Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Government Corruption Exposed, John Solomon Breaks Down the Russia Collusion Allegations, Ghislaine Maxwell’s Immunity Bid & The View's Liberal Bias

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday July 30, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill argues that people believe what they want, citing the right's view that the Russia collusion story was a corrupt, government-led effort ignored by the left. John Solomon, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, joins the No Spin News to weigh in on the unraveling Russia collusion claims and what is known about the involvement of Democrats like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the story. Will Ghislaine Maxwell be able to seek a deal in exchange for her congressional testimony? A new report states that one-third of American adults had a mental illness or substance use disorder in 2024. In 2025, The View has hosted 102 liberal guests without featuring a single conservative. Final Thought: Kamala Harris' announcement, plus the top movies this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday July 30th, 2025. Stand up for your country. A couple updates for you. Curtis Leewell, we were trying to get him for yesterday off the Mamdani situation and the shooting in New York. We could not find him, but he did call me today and it was, I don't know, I don't do the bookings directly, but there was some fog, let's put it that way. But Curtis is going to be on.

He wasn't dodging us and I want to report that. Also, we had a Democratic congresswoman named Laura Gillen from the South Shore on Long Island booked for yesterday to talk about the legislation she is a part of to pass a new immigration law. Well, she cancelled. Now, she says she's going to appear. She told me in person she would. So we're going to hold her to that. And I may have to go out and find her myself. If I have to, I will. I'm very interested in this new legislation that's going to be introduced and what it says. And I'm sure you are too. But we were disappointed that Congresswoman Gillin, and it was fairly at the last minute, I mean she gives a little notice but not a lot.

And you know, look, it's my job to report to you. Remember that. I'm reporting to you. So I had to upgrade that. Talkie Boys Memo this evening is a huge story. That is just beginning. It's about the criminal investigation into the Russian collusion situation and that is what we're going to get.

This is going to be a hard news segment. All right? Not opinion, not floating around in the universe. This is what we know now. We're going to present it to you. If you have a pen and a paper, write it down. That would be good. Okay.

Number one, MAGA and the committed right believe that there was a conspiracy from President Obama on down to create a phony story that Putin interfered with the US election of 16 to favor Donald Trump. That's what MAGA and the right-wingers believe. And as you know, people believe what they want to believe. The left-wing and the Democratic Party, they don't care. They are in the business of ignoring the story or refuting it if something big happens. But bottom line, massive corruption at the federal level potentially, potentially they don't care. That's where we are in the country. That's the big thing. Now you'd say okay O'Reilly that's your

opinion that they don't care. I'll back it up. The Washington Post and the New York Times split a Pulitzer Prize for journalism reporting on a phony story that didn't exist. Those papers got a Pulitzer. Pulitzer Company didn't revoke the award, and the newspapers didn't give it back. Fraud? Now, if they had debunked this story, the Post and the Times, then they should have gotten a Pulitzer, right?

But to promote the story as reality, they were rewarded with a Pulitzer, by the left-wing Pulitzer company. Come on. I mean, come on. All right. Now let's get to the hard news. Here are the top people involved in the criminal investigation that is just beginning.

President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, former CIA Chief John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Chief James Comey, Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe. Again, most conservatives or many conservatives, I think that would be more fair, have already convicted them all. But only a grand jury, a federal grand jury, can bring charges. That's it.

Nobody else. A federal grand jury. In order to bring those charges, the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, is going to be the lead. We'll have to present hard data to those people so that they would indict. That's our system. Okay. One more thing on this.

I just want to know the truth. That's all I want to know. And if the truth is that President Obama didn't actively try to subvert the election or try to punish Donald Trump, I'm going to report that. And if the truth is that he did, I'll report that as well. Okay, I'm going to be a really tough guy here. If you don't want that kind of reporting, you got plenty of cables on both sides that are going to give you the propaganda. I'm not going to do that. Everything will be backed up. And that's the memo. And joining us now from Washington

is the aforementioned John Solomon. All right, so this all began with Tulsi Gabbard, director of intelligence, putting forth that, you know, there may be some criminal charges here. The media has largely ignored it on the left, and the right-wing media is you know Stoked it would that be accurate so far? That is a complete accurate picture. Yep. Yep You're not gonna get this in a Washington Post New York Times network news

Let's start with the most important person in the investigation President Obama What do we know about his participation or lack thereof in the Russian collusion story? Well, we know from the evidence that's now public, which we didn't all see years ago when this began unraveling, is that in late July of 2016, right after Hillary Clinton was cleared in the email case, even though there had just been new evidence surfaced that maybe she had been compromised in her

email. They didn't investigate it. They clear her. She makes a pivot. The Russian government intercepts her aides talking about she's approved a plan to fake a Russian scandal to change the dialogue from her emails to Donald Trump's alleged complicity with Russia. Let me stop you there.

Yeah. So this came out of the Russian informant? Is that what— We believe it's in— The way it's been described by John Durham is it looks like it's a highly classified program of intercepts. We probably intercepted their intelligence or their people being briefed on intelligence. According to Durham, the special counsel, US Intel intercepted some Russian chat that

said Hillary Clinton knew and wanted a phony story about Donald Trump. Do I have that right? That's right. It did. And specifically to end the conversation about our email scandal. That's the part that's very important. All right. They would divert attention away from it. All right. Now, you would have to then see what the intercept was and put it in context in order to, you know, condemn Hillary Clinton. So Barack Obama, then what's his participation? So that intercept is made by the United States government

on July 26, 2016. On July 28th, just two days later, the CIA director at the time, John Brennan, was so concerned about what the Russians knew and the specificity of it, he decided to brief President Barack Obama directly. That's unusual, because if you thought it was disinformation, you're not going to waste the president's time on it.

How do we know that Brennan debriefed Obama on this story? We have a record of the meeting on the president's schedule, and then John Brennan comes out of that meeting and writes notes, and we have the direct notes of what John Brennan told the president that John Brennan wrote in his notes. So we have the contemporary. What did he tell Barack Obama? That there was foreign intelligence,

that Hillary Clinton had personally approved a plan to demonize President Donald Trump by suggesting he was in cahoots with Russia to hijack the 2016 election. That's specifically what they say. What was Obama's reply to what Brennan told him? We don't know. Barack Obama has never been questioned, and John Brennan says he doesn't quite recall

much about that conversation. Doesn't recall? Right. Where did Brennan say he doesn't recall. Right. Where did Brennan say he doesn't recall? The new BMO VI Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks. More points. More flights.

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And so one of the things we think should be released, and we're working to get, is the actual transcript of John Durham's eight-hour interview with John Brennan. We think that could be an important piece of evidence. Obviously. Okay, so let's advance the story now. So you've got Brennan debriefing Obama on Russian intercepts that accuse Hillary Clinton

of fabricating a story to damage Trump. What happens after President Obama hears that from Brennan? In the six-day period that follows that briefing, there's an extraordinary amount of activity. First, an Australian diplomat that has a long relationship with the Clintons. His name is Alexander Downer. He had donated a large amount of Australian tax dollars to the Clinton Foundation, longtime friend of the Clintons. He comes forward and tells the FBI, oh, I remember this conversation from May, and I think the Trump campaign might have been working

with Russia to hack the election. The very storyline that the Russians are actually intercepting that Hillary Clinton says, that's gonna be the fake story. He comes forward. Based on that information, the FBI opens the crossfire hurricane investigation. All right. So a friend of the Clintons tells who? The FBI?

He goes to the FBI. He goes to the FBI. There's a report. All right. This is James Comey. He says that he has information that the Russian intercept is bull that there was a real Nobody what he's saying. No, actually what he's saying is back in May. He had an interaction with a Trump staffer I believe it's George Papadopoulos and he walked away from that conversation thinking that George Papadopoulos might have been hinting that So he's trying to reinforce the validity of the story. That's right. Okay.

So Comey then opens an investigation, right? That's right, Pete Strzok, right? That's the agent who does it. And then what happens after that? Three days after the investigation's open, President Obama convenes a national security meeting in the Situation Room, and there, he brings in his top people, John Brennan,

James Clapper, James Comey, very important that he's in that meeting, and he orders that a fusion cell be stood up to begin investigating whether Russia is working with Donald Trump or on its own to influence the election. Okay, let's stop there. So Obama convenes a meeting, all right? And what was Clapper, Director of National Intelligence?

Did he have anything to do with this? Did he contribute anything to this? He's part of the effort to set up that fusion cell. He's the top intelligence officer in the land, so he's supervising the project. But his crew intercepted the Russian thing that said this man- Well, it'sed the Russian thing. That's the CIA Well, I'm the CIA did the intercept. Yeah, so one down from him

CIA is one of those agencies that report up to clapper The CIA is the one who gets that intercept and then alerts the clapper knew about it is clapper Refuting it or saying no, it's real. Do we know we don't know we don't know I don't know what clappers opinion right so Obama's got all his guys in there yep and they're all talking about this back and forth so far if I were president I'd have my guys in there too I would be talking about this right wouldn't you agree okay I would all right so so far we have Brennan little nebulous we have Brennan, Little Nebulous, we have Hillary accused of the mastermind of all this.

Right. Then, after the meeting, Comey carries on his investigation, right? Yes, sir. He does. Does he come to a conclusion? He decides that it is worth, by September, escalating to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the FISA Court, the Special Spy Court in America. Okay, so two months before the election, Comey uses this unverified information that's been

challenged by the Russian intercept to get warrants to what? Ease drop on the Trump campaign? That's right. Specifically, Carter Page, which would give him a back door into the entire Trump campaign in Russia. So two weeks, two months before, they're spying on the opposition party's campaign. Did Comey ever explain why he used unverified information to get a court-appointed wire? He has said that he thought it met the standards for the FISA warrant.

We now know from- It fully met the standards, okay. That's right. We now know it didn't meet the standards, right? Of course, because all the story's phony. All right. That's right. Yeah. From the beginning. All right.

But then Obama, did he step back and let the FBI do what they do or did he get involved further? He stays out of it all the way through the election. Obviously, Donald Trump does the, I think, unthinkable for Democrats. He beats Hillary Clinton. And then there's a very important pivot after that.

OK, well, I'll get to that in a moment. So from the time he held his cabinet meeting about the Russian collusion accusation to election day Barack Obama really didn't have any kind. He wasn't none that we know That we don't know of any other events, right? All right He wasn't proactive mean you have to have a whistleblower come up and say that's right that he did You know, he was right. All right, so after Trump beats Clinton then Barack Obama swings into some kind of action. What was that?

Let me give you two other little data points because I think they're gonna be important as we go down this up I don't want to lose the timeline for people. Okay, July 5th is the day that James Comey Magically waved his magic wand and said I'm absolving Hillary Clinton The FBI doesn't have the right to do that. We did it We all know I fit right and remember what the Russians intercepted that have the right to do that. We did it. We all remember. That's July 5th. Right. And remember what the Russians intercepted, that this was a pivot point, that Hillary

wanted to change the conversation from her email scandal to a fake Donald Trump scandal. That same day, July 5th, 2016, the same day she knows James Comey is clearing her, Christopher Steele walks into the FBI with the first version of his dossier. So literally on the exact same day, when people look and say, boy, these are some coincidences that are serious, the day that she's getting absolved is the day she starts the Steele dossier. She's paid for the Steele dossier.

Steele walks in, and that process goes through. The circumstantial admittance is overwhelming. Yeah, it's pretty big. One more date. The financial evidence is overwhelming. Yeah, it's pretty big. Overwhelming. Okay. One more date. Go ahead. Obama was sitting present, not doing anything. In September, the intelligence community, James Clapper, James Brennan, all the experts,

all 17 intelligence agencies, say, listen, there's some evidence that Russia did the hacking on Hillary Clinton's emails. They're doing some typical countermeasures we normally see, but we do not believe that Vladimir Putin is trying to pick one candidate over the other. That is the assessment of all 17 agencies. So the belief is, all right, there might have been some normal funny business that Russia does every time, but they're just trying to sow mischief. They're not trying to pick one candidate over the other.

That is the assessment. What did Brennan and Clapper say about that consensus? Anything on the record? They delivered it. They were the ones who delivered to the president. So at that point, they're backing their community. They didn't dispute it? No, not at all.

Okay. Not at all. All right. So then in December, President-elect Trump is gathering his crew and Barack Obama reinserts himself into this. What does he do? He does. There's an incredible moment that occurs just before he gets activated. Over the Thanksgiving holidays of late November 2016, the intelligence community comes back and said, we think we were right. It is clear that Vladimir Putin didn't try to sway the election

towards Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. In fact, the best evidence of it is what's happened in October. In October of 2016, when most Americans are making up their mind about who they're going to pick, the debates are going on, that's the majority Americans decide, last minute, Vladimir Putin withdrew all of his countermeasures in the United States. He was not trying to drop any more damaging, he had damaging information. Okay, and Obama acknowledges all of this? Well, it's briefed, right?

It is briefed. So on the end of November, the Gang of Eight in Congress is briefed on this, which is our assessment that we gave you and the president in September appears to be accurate. And the best evidence is that last month of the election, Vladimir Putin pulled out. He had more shots he could have fired at Hillary Clinton.

He doesn't fire them. He holds them back. And in fact, he seems resigned in October that he was going to have Hillary Clinton as a president. They briefed that to Congress, and now they're about to brief it to Obama. They're supposed to tell Obama that on December 9th. And a funny thing happens. Obama convenes a meeting on December 5th, approximately, and decides

he wants a new intelligence assessment. The one he was about to get, we don't know. We don't know the reason. We don't know. So he wants it. He doesn't like this one. Yeah. He wants another one. Or someone doesn't like this one. That's right. And Congress has already been given the information. How do we know that? How do we know that Obama wanted a new intelligence assessment of Russian collusion? In the just the classified House Intelligence Committee report that did a review of this

whole episode, there is a specific executive order that the House Intelligence Committee was shown showing that Barack Obama ordered a new intelligence assessment. A new assessment. Okay. What does that indicate? So maybe he just wanted to be 100% correct or, you know, is there? Two possibilities. Yeah, two possibilities from the testimony of people that we've been able to read. One is there were people who just didn't like

that assessment. They wanted to push the narrative. They wanted another one. Yeah, Donald Trump cheated to win. There are other people, when the president hears this, other people say, well, the president's hearing that from some people and he sees the intelligence community, he's got two different sides of the story, he wants everybody to go back to the drawing board.

He wants some clarity. Look more time. Yeah. And that could be a reasonable thing to do. So far, I haven't heard anything about Barack Obama that's going to get him indicted by a federal grand jury. I have heard that Hillary Clinton is in big trouble Brennan You would have to have you know in the report that you just referred to Which is a majority report it was written by Republicans But there was no dissent from the Democrats on the committee and shift was ahead of that no written dissent at all

No, none. This is I had to argue with Cuomo about that but anyway what's the most damning evidence against Brennan? 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 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 Presidents Daily Brief. So when he takes over this new assessment, the normal way you do it is you bring all 17 people back to the chair, you get your 17 intelligence, let's all come together and let's give the president the best thing. He doesn't do that. He cuts everybody out of the picture except for the CIA, who he runs, the FBI, who James Comey runs, and the NSA, who's run by a guy named Admiral Mike Rogers,

who, by the way, warns President Trump in a meeting during the transition that I think the intelligence community may be spying on you, so be careful. Maybe you should move out of New York and go to Washington. Very important moment. He had concerns about what was going on. So instead of a full assessment, John Brennan brings it down to the two agencies that have

been pursuing Trump for the last years, and then Mike Rogers, the NSA guy. And they do a rush job. They handpick their own people. They don't let the agencies pick their people. And they inject into, to get to the point that they need to, or to get to the point that they ultimately decide on, that they're going to get to the point that they need to or to get to the point that they ultimately decide on that They're gonna flip the conclusion. No Vladimir Putin really was helping Donald Trump. They have to do the new assessment Right that Obama ordered says that all of the other evidence is wrong that Putin did try

To undermine the election, correct? That's right, that is correct. That's a 180. Brennan has some debt, looks like he's a clapper. I don't know if he's got a deficit or not. Do you think he's in trouble? Yeah, we don't know yet. Okay. Well, listen, he would know what was going on. He had to know what was going on.

Whether he promoted it or not. That's right. And then Comey had to know what was going on too, right? He definitely, because he is the guy that wants the Steele dossier put into the ICA the intelligence assessment there's only two things in the assessment that according to the John Durham report and Now the House Intelligence Committee report that leaned into the notion that Vladimir Putin put his finger on the scale for Trump The first is the Steele dossier, Which was phony. The idea, it was, and by the way, in December, it was already known to be phony.

Right. Mr. Forsteele's been fired. But he wanted it, Comey wanted it in the record anyway. That's a deficit for Trump. And Brennan does that. Yeah, that's, and Brennan pushes his staff. Brennan's staff tells him, we've seen the emails. This would be a disgrace to the intelligence community to put this in an official assessment.

It would harm all the other good work we've done. He orders it. He says, I don't care, you're putting it in. All right. And then there's one other thing. Let's stop there. Yeah, right. So it's a lot for the audience to absorb.

It is, it is. So here's from what you have just told me, and I'm not challenging any of what you just told me. I think it's 100% accurate It looks to me like there's not enough to go after Obama at this point, right? There is enough to go after Hillary Clinton. Yep. There is enough to go after Brennan, right Clapper not enough right now

Right? Clapper, not enough right now. I think there's fair assessments. There is enough. So, it would be- Yeah, Comey's got a lot of issues at this point. Hillary, Brennan, and Comey would be the three that you could bring into a grand jury, a federal grand jury, and say they committed a massive fraud violating every election law. Yep.

Okay? And let me mention something that people say about Barack Obama. It's based on the evidence. And again, this is the contrarian side to that. I could argue that Barack Obama would do what a president would do if there was conflict in front of him. The one thing that Barack Obama, we don't have an answer to, we need to press him. We've tried.

He won't give us an answer. It is after you knew that there was a suspicion that Hillary Clinton was setting this all in motion, and then you're told the FBI has opened up a fusion cell and they're looking at it, why didn't you say something? Are you sure that he doesn't seem to object to it? That's the one thing. That's the judgment thing. Yeah, I don't know if it's criminal, but it's a judgment question. You're never going to get it because he'll claim executive privilege if Congress calls him. He'll claim executive privilege if the FBI goes in to try to investigate him.

And then the Supreme Court has ruled, as in the Trump case, that under the executive branch, he's got all kinds of powers. All right, John, very good. And I think we did about as good a job as we could to lay it out to everybody in a very confusing situation where we are right now.

And I hope you'll keep in touch with us when you get new stuff. This is an unbelievably important story for the country. Tomorrow is going to be the most important day of all the revelations we've had this year. Bill, we should keep an eye on it. I believe it will be Senator Chuck Grassi will release this classified annex of the Durham report. And in that report, we're going to learn something very important. Chuck Grassi will release this classified annex of the Durham report.

And in that report, we're going to learn something very important. We're going to learn that the FBI also knew, like Barack Obama, that Hillary had set this fake story in motion, and they decided to proceed with evidence that they knew was coming from Hillary Clinton. That's going to be the first time. It's a very important moment. That's a crime. And then it's important because one other thing, I want to take us just one week ahead just because I'll leave them at a cliffhanger, but in January for the first time, Barack Obama does something

that a lot of people are deeply concerned about. In fact, an FBI agent wrote personal notes saying how concerned he was about it. After they released the intelligence community assessment, that's flip-flopped. The FBI has decided that Mike Flynn, the incoming national security advisor, did nothing wrong. They want to shut the investigation of Mike Flynn down. On the same day that Barack Obama's releasing this new Intelligence Committee assessment that does the 180-degree flip,

he presides over a meeting at the White House. And at that meeting, they're told the FBI's cleared Mike Flynn, and they sit with Joe Biden and other top aides saying, how can we keep an investigation of Mike Flynn going even though he's not done anything wrong? And they scheme up an idea. They talk about the Logan Act. That wasn't going to be applied, but they talked about it. And they come up with the idea, let's get them to an interview.

That'll be a separate case, though. That'll be a separate case than this. Sure. Might be viewed as a continuation of a conspiracy. That's what some people feel. All right. John Solomon, thanks again. We really appreciate it. Bill at BillOReilly.com. Bill at BillOReilly.com if you have any questions. Okay? All right. Real quick, because we spent most of the program on that. Jelaine Maxwell is making demands. She is in prison, federal prison in Miami, for helping Jeffrey Epstein commit heinous crimes

with underage girls. If I were President Trump, I would say, you're not getting a deal. We're not pulling you out of there. You're serving you 20 years, and that's it. We don't need her. Goodbye. All right, that's it.

And I hope she doesn't get a pardon, because that would be, couldn't come back from that. Let's see. What else? I want to tell you about? CNN says the shooter in New York City is possibly white. Roll the tape. John, stay with me.

I know you're obviously getting information here in real time as we're talking. Shimon, back with us on the phone on the scene. Shimon, you're here. John's reporting that they do know what he looks like. Male, possibly white, mustache, sunglasses he looks like, male, possibly white, mustache, sunglasses in that building, isolated, they believe, to various locations, including upper floors is where they're focused. Now, she was referring to John Miller, who does a security analysis for CNN, and he had

described the shooter as possibly white. There is nothing wrong with that. They're talking about what the man looks like and who he might be. And I know that Aaron Burnett has been... this is not fair. I would have done the same thing. One-third of Americans in 2024 had mental illness or substance abuse disorders. A third of us. This is from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. That's frightening. That means that one out of every three people you encounter.

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And we as Americans need to grapple with that. I don't know if it's higher here than other countries, but boy, when I said that, I know the addiction thing is out of control because we just enable it and we shouldn't. But boy, oh boy. Media madness, this is News Busters again. Newsbusters.org, fabulous job.

They are a conservative organization, but that doesn't matter. Their stats are unbelievable. The View, so far this year, has booked 102 guests to talk about politics. 102. 102 have been liberal. Not one conservative guest on The View. Not one conservative guest on the view. Not one. Disney ABC, I'm telling you, you've got to stop it.

You're using your power, Disney, to propagandize. It's wrong in every way. Smart life. Americans say they need a hundred thousand dollars salary to be financially secure. You need a lot more than that. Just tell you. Hundred thousand is you're not gonna be financially secure if you're making a hundred thousand. And here's a stat that's right. When Joe Biden became president, $100,000 is worth now $125,000. So what you could buy with $100,000 when Biden came in,

you now need $125,000. Thanks, Joe. Good job. Thanks, Joe. Good job. Let's go to the stay in history. July 30th, 1945. The worst naval disaster in American history. The USS Indianapolis torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.

I write about this in Killing the Rising Sun. Horrific. So the Indianapolis is on a secret mission to develop to deliver components of the atom bomb to Guam To be dropped on Japan Nobody knew about the mission top secret. So the Indianapolis alright gets there, drops its cargo, and then turns around and goes back to the Philippines where it's torpedoed. And initially there were 1,200 men on board, and 900 of them survived the explosions. Ship went down about 10 minutes. So there's 900 men in the water, life jackets. Some life rafts, very few. Okay.

Out of those 900 men, they're in the water for four days. 300 survived. 600 died. Mostly from sharks. Do you imagine that? So again we write about it extensively in killing the rising Sun. Worst naval disaster ever, but this was the anniversary of that. And you know the war is almost over. That's it. This was 80 years ago. Today the Japanese surrendered two weeks later.

Okay, we'll do a final thought about movies. Do you go to a movie theater? I don't go. I'll tell you why in a moment. All right, final thought of the day. One of my predictions is wrong. Kamala Harris just moments ago in the afternoon when we're taping this on Wednesday said she's

not running for governor. I thought she would. And she said no, not going to do it. Okay. Movies. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie theater. I'm trying to think. I got so mad at the last James Bond movie. It was such an awful experience sitting there

watching James Bond dissolve before my very eyes that I didn't go back to the movies for a long time. And this summer, really I'm in March, the top-grossing movie is Lilo and Stitch made $420 million. Wow, Lilo. Jurassic Park Rebirth, I guess, that's the 19th dinosaurs or running around movie. That's gross, 300 million. Didn't see it. Superman, the new Superman, 300 million.

Now the old Superman, the first one, was the best. Christopher Reeves, Gene Hackman, Lex Luthor, great. He was fabulous in it. And Marlon Brando, Superman's father. After that, that was it. I said, I was good. I'm not a big Superman, Batman, Green Lantern kind of guy, but that was a good movie. I'm not going to go see this new Superman. Or if the dinosaurs pop up on my cable, I might watch a little of it. But I know that the dinosaurs are going to chase people around. I've got to pay 12 bucks to see that again.

Here's a dinosaur, let's get out of here! And then you know who's gonna get eaten. In the first 10 minutes you go, that guy's gonna get eaten. Anybody who's nasty, they're gonna get eaten. So I don't go to the movies and the theaters. And I don't watch a lot of movies anyway because I'm so busy and I'm reading books and all of that. But that is my final thought. I hope you enjoy the movies. If you've seen a good one, bill at BillOReilly.com. Give me a heads up on it, all right? Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you again soon.