Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Exposing the Internet's Deception, Renée DiResta on the Dangers of Believing False Information, an Iran Update & Spain Bans U.S. Warplanes in Rebuke to Trump

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down how deceiving the internet is, looking at TikTok videos featuring ICE agents that are actually scripted skits. Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University, joins the No Spin News to discuss the challenges of determining what’s real online and the danger this poses to democracy. The UN General Assembly has voted to classify the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity. Why now? High‑tax states are losing significant income, with Los Angeles County seeing the largest population decline of any U.S. county in 2025. The latest updates on Iran, including B-52 bombers flying missions over Iran and Spain closing its airspace to U.S. warplanes. Final Thought: Catch Bill on NewsNation with Katie Pavlich tonight, and a new episode of We’ll Do It Live! this Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another edition of the No Spin News for Tuesday, March 31st, 2006 stand up for your country. As everybody knows, our nation is divided, not the first time. Revolutionary War, about half of the colonists were Tories. They didn't want to separate from King George. And then we, of course, had the Civil War, where, uh, More than a million Americans were killed fighting each other and then Vietnam, and there have been lesser divisions in this country. And we are in that age now because primarily President Trump. There are other factors like the progressive movement, the rise of socialism, but it's President Trump that has, through, I don't know, circling. circumstances cause a big political division in America.

We will get through this and hopefully stronger. But it's harder to come together now because of all the massive fraud that many Americans are not even aware of. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. TikTok. Never been there. Know what it is, but I have more important things to do than ticking the talk or whatever you do there. But massively popular all over the world. And charlatans are using it. Here's a very good example. March 25th, just a few days ago. I don't know what to call them. Disruptors? Maybe that's a good word.

Tony and Angel. We have not traced them back. And I really don't want to bring any kind of grief upon them, although I don't respect them. Posted a TikTok video about ICE. Go. This plane's not going anywhere in people, right? I'm not going to repeat myself all day.

Juan Garcia. Where are you? Come to the front, right? You guys are allowed to take people off the plane now? Yes, absolutely. That is equal. That's why I have this bad job. Since when?

Yeah, what's your badge say? I'm not here for a discussion. I'm here for Mr. Garcia. Identify yourself. Go on, Mr. Mr. Garcia. Okay, right after that dropped, I got all kinds of texts from my liberal friends, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, and I said, let me check this out. It's a phony.

They're actors. It's a set that they used. They had to spend some money on this. It was a complete phony. No disclaimer that we could find. None. Just threw it on up. Millions of people believed it were, it was true.

including, and I mean, among my friends who texted me are journalists, sophisticated people. And then it got nasty. Roll it. I got arrested. I'm a U.S. citizens, and these guys want to put me away. You want to send me across the border. I was born here. San Antonio, Texas.

And you're just, your dad was Mexican or something? Yeah, my mom was. But that shouldn't matter. I was born here in the United States. Yeah, dude. Where's your wife? They already took her. And she was born here too? She was born the same place. Yeah. You're kidding me. Yeah, American citizen.

I'm so sorry. I hope you can get a lawsuit or something. I'm going to sue the shot of these people. Okay, again, phony. Total fabrication was acting and on a set, and it went all over the world. This is serious, okay? Now, YouTube, which carried some of it, they have more than 2 million subscribers as Tony and Angel duo, and they call themselves disruptors or whatever, you know, digital creators, digital creators. So this is serious. and the outfit that rented them the set is called network media. It's an industry, this whole industry.

Somebody's behind this because it costs money. Somebody paying for this is propaganda. Okay, now we have the spectator of AI, artificial intelligence. We do make these people look like pikers. Because with artificial intelligence, you can take a huge, human being and then insert a different face, words in the person's mouth they did not say, it's unlimited. The fraud, the potential is unlimited. People are going to watch these videos. They are not going to know what is true and what is not true. This is dangerous. Okay.

Now, there's a poll by Quinnipiac out about AI. And the first question is, how concerned are you? About AI, very, somewhat, not at all. Very concerned, 38, somewhat, 42. That's 80% of Americans are concerned about AI. But they won't even know it's AI, a lot of them. Okay? And 18% are not.

Okay, second question. How much of the time do you think you can trust the information generated by AI? All the time, most of the time, some of the time. Almost all, and most of the time, only 21%. Some of the time, hardly ever, 76%. But how are you going to delineate that? How are you going to know what you can trust and what you can't? Unless you have a machine like I do, I have an investigative machine.

We can find out. You don't have that. Okay. Last question. When it comes to day-to-day life, do you think AI do more good than harm? More good, 34, more harm, 55. Don't know 11.

But it's coming. Now, with all of that stuff in the air, you combine it with misinformation on the already existing media. Okay? Now, Chris Cuomo is a friend of mine, but he's an emotional guy, and sometimes he makes mistakes, as he did last night. So this was his program. He was taking calls, roll of tape. We know that you told Bill O'Reilly that you weren't a Democrat, but instead of telling us what you don't like what's going on with Trump, what would you do?

What is your answer to the solving the Iran problem? Okay, first of all, I'm a journalist, not an elected leader, okay? You don't hear Bill O'Reilly giving you any explanations or solutions. You don't? Every day I do that. Every blanken day. I have your watch the San Francisco special, which Cuomo didn't. I had absolutely giving you the solution to that problem.

That's therapeutic centers. where these people are mandatory. You get to take them off the street and get them well. Provide for them. Because what's happening now in San Francisco is barbaric. And then there were the migrants. Hey, podcast listeners. Jillian Michaels here.

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and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible have to say about this? Because there's nothing new under the sun. You read the headlines, everything's all crazy. World's coming to it. It's all in the Bible. And after every episode, hopefully you leave with a proper perspective and a biblical piece. Please join us wherever you listen to podcasts, and we also have a YouTube page as well. YouTube.com slash at Politics by Faith. So how do you deal with that? Well, last September, as you may remember, we had all kinds of problems in Minneapolis, where ICE was running down, people suspected of being in the country illegally, and protests were confronting them. I have a solution, and I put it forth last September 19th. Go. You can't have people kicking doors in, chasing people around.

Can't do that. What you can do is say to anyone in this country without documentation, You have three months, I had it originally at six, but I'd bring it down to three. You have three months, 90 days, to register with your local post office. Each post office will have a registration form. You're to fill it out, and then you send it to Homeland Security, on an envelope that's already given to you, and the government pays the stamp. If you do not fill out the form in a form and say, who are you? What country do you come from?

Where are you living? Do you have a job? Do you have dependents, children? That kind of thing. It's a questionnaire. If you don't do it within 90 days and you're caught by the authorities, local, state, federal, you deport it without a hearing. No hearing.

You're gone. Now, if that happened, the government would have a massive database of people here illegally, and then they could adjudicate those people. Give them a hearing. Right now, millions of people just wandering all over the place. Is that not a solution? Of course it is. Now, Chris Como didn't intentionally mislead you.

I don't believe that he did. He's not that kind of guy. But he doesn't watch this program. Okay? he's talking off the top of his head, he does not watch this presentation. He doesn't know what I do. And most likely, he doesn't care. But that's okay. It's all right. But off the top of his head, well, Bill O'Reilly doesn't have any solutions, which is ridiculous. If you know me, if you watch me, you know that almost every day we put forth solutions.

to vexing problems here. So let's recap it. You got stunts on TikTok and other social media paid for. Fony garbage. You got AI coming that can electronically or whatever word you want to use all through reality. And you have a corporate media full of misinformation. Boy, that's a threesome that. is almost impossible to cut through if you want to know the truth about your country,

about your life, and about solving problems. And that's the memo. A journey to us now in Washington, you see is Renee DeResta. She's Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and is very interested in this information flow. Number one, am I overstating, understating that I make any mistakes in your opinion, professor? No, I think what you're saying is accurate. I would say it's not just mainstream media that is wrong. I think the entire ecosystem is, you know, full of BS artists at this point, independent as well as mainstream. So I think that's the one area where I would maybe disagree.

But the challenge is people need to try to figure out what's real and they have a huge collection of sources. People are busy. That's the problem. That's where I was going to go. People have to make a living. People have to go to the store. They got to try to figure out what's real. what isn't real? Nobody's going to do. And they don't have, as I point out, they don't have

a staff. I have a staff and they're good. Yep. And I can give them Joe and Angie or whoever these people are and say, chase these people down. People can't do that, regular folks. No, you're completely right. That is the main problem. The problem is that people trust what they see when it hits their feed because somebody that they chose to follow shared it, whether that's a friend, a media outlet, you know, a news person like you, an influencer like Tonya. and Angel, and they think that it's, you know, they think that it's real. People are still in the mindset that what they see is likely to be real, and we've hit a place in our, you know, in our technological and information environment where that's just not true anymore. Okay, you teach

younger people. Are they addicted to this kind of stuff? Did they have any skepticism about it at all? Generally speaking, generally speaking, younger generations do. I have a 12-year-old son who says, you know, nothing I see on the internet is real. So I think the young, yeah, the younger, the younger younger generation knows that it's not true it's actually more you know people who are still used to thinking of the media or the online environment as a place where they could get accurate information it's usually a little bit more people who've been accustomed to that generations that are a little bit older people who still think of the internet as a place where accurate information lives so younger kids are actually more attuned to it than we are because uh i got as i mentioned uh

texts from journalists who thought this is real and they were and they were gloating they were gloating oh look o're riley uh you know look at what ice is doing look at what homeland securities do look at it they're heinous or terrible blah blah blah and i go let me check this out and these are sophisticated people totally totally drawn in by this fallacious presentation okay let's advance the story a little bit how much of a danger is this to our democracy professor the danger is twofold one it's that as you're noting when people that right when you have journalist friends who reach out to you it's because it hits something that they're likely to believe already and they see evidence and that happens across

the political spectrum right so that might be a completely different issue that lands for people on the right than for people on the left right now a lot of these ice videos are making the rounds um you might see videos of riots right that will that would flip that would land better with audiences on the right that think that this is something that is you know more likely to be happening so you see that happen where different content plays and it and it hits you because it hits emotionally And so you just hit that share button. You send it to your friend. And it's because you actually maybe don't even really care if it's true.

It's just confirming an existing belief. And that's why you share it on. And so that's what's happening. And that's kind of dangerous to begin with, right? Because we're just in these mindsets where, as you noted at the start of the segment, everybody's very polarized. And so you don't actually care to check sometimes. You just think this is showing my enemies or my political opponents in the worst light.

So I'm going to share it. And I'm not going to go check. Yes. But when you have. And this is certainly possible with AI when you have the majority of voters not knowing what's real and what isn't real. I think there's trouble ahead. That's the second part. Right.

Because sometimes what you'll see is, you know, in the incident that you showed, there's some signs there, right? There's that plane is very unbranded. It's a little bit suspiciously kind of 90s looking. Most planes don't have those cloth covers in quite that way anymore. They don't have those kind of bulkheads. But what you see now is, you know, you don't even have to have the video. You can have a very plausible leaked audio that sounds like a politician saying something, but really it's a synthetic voice.

If something like that drops 24 hours before a vote, that kind of thing can really shake people up. It can make them wonder, is this real? We've seen that happen in a number of European elections. There's nothing to stop that from happening here. And because it takes sometimes, you know, between three hours to two days to actually go in there and figure out if the content is real. Sometimes these are very, very high-quality fakes. There's that window, that time where people don't know what to believe.

And if it sounds scandalous, you're going to have this environment where, again, people are going to be likely to believe it if they don't like the person, not likely to believe it if they don't. And they're not actually going to get at the facts or the truth. And that's one of these big challenges. The other side of it, though... Look, you can destroy somebody pretty easily in two days, particularly if that person's running for office.

as you can drop all kinds of stuff that they did this, they did that, look at this video we have, look at them here, look at them there, and they're not there. Now, I don't think the law has caught up with this. U.S. law, we're supposed to be protected against fraud. This is, when it comes all down to a professor, and please disagree, if you believe that. It's fraud. This is fraud. So the challenge you have is that what Tony and Angel would say is that this is political satire and that that's covered in the First Amendment. And that's legally correct, right?

And so the question that we get to is what do you do to help people then know? When you get at false information about a person, you have a little bit more, you have a little bit more in the way of law that you could apply to those situations, like defamatory content or likeness laws in certain areas. areas where you see candidates that are subject to harassment content where, you know, female candidates in particular are put into compromising situations, that kind of thing happens sometimes. There are certain laws that apply to that. But for political content, this is protected under the First Amendment. And so one of the things that we are trying to do as we think about how to address this problem is, can you give people more context? Can the platforms, particularly social media platforms, where this spreads, toss up a label, right? Can the models that are used to

create it put up a label. I know that's and that's the problem and this is the issue though right where you're hitting that challenge of what you know and I'm the first person to tell you that labeling is not foolproof that bad actors can strip it out that it doesn't work in the case of audio it is and that is the other thing it's the deluge I wish you know look I sound like I'm making an excuse for the tech companies here I'm really not nobody's more frustrated than me it is that it is that balance you were right the law has not caught up this is the environment we live in now The other side of it, though, is that you have real content, real audio. Sometimes politicians do get caught saying dumb things on tape, right?

And then they can just say, no, no, no, that's not me. That's AI. And that's the other side of it, right? So you have this liar's dividend. That's not nearly what. It is happening. That is happening. All right.

But the assertion, you know. The assertion that there is a villain way overwhelms everything else. I mean, these nitwits who put this out wanted. I don't care what they say it's satire, whatever. They wanted a conclusion. Well, I don't know about money, but they wanted a conclusion that ICE and Homeland Security were bad. We're abusers. That's what they wanted, and they accomplished it.

The political piece, the political piece, you're right, is true, but the other side of it is that a lot of this is financially motivated. We focused on the political here, but a lot of the ways that this applies that people need to be aware of is spam and scams. It is people reaching out, particularly. to older people saying, hey, you know, it looks like a beautiful woman reaching out in a message, that person doesn't exist. They're trying to sell you a product. That product doesn't exist. A vacation home or a stay. That house doesn't exist, right? So it's actually financial fraud and scams that are where most of the AI generated content is happening. In the political realm, you're seeing the skits, the satire. But that is fraud. But you can get, you can get prosecuted for that.

And for the, yes, for the financial stuff, yes, absolutely you can. So I think. You know, last world. Thanks. Thanks for having me on. No, you were very good. Thanks for taking the time. Okay, the UN says that slavery is the greatest, gravest, I should say, crime against humanity ever. Gravest crime against humanity. It was a vote, an actual vote in the UN, New York City. 123 nations voted in favor. USA, Israel, and Argentina deferred. 52 countries abstained, UK, European Union, da-da-da-da-da. Now, this was put forth by African Union and Caribbean communities, countries, to try to get the reparations movement up and running.

That's what this is all about. Okay. You've got to be careful here. I mean, the knee-jerk is reparations are bad and da-da-da-da-da-da. But there are points, and if you read my book confronting evil, you'll see how heinous, how awful the slave traders in the USA were. They were awful. And that legacy continues to exist because families were destroyed. People didn't have opportunities in education.

They had to move. there was a war fought. I mean, it was on and on. Okay, so that's real. But now, there are countries that want money. Where do you think that money's going? Okay.

Sorry to be cynical, but I know where it's going. On the other hand, slavery was not the gravest crime against humanity. And I'm sorry, and I know I'll get accused of being a racist, but World War I, for example, 16 million dead, okay, 21 million injured, 14 million displaced. World War I. World War II, 80 million dead, 25 million injured, 55 million displaced. Now, I go with the higher number because a lot of that couldn't be tracked, all right, and it's always the higher number.

Now, these wars were the worst things that have ever happened on this planet by far. And if there's ever a nuclear attack, which is what we're dealing with now in Iran, that'll be far and away. So my question to the UN is, why now, why when the United States and Israel are trying to prevent a country, Iran, developing a nuclear weapon, would you drop this? Why couldn't you wait? Isn't preventing a nuclear weapon? That would be the most catastrophic thing that ever happened on the planet. So there's all kinds of political things.

I don't have any respect for the United Nations at all, with one exception, UNICEF, the children's part of it. They do a lot of good. The rest of it, they could fall into the East River for all I care because there's always an agenda. But interesting story, particularly the timing of it. Whether it's with your besties or date night, get to all the hottest concerts with Go Transit. Go connects to all the biggest entertainment venues and makes it affordable with special e-ticket fares. A weekend pass offers unlimited travel across the network on any weekend day or holiday for just $10.

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and people moving out according to the new census data. And they're moving out because if you go and I was there recently in Los Angeles, it's not as bad as San Francisco, but it's not far away. It's just chaos. The whole county, traffic, crime, pollution, waste of taxpayer dollars, you name it, run by incompetent idiots, Karen Bass. my God, okay? So they're leaving. And the Wall Street Journal had a study their own that says that high tax states are losing an enormous amount of income. They are. California, $12 billion,

because people have moved out. New York, $10 billion, Illinois, 6, Massachusetts 4, New Jersey, 3, Maryland 2, So to 1.5, and all these states have one thing in common. They're run by far left people. And they want to take money from the prosperous. And the prosperous say, we're going to move to Florida. Or Tennessee or Texas, they don't have a state income tax. They're not going to gut us when we die. Mandani, this is how bad it is in New York.

When I die, I'm not in New York City, but say, I'm only about 12 miles away from the border. So I say I was. Mnodami wants everything. So my children, my heirs, my charitable foundation, nothing. It wants everything. That's communism.

And it's just, I mean, I'm looking at this going, this is so crazy for highest tax states, California, New York, Minnesota. Minnesota. 11 million people. What are you taxing those people up to the, their eyebrows for, for what? And Illinois, which is the worst governor in the country.

All right, Iran latest. So Secretary of War Pete Higgs said that Iran still has a capacity to do some damage. Okay, that's not a bulletin. Pretty much everybody knew that. It's a big country, if you look at the map. Most Americans couldn't find it on the map. But it's a big country. 90 million people and they can hide weapons.

So, okay. But their offensive capacity has been severely downgraded. Now, the United States is going to fly B-52s. Those are the big destructive bombers. And, you know, look, you can't bomb Tehran and kill civilians. That would not be what you want to do, okay? But you can wipe out a lot of military installations with B-52s. And then Trump is really angry at Europe,

and he continues to vent on social media about how bad they are over there. And they're pretty bad. Spain's the worst. So I've been all over Spain. Beautiful country. Really interesting. I'll never go again. Never.

unless I'm forced to go for some, you know, journalistic reason. So Spain is being so obnoxious. Number one, doesn't pay its NATO dues to the extent that it has been mandated. All the other NATO countries are, thanks to Trump, paying a dues, not Spain. Number two, the defense minister, Margarito Robles, says, hey, we're not going to let the United States stop in Spain to refuel the planes or cooperate in any way. Roll it. From the very beginning, it was made very clear to the American Army and to the American forces.

Therefore, neither the bases, nor must, of course, the use of Spanish airspace for actions that will have to do with the war in Iran will be authorized to be. Obviously, the bases are there. Other actions can be carried out, but Spain will definitely and clearly not authorize, nor has it done so, nor will it do so, the use of the bases of Derafe and Moron to wage a war against which we are totally opposed, which we do not believe in,

which we consider profoundly illegal and pro-profoundly unjust. So it's unjust to try to stop the mullahs from getting a nuclear weapon, according to this one. Now, you can't, I looked into, You can't throw Spain out of NATO. There's to be a vote.

But, come on. So I'm not going there. Sorry, I know a lot of people who love Spain and not me. Over. Unintended consequences of the Iranian action. Fuel prices going through the roof. So you're going to pay more if you want to hop on a plane. All the American airline companies are.

jacking up their prices like crazy because a jet fuel obviously average at the pump you're pumping your gas buck up it's painful it is absolutely painful but that doesn't mean you surrender does it so that's the thing I mean we are selfish people I come on be honest we're a selfish society here and Europe's worse China is not selfish. No sacrifice. Anything to get what they want. Mine's at the airport dropping.

And Trump did a good thing. Well, we're paying them out of another fund. And so today, in Houston, Hobby, the worst, it's down to a few minutes from four hours. So good. And in Florida, Governor Santos has signed legislation yesterday to rename Palm Beach International Airport President Trump International Airport. This goes into effect July 1st. I don't know if this is necessary.

It's going to cost Floridians $5.5 million to make the switch. You've got to change the signs and stuff. I don't know. Back with final thought. Okay, short final thought. I'm going to be on News Nation tonight at 10, staying up late, with Katie Pavlitz. You remember her from Fox.

And we are going to tape tomorrow in the city, as I mentioned, the latest long form, which you are going to like. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. see in a month.