Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - January 18, 2025

Episode Date: January 18, 2025

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I had to evacuate. And it doesn't know, right? Am I right now or did you get new info? You don't know what the status of your home is, right? I got new info recently that it's intact. I'm in Malibu, sort of right in the middle of Malibu, and everything in front of it. and behind it is destroyed, but miraculously, the fire went over my dwelling and out onto PCH and then destroyed everything in front of me.

Wow. Well, I'm glad that you are, you know, your house is safe, but you can't live there for a long time. You can't go back to that house. You know that, right? Yeah, there's no electricity at this point, and we don't know about smoke damage and other other forms of damage and just sort of infrastructure and then soon as the rains hit the mud slides are going to start and when the mud slides start they're going to block off uh pacific coast

highway and then the canyons that lead there and there's no other way to get there other than pacific coast highway and a canyon or two so and then you're going to have the pollution too of the fires and the air quality and it's just going to be on and on i estimate Number one, that Los Angeles County will not recover for five years. It's going to have long. It's going to take them to recover this. You might be able to get back into your house this year, but it's going to be dicey. Now, you've lived out there for your whole life.

I think you're 87 years old now, right? Is it? That's right. I'm two years younger than you. Right. You're 60. You've lived out there your whole life. You live in Malibu, which is a high-risk neighborhood.

Have you ever seen the state take place? preventive measures around your house to mitigate a possible fire? The state is not good at nuts and bolts things. It's good at, you know, feel good stuff like the West Hollywood patrol cars have the gay flag on the side of them, which is important. So we do stuff like that. We do a lot of things that are sort of window. dressing, but we don't do nuts and bolts legislation. And no, if there's a mudslide on Pacific Coast

Highway, it takes six months to clean up a pile of dirt, the size of a minivan. So everything is slow. And let's not forget that a lot of the problem with the fires, I mean, you've spoken a lot and played clips of Trump talking about cleaning up the bed and the floor of the forest and preventative measures, aqueducts, things like that. I've spoke to firemen in Malibu, and they say most of the fires they put out are caused by the homeless. As a matter of fact, they said basically all the fires we put out are caused by the homeless who camp up in the hills, get high, pass out, smoke, and crack, fire ensues. That's number one. Number two, PCH, Pacificos Highway, is festoon with 100-year-old power poles made of rotted wood that all immediately fall.

over in a high wind or in a fire and then live power lines are all over the street and they inhibit the firefighting obviously they're danger you're spraying water you have live five live lines buzzing around so we don't even bury the power lines we've been trying to bury the power lines for years and there's no movement on it and a lot of the fires caused by this yeah the squirrels might get upset. And I'm being sarcastic, but isn't that the crux of the matter? That there's always a reason not to protect the citizens. There's always some kind of woke reason. Isn't that the truth? No, we have the Coastal Commission. Coastal Commission is unelected eight or ten sort of hippie lesbians who are angry at their dads and hate everyone who lives in Malibu

along the coast in Orange County and they just make proclamations and we try to get a water desalination plant going or we try to develop the wetlands or whatever it is and they just say no go literally pound sand so we have these little groups of angry mostly women mostly young and they're super woke and they're super progressive and they don't even live along the coast because they can't afford it, and they're angry at anyone who makes a good living, and they have ultimate power, and that's the way we roll here in California. What about Newsom, though? I mean, he's a pretty powerful governor,

and I want to be fair to Newsom. Has he done anything in his entire tenure in Sacramento to protect the citizens of California from these national disasters? Give me anything. I've never heard him pull up to a microphone and say anything that would be considered pragmatic. He talks about, you know, the LGBT community constantly, and he talks about everybody having a voice and a seat at the table and nobody's illegal and we're starting, you know, we're going to be a sanctuary state. Basically, here's what, here's where Newsome goes south and here's where all the progressive Democrats go, out. Here's where it all falls apart for them. They fight Trump on everything that Trump says. So if Trump says, let's beef up the border, they go, we're not beefing up the border. They go build a

wall. They go tear down the wall. They go clean up the forest. He goes, we're not cleaning up the forest. He goes, fill the aqueduct. We're not filling the aqueduct. They are so stupid and knee jerk that if he said the sky's blue, they'd say the sky's red. Well, it is now in California, but it's on fire they've screwed themselves by literally doing the opposite of everything trump has suggested now you can disagree with trump but much of his policy is pragmatic and you just disagreeing with pragmatic stuff to disagree is going to end up biting you in the ass and that's what happened to newsome final question nobody knows karen bass who's the mayor of los angeles city Is she as bad as people are portraying her?

She's a long-time progressive L.A. Democrat politician, so she's horrible just from that pedigree. She also spent a lot of time in her youth going back and forth to Cuba and was involved with some group that sort of loved Fidel. So she's got that, you know, progressive left-wing bona fides thing going, which means she's not going to do anything. She's going to hang around. I mean, she was in Ghana. taking a trip when all this went down. Yes, she's horrible. We could get someone like Rick Caruso in there,

someone who builds things, someone who's pragmatic, someone knows how to manage people and funds, but L.A. is way too progressive for that. Hopefully we're coming down to Earth now. I don't know who she is. I don't know what she stands for. I'm sure she's horrible.

And if you look around, L.A. has more homeless, is filthy. L.A. is filthy, by the way. There's garbage and graffiti everywhere. Look, I wrote a column of it. Two weeks ago, two weeks ago, I was in Westwood, right adjacent to UCLA, at the hotel there, okay, the W hotel. Shocking. The hotel was nice.

But Westwood itself used to be one of the premier neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Shocking. It's garbage and homeless everywhere, so she can't run a city. How can people watch you, Corolla, on your podcast? podcast. Just go to Adamcrawla.com and it's all free and I'm there every day. All right. Well, look, if you need anything from us, let us know and that's not an empty thing to say,

Corolla. I've known you a long while. You need anything you let me know. And we'll make it happen, okay? Thanks, Bill. I appreciate it. Okay. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

So joining us now from Washington is a former national security advice. security advisor for President Trump in his first term, Victoria Coates. She works for the Heritage Foundation, and she's the author of the book, The Battle for the Jewish State. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets, and meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver. through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this.

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You know, the hostage crisis as it goes into its 15th month, 15th month is now in a very different phase than it was a year ago because, as you said, so many of the hostages have died. They're being kept under the most abysmal. conditions by Hamas, other terrorist actors in Gaza, and so the window for them to get out alive is limited. Important to remember, we have at least four Americans involved in this as well. So there have been American citizens cruelly detained for over a year by Hamas. And so right now, I think the imperative is to get a deal, to get them out, and to have that deal be such that it does not prevent Israel from pursuing its national security interest. which it has a right to do.

So hopefully we can get the, as you said, women and children, men over 50 out in very short order, hopefully by the inauguration, and then get the rest out as quickly as possible after that. So in order for this hostage release to happen, Israel is going to have to give something to, I don't know who you give it to. I guess Iran, Hamas, al-Bah, but Iran's controlling everything. And we don't know what that is, and I'm not going to speculate what Israel would give up. But let's look forward. So Trump takes office on Monday.

Iran is the main problem in the Middle East. Everybody knows that. Funding terrorism and developing nukes. So I'm appointing you, Ms. Coates, the president's top security advisor. What do you tell them to do about Iran? Let's go step by step. Keep it simple. No, I think the number one priority, and President-elect Trump has spoken very forcefully about this is to get a handle on the Iranian nuclear program.

But what does that mean? What does that, get a handle doesn't mean anything to me. Do you threaten them with military action that will blow the hell out of you? What do you do? No, I was talking about, figure out exactly what is going on, because we know how far they've come over the course of the last four years. We know where they were when President Trump left office in 2021. They now have thousands of more centrifuges are enriching at least to 60%, if not 80%, which is weapons grade. So where they are with their nuclear program is very different from where they were four years ago.

I think the president-elect will need to get fully briefed on that, figure out what options are left. The problem with the maximum pressure campaign, the very famous economic pressure campaign, President Trump implemented during the first term is it takes time. And it's not clear to me we still have that much time. So I think the priority for the incoming team will be figuring out what their options are on the nuclear program. Do you have an opinion about what option is best? I think that there probably will have to be a military option. And we know that Israel has done this twice before in both Syria and Iraq. See, Trump doesn't like to present specific military options to the world. or the country. Doesn't like to do it. All right. But I'm saying that, number one, if you are willing

to use military force to attack Iran, the world has to know why. And I would think that would be the first campaign, that if you don't let United Nations weapons inspectors in to look at your new facilities, which I don't think DeMulles would do, I would do a blockade first. We'll blockade all your ports and nothing in, nothing out. And if you attack the blockade, we're going to blow the hell out of you. But you'd have to sell that to the world, and I'm not sure whether Trump will do that. Well, I think what you'd have to sell is the imminent danger of Iran with the nuclear weapon. but everybody knows that victoria not everybody if they're within minutes of breakout uh so i i think that

that is the key thing if you're going to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon if you do a blockade as you mentioned you know this can lead to all sorts of different escalation if you do a very targeted strike the way israel did in iraq and syria which were absolutely focused laser focused on nuclear facilities not civilian infrastructure i think you might have a better, an easier time, let's say, selling that than you would a broader military. But then you get China, you get China and Russia involved then, because Russia just signed a treaty with the Muellers. It seems to me that the world would take an escalation better than a targeted military strike, which is an act of war. It certainly is. But anyway, it's a grisly situation.

But you agree with me that it's going to have to be dealt with. by President Trump, correct? Well, yes, because obviously President Biden hasn't dealt with it at all. And he was having himself on the back yesterday. But yeah. He enabled them by allowing frozen bank accounts to flow billions of dollars back to the Iranians.

Look, Biden's second worst president in history, any sane person knows a guy just screwed up the country and the world. But now Trump has to figure it out. You know, how, how far he's willing to go. And Donald Trump is not a militarist. He's not Bolton. He doesn't like to do this kind of stuff because he knows the unintended consequences are enormous for the world. Economically, militarily, you got Putin allied with the mulles. You got Xi depending on

oil from Iran. I mean, it is a mess. No, it is. And I think that specific interface between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea is what's very different now than it was a, you years ago and you have, you know, Iranian drones being used in Ukraine. You have North Korean soldiers in Russia. You have China dragging for cables in the Baltic Sea. So these actors are increasingly intertwined. And as you said, President Biden has permitted the sale of some 1.7 million barrels a day from Iran to China. That's been the key source of funding that's kept them going, kept them afloat, essentially during a pretty bad economic period for them and funded all of this terrorism and funded the nuclear program, which, as I said, I think, is going to be the main focus of the

incoming administration. All right. The also, and this is new, is that the national security advisor, the new guy, is saying that Trump and Putin are going to get on a call very, very soon. I believe that a deal has already been structured between Putin and Trump. Could be wrong, but I have pretty good information. Do you believe that? I think, I mean, what I know is the president elect has said that he wants to get a deal. He wants to end the war. Everybody wants to get a deal, Victoria. Do you think they have a deal? I don't think they have a deal right now. I think they may have discussed parameters if they've even talked, which I don't know. I think a Congressman Waltz has said, you know, that they're going to arrange a call or a meeting. That's

perfectly normal and as it should be, but I wouldn't want to speculate about what's going to be in the deal and get ahead of the president-elect. Okay, that's fair enough. Final question for you. We live in a very dangerous world. Most people do not accept that because people believe what they want to believe. So Trump's walking into this thing. And, you know, so far it's been about the economy. It's been about immigration. These are the emotional issues that got them elected. but overseas, the danger is growing, in my opinion. Do you believe that? Well, I do for the reasons we've just discussed. I think China is leading this group of four hostile nations that are all virulently anti-American, dictatorial, anti-Israel, and anti-all

of our allies. I mean, they hate Saudi Arabia, they hate UAE, they hate Europe, all of these things. So I think this is a very dangerous world. It shows us What happens after four years of very lax, ineffective U.S. leadership is you have bad actors acting up all over the place. Yeah, they're certainly been empowered by Mr. Biden. All right, Victoria, thanks very much. We really appreciate it. This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. All right, we're pleased to have tonight, Senator Tommy Tuberville from Arizona, who's very outspoken guy, and I like that.

Arizona. Alabama. I'm sorry. I got Mark Kelly on my brain here, Senator. Okay. Anything I said in my analysis of Heggsett that you feel is not correct. Well, first of all, the Secretary of Defense builds the military from all sides. He's the head man. He's not going to make decisions, obviously by himself, whether we're going to go to war or not. The person that does that is obviously the President of the United States and the Joint Chiefs of staff. There's a lot of avenues in which the Secretary of Defense has to go through to do anything other than put his touch on the on the military which we desperately bill. We have got to build our military back. It's the weakest in a lot of areas that we've ever been. We're short on recruiting

and Pete brings a passion. He brings motivation. He brings understanding he has got experience and fighting in two wars and understanding that we've got to build it back by people. People win wars. We've got to have more people, more soldiers, more people that are going to be in the fight, and if we don't do that, then we're not going to win any fights. All right. That's an excellent point, that the Secretary of Defense does shape how the military looks at itself. And that's true. But 33%, according to this new poll of Americans, have no blank an idea, Senator, what Pete Higgseth believes. And we didn't get much of that yesterday. We got smears and ridiculous attacks from the Democrats, and we got boosterism from the Republicans.

I don't think that serves the folks. Am I wrong? Well, the Democrats were seeking destroy. Chuck Schumer sicked all the Democrats on Pete. And, you know, that's what it's about up here when you're so divided as we are. And they're obviously going back to November the 5th. They're heartbroken that their nominee did not. win the election but it was a mandate now uh on our side we did ask questions about certain things

you know mine was about recruiting it's about what are you going to do in the pentagon obviously we need to knock a couple sides off of it were way over bloated uh with generals uh and there was other questions but the staff mighter bill uh armed service we have spent hours not just those four or five hours yesterday we have spent hours with him we want to make sure we're doing the right thing we're not going to have a second chance all right well what did you learn when you when you spent time with him so he has no experience running a corporation none were you did you leave the meeting confident that he could take on this monster this pentagon isn't home where we all want to be riba here for realtor dot com the pro's number one most trusted app finding a home is like

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been any better than him. First of all, we need to get somebody the age of the warfighter, closer to the age, that understands it. As you said earlier, and you made a good point, we're getting into a new era of weapons, AI, drones, all those things. Really, and we're on the very cusp of just starting this. It's a new era. The next war will probably be fought in space. That's the reason we now have a space command and space force. It's totally new. Pete has been involved in that some degree most of the generals that are four and three and four stars in the pentagon have not they have not been involved in that and so hey if we could have got somebody better i would have been all for it but pete is a there's a mixture with him he has passion he has

motivation he's got people behind him he understands that we have to win there's no second place in war there's no participation trophies we have to win when we go to war we hadn't won a war since World War II, but the next one's going to be a big one, and we've got to understand that. Well, I'll challenge you there. I think we won the war on terror in a sense we dissembled ISIS and al-Qaeda in a very effective way. And I wrote a book on it, killing the killers. So I'm not as, you know, and our military, the problem with our military is, and if I had been on your committee, on the Armed Services Committee, which you're on, okay, I would have asked Hague Seth this. He said, look, the problem with the military right now is that it's confused.

The individual soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, they're confused about, well, should I be politically correct? Can I use a swear word? Can I get them up at five in the morning or am I going to get sued? And you've got to lay out that the military is not Princeton University. and then put clear guidelines on how we train our people. Because I know for a fact that a lot of the military people, they're scared. They don't want to get in trouble. You know that, Senator. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, well, I was in coaching a long time. You couldn't put a hand on the players the last 10 years that I coach. You couldn't grab them by the face mask or push them and anything. We're in a different era. But the military bill has got to be different. It can't be affirmative action. It can't be DEI. It has got to have strict regulations where everybody is judged the same way.

Man or a woman, I don't care who's a warfighter or who's not a warfighter. You come in, you go by those regulations. We have lost discipline in our military. My dad was active, was career military, died on active duty. And he was so proud of our military, fought in World War II. But we have lost that edge because it's all about social justice. It's all about division. This group wants to divide everybody.

supremacist or in the military. Give me a break. We need people that want to fight and build a killing machine. And that's exactly what we can't have tribalism as we have on Capitol Hill and the military. Final question, there is, I think, a valid criticism that the second time around Donald Trump, because of his bad experiences with John Kelly, Chief of Staff, the general, and others, is more comfortable now with yes-men. And Hegseth would be that. Is that a valid criticism? I think to some point, because number one,

the commander-in-chief is going to be the president. But we have talked to, and I have personally talked to Pete about that, if you feel strongly about something, you have got to sell it to the commander-in-chief. Now, obviously, your boss gets to make the final decision, but you've got to fight for what you think is right. Don't give in to every little innuendo that comes across your desk. You do it the way you're supposed to do it, that you believe in it.

You believe that you can build the strongest military. Bill, we are in trouble in this world. Our military is in trouble. We have war games that we've done on computers. We don't beat China in any of them, not any of them. And we have got to build this military back in the way that we can win. We have to win wars. All right, Senator.

We really appreciate your time. you will welcome on this program. You got anything you want to tell the folks. And I think Hegseth will get in. And you concur with that, right? You think he's going to be confirmed. Yeah, as you said earlier, it's going to be close.

I mean, you're not going to get any Democrat votes. I'm sure there's... You won't get any. No, and you're going to have some people that's going to have some decisions to make on our side. Markowski and Collins will probably vote against Heg-Seth, but that still gives you one vote. And that's how I think it's going to come down.

Okay, Senator, thanks again. I appreciate it. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Joining us now is perhaps one of the most important men, at least he will be, in this ongoing process. You know, Governor Mike Huckabee, he served Arkansas in that role for 11 years. He has been named or nominated the U.S. Ambassador to Israel by Donald Trump, worked in the media for 17 years. for 17 years, not going to hold that against him. And he joins us from Little Rock, Arkansas. I like to say, I'm glad you're in the kitchen, like, you know, and I hope you're whipping up

something good for us. I, when you were nominated, I actually said to President Trump, personally, that was an excellent nomination. And, you know, there were some that I didn't think were excellent. But you have been involved. And I hope people remember this. For you, you know, decades trying to help the Jewish people and the Arab people in that part of the world, correct? Bill, I've been going to Israel since 1973. This year will mark 52 years of being in Israel dozens and dozens of times to the point I've lost count. So I've been immersed in what's going on in the Middle East and specifically Israel. It's a place I love.

I've come to appreciate the extraordinary things that this startup nation has been able to do. And there's really nothing that President Trump would have asked me to do that I would have had any affinity for. But this was the one thing that I could not say no to, because it's almost like a lifetime of preparation to do it. What sparked your interest in Israel? When I originally went, I was only 17. I was a month shy of my 18th birthday. It was three months before the Yom Kippar War, although none of us knew that. And I was there with a friend of mine on a senior trip.

And, you know, looking back, it was insane that the two of us went all over the Middle East. We went to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, throughout the Middle East. But we went to Israel as part of it. Now, Israel in 1973 was a sleepy little country. It had barely gotten through wars in 48. 56 and 67 had success in those wars shouldn't have but it did but its economy was struggling it was barren in terms of it was dusty hilly rocky didn't have a lot of vegetation what i have seen over my own trips there over 52 years i've seen the desert bloom and i've seen the dry bones come to life

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but in medical care and in agriculture. But all of that aside, it's a space where this tiny little sliver of land, the size of New Jersey, is the most contested piece of real estate on the planet, and it makes it a fascinating part of the world. Do you have an empathy? Because you're a Christian.

And the evangelical Christian movement has an empathy with the Jewish people in Israel. Is that part of this equation? Well, it's a personal part. I mean, certainly the role of an ambassador is not to go as a religious or spiritual guide, but it certainly is a part of who I am. And it gives me some parameters of understanding the bigger. picture of it, that Israel has been in this land for 3,500 years, that Jerusalem is the indigenous forever and unique capital for the Jewish people. I had a Jewish friend from New York asked me

one time, we were in Israel together, and he said, why is it that evangelical Christians are so supportive of the Jewish people and of Israel? And I said, it's quite frankly, pretty easy. I said, you can be Jewish and have nothing whatsoever to do with Christians, but I can't be a Christian and not have everything to do with the Jewish people, the Jewish faith, the scriptures. Everything I believe is built on the foundation of that. So for me, and most evangelicals would say the same thing, we're people of the book. It's simple. So if you read in Genesis that God blesses those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel, this gets pretty easy.

Okay. Now, when you get over and you'll be confirmed easily in the Senate, when you get over there, your job is not to make policy. I'm sure that President Trump will console with you, but your job is exactly what? How do you see it? It is to carry out the policy of the president. as i shared with the president there's only one person who got elected november the fifth and his name was donald j trump so he gets to set the table and pick the menu those of us who serve as an ambassador to any country we don't go with our own agenda we don't get to go and say here's what i'm going to do we find out what the president's policy is and we carry that to the country where we've been assigned to represent so uh you know well we'll we'll

I get a chance to visit with President Trump about that policy, of course. But it ultimately is his decision what that policy is going to be. Now, that could put you up against Netanyahu and the Israeli government because we're not sympathetic 100% with Israel. Are you ready to stare down, BB, if you have to? Well, it's not so much that I would stare him down. it's more that I would represent the United States. But you're not going to like that.

You're going to get yelled out. Oh, that's okay. I was gone in 11 years. I got yelled out a lot. So this will not be something new for me. I will feel right at home. Do you anticipate an improvement over there? Because you're walking into the most difficult ambassador job

with the possible exception of Moscow. on a planet. Beijing is testy too, but you're walking into bullets are flying. All right, and, you know, you are going to be in jeopardy yourself, you're going to have to watch it, you know that. But what is your, are you optimistic,

are you in the middle or pessimistic? How are you going in over there? I'm very optimistic, but I'm also a very realistic, Bill. I don't have any illusions that there's going to be some two-state solution where you have some people who hate Israel, who want to see it totally annihilated, who are going to move next door, set up a shadow government,

and everything's going to be just lovely. That's not going to happen. What I do anticipate is that there is a greater movement going on within the overall Gulf states and in the Middle East when historically really, I guess, adversarial nations to Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, a host of the nations, Bahrain, they're now realizing Israel is no threat to them. They don't need to fear Israel, and they don't need to hate Israel.

They get nothing for that, nothing. They get more when they share intelligence, tourism, trade. They all benefit. But you're thinking logically, and when you do it, you at Hamas and the other terrorists in Iran, they don't think logically they hate you. They want to kill you. And you're not going to change their minds, by the way. They're always going to hate and want to kill you.

So that's the reality of the situation. And this is the final question for you. Some Americans say, look, no matter what you do or what we do as a country, this is never going to get better because there aren't two states. the Gaza and Hamas that's not a state there's nobody running the show there it's you do what I say it will kill you it's not like they have a representative government so you can't have a two-state solution when you only have one state that's Israel last word I that's exactly what we have to change in a policy both Republican and Democrat presidents have pretended that this two-state

solution makes sense it simply doesn't especially when one of the states believes that its sole purpose of being on earth is to murder every last Jew. So the reason that Israel has to get rid of Hamas, it can't simply ameliorate the danger, it has to eliminate the danger, is because Hamas is not a government. It doesn't have soldiers with uniforms. It is a group of terrorists, criminals, and savages. You do not deal with them in the way that you would deal with a legitimate government.

Donald Trump understands that. And it's why I think there's going to be a different way. The same reason that the Abraham Accords were able to be done in Trump's first term. And that when Biden came in, basically nothing moved beyond that. Donald Trump has an opportunity to do something historic. And I believe he will. All right, Governor. And you're right by his side.

And we really appreciate you know how busy you are with all of this. And hopefully I will see you in. Jerusalem. All right. Stay safe now. Next year in Jerusalem, maybe even this year in Jerusalem. I hope so. I'm going to get over there as soon as I can. But stay safe and we'll talk soon. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. To watch the full episodes of the No Spin News, visit Bill O'Reilly.com and sign up to become a premium or concierge member. That's Bill O'Reilly.com. Sign up. and start watching today.