Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Tariff Madness, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire Deal, Dr. Hal Brands on How Trump Sees the World & What Michelle Obama's New Venture Means
Episode Date: March 12, 2025Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country. Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down... Donald Trump's trade war, explaining how tariffs work and the strategy behind them. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces that Ukraine is willing to accept a ceasefire deal with Russia. Author Hal Brands, Ph.D., joins the No Spin News to discuss the Ukraine-Russia crisis, share his views on what Trump should or shouldn’t be doing, and emphasize the importance of U.S. global engagement. Why is Michelle Obama launching a new podcast? Bill gives a list of the seven most overrated tourist attractions in the United States. Final Thought: Accepting what is beyond your control. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Party Animals Stand out from the crowd with our NEW Not Woke baseball cap for just $28.95! For a limited time, get Bill O'Reilly's bestselling The United States of Trump and a No Spin Mug for only $39.95. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey Bill O'Reilly here.
Welcome to the No Spin News.
It is Tuesday, March 11, 2025, stand up for your country.
Well, we're officially in a trade war.
Canadians are very mad at us.
Is it necessary?
I'm going to let you decide that,
because I'm going to present facts that you may not know.
And I'm going to do it the simple man way, not the pinheady way.
And after that, you can decide whether this trade war that we are officially in now
is going to be good or bad for you in the country.
I think that's fair.
And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.
So let's begin with tariff madness.
The overall philosophy of President Trump is that the USA is getting hosed in trade deals all over the world.
Now, if you analyzed the Biden administration for four years, it was only in the last few months
that the Biden people started to impose or raise tariffs.
For four years, we just got murdered in trade imbalances everywhere.
And it was business as usual.
The foreign countries would charge us more for our goods than we were charged them.
I said, Trump, he didn't, look, we're not going to do this anymore.
that simple. And Trump has been very clear about where he stands. Roll it. Look, our country's been
ripped off by everybody. That stops now. I had it stopped in my first term. And we're going to
really stop it now because this has been very unfair. Our company from our country from an economic
standpoint, the financial standpoint, and a trade standpoint, has been absolutely ripped off by
almost every country in the world, Canada, Mexico, and then you just go right down the line.
China, EU, on and on. So countries abroad don't like this at all. We can understand that,
because China in particular, they make a lot of cheap stuff, hats, and shirts,
and clothing, and on and on and on, and the labor in the communist nation of China.
China is way, way less than it is here.
So now Trump's trying to make more of a balance.
Let me give you a few facts.
Tariffs are paid by the companies, not by governments.
So you want to send a Ford Bronco to Germany, okay?
Put it on the ship, it goes over.
Once it reaches Hamburg, then the German customs people
slap a tariff on it, whatever they want.
And Ford has to pay that, OK?
Not the US government.
But it makes the Bronco cost more in Dusseldorf than a German car.
So the Germans buy fewer American cars.
How it works.
The United States historically has had lower tariffs
than the EU and China and Canada and Mexico.
Those countries and others want to protect certain products.
So Canada, for example, big on dairy.
They want to ship their dairy down here.
They'll be high tariff.
So that's how it works, okay?
And Trump is going, look, you need to bring your tariffs down
so we can sell more four.
boards and Dusseldorf. If you don't, we're going to slap the same tariff on your Mercedes
BMWs here. It's going to jack the cost up if you want them. Okay. So once you have this,
the other countries don't like it because that hurts their businesses. Mercedes going to sell fewer
cars here. Then you add on labor. So Apple moves a huge amount of manufacturing over to China
because the Chinese people working for $3 a day.
And now Trump said to Apple, hey, you better knock it off.
And Apple's putting $500 billion back into the U.S. economy.
That's a big win for Trump.
But it doesn't show up in the stock market, which is a disaster right now.
And higher pricing is probably going to take hold.
In the long run, Apple investing, $500 billion in which,
one year and bringing back a lot of manufacturers is going to help the USA.
So it's long run, short run.
We are not a patient people here in America, so we react to day to day.
But listen to these numbers.
Just in January, China had $30 billion more in trade with us than we had with them.
They won by $30 billion.
EU, 25 billion, Switzerland's not in the EU, okay, 23 billion, Mexico, 15 billion, Ireland,
12, and on and on and on.
So you can see, all right, and Trump is a dealmaker.
I don't know if you anticipated, though, how bad this trade war was going to hit the market.
And that's what we are dealing with now.
So, in 2024, last year, the Biden administration had a $918 billion trade deficit with the rest of the world, almost a trillion dollars.
A trillion dollars more money out of here in trade than came back.
Trump's not going to stand for it.
But a war is a war, there are casualties, and we the people, it's going to get hurt, at least
in a short term.
So you have to decide whether this is right or wrong.
Remember, most presidents don't get involved with this.
Because they know people don't understand what the tariff, the trade is, they don't, as long
as the American economy is doing okay, stock market did all right under Biden last two years.
It did okay, people made money.
I'm not going to rock the boat too much.
A little bit, he rocked it a little, but not much.
Trump comes in like a tsunami.
Since Trump was inaugurated,
stock market has lost $4 trillion in value, staggering.
My accounts are down across the board.
Dow Jones down six, NASDAQ down 12, S&P down eight.
Now, I think that's going to rebound.
I'm not selling.
In fact, I bought a little yesterday.
Not much.
I'm not a gambler, but a little.
A company that I think is going to go up.
Who knows?
I mean, it's like going to Vegas.
Finally, there's a poll out today, Emerson College.
Do you approve or disapprove Donald Trump?
Job performance, approved 47, disapprove 45.
So in a month, Mr. Trump has lost 2%.
And if the market keeps going down and prices keep going up, you're going to lose a lot more than that.
And that's a memo.
Mr. Trump today, I had a business roundtable with some big shots, trying to reassure everybody, which is what he has to do.
I said on News Nation last night that number one job right now for the president is to reassure Americans.
Explain what he's doing just like I did to you.
And if you have any questions, by the way,
bill at bill o'Reilly.com,
bill at bill o'Reilly.com.
And you might have noticed that the guy in Ontario
who runs a show jacked up electric rates
to northern New York state,
and I guess Ohio a little bit,
25% in retaliation for the tariffs.
Well, it's Trump slapped up 50%.
And Canada can't,
Canada's economy is way too fragile.
They can't absorb that, but it's real bad blood right now.
Let's go over to the other problem that the Trump administration is dealing with.
So in Saudi Arabia, there's all kinds of hell breaking loose.
There's the Ukraine negotiations, which are very difficult.
I think, and as...
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Secretary of State Pompeo said yesterday,
if you did not see that interview,
you got to go to bill o'Reilly.com and look at it.
That was a good interview.
We got it on YouTube, got it all over the place.
Pompeo and I both agree that a ceasefire will probably happen,
but it's going to be painful for Ukraine.
Secretary of State Rubio is over in Saudi Arabia.
Here's what he said.
I think both sides need to come to an understanding
that there's no military solution to this situation.
The Russians can't conquer all of Ukraine,
and obviously it'll be very difficult for Ukraine
in any reasonable time period
to sort of force the Russians back
all the way to where they were in 2014.
So the only thing,
solution to this war is diplomacy and getting them to a table where that's possible.
Okay, and then Whitkoff, who is Trump's main negotiator, he's talking to the Hamas people in the Gulf.
I believe it's Abu Dhabi, but it could be Qatar. I mean, they're very secretive as they have to be.
Terrorists would love to kill Whitkoff. So there's a lot going on over there.
Well, you know, look, for the good of everybody in the world, you've got to, even if you hate Trump,
if you've got to root for these deals to, you know, be closed and things that calm down, right?
If you don't, I don't think you're a loyal American.
If you put Trump hatred above the welfare of your country, you're not loyal.
You're not.
All right, joining us now in Washington is a guy, very smart guy, Dr. Hal Brands.
She's got a new book out.
I have it.
I'm perusing it.
the Eurasian century, Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern Worlds out in January.
He is a distinguished professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies.
It's a lot to get on a business card there, doctor, you know, a lot of that stuff on one little
card.
So, but anyway, you know what you're talking about.
What I'm interested in is the change and the danger rise.
So we got with Russia and China allying to hurt the West over Ukraine, that's a pretty, I mean,
everybody knows the situation, but that's very intense, right?
It's probably the most dangerous situation we've faced as a country since the early Cold War
because it's Russia and China that are working together.
China's been a major supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, but it's also Iran and North Korea.
Iran has provided a lot of the drones in North Korea.
has even provided some of the manpower that Putin has used in this brutal assault on Ukraine.
And so it's a situation where we have four of the bad guys working together at the heart of Eurasia
to try to shape the wider world.
But they're not trying to shape it in any good way, right? They're totalitarian.
That's right. I mean, these are all deeply autocratic, deeply undemocratic regimes.
They all want to carve out big spheres of influence, which they would probably rule
in a pretty brutal fashion.
They want to bring about a world
that's totally different than the one
that Americans have known
and have done so well in over the past.
Yeah, well, there's no place for freedom
or free enterprise at all.
Reminds me the late 1930s
when you had the Axis powers,
Hitler, Mussolini,
and some others joining together
to try to impose fascism on the world.
And then you had Japan, which is a fascist state
as well, in the Pacific.
Is there any difference?
I think there's some pretty strong parallels.
Back then, the problem was that you had a handful of separate, aggressive countries
that were all sort of doing their own thing in their particular regions,
but the combined effect of that was to destabilize the wider world.
Of course, eventually the United States got dragged into the conflicts that resulted.
Today, you have a similar phenomenon where Russia and China and Iran and North Korea,
They all want their own things.
They all have their own agendas,
but they're all putting pressure on the international system
that America and its friends built at the same time.
And if anything, they're cooperating more closely
than the Axis powers did in the late 30s and early 40s.
Now, from your vantage point,
is there anything that President Trump should be doing
or should not be doing?
If you were to have dinner with him tonight,
would you have any suggestions for him?
I think he's on the right track in terms of putting a lot of pressure on Iran.
I think Iran is the weakest member of this autocratic axis, and it is the one that has been
most softened up over the past year, mostly by Israel for the imposition of this pressure.
And so he's got a good chance to really squeeze the Iranians and maybe get a stronger nuclear
deal than the U.S. got back in 2015 under the Obama administration.
The thing I would tell him not to do is not to think that he's going to be successful in prying Russia and China apart.
You've sometimes heard this, not so much from Trump, but from people around him, that if the war in Ukrainians, maybe the United States can enlist Russia to help contain China, I just don't think that's how it works.
Let me challenge you.
Let me challenge you on that, okay?
So we got Johns Hopkins, you.
We got Harvard Me, all right?
It's kind of like a little game show.
If Trump makes the Ukraine deal, part of that deal has to be that Putin gets back in G7.
He gets back into the Western economies where he can sell his oil.
That's primarily what he's got.
China then, he doesn't need Putin doesn't need China as much as he needs it now.
So what Trump is trying to do is lure him back into the European sector and then de-emphasize
because as you know, historically, the Russians and the Chinese hate each other.
I don't know if that's gone away, but I don't think they're buddies.
And China's power dwarfs Putin's power.
Putin can't be happy about that.
Putin needs money.
He needs commerce.
So that's what Trump is thinking.
Where is he going wrong?
I think the theory of the case is exactly as you described it.
I think the challenge is sort of twofold.
One is how much do you have to give Putin to get him to put some daylight between him and China?
And I worry that the answer might be quite a lot.
And the second point is that, you know, Putin knows that if he cuts a deal with Trump,
there's no guarantee that deal is going to last beyond January 20, 20, 29.
And so he will welcome, you know, reduce sanctions, greater economic engagement from with the West because I'm sure he's not entirely comfortable with the degree of dependencies developed on China, but he's not going to push China the side of the road because that's what I don't think he's going to push it. But China can't do him too much good economically other than buying his oil. But anyway, that's Trump's mindset. And I think the deal is going to have to come down, whereas Ukraine will lose 10% of its
territory, but there'll be, you know, bogus elections. That's what they'll throw. And then
EU will provide peacekeepers. USA will make the mineral deal and that puts a structure for the
USA inside Ukraine. And then Putin will be allowed back into the G7 and he'll go to all the
meetings and all. That's what I think is going to happen. You got anything else that you think might
pop in there? I would just say, I still think the critical element is whether there's going to be
a U.S. backstop for the European security presence.
That would be the mineral deal.
I think that's part of it.
Yeah.
I would just say, I think that the Europeans know that they're going to be in trouble
if they get attacked by the Russians, if the U.S. isn't there to help.
And so they don't need the U.S.
they're holding their hand every day.
They just need a promise that the U.S. will be there in extremists.
If things really go.
No, but they'll up their spending.
They're not suicidal over there.
They're greedy, the Europeans.
And interestingly enough, if you look at the ambassadorships, you ought to have your students do this,
who Trump is appointed in all of the European capitals, these are hard, these are tough guys.
Yeah.
And I think the Europeans have gotten the message on the fence.
Oh, yeah, that's great.
It's just going to take them a few years to get to the point where they're a little bit more self-delined.
Now, Americans by and large, don't understand much.
of this. I'm not being super silliest, word of the day. But they just don't know. They don't know
what tariffs are. It's why I took the time to explain it. They don't know the dynamic. They just
want to live their lives. They don't want to get involved with geopolitics. They don't understand
the dynamic that is taking place and the huge changes in the world. This is a deficit for America
that they don't understand, right? Yeah, I think it's also a testament to the success of what the
US has tried to do over the past 80 years. You know, we've been successful in preventing other
global wars from breaking out, you know, great depressions from breaking out. And so it's become a
little bit easier to forget what all this is meant to achieve. You know, my grandfather, he
flew, he was a navigator in B24s and B25s in Europe during World War II. And so nobody had to
explain to him why American global engagement mattered. And I think we've lost a little bit of that
over the years. Well, we have lost it. Now we're in a deep age of narcissists.
and apathy. But here's the kicker on this. You've got a lot of left-wingers in the press
screaming that Trump isn't pounding Putin as a fascist dog. If you look at Yalta, what Roosevelt
did with Stalin? I mean, he kissed him up and down in and out every way. And he had to know,
because Churchill knew, the Stalin was going to break every treaty in the world, which he did,
and come right across and try to dominate Europe, which he did.
But Roosevelt said, look, I got to stop this world war.
I got to stop it.
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Very, very akin to what Trump is doing. Last word.
I think there are definitely some parallels.
I think Trump thinks we just need to get sort of the moralizing out of U.S. foreign policy
and focus on hard power realities.
There's something to be said for that.
But I would just also point out that one of the great things about America is that we do stand up for principle in the world.
And so I just hope we won't correct too far.
Trump doesn't see it that way.
He's not one of those guys.
He's a businessman, cold-blooded businessman.
So you're right, the theory about, you know, here comes America to liberate everybody, not this president.
He's looking out for Americans.
He wants peace.
He doesn't want war.
He's not a warmonger at all.
But he's not looking at it like we have a responsibility to the rest of the world to keep them safe.
Would you say that was accurate?
I think that's a very accurate description of how Trump sees the world.
All right, Professor, we really appreciate coming on.
Thank you very much.
Okay, just in my earpiece, as I said goodbye to the doctor, who was a good guest, we have learned the Secretary of State Rubio is announcing a ceasefire that Ukraine has agreed to.
Aha!
I mean, that's amazing.
Right in the middle of this program, we're taping it late after.
afternoon, and this thing comes right in based upon what we're saying.
Thank you, God.
Now, it's up to Putin.
So now, Whitkoff is over in the Gulf talking to the Russians, what are you going to do?
So I don't know the details, obviously they'll be storming out and you'll get them.
But I did predict it, you know that.
But this is a very good thing for the world.
Do I have faith that a ceasefire will hold?
Yeah, I think Putin needs it.
Now it's up to Vlad.
We'll see, we'll see, you know.
And Trump will punish Vlad.
Trump's not afraid of him.
He'll punish him.
If Ukraine says, yeah, we'll stop and we'll negotiate in good faith.
and Vlad doesn't stop?
Trump will punish him.
Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating.
All right, let's get back to USA politics.
Michelle Obama's always fascinated me.
So she is by far and away, the most popular Democrat in the country.
It's not even close.
She did not want any part of running against Donald Trump.
Didn't want it.
but now she's
launched a podcast with her brother
okay
and I'm not sure why she's doing it
here's the announcement
we are so excited for you to listen
to our brand new podcast
it's called IMO with Michelle Obama
and Craig Robinson
together Craig and I are going to take your questions
about the challenges you're grappling with in life
because let's be real we are living through some
complicated and confusing times, and people are feeling more alone than ever.
All right, now that sounds touchy-feely. That's nice. Craig Robinson, her brother,
he's all right, and they're going to talk about, you know, allaying fears and all of that kind of
stuff. I think a little more to this. Could be wrong. This is not the Ukraine ceasefire
prediction. I knew I was right on that. This one, I don't know. With Michelle Obama does
not need the money. Doesn't need it. Maybe she's bored. It's got the four big mansions.
She could just kind of run around. But she's doing this for a reason. Now, her production
company is running all this. She and Barack have a company called Higher Ground, and they're
paying for it. I don't know if Higher Ground has investors. We're going to look into that.
That's a key. So if Higher Ground, there's a lot of money.
money, you know, silent money coming in. I'm going to look into that. But their funding,
it's going to be twice a week. They're going to blow V8 and chat and podcast it. But if Michelle
Obama wants the nomination for president, 2008 on the Democratic ticket, she gets it. It wouldn't
even be a primary. We'll walk right in. Okay. Black Lives Matter mural.
DC right near the White House on a road, not for much longer.
So as we have explained, the federal government runs Washington, D.C., but they have local
officials.
The mayor is Muriel Bowser, who totally blew it on January 6th, and you know that.
So they're removing this because some Republicans said, you better remove it or we're going
to do stuff to you.
And Michelle doesn't want anything done to her, so she's removing it.
Life Matter, mural, gone. Smart life. So I am hopefully going to get to Asia in the spring,
late spring. And I'm booking a trip now, okay, because you have to do that. You have to plan ahead
more than ever before. And it's not easy. Even for a guy like me who's got like assistance and this
and that, and I know everybody over in Asia, the hotels are insane. Some of them want
$2,000 a night. The big chains up there, 2,000 a night. And they won't even give you
breakfast. It's just like, no, I'm not doing that. So we're investigating, we're investigating
small hotels, you know, that are more, nobody, nothing's reasonable.
But tolerable, I'll take.
I go on TripAdvisor.
Okay?
The reason I go on TripAdvisor is they have restaurants, they have hotels,
and they have customer reviews.
Some of the reviews are fake.
And you can see the ones that are fake.
Friends of the hotel, the hotel manager writes, and that kind of thing.
But if you go down and you look and you know what they have now on TripAdvisor?
AI summaries.
Fascinating.
Like they take all the reviews and the AI spits it out in three or four paragraphs.
But the smart live profile is if you are going to travel, particularly abroad, but you're in the USA as well,
you've got to give it six months.
You've got to get your plane.
You've got to get your itinerary.
You've got to get your hotels.
You've got to get everything.
You're going to get host.
And you don't want to be in a chaotic situation in Asia.
or anywhere, but particularly that far away.
Smart light.
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Number one, Mount Rushmore, two, Vegas, three, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, four Times Square,
in New York, five Lombard Street, San Francisco,
six, Hollywood Walk of Fame,
seven Bourbon Street, New Orleans. Let's run them down for you,
in case you are planning to go to any of them.
So Mount Rushmore is a good place to go.
I don't care if they think it's overrated, they're full of baloney.
It's majestic.
They have a little light show there at dusk,
but if you go to South Dakota,
go up to the Black Hills after.
Okay, so you do your Mount Rushmore thing for a half day a day and you get in the car,
you go up to Black Hills.
Black Hills fascinating.
A lot of history there.
Number two, Vegas.
You got to go to Vegas.
I mean, I'm not a gambler.
I don't do all of that.
But the whole spectacle, what I do when I go to Las Vegas, I look at the shows.
And if there's something to see, I booked my trip around the shows.
You don't want to go to Vegas past May 15th because it's, you know, it's a lot of you.
It's 112.
All right?
You got to time the climate there.
But Vegas is worth going to.
Not worth hanging out in a long time.
All right, but it's worth it.
Plymouth Rock.
All right.
It's not even real.
If you read Killing the witches,
you'll know they didn't land on Pleasel Rock.
Okay.
They're out in Cape Cod, the pilgrims,
and they kind of came across
and it just got out of the boat who was freezing
and wherever they could stand
there's a rock.
However, Cape Cod is right around a corner
from Plymouth, Massachusetts,
and that's Primo.
That's a great place to go.
Times Square.
You've got to go see Times Square.
It's crowded.
Not particularly dangerous.
There's a lot of cops down there now.
It's like an occupied zone.
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But if you go to Manhattan, you've got to go away.
I wouldn't spend a lot of time there, but you cruise on through.
Lombard Street, San Francisco, I could never figure it out.
You're going to San Francisco, and I would not go there now.
It's just totally out of control.
Go to Fisherman's Wharf.
You take the boat over to Alcatraz.
That's interesting.
And Fisherman's Wharf's got some good restaurants.
It's a little shaky because the whole town is, but that's the best play there.
Hollywood Walk a Frame, no.
It's dingy, it's dirty, you don't want to go anywhere near it.
L.A. is not a good place to go to now with the fires and everything.
Go to Orange County.
Going out to Southern California, Orange County, San Diego.
No, Hollywood.
It's a stupid little thing in the concrete.
It means nothing.
Finally, Bourbon Street.
Bourbon Street's a wreck.
Okay.
But two streets over is Royal Street in the French Quarter.
Royal Street. Very interesting. Architecture. You got Jackson Square, the cathedral there. I love that. Cafe Dumond right around a corner. Bourbon Street? No. If you want to just say you've been there, okay, but don't hang there. Every grifter in the world is there. New Orleans is a very interesting place. I mean, I get the World War II Museum. The architecture, as I said, you go out to the Battle of New Orleans about 10 miles out.
outside of town, well worth a visit.
Don't go in July and August, but well worth a visit.
So there's the skinny.
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okay that's one of the advantages stay in history March 11th 1945 kamikaze warfare
okay so the Japanese are desperate all right Americans have one
most of the battles, starting at the battle of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, all of that, surrounding the island.
Japanese wouldn't give up.
The Germans gave up, okay?
They didn't give up on the eastern front because the Russians just kill them.
So they had to fight the Germans on, they had to fight the Russians because they put their hands in the air, they got a bullet in the head.
Japanese wouldn't give up to anybody.
The Germans actually ran to the American lines to surrender, the Vermach.
Japanese wouldn't give up.
So they, planning the invasion and killing the rising sun, if you want to know more about it, that's it.
So the Japanese side, we're going to do kamikaze warfare.
And this is unbelievable.
So they have, on this date, 80 years ago, 24 kamikazis go up.
And they smash into the USS Randolph, almost sinking it, killing 26.
And then they do kamikaze warfare until the war ended, Nagasaki, Himishima, atom bombs.
And they kill 5,000 Americans.
50 vessels sunk.
And these idiots, and they were idiots, they get in a plane, they crash the plane into the ship.
And they think they're going from kind of heaven or something.
It's like the Muslim fanatics, all right?
So anyway, that kamikaze warfare started 80 years ago today.
Good final thought.
Okay, final thought of the day. Things you can't control. Don't dwell on them. That will ruin your
quality of life. Okay, so as you know, Holly, the Terradog passed last week. I have been
that sad. I can't remember. But I couldn't dwell on it. I had to do the show. I had to do my
work. I had to run my family. I had to do all of it. And then I, then I was, I was a lot of it. And then
I decided to put a big album together with Holly Pictures, which helped.
But there was nothing I can do.
I couldn't do anything, all right, to save the tarot dog.
I tried, I spent an enormous amount of money, and I'm glad I did.
We extended her life with the, she had a brain tumor.
But if you cannot control what is happening, you have to accept it.
or flee it.
So I think it's 12% of Ukrainians bolted.
They just got out because they're in a danger zone.
I don't blame them.
You have to either accept it or you flee it.
But you can't let it consume your life.
Because then, A, you become depressed.
miserable, the whole, you know, we're on this planet for a reason, all of us, a lot of people
don't believe that, but if you don't believe that, you're a fool. You're here for a reason.
Now, sometimes we don't know what that reason is in totality, but everyday opportunities
arise that you can do some good. But if you're wallowing in misery about things you can't
control, then you're not going to do that good.
And it took me a while to figure it all out.
Because I was so busy in my younger years
building a career and moving up the ladder.
I don't think about this, but I know a lot of good people,
really, really strong people.
But when something bad happens, they can't get over it.
You know, when your spouse dies.
I can't even imagine a child dying.
I can't even imagine that.
But some of you have gone through it.
You just have to step back.
Everybody grieves differently.
There's no right away, wrong way to grieve.
And you got to talk to people.
You got to get out.
There's a lot.
My sister runs a grieving operation.
Does a lot of good.
And you got to get into one of those
if you have that insurmount of the loss.
The point of the matter is that you have to accept
bad things that happen.
Unless you can change them.
And then if you can change them, you go and you try.
The hardest to do it.
Don't accept evil.
One of the themes of confronting evil, not killing evil,
I wish I could kill evil, I can't.
But one of the things about confronting evil
the book coming out in September is, don't turn away.
Usually something you can do when bad things happen,
but not always.
Like I couldn't do anything more.
And then that was just, I just had to accept it.
Okay, well, we've got a big week, you know,
with this Ukraine stuff and everything else
and the market we're watching and Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com.
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I'm here to answer all of them that I can.
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