLY But you don't work for money, though?

PALMINTERI No.

O'REILLY I mean, you're an artist. I saw you in the Bronx Tale. It's amazing how your delivery is flawless. I don't work for money either, but I understand what you're saying. It was, look, we're poor, so what? We'll work so we're not.

PALMINTERI Exactly.

O'REILLY And we'll have a different circumstance. The Italian thing. So you haven't come under a lot of scrutiny, I came a little bit before you with Columbo and those guys, real big-time mobsters, that objected to actors and people like you portraying Italians as gangsters.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY What do you feel about?

PALMINTERI Well, you know what, Columbo was a gangster and a very big gangster and a very tough gangster. So you know, if you're going to walk the walk, you know, talk the talk, you've got to walk to walk. Columbo used that. Look, was he a proud Italian? Yes, but he was also a gangster at the same time. So I don't want to hear Columbo tell me, we weren't gangsters. Now, but can you tell me that I can't play a gangster in a movie? People hated the Sopranos. I said, why did you hate the soprano? The Sopranos, to me, was a great, great television series. Why do you hate it? Makes Italians look bad. But if you want to talk about art, you have to have drama. Drama, at its core, is good versus evil. That's it. That's what drama is, to show the good, you have to show the evil. It's very simple. Otherwise, you know, do a documentary about the beauty of being Italian. That's fine, you could do that. But basically, nobody's going to tune into it. A lot of people won't tune into it.

O'REILLY Well, the tenors might get some people. But the truth is that in the New York area, organized crime is dominated by Italians.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY And there's a history to it. I wrote about it in Killing the Mob.

PALMINTERI No question.

O'REILLY Now, when you were making a film with Robert De Niro, a very explosive guy, brilliant actor, no doubt about it, did you guys ever come up against each other politically? Because he's so left.

PALMINTERI No, no, not at all. I never talked politics with Bob, ever. Never. No, I believe in everyone has the right to be whatever they want. You know, I'm an independent, you know, I each election I decide who I want to vote for, but never once, even till this day, never once do I ever talk politics with Bob. I respect Bob to the ultimate high heavens. He's an artist.

O'REILLY And he didn't start with you.

PALMINTERI Never, ever, we've never done that. We'll, yeah, never, ever. He's one of my dear friends, and I love him to death, and we'd never talk about that.

O'REILLY Now, Woody Allen, I know a little bit, and obviously, he's had a very controversial life.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Any inkling of that when you were working with him?

PALMINTERI No, but if you, the movie I did... I don't know anything about Woody's personal life at all. As an artist, he's like, to me, like Charlie Chaplin. He will be looked at many years from now like that. His personal life, yeah, I mean, you know, probably could have made better choices. He, to me, he's, but you could see in his art, when I did Bullets Over Broadway, about each artist creates his own moral universe. If you listen to the dialogue in that, and it was almost like him speaking, you know, to me. But I never spoke with him about his personal life because that's his. And I don't know right or wrong what happened, but I know as an artist, he is truly one of the greatest that ever lived.

O'REILLY Feel sorry for him when he got into that trouble?

PALMINTERI Yeah, I did. I did because, you know, I don't know who said it, it was in the Bible, but they said, your good deeds are written in water, and your bad deeds are in stone. And it's amazing, it's like Joe Paterno, who had 50 years at Penn State. And then, because of a misjudgment of not telling his friend that he should, informing the authorities on his friend. All the good deeds he did, gone. Bill Cosby, all the good deeds, gone. Temple University, taking down his statues. All these people that did so much in their whole life, their legacy, gone. That breaks my heart. It really does. I see that, and I go, my God, 50 years. Bill Cosby was America's dad. He was loved by the world. That's fascinating to me, Bill. It really is.

O'REILLY It's the kind of culture, judgmental place America is. I mean, you form these judgments a lot of times without due process, a lot of times on false information.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Not in the case that we're talking about, but as a human being, you go, whoa, their whole life evaporates right before their eyes.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY I know. And it's something and nobody is spared from it if you get involved with this kind of stuff. Now, if you had to do it over again, because I know your kids are enacting now, right?

PALMINTERI Yes.

Okay. See, showbiz is kind of, to me, and I'm just on the periphery of it, I'm not sure I want to put my kids through it. The rejection level is unbelievable.

PALMINTERI Unbelievable, it really is. And I said to them, because they grew up in the business, and my wife had them performing when they were very young, and she said, well, let's see if they like it. They both loved it, they both kept it up. They went to great schools. I said, look, if you want to do this, you gotta get into a great college, and you gotta study and work hard and graduate. Otherwise, don't even talk to me about this. And they both did. My daughter went to the University of Michigan, my son went to the Berkeley School of Music and Art in Boston. They both graduated, and they're both working hard. And they're struggling, absolutely. But they see, I said to them, no is always the answer you're gonna get. But think of it this way. If I told you right now that you're going to get 100 nos, but the 101st is gonna be a yes, how would you feel? And then you just got a no. They would go, well, I would feel, all right, 99 more nos. That's how you gotta look at it. That's how you've gotta look at it.

O'REILLY One of the advantages that you've had in your career is that you work with an amazing amount of talent.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY And even on a show like Blue Bloods, you know, the segment with you and Selleck, okay, where you're his buddy from the neighborhood.

PALMINTERI Right.

O'REILLY Interesting, they ripped that off from you.

PALMINTERI Whatever, yeah.

O’REILLY And he's the police commissioner. But there's something about those scenes, you know? Now, when the audience is paying attention to them, they go, this is a little bit elevated here. These two guys, they know what they're doing.

PALMINTERI Yeah, well, he's a great, but you know, Selleck is a real pro, a great actor, you know? And I like being with someone like that. It's great to play. You know, I love playing. I would like to play basketball with Michael Jordan, you know, because people just elevate you. Not that I could ever be even the same...

O'REILLY No, I know, you just wanna be around.

PALMINTERI I wanna be around greatness. I wanna play, I have a very, you know, I have a lot of confidence, probably too much for my own good, as my son would say. But I wanna be with the greatest actors. I'm not worried about me. I know I can hold my own, and that's how I feel.

O'REILLY So you're not intimidated at all? You walk into these people... And Gandolfini and he was an intimidating guy.

PALMINTERI Yeah, yeah, he was, but no, no. I mean, look, my first movie was, to me, the greatest act of my generation, and that was Robert De Niro. And I wasn't intimidated at all. And I think Bob appreciated that because if I was intimidated, then, well, he wouldn't want to work with me. That wouldn't have been good, you know? I just felt like I belong here at this moment in time. And I didn't feel, did I feel intimidated? I remember the first time I read with him. I was over at the apartment, and he said to me, he goes, why don't we just read the dialogue, you and I? And I went, sure. And we read the dialogue, and he says, ah, that's great. All right, I'll see you tomorrow. And then I left, and I got in the elevator, and then it hit me when I was in the elevator, as I was going down, I went, I just acted with Robert De Niro. And I went damn. I went, wow.

O'REILLY It's impressive, sure.

PALMINTERI Yeah, I remember I said that, yeah. I mean, he's... He's one of the greats, you know.

O'REILLY Is there ever any one-upsmanship? When you get great athletes together, they try to, you know, outdo the other, things like that. I mean, I certainly am guilty about that. I want to be the best in the world. And if I see somebody, you know, I want to go up against them, see what you've got. Is there any one-upsmanship when you're doing scenes with these legendary people?

PALMINTERI Well, I was doing a play with Al Pacino in New York, and it was out, and in this one scene, the play was The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uy. It's a Brecht play, and Al was the main character. I was his partner, Roman, and then there was John Cusack and Steve Buscemi, me and Al, the four of us on stage, and Steve Buscemi had this monologue. He does a monologue, we all do a monologue, and he did a monologue, and you could tell, the audience, I mean the audience had Paul McCarthy in it, I mean it was like Harrison Ford, and he's just ripping it up. And then John Goodman, another incredible actor, he takes it to another level, and I was like, oh damn, I'm next. You could just feel it, that this night was different. But I had an advantage, because I was allowed to where they had to stay in place. So then I go, and I am going back and forth. I'm ripping it up. I'm doing, we all improved a little bit as far as doing things. And I ripped it up even at the next level. And in my mind, I'm going, where's Al gonna go with this one? And Al just starts, and Al's tearing it up, and he stands up on the throne, and he does the last half standing up on a throne. And I just looked at him, and I'll never forget, I went, son of a bitch. Look at that, in my mind, watching him do that. And he was, you know, for people who don't know Al Pacino, they know him on film, but to see Al on stage is something else, man.

O'REILLY He commands the audience. And that brings me to the Godfather, which is now in the culture as the defining look at from the outside.

PALMINTERI Right

O'REILLY Of course, organized crime.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Now, what do you think about that whole project?

PALMINTERI About The Godfather?

O'REILLY Yeah.

PALMINTERI Oh, to me, it's probably one of the greatest movies, my top five greatest movies ever made. I mean, Godfather I and II, which is very rare to get a sequel as good as the first, and maybe even better, maybe. It was brilliant, yeah.

O'REILLY Do you know Coppola?

PALMINTERI I met him a bunch of times. I met him like two or three times. I don't know him. I can't say I know him, but I met him, and he's always very cordial to me.

O'REILLY Because all of these characters were perfectly cast, that's what made the film.

PALMINTERI Yeah!

O'REILLY I mean, every one of them from Fredo on to, you know, Tom Hagen, Robert DuVal. I mean, it was perfect after perfect, after perfect.

PALMINTERI Yeah, they wanted Robert Redford, you know, for the part of Michael, and then they wanted Ryan O'Neill, because he just came off Love Story, and Coppola refused. He said no.

O'REILLY No, that would not have made it.

PALMINTERI You know, I always wonder, I wonder what it would, because it's such a great movie, what would it have been like if they did it? I don't know.

O'REILLY Too waspy.

PALMINTERI Too waspy!

O'REILLY Yeah, you can't have the wasps in there.

PALMINTERI Yeah, Al told me he was getting fired, right from Al's mouth. He said, until I did the scene in the restaurant where I kill Salazzo and the cop, when they saw that, they went, Okay, he can stay.

O'REILLY Now, after the Godfather, that's when a lot of the anti-Italian stuff rushes, right? Were you involved with any of that?

PALMINTERI No, I was not, no.

O'REILLY Stayed out of it?

PALMINTERI No, I mean, I wasn't famous then. I was still a young actor in New York. No, I wasn't t involved in that at all. You know, I just, you know, don't get me wrong. Do we get known as the mafia a lot? Yes. But you know what? I'm proud of my heritage. I'm proud of what the Italian Americans did. And I always fight against it. You know, they told me not to do the documentary for Columbus. And they asked me to be the voice of the narration. And I did it, because I'm proud of the Italians. And I thought we should do it, you know? That was my opinion.

O'REILLY And you got really angry about Mother Cabrini.

PALMINTERI Well, Mother Cabrini, I hit the ceiling. I hit the ceiling on Mother Cabrini.

O'REILLY Yeah, I got to set it up. It was that Bill de Blasio, probably the worst mayor, we have to give Mamdani a little time on that, but she objected to New York City honoring Mother Cabrini.

PALMINTERI Yeah, but they came up with the rules, she did. She said, let's have a vote for all the women. She said it, his wife, let us have a vote for the women, and we're gonna put seven statutes up for all of the women, and let's see who comes in first. Mother Cabrini comes in 1st, triple more than anyone, anyone. She goes, well, we'll put Mother Cabrini on the next round, which means it ain't happening. I know that. So, they asked me my opinion. And I thought it was wrong. I said, if anything, it was biased. I mean, I'm sorry, that's wrong, you can't do that. She won the vote. Sure, does Billie Holiday deserve it? Rosa Parks, absolutely. Great American women. Billie, yes, but Mother Cabrini won. She can't go in, is that a problem here? So she refused to do it. I hit the ceiling, so I started speaking out. Bill de Blasio said, you called my wife, he said, Chazz Palmiteri called my wife a racist, so he was on the radio once. It was front page news, front page daily news. Front page. And I called up, and he said did you, and they put me through, I couldn't believe it. Because he was in the air with people, the mayor. And he said yeah, put him through. He goes, Chazz Palmatieri, did you call my wife a racist? I went, yes, I did. Silence on the phone. Then I thought, everybody's hearing this. I said yes, I said at least it was explicit bias. I said she won, mayor. She won, why wouldn't you put up a statue for her? She's going to be on the next round. I go, why? Why? She...triple the vote.

O'REILLY Oh, it was skin color, I mean, you know.

PALMINTERI Of course it was!

O'REILLY Everybody knew it.

PALMINTERI And that's not fair.

O'REILLY That's true.

PALMINTERI That's not fair.

O'REILLY Do you believe, though, that African Americans are owed a debt by this country?

PALMINTERI You mean reparations?

O'REILLY Yeah, that and preferential treatment, like Billie Holiday over Mother Cabrini.

PALMINTERI That I don't like, no. Do I... Look, I mean, if we've got to be honest, we've got to be. On I try to do everything I can for civil rights. I really do. I write all my movies. That's why I wrote the story in the Bronx. That's me. I would date black girls in the '68. That's true. And I love when people go, that would never happen. I go, well, I'm closure. That's my name. It did happen. So I wanted to put that in to show how racism affected me and affected that time, how people were racist. That was important to me, because I wasn't. My father had black fighters that he trained, and they would come up the house in my building on 187th Street, and people would go, hey, Lorenzo, what are you doing? What's going on with this guy? My father said he's one of my fighters. Leave him alone. So my father was always like, you know, and I grew up, hey, my father would get off out of his seat, a black woman in a bus, pick her bags up. He would do that white or black. So I never grew up racist. So to me, anything I can do would help. But getting back to your question, I didn't dodge it. I want you to know that, you know, a lot of people go, hey, you know, it's like, it's really, you know, the black people and Hispanic and Chinese are getting a really, a leg up on even white people. And my two kids are in the business, and they lost parts to a different color. And I say to them, it's okay. I said, it okay, you just keep hanging in there. And it's okay. And I look at it this way, you know, we had a leg on them for a long time. So it's okay that they have a little advantage on us now. I'm all right with that. I really am. I'm okay with that, but I just want the best person to get the part.

O'REILLY Well, you said something a moment ago that it's not fair. The DEI stuff isn't fair.

PALMINTERI I don't think it's fair. No.

O'REILLY It isn't fair.

PALMINTERI It isn't fair.

O'REILLY Because you're choosing someone on the basis of their skin color. Martin Luther King didn't want you to do that.

PALMINTERI That was the essence of what he said.

O'REILLY Right, right.

PALMINTERI Martin Luther King.

O'REILLY And this is how things get out of control in this country.

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O'REILLY Now, do you follow the news? I mean, I know you watched my program when I was on Fox, but do you follow the day-to-day comings and goings?

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY You do?

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY You said you're an independent.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY When you are following the news, are you satisfied that the media is being honest with you?

PALMINTERI I don't, you know what? I don't know anymore, Bill. I have to be honest with you. I don't know anymore. I see, you know, and I always watch, I watch Fox, I watch CNN. Or I always watch other channels. I'm saying, I wanna see what everybody says. So I like to watch as much as I could. I go on, I watch podcasts, your podcasts, you know, the No Spin Zone. And I watch other people's too. And I watched Tucker Carlson. I watch, I look at a lot of different people. Way to the left, way to the right. Because I said, is somebody, who is lying here? Who is lying? And I just, but then I look around, and I say, okay, I gotta understand this for myself. But I don't know, I'm confused a lot sometimes. I have to be honest with you.

O'REILLY Everybody's confused. That's why I've been in the business 50 years to un-confuse them as best I can. But when you're watching, because you are a patriot, you love your country, and you are an independent, do you think that you're getting the information you need?

PALMINTERI I don't think so. I think there's some stuff they just hide from us for some reason.

O'REILLY Well, they don't like Trump, so Trump is going to play negative in most of the media outlets. But I think people know that now, and it can work for you, and certainly he's used that to set up, look, these people are never going to tell the truth about me. But I get upset when there's basically people being paid to lie.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY In your neighborhood in the Bronx, if you were a liar and everybody knew who the liars were.

PALMINTERI Right, right.

O'REILLY Everybody knew.

PALMINTERI Right, no.

O'REILLY They were like ostracized.

PALMINTERI No, no question, no question, Bill. Absolutely. I could...I don't like when something is so obvious, so obvious, that's when I get upset. When you say and again, this is how I felt when I can I have to go to when I go to work. I couldn't go to work unless I got a COVID shot, my family had to get COVID shots. I cannot go on the set. I had a movie, I just got a movie, and they would not hire me unless I got a COVID shot. Then on the, then the same day, 10,000 people over the border, who are strangers, that we have no idea who they are, not vetted, they don't need no COVID shot, that's a lie. I go, black and white is white, two and two are four. That's, can I curse? I mean, I don't know. That's a lie. Period, that's a lie.

O'REILLY So that gets your Italian up.

PALMINTERI That gets my Italian up.

O'REILLY Are you allowed to say that?

PALMINTERI Yeah, you are allowed to say that. You know, when Dr. Fauci says certain things, I don't want to get into him because he's an Italian-American, but when you stop us from doing certain things that, you know, Bill... I mean, I've got to be careful here, I get fired up. When I get fired up...

O'REILLY I want you to get fired up. Come on.

PALMINTERI No, when I got when I first time I got COVID, I didn't even know. My wife got it, and my wife almost died, and I think about it because my best friend died, they were in the hospital at the same time. He died, and do you know what? She almost died. But thank God to Jesus Christ that she didn't die. She could have gotten certain things, but they wouldn't give it to her. They wouldn't give it to her. Then finally, she got some of it, and I'm not good at remembering the names, and it pulled her out of it. Thank God, she's okay, but if they would have been able to give it to my friend that, who had it before, he would have lived. I'm only saying this to cut to, the second time I got COVID, I got real sick. And being who, you know, who I am as a celebrity, I know all the doctors in the big hospitals. And they said, we can't give him that. The government took it away from us. And I said, I want what Trump had, that, because I knew what he got. I said I want that. They said, We can't do it. So I called another one of my very high-profile friends, and he said to me, don't worry about it. I'll have the doctor there in three or four hours. Don't worry. He'll give it to you himself. I was like, great. Because it was a lot, whatever, I think it was $9,000. I said, not a problem, get him here. The guy comes, I'm sick as a dog, temperature, I am sick. Trouble breathing, I mean, I'm getting ready to go to the hospital. He walks over to me, he goes, how long have you had this? I said this is the third day. He goes, okay, you'll be fine. He gives me the intravenous pill, right? After the intravenous, he gives me another thing called a vitamin thing. And he goes, just rest now, you'll be better tomorrow. I'm like, better? I'm looking at it, better tomorrow? I'm a wreck, right? I swear on my mother and father, Bill, I woke up at four in the morning, gone. It was gone. It was like it never happened. I had my bathrobe on, I was sweating, I went, what the hell? I slept downstairs on the big recliner. I didn't want to go near my wife. It was gone. And I said, well, why didn't they do this for all these people that were sick? Why didn't they? So they gave us a shot, a shot that they knew didn't work, that they knew could get people sick. That is wrong, that's wrong.

O'REILLY They're looking at it now, interestingly enough, it hasn't gotten a lot of attention, but Fauci's top guy is now being investigated by the Department of Justice for doing just what you've described, not being upfront about the medicinal potential of certain drugs. But the government, I don't trust the government.

PALMINTERI No, no, I know.

O'REILLY I'd rather trust your guys in the Bronx.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY At least if they say something, I know they're gonna do it, even if it's bad.

PALMINTERI Bill, you can answer me this question. Why is it when both Democrats and Republicans do something wrong, nobody ever goes to jail? They go, yep, we caught them, red-handed, but nobody goes to jail.

O'REILLY Yeah, it's hard to get the convictions because of the lawyers, and you know.

PALMINTERI Nobody. Bush lied, nothing happens. Hillary lied, nothing happens, everybody lies. Nobody goes to jail. I mean, so what is this? Sometimes I think they're in the game together. I think the Republicans, they're behind closed doors, they're going, all right, I'll blame you, you blame me.

O'REILLY But there's gotta be a reason to deny you medicine that would cure you that fast. There's gotta be a reason for that.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY And we don't know what the reason is, because...

PALMINTERI The reason was they wanted everybody to get the shot. The money.

O'REILLY Could be, but Bush, Trump I should say, he did a good job. I was in some of that with that Operation Warp Speed.

PALMINTERI Right.

O'REILLY He got it out there, and he made deals with these pharmaceutical companies who made a bloody fortune.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY But the deals didn't go far enough. And I don't know if the president knew what the potential was or not. I guess he had it. I don't know. You know, you would like to know what he had. I would too.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

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O'REILLY When you go on a set, now you're an icon, and what an icon is is somebody who's established themselves to the point where you may not like them, but you gotta respect them.

PALMINTERI Yes.

O'REILLY Okay, it's like Babe Ruth. All right, he's this fat guy who has a plate in there that goes 450 feet. You know, you say that's the Babe.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY We don't really, you know, he's doing crazy stuff post midnight, it doesn't matter. You're one of those icon guys, and has that seeped in?

PALMINTERI No, no, and it's good that it doesn't because I learned something, because I was in therapy, I still am once in a while, I go back. And what I learned from that is that I take my work very seriously, but I don't take my fame seriously. I don't.

O'REILLY No, the fame doesn't mean that much?

PALMINTERI No.

O'REILLY You act, you've got your own restaurant.

PALMINTERI No question, Bill. But I don't take it seriously to the point of I don't know who I am. I know who I am.

O'REILLY You're the same guy you watch.

PALMINTERI Same, my friends who grew up with me in the street.

O'REILLY Yeah, me too.

PALMINTERI Say, you're the same guy, Chazz.

O'REILLY Well, my friends go a step further. How come you're not in a penitentiary? That's what they say to me. I mean, really, these guys that I've known since I'm six years old.

PALMINTERI That's funny, yeah.

O'REILLY They go, You should be in jail. What are you doing?

PALMINTERI Yeah, no, my friends say you're the same crazy guy you've always been. Because I am. Because fame, I know fame will go away. And you know, it will go away. You know, and it does. And I...

O'REILLY Well, the fame, but the accomplishment won't.

PALMINTERI Like, my work will last forever. That's what I'm saying.

O’REILLY Right. The Bronx Tale's not going away.

PALMINTERI There's only two things you can leave behind after you're gone, in my opinion. Your art and your children. And I want to leave good, great kids, and I want to leave my art. That's all.

O'REILLY Do you have any struggles with the kids?

PALMINTERI Oh God, thank you, no.

O'REILLY No, they were good kids to raise?

PALMINTERI They were good kids.

O'REILLY They bought in?

PALMINTERI They were brought in, and they were great kids.

O'REILLY Did you ever have to tone the kids down because they were the sires of a famous actor?

PALMINTERI I toned them down, no, no, I mean.

O'REILLY Yeah, a little strut around and stuff.

PALMINTERI No, they weren't like that.

O'REILLY No.

PALMINTERI No, in fact, they don't talk about me. In fact, when my son had his first play date when he was seven, eight, I'll never forget it, when all the parents came over to the house, I opened the door, and each one would go, I'm sorry, you're Chazz Palminteri? I said yes. Dante's your son? I said, yes. They went, Oh my God. Never said a word.

O'REILLY No, they never did.

PALMINTERI They never knew.

O'REILLY No.

PALMINTERI They never knew.

O'REILLY See, my kids think I'm so obnoxious, they don't wanna talk about me.

PALMINTERI My kids probably, too. They don't want to, you know what, the only time they really started digging it, I'll tell you when, when they started getting just old enough where we walked into a really good restaurant and my son would walk in, and he'd say, we like a... And they'd say I'm sorry. And then he would wait until I walked in. And I'd walk in right behind him, and they would go, oh, Mr. Palminteri, how are you? Just give us a minute. And he would go...

O'REILLY You know what it is for my kids? First class air. They get first-class air.

PALMINTERI First class.

O'REILLY Right. That's all.

PALMINTERI That's all they want.

O'REILLY That's it.

PALMINTERI That's It.

O'REILLY They don't care about, you know, We'll Do It Live, No Spin Zone, the O'Reilly Factor. They go, Dad, flying first class?

PALMINTERI Are we flying his class? My kids used to say that, and they used to say this other thing, when we got to the hotel, Dad, is it a single door or double doors? Because they knew if it was double doors, it was a huge suite. If it was single doors, it was nice.

O'REILLY I see. So they were looking at the hotel accommodations.

PALMINTERI They were looking at the double doors.

O'REILLY Right.

PALMINTERI But, look, were they a little spoiled? Yes. But they had to work. They always did something. They had to go to school, they had to work hard.

O'REILLY Final question for you on this first round, we're gonna hold Chazz over for our Premium Members just for about 10 minutes. Some of the guys you grew up with didn't make it.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Drugs, all that. Levittown, it was big, it came in after the Vietnam War and narcotics. When you watch that happen, because you have emotion invested in all the neighborhood people, right?

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY Is there any kind of thing that you could have done that you didn't do?

PALMINTERI I don't think so. Not at that age, no. Some of them, see, back then, it was different, Bill. Good guys and bad guys would all hang out together because we were all from the buildings, and we would hang out on the corner. And when the bad guys did something, they would slide off. When the good guys did, they would slide off. But we were all together all the time. It was always like tempting, tempting, you know, but there was really, I see, I never really, did I get high? Yes. Did I use a pot? Did I get cocaine? Yes. Back then, I was in a band when I was 19 years old, in the 60s, so that's, you know. But I never was, I always was an artist, like music, art, poetry, writing. I just, I just was blessed, my mother and father wrote the saddest thing in life is a waste of talent. Put it in my room, my two sisters' rooms. My two sisters were very successful. And then I was the last, and it was really my parents who just, my father, don't waste your life. Don't let the streets, don't waste your life here. Do something with your life. He instilled that, he made me.

O'REILLY But if you didn't have a dad, it would have been tough.

PALMINTERI It might've been, yeah.

O'REILLY You know, and that's what you're dealing with a lot of kids today. Fathers split.

PALMINTERI Yeah.

O'REILLY They got nobody over them, and they go the wrong way.

PALMINTERI Yeah, and I think it's wrong. I think it's wrong having, and I say this about people that, you know, don't be proud that you have four or five illegitimate kids. You know, I don't care, even if you're rich and you pay, you're not giving the five love. I don't care.

O'REILLY You've gotta be there.

PALMINTERI You've gotta be there.

O'REILLY You've gotta show up.

PALMINTERI You've gotta show up, but writing a check is easy. Yeah, yeah, all right. Right. Be there, be at his games, talk to him. That's different.

O'REILLY All right, so we're going to break away from Chazz, and we very much appreciate his time, of course, and we'll have a 10-minute overtime with our Premium and Concierge Members starting right now.

We'll Do It LIVE! - Chazz Palminteri

2026-05-07T16:00:00Z

Actor Chazz Palminteri joins Bill for an extensive conversation about the culture in America, political dishonesty, and COVID deception. Palminteri also tells your humble correspondent about working with Robert De Niro, his battle with former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and racism.

Killing Time

2026-05-07T15:44:00Z

Project Freedom, U.S.-Iran Talks

2026-05-07T15:35:00Z

Miguel Sancho Weighs in on the UFO Debate

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Miguel Sancho, author of Evidence of the Extraordinary: Discoveries from the Series The Proof Is Out There, gives his take on the existence of UFOs.

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Trump Suspends Project Freedom

2026-05-07T07:38:00Z

Bill breaks down why President Trump paused the U.S. operation “Project Freedom” and where things stand in reaching a deal with Iran.

Iran Talks

2026-05-07T07:03:00Z

Big day for the USA. Secretary of State Rubio is in Rome talking with the Pope and Prime Minister Meloni, talking about Iran. There’s also some dealmaking going on.

President Trump remains the strongest player in this mess, but it will take all his skills to tamp down the growing anger over $5-a-gallon gasoline. Hope he can do it. The world is becoming very dangerous, and the country needs strong leadership.

No partisan stuff, but I don’t see the Democratic Party as a game-changer, although NATO would like a switch.

Some things are beyond our control, and the Middle East is one of them. But all of us should be hoping the USA prevails.

Reasonable?

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Trump Suspends Project Freedom, Are the U.S. And Iran Close to a Deal? & Miguel Sancho Weighs in on the UFO Debate

2026-05-06T22:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.

Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down why President Trump paused the U.S. operation “Project Freedom” and where things stand in reaching a deal with Iran.
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Why is former President Obama stepping back into the public eye?
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Trump Suspends Project Freedom, Are the U.S. And Iran Close to a Deal? & Miguel Sancho Weighs in on the UFO Debate

2026-05-06T22:00:00Z

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Stand up for your country. So it's very hard to analyze this Iranian conflict. I have very good sources, and it just changes every day. And I don't get classified briefings. Once in a while somebody will whisper something, but I don't have them, I don't see them, I don't know exactly. What is going on militarily or even strategy-wise. I just don't know, and it drives me crazy because I cannot pinpoint exactly what is happening between the United States and Iran. But here's what I do know. Most people outside of the journalism business have no idea what's going on. They don't know anything about this. They know that Iran's a terror state and that it would like to have a nuclear weapon. But that's it. They don't know Hormuz, they don't know oil futures, they don't know, they don't know. And you don't expect them to know. How are they gonna know? There was a documentary floating around over the weekend that said that the United States and Israel's bombing didn't knock out hardly any of the serious weapons the Iranians have. That's what the documentary said. I don't know, okay? I don't believe the documentary because it was done from an anti-American point of view. So whatever they said, I was skeptical about it. But I don't know. Maybe we didn't destroy as much of the ordinance that Iran has last summer. That's Possible. Weapons of mass destruction, George W. Bush, Iraq, come on.

Now, Americans, in particular, when they don't understand something, this is across the board, no matter what your hobby is or your situation is in the workplace or at home, if you don't understand, the tendency here is to get angry. We are not a patient people. A lot of anger, and it's rising. That's a threat to President Trump. Because, and I'm gonna go into specifics in a moment, it changes every day. But every day gas prices go up, that's a reality. People understand that. They're getting teed off. Okay. Talking Points Memo. So this Project Freedom has been suspended after one day. Most people in the world have no idea what Project Freedom is. I will tell you, it's to restore freedom of navigation for commercial shipping through the Straits of Hormuz and protect vessels who are going in and out of the Persian Gulf from Iranian attacks. That is Project Freedom. It was in place for one day, Monday. Tuesday, it was suspended. Okay. Why? Because the Pakistanis, who are trying to get a ceasefire agreement, a treaty of sorts, told President Trump that if you suspend it, we have a better chance of getting a deal. That's the explanation from the White House. Credible, credible, but it's another. It's not a flip-flop so much as it's another now what. So the U.S. has a very heavy military presence in Hormuz now, 15,000 Americans there. It can do pretty much what we want there, but the Iranians are being annoying and firing on this ship and using drones, and the insurance companies- that's a key to this- they don't want to insure the tankers going in and out of there, and if you don't have insurance. Then the companies who run the tankers don't want to go. Did you know that? It's a big part of all this. And Iran knows the more trouble it can cause at a lower level, the more the insurance companies are going to say, no, we're not going to insure you for going in and out of the straits. Okay, so, freedom, Project Freedom is over for now. Here's what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Go.

"Now, what's really important for you to report and for everyone to understand is this is not an offensive operation. This is a defensive operation. And what that means is very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first. Okay, we're not attacking them. But if they are attacking us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that."

Okay. It's a defensive posture. Again, do people understand that? What does that mean? They don't. But leave it aside. So apparently this is according to Axios, and I don't trust that organization. So a website thing, and they put out stuff. There is a one-page memo deal to end the conflict. But nothing has been agreed upon. So what good is it? All right, so it's floating around. And the deal that's floating around would be a moratorium on Iranian nuclear enrichment. What does that mean? A moratorium. I guess it means they stop enriching uranium, but I don't know what it means. Do they keep what they have? Because the scientists are saying they've got a lot of this stuff and it's close. I don't know what a moratorium is, okay? And that the United States, if they get the moratorium, would release a lot of frozen Iranian funds around the world, which would help Iran. And then Hormuz would be open for everybody to go through, but that would take about a month to do that. Why? Why would it take him about a month? I don't know. So that's what this memorandum, 14-point memorandum, allegedly says. Here's President Trump. Go.

"We're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we're not gonna let that happen. And we won't let that happen. And so we're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much. And we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us. We have it very much under control."

I'm not sure about that because gasoline is approaching $5 a gallon. That's not under control. I think what the president is saying is that the military situation is under control, but I don't know. See what I mean? See, I mean, but I do this for a living. All right, not going to have a nuclear weapon. Okay. But there's a bunch of ways you can frame that. Some people might call it spinning. I don't know. I do know that no matter what deal comes forth, Democratic Party and the anti-Trumpers will say it's a bad deal. No matter what he gets. I do that. That will happen. So, where we are is, we are a nation that's getting teed off. And whenever that happens, the political party in power takes it right on the chin, always. No exceptions, always, and that's why there's pressure on President Trump to get this thing resolved. But the mullahs know that. And that's the Memo. I hope that's clear. If it isn't, Bill@BillOReilly.com. But I've given you what I have. And I'm, as I said, I'm not happy about this at all. I believe in the mission, had to happen. It's so confusing, and there's so many things that are going back and forth, back and forth. It's like Vietnam. I mean, it's exactly what it's like, and I lived through that. So in Vietnam, it was like every day on the news, well, we killed 10,000 Viet Cong. We did this. We bombed this. So we did that, and we didn't. It just got worse and worse and worse for us. And so many people were so angry, you saw it in the streets. Very similar. Not at the level of death and destruction, of course, but the mindset.

Now, one of the advantages that President Trump and the Republicans have in the midterms, which is coming up in five months now, is the incredibly irresponsible positions the Democratic Party are taking. I'm going to give you two examples of that. First is Iran. This is a Washington Post poll. And the question is, considering everything, do you think the USA did the right thing in using military force against Iran or think it was a mistake. Right decision 36, mistake 61. That's the total. For Democrats, mistake 91%. So the entire party, and that's why I say no matter what the resolution is, Democrats are going to say it's terrible. They're not gonna say it's good. All right, but that's a clear plurality that Americans don't want this, even though probably good for America to neutralize Iran. Not probably, it is good. Another poll, this is you, UMass Amherst. Do you support or oppose eliminating immigration and customs enforcement, ICE, eliminating it? Okay? Support 38, oppose or don't know, 63. Democrats, 70 percent want to eliminate ICE. They want no enforcement, not only on migrants, but criminal migrants, 70 percent of the party. Staggering, staggering. Second question, do you support or oppose increasing immigration enforcement at the U.S. Southern border? Support 50, neither support nor oppose, so they're apathetic, 27, oppose 22. All right, so most Americans support it, but not the Democrats, all right? Only 29% want increased immigration enforcement at the border, so they want open borders. That's what Biden did, and that's what they want. So they don't want any action against Iran, they want to open borders. That's the big advantage Republicans have, because once that seeps into the Americans, what kind of party is this? Is this going to help America if Democrats get elected in November? Okay, Barack Obama. So this is a strange, strange story. So the former president rises, not from obscurity, but he was on the sidelines for a lot of years. Okay, didn't criticize Biden, first term Trump, not much. But now he's back, Barack Obama is back, and last night, Tuesday night, he goes on the Colbert Program. Roll it.

"I'm looking for a new gig soon, and a lot of people tell me I should run for president."

"Well, you certainly have the look."

"Thank you very much."

"You have the hair."

"Well, for the record, I think it's a stupid idea. How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?"

"Well, I- you know, the bar has changed."

"That is true, at times subterranean. I don't have to limbo so low."

"I'd put it this way, I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we've seen."

"All right."

"I have great confidence in that."

"Thank you very much."

"Is that an endorsement?"

"It was not."

Okay, it's a little back and forth, nothing that meaningful in it, but it's obvious to talk about President Trump and the bar lowered, and all that stuff. Now, yesterday we told you that we are not in the gutter snipe zone. We do not do that here. All right, there are millions of Americans who despise Barack Obama. They hate him. They blame him for everything. We criticize the former president based on facts, we do not hate him, and we are fair to him. A lot of people don't like that. They don't want fair. So I go on Newsmax yesterday, just hours after saying that to you, and here's what happened. Go.

"Okay, if I say so I understand he's making a lot of money with these speeches if it was creating all this issue with my marriage, I don't know if I would continue to do it. Maybe I just take a step back for a couple years, get back involved as we get closer to 2028. Do you think there's like an element to this where he's priming the public for the possibility of a Barack and Michelle break-up?".

"I'm not even going to address that question, Rob, I'm sorry, I have no idea, and I don't get into that kind of stuff."

"All right. Let me ask you about the Republicans. JD Vance, Marco Rubio, or somebody else in 2028, where are you personally right now?"

"Nowhere. I'm not a party apparatchik. I thought that Secretary of State Rubio did very well today in his debrief. He has conducted himself in a very visible way; that's a positive for America. So, he's got some momentum. As far as Vice President Vance, don't know him very well. Interviewed him a couple of times. I think that he is more of an ideologue than Rubio is, and so that would probably be the big difference between the two men."

So we walk the walk here when I tell you we don't do the gutter stuff, we don't do it, okay? I'm not talking about anybody's marriage. Why would I do that? I don't know anything about it. It's unfair. It's cheap. But you go on social media, oh my God. It's just awful. And we applaud you, our audience, for the No Spin News, for accepting that. That we're just gonna give you fact-based commentary we're not gonna get into trying to destroy and hurt people. Not gonna do it. How about something that Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? There isn't much, that's for sure. I know both men pretty well and not a lot of common ground there. Although they get along when they see each other. Know, they're cordial. You remember the funeral in DC where they were yucking it up. Okay, so one of the offshoots of being president is that you deal with everything, you deal with all kinds of stuff, and UFOs have made a comeback. Unidentified flying objects have made a comeback in this country. Why? I have no idea why, all right? So, there is a poll from YouGov. First question, how likely do you think it is that aliens have visited Earth in recent years? Definitely have, probably have 47. Definitely have not, probably have not 37, not sure 16. Okay, and then there's a NewsNation poll. Do you believe the U.S. Government is hiding information about the existence of UFOs? This is a social media dream, this question. Yes, the government's hiding information. No, 28 percent. Not sure, 28 percent? Both Presidents Trump and Obama have been asked about this. Roll it.

"I did have one very brief meeting on it, but people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."

"Do you think you'd know if there were evidence of extraterrestrials?"

"Well, I think our great pilots would know. And some of them really see things that are a little bit different than in the past. So we're going to see. But we'll watch it. You'll be the first to know."

"Are aliens real?"

"They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in...what is it?"

"Area 51."

"Area 51. There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.".

Okay. So, both presidents, I don't know why Obama said there is, based on what? If you were a professional interviewer, you would say, whoa, whoa whoa, okay? You just said they're real. What does that mean? Okay. So, we're not getting anything, let's put it that way, out of the two most recent presidents. Which brings us to a new book called Evidence of the Extraordinary: Discoveries from the Series, The Proof Is Out There. Alright, it's written by a guy I know pretty well, Miguel Sancho. He is a NewsNation producer now. He did the San Francisco thing for us. He was the producer on that project. Alright, he's worked for Inside Edition. I started Inside Edition. He's worked for CBS News, on and on and very senior guy. All right, so the book is out this week. And I was reading a book last night. I wanted a spooky environment to read this book. And I made sure that I had all the security so a yeti couldn't break into my garage. But I'm reading a chapter on UFOs, and this Mexican pilot Delgado, all right, he's flying a FedEx plane from northern Mexico into the USA, and he and his crew are escorted on their flight up in the air by a red spaceship or something. Tell me a little bit more about that.

"Well, Bill, thank you for having me. Thank you to your audience for listening in. And I encourage everybody to read my book or any book in the garage at night. I think that's a wonderful recipe for a great reading experience. I will say this. Yes, I mean, I went into this field as, you know, a hard news journalist with a background in investigative and consumer reporting. And it was somewhat serendipitous that I started working with this program. And the first, kind of, a-ha moment for me was this conversation I had with Captain Delagado. This was back in 2020. And so he had this video that he'd shot when he was on this flight, and this very peculiar orb appeared off the port side of his aircraft. I believe it was a 767, one of the FedEx cargo planes. And he claims it followed them, tracked them for about 20 minutes, and at times hit them with a kind of a lighthouse-like beam. And the craziest thing about it wasn't just the account and he shot some cell phone video of it which is good, not great, it's what you'd expect kind of a white dot against the black sky, but the most fascinating part of the story and the fascinating part the video is when he pans over to the console and you can see that the tcast system, the collision avoidance system, is not detecting any other aircraft in the area and subsequent investigation also confirmed that the radar hadn't detected any aircraft in the area. So, we have a number of sources, instruments that we consider usually normally reliable in modern aviation, confirming this account. And the kind of eureka moment for me or the, you know, epiphany for me was, okay, this stuff isn't just being reported by, you know, kooks in their basement with the tinfoil hats or out in the desert, you looking at the sky with night vision goggles but people we trust with multi-million dollar aircraft and people we trusted with our lives and people that we would normally consider extraordinarily responsible and honorable. And of course, Captain Delgado, who was kind enough to come on the show and tell this story, is just one of many people, some of them with extremely impressive backgrounds and high clearances in the U.S. Military, who've come forward and said not just that they've had a personal encounter, but they have a strong reason to believe that, yes, aliens exist. And further, that they've come here, that we've tracked them, that the US government has encountered them, and that there's an ongoing crash retrieval and reverse engineering program that continues to this day. And that's what people are hoping will be revealed when President Trump kind of dangles the promise of disclosure of whatever the federal government has and whatever documents they have on UFOs."

Well, he could use the diversion now, that's for sure. But I'm skeptical about this, as you know. So I don't really know what an orb is. What is an orb? Is that just some round thing that shows up? Is it red? What's an orb?

"Ah, an Orb indeed. So yes, the UFO community has a whole classification system of every kind of type and design of UFO, similar that you might, you know, have certain types of designs or automobiles. So, of course, you have the classic flying saucer that had its heyday in the 40s and 50s, and it's kind of gone out of vogue since then."

So they're not saucers anymore, they're orbs now.

"Yes, orbs are much more frequent, and orbs, like the name kind of implies, there's something kind of spherical, glowing orbs."

So they're up in the air, and they're around things, and they have lights on them, and the video that Delgado shot doesn't show you much. Now there are other crew members that could have shot video, too, on his flight. I haven't seen any video that would convince me of anything coming out of that plane. Yeah, it's some video, but nobody knows what it is. Certainly there's no alien looking out the window waving as Captain Delgado. So I think this might fall under the category of people believe what they want to believe. That you want to believe there's an alien force and they come down here for a snack or why, but I'm still way, way out there as far as being convinced is concerned. Something wrong with me? Don't answer that. Am I not doing my job?

"Well, the truth is, as you'd said earlier in the broadcast quite perspicaciously, the UFOs have come back. And the question is, why? Well, we know. We can answer that. There's two main developments that have sparked what I term in the book, the modern UFO renaissance. One is the emergence of these videos. And I don't just mean the Captain Delgado cell phone video, but these extraordinarily compelling military-grade videos with the telemetry and with the testimony of the pilots to back them up."

Then why wouldn't Obama and Trump cop to that? Why wouldn't they say, yeah, I mean, I saw this, it was one of our top pilots, and they brought it in, and now I'm convinced there's some orb chasing people around.

"Right, because there's still debate exactly what these videos are showing, right? The Pentagon, under pressure from what is now kind of this emerging UFO lobby, or this emerging UFO constituency, special interest group, is now working, or as established, I should say, an official investigative agency, it's called UARO, the Ultimate Anomaly Resolution Office, and they are here to investigate videos such as this, and many times they will try to at least come up with a prosaic explanation that what appears to be a UFO or an alien craft is, in fact, a sky lantern or an airplane going the other direction or a drone that happened to be shot or an artifact of the camera. But there are those that they cannot resolve. It's often the case that they say that's as a result of having insufficient data, which is a legitimate response, and they go further to say that they have never, to this day, come up with conclusive proof of alien technology or craft. And you're right, Bill, that there's certain skepticism that is, I think, required when you're approaching this subject, because it's very easy to say, as President Obama did, aliens exist. Where does that come from? That comes from basically a scientific principle or scientific equation under the Drake equation, not to bore you with all the geek stuff, but statistically trying to establish what the odds are that we are alone in the universe, and as you can imagine with the number of galaxies and planets..."

That pinhead we were interviewing him should have stopped him right there and said, wait a minute, you would have done it, and I would have done it, aliens are real, how do we know that?

"Aliens may exist somewhere at some time, but it's a much bigger question to say are aliens here now? Have they been, you know, able to travel here and visit us recently?"

Yeah, well, I don't believe it, but I could be wrong because I don't t know what's in the classified area. Now, I wrote a book called Killing the Witches, and the last part of the book, because witchery and sorcery and all these people who lost their lives in Salem were all killed because they were supposed to be associating with the devil. And then, to close it off, the book, I wanted to get a modern equivalent of that. And we went to the movie The Exorcist, one of the biggest hits of all time, in the supernatural area, and we found unbelievably crazy stuff that happened. A lot of the actors died, there was all kinds of explained stuff that wasn't really explained, that the director of the movie was an atheist and then he came out as a believer because he saw all this stuff. And I reported it as it went down because it was all on the record, because there's nobody who didn't put their name or attached to it. But do I believe that the devil was directly involved with the filming of The Exorcist? All I can say is this is really strange. Particularly the deaths of the cast. This is really...Because the odds were way, that all of these people would die or have injuries based upon their experience in the filming. And so that's all I could do. I could say it's pretty strange, and that's what I can do here. That I acknowledge that in your book, Evidence of the Extraordinary, there's extraordinary stuff. But do I believe it? No. Not yet. Last word.

"The point of the book is not that you need to believe everything that you're told or every wacky story, but I think the primary thesis is twofold. One, that anomalous events happen, and they happen often enough that we need to be more hospitable to what some might consider radical or wacky theories. If you think about every kind of scientific revolution that's changed the paradigms, from everything from, you know, the theory of relativity to germ theory of disease. Those all started out as highly heterodox ideas and theories that, in some cases, got their proponents, you know, ridiculed, in some cases, shunned."

But that's fine with me. You have stuff that's unexplained, you should try to explain it. Alright, Miguel, I wish you good luck with this book, and you got a whole bunch of stuff, it's not just about UFOs. You've got all bunch of other stuff that...go bump in the night, you got Bigfoot in there, and sea monsters, and all of that.

"And miracles.".

And miracles. So people will be, I think, enthralled.

"Well, it's very kind of you to have me, Bill. Thank you."

Smart Life. So we partner up with Global Post for our foreign news, and they cover stuff that we don't ordinarily cover, because Americans, number one, don't care much about foreign news unless it, like Iran, affects them directly. But Global Post is good. And they have a program where they give free subscriptions to 16,000 students. So number one, you should check out Global Post. GlobalPost.com and number two, it's not expensive if you want to help some kid out, and their survey says that 47% of students that get the foreign reporting from Global Post read it every day. That's half and you know how dopey kids are. So and this is a fact based it's not an opinion outfit, so there you go.

Ted Turner has died. 87 years old. Didn't know him very well, ran into him a couple of times. He died in Tallahassee of Lewy body dementia. Now, Mr. Turner made one of the biggest mistakes in broadcasting history. When the Fox News Channel came on the air in 1996, he was very dismissive of it. Said we're gonna squash it like a bug. Well, I was there, and we all said, whoa, look at Ted disrespecting us. Now we'll see who's squashing whom, and history came out in our favor. Now, Turner was a titan, and I still watch TCM, the movie channel that he had, because if you really wanna see good movies, you gotta go back. And he bought up a lot of land to conserve it, just as Teddy Roosevelt suggested. So he really led a robust life, as Teddy would also say, to Turner, dead at 87.

This Day in History, fascinating story. So 69 years ago, John F. Kennedy, as a senator, wins a Pulitzer Prize for writing a book called Profiles in Courage. I have a signed copy of that book, and it was a huge smash, I mean huge, sold millions. And he gets a Pulitzer, and it's about eight senators who did extraordinary things. And it elevates him in the world of politics because everybody's talking about it. But it is a problem: Kennedy didn't write it. So, his friend, Ted Sorensen, who was subsequently his speechwriter, the evidence is that Sorensen wrote the book. So a muckraking journalist named Drew Pearson goes on to Mike Wallace's program on ABC in 1957 and says Sorensen wrote the Book. Joseph Kennedy, JFK's father, immediately says we're going to sue ABC. Hello? That's how you think Jimmy Kimmel...you can go up against Joseph Kennedy and Wallace and ABC going, whoa, whoa, whoa, I know, we'll retract it. But the initial reporting on it was Profiles of Courage, written by Ted Sorensen. It's not unusual. Celebrity books, political books in particular, are written by somebody else. You do not have to worry about that with my books, because I slave over those books. We have great researchers. Okay, Josh Hammer and Martin Degard, you know them, but no ghostwriters. Anyway, that happened, good story and relevant to today. We will delve into the world of mail and the final thought in a moment.

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So, YouTube blowing up because we did an analysis of Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, said some things, one of which was absolutely true, the other a little quibble with. And so I analyzed that. I don't think Erika Kirk has been treated respectfully. We will treat her respectfully here. That is on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/BillOReilly. It is absolutely free of charge, and I think you will enjoy it. Let's go to the mail.

Ed Alberque, St. Petersburg, Florida. "Hey Bill, you made a great point. Trump would gain credibility if he called in the CEOs of oil companies and lowered the boom on their gouging. Can I keep saying we're the biggest producer in the world and then expect folks to accept what's going on?" I suggested that he have a summit with these, not only oil company executives, but insurance companies because something's got to give here, that's for sure.

So we got Jane Murphy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "I agree and support President Trump's decision with Iran. I believe it needed to be done for as long as it takes." Okay, so you're in about...compilation of all the polls, 35 to 40 percent, Jane. Believe the way you do.

Jim Sutherland, North Olmsted, Ohio. "I was told that a person in my orbit believes that the White House dinner affair and shooting was staged." Okay, it wasn't. It was a real thing. So, the people who are in your orbit gym are misleading you.

Steve Nall in Panama City, Florida. "Please explain why 39 states have statutes against price gouging after a natural disaster, hurricanes, et cetera, but it's okay for the oil company to gouge prices when they're taking advantage, too." What you're referring to is a state law. States have laws against price gouging. No federal law. And that's what happened.

Concierge Member Norman, we hope you check out the Concierge Program on BillOReilly.com, it will enhance your life. Norman. "The price of gas we have to pay is complicated, and it's true the American oil companies have plenty of oil. If they could sell it directly to we, consumers, without the middlemen like OPEC, it would be cheaper." OPEC has nothing to do with it. OPEC's in the Middle East, it ships to China. All these excuses that you hear are just nonsense. They're there to obscure what's really going on.

Daphne Lee, Plano, Texas." Really enjoyed your recent We'll Do It Live with Sid Rosenberg. Can't help but wonder why we don't see any footage from inside Iran." Because if took footage from inside Iran, Daphne, they would shoot you in the head, which is why you don't see it. Okay, but you can see our caps, the best in the country, 250 USA, our birthday caps, coming up two months. Celebrate. No better cap. Get a few of them, give them out to pro-American people. Word of the Day: do not be a sycophant, S-Y-C-O-P-H-A-N-T, sycophant, good word. Back with the final thought in a moment.

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Okay, We'll Do It Live. Tomorrow, we drop the new one. Chazz Palminteri, known him for a long time. And he plays gangsters and you Soprano fans and whatever, but a typecast of Italians is that right? Is that right? Is that the right thing to do? It's one of the questions I'm gonna ask Chazz so we will drop that...Premium members get it early, noon. And everybody else gets it around four, five, tomorrow, six, whatever it may be. There we go. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll have a Sunday column for you and a whole bunch of stuff. If anything breaks on Iran, that will come at you very quickly. See you soon.

O'Reilly Talks Obama, Iran, and Fox News Alumni in the Trump Administration

2026-05-06T18:49:00Z

Bill joins Rob Finnerty to talk about former President Obama's latest Trump criticism, Iran, and President Trump's Fox News administration.

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Marco Rubio-Pope Meeting

2026-05-06T07:57:00Z

Secretary of State Marco Rubio put up a good performance with the press on Tuesday. He was clear and authoritative about the Iran conflict, believing the terror state’s economy is in big trouble.

Hope he’s right.

On Thursday, Rubio has an official meeting with Pope Leo, who has emerged as a problem for the Trump administration.

Because the Pope is a spiritual missionary, he is not going to explain geopolitics to anyone. That frustrates President Trump, who believes the Pontiff does not understand world conflict. Mr. Trump fervently thinks that he is saving lives by neutralizing Iran. Apparently, the Pope does not share that vision.

So it might be up to Secretary Rubio to bring the men together. Rubio is Catholic and respects the church. Good start. I believe there is room for detente here.

Many don’t care, but America needs supporters right now. Pope Leo’s softening on the danger of Iran would help this country.

Let’s pray that Marco can pull it off.

See you this evening for the No Spin News.

Why the U.S. Can't Reach a Deal With Iran

2026-05-06T07:31:00Z

Dr. James Robbins, Dean of the Institute of World Politics, breaks down how there’s no incentive for Iran to make a deal, and whether he was surprised the Trump administration thought destroying the country would bring them to reach an agreement.

Iran Chaos Continues

2026-05-06T07:29:00Z

Bill explains how the U.S. dominates militarily but not economically and how the world doesn’t care what’s happening inside Iran.