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Episode Date: February 15, 2026

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Bill O'Reilly here. Let's get started. Who's going to win a midterm elections in November in the USA? Vital. And here's why. So President Trump has a very specific agenda. Very specific. He wants to do certain things. And I'll tell you exactly what he wants to do in his next three years. If he loses the House or the Senate, obviously or both, that agenda is going to be much more difficult to implement.

So we'll be able to do executive orders, but they'll all be challenged in court. Impeachment, I don't think the Democrats are dumb enough to do that again. I mean, the two impeachments of Trump, every history book from now until the end of time will just ignore it because it was so stupid. and there's never going to be a conviction of Mr. Trump in the Senate unless new stuff comes out, okay, about some heinous thing. But there are partisan Democrats who might do this stupid stuff. So that's something too. Okay, so what is my prediction?

I can only make the prediction if the vote were held tomorrow. All right? Not in November because so many things are going to happen. The vote were held tomorrow, Democrats would take one, the House of Representatives, and it might be a tie in the Senate, which of course, the Vice President J.D. Vance would break. But the momentum is against President Trump right now. Why? Let's run it down. Okay. So one of the most important thing in this country is people's standard of living, how much money you have and is becoming increasingly difficult to get ahead of the bills. Now, it's, if you want to pinpoint fall, COVID. COVID caused this.

And then Biden came in and spent gazillions of dollars trying to miss. mitigate the damage COVID did to the economy, and that caused all kinds of inflation. And a lot of that inflation has not come down. The overall number has, but food, in particular, meat has not. A lot of reasons for that. The insurance companies are some of the greediest corporations in the world, the U.S. insurance companies. Greed, greed, greed.

seized upon COVID to jack every rate up they could. And that if there is an earthquake in Southern California, people in Maine are paying for that earthquake. That's the equation now. Yeah, that's what they do. And so insurance, health insurance is the worst. Because it up, up, up, up, up, up. And then house and car, by the time you get paying on your premiums, you're devastated.

And then you got to buy the food. And then you got to buy house. Now, depending on where you live, okay? So Americans are going, whoa, got to be some relief. Well, the president has no wage price control power. Can't do that. He can't wave a magic wand and say, hey, bring down a price of steak or burgers. But there are things that he can do.

So he flooded his own with oil, and that is brought down in many parts of the country. price at the pump. That's working. I don't know about the food chain. I don't know why it's so high. I'm very selective when I buy food. Very selective what I buy. I'm not overpaying for it. But I don't have to have meat. I can eat fish. It doesn't matter. It doesn't bother me. All right. The second thing is the ICE undocumented. Most people support the removal of migrants who should not be here. The problem is that the government's messaging on this is not great. You don't explain why they're doing what they're doing. That has to improve, and it's damaged the Trump administration right now, particularly among Latinos, and they need a Latino vote. The GOP needs.

Three, all the crazy stuff. You know, enough, enough, enough, enough. Now we get the Obama thing, we get this, we get that. People exhausted. All right? That hurts. So you got a bunch of stuff that is swirling around. The good stuff isn't reported by the media, so the impression you get is all bad. It's not. All these tariffs and everything that could lead could.

To much higher wages as the jobs become in the manufacturing set of service. And then you're going to get your tax refund. There's a lot of money coming into this country in the next few months. We don't know. All right. Then we go overseas. Now, people don't vote foreign policy. Americans don't vote.

America's vote emotion. How am I feeling? Do I like this one? Do I not like it? That's what they vote. I don't know really what's going on in Ukraine. I don't care what's going on in Ukraine. They care that Putin is a madman and killing innocence.

Yeah, care that. They care that Iran is a terrorist response. as a terrorist sponsor, yeah. Maduro, nobody even heard of him until he got whacked, but nobody's going to vote foreign policy, and it is here where Donald Trump has been most successful. It's reshaping the world, right? So we are going to dominate the Americas, the United States. He's demanding Europe gets stronger as a bulwark against Putin, and then he's kind of planned China, I don't know. I, you know, saying you're not going to take over the world, you're not going to be the world

superpower. We're going to remain that. That's the big picture for Trump to assert and grow American power. And that's smart. But America, the grocery store trumps Beijing all day long. The average American voter, particularly female, and I know I'm going to get criticized for this, wants calm and wants to be able to pursue a worthwhile life, have enough money and assets to do that. That's it. Calm, financial stability. And right now, both of those areas are swirling around. That will help the Democrats.

It doesn't matter that the Democrats don't have much to look. It doesn't matter that their leadership is almost undefined. People vote emotions. So again, vote for Hill tomorrow, the midterm elections. I think President Trump would lose a significant amount of power. However, wait to you see the next six months, and that's why you stay with us, not only on the YouTube channel, but on Bill O'Reilly.com. We're every day we're telling you the truth.

And we're covering stories that matter to you. All right. And I'll tell you one more thing. President Trump watches the NOSPA News first when he reviews media every day. Bad bunny money. Okay. Now this story, like almost every other story in this country, is really not being told accurately.

I have to confess, I don't care about Baird Bunny. The devious rabbit can do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't break the law, I don't care. I made a terrible prediction in the late 1990s that rap music would not last. I don't think I've ever been more wrong about anything. But I listen to it and I go, oh, come on. This was the M&M. time and how can people why we'll get back to earth wind and fire and the foretops and we'll get back to that kind of good song stuff no so now rap is enormous and uh the money is incredible

that people make putting this stuff out enter bad money a Puerto rican guy worked his way up first in the Latino community. He has 17 Latin Grammy Awards, 17. He's got six overall Grammys. He put out 17 albums, whatever. I'm sorry, seven or eight albums. You can't figure it out. But we can figure out that he is sold 124 million albums.

Now, I've sold 24 million books. Bad Bunny has sold 124 million albums. Whoa. So this is big dollars here. Okay. Enter Apple. Apple wants you to download music from its services. That's what Apple wants you to do because there's a lot of money.

People don't buy albums anymore. They don't buy 45s. They don't do that. They download music, but they pay for it. And Apple has got a lot of competition. So Apple enters into a deal with the National Football League, whereby Apple will spend $50 million to stage the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Apple's got exclusive rights there.

Okay? And Apple will also buy throughout the season advertisements and other things. So Apple is investing in the NFL big time. The quid pro quo is Bad Bunny does the Super Bowl. And I don't anything to do with Rock Nation or Jay-Z or Beyonce. I don't anything do with that. It has to do with, okay, Apple. You're one of our unbelievable sponsors.

And if you would like The Devious Rabbit, their headline, the show at halftime, we'll take it. And that's what happened. Not cultural. The NFL didn't come down and go, oh, we want to gross everybody out. And if you listen to the English translation of Bad Bunny's music, it's kind of, you know, you don't want kids listening to that. It's the usual rap stuff, the usual, you know what it is. Okay, but it wasn't like, yeah, let's have bad bunnies come in and disrupt traditional America. That's not what happened.

That's not the decision. It's the decision was money. Now, got a little complicated when Bad Bunny shows up and gets the Grammy Award and Bad Mouse's country. Then the NFL goes, whoa. we can't have that at the halftime show. Remember, this beams out all over the world. And so the rabbits people were told, in no uncertain terms, none of that. And the bad bunny didn't do it. Okay. Now, Apple makes a ton of money because people all over. the world are getting bad bunnies music, whatever it is, from Apple.

And other Apple artists. So they going in there, they're getting familiar with the brand. I assume that Apple make four times the profit, four times than the investment when this thing is all over. I don't have the stats now, but they're colossal. remember all over the world, particularly in the Spanish-speaking world, in South and Central America, look at the markets for music, which is why you saw Ricky Martin, these other people in there, couldn't get in their fast-off. Final couple of things. Bad money you can get paid a dollar.

They didn't pay. They picked up his expenses for moving his crew into Santa Clara, California, rehearsals, hotels, that kind of thing. Pay them. Okay, because bad bunnies getting all of this record sales, alvo sales. So bad bunny goes, I don't need to get paid. I'm going to get paid on this end for this. And the final thing is people who are upset about bad bunny. As you can see, I'm not upset about bad bunny.

I don't particularly like what he does. I'll never consume that kind of investment. information or entertainment, doesn't mean anything to me. But the ones that scream the loudest against bad money are kind of doing the same thing because they want people that come to their websites or their cable shows or their publications. They want traditional people to go, I hate this bad money. And then I'll come in and hear bad money get smashed. So they're making money from it too.

This is what capitalism is, what America is. Can you find a way to exploit situations for cash? If you do it legally, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I'm not offended when certain commentators go on their social media or their podcasts or their cables and scream about bad money being bad. What do I care? I know exactly what happened. I broke the story.

makes perfect sense to me. This is a country in which we live. But the most strident critics of the devious rabbit make money themselves criticizing him. So in the end, if you want to think about it this way, kind of everybody wins, except the kids who listen to this guy and incorporate what he says into their lives. They don't win. They're the casualties. But otherwise, it's, hey, let's get that bad bunny up and running. Gravy Train City. With us now, Bill O'Reilly, host of the no-spin news, Bill O'Reilly.com, author of Confronting Evil, assessing the Worst of the Worst.

Bill, good buddy in mind, Tony Katz, radio host out in Indianapolis, used to always say that Trump always wins. First Rule of Trump. How does Trump get a win right now to turn the feeling in the country around? Well, I think he's counting on the tax refunds to really gin up the economy. That would be number one. Number two, the administration believes that Iran and Cuba will fall. Now, it is true that most Americans don't vote for foreign policy. The third thing is that the Trump administration is to figure out how to bring down insurance

costs. Insurance, that's the main reason that people are finding working, people are finding themselves short of cash. And if you live in a high tax state like New York, where I am, you're being taxed up to here, and then you've got to pay these enormous insurance costs, and it dwarves food. And you're looking around after the month and going, where is the money going, well, it's going to insurance costs and is going to taxes. And people are getting discouraged, and that's the poll you just cited. Harry Aten over on CNN has talked about this, about President Trump's job approval numbers. Take a listen.

Absolutely crazy in how the American people have totally turned on Donald Trump. Take a look here, Trump's net approval rating on jobs and employment. In January 2025, look at that. Overall, plus nine points. hey, that's pretty good. But down he goes, minus 13 points overall. But you think that's nuts. Take a look at the independents.

They go from plus seven way, way, way down off the screen to minus 30 points. I'm not sure how you get off the screen when it's still on the screen, but the point is made. The question is this bill, does Trump need to acknowledge how people are feeling about insurance costs that people are feeling, and I will borrow a term that is from history, the malaise of America right now? I think so. I think he would be better served than doing the press

goggle, which always devolves into name-calling, which doesn't do anybody any good. I think he should have commercials, television commercials, that he puts out and says, here's the reality of the situation. Now, did talk to the president about having a summit

of all insurance company CEOs at the White House and trying to come to some agreement that the insurance companies would stop gouging the American public. See, all of these things are photo ops, but they give the impression the President of the United States is on the case.

He's trying to stem all this. And the poll numbers are just a daily thing. But I think that President, if he would do some 30-second TV spots, laying out the facts or whatever his vision is, that would help him. You make the point that people don't vote on foreign policy, but Cuba falling and Iran falling would be big wins.

Here's President Trump talking about a deal with Iran, though, just a few minutes ago on Fox business. Do you think a deal with Iran with this current regime, would ever really stick. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I know one thing. They want to make a deal.

They wouldn't talk to anybody else, but they're talking to me. Do we want to deal with Iran, Bill? This is a regime that chants death to America and executes its own people because they protested in hospitals. And somehow, we're told, seemed to thought,

think that a deal with them is a good thing. So one week ago, the president gave me a call and asked me exactly the question that you're asking me. Here's what I answered. A deal at this point in history that would have them completely neutered in the nuclear area and include a release of political prisoners inside Iran is better than the United States bombing the country and killing a bunch of Muslims. That was my answer. I don't know if the mullahs will do that unless they're really up against the wall. And their own lives are at stake. But that was my answer to the president's

question. Okay. Is there not a middle ground that you do to Iran? What, as you pointed out, America is doing to Cuba, and strangle them? There's no middle ground on Iran because of their secret police and army capacity. So if that deal were made, that would emboldened the Persian people who don't want this kind of theocracy any longer. But you've got to let the Persians sort it out. America and Israel, which is what would be the propaganda aspect of it, removing the mullahs, is going to create a lot of turmoil and unintended consequences around the world. Well, we've heard about those before. Where does the president need to be focused in his attention?

And I say that because there seems to be a lot of things that may not be directly helpful to the American people or fix the issues we were talking about at the top. Here's President Trump today, Friday, and Caroline Levitt talking about renaming Penn Station in New York and Dulles Airport. You would want Penn Station and Dulles Airport to be named after you. suggested that to me. Chuck Schumer suggested that to me about changing the name of Penn Station to Trump Station. To your first question about the renaming, why not? It was something the president floated in his conversation with Chuck Schumer. Good politics? Look, you know, if you don't get President Trump by now, you're never going to get him.

His rationale is, I'm going to rebuild dollars, which is a dump, and it is. And I'm going to rebuild Penn Station, which you can't even walk through, which the ceilings are six foot one. I actually have to do the limbo when I go to Penn Station. And because we're going to allot the federal money to do that, I need some credit on it. That's his thinking process. Now, all it is just reinforces the people who don't like Donald Trump, that he's a megalomaniac. But it's not anything of importance at all. It's not.

He's the same guy he was in 2016. At least he's consistently, Leland, it's the same guy. No, that's not changing. I would say he's the same guy. You know him better than I do, but just in terms of watching him and covering him, the same guy since the 1980s, right? That's who Donald Trump is. I've known him 35 years.

He hasn't changed one bit. Not one bit. Okay. So I'm going to give you this the end. Okay, I'm going to give you this at the end. You were on this program a little less than a year ago saying that if things don't turn around by April, there is serious problems, things turning around being the economy. Are you seeing the signs that things are getting better in America? Somewhat.

Somewhat. Anybody who's in the stock market with their 401ks or college funds, they're doing great. That's a lot of folks. Okay. Unemployment, you can get a job. And if you're in a certain part of the country, a well-paying job. So somewhat. But the perception is that prices are too high because they are in very vital areas. And if the midterms were held tomorrow and you were a betting person, I think you'd have to bet that Democrats would win one of the two houses of Congress. All right. Bill O'Reilly, good to see you as always. I know you're on with Cuomo tomorrow night. We'll be watching.

Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? I'm just back from California, so I'm okay, but still a little chilly out here on Long Island. I know I'm whining, but that is the fact. Well, now you covered every inch of the Super Bowl. Tell us about the first, a lot of great parties for that, the week. You know, I'm not a party guy. You know me.

Not a schmooze around a guy. I did attend a few of them in the sense of business. That's what it was primarily about for me, not fun. The highlight was in a long conversation with Governor Newsom. And I watched him, he's really a good retail politician, this guy. A couple of things about it. He doesn't travel with his security guard. which I was very surprised in this day and age.

You know, he kind of flounces around on his own. I didn't see any state police with him. There was one guy that, I guess, was his aide. And I talked to him, I said, where's the state cops? And he goes, well, in this kind of a situation, we don't really need them. I'd be careful. And I told him, said, I'd be careful. But as you know.

He invited me on his podcast. Oh. And if that happens, that will be a major event. Of course, I said, sure. That would be something. And he did that. You know, I didn't suggest it. He just did it.

Well. At the, this is the apex of capitalism, the Super Bowl. A lot of excess. $36 cheeseburgers. Two scrambled eggs, Simone, $22. That's a lot of scrambling. So I didn't, I can't do that even though I wasn't paying on News Nation was picking up to because we're doing a big documentary, the collapse of social order in San Francisco.

And the same thing will happen in New York City one year from today, I predict. Oh, God. Hey, Newsom, not having a lot of security run. As you know, usually a politician that doesn't have a security around them is up to something, you know, playing around doing something. I wouldn't say that. I don't, it's a more casual. thing out there than it is here on the East Coast.

I don't know what he's up to. I don't think he's run the state of California very well. I wouldn't live there in a million years. I'm never going to go back to San Francisco unless I have to. I mean, that city, I've been going there 45 years, was once the jewel of

American cities. It is a dingy, dirty, dangerous place now. Hey, tell me about Roger Goodell. I've met him a couple of times. Seems like a real dull sort of a stern sort of a guy. What's the real Roger Goodell like? He's gregarious, making about $100 million a year.

It's not bad, right? Yeah. Little known fact, I worked with his wife at Fox News, Jane Skinner. A very nice woman. Always look forward to talking to Jane. Goodell is a businessman, and that's why Bad Bunny was at the halftime show, I have a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com explaining it wasn't about

being socially correct or woke or woke or about any of that. That's interesting. Yeah, you read the message. Yeah. So Apple is invested in enormous amount of money in the NFL through advertising

and other ways. And Tim Cook, the CEO, was there. I did not talk to him. I don't, I could have, but I don't know really, I don't even have a lot to say. Compiling information about Bad Bunny, I didn't have it all when I ran into him in this season, not only funding the entire halftime show, and Bad Bunny did not get paid. Did you know that? No, I didn't.

He didn't get a dime. He got expenses for him in his little entourage. Apple wanted bad bunny at the halftime show to sell for Apple Music that's what it was all about so a deal was made and they put up all this money for the NFL

and then the bunny man shows up and that's what happened now it is kind of funny watching all the Democrats the left wing the media especially the older ones have to pretend that they're big bad bunny fans just because it's the latest anti-Trump thing to do. It is comical to watch, isn't it?

Yeah, I guess 80. I mean, I couldn't really hear the malevolent rabbit, but I saw him jumping up and down and grabbing his crotch. You know, it's still there, Bad Bunny. I don't know why you have to check it every three minutes. But I don't care. I don't care. For me, Earth, Wind and Fire would do the halftime show.

but if Dead Bunny wants to hop around on the stage with a bunch of tattooed people riding around as it doesn't matter to me I'm not angry at Bad Bunny I am rude hombre stuff I'll do I get out of that I speak a little bit of Sraving about it's like okay it's not like Michael Jackson

You may loathe him But he was very talented No but he hates Trump And that's enough reason for young people to lash on to him I guess that might be part of it Yeah Hey, just all those people we saw sitting in the stands. What do they pay to go to the Super Bowl?

Well, the top secondary ticket was $1,000. And the cheapest ticket that I saw was $4,000. Oh. And then you go into the hawking the nachos for $15. You know, you're going, all right. You're going to be gow, $250. What? Oh, God.

Well, if you want to read more about Super Bowl week, what really goes on there, check out Bill O'Reilly. dot com. A lot of stuff there. Bill O'Reilly. com. Hey, Epstein hearings, the Clintons, do they have anything to worry about? Committee on my no-spin news broadcast last night.

And like Maxwell did yesterday and never get out of I think I would send her some more Devil's Island or something. She's a horrendous human being. Yeah. Arm that they had.

An Epstein organization. And nobody of course knew There's no positive that comes out of this for either of them. Yeah. And apparently Epstein was very much a part of putting together the Clinton Global Initiative, original funding, all that sort of stuff. He was deeply involved in it. Epstein was a sociopath, lived for two things, his proclivities to him.

He was around. I've gotten a beef with him for a shalom. Yeah. Well, it's an amazing story. Bill O'Reilly, great stuff on the, you go to Bill O'Reilly.com, you can get his column, you can get the TV show, Bill O'Reilly.com, and great stuff on YouTube. I love the YouTube channel. That's a... Thank you. Tonight we have whether the Republicans can hold on in November. And if I had to bet today, I would say no. Oh, well, you can watch that tonight. And we're going to back it, we're going to back it up. But it's not about the two parties. Yeah. And if Trump does a few adjustments,

And these tax refunds help the economy, maybe even a Senate. Well, everybody wants... People are, you know, they're confused. That's the best word. So we'll do that on YouTube. I ran into the head of YouTube. It's on fire. It's a great service.

Well, everybody, take a look at Bill O'Reilly's YouTube channel. It's great stuff. And make sure you go to Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for being with us. Thanks, you have having me, Mark. All right, take care. I want to bring in Bill O'Reilly, whose message of the day, by the way,

was aptly titled, Linking Trump. to Epstein. Bill, great to see you. Thanks for taking the time. I'm just going to set it up my point of view and then I'm going to hand you the floor. I read through those memos in the Epstein files where it basically says, and I get it, I'm a lawyer. We don't have enough evidence to prosecute somebody else. We don't even have videos. We don't have photographs of anyone else abusing these girls. I get it. But when Bondi gets defensive, when she starts talking about the Dow and the accomplishments of the Trump administration, as the attorney general, when she calls Raskin, a fake lawyer, when she gets kind of wishwashy on the redactions, people will look at that

and say, it looks bad, it looks like there's a cover-up, and maybe that's not even the case. And I'm just wondering your opinion today, did she really do herself or the administration any favors? People believe what they want to believe, Jesse, and this story is dragged on and on and on. It's obvious a Democratic Party wants to link Donald Trump to some kind of crime involving Epstein. That evidence has not surfaced. They're never going to stop doing that, and Bondi knows it. So what she decided to do was go in and throw some hand grenades and just blow the whole thing up and bring attention to the charade that it really is.

We make a couple of points. So the unfortunate women who were abused, and I believe a lot of them were, when they stood up, My question would have been to them, well, you have the court to sue civilly. There are thousands of lawyers who would take your case free. Why don't you pursue that end? And then in depositions, if there's something that is shocking or true, or you can prove it, then you hand it to the Justice Department. Did anybody ask that question? Do you hear that question ask, Jesse?

So they would say litigation has already been pursued over the years and there have been settlements. The counter argument would be this is all about whether or not the DOJ and the FBI was thorough in their investigation. And when it came to them standing up, it didn't seem that Bondi had a great answer. Just to push back on something. You know, the idea is, do people care about this? Is this a distraction? You know, there was a poll. 65% say that the Epstein transparency is important to forming their opinion on Trump. Republicans 60% on that, Independence, 59% in that.

And you and I both know this was something that the Trump administration really ran on, that they were going to get to the bottom of this. And I just wonder, is this backfired? Well, I don't know what the bottom may be. If you have civil litigation and there are settlements, then, all right, you can bring that, even though it might be secret as far as the public is concerned, to the Justice Department. I mean, it does not seem like this whole thing

is being run responsibly. It's a stunt to get Trump. And all Trump supporters know that. Now, whether the independents and people who don't follow the news, I don't know what their frame of references. I mean, when you have a document that comes out and says Donald Trump, in 2006,

call the Palm Beach Sheriff to say, go get Epstein's evil. I mean, if you're involved with Epstein, you don't do that. And then it's ignored. It was absolutely ignored by the media. That was the big headline yesterday. Media didn't cover it because it doesn't want to cover that. And I'll tell you, despite that, I got to get your opinion on this. You had Ilan Omar, who basically called the president a pedophile. She posted the leader of the pedophile protection party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files at least in Somalia They execute pedophiles not elect them you and I can both agree I think most people should agree that cross the line How do you anticipate the president is going to respond to that?

Legally, maybe I should ask I don't think you should respond at all. I think that the House of Representatives should bring Ms. Omar up a into the Ethics Committee and sanction her for this kind of outrageous behavior. It's the only way it's ever going. And she doesn't care. Omar doesn't care about this. She doesn't care about what happened. She's just trying to get famous and then denigrate her opposition.

She hates Trump. Okay. Everyone knows what this is. It's a carnival of deceit. Three million documents, four years under Biden. They had all of the. information. Everybody knows that. So, you know, I'm not going to say we should leave the case. I don't believe that. I'd like justice to be done. There was a cover up. I certainly think

that should be adjudicated and the FBI should arrest the people who covered it up. Former Justice Department officials, current, whatever it may be. But let's stop with the nonsense. So I knew Attorney General Bondi was going to blow this thing up. why would she legitimize it? So she went in and she blew it up. And that's what happened. But she definitely did that. And look, there was a part where she talked about, you know, this ongoing investigation.

We wonder if it's the one connected to New York. So all eyes will be on that as well. Bill O'Reilly, thanks so much for taking the time. I appreciate it. I've been listening to the morning, a couple of notes here. Michael McDonald, one of the best singers. They're kind of a morose guy, not Mr. Friendly. Okay.

Oh, is that right? Oh, I ran into with the conducting derby now. It could just be me. No, no, no, no. It's not just you. Lurafino, who knows all these musicians. He's just smoked dope with the band. He's actually nodding, yes, he's in that Van Morrison-Donald Fagan category.

Yeah, he's not a pleasant guy. And when he walks out to the stage, he doesn't even acknowledge the audience. He's like, you know, his head is down. You don't have to. I mean, I'll go to see him again. I mean, that Duke's a September thing with Boscags and, Fagan and him was fantastic. Wow.

Wow. You couldn't get a better concert than that. That is great. You know, it's like that, too, comes out and doesn't pay any attention to the crowd, and I saw him last summer. Bob Dylan, he doesn't even address the crowd. He comes out with his head down,

plays a couple of his songs, not even his best songs, and then he walks off the stage. Yeah, it's probably better than he does that before they beat him up. I guess you're going to pay a lot of money to hear hits and you don't get the heads, you know? Right. Right.

That's not. Fagan did that in Boston. the Orphium Theater. And I almost rushed the stage. I almost got him. The brain of his hits and people are going, what are we listening to this for? Anyway, a couple of things.

I was at the Super Bowl, as you know. And you were talking about the malevolent rabbit and all that. The big story there was why was he there in the first place? And, of course, I broke this story on Bill O'Reilly.com. And my YouTube,

don't forget my YouTube channel, which is soaring now. It's YouTube.com slash Bill O'Reilly. So here's what happened. This is a fascinating thing. Apple invested between $50 and $100 million in the NFL just this year. And it came down to advertising an infrastructure. What is infrastructure?

That's the Super Bowl halftime show. Apple financed it. In return, the deal was that the malevolent rabbit would be the headliner. Now, why did Apple put all of that money into the NFL treasury? Because they'll make four times that worldwide on downloads, music downloads. It was a pure business deal. Interesting. And nothing to do with Jay-Z or Beyonce or any of that.

And that's what happened. I buy it. You know, I saw something else. That's a great job. By the you, Bill O'Reilly, great job. my competition, but not, well, he does sports, but he's on the same time. Bumer Ossius and told the story, talking about California, I know you were out there doing a piece on the demise of San Francisco.

I can't wait to see it. He tells a story that each NFL player who wins a Super Bowl receives about $180,000, about $180,000. But Bumer says that when you play a football game out there, that you've got to pay something that they basically call the jock tax. Right. So after Sam Donald, the quarterback of the Seahawks, the former Jet won the Super Bowl, he got a check for 180, but it cost him, this is unbelievable, it cost him about 250,000

to spend the week there in California to play the game. So his point was, only in California, can a guy win a Super Bowl, and he's out $70,000? Isn't it insane? And it's absolutely true. accountants will write off a whole bunch of stuff and they'll throw stuff on there. So he'll come out at least even. But the state of California is so extreme in its taxation. It is double what I pay for a gallon of gas on Long Island.

Double twice as much. Wow. Because they load up the taxes on the gasoline. They want everybody to go back to covered wagons. And then you see a massive expenditure, so I give you one. And New York is heading in this direction. So, ma'am, and Donnie wants to do exactly what the California authorities have done. That's what he wants to do.

Right, and to your point, he was actually in Albany just yesterday, our jihad boy mayor, talking about raising taxes again. Oh, absolutely. He's going to, he'd do everything possible to take all the money. money away from successful people. So I'm doing a story about the collapse of social order in San Francisco. And we're going out there 45 years. It used to be the best American city, the most beautiful, the most opportunistic.

I loved going out there. It is a dingy dump. You know what's funny about you saying that? I traveled just about every beautiful city in this country when I was doing syndicated sports. Talk Radio, my former host, Scott Kaplan, 20-plus years ago. We did something, Bill, it was called, The Party with the People Tour. So we were on about 90 cities across America, big, beautiful cities, and we would go do three shows, three shows in that city.

I'm talking 20-something years ago. And I came home from San Francisco. He went to cover the U.S. Open Championship in San Francisco when Tiger Woods was at the top of his game. And I said to Danielle, the beautiful wife, I said, I want to move there. I loved it. Like you said. And the weather is good. Yes.

Tony Bennett and I were skipping around fishermen's war singing. Now I left my heart. Now you go there and there's a pall over the city. Why? Because there's an army between 10 and 30,000. Now just picture that. 10 and 30,000. Nobody can get an accurate number, all right, of miscreants who roam the city.

Some of them live outside. Some of them live in these hobbles. that the state provides, which are so dangerous, that the homeless people won't go into the shelter because they're run by dope dealers. The dope dealers are inside these places, and they're armed, and they'll kill you. So that's the situation. More than a billion dollars have been spent by San Francisco and the state of California try to house these people, but there's no drug test that you get in the house. Jesus. There's nothing.

No standards. Now, here's the kicker. You know, selling all the dope in San Francisco and parts of Oakland. Honduran illegal aliens. Honduran. They run the dope trade. And they're open 24-7. And wherever they set up, that's where the homeless people go.

Okay, to get their dope. So not only the Honduran's control, usually I'm like that in a city, you'll have a joint operation between federal and state to get those people, to get the pushers. California will not cooperate with the federal government to bring in the Honduran illegal alien, fentanyl, and heroin dealers. No shock there. You know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a lot of us became aware. of illegal aliens committing heinous crimes. At least I did in San Francisco when many years ago a beautiful, not that it matters, but she was beautiful. A young, beautiful, blonde girl by the name of Kate Steinley was murdered on the pier in San Francisco,

as it turns out to be by an illegal. And I know, Bill, that, you know, you talk about the lies, the lies, the lies put up by the media every day. No one has exposed to media, maybe outside of treas. Trump more than you, including Trump probably. And they talk about 14% that's the number of ICE detains, 14% of really bad criminals. That's not even close. It's much higher than that. So it kind of all started in San Francisco where you just were, but how about the lies that the media continues to feed to the public about how many actual dangerous people ICE has put away?

It's infuriating. So the Democratic Party is now using only 14% of, of ICE detainees are violent criminals. How many times have you heard that? A lot. Okay. Okay. So here's the con.

Drug dealing is not considered a violent crime. Child pornography, not considered. No, no, stop. Not considered a violent crime. Really? Okay. Do you why, if you run over someone in your car and the person's dead, not considered violent crime? Oh, come on.

Domestic abuse, not considered a violent crime. All thefts, everything, not considered, all fraud, like we saw in Somalia in Minnesota, not considered violent. Clearly. And the Democratic Party knows this. So they put out a lie that ICE is rounding up poor hotel workers and farmers. And then they use a 14% number, which is totally bogus to justify abolishing ICE. It doesn't get more heinous now. You have CNN doing this.

You have the major liberal newspapers doing it. NBC News does it. Good Morning America does it. On and on and on and on. I mean, when I was in San Francisco, we did very thorough reporting. you would have loved it because I actually had to go into the tenderloin where these

people are living on the streets and doing all kinds of insane things in public Wow So I walked in there I did have a security guard A security guy, corrections officer in California It looked like a hell's angel I said get me the meanness looking guy

And they did So this guy was trailing me All right But I'm walking in and I'm talking to these people they thought Dirty Harry was back. Good one. Good one. So this was a real hands-on

reportage that I was doing. I didn't know the Hondurans were controlling all this. Yeah. And if anybody informs on the Hondurans... But that... No, they cut off their hands. Oh, come. Jesus. It's unbelievable. They cut off their hands with machetes.

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I'll promote the hell out of it. I can't wait to watch it, honestly. There's one street that I am curious about because it is the famous street in San Francisco, and that is hate and Ashbury. Were you there? What does that look like? That's just basically a residential neighborhood now. It doesn't really have.

The homeless and mentally ill, they go where the dope dealers are. I did a stand-up in front of Nancy Pelosi's mansion in Pacific Heights. Yeah, yeah. A beautiful, how? Oh, my God. Did you know that Nancy Pelosi and her husband are worth $300 million? I thought they're actually worth more. I do know because she, and again, this is just alleged, but if Martha Stewart went to jail,

let's just say Nancy's got a lot of great information over the years on her stocks. She knew about in video before anybody else. Whatever she did, that's up to somebody else to look at. I can't get her personal finances. But I can tell you, she doesn't have to see this because where she is in San Francisco, you can drive around it, all right? You don't have to go through it. And all the politicians are wealthy people, here's a kicker.

Newsom, former mayor, he doesn't live in San Francisco. No. It was a Marin over the gate. Right. Okay. And he's my new best friend. He invited me on his podcast. Can you imagine if that happens? I wasn't going to say anything because, you know, I don't want to ruin it for some of the listeners, but you did send me a picture. And the caption, the caption you texted me under the picture was what you just said, quote, my new best friend. Well, when I'm at these suarez, these are the wealthiest people in the world at the swarees, came

Cook, the Apple guy, and they're all there. You don't talk politics. I mean, it's inappropriate. So I was just, I was asking about logistical things, you know, where do you live, how your kids doing, that kind of thing. And he is, and I watched him, he is unbelievably

slick. He's got charisma. There's no question. He's got charisma. You know, he looks good. He's a good talker. People when they meet him tend to like him, if that sounds familiar. He's very affable. Yeah. And he and and he and I engaged for a while, and he was funny because everybody in the room was going all.

And Nancy Pelosi was the exact opposite. Oh, really? So Pelosi sachets in, early 80s, with MC Hammer. Stop. That's who her date was. For real? Yeah. Deegams running over to me, very polite and respectful.

Yeah. Okay. Nancy takes one looks. I didn't know an 83-year-old woman could sprint. Oh, my God, that bad, huh? With high heels. You know what's funny, but you know what's funny? Look, I understand people who don't, like people who don't know Trump, they don't like him.

And I maintain all the time, if you get to know President Trump, it's almost impossible not to like him. Same thing with you. But what's funny about you is because you had all those years on Fox News, people tend to believe that you're MAGA, you're MAGA with a capital M, you're Rush Limbaugh on television, and you're anything but you're one of the most down-the-middle guys I've ever talked. to. That's part of the reason why I think you're a genius, because you're able to do what you did on that type of TV station after all those years. So what I'm saying is, if Nancy Pelosi ever really listened to you, really listened, I don't think she'd run away from you. I don't know about that.

Is she a radical leftist? Yeah, yeah. See, there are two types of Democrats. There are the regular Democrats who are liberal people. Who are those? And then there's a bunch of them there. Really? Willie Brown, a former mayor of San Francisco. Former, former, former.

David Patterson, former governor of New York. My point is, if I put you, if I sat you down and played Russian roulette and said, if you can't name 10, one of these bullets is going to work, you'd probably die. You can name them. They're around, but they don't say anything because they're scorned and mocked if they do by the radical left, which controls. social media and the money flow into the Democratic Party. Look at Schumer. Schumer used to portray himself as a populace guy from Brooklyn. He's looking out for the folks.

You wrote a book about the bailies. And now he's Che Guevard. Right. Well, used to. That's right. If I see Schumer, I'm going to give him a little red beret. You should. But that's the point.

So there are no moderates left because, to your point, every one of them, every one of them is scared to death. They're scared of AOC. They're scared. So when they run, they run as moderates. The only guy I can think of is John Betterman. That's it. Yeah, but then, look, there's no doubt that they're frightened because social media will rip them up if they don't tow the far left line.

But they're out there. But they're not effective. They don't represent the Democratic Party. Look, when you oppose voter ID, which is what the Democratic Party is doing, for no reason. There isn't one reason on earth to oppose that. No, they have a reason. It actually works for them. That is that all these illegals that Democrats allow into the country,

you're basically guaranteed their vote. But that's illegal. That's a crime. Well, they don't care. Well, but they're not going to say, hey, I'm against voter ID because I want to commit a crime with illegal aliens voting. They don't have to say it. They don't do that.

They try to come up with some Jim Crow thing. Oh, please. Right. when every state would be required to go to your house and hand you an ID, if you were impoverished or you were infirmed, this state would have to provide it for you and go and give it to you. And they still oppose it. So that is so radical left off the chart. It's insane. And then when you have the, as we just talked about, the violence level of 15 million people coming in here.

and when you read Confronting Evil, you see my stat, that 15% of the whole world population is evil. Do the math. All right. It's about 2 million criminals are here committing crimes, and the Democratic Party does not want to remove them. So you're saying yourself in a sane world where people were really paying attention, the Democratic Party would probably be dissolved at this point,

and the mug lumps would come back or whoever. The wigs. Let's bring the wigs back. You are so right. They'd be back, but we're not there. And as much as you and I break down their party, 95% of the media breaks down. My party, not yours.

You're down the middle. My party and says, God awful things about us. Jimmy Kim will call me a racist this week because I wanted the halftime show in English. That makes me a racist. Bill, another amazing conversation. I'm really looking forward to this piece on San Francisco.

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