Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Migrant Deportation Controversy, Harvard Sues the Trump Administration, Anson Frericks on Bud Light's Fall & the White House Reacts to NPR’s Pete Hegseth Smear Report

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down deportation statistics and how the Trump administration is responding to the crisis. A Boston judge has temporarily blocked new federal rules on passport gender markers. Harvard University is suing the Trump administration. Who will win the lawsuit? Anson Frericks, author and co-founder of Strive Asset Management, joins No Spin News to discuss the controversies surrounding Harvard and the decline of Bud Light. What the White House said in response to NPR's report on the search for Pete Hegseth's replacement. Bill explains why Malaysia is mad at him. Final Thought: O'Reilly's Tip of the Day. In Case You Missed It: Stand out from the crowd with our Not Woke baseball cap for just $28.95! Make Mom happy this Mother’s Day! Gift her our new Not Woke Mom mug, bundled with Killing the Witches—all for just $39.95. Limited time only!  Pre-order Bill’s next book in the new Confronting Series, ‘Confronting Evil’ NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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right out of Boston University and beginning my repertorial career. And that doesn't seem like it was 50 years ago. But it was. But here's something very interested. There are only two national journalists in television that have survived longer than me in the whole country. That is really something. And I'm going to put this in the smart live segment tonight because it's a great story. It'll never be told by the corrupt media.

which hates me, but it is really an excellent story. And you'll be very curious to hear who the other two are ahead of me. Okay. Again, that'll be in Smart Life coming up. But the talking points memo this evening is on the migrant deportation. So Donald Trump got elected because Joe Biden was incompetent and the country was reeling, but his major campaign theme was making America great again by reinvigorating the economy and by mass deportations, you remember, everybody remembers.

I said at the time that no way any administration could deport 15 million people. You can't. And the people who think you can are living in a delusional world. So political rhetoric is one thing. I mean, you know, you're on a campaign. Everybody's going, all right, fine. But those of us really know how it works, knew that there would be deportations. but not massive deportations because you can't do that under our Constitution.

So let me run it down for you. Number one, the Democrat, the Democrat left, see, there are some centrist Democrats. That's why I say that. The Democrat left doesn't want any deportations. They're opposed to all of it. Roll the tape. You know, it's bone chilling every day. There's something new and today we just saw President Trump express openness to taking US citizens and sending them off without due process to foreign prisons.

It's anti-American. But this concentration of power, greed, and corruption is oligarchy. It's oligarchy in America. Now, whoever is buying that, again, is living in a delusional world. Trump never said he's going to deport U.S. citizens without due process. And the man who was deported to El Salvador, the Garcia, who's the left is adopted as this martyr. Okay, it's not a U.S. citizen. He's a Salvadoran citizen who snuck into this country illegally.

Now, he is in the system here because he did claim asylum, so they should bring him back. I've said that quite clearly. Trump administration's making a mistake, not bringing a man back because the Supreme Court wants the man back. And if I'm President Trump, I don't want to alienate the Supreme Court. Period. If the man is MS-13, that will be proven by the Justice Department. I believe he probably is affiliated with that gang. And the reason I believe it is because authorities caught him in Tennessee

with a bunch of undocumented in a van. And the authorities in Tennessee did not charge this guy, Garcia, with anything. But they caught him. No, he's not some guy cutting the lawn on Saturday in Maryland, but let the Justice Department prove it. And then you boot him. Okay. So let me give you the stats here.

We don't have an exact number of how many foreign nationals have been deported since President Trump took office. There is no definitive number. But I can tell you this because we got it from ICE and the Border Patrol. There have been 113,000 arrests since the president took office, 113,000. North of 100,000 have been deported out of that crew. Okay. There are 48,000 undocumented migrants right now in detention, in ICE detention, and their cases are being reviewed. All right. 31% of those have criminal convictions. 23 have pending criminal charges. That makes 54% of all being held right now. And 46% all the others are listed as other immigration violator. Now, that could be anything.

That could just be coming across the border, overseeing your visa. But the majority of these people being held now, 48,000, are involved in some kind of criminal activity. All right, so you have the stats. Now, that's not close to 15 million. It will never get to 15 million. So the Trump administration has now decided

that it's going to ask all undocumented people to register with this federal government and self-deport. I'll get to that in a moment. Also, President Trump signed Executive Order 14157, designated the following as terrorist organizations, which means they don't get due process. Okay? MS-13, Trende-Aragua, down from Venezuela,

and then a bunch of Mexican gangs, All right. Sinaloa cartel, Nueva Genericione, Los Zetas, all of those people. There's a list here. All right. Gulf cartel, they're all drug and people smugglers in Mexico. So if the federal authorities find any of those people in the United States, no due process out of here. Okay?

That's what the executive order says, and that will stand under the Bush. Terrorist Act that was passed after 9-11. Okay, so back to the Trump administration. It wants to have each undocumented person be responsible and let the federal government know what you're doing here and go back to your home country. The point person for this is National Security, a Homeland Security Secretary, Christine Nome. Roll the tape. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded. And over 100,000 illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally,

you're next. You will be fined nearly $1,000 a day, imprisoned and deported. You will never return. But if you register using our CBP home app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. President Trump, America's laws, border, and families will be protected. I don't believe many undocumented people are going to register. They're afraid. They're not going to do it. All right. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. The final thing about this is that in any country, the federal government has to know who is here.

In any country, that's why you take the census. Right? And in our system, the amount of people dictate how many Congress people the states have. And it goes on and on and on and on. You got to know who's here. And we don't because of Joe Biden, one man, Joe Biden. We have no idea who's here, who's here, what they're doing, why they're here. And I don't think they're going to sign up. All right. But it is absolutely constitutional and reasonable. to try to find out what's going on with these foreign nationals, right? There's no argument. And the fact that the left doesn't want any accountability tells you everything you need to know about that movement. And they want the foreign nationals to be here to register as Democrats and to vote their way. That's what the ultimate goal is. This podcast is brought to you by Carvana.

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Congress didn't have anything to do with this open border. I mean, they supported Biden. The Democrats did, and that was stupid. But they didn't say, we want an open border. They didn't submit a new immigration law that'll ever read it in. That was Biden alone. And the catastrophe that caused, literally, I think it'll be a trillion dollars after we do it all. A trillion dollars out of our treasury.

Death destruction, you all know about the crimes. Okay. Chaos everywhere. Money paid to undocumented people in hospitals, education. One man did that. Joe Biden, second worst president of all time. And the reason is that James Buchanan, the guy before Abraham Lincoln, was a coward and allowed the South to arm itself and rise up in rebellion. And that was worse than what Biden did. But Biden is close second now. And that's a memo. The judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from making changes to the passport. So the gender people, the non-binary people, I don't know who they are. Trans people are. They want an X instead of a male or female on their passport. Trump said no. So a judge in Massachusetts, of course, appointed by Biden, of course, named Julia Kobick, said,

no, no, no. The State Department can't take X out of the passports. Well, this is insane. And on April 16th, in Great Britain, they passed a law. The British passed a law. It says, no, on a passport, you got to have biological sex. You've born a man or a woman. That's it.

No X, no Y, no Z, no L, GBT, nothing. Now, Great Britain can do that. We'll do it. That'll happen here. You wait and see. But this is, you know, madness. It's far left madness. Harvard's suing of the Trump administration.

My God. So the president doesn't like Harvard. I can tell you that because I attended Harvard and he knows it and, you know, it gives me jazz. All right. So 2.3 billion is gone. Harvard's going to lose that from the federal government. Now he may freeze another billion dollars and Harvard's fighting back. President is named Alan Garber.

Okay? And Garber is now ordered his counsel at the school to sue the Trump administration. Quote, these actions have stark real-life consequences for patient, students, faculty, staff, researchers, and the standing of American higher education in the world. Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government's authority, I encourage you to read our complaint. Harvard will lose in federal court. but it'll have to go to the springs. They'll go all the way up, but I think they'll lose. Because we, the taxpayer, have no obligation to fund ideological schools. According to the student newspaper of the Crimson, which is decent, that's run by lefties, but they try,

82% of the Harvard faculty is liberal or far left. 82%. How does that happen? It happens because the people doing the hiring at Harvard University are only hiring left-wingers. I guess there aren't any smart conservatives or traditionalists or libertarians. There's no smart people in those categories. 82%. So you got an ideological college.

That's what you got. And my tax money is supposed to go there? I don't want Rush Limbaugh University financed either. Okay? If you're an ideological school, you're not entitled to public tax money. Period. That's the Constitution. The public money is for the public good. Promoting far left tenants isn't the public good. It's an ideological good. So Trump's right. And Harvard should try to come to some accommodation. All right, joining us now as the guy who graduated from Harvard Business School,

with an MBA. His name is Anson Fredericks. I got him on for two reasons. He's got a new book out called Last Call for Bud Light, The Fallen Future of America's Favorite Beer. But he did go to Harvard. He's a smart guy. He's a president of Strive Asset Management, and he knows the turf about Harvard and about Bud Light. So we'll get into both of those. First, Harvard, did I make any mistakes in my commentary on it? No, Bill, I think that you nailed it. I think most importantly is, you know, I think it take a step back. I think we would be asking ourselves should the federal government, should your tax dollars be going to fund universities in the first place? This is sort of a relic of an older

time. The U.S. government never funded universities really until World War II. Okay. Let me stop you, though. The government asks Harvard. Harvard doesn't ask the government to fund their research. The government asks Harvard to do it because the smartest people, or very smart people are at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Penn, and they have areas of expertise. So the government comes in and says, look, we want you to find a cure for Alzheimer's at the Harvard Med School. And we're willing to fund your research and try to find that cure. That makes perfect sense to me. It doesn't make sense to you?

I think it might have made sense maybe 50 years ago when, again, you didn't have venture capitalists, you didn't have a lot of money that was going into trying to solve cancer or trying to create the next great thing on the Internet or trying to do AI. Because you had a very kind of nascent sort of private markets at that time. And Harvard, with $3 billion that used to spend in 1970s, they could actually help create the internet, help create these technical advances. Today, the government's spending over $60 billion a year. Like, you know, most things the government starts spending money and that just keeps spending more and more and more. And we're seeing less than less that's actually coming out of these universities.

Much more is coming out of the private sector. So I actually think that the federal government, they should be incentivizing more private companies, whether it's be a tax breaks, whether it's being private. Okay. I mean, look, in both cases, the folks watching us should know that nobody's held accountable if you fail. So the government's financing a doctor to research a disease, and he doesn't come up with anything. The doctor still gets a federal money. There's no performance clause in the private sector or in the academic world, and that troubles me

a little bit. All right, let's pivot over to Bud Light. So this was one of the dumbest things. and everybody knows it was dumb. You hire a trans person and Dylan Mulvaney, right? Now, Kaz was looking at your book last night to sell a beer that's consumed mostly by men, straight men, macho men, sportsmen, and there is this Dylan Mulvaney person smug promoting Bud Light. And Middle America goes, no, we're going to punish Bud Light.

That's essentially what happened. right? That's essentially what happened. Actually, this is really much related to what happened at Harvard. One of the reason that Harvard and Trump is rescinding a lot of funds is you recall that under the Civil Rights Act in 1964, you can't discriminate if it's of race, sex, religion, etc. Yet two years ago, you had Harvard's president, Codding Day, after Israel was attacked by Hamas, could not say if calling to the genocide of Israelis was hate speech. And this is because you had people on the left like Harvard and this whole cadre of what I call the DEI complex. You had McKinsey, was pushing DEI studies. You had BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, pushing

DEI and ESG. You had the universities doing it. And they essentially kind of follow the money bill. They were the ones that were directing large corporations. I mean, Anheuser Bush became the essentially the poster child of what went wrong in corporate America. But a lot of other companies were essentially putting money towards supporting very progressive, very okay, but it doesn't make any. It was that. Anheiser Bush was the one that just became the one that became the poster child of what went wrong. When you're in Harvard Business School, they're teaching you how to make money. It's a capitalistic thing.

I know there's DEI, but Bud Light, Anizer Bush, and you work for them for 11 years. Are they that stupid? That's a question. Are they that stupid? They were, because when I worked there, you never would have gotten Bud Light, the largest beer brand in America that was enjoyed by Democrats and Republicans alike. You never would have had a touch anything that was close to a political issue. You wouldn't have a touch transgenderism. You wouldn't have a touch abortion issues.

All right. So you had horses. You had Clydesdale's dragging the beer thing around. Budweiser Frog, real men of genius, the was-up guys. And you got it. Like, that's what beer was. He's actually brought people together. That's what excited people. That's what brought people together. But when you had this ideological capture, a lot of companies, you remember, you know, Disney got involved in the parental rights issues down in Florida. Right. Right. Right. Coca-Cola got involved in voting rights issues. This became kind of. But here's what I don't understand. Why would the board of directors? Why would the president, CEO, of Anheiser-Busch allow something that could backfire so badly, surely they had to know that there was risk in putting this transgendered individual in their ad campaign. Surely they

had to know that. This was ideological capture at finest though, Bill, is if you have this a European company now. So what a lot of don't realize is Anheuser-Busch is owned by a European company. This European company, InBeb, has boards of directors that believe in more of this stakeholder capitalism philosophy, where businesses are supposed to get involved in social and political issues. That's the purpose of a corporation in their mind. They want every company to be like Ben and Jerry's. That's the problem. Those are not American values. That's not how most companies act here in the U.S. That's where the company got into trouble. And that's where the company still hasn't apologized to this day because it's really captured by, I think,

a lot of Europeans and European thinking that businesses are supposed to be kind of part of social enterprises working with the government, not for the benefit of share. I got it. And the one that benefit was Modelo, the Mexican beer. So the book is Last Call for Bud Light, Anson Freericks. You might want to check that out. It's fascinating on how to destroy

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Okay, let's go to NPR. They're reporting, I guess it's a report, NPR, you got to love them, right? They're reporting that Heggseth is going to be replaced or may be replaced. might happen, roll the tape. NPR has learned that the White House may be looking for a new defense secretary. That's after Pentagon Chief Pete Hegeseth used the messaging app signal to share sensitive information about U.S. military strikes on Yemen, this time with his family. This is the second time Heg-Seth used the signal chat to do this, and it was on a personal

cell phone. Here's how shoddy that report is. All right, shoddy. Shoddy. has learned. From whom? From whom? Now, you want to keep them anonymous, you say that, but they don't even say that. NPR has learned. That's not reporting. Then the White House may be looking. Maybe looking? Are they looking or not? This is just dumb, ridiculous reporting. and $535 million a year to NPR and and PBS in the form of tax dollars.

Sorry, I got my stupid phone and I didn't turn it off. Anyway, Trump, of course, gets this question, and here's what he said. Go. Pete's doing a great job. Everybody's happy with him. We have the highest recruit the numbers I think they've had in 28 years. No, he's doing a great story. It's just fake news.

It just bring up stores. I guess it sounds like this front old employees. All right. So so far, the president's standing behind. Hegseth, I think Hegseth is shaky. Now, I'm not reporting that. That's just an opinion I have. I think.

I don't know but when he was nominated you heard my commentary I clearly said not going to be able to do the job doesn't have the experience to do it now

deep stay people ate Trump all that's involved all of it's involved it is I don't know what's going to happen to peep but one more and I think it's over for him But it has to be real, not NPR'd.

Pope funeral update, he will be, the ceremony will be Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Rome time. President Trump and the First Lady will be there, along with leaders all over the world. It will be a dignified ceremony. President has ordered all flags in the USA to be half mass until Saturday evening. Not much criticism from the left about Pope Francis. I watched the view today, very painful. to see if they were going to criticize the Pope. Whoopi Goldberg loves him.

So there was no, nothing, no sniping, just a little bit on the right. Go. Do we want to continue and basically say it's a woke direction in the Catholic Church or do we want to return to an affirmation of the faith based on what the apostles handed down? Okay, it's traditional Catholics versus liberal Catholics, but we went over to the Pope Commentary. I hope you saw my presentation on News Nation last night with Lilin Vitterd.

If you didn't, we have it posted on Bill O'Reilly.com, and that's worth watching. Because I milled the migration thing into it and all of that. Malaysia is mad at me. This is an unbelievable story. So you will remember that Chinese President Xi visited Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam to try to get better trade deals with them to offset the trade stuff in the USA. Okay? Well, I reported on that, and here's what I said.

Go. All right, let's update you on the tariffs, Chinese President Xi Jinping is going to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia. Hey, President Xi, let me just break it to you. Those folks have no money at all. They cannot help you. You're not going to buy your stuff. Because they don't have any money. Well, apparently the government of Malaysia is taking offense at what I said.

How do they know? Because YouTube. We're all over the world. All over every part of the world sees Vinosven News now. So, according to the Edge Malaysia, an English language business weekly publication, all right. Prime Minister de Tukh, Abraham, said this, quote, Prime Minister Abraham strongly rebuked conservative American political commentator Bill O'Reilly

for his recent remark claiming that Southeast Asia has no money, calling a statement both arrogant and ignorant. And Juarez, also finance minister, said the comment not only reflects O'Reilly's lack of understanding of the current realities in Southeast Asia, but also reveals a narrow worldview shaped by racial bias and colonialist ideology. Wow. Now I'm a colonialist. Okay, I hate to break it to the prime minister. I do. But here are the stats.

The household per capita income in Malaysia is $5,731 a year, a year. Okay, 5,731. By comparison, the USA household income per capita is $42,220. That would be eight times as much. So if you want to buy a little hat and you're only making five grand a year, you're not going to buy it, okay? You're not getting Chinese takeout either in Kuala Lumpur. You're barely eating.

So, Prime Minister, I wish you the best. I've been to Malaysia, beautiful country. Okay? Complicated, but beautiful. All right. Barack Obama was partially raised there. Okay, we want you to succeed. But this colonialist told the truth.

China is not going to be able to sell its stuff in your country or Vietnam or Cambodia. Got it? Now, Vice President Vance talked to Modi in India. Modi's a big shot now, because India's the most populated country on a planet. And Modi says, yeah, we're going to work out of trade deal. I hope so. It better happen fast. But Modi is optimistic. Then the South Korean acting president, Hans, says the same thing. Han will be here on Thursday. Now, hopefully, they'll sign a deal.

That's what's needed for the U.S. economy to have these tariff deals sign. Okay, everybody can say, yeah, yeah, we're working out, but we need some signatures here. All right. Smart life. All right. This is what I teased. top of the show. So, January, 1975, I got in my car, and I drove from Boston to Scranton, Pennsylvania for my first job at WNEP TV, Channel 16. Rayband Meta Glasses are powered by Meta AI, so you can get real-time answers. Hey, Meta, how bougie is Jade Garden? It's a trendy spot. What's a color that pairs with

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brit hume he's still doing commentary on a fox news and the second name is leslie stall still working for 60 minutes cbs now hume is still sharp okay um But he doesn't do a lot. He does a commentary maybe a day and that kind of thing. He's not doing what I do. Stahl's lost her fastball, but she's still there. Now, this is interesting. In 1982, there was a TV guide story, and it was called Future Broadcast Superstars or something like that.

There it is, right? and ready or not, here they come. So that's me, Lisa Myers, NBC, Stone Phillips of ABC. So I want to know what happened to them because I'm ready or not, and here I came, 50 years. Now it was 1982, that piece. So Stone Phillips, 70 years old, is out of business. And he's been out for quite some time. He was at ABC for 11 years and NBC for 15 years, did date law and that kind of thing.

But he's been out since 2017. Lisa Myers retired from NBC after 33 years, good career, 2014. She's in Florida playing a lot of golf, I understand. So this is a smart life segment. Why does that apply? The key to life, there are two keys to life, okay? in your personal life finding people you can trust who love you and in your business life getting paid for something you like to do if you can get paid for something you like to do

you're going to have a worthwhile life and i like to do this i wouldn't do it if i didn't don't have to do it but i think i'm adding to the country and i think i'm delivering news that is very necessary in this time um There are certain things that you have to do to hang around as long as I have. Number one, you have to be honest. You can't be, you know, what they do today is a lot of TV journalists have paid to save certain things. They're mercenaries. So the company hires, I mean, you go, you're a left winger, you're a right winger, and it's what you say.

And they say, okay, never did that, ever, not one time. I tell you what I believe and why I believe it. And nobody tells me what to do or say, nobody ever has. ever has in 50 years and that cost me some jobs they tried and i said no i don't do that not doing that okay uh number two you gotta be you don't have to have perseverance because it doesn't always go your way you got to plow plow plow plow plow plow and you have a vision you got to stick to your vision okay number three you got to work real hard and i have worked everybody I did.

Boy, I would, when I work for Jennings, Peter Jennings, whatever they needed, I, boom, I gave it to them. And I made money for all of my employers over the 50-year period where I've been getting a salary. I made money for everybody. That's big in a capitalistic system. And finally, you've got to know who your audience is. I know who you are. I know what you're concerned about. I don't know you all individually, but I know.

because I read thousands of letters from you every week, and I respect you. I've always respected the audience. I don't look down. I don't sneer. I'm not smugged. And that's why I have been around from 50 years, smart life. Okay, history. Happy birthday, Jack Nicholson.

88 years old today, born in Neptune City, New Jersey. Terrible upbringing. Awful. You can read about it. But this guy, Nicholson, he had no advantages. And he becomes, I think, the greatest actor alive. I think he's the best. Roll the table.

When you get so much publicity, you've got to get blasé about it. Let's face it, Jake. You're practically a movie star. Look at that, Barn. Yeah, the heat's might as. His names and fool's faces. What's that, pal? Nothing.

You've got a hell of a way to make a living. Oh, and what do you do to make ends meet? Mortgage department, first national bank. Tell me, do you foreclose on many families this week? We don't publish a record in a paper, I can tell you that. Neither do I. No, you have your press agent to us. Who is this bimbo, Barney? Is he a rest agent to us?

Who is this bimbo, Barney? Is he a record. regular customer or what? Listen, pal, I make an honest living. People only come to me when they're in a desperate situation. I help them out. I don't kick families out of their houses like you bums down at the bank. Jay, can I tell you about the guy who maybe like to step down out of the barber chair? Maybe we go outside and discuss it.

What do you think? Now, Nicholson, 12 Academy Award nominations. That's the best in history. And he, let's see, easy rider, five easy pieces. Chinatown you just saw, last tell, best actor, one floor of the cuckoo's nest, on and on and on and on. Now, over the years, I've become friends with Jack Nicholson, and I'll tell you why. He's not a, he's a liberal man, but he respects straight talk. And he and I have had some unbelievable conversations about Hollywood, about the United States.

he is as funny as they come very very well informed and out of all the people in hollywood i probably value his opinion the most i mean you know i don't make a big deal out of my friendships in showbiz and i have to be honest most people don't like me in hollywood but i hit it off with nicholson so happy birthday jack you're the best all right back with a final thought that will enhance your life here is the final thought of the day So we got a new perk for premium and concierge members. And this is a great Mother's Day or Father's Day gift. You sign up for concierge membership, you got a direct access to me, get a special email.

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