Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Putin’s Defiance, Sean McLean on Caitlin Clark and WNBA Racial Bias, & Epstein Subpoena Schedule Released

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill examines President Putin's defiance and explains why China holds the leverage to turn things around quickly. An update on Gaza and Bill’s view that Hamas is to blame for the situation. In 2024, Jewish Americans made up 70% of victims in religious hate crimes, according to new FBI data. Sean McLean, founder of Origin Advocacy, joins the No Spin News to discuss his perspective on the Caitlin Clark situation in the WNBA and the potential racial bias involved. President Trump signs an executive order to create a White House task force to oversee security for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Bill lists the individuals and subpoena dates released by the House Oversight Committee for the Epstein investigation. Final Thought: Bill will be taping a NewsNation Special with Leland Vittert on ‘Confronting Evil.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, August 6, 2025, stand up for your country. Not all problems can be solved. And I hate to say that, because we specialize in problem solving here. I consider myself pretty good at it, but I realize that sometimes, no matter what you do, how logical you are, how fair, how rational, not going to happen. One name, Putin, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So today, the Trump negotiator, Steve Wittkoff, in Moscow talking of Vladimir Putin.

It was a picture on the AP. Putin's smiling, and they're talking about stopping the Ukrainian war, which is one of the biggest disasters in modern history, three and a half years. About a million Russian soldiers killed or wounded. About 400,000 Ukrainians, same. But it's the civilians, because Putin is targeting them with drones and bombings and all this.

that. And so he has been named a war criminal by the International Criminal Court in the Hague that's in the Netherlands. Okay, this is only the third time in history that the leader of a nation has been designated a war criminal. So Putin can't go anywhere because his arrest warrant out for him. He's got to stay in Russia. He's the richest man in the world, as you will see, if you read my upcoming book confronting evil out September 9th. We go into Putin in great detail. But anyway, Donald Trump, President of the United States, trying to get this Ukraine thing under control and Putin won't cooperate. So what do you do? What do you do? It's almost like Japan at the end of World War II. So this is the anniversary of the atom bombs

on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese knew they lost the war. They couldn't possibly win the war. Tokyo had been firebombed, millions of Japanese were killed, but they wouldn't surrender. And they kept fighting. And the United States didn't want to invade the island because I would say hundreds to thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors who had been killed, including my father, who was on the way to Japan. We write about that in killing the rising sun. So, Harry Truman, the president, had to drop the atom bomb.

and then finally, finally, facing absolute destruction of the entire country, the Japanese surrendered. Well, Putin is not gonna surrender. So I don't expect that these peace talks today are gonna move the ball. I hope they do. I hope I'm wrong. And then Donald Trump's gonna have to slap onerous tariffs and economic sanctions against Russia, which he should have done a while back, in my opinion.

I don't want a second guess, but it was clear because remember that Donald Trump thought he had Putin in a place where he could be rational with him, because the first four years of Trump administration, Putin kind of laid back. But no, not now. So we do expect that these sanctions, which will cripple the Russian economy. But here's the kicker. Putin doesn't care. He's in care of his people dies. He's got lost a million people.

Killed their wounded in Ukraine for what? Is Russian need Ukraine? No. Doesn't need it. I can give them anything. In fact, if they take it over by force, it'll be ongoing guerrilla war there. Ukrainians don't want to be Russians.

Okay? So, Putin doesn't care. Starved his people? Okay. And the only thing that could really turn it fast is China. And when I was over in Beijing and May, we talked about Putin and how China is helping Putin and Russia wages war. North Korea doesn't matter.

North Korea's got a few troops in there, but they don't matter. China matters. China's buying lots of oil from Russia. So is India, and it's propping up Putin. He's still got cash coming in. You've got to strangle all the cash. So I would expect that Donald Trump, if he goes to Beijing, and I think he will, early fall, late summer, will tie in some kind of deal with China to pull back from Putin.

That happens. Then we're in Vlad's in real deep, you know what. Okay? And that's, so at least there's some kind of hope here. But again, in my original statement that, you know, we can't solve all problems. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders.

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You know, if Putin was assassinated, that'd be good for the world. I hate to say it, but it's true. That's the best thing here could happen. Somebody take him out. In fact, Putin can't even go anywhere. When Putin goes home, he lives about seven miles outside of Moscow in his huge palace. All traffic stops around Moscow. Nobody can move.

Well, his little motorcade comes out. And his DACA on the Black Sea, he's got submarines, and he's got a bunker underneath the DACA where radioactivity couldn't penetrate. So if there's a nuclear war, Putin wills have fought. Nobody else will. Okay, so that's where we are. We're watching it an amazingly important story, and that is the memo. All right, back here, Donald Trump announced that Apple is going to invest another $100 billion in the U.S. economy. That brings it up to $600 billion.

Apple CEO Tim Cook in D.C., there are buddies, Trump and Cook, and all this is good. But I was on Haney Radio today, and it's on billowryly.com if you want to listen to it. It's going to take a while for all this tariffs, stuff, and all these deals to play out. in the meantime. Working Americans, many of them, are suffering, continue to suffer because the Biden's disastrous inflationary profile. And you know what really hurts, and I told Hannity this, Hannity's very theoretical on the long term, and he's correct. That, you know, Trump has changed the economy so that we are now getting back to manufacturing, which will provide more jobs and higher paying jobs, down the road.

But Americans aren't impatient people. We want relief now. These insurance rates, whoa, they're killing it. Government's got to take a look at that. Okay, if they can spend $100 million on GEICO commercials or, you know, Pat Mahomes and everybody else and Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, if they can spend all that money advertising and they're gouging us, I think we've got to take a look at it. We, you know, I believe in capitalism, but come on.

So that's killing people. And the other thing that's hurting is medical expenses for senior citizens. I mean, he's prescription drugs through the roof. Now, if you didn't protect yourself and you don't have good medical insurance, you know, your host. You're going to take all your money. And again, the government's got. got to go in and see if he can mitigate some of that.

So we got about six months before the American people are going to have to really lock in about is Trump doing a job on the economy. I'm not sure that the Apple investment and all those other things are going to pay off that quickly. So that's the dilemma because the midterms are coming up fast. we're going to report on it honestly, as we always do. India, you know, they're helping Russia too, and Trump slapped on 50% tariffs on that country. They'll make a deal. India can't survive that. Okay, so that'll happen. Just like Canada and Mexico are going to make deals.

Gaza, hopeless. Sorry, hopeless. Amos not going to release the hostages. And until they do, there's not going to be any deal or any ceasefire or anything meaningful, it's just not going to happen. So I blame it on Hamas. I know many of you blame it on Israel. I got it. The casualties are horrific. You cannot count on any honest reporting coming out of Gaza because both the Israelis and the Hamas terrorists aren't going to tell you the truth. They're not. Okay, so I'm not I'm going to give you the numbers, but they're horrific. And Hamas started. There's no doubt about that.

Now, here in a USA, 70% of all religion-based hate crimes. See, there's race hate crimes, religion-haste crimes. The FBI keeps the stats. 70% of all the religion-based hate crimes are against Jews. All right, so there were 11,679 total hate crime incidents in 2024, 15% religiously motivated, 70% targeted Jewish individuals or institutions. But I don't really get this, okay, because I grew up with lots of Jewish kids in Levitown and a lot of my business associations are Jewish.

and I don't know why anybody would not like them. I like them. I don't know why anybody wouldn't like them. Do I like Netanyahu? No. I don't particularly like him. I think he could be a lot more rational. But that's a political opinion,

not a assessment of a whole race of people. Now, the Jewish people probably have been the most persecuted human beings in the history of mankind, right? I think so. So they're a minority, and they're getting, you know, the jihadists want to kill them, every one of them, Hitler wanted to kill every one of them,

Stalin wanted to kill them all. Yes. So the United States usually rallies to helping the other, dogs. But in this case, I don't like that number at all. All right. Now, racism leaves a hate crimes, no doubt about it. We saw that in Cincinnati where these black gang of people beat the hell out of a few white middle age people. It was stunning. Why would you do that? Now, I don't think that has a wider implication, which is why we haven't spent a lot of time on it here. I think it's just bad people who did it, but I don't think it's a bad group.

But there's another story that's kind of unsettling. So you know the basketball superstar Caitlin Clark, she is in the Women's National Basketball Association, big star. Huge star, brilliant player. Okay, she's on the Indiana team. Now, 64% of the WNBA is black. All right, Caitlin Clark comes in and is immediately the biggest star in the league. Immediately.

And merchandising in every other way. Apparently, there's some jealousy that might be manifesting itself into physical inappropriate conduct. Here's Stephen A. Smith on it. You got people that are resentful towards her. But not, she is really not about her guys.

It's about what she represents. Before she ever came along, there were a lot of outstanding basketball players who happened to be black females that was doing their thing on the WNBA level and they never got this kind of shine. This girl, the Golden Goose, comes along

and she reeks havoc. Okay, because she's brilliant, right? That's why she's wreaking havoc. Because she is so good. Now, LeBron James maybe the best basketball player ever, he's been watching this situation. Go.

You know, there's a very small number of men and women that actually get to live out their dream of playing the professional sport. And we have grown-ass men and women out here doing whatever they can to try to make sure that does not happen. That is the weirdest thing in the world. But it is what it is.

And I'm glad that Caitlin and has a great head at our shoulders. All right, just to be clear, Caitlin Clark is being fouled at a wreck and rate. Some of them are brutal fouls, and a lot of the refs will look in the other way, and the women fouling her are doing it on purpose. Now, I can't read minds,

but it does have a racial aspect to this, but I could be wrong. Join us now from England and Sean McLean. He's the founder of Origin Advocacy. He wrote a piece in a Wall Street Journal about all this that caught my attention. Number one, what's Origin Advocacy? What is that? Origin Advocacy is a Washington, D.C.-based consulting lobbying firm.

We help clients figure out how to best engage the federal government. Okay, so you're basically a consultant to various individuals. Is there an ideology attached to you? So I've worked in government for nearly 15 years. So I'm very limited government. I'm conservative. I've worked for Marshall Blackburn, Ted Cruz, and in the Trump administration, including the Trump White House. Okay.

Now, what caught your attention about Caitlin Clark? Hey, Mike Baker here. Host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global stories going on of the day. This is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon. And on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report with excellent guests, including national security insiders and foreign policy experts.

Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Also, on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief. I'm Piers Morgan, the host of the Piers Morgan Unsensor podcast. We do big interviews, and we do big debates about what. whatever's getting people talking. We make news, we make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble, too. Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Pierce Morgan Uncensored on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Galen Clark has had a seismic impact on the WMBA ever since then she first joint. merchandise sales increased over 600 percent, leak app engagement over 600 percent.

Subscriptions, the league passed over 400% and the team she plays for with the Indiana fever tripled in value. But despite all that success that she's immediately had, the league has basically looked the other way as she's been targeted on a weekly basis and that targeting is putting her career at risk. Well, tell me what targeting means. What does that mean? So she is taking on harder fouls and at a higher rate than any of her people.

peers. So it turns out that in her rookie season, she absorbed 17% of all flagrant fowls or hard fouls more than double the rate of any of her peers. This is not something that you would see occur to any other top star in any other league. And I think a lot of fans are scratching their heads of why the league is allowing this to continue, especially given the economic impact that she's having on the league, which they've so desired for decades. Yeah, but you're not scratching your ahead, Sean. What do you think it is? Right after she was drafted and heading into her rookie year, Asia Wilson, who is a three-time MVP of the league. She's won the championship for Las Vegas Aces. She came out and addressed the attention that Caitlin Clark is getting, and she said it's absolutely

has to do with race. And then, quote, it boils her blood when people try and say that it's not about race. And so unfortunately, it seems like there's a lot of commentary that's being made by players when they're on camera and they don't reporters are watching that show that there is a racial element to this. Well, what the black players don't want a white superstar? Is that what you're saying? I think as you kind of hit on and in the clips leading into this segment, there's a lot of jealousy and animosity.

And that can be understood, right? If you've been a VP of the league in the past, yet you were unable to achieve the visibility and perhaps the endorsements that Caitlin Clark has received for out of the gate, it shows that it's normal to assume that there would be some degree of resentment. However, the concern is that that resentment is then leading to targeting on the court. It's happening at a higher rate for Caitlin Clark to anyone else. And unfortunately, it's creating a textbook hostile work environment for Caitlin Clark. And under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the federal government does have an ability to engage here.

So that's interesting. So you said the federal government should get involved with this because Ms. Clark's civil rights are being violated as she is targeted on the court, the basketball court, and no one's protecting her. Is that what you're saying? That's correct. I know a lot of people say it's sports, you know, we should expect hard fouls. And I agree with that. I'm a sports fan. I like seeing competitive play. But unfortunately, facts are suffering things. And the statistical disparity in the amount Kaelin Clark is being fouled compared to any of her peers in the league or the treatment that she receives compared to any other top stars than any other leagues, there's no comparison to it. And so she's facing a hostile work environment. Unfortunately, It appears that it does impact a protected class per race, as evidenced by quotes by players in the league. And there is a federal element here to where the government can intervene, and we've already seen this. When the federal government gets involved in sports all the time, we've seen it with MLB and steroids, NFL concussions, USA gymnastics, and Dr. Larry Nassar. And even just this past year, President Trump and his administration have really leaned in to fixing, disparities at universities and within the NCAA, within fencing, swimming, gymnastics, and has been receiving direct results.

All right, but this is the first time race has really gotten to this level. Why do you think the referees don't protect her more? I think that's a great question. And I think the one key that, you know, the 17% of flagrant fouls that she receives versus others, that's just based on calls that have actually been, that the referees actually call. The biggest problem here is that they don't call a lot of these fouls that are committed against her. Rebecca Lobo, an analyst and former player, has pointed that out. And so if there's an actual audit of the past season of all the missed calls, I actually think the disparity would be

much greater than 17%. Has any player in the WNBA said that they don't want white girls to be dominant or any kind of stuff like that surfaced? You know, just the Asia Wilson quote, right? The race is absolutely about race. There's been other incidents where it's been questionable. So it seems like there is a pattern out there to where race is an element here. Yeah. I'm not sure if that's enough to take it into court on a Title VII. But certainly there should be an investigation because you got the videotape.

You can see, as you just pointed out, how she's being roughed up and whether the referees are looking the other way or who's roughen her up. You can see all that. And I think that would be a very compelling evidence. Last word. I think the point that you just made is key, right? This isn't about an airtight legal case for the federal government. But what the facts do show is that there is a lot of red flags here, where there's smoke, there's

typically fire. And if there is an investigation, and as we've seen in past investigations, once league communications are reviewed, there may be a lot more damning evidence that comes to light that really underscores what's taking place with the need. Yeah, somebody should look into it. Why they won't fix it. I agree 100%. Sean, thanks very much.

Really appreciate it. And on the sports front, President Trump signed an order banning men who are transitioning to be women abroad foreign nationals from coming here to the USA to compete against what. That's just, you know, nobody's surprised that that happened, but it will affect the Olympics and the Paralympic deal. So you can't come in 28. And on that note, Trump, to further humiliate California, has now appointed a federal oversight committee, a task force. to regulate security at the 2028 games in L.A. Now, L.A.'s had two other games, okay, 1932, 1984.

But L.A. in those years, was not a far-left progressive state. And Trump hates, I don't know if hates, let's say, has no respect for the authorities in California to protect anybody. That's why you saw the National Guard go out in the Marines. So now he's saying, you know, we're going to have the feds control, is not you, L.A. and California. So that's in play. Epstein latest.

Now, I hate the story. I just think it's awful for the country, for everybody involved. I'm not sad that Jeffrey Epstein is dead. I'm fairly confident he is not in a comfortable place. my religious upbringing. But this is interesting on a number of different levels. So tonight, all right, August 6th, Wednesday, Vice President Vance holding a soiree at his house in D.C., his residence.

All right, at that discussion will be Cash Patel FBI Director, attorney general Pam Bondi, White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wilde, among others, and they will talk about whether to release the testimony of Maxwell, okay, Jelaine Maxwell. Let's see your picture there. She was recently interviewed by the Justice Department. Now, I don't know why anybody would believe a word that Jelaine Maxwell would say. so i mean i'm sorry to be cynical but you know and apparently there have been reports that she said you know don't have anything um didn't do anything untoward when he was uh dealing with epstein in new york city i don't care to me that woman has no credibility she deserves a 20 year sentence

and i hope that she is not part but anyway uh this discussion is underway to release the transcripts of that interview. Now, this is payback for the Democrats trying to tie President Trump in with Epstein in a criminal way. And it's way beyond that now. So the House Oversight Committee, that's James Comer, the Congressman, who's a close ally of Donald Trump, has subpoenaed the following. Okay. August 18th, former Attorney General William Barr, under Trump has to show up. All right. Then Alberto Gonzalez on the 26th.

He was under Bush, A.G. 28th, Jeff Sessions under Trump. September 2nd, Robert Mueller, special counsel under Bush. And A.G. under Bush. September 9th, Loretta Lynch, Attorney General under Barack Obama. September 30th. Eric Holder. Ooh, AG under Obama, Merrick Garland, AG under Biden, October 2nd, October 7th, James Comey, former FBI chief.

October 9th, Hillary Clinton. Ooh, October 14th, former President Bill Clinton. Now, this is some lineup, and it's all payback. It's all payback. okay so democrats progressives media tried to tie trump to epstein in a criminal way and now all these people are subpoenaed we're going to be real busy still hate the story uh bill clinton flew 17 times on Jeffrey Epstein's Jets. All right, it's documented.

And he went to Morocco, China, Armenia, Siberia. Wow. All over the place. On two occasions, Secret Service did not accompany. Former President Clinton. Very unusual. Donald Trump flew on Epstein's planes at least eight times. Okay?

okay um mostly within the united states so there you go we will update you on this story in a fair and disciplined way not guessing not speculating basically telling you what's going to what is happening but it's spiraling out of control back with a final thought um that you'll enjoy Okay, here's the final thought of the day. I'm not here tomorrow because I am taping a special for News Nation on confronting evil with Leland Vittert. Now, you may have seen the special we did on confronting the presidents, which got enormous ratings for News Nation. So we're doing another special for evil. It will be out in September.

And I got to tape it tomorrow. Because there's a lot of production that goes into these things and all of that. So I got to go into New York City, and, you know, Leland's a good guy. So I look forward to the interview. There are 15 evil people in the book. And it'll be interesting to see which ones Leland zeroes in on. I assume Putin's going to be a big star there because he's in the news influencing all of our lives right now. So that is where I will be tomorrow, but at Bill O'Reilly is our, you know, we give you all of our opinions and text you and annoy you and everything.

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