Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Senate Votes on Rescissions Bill, Surge in ICE Attacks, Former Detective Bo Dietl on the NYPD’s Decline & the Latest on the Epstein Files 

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday July 16, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill examines the proposed defunding of NPR and PBS as the Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Bill. Which side has more loons, the right or the left? ICE attacks have increased by 700% in one year, Bill explains why. Retired NYPD Detective Bo Dietl joins the No Spin News to discuss the collapse of the justice system and how the NYPD has changed over time. The latest on the Epstein files controversy and what AG Pam Bondi said in a recent press conference. This Day in History: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and her sister died when their single-engine plane crashed. Final Thought: Read Cindy Adams' review of Bill O'Reilly's latest book, 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, July 16th, 2025, stand up for your country. Exceedingly busy day. So we did the Pierce Morgan show. I think that's in America and in Great Britain. around a world. We did the Hannity radio program. Hattie's got 700 stations now. I got 300. I thought that was pretty good. So he is by far the radio leader. We did that and we do it every Wednesday.

And then on the News Nation, we'll have the three Americans tonight on Cuomo, I believe, plus all the breaking news that we have to stay on top of and advance the story for you. You know, one of the things that's annoying is that the television news in particular does the same story over and over and over and over again. And Epstein is a great example of that. But I did make some points on Pierce Morgan that I think kind of close a circle on this story. It'll still be there, but it's losing some steam. Okay, I'll update you in a little while. Talking Boy's memo is about this cutting $9 billion more out of the federal budget.

So as you know, Democratic Party doesn't want to cut anything. They're fine with a $36 trillion debt. They want to raise the debt. And the Republicans have gone along passing a law that raises the debt by $2 trillion. That was what the real conservative, far-right Republicans objected to. But $2 trillion is a lot better than $8 trillion. What the Democrats would do. And Trump's saying that, look, all this tariff money coming in is going to bring the debt down.

I'm not sure about that. Okay, but there's a lot of tariff money coming in. There's no doubt about that. So now this week, the fight is over taking money away from NPR and PBS. In the four years of Biden held office, they got more than $200 million. Is it a total waste of money? Let them compete on their own. Compete against me.

I'm ready. I'll take you on. I don't want to get you don't deserve my tax money because you're not fair and you're not providing any service other than to promote the democratic party and liberal causes okay there's no doubt about that so uh to advance the bill it looks like it's going to be 51 50 it'll pass in the senate with vice president advanced the tiebreaker uh we know that uh susan colins of maine mccowski of ralaska and mccanoll of kentucky will vote again defunding NPR and PBS. These people, they don't want Trump. That's an anti-Trump vote. I mean, tell me the turtle, Mitch McConnell, wants this NPR and PBS to be funded by his tax dollars? No.

So, I hate you, and I'm going to vote against everything you've got. In the House, it'll probably pass two. So buy and good, good riddance, all right, to that public money. into those agencies and let me just prove it to you can i prove it to you so last night you know the all-star game was on i was in and out but there was a documentary on pbs it's called trump's power and the rule of law it was front line you know front line used to be good and now it's a left wing thing all right um it's like 60 minutes 60 minutes used to be good now it's a left-wing thing that happens so front line um

As an one hour and 22-minute documentary, I watched about 20 minutes, but it was boring. And I knew where they were going. Trump's a fascist. He's using his position as president to violate break laws, whatever it may be. So I asked my crew, and they did a really good job, my producer and research crew. Break this documentary down. Here it is. An hour and 22 minutes on PBS last night, 10 Eastern Time.

They had 19 anti-Trump guests, 19, four pro-Trumps. Okay, they spent two minutes and 18 seconds promoting Trump's point of view out of one hour and 22 minutes, 82 minutes, two minutes, 18 seconds. The rest was anti-Trump. Here's a taste of it. Go. Trump would send a message to the lawyers, attacking powerful law firms that had crossed him in the past. We're going to sign some executive orders. What they've done is, it's just terrible.

And it should never be allowed to happen again. He ordered the firm's security clearances revoked. That they be denied entrance to all federal buildings. Their government contracts canceled. This is just... gangster stuff. I mean, it really is. This is mob-style intimidation. Because what it is saying nakedly is that I can essentially destroy the law firm. So that guy is Eugene Robinson, hates Trump, far left columnist for the Washington Post,

MSNBC commentator. Now, it would be okay to use him if you had somebody going, Eugene is full of hooey like me coming up behind Eugene then it'll be okay but they just stack it all right so why should I pay for that why should you pay for that let Eugene pay for it I'm not paying for it so this is a very good thing that's happening this week I mean enough's enough with this all right PBS let me say it very clearly PBS and NPR are a disgrace They have the four tops on sometimes, and I like that. But the management who runs PBS and NPR, disgraceful, dishonest, intellectually, dishonest, ideologically. All right.

And there is craziness on the right, too. When I say that, some people go, you can't say, of course I can't say that. So I wrote a message today on bill o'Reilly.com. it's free, you should go there every morning and get it. And I said, who has more loons? The far left or the far right? Now, I got a letter to the day, what's the far right? Well, that would be the clan, the proud boys, you know, those people, right?

So who is more, more people associated with the far left or the far right? I say the far left because of the urban situation, the cities. L.A., San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York. York, Baltimore, D.C., on and on, and on. They're run by leftists who are elected. So I think there are more far left loons than in this country than far right loons. One of the far right poster gals for extremism is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. Now, she tried to derail President Trump selling weapons to NATO who would then give those weapons to Ukraine to defend itself against the heinous Putin.

Marjorie didn't want that to happen, even though the USA is making money from it, okay, and is giving the Ukrainian people hope that they'll survive. No, Green doesn't want it, because Green doesn't want any money from the United States going to anything, any conflict overseas. So I'm saying to myself, power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the world's politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is not a majority position to Republican Party.

There is an isolationist crew, but it's not large. All polls say that. But on a historical basis, what is green thing's going to happen when Putin starts to invade other countries? It's not going to just stop in Ukraine. If we surrender, like Biden did in Afghanistan, Chinese are going to Taiwan when green doesn't care. Didn't care. That's just stupid. Okay, I'm sorry.

There's no other word. We live in a global economy. You can't have communist nations or dictators like Putin running wild, slaughtering children and women. You can't have it. Ice. So attacks on ice of 700% according to the Department of Homeland Security. And the first six months of this year as compared to the first six months of last year.

Raw number is 79 assaults on ICE agents as opposed to 10. The reason is that far left politicians are inciting this violence. Here's an example. Go. This is Gestapo-like behavior where plain clothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings, and trying to come into this country lawfully, which is through asylum. Now, that is Congressman Dan Goldman, who doesn't understand what the Gestapo was. If he was sitting here in a debate, I would say, well, what was the Gestapo in the Third Reich?

What did they do? You don't know. But the inflammatory rhetoric, unstable people, lights the fuse of violence. There you go. All right, an update. We don't have much on this guy.

We reported on yesterday, Chris Landry, who lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, was denied access back to the USA. He's got five children because of a pot beef. he's a legal U.S. resident.

Senator Maggie Hassan is now involved, though we are following that story close. So we do expect he will be back as we had an interview yesterday with an immigration attorney. But, you know, look, I am a big booster of homeland security and deportations, but mistakes are made sometimes.

And when they're made, they have to be corrected. Right? Yes? So I debated Haney about this today. It's pretty interesting. I'll pose that out on Bill O'Reilly.com. We get an update, we'll give it to you. All right, here's another update.

So you remember the two New York City police officers who were assaulted and was caught on videotape, so they did it. On November 13, 2003, 18 months ago, there's the assault. Okay? Two men were charged with a felony, assault, in the second degree.

Today they were in court. Their case was adjourned for the 19th time, 19th time by D.A. D.A. Darcel Clark. Okay? That means they're out on the street till September 3rd. This is coming up on two years now. They will not put these thugs in court, the Bronx. And they wonder why crime is out of control in that very poor part of New York City. 19 times, 19 times the case has been adjourned.

This is not the justice system, this is a collapse. Here it might be worse. We called the cop unions and the people are supposed to be defending the New York City police. 17 times they refused to come on a program. We call the Police Benevolent Association, police Conference of New York, the Feternal Order of Police, on and on and on and on.

Now, won't defend their own police. Because in New York City, very few people know about this. Don't even know it. Joining us now as a retired New York City police detective, Bo Dietl, you know him. He's a movie star now. He's then Godfather of Harlem. He play Genevice.

Who you're playing now? You're some mom guy? Tommy Gambino. Gambino. Genevice, Gambiero. No, no, no. Tommy Lucchese. You got me wrong.

I don't even know who I'm playing anymore. You don't even know. All right. So you're Lucchasey. All right. But in your real life, your Bodiedel, who had a very distinguished career

in the NYPD, as did my grandfather. I'm so outraged about this. I tell you, I can't get any angrier. Can you explain this to me? I just, it's just part of the patent bill that has happened. This is the George Floyd effect on and on with the demonstrations. Since 2020, when these pieces of garbage were able to demonstrate, burn, assault, actual

some murders involved, the prosecution. Everyone turned against the police, defund the police, defund the police. Now you have, in New York State, because we have to start. thought with the state. You have an assembly and you have a Senate that will not pass any kind of bills in support of the police. There you have a city council here that has taken away every aspect of what the police officers can do. Now they also have this diaphragm law. When you're fighting with someone, if you get them into a headlock, that's illegal. Immediately when a cop gets someone in a headlock or gets on top of them, they file a suit

against them, the charges are dropped, they testify against the cop. Then you've got district attorneys. Like you just pointed out with this case, these officers were beat pretty bad. There were stitches involved and everything. That's why it's assault to a felony. And I'm outraged, Bill, listening to what you just said, that this is put off. That's the DAs and the damn judges when they put these liberal judges in there. I mean, a judge is supposed to make a judgment call.

When you've got animals like this, if they're going to assault the police officer the way they did, imagine what they'll do to a regular person. You will be on children on the streets. Right. These people are career criminals anyway, and they know that, and they put them back on the street. But in order to counter this, Bo, you would have to have an organized police presence with demonstrations, with signs, with pressure, with the media, and you don't have anything. not one word. They have turned us down on every request to come in and condemn this whole case.

They will not do it. Do you know why? No, I don't know why, but I'm going to tell you something. I was with Kaz's Doctrie. The deputy mayor of public safety last night I had dinner up in Campionola's Woodham. We had dinner, and this is one of the issues that he told me he wanted me to get back on.

And I promise you one thing. I told him I was going to be on your show, and I said, I want answers. Why? Now, when you go to the unions, you have a PBA, you have a DEA. I'm still a member to the DEA. But I'm going to reach out to the president of the PBA, and you are exactly right. There should be demonstrations going on in front of that DA's office in the Bronx. This is an outrage.

And I'm really, really side with you on this one, Bill. That's where I came from. But now, it's not, it's a moral outrage. It's just wrong. It's indefensible. But there's more than that. It demoralizes every single police officer in the city because they know they could be beaten. They could be next.

And nothing is going to happen to them because of the Darcell Clarks of the world. But their own people aren't defending them. How can you ask people to put their lives on the line every day in a dangerous city like New York when they know nobody's got their back? That's why, Bill, more police officers in New York City are retiring than ever before. They can't recruit people to come on to the New York City Police Department. And a lot of people don't know if they're doing their jobs completely legally. They still can be sued civilly.

That's like the poor cop that has a little house out there. in Levittown, paying his mortgage or her mortgage. And next thing is they get sued civilly and they take his house or her house away. And right now what's going on? They cannot bring people on the police department. And they're lowering their standards, Bill. This is a craziness. Then we got some fool running for mayor that wants to defund the police department.

And he's getting more votes than anybody. For our audience who doesn't live in New York City and doesn't really know how intense it is, Describe when you were on the job, and then now, how big a difference? Well, we had tremendous support. We had tremendous support from our unions, even the higher echelon of the police department. I was very active. I made over 1,500 felons. I was a decoyed cop, 500 times I was mug, hospitalized 30 times stab, shot, and all that.

And I got no fight with somebody, and I had to do necessary force. Let's not call it a beating. Let's call it necessary force. I'm fighting so you don't get my gun. I punched him. I hit him with their hand radio. I did whatever I had to do to get him or her, not too many hers, but definitely get him restrained.

And you know what? I said what I did and why I did it. And I was supported. I was the recipient of 40 civilian complaints. I'm very proud of every one of them. And you know what? I was never founded on one of them because all I did was my job. And I told the truth and that's it.

I'm out there and I'm with my partner. I'm fighting with a guy with a knife or a gun. I want to make sure my partner goes home safely and I go home safely. And I did what I had to do, reasonable force. Today, now you've got video cameras. What they do is after the cop gets punched, they take the video of the second part of the cop arresting them, not the original incident that occurred. And with the advent of these cell phones, that's a destruction to the police department also.

Could you do the job today? Because I know you love being a detective. I mean, you like the work and all of that. Could you do it today? Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home,

new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. No, and I think I would actually maybe break my son's arm if he wanted to become a New York City cop. I would not let him. Nobody I love will I let come on in the police department. It's a disgrace of what it's like become, and I feel horrible. Now you have more than 55, 60% of the police department have under five years.

That means you have inexperienced people out there that don't really want to do any kind of reaction. We used to go out there and we used to find a crime before these guys committed to crime. Find the bad guys. There's no proactivity with the police. Don't get involved. Drive by. I've seen them drive by many at times where they're not. getting involved. Oh, crime is down because no one is reporting anything. Forget quality

of life. So if you're a drug addict and you're sitting in front of a school with a needle in your neck, cops aren't going to do anything to you. No, and no, that's it. You can walk on these streets right now. I'm on Fifth Avenue, 42nd Street, right by Bryant Park for people around the country, the heart of New York City. You can walk out there anytime and you have people there. You can't wear watches. You can't do this. Everyone's scared stiff. Forget. about getting on a train. You know, you go on a train, you take your life in hand. My son, who's 30 years old, my son, Bo, he goes, Bo, Dad, you know what I do? I do no eye contact. He goes, if I do eye contact, I can get in a fight every two minutes with people.

Last question. When you don't have an effective justice system, which in New York City, we do not. And you're right, it's the laws that Andrew Cuomo signed, Hocal, Comes all the way down, okay? When you have a system that is collapsed, there is no protection for anybody. Wrong? The worst thing in the world is the district attorney is supposed to be protecting those cops

when they're doing their jobs. And when your district attorney, the prosecutor, don't support you. What the hell do police officers have? They have nothing. Then you've got these judges, these liberal judges that don't care about the cops or don't care about the public, all they care about is the criminal element.

This is what's wrong, Bill. And I tell you what, you talk about no spin zone. This is a spin into the toilet bowl for America across this country. Yeah, it's happening across the country. Not just in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, on and on. All right, boy, you stay safe out there. and it's a good show, Godfather Harlem. It's one of the few that I actually watch.

Great. And it's very amusing. Tommy Lucchasey. You played a gangster when your whole life you were trying to put those guys away. No, no, no. I go to Dave, Bill, I grew up with John Gotti. I went one way. They wanted another way.

Yeah, but you didn't like John Gotti. Well, no comment. I didn't like them. All right, Bo Dietl, everyone, there you go. Uh, Epstein update. Um, not much new. Trump is mad. Uh, he doesn't want people paying attention to this. And I understand. I mean, we got Putin. We got tariffs. We got China. We got, uh, immigration. We got all kinds of stuff. Epstein. But I think the president could put this to bed pretty quickly because the attorney general, Pam Bondi, takes orders directly

from Trump. People think that she makes policies. She does not. Okay. And here's what she said yesterday. Go. Mr. Minister, I would like to get your perspective on what exactly is driving this, but I also have an off-topic question for the Attorney General in response to questions, comments that President Trump made a short time ago, just a few months ago on the South Line. He said that he would support you releasing additional credible evidence from the Epstein investigation. Is that something that you are open to do? Let me take that first.

This is, this today is about fentanyl. This is about a wall of people right outside this room who have died from, I appreciate your question, but this today is about fentanyl overdoses throughout our country and people who have lost loved ones to fentanyl. That's the message that we're here to send today. Nothing about Epstein. Not going to talk about Epstein. Okay. Now, there was a bill introduced to the House by Roe Con, a Democrat from California,

California smart guy that would compel the Justice Department to release whatever they have about Epstein. It got defeated by one vote, 211 to 210. All the Democrats voted for it. Here's the hypocrisy, which is staggering. Under Biden, under Merrick Garland and the Attorney General, they had the same thing that Bondi has. Did you hear one Democrat, for that to be put out? One? In four years? No. It doesn't justify anything. If I'm President Trump, I'm telling Pam Bondi, you hold the press conference. You tell them generally what's going on. You don't have to give names unless there's somebody under criminal investigation. That's a different story. But according to Alan Dershowitz, the attorney for Epstein, there is it. Dershowitz also wrote

in a Wall Street Journal, there are no big names. And he knows, because he was Epstein's attorney. Okay, that's where we are on it. I'm going to follow it. I'm not going to be obsessed by it. Media madness. So for the first time in history, Americans have stopped watching NBC, CBS TV and ABC.

That's network TV. Their viewing level has fallen. below 20%, unheard of. And it's because they're boring and they're far left. That's the two reasons. So here's a chart, okay? Streaming 46% will 46% use social media streaming for their entertainment. Cable 23 and declining fast.

Broadcast 19, that's ABC, NBC, CBS, other 12. The top streamer, YouTube. And I can tell you because our YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash Bill O'Reilly, rock it. A rocket because we have unique commentary on it. So sign up. It's free. So all of the patterns are changing in the United States of America as far as people consuming entertainment. one of the reasons the networks have gone down to where they are and they're going to go further down is because they are perceived as being liberal entities and one guy leads that charge will it take my parent corporation paramount paid Donald trump a 16 million dollar settlement over his 60

minutes lawsuits as someone who has always been a proud employee of this network I am offended and I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. Well, you're not going to be around much longer, pal, and when Skydance buys, you're gone. So I hope you saved your money. So Colbert over five years has lost a million viewers. That's 30% of what he had. Remember, Johnny Carson, at his heyday, did 9 million. All right, the others are thinking, too, but Colbert is a face.

I mean, he is, you know, every night, liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal. Hey, Trump, hey Trump, hey Trump. That hurts CBS. It hurts them badly. Smart life. States with the best quality of life. This is from NBC. So you've got to take that with it, you know, what it is.

CNBC. They evaluated all 50 states, crime, health care, child care, inclusiveness, environmental, recreational, workplace protections. the rankings best quality of life state is Vermont. Bernie Sanders, Ben and Jerry's. Okay. Now, I love Vermont's beautiful state, but it's boring. There's nothing to do, unless it's like cows, and it is far left. All the hippies from New York years ago, and that we included Bernie Sanders, moved to Vermont. peaceful, bucolic, okay, and cost of living isn't much. Maine, number two, love Maine.

Weaknesses that health care is not great up there, they say. Liberal state, but not crazy, liberal. Not crazy. Third Jersey, now, number three, very high taxes. Very high. Traffic? Whoa. I like Jersey, my mother born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Know it well, but I'm not, number three. Minnesota, uh-oh, freezing cold. It's beautiful, especially the boundary waters up north. But, you know, this is NBC's. They love all that woke stuff.

Connecticut, another beautiful state boring, very boring in Connecticut. I worked at Hartford, local news. I had to go to Boston and New York. I mean, there's nothing going on. Hawaii, one of those beautiful places on earth, far left. You know, I could live in Hawaii for about a year, and they have to get out of there. North Dakota, I've only been there a few times.

Very, very cold. Windy. Thai for number eight, Massachusetts and Nebraska. Boston, my second home. a tremendous city. They haven't ruined it yet. They're trying, but it's still a great place to go.

And Nebraska, you like those quiet, it's quiet. And finally, Virginia is tied with Nebraska and the United States. There you go. The day in history, July 16th,

1999, JFK Jr.'s plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. So a terrible story. You'll remember it. So JFK Jr.'s, wife Carolyn, sister Lauren Bessette, took off from New Jersey private plane. Kennedy hugged the Connecticut coast over the Long Island Sound.

Fog came in, as it always, not always, but often does. It's not the way to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, which is a beautiful place. Kennedy was 38, his wife 33, her sister 34. and literally, according to the FAA, JFK Jr. flew the plane into the ocean. And they're all dead. It took five days Navy divers to find them. They're in 100 feet of water, eight miles off the coast of Massachusetts. So I remember covering that story.

And, you know, the Kennedy family, I was thinking about that today. Boy, they've endured an awful lot. You know, I know some people don't like them. I do respect the Kennedy family. Not all of them. I don't like the father, Joseph. but Bobby Kennedy, a lot of good for this country. But anyway, since 1944, 22 members of the Kennedy family have died prematurely.

Two assassination, five air crashes, six drug overdoses, multiple suicides, five car accidents. Back with a final thought on two good books to read. Here is the final thought of the day. So I've mentioned Cindy Adams, very nice piece in The New York Post. about confronting evil. And it was interesting to see what she picked out of the book. And Putin led the article. But not Putin now.

Putin as a kid. And this is the strongest piece of research that Josh Hammer, he's now my new co-writer, and I came up with. We trace Putin back to 12 years old. Putin's always been a killer. I mean, as a teenager, he was slamming other kids in the head with concrete. Where do you see this? And how he became the richest man in the world.

Putin's the richest man in the world. Can't spend the money. Can't go anywhere. So anyway, we appreciate Cindy Adams. Now, there's another book I just finished. It's on Clint Eastwood. It's by Sean Levy. It is a very good book if you like Clint Eastwood.

You've got to like them. But what I took out of that book is there has never been a person in Hollywood who has done more than Clint Eastwood, acting and directing when you combine it. Never. In a history of movies. It's amazing how much the man did. But why I like Eastwood and I know him, he's 95 now, is he came from nothing. Nothing. no advantages okay and he developed himself into a tight and the story is there so i enjoyed the book

but you got to like eastwood it's like 400 pages long and uh i'll have some other books for you uh you know in the next week or so i have a whole bunch of them getting through them now so that's it for the no spend news tonight i'm bill o'reilly we always appreciate you watching we'll see you again anymore.