Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - President Trump's Pre-Speech Analysis, Historian Talmage Boston's Advice to Donald Trump, Entitlement Panic & the Senate Rejects Bill to Ban Transgender Athletes

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:52 Up front payment of $45 for three-month plan equivalent to $15 per month required. New customer offer for first three months only. Speed slow after 35 gigabytes of networks busy. Taxes and fees extra. Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, March 4, 2025, stand up for your country. 160 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, perhaps the best presidential speech in history. And we will deal with it in our history segment a bit later on. I mention it
Starting point is 00:01:36 because Donald Trump has a big opportunity tonight with his speech in front of Congress. And this high drama because of Ukraine, the tariffs and the rising disenchantment toward the president from the Democratic Party. So nobody knows how this is going to shake down. But we will be on it, I will be tweeting throughout the speech at Bill O'Reilly, if you want to get those tweets, and I will be on News Nation before, and, you know, Bill O'Reilly.com is a place for honest analysis, and we'll tell you exactly what we believe. We're not partisan players here, as you know. Now, the Talking Points memo is an assessment of where we are in history today. So Donald Trump started off in a shocking fashion for many Americans, and he will run down
Starting point is 00:02:40 tonight his accomplishments. You're going to expect to hear about the border. I mean, border is unbelievable. The encounters with migrants fall about 98% from year to year on Biden, it was totally out of control, as everybody knows. And then the president will get to the other situations that Americans want to hear about, particularly tariffs and Doge and DEI. So we expect all that. I also expect, and I hope it does not happen to any great extent, severe criticism of Joe Biden. Now, I know if you don't like the Democrats and Biden, that doesn't bother you. But to me, Donald Trump will come out stronger if he concentrates on problem solving. Yes, I would, he will mention, we're in this mess because Biden screwed up.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Yes, but don't make it a theme. Okay, use it as a fact. You want to bring in some stats, sure. But if the theme is, he's just an income poop, that doesn't get us very far. Because Americans are uneasy. I'm going to give you some polling numbers in a minute. And we have a right to be uneasy. The stock market, in the last two days, you know, they don't like the tariffs.
Starting point is 00:04:17 And most people don't even understand what the tariffs are. I'd like Donald Trump to explain why he is so bullish on tariffs to our friends, I understand China, but if he just kind of bashes Biden and doesn't get into the specifics of his policies to correct what he sees as deficiencies in this country, not going to come off well. And Ukraine is huge. You know, everybody's talking about Ukraine, everybody. and then Trump has got a kind of step-by-step it. Now, I've done that, but I'm not the president. So if you really want to know what's happening in Ukraine, you go to Bill O'Reilly.com, I got a column,
Starting point is 00:04:59 I got a message on it, a stair step, and all of that. Okay. Important speech tonight, because Donald Trump is a very big opportunity to become a significant president. By that I mean in the Annals of the president. of history because he can solve with his team a lot of vexing problems, whereas the Biden administration didn't even try. And that's my message of the day yesterday. I just ran down
Starting point is 00:05:32 the list. Did they try to solve this? No, no, no, no. And that's not partisan analysis. That's historical analysis. They never tried. Trump is trying. Will he be successful? No one knows. Okay, tone is extremely important here. So I hope he doesn't relitigate the 2020 election. I'll go back. I would not even mention January 6th. I wouldn't mention a pardons. I wouldn't mention any of that. Just forward looking. And the tone needs to be authoritative and credible. Here's why I'm doing what I'm doing. And keep it simple. So to folks understand it. Trump is a champion bloviator and takes one to no one, okay?
Starting point is 00:06:24 He'll run more than an hour tonight. It's supposed to start at 9 o'clock, and he'll be out of about 10.20, and then if you're watching cable TV, you'll see the nonsense that immediately emerges. Again, I will be tweeting what the truth is. Everybody's taking it tonight. All the networks, everybody's taken. It's big, very big for Donald Trump. He's got to know it.
Starting point is 00:06:53 And the tone, what I mean by that, is say somebody yells something at them from the audience, which they did to Obama, you'll remember. Liar, remember that? If I'm Trump, the only thing I say is this. I expected you would do that, but I have very important things to tell the American people. That's it. shut them down. Don't enable them.
Starting point is 00:07:18 And if somebody walks out, if somebody does something on tour, let them. Who cares? Do you care? I don't. And the sergeant arms will remove people, of course, who interrupt the speech. And you're not going to have a Nancy Pelosi backbiting him, tearing up his speech. I'm going to have that. All right.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Hakeem Jeffries will be sitting back there with Johnson, the Speaker of the House. And they'll be respectful. I don't expect anything from leadership. But you'll have some people in the audience. I mean, it's Murphy. The Senator Murphy, insane what he's doing. I'll get to that tomorrow. Anyway, summing up, very important address, for we the people.
Starting point is 00:08:06 It's very important that we understand what the dramatic situation that we're in really means and how Trump is going to govern going forward because there's so much that comes at us in what six weeks time and that's a memo let's get another point of view on this so again what we do here just so you know is we have usually one guest a program sometimes two
Starting point is 00:08:39 but usually one and I said to my people I don't want partisans unless I'm going after somebody I don't really want that okay that doesn't serve anybody I want people who's smart different points of view can state their case it's much more beneficial to you the viewer and listeners so joining us now from Dallas is a man named Talmadge Boston he's a presidential historian he's read a book called how the best did it leadership lessons from our top presidents and That has been out about a year. It's done very well.
Starting point is 00:09:17 We did not steal from Mr. Boston's book for confronting the president. These are two separate books, although there is cross-section about Abraham Lincoln, of course, and people like that. All right, Mr. Boston, do you disagree with anything in my setup to Trump speech tonight? I think it's accurate. I think if you see the Democratic women in Congress. Congress are playing on wearing pink. Maybe the black Republican, I mean, African American Congressional Caucus is going to wear black. Who knows what other things they have planned in an attempt to draw attention to themselves and thereby draw attention away from President Trump. President
Starting point is 00:10:04 Trump does need to do all the things that you said in terms of take the high road, talk about what he wants to do, what American must do to turn around where we've been the last four years. And to the extent he can keep it professional and under control and not take the bait that will surely come at him from certain members of the Democratic Congress will certainly cause him to have a better overall night. And there's so much going on in the world right now with Ukraine and Russia, with the imposition of these tariffs and what their impact is going to be on inflation as well as relations with Mexico and Canada and China. A lot of, a lot of balls over the year.
Starting point is 00:10:49 Yeah, a lot of important stuff. If you were writing the speech, because I know you wrote for the Dallas Morning News, would you mention Biden or and how much? Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the world's politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between.
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Starting point is 00:12:20 with Biden sitting there. So I don't think going back to reiterate those points that were made six weeks ago very emphatically is something that needs to be done. I think it would be a great opportunity for Trump to show that he's past that. He's ready to lead now. He's ready to take the country in new directions. He's not about retribution. He's not about being critical of somebody who's no longer in the picture.
Starting point is 00:12:44 Let's deal with today and let's move forward tomorrow. I have a slight disagreement with you, though. If he's going to tell the American people about problems he's attempting to solve, he's got to define the problem. So in the Biden administration, for example, and we're going to do this later on in this broadcast, Medicaid spending went totally out of control. spiral totally out of control because the Biden administration allowed the states to abuse the federal money.
Starting point is 00:13:16 The same thing with Doge. You know, you've got to lay off so many people in the federal apparatus because there's way too many and the budgets are just going through the roof. And he has to apply that to Biden in order to get sympathy
Starting point is 00:13:33 for his firings, for example. Am I wrong? Well, I think he needs to address the problem. And obviously the problem was caused by his predecessor, not by him. What I was meaning by my remarks is don't make it personal. It's fine to define the problem that he's now trying to tackle. We know that he didn't cause the problem, his predecessor did. But let's talk about what we're going to do about the problem.
Starting point is 00:13:56 So don't call him sleepy, Joe. You don't need to sleepy in this. You just need the facts. Now, the Ukraine thing, he's got to get that up top. We hear rumors of me an announcement, but I guess they're tamping that down. NBC is reporting that the speech is going to be about rising American power, about how we're, you know, Trump, under Trump's leadership, American is going to reassert its power in the world. That's going to be an overarching. But Ukraine is the beginning of that.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Now, Trump's kind of caught because he can't say to the American people, here's what I'm going to do with Vlad Putin. He can't lay out his negotiating tactics, but at the same time he's got to explain why he's not hammering Putin who's as evil as they come, right? How would you handle that? Well, Trump obviously has very specific ideas about how he wants to negotiate this deal. He's met previously with Putin. obviously now met with Zelensky he's trying to figure out the best possible angle and
Starting point is 00:15:07 gaining information along the way with each transaction each communication each observation I don't think in his own mind he's established a set strategy for how he's going to deal with Putin he obviously doesn't want to set anything back he wants to think that whatever he does moves his position forward he obviously wants to achieve a piece I think everybody wants that, the question is under what terms, and is it going to be something that America's going to be happy with, that Europe's going to be happy with, or not? Is he going to look like Putin's foil, or is he going to look like he ultimately wins the negotiation? He darn sure does not want to look like Putin's foil. That would be a disaster. Do you think he has to explain why
Starting point is 00:15:51 he slapped Zelensky around? Do you think he has to go into a micro on that? he probably will go into a microdo do i think he has to i think he needs to offer a brief explanation as to what he why he thought it was important on television in the oval office something that's never happened before to have this kind of an angry confrontation with somebody who in many respects should be our ally although he was not exactly on his base best behavior so i think some explanation is is necessary but hopefully it won't go on and on and be too micro and won't involve too bad of personal criticism of the way Zelensky handled himself because that's not going to advance the ball.
Starting point is 00:16:35 You know, I would, if I were Trump, I would praise Zelensky. I would say, look, I understand why he's so emotional about it. Because country's getting battered. You got a million people lying dead. You get eight million fled the country. I would almost be generous to Zelensky. That would just discombobulate the opposition number of. one and send a message to the world, it's not personal, where I think it is a little personal
Starting point is 00:17:01 myself. I think Trump is offended by Zelensky's swagger and a sense of entitlement. I saw it on you. It was visible. You know, Zolensky feels he's entitled to the United States's largesse. Where is it? No doubt that Zelensky, I think today I saw something he's come out and realizes that he handled it him properly. This was not. the time of the place or the manner to deal with this very delicate situation. I do think almost all Americans are pulling for Ukraine, and certainly nobody's pulling for Putin that has any sense at all. And so he knows where the American people want this to come out, and it's his job to orchestrate it with the best possible deal.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And his job to bring it into this war has been going on so long. Well, the president didn't ask me. I have to be up front because sometimes he does. But if he had asked me, I would say, be a little conciliatory to Zelensky. Just send a message that, look, we understand your emotions got the better of you. And, you know, when you're seeing people die all over the place, and there's no doubt that Putin's the most evil guy on earth. But if Trump wants to deal with him, he can't say it. When you agree with that, if Trump wants to get something out of Putin, he can't call him the most evil. My book coming up is Confronting Evil.
Starting point is 00:18:23 I got Putin right on a cover. But I'm not negotiating a peace deal with the man. Trump can't do that. Am I wrong? Anybody who's ever been involved in negotiation knows you don't start the negotiation by spitting in the guy's face or doing things to aggravate the guy. You know, the old adage, if somebody likes you, he'll give you the benefit of the doubt. And if he doesn't, he won't.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Negotiations doesn't necessarily involve compromise. And nobody wants to even think about compromise if you've been personally insulted. it. Right. And Zulinski has not been in that compromise zone. I want to be fair and point that out. Final question, you're a presidential historian. I believe that Trump is going for the gold here. And I know that because he's disgusted with me. He wants to be on Mount Rushmore. I mean, can't be on that mountain, but he can buy his own mountain. He put his face up there. And I hope he's thinking about his legacy tonight when he delivers.
Starting point is 00:19:23 the speech, which is an important speech, obviously, because pettiness doesn't get you on Mount Rushmore, right? Well, the great presence understand the concept of magnanimity, taking the high road, not taking the bait to your critics, seeing the big picture, seeing it through, not getting bogged down in petty quarrels, and not that Trump has proven himself to be a student of history, but even with a skim reading of history, you'd know that's the way you behave. Trump's been involved in hundreds, if not thousands of negotiations. He understands dealing with people in the context of negotiation.
Starting point is 00:20:03 And what happens in this Ukraine, Russia will definitely set the tone, I think, for the rest of his presidency. So this is extremely important, and he knows that. And hopefully he's going to come up with the best strategy that doesn't get personal, keeps all the objectives in the front of the mind, doesn't get sidetracked by personal attacks and gets us to the go line sooner rather than later. That's a good point. That he knows that this Ukraine thing is a linchpin for the next four years. Mr. Boston, thanks very much. Really appreciate the book again is how the best did it. Leadership lessons from our top
Starting point is 00:20:39 presidents, Talmadge of Boston. Okay, how about some polling? Emerson, that's a college in Boston. And a bunch of my friends went there. It's a good school, specialized in media. So a thousand registered voters, fair sample. First question, do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president? I approve 48, disapprove 43. That's a nice number for the president. Do you think the United States is given too much, too little, right amount to Ukraine? Too much? 45, too little, 22, right amount, 33. So that's another. interesting number. Americans are getting a little testing now. Third question. Which country do you believe walked away the winner from the Oval Office meeting? USA 35, Ukraine 15, neither 46. I would
Starting point is 00:21:33 probably say neither if I have been asked that. Final question, do you approve or disprove the way Donald Trump is handling the war between Russia and Ukraine? Approved 41, disprove 44, no opinion 15. evenly split with the margin of error. CNN poll. Now remember CNN, they skew left. Emerson, I haven't really seen any ideology in that poll, but CNN certainly skews left. Do you approve or disprove the way Donald Trump's handling his job as president?
Starting point is 00:22:07 Prove 48, disapprove 52. Very different from Emerson. But the margin of error is three, so it's very close. Second question, you think the policy is being proposed by Trump will move the country in the right direction or wrong direction? Right direction 39, wrong direction 45. No opinion, 15. Okay. Entitlement panic. So there is an industry and it is media. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream
Starting point is 00:22:56 media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. And liberal politicians, okay? And most media are liberal. So that's it, it's an industry. They've come together. And they lost the election. Now the new strategy is destroy Trump. Okay, that's what you're seeing here. So when a guy like Senator Murphy goes out and says Trump's an arm of the Kremlin, which he did yesterday, all right, why is Murphy saying? that. Number one, Murphy has no solution to the Ukraine war. Nothing. Puts forth nothing. Doesn't
Starting point is 00:23:49 have anything. Wouldn't interview with me in a million years. Because that made my first question. Well, all right, you don't like Trump's take on it. What would you do? Well, he doesn't have it. So what Murphy is doing is in business to destroy Trump. You know, got to understand that. And certain media are in that business as well. One of the bullets they're going to use, all right, to try to bring Trump down is the entitlements. Entitlements are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Those are the big three. Now, people don't like, well, I paid in.
Starting point is 00:24:30 It's not an entitlement. That's what the definition is. Okay? All right. Medicaid is a big one. because under the Biden administration, the spending got totally out of control, $3 trillion on Medicaid in four years, average 9% hike a year. Now, you hear the Democrats say every day, every way,
Starting point is 00:25:02 Trump wants to do away with Medicaid and Social Security cuts the ones or cut them. So you poor people, you sick people, you're going to get screwed. That's the way to get Trump. That's what they're using. But it's not true. The Wall Street Journal had an excellent analysis of this. And I'm going to read you one of their paragraphs here. Quote, the Biden administration also gave states waivers to spend federal Medicaid dollars
Starting point is 00:25:36 on non-medical purposes, including food, homeless housing, and personal transportation. Health and human services is only supposed to grant such waivers if they do not increase the federal deficit. But the Biden-HHS ignored this rule, unquote. Not only that, but states like California and Oregon were taking federal Medicaid dollars and using them on dance classes, on cooking classes, and the Biden did nothing about it. All right?
Starting point is 00:26:13 So in the budget that just passed in the House, and that'll have to be reconciled in the Senate, okay, Medicaid spending is 2.2%, about 2%, not 9. So they're saying you're cutting, you're not cutting it. They're increasing Medicaid, the federal government's increasing Medicaid spending, but only by two, not nine. Nobody knows this. The president's never going to report it. You'll never hear it.
Starting point is 00:26:50 They'll go, oh, you're going to cut, you're going to cut, you're going to cut, you're going to cut. That's the attack. It just makes me so angry. So it gets on the media. We're going to run a clip from CNN first, and MSNBC second. Go. That show is going on tour and is coming to a city near you. And they are going to cut your Social Security.
Starting point is 00:27:11 They're going to cut your Medicaid. They're going to cut your Medicare. They're going to cut your Section 8. And you're not going to get money. Your prices are not going to go down. What he is doing is cutting with a chainsaw important services that benefit every American. and to make room for those tax cuts for the very rich. And so they want to cut things like Medicaid, Medicare,
Starting point is 00:27:35 and on top of that, they will add to the deficit and debt. Now, I expect those people to say that. What I don't expect is the anchors who are sitting there letting them go unchallenged when I just gave you the facts. And they're not hard to get. but they have no interest in getting those facts, CNN and MSNBC. None. Just as a pro-Trump networks have no interest in telling you anything bad about him.
Starting point is 00:28:09 It's the same thing. However, when you have blatant lies like the Republicans and Trump want to cut entitlements, When they don't, there's a responsibility on the part of the network itself, not these ninnies sitting there lay anchors who are cowards and they're stupid to boot. Is there anything worth being a stupid coward? I don't think so. It's just, it really, I sit there and I'm going, how did this ever happen? But it's here.
Starting point is 00:28:50 and that's why you're here listening to me. So don't believe all this entitlement stuff. It's just unbelievable. All right, I vote yesterday in the Senate to ban trans athletes from girls and women's sports. The bill said it's Title IX. Federal Civil Rights Law Against Sex Discrimination prohibits schools from allowing transgender students to compete in athletic defense. Designated for women or girls. Very simple.
Starting point is 00:29:23 If you're a trans, you can't get on the field with women and girls. Okay? The vote was 51 for the bill, 45 against the bill. All Democrats against it. Okay. But you needed 60 votes to advance the bill, right, onto the floor. So that's the way it works, it's complicated. and they only got 51.
Starting point is 00:29:51 Two Republicans didn't vote. Shelly Moore Capito of West Virginia and Cynthia Loomis of Wyoming. You should have voted, ladies. All right, two Democrats didn't vote. Alyssa Slotkin, Michigan, and she's going to give the Democratic address tonight after Trump. Alyssa Slotkin. She didn't vote.
Starting point is 00:30:15 Peter Welsh, Democrat Vermont, didn't vote. So you're not going to get a law out of Congress, but you have an executive order out of Trump. Americans fed up with the United States. They want to move. You want to move? Have you had it? This is mostly people who hate Trump right now. But when Obama was president for two terms, you had conservative people, I don't want to be here.
Starting point is 00:30:44 I want to move out. So let me give you a skinny on this. There is a survey conducted by Talker Research. Okay, you can check them out. It found that 17% of American adults want to move out of here, and 5% are actually doing it. It's underway. There's a lot of folks.
Starting point is 00:31:06 And here are the countries they want to move to. Canada, 19%. Italy, England, Australia, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Scotland, Germany. All right, those are the top 10. However, Spain now is 50,000 American expats living there. All right, that's up 25% in the last two years. And the UK is also getting a flood of applications.
Starting point is 00:31:35 More than 6,000 U.S. citizens applied for UK citizenship just last year. All right, so let me run this down. If you want to live in another country, that's up to you, right? I'm not going to criticize that. There are some very fine countries. If I had to live somewhere else, I would spend the winters in the Bahamas and the summers and spring and autumn in Ireland. I'd split it. That's what I would do.
Starting point is 00:32:05 But I'm not doing it because I'm loyal to my country. Spain, you can live there for a lot less than you can live here. You've got to learn Spanish, though, because most people outside the big cities, Barcelona and Madrid, they don't speak English. It's not like Northern Europe where everybody speaks English. No. So you better learn Spanish, Espaniel.
Starting point is 00:32:29 And not a lot to do in Spain, unless you're, you know, down on the coast of DeSoul or something. It's a very simple life. So you might be bored. U.K., a lot livelier, particularly in the London area, southern England. You get north, it gets a little sleepy, but big taxes there. BAT tax, a lot of tax. So, you know, you got to get your accountant if you're going to move out.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Ellen DeGeneres moved over to England from Santa Barbara, California. That's a big adjustment. I got to give her a call, see how she's doing over there. Smart life, okay, patience, something that I don't have. But I'm trying, I'm trying. So when I was up in Newport, over the weekend, Newport, Rhode Island, I had a situation that I had to deal with. As I always, I have situations every day, okay?
Starting point is 00:33:31 And my instinct was to go running on in and deal with the problem, but I didn't. I waited. And you know what happened? It worked itself out on its own. I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to do a thing. And there's a song, Hold On for Another Day. I think it was about the ladies sang it.
Starting point is 00:33:54 I forget the name of the group. And do that. Give it 24 hours. Okay? Before you go in. And then I got caught in a situation where I was thinking, by surprise, and I didn't handle it as well as I should have. I handled it okay. I was proud of myself, was angry, but I could have done better if I had a little more time to think it out.
Starting point is 00:34:20 Patience is a key to success in America. San History March 4th, 18650 years ago, as we mentioned, top, President Lincoln, giving a second and inaugural address here is the quote that you should remember, this is right when the Civil War was ending, the North had pretty much won it. With malice toward none, great line, with charity for all, with firmness in the fight, as God gives us to see the right. Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him, shall abhorne the battle for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Lincoln wrote that.
Starting point is 00:35:11 Didn't have speechwriters. He wrote it himself. Okay. And brilliant. With malice toward none. And then six weeks later, John Wolfe put a bullet in the back of Lincoln's head. And ascending was Andrew Johnson, one of the words. worst presidents ever. So if you read Killing Lincoln, my book, Killing Lincoln, first of the
Starting point is 00:35:36 killing books, and then you read confronting the presidents who get the full picture. Now, Lincoln won is second term by beating a man named George McClellan, who's a former Union General, one of the worst generals ever. Terrible. And he was a racist pig. I don't use that word often, but he was. And he ran against Lincoln, and Lincoln killed it. 212 electoral votes to 21. Abraham Lincoln 160 years ago, best presidential address ever. Back with a final thought that'll give you a smile in a moment.
Starting point is 00:36:14 Here is the final thought of the day. Older people consume news on television. It's always been that way, but now it's crazy. So the average age of the CNN viewer, the median age, means half or older, half or younger. CNN, 68 years old. Fox News 69, MSMBT, 70. Whoa, a lot of old-timers. And the networks, you know, the evening news and they're about the same. But with us, we're on YouTube now. So our viewership, younger, much, much younger than it was when I was doing factor because we're worldwide on YouTube. And I can prove it. Put that picture up there.
Starting point is 00:37:08 This is Luca. All right? Luca is the grandson of my good friends in Texas outside of Dallas. And Luke is a big no-spin news fan. Way to go, Luca. Now that brings my median age down a lot because Luke is like one. No, it brings it down. Okay, tomorrow we've got two big ones. I will analyze the president's speech, of course. And then we have four defiant mayors going to Washington testify about sanctuary cities. Four of them and say it.
Starting point is 00:37:51 We're not obeying federal law. Ooh, that should be good. It's Comer's committee, oversight committee. in the house. That should be rocking and rolling. So two big stories, tomorrow for us. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We will see you then.

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