Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - April 26, 2026

Episode Date: April 26, 2026

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begin so the American media is caught in an interesting trap they loathe generally speaking Donald Trump, and they want them to fail. But we have military people in the Persian Gulf. And to root against our service people, border is on treason. So what does the media do? It chips away. comes war, finds fault with everything, elevates the Pope argument, that kind of stuff. It demeans the action.

But all of those things are acceptable in a free society. Let me give you an example. So this guy Jake Tapper on CNN puts himself up as a true journalist and he's anything but. He really despises Donald Trump, and he uses his airtime to prove that again and again and again. Now, this week he was on Colbert, late-night television, and you don't get booked on that program if you're a media person unless you hate Trump. That's all Colbert does, day in, day out. On Tapper's program, he invites Republican Congresswoman, Elise Stefaniq from New York, to talk about the Iran situation. Now, the only reason the congresswoman is on there is so Tapper can try to make her look foolish.

And this is the game. This is what happens. You do not get an invitation to appear with Jake Tapper on. CNN unless Tapper thinks he can beat you. Roll the tape. What did you think when President Trump threatened to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization? He was focusing on the Iranian regime. And what did it do? It brought the Iranians to the table. It led to the ceasefire. We know that President Trump has very strong statements when it comes to his tweets, but it has been targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime.

He said the entire civilization will die. And it's very important to note that the, I'm talking, he was focused on the Iranian terrorist regime. And Jake, isn't it true that it brought the Iranians to the table to a ceasefire agreement? That is, it did because they had a ceasefire agreement going on for days. And President Trump is correct to call out the Iranian terrorist regime, which has financed Hamas and Hezbollah, which I believe has led to some of the financing of these, the skyrocketing anti-Semitism. But that's, Jake, you can ask this question, but the reality is it was targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime. It was an effective tool.

to bring them to the table. They have no cards. And frankly, we're not going to see peace in the Middle East until we get rid of the Iranian terrorist regime. He said, quote, your whole civilization will die tonight. He didn't say the regime will be wiped out. He said, your whole civilization will die tonight.

So Tapper picks up on the quote, okay, he's going to obliterate the entire Iranian civilization. And Trump is a tendency to be, hyperbolic. He said, we're going to blow them all up. Okay, that's what he does. Now, instead of debating the issue about whether Trump's bellicosity, whether his threats, are actually making progress in dismantling a very dangerous terrorist state of Iran, that's not the discussion. The discussion is, oh, Trump wants to kill innocent people, obliterate civilization. You see what I mean?

So this is a game, and it is a game, that these people play. Now, the defense was he was targeting the Iranian regime. That's true. Congressman Stephanick is right in her assertion, but it really hasn't worked, not yet. could might I'm hopeful it will but the Iranians don't care the government

whether their own people are slaughtered in fact they probably like that to happen the Muslims would probably like Donald Trump in the United States and Israel go in and wipe out a couple of thousand Iranian citizens women and children

and they'd like it they want that because that would then give the Mullah's high, moral ground, or whatever they seek. So they're delaying, delaying, delaying any kind of resolution. And this is not a hard one. This is an easy one, which brings me to my last point.

So what the United States and Israel want is weapons inspectors to go into Iran on a regular basis to see what their uranium situation is. is the enrichment and what their ballistic missile system is. So you would have to do this on a very coordinated schedule, all right, and the weapons inspectors, Chabas in Austria, by the way, don't have anything to do with the United States or Israel, would go in and assess. That would get everything done. The whole thing would stop if the Muller's would agree to that. They won't agree because they don't want to stop it. At this point, somewhere down the road, they might want to stop it. But now they don't. This is not fun, but they believe, the Iranian government

believes, getting the best of the United States. Because the worldwide press is sided with them. And, you know, you're in a position now where you're watching this kind of stuff, and you're shaking your head going, every nation on earth should be backing the United States and Israel. And I don't want to belabor the point of the Pope because I think that story is over. But if His Holiness is going to raise a question about the conflict, the war, then he's got to answer one vital question. Is the Vatican okay with the war? Mullah's having a nuclear weapon? Yes or no? Question has not been asked of the Pope,

certainly not been answered. And it should be. Because if Pope Leo wants to insert himself and he's doing it for the right reasons, the Pope is, he wants world peace. All right, but you've got to be able to define it a little further than that for people to understand where you're coming from, Your Holiness. I'm lecturing the Pope. I'm probably going to get excommunicated for doing that, but you see my point. Now, the American media didn't care about any of this. They don't care about weapons inspectors. They don't care about Pope Leo. I don't care. All they want to do is diminish Donald Trump. That is their agenda. 100%. And everybody should know about it because it is horrible what is happening and what has happened to the American media.

Listen to me as I join News Nation. Should the president start of blowing up every power plant and bridge in Iran if a deal isn't reached be taken seriously? New polling shows that 67% of Americans disapprove of the war. Let's bring in the host of the new podcast. We'll do it live. Bill O'Reilly is here. Bill, thank you so much for being here. So you were watching the A block. Your reaction.

Yes, go ahead. Well, there's one thing that wasn't talked about, and that's President Trump's legacy. So he has to win it, and that injects another factor, pardon and pun, into the debate. So the president cannot be seen domestically or internationally is losing to the mullahs. That's to win. And therefore, he's going to use whatever capability the United States has to bring Iran to its needs. And when you understand that it's personal now, that his whole experience in the White House hinges

on this, I said in the very beginning about him, that this was the biggest gamble Donald Trump's ever taken his entire life, politics and outside. politics and he has to pull it off. So I expect that what the United States needs to negate Iran will be used, whatever that may be. Well, what is that? How do we negate them? Well, I mean, you can bond them because that's what's going to happen. If the ceasefire blows up, pardon to pun again, there'll be more bombing by Israel and the USA. And this time the bombing will be in the factories and the food distribution points and it'll

be something that the Iranian people directly will suffer from. So that's number one, the military action. I don't buy this. Iran controls the Straits of Hormuz. That's a bunch of bull. the insurance companies that control the Straits of Hormuz. And remember on Saturday, just a few days, two days ago, 24 ships got through. And that is something that we can impose. We can pose order in the Straits.

But in order to make the Revolutionary Guard, who I understand is now running the show in Tehran, stop the madness, there may have to be more military action. You know the president very well. You talk to him. How does he sound privately? Does he feel confident that he will be able to land this? Well, he's never going to not feel confident. It's not the guy he is.

And that can be a problem, too, because confidence are good things. Swagger is a good thing. And certainly the world should know by this point. Donald Trump is a serious man. But sometimes he just overstates. You know, while we're winning it, we'll win it tomorrow, and next Thursday we'll have it won, and the oil prices have come down fast. There's a lot of that in play, and I think some Americans have tuned out to it.

Whereas now, this is reaching an apex right now. It's reaching its climax. Can't go on much longer. So I expect something fairly dramatic to happen in Islamabad. And I do expect that the ceasefire will be extended. You know, there was a Wall Street Journal article that claimed that when the president wrote his famous, you know, open the straits, you bastards, praise B, to Allah, tweet or truth social. The intention there was to destabilize, to show them that he was willing to do whatever it takes, that he's, you know, the madman theory of foreign policy. Do you agree with that analysis, A, and B, do you think it's working on the Iranians?

Well, I don't think you have to say anything with the Iranians. I mean, they already got punished to the extent that, as your previous guest said, take them years to recover. But there's still work to do. All the Mullers have to do is let the weapons inspectors in to see what the uranium situation is. That's it. That's a simple thing to do. And on a missile front, the same would apply. You'd have weapons inspectors go in to see what the status of the missiles are.

And the fact that Iran will not do that is defiance, obviously, but how much defiance are you going to throw on your own people? And that's the next factor in Iran. How much more the Persians are going to take of this? So it may not happen tomorrow or even next week, but you've got to feel that the dissent is rising. Although these people are killers, and they'll kill as many as they can and keep power. I think one of the big surprises of this war that's been really undercovered is the shift in who our real friends are. You had the moderate Muslim Gulf nations really stepping up after Israel, really being primary partners there. And meanwhile, our friends in Europe, you mentioned the insurers, all of them based in London,

NATO turned out to be a bunch of feckless freeloaders, unwilling to join the fight, unwilling to stand by us, while still absorbing all of our taxpayer dollars. Where do we go from here when it comes to our European allies? Does it just go back to the status quo after a betrayal like that? No, that'll never happen. I mean, NATO is pretty much through as far as Donald Trump is concerned. But remember, the Gulf states have nothing to lose here. Nothing. They just want Iran out of there because Iran's been destabilizing them and causing them problems for decades.

So it's not like they're stepping up with any kind of self-sacrifice. They're not. Europe is afraid of their Muslim population. That's a primary motivator in UK. And to some extent, France and Germany, they have so many now. Wahhabists in the country, in their own country. They fear them. It's like the London authorities feared the IRA.

London feared the IRA, because they could blow buses up at any time they want it. That's what this is all about. The UK has lost total control of its own government. Sturmer cannot do anything. You cannot even mention a criticism of the mother. world in England without being prosecuted. So they're afraid.

Now Trump, one thing he loaves are cowards. I mean, he's not a coward. And so after this is over, they'll have their meetings, they'll have their summits, but they will never have credibility with Donald Trump again, NATO. Well put. All right, I wanted to get your take on this. Companies can now apply for reimbursements for tariff refunds. $166 billion were paid by importers by companies,

and now they can start asking for refunds on that, but consumers cannot. And the reason that this boils my blood is because this whole time we were told, but the tariffs are being passed on to consumers. And honestly, there was never real evidence to show that. In fact, the evidence showed the opposite that corporations were eating the majority of the tariffs. Now, all of the same people who insisted that it was the American consumer who was paying these tariffs are perfectly happy for it to be the corporations who get those refunds and not the consumers. I think that the hypocrisy here is very much on display. Do you agree?

Well, hypocrisy in Washington and pretty much the same thing in the world, too. good luck if you're trying to get a refund. That's all I got to tell you. As a company as well. That'll happen, you know. For companies as well? Yeah, because, you know, the rulings are going to be appealed to the Supreme Court level. I mean, you know, nobody's going to get anything.

So this is a good paper story for the New York Times to ruminate about. But, you know, it isn't going to happen. I don't even think about it myself. I'm just happy that working men and woman in America is getting a tax refund. I don't care about the stupid companies. And trouble cut deals if he has to, but he's not going to have to. He'll be out of office way, way before any of this comes to fruition. Bill O'Reilly, God bless and protect you.

Thank you so much for joining me. Here's my weekly appearance with WOR's Mark Simone. Trump, I think, is going to do all right, Naran. Don't you think six months from now it'll be a great situation? I don't know. I just don't know. They're pretty insane people over there we're dealing with. And it looks to me like they're going to have to crack,

but, you know, I can't guarantee odds on it. And that's a real big advantage when you're in a negotiation if you have nothing to lose, and they don't. So that's where we are on that thing. And it just changes from hour to hour, as everybody knows. Yeah, but the good news, they've had absolutely no military success against us of any kind. Even when the two pilots were down there, we quickly got them back. It's really just about nothing they can do to us, is there?

I don't think they're an organized military threat anymore. It's just the, and the missile that the weapons inspectors have to monitor. That's what it's all about now. just getting weapons inspectors in there to say, you know, this is where the government is, what they're doing. And they're resisting that. Yeah. And if that could just go away for a little while, then Donald Trump would get a big victory,

that's for sure. Yeah. Hey, we were talking about this before. Barack Obama, apparently Netflix doesn't want to continue to deal with him. He doesn't want to end up as irrelevant as Bill Clinton. It looks like he's trying to establish some cloud everywhere. hanging out with Mom Donnie, his guy Axelrod is with the Pope. Is that what he's up to?

I don't know why he was here for M. Donnie. I can't figure that one out. I think it's that simple. The Netflix deal is over. He's looking for new deals. If he's chummy with Mom Donnie, it looks like he's got clout every place. You think so? Yeah.

I think it was a business thing. You know, it's surprising because Barack Obama doesn't do anything unless it's well-calculated. thought out he's not a spontaneous guy and it might be a business thing but it didn't get much traction I mean we in New York noticed it but not only anybody in Colorado care

yucking it up with the kids he's not a believable homes and he charges $300,000 to speech Obama does but there he is that was really weird to me and there's some reason

I think it's that simple I think that's why his guy Axelrod is meeting with the Pope. He's going to have clout everywhere. If you need anything, you pay him a fortune, give him another $60 million deal. Yeah, maybe. I mean, Axelrod is a guy who's no power whatsoever anywhere. Yeah. I think the Pope visit was scheduled before all the chaos, and I'm not sure.

But even if he does go to the Vatican, I mean, he did go. And he met with the Pope so what. I mean, Axelrodden doesn't have any delivery system. He's really nothing other than Barack Obama's friend. Now, you may be right. They may be hatching some kind of comeback. And that wouldn't be far-fetched because Barack Obama would love to be the kingmaker in 2008. Yeah.

He'd love to be the guy that all the Democrats come and kiss the ring, pardon the Pope analogy. He'd like to be the little leader to the... working in that direction, but I don't know if Ma'am Dony's going to get him there. Yeah. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, I have here a stack of articles that says the President Trump or Donald Trump fighting with the Pope

is the worst disaster he's finished he'll never. These are all from 2016. This is from the last fight with the last Pope. When are they going to learn that he's never finished? There's nothing that's going to knock him out. There's really nothing that would shock anybody anymore, is there, that he could say? No, they just want Americans want

this to be over. And if it concludes in a way that is favorable to us, everybody will forget about the Pope thing. I was in Palm Beach over the weekend. I did a beach at a basilica in Palm Beach, St. Edward's Big Church. That's where the Kennedys attended Mass. The crowd about 500 that there was going to be used traditional Catholics. But there wasn't. They wanted information.

and that's what the Q&A was. Angry, the Pope, was a resident somewhat. They just wanted information about it, which I gave them. Yeah. A lot of Catholics, we love the Pope, but they're not too thrilled with a woke pope.

That's not something that most Catholics were looking for. I think that's an accurate statement. Because Francis was different than Leo. Francis was an open border guy. Flat-out open border guy. Let everybody in, let them do what they want. And not only in the United States, but everywhere. No restraint on migration.

No, no, no. I believe in laws and immigration law, and you have to, a country has to be able to regulate its border. I don't know if Trump. They're all about the soft on crime. That's what the soft on crime was. You look, all immigrants say they commit crime, broker a deal between the Pope.

and the president in a half an hour. Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be hard for me to do that. I think both men do what they do, and that's a big say to the Pope. If you're going to get into the political policy, you've got to explain yourself. And this is Vatican City, which is a country.

I don't know if it's public policy. Reach about peace. And for the president, so that would be a fairly easy play on the other side of the equation. Yeah. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, this Saturday is the White House Correspondents dinner. For the first time ever as president, Donald Trump will be there. He'll speak.

What do you think? How's that going to go? Well, I'm going. Oh, good. I don't want to go, but I have to go because it's a storm. If anybody's out of control, they're going to have to deal with me. I don't think that's going to happen. Secret Service will remove them.

But I'm going to be there. Something untoward, because you have to respect the office of the presidency. You know, I thought Donald Trump, you don't have to be. You cannot go in there and try to diminish if you're a journalist, the office of the president and if anybody tries to do that, they're going to run up against me. And I'll stand up. I mean, I'll be there. You'll see me.

Yeah. Were you at the Al Smith dinner? You know, it's basically a roast in a ballroom. It's a similar kind of setting. And Trump was brilliant roasting everybody in the room. He really just was great tearing them apart. You think that'll happen Saturday? Yeah, I'm never invited to that dinner, I guess.

I don't know why. I'm Cardinal Dahl, and I don't think he's a big fan of there. Malani is, this is Saturday night at the Washington Hilton. All for them. Yeah, well, it'll be fascinating to watch. So, hey, I love the podcast. We'll do it live. Bill O'Reilly's got this new podcast.

Great Steve Sharip episode, Lindsay Graham was, boy, that was fascinating. Steve Croft, Howie Mandel, What's the next episode coming? Yeah, we got Gene Judge Denny Piro Stop in tomorrow. Good. That'll be great. Yeah, does anybody know what she does?

I don't know what she does. Do you know? We'll find out. Yeah. But I was happy to book her. She's not around that much anymore on TV. This will be a pretty big interview. Yeah.

And going out of D.C. tomorrow morning. Yeah. And we will do that interview late in the afternoon. And you know why it's so great? A lot of people try these things, but you do it. It's like a TV studio, and you're wearing a suit. It looks great.

Everybody else, they put a dartboard, a pool table, they're wearing a lumberjack shirt. It never looks right. It looks phony. Yours looks real, and that's the way it should be done. I appreciate that. We try to bring a little traditional sense of decorum Saturday night, which I'm not thrilled about. That's right. I'll do it.

Look, I'm an old. you know we've been doing it for it. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us. Here's my News Nation appearance with Leland Vitter. Last April, a little bit more than a year ago now, Bill O'Reilly predicted Trump had one year to get things turned around. He's running an enormous risk, far more than people know. Because this time next year, April Fool's Day, 2006,

If the economy is wobbly and prices have not come down substantially, Democrats will win the midterms. And that's it for Donald Trump's presidency. Bill O'Reilly, now back with us one year later, author of Confronting Evil, host of the We Will Do It Live podcast. You said back then the tariffs were enormous risks. Now you've also said the war in Iran is an enormous risk. We are now past the April 1st, 2026 deadline. Trump in big trouble? I don't know if I say he's in big trouble. He's got to win in Iran.

See, if he wins in Iran, the equation changes because he becomes a victor. And to the victor, go to the spoils, as the cliche goes. So the scenario the White House wants to impose is that finally Iran agrees to have the weapons inspectors go in, look at the uranium, look at the missiles, and they stop terrorizing their own people, and a straight of Hormuz opens. If that happens, then Trump gains a lot of currency, and I expect oil prices would then come down very quickly. So it's not big trouble, it's not,

I can't get out of it, it's still a cliffhanger. Okay. You are laying out this scenario. where Trump would be able to get all of this out of the Iranians. He said that he had all that effectively on Friday, and then it fell apart. How long does Trump have to allow the Iranians to continue their bad acts while waiting for their good words? I don't know. I can't put a number on it. There was a good development today for the president.

He got eight women. off the gallows. How do we know that's true? Well, that's a good question. I'm taking it from the best wire services over there. I don't think that anybody would... We're taking the Iranians word for it, right? Yeah, they say they're not going to kill them now.

We don't think the Iranians would lie about it. They lied about reopening the straight-of-hor moves. Leigh, I can't analyze the news. You don't think they lie about sparing any people? I can't analyze the news. saying somebody might lie about it. This is what came out of the White House and what came out of the wire services. So I've got to go with that until things are proved to be different. You can't analyze the news by saying, well, I might have lied. I just can't do it. And it makes sense that they would

spare the lives of these eight women, the mullahs. How much bad will do they want? You're going to gun down eight women now? Hang them? Yeah, they gunned down 40,000. No, but this is more personal in the sense that people know they are. Their pictures have been in the paper. They're real people. It makes sense the mullahs would pull back on this.

These women aren't a threat to them. They're just trying to make an example of them. But anyway, the overall conflict is still undefined in Iran. and journalists should treat it that way. Well, it's very much undefined without question. That said, there is a lot of the president's allies in the media, especially the podcast world, and in the Maga Ecosphere, who have judged it. They have judged it negatively.

Chief among them would have been Tucker Carlson. Here he is apologizing, among other things, to his listeners for supporting Donald Trump. I feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves. He is not free in this moment. The single biggest mistake Trump or any American president in my lifetime has made was going to war with Iran. Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods and exulting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist? I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences.

you know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be. And I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people. Is Trump losing support among the most faithful who came and built that huge coalition in 2024? I thought you were going to ask me if Trump is the Antichrist. I mean, come on. The polling is not good for the president. So today we're a couple of polls.

out and he's in a low 30s. But again, I can turn around very quickly. It's not a Joe Biden poll, whereas Americans, as you're convinced, this guy couldn't run a country. If Trump wins in Iran or gets some demonstrable, positive things, it's pulling up as it go up and go up fast. As far as the dissent on the Republican side, it's there. Do I think it's overwhelming?

No. I think most Republicans are rooting for the president to win, and that may happen. Well, first of all, most Americans should root. All Americans should root for the president to win because if America wins in Iran, the world is... Have you talked to Chris Murphy lately? I saw Murphy's tweet. Yeah, well, we covered his tweet yesterday.

But I think, Bill, you bring up an important point. I think you're right that if Trump wins Republicans come home, especially those who are dissenting right now. But the question is about independence. You say if Trump wins, his poll numbers go way back up. I don't remember second-term President George H.W. Bush after an incredible win overseas, and that was because of the economy. And that's the point you made a year ago about the prices turning around or not. What has it happened? What does President Trump do? Any victory would have to accompany a drop in oil. But as we've seen, the oil prices can drop very,

very, very quickly. And the stock market is still pretty vibrant. So these are things that the White House are holding onto. And they're not unrealistic things. Are they controlling things enough right now? Are they taking the bull by the horns when it comes to Iran enough? Do they have the time for President Trump to say, I don't have a timeline? I don't know where the bull is, but maybe he's in the new ballroom.

The bull's Iran. The bull is the mullahs. Look, are they controlling things? How many times, Leland, did you hear from the corrupt American media that Iran was controlling the straits of four moves? How many times? 100? 200. Well, right now, both Iran and the U.S. are doing it. They both have a veto over it. No. We can't get ships we want out of the strait. We can't get ships we want out of the strait. We can't get ships we want out of the straight. That's not even close to being. The United States Navy controls those streets and can board any vessel it wants to board. And has. And last Saturday, 24 ships were turned back.

So this bull about the horns, I mean, you've got to be in the real world. The Iranians can lob drones and cause a little trouble, but they don't control the straights of four moves. And if you don't believe me, asked President Xi in China, who today came out and we will go back and forth. Hey, we need to open this thing. We did this on, we did that on your show as well, back and forth about what control means. But you've often made the point that when it comes to the midterms and when it comes to what we're dealing with in America, Republicans shouldn't have a problem because Republicans should be able to point to places like San Francisco where I am now and say, look, things may not be perfect under Republicans, but they're worse under Democrats.

Here's part of your special in San Francisco. Take a listen. So this is the tenderloin district of San Francisco. One of the worst places in the United States of America. The reason it's so bad is because there's no law enforcement at all here. It's violence, drugs everywhere. Every indignation you could possibly imagine happens right out here in full view. So we're going to stop for a moment. So this is a hotel right here, up there.

You can't stay in that hotel because you will be beaten to a pope. All right, so Bill, is what's happening here in terms of the argument over the direction of the country? Why is this argument about what democratic policies have done to this city? into this state not working? Look, in a fair world or an unemotional world that looks at things the way they are, not what they want them to be, Trump would be an asset to the two Republicans running in California because Trump's a law and order guy. He's a deportation guy. All right? He confronts things that are against the law. You would think that the citizens of San Francisco would want that.

But he's been demonized to the extent. Whereas you said, and I think you're right, that's all anybody wants to talk about is Donald Trump. They don't care about who the gubernatorial candidates are, even though they're paying $2 more for gas than anybody else in a country because of the heinous tax situation in California. Even though, all right, not only San Francisco, but Los Angeles, San Diego, all of the major centers, fall in part. The fallen part right before people's eyes. And the excuses are getting better. That's all you hear. Oh, it's not that bad. You should have seen it five years ago. Oh, it's worse in Shanghai. Oh, this is what they got. They don't have any problem solving. So the candidate that would come in and say, look, here's what I'm going to do in San Francisco

to get this blight out of here. That candidate would, would seem to have an advantage, but he doesn't because all anybody wants to talk about is how bad Donald Trump is. And that propaganda has taken root in California, deep route. Bill, great thoughts as always. Enjoy Washington. We'll see you next week. Please join me and Sid Rosenberg on WabC. Radio. Good morning, Bill. How are you? Yeah, I'm in D.C. A little foggy. We did a... big long-form podcast with Janine Piro last night.

Oh, nice. I just saw her on Fox News moments ago. She looks great. Obviously, she got a lot of Facebook. She looks like a million bucks. You know, it's funny. She was on this station. She did a show every Sunday.

I was a guest of hers, Bill. I'm not exaggerating, probably monthly. She was on this radio program, mine every Tuesday. We had this great relationship. And now she barely gets back to me on text. I understand she's very busy. And I would ask you, what is she up to these days? What is, is there a big case?

Is there something major that she's working on as a U.S. attorney in D.C.? Well, that's why I came down here because we hadn't heard for him from her in an official capacity for quite some time. And I was confused. I was there, okay, now, what exactly is Judge Janine doing? Right. I didn't know. I mean, you got, she's the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. You got the attorney general.

You got, you know, all these attorneys running around, and pretty soon Adalia would be down here, and then everyone will leave. But we do this thing called, we'll do it live, where I used some bad words when I was 12 years old, and they dug it out. Nice, nice. embarrass and humiliate me, which is really impossible at this point in my career.

Anyway, she works about 12 to 15 hours a day, which is why she probably hasn't gotten back to you. And her job is to regulate and prosecute all crimes attached to the District of Columbia. Now, that includes crimes abroad. That includes terrorism, human trafficking, not just, you know, people stealing cars. And so it's a mammoth, mammoth job. Let me ask you this, because I'm glad you're telling me all this, because I do miss her. We were very close. Yeah, it's not personal.

No, no, no. I'm sure. She's busy. That kind of thing. Right. So, but what is the difference, or maybe there is no difference? Maybe they just need as many hands on deck as possible. What is the difference or similarities between what she does and, for example, what Pam Bondi used to do and now Todd Blanche is doing?

Good question. Cross state lines. So if you're the attorney general, okay, your major operating force is the FBI. You commit a crime in America and you cross state lines with the crime. Then they go after you. Got it. Piro is District of Columbia. But there are so many things happening in and out of here.

And remember, this is federal territory here. Okay? They don't have any of do with the states. So it's a delineation of fiefdoms. And, you know, Washington. I mean, I don't like Washington. I'm sorry. It's everybody trying to stab each.

other in the front to get ahead and at least in New York, it was just oh, Rodney, what are you doing? Okay? I mean, I like that. That's fine with me. Right. But I don't want the velvet shiv. You know, and that's what it is down here. And, you know,

they like you on Tuesday and then they don't like you on Thursday and I don't care. No, you're right about that. You're right. And then I'm going to the correspondence dinner on Saturday as a bouncer. As a bouncer? Yeah.

I want to get to... Yeah, this is great. I thought this off. I said, you know what? I'm tired of people disrespecting the office of the president. Uh-huh. I got it. Okay?

And Trump is trying to handle himself. Okay, but then I see my pals Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson, both are 115 years old, put out a letter. that says that if you are a journalist going to this correspondence dinner on Saturday, you are to forcibly protest the president of the United States. Rather. This is going for the first time in his five years. That's right.

He never goes to this. Never. But I heard that because of the chicanery that goes on, and the other two old news guys you just mentioned are adding to that. I heard this will also be the first time there'll be no comedians there on Saturday. Now, there's going to be a mentalist. I guess he's going to lift up a spoon. I don't know what he's going to do.

I don't really care what he does. Hey, O'Reilly, your mother's day was Gertrude. Okay, thanks. How much is that? How much do I have to pay for that? So there'll be a mentalist there. But after the letter came out, I guess, 200 journalists, it, and I'm going forcibly, what is that?

What does that mean? Now, there are going to be U.S. Marshals and Secret Service in the room. Yeah. But I appointed myself the main bouncer, and I'll tell you, if there's somebody near my table who's yelling, I'm going to get up and go over. Good for you. Good for you. They're actually, are they?

Well, maybe not exactly, but almost. Almost encouraging violence? Almost. Nah, you know, these, again, I mean, the statute of limitations on these guys. Once you say, look, I covered the Civil War, we'll give you a little break, okay? All right, here's some oatmeal, you know, and I know them both, and they've always been liberal lions, always. And they didn't hide it from their viewers, and, you know, I have a new book. coming out in September called Confronting America What Has to Change.

Oh, wow. And that'll be out in the middle of September, and I tell a story about Dan Rather, because I work for him, which you're going to go, whoa. I'm not sure I will because Dan Rather is so out there that I probably will believe it quickly. Well, you know, anything I write is true.

But I'm saying, of those three guys, When I was a little kid, of course, I was a little. But I remember Tom Brokaw on NBC. I remember Peter Jennings on ABC. And I remember Dan. And then when I got a little older and a little more aware of what was going on, the guy that I really didn't like, didn't like him, was Dan. I was okay with Tom, even though he, MSNBC, NBC.

And I was kind of, Peter Jennings to me was like the Roger Moore, the bond of television. Right. But I couldn't stand Dan rather. I don't know, Bill, I just couldn't stand him. Well, I had to work for him, and he did something untoward, and I'm writing about it, and he's not going to like it, and I don't care. Wow. And there's a point to the story about how the evolution of the left-wing media started with Nixon, pretty much where it started.

Maybe you could make a case who went back to Vietnam, but I don't want to bore everybody with this, but the story about me and rather is really good. Oh, I can't wait to read that. And then I got stories about everybody. No, I can't wait. I talk about guys who have been around. Yeah. But anyway, I just was offended by this letter that we're going to forcibly protest in this room.

And I'm going, okay, take it outside, Jack. So, you know, I got my tuxedo. I'm still standing 6'4 foot 4. You know, and I'm a mobile. So if you get out of line, you may have a new friend. Here we go. Look out. Here comes Big Bad Bill O'Reilly.

You're going to get old physical on. You're going to kick your ass. But, you know, sticking with the media, my friend Russell Sullivan, he used to work with the Secret Service. He's in Virginia somewhere. He's got a great brother combination, Michael and Thomas. They're all great breezy point guys. He says, talking to Bill, speaking of the U.S. attorney, from a media standpoint, what does Bill think of the mainstream media's dismissive attitude toward the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment charging that the SPLC is funding the very thing they decry and condemn?

He thinks this is a major story. and, of course, what he's talking about is funding these extreme left groups. Any thoughts on this? Well, I did it last night. I reported it. And, of course, we have due process. So, you know, the Southern Barberty Law Center says they did not do it. But from what I understand, there are informers that the attorney general has who are going to come in

and swear that they received money to try to foster violence on the right. So how it worked was, this is all allegation now, that the Southern Parliamentary Law Center would give you a stipend if you were a Nazi and then tell you to cause trouble at this rally and that rally

so that they could go in and condemn it. They, like, hyped it up using bribes. Now, that's pretty serious, obviously, but it has to be proved, and these informers who allegedly got the money, and the money is $3 million. So we're talking about a serious bribe here. it is a good story.

It's an absolutely good story. But again, you've got to apply due process to these things. They are entitled to a defense. Sure. Bill O'Reilly, live in D.C., he'll be at the White House Correspondents Center on Saturday, and he interviewed Janine Piro today, who I saw on Fox News this morning. She was actually talking about, you know, the president is always boasting, and he's right how this administration has made a lot of sense.

city safe again? Maybe the most of all, Washington, D.C. Even their mayor who hates Trump, Muriel Bowser, had no choice, but to admit, yeah, the city is actually much safer. But Pino, Piro was talking about how they're going to keep the curfew for the teenagers at night. Then they showed a video of a bunch of kids like Wilding all over D.C. So I guess they're going to keep that curfew. I wonder, you know, is there any talk about Blanche moving on? Don't forget, he was installed as the interim AG when Trump got rid of Bondi, and you started hearing Lee Zeldon, Lee Zeldon, Lee Zeldon, then kind of whispers maybe Hormit Dillon, maybe Janine Piro.

Any more talks about what might happen there? It looks like Top Lanch is going to get the job full time, no? If I had a bet, I would. Yeah. That would be draft kings or whatever they do. I don't know what they do. You're stupid. You can't win.

But you send them money to sit. rather draft things. So, you know, he's a tough guy. Lance, that's what they wanted. Record crime drop in D.C. And, you know, I did go, Piro. I said, look, you know, you're doing a good job driving his crime down, much safer city than it was.

All of that's say that. You get along with Bowser. She does. Piro gets along with Bowser. I said, but there's one guy. You got to contain him. And she goes, who's that? And I go, Greg Gutfeld.

He should be in change. Why is he walking around? He should be in solitary confinement. I'll give you eight felonies that Gutfeld committed in my presence. Okay, so as soon as he steps into the district, you got to see. You know, funny, you made that guy such a superstar, because I remember. With Bernard. Bernard.

Every Tuesday night, it was Gutfeld to Bernard. And then when, you know, Fox News did what they did to you, which was gross. And they kept the name of the factor, even though you were gone, not gone yet officially, but you were gone. They kept the name of the factor for like two weeks. And the last factor was hosted because I was a guest on it. The very last factor, me and Bernard were guests, and it was hosted by Greg Gutfeld. Did you know that? I didn't know it, but now that's another felony.

That adds to 18. That's the biggest one. That's the biggest one. So I know you heard Larry Trump on moments ago, and I got real honest with it on a couple of things, but Iran, I said we are quickly approaching the Nancy Guthrie, not to make fun of that sweet woman who is probably... No, I know what you're saying. It's over-saturation. Right? Right? Yeah. So what happens next?

What does the president do? How does he make it work for him politically? Where are you with that? Well, look, I said from the very beginning that this was a massive gamble on the part of President Trump because there are so many things that could get out of control in the world. And that's what the mullers are doing now. Iran is waging economic war, trying to create as much economic chaos as. as it can, hopefully them wearing down all the people that want the weapons inspectors in

there and want them out of there. So that's their strategy. And it is working to some extent. You got China now for the first time speaking up. That's important because the Iranians can't live without the Chinese. And my instinct says that Trump is going to win it. But in the meantime, it's going to be very painful for the world. And if the world were sane, everybody would want the Iranian government out of there.

Everybody. And that has been a huge disappointment. I don't think that was anticipated by the Trump administration that NATO and all of these other countries would sit it out. Yep. I don't think so either. And they have. And that's what you get into this stuff. And there's always these unintended

consequences that appear, always. They call it the fog of war. And that's why it was such a big gamble, because you couldn't control the playing field. If somebody had said two and a half months ago, Iran would still be, you know, viable.

everybody go, oh, no, no, no, no. But when you have sympathy for them by a lot of the war, which was unanticipated, that's another very difficult hurdle to overcome. It is. It reminds me of Hamas. Now, we knew that Israel would be the bad guy. We knew that. It just happened so quickly.

But same thing. You know, the bad guy becomes the sympathetic figure and the good guys, they become the villains. Bebe and Israel, they're the villain. Trump and the United States, we're the villain. That's why I love Trump and David. It's so crazy that these people hate Trump more than they hate the Mullahs. That's right. That's what it comes down to.

Well, they hate Bibi more than they hate Hamas too and the Palestinians. But the problem here with Israel is it is not a main player. What it is is that carries out military. military missions very effectively, but it is not making decisions on the battlefield. So when I saw this guy, and this is outrageous, Christopher Murphy, the senator from Connecticut, absolutely rooting for the Iranians to defeat the U.S. Navy. Yeah, oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, Tucker calls.

And this is the biggest Trump hater in the country, Murphy. I'm going, you people in Connecticut, what is wrong with you? I mean, this is so unacceptable, but it's there. No, what's there? You're right. How fun out there this weekend. You were amazing, as always today. I love you, Bill O'Reilly. Thank you so much.

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