Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The President’s Important Agenda, Eric Trump on His Family’s Fight to Save the Nation, Disney’s Handling of Jimmy Kimmel & Leland Vittert on Overcoming Autism

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill gives a rundown of President Trump's schedule, including new announcements and his plan for Gaza. The latest on military deployments in U.S. cities and why Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry asked Trump for National Guard support. Author and Trump Organization Executive VP Eric Trump enters the No Spin Zone to share his perspective on his father, whether he ever disagrees with him and political retribution. Why Bob Iger put Jimmy Kimmel back on television. NewsNation host and author "Born Lucky," Leland Vittert opens up about being born with autism and how his father played a role in his success.  Final Thought: Join Bill on October 9 for an exclusive Confronting Evil Q&A special! Submit your questions now at BillOReilly.com/live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, I believe it is. Years coming to a close fast. Stand up for your country. So who does President Trump listen to really, anybody? Anybody around him? Give him advice that he acts upon?

Well, we have his son, Eric Trump on. Couple of minutes. We'll ask him that question and a bunch of others he's got to book out. But I really like to know who the president favors in the advice department at this point. Talking about his memo is another hectic day for Mr. Trump.

So he begins, Quantico, Virginia. That's the headquarters of the Marines, have the eyes there, too, outside of D.C., of course. And he and Secretary of War, it's not Defense Secretary anymore. Pete Higgseth telling the generals, they can't be fat. Got to be in shape. And no more political correctness and no more DEI and no more anything. Okay. And, you know, anybody surprised by this?

You shouldn't be. Donald Trump does not like the woke stuff, and either does Secretary Hague, Seth. So I'm going to play you one soundbite on this. It's not that controversial. I'm looking to see if there's any subversion about this message, and we'll have that tomorrow. But here's what the president said today. Go. We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character, and strength.

It's because the purposes of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic, and it's the republic that we dearly love. It's to protect our country. We will not be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom, and we will be a fighting and winning machine. Okay. So then the president goes back to the White House and makes an announcement that's fairly important about lowering drug prices. So this, particularly of the senior citizens, is a big, big issue. And Trump has made a deal with Pfizer. There's going to be some kind of Trump R-X thing. You can get all this on the Internet and all of that. But you're going to be able to buy. prescription drugs, in particular, for a lower price, according to President Trump. Roll it.

As you know, the United States is paying sometimes ten times more than other countries for drugs, and a lot of excuses were made for that, but we've been on for many years, many, many years, decades, and it's not going on any longer. We're going to be paying the lowest price. Well, we'll see. And I hate to use that cliche. We'll see. that's what all the pinheads on television, oh, see, we'll see, we'll see. But I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if it'll work or not. I think it might. And that's big. President Trump can slash us drug prices. But remember, he's on a clock. He doesn't have three years to do it. He's got one year to do it because the midterms loom. And that's for sure. Same thing with the food prices and the groceries and all that. You got to hear. Quick. Now, in addition, the Gaza 20-point plan, and again, you can go and look at it. I don't have time to go over 20 points, but I'll summarize it for you, is in motion.

And Hamas announced today that they're looking at it or whatever. Got to understand one thing. The Hamas terrorists that live in Gaza and control that area of Palestine, Hezbollah controls the West Bank. So there's two terror operations that have the Palestinian people, they're holding them hostage. Because if you're a Palestinian, you live in West Bank, you live in Gaza, and you say, hey, I don't like you, Hamas, you're dead. That's it. So the Hamas people run Gaza. They don't want to stop the fighting because then the money from Iran stops if there were peace.

And Hamas terrorists are out of business. I opened my book, Infronting Evil, with the October 7th attack, which is coming up. okay and I put you right in the middle of that thing so you understand the mindset of evil Hamas evil that's how we open the book but we put you right there Hamas does not want to stop this and there's not a lot outside pressure on Hamas to stop it so I'm not pessimistic I'm agnostic I don't know what the next step will be here's what I do know This was a nice try by President Trump. And for those who hate him, particularly in the Jewish community,

I mean, a man is trying. Biden never tried, ever. And Netanyahu's in a win-win position here. Notting on how to go along with this. But if Hamas rejects this, then Netanyahu is going to go in and kill them all. And that's going to mean a lot of civilians are going to get killed. because the Hamas people hide behind and, you know, the drill. So Netanyahu either gets a deal

or he gets to eliminate the rest of Hamas. No downside for him. Now, there are two main things. Within 72 hours of a peace agreement, a seized fire, all the hostages and the bodies of the dead hostages have to be released, 72 hours. Okay. And then Gaza is to,

to be rebuilt under an international commission headed by President Trump with an assist from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. So they're gonna set up like a corporation. And Trump's vision has always been, and he ran this by me shortly after he was elected last November, to make it a tourist destination because it's right on the Mediterranean

and to have all this Arab investment money coming in from the Gulf to build these big hotels and to give a structure to the Palestinian people so they can earn a living. It is a good vision. If you travel to the Middle East, there are resorts on the Red Sea. Alexandria, Virginia is trying to ramp up in that area, Malta, the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. You can do that. Turkey's got a very nice tourist coastline. And that's Trump's vision. Now, whether any of it is going to happen, who knows? Because again, terrorists are terrorists. That's what they're named for. They hate Jews. They want to kill Jews. And that's a memo. All right, so here's an update on

federal authorities going to cities. Governor Louisiana, Jeff Landry, has asked for a thousand National Guard's people to be sent to Louisiana to fight crime. Now, why would the governor asked for that when he could do it? Can you answer that question? So Landry, Governor Landry, he has control of Louisiana National Guard, he could do it. Why doesn't he? Why is he asked an offense? Because if he asks them and they say, okay, federal government pays for it. If he doesn't, and he sends him in, the state of Louisiana pays for it. I bet you didn't know that. Anyway, Landry has got a problem with New Orleans.

That's been perennial, 50 years. If you know New Orleans, as I do, it's a very segregated city. It's not segregated in an organized way, but there are like the ninth ward, very, very dangerous places. A lot of drugs. And a lot of tourists walk around, they're loaded on Bourbon Street. They get drunk, and then they get rolled. They get on.

And stats are there. I mean, Louisiana has a 45% higher crime rate than the rest of the country. That's pretty bad. 31% property crime. It means people whose houses and cars are being broken into. Homicides are down in New Orleans, but it's a dangerous place. You've got to watch it. It's the eighth most dangerous place in America,

according to U.S. News and War Report's survey. So the Guard will be going down to Louisiana. I'm sure that Trump will okay it. Portland, how much going on because the federal authorities aren't there yet, but they're coming this week. And then we'll see what Antifa does. That's an Antifa play in Portland. In Chicago, there's still a controversy.

ICE is there, rounding up with, ICE says as criminal aliens, of course, the Trump haters, the Democrats say, no, they're sweeping up everybody. And there have been 16 arrests of protesters. Now, here's the rub in Chicago. A lot of people don't understand. This isn't the local police arresting you here. These people are being arrested by federal authorities. You have to go to federal court. That's a lot different than local court. let's just throw it out and won't prosecute your federal court will. So if you're a protester, you want to get a res, you better be careful. Now, Pritzker, J.D., the worst governor by far in America,

he's still screaming about everything, roll it. Donald Trump and Christy Knoem and Tom Homan said they were targeting the worst of the worst criminals. They lied, and they continue to lie. Sixty percent of the individuals that ICE has taken in Illinois this year have no criminal convictions of any kind. ICE is running around the loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. For not being white. And what Pritzker fails to mention is,

that the majority, the vast majority of people who have been detained in Chicago have orders to be removed. They have removal orders signed by judges. So they may not be criminals, but there's a piece of paper going, you're not to stay in the United States. Priskin never tell you. I mean, not an honest man. What a run! This champ is picking up speed. But they found a lane. Phenomenal launch into the air.

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Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Anyway, that's an ice-driven thing in Chicago. So we are going to monitor this. This is a big story. This is a big story that the federal government is now. controlling a crime in local situations and immigration. And the left-wing TV media is absolutely going absolute nuts. They're going crazy, raging about it, which you would expect, of course. Joining us now is a man who knows the President of the United States pretty well

because he's his father. Eric Trump is a new book. It's out October 14th. Under siege, my family's fight to save our nation. And he joins us now from Palm Beach, Florida. All right, here's my first question for you. Does your dad listen to you when you give him an opinion? I think he listens to everybody when you give an opinion.

That's an amazing thing about Donald Trump. I saw this bill starting on construction sites when I was a little kid. He'd go up to the electrician who was putting an outlet in the wall. He would ask him his opinion. Then he'd go to the head of the construction company, ask his opinion, and ultimately he would formulate his own based on kind of the opinions of a lot of people and who he thought was credible and what great ideas kind of rose to the top. And it's one of the things that makes the guy amazing. All right. So I assume that you discuss politics with your father, correct?

Often. And then your wife, Laura, very outspoken. You guys discuss. What percentage of the time do you think he's, you think, you? He listens to you, 80%, 40? I called him the morning of, and I'm in a unique position. He asked me to run the company when I was 33-year-old, and I run one of the great real estate empires anywhere in the world.

But I called him the morning of November 6th. I go, Pops, I love you to death. I've been there since you came down the escalator. I've stood on that stage every single time. I've done thousands of speeches, and I'm going to get the hell out of politics at this point. I'm retiring. Congratulations. We won the Super Bowl.

And, you know, you're going to do a great job for the country. I'm going to do a great job for the company. But, no, listen, there's certain people in his inner circle that he listens to. I express my opinions all the time. And, you know, we certainly share the same DNA in terms of how we think about these issues. I mean, you're talking about crime in these cities. Look what a great job he did in Washington, D.C. He cleaned up the crime in about two seconds flat.

And then he's walking around the parks talking about how he wants to replace the grass to make it look beautiful to make Washington, D.C. look like one of our golf courses. I think that's a beautiful thing for the country and a beautiful thing for the nation. Yeah, it would be a bit. But last time I was there, I got sprinkler on me because, no, I'm just wondering. Okay, now, look, I'm going to ask you this question. You don't have to answer it. I don't want to embarrass you for your father.

Do you ever disagree with him? Do you ever say, hey, dad, maybe that's a little bit too much that you're doing here. Maybe we don't want to take over Canada. Maybe that's not the best plan. Bill and all of vendors, I love the idea of taking over Canada. And I also like that idea taking Greenland, right? There are other countries you can keep that are neighbors of ours. But no, I do think Canada should be the 51st state.

I certainly think green. Listen, I think, you know, joking aside, I think, you know, every child has probably slight disagreements, you know, with parents and philosophies and other things. But I've got to say this guy's the most transformational person. I mean, the reason I've stood on the stage is not, Bill, the reason I've stood on the stage is not because I need this job. Believe me, it's because I care deeply. And I think the guy's doing a phenomenal job, as you saw today. you know, when he's talked to every single general about not having Admiral Rachel Levine, you know, as, you know, Secretary of Health and Human Services or whatever the hell she was,

when she couldn't do a pull-up and having, you know, a guy like Pete Hanksett in there who's strong, who's charismatic, who delivers a strong message, who's actually inspirational. You see the recruiting in our military going through the roof because of him. I know I'm very proud of everything he's done. I really, totally am. Now, you know that he talks to me occasionally, and I'm not a, as bullish as you are, and I always, no matter what, who it is, when they ask me my opinion, and I never volunteer opinion to the president. He has to ask me. I'm not intruding on that

level. But when you say that you're in favor of annexing Canada as a 51st state, you know that's not going to happen. And number two, tourism is down because Canadians are so teed off. they're not visiting here. So there was a downside to that thing that would never happen. That's what I'm talking about here. That kind of a discussion. Yeah, I don't think so.

I mean, I think if you kept a couple of the cities, I think Canada would probably go for us by about 85%, right? I just got back from Canada last week. I was in the Yukon. I was in Whitehorse, and I can't tell you how much love there is coming out of Canada. But listen, irrespective, I think.

All right. Yeah, first of all, Bill, we'd be unstoppable in the Olympics. Let's just start there, especially the Winter Olympics. And I think that would be a great benefit to take in Canada. You know, I've been to Whitehorse myself. There's eight people there. But it's really an adventure to go. All right, now, getting revenge.

So your whole book is, and it's a very interesting book, and I hope people check it out, that your family has just been battered for the past nine years. And I know that. I'm an eyewitness to that because I did the first interview with the president when he declared his candidacy, as you may remember. And I've seen and the Trump hatred evolve into hysteria in this country. So I'm perfectly understanding the situation. But others may not know how intense it has been for your family. But there is a point where a revenge play, as I just pointed out in Canada with the lower tourism now, might come back to hurt the country. So you've got to pick your targets.

Now, Comey, I'm fine with Comey. I don't know whether you read my column on Sunday, but I'm fine with indicting him. I get no problem with that, and I'm fine if he gets acquitted. If a jury acquits him, that's our system. But he's a bad guy. I can document his badness, and he should be held accountable. But some others, I think you've got to be careful that you don't want to go too far in the retribution revenge area. Am I wrong?

So, no, you're not wrong at all. Bill, you've known me for probably 20 years, right? You've seen me. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history. I had 112 subpoenas. That's amazing. I didn't know that. I did not know that.

Right. And, Bill, you know why they did that? Because, you know, my father had constitutional protections being. the president of the United States. Guess who didn't have constitutional protections? His son, who ran his entire empire and everything that he had ever built, they impeached my father twice. They raided our home. They weaponized the DOJ. They weaponized the FBI. They took my father off of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. They gag ordered him more times than you can count. I was getting a subpoena every single day. I was in a deposition every single day. They took him

off the ballot in Colorado. They took him off the ballot in Maine. They find us $560 million for never missing a loan payment and being a perfect company. They did everything they could to break up our family, to debank us, to de-platform us. I mean, that's the whole concept of under siege. And despite the fact that we had, what, negative 98% media coverage, meaning favorability-wise, toward our family, toward my father, toward the movement, we beat these guys. And that's under siege, Bill. And so when the liberals cry about Comey, who very apparently, you know, lied in front to Congress, lied to Ted Cruz, right? I mean, I think we all saw it.

And by the way, this is an FBI director who was literally leaking memos to the FBI. Well, that's all that. Let the court, let the Justice Department prove that before we convict them here. But what's fascinating and beyond any challenge is that you were hauled into court, as you say almost every day. Who paid for that? Who paid for your attorneys? Your family paid for that?

It probably costs us $400 million in legal. because they wanted to make up sham cases. Look at the Russia hoax. I was the guy that got the call from the FBI saying, hey, I hear you have secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating directly with the Kremlin. And guess what, Bill? We didn't have any secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower.

We're largely a cloud-based computer. Okay, all right. You don't have to convince me or my audience that they went after you in an unprecedented way. Only Aaron Burr, who deserved everything he got from Thomas Jefferson, he's the only one close to what you went through. So you got Don Jr., who's a simpatico with you. I mean, it's the same thing. But Ivanka, your sister, very smart, she's kind of withdrawn from all this.

She got out. Why? I think Yvanka wants to be a mom. She lived in Washington for four years. She battled like hell. Ivanka's an amazing person. I'm incredibly close. I think you know, how close our entire family is.

And, you know, I think she got, you know, kind of done with the political charade. Frankly, I did as well. The one thing I think I needed to materialize for not only my kids, but also for history and for everybody who got attacked in the MAGA movement was exactly what I wrote in this book. I mean, what they tried to do, how they tried to do it, the way they came after us, you know, the 99% that no one actually saw on the front page of the New York Times. And so, you know, honestly, I kind of got out of politics, too. once we won, you know, in November 5th.

Yeah, I know you and I retired from politics because there's no more place for me to run. But you really haven't because your wife's involved, you wrote this book. Final question. Have any of the networks invited you on and talk about the book? Yeah, I mean, listen, we went to number one on Amazon almost instantaneously in every category. And by the way, I'm right next to you. Your book's doing phenomenal. So congratulations, my friend.

Thank you. You know, shockingly, shockingly they have. I mean, I can't imagine New York Times is going to. Yeah. No, no. I can't imagine New York Times is going to be thrilled to put me at the top of the list, which I clearly deserve, and I think the numbers will get me there. But, no, I mean, listen, CNN was one of the first to call. Yeah, you're going to have to fight it out with Kamala. But what network invited you on to talk about your book? Well, I think I've gotten probably outcoming from just about every network. I listen, the main ones, am I waiting for ABC? No, I can't imagine they're going to reach out anytime soon. But that's what I mean. tell you the amount of coverage for the book has been amazing and no i know you know you know you're a big guy it's going to it's going to hurt a lot of feelings bill and it deserves to hurt a lot of

feelings because a lot of feelings deserve to be hurt on that side i mean the media in this country is you know better than anybody and you know they were they were the you know PR arm of the democratic party for the last 15 years and uh they've lost all their independence and and it's why you know independent voices like yours has really kind of yeah it's been longer than 15 years about about 30 years, yeah. All right, the book is under siege. You'll be out October 14th, but you can, you know, order it in advance on Amazon that will send a message. And we appreciate it. Eric, you're welcome anytime here. Thanks very much. Thanks, Bill. Okay, let's go to YouTube having to pay the president $24.5 million. So this is the fifth time.

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So, Jimmy Kimmel. He got six million to watch him after he came back, and now he's dropped 64% of that. That's not a slap at Kimmel. Anybody would. I mean, in a lawless curiosity, and then he's down, not quite to where he was below 2 million, but he will be soon.

He averaged 1.6 million. That's about what Jimmy's going to do. But here's the real story here. I told you last week, one week ago, September 23rd, that this wasn't about freedom of speech or car, the FCC. None of this Kimmel's stuff was being reported accurately. What this was about Kimmel's reinstatement by Disney ABC was threats. Okay, threats from the entertainment industry against Disney.

Here's what I said. Go. ABC is a big loser here. The Disney Corporation, they're evaporating right before our eyes. Is there one person in the 77 million who voted for Donald? Trump, liking the Walt Disney company, one. And the reason they folded Disney is because the ACLU wrote a letter that was signed by 400 entertainment people. And that's why Kimmel was put back.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal picked up on my reporting and wrote this, quote, Bob Eager's phone was buzzing. The message was clear. You made a mistake. Hollywood's most powerful Asians, including creative artist agency, managing partner Brian Lord, senior leaders at William Morris and United Talent Agency were warning the Disney boss and his top lieutenants taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air and damaged his legacy and his company's reputation. Top talent, they said, were considering not working with Disney. And that is why

Bob Iger, the CEO, put Kimmel back. I had it first. I reported it first. I know what I'm talking about. There's another book out that you should know about. It's called Born Lucky, Okay? A dedicated father, a grateful son, my journey with autism. Read by my pal, Leland Vitterd, who works at News Nation.

I was on his program last night. He always gets big ratings when he puts me on. That's why Lillen does it. but Leland was born with autism and it's a harrowing story I read it the book I blurred the book because it gives hope this book gives hope to millions of American parents in the same situation may not be autism but disabilities with children almost every parent has to deal with this somehow somewhere Leland Vitter joins us now from New York City so the book's out today congrats on that. It's number 20 on Amazon right now after the center of you.

We'll zoom probably to number one. It's a really good book, Leland, and you know me. I wouldn't say that if it weren't. We did a special on Sunday night on News Nation. You can access that on NewsNation and on Bill O'Reilly.com. It's well worth watching. But the first question is for you. Your father is the hero of the book. He saved you, but he didn't want me to interview him for the book. Why? He doesn't like being called a hero. He's very uncomfortable with it, Bill, and he says that he was just doing what any loving father would do, which is try to help his son and do everything he could and everything in his power. And the stories in born lucky are that of him working on an

hourly basis to keep me from falling apart because of the bullying and the isolation and the difficulties I was going through, but also to adapt me to the world, to teach me the social skills and emotional interaction that comes so easily to most everyone that I didn't understand in any way, shape, or form. And you're born lucky we take you through those lessons. Now, how old were you, if you can remember, how old were you in the bullying started because you were different from all of the other kids. And when you're different- When I was, when I was four, five, six, I mean, as soon as kids interacted with each other, I didn't fit in.

It was very simple. But I want to just follow up on what you asked and just finish the question about what with my dad. The reason this book is doubt bills, because I said to him, I'm going to write this. And if you don't like it, I'm not going to put it out. And before I turned it into Harper Collins, I handed him the manuscript. and he read it and he was very uncomfortable with it because it's so personal it is the deepest and darkest parts of my life and his emotions it's some really emotional stuff and he was very uncomfortable and i said how about this dad if when i was diagnosed at five the woman who diagnosed me

hadn't said there's nothing you could do she hadn't said he's just the way he is and we don't really understand what's happening in his mind but instead it handed you born lucky what would you have thought he said i would have read it every week because it would have given me hope that I could make an enormous difference in your life and how to do it. Well, the narrative of the book, and the reason it's born lucky is that Leland's nickname is lucky, and the reason his nickname is lucky is because he almost died at birth because he had the umbilical coral wrapped around his throat. Now, I don't want to give it any more away. I want people to read the book. But you experienced an enormous amount of pain from maybe age five all the way through to college when you went to Northwestern.

But you were a diagnosis having a very high IQ academically, all right? You could absorb information, but on the social front, you were not able to communicate with other kids. Is that about it? Yeah, that's true. Although also when they did this IQ test, there were parts of my IQ that were very high and parts that were, in the parlance of the day, mentally retarded. I had a 70 point IQ spread between the two halves of the test. 20 points represents a learning disability. So they said to my parents, we've never seen a kid like this. We've never seen this kind of spread. And what that meant was I had severe problems learning, writing, articulating myself these issues.

And my dad said there will be no special accommodations. I didn't get extra time on tests. I didn't get into special classes. I didn't get a quiet room to take my test or to study in any of that kind of stuff. Because my dad said, I have to adapt you to the world. I can't adapt the world to you. Because if I do, you're going to not only define yourself by this issue, But you're going to use it as a crutch.

If you use it as a crutch in school, you're going to want to use it as a crutch later in life. He wanted to toughen you up. You were going through basic training to be, I don't want to use the word normal, but a regular person. Your father actually, your father actually quit his job so he could be there with you throughout the days. He actually walked away from his profession, right? He did. And look, you know, inborn lucky, you know, the day. that a teacher in front of the entire art class, because I wasn't Picasso, said, hey, look, Lucky,

you know, if my dog was as ugly as you, I'd shave its ass and make it walk backwards. It was my dad waiting at the driveway at 420 every night to put me back together, which he did every day. And he ended up, you know, crying by himself in the living room, oftentimes after he'd said, good night to me. But I think, Bill, what you're getting at is an important question because, you know, people can easily read Born Lucky or see the show here and say, hey, look, It's great that Vitter's dad quit his job.

He was an entrepreneur. Great that he turned into a cable news anchor. I asked my dad, hey, look, dad, you know, what would you have done if you couldn't quit your job? He said, I would have worked the night shift and been there in the morning when you left for school and slept and been there when you got home. He said, I knew your only chance was me being there and me helping you because you were all, I was all, you know, I was all, meaning, you know, my dad was the only thing I had. You know, it's an amazing book, an amazing story, but again, the reason that it's so important, and Leland will tell you then how we got into broadcast journalism and how we worked for Fox News in the Middle East, a very dangerous assignment, and then now he's one of the main anchors at News Nation.

He goes through that, but the real importance nationally for this book is anybody with a child who's having difficulty, will get hope from reading this book. And that is very, very rare. So very good for you to write this book. Your father is obviously a hero. I know he doesn't want to hear it. Again, there is a documentary. You can go to NewsNation. Was it at NewsNation.com and they'll just punch something. We have it on Bill O'Reilly.com as well. So Learland, very good. It's going to do very well. And we really appreciate it. it. Thanks, Bill. Appreciate it. Onward. All right. I'm going to take a quick break. We've had a good show here, a couple of interesting interviews, and we'll be back with final thought at the moment.

Here is the final thought of the day. October 9, Thursday night, 8 Eastern Time, Q&A live for concierge premium members on Confronting Evil. So my co-author, Josh Hammer, going to make parents with me will answer your questions. We'll have a good time, and we want you to submit your questions at Bill O'Reilly.com slash live. Bill O'Reilly.com slash live. October 9th, 8 p.m. Eastern Time, conciergeers and premium members. If you're not a member, please sign up. Get humongous discounts on all our stuff and confronting evil free or any of my other books. What more can we do? It's going to be a rollicking good time.

Okay, that is it for us today. Hope you enjoyed the program. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.