Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Left's Meltdown Over Trump's D.C. Takeover, Michael Flynn on the Russia Probe Legal Fallout & Will Bernie Sanders Run for President? 

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, August 12, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down Donald Trump’s actions in D.C. and the reaction from the progressive left. Lt. General Michael Flynn (Ret.) joins the No Spin News to discuss who may face legal risk in the Russia collusion investigation, John Brennan's motive for the alleged cover-up, and what Hillary Clinton's defense might be. A look at Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) response when asked if he will run for President. This Day in History: The Wizard of Oz has its world premiere. Final Thought: Why you shouldn't argue with morons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2025 stand up for your country. The summer of Trump continues taking over D.C., Putin on Friday, Russian collusion investigation in September. We have General Michael Flynn coming up this evening. He probably knows more about Russian collusion than anybody, the only person prosecuted, so far. He's got a book out. But first, the talking points memo, President Trump takes Washington, D.C. So 800 National Guard are going to the D.C.

armory right now. Associated Press is reporting, and they will patrol neighborhoods suppressing criminals. So if you're a criminal, you want to go out and hijack a car or stick up an old lady to get money for drugs, and there's National Guard standing there, you are less likely to do it. Okay, there's also 120 FBI agents, and they are in the neighborhoods where crimes are most committed. So again, this is a suppression of crime, an institution of more safety for the public. If everybody understand what's happening here, I hope you do. Well, if a progressive left, the Trump haters, they hate this. And then the simple question is, wait, wait.

If you're going to make human beings, American citizens, more safe, and you have the legal authority to do it because the federal government runs the District of Columbia, why wouldn't you do it? Okay. So, in addition to the crime and murders, by the way, by the way, I'm sorry, I said that murders in D.C. rose between 2012 and 24, about 100%, and they've come down a little bit, but D.C. is a

violent city, and everybody knows it, who lives there. You've got to be careful. Everybody knows. Okay. In addition to the crime, there are about 6,000 homeless people, most of them drug addicts. And a lot of them live on public land, federal land. And Trump goes, no. So today, Caroline the press spokesman for the White House said, hey, the Metropolitan Police are going to get the homeless and they're going to give them a choice. You can either check yourself in, and I guess there would be accompanied to a shelter receiving mental health services, but if you do not do that, then you will be put in jail. Okay. Why that tactic? Because it's the only tactic that works. You're not going to persuade people to give up inebriation unless they're

desperate. So if you talk to any drug rehab counselor, you can't rehab somebody who doesn't want to be rehabbed. And most of these people, not only in D.C., but all over the country, living on the streets, are drug addicts, or alcoholics, and they want to get high all day every day. You put them in jail, which you can do because there's an ordinance on the book to Washington, they can't get their dope or their booze. They're going to leave. They're not going to hang around for that. That's how you get them out.

And that's what the federal government is now doing. So the U.S. Park police are going into the public areas owned by we, the taxpayers, and they're saying, you're out of here. No debate. That's not going to take long. But the progressive left, of course. They don't want that. They don't want anything like that because they hate Trump and they don't want laws to be enforced.

That's a complicated issue, but it's absolutely true. All right. So the first guy I'm going to feature on this is our pal Pete Buttigieg, perhaps the worst transportation secretary in the history of the country. Under Joe Biden, you remember Pete, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. under Pete, the U.S. airline industry almost collapsed. And Pete did nothing, because we didn't know what to do. And, of course, President Biden didn't do anything. So people were delayed and had canceled and on and on and on and on.

Well, here's what Buttigieg says about Trump and the feds going into law enforcement in the district of Columbia. As we speak, the federal government is taking over the policing of a major American city, Washington, D.E. The president is doing this, not in order to make the city safer. That's the job of local law enforcement, but to solve his own political problems. He needs to get his base talking and thinking about something besides his refusal to open up the Epstein files. Well, how would Buttigieg know that? Does he read minds? Does he talk to Trump about it? No.

No. He's doing, oh, he wants to divert away from Epstein. Epstein's story is largely dead. Okay? We're going to have a little bit on it tomorrow, put a bow on it, but it's largely dead. But Buttigieg and the progressives, they want to tie Epstein to Trump. So anything Trump does, Putin meeting, anything. Oh, it's a diversion. How would you know?

How do you back that statement up, Buttigieg? You can't back it up. just ridiculous he's a ridiculous man okay the other guy is former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe listen to this go most fbi agents were not police officers before they came into the fbi even the most tactically astute highly trained FBI agents those who serve on swat teams i know this as a former swat team member they don't know they don't do community policing are you kidding me? This is so ridiculous. So all they're supposed to do, the FBI agents, is to stop crime by their very presence and to investigate gang members and things like that who may have

organized carjacking rings. You tell me the FBI can't do that? Oh, fine. This is so absurd. I mean, I sit here every day and I go, did these people, I guess they believe the American public's that stupid to listen to this garbage. All right. Now, there was a protective operation in Los Angeles. We all know that when some of those riots out there got out of control and the federal government, Donald Trump, sent a national guard,

and stopped the cold. Stop the cold. And that's what's going to happen in D.C. I guarantee this. This is 100%. This is easy. This isn't hard. The gangbangers in D.C.,

we can't come out of their holes now, as long as the federal presence is there. Now, you would think that a McCabe and a Buddha judge, not fair people, not looking out for you by any means, would listen to the police union chief in Washington, D.C. Go. Hey, Mike Baker here. of the President's Daily Brief Podcast.

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In 2020, the D.C. City Council passed an enormous amount of legislation that handcuffed police officers exposes them to administrative, civil, and even criminal liability, even when they do their jobs properly. And that happened in New York. That happened in Chicago. That happened in L.A. and San Francisco. Same thing. Okay?

We will hector the police. We will make it hard for the police to do their jobs. But the police union chairman, Gregory Pemberton, said, hey, we back Trump. We know the situation in D.C. is out of control crime wise. Enter her. This is unbelievable. Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House.

Here's what she tweeted, quote, Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our capital was under violent attack and lives are at stake. Now, he's activating the D.C. Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education, immigration, just to name a few blunders. Okay, so it's not Epstein, it's tariffs and everything like that. All right, Nancy Pelosi. Now, the Capitol Hill police chief at the time of the riot, his name, Stephen Sun. Here's how he reacted to Pelosi.

Quote, ma'am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3rd, I request the National Guard assistance, but your sergeant-at-arms denied it. Under federal law, I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. That same day, Carol Corbyn at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority. So this, we have known that Pelosi was a saboteur of the National Guard coming to protect the Capitol. And yet she is the gall and the deceit to criticize Trump doing this. Hard to believe.

All right. Now, looking forward, the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, very close ally with Donald Trump, is going to have another round of hearings. And D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is first up. You now said yesterday. It's going to be in September. We don't have a date. So they're going to call in all the D.C. locals and say,

why do you oppose something that would make your own citizens, your own residents, safer? Why would you do that, madam? Oh, crime's going down. So what? So what? If crime goes down as zero, that's what we want. Okay, so that here, another house oversight, but that's a busy bunch over there, okay? On the homeless situation, they can solve the problem fairly easily by saying, look,

either help yourself or you go to jail for a few days, and then you can't get your drugs, and you're in withdrawal or whatever, and so they're going to all leave. They go to Baltimore. Baltimore, you can do whatever you want. want with drugs? Easy. So summing up, I expect this to be successful, this D.C. stuff. The opposition to Donald Trump continues to embarrass itself and be deceitful, Nancy Pelosi, incredibly deceitful. And that's where it stands. And that is the memo. I let's update you on the Putin meeting Friday, August 15th. Anchorage, Alaska.

I've been there a couple of times. Okay town. I mean, there's not a lot to do there. I might want to check out the Captain Cook Hotel if you get up there. Interesting characters hanging around the lobby bar. So Putin flies in from Moscow and Trump flies in from D.C. They landed Elmendorf Air Base. Totally secure.

And I assume that everything will be very peaceful. You're not going to have Alaskans demonstrator or anything. I don't think so. I don't think you'll see that. Now, I know a lot about this, but I have to be very careful about what I say because a lot of it is told to me in private, and I honor that. But I will tell you that Donald Trump wants to look Putin in the eye and tell him that he is on the edge of destruction. Now, you could say that's a threat.

I don't think Trump will couch it that way, but he wants to, one-on-on-one-on-one. one. Putin speaks English when he talks to Trump. That's an important thing for you to know. He doesn't speak English in public because he feels that that makes him weak or some stupid thing. Trump's going to look at many eyes and say, listen, we need to do this. We're going to give you a settlement where you're not going to be embarrassed. You'll be able to go back and say, yeah, I got this, that, and the other thing. And Ukraine's going to have to give up some territory. Not fair. As we said yesterday, it's not morally right. But you've got to save lives. And this is the only way to do it. But if Vlad doesn't do it, then Trump is going to have to break them with

the help of Europe. But you can do that through the banking system, the worldwide banking system. So that's what will probably happen. On Friday, I'm going to be on it. So you keep it at Bill O'Reilly.com. I will be tweeting and writing and all of that. It's at Bill O'Reilly if you want our tweet zone. Okay, good news for Trump on the economic front today. It sounds like I'm rooting for Trump today, that's not my intent. I am reporting honestly. So inflation was kind of tamped in July. 2.7 for the 12 month year so far, that is under control.

Now it embarrasses the Fed, which is holding out from cutting interest rates. Everybody knows Powell, Jerome Powell, and Trump are at odds. Powell's not going to be there much longer. And also Powell's getting sued for wasting government money on a rehab of his office or some stupid thing like. that but now in September the federal have to cut rates now that's what Trump wants because then it's easier to lend the real estate industry borrowing is much much favorable to the consumer okay and that's gonna happen now stock market

went way up when it was announced I'm not particularly I don't calibrate the economy by the stock market I calibrated by your opportunity level and spending level. So this is good news for Donald Trump today. Now tomorrow we're going to tell you we're going to run some soundbites and people say it isn't good news. It just amuses me. I'm sorry, it does. Russian collusion. Okay. So the House Oversight Committee, which is going to call in the D.C. people, their big job now is to uncover hard evidence they can hand over to Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, indict people in the Obama administration that ginned up and did illegalities concerning the phony story that Putin and Russia interfered in the 2016 election to throw it to Trump.

That's what this investigation is all about. And you remember the special counsel investigations, Mueller on and on, okay? They came up with no evidence that Putin or Russia was favoring Hillary Clinton. the record. You can't deviate out of that record. Now, one guy who's deeply involved in this has a new book out. And I read the book, I mean, and it's very, very compelling. His name is General Michael Flynn. Okay. The book is called Pardon of Innocence, an aspiring story of faith and freedom. Now, General Flynn is a patriot. I mean, he served his country all over the place in dangerous zones like Afghanistan. And he is.

an intelligence expert. Here is his resume that I'm going to give you before I talk to him. So he's 66 years old. He's a Rhode Islander. In 2012, he was appointed by President Obama, director of defense intelligence, okay, the DIA. He served for two years there. But he disagreed with Barack Obama over how to confront terrorism in general, okay? Al-Qaeda, ISIS, all of that. So Trump, Obama had his vision, Flynn's vision didn't coincide, and Flynn left the Obama administration. He was a civilian then for about a year, and he developed a rapport with Donald Trump. So he helped Donald Trump in a 2016 campaign when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, he was appointed National Security Advisor. But the Obama people, the FBI and others,

were after Flynn, because they believed he was part of a cabal that helped Putin interfere in the election. Okay? Very complicated. Extremely so. Ultimately, Flynn, to protect his son and other thing, pled guilty to lying to an FBI agent. Remember, this whole thing was phony. Okay? But then Flynn withdrew, and you can read all about that in his book, why he did it and on. That's not what we're concerned with here today. All right. And then ultimately, President Trump pardoned General Flynn, and the case went away. But I don't think there's a guy who knows more about this Russian collusion hoax than General Flynn,

and he joins us now from Washington, D.C. So the National Guard hasn't chased Iran yet, has they, General? It's not yet, Bill, but I only walk. their streets for about two minutes so far. You know, a lot of people feel the same way. All right. So did I encapsulate your stories so that accurately? Yeah. Yes, he did. Very accurately. And I appreciate that that you, because you're right. One of the words you use is complex. It's very complex. It's an amazingly complex thing. And people who are interested in their country and interested in this whole fraud should read part of innocence your book because you go over and it's not at 800 pages.

You go, boom, boom, boom, boom. And, of course, we verify everything you wrote. We're not putting you on here as some kind of guy. We check it all out. Right. So what I'm interested in with you is going forward. I feel that there are a number of people in legal trouble right now. Let's take them one by one.

The first one is John Brennan, all right? The former CIA chief under Obama, four years. You know him well. You worked with him well. Do you see him in any legal jeopardy here, and if so, how? Yeah, I do. I think of all of the characters that are surrounding Russiagate and this conspiracy to basically undermine the country, I think he's probably the one that is at most legal risk.

And, you know, I'm not a legal scholar here, Bill, but I would tell you that I think that there's enough evidence and enough times where Brennan said things under oath that were not true and so he's at risk there and i think that's where the department of justice is going to hone in all right the perjury so i think he's the most i think he's the guy that's at most risk do you believe that brennan in his position as head of the cia was trying to help hillary clinton here what was his motivation to deceive in the russian collusion hoax what what motivated him yeah i think what motivated him And it goes back to a whole bunch of, a whole series of presentations to Obama, because Obama is part of this, but I don't think we're going to see anything happen to Obama. But I do believe that they wanted Hillary to take the con of the United States of America post the Obama administration.

And it goes back to very serious meetings, like 3 August, 2016, is one of the first times when Brennan went in and briefed Obama. on the dossier and let Obama know at that time that this thing was made up, essentially. It was part of the Hillary Clinton campaign to have an October surprise to say, you know, Trump is working with Putin, right? To help defeat him. And that particular meeting, which came out in the Durham report,

to me, that's one of the most egregious acts by Brennan, where he began to promulgate this thing. And he did it with the President of the United States, in this case, Obama. So I think that where Brennan is at, there's going to be a series of data points and meetings and documents that are clear now, and Tulsi Gabbard's been releasing a lot of them, that are going to show a conspiracy to undermine the campaign of Donald J. Trump. And then once Trump won, then there was a series of those similar things to then undermine the duly elected president

All right. Once he went. Now, you're saying that Brennan in August of 16 when the campaign was underway, okay, knew that the Hillary Clinton dossier, the one that her campaign paid for, was phony. He told Barack Obama that, that's according to the Durham report. But Obama didn't quite believe it because he wanted another Intel assessment, correct? Correct? Yeah, you know, I'm not so sure, Bill. Now you're asking, you know, I'm speculating a little bit. I'm not sure where Barack Obama's, you know, head was at at that time. He might have had other information. He may have known that it was going on or whatever he and, and Brendan talked about, you know, mono e mono in the Oval Office at that, in that meeting. But I would say that what Obama did do and having work with commanders and having work with bosses when it came to, came to intelligences, to direct Brennan to continue to pull this thing together. Okay, so he didn't say it's bogus, ignore it. He said continue to investigate. Is that correct? That's what I believe that they are going to find out. That he said continue to investigate.

And it's clear later on with some of the other evidence that now has been exposed by Tulsi Gabbard. Now, what about Hillary Clinton's campaign? Now, I feel that she will say, like, I don't know anything about this, my campaign people did it all. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit. Thanks to Go Transit's special online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday anywhere along the Go network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five.

Buy your online GoPASS ahead of the show at go-transit.com slash tickets. That's probably going to be her defense, right? Yeah, I mean, she can do the old, you know, Jim Comey, I don't recall, you know, 150 times or whatever. You know, that's going to be hard to believe. Now, she can do that in a court of law or, you know, in wherever she wants to do that from a legal standpoint and then throw the burden on her on Robbie Mook or somebody else like that, her campaign team. but it's certainly in the court of public opinion. No, I got that, and particularly conservatives and people who don't like Hillary,

they've already convicted her. But in a court of law, it's going to be hard if that's her defense, unless there's a memo or there's some kind of recording or a whistleblower to come back and says, I was there, and Hillary ordered whatever. Now, you mentioned McCa Comey, who was head of the FBI. He, at the same time, Brennan, was looking at this phony Russian collusion accusation, there were two, there was the CIA and the FBI, right? They're both looking at it, and Comey came down where?

Yeah, so it's interesting. This is where it gets really complex, and I'll try to simplify it as much as possible. So it's not two different organizations looking at the problem. It's actually the two leaders, Comey and Brennan. And inside, this is where a very famous name that pops up, Peter Strach, right? Peter Strach. Peter Strach was. was the deputy head of counterespionage for the FBI, but he was also a liaison to the CIA. So he was a conduit. And we also know of some other people in the Department of Justice, Bruce Orr, who's another name that people may not remember, but he was number four at the Department of Justice. So there was conversations that were moving this conversation between the FBI leadership

and the CIA leadership, meaning Comey and Brennan. This is where Durham, I think, failed. in his investigation to really connect these dots. But we now know this is whatever, I don't know, eight years later, and people like Cash Patel, who was watching this very closely, and now he's the director of the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard, who's at the DNI level, who she's really exposing some of this. So there was a conversation that Comey and Brennan had at some point where they work this out together between the FBI and the CIA because the last thing on this point

Bill is that it wasn't the whole of the intelligence community that agreed on this. It was really two organizations. The FBI and the CIA Yeah, there was dissent. So do you believe, do you believe that

Brennan and Comey collaborated to foist a fraud on the public for political reasons. Do you believe that? Absolutely, 100%. Okay, so I stop, stop, stop.

So that's what the Oversight Committee, that's what they have to not prove, but gather evidence to hand it to Bondi and the Patel. I don't know what they're doing and we don't get a lot of, we're doing X, Y, and Z, but we do know what Congress is doing. And these people have been subpoenaed. They have to commit. Do you expect them to take the Fifth Amendment?

Do you expect they call me and Brennan, they're going to go, I won't answer? Well, if they take the fifth, which I have actually done a couple of times because of the burden that they put on you, which is their right to do. But if they take the fifth, then you are open to have to go in front of a grand jury where you can take the fifth. So, yeah, you have to go in. So this is a, yeah, yeah. Okay. So this, to me, Bill, is something that they've got to pay attention to. Final question.

There are a lot of conservatives who like to convict President Obama as being the mastermind of this whole thing, okay, that he directed it. To me, that evidence is not there after reading your book. Am I wrong? You're 100% right, Bill. I really don't think that people, you know, as much as they feel and they're emotional about this, I think people need to get over the fact that, that Obama is going to be indicted and thrown into jail or something like that. I mean, you know, I... Well, he's got executive privilege.

He can order any investigating he wants. But if a president of the United States engaged in something like this, it's at the Richard Nixon Watergate level. But anyway, General, I just want on a personal note, you know, I don't know you personally, but I followed your career and you're an unbelievable patriot. And, you know me, I'm a pretty tough guy. I think you got hosed here so badly. and your son and your family,

and they did this out of spite, they being the FBI in particular. Comey is a horrible man, in my opinion. I don't know if Brennan had anything to do with the legal charges. I don't think Obama protected you, and he should have. He just sat it out, but that's my assessment. So I'd like everybody to take a look at pardon of innocence,

an inspiring story of faith and freedom by General Michael Flynn. And it's a pleasure to talk to a real patriot today, General. We'll talk again soon, I hope. Thank you. God bless. All right, back with a final thought that will amuse you, at least. I hope so in a moment. Here is the final thought of the day.

The Constitution gives every American the right to be a moron. And many of us exercise that right every day. There is a book, sold 6 million copies so far, by Mel Robbins. The Let Them Theory. It's basically you're not going to change the morons. You are not going to educate them. You are not going to make them better people. You are not going to make them see the light.

And when you get a kid, God just drives you crazy, right? So Robin says, you got to let them do it and work on your reaction. My reaction usually to morons is, I am polite. And I would throw out maybe a line, maybe you want to think about this, keep it piffy. That's all. Because I know people believe what they want to believe, you're not going to change them. They don't have a frame of reference. They don't understand how anything works.

I'm writing my message of today tomorrow about these letters I'm getting about Putin. People have no idea about what this is. You've got to have some kind of clue, but you don't have to do you. you have a right to be a moron thank you very much all you smart people because morons don't watch this don't listen to this program you've got to know something to watch me so we appreciate you and bill o'Reilly we'll see you again tomorrow