Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - June 21, 2025

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. Now before the president left for Canada, and he's not real popular there, as you know, there's a lot of debate about Israel and Iran, USA. So Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, appeared on Fox News, and it was a very interesting back and forth. You know, I just want to press you on the intel on the nuclear part. Less than two months ago, the new director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified on Capitol Hill saying that everything had been suspended since 2003 and had not restarted, that the nuclear program had not been restarted by the Iranians. So did something change from end of March until this week?
Starting point is 00:00:52 Was the U.S. Intel wrong? The intel we got and we shared with the United States was absolutely clear. It was absolutely clear that they were working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium. They were marching very quickly. They would achieve a test device and possibly an initial device within months and certainly less than a year. Okay, but again, I'm going back to my conversation with the president yesterday. It's not what Netanyahu believes. It's what Donald Trump believes.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Now, Tulsi Gabbard has been an isolationist forever. Now, I was a little surprise that she got the nod to be the national security director. She has not walked back her initial opinion, but it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the president's opinion. All right, joining us now from Key West, Florida is Stephen Nikila, who is a chairman, of the Libertarian National Committee. And I asked for Mr. Nikila because libertarians generally don't want
Starting point is 00:02:04 any kind of United States involvement overseas in these kinds of military actions. So I assume you object to this, right? Yes, and thank you so much, Bill, for having me on. We as a libertarian party have been against foreign entanglements for over 50 years. since the original platform of the Libertarian Party was created. We've opposed all foreign wars, especially wars like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Starting point is 00:02:37 and potentially a war with Iran. And we see this conflict as one that could potentially escalate and cascade into a regional conflict that could entangle the United States to have to come to the aid of Israel, which were vehemently against. I believe that the Iranian government is first and foremost a threat to its own people. They're an authoritarian regime. I believe Israel does have the right to defend itself. I believe they are correct to be adversarial with Iran, perhaps even kinetic adversaries.
Starting point is 00:03:11 But as far as the United States supplying weapons, supplying ISR, and the Israelis asking for United States to get involved again and again, And I think we're in a dangerous position where I think Trump's instincts are correct not to get involved directly with an entanglement with Iran that could spiral out of control, especially when the endgame is not clear. If the end game is for Iran not to receive or to create nuclear weapons, then the Israeli attacks on supposed Iranian infrastructure should be sufficient. But as the war continues to escalate, we may find ourselves in another forever war. that we may be ending up spending billions, if not trillions of dollars on just as we have with the global war on terror over the past several decades. Okay. So you're making a few mistakes because you're doing a lot of wooda, might, and all of that.
Starting point is 00:04:08 If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, the libertarian party of the United States is going to look foolish because Iran is not going to get the nuclear weapon. for peaceful meetings. They're going to use it with blackmail. They may even use it literally. I want to kill all Jews. So I don't know how any political party can say, yeah, we're okay, let Iran get a nuclear weapon. And without the United States support, you know, not direct military, but certainly weapons and intel. The Israelis aren't going to knock out completely the nuclear facilities. They're buried under mountains. You know that. They're going to require major bombs that Israel doesn't have. So the Libertarian Party puts itself in a position of saying,
Starting point is 00:05:02 eh, you know, if the mullahs get the nukes, that's okay. Or am I being unfair? We believe that the best way to come to an end of this conflict would be to pursued diplomacy. Okay, that's not going to work, and you know it. So look. At this point, this seems to be off the table that the Israelis have attacked the Iran. With all due respect, we have tried diplomacy for years. If you read my column on Obama and Biden, they tried to bribe them.
Starting point is 00:05:36 They tried to do everything to them. So let's live in the real world, Stephen, please, because if you don't, the discussion just goes off the rails. So right now, the Libertarian Party would be okay. if the mullahs got the nukes now we go to ukraine so you don't want the united states to supply zolensky with military gear right that is correct i believe that uh the further the the west and nato pushes ukraine towards war with russia uh it's already a war then step it's already there war started when the putin invaded okay correct so i understand that a little
Starting point is 00:06:16 bit better than I understand the nuclear thing in Iran. So you don't want the United States to be involved. So if the United States isn't involved, the likelihood is that Putin takes over Ukraine because they need money and weaponry from the USA. EU can do a little bit, but we're the big dog. I just return from China, Stephen. It is without a doubt that if the United States withdraws from helping Zelensky and Ukraine, the Chinese will seize Taiwan militarily. They're waiting to see what happens. You'd be okay with the Chinese seizing Taiwan, right? We believe that the Taiwanese, the Ukrainians, and the Israelis can certainly purchase
Starting point is 00:07:01 weapons from our military industrial conflicts. But the more and more the United States gets involved in these conflicts, either directly or through proxies, the closer this brings us to World War III in a potential nuclear escalation. I don't see that insight in the war with Ukraine and Russia. There was an opportunity for Russia and Ukraine to come to an agreement in Turkey. Boris Johnson told Zelensky not to capitulate to the terms of the peace agreement that we would supply them with weapons in order fight the Russians. And right now the West is pushing Ukraine to fight down, to fight Russia down the very last Ukrainian. So I don't see what you're talking about giant countries like Russia
Starting point is 00:07:39 invading Ukraine and China invading Taiwan. The little countries can't stand up. It's just like Hitler when Hitler took Austria and then he took Czechoslovakia and then he went into the Tsar and then he started rolling. It's the same exact thing that we've seen for just millennium that the big countries with the psychotic leaders take over the little countries. But the U.S. Libertarian Party does not seem concerned about that, and that concerns me. You see where I'm coming from? I can see your concern. I think most Americans are concerned right now with inflation. We're concerned with our tax dollars. Okay, but you're not going to have a worldwide economy if you have disorder, social disorder all over the world. The world economy collapses. If you have
Starting point is 00:08:30 China on the march, if you have Putin on the march, the worldwide economy is going to collapse. So they can be concerned about inflation, but it's going to get a lot worse if you don't have social order. I'll give you the last word. I think the United States post-World War II did a great job expanding throughout the world economically. We became a bastion of freedom, an economic powerhouse. Now we see China becoming that economic powerhouse. We need to get back to our roots as an economic superpower and a foreign policy based on non-intervention, diplomacy, and trade, rather than being the world's police, man, weapons manufacturer. The Libertarian Party has stood strong and non-interventionalism.
Starting point is 00:09:10 We want to be closer to Switzerland, not isolationists like North Korea. We believe that the United States cannot continue with these forever wars. We already pay a quarter of our taxes go straight to interest. We're going bankrupt as a country. And Americans are just weary of any new conflicts. And at this point, they're unsustainable. And the Libertarian Party sees peace as the only option and economics and diplomacy as the true right arm of freedom and democracy from the United States. Okay, Stephen, good. I appreciate you coming on. Thanks very much, very good discussion. This episode is brought to you by Pacifico. Here's a story you've probably never heard. Legend has it decades ago. A couple surfers went down to Mexico in search of epic swells,
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Starting point is 00:10:53 Now, there was an incident here on Long Island where I am with a congressman, Nick Lalota, who was attacked by shadowy dark money. So we wanted the congressman to come on, and he joins us now from Hoppog, New York. I was very interested in the personal story here, not the bigger picture. So, you know, I have a house in your district, and I know you from the campaign trail and all that. What happened to you exactly? So so far, dark money groups have spent an excess of $700,000 against me. And by the way, I'm not the only one. they're spending against about 10 or 11 House Republicans, but so far they've spent about
Starting point is 00:11:37 $700,000 against me, spreading lies about the one big, beautiful bill that honestly puts our country on a much better track. It ensures that we save money for future generations, secures our border, and puts the nation on a better track. But yet they're spreading lies about Medicaid in particular, and so far spending a lot of money doing so. All right. Who's they? You got the 1630 fund? Is that what? it is? What is that? Groups that put up a new fancy name, and then they unwind the group six, nine months later after they're done spending their dark money. We often don't know the sources or the interests
Starting point is 00:12:16 that are specifically behind these attack ads, which are mostly false, meant to scare residents, my constituents into thinking things that are true that aren't. And it's really just a shame that they would go about this tactic. When this bill is centered around work, requirements. Work requirements used to be a bipartisan initiative. In fact, Bill Clinton, while he was president, supported the notion that if you wanted to receive federal government benefits, and if you were an able-bodied adult, you had to work for him. Yeah. And this merely states that 80 hours a month is all you got to work if you're able-bodied to get your Medicaid or get your food stamps. Any intelligent America knows what this propaganda
Starting point is 00:12:56 campaign is, but you yourself were targeted. Now, you came up with a figure for $700,000, right? you're adding up the television ads that went after you? Is that how you got to that figure? Yeah, it's only the TV part. We aren't able to yet quantify what they've spent in the mailbox. So the TV component alone is $7,000. We estimate the mail component to be about the same. The companies that ran the ad should be able to tell you who bought the ads, right?
Starting point is 00:13:24 Yes, three or four shadowy groups that have these temporary names. They stand up these organizations. They wind them down three, six, nine months later after they're done smearing their crap across America. It's by design that it's not attached to a permanent, longstanding name that enables them to conduct their shadowy exercises. So these are pop-ups to get Congressman Loloda and 10 others in districts that they feel could go either way because your district, the first district on Long Island, is in a lock to go Republican. Now, when you expose this kind of stuff, that's what you're doing here, look, I'm a congressman, I'm voting my conscience, I think that the Trump spending in tax bill is good for the country. This is your job. That's what you're supposed to do. And yet I'm attacked by a shadowy group, and we don't even know who's given a money to. What do the people say? I mean, anybody outraged about this, or are we just accepting that this is the landscape now? So there's a country song or two that has lyric that sounds something like, when you tell a lie about me, I'm going to tell the truth about you. And that's been my response to these things all along. We're Long Islanders. We like to be plain spoken. We like to hear the truth told to us. And when I come back with what the actual components of the one big, beautiful bill are, overwhelmingly my constituents support it. So fortunately, through social media, traditional media, and just getting the word out there in between, we're able to, essentially blunt some of these false attacks ahead of time. But these have become par for the
Starting point is 00:15:06 course. I think for the most part, my constituents are desensitized to attacks like this. There's been a lot of spending in my district over the last couple of cycles. I've been outspent each of the last three elections I've been in massively, two to one, three to one, and six to one. Yet we've won each one of them by 10 points or more. So I think my constituents understand that what they hear from these shadowy commercials isn't true, and I'm especially blunting it out there every day. All right. If you get any further information about individuals, let us know. You know, we pinpointed Soros, of course, and the air to the Walmart fortune.
Starting point is 00:15:44 But we want to kind of assemble its dark money list of people who are really helping this. Congressman, we wish you to Beth. Thanks for taking the time to talk to you today. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Joining us now from New York City is a columnist for the New York Post who writes about these kinds of things all the time. But she's a new podcast that Red Seat, which we're in business with, is promoting. It's called Podcast One. And it's going to deal with politics and Miranda Devine has access to a lot of very interesting guests.
Starting point is 00:16:22 And she will be doing that podcast. We hope you check it out. So, Mr. Vaughan, first of all, am I making any mistakes in my Iranian analysis? No, I don't think so at all. And I mean, you know President Trump very well and have known him for many years. And you know that people can't pigeonhole him as either a warmonger or a dove. He's sort of criticized for both things. But as he says, he just tries to apply common sense. and that's what he's been doing now. He's been crystal clear from the beginning throughout the campaign
Starting point is 00:17:01 and previously that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Okay. That's all. Do you think he's making any mistakes? Should he be more aggressive? Should he be more passive on it? Is he making any mistakes, in your opinion? I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:17:21 I mean, look, he hasn't done anything. overt yet. He's just threatened the Ayatollah. He said we have complete control of the skies. Obviously, Israel has degraded Iran's defenses. So now is a good time to go in and just smash the nuclear facilities. That's all. But what if Israel can't smash them? Because they don't are the bombs that we have. And say the Muller's hold out, and the only way to obliterate the nuke stuff is for the United States to bomb these mountainsides. Would you support that? That is the only way, because these nuclear facilities are buried very deep down, and only the US has these B-2 bombers that are capable of carrying the bombs that can actually get
Starting point is 00:18:19 them. So, I mean, unfortunately, America is the only country in the world with the ability to do this. And I think President Trump has been weighing this decision very, you know, with great care and his message to the Ayatollah just a short time ago saying surrender, unconditional surrender. We don't want the Ayatollah dead. He's safe. now. This is a clear, you know, he's moved. He's trying to get, right. It would be much better if they threw their hands up and then the United Nations could go in with, in conjunction with the United States and just take. It's not going to happen probably, but I mean, a limited strike. Just do that and get out. What could happen is the Iranian people, the Persians,
Starting point is 00:19:12 will rise up. And if that happens, the army will turn. And that's what Trump is really hoping for. I'm not hoping for any rationality on a part of the Ayatollah, okay? He's hoping that the Persian people will say enough. And that's why he's saying, get out of Tehran, you know, is this and that. And it's possible that happens. Not probable, but possible. Well, we hoped for that in Iraq and it didn't happen. We hope for it in a lot of places and it didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:19:41 But I do agree with you that Trump is not going to allow this thing to go back to where it was in a sense that it's signed some kind of deal and a deal is murky and they still have this capacity. Trump has come to the conclusion, and I know this to be true, that they're done. And if we have to push them over the edge, we'll probably push them over the edge. But if we do that, we're going to have trouble with China in particular. And that is a huge, huge story. And I know that because I was just in Beijing. China didn't care about the mullets. They don't care about them one bit. But they don't want the United States pushing people around and using military action. So that's what Trump has a very, very complicated situation. I also want to talk
Starting point is 00:20:30 to you today about the media. People may not know this who don't live in the New York area, but Miranda Devine was right in the middle of the Hunter Biden laptop thing where the New York Post, to its credit, got the laptop, printed what was on it, and then the mainstream media, the corporate media, attacked the New York Post, saying it was all bogus, which those of us who are honest brokers of information knew was false. And I think that the corrupt media knew it was false as well, but they didn't care. But anyway, you went through a long period of time where you were fighting these people and then they finally admitted defeat
Starting point is 00:21:10 and said, yeah, yeah, the New York Post had it right, blah, blah, blah. Do you see any improvement? Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning I'll bring you the stories that matter,
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Starting point is 00:21:51 I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. in those people who reported dishonestly about Hunter Biden? No, all they do is morph.
Starting point is 00:22:41 You know, they never said that the New York Post got it right. They just seamlessly moved into, oh, yes, you know, the laptop is real. And, oh, yes, you know, then it's used in a court of law as evidence. Oh, yes, but they never go back and revisit their own error. or correct them, they are so arrogant. I'm thinking particularly of the New York Times, which is all the news that's fit to print except anything that's damaging to the Democrats or might help Donald Trump. And they sort of set the agenda for all the newsrooms, not just in the United States, but around the world. And so that's the skewed perspective of America
Starting point is 00:23:24 that's transmitted and it's through the eyes of the New York Times, which is not got a grasp on reality. And they haven't changed at all. But they don't want a grasp on reality. They're in business to promote a certain lifestyle, a progressive lifestyle, and that's what they want to do. You're an interesting person, to me anyway, because you worked in the media in Australia, I believe in Japan, in England, and in the United States. So you have a perspective of a worldwide. My theory, and I could be wrong, of course, is that we have the most corrupt media in the free world right now.
Starting point is 00:24:08 America, I mean, the BBC is pretty corrupt. But we're really bad now. Do you concur? No, not at all. I didn't actually work in Japan. and I was a child, I grew up there. But look, I think that, I mean, I take Australia in England, they're dominated by the BBC and in Australia,
Starting point is 00:24:30 the other government-funded equivalent, state television called the ABC, and they are so dominate the rest of the media that they are completely untrammeled by any semblance of the truth. and they are incredibly partisan and basically peddled propaganda. Now, they're no different, I guess, from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, etc. But at least in the United States, there are disparate voices.
Starting point is 00:25:02 And those voices are getting stronger as the American people wake up to the fact that they've been lied to by those august established media organs and they look for alternate sources of media. news like Bill O'Reilly's No Spin Zone, like The New York Post and our new podcasts, like Joe Rogan even. I mean, there are lots of media voices. There's a study at today, we're going to report on tomorrow that the alternative news agencies
Starting point is 00:25:36 have now surpassed, which is obviously true. But, you know, here's the rub on it. It isn't ideology that has sunk them, although that's a part of it. They're boring, Miranda. They're boring. Well, they know that. Because they're all parrots. They get their little at a K Street every morning.
Starting point is 00:26:03 They get their little talking points. Their editors just gut them, okay? You say this, you say that. And if you don't want to say it, you're not working for us. And so these people go on there, and they're like zombies. You don't learn anything. They're not seeking the truth. They couldn't care less.
Starting point is 00:26:21 What they want to do is keep their own jobs. And on television, I made my name by having robust debate on the Fox News Channel. Now, all of them just bringing people who agree with everybody. Tell me more. You know, we don't have fire anymore. And people are going, ah. So I think that that's why, because the social media, here is so much more lively, and it gets to your Pod Force One.
Starting point is 00:26:47 So you're going into a sea of podcast. This is not a podcast. This is a broadcast here. But you're going to a sea of it. Last question, how are you going to make it different? Look, I guess just the relationships that I've built up with the cabinet members and President Trump, I guess they trust me. And I'm hoping to ask them questions that are obviously.
Starting point is 00:27:12 of the news of the day, but in my normal interviews with people, I'm looking for a front-page story, exclusive, something, on whatever is the hot topic. But this is a bit more relaxed. You have more time. I had 45 minutes with the president, and I just had an hour over an hour with Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. And, you know, it's just probing, I guess, what motivates them,
Starting point is 00:27:36 what their desires are, what their background is, what drives them. They're all incredibly, you know, they don't get to these positions of power without being driven and unique people with a perspective on success and an ability to get success that means that they have a lot of lessons for the rest of us. And look, also, many of them have, you know, personal lives that are not chaotic, that are pretty stable. And how do they managed to do that. I'm interested in that when, you know, these powerful men and women, what drives them behind the scenes as well. All right. So part four, it's one is the new podcast. Well, anyway, if you get anything good, I mean, not good, but big, let us know. We'll throw
Starting point is 00:28:24 you right on. We appreciate it. Good luck with it. Thank you. You're listening to the No Spinoos Weekend Edition. So I can't predict with any certainty what will happen. I do know that air power plans are drawn up, and Donald Trump could act on them any time he wants. It's up to him 100%. Israel doesn't have much say in this. Israel will have to do what we tell them to do. And Netanyahu will be thrilled if we go in and dismantle that furlough mountain.
Starting point is 00:28:59 And the anti-Semites, the anti-Israel progressive crew, they're touting that we're lackeys, Israel. You know that. That's what all those Columbia University things were all about. You know, Israel's a terrorist state, is a genocide, on and on and on. But in real life, Israel's not going to let Iran have an atomic weapon, an atom bomb, a nuclear weapon, because Iran wants to kill them all. If you lived in Jerusalem, you'd feel his memory. And that's the memo. I was bringing a guy who is watching this very closely. Doug Schoen, you know him. We use a lot, Democrat political strategist down to Miami. So you say that you have seen a survey of 800 U.S. adults on this issue. What do they say? By two to one, they support what Israel is
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Starting point is 00:31:38 800 Americans, as we would, in any political poll, what they thought, and there is clear support. Now, your point is also right, Bill. These attitudes do change. We saw during the Iraq war, there was big support at the start, and then by the end of the Iraq war, less support. support for Israel after October 7, that's dissipated for the reasons we've all discussed. But bottom line, right now, there's support for action, and I would argue, Bill, that if you're in the Trump White House, and again, I can't speak for his decision, nor can anyone, but this is a time when the Iranian government is weaker, their proxies in the region are weaker, and public opinion is supportive of action against their nuclear.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Yeah, it's a right time to move them if you're going to do that. One of the questions you have is, do you support Israel's actions as self-defense against Iran? Only 51% of Americans say that Israel is acting in self-defense. Does that surprise you? No, it doesn't because unless you're watching this very closely every day, you don't believe that Iran, which has been negotiating, I think, in bad faith, but whatever faith, you think, well, you know, they've been negotiating, and maybe there was a possibility of a deal. I don't believe there was. I don't think you believe there was one. The Israelis certainly don't.
Starting point is 00:33:11 And I think Donald Trump increasingly doubts it himself. But I could see how an ordinary person at home would say, well, you know, we should have given diplomacy more of a chance. Okay. But there comes a point where diplomacy acts against your own self-interest if it just goes on and on and on and on, which is what this has been, what, this is years we were going through this, Doug. And I told Hannity on his radio program today, it's funny when the Democrats, your party, criticizes the lack of diplomacy
Starting point is 00:33:51 because none of this would have happened if not for President Biden. Once Biden surrendered in Afghanistan, then Putin started on the march, China started on the march. Iran started to upgrade its uranium and kick more money because Biden and Obama gave them
Starting point is 00:34:10 billions and billions of dollars into Hezbollah and Hamas. This all goes back to Biden. Yet the Democrats... I think it goes back to Obama and the JCPOA? Not quite as much. I walked through this.
Starting point is 00:34:25 Obama made a huge mistake, and he delivered, the President Obama, delivered the money to the mulles in cash, in cash, in a private play full of suitcases. And nobody knew about it. That tells you that that was, but Biden's weakness, And I know this because I was in Beijing three weeks ago. Okay?
Starting point is 00:34:52 And once the Chinese saw that, that Biden surrendered in Afghanistan, boom, South China Sea, all over the place. They're intruding straits of Taiwan because they knew that Biden wouldn't do anything. And he didn't do anything. Okay? So that Trump was handed this massive disorder throughout the world. But Trump does not want to use American military power because of the unintended consequences that few people understand. There will be consequences if we bomb that mountain in Iran. That's undeniably the case.
Starting point is 00:35:35 Anytime you launch that kind of a strike, the possibility for collateral risk, damage, and developments that we can't now anticipate are heightened exponential. So I think Trump is ready to act from what I see. No, he's ready. People would be supportive, but whether he pulls the trigger or not, literally and metaphorically, time will tell. I think it'll be a quick decision one way or the other. Yeah, I'm giving it could happen. Look, we're taping this late afternoon. It could happen an hour for now.
Starting point is 00:36:08 Right. And it's hard to get a handle on it on what he's, because I don't know the intel coming in so there's a lot of intel coming in to him about the mullahs in their condition and the iranian army and their point of view um but i think that if i had to advise the president i have not been on this uh i would say give it as much time as you can but tell the mullahs through the swiss ambassador that's how it goes uh that you know 48 hours you're going to get their heads cut off. I mean, I would do that behind the scenes. I would tell you, having worked for five Israeli prime ministers, worked for a couple of American
Starting point is 00:36:55 presidents, that's very sound advice. Yeah, because once we bomb, that's the end of the Mullahs. Their regime is over. The Mullahs could keep their power if they surrender. That's correct. And that's like Kham. It's like Kadafi. It would make Trump steal in a heartbeat. Yeah. So it's like Gaddafi. All right, Doug. very much we always appreciate your expertise thank you for listening to the no spend news weekend edition to watch the full episodes of the no spin news visit bill o'reilly dot com and sign up to become a premium or concierge member that's bill
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