Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Biden Coverup Scandal, President Trump’s Call with China’s Xi, & Trump's New Travel Ban
Episode Date: June 6, 2025Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, June 5, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country. Talking Points Memo: Bill outlines ...the growing scandal involving former President Joe Biden and his use of an autopen. What we know about Donald Trump’s Thursday morning phone call with Chinese President Xi. A look at the countries included in Trump’s travel ban on entry to the United States. How does President Trump’s rating compare to former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during their second terms? This Day in History: Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Final Thought: Bill's advice on honoring your parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, June 5th, 2025, stand up for your country.
Big call between President Trump and Chinese President Xi on Thursday morning, and we predicted that would happen yesterday.
reported it would happen. And I knew it would happen because the president told me it would
happen. As you may know, I debriefed him on my trip to Beijing, which I told the Chinese
communists I was going to do. I just want to reiterate that. Everything was up front, okay,
in this thing, because that's who I am. I don't play any games. All right, you want me to speak
to you. I'm going to tell you what's on my mind, but I'm not holding anything back.
and I'm going to tell you the consequences of everything.
So I knew that the phone call was going to be made,
and it's a very important call.
We'll get to it in the second segment.
The Talking Points memo, however,
is on the growing Biden scandal,
and it is that.
It is a scandal.
Now, the House Oversight Committee
is investigating whether President Biden actually knew
what he was signing when he didn't sign
the executive orders, but an auto pen did.
Are you a little confused?
So the president issues executive orders.
Legally, he can use a machine to sign the orders,
but that shouldn't happen unless the president is indisposed.
In Biden's case, it happened a shocking amount,
and I'll give you the stats in a moment.
So the House Oversight Committee wants to know why,
what was going on, did Biden even know what was in these executive waters? It's very tough to
prove. Very, very tough. And Biden deserves due processes that all Americans are on. And, you know,
the right-wing anti-Biden people are going crazy. You know, he didn't know, he did that. We don't do
that here. What we do is report methodically, and here's what we know. There is no question that
all mental acuity questions surround Jill Biden, the first lady. That is beyond any reasonable
doubt. She knew day to day the condition of her husband. Okay. She has not been called in front
of the oversight committee yet. She will be. The following, well, let me give you a little bit
of a primer before we get to the people who have been called.
So on May 21st, I went on News Nation Cuomo, and I told Mr. Cuomo and avowed Democrat
that this Biden thing was going to be as big as Watergate.
Roll the tape.
Look, if you want to try to justify this unbelievable cover-up that's going to rise as
as high as Watergate, then good luck to you.
What is the cover-up?
Watergate?
How is a man sat there for four years?
How is Biden's prostate exam worse than water date?
I'll give you the last word.
Yeah, give it to me because, boy, you're killing yourself tonight.
Oh, yeah.
I'm killing myself.
Go ahead.
You have a right as an American citizen Cuomo to know if your president is infirmed mentally or physically.
I agree.
The Constitution gave the privilege to the press to keep.
an eye on these people so that we would know their status and condition in watergate they
covered up a crime yes if colonel o'connor gave a PSA test that showed Biden had cancer
and kept it from the public that is a crime okay so now everybody is saying it's like
Watergate. So, you know, I like Cuomo, you know that, I'll go on his program all the time,
but he was just being an arrogant ass. Oh, Watergate, oh, you bet you wait and see what happens
here, because you cannot cover up, right, a mental acuity or a physical situation in the
White House. You can't. And it is Watergate. It's worse than Watergate, probably.
the Nix's people covered up crimes.
All right?
They covered up break-ins.
They covered up bribery.
They covered all that stuff.
Okay.
So the following people are going to have to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee.
Here they are.
Former Senior Advisor Michael Donnellan.
Senior advisor, Anita Dunn.
Former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klingin.
Former Deputy Chief of Staff of Policy Bruce Reed.
former councillor of President Steve Ritchetti.
Now, they've all retained counsel.
They know they're in trouble.
And they're all going to say the same thing.
Oh, we didn't say anything.
When we were there, it was fine.
Oh, no, he knew everything.
That's what they're all going to say.
But I'm not going to say, yeah, I lied about it.
They're not.
And again, it's going to be hard for the oversight committee to prove anything.
It will.
Because there were days when President Biden was lucid.
However, in my opinion, this is a mammoth cover-up.
And the guy who's in most trouble is the doctor that I just mentioned, O'Connor.
He's a colonel, retired colonel, in the Army.
And he was examining Biden, roll of tape.
How's the president's health?
It is.
And how is this mental cognition?
It's excellent.
It's excellent.
recent you didn't perform a cognitive test on him he's here every day okay now that's a tough one
and if o'connor did not give the prostate test or did give it and then held it back
because as you know president Biden has cancer prostate cancer he's going to have to be prosecuted
now that might not reach that because these this is a
committee that's looking at this. It's not the FBI. It's not the Justice Department. Although
Donald Trump is called for an investigation, which means that the Justice Department is going
to have to get involved. Because that's where it has to go. I mean, these pinheaded house people,
Congress, people, senators, yeah, they can ask the questions, they can embarrass people,
but you need hard evidence. And it's a tough one.
It is a tough one.
Now, let's get to the executive orders at play.
So from January 1st of this year to inauguration day on the 21st, there were 14 executive orders signed in the White House.
All of them by executive order, by Autopen, I should say.
All of them, all 14.
Pretty troubling.
In 2024, 74.
Okay, 74% of all EOs signed by auto pen.
No excuse.
It's an astronomical number.
I don't think it's ever, ever been anywhere close to another president doing that.
Why?
Biden couldn't take the pen and sign the order?
Does that take three seconds?
Why?
Okay.
And now the names, all right, you remember that the part.
Pardons issued the last few days of Biden's tenure, they were pretty big.
All right, here's who got pardoned by Autopent.
His brother James' wife, Sarah Jones Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens, husband John,
his brother Francis Biden, General Mark Millie, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
I mean, they're huge names, and he couldn't sign their pardons, and Autopen had to do it.
Doesn't stack.
Doesn't stack.
So we're in a position here where this scandal, and it is, come on.
I mean, if you don't know by now that the President of the United States was virtually incapacitated on certain days,
and we the people were lied to about it, if you don't know that by now, you don't want to know.
These don't want to know.
And this helps President Trump.
because it will override the controversy du jour.
This becomes the bigger story than Trump, you know, banning countries and we'll get to that in a moment or whatever it may be that day.
And it negates the hate Trump media because they had no interesting reporting this story at all, as we know now.
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All right.
So let's get to the phone call.
We'll let the president describe it.
Full screen, quote,
I just included a very good phone call with President Xi of China,
discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made and agreed to trade deal.
call asked in approximately one and a half hours and resulted in very positive conclusion for both countries.
The conversation was focused almost entirely on trade.
Nothing was discussed concerning Russia, Ukraine, or Iran, unquote.
That was posted on truth, social.
Okay.
So this morning, I appeared on our flagship radio station, W.A.B.C. in New York City with Sid Rosenberg, and here's what went down on that.
I'm going to give you the credit.
You're too, well, actually not too humble.
Maybe he'll take the credit.
I'm going to give you the credit for this upcoming meeting or conversation
between President Trump and President Xi.
I think you're going to China.
You speaking in front of his people doing what you did a couple of weeks ago
was kind of a linchpin for what's coming up next.
Are you willing to accept that credit?
Well, I appreciate you standing in front of my mind.
which doesn't exist.
I wasn't surprised, let's put it that way, that the phone call has been arranged.
Now, I'm not taking credit for it.
It was due.
But what I gave the United States of America, what I gave the country, and that's exactly
why I did this, I paid for this whole trip myself, was I gave a pathway for negotiations to stop
the madness. I provided a vivid pathway to the hard men in Beijing, 13 of them. I said,
if you follow this pathway, China will prosper. Okay, so again, it has nothing to do with me
on a daily basis, but I did contribute, I think, to the overall strategy that a deal helps
both China and the United States.
And not only in trade, they got to figure out Taiwan, Putin, Iran, all of that.
Now, it is much easier for Donald Trump at this point in history to deal with Xi than Putin
because Putin is psychotic.
I am now 100% convinced.
You don't allow one million Russian casualties, one million, to invade a country that does you no good.
whatsoever, Ukraine. And then you continue, despite the fact that Trump offered Putin a good deal
to stop fighting. Putin's psychotic now. So if I were sent to Moscow, number one, I wouldn't
go because they put me in prison. All right. And number two, there's nothing I could say to the people
in Moscow, nothing that are going to change Putin. Trump made a mistake on Putin.
He didn't know the seriousness of Putin's mental condition.
Putin's crazy.
Okay, now he can function.
But again, you don't allow a million Russians
to give up their lives or be severely wounded in Ukraine.
And you don't even count the Ukrainian civilians and all of that.
Putin care at all? No.
That's why he's on my upcoming,
upcoming book, Confronting Evil, he's on a cover.
Okay, so I couldn't do anything there.
But in China, it's different because the Chinese know they need America.
Putin doesn't think he needs anybody.
Chinese know they need America economically.
And so therefore, I think that this has a chance to tamp everything down.
I hope it does. I pray it does. Okay. All right. So Trump, as he does, often, took a terrible
situation in Colorado where a Muslim here illegally try to kill people. And then he used that
to ban a number of countries from sending any of their citizens to the USA. Okay, here are the
countries. Afghanistan, obviously, that's out of control. Chad is an African country,
North African country, no government really. Equatorial, Guinea, same thing. Eritrea, Haiti,
Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Public Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen. They have one thing in common. They
have no functioning government in any of those countries. So that means that you can be
a terrorist, a Muslim terrorist, or any terrorist. And then you can get on a plane,
with a passport that says Somalia
and come here
if you get your visa or whatever you get.
And nobody knows who you are
because those countries aren't checking you out
because there's no functioning government there.
That's why Trump did it.
I didn't do the same thing.
I would do the same thing.
And Venezuela is on that list.
I mean, there's some other things to do with Venezuela,
but Venezuela, you know, it's in corrupt
criminally run government.
Why do we want those people here?
For what?
Yet you hear the left go,
hey, hey, keep quiet.
Okay, this is protection.
Aye, aye, aye.
Okay, out of control courts, big story.
All right, this is the executive order
signed by Trump, and then some judge someplace,
Paducah, Kentucky, says,
oh, no, he can't do it, signs this.
The ACLU shops the country for liberal judges, then brings the suit in those jurisdictions.
Of course, those jurisdictions aren't valid, and that's what will happen.
The Supreme Court will throw it all out.
But in the meantime, the ACLU, which is behind all of this, is making it very hard for President
Trump to govern by executive order.
So there are hearings in Congress, they're hearings in the Senate.
Okay.
This is a subcommittee on federal courts.
And this guy, John Kennedy, you know him, he's on Fox News every hour on the hour.
He's grilling a woman named Kate Shaw.
She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
She's an attorney works for ABC News, part of the Obama administration.
She's a radical leftist, okay?
And here's how the Q&A went down, go.
April 22nd, 2004, you said there are some members of the Supreme Court that are evil.
Which justices were you talking about?
I'll take it your word, Senator.
I don't recall using that word, but...
All right, here's what you said.
You were talking about the majority opinion in Moldrow v. City of St. Louis.
She said, quote, Justice Kagan, I mean, will she be able to control the opinion's future distortion
by her evil colleagues probably not end quote who are you talking about sir i'm i'm i'm
i'm very skeptical there's a if it's transcription it was probably a transcription error i do
not think i said it once you own up to it which you call some members of the supreme
court evil now which ones do you think of her evil i would have to refresh my recollection
now come on now is this a big deal no she's a radical left
Of course, she thinks the Supreme Court justices that voted that Roe v. Wade be kicked back to the states are evil.
That's what these radical leftists do.
She just admitted.
And the fact that she's teaching at an Ivy League school, University of Pennsylvania, is that surprise you?
Come on.
But it's a worthy exercise to get this in front of the American people.
Okay.
Okay. There's an aggregate of polling on real clear politics. He's a website. Now, they didn't
poll Biden. I don't know why. About his, what this was, was a comparison of the first five
months in office. So they did Bush, the younger, Obama, and Trump. But not Biden. Why not? I don't
know. And here's the numbers. So this is job approval. Bush had 46 after five months, Obama 47,
in Trump 48. That's pretty interesting and encouraging for President Trump, because in far and away,
the most controversial of the three, not even close. I mean, Trump is just blowing up the whole
federal apparatus and foreign affairs and the economy, all at once, which I don't know
the wisest thing to do it all at once, but to have 48% of American people, this is the aggregate
of all the polls say okay it's good for him thought you'd like to know that because you'll
never see it anywhere else national sheriffs association this is really a weird story and i'm
setting it up because i don't know what the deuce is going on so ice as you know is conducting
raids all over the country to find and deport people here illegally the next
The National Sheriffs Association is based in Alexandria, Virginia, I think it's 3,000
sheriffs are involved with it.
Its leader is Kiernan Donahue, a sheriff from Canyon County, Idaho.
Now after the Massachusetts raids, ICE posted a whole bunch of stuff, and the Sheriffs
Association objected.
To what?
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Why are you objecting to ICE posting what they're doing?
That's my question, simple man, simple question.
So we asked very politely, can you provide someone to tell me why?
The sheriffs mad at ICE?
Do they not want to cooperate with ICE?
What's going on?
This is big.
3,000 sheriffs.
It's big.
Now, I have a very good relationship with law enforcement from Juno, from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Key West.
Everybody knows I have their backs.
So we didn't think it was going to be a tough booking.
And there's a guy named Patrick Royal.
He's a P-I-O, public information officer of the Sheriff's Association.
And he called him, say, hey, Patrick, come on, explain this.
No.
No.
What?
What's going on?
I don't know.
And they're afraid to come on for some reason.
I'll get to the bottom of it.
You know, I'm on it now.
It's so weird.
I stats.
So thanks to President Biden,
the FBI has spent more than a million manpower hours
investigating the problem stemming from the open border.
Okay?
One million manpower hours.
And that's all on Biden.
Because he opened it up, 15 million in,
problems all over the place.
Okay.
Interesting stat.
Now, on Tuesday of this week alone,
Okay. 2,200 illegal migrants were taken into custody. It's a lot for one day, okay? And that's a 37% jump from the week prior. So they're stepping up. ISIS stepping up. It's raid and it's not incarceration, but keep them contained. They're not out on the street anymore. So the White House is, please, Trump wants.
this. That's why it's happening. So far, since Trump has been president, there have been about
67,000 on documents is taken in, and about 65,000 deported. So most of them who are rounded
up, go. Those are the stats. There are exceptions, or there should be, and there are. Okay, so
Homeland Security, which controls ICE, they've got to make exceptions here. And one of them is
a little Sophia Vargas, four-year-old Mexican girl, is a very serious illness. And she's being treated
in Southern California in a hospital there. So her mother, who took her across the border illegally
in 2003, has been detained by ICE. But ICE is now giving the family a humanitarian waiver, which
which is the right thing to do.
All right, we have to save this girl's life.
Now I would, if I were President Trump, pardon him.
I'd say you could stay on a humanitarian basis.
Nothing wrong with that.
Okay, Sophia and her mom do not pose any danger to us.
And it's a humanitarian thing.
I was happy to see this story.
Smart life.
So if you live in Texas, and I did for two years, boy, it was hot.
This Yankee.
Anyway, the Texas Senate Bill 25 is going to require Doritos, M&Ms, Fruit Loops, Mountain Dew, Skittles,
cap and crunch, cereal, and others.
But warning labels, because food added it as,
dies, bleeds, flour, sugar, all that.
And it's good.
Texas is ahead on this, because if you eat drunk,
you're going to die a painful death.
This is smart life now.
This is a smart life second.
Let me repeat that.
If you eat junk, you're going to die a painful death.
Is that what you want?
I'd rather go in my sleep, you know.
I knocked out most of the sugar in my life, now I'm working on the carbs because, you know,
you got any of that under control. We Americans eat terrible diets. Terrible. When I was in
North Asia last week, it's fish, it was, you know, no sugar, nobody's fat, except the American
tourists. They're fat. Chinese weren't fat. Japanese weren't. Korean is a little bit more.
chubby, a little more zofty, because they are more attached to the American culture.
So in Texas, Governor Admiral will sign this.
So General Mills, Pepsi Cola, Mars, Kellogg's, they're all going to have to, if they
want to ship their stuff to Texas, put this warning labels on, just like tobacco.
Every state should do it.
Every state.
Because, you know, not only are you going to die, but the odds are that you're going to cost
your family, friends, and people you don't know,
fellow Americans, a lot of money when you get sick,
when you get diabetes, when you, your thumb falls off
from the sugar.
You cannot do this.
And the fast foods are killing you too.
And what do you see on TV?
What do the kids see?
Every day, all day long.
Oh, you deserve a break today, and the bell rings, and this,
and then that.
Once in a while, okay, but a steady diet of this?
So the word has to get out.
And, you know, I'm not a big RFK Jr. fan, but he's right on this.
And it's going to save this country trillions of dollars in health costs if people wise up.
Smart life.
Tipping.
So there's a study by bank rate.
Bank rate is, I guess, a social media offer.
U.Gov did it about tips.
And it was about 2,500 U.S. adults.
So the headline is 41% of Americans, say tipping has gotten out of control.
This is up from 6% in 2024.
Why has it got out of control?
Because now when you go to the deli or the bodega or the pizza joint or wherever you go,
and somebody just puts your food in a bag, they want a tip.
So they get the little dopey machine, put your credit card, and it goes, what tip?
For what?
I called it in.
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it's not like you were waiting the table and you want a tip no
about the money. I'm generous tipper. 20% for good service. And sometimes I'll give a little
bit more if I, you know, they think that the person really is trying and all that. 20% for
good service, 10% for not so good service. Even if you're allowed, I'll give you 10% unless
you're disrespectful. Not just to me, but to anybody in a restaurant, then you get nothing.
and I'll tell you why you're getting nothing.
And I'll tell your boss why you're getting nothing.
That hasn't happened.
I haven't done that in a year, maybe more.
So 24 good service, 10 for poor service, but, you know,
and nothing if you are obnoxious.
Okay, so that is the tipping culture.
And I don't blame everybody, you know, come on.
We're hard for our money and people go, hey, give me a tip, give me a tip.
And the tax, no tax on tips, you know,
And Wall Street Journal hates that.
I don't understand that.
Those people who are working for tips are not affluent people.
Give them a break.
It's not going to bust the budget.
You know, and Trump's not going to back away from that.
So that's got to be in this big bill.
Stay on history, June 5th, 2004, Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States,
dies in Los Angeles, complications, Alzheimer's disease.
Now, the reason I'm doing this 21 years ago is that I wrote a book on President Reagan,
all right, killing Reagan.
And he was in for eight years.
Conservative Americans and moderates love him, Ronald Reagan.
And there's a good reason why they love him.
And the reason is that Reagan, even though he had an up and down presidency, and he did.
Okay.
killing Reagan is banned from the Reagan Library in Seamy Valley.
They will not stock the book.
The reason is I told the truth that after he was shot,
Ronald Reagan had a hard time for about six months.
I mean, mental acuity?
Very tough.
Up and down.
I told the truth.
I backed it up with names, no anonymous sources.
Reagan Library didn't like it.
Fine.
okay we sold two million copies anyway uh Reagan what he did to catapult himself and I do believe
he is in a I'd say top 15 best presidents was that he lifted the morale of the
citizenry people felt good in the 1980s to be an American because Reagan was a traditionalist
he believed in God and he believed in service and he believed in the climate
and he believed that we were a shining light on the hill. He believed that it wasn't a phony.
And Americans who believe the same thing emotionally attached themselves to him. But if you look at
his record, the biggest mistake he made was giving amnesty to 3 million people who snuck in here.
And he said, look, I'm going to give them amnesty to placate the Democratic Party. That was Tip O'Neill.
but we'll seal the border it won't happen again.
But they didn't, and he didn't insist on it, Reagan.
And the liberals, the left, saw that weakness.
Okay, the best thing he did was he figured out
that the Soviet Union was wobbly
and that by developing all these weapons, new technology in the 80s,
that the Soviets would have to do the same thing
and it couldn't afford it.
and the Soviet economic profile collapsed.
And that led to the walls coming down and all that.
And that happened during Bush the elder.
It didn't happen under Reagan.
It took a couple of years.
But Reagan saw that.
He attacked the Soviet Union economically.
Very, very shrewd.
Very, very strong policy.
George Schultz, you remember that name.
He was involved with that.
Okay.
So Reagan, Ronald Reagan died 21 years ago today.
Back with a final thought on dad in a moment.
Okay, so the Fourth Commandment, some say the Fifth,
but in my religion, Catholicism, and in the Torah, I believe,
the Fourth Commandment is honor thy father and their mother.
And it's problematic because there are a lot of fathers and mothers who are not good.
Let's be honest, okay?
They're not.
They treat their children well.
They don't treat each other well.
they're just not good.
Do you still have to honor them?
And the answer is yes.
You have to be respectful.
You don't have to embrace.
You don't have to make excuses.
You don't have to pander.
Respectful.
On their respective days, you give them gifts.
You send them a card.
Don't overdo it if you don't feel they deserve it.
But most parents, you know, my parents were flawed.
They were children of the Depression.
But I loved them and I respected them to the very end.
And I did everything on earth I could do to make their lives.
easier. And I didn't, I wasn't a scorecard. They did this, they did that. I didn't do that.
Because I honored the Fourth Commandment. I mean, you know, it's pretty clear. Now, sometimes
you can't honor. Sometimes the destructive nature of parents is so bad that you can't. I understand
that. And millions of people are facing it. I got it. But if you can,
form some kind of kindness, of detente. Try. You'll be a much better person for it.
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