Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Left’s Effort to Destabilize the Federal Government, Are U.S. Troops Heading to Greenland? Hugo Gurdon Weighs in, & 60 Minutes Controversial El Salvador Story Airs

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, January 19, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill reports on new ICE developments, including NYC socialists organizing thousands of anti-ICE activists and weekend demonstrations across major cities. Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Examiner, joins the No Spin News to discuss President Trump’s Greenland threats  and what he thinks will happen in Iran.  The latest on Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as he orders an intensified crackdown on corruption and disciplinary violations. How motivated are Americans to vote in this year’s election for Congress? Bill reviews a clip of Human Rights Watch Deputy Director Juan Pappier’s sit-down interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Final Thought: The importance for Concierge Members to follow through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the new spin news for Monday, January 19th, 2006. They end up for your country on Martin Luther King Junior's national holiday, and it is fitting. If you read my book Killing Kennedy and you follow my commentary, you know that I admire Dr. King. I didn't agree with his approach economically to the United States,

He was a very sincere man, a brave man, lost his life, martyred, in pursuit of justice for African Americans. So I'm glad he's got his holiday. I'm glad we're all celebrating it today. Okay, so a few hours ago I was in 75-degree weather in Palm Beach, Florida. And now I'm here in 26, isn't it, on Long Island? What? Whoa. And I'm happy to be home. It was a very busy four days down in Florida. I had a lot to do. And you'll be the beneficiary of some of it. I did talk to President Trump briefly. It's crazy how busy he is. But there was a few topics and we'll get to those.

Talking points memo this evening is some new information about the ICE minister. condundrum. So this is New York Post reporting. I've checked it. I mean, I don't have any reason to doubt this. So according to the Post, the New York socialist movement, which is very well organized here in the city, Democratic Socialists of America, they are mobilizing 4,000 anti-ice activists to stop any kind of ice in New York City, the largest in the country. 4,000. Now, this comes to no surprise to me because the Minnesota demonstrations are not organic. They're organized by far left people who are using the immigration and the ICE Roundup to try to destabilize America.

That's what they're trying to do. There is an opening there. All right, we saw that with George Floyd. It's the same kind of tactic. But they're not really as successful as they'd like to be. So let me run it down for you. Over the weekend, there were a few demonstrations, anti-ice demonstrations. Minnesota, of course, Minneapolis.

Broadview, Illinois, outside of Chicago, Denver, Portland, Maine, not Oregon, Maine. And a couple of others that, you know, want to journey. I guess it's Marstown, but it wasn't much. And there was no violence, good. Few arrests, but not many. But this was not a populist uprising. And that's important to know. The Pentagon says it has alerted 1,500 soldiers

that they may be needed to go to Minneapolis, to calm things down there. down there. And the reason is that Minnesota State Police and Minneapolis local police will not protect federal agents. That's pretty startling, pretty stunning. So if an Insurrection Act executive order was signed by the president, he would have very firm legal ground. So the state of Minnesota is in rebellion to the United States. I hope he doesn't sign the Insurrection Act. I hope that doesn't happen because that will just inflame things.

All right. It doesn't look to me like ICE got about 4,000 agents on the ground of Minnesota now is in any danger being overrun. But, you know, it's obviously that this state has got to be dealt with. Here's the mayor of Minneapolis once again. Go. Right now we have about 600 police officers, and they've got 3,000 or so ICE agents and border control, that they are now talking about deploying 1,500 military. This is, well, it's ridiculous, but we will not be intimidated by the actions of this federal government.

All right, what's ridiculous is you, Mr. Mayor, telling your police department not to protect federal agents from harm. That's just disgraceful. It's awful. I mean, there's no other adjective to apply to it. Even if you disagree with the policy, you want federal agents to be hurt? Not what you want? Apparently, yes. All right, so there is a, in the city of Minneapolis, a separation ordinance, which is totally illegal, okay, that says that the locals don't have to cooperate with the federal government. Not only illegal. But it's on the books there, just so you know. And I'll tell you, Minnesota's never going to recover from this, ever.

So you're just being in Minnesota nice and scrow up and jump in the lake. I jumped in Rainy Lake, and I had a great time up there. I'm not going back. There's nothing to get me going back to Minnesota. I'm not going and spending money in a state that's in rebellion to the federal government. I'm not doing that. You don't think I'm alone. Polls.

All right. So this is a CBS poll. Very simple. Right now, do you think the way immigration customs, ICE, is conducting its operations when it stops or detains people,

is too tough, 61%. Not tough enough, 15. About right, 24. So you got a plurality that says too tough. And I,

I agree with that. I think ICE has got to bring it down a little bit. Okay? Not chasing criminals, but if it's a marginal situation, you know let it go a little. You don't let it go forever. All right. You just take care of it later when his temperature is lower. Now, the Democratic Party is divided into moderates and radicals. The radicals, the radicals, run the Democratic Party. One of the radical senators, man named Ruben Gallego, from Arizona, who is hoping for a full rebellion. Roll that tape. From my experience running in Arizona in a very hard, hard state when it comes immigration, immigration issues, people want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, right,

and focuses on criminals. And immigration enforcement that's actually focused on security, and not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. Now, that's totally ridiculous. So ICE agents can't adjudicate people's status in the street. Okay? So they have targets that they're targeting criminals. And the stat that ICE put out about Minnesota's, they've rounded up 1,500. That's a lot of people.

1,500 criminals, foreign nationals there. That's a lot. Anyway, Gallego, I don't know if he's smart enough. I doubt it. But you can't, if you're an ICE agent and you go in on a raid targeting someone who's a criminal, and there are five other people who don't have credentials to be in this country, you just can't let them go. You have to take them in, and then they're adjudicated from there. So it's just a guy's going to go, okay, you're bad, you're good.

he doesn't have the ability to do that he or she. It's just so ridiculous. But that's the status of our politics today. Okay. Virginia. So the new governor comes in. Abigail Spamberger, replacing Glenn Yonkins. So Governor Yonkins said to Virginia authorities,

you've got to cooperate the federal government when they're hunting down foreign. nationals that they want to detain, you got to cooperate. Well, first day, Abigail, now you don't. This is the Democratic Party. It was the same thing if you know your history, and please re-confronting the presidents, please. Because you had, you know, states and go, hey, it's not going to obey what you say, President Buchanan, President Lincoln, there's no difference.

All right, so Spanberger does that, and now Virginia goes over into the sanctuary classification. Now, if you really add it up, what is this all about? The Democratic Party does not oppose open borders. If it did, it would have screamed when Biden was doing that. I'll give you some startling stats in a moment on Biden. But it didn't. It didn't. And to this day, the mainstream Democratic Party, it's okay.

Let everybody in. Let everybody in. They'll never admit it, but that's what they're saying. Okay? And when you have a party, a political party, this basically doesn't want. Now, if they're not... Democrats had any dignity, they introduced new legislation, new immigration law. Let's see what you want. Put it out. No, we don't get any of that. I'd like to see what the Democratic Party wants as far as immigration is reform.

I'd like to see it, wouldn't you? So then we get debated. Now, the media is firmly on the side. Democrats has been since 1968, hasn't deviated one bit, and now it's crazy because they hate Trump. So this happened on CBS Margaret Brennan faced the nation with Homeland Security Director Christy Noem. Go. Every single individual has committed a crime, but 70% of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes and crimes that they are charged with or have been convicted of that have come from other countries that are here illegally, first of all, and then they have committed a criminal act while they've been here or in their home countries as well.

It's not 70%. Yes, it is. Okay, so how do I know? I don't know. You don't know. And that is the weakness in Homeland Security. You've got to put it out. How you know that. Now, Brennan's never going to believe you no matter what you show her.

because you don't want to believe you. Now, keep that stat in mind, because I'm going to do a 60 minutes thing in a moment, that that's going to come into play. Okay? So Brennan, in the interview, I didn't use this part of the soundbite, but says it's 40% that ISIS rounding up, that have criminal involvement. Nome says it's 70%. American people don't know.

And that's a weakness. And federal government has got to clarify that. So summing up here. So the radical left is using this to try to destabilize the federal government because they hate Trump. They hate everything that is a capitalist. You know, across the board. And this is an issue. But they're not making inroads yet.

another shooting of a mother. You've got to be careful now. Federal government's got to understand that, you know, Americans are watching this. I think most Americans want a robust immigration enforcement. I could be wrong, but I think they do. But they don't want violence

and they don't want unfairness, and that's the memo. All right. New data. The first quarter of the year, fiscal year, for the federal government, is October, November, and December passed. All right, so according to Customs and Border Protection, it's the lowest intrusion of the southern border ever. All right, border crosses down 95% from Biden. So 91,000 were apprehended in three months at the border. border under Trump 2.

Look at these stats under Biden. Okay, fiscal year, first quarter, 2023, 865,000. Fiscal year, first quarter, 2024, 98, almost a million. And then the last year,

because they were running to try to get reelected, it's almost 400,000. And now that's down in 91. So, obviously, Obviously, the Republican Party and Trump has done a good job in stopping that flow. But remember, the Democrats don't want to stop it. They don't want to stop it. That's the key to all analysis.

Okay, let's go over to Greenland. So I did talk to President Trump briefly on Friday. I kind of feel sorry for the guy, but he creates a lot of his own mayhem. So I don't think U.S. fortunes are going to invade Greenland. I'll go right up top, say it. It would be a disaster, an absolute disaster, if that happens, for the Trump administration and for the United States. Because NATO would fall apart.

Putin would win. Remember, Putin's rationale to go into Ukraine was Russian national security. We need this territory because NATO is going to attack us. I'm not too much garbage. But that was his rationale. The Trump's rationale is we need Greenland to protect us against Russia and China. There's some truth to that. We only have one military base on that island.

We should have about 10 because the ships, submarines, all kinds of stuff. Coming down from the Arctic Ocean past Greenland. But we can make a deal. I'm thoroughly convinced about that. Remember Panama a year ago? I wrote about this in a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com. And I was in a cabinet meeting with the president, and he's going on again. I said, you don't have to do that.

And they worked that out. You haven't heard Panama on a year. I think that's what will happen at Greenland. I hope it happens because if the U.S. military were to go into Greenland, Democrats would win the midterms, big. big. Only 9% of Americans support

a military incursion into Greenland. Let me back it up. Quinnipe Act poll. All right. Would you support opposed the United States trying to buy Greenland? Support 37. Opposed 55. Don't know eight.

To support military force? Support nine. Oh, geez. Oppose 86. Don't know six. And the president is a smart guy. He knows all right. I don't think he's going.

I think he's saber-rattling to make the best deal he can make. I think that deal will happen. May even happen this week at Davos, Switzerland, where the president's going over with a big U.S. contingent. Talk to the financial pinheads. Maybe they make a bill over there. I hope so. I hope so.

I was getting another point of view of this. Joining us from Washington is Hugo. Gurdon, is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Examiner Newspaper. In my analysis, did I say anything that you quibble with, Mr. Gurdon? No, no, I don't quibble with it at all. I completely agree that strategically it's important for the United States to have a very strong military presence in the Arctic and in Northern Greenland. It's important for the Golden Dome. It's important for the protection of the Arctic, important for the protection of Northern Europe. but the president seems to me to be going about it in precisely the wrong way.

And Denmark has already said, it's made it perfectly plain, that it's willing to make a deal. So, you know, we don't want to let our enemies operate in the Western Hemisphere. We basically made sure of that down in Venezuela, but we don't say we've got to own Venezuela. We can make the deal with Denmark. And you know, one of the ironies I think is, Bill, that in many circumstances, the president is saying the Europeans should do more for their own defense. Well, here's a perfect opportunity to get a NATO ally to do more for its own defense by saying, right, we're going to strike a deal. The United States can have a 50-year lease or a 99-year lease for set up military operations in the northern Arctic, in the Arctic from on the north coast of Greenland, take on the Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers and the, Chinese moving into that area.

It's something that they should be doing. And today's news today about the exchange with the governments of Finland and Norway was just extraordinary. I don't believe that. I got to tell you, maybe it's true. But President Trump, what he likes to do,

and I'm sure you know this, is that he likes to throw the hand grenade in and it blows up. And then from that swirl of smoke and everything, then he walks in and gets the best possible deal. So he likes to keep people on edge. He likes to say things that are provocative and he likes to everybody. And then he comes in and it's like Mighty Mouse. Here I come to save the day.

And he almost does it every time. Yeah, look, I think that there's truth in that. And it's one of the cautions that one needs when considering what Trump is doing. He will go in there and create a kind of mayhem or extraordinary circumstances which everybody's hair is on fire. And then when they settle for 60% of what he's asked for or they rush to make a deal, he's actually getting what he originally intended to get. So I completely agree with that. But it doesn't mean to say that any method of getting there is really an acceptable or a good one. I think that's a good point.

I think what he's got now is all of Europe hates him. Do we really want all of Europe hate us? No. But three weeks from now, all of Europe might like us again because he'll do something that would benefit them. I don't know. But I understand the overkill. But that's what he's always done.

I mean, if you trace, if you read my book, the United States of Trump, I mean, every business deal, every political deal. Remember the first debate when he had the nine guys lined up on a stage, and he just blew them up. Right. You know, boring Jeb and lying Ted, and people are shocked. And it works for him. And so it's hard when I'm speaking with the president.

I'm always respectful, no matter what president it is. You know, I can't say, well, all right. He can say, look, it's been successful for me my whole career. And that's where his mindset is. Yeah, he will actually sometimes prevent people who are kind of broadly speaking supportive of him from explaining away or trying to put into context. And I mean, right back when he accused President Obama of starting ISIS, and people would say, oh, what he means is that he was creating the circumstances in which ISIS could start,

the Islamic State, and he said, and he said, no, no, no, Obama started it. He says deliberately outrageous things, and indeed they are outrageous. And then you're left to calculate later, well, okay, he got what we wanted. He got things for the United States. He shocked people in the way that he did it. What is the price that we paid for getting the thing that we want? Yeah. And that is a legitimate question.

I mean, there is certainly on ease throughout the world. Now, we go over to Iran, and that's a situation where there are a lot of different nations involved. Saudi Arabia, a big player, not very vocal on it, but they're big and Trump listens to them. What do you think is going to happen there? Any idea? Look, I think there's quite a high likelihood, if not very, very soon, but pretty high likelihood. of American military involvement over there. I don't know. There's not a lot of information that comes out

about exactly what the state of protests are, but they seem to have died down. Obviously, thousands of people have been murdered by the regime. But I think that, you know, there are reports of former members of the government there being arrested by the Republican guards for having, you know, contact with the Shah or, you know, the successor outside the United States.

and there are defections, the diplomatic defections, they don't necessarily count for very much, but they might be straws in the wind. I think a lot of people would say, and I think I agree them with it, this regime is on its last legs. It cannot stay in power, even with the repressive methods that it uses, for that much longer. But how much that much longer is, is a difficult question. It seems to me that the United States was probably caught. without the proper military assets in the area. That's not surprised.

There was a huge deployment, obviously, over in Venezuela, and there's a carrier group that's coming from the South China Sea, and by the time it gets there, the current wave of protests might be flattened. But I think that your viewers should probably expect more turbulence, and ultimately the United States getting involved, not because not with troops on the ground, of course, but with things like cutting off Republican Guard communications,

they know the United States has proved itself extremely good, disrupting the ability of... Yeah, and they'll flatten the Revolutionary Guard headquarters. That's what I think will happen. But it's all a matter that what was put forth by the Gulf States was if you go in now, then the Ayatollah is going to use that as a religious fundamentalism turn. Look at the Great Satan's trying to destroy.

all of us and so it wasn't a right time to do it, which I think has some merit to it. I know the president would like to take them out, but they want to do it surgically. So just sum it up, I don't believe that the U.S. is going to put military into Greenland unless there's a treaty signed. Do you concur with that? No, I do. I concur. I don't think that they're going to do it, and it would be absolute disaster if we do this. Right.

That would just ruin the whole Trump administration. All right, Mr. Godin, thanks very much for helping us out on a holiday. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Xi, China. So, you know, I was over there in May, and I told you what an intense police state.

So this is interesting. So the Central Commission for Discipline in China put this number out. About a million people in 25 were sanctioned. by the Chinese government in Beijing. A million. Now that extends from getting a bull in the back of the head to disappearing, winding up in some camp way out in western China

or a fine or whatever. Remember, they have mobile in China, mobile execution vans that go from town to town and political prisoners being held on this come in and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. a million. So the next time, you know, these are, this is what we're dealing with in this world.

Poll, American politics, Wall Street Journal. Okay. All other things being equal, if the election for Congress held today, it's more likely to vote for Republican or Democrat. Republican 43, Democrat 47.

Unsure, 10. That's a top. All right. Second one. Between Democrats and Congress, Republicans, who in your opinion is best able to handle the economy? Democrats, 32, Republicans, 38. Inflation. Democrats, 32, Republicans, 38.

Immigration. Democrats 33, Republicans 44. Wow. So, the midterms still up in the air. According to these numbers, you know, Americans are watching very, very closely. Another poll of CNN, you know, CNN polls skewed, of course. How motivated are you to vote in the midterms? Extremely motivated, very motivated, together 71%, not very motivated 14.

Okay, that sounds legitimate to me. People are going to want to get out there. Republicans, extremely motivated, very motivated, 73. Democrats, 81. Advantage to the Democrats there. 60 minutes. Now, that's a very interesting story. So you'll know, or you'll remember if you follow the media,

that the new woman who runs CBS News, Barry Weiss, held up a report by one of the 60 Minutes correspondents, Sharon Fosecker, something like that. I don't really know. I don't watch the show very much. I used to watch it every night when Mike Wallace, every time it was on, I watch. But anyway, the story was that U.S. has deported 250 Venezuela

to El Salvador way to get the hellbeat out of them in a brutal prison. Okay. Now, some of you know, I covered a war in El Salvador, a brutal country. And it was out of control because the gangs, the drug gangs, are running it. And then the president came in and said, we're throwing you all in jail, no due process. It's going to wound you up. If you got MS-13 on you, you're going.

Brutal prison. So the 60 Minutes crew said, oh, okay. So the USA is going to send over 250 Venezuelans to be in this terrible prison. All right. Now the subterfuge starts. Number one, nobody in the Trump administration would comment on it. I believe that. I don't think the Trump administration won't any part of this story at all.

Number two, the person that they used, 60 Minutes, CBS News, point person is a guy named Juan Papier. He is the deputy director at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is a far, far, far left organization funded by the likes of George Soros and others radical organizations. 60 Minutes did not tell its audience that at all. Roll the tape. These people are migrants, and the sad reality is that the U.S. government tried to make an example out of them.

They sent them to a place where they were likely to be tortured, to send migrants across Latin America the message that they should not come to the United States. ISIS' own records say that only 3% of them had been. sentenced for a violent or potentially violent crime? Oh, slight of hand. Number one, I don't know. I've never seen that stat. Number two, he says, has been sentenced. How would you know? How would you know? All right? He says, oh, we checked in Venezuela. Uh-huh. And certainly in the United States, sentenced.

That would mean you would have to go through a trial. You'd have to be, and that takes years. Takes years. Now, the correspondent for this, Sharon, had to know all that. Had to know. See, Trump's first year, if you're going to sentence a foreign national for criminality,

those trials take forever. They were. Three percent? And then they had some guys there. They didn't say how the guys got out of the prison. And it, it was a mess. It was a mess. Sorry.

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