Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Looking Out For You - December 21, 2025

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

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Visit unsmoke.ca. Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the latest edition of looking out for you. Let's get started. So you may have heard, and I hope you had, if you follow the news, that in Minnesota's amazing scandal. Okay, more than a billion dollars allegedly stolen, mostly by Somalis, most of them American citizens, but some not, in COVID money. Okay, outrageous rip-off. And the charges are that 61 people who have already been convicted, 87 charged, out of the 8779 are Somalis, so it's a big Somali thing. Charges are they stole millions of dollars from the government program to keep children fed during COVID, but the kids got no food. Okay?

Same thing with housing. It's supposed to provide shelters for people who were poor, indigenous. They didn't. Okay. Program to program at the program designed for autistic children, on and on and on. All with COVID money, never happened. Money was stolen by these people. Again, 61 convicted. All right. And then there's 26 still being adjudicated, mostly Somalis. Outrage. Okay. Now, what's going on in Minnesota? Well, there are 84,000. Somalis who have settled in Minnesota, and their congresswoman is, as you know, a very, very strident leftist named Ilan Omar. Population of Minnesota is just 5.8 million. So it's a significant minority here. Now, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, was the VP vice presidential nominee under Kamala Harris. Walls and his operation should have rooted out this fraud, but did not.

Attorney General didn't know. The Minnesota authorities didn't know. This story was actually broken by journalists, and then the feds moved in because it was federal money. Walls sitting on his hands, didn't know anything, you know, oh, no, I don't know. So he's got two of the most unbelievable excuses I have ever heard from any politician, and I'm going to play them for you, to show you the level. And am I picking on Tim Wals?

Yeah, I am. I am. He was almost vice president. Okay. Here's the first soundbite. This was on December 12. Go. Look, it's not.

law-abiding citizens. If that were the case, there's a lot of white men should be holding a lot of white men accountable for the crimes that they have committed. I think for the community to maybe educate their population, because I think what you're seeing here is there are secondary victims in this. White men? What do white men have to do with it? What are you doing? What skin color have to do with it? It's a group of people. They have been arrested, and many of them convicted. What do white men have to do with it? Why are you doing this? Why are you being racist? And that's an absolutely racist statement. Now, if a conservative, a right winger, makes a racist statement, it's page one, at that level, at the governor level. But he can

say that? Well, it's white men. Oh, well, a lot of white men accountable for the the crimes they have committed. What crimes? What are you talking about? Crimes are committed by every race color and creed. White men? It's so maddening that this is the level of governance that we have. And people in Minnesota should be ashamed if you voted for him. Absolutely ashamed. But you're not. All right, here's the second soundbite. Go. that there's providers inside the community that are then victimizing the community themselves by signing them up because when we're going to some of these people, they're like, I had no idea I was in this program. So I think it's asking us then, you know, for every crime, which, of course, the majority being committed by white men asking us to do more about that.

I think it's crime in general. This guy is an idiot, okay? But it's more than just stupidity, more than that. He's trying to divide, see? He's trying to get away from the actual occurrence of a massive billion-dollar fraud against the taxpayer into white men are evil. That's a game this guy is playing. And he's a governor of Minnesota? This guy should be on the street someplace just wandering around talking to himself.

This is harrowing. And it's not unique. I ignore most of it. I don't do anything on social media with these crazy people, ever. We just don't do it because they're trying to make money being crazy. Why would I publicize that? That's irresponsible. You go on social media and you listen to these loons.

They're saying crazy, outrageous. up because they want people to click in and then they get money from that. Not going to help them, but an elected official, somebody with power over six million people to sit there, no apology from him, no, gee, I'm sorry, my state police should have been watching this, and we should have known about it, two journalists uncovering it. And I'm sorry we didn't. We'll be more vigilant the next time. No.

None of that. That's a white man. Some kind of crazy comparison that that makes any sense anywhere to anybody. Now, what happened in Minnesota, I know the state, okay, is that the media got taken over by the far left and the newspapers. And most of the people live in Minneapolis, St. Paul. The rest of the state is very rural and fairly conservative. But, you know, the big, it's like Oregon, Portland. It's the little states with the big cities dominate.

That's what happened there. And then they support guys like Walsh. And they throw everything behind him. And then the big donors from out of state pour the money in for him so he can buy TV commercials. And that's how they get power. And as I said many times, most people don't. pay attention. They don't know what the deuce is happening. If you were in Minneapolis right now, and you go, hey, that crazy governor you got, he's blaming white men for this fraud. People go,

like, what? What? They don't know. Well, now they do, because we have a powerful microphone. There's going to be a lot of changes in a Trump administration in 2006. They've already started. assistant FBI director Dan Bongino is out. Don't know really why he's out. We'll know it'll drip out, but he's just gone. And there'll be a lot of others moving out too. And this happens to every administration because there are personality conflicts, there are performance questions.

It's on and on and on and on. But what people don't understand is how brutal it is. is to work in a federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. Everybody's trying to kill everybody. Everybody's stabbing each other in the back. It's really something. I have stayed away from that my whole life. But as a CEO myself, I run three corporations.

I know that you've got to hire good people. And when I say good, the first word attached to that honest, honest people. So if they make a mistake, they admit it. If they are not doing the right thing, you can talk to them about it, and they're not defensive in making excuses. That's very rare in Washington. Now, Bongino was a conservative bomb thrower on the media. That's what he'll go back to. He attacked me on many occasions, didn't have any effect on my life at all. I'm not a conspiracy kind of guy, and when people do that, without actual backup, I call them on it, if it's important. I stay out of the most of that conspiracy world. I don't have the time

and do it, and I think it's dull, tedious. But anyway, what I was recommending, and I did support Cash Patel, as director, was a little more hands-on experience in an organization-wide the FBI, because the agents across the country are very good. They just got those guys out in L.A. who are going to blow up stuff on New Year's Day. And the FBI is good. And the FBI is good. it. But the agents, they want people with the same experience that they have. See? And when you bring somebody in from the media, that's hard. So again, I don't know what happened there. It is a fact that I oppose Mr. Bongino's nomination as I did with Pete. for the same reason.

So the Defense Department, the Pentagon, the military chiefs, they want people who have been through what they've been through. Now, Heggseth has experience in military, but he's primarily a media guy. He's not a lifelong military guy. And I knew that in that culture that they were, that President Trump was dropping these individuals going to be turbulent and it's turned out to be turbulent. I don't think HEC Seth will survive 26. Could be wrong. Actually, you hope I'm wrong. I don't wish you'll to the man. But I got to call it the way I see it. Now, something happened earlier this

month that I actually stuck up for Bongino. So he gave an interview to Sean Hannity and he was talking about his past, that he was in the media and he was talking about things in an analytical way, which means that he wasn't reporting, he was analyzing, and he was putting his opinion in. Well, the left used that to call Bongino a liar. Here's the tape. Go. Listen, I was paid in the past, Sean, from.

my opinions. That's clear. And one day I'll be back in that space. But that's not what I'm paid for now. I'm paid to be your deputy director. And we base investigations on facts. Okay. So when he says that, we based investigations on facts, then the far left liars, and I hate to use that word, but it's absolutely true. Oh, so he wasn't basing his analysis on facts. I'll just give you a sample of this garbage. Go. in before when you were getting paid that you thought you would just ignore facts this is why things are so broken because there is just a movement especially on the right to say to hell with facts we're going to do whatever gets me the most clicks and gets me the most money this is

how we're going to own the liberals no this guy's ridiculous what bonjino is saying was he wasn't a hard news reporter he was a commentator which is true wasn't suggesting that he was lying in his commentary has anybody with an IQ over 50 would know but this is what it is so anyway I'm a fair man okay if somebody's being treated unfairly I'm gonna point that out even if I'm not a super fan of that person and I did that was on December 8th and I didn't do it for any other reason than to get it across to the American public, that when a person says anything in public that is political, the other side, the opposition will demonize that

person and not tell the truth about them. And I've been doing this commentary business now it'll be 30 years in 2006. I started in 1996 to do a national commentary. And, you know, they've accused me everything under the sun because they want to hurt you. And that's the central theme.

So it's not wrong with criticism. All right, I criticize Bongino, I criticize Hague Seth, I criticize Trump, I criticize Biden, I criticize them all. That's my job. I'm like an ombudsman. But I do it in a very surgical, fact-based way.

I don't do it to hurt them or their families. I don't want to destroy them. There's nobody harder on Joe Biden than me. If you read my book Confronting the Presidents, he's the second worst president in history. Now, that sends Democrats screaming out the door, but I back it up a thousand ways. But I don't want anything bad to happen to Joe Biden

or his family. I'm not looking to hurt him as a person. He's hurting the country or was and did. And I have to point it out. Even Hunter Biden, as pathetic as that man is, I don't want to see him die or anything else bad happened to him, even though he's a grifter. And he is. But, My job, whether it's, no matter who it is, is to tell the truth. And that's not the central theme of the media anymore. It's just not. And that's hurt in the country. So there's an interesting story.

I told you that Mandani and New York State are going to run to big trouble with the federal government. And because the feds pump so much money into New York State, if they block the money, which is starting to happen, this state is going to be in dire trouble. So the latest is the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy. He's mad because 50% of the commercial driver's licenses issued out of the commercial driver's licenses issued out of, Albany, New York State, are illegal, he says. What does that mean? It means they're being given to people who are not American citizens who should not be here. When you hear that there is a truck illegally on the Northern State Parkway or other

roads around, you can count on the driver of that truck not being able to speak English doesn't know what the road signs are and drives the big truck onto a parkway where trucks are illegal because the bridges are too low for the trucks to pass underneath. Hello, Wontai Meadowbrook Parkways. Now Duffy says if New York State does not correct It's unlawful, his word, issuing of commercial driver's license, CDLs. Within 30 days, the federal government is going to withhold $73 million in highway funds for the feds. Think the roads are bad now? Think they're falling apart now?

Hello? Now, of course, this is all under Hockel. Okay, this is not a Mandani situation. The Hockel apparently doesn't care, I don't know, but if 50% of all your commercial driver's licenses have given to people who shouldn't get them, are you got a problem, lady? And I kind of applaud the federal government from looking at this. Now some states, they just give all licenses to undocumented migrants. They don't care, but it's against federal law.

to do that and what the feds have is the money okay so a precise investigation found more than a half of 200 licenses that the feds reviewed in New York State were issued improperly that's a lot okay mostly for people who were here illegally And, you know, the liberals will say, oh, you're targeting minorities. Look, you either have laws and regulations or you don't. I understand the progressives want anarchy. I got it. They love the Biden open border stuff.

But that's not how an efficient and fair society should be run. How about a little Christmas stuff? Are you ready for that? I hope you are. I'm going to leave you a little, going to take you back. So most Americans were not born yet in the 1950s. They were later on babies. But I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s.

And we, of course, celebrated Christmas because were Irish Catholic. And we lived in Levittown, which is in central Nassau County. Levitown was the largest suburb in the country. And it was started in 1947, two years after World War II ended. It was aimed at veterans who came back from the war with no money. And they had to have place to live and they all want to get married and have kids so the levitt brothers and father levit and sons they bought up all his farmland in central nassau and they built identical houses all over the place 17,447 houses and they still stand 70,000 people lived in levitt town by 1953.

It was so humongous, they had divided into four post office, Westbury, Hicksville, East Meadow, Levittown. And I lived in the Westbury portion right off Eisenhower Park. So it was a very ethnic neighborhood. There were three ethnicities that dominated, Irish, Italian, Jewish. live side by side, house by house. And when Christmas came, every house, even the Jewish homes, they had the menorahs, were lit up. And the week of Christmas, there were parties, and the urchins were everywhere playing street hockey. And out, a lot of times it was snow on the ground, so there's snowball fights and sled sledding and all that.

But every home you would go, and they would invite you in for hot chocolate. I over-O-Ded on that, cookies. I mean, it was a sugar bonanza. And then if it was enough snow, we have snowman competitions with the biggest and best snowman. And everybody participated. It gives Christmas music everywhere. It was very joyous, okay? And even the real tough kids kind of lightened up.

You know, I love it down with brawls every day because there was hundreds of kids. It was like, okay. But at Christmas time, for about two weeks, most of that stopped. And then you had to figure out what you get at your mom and dad and your sister. And I don't have any money, of course, but. We figured it out to get them something. I would shovel snow and that got me some money. Most of the people give you three, four dollars.

You shovel their driveway. Remember, all the houses were the same, identical. So my house was a small page lane I lived. It had three bedrooms, one upstairs, two downstairs, tiny. One bath. living room with a little TV black and white and a kitchen and that's it now my father added on a back room and a upstairs bedroom was finished in the beginning it was an attic anyway i didn't even know it was a small house because every house was small but every house was decorated i remember

my house was so nice and we had the natural christmas tree I did up on Christmas Day, five in the morning, and nobody was off. But I just sit on the stairs, because they banished me to the upstairs bedroom, which is a wise move on my parents' part. And I would sit there and just look at the tree and the presence underneath it. And I was magical as a word. I'm sorry, I'm stealing it from Drew Barrymore, but it was. And it stays with you forever for your whole life.

And it's so different now. It really is. We didn't have any expectations. I would ask for certain things. I wanted a, you know, a Ford Apache set or Fanner 50 gun that you had in a holster. You know, I was that kind of a kid and maybe some sports equipment. But it was modest. But it didn't matter.

The spirit was there. Levitown, 19. 50s. Really, I'll never, I'll take it to the grave. Thank you for listening to Looking Out for You. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also consider becoming a Bill O'Reilly.com premium member. It will enhance your life. Sign up at Bill O'Reilly.com slash membership. Get access to full episodes of the NoSpin News. Thank you.