Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bad Blood Between CNN and the Trump Campaign, VP Frontrunners, Andrew Cuomo's Hot Take, Charlie Kirk on a Right-Wing Revolution, & More

Episode Date: June 25, 2024

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Hello, Riley here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 24th, 2004, stand up for your country. Debate Week is here. It's already nasty. It didn't day long this morning. Okay, CNN. We're going to play it for you in a moment. It didn't take long. Wall Street Journal today has a very interesting editorial. I urge you to read it. I guess read it online, although I think the Wall Street Journal wants money, but it's really worth seeking

out. The editorial is what I have been telling you. If Biden's reelected, forget it. The progressives are going to run wild. And the journal hones in. on the tax hikes. So Biden wins in November, and he gets both the Senate and the House. Forget it. Wealth tax, every tax in the world. It's all going to be passed along to the American consumers. So he can say, oh, nobody under 400,000 is going to be taxed. I get a tax for a hike. So it's a lie. Because you know, everybody knows, you tax corporations, they want to to raise it up to almost 30% in New York, the tax on not just New York nationwide, be more than 30% in New York, the corporate tax. And it would all be passed on to the consumer,

because corporations control the food flow, the fuel flow, every flow, unless you're living in a lean to in some forest. Okay. So this Wall Street Journal sounds the alarm. I'm going, you will believe that socialism that's common if Biden is reelected because there are no constraints on it. Now, if the republics control the House and Senate, you couldn't get anything done. Can't do an executive order on taxes. But it's really worse reading this editorial. Okay, debate week.

That's the subject of the Talking Points memo this evening. So I want to walk through this. I love this story, by the way. I think this is just the epitome of what's going to. going on in this country. So CNN has a morning program. Nobody watches. I mean that literally. They do less than 500,000 viewers a day. I mean, that's just, you could put a monkey, a chimpanzee on for an hour. And if you put two or three of them on, you'd get about 500,000 people. I wonder what that monkey's going to do now. Is that monkey eating? You know, that's, it's so low for a nationwide

broadcast. All right. One of the anchors is a woman named Cassie Hunt. I don't know her. She looks like a professional. I mean, I don't have any beef against Cassie Hunt. She invites Trump National Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on the program. Okay? Ms. Levitt accepts the invitation because CNN's carrying the debate on Thursday. All right. So Ms. Leavitt comes on and says to the audience, look, Donald Trump goes to places where he's unpopular, roll a take. And that's why President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network on CNN with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years and their biased coverage of him. So I'll just say, my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Danabash have acquitted themselves as professionals as they have covered. campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I'll also say that if you

talked to analysts of debates previous, that if you're attacking the moderators, you're usually losing. Well, first of all, it's to take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently frequently, like his president, President Trump, to Adolf Hilter. Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues. I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for. Yes. If you are here to speak on his behalf. And I will do that. I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past. Now, I'm sorry, guys. We're going to come back out to the panel. Caroline, thank you very much from your time.

She booted, Caroline. Okay. Number one, Cassie Hunt was wrong and foolish for booting Trump's press would have been much better television should if she allowed miss levitt to say what you want it and then rebut it i understand miss hunt wanted to get props by protecting her colleagues i got it but she's in business to shed light on subjects so that was a mistake like has a gun she'll let it play out a little bit more now i booted guests you know that i bowed yes you know that i booted them. Not many. I mean, the most confrontation ever was the Barney Frank O'Reilly interview you should Google. I didn't boot him, but I called them out. Okay. The second point is, I don't get why Caroline Levitt is doing that that way in a very confrontational way. Why would you

want to do that. Here's the way she should have done it. She should have said, this is Caroline Levitt, Trump spokesperson, hey, our campaign is a little bit worried that we're not going to be treated fairly by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, the moderators, based on past history. We're a little bit worried. Can you reassure me, Ms. Hunt, that will be treated fairly. That will be treated fairly. That would have been much better. See, you get the same message across, but you're not launching into a frontal assault on CNN. This is sophisticated analysis. I understand, but I've been in the business 50 years. I know what I'm doing. So I don't begrudge the Trump campaign for bringing out that CNN has been brutal to Donald Trump since he

almost got into politics. When I say almost, there was a grace period where CNN's numbers, ratings went up because Trump was in the game, and they weren't that savage toward him until he started to compete with Hillary Clinton. Then they got more and more and more anti-Trump. That's the arc. Now, Jake Tapper, as I have said on this program, probably too much, is, in my opinion, a zealot, a left-wing zealot. He plays a game, but he's never going to give Donald Trump or any conservative a fair shape. Bash, not so much. I don't see her as a zealot. She's more of a company woman, so I'm not going to bash, bash, because I know where she's coming from. I kind of like Hunt's feistiness, and I hope she gets to hear what I'm saying

tonight, because if Levitt goes on and attacks my colleagues, I'm going to have to defend them, but I wouldn't defend them by booting her off. You're basically taking some pretty extraordinary television and thrown it out the window. No. You got to have a stronger argument. Now, in this case, I don't think Cassie Hunt or any human being could rebut that Jake Tapper hates Donald Trump. It's impossible. He does. So I don't know how you defend that. And Hunt can't say anything bad about Tapper. I mean, you can CNN executives would go in and carve her up. So anyway, that is the first salvo. That happened this morning. All right, Monday morning. What a kickoff to debate week, and that's the memo. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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all right so you're not doing the people's business um he's rehearsing now i got a letter i'm going to read at the end of the program but i want to tease it so you stay with us for the whole of 41 minutes here i got a letter about well if if biden is so impaired mentally how can he possibly memorize anything i will explain don't trump's in New Orleans, raising money. But remember, he's not president. He can go anywhere he wants because he doesn't have responsibilities to we the people. Biden's president. And then Trump is going to go to Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, 90 degrees, and do debate prep Tuesday, Wednesday. Then they both go to Atlanta for the Thursday confab at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. I will be all over

the blank in place on Thursday. So we'll have this broadcast before the debate. We'll have WABC radio, our flagship. I'll be on live 9 to 10, basically doing play by play of the debate. If you want to hear that and you don't live in New York area, all you got to do is go wabc.com and you can hear it live. So I'll be as the debate is going, I'm going to be on the radio doing play-by-play. I don't know if this has ever been done before. And I don't know if I can pull it off, but I'm going to try. Then after the debate, I'm going to be on News Nation.

All right? So it's too much of me. I'm overexposed. But it's so important. And I'll be fair on the debate. If Biden holds his own, I'll tell you Biden holds his own. Okay, I'm going to tell you everything about it. And finally, I have a secret source.

at the debate. I can't tell you anything more about it. Okay, but I, I really developed this. I got somebody, a human being, there. He was going to tell me exactly what's happening behind the scenes. This is where you want to be. Bill O'Reilly.com, no spin news, our radio affiliates, W.A.B.C. in New York radio. All right. That's a pretty good plug, right? Okay, cash on hand. So Trump has passed Biden in cash. According to the Federal Election Commission, Donald Trump is $117 million in the bank. And Biden's got $92 million.

Now, that'll, of course, swell. And a guy named Tim Mellon, he's the heir to the Mellon fortune, has given Trump $50 million, dollars, the Make America Great Again, PAC. You can't give it to Trump. You've got to give it a political action. And that's on top of $25 million he gave earlier. But here's the rob on Melon. He's also given Robert Kennedy Jr., the third party candidate, tens of millions of dollars, too. Money apparently isn't like Biden at all. But former New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg counters with 19 million to Biden's pack, 19 million out of Bloomberg's pocket. I'm surprised. Bloomberg's got to know how far left these people are. And he did not govern

New York City in a far left way, Bloomberg. Okay, there was a very interesting soundbite on HBO. It comes from former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who is back in the political game. I'll explain that in a minute. Here's the soundbite. Go. The Attorney General's case in New York, frankly, should have never been brought. And if his name was not Donald Trump, and if he wasn't running for president from the former AG in New York, I'm telling you that case would have never been brought. And that's what is offensive to people. And it should be, because if there's anything left, it's belief in the justice system.

No, there's nothing left then because the justice system in America has collapsed. Simple as that. So anyway, why did Cuomo do that? Cuomo is a Democrat. Democrats don't like Trump. They don't like him at all. Why did he do it? Here's why.

Cuomo's going to run for either mayor of New York City, and that'll begin in 25, the campaign, or governor of New York, his old job, and that would begin in 2006, because Hocel's up in 27, and Adams, the mayor, is up in 20. So he's either going to run for one of those two. He's not going to get the progressive left vote in New York because they're the ones that got him out.

They're the ones that attacked him. What are Republicans attacking Andrew Cuomo? He got booted out for all of this, you know, you remember, misbehavior, but that was all politically motivated. Not to say he didn't do anything. I don't know what he did. But he was never charged with anything, you know. But I do know the progressive left wanted him gone. They attacked him.

So he's never going to get their votes. So he's got to go tack back to the center to get independent votes in New York and moderate Democrats. That's why he's doing that. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as you know, the governor of Arkansas, I said, would have been Trump's best VP pick. They had worked together. She is a very, very solid, smart woman. Okay? But she says she's not going to do it and doesn't want any federal politics for six years. Roll the tape.

I love the job I have. I'm excited to be back in Arkansas. I think we're doing really great things. And I look forward to keeping this job for the next six and a half years. Not smart because she will be a presidential contender down the road and she'll be able to raise her children in Little Rock. And so, okay. But by far, she would have been Trump's best. choice. Now, the three guys that are leading the sweepstegs for VP are North Dakota governor Doug Bergum. He ran for president. You may know him. Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, very, very conservative, man. Opposes the Ukrainian war. That could be a problem. Okay. And they don't have Scott on the list. I think South Carolina, Senator Tim

Scott's being considered, but I don't know. And then Marco Rubio, Florida, Center. Out of those three, Vance, Bergram, or Rubio, if that's what it is. And I don't know. Okay. The strongest VP would be Rubio. Just my opinion. Kamala and Jill's abortion promotion tour.

These ladies love abortion. Hey, you can't get enough of it. Political issue, yes, but you're destroying fetuses, okay? No doubt about that, right? So anyway, they're going to visit at least 50 places, starting today in Philadelphia, to tell people that the Republicans want to take away the right to abortion, and abortion is whatever they're going to say it is. So I ask my staff to do some research on whether Kamala Harris,

and Jill Biden has ever said anything positive about adoption because adoption is an alternative to abortion. Everybody knows that. And adoption is a very noble, humane thing, is it not? Is it not? Can't find anything ever on Kamala and Jill. They are 100% reproductive rights. God, let's go. Media Madness, MSNBC, owned by NBC News. Keep that in mind. Okay? So a woman on her name Simone Sanders, Townsend.

Used to work for Bernie Sanders. As far left as he can get. Can't get further left than Simone. They're talking about the border and undocumented aliens and all of that. Go. What is the difference between

an illegal immigrant who unfortunately engages in that activity? And we don't like that. I want to be clear. We don't do the term illegal so undocumented individuals. We don't use that term.

Who's we? Who's we? We don't use that term. So this is the epitome of woke. Can't say that. And it's not a matter of opinion. It's not like you shouldn't say it or you know, you should use undocumented migrants, not an illegal alien. It's you can't.

And if you do, we're going to do something to you, totalitarianism. That's what the far left is, totalitarianism. It's really amusing whenever you say, oh, democracy's on the ballot. Yeah, okay, for you people. So anyway, you cannot get more woke than MSNBC owned by NBC News. You can't. It's impossible. every cause, every phrase, this is what they do.

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He's not talking about the Wild West. He's talking about the West as far as USA, Europe, this and that. And the walk stuff in the book's pretty good. I have to say, it's good research in the book. I learned some stuff. You may know, Kirk. He's the founder of Turning Point USA. He's got a radio program on Salem.

He has written three other books. And he is a committed conservative. He joins us now from Phoenix, Arizona. All right, so I'm halfway through your book. I'm not that convinced there's going to be a right-wing revolution in this country. All right? Convinced me I'm wrong. Well, I hope I'm right.

I mean, part of the book, as you all know, is trying to lay the foundation that this is what is necessary. Now, I will say, though, Bill, we're starting to see a little rumblings in France, and we're seeing this across Europe, in Belgium, in the Netherlands, saw it a little bit in Argentina and El Salvador. And I want to be very clear that part of this idea of a right-wing revolution is just re-centering the country around normal and agreeable public policy positions, such as we should have a border, such as that children are off limits when it comes to medical mutilation. And so the idea of a right-wing revolution is actually recentering back to a country of the late 80s or early 90s. Bill, it's impossible to predict. You might be right. It might not happen. However, across the western world we're starting to see more and more citizens everyday people start to resist left-wing policies of mass migration and cheap money and albeit also inflation and they want

to try to get back to the ways the way things were more orderly more sensible less radical less insane the days where we did not have to wonder if our eight-year-olds in school we're going to be taught then men could give birth okay i don't disagree with anything you just said because you're being a fact-based guy. All right? In the recent votes in the EU and Europe, the right-wing parties, they branded far right by the New York Times, but they're not really far right. Some of them are, but most of them are just people saying, look, we've had enough, we're overrun here by migrants. They're changing everybody's way of life. We're a welfare state anyway, most European countries are. We can't afford to support all of these people. So we're going to try to go

into a more conservative government. Absolutely true. No doubt about it. But it's a little bit different dynamic in America. Okay. So you got Biden almost with parity in the polling with Trump, whereby if you look at the damage Biden has done to this country in three and a half years, it's colossal. And if you look at the polls, 70% of Americans say, going in the wrong direction. So by all of that, Biden should be down 20 points in these presidential polls, but he's not. And that's what gives me a hesitation that there might be a right-wing revolution. That's a great point, Bill. And presidential elections are tricky, where even if a president has a sub-50% approval rating, sometimes they get re-elected.

And so I want to be clear, I'm not predicting a right-wing revolution will happen in November. I'm hoping, I'm starting to see signs that it could be bubbling up. However, Bill, I will say a recent CBS poll, which was the poll heard around the world, showed that 62% of Americans support mass deportations. That was not the case five or ten years ago. That is a new phenomenon. No, on the issue set, but the dichotomy is that's Trump's position, but you got 62 saying, yeah, yeah, but you don't have Trump at 62 winning, beating Biden, who would have to get 38? See, that's the, go ahead. And no, I just, I think that's a smart point.

And I think in presidential politics, it becomes very personality driven and less policy driven. And that's for better or for worse. I think it actually helps Donald Trump in certain areas where no matter what he does, they're going to stay with him. I'm a huge supporter of his. It also hurts him where other people are not willing to entertain his policies.

There was an interesting poll last week that came out that showed that Democrats love the idea of no taxes on tips, waiters and waitresses, people when they rely on tips. However, they hate the idea if they found out it was Donald Trump's policy position. It was a fascinating poll. It was like a 50-point move.

So it's a great point bill. And it goes to show that on the issue set, though, I think the country is more center right than we give it credit for. It's more center right when it comes on immigration, more center right when it comes on sizes, scope of government and spending. Okay. The Supreme Court announced today is going to hear this genital mutilation stuff next fall, where states are banning any kind of operations for Americans under the age of 18, even if the parents consent to it, there are bans. Supreme Court's going to hear that. I'm just going to submit to you that one of the things that is holding Donald Trump back from getting independent votes, all right, is his obsession with the election of 2020. And you were on board with the election was a fraud.

I followed you because you to me, the reason I follow Kirk and my, I'm talking to my audience now, He's 30 years old. He's got a lot of input coming in from the younger folks, younger Americans, all right? And so I follow what he's doing to see what they're doing, what they're thinking, because I want the full spectrum from 18 all the way up to death. All right? Now, I get a lot of younger viewers now because of YouTube, which shocks me. But that's why I follow Kirk.

So back to the question, I think that Trump's obsession with 2020, all right, still continues to hurt him in this election. Am I wrong? So first, I'll say that there's a season for all things. And when it was really a, let's just say a recent wound, I think it was helpful to talk about ways we could have secured the election better and things we could have done better in 2020. I will say, though, in this season we're in right now, talking about 2020 does not do us any good. So I'm in full agreement. For example, I think a trap question that might be thrown at Donald Trump, this debate will be if Jake Tapper asked Donald Trump if the 2020, do you accept the 2020 election results. And he will.

How Donald Trump navigates that question. Well, how he, well, I think how he navigates that question is important. And there's a variety of ways he can do that. No, no, there's only one way. There's only one way. No, it's only one way, Charlie. Only one. When Tapper asks him in it, it's a when, not an it. He looks at a camera and says, it is my opinion that the vote in 2020 was flawed. I would like to know where the $300 million that Mark Zuckerberg put into the election went. And I think those are legitimate opinions to hold. That's it. No more.

I think that's just those two points. I think that's really smart. And he has to be prepared for that because Tapper will ask that directly and Joe Biden's going to try to pile on. And so I think, I think we agree, Bill. I think Donald Trump said his best when he is a forward facing vision casting candidate, especially to contrast against the disaster of the Biden presidency. Okay. How should the Republican Party, and we did this earlier in the program today, handle the abortion issue, in your opinion? So I say this as someone who is resolutely pro-life. So I want to make sure everyone understands my credentials. But I also want to win elections. So I think we have to operate with prudence and put this in the hands of voters.

Let's take Arizona, for example. Here in Arizona, this is a pro-choice, abortion state. I say that with a little bit of sadness because I wish it was more pro-life. So you have to find some sort of measure or mean or some sort of agreeable limit that allows you to still win elections and make progress in the pro-life direction. So for example, 70% of Americans do not think that abortion up until the point of birth is something that we should allow. That could put the Democrats on defense. So again, I say this as someone who is pro-life, but I'll also say that if we do not approach this issue correctly or with any sort of wisdom, then it could end up being a losing political issue for Republicans. And the failure to recognize that or acknowledge

that is not living in the current American political reality. All right. Charlie Kirk, the book is Right Wing Revolution, How to Beat the Woke and Save the West. Now, if I send you a not woke mug, From Bill O'Reilly.com, are you going to use that? I will happily receive it. I will, absolutely. All right, because this is our best-selling mug ever. It's sweeping the country, and since you wrote a book about beating the world, you ought to have one, and we're going to send one to you.

Appreciate it, Charlie. Good luck with the book. Thank you for coming on. We'll talk again, okay? Talk to you soon. Thanks, Bill. All right. Now, here is something that I have to report it, but I still can't believe it.

So the Secretary of State of the USA is a man named Anthony Blinken, okay, no H in Anthony's name. Blinken announces that the United States is going to send $110 million to Haiti, okay, to support, the Haitian national police, which doesn't exist. Gangsters run Haiti. If you follow the new cycle, you know that. Now, over the past, let me get the stat correct. The United States has provided more than $5.6 billion to support Haiti since 2010. 5.6 billion taxpayer dollars. Haiti is the worst, most chaotic, and probably the most dangerous

country in the Western Hemisphere. After all of that money, but not only that, $60 billion of private money, churches, donations, has gone to Haiti. You add it all up, and it's over two hundred billion dollars. Every cent of it wasted. Every cent of it's stolen. And we're going to send another $110 billion in there. And what do you think's going to happen, Antony? Magically, they're going to take the money and do some good with it? Do you really think that? This is just, this epitomizes the Biden administration. abuse the taxpayer dollars couldn't care less how they're spent. And if they get reelected, the tax rate for hardworking people going to rock it.

Trump, what a zero win on that. Smart life. So the rising cost of living in the USA means a lot of Americans can't take summer vacations. All right? This is a survey by Tucker Research. All right. So 76% of Americans are impacted by the higher prices. I think it's more than that. And their travel plans are affected. Okay, so they're either canceling 37% saying they're doing something different. Now, if you are going on a summer vacation, this is a smart life segment.

I'm going to give you a couple of very simple things to do. Number one, Breakfast is now way out of sight in a restaurant. So it used to be you can go and get some pancakes, French toast, an omelet, a little bacon and eggs, whatever it may be, and it's not going to kill you. Now, family of four totals in to even a diner. Family of four, if you order juice or whatever like that, you're scraping 75 to 100 bucks in the morning. Breakfast.

Okay. You want to, wherever you go, isolate a deli or something like that, and they're everywhere, that will make you breakfast to go. And when you go in to pick up your sandwich or they'll give you pancakes and french toast, they'll do it, they have everything, okay, 50% less. And you go eat it at a picnic table or wherever you want to eat it, your hotel room, whatever. You buy sandwiches for lunch at the same time. Now, the sandwiches are ridiculously expensive now, but if you go and eat the garbage at the fast food place, it's going to cost you more, okay, and you're going to die because that food's so bad.

At least when you go into a deli, you can say, you know, I like a BLT, get the lettuce and the tomato, I like a little tuna on a, you know, whatever it may be. if you get the sour dough bread that that's the best bread plan okay if you go to the restaurant to eat on vacation you you better bring a sack full of dough but if you buy in the places that you carry out you can do it and then you can splurge on dinner or whatever it may be all right smart life right how much money do you need to be in the top 5% in your state i can only have time to do five states all right throw it on up there. New York State, to be in the top five earners, you need $553,000 a year. Half million dollars coming in. Connecticut, $518,000. Virginia, the Commonwealth, $518,000.

Jersey, $505,000. Illinois, $500,000. That's what you need. And then we have on the other end of that, the bottom 20%. you know, people who just can't earn a living, mostly because they are not educated and they don't have any skills. Stay in history, June 24, 18, 1987. Jackie Gleason dies, 71 years old, colon cancer. Why am I doing this? Because younger people don't know who Jackie Gleason is. And he was a genius, a comic genius. And he was nominated for Academy Award and a hustler. Didn't win, but brilliant actor as well. Poor. Dirt poor. Father left him when he was not. raised by a mother, okay, brother died. And he rockets up, the American dream.

And he did it on the back of a working-class show called The Honeymooners. Go. What's it saying in a book? Now you're getting smart. To Emily, who Slice inspired me to write this. Got that! Leave the instructions.

The golf swing. First, step up. Plant your feet firmly on the ground and address the ball. Wait a minute. What do they mean by address the ball? How should I know? That's what it says here.

We'll read a little further. Maybe it explains. Oh, that's all it says. Address the ball. Wait a matter. I think I know what it means there. Here, give me the clock. Step up, plant your feet firmly.

Hello, boys. Carney and Gleason. I mean, Laurel and Hardy, Avicosello, I think Carney and Gleason would better. Jackie Gleason never rehearsed. It was all ad lib. Amazing man. He died 37 years ago today.

Back in a moment. Okay, final thought, new book. New book alert, Martin Dugard taking London, Winston Churchill, and the fight to save civilization. This is different from the killing books. This is more centered on history and how it evolved. It's not narrative-based like the killing books are. I mean, New Guard knows how we do it. But Marty's a serious historian.

and a great researcher, as you know. So I'm reading a book now, along with Kirk's book, and I'm learning a lot about Winnie, Winston Churchill, and Clementine, his wife. So you might want to consider that, taking London, Martin Dugard. Okay, thank you very much. We're going to have a while week, while week on this debate.

So we hope you stay with us every step of the way. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.