Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Democrats Undermining Trump-Putin Meeting, A Network News Report Tells the Truth About Trump’s Tariffs, & Colby Hall Exposes America's Looming Problem

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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18 plus subscription required TNCs apply. Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the NOSFIN News, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, stand up for your country. So you may have seen me take a part, Ambassador John Bolton the other night on News Nation. We invited him on the program, but, of course, is not going to come up against me in a million years. Bolton is a Trump hater and his analysis of the Trump-Puton meeting in Alaska is it's going to be a failure, it's going to be terrible, it's this, that, and the other thing.

A bunch of nonsense. Well, Bolton is going to go on News Nation, Leland Vitter, tonight, nine, eastern time. And then I think they run it again at midnight, Eastern Time, so the Pacific people can watch. And Leland, he's armed and dangerous because he spent 20 minutes talking to me about people who are undermining national and international security because they hate Donald Trump. And that's what it is. It's as simple as that. And the other thing, I just cut a message for radio.

Imagine Kamala Harris up there on Friday talking to Vlad Putin. Putin would even return by Biden's phone calls. He was that disrespectful about it. He knew he was that weak. Do you imagine Harris doing that negotiation? I'm sorry, you can be a Democrat all day long. You can be a liberal. You can hate Trump.

Just think about that. Okay, so we're on this deal, and we will give you honest reporting, and we openly hope that Donald Trump can stop the madness, the bloodshed, at least get some kind of framework for a deal on Friday. The Talking Points memo is about fanatics. And I mean, this is just amazing to me. Who would rather see people die than give in to politicians they oppose. And I'm going to run about, it's not going to be more clear of this,

but also in that analysis, people pay most of these pundits. corporations pay them to do this so the first thing is the ukrainian situation um which i am hoping there will be a 30-day ceasefire come out of this on friday i'm hearing that as possible okay but it's not going to matter because the trump haters are going to hate roll the tape it's terrible because uh we're throwing the ukrainians under the bus and playing right into Putin hands and on the other hand is terrible because it's not going to work. We have to recognize that the big difference between the president and the Europeans and Zelensky is that essentially the Europeans and Zelensky do not want to lose the war.

And it does seem that Donald Trump is managing a loss. Seemed to whom, madam? I mean, it's just absurd. Managing a loss in what capacity? We're sending high-powered weapons to Ukraine. We have organized a response to Putin that is hurting him. Managing a law? This is the kind of dishonesty.

Maybe it's stupidity. Maybe she's just dumb. And the other guy, too. I don't know them. All right. Then you get the reason that Trump is going to Alaska isn't to say lives in Ukraine. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's to divert attention away from Epstein. Go. He wants to distract you. He wants to distract you from the damage his tariffs are doing to our

economy. He wants to distract you from Epstein. You need to continue to move forward and you need to not let him divert the media attention away from things like the economy and the Epstein files. That is what he is trying to do here. This is absolutely a a distraction from the president's domestic woes, whether it has to do with the Epstein files or the jobless rate? The jobless rate? It gets 4.3. But remember, these people are paid to do this.

They hate them. There's no doubt in my mind they hate them, Trump. But they're paid to do it. Just keep that in mind. Now, when you get this kind of political propaganda out constantly over and over, not just in the United States, but in Europe as well, certainly in Ukraine, but Trump is a bad guy, he doesn't care about Ukraine, he's going to get away from Epstein, all of some nonsense, that a lot of people believe it. Okay, they just believe it because they don't know, and they hear it over and over and over and over again. Now, CNN did some honest analysis the other day. A guy named Harry Enton, he's their chief data analyst.

He puts out that the Epstein story is pretty much dead. It's down 89% in three weeks as far as Google searches are concerned. That's a colossal drop. So Americans, you know, they've had enough of Epstein for now. But here's an interesting thing. This will be revived in September because the House Oversight Committee is subpoenaing all these people to come on in and talk about Epstein. And the person that has most to lose is Bill Clinton, former President Clinton. So I asked my staff, you know, research what they have on Clinton.

This is fascinating. So Clinton apparently took about 18 trips on Epstein's plane. And then my staff says it's not true. that Bill Clinton went to Epstein's Island. And that's what I have. Not true. And my staff's the best. I went, I don't think that's accurate.

So I, your humble correspondent, kicked into reporter mode. And I found there two, one sworn affidavit by a victim that Bill Clinton was on the island. and a guy named Doug Banned, Bill Clinton's top assistant post-presidency, who travel with Putin on Epstein's plane. He told Vanity Fair, they went to the Virgin Islands where Epstein had a property. Epstein Island.

I found that out. My staff didn't find it out. Why? Because the mainstream media wouldn't print it. That's why. But I have people who know this case up and down and in and out. So I believe that Bill Clinton was on Rhode Island. I also believe that Donald Trump was up.

He took eight trips. Okay? And most of them, I think all of them, between New York City and Palm Beach, were both men at properties. Now finally, this whole. Epstein thing was a giant mistake by the Trump administration, but not a calculated mistake. It all began when Attorney General Pam Bondi submitted to an interview with Fox News. And one of the things that you alluded to, and this is something Donald Trump has talked about,

the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients? Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies. So have you seen anything there? You said, oh my gosh? Not yet. Okay, so that opened the door and now it's the Trump haters trying to tie the president to Epstein in some kind of criminal activity. But I got to give the American people credit they've had enough. But it will gin up again.

If I'm Bill Clinton, I'm not happy about this. And he is not a well man. Bill Clinton is not a well man. He's, they're going to subpoena a whole bunch of people. I'm Pierce Morgan, the host of the Pierce Morgan Uncensored Podcast. We do big interviews and we do big debates about whatever's getting people talking. We make news. We make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble, too.

Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Piers Morgan Uncensored on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief Podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global stories going on of the day, this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning,

again in the afternoon, and on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report with excellent guests, including National Security Insiders and Foreign Policy Experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, also on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief. That's the top risk. All right, inflation, as we reported earlier this week, very tame. Stock market is reacting to that in a big way and a positive way. But you remember that when the charists were announced by President Trump,

most of the economists, particularly those on PBS, said, oh, this is going to be a disaster. Roll it. Yeah, the tariffs are clearly playing a role. And you can see that some of the goods that are most exposed to tariffs are showing pretty substantial increases in their prices. I think the worst is yet to come when it comes to tariff-driven inflation. Well, shouldn't PBS put Michael Strain back on the air?

That's who that analyst was, and say, hey, I made a mistake. That's what an honest news agency does. It's what I do when I make mistakes. All right? Now, last night, ABC News on ABC News Live, I don't even know what that is. I think that's their overnight show or something. They had actually an honest report. Roll it.

Well, for the second month in a row, Diane, we're seeing the White House tariffs seep further into the economy and winding up on store shelves for a number of different consumer goods. As you mentioned, though, those price hikes not quite as robust as many economists had expected. And in fact, we did see a number of items actually come down in price last month. Thank you, ABC. Now, sit down on Good Morning America? No. World news tonight? No. But four in the morning, and there it was. But at least it was there.

Okay, and Fed Chief Jerome Powell, I'll make the prediction. Now he's gone sooner rather than later. He's going to resign. Okay, update about the meeting in Alaska. It's at Elmendorf Air Force Base. I actually was there. I've been to Alaska three times. Beautiful state, obviously.

I told Hannity on his radio program today that to watch out for bears, because I was walking, I was just walking around. It was a rural place. All of a sudden, this giant bear pops out right into, it was about 40 feet away from me. I go, hey, good morning to you. But anyway, I also tell me how many go out to Denali National Park to see McKinley after this whole thing is done. So Trump says that he's going to talk with Putin.

We'll know pretty quick if anything is accomplished. The ceasefire is what Trump wants, 30 days or more. And then he said, we'll have a second meeting, and Zelensky and the Europeans will be more involved with that. Okay, that's fine. Zolensky had a call virtual summit, Zoom thing, I guess, with European leaders today. You know, there's nothing you can do if you're Zelensky or Europe or even Trump, unless Putin says, I'm going to stop. Nothing.

And finally, Europeans themselves, you know, have they been undermining Trump? No. They haven't. Like some of the press in America has. but they're sketchy about it. Okay, update, I told you top of the program, Bolton, John Bolton will not come on. Face me, I'm too horrifying for him. And then Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona, who I respect, he won't come on either.

He's trying to undermine Trump too. Very disappointing, particularly with Kelly. Senator, if you're going to come out there and say this stuff, you've got to defend it. Okay, can't be just going on a liberal network. works, right? A new study. So this is important. It's not at the level of war and peace, but it's important. So last night I had a little dinner here on Eastern Long Island and urchins, you know, there in the dinner. High school kids and middle school with their parents and run around. And they're very interested in my upcoming book, Confronting Evil. Okay, because we've got Hitler on a cover, we got Mao, got Stown, we got Putin.

And then there's 12 other guys inside the book that are as evil as you can possibly imagine. Anyway, they, oh, what's about? What's about? These are kids are asking me. And I'm trying to explain it to them. They knew nothing, nothing about even Hitler. And I said, don't they teach you? No.

No, not taught. And then I looked at the parents, and the parents kind of embarrassed. And I said, well, it's hard to engage these kids in conversation because they're always on the phone. Every waking moment they're in the house. They don't watch TV anymore. Not watching TV. You're not reading books. They're on this.

And it's very hard to get them away from that. Okay. And I think that is an accurate assessment of where we are in America. So there is a new study comes out of the University of Southern California. The Financial Times printed it, about 15,000 younger people about the effects of the phone. And here are the highlights. 20 to 30-year-olds report being more easily distracted and careless. I see that, my own urchins.

They're on the phone. I forget they've got to clean the room or whatever they have to do. Reduce tenacity and follow-through on commitments. So, yeah, I'm going to do this, Dad. and it doesn't get done. Because they forget, because they're on the phone. Okay? Then there is higher anxiety levels.

Why? Why would that be? Because there's so much stuff they don't understand and so much negativity on the phones. Bullying? Huge. Huge. Little kids getting bullied by name,

getting destroyed in their communities, and kids are anxious about it. And less outgoing. You know, people, they stay in the house. Instead of going out, jumping in the ocean to the pool or playing stickball and the stuff we didn't know. Nope. In the room with the phone. So joining this guy now from Brooklyn, New York is Colby Hall.

You may know him. He's the founding editor of Media. I read a column on how all of this stuff is going to negatively affect the United States big time and it's coming up fast. Should I have included anything else in my lead before we get to the specifics? No, I mean, I think you set it up wonderfully, but I also think that in one level, this is kind of obvious to anyone that has kids or you go outside, you go to the park, everyone's on their phone. With the study, I thought, sort of hung a Lanjanon, was just how bad it's gotten. And no one's really talking about what an enormous, not just a generational shift, but a millennial historic shift. and we should start to talk about it because I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better.

But there has been talk in New York State, for example, there's a new law that bans phones in school during class time. They are concerned about the distraction, they being the authorities, but it hasn't risen to the level that parents are banging the emergency bill. And that's what I'm seeing. They allow the urchins to do this because if they don't, there's tension in the house. You know, there's angst. Now, with me, that never worked because I don't care about angst. So I'm going, there's no phones at the table, and it never was.

And then put the phone down is one of my favorite phrases and do this. But I'm a martinet, word of the day. But most parents, they let the kids do it. So I think it's the parents' fault. And I do think it's going to adversely affect this country. Well, I think you're right. I think it's everyone's fault. But the parents are the ones that are responsible, right?

I also abide by no phones at the dining room table ethos as well. And I'm proud to say my 22-year-old reads books. He's a big reader. My 18-year-old is not. And maybe that's because one just graduated from college, the other is about to go to college. But yeah, this is an issue where we need to figure out how we sort of, the genie is out of the bottle. The genie's out of the bottle and has got his own TikTok account and is distracted enough to try to solve this, right? And, you know, I put in my column that I compared it to the Gutenberg, you know, vetting of the printing press, which, you know, changed.

You know, it spread and started the Renaissance. It spread knowledge and understanding of Christianity and so many great things came from it. But the effect of that took centuries to unfold and for people to read across the world. This is the same thing, but it's unfolded over a decade, right? And so there's been no guardrails. There's been no sort of, you can't really regulate it because it is what it is. I think you make a very silly point that parents need to take a lead role and be a lot stricter about this. And I happen to think, you know, I've done some research on this in the New York.

public schools. Turns out, you know, who's the biggest fan of not allowing phones in schools are many of the students? Because they want to, they want to have a break. You know, the isolationism and the anxiety, the lack of consciousness. I think a lot of these kids that are addicted to their phones, they're somewhat aware of it. And when they can, when you force them to detox and, I don't know, play a parlor game or spend quality time with your parents or your friends or, you know, sent my kids to summer camp mostly so that they wouldn't be on their phones and they would be playing, you know, pick up baseball, wiffle ball, you know, swim and fish and what have you. Not everyone has that opportunity. But I don't know what's the solution. I think we are at a point

where we need to recognize it so we can try to detoxify our brains before it's too late because I think we're raising a generation of zombies who don't even know what's wrong with them, right? And they're not getting stronger. This makes you weaker. It makes you weaker mentally, and it makes you weaker physically because you're not out there. Exercise or anything like that. It's easy to isolate yourself in your room with their phone. And my 22-year-old, who I think is smarter than I am, he doesn't read many books,

but he does research and good research on the stupid phone. But I have to explain to him that, look, you guys. that'll broaden it out, particularly if you want to be president of the United States, which I think he's got a shot at, all right? You can't just be a phone addict. Now, the thing that concerns me the most about mental health, and that's big in this country now, with all the addiction we're seeing, with all this violence we're seeing across our country. We are the most addicted, violent country in the world. Okay? We are, and that's shocking, because we are based on Judeo-Christian philosophy. But the urgent,

don't even know what Judeo-Christian philosophy is. Okay, they don't know. So when I was teaching high school, I saw the bullying in the halls, I saw it, I stopped it. And I would stop it sometimes in a very confrontational way. Now the bullying is on a machine. And they can tear kids apart, leading to suicides and all of that.

And a lot of the kids don't tell their parents. They're afraid to tell their parents. All right, because they think the parents are going to run down in the school, they're going to run to the kids' parents, and they're going to make it worse. That, I think, is one of the most dangerous aspects of this phone culture. I couldn't agree more. And I think, you know, you've worked in the media space for a long time, as have I.

You've developed a certain level of skepticism and you have a critical mind and you can kind of, you can smell a scam a mile away, right? These young teenagers don't have that. They don't have the wisdom of those experiences. I mean, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, right? And that's made me smarter, right? And I can see, you know, a fishing scheme, a spam, some sort of, you know, attack to try to steal your data. I can see that coming.

A lot of these kids can't do other things. I mean, I think there's been this rise of, I was talking about this with Jonah Goldberg yesterday, who was a comedian. He was a conservative thinker. He started a national review online. And, you know, he was kind of like a comedian. He was sort of a troll. And now he can't do that because. the trolling behavior from the extreme left and the extreme right has kind of ruined it for everyone.

It's no longer funny. It's just mean-spirited. And I don't think that kids are equipped to handle that. And then the one last thing I would say, this isolationism. People just get lost in their own phones. They don't want to engage in the other world. And there's a lack of community. There's no faith-based living. There's no churches. People are going to church anymore. And so there's a lack of community that is helping Not every parent can do it on their own, but if there's elders in the community that can help out, that's gone away also. So it's a kind of a perfect storm of negative influences. I feel bad for our kids. We shouldn't blame them.

Yeah, and in a free society, there isn't legislation that can stop it, and the cruelty factor is rising. Because every tape of somebody being cruel is on that machine, TikTok or whatever it is. So the more cruel you are to your fellow man, the more cruel you are, the more. exposure you're going to get and that they're just absorbing it like this and it's real it's not movie it's not Terminator okay this is real and now the anesthesia fills in I've seen it so much it doesn't even affect me anymore so I don't know what the solution is I know you can't legislate against the First Amendment I do like all of this school stuff no phones while classes are underway and I think that we have to spread the word that parents have a response

But the irony is, some of the parents are worse addicted than our kids. Last word. I think you're absolutely right. I think we can't solve this problem immediately, but recognizing it is the first step. And calling out adults to parent is a major first step. And take it from there. All right. Thanks, Gawby, appreciate it very much.

Chuck Schumer, most powerful Democrat in the country. Senate Minority Leader, New Pole, Siena College, outside of Albany. Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Senator Schumer? February of 38, unfavorable 50, his lowest number in 20 years. Now, the reason that Schumer is declining is because he's not progressive enough for the Democratic loons. and he actually helped Trump out by failing to shut down a government. Okay? Now, Ocasio-Cortez, as irresponsible and progressive as you could get,

I believe it's going to primary Schumer in New York State. I think that's in two years. She'll beat him. Schumer's done. So what Schumer should do is resign and have a whole little appoint somebody. because he's not going to beat Ocasio-Cortez. So you'll have another, Bernie, you'll have another friend, Bernie Sanders.

Foreign-born population in the USA has dropped 2.2 million since Trump took office. Wow, that's a big number. It comes from Center for Immigration Studies and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We all know why open border is done. ISIS intimidated, a lot of nationals here who are not documented. Self-deporting is working, okay? And the employers are scared too. So illegal immigrant employment is down a million in eight months.

This is interesting. U.S. born employment up 2.5. million. Here you go. Interesting stats. Mexico, they're afraid. Trump's going to start droning the cartels.

That can be done fairly easily. You could wipe them out in a week. And then once you kill five or six of them, the rest will leave. They'll stop. They'll get out of Mexico. Or Venezuela, wherever the drones strike. I think Trump may do this.

So the president of Mexico, of course, doesn't want it done. She can't explain why. If you were a responsible president, Madam, Claudio Scheinbaum, you'd cooperate with the United States to kill all of these terrorists because they've been designated terrorists because they're killing hundreds of thousands of Mexicans. So why wouldn't you cooperate on the drone thing? Why wouldn't you have your intel people help our intel people get these guys? why no answer now I can't say and I won't say that money is changing hands in the current

Mexico City administration but I can tell you it has in the past big money why tells bribe everybody Helsinki have been there Finland I have I've been to 86 countries Helsinki, a nice little country, town, Finland, nice little country. About 600,000 wearing earmuffs and mittens, very cold in Finland. They had zero traffic fatalities for the year, July, 2024 to July 2025. No one killed in Helsinki, Finland for the year. Why? because they dropped the speed limit to 19 miles an hour.

Okay. And they got cameras everywhere. So if you're going 24, you're going to get a little fine. You're going to pay some euros. But they got, they stopped it. No traffic fatalities going 19 miles an hour. I thought that was a very interesting story. Back with an unbelievable final thought.

All right, here is a final thought today. Remember this guy, Terry Moran, big shot ABC correspondent, had a very prestigious position for Disney, very precision. All right. So he got fired because he called President Trump and Stephen Miller, top White House advisor, haters, or some immature, ridiculous thing, and they sack Moran. So now Moran's running around.

He won't come on with me, of course, saying unbelievably dopey things on the internet. This is about how reporters have to conduct themselves. We must use the language of values in covering the world, because the world is made up of that, of right and wrong, of love and hate. And if you can't as a journalist describe and perceive those values at work, good and evil, then you can't, you aren't really doing your job. You're collecting a paycheck and it was a pretty good one, but you aren't really doing your job. What a bunch of nonsense? If you're a commentator, you can do that, not a reporter.

So, for example, I'm a Roman Catholic, right? I don't believe in abortion, okay? Now, I'm supposed to report any abortion story from my Catholic point of view as a reporter. I'm going to bring my theological values into the public square and demean and diminish anyone who disagrees with those. That's how stupid this guy Moran is. All right. But it's not stupid born of ignorance, because he's not ignorant.

It's arrogance. And that is the key when you watch the network news, the cable news, PBS, NPR, all of that stuff. These are arrogant people. They think they know more than you. They think they are better than you. Because their values are up here. And if you don't subscribe to those values,

if you are pro-life, then you need to be attacked. You need to be destroyed, harmed. That's what this Moran idiot wants to bring to the table. I mean, it's just shocking. And the other clown interviewing him is the same guy, like this, yeah, yeah, that's right. All reporters should just report on their own value systems.

What? Oh, my God. But that is what is in play with all of these corporations. They hire people like this, arrogant people. And that's why it's all falling apart. And that's why you're here watching the no-spin news tonight. I'm going to take tomorrow off because I am delirious. I got to just, I have to take it off.

We will be here tomorrow. Not tomorrow. See how delirious I am? I don't even, damn it. We will be here on next week. Monday, and then through the week on bill o'Reilly.com, I'll tweet about the Trump-Pooten summit. I'll have a new column on Sunday. We'll do all of that.

But I got to take some time off. I'm seeing spots before my eyes here. All right. Thanks again for watching. We'll see you on Monday.