Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The President's Economic Deception, Joe's Hunter Biden Slant, Russia Ramps Up Brutality in Ukraine, & An Honest Look at the Likely Midterm Winners

Episode Date: October 15, 2022

This week... Bill laid out President Biden's economy, comparing it to President Trump's time in office. Joe defends Hunter, Russia gets brutal with their pursuit of Ukraine territory, and who is more likely to win next month's midterm elections. Guests Mike Baker & Ashley Davis are featured. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

people believe what they want to believe in almost every aspect of life that is true it's true for me you know i was going over the political polling today and some of the races you know where i want one person to win and the polling goes against that person, I don't want to believe the poll. Now, I don't know whether the poll is true or not, but I don't want to believe it. I'm looking like, ah, I don't know about this poll. And it's only because of personal preference. So people believe what they want to believe. But there comes a time when the belief system has to be put aside, and facts have to be considered, real truth, things that are happening before our eyes.

And the U.S. economy is one of those things. That is the subject of the talking points memo this evening. So today we find out that the producer price index, PPI, has risen more than expected for September. Now, as soon as I say that glaze goes over your eyes, I know I took economics classes. It is stupefying. But what the producer price index is, is the cost to American businesses for their products, their stuff, what they market. And it's up in September 0.4%. So that means that you and me are going to pay more between now and Christmas at least for everything. because the companies just don't say, oh, well, we got to pay more, but we're going to keep our prices low. No.

I had a big argument today with a guy who charged me a lot more for a service than last year, and the service was essentially the same. And he's going, well, you know, everything is up. And I'm going, wait a minute, you're not paying more for anything. What are you passing it on to me? He can pass it on to me. That's why he's doing it. So anyway, the producer price index is up 8.5%. And when you add what I call the VIG, the VIG is what you pay gamblers when you lay a bet with them and you lose.

They tack on some money, call the VIG. Well, the businesses do the same thing. So if they have to raise their prices a certain amount, they raise them a little bit more so they can get more. more money, make more profits. It's just the way it happens. So I'm putting inflation between 10 and 12% in this country right now for working Americans. And oil prices are going up. Gas will go up again. You know that. If you have to travel over Christmas and Thanksgiving, oh, you're going to get hammered so badly. If you can drive, drive, because you're going to get killed in the airports. I'm not flying. Anyway, so this is all because.

of Joe Biden. And I'm sorry. I mean, if your liberal friends won't believe it. Again, it's what they want to believe, but that's the fact two years ago, just two years ago, America had the most vibrant economy on earth. I've said that before. I'm sorry to be repetitive, but it's a truth. And now we're tottering on the abyss. And what does the president have to say about it? Go. Should the American people prepare for a recession? No, look, they've been saying this now how every every six months they say this every six months they look down the next six months and see what's going to happen it hadn't happened yet it hadn't been there has there is no there's no guarantee that they're going to be a recession i don't think there will be a recession

i don't know what he's talking about but i got the last sentence i don't think there will be a recession why because he doesn't want to believe there will be not based on anything because if it were he would have cited the International Monetary Fund, I.M.F. It's an agency of the United Nations attracts world economies. And Jake Tapper, so old Jake should have had this, but he doesn't have it. I have it. International Monetary Fund says that global growth will decline to 2.7% next year, 23. Okay? So it was running steady this year at 3.2. In 2021, just last year, you know what it was?

6%. Global economic growth. Now it's down at 27, says the IMF. Now who's going to get hurt? We'll get hurt, but not like China. China get hurt the most because it's an export economy. China gets money by shipping products it makes and it sweatshops all over the world. People are not going to buy that. No, China, like this. Okay, just keep that in mind. But Biden, he doesn't know what the IMF is? He said, no.

I mean, it's ridiculous. It is absolutely ridiculous. This whole thing will go down in history as one of the most absurd administrations ever to be elected. And I know some of you say, well, they weren't elected, but they were elected. They are in the Oval Office. So here's a shred of good news for seniors. Social Security, the cost of living hike is going up. 8.7%. It will kick in. It was announced. It will be announced tomorrow. I got this ahead of time. So 8.7% rise, and you will see you next year.

Okay? I think it goes into effect with December benefits. So you'll get one year, one month this year. So that's good. Because senior citizens, as many of them are in fixed income. You can't earn more money by taking a second job as many Americans are, many working Americans are. You don't have a lot of options. So this is only right.

And again, it's Biden's doing it. So inflation under Trump ran 1.3%. Now it's between 10 and 12. And yet there'll be people going to the polls on November 8th go, oh, yeah, I'm going to go for the Democrats. Unblankin, believable. All right, so the president going to Colorado. This is a campaign stop disguised.

I love this. It's disguised. something else. So he goes to Vail, okay? And he delivers his remarks on protecting America's iconic outdoor spaces and who's standing next to him, but is Senator Michael Bennett running for reelection? And he may not win. I think he will, but he may not. So instead of campaigning for him, Biden says, no, I'll come out and talk about iconic public spaces. But this is just because Colorado is now a blue state. And I don't know why, but this might help Bennett.

So then he goes to L.A. after that, Biden does. And what's he going to do in L.A.? Let's see. Another campaign fundraiser with Nancy Pelosi. All right. And you know the Hollywood crew will be out there writing a checks. It's insane. You're voting and giving them.

giving money against your own interests and the interest of the nation. But people believe what they want, I believe they don't care. And then he travels, as Biden does on Friday, to Orange County, delivery marks on lowering costs for American families. Yeah, all right, sure. Sure. Yeah. And then he goes to Oregon. And this is a legitimate campaign stop for gubernatorial campaign.

a Tina Kotech who's in trouble, a Republican may win the governorship of Oregon for the first time anybody can remember. I think it's Lewis and Clark. So Kotech's in trouble. And Biden is, you know, because I said nobody wants them to campaign. Well, this is one that does. That just came up, by the way. Okay, so any interview on CNN yesterday, Tapper did get around to Hunter Biden. go. Our reporting, CNN's reporting, and the Washington Post reporting suggests that prosecutors think they could, they have enough to charge your son Hunter for tax crimes and a false statement about a gun purchase. Personally and politically, how do you react to that? Well, first of all, I'm proud of my son. This is a kid who got, not a kid, he's a grown man. He got hooked on, like many families have had

happened hooked on drugs he's overcome that he's established a new life he is I'm confident that he is what he says and does are consistent with what happens what he says and does are consistent with what happens what does that mean if anybody knows what that means because I don't know what it means bill at bill o'reilly.com name in town please bill at bill right bill at bill o'reilly dot com once again what he says and does are consistent with what happens talking about hunter by i don't know what that means do you know what that means really tell me the truth i mean i'm and i'm sort of what so if i were if my son got addicted it to narcotics and did all the terrible things that Hunter Biden did and then kicked the

narcotics, I would say the same thing that President Biden said, that I'm proud of my son, okay, for overcoming a debilitating quality of life. I understand why Biden said it. I think that as a father, he did the right thing. But I don't think that Joe Biden understands what Hunter Biden did. And an excuse of addiction doesn't overcome criminal activity. You can't just walk in and say, oh, I was addicted to cocaine. So all the bad things that I did, uh, nah, I'm not. Don't hold me irresponsible. That's what Biden's pretty much saying here. Hey, he, yeah, he was addicted. He overcame it. So, no, what are we worried about? Plenty to worry about. Now, if Tapper had been a decent interviewer, which he is not, gently, because you don't attack a father's son, he could have said, look, there are a lot of questions about your son's criminal activity. Drugs are no drugs.

And it's going to come out there because when the Republicans win the House, which they will, is going to be hearings on it, Hunter Biden. and China and Ukraine and Russia and the tens of millions of dollars that he derived. Those hearings are going to take place. Just like the January 6th Committee, you're going to have those hearings. And that's the kind of question you asked to President Biden. But I don't have any problem with Biden sticking up for his son. Fathers have to do that. They have to hope somehow that their son can be pulled out of whatever more ass he is in.

Okay? Now, fortunately, I have never had to deal with any of this, but I know other fathers who have. And compassion is what is needed there. So let's bring in a guy, a very smart guy named Mike Baker, former CIA agent, 17 years, coming to us in Boise, Idaho. He runs the Portman Square Group with an international counter-terrorism. counterinsurgency operation group. It's an advisory group, and they're involved with all kinds of stuff all over the world. So, Mr. Baker, thank you for helping us.

You think Putin's mentally unbalanced at this point? No, no. I think it, I mean, it may seem that way to the West, right, to the U.S. and our allies, because we tend to mirror our values on others, whether it's correct or not. That's just how we behave. but he's not an irrational actor, right?

He's increasingly desperate, and that may be actually more dangerous than if he was just an irrational actor and those around him decided he had to be removed. But he is becoming increasingly desperate. Okay, so you're a Russian general, and he's saying, well, I might use nukes, and I'm not bluffing,

and you're saying, why? You know these Russian generals, roles? What are you saying? Yeah, they're not going to stop the deployment of a low-grade tactical nuke. I mean, if that's the top line thought, is there a cadre within the command structure there in the Russian military that would say, oh, no, we're not going to do that. I don't suspect, my belief is, anyway, that there is not that cadre. He's got an increasingly small, shrinking group of close advisors that he's willing to entertain and listen to

and who are willing to talk to him and tell him anything that resembles the truth. He had a Security Council meeting today. Look, today was a very bad day. It's, what, 229th day of Putin's invasion of Ukraine? And the strikes that he lashed out on from Kiev to Zapparitia and Nipro and Lviv, over 80

cruise missiles, dozens of drones. Drones, by the way, that are supplied to Putin by Iran. The same Iran, not to disappear down this rabbit hole, the same Iran that the Biden administration is hoping to cut a deal with for a nuke deal

and then would lift sanctions. You can't make this up. But I want to get back to, look, if Putin unleashes as your word, a low-level nuke in Ukraine. He becomes a war criminal immediately, correct? Well, he's already a war criminal and he's been called as much.

But far beyond any of the other war criminals. Sure. Sure. He extends the definition of war. Number one war criminal in the world. Putin can't come back from it. No negotiation. He doesn't.

Then there would be a reprisal. a reprisal against Russia. Now, we don't know what that would be, but it'd have to be something fairly dramatic. So what I'm saying to you is the Russian generals have to know that the West, NATO, would not allow that to happen without a drastic response. And you're telling me that these Russian generals for the sake of what? Ukraine are willing to, the whole country go up? It's so hard to believe. Well, there's two, there's two parts of this. One is, I'm saying that he's a rational actor. So I'm also saying at the same time that there's, there's a very unlikely chance, right? The media is getting out ahead of itself, as is I would argue the

Biden administration about this concept of a potential nuclear strike. which the more we talk about, the more it normalizes this concept. I don't believe it's a very likely scenario at all. Because, again, I go back to the same concept, which is, I believe Putin, as calculating as desperate as he has, is still a rational player. And then at the same time, what I'm saying is, there's not a cadre of Russian military officers

that are going to stand up to Putin and his close inner circle to push back on anything. I'm very surprised about that. You know a lot more about it than I do. But I am just very surprised that the Russian military would even think of allowing that man to destroy Russia. Because that's what it would lead to. I mean, the Chinese are not going to sign on to this. No.

You know that. At the end of the day, the Chinese, you're absolutely right. And you've raised probably the key point at 30,000 feet, which is China, which is a major player in all of this. The Russians are getting their stockpiles renewed for artillery in particular from North Korea. North Korea doesn't do anything without the Chinese tacit permission. But China always acts in its own best interests. So you're right. They would put a hard stop on that perspective, you know, use of even a low-cray.

Again, we're talking- Because the whole world economy right now. The whole world economy crashes. Everybody panics. All right. And China's dubious economy now. So the generals in Russia have to know that. They have to know they'll be alone.

Their leader will be war criminal number one. And you would assume the generals will be war criminals too. Anybody who was in that high-level position will be prosecuted in the Hague eventually. So they're just signing their death warrants by not removing Putin. Final question. If you're raw and the generals say, enough with this, all right, our country's getting torn apart, for what? It doesn't matter. There's nothing in Ukraine that rises to even being close to the pain we're absorbing.

Do the generals have the power to remove Putin? Could they do it? Could they do it? Yes. would they be willing to look I mean that you know the Russian military in particular the senior command has shown over decades their fealty and their willingness to go along with immense violence and suffering over the years in a variety of theaters but could they do it sure is there a potential is there a slight possibility of Putin getting so far back into a corner

with no exit, no off-ramp, that he decides escalate to some low-grade tactical nuke. That's a possibility, a distinctly small possibility, but we do have to plan for it. We have to game for it and understand what that could mean. Okay, absolutely, and I don't expect that NATO would be stupid enough to put out what they would do publicly. That would be stupid, but privately, I'm sure that there's back-channel discussions going on, and Russia knows it will be harshly punished. All right, Mr. Baker, we really appreciate it. We hope you come back.

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Again, that's 866-3-2-6-5576 or text bill to 998899. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about. details in the world's politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. So let's bring in from Washington to see Ashley Davis. She used to work for Bush, younger. She is the vice chair for winning for women. Republican, obviously, she wants

women to participate more in the electoral process and we'll help them out. So, Ms. Davis, we asked you to analyze a few races that are very tight in the Senate. Pennsylvania being the first one. How do you see it? If the election was held today, I definitely think that Dr. Oz would probably pull it out. I think the dynamic day. would be that how much does Doug Mastriana, who's the governor's candidate, pull him down? But the direction of the campaign is definitely going in Oz's direction. So I would put that in the Republican win column.

Why do you say that? Why do you say Oz has momentum? Well, his crime message, as well as the economy and the inflation, I mean, I think the country in general is starting to really have a problem. with how much their gas is costing, how much their hamburgers are costing, how much the interest rates are going up. And I think that people realize that their life is not anything better. And so if you talk about it's not, it's not anything he's doing. It's a national trend that things are bad everywhere, which they are, that might help Oz defeat Phenament, Fetterman,

Federman, right? Fetterman. The guys- Also, Fetterman's a really bad candidate for Pennsylvania. Yeah, I mean, he scares me. I can't even say his name. He's got tattoos, all, you know, I mean, what do we have motorcycles in Harrisburg now? Is that, I don't know what's going on there. Well, I have Pittsburgh girl, and, you know, someone working for Bernie Sanders is not something that Pennsylvania votes for. No, but, you know, the Philadelphia Democratic machine, that means almost everything in Pennsylvania, and I don't know where they are on this race. So let's go to Nevada. I have predicted that laxalt, the Republican candidate will win. How do you see it?

Same. I think that he's trending in the right direction. I think that, you know, Senator Cortez-Mastos has always been a weak candidate. I definitely think the NRC is probably more surprised than anything that the candidate's doing so well this far out, but I think he pulls it off. Now, I don't know what the NRSD is. Tell me what that is. Oh, sorry, the National Republican Senatorial Committee. I mean, I think that some of these other races that we thought we were going to be playing in a little bit differently, maybe New Hampshire, which were not anymore. But Nevada is something that they've always concentrated on, but I don't know if anyone has realized the good of place that they are in right now. Obviously, a lot more

money is going to be spent there in the last couple weeks. Well, you know, it's again a mobile of the unions in Las Vegas, a Democrat machine there. Rest in Nevada is fairly conservative. So you think Bulldog, the Republican in New Hampshire, is toast, huh? I do. I mean, the pool. are, I wouldn't say toast. I mean, it depends if this is going to be a 51-49 night for the Republicans or if we're going to be able to pick up 54 seats. I mean, the other races that I think that we should watch are not only New Hampshire, but also Colorado and also Washington State. And those are the three that I think are the sleeper candidates on the Republican side that we have a chance to win if we have a really good night. Okay, but what does a really good night mean? I don't know what

that means. Does that mean? I think that it's a 53, 54 working majority in the Senate where you're not 50, no, no, no. But a really good night means more Republicans come to the polling places than Democrats. See, I think a lot of Democrats may stay home because they're getting hosed too. And they may just go, I'm not going to, I'm not going to come out. What I'm trying to say is Republicans seem to be more motivated to vote than Democrats this time around. Absolutely. And I don't personally believe that the Dobbs decision or the abortion decision will bring out a lot of voters. Why? Why don't you believe that? The press is pounding that every day. I think it's a press issue. Now, going back to Pennsylvania, that's somewhere where it could impact Oz in regards to the Philly area.

But I think that there's few people that that's the only issue they vote on. And most of the people are voting on not just, you know, rights conversation, but also women's rights conversation, but also their pocketbook. And if you look at some of the polling right now, and granted, I don't believe in polls all the time these days, but 61% of the people are saying that they care about the economy, and 21% are saying that they care about, you know, the women's rights issues. Yeah, I mean, it's their top issue. So Patty Murray, a long time, very liberal senator from Washington State, but you feel that she may lose. This is my sleeper race and not just because Tiffany Smiley is a woman as you started out the

conversation, but she has been working this process for a year and a half. She didn't have an opponent, so she didn't have to spend money in the primary. The NRC has the National Republican Senator editorial committee has backed her from the beginning, and she is in the margin of air right now. And actually, Senator Murray had to go up against her and spend money in starting in June, which was kind of unheard of. So Tiffany feels that, and she felt at that time, that if Murray's putting money against her already for negative ads, she's a, you know, she's that has a true chance to win. Yeah, again, it's all Seattle, Kings County, the rest of the state's fairly conservative. Now, in Georgia Walker, you know, is making things very difficult for conservatives in Georgia with his personal life stuff.

We are giving him due process, benefit of the doubt, but, you know, he looks weaker and weaker and weaker. What do you think? I agree with that, and I think this is my only, out of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, whoever will return, whoever will win the Senate will have two out of three. of those states. And I would say Georgia would be the one that I would think we potentially could lose right now. I feel that Herschel had everything thrown against him in the primary and it really didn't stick. I'm not sure, and I don't think anyone is, if this is something 13 years ago is really going to impact him or not, or if it's going to make people believe that this is just dirty politics. But you had the evangelical community come out for him over the weekend and support him.

So, I mean, if you look back at 2016 with Trump, I mean, everything that people would say, there's no way that the community, the evangelical community, the conservative community can vote for him and they still were able to come home to him. So I'm just, I think it's going to be tough, but I'm not 100% sure that he's going to lose. I still think he could. But the problem is, though, we have that 50-50. He has to win by 50 plus 1. So we're probably going to go no matter what into a runoff situation in Georgia, which will mean, If the Senate's close, we may not know who runs the Senate for another month until December. So on Election Day, it's not going to be if it, what is the bar where somebody has to win to win on Election Day in Georgia?

In Georgia, it's 50% plus one. So you have to win by over 50%. And so the runoff is, I think, exactly a month later, not three months later, like it was two years ago. Yeah, the units have to go to the cycle if they don't get 50% plus one. Arizona, Kelly, you know, there's popular down there, although the debate, I understand, the opponent won, the Republican opponent won that debate. How do you see that race? I think Carrie Lake, who is the governor candidate in Arizona, could actually be very beneficial to Blake Masters. I think that he is someone that she could help him, and she is someone that's kind of come out of nowhere over the last couple weeks. I don't think anyone thought that she would be doing as well as she is.

She's actually pulling even. But I also think that Kelly's only up two or three points, which is a lot less where he was before. And it was, again, that debate might have helped the Republican. Finally, Mark Levin on his radio program, which leads into my radio program on W.A.B.C. and New York was really excoriating Mitch McConnell yesterday for supporting

Lisa Murkowski, the Republican Senator from Alaska, because there is a more conservative candidate, Kelly Tashiba, I believe her name is, and McConnell is throwing in with Murkowski, who as you know is very, very liberal

as a Republican. How do you see that race? I think Senator Murkowski definitely pulls it off. I think the new rank system voting is going to be a little bit tougher. But But Leader McConnell is not going to go against his sitting senators. I think that he has every right to, whether he believes 100% in her votes,

that he has every right to be able to support her as one of his sitting senators. All right. And I think she's the best name might be. Look what happened in that house right. Yeah, but you think Mikowski is going to win? You think that she'll win outright in Alaska? All right. I'm not so sure about that.

I think I might depart here and say, Shiba because Murkowski really is not a traditional Republican, as you know, and in the abortion and in the Trump situation, and Alaska, very, very small state and very conservative state. So I'm going to go against you there, but Ms. Davis, we really appreciate your analysis. And in the end, do you think the Senate will be in Republican hands? I do. And also just remember that we did lose a House seat in Alaska a few weeks ago to a Democrat. Yeah, only because there was a four-tier voting process that no one understands that holds Sarah Palin. If it were just the Republican against the Democrat, the Republican would have won.

Either way, I hope we'd keep the seat in Republican one way or the other. Yeah, well, I think that's a fait accompli in Alaska. But I don't know if Murkowski is going to overcome Tishiba. All right, that was a really good interview, Ms. Davis. Thank you very much for helping us out. 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. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or get a.

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or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. All right, so Walker, to his credit, goes on the media and answers the questions. Go. Did you ever have a conversation with this woman at any time about an abortion? No. Did you ever, to your knowledge, give money to pay for the cost of an abortion? No.

Is she lying? Yes, she's lying. Yes, she's lying. Okay, so my posture on it is due process. Mr. Walker is innocent until proven guilty. Obviously said it's more than one time that he didn't do this. I don't know any more than that. I don't know.

I think this has hurt him, but I don't think the people in Georgia want to vote for Warnock, a progressive leftist in the face of all the horror that we are experiencing. So that's an interesting. You know, Walker is still in the game. I think that's what I can tell you. All right. So the next story we have on the rundown is Mr. Federman. Now, this is fascinating.

So John Federman is 53 years old. He was the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. He actually is still that. And he had a stroke. And he was debilitated. Now, he is a far left guy. I mean, way out there on the left. Okay, no moderate positions whatsoever.

But he was running ahead of Dr. Mehmet Oz, because Oz is a Jersey resident. He moved to Pennsylvania, seeing that, you know, he might be able to win this race. Now, as you just heard, the betters think Oz will win the race. And now Federman has gotten a lot of bad publicity because he gave an interview to an NBC reporter. And here's what she said about it. Go. We had a monitor set up so that he could read my questions because he still has lingering. auditory processing issues as a result of the stroke, which means he has a hard time understanding what he's hearing. Now, once he reads the question, he's able to understand. You'll hear he also

still has some problems, some challenges with speech. All right, so his senator is a demanding job. I mean, just on a health basis alone, I wouldn't vote for Federman. I wouldn't vote for him anyway because he's a progressive and very soft on crime. And Philadelphia is just being devastated by crime. So, you know, I was very good chance there. Again, you're voting for Federman. You're voting against your own self-interest. So one of the reasons that the Democrats remain competitive in many, many situations, because they have a ton of money. And we told you yesterday that Steven Spielberg, the director, he came in with almost 100,000 for Hockel, the governor here running against the Republican challenger, who may win.

Lee Zeldon, all right? Well, what is Spielberg? I mean, but that's pennies compared to Soros. You ready for this? So far in the 2022 midterms, Soros has opened his groups, all right? I've donated $129 million to Democrats. $129 million. Now Soros, you know, you know, he is I don't even have to. running for governor in Texas, you've got a million of Zoro. Just on that, you can't vote for Beto or Fark, right? Okay, let's go to Putin. So he is the most dangerous man on earth, Vladimir Putin, because he is threatening to use

nuclear weapons. It's as simple as that. So I do a weekly program you may have heard about called shock and awe. It is done for a streaming service, our partner, VidGo, Viz and Victor, IDGO, vidgo. And every week I do an interview program with the smartest, toughest, most interesting people in the country. So think about it for a minute. If you were going to interview somebody on Vladimir Putin, who you have to interview somebody who, you you knew was a straight shooter, by the way.

You don't want to interview people who are going to give you a BS. Who would you choose? I chose Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Go. On this week's episode of Shockin-R. So Putin, this is speculative, but it has to be discussed. Launches a low-level nuke in Ukraine to do some insane thing. NATO has to respond.

What do you believe the response would be? Well, I know how we were thinking about this problem broadly. I can't say everything because they're part of the planning process between DOD and the intelligence community and the like. But suffice it to say, there are many non-nuclear responses, very capable responses. I would actually like to have seen the Biden administration use some of those tools to demonstrate we're willing to do it. These sanctions today, Bill, for example, Moscow's still thriving. The Russian currency, the ruble is still doing just fine. That shouldn't be the case.

We shouldn't have a worse economy in Europe than we do in Western Russia. But that's largely because of China and India buying their fuel, the Russian people, certainly not in good shape. Can you give me one example of a response to a nuke by Putin? Just one possible response. Think cyber. think making things shut down inside of Russia in a way that it can't be publicly proven who actually did it but the whole world would know that this was a response to that okay so that interview

goes on for a while and it's very instructive and if you read my book killing the killers you know the weaponry the United States has in conjunction with NATO okay and that we could cripple Russia without nuclear weapons just in cyberspace like that. Now, Russia could come back. And the world then would be in chaos to some extent. But the weapons that we have, and Putin has to know this, could take Russia off the grid. And that would create an amazing amount of chaos, because everything is now interconnected with this technological age. So Pompeo was. candid as always and gave a really interesting dissertation on how to contain Putin. And again, you can see it on vidgo.com.

You have to buy their service, of course, but you should check it out. It might save you money. You might like it. And as part of that service, you get Mois, Shokanah, once a week. Okay. I hope you're not traveling on the plane Thanksgiving or Christmas. I hope not. Airline fares are up, what are they up, to 274 average, 20% more than last year, okay, and 43% annually. So the airlines are raising their fares for terrible service. This is

unbelievable. So far this year, nine months, U.S. air carriers have canceled 130,000 flights. $130,000 flights. And they're charging you more money, us more money. And you know what? In December it snows. They can't get the planes off when it's cloudy. So I just hope. Be patient if you go. All right. I was talking to a food distributor today, a big, big one on the East Coast.

He says, get ready, the highest food prices ever for Thanksgiving and Christmas. will be in play. So this is the smart life segment. The stuff that you need, cranberry sauce, stuff like that, anything in a can, buy it now, right now, today, tomorrow, over the weekend, whatever, buy it now. The turkey or the ham or whatever the entree is, you're going to have to bite a bullet on that. I mean, you could put it in a freezer, but that's a long way away. but anything else that you don't have to freeze that that is what they call perishable non-perishable get it now everything's going up a lot and you know this is horrible and this is all a Biden administration everybody knows that all right there's a UK study but they're like

us over there in Great Britain kind of 2,000 British adults um it's right one and six So what is that? Fifteen percent? Maybe a little bit more. Feel stress the moment they wake up. So it takes an average of 33 minutes before these Britons feel human. 66% say they are so tired in the morning, they sleep through their alarm. 30% say they don't want to get out of bed at all. And 60% experience a dip in energy around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. All right. So we're all stress and tired. I am. I'm not stress so much as I'm tired because I work too hard. And I do. D.C. Comics, I didn't even know this, but they had a Superman character who's bisexual. All right. Jonathan Kent, son of Clark Kent at Lois Lane. So nobody bought the comics. And they're discontinuing them after 18 issues. This is the way woke. This is the way.

what I'm telling you about at the top of the program. There, nobody wants this. They don't want it. Why you keep doing it? And I'm glad they lost a lot of money. Who wants this garbage? No one. So DC Comics, a big write-off of them.

to you, I don't watch a lot of network and cable news anymore because I don't learn anything. If I'm going to invest my time, I don't know if you're the same way, but I'm so busy. You know, I got books to read. I got places to go, things to do. But I will watch a news presentation if I think I'm going to learn something. But here's the gamut on cable news. And you're talking to a guy who pretty much invented it. whenever someone has asked a question they don't want to answer they do a what about ism okay so it's you can go hey you know senator Bernie Sanders he's a nut he wants to socialize everything and you

wouldn't have a lot of freedom if he were in charge the answer what about Ted Cruz And then the guest launches into an anti-Ted-Cruce answer, instead of addressing the Bernie Sanders court. What about? What about? What about? It's called what-about-isim. And every pundit has it down now. You ask a question that's uncomfortable or difficult. The guest pivots into something not even related to the conversation. Now, when I was doing the factor, that never would have happened because I'm so obnoxious and rude. Bang! We're not talking about that, madam or sir. We're talking about Bernie Sanders.

Do you not want to address the question? That's what I used to say. Remember that? I'm sure you do. Never now. Never. they just sit there like Seth Myers and just I mean I'm throwing stuff and I don't I you know the TVs are expensive I don't almost throwing my shoe and no don't do that anyway what about

ism when you hear it flee thank you for watching and listening to the no spin news we'll see you tomorrow with Mike Pompeo.