Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Frustration Over High Prices, NYC's Future Under Zohran Mamdani, & Jasmine Crockett’s Cringeworthy Mistake

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, November 20, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Two new polls reveal the country��s sentiment heading into the Midterm elections, and worries over healthcare costs. Zohran Mamdani’s dangerous plans include not complying with ICE, and arresting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A look back on Dick Cheney’s complicated legacy with his funeral on the horizon. The FBI is not satisfying the public with answers about attempted presidential assassin Thomas Crooks. Rep. Jasmine Crockett fuels the Jeffrey Epstein chaos with false claims. Final Thought: Bill reminds Chris Cuomo of a parallel between President Trump and former President Obama’s actions in office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, a Thursday, November 20th, 2025, stand up for your country. Reporting from Manhattan this evening, I had a speaking engagement here this morning. went very well. A lot of people very interested in confronting the president's, confronting evil, lots of questions about President Trump, and I was happy to answer them. Now, I'm hoping this Epstein story dies, but it won't. The conspiracy people will keep it going. A lot of agendas in place. I have to watch it, but President Trump signed the legislation. Within 30 days, the Justice Department will release.

Not everything, but most of it, well, we'll watch it. But by far and away, the most important story for President Trump, the Republicans, the country, you, me, is the cost of existence in America. It's got to get under control. There's a new poll out about presidential election three years from now, but it's all coming back. back to money. And that is the subject of the talking points memo. OK, Marist Pole. I went to Marist College.

It's now Maris University. Not the place that I attended, much more liberal now. It's OK, you want to go there, you go there. Not my, I was going to say a cliche cup of tea, but I'm not going to do that. But anyway, they have a poll. And it is not a very good poll. And I'm hoping, because I know some people who work the poll,

that it gets better. For example, last year for the presidential vote, they had Harris up like four going into election day. Come on. I mean, you've got to do better than that. Anyway, they conducted a poll this month on what's likely to be the big issue in the presidential election going

forward. 28. Here it is. Lowering prices, 57%. No surprise. Controlling immigration, 16, reducing crime 9. Ending the war between Ukraine and Russia, 7. Maintaining peace between Israel and Gaza, 6. So there's no doubt about it. I'm President Trump and his administration. If they want to hold the House of Senate next November, they've got to get the prices down. of insurance, health care, car, house, and food. Not that far away on the food. The opposition, of course, is hysterical. It's only about 3% that it's up.

And oils down. But it's up to there. They know, everybody knows. This is not a secret. Another Paul Gallup, almost 20,000 U.S. adults. Do you think Americans pay too much, too little, or about right, the quality of health care they receive? Pay too much 90%. Too little, too, about right eight.

90%. That's a health care thing. And boy, oh boy, Republicans have got to get on it. How concerned are you? Your household will be able to pay for needed prescription drugs next 12 months. Extremely concerned, somewhat concerned, totals 37%. Okay, most people think they can make it. And how much stress does health care put on you and your family?

52% say a lot or some, 49 not much. But it is a very compelling issue. Got to get that health insurance. premiums, Medicaid, and Medicare spending under control. And that includes Obamacare. Okay. So I have to cover both parties. I favor the Republican Party now because it upholds traditional values, like capitalism, like punishing criminals.

like controlling borders, whereas the Democratic Party does not support that. However, I have to be fair, and I will be. And I'm going to be ruthless in how I cover the next 12 months because the Republicans have power now. But I'm not seeing a health care proposal on table of you. So Johnson and Thune, the two big boys in Congress, you better get something going. Now, one area that is beyond dispute as far as Trump's effectiveness is concerned is foreign affairs.

It is Joe Biden's birthday today. We're going to deal with that in the history segment is 83 years old. But Biden was the second worst president ever. If you read, confronting the president's document that all day long. And I'll do it again tonight. I'll document why I believe that. Trump's been very, very effective overseas, extremely so. Anybody who denies that, I just not being honest,

and I wouldn't be debating anybody about it. Even CNN, all right, says, hey, Trump's approval on foreign policy is drawn from 35% in his first term to 43% today. Roll the table. We're talking about 43% now. That's an eight-point rise. On the net approval rating, we're talking about a double-digit rise. the American people like much more of what they're seeing from Donald Trump and foreign policy in term two

than they did in term number one. Just for your frame of reference, Bush the Younger stood at 36% approval for foreign affairs at the stage. That was the Iraq situation. And Barack Obama had 37% because Putin had seized Crimea and Obama kind of wasn't fair to him. Obama did a good job on attacking the jihadist, ISIS, and things like that. We documented in killing the killers. But Trump is way, way ahead. But you're not going to win the midterms on foreign affairs.

Not going to happen. All right, so tomorrow, I really wish I could be at this meeting. I haven't talked to the president about it, but boy, I'd love to be in this meeting. So Zaharan Man Donnie, who's the talk of New York City, wherever I go in the city. Everybody knows me. That's a good thing. You know, I'm a local boy. What about Manda?

What about that man downing? Can I tell you? You know, the guy, there's not a lot of subterfuge there. He's a socialist, communist. That's what he is. So expect the worst. He's going to Washington,

Zoron, tomorrow to talk to Trump. Here's what you need to know about this. mandami has no power at all with the federal government, no car to play, no negotiation, nothing. He's basically trying to get President Trump not to hurt him. That's it. So nothing Mandani can do for Trump. Now, there are two big issues here. The first one is Mamdani has published.

He's not going to cooperate with ICE with trying to find undocumented people in this country who are dangerous. That's what ICE is trying to do. Yeah, they do round up people who are not dangerous, but it is always in conjunction with the seeking of criminals. I have to understand that. All right. So here's what Mandani has publicly said. Go. I wanted to ensure that no officers are assisting with the actions of ICE.

And what you did see play out a couple weeks ago, what is your response to Tom Homan, who yesterday said, we'll be back? Yeah, I will tell Tom Homan what I will tell anyone who asks, which is the fact that I am looking forward to representing the entirety of this city. And this city is also an immigrant city. It's a city that's proud of its immigrants' heritage. It's proud of the fact that so many from across the world find their home in this city. And we will protect those New Yorkers as we protect every New Yorker. Okay. won't because you have no power to do that. Now, I don't know if Trump is going to be as blunt as I

am. I suspect he might be because there's another issue. And that is Netanyahu, okay, the leader of Israel. Mandani says if he shows up in New York, United Nations function or something, Nandani's going to order the NYPD to arrest him, roll of tape. You said you would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu based on the 2024 international court arrest warrant. Next UN General Assembly, as mayor, would you do that? So I've said time and again that I believe this is a city of international law, and being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law, and that means upholding the warrants from the international criminal court,

whether they're for Benjamin Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin. I think that that's critically important to showcase our values. New York City is not a city of international law. This is insane. It's a city of American law, and the United States does not recognize the international criminal court. Now, I don't, again, I'd love to be in his name. So if I'm Trump, I'm looking at Mandani, and I'm saying, listen, Mr. Mayor, with all due respect, we don't recognize the international court. Our cities are under federal and state laws, not international law.

And if you try to arrest not only Netanyahu, but Putin or anybody else, I'm going to have the FBI arrest you. You, because you're violating federal law. That's why Putin could go to Alaska. All right? We don't recognize that he's a war criminally is, but officially we're not involved with the international court. We don't do that. So I don't think Mandani understands any of this, and I'm not sure how tough President Trump wants to be on the man, because here's the kicker on it. If Mandami gets out a line and the alienates Trump, Trump will stop all the federal money from coming in here.

Yeah, there'll be litigation on it because Congress is the one that designates the money for block grants to cities. but Trump can hold that money up for a long time. And he may win the litigation if Mandami violates federal law. And Mandani himself, you know, it's a fine line at these guys walk about he talks. But if he did anything to interfere with ICE

and Holman correctly, as was stated, says there are going to be some ICE operations in New York City, some big ones coming up, And Donnie interferes with that, and you'll be arrested. Now, man, Dynne might want that. Keep that in mind. He might want that. Get some worldwide headlines and attention.

Anyway, we are all over this. If I get anything over the weekend about the meeting with Trump, I'll run a Sunday column on it, but I'll certainly report on Monday to you about it. All right, Dick Cheney's funeral today in D.C., a little dicey. So, 46 vice president of the United States, two former presidents in attendance, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, attended the funeral. Obama and Clinton did not.

They said they had schedule them conflicts, which, of course, they don't because they can do what they want. It's as simple as that. So they just didn't want to go. I don't know what Obama didn't want to go. Probably has a beef against Cheney, and Clinton's not well. All of Vice President's living, Calma Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, are at the funeral. President Trump was not invited. Okay.

So Cheney dies the age of 84. Very staunch, conservative. He booted the Iraq War. No doubt he did. Okay? Do I hold it against him? No, but it's on the record that he his advice to President Bush about Iraq was wrong. It's wrong. Was he dishonest like Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam? No. He just made a mistake in my judgment. But his daughter, former congresswoman Liz Cheney from Wyoming, went out to try to destroy Donald Trump. Everybody knows that.

And Dick Cheney supported his daughter in her quest. So it would be impossible for the Cheney family to invite President Trump, who wouldn't have gone anyway. Because Liz Cheney is one of the speakers. See how messy this is? Now, I'm not criticizing anybody here. If I were Donald Trump and somebody tried to destroy my life I wouldn't be too pleased

I certainly wouldn't go to a funeral even though Cheney didn't try to destroy his life Cheney backed his daughter's play and she was outrageous absolutely outrageous in what she did you know you can make up your own mind But I'm glad that I'm glad that President Trump didn't get involved in this controversy. He didn't say anything.

J.D. Vance did not go either, and that's out of allegiance to Donald Trump. I see it. I understand it all. I think Dick Cheney deserves respect. I think he was a patriot. I never really knew him that well. I mean, I helped him out on his book, but I think he deserves respect. Thomas Crooks, you know who he is?

He's a guy almost killed Donald Trump. The assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, who was killed himself. The sniper, 20 years old. Okay. So Christopher Ray is in charge of the FBI at the time. the FBI is in charge of the investigation into Thomas Crooks. Even though he's dead, you've got to check him out to find out if he had any help. Christopher Ray, one of the worst FBI, you know, he's up there with Comey.

I don't know who's worse. Ray or Comey? I'm like, God. So you never get anything out of Ray, ever. You can't, we track him. He never said anything about anything. So we didn't know anything about Crooks. Cash Patel comes in with the Trump administration.

Hasn't impressed me. I don't know about you, but it has not impressed me at all. I could be being unfair to Mr. Patel. I might be being unfair, but I'm sitting there going, I'm not seeing it right now, and I supported Patel's nomination. but I'm not seeing it. So, the television doesn't say anything about Crooks. We still don't know anything about them,

even though this happened on July 13, 2014, 18 months ago. We don't know anything about them. So the cable people go wild. Rolling. Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country. And yet, a year and a half later,

we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it. That's because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know. And that was Tucker Carlson. And Mr. Carlson is an absolute legitimate point. The FBI doesn't want us to know. Why?

Why? Tell the folks what you know. So Carlson's right on this. And then the New York Post, which generally sports a Trump administration, gets involved investigating crux. And Caroline Levitt shows up for Q&A, and here's what goes down. Go. But there are so many questions, aren't there?

Of course. Yeah. I mean, you know, did he act alone, et cetera? And it's, you know, it's over a year. It's 16 months now. For sure. Yeah, I mean, those questions are definitely deserving of answers, and I understand and why the public wants those answers.

And I believe the president does, too. So why don't we have them? You know, it's a good question. And it's one, I'd like to see the answer too. And I think all Americans would. Yeah, well, you're the spokesperson, Ms. Leavitt. You know, this is the weakness. And I've said this before.

It's not the policy. of the Trump administration, it's the articulation of those policies. It's not hard. This Epstein thing could have been taken care of in two weeks. Just tell us what you know and how you know it. Crooks, just tell us what you know. I'm not getting it. I cannot get an answer, a cogent answer from anybody in the administration

about why this fog continues to rule loud of the White House. When Carolyn Leavitt, I believe her. She doesn't know. Now, people think, oh, she can kick in the door, the FBI, and demand, and no, she can't. She has to go through, she has to go through steps. But I know the prison's busy, but boy, boy, all of this stuff is just dependent. It just rolls out and doesn't help the country.

And it doesn't make any sense. I'm so confused about it because Trump himself is very accessible. He's way more accessible than any other modern president. He's sitting there. He's taking the questions. He knows they're going to be rude. He takes them anyway. That's all day as credit.

But we don't know why they didn't release the Epstein files earlier. They should have, and we don't know why we can't find out about Thomas Crooks. I wish I had more on it. I'm working it. I'm working it. Smart lie. Just 37% of Americans would donate an organ to save a loved one. Talker research, 2,000 U.S. adults, you know, hey, people don't want to do that. They're afraid. Would I do that to save my life of a family member? Yeah, I would.

Me. But only 39%. However, 82% of Americans say, if they got a lot of money, a windfall, They give some of it to their family and friends. Easier to give away money that you get free than they give an organ. That's kind of difficult. Smart life is this. I just gave away $100,000.

And I don't want you to think I'm telling you that so you think I'm noble. I don't. I have a foundation. You guys know that. the Winiford and William O'Reilly Foundation, Charitable. And those are my parents. Both deceased. I don't take any money.

Not like the Clinton Foundation, where all over the world on a private jet, and they take money, and maybe they do good things with the money. I don't know. I don't take any money. It's all my money. And this holiday season, I said,

you know, I've been very fortunate in the last eight years. Thanks to you guys. So I'm going to give away, you know, substantial amount of money in a quick period. And I got lined up. I gave the inn on Long Island Food Bank. They just got a nice check because, you know, people are hungry, particularly with the government shutdown and all the chaos, so they got money. All right?

And then there are individual charities that I know are not going to waste the money because I do the research. Now, if you're going to be generous this holiday season, I hope you will be, go to charity navigator.org. They list the charities there, and they got ratings. So you make sure your money goes in the right place. How many times have I had to report on charities

that enrich the people who run them, but they don't give the money the way they should to the people who need it? Charity Navigator. Very, very good. Smart life. Be generous holiday season. Notre Dame, fighting Irish. Okay. So, the staff of Notre Dame is required to adhere to a value system. Catholic University. Okay, but they don't really want to be Catholic anymore, Notre Dame, in my humble opinion. in the past, there was a clause for the staff of Notre Dame that says this, quote, leadership in mission understands exceptions, supports the Catholic mission of the university and fosters values consistent with that mission. That would be, you can't be cheering on

abortion. Okay, you can't be like in euthanasia. You can't be violating the Ten Commandments. That's the Catholic mission. Well, I took that out. The Fighting Irish took it out. Now, it says this to the staff. Treat every person with dignity and respect, work together with honesty, kindness, humility,

pursue the highest standards with commitment to truth and service, embrace opportunities with creativity and dedication. No Catholic mention. nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, no. Now, am I upset? No, I'm not. I don't have any ties to Notre Dame other than a nice hat, okay? But it's an erosion. There's definitely erosion. And that, you know, Notre Dame, that's about at the top of Catholic education in this country. I'm picking on her, and I'm sorry, Ms. Crockett. I shouldn't pick on you like this, but you're so dumb, it hurts.

I'm sorry, I have to tell the truth. I know that's not charitable. So, Congresswoman Crockett from Texas, no relation to Davy, was ranting and raving about Epstein and the Republican, Republican Party. Okay? And she says that Epstein and Trump or in cahoots

at one and on and on and on. Then she goes to the floor of the House of Representatives and says this. Go. Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein as I had my team dig in very quickly.

Mitt Romney, the NRC, Lee Zeldon, George Bush, Wynne Red, McCain Palin, Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this is the standard that we're going to make, just know we're going to expose it all and just know that the FEC filings, they are available for everybody to review. This is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, it's ridiculous because it's not the same Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted pedophile dead guy didn't give money to any of those people.

Another Jeffrey Epstein did. And there are legions of people named Jeffrey Epstein. Ms. Crockett. So your team are a bunch of morons, and they should all be fired because they made you look like a fool. You don't know what you're doing. So you smeared all those people. You smeared them.

Because most Americans aren't going to follow up the way we are. You smeared them. And you know what she said? Oh, I guess my research was not as good as it should have been. Ooh, Jasmine Crocket, everyone. All right, here's a final thought of the day. So I'm on Cuomo last night. I do that show every Wednesday.

I do Leland Bittert on News Nation on Monday. And, you know, everybody's blaming Donald Trump for killing innocent people in drugboats coming out of Venezuela. Oh, it's never been done before. Oh, oh, oh, oh. It's a bunch of garbage. So, I had to give a history lesson. Roll the tape.

Barack Obama used the exact same technique that Donald Trump is using to wipe out ISIS in Iraq. And he declared ISIS a danger to the United States. And then he waxed them to the tune of maybe 5,000. Didn't consult with Congress. Didn't consult with anybody. That is exactly what's happening now with them. as well. Same dictum. Same thing. Then you go back a little further, maybe when you were in high school, and Bush the elder removed Noriega in Panama under the, and he didn't even bother with

Congress either. He just said, this guy's running a narco state. And we're taking them out. Which they did. The United States military went into the country of Panama, grabbed Noriega, threw him on a plane, took him to Miami, put him on trial, and he would send up prison. No Congress. So, you know, when you hear all this nonsense, this is why you watch me, I know that. But my God, you know, a little perspective, a little honesty, a little history. Okay. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News.

New Sunday column might be on Mandami Trump, depending on how much info I can get. We'll have that story for you on Monday. I want you to have a great weekend, and we'll see you then.