Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Sending Tanks to Ukraine, Rising Gas Prices, Nancy Pelosi's Growing Wealth, White House Dishonesty, & More

Episode Date: January 27, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill explains why it's important to continue helping Ukraine, how far to go, and what the situation means for Vladimir Putin, as well as China The economy is growing but gas prices are increasing Nancy Pelosi continues to profit from the stock market The White House and Democrats are saying Republicans want to cut Social Security, but is that true? This Day in History: Catholic Bishop declares Chubby Checker's "The Twist" to be impure Final Thought: Bill's book recommendations In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Biden Derangement Syndrome" Let your people know you're a No Spin guy or gal! Get the new No Spin Polo, available at BillOReilly.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, January 26, 2023, stand up for your country. Most Americans don't pay too much attention to foreign news. As I've said, I get the daily chatter, which is our foreign news partner every morning, And I look it over to see if there's stories overseas that might affect you and me. But most of them don't. They're domestic issues in South America, Africa, Asia, you know. But Ukraine supersedes that. And the reason is that we are sending, we taxpayers, we are funding Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars.

That's what it's going to really come down to. the end. It's how much money we're sending over there. It's a lot. And so Americans are interested in that, and they're interested in any kind of shooting war, of course. Putin invades Ukraine about a year ago in February. And, you know, innocent people die. Putin's a war criminal. There's no doubt about it. The good news is that Putin is losing. And so that a conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which might be regional is not. It's international because of Putin, because he's such a villain. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.

So we're sending 31 Abrams tanks over. They won't be operational until spring because it takes a while to train Ukrainians to use the tanks. And then Germany, we had to lean on them, and they're sending leopards over. Poland will send old tanks in. So Ukraine will have enough hardware to defend itself against the predicted spring offensive by Russia. As I said yesterday, Russia's main force is mercenary now, the Wagner Group, because the army, the Russian Army is so bad.

And, you know, those people can do some damage. So last night I was on News Nation, Always on Wednesday, you might make an appointment to see that. It's usually pretty edifying. And Sean Penn, my old pal, was the first guest because he's very deeply involved with Ukraine and Zelensky. So after Penn left, I came in and here's what I said. Go. I want to just comment on Penn and Ukraine.

You've got to be careful about Ukraine. The United States, and this is one of the few policies that President Biden implemented that I think he did a good job on, was cautious in the beginning because we did not know if the Ukrainians were capable of fighting for their freedom. And so we couldn't send in heavy weapons right away. That would have been foolish. The end game in Ukraine is to destroy Putin, and he's well on the road to destruction. You don't want to overdo it so Putin becomes a simple.

in his own country, Russia. Right now he's a villain. So Biden has handled this pretty well. And Penn, who I've had my innings with, but one time Clint Eastwood told me that Penn is a good man. And that's a very high recommendation. But I think he's a little naive when it comes to global politics. And I urge both of you to be careful over in Ukraine. and be cautious in your analysis. So Chris Cuomo is traveling over there shortly, and I guess Penn is going to go with him, and it is not a place that is hospitable, that's for sure.

They should be okay if they stay around Kiev, but I wouldn't be going east. Anything can happen. Anyway, the reason that I want you to understand the importance of this is that it's a global chess game. So Biden is a villain. I mean, everybody knows that. And people in his own country now know it,

not because the press, they don't have a press over there. They don't get anything like any kind of information flow at all unless they have a computer and they know how to do that. But there's no reporting on the Ukraine war that's accurate in Russia. But there's deprivation now. So the economy is bad. The ruble is bad. anybody investing is getting their butt kicked. There are shortages of things. And then there's a

draft. Putin's pulling young Russian men into the army. You don't want to go there. Don't want to be in the army and disrupting their lives, their families' lives. So Putin right now is on the ropes. He's not, you know, done. But if it continues this way, he will be. That's a huge victory. Huge victory for the world. And perhaps even more important, China is watching this. So Putin were to skate into Ukraine and take it all over in two weeks, as he thought he might do. Believe me, the Chinese would have been much more inclined to invade Taiwan. But now China is saying, uh-oh, not only will the Taiwanese people fight, they will.

They will fight. Okay. But we're going to get sanctions, economic sanctions all over the place. Our economy is going to be wrecked. We already have this COVID disaster over there. And so it makes it much more difficult for the Chinese communists to invade Taiwan. And that's a huge thing because if Taiwan gets invaded, no matter what they say on the talk shows and in the American media, it's a disaster for the USA. It's a disaster for us because we're going to have to help. Taiwan, and then go up against China, maybe militarily in some aspects. It's possible. And the worldwide economy is wrecked, wrecked if that happens. And we all will suffer. Now, most Americans have no idea of what's happening, and that's their fault. I mean, I do my best to keep you updated every day on the importance of this.

You get rid of Putin. that settles things down in Russia, all right? Yeah, maybe some other crazy guy would take over, but I doubt it. I mean, Russia's got to rebuild its economy now. And he is off the chart. So you don't have to worry about him doing anything in Belarus and Moldova. I mean, this guy is, I think, certifiable now. Putin destroyed his own legacy. He can't go anywhere. He's a pariah in the entire world. He's the richest man in the world. Putin's the richest man in the world because he takes a cut of every part of the Russian economy.

Selling oil, Putin gets a cut. Selling arms, Putin gets a cut. That's how it works over there. You want to do business in Russia? You got to go through Putin's guys. All right? He's got all his money in Switzerland and other banks around the world. He can't spend it.

You couldn't possibly spend as much money as he has. Now he can't go anywhere. He's not going to go to the G7. He's lost all legitimacy. He's a war criminal. He's Hitler-Light. Now, why would you do that to yourself? What kind of rational human being would do that?

When you've got all the money in the world and all the power in the world, why would you do this? And kill babies and women and displace, you know, millions of people. Why? For what? For what? Okay? I mean, if you look at it objectively, step back, the problem is Putin. He's the problem. And he's the one that's going to go down

if we handle this right. Now, planes, no. America should not send fighter planes to Ukraine. And here's why. That would give the Ukrainians the ability to attack Russia itself, to bomb, to kill. That would anger the Russian people who would then be more inclined to like Putin. Putin would become more sympathetic. If the war spreads into Russia, the Russian people are going to rally behind the leadership. Don't do it. That would be insane to do it. I don't think Biden's going to do it.

Surely NATO understands that. So war planes know, but the tanks that the Ukrainians can use to defend themselves, you know, when the Russians come in, yes, this is the time, not before. And then finally, I get mail all over the place. There is dissent from both the right and the left here. If you watch cable news, you hear it. But Congress is pretty much solid, both parties, behind getting Putin out of there.

All right? So it's not a political controversy. This is individuals who, for one reason or another, don't want to back Ukraine and Zelensky. Is Zelensky a perfect guy? No. Is Ukraine corrupt? Yes.

I mean, all that is self-evident. But again, the ultimate goal is destroy Putin. And I think it may happen. That's a memo. All right, President Biden's schedule today did two things. He went to Springfield, Virginia, to tell everybody how great the economy is. Okay. And then, you know, lunar New Year reception in the White House.

Okay, good. About the economy, economic growth last year, 2.1%. That's not a bad number. Let's compare it to Trump. So in 17, his first year in office, the economy grew 2.3%. 18.3%, 19.2.2.2. And then 20, because of COVID, everything collapsed. So Trump had a better economic record without COVID than Biden. And remember, Trump handed off to Biden a pretty strong economy. Now, Democrats will lie about that, but he did. Inflation was 1.3%, something like that.

and then Biden mucked it all up in its first year. So we've been over that a thousand times. But be cautious now. You know, Biden is down in Springfield, Virginia. Oh, the economy's great. I'm great. I know what I'm doing. You don't know what you're doing.

Okay, so gas prices are on the rise again. Do you notice as I have? So, 40 cents, it's up in a month. From December to now, the average gas price in America has risen 40 cents. It's a lot. And then a year ago, it's up 16% from one year ago. So the average is $3.50. $3.50. If you live in Hawaii, you're paying $5 a gallon because the oil has to get out there. If you live in California, you're paying $4.52 a gallon because it's all taxes. If you live in Washington State, $4.10, and then I understand Colorado is exploding in price as well. Now, there is a federal gasoline tax of 18 cents a gallon, okay, a gallon. So you do the math. You put 20 gallons in the truck, that's $3.60, goes to Washington.

You can imagine how much money goes. Well, why do we need that gas tax with the infrastructure bill? Okay, this is a double taxation. So they pass an infrastructure bill bipartisan, one point true trillion. They're supposed to build up all the roads and bridges into all that, right? So why don't you suspend the gas? tax then because you got both doing the same thing right so give the consumers a break right no once the tax is in there it's hard to get it out just thought you would like to know i thought

you would like to know i thought that very very interesting um so the american consumer that's you okay um is not a good shape and here's it something else so people are falling behind on a car payments at a record level. I did not know this, but 85% of Americans have a car loan. 85% of American adults have a car loan, okay? And of all the loans out there, 2% are severely delinquent, which seems they're not going to be paid. Okay, so the car companies are going to lose. They'll repossess the car, but they're not going to get the money. And this is because of the inflation. So if you buy a new car and you're borrowing, it costs 13% more now than a year ago to borrow, a car payment, 11% for used vehicles, 12% for lease vehicles.

So that, those are big numbers. So you need a, you need a ride now and you're paying 13% 13% more than you wore a year ago, 10% more for food. So Biden can run around and say whatever he wants to say. All right, there is low employment, unemployment. But the consumers getting whacked from, you know, home heating bills. You've seen them. You've seen them? It's insane.

And when the gas prices rise, all the heating bills rise. And we asked, we called and said, hey, why is the gas going up? Oh, refinery problems. That's always the excuse. I guarantee you when the oil company profits come in, they're not going to be down. Okay, but not everybody's having a rough time. The Pelosi's is doing pretty well. It's a great story.

Okay. So the federal government is investigating Google. Okay. The DOJ is launching an antitrust probe against Google, and that was announced in January. Between December 20th and December 28th, Merry Christmas to the Pelosi's, they sold up to $3 million of Google stock for a hefty profit. Okay. This is unbelievable. Okay. So Pelosi knew that this GOJ thing was going to happen, and they dumped all their stock. Is that insider trading? You couldn't prove it, you know, but sure it is. Of course it is. Now, there was a proposed law that would say if you're a congressperson or a senator, you can't trade stocks while you're in office. Pelosi opposed it. Why did she oppose it?

Because since 2008, and this is according to the Washington Free Beacon, the Pelosi's net worth has grown $140 million all stock trades. Oh, there you go. White House says the Republicans want to cut Social Security. and Medicare. Okay. Now, we looked, and I mean we looked. We couldn't find one big-name Republicans serving in Congress that has called for cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Not one. Nevertheless, Ms. Jean-Pierre said this yesterday. But he's also going to call out Republicans in particular in the House who are saying they want to cut Social Security who have said very clearly they want to cut Medicare,

they want to cut Medicaid or defense spending. This is what they are saying. No, they're not. And there might be a loon or two. Okay? It's just like the squad says, look, we want communism. We want this, we want that. There's loons.

But there's no mainstream, nothing. Nothing. So this is just like what happened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When Biden went down to Atlanta Atlanta and preached in Dr. King's church and told the blacks, hey, you're getting a host. This country hates you. They're not fair to you in the state or federal governments, but I, Joe Biden, and I'm going to solve all this for you. Stick with me, Joe Biden.

That was the message on Martin Luther King Day, not come together, not look at the progress we've made. It's like, country hates you. Divide. And it's worked with African Americans, no doubt. So this is to scare senior citizens. That's what this is. Joe Biden's going to fight against all these Medicare and Social Security cuts. There aren't any. And there won't be any legislation proposed. I can guarantee you that.

Because McCarthy would never in a million years do that. He knows that's death. Americans paid into Social Security and Medicare. Okay. And they're entitled to get out what they were promised. You can't cut it. Now, what will happen down the road is that the age of reception will rise, but not for the present senior citizen crew.

It'll be people like 50 years old and under or something like that. When you get to retirement age, you're going to have to work a couple more years. That's what's going on in France and why all the French people are running around screaming because they wanted to raise the age of retirement mandatory entitlements from 60 to 62 in France. Oh, no. No, no, no. And they're burning things down and this. That's what happens when you are dependent on the federal government. But anyway, in this country, it's so dishonest. You know, I guess this Corinne, Jean-Pierre woman, doesn't care. I know Biden doesn't care, and we've gone over that a million times. But I guess she just doesn't care. because she goes out and says the most preposterous things on a daily basis and they all do that i know

the trump people did it the bush the younger people did it obama people certainly did it i know but not to this extent we just make things up and nobody calls her on it nobody does that's why she can get away with it all right so adam ship has been removed his chairman of the intel committee would be anyway because Republicans control the House, but he's booted off the committee, which is unusual. Usually they keep the people on the committees as veterans, and if they're not the chairman, they're the ranking member. But McCarthy is booted shift.

Now, NPR does not like that. And NPR has been just chasing McCarthy around on their radio band, a hammer and hammer and hammering. They're bringing in Santos. They just hate that Schiff is being removed for all the tape. What happens in the Intel Committee, although the secrets are going on in the world, other members of Congress don't know. What did Adam Schiff do as the chairman of the Intel Committee?

What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lied to the American public. Even the Inspector General said it. All right, now he was talking to PBS correspondent Lisa DeHardens, all right, who was chasing him around. Now, Adam Schiff is going to run for the Senate because Diane Feinstein is 150 and she can't, she falls asleep, you know, so she can't run again. She probably wants to like Biden, but she can't. So Schiff has endowed, and the headline in People magazine, I love this, headline in People magazine today was popular Congressman Adam Schiff will run for Senate in California.

Now, People magazine put popular in there. I don't think he's really that all a popular myself. Oh, corrupt, corrupt, corrupt press, right? Trump back on Facebook and Instagram. The ban has been listed, lifted. Since he's been reinstated on Twitter, he hasn't tweeted. All right? He still uses truth social.

But if you, I told you I'm not going to do these polls because they're bogus now. Trump v. Biden, Trump versus DeSantis, they don't mean anything. But since Trump has pulled back a little, you know, he hasn't really been as bombastic. It certainly hasn't been out there, no rallies, that kind of stuff. His numbers have gone up, particularly after the document thing. So his numbers are going up. So I hope he sees that. maybe in may you can but let them kill themselves let the opposition to you mr president they're destroying themselves don't interfere with that don't give them a diversion but i've been tracking it and i could see it but again those polls really don't mean anything all right now this is another fascinating story you will hear nowhere else which is why you are watching and listening to the no-spin news. So a Hapunbe shooter, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, is a Chinese national, not an American citizen, okay? And he assassinate seven people,

and one is in critical condition, so it could be eight. Now, this guy came over, but no one can tell us when he came to the United States under what circumstances he came. He came. here whether he's here legally or not we tried everything nobody knows or if they know they're not saying i suspect the man does not even speak english you'd have a mandarin translator in a courtroom i suspect he is an illegal immigrant sheltered by the state of california now i could be wrong this is a guess but But they know who this guy is. They know if he's legal or not.

And they're buttoning it up, both the locals and the feds. They're not saying. That tells me he's in this country illegally, all right? He's also got a rap sheet. So in 2013, he was in some kind of trouble for some low-level beef. But in California, it doesn't matter. But we're keeping an eye on a story. It's got to come out sometime.

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smart life okay do you know what astro sites are it's not the houston baseball team astro sites i did not know what they were their cells okay and they affect your appetite astro sites so according to the journal of physiology i know you get that every month right the journal of physiology. If you eat a high-fat diet, fast food, sugar, all at a garbage, junk food, your astrocytes go crazy. And it makes a chemical pathway that makes you fat and unhealthy, not just chubby. And your complexion changes, your gums and your teeth, everything. Okay. Okay. So I've been telling you in the Smart Life segments for more than a year now, cut your sugar intake. If you can cut it 75%, you'll feel so much better and you'll protect yourself against future disease, like diabetes.

75% you can do it because there are beverages and snacks don't have a lot of sugar that taste okay. Anyway, the junk food stuff, that is a huge problem. So every football game you watch, there's the pizza delivery thing, there's the have it your way, there's this, there's that, and people see it, and they go, yeah, I want one of those. If you're eating fast food more than once a week, you're going to hurt your health. It's garbage, it's terrible for you. I don't know how much clearer I can make it. I want you to live as long as God has put you on the earth to live.

And God did not invent terrible food to make you decline, okay? I want you, but I don't want you to suffer, and you will. As you get older, you will suffer if you continue eating the junk and the sugar. Can you hear that as a little, I didn't turn my phone off like I should have? But anyway, the lead author of this study, is Dr. Kirsten Browning from Penn State School of Medicine. If you want to look it up, go to the Journal of Physiology, and that's the smartest thing you can do.

Knock out the bad food. And the reason that nobody says this is because of all the advertising. I've said that and said that and said that. They spend billions of dollars, these fast food places, and these sugar candy, ice cream, billions in advertising. so the media is not going to say a word. All right, the Oscars, they came out, do you care?

Hello, anybody care? No one cares. No one. So they're going to be held on March 12th in Hollywood. Jimmy Kimmel, the host. No one will watch. Maybe 6 million people, down from 50 million when Bob Hope and Johnny Carson hosted it. Last year, what was the best picture?

Hello? What? Come on. Best picture last year, Coda. Didn't see it. Did you? Nobody cares. And that's the collapse of the entertainment industry.

And this was our great cultural achievement throughout the world. Brilliant motion pictures. And it's gone. Now we have superheroes blowing things up. We have dinosaurs running around San Diego. as we got um anyway of course you know uh the will smith thing last year got the oscar some attention but nobody knows what the best picture was last year remember around the world in 80 days i remember the little kid hearing that my parents were going i was the best picture of the

air and some guy in a balloon somewhere uh doing something i don't i forget all right this day in history, January 26, 1962, Bishop Joseph Burke of Buffalo declared the twist to be illegal in Catholic schools. Roll a tape. Now she's down back in 1960, you know how big that was big that was. And Chubby's still alive. Chubby lives down, I think, in Dade County, Florida, and he's still going like this. All right. Now, the bishop, Bishop Burke, said, quote, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the development of pupils in a proper sense of decorum and good taste, the current popular dance commonly referred to as the twist is not permitted at any school or parish dance. Boom. No twisting. Now, in my school, St. Bridget's, I was fifth grade. Yeah, I think.

fifth grade. We're a twisting maniacs out there in Westbury, Long Island. We're twisting all over the place. And the nuns who were, yeah, you know, they weren't twisting. I never saw a nun twist. I saw a nun twist my arm and my ear, but I never saw a nun to the dance. But we didn't have any problem out on the island. And we were twisting out there. They had, sometimes they had little dances and shows. But I thought that was an interesting, this day in history 61 years ago, January 26th, 1962, Bishop Berg says no twist in Buffalo Catholic schools. All right, we got a good mail segment and a final thought. We'll be right back. 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. 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's go to the mail. George, concierge member. Donald Trump has been unusually. quiet lately. Thank you for noticing George. So, the left has decided they better go after

DeSantis, of course. Any Republican running will get slimed and defamed. Wayne Rumble, Asheville, North Carolina, what good does it do to spend a fortune getting rid of Putin when he will be replaced by someone just as vicious? That's not the equation. It's possible, but he get replaced by somebody in justice, but that you don't let war criminals go because somebody might be worse. This guy is a threat to the whole world, Putin. So that's not the equation. Rick, Killeen, Texas, Bill, I watch you on News Nation this evening.

You put forth the best explanation about Biden I have ever heard. All I said was that I have Biden derangement syndrome, which we went to over this week here on the no spin news. And I said, and a lady called in and said, I don't really like Trump doing a lot of crazy things, but I wasn't paying $9 for a dozen eggs under Trump. And I said, not only that, but every single economic measure in this country

is worse under Biden than Trump. Everyone. Unemployment's tied. Okay. But as far as a consumer is concerned, gave you the car stats, everything is worse. So how can this guy run around saying he's doing a good job? But he does. Maria, I agree Chris Cuomo is different now that he's on News Nation. I'm not going to say I like him, but he does surprise me sometimes with his opinion, some of which I agree with. That never happened when he was on CNN. Mr. O, you must be. rubbing off on him. I don't, it doesn't matter to me. I just want robust debate and Cuomo's able to handle that where most of the other people that came out of his background cannot. They fall of pieces. Diane Braga, Mainville, Ohio, recently I stopped at Whole Foods. I shopped at Whole Foods. If you're an Amazon Prime member, you get many discounts on food and other items in the store. That's because Amazon owns Whole Foods.

And you're absolutely astute, Diane. If you're going to Whole Foods route and you bring your phone in, they'll show you how you get these enormous discounts on food. Not every item, but a lot of items. So there's a synergy there. Thanks for the tip, by the way. Jan Pretty, Chattanooga, Tennessee, check out the app Shopkick. One word, S-H-O-P-K-C-K.

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It's our job here to alert you to any way you can save money. That will be Johnson, Ashland, Kentucky. Before January 1st, I ate sugary and junky food all the time. Then I started eating clean, cutting sugar, white bread, etc I have lost 13 pounds that's good in 26 days 13 pounds my skin looks better my blood sugar dropped from 280 to less than 100 wow and my blood pressure is normal okay Penelope I'm glad you heard the smart life tips and I'm glad you took action Melissa Cleese Newark Delaware great final

thought today bill regarding caring for your children after you die I completely agree so I don't get morbid about this but again I'll just reiterate Marie Osmond and others Jean Simmons from Kiss and there are a whole bunch of them aren't leaving their kids anything I think it's my obligation to protect my children even after I depart and I'm gonna leave them you know some protection money because we're living in a very very complicated time now and they need it everybody needs it money is protection from disease from evil from everything and I think it's my duty to do it so John and Sharon in

Fantino at the villages sent me a nice picture of the stand up for your country bumper sticker on their little golf cart or whatever they're riding in there on the villages I know we have a big audience down in villages and John and Sharon I'm I'm glad you're spreading a word stand up for your country you're actually standing up you're sitting in a golf cart but that's okay that's all right All right, let's go to the Bill O'Reilly.com store and get the no-spin polos. These will sell out. I've just ordered two, all right, one white and one navy.

I got the no-spin logo going on there, and this is for spring and summer, or if you live in the south, you can wear them now. So these are great. We have up to XXXL, three XLs, so if you're chubby, you can get them. I want you to lose weight so maybe you got one now and in six months when you're more sveled you get another one where the day do not be meritricious one of my favorite words M-E-R-E-T-R-I-C-I-O-U-S meritricious back with a final thought on a book recommendation got a lot of letters asking for book recommendations I got one for you in a moment

Okay, so final thought of the day on Monday, I am going to tell you what the new killing book is. We're writing it right now, Martin Dugard and myself. It will be out late September, early October. We got the cover, and Monday, I will tell you what it is. But in the meantime, a lot of people ask me, you know, I can't read as much as I used to read because I'm involved with TV and radio and writing the book and assembling information. and writing the columns and tweeting, I mean, it never ends. But before I go to bed, I try to read, you know, 50 pages or so.

So I'm reading right now, The Devil's Ransom. All right. And you may have heard of the author, Brad Taylor. He's a lieutenant colonel, a 21-year vet of the U.S. Army, and he's special forces. And the guy's been around. He knows all the intel stuff. So the book is basically, the reason I read this book in the first place, because there's a million thrillers out there. But it's centered in Afghanistan, the fall of Afghanistan, which fascinates me.

And I want, I only read fiction if I can learn something. I don't read, you know, books that I'm not going to learn. And Taylor is good. I mean, Taylor gives you inside stuff that, you know, I didn't know. And the tale is good. he moves it along and then there's a hacking component to it you know which is cyber war is going to be coming you know so anyway the book um is the devil's ransom now i tried to read a right i'm sorry i did a bit i try to read a bio of napoleon i couldn't get through it i couldn't get

through it. And I, because I don't know much about old nappy, you know. And he's a colossus figure in history. And I wanted to try to tie him in to modern European, but I couldn't get through the books. About 900 pages long. I don't want to sabotage it, but when you guys write history out there, if you're watching and listening to the program tonight, if you're authors, you've got to move it long, you know, unless you're writing for college professors. And this one, I did, it was, you know, you hear your eyes getting heavy. I mean, the fastest read on the planet right now is killing the legends. I talked to a very famous broadcaster last night, and he, I'm not going to mention his name, because of a private conversation, said he read it in one sitting. Couldn't put it

down. That's the fastest read that you got. It goes, boom. And that's what Dugard and I do. We just keep it moving at a lightning pace because we have to compete with streaming on Netflix. We've got to compete with, what is now, special forces, meet the bachelor. I don't know. We got a lot of competition. So when you read the book, you pick up the book, you want it to move. You want it to move move along and that's why the killing books 19 million copies of my books of print more books than any other nonfiction author has ever sold boy boy the nuns when i was doing a twist would never have believed it never all right um thank you very much for watching and listening in notes of the news once you have a good weekend we will have a message of the day posted

of course through the weekend. The message today is my appearance with Cuomo and News Nation last night. We want to check that out. It's fun. And then Sunday noon, there'll be a brand new column. Okay? So we will see you again on Monday.