Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, November 18, 2019

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

The Attorney General calls the impeachment inquiry an all-out war to undermine the President, TV Ratings show Americans largely disinterested in the public hearings, Louisiana’s Democratic governor wins a second term, Mayor Pete rises to first place in the latest Iowa polls, A new study shows Americans are having a harder time falling asleep. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day is America actually interested in the impeachment hearings? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Monday, November 18th, 2019. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening today in America. The Attorney General calls the impeachment inquiry an all-out war to undermine the president. TV ratings show Americans largely disinterested. Louisiana's Democratic governor wins against the Trump machine. Mayor Pete rises the first place. in the latest Iowa poll. A new study shows Americans having a harder time falling asleep. Also ahead. The message on torturing the president. But first, Attorney General Barr defending the president from the, quote, Democrats scorched earth war against the White House, saying Donald Trump's policies like the travel ban have, quote, neither transgress the Constitution

or traditional norms, unquote. Some House Democrats are now calling for bars impeachment, which seems to be a theme of these days. Television ratings for the first few days of public impeachment hearings, not good. Day one drew about 13 million viewers far shy of the 19 million that watched James Comey or the 20 million who tuned in from Michael Cohen. GOP Congressman Devin Nunez calling the plummeting rating,

a quote embarrassment for the Democrats. A new poll says only 21% of Americans are paying attention to impeachment. The Deep South's only Democratic governor wins re-election in Louisiana. John Bell Edwards defeating Republican businessman Eddie Responi by less than 2% about 40,000 votes. President Trump campaigned alongside Responi three times, including a last-minute rally. Donald Trump won Louisiana by 20 points in 2016. There is a new frontrunner in Iowa, Pete Buttigieg. Mayor Pete tops the list of Democratic candidates in the latest polls with 22 percent of support. Joe Biden trails at 19, Elizabeth Warren 18, Bernie Sanders 13. This study says Americans are having a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep. The report from Iowa State University reveals it now

takes U.S. adults 60 to 90 minutes to doze off. Researchers say the problem is getting worse for younger Americans. Forty percent of adolescents are not catching the proper amount of Zs every single night. I attribute this to the smartphone addiction. In a moment, a strange look at the impeachment follies. Right now, anyone with a mortgage has an incredible opportunity in front of them. Interest rates are so low, you can add hundreds of dollars back to your monthly budget simply by refinancing. Plus, you can save tens of thousands of dollars over the life of your loan, and it takes as little as 10 minutes to get started when you call American financing. I recommend American financing because they are family owned, and they have salary-based mortgage consultants, so there's no

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I was startled to see on CNN a very large display. Thank God the sound was down. but the Chiron on the screen said, quote, impeachment hearings, White House in crisis. Crisis? Geez, of course, few working in the White House have spoken about a crisis, least of all the guy who runs the place, Donald Trump. Despite the anti-Trump press ginning up, the impeachment follies, there doesn't seem to be much concern in the executive branch. Now, that could change if information emerges that Tiffany Trump, for example, was paid $100,000 a month for serving on the board of the Ukrainian Poultry Commission. That might become a problem, even though Tiffany has said to like chicken salad sandwiches and therefore might be of help to the Ukrainian commission.

But lacking that kind of exposition, the impeachment evidence seems a bit scant. A guy wearing a bow tie says some State Department lifers were worried about something. I'm not exactly sure what. American bureaucrats stationed in Kiev testified that he doesn't like Trump's policy in Ukraine. And an ambassador that the president fired doesn't like him and he doesn't like her. Or so it seems. Somewhere, impeached President Andrew Johnson uttered, Really? That quote coming from an anonymous source familiar with the afterlife. It was not easy watching the impeachment hearings that I can tell you. It got so boring that for the first time in my life, I was hoping the network would cut away from the political bloviating

and put Dr. Phil back on. If this continues, the networks will have to start livening things up or they'll have no audience at all. In the end, President Trump will, keep on, keep it on, as the Grateful Dead once sang. At least I think it was the dead, but maybe it was Wolf Blitzer, I'm not quite sure. Anyway, the Republican senators say they're not even watching the impeachment show, preferring old Roseanne reruns. Those were the good old days. The only winner here is Congressman Adam Schiff, who finally found some shirts that fit around his neck. Schiff may not bring the president down, but he has become semi-famous and is likely to get a book deal. The working title, are you shiffing me? I'm Bill O'Reilly and I approve that message by

writing it. We would like you to check out Bill O'Reilly.com, where every evening we do what they now call a podcast, which is really a news broadcast for 30 minutes, and we are concentrated heavily on the 2020 presidential election because that news story will affect every single person in the United States. And the tragedy is this whole campaign will not be reported accurately. Already we are seeing polls that are pushed. That means the organization wants a certain result and skews the poll to get that result. You will not see any of that on Bill O'Reilly.com. we will report honestly. Up next, something you might, not know.

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