Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Merrick Garland's Corrupt DOJ, Biden's Loan Forgiveness Fumble, Poll Results on Fox News, Hunter Biden Update, & More

Episode Date: March 3, 2023

Tonight's rundown: Talking Points Memo: Bill analyzed Attorney General Merrick Garland's hearing performance and what it says about America's Department of Justice The Supreme Court is set to rule on President Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness plan BillOReilly.com poll results on Fox News An update on Hunter Biden This Day in History: The world premiere of 'King Kong' Final Thought: Summer Vacation  In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Kamala's Money" Join 'Team Normal!' Preorder your gearatBillOReilly.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, March 2nd, 2003. Stand up for your country. You have a lot of very, very good information for you tonight. And here we go. We're going to get into a very depressing situation, corruption in the Department of Justice. And this is going to affect every American. So earlier this week, FBI chief Christopher Ray gave an interview to Fox News. And then Attorney General Merrick Garland

testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both of those things are the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. We begin with a federal statute. Title 18, Section 1507 of the U.S. Code. It was enacted in 1950. It says, quote, under this law it is illegal to pick it or parade in front of a courthouse or a judge's home with intent of interfering with obstructing or impeding the administration of justice or with the intent of influencing any judge, unquote. Well, that is exactly what happened on May 7, 2022, in front of Justice Kavanaugh's home and Chief Justice Roberts's home. So we're going to roll some tape now on the radio, I'll describe it to you,

as dozens of protesters, some with bullhorns, all right, and they are out in front of the house because of the abortion ruling. All right. And there's even sound on tape of this. Go. We will not go back. I see you, buddy. We will not go back.

We will not go back. We will not go back. So, the people who did that violated the law. But none of them were prosecuted. None of them. Why? So when you get to that point,

And to put it into perspective, dozens, I mean, almost 40 pro-life protesters have been prosecuted by the Justice Department since Biden's been in office. And they did the same thing. Those protesters were in front of abortion clinics and they were protesting and there's a law and they were prosecuted. But nobody prosecuted the Supreme Court thing. So the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, is in charge of that. And yesterday, he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Go. As the Department of Justice enforced this statute, have you brought a single case against any of these protesters threatening the judge justices under 18 U.S.C. Section 150. You brought even one.

Senator, you asked me whether I sat on my hands, and quite of the opposite, I sent 70 United States Marshals. Let me try again. Have you, has the Department of Justice brought even a single case under this statute? So yes, no question. It's not a give a speech on the other things you did. The job of the United States Marshals is to defend the lives of the judges. So the answer is no. It's to defend the lives of the justices. And that's their number one priority. They have Why are you unwilling to say no? The answer is no. You know it's no.

I know it's no. Everyone in this hearing room knows it's no. You're not willing to answer a question. Have you brought a case under this statute? Yes or no? As I know we haven't, and what we have done is defended to the lies of the justices. Okay, so Garland admits that he's not enforcing the law. Why isn't he enforcing the law?

It's not hard to enforce the law when you have tape. You just saw the tape. And on the radio, you heard the tape. because the Biden administration doesn't want that because those protesters were demonstrating their anger over the abortion situation going back to the states and the Biden administration didn't like that ruling

so they don't want anybody prosecuted that's what happens in Venezuela or in Russia in totalitarian regimes. That's what happens. So my confidence as an American citizen, not just a journalist analyst, gone. Remember, Merrick Garland was almost a Supreme Court justice himself, but he was voted down.

And I'm sitting there going, this man Garland, he knows what the law is, simply will not enforce the law. Okay. Let's go to the Mark How case. I have to confess that I was not familiar with this case until this week, and I should have been. He is 48 years old. He is an anti-abortion activist who was accused of assaulting a 72-year-old clinic volunteer, an abortion volunteer named Bruce Love outside a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Philadelphia. He was arrested. He was charged. The incident to place on October 13, 2021. He was charged with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Okay. Now, when he was arrested, his wife told news agencies that 25 federal agents with guns drawn in about 15 vehicles pounded on their front door and threatened. to break it down okay so it was a massive raid even though how can his attorney said they would have turned themselves in i mean mark howe would have turned himself in didn't need the raid there are pictures of the raid so this is the FBI and christopher ray was in charge of

this raid his boss is merrick garland the attorney general ray doesn't just do stuff on his own he's got to go up the chain of command because the fbi works for the department of justice okay all right so the kicker is and this is incredible that mark hout was found not guilty by a jury He was acquitted of any law-breaking. Yet his family was terrorized. He was prosecuted. And that was another subject of inquisition yesterday for Merrick Garland. Senator Josh Hawley is the questioner.

Go. Let's talk about the Mark Hout case, for example. You've been asked about this already today. And frankly, your answers really astound me. This is a case where a Catholic pro-life demonstrator, father, was accused of disorderly conduct in front of an abortion center. The local prosecutor, the Philadelphia District Attorney, who is a Democrat, a liberal, very progressive, declined to prosecute. There was a private suit that got dismissed. And then after all of that, your Justice Department sent between 20 and 30 armed agents in the early.

morning hours to the house private residence to arrest this guy after he had offered to turn himself in voluntarily. Here's the photo once again. You can see the long guns. You can see the ballistic shields. You can see that they're wearing bulletproof vests. Why did the Justice Department do this? Why did you send 20 to 30 SWAT style agents in a SWAT style team to this guy's house when everybody else had declined to prosecute and he'd offered to turn himself in. Determinations of how to make arrests under arrest warrants are made based by the tactical operators in the district. But you surely looked into it by this point, right? You know the answer, surely. All I know is what the FBI has said, which is that they made decisions on the ground as to what was safest and easiest.

So you do not agree with your description of what happened on the scene. You don't agree with my description. I'm pointing out what the photo is. Okay. So is there anybody that you can think of in recent memory who's come across more weasily? Weasel is a word than Merrick Garland. Anyone, any public servant. I mean, Buttigieg comes to mind, but that's the Attorney General of the United States.

he clearly knows what happened in the Supreme Court justice situation and he knows what happened in the How case so what do you do? There is nothing that we can do. Nothing. As honest American citizens, we have to endure this because Joe Biden was elected president. An honest president would fire Christopher Ray like that.

And remember, Trump appointed him. And Garland would have never been appointed to the position of Attorney General. He's weak. He's corrupt. He's not looking out for justice, equal justice for all. No. So when it gets to that point, I'm somebody who loves my country. And I just go, you know, I know we have to endure two more years of Joe Biden,

who is absolutely the second worst president in the history of this republic next to James Buchanan. I know there's nothing we can do, but to endure that. But if this man is reelected, and I don't think he's going to run, but I could be wrong about that, But if he's given four more years, you can kiss this country goodbye because he'll bankrupt it, number one, with all the irresponsible spending. And all of these departments, Buttigieg, transportation, garland, justice, they're so corrupt, it's just, you just, and you see it. This is a society where we have hearings in the Senate, okay? you can see it and hear it but here's the most depressing part of it all 40% 45% of americans don't care if their country's corrupt and that's a memo all right so

Biden didn't do anything today no people's business at all another Democrat thing that he went to a lunch with Democrats but there was a lot of stuff swirling around the president today and none of it good for him first of all the supreme court is hearing the uh student loan case where biden wants to forgive 400 billion dollars of student loans and that would mean i would have to pay that you would have to pay anybody who pays income tax would have to pay the 400 billion that biden wants to wipe out so i have to pay for penelope's uh college education i paid for two of my own And I paid my college, okay? But I have to now pay for Penelope over here.

Okay, this is unconstitutional. So the Supreme Court's hearing the case and they are skeptical because there is court reporting in the Supreme Court building and the justices look like they're skeptical. Here's what I said last May 9th go. My casa, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

what gives the president the authority to forgive massive amounts of student, loan debt. He doesn't have the authority to do it. If he tries to do it, there'll be a lawsuit filed two minutes after. He doesn't have the authority to do that. Can't forgive anybody's debt. He can forgive a crime, but nobody's dead. There's no constitutional authority there. That'll be tied up in the courts for another four years. But luckily, I was wrong about tied up in the court, because it's at the Supreme Court a year later, and they are going to rule that it's unconstitutional. And anybody wanted to bet me, bill at bill o'Reilly.com.

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He wants, Biden wants, environmental, social, and governance factors taken into consideration when making those decisions, investment decisions. he wants the federal apparatus to invest in green companies and on and on and on and on. Well, the Senate voted 50 to 46 to block that. The Senate saying, no, the federal government shouldn't have any litmus test for investment other than they think the investment's going to go up. Okay, two Democrats went over to the Republican side, mansion and tester of Montana. Four senators did not vote. So, Biden will veto that.

All right. So the bill is going to go to House will pass it like that. It'll go to Biden. He'll veto it. He hasn't vetoed anything yet, okay, because there's been nothing Democrats have controlled. But he'll veto that. And finally, in the House, dozens of Democrat Congress people supported the restraints on executive orders by President Biden that may cause inflation.

So the House is saying, look, all your executive orders are jacking up the price of everything in America. So you can't do it anymore. All right. Now, I don't know whether that's going to pass the Senate, but it easily passed the House, 272 to 148. A lot of Democrats, that's right. You've got to restrain this man. Everybody knows. Biden is an irresponsible spender and that is putting the United States in financial jeopardy. Everybody knows that who pays attention. Now, again, people don't care, but they all know. I'm talking about Congress people now. All right. So I said we'd give you the results of our Bill O'Reilly, poll, which asks, has the Fox News election machine lawsuit change your opinion of FNC?

Well, in less than two days, we've got about 10,000 votes. That's a lot on an internet poll like this. And 85% said, no, they are not going to change their opinion of Fox News because of some of the revelations involved in the this lawsuit. Basically, I know everybody knows this, but maybe our foreign viewers don't, so this is why I'm encapsulating this. We're all over the world now. So there's an accusation against Fox News by the Dominion Voting Machine Company that the management of Fox News and some of their pundits knew that the Dominion voting machines did not malfunction, did not do anything to throw the election to Biden. They knew that, yet they reported the opposite or allowed

people on various programs to say the opposite. That is the lawsuit. It's 1.7 billion. Now, in just in attorney's fees alone, this is costing FNC about $250 million, just in attorney's fees. boggles them on. The case supposed to go to court in Delaware in April. Now, there may be delays or whatever. Anyway, the press, the hypocritical corrupt press, is just killing Fox News, as they always have. But this gives them another weapon. Never mind that the corrupt left-wing media ran with the Russian collusion story when they knew,

it was bogus. Same thing. Now, you may argue the election is a bigger story. I would not dispute that. But this is plenty of hypocrisy. Anyway, why do most people in this poll say their opinion of Fox hasn't changed? Most of these voters in the poll are Fox News fans. Okay, they like the network. And even though the network has done things. that can arguably say are wrong, all right, that doesn't matter to them because they have nowhere else to go. So it's either Fox or they can't turn on the others because the others are slanting the news in a Democrat left direction. And here's the most important part about this. Fox News talent and people on the air is so much better than CNN and MSNBC, just

the performance level that a lot of people say, I'm not going to give that up. I enjoy watching various programs on Fox News, and just because they did this, I'm not going to stop watching. The calculation is that. Now, I'm not going to say whether this is right or wrong, but I am going to give you a couple of stats that are fascinating to me. When I was in the chair at 8 o'clock the o'Reilly factor we routinely did a million viewers in the age 25 to 54 that's called the money demo advertisers want those viewers because they're active okay and they buy so now um the average 25 to 54 in prime time at fnc is 300 000 so i did a million the average now is 300 thousand. In February, that's down 33%. That's a stunning drop over February 22. So younger viewers,

and I don't think this is just a Fox because the others are worse. Remember, Fox still wins the ratings war, the cable ratings war by a wide margin. The others, CNN have literally nobody 25 to 54 watching them. And MSNBC is almost there. That Morning Joe broadcast, they're going to slip below 100,000 for the three hours they're on. There's nobody young people who watch it. So that's the danger here for these cable news outfits, not just Fox. So the hardcore left-wingers are going to watch MSNBC and CNN, MSNBC more, because they are so far left that if you're progressive you're going to watch them okay CNN's trying to move back but they don't have the talent to do it all right and the hardcore right wing people the conservative people older people

okay remember the average age for the Fox News viewer is pushing 70 now I mean older people sedentary people people who are around they're going to watch Fox no matter what Though I wasn't surprised by this and said, you know, a number of people who have interviewed me and asked me, and I said, I don't think it's going to really cut into their core, but it will cut into younger viewers who just, it's not that Fox did anything specifically wrong, it's just that they're bored by it, all of it, not just FNC, all of it, they're just bored by it, and they're gone, they're fleeing, okay, but the older core viewers, they will stay. And that is our analysis of that.

Now, here's an important segment if you are going to buy a car in the next year or so. So right now, about 15% of Americans are carrying car payments of more than $1,000 a month. Okay? About 30% of them, according to Cox Automotive, are two months behind in their payments. That's a lot. all right so they're carrying a pretty big nut when it comes to monthly car payments and you know maybe this looks to me like 28% aren't making the payments and new car prices are up 20% since COVID hit used cars of 37% pre-owned you don't call them used pre-owned I'm very familiar

with pre-owned cars because my parents that's all they bought we never had a new car ever okay it was fine with me i just want to go from point a to p i don't care um anyway if you want to buy a car and you walk into any car dealership all right you're going to pay a lot of money more money that you would have paid three or four years ago you're going to be horrified in some areas now there are car dealerships that have sales and all that so it's not everybody but here is the way to buy a pre-owned car classified ads right in your area are listed in the newspapers and they have automotive papers and on the internet and you know it's like that you see a car you might like advertised by a person wanting to sell the car okay and you contact them you take the car to the

mechanic. I said this last week. Mechanics says it's okay. You like it, you buy it. You're going to get a lot. The price is going to be a lot lower. But you've got to buy CarShield. That's one of our sponsors, full disclosure, because CarShield gives you the warranty. You pay them a certain amount of money. They cover anything goes wrong because if you're going to buy a pre-owned, you know, could go wrong. If you do that, I guarantee you, you will save a lot of money. So that is the smart life tip, and you'll hear it nowhere else but here. 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's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, 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. Hunter Biden update. More than three years on this thing. This thing could have been adjudicated in three months.

It's going on three years. You think Merrick Garland doesn't want to bring this case? I think that might be true. It's going to have to. The pressure is so intense. So one of Hunter's lawyers, Joshua Levy, has quit. He's done. Because Hunter has new lawyers.

Abby Lowell is the head guy. And the old lawyers are out. some of them. That's the only update I have, but I can tell you that once these Hunter Biden congressional hearings heat up, boy, it's going to be white-hot pressure on the Justice Department. Okay, this is a report from the World Obesity Foundation, which tracks chubby people. By the year 20135, 12 years from now, the report says that 50% of the world's population will be rotund, R-O-T-U-N-D, word of the day, okay, 50%. Now, kids are getting chubby at an alarming rate.

Okay. So right now, 100 million boys are obese and about 90 million girls. And that's going to double according to this World Obesity Federation. So why is this happening? And we have gone over this and we do it because we want you to have have a good life, a smart life and a good life. Process food, you know, and I eat it, I have to admit I eat some processed food. I'm trying to get my cupboard free of it, but throughout my life, because I'm on the run all the time, and I don't have a chef to cook me up healthy meals. Process food, cheap food, fast food, okay? The only fast food that I will eat, now is chick fillet and we don't have any association with them at all i'll eat chick fillet that's it none of the others because it's just greasy bad for me it's bad for you and sugar so uh the cheaper the food is the worse it is for you generally speaking all right

and uh that's why the world half the world is going to be chubby which means that the diet If you go to Amazon.com and you look at the top 100 book list, there's got to be 20 diet books on there. To me, I don't do that. I just have cut the sugar out, not all of it, but most of it. And I'm walking to tear a dog as much as I can, and I'm in good shape. I have the same waist size now that I had in college. And that's my litmus test. I got to keep that 36-inch waist.

All right, but clothes start to get tight. Then I know, you know, a little less of the stuff that's making me chubby. This day in history is a good one. On March 2nd, 1933, 90 years ago today, the movie King Kong appeared. Roll the tape. I feel sorry for a King Kong. He wasn't all bad. Anyway, the movie is a smash.

It came out and it made $5 million, which is equivalent. That was in 1933 to $115 million today. And the budget was $672,000. But then since 1933, King Kong has played everywhere, and he keeps packing up the money. Now, why was it so successful? It's a gorilla, a giant gorilla, chasing people around, and it finally gets shot off the Empire's staplet. Number one, special effects. In 1933, this was the first time that these special effects were put in.

People went, whoa, whoa. Number two, the nation was an animal of a depression, and people wanted to escape. And I think a movie back then was 10 cents or 15 cents to go see it. They wanted to get out of the depressing world into the movie world. 1930s of golden age of movies, people went. And there's another little-known reason why they went. There was no air conditioning back then, but the theaters had it. The movie theaters had it.

So my parents went to the movies when they were kids just to cool off. And if you lived in the South, you probably never left the movie theater. Anyway, King Kong, 90 years ago today, way to go. Mail segment and final thought that if you are going to vacation this summer, you need to hear this final thought. Right back. Let's go to the mail, Lena. It is clear to me from the start that Lady Biden Macbeth, wow, wanted fame and power over her husband's well-being, Shakespeare, gets it right again. love the reference. I said yesterday that with the diminishmental state of Joe Biden, which is

beyond any doubt at all, Jill Biden is emerging, his wife is emerging as a villain to keep him in that slot. That's harsh. And if you disagree, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name and town, please. Janet, love most everything about you, O'Reilly, and you're right, eating should be joyful. I'm 100%. It can be healthy and joyful. My recommendation is to read Ellen Satter's books, especially feeding a healthy family with love and good sense.

All right, so that's Ellen Satter, S-A-T-T-E-R. This is Janet's recommendation. I have not read the book. Stephen, thanks for having Dr. Greger on the show. I've read both his books. They're excellent. Every morning I eat oatmeal with chopped dates, blueberries, bananas.

whatever fresh fruit i can get at the market i had i had oatmeal today okay and i put the blueberries on the oatmeal it tasted good i put a little honey on it and that's sugar but it's not refined sugar but a little honey's not going to not going to hurt you and i had the oatmeal and then i had a little bread you know little bread product i'm not going to tell you which one because i don't want to be in the business of promoting stuff i've already promoted enough stuff tonight um but i'm uh i'm I'm with you. Marie Casserman, Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Thank you for your information on Truvia. My son and daughter both use it. I warn them about the dangers and they both stopped. Thank you again. Marie, we're here for you. You know, I don't have anything against Truvia. I don't, you know, I know what it is, the sweetener.

But when the study comes out and says it elevates heart disease and stroke, I got to report it. I got to report it. It's my job. Francis. I'm curious as to what type of credentials Brian Cranston has that makes his opinion on the subject of Make America Great Again, the correct one. His credentials is the American citizen. If he wants to think the MAGA movement is racist or fascist, he's entitled that. But I'm entitled to mock him, which I did. And I met him at the Super Bowl, by the way. And he was fine. He didn't give me any grief. I'm not a MAGA guy, but, you know, it was mutual.

It wasn't long, okay, but he was there and I was there, and I'm always respectful. I got to tell you a quick story. You know Danny Glover, the actor, he's in a Mel Gibson, shoot him up, cop movies. I ran to him at a Baltimore Orioles game one time, and I was prepared, you know, for, let's say, a lively, confrontation because Danny Glover is way, way, way far left. I had the nicest conversation with him. It wasn't any, it wasn't politics for a little baseball, little showbiz, you know, and I respect that. Anna, I have been an actress in Hollywood since the 80s. Politics was not as divisive as it is now. And it mostly started with Barack Obama's president.

Since the 1950s, the Joe McCarthy era, Hollywood has been mostly on the left. That's true. I don't really understand why. Maybe they believe that being on the left is standing up for the little guy in the underdog. Unfortunately, so many people here, actors, directors, writers are idiots. No common sense. They gain fame and money. They can't handle it.

Deep down, they don't feel they deserve it. They're very insecure. And they remain idiots. remain idiots. They don't believe in patriotism. They feel America's a bad country. That is a great analysis from an actress who has been, you know, if you hang in, so she says she's been there since the 80s, so that would be 35 years. You hang in that long. You know the industry. I'm very impressed, Anna. Thank you for writing me that letter. Bonnie Reynolds, Holton, Maine, way up there by the Canadian border.

I was almost in Holton over Columbus Day, close. Didn't get quite up there. The Hollywood crowd could put out positive drama and humor that would help promote American greatness instead of moaning and tearing down this credit and its citizens down. Well, you see what's happening to the movie industry? Boom, gone. Anybody going to watch the Oscars? Anybody?

Everybody, highest rated show on the networks now, doesn't get 10 million people to watch. Specials do, but not the regular shows. William Vickerman, Chicago. We are direct descendants of the father of Rebecca Nurse, one of the unfortunate victims of the Salem Witch Trials. We have the professional genealogy to prove it, looking forward to killing the witches. Well, Rebecca Nurse is a big name, and things did not go well for her. And I'm just about to finish this thing. Probably got two more weeks of writing on it, so we're closing in.

You will like this book you could pre-order on bill o'Reilly.com and get it first. Marianne Barrier, Huntington, West Virginia. And on President's Day, I read Killing Lincoln. It has been pretty good weather here, so I should have been outside. doing cleaning but i could not put the book down it was stupendence killing lincoln is the biggest seller of all the killing books came out first okay and it's still in print you can order it from us bill o'reilly dot com from amazon barnson noble i'm glad you like it it's good book okay team normal i discussed this on news nation with quomo last night i'm sending chris quomo a whole

bunch of Team Normal Deer. He says he wants to be on the team. So it's Team Normal against Team Crazy. We all know who the Team Crazy is. All right, they're the people who despise this country. The Team Normal people love America, but want it improved. I do. All right? The shirts, the hats, the mugs, the bumper stickers. We're shipping them next week to you. But you can pre-order it over the weekend now you get it first okay if you decide you don't want to be on team normal before we ship because we always give you a heads up we're shipping then there's no charge word of the day do not be nugatory another great one n u g a t o r why nugatory don't be that back with a final thought in a moment okay final thought of the day so i'm going to

Ireland in June. I'm going to Donegal. It's the only county I haven't been to in the entire country. I'm taking, actually, it's a father-son trip. All right, so a whole bunch of people, my friends come in with me with their urchins, older, and I'm taking them to Belfast after Donegal, where I covered the troubles. Okay, I'm taking them exactly to the places I So it's going to be really an interesting historical trip. Denigal is beautiful, can't wait to go. I booked that trip a year ago. If I had booked it now, I couldn't get in to any of the good hotels.

All the flights, most of the flights, I should say, are booked. It couldn't go. So what I'm trying to tell you is this. Wherever you want to go this summer, you got to book it before March 15th. You have to book it. Now, you could go to Ireland and stay in bed and breakfast. Because, and that's great, by the way. It's a great experience.

To meet the folks, it's very economical. You love it. The bed and breakfast aren't all booked, but the hotels mostly are. And in America, if you want to go somewhere, you've got to get those reservations. And always remember, you've got to know the cancellation policy. And if you're going abroad, you should buy trip insurance, particularly on a cruise. right but you've got to get it done because this summer is going to be a wild travel summer even though of inflation the economy's wobbly people want to cut loose they want to go I was in

Florida last weekend I saw it I told you about it okay people buying $20 drinks spending $1,500 a night on a hotel room and I'm sitting there going whoa and it's going to be very intense this summer. So I hope a good travel agent and they're hard to get. Boy, they're hard to get. My staff is really good and so I farmed some of that out to them. But you want to get everything under control by the aides of March the 15th, particularly if you're going abroad. Okay. Or places like the National Parks. National Park hotels around the titans and yellowstone and glacier and yosemite fabulous places by the way all of them fabulous those hotels are book all right so get in there because i want you have a good time we all need a

break you all need to get away this summer for a little while and that is the final thought of the day thank you for watching and listening this evening sunday column noon we will see you on monday