Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - July 12, 2026

Episode Date: July 12, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:57 I'm Bill O'Reilly. You're listening to Around the World. Let's begin. On the 3rd of July, Mayor Mann Donnie, a communist, and if you don't believe me, just trace his lineage, trace his father, trace it back. He's a full-blown communist. All right. He gives an address at George Washington's desk. Now, Washington was in New York City after he was elected to first president. Then they moved it to Philly, then they moved it to D.C., the capital.
Starting point is 00:01:40 But in New York City, he had an office, the city hall, and a desk. So Mamdani procured that desk and that office to give his speech. Remember, this is one day before the nation celebrated, most of us, the 200. 150th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. Okay? So Mamdani gets up there. And wait is, I mean, this is really outrageous. The powerful have always known their answer.
Starting point is 00:02:21 America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less, the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. So the mayor of New York City spits on his own country. Literally. A select few have been allowed freedom.
Starting point is 00:03:23 There's a select few. In an nation of 350 million people. And that includes about 20 million undocumented. But only a few of them get freedom. You don't have it. Watching me right now? Nah, you don't have it. I guess I have a little bit of it because I can blow V8.
Starting point is 00:03:45 But, ma'am, Dona, no, we don't have it. Unless you have the right accent. I don't know what that means. Boston accent, Philly accent? What? What? Or the right shade of skin. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:02 So if you have a bad accent and a darker skin color, they don't have me for you. This is how loopy this guy is. Okay? And then he says, the powers it be, and he goes way back to 250 to the convention in Philadelphia. He goes, you know, turned us against one another. Really?
Starting point is 00:04:29 Who's turning us against one another? Mayor? Who's really doing that? I believe that's you. I don't believe George Washington sitting behind that desk was turning anybody against one another. He simply led the overthrow of a heinous British king that was denying, really denying, colonists' rights, taking their money, taking everything you could take out of them. So, Memdani is a, as I said, a...
Starting point is 00:05:02 communist. And he despises the United States of America. Yet he is legitimately elected. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. I said a Democratic Party, put him on a ticket, and now he's running the big show in New York. And he's got, if he ran again tomorrow against the same crew, he'd win. The people who support Mamdani like him. And it's about jealousy. And I think there's an element of rage to it as well. Let me explain. So if you're living in the Bronx or Brooklyn or in a hobble, and you don't have anything. And some of that's your fault, some of it isn't, whatever it may be, each circumstance is different. And then you're seeing people on Park Avenue riding with their limo, spending $400 on a dinner while you are in the bodega. There's a lot of
Starting point is 00:06:23 jealousy attached to that. Not everybody. There used to be an ethic where if you were poor, you work your way up. I didn't have any money when I came out of college, but I did get to go to college, but I paid for it. No DEI for the Irish guy, I paid. But I knew I had to go. And then when I got out and I didn't have any money, I knew I needed money. So I worked damn hard. to get it. That's the pathway of capitalism. Now everybody's like that. Okay. They're going, hey, I'm black or I'm South Asian or I'm Mexican and I don't have a chance because my teacher told me that or my mom told me that or my friends told me that. So I'm going to sell drugs because that's the only way I can make money. Or I'm going to
Starting point is 00:07:23 going to do whatever it takes to accumulate the money. In addition, I want what the guy in Park Avenue is got. And I want Mandami to take it away from the guy on Park Avenue through regulations, which is well underway in New York, and give it to me with my family. I don't want to pay rent. I don't want to pay child care. I don't want to pay for a bus ride. Give me free.
Starting point is 00:08:02 That's victimization. That's the mentality. And that is catching on. And Mandani is the guy who's stoking it. He's the divider because he's saying, hey, you see these people over here? Even the Patriots, even Franklin and Jefferson and Hancock, they're terrible. They're awful.
Starting point is 00:08:27 Awful. We should have Karl Marx here. Because that's what Mandani's dad was putting out there, who was a college instructor. He's putting out there. Now, they were born in Uganda. That's where they were raised, where there's no hope with the, tribalism they have over there. But here is an abundance of hope, but Mandami and his crew are trying to obliterate it. Here's my news nation appearance with Leland Vitterk. Is this the time to be
Starting point is 00:09:07 strong with Bad Vlad or the time to offer him a way out? Well, I don't know that there is a way out for Putin at this point because he's done so many horrendous things that it's not going to let him walk away. And Putin's never going to surrender. He's like the Muller's in that regard. He'll take his own people down. He doesn't care about them, the Russian people. And as you pointed out, they're fighting amongst themselves now, the Russians. And the casualties are horrendous for what? It's never been really to find what this is all about on Putin's end. So I think Trump is basically going to stand on the sideline and watch Putin go down. I'll think he's going to get involved directly with that.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Iran's another story. So Mr. Trump has had enough, that enough. And he gave them more than enough time to be reasonable. We were generous to Iran in our trade deals with them and allowing them to recoup some of the money. And they attacked three ships. enough enough so you see this is a watershed moment i don't know about watershed i don't know what that means but i he's fed up and that dovetails right back into nato he's fed up he's fed up with nato but here it's a little bit different because he got what he wanted with painful
Starting point is 00:10:45 but NATO is now putting in a lot of money to their defense, and this hurts Putin, as you pointed out. So you don't see criticizing NATO as helping Putin? Yeah, I do, but not in a existential way. It helps him symbolically. But Trump is still mad at NATO for denying U.S. aircraft refueling privileges, and he can't get by. See, if it were me or I was a White House chief of staff, I'd say, Mr. President, take the win. Take the win. So NATO bent to your rules. They're putting in a lot more money than they were, and they're obviously not trying not to make you mad.
Starting point is 00:11:38 But then the president injects Greenland. Why? We have that sound bite one. and take a listen. That's what hurt my relationship with NATO, because Greenland doesn't help Denmark. It was Greenland, and it continues to be, that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia, and we don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. And all that does is make Vladimir Putin think, you know, I control.
Starting point is 00:12:14 try to provoke something with NATO, and it might give me a negotiating leg when it comes to Ukraine. It shows him a playbook, an opportunity to divide the thing that is putting him on the ropes. Then he's a fool. Because, again, it's not about NATO and Putin. It's about Putin and his own people. Okay. But I don't understand why Donald Trump had to bring up Greenland today. And I just, you know, take the win. Yeah? And then maybe next week do it. Okay?
Starting point is 00:12:51 Because if you look at the history of the United States and NATO, the Marshall Plan and all of that, because that ties right in, we're the ones that have been the benefactors. We voted the bill totally. The protectors. Yeah. And so he's right. He is right. is by saying, look, you lived off us for 50 years and you wouldn't let our planes land when you know how bad this terrorist state is? So I understand and sympathize with the president's
Starting point is 00:13:25 frustration, but it's a chess game and he didn't have to move his king. Okay, he didn't have to move it. Right. He got the big one. So next week, we'll go back to Greenland. They're never going to like him over there anyway. They can't wait until he gets out of office, they being the EU and NATO. Never going to like him. But if Putin thinks that Putin's going to derive benefit from NATO not liking Trump,
Starting point is 00:13:57 he's out of his blank and mind. You wrote a great, you wrote Confronting Evil. Putin was on the cover. We did a whole special on him. I thought your analysis of him was great. This is a former KGB guy. Russian military doctrine, the KGB, doctrine. What we've always seen from Vladimir Putin is escalate to deescalate. And you're telling
Starting point is 00:14:15 me that Vladimir Putin sees Donald Trump blasting NATO, dumping on NATO, criticizing NATO. He doesn't sit there and say, you know what, I can sort of nibble around the edges here and I will then have something to negotiate with when right now I don't. I don't see it at all. I don't think NATO or the United States is going to be. So Putin doesn't think Trump is a mark? I think Putin is basically hoping, and that's not a strategy. Okay. That some cataclysmic occurrence will save him. What is saving Vladimir Putin from death is that he pays his generals and the oligarchs
Starting point is 00:14:58 who run his industry billions of dollars. And if the money runs out, he pays them billions of dollars, okay? That's what's saving him. Not Trump. not any of the NATO country, none of that. Okay. As long as he can come up with the cash. You brought up cash, which, look, if the cash runs out for the generals and the oligarchs, they get rid of Putin.
Starting point is 00:15:23 A lot of Americans think cash is an issue right now. Cuomo pointed out 95% of Americans, 95% say affordability is an issue. Here's you on the no-spin news soundbite number three. My portfolio is doing great because Trump is his policies, appealed to. the big companies. But 40% of Americans don't participate in capitalism and a lot of them are yowling about high prices. Come on. You get 4% inflation here. Live in the real world. So you younger people, you got to get into the stock market. That doesn't sound exactly in touch with the folks I know, Bill. Kind of sounds like what Joe Biden used to say, what Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:16:07 now says is, hey, don't worry about affordability. Don't worry about price. prices and stock market's doing great. Eat cake. Look, just because the stock market is doing great doesn't mean don't worry about high insurance premiums. You can, you know, worry about them. But my point is, ever since I was working at Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a young reporter, I put away 10% of my money. Okay? If I had to suffer, I suffered. And I put away 10% And then I got a stockbroker. And he invested in very conservative companies and the standard poors and all of that. And now Trump is set that on a skyrocket.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Yeah. So if you were smart and you understood capitalism, which very few people do. Bill, I hear you. Money can make money. I agree with you. Okay. And for people who have invested in the market, it's done wildly well. 47% of Americans indicate they have, hold on. Hold on. We hear that every day. We talk about it. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:17:17 But 47% of Americans, less than half of Americans indicate they have sufficient liquidity or access to funds to cover a $1,000 emergency expense. Flip that around. That means 53% of Americans can't cover a $1,000 emergency expense. What money are they supposed to invest in the stock market, Bill? Well, number one, whose fault is that? Whose fault is it? They don't have a grand if something goes wrong. Who? So it's their fault for having a hard time? Are they under-employed? Get it? It's not matter how. I'm having a hard time.
Starting point is 00:17:49 It's a matter of options. We live in a country where it's a tremendous amount of options. And if you're not doing well, you can do other things. I mean, we- Bill, I remember Jimmy Carter was the one and told everybody to turn the temperature down. That didn't work. You don't win by telling the American people, hey, do, do, with less and be happy about it.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Well, I'm not a politician, so I don't care about that. What I care about is... I don't want you a lot of friends. It's fiction. That, you know, I'll live with it. The fiction that there's a society that is unfair to people who don't have $1,000. That's not true. That you can make the money, but you have to sacrifice for it.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Go to community college, go to night school, drive an Uber, do whatever you have to do to build up your resources. We don't hear that. All we hear is the oligarchs of all the money and you can't make it. Bull! I was going to say a bad word. It's bull. If you're smart and disciplined, you can participate in the capitalistic system. If you're stupid and lazy, you can't.
Starting point is 00:19:06 There you go. Okay. If you're stupid and lazy, look, I, it's, I guess your segment, but I'm just thinking to myself in terms of, in terms of how you win the hearts and minds of the American people, telling them that they're stupid and lazy if they don't have enough money, boy, I've never heard that as a winning strategy. But I'm not, I'm not running for office. Okay. If I were running for office, okay, then I would phrase it differently. but I'm on News Nation, and my job is to tell you the truth. That's my job. So the truth is that if you're hurting right now, it's because you're lazy. Not 100%, but there are a lot of younger Americans who are absolutely clueless about how to make money, how to keep money, and about the capitalistic system.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Every poll shows. Yeah, that's why they don't understand what capitalism is. Well, that's why they like socialism. It's a participation trophy. Yeah, no, that's a point. It's a point about younger Americans for sure. Bill, always fun. It's good to see you.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Never boring. Here's my weekly appearance with W.O.R.'s Mark Simone. Bill O'Reilly, congratulations. I love the new book. Thank you for reading. And, you know, I sent it to five people. This is absolutely true. And I said, who knows me the best?
Starting point is 00:20:39 because it's a little bit different confronting America what has to change. It's a little bit different than killing the witches or confronting evil because it's based on my face-to-face encounters through my career. I said, who knows me who could give me an honest assessment of this? So, Simone, your name popped up,
Starting point is 00:21:00 and then you got the first of five copies that went out. Tell us, who are the other four? Can you reveal it? No, I can't really reveal it, because they'd have to leave the country. They'd be deported. It's quite a riveting book, because it's more, it really, and it takes it through your journey through war zones,
Starting point is 00:21:19 through everywhere, through Harvard, it's a fascinating look at the news business and all of that. That must have taken longer than your usual books. It's a question. Yeah, it was a killer for me because I couldn't use researcher on it. It was all, as you point out, a personal journey. but I don't think that I was unfair to anyone. I had to keep that in mind because we're talking about Dan Rather,
Starting point is 00:21:48 we're talking about Mike Wallace, we're talking about the biggest names in the media and in show business, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, and the encounters that I had with them, some good, some bad. And so I think that people, when they read it, will get a good perspective of where this country is, as far as how it's changed and it has. You know, over the board July, I was cruising around just,
Starting point is 00:22:18 and I was happy with the response of the American people, most of whom were very respectful to our nation and our founders. But there were some who weren't. I mean, this Newport, California thing where the Antifa all got together to loot the town. I mean, you know, that's the kind of thing that's going to have to be confronted. But what struck me locally was Mam Donnie. He really hates America. I mean, he really does.
Starting point is 00:22:49 And, you know, you got the guy with the smile and he's up there, he's jumping into fountains or whatever he's doing. But he really despises this country. And when you listen to what he said, I'm going to use it on the news tonight. When you really listen, it is so close. to Mao's tongue and what Mal believed, it's frightening. And I know that Mamdani studied Mao and Stalin and all of these people, and along with his godfather, Bernie Sanders. I mean, these people are out for vengeance, Simone.
Starting point is 00:23:32 And I don't think they're going to win, but boy, they're going to try. and to be elected mayor of the nation's largest city is a frightening occurrence when you really understand the guy's psychology yeah i heard him a couple times used the word decommodify housing decommodify that's an actual carl mark's word yes he is very steeped in that and it's because of his father so if you trace them back as we have because i always want to know why people do what they do it's not enough for me to know what they do. I want to know why they do it. And if you look back at his father as an academic,
Starting point is 00:24:17 his father is the same way. Now, why you would stay here in this country when Mimdani was born in Kenya, if it's so bad, you can go a lot of places you go back to Nairobi. Okay? But no, they have to come here and try to underpin our entire system because there are poor people. And there will always be poor people, always.
Starting point is 00:24:54 If you read the Bible, the poor will always be with us for one reason or another. But what Mandani and his father are selling is it's the regular folks, the country, the cops, the teachers, all the people I grew up in Levittown. We're the problem. We're the problem because we're not compassionate enough or we don't give enough to the folks who don't make it. And that's communism. Yeah. Now, nobody has more poor people.
Starting point is 00:25:29 In fact, everybody's poor in Uganda. It's the worst place in the world. That's where he's from. Why doesn't he ever complain about Uganda? Have you ever heard him say a bad word about that? I think he has to... No, thanks for correcting me. I thought it was Kenya.
Starting point is 00:25:40 No, you're gone. They're adjacent countries, but they're the same. The poverty, tribalism, on and on and on and on. I just don't get... Look, I understand power, and part of confronting America is the absolute corruption that occurs when a human being gets power and uses it in a way that harms. arms other people. Nancy Pelosi is a great example of that.
Starting point is 00:26:11 Tremendous. Now, you can make an argument that Trump might be in that category, but Trump has always had power since he's eight years old. Okay. So there's something new to him. But once Pelosi and Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders is the worst, okay, once they tasted that power, ain't no stopping him now. Yeah. You're America's best-selling historian. Is this happened in the past in America's history where there was a rise in communism on the left? Is this something? Yeah, it happened in the Great Depression in the late 1920s, early 1930s, when people just didn't have enough to eat.
Starting point is 00:26:59 And so they were lined up to get food and the Hoovervilles. and they couldn't rent an apartment. They couldn't do anything. So there was a rising socialism, communism movement there, led by a man named Eugene Debs, B.S. And it didn't go anywhere because Roosevelt, President Roosevelt saw it coming and then instituted all the entitlement programs.
Starting point is 00:27:31 So all of the... Social Security and the safety nets came in under Roosevelt because Roosevelt said, uh-oh, you know, Hoover screwed it up so bad, and we have so many people walking around and they can't make a living and they can't even feed their families. We have to do it. And that's what happened. That's what aborted that original communist movement. But now it's back.
Starting point is 00:27:58 And it's back because of high tech, see, all these gazillionaires, they made their money. inventing things. And it's just beginning because AI is going to have another set of billionaires off that. And the regular folks aren't going to be inventing what Elon Musk
Starting point is 00:28:18 is inventing. But that's capitalism. If you have a talent, if you have something, an ability that you can market a product that 350 people want, you're going to be a billionaire. But under communism, you could have that
Starting point is 00:28:34 same talent and the government will take away all of the profits that you make. They'll just take it. So you decide what kind of system you want to live under. Yeah. Before we run out of time, Graham Platner, he's finished, right? We're not going to see him again, are we? No, he's done. And should be.
Starting point is 00:28:58 And I don't know about this case. I'm looking at it. I'm having my staff look at it now. because remember, this is a plague upon the land now. The accusation is conviction on no due process, and that's another communist tenant. So if Xi and China says you're guilty, you're guilty. There's no deal process.
Starting point is 00:29:22 That's it. You're guilty. If you didn't like you, you're going. Now, Platner is such a bad guy, such a horrendous individual, that I'm not even cutting him any slack, all right, for due process. I'm not. Yeah. But I'd like to know a little bit more about the incident that's going to ruin him, because it will.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Well, we're just glad to be rid of him. Hey, we're at, but just about our time. I love the new book. Bill O'Reilly's new book is Confronting America. Can people pre-order it now? Yeah, you go to Bill O'Reilly.com, and you can pre-order it. It'll be out September 15th. and, you know, it's coming up fast.
Starting point is 00:30:02 And I think people will enjoy it, at least give you a conversational structure about what I've seen. And all of this that I put in the book is absolutely 100% rock solid true. I didn't have to analyze. I didn't have to investigate. I didn't have to do any of that because I was standing there as the guy pointed the M-16 at my head. Yeah. I mean, I don't need any research on that. If you pull a trigger, I'm dead.
Starting point is 00:30:36 And I said to the guy, I said, period, this is not a spare. Journalists don't shoot. A kid was maybe 17, maybe. And this was in the Argentine rebellion against the Falkland defeat. So I'm proud of the book. It's a good way. I don't know if I'm going to do any more books or not, but if I don't, it's a good way to go out.
Starting point is 00:30:59 You got plenty of books. But this is quite a book. You should get it. There's a lot of riveting stuff in there. It's confronting America, Bill O'Reilly's latest book. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me, Mark. Really appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:31:11 All right. Take care. Chris Cuomo and I duke it out on News Nation. I want to bring Bill O'Reilly in and see how he sees this economy playing out in the midterms. Do you think that this is going to be the main motivational issue come November? Yes, I think it will be. although the communism thing is rapidly obscuring the day-to-day spending habits of Americans. So the communist thing is very detrimental to the Democratic Party.
Starting point is 00:31:50 But what is the communist thing is this? Hello, are you on the planet Earth, ma'am Don. Yeah, but I mean just because Trump calls people who want change communists doesn't mean that it's resonating. Okay. If you study the man, he's a communist, so is his father. All right, he wants to control the means of production in New York City. He's going to use regulations to get landlords out of business. He's going to try to control the food flow into the city.
Starting point is 00:32:17 So you can sit there and say, I don't believe it. People believe what they want to believe. Man's a hardcore communist. And so are the two others who were elected. Listen, my brother ran against him and lost twice. The policies he's put in place are barely social. you know, let alone not communistic. And here's what I don't get about the communist thing. One, there is no such thing as a communist country, okay? There is none that is technically
Starting point is 00:32:44 communists. You got North Korea, you got Russia, you got China. And the weird thing about those places, the only semblance of affinity I've ever seen is that Trump respects all three leaders. Trump thinks that Kim is a strong leader, Putin's a strong leader, and she is a strong leader. He's the only guy who said anything positive about communism. That goes day by day because he wants to get a deal with those people. Cuba is probably the best example of a communist country where you cannot do anything without permission of the government. So look, we're not going to solve this.
Starting point is 00:33:17 I believe that Mandani is a communist. You don't freeze rents across the board unless you want to control where people live. You just don't. Now, the affordability thing. So Trump's point of view is this, okay, it's tight times for many Americans, but there's only so much the federal government can do about that. And I brought this up with Vittert last night. If you have $1,000, and that's all you have, okay, for a medical emergency or your kids in trouble or whatever it may be, if you have a grant and you've been to be. work in what, 10, 15 years someplace. Whose fault is that? That's your fault, okay? Because there is a way
Starting point is 00:34:07 to accumulate assets in this country that's called capitalism. All right, you accumulate them. And then I give the example, and I think you would buy into this because your neighborhood was fairly close to my neighborhood in New York. Since I'm 10 years old, I worked. And my father, and one of the pieces of advice he gave me, probably the only one I ever took, was every time you get a paycheck, you save 10% of it. And then you buy into the capitalistic system by stocks and bonds. And I have done that, and the stock market, as everybody knows, has enriched a lot of people. Now, 58% of Americans have stocked. The rest don't.
Starting point is 00:34:49 But again, whose fault is that? So I'm not sure the affordability crisis is the right way to frame this. But I will see to you that it is an emotional issue, that it's real, people are suffering, and that's not going to help the Republican Party. It will not. But if you want to build assets in this country, you can build them. But if you sit on your butt doing nothing. you can't.
Starting point is 00:35:21 I think, look, Bill, I think that's where the road diverges, okay? There's no question that America at its best is a land of opportunity, and if you bust your ass, you can live your own personal dream. However, it has gotten way too hard. Underemployment is the least talked about most powerful thing in our economy. More people are working harder than they ever have. I'll tell you what it means. And look, that's part of the problem.
Starting point is 00:35:51 I don't know what that is. What's underemployment? Here's underemployment. Underemployment is, unemployment is, who has a job? Underemployment is, how good is the job? And more and more Americans are working more hours for less, working multiple jobs, and they are not getting the wage growth to keep up with prices, so they can't save them. Why don't they do something about it?
Starting point is 00:36:18 So community college is free across the board. They don't have time to go to community college. They don't have time, okay? They're working multiple jobs. When you and I grew up in Queens, Bill, one middle class income was enough for a whole family and a pace for homeownership. Now you've got both parents working and it's sometimes one of the kids. It's a different time now, okay? So community college is free across the board.
Starting point is 00:36:46 So if you're not making any money in your job, okay, maybe you want to figure out a better job. Get more skills. Just driving an Uber in New York City, you can pile up some serious cash. Just driving an automobile, okay? So I don't know what this under-employment is. I worked at jobs where I wasn't fairly paid, okay? And I got another job because I knew I was getting hosed. Now, one caveat to this, insurance companies, health care companies, airline companies, oil companies, all gouging the American people right now.
Starting point is 00:37:28 They are using capitalism. Look, the airline industry, their jet fuel costs have dropped significantly, but not their ticket prices. They spend billions of dollars telling you to buy state farm paying these people exorbitant amounts of money. And then you, a good client, okay, no accidents, no fires in the house, get a premium renewal that's up 30% with no explanation. Now you're getting it. This is, well, I've always gotten it, Pomo, but I'm not a black and white kind of guy. If I'm in a circumstance where I'm under-employed, then I get more credentials to make more money. And you can do that here.
Starting point is 00:38:17 Mandami ain't going to save you. He'll make your life worse. I think that if the Republican Party argues in the midterms that the reason times are tough is because you're not doing enough to help yourself, they're going to have an epic defeat because people are working harder than ever. and the system has made it harder than it ever has been before. And it's about the choices. You just name some of the good fixes. Hold.
Starting point is 00:38:46 There's some fixes to be at here. History proves you wrong. The Great Depression was far in a way, okay? The most onerous economic thing that's ever happened. You can't make that comparison at all. But if the Republicans go out and say, hey, Clyde, the reason you don't have any money is because you're not smart enough to figure out the system and make more, you're right.
Starting point is 00:39:12 Clyde ain't going to vote for you. But that is the truth. I don't care about the political parties. And let me tell you something about the idea. I don't care who they are. Let me tell you about the Great Depression. Let me tell you what the big difference was. How did we get out of the Great Depression?
Starting point is 00:39:30 Federal Government Action. World War II. No. Federal government action. It was a war that got us out. It was a war that got a catalyst to the economy after the war. And let me tell you, if you study Truman, as I have. No after the war.
Starting point is 00:39:44 No after the war. It was during the buildup to World War II that the economy turned around in this country. Fact. Well, that is true because that was the New Deal. The New Deal absolutely helped people get out from under it. I know my family was among them. That wasn't the New Deal. The New Deal from FDR helped people get out of the Great Depression's, Bill.
Starting point is 00:40:09 That's what it is, not an opinion. I'm coming to your house and tutoring you on history because you badly need it. The New Deal was a safety net process. It wasn't under employment. It wasn't giving people free stuff. It was a safety net. Well, Bill O'Reilly, thank you for giving me your take. Please join me in Sid Rosenberg on W.
Starting point is 00:40:36 ABC Radio. The guy that just won the primary in Maine, you know, he kept going on and on about what he won yes. I said, well, he won nothing. He won the primary, yes, but he made it sound like he already beat Susan Collins. He was losing. He was losing to Susan Collins. And by the way,
Starting point is 00:40:55 that's why the Democrats turned on him. It had nothing to do with rape. They did the same thing with Eric Swalwell. It wasn't until he could have cost them the gubernatorial. They decided to turn against them. These Democrats have proven time and time again. They don't care about women. Sonny Hostin is on the view yesterday saying, I still vote for this guy. Nothing to do it right.
Starting point is 00:41:14 When it became clear, he probably was not going to beat Susan Collins. All of a sudden, the Democrats went berserk, and they kicked him out. Not us. How was he talking about? I don't know what he's talking about. I never listened to him one iota. The guy plies oysters out of the bay. I mean, I'm sorry. This isn't John Adams. Okay? And then he's got a Nazi tattoo. Now, if you have a Nazi tattoo for 16 years, you're a psycho. Yes. Let me make it real clear. Okay? You're not disturbed. You're not misled. You are a psycho. Yes.
Starting point is 00:41:54 So everybody knows that. But what is interesting about the Democratic Party now is they're desperate. So they'll probably lose the Senate seat in Maine, which they thought they had. All right. And Maine has changed so much. I don't know why. I'm going to have to go up there and figure it out. Nice state. But they're loons now. A crazy out there. Yeah. Was not qualified. No. He was not going to do anybody any good at all. And so why are you nominating and voting for him? And then you get silence. But the media is another thing. So the media, they don't know what to do either. They're back in the Democrats, of course. But they don't know how to contextualize any of this.
Starting point is 00:42:45 So what you get is, well, Trump's a racist, a rapist. That's what you get. That's their primary sign-on, sign-off, CNN, MS, all the others. Which, by the way, I want to remind people, is not true. My dear friend Joseph Takapina represented Trump in that E.G. Carroll. And it cost George Seponopoulous, million dollars when that moron called him a rapist. He's not a rapist. Right. And anybody stepping back and looking at the case knows who's a civil suit. It was politically motivated.
Starting point is 00:43:22 I mean, when the attorney general of the state says, hey, if you vote for me, I'm going to get this guy. All right? Do you need any more than that? So anyway, but as you know, the mantra is, oh, you can't criticize the guy in Maine because the president is a rapist. Yeah, right. Sure he is. Now, the president's a lot of things. I know. I see. The president is a lot of things. He ain't a rapist. He, for the most part, is a great guy and a great president. But I've been doing this a lot the last couple of weeks. Iran, he's confused the hell out of me. Turkey, he's confused the hell out of me. The way he treats Mom Donnie, he's confusing the hell out of me. I'm I know I'm supposed to buy trust the man, trust the plan, which I've done for the most part of 10 years.
Starting point is 00:44:13 And I still do. At the end of the day, let me make it very, very clear. I love him. I think he's the best president. I don't want anybody else in that seat. But at the very least, Bill O'Reilly, at the very least, he's got me asking a lot of questions lately, a lot. Well, I don't trust any politicians, number one. but I have a unique access to President Trump
Starting point is 00:44:37 who's never lied to me ever in 35 years. So I ask him a question, I get an answer. And that's the value that I bring to journalism because I can tell the nation. Here's why he's doing what he's doing. Here's why. Now you take it a leap. So in this case with Iran,
Starting point is 00:45:00 the miscalculation was, we will be able to kill their leadership, which happened, and then the Persians will rise up and they will have a civilized nation. Did not happen. What can't happen? They're not on. These people are murdered in the streets,
Starting point is 00:45:16 and it did not happen. If you read Confronting Evil. I dealt with the Shah's overthrow. And that's when the Muller's came in. Right. You can do a general strike. It's different now, though. Nobody works.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Nobody comes out of the house. You can do a lot of things without arms. Yeah. Okay, but there didn't seem to me the drive for freedom inside Iran. Some people paid their ultimate price. They were murdered. And that was the message, the most you get out of the line. We find out we're going to kill you.
Starting point is 00:45:53 And that's a pretty big inhibitor. Okay. But it was part of the war scenario. It did not work. work. So then the president says, okay, we pivot. And the pivot is we're going to try to make a deal. And Trump is very confident, as you know, in his deal-making abilities. And the deal is we'll give you enough money to start to develop your private industry and feed your people if you just knock it off in Hormuz and let the weapons inspectors go in once a month and monitor what you're doing.
Starting point is 00:46:30 okay and the Iranians won't take the deal they won't do it so now there's only one scenario left only one you have to downgrade the nation so it cannot function and that's what is underway that that has been
Starting point is 00:46:50 and I'm not a genius okay but I've been very adamant about this for three months that has been the only option for three months okay again midnight hammer tremendous. We basically wiped out their ability to make that dust with those centrifuges into nuclear war. Okay, so Midnight Hammer, amazing. Even day one, that Saturday morning Operation Epic Fury, very good. We have spent the last couple of months stuck, no matter what President Trump says,
Starting point is 00:47:17 we're not winning anything. And that has been our only option, Bill O'Reilly, because I've only said it a hundred times for the last three months. That's it. Well, now, because the Iranians fired on the three ships, so Trump has gone to hyper plan B. We are going to downgrade the nation. We're going to blow up their infrastructure. And you see the pictures you say. But what's interesting about a couple of things. Number one, Europe is a little cowed now. So you saw that in Turkey. Trump has the press confidence by himself. Most of the leaders in Europe making nice to him, you know, Spain suddenly says, oh, yeah, we'll pay our dues now. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:02 So they realize that Trump's got two and a half more years in office. They're cozying up to him. They're not opposing what he's doing in Iran. There's very little NATO opposition to that. But here in America, you got a lot of it. And that's the Democratic Party that senses the affordability issue. issue is going to override knocking out the most dangerous people on the planet. And I say that because they are aggressively, aggressively trying to get a nuclear weapon.
Starting point is 00:48:41 And there's no other reason than to cause destruction. There's no other reason. But they admit it. They flat out set it. Absolutely. And, you know, when I was on Cuomo a couple of weeks ago, he wouldn't admit. oh, they don't have the nukes. And then the mullochem's going to go, yeah, we have them.
Starting point is 00:48:59 We need them because Israel's going to attack us or whatever. You know, it's the same old thing. But the Democratic Party is never going to cede anything to Trump, anything, ever, okay? Whether it's Maine, whether anything. And now they're affordability, affordability, affordability, okay? They believe that's going to override any other issue, because people, are having trouble paying their bill. Right, but the Republicans are smart.
Starting point is 00:49:30 They could make that backbuyer on the Democrats and say, hey, yeah, we're with you. Affordability, you're right. Oh, by the way, who caused the affordability crisis? Oh, you guys. Oh, that's right. Remember when Joe Biden was president, inflation was 12%. Interest rates were going up,
Starting point is 00:49:47 a half a point every couple of weeks. Eggs were $10. You guys caused it. We're with you. It's all about affordability. You guys put us here. How about that? Yeah, but Americans don't respond to history like that or analysis like that.
Starting point is 00:50:03 They go, how much do I have to spend when I'm going into the grocery store? That's true. You're right. You're right. Okay, so you're not looking at, you know, a PhD political science class here. You're looking at pure emotion. Yeah. So I shook everybody up in social media and the news nation last night when I said,
Starting point is 00:50:24 Affordability is an interesting word. Whose fault is it that you, the American citizen, don't have $1,000 in the bank to pay for a catastrophe? Whose fault is that? And there's silence. I said, do you want the government to assure your income? Is that what you're asking? Because that's what the communists want. You're not going to get much, but they'll assure it.
Starting point is 00:50:58 I said, you know, I've been working since I'm 10 years old. Since I'm bleeding 10 years old, shoveling stog, and said that, my father, one of the few times I ever listened to him was he goes, every dime you have in your pocket, you save 10% of that. You put it in a bank, and then when you get older, you're going to invest it, which I did. And it sometimes was painful because I was, I was making a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:51:27 But then I would work another job. I was a bouncer at the rec bar, okay, while I was teaching high school. And I knew I wasn't making enough money. I knew that. So I looked for ways to make more money. And that's the beauty of America, is there are plenty of ways. There's free community colleges. There are free tech centers that will train you.
Starting point is 00:51:55 What do you have to do? And so I'm putting the onus of the affordability problem on the individual American. If you're not smart enough to figure out you have no money, then we understand why you have no money. All right? I mean, I worked at Carvel. And today, you can make a pile of dough driving an Uber. Yep. is overwhelming you, and about, I would say that's about 25, maybe 30 percent of America.
Starting point is 00:52:33 And they say they're worried, but overwhelming. That's where you are. Make more money. Yeah. Yeah, but then what you're asking Americans to do, and we're bad at this, is be accountable for your own lack of success. It's so much easier to blame the white man or the Jews or Trump. Oh, that's legitimization, of course.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Yeah, of course. It's not our fault, you know, that I'm a black guy. and, you know, the whites are keeping me down, and Trump hates me, I'm a gay guy, and I mean, it's, it's tiring. I do want to ask you this on the way out. This has been brilliant, as always. Somebody was telling me this week, you know, Sid, you spend a lot of time talking about communism and Mamdani and the DSA, and you do realize that that makes up a very, very small percentage of the Democrat party, that most Democrats, the overwhelming amount of Democrats are not crazy like that. They may not be moderate, but they're not crazy like that. I say, wait a second, I don't care what the number is.
Starting point is 00:53:28 They're taken over. And they have plans if you just heard Laura Lumer. She's a thousand percent right. Call it crazy as much as you want. She's a thousand percent right. So I don't care about the numbers necessarily right now, Bill, because to me, they are the future. What about you? All of the dictatorial regimes in the last hundred years did not have popular support.
Starting point is 00:53:52 So that's, again, in confronting evil. So the Nazis topped out at about 42%. That's why Hitler dissolved the entire government and made every political party inside Germany illegal except for national socialism. Because he knew he wasn't going to get the mandate of the people. Mao just killed you. Are you comments? No. Kill them. Staling did the same thing.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Fidel basically put you in a gulag. All right? So there has never been a popular wave of communism or even socialism. Never. But the history, the lack of understanding. And you don't need the folks anymore when you have George Soros, who's already pumped more than $100 million into the midterms already. And this guy's singing in Shanghai working with the Beijing government pumping even more money into our system and a compliant media that enables this.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Just last night, Cuomo goes, oh, Mandam is not a communist. What? I went, hello. What? He's trying to control the methods of production. Everything. In New York City. Everything.
Starting point is 00:55:23 What did he call him? That's what he wants to do. What is he calling me? What is? What are he calling, Chris? I'm looking at him. And Corlom believes in his heart that Mandami is not a communist.
Starting point is 00:55:35 He's a moron. Why? Yeah, he's a moron. Because he wants to believe that. He's a moron, that's a moron. That's why. Well, I would never do that. I don't think Chris Cornel is a moron.
Starting point is 00:55:44 I think he's a moron. He doesn't want to believe that Mandani is a communist, even though Mandami, every move the man has made since the election, has been to control the means of production in New York City, whether it be rent, whether it be food, whether it be transportation, whether it be you can't have a pet a tear, you've got to pay this, you got every blanket move.
Starting point is 00:56:12 We, City Hall, want to control the means of production. And that's communism. 100%. There's nothing to argue. I'm sorry, you know, you can't deny it because you don't want to believe it. You're a journalist. You're on TV. Well, you're a mon. You're on TV. All right? You've got a responsibility to be smarter than that. And you just laid out.
Starting point is 00:56:37 Newsom and Pritzker and all of these governors, Hokel you can throw about. Huckle doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't know where she is half the time. Okay, but you can put them in, they don't care. True. They want to win. True. And if they have to peddle affordability, what are you going to do in Illinois?
Starting point is 00:57:02 Are you giving everybody a check so they can go into the grocery store and get what they want? Is that what you're doing? You have no money. Nope. Ay, aye, aye, aye. What a mess. Bill O'Rolly, this was a spectacular conversation, as always. Excellent job, Bill. Thank you.
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