Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Supreme Court's Border Hearing, the Looming Railroad Strike, Hunter Biden Investigation, Democracy in Decline with Guest Dr. Glen Duerr

Episode Date: December 1, 2022

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill lays out the importance of the Supreme Court hearing a federal immigration law case The latest on the possible railroad strike Bill preview's his "Shock and Awe" conversation with the incoming House Oversight Committee chairman regarding the Hunter Biden investigation A new report says democracy is in decline around the world, but how so? International Studies expert Dr. Glen Duerr explains This Day in History: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is released Final Thought: The reason for the nation's decline In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Evil Ways" The Christmas Store is open at BillOReilly.com! Take advantage today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, November 30th, 2020, stand up for your country. You know, what frustrates me the most about our nation, about the midterm elections, about any election, is that we give people power through our vote. And then most of those people don't solve any problems. They talk a good game. You know, how many times have you heard, oh, we have to have a conversation. Whenever you hear that, whenever you hear that phrase, we have to have a conversation, you know who's ever saying that has no blank an idea how to solve anything.

It's like the word comprehensive. Oh, we need comprehensive immigration reform. It means nothing. It's blathered. These people don't have anything. They get into office. We vote for them. And then they sit there and the problems get worse and worse and worse and worse. It's just so frustrating. And Joe Biden's the poster boy for that. Ever since he took office, almost every economic and social problem in this country has gotten worse. But he'll never admit it. Of course not.

neither will its party and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo so there is hard evidence now that the border is out of control beyond dispute evidence and that evidence is a supreme court case that is being heard see if the supreme court thought this is bull it wouldn't have never taken the case all right so louisiana and texas filed suit against the Biden administration and said, you are not enforcing immigration law. Millions of foreign nationals are pouring into the USA, which is absolutely true, okay? And our states, Texas and Louisiana, are being punished financially because we can't afford to deal with these people who shouldn't be here in the first place, and you, the Biden administration,

won't stop it. That is the case. All right? I'm a simple man. I break it down to the simplest component. So the Supreme Court says, okay, we'll hear the case. And now testimony is underway. So the federal government, the solicitor general of the Department of Justice, a woman named Elizabeth Brelogar says, well, we can't deport everybody. There's too many of them. So we have to prioritize our deportations, and even our not incarcerations, but the amount of people being held.

So we can't, it's too many. So we've got to let most of them go. And the only ones that can really deport or restrain from going into the United States are the ones that are very violent or whatever. Okay, that's their argument. Well, the argument falls apart because in the last year of the Biden administration, the Trump administration, last year of Trump administration, about 870,000 migrant encounters. Okay. Now, there's six times as many. So, of course, the Department of Homeland Security is going to be overwhelmed.

Why? Because the Biden administration has opened the border. Wooned enforced immigration law. And in conjunction with that is allowing records amounts of hard narcotics come into the USA. It is appalling. But here's the worst part about it. The Supreme Court is not there to basically make policy.

It's not what they do. They take lawsuits on a number of different levels, and they find out if they are constitutional, if what the law is is allowed under our system. That's what they do. They don't say, hey, President Biden, you've got to clean up your act and stop the open board of stuff.

They don't do that. So they're caught here, the Supreme Court, the nine justices. They're caught going, they know why the states of Louisiana and Texas, and there are many, many others, are being punished. They know the Supreme Court justices, no, but they can't institute policy. That's for Congress. And in 1996, Congress passed the Supreme Court. immigration law that we have now, and President Clinton signed it. And varying presidents enforced it well or not so well, but Biden just said, blanket, I don't want it, and I'm not

going to enforce the law. Now, he could be impeached for doing that. Absolutely could be impeached. They'd never convict him in the Senate because the Democrats did not get waxed in the midterms. But he could be. He's not upholding the law. And there's no two sides of the story. I mean, I was on the Chris Cuomo News Nation show a couple of weeks ago. And Cuomo said, no, we don't open borders. I mean, one more data than you need. What else do you need?

So Cuomo's a Democrat, obviously. And the Democratic Party goes, no, no, no, we don't have open borders. And that's her argument here. Oh, no, no, no, we're not letting everybody in. We just can't do it because so many people are here. Well, why are so many people here? Because Biden won't enforce the law. That's why.

This is so frustrating. So the Supreme Court, I think, will rule on behalf of Texas and Louisiana and order the federal government to detain as many migrants as they can detain. think that's what's going to happen, but it won't be enforced. It won't be enforced. Biden never going to do this, ever. And so, there you have it. Another horrible problem not being solved by an incompetent president. Some believe he's corrupt. And as we reported yesterday that may be the big story of 2003 with all these new committees coming up okay so um that's the memo mr biden today uh delivery remarks at the white house tribal nation summit what

this is is native americans come to dc every year and they get lots of money they divvied up among the individual tribes they get money for uh businesses they get money for and it's billions so the Americans love this. And I don't begrudge them. Native Americans got hosed. You're really killing crazy horse. You know how much they got hosed. Okay. But that's what this is. And then the national Christmas tree lighting tonight for Joe Biden and the first family. Okay, fine. Now, the House and Biden are trying to block the railroad strike. This is another amazing story. So the Democratic Party of the Progressive Left loves labor unions. Teachers union, love them, love them, love them, love them, love them, okay? But not now on the railroad union. The railroad, they want better

pay and more benefits for their workers. And if we don't get them, they say they're going to walk out of the job on December 9th. This is the railroad union. Okay. We don't get it, then 115,000 rail workers are going on strike. Okay, so Biden goes, if that happens, then the economy is going to collapse, which it will. Because you're not going to get any products to market. You know, that's what happened with the inflation. Once he attacked the fossil fuel industry, Biden, then all of the fuel prices impacted the trucks. and the trucks and the shipping triple, quadrupled in price,

which is why we're all paying more. It's exactly what happened. And if this happens, a railroad strike, then everybody's going to be paying even more. And Biden knows, I don't know whether he knows, but his advisors know this is a catastrophe for his administration. So today, the House passed a bill that the federal government will negotiate this contract with the not that's not the union anymore the union's out of it the

federal government's going to negotiate it in a compromise situation now it'll probably pass the senate right i would imagine maybe mansion will vote against it i or cinema maybe but i think it's going to pass the senate and so that the federal government will be telling a a railroad worker is what you can and can't have. So now you should hear an uproar of screaming on the left, which loves the unions. Oh, you can't do this. You don't hear that because it's all a bunch of phony nonsense. All this ideology is garbage.

It's expediency and power. All right, so we'll track that. Now, yesterday I interviewed Congressman James Comer from Kentucky. He is heading up the new House Oversight Committee that will investigate Hunter Biden. I did this for a program we do called Shock and Aw. You heard me talk about it. That is attached to vidgo.com, which is our streaming partner. So the only people who can see this are subscribers to vidgo.com.

You might want to check that out. Anyway, the interview is fascinating because Comer now becomes one of the most powerful people in the United States. he is going to oversee the investigation into Hunter Biden and his father, Joe Biden. Here's a preview. On the next episode of Shockin-R. Okay. So from what I'm getting, it's we don't care we, the Oversight Committee, about Hunter Biden's grifting.

We care about the linkage to his father. That is the primary thrust of the investigation. It's a Joe Biden investigation. We are concerned that this administration could be compromised because of the significant amounts of money that they've gotten from our adversaries, particularly in Russia, Ukraine, and China, although there are more countries where Hunter Biden received money. You know, the problem, as you mentioned, Bill, is Hunter has stated in numerous statements via email and text messages, as well as from people we've interviewed that were in Hunter Biden's

spear, that Hunter was always complaining about how much money he would have to spend to keep Joe up. This is very concerning because we don't believe that it's legal. It's certainly not ethical. All right. That is the big story of 2003 coming up. We're way ahead on this. Okay. That is it. And there is big, big danger. Now, I was on a Hannity radio program today, talked a little bit about this. And I told Hannity, you know me, you can't convict Biden. You might think he's guilty. Certainly, Hannity does. I do, but I'm not in, I'm willing to listen to the defense of what President Biden says. I'm willing to listen to that side. In fact, in shock and all, we have that side in the episode. Duproast is very important to me and innocent to proven guilty. However, there's no doubt. There is huge danger here for the Democratic Party. and President Biden. Huge. Because Comer is not going to be dissuaded, and either is Jim Jordan,

a congressman from Ohio, who is in charge of another committee. He can be looking into a lot of these things as well. All right. They are determined. So we're on it. That will be my primary focus going forward this story. And you will get the honest situation here. We're not going to spin it or lie about it as almost every other media outlet will do okay a uh organization called the international institute for democracy and electoral assistance idea as issued a report that says uh 52 democracies are on the decline okay 52 out of 104 the 104 democracies in the world 52 are in decline half Now, what does that mean?

Well, it means that they're becoming less democratic, obviously. And who's number one becoming less democratic? The USA. Oh. So the report says, quote, the U.S. faces political polarization. That's true. Institutional dysfunction. That's true.

And threats to civil liberties. What threats? I don't know, but we'll try to find out. In addition, the totalitarian regimes are having all kinds of trouble, as you know. China, COVID lockdown, thousands of people demonstrating against the government. Iran's shooting, killing women who don't wear their worker right, thousands of people in the streets. Putin, I don't know how much longer Putin can hang on in Russia. So we want to get all of this in perspective.

We got a good guest, Dr. Glenn Dure. He is a professor of international studies at Cedarville University in Ohio, and thanks for helping us out. What is this civil liberties decline or threats to in the USA? You know what that is? Yeah, we, I think some context is useful. Democracy really hit a high point. You mentioned 104 democracies in the world.

That's out of 193 member states of the UN. The world is far freer today than really at any point in human history and largely because of the United States' leadership and the military power that we possess as well, that buttresses that. But certainly democracy has been declining by most metrics since 2006 or 2010, somewhere in there, and there are some reasonable points raised. Polarization is significant. But in terms of civil liberties, this is an attack really based around. abortion and marriage and it's not an attack that would be it's an attack that is not centrist it really is coming from the left and when we think about a definition of democracy in terms of substantive portions certainly debate

is possible where people can have their say on marriage and life issues and unfortunately this organization does not align with most others that measure democracy that say the US is still pretty stable and robust despite some problems of polarization. Okay, so that's my suspicion, too, that this is a left-wing organization that takes social situations and puts it into the equation. So if the Supreme Court says abortions have to go back to the states for adjudication, that's an attack on democracy, according to this group.

But they don't define themselves that way, Professor, do they? So people just looking around the world reading this, And how many people will, I know that, but they don't get the subtext for this, do they? No, it's certainly they, they see the banner headline, and certainly there are troubles. As I mentioned, this has been a backslide for really the last 15 or so years, significant challenges with constitutional changes or judicial changes in different parts of the world. But in our case, in the United States, there's a lot that's stable, just challenges of polarization, institutional weaknesses, and things that I,

I think that we as Americans can can solve. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can solve them at this point without a really charismatic leader to show us the way because the press is so corrupt here. That's the number one deficit in U.S. democracy, in my opinion. The total corruption of the so-called free press. Now, I want to give you some of the other countries that are democracies on the run, El Salvador, never really a democracy down there. Brazil, Hungary, you know, run by a very strong-armed guy, India, Mauritius, East Africa,

and Poland, again, Poland, very conservative. So it looks like the conservative countries are under the gun here. We've all seen the pictures in China and Iran. We haven't seen too many pictures in Russia because the Russian secret police don't allow pictures to be taken. If you do take them, you're going to be in trouble. But in China and Iran, we've seen enough to know there's unrest, social unrest. I wondered, in your opinion, how big this is and will it lead to anything as far as those totalitarian regimes are concerned? Yes, it's a very important point, and one really to follow, because this could be a very interesting moment,

and it really could lead to the flourishing of democracy. I don't see that just yet. unfortunately the regimes you noted are amongst the most autocratic on the planet China's massive put-downs of democratic movements in Tiananmen Square in 1989 or the Green Revolution in Iran of 2009 or Russia's clampdowns after the 2011 fraudulent parliamentary elections they unfortunately were all very good at injuring protesters and really stopping that and so I think a lot of the playbooks are being repeated But at the same time, there are massive numbers of very, very brave people coming out onto the streets and protesting in unique ways, holding blank pieces of paper, for example, in China, or not singing the national anthem of Iran.

These are definitely cases to watch. Well, I think in the case of Iran that the people there do have the power to overthrow the Mullers if they choose to. The power there would, if I were the Mullers, I would be a little nervous. But in China and Russia, the apparatus, the government apparatus to suppress any kind of dissent is at its high point in history. With the surveillance, the high tech, I mean, they can just come in and take you away, kill you, do whatever they want. And everybody knows it in those countries, whereas Iran not quite so intense. So I wouldn't put money on the fact that the Chinese people or the Russian people are going to overthrow their, dictators that are really punishing their lives.

It's certainly going to be very difficult. I imagine the status quo will continue. But the longer these protests lasts, the more pressure that mounts on Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin or Abraham Raezy in Iran. And so these are things to follow. I think the United States, especially the Biden administration, could do a lot more in terms of standing with the protesters.

It's a double-edged sword. because it does come back and say, look, foreign elements are trying to overthrow our leaders here. But at the same time, if we think back to President Reagan or Prime Minister Thatcher, they stood lockstep with protesters across the East and Europe. They made significant statements. And ultimately, the Berlin Wall, the iron curtain, did come down. But Biden has condemned Vladimir Putin pretty roundly. He won't condemn she because he's afraid that she then would start trouble.

like invading Taiwan. So Biden's afraid, if she, would you agree with that? Somewhat. I think that Biden certainly gives him way too much latitude. There's still a very significant economic relationship between the two countries that does need to be nurtured. There are considerable points. I think Taiwan is a real challenge. It's like trying to pick up a porcupine. Taiwan is very well-armed. They are practiced, and while significantly smaller than China, I think it would be a lot more difficult than China suspects. I think China knows that it would be a lot more difficult based upon Ukraine. That is a real wake-up call for all the dictators, that if you are willing to fight for your freedom, it's not going to be a walk-through.

And certainly you are correct that the Taiwanese do not want to be under the thumb of Beijing. King. A, doctor, thanks very much for taking time out. I know you're busy educating the urchins these days. I got one more question for you. In your classes, and this is just me, I'm just curious, do the kids, the students, do they have a frame of reference, do they really understand where the world is now, or is it just ideological stuff?

It's certainly very difficult time, especially to come of age and to try and figure things out politically because it is a more challenging and polarizing moment. But many have spent time on the hill. They've typically interned for members of Congress. So they think they have a decent framework. Plus the history lessons help. We have a number of faculty members that are quite seasoned in our department. And they have a reference to say it was a different time even a few decades ago.

And so they were able to pick that up fairly well. But there's certainly promise for this generation forthcoming. Good. I'm glad to see that. We might mention that Cedarville University is a fairly conservative university. It's certainly not like Harvard. Thanks again, Professor. We really appreciate it. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.

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Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, talking about universities in New York City, a 21-year-old, D-D-I-N, Borecteravik. Barack Taravik, threatened to shoot up to school. Okay, he was arrested and he was suspended from the school and barred from campus.

Within hours, this guy was let out no bail. So he issues, I'm going to kill people, I'm going to do it. They arrest him, and he's out. So why can't he kill people now? He's out. And this is in New York State, the most liberal, you know, out of California, crazy liberal. And what do you hear? Oh, we can't let these people around. They make a threat. They have to do this. We have to, and they do nothing. So let's just all pray

that this guy doesn't come back and start killing students in the City College of New York. California even worse. So there is a law, Megan's law in California, which says that once a pedophile is released from prison, that the neighborhood where that person goes to live has to be alerted. Okay, so there's data about how much time these people spent. 7,000 convicted sex offenders in the state of California. And we're talking about crimes committed on children under 14 years of age. 7,000 had their prison terms shortened to less than a year. 7,000.

You know why? Because of Prop 57. In 2020, proposition on a ballot, Californians voted. It classified pedophiles who abuse sexually abused children under 14 as a nonviolent offense. The people of California voted said, yeah, that's right. Comes a point, what are you going to do? This isn't Newsom, it isn't the loopy Sacramento legislature. This is the folks. Now, I'll submit to you, most of them didn't know what they were voting for. They had no idea, but that's the problem.

So now, if you live in California, 7,000 out there. At least, that's just the latest stats. England. So I lived in England for a year. Most secular country I've ever lived by. I haven't lived in a lot of countries, but I visited 84. So England, very secular. I'll explain why in a minute.

So the census was recently taken last year. And only 46% of the population of England and Wales say they are Christian. Okay, that is down from 59% 10 years earlier. And the fastest growing religion is Muslims. So they're about 7% of the British population now. One in three people, 37%, say, I don't believe in God. I don't believe it. In the United States, that's 29%.

now i have a lot of british friends a lot of englishmen and i just mock them because they're all anglican which is episcopal protestant in america but they don't go to church or they don't participate in england i i used to go to a church where the dorm was in london a catholic church the st paul's and not the big cathedral it was a little catholic church maybe six people in Sunday Mass, me and six people. I think they were all Irish. I don't think were any English there at all. Anyway, so Henry VIII is the person who started the Anglican religion because he wanted to get divorced and executed his wife. And the pub said, no, I don't think so. So Henry dumped Roman Catholicism, which English were back then, and said, ah, we're going to

Church of England. I'll head it up. Primo. I can't tell you how much I mocked. My English friends because, oh, this is good. Henry VIII, yeah, primo. Okay, smart life. This is a segment we do every day, and we also have other things posted on bill o'Reilly.com. That will save you money. So according to Dorothy Bishop, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, on YouTube, there is a guy who calls himself the deal guy. Here he is. His name is Matt Granite. Okay. And he post deals all over the place that save you money. And it's not obscure stuff. It's Amazon. It's the big Costco, the big box stores. And this guy, he's got really good information. It's saved you a lot of money. So YouTube channel. And then you go and you search for the deal guy.

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What, what, 12 bucks? You know, wholesale Jackson probably got eight bucks an album. 70 million copies. It remains today the best-selling album in the world. Now, here are the other ones. This is an interesting list. This is worldwide. Back in black, 50 million copies sold. The Bodyguard soundtrack, Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner, 45 million copies sold. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, 45 million copies sold. The Eagles, greatest hits, 71 to 75, 44 million copies sold. So those are the best albums, best. Those are the most successful albums economically.

in the history of the world, and Michael Jackson's thriller came out, all right? What was it, 39 years ago, I said today, 40 years ago, 40 years ago today. Back with mail and a final thought about what happens inside your house. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before and we're here to cover it from all size, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Michael says, I actually admire Trump for being fearless and not letting pettiness dictate his every move. Having dinner with anyone is nobody's business. Okay. Michael. Another Michael. Trump will not win in 24. He won't get the independent vote. Look at what happened in November.

Matthew, concierge member. Thank you, Matthew. I'm a Republican, but if Trump is a nominee in 24, we lose. It's difficult to understand his lack of self-control. McKeiko, I'm puzzled. Why is this news the dinner with Kanye West and the other guy? We should get along with many different people as long as they are not criminals. Makiko, you have to factor in the hate element.

So would I have dinner with Louis Farrakhan, for example, who obviously hates Jews and white people in general? No. Would I interview him? Yeah. I'd interview him, and I'd give him a hard time. But would I dine socially with him? No. I learned my lesson a hard way because I did have supper with Al Sharpton two or three occasions.

And I helped him. There was a Thanksgiving where his National Action Committee, I think that's what it is, ran out of money and couldn't give turkeys to the poor people in Harlem. Well, nobody knows this. but I gave the money to buy all the turkeys. And I told Sharpton, don't say anything about it. Okay, let me just do this. So a few years later, Sharpton then turned around and knifed me right in the back.

I knew, I knew, but I was giving the benefit of the doubt. Now, in the case of people who hate Jews, there's no benefit of the doubt. Farrakhan has no benefit. It's sharp than it. He was on the factor. I had, you know, a respectful back and forth with him. So I said, let me try to see. My mistake, I paid for it. Not big. I didn't care whether he stabbed me in the back or not. shows what kind of character he is. Okay. Dennis. Bill, your analysis of President Trump's recent activities reassures me you are not afraid to show both sides of the spectrum. Your fair and impartial reporting is reassuring and honest despite who does why.

And it's going to become more important next year. Because next year, I'm telling you this, this Biden-Hunter stuff, and even the Trump stuff, the special prosecutor, you're going to want to be here because we will give you the truth. Greg Kerth, Phoenix, Arizona, Senator Chris Murphy, said all localities that will not enforce gun control laws should have federal money pulled. Why is federal taxpayer money going to police forces? It always has through block grants.

So the federal government gives each state money, and the state has the power to use that money where it wants. So there is federal money earmarked for law enforcement, and that's what Murphy is talking about. Robert Graff, Homer Alaska. Hey, Bill, thank you for continuing to speak out about lying. I believe the rate at which Americans lie, especially while on the witness stand, speaks volumes to our moral decay. Are we not taught at a young age, thou shalt not bail forth witness against thy neighbor? No. If you were lucky to have a home that taught that, Robert, your way ahead.

But no. All this is my point. We are so secular now. Ten commandments? Go out and ask any of the urchins. Hey, what are the Ten Commandments? clueless okay one more reynal raynell suza bill thank you for your sponsorship of home title lock they are one of our sponsors i signed up and was shocked to find that my title was still in the cellar's

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problem solving is it's gone and so problems get worse and um in your house with your family that applies to i can't tell you how many parents look the other way and they know they know their kids drinking or getting stoned right you got to you can't do that it's like if you have a physical malady if you're not feeling well you got to go to the doctor find out what it is and treat it or are you going to die okay so problem solving is hard it's hard particularly if you have a child or a spouse or a mom or a dad elderly who are not really with the program as a cliche goes it's hard but there are solutions you can find common ground. Humor is a tremendous way to do that, okay?

Because there's always something in common. And I just fear for this country because I'm seeing, Joe Biden can't or won't, but probably can't, solve any problem. So you've got a president four years, forget it. And when he's gone, country is going to need serious rehab. And all of you know it. I don't want that to happen to your family. You see a problem, get on it.

Let's talk about the solution. One more thing, Christine McVee of Fleetwood Mac passed away. As some of you know, Fleetwood Mac, one of my favorite groups. I know them. I knew her less than the others. I know her husband pretty well, John McVee, or former husband. And that is just a phenomenal group. Their stuff holds up as well as any.

group, including the Beatles. So, um, we, uh, sympathies go out to the McVee family and, um, time marches on. Thanks for watching and listening to the notes of been news. We'll see you tomorrow.