Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - BREAKING: ICE Shooting in Minneapolis, Greenland Hysteria, & Jeffrey Halstead Breaks Down the U.S. Crime Drop

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  What we know so far about an ICE agent who shot a civilian in Minneapolis. Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down the hysteria surrounding Greenland and Trump and explains what’s likely to happen. The latest in Venezuela after the U.S. seized a Russian‑flagged, Venezuela‑linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic. Jeffrey Halstead, Genasys spokesman and former Chief of Police, joins the No Spin News to discuss why high crime has dropped in the U.S. and whether policy changes are driving this shift. Bill examines the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act and what it entails. Will it be voted on? Final Thought: Asking others for money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Hello, Riley here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, January 7, 2020. Stand up for your country. Breaking news. Ice agent has shot and killed a protester in Minneapolis, a very troubled city. one of the most chaotic places in the USA right now. When something like this happens, and it's unfolding today, people immediately take sides.

They know everything. Oh, yeah. Well, we're not going to do that. We're going to tell you what we know right now, and then tomorrow I'll do with talking points because we'll have much better information. Ice agents have ascended upon Minneapolis in the wake of the Somali fraud situation,

ordered thereby President Trump and Homeland Security, 2,000 ice agents looking for what always they look for, criminal aliens, and then people tied into those migrants. So, 2,000 is a lot of folks. And Minneapolis is a radical left city. Okay, that's the George Floyd situation. You know it very well. And right now, Minneapolis and Minnesota is a center of far-left governance. Okay. So I'll give you what I know, and then I'll give you my opinion on it, and then we'll get into some other stories, particularly Greenland. So Christy Nome basically says that ICE officers were attacked by a war. woman using her car, much like a Chicago situation a few months back.

The city of Minneapolis, the mayor, Jacob Fry, and the police chief say no, the woman was fleeing, I used to shot her for no reason as she was driving her car away. All right, we have seen video that shows the bullet holes in the front of the car. That's all I'm going to say. That video may be distorted, maybe we're reading it wrong. but tomorrow we will know who is not telling the truth the Minneapolis mayor and police chief or Christy know we will know

a hard question I'm not going to speculate I'm going to take sides I suspect that the Minneapolis people be in trouble but I probably shouldn't even say that anyway the whole thing is

related to the defiance of the far left people in the state of Minnesota, Mayor Jacob Frye, as I mentioned, and Governor Walls. And these people don't want any enforcement on migrants in the United States at all. Now, Fry in particular, is an irresponsible zealot. And here's what he said after this poor woman was shot. Roll it. To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.

Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our,

economy, are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead. That's on you. And it's also on you to leave. So I just get the F out of Minneapolis. Now, that is very clear that Fry is irresponsible. You just don't do that. Okay? And he's very, very close to incitement. Now, the FBI already on the case with the Minneapolis authorities and the state. So it's a three-pronged investigation. But I watched a lot of video before I came to tape. I didn't see any cops. I didn't see any cops, local Minneapolis police.

There's a bunch of demonstrators, not a lot, but a bunch. They're the radical people, the usual suspects, as they call them. They're out taunting ice. So that's what we know. Now, if I'm President Trump, I have FBI agents interview Mayor Frye. Okay? I mean, the Justice Department got to get involved with him because I say very close to incitement. So he's inciting, you know, law is inciting a riot, okay, but he's inciting a situation

that puts not only his own people in danger, but federal. agents. Do not be surprised if the National Guard shows up. Okay, person's dead. Ice agents say they are in danger. So as we know, Walsz, he's in so much trouble now with the Somali thing. He's kind of in a background here, but I expect he'll emerge tonight. Media coverage, CNN was restrained on it. but obviously they book guests that are sympathetic to Fry's position and dislike ICE. I mean, that's just count up the guests. And Fox will do the exact opposite. They'll put the people that are in favor of ICE in the forefront.

That's not what we do here, as you know. But tomorrow we will do a talking points memo. I feel bad for the woman. I mean who wants to be celebrating even if she was at fault okay I don't celebrate anybody's death never ends right very very very harsh climate of hatred in this country all right talking points memo is Greenland so I smile, I'm shaking my head because I wrote a column. It'll be in tomorrow's morning message about our President Trump,

he throws these provocative things out on purpose to actually taunt his opposition. And so now it's Greenland. All right. Now I'm going to run through it and tell you what is likely to happen because this thing has been blown way out of any proportion. First thing is December 22nd, Donald Trump from Palm Beach was talking about national security. Go. We need Greenland for national security. And if you take a look at Greenland, you look up and down the coast.

You have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need it for national security. We have to have it. And he wanted to leave the charge. So we're making him, Marco today, a special envoy. to Greenland. Greenland's a big deal. Okay. So we need it. This is all imprecise language. Yeah, we need bases, military bases. We already have some, but we need a little bit more up there. Okay? But it's doable.

And Marco Rubio is very, very deliberate. But when I saw the appointment that Rubio was overseeing it, I knew there was no chance of a military invasion at all, none. that doesn't stop the hate Trump zealots. Roll the tape on that. It is literal life and death stakes, both domestic and global battles, over whether Trump can be restrained before he takes more, before he does more damage, before he destroys more, because he will try to take more. He feels emboldened right now. It's not an accident. Then the wake of successfully invading Venezuela and capturing its leader. I don't know why we fight with Greenland. Why we fight with Greenland? We fight with Canada.

We're fighting with Mexico, yet we in love with Putin. What is happening? Like, this is not America. That woman's running for the Senate in Texas. We're not fighting up there, lady. Okay? I don't want to rock your world. I find her so entertaining.

And I guess I'm cynical being in a news business all these years, but come on. So anyway, let's go to the guy, really, who's going to negotiate everything in Greenland, Secretary of State Ruby, a roulette tape. Does the U.S. intent to buy Greenland? Can you clarify your comments to lawmakers this week? Well, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning. He said it very early on. I mean, this is not new. Okay. So, you know, we'll make some kind of deal. Meanwhile, they're all upset in Europe. I was going to run a European sound bite, but I'm not going to do it because. why bother? They're upset. And, you know, if President Trump ever did put soldiers, American soldiers, in Greenland to take over, the NATO would just blow up. You wouldn't have a NATO anymore because Denmark, which oversees Greenland is part of NATO. You can't do that.

And he won't do it. He won't do it. All right, a poll, and this is the big reason why President Trump will do it, is because Americans don't want it. Here is U.Gov, all right? Would you support purchasing Greenland, support 24, pose 45, not sure, at 31? Here's a big question. Would you support sending U.S. military take control of Greenland, support 7%. Okay, so the American people, you're not going to, you can't. You just hand in midterms to the Democrats if you do that. Another poll, Marquette law, okay?

Same question. Do you support taking control of Greenland? Greenland, Support 27, Opposed 73. Rich Lowry, a conservative writer, has a good column today on what should happen. It mirrors mine. He didn't take it from me, but we think in a similar way. So you might want to read Lowry's column. So finally on this, I remember Canada, we were going to make Canada the 51st state President Trump.

Okay. So on February 9th, 2020, here's what Trump said about Canada. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen. It's too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year, essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now, if they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it. Okay, but not going to be a 51st state.

And the president, he likes to churn it, churn it, churn it. And then my liberal friends, I just, I said, all right, is Canada 51st? And then, oh, whatever, all right. All right. Venezuela latest, U.S. seized a oil tanker with a Russian flag on it. That doesn't mean anything. They just slapped the Russian flag on there. It was not a Russian tanker, okay? It was filling up with oil in Venezuela.

U.S. got it in the North Atlantic, and I guess it'll find its way back to Venezuela. Now, the seizure of oil is another bogus story because we're not seizing anybody's oil in Venezuela. We are buying it, and we have a perfect right to buy it between 30 million and 50 million barrels, because when the communists seize control of Venezuela, and Maduro, they stole all of the oil infrastructure that was built by the United States

of America, private American companies. They stole it. So this is basically, they're selling us oil probably below market as a make-up for all that. And Trump is saying, hey, you owe us, you stole our property, you heard our corporations, so now you're going to get back, and then Venezuela goes, okay. all right that's what's going on all right just so you know um it's payback time and um u.s companies invested 17 billion dollars in venezuela and chavez and maduro stole it 17 billion do you hear that in any other newscast let me know bill at bill o'reilly dot com bill at bill o'relly

dot com and that is the memo. All right, another interesting story on reported. Switzerland has frozen the assets of Nicholas Maduro and 36 other people connected to him. So apparently the Maduro government in Caracas, we shipping money and gold to Switzerland. Where do they get all the money and gold? Where do these gangsters get it? Do you hear that reported anywhere? So Switzerland did the right thing and said, we're going to freeze all this. Good. All right, back home. High crime drop in the USA. This is analysis from a guy named Jeff Asher, whose group is A.H. Datalytics. They're crime experts. Here is what Mr. Asher found out in 2025. Homicides. in America, decreased by 20%, shootings decreased by 17%.

Motor vehicle theft down 23%, robbery down 18, rapes down 9 across the country. Now, some of the drop started in 2023 when Biden was president, just to be fair, but the trend is continuing. Why? I'm not sure why, but I know there are two caveats that Jeff did not consider. Number one, in many states, including New York, where I am right now, they have raised the age to prosecute people to 19. So if you're 18 and you commit a crime, it doesn't go on the crime sheet. You go to family court.

And secondly, the very, very progressive DAs don't prosecute crimes. So they're not on the sheet. they just don't particularly theft and things like that we had a big scandal in washington dc where the authorities there were cooking the books not reporting crimes or arrests or victims so i'm not sure whether this crime drop is true or not so i asked my say i find a best guy and we did as usual uh Jeffrey holstead joins us from los vegas he is associated with the genesis operation it's an emergency management company. Mr. Hollis said used to be the police chief of Fort Worth, Texas, big job. And then he went federal. Okay, I also worked with a variety of state law enforcement

agencies. So why do you think this big drop in particularly violent crime in the USA? Well, thank you, Bill. It's an opportunity to speak with you. So one of the true reasons you can see this is because we in the law enforcement culture had innovated, we have deployed technology, and we are working better together than ever before in the history of American policing. With that said, real-time crime centers, fusion centers, the ability to work city, county, state, and federal all collectively to find bad people, it's happening faster than ever. But you are right. Some of these policy changes can make these numbers shift a little bit in different directions. but I can say on behalf of the American law enforcement mission,

it is strong after coming back from a defund movement and really almost villainizing all these officers. They're out there working day in and day out to keep Americans safe. Is it high tech that's aiding the officers on the street? Is it making it easier to prevent crimes? Because, for example, here on Long Island, where I am, they have what they call shot. The police in central place can hear

any gunfire that takes place and you get the units there very quickly. And then the bad guys know that they're being surveilled much tighter than they used to be. Is that part of it? Absolutely. That's part of it. Good analogy. And I'll expand on that a little bit. Now we have drones as first responders where our goal in law enforcement will get to emergency calls in less than five minutes. Whether it's with your besties or date night, get to all the hottest concerts with Go Transit. Go connects to all. all the biggest entertainment venues and makes it affordable with special e-ticket fares. A weekend pass offers unlimited travel across the network on any weekend day or holiday for just $10.

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even talk on some of their criminal podcast, how much they hate drones and advancing technology because they can't get away fast enough. Okay. So the high tech, and I'm sure the artificial intelligence to come, is a big, tool to stop crime, to inhibit bad people from doing things because the odds of them getting caught are higher. But in some municipalities like New York and San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, the prosecutions have dropped so you can steal in California less than $1,000 and you're not charged with a felony or you're not charged at all. How does that hurt law enforcement?

Well, it's challenged us because now we are building some public-private partnership with a lot of retail associations, a lot of task forces, and even, and building stronger relationship with these elected officials, county attorney, and district attorneys, it does strengthen our capacity to get cases prosecuted. But what we do now is we go after serial offenders where a volume of offenses are lumped together and with strong relationships and the prosecutorial environment. These cases are being seen now, and these much more serial offenders, they're being taken off the streets within the hour. So, you know, I applaud the men and women, both in the Retail Association, private security, working with us and then leveraging that strength in relationships back to our elected officials. The system is better today than it was five years ago, and the technology is giving it faster going forward.

All right. Final question, though. You were in Fort Worth as a police chief, okay? Fort Worth has always been a conservative place, Tarrant County, right? Yes, sir. And then I was working in Dallas for the ABC affiliate there. Dallas is a liberal city. And the difference in crime fighting was pretty stark and just 20 miles away between your crew in Fort Worth and the Dallas crew.

How much of that do you feel is going on around the country? It depends where you are, how far you are protected. On the onset, if you just look at the surface, what you said is exactly true. 28 miles apart, Dallas and Fort Worth are starkly different. However, the brotherhood and sisterhood of the law enforcement mission is stronger than ever. We really never ever bring in politics in any of our decision-making task force operations or the people that we need to go get. And we are trying to strengthen those partnerships with technology so we can work collectively together and faster. I never had a doubt.

I have a little bit of doubt about the Minneapolis police chief after hearing him today say that the woman who was shot in Minneapolis was fleeing the scene. I don't believe the evidence is going to back him up. and that's going to be a problem. And you know as well as I do because you're a guy that your operation, Genesis, operates everywhere in the United States. There is a big difference among how law enforcement is seen.

Mr. Officer said, thanks very much. We really appreciate your expertise and I hope we can talk again soon. Thank you. Okay. Save Act. Now, I'm only doing this. This is not going to happen.

The Save Act. Just to keep you updated. on what these people are doing in Congress. Okay, it's, we are so bogged down in bureaucracy here in the United States, it's just stunning. So on April 10th, 2025, the House passed the SAVE Act, safeguard American voter eligibility, 220 yeas, 208 dissents, all Democrats.

Here's what the SAVE Act says. Quote, the bill prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in a federal election, unless at the time the individual applies to registered a vote, the individual provides documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and require states to establish an alternative process under which an applicant may submit other evidence to demonstrate U.S. citizenship. It's basically saying, look, you got to, before you get on the rolls, the voting rolls, you've got to show your state that you're a legitimate U.S. citizen, because that's a federal law. You can't vote.

And 208 Democrats in the House voted against it. And the Democratic Party, they don't understand why the party's in disarray. Now it goes to the Senate, but it's not going to get voted. it on because you need 60 and the Democratic senators aren't going to vote for. And the reason is, oh, well, you know, you're singling out, no, you know, they can't get approved. It's all a bunch of bull. Still want to invade federal law.

It's like Minneapolis. It's exactly like Minneapolis. They don't want to obey federal law. They don't want to obey immigration law. We don't want to obey it. Anarchy. So the Save Act, not going to save anything, smart life. So I woke up this morning, and unfortunately, I have to check this stupid thing first

because people are sending me stuff all over the place, right? And I get on my dopey phone for the first time, Republican propaganda. So you remember we've been reporting on this that each morning there are out of the democratic precincts on k street and washington blasts to all the media about what the left-wing media should say and i said i don't really know of any republican operation that was doing that well there is one and it's centered in boston that's where the email came from and i'll just give an example of uh this is what one of the things said um of the Republican blast to me, and I guess, hundreds of other media.

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I know Comey and McCabe and all those guys running the FBI under Biden. They weren't, they were political people. Absolutely trying to help the Democratic Party. I already know that. There is a Democrat thing, and I don't get it, but we're working on it, called the Blueprint. And they put out this morning, or recently, quote, Today we mourn the transgender Americans whose lives were lost to the anti-transgender violence.

What people? Who? I know. Who? Who? What transgender? gender violence. I don't know. See, now why do I want this in my phone every morning? Because my responsibility is to cut through the propaganda to know what the zealots on both sides are going to give you. And I want to get ahead of it. So I don't believe any of this. We check out everything we say here in a fact-based way. But it's very interesting. It's is really getting to be intense in a midterm year. All right, people are moving around, they're going places. So, U-Haul issued a report the 10 sites in the United States where people are going to,

the top 10, here they are, Texas number one, Florida number two, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina. I understand all five of those states. Washington State. Whoa. And that is a high-tax liberal situation. I guess it's maybe outside of Seattle, King County. I don't know.

Where are they going from Oregon to Washington or California? All right, Arizona, Idaho, Alabama, Georgia, all low-tax states. So people are fleeing. They don't have any money. And they can't afford it. And I was on Hannity today. radio program. And he asked me about the billionaire tax

that Newsom wants to impose California. So if you are a billionaire, and there aren't many of them, but they come in for 5% and just take it. That's communism, of course, and it's unconstitutional. And he, well, what do you think that's going to happen? I said, well, some will move out.

And what will happen is that California will owe more money. Their debt will rise. But Newsom didn't care about that. Democratic Party didn't care about rising debt or deficits. They want to bankrupt, right, so that the government controls all the economy on. And California is the state that has most people moving out right now, which you would think would be. It's the biggest state, and it's so heavily taxed.

And the folks are going, you know, I just can't make it. So they're going to Arizona, they're going to Nevada, which are economically much kinder than California. We'll be back in a moment with final thought? Okay, final thought of the day. Got a very sad letter today from a concierge member. And remember, if you're in trouble, you come to us and we'll try to help you. Concierge membership.

The woman's broke. She's a widow. She got bills. She can't pay him. They don't know what to do. so she wants people to give her money okay now it's my job to keep all of you every person watching and listening to me tonight in the real world so I had to say and I was so sad said nobody is going to give you money no one because they don't know you they don't know your circumstance

you could be a con person I don't think she is I thought this was a very sincere letter. But that's not going to happen. Now, if you have family or longtime friends, they might help you out, maybe, but strangers aren't going to help you out. I know they have these GoFundMe places. I got it, and once in a while it can be effective.

But if you are in dire circumstance, And this woman, it sounded like she was, I steered her to a place in her state that deals with people in trouble like this. And I said, go there, talk to the people and report back to me and what they tell you to do. Because there are programs, particularly for the elderly, for senior citizens, our programs, every state that can help you, pay down debt, manage things, things like that. You just have to know where they are, and we'll give it to you. That's part of our service here. But the woman kind of thought that people were going to give her money to bail her out. Not going to happen.

And even asking friends and family for money is so, so difficult. Not only for the person asking, but for the person on the receiving end of the request. You're going to like this, you know, because everybody's circumstances. is different. You know, everybody has got obligations. Generosity, we're the most generous people on Earth, American. Far and away. You know, second? Canadians. But we're way ahead of that. And we do give. But personal circumstances, mismanagement, things like that, very, very hard. Anyway, we'll help this woman. I don't know if we can help all our problems, but we'll try. Thank you for watching. and listening to the No Spin News.

I'm Bill O'Reilly. We will have the absolute truth about what happened today with ICE in Minneapolis tomorrow. So please join us then.