Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Border Bill Collapse, Migrants Who Beat NYPD Officers Arrested in Phoenix, Steven Camarota on the Border, Trump Challenges Biden to a Debate, Kamala Harris Hits Trump, & More
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Hey Bill O'Reilly here.
Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, February 6, 2024, stand up for your country.
Remember the cliche, honesty is the best policy?
Ah, the nuns drilled that into our heads when I was in grammar school at St. Bridget's on Long Island.
And it's true.
If you can be honest throughout your life, you'll be way ahead of the game.
Fortunately, we don't have an honest society anymore.
Our politicians, not all of them, but many of them are blatantly dishonest, and our media is flat out corrupt.
And this is very vividly on display with the border situation.
So it's no surprise this immigration bill is not going to get passed.
We went over it yesterday.
Hey, it's a bad bill, to weak bill, all right?
There's no reason to pass it.
If you can't do better than that, wait to a new administration comes in in November,
because this is not going to solve any of the problems.
Now, I'm a simple man, you know I'm a simple man, probably too simple.
But here is my essential question, and I've asked it.
Who does this bill help?
Does it help you, the American taxpayer?
Does it help your family?
Who does it help?
You see, we elect people to do two things,
to protect us from criminals and forces overseas that would hurt us,
and to provide a society where we can pursue happiness.
What does this do?
this bill, this monster bill, 370 pages, who does it help?
And I have asked that question now, I asked it on News Nation last night, I've asked it to a number
of my liberal friends, nobody can answer it, nobody.
And if you cannot answer that question, in any bill, it shouldn't pass.
Simple analysis from a simple man.
All right, let's advance the story.
and that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo.
So tomorrow, the Senate is set to vote on whether this immigration bill gets advanced to the floor.
Don't know what will happen, but it doesn't really matter because the House of Representatives is not going to vote on the bill, according to the Speaker of the House.
All right, there are already 23 senators to say, look, we're not supporting this.
So there are 77 who are considering it.
60 are needed to advance the bill to the floor of the Senate.
In the meantime, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson says, look, there's just no way.
And he's got a variety of excuses Johnson does, why they don't like the bill.
Some of them are valid, some of them are not.
There are some good things in the bill.
One of the bad things in the bill is that Ukraine aid and Israeli aid from the USA is tied into it.
That should never happen.
Never in a million years.
Those should be separate votes.
And I'm going to get into that with President Biden coming up later on the broadcast.
Now, here's what you need to understand.
So far, in the three years Biden's been in office, three years in a couple of weeks.
The United States government has spent $451 billion on migrants in three years, and that doesn't count the state and local expenditures.
So they've got to be another $50 billion.
So that takes us up to a half trillion dollars, at least on migrants, on foreign nationals coming here.
We have to pay those taxes.
We the working people of America.
A half a trillion dollars in three years.
That's insane.
Nobody does that.
No country on earth comes close to that.
It's raise a tax, raise a tax, raise a tax, raise a tax, and then throw away a half trillion dollars.
Now, do you think I'm a mean guy if it's saying throw away?
None of this had to happen, because Biden knocked out the remaining Mexico policy,
which allowed people to apply for asylum in the USA,
but they had a way to Mexico or their home country,
which is the sane way to do it.
That's what Trump did.
Okay.
Now this bill would add at least $20 billion more,
so now we're creeping, slouching up to a trillion dollars on this.
We don't have the money.
So, taxes are going to have to go up everywhere to support this insanity.
Now the bill, if it had stopped it, would have been worth doing.
All they had to do in the bill was say, we're going to suspend all asylum claims for
six months.
Nobody can ask for asylum in the United States for six months.
So we can reorganize our judicial system, which is backlogged now three to five years, our border
patrol system, our computer system, our housing for migrant system.
We need that time to reorganize.
That should have been first thing in the bill.
And then the other things, the good things, could have then been listed.
I would have supported a bill like that.
But this one doesn't have any suspension.
It just adds layer upon layer of bureaucracy that, believe me, will not solve any problems.
The problems will mount.
So that's why I don't support it.
Plus the fact that it doesn't do anybody any good, as I said.
Now, you can get better legislation.
The House can write a better bill, putting in the suspension for six months.
on the top of it.
They can do that tomorrow.
Johnson, the Speaker of the House,
should be working on it now.
Don't be doctor no.
Say no to a bad bill, but say we're gonna make it better
because we do need immigration reform here.
Absolutely need it.
All right.
Now I don't know whether they're working on a better bill or not.
I don't know.
And that's a memo.
So let's get some reaction to this.
I believe,
that this bill was put forth by Senator Schumer, the majority leader in the Senate,
who wants to keep that position in November, to give Joe Biden cover.
Because everybody knows this whole immigration mess, all half a trillion dollars of it is Biden's fault.
Biden keeps saying he doesn't have the power to stop all of these asylum claims.
Yes, he does.
by executive order.
Trump's Remain in Mexico wasn't passed.
It was an executive order.
So Biden's not telling the truth.
What a shock, right?
OK.
First sound by it is Nikki Haley.
Go.
The part that I don't like about the bill,
it doesn't require Remain in Mexico, which
is very important at keeping them from coming on US soil
in the first place.
And I don't like the 5,000 limit.
We don't want any.
anybody to come in. We can't say only when 5,000 people have crossed the border. They need to
stay there. They need to figure this out. They need to adjust it, amend it in any way that they
can, and they should not leave D.C. until they get us a border bill. And no, we are not waiting
until the general election to do this. That's a fairly intelligent statement, I think.
Second one is Fox News, which, as many people know, is kind of a confusing place these days.
Roll it.
But here's the problem for you guys.
The Border Patrol Union came out, and the acting CBP chief both came out and said they're not, it's not perfect.
But this is the best thing we've seen in decades.
So are Republicans going to say that the Border Patrol Union and the acting CBP?
chief are wrong? Well, look, they can have their perspective, Steve. And we've got a lot of respect.
It's their jobs, Tom. All right. So Mr. Ducey's role now is to counter what the conservative
thought is on legislation. It's by design. There's no question I know. Do you see? I mean,
I know the system. And the operation, Fox News, feels it needs to have.
some dissenting voices and not be in lockstep with the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
So that's what you just saw there as we're going on for a while.
Okay.
The third one is MSNBC, and I'm only using this to show you how insane things are at NBC News.
Go.
You have the Speaker of the House who claims that the Bible guides him.
We got claims that the Jesus, I guess, must have told him.
I don't know.
I didn't read this part of the sermon in the mouth, but to gain power by lying,
to gain power by pushing the big lie.
As Liz Cheney said he was the chief opponent of the big lie, he didn't believe it,
but said, I need to do this ghost to get close to Donald Trump.
And so he's now going around lying on, I've seen enough.
This bill is too liberal.
Is that going to be his choice?
I've seen enough.
I don't really have to say anything about it.
I mean, what they put out every day.
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Okay.
The New York Post is highlighting migrant crime.
And there's plenty of it in New York City.
You know about the police officers who were attacked in Times Square.
Now the cops tell us 14 migrants attacked two police officers.
We'll get to that in a minute, the details, because some of them have been caught in Arizona.
But the New York Post is highlighting migrant crime.
I want to know about migrant crime.
I live very close to New York City, but I understand that you can demonize.
migrants by doing this. So most migrants, as we know, are peaceful and they just want a better
life. They're not all terrible people. Only a few of them are terrible people. But those
terrible people shouldn't be here. We have enough of our own terrible people. And there's no vetting.
There's no vetting at all. Biden just goes, everybody comes in. Anybody who can say the
word asylum in either English or Spanish or any other language. Come on in. We're not betting you.
We don't really care if you're evil. So the 14 involved, there have been one is in one out of the
14 is in custody. Five were released, Nobel, New York City, and they picked them up in Arizona,
but they won't tell us who they picked up.
They should, they being the Arizona authorities.
So right now they're in the custody of immigration and customs enforcement,
which is good.
You take them out in New York City because they're never going to get prosecuted under Alvin Bragg,
which is a scandal beyond belief,
and put them in the federal system.
Now, they'll deport them eventually, but they'll come right back.
But come right back.
You think the cartels are going to lay down even if this bill was passed?
It's not going to be passed.
But even if the bill will be, you think the cartels are going to, come on.
They just figure out ways around it.
Too much money.
Okay.
I want another perspective from a guy who has been working this for,
got to be 25 years.
I used to have him on the O'Reilly Factor,
and now I've had them on the no-spin news a number of times.
Stephen Camerata is the director of research for the Center
for immigration studies.
Okay, border patrol union says, good bill,
we ought to sign this bill, we need this bill,
you say?
I can't speak for them, but it doesn't seem like the bill
does the things that we need.
It has all kinds of other things
that are kind of a democratic wish list,
and I'm not just talking about Ukraine,
I'm talking about other things like increasing green cards,
but it also puts into legislation and law policies of the Biden administration that have greatly
accelerated illegal immigration.
So it seems very counterproductive, but I'm assuming what they like is, you know, more resources
for the Border Patrol.
It's more spending, more hiring, that kind of thing.
And bureaucracies usually favor that regardless of the underlying policy.
And that may be what's going on here.
Well, I'm thinking is this is better than the chaos.
we have now. Anything is better. That's the thinking. Did you read the bill, Steve?
I have reviewed the bill and spoken to people who are attorneys who've gone through it piece
by piece. I've read big sections of it. In your opinion, and we've got to keep this simple,
because people can't possibly understand 370 pages of bureaucratic. What is the most egregious
part of the bill to you?
well it's extraneous stuff why would you give out a whole bunch more green cards what does that have to do with the border why do you allow a policy that's being here's a great irony there's a policy that's being challenged by 20 attorney generals that is a letting what are called asylum officers who often are not lawyers or anything basically grant asylum this is a new thing the Biden administration essentially created including the attorney generals who are challenging it
are from Oklahoma, where Senator Langsford's from,
and also from Kentucky, where the majority leader is,
the minority leader is from.
So we have a situation where literally they're putting into law
a policy that is being challenged in court
because it's making it so easy to get asylum.
But probably the most egregious thing
is the stuff that everyone's focused on.
The border doesn't, quote, get shut down
until we get a consistent day after day, like a week of 5,000 new border encounters.
So in other words, we have to get up to the record and then we, quote, shut it down.
But keep in mind that that doesn't even happen because even when it's shut down,
and remember the president doesn't have to shut it down, but he can if he wants,
we're still supposed to process 1,400 illegal immigrants and release them presumably into the United States.
So we don't have a use.
There's a thing called expedited removal.
Let's you send people back quick.
We have a requirement for, say, asylum applicants to be detained.
That's being ignored.
So we're not using expedited removal.
We're not going to be sending people back quickly.
We're not going to detain them.
As you point out, we had this sound policy remain in Mexico.
We got rid of that.
We got rid of the migration agreements we had with sending countries.
So what this essentially is is kind of, look, here's the thing about the Democrats,
and this is not a character, a mischaracterization or a character choice.
Their position is everyone in the developing world has the right to apply for asylum in the
United States, and if the system is overwhelmed, they should be released into the United
States.
Now, just so you know.
That's certainly the Biden administration's saying.
But in the bill, let me play devil's advocate, there are new provisions for,
getting asylum. And they are, you got to prove that you couldn't move to another part of your
own country for safety. You got to prove that you couldn't go to another country, which they
can't because they're all marching through Mexico. You're already in another country. So it makes
it harder, at least that's what it says in the bill, to get asylum once you get a hearing
in the United States, which could be anywhere from three to eight years.
And that's not going to lessen, even if they put in more people to adjudicate it.
This is just too many right now.
But in the bill, it tightens up what asylum, what the qualifications for asylum are.
A, those provisions are already in the law.
You can take into account as an immigration judge whether the person could relocate in their own country.
You can, but they're not doing it.
No.
The other thing is you already have it in the law that if a person,
person travels through a safe third country like Mexico and then comes here. They're really
country shopping. They're not fleeing for their lives. Remember, that's what asylum is supposed to
be. So there's no reason to believe that the Biden administration would implement something that's
already in the books, even if the wording has slightly changed. They still want to let asylum
officers play a role in this system of granting asylum, something that's never happened. They were
only supposed to be there to weed folks out. In other words, we have all the provisions, or most
provisions are already on the books and they're not being enforced. There's no reason to think
that saying them again in effect would have that much effect. And remember, they're not going
to be enforced. And under a Democrat administration, whether it's Biden or Michelle Obama or
whoever, the word is going to go out, let them in. Okay, final question. Final question here.
Biden is lying in my opinion when he says, give me the authority and I'll
shut it down. Now, you've been doing this a long time. Trump's remain in Mexico policy was an
executive order, correct? Yes, but we had to negotiate it with Mexico. Right. I don't
care about Mexico at this point. So if Trump can do a remain in Mexico policy where you couldn't
come to the United States and wait for your asylum hearing, could not, okay, Biden can do,
the same thing right there's no reason he couldn't right that that's a fair point he could use expedited
removal right now he could use detention we could resign migration agreement yes and everybody in the media
knows he's lying and doesn't challenge the lie that is really serious right I mean the coverage
of this without explaining the people that the border was largely under control it is not the
case there was a massive economic deterioration or massive new political oppression in the
world, including in Latin America. That's not what caused this. Sure, America's richer.
Life is better here. But that was true in 2019. That's not what's probably. Kamala Harris knows
the root causes, though. She'll explain all that. And you know, Steve, I don't mind the 50,000
more green cards a year. I don't. Because there are industry that need labor in the farms and in the
service industry. I don't mind that. As long as it's legal, but this thing is totally out of
control. We appreciate your expertise, Steve. Thanks very much for helping us out. Okay,
President Biden, another rough day. He attended a reception in recognition of Black History Month.
Okay? I would have attended it too. That's a good, worthy thing. But that's it. That's all he
did. Debate. Now, I've told you, and I hope you believe me, that President Biden's not going to
debate anybody. We can't. He's not mentally fit enough to do a debate. So Trump knows that.
And Trump goes on a radio and says this, go. I don't think he's going to run. But I'd like to
go for immediately debates. I'd like to debate them now because we should debate. We should debate for
the good of the country.
All right, so Trump wants to debate
Nikki Haley, Trump to debate Biden.
And here's what Biden said in reply, go.
Mr. President, Donald Trump's ready
to debate you right now, do you accept?
You want to debate you immediately, you said.
Immediately.
Will you debate him?
He might want to debate me too.
You got nothing else to do.
I don't know if I'd be talking about nothing else to do, holding a big milkshake, and according to his schedule, he hasn't done anything in about 10 days, except raise money, Biden.
But I don't want to nitpick.
Anyway, if you are holding out hope of a Trump-Biden debate, not going to happen.
I could be wrong, and if I am, you can all make fun of me, and we'll play the tape.
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All right, the head of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayork is going to get impeached.
And the vote could come at any time.
As I said, we tape in the late afternoon.
So it might be tonight, might be tomorrow, who knows what it's going to be.
Two Republican House members say they're not going to vote for impeachment.
Tom McClintock, California, Ken Buck, Colorado.
They don't think it's worthy effort.
Okay, I don't care.
It's symbolic anyway because even if the House passes impeachment onto the Senate,
no way.
The Senate's going to convict Mayorkas of any.
And you need two-thirds of the Senate to convict.
But I want to just keep you up to date on what's happening.
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Biden's not going to do an interview with CBS.
That network loves him.
Been exceedingly kind.
to Joe Biden, CBS. Why? Because the management is liberal of CBS. You know, I worked for CBS.
I worked at Channel 2 in New York, WCBS, and for Dan Rather. Now, back then, Bernie Goldberg was
a compatriot of mine. They were liberal, but they weren't out of control. Liberal now.
I looked at the roster the other day. I can't find one conservative presence on CBS, not in the
morning, certainly not Colbert, the evening news. I don't see anything, anybody on their roster
who's conservative. Nobody. Okay. So why would Biden not do the Super Bowl pre-Super
Bowl interview? Why? Millions of people are going to watch. He can say whatever he wants
to say the interviewer, whoever it would be, Nora O'Donnell, or Gail King, you know,
whoever they pay.
Not going to go in and go after him.
So why wouldn't he do it?
Because his staff and wife don't believe he has a mental capacity to sit there and do
an interview.
He could say anything, as we reported yesterday.
it. And so that's not going to happen. So, of course, Trump throws a social media thing out. Quote,
Crooked Joe Biden has just announced he will not be doing the big Super Bowl interview.
A great decision. He can't put two sentences together. I would be happy to replace him would be
ratings gold, Donald Trump. Now, seven years ago, how ironic is this, I did the big
Super Bowl interview with Donald Trump.
We have it posted on bill o'Reilly.com the whole thing, but I'm going to play you
the big splash of the interview.
Go.
Do you respect Putin?
I do respect him.
Do you?
Why?
Well, I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him.
He's a leader of his country.
I say it's better to get along with Russia than not.
I have no idea whether or not we're going to.
I had a very good conversation with him.
I spoke to him, I guess, twice.
He congratulated me one time, and then he, after I won,
and then he congratulated me called to congratulate me from the other,
meaning the inauguration, which was a great success.
And we'll see what happens.
I think that, look, if we can get along with Russia,
and if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS,
which is a major fight,
anti-Islamic terrorism all over the world,
major fight, that's a good thing.
Will I get along with them?
I have no idea.
It's a killer, though.
Putin's a killer.
A lot of killers.
You got a lot of killers.
Why, you think our country's so innocent?
Do you think our country's so innocent?
I don't know of any government leaders that are killers in America.
Well, take a look at what we've done, too.
We've made a lot of mistakes.
I've been against the war in Iraq from the beginning.
Mistakes are different then.
A lot of mistakes, okay, but a lot of people were killed.
So a lot of killers around, believe me.
You mentioned ISIS.
And I'm not apologizing from Putin.
I don't know Putin. I'm not apologizing for anybody.
You guys are going to meet, by the way? Do you have a meeting?
I guess at some point we'll meet.
But I'm just saying this.
Getting along with countries, not just Russia, is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Got it.
Okay. So I can't believe seven years went by that fast.
Today, Putin's back. He's back.
He's back in Ukraine. He's back in American politics.
Nothing's changed with Putin.
except he's gotten more aggressive and he's killed more people.
So, as I just said, Ukraine aid and Israeli aid is tied in with the border bill.
A border bill goes down, which you will, then you don't have Ukraine and Israeli aid.
Why?
Don't put the two together.
Vote on Ukraine aid separately and then Israeli aid.
separately. Okay? But Biden's putting this farce. That's what it is out there. Go.
If we don't stop Putin's appetite for power and control in Ukraine, he won't limit himself to
just Ukraine. And the cost for America and our allies and partners will rise.
For those Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held
accountable? History is watching. History is watching. The failure of support Ukraine, this critical
moment will never be forgotten. The position of the Magi Republicans can be characterized by the New York
Times headline. First, and this is the headline, it reads, Trump first, Putin second, America
third. Okay. So, you know, I told you the top of the broadcast, honest.
You know, let's go.
All right.
It's ridiculous.
Remember Spiro Agnew, those of you who were around in the Vietnam era,
Vice President for Nixon?
He was the attack dog, right?
And then he was a crook.
He took money and he got booted out of there.
Kamala Harris now, they're setting her up to be the attack dog in this campaign.
Roll the tape.
The former president openly talks about
his admiration for dictators and has vowed that he will be a dictator on day one understand
what dictators do dictators put journalists in jail dictators suspend elections
dictators take your rights and as the great maya angeloly
once said when someone tells you who they are believe them the first time well the former president
has told us who he is and it is on us then to recognize the profound threat he poses to our democracy
and to our freedoms what a bunch of garbage trump said a i'll be dictator on day one
because he's going to sign a bunch of executive orders to reverse the Biden policies.
Not that he's going to put people in jail.
She knows, well, I don't even know what she knows, but it just goes back to honesty.
It's ridiculous. But there are people who go, yeah, oh, geez, smart life, getting up in the morning.
Okay, the morning's the most important part of the day. I know you heard it, but it's true.
And I was looking at some websites and they're giving you all kinds of
in the morning and most of them are just foolish dopey stuff but it's it's worth for
smart life to do certain things number one when you get up whatever time that
may be ease into the day don't you pop up like a little jack in a box and before
you go to bed the night before if you have stuff you have to do in the morning
write it down on your dopey phone or on a piece of
paper. So you know. Because in the morning, it takes about a half an hour to focus. Now, if you're
blasting the coffee down, you'll get a little caffeine lift, but that's not really mental
clarity. Okay. So ease into the morning. You know, it's number one, ease into it. Then you pick up
the pace a little bit. And depending on what you have to do, and you'll know what you have to do
because you wrote it down the night before, right?
Now, I don't watch TV in the morning
because it just drives me nuts.
I mean, you can watch all the networks, all the cable,
you and I will learn one thing between the hours of five and ten.
You know, it's just the same, whatever they're doing, I don't know,
but I don't watch it.
I do read the newspapers.
I get newspapers delivered,
and I read a couple of the aggregate websites
because I got to know what happened overnight.
And I listen on the radio to the CBS World News Roundup, which is pretty straight, right?
But I have my information thing.
Then I ate a little breakfast, not a lot.
Okay, I got my, whatever, Irish oatmeal, blueberries, English muffins.
I do put a little butter on it, a little jam once in a while.
But I'm not the heavy cholesterol bacon and eggs.
once in a while.
But I want to be lean and mean here as I zip into the day.
But think about the morning.
The morning is very important for you.
Okay, this day in history, February 6th, 2008,
the Bush administration justifies waterboarding.
Remember that?
Okay.
So the New Yorker magazine breaks a story,
reporting in Jane Mayer.
the CIA is torturing, whatever, capture jihadists to get information by putting
cloths on her head and dumping water because that stimulates a feeling of drowning.
All right.
So the Bush administration says, no, no, it's legal.
On the record, the president didn't say it that day, February 6, 2008.
But later, he did, roll it.
Why is waterboarding legal, in your opinion?
Because the lawyer said it was legal.
It said it did not fall within the anti-torture act.
I'm not a lawyer.
But you've got to trust the judgment of people around you, and I do.
You say it's legal, and the lawyers told me.
Yeah.
It's simple as that.
Now, Barack Obama knocked it out.
But here's the kicker.
Obama got bin Laden.
In Pakistan, remember? Biden was against that raid, by the way. I just want to remind you,
this is all in killing the killers. The locale of where bin Laden was, was gleaned from a captured jihadist
who underwent waterboarding. Quick break. We got the mail, and we have a final thought about me and
Mike Wallace. Okay, let's go to the mail. Mark, concierge member, Mark gets direct access to me.
We hope everybody checks out concierge membership on Bill O'Reilly.com. Mark says,
Hey, Bill, you send your memo that the majority of Americans have had it with President Biden. Okay,
if you say so. But if that's true, how is he getting near 50% against Trump? Because people don't like Trump.
that's why
you think anybody's supporting Biden
it's all an anti-Trump play
Glenda
the American people other than progressives want the border
closed
shut the border and they
will quit coming
I think we should have a massive protest in the country
demanding the border be shut
they tried that in Texas at Eagle Pass
it didn't really coalesce
No, we're not seeing protests against the open border.
Dennis.
At some point, Bill, can these perpetuating fraud be held accountable?
No.
Politicians are indemnified from any of that or else they be sued every single day.
William, thank you for the good, concise analysis of the Board of Security Bill.
You're welcome, William.
That's why we are here.
I hope you invest your time with us.
We will always tell you the truth.
Mark Ritter, Philadelphia.
Bill, I have a few questions.
What happens to a country when its government is so corrupt
that forces the government to rebel?
Are we getting closer to that point?
Look, you want to rebel against the government?
You can peacefully protest.
You can move.
Americans can go anywhere they want to work.
You could run for office, locally, whatever, a variety of ways.
But there's not going to be a violent insurrection in this country.
Not in our lifetime.
Not going to happen.
Jerry Oldham, McCleckamon, Louisiana, Asian country.
Mr. Bill, if the governor of New York can fire brag, why can't the governor of Georgia fire Willis?
He can.
There are mechanisms in general.
Georgia to get rid of Fannie Willis?
I mean, you know, I don't know what they need down there, but you can.
David Ware, Hallsville, Texas, I was wondering if you could provide some feedback.
I have twin daughters turning 13.
My wife wants to take them in New York City to celebrate their birthdays.
I don't like the idea because of the crime.
Your ladies would be fine.
Make sure they get a good hotel.
Make sure they take tours of the city.
make sure they're not wandering around at night.
If they want to go somewhere, you get a car, you go.
But it's not like I wouldn't send anybody to San Francisco.
But New York, but you got to get a good hotel,
and you've got to get tours.
You don't want to be wandering around yourself.
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back with a final thought in a moment.
All right, here is the final thought of the day.
First, I want to give you the address.
Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com,
at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Name in town, please, if you wish to a pawn.
I got some good letters I can't read
because I don't have identification on them.
All right, so there is a documentary.
I watched it last night.
I don't even know what network I watched it.
It's a whole bunch of networks.
It's called Mike Wallace.
here okay now you may know because I have said this that I believe Mike
Wallace is the best broadcast journalism ever was the best he's deceased now I had a
very good relationship with him and he was on the factor I was on 60 minutes
and I dinner with him from time to time I'm telling you this guy was brilliant
so brilliant and he and peter jennings were the two that taught me the most so the documentary i'm in
the documentary very flattered to be in it i'm in it uh if you get a chance mike wallace is here
well worth your time tomorrow we're going to run uh my super bowl interview with uh baroque
Obama? Not the whole thing, but the part that's relevant today. And then Thursday we'll run my
second Super Bowl interview with Barack Obama. Same thing, but all three are posted on bill
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