Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - President Trump's Joint Speech Aftermath, DOGE’s Wasteful Spending Report, Sanctuary City Hearings & Is This the End of the Democratic Party? Cheryl Chumley Weighs In

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

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Well, two major stories, the president's speech, which I think is still going on. You just took a break to go out to the head, and then he came back. longest speech in congressional history as far as the president is concerned. And then you had the hearings today on the House Oversight Committee with the four very left-wing mayors that, you know, they don't think they have to obey federal law. That was interesting hearing. We'll get to both of those things. But let's begin with Mr. Trump a last night.

The headline is if everything that Donald Trump laid out in one hour and 45 minutes comes true. He'll be on Mount Rushmore. They'll have to make a little space for him or maybe he'll buy his own mountain, but he'll become one of the greats. But that's a huge if because a lot of the things he's trying to do are very, very difficult, as we all know. And he's only been in office six weeks. So every president says, yeah, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They all do it. But Trump, he's got this vision. And if it's does play out. He catapults himself way up there. The second story, which I think is even more important than the first, is that the Democratic Party is in complete disarray. Hannity

locked into this today, I was on his radio program. We have that posted on Bill O'Reilly.com as we do every week about the disintegration of the Democratic Party in front of the nation and the world. They wouldn't applaud for people who deserved applause. They, they They were mean. And Trump did taunt them. There's no doubt Trump did. He taunted them. But boy, that Democratic Party is in disarray.

And I'll get into it pretty micro here. So this guy, Al Green, a congressman from Texas, he got a lot of attention because he got booted out and he was yelling or something. I mean, this guy, he is. a popping jay there you go word of the day he's a poppin jay you can look it up uh and he doesn't mean anything he's not a serious man he looks like he's something out of texas chainsaw massacre this guy all right so he gets kicked out and here's what he says go i'm willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me i didn't say to anyone don't punish me i've said i'll accept the punishment but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are

who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. No, Mr. Trump has no desire to do that, nor has he promoted anything that would result in cuts for those entitlements. Now, is Green lying? Yeah, in a way he's lying, but he's convinced himself because that's what he wants to believe. He wants to believe Trump wants to cut all of these entitlements and give the money the rich people. You've heard it a million times. what he wants to believe. So he's kind of talked himself into it. All right, that's not an excuse. I'm making an excuse for him. He's still lying because there's nothing on the record at all, and there won't be. Donald Trump's going to cut these programs. He's not. All right. In fact,

the programs are going to go on and on and on and on until Congress decides to up the age, and that's what's likely to happen, but not anytime soon. So Green lives in a world of his own. He doesn't matter for all the reasons that I mentioned. But more importantly, when you have the sister and the mother of Lake and Riley, and they're in the gallery, and President Trump cites the 22-year-old college student in Georgia who was murdered, allegedly by a Venezuelan undocumented migrant, when you have them there and you don't applaud and you don't applaud and you don't. don't show any sympathy. There's something wrong with you. Roll the tape.

Last year, I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain. That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety. It's a very strong, powerful act. It's called the Lakin'Reilly Act. So Allison and Lauren, America will never, ever forget our beautiful Laken Hope Riley. So a demonstration of assent by the Democratic Party. They don't like that bill.

That's tough. Then you had a 95-year-old grandmother who asked President Trump at Butler, Pennsylvania, get her son released from Russia because Putin threw him in itself for no reason, and Trump got him out. You don't have any emotion from the Democratic Party on that? Then you had a kid with cancer. You know, on and on and on. You sat there.

And one of the really weird weird, bizarre things was when President Trump was again taunting the Democrats about Ukraine. Go. The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security, with no anything. Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah, yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes. That's just bizarre. So I wrote a message of the Dan Bill O'Reilly.

said Vietnam left was against it okay Iraq war left was against it Afghanistan left didn't want it killing Soleimani left wing objected Biden wouldn't okay the raid to get bin Laden advised President Obama against it so all of that is history in the modern era the left Elizabeth Warren those people they don't want war They want peace at any price, okay? But now when Trump, and I do believe he will get this deal soon, okay, no, they don't want it. No, uh-uh. And it's all because of Trump.

They hate him so much that they won't applaud for Lake and Riley's mom and sister. They won't applaud for a 95-year-old grandmother. And they won't say, yeah, it'd be better to stop this Ukrainian thing, even if we have to fake it on Putin. even if we have to, you know, patronize him a little bit. So it's disturbing to me. And you're witnessing the Democratic Party fall apart. So Hannity asked me today, and it was pretty interesting. He said, well, did you ever see anything like this?

I said, yeah, I have. And in 1929, when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression kept hold, Americans were suffering badly. And Herbert Hoover was a Republican president. And Hoover basically told the suffering American people, we're not going to help you. And the Republican Congress said, no, we're not going to do anything. You've got to get it out on your own. We're not going to set up a bunch of programs.

That led to five terms for Democrats, five, four from FDR, one for Truman, okay? And then finally, Dwight Eisenhower, got it in the 50s. That was a destruction of the Republican Party. We're watching the same thing play out with the Democratic Party now. And it's a very, very fascinating, and it's almost self-destruction, because they've got to know. I mean, you had a girl there last night, Peyton, and News Nation had an interview with her, very articulate girl. You're playing high school sports against a trans guy volleyball. And a trans guy goes up and smashes the volleyball against the girl's head, resulting in brain damage.

And you're this Democrats sitting over there going, we don't want to stop that. No, we want to bring on more trans guys to play against women and girls. That's insane. And that's why the party is unraveling. Trump's one of the luckiest presidents in the United States history because his opposition hates him so much that they're destroying themselves. And hatred will do that to you. You'll destroy yourself.

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But beginning April 2nd, President Trump said, look, Biden ran up a $1.2 trillion trade deficit. That means $1.2 trillion went out, all right, to other countries, and we were down in the hole. Trump wants to even it out. So he says, if you charge us 20% for Ford or Chevy, we're charging you 20% for Mercedes or whatever. It's going to be even. Not Biden, just saying, I don't care if anybody charges his tariff.

We're not going to do anything about it. I think Biden, my God. So that's what this is all about. And I don't know if it's going to work. I don't know if the U.S. economy is going to be impacted negatively. I know the stock market shaky. Anybody who can read knows that. Business doesn't like it, but

1.2 trillion trade deficit, something's got to be done about it. And Trump is trying. Okay. So here's what he says about the tariff go. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada, have you heard of them?

And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It's very unfair. India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%. China's average tariff on our products is twice, but we charge them. That means to get American products into China, India, Mexico, and Canada, the companies have to pay those governments to allow the products in. All right. And Trump says, all right, you're going to do that. Then your products from India and China, you're going to pay us the same amount.

That's what this is about. Okay. So all in all, I think it was a big win for Donald Trump last night. The Snap polls say it was that I don't trust those. But he got his points across. He taunted his opposition into more self-destructive behavior. And the happiest guy in that room last night, that'll be J.D. Vance. They got no one to put it again. They got nothing. Midterms? I don't know.

Trump's got to put a few wins on the board economically, though. He'll get the Ukraine thing settled, I think. But economically, you're going to watch that. And that's a memo. Okay. The reaction on television news. I was on News Nation. I think I did it. a fair job on there and a run up tonight i'll be on with quomo uh should be up around eight o'clock um and uh my job is to give you an honest appraisal of what happens that's it no ideology no party favors none of that i'm going to wear a little democratic hat or a republican pin okay we don't do that here anyway uh but the usual suspects who make money telling you and me and everybody else what their corporate masters tell them and say they're like

parrots here's what they did go this was a tale of american empire because at the end of the day he wants to run it all he wants to rule it all he wants to control it all so it's a tale of american empire my problem is like wicked you go it's like a fantasy and then you come back home you got to deal with reality in the speech he loves the military in reality in reality he he's cutting VA and throwing veterans out of work. Well, folks, tonight Donald Trump delivered an address. It was the longest ever to Congress. And that address was detached from reality, and it was full of lies.

His presidential address was not presidential. His performance, another reminder that none of this is normal. So it's the usual tripe, and I got to show it to you because this happens every day. And there's no context to it. Oh, they want to cut the veterans. They want to throw these people out. work? Well, the government's bloated, all right? Everybody knows it's bloated. Everybody knows wasteful spending is all over the place. Everybody knows that Joe Biden did not do his job

for four years and allowed our treasury just to be ransacked. If you don't know that, then they're not smart enough to watch the news and or not honest enough, one of the two. Doge. Okay. So this is another polarizing thing. All right. So the Department of Government Efficiency is new. Trump set it up. Elon Musk in charge. Elon is a hot shot. Okay? He's a polarizing guy. So I asked myself, I said, look, let's find four things that Donald Trump said were wasteful, and he spent three minutes and 17 seconds running down about 20 of them. Let's put four at random, which I did. I did it. And see if it's true or not. That's pretty good, right? That's a fair assessment. First one, $22 billion from Health and Human Services Department

to provide free housing and cars, transportation, from documented migrants. That is true. According to Open the Books, which is monitors government spending. That's true. Second one, $60 million American taxpayer dollars for indigenous peoples and Afro-Columbian empowerment in Central America. USAID supervised that. It's true. No one knows where the money went. 60 million went to Colombia.

Where is it? What did it do? That's why the U.S. AID was closed down. Third one, the Republic of Moldova, which is near Ukraine, received $32 million from the USA to promote a left-wing propaganda operation. True. And again, this was under USAID. Why? Why would you spend that money?

All right. And the final one, $42 million for behavior change in Uganda. True. Now, this money was given to Johns Hopkins University in a grant form by the USAID. Well, what kind of behavior changed in Uganda for American dollars, $42 million? What? I'm sure Johns Hopkins has got a reason. It's a very fine school.

Now, right at this point, the waste that Donald Trump mentioned last night stands at $25 billion. It's a lot of money. All right? It's a quarter of a trillion. And you haven't even gone into the Pentagon or the Department of Education, which are too enormous, okay, wasters of money. so i like this doge right do you not want this democrats don't want it they don't want to know they just want to send money to moldova and uh uganda why never an answer who will we do a lot of good over there yeah all right new poll rasmussen about doge majority of american

support it fair poll first question would you support or oppose having a Department of Government Officials to an audit of Social Security. Support 59, total opposed 35. Now, Donald Trump made a big deal out of this, so there's all kinds of fraud and social security payments. We'll see if we can back that up, but folks want to see it. How likely is it that an audit of Social Security would reveal widespread fraud? Total likely 61, unlikely 33. Third question, How confident are you that social security system will pay you all the promised benefits? Confident 55, not confident, 41. Final question, which political party you trust more to handle social security?

Democrats, 43, Republicans, 44. Well, Democrats will handle Social Security, but will they watch the spending? No. They will not. Biden proved it. Okay. Once again, last night, Trump said that Biden was the worst president in our history. Street. Second. I've talked to the president about this. But I know it's rhetorical. I know he's just

using it as rhetorical device. All right, how about a migrant deportation update? Well, we don't have one. So in the beginning, they were running around, photo ops all over the place, but now slow down, as I predicted it would. This is hard. So there are no updates from the Department of Homeland Security. None. Last thing was DHS chief, Christy Knoem, announced that 20,000 illegal aliens had been arrested in February. This MailChimp-Forific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp. MailChimp, your marketing with AI and more. Advanced automations to connect to your store. MailChimp, Your Marketing and booster clicks.

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Sanctuary Cities. So four mayors are all off the chart left. Eric Adams, New York, Brandon Johnson, Chicago, Michelle Wu, Boston, Mike Johnson. Denver. So they have to show up testify before the House Oversight Committee. That's James Comer's committee. Two sound bites for you. Mayor Wu, Boston basically defied the federal government. Said, like, I'm not obeying Homeland Security detainers. We're not going to do it, period. Roll the tape. I quoted Tom Homan, the so-called Bordersar, saying that he wanted to bring hell. He was bringing hell to the city of Boston. What did you understand?

stand him to mean by that? Let's talk about Tom Homan. Shame on him for lying about my city, for having the nerve to insult our police commissioner who has overseen the safest Boston's been in anyone's lifetime. Bring him here under oath, and let's ask him some questions.

I am here to make sure that the city of Boston is safe. Others may want to bring hell. We are here to bring peace to cities everywhere. No, it's just rhetoric. So Boston is a safe city, and it's because of community policing. I don't have time to report on it, but they do a good job up there. The city's running down, as I told you, I was there last weekend. But as far as violent crime is concerned, the Boston PD has formed an alliance with churches in high crime neighborhoods and it's worked.

and their crime rate is under control in Boston. That's what Wu is saying, because our crime rate is under control, we don't have to obey any ICE undocumented migrant crime stuff. We don't have to obey it. Well, she's wrong. And she'll learn the hard way because the federal government will sue her in Boston. And that will cost Bostonians millions of dollars to defend a suit, and in the end she'll lose. because federal law

override state and local law. Everywhere, no exceptions. All right, so the other guy is Brandon Johnson. This is the guy who embarrassed himself, and I used to live in Denver. It was a wholly different city when I lived there. But Johnson embarrassed himself because the suburb of Aurora,

where I actually lived, okay, was infiltrated by Venezuelan gangs who caused all kinds of trouble. Roll the tape. I'm asking about Mr. Abrams. Abraham Gonzales, who's a gang member from Venezuela, stole a car, assaulted someone. You had him in your custody for how long? I know that we released him.

345 days you had him in custody. And I said, hey, can you give us 48 hours heads up? I don't know. You gave him one hour notice. Mr. Congressman, we notified them released. There were six ICE agents present when he was released, so they had enough time to respond and to be present. Respond where? To the jail where we released him from.

So we released them to, we notified them of the release time. When we notify them of release, they come to the jail facility to pick them up. Well, why didn't you say, that's not what you said. You said you release him to the streets. Did you release him to the streets? Did you release him to the ice? It's a simple question. You can release him in the parking lot, give ice one hour notice, and they've got to send six officers to arrest this guy.

Or you can say, hey what? Here's what we're going to do. We're going to hold him. You come in and bring two officers in and you turn him over there. Why not do it that way? We have a city. You know why you don't do it that way? We have a city ordinance that governs...

Because you're a sanctuary city. This is the whole point. No, sir, I disagree with you. Oh, okay. Because I'll tell you why. If you talk about sanctuary as a definition of shielding people from law enforcement, we do not do that. What we do is provide services in this context, what we did is, as we coordinated the release. The officer got assaulted because of your policy, which says we're going to release him to, in your words, not mine, to the streets.

They have to arrest him in the parking lot. They bring six officers when they could have had one or two, just come in your facility, in the jail and take the guy there. But you won't do it that way. Because once again, it's the same thing. We have an ordinance. No. The federal law overrides your local ordinance. You know, the Trump administration has to punish these people.

Temple is that. Where they're not going to stop. I join us now as a columnist, conservative, where it's the Washington Times, who follows a lot of the undocumented controversies. as a new book out, God Given or Bust, Defeating Marxism and Saving America with Biblical Truths, Cheryl Chumley, joins us now from Virginia. All right, we'll get to the book in a moment and taunting the opposition.

That's what President Trump did last night. Do you think that was an effective strategy? Trump was what Trump was, right? This is what he does. And I think most Trump supporters, and he, even those who don't support Trump weren't surprised by the speech that he delivered last evening. I thought personally it was a little bit too long, but I think he made the key points that his base wanted to hear. And really, the more interesting takeaway to me was the Democrat response,

much of which he went over in your talking points. But, you know, it continues today. We had Democrat congresswoman from Texas calling Trump a fascist and, you know, the main street. media calling out Trump as being divisive and so forth. And I think this is the only narrative they have that and talking about the price of eggs because most Americans are in support of the America. Yeah, they got to jan it up and that's a flu. The Washington Post, where you live, had an interesting headline. Let's throw that on up. And I'll read it to our radio listeners. Washington Post defiant Trump signals full speed ahead on divisive policy. I thought the Washington Post is trying to moderate.

That's a pretty explosive headline there. Then Time Magazine does with Time Magazine always does. Nobody reads it anymore. But the Washington Post is like, you're device. You know, I think Joe Biden was pretty divisive. He didn't do anything in a country went downhill. I mean, it divided me. But it doesn't look like the Washington Posts is it looks like they're the same old, same old.

Am I wrong here? No, you're not. I look forward to when Jeff Bezos hires his new libertarian leaning or more conservative leaning opinion editor for those pages because they really do need it. And look, most Americans know by now the media is going to do what the media does with Donald Trump, all things Trump. So this is not really news. The bigger news is how the administration is. is going to respond to the Democrats who keep resisting very, in many unconstitutional ways against his agendas and policies.

They don't have to respond, though. Trump doesn't have to respond to the Democrats other than to enforce the law. So I said that Michelle Wu better watch herself or should wind up in handcuffs and Holman will probably go up there and put them on himself. But they're already suing the Trump administration, Chicago, State of Illinois. That's Pritzker. but as far as responding in a PR fashion, I think the folks are with Trump at this point.

He's got to produce economically, though. Yeah, economically is key. And you're right that most Americans are with Trump at this point because Democrats are just making ludicrous arguments. I listen to the opening statements of those four Democrat mayors testifying on their sanctuary policies. And one of the key talking points that they all brought forward in various language was that illegal immigrants in their city actually make their city safer because if you deport the illegals, then illegals will be afraid to report crimes that they see to police. Yeah, that's an old one.

Ridiculous argument. It's been going on forever, right? Right. So we can't do anything about people here. illegally because they may not report a crime. I think Americans, and all the polls say that, Cheryl, you know that. They want order in their immigration law. They want order. I mean, they're not looking for grandmas to be thrown out or any of this stuff. Trump's going to lose the birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court's never going to reverse that in a million years.

It's a loser for him. But they don't want what Biden brought, and that's absolute chaos. When you see, you know, you live near the District of Columbia, which Trump wants to take over, by the way, because it's so corrupt and so crime-ridden and, you know, they don't force any laws there. Or am I overstating that? I don't live there. Am I overstating that? We see you getting after your fitness goals, but what about those money goals? You can count on credit karma for a clear view of your finances and your progress, helping you see results, so you can. can keep checking off those financial personal bests and find your way to money. Progress never felt so good.

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where they wouldn't even applaud Lake and Riley's mom and sister, Hannity asked me today, is at the end of the Democratic Party? Are they so far out of touch they will never come back? It's an interesting question, right? Because I think the Democrat Party has been going down this, self-destructive path for many years. If you go back in time when Tom Perez was head of the DNC, and he proclaimed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the future of the party, I think that sort of made a marker in time of when the party really started falling. I don't think it's the end of the

Democrat Party, but I do think that they're going to need a massive course correction because what they're offering is so against not just Republican agendas, but just against American agendas and principles. Traditional American, no doubt. And that brings us to your book, God given her boss, defeating Marxism, saving America with biblical truth. So Ocasio-Cortez is a socialist. I mean, I don't know if she's a communist or not. I think Bernie Sanders is absolutely a communist, but Ocasio-Cortez, I'm not sure. I don't even know if she's sure, because I don't think she even understands with the philosophy as she's peddling, but I could be wrong on that. Anyway, your book says, look, in order to defeat this movement, Sanders and Acosta

Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, that you're going to need some kind of biblical help? Is that what it is? Just go back in time to what founding fathers put forth in the Declaration of Independence, which was sort of the marching orders for the form of governance they gave us, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, right? we're granted by a creator, a higher power, certain unalienable rights. And so what, in essence, they were saying is as an individual, we take our rights and liberties from a higher power, not government.

So if we want to win long-term liberties and freedoms and rights in this country for the individual, we always have to remember it's not so much the political world that's going to win it for us. It's the insistence on whoever is in political power, Republican or Democrat, to recognize that our rights as individuals come from God. A lot of people don't believe that. The book, again, is God Given or Bust by Cheryl Chumley. Cheryl, thanks for helping us out. Good to see you. We'll talk again soon.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, Pope Francis, didn't do Ash Wednesday. I got my ashes at noon in the local church here. but makeup covers it because if I don't wear makeup, you'd scream and children would cry. So I'm one of those. But the Pope, I'm afraid to say, is, you know, on his way out. He's a good man, as I told you. There are about two and a half billion Christians all over the world celebrating Ash Wednesday today. And there is a new study, Baylor University, Harvard, together,

research 200,000 people, and those who go to church, all right, involved, with a church any church could be the uh muslim islam could be jewish could be christian whatever they are healthier physically healthier and they're attributed to they're not as lonely they're not as isolated they have something to believe in and the mental helps the physical interesting study stay in history march 5th 1982 comedian john balushi dies of a drug overdose in Hollywood, 33 years old. He's out. Belucie, huge star on Saturday Night Live, as you know, and his legacy is now once again front and center because Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary. Here's a bit of Belushi. Go.

Coming to you, all the dusty road, good love you, I got a truckload, and wait a giddy, you got some, so don't worry, because I'm coming, I'm a soul man, I'm a soul man, I'm a soul man. All right, so Belushi was injected with heroin and cocaine, they call out a speedball by a woman in Kathy Smith who was found guilty since the 15 months. That's it, 15 months in a California prison. She got out. She was deported back to her home country of Canada, where she was arrested again for

heroin possession. She died at the age of 73. Now, Cassie Smith, for injecting John. Belushi with that deadly drug should have gotten 10 years and dope dealers who sell poison on the street fentanyl and all of that should be minimums state and federal minimums for them i mean this is a vicious violent crime vicious violent crime selling horror drugs and we still a penalties now are less than they were when Balucci was killed 43 years ago and yeah it's partly Boulucci's fault. He was a drug taker. Yeah. But this woman, injecting him, 10 years.

That would have been a fair sentence. Okay, back with a final thought in a moment. So the effort mentioned Stephen A. Smith on The View yesterday. He has said it. He regrets voting for Kamala Harris, and he's not a big fan of the Democratic Party. Go. I think so. I don't like what I'm seeing from Trump. I didn't like what I saw was Zelensky. I didn't like what I saw with a few things. But in the end, in the end, the point, yeah, I didn't like it. But in the end, what it comes down to is this. The American people, in their eyes, it wasn't about him. They were voting against what the Democrats were thrown in their direction.

Now, he's going to have to slow down in his live presentation. But he's an interesting guy, Smith. So it's three diverse points of view on the Three Americans Tour. And again, we hope you check us out. And that is it for us today. all right thank you very much for watching and listening to the no spin news we'll see you tomorrow