Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Round the World - March 22, 2026

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

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What I want to tell you about tonight is nothing to do with my presence in D.C. It has to do with far left politics and baseball. Okay. So the USA team playing in a tournament is managed by a guy named Mark DeRosa. And if you're not following this, Rosa is a working class guy, Patriot, and the USA team is comprised of major league baseball players, and they play other countries for the championship. Okay, that's how it goes down.

So in order to motivate his players, okay, before the game with Canada, which the USA won, and we're talking baseball, not hockey now, DeRosa brought in a guy named Rock. Robert O'Neill, former Navy SEAL. Do you know the name? Do you remember the name? Probably you don't. Robert O'Neill killed Osama bin Laden. He was the SEAL who put a bullet between his eyes.

I document this in my book, Killing the Killers. You step by step by step by step. You haven't read that book and you care about terrorism and the Iran connection, all of that, killing the killers. All right. So DeRosa brings in Robert O'Neill to tell a story or two about his SEAL's training, about patriotism, to motivate the players. Well, a far-left woman named Tanya McKenzie, who is a chairperson for the L.A. County Commissioner of Alcohol and other drugs, doesn't like that. He doesn't want any patriotic speeches before sporting events. Now, what Tanya McKinsey has to do with it, I have no blank an idea.

But she puts out something on Instagram, which is so blatantly offensive, even I couldn't believe it. Roll it. Okay, who let this man in the locker room? Seriously. While the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and Venezuela are out here living their best life, dancing and celebrating the game of baseball, Team USA decided to bring in a motivational speaker, not a coach, not a legend, not even someone who has held a bat. They brought in Robert J. O'Neill.

He's the former Navy SEAL who claims he fired the shot that unalived Osama bin Laden. Although people that have been in the room, dispute this account. What is wrong with these stale, pale, maga males? Whoa, a little racism there from McKenzie, huh? Cuts both ways, madam. Stale, pale maga males. Nice.

Very nice. Representing the city of Los Angeles. Boy, oh boy, they must be proud of you, huh? Unalived, Osama bin Laden. Unalive. Never heard that one before. Unalive. I killed.

I'm alive. And the dispute, which is a bunch of bull, as I set up, I know what happened. Okay. McKenzie has no idea what happened, nor does she care. All she wanted to do was take a shot

at white men. That's it. There was no other reason for her to go on a record on this. So the USA manager, De Rosa, is put on the defensive. Roll it. I just thought it would be like a time to kind of redirect and get those guys to understand that, although this is an unbelievable event, you get in a chance to share a locker room with the game's greats, there's a reason why you're doing it and a reason why people protect our freedom at night.

And I just wanted to honor that. So that was, that's why he came in the talk. Good. Now, do you object to that? And is any sane person, sorry, Tanya, object to that? A patriot, and maybe seals involved in a raid? Easily could have been killed. Easily could have been killed.

Okay? Gets bin Laden. Pani, oh, it's in dispute. So this is the kind of crazy far-left stuff that damages the Democratic Party. Because even though Tanya's not speaking in the party's name, she's a Democrat. She's in the city of Los Angeles's hierarchy. She is being paid by the taxpayer. Now, pull back for a moment.

She's got a right to her opinion. but he absolutely does. Shouldn't be censored. Shouldn't be, you know, the subject of a hearing. No, she should be scorned. That's what I'm doing. Okay? I'm scorning her.

Panya McKenzie. This scorn is for you. Because your thought process is, is injurious. Now, I'm a white male. I don't care what you say, Tanya. It doesn't matter to me. You can call me names all day long, and I'm sure you do,

particularly after hear this commentary. I don't care. Okay, I'll smile, whatever you want to do. You do it. But I will scorn you, particularly for the racism stuff. Okay, that unacceptable.

And what the deuce that you have to do with baseball other than wearing a dope cap? Do you know the game? Do you know Mr. De Rosa, the manager? Do you know why he did it? I thought his explanation was pretty cogent. No, no, you don't want to know any of that. Why do you want to bother with that? All you want to do is take shots at mega white men.

that's all so you search where can i take another shot how can i do oh i don't like navy seals uh-uh no okay and now locker room indoctrinating these players now if i'm a player and i'm a player and i don't want to hear from the seal i just go to the bathroom or something i don't have to be in here to hear if you don't want. Go out and take early shag some flies. Fly balls, not regular flies. Anyway, dopey, you bet. But symptomatic of a mindset, weight, men, bad, that is sweeping the far left community.

Bill, great to have you. First of all, thanks for coming in. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Yes, indeed. Great to see you. Just got out of the White House. Free meal there. Oh, good. For the Irish people, they felt sorry for something, I guess.

Well, I hope they fed you something other than potatoes. Let's get into this, and then we'll get to St. Patrick's Day at the end. Let's talk about Joe Kent's resignation. His reasoning, he's created another debate over our ones threat in the U.S. D&I, Tulsi Gabbard, released this statement. We want to read it to the audience. She said that President Trump is responsible for detention. what is and is not an imminent threat,

and that President Trump took action against Iran, but Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCall, said on Elizabeth Vargas reports that Iran did not pose such an imminent threat. Watch. But to be clear, you thought an attack from Iran on the United States was imminent? I do not. I think that the ICBM capability would be an imminent threat to the United States,

but they have not developed that capability. That's something they've been working on. Right. They do have the ballistic missiles that they've fired that they could deliver a dirty bomb to, but they didn't have the ICBM capabilities developed. I mean, but the Iranians can reach U.S. troops and U.S. assets. Well, listen, the word imminent is problematic

because it can be taken in a different set of circumstances. So what we're learning, what I'm learning, tonight and I'll have more tomorrow is that this guy, Mr. Kent, he has it out for Israel. We've traced him back

and he has said in the past that he believes Israel has too much influence on the Trump administration. This isn't new from him. So the Trump administration removed him from any consideration of the Iran action. He was not a

at all, which is very unusual for a counter-terrorism chief, okay? Not to be involved at all, because if you're going to go after terrorists, you're going to have blowback, and that's counter-terrorism. Well, and Iran is the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, so seemingly you would think he'd be... I want News Nation viewers tonight to just be logical here, okay, not emotional. So you've got ahead of the counterterrorism crew, okay? Okay? And he believes that Israel is too much influence on the Trump administration.

Okay. Trump administration knows that because he was, he's not a phony. Skid didn't hide it. And they dispute that. Of course. They say the president makes his own decision, obviously. He disputes it. But they take him out of the game. He's on the bench. So he goes, all, I don't like this at all, and I'm going to resign, which is the honorable thing for him to do, by the way, Kent. If you don't agree with the policies of the person you're working for, you resign. But we don't know what the word imminent means to the president of the United States.

We don't know what that is. Now, Mr. Trump should define that word. They should. And he should do it, not Hague Seth or anybody like that. From my vantage point, I get an awful lot of information, Katie, as you know. This is a war of opportunity. Whereas the Israeli government came and said, look, you're getting nowhere negotiating with the Iranians. Nowhere.

And the last negotiation, the Iranians are so bold in Geneva, they told Whitkoff, blank you. Right. We're going to do what we want. So there was an opportunity to take them out all at once. That combined with the defiance of the Iranian government. We're going to develop nukes. We're going to develop ballistics. we're going to do what we want.

We don't care what you say. Led the president to start the action. I believe that is what happened. So the administration has pointed out there are a number of objectives. They say the president believed that Iran would strike first. That was the imminent threat.

They also said they needed to get rid of the ballistic missile program because that was what was protecting their ability to build a nuclear program. That was the biggest one that the president's talking about. In terms of Joe Kent, I think it's important to point out

that he is a decorated combat veteran He's deployed multiple times overseas. His wife, Shannon Kent, was killed in combat during the war against ISIS, during the first Trump administration. However, I do have some questions about the timing of this. He said during his confirmation hearing a year ago that he wanted to go back into fighting terrorism, it would be an honor to do that. He also has heard President Trump talking about taking on the Iranian regime since the 1980s. And then today, on a bit of a random Tuesday, with all the background that you just talked to, about, and the day before Tulsi Gabbard, the head of DNI, is testifying on Capitol Hill,

this comes out. So do you think there was anything to that timing? Should I and embarrass the intelligence community? Because obviously, all the questions are going to be about this tomorrow. I have no idea. I can't get into minds of these people. I'm a fact-based guy. All I can tell you is this. You're absolutely correct when you said that in his confirmation hearings, Mr. Kent, who served honorably, said to the Senate, I'm a warrior. My wife was killed in Syria. I want to get these terrorists.

But there's a big difference between being a warrior and believing that a foreign government, Israel is calling the shots. That's where the diversion came. I don't think, I don't see any conspiracy here. I don't. I think this was a guy who was teed off. He believes what he believes.

You're saying he's a disgruntled employee? essentially. Yeah. He believes it. And there are some people, not the majority of people, but he believes it. But getting back to the key word, imminent, you can define that 50 different way. Well, and I think the question is, okay, let's debate the word imminent, but how imminent does something have to be? Do they have to be putting a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile before we decide it's imminent? I mean, typically you want to stop threats before they start, and the administration, I think, has made a very good argument for taking out the ballistic missile program, the nuclear program, in order to make sure that the region

in the world is not held hostage by them when it got to a point of no return and not being able to take out the ballistic missile program. Here's where that becomes a bit, your analysis becomes a little problematic. Well, it's not my analysis. It's Marker Rubio's analysis. Well, it's the administration's analysis. It becomes a little problematic because the American people need to know what exactly the threat was. or is.

What about the regime killing Americans for 47 years? Being the largest state sponsored terrorism bloc in Iraq. I can only speak for me as an American

today. I think President Trump did the right thing by doing this action. But the unintended consequences are going to be painful. What are those? Economics.

Are you long term or long term as in the well, you never know. You don't know what is going to happen in the next week. I don't think this stretches out into April, even though President Trump had delayed his Beijing trip with Xi, I don't see this stretching out that long because the infrastructure of Iran is about over.

All they need to do now, and he did it today, as you reported, is get the drones, knock the drone, Hormuz, straight stuff out. Once they do that, you don't have anything left. Iran has nothing left. Right. So what do you do that? Do you send a 2,500 Marines who are in Kuwait right now into Karg Island? So you strangle Iran, nobody eats.

There's no food that goes in. You do that. There are a number of things that you can do. But I see the Iranians giving up in the sense that they go, okay, now we want to talk. I see that happening. There's been a lot of talk about alliances. The Israeli Air Force and the U.S. Air Force have been incredible the last two weeks. There have been over 15,000 targets struck, 6,000 combat missions just by our Air Force alone.

What do you make of the argument that our allies are leaving us behind and not helping us? I mean, you have the UK and France. You're sure you want to ask me this? I would love to hear your answer on this. I think the alliances are changing. I would love to hear your analysis of the allies in Europe. Pavlis asked for this. Okay?

Germany is the worst. The absolute worst. Bors in France. Way worse. France is bad in Iraq. Okay? I mean right now, when the president's asking Germany is the worst.

Today, right to second, as we speak. To release a statement going, it's not our war, arrogant, beyond belief. Ever since World War II ended in 1945, we have carried them. 100% carried them, defended them against Stalin and the communists.

And they have the gall? Shut up. How do you say that in German? All right? I don't know. Shut up. If you don't like it, okay. But don't try to say it's not our war.

You're a bunch of jerks. Okay? We saved your butt. I don't know how to say but in German either. Well, saving it again now. You owe us. Okay. That's Germany.

The worst. Biggest economy. Okay. Could be a help. Okay. France, wishi-washy. Depending on the day. You don't even know if we want.

them involved. Okay. Spain, I throw them out of NATO. If I'm the president, they're gone. I put them on waivers to use a baseball term. Hey, Spain, you want to be socialist, communist, communist, good. You're not in the alliance anymore. Okay? They're also not paying

into the alliance. They're not paying, and they won't allow American military to refuel on their on their... What about the UK? And then we've got to get to St. Patrick's Day. Okay. UK, I think you've got to try to persuade them because they have always been our best ally. Sturm is weak. It's not going to be there much longer.

They're going to boot them out. This will be what, the 19th prime minister they've had in last year? Okay, he's weak. And he's afraid. He's afraid of the immigrant community in Great Britain and he's afraid of the left in Great Britain. But I think in the UK,

they have built up enough currency with us that you try to persuade them. You don't hammer them. Italy has been fine. Italy is great. We like the Prime Minister of Italy. Before you go, you were at the White House, you're in Washington, D.C. for festivities for St. Patrick's Day.

As a fellow Irish woman, I am happy that you're here. What is your Irish message today? There were too many Irish people in a close quotas. You never want that. It's great. That's why I don't go to pubs. You don't want that many Irish people in close. No.

In a lot of laughs, President Trump gave a very nice speech. so did the president of the Republic. Now, Northern Ireland, that's a different story. They're communists up there. I'm actually going to Ireland in May. But it was a very, very nice, and every time I go into the White House, and I'm sure you're the same way,

there's no place like it on Earth. You know, it doesn't really matter who the president is. You're just sitting here, he's looking like this. It's amazing. Right. So we had a good day, and I'm hoping and praying that, this Iran thing wraps as quickly as possible.

Maybe we got some more good luck today. So Bill O'Reilly, great to see you. And thank you again for coming in. Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? I'm down here in D.C. for the White House St. Patrick's extravaganza this afternoon. So I'm all right. Uh-oh, this sounds like trouble.

What is the extravagantia? Yeah, it's cold down here. And it's a madhouse at the White House with the uranium stuff. but we're going on over and I will have a report this evening on the Nostbin news when the president grabs him what do you think? How are we doing in Iran? What are you going to tell them?

I have no idea because I don't see the intel. The Israelis waxed too big Iranian thugs last night which is good for the world but the world isn't helping the USA not unusual these days defeat the terrorist state of Iran. So we get some good news, we get some bad news. Yeah. So when they say the messaging isn't there and he's a contradictory,

I think normal people are pretty clear on why we're there. That's pretty easy to figure out, isn't it? Yeah, I agree with that. If you don't believe that Iran is a terrorist state, then you live in a delusional world. Of course it is. The word imminent got them in trouble. a guy just resigned from the counterterrorism organization under the Trump administration,

saying that the attack wasn't necessary at this time because it was no imminent threat. I don't know. I'm here, and I'm going to find out as much as I can, obviously. But I don't get intel reports every morning, as the president does. to know what Iran was up to and what kind of weaponry they were close to having. I think that's got to be put out there. I don't know if this is the right time to do it, but certainly the American people have a right to know that.

Yeah. So if this gets settled in a relatively settled in a month and things better in Iran, and then Cuba falls and opens up in another... Wouldn't this president obviously deserve a Nobel Prize? Wouldn't this be historic? Never going to get the Nobel Prize. Europeans hate them. And I mean that across the board.

You go to Europe boy. I can't think of another president more despise in our history than Donald Trump is by the Europeans. So he's never going to get anything from them. But if Iran does capitulate, which is certainly impossibility, and then Cuba falls, which is almost, I hate to use the word imminent, but it's pretty close. They're going to sign a deal repudiating communism and allowing private investment to come into the island.

I think that's going to happen within the next few days. And if Trump can win Iran on top of that, then he becomes a stronger president than going in. But if the converse happens, then the Republicans are in trouble. next November. Now remind me again why everybody hates him so much. I know he's not your typical he's not a politician. He's a rough gruff New Yorker, but yeah, that's the good question. So Europe is weak and Germany's the worst, absolute worst, and they're the most powerful economy in Europe. Now, ever since World War II ended in 1945, we have been carrying Germany.

All right, we've been paying for the defense. We've been paying for the defense. We've been paying for the economy. We rebuilt their nation. And the Germans have given us nothing. Nothing. So for them to basically say about Iran, this is not our war, is a slap in the face. Now, if you know anything about human nature, you know that powerful people are loathed generally by weak people. Yeah. So that always happens. And Trump is a strong man. politician. He's a populist. They don't understand that in Europe, number one. They don't know what a populist is.

And number two, they think he's a bully because he goes over and says, I'm going to win via Greenland, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. You're a bunch of weaklings and the European press is worse than the American press. They hate Trump worse than the American press. So that's all these people are hearing over there. And that's why his image is so, let's say, dubious in Europe right now. Well, I guess he is a bully, but always for a good cause, right? I mean, he's not doing anything terrible, is he?

But, see, our interest in Europe's interests are not the same. And people have to understand that. Europe is hyped up about Ukraine because they know Putin's a direct threat to them. So, yeah, they're cooperating in Ukraine. They're giving money to the Ukrainians. But Iran, they don't care. They don't care if Iran-white side of Israel. I don't think there's one European country that would care if that happened.

Yeah. So that the United States' point of view is, no, you've got to protect the people of Israel. But the Europeans says, why? We don't care about them. And that's the best example I can give you about diverging interests. Yeah. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, I love the new podcast. It's called We'll Do It Live.

There's two episodes out now, right? Rob Schneider. There's one episode on Schneider. We're going to drop another one on Thursday. I'm working on a big Iranian thing. I can't say what it is because I might not get it. But if I get it, it's going to be enormous. Because we're the guy who knows everything about what's going on over there.

And so we're going to do that here in Washington. We're set to do it. But you know how these things are? This is a very, very high profile interview. And then we have Steve Sharrappa, the Spranos, we already taped him. Oh, I love him. So he'll be up in March. But I want to get this Iran thing done because it'll be big if I can get it done.

And that'll go to Bill O'Reilly.com. That's where we live. and you'll see what the podcast progression is. But right now, I might even drop this Wednesday night. That's how important it might be. All right, well, just go check out Bill O'Reilly's new podcast. We'll do it live. Just go to Bill O'Reilly.com.

Bill O'Reilly.com. Hey, they have the St. Patrick's Day parade here, and they have the big St. Patrick's Day breakfast at Gracie Mansion, all the Irish. But Mom Dani gets up there and starts making a speech about Palestine and genocide. What the hell is he thinking? What is he thinking?

It's impossible for me to answer that question. I can tell you that the socialist communist communist movement despises Israel, and he's part of that. So Bandami is part of that. He's a communist. And in Ireland, if you go to Ireland, the Communist Party is big in Ireland. It's got sway. It's got power, particularly in Northern Ireland. they hate Israel.

Boyle, boy. And I'm not exactly sure why the history doesn't really demonstrate why that hatred is so palpable. But that's why Mandami did it because he's in that cabal, like communist socialist cabal, and they just hate Israel. So if the communist Cuban government falls, the Democrats, what side are they going to take? They're going to make fools of themselves again, aren't they? I don't think you'll say anything on that. I mean, maybe we're pretty muted on Venezuela.

There were a few nuts that went out. But I don't think, but let me give everybody listening to W-O-R a tip. If you are thinking about buying Florida real estate, moving out of New York to Florida, wait until the communist regime in Cuba folds. Because there are going to be a lot of places up for sale in Florida. their prices of real estate going to come down because a lot of Cubans, particularly in Dade County, South Florida, going to move back. Wow. They're going to go back.

Never thought about it. And there's going to be a lot of places. So if you're buying high now in Florida, those prices for housing are going to come down are going to come down pretty big. I never thought of that. You're right. That's a huge, enormous Cuban population there that's going to go back. Yep. Yep.

They're going to go back. And Cuba will be, in five years, the hottest spot is Barry Manalo once in northern Nevada, right? That's true. It was back in the 50s. It will be again. You bet. Wow. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us.

After spending St. Patrick's Day at the White House, St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, not Irish, by the way, probably Italian. doubt it, but he was British and he drove the snakes out of Ireland. I tried to drive the snakes out of Capitol Hill. I wasn't successful because there were so many of them. They kind of clog it, always. So I did an interview today with Lindsay Graham, and it'll drop tomorrow on Bill O'Reilly.com. It's the, we'll do it live podcasts, which is sweeping the world. And he is, I brought a lot of facts that contradict a lot of the propaganda.

stuff I did not know about the Iranians and their nuclear program. He does answer every question that I lobbed at him. He talks about J.D. Vance and what he thinks about the Iranian war. He talks about why the word imminent is accurate. That was the most startling thing. Now, if Graham is wrong, he's never lied to me in 30 years. so I know he's not lying. But if he's wrong in his assessment,

he said, I'll own it, I'll come back and I'll own it. But he makes a very compelling case that a lot of the reportage and analysis that we're hearing in America is something not true. Okay? So I don't particularly care about Tulsi Gabbard and whatever she's doing. I know that she has a title there,

but I also know she was not involved with, the Iranian situation at all. Ratcliffe and the CIA run that show. The reason that Ms. Gabbard was not involved was that she opposed Venezuela. She opposed going in and removing Maduro. Once she did that, she lost all credibility with Donald Trump. No.

Why is she still there? I don't know. She won't be there much longer. And that DNI doesn't have any power right now in the Iranian situation. So it's a brief. I was busy down here in Washington. I'll tell you what. It was, and I got very, very good information. Again, Bill O'Reilly.com tomorrow. You'll see it. It's almost an hour long. And I grill Senator Graham. I mean, it's a little cupcake interview. Did the, look, the DNI, he doesn't have to use it. The office was established for exactly this kind of a situation of establishing. what we understand within intelligence. If he doesn't want to use that, that's fine.

But the reason that there's a lot of confusion about what the rationale was here is because of the administration, not because of the reportage. Whatever it may be. Did Lindsay... It's a distinction with a difference. Blame game is blame. Politics and politics.

My job as a journalist and your job as a journalist is to get the truth. So, did Lindsey Graham Did Lindsey Graham say whether or not he went to Beebe to give him information to help BB convince the President of the United States to do what's happening right now? No. But we did talk about Mr. Netanyahu and how difficult the man he is.

There's a lot of stuff in there. But I was primarily interested in the word imminent. That's how I start the interview. So what does that mean exactly? in the decision-making process to attack Iran. And Graham walks through it, walks through it. And listen, maybe he's wrong. But he's got the presidents here, as you know.

They talk every day. And Graham's got the intel. He gets it every day. Now, another interesting story that I stumbled upon is that in the Trump administration, there are people who have titles, but they don't do anything. And one of them was a counterterrorism guy who wrote the letter saying, it's not imminent.

He was iced because he is part of a cabal that believes that Israel is driving his train. And that infuriates President Trump. What is it true? The timing, is it true? I can tell you that I've had conversations with President Trump about Israel. And I don't believe it's true at all. I think that... Well, then he's not doing them any favors, Bill, because he's letting it be out there,

especially on his flank, that that's exactly what's going on. So why is he allowing it when it fuels anti-Semitism and perceptions of Israel? Because he needs the Israeli intelligence. And they're doing the work of assassinating the leadership of Iran. Oh, no, I get what Israel is doing for Trump. I'm saying, why isn't Trump coming out and saying, stop blaming Beebe for this? I wanted to do this.

He didn't do me. That's not what he does. That's not Trump doesn't do that. He's not helping his friend. Well, maybe that's true. But he never does that. He's basically saying, look, we're running this operation. So the CIA is involved with it.

Lindsey Graham is involved with it. Not too many other people on Capitol Hill. Trump doesn't trust them. And J.D. Vance, not involved. He's a dissenter. He's part of that cabal that doesn't want these kinds of intrusions. Very interesting. But Vance told the president, I understand, look, I may not support this,

but I'm not going to criticize you as some of the people have. And the final point I want to make is it's not a bad thing to have dissent within your administration. Yeah, I agree. I'm very worried by what you're saying. Lindsay Graham wants to bomb everybody. I mean, you should have a diversity of opinion. That's not fair. Who has he ever said, don't bomb?

Hopefully he ever does it say, we should do it. I asked him if you want to get rid of Cuomo. He says, no, I don't. He keep him safe. Look, these kind of generalities making these guys into monsters doesn't do anybody any good. It's not a monster. He's just a hawk. Okay.

And I identify him as such. But he explains his rationale. And a real fascinating part is he links it into Ukraine and to China and stuff I don't, you know, he sees the Intel briefing every day. I don't get that. All right? From Ratcliffe and the CIA, not from Tulsi. Tulsi reminds me. She's the director of national intelligence.

I mean, it is a really heavy duty, but it's a really heavy duty position. She's iced. I mean, a lot of the intelligence they're getting gets through. Oh, no, I understand that. But I don't see that as a comfort that the president gets rid of anybody who doesn't say what he wants them to say. It's a little bit of a, it's not that. You know, that doesn't sound like great leadership.

If that were true, he would have thrown Vance out the window. there is a cabal and that Trump, I think, listens to, all right, that says Israel has too much influence. And I think Trump does listen to them, but he makes his own decisions. Bill O'Reilly, I appreciate you. I look forward to everybody seeing this Lindsey Graham interview. Yeah, you like it. And then there will be much to discuss. So Bill O'Reilly lives on Long Island, and so does the Nassau County Executive, who's running for Governor Bruce Blakman.

A lot of you don't know this, but this guy's singing right now, Paul McCartney, is married to Bruce Blakman's ex-wife. There was a time when Blakeman and Paul were buddies. That's not the case anymore because Paul suffers from TDS. But I see the Long Island connection. Blakeman, Paul McCartney, Bill O'Reilly. He was the best. He still is the best. will always be the best, whether it's Thursdays with me, Monday with Katz and Cosby, his morning message,

his own amazing website, bill O'Reilly.com, great interviews, great stories, it's just great television. What an author, all those killing series books and the presidential book and confronting evil, and I'm sure he's got a new book coming again in September, and those shows he does on News Nation. He's actually made, he's made News Nation a relevant source with people like Chris Cuomo, who called me a toe and a thumb with his brother on Sunday night because I'm bald. That was as good as Cuomo's humor got. And Stephen A. Smith, here he is, the best ever. I love this guy, Bill O'Reilly.

Bill, good morning, buddy. How are you? Yeah, another Long Island fact. Ringo cut my lawn at one time. Yeah, he was a broke up. He had a lot of money. He needed a job, huh? But that is, it's pretty funny when you think, I mean, Blakeman's ex-wife married to McCartney.

and they actually got along for a long time. They have Thanksgiving dinners together and all that. So are you close with Bruce on the island out there? I know him. I wouldn't say I'm close to him. I also ran into McCarty a few times. One was great. Barbara Walters, the late Barbara Walters,

who was the aunt of McCartney's wife and Blakeman's ex-wife. Did you know that? I did know that. In fact, one time, Blakman's... No, it was a cousin. It was a cousin. Because one time, Blakeman's brother was trying to get into a party when Bush was president. This is true.

It was like a Christmas party or something. But they said you had to come with a date. And Blateman's brother, who's very close with the president of the United States, President Trump, he actually took his own cousin, Barbara Walters, to the White House. Yeah. So we're at Rockefeller Center and there's a party. And Barbara's there as the hostess and McCartney walks in. and she grabs me.

Oh, you have to go and meet Sir Paul. Well, number one, I don't call anybody Sir except my father. Okay. That's not happening. I'm a colonist. Okay. So he gets out and with the wife and he comes over and Barbara runs over with me dragging me over and says, oh, Sir Paul, this is Bill O'Reilly.

He looks at me, goes, how are you, Phil? Bill! And I looked at him, I said, I'm really good. Oh, that is great. I mean, I imagine that you love the Beatles, yes? I like the Beatles. I don't love them. I wrote a book called Killing the Legends about John Lennon,

along with Mohammed Ali and Elvis. A lot of stuff going on in that band that that way. But their tunes, certainly I love Baby, you can drive my car. Oh, boy. What a good song that is. Wow, that's the O'Reilly Beatles' favorite. Maybe you can drive my car. So, Bill, you're a proud Irishman, one of the old-time greats, if not the greatest.

And here we had our beautiful St. Patrick's Day celebration Tuesday in New York City. I had the honor of being on that parade route and nobody at that parade. I mean this, Bill. I mean this. Nobody shook hands and more cops. It was actually the other way around. Cops shook hands with me. Nobody more on that day.

And, you know, the mayor came by and nobody cared. the governor came by, nobody cared. But for the fact that the mayor found a way on St. Patrick's Day, just three days ago, to include in his speech as he tried to wax poetic and say nice things about the Irish, the fact that he found a way to include Gaza, Palestine, and the genocidal Israelis. For a guy like you, Bill O'Reilly, real Irishman, that had to make you nauseous, no? Well, I don't really take what he says seriously any longer. And that's my journalistic ability rises above nonsense.

I call it gibberish. And look, he doesn't know anything about history at all, Mandami. He's just a propagandist, communist. I'm glad he went to the parade. I think that was okay. But as far as what he says, I really don't care what he says. I do care what he does because he's really going to destroy the state, as you pointed out earlier this morning. Everybody in New York is going to suffer except the people who are 100% dependent on entitlements.

And that's his constituency. You're talking about people who need a lot of people who need a lot of. a handout. So if you're Bill O'Reilly and you made it, you made it because you worked your ass up. Now you've got God-given ability. You've got a tremendous amount of talent, but you made it for our friend John Cotsamitides who came here with nothing, nothing, and it's not worth billions and billions of dollars. You're the bad guys, right? He doesn't want to help you. He wants to tax you. He wants to take your money. He doesn't even have a problem saying bad things about you. But the people who, some just are unlucky, I get it. Some don't have the,

opportunity, but a lot of them are just lazy. Those are the people he wants to help, yes? Yeah, and I mean, Cuba's going to fall momentarily, and it shows you that this never works. But Mamdami doesn't know why Cuba's going to fall. It doesn't know the history of communism. He doesn't care to know. He's a demagogue, and he's demagoguing to a vast amount of voters who don't have a lot

of money, and they live in the most expensive city in the country. And those people want handouts, and I'm not saying that in a way of diminishing them, but they don't believe they can make it. Some of them are ill and all that. But we have an extensive array of safety nets in this country. If you look at the budget of New York, fewer people in Florida, I mean, what are we now? three times. We spend three times as much money on social programs, and Florida does. We actually spend more money on social programs. I believe, you can correct me if I'm wrong down the road, but I believe when you combine Florida and Texas, those are two pretty big states. Yeah. We spend more.

So, but it's never going to be enough. And then you get into the theft that I'm going to take your house. I'm going to, you know, look, a $750,000 exclusion on a state tax means that a lot of people have to sell their homes and pay that. And they built up those homes for, in some cases, hundreds of years and passed them down. And now a kid's going to be facing. He's got to pay this amount of money to New York, this amount of money to feds. He's not going to have the cash. He's going to have to sell a house.

That's confiscation. That's communism. That's what they do. We want your private property. We want your success. And then we'll dole it out. And it's never doled out fairly, ever. It's always corrupt.

It's always you do this for me. I'll give you money. And so anyway, look, this is a bad guy. We're going to suffer in the next three years, and maybe it'll turn around. If Hoka loses, that'll be the first sign because she's an enabler. She backs him up.

She could just say to him, look, I'm not going to do anything you want, okay? So go marching every parade, but you're not getting anything. But you won't. But it's forcing her just, because you're right, she isn't enabled. She backs him up.

But it's worse because fear. She's afraid of them. She's afraid of the radical left. Yeah. Right. Because they're her moneyed people. And she's afraid of the Ocasio-Cortezus and all this kind of stuff. But look, New Yorkers have got to make a decision.

We can't keep going in this direction and be a viable state. You're going to collapse. Fiscally going to collapse. And it's not like California where it's, a primary rural state. People don't understand. New York is New York City. That's what New York is. Right. It's not Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, or Monticella, all right? Take it easy. Right. If city collapses, Rochester collapses. Right. All right, that's it. Now, while you were marching around Gladhanging with the cops, I was in a White House. You know, I wanted to bring that

up because I heard you talk about this last week on your show. Now, on this show, now you said there was a possibility, you wouldn't say yes or no, definitely you would actually see President Trump. So what did happen on Tuesday in D.C.? Well, I didn't talk to him. I did see him, and I, you know, waved across the plane. I'm not an intrusive guy. I let him know I was going to be there, but he, you know, he's in a middle of a war, and he had to host the Irish president. That's right. And, you know, I said, so I was there, and then with all the Irish people, who, and I must have posed for 100 pictures, and I'm happy to do that.

And I took my son, and any time you can go to the White House, you take that advantage, because it's just stunning. Yeah. And by the way, Spencer, for folks that don't know, Bill's son, who's a lovely boy, he's just a brilliant kid, too. He's been to school in England and great schools in this country. I was not long ago that I know you guys are going to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the president this Tuesday, but not that long ago where you actually gave Spencer the thrill of a life. time. You had that kid in the Oval Office.

Yeah, he sat in on three cabinet meetings so far. And then I dragged him to Beijing to sit in on their Politburo, Q&A with me. So he's at Georgetown. He's getting a master's American government, and we're very proud of him. And you are. I heard Dershowitz earlier on a vote. Congratulations on Penn. Thank you. And she'll do a lot of good with her a law degree. That's the key. Anyway, but I went to Washington, not just to schmooze at the White House.

I got so fed up with the coverage of the Iranian war that I said, I'm going to do something about it, which I have. So my task was to find the person in Washington, D.C., who knows more about Iran than anyone else. More about what was happening day to day than anyone else. I wonder if I could try to guess who this person would be. This is a clearly somebody who works for Trump, right? No. No. No.

Okay. Senator Lindsey Graham. Okay. So Graham knows more about what's going on in Iran on a day-to-day basis. How is that possible? He's from South Carolina. Number one, he has a very close relationship with the president. And they're on a phone two, three times a day.

Number two, he gets, he sees the daily intelligence. information that the president sees. Number three, his background is in this. He's a big foreign affairs guy. Yes, but I will tell you this. Right, I was going to say it, because I know he's going to be coming up on your wonderful new podcast. You just had Rob Snyder.

Where do you see this? I know it's going to be great. You're not going to believe it. No, I can't wait to say. I love Lindsay, but like you just said, he is, the people that don't like him, put him in that John Bolton class, that hawk class, and they're like, we don't take anything he says seriously. because if there's a bomb to be dropped,

you can bet your bottom dollar. Lindsay wants to drop it. But that doesn't matter because he's interviewing with me. None of that matters. So he is a hawk. So I sat down for one hour with this man. Awesome. Okay?

And it drops for bill o'Reilly.com, premium members at noon, for everybody else at six today. It is stunning. all of the questions and these idiot journalists, well, how long is it going to last? Oh, what about you? Every single one, starting with the word imminent.

And I pressed him for specifics. I mean absolutely specific information on all of it. It's one after another, after another, after another. And after the interview, he looked at me, he goes, whoever watches that will know more about this war than anybody else on the planet and I said yes, Senator

and I appreciate you answering the questions he did not dodge any questions No, he doesn't do that Listen, I love the guy He's very, very close with my cousin Norm Coleman or was the senator from Minnesota Their best buddies, I love him And I can't wait to watch this

But it's it It doesn't matter whether you love him or not Every American who cares about this war, and we all should, needs to see this. Not only do I talk about logistics, or what's actually happening in the military realm, but I talk about J.D. Vance. Not a fan.

Okay? I talk about all of the controversies, the Kent thing. Why this thing happen? Who is he? Yeah, but you say to me, it doesn't matter whether you like him or not, and here's the question I've got for you, Bill, because there's no doubt it's great and you're great and he's great and all that. And I'm interested in Imminent because I think Alan Dershowitz really explained it perfectly when he said,

well, we waited too long and Hitler did what he did in World War II, so imminent could have been a long time ago. But the question is, for the people that don't like Lindsay, for the people that are angry with President Trump, for the people that don't believe this war is a good effort and it's anything but America first, if they watch O'Reilly and Graham, Are you going to change our minds? Some of them.

You will. There's one part of the interview that's stunning. And it has to do with Eminent. And it's not philosophical like Dershowitz. It's factual. And that's what I do. I don't care about opinions about this. I don't care what they say on CNN about it or Fox.

Because they don't know anything. Graham knows. And he let it out. wanted to do this interview. I booked this myself. My staff didn't book it because this is not an easy interview to book. And I said, you got to go on at this point in history in our country, Senator. And you're going to lay out and tell people what you know and how you know it. I would ask you this without giving it away because people should go see this. By the way, that's also the beauty of a podcast, is that you can sit there for an hour or 90 minutes.

You know, here I'm, I got 13 minutes. I've got to run to commercial break. So the podcast cares gives you that range. We can sit there for an hour with a guy like Graham and have this important conversation without giving away too much, okay, Bill. Give me something, something delicious that the fans can hear right now that'll make them real excited to hear this outside the word imminent. Give me one other time during this conversation where even you learned something about this conflict.

Vance didn't want to do the action. I told you that. I told you. And not only did I want to do it, take it a step further. I'm not sure how much Graham said to you. he was a real pain in the ass, and he pissed off Trump. He didn't get into the personal. Okay.

But I gave it to you. The discussion then veered into, is it a good or a bad thing for the vice president to separate from a president on American military action? It's a horrible thing, and that's because J.D. Vance takes his advice from Tucker Carlson, and thank God the president doesn't. I don't know if that's fair or not. Oh, come on. His kid works for him. I don't know because if you look at Vance, he's consistent over his political career as not wanting to get into foreign adventures. And causing just within the last year or so came on with the anti-Israel stuff.

Yeah. We do talk about Netanyahu also being a very, very difficult person to deal with. Yeah. Well, Tom says that. He calls my pain in the ass. Right. So what I did was I knocked out all. all of the speculation, all of the opinion.

And I told them a couple of it. I said, Senator, that's your opinion. Back it up. I want to know this. All right. What did you see? What is the CIA saying? He gave you that.

Oh, yeah. That's why I'm telling every... I'm like Paul Revere. I'm running around my neighborhood going, you got to watch. Go to bill o'Reilly.com. You got to watch this up. Yep.

And then it's not a matter of persuading anybody to support or not support the action in Iran, but you will know, you will know why it was done and therefore can form an educated opinion. We have lost that in this country. We base our opinions on partisanship and emotion. And you can't do that in war. And when you've got a guy like Graham, who knows absolutely everything about this, and it ties into Ukraine, Putin, China. It ties into all of it. Where do you see this? I can't wait. No, I mean it. I can't wait. You say it drops at noon today for O'Reilly members and 6 p.m. for others. What's the exact times again? Just go to Bill O'Reilly.com. We make it really easy than I can do it to punch

up the podcast. It's on YouTube and all that, but I don't even know where YouTube is. I mean, I don't know. But you have almost 2 million viewers now on YouTube, Bill. You're actually doing great. It's crazy. You're doing great. I know.

It's insane. You're killing it on there. People come up and they go, I watch you on YouTube. I go, I wish I could. I watched you on YouTube actually, was it? Justin, two weeks ago when he did his no spin story on me and Mom Dani. We actually watched it on YouTube. It was great.

It's great. Well, anyway, I appreciate you. Let me talk about it. A very important part of history. Graham really is very articulate, heaving down to how long the thing's going to last. Oh, he told you. See, that's a big one. That's a big one. Wow. Okay, so let me ask you this, then, in the final 60 seconds, because I don't need Michael Bess Laws. No, thanks. I don't need Doris Curran's Goodwin, no thanks. Presidential historians, there's nobody better than you, and just read the book. Your last book on the president's is no better book. None. In fact, I can't wait to you add another chapter when Trump is all done because you couldn't do it at the time. Biden was still president.

But when it's all said and done, will this go down as a great effort for the United States? Will people go back and say, boy, when President Trump did this all the way back in 2006, it was a big, great deal for the country? How will this be viewed 50 years from now? Well, if it's successful in Iran becomes a civilized nation, then Trump will catapult himself up into the top 10 presidents, no doubt about it. But there's going to be payback for Europe. Big payback coming. You mean the country, like the U.K. stormer, the folks that refuse to help us.

Yeah, he's mad. He's mad, right? Ooh. Yeah. Oh. If it doesn't go well, then Trump's going to look. lose the midterms. And so this is what is riding on it. And that's why I was so crazed, and that's the word, to get an interview that defined it so that everybody could understand

it with the exception of mandami. He's the only one who won't be able to. Well, I'm very happy for you, Bill. It really does whatever it's worth, and this is why you're the best ever, you get people salivating. That's a heck of a radio tease about this podcast coming up with Lindsay Graham on Bill O'Reilly. Today you can catch it at noon and drop again at six for the non-members, I guess. But either way, you're going to want to check that out, Bill O'Reilly and Lindsay Graham. I'll be watching it this afternoon from the airport. Can't wait. So Bill O'Reilly, as always, you're beautiful. You're the best ever.

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