Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Kamala Harris Selects Tim Walz for VP, Victor Davis Hanson on the Presidential Campaigns, Iran's Saber Rattling & Biden's Plan to Combat Climate Change

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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Hey, O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, August 6, 2024, stand up for your country. Another busy news day, Kamala Harris, choosing her running mate. That would be Governor Tim Walz, W. z um from minnesota and the two will appear this evening in philadelphia and it is an interesting pick so we are going to tell you all about governor walls in the talking points memo remember this is fact based no ideology here to tell you about the guy and we're going to back it up all right And he matches up very well with Vice President Harris.

They are sympathetico. They are basically not exactly the same, but really, really close. The governor is 60 years old, 6.0. He has been in his role since 2019. His approval rating in Minnesota is 54%. 41% disapproved. He used to be a congressman from Minnesota, six terms. he's married as two children, grew up in Nebraska, then he went to college in, let's see,

Minnesota State, all right, that's how he got over to the Gopher State. He enlisted in the National Guard at age 17, so he was in the Guard while he was going through college, served 24 years, retired as a master sergeant. in 2005. So he was a nice pension from the military. So you cannot challenge Governor Walz's credentials. He knows the system. He has governed. He has let. But he is a committed leftist. So that raises a specter of why didn't the Democratic Party go a little bit more moderate here. There were other people being considered. They went for the most progressive candidate they had.

All right? Keep that in mind. It's important. So let me back up my analysis of Governor Walts's political standing. You'll remember the George Floyd riots 2020 in the spring. Devastating to Minneapolis, all right? A police headquarters set on fire horrible. Horrible. Here's what the governor said. Go.

Help us use humane way to get the streets to a place where we can restore the justice so that those that are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard. So in the face of rioting, burning, looting, he wants to get to a humane place. okay all right do you need any more so the riots led to three deaths um 57 people hurt in minneapolis all right 500 million in damage city still has not recovered and there were 100 people arrested 95 out of the 100 had their charges dropped 95 out of 100 that means there's no justice under governor walls because these are state charges okay 95 out of 100 now a hundred arrests is low so they were only cops were only arresting the

worst of the worst they let them own okay that's number one big strike all right big strike against walls number two he's a sanctuary city guy openly sanctuary uh... state, Minneapolis Sanctuary City, the largest city in the state, all the state of Minnesota, he ordered his law enforcement not to enforce federal immigration law. He provided migrants with free everything, health care, education, whatever, and he gave them driver's licenses. Co. Number two. Okay. Number three, on every issue. Governor Walsz is far left. Roll the tape.

Across the country, politicians are bringing government into your exam room and your bedroom, going after contraception, abortion medication, and IVF. When Roe v. Wade was overturned two years ago today, the door was wide open for this kind of attack on families. We made Minnesota a more welcoming place by outlawing conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth and protecting trans-Minotans. We're not spending our time and energy and political capital, picking fights with beer companies and librarians. We're putting bullies in their place.

Okay. Now, I don't think you need any more, do you? If you need more, I have it, but I don't want to be, you know, overdoing this. But if you have questions, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. On every single issue, Governor War, is to the left and far left. So he and Kamala, they'll have no disagreements on any policy issue at all. None. Now, the wiser choice would have been Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania is in play and the Democratic Party needs it to defeat Donald

Trump. Shapiro is not picked because he's Jewish and he issued a strong order against the protests, the pro-Palestinian protests in Pennsylvania, cracked down on them hard. So we're not going to tolerate that here. That disqualified Josh Shapiro from running with Kamala Harris, which shows you how the far left controls Harris, even more than they control Joe Biden. That's hard to believe. But even more. So Shapiro would have far in a way been a better pick because he's much more moderate than Walz, and he's in Pennsylvania. Minnesota's going to vote for Kamala Harris no why. They get no electoral votes by putting Walts on the second. What they get is to placate the far left, and the result is that they have the furthest left ticket in American history by far.

There's nobody even close in this arena. Harris Walls, we've never had in this country, a further left presidential ticket ever. McGovern, these makes George McGovern, who you may remember ran on the peace platform against Nixon, makes him look like a moderate McGovern. I interviewed McGovern. He wasn't crazy left. He was a peace Nick.

Okay. So the fascinating part is this going to work? Do the American people want this? this kind of leadership, because you know what it leads to. It leads to government dominance over every part of our life. That's what the progressives want. No free marketplace. No individual liberties to protect yourself with firearms.

Okay? Abortion up to the last second to birth. All of this stuff is just staggering to me as a historian. I really, this is such an interesting. election on so many fronts. Okay. Now, again, if you have a beef with my description of the governor, please bill at bill o'Reilly.com. I will read those letters tomorrow, but I have given you 100% accuracy down the line and it's not ideological. This is fact-based. So Harris and Walls are out tonight in Philadelphia. That's Pennsylvania. Obviously, they need that.

And then they're going to go to all. They're going to Wisconsin tomorrow, Michigan tomorrow, then Phoenix, Friday, on and on and on and on. They won't do any interviews. Wolf's not going to do any interviews. But I can't be a hypocrite. I've been trying to get J.D. Vance on now for two weeks. We're getting crickets. And I've gone to the highest level.

So they're not rolling J.D. out on the Republican side. So you know, we're not hypocrites here. We know the vice president and Governor Walls aren't going to do any challenging interviews at all. They'll sit and giggle with some, you know, far-left talk show host, but that's it. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.

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That's what usually happens. No. No. Okay. Trump is in Florida, getting yelled out by many conservatives. And I know this to be true. After the Georgia debacle where he criticized Governor Kemp, which we covered, last night in detail and the transcript is available. I've wrote messages on it. It was a big

mistake. There's no doubt about it. Georgia should be easy Trump territory. Anyway, the president has been besieged by his supporters to stop. And I could give you the big names, but then I'd have to violate a confidence, and I'm not going to do that. But the biggest conservative names in the country are telling them to stop. Stop the person. stuff go with the issues okay so this week Trump is on Friday going to Montana to help out Chim Shihis running for the Senate okay Montana is going to vote for Trump then he's going into Jackson Wyoming Wyoming's going to vote for Trump then Aspen Colorado know that will send people in

has been Colorado there be many heart attacks that happened beautiful town If you haven't been asked, and put it on your list. But very liberal town. So Trump's going in and give everybody to the jazz for a big fundraiser. But the pressure is on Donald Trump because he's slipping in the polls. Roll the tape. You can't win an election with just hardcore Trumpy Republicans. You need to get the 11% of Republicans that supported Nikki Haley and part of four or five percent more of moderate Democrats.

He has to be seeing the poll number slip. And so my message is there's so much to win on. There's so much to win on when you talk about policy, immigration, inflation, the issues that Americans care about. All right. So again, I'm reporting to you accurately. It's up to Donald Trump. It's up to him.

Okay? I mean, he can win it because Harris and Biden, I mean, I don't know how you foul it up more. When you read my book confronting the president, so we'll tell you a little bit more about that because it's coming up fast, I select in the book, Biden's the second worst president of all time. And I back it up. Now, you can challenge me, and I'll be happy to do it because I'll be doing interviews all over the place. You like this. CNN just booked me for an interview on this book. That's how big this book is going to be. And I'm happy to go on and talk to the CNN people. And I appreciate their invitation. You know what the first printing is on confronting the

presidents, 750,000. That doesn't happen. I'm not bragging. I'm just telling you what's going on. Okay. So, Kamala Harris, I got a really good guest. You know him. Okay, he's coming up. Victor Davis Hansen. I'm looking out to the bullpen. He's working on a slider right now. He's got his change jump down. I'm going to call them in and two batters now, but I want to set up Kamala Harris. Again, fact-based. Okay. So in 2017, she co-sponsored Bernie Sanders' Medicaid, Medicare for All Bill. Okay? That was S-1804. Never reached the Senate floor for a boat because it was a socialist bill. The government would take over all health care in America. Private health companies got. okay it would have cost in one year an estimated four trillion dollars four trillion to do that okay

ran corporation did that study r a and d four trillion how do you pay for that well you tax everybody to death that's the only way so that bill got nowhere Kamala harris co-sponsored it then in 2019 two years later she was selected as the most liberal senator of all of them all hundred she won by gov track which adds up all of their votes okay then she evolves into nothingness four years in the senate nothing passed zero remember Barack Obama had an equally uh I don't know what the word is. Dubious, that's good, record, and he won twice. So that's not going to disqualifier.

She championed abortion. You know, she's the abortion queen. Remember Abba dancing queen? They might do a remake, Abortion Queen. And that would be Kamla Harris. But not only that, she was in the forefront of legalizing. all migrants who are here undocumented and she not only pushed that but she tried to frame the issue around migrant children go and when we all sing happy tunes and sing merry christmas and

wish each other merry christmas these children are not going to have a merry christmas how dare we speak merry christmas how dare we speak merry christmas how dare we they will not have a merry christmas all right so under a harris presidency all migrants will be legalized that's what will happen she can write an executive order i think it would supreme court would uh take it and kick it back and it wouldn't happen but that's what she wants total legalization okay now i got a guess is what i just told you i'm going to call him and he just wrote in on a cart. He's sitting down there in Palo Alto, California, the Silicon Valley Capitol, Victor Davis Hanson. You know him. Today, an updated version of his book, The Case for

Trump comes on out. So Mr. Hansen is making the rounds. We're happy to have him. So you know this woman as well as anybody, because you live in California and you've watched her from DA and San Francisco rise up to now a presidential candidate. And I want you to correct me if I'm wrong. But I think that Vice President Harris would like to turn the United States into California. That's her model. Am I wrong? No, you're right on target, Bill. And you're also on target about the selection historically of Governor Walts. We've never seen it. Even, you know, Bill Clinton picked Al Gore in the days in Al Gore. was considered a Southern Democrat before he kind of lost his mind.

And we remember John Kerry picked Lieberman, who was to the right of him. And they all do that. Even McGovern picked Sergeant Shriver. He had to, but before that it was Eagleton who had to step down. So I don't think, and even Hillary picked Tim Cain, who was to the right of her. So we've never seen a left-wing candidate, as you said, this far left, But we've never seen somebody almost inexplicably, and you gave reasons why she did, but it still seems inexplicable that she would pick someone that would emphasize that she's out of touch with the American people. And I think it shows you that they have confidence in a paradigm that worked in 2020 with Joe Biden.

They outraged Trump three to one, three and a half to one, maybe. They think they can do that again. They kept Biden, who was cognitively challenged in the basement. they think that she's linguistically challenged and you're right about that they're not going to give her an occasion to reveal that they're confident that they change the voting laws in the swing state so 70% of the voters will not be voting on election day majority of them Democrats and then they feel that they repackaged Joe Biden into a moderate that's going to be harder as you point out given her record but they're going to try to do it and and they have an advantage because this is

dumped on us. She hasn't been a candidate. She's never won a primary. She's never won a delegate. We only have 90 days left. And you made another good point about Donald Trump. He doesn't have a minute, an hour a day to get off message about what you just talked about. He's got a drill home. Do you really want to have this woman do to the United States what she did to California? She's hard left. Her running mate is his hard left. We've never been in this territory. Here are her positions. And he doesn't have time to go off to Kemp or the Attorney General of Georgia or the DNA of Kamala Harris. But he has a rich target, but he doesn't have much time to get her out and let her talk. Because to let her talk is to turn people off.

And he's got to find a way to do that. All right, but he still makes mistakes almost on a daily basis in his rallies. And you would think, look, it's not like Professor that Donald Trump is a dumb man. he's not. He's a brilliant man. I've known him for 32 years. And he can absorb information fairly quickly. And he understands big picture. He's not a, he's not like you and me. He doesn't research and he doesn't have a frame of reference that we, because we've devoted our life, to studying the country in the world in a historical sense. He doesn't have that. But when presented with information, he can absorb it. And he's articulate enough to get it out.

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Yeah, I think what they're thinking is, and I think what Trump is thinking, he felt that after the debate meltdown with Biden and then the panic in which at one point, he was eight-point-upon-chall pull ahead, and then the conventional wisdom that Biden was still going to be the candidate because the left had admitted

they had a Spiro-Agnu type of vice president that had saved Nixon. for a while. And then when they forced Biden out, and they put in Harris, everybody thought this was going to be even worse. But it wasn't because of the money that came in and the keeping her secluded. And I don't think Donald Trump has shifted gears yet. He still thinks he's in the lead. He still thinks it's valuable to say how bad Biden did in the debate, how bad Biden was how bad is, but he doesn't quite, he hasn't shifted gears to realize that Biden is irrelevant now. Do you think he can shift gears, Professor? Do you think he can? You do? Okay. I think you,

you've talked to the people around him, Bill. You know that if you were to compare them to the 2016 and 2020 casts, they're a lot more polished, they're more professional. And when you said they're worried or they are, I have talked to some of them too. And they know exactly. They They know exactly what he has to do, and they've told him exactly what he has to do, and they've told him that if he doesn't do it, he's going to, but he's going to, we're going to lose, because we've never been in this territory. We've never had anybody this left wing, and they're going to have, they may, if they win the Senate and the House with her, then I'm not very confident for what's going to happen to us.

I think it's going to be a disaster. Well, that brings me to my next question. So you got a lot of billionaire money, and we have been investigating, and we put the people, up, Reed Hastings, Lincoln, a lot of billionaire money coming behind Kamala Harris. Do these people not know that if this far-left cabal gets power, congressional and executive power, that a wealth tax is coming? And they're going to seize private property. You're going to seize what these billionaires have in a big way.

Do they don't care about that? So why do they keep funding the far-left candidates? They do because they feel so far they've never been subject to the consequences of their left-wing ideology. If you're Mark Zuckerberg or you're Reid Hoffman or the Google people, they always feel that they can virtue signal about the wonders of teachers' unions, their kids are in private school, how we need 30 kilowatt, you know, 30 cents a kilowatt power in California. California, but they live on a cool coast and they have enough money. They don't care. And that goes down the line on every issue. On fracking, you know, everybody's going to drive an EV semi-truck and charge up every two hours, but they're going to fly their golf streams or be met at the air. That's how they think. And they don't think in their wildest dreams

that these left-wing politicians that they think they bought and owned will ever be able to impinge on their lifestyle. They may raise taxes. they like that because they really despise the upper upper middle class professional classes and middle class they see them as trying to aspire to where they are or something like that and I just don't think they feel that they're in danger some of them do people like you know Elon Musk understands that these people are basically socialist but even if they weren't socialist we owe 37 trillion dollars almost in debt it's a 1.2 trillion a year to service it historically, when you get in that situation of 130% GDP that you owe, you either inflate the

currency to pay it back or you cancel a debt. And we saw a little bit of that with Obama when he reavert, you remember that bill, he reversed the order of the creditors on those that card deal. Yeah, there are games you can play. It's going to come, right. You can't postpone Armageddon. You can. No, you can. And I think you're right about confiscation because they floated it before they say they have they have they have the only way to do it is to take private property from those who are wealthy. That's the only way to do it because they wouldn't drill in ANWR and then use the profits to pay down a debt, which is a way you could do it, but they won't do it because the polar bears might be upset, you know, or something crazy like that. They have said that. Camel Harris said that.

Because you wrote the book, because you wrote the book on Trump, when he selected J.D. Vance, I was agnostic about it. I mean, I know him. I don't know him personally, Vance. Never met him. But I know he'll billy elegy and I know what he campaigned on. I was agnostic about it because you give the candidates a little room to select people they feel comfortable. with. But now we have, we're three weeks in. I don't see him as being a plus right now, Vance. Maybe he will emerge as one. How do you see it? Well, I saw when he did it for taking a hit because I've known him and I've met him and I like him. I thought there would be a bad three to four weeks because when he came out of the hillbilly elegy, he was an ebullation.

And by the way, the people who really welcomed were the left because they said this is an authentic voice of the working class white Americans and he's telling us how pathological they are. And until he got turned off by those people who he wasn't comfortable, they welcomed him. So he said things, as you remember, in the 30, when he's in his mid-30, about Trump and MAGA and all that, that was going to be very problematic. So I was aware of that. And then he's a white male and he's a MAGA, so he's sort of like Waltz and Harris.

And he duplicates Trump. But then I thought, well, once they clear that out, there are some assets and there are a lot of them. He's of all the people, I think under 50 in the Republican Party. he's the best adept at repartee, interviews, ex-temporary talk in a way that nobody, like Harris couldn't do that, Waltz couldn't. So if he's out there every day, challenging reporters, taking questions, explaining what Trump is doing, and that's a plus. Well, I hope he comes on here because so far we're not making a lot of progress.

Yeah, I mean, it's almost inexplicable. Last question for you. We want people to read your book. even if they don't support Donald Trump, because your arguments, and I've said this on the air when you're not involved, you know, that I think you are one of the few columnists that are better than I am. I mean, I hate to admit that. But you back up what you say. And I try to do that too. I mean, it's not ideological gibberish. It's here's how I see it. This is why I see it. And that's most valuable.

So the case for Trump, I want you to nail down in about a minute. What is the biggest thing why people should vote for Trump? Well, he is unattached to the vested interest. He may have vested interests of his own, but they are not the administrative state in Washington, New York, or Silicon Valley. So he comes in there with an adversarial point of view. the downside was he didn't have anybody supporting him in either party he was inexperienced this time around hopefully he will have that combative idea and he understands that the real problem in this country is the unelected we've got two or three million people working for the federal and state governments and they're not elected and they control our lives in the EPA IRS CIA Pentagon and they destroyed his first administration if you think of the Mueller investigation they probably heard him and his re-election with the laptop disinformation and all that. And he understands that.

I don't know of a lot of Republicans who say we've got to address the administrative state. The other thing is almost everything I support, but the big thing he's going to have to deal with is a debt. And so far he hasn't done that. And I think he could very easily. Well, the ANWR thing alone, the ANWR thing alone would generate trillions of dollars over 10 years. to pay down that debt.

And all that is, right? It's not complicated. You sell that oil on the world market, and that means that weakens Russia, right there, okay? It weakens OPEC. And then the profits all go, because it's federal land, all go to paying the debt down. That's it.

He's talked about that. And so that's, I think he, I think he's, he's the only person. And the other thing is he has a, he has a, never going to do it. Right. No, he has a, he has a, finally, he has a Reagan streak and he's upbeat. It's not what we can't do. We shouldn't do. We're, we can't do this.

It's, we're going to do this. And we're going to try this. And we're going to. So that's, that's, that's reassuring that there's somebody who says, we're not through yet. But believe me when I tell you, Reagan listened to his advisors, probably too much. because Reagan was not Trump, different drummer and all that, so anyway. You got to remember, Bill, you know better than I that phrase, let Reagan be Reagan. Remember that? Right. Well, Trump would be smart to look back at Reagan, and particularly in the debates and things like that.

Reagan listened to his people. Anyway, we wish you're welcome anytime on his program, Professor. We wish you the best with the book, the case for Trump. Want everybody to check it out, easy to get. Amazon and all that. And when my book comes out, I'm going to send you a Vance copy because you're a historian. I want you to be ruthless on me. Oh, come on, and I'll talk to you about it. Yeah, but I want you to be ruthless when you come on. I can say it all I guess. So that would be.

I don't think I'm ever gratuitously ruthless, but I'm candidly. No, no, but you're a smart guy. And I want that kind of a debate. I think the folks would really like it too. All right, so thanks very much for coming on. We really appreciate it. All right, overseas Iran Saber rattling, you know all this. Proxies, terrorists, attacked a U.S. base in Iraq, Western Iraq.

Once again, we have soldiers and mercenaries, all right? They call them contractors on the ground in Iraq to blunt ISIS and other terrorists. They're there. And the Iranian terrorists know where those bases are, so they lob in rockets and things like that. So five American personnel were injured in the latest attack, which everybody knows came from Iran. They've done this before. So now, TW, TWS, she shows how old I am. Delta has canceled New York City to Tel Aviv flights until August 31st, because CIA is basically saying things could erupt. I don't speculate. That's not smart. I report the facts. The facts. The facts

are that U.S. military ships and planes are being deployed to the Middle East. Kuwait is our big base, right across the straight from Iran, and you could seal up that Persian Gulf easy. So Iran is not in a strong position here. If they're going to take on Israel and the USA, they're going to lose, they're going to lose fast. But it would erupt a world war. And that's where we are so we're on it um and we will tell you exactly uh what is going on uh this is an unbelievable story the biden administration is going to ban the federal government from using plastic cutlery spoons uh straws bottles knives you can't have anymore because of the climate crisis so this is what biden's working on now we got iran blowing up you got a thing

$37 trillion debt and he's banning plastic spoons. Now, I'm actually for that because I know how much damage plastic does to the environment, particularly the ocean. But you don't have to ban. You just have to say, look, this is bad, so let's not do it. And if you want to slap some tariffs on plastic people, then do so. In the UK, their plastic bag situation is down 80s. 80% because now they're charging more money for plastic bags. So the Brits aren't buying them and the oceans and rivers are much cleaner. Remember, a lot of plastic goes into the water and that kills the marine life there.

San Francisco, want to pay drug addicts $100 a week, $400 a month, to stay clean. What could go wrong, right? San Francisco owes $2.5 billion. They're $2.5 billion in debt, San Francisco. They can't pay it. They'll never be able to pay it. But they're going to dole out about a million and a half annually so dope addicts don't buy drugs. And you don't think those tests are going to be faked? Okay, San Francisco.

Seven of the ten most American cities are in the United States. seven of the ten most expensive world cities are in the United States. Most expensive city, Geneva, Switzerland, then Zurich, then New York City, then San Francisco. Hey, free money for everybody. Boston, very expensive. Recovic, Iceland, because they have to import everything there. D.C., Seattle, L.A., Chicago. And why are they most expensive?

Because of the unbelievable inflation. and insurance costs that the Biden administration ignited. The stay in history, August 6, 1945, the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Okay. Harry Truman made the call. You've seen a movie Oppenheim. They developed the atomic bomb. They set it off underground in the New Mexico desert.

Truman had two of them. Okay? Oppenheimer was able to make two. The United States military on the way to Japan to invade. I write about this in my book, Killing the Rising Sun. If you want to know about the atom bomb, Japan, World War II, this is the book. Okay? All right.

So Truman orders the bomb. The Anola Gay plane drops the bomb four days. Hiroshima is cut off. Nobody knows what the deuce happened, because all electricity and 100,000 human beings were incinerated by the radioactive bomb. Even when they found out the Japanese emperor who ran the show, Hirohito, would not surrender. Why? Because he thought that the USA only had one bomb. So Truman ordered a second bomb. on Nagasaki, okay? Three days later on August 9th. And then Hirohito surrendered. Had to be done. Had to be done. If we had invaded that island, 100,000 U.S. casualties, probably. My father was one of the first waves. I wouldn't be here. Okay. That happened 79 years ago. today. By the way, I asked all five living presidents whether they would have dropped the bomb.

Okay, Bush the elder, Bush the younger, and Jimmy Carter said yes. Okay, Obama and Bill Clinton would not answer my question. Pretty interesting, right? Back with the final thought about people panicking. All right, here is the final thought of the day. So if you are a concierge member, you can write me about anything and a lot of people are writing me saying they're panicking that Kamala Harris may win the election what should i do and then they tell me their circumstance all right i have this much money or i live here or this is what i am going through or whatever and then i give them a pathway all right but panic itself does no good you want some good advice i will give it to you as best i can if you're a concierge member so you might consider that do

not panic, many things will happen between now and November. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see tomorrow.