Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, September 29, 2020

Episode Date: September 29, 2020

Trump and Biden face-off in Cleveland, Nancy Pelosi suggests the House may decide the presidential election, the Louisville cop charged in Breonna Taylor’s shooting pleads not guilty, more than 1 in 5 new CoVID tests come back positive in the Midwest, The sale of alcohol jumps 55-percent since the contagion came to town. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, a preview of tonight's debate between President Trump and Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Tuesday, September 29th, 2020. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening across our nation. President Trump and Joe Biden face off in Cleveland this evening. Nancy Pelosi suggests the House may decide the presidential election. The Louisville police officer charge in Brianna Taylor's killing, please not guilty. More than one in five new COVID tests come back positive in the Midwest. The sale of alcohol jumping 55% since the contagion began. Also, a no-spin preview of tonight's debate, but first, President Trump and Mr. Biden, meeting for the first presidential debate in Cleveland. Quoting to moderator Chris Wallace, the 90-minute event will focus on the pandemic, economy,

police reform, race relations in America. Poll shows 70% of Americans say the debates, quote, don't matter much. their decision. But if 30% can be persuaded, this is a big political night. Speaker Pelosi telling her colleagues the House may have to decide who wins the election this November. According to the 12th Amendment, congressional delegations will decide who the next president will be if neither candidate wins a majority in the electoral college. That has not happened since 1876, and I do not believe it will happen this year. The lone police officer charged with three counts of endangerment in the shooting death of Brianna Taylor, pleading not

guilty in Kentucky, Brett Hankinson, accused of recklessly discharging his gun into a nearby apartment, not firing the bullet that ended Ms. Taylor's life. If convicted, he could face five years in prison. The positivity rate for new COVID tests breaking the 20% mark in several states, including South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana. Health experts say anything above 5% means the disease is spreading. There are now roughly 45,000 cases of the contagion in the USA every day, frustrated Americans turning to the bottle of cope with the pandemic. Sales of alcohol beverages up 55% since the middle of April. Most popular drinks in September tequila, vodka, beer, and wine. Online purchases of spirits increased 340% in the last six months.

New York City leads the league in daily consumption, and if you lived here, you would understand why. In a moment, a preview of the big debate tonight. Right back with that. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door.

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It will be on all the networks, commercial-free, and is likely to attract a television and live streaming audience of close to 100 million viewers worldwide. wide. Eighty-four million tuned in for Mr. Trump's first debate with Hillary Clinton in 2016. The event will be moderated by Chris Wallace at Fox News and will spend 60 minutes. Mr. Wallace says, quote, my job is to be as invisible as possible. I'm trying to get them to engage, to focus on the key issues to give people at home a sense of why I'm. I want to vote for one versus the other, unquote. Because of social distancing, about 100 people are expected to be there to watch the debate in Cleveland.

There will be no traditional handshake because of COVID. Each candidate has two minutes to respond to each question, which means they don't have to answer the question, because here's how it goes down. Mr. Wallace will direct a question to President Trump, then Mr. Biden. They can spend the candidates, that is, about 30 seconds, maybe answering Chris Wallace's question, maybe not, maybe dodging, and then they can say what they want because Chris Wallace cannot interrupt. Now, this is the flaw in the debate system. So you ask a good question in every but he wants an answer. Well, the candidates don't have to answer. Now, after two minutes,

which is a pretty long time in a debate format, Mr. Wallace can come back and say, hey, you didn't answer the question and restate it. But then it gets into back and forth. There's not another time for one candidate. The other candidate can jump in. Well, I'll answer that, Chris, that kind of thing. So the problem here is a lack of discipline in answering the questions. Because if Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden are put on the spot, which I think Wallace will try to do, they can just filibuster, avoid, forget what the question is. What was that question again? You see what I'm talking about? So in a debate like this, it's basically all about demeanor. Now, a poll says roughly 70% of Americans do not believe the debate will matter much to them.

44% say debates don't matter at all. But 30% persuadable? That's big. And I believe this is the most important night in the presidential campaign because it's close. No matter what the bogus polls tell you, it's razor thin. in a lot of key states and across the country. You have two gigantic states, California and New York, which are all Biden all the time. You take those out of the equation. Mr. Trump is ahead. So this is something that can go either way. And tonight, we will find out. And I will have

absolute no-spin analysis for you tomorrow in this time. I'm Bill O'Reilly, I approve that message by writing it. Disagree. I want to hear from you, Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. And please consider my new best-selling book, Killing Crazy Horse. You will like it. In a moment, something you might not know. 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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of what is known as the trial of the century. After more than eight months of testimony and witnesses, it took a jury just four hours to find O.J. Simpson not guilty of murdering his wife and another man. And that four hours included a 90-minute lunch break. So the jury was not going to convict Mr. Simpson. Here's the story. In October 1994, Judge Lance Edo began questioning more than 300 potential jurors to decide Simpson's fate. On November 3rd, 12 Americans were seated with 12 alternates. Over the course of the trial, 10 were dismissed for a variety of reasons. Only four of the original jurors remained on the final panel. According to firsthand accounts, the living

conditions were miserable. To protect the jurors from nonstop media intrusion, police removed TV sets, radios, and telephones from their hotel rooms. They were sequestered. For entertainment, the jury was allowed to watch pre-taped episodes of Seinfeld and other sitcoms. All commercials were deleted in those tapes. In April, the jurors refused to come to court to protest their conditions. Judge Ido ordered them to appear and 13 arrived dressed in black. The media referred to the incident as a full-blown jury report. Volt. On October 2nd, 1995, after just four hours of discussion, as I mentioned, the jury found Simpson

not guilty, and here's something else you might not know. The verdict for the trial of the century had a global impact on the economy, an estimated 100 million people worldwide watched or listened to the announcement. Long-distance phone calls declined by 58%, trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange dropped by 41%. I watched the verdict at Harvard, where I was studying for a master's degree. Water usage decreased as people avoided using bathrooms or cooking. So much work stopped that economists say the verdict in the Simpson case costs an estimated $480 million in lost productivity. Back after this. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics.

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