Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - California Fires Blame Game, Jimmy Carter's Funeral, Trump's Stance on Foreign Trade, & Bogus Fox News Accusations

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, January 9, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: The latest on the California wildfires and why Donald Trump is placing the blame on Governor Gavin Newsom. A look at Jimmy Carter's funeral and the media’s reaction to the interaction between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Trump argues that other countries are taking advantage of the U.S. in trade. Bill explains how the U.S. isn’t getting a fair deal. Why Alex Isenstadt's accusation that Fox News fed Donald Trump questions during a January 2024 Iowa town hall isn't believable. This Day in History: Steve Job announces Apple's first iPhone. Final Thought: Preparation for the unexpected. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Trump Ascendant For a limited time, get Bill O'Reilly's bestselling The United States of Trump and a No Spin Mug for only $39.95. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Check out the NEW Not Woke Shop! We’ve got Not Woke t-shirts, polos, bumper stickers, and our signature Not Woke coffee mug. Get yours today and stand out from the crowd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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wicked, almost biblical out there, the destruction. And we have some very interesting information for you about it. And then the funeral of Jimmy Carter. So let's take the fires first, because this is very controversial. And that's the subject of the Talking Points memo. Here's a rundown. President Biden is now canceled his unnecessary trip to Italy because of the fires. He's back in D.C. to attend the funeral of Jimmy Carter this morning. And I'm glad he's not going to Italy because that would have cost of taxpayers, what, $20 million, $25 million? For what? The total boondoggle. But here's something I did not know until late this morning. Hunter Biden's home, which he is renting for an astronomical $16,000 a month is burned to the ground according to the Daily Mail.

Not a reliable source, but they have pictures. So Hunter Biden's House is done according to this agency, the Daily Mail. Now, the blame game. So President Trump says it's Governor Gavin Newsom's fault, all right? That's a pretty tough charge, particularly because, you know, there's about 15 dead right now. We don't, we haven't been able to confirm that figure, but that's what's floating around. I think it's true. And evacuation is about 200,000 in the L.A. area.

And the damage, I wouldn't be surprised if this is $500 million, taxpayers going to have to pay to get these neighborhoods back. This is an unbelievable catastrophe. There are five separate fires burning right now. And 20 people have been arrested for looting. You know, I talk about evil. And in California, they may not even go to trial because they don't prosecute criminals in California. But 20 so far, it'll be much higher than that. About half million Californians without power.

And the winds are just ferocious, the Santa Ana's coming out. And they're not going to stop until Friday night. So there's going to be much, much more damage. All right, the blame game. So here's what President Trump said, quote. One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning to the ground. It's ashes. And Gavin New Scum, that's the president's words.

should resign. This is all his fault. So what is Donald Trump referring to? Well, in 2014, the legislature in Sacramento okayed the construction of seven water storage plants. Okay, that was 10 years ago. None of them be built. So there is a shortage of facilities to store water in a state that gets droughts all the time. The governor of the state, Gavin Newsom, I've done anything about it. That's why Trump's pointing a finger at them. And then there's the issue of clearing the forests

and all of that, but that's a little murkier. The watered storage plans are in stone fact. And they were not built because of environmentalists. because, oh, no, we can't get the snail dart or whatever crazy thing it is. They rule, and Newsom did not go up against them. Okay. The other thing is that the ecosystem in California, whatever that may be, is diverting the water, the rain and the snow melt right into the Pacific Ocean to make

sure the fish are happy or something. Now, this is crazy, but California's crazy. Right? And let me see the stat I have. Almost four million people have left the state of California residents moved out in the last five years because it's crazy. The taxes, the mindset, the far left runs. And that's what Trump is talking about. Okay. Here's how Governor Newsom replied. Go. It's, one can't even respond to it.

I mean, it's, you know, people are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools. Families completely torn asunder. Churches burned down. This guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want. want to say, I won't.

All right, legitimate point. Maybe President Trump should have waited a week or so to make the statement because it is an emergency and people are dying. Legitimate point. But the point, but Luson's never going to own up to this. You know that. I'll invite him on right now. Talk to me about it, governor.

Okay, let's get the water storage plant thing. Let's get the environmentalist thing. let's get the ecosystem thing, define. Never going to do it. In a million years, would he do it? And Trump is a right, as the president of the United States, to point out that American citizens in California are in danger. That's his responsibility, the president's responsibility.

I don't think this is hyperbole at all. I don't blame Gavin Newsom for the fires, but I blame him for bad management. yet in two years when there's another gubernatorial election Kamala Harris could very well win you think she's going to change the culture in California she's not and that's a memo all right now the mayor of l.A this is unbelievable I'm just stunned her name is Karen Bass all right for the past week there have been high wind warnings and the Santa Ana's are a threat, and the mayor knows it, to Los Angeles.

Yet she gets on a plane and goes to Ghana, Africa, for the inauguration of the new president there, despite all the warnings. Well, all hell breaks out, as President Trump would say, okay? And now she's over there, and the press is going, what? so she comes back obviously not an easy journey from africa to la and when she gets off the plane here's what the press did go do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars madam have you nothing to say today have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today

no mute stunning defend yourself or admit you're a mistake you don't just look at the floor you're the mayor now what was that reporter referring to well uh Karen Bass and the city council of Los Angeles cut the LA Fire Department's budget by more than 17 million dollars That's a lot. So they don't have the equipment or the manpower to fight the fires. Where did that money go to the homeless? And that's where? So drug addicts and mentally ill people in the budget are getting $1.3 billion.

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Homeless, hey, free money, thanks. No solution to the problem. And then the fire department go, we don't have the manpower or the equipment. And as we just said in the talking points memo, we don't have water.

They're not enough water. If this isn't screwed up, nothing is. But again, the voters in Los Angeles elected Karen Bass. It's just staggering. It is absolutely staggering. Final thing. As I reported yesterday, I was right there eight days ago. I was standing right where those fires are in Pacific Palisades.

Drive right through there. It's stunning, and I'm going to address it in the final thought, the personal feelings that I have. about it. But I know that California is the most mismanaged state in the Union. New York, where I am right now, is second. Illinois is third. Catastrophe is not an exaggeration. Okay, let's go to the funeral. So all the living presidents were there. there and the ceremony is very dignified. First Lady and President Biden were there.

Hunter Biden was there, even though his house burnt down. Kamala Harris, her husband, Donald and Melania Trump, Barack Obama, not Michelle Obama. That was interesting. She did not attend. Said she had a scheduling conflict, I can't imagine. J.D. Vance, his wife, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Dan Quayle and his wife, Justin Trudeau, straight off the resignation. She was there.

Andrew Young, who was a good man, very close friend to Jimmy Carter. He was there. And on and on, okay? And President Biden gave the eulogy. Roll it. May God bless the great American and dear friend. a good man. May he rise up, be raised up on eagle's wings and bear you on the breath of dawn and make you to shine like the sun and hold you in the palm of his hand. God bless you, Jimmy Carter. Good eulogy was written out obviously for him, but that's okay. It was good for the world to see this. So there were some interesting observations. The president Trump and Obama had extensive conversations. That was interesting. Sat next to each other. President Trump shook the hand of

Vice President Pence. That was the first time they had been face to face since the controversy of January 6, four years ago, we did not see the Bush's, they were there, George Bush and Laura Bush, greet the Trumps at all. There is very bad blood there, no doubt about it. But all in all, it was a very dignified, and for the world to see it, it was important. Because the world's image of us is that we hate each other and torn apart by ideology. And there's some truth to that but not it's not an overriding truth so i was happy the way it went off and of course the press you know snarky i'll give you one example go this extended conversation between donald trump and baroque obama just so fascinating especially when you think about how

some of the things that donald trump said and did while obama was president while your point is taken they didn't run against each other it was so incredibly personal yeah he claimed he was an American citizen. Yeah, okay, but both of them claim a lot of stuff. You know, I was a wit, I sat there at the Washington correspondence right next to Donald Trump years ago

when Barack Obama just laid Trump out at that dinner. And yeah, Trump said he wasn't born in the United States. You know, but this stuff goes back on. At a funeral analysis, this is inappropriate. CNN?

Okay, geez. Now, I'm going to do a YouTube channel report. We have our own YouTube channel, Bill O'Reilly. I'll give you the address later on Jimmy Carter's presidency. Because obviously I wrote about it in confronting the presidents, but I'm going to give you a real encapsulation of what happened and why it happened. But that doesn't have anything to do with Jimmy Carter, the man, or holding the office of the president.

So everything that went down today was absolutely necessary, and I thought it was really a nice ceremony. I don't need any snark from you, CNN, okay? Or anybody else? All right, let's go to the foreign trade thing. This story fascinates me. If you have a pen and paper, and we always encourage you to watch and listen to the NOSFIN News with such, write this down. So, Donald Trump tends to exaggerate when he wants to make a point. Fair? I think everybody knows that. It's built in to his presentation. Personally, doesn't offend me. I don't think it's lies because, and it's not what aboutism. I don't know any politicians who don't exaggerate. I don't know

one. Remember Kamala Harris running around during the campaign going, Trump wants to ban abortion. My lady. But this is our system. Is it right? No. We should just be fact, fact, fact, like we are here, but they're never going to do that. So Trump exaggerates about America getting hosed by foreign countries, and his stats often don't link up. But the overarching is true, and I'm going to prove it to you right now. Throw the chart up. So here are the trade deficits with just four concerns with China. In 2003, the USA under Biden, $279 billion trade deficit. That means China got $279 billion more than we got from that country.

It's crazy. EU, $209 billion. Mexico, $152 billion. Canada, $64 billion. Total more than $700 billion one year. of more money going out than coming in. A five-year-old could go, wow, that's not really good. Yet the press doesn't care at all, not a witt.

Now, if this would be cut down, you're never going to get one to one because we manufacture more stuff than everybody else. But you can get it down to a reasonable level, which is what Trump's trying to do. And that brings jobs and money into the USA. Do we all understand this economic lesson? Okay. So he goes out there and says,

well, you know, Canada is going to have to be in a 51st state because we're losing so much money dealing with them. Well, Canada's not going to be the 51st state. It's never going to happen. It's not close to happening. Okay. And we don't want it to happen. You don't want, Canadians are proud, you don't want to take their heritage away.

But Trump is doing this, the way he always negotiates, to create this kind of panic, and so then it calms down and gets what he wants. Now, Canada, it benefits much more from the relationship with the USA than we benefit from them. It's not even close. I mean, we buy more than a billion dollars worth of dairy products from Canada. As Trump said, we can manufacture those dairy products here. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water. The kind made with real fruit juice,

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And then correspondingly, the tax rate should come down because we have more money coming into the government. Corporations have to pay taxes. All right. Now, I hope I've gone over this. If you have any questions about it, Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, name in town, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. So Gallup does a poll when presidents leave office. And they have done this.

Let me see when they started it. So you give you the exact thing. Can't get the pages separated on my script here because I'm not nimble today for some reason. All right, this goes all the way back to. JFK. I'm not going to give you all of them, but I'll give you the modern guys. So Gallup says, was the president's term poor, bad, P-O-O-O-R? Biden, 54 percent. Throw that chart up there. 54 percent of Americans say Biden's term was poor. Trump, 44 percent. Reagan, just 16 percent. That's why Reagan's in the upper echelon of presidents, two terms.

Obama, 27% said his two terms of poor. Bill Clinton, 29% says his turn. Now, Biden far and away gets the worst reviews from Gallup, and he ties Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was 54% said he a bad job, and he got booted out of there. So Biden will go down in history. What's going to happen, and this is why I hope you stay with us this year, much more stuff is going to come out about Joe Biden. Once he's out of there and his Justice Department protection is not, no longer exists, way do you see. Way do you see what happens.

It's going to be grisly. All right. Media madness. This is a very fascinating story. So you will remember that in October 2016, a CNN contributor named Donna Brazil, who was also a DNC person, Democratic National Committee, fed questions to Hillary Clinton, all right, in a debate situation sponsored by CNN. Brazil admit she did it. Emails prove she did it. Brazil was fired from CNN for doing it. Okay, so those of us who were cognizant in 2016, we remember that.

Now there is a book coming out, all right, by Alex Eisenstein, a reporter at Politico. Okay, there's Alex. Politico is a left-leaning website. Alex used to work for Joe Biden. Wow. Alex, I think, is a liberal guy, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know, Alex. But he's got a book coming out.

And in the book, he says this, quote, about 30 minutes before the town hall run by Fox was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox. Holy S word, the team thought. There were images of all the questions Trump would be asked by Brett Baer and Martha McCallum and the plan follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot. This was like a student getting a peek at the test before the exam started. So this is what Alex Eisenstadt is reporting. Here is the problem. It's anonymous. There's no name attached to it. Why not, Alex? Give me something. Give me something. Who was it at Fox? I know them all over there.

Who was it? Who did it? No. So I don't believe it. It might have happened. But why would I believe it? There's no name. Who did it? Okay. So Alex puts this in a book because he wants to sell books. That's why he's there. Here's how CNN analyzed this story.

Go. Alex Isesat stole me. He has multiple sources on this. He stands by his reporting. And when I went to the Trump campaign to ask them for their comment, they didn't directly address this or really. deny it. They say President Trump was the most accessible and transparent candidate in American history. Okay. She did her job. She went to the Trump campaign and said, did you get the questions

and it wouldn't answer. Not unusual. But to say that Alex Isisat told me as multiple sources, no, that's not what reporters do. You go, okay, Alex, who are the multiple sources? Who? And if there are a bunch of people that are confirming it, you've got to be able to put it into context. Because it's not just one, you say there's multiple. It's BS. It's garbage reporting. Now Fox denies it. This is what they say. Quote, while we do not have any evidence of this occurring, and Alex Eisenstadt has conveniently refused to release the images

I guess there's emails involved here. For fact-checking, we take these matters very seriously and plan to investigate should there prove to be a breach within the network. Well, number one, Fox is not going to investigate. They always say they will, but they won't. Because if it would ever come out, it would damage the networks that are not going to. I know that. Believe me.

But they're right. Fox is right. is saying, well, look, show us, the email, black out the name, give us something. No. Now, if Alex Eisenstead comes up with something, I'll report it because it's horrible. And if Baron McCallum are involved, that's unbelievable. I don't, I know them both. I don't think they would ever do that.

So it's probably if it happened, and you have to consider that it might have, okay, it was some producer, a low-level functionary. I can't imagine those two people doing it, because that's a career ender. And somebody like Alex Eisenstaff, going to find out about it. But right now, this story is bogus to me because there's not enough information to back it up. Yet, a lot of people believe it because they want to believe it. They want to. Not fair, not right, not American. All right, I think we covered that fairly again,

Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, if you have any comments about it, SmartLife. So Pew, which we like, the Pew Research Center, they put out good stuff. They did a survey on how Americans get their information. 20%, they say, get their news from, quote, news influencers on social media. That would be me, I guess, but I'm just not on social media. I'm everywhere.

300 radio stations, the first TV, direct TV, you name it, we're on there. Okay, where our distribution is colossal. YouTube, all over the place. But I am in social media because Bill O'Reilly.com, that's what you. where we live. So 20% says Pugh get their information almost exclusively from the internet. I think it's 30%. Because the younger people, they're bored with cable and network news.

I don't know one person. My kids don't. My kids don't watch cable news. They don't watch network news. They don't. And they're smart. They're smart. The problem with social media information is there's no editor.

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I mean, he's not the person that the media has made him out to be. And I'm going to get into that with the News Nation documentary I'm doing on him for the inauguration. All right. So it's okay for anybody, any American, access information on social media. Be very skeptical. Come here. And that's why concierge membership is set up. You hear something, you see something.

you get a direct line to me if you're a bill o're a riley.com concierge member you say is this true bill and i'll tell you whether it's true or not what a service right i don't know why every i don't know why we don't have 350 million concierge members maybe the babies couldn't do it yet if you want the truth we're giving you an avenue for like what seven bucks a month come on I don't know why we don't have 350 million concierge members here. That's a population in the country. Nancy Pelosi, love her, right? Okay, so her portfolio, her and her husband, Paul, is up 200% in 2024 in 24, according to unusual Wales.

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in revenue for Apple. I have Apple stock and boy I'm happy I have it. 70 billion. And most of it's on the iPhone. So 51% of Americans, including little babies, have an iPhone. And then when you add that the other phones, so I think it's up to almost 90% of American adults have this device, some kind of device here. 18% of the world has an iPhone. Imagine this, right? And they're addictive. But would you say half of people with iPhones are addicted to the iPhone? I would.

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this illuminates is this none of us are assured anything in life that our whole lives could blow up tomorrow and I don't want to be the doctor doom here but you got to be prepared for that so one day we feel comfortable we feel safe got everything under control and the next day the house vanishes in the flames. It's likely not going to happen to you, but it could. And you have to develop a mindset of number one protection. So, for example, you've got to have insurance. A lot of these people who burned out did not,

because it's hard to get house insurance in California. Very hard to get it. And it's expensive. Number two, if you're living in, in an area where fires or floods or wherever it may be. You got to think about that and do what you can to protect yourself. So I know that area of California very well. I wouldn't live there.

I do live on Long Island and I have a home close to the ocean. I take all kinds of precautions because I know that ocean is going to visit me someday. Not going to get up to the house because I'm on a little clip, but it's a little bit. But it's something you've got to think about. So it's called preparation for life. So one day you're healthy and one day everything's going on, and then you have a pain, you go to the doctor, you've got cancer. And the way you prepare yourself by being strong,

by accepting the fact that there are things beyond your control. And when they happen, you just do the best you can. Now, these people in California are going to need help. State of California didn't have any money. We're on a huge deficit. United States of America, $37 trillion we owe. But there'll be money coming in. But you're going to see private companies, private charities, say, help the people in California.

I'm going to help them. But I'm going to study the charities because there's going to be a lot of flim, flam, and fraud here. When I come on one that I believe is going to help the people, I will tell you. Okay? Because again, you're living in a treacherous age. I want you to have a great weekend. We will have a new column on Sunday. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News.

We'll see again on Monday.