Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Status of Trump vs. Harris, the Future of America With Vivek Ramaswamy, & Is Mexico America's Most Dangerous Problem?

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, September 23, 2024. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill is investigating Trump’s and Harris’ campaigns. Internal polling has both sides believing they will win. Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy enters the No Spin Zone to define the Republican Party's political agenda. CA Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills to stop the use of AI in creating misleading images or videos in political ads. For once, Bill actually agrees with Newsom. More than 100 killed or missing as Sinaloa Cartel war rages in Mexico. Smart Life: Bill’s visit to the dermatologist. This Day in History: The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis. Final Thought: A clip from the “Confronting the Presidents” documentary. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Bad Guys in the White House For a limited time, get our three latest Political Memorabilia mugs at a 25% discount. Our Political Memorabilia 2.0 bundle includes a Not Woke mug in navy, a Team Normal mug in white and our newest mug, No Socialism in navy. ORDER TODAY! Election season is here! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, September 23rd, 2004, stand up for your country. Six weeks to go, early voting already started in some states, can't call it everywhere I go. And I mean, everywhere I go. Who's doing? to win. If I knew I would tell you, but in the next six week it's going to be, oh, up and down, in and out, a few minor October surprises, nothing major I can see on the horizon. And I hope there's no craziness. I really do that, but no one can predict that kind of stuff. But as you

know, I knew Biden was going to drop out. And I told you that a year every, about eight months before it happened. You know, I knew that. But I don't know who's going to win. I cannot call it because there are so many things in play now that have never been in play before in American history. This is a totally unique election, 2004. But where we are now today on September 23rd is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So I was in Florida over the weekend, actually 24 hours. And I did some investigating in both camps, Trump and Harris. Both camps believe they're going to win. And I can tell you they're not faking it. Okay. Both candidates, their so-called people, analysts, advisors, believe they're going to win. That's rare.

That's rare. Now Hillary Clinton's people thought she was going to win. They rented the Javitt Center out. They spent a lot of money on a post-victory celebration and a collapsed. Last time around, nobody knew. And they were nervous. This time around is a little more confidence on both sides. Are they delusional?

I don't know. Let's run it down. There are two polls that indicate Donald Trump as much stronger than the corrupt corporate media would have you believe. Those two polls are Trafalgar and Rasmussen. We can't vouch for those people. I don't really know who's paying them or what they're doing. With those two polls and the Trump people believe those polls, they say that Trump is a very

good chance to win. The media polls mainstream, like NBC, have Harris ahead. In fact, NBC pool went out yesterday, and it has party identification as fair. 42 Dem, 43 Republican, Independent 29. But listen to this. Gender, remember? I started waving this flag about 10 days ago. You got to tell us the gender.

Well, in the NBC poll, female 52, male 48, that's not fair. because more women will vote for Kamala. She'll carry women, whereas Trump will carry men. So if you're going to skew it four, that's going to show up in the final number. NBC knows that. Okay, they know it. See? You see how they do it?

Okay. Now, in the latest poll, it has Harris beating Trump 4944. This is the NBC poll. Okay. The New York Times put out a very weird poll yesterday. Ciena College conducted it for the newspaper. Fair down the line, Democrat 30, Republican 33, Independent 31. Fair.

But here's the gender. Ready? Female 54, male 45. Oh, come on. Come on. That's a nine swing. Despite that, nine points that favors Kamala, the three states the New York Times polled in, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Trump's winning all three.

That should tell you something. Now, here they are. Arizona, Trump 50, Harris 45. Georgia, Trump 49, Harris 45. North Carolina, Trump 49, Harris 47. Very close. And it shouldn't be in North Carolina, but they have a gubernatorial candidate there who's a loon. All right, you know the story. I mean, he got allegedly, I mean, I don't, but I believe it's true. He gives on some websites of some crazy things about being a black Nazi or something. You know, you got to vet these guys,

Republican Party. Right? Come on. Now, he's never going to win this guy, running for governor on a Republican ticket in North Carolina. So that means that Harris is an advantage in that state. She should. It's a traditional state, North Carolina. Yeah, I know Charlotte and Durham and all those people are, you know, they got a lot of new people in, but North Carolina shouldn't be a problem for Trump, but it is. It's a problem. You're going to have to spend some time of money there. Okay, but the gender breakdown, and I guarantee you, of all the news outlets that you may sample this week, you will never hear that gender gap reported on any of them, even a conservative network's, because they're not smart enough to report it. They don't

understand what's happening in the polling world. I do. I lock into these things very, very carefully. That's why I can bring this to you. Now, Kamala Harris spent a lot of money on TV as running during the football games. And it's obvious why. She wants to reach working and middle class Americans. She wants to try to peel off some mail votes because she's getting hammered in that category. Here is a sample. Go. As a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness, are you a Republican or a Democrat? The only thing I ever asked them, are you okay? And that's the kind of president we need right now.

Someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first. I intend to be a president for all Americans. She's good. It's a good performer. There's no doubt about it. She sells it. Now, do I believe it? No, because I don't think she even understands the issues.

And I've been over this. She had no idea how to bring inflation down. And she'll give it to some progressive economists. He'll do what they did to Biden, and they'll just rocket it up. Gaza, Israel, none. Ukraine, Putin, no. Border, ridiculous. Woke all day long.

parental rights, you have none. But she's up there going, I'm just a regular mom, I'm not a mom, I'm sorry, she's a stepmom. I'm just a regular person, I can live next to you. And you know, for the viewers that don't know anything, and there are millions of them, you know, the cliché is low information voters, no, no information voters, none. Well, they're watching this attractive person saying, look, I'm going to help you. And then the line, like, not about me, it's about you. I'm not in it for myself like, you know, she doesn't say Trump, but, you know, she's doing it.

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These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Now, here's what Trump should do. We're going to put this on our YouTube channel. So it reaches everybody in the world tonight, and I'm signaling my producers, this is going to go on our YouTube channel. And I don't usually do this because I'm not a ruder, but I see the danger Harris Wall's ticket. This country elects them, this country is going to change for the worst dramatically. It's my personal belief. All right, I'm Donald Trump now. I can't

puff the hair up that way, but I'm Donald Trump. Here's my 30-second ad, all right? He looks into the camera, Trump does, and he says this. I know some of you don't like me. And I have made mistakes. Some of you think I'm conceded and pompous, and sometimes I go overboard in my rhetoric. And I'm sorry, because I do make mistakes like everybody else. But I want you to know what's most important to me, and that is America. And in my four years, I helped working in middle-class Americans. Real wages grew more than 7 percent under the budget.

Biden administration, they fell more than 3%. And I had to deal with the brunt of COVID. But we were able to have a strong economy and build it back fast. Overseas, there was no turbulence. I had the situation in Middle East under control. I had Iran pinback. I destroyed ISIS, and Putin didn't cause much trouble. I was also involved with the Chinese to the extent that they weren't doing what they're doing now, being blatantly aggressive. So I hope you will consider voting for me based upon my record because I sincerely want to help this country. I'm Donald Trump and I approve that message. Just him. No video, no bells and whistles, nothing. Talking to you. he does that ad he wins he's got to do it humble can't be bellocose word of the day

no showbiz no apprentice no bad mouth and Kamala just saying that under Biden things were terrible and they are so this is the first time i've been doing national commentary for almost 28 years now. I have never done that before. I don't pick up the phone and tell people what to do. I don't do any of that. My job is to watch out for you and I devote all my energy to doing that.

But because we are in a historical year where this country could go, you know, I put forth that to the former president. Okay, we get a lot of reaction on that. So Trump says he's not going to debate Kamala a second time. Kamala says she wants to debate on October 23rd in Atlanta, CNN. Trump said, no, it's too late, early voting has already started. I'm not sure that's in stone.

A lot of it will have to do with the polling. Trump might come back and say, okay, I'll do it. Maybe. Vice Presidential debate is October 1st coming right up, 9 p.m., New York City, CBS, Nora O'Donnell, Margaret Brennan, both liberal women. All right, but that's all right. That's okay, as long as they're fair, and they fact check both. All right.

So, but Vance needs to know there's going to be dogs and cats, is going to be childless cat ladies. A lot of animals, a lot of domestic animals are going to be in that debate. And then everything advanced is said that could be remotely controversial, Margaret and Nora are going to throw out of him. Absolutely, he's got to know that's happening. There is a dinner every year in New York City, the Al Smith dinner. It's thrown by the Cardinal, Dolan.

It's a big, big thing. And it's good-nature dinner where they vibrate Democrats and Republicans, they'll, you know, jive each other and all of that. And a presidential candidate usually come. Trump said he'd go, comma's not going to go. And it's a, in New York City, it's a fairly significant story. It's a snub. There's no doubt. It's a snub.

But look at it from Harris's point of view. She is the queen of promoting abortion. She doesn't think it's constitutional. She promotes it. It's noble. And you've got to pay for it even if you don't believe in it. She's going to walk into the Al Smith dinner? No.

That's why she's not going. Okay. I obloviated now for 14 minutes. It's time. to bring in somebody who can calm me down. And his name is Vivek Ramoswamy. He's got a new book out tomorrow. The Truths, the Future of America First.

And, you know, I don't have to give you a long bio on him. If Trump's elected, he will get a cabinet position. I am almost 100% on that. Okay, so first of all, I'm going to get to your book, but in my little run-up here, anything you object to? Was I over the top in any way? No, I mean, I think you explored a lot of issues with nuance and the polling side of things.

It's worth noting one trend, Bill, just to see, as I know you mentioned, the NBC polls. They pulled more women than men. The only thing I'd add is in the last several election cycles, you have seen greater turnout for women relative to men as well. That's different from what it was 50 years ago. So I'm just a big fan on our side of not being complacent. I do think complacency is one of the big risks we could have heading into this election.

It's what happened in 2022. We didn't have a red wave in 2022. And I'm worried we're at risk of something similar in 2024 unless we actually step up and articulate our own vision of who we are and what we actually stand for. And that's actually the main call to action in the book that I just wrote and releasing as well. The book is preaching to the choir on a traditional concern. of a viewpoint, which, of course, nothing wrong with that. Did you get any bookings on ABC, NBC, or CBS?

Did any of them invite you? I'm going to be on CNN tomorrow morning. And actually, one of the things that I'm trying. I got on CNN. CBS, NBC or ABC? No, they, you know, it's a very interesting media landscape. But what I am trying to do, Bill, it's totally. One of the things I'm trying to do is I'm going to college campuses

because I care about not just preaching to the choir. I actually care about at least presenting the right. arguments to people who think they're on the other side, but actually when they're challenged to engage in open debate may actually have a very different view than they thought they did. And that's a good thing. Just be careful. Don't go to Columbia. I mean, you know, you know where to go.

But the point of the matter is, two points I want to make to you, the polling services know that Kamala Harris is going to get the majority of female votes in this country. So therefore, very quietly, they're polling. more women than men to skew the poll results. They know it, I know it. And then, of course, my viewers and listeners know it now. The second thing is, CBS, NBC, huge conglomerates, blackout, refuse to book any non-liberal author. My book, as you know, is opening number one this coming Sunday on the New York Times bestsellers. Far in a way, the bestselling nonfiction. book in the world at this point, okay? I also bring ratings to wherever I go, all right?

There's no business decision that would exclude me. It's all ideology. And if somebody like you, who's deeply involved in a Trump campaign, who obviously campaigned to be president himself, all right, should be a natural booking on the Today Show, Good Morning America, on all of the late night shows, and you can't get in. I'm telling you, if you guys win the Trump, Trump, you got to take a look at this because I'm going back to Teddy Roosevelt with the monopoly situation here.

This is wrong. But anyway, let's get to your book. You know, it's remarkable. Remarkable is we have to restore that culture of open debate in this country, and we can't have it. I want all views represented. I wouldn't want a conservative administration

working with conservative media company through the back door to make sure that the only views that were heard were in my views. That's right. America's built on diversity of thought. It's actually part of what this whole book is about bill is I want to give everyday conservatives to not forget the media. How do we do it in

ordinary life? The goal of this book is to arm conservatives, but people on our side, to actually talk to their friends. And yes, I do we still use the word friends. On the left, be they family or friends at the dinner table, but to have enough courage to be armed with the

facts and the arguments on the touchiest questions from climate change to the transgender debate to racial agendas how do you talk about the touchy issues where you may face risk of cancellation but to do it with such precision that nobody's going to be able to penalize you for what you said but to the contrary we might actually win over some hearts and minds as i as i believe i've had the chance to do over the last year that's what this book is about is allowing every american to be able to do the same thing so i got two contentions with you. So I opened a book in the first chapter is God is real.

Okay. I believe that. I sit through boring sermons every Sunday in Catholic Church. I mean, it's kind of, you know, me, you know, me. Come on, you can do better than that. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn 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,

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or wherever you get your podcasts. I believe God is real, But I believe what I want to believe. Now, I wrote killing Jesus, and I know what happened there. But you're stating for a fact that God is real, and you know that a large portion of population is going to say, no, he's not. There's no proof of that. How do you answer that?

Yeah, so there's a few things I do in that chapter. The first thing I make clear is this is not the job of the government to enforce. But the question is, is our culture worse off because of the way? widespread of secular atheism as a new kind of religion in the country. Yes, it is. And the truth of the matter is we don't have hostility towards atheists in this country today. But what we do have is increasing hostility to persons of faith, limiting their religious liberty. My view, Bill, I don't know if you show this view, but my view is, I don't care if you want to get married, who you want to marry, the government should not stand in your way as long as,

as you know what, they're not forcing you to actually force officiate somebody's wedding who you don't believe in. Yet that's exactly what's happening is the reverse of that is happening is they are forcing people who don't want to participate in functions that run against their religious convictions. Sure. So one of the points I make in that chapter, we need to restore religious liberty and part of especially amongst young people what's missing is we do have this missing vacuum in the heart of a generation who wants to believe in something bigger than themselves, yet they can't even answer what it means to be an American or whether or not they believe in a higher power. Yeah, they know nothing about theology, and that's a parental, parental dereliction.

The second thing that caught my attention was global warming is not real. But it is real. I mean, you know it is because you can scientifically. I didn't say that quite. Yeah, I didn't say that quite. It's close. I said that climate change agenda is a hoax, is what I said in there. But it's not going to be taken that way.

When I was reading it, I went, is he a climate denier? Now, I just want to tell you how I know. So I went to Alaska, I went to Glacier Bay, one of those beautiful places on Earth, okay? And the guys are taking me out like they always do whenever I go anywhere. People work there and I said, what's the situation? You go, well, we lost about 30, 35 percent of the glacier because the temperatures are warmer. And where I live on the ocean, I can see the change in what has happened here. So global warming is real.

Now, the political agenda attached to it. Yeah, you're absolutely correct. So they're trying to use, if I may, Bill, this is great issue. And to use climate change to impose socialism. That's what they're trying to do. Go. So the one thing on the science, though, and this is where I really aim to break this down in the book, and I hope people benefit from it, is I ask the question, let's break this down into four

questions. One is, are global surface temperatures going up? Yes, they are. The second question is, are we sure that is due to man-made causes? It appears to be highly correlated. Are we sure it's due to increased carbon dioxide? There we have less certainty. There's only 0.04% of the atmosphere that's carbon dioxide today,

which is a relative low over the course of the history of the Earth. It's almost at an all-time low. Then you ask the question that nobody asks Bill, but this is the one that really matters and I hit hard in the book. Are we sure that increasing surface temperatures by a little bit is necessarily a bad thing for human beings? And actually, the counterintuitive thing we learned through a lot of the facts I lay out in the book is, actually, there are some positive effects of slightly increasing global surface temperatures. Here's one.

It's a fact that eight times as many people die of cold temperatures rather than warm ones. So way more people die of cold temperatures than warm ones. A slight increase in global surface temperatures actually means fewer temperature-related deaths. Here's another fact. The Earth is more covered by green surface area, by plants, today. than it was a century ago, because plants grow in not only warmer climates, but carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere is actually plant food. Plants actually take that back up, creating what's called a greening effect on the planet.

The funny thing many people watching your program may remember is back in the 1970s, the thing that climate scientists worried about was not global warming. Back then, they worried about a global ice age because more people have actually died of ice ages in human history than have ever died of warming. And so the question is against the backdrop of, are there going to be some negatives to surface temperatures going up? Yes. But are there also some positives? The answer also there is yes. It is far from clear, let alone certain that that net effect is actually net negative.

And for that, we're asked to change our entire modern way of life. By the way, only in the West without asking places like China to do the same thing. That's why I said the climate change agenda is a hope. It's very provocative and thought-provoking. And that's the bottom line on your book. So the book comes out tomorrow is called Truths, the Future of America First. And even if you don't subscribe to Mr. Ramoswami's point of view, it's a very provocative book. So it'll get you thinking about a number of situations because each chapter is a different subject.

It's not just a diatribe of conservative thought. So anyway, Vivek, thank you for helping us out. We appreciate it. If you ever got anything on your mind, you just let us know what you put your right, back on, all right? Good luck with the book. Tell me what your audience thinks of the book and we'll come back for to talk about it. Thank you, Bill. Cheers. I appreciate it. Right. Let's go to the schedule. Biden today has got a soccer team in there to say hello. Then he's going to meet with the president of the Emirates, United Arab Emirates, a very important country in the Gulf.

And he's coming to New York City at night to do Climate Week. This is weird just talking about it. I don't think Biden's going to take the same point of view. Trump is in Indiana, Pennsylvania for a rally tonight. And Harris, this is strange. Commer Harris did not campaign over the weekend, and she's not doing anything until Wednesday. That's five days off. I went, ooh, what's that all about? There's got to be a reason.

Five days off the trail. Don't know. Trying to find out. All right, California, Gavin Newsom signed the law I agree with. Yay! Yay! So one of the dangers to our freedom is AI, artificial intelligence. And the reason is that in the years to come, it'll be a lot easier to commit fraud using AI in a variety of different ways. It's a danger.

So Newsom signs a new law, all right? last Tuesday, six days ago, that says it is against the law in California to use artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. So what is he talking about? Roll it. I, Kamal Harris, senior Democrat candidate for president, because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility of the debate. Thanks, Joe.

I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity. to be higher. I'm both a woman and a person of color. So if you criticize anything I say, you're both sexist and racist. I may not know the first thing about running the country, but remember, that's a good thing. If you're a deep state puppet, I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet, a wonderful mentor, Joe Biden. Joe taught me rule number one, carefully hide your total incompetence. Now, you see what they did. And it should be against the law, not for your miss It's manipulation. It's fraud. Fraud in the inducement to vote. So, all right, Gavin Newsom and O'Reilly are together on that law. And we better take a tough look in Congress about what's coming on for AI. It's going to be horror. Secret Service report, the 60-day review promised by a fire director Kimberly Cheatel. Yeah, she resigned to get her pension, but they booted her because she didn't know

she was doing. All right. So this review as out and it says that the Secret Service is responsible for multiple security failures that led to the July 13th assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Embarrassing, parable, awful. Why did this happen? Because I believe that Kimberly Cheathel, although she had experience in the federal government at Secret Service, was a diversity higher. I could be very wrong. I could be very unfair. But I watched that woman's testimony in front of Congress, she had no idea. Mexican cartel violence. Now, this is an important story because a lot of people vacation in Mexico. You spend your money in that country. Number one, Mexico is perhaps our worst enemy on the planet. It causes more direct damage to

America than any of the country. And everybody knows that. It allows millions of migrants in here, doesn't have to allow, it does. And the drugs and narcotics, 90% of them, come through Mexico. And they're killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. The guy who presides over Mexico is Obrador. Okay, he is the president. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. He's on his way out, but they elected somebody worse, a woman, all right? And under Obrador, 200,000 Mexicans have been murdered. 200,000 murdered by the cartels, most of them. So there's now a war in Sinaloa, which is the west part of Mexico, northwestern part, okay?

Sinaloa cartel. And the war broke out because the United States arrested two Sinaloa cartel leaders. The United States had to arrest them because the Mexicans wouldn't. So we lured them here and nailed them. Obrador blames the United States for this shootout where 53 people have been killed, 51 others missing. That means they're dead. That's 104 people. He says, well, if the United States didn't arrest these guys, we wouldn't have this. Overdoor is a corrupt coward. I will not go to Mexico, probably ever again. Not spending any money there.

They're not looking out for us. It's a corrupt, terrible country. People are nice. Country's beautiful. I've been all over it. Not going back. Smart life. So at 6.45 a.m. this morning.

I walked into my dermatologist's office. I get the early appointment because he's a great guy, and I got to work. So all of a sudden, the freeze thing comes out, 6.45 Monday morning. And it frees and stuff off me. I mean, there's another me in a jar somewhere. And then on my chest, he's got to take the little scalpel and go, boop. Now, they give you a little. numbing thing. So it's not, it's a little painful, but not a lot painful. Now, every time I go there

now, probably every three months, because I'd like to stay alive. My father died from melanoma, as I told you in the past. But every time I go in there, I said, look, I know I'm Irish, blue eyes, fair, and I don't go in the sun. The only time I'm in the sun unregulated is when I'm in the ocean. Okay, when I'm swimming and diving in the ocean. That's the only time. I got a big UVA umbrella. I got a big hat. I got a, and I'm not out there a lot. But still, this is accumulation. And he says, I'm seeing more and more young people because the sun is more powerful now. And again, Mounted Science. So anyway, go to the dermatologist. If you got anything on you that wasn't there and you can't get rid of by the potions, go.

Mart life. Best tip I can give you. Both candidates Trump and Kamala Harris are considering doing interviews on 60 Minutes. I believe both will do that. The 60 Minutes isn't Mike Wallace. It's not the way it used to be. Last night they did a story on fentanyl overdose death. They didn't mention the open border. Didn't mention it. Come on. But they'll do the interviews at 60 minutes. Stay in History, September 2013, 1806, Lewis and Clark show back up in St. Louis, Missouri. Fascinating story. Nobody knows anything about it. 218 years ago today.

So Meriwether Lewis was an assistant to Thomas Jefferson, the president. And Jefferson bought Louisiana from the French. Great deal, by the way. And so he says to Meriwether, hey, we don't know what we bought. You got to go out there and find out. So they hire a guy named William Clark, both Lewis and Clark are from Virginia. It's got some military experience. He fought with George Washington.

And they go. And they only had 43 guys. And then they picked up some Indian scouts on the way. And they were gone two years and four months. And they mapped it all out. So they were in Dakota, then they went to Montana, and they crossed the Rockies. then they went to Oregon to Astoria on the Pacific Ocean. And again, it took them 24, 28 months to do all this.

So 218 years ago, today they got back to St. Louis. Now, this is interesting. So Meriwether Lewis became the governor of Louisiana Territory, because that was the patron. As you do this, I'll give you that. But historians believe he committed suicide because he was called back to Washington to answer questions, about improper use of government funds.

Clark, more successful in his post-explorer days, he was the governor of Missouri territory. And he died at age 68 in St. Louis. I bet you didn't know any of that because I didn't know most of it, but a fascinating part. And back with another clip from the confronting the president's doc. Okay, so this coming Thursday on the no-spin,

news in this time period, I'm going to rerun the News Nation documentary on the presidents, confronting the presidents, because it got great reviews. A lot of people saw it, but more people will see it when we run it here. Here's an example of what we did. The worst president ever has some competition. Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate. Jimmy Carter brought us 10% annual inflation. But for Bill O'Reilly, the worst is an easy choice. James Buchanan of Pennsylvania ran the country immediately before the Civil War, and O'Reilly says Buchanan could have prevented it. He leaves the league by a big margin.

Not even close. This guy was the war. I've studied this man, and it's just incredibly fascinating to me how inept he was. He stood for nothing. Nothing. So the big story was we got to avert the Civil War. Okay? The South is starting to attack.

union depots, they're storing arms, they're organizing in brigades, they're terrorizing black people. They're... As if keeping him in slavery wasn't terror enough. Right. And Begannon knows this. He does nothing. Doesn't have federal troops, doesn't cut off money.

In fact, at Fort Sumter, when the union forces us around, he wouldn't send ships to help them. At some point, you're putting somebody into an impossible job. Could anybody have prevented the civil war? I got a letter from Harry Truman that says if Andrew Jackson had been the president before Lincoln, there wouldn't have been a civil war, which is probably true, because Andrew Jackson would have gone down there early before the Confederates consolidated their power militarily and kicked their butts all over the place. And we have stories like that about so many of the presidents in this.

I don't like to use the word documentary, but that's what it was. Some people thought it was a podcast, not a podcast, all right? It's a news presentation. So on Thursday, let's see, today is Monday, we're going to run that on the NOSPN News, the whole thing. It goes really good. You'll enjoy it. We hope you, by the book, confronting the presidents. I'm now battling Hillary.

Hillary's got a new book, but you know how that goes. but we are very, very pleased with the reception on this book. It's just everywhere, and people are enjoying it. They're learning a lot, and that's the key. You've got to know what's happened in your country to make an informed vote this time around. You have to know. That's why I wrote this book.

Okay, so Thursday we'll have that here, and we hope you watch it, and let us know what you think. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching and listening on our radio stations across the country. and we'll see you more.