Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - August 23, 2025

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Visit Flyportor.com and actually enjoy economy. Welcome to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. The press coverage is pitiful. And, you know, look, I compete against all these people. I'm up front about it. We're 10 times better than they are every day. If you're watching them, you're wasting your time. They just don't report the truth.

They're all ideologically infected. They're not interested in giving you what's really happening. not only on Trump and Putin, but on anything. It's all spin. That's why this program is the no spin news. All right, I'm going to run it down. MSNBC got booted today from NBC. You might have known that.

Changing their name. What's the point? Everybody knows what it is. One of their people is Nicole Wallace. She used to be a communications person for Bush the younger in his first term, sold out for money, makes about a million dollars over there. But now she works for a different company because NBC booted them. Here's what she said. This was for Trump, a television production that may have been rooted in different motives, but one of them was likely to change the topic of news coverage.

It succeeded in that. We've all been covering this all day, for better or for worse. But clearly, Trump was not in control of anything. I mean, Putin was the alpha all day long from Trump holding on his plane and waiting for him, like a, you know, middle schooler waiting for their first date. Yeah, so Trump should have split, right? Go down to Juneau, maybe out a couple of cocktail. You know, talk about fifth grade.

It's just ridiculous. Trump organizes a summit with Putin to try to end the Ukraine war to distract from another story. I mean, come on. This is just, you're sitting there and you go, I've never seen stupidity like this on national television in my life. I've been doing this 50 years. I've never seen stupidity like this. The second one is ambassador to Russia, Michael McFall. He was Obama's guy over there in Moscow.

Hates Trump. Roll the tape. So Ukraine is actually worse off under President Trump. And this myth that he keeps going back to, and Putin did him the courtesy of underscoring the myth, that there would be no war and everything's better under President Trump. The facts on the ground are exactly the opposite. And this guy just isn't telling the truth, okay? So he says that Ukraine is actually worst off under President Trump.

Trump was president four years, 16 to 20. Putin didn't invade Ukraine. So you're telling me now, Mr. Ambassador, that now that Putin has invaded under Biden, okay, that they're better off than they were under Trump when there was no invasion? That's what your point is? Come on. Again, this is stupidity. rank stupidity. And these people don't care because they didn't pay.

Next sound bite. For heed Zakaria, CNN. Go. Look, the atmospherics of the entire summit was somewhat cringeworthy. The fact that Putin was being welcomed on American soil. The fact that Trump gave him literally a red carpet treatment, the kind he has rarely given to any, you know, a democratic ally of the United States. So what? You nitwit? You don't have anything. You're like Bolton. You got nothing. So what? He comes to the United States, poop. If they had a deal, wouldn't that have been fantastic? Does it matter where they are? Jeez. And finally, one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

Mark Halpern, he's a journalist, he does a lot of internet stuff. He was on, uh, he was on, uh, He's been all over the place, this guy. Here's what he says, go. I think they're going to arrest him. I think they're going to arrest him. I think that's the whole thing is to trick him to come into the U.S. are going to arrest him. He's a war criminal.

I mean, really? He says before Putin shows up that U.S. authorities are going to arrest him. All right. I haven't hit my point. I think I have. Joining us now from Boston is a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, one of the top schools of the country, Tufts University. Mikhail Troyitzky, I think I have it right.

Doctor, you're kind enough to join us a few weeks ago, and we really appreciate you coming back. So my analysis, where am I going wrong here? Well, clearly, President Trump is trying a different approach to the resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war. So apparently three years of this war before Donald Trump took office showed that there's no way under the circumstances to force justice upon Russia. in the way that Russia has to be held accountable for its invasion and the atrocities and so forth. So Donald Trump is trying a different approach. He is trying to convince the sides, including Russia,

to end the war while keeping the stick in his hand as well. He did hint about the possibility. Did you object to the red carpet in Putin coming? to Alaska, did you have any problem with any of that? Well, I mean, it depends on your optics. No, no, I want you. I want you. So you know both countries.

You know Putin. You know you're one of the top experts here. When you watch that exposition. Aggressers do not get red carpet treatment, but in a situation when the decision was made and it is supported by virtually everyone. including Ukraine and Europe and others, including, I guess, China, India, that there needs to be a negotiation. Then you have to give the parties in that negotiation some kind of treatment to just make sure

that there's nothing, you know, personal that can prevent the exposition. You understood why it was happening. Now, Trump clearly was disappointed in the outcome. He wanted to get something. I understand that he was assured he would. And then, of course, of course, evil Vlad didn't live up to what was suggested in advance. You're not surprised by that, are you? No, I'm not.

Of course, Putin was supposed to be invasive. Yeah, and that's what Donald Trump, I think, got out of him in Alaska. Well, you know, Putin's words means nothing. And that's why Trump's angry because he believes that Putin is manipulating him. But now he's got to find a seam. And the only scene that I can think, and you read my column, A Dancing with the Devil, is harsh, really harsh economic measures against Moscow. I don't see any other way to force Putin to stop the madness.

Do you, is there another way to do it? I think speaking softly is clearly one sort of part of reaching a deal, but yeah, the stick is there as well. And I believe there are ways to kind of put additional pressure on the Kremlin, short of having a showdown, a trade showdown with China or India over buying Russian oil. And I think the Trump administration has been doing some of that. at least in the run-up to this, to today's meetings in the White House. So, yeah, yeah, pressure needs to be maintained. And I think Donald Trump does indicate that he wants a resolution soon. He wants a decision.

No, he's going to have to, he's going, but I don't think it should be made public. You don't have to do all this stuff in public. You can do it behind the scenes, a lot of this stuff. I understand that Putin's running out of money to fund his war machine. Is that what you're hearing? Yeah, of course. I mean, even if you don't look at the figures, and of course, statistics coming out of Russia is certainly completely skewed these days. You cannot know what to believe and whatnot. But running a war, waging a war like that for three and a half years is unbelievably expensive. I mean, you can just refer to the cost of the wars, the United States was waging in the past. This is very expensive. And in Russia, what the Kremlin What Putin wants is to keep the semblance of normalcy for everyone else, for those who are not involved in the fighting and those who do not want to make money on volunteering to fight. And that puts additional pressure on Russian state coffers. So for sure, you cannot go on like that forever.

You'll destabilize your economy. And I guess the Kremlin has finally come to terms to that. And they did loosen up some of their conditions to end the war, which made the Alaska meeting possible and today's engagement also all right professor we really appreciate it keep an eye on it and uh thanks for your time tonight you're listening to the no spinoos weekend edition all right the other big story is there is another i think this is the 10 000 one um peace cease fire whatever in gossip this comes from gutter and egypt and it would involve all the 20 hostages that are purportedly still alive, being exchanged for Palestinian prisoners,

that's Hamas, terrorists, and then there will be a ceasefire, and then humanitarian aid would be allowed to go into Gaza. That's the framework. Now, the terrorists, Hamas said, yeah, we'll do it. How many times is they said that in the past? You lose count. We don't know what Netanyahu and Israel are going to do about that, but I have to report it.

And, you know, that thing is so irrational, so out of control, because you're dealing with evil people. You're dealing with terrorists who kill it. People don't understand that these Iranian mullahs, the Hamas, the ISIS, the al-Qaeda, would kill every single person on the planet who didn't conform to their insane theocracy. They'd kill everybody. Did you know that fast-growing trees is the biggest online nursery in the USA? Thousands of plants, more than 2 million happy customers. They have everything your yard needs, fruit trees, privacy trees, shrubs, more.

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Mark Levin, you know him. He comes on occasionally on this program. We're pleased to have him. He's got a new book app. On Power. Very apropos, of course. Hit number one on the New York Times list. time for Mr. Levin. Very impressive. A radio guy, 300 stations. He leads into me on our

flagship, W.A.B.C. in New York City. And he joins us now from Leesburg, Virginia. About that, I don't have a red carpet I can give you down there. I would have done that for you, Levin. You know I would have. You're a good man, Bill, no matter what they say. You're a good guy. And they say a lot. And let me say something out. I really couldn't disagree with the thing you said. Putin is a monster. He's a genocidal maniac. He's only getting worse. You make a great point. Even today, he's trying to bomb the hell out of the civilian centers in Ukraine. And let us not forget, in 1994, Soviet Union, well, what was then Russia, signed a deal that Ukraine would turn all their nukes over to Russia. And in exchange, the United States,

Britain, and Russia would protect their boundaries. And, of course, he violated that. So the key here is, you know, Putin wants all this land, and he also wants those areas where the Ukrainians are really dug in. And they believe they have a very strong line of defense beyond which the Russians have been unable to go. And he wants that too. And, of course, the issue for the Ukrainians is, well, look, how are we supposed to keep doing this? We need security here. This guy's untrustworthy.

As Bill says, as you say, this guy is very. really a head case. And as he's written, Bill, and he's written at length or somebody did for him, it doesn't really matter. He believes it. This is just the first step. He thinks he's more aligned with Stalin than he is with Gorbache. Stalin is his idol. When you read my book, you'll see he models this whole thing on Stalin. But I have a very, very tough question for you right now. You ready for that? I'm barely. All right. this world who's more powerful, Trump or Putin? I don't think the answer is that tough. I think Trump is more powerful. I'll tell you why.

Right now Putin's economy is a shambles. When you're relying on North Korean troops who don't know how to fight, and you are to some extent, and you were relying on Iran for your drones, and you're relying on China and India to pump up your economy, you're relying on a of outside factors. And you mentioned in your opening, there have been about a quarter of a million Russians who have died in this war. And on top of that, you have about 900 to a million casualties. In addition of that, they're taking more incoming in terms of death and casualties than the Ukrainians are. You look at their equipment and went back and looked at this. They're losing tanks and personnel carriers at a clip of about five to one compared to the Ukraine.

And so, plus Donald Trump has basically opened the spigot as much as Europe wants to buy our military equipment, he's going to sell it to them. And also this issue of tariffs against India and China to get them to stop buying oil, Trump could pull that trigger. He's talking about secondary. He hasn't done China yet because he's still working on. But I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Go ahead. In this negotiation, because I'm going on the framework of your book, in this negotiation, Putin holds more power than Trump. And the reason is that Putin knows that NATO and the United States will not go to World War III to save Ukraine.

What do you think? Well, I don't think that's the test. I think the test is whether or not they'll go to World War III. Putin is more concerned about holding on to what he has, then Trump leaves office. Then he figures he'll be able to roll over any Democrat and most Republicans. That's my concern. I don't think he's thinking about World War III with Donald Trump a position. See, he saw what Trump did with Iran, and he knows from his perspective, Trump is a wild card.

He's not sure what Trump's going to do. And most people aren't. But Trump is not the isolationist, as some of the fake magists say he is. He's not an appeaser. He's not a pacifist. He's a realist in many respects. So I also think that he saw what Trump was capable of about three or four weeks ago when Trump lost his patience with him and started to choke India and was planning on choking China

and, again, was willing to flow arms into Ukraine through. you're purchasing them. And I think that helped bring him to the table because my concern is that after Trump leaves, he's going to say, all right, let me deal with Trump. Let me see what I can get under Trump. Let me, you know, I'll take what I can get. And then we'll wait out. See, they're long-term.

Yeah, we'll violate everything when the next president comes in. But why hasn't President Trump sanctioned the banks yet? So he could have, he could have done it. He could have basically said, look, no banking. corporation in the world who does business with Moscow in any way can do business with America or the EU that breaks the banks. They can't do business with Putin. It starves Putin.

Why hasn't he done it yet? Maybe he will. Oh, he might. But what I've done? He's only in their seven months. He's in their seven months. And he's been doing a hell of a lot. and in a lot of parts of the globe.

So he may well do that. But maybe he doesn't want to open up yet other fronts of economic battle yet until he's done everything he can. I don't speak for them. They don't sit down and explain it to me. I'm just giving you my judgment. That's still on the table. And even more than that, choking off their ability to bring any revenue in through their oil sales, that's the killer. Yeah.

And you're talking about that second land. level of sanctions, which would be the bank. If he wanted to destroy Russia, he can destroy Russia economically the way Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union. He can. And that's why, to answer your initial question on power, Trump has the cards. Number one, Ukraine is not our country. They're an ally. Number two, they're a victim. Number three, they've done enormous damage to Russia. Russia has done enormous damage to Ukraine. The Ukraine has done more damage to Russia than anybody thought was even possible. In fact, every country that looks at Russia now sees that they're not the conventional military threat that they want to work.

They're a nuclear threat. There's no question about that. Yeah, that's the problem. They're not the same conventional military threat that they were before. I think Putin's place to work through Trump as best you can and then wait for the next president to make further moves. Okay, and that's why I think there will be a deal, but China is the key to it, because China could speed it up. Now, let's segue way into Hamas and Israel. A couple of questions, because I follow your commentary on this, and you've had some feuds with people that you believe are anti-Semitic

and are shaping their foreign policy against Israel because they simply don't like Jews. One of a little more clarification on this. So in college campuses, the Progressive Left, which has always despised Israel since 1949 and Harry Truman, the Progressive Left is always despised it thinks it's a fascist state, thinks it stole the land from the Arabs, you know the whole history better than anyone. Okay. If a person buys into that, a younger person, say at Harvard or wherever, do they automatically hate Jews? No, and I've never said that. I think when you platform, holocaust deniers, and you platform people who are sympathetic to Hitler and are

trashing Churchill, in other words, frauds, or when you platform people who are, in fact, out of the closet, anti-Semites, that makes you an anti-Semite, too. If you're marching in the streets against the war, that doesn't make you an anti-Semite, makes you buffoon because the terrorists or the terrorists, the same people hit us on 9-11, and we'll have a different type of debate about that. But when you have comics and others who come on and flat out spew, you know, the KKK lines, the neo-Nazis lines, or when you have people talking about the river to the sea, when you're marching on that, you're talking about the extermination of the Jews. Yeah, you are what you are. And many of them are proud of it. Oh, there's no doubt about it.

It's a tough line sometimes to delineate. But here's the power quotient there. So you've got Israel, and I open up confronting evil with the October 6 attack to demonstrate to the reader. You want to know what evil is. Here's what evil is. And we have unbelievable description of what happened on that day. And that's how I kick off the book. But now you have a power, Israel, very capable of defending its own people, has to be, has to be, against a movement, Hamas, has no rules.

There's not one rule. They'll kill babies. They'll hide behind women. They'll blow up hospitals. They'll steal food for people who are dying. We all know that. So that, again, makes it very difficult for an Israel to negotiate anything with people who got no rules, no compunctions, word means nothing, correct?

That's 100%, which is why this whole thing is rather bizarre. I think, and to have Qatar, which is a terrorist regime, and Qatar, which funded Hamas and protected its leaders and they're billionaires. who are still alive. Qatar is a very dangerous country. As far as I'm concerned in the United States, it's got its money everywhere and in both parties and in the executive branch and Congress and everywhere else. And both, as I say, it doesn't matter even matter who's in charge of what. It's a very dangerous situation. And so as an example, you have Qatar and Egypt, which is on the border with Gaza, which has a real wall and will not allow any of those people

out. I mean, even Netanyahu says, well, why don't you take them, Egypt? You keep negotiating. You're mediating. And you've got the whole Sinai Peninsula that we gave back. And Egypt wants none of them, not one of them. So they've closed the gate. They have the wall. They won't let them out. Qatar keeps supporting Hamas. They used to do it openly. Now it does it behind the scenes. And those are the mediators. Those are the people negotiating. And so it's a very strange thing. You know, Bill, what I see here is more of this Marxist model, this press or oppressed. And the media, in Europe, in our country, and even some in Israel, have turned Israel into the oppressor. Why? Because Israel can actually defend itself now.

Israel needs the equipment. It's a tiny country and nine million people. It doesn't have massive industry, but it's got massive technological know-how. And it's got warriors who are willing to fight because they know the alternative is death. And so all their people, they fight, they come out of the cafes, they have to go wherever they go. But you're right. The idea that you negotiate with terrorists as if they're terrorists. They're called terrorists for a reason. Because I don't believe in rules.

But you have to. And to Trump's credit, he has neutralized guitar a bit. And it's the way he operates. I don't know what his personal feelings are about it. I don't know if he has any. we centralize them. Last question for you. Is there a television network news operation in America that gives Israel a fair play? Well, I think you do. I think there are certain podcasters who do. I think Fox does. I think Newsmax does. I think the rest of them. Not that I watch them that much.

But like on these Sunday shows, they're absolutely horrific. New York Times, Washington Post. They have a whole history of being horrific about this, and they are. They take the Hamas numbers and they regurgitate them. They bring in the most repulsive politicians, whether it's Bernie Sanders or people like that, who come on. And he isn't out of the closet Marxist. And, you know, he went to a kibbutz in Israel, a young man that was known as a Stalinist

Gobutz. This guy's, and they bring them on like you just your average politician. They bring on people like that who will speak what they know, who will say what they know. So I would say very few. In Europe, it's gotten horrific too. So there's very few. Yeah, even England and Ireland. Even in England and Ireland. Even in England and Ireland, Israel cannot get a fair shape. No. But you, but I have to say, you know, we're friends. but they're friends I disagree with. You're very honorable. You play right down the middle.

And playing it down the middle means sometimes you've got to take a side. The middle is what's the truth, what's the morality, what's virtue, what's the belief system. And as you point out, it's terrorists versus a democratic civilization. And so when you play it down the middle, it doesn't mean six terrorists versus six Israel. You play it down the middle. The middle is, okay, who's the aggressor? who's acting out of good faith, who is conducting themselves in a highly immoral way,

and so forth and so on. So when you play that down the middle, it shouldn't be that hard to know who's right and who's wrong, and that doesn't mean you agree with everything, but it means ultimately there's a good guy and a bad guy. Well, you're astute enough to understand because you're a historian like I am, that there are facts in this world.

And usually when you gather the facts, the truth becomes known. So on a Putin, you know, you'll remember in the beginning of the Ukraine war, you had high-profile people in the United States sympathizing with Putin. It was like you had him, you had Joseph Kennedy and Lindbergh sympathizing with Hitler. You had it. It was there. Okay? But I tore them the pieces on the facts. And I just, last week, I just annihilated it.

Ambassador John Bolton. I annihilated the man because he hates Trump so much that whatever Trump does, he's going to oppose for personal reasons. And thereby he helps Putin. Okay, he helps Russia by doing it. That's called gathering the facts. And then the truth then exposes itself. And I think that's why you and I have been successful all these years. The book is on power. Number one, New York Times bestseller, which makes them deliriously happy. They love to put Mark Levin and Bill O'Reilly's name at the top of the bestseller list. You know, I think they have parties, Levin. When you and I hit number one, I think they go out and have a bunch of drinks and, hey, those guys have done it again, you know? Well, let me say one thing on your behalf. You send me an early copy of your book.

Obviously, I've been busy with mine. I started, I just broke the back of it starting last night. it's another killer book. It's just a fantastic book for the reasons you say. You bring the facts to the table and then you reason through the facts. I ask people to do the same thing. Just reason through these things.

Right. Stop with the agenda-driven garbage when you have to just struggle to make your position even coherent. You know you're not on the right side. All right, Mark. It's always a pleasure. Hope we can do it again soon.

Thank you for taking the time. I know you're the business kind of question. Well, you'll be coming on my show. God bless you, brother. You take care of yourself. And it won't be boring. When you and I get together, it's never boring. Okay.

We'll see you later. This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. So what happens, though, when an elected official on Capitol Hill, a senator or a congressperson, goes over the line and tries and does some. or says something is so outrageous that Americans are going, this isn't legitimate criticism. I'm going to run you soundbites from Congresswoman Crockett, Texas, and Congresswoman, Congressman Dan Goldman of New York.

Those are two radical left loons. I'm going to run you the sound bites. Then I'm going to give you an AOC quote. So let's go to the tape first. Roll it. Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of . Okay, we know that. Yes, yes. He is. He is. He is. But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this.

It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated. Now, Goldman apologized for using the word eliminated, but he did use it. And it's a threat. All right, here's Cortez, quote, President's disastrous decision of bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War powers. He was impulsively risked launching a war. Monsoneros for generations absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment, unquote.

She said this while U.S. planes were in the air coming back from bomb. on its nuclear facility. This woman said it. So immediately I got in contact with the House of Representatives Ethics Committee, shared by Congressman Michael Guest of Mississippi. They blew us off at first and just said, we're not able to accommodate your request. Some stupid, ridiculously disrespectful thing. So I basically told the Congress, I mean, gas, you better wise up. Okay. And then they assigned somebody a big shot in his crew to talk to me off the record and I had a civil conversation with that person. I was told that this is all confidential in the House Ethics Committee so we can't

tell you anything. That's essentially what they told me. And I said, that's really not acceptable. So because we do due diligence here on the No Spin News, we got in touch with a former member of the House Ethics Committee from Mississippi. I wanted to keep it very close to home. So joining us now from Flowood, Miss, is Greg Harper. He served four years in the House, and he was on the House Ethics Committee. So I was surprised when, and you know guests pretty well, you're a statement. I was surprised when it was so rude, number one. And then they said, look, we can't tell you anything because everything is confidential.

Is that true? That's very true. And, Bill, you know, I had the privilege of serving in the House for 10 years, and four of that was on the Ethics Committee. And I've never seen Michael Guess do anything but his job and do it well. And so I would tell you that it is a unique committee and one that it's, you know, it's the only committee in the House that has the same number of Republicans as it does Democrats. You know, any other committee, it's going to be a situation where the majority party has the most. They can control that committee completely. Here you have five Democrats, five Republicans.

They're appointed by the, you know, the speaker and the minority leader. The majority party gets to name who the chairman is and then the ranking member. But to get anything passed, there has to be an agreement. It has to be a bipartisan approach. And I will just tell you, nobody. Nobody wants to serve on the Ethics Committee, okay? First of all, nobody wants to be on it. Why?

I remember my very first year when John Boehner asked me to serve, well, I don't know if he asked me, maybe he told me I was going to be on the Ethics Committee. I had friends that asked me, so was Boehner mad at you about something? It's one of those thankless assignments. Well, why is it thankful? The audience doesn't know. Why is it a bad job? Why is it thankless?

why? Because it's a lot of pressure in it. You can't discuss anything about your committee's activity until there's a release of the information that's there. Yes. I don't understand this. All right. So you're in business, the House of Representatives represent the people. You represent the people. So you got Crockett, okay, saying the President of the United States a piece of Fs. You got Goldman saying he should be eliminated. You got AOC. these things should be impeached while U.S. planes are in the air. If these aren't ethical violations, nothing is. Then you should go out of business. Right? Look, I understand what you're saying. Some of these things are handled internally by the, if you do something on the house floor,

then it could be handled by the whole body. And there are a lot of things because here's the flip side of that. If you have everything wide open, you know the minute something's filed, that can be come about because of somebody in your own party or another party. And I understand that. I understand that. But so does the American people understand it. Due process extends

to the House Ethics Committee. It does. But if you're going to say, we're not going to tell O'Reilly or any other journalist what we're doing, not even if Crockett's going to be called in to be questioned

by the ethics committee, we're not even going to tell you that. That's not what, what the Constitution was put in place to do. And you know I'm a historian. Absolutely. Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, none of them said, you know, we want to have one congressional committee that's so secret, nobody knows what's going on.

They didn't do that. You guys did it. You guys slapped the secret on it. And I don't think it serves the people well. No, and I would respectfully, very respectfully disagree. that this committee is made up of some of the best members that you're going to have in the House. It's a heavy burden to do this. Nobody really wants to serve in it.

But you cannot go around talking about what the business of the committee is. And when it's done, when they're finished with their business, then you'll see a report come out. But we don't even know. But in the meantime, okay, I got it. I got it. And due process is very important to me and my viewer and listenership. But we don't even know whether you're going to call Crockett in to be questions or AOC or Goldman or even a Republican. I mean, you know, the guy that yelled at Obama during his state of the union, he got sanctioned by the whole house. And he should have. You can't have that kind of

disrespect. You're a liar. That was insane. But we don't even know if you're going to call the three that I ran in. You really think that's good? I really don't know any other way to do it. If we're going to say that you are innocent until proven guilty, then you have to be able to say that that's, we're not going to discuss it, discuss some merits of it. Okay, but why don't you just do this?

I'm going to give you a solution. I'm going to give you a solution guy. All you need to do is tell the press and you issue a one, the chairman, guest, the issues of one paragraph, said, we were a bit disturbed. The Ethics Committee wants to find out what exactly happened when Congresswoman Crockett call the president an S word, and then we'll let you know what we found out. Isn't that reasonable?

Well, it is, and there are times in the process where you may learn some things that are going on, but to have an initial allegation, it's probably not something you could go ahead and say. Hey, we've got this. We're looking at this. I think you've got to protect the, you know, soon enough, Bill, these things will come out through the course of an investigation and you get a report.

And that way you don't wind up with somebody being trash. Because it's going to get used against them in a political campaign. Sure. But that's not what I'm, that's not my main concern is politics. You're a good man. I want everybody to know that.

You stepped up to come on and nobody else wanted to, up against me on this. But I disagree with you. I don't think you need to do conclusions or accusations. And I'm talking now about the House Ethics Committee. You shouldn't do that. You are absolutely 100% correct. But you can tell the people we are looking at this because it's out of control. You have sitting members of the House calling the president of obscene names and asking for an Elimination. Even O'Gorman apologize, you know who he is. Absolutely.

The people need to know they are being scrutinized to some extent. We appreciate you coming on, Congressman. Thank you so much, Bill. It's a pleasure. Now, you're a stand-up guy. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Hollywood. All right. Now, I was talking a bunch of people this week about entertainment me because a very prestigious Hollywood company has bought Confronting Evil to stream, to make television episodes.

And we're hoping that obviously comes to fruition, but they bought it. So I'm back in Hollywood. I've had four movies produced. I'm the GP on all of them. Killing Lincoln, killing Kennedy, killing Jesus, killing Reagan. All fabulously successful. You can get them all on paper review if you want to see them. Okay. So I'm back in that Hollywood milieu or whatever. And I'm finding that there is no

repentance at all, none for the radical left taken over the industry. You know, the television industry in New York is pulling back. You know that. Not in Hollywood. Okay. Adjacent to this is a incident that happened. on Fox News, where on Gutfeld's program, one of the featured players said that Scott Bayo, the former Happy Days actor, and he did a lot of other stuff too, but that's where he's primarily known from, okay, was dead or disappeared. Yeah, it was a stupid comment. And then I know Bayo for a long time. And I went, well, that wasn't very nice. And then Bayo came out, as he should have, and said, no, I'm alive and well, and I'm doing great. And I said,

Let's get Scott on the program, because I got a bunch of questions about Hollywood, I want to ask him. But first, if you don't know him, Scott Baye, I want to set it up with a Happy Days clip. Go. Come over here. Look in there. Good size closet. That's the bedroom, ace. Water meter in the bedroom?

Don't knock it. It keeps it warm. Good point. If you want to school, follow me. there's the air conditioner on off it didn't move it moves when you pay the rent there you go so the main character in happy day is Richie Cunningham played by Ron Howard very talented guy by the way Howard but you don't get more left wing than Howard and he's prospered in his career because he's right in there with all the other lefties in Hollywood

So I just want to put everything into perspective here. And joining us now from Sarasota, Florida, where he now lives, is Scott Bayo, who has a podcast. Everybody has a podcast, Bayo. I don't want to diminish yours. I'm sure it's excellent. But, you know, I had a person come in and do my pool yesterday out here on Eastern Long Island, and they have a podcast. Everybody's got a podcast. Yeah, everybody's got one.

one. Take a dive, I think, is the podcast. You watch my podcast? I'll tell you how to do your pool. But mine is good, Bill. It's on. We go live every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. I heard that it was good. Somebody told me in our editorial meeting today, it was, hey, you know, Bayo's podcast is pretty good. And so now I have to watch it, which thanks a lot. I only have 23 hours of work to do every day. So I want to talk about this. I want to talk about this. I want to talk I've known you for a long time, and I think that you're a good man. And I also think, and you correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't follow you around, that your acting career suffered because you are a traditional conservative man.

Am I wrong? You're not wrong. You're 100% correct. The story goes, I was President Donald Trump asked me to speak at the Republican convention in Cleveland in 2016. He asked me personally, face-to-face. And I knew I was going to do it. And I knew that at that point, my career would have suffered.

And I even said in an interview that I don't care if I ever work again because I want to do this from my child, and I know what's going to happen to me. Well, what did you know? I know that the blowback would be astronomical. I knew that I would probably be canceled. I knew that I would be an outcast. I knew it would ostensibly be over. Did you know?

And I was right. Did you know who was going to do that? Did you know the names of people who were going to do that? I'll give you one example. I, after Trump won in 2018, my friend George and I, who's in the business, had an idea for a show, and we sent it to somebody, he emailed somebody he knew at ABC,

who was a VP of television or whatever. And his email, Bill, said, hey, this is George, and I have this idea with Scott Bayo, blah, blah, blah, blah. her name is Dawn Solay or Dawn Soler, and she writes back to George, I don't want anything to do with Scott Trump Bayer. Oh. And I cannot dispute that. You know, I can't dispute that because not the same thing happened to me, but we have had a lot of good projects. Projects that make people lots of money. And because I'm not a liberal, guys like Ari Emanuel, they had a head

William Morris, you know, stuff like that, they wouldn't deal with it. They just absolutely won't deal with you unless you have what they call the credentials, the political credentials. I know them all. I know every one of them. Now, will they admit it? Not in public, but you were lucky enough to get that email shown to you. So is there a solution to this problem? Because you moved to Sarasota where you're much better off than if you were living in Burbank and you look good and your career, I think, is, you know, you're doing, you're happy, you've got a good family. Is there a solution to the problem? Well, of course there's a solution, but I don't think it'll ever happen.

The solution is you've got to get more either non-political or conservative people into the entertainment business. And there are some there, Bill, but they're afraid. They're afraid. And I think they're still afraid. And there's no apology. The Democrat Party won't apologize for COVID or for Russia. No, no, they justify it.

They won't apologize for anything. Absolutely justify it. If you don't think the way they do, then you're not worthy. As this Mike Myers once said on SNL, we're not worthy. Anyway, Scott, look, are you doing well? You need us for anything at all. Anybody does anything toward you? You are my, you know, I'm your first call.

I saw Scott last at the Joe Namath benefit to help the football players with brain injuries. A good guy, as I said. So thanks for checking. Just let me say something. Can I just say something about that? Absolutely. You know, it's about you. And I consider you a friend.

And when we were, where was, it was in Florida somewhere, I think. And I don't remember. I just moved here. It was Jupiter. Okay. It was crowded. And I'm sure people look at you, Bill, and see you as an intimidating man, intellectually and physically. And I was talking to somebody.

And you went out of your way to say hello to me. And I want you to know how much I appreciate that. You know, I mean, look, I try to be a, not, I don't think nice would ever be applied to me, bail. But I try to be respectful. And you're a man of a, you're a man of accomplishment. At Happy Days program, that was an iconic broadcast that gave pleasure to, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people around the world. And it should be respected, as should you, and these Hollywood pinheads who would, you know, cancel you, boy, you got

anybody on your sheet, you send me the name, and we'll, uh, I will. We'll have a chat. We'll have a chat with them. All right, Scott. Thanks very much. Be well. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. To watch the full episodes of the NoSpin News, visit Bill O'Reilly. and sign up to become a premium or concierge member. That's Bill O'Reilly.com. Sign up and start watching today.