Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Confronting Guttersnipes, Epstein Hysteria, Trump Targets 'Scam Artist' Adam Schiff, & NPR and PBS Defunded
Episode Date: July 18, 2025Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday July 16, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country. Bill addresses attacks against him... and the BillOReilly.com operation. Talking Points Memo: The Jeffrey Epstein reaction has reached full hysteria. Bill explains. President Trump target Sen. Adam Schiff for alleged mortgage fraud. The Senate and House has voted to defund NPR and PBS. Bill breaks it down. This Day in History: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sentenced to life in prison. Final Thought: The reward of lobster. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Say, What? Check out the Not Woke Shop! We’ve got Not Woke t-shirts, polos and bumper stickers. Get yours today and stand out from the crowd! Pre-order Bill’s next book in the new Confronting Series, ‘Confronting Evil’ NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey Bill O'Reilly here welcome to the no spin news Thursday, July 17th
2025 stand up for your country. A lot to tell you about today, including an inside story that I think will get your attention. So my news agency based at BillOReilly.com
is perhaps the most successful independent news agency in the world. And we've been doing this for eight years.
We were profitable on day one because a lot of my audience on Fox followed me into the
other projects that we did.
So you can see us all over the place.
The first TV has us.
We are on cable TV places.
We are on satellite TV.
We are on satellite TV. We are on the radio. In fact, Talkers magazine selected
me as one of the top radio guys in the country, and I don't even do a daily show. I do commentary
on the radio. But WABC, our flagship in New York City, carries me throughout the day.
So we have a lot going on, and we do very, very well financially and our influence has
exploded.
This is very interesting because of YouTube.
All right, so I'm not a social media guy, but I got good people who know that world.
And we began on YouTube in earnest a few months ago.
We got more than a million subscribers on the BillOReilly.com YouTube channel.
It's YouTube.com slash Bill O'Reilly.
It just exploded.
Anyway, all of that has made us powerful.
But it also puts a very big burden on me to turn out an enormous amount of news analysis
every day, which we do.
And we don't rely on cliches, we're not ideological, we go in, and you'll see tonight, we have
stories tonight you have not heard.
So we are very, we work very hard to bring you news that affects you directly.
And we are successful.
So with success always comes a downside.
When I was at Fox, I became the most powerful broadcaster
in the world with the O'Reilly Factor.
Well, every day I had to deal with the gutter snipes
and the people, the defamers and the attackers,
they attacked my family, they attacked me,
I had to have some armed security.
It was really bad.
It's starting to happen again, okay, and I'll give you a couple of examples. It's
not at that level yet, but I can see it rising, and that's again because we are
becoming so powerful. All right, so this week I had an enormous amount of work to do
So our News Nation twice run a Hannity radio or on my radio is like a boom boom boom boom boom
And I made a mistake on Leland Vetter News Nation Monday night
I got the timeline wrong for the Epstein prosecution in 2019 my mistake
100% my mistake. My research was fine. I just
didn't state the timeline correctly. Now remember, I don't use a teleprompter. I give you 42
minutes a day right off the top of my head with notes, no teleprompter.
I'll submit to you, there isn't one other television
broadcaster in the country who could do that.
No one.
I'm sorry I'm bragging, but if there is,
I want to do the challenge.
So sometimes I'm going to make verbal mistakes.
It's just going to inevitably happen.
Human beings do that.
So I corrected.
Leland Vittert actually corrected me. and I said, okay, I stand corrected.
And then I went on with my analysis, which is absolutely 100% right on, that the Democrats
had the Epstein information for four years, and you didn't hear anything out of any of
them.
Not a word, but now they're hysterical about Epstein.
I mean, come on.
Five-year-old gets it.
Then last night on Cuomo, I called Congressman Ro Khanna, Mo Rocco, who's a media guy.
Again, dopey mistake, slip of the tongue.
And Cuomo was actually gentle, he just corrected me. I said, well, they're both Italian, which they aren't,
but you know, it's jocular.
Oh, I wake up this morning and it's all over.
I'm Joe Biden now.
I'm Joe Biden, okay?
So I'm losing it.
Now all of this is designed, absolutely designed,
and by the far left, gutter snipes to denigrate
me.
There's no other reason to do it.
I mean, people make mistakes on television, radio all the time, verbal mistakes.
And so I read it, and I didn't get really angry, but 10 years ago I would have.
But I went, this is actually a compliment, because these people fear us now.
But one name jumped out at me.
His name is John Harwood.
We'll put him up on the screen.
So he's a journalist, and he worked for CNN,
very short time at CNN.
They booted him for some reason.
I don't know why.
Before that, he was at CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.
Harwood now got a job at Duke University teaching young minds.
He's an ardent leftist, Harwood.
So he jumped on this, let's mirror Riley Bandwagon,
and then we invited him on the program.
So if I'm Joe Biden, I mean, John Harwood
got an opportunity to go one-on-one with me,
hey, let me have it.
Let me have it, John.
You think he's gonna come on program?
He's a coward.
They're all cowards.
All these gutter snipes, smear merchants,
they're all cowards.
Never face me.
So if I'm,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
you should be able to come on
and make me look like Joe Biden, right?
Uh-huh. Now, you think I'm making a big deal out of right? Uh-huh.
Now, you think I'm making a big deal out of this, some people might, and say, oh, well,
Riley, you're too sensitive.
This is an industry that you should know about.
If a traditional conservative broadcaster gets too powerful, you're coming for him or her. It's not the same on the left. There are gutter snipes on the right that do that,
but it's not nearly as well organized or funded.
So just keep that in mind.
I think you would like to know that.
All right, and Harwood is, you know,
if I'm mean or unfair, bye, John.
Ready to go.
Anytime you're in the middle Harwood is, you know,
if I'm mean or unfair, bye John.
Ready to go.
Anytime.
We'll do it live as someone once said.
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Talk about its memo, Epstein hysteria.
That's what it is.
But here's something really interesting.
The ratings, television ratings for the cable news operations,
prime time, way down.
Even on the left wingers, even CNN, MSNBC, way down.
Fox took it really on a chin Tuesday night.
They're not watching it.
Americans aren't watching the story.
I thought we'd get some traction.
No, no, I understand why the Trump people,
the MAGA people don't wanna hear it,
but the left should be like salvering, right?
Because this is now being used as a cudgel against President Trump. So my job is to not to be hysterical, and
I'm not. And I don't even like the story. I've explained it and explained it and explained
it. I'm going to do one more time in a moment. One more time. And then my explanation is
in stone. If you're a
premium or a concierge, remember on BillORiley.com, you get a transcript, put it on a wall, do
whatever you want. All right, here's what I said on Cuomo last night. Go. All of this could be put
to bed in half an hour, where Pam Bondi gets out there with Merrick Garland, who probably wouldn't
show up. And if he did, he'd take the fifth, as all the Democrats are doing now
in the House hearings about Joe Biden.
But you can put a chair and Merrick Garland's picture,
tape it to the chair.
And then Bonnie says, here's what we found out
in a general way.
I'm not giving names because at this point
there's nobody under criminal investigation.
And so it's not fair.
So no names, But here's what we
found out. And that should happen. And that puts it all to bed. I mean, the conspiracy people are
going to run wild because that's what they do. Social media conspiracy people. It's been there
forever. It's a moneymaker for that. But unless there is a criminal referral, that's how they
But unless there is a criminal referral, that's how they describe it in the Justice Department,
then you can't put out names associated with Epstein.
I mean, it's wrong.
You destroy people.
Criminal referral, you can't.
Now, the feds have had long enough time to investigate this.
They should know everything that happened here.
Remember, Epstein, his island was in the U.S. Virgin Islands,
I believe, it's U.S. territory.
So that's my recommendation.
I know President Trump has heard it.
Whether he decides to do it or not, it's up to him.
But the hysteria is real,
and it's generated on social media. House oversight
committee investigating the Biden White House as it should. Okay. So you'll remember that last week
Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, wouldn't testify, took the fifth Amendment. Okay, so the doctor's worried that he did something wrong.
I guess he doesn't want to answer any questions.
And then yesterday, a guy named Anthony Bernal, B-E-R-N-A-L,
who was the former chief of staff to Jill Biden,
he took the Fifth too.
And here's what committee chairman James Comer said.
You're gonna see a lot of these executive orders and
pardons end up in a court of law because this whole process stinks to high heaven.
It's not the way it's supposed to work.
Joe Biden's already incriminated himself in that interview.
These staffers have an opportunity to answer simple questions and
they're pleading the fifth.
So we're going to keep pressing forward and hopefully we'll get some answers soon.
You're not going to get any answers, Congressman.
And then where does it go?
It goes to the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, because Congress can't indict anybody.
They can do contempt.
All right, so they should subpoena Jill Biden, First Lady, and if
she doesn't show up they could do a bunch of things. I think there might be
executive privilege in that. They certainly, they wouldn't want Jill Biden
there and there'll be a big court thing about it. But then you got Corrine Jean
Pierre. She's not gonna say anything. You got Ron
Klain. You got Ian Sams, Andrew Bates, Jeff Zintz,
all these people who were actually
running the Biden White House because President Biden
wasn't running anything.
Nothing.
And that was fine with the Democratic Party.
They had no beef on that at all.
And therein lies the scandal.
Remember I was on Cuomo a few
weeks ago and Cuomo a Democrat, he said I don't really care
whether Joe Biden was physically or mentally
unable to perform.
Okay, I was surprised.
You don't care?
You don't want to know?
You elect this man to run the country and he can't run it?
That was a really interesting debate.
But now it's tough.
Criminal charges are not going to be easy here.
But we are on the case because it is a very important historical story. You cannot have an
incapacitated president. Okay, Woodrow Wilson, you read Confronting the
Presidents, he's out of it. Okay, Grover Cleveland, out of it, and now Joe Biden Okay Donald Trump has a big beautiful
feud
With his pal Adam Schiff the senator from California
Schiff hates Trump advice first. Okay, a lot of bad blood there. It's kind of like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. I
So apparently Schiff has said that his primary residence is in Maryland.
But it can't be. By law, it has to be in California.
So the president went on social media and said this quote.
I've always suspected Schifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist.
Now I learned if Fannie Mae's financial crimes division
has included that Adam Schiff is engaged as the same pattern
of possible mortgage fraud.
Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in Maryland
to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America
when he must live in California because he
was a congressman from California.
I always knew Schiff was a crook."
So Schiff was a congressman and then ran for Senate.
Now he's got that seat.
Now Schiff says, quote, this is Donald Trump's latest attempt at political retaliation against
his perceived enemies. Okay. Again,
Schiff did it. There's no doubt he did it. But is anything going to happen?
So New York Attorney General Letitia James did the same thing. Claimed a residence in the Commonwealth of Virginia as her primary living place.
It's not. She lives in New York. She's a New York Attorney General. So this has been
referred to the Justice Department to investigate. Do you think anything's going gonna happen here to James Orshiff. It's not so much corruption, but
it's like we don't want to be embarrassed if we bring the case and we
lose. That's what it is. And these cases, you know, with a jury, they're not
slam-ducks. If I had a bet, they're not going to be brought into court.
James or Schiff.
But I absolutely could be wrong.
But they did it.
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Trump tariffs.
Remember the screaming, the hysteria wasn't at the Epstein level but okay. So April 2nd 2025 right?
Liberation Day, Donald Trump charging 10% everybody to sell stuff in America.
That's what it was. We're strip it all down. You want our markets you got to pay
10% to our government. Admission fee, cover charge. So right now, over a three month period,
that's how they do the quarters,
the tariffs that Trump put in
are bringing in $70 million a day.
Whoa.
But that's below what some expectations were.
I don't care.
What I do care about is the 70 million a day,
where it's going to go. Because, you
know, that's a lot of jack every day coming into the US Treasury. So the
Treasury Department being coy, COY, it goes into the general affairs budget,
which means could be used anywhere. But why isn't it being used to pay down the debt?
Right?
Is that hard?
So the Trump administration should say, okay, we're going to do the tariffs, we're making
a lot of money, and 75% of the money, that's fair, goes to get the debt down.
So the American people go good.
We like the tariffs now.
But we don't know.
We call the Treasury Department and nobody who pick up.
I guess they knew it was us.
But tariffs raise a lot of money in total since Liberation Day, $64 billion in the Treasury.
Okay, and it wasn't there.
Biden had no tariffs.
I mean, he didn't do that.
All right, NPR and PBS.
So yesterday, the Senate said no more money, tax money to them. And in 25 fiscal year, that means 535 million into the public broadcasting
corporation is ongoing there. A lot of jack. A lot of money. And the reason is that it's a liberal progressive democratic machine, both BBS and NPR, and it's indisputable.
And I'll prove it again tonight. I proved it yesterday. I proved it a million times.
I'll prove it again. So why would conservative Americans be forced to pay into that? Why?
It's not fair. It's not right. Okay. So it was a little bit of a brawl. The Democrats,
of course, didn't want to defund it because those operations favored the Democratic Party.
It wasn't one Democrat who peeled off. Murkowski, who's not really a Republican in Alaska, and
Collins, who's not really a Republican in Maine, they voted against this. Our pal Mitch McConnell changed his vote in the Senate to defund. All right, so that money is out. New York
Times, very progressive, everybody knows it, is what they said, quote, we are
reminded of the excesses of the defund the police and abolish ICE movements on
the other side of the ideological spectrum. They adopted a fatalistic view of vital government services, suggesting that their imperfections
justify their elimination.
They were wrong, and so are the conservatives who want to defund public media.
Very clever, New York Times editorial board using the defund the police to compare it,
but there's no comparison at all.
Defund the police, public safety, and PR and PBS don't matter directly to anybody.
Okay, but be that as it may.
The president of PBS, Paula Kruger, here's what she said.
Go.
But when I look at the range of our programming on public broadcasting, I can't make any sense
of an argument that we are somehow biased in any way.
Oh, boy, lady.
Come on.
So as we reported yesterday, Frontline, their main documentary unit, did a thing this week that Donald Trump was a fascist,
and he was going after everybody.
And it was an hour and 20 minutes.
They used four pro-Trump guests and 19 anti-Trump guests
in the hour and 20 minutes.
But Paula somehow thinks that's not biased.
Oh no.
Now they could have called me.
PBS, I would have explained it.
Very for 19.
Come on Paula.
You know, I don't want to call you a liar, but really.
Now one guy who doesn't like this is a guy that I think is very skilled
and does contribute
positively to America.
His name is Ken Burns.
Roll the tape.
I couldn't have made Anderson any of the films I've made.
Only 40 films over the course of the last 45 years, any other place but PBS.
And it's not because I couldn't go raise the money to do it elsewhere.
I could with the kind of reputation that I've developed.
It's just that they wouldn't give me the time
to be able to explore these subjects.
Ken, your time is not going to be impacted.
All this is, is a cutback of money.
They're not going off the air, PBS and NPR.
They got their fundraisers
every hour on the hour, Ken. They'll have private money going in. You'll be able to
produce your documentaries, most of which are pretty good, in my opinion. This isn't
shutting you out, shutting you down, isn't aborting anything. And if it were, you go to the History Town
and go to Discovery and go all over the place.
CNN will take you.
Stop.
Can.
This is public money that can be better used
on behalf of the American people elsewhere.
That is the truth.
Nancy Blos Pelosi is back. So she goes on serious exam, which I
like. I like that serious operation. Mornings with Zerlina. I don't know who Zerlina is,
but I'm sure she does a fine program. Here's what Nancy Pelosi says about Donald Trump's power.
Go. Hardly anybody is speaking out because everybody's afraid and there's
real justification for fear because Trump is just ruthless and how he's
going after those who do not agree with him.
That's true.
The president can be very ruthless.
But you, lady, match him.
You were the most feared speaker of the House in modern history. You threatened Democratic Congress people with withholding funds for
their reelection and even primaring some of them if they didn't vote your way. That's
what you did. And you have the gall to say, oh, do I fear Trump?
He feared you.
Now, Zerlina didn't quite understand, I guess,
how pretty intense Nancy Pelosi is and was.
And on Pelosi, she was speaker of the House
from 2.7 and 11 and 2.19 and 2.23.
It was a long time.
The only politician that rivals Nancy Pelosi in fierceness
in Congress was Lyndon Johnson in the Senate. He was unreal. Pelosi was more fierce than Newt Gingrich because Gingrich was fair.
The interesting thing is listen, Pelosi is my way or you're out.
But again these people, they're going, I don't know.
All right, this is the end to this story. So for years I've been telling you
that many of these demonstrations against Trump
and Republicans and things are funded by far left people.
George Soros is the top name.
Everybody knows that.
But I did not know there is an actual group in business
to do this.
And the group is called Crowds on Demand.
I didn't even know this existed until today.
Crowds on Demand.
That group pays protesters to go out and disrupt or do whatever.
NewsNation, which I think is the best news agency in the country now, not only because they hired me, but they break stories.
NewsNation reported this two days ago. Roll the tape.
Have the organizers of the July 17th demonstrations approached you?
Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us.
And in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.
$20 million?
Correct.
I mean, this is a nationwide thing, right?
It's not to say I would have made 20 million dollars personally, but the value of the contract
would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the
country. But personally, I just don't think it's effective. So it's not to, I'm not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it.
What I'm saying is I'm saying I'm rejecting it not because I don't want to take the business,
but because frankly, this is going to be ineffective.
It's going to make us all look bad.
So that guy takes big money to organize protesters to go out and disrupt.
Okay?
Do we all have it?
Now where does he get the $20 million?
Who comes to him with that contract?
Far left political action committees.
There are literally hundreds of them.
The pipeline is big money guys like Soros give money to political action committees
that they know will do what they want and the political action committees then get in
touch with Brian, no, Adam Swart, S-W-A-R-T, who you just saw, Adam Swart.
Brian Anton was a reporter and said, look, here's the contract.
You go disrupt this.
You do that.
And they take the money and they hire people, professionals, to go in and disrupt.
That's what's happening.
Did you ever hear that story?
Did you ever hear of crowds on demand?
Have you?
I think I know what I'm doing and I never heard of them.
This is big. Congress should be looking into this.
Because this is an organic protest.
Now today is July 17th. I haven't heard any demonstrations at all.
But they wanted them to happen. But they didn't work out. Quite a
story. The Crowds on Demand, just so you know, is based in Los Angeles. It operates in San Francisco,
Vegas, New York City, D.C., New Hampshire, and Iowa, and it provides clients with hired actors to pose as fans paparazzi
unpaid protesters and professional paid protesters okay it's an industry
smart life Americans very anxious about money now I know I get the letters in the
concierge arena almost every hour on the hour.
69% according to a Harris Bowl say that financial uncertainties made them feel
depressed and anxious.
63% say money worries keep them up at night.
40% say financial worries have made them ill, physically ill.
Okay, I believe it.
ill, physically ill. Okay, I believe it because Americans in school, when they're urchins, are not being told the
real value of money and what you have to do to grow your money, to protect your money.
You don't have money in America.
You live in paycheck to paycheck or you're a senior citizen living on social security or whatever it is.
You have no power at all. People can kick you in the mouth. You can't do a thing.
All right. The only way to protect yourself is to build up money. Now, if you got to work two jobs, I did.
I paid for my higher education. Okay. I worked my butt off, and I took my father's advice.
I saved 10% of all take home from the time I was 12 years old.
So I didn't even need to be successful.
I had a nice war chest already when I was just working my way up.
Because I'm thrifty.
Some say parsimonious, not me.
I give millions of dollars to charity, millions.
But I protected myself.
Now, if you're in a bad circumstance,
you can drive an Uber.
You can cut back on expenses.
You can refinance your mortgage and then sell a home,
buy a smaller home, cut your expenses down.
There are a million things you can do.
Get out of debt.
Do not run up debt.
This is smart life in America.
This is not Sweden here.
Trump versus Mexico.
So the president says he's gonna put a 25% tariff
on all Mexican goods, which will wreck their economy, send them into a depression.
Why?
Because Mexico won't stop the cartels, the fentanyl won't cooperate.
And as a result, Mexico itself is the most violent country in the Western Hemisphere.
Thousands and thousands of murders, totally out of control.
So what does the Mexican president, Claudia
Scheinbaum think about all this? She blames us for the cartels. Go.
Madam President, what do you think about the fact that the United States government insists
that Mexico needs to do more to combat fentanyl? Well, that's...
What we've been talking about in the meetings. We do our part, and they also have to do their
part. We've insisted on controlling the they also have to do their part.
We've insisted on controlling the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico,
arresting people who are involved in drug trafficking in the United States.
They're not doing their part.
The cartels have bought thousands, probably tens of thousands of police, politicians,
you name it. Cartels run the country.
So they're not.
And if I were Trump, I said this before, I'd use the US military to wipe these
people off the face of the earth.
They are in confronting evil.
We do write very, you'll get an inside view of what these cartel leaders do. Take them out.
They're terrorists. They're terrorists. They do not deserve to live. It's a military operation.
President has the authority to do it. And for you, Claudia Scheinbaum, I have no respect
for you at all, none. I don't know whether you're bought or not. Obrador, I don't know whether he was bought or not. He did nothing. Oh, give me, we're doing our part. Stay in history, July 17th, 2019.
El Chapo, Mexican cartel leader sentenced to 30 years in New York City. That was six years ago.
city that was six years ago, Chapo Guzman, he is in confronting evil. All right, he was arrested in 93 and he lived lavishly in a Mexican prison, then he broke out in 21 and they finally caught him
again. They couldn't adjudicate him in Mexico because it's so corrupt, so they sent him here
and he was charged with narcotics trafficking, other crimes, found him guilty in Brooklyn,
I believe.
And he was found guilty, 68 years old, sent to the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado,
where he remains today.
All right, final thought about lobster in a moment.
So this weekend I'm going to try to get some lobster because it's one of my favorite foods.
I don't know why, my mother loved it.
And I've always loved lobster.
You get a little butter sauce with lemon
and you know, ba ba ba.
You gotta crack it, I mean I don't wanna be wrestling
with these lobsters.
But the problem is that the restaurants
and a lot of the fish stores, they jack the price up.
So I call my people up in Massachusetts and Maine,
I said, what's a lobster?
No, we're getting plenty of lobsters.
We got a big great season of lobsters.
They're harvesting the lobsters all over the place.
But the prices are going up
because people don't know what the supply chain is.
And the restaurants go, OK, let me give you an example.
Before the pandemic, in Montauk, New York, big fish port,
a lobster roll, about $35 in a restaurant where you sat down.
Less if you wanted to take it out, about $35.
Now it's double in many places.
Double. But the lobster prices have come down. But they're not going to tell you that.
Okay? And if people like lobster, they want the lobster. Not me. I'll eat fluke, even though
fluke's not cheap. But I'm not paying. I'll pay 25 bucks for a lobster roll.
And I know the places to get them for 25 bucks
and they're good.
Because they just put them in a little hot dog roll.
It's not like they give me anything special.
It's the lobster cut up.
So anyway, I'm gonna hunt down a lobster.
I'll pay about 18 bucks a pound, two pounders the best.
I'm gonna have a nice little dinner.
And that's a key when you're under working hard and under stress or reward yourself for something like that.
Okay, hot fudge sundae, you know, reward yourself. Don't overdo it. But if you like a nice steak or
something like that, but you can get it if you're smart. It's like detective work. Don't pay 60 bucks for a lobster roll.
Thank you for watching this edition of the No Spin News.
I'm Bill O'Reilly.
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