Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - President Trump’s Speech, Voter Reaction to a Possible Third Term, New Plan to Address Illegal Immigration & Is the Media Losing Power in America? Dan Abrams Weighs In

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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Welcome to the NOSBAN News for Wednesday, April 9, 2025, stand up for your country. I hope you'll listen to me in the last four or five days when I told you not to panic. Don't do anything. We're still in for a up and down ride, a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace. but today, as you probably know, Donald Trump suspended, paused most of the tariffs for 90 days, but not China. Ah, China. I'm going to explain exactly what this is all about.

Maybe it was a strategy from the beginning to isolate and weaken China. Maybe. I can't prove that. I was on a radio with Hannity today. If you take the time, it's on bill o'Reilly.com to listen to it. I disagree with Sean on a bunch of stuff. And it's worth listening to because it was about a 20, 25 minute segment. And I got a lot of facts in there. But I'm going to bring it to you very vividly tonight as well, because that's what we do here on the no-spin news, and that is the Talking Points Memo. So many people were surprised when Donald Trump paused the tariffs today, 90 days. There will be reciprocal 10%, but that doesn't mean much.

He says 75 countries want to come and negotiate new tariff situations with the USA. I believe that. I mean, Europe doesn't need this. Vietnam. people have to sell their products in America. China above all, keep that in mind. We don't have to sell our products abroad. But if we don't, the prices here will go up because the companies will lose some profits. And then they'll try to make it up with us, we the people. This complicates macroeconomics, you know, all of that. Now last night, President gave a one-hour and 22-minute speech. I watched most of it, but it was a long slog at the National Republican Congressional Committee Gala in D.C., which raised $35 million for the Republican Party to run in the midterms. That's what that was all about. Now, the first thing he talked about

was tariffs. Roll the tape. For seven decades, American ships have patrolled the seas. American troops have kept the pace and peace. An American wealth has enriched the globe, but despite all we have given to them, you will not find an American car in Berlin, in Tokyo, in Seoul, and Shanghai, not a car. I used to say to Angela Merkel Merkel, Angola, how many Chevroles do we have in Berlin?

Why, none, Donald, none. That's right, Angola, you got it. I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. And you know what I'm doing, too. That's why you vote for me. Now, 35% of the population would fit into the, you know what Trump is doing. Other people, they don't know exactly what he's doing.

Some of them don't want to know. Some of them hate them. Some of them are just too lazy to find out, whatever it may be. But the president, I did not criticize him directly on these tariffs. Because I know what he's doing is historically correct. I did have some suggestions about how you roll this out. And that's what I told Hannity on the radio. I said, you know, there's a difference between shock and awe

where people are nervous and they're looking and they know, what is going on and a slower rollout. All right? And I made a point about that even some of the president's economic advisors don't know from day to day what's happening. And maybe you want to make that more method. methodical. Just a suggestion. The president had a great point about the media, and it's centered around eggs. Go. Egg prices are down now, 87 percent, and you have all the eggs you want,

87 percent, and they didn't write about it. They don't talk about it. I go up, I make speeches about eggs all the time. I never get a reporter writing about it because we were successful. That is true. Any success Donald Trump has will be ignored. Totally. Now, eggs are not down 87 percent. They're down 50 percent. Just to correct the record, the president has a tendency to exaggerate. We all know that.

Some of us believe that it's part of what makes him lovable. Others don't like it at all. But egg prices are dropped 50 percent. How much is there a tomorrow on the no-spin news? I'm signaling my producers, Sam. I'm gonna run a montage of people panicking over eggs about a month ago. All right, let's put a face with that.

I think that'll be fun. Then last night, the president got into the personal stuff, which he always does. And in the face of all the tariff madness, it really doesn't matter much. But it shows you that the opposition, the Democratic Party, many in there, including Senator Adam Schiff at California,

want to destroy Trump. They're not going to give him any honest appraisal of anything. They want to destroy the man. They hate him that much. And Trump is aware of that. Roll cut one. He knows it's a hoax because he made it up with Crooked Hillary.

So he knows it's a hoax because we're dealing with human beings on the other side. He'd say, Donald Trump Jr., the son of the president, President of the United States will spend many years in prison because of what he's done with Russia. Now, think of that statement on a human basis. I have a son, a young son, who is being told that he's going for prison on something he has, he doesn't even know what they're talking about.

And shifted that in a vicious, vicious way. I have a sound vibe from him, but you know he did it. I'm not even going to play it. And I'm of two minds. It doesn't do we the people any good for Donald Trump to obsess about the people that want to destroy him in the past. But in the future, and Schiff is a U.S. senator, he should deal with those people. I don't have any problem with him dealing with them.

But sometimes you let grievances go for the greater good. Shiv is not, he's a senator from California, so what? All right, he's not an honest man, everybody knows he's not an honest man. There's no debate that he, there isn't anybody that's going to say he's an honest man. Because he's not. And you can prove it 50 different ways. So anyway, the speech was the speech. You know, he's a very entertaining guy, Donald Trump, and he loves it up there.

He loves it. But I'm happy. I'm going to recap the talking points this way. I want the best for you. I don't want your stock portfolio to go down. I don't want you to be apprehensive. I'm not a party apparachshinic. I'm not rooting for Donald Trump in the sense that it's all about Donald Trump.

It's all about you. And my assessment is that President Trump will help you far more than any Democrat in play right now. Biden was an unmitigated disaster. I mean, and if you just want to look at the tariff thing, Biden couldn't have. You didn't even know what a tariff is. The Chinese and everybody else all over the world ran wild soaking us. And Biden can't be bothered with that. And, you know, all of them, nobody took it on.

So we got to give Trump some points there. And let's all hope it works out for the better for the country. That's the memo. Now, there is a Republican dissent about all this tariff stuff, and it's led by Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky. Go. The truth of the matter is this, that all trade is mutually beneficial, and really the U.S. doesn't trade with China. You trade with Walmart. So when I go to Walmart, if I pay $10 for a shirt, I want that shirt, and they want my $10.

And we both go away from the deal, having succeeded, we mutually benefited. That's the only reason trade happens. And then if you add it all up and say, oh, China's ripping us off, it makes no sense. Trade deficits are not real accounting. It's a fake accounting, and it doesn't mean anything. No, that's just foolish. Now, I know Senator Paul is a smart guy, as a doctor, but it doesn't know anything about economics at all. Nothing.

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Some of them would come back, but not many. And those jobs are replaced by service jobs, working in Walmart. Those service jobs pay a lot less than manufacturing jobs. That's why Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Ocasio Quintros can run around a country going, looking, look at the gap, look at the income gap, look at it, there is validity to that, there's a big income gap, okay? Because the manufacturing jobs, which did pay much higher, are gone. Not all of them, but a lot of them. And Trump wants to bring them back. Paul apparently doesn't understand that in his $10 t-shirt analysis. The other thing is that China amasses $300 billion, not yuan's, that's a China currency.

Because nobody wants that, all right? Dollars from its trade every year with the USA, $300 billion. Where does that money go? It doesn't go to the people of China. They're destitute. It goes to the military of China to build the most ferocious military on the planet. Well, what do you think you're going to do with that military? Senator Paul.

Do you have any idea of the big picture, or are you just on aisle 3 in Walmart? I mean, you know, I'm giving an economics lesson here, I guess. And there are a bunch of other senators who are worried about their own bacon. Oh, I don't know. Okay, you can dissent. I dissent from some of Donald Trump's policies. But do it in an educated, honest way. Don't give me Walmart $10 T-shirts when there's a huge, huge downside.

having the whole world get more favorable trade treatment than us. It's enormous. All right, Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen, as a poll, about a third term for Donald Trump. Do you support or oppose Donald Trump seeking a third term? Support 28% oppose 66. That's about right. People don't want a king. All right. And the Constitution clearly states it's not going to happen. I told you it wasn't going to have for the gym. And Trump just throws it out to be provocative to drive his enemies crazy. Okay, to the media, another, not a victory for the press, but interesting story. As you know, Donald Trump despises the Associated Press, the AP. That's the wire that goes out to the smaller newspapers across the country and the world, and it's been very anti-Trump. I have been

record is saying, look, I understand why the president goes after these media companies. I can tell you that since 1996, when I started the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, the Associated Press has not said one nice thing about me. Not one. David Bouters or TV writer hates me. I think I met him twice, but it was like every cheap shot they could take they took. So I, you know, if I could ban the Associated Press, I probably would, but I'm not the president. So anyway, Judge Trevor McFadden, appointed by Trump, U.S. District Court in D.C., said, look, to the White House, you just can't exile them. And his reasoning was a court simply holds that under the First Amendment, the government

opens its doors as some journalists, be in the Oval Office or elsewhere, cannot shut doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints. Okay, I think that's right. All right, you ought to have a bigger view that you don't like that. Now, they don't have to call on EAP, they don't have to give them special treatment, but you can't banish them. Now, the judge did suspend that ruling for five days to, so another court can take a look at it. Join us now is a guy who has a tremendous amount of experience in the media,

not as much as me, but nobody does, because I'm very old. But Dan Abrams, you know him, is at NBC. He's still at ABC as a legal correspondent. He runs a website called Mediaite, where they write about media every day. He was on News Nation until recently. The guy knows the media. So number one question, is the media, the linear media, corporate media, losing power in America? Absolutely.

That's an easy one. the mainstream media, the media that you and I grew up on, has definitely lost influence. It's lost viewers. It's lost its power. It doesn't mean it's powerless. It's still influential, but just doesn't have anything like the sort of influence that it once had. And by the way, I think that applies to the Associated Press as well. I mean, AP used to, you know this.

AP used to be the thing, right? AP sends something out. It goes to everyone, everywhere, all over the world. Well, now everything goes to everyone all over the world. That's right. Now, why are they losing power so rapidly? I know there's more competition with the social media, but I believe it has to do with partisanship that people and all the survey show this.

They don't trust the media anymore. It's in business, a preach to the choir. tell people what they want to hear. I think that's the main reason for the decline. I think it's a combination. I think it is definitely the medium. It is the fact that people can get information elsewhere. They don't have to turn on NBC.

But why wouldn't you turn it on if you liked it? Yeah, you might. Yeah. You liked it, but you know, mine. But you might prefer to hear more of what, you know, you want to hear on a daily basis, and I will say that the major loss for the mainstream media has been among conservatives. There is no doubt about that. Wait a minute. There's two networks that are 100% conservative, Fox and Newsmax.

Yes, correct. And I think that they, the ABCs and CBSes and put aside cable for a moment, right? The broadcast networks, the places that everyone used to get their news from, the folks, who are on the right will now very often go to someone like Brett Baer on Fox News to get that quote unquote newscast or they'll go to folks like you by the way who are on their own independent not beholden to a bigger entity and they'll say you know what I like O'Reilly what does he have to say about this I think people now have a lot more choices than they ever had before. And I think that has made a huge difference in these, these guys used to be the gatekeepers. It was all about, if you weren't, you know, you couldn't get someone to cover it,

then the story faded. Now there's a whole host of opportunities and options to get someone to get a story, your take, whatever it is out there. I think Trump destroyed the media. And he did it passively, not actively. Obviously, this AP thing was. active. He doesn't like them. He doesn't like NBC. In particular, those two. But by hating Trump as much as MSNBC, NBC News, CNN, by hating him, viscerally hating him, to this day, to this moment, fair-minded America is not ideologues. It makes us uneasy. Am I wrong? I think you're right. I think you're right. Look, I think there is, you know, people use the term Trump derangement syndrome, right? And, you know, either people on the right use it and say it with a

sort of a smile and a snicker and people on the left say, oh, there's no such thing. But the truth is there is a such thing. There really is this sense on the part of some. They are so angry at Trump all the time that they just can't do what they're supposed to do in a remotely objective way. Now, I will say this, in defense of some of the folks on the left, is that Donald Trump has gone into this Trump two, his second effort here, and has definitely taken more extreme measures and positions than he did in Trump one. And as a result, if you are someone who is object, quote, there's no such thing is objectivity, pure objectivity. Let's call it. So you're somewhere right of center, left of center, right? and the guy who's in power is taking positions that are pretty extreme in a lot of ways.

You're going to, you're going to be calling him out. And as a result, you're going to hear more criticism of Trump than you might of another Republican in that role. And the same way, by the way, if you had AOC or Elon Omar, and I'm not saying it, they're out. No, I wouldn't be at the same level, though. It wouldn't be at the same level. I think that's fair. I think you're right. It wouldn't be the same level.

The corporate media tried to re-elect the Biden administration through Kamala Harris. They tried everything. That 60 Minutes thing is a legitimate thing. They tried to help her. Oh, come on. You think that 60 Minutes thing was really a big of them? I saw that transcript. I saw how they edited it, and they did not have to edit it that way.

They tried to make her love. We know they edited it. Because they put it out themselves. They admit they edit. They put it out in two different forms. They had to. They put out one. They put out the other. They didn't have to.

They put out one as a tease on Face the Nation. They put out the other on 60 minutes. They were doing it because they just thought, oh, these are two, you know, different ways of getting the same thing. How long did it take for 60 minutes to put that transcript out? That was the mistake. The mistake was not releasing. Thank you. But now that we've seen it, but now that we've seen it, it wasn't that big a deal.

It's a typical editing. You and I have edited thousands of pieces. I never would have edited my piece that way. In a million years, I wouldn't have it. I didn't find that editing to be that disturbing. I didn't find it to be disturbing at all. But I think they absolutely, and then subsequently every week on 60 minutes, they just bash Trump. Just bash him.

Well, that's true. And see, once that happens, and that's the top of the line, 60 minutes with Mike Wallace, Morley, Say, for Don Hewitt, top of the line. Once that happens, then regular folks go, eh, something wrong with it. Now, I'm going to be on your show tomorrow. Tell people where they can find that, because I'll do more talking there, which would be much better for everybody. Where can we find that? You can find it on Sirius XM on the POTUS channel at 2 o'clock, but also the video of it will be on the Mediite YouTube page, which we are now building out. And, you know, part of the buildout is to get Bill O'Reilly. Yeah, well, we're doing the same thing.

I'm going to say something about Bill O'Reilly. I said this to Bill O'Reilly privately. I said this to my team at News Nation privately. There is no one better at broadcasting in the business than Bill O'Reilly. I've said it to my team. So this is no secret, but I believe it. And I'd be wondering, when I was thinking about you talking about the AP, you were saying, they've never said anything good about you. I did wonder what good they could have said about you. But, you know, yeah. Well, they could have said what you just said. Exactly. But it's true. Somehow they missed it. They missed it. All right, Abrams. It's a fact. We'll rock and roll tomorrow. We appreciate you coming on tonight. Look forward to it. All right, let's go to migrants. So the Trump administration,

The administration says it's going to fine migrants $1,000 a day if they don't self-deport is from the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Trisha McLaughlin. Now, he can do this under a 1996 law that was passed by Congress, the aliens and nationality law. You can fine foreign nationals who fail to depart the country after being ordered to do so. My cat Freddy loves to be brushed and cuddled. But stirring up his cat allergens meant sneezing and itchy eyes. Then I found Purina 1 LiveClear.

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information about foreign nationals on the run. So people with phony Social Security cards who are maybe working when they shouldn't be working, phony green cards, you know, fraudulent situations. Well, ahead of the IRS, Melanie Krause doesn't want to do that. does not want to cooperate with Homeland Security. So she is out. She's quitting. Now, this is a deep state play.

Melanie is a deep stater. So it's like Donald Trump. She doesn't want all this deportation. Okay? And now he's ordering her to cooperate with Homeland Security. And she doesn't want it. So she's gone. Good.

But when they talk about the deep state, they're talking about Melanie Krause. People who hold power, head of the IRS. She didn't use for Trump, but she's not going to, now she said, oh, no, no, it's privacy, privacy. No, it's privacy for American citizens. Not for people who are making money here fraudulently, Melanie. I'll put you together with Rand Paul. It's the bigger picture. Smart life.

Okay. You know that I am not a drinker. Don't consume alcohol. never took a drug in my life. I made the decision when I was 17. I write about in a bold fresh piece of humanity, my bio. I went to a party at my high school friend, who I played hockey with, his parents foolishly left town and let him in charge. Nice house. He invited all the guys over. They all got drunk, threw up all over the house, wrecked the furniture, and I said, you know, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be a while with that at all.

And then when I got to college, the drugs came in, in Vietnam era, and all these kids are walking into the walls, and they were all getting stoned, and it was just ridiculous. The whole thing was absurd. I was an athlete. I had no use for this. My mother and father weren't inebriated. I never saw them drunk. All right, we didn't have that in our house.

So I just said, nah, I'm going to do any of it. But I never have in my entire life. Not curious, don't need it. And if I did need it, I'd be in prison. Imagine me drunk? No. That would not be a good thing. Anyway, there is a study out of monitoring the future, and it zeroes in on high school seniors.

And every year they study how many seniors consume pot. And the number is 42 percent, ages 19 to 30. Now, that's not just seniors, okay, but it is at a record high level for high school seniors. spoken, and not even spoken, but you can candy it, you can do a lot of other business. This is not a surprise. There's a spate of articles all over the Northeast about fatal traffic accidents being, you know, coming up. There's two reasons.

People are texting on the phone when they're driving and are inebriated with drugs. Alcohol has always been there, okay? But now the drugs, because they're legal, are adding to the alcohol. alcohol. So anyway, my take on this smart life segment is this. I had a conversation with my kids early on, 11 maybe, and I said, look, you're going to be offered this stuff. But if you do it, you're going to hurt yourself, and you're going to hurt your parents, and you're going to hurt your family and everybody else. There's no upside to this. And the people who are giving it to you are bad people. There's no that.

So, neither of them did it, as far as I know, and I know I keep close taps. And I drummed it into them, a little bit more militant than usual, you know. And I just said, look, every, I took them at one point to Bushwick, Brooklyn. And I said, we're driving through this neighborhood. This is a very hard neighborhood. You're going to see these drug people. They were, it was after a Mets game. Went to a Mets game in Flushing, Queens, and we just drove about six miles east to Bushwick.

And it was in my mind to do it. And I said, you look at the window, you look at this. Okay? And you think it can happen to you, it can. Once you get involved with this drug stuff, all right? Some people can just smoke pot once in a while, but not many. They either want more stuff, okay, or they increase the pot to a level of once a day or something like that.

You think that's not going to hurt you physically, ingesting all that stuff into your brain? You've got to be a moron, all right? So there's nothing good about this, but that's not the message that we get in America. No, no, no. We want to legalize it. Like it easier for everybody to get it. Oh, no, but it'll be 18 and over. No, that's not what happens.

All right, the drug addict goes into the pot shop, buys the pot and sells it to the kids. Everybody knows that happens. And then in New York City, you can sell pot to kids and nothing going to happen to you. Can you imagine that? Anyway, smart life, if you have any influence over your kids or grandkids,

gently, don't use a hammer. I kind of use the hammer. But that's me. better generally you're saying you know this is not good not going to turn out well some of them will listen and some of them won't but all the data says you get involved with substance your life is going to be a lot worse um medical marijuana now here it's different so there is a study uh out of the uh american uh no no Brazil Brazil A study in Brazil uses CBD cannabis oil to help children with autism.

And apparently it works to some extent. And also on epilepsy. This is now into a zone of positive medical marijuana different than recreational. Autism is very harrowing. I support Erlardo Rivera's charity, life work. Boy, it's tough. Anything that can help those young people, I'm for. Doge update.

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And it took him, what, six months to find him, seven months. They did find him. He was in a hole someplace. And then it took about three years to find him guilty of atrocities, mass murder. On December 30th, 2006, he was hanged by the neck until dead. And his body desecrated. Now, there are a lot of people, one of them, who supported the Iraq war in the beginning because they're weapons of mass destruction thing.

We've been all through that. Okay? So you have Colin Powell, you have the New York Times, you have everybody saying that Saddam Hussein was stockpying weapons of mass discretion, and he could give them to terrorists. Well, you can't have that. And remember, Saddam would not allow UN weapons inspectors in to look around. So I said, you've got to get rid of them. All right, I supported that.

after it was chaos and thousands of American troops got killed or maimed. You know, that was the wounded warriors and the track chairs. We raised $30 million for those poor people and all of that. But right now, Iraq is stable. The GNP has grown a $250 billion from $30 billion under Saddam. And there used to be hundreds of terror attacks a year. Now, last year there were five. And that doesn't count the ISIS people in the eastern, western part of the country.

All right, on a border with Syria, that's no man's land. We have U.S. troops there. But the rest of Iraq is functioning. So all of you, and I know there are many watching right now and listening to me on the radio that participated in that Iraq situation, you really did some. good in the long run because the country is stabilized and you know the heinous dictator is gone now we're looking at Iran because there's going to have to be some changes there coming you got to do it deliberately you can't just go shock and awe him but that's next okay I can't

give you financial advice but I noticed something that may help you in that area that'll be the final thought we'll be right back all right here is the tip of the day as you know I can't give you financial advice a lot of concierge members asked me know would you sell this stock would you do this would you I can't do that what I can do is tell you what I'm doing okay but it always work out for me I have a message of the day about that, capitalism and capitalism is risky. Socialism is not risky. Because you just do what you told. Now is a good time, I think, to buy a car. If you need a car, pre-owned, new, whatever it may be, might start to look around now. I think it's

car prices going up no matter what happens with the terrorists. Maybe I'm wrong. You get three, you know, zero in a car you like, get the blue book, what it's worth, know what it's worth before you go into that dealership, and that's all on the internet, you can go and get it, particularly on pre-owned. Now, I have a nine-year-old Cadillac. It's got an eight in it. It's got a tape deck in it. It's got 66,000 miles on it. I'm not selling it. I'm keeping it. Okay, because it's worth it. it it works great it looks great okay i'm a big guy i can fit in that car okay so that's me but if you're looking if you have to if the old car is falling apart good time all right thank you very much for watching and listening to the no spin news we'll see tomorrow