Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - March 1, 2026

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

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Bill O'Reilly here. Let's get started. As you know, members of the men's U.S. Olympic gold medal winning hockey team attended the State of the Union address by invitation from President Trump. And that's a good thing. It's not about President Trump. It's about the Office of the Presidency. So if you're invited, you go. Now, Barack Obama invited me a number of times. I always went. Okay. Bush the younger invited me, I went. Joe Biden never invited me. And it's his loss. And Donald Trump, of course, I have a personal relationship, so I've been there many times. Now, the men's team was unabashedly, good word, patriotic. And I think conducted themselves as well as any athletic team I've ever seen. The women's gold medal winning Olympic hockey team will be different. So there was a joke made by President Trump after the Americans defeated the Canadians in the men's locker room. He said, hey, you guys come up to the state of the union and I have to invite the women's

team or I'll be impeached. It was a joke. No malicious intent. Ridiculous. Okay? Oh, you know, enough, enough. But the women's hockey team then issued a statement and said, we're not coming to the state of the union. But it wasn't a rude statement. It said, we are honored to get the invitation. We're sorry we can't come. But here's what's going on. They could go. At least most of the women could. They don't have any events.

I tracked it. They flew into Atlanta last night. They're all here. There's no event for the U.S. women's hockey team, and they don't start the professional league again until Thursday. There's no reason they can't go to D.C., just like some of the men. It should be an individual decision. The men shouldn't be forced to go if they don't want to go,

and neither should the women. but you don't issue a statement, go like, we are not going and then give some bogus reason why. It's dishonest. Absolutely dishonest. If some of the ladies wanted to go to the State of the Union, you should be able to go. And I hope, you know, that we find down the road that some did. I don't know of any now. Okay, how did this all happen?

Well, the U.S. hockey team is, for the women, run by two directors, a woman named Katie Million, and a woman named Reagan Carey. They run the team. The coach of the team, John Robleski, he doesn't have any power. He's just an ice man. He just coaches what happens on the ice. So these two women run the team. And I would assume they put out the press release saying women weren't going to show up. Okay, I assume that because there's nobody else involved. So it's their decision. Now, we trace both of them. We can't find any political stuff that neither of them did. Okay? They seem to be in their athletic bubble.

They don't seem to be political people. But the culture of women's sports going all the way back to 2019 World Cup is left wing. You'll remember that. Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan, bad mouth, bad mouth, bad mouth, bad mouth. The United States is this, the United States is that, all of that. Okay. I don't think that culture has changed. I could be wrong, but this situation with the women's hockey team is not honest.

They're not telling you what's going on behind the scenes. I don't believe every single woman on a team doesn't want to go to the White House. I don't believe it. Okay? So the decision was made for them. Now, I'm going to throw in a poll here to show you the difference between men and women in this country. This is a economist poll on job approval, Donald Trump, female approval, I'll approve 34, disapprove 62.

Men approve 44, disapprove 53. So it's a big gap. And in the last election, men carried Donald Trump to victory. Women voted against him. More women voted for Kamala. Now, as far as the men's hockey team is concerned, And they continue to embrace the nobility of their country. Roll it tape.

Are you guys excited to be going to the White House and meeting Trump? Yeah, we're excited. I mean, anytime, like, everything is so political. We're just, we're athletes. We're so proud to represent the U.S. And we could not find any soundbites from any of the women. Pro or con. Zero.

That is very, very strange. So I think I know what's happening here. I mean, there's a possibility I could be wrong, but I doubt it. The culture is we don't like Trump on the women's side. It's not like the men love Trump. I think it's probably equally divided about him. But they certainly love their country, and they understand that you honor your country when you're invited to the White House by going.

That makes sense of you? Now, there is this blend between politics and sports, and it's becoming a little disturbing, I think. So you remember the Golden State Warriors, which is by far the most liberal sports organization in the country, they wouldn't go to the White House after winning championship in 2017-18. So they're led by a radical leftist named Steve Kerr, he's the coach.

And they didn't go. The South Carolina Gamecock Women's Basketball team wouldn't go to the White House 2017. Philadelphia Eagles had a controversy after they won a Super Bowl. 2018, Trump rescinded the invitation to the Eagles because the Eagles were bad mouth of them. Toronto Raptors basketball, 19 didn't go. University of Virginia didn't go. Women's national soccer team, as we mentioned 2019, I don't even know why they would be invited. In fact, if I were president and I would have looked into deporting some of them. That's a joke.

Okay. So on the other side, under Biden, one, University of Iowa, women's basketball team decided not to visit President Biden. I don't know really why Caitlin Clark was involved with this, but they didn't want to go. So there you have it. The Olympics were a tremendous success for the USA. We are proud of our athletes. Whatever they believe, but this women's hockey team, you're not being straight up. So I guess I got to talk about the state of the union because it has a big effect on our lives. So President Trump, who is in a bit of trouble in the polling because of high prices in America, basically turned things around at least temporarily. And he did that by being pretty clever. He set a number of traps for his Democratic

opposition. Now, as in every state of the union address, the president gets to pick and choose who he wants to spotlight. And Mr. Trump brought in the U.S. hockey team. A couple of veterans got the Congressional Medal of Honor. He brought in some victims of crime. And it was effective. It was good television, as they say. But the big thing was the bomb he dropped.

on his opposition, the Democratic Party, the Congress people sitting in the chamber. So he said it up this way. What about America first in protecting U.S. citizens? Shouldn't that come before foreign nationals? Here's the SOT. One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives us Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal areas.

So Democrats did not stand up. And Trump scolded them. Okay. So if you're partisan on the Democratic side, that doesn't bother you, all right, because you are sympathetic to what the Democrats are rolling out, compassion for illegal migrants. The other side is the same way. Law and order, they shouldn't be here. This is the Republican side. But it's that great voter turnout in the middle of non-ideological people.

And so when President Trump and his speechwriters set that trap, if I had been the Democratic leader, which is Chuck Schumer in the Senate, I would have been anticipating something like that. So that I would have said to my membership, stand up. Right? Because our first duty is to protect American citizens by the Constitution. So stand up. Take the issue away. But that didn't happen. Because the Democrats, number one, don't have any effective leadership in Congress. And number two, they are fervently in the camp that Trump is an oppressor, that he is illegally treating foreign nationals in an unconstitutional way. But you don't have to repudiate that stance

by standing up and saying, yeah, Americans have to come first in the protection list. You don't. Anyway, when I say the Democrats don't have any leadership, I mean that literally there's no leader to the party. And the shots are being called by far-left financiers, people who fund campaigns. So it used to be Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House pretty much control the Senate, the House of Representatives, by saying either you follow the Democratic line or you don't get any money.

We're not going to give you any campaign money. And Pelosi was ferocious. She was a leader of the Democratic line. Party, but no longer. Hakeem Jeffrey is not nearly as strong as Pelosi is now in charge. So the Trump people knew that they, A, could cloak themselves in the flag, which they did, and patriotism is a very strong emotional lure for voters. And they could set a trap for their opposition as far as putting Americans first. So it was a very clear. well thought out, trap, and it worked.

Now, the opposition to Trump got hysterical. Here's an example. Roll it. We have a nutjob wannabe king who's doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn't want to hear. He has his goons arresting, incarcerating, and killing American citizens. He's got funding for cancer research in children's hospitals. while he rakes in literally billions of dollars for himself and his family. He's coming after our right to vote. Okay.

That's just hysterical stuff. And Congresswoman Omar screaming, you're killing Americans in the state of the union. That doesn't help. Once again, if you are a real rabid anti-Trump person, you're not offended by Kimmel and Omar and AOC because you hate Trump. or you dislike him dramatically. But the big middle of the country, they don't like that stuff. So the radical left has more power within the Democratic Party than it ever has in the history of the radical left movement,

which has been around for about 125 years. And the radical left has a lot of power in that party. You know that because of the money. Because Congress people need money to run every two years. And the radical left gives it to Democratic Congresspeople who towed the line. And they all do. And it is very interesting. Final point I want to make is in the midterms, eight months from now,

about 150 million people voted in the presidential election. That's going to go below 100 million in the midterm. So the bubble people, the floater people, they don't pay pension. They'll come out for the presidential race, but very rarely in the midterms. Where that is decided is in the very few independent precincts. So the hate Trump is going to vote Democrat, the people who lo the Democratic Party and the radical left, they vote Republican. But that margin, and I'm telling you, the radical left does not appeal to independent voters. It does not.

The Kimmel's of the world, the De Niro's of the world, the Omar's, the AOCs, they want enormous changes to this country. They don't like capitalism. They don't want to punish criminals. On and on. independence and like that. So it's a toss-up. That's where we are. A lot of things are going to happen in the next eight months, I should say.

We begin with Bill O'Reilly tonight, author of Confronting the President's, host of the No Spin News. Bill, in that sense, I think that there may not be a state of the union with higher stakes for a president than tonight or tomorrow night. Yeah, it's an important situation. Speech will probably run a little bit more than an hour and a half. That's a long slog. And it'll be an optimistic speech, not a pessimistic one. And he'll list all the things that are happening, and then the press that it doesn't like him will fact check him,

and that game will go on as well. But I think it's a lot about the president's demeanor tomorrow night. So teed off is not going to help him. And he is teed off about the Supreme Court's tariff ruling and a number of other things. But he should stay on track to say our programs economically are working. And you're going to see that. I don't know if I put it at the existential level. but obviously the Republican Party is looking for a pep rally, something to grasp

because of the midterm elections, and it kicks off that campaign. Well, I'll put this way. The Republicans I talk to view it as existential if they lose the midterms. Because if they lose the House, and especially if they lose the Senate as well, it radically changes what they can get done and what goes on, especially with Donald Trump, Certainly if there's another Supreme Court vacancy, it changes that as well. So you view Trump's biggest risk tomorrow as sounding petulant, right? Is lecturing the Supreme Court or doing that?

What's his biggest opportunity? Well, he's got a pretty good story to tell on the economy. Home mortgages are at their lowest rate in quite some time. Oil is going down. Some food is going down as well. He's got to deal with the insurance situation. That's really brutal. And, you know, all he's got to say is, look, I'm going to gather all the CEOs of American insurance agencies at the White House for a summer, and we're going to work it out.

We're going to get a deal where they just can't keep raising premiums over and over and over to these high levels with their bankrupting families. He's got to basically be specific. And his speechwriters know that. Bill, you've been talking about this summit now for months. I know. And, you know, after the first of the year, I had a long conversation with him about that. And he was going to do it. But then he gets sidelined by the foreign affair stuff, which is looming.

He's going to have to deal with Iran somewhat tomorrow night. He's going to do a lot of pep rally stuff. The American men's hockey team will be there, at least many of them. And then he's going to do a victory lap. Go ahead. One of the things that's so amazing about Trump is he gets his opponents to take stupid positions, right? And the Huffington Post, I think, sort of laid out this dichotomy well. There's a name for the discomfort you're feeling watching the Olympics right now.

If waving the American flag or Channing USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. Waving the American flag, cheering to him USA is a 90-10 issue. And so then you have Trump, I think, very smartly, I think you'd agree, invite team. USA invited both the men's and the women's team. The women's team said they couldn't make it. Here's Jack Hughes, hero of the Olympics, talking about his love of country. Take a listen. This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong. And we had so much support from next players. I'm so proud to be American today.

Okay, so they're still trying to work out the pageantry. My reporting shows, Bill, of exactly how they're going to get all these players and how they're going to sort of come out and have some reveal at that moment that Trump talks about them. Last year, the State of the Union, Trump had a similar thing up his sleeve where he gave that young man,

I think his name was DJ, the Secret Service credentials, he was a kid who was fighting cancer, interviewed him here on the show, he was great. But no Democrats cheered for DJ. Nobody stood up, nobody applauded. What's your over under on the number of Democrats who stand up and up?

applaud Team USA? All of them that are there because the real radicals are not going to be there. So the radical left in the House are 100% dependent on radical left money. So they're not really people with an independent point of view on anything. They do what they're told. And they were told to get out of them all and do another state of the union, the people, state of the union, whatever stupid thing they came up with. So they're not going to be there.

All of these bomb throars, Trump haters. The other Democrats have to stand. They would hurt himself dramatically if they don't. And then Trump will do a lot of migration stuff, a lot of immigration stuff, with the families and things like that. He'll do that. But it was interesting that the women's hockey team refused to go to the state of the union.

They did it politely. They weren't like the Golden State Warriors, but I was taken aback by that. And I'm still searching around. They go, well, we have other commitments. What commitments? What are you doing? It's over.

You don't have anything. Yeah, what are you having a party? Where are you going? No, they have another game. There's a number of the women who have another game to play. That's their job. They're coming back.

They play professional hockey here in the United States. I didn't know there was women's professional hockey there is, but they have a game on Tuesday night for the teams they play for. Okay. Some of them don't. So what should have happened was the women's hockey team should have said, the ladies that want to go can go, and the ladies that have to play will play.

That's all. You think they said people couldn't go? Yeah, they said they should have said they've been going where the team's not showing up. There's a different culture between. a men's hockey team and a women's hockey team. And then it extends all the way back to the women's soccer team, which was anti-American all day long.

And that's still in there. That's my read on it. And any hockey player that wants to go to the city of the union, men or women, should be able to go. Why are you issuing a blanket statement? I agree. What's that all about?

So help us understand the politics of this, right? State of the Union, 43% of Americans say the state of the union is strong. Fifty-seven percent say not strong. That means there's a lot of Trump voters in that number, just by definition, who think the state of the Union is not strong. Economic approval rating, Trump 44, approved, disapprove, 55. That means there's a lot of Trump voters who don't approve of his handling of the economy. The politics of this, number one, how did, does the fact that Trump has made, or maybe it's Democrats who've made, patriotism, partisan, and issue

And how does Trump get past that? How does Trump, or does he need to, bring America back together? Well, he's not going to bring America back together. Okay, that's not going to happen. He's not that kind of politician. But when you say, and the polls say, what's the state of the union? People are talking about the state of their house. You're not talking about the state of the union.

They're talking about the state of their house. And they're spending too much money. They don't have enough money. The perception is that we're getting done. drowned by bills, particularly after COVID. Stuff isn't coming down that we need as fast as we would like. And insurance is killing us, which is all true. And that Trump has got to find a way in there, say, look, I'm going to deal with the insurance

stuff. And you're going to get a tax refund very shortly. It's going to alleviate some of the financial suffering. All right. And I assume that his speechwriters are going to do that. I assume. Now, I'm told basically that there is going to be parts of the speech that go through the big, beautiful bill, that lay out multi-points of the bill and how that relates to people's bottom line leading up to tax day, right, leading up to April 15th to try and change the perception of the economy. Yes, it would make sense.

The wild card and what I hear that Republicans are most worried about is going off script, is what you point. He's going to have the Supreme Court there. They just rebuked him on tariffs. Does he get into a fight, a rhetorical fight with the Supreme Court? Does he pick on Democrats? What does he do that is a risk for him tomorrow? What can't he do if he wants this reset? Well, I wouldn't get into a fight with the Supreme Court,

but I would marginalize Democrats as much as I could because they don't have any solutions to anything. And I'm not a partisan guy, but I'm looking around going, what's your solution? And we hate Trump. I mean, when you had the Oph-Freyton Post, which is 100%, when you have the Huffington Post website, which nobody cares about, but it's 100% left, far left,

saying, you know, we were uneasy about waving the American flag. That's not good. And Trump should hone in on that. Should hone in on, look, these people aren't just dissenters. They're destroyers. They want to destroy traditional America. And they do. That's true. That's what they want.

Okay? And he can give a few examples of that. But picking fights with the Supreme Court or other, you know, people that are not involved directly with the midterms doesn't help them. Going after the Democrats will help him, I think. Okay. To that point, I think Hakeem Jeffries understands that. This is the House Minority Leader. Take a listen.

two options that are in front of us in our house is to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the capital complex. Boy, he calls himself a leader, but he sure sounds scared. Well, I'm not going to marginalize the minority leader, Jeffreys. But I'll tell you, in his whole career, I've never heard him put forth one solution to any problem ever. And I live in New York.

So what the president has to do tomorrow and I, to regain momentum, regain momentum. He's concentrate on what he perceives are his successes, very specifically, marginalize his opposition of having no solutions to anything, and that the far left controls the party through financial means. And I get into heavy what happened in Minnesota with the Chinese money coming over. And I get into that big time, because a lot of people still don't know that. story. But he's got to maintain his sense that I'm in charge and that I promise you things will get better. That's the central theme. I'm the leader. Things will get better. They'll start after the tax refunds don't come in and then the surge will continue. Keep it simple. State of the Union tonight, what does the president need to do?

Scott presents a positive picture of the country. So Mr. Trump often dwells on the negative. Obviously, he's got a Supreme Court decision he doesn't like. We kind of overlooked that other than to say we believe that this is strong for the country, these tariffs, and now we're going to change a little bit, but we still have this amount of money coming in and, you know, overwhelm the audience with facts, but keep it essentially positive. That's what he has to do.

Yeah. Hey, Democrats have a new tradition of embarrassing themselves, the state of the unions with booing and stuff like that. Now there's a rumor they're going to walk out tonight. What do you think the Democrats will do? I don't think so because the leadership doesn't want that. So the real far, far left Democrats aren't even showing. up at all. They're having their own

state of the union on the mall, which no one all attend, except the busting people who are paid. And here's an interesting aside for WOR listeners. The people who are not attending, and you can get their names on the

internet, the House members, the senators aren't doing this, but they are all beholden to far-left money, which means they run every two years, and their campaigns are financed by the sources of the world, the real radical fringe elements, pump tens of millions of dollars into these campaigns.

If these people don't do what their radical masters tell them to do, they get cut off from the money. Most people don't know that, that it's a money game. So the ones that aren't going to be there, and those are the ones that would walk out or scream and yell, they'll be in another separate thing, which, of course, will have no impact at all. Yeah, so aren't they kind of helping the president by getting all the Adam Schiff's angry nut jobs out of the audience of the speech? It'll help the president. Yeah, it does. Ships is and why would Trump want him there, you know?

Whatever Trump does, Schiff and his ilk are going to condemn it. So as it bothers me about ideologues, and far left is obviously the problem in the country right now. Far right doesn't have any organization, no cohesiveness. There are a bunch of people running around, but they don't have any organization that, for example, can get into the media with propaganda, whereas the far left has all that. So, but if you're an ideologue, no matter what the other side does, you're going to condemn it. And that's not healthy. It's not healthy for you and it's not healthy for the country. Yeah.

Hey, the Olympic hockey players there tonight, that'll be a big thing, won't it? Really bad. The women's hockey team is really not being reported accurately. Now, I did it. Yeah. Yesterday, when the announcement came out from the women's hockey team that they would not be attending the State of the Union despite being invited. Now, it wasn't a belligerent press release. They said, oh, thank you, and we feel honored that we're invited, but we're not showing up.

There's no reason for them not to show up. It's not like they have another event. They don't. Now, there are particular women that are playing in professional games, but the men are, side has that too. So the fair way and patriotic way to do it would be for the leadership of the women's team to say, hey, ladies, if you want to go, go. If you can fit into your schedule, go on up. That's what the men's team did. But there's a difference in culture. The women's sports in America are very infiltrated with the left. We saw that with the crazy women's soccer.

team. Remember that? Oh, yeah. Rappano and all those people? Yeah. Well, that persists. Whereas that's not on the men's side. So the men hockey team is not the NBA. And it's a very interesting story because you're not getting why the women are doing what they're doing.

There is a political, I believe. There is a political component to it. Ah, interesting. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, Gavin Newsom, how badly did he damage himself this week? Not at all. Really? And it's another example of ideology gone out of control. What Newsom said was totally innocent.

And I wrote a message of the day. It's on Bill O'Reilly.com. And all he was trying to do was saying, I'm a regular guy. I had my problems in school. I'm not some elite guy. That's all he was trying to say. And anybody who read the interview, which I did, knows that. But of course, the opposition to Newsom wants to demonize him and now call him a racist, which is absurd.

There's enough stuff to get Newsom on, legitimate stuff, without doing this kind of stuff. And usually this happens. Liberals do it against conservatives. It's very, very rare that the converse. And when I saw that yesterday, I went, come on. Everybody knows what he was trying to say. There was no malice in his remarks. And it's my job to report, honestly, so I am.

I disagree slightly. First of all, that whole thing, I'm not an elite guy. He is an elite guy. He's a very elitist sort of a guy. Okay. And that's legitimate. He's trying to pass himself off as one of the folks when he's not one of the folks. No problem with that.

But you don't think that. Gavin Newsom's a racist, do you? I don't think he's a racist. I think Democrats get into this pandering kind of talking. They don't realize what the hell they're saying half the time. It comes out awkwardly when they say it. It doesn't sound great when they say it. But that's just that may be true.

But I've been accused when I made some remarks over my career of being a racist. And I'm going, it's ridiculous. So I don't like that labor. and I don't like when anybody uses it unless you have the facts to back it up and clearly Newsom was not trying to denigrate black people. Yeah, all right. But he is, I was talking about this before,

you're the historian. Every presidential election, there's always some pretty boy who comes way out in front, two years out, Gary Hart or John Edwards, but that one always fizzles. They never end up being the nominee. You think that'll happen with Newsom? Newsom's up against a very weak field.

No establishment person. I mean, you got Klobuchar. She'll run. She's running for Governor of Minnesota. She'll win, and then she'll run for president. You got Bashir in Kentucky, Shapiro in Pennsylvania. these are not strong candidates. People don't know who they are.

So everybody knows Newsom. He's got name recognition, but he has absolutely destroyed the state of California. So anybody with an IQ over 50 would go, if he destroyed the state of California, wouldn't he destroy the United States? And the answer is, yeah, he would. That's not a tough one.

So, but he, you've done. Don't count him out. I spent some time with him a few weeks ago at Super Bowl weekend in San Francisco. He's a very slick guy. Yeah. He's a good campaigner. He's going to have a lot of money. So I wouldn't count him out.

Okay. But you know how to read people. When you were with him, did you think to yourself, this is a very sincere guy I'm talking to. Okay. That's an interesting question, Simone. Simone's giving me a workout today. All right. You don't have to answer.

No, no, I am going to answer because I know. never dodge questions. Two tracks. He was sincerely basically having a conversation with me about San Francisco.

Okay? Because I was out there and I'm going to do a special on News Nation about the collapse of the city. He lives outside the city. He does not live in San Francisco. I did not know that.

He keeps that very quiet. In the conversation, he didn't dodge. It was a good conversation. the insincerity might have occurred because he needs me. And he knows it. So I have a very strong national voice. He doesn't want me to condemn him.

So there was that kind of manipulative thing. But I enjoyed the conversation with him. He invited me on his podcast and I accept it. And that'll be on in the fall. And if he carries through, that'll be an event. That'll be interesting. What did the big man, Bill O'Reilly say as a point of contrast? Well, I'm not going to quibble with your commentary because it's, I would say, mostly accurate,

but you're missing the bigger picture on the economy. If you go to microeconomics, yeah, the president overhypes what he's done, and slams Biden, and Biden wasn't as bad as Trump makes him out to be. That's true. But we're not living in Hooverville's here. Okay? So the Democrats say, oh, is the worst guy? It's not.

Okay. Yet is a word that is ill-defined. We are not in economic trouble. Most people are working. Most people are getting by. Everyone's annoyed at the higher prices, particularly insurance. And I was the one who broached this with President Trump early in January about getting a summit meeting among the insurance companies in the White House. Because you're absolutely right. They would fold and he could get something done very fast and put pressure on the Democrats who will vote against anything he wants.

So I don't believe that we're in an economic crisis. We're going in the wrong direction. and there is an opportunity with the tax refunds coming in to juice the economy because it's based on consumer spending. Tariffs you can debate all day long. That message wasn't an economic message sent by the Supreme Court. It was, we're going to rein in the president. He's getting a little bit too authoritative here. And balance of power has got to be respected.

That's what that was about. It wasn't about a specific economic plan. I agree. I don't think it was about economics at all. It was just about the plain reading of that statute. I told you that decision was going to go against him. I didn't have any thought on it one way or the other. It could have gone for him because the Constitution is vague on it. So you've got an economy that could be better, but it's not that bad. However, there are many voters who feel they're paying too much money and they're seeking in debt, primarily not in the grocery store, but in insurance, that's the real killer. So rather than chance, rather than chance it,

the Republican Party is very shrewd. It said, look, the Democratic Party with no leadership at all, none. Who's the leader of the Democratic Party, Cuomo? I don't disagree. I don't disagree. They really have to figure that out. There's nobody. That is a problem. That is a problem.

We're going to, all right, big problem. So we're going to lay a trap. We're going to lay a trap. And a trap is going to be the Constitution, which every elected officialist to swear to uphold the laws of the country, which require that Americans are protected by their government. So the question is put Americans first on a protection list who's stands up for that and all Republicans leap to their feet and the Democrats sit there. Are you kidding me? How stupid are they? They could have just stood up. That doesn't mean you are not

compassionate to migrants. That doesn't mean you support unfair policies toward immigrants. It means that you understand what the Constitution says. But now one Democrat was smart enough to do it. Okay? So that gives. They just, I agree with your assessment, and I said the same thing. And it definitely gives them their campaign ads. But you know what the counter is going to be. They're all about the Constitution. It's this guy who violates it.

And I'm not standing up because he tells me to. He's not my king. People believe what they want to believe. But you're looking for the middle ground voter. That's what you're looking for. All the Democrats have right now, this is the only thing they have, is Epstein. That's all they have. And the economy.

And I'll prove it. Right after, right after the state of the union ended, I switched over to CNN, reliably Democrat. What were they talking about? Epstein. We're talking about the economy. We weren't talking about foreign affairs. We weren't talking about any of that with Epstein. That's all they have.

And that's going to backlash against the Democratic Party. You wait and see. Why? Because it's overdone, number one, and number two, after all of this time, there isn't a shred of evidence linking President Trump to any illegality. All right, listen, I'm not differing. I'm not differing with the conclusion. I do disagree that it's shallow. There's nothing there. Every time I look at the database, it gets more troubling to me that obviously this was being. concealed by government agencies long before Trump. However, what do we do about the DOJ having been exposed by the O. O. By the Oversight Committee Democrats and by multiple media outlets that they took out allegations

against the president and didn't inform and did so in violation of federal law? What is to be done about that? Forget about the allegations themselves for this moment. It's easy. What do you do about that? The Attorney General, Pam, Bonnie, should come out tomorrow and say, this is why we didn't release them.

And I'll tell you why the Justice Department didn't release them, because it's unverified. And if you understand our Constitution, there's a due process element to it. You just don't throw out stuff that has not been vetted in a sense that it's responsible. So there's been one document put out by this so alleged victim, and Trump's name was not mentioned.

There have been a couple held back, and I understand it's because they are unverified, that the FBI tried and looked, couldn't find anything. And here's the true for that. You think Christopher Ray, the former FBI chief, you're interrupting me in an important point. Okay, let me make the point. You think Christopher Ray, he, he's... The FBI chief under Biden, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General under Biden, all the Trump haters in the Biden White House would not have put out a verified accusation in Donald Trump. So if it's unverified, then you don't put it out. No law enforcement agency puts out unverified information.

That's what's going on. But Bondi should explain it. That's all. I agree. I agree. She won't, first of all, because she's being told not to. Second, here's the problem with your analysis. Okay?

There are two problems. One is not about Trump, which is, what do you mean they weren't vetted? They had these for years. There were multiple interviews with an accuser. And again, I don't know what she says because I can't see them. But they remove them, which takes you to the second problem. The law that was signed by Trump does not give them the ability to exclude things on the basis of vetting. It is not one of the exceptions.

They were legally required to turn it over, and they did not. Wrong. They can classify anything that they want, or else you have trial by mob. Okay? If you want trial by mob, that's different. No, it's not. It's exactly the same thing. You're arguing why they vote the law.

No. The law that was passed says you release the Epstein files, but you can classify if you're the federal government stuff that's not vetted. If you can't, then you have trial by mob. That's what you have. It's not in the law. So any accusation. Come shooting out.

I agree with your concern. No, you can't do that. It's unconstitutional. You can't do it. It's unethical, it's unconstitutional, it's ridiculous. Trial by mob is not what we do in this country. Don't you understand that? Bill, not only do I understand it, I understand it legally and intimately personally.

Okay? I understand it very well. Here is the problem. They can sue that the law is unconstitutional, but the law, does not allow them to hold back things that they believe are uncorroborated. It's very clear in the law. That's not true. You can classify any, a president can class a president can classify any document that man or woman wants to.

And you know that. I know that that is the practice of the DOJ. I'm saying the law was drafted to get around it. No, it's the law. No. It's the law. The federal law that Trump signed superseded it. They should sue on it or explain it.

That's all I'm saying. Look, I don't disagree with your policy arguments. I don't. I get the concerns. They're real. But the law is the law. That's all I'm saying. They're in violation of it.

I got a jump. And I'm not. I'm not just pulling your chain. I read the law very carefully. They have to explain it. And that's what they did. Okay. All right.

They should explain it. I want to tell everybody. I want to tell everybody. Wait. You're going to Israel. Okay. Stay safe. A week from tonight, I'm going to do the hour.

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It's going to be the Everybody Hates Chris show. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much. Thank you for subbing him. Thank you for being here tonight, and I'll be talking to you. For me, that was the best speech I've ever seen from Trump. Other states of the unions, congressional addresses, cabinet meetings, rallies. I've been to. I spoke at Madison Square Garden for him.

This was the best way he weaved in his accomplishments while just destroying the Democrats, rewarding great Americans, from veterans to little kids, and then really giving the Democrats a chance to walk out and just humiliating them. I thought it was Trump at its very best, but you know better than me, Bill O'Reilly. How'd you rate it?

Well, I think that was an excellent speech by Trump and helped him a lot. And there's a couple of different levels to analyze the speech. Number one, I was just really happy that you weren't arrested at the House of Congress. representatives. I never got there. We had a pool.

What time is Sid going to be taken into custom? Now, you know, I never got there. I had it. I know that. Right, Bill. You just wrecked up my setup. Okay. And it's no accident.

You never got there, by the way. I mean, all the people that you think get delayed it. You're just CIA guys. They're now. He's not getting there. Okay. So you're saying, you're saying, and this is the smartest guy in the history of our business, you're saying that there was.

an active cool between the CIA and Amtrak to make sure I never made it to DC. Oh, Dan, that's been in development for about six months. All right. So it's got no way. You're lucky you didn't wind up in Poland. Okay. The amazing track was that the man spent it and did not stumble once. Not once.

I've never seen that. Now, I consider myself one of the best teleprompter readers in the world. Agreed. Okay? I don't use a teleprompter now at all. I just, because I know the material and I just speak it to you. But when I did use a teleprompter, inevitably you're going to have a problem. You're going to mispronounce a word.

You're going to go over, blah, blah, something like, not once. His cadence was always there. And you're talking to one of the last. longest speeches since William Henry Harrison. I mean, my God. And I'm sitting there going and his inflections, the way he did it,

and this is just a talent. So he was, that, so logistically, the guy is far and away better than any president that I have, you know, and I started with Calvin Coolidge. He's the first guy that you have recorded stuff. And that goes

back in the 1920s. So 100 years. Secondly, the editorial mission of the speech. So they started writing the speech the week before Christmas. That's when the White House speech writers began. Six of them. There's a main writer. Sometimes it's Miller. Sometimes it's other guys. You don't know their names. Okay. And what they do is that they forge sections of the speech. Okay. And And then they presented it to Trump about a month ago for what they call a rough draft. So these are the areas that we're going to get into. And then Trump says, I want to do more of this. I want to do less of that.

And then it evolves based upon the news cycle. So they all knew that they had to get domestic up top because that's what's hurting the Trump administration right now, the high prices. And they got to get that in, which they did. Spent two-thirds of the speech on domestic. Here's what we're going to do. Here's how we're going to do it. Now, that's just standard issue. Every president does it.

But they laid two traps. Now, I don't know who is responsible for that, but they were brilliant traps. Usually the presidents don't do that because they don't want to get involved. They want to bring together the country. Trump does not want to bring together. which country. I'm going to say it. Neither do they. No, that's true,

but that's what the president's put up there. Right. I got it. Yeah. Okay. Well, I want to bring everybody together and we're all Americans. We're all in this and we should be working together. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Trump goes, I hate you. I don't want to bring you together. These are crazy people.

Right. So the speechwriters don't have to bother with that. They don't have to put it in. So they laid two traps. and the first chap was that they're going to say if you put American lives, if you think American lives are more important in foreign nationals, stand. Very simple.

That could have been done in sixth grade, okay? Now, why would they do that? Because the Constitution demands, when you are elected, and somebody ought to read this to Mamdani, okay, the Constitution says your first responsibility as an election, official is to protect Americans. So they put themselves on the right side of the Constitution, and then they give the litmus test, stand or not stand. Now, the Democratic Party has no leadership at all, none. So there's no coordination among the House and Senate about what might

happen. What they get is an email we discussed this before every morning from K-Street in Washington, from the radical left PACs, political action committees, telling them what the thought of the day is. That's what they get. It's kind of like that old show romper room. Is what the thought of the day is, kids? Right, right. Right, all right.

But there's no organized, I'm in charge of Democratic Party. You better be careful this might happen. So the dopey Democrats in the chamber, they don't know what to do. Trump drops the bomb on them. and they're going, well, I better not stand up. I won't get any campaign fund money. Okay?

And they don't. And therefore, independent Americans, not Kool-A drinkers on either side, they're going, what the Duce are you doing? You don't want to put the public safety of Americans above foreign nationals? Come on. Right. Right. So, Jeff just wipes them out.

And then the second one was not well-noticed, by the press who couldn't wait to get back to Epstein after the speech because they knew Trump had done well, all right? Ducet was Obamacare. So the Trump administration is blaming Obamacare for health insurance woes. And you notice that one of the lines was, you guys all voted for that. Yeah. And it's a disaster now. Yeah.

And everybody's made more for health care because of you guys. And there's no answer to that. No. Democrats can't answer it because the stats are the stats. Most Americans are paying a lot more, not only for health insurance, but all insurance. And that is what's gutting the household budget. It's not stake. It's your car insurance, your house insurance, your health insurance.

That's what's draining your money. So anyway, Trump gets all of this stuff in. And then he brings in the hockey team. He's giving people medals. And I thought he was going to get out free hula hoops. I got everybody going to go to Hulu Hoop. Like Oprah. Everybody gets a car like Oprah.

Yeah. And so that's, and that's standard issue, of course. So top the bottom, almost two hours, he's winning on every issue. You're right. And you broke it down brilliantly. But the question always is, and you've taught me a lot. Because I said something an hour ago, I never would have said. Because my first instinct was, yeah, Trump nailed it.

You're right. He twice, he buried them. They had opportunities. They looked silly. It was just an amazing night for him and the Republicans, so we can't lose the midterms. But Bill O'Reilly said to me a long time ago that in this news cycle, every day is like a year. And the odds that people will remember in November what happened here are slim to none. that the economy is not better than it is,

and some of these wars are still an issue, it's not going to matter that Trump wiped the fore. He did. He embarrassed them. He wiped the fall with them. He made it very, very clear they are the less party. But it's not going to matter come November, or is it? It will.

It will. Because that's the baseline for every Republican running for office. The baseline is we, the Republican Party, are working on solutions to make your lives better financially. And solutions that we have to come up with because it was them, right? You guys, right? People aren't going to care about that. They're not going to care that Biden was the second worst president ever.

They're not. But what they will care about and what the Republicans will do is we're trying. You really want those people? No. You really want the people who won't stand up for you? in the House chamber who are putting the welfare of foreign nationals above yours? Do you really want to vote for them? See, that theme is now going to be recurring, and it's going to go, you know, right toward November.

Then there's going to be other stuff, other traps that are going to be laid for the Democratic Party, like voter ID. Right, right. Okay? So they'll get a bill, and then the Democrats are going about against it. Yeah. And so that theme that, hey, they don't care about you. They care about trans. They care about foreign nationals.

That will continue. Love this. And that's a powerful message. No, it is. No, it is. I'm so glad you're saying this because that's it. Again, my instinct is that it worked great for the party, but I've been kind of school that take it easy, you know, it's only February,

but what you're saying is exactly what I want to hear. I do want to move, though, to one more story in the final four minutes. You and I both lived in Florida, okay? I've never been to Cuba, have you? Yes, I've been to Cuba. I knew you're going to say yes. Tell me about this event that happened in the waters where a ship leaves Florida. They cannot be up to anything good, by the way.

They got 10 armed men on a boat, okay? So I don't think it was a family taking a vacation or a yacht and end up getting shot, murdered. Four Americans killed by the Cuban, six more in the hospital. DeSantis and Wubio were going, we don't trust these guys no matter what they say. And I was told yesterday by a pretty important guy that Cuba is coming very, very quickly. Iran next week. You can bank on it. They're going to hit something next week.

We are, I should say. And Cuba's right behind them. What do you think about this event that happened? and do you agree that right with Iran, Cuba could be next? Yes, I agree with Cuba is in very bad condition, and the United States does not want to go in and do any military there, but they believe that the people will rise up in Cuba. But the Cuban secret police and the Cuban border authorities, they will shoot you.

It's not like, you know, taking you into custody or, you know, interrogating you, they'll shoot you. Okay? So that's what happened. So these guys from Miami get in the speedboat and they're armed, you know, that's about as dangerous a play as you can make. That's about as dangerous as being a New York City police officer going to Central Park and a snowstorm. It's the same level. You know you're going to get brutalized. You're on fire today, Bill.

Yeah, I'm trying to be as vivid as I can be here. Fire. And friends. But the Cuban government, and I taught a lot of those kids in high school when I was down in my Army teaching history in English, that island is as oppressed as any place on earth. I mean, these guys down there, when I was there, we had two of them just following us around, these secret police guys. They all wear big shirts. They're all chubby.

They got their guns underneath the shirts. Shirts are outside untucked. And they just, no person has any rights inside of Cuba. So it's like China. Yeah. You don't have any rights. It's also like Tehran. I got to tell you.

watched, and I really compel everybody to watch it. One of the ladies that took part in making this series was found dead in an Athens hotel room last week. The series is called Tehran. It's on Apple TV, and it does a really

good job of explaining the relationship, which is not good, between Iranian leaders and the Mossad. They put a girl from the Mossad into Iran to try to mess with their nuclear programs. It's very real. They even mentioned Tanaz or Tans, whatever the place that we actually bomb.

The Times, it's a great series, and it does show you how oppressed, especially women, still are in Tehran. So you could add that city to all that and watch that show. I think you'd love it on Apple TV called Tehran. Well, look, that government is and has been one of the most oppressive on earth. They're not communists like Cuba or China, but they're theocrats. And if you don't do what they say, they feel justified in killing you. And by the Ayatollah, Homania. Who was?

And war Sadat. And war Sadat. Right. And communism, as bad as it is, it's not as bad as radical Islam. Sorry. You know, there's this whole little difference. In both systems, you have no rights. You just don't have any rights.

But they'll kill you quicker, radical. Well, maybe not. I don't know. Maybe you're right. These guys, I mean, boy, I'll tell you, there's not a lot of difference between the totalitarian assassins. Yeah. You know, maybe somebody's watches a little slower, but you're going to blow your brains out if they're ordered to do so. Yeah, that's a good point.

You're right. Listen, Bill, you've got to be the smartest guy alive, I swear to God. And this was point. You know, the nuns who taught me would definitely dispute that at St. Bridget's school. I want to tell you and everybody else that on March 4th, Wednesday, I have engineered a coup d'etat on News Nation. I'm taking over Cuomo's entire show. Really? The whole hour at 8 p.m. Eastern on March 4th, Wednesday night, and I'm bringing back the factor.

Come on. I'm bringing it back. Forever? Or one night? Well, no. It's a one-off because Cuomo's out. on assignment. And they're letting you actually bring back the factor.

The greatest show in the history of cable television. By far, by far, like President Trump says, the factor is back. The factor is back on March 4th, News Nation 8 Eastern. And we're going to have some lineup. When you see this. Oh, I can't wait.

So I've got a lot of fun. And I think it's going to be an event. You're going to see a throwback there. and I'm still at the top of my game, so I'm not listening on an old-timer scam here. Oh, God, no. I'm throwing a fastball right under your chin.

Damn right, you are. So you can be able to use everything from the logo to whatever you used in the past. You can use it here in this case, or did Foxx on that? No, I'm using every mannerism. All of my obnoxious capabilities will be on display. I even put a call into Barney Frank, but nobody knows where Barney is.

So we're trying to find it. Oh, body, Frank. That would be great. Oh, that would be great. Well, I'm excited about that, folks. March 4th, News Nation, Chris Cuomo's show, goes back to the greatest show ever, the factor. Bill O'Reilly, I love you. Great job is always not good.

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