Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis -  The Price of Living in America, Movie Producer Randy Greenberg on Trump’s Movie Tariff, Canada’s Prime Minister Visits the White House & U.S. Offers $1,000 for Self-Deportation

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: The cost of livin...g could make or break the Trump administration. Bill fact-checks grocery and gas prices. Executive Producer Randy Greenberg enters the No Spin Zone to discuss Donald Trump’s push to impose tariffs aimed at bringing movie production back to the U.S. A look at Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney's visit to the White House. How much is the Trump administration offering illegal immigrants for self-deportation? The U.S. plans to send advanced air defense systems to Ukraine following Donald Trump's minerals deal. Final Thought: The importance of learning how to manage your money.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:27 We did this yesterday on the no-spin news, and we laid out how 60 Minutes did not report the story, honestly. But, you know, nobody cares. I'm telling you, I've come to the conclusion that Americans know the corporate media is corrupt, and they're not fine with it, but they don't care anymore. They walked away. It's not part of their life. It's not, certainly not as outrage as I get because I'm in the business, my profession. But I, you know, I figured this is the most blatant case.
Starting point is 00:02:08 And we have my appearance on News Nation posted on Bill O'Reilly.com, if you want to see it. It's the most blatant case that I think I've ever seen and yet muted, you know, okay, so what else is new O'Reilly? You know? And it's not just conservatives either. It's like the whole country knows, hey, we know we're getting conned. We don't watch anymore. And that's that. So I think that's what's happening.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Okay, let's start. There are two big successes for the Trump administration so far. Most of it is not defined. But two things have come on in. You know the first. That's the border sealed down. Okay? Huge success for the Biden, for the Trump.
Starting point is 00:02:56 administration coming off Biden saying, oh, I can't do anything about it. We have to have a new law, ah, man. And Trump has got that currency, he's got it on his resume. The second success has to do with pricing, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So cost of living is going to make or break the Trump administration. All the other things are important, the deportations, the war in Ukraine, all of that, the tariffs, all of it important. But it is the cost of living that will make or break the president. And he's got about a year to drive it down. So he goes on Meet the Press with Christian Welker on Sunday. And of course, this comes up. Roll the tape. Prices are already going up on some popular items from tires, strollers.
Starting point is 00:03:49 This is such a dishonest interview already. Prices are down on groceries. Prices are down for oil. prices are down for all energy prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline and let me tell you when you have the big thing what he did he spent like a stupid person which he was but he spent like a very stupid person and that was bad for inflation but what really killed us with inflation was the price of energy so i'm talking about joe biden of course all right now let's fact check the situation because this is what we do here all right so So the president is correct that energy prices are down, 2.4% from March of this year to underbide March of last year. Gasoline is down a substantial 6.3%.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Electricity has increased 0.9%. All right, those are in stone facts. Okay? Now food. Let's go to groceries. right vegetables are down press the vegetables are down sugar and sweets up ham those kinds of meats down milk and seafood down beef and veal up so the cost of groceries rose an average of zero point four in March negligible okay and you can go in and I I went
Starting point is 00:05:25 to Uncle Giuseppe's last night. I swear to God. And everybody knew me, but I went in to check. I got some stuff. And I'm looking around, and some of the prices are up. And some of them are down, so I buy the stuff that's going down. All right? I bought a bunch of seafood stuff.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Anyway, you do what you want, but it's my job. to tell you that groceries are pretty much flat when you, you know, up, some are down, isn't that, but they're not going up, as Kristen Welker said. Okay. The final thing is there is a 14% drop, all right, in retail gas. That's what Trump was talking about. And that's a lot. Okay, so that hits you right in your pocketbook, 14% down.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Now, you're not going to get that. that reportage from NBC News, they're not going to do it, because that makes Trump look good. And the reason that the energy prices are down is because the regulations, he took all the Biden regulations, all the green stuff away. So it's easier and quicker to get the gas from the oil refineries to the gas station in your home, in your town. And that drives the cost down when transportation becomes less. We still have to deal with sky-high insurance. That is a major problem.
Starting point is 00:07:00 And I have not heard President Trump address it. But it's a major problem for everybody. So that's still there. But, you know, for 100 days on the right track, would that be fair? I think so. But, again, you're even going to know that. Nobody's going to report that. And that is the sin of it.
Starting point is 00:07:21 And that is the memo. Now, as a new tariff on movies, okay, let me just set this up in a general sense. The movie industry is collapsed in the United States. There are a bunch of reasons for it, but it is too expensive to make movies in California, in Los Angeles. So a lot of the movies now go to Canada, Vancouver, a big set there, Georgia. Okay, they go there. That's where we shot killing Reagan. We shot killing Jesus in Morocco, okay, because it costs, and it drives a cost.
Starting point is 00:08:00 So Trump says, no, I'm going to put a tariff if you shoot a movie overseas. Okay, here's the proclamation on truth, social quote. The movie industry is dying, very fast death. Other countries are offering sorts of incentives to draw filmmakers, studios away from the United States. Hollywood and many other areas within the USA are being devastated. It's a concerted effort by other nations and therefore a national security threat. It is in the Department of Commerce.
Starting point is 00:08:33 It is, I'm sorry, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda. Therefore, I'm authorizing the Department of Commerce in the United States Trade Representative to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that were produced in foreign lands. We want movies made in America again, unquote. Now, I don't know how you do that because some movies are made partially overseas and partially here,
Starting point is 00:08:59 but I'll give you a list of things that you obviously probably know. White Lotus, you know, that HBO shows, but it's pretty successful. Season one film in Hawaii, that's USA. Season two, Italy, season three, Thailand, and Lord of the Rings, New Zealand. You remember that. Beautiful scenery there.
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Starting point is 00:10:52 Joining us now from Los Angeles is Randy Greenberg, who is a producer of films, the Meg Meg 2. You also an instructor at UCLA on the business of entertainment. Can you figure this out? I mean, what are they going to do? Slap a tariff on what? The studio or the ticket prices? How are that going to work?
Starting point is 00:11:17 well thanks bill thanks for having me on and it's pleasure to be here that's a good question i mean you ask all the right questions is you know the reality is is like where does this actually exist you know tariffs on good on goods that come into the country through ports of call is one thing but this is digitally delivered and you know so how do you do that um i think that i think the I think the idea of tariffs on the entertainment business is an interesting idea. I don't think it's workable in any way, shape, or form. But I love that the administration's focusing on the entertainment business at the moment. Most of the previous administrations have not focused on it.
Starting point is 00:12:01 So the idea of trying to do something to keep production in the United States is great. Yeah, look, I want... I want the movie industry to thrive. I think that woke killed you, and then, you know, that, I just think back to the last James Bond movie. You know, I'm a big James Bond fan. I knew Sean Connery, who was a friend. And that last movie was so bad. I knew I was screaming in the theater, and they ruined it because it woke.
Starting point is 00:12:32 But anyway, I think the only way on this tariff deal, number one, I think it's symbolic. I don't think Trump's going to do it because it's far too complicated. But you could slap an extra tariff on a film and you'd have to charge more money for the ticket. Or if it goes straight to HBO or Netflix or anything like that, then you charge HBO Netflix who's ever distributing the film a fee that that goes to the U.S. Treasury. That's the only way I can see it happening. I agree with you, but ultimately the consumer is going to pay the price. Yeah, consumer is going to get it right between the eyes. or the higher or higher subscription fees right so the consumers like this is going to go right back to the consumer
Starting point is 00:13:15 and which you know and if it's a higher ticket price in theaters theaters already have an issue right getting more people to come in so you know you give people a pause like yeah ticket price a little higher i you know already if i wait 17 to 45 days i could see it on streaming you know i'm already paying for that platform already so i'll just wait no there's no doubt about it but it will I heard the studios too because, you know, the fewer people that go to see the movie and the theaters, the fewer, the less revenue comes into the movie studios and create a lot of chaos. Now, I think, and I could be wrong, there's also a measure because John Voight was involved with this. Do you know John?
Starting point is 00:14:00 I don't know, Joe. Okay, I know him pretty well. And I always like spending time with John, but he's an arch conservative. And he doesn't like the liberal Hollywood culture at all. And he talks to President Trump, I know that. And this might be a little payback here for Hollywood treating Trump so poorly and financing Kamala Harris's campaign. Most of that money went into her campaign came out of Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I just suspect there might be a little payback here, Randy. What do you think? You know, look, Bill, I try to stay out of politics. I'm a producer. I'm a storyteller. My interest is in telling a great story and giving audiences, you know, something to watch that entertains them,
Starting point is 00:14:46 takes them away from current issues that they're dealing with. Or, you know, they get to dream of going somewhere that they've never been before. That's as a kid growing up in Omaha, Nebraska. That's what I did. I went to the movie theater all the time. It was one of the first AMC multiplexes.
Starting point is 00:15:03 And I dreamed, I saw productions of movies that were all, over the world. Sure. And most of us have had that experience. But I think because you live in Los Angeles and you're in the industry, and I don't expect you to say anything one way or the other, you got to do business out there. You know I'm right. You know there's a little payback here. But I don't expect this to come to fruition. But could be wrong. I have been before. I can't really remember when, Randy, but I know I have. And we really appreciate you. coming on today. Thank you. All right, Canada Day at the White House. This stuff, I keep telling you,
Starting point is 00:15:45 if it's Tuesday and this happens, something else is going to happen on Thursday. All right, so the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, throws face up there. I'll tell you about him on a radio. So he was raised at Fort Smith, which is a outpost in a Northwest Territories of Canada, a small-town guy, 60 years old, has the liberal part. party. And he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard. Okay, in 1987. That means he's a smart guy who agree in economics. He worked for Goldman Sachs all over the world. So this is a money man. Okay. So he comes to Washington because he has to come to Washington. I've been telling you, the United States is not going to buy Canada. We're not going to send troops to Canada.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Canada's not going to be the 50 first day. All of that is hyperbole. Okay, and it has been from day one. And, okay, if I'm the only one who knows it, then I'm lonely. So Carney comes in, flies down from Ottawa, and he says this, go. And, you know, the history of Canada and the U.S. is we're stronger when we work together, and there's many opportunities to work together. And I look forward to, you know, addressing some of those issues that we have,
Starting point is 00:17:02 but also finding those areas of mutual cooperation. All right, you know, it's like they're friends now. I said in the very beginning, Canada and Mexico, I'm going to work out their tower problems. They have to. All right, they need us. We don't need them. Here's President Trump.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Go. Well, we'll be talking about different things. You know, we want to protect our automobile business. and so does Mark but we want to protect we want to make the automobiles and we want to you know we have a tremendous abundance
Starting point is 00:17:38 of energy more than any country we have just in Alaska alone ANWR has been reopened now and was probably the largest find anywhere in the world they say it's larger than Saudi Arabia I don't know but it's a lot but we have tremendous amounts of energy
Starting point is 00:17:53 other countries don't we're both lucky in that way all right so they're going to work it out okay And all of this, we're going to take over Greenland, we're going to take over Panama. Stay here, okay? Watch and listen to me. Now, you would ask, well, why does President Trump do all this? Why?
Starting point is 00:18:18 Because he wants his negotiating opponents on the defensive. He wants to throw in uncertainty. That's how he does it. If you read the United States of Trump, that has been negotiating posture since he was 22 years old. He never deviates from it. Create chaos on the other side. Say all of this stuff. You don't have to do it.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Just say it. But anyway, it's a good thing that Canada and the United States and Mexico in the United States, we get more problems with Mexico, as I laid out yesterday with the drug cartel. Canada will come around and they will reach some kind of deal, I predict. I would like it to be quicker, okay, than it is, but there's just national pride. Carney's got to go back and he can't be presenting himself as somebody surrendering to Trump. It's the same thing with Shine Bomb in Mexico. I can't let Trump intimidate me.
Starting point is 00:19:25 And that's the downside to negotiating aggressively. that if you surrender to that, then your people think that you lost. What Trump is good at doing is win-win. Okay, that's how I negotiate. I have to negotiate a lot of stuff. All right, and I run three corporations here. And I'm trying, I always try to get in a situation where everybody wins. Some people win more than others.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Okay. And then that's into Trump. Trump's ego zone, but if everybody wins, a deal is much easier to make. I'm going to reunying to my family, because we're going to Burlington for the event of liquidation candent. We're going to now
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Starting point is 00:21:05 Now, former Vice President Mike Pence has staked himself as a conservative ideologue. He's not a bomb thrower, like the talk radio guys or anything like that. But he sees himself as a conservative purist. And as we know, Donald Trump is not a conservative purist. He holds on conservative positions because his MAGA base is largely conservative. But Pence is doctrinaire. So he goes on CNN. This is interesting yesterday.
Starting point is 00:21:39 The only reason CNN invites Mike Pence on is to bash Trump. I couldn't care less what Mike Pence has to say. That's why they invite him on. Go. It would stifle American growth, limit prosperity, drive up costs for American. consumers and we ought to be driving again toward that principle of free trade with free nations and standing tough, standing firm on authoritarian regimes like China. So you think he's wrong on tariffs?
Starting point is 00:22:11 I do think this version of tariff policy that's broad-based, indiscriminate, applies tariffs to friend and foe alike, is not a win for the American people. Okay, but remember, there was no solution put forth by Vice President Pence or anybody else as to how to get that trillion-dollar trade imbalance down. And to this day, I don't think Mr. Pence has a solution. He doesn't like the tariffs worldwide. I don't like the tariffs worldwide. Why don't I like them?
Starting point is 00:22:50 Because they create instability in the financial marketplace. places. So rather than investments and performance, the stock market, the bond market, the dollar and all that is fluctuating around based on what Sri Lanka might do that day. That's instability. All right? But I understand you've got to get the trade and balance down if you want Americans to make more money in the marketplace. And I'm not criticizing Mike Pence, but if he's got something that would improve the trade amounts, I'd like to hear it, because I have not. All right, the Department of Homeland Security,
Starting point is 00:23:33 this is Christy Knoem, says that if you are an undocumented alien, the government will pay for your flight home and give you $1,000 when you get there. Okay, this is the latest. So it's called self-deporting. And this is funny. So the Homeland Security Department has one person who's done this, allegedly, one, out of 15 million. Apparently, the person went from Chicago to Honduras, back to Honduras, on a free air ticket from us,
Starting point is 00:24:09 tact fare, and they'll get a thousand bucks when they do something. I don't really know what. Now, this is not going to work. Number one, most undocumented are not going to do it because they don't trust anybody. much less the U.S. government. Number two, although there are some carrots here that you could come back to the USA legally at a later date and that if you apply for this program,
Starting point is 00:24:36 we won't deport you, okay, Homeland Security won't go after you, so you'll get a notice that you're cooperating and you'll be free from that. But I just don't see it. And nobody knows how much money that it'll cost. So it's $1,000 for every migrant wants to get back and the airline ticket. Now, here's something that's interesting. Department of Homeland Security says it costs $17,000 on average to arrest, attain and remove an undocumented immigrant.
Starting point is 00:25:08 17,000, each one. And I think it's way more than that, because remember, when they're living here, if you live in California, you know, the liberal state, you get all kinds of free health and free this and free that and, you know, okay. But just to get them back to their home, country cost $17,000 ahead. All right, Ukraine. So Trump is a little fed up with Putin, and I told you this last week. So the first salvo is that the USA is going to send advanced weapons to systems, defense systems, to Ukraine. They're taking the Patriot missile system, some of it from Israel. they're refurbishing it, and they're giving it to Ukraine to stop the drones and the Russian planes.
Starting point is 00:25:56 It costs $1 billion to build the Patriot missile system, okay? And it takes 90 military people to run it. I think that means that we'll have U.S. trainers in the Ukraine. training Ukrainians how to run these complicated Patriot missile systems. I think that's a signal that Trump is sending to Putin. Again, I hear this reported widely, you know, but I think Putin's got it. Now, she, the Chinese premier and Putin are meeting tomorrow through Saturday in Moscow. The Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, she's going to go nuts in Moscow.
Starting point is 00:26:46 There's nothing to do in Moscow. nothing to do. How much caviar can you eat? So four days. Now those two, what they're going to be talking about is how to continue to weaken the USA. That's what they're going to talk about. I don't think she wants a showdown in Ukraine, but I could be wrong. But anyway, they're there. We'll cover. We'll have a good guest on tomorrow talking about this is important stuff for every American you know it's a dangerous world out there smart lives so I wake up this morning and I'm looking at my dopey phone and on the text side there is it comes in it says Motor Vehicles Bureau okay you have unpaid fees to the New York State Motor Vehicle
Starting point is 00:27:43 Bureau that's what it has on my text No, I don't. And the MVA doesn't do business like that. Okay, they don't have my text number. So it's a scam. And what they wanted me to do is open it, okay, so they get all my personal information access. This is illegal. Okay, so that happens.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Who do I report it to? There's no agency in New York State that monitors this. I can report it, call the police, police are gonna go, what do you want us to do about? We're gonna call the FBI office? Who am I gonna call? This is someone who's trying to break into my house through my phone.
Starting point is 00:28:28 That's what they're trying to do. And you're getting them too. And most people open them. And boom, they're right into your personal information. So as you open them. Smart life. The problem is, is nobody going after these people. There's nowhere to report it.
Starting point is 00:28:48 And the scammers know it. And that's why you have billions and probably trillions worldwide of theft through the machines. Smart life. If there is any text that comes to you or an email and you don't know the address, obliterate it right away, do not open it. Harvard, and I'm just updating UNS. We've covered it fairly and extensively, and you know what the story is. So now, according to Newsmax, I'm going to quote the Newsmax dispatch, okay?
Starting point is 00:29:31 A government official in Trump administration accused Harvard of serious failures in four areas. Anti-Semitism, racial discrimination, abandonment of rigor and viewpoint diversity. To become eligible for new grants, Harvard would need to enter negotiations with the federal government and prove it as satisfied the administration's demands, unquote. So as of now, no more federal money rolls into Harvard. Now, Harvard's suing federal government. It's going to take some time. That lawsuit's going to take some time. Okay?
Starting point is 00:30:03 But boom, it's out. And that's the power that Donald Trump has. now he may lose I don't think he will I think federal government's got enough on Harvard and say look we're going to send a tax money
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Starting point is 00:31:26 Right here, you're looking at them. Okay? I did not know this. So Chester Arthur, throw Chester's picture up there. Chester was one of the worst presidents ever, okay? terrible mustache, New Yorker, never should have been there. He got there because the president died and Garfield and then he was in. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:50 So he signs on May 6, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of the most racist things ever. Okay. And it says that very few Chinese laborers can be. be admitted to the United States. Why? Because California, after the gold rush, the 49ers, I can't remember that, 1849, tens of thousands of Asians, mostly Chinese came over to work in the camps and in the railway yards. And they drove wages for California workers, Native Americans, down. And it was big trouble, big, big, big trouble between people and the people and California and the immigrants coming from Asia. So Arthur said, okay, no more immigrants if you're
Starting point is 00:32:42 Chinese. It's unbelievable. Now that held until 1965. That racist act held. And then they had the Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished all of immigration quotas based on race. So there was some Chinese. There were some Chinese. There were some Chinese. admitted afterward, but not that many, but starting in 1965, boom, waves came over. Do you know that? I didn't even know that. Okay, a very important final thought that goes right into your home with your children. So I hope you stick around. We'll be right back. All right, here is the final thought of the day. So every morning, I take about 45 minutes to an hour or to work on concierge members' questions.
Starting point is 00:33:38 All right, and we have a staff for that. And people write in about problems they're having, and we guide them to the solution. That's what we do. And then people have news questions, and they have questions about many, many things, and we answer those questions. Okay?
Starting point is 00:33:57 It's a very worthy program, concierge membership to bill o'Reilly.com. One of the themes, and I had it again, this morning is that older people say over the age of 60 get in trouble somebody does something mean to them nasty unfair and they have no money to write the wrong they're broke they're utterly dependent on Social Security maybe a little bit of a pension they have the government entitlements that they paid into and they don't have any other reserve you
Starting point is 00:34:34 are powerless, if that's your circumstance. People can do stuff to you and you cannot write the wrong. Because to do that, you have to hire a lawyer. You have to file against the bad person. And if you don't have the money to do it, you're going to get screwed. Now, it's too late for many of the senior citizens. They're not going to get any more money. But here's the scandal. in America. Money management is not taught in any public school that I know of. Maybe there's a few accounting courses, but how to handle money is not taught. So, kids grow up and they have no blank an idea how to accumulate, save, invest, do anything with money. And if they have ridiculous parents and watch the parents spend all the money, that's what the kids are going to do.
Starting point is 00:35:38 There's no guidance, no effort on the part of the public school system in the United States of America to educate citizens about money, which is the most important thing in a capitalist society. If you do not have it, you are defenseless, as I said. Now, when I write back to these concierge members who are absolutely screwed, and a lot of it's horrific, You know, people are doing stuff to them, and you can go to small claims court. That doesn't cost much. You can go to legal aid. Some of the legal aid stuff is responsible.
Starting point is 00:36:15 Some of it isn't. That's free advice, legal aid, okay? If you're a vet, you can go to your VFW, you can get the names of veteran doctors and lawyers and things like that who may help you because you've got that similarity in being veterans. There are pathways that I can give you. But in the end, okay, if you are indigent and you can't cover the bills, you're never going to be able to protect yourself, ever. And this makes me so sad because a lot of these people are good people.
Starting point is 00:36:51 They just never paid attention. Yeah, it's their fault, okay, somewhat. But a lot of them are ill. A lot of them got hurt by accidents. A lot of them got swindled out of their money. My friend Billy Joel got swindled out of tens of millions of dollars. And he's talented enough to get it back when most people aren't. So you've got to, if you are a parent or grandparent,
Starting point is 00:37:18 you've got to sit down with those urchins and you've got to talk about money. You have to. I told you this many times. My father said to me, whatever you take home, whether you're shoveling snow, you're beach, sitting you're cutting longs right 10% goes in the bank and I have done that since I'm 12 years old and then when you get certain amount of money you can invest it cautiously okay interest and all that bonds that pay interest
Starting point is 00:37:50 cautiously and then you're not going to be broke how many kids know that very few Okay, that is the final thought, and I hope you consider concierge membership, because even if you're in bad shape, we can probably alleviate your suffering somewhat. Thank you for watching and listening to the NOSman News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you get him on.

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