Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - September 20, 2025

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:14 Today, I'm speaking with Kalin Rovinescu, the former president of Air Canada, and a trailblazer in global aviation. Join me, Chris Hadfield, on the On Energy Podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the no-spin News Weekend Edition. Joining us now for South Dakota is a former U.S. Attorney for the state of Utah, who knows the system inside of now, Brett Tallman. Cash Patel, head of the FBI, is a report on Fox News today that the Trump administration is turning against him.
Starting point is 00:01:57 Do you have any idea why? What is causing that? Well, I don't believe it. I don't believe. I think what that, you know, the articles I've seen, they're sourcing individuals within the FBI who were anonymous in their comments. I think it comes as a result of him perhaps jumping the gun
Starting point is 00:02:17 too soon, wanting to have transparency and then, you know, let people know what was going on on the ground in the investigation, perhaps a little too early. He indicated that there was a, you know, an individual in custody, that was not the case at that moment when he sent that out. He had to, you know, backtrack on that. Look, I think this is, you know, it is unusual to see the director of the FBI willing to give, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:42 real-time information as he gets it. I think he's probably learned a bit from this and may hold his cards a little closer to confirm. Yeah, I mean, what's a big deal? So he made a mistake. So what? Exactly. I mean, look, I'm not sticking up for cash, but tell him.
Starting point is 00:02:58 trying to get him on a program for six months. He's giving me the big middle finger. So I have no reason. And I'll be honest, he doesn't want to answer my questions. I mean, that's the last thing on earth he wants to do. Okay? Okay. So I'm not a big fan of Cash Patel at this point in history,
Starting point is 00:03:17 but I don't see what the FBI, who's assisting the state of Utah in this investigation. I don't see what they did wrong. Did they do anything wrong that you saw? No, I didn't, Bill. And I think, you know, that's a fair point by you who, you know, he hasn't come on the show. I'd love for him to come on the show. I think he should answer some questions that you have for him.
Starting point is 00:03:40 And I'll tell him that when I talk to him. But I think, look, the DNA evidence, they did that very quickly that they found. They also have been analyzing other evidence very quickly, putting it as a top priority. They're doing what they need to do. And keep in mind, they are going to lead the investigation. into whether or not there were co-conspirators. And if there are, then they will be the point of the spirit. Sure, that's a conspiracy.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Right, right. And Manjino hinted at that today. But again, we're not going to get out of what we know and speculate because that's what all the others do. It's a total waste of everybody's time. That's right. But just bear with me for one more on this to tell them. Then I want to get into the city of Utah.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Right now, from my vantage point, I have seen nothing the FBI has done wrong in this investigation. Am I missing something? No, in fact, my comments from my friends in law enforcement in Utah County that are involved in this have indicated the FBI has been an absolutely terrific partner. I'm glad to hear that. State of Utah, conservative state, not crazy, but small state, death, death, but small state,
Starting point is 00:04:57 death penalty is there. Can't remember when the last time it was used in Utah. Can you remember the last time death penalty was used? Gary Gilmore was executed. Wow. Yep. I believe Gary Gilmore was the last execution by Fire En Squad, which is still legal in Utah, but very unlikely in this case.
Starting point is 00:05:17 It is no soft on crime stuff like Chicago and New York City in L.A. You don't see that, right? That's right. All right. Mormon-based. all right, which means Christian tenets from the Mormon point of view. So this guy goes through the system. His lawyers are going to plead, you know, he's insane, you know that.
Starting point is 00:05:39 That's the only way they can go to try to save his butt from the execution. But I have confidence that the state of Utah will be able to try this case in a fair way. I haven't, again, it's like the FBI, I haven't seen any evidence where you're handing it over to people who don't know what they're doing. You know way better than I do, though. They do know what they're doing. They've handled their fair share of very difficult homicide. One thing to, you know, for folks at home to understand, the insanity plea is very difficult in Utah. In essence, they're going to have to show that he has an incapacity to appreciate right versus wrong.
Starting point is 00:06:21 That's going to be a very difficult. burden in this case because there's plenty of social media, there's plenty of other witnesses that are going to come forward. And his effort to actually hide and conceal after the murder is, you know, the best evidence for knowing right. It's not going to work. He's going to get the death penalty, but it'll take forever. Last question, the trans business.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Does that have anything to do with this case? Do you feel that that's going to be injected? He's apparently this guy, you led Shooter, was living with a guy who was trying to be a girl or something. Anything there? I've not seen anything that suggests that it's a part of the evidence building against, you know, the individual in question here, Tyler Robinson. But I do know if there is a conspiracy, if there is an individual, his partner and roommate is involved in it, then it will be injected into it. because it certainly may be the motivation. It may be what the evidence, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:24 that gets presented by a prosecutor to say, this was an effort, the motivation behind, you know, this was the justification for his action. So I guess it's too early to tell at this point. You bring up an answer to question, does the prosecutor have to give a motive or just show that he did it? No, usually there does have to be a motive
Starting point is 00:07:48 to get juries, but in this case, I think, I don't think they're going to need a motive because it's so apparent. You know, an assassination is so different than any other homicide. So I think they'll be very, you know, probably relieved that they just simply have to present. It might happen. I mean, certainly the news media wants, desperately wants it. But the prosecution is not going to have to convince the jury. That's right.
Starting point is 00:08:15 The assassin legislation's own family. will be enough to do that because he was radicalized. All right, Brett, as always, you really deliver very good, pithy analysis, and we appreciate it very much. Thank you. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Stephen King. Now, I'm picking on him.
Starting point is 00:08:39 I'm sorry to do it. I don't know him. I know he is a very ardent, far left person. Always has been. He's a gazillionaire, doesn't need any money, doesn't need to sell books. Certainly his craziness is going to hurt his book sales. So apparently what he did was right after people were expressing grief for Charlie Kirk's death. He said, well, Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gaze to death, just saying it.
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Starting point is 00:11:25 Why would you do that? You know, why? And number one, it's not true. And Kings apologize, but it's way too late, Stevie, baby. You know, you need to go and see a therapist. And I'm saying that for your own good. Because to say something like that, when it's not true, you took it off from some crazy internet site, that's not responsible. It's not humane.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Oh, my God. Joining us now from Arcadia, California, as a forensic psychologist, and I asked for Dr. Chris Monhundee, I hope I'm saying your name right, doctor, to come on in. and I set you up with King. I don't understand it. I mean, I'm sure you do, because you've seen this kind of stuff, but why would you inject yourself into a horrible situation like this and try to justify some kind of an assassination by saying something bad about the victim?
Starting point is 00:12:35 Is this common? What's your take on it? Well, I think there's a lot of people on social media, media, you know, having all kinds of strong and stride in opinions about this and other things. And that's part of the place where people go on deep dives and get reinforcement for becoming more, you know, extreme in their views on all sides of many different. But why do they want to become more stream? Why? Well, I think that there's a lot of validation in the virtual world. I think that people seek it.
Starting point is 00:13:13 And it's an unfortunate thing because at the end of the day, you know, we have to find our humanity here, kind of what you've been talking about. We need to find our humanity here and draw a line in the sand and say, no, this isn't okay to celebrate. It's something to mourn. You know, there are multiple layers of loss and grief to be had here for what, you know, what this terrible incident represents. So, you know, it's not the right response, I believe. You know, the right response is to be respectful and to be very clear that this behavior is not acceptable by anyone. What percentage of the population do you believe is radicalized, both sides? What percent?
Starting point is 00:14:02 I'm not sure what the percent would be, Bill. I don't know that I have a hard number on that. you know, I'd say it's single percentages would be my academic-educated guess would be single percentage of people that would, you know, have any kind of identification with this. And those that'd be willing to do anything, you know, a fraction of that percentage. But it's being spurred on by the social media cauldron of hate, right? So it's elevate. Now, my estimate...
Starting point is 00:14:36 Because in years past, you have these kinds of ideas and you seek validation for them. You didn't have a forum. No, there's nobody to go. Yeah, there wasn't a Let's Kill Everybody Club, except for the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups and things like that. But my estimation, based on my research of 50 years in the arena, about 15% of human beings around the world are evil. That's where I wrote confronting evil, 1515. All right. Now, there's obviously degrees to read Dante's Divine Comedy, and the Nine Circles of Hell
Starting point is 00:15:10 is obviously degrees of evil. But what I find now in American society is that a lot of people turn it away from evil. So it's easy to be able to bubble around your life now. And you don't want to deal with, I don't want to deal with this South Side Chicago gang thing. I don't want to deal with this migraine criminal thing. I'm going to just turn away from it. And in the book, Confronting Evil, when the population turns away, then evil rises in a very dramatic way and terrible things happen.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Are you seeing that? I think that I'm seeing a couple things. One is exactly what preceded this discussion, which is validation in the virtual world for things that people wouldn't get validated for before, which reinforces it. And I do think that when people become so overwhelmed and feel helpless and turn away, it does prevent the boundary setting that needs to take place for some of these ideas and some of these things that occur. So, yeah, I mean, let me give you a very concrete example. The drug cartels run Mexico, and they run Mexico because everybody's afraid of them. Nobody wants to confront them, including the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum.
Starting point is 00:16:31 So they've been able to amass an evil empire which kills millions of people all over the world because people just don't want to take them on. And I'm seeing more and more of that. People just shrinking inside themselves and their own little virtual world and saying, ah, hell with it, I'm not going to put myself at risk. I think that's growing. Fear and powerlessness, I would agree, are the byproduct of these kinds of things. And many people, they just, they can't handle it, and then they just turn off.
Starting point is 00:17:07 It's too much, it's too much with the day-to-day that they have to manage their own lives. And that translates into helplessness, powerlessness, and then what do you do? Do you stay and you face it, or are you just too overwhelmed and you've got to turn away? And I think, I think you're right, Bill. I think a lot of people do turn away. And there you go, and that's all evil needs is for rise. Doctor, thanks very much. We appreciate your expertise.
Starting point is 00:17:32 This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. There's no question that in this country, even though the far left now is muted and cautious, that sentiment still exists. The hatred of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly, you, whoever you want to do, still exists. It may be quiet now, but it didn't got. Joining us from Herndon, Virginia, Tim Graham,
Starting point is 00:18:05 executive editor of Newsbusters, conservative group that monitors the corporate media. So the Washington Examiner excoriated Martha Radditz, ABC correspondent does a Sunday program, said that she was baiting Republican guests on Sunday to try to condemn President Trump for saying that he was going to look into radical left intrusion into the hate speech area. True? Did Ms. Rattitz do that? Yes. I mean, that seemed to be the dominant question was let's bring on Republicans
Starting point is 00:18:44 and question the tone of the Republicans, of the president. It would seem to me in an instance like this. When a man who pretty much looks like a leftist shoots Charlie Kirk, nobody's going to think that was caused by the tone of the Republicans. So why isn't the tone of the left the real question? Because they never want to question the left. They always want to suggest that Donald Trump's the only person that said something that was too rough for their sensibilities. And, you know, I wanted all the Republican guests to basically say, so you're telling me ABC News or CNN or PBS has never been harsh in their tone. We've all seen the news media described Republicans and the president as fascists. They make comparisons to Hitler. The Democrats routinely suggested
Starting point is 00:19:37 that electing the Republicans was an existential threat to democracy. And I think we can obviously ask the question that when you use this kind of language, we could call it insightful. We all understand that when Donald Trump called them fake news, Jim Acosta went running around saying he's trying to get us killed. What about the situation that corporate media is starting to feel the heat? Do you believe that's true? Are they starting to retreat from their embrace of the progressive movement? During the Volvo Fall Experience event, discover exceptional offers and thoughtful design that leaves plenty of, of room for autumn adventures and see for yourself how Volvo's legendary safety brings peace of mind
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Starting point is 00:21:12 I'm not sure I see that. I think that they did greet this horrible crime with the horror that they should have. However, yes, what we've seen over the last few days is they've tried very hard to actually suggest that you can't identify the leanings of the killer despite the fact that they can clearly see that the bullet casing said catch this. Who did that? Who is diminishing the political leanings of the alleged assassin? Who did that? Well, in general, one of the ones is MSNBC on Morning Joe. I mean, John Lemire.
Starting point is 00:21:50 And then they've also tried to suggest, well, it doesn't help to search for a motive. Like, it's not helpful. And it just seems to me that's... Who did that? Who didn't want the motive? That's Lamere. And Juliet, I.M. was on CNN, saying that it wasn't helpful. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:10 Yeah. Well, they'll hide behind... look, I don't want to, by searching for a motive this soon a week, after the assassination, you're stirring it up. You're stirring up the hatred. Is there any validity to that point of view? Well, no, I think at a crime scene, you want to know the motivation of the shooter. I don't think that's out of the question.
Starting point is 00:22:36 I don't think we would have looked at the assassination of Reagan or the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the assassination of Martin Luther King and said, let's not question why this was done. I think that's where journalism begins. You've got to get the full story, and I understand that. But journalism is almost dead in America. I think you know that better than anybody. And I'm not being facetious, as Joe Biden would say.
Starting point is 00:23:01 It's almost dead because it's agenda-driven almost everywhere now. This is what you will say. I was doing an interview today for confronting evil and the interviewer said, how does that work? And I said, there's a meeting every morning, an editorial meeting every morning for all of the newspapers and television news operations, separately, of course.
Starting point is 00:23:24 And a meeting may start at 8 or 830 or 9. And in that meeting, the editorial posture of the newspaper or television station will be put forth to the producers of the programs. They will know what management wants to get out there. And that happens every day, and you go against that orthodoxy. You're not going to work there very much longer. But I want to get specific now.
Starting point is 00:23:49 I think MS, whatever it is, is through. The fact that they're not tethered to NBC News anymore, the resources are less. I don't know anybody who takes them seriously. Even the progressives know it's propaganda. I think they're done. Do you agree with that? Well, we'll see. I mean, they still have better ratings right now than CNN.
Starting point is 00:24:11 does. And again, yeah, CNN's ratings are terrible. Yeah, but CNN's got a overseas component that provides money into that organization that makes it viable. MS hasn't had that. So when you're dealing with under a million viewers in prime time, as both agencies have now, they're below a million, it's a hard way to make money if you're just selling to the U.S. audience. But editorially speaking, I think MS is on its way out. Yes, no, you don't know. What? I don't know, but yes, we obviously know the economics are not good.
Starting point is 00:24:50 We can look at, for example, CBS deciding to cancel Colbert. That is at least half or 75% or 90% an economic decision and not a political decision. Can I disagree with you there? Can I disagree? That decision was made solely so the federal government would allow Skydance to buy. paramount CBS. That's why that decision was made. It had nothing to do with money. It had nothing to do with anything other than somebody in the federal government. I think I know who it is, but I can't say for sure,
Starting point is 00:25:22 said to CBS, you know, if Colbert is on the unemployment line, got a much better chance to sell this thing. I think that's what happened there. CNN, you mentioned. I watched a little bit of it in my preparation of my interview with John Malone, which I hope is going to be next week. And to his credit, his people shot me down, but he overrode them, Malone. And Malone is one of the architects of CNN. CNN is very scared. Those talent, that talent out there, they're almost visibly frightened. Yes, no, maybe. What do you say? Yeah, and I think one of the things you're going to see. And again, part of it is, yes, most people, most independents now are like, this is not a news product. You're watching basically the television equipment of liberal talk
Starting point is 00:26:15 radio. But you can make the same case. You can make the same case for FNC. It's just a MAGA operation. I mean, I don't know that to be true. I think that Fox is much better talent than the other two, which drives viewers who see it. But you can make it. an argument that Fox just wants to promote Maga stuff and help Donald Trump. You could make that argument, correct? Sure, and I think, but, you know, because these conservative outlets are less common, they're going to have a larger audience, you know. They obviously have shown over many years now that Fox is going to have better numbers
Starting point is 00:26:54 than CNN or MSNBC because you have fewer options to watch. No, that's true. Newsmax is not at the ratings level yet to make an impact. and Fox is identified now with the MAGA movement in Donald Trump. All right, Tim, keep it eye. Have you seen anything you really egregious? Let us know. We're not witch hunters here, as you know.
Starting point is 00:27:19 But we do want to report the story because I do believe that Charlie Kirk's legacy going forward, part of it is going to be the disintegration of the progressive lefts in the media. I think that's going to be attached. Could be wrong. Thanks again for helping us out, Tim. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Now, you can argue Kimmel's talent level all day long, but the reason he got fired was a rebellion in the media.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Okay, let's bring in our pal, Bernie Goldberg, is a big media guy, as everybody knows. comes up to North Carolina, Bernard Goldberg.com, where Bernie has announced this every day. I read it. I don't listen to Bernie. Of course I don't. But I actually read it because it's entertaining. And what's why I make some good points? Now, I'm going to play you with Sound by Goldberg, but I want to set it up.
Starting point is 00:28:22 So after Kimmel's firing was announced, CNN went wild. I didn't monitor MSNBC, but they couldn't have gone more wild than CNN, freedom of speech, freedom of speech, under assault, under assault, under assault. And what CNN does every day, not just in this story, is they book people who are going to say what CBS, what CNN wants them to say. They don't book O'Reilly, don't book O'Rourg, they don't book any dissent, there's no discussion, there's no debate. So they bring in a guy named Jamie Raskin, one of the biggest Trump haters in a country, a congressman from Maryland, and Caitlin Collins, their anchor, who has gone very far left in the last year or so. All right, she bates Raskin, the way they always do every night, really? Well, it's absolute corruption of government and its absolute violation of the free speech rights of the people.
Starting point is 00:29:23 and of the media. And this is really taking us back to the days of King George, where it was a crime to insult the president. They didn't like what Jimmy Kimmel said about Donald Trump. Okay. So that's ridiculous because, as I pointed out, conservative traditional pundits or politicians can't get on any of the three networks. So this is, I think that might be a danger freedom of speech. What do you think, Goldberg? Where am I going wrong here? Well, I'm shocked, Bill, actually. You made sense today. Let me start out. Congratulations on the book, by the way. That's a very big deal. Congrats on that. Thank you. Let me start out with the simple stuff. Despite what people on
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Starting point is 00:31:44 gang. So that's fine. And if he, and if that's all there was to the story, he said it, he's paying a price, that's the way it goes. But I disagree with you slightly, Bill, or at least I want to open the door to another idea here. The government can't use coercion to do the job, well, let me put it this way. The government can't coerce ABC Disney to do the government's job. And if Brendan Carr says, you know, we could do this the easy way or the hard way, or you could either fire Kimmel or you're going to have trouble with the FCC, that's a kind of coercion that tiptoes into First Amendment issues, I think. It's a gray area, but I think it could be a First Amendment issue when the government uses coercion.
Starting point is 00:32:43 to get a private company to do what it can't do. Let me say one other thing, if I might, Bill. Conservatives, Trump, people who like Donald Trump, should not be celebrating this because sooner or later there's going to be a Democratic president and maybe a progressive Democratic president, maybe somebody like AOC, and don't say AOC will never be president, it's impossible, it's not impossible.
Starting point is 00:33:12 And we don't want that person saying, I don't like what they're saying about me. I don't like what they're saying about me on this media outlet or that media outlet. And I'm going to shut it down because I don't like any criticism. We conservatives would yell bloody murder about that and rightly so. So before we get too happy about Jimmy Kimmel's demise, think about that. All right, but it's already happened. as I pointed out. It's already happened. For almost 10 years since Trump got into the political marketplace, the networks have shut down all conservative and traditional opinion. So it's already
Starting point is 00:33:55 happened. So you don't need AOC to do it. The networks did it by themselves for whatever agenda reason they wanted. So that's where Carr should have gone. So the mistake that Carr made and the president himself was zeroing in on Colbert and Kimmel. They're part of the problem. But the big problem is the censorship exclusion that the corporations absolutely imposed. You're absolutely right in what you said factually. But private companies are allowed to be unfair.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Private companies are allowed... Not if you're licensed by. the FCC. You can't run a propaganda channel in this country. You can't. They'll lose your license. They looked the other way under Biden, under Obama, because they were cheering on the networks Obama and Biden. But you cannot do it because there's a fairness doctrine, Goldberg, and you know it. You worked for CBS for like 85 years since Rutherford BAs. You know what the fairness doctrine was. And you know who did this to the Fairness Doctrine? Dan Rather. Kronkite actually obeyed it, rather gave it the middle finger.
Starting point is 00:35:19 I want to be very clear about this, because I don't want any of the people listening to us thinking I'm defending the exclusion of any opinion that doesn't jive with the opinion that they want, because you're absolutely right. They're unfair that way. But I would argue, I'm not a constitutional lawyer, I know a little about this stuff, but I want to be clear that while it's wrong, it may be legal. It's wrong to keep people, it's wrong to say we don't want conservative voices because we don't like conservative voices. It's wrong when they do it in news and it's wrong when they do it in entertainment. But it may not be illegal. That's my point, I'd like to see it, the Supreme Court, hear it, because it is such a threat to the nation.
Starting point is 00:36:14 This is exactly what Beijing and Moscow are doing right this second. You cannot have any dissent. And that's what the network's imposed. And most people didn't even understand it, or don't even understand it now. I mean, if I want to go on Good Morning America, where I was plenty of times, they will not book me. Neither will at Today Show. Neither will Jane Pauley at Sunday morning CBS. Now, I cracked through, I don't know whether you notice this now, with Major Garrett at CBS this week.
Starting point is 00:36:44 And I was on CBS for the first time in 10 years because they sold to Skydance. The Skydance apparently doesn't want the exclusionary censorship of non-liberal voices. So there's a glimmer of hope. Bill, I want to be very clear that when I say a progressive, president would shut down. I know progressives in real life. They would shut down conservative speech in a second. Sure. And what I'm, and you're saying they've already done it. I get it. I get it. But but you don't want to cheer the demise of Jimmy Kimmel because the other side will do it if they could and and make it even worse than it is now.
Starting point is 00:37:33 I got it, I got it. Last question. I think there's a rebellion now, a television rebellion because the 77 million people who voted for Donald Trump are walking away from the networks. And the networks, you know, and I know, the ratings are abysmal, all right? They're horrible across the board.
Starting point is 00:37:54 It's the last days of Pompeii over there. And cable is going to follow them right over the cliff. All right, because people... And Bill, that's why I... And you're absolutely right. And that's why I would prefer Brendan Carr stay the hell out of this and let the marketplace make the decision. Let people say, you know, I heard Jimmy Kimmel say something the other night that I found offensive.
Starting point is 00:38:18 I'm not tuning into that crap anymore. Let the marketplace rather than the FCC, instead of the FCC using its clout, let the American people and capitalism and the marketplace use its clout. cloud to take care of stuff like this. Well, I think it's happened simultaneously now, that's for sure. All right, bernard goldberg.com. So you do me a personal favor if you visited Goldberg there. It's a very good website.
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