Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - March 21, 2026

Episode Date: March 21, 2026

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versus disloyalty. Okay. So we're saying this with Iran. And my job is to report what's happening to you accurately without any shade or spin, the no spin zone. You know that. I've been making my living doing this for 30 years, national news analysis. I do not deceive.

I support the Iranian action, but there are some gaps in what happened, and I don't know yet. I will find out, but at this point, Iran is an evil country that has killed thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world through its funding. of terrorism and gunning down its own citizens going on for almost 40 years now. And they simply won't stop developing the nuclear weapon during the United Nations. Okay. So I'm president. I got to evaluate all of that. Now, let's get into disloyalty versus dissent.

If you oppose the Iran action, you're a loyal American. That's dissent. You are absolutely within your rights to do that. But remember, it's got to be fact-based. It can't be, I hate Trump, so I hate everything he does. That's disloyal. Now, he's the president. 77 million Americans voted for him. But saying maybe this isn't worth it because I have to pay a lot more money for gasoline and utilities. and food, okay. It's a valid point of discussion. Then there is satire. Yeah, satire is okay, and it's not disloyal, and it depends on who's delivering it, of course, because people like Stephen Colbert, and I'll play you a soundbite in a moment, he hates. So whatever Trump does, he's going to mock it.

Whatever the Democrats and liberals do, he's going to ignore it. Rule of tape. This military mission has been dubbed Operation Epic Fury. Fun fact, no. Fun fact, Epic Fury is an anagram for Forget Epstein. Can we check that? Can we check? Make sure that's the case? Fact check that? All right, so Colbert's gone come May 21st. See ya.

Not going to miss you. Okay. What about disloyalty? Then it gets into another zone. Okay? And here is a perfect example. Go. I don't think you should have illegally killed the leader, a foreign leader of a nation,

who's also, by the way, a spiritual leader to millions of Shia Muslims around the world. He wasn't my spiritual leader, but he's a spiritual leader. leader to many people I know, and that's a reality. Okay, so now the Ayatollahs, murderers, killers, they're spiritual leaders. And he, oh, no, he can't, no, no. You, come on. I mean, come on.

You know, Jim Jones was a spiritual leader. Remember him in South America, poisoning all of his followers? Yeah, but no, no, no, no, you can't. Now, he's just loyal, like that guy, in my opinion, my humble opinion, not a loyal American, doesn't like this country, doesn't look out for his country. White people book him is just astounding. I had this conversation with Chris Cuomo because he was on a show that I was on, I don't know, about a year ago on News Nation, I said, I'm not going to appear with the guy anymore.

He hates America. Why do I want to appear with somebody like that? And I won't. Oh, no, no, no. Just to say, no, hates America. Again, in my opinion. Okay. Now, Newsbuster is a conservative group that tracks the media,

says that 94% of all the Iranian war-related jokes poked fun at the United States, not Iran or Spain or not. It was all about us, okay? And it's true. It's like, Trump's an idiot, Trump's there. You heard the Colbert crowd, and they know nothing. Those people don't know anything. I mean, they're sitting there and they like the far left point of view,

so that's why they're in the Ed Sullivan Theater. Okay, but I don't know anything. So 94% that's a lot. And some of it is okay, as I mentioned, you know, go up to the line but some of it is pandering to an audience so Saturday Night Live is a very good example of this

very rarely did it ever make fun of Joe Biden if there was ever a man you could make fun of but they were really interested in mocking him once in a while but nothing but every blank and week they're on Trump go guys me Donald Trump you might remember

from such campaign promises as lower gas prices and no more wars. Sight! We love to make promises because a promise is just a lie that hasn't happened yet. But now it has, and gas costs like a million billion dollars a gallon. And as for the stock market, let me put it in a way that the Harry Stiles fans in the crowd tonight will understand.

You guys are going to love this one. The stock market is going in one direction. Now. Okay, look, but it's the same every week. Pound them, pound them, pound them, pound them. And that seeps into the culture. So you got the news, corporate news, television industry, and the major urban newspapers, Trump's an idiot, trumps this, Trump's that, and then you go over the entertainment industry,

trumps an idiot, Trump. These people who don't know anything, they absorb that. It's unprotected under their constitution. They're not traitors. like the other guy, okay, they're not that, but they're not certainly not fair people, and they're certainly not looking out for you. Make fun of everybody.

I mean, if you have trouble, call me, I'll write you some stuff, SNL. A final thing I want to show you is that there is a deep culture, a liberal culture, and you know that. In Hollywood, so the Academy Awards for last night. Conan O'Brien, host. He's a good guy. I know him for a long time. He's not a crazy guy. But Conan has to virtue signal. What I mean by that is he has to tell Hollywood how noble Hollywood is if he wants

to continue to work. Roll the tape. Every film we salute is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages working hard to make something of beauty. We pay tribute tonight, not just a film, but to the ideals of global artistry, collaboration, patience, resilience, and that rarest of qualities today, optimism. Okay, so this is the inclusive stuff. Now, most good people believe in inclusion. You don't want to exclude somebody

because of the cover of their skin, or their religion, that's terrible. So we want to have a diversity of opinion and diversity of artistry. We don't want it forced. Conan, you went to Harvard, I went to Harvard, and we know what happened to that university. It wasn't how skilled you were as a high school student

that granted you admission, it was what you looked like. Okay, and what your zip code was. anything other than that. It was, they were selective and forcing inclusion. And by that, they excluded people who should have been admitted to Harvard. Hollywood does that all day long. All day long, they do that. And Conan likes it. Okay, as long as it's not forced and in Hollywood it is forced. So you can see this tremendous liberal wave coming at the country, even in a situation as important and complicated as Iran. And I don't believe most people understand what's going on there.

And it's my job to try to clear that up a little bit. And that's the memo. You're listening to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. Okay. So oil is about $100 a barrel up from, what was it, $50 a barrel or something? recently, I mean, it's getting pounded, so we all pay more. Now, I filled up over the weekend, and I didn't like it. It's 50 cents a gallon more in my town than it was three weeks ago.

But I wasn't whining about it. I understand it that you're going to disrupt the world oil markets, then you're going to have higher prices. What I don't understand, I'll get to in a moment. Why we have so much oil in the USA, why are our prices going up? We're not exporting oil, but why are we going? Why are we getting hosed? We're going to deal with that.

Now, late today, President Trump issued this statement. This is, all right, quote, this war was started by Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden. We've been fighting it for 47 years. I'm putting an end to it because I am the peace president, Says Mr. Trump, this week I will be creating the Hormuz Peace Board, where our so-called coward NATO allies are not welcome. Many real allies have already expressed desire to join this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,

secure the Hormuz for peace. Thank you for your attention. All right, so Donald Trump is not backing away from anything. NATO doesn't like him. Okay, we all know that. But NATO isn't cooperating with the Iranian action by and large. They're not. And that's kind of spooky because, boy, oh, boy, those people know. Every European country knows what forced migration has done to it and how dangerous Iran really is. They're not that far away.

Okay, let's get into why we the people are involved with this in our wallets. Dr. Peter Morici is an economist and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, and he joins us now from Alexandria, just a few miles from where I am. You know, I'd love to have you in a studio, but we don't have a studio in the other chair. Here in D.C. only in one chair. It sounds like the first place I taught this little Lutheran College in Minneapolis. We couldn't afford chalk. Right.

I had to put you on a bird because it was. not a chair, we can't get into the chair. And there's only one camera. It's just like, boom. All right, so look, doctor, we have plenty of oil in the United States, and they're releasing the reserves, and they're doing everything. Why are we, why am I paying 50 cents more a gallon? Why? Well, because we can export the oil for one thing. And we also import refined products. We don't refine all the gasoline we need, so we're importing refined products, which are made out of more expensive oil. But the U.S. price goes up and down with the Brent crude price. The Texas intermediate price goes up and down with bread crude, and they've both gone up by about

50%. But I don't understand that. So usually it's supply and demand. And it's supply and oil. And I get your point that we need some ingredients that we have to bring in here, but that's not the big thing. The big thing is the world price of oil, which is, now over $100, okay? But we, in the United States, we don't have to buy that oil. So why are I don't? Well, we don't pump exactly the right kind of oil for our refineries. So what we tend to do is export some of it and import some refined product. The other thing you have to consider is anybody who's got oil to sell, they can sell it abroad for a lot more money than they can here. And so that lifts the price.

But I think it's U.S. companies that are doing this. They're lifting the price and they don't have to lift the price. It's almost like a cabal. It's almost like a monopoly because all the same Sinclair or Mobile or Exxon, they all do the same thing. Well, they are making money, but they tend to do the same thing under all circumstances because they're responding to market prices. I mean, two farmers that have beef cattle of the same quality, they sell at the same price

because the market and supply and demand dictate it or require it. You can't expect one farmer to sell cheaper than another. Don't you think there's a collusion among American oil companies to get these prices up as high as they can get them? I hate to tell you this, but you're starting to sound like Elizabeth Warren or AOC talking about the banks. I don't think they're conspiring at all. Now, they see what each other does, and that's a problem. But that's a problem in a lot of markets. But I don't think, you know, I don't buy this notion that America is a conglomeration of monopolists,

like the, you know, the grocery stores are conspiring and the oil companies are conspiring. No, I'm not against the guy either. But I don't know any other product that has the same price in four gas stations. I don't know any. And when the president says, well, we're going to release all of these oil, all this oil from our reserves, and the price doesn't go down. Well, it takes time to pump it out. Why bother releasing it?

Joe Biden pumped out about the same amount of oil as Donald Trump is now authorized. As the oil and the salt domes go down, there's less pressure and it comes out more slowly. And then you have to disperse it into the marketplace. These things do not happen instantaneously. This is not like TV where you and I can make TV and people can see it, you know, almost the same time.

With oil, it takes time to do this stuff. But it doesn't really help. So the president announces, oh, we're going to do all the oil release, and it doesn't bring the crisis balance. Why bother doing it? I'm a little skeptical of it myself. I don't think things should be bad enough that we need to release that oil because we do produce a lot of oil. The impact on the, you know, price of gasoline is going up anyway. And the impact on the economy is not going to be as terrible as some people fear, because

while consumers are paying more for gasoline, they're not paying it to Saudi Arabia this time, like the way they were in the 70s. They're paying it to Exxon. So Exxon's dividends will go out, you know, they'll have more cash to spend. They're paying to the American companies. It's not going overseas, but it's still painful for the American worker who's operating at a very thin margin, and all of a sudden the oil and utility costs are double what they were. Now, here's the question. President Trump had to know that would happen. then when he initiated the Iranian campaign, right? I don't know.

I mean, after all, he had advisors. Hold on a second. Hold on. Hold on. You know, this administration didn't spend its draft choices, its top draft choices on economists. I mean, these are the same guys who told Besant and the president that tariffs would not raise prices.

And tariffs have, in some measure, raised prices. foreign producers haven't eaten the tariffs. They've mostly been eaten by American companies and American consumers. So it's not inconceivable to me that they deceive themselves at the White House and that he wasn't getting good information. But even if he was, so he knew, we have to do something about Iran. They are very close to having weapon-grade nuclear material. The time has come.

They never stopped. The Wall Street Journal had a very interesting article this morning. they never stopped trying to make a nuclear weapon, even during the period the treaty was enforced. Don't let the liberals tell you that Donald Trump disrupted that, and that now they're the reason, you know, he's the reason they restarted their program. It was going on all along. No. No, the time that I agree with that.

The time has come to put these killers out of business. I see it the way you see it as far as Iran being at danger to the world. And I do believe that they were cheating. and our strike last June knocked out most of their nuclear capacity, but not all of it. And I do believe that they actually told the United States, we're not going to stop, because I know that to be true in their last meeting in Geneva. But here's what I don't know. And this is why I can't go in with 100 percent certainty.

The word imminent. And that's what the left is seized upon. What do you mean imminent? That was a poor choice of words. That was a poor choice of words. Yeah, because we don't have access to U.S. Intel. We don't know what the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli Intel Service, knows. And I think the president has got to be a little more specific in defining what they call the clear and present danger.

Would I be wrong? Well, we do know. But now we're looking at the notion of sending in the special circumstances. services and whatnot in strutovus, the former commander-in-chief of NATO and of the Southern Command, it says that about 10% of the Iranian they have in a column he wrote yesterday or today is very close, very, very close to being new weapons grade. So that could be uplifted. I mean, they need to be more specific, give us more information. If he doesn't source it, then it's just his opinion. See, I'm believing. No, no, but he's been pretty good

he's been pretty good on the fact checking. Okay, but then you're in the sense that, you know, then you don't see him having to walk back words very often. Okay, but doctor, then you get into, if that's true, and this guy has a pipeline in and he should, absolutely should. If anybody does on the outside, it'd be somebody like him. Why are the NATO countries turning their back on the USA

and giving us a hard time? Well, I think it's because the NATO nations really just don't have spine and backbone anymore. You know, they really, honestly, they're vegetarians in a world of carnivores. Well, there's no doubt that the

continent is... They want to wish the problems away. They don't want to deal with this. I mean, let's put it this way. They tell us, we're the essential country in the Ukraine, not to bury the story, right? But if somebody's going to put, if we're going to finally deal with Russia, it's going to

take some boots on the ground there because they're just not enough Ukrainians. When the president of France suggested that to the previous premier of Germany, he went apoplexic. I mean, they just don't want to fight over there. I mean, the polls do, but there aren't enough of them. But I don't know even that they would put troops in the Ukraine alone. But my feeling is that they want us to do their dirty work for them. And since we went out in without asking their permission, well, you know, they didn't want to even,

who's going to benefit from us escorting the boat, the ships through? It's other countries. They're the ones who need to buy oil on the international market. And Lord knows, for next winter, they need Qatar's natural gas. This thing has to be brought to a conclusion. And they're not going to help us do this unless Donald Trump really twists their arm, which he did. Now, we'll see if he gets a result. The New York Post has been delivering impactful headlines for over two centuries.

and every weekday morning I'll bring them straight to you. I'm Caitlin Becker, host of the New York Postcast. From Washington to Wall Street, if it matters to you, you'll hear it here. And it wouldn't be the post without the stories other outlets like to ignore. So ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, the relations are a low point between the USA and NATO right now. You could place the blame wherever you want.

but I believe the continent, European nations are weak, particularly Germany. Germany, you know, Italy has actually stepped up. Spain, I would expel. I just kick them right out. You don't get on any argument for me on that one. Or at least they ought to be put in the penalty box for a year, you know? Like the Russians can invade Spain if they want to. Right, they're obnoxious.

But they're a socialist country that's veering toward communism in Spain. People don't know that. But that's what's going on. All right. Last word about this. I think we have gotten into now an area where we know that the American oil companies are making as much money as they possibly can off this Iranian action. And a lot of us are going to be uncomfortable with that. Last word.

Oh, I think that's right. Americans are going to feel very uncomfortable and feel that it's very unfair that the oil companies profit so much. And the oil companies would do well to use some of that money to benefit Americans so they might feel better about it. Okay, doctor, we really appreciate it. Good discussion. I hope you'll come back. Thank you. This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. So some bad news for the president today. Man named Joe Kent, top U.S. counterterrorism official, 45 years old, career army, Patriot, who the president-nominated, who the president-nominated. to run the counterterrorism center, the NCTC. I don't know much about that.

Anyway, he quit, saying that Iran, not an imminent danger to the USA. So he's out, and that embarrasses President Trump and the Trump administration. I guess that's what Mr. Kent wanted to do. Now, he's a gold star husband, his wife, was killed in Syria, in Syria, in a terror suicide bombing.

So this is a guy's got emotion in fighting terrorism, but he does not believe that the Iranian action is warranted at this time. I can't report any more than that. I can't analyze the situation. I don't get the daily intel reports. I don't know. Now, today, when I'm over at the White House, I'm going to be doing some information gathering, and we will have, I hope, an unbelievable guest

for our weekly podcast that will probably drop on Wednesday night. I can't say who, because this is a very delicate negotiation, but if I get that person, a lot of clarity will emerge. All right, so stay with us, as always. Israel says it killed two top Iranian commanders yesterday. Their names don't really matter, but they were bad guys and deeply involved with the terrorist state of Iran. So they're dead, and the action goes on.

Donald Trump is postponing his trip to China. That's pretty big. He's supposed to go at the end of this month. But he says now, because of the Iranian action, he's going to delay it. Roll of tape. Right now, we're speaking to China. I'd love to, but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel.

And so we've requested that we delay it a month or so. Okay. The wise thing to do. China is kind of in a background. They're not doing much, even though they're very dependent on Iranian oil. I believe the United States could make some of that up, and that's going to be part of the discussions down the road. NATO got hammered by the president today.

They're not stepping up. Are you surprised? I'm not. NATO despises President Trump. It's personal. And you can say, all you want to say about it, but it's true. The Greenland stuff, the taunting, Europe is weak, all of that. You know, they don't like it over there in Europe.

And their interests are different than our interests. But what's really disturbing to me as a citizen of the world, remember, I've been to 86 countries, almost every European country, and I know what's going on over there, is that Europe is never really engaged in a war on terror, even after 9-11. We really never have done it. We have done all the heavy lifting in the world.

If you read my book, killing the killers about the dismantling of al-Qaeda and ISIS and others, it's all the United States. Afghanistan, 90% USA. Iraq war, 90% USA. Some of the policies didn't work. But Europe has never really,

even though they got hit, time after time after time, They don't really care. Germany's the worst. The quote out of the German government is, this is not our war. We have not started it, unquote. Well, you're ungrateful, Germany,

and I'll tell you what. I'm really not pleased with Berlin. I was in World War II. We've carried that country at a great expense. Okay? So after Third Reich was defeated by the Allies, we rebuilt the United States rebuilt Germany. We didn't have to do that. Did not have to do it.

Germans had no money, no ability to rebuild their own country. We did it. And when Stalin came in and tried to take it over, we opposed Stalin and the Soviet Union, a great expense. And ever since then, we've carried Germany. Carried them. Are they grateful? No. They are not.

Never have been. Not a big fan of the German government. Beautiful country. Been all over it. Government? Spain's a socialist country. It wouldn't even allow U.S. military planes to refuel on its soil. I boot Spain right out of NATO.

They don't pay their dues. I don't know if you could do that, how you do it. I propose, let's boot them out. Why do we need them? And I'm not a jingoist, word of the day. I'm not. America is the greatest we should do whatever we want. But this is ridiculous.

Italy is an exception. Italy is a good, strong ally to the USA. But they don't care in general, the EU and NATO, about what Iran does or what their potential for violence is. And the reason they don't care is they don't like Israel. Across the board in Europe. Israel's got no friends there. None.

Now you can go back in history. You can do anti-Semitism. I don't know exactly why that is, but it's there. It has been there for thousands of years. And that is part of the equation. But they're weak. Collectively speaking, Europe is a very big. very weak continent. Asia much stronger than me. But the Asians aren't stepping up either.

So the USA is alone in dismantling Iran, along with Israel, of course, but pretty much alone. And that is not a good situation. Now back home, according to Rasmussen poll, which is very friendly to President Trump, sample is good. Question is, based on what you know, how successful as military operation against Iran been so far, very somewhat successful, 61%, big number. Not very, not successful at all, 29, not sure 11. So that's a good poll for President Trump, but I guarantee you get a poll tomorrow from CNN or the economist or one of these, so the exact opposite. So who knows?

The Republican base still supports the president's action in Iran except for the isolation lists. And there are not many of them. All right. So what I would do, and if I do get to speak to the president today, which I don't think I'm going to, it's kind of a madhouse over there, I'd say, look, remember the COVID briefings? We need to do that with Iran. A couple of times a week get the generals, not Heggseth, no political players at all, none. Just the general, the admiral in charge, a sit-wrest. which is a situation report

with the American people, maybe twice a week. Here's what's happening. Boom, boom, boom, boom. That would help. The word imminent, very troublesome. I'm going to get to the bottom of that, though, or I'm going to die trying. And tomorrow and the rest of the week,

we're going to have some very good information here. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Now, the Democrats are going down the radical left road, even as the Iran action unfolds. So save America Act, which is voter ID, no, they don't want it. Every country, as I've said, probably too many times. And Europe has voter ID, we can't have it. It's ridiculous. It's insane.

And all the roadblocks they put up can be easily overcome by the states, which run the election. This is a general national law. Law of the land is you've got to show your American citizens. in order to vote as the Constitution states. That should be in place. Okay, so why? Okay. And they're going to kill it in the Senate.

You're not going to get 60 votes, so that's not going to happen. And then you got the defunding of Homeland Security. The TSA agents now that people wrapped around airports can't get through. The Democrats don't like ICE. Even though ICE is funded, they're taking it out on Homeland Security. It is our view that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be just, and it should be humane. That's not what's happening right now in the United States of America. And that's why ICE needs to be reformed in a dramatic, bold, meaningful, and transformational manner.

And if that doesn't happen, the DHS funding bill will not move forward. So you're putting every single American in jeopardy. You're inconveniencing everybody at the airport, and you're doing an irresponsible radical left policy. Again, it's on the Republicans to bring all of this out in the upcoming vote in November. But there's no doubt that radical leftists control the messaging of the Democratic Party. Okay? And here's a poll, backs it up.

Fox News last week, sample is good. How well do you think capitalism in the USA is working? Well, 51%, not well, 49. Not good news for capitalism. Second question, do you think it would be a good thing or bad thing for the USA to move away from capitalism and towards socialism? Good thing, 38, bad thing, 61, and that's up six points since 2022. So the socialists are gaining in this country.

Joining us now from Los Angeles is Kenyon Spivak. He is a real clear politics contributor. Wrote a column this week that caught my eye called the Marxist wing of the Democratic Party. In fact, that broke yesterday. What is the Marxist wing? How powerful is it? Is it taken over the Democratic Party? It is very powerful. Well, first of all, thanks for having me today. It is very powerful. It is not a big portion of the Democratic Party. According to a poll release just last week, maybe 15% of the Democrat Party self-identify as being in this wing. Let's assume that self-identification is imperfect, so it's a little bit more than that. So it's not a big part of the Democrat Party. But it is the energy that.

the Democrat Party. It is the funding of the Democrat Party. It is the activist in the Democrat Party and the elected Democrat officials have been completely taken over by this wing. Listen to people like Chuck Schumer. I grew up in the same neighborhood as Chuck Schumer. He's older than me, but I knew him when we were both young. He was always a liberal. He was never this kind of crazy liberal that voter ID is racist. And Supreme Court justices who disagree with him, should be objects of violence. The activist wing, the radical wing of the Democrat Party has taken control. You don't believe Schumer is Marxist.

He's an opportunist. That's what Schumer is. He's a man of no seasons. You don't believe in anything. He just says whatever he thinks. He only says what he thinks will gain him power or whatever he's looking for, money. But first of all, let's define what your vision of Marxism is within the Democratic Party. What is it, Mr. Spiebeck?

Okay. And I agree with you. Chuck Schumer is an opportunist who's afraid of the Marxist wing. The Marxist wing is not particularly the old-fashioned Marxism that was anti-capitalist. Many in the Marxist wing believe in making money. What they are is intersectionalists, anti-Semitic, and opposed to American history as an example of exceptionalism. They believe that marginalized minorities have been unfairly treated by what they call the white patriarchy, which I guess is most of the traditional people who believe in Western values.

And they want to remake that. They want to see groups that, in their view, don't have power, gain power. But unlike traditional Marxists, they're okay doing that in a capitalist environment. But they do want to take money from successful white people, don't they? Oh, absolutely. They don't particularly like billionaires. They're not happy when large corporations align with traditional values. But they're not necessarily seeking for the government to own the means of production.

I mean, we know Mandami wants to own or open and operate supermarkets. But overall, they're not trying to take the means of production. They're not trying to privatize all of the American industry. They want to increase taxes. They absolutely want wealth taxes on the richest Americans. But they do still believe that a capitalist orientation does help all people do better. They just want to reallocate the benefits of that system. Yeah, they want to control the capitalism and make sure that people they don't like get punished.

Now, you mentioned anti-Semitism, and so did I in my talking points memo. The root of Marxist, anti-Jewish behavior and thought, what is that? Where did that come from? All right. It comes from intersectional perspective. So let me make a point as sort of by analogy. If you go back in history, there was a lot of anti-Semitism that arose from the crucifixion of Christ and a belief that Jews were responsible for that.

That's not in any way the basis of this current anti-Semitism. The basis of it is a belief that Jews are disproportionately successful that whether Jews in the United States or Israelis in the Middle East, they have garnered the benefits, the economic benefits of success and the belief is that they're not sharing them with Palestinians or others who are economically much lower down the latter of success. Or they exploited those people to get the wealth. Yes, it's an analogy to the white-black situation in the United States.

Here in the United States. Okay. Right. Now, do you believe that most... European countries buy into that vision, that anti-Jewish vision, based on the economics of the situation. Is that what's going on here in Iran? They don't like Israel because Israel is an oppressive state that's exploited the poor.

In Europe, we have a combination of traditional anti-Semitism based on Christ and intersectional woke anti-Semitism, particularly with mass migration, as the number and percent of Muslim immigrants to Europe has risen. So the European situation is a bit different than the situation in the U.S. All right. So immigration has taken, is a factor in the growing fear to confront terrorist states like Iran. Final question for you. In the United States, States, the national media is sympathetic to what you call the Marxist wing of the Democratic Party. How did that happen? Journalists traditionally have been at least political liberals.

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cash flow or exploring investment banking solutions, with Desjardin business, it's all under one roof. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk. Business. Our main journalism schools, Columbia School of Journalism, Northwestern, have been putting out liberal journalists for many, many years. I mean, Walter Cronkite, who people thought of as the most revered voice in the world, news in the United States, by any definition, was a traditional liberal. We've seen those liberals move further to the left and further to being progressives. When progressives complete their transition,

they become part of what I refer to as the Marxist wing. Some call it the pro-Chamas wing, but that's conflating different issues of the Democrat Party. All right. So you think it's all about indoctrination to, a progressive ideology that comes out of the universities. That's what's driving me. I see it a little bit differently. I see that the heads of these corporations, not trained journalists, talking about an Iger of Disney,

people who run these mammoth media corporations, they are devoted left-winger, some of progressives, and they live in a bubble where everybody they know feels and thinks the same way. That's how I think this has evolved. I think you're completely correct. I'm a former senior executive of MGMUA and other studios. These are my friends.

I live in the same neighborhood with these people. You're 100% correct. I want to point out, and it relates not just to them, but in general to this problem. It's not just the universities. For 50 years, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have, moved to the very far left.

These are the teachers unions. In elementary school, in high school and junior high. This is where action civics is being taught. We have a 50-year problem that starts in first grade. And those

are the people who today are running these major corporations not just in Los Angeles. So I completely agree with it. Yeah, in the urban areas. That's for sure. All right, Mr. Spiebeg, very interesting column. If you want to check it out, it's called a Marxist Wing of the Democratic Party. We appreciate you talk with us today. Thank you.

This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. By now, you probably know the Director of National Counterterrorism, a man named Joe Kent, 45 years old. He served in the Army for 20 years. It was confirmed last year about this time, April 9th. He quit. He said that there was no reason to invade Iran with air power. And it was not imminent that there was any danger from that country.

And now Lindsey Graham contradicts that. Very interesting debate. So we did a traceback on Mr. Kent. And, you know, he basically, doesn't like the fact that Israel, he believes, was calling some of the shots here. This is what he said in his resignation letter, quote. This echo chamber, and he's talking to President Trump here, was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed imminent threat to the United States. You should strike now. It was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie. It was the

same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disaster's Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women unquote. So I don't think Israel dragged us into the Iraq war. I don't think they did. That was a miscalculation on the part of the Bush administration with members of mass destruction after 9-11. But Mr. Ken has his point of view. Now, he was a stand-up guy in resigning, but you need to know a little bit more about this. So for whatever reason, Kent was not involved in the Iranian action. He was put on the shelf. And that was very strange, because when you have an action against a foreign nation,

you're going to have counterterrorism, and Kent's in charge of counterterrorism, and you got him on a bench. That tells me something was going wrong there. Clear to me also that Mr. Kent does not like the Israeli component in all this. Okay. There are others who feel the same way he does. Obviously, President Trump is not one of them. We get into all of this, as I said, with Senator Graham,

I think knows more about this than any human being on earth, the exception of Mr. Trump. All right, so once that broke, that you have a Trump, administration official breaking away from the Iranian action. And the timing was not good because combat's still going on here. And I don't respect Ken's timing. You want to do that, you wait. You don't do it when the planes are in the air.

All right, so the, of course, anti-Trump press, they love this. Roll it. What's so striking here is that Kent is an ultra-Trump loyalist, someone who supported the president through all three of his campaigns. His own base is asking the same questions that a lot of other Americans are asking, why are we at war with Iran? Why did we attack Iran when we did? What are the goals of the war and how and when does it end?

Now, we've gone over this before with Ms. Wallace. possible questions to answer. You can't answer them. Nobody could, but she continues to say that the Trump administration is evading or lying or whatever, because she's getting paid to do that.

Remember, Nicole Wallace worked for Bush, but she's got money now. And Masters over at MS, tell her what to say, and she says it. That's exactly what's going on. If she were working at Fox News,

Then she'd do whatever they told her to do, just so you know. When will it end? Lindsay Graham does a timeline for us, and it's interesting. Now, Vice President J.D. Vance was also skeptical about the Iranian action. It's not a bad thing. You have an administration with his opposing points of view, but Vance, of course, did not publicly say anything against it, which is responsible.

He's a vice president. You don't make the commander-in-chief look bad when the commander-in-chief has decided to launch a military action. And you just don't do that. That's not treasonous, but it's certainly disloyal. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. There's a report from the Institute for the Study of War. Now, we have looked at this.

It's a think tank in D.C. where we are that provides analysis of armed conflicts and security issues around the world. Doesn't look like there's anything partisan here. Okay? Looks like that they do studies and they base analysis off that. And they say, quote, let me get there, quote, that everything is going pretty well. All right, there it is. The war in Iran is currently in a phase in which the military trajectory, relatively positive, the USA is steadily destroying Iran's ability

uses the most essential tool in war, drone missile attacks, which in turn underpin the entire Iranian strategy, unquote. Well, you never know that, listening to the Nicole Wallace's and the CNN's of the world, reading New York Times, The Washington Post. You never know that. They are right to their opinion, but I mean, come on. trying to get accurate information here.

It's not easy to get it. So I thought you'd, I thought you would like to know that. And that's the memo. Now, with all of this anti-Trump stuff, particularly when American military is involved, with all of it, there is an element that says these,

television networks that don't tell the truth should be sanctioned. Okay? So Brandon Carr is ahead of the FCC. He said, quote, broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news as also known as fake news, have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.

The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in public interest. They will lose their licenses if they do not. That is a threat, direct threat. direct threat. Now, there have been two occasions that I pointed out to you where the television press has reported fallacious stories. Two. First was the invasion of the Kurds, which is picked up by a lot of people, that the Kurdish people, army, whatever it may be, were going to invade Iran. That did not happen. I told you wasn't going to happen because there's no supply line. You can't get them in there logistically.

Okay? And the second story, which was as absurd as it comes, reported by ABC News, that Iran was targeting California with drones. It's totally untrue. And so was the current thing. And when you report something as fact, it's got to be true.

Right? And both of those stories got a lot of traction. And Americans like, okay, what the deuce is going on here? We are we having a ground war? Are we going to California going to go up with drones? Even Gavin Newsom said, no evidence of that. There's no evidence that there's going to be any drones fired at us. And I'm going to, the ABC News apologize.

No. They didn't apologize. So, you know, Carr, I don't like the heavy hand of government on the communications industry. Obviously, I'm doing this for 35 years. I don't want the government to tell me what I can and can't say. But if I'm wrong, I have various responsibility, right? Anyway, there was some reaction to Carr, and one of the reactors is, to Ron Johnson, a friend of the program from Wisconsin.

And he joins us now from Washington. So Senator, you went on a record and you said, look, I don't like this, you know, FCC surveillance, let's call it that, correct? Well, little, Bill. That question was sprung on me before I even heard what Carr said or the points he was making. I wasn't aware of what he was pointing to

in terms of what the broadcasters were reporting falsely. But having the question of spry on me, I resorted to what my basic belief is, is like you, I don't like the heavy hand of government. I don't care who wields it. I'm a strong defender in the First Amendment and freedom of speech and freedom of the press. That said, these broadcasters are granted licenses

to use this incredibly lucrative broadcast spectrum, and they have a certain responsibility of the public. So I'll hedge my comments a little bit from a standpoint of, you know, the legacy corporate media is highly biased. When they get something wrong, I think they do have a duty to correct the record. And if they consistently don't do that, if they consistently report false news, don't correct the record, their license just might be in jeopardy. But again, I would prefer the federal government not having to wield that kind of power. It'd be nice if we had unbiased broadcasters, but we don't. Then we never will again, because it's too much money and being biased.

That's easy money to make. But there's a difference, and here's a difference. So when you report something and you say, this is happening, this is a fact, and it's not a fact, that it's totally wrong. You have an obligation to correct the record. And you know, the anti-Trump media rarely does that once in a while, but rarely. They just let this stuff go. Opinion is opinion. I mean, almost every pundit on television, with the exception of me, is wrong every day.

The Washington Post is not giving back its Pulitzer Prize for the Russian inclusion hoax stories, right? You got a pull surprise for that completely false narrative. They never apologized. I haven't given back that Pulitzer Prize. So, no, I'm no fan of the legacy media, trust me. I'm not a big fan of the government. And what the senator is talking about is that the Washington Post and the New York Times ramped up this Russian collusion thing that Trump was involved in 2016. Totally bogus story. They won Pulitzer Prizes, didn't give them back. I mean, and that was the end. For me, that was it. But what I'm trying to say is that opinion, you can be wrong. And that's not a problem, but a fact that, hey, in California, Iranians are getting rid of, drone you.

I mean, come on. And then you get into irresponsibility. But here's something very interesting, that there are certain networks on the air. CNN is one of them that won't book guests, all right, that go against their philosophy. So CNN despises Donald Trump. So you very rarely see that. I think they have one guy punded on quite often who sticks up for Trump. But it's a mountain of people against him.

MS does the same thing. The networks do the same thing, not as much. But you don't see a lot of Trump people on there. Comedians late night, you don't see anybody. The view doesn't ever book people who are against their liberal point of view. That disturbs me now. Now I'm saying, and there's only one correction, Senator, only one. That would be the government licensing stuff, right?

Yeah, but I think cable news is different than broadcast news. I don't think it's the same kind of licensing requirements. They're basically paying for their ability to broadcast over cable. And you've got competition, too. Again, I like the fact we have a free press. We have all these alternate media types now, and that's a good thing. I'd rather have more speech than government restricting speech. Okay.

You live in a swing state, a very important state, Wisconsin. And as we reported, oil prices, gas prices, pump up a buck very quickly. And Wisconsin's not a wealthy state and it's working people. You know that. You know the state as well as anybody knows it. Are those people now are going to accept the Iranian action? Or are they going to rebel against it because they're getting hurt in their own personal finance world? Well, I need to point out in June of 2022, national gas prices average about $5 a gallon.

Inflation was 40-year high at 9.1%. Now, that wasn't caused by a war that we had to, we had to engage. agent. I mean, President Trump, Iran was at war with us for 47 years. They are a menace. They are proving themselves to be a menace. We had to act before we couldn't act before they became a nuclear power, had so many missiles, had so many drones that you simply couldn't do what we're doing right now. So again, gas prices are up because of President Trump having the courage to act before it was too late. The gas price under Biden, they were up there because of his war on fossil fuel because of the policies they were undertaking. So it's important to point out the American

public. Yeah, nobody likes high gas prices. But we actually were bringing them down with Trump's policies of drill baby drill. And again, I hope people appreciate the fact that we had to act. I mean, we had, we have to take Iran out. We can no longer allow them to menace the world. They've been doing it for 47 years. We cannot let them be a nuclear power. But I don't think we, you know, we don't want them to, we can't allow them to plug up straight horro moves either. They have to be ended that evil regime. The polls are about 50-50. The longer the Iranian thing goes on, the more the economy be damaged.

And then the midterms loom in November. So it's really impossible to predict it. I don't know how many Americans at this point in history, senator, are putting their country before themselves. You know what I mean? We're all human beings. We're selfish. The one thing that I'm optimistic about,

and again, stunning achievement already by Israeli and U.S. military and our brave men and women. But the fact that now you have Iranian citizens basically being able to call in air strikes, that's the way you can weaken the regime, get rid of the evildoers in Iran so the Iranian people can take over. We've never been able to do that before in warfare, where you basically have the Iranian people who want to be free to this evil regime being able to call in air strikes. It's got the Iranian security troops shaking their boots. It's a great article in the Wall Street Journal today about that. So that gives me some hope.

All right. We all need hope. Finally, a Save America act. You're very involved with this. On the merits of it, you should have to show an ID because it's in the Constitution that you cannot vote unless you're American citizens. So how else could the authorities police the Constitution unless they're asking for proof of civil? That doesn't seem to be that complicated, yet you have an entire party, the Democratic Party, that opposes that. I'm just, and they're going to block that SAVE Act.

That's going to be blocked. They're not going to get the 60 votes in the Senate. I'm just flabbergasted at this, that an entire party would say, ah, we don't really care about what the Constitution says. We don't want any requirement in order to register to vote. How stunned are you? Well, it doesn't surprise me. This is existential to their game plan of turning America into one-party nation. If they get the majority, they will eliminate the filibuster.

They'll end the filibuster, turn Puerto Rico, D.C. to states. They'll pass the Supreme Court. We need to stop them from doing that. So right now, the split in the Republican Party isn't so much, would we like to have the filibuster to stop really bad liberal legislation? Yeah, but the split is, do we believe that Democrats will end it and should we do it first? I'm in that camp versus the other people that are hoping against, so I hope the Democrats won't do it. But the sad fact that the matter is this is their game plan. That's why they flooded millions of people into to America,

you know, plussed up these sanctuary cities and states, get more members of Congress, make it very easy to cheat. And the, and the, fact that they allow illegal immigrants to vote in some of these local elections, like in D.C., like in New York, once you're registered to vote in a local election, makes it pretty easy to vote in a federal election. Of course, Democrats sit there, oh, we don't want to do that. No, that's exactly that they want to do. So they're going to lie all day long during this debate, but we're having this debate

to hopefully expose the Democrats for who they are and make them defend. Why are they opposed to what 80% of American people support? Well, my minority leader Schumer continues to make the argument that this is unfair, that a lot of people don't have IDs and they can't get IDs. So some woman who's been married to five different guys has five different names and doesn't have the name on her birth certificate or whatever it may be. And I'm saying to myself, Chuck, do you not understand the states can remedy that very, very quickly? because the states, of course, are in charge of getting people credentials so they can register to vote if they're American citizens. Am I wrong?

Am I going off the path here? No, in the end, Senator Lee, it's his piece of legislation. He's made it as easy as possible to get the kind of ID, but you have to go through the effort to show that you're a citizen, have the type of ID to vote. But in the end, he leaves up to the states because we still want states to administer elections. Yeah.

We're just talking about some very common-sense national standards, governing those state-running elections. Yeah, because all you have to do the state legislature would say, okay, you don't have an ID, a valid ID, we're going to send you one. Here's the form, you fill it out, and then you'll get your ID,

and you'll be able to vote. But you don't hear that. You hear Jim Crow, and this is that, and they don't want this one to vote, they don't want that one to vote. And, you know, my head's going to blow off. We've been here in Washington for three days. I feel like I've been here three months,

and I don't know how you guys do it. I mean, it's just like crazy. I was just on the floor, listen to Schumer. Yeah, your head wants to explode. You are forced to refute what he's going to say. I know. It's just so crazy. But this bill is not going to pass the Save Act this time around.

I don't like busting out the filibuster because exactly what you pointed out. If the Republicans do get around doing that, then the Democrats are going to use that to do all kinds of insane stuff. when it's their turn, when they have the power of the three, you know, the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Last word on Wisconsin. How do you have a poll? How do you put your finger on how the folks are feeling in your state? How do you know how they're feeling about gas prices? Do you get information coming to you?

Well, if you're a candidate, you're doing that kind of polling. And it's going to, you know, it gets the micro issues. But in Wisconsin, you just basically say it's going to be a 50-50 race. You know, if it's a November election, a fallout election, it's going to be close. No matter who's running, who's at the top of the ticket, it's going to be close. We're that close to state. That's right. We have a very conservative senator and we have a very liberal senator as well.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's what we've got. And that's what, that's because of Milwaukee and Madison, those are the two big urban centers that vote left. right? Yeah, so, you know, two me always used to describe Pennsylvania as you've got Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and then Alabama in between. That's very similar to Wisconsin. We got Milwaukee, we got Madison, and we got a very conservative rural area throughout Wisconsin. It just breaks down pretty much 50-50. All right, Senator. Thanks very much to take any time to talk to us. Really appreciate it. Hope to see again soon. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

I found thought of the day from Washington. So what happens in these White House things is that you go and there is what they call a reception. So there are a bunch of Irish donors to the Republican Party and President Trump's enterprises. They'll be there. Politicians, a few. I'm not expecting a mountain of politicians to show up. But it's okay, it's cordial. Food is always great.

They don't give you a lot of libations. They don't want you getting drunk. Not Andrew Jackson's crowd. Remember Andrew Jackson's inauguration? His supporters got invited to the White House, and they sacked it. They wrecked it because they all got drunk. That's not what happens.

But I will have a bunch of conversations with people that I see that I wouldn't ordinarily. have because I don't know where they are. That is what I'm aiming at today. I did forget the touts, but I want to tell you a couple of things that we have this podcast and I'm working on a very special guest as I told you earlier. That will drop tomorrow night, Wednesday night, if I get it. Now, if I don't get it, I'm going to tell you.

I'll tell you, but it's scheduled to do the interview tomorrow or any day. And I think I'm going to get it because if they canceled the last minute that's not good for anybody. So that's going to drop and you're going to want to watch that

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L-O-U-C-H-E. L-O-C-H-E. L-H-H-E. French word. Okay. I'm not down on the French as much as I was during the Iraq war. Remember that? When they really screwed America, France did. France is, you know, they're waffling like everybody else about Iran. And remember, they got hit pretty bad. So I write about that in killing the killers. And France got whacked. And today, in Paris, still remains. They deny it, but it's true.

There are Muslim neighborhoods in Paris where the police can't go. The French police cannot go in those neighborhoods because they're controlled by jihadists, armed jihadists in Paris. And that all goes back to Iran. Hamas has bula, hoodies, all goes back to Iran. France is out, you know, but they're not. as bad as Germany. Ooh. I mean, I should book

a German, some German guy. Call a German ambassador. If he wants to come on and take some heat, he never will. But let's call. Let's put a call into him for next week. We'll do that. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

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