Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Donald Trump's Battle Over Migrants, Former Ambassador Gordon Sondland on America's New Foreign Policy, President Trump's Confrontation With California's Progressive Leaders, and Is Patriotism Back in the NFL?

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, January 27, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill provides the latest information on ICE arrests and the situation with Colombia rejecting U.S. migrant flights. Former EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland joins the No Spin News to discuss all aspects of foreign policy, including the Trump administration's deportation policies and the crisis in Ukraine and Russia. An update on the LA fires, including Trump's meeting with Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. Will President Trump dismantle FEMA? This Day in History: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Final Thought: NFL players and the National Anthem. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Follow the Money 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Visit MailChimp.com. Hello, O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, January 27, 2025, stand up for your country. So right now, I believe that Donald Trump is the least boring president in history. You know, Teddy Roosevelt, he had the least boring moniker, but in the last wig, I think Trump has passed them. Every day is a carpet ride here. We're on it and we're ahead of it.

And that separates us from the journalistic pack. Not being boring can be good or bad and sometimes either or. So keep that in mind. So Talking Boys memo this evening is on the immigration situation, very intense. tense. So beginning Thursday, there have been almost 2,500 undocumented migrants arrested. They call them arrested, but they're basically taken into custody. So on Thursday, 538, Friday, 593, Saturday, 286, Sunday, almost 1,000, 956. And this is according to the ICE website. All right, so we know these are government stats. So what happens is that these individuals taken into custody,

they're brought to processing centers, and some of them are put on deportation flights, and that's where the problems are beginning. So these seven deportation flights happened over the weekend, four to Mexico, three to Guatemala. They were successfully completed. In Mexico, there was a snafu in the beginning, but somebody made a call, and all of a sudden the flights went down pretty smoothly. Okay, 2,000 undocumented deported to Mexico on Thursday alone, and that is not included in flight. Some of that is putting people across the border who just came over.

Remember, remain in Mexico policy is in place now. The other thing you remember is how chaotic this situation was under the Biden administration, all right? Because that's why this is all happening. So the big headline over the weekend was Colombia, the country of Colombia. Here, the president said, no, we're not taking them, and you can't land. Now, that's a serious deal. Okay. So the Trump administration said, if you don't allow us to land,

there's going to be a huge economic problem, all right? So here is exactly what happened. The president, Gustavo Petro, okay, turned away the U.S. flight on Sunday, yesterday, 9.30 in the morning. And he said, quote, a migrant is not a criminal, must be treated with dignity that a human being deserves. That's why I turned back the U.S. military planes that were carrying Colombian migrants. I cannot allow migrants to remain in a country that does not want them, but if the country sends them back, it must be with dignity and respect for them, unquote. That's a ruse.

So what Petro was objecting to was the migrants were in handcuffs. Well, I had to be. This is a U.S. transport plane, a military aircraft. So if you've got 70 people, mostly young men, and you don't handcuff them, they can commit violence on a plane. Could they not? I mean, this is third grade stuff. You have to restrain them because they can overwhelm the pilots and everybody else. Patriot, I don't know if he's smart enough to know that. I don't know him.

But it's ridiculous. So President Trump immediately responded yesterday with this quote. I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States with a large number of illegal criminals not allowed to land in Colombia. So it was given by Colombia's socialist President Gustavo Petro was already very unpopular amongst his people. Petra's denial of these flights to jeopardize the national security

and public safety of the United States, so I have directed my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures. Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming to the United States from Colombia. in one week, 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%. Okay. Well, two hours later, President Petro issued another statement. Governor Columbia under the direction of President Petro has arranged the presidential plane,

that's Petro's plane, facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots. We're going to arrive in a country today in a morning coming in from deportation flights. It's measure of response to the government's commitment to guarantee. decent conditions. Well, okay, you want to let the migrant sit in your presidential plane without any restraints? Go ahead. But it took two hours for the Colombian president to say, oh, I think we had a problem. And now U.S. flights will go to Bogota, Columbia. Or the Colombian economy will be crushed. That's it. That's the story.

Okay. So, shock and all works, and this is much better than any kind of military stuff or any of that. And Trump administration has to stop the madness, has to. And tariffs are going to be the weapon, not only here in immigration, but other places as well. Now, I talked to a high-ranking, and I can't tell you who was an off-directed conversation last night. I'm working all the time. So at halftime in the football game, I'm talking to this guy. I said, look, do you have any definition of who's being deported? Are they all criminals? And they don't have, the Trump administration doesn't have yet, profiles of every deportee. They're just throwing them on the planes. But here's what I learned that I didn't know. Some of the deported people are people who have come into the United States recently and have been detained. Okay? It's not all criminals. It's some of those people, too. It's a combo, just so you know.

Now, there are other things being negotiated. El Salvador looks like is going to be the place where the United States lands migrants, because Venezuela is not going to take them back. And Venezuela, we can't tariff it because we've already got economic sanctions. on them. And they're an outlaw regime anyway. So if Salvador for an enormous amount of taxpayer money, we're going to pay that government tons of money to do this, we'll take the migrants. Now, if you're a margaret, that's not where you want to go, El Salvador. The president down a very tough guy. So they'll throw you right in jail. So if you're a Venezuelan criminal deported from the United States and you land in San Salvador, you're going right to jail.

and you're not going to pass go. It sends another message. But El Salvador is going to, I think, be the clearinghouse for migrants supported by air in the United States. And most of them are going to be criminals. Because ISIS is targeting these people. In Denver, in the suburb that was having all kinds of trouble with the Venezuelan gangs, they rounded up a whole bunch of them

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Styles and selections may vary by location. This is the Trump policy. He's a tough guy. And Tom Holman, who's in charge of ICE now, is a tough guy too. And no coming back from this. all right this is an ongoing campaign Mexico will do what Donald Trump wants they can't just like Colombia Mexico can't absorb a 25% tariff on goods coming in the United States

it'll break their economy it'll be meaning to be seen with the designation of the cartels as terror groups we don't know how that's going to play out so anyway I think that's the best encapsulation that you're going to get anywhere in the media about what happened over the weekend. Ongoing. And it has to happen

because this thing, under the Biden administration, was so far out of control. I don't think Americans understand how bad this is. And that's why Joe Biden will get out in history as the second worst president ever. Okay, and that's a memo. Other foreign policy stuff, we got Ukraine war, which isn't going well for Ukraine.

So Zelensky replaces the commander of the Eastern Front, not a good sign. Russia is now bombing the hell out of Ukraine, drones and everything else. This is bad. Russia's not making that many gains on the ground, but there are just, Ukraine is not going to win this. Okay? So it's fighting for its life. It's fighting and retain as much property as a property is.

can, much land as it can. And, you know, let's hope that Trump can get something out of Putin to stop this madness. That's number one. NATO, you know, Trump does not like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization because they don't pay up enough defense costs. So he, it's right now it's 2% of the gross national product that NATO companies are supposed to contribute for the collective defense. Trump wants it to be five. And then we got Greenland, you got Panama. I mean, this is one week. One week. All right, joining us now, as the best guess we could find on any of this. His name is Gordon Sondland. You may remember he was the ambassador to the European Union for two years, the first Trump administration. Join us now from Fort Lauderdale,

Florida. Let's start with the deportations first. This is obviously shaking up the Western Hemisphere, got a very liberal government in Brazil. They're rattling cages. I think the capitulation in Colombia sends a big message to everybody. How do you see it? Well, let me pivot to more of a macro issue, which is, I think President Trump has changed the transition playbook forever for every president, regardless of party. And, you know, there was a lot of consternation as to why he He wasn't signing on to the normal transition process, and now we can see why, because there was a lot of work going into all of these various initiatives, 30 or 40 of them, all launched at the same time, that were not shared with the current administration, which they would

have been had he signed on to the normal process, which meant people would have been able to undermine him before he got out of the gate. So they kept thinking... So you believe that the Trump administration didn't share any of this with the Biden administration because the Biden administration would have leaked it to the press and created hysteria. Is that what you're saying? Among other things, I think also what we all refer to as the deep state would have already started to put things into motion to put sand into the gears.

And that's why they kept things at Mar-a-Lago, they kept things quiet, they had their landing teams ready, and that's why you saw not only shock and awe in terms of the launch of all of these initiatives, but shock and awe in terms of HR moves in getting rid of people who would have had their hands on the levers of power. And that's why now, when the president needs to threaten, unfortunately, a foreign leader to do the right thing, which is take your own citizens back, there isn't a lot of bureaucracy pushing back on that. He sends a tweet, scares the ever-loving daylights out of the guy within two hours, as you pointed out, things go backwards. And this is how you have to conduct foreign policy when things have gotten so bad in the last four

years. Sure, it's an emergency. There's no doubt about it. And I don't, as I said, I don't think most Americans understand how bad the Biden administration was, how derelict in their duty they were, by not upholding the federal law in place on immigration. But you also have the perception around the world that Donald Trump's a dictator and he's going to come into our country and he's going to cause trouble for us. And that's something that he has to mitigate, correct? Well, he has to mitigate it. But when you peel back the layer of the onion bill, we didn't go into Colombia and start a fight. We simply said these people, your citizens, snuck into our country, we just want to send them back. And it's the president of Columbia that started the fight.

Now, just imagine for a moment that we sneak into Colombia. You're going to wind up in a Colombian jail. You're not going home on a presidential aircraft. And I mean, as I pointed out, the phony excuse that they're in handcuffs and that's, you know, some kind of human rights violation. And these are the worst to the worst. You're going to let them run around a plane unattended? I mean, it's ridiculous.

I get a kick out of the fact that every time I go to Mexico on vacation or as a tourist, I'm going to a very, you know, usually very high-end resort in one of Mexico's nicer places. I'm planning to spend a ton of money, and the Mexican customs authority give me the third degree like no one else, and I'm there to help their economy. And yet, on the other hand, people want us to be tolerant of someone simply sneaking across the border. So hypocrisy has its finest hour. With all due respect, Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn't go to Mexico. I'm never going here again because they're an enemy to America.

They hurt us and they kill people here and they won't do anything about it. So no Mexico for me. And the Caribbean's got a lot of lovely resorts and a lot of good countries down here. Food for thought. Yeah. Let's shift over to your expertise here. So I think the situation in Ukraine is worsening for Kief and that's an advantage to Putin, unfortunately, because Putin doesn't care how many Russians are dead.

He does care about the ruble collapsing. in his economy in Chambles. He cares about that. But I didn't care about the dead. So Trump has now got a more difficult problem with Putin than he would if the battle was a stalemate, which it isn't. And Trump knows that. He actually said that to me. He said, you know, Russia's win. I said, I know they're winning, but you have to make it painful for them to win. But now, the specter of more economic sanctions against Russia, that's what Trump came out last week and said. How do you see this going down? I actually think Putin is going to regret doing what he did for the simple reason that

if he winds up at Donald Trump's pleasure by retaining any amount of Ukraine that he was able to take since the invasion, and I don't know if that's going to be the case or not, but let's assume that it is. The payment he's going to have to make for that is a structure that guarantees Ukraine, ironclad security. If that's short of joining NATO, it'll be some kind of a NATO compact umbrella, but the deal will be very simply, okay, you get X, Y, and Z, you never get another inch, and if you take one more inch in the future, all bets are off, and we go toe to toe immediately with the United States and NATO all in with Ukraine. So you're locked. It's all over.

When is that deal? Are they going to go to Iceland and me? Do you have any scenario that might happen in the next month or so? I think it's going to happen very quickly because I think President Trump believes it's his personal duty to stop the bloodshed. He sort of promised it. Absolutely. That's one of his big signature items to try to get something there. And then he might get the Nobel Peace Prize if he does at least nominated. All right.

So that's all conjecture. We can just guess at that. Greenland. So, just another thing. I wrote a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com where I was making fun of the Gulf of Mexico being the Gulf of America now. And Greenland are going to change the name to Mara Koldo. Because it's, you know, but there is the lithium, and that's what this is all about. Because China has the lithium market worldwide to make the machines.

and the United States want the world depended on China. And so we need the lithium there. But instead of negotiating a deal, which you could do, I think you could probably do it in a week with the Danes. You know, he goes, ah, we might take it over. Is that the right way to do it? Well, look, if you speak fluent Trump speak, what you realize is he's taking what is a very complicated deal

and putting it in words that everyone can understand. doesn't mean it literally when he says, we're going to buy Greenland. It doesn't mean he's going to write a check and they're going to hand us a deed to Greenland. What it really means is we're going to get in bed with Greenland more than we've ever been in terms of military. I know that and you know that, but the folks in Europe don't know. Yeah, they don't know. And the Danes are running around. I mean, it's certainly, that's the first thing that's an awaken them since November. So cold over there. But I think it also shows me that metaphor. Fredrickson does not know how to manage Trump the way Georgia Maloney of Italy knows how to manage

him. Whatever it may be. Americans don't care. We just don't want conflict. I think that'll work it out. I think they'll work out something economically, right? They're already talking. Absolutely. That's what I think. Panama is the same thing. That guy down there is going to give Trump what he wants, but Trump goes in and says, hey, we're going to take it. So I don't know. I actually had a conversation with the president, about this. I say, you don't have to humiliate. The guy's going to do what you want. But it seems like Donald Trump wants to create that chaos. He feels it's easier to get a deal out of that once he creates this hysteria. Am I wrong? Well, there's something else going on here as well. He's showing our adversaries, our true adversaries, and none of these people are our adversaries.

They're actually our friends. He's showing, you know, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, particular, that he is not effing around when he says something, he means it, and he plans to take immediate action. He is a check your watch, not your calendar kind of president. And that's what we've needed for the last four years. Okay. I understand the messaging, but final thing. You were based in Brussels as the EU ambassador, correct? Yes.

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What is their justification for not paying the 2%? You must have spoken to them about it. Because they can get away with it. We haven't pressed them. So it's the big middle finger from Brussels to Washington, D.C. That's what it is? I don't even think it's the middle finger. The country is broke.

That country is really broke. Why is Belgium broke? It's a little Benelux country. What are they? They got four million people there? Why is it broke? Because they have a huge social safety net and very little income because everyone's fleeing their tax policy. That's why they're broke.

All right. So they're all bailing out of there because you can't make any money. And so they don't have any money. And they won't put the collective defense. But Trump's not going to get the 5% commitment from NATO. I don't think he's going to get that to you. Well, look, this is my theory. have an extra minute? Yeah, sure. My theory is this. If hypothetically, we said, look, we've been

with you guys in Europe for the last 80 years. We've helped you. We've paid. We've had our blood, treasure people. You're kind of on your own now. We'll take on the big stuff in China. You're going to have to defend yourselves. We're going to pull everything out, including our money and so on and so forth. All of these countries that we admire where you're walking down the street and watching people sit in the brosseries, you know, in the middle of the day, writing in their journals instead of working, these countries would have to spend 10%, 11%, 12% of their GDP on defense in order to make up for us. So what Trump is basically saying, Bill, is we have been subsidizing a very enviable lifestyle. And he said, we're not asking to pull a rug

out, but they need to put up their share. That's the bottom line. Well, I think you'll get it in the And, I mean, this is really a departure from the American government, as you said, of the last 80 years. I hope you'll come back, Mr. Ambassador. It was a very good conversation. We appreciate it very much. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for having me. All right, let's go to L.A. it rained over the weekend.

There are four fires. Three of them are contained. One of them is in San Diego County, which is still roaring. The estimates now are an amazing amount of money to put the land back together again in southern California you know it's up to what 300 billion dollars I I don't know it's just crazy I don't think that that these things are going to be solved within two years that's how long it's going to take maybe longer than that 28 people dead 22 missing at this point the missing aren't presumed dead because

a lot of people just split they just got in a car and zoomed away so but 28 confirmed dead 2,000 firefighters still on a job out there. What a mess. Now Donald Trump went out on Friday as you know and everybody was anticipating a showdown with Governor Newsom and here's what happened. Thank you for being here. It means a great deal to all of us. Not just the folks in Palisades, the folks in Altonina that were devastated. We're going to need your support. We're going to need your help. Nothing like this has happened. And we're going to get it fixed. So we'll get it permanently fixed. So it can't happen again. that again, we'll be talking a little bit later and we'll get it worked out, okay?

I appreciate it, Mr. President. Thank you, good. Thank you. Trump handled that well. No, he didn't like Newsom and Newsom doesn't like him, but you got to present a united friend and something like this. So I thought that was good. Then Trump met with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass,

who I think is going to get recalled. She's so befuddled and incompetent roll that table. Yes, but you know that you will be able to go back soon. Mr. President. We think within a week. That's a long time a week. I'll be honest. To me, everyone's standing in front of the house.

They want to go to work and they're not allowed to do it. And the most important thing is for people to be safe. They're safe. They're safe. You know what? They're not safe. They're not safe now. They're going to be much safer. A week, a week is actually a long time the way I look at it.

the way I look at it. So Trump wants some people to be able to go back and see their houses and their plots and all of that. I don't have an opinion one way or the other on it. You know, I always err on the side of freedom, but Bass is done. Newsom, he can't run again. He's got a year left, really, but that whole state is so screwed up, California. Oh, but I thought Trump did the right thing.

did the right thing there. FEMA. So Donald Trump's vision is very interesting. He doesn't think FEMA can, is effective anymore. These are too big, okay, beginning with the Warlands, with the hurricane there, and then storms in Florida, and now the fires in California. He doesn't think FEMA can handle it, rule it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away, and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state, but the state should fix this.

If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation. All right, so the vision is that each state would get some federal funding for emergency relief. That has to be okayed by Congress. My president can't knock out FEMA. Congress would have to say, okay, we're going to change the funding in disaster situations. I would support that. The states know better who's efficient, who isn't, this federal government comes in and it's just chaos.

Media madness. So there's a lot of criticism of Vice President Vance for going on CBS. And I have always been of the opinion that you go where the enemy is. You take them on. I do that. All right. You know, speaking to the choir, everybody agreeing with the anchor person or the pun, it's boring. It's nowhere.

But if you go in and you debate somebody who you know is hostile to you or believes something different, then something he can come out of it so uh vance uh who's a good debater he was here and he held his own he goes on uh face the nation with margaret brennan this brennan is a avid liberal all right and they talk about um the j6 pardons go is violence like that against a police officer ever justified violence against the police officer is not justified but that doesn't mean that you you should have Merrick Garland's Weaponized Department of Justice expose you to incredibly unfair process, to denial of constitutional rights, and frankly to a double standard that was not applied to many people, including, of course, the Black Lives Matter rioters who

killed over two dozen people and never had the weight of a weaponized Department of Justice come against them. The pardon power is not just for people who are angels or people who are perfect. I was good. It was good. was good. Now, remember that Vance said that anybody who attacked the police officers should not be pardoned, and Trump overrode him. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If I'm president and I got a vice president, I want the vice president to have his own thoughts. And I don't want Vance getting criticized by crazy right wingers who say, oh, no, no, don't go away, you're legitimate. No, go in there and beat them.

DEI. This is a report that hundreds, 395 government bureaucrats are on leave. That means they're getting fired. Good. We don't need them. And this will save the taxpayer close to $500 million. Good. We don't need DEI.

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Good. Now remember, Trump can't do anything about DEI in a private sector, only where federal is concerned. Smart life. So I went to the dentist on Thursday. They've been going to this guy for 20 years, best dentist, guy's really skilled, Irish guy, you know. So anyway, going to a dentist isn't pleasant for anybody. You've got to do it. So there's a survey out, mytoothfairy.com. Love that website, but listen to this. 70% of Americans brush their teeth twice a day, which is a recommended amount.

I, your humble correspondent, brush my teeth three times a day, because I'm bloviating. talking a lot. And I got to, you know, I want to keep my mouth refreshed. 23% admit to skipping brushing the entire day. That's inconceivable to me. I mean, what are you? Drunk? You got to brush your teeth. 33% floss every day. I do. 33 floss occasionally. 33% of Americans never floss. What is wrong with you? You have to do that for your gums. Or your teeth are going to fall out. It's going to cost you a bloody fortune. But the most important thing is if you get mouth infection, as you get older, it ripples through your entire body. And if you don't take care of your

teeth, you look bad. If you're taking methamphetamine, your teeth are going to fall out or other drugs. This is important here. Be on it. Come on. Trump's schedule this week, He's at the Durali, owns that hotel in Miami, his conference with Republicans. And he doesn't have anything else on his schedule this week because he's going to go back to Washington and try to shape legislation. What does that mean? There are a bunch of votes that are coming up in the House and the Senate. And the White House is basically calling the shots on these votes. Now, we're hoping Kate's law gets into that mix.

I'm working it. It's not easy because there's a lot of swirl in D.C. right now but i haven't forgotten it stay in history january 27th 1776 so george washington is uh in cambridge massachusetts where harvard is he's looking across all right the river at the boston regulars at the english regulars in boston so the charles river divides okay washington on one side the british regulars on the other and they're fighting. There's a 25-year-old guy named Henry Knox. Washington likes him. Washington says, hey, Hank, you're going to go 300 miles to Lake Champlain and pick up cannons in Fort Ticonderoga

in the middle of January. And Hank does. He goes out there through the Berkshires, up to the fort, grabs all of this ordinance, 60 tons of cannon, and brings it back to Boston. Almost impossible. But Henry Knox does it. And then Washington places the guns around Boston to bombard the British in the harbor in other places. And the British split. They go, whoa, look at that. We're out of here.

and it comes to New York, and Washington wins. And that was the last of redcoats ever went to New England in any numbers. The hero was Henry Knox. Did you ever hear of him? No, nobody's ever heard of him. I'd feel bad for Hank. So Hank, after the war, goes back to his home in Maine, which was part of Massachusetts at that time,

and he's eating a chicken, and the bone gets caught in his throat, and he dies. But he's a hero. And that happened 249 years ago today, the noble train of artillery. Great story. If you want to know more about that, Killing England, one of my best books, by the way, if you're really interested in that whole era. All right, we have a final thought on why the football players no longer kneel of the national anthem. Back in a moment.

All right, final thought I'm watching the games yesterday. years ago, you'll remember, it was an epidemic of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem for protest reasons. Poster boy Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick lost his career because he did that. He never really played again. And he was blackballed. And that's the truth. Now, I don't have any sympathy for Kaepernick. He doesn't like his country. And I do. so we have no common ground. However, now it's 180 degrees. I was watching the opening ceremonies in one of the games. There were football players had tears in their eyes during the national anthem. And I assume it's because they are emotionally tied to their country in a good way.

All right? I assume nobody kneels. So what really happened here? I. their humble correspondent? No. What happened was this. The owners of the teams and they're dictators. You've got to understand that. You own a football team. What you say goes. Now, there is a commissioner, all right, and there are rules. But the individual owners, they started to lose money because a lot of fans were angry with the National Football League. And the marketing of jerseys and hats, this is where they make tons of money. Television, yes, with the marketing of the jerseys and all that. That's where the big money is.

So the owners got together and said, no more. And almost all of them, there were a couple of exceptions, said, I'm going to tell my person. personnel, anybody who kneels, out of here. Remember, football contracts are not guaranteed, unlike basketball and baseball. Most football contracts can get cut anytime. They get their money up front. The NFL players sign a contract. They get a big signing bonus, but they can go at any time because of injuries, so dangerous to play. All right? Very little guaranteed contracts. They can let these people go. And that was the message to the players. You kneel, very likely could lose your job. Amazing how fast that protests disappear.

That's what happened. No, Lee will never tell you that, but I know it. And I thought I would pass it on. But I'm happy that the players are showing respect for their country. Nowhere else on this planet could those players earn a kind of money they're earning. Now, I know they play soccer guys big money, but that's one or two guys. Okay. We got a while week ahead. A lot of good stuff for you. So I hope you'll stay close.

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