Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - May 24, 2025

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

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20th, 2024 at Walter Reed. They should have picked this up because you don't get bone cancer that fast. Okay, it doesn't happen that quickly. It's a progressive. All right. So, uh, here's what, uh, news nation said. Go. You believe that he knew that, that he had prostate cancer, and even potentially as he was running in 2020 before he assumed office? Well, most likely he had prostate cancer for a long time. Aggressive prostate cancer such as this at age 80 grows over a long period of time. I mean, usually it takes from the first diagnosis of prostate cancer to spread, would take five to 10 years, even in the most aggressive form.

All right. So we got a problem here. We the people. The doctor examined Biden, Kevin O'Connor, kept saying Biden's perfect health, mentally and physically. That just couldn't be true. So Dr. O'Connor has to be investigated, number one. And number two, speculation is not right. I'm not going to speculate about it. Give O'Connor the benefit of due process. But he has to be investigated. because this thing is something wrong with it. Joining us now from Dallas, Pennsylvania, presidential historian Dr. Larry Cook. You read a book called Symbols of Patriotism, First Ladies and Daughters of the American Revolution. Very interesting book. All right, so when you heard this yesterday, Doctor,

did it, did you have the same feeling I did? How could this possibly happen? Yeah, I had the same feelings that you did. You know, first of all, as you mentioned early on, you were sad to hear that, and I certainly was as well, and certainly wish President Biden the best. But, yeah, that was the first thing that I thought of is, you know, how could this just be coming out now with him being a president of the United States and having yearly physicals? And even on your average person, I think we all know as men, that a PSA test is pretty routine for all. of us so everybody gets them would have assumed that yeah yeah everybody gets them so that

being as a known fact that the cancer doesn't just go and the prostate it whips into the bone takes a while they had to miss the prostate cancer in February of 24 right there's no other explanation correct they missed it well i you know i i i don't know i mean either either well wait wait wait put out there but you're a man you're a historian you're a doctor not a doctor of medicine but what other explanation could there possibly be well i'm saying you know either either i don't disagree that they missed it i don't know that they did or they just didn't uh they didn't announce it they didn't let it out or oh you wouldn't announce it of sitting president as cancer yeah exactly that's impossible you don't have to be sherlock holmes here

Okay? Yeah, exactly. There's something wrong. Big time. Right. All right. Now, this is not unique. So I wrote a message of the day, and the message was we had Woodrow Wilson for a year and a half, end of the second term, out of it. Wife ran the country because he had a stroke. Nobody knew it, right? Right. You know, nobody knew the severity of it. Nobody knew it at first at all. And then as it started to get out in little bits and pieces, no one ever knew the severity of his stroke and the role that Edith took on, you know, during that time and how isolated, you know, he was. And it certainly came out that, yes, she probably did make policy decisions and influence things. And, you know, on his behalf because it was just her and the doctor, that was it. The reason that nobody knew it was World War I had just ended.

And Wilson was very involved with that. Obviously, League of Nations, all of that kind of stuff. He went abroad. And then he disappears. But the press didn't have the access to the White House that it has now, correct? Right. That's true. And so it, you know, it was easy to keep those things quiet or a lot easier than it is now.

And, you know, believe it or not, even he, he, He even wanted to go for a third term. He had, you know, contemplated that. Well, Edith wanted to know. Edith wanted to know. Like Jill, like Jill, like Jill Biden. Edith and Jill is the same. Jill ran a White House for the last year, my opinion.

And as she and Edith are kindred spirits. Woodrow's out of it, totally out of it. All right. And then we had Grover Cleveland, the only other non-consecutive president besides Trump. And Cleveland gets a vicious mouth cancer. diagnosis, and they whisk him away to Cape Cod, where he just disappears, right? Well, yeah, and, you know, the big part of that story is that the treatment part where he was,

you know, a very close-knit four doctors, I believe it was, take him out on a boat, and they go out and they strap a chair to the post and the lower level of the boat and strap a boat and strap a big old Grover to that and give them ether. And, you know, they didn't have the benefit of the of MRIs or cat scans or x-rays back then. So when they got in there, it was one of those, uh-oh, this is more extensive than we thought. And, you know, it was a major surgical procedure that they did, taking out hard palate, soft palate, several teeth to extract that tumor. I mean, it's just amazing if you've got any medical knowledge at all.

It's amazing that he didn't die either from the ether or from bleeding to death in that, in that surgery. And that was kept, you know, that was kept to see. Nobody knew it. Nobody knew it. And then they whisk them up to New England, Buzzard's Bay, if anybody knows the area in Cape God. But back then, that was like the hinterlands, and everybody's going, where's Grover? But again, it was the press, this is the late 19th century, where there wasn't any television radio, there wasn't any access except for in the newspapers.

And the newspaper guys didn't even know where he was, and nobody could for it. See, I don't know why Congress didn't step in in both the Wilson and the Cleveland cases. Do you know? Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. 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,

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chronic while they were in the in the white house and you know there was never any there was never really any constitutional means to do that until 1967 when the 25th amendment you know came into effect before then there was really no clear way so but congress could have could have made a big thing out of it and then a people would have known but they didn't and I guess it was protectionism on one party the Democratic Party for Wilson and the Democratic Party for Cleveland. All right, doctor, we really appreciate it. Thanks very much.

Once again, I will tell the audience here, there has to be an investigation into this doctor, into this White House doctor. We can't, this, there's something very, very wrong here. So we all know about the mental acuity stuff, but now we've got a physical thing. And as I said, there isn't any other logical explanation.

nation for this. Well, we're on it. You're listening to the No Spinoos News Weekend Edition. All right, Mexico. So here we have a border that's pretty much sealed up under the Trump administration. That's their biggest policy victory. Crossings are down about 95% from year to year under Biden. Okay.

But drug smuggling has not abated. In fact, about the same 200,000 pounds from January April 24, January April 25, 200,000 pounds of narcotics seized at the southern border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. So if you seal the border up where people can't get over, how the drug's coming over. So I asked my crack staff to find the best person to give us an analysis of that, and he is Michael Brown. comes to us from Ashburn, Virginia, 32 years as a DEA special agent, and he's the host of the Opied Matrix, a podcast, all right? So you can watch him on the podcast. So Mr. Brown, what is the explanation if they seal up the border? Migrants can't come over anymore, but the narcotics get through. And to a big extent, the same as under the Biden administration.

You know, Bill, thank you for having me on the show. What people don't realize is that on a daily basis, roughly 16,000 trucks, 100,000 personal vehicles to include rail, come into this country every day. A vast majority of those conveyances are carrying narcotics, which are then distributed across the country. All right, let me stop you there. You say the majority of trucks coming from Mexico, the majority? A significant number of those conveyances. And the cartels realize that it's a number scheme. Don't we have technology to root that out?

I mean, I know we have dogs down there, narcotic sniffing dogs. And I understand the big vehicles. You can hide this stuff, a lot of different places. But isn't it technology advancing so that they can kind of stop this? Well, they have the technology, but it's a number scheme. And the cartels know that there's no way Customs has the personnel. to search, you know, roughly, you know, hundreds of thousands of vehicles

that are coming across the border every day. They use a term called shotgunning, where they realize one or two trucks may get stopped, but the majority of them carrying narcotics will not. So is there anything that can be done to stop this massive influx? You know, and you correct me if I'm wrong, but up here in the Northeast,

Drugs like heroin and fentanyl cocaine cut, they cut them, but they're cheap. These people are paying not a lot of money for these drugs on the street, which means they're plentiful, correct? Correct. I mean, the narcotics coming across, you know, when they come across at a time they reach street level distribution, as you said, it's very cheap, but it's right now it's an oversupply. The cartels are oversupplying.

Yeah. Fentonoff is it's so successful in its distribution. How can the government then win this fight? Well, I mean, America has to make a choice, Bill, and that choice is to either normalize and accept the fact that 80 to 100,000 Americans will die from fentanyl every year or take the necessary steps to mitigate cross-border trafficking, which would affect the U.S. $5.3 trillion trade with Mexico. All right. So you'd have to stop, and that would crush Mexico. Mexico would collapse if it couldn't send its products into the USA. So you destroy Mexico. But the Mexican government will not take on the cartels.

I want to get your opinion on this. So Trump has offered, Claudia Scheimbaum, the president of Mexico, a co-venture to destroy the cartels using Mexican military and U.S. military. And Scheinbaum turned him down, even though the murder rate from the cartels of Mexico is the worst in the world. It's horrific. You know, a couple of hundred thousand people a year killed down there or disappeared. So when you heard that Shyam isn't going to cooperate with Trump, trying to wipe out these cartels, how did you process that?

Well, I don't think it's a, I don't think Sean Baum necessarily has the capability. No, but Trump does. And he's got an executive order designating these cartels as terrorist groups. He can go in tomorrow with Navy SEALs or Brums and blow the hell out of them. Right. Five cartels have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations. There are more than 20 plus cartels. But let's start with the five, the Sinaloa and the big guys. Why wouldn't Shinebom cooperate and trying to destroy them? 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, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and TV.

everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The issue is those cartels generate between $50 billion a year in financial proceeds, which flow through the Mexican economy. If Shembaum, President Shembaum, was to effectively neutralized the cartels, that would be devastating to the Mexican economy as well as the U.S. trade relationship. So she's in a very difficult position at this point in time.

So she's selling her country out to a criminal enterprise? There is a symbionic relationship between the cartels and Mexico. The problem is, 50 years ago, Mexico took the money, and now they are embedded, they are entwined with the cartels, and that cash flow is critical to the Mexican economy. Yeah, and it's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, as you pointed out. So if ICE has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, you think we'd allow that? Yeah, I mean, it's killing people on both sides, right? Mexican violence is coming out. No, no, no, no. It's primarily killing people here. The cartels are killing people in Mexico,

but there's not, the narcotics use in Mexico's on a rise, but nothing like here. So it's killing 100,000 Americans, let's use that number. And if any other group on Earth killed 100,000 Americans a year, you know there'd be a war. We'd go and destroy them, right? 100%. I mean, 9-11, right? You can't get on an airplane. Yeah, so why are we going in and see, if I'm Trump, and I talked about this to him, eye-to-eye, personal, just me and him, I'd do it. You know, Trump wiped out ISIS. He wiped them right off the face of the map. He could do it to the cartels, and it wouldn't even be hard. But Scheimbaum, I think you're right, puts, you know, politics and her economy above human life.

Give you the last word. Yeah, I think it's a very difficult position for President Trump. If he was to commit troops to Mexico, we could be looking at another 20-year Afghanistan quagmire. And the American people are not ready. Just hit and run. There's no quagmire. I didn't have to put people occupy, and he just blows the hell out of them. They'll get the message.

These guys aren't brave guys, a cowards. Once you wax a few of them, the others will go, you know, I got enough money in the bank. Anyway, Mr. Brown, I hope everybody watches your podcast, the opioid matrix. And we appreciate your time very much tonight. Here's a gem from the No Spin News Vault. All right, the Reagan movie, Dennis Quaid, Penelope Miller, John Boyd, big hit, did very, very well. And as you know, I produced a movie, executive producer. along with Ridley Scott, and Scott Free, called Killing Reagan, based on my book.

And that was very successful. But the Reagan movie did very well. It was released August 30th last summer. And now it's out in DVD for Christmas. We get stuffing stuff, right? Now, I did not know this because I didn't see the Reagan movie because I was too busy and I have my own movie and whatever. But I'll watch it.

uh jean simmons from kiss provided some of the music for the reagan movie roll it i can't go on everything i have is gone stormy weather since you and i and me and you ain't together Wow, little Nat King Colish there. Mr. Simmons joins us from Los Angeles. So why did you get involved with this? When my mother came to America with yours truly, I was eight and a half years old. We are immigrants, we are legal immigrants,

and as far as I'm concerned, I was born in the promised land, but let me tell you something. America is the promised land. You came from Israel? Is that what you came from? I don't look Swiss, do I? No, you don't. Not at all. That's right. That's where I was born, yeah.

And came to America and discovered that anything is possible. There are no limits, no nothing. And despite the fact that people agree and disagree and all that stuff, this is still the light and will continue to be the light that shines the world. Did you admire Ronald Reagan? Did you admire him? I did. I was much younger, obviously, when he was president,

and I knew nothing, almost nothing, about the body of politics. But interestingly, in hindsight, it bears noting that the political and pop culture figures of any age were always about the impression, the ability to communicate a feeling, and perhaps that's more important, the power of the personality than what's written on a piece of paper. And now imagine a different president trying to communicate with Gorbachev and literally causing that wall to come down which resulted in the fall of communism. Did you take any heat? Because you know how liberal and progressive Hollywood is where you live.

You take any heat from contributing to this film? How do I say this as nicely as I can? I don't give a spot. No, I know that. But did you take any? Yes. You see, but that's wrong. Isn't it wrong? Well, everybody's entitled to an opinion.

It doesn't, you know, it falls off the back. Yeah, but they shouldn't try to hurt you because of your opinion. That's what they do out there. Well, that is probably true. I think it is the bastion of a certain political leaning of the thing. But that's okay. You know, I have not okay with me, Gene. John Voigt and I hangout.

We trade stories and everything else. Right. And some people agree with this politics, some not. But you, everybody gives to charity. Everybody loves children. And so think about the stuff that we agree with instead of the stuff that we don't. Well, you're bringing a level-headed approach, but there's some malevolent evil people in the motion picture industry and the music industry to boot that I'll deal with them. You don't have to. You've seen it all. And the music industry has changed so much. Give my audience one big. change that you have witnessed in the arc of your career? Unfortunately, the business model is dead. And new bands don't have a chance, especially rock bands. In a certain way, rock is finally dead. Rock and roll is dead because the freckle-faced kid next door to you,

who's a good kid and good family and everything, has become entitled, feels entitled to be able to download download and find share and get all this music for free. Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting that people don't understand this. So what? You're too rich to care. Why do you care?

Well, imagine you work for a living. You write a book. You sell groceries or whatever. And people don't pay you for the work that you put in. Then you understand. Then you say, well, wait a minute, I work for this. How come I don't get paid? And that's what's happening with new artists.

And it breaks my heart because new bands are not rich. They're creative and they're trying to get to a platform where they're self-sustaining, and you can't now because of the internet. Well, it's very, very fascinating. I want to bring you back, and once you start your tour, let us know, we'll take some video, we'll bring it back. You're an interesting guy. I've known Simmons for a long time. I never painted my face like kiss. I have to admit it. I'm much too handsome to do that. See, my theory is these guys had to do that. I don't have to. I want you to have a nice Hanukah and a very nice celebration on the West Coast. My best to everybody, Gene.

Thanks for coming on. Thank you, young man. Okay, cheers. 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. Thank you.