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I don't know how many times I have to prove it, but this is an interesting segment we'll present to you. His support is kind of confused. Some continue to hate Trump above all else. Others, they don't know what to do. All right. And we'll get into that a little bit. But the fact is that Donald Trump enters his second term as the most powerful president since Ronald Reagan. Now, Reagan in 1985 came in big, and Trump is as well. But Trump's detractors are never going to give up, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. Shortly after midnight last night, the Justice Department released 137 pages, authored by Special Counsel Jack Smith, accusing Donald Trump of crimes, primarily in trying to derail the election of 2020.

And, you know, nobody surprised, right? But here's the problem. Smith was appointed to try to get to the truth, not to try to nail Donald Trump, and that's what Smith tried to do. He didn't even take into account exculpatory stuff. From the very beginning, from the very first hour, he was in the office special counsel, he thought Trump was guilty.

And let's prove it, okay? So here is a full screen, something that was put in the report. Quote, although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private war. When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to stay in office unquote. Well, Jack Smith is not a jury, and he's not a judge. There's no alleged or anything like that. No, he's guilty because I Jack Smith say so. That's not what this is supposed to be about. You present the facts. Now, Smith is a partisan. We've traced his background,

liberal Democrat. Of course, he's going to be appointed by Biden and Merrick Garland. of course. But let me just give you two things. Smith's strongest argument for election interference, which is what he's trying to say happen, is that President Trump did not want Vice President Pence to certify the electoral vocum. That's true. That's a fact. But President Trump didn't take any legal action to prevent it. He just didn't want Pence to do it. It's not a time. Okay, that's an opinion. Trump said, it depends. I don't think you should do it. Okay? Why did Trump do that? Because it was his opinion, again, second opinion, that the 2020 election was fraudulent, that there was cheating in it. And Trump wanted more time to establish that

as fact. He's the right to do that as president. Now, in my eyes, Donald Trump was wrong, because there was not enough evidence presented anywhere to back up his opinion. And that's a truth. Now, you can write me letters all day long about what you think, and I heard this, and four mules in Texas, and whatever. Stop. Facts have to be presented. Okay. The exculpatory part, which means Trump's side, which Smith told totally ignored, all right, is that a president is entitled by our Constitution to a wide range of opinion. And the Supreme Court ruled that last year.

He said, look, he's on the job, Trump's on the job, even after the election to votes for cash. He's still on a job. He can have opinions, but he can't violate the law. I don't see where the law was violated. The votes were certified by the vice president. So Smith doesn't say anything about that. This was just a fiasco, as was the Mar-a-Lago raid, and on and on and on.

Okay. Now, that's not the way our country should operate here. And this is the biggest, you know, Trump got his revenge by winning the election. Smith is out. Smith is, I don't think Smith will ever hold another government position. Even Democrats who hate Trump know Smith was in a bag. Everybody knows he's in the tank. Okay, he's done.

So Trump won. But it never should have happened. And that's a memo. All right, another special counsel, David Weiss. He's the guy in Delaware who took six years to investigate Hunter Biden for tax fraud and a gun thing. Six years. No, it doesn't take six years. It doesn't take six months.

Okay? So why slow walks the Hunter Biden prosecution? That's a fact. Anybody in the legal or governmental realm knows that. But now, Weiss is mad, even though he did the bidding of President Biden and Merrick Garland by slow walk in a case, now he's mad that Biden pardoned Hunter and said that the reason I'm pardoning my son is because he was only prosecuted because his name is Biden. That's what Joe Biden said. It's ridiculous, right? So here's what Weiss says, quote,

eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives, calling those rulings to question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines a very foundation. What America's justice system, fair and equitable. It erodes public confidence in an institution that is essential preserving erode of law.

This is what Weiss said yesterday. Okay, that's good, but you yourself undermine the, let me use your words, the rule of law. By taking six years to investigate something that should have been taken six months, right? Well, you're no hero, David what. Remember, on August 30th, 2021, all right, just after, you know, about what, eight months after, seven months after, Biden gets in. He pulls all the troops out and abandons billions of dollars

with the weapons of terrorists and 13 U.S. service people are killed. 170 Afghans are killed. And Biden, I know, it was great. Here's what he said last night. Go. So when I took office, I had a choice. Ultimately, I saw no reason to keep thousands of servicemen in Afghanistan.

I think I have my schedule with me and I keep on my, I don't hear, I don't have, but I keep out of the back of my card, the actual number of dead and wounded that occurred in our longest war to remind myself, keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars a day, you're not longer doing that. In my view, it was time to end the war and bring our troops home, and we did. But nobody was objecting to bringing the troops home. It's how you did it. Chaos. And you got people killed. And you didn't have to. When Trump left office, the Taliban, had not killed an American service person for 18 months.

Because there was a deal. We could have removed all of our armaments from Afghanistan. We could have kept back. Wang, all right, bag one, saying it wrong, could have kept our air base, right, bag wrong, which I actually, was that, we could have kept it, could have kept it, could have kept 2,500 troops there to protect American citizens, well, that could have happened. That one wasn't going to object to that, okay? But not Biden. The guy never mits in a mistake. We can't find any in four years, he's never admitted a policy mistake.

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And, you know, for you, what about people out there? Trump doesn't admit mistakes either. It doesn't. And this is bad. Our elected officials should admit their mistakes because everybody makes them. And the American people will accept that. Boy, Biden can't get out of there fast enough for me. Joining us now is perhaps one of the most important men, at least he will be, in this ongoing process.

You know, Governor Mike Huckabee, he served Arkansas on that role for 11 years. He has been named or nominated a U.S. ambassador to Israel by Donald Trump, worked in the media for 17 years. Not going to hold that against him. And he joins us from Little Rock, Arkansas. I like to say, I'm glad you're in the kitchen, like, you know, and I hope you're whipping up something good for us. I, when you were nominated, I actually said to President Trump, personally, that was an excellent nomination. And, you know, there were some that I didn't think were excellent. But you have been involved, and I hope people remember this, for decades trying to help the Jewish people and the Arab people

in that part of the world, correct? Bill, I've been going to Israel since 1973. This year will mark 52 years of being in Israel dozens and dozens of times to the point I've lost count. So I've been immersed in what's going on in the Middle East and specifically Israel. It's a place I love. I've come to appreciate the extraordinary things

that this story. startup nation has been able to do. And there's really nothing that President Trump would have asked me to do that I would have had any affinity for. But this was the one thing that I could not say no to, because it's almost like a lifetime of preparation to do it. What sparked your interest in Israel? When I originally went, I was only 17, I was a month shy of my 18th birthday.

It was three months before the Yom Kippar War, although none of us knew that. And I was there with a friend of mine on a senior trip. And, you know, looking back, it was insane that the two of us went all over the Middle East. We went to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, throughout the Middle East. But we went to Israel as part of it. Now, Israel in 1973 was a sleepy little country. It had barely gotten through wars in 48, 56, and 67. Had success in those wars, shouldn't have, but it did.

but its economy was struggling. It was barren in terms of it was dusty, hilly, rocky, didn't have a lot of vegetation. What I have seen over my own trips there, over 52 years, I've seen the desert bloom and I've seen the dry bones come to life. It's an amazing entrepreneurial, innovative country that has exported much technology to the rest of the world, including the United States, not only in just raw technology,

but in medical care and in agriculture. But all of that aside, it's a space where this tiny little sliver of land, the size of New Jersey, is the most contested piece of real estate on the planet. And it makes it a fascinating part of the world. Do you have an empathy? Because you're a Christian. And the evangelical Christian movement has an empathy with the Jewish people in Israel. Is that part of this equation?

Well, it's a personal part. I mean, certainly the role of an ambassador is not to go as a religious, our spiritual guide, but it certainly is a part of who I am. And it gives me some parameters of understanding. the bigger picture of it, that Israel has been in this land for 3,500 years, that Jerusalem is the indigenous forever and unique capital for the Jewish people. I had a Jewish friend from New York asked me one time, we were in Israel together. And he said, why is it that evangelical Christians are so supportive of the Jewish people and of Israel? And I said, it's quite frankly, pretty easy.

I said, you can be Jewish and have nothing whatsoever to do with Christians. But I can't be a Christian and not have everything to do with the Jewish people, the Jewish faith, the scriptures. Everything I believe is built on the foundation of that. So for me, and most evangelicals would say the same thing, we're people of the book. It's simple. So if you read in Genesis that God blesses those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel, this gets pretty easy okay now when you get over and you'll be uh confirmed easily in the senate you get over there your job is not to make policy i'm sure that uh president trump will consult with you but your job is exactly what how do you see it it is to carry out the policy

of the president as i shared with the president there's only one person who got elected November the 5th, and his name was Donald J. Trump. So he gets to set the table and pick the menu. Those of us who serve as an ambassador to any country, we don't go with our own agenda. We don't get to go and say, here's what I'm going to do. We find out what the president's policy is, and we carry that to the country where we've been assigned to represent. So, you know, well, I get a chance to visit with President Trump about that policy, of course. But it ultimately is his decision what that policy is going to be. Now, I could put you up against Netanyahu and the Israeli government,

because we're not sympathetic 100% with Israel. Are you ready to stare down, BB, if you have to? Well, it's not so much that I would stare him down. down, it's more that I would represent the United States. But you're not going to like that. You're going to get yelled out. Oh, that's OK. I was going to 11 years.

I got yelled out a lot. So this will not be something new for me. I will feel right at home. Do you anticipate an improvement over there? Because you're walking into the most difficult ambassador job with the possible exception of Moscow. on a planet. Beijing is testy too,

but you're walking into bullets of flying. All right, and, you know, you are going to be in jeopardy yourself, you're going to have to watch it, you know that. But what is your, are you optimistic, are you in the middle or pessimistic? How are you going in over there? I'm very optimistic.

But I'm also a very realistic bill. I don't have any illusions that there's going to be some two-state solution where you have some people who hate Israel, who want to see it totally annihilated, who are going to move next door, set up a shadow government, and everything's going to be just lovely. That's not going to happen. What I do anticipate is that there is a greater movement going on

within the overall Gulf states and in the Middle East. when historically really, I guess, adversarial nations to Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, a host of the nations, Bahrain. They're now realizing Israel is no threat to them. They don't need to fear Israel, and they don't need to hate Israel. They get nothing for that, nothing. They get more when they share intelligence, tourism, trade. They all benefit.

But you're thinking logically, and when you do it, you at Hamas and the other terrorists in Iran, they don't think logically they hate you. They want to kill you. And you're not going to change their minds, by the way. They're always going to hate and want to kill you. So that's the reality of the situation. And this is the final question for you. Some Americans say, look, no matter what you do or what we do as a country, this is never

going to get better because there aren't two states. the Gaza and Hamas that's not a state there's nobody running the show there it's you do what I say it will kill you it's not like they have a representative government so you can't have a two-state solution when you only have one state that's Israel last word I that's exactly what we have to change in a policy both Republican and Democrat presidents have pretended that this two-state solution makes sense it simply doesn't especially when one of the states believes that its sole purpose of being on earth is to murder every last Jew. So the reason that Israel has to get rid of Hamas,

it can't simply ameliorate the danger. It has to eliminate the danger is because Hamas is not a government. It doesn't have soldiers with uniforms. It is a group of terrorists, criminals, and savages. You do not deal with them in the way that you would deal with a legitimate government. Donald Trump understands that. And it's why I think there's going to be a different way. The same reason that the Abraham Accords were able to be done in Trump's first term.

And that when Biden came in, basically nothing moved beyond that. Donald Trump has an opportunity to do something historic. And I believe he will. All right, Governor. And you're right by his side. And we really appreciate you know how busy you are with all of this. And hopefully I will see you in. Jerusalem. All right. Stay safe now. Next year in Jerusalem, maybe even this year in Jerusalem.

I hope so. I'm going to get over there as soon as I can. But stay safe and we'll talk soon. Thank you. Thanks, Bill. All right. Let's bring in our pal, Adam Carole. Unfortunately, Mr. Corolla's home is undefined at this point because he was evacuated. I had to evacuate. And it doesn't know, right? Am I right now? Or did you get new? info. You don't know what the status of your home is, right? I got new info recently that it's intact. I'm in Malibu, sort of right in the middle of Malibu, and everything in front of it and behind it is destroyed. But miraculously, the fire went over my dwelling and out onto PCH and then destroyed everything in front of me. Wow. Well, I'm glad that you are, you know, your house is sick.

but you can't live there for a long time. You can't go back to that house. You know that, right? Yeah, there's no electricity at this point, and we don't know about smoke damage and other forms of damage and just sort of infrastructure. And then soon as the rains hit,

the mudslides are going to start. And when the mudslides start, they're going to block off Pacific Coast Highway and then the canyons that lead there. And there's no other way to get there other than Pacific Coast Highway. and a canyon or two. And then you're going to have the pollution, too,

of the fires and the air quality. And it's just going to be on and on. I estimate, number one, that Los Angeles County will not recover for five years. I'm going to reunying to my family, because we're going to Burlington for the event of liquidation candidate. We're going to now right now

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Visit so-delicious dairy-free.com. It's going to have long. It's going to take them to recover this. You might be able to get back into your house this year, but it's going to be dicey. Now, you've lived out there for your whole life. I think you're 87 years old now, right? Is it? That's right.

I'm two years younger than you. Right. you're 60. You've lived out there your whole life. You live in Malibu, which is a high-risk neighborhood. Have you ever seen the state take preventive measures around your house to mitigate a possible fire? The state is not good at nuts and bolts things. It's good at, you know, feel-good stuff like the West Hollywood patrol cars have the gay flag on the side. of them, which is important. So we do stuff like that. We do a lot of things that are sort of window dressing, but we don't do nuts and bolts legislation. And no, if there's a mudslide on Pacific Coast Highway, it takes six months to clean up a pile of dirt, the size of a minivan. So everything is slow. And let's not forget that a lot of the problem with the fires, I mean, you've spoken a lot and played, clips of Trump talking about cleaning up the bed and the floor of the forest and preventative measures, aqueducts, things like that. I've spoke to firemen in Malibu, and they say most of the fires

they put out are caused by the homeless. As a matter of fact, they said basically all the fires we put out are caused by the homeless who camp up in the hills, get high, pass out, smoke, and crack, fire ensues. That's number one. Number two, PCH, Pacific Ossi, is festoon with 100-year-old power poles made of rotted wood that all immediately fall over in a high wind or in a fire and then live power lines are all over the street and they inhibit the firefighting obviously they're danger you're spraying water you have live five live lines buzz around so we don't even bury the power lines we've been trying to bury the power lines we've been trying to bury the power lines for years and there's no movement on it and a lot of the fires are caused by this. Yeah, the squirrels might get

upset and I'm being sarcastic but isn't that the crux of the matter that there's always a reason not to protect the citizens there's always some kind of woke reason isn't that the truth?

No, we have the Coastal Commission. Coastal Commission is unelected eight or ten sort of hippie lesbians who are angry at their dads and hate everyone who lives in Malibu and along the coast in Orange County and they just make proclamations and we try to get a water desalinization plant going or we try to develop the wetlands or whatever it is and they just say no go literally pound sand so we have these little groups of angry mostly women mostly young and they're super woke and they're super progressive and they don't even live along the coast because they can't afford it and they're angry at anyone who makes a good living

and they have ultimate power and that's the way we roll here in california what about newsome though i mean he's a pretty powerful governor and i want to be fair to newsome has he done anything in his entire tenure in sacramento to protect the citizens of california from from these national disasters. Give me anything. I've never heard him pull up to a microphone and say anything that would be considered pragmatic. He talks about, you know, the LGBT community constantly,

and he talks about everybody having a voice and a seat at the table and nobody's illegal and we're starting, you know, we're gonna be a sanctuary state. Basically here's what, here's where Newsome goes south and here's where all the progressive, Progressive Democrats go south. Here's where it all falls apart for them. They fight Trump on everything that Trump says.

So if Trump says, let's beef up the border, they go, we're not beefing up the border. They go build a wall. They go tear down the wall. They go clean up the forest. He goes, we're not cleaning up the forest. He goes, fill the aqueduct. We're not filling the aqueduct. They are so stupid and knee jerk that if he said the sky's blue, they'd say the sky's red.

well it is now in california but it's on fire they've screwed themselves by literally doing the opposite of everything trump has suggested now you can disagree with trump but much of his policy is pragmatic and you just disagreeing with pragmatic stuff to disagree is going to end up biting you in the ass and that's what happened to newsome final question nobody knows karen bass who's the mayor of Los Angeles City. Is she as bad as people are portraying her? She's a long-time progressive L.A. Democrat politician. So she's horrible just from that pedigree.

She also spent a lot of time in her youth going back and forth to Cuba and was involved with some group that sort of loved Fidel. So she's got that, you know, progressive left-wing bona fides thing going, which means she's not going to do anything she's going to hang around i mean she was in ghana taking a trip when all this went down yes she's horrible we could get someone like rick caruso in there someone who builds things someone who's pragmatic someone knows knows how to manage people and funds but l.a is way too progressive for that hopefully we're coming down to earth now i don't know who she is i don't know what she stands for i'm sure she's horrible

And if you look around, L.A. has more homeless, is filthy. L.A. is filthy, by the way. There's garbage and graffiti everywhere. Look, I wrote a column of it. There's homeless everywhere. Two weeks ago, two weeks ago, is in Westwood, right adjacent to UCLA, at the hotel there. Okay, the W. Hotel. Shocking.

The hotel was nice. But Westwood itself used to be one of the premier neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Shocking. Anyway, There's garbage and homeless everywhere, so she can't run a city. How can people watch you, Carolla, on your podcast? Just go to Adamcrawler.com, and it's all free, and I'm there every day. All right.

Well, look, if you need anything from us, let us know. And that's not an empty thing to say, Corolla. I've known you a long while. You need anything you let me know. And we'll make it happen. Okay. Thanks, Bill. I appreciate it.

Okay. Media madness. Carrie Underwood, who I think is very talented. Her Christmas album, excellent. She's going to sing at the inauguration, America the Beautiful, which any performer on the face of the earth would be honored to do. It doesn't matter who the president is.

You're being asked to sing America the Beautiful on inauguration. You go and you sing it. It doesn't matter who's being sworn in. No, on the view. go she says I love our country how do you love your country and support and normalize somebody who was a convicted felon who really wants to destroy the country in my opinion I don't understand how you say you love your country at the same time as you normalize this convicted felon which I can say now every day well

why would you want to say that every day madam because you hate Donald Trump the president of the United States okay all right so Joy Behar hates strong word But it's true, the President of the United States. Therefore, anyone doing anything with his administration is to be criticized. But we all know who that person is, Joy Bejard. Everybody knows. I mean, to her credit, she's not a phony. She's a hater.

But here's a question. why is ABC News paying for that? Another simple question. Why would you pay someone? I assume she's making millions of dollars, millions of dollars to hate. In addition, the view hurts the other ABC News properties. Mewer, Good Morning America.

That show hurts them because you transfer, It's the same thing with NBC. MSNBC hurts lesser hold than a today show. Because half the country, traditionalists, Republicans, conservatives, they don't like you. They don't like your whole operation. But again, why would you pay for hatred? I wouldn't.

On either side. So, I'm going to predict here there's going to be big changes at the view. Should have happened a long time ago. But Disney is a corporation that's arrogant, all right? The House of Mouse, Bob Iger is the CEO, they're arrogant because they make so much money at their theme parks, and they used to make a lot of money in movies, it's kind of mitigated down, but they go, eh, they're right, you know, you know how those people are, but something we've got to change over there.

Washington Post has lost 87% of its online. readership, okay? During the four years, Joe Biden's been president. This is according to semaphore, which is the online news service. 87% people who consume the Washington Post online gun. So Jeff Bezos, who owns the paper, it's got to sell it. I'm predicting he'll sell it. What does he need this? Bezos, by the way, is partying with Trump. on Monday, on inauguration day. This is, Zuckerberg is having an after-party. I'm going to do this tomorrow.

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Only 22%. I guess the rest don't even know what they have because that's not close to 100%. Compare it 2023 and 24, have you been able to save more money? 22%. Save less money, 48. Save about the same third.

And that's because the high prices under Biden. So they can't, can't say. What do you consider it to be the biggest challenge to saving money? Cost of living, 47%. Biggest challenge. Now, four years ago, when Donald Trump left office, there was a big controversy over January 6th, all night. But he walked out of the White House with a 1.4% inflation rate.

Prices were a lot less for almost everything than they are now. So this is simple. Here are some smart life tips to save money. Number one, even if you don't have a great salary, you have to save 10% of your take-home pay every week. You have to. My father told me that when I was shoveling snow and cutting lawns when I was 12, 13 years old.

I always remembered that, and I always did it. You save 10% every week, it's going to grow, it's going to grow substantially. Number two, money jar in your home. You'll be surprised. When you come home, you got change in your pocket, whatever it is, throw in the money jar. Okay? Once in a while, throw a five, eight. throw a tan in whatever it may be you would be surprised how fast that

bounce up number three analyze your three biggest expenses so you can't do anything about your mortgage unless you want to refinance it which is dicey and probably not worth it right now tool interest rates get cut more with the three biggest things that you have outside of your mortgage rent all right? Where's money going? So I got a pretty big energy bill, and I said, hmm, look at this. And the energy company makes fun of you now. So your home uses 85% more energy than the average home. Okay. So I said, what can I do? So what I did was, because it's been cold January here, I put towels around all the windowsills, because that's where you could

feel. The draft's coming in. So you had jack up the heat. I got Powell's on all. Now, I can afford to pay any utility bill that comes in, but I'm not dumb, all right? And I do respect saving of money, because when you have money, you have a little bit of power. I get letters every single day of my life from concierge members on bill o'Reilly.com.

Remember, if you're a concierge member, get direct email to me, and if you have a problem, I'm going to help you with it. But I would say fully 30% of the letters go, don't have enough money for a lawyer. I don't have enough money for a repair. I don't have enough money for a new car and my car doesn't run. If you don't have enough money, you are powerless in this society. Okay? The government is not going to help you. Even the people on welfare, they just get by. If you're lucky enough to inherit money, okay. But most people

aren't and other people aren't going to give you money. I get letters, do you think you can find me a pro bono lawyer? No, no, because everybody has got bills. Everybody has to generate income. And if you don't have any money, then you are at the low end and you are absolutely susceptible to every villain that comes along. They can pummel you and you can't do anything about it Because you can't afford a lawyer. You got to save. And then when you get older and you don't work anymore, you've got to have enough money to live. And you think the government's going to help you, they're not.

And tied up, a bureaucratic mistake, takes years to unravel something like that. Smart life. Okay, as mentioned, tomorrow night, Friday, News Nation, 9 p.m. I am producing, I think that's a fair word, the United States of Trump special. Here's the look. Hello, everybody. They're handsome. That was a great day.

How has Donald Trump, the billionaire, developer, jet setter, sports team owner, Mar-a-Lago owning, golfing, tycoon, convinced the folks, as you would call them, that he's with them. Because his tastes mirror theirs. So he really does like McDonald's. When I'm at the game, and I'm paying for everything, by the way, he goes, I want a milk shake. I want a cheeseburger. He's not going, I'd like the caviar.

I'd like the escargo. No. His tastes are queens. So he really listens to country music. I don't know what he listens to, all right? I know he doesn't listen to me enough, but other than that... Nobody does, Bill. Nobody can ever listen to you too much.

That's probably true. But he has what they cliche calls the common touch, which is why he went into the McDonald's. I made it myself. You're the bad. Take a burger. That's your right. Thank you, man.

Thank you. Well, you wrote what? That he can work a waffle house. like few others. Yeah. You imagine Kamala Harris and McDonald's at the drive-in window? Are you kidding me? There'd be 18 makeup people.

It could be makeup on the cars that came up. Come on. You've watched Donald Trump morph from being a New York Democrat to being a MAGA Republican. Has Donald Trump's views morphed or has just the political landscape in America morphed? And he picked up on that. Parties don't mean anything to him. He can't give you the history. Does policy mean anything then?

policy means something, but he, Donald Trump can't give you the history of the Republican Party. Doesn't care. Doesn't mean anything. They back him. But is he going, you know, that Republican Party, Lincoln did a good job, or really molded it. He said, do that. So when he was in New York building his fortune, everybody was a Democrat, so he was a Democrat. Simple as that. And then when he went into politics. He didn't like the welfare and the massive spending and the woke stuff. He doesn't like that. So he becomes a Republican. So if we think about how he won, right? The famous ad, Kamala Harris is for they, them. Donald Trump is for you. Right. Kamala is for

them. President Trump is for you. Is that why he won? He won because of money. Donald Trump won the election because Americans have suffered. when they buy food and fuel and insurance and on and on and on and on and they trust Trump to get that under control because it was under control in his first term it's a simple equation people boat their wallets they always have in this country and they always will okay so we got a lot more and it's on puff piece it's an explanation and Trump has been caricatured by the corrupt media. They present a picture of him that's false. And I've known him, as you know, for 35 years, and it's my duty to report the truth. Not a lot of policy in this. It's about him. We hope you

watch. And please let me know. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. And if you're a concierge member and a premium member, you get the message boards on Bill O'Reilly.com, let me know. Because I'm going to be very interested to read the reaction to this special. A new column coming Sunday on the Transition of Power in the USA. And I will see you on inauguration Day Monday. Thank you for watching us this evening.