Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - January 6th Facts, Biden MIA, Karine Jean-Pierre Continues to Lie, Mexican Cartels Update with Ana Paula Odorica, & More

Episode Date: March 9, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill explains the facts regarding January 6th following the release of new video and new polling President Biden once again has nothing on his schedule while his press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continues to avoid the truth Podcaster Ana Paula Odorica joins the No Spin News from Mexico City to discuss violence in Mexico This Day in History: Millard Fillmore dies Final Thought: 'The View' mentions Bill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, March 8, 2023, stand up for your country. So let me ask you a question, all of the millions of people watching and listening on the radio all over the world. how vital is the truth to you how vital is it okay very important question because if you're honest some people it's not so important all right other people really want to know even if the truth goes against their preconceived belief system i don't know the breakdown of the population there? Based upon all my experience in journalism, I can't come up with a number. You know, I've told you that I think 10 to 15 percent of the human population is evil based upon what I've seen. I don't know this number, okay? But that question, do people want to know the truth,

is at the heart of many problems in America today, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So there is a poll. about January 6th, okay, by Rasmussen, and a poll was evenly divided between Democrats, Republicans, and independents. The question is special congressional committee investigated January 6th. How would you rate the job done by this committee? Okay, poor 38, excellent, 29, good 18, fair, 11. So 49% are poor or fair, excellent, good 47% nation split. split down the middle about it. And the reason is because of Trump, the January 6th Committee did not exist for any other purpose other than to say and try to prove which they did not

that Donald Trump caused the January 6th riot. That was it. There's nothing there. And that's been proven. There was nothing about security there and that breakdown in security. There was nothing about extenuating circumstances or evidence produced that Donald Trump didn't do that. It was just a farce. And it doesn't matter because once the committee issued a report, it got two days of coverage. Now it's gone forever. All that money, all the time wasted because it's not going to matter at all. Because serious people know what that was. Now, the 47 percent who think it did an excellent or good job, are they looking for the truth? I will tell you I don't believe they are. Okay, now the poll University of Massachusetts. Number of questions. Describe the events

that took place on January 6th. Select all that apply. You can vote for more than one here. Riot 55. I call it a riot. Protest 49. Obviously, it was a protest. Insurrection 42. 41 percent, too strong a word, in my opinion. Rebellion, 34, too strong. Uprising, 32, too strong. All right. Describe the participants who took part in the events of January 6th. Riot is 52, I think that's fair. Mob, 47, okay, I'll go with that. Protesters, 44, certainly. Interactionists, 38, too strong.

White nationalists, absurd. absurd. But 37% of Americans think these are white nationalists in there, all of them. Terrorists, 34, that's absurd as well. Who do you hold most responsible for the violence that occurred at the Capitol? Okay. Trump, 44, there you go. It's the same percentage that thought the January 6th committee did a hell of a job. So you see where the mindset is there. U.S. Capitol Police, 15, it wasn't their fault. All right. Democratic Party 12, it wasn't the Democratic Party's fault. Antifa 10, that's absurd. Conspiracy stuff. So who was most responsible, the rioters themselves? That's who was most responsible, right? I mean, if you were there, if you were there on that day,

would you have gone into that Capitol, seeing the windows broken, the doors being slammed down, the police being shoved and spit out and cursed that. Would you have gone? I wouldn't. I mean, there's no way. So, again, ask yourself that question. Okay, so that all ties into the reaction of the tape exposition this week on the Fox News channel. All ties in.

Whether you want to know the truth or you're going to believe what you want to believe doesn't matter. The people that believe Donald Trump wanted that capital riot to happen, you are not going to dissuade them, no matter how much evidence you produced that Trump ahead of time, wanted to alert the National Guard, you saw his talk peacefully, it doesn't matter. They want to believe Trump incited it, they're going to believe it. Period. Okay. So the tape comes out. The tape was really not much. It really wasn't. I mean, you know, we went over it yesterday. If you were a premium or concierge member to Bill O'Reilly.com, you can watch that anytime you want. And you can get a transcript of what I said, which is why I hope everybody will consider. This is history of this program. This isn't just a news program. This is the record. Okay. If you remember, You get a transcript of anything we do, and you put it in a little file.

Okay, so some Republicans are criticizing Fox News, roll of the table. Clearly, the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6th. So that's my reaction to it. It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that's completely had variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at Capitol thinks. All I know is that there were, yeah, there were a lot of people in the Capitol at the time who, I think, weren't scared for their lives. So, you know, however you want to describe it.

But it was an attack on the Capitol. All right, Utah Senator Mitt Romney said this, quote, it's really sad to see Tucker Carlson go off the rails. It's so absurd. He's joining a range of shock jocks that are disappointing America and feeding falsehoods. I think it's a very dangerous thing to do to suggest that attacking the capital of the United States

is in any way acceptable. And people saw that it was violent, destructive, should never happen again, but trying to normalize that behavior is dangerous and disgusting, unquote, Mitt Romney. Okay, so why are they doing that? Well, Romney and McConnell, they don't have any use for Fox News. I mean, Fox News doesn't like them, generally speaking. So, you know, they're in Acts Thune, I don't know. But clearly politicians in Washington, all of them, see that FNC is growing weaker by the hour. And it is. But these people that think that FNC is going to disappear or not going to be number one are crazy. Because the older conservative viewers, which comprise

most of the Fox News's audience now, they're going to stick to FNC. And the other thing is, it's television. And far and away, Fox News has the better talent than MSNBC or CNN. I mean, their talent level at those Democrat liberal networks are very low. They don't really have anybody that kind of, well, I got to watch this person every day, you know. No. So they think that Fox is going to somehow disappear or be marginalized. It's not going to happen to the core Fox viewer. Everybody else, I'm sorry, but Fox has been.

damage almost beyond repair and if that trial is held in april that's coming up fast i think it's going to be delayed myself and uh i can't imagine that fnc is going to parade their executives and talent you know in that courtroom i so a settlement you know that looks like will might happen and it'll be a big number that's for sure but if there is a trial that'll you know come on every day and it'll be it'll be televised it's just hard to hard to see that and that's a memo all right for the second consecutive today president biden has nothing on his schedule that is extremely unusual i mean nothing um now maybe he's getting ready for his philadelphia speech tomorrow which will of course we'll cover where he's going to you know ask for another tax rise i mean this guy is just economically

insane. This is the worst I've ever seen. And I'm a historian and I'm looking at. Herbert Hoover was pretty darn bad with the depression. But Biden's like the worst economic guy in a war. He wants more

tax. It's okay. So anyway, Biden has disappeared. We don't know where he is. But we do know where Corinne Jean-Pierre is. her daily briefing and she was asked about the awful fentanyl crisis in america roll the tape

because of the work that this president has done because of what we've done specifically on fentanyl at the border it's at historic lows historic levels uh that we have been able to uh record a number of personnel working to secure the border because of what we've been able to do seizing that fentanyl uh we've done it in a historic way that's because of what this president has done Yeah, okay, they seize fentanyl in a record amounts because record amounts are coming into the United States. So you'd have to. All right, so here's the truth, and the truth is very simple. There has been an 800% increase in fentanyl overdose deaths, okay?

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and saying why do we have open borders you saw it but jump here i mean at this point she's incapable of telling the truth somebody can't do it and You know, I know she's being ordered, not to tell the truth, but when you hear the word Fox News lies, just think about Corinne Jean-Pierre. Now, it's not a what-aboutism. I don't do that. Okay? The king of one-aboutism is Cuomo, and I'm going to be on News Nation tonight, 815 hit, I think it is. I want to talk about a lot of this stuff that we've just talked about here. He does a lot of what-aboutism, Chris Cuomo. I'm trying to get him out of that. You know, stay on the topic. It's not what-about.

But when you hear FNC lies, you've got to think about the current administration and the left-wing corporate media. Just a Russian collusion thing alone, insane, insanely untrue. Okay, let me give you a fast update on this Mexico murder of two Americans. So Shereid Woodward, 33, Zendell Brown, 28, killed by cartel members in Matamoros area in Mexico. Two survived Latavia McGee, mother of six, Eric James Williams, who was shot in the leg, but not life-threatening. They're back in the USA. say. A 24-year-old man who was guarding them, just some, you know, low life, he's been arrested. Don't expect any cartel members to be arrested. It's Mexico. We've been over that

and over that and over that. I'm going to get into that fairly heavy on News Nation tonight because people who watch News Nation, a lot of them don't watch me. So I'm going to get a little shock and awe tonight on a Cuomo program. So joining us now from Mexico City is journalist Anna Paula Oderica. She is the host of the Brujula podcast and has been covering Mexico and the cartels for about a dozen years. So I'm very pleased to speak with you and thank you for taking the time. Anger against the Mexican government in the United States is growing because the perception here, and I believe this to be true, is that Obrador and the Mexico City officials cannot or will not control the cartels.

Is that true? Well, I think it's true that there is anger in the United States, and there is anger in Mexico also with what is going on. President Lopez Obrador claimed that his administration was going to deal better with the cartels and with organized crime, and four years on, he has really nothing. something pretty good to show on this chapter and on the contrary what just happened in Matamoros is a signal, first of all, that things are not working and second of all that when U.S. citizens are involved, the government, with the help of the FBI and other intelligence institutions,

American institutions, when they are involved, things get solved. But there are hundreds of thousands of Mexicans that have disappeared, and their families cannot claim the same efficiency of the Mexican authorities. Now, 31 journalists have either been murdered or gone missing in the last two years. Are you fearful for your safety? I live in Mexico City. Mexico City is very different from the reporting that my colleagues have to do in the northern part of the country, especially in Tamaulipas. And I am not a specialist in organized crime.

So those two things make me not be a target for the cartel. But there is no protection for journalists. I mean, if the cartel wants to kill you, you're going to get killed. And as you said, the crime will probably not be solved. I, you, when we have a guess, we pre-interview the guess, and one of the things that you told our producer was that the main source of revenue for the drug cartels isn't narcotics or people smuggling. It's extortion of the Mexico people, Mexican people themselves. Is that correct? It's an additional source of income for them. So many people in Mexico or many businesses in Mexico suffer a double taxing. You have to pay your taxes to the government, as you do in the U.S., but there is another taxing system that occurs within organized crime.

If you have a small shop where you sell eggs, for example, the organized crime people will come to your store to your shop and ask for an extortion. And that is the same if you sell chicken or if... And that's widespread all around a country that happens? No, it's focalized, but it is a growing source of revenue for organized and a growing source of threat for Mexicans. Do the Mexican people understand the fentanyl problem that it's killing hundreds of thousands of people? Do they understand it? Is it a big issue inside Mexico? Well, we, I mean, I am informed about what has gone in the United States.

I understand there are certain parts of the U.S. where fentanyl consumption is even stronger in the Midwest, for example. And we understand that there is a consumption problem that probably is not cost entirely. I would say it's not entirely caused by what. No, I got it. I think it's the people who buy it or buy it. But it's not the same problem in Mexico. You don't have a mass fentanyl death problem in Mexico right now. I think we have a problem both in Mexico and in the United States. In the United States, you have a consumption problem. In Mexico, we have a production and exporting problem.

And then we also import U.S. guns. So that's why I think this is a problem that involves both our countries, and both our countries need to take it seriously and to cooperate. And what is happening right now is the opposite. It's hard to cooperate when many, many Mexican officials are on the take. They're taking bribes, you know, silver or blood. You either take the money or we kill you in your family. That's the cartel's philosophy. Just had a big conviction up here in Brooklyn of the guy who was in charge of Mexican security for six years.

And he's smuggling archaic. That was, he received a condecoration from the U.S. government. So that's why it's important to do this cooperation, take it seriously, and understand the amount of money involved where people in Mexico and the U.S. need to get their act together, not politicized. In the U.S., I think that most people want this to stop. In Mexico, I don't think that Obrador, and I don't know whether he's on the take or his people are on the take, but I don't, what I've seen to him, he is not going to take on the cartels.

He is not going to do it, Anna, last word. I think he is using a wrong strategy, and he is not seeing the seriousness of what is going on. That's impossible. You'd have to. What happened in Matamoros, when he reacts and his government react the way they are reacting, it only furthers my view that he is not understanding the problem. How could you not understand 100,000 homicides in Mexico a year?

You have to be able to understand that. So anyway, look, Anna, I want you to come back. want you to come back. I would think he would have to. Yeah, I think so. That that would be, that's not hard to understand. I want you to come back. I'd like you to be our Mexican reporter. You sound like a very honest woman. It was very nice of you to help us out. If we can ever return the favor of you, let us know. And we'll have you back periodically if you have the time, okay? Thank you so much. And thanks speaking. Okay. The Heritage Group Foundation is in Washington, Washington, D.C. It's a watchdog, but it's a conservative group. They've been trying to get information from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI basically says, blank you, we're not giving you any information. So Heritage is now suing the FBI, all right? Seven separate cases. Here they are. Heritage wants to know all information about the FBI working with Facebook to improperly access political conservative Americans data.

Number one. Number two, inappropriate resourcing during the Black Lives Matter riots. Why weren't the FBI monitoring those riots? That's the second one. Number three, FBI participation in Black Live Matter activities. That means undercovers. They don't want the names. They want to know the scope of it. You can't give them the names. All right. Number four, fusion GPS misdeeds. What does the FBI know about that? Number five, pulling agents off violent crimes to work January 6 prosecution. So Heritage wants to know how many FBI agents were involved in arresting January 6 protesters and whether they were pulled off other criminal details. And finally, they want to compare standards of prosecutions from Trump to Biden, whether that's changed. So the Freedom of Information Act gives court access to journalists when government agencies won't cooperate, and that's what this is. I think here it is you'll get a lot of the information the courts will order it.

But again, will the FBI be honest in handing over what it has? I don't trust the FBI. I'm sure many of you don't. It's a real shame how low that agency has fallen. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington, most powerful disruptors, lawmakers,

and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. I just go over to France, and there's riots all over the place there. because they want to raise the pension age from 62 to 64, just a two-year raise because they don't have any money. So you've got to understand, this is what socialism is.

The French government pays all the pensions, not the individual corporations, okay? And they pay health care, and they pay education, and they tax the French people up to their eyebrows, so the French people don't have a lot of income in the bank, and they need to have their pensions, and they don't want to put the age up. So it's crazy. I mean, if you fly in France, you better change your schedule. A fifth of the flights to Charles de Gaulle in Paris have been canceled, and a third to Orly in Paris have been canceled.

All right? And you can't go anywhere, and everybody's on strike. So there was some polling, 74% of French people under the United States. the age of 35 don't want the pensions raised, even though it doesn't affect them for 30 years, 56% of the French people support the strikes and the protests. This is going to happen here in the United States. So right now we have a sliding scale between 62 and 67. You can put in for Social Security and Medicare and all the entitlements that you paid into. And the French people pay into it too. As I said, they take their tax money. So in America, we pay into all this,

and then you can decide when you want to draw it out. You have to draw it out at 67.5. It has to come out and to you. But the government has looted the Social Security and Medicare funds for other things. It should be against the law, but it's not. So there's not enough money in 2000. 30s coming up fast to pay the entitlements and they'll have to raise the age and they'll raise it from 65 instead of 62 to 67 it'll be 65 to 70 now we'll have some trouble here but that's what has to happen it will happen so get ready not for people there'll be an age cutoff probably about 45 but the people who are approaching won't get won't be affected they'll make that compromise. Oklahoma votes to reject a legalized recreational marijuana. Good for Oklahoma.

I was going to do the states that have it, the states that don't, I'm not even going to bother with that. You know in your state whether you have it. We have it in New York. He's hurting your kids already. I mean, I'll just give you one in New York. So there's marijuana shops all over the city. So heroin addicts go in, they get the weed, all right? And they come out and they don't smoke weed, they want heroin or fentanyl, whatever. So they get the edibles, the gummy bears with the THC on it, and then they sell the edibles to the kids. So before the classes begin in middle schools and high schools, there's a line of pushers out on the street selling edibles, marijuana edibles, to children who then ingest them and go into school.

Okay? Like that? That good? Smart Life News Guard. All right, so I get a mail, well, who do we trust? Who do we trust? Who do we trust? And you can't trust any of the corporate media. Okay, you can't. And the cable media, sorry.

You can't, I can't endorse any of them. Okay. And I get the Wall Street Journal delivered to my house every day to liberal news pages or liberal, but they're not crazy left, all right? Not insane left, but they tilt. They hate Trump. Editorial page, good. Fact-based, because I check.

So if you want a newspaper, the only one that I know of is the Wall Street Journal. Newsguard, it's newsguardtech.com. One word. newsguard tech.com. And this comes to me from Rick Niffer in Wisconsin. He said, check this out, O'Reilly. They label each organization reliable, unreliable. And you got to pay for it, but they give you a free two weeks. Then it's five bucks a month. So you can go in and you can check on various articles and this and that. And, you know, I'm not endorsing it. I have to look at it a little bit more. But if you decide to take the two-week free trial and you like it, or if you don't like it, bill at bill o'Reilly.com,

bill at bill o'Reilly.com, let me know. Smart life, you've got to have good information. This day in history, March 8, 1874, Millard Fillmore, 13 president of the United States, dies at 74. Now, you see that picture you're looking at? I have that picture. Audit autographed by Millard Fillmore. Okay, it's pretty stunning. Now, Philmore was vice president under Zachary Taylor, the Whig Party. Okay, there's Zach. Now, Zach dies 30 days after he's elected of his stomach ailment, and Miller,

Fillmore takes over. All right. Now, Zach was a Louisiana, and he needed a northern guy as his VP, so that's why he got Miller because Miller was a New Yorker. Miller never really did anything. You got a good credit. He born into poverty, upstate New York, Finger Lakes, and he became a smart guy, and he was a pal in New York, but he didn't really do anything.

They slapped him on the VP. Zachary Taylor never talked to him. I don't think they ever had a conversation. Taylor dies. Miller fires, Millard fires. All of Taylor's guys brings his own guys. But the problem is that when he takes over in 1850, all right, the South and the North are starting to be face off over slavery because there are new states coming in in the West. And the South wants to be slave.

North wants him to be free. Okay. Miller doesn't do anything. All right? He doesn't know what to do. And he engineers a compromise of 1850, but it was really nothing. and the Fugitive Slave Act, you know, that's ridiculous. So Miller basically did nothing, all right?

We had a series of presidents that did zero, Pierce, and then the immortal James Buchanan all, leading up to Lincoln. So Miller doesn't even get nominated again. The Whigs throw him right overboard. One of the worst presidents ever, he died today. 149 years ago. So now you know about Millard Fillmore. Nobody else knows. Just you.

Go out and show your knowledge. Okay, you got a good lively mail segment about, you know, January 6 tapes and all of that. And then we have a final thought about the view mentioning me today. Right back. All right. Let's go to the mail. Marie. Excellent no spin news.

Thank you for explaining the January 6th riot. Now I understand exactly what happened to the police officers. We have, on the message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com, and anybody can read that. You know, it'll be a premium or concierge. Maybe you can just go and read it every morning. A true, false quiz about the January 6th stuff. It's easy, and if you take it, you'll know exactly what happened. So I thank you, Marie, for those kind words.

DeWitt. How realistic is declaring war against Mexican drug cartels, assuming we had a president inclined to do it, with 100,000 a year deaths from fentanyl smuggled to this country by drug cartels and new behavior of kidnapping U.S. citizens and killing them, it may be time. If you read Killing the Killers, my book, Killing the Killers, it will show you exactly what the United States could do to the cartel leadership. We did the same thing to ISIS. right? It's a little more complicated because there are civilians involved and these guys

tend to hide in towns with civilians, but there's ways to do this. And it's not that hard. The weaponry we have, the surveillance that we have right now is incredible. So killing the killers walks right through this if you are interested. Donald Warner, Four Oaks, North Carolina, everyone in America should be looking at the latest release of the tapes that clearly show an orchestrated effort by government operatives aiding in an effort to get peaceful demonstrators into the Capitol building. Donald, I did not see that. You say it's clearly showed, clearly I didn't see it. Now, if you can set me straight tomorrow, I'll read your letter again. But I did not see government operatives.

encouraging people to go into Capitol. What I did see, Capitol Police, all right, trying to de-escalate the situation by not confronting protesters, the big difference than encouraging them to go in and break doors down and windows and push the cops around. You know, cops got pepper sprayed down there. So you and I, I think we have a gentleman's disagreement here. But I am open to your information. Greg Nappy, participity, New Jersey, today's broadcast, he's talking about yesterday's, is why I come to bill o'Reilly.com daily.

You slowly and methodically went through the Capitol Riot. We went step by step without any hyperbole, job well done. That is what we do here. And a lot of people don't like it because they want to believe what they want to believe. Well, but I think more people really want the truth, I hope. Joe Milligan at Gallion, Ohio, although I agree with you there were obviously violence on January 6th. It was disgraceful.

It hardly measures up to the insurrection the left said it was. I saw many people walking around taking selfies, trespassing, yes, threat to our democracy, hardly. See, I disagree a little with you. I don't think it's an insurrection, okay? And I do know there were people who violated the private capital, because remember, Congress is in session, and you weren't allowed in there, but they went in anyway. But they weren't all bent on violence.

Yes, that's true. But the trespass that they committed was huge. And it rises to the level of incarceration. That's the capital of the United States. people saw it. Even if they weren't violent themselves, they saw the violence. It was right there in front of them. But I don't think that most people understood the magnitude of what was happening. I will agree with that. Not an excuse, though. Angelou, I know James Buchanan's probably the worst president we've ever had, but now it's a real race to the bottom of between

Biden and Buchanan. When you add up the numbers of Americans dying each year due to Biden's open border policies, the list of disastrous, other things, old Joe will bring up the rear. I think he's the second worst at this point. I do. He's worse than Millard. But Buchanan, you'll never catch him. Civil War, I mean, if you read Killing Lincoln, you know, 800,000 Americans dead or severely wounded in that thing? 800,000.

Kit Lindsay Warnesburg, Missouri, last night you reported that Comcast was donating $100 million to battle social justice, among other things. My wife and I wonder what happens to that money. It's given to groups, George Soros groups, other groups, and the groups do whatever they want. And you get a grant from somebody, you can do whatever you want. Now, sometimes when I give from my foundation money, I say, I need this money to go here. specifically but most people don't do that and a coslow hampshire illinois my navy blue team normal had arrived today quality excellent as expected i'll be purchasing more to give to my family

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And they just put it in. Did they tell you? No. I wouldn't go there again. I know some people are doing that now. They're slapping an extra 3 or 4% because they have to deal with American Express credit card. They don't tell you.

Uh-uh. You got to be up front. If I go into a restaurant, I want to know exactly what the cost is. That's only fair. Michael Udivich, Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, killing Jesus a great read every year during Lent. Not only is the book killing Jesus a great read, during lent but the movie i think that's the best were four movies made of the killing series

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I'm working on something for premium and concierge members called My Country, and it's like a download, like you get music from Spotify, I guess that's what it is, and you pay them a very small fee, and they give you the music you want. We're going to do the same thing with my country, and they're going to be historical, my voice, historical analysis on a whole bunch of stuff. So if you are a premium or concierge member, you renew or you sign up, you're going to eat the first five of those free. That's an unbelievable deal. I'm keeping the price very low. Okay, you're going to buy them in segments of five.

I think it's going to be $25, but we haven't really got that yet. But anyway, we want you, premium and concierge members, to make money. in our programs. Where to the day do not be priggish? P-R-I-G-G-I-S-H. Final thought in a moment. So here's the final thought of the day. I don't watch the view. I'm too busy at that time. I got a couple of emails saying, hey, they're mentioning you, O'Reilly. They're talking about Fox News slash and Fox News as usual, and your name came up. Go. But Bill wasn't a liar in this sense. I'm, but I'm less concerned about Fox News. And because he was, he would say to me, Sonny, push back because I know you're going to.

Like, he was okay with the counterpoint, and I appreciated that about him. Okay. So Sonny Hosten worked for us for Fox News for a little while, and I had her on a factor. And I said, and she reported accurately. I said, don't be afraid. Just let me know what you think. And we'll kick it around. But I appreciated her in the face of the vicious, Joyce Bayhart.

telling the truth okay I don't have to lie about anything and I never have all right I don't tell you the truth and I'll put it in perspective and I'll back it up I don't even when I was at ABC CBS Fox News Inside Edition all the national jobs that I had never would I miss leave ever It's just a code. And I think that's why I succeeded. So I appreciate Sonny Hassan doing that. She's in an environment.

She knows that doesn't care about the truth, would slash me for everything. And she stood up. I always liked her, by the way, when you had her on Fox News. I know she's a lefty and all that, but that's okay. I don't mind that. As long as a person who's honest, that's all I require. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you again tomorrow.