Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Takes on Trump-Putin Summit Critics, Mick Mulvaney on the President's Biggest Challenge, & Trump Takes Control of D.C. Police

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, August 11, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill uleashes his ire at critics of President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s in Alaska. Former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney enters the No Spin Zone to weigh in on what to expect from the Trump-Putin meeting, Trump’s leadership style and efforts to reestablish his credibility. President Trump announces federal control of the D.C. police and the deployment of 800 National Guard troops. Bill runs down the President’s state-by-state approval rating. A total of 1,600 illegal migrants have been busted on Long Island this year. Final Thought: Bill's thoughts on the New York Mets this season.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, August 11, 2025. Stand up for your country. I'm a little teed off today. What are we to think of our fellow citizens who want President Trump to fail no matter what? Are they traitors, miscreants, misguided? Should we feel compassion for them? I don't. There comes a point where you want to do what's best for your country. Donald Trump's elected. Look, I knew from the jump that President Biden was incompetent. There was no

question in my mind. And if you followed me, you knew that. And I always backed it up. Always. The man could not do the job, period. And that's how he'll go down in history. There's no doubt about it. But I didn't want him to fail. I didn't want him to bring the country pain. And when rarely he did something good, and that was very rare in four years, I said it. Well, now we have the opposite. We're dealing with people who no matter what happens, we'll hate Trump and deride whatever he does, whatever he does. And that makes me angry, and that's a talking points memo. All right, Putin, Friday, Alaska meeting.

This is a good thing. Even if nothing gets done and there isn't a possibility that psychopathic killer will just use. this to grandstand? Absolutely possible. No guarantees. But to get them into a meeting with something the Democrats weren't close to doing for four years. The EU couldn't do it. The Pope couldn't do it. And the Pope tried. Nobody could do it. And millions of people have been killed, wounded, or displaced. Trump did it. Okay? We all have that simple equation. All right. We don't have any details yet. The Trump advanced team is in Alaska. I assume it's Anchorage, but I don't know. There's big Air Force base out there probably because of security where it's going to be.

No, Putin's not going to be arrested on an international warrant. You know, I get plenty of letters on that. he's going to go Trump and him will speak we don't believe Zelensky will be there should he be there yes

but we have to live in the real world there are conditions for bad Vlad to go anywhere it would be better if Zelensky were there but you can't force it

no one can do that the EU 27 countries. Can we have all 27 there? No. So there, oh, I'm sorry, EU. I'm sure you'll be briefed. But this is one-on-one to try to get this horrible war tamped down. Okay. So enter the dishonest, irresponsible American press, which has destroyed itself. They've got karma. They're done. All of them are. Okay. CNN won't learn a lesson no matter how badly the ratings are. And they can't get any lower. They literally cannot go any lower. They book John Bolton, former Trump National Security Advisor, who was fired by the president for being

to Bill a Coase. He wanted to attack and fight everybody, Bolton. Okay? Since that time, Putin hates Trump. But CNN knows that. Books him anyway. Roll the tape. Well, it's very gracious of Putin to come to former Russian America for this summit. This is not quite as bad as Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David to talk about the peace negotiations in Afghanistan. But it certainly reminds one of that. The only better place for Putin than Alaska would be if the summit were being held in Moscow.

So the initial setup, I think, is a great victory for Putin. He's a rogue leader of a pariah state, and he's going to be welcomed into the United States. All right, so that moron, and he is genuinely a moron, a self-serving moron, has no solution to this war at all. None. Zero. My staff, I told them, research that Bolton has ever put forth any solution at any time. And the answer is no, he has not. He's the gall to get on there. And that Caitlin woman, who I used to like, sits there like a mummy and doesn't say, well, what's your solution, ambassador? Because she doesn't want to hear that. She just wants to bash Trump. That's it. a waste of time. What corruption? I'll go up against Bolton. Hey, Ambassador, you're invited on any time. Anytime. Me and you. You want to go? We'll go. Okay. So, it's so staggering when you when you listen to this. Like, oh, you're welcoming him to American soil. Trump wants a meeting with the man. I don't care where it is. Do you care?

Where it is, do you, when thousands of people a day, including women and children, are being slaughtered, do you care where that meeting is? How about the Democratic Party? They have any solutions to Ukraine? I don't believe they did. Okay? Biden sent over, well, after I run the sound bite, I'll get the exact figure. but Putin wouldn't even take his calls okay meeting forget it wouldn't even take

wouldn't get on the phone with him so now the Democratic Party of course trying to undermine Trump here's Senator Kelly from Arizona go I hope we got something out of this Putin is a war criminal this is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States

to land here to negotiate with our president I don't know for certain I don't know what was the ground rules that were set for this negotiation, but I would expect that this administration should have extracted something for this visit. Extracted? Extracted? Your party, under Biden, sent 200 billion American dollars, 200 billion to Ukraine. to defend himself, weren't even close to getting any kind of negotiation. Extracted? Like what? War criminal? Yeah, he is a war criminal. He is. So what? Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global stories going on of the day,

this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in in the morning, again in the afternoon, and on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report with excellent guests, including National Security Insiders and Foreign Policy Experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, also on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief. We got to stop the war, an easy, only one who can do it. Just him. Senator Kelly, put in a call Kelly.

I'll take him in Bolton side by side. Kelly's got nothing. Biden had nothing. Biden, in the run up to Ukraine, got Putin on a phone twice. Putin get in the middle of finger twice. That was it. All right, just to remind you, what's its sake here? 79,000 Ukrainians dead.

Okay? Civilians, that's just military. Casualties. 13,500 civilians casualties. It's staggering. Let me correct that. In the military, Ukrainian military, about 300,000 dead or wounded. It's incredible.

It's just absolutely credible. Seven million people have fled Ukraine, left their homes out of there. Extracted? These people are so irresponsible. I told you, you know. Okay. We are on it. I have very good sources on this.

All week, I'll keep you up to speed on what's happening. And obviously, we'll analyze it over the weekend in a very robust way and a fair way, in a humane way. And that's a memo. Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Under President Biden, we saw the American dream slip away from many because of record spending, open borders, policies that ignited inflation. But that's all changing. President Trump has laid out a vision to restore American prime.

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spot. Joining South in South Carolina is the former acting chief of staff under President Trump from 19 to 220. Mick Mulvaney, you see him on News Nation, and he is the co-chair at Actum, a global consulting firm. So am I over to doing it here? Am I too agitated for my own good? No, where to start? I'm with you on where the meeting is. And oh my goodness gracious, I can't believe he's coming to the United States.

What did we extract? If you wanted the meeting to take place, Bill, it was going to take place in the United States. Period. End of story. Why? Because it's really hard to move the. president, especially on very short notice. If they were going to have this in Oslo, for example, it probably would have taken six weeks. Trump didn't want to wait six weeks. He wanted to meet as soon as he could possibly put together a meeting. That means it's going to be someplace in

the U.S. Yes, there's a military base in Anchorage. I think it's attached to the airport there. Believe it or not, a little piece of trivia. I think it's where we held the very first people that came back from Wuhan at the beginning of COVID on the layover back to Southern California. Yeah, it's a transit stop. And it's also the place where Sarah Palin saw Russia, I think. Yeah, you can see her house from this place. It was a little tower there. Going forward as well.

Okay, so. It's much to do about nothing on where the meeting is. The meeting is the story, not where the meeting is. All of this is just garbage. So are they traitors? Are they miscreants? These people, because I use two sound bites, Nick. I could have used 20.

I have 20 soundbites. Yeah, you know, I don't know Kelly, so I won't opine on that. I know Bolton. Bolton would say anything to make President Trump look bad. I don't know what that makes him. I don't know if it makes him a traitor or a miscreant or just an idiot. I'm not really sure. But he really, really hates the president.

Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing. Yeah, absolutely. Some of an emotional malady. All right, when I talked to President Trump about these things, he's very clear with me. and I'm a kind of judgmental guy. If I'm talking to you, even if it's off the record, I'm assessing what you know, what you don't know, and what the message is.

What I get is that President Trump really understands that the only way this will be solved is to give Putin something, and I expect that to happen. Okay? Now, I didn't read the soundbite from Zulu. Zelensky is basically saying, well, we're not going to give up anything. Well, you're going to have to give some. You're going to have to. If you want to stop the bloodshed in your country and hundreds of thousands of people being killed and maimed, you're going to have to give this villain Putin. It's not right. It's not fair. But that's what's going to have to happen. That's how I see it. I don't remember anybody starting a war over Crimea. I know the Ukrainians were upset about it. But I don't even think they went to war over that. I know that we didn't. The Europeans. didn't. I can't imagine Zelensky actually going on TV as he did this weekend and saying,

look, all of Ukraine is Ukraine and there's no negotiating. That's wrong. Crimea is gone as part of any discussion here. That's just, that's the way it's going to be. And if the U.S., Russia and the EU all want to stop this war and the price of that is Dombast and X and Crimea, that's how it's going to end because the Ukrainians cannot fight this battle by themselves. And they can't fight it without the United States' arms. I mean, because now Trump is committed to sending arms over there. So what I expect to happen is there's

going to be some land given to Russia. They'll occupy the land, and maybe they'll have a vote two years away, which will be a ridiculously corrupt thing. But then there'll be some guarantees from Putin that this will stop and he won't go further. That's the way I think it's, and that Ukraine won't join NATO. I think that's probably how it's going to go down. I'm not sure about Ukraine joining NATO, but if you want to look to something that Trump has

done already that doesn't get the attention that it deserves, there is a de facto security guarantee already. It's that critical minerals deal that Trump cut, and he didn't get nearly enough credit for it. Look, I'll criticize the guy if I have to from time to time. This was genius because it's a non-security guarantee, security guarantee, because Trump knows that Russia is not going to invade Ukraine if Alcoa is pulling aluminum out of the ground there. I thought that's genius, and I think it lays a foundation for what the next round might look for. No, I don't think Ukraine is going to NATO, but there's going to be some type of structure that guarantees their security, at least that Russia doesn't go into Kiev.

Do you think the Trump derangement is worse now than it was when you were in the White House in the first term? Yeah, because they really don't know how he won again. They were able to convince themselves back in 2016-17 that he pulled the wool over everybody's eyes. those in 24, they don't have any idea what's going on because Donald Trump was the most well-known person in the world and still won the election and they don't get it. There's a cognitive sort of dissonance between that. They don't understand a world where Donald Trump can become president.

By the way, Democrats aren't the only one. I think Mitt Romney never was able to grasp that. Mitt Romney was never able to accept how Donald Trump was president and he wasn't. So it's not partisan. It's heavily Democrat, but it's not exclusively Democrat. No, it's a real thing. I see it every single day.

But to be fair, Donald Trump did attack Mitt Romney, the Bush family, and I understand the portraits in the White House of Bush, the younger and elder, have been moved into the janitor's closet someplace. And that brings me to my next question. If he would, if President Trump would just stay on the issues, which I think he is right on most of the time, and stop the bombast and the, you know, the small ball, wouldn't it be bad? Did you ever advise him? Hey, let that go? No, I mean, Bill, I don't know how old you are. You're a little bit older than I am, but not much. My guess is I'm not doing much to change your personality at this point in your life. You are who you are.

There's an old saying that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, and that's true. You were never going to change Donald Trump. He got where he was. I remember having a conversation one time about the campaign in 2020, and he wanted to do X. And I'm like, Mr. President, maybe Y is a really good idea. is a really good idea. I'm not sure about X. He looks to me. He goes, how many campaigns have you won for president? Right. He always does that. But it's a tactic. It's tactics. You see if it's tactics and they were. Right. You just, you just pointed out that the mineral deal in Ukraine didn't get the

attention it deserved because something else not important overrode it. And that is, I believe that if Donald Trump gets the peace deal in Ukraine and sorts out the Russian, the Chinese trade thing, which I'm involved with, I don't know how that happened, but I am, that he then propels himself into the top 10 presidents of all time. But he could go faster into that arena, and that really means a lot to him. If he would just stop some of the bombastic stuff that doesn't matter. Am I wrong? You know, look, we're having a discussion about style, and I get a lot of folks don't like his style. His style works for him. And he may listen to you because, you know, you've achieved a tremendous amount in your life and you're very successful. So he might listen to you,

but he's not going to listen to very many people when it comes to changing his style. It's work for him. He's been elected the president, you know, twice. He thinks three times. So I don't think he's going to change. Look, I don't know whether he wound or not, but I have talked to him a few times where he has modified. He's modified because I presented in a historical way. I don't want him to change his style. I think that his style has propelled him. I agree with him that he never would have been elected president either time, okay, if he wasn't a populist bomb throw. I because that's what the country wants. They're tired of the Kellys and the Bolton's

and the guys who have no solutions to anything just undermining and undercutting for partisan reasons. They hate that. And that's why Trump is successful because he isn't a BSer. I would never tell him to change. I think he's wise in presenting himself in a flamboyant way.

There are things he chooses to overlook. He overlooks a lot about Putin. When you read, and I'll send you my new book after this conversation, confronting evil, Putin's evil. But in order to get a deal, Trump's got to overlook it. He's got to overlook China, the worst police state in history. He's got to overlook it if he wants the best for America. Right?

Bill, I look at this as probably the single most, significant couple of days in his two terms so far and maybe the most significant in his terms when he's finished. He's done a masterful job. He knows how to play Macron. He knows how to play Kier-Starmer. He knows how to play Washington, D.C. He's better at all of those folks when it comes to negotiating. I don't think he's figured out Putin yet. I think he really got elected going into office thinking Zelensky was the primary impediment to peace. Now I think he knows it's Vladimir Putin. I think he believes that Vladimir Putin doesn't know. necessarily want this war to end. He thought that he did, and he doesn't know how to deal with it.

This is the biggest challenge I think he's going to face. And if he does it successfully and manages to negotiate an end to this war, I think you're absolutely right. It rockets him up the list of successes. How could it not with the accomplishments that you go, what the style of waste? You don't get style points for being president. You get results points. Yeah, you don't get results points from the American, not from the American media. You're never going to get results points from the American media, not Trump. And I disagree with you on one very important thing. Okay?

I think he knows Putin now. I think you're right. He thought he could reason with Vlad because he did the first term. Right? You were there. He reasoned with Putin. Putin didn't do anything like he did under Biden. But I think that Trump now understands Putin

not as well as I do, because I've spent a lot of time on this guy. Where do you see what we came up with? But the only way to deal with Putin is through strength. And what Trump is likely to say to him in private, remember, this is not all going to be public. Because Putin speaks English to Trump in private, he's going to say, look, lad, we'll get your deal here, you're not going to look like a schmuck. You'll get your little Don Bass or whatever you want. But if you don't, I'm going to break you.

I'm going to crush you. He's going to say that to him. Last word. And here's my question. And this is, I think this is the seminal issue of this. Does he have the credibility? Trump, is Putin looking at him as somebody who keeps changing a deadline, who draws red lines and they can't stand up to him? We know what that did to Obama in Syria.

But Trump has changed some deadlines here. He's given him a lot of rope. There's no doubt about it, but Trump can shut down those banks. And that's the issue. How do you reestablish that credibility? I think that's what the Trump team should be working on this this week. Yeah, that's awful ham-fisted and runs the risk of dramatic escalation. How do you get that credibility back quickly?

And I think if they can do that, this could be hugely successful this week. He doesn't need his team. He knows what to do. Okay. Trust me on that. All right, that was a great interview, Mick. I really appreciate you taking a time. I know you're really busy and everything, but thank you very much.

All right, in D.C., a lot easier than Putin, that's for sure. The president has taken it over because, look, if you've done to D.C., you know that street crime is a big, big problem. The liberals who run the district say, oh, it's going down. It's true. Their crime is going down. So what? all right there are far too many homeless people on public lands all right there's disruption across the board in the town there is fear in many neighborhoods and it's mostly young

people who the district will not prosecute well that's all coming to an end here's what mr. Trump said today go some things out of control but we're going to put it in control very quickly like we did on the southern border I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is?

and placing the D.C. Metropolitan and Police Department under direct federal control. Now, every progressive in D.C. should be applauding that. Why reject the help? Why not clean up the town? What's the matter with you? So, 800 National Guard and 120 FBI agents have been deployed already. You saw Jeanine Piro there, the special prosecutor now in D.C.

It'll happen. The district isn't that big. You can do it, and Trump's going to do it. So why doesn't everybody applaud? Why isn't our 100% approval clean up D.C.? Economy. So Apple has announced last week, $100 billion more in U.S. investment,

that brings it up to $600 billion. Okay? Everybody should go great, right? everybody should go great. Not the media. Go. So let's just break this down. In a world of tariffs and trade wars,

the White House is now thrilled that Apple plans on investing an additional $100 billion in the U.S. to buy more parts here. But here's what you need to know. Back in February, they announced to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the U.S. over the next four years. And the New York Times notes this.

Apple has a mixed record on fulfilling those investment promises. So what? So what? He got the deal. You see, this is, look, I understand what you're dealing with there. And it's the same thing you're dealing with CNN. And the New York Times and the Washington Post, on and on and on. All right. Now, this is from the Cook Political Report, and this is President Trump's job approval rating state by state. I'm going over all 50. All right? Here we go. Job approval, Alabama, 62%. Alaska 49, Arizona 50, Arkansas 61, California 33, Colorado 39.

Connecticut 40. Delaware 36. Florida 53. Georgia 46. Interesting Georgia number there. That's lower than it should be. Okay. Hawaii 26, by far the most liberal state in the Union. Idaho 66. Idaho could be the most conservative. Illinois 37. Indiana, 57. Side by side. Look at that. That's Chicago Cook County. That's what that number is. Iowa 49. Kansas 57, Kentucky 59, good number in Kentucky. Louisiana 56, Maine, 40. I don't know what the Mainers want. I really don't. I love the state. Maryland, we all know what that is. 30% approval.

North Dakota. Okay, I'm sorry, Massachusetts. I get ahead of myself. We know what the socialist state Commonwealth is. There it is, 32%. Michigan 47, Minnesota 43, Mississippi, 57. of 54, Montana 56, Nebraska, 54, Nevada, 47. That's a low number for Nevada. With the tips and all of that, Nevadans are being helped by this economy. New Hampshire 41, that's a troubling

number up there. I don't know what, again, like Maine, I don't know what you guys want up there. Jersey 40, then we go to North Dakota. No, I'm saying, I want to get to North Dakota. I don't know why we're go. There we go, New Mexico. Forty-five is a good number for New Mexico for Trump. New York, 38, chaos here. North Carolina, that's a little lower than I would expect it to be, 47. North Dakota, 67, there you go. Ohio, 50, Oklahoma, 63, Oregon 37, Pennsylvania, 46. Good number for Pennsylvania for Trump. Rhode Island, 36, again, New England. I don't know what you guys want. South Carolina 55. Then we go to the final.

South Dakota, 58. Tennessee, 59. Texas 50. Texas is getting tighter and tighter. Utah 56, Vermont 26. That's a socialist state now. Vermont. Virginia 42, Washington 36,

West Virginia 68. Wisconsin, 45, Wyoming, 69. Okay. So you can see how, divided we are in geography about President Trump. All right, an update on two criminal cases, one against Letitia James, Attorney General of New York. She allegedly falsified records to get a loan for a property in Virginia.

And then we have Senator Adam Schiff, who allegedly lied about his permanent residence for tax purposes. And a guy named Ed Martin, federal attorney has been assigned to oversee these cases, and they'll be brought. They will be brought. Both of these people, James, James already hired a big shot lawyer to defend her, and she'll use campaign money to pay that guy. Abby Lowell, that name is significant in democratic circles. But that's coming. All right, migrant crime where I am on Long Island right now, 1,600 criminal migrants have been put into custody by ICE.

1,600 of Long Island, where I live. Good. And both the county executives and NASA and Suffolk are cooperating with ICE. In Houston, 350 gang members, foreign nationals, have been taken into custody by ICE. Houston does not cooperate the way it should. Now listen to this. Combine, these criminal gang members have entered the USA 1,500 times, convicted of 1,700 criminal offenses. It's still here. If Mitch McConnell had put Kate's law

up for a stand-alone vote, we wouldn't have that. Hey, Mitch, are you hearing me, man? You're responsible for that. Because case law says you're convicted of a crime or accused of a crime. You're deported, you come back, 10 years, Mitch would not put it up for a vote. Mexico defiance, so you know the drug cartels are murdering politicians, journalists, everybody. Mexico's most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere. Trump administration said, hey, we're going after the cartels. We're going to take them out ourselves. USA is going to take them out. Okay? Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, does not want that is what she said on august 8th go no but no no

the united states will not come to mexico with the military we cooperate we collaborate but there will be no invasion that is out of the question absolutely out of the question because in addition to the fact that we have stated it in all the calls that it is not allowed and is not part of any agreement, much less they have not raised it. Okay, so here's what likely to happen. What Ms. Shyamom says doesn't mean anything, all right? She has no power. It's an executive order.

I think that the Defense Department is going to go after gang members in Venezuela, narcotics gangs, and in Mexico, probably with drones. If you read Killing the Killers, my book on terrorism, you'll say, oh, it's done. It's not hard. I expect that to happen, and Claudia Shimbab, will have nothing to say about it. She should be happy. Just like the D.C. officials, she should say, bring it on. Get these guys out of here.

They're murdering hundreds of thousands of people in my country. Help us, USA. Right? Shouldn't that's what the woman be saying? Come on. Geez. Right back with the final thought. Final thought of days, I'm a big baseball fan, played

14 years consecutively, I played baseball, right up until semi-pro. And I root for the match on the Yankees because I know people and own a team. And, you know, I'm probably one of the few that does that in New York. But both teams are really having a hard time. Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Now, to match in particular, have lost seven in a row. And they have lost 11 out of the last 12. The highest payroll.

No, the Dodgers are the biggest payroll and the Metro second. Okay, $340 million of band of players. They're not performing. They're not. What do you do? Now, the current manager is mellow. Okay. I'd be a little more heated.

I'd be a little more Billy Martin myself. say, hey, we know you're good players, but you've got to do everything now. You can't, you can't, you have to. So you got to relight that fire. You know, you know, life goes in streaks for everybody, not just sports teams. You go up, you're down, and the Mets and the Angers are down, but you know, pull it together, okay? You got to fight like Trump when he got shot in a year. What has to happen? Boy, oh boy, you know, I turned on TV set and I'm going, oh, oh, final thought. Thanks for watching and listening to the NoSpid News.

I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you tomorrow.