Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Sanctuary City Chaos, the Latest on Fani Willis with John Solomon, Antony Blinken Threatened With Contempt Over Afghan Docs, Steve Cohen on the Decline of Local Media, & More

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

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Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, stand up for your country. Incredibly busy news day to day. I got all kinds of stuff to tell you about. Hunter Biden testifying, we got his father, the president of the United States, stuff about crime. We got the turtle saying he's not going to be the Republican leader in the Senate anymore. And let's start with that and then I'll do the talking points memo on the sanctuary city situation. So Mitch McConnell, 82 years old, longest running power

broker in the Senate on the Republican side. He's not going to do that past November. He's going to step down. Now, whether he runs or not, his term is up in 2007. Okay, so three years away, six-year turns to senators, as you know. Now, I don't like Mitch McConnell. I've never liked him. I don't think he's looking out for you or me. I think he loves power, but I could be wrong. I don't know him very well. He did kill Kate's law. We've been over that. I don't want to have to go over it again. If you have any questions about Mitch McConnell, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, I'd be happy to answer them. But he is stepping down.

And I think Senator Cornyn from Texas got a good shot to take his place. But it's just a guess. So the Talking Points Memos of Sanctuary City Laws off the death of Lincoln Riley. This situation has haunted me. You know, I've seen a lot of terrible things in my career. But Lakin's death in Georgia, I don't know why, it's just staying with me here. And I think it's because the incompetence and corruption that we see at the federal level now. And a lot of it's to do with President Biden, but not all of it.

I mean, he's got a lot of people working for him that shouldn't be there. And then we have it at the state level. You know, Athens, where the University of Georgia is, is a sanctuary place. And we'll show you a clip in a moment about that. And it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be any sanctuary places in this country. The federal authorities and the local and state authorities should cooperate in protecting us. Is that unreasonable, but they don't?

So let's walk through it. All right. Now, in New York City, where this vicious guy from Venezuela, Jose Ibarra was, they picked him up. for having his stepchild on a motorcycle without a helmet and not secured in the motorcycle. You can believe this, how reckless this is in New York City. It's beyond belief. The cops brought him in. Child endangerment.

That's a pretty hefty beef, but not for New York City. So the police did not call ICE. They knew he was an illegal alien. They knew he had come into this country. and had no reason to be here, but they didn't call. Now, the New York City law says this quote, NYPD may only respond to a federal detainer request after an alien becomes eligible for release from custody

if the alien meets the following criteria. Never been convicted of a serious and violent crime, such as burglary, extortion, arson, or kidnapping within the past five years, or as identified as a potential match on the terror war. on the terror watch list. ICE provided NYPD with a judicial warrant for the alien or the alien has been previously deported.

So this guy didn't fall into any of those categories and they just kicked them. All right? The cops just let them go. Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens picked up for shoplifting, for domestic disputes, for whatever it may be, fall into the same category. Cops just did it. Now, what should happen is that the cops, as soon as they get it, an illegal alien under arrest should call ICE and give ICE the option of picking the guy up.

All right. Now, NYPD can't hold all these criminal aliens. They can't. Down to space, Rikers, they couldn't do it. But you can pick up the phone and say, we got Jose Abara here. You want them. Come down and get them. No, because the far left New York City Council doesn't want that. They don't want any inhibitions of illegal immigration, even if there's criminality involved. They don't want it. So the guy taking the heat for this is Mayor Adams of New York City. And here's what he says. Go.

We need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony, a violent act, we should be able to turn you over the ice and have you deported. It is a right to live in this city, and you should be not committing crime. in our city. Well, he could do that right now by executive order, Adams. And the law backs him up. Here's the federal law. Ready? 8 U.S.C. 1373 prohibits states and local jurisdictions like New York City

from preventing their law enforcement officials from exchanging information with federal officials on the citizenship status of individuals they have arrested or detained. Supreme Court upheld this position to 12, Arizona. versus the USA. So, Adams, all he has to do is write the executive order saying, hey, we're stopping this nonsense, and I'm ordering my police department every time they arrest an illegal alien to contact ICE. He's got the law, the federal law backing him up. No city council can do anything to him or the governor of the state, Hockel. Now, I don't know whether Adams even knows this. He should. But he could do it tomorrow. Snap. But no, he'd rather complain.

Oh, not my fault. Oh, no. I, we have to change. You don't have to change Jack. Just do it. Write an executive order. Give it to the police commissioner who will happily carry it out, and you're on the right side of the law, Mr. Mayor. Okay? He's going to do it? No. They put politics above all of this. Now, down to Georgia. So the Athens mayor, Kelly Gertz, Democrat, is a sanctuary city person. All right? So this guy, Jose Abara, shows up his brother, another Venezuelan, in the country illegally. They're in Athens protected by that city. Okay? And that Now, everybody's angry because poor Lake and Riley was brutally, and I mean brutally, murder.

Roll the tape. While 2019 was not that long ago, you might remember the dynamic we were living in in the late teens in this country where you had the President of the United States speaking in the most vile terms about people who were foreign-born. And you had that notion metastasizing in places like Charlottesville. When I was younger, I was a criminal. And you know what I thought about doing?

Crossing the border to Mexico to get away from my crimes. Son, I'm going to ask you to leave. Jesus Christ, he saved me. And I no longer lived that lawless life, which you do. Son, I'm going to ask you to leave. You are lawless, Mr. Mayor. And I mean, why would you an elect a guy like that? Why?

Who would vote? I think it's through. I think his career is over. Georgia, by the way, voted for Biden last time. No way, that happens again. But Trump just picked that state up because of this. If you are a Georgian and you're living down there in this traditional state, which Georgia is, you can't put up with this anymore.

You can't. You've got to throw them all out. So, you know, when I see this and I know what I know, I'm, as I said, I'm almost haunted by this because it's not hard to correct the courts we're on, but they will not do it. These politicians are craven and cowardly. They care only about themselves.

They're not looking to solve any problems at all. And the number one offender is Joe Biden. Could not care less. read my message of the day. And I tell you, the reason he isn't solving is because he doesn't care. And I list five other presidents who didn't care about severe problems

as well. So I'm not just ganging up on Biden. Anyway, Jose Ibarra is being held in the Athens jail. ICE is going to pick him up. Should have picked him up already. You got to get him out of the local jurisdiction,

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or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. President Biden met with law enforcement, local law enforcement. He gave a speech of, I watched the speech, and I couldn't figure out what he was saying. I didn't know what he was saying.

And I got two master's degrees. I have no idea what the man was saying. He's doing, of course, doesn't mention this, and didn't call the Riley family. All right, it's been six days. Didn't pick up the phone to call him. So, anyway, that's what he did. Nothing there. Hunter Biden, bigger story.

So Hunter Biden goes in, testifies before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, okay? He issues a statement, he gives a statement to the AP. Pete, and basically the statement says, I never had anything to do with my father in business, ever. My father didn't know what I was doing. He's completely innocent, and this whole thing is political. Not only is a political toward my father's political toward me, generated by MAGA people, and they just want to get us, and blah, blah, bah, bah, and we're all innocent. We didn't do anything wrong. Just as I told you yesterday.

It's exactly, I mean, maybe they were watching the no spin news yesterday, because word for word, what I told you would happen, happened. Now, the interesting part of this, and I will be able to report it tomorrow, I believe, is the Q&A, what the questions were. So I'll give you one example. So Hunter Biden said on his laptop that he was sitting with his father, all right, and shaking down some Chinese guy for millions of dollars. Well, were you sitting with your father when that happened? Or not? Now, Hunter Biden would have to say, no, I didn't. I made it up.

But let's have it. let's have it. Okay, I mean, the whole thing is absurd. And then the Democrats at lunch break run out and say, I told you there's nothing. Like Hunter Biden you're basing your thing on? Bottom line on this is people believe what they want to believe. You all know that there's not a Democrat that I know of

in the entire Congress that wants to know if Joe Biden helped his unpedal influence. Not one. In our entire party. And on the Republican side, they've already convicted President Biden. They already say he's guilty. Now, I'm leaning toward that. I don't know if he got any money directly,

but he certainly enabled his son to sell influence. Come on. This is overwhelming evidence to that. Remember, this is an impeachment inquiry, but we don't have any smoking gun that there was cash that was passed along to President Biden by Hunter or Jim Biden, his brother.

Not there. But the people of, hey, Biden, we're already convicted of some of them, of that. So my job is to sort through all this muck, M-U-C-K, and bring you what is reality. And I think we're doing a pretty good job. Okay, we'll have a report, comprehensive report on Hunter Biden tomorrow when I get to see the Q&A. That's important. Michigan last night, Trump waxed Haley, 6827, Biden 81, uncommitted 13. Conservatives, I was on Hannity and he was making, we were talking about it.

The 13% of Democrats who are uncommitted, half of that at least are the people, the Arabs who don't like Biden's Israel policy. Biden, believe me, he's not going to have any trouble with the Democrats. They're going to coalesce behind him. Fannie Willis, okay. So this is ridiculous. She should have been taken off the Trump. conspiracy case already. I mean, there's no doubt there's misbehavior here all day long.

There's no doubt about it. Now, the judge who has to make the decision, and we understand that the closing argument is going to be Friday, the decision will be made next week. He's run a free election in Fulton County, and it's a black county, and he boots Fannie, and what do you think? So Fannie might survive this because of politics, once again, but Fannie and her boyfriend, this is so crazy. Wade, who has no experience, but she appointed him to investigate the conspiracy charges against Trump and 18 others, you know, I mean, come on. It's ridiculous. The whole thing is absurd.

Here's what the governor of Georgia said on News Nation. Go. Well, I've got to be careful about what I say here, because I was subpoenaed by Fannie Willis and the special grand jury. But it's hard to believe that a process that I think many people, including myself, believe is very political, regardless of the merits behind the case, has gotten even more political now because of her actions and those of Mr. Wade and others. Keep in mind that the governor could fire Fawney Willis.

Keep that of mind. He might be subpoenaed. He might have testified when I would get fired. I'm the governor. Fonnie's on vacation with her boyfriend. That's where she is right now. Okay, so an interesting part of this case has been underreported, but not by just the news, which is an internet operation, and I hope you're familiar with.

That's John Solomon. I've been on his show. He's been on my show. So, apparently, Fani sent Nathan to the White House twice, and maybe Fahny herself went to the White House. So what's that all about? Press is ignored it totally, but Justin News has filed the Freedom of Information Act to find out what that was all about, and John Solomon joins us now from Washington, D.C. So I have that right. Is that what you did? You did. We found a lawsuit this week with the help of the America First Legal nonprofit law firm, and our goal is to get all communications between Fannie Willis's office and the White House regarding this prosecution.

And the reason we have, there's strong reason to believe that there were these White House contacts. Why? Because there are billing records where Nathan Wade and his team bill for two meetings. One apparently in Washington at the White House, one in Augusta, Georgia, right, where the master's golf course is often held. And there is no explanation for what it is. And then in ancillary court hearing, they revealed that there were at least two documents of communications between the Biden White House. and Fannie Willis regarding the case. So we put a Freedom of Information Act request in. They came back and said, we don't have anything.

And we said, well, you said in court, you had something. You have billing records. So we're going to court now to force the disclosure of these records. And it's important because this fact pattern that we have here is still a little vague. But if we can get to the document, it matches exactly what happened in the Jack Smith case. If you remember about a year ago, I think Bill and I, we talked about this, there is a moment where the Biden. White House counsel tells the National Archives sick the FBI on Donald Trump over these classified

documents. There's a very specific memo. It says, please give the evidence of the FBI. That initiates the FBI investigation that ultimately becomes the Jack Smith prosecutor. In all my years in Washington, I can't remember a time where a sitting White House, a sitting president, asked a federal agency to go report their chief political rival to the FBI to get an investigation started. So we already have that in fact and evidence and now we've got these unusual White House contacts with a local prosecutor

pursuing their chief political rival. Okay. The White House, as you know, keeps logs of everybody who comes in and who they visit and how long they stay. Is that part of the FOIA request? Because then you could get Nathan was he there? Who do you see? The Biden White House

makes those logs available publicly. The names do not show up. So the assumption we have is that these meetings were not in the White House. They could be outside the White House. Clearly, a meeting in Augusta, Georgia is a long way from the White House. So the operating assumption we have from the facts that we have in evidence right now is that maybe these meetings were off campus somewhere where the Secret Service logs do not cover them. We don't know if anybody from Fannie Willis's office actually went into the White House, but the guy billed the state of Georgia for a trip to

DC, but how did we get White House out of that? Did he say I met with White House officials? Yeah, it's marked as a White House meeting. That's what it's marked as. And then there's a separate one as a meeting in Augusta, Georgia. So we're trying to pursue both of us. With White House? He uses the term White House. Yeah, he uses the term White House. So we'll find out what that means. That wasn't very smart of him. Yeah, it wasn't. Well, after watching him on the stand, there's a lot of indiscretions that this man is going to be answering for, I think. One of the most important things is that in a court question and answer moment, they do acknowledge that they have two documents from the Biden White House.

They didn't describe them further other than to say that there are two documents that came or were derived from the Biden White House. That's part of our lawsuit. We want those documents. We want anything having to do with setting up these meetings, what was discussed in the meeting, what the file, what would the meeting? Why would a low-level guy like that be meeting with a White House official about what? So that's a big story. And, of course, I don't know of anybody but you that's really aggressively pursuing it, right? Not yet.

No, I hope others follow us. I don't think Fox News has done it. And that brings me to Fatima Graves. Now, I've told Ted Cruz and a bunch of other senators and Congresspeople that the wife of Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., who was in charge of Hunter Biden's initial investigation, and wouldn't take it, wouldn't do anything about it, has gone to the White House more than 20 times. Now, from my investigation, some of that had to do with Kamala Harris, because apparently Fatima Graves is a buddy of Kamala Harris, but she went there, and we don't know why. Why would the wife of a U.S. attorney involved the Hunter Biden investigation go over to the White

House more than 20 times? So I'd like you guys to get on that story. We are, after we talked earlier this week, I've got two reporters now on that. We have some Freedom of Information Act requests we've sent to the Justice Department. FOIA, White House is exempt from FOIA, but we're working through the logs to see what other things happened around the time of these meetings, to see if there's some topical meetings that are going on. Is it Hunter Biden's lawyers come in around the time? We are deep in a dive on that, and we will stay on that. That is a great lead that we got from you, Bill. I appreciate that, John.

I wish I could do it, but I don't have the staff that you have, and I'm not in D.C. Last question. How long does it usually take for the FOIA requests to be adjudicated finally? How long does it take? In federal court, it can be years. I have FOIA still pending from 18 to 19 that I'm litigating right now. Wow. In state law, like Georgia, Georgia is a very favorable open records law.

And so we could theoretically see a resolution to this in the next three to six months, certainly before the election and probably before the Senate. We feel very optimistic that we can get initial information discovery and the original documents out. That may result in more FOIAs, more discovery, but we think this will be wrapped up by the summer. All right, John, thanks very much. We appreciate it. Keep us posted on all fronts. We'll do, Bill.

Thank you. All right. So on March 25th, jury selection begins in the Trump's Stormy Daniels case. This is the hush money thing. Now, I was on Hannity discussing this. I brought it up. And I said, you know, I think this is going to be it for Trump before the election, because this is going forward, but the other cases, Maelago, documents, conspiracy, Jack Smith, all of that, the Atlanta thing is over, I think. They're not going to sit before the election.

So I think this is the last one. It could be wrong. Now, I want to remind everybody that on February 23, 2022, two years ago, okay, the New York Times wrote an article. It's really stunning about how Alvin Bragg, the ultra-liberal DA in Manhattan, didn't want to bring the case. The Times said, quote, two prosecutors leading the Manhattan DA's investigation of former President Donald Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a month-long pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury. according to people with knowledge of that matter. The unexpected development came not long after the high-stakes inquiry appeared to be gaining momentum and now throws the future into serious doubt.

Prosecutors Kerry Dunn and Mark Pomerantz had submitted their resignations because the new Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward to the case against Mr. Trump. And I think that's true. It's anonymous sources because the New York Times does that all day every day. Everything's anonymous over there. But I think this is true because the two guys quit. And Bragg didn't want the case from what I'm hearing. But he was ordered by the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, to do it.

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sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. The House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCall's threatening Secretary of State Blinken with contempt of Congress for not handing over documents about the Afghanistan withdrawal. McCall have been after these for more than a year, Blinken Stonewalling. Again, very underreported story. We're bringing it to you. We're watching the story. Does it get, you get the feeling there's a lot of corruption going on in Washington right now. Now we have the Secretary of State. Won't hand over.

Why not? Tell us what happened. So I hope McCall does, you know, put the contempt citation up. Maybe that's the only way to get it. Okay, let's pivot to smart life. So we want to keep you healthy. Yesterday we talked about your money. And I hope you took my advice yesterday.

It was an important smart life tip. want to keep you healthy and everybody knows that eating sugar is the worst so it's gonna as particularly as you get older you can't work it off it's gonna destroy your immune system and it's gonna punish you physically and you're gonna suffer you're gonna hurt if you eat a lot of sugar little sugar okay we're not fanatics here okay but you gotta get away got to wean yourself off that means white bread go for the sour dough pasta, I eat pasta once or twice a week, but I know it's turning to sugar, all right, but I'm

moderating it. Okay. So there are four very healthy foods that can mitigate some of the damage we're doing to ourselves. We got this from healthline.com. First is broccoli, then onions and sweet potatoes and carrots. Okay, so those are all reasonable foods. Come back to me. So Well, broccoli is hard to eat, just eating it. You gotta cut it up and then you gotta throw a little bit of olive oil on it or, you know, butter, dairy, you gotta watch it, okay? Olive oil, put a little, maybe parmesan teeth on it, that kind of thing, all right? But you can't just eat broccoli straight.

Onions, I can't eat onions. I have an Irish stomach, I eat onions or peppers, I'm in traction. But a lot of people eat onions and apparently they're good for you. Sweet potatoes, I love sweet potatoes. I'm trying to find out whether sweet potato fries are better than regular fries. I don't know yet. But sweet potatoes are very good. And then carrots, here's what you do with the carrot.

The carrot is you cut them up, and instead of getting the cookie or the Fritos or whatever, you get the carrot, all right, and then you dip it into some little thing you like, a little thing, not a lot. all right so maybe some blue cheese dressing or you know that that that and just dip in the carrot boom and it fills you up so that's a smart life tip want you to be healthy okay let's go to the media two studies last year on local media local news is what you get the weather you get the local sports guy uh the anchors and and they talk about whatever's happening in your town it's totally divorced from the national news. It is very, very little cross-pollination.

I worked local for a while, okay, and then I went to national. And so I know the difference between the two. The national news, the three newscasts, ABC, NBC, CBS, they average less than 20 million people, all three of them, okay, a night. It down about 16, 17 million. Local news still in some cities does okay, but it's falling too. So the study, one was by N-O-R-C, it asked, do you trust your local news? 41% say yes, 37% don't know, and 22% don't.

All right, then we had a maggot poll. This was both last year. trust local news 54 yes 39 so-so no trust 6 I do not believe that poll and here's why

maggid who took the poll they service local news they sell them anchors so this is a fix is in poll here I'm just telling you what the media is all about now I as I said worked I worked local news

for I don't know, let's see, seven years before I went national. And the two best stations I was at was WCVB in Boston, and we talked to Phil Balbony, and now is our foreign news partner last week, and WCBS TV, owned and operated by CBS in New York City. And my news director there was a man named Steve Cohen, who joins us now from San Diego, And I got your book, all right?

Thank you, I got your book, 50 years in a newsroom, and you look it, by the way, a eulogy, a eulogy. Is it, is it, is local news dead? Is it over? No, it's not dead, but the books about the newsrooms that you and I grew up in and you and I knew, and those newsrooms were not mainstream newsrooms, you know, there was no mainstream. stream. We created what news was to be. You and me and John Tesh and a whole bunch of people that are now a generation of television news. And the reason that local news I think today needs a eulogy is let's remember what we were and perhaps we could get back to it. That's the

problem. You know, the reason those numbers that you just read are so low is because you go from station to station. There's usually seven stations that do news now and market, they do about six to seven hours a day, seven days a week. Is there all the same? Mainstream media has taken over, right? But it's all about money now for them. It's not about winning. You know, when I was working for you at Channel 2, the Big Cahunas were Channel 4 in New York, WNBC, and WABC, Channel 7. It was a fierce brawl to beat them in the ratings because you got overnight ratings every night. And we really were, you know, pushing it to be better than they were, more aggressive, better stories, all of that.

That doesn't count anymore. All they want to do is make money. So if you're number three or number four, and I think that's why the quality is dropped. I think some of it's about income for sure. And it's because the guys that own these big organizations, there's only like three or four. You know, you got Tegness and Claire, Next Star, Byron Allen's in the game now. they all have the same zeitgeist. They all believe the same things. And therefore, the kind of journalism we did, and when we competed in New York,

it was dog-eat-dog to get the best story. We didn't believe in official sources. We didn't trust anybody. We were skeptical of everything, including ourselves. We had wars in the newsroom over ideas and what we should cover. The newsrooms today are quiet. place is built. They're a place of whispers and people using their thumbs instead of their intellect

if there is in fact any intellect extant in the newsrooms of America today. Everybody's why they're scared they don't want to get fired to say now at WCBS when I was there with you there wasn't any ideology okay you didn't bring that at all it was get the story and get it right, and God help you, if you don't get it right, you know, the anchorman Jim Jensen will lay you out, okay? And I never even do, not one time did I think about ideology when I was working in Channel 2. But there was an incident, and I'm sure you'll remember, where I asked Governor Hugh Kerry, a Democrat, a very tough question about his poll numbers being driven down by his wife. I remember. And I got marched in.

to the general manager's office with you. And I looked at him and he goes, and he got a call from Bill Paley, the guy who ran CBS, saying, get this punk O'Reilly under control. Do you remember that? I do. I remember it very well.

And I was very fortunate to have some history with William Paley, the chairman who sort of took a liking to me and got to know me. But I remember that meeting. And I remember both of them. of us sort of being quiet, but we didn't back down, as my memory, that we did not back down, that both of us stood shoulder to shoulder and said, look, this is legitimate. And we were back, and as far as I remember, the GM backed us, did he not? You know, his heart wasn't in it. It was a guy named Ed Joyce, who got promoted to CBS Dan Rather, national news, and hired me

to go there. But that was a snake pit. That was ideology, that was, I was so different than local. So I bet my audience would like to know what a pain in the neck I was to manage way back thin. I was ridiculous, right? Well, I think, yeah, you are, but the truth is that it's the other difference between newsrooms is that you have to be firm, but you have to embrace people that are who they are. And what you brought to the newsroom was, one, you had a sense of humor, right? So no matter how tough you were, you had a sense of humor. And second, you had a philosophy about what should be covered and what shouldn't.

Well, that makes you hard to manage. Guess what? Tough. If you're in charge of a newsroom, you want people who are unique. You want people who are one of a kind. You demand people to be unique and different. We had folks like Vic Miles and, you know, that were so unique and different in the way they did. Warner, Warner Wolf and Sports who invented modern sports casting.

You know, Tesh was on that was leaving to seek his dreams and entertainment. Everyone had something else that was compelling and they were passionate about it. And even the anchors who were, as you grew up to be, Even more obtuse and even more crazy, right? But you know what? You had to find your voice, Bill. You had to find your voice. And all I tried to do, and in my 50 years as a news director,

try to do is let people find their voice because we need the multiplicity of us. Yeah, I say that. You were the best. The book is 50 years, a newsroom, a eulogy. You want to know about local news. Steve Cohen is the man. And good to see you, Steve. Stay well.

Thank you, Bill. I can't thank you enough for what you did for my career. I really appreciate that. And you embracing our friendship has meant so much. Take care, my friend. Okay. This day in history, 332 years ago, February 28, 1692, the Salem Witch Hunt began. Okay?

Fascinating story. I wrote an old book about it. You know that. So two little girls, Betty Paris and Abigail Williams, 9 and 11. Under the tutelage of a slave who took care of them, Tituba, began accusing adults of being witches, okay? It lasted for a year, this hysteria. 200 people in Salem were arrested, 200, okay?

30 found guilty of witchcraft, 20 executed. If you can believe all this. Here's what I wrote in Chapter 5 of killing the witches. Fear descends, the Indians have again turned hostile. reports that they are torturing Europeans are terrifying. Inside sale and the Puritan Village is being ripped apart by apprehensions, Indian attack, starvation, winter cold. There is no central authority.

There is no shortage. There is a shortage of almost everything because of poor harvest. Once friendly neighbors are fighting over property, it is a perfect cauldron for witches and warlocks. That is from killing the witches. Perhaps the most brutal time in American history. history, you know, outside of war. So in which trials began, 332 years ago today. Mail, final thought on a concierge letter that came to me that I think you should know about. Coming up. Let's go to the

mail. We got Eleanor. I didn't know that the view was classified as news and not an entertainment program. ABC News runs the view. Glenda, you mentioned that President Obama deported a lot of migrants at a fairly secure border. If this is so, and Obama's people are part of the Biden administration, I don't know how they are allowing an open border. We know that Biden is not calling his shots. I thought it was people like Barack Obama. There is no evidence Barack Obama's calling any shot in the Biden administration. Not one shred of evidence. Now, some of his advisors are involved, but not here. I don't, and I'm not going to do that unless I see something. Sean Ryan, Green Bay, Wisconsin, last night on the notes of the news, you stated that you can't

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He hit negative territory of me saying there was no similarity in a classified doctor's case. So let's see what he's got. All right? I think it's bogus, but I'm going to. going to look at what he's got on the Mar-a-Lago documents. John Roulette, Wauke, Iowa. As bad as this immigration is, why is nobody talking about the disenfranchisement in the future because it's speculation what happens in the future, so we can't do that.

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