Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Pass Their First Senate Hurdles, Trump's Tariff War Update, the First Migrant Flight to Guantánamo Bay, the Catholic Church's Immigration Battle With Dr. Edward Feser & What’s Happening With USAID?

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  The latest on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard's Senate confirmation hearings. Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down the tariff pause between Canada and Mexico and how China responded in retaliation. The Trump administration began transporting immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally to Guantánamo Bay. Professor Dr. Edward Feser joins the No Spin News to discuss the Pope's stance on migrants and the ongoing battle within the Catholic Church over immigration. The latest on the USAID situation. This Day in History: Electors choose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. Final Thought: Bill announces his NEW book, Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Cheering the Swamp. For a limited time, get Bill O'Reilly's bestselling The United States of Trump and a No Spin Mug for only $39.95. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Boy, it's just packed with information. I always suggest that you watch or listen on the radio to the no-spin news with a pen and pad. because we're going to give you some very good information tonight. In the Smart Life segment, we are going to talk about stock investing during the era of Trump. Fascinating. And at the end of the program and final thought, I'll tell you about my new book, which will be out in September. But first, breaking news, Bobby and Tulsi. That sounds like a sitcom, does it not? I want to watch Bobby and Tulsi tonight.

RFK Jr. gets out a committee, Senate Finance Committee, voted 1413 along party lines to advance Kennedy's nomination to the full Senate. Now, this was dicey because Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a physician, doesn't like Kennedy at all. and was threatening not to vote for Kennedy, but as what happened in Pete Hegsett's case, magically, Senator Cassidy changed his mind at the last minute, and that's because of Donald Trump. Every Republican in this country fears the president, and that is the truth. You go against him, okay. Now, in a world without fear, Cassidy Neville would have okay, RFK, and his nomination would have blown up.

Now, RFK has a good chance. Not a lock, but a good chance can pass by the Senate. Okay? And Cassidy put a statement on Twitter, but I'm not going to read it because, okay, you voted, Senator. I'm not criticizing your vote, by the way. I'm not. I just know the circumstances, and you don't trust this guy Kennedy at all. that. Everybody knows that. Okay, Tulsi Gabbard. This is a little bit easier. So 9-8, she comes

out of the Senate Intel Committee into the full Senate for a vote. She heard herself by failing to condemn Edward Snowden, we all know that, but that's easier to overlook, in my opinion, than Robert F. Kennedy's history of being anti-vaccin conspiratoric. At least for me, I try to put myself in the Senate? What would I do? I would probably vote to confirm Tulsa Gabbard. No way, RFK Jr. Now, it's clear to me, and the most important part of this story, is that Donald Trump, right now, after two weeks in office, we're into his third week now, is the most powerful president in our country's history at this point in his term. second term. I mean, you look at Lincoln. Washington, very powerful, but you didn't have a lot to do,

and we'll get to that at the end of the program. But Trump, was he powerful? Now, maybe FDR in his third and fourth terms, but as I said, nobody wants to go up on the Republican side against Donald Trump. Now, the Talking Points memo is on the tariff war latest. We covered this yesterday, and great to tell. The Democrats in the left are hysterical about the tariffs, but Trump's winning most of these skirmishes. And here are the facts. So Canada has agreed to spend $900 million beefing up the border with the United States and try to prevent fentanyl and other narcotics for being smuggled down here. You have to remember, we don't have that big a migrant problem coming from Canada into the USA. That's all Mexico. But there is a big drug problem because these drugs are

sent to the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, specifically, very lax on narcotics in Vancouver. And then they come across into the USA. We're talking heroin and fentanyl all on earth. Vancouver is a beautiful town, but if you go there, it's been ruined by drug addicts. Absolutely destroyed. Because they let these people do whatever they want to do. All right, I've been there, I've seen it. All right. Now, Trudeau, who's on his way out, says, oh, we don't want the tariff that 25%. So whatever you want, President Trump will going to give you, and he did. That's what Trump wants. He wants more stringent enforcement at the northern border to stop the narcotics. Now, it's a 30-day pause now on the tariff. Trump wants a better trade deal with the

Canadians, and he'll get it. And he's going to get whatever he wants from them. Because again, at the 25% tariff on Canadian goods, their economy blows up. Simple as that. Same thing with Mexico, we went over Mexico yesterday. So Shinebaum folded in less than an hour and said, okay, yeah, I'll put 100,000 troops on the southern border. Well, why do you do that six months ago, lady? You knew what was going on. You knew it was destructive not only to the United States, but to your own country. You have these drug cartels amassing billions of dollars, so you can't control them.

Why do you do it six months ago? This is how politics works. Trump had to threaten her to get anything done. Biden didn't care. Absolutely did not care about any of this. And that's why he was an awful, awful president. Man, I didn't have a president for four years who didn't care about fentanyl or unsupervised migrants. He didn't care at all.

Can you imagine that's what that was? Okay. So Trump's got Canada. He's got Mexico. And the tariffs were on pause. Trump will get what he wants. China. Nah, that's hard.

As I said yesterday. Well, China says, all right, you're going to slap a 10% tariff on our goods coming into the USA. So we're going to put a 15% tariff on EU on all natural gas and coal and whatever else you're sitting in us as far as energy is concerned. We're slapping 15% on it. And that means the Chinese people won't buy it. They'll buy Iranian oil, all right?

They'll buy other stuff. Okay. It's what they're going to do. Now, I assume there'll be deals worked out between Trump and Xi, but there's no lock there. Because China's economic power is on a par with the United States. We can hurt them, but they can hurt us. And they can also be bellicose in other areas like proping up Putin. So Trump, that's the big thing for Trump, all right, is China.

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Today, Donald Trump was with Netanyahu and a lot of the Israeli delegation, D.C. I don't know exactly the minutia of it, but it's about Gaza and Iran. And then late in the afternoon, the president signed a bunch of executive orders, the most important of which is he basically said, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and if you do come up with one, that we're going to, and this is a quote from the executive order, obliterate you. And Trump would. And the Mollahas know it. Now, I don't know how that's going to play out.

I do know that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, which is excellent, has people inside Iran watching this nuke thing. So the intel is pretty good. But Trump signed that and said, look, I'm warning you. If we get intel that you have a nuclear weapon, we're going to obliterate your whole country. And that wouldn't take much. Uranians are very, very vulnerable. I'm hoping that the Iranian people just overthrow these mullahs. I mean, how much more can they take. These Persian people, these are sophisticated people over there. And also, there were a bunch of executive orders signed by the president today that are cutting back funding to the United Nations, which Trump hates. Haste. He's not going to pull out, but he's not going to kick a lot of

money in it. All right. El Salvador, it was fascinating. Now, some of you know that I covered the war in El Salvador in the early 1980s, all right? Fascinating place. Extremely poor. So the guy who runs it is named Najib Bukele. Okay? And he's very pro-American guy. He built the biggest prison in Central America.

It holds 40,000 inmates because he had to round up MS-13, which like Mexico, they were trying to take over the Salvadoran government, MS-13. I mean, cartels took over, the Mexican government. But this guy, Bukela, said, no, we're not going to let that happen. And he suspended all due process. So he's rounding them up. And the idiot MS-13 people have tattoos that say they're MS-13, you had a tattoo, you're in jail.

That's what happened down there. So now, El Salvador needs money. They always need money. So nobody goes there. It's beautiful beaches. Beaches, beautiful black sand beaches, mountains, a really lovely country. All right. But nobody goes because there's chaos.

So they have offered El Salvador to take not only criminal migrants that are being deported from the USA, but violent American convicts. They'll take them for money. The U.S. will pay them and El Salvador warehouse them. Now, I hate to break it to the Trump administration if they're thinking about this, but that's unconstitutional. You can't do that. You can't convict an American and then send them over to a foreign nation-servous sentence unless

that person also was convicted in El Salvador. That violates due process. We still have that here. Don't have it in El Salvador, but we have it here. Okay. But we can send criminal migrants, for example, Cuba, Cuban people who commit crimes here. Well, Cuba's not taking them back. We can send them in El Salvador.

Now, all of this basically sent a message to all the gangbangers all over the world. You come here, there's a good chance you're going to wind up in a prison in El Salvador, which you don't want to be there. Not like an American prison. An American prisons are bad. But El Salvador in prisons, you can imagine. All right. The White House has begun a migrant flying to Guantanamo Bay this week. Can't get an exact number, but it's about 20.

20 migrants are sent over to Guantanamo Bay. And that's allowed because it's U.S. territory. We lease it. And it began in 1903. I went over this with you. I've been there twice. That's not a bad place to be incarcerated, Guantanamo. Bay. Lovely view of the Atlantic. Food is good. Orderly. The Navy runs it. So if you got a choice

between going San Salvador or Guantanamo Bay, I know where I'm going. Anyway, they're flying criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay. And Trump says he might put 30,000 of them out there. That'd be pretty excessive. All right. The migraine controversy among Christians. This is a fascinating story. So, as you know, I'm a Roman Catholic, all right? And you might also know that I admire Pope Francis.

I think he is a good man. I know what happened to him in Argentina when he was archbishop there. And the fascist government brutalized. The man almost killed him. I understand his liberation theology. I got Pope Francis. I met him. I think he's a good person. But he's naive, in my opinion. All right? He doesn't understand how the migrant situation is negatively impacting so many people. This is just my opinion. Then a pope has a book out, brand new books, son of best cellist,

and my book's been there for five months so that I follow that. The book's called, Pope the autobiography by Pope Francis. In the book, he basically lays out how people should conduct themselves. Earlier, he said this on August 28, 2024, quote, brothers and sisters, we can all agree on one thing, migrants should not be in those seas and in the lethal deserts. But it's not through more restrictive laws. It is not with the militarization of borders.

It's not with the rejection that we will obtain this result. Instead, we will obtain it by extending safe and legal access routes for migrants, providing refuge for those who free, flee from war, violence, persecution, and various disasters. We will obtain it by promoting in every way a global governance of migration based on justice, fraternity, and solidarity. Unquote. Well, it sounds good, but it's impossible because mass migration negatively impacts the countries where it is out of control. And a Pope should know that. Adjoining us now is Dr. Edward Faser.

He is a professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College in Los Angeles. He is a Roman Catholic. So where am I going wrong here in my analysis, first of all, of the Pope? I don't think you are going wrong, Phil. I think you're correct. The Pope and other churchmen, bishops and priests and Catholic writers and so on, rightly emphasized that the Catholic tradition has always said that we need to welcome migrants, especially those fleeing war and terrible economic conditions and so on.

But there's another aspect of the church's teaching, and it's still represented in the catechism of the Catholic Church. You see it represented in statements from Pope John Paul II and Bennett the 16th and so on, that notes that this need to welcome the migrant is not absolute that there are conditions on it. In particular, as the catechism says, the government, governments of countries that migrants want to enter have a right to put conditions on immigration. And migrants have the responsibility also to follow the laws of whatever country it is that they want to migrate to. These are aspects of the church's teaching that are longstanding, but that often go unmentioned in contemporary discussion of this issue.

That's because there's a disagreement, though. That's because there's an internal disagreement, not only in a Catholic church, but Protestant sex as well, about. how to handle migrants. So the politics of a doctor has almost overwhelmed the theological aspect of it, because there are Catholic priests and bishops who understand that you have to render to Caesar in a sense that you have to obey the established law of the country unless it's a law that goes against human nature, which immigration law, if it's spelled out, doesn't. But it seems to me that this is almost more a political debate within the Catholic Church than a theological debate. I think it's degenerated into that, and I think the motivations for it are several.

And it depends on who we're talking about here. With some people, I think there's an honest disagreement within Catholic circles about how to apply the relevant theological principles. And there are those who would say, hey, we recognize. that migrants have the duty to obey the law. We recognize that you can't take everybody in and so on, but we simply think we can take in more than, say, the Trump administration thinks. Okay, so there are people who are looking at it

from that point of view. There are some people who are looking at it from a more hard, progressive political point of view and masquerade, which really a personal political opinion under the guise of Catholic theology and pretend that they're simply implementing with the church requires every Catholic to go along with.

And that's not correct. And there are yet others, I think, think we're motivated by something else that even the most conservative churchmen often feel tremendous pressure because in their public statements on matters of doctrine they always have to come across as quote the bad guy from the point of view of the mainstream media when they're talking about questions about abortion or sexual morality or what have you so there's a very strong temptation wherever they can to try to say something that's progressive and issues like migration give them an opportunity to do that they give them an opportunity to say something that

you know, at long last, sounds like it's acceptable to the mainstream. And again, the problem is that this temptation gives away to presenting a one-sided statement and presentation of the church's teaching. Do you think that Pope Francis and the bishops in America understand the backlash from people who want immigration law upheld and understand the destruction that the Biden administration reaped by the open border? Do you think the Pope Francis in the The Vatican understands a tremendous backlash against Catholic charities, for example, and other liberal institutions. And you pile that on the pre-scandals, and you have the church weakening here in America in a very significant way.

Do you think the Pope recognizes that? I would suspect he does not. I think there's a tendency for the Pope and other churchmen to think in terms of, you know, longstanding cliches that exist in their mind about what those and the other side are motivated by. And so there's kind of a reflexive tendency just to dismiss concerns about immigration as if they could only be motivated by racism, say, and not to hear out the actual arguments, the actual views of those. Well, there's suffering. There are people suffering because. of the open border. And they're never mentioned by the Catholic Church. Now, let's extend it into the evangelical. Look, the Protestants are all over the place. You've got the Unitarians and wherever it goes and they're, you know, let everybody in and, you know, and then you got Episcopals, a very

left wing. I'm generalizing now. But the evangelicals are conservative. They're conservative Christians. And it doesn't seem that these churches get a lot of publicity. It's all around the Catholics, because the Catholic charities does administer to migrants and gets a million and a half, which is nothing, public funding to do so. But where do you think the Protestants come down on this? I'm doing to my family because we're going

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I know. They want to moderate it. But, you know, evangelicals went heavy for Trump. I mean, they went heavy for him. So I'll have to do a little more study because I'm much more familiar with the Pope and the battle inside the Catholic Church. And it is a very troubling question. I'm going to tell you one more thing that a few years ago, Cardinal Dolan, the most powerful cleric in America, came to me and said, I got a big problem with migrants because some of them are here illegally, some of them aren't, but most of them, almost all of them, are poor. and we have an opportunity to buy housing for them in Brooklyn, can you help?

And I did, big time. And I did it not for any political reason whatsoever. I did it because that's my mandate to help. And I didn't ask how many illegals do you have, how many, you know, I didn't ask any of those questions. And I'm happy I help. I don't regret that. Last word.

Well, I think what you're doing is implementing in your own personal life the way all are supposed to. The church's moral principles governing immigration. But the thing is, the problem with this issue is that there are two elements to balance. On the one hand, the need to welcome migrants, but also the need to follow the law and protect the borders of our country. We've had so much irresponsibility now for four years with people pouring over that it's no surprise that any remedy is going to seem excessive, even if it's really just trying to, to remedy. the chaos of the last four years. And so what I think churchmen need to recognize

is that there is room for reasonable disagreement here among Catholics. Well, and I wish a Pope, I wish somebody in a Vatican would step up and say there is another side to this because they don't. Hey, doctor, we appreciate it very much. Thanks for helping us out today. Okay, USAID, USA, what's that? What is that? It's the international humanitarian development arm

of the U.S. government, $40 billion of our tax money goes overseas to help countries that are experiencing disease and other crises. All right. Trump doesn't like this because he doesn't feel that this money is being spent in a responsible way. Roll it. What's going on there? Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, U.S. AID, run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision. Well, that drives the left crazy because, you know, a hallmark of the liberal movement in this country is just give away money and don't even watch where it goes. And here's Senator Andy Kim from New Jersey. Well, I certainly hope Congress takes actions because what is happening here is

illegal. It is unacceptable to have a president tried through executive power be able to reorganize or remove USAID. This is an entity that was created through federal statute, codified through federal statute, and something that cannot be changed, cannot be removed except through actions of Congress. That's not true. If the money is being abused, if the money is not going where it should go. If there are countries accepting our money and stealing it, President of the United States has a perfect authority to pause it or stop it completely. One word. Haiti. How many billions of dollars, American tax dollars have been wasted there? Media madness. CBS is in big trouble. And I mean historical trouble.

So CBS is trying to sell itself to a company named Skydance. It needs the federal government to approve the sale. Donald Trump has sued CBS for $10 billion with a B dollars, claiming that 60 minutes fraudulently edited an interview with confidence. to make her look better before the vote. That lawsuit is in play. Now the head of the FCC, Brandon Carr, has demanded that CBS News 60 Minutes

hand over the unedited transcript and all of the footage camera feeds from the interview, which CBS says it will. Already has. We're trying to track it down. If it shows that 60 Minutes did this and tried to skew the election to Harris by fraudulent editing, CBS News will go out of business. It'll collapse.

That's how big this story is, and we are on it. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green is calling to defund NPR and PBS. Yes, $535 million a year goes into those left-wing factories and that's what they are. No fairness, they're in business to put forth a far-left liberal point of view, which they do every day. We're tracking it. We've invited Congresswoman Green on the program. We'll let you know what happens. Voter ID, new poll, Rasmussen. Question number one.

requiring a photo ID to vote, a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections. 77% of Americans say yes. 17 say no, not sure, seven. That is an enormous plurality. 77. Second question, do laws requiring photo identification at the polls discriminated against some voters? Yes, 30%, no, 60%. How do they discriminate against certain voters?

the states will send you an ID free. How? So anyway, next time you hear voter suppression, all this other propaganda nonsense, think about that poll. State farm insurance, unbelievable. I had to scold my staff today, gently, because they didn't have the data that I wanted. State farm insurance runs an unbelievable amount

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Smart life. Now, this is an interesting signal. So I get a lot of mail with concierge members who, as you know, have direct email of me, asking for me to tell them what to invest in. I can't do that. I can't recommend stocks or bonds or anything. Now, we have had a sponsor for many years named American Hartford Gold. They sponsor the NoSpin News and Bill O'Reilly.com.

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He was not elected, okay? Reed confronting the president's five months on the New York Times bestseller list, because if you read it, you're going to know. There was no way to do a popular vote in 1789. They were like voting machines or a paper. No. So each of the 13 states, there were 13 colonies, and then after we booted the British out of here, they became states under our constitution.

They chose people, big shots, rich people, okay, white people, all of them. And they sent them to Philly, and they did a little electoral thing. chose Washington unanimously. Three states didn't show up. North Carolina and Rhode Island, because they didn't ratify the Constitution right away. And New York, because of some chaos, some things never changed. Okay. So 10 elected Washington. And it wasn't until, and that was 236 years ago today, that Washington became first president. It wasn't until 1824. Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson, that the popular vote kicked in by 1824, which was 35 years later, finally they got around saying, all right, the people vote and we'll set up a little apparatus.

And that election was chaos. You can read about that in confronting the president's. Back with the big book announcement in a moment. Okay, final thought of the day in September early, we will be releasing the next book. It is called, drum roll, please, confronting evil, assessing the worst of the worst. Okay? There it is. Now we got four evildoers on a cover, and we got 10 others in the book, not on a cover, a lot of evildoers. Now, I'm going to read you something. I did not write this. This is St. Martin's, my publisher. Quote, from the author of the number one bestling narrating, narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly, comes the next book in the new instant

best-selling confronting series, focusing on the most evil people throughout history that will undoubtedly capture every reader's attention. I hope so. I just wrapped it last week. I'll tell you what, it moves. This book, I mean, you think confronting a president's was a piece? Page Turner and killing the witches and all the other 12 killing books. Woof.

I think this is my fastest moving book. You will believe these guys what they did. And people let them do it. As you can't far beyond anything that you've ever considered. We had Jenghis Khan in there, Caligula, the slave traders, the cartels, the Mexican cart. We're right up to the moment. The worst people ever.

Okay, the book again, Confronting Evil, assessing the worst of the worst. Should shake it up a little bit out in September, and I got one more book to write under the present contract. And I know what I'm going to do, but obviously we can't sell because then somebody steals the idea. That's how the world works these days. But they can't steal confronting evil. Thank you for watching and listening to the NOSPN News. see them.