Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Rising Economic Impact of the Iran War, Public Approval of Congress Hits New Lows, Bruce Springsteen’s Anti-Trump Tour & California’s Controversial New Bill 

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill continues covering Iran, including Trump’s announcement that Iran will NOT execute eight protesters as scheduled and the war’s economic impact. A look at just how low public approval of Congress has fallen. Bruce Springsteen is on a nationwide anti-Trump concert tour, ‘in defense of America.’ Bill reviews a clip from a recent concert. What is California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ and why is it facing criticism? A jury found the two men accused in the Bronx subway cop beater case NOT guilty.  Final Thought: Check out Bill’s new Confronting America book cover and pre-order it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's always chaotic in New York City. It took me two hours to go 20 minutes, 20 miles, I should say. I live 20 miles from Manhattan, two hours. It's insane. And it's not going to get any better because there's nobody actually working on moving the traffic in and out of the nation's largest city. So it gets worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. I just made it. And God intervened because the train Amtrak, which isn't bad, was delayed about 20 minutes.

I just got on there. or it wouldn't be here. That's how I figured two hours on 20 miles. Next time I'm going to take a Pogo stick. Remember Pogo sticks? So anyway, we're here. And I got to continue covering the Iran story because it affects every human being on the planet,

particularly those in the United States of America. So we're going to do a number of things here about getting information about Iran and things are happening fairly quickly. And then on Saturday night, as I mentioned this week, there will be the White House correspondence dinner. First time in his five years in office, the Donald Trump is attending. And that's why I'm going to be there, not because of the president, but because. If anybody misbehaves, they're going to have to answer me. And I mean that. I'm going to have their names and every place else on Monday up here.

And if they get out of control, which I can't imagine because the Secret Service will be all over the place, I'll confirm right in a room. Because you have to respect the office of the presidency. Anyway, that is why we are here. Iran, the talking points memo. Some good news today. President Trump posted this afternoon that he has got a stay of execution

for eight women. We're going to be killed because of their anti-government protests inside Iran. And they were all young women. All they did was protest, and the mull was going to kill them. So here's that the president posted on social media, quote, very good news. I have just been informed that the eight women protesters who were going to be executed

in the night and Iran will no longer be killed. Four will be arreased immediately. Four will be sentenced in one month of prison. I would very much I much appreciate that Iranist leaders respected my request as President of the United States

and terminated the planned execution. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now, I'm going to be a little bitchy here, but I didn't hear the Trump. I didn't hear the Pope, I should say. Say anything about these eight women. And I'm

sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful to his holiness. I do think he's a good man, but I don't believe he has any idea what's happening here. And I could be wrong about it. So anyway, that's a good thing. Obviously, you know, I'm going to be killing eight young women. And the Iranians had to do it. They can't be in that execution soup while fighting for their lives. because that's exactly what they're doing. Now, there's no new battlefield updates or Hormuz updates. We have the best coverage.

And throughout the days and weekend, you go to billowrilly.com. And whatever happens, we have it there. And we have the true story, not the fall story. It's really happening. And it's not good because there could be, a worldwide recession. That's what the mullers want. That's what they're fighting with. It's economics now. So gas prices continue to climb. Just this week alone, up nine cents in the USA. About a buck over what was this time last year. In addition to that, AP poll has President Trump's

approval rating and job approval rating. down 33%. Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? Approve 33, disapprove 67. Approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling Iran. Prove 32, disapproved 67. Same number. Now, the only good news for the president in this poll is if he is able to prevail,

that the United States is able to prevail, those numbers will go up. go up fast. All Americans want is it to be over successfully. And that's what the struggle is all about right now. But it is a struggle. And I told you on March 3rd, it would be. Roll it. Certainly if Iran goes south, the president's going to have some problems. This is a big gamble on her. his part. Big. Now, if it turns out like Venezuela, he's going to be a hero. But boy, he's rolling a dice. And he is because of the worldwide economy. So if you're planning on flying this summer, you're going to pay about 25% more for an airline ticket, particularly in Europe and Asia, but that's going to come here too. And that's because,

the jet fuel is much higher. Makes sense. The global price of jet fuel has served $100 a barrel, all right, to $200 a barrel, double. So keep that in mind. You might want to get your ticket now or not go or drive or pick Amtrak or whatever. You're going to pay.

We're going to pay. Now, the mullers know that this, Worldwide recession is an absolute possibility. And that's why they're holding out. They can't hold out militarily. So you would think that something has to happen militarily to make them stop the madness. But I don't know what that something might be. I do know it cannot go on much longer.

Okay? And that is the memo. Now, Congress is worse, approval numbers worse than Donald Trump. There's a Gallup poll. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job? Approve 10%. 10% disapprove 86%. And that's both parties.

97% of Democrats disapprove of Congress and 76% of Republicans. disapproved. Why do Democrats, almost all of them, disapprove? Because they want Congress to reign in President Trump. That's what they want. And it's not happening because Republicans do hold a majority. And the judges, and I'll give you a couple of cases that just came in, are ruling on aside, generally speaking, of the Trump administration of federal judges. Financial stress is hitting an all-time high. Millions of Americans are stretched thin with no extra money, no room to breathe. And this isn't just lower-income households.

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people who what the deuce is happening here. So this is, you know, pretty startling this Gallup poll. Now, there is growing dissent in America, but it's primarily hate Trump dissent. Because people don't really understand, even after all of the media coverage, most folks don't know what the deuce is going on in, Iran. They don't know. And it's crazy because we have a situation where the people are reacting. And I have letters. I'm going to give my producer a signal. This is how chaotic today has been. So you're getting some inside baseball here. In my satchel, I have the letters.

Okay, for today. And I don't have them in the script. So someone has to go and get the letters. How about this? All right. And then give them to me so I can read them to the audience at the end of the program. So please make that happen. I'm sorry, I left them, but I barely got here. That's a good excuse. Anyway, back to growing descent. The poster boy for this is Bruce Sproul. Springsteen. Never really liked him. Just don't like his music. Don't like him.

But I understand that he's got a big, big following. So Springsteen is out on a tour, a land of hope and dreams tour. And here's what he opens with. Go. The mighty East Street band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art of music. of rock and roll and dangerous times. We are here in celebration and in defense of our American ideals, democracy, our Constitution, our sacred American promise.

The America, the America that I love, the America that I've written about for 50 years, and that's been a beacon of hope and liberty. around the world is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treaseless administration. Boring. And he couldn't back it up. You couldn't back it up. Springsteen could not back it up. If Springsteen sat here for one of our long form, we'll do it live podcast, I can guarantee you it would not be a pleasant experience. for Bruce Springsteen because he couldn't answer the questions because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

But what he does know is how to make money. So a local Jersey newspaper tracked down what Springsteen is charging for his top tickets in this Land of Hope and Dreams tour. Ready? In New Jersey, which just happened a couple of days ago, Springsteen charged 2,900 bucks for top. New York City, 2,800.

D.C., where I am now, 1,800, Chicago, 1,200. In addition, Springsteen is selling no King's flags in the concourse of the stadiums or the arenas. So who's making big buck off this? Big Buff off dissent. Now, I looked around, and maybe he's given some of this money to charity, but we can't find it. And that means it goes in Bruce's pocket. Isn't there something a little tawd to you about that?

I think there is. So, there you go. Bruce Springsteen. California. The Nick Shirley Act, quick. Who's Nick Shirley? Come on, you know. So he is the freelance journalist that broke this Somali fraud story in Minnesota.

Did a good job, okay? And he embarrassed the state. And his reporting led to some indictments. Now he's in California, and he's pretty much doing the same thing. but the California legislature in Sacramento wants to stop him. So they've introduced Assembly Bill 2624 to stop Nick Shirley from reporting. Here's what it says. The bill would establish an address confidentiality program for designated immigration,

support services provider, employee, or volunteer is to find phases threats of violence or arreisman from the public because of their affiliation with designated immigration support services facility. But would additionally prohibit a business person or association of soliciting selling a treating on the internet or social media, personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, volunteer, patient with the intent described above. So you could not mention anybody involved in alleged fraud that. Okay, this is what California wants to do. They want to ban this kind of reporting.

Here's what Mr. Shirley said. And if this bill were to get passed, instead of going after the fraudsters, they're trying to make it criminal to go after the people that are committing this fraud. For instance, it would become criminal to film and reveal info on taxpayer-funded immigration services like healthcare, which would include daycare, hospices. It also covers counseling services. translation services and immigration legal services. So, for instance, if the quality leering center was inside of California,

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And that's all true. So later this week, there's going to be a full vote after some debate in a California Assembly, up or down, I guess. And it'll pass, because California's crazy left. We haven't found anything from Governor Newsom on it. If it does pass, it'll be immediately thrown into federal court as a violation of the First Amendment. So isn't it funny that all of these pinheads going to the White House correspondence dinner want to disparage President Trump and anything and everything he's done?

But they don't have anything to say about this California thing. Pretty interesting, right? So we'll give you posting on that story, which very few people know about. Department of Justice charges the Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud. Whoa. So this happened yesterday, 11-count indictment against the SPLC, including bank and water and wire fraud. Okay.

Now, this is what the government alleges, okay, so you can't take it to the bank. They say that over a period of time, the Southern Poverty Law Center spent $3 million bribing Ku Klux Klan people, Nazi people, and other far right, concerns to cause trouble. This is what the Attorney General says, okay? So that the Southern Poverty Law Center could then rush in and defend whatever trouble is being caused and blame it on the neo-Nazi groups. So they're basically soliciting money, the Southern Poverty Law Center,

for to help minorities, but they're spending money, giving money to far-right cooks so they can create a fracas. Isn't that interesting? This is the allegation now, again, due process. So the SPLC says the allegations are false, that, quote, we take on violent hate and extremist groups, and among the most dangerous work there is, we believe this is the most important work to do fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice, on and on. I don't know. But the government, the Attorney General, says it has informers inside the Nazi groups and a clan who took the money. And they'll testify.

They took the money. That's where we are in that one. Pretty interesting, right? Bronx Subway. Now, this got no media coverage at all. None. November 13, 2003, two cops on a subway platform in the Bronx. Okay, they were beset upon by Kareem.

Clare and Isaiah just semi and they were beaten up. There it is. There's a tape. One of the cops was hurt and had to go to the hospital. The other cop is okay. It took more than two years to get this case into a trial, even though you had the videotape. It was delayed 20 times. arms, two zero. Why? Because the Bronx DA, Marcel Clark, didn't want to prosecute it. Finally got the case in front of a jury. The jury acquitted the two men who attacked the cops, even though they saw it, even though they saw it on videotape, not guilty. Now, I understand, I wasn't in the courtroom, that the divorce. defense lawyers defending these thugs said, oh, the cops caused this because they're racist.

All right. So these guys walk. They didn't spend any time in prison at all. And this is the message. The Bronx is one of the most dangerous places in the country. Very, very difficult. level of drug addiction, high levels of street crime, no renaissance, none of that. The juries that are sitting for these cases are letting criminals, miscreants out.

So what kind of a neighborhood you think you're going to have? What kind of neighborhood are you going to have in a Bronx? You'll lend them out. You know they're guilty. You'll lend them out because you don't like the cops. You think they're racist. So you let you let the guys who beat them up out. What do you think is going to happen?

What is already happening has been happening for decades. Rampet street crime. So if granny wants to go to the bodega, granny may or may not make it. Your kids coming home from school, that kid might be beset upon by a gang, forced to join the gang. or get the hell beat out of the kid.

You're okay with it. This is a message you sent. Texas. So a federal court 10-9 says that state of Texas can impose the 10 commandments in every school, every public school. All right? So Texas Senate Bill 10 requires a copy of the 10 commandments be displayed in every classroom in every public school and open enrollment

charter school in Texas 10-9 the Fed say yeah Hey this is Mike Slater I have a podcast called Politics by Faith I would love for you to listen we take the news of the day and we run it through the Bible

what does the Bible have to say about this because there's nothing new under the sun read the headlines everything's all crazy world's coming to and it's all in the Bible and after every episode hopefully you leave with a proper perspective and a biblical peace. Please join us wherever you listen to podcasts,

and we also have a YouTube page as well. YouTube.com slash at Politics by Faith. Now, primarily, this is two reasons why the Ten Commandments are back. Number one, the dissenters, people who don't want the Ten Commandments, couldn't prove there was any kind of religious connection in the court hearing.

Number two, it's history. That's the big argument. So the Ten Commandments are history. It's based on Judeo-Christian philosophy. And that's what our country, why we have, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, because of Ten Commandments. So, in Texas, you can display them.

That's a good ruling. And now we are going to introduce you to my new book after these messages. All right. Final thought. And this was a killer to write. So my new book will be out in September. It is called Confronting America What Has to Change. All right.

That's a pithy title. Okay. And there I am. I'm telling you what we need to get done here in order to have the most peace and prosperity we can. So it's a little bit different, but there's a lot of history in the book because I back up everything I say. So we need to change this and here's why, and then I bring in the stories. but there's a lot about me in a book. And by necessity, because it's confronting America, what has to change is my point of view. Okay?

So I tell you a lot of stories that you have never heard about bad things, but some good things too, but the bad outnumber is good because we're trying to get the problem solved. Anyway, we just handed the book in on Sunday, three days ago, killer to write it. Because, you know, the research has to be impeccable. I got to give it a lot of thought, not writing about Lincoln or Jesus or, you know,

I'm writing about me primarily and how I see the country and what has to improve. And why? and why? And we don't spare anybody. No ideology in this book. Everybody comes in for scrutinization. Is that a word scrutinization? Yes, it is scrutinization.

Anyway, throw that cover up one more time so people get it. You can pre-order the book, of course. It will be out in mid-September. we have had 20 number one New York Times bestsellers. That's a world record that will never be broken. And maybe this will be 21. What do you think? You won't be bored.

Okay. So just a recap on Saturday, we will be at the Washington Hilton for the big presidential dinner, sponsored by the White House, Correspondents Association. Tomorrow we will drop our long form entitled

We'll do it live with Judge Janine Piro. Nice enough to take the time. You're very busy here in D.C. I haven't talked to the judge in a long time, but we know each other for

God, it's got to be 20 years. So we'll do a little comparison shopping on what she's doing and how different it is than Fox News. We're very pleased to have the judge. That should be a good long form. It drops tomorrow early for our premium and concierge members around noon and later in the day for everybody else. You are up to speed. I'm glad I made it down to D.C. And anything happens in Iran will be right on it. So stay at Bill O'Reilly.

That's our hook at Bill O'Reilly. And then we will have a report on Sunday, pretty much. I'll write a late column on Sunday about the dinner. And then we'll have a live report on Monday. Okay. Thank you for watching tonight. Have a great weekend. We'll see you on Monday.