Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The IG Report Is Finally Released; Michael Bloomberg Apologizes For Calling Cory Booker 'Well Spoken'

Episode Date: December 9, 2019

-Everything you need to know about the Justice Department's Inspector General Report. -Michael Bloomberg apologizes after press accuses him of being racial insensitive.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, December 9th, 2019, Fight for Your Freedom. Well, that was a big nothing, so we waited for eight months for the Horowitz report, the Inspector General of the Justice Department on the origins of surveilling the Trump campaign in 2016. So I took notes here. I have notes. But Brett Tomlin is going to put it all in perspective for us. So, but, you know, I've sitting there, and I can't say I was surprised because even though I don't know Mr. Horowitz, I know enough that he's a swamp creature. And I'm not saying that to diminish him, but he's just a guy who's not going to give you anything that's going to come back to bite him in the butt. And he testifies on Wednesday in front of Senate committee.

and so he gives us nothing. The headline is that the FBI made 17, that's a lot, significant mistakes of omission and other things in getting their warrants, surveillance warrants, to spy on Carter Page, a member of the Trump campaign. 17. That's a lie. But, according to Mr. Horowitz, there was no bias, political bias, involved in any of the 17 mistakes. And Combe and McCabe, the director and assistant director of the FBI, and I had no political bias from them. However, he couches that by saying there's no bias that we could find in our interviews or in documentation. So I said, well, didn't Peter Strzok send texts? He was one of the lead FBI agents on the Trump campaign. Didn't he send texts to his mistress saying that Trump was a danger and they were

going to derail him? I think that's documentation that was biased. Oh, no, no, no, no. That didn't directly affect Agent Strz's work, says Mr. Horowitz. Sorry. not cutting it for me. So almost immediately, almost immediately after the Horowitz statement was released, 434 pages of it, the U.S. Attorney John Durham investigating the same thing from a criminal perspective releases a statement. Very unusual. And this takes all the energy out of the far left press. Quote, based on the evidence collected to date and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General, that's Horowitz. Now, we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to prediction, predication, as to predication. I'll have Brett Tom and in a moment

define that for us and how the FBI case was open. unquote. Let me read it again because I screwed it up. All right. Based on the evidence collected to date, Mr. Durham's evidence, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General, we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was open. So Durham's basically saying, this is a bunch of bull. That's what he's saying, that Horowitz thing is bull. Now Horowitz's got all kinds of all well. I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. And Durham's scope is much bigger and I had to stay in the justice.

But he's basically saying to you, the American people, the most important aspect of the story is you. All right? Hard just, I don't know what he's talking about. You are listening to a free excerpt from Bill O'Reilly.com's No Spin News broadcast, where you can actually see me. We'll be right back after this message. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.

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I hope you read it. And I'm going to do this tomorrow a little bit more. But aside from that, Bloomberg goes on CBS, and he gives Cory Booker what he thinks is a compliment. Go. Cory Booker endorsed me a number of times, and I endorse Cory Booker a number of times. He's very well spoken.

He's got some good ideas. It would be better the more diverse any group is. So what was wrong with that? What was wrong with that statement? Very well spoken. It's a racist statement because Cory Booker's African-American. And Cory Booker himself said he was taken aback by the comment. He's very well-spoken.

He's got very some good ideas. Booker was taken aback. It's racist. It's a racist comment. All right. Now, if I... I would have said it. I don't think Bloomberg is trying to be racist.

I don't think he had any blanking clue that he's going to be attacked as a racist. Particularly because Joe Biden, a few years ago, let me get the date, February 2007, said this, go. I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American, who was articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. talking about Barack Obama. Now, to President Obama's credit, he didn't call Biden a racist,

put him on a ticket as a VP. So, I mean, clean? Now, there, there, ah, that would have been problematic. Had I said it or anybody said it, clean? Biden said it. Barack Obama overlooked it, gave him a second. But saying that Cory Booker's well-spoken has some good ideas is a racist statement? I don't know, that's the age we live in, it's a country we live in. You are listening to a free excerpt from Bill O'Reilly.com's no-spin news broadcast, where you can actually see me. We'll be right back after this message.

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they will not tell you the truth or put it into perspective. But if I'm wrong, and if they do, if you see someone on television or even writing in a newspaper that tells you the truth, Please let me know by email or on a message board, all right, because I am killing the press. That's not going to be my next killing book after crazy voice, but I am doing it. Again, I want you to read, please, my new column, pray for the press, all right? Because it is so awful. Now, it is so bad.

But if you see someone who does something good, please let me know. We'll see you tomorrow.