Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - August 30, 2026

Episode Date: August 30, 2026

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Search free until August 31st. Visit Ancestry.ca for details. Terms apply. I'm Bill O'Reilly. You're listening to Around the World. Let's begin. So am I picking on the Biden's? I don't think so. I did call Joe Biden the second worst president ever. And that has gained some notoriety that statement. Well, he is. Yeah, he is. Okay. It's all I got to tell you. Terrible. Four years awful. Because he didn't know anything. He was disliked. interested. Now, his wife, Jill Biden, much more alert, much more ambitious, if you can believe it. So she's got a book out. All right. It's published in June. Eh, I didn't do very well. And I'm not mocking her, the view from the East Wing a memoir. Pretty hard to write a book about a unsuccessful four-year administration. I mean, that's a challenge.

So anyway, Jill Biden is still promoting the book. And here's what she said on the Jamie Kern-Leoma show last week. So still to this day, you don't have a gut instinct on what was that moment? No, I mean, there's all kinds of theories. You know, he had been traveling. I know he was tired. He didn't feel well that day. when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to.

And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment. So I wasn't with him. I didn't see him days before, weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before. And there's no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something. Who knows? Right? Who knows?

Laced his dream. He's talking about the debate with Trump. So let's picture this. So Joe Biden's president of the United States. It means he's got a cadre of secret service. They follow him wherever he goes. All right, they check out his room, his food, his beverages, where he sits, where he goes. All his secret service guys, that's what they do.

It's called the detail, presidential. detail. So this Lima person well maybe it spiked his drink. Oh. How could anybody do that? Nobody

get close enough to his snack or whatever she's talking about. But then Jill Biden goes, who knows? I know. Jill. I know.

Impossible. preposterous okay now this is what you get on social media all day long this crazy crazy crazy

conspiracy world oh I just go my god now is it a big deal no are everybody

is everybody going to be talking about maybe Joe Biden Biden's drink was spiked before the debate? No. I understand that. Okay. But it's symptomatic of the country we live in. Where a former first lady can go,

that's possible. It's not possible. It's not. So say so. Do it with humor. Now, the conspiracy world. Big world. And I wrote a book called Killing Kennedy.

And that book was solely written to dispel all of the insanity surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We just went over every, boom, boom, grassy knoll here, you like that. And when you read the book, I hope you have, you just see how methodical we were. and knocking all of his stuff out because Oswald killed Kennedy. And there was a trail that is provable that you can see from him ordering the Carcano rifle, Oswald, to him shooting a Dallas cop after he shot JFK. there's a timeline impossible to be a conspiracy impossible doesn't matter there's a lot of money to be a stuff and they get paid and i kind of money to be made in the conspiracy precincts and these people put out this stuff

and they get paid and i kind of vary upon annoyance and anger, because there are a lot of people who want to believe in these crazy conspiracy theories. Now, that's their problem. I understand your problem. Not my problem, not the country's problem, your problem. However, when it gets to a certain level and starts to percolate and, and it's a, and and find its way into schools or other vehicles,

then it becomes all of our problems, the conspiracy world. And for some like Jill Biden, who, you know, my question for Jill Biden would be, Madam First Lady, I was very surprised when President Biden's physician took the Fifth Amendment, in front of a Senate committee.

Were you surprised? That is a legitimate question. Because Joe Biden apparently had cancer at the time of the examination by that doctor and that was not cited in the report. So you had a sitting president with a growing cancer and a doctor ignored it. That's a story.

And I'd love to know what Jill Biden thinks about that. Okay? So there are many, many, many ways to be provocative and to get information. That's important information. Why did this doctor take the fifth? For what? What is he protecting himself from? Fraud?

I don't know. Does Jill know? Does Jill care? That's journalism. Now, I don't expect people on the social media to be journalists. I don't expect them to be responsible. I know people that are there for entertainment purposes. It's them all riled up that there could be a conspiracy.

It's entertainment for them. I got it. But for those of us who take the country seriously and want the best for all of us, want a clean flow of information. This stuff spiking his drink? Got to stop. Here's my News Nation appearance with Leland Vitter. For one week now, a 35-year-old bone cancer survivor

and White House staffer dominated America's political conversation. And both parties, think about that. Both groups of people that want to run the United States of America are just fine with that. In fact, they keep going far, and farther into the gutter, as promised. Cuomo, host of Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly, anchor the No Spin News, author of Confronting Evil,

host of the We'll Do It Live podcast, are back with us. And for this segment, gentlemen, I have purchased on Amazon a referees whistle, which I am not afraid to use, should it become necessary. But O'Reilly, you are the older, wiser statesman, so I will start with you. We all three came up as a journalist.

Yes, yes. As humble- I appreciate the wise remark. Yeah, well, we'll see if it proves true in this segment. Let me ask a question, though. Is our job as journalists to report on the bleep show that both political parties have become, or is it to act as advocates for the American people and point out that neither party is either solving our problems,

or talking about real solutions to our problems. Okay, before I answer that, I just want to say that both of you guys should feel very sorry for me. Because the burden I carry is that I'm always right, and it's just a terrible burden. So that answers 50% of your questions. There's two stories here, both important. So affordability, I was watching Cuomo's show, before your hour. came on. Affordability, affordability. So you ask a Republican in office, what are you going to do about affordability? And they go, they're communists and socialists. You ask a Democrat, same question. What are you going to do about affordability?

Well, it's Trump's fault. There's no affordability. You don't get any answers. What you get is deflections over to personality. and you get personal stuff. So who's being served by that? The American people aren't. They don't know what your plan is to inject affordability into the American economy. What is it?

I don't know what it is, and I do this for a living, on either side. So you're never going to get a policy stated to you without going to going over to bash the other party.

And that's what I objected to with Assov. So instead of dealing in Georgia, which has an affordability problem, he insinuates in a gutter-snipe way that Natalie Harp is doing something untoward. Civil servant, this is a chronicler, she's a chronicler. Every president since Washington has had one, okay? But that's what he does. And when I came on with Chris on Wednesday, I thought he was going to agree with me. I didn't think there was going to be any disagreement.

We both say, that's not the way you handle this. Okay? But no, we got right into Trump. And I don't think that serves the American people very well. Chris, I'm... Well, you agree or disagree? I'll do the favor of answering your question. I think the job is to give people information and perspective that helps them as critical thinkers, what we call food for thought.

That's the job. This exegesis on what is journalism, what isn't, to me is academic and beside the point. You try to provide value, you try to help. I think that the situation with Asoff is very plain to anyone who's paying attention. Okay. First of all, Natalie Harp gets paid by you, Bill, and me. Are you going to get questions about you? It's how it is.

I believe that Bill and people on the right took the suggestion about Natalie Harp and Trump as a sexual one. That's for them to explain. Because the way Ossoff offered it up was as part of a litany of things Trump likes to do. On that plane that cutter gave the president, which is, by the way, a shame. It's just a shameful thing to accept that plane the way he did. And we all know it, but only half of us will talk about it. and he wants to be on the plane with Natalie. I don't take it as they are having an affair.

The people on the right did, fine. You want to be about morality and character, and let's not talk about women that way. Fine. Start with your own house. And they don't, and they don't talk about it. And that's what doesn't serve the American people, because everybody sees it.

You want to talk economic policy, we should. I don't want to talk about Natalie Harp. I wish her well. I don't want to hear about the president calling every female reporter who asks her question in a way he doesn't. like a pig, okay? I don't want to hear it, I don't want to deal with it, although he does make them stars,

which is good, if ironic. We should talk about what matters, we should test people, and we should be decent about it. Those are the boxes we should check. Okay. So, Bill, you don't need me in the middle of this. You guys go ahead. Yeah, all right. We could find two Democrats, two, and I did research all weekend, two that criticized Assoff for what he said.

David Brooks and David Axelrod. Brooks said this was an insinuation. Okay? So he disagrees with Chris. It was an insinuation, all right, inflammatory, and it should not have been said. When I asked Chris last week to criticize Assov for what he did, he did not do it. Instead, he turned it on me and said, okay, you. say nothing about Trump's insults, that's not true. And we provided News Nation with

among tiles. I got 50. The idea that you are a clear-eyed critic on the president of the United States named Donald Trump is a joke, okay? And only you believe it. And that's okay. But the idea that you are a fair broker is silly. You can laugh all the way. You can laugh all the way to the confessional because you mischaracterized me when you said I say nothing when Trump gets crude. That is not true. That is not true. We have the, look, we have the, we have the clips. We have the clips. We have the clips. We'll roll them, and then you guys can discuss what Chris thinks. Yes, take your cherry-picked clips, please. Summing up, I think Donald Trump, is now going to pivot to his legacy.

He wants to be recognized one of the great presidents. In order to make that happen, he's got to do two things. Got to tamp down the controversial statements. Has to him. I don't know if he can. I don't know if he can. And then he's got to tamp up and explain to we the people why he do is what he's doing.

I figure about 30% of MAGA people. people, no matter what Donald Trump does, they'll be fine with it. It was a great depression, they'll be fine with it. They just love them so much. It's a cult. I know for a fact that some very bad people are trying to exploit his campaign to disguise racial and social hatred. They're doing that. Donald Trump should loudly condemn those people and tone down some of his own inflammatory rhetoric. Just tell us what you want to do. No need to incite.

To be clear, those are the clips that Bill provided. I didn't even know who that was. You call ourselves a gutter-snipe, and you get all angry, and you're never like that with Trump. You're like a little puppy. And look, that's okay. But you're going to go on your show, call me a Democrat. You're going to go on the radio show with that little bastard in the morning who lies about me, and you sit there smugly and laugh about it, and then you think that you're going to come on my show and be a fair broker?

That's not what you are. You play in the pig pen with the MAGA people. That's what you do. And you watch them be ugly, and you're okay with it. That is what you do. Okay, so own it. So you don't care whether what you're saying is true or not. You're going to believe what you want to believe.

You just said you go after the president. You didn't take a tone with him once. There's not one clip about what he said about Megan Kelly. There's not one clip about what he just said about Kristen Holm. There's nothing about Caitlin. Why not? Why not? Why don't you deal with exactly what you're talking about with off-off? This isn't a telethon. I don't care if you have 50 clips. You do nothing but make content. You've been on TV for 500 years. That's not the point. The point is that even what you just provided, you have a gentility in talking about Trump because there's a difference. A gentility. But you call me the Democrat. You say, I hate Trump. You see this as mature or fair? Please, be what you say you don't oppose. Be what you say you don't want to be.

I can't read your mind, but in my opinion, you despise the man, and that shadows. And I tell you, you're wrong. It's about the outcomes, and you're cheapening the criticism. It's like a kid who says, Bill, you hate me because you don't want me to play with matches. No, playing with matches is dangerous. These policies and the rhetoric are dangerous. It doesn't mean I don't hate him. Go away.

I got to make my case because he mischaracterizes everything. Go ahead, Bill. All right, look. The most important story is this. With all the vitriol and all the stuff that's flying around, the personal stuff, the American public does not get what it needs, and that is information about what both parties are going to do should they win in November. Because it's what aboutism, it's covered this, it's covered that, it's statements made that are unchallenged. of that is happening. But when you categorize me as a MAGA colonel, that's just not true. And whether you want it to be true or not, I'm going to defend myself. But that's between you. You're not a victim. That's a personal belief. You're not a victim. You get an unparalleled, unprecedented platform on my show all the time. You're the only person who gets it.

But you're not the same with Leland as you are with me. Let me. Let me tell you, If I were you, you would never have me on the way I have you on. If I talk to you, the way you talk to me, I would have never been a repeat guy. Roger Ailes would have called me, rest in peace, and said, you're never going on again. You guys are arguing, you guys are arguing over who's going to have who on, whose show, and how the interviews have been conducted. No, you're misunderstanding the point. The politicians, the point is this. The politicians are doing their job.

You should be what you say you matter. No, this is, you're misunderstanding the point. The point is simple. be what you say matters, okay? If you're going to take cheap shots and go with people who take cheap shots and smile and laugh along, then you are a cheap shot artist,

a gutter snipe, some would say. And I don't think that's who you should be. I don't think that Ossoff is a gutter snipe. And there's no way that Ossoff is a gutter snipe and the president should tone down. He doesn't need to tone down. Does that sound like the same way of dealing with those two men.

Please. What do you want me to pull my ears? Call him a gutter-snipe? Call him a gutter-snipe. Assoff's direct assault on a woman that does a good job Natalie Harp has put her life into a terrible position.

He's got to have security now. I'm telling a reporter, shut up, Piggy. Doesn't hurt her? You don't think those women get threats? He does it all the time. And you say, I don't deal with that. Again, when we're talking, are we not talking about Natalie Harp or other women? No, we're talking about how you treat women in politics and political rhetoric.

We're talking about how you should treat women in political rhetoric. I'm talking about Asoff attacking Natalie Harp. Yeah, because you don't want to deal with the other ones. That's my point. I don't have time to deal with the other ones. It's not a telethon. I do. I do.

This is the story. And you, fine. Look. Is your responsibility? Look, here's the story. I have no beef with you attacking anybody. It's not about beef. If you have the facts to back it up.

It's not about beef. But calling me a MAGA Colonel. It's not about animus. That's bull. Look, you bring their case on a regular basis. You can call me a Democrat. It's okay. You can laugh with the little MAGA crowd who take shots at me that they'd never take to my face.

That's okay. I'm saying, I don't know the MAGA crowd. Who's a little? little maga crap. Who are they? You don't? Did they follow me all? I think it was a therapy session or something. Who's the guy you go on the radio with? How would you describe that guy? He's like this big.

He looks like a human big talk. Yeah, you're fool. Now we're talking about some guys. I stuck up for you on that show. Yo, please. I stuck up at you. Let me tell you. Let me tell you something. Never stick up for anybody ever again. Look, here's all I'm saying. I can't figure out what you guys are arguing about. I know you can't, but that's okay. People at home will. The thing I'm saying is that

Trump is getting a boost from this. Leelie Leland. Trump is getting a boost. Trump is getting a boost from this. Because we're not talking affordability. We're not talking what people are worried about. Which Leland, you do a brilliant job on your show all the time. Neither party will talk affordability. So this is a win for him.

This is a win for him. Cuomo. Neither party talks about affordability. What do you want? That's not true. That's not true. Is that what you want? That's not true now.

That is, you have, you have Democrats talking about what has to change all the time. Well, you don't inject affordability. What's a democratic plan? What you, you have removed the tariffs, okay? You have structural changes on how you treat small businesses and create some kind, yeah. You give big businesses a tax preference. Is it that Congress's job? They're running for seats in Congress.

That's what the midterms are about, right? The midterms are about Congress, right? So they're saying... But I don't know what they want to do. Well, maybe you should ask him and not talk over them when they're trying to answer your question. Either side, I don't know what they want to do. I do. And by the way, I know what people on the right would want to do, too, if they didn't have to worry about offending the president.

They say they want the tariffs off all the time. They say they want to get out of the Middle East all the time. And they want to give some price protection for inputs to small businesses. so that they're not getting killed. Legitimate. And that's a real conversation. How are you going to do that? How are you going to do that?

What do you mean how you're going to do? You're going to pass laws. You're going to create regulations. You know, you're going to change policies. That's how you do it. This isn't a mystery. Where is the legislation? Where is the proposed legislation, Cuomo?

Well, for the Democrats, the Democrats don't have the votes. They're not in power. You don't have the legislative mandate. You can't have a proposed legislation unless you have the power. They put out proposals all the time. They don't even give votes. Mike Johnson won't even allow it to be debated. He only wants to debate the Save Act.

No, they're not the same, Bill. They're not the same. Okay, one side is in power and doing nothing on purpose. You don't like that. I wonder why. I'm saying that the Democrats do have ideas about what they want to do. And the last time I checked, when you're not in power, one of the major things in politics is criticizing the status quo.

And I know that President Trump did almost that exclusively when he campaigned. He wasn't an idea factory, concepts of a plan on health care. He attacked that health care was bad. He said he'd do something. Well, I think the president of the United States matters. I think he matters. We're back to the Trump. I think he matters.

Look, I don't think it's rude to talk about the president. We're talking about policy and affordability. I didn't say it was rude. What both parties should do is have proposed legislation. This is what we would do. They don't. Okay? And if they did, I would know about it.

Have Rokana on your show. Rokana now. Chris, Rokana won't come on my show. He won't come on Bill's show. Come on, Chris. No, he will. He came on my show, to be honest with him. But Rokana is not, I mean, I don't mind having Congressman Kana on,

but I'd have to have a balance because row is somewhere out in the universe someplace I get it you don't like his politics but what I'm saying is you want to know what their plans are. Have them on. Have Hakeem Jeffries on. Have other Democrats on. They'll give

you lots of legislative proposals. Why are you guys all in a sudden? Give me one Roecona economic economic. Give me one Roe Cona economic solution. One. Well, I'm not here to stump for him but he would say break up the verticals and help.

care. I'm not here to make the case for O'Connor, but I can tell you, having interviewed him and doing what we call homework, he has a proposal to break up the verticals in health care, to help with affordability. Break up the furtability? You think anybody knows what that means? Break up the verit. I think you don't know what it means. You think anybody knows what that means? I think Leland knows what it means. I think you don't on purpose. Well, Leland's smarter than both of us. You want to pretend, you want to pretend. Even though I'm not deduiting myself. Well, Leland's a very smart guy. That's not the question. That's easy. Okay.

Yeah, what, Bill? I want the audience to know that actually Homo and I like each other. We had dinner a couple of weeks ago. You guys both live out in the Hantons where all the fancy people are. That's right. And I was very fancy that night. Where are you, Leland? You in the ghetto, Leland?

I passed on the Hap. I am in the humble confines of the mid-war. It's not the Hamptons, okay? And that's where you should be. That's where you should be. But I didn't even have an appetizer because of affordability. Okay, I just want to know that. But Cuomo and I, we see things differently.

The only thing I object, and I'm going to tell you man to man right now, do not categorize me falsely. Do not do that, all right? And you did it with this maga- Follow your own rules. Fell, two-minute warning. Two-minute warning. Follow my own rules.

If I miscategorize you falsely, if I miscategorize you falsely, I'd be happy to correct the record. How's that for fair? You're going to correct it. How's that? Then correct it. Then correct it.

I'm not a Democrat. I don't stump for Democrats. criticizing Trump doesn't mean you hate him. It means that you think the policies and choices and messaging are something worthy of criticism, which I do. It doesn't mean I hate him. And saying that is cheapening the criticism because you don't want to deal with the criticism, which is okay, but know that that's how it comes across.

And the only reason people think that we might have a problem with each other is because of how you behave, my friend. That's why. They don't say, oh, Chris, you're so tough. You're so mean to Bill. No one says that to me. Okay. No. It's my fault entirely.

I walk down the street and people go, you're mean. get angry. He's not a Democrat. He's not a Democrat. I don't know if he says. You'd probably yell at him and say, get off my long. You know how many people say that to me, Cuomo? I don't know how many people talk to you. Willingly. Many. Wow. I'm an icon. You didn't know that. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm an icon. He said. And he means it. People talk to me all the time. So anyway, but I want people that watch News Nation to know that this is spirited. debate. And the other channels don't have this anymore. Disappeared. Just tonight I was watching CNN.

It was hysterical. They bring on a guy from the Atlantic, you know, the Atlantic is a left-way newspaper. And the guy says, we lost in Iran. We lost. And Iran's going to dominate the region. It's going to be more powerful in the United States and Israel. And we lost. And the anchor person sits there and not a word, does she say. Just nods along. Look, I... Look, I... I worry about my own knitting, and I'll tell you what. I'm here for the debate.

The referees have not given extra time like they do in soccer. Yeah, this is what I will say. It's injury time. My feelings were hurt. I want injury time. You had enough time, and you had way, way more time than everybody else. Thou shall not miscategorize each other falsely. number one. But number two, and I think what is the best part about News Nation is we are willing to

have on. You guys go on each other's shows. Bill comes on with me that we are willing to have these kinds of debates that, as Bill rightly points out, don't exist anywhere else. It's why News Nation continues to go because of this conversation. Jens, I'm here for you. I want to leave everybody. I'm here. I want to leave everybody, Leland. Why do you shut up when he starts talking after the time? Why do you let him go over time? Because he knows. because he knows I have something to say. I have a higher power in my ear. Her name is Mary Kate, and we are out of time.

I thank you both. And I am here, as Chris would say, I am here for both of you. I am here for both of you, therapy sessions, referee services, as you all both need. Liz. Chris, Bill.

I'm not going into woods getting poison hyphen. And all I want Cuomo to know is one thing and one thing only. I'm always right. That's it. Okay. Well, I guess not much has changed in this segment. Gentlemen, thank you both very much. Here's my weekly appearance with WOR's Mark Simone. What's going to happen in the midterms? How's it look to you?

It's impossible because of Iran and affordability. So the Trump administration believes that if they can strangle Iran's across, economy, they'll fold soon, and then prices will drop dramatically in the USA and around the world, and that will help build momentum for the Republicans. And the Democratic Party, they're just going to continue slashing Trump and anybody associated with Trump, as we saw with the Natalie Harp situation. So if I had a bed right now, I'd say the Democrats are probably in a least, lead of about two to three points, but that could evaporate quickly.

Now, the problem is the economy is in great shape right now by all metrics that you would use. Inflation is not bad. It's not out of control. But the media, day and night, is convincing everybody that we're in a terrible economic crisis. How do you battle that? How do you fight that? Well, if I'm President Trump, I bring a chart wherever I go pointing out that, deep,

economy is strong, historically speaking. The problem you have is that you have a two-tiered situation in America. You have people who are successful and know how to handle their money, invest their money. They're thrifty. They pay attention. And then you have a whole bunch of people, maybe half the country, that just waste their money and doesn't really, they don't understand what economics are. So if they get a hit by $3, $4 gasoline, they're hurting.

And that's where the Democratic Party always goes to the underdog, economic underdog, always. And you're getting hosed and you're this and you're that. That's a powerful message. And the craziness of it is that there are Americans who believe the government can fix it. The government can't fix it. So when you hear affordability by the Democrats, you go, how? How? What are you going to do? And then you never get an answer.

You get, well, Trump's the devil. Okay. But we don't do wage price controls here. I would absolutely come down if I were president on the health insurance companies and auto insurance and all that. I'd make life real difficult for them because they're profiteering. American oil companies. They're profiteering on all this. Chaos in the world.

And I think that they can pull back a little and help them out. Yeah. So when you said the government can't fix it, they can't, but they'll just yell, tax the rich, tax the rich. And then the media will... Right. But it's such a cliche and it's so stupid. You just look at people, tax the rich.

The rich are tapped out. They're tapped out. Okay. You can't be... imposing 60-70% taxes on individuals and corporations. We're up in the mid-50s now, if you live in New York. We're in the mid-50s. They're taking more of your money that you have.

So are you going to continue this? I mean, this is what communism is. Socialism is. But the poor, that's not their concern. Their concern is living week by week. Yeah. These crazy socialists, these crazy out of control, unbelievable left-wing coups, did Donald Trump cause this? I mean, listen, we love him and he's effective, he gets things, but the over-the-top abrasive personality, did it drive the left so nuts that they think they've got to do this to counter him? Well, if you look back on Romney and McCain and Bush, or even Ronald Reagan, they were attacked by the Democratic Party. But it were a root. attacks. There wasn't this kind of vitriol, this kind of personal stuff. I believe, and I could be

wrong, I hope I'm wrong. There is a segment of the American population that like to see Donald Trump dead. That's how much they hate him. Yeah. So the level of hatred has risen from O'Romni, where it was fairly low. Obama just outclassed him to we really, we really hate Trump and we want the worst for not only him but anybody associated with him. There are a lot of people in that category and that gets to be pretty dangerous.

You know, but it was always that way for Trump long before he got into politics and you saw this. I mean, the business world, half the people hated him, they couldn't stomach him and the other half loved him but he's just used to that and he'll never do anything to adjust and is there anything he could do

to fix this? Well, he could modify a little bit his presentation. And he does. So on occasion, you see him pull back and have detain to whatever. And he didn't like this guy, but now he likes him. You've seen it. Yeah.

But it's all personal Donald Trump. So politics is personal. And if you attack him, if you're unfair to him and he perceives you as an enemy, then he's going to, you know, just like the school. is going to escalate it, the rhetoric, and there are occasions when he will actually go after people like Comey. And I support that because I think Comey deserves to be scrutinized in a court of law. I think what Comey did manipulating the elections is a crime. And why would you ignore that crime? That's a serious situation. Now, it could be wrong.

homie's entitled a due process. But boy, the evidence on the surface is absolutely there. Yeah. Hey, you're the great historian. These socialists, these democratic socialists, they're all tend to be wealthy guys. They've got six houses. They live like, is that normal for a socialist movement historically? Everywhere.

Really? Everywhere. You know, I can't trace down any communist socialist leader. that live with the folks. They're not living with the folks. They're living high on a hill, and they get everything they want. And it's always been that way.

And they justify it by saying, well, we need an elite government cadre to guide the people. People need to be guided. They're like sheep. And they believe this. So there's got to be these people who are the guide,

and they are entitled to special privileges, special wealth, see it in China. China is a very good example. The oligarchs in China live exceedingly well. And when I asked about it, they say, well, we need to have guidance. And these people guide, so they're entitled to their extra compensation.

And I'm trying to think on a totalitarian regime level if there were anybody, maybe Gandhi, but he wasn't a totalitarian. He was a nonviolent guy. But nobody. They just sop up the wealth. Look at Putin's the richest man in the world. Putin is the richest man in the world

because he takes a cut of all of the Russian economy. Everything you do, you've got to kick back a little bit to Putin. You imagine that? But that's what he's doing. So this socialism is a great system. If you're the leader, for them it is a great system. Right. If you're the top 2%, and you have the authority to do what you want,

it's a pretty good system for you because there's no elections. There's no balance on you. So you're not going to be demanded to show up in front of the Senate hearing. There's no Justice Department to investigate you. so you just cruise and take what you want and that's the attractiveness of communism at the higher level hey Bill O'Reilly I also love the podcast we'll do it live

some great episodes you should go watch go back and watch the other episodes you'll love them we'll do it live Bill O'Reilly's podcast YouTube or wherever you get it who do you have on this week we are taking a little hiatus I got to give my staff a break and me too So for two weeks, we'll be floating around.

And then we come back, I'm hoping Monica Crowley, Stephen A. Smith. All these people said they were going to do it. So we should have pretty good lineup beginning in the middle of September. It's fun. And the book, of course, comes out September 15th. And you're one of the few people who got an advanced copy of it. It's not boring, right? No, it's quite a book.

It is really a great book, Confronting America. And it's a very, it must have been the toughest book to write because it's a lot of your personal journeys in there. Yeah, it's eyewitness history. And what you read is what I saw. And with 90 countries under my belt and every state and the union, every major city in the USA, I've seen a lot in his business more than 50 years. And so I bring all that in and no anonymous sources, Simone. Yeah.

I name everybody, yeah. And some of those people aren't going to be happy. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us. Have a great vacation. Okay, as long goes, I'll see you in September. Thanks for having me on. Let's see you in September. Take care.

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