Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Trump Age, the Downfall of CNN, Jack Smith to Step Down, Trump’s Cabinet Picks Analyzed with Jonathan W. White, Harris Campaign's $500K Payout to Al Sharpton

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News. Wednesday, November 13, 2024, stand up for your country. Well, we get some breaking news today. John Thune, Senator from South Dakota, is going to be the new majority leader. I don't know the senator real well. I've interviewed him a couple of times. Seems level-headed to me, 63 years old, not a bomb thrower, steady presence.
Starting point is 00:00:38 That's why I think he won the vote among the Republican senators. He plays as Mitch McConnell, who, as you know, I have no regard for it all. I think he was a game player and not up front and a lot of hidden agendas. I don't think Thune is like that. All I want from my politicians is straight talk, but he is now in place. And tomorrow on his program, there is one project that I am going to launch that I'm going to need Senator Thune's help with. And Sean Hannity today on his radio program said, you're going to help me with it. So this is very interesting.
Starting point is 00:01:19 We'll outline it for you tomorrow. The Talking Points Memo this evening is about C.N. When I was a journalist at ABC and CBS, a correspondent, national correspondent, we followed CNN very closely. It was not ideological back then, always tilted a little left, particularly its international broadcast. But it wasn't a bunch of bomb throwers and Bernard Shaw, people like that, a lot of Washington people. But we watched them, their information flow is pretty solid, okay? That all changed, everybody knows. It went to a far-left presentation after Donald Trump got into politics.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Now, in the 1960s, there was a song, where have all the flowers gone? The Kingston Trio, some of you of a certain age might remember that song. The refrain was, when will they ever learn? Well, the answer for CNN is never, I guess, because that network is in desperate trouble. I had announced massive layoffs this week. Chris Wallace is the first to go. He reported on that yesterday. A lot of other talents going, and they're not going to pay their talent much anymore
Starting point is 00:02:43 because their ratings are down in prime time, and that's the moneymaker. 41% over the last five years, 41% with Biden in office. And it's because the traditional CNN News viewer was there for information, and now they're getting a bunch of left-wing garbage every day, on and on. Every one of their hosts, anchors are left, every one of them. And you can't survive by alienating half the country, more than half, if you believe the election that happened last week. So anyway, let me give an example of this. Last knife, Wolf Blitzer, I think he's been at CNN since the War of 1812, Mr. Blitzer. He's talking about how he doesn't like the fact that Donald Trump is setting up a organization or a group, that's a better word, a group, to oversee the
Starting point is 00:03:49 Pentagon. So Wolf doesn't like that Trump is going to try to hold the generals accountable for what they do. Roll the tape. The Atlantic Magazine, Mr. Secretary, published an article last month that included Trump's complaints about America's senior military leaders and reports he said that this, he said this during his first stint in the White House that I'm quoting now, I need the kind of generals that Hitler had, close quote. He said that in a private conversation in the White House, according to two people who heard him say this. People who were totally loyal to him.
Starting point is 00:04:30 That follows orders. Yeah, who were those people, Wolf? Give me the names. You can't. Because it's an anonymous report from a hate Trump magazine which had slimed and smeared Trump many times the past. You're quoting unverified sources. You, Wolf Blitzer, don't know who they are. And yet you're running with it as fact. We never use anonymous sources here. We verify everything
Starting point is 00:05:05 we tell you. CNN used to do that, but no longer does. It allows people like Wolf Blitzer smear Donald Trump using an anonymous source from a hate Trump magazine. How corrupt is that? And then they bring on Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense under Barack Obama, who hates Trump to comment. Roll it. If he understands that, he understands what the military role is all about, then he would appoint this kind of committee. He would not try to talk about making generals loyal to him
Starting point is 00:05:54 in the same way Hitler's generals were loyal to Hitler. Oh, yeah, Mr. Permanetta, you know the context of that conversation because it wasn't reported in the Atlantic magazine. We don't know the context of that. I wrote a book called Killing Patton. In that book, our research showed that one of Hitler's generals, Field Marshal Rommel, was very effective. And we wrote that. Does that mean I like Hitler's generals? What was the context of the Hitler's general remark, Secretary Panetta? You don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:35 You don't even know what happened. yet you're using it as a cudgel to hurt Donald Trump. And this is the same Panetta who signed that petition saying that the Hunter of Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Same man with no credibility at all when it comes to Donald Trump. None. Yet, Wilf Blitzer brings him in to spread the smear. And that's why CNN,
Starting point is 00:07:07 has no viewers. Lowest ratings, I think, in its history. That's why. Even Kamala Harris supporters know that's absurd. What are you doing? When are you ever going to learn? What do you need to see? Your numbers are down 45%. It's just unbelievable. And it's frustrating for me because I know CNN could be good again. Don't make America great again. Make CNN good. I could do it in a month. One month I could turn that thing around as a legitimate news service, which we need in the United
Starting point is 00:07:51 States. It's not hard to do. I know so many people in the media that I could hire to do honest reporting and analysis a month, give me, and I can turn that thing around. And then you see the numbers go, whoa, up. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold.
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Starting point is 00:09:38 Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. So anyway, it's just a shame. The whole thing is a shame. And I don't know why this is even allowed by the parent company. A guy named David Zazlov, I believe, runs like, why are you allowing this? That's a memo. All right, Trump and Biden men in the White House today. No brawling.
Starting point is 00:10:08 Brawl didn't break out. Here's a joint statement. Go. Congratulations. Thank you. And looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition to everything we can make sure you're accommodated, what you need. And we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today. Good.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Welcome. Thank you. Thank you very much. and politics is tough, and it's, in many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get,
Starting point is 00:10:47 and I very much appreciate that, Jim. You're welcome. All right, they obviously hate each other, but they did the right thing for the world, not just the country, all right? That's the right thing to do, but they despise each other, all right? And that's just the way it is.
Starting point is 00:11:06 Now, Melania Trump, as we reported, yes, they didn't show up. I think the first lady might have. I would have if I were her. Jill Biden gave her a note, a sealed note, and, you know, that kind of a thing. Jack Smith, the special counsel, no surprise, is going to step down. This guy was a partisan. he spent, according to Newsweek, and Newsweek is not a source that I would go to bat for, but they say $50 million trying to crush Trump, Jack Smith.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Anyway, he's out of there. None of the federal stuff, the Mar-a-Lago stuff, the January 6th, none of it's going to amount to anything. So it's gone. I expect Merrick Garland be out of there soon. I think the head of the FBI is going to be out of there. So you're going to see them. They're all going to leave. And they should.
Starting point is 00:12:04 And these guys, they did what they did. Everybody knows it. I think they weaponized the Justice Department. I think Christopher Ray at the FBI lost total control of that agency. And there'll be new people. It'd be very fascinating to see who the new Attorney General is. Okay. Now, I don't think that Trump should go after his enemies unless there is solid evidence
Starting point is 00:12:37 they broke the law. If they broke the law, yes. Investigation? Okay. You want to investigate? All right. But demonize, let them go, and then examine the data, let the new attorney general decide. New York City, hush money, stormy Daniels, all that nonsense. Never should have
Starting point is 00:13:02 happened. Its sentencing is now delayed again. Okay? Delayed, delay, delay. It's set for November 26th. Two days before Thanksgiving. I don't think it'll ever happen. I think this one's gone. I think Atlanta's gone. You just, it can't. All right, president is elected. They're going to bog them down with this nonsense. could be wrong. All right, here are the new cabinet selections that we know so far. Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Steff, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. I think that's a good choice. Senator Rubio, very smart guy and smooth. A UN ambassador, Elise Stefanik, very loyal of Donald Trump. Borders are Tom Holman bomb thrower, but we need a shake-up down there,
Starting point is 00:13:51 no doubt about it. Defense Secretary Pete Hague Seth, very controversial, but Hegseth's job is not making policy. It's oversight of the Pentagon. And he's very loyal to Trump. National Security Advisor, Congressman Michael Walsh, White House Counsel William McGinley. I don't know him. Department of Homeland Security, Christy Knoem, Governor South Dakota, did a very good job in that state. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, he's a pro.
Starting point is 00:14:22 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldon, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. I like that selection. Huck to be very passionate about Israel in the Middle East. This is a riot. Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and Vevac Rameswamy. All right, shake it up, boy. We need a shakeup.
Starting point is 00:14:44 And finally, I'm only going to come back to me. One more name is Stephen Miller. Deputy Chief of Staff of Policy is now the most powerful man in Washington, D.C., beside Donald Trump. Stephen Miller, when you see the words, chief of staff, he's deputy, but he's really chief, for policy, he's the enforcer. If anybody in the cabinet gets out of line, Miller, very tough guy, he got him on, I know him well, very tough. He's watching everything, and we'll report back to Trump if anybody's not doing what they should do. Miller,
Starting point is 00:15:27 unbelievably powerful. He's Donald Trump's former speechwriter, by the way. So let's get some analysis from a smart guy, joining us from Newport News, Virginia, Dr. Jonathan White. He's a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University in that town. Are you upset by any of these cabinet appointees so far?
Starting point is 00:15:52 Well, I think the biggest surprise for me was Pete Hegseth. I didn't see that one coming. I don't think most people saw that one coming. And the headline is, of course, going to be Fox News person, host. But I didn't know his background in terms of the book he'd written or his time in the military. So he has a lot of experience, and he's going to have to really put that at the forefront of his case for being confirmed by the Senate. I think he'll get confirmed because I can't see any Republican Senator, 53 of them now, voting against him. Because then you'd be spitting in the eye of the president of the United States.
Starting point is 00:16:27 You're not going to do that. So he'll get confirmed, don't you think? I think that's probably right. Yeah. I mean, well, why would you dissent? Hecketh is a guy who is very passionate about the military, everybody knows that. His book was a huge bestseller. But he's not Donald's Rumsfeld.
Starting point is 00:16:44 He's not going to be running the Defense Department. That's going to be with the national security people. It's a whole different structure. What Trump wants is he wants information. should flow back because he doesn't trust the generals because the generals burned him first time around. Millie and these guys. And now he wants to know what they are doing.
Starting point is 00:17:06 And he's got a right to know he's a commander of chief. That's what Hegg said. That's his job to figure out what these guys are doing. Yeah. And his book shows, from what I've not read it, but from what I've heard of it, it shows that he's in line with Trump's view of what the military should be, eliminating the woke things that have come in in the last four years. No doubt about it.
Starting point is 00:17:27 You want someone on board who's going to carry out your agenda. But that leads you in my next question. So in modern times, most presidents appoint people who are sympathical with them. Do you know of any exceptions? Yeah, you know, I think that's a really interesting question. And as I've been looking at these picks, and as you were talking about them, you went through the list and you said, you know, he's loyal to her, she's loyal, or sorry, he's loyal to him, loyal to him. That's something he didn't have in his first administration. And I think the lesson
Starting point is 00:17:59 he really took out of that administration was, you know, I came in from the outside. I had to rely on people to tell me who to appoint. Now I'm going to appoint people who I know are going to be loyal to me as a leader and to my agenda. And as I've been thinking about historical precedents, I actually go back to the very beginning, the first transition, which would be going from George Washington to John Adams. There was no precedent at that point. There was no precedent at that point. There had never been a presidential transition. And so Adams didn't know what to do in that role. And he wound up thinking, well, George Washington's cabinet are in office.
Starting point is 00:18:34 They've been confirmed by the Senate. They hold these positions. I'll leave them in. And he left Washington's cabinet pretty much intact for much of his term in office. And the problem that Adams ran into was that these guys were not loyal to him. They were loyal to Washington. And even more so, they were loyal to Alexander Hamilton. And so the problem that Adams runs into is that as he begins to have policy disagreements
Starting point is 00:19:00 with his cabinet and with Alexander Hamilton, the cabinet officials, people like the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, they're leaking the confidential cabinet meetings to Hamilton. And just before the presidential election of 1800, Hamilton goes public with things that should have been confidential. And that has a very bad effect on Adam. as he's running for re-election. You know, I write about this in confronting the presidents,
Starting point is 00:19:28 and it was another element to it, Alexander Hamilton, in case people haven't read the book or they don't know their history, was Washington's closest advisor. He was a federalist. He believed in a big, strong government. But back then, the vice president wasn't on the same ticket as John Adams. It was a guy who got the second amount of votes. And that was Thomas Jefferson.
Starting point is 00:19:52 and Jefferson didn't like Adams at all. And he was getting Adams from one side, and Alexander Hamilton was getting Adams from the other side, and Adams was going like, didn't know what hit him, and then got blown out, lost to Jefferson the next time around. But in modern times... 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,
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Starting point is 00:21:36 Franklin Roosevelt did exactly the same thing, and he was in four times. And Nixon, Richard Nixon, paranoid as hell. He had Ehrlichman and Haldeman watching every move everybody made. But there's one difference in Donald Trump now, as he takes office in January, than from four eight years ago, it's now Trump thinks he's got it figured out. He doesn't need a lot of advice from other people. He may seek it, but he doesn't think he needs a lot of advice. Would you disagree with that? No, I think that's right.
Starting point is 00:22:15 And I think Trump sees himself as having an opportunity to be a transnational. transformational president. So if he puts people in place who are going to carry out his agenda and who are going to be loyal to him, he's going to be able to do really big things that some people are going to love and some people are going to hate or be terrified of. And so, you know, thinking about Vivek Ramoswamy and Elon Musk is getting into this role of government efficiency. Like that would be a transformational move or putting in HegSeth to revamp what's going on at the Pentagon. That would be transformational or to get rid of the Department of Education as I think he is pledged to do. That would be transformational. And so, yeah, I think the first time in office, he didn't know what to expect. And you saw this in the Joe Rogan interview where Rogan kind of asks him, what did you expect? And what was it like? And Trump didn't give him the answer that I think Rogan was looking for.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Now Trump's going in knowing exactly what he wants to accomplish. And I think- Much more confident and much, you know, and he learned the hard way. He appointed people who burned him. And now he wants to avoid that. All right, doctor, thanks very much for helping us out. I really appreciate it. This is a very interesting story here. Kamala Harris had, what, more than a billion dollars to campaign, right?
Starting point is 00:23:32 More than Trump. I think it was almost two billion. I don't know. Unlimited money. Let's just put it that way. So the Washington Examiner on Friday, November 8, breaks a story about how Oprah Winfrey's production companies He was paid a million dollars by Kamala Harris's campaign. One million dollars, big money.
Starting point is 00:23:53 And you remember Oprah did a bunch of displays, let's call him, for Ms. Harris. Anyway, we confirmed that number was true, but Oprah denied it. And Oprah said on Monday, November 11th, okay, two days ago, not true. I was paid nothing ever, but that's not what the report said. So you, a production company was paid, not you. Okay, and that's the way it always goes. So I got three corporations, and a lot of the money that goes into the corporations, eventually someday will come to me, but I don't get paid directly.
Starting point is 00:24:37 It just comes in. So over was doing a little two-step here, and she finally had to admit it. All right, and here's what she said, Quote, I did not take any personal fee. However, the people who worked on that production needed to be paid, and they were end of story. It would have been the end of story, Oprah, if you had told the truth up front. Right? But here's the bigger story.
Starting point is 00:25:03 The Kamala Harris campaign paid a half million dollars to Al Sharpton's nonprofit, half million. Okay, $250,000 on $1,000. September 5th and another $250,000 on October 1st. Okay, why? Why would Kamala Harris be paying Al Sharpton $500,000? This came from the Washington Free Beacon, okay? But it is on the Federal Election Commission's website, so there's no doubt it happened.
Starting point is 00:25:38 Okay, on October 20th, just 19 days after getting A half million bucks, Sharpton interviews Harris, on MSNBC. Doesn't say to the audience, hey, Harris's campaign paid my outfit $500,000. Doesn't mention it. This is NBC News. That is a firing offense, or used to be, at any news agency in this in this country. It's unbelievable how corrupt that is. Even if there wasn't any deal, you say I'm interviewing so-and-so, and that person's campaign gave me a half million dollars or my
Starting point is 00:26:32 nonprofit. No. NBC going to do anything about this? No. I don't believe so. We're going to ask them. okay gonna fire Sharpton what are you going to do fire the news chief fire the head of Comcast John Roberts who runs this corrupt organization
Starting point is 00:26:55 this is the height of corruption Oprah was nothing over just didn't want to admit that the Harris campaign gave Harpo or production company a million okay but this under the NBC News banner boy if you're in Los Angeles be very careful
Starting point is 00:27:24 so Donald Trump has promised to disassemble sanctuary cities by denying them federal money the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass told KNX radio on Monday well let's just listen to Mayor Bass go so I imagine that we that the council will be voting on sanctuary cities hopefully very very soon I'm going to try to do whatever I can to make sure that it gets to the city council so that it can be voted on and I can sign it so they wanted official that LA is a sanctuary city. If I'm Trump, I cut off every nickel. Federal money. Executive order. No money. It goes to Los Angeles or any other sanctuary
Starting point is 00:28:25 city. Now remember, they're going to put this in writing in L.A. Got to stop it. This is anarchy. Sanctuary cities are against federal law. That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard anybody. Most of these zealots on the far left, they wink and nod. This is like, in your face, we're going to be a sanctuary city, L.A. Okay. No federal money. Right? Have fun. Oh, makes me angry. a U.S. federal judge, John DeGraalves, said you cannot put the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools. Violation. So that stops. Now, I think this will go to the Supreme Court. And it really should. I want to see the court decide this case. So for me, the Ten Commandments
Starting point is 00:29:28 are historical. They're in the lobby of the Supreme Court building in D.C., a sculpture of the commandments. It's a history thing. But for this judge, this is religion. What religion? What? Which one? Ten commandments. It's Moses, but Moses didn't head up any religion. What is it? I want that to find. Smart life. Okay. Money's tight. Everybody knows that. So last night, when I was watching the Islanders play Edmonton, and that's kind of exciting guy I am, but I love the Islanders. I mean, grew up with them. I used to play hockey, ice hockey, and the ownership of the team, they're friends of
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Starting point is 00:33:48 smart life. We got a poll on Bill O'Reilly.com. The question is, was I, your humble correspondent, fair to Donald Trump during the campaign. So far, 91% say yes, nine percent say no. Okay, you nine percent, and we're keeping the poll open, because I want to get a total number by the end of the week. But you nine percent, you don't think I was fair to Donald Trump. Please send me. Why?
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Starting point is 00:34:40 All right. The city in history, November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin's in Philadelphia. He just came off a stint as president of the Commonwealth. And he was a member, of course, of the Constitutional Convention. He actually led it. He is, if you're re-killing the witches, the most revered American at that time. George Washington would probably be second. But Washington paid homage to Benjamin Franklin.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Now, Franklin was a genius, and he wrote a lot of stuff. So on this day, November 13, 1789, he wrote a letter to his friend, and the letter said, quote, in this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. That was in the letter. So it got me thinking, what other phrases do we use from Benjamin Franklin today? Remember that happened 235 years ago. Here are some of them. Early to bed, early to rise, make some man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Starting point is 00:35:41 And I assume a lady too. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That means don't get yourself into a bad spot. A penny saved is a penny earned. Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do today. You know, that one I incorporate. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. That's the best one.
Starting point is 00:36:16 All of those quotes we still use today. It shows you the genius of Benjamin Franklin. Back in a moment with O'Reilly in cyberspace. Final thought. I am a Luddite. Luddite is a person who has no technological skill, no mechanical skill. Can't do anything. That is me.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Don't live in the cyberspace world, but we are going wild there. This broadcast is broken down. Some of the stuff is on YouTube, Instagram, you name it. Some stats. So I just posted, I just posted a thing about Donald Trump and his goals. Right at the gate, a million three. Right at the gate. It's still up there.
Starting point is 00:37:08 And I'll give you the address in a moment. All right, we had 8 million views in less than two weeks on YouTube. Eight million, less than two weeks. All right. 80 million views in the past six months. 80 million on YouTube. So we have our own YouTube channel. We want you to go there. It's YouTube.com slash Bill O'Reilly. There I am. Free. Free of charge. And it is different than the no spend news. That's what I want to emphasize here. We don't. The thing on Trump is personal observations from me, because I've known a guy for 35 years.
Starting point is 00:37:48 and tomorrow I'm going to cut another one about the cabinet members and we went over them today in a hard news fashion today I do a little more personal stuff that's that's what I'm using this YouTube Bill O'Reilly channel for more personal because I only have a certain amount of time every day and I got to get the news out the facts out but on YouTube I can ruminate a little bit all right that's the difference and boy oh boy it's just going crazy here And it's changed the equation. But now we do a guest.
Starting point is 00:38:22 The guest knows not only is going to be seen on no-spin news, heard on our radio stations across the country, but millions of people all over the world are going to see it. And our sponsors, I mean, they're delirious because we reach so many people. So I want to, you know, you and I are in this together. It's a partnership here. And I left Fox. I took some employees with me and said,
Starting point is 00:38:48 my base on our operation and then I took a considerable amount of viewers you can still watch Fox but you watch me because you can watch this anytime that's the beauty of this and the YouTube channel you watch it anytime it's you don't have to be there at a certain hour anyway we're very pleased we're very fortunate having a nice Thanksgiving and I thank God and I do that literally by the way I am a believer that we have been able to make this operation such a success and have a positive influence on the country. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the NOSPA news. We will see you tomorrow.

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