Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - A Historical Perspective on the Political Prosecution of Trump, Brett Tolman Reacts, Biden's Latest Gaffe, California's Looting Problem, & More

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, August 16th, 2020, stand up for your country. So I'm trying to watch the Trump coverage last night on the cable news. I mean, network news, forget it. I mean, they're not going to give you anything at 6.6.3. whenever it comes on in your neighborhood. And I didn't bother with that anymore.

But, you know, the cable will get three, four hours prime time. And I had to turn it off. It was just, I didn't learn anything. It was so predictable. The left winger say this, the right winger say that. All right. So now I'm going to give you information. You will get nowhere else.

All right. I promise you. And the information is very, very important to the country. all right and it has to do with using the criminal justice system to prosecute presidential candidates all right that's the highest level and that's where we are now we're at the highest level of possible corruption in this country than getting higher than this even if president Biden took money from his son and brother it's not worse that's not worse than using the justice system to eliminate a viable presidential candidate. I think you'd all agree with that.

All right. So we are at the apex of this, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So we're going back to 1800, the year 1800, Thomas Jefferson elected president, okay? And Aaron Burr is the vice president. Now, they didn't run on the same ticket. Back then, the states were responsible for voting for president. Didn't have a popular vote, had no way to tabulate it. So Jefferson and Burr, I mean, they didn't really like each other or from opposing parties. And Jefferson really had suspicions about Burr, who eventually exposed himself as one of the great American scoundrels of all time. Fast forward to 1804, Jefferson runs for president.

And again, he fires Burr, okay, because he loathed him by that point, all right? And he puts New York Governor George Clinton as VP. Jefferson wins. Burr then vanishes out west and concocks a scheme to seize land west of the Appalachians, west of the Mississippi. Much of that land was under control of Spain, which ran Mexico. I know it's getting a little confusing now. But there was no Central American authority at that point in history west of the Appalachian Mountains. Burr wanted to set up his own government with him as a dictator. Jefferson immediately said Burr is committing treason, publicly said it. President of

the United States, treason. My former vice president is treason. treasonous, trying to do this. So Burr's arrested, all right, and he's tried in a federal court in Virginia for treason. Now, in the meantime, Burr had assassinated, maybe that's the wrong word, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel in Weehawk in New Jersey, which overlooks Manhattan. All right, that became before this treason stuff, but Burr was widely loathed by everybody. Enter the judge of the treason trial, John Marshall. Is that name ring a bell? First Supreme Court Justice.

John Marshall presides over the treason trial in Virginia that is accusing Aaron Burr. Now, Burr were found guilty. Jefferson wanted him executed. That wouldn't have happened. They probably would have banished him or deported. or something. I don't think they would have hung them. But they might have. They could have. So Marshall and Thomas Jefferson were cousins. You didn't know that, did you? I didn't know that, but I've been researching this like crazy. They did not like each other. Now Jefferson was not

a real likable guy. Marshall was a very smart guy. Anyway, Marshall directs the trial to acquit Aaron Burr. He's the big guy in the courtroom, Marshall, and the jury goes along with it. Aaron Burr is found not guilty. Jefferson goes wild. Now, some historians, the shallow ones, said that Marshall directed the trial to get Burr off because he hated Jefferson. That's not true. Marshall was so smart. And if you read anything about him, if you look at his record, if you look at his life, this is a brilliant guy. He knew that if Thomas Jefferson could put a noose around Aaron Burr's neck, that any politician could be in the same situation carrying on. He knew. Because the evidence

against Burr was overwhelming, Berg did it. But the witnesses were flimsy, and it was Jefferson driving this train. So Marshall said, no, not going to give political parties or one or two men the power to eliminate political opposition through the justice system. Nobody knows this, but this is the key to the Trump situation. All right. Now, this is why you watch and listen to me, because you find it's nowhere else. So, we fast forward now into 2023.

I, your humble correspondent, are, am thoroughly convinced the charges against Donald Trump in total are politically motivated. Okay? I have studied them. I know that in New York City, the district attorney Alvin Bragg would not have prosecuted this Stormy Daniel case for anybody else. Here in New York City, heavyweight drug dealers don't get prosecuted. Criminals found with loaded weapons on their person don't get prosecuted because Bragg

doesn't believe in incarceration. So this, Dormey Daniels thing, never. And Bragg has not even said what the federal law violation is after all of this time. So that is totally bogus. That goes out the window, politically motivated. The January 6th stuff by the special counsel, Smith, is theoretical. Trump knew the election was legit. but lied about it to keep power.

I don't believe that for a second, and I don't believe Smith can prove that. Particularly if Mike Pence said in court, what he said on television, he goes, White House didn't tell me to do anything unlawful. I heard all this from the media. Now, Trump wanted Pence to delay the electoral count, no doubt,

because Trump was told by his attorney, John Eastman, that was constitutional. That'll be presented in court. So Smith's accusation that Trump knew he lost the election but lied about it is flimsy to say the least. And most prosecutors never would have brought that case. Unless he's got something that we haven't seen, and maybe he does. All right? Mile ago, Trump did it.

If you read my message of the day, I don't understand us to this day. Just send the blinking documents back. back to National Archives. What do you care? I don't get it. He did it. Now, you'll go, what about, Biden, what about when they confronted Biden, Biden, said, take anything you want. Back. All right, Obama had them, but Obama didn't resist. Obama didn't resist. Trump resisted. Why? So that case has got to stand. It's already brought, Supreme Court's not going to throw it out. And the Georgia thing is just insane. If you read that indictment, it's 19 people, it's again theoretical, totally theoretical.

We need to find 11,000-what votes. Fine, what does that mean? There's reasonable doubt about what that sentence means. And Fannie, Willis, waited two and a half years to file that because that was the Democratic strategy. Hit him here, hit him there. hit him there, and hit him here. That's political. So John Marshall, if he were,

the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court today, would know all this. And John Roberts does as well as do the other eight Supreme Court justices. They know this is politically driven. That's not to exonerate Donald Trump. I'm not exonerating him. He handled it poorly, a number of ways. All right, he did.

If you're going to tell me he didn't, then I don't think you're in the real world, although I respect your opinion. I'm not going to denigrate you for holding an opinion that Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong or whatever. You're entitled your opinion. But the facts show he could have easily handled this in another way, not, and avoided all this grief for him in the Republican Party. That's why I'm saying a message, and I hope everybody reads it on bill o'Reilly.com. All right, so summing up, Trump has to get a constitutional attorney, the best in the world. So maybe there's somebody living abroad,

has to do that. He's got to get these cases in front of the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court would pretty much do what John Marshall did with Jefferson Burr. Say, this is politically motivated. These charges are flimsy. Can't do it with Maelago, so I would plea that. Don't think he's ever going to plea out, but I would, if I were him, I'd say, I made a mistake.

I should have acted quicker. I had no malice. I didn't do anything to hurt national security, which he didn't. This is all about, him not following the rules. And he didn't. So if you can get that out, then the Supreme Court

can come in and say, you know, this is unconstitutional a variety of ways. But you need a very smart attorney to present that case. All right, you got any questions at all? Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. We will put aside some space tomorrow, some time and space to answer any of your questions about this week.

and that is the memo. Now, as I said last night, I was on Watchboy. I just give you two brief examples. You know what I'm saying is right. Insanely, MSNBC is beating Fox News. I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime about all of this Trump stuff. I mean, I've never, ever, ever thought I would see this.

And I worked there, as you guys know, for more than 20 years. They never approached coming close to beat me. or us but now in Fox News weak in the state MSNBC gets more viewers it's just I sit here

what's going on because that hour is the absolute lowest don't get worse than it never seen it in our history all right here's the first sound by CNN another troubled network go

I just say for the record when you listen to that phone call asking for those 11,780 votes votes, it sounds an awful lot like a mafia. Well, I'll say something we just. And that is for a jury a kind of crystal clear piece of evidence. I've represented

gangsters. There are a lot more vague than that on the phone. Okay, so that's absurd. I mean, uh, mafia, mafia what? You know, I, it's just, that's a kind of bilge, B-I-L-G-E that they're putting out there.

It's insane. All right, here's another soundbite go. And what we saw was an indictment come out before the grand jury even had a chance to vote. That's un-American, it's improper, and it's obvious, for lack of better words. So I'm hoping the American people get it at this point. Okay, so if you're going to bring on, and you have to, to some extent, the attorney representing Donald Trump, you've got to challenge that attorney. Now, in that case, I picked that sound by it because she's right. I mean, the fix was in in Atlanta two and a half years ago.

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Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's bring in Brett Tomlin, who's smart guy. You know them. We've used them many times. Former prosecutor, federal level in Utah, comes just from Salt Lake City. So I assume you went into public service to law school and everything and worked hard to bring justice to the people of Utah and the United States. I assume that's what motivated you. It could have made a lot more money in a private sector, correct? That's correct. Okay.

So now, in my opinion, the justice system has been co-opted by politicians who are trying to destroy each other. using the justice system and at this point succeeding. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong. And, you know, I had a conversation with a former U.S. attorney friend of mine, a great, great gentleman out of Texas. We're politically on opposite sides. And he confided in me that, you know, he never thought he would see the day in which the Department of Justice was so outwardly political and making decisions that, you know, on its very face, just the, the case against Trump. He can't stand Donald Trump, but he looks at these cases and says, I never thought in my lifetime, I'd see these kinds of cases being brought by the Department of Justice. And he said he doesn't agree with it. And he thinks it's the beginning of a chapter in which the Department of Justice does this routinely. And you concur with that analysis?

I do, although I'm still hopeful. I'm hopeful that somebody in charge of the Justice Department who cleans house and and who has some thoughtfulness. You know, I listened to your introduction on John Markle. I didn't know that they were cousins, but it reminded me of what we need in the Department of Justice, someone that has vision and thoughtfulness and understands, you know, the larger picture of the purpose of the Department of Justice

and the danger of utilizing it politically. Now, Jack Smith, the special prosecutor, doesn't seem to be that man, in my opinion. I think he's doing what he's told to do. Are wrong? No, I think he is exactly the man that Merrick Garland knew he would be able to task with coordinating. And I say coordinating because it is pretty apparent that there's a coordination. And it's twofold.

It's coordination with state prosecutors and then a coordination on protecting the Biden family. And that's their twofold mission. And I think Jack Smith is the perfect guy to run one side of it. Yeah. Jack Smith's not involved with the Bidens at all. And I don't want to do the what aboutism here today. I'm going to handle Biden as development's break. But back to this Trump prosecution, would you seed that Donald Trump handled some of these things poorly? yeah i would see that uh donald trump would be an absolute nightmare client um in in a lot of ways and and that is you know he he is on a mission himself um but yet i back up bill and i think about the founders of our constitution and one thing they they definitely consciously did they did not prohibit an individual running for president of the united states with a

I think they did that knowing that there could be, you know, an effort by those in political power to eliminate political opponents, utilizing the criminal law. And so, you know, larger picture, I don't blame him for fighting as hard as he is fighting. I think you're right that there should be some thoughtfulness in his response to each individual case and some are stronger than others. But that fight is worth it. And who knows, he may be, he may be running for president and may win with a felony. Yeah, and people don't understand that Donald Trump, as a former president, would never be sentenced to prison. That would not happen. If he were convicted, say, in Georgia where there's a mandatory jail sentence, he would be in home confinement or some situation like that. But still, it takes them off the board, and it creates so much chaos in our political system that with a weak Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, you don't get weaker than that.

He's going into the election in 2024, the weakest Democratic candidate in the past 150 years. Maybe Andrew Johnson was weaker. The guy took over after Lincoln, who was drunk most of the time. But Biden is so weak. And so the only thing that Democrats have to save themselves is to just make Trump the center of attention in a negative way, which they're succeeding in doing. Now, this is an unfair question to you, but I don't know what percentage of the American people understand the bigger picture here that if this succeeds, everybody who runs for office from now on is the subject or could be the subject of some corrupt prosecutor trying to take them out on a trumped up charge, pardon a pun. I don't know if people get the big picture there. Yeah, I have friends that have historically said, you know, that Republicans should not fight fire with fire.

They should take the high road. And they're switching their position on that. They're saying we have no choice, but to actually engage in this, you know, reprehensible use of the criminal law. And I see that, Bill, and I see that your voice, my voice, many other voices out there are trying to be, you know, thoughtfully analyzing facts. accident and the law. And the thoughtfulness is no longer, you know, the, the reasonable approach to our criminal justice system anymore. And that level analysis is gone. The problem here is that most Americans are confused about the whole thing. They don't know what fake electoral people are. They don't know. And I'm not scorning them for not knowing.

This is complicated stuff. A lot of it's complicated. And the conservative media concentrates on ideology here and party stuff, all right, whereby they're not basically clarifying the overall danger so much as saying, well, it's Biden's fault or it's Obama's fault or it's the democratic machine or whatever. the understanding level of the Americans in this entire Trump case, I think, is very low. Last word. Yeah, I think you're so right on. And I'm really encouraged. You know, I'm hopeful that your voice, my voice, others out there are going to instill

some wisdom and thoughtfulness. You know, the civil law is entirely capable of handling all of the election challenges of handling, you know, wrongful allegations and all of the outrageousness that we saw that came, you know, quite candidly from Trump, from Hillary Clinton before. And then all the way back to Bush v. Gore, we saw that our civil, you know, legal system all the way to the Supreme Court could handle all of this and would have shut it all down. But I think the Democrats realized very quickly that with such a weak candidate, as you indicated, their only hope is to utilize the criminal law to shut down, you know, their voices they don't like.

And they have a willing accomplice in Merrick Garland. I mean, a guy who's just going to basically across the board. He'll get down in history is one of the worst attorney generals ever. There's no doubt in my life. That's exactly right. All right, Brett. Thanks very much. We appreciate it.

And we wanted to know, we called the Trump campaign, who the lead attorney is now on all of this. It's got to be somebody who's coordinating it. They don't have one. They don't have one now. Just so you know. Let's go to Joe Biden. He gets remarks today about the Inflation Reduction Act. Okay.

I don't think he's going to take questions, but who knows? I don't really care at this point. But something did happen yesterday in Milwaukee. That's very, very interesting. All right. And, of course, corrupt corporate media ignored it entirely. So January 28, 2022, there was a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh, okay, a place called Fern Hollow Creek. And the bridge collapsed at 6.40 in the morning.

So yesterday, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin again, President Biden referred to that. Roll the tape. A lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh. By the way, the Pittsburgh is the city of bridges. More bridges than Pittsburgh than the other city in America. I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse with over 200 feet off the ground going over a valley. It collapsed.

Thank God school was out during the pandemic. Okay, that's not true. I mean, Joe Biden arrived in Pittsburgh at 2 p.m. He didn't see the bridge. collapse? Is this a big deal only because it's a sign of dementia? I went through this with my mother. I'm sure millions of you went through it with your relatives. He doesn't know what he's saying. You know, he said no comment the other day and somebody yielded a question about Maui. He didn't know what he was saying. He didn't know what the question was. So Biden lives

here, but here is not functioning. and there's no doubt about it you don't say you saw a bridge collapse and then he says a lot of you were with me when i was in pittsburg what they live in milwaukee why would they be with him in pittsburg you're just sitting there going this guy there's a possibility he'd be reelected for four more years i would rather have trump and leavenworth run in the country to him in White House. I know that sounds crazy, but I would rather have that. San Francisco. All right. So this is the progressives killing the cities of America. That's what this is. All right. So there is a department store if you've ever been there,

gumps. It sells everything. You know, it's a luxury upscale store. And it's been there for 165 years. It's the most famous store in San Francisco. I've been there. You probably have if you visited that city. So the CEO of Gums, John Chakis, takes out a full-page ad in San Francisco Chronicle. I'm going to just quote two paragraphs. Gums has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years. Today, as we prepare for our 166 holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of a profound erosion in the city. current condition. San Franciscans deserve better than the current conditions of a city. Gumpst implores the governor, the mayor, and the city supervisors, take immediate actions,

including cleaning the city streets, removing homeowner's encampments, enforcement of city and state ordinances and returning San Francisco, whose rifle plays as one of America's shining beacons of urban society, unquote. Well, John hit it right on ahead. This is Newsom's fault. Forget about the mayor, London Breed, and the city supervisors. They're loons. They can't run anything. Okay? What's Newsom doing?

Nothing. Whole city's right before his eyes. L.A. So there is a Nordstrom's department store. In Topanga Mall, I've been there. which is north of the city. And on Saturday, thieves broke in, looted $100,000 worth of merchandise.

$100,000 in the Norseum store. Okay? They attacked a security guard, um, bear sprayed them, 50 of them, no arrests. Back to me, back to me. No arrests. None.

You're telling me, 50 people run into Nordstroms, old people in the store, old people outside this store. Some of them had face coverings, yeah. No arrests, no informers, nobody calling the cops. This is L.A. But you know his fault? This is where San Francisco is the fault of Newsom. this is the fault of the people in Los Angeles who would not recall the DA Gasson

who won't prosecute any theft nothing you can steal at will in LA he doesn't care could have been recalled the DA in San Francisco was why I don't blame the people there not him LA got what you you deserve. Ten cities that had the most theft. LA, number one, San Francisco, number two. New York City, almost totally out of control here. Houston, Miami, Chicago, Sacramento, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth. Source Capital One, a credit card company, which knows what the retail theft is. Okay. Where do we want to go from? Oh, So I got an email the other day from our pal, Bernie Goldberg.

Okay, and Bernie's kind of live in large, semi-retired in North Carolina. So Gorberg's mad about all this looting. And he says it's far more than crime. It reflects our society. And so we batted around. So Bernie's coming on a couple of days after Labor Day. I'll give you the exact date when we get it. But I thought that was really interesting.

All right, because I believe that, too. This isn't just about stealing stuff. This is about our whole country and what's happening to it. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world.

Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Oh, we want to go to the Smart Life thing now because that's important. Now, this will break your heart. So according to KFF health tracking poll, two-thirds of American adults have a family member addicted to drugs or alcohol. Two-thirds, 66%.

It's based on a survey of 1,327 adults, so it's a pretty good number, all right? There's no politics involved in this at all. So I think that number's right. My grandfather, all right, I don't know if he's an alcoholic. I was too young to know that, but he died of cirrhosis of liver, and I know he's a big boozer. Okay? My cousin, he died of alcoholism as well. And I knew him, and he left seven children.

And he died in his 40s. So you have it too. I get letters every day. So smart life. what do you do it is an amazingly complicated situation because there's a lot of different reasons for addiction there are two things that you have to make a decision on number one if you have any power over the individual like money or they're living with you that kind of stuff whether you continue that situation or

not. I don't. I'm not going to enable an addicted person. Not in any money for me, they're not going to live in my home. No. I would, out of compassion, set them up with a small apartment if they would destitute rather than being out in the street. And I pick up probably to rent for a period of maybe two or three months and say to the person, look, you either go to rehab, you get it together. I'll give you three. months in apartment. If you don't, you're out. And the chances are they'll be out. You got to rock bottom it before these people want rehab because they like getting high. They like getting drunk. They like it. That's why they do it. The second thing is compassion. So that has to be there.

And when you're talking, if you can actually have a conversation with these people, if they're sober long enough, say, look, I really feel bad for you. And if I can help you, help yourself, I'm going to do that, but you have to help yourself. But if I can, you know, get specialists and hunt up some research for you, do whatever you need, medical doctors, insurance, because insurance covers addiction recovery, I'll help you. But the chances are that they're not, going to go for the help at least the first 80 times you offer it because addiction gets you and again most of these addicts and alcoholics they want to get high they don't care who it hurts they don't care if they destroy themselves look

we got about 150,000 Americans going to die from fentanyl this year about 150,000 maybe more now that is that stat I'm giving you is higher than the state the government puts out because the government doesn't want you to know the extent of anybody who would take fentanyl doesn't care whether they live or die they don't care they know the addicts know the people sitting at the bar day in and day out they know that it's trying themselves but they don't care they're self-destructive to get through that really difficult but you have to be compassion you have to say look when you want to do it you come in but no cash

ever because it goes right down and you know the people who are begging in the streets and all that you know it's all junk and i spend spending it on food and i didn't buying drugs with it i never give them a dime i'll fund the food pantries i'll fund the catholic charities all day long but i'm not giving some guy on the street who's asking me for winning anything because i know where the money's going right into the dealer's pocket Anyway, 66% of American adults have this situation. That's unbelievable. Okay, so TV is changing rapidly.

You know that. Now, less than a half of American TV watchers, and I think there's 120 million television sets in this country right now. Linear TV, that's the networks and all it, falling below 50% for the first time the most watched vehicle coming up is a YouTube we're on YouTube so I hope you check us out on YouTube but TV is done my urchins never watch it never unless there's a sporting event but no shows the stay in history August 16th 1948 Babe Ruth dies throat cancer age 53 so why am I

telling you all this. Well, 75 years ago. So 75,000 people showed up at Yankee Stadium to view Ruth's body. And another 75,000, I guess there were some duplicates, went to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the funeral for a baseball player. All right, he was born February 6, 1865 in Baltimore. His parents gave him up to a reform school. Because, babe, I guess, a little unruly as a kid. and he was raised by the Catholics at the St. Mary's Industrial School. And then he became the best baseball player ever. I mean, it's debatable, but the guy was unbelievable. Now, why did the folks love him so much?

Here's my theory on Babe Ruth. He looked like you. Look at this guy. Short legs, rotund tummy. He was pretty fast. I mean, he stole a lot of bases. but he was like every man. He wasn't particularly handsome.

And the folks just loved him. So Babe Ruth died 75 years ago. Today still remains the most famous baseball player ever is a candy bar. Right? Baby Ruth named after him. Back with mail. And a perspicacious final thought that I hope Donald Trump hears. Okay, let's go to the mail.

Michael Long, lease I'm at Missouri. How did grand juries get chosen? How does it work? Okay, regular folks get a summons. 23 people in whatever area, whatever county on the grand jury, takes 12 to indict.

That's how it goes. Getting a little mail, you've got to show up, do your duty. Steve Webb, St. George, Utah. In the documents trial with Donald Trump, Will he be able to subpoena Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama to discuss their classified documents? Yeah, they won't come into the courtroom,

but the judge should allow a deposition to the three men. Absolutely. Mike Johnson, Atlanta, I'm worried that Michelle Obama is going to run. I agree with you regarding she would be a shoe in. If she does, she would absolutely crush Trump. Right now, it looks that way. Joyce Smith, Burnett, Texas, he said yesterday Michelle Obama would win the election if she ends up the nominee for the Democrats.

What are your facts behind that opinion? Polling? Way ahead of everybody. And her book sales. Astronomical book sales, nobody comes close. And the people are buying Michelle Obama's book, a lot of them aren't reading it. They just buying it because it helps her. Thomas concierge member, and we urge everybody to check out the concierge membership,

a life insurance policy for you. Whatever problem you have, I will help you directly. Thomas says, Bill, you always say there was no election fraud. Right away, Thomas, you are misreporting what I said. I clearly stated on a number of occasions there was fraud. What there isn't is evidence that it would have turned the election in Trump's favor. Okay. Do I honestly believe Joe Biden received 80 million votes? I don't know. But if he didn't, I was ready to look at all the information that came in and nothing has risen.

Every journalist will tell you that. Roberta San Juan Jaden, Texas is, Bill, do you think White House aides bother read letters from the folks? No. If you write to your senator or congressperson or president, chances are a staffer might read it, but they're never going to read it in a million years. David Concierge member, whenever you discuss a rise of gas prices, you rarely mention those of us who reside in California paying another buck. I always mention it.

What's the matter with you guys tonight? You get the highest tax, state tax on gas in a country, probably in a world. Well, maybe that's not true. in the country. That's why you're paying so much. Ethan, you can bash Hillary Clinton all you want, but she won the popular vote against Trump. The electoral college must be abolished. If the electoral college, Ethan, is abolished in America, our democracy is finished. Because the reason Hillary Clinton won the popular vote is California and New York. They are dramatically liberal states, and always will be that. Because so many people live in those two states, a Republican

win the popular vote. The Republican can win many more states, but not the popular vote. So the question Ethan is, do you want L.A. and New York run in this country? If you do, then you abolish the vote. John, O'Reilly, you are the best because you are the best. Okay, I'll take it. Very nice of you to say so. Okay, let's go to the touts, killing the witches out, September 26. I didn't check today, but if you want a hand-signed copy, you've got to get it in because we only have a limited amount of those, and I think they're almost sold out. We want you to pre-order the book on bill O'Reilly.com, Amazon, Lawrence and Noble, all of that. You will love killing the witches. New York state of mind, live show, me and Sid Rosenberg,

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You got to move now. And there is 15% off all team normal gear. Late summer sale, 15% off. Okay, back with the final thought in a moment. Here is the final thought of the day, very brief. I don't call President Trump. He calls me occasionally. The next time he calls, I will tell him this.

If he asks, I don't intrude. One, you need the best constitutional lawyer in the country. as I said early in a broadcast. Number two, think about the Mahalago thing. See if you can work that out. You get that off your plate. The Supreme Court much more likely to come in and rule that this is a political prosecution.

And third, don't need any more personal attacks. You can defend yourself, and I hope you do in every rally you have. Defend yourself. but the personal attacks at this point don't do you any good. That's it, final thought. See you tomorrow for the no-spin news.