Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The World Awaits: U.S. Threats Against Iran Escalate, Armin Rosen on How Israelis See the Iran Crisis, Republican Dissent Begins & Pam Bondi's Ousting

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.   Talking Points Memo: Bill gives the latest on Iran and explains why no matter what Trump does, he loses. Armin Rosen, correspondent-at-large for Tablet Magazine, enters the No Spin Zone to opine on how Israelis view the Iran conflict, whether he’s surprised that polling in America is against Trump’s military strategy, and the rise of antisemitism. What Sen. Ron Johnson (R‑WI) recently said about Trump’s actions in Iran. Why was Pam Bondi ousted as U.S. attorney general? Final Thought: Bill reveals this week's We'll Do it LIVE! guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Stand up for your country. the world awaits the USA action in Iran. Just logistically, we are taping this in the late afternoon on April 7th. If something happens, we will be tweeting almost immediately and then I will try to update messages throughout. So just keep it at bill o'Reilly.com. And we will kind of guide you through with. happening. So I'm going to be around all night, going to be watching it. Big story, obviously.

Now, I feel sorry for the Persian people. They are in the kill zone, no doubt about it. I know a lot of women and children. It's been 93,093,000 over there. Yes, they are at fault for putting up with this Theocracy for so many years, they know the fearsome and fanatical government they have. But if you put yourself in their place and you see thousands of people executed who is sent from the government, it's a hard thing to do. It's got to be an organization. And the mullas have a very tight grip. as we all know, 200,000 in the Army over there.

That's a lot of people. And so, as we discussed yesterday in detail, Mullahs really don't have anything to lose because they don't care about their own people. They don't care how many people die, and a lot of them, they don't even care if they die because then they're going to go to heaven, they'll be martyrs or whatever their crazy belief system is.

So you negotiate with people who don't really care. And I made the comparison to Putin. Putin doesn't care about his people at all. Now, Putin doesn't want to die himself. So there's a little bit of a difference. But very hard to negotiate with these suicide people. The Nazis, the SS, in World War II, the Tojo government in Japan. I mean, we've seen it throughout history.

But the United States has taken this on, and we will report responsibly, unlike, I know, 80% of the other media, which won't. So we'll keep it here. Talking Points Memo is the latest U.S. military struck Karg Island. That's the big distribution center for Iranian oil. didn't blow up the oil because of China. China gets 80% of its oil from Iran, and, you know, there's back channels there. The United States does not want to alienate China in this whole thing.

So it took out a lot of the military on Karg Island, bunkers, storage facilities, things like that, but did not bomb the oil itself. That may happen, it may not, but there's no doubt in my mind. I know this turf pretty well that the United States is going to try to protect the oil supply, the world's oil supply.

Two major railroad lines have stopped in Iran. Israelis warn that government not to run those trains because they'll be blown off the tracks, apparently. And then the... the worldwide reaction is interesting. President Trump can't win. We can't win.

So if the United States were to pull back at the last minute and not bomb Iran, then he'd be surrendering. Then he'd be, you know, Teflon, whatever they call him. If we do, then he's a war criminal. You see, this is the vise that the American left has clamped down on President Trump. No matter what he does, he loses in their eyes. And obviously, they control a lot of what the messaging is that goes out from the media.

Now, the latest is the war criminal thing. This is just new this week. All right. But this is a well-thought-out campaign, roll tape. We should note that destroying civilian power infrastructure is generally considered to constitute a war crime under international law. And that would be on its face a violation of the laws of war and would be a war crime. He is continuously threatening to commit war crimes. A few hours later, he put out an extra post teasing some weeknight war crimes.

Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Okay, he could be announcing a military. military attack in prime time tomorrow. The clear answer is yes. It would be a war crime. It's not clear. And a guy's an idiot, Blumenthal. He's a senator from Connecticut.

I'm not big on name calling, but he truly is. And so is Murphy, the other senator from Connecticut. We've been over this turf before. So the war criminal thing is now in motion. The next thing to come up will be the assertion that Iran is actually winning the war. Go. The reaction is that Iran is gaining leverage over us as this war goes on. And I've been saying for over a week that Iran is winning the war.

Yeah, because you're an idiot too. This is Seth Moulton, a congressman from Massachusetts. These are far-left people. I mean, these aren't serious people. They're not looking at the situation and trying to analyze it with any kind of objectivity at all. The United States is not losing.

We are basically trying to get some kind of an arrangement where Iran will walk away from their nukes. And we are doing it with the civilian casualties in mind. Right? That's what's restraining us right now,

the war criminal thing. And on the polling, and you've got to understand most people don't know. The history of this, if you're really confronting evil, we get into, that's why I put the Ayatollahomania

on the cover. I mean, how evil this thing has been going on for 50 years. They've killed thousands of Americans, but most people don't know. All they know is they're paying more. Okay, so there's a

This is a CNN poll. First question, what is your view of the U.S. decision to take military action inside Iran? Approved 34, disproved 66%. Okay, next one in your view. Is the war in Iran worth the toll is taken on American lives and the financial burden in places on the U.S. government, or is the war not worth these costs, not worth it? 70, yes, worth it 29. Okay.

I don't dispute that. You know, the propaganda element in all this and the recent history of Iraq and Afghanistan, you know, people are confused. I don't, they don't know about the nukes and how close and all of that. All they know is they're paying more at the gas bomb. Okay, another poll, the economist. Okay, do you support or oppose the war with Iran? Support 28, oppose 59, pretty much the same as the CNN,

a little bit better numbers for Trump there. Second question, do you approve or disprove the way Donald Trump's handling situation? Prove 30, disprove 60, no opinion 10. Okay, so consumer pain and the stock market too. I got my statement, I went, oh, look at this. But I understand a big picture here. I got it. So my personal situation doesn't enter into my analysis of what the right thing to do is for the world.

And let me, let me end this talking points memo. with this situation. When I'm confronted with a person who opposes the U.S. action, I asked one simple question, because I'm a simple man. Is it okay with you that Iran have a nuclear weapon? That's it. So Pope Leo, that would be my question for the Pope. All of the NATO leaders, said, okay?

with you that Iran have this device because that's what it's all about. Nobody answers that question. They don't answer. They go off into, you know, flights of this and that, or, well, he should have done in this, or he doesn't have the goal or he didn't this. It's all tactics. It's not bottom line. So that's interesting.

Finally, after all of this is done, no matter how it comes out, and I said this was the biggest risk that President Trump has taken in his administration, and it could go either way. You remember, I said that. But no matter how it goes, the Democrats are going to use this tactic. Here's the Speaker of the Minority Speaker of the House. Something is really wrong with this guy clearly and at minimum we need a wellness check. He's unhinged, he's out of control and this is not presidential behavior or anything close to it. And some of my Republican colleagues need to actually step up and recognize something is wrong at 1600 Pennsylvania. Avenue. Okay. Don't worry about that. None of that's going to happen. Let's face it, the U.S.

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population supports Israel's actions in Iran. Currently, there's very high support for continuing this as long as, kind of as long as it takes in order to make Iran so weak that Israelis no longer feel like they no longer have to worry about them, which is remarkable because Israelis have been running in and out of bomb shelters for five or six weeks by now. They believe in kind of finishing this job, but the stakes for them are much different than they are for the United States. You know, the U.S. homeland. is not under constant daily attack the same way that Israel's home front is, you know, Israeli and U.S. interests in this conflict are potentially quite different.

But for the time being, the two militaries are working quite closely to deal a profound amount of damage to this regime pretty much every single day. So Israelis are used to suffering economically because of terrorism, but Americans are not directly suffering. Would that be an accurate sense? statement? Yeah, I think it's true. I mean, Israelis have dealt with, you know, terrorism as a daily reality for 30 or even 40 years by now.

You know, not as something that could happen, but something that inevitably happens. You know, at least since in the last 20 years, probably the country has had, you know, maybe tens of thousands of rockets and missiles fired at it at some point or another. You remember how people in the United States kind of lost their minds about a single Chinese spy balloon. The experiences are just kind of much different. But I think Americans do have recent experience of very far away events having an effect on our lives and on our bottom lines. There was a rather large spike in various commodities after the Russian invasion of Ukraine a few years ago, many of which are on the same scale or even larger than the increases we've seen in the past.

few weeks. You know, we are not completely insulated from world events. And the people who are predicting an Iranian victory basically think that the Iranians can inflict enough economic damage or anxiety on Americans to basically convince us that somehow we've lost. Back away, back away, right. Are you surprised that the polling in America is so anti- the Trump administration's military strategy? Are you surprised? I'm actually not that surprised at the end of the day. American politics are very highly polarized, for one thing.

Anything that Trump does is going to be opposed by vast numbers of people, almost no matter what. But also, you know, I've been writing about the U.S. Iranian relationship for a long time. particularly around the time of the nuclear deal a decade ago. And people forget this, but that deal was actually very unpopular, something like between 55 and 60 percent, you know, poll after poll after poll, showed that there was decisive opposition to the Obama administration's deal.

But I think that also just reflected the polarization of the time. I think Americans don't really think all that deeply about foreign policy for the most part, nor should they. The Iranian nuclear program is not an issue that people think affects their daily lives, particularly. It's a highly technical issue. That's the reason that it became, you know, very easy to kind of, you know, massage public opinion on these issues because Americans don't really confront them very often. But again, in reality, a world where Iran has a Nuke is one that is generally less stable, one where the U.S. is not in control of the various

things that we need America to be in control of for our lives to be as safe and comfortable as they are. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, if anybody uses nuclear weapon, North Korea or anybody, the whole world gets thrown into a depression, number one, and the whole alignment that we have changes. And that brings me to, there are a significant amount of Europeans and Americans who believe that somehow Netanyahu and Israel calling shots here and that Trump's going along with it. You've heard that, right? Yes. I think it's not really true. I mean, there was a report in the New York Times just a few minutes ago, actually right before I came on, you know, recounting this presentation that Trump gave, or excuse me.

excuse me, that Netanyahu gave to Trump back in February, basically arguing, you know, providing like a list of potential leaders of Iran and arguing, you know, that it would basically be, that this war would be easy. It's true that events like that probably did happen in some form or another, but the reality is that the regime in Tehran has been very opposed to the United States for many decades. Trump himself has highlighted that threat for the last 47 years. He said in both of his campaigns for president that he considered Iran to be a major threat to the United States. And Iran has killed, you know, directly killed far more American soldiers than they have killed.

You know, with the roadside bombs in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, this leads into the anti-Semitism. that we're seeing in America and Europe. Europe is worse, far worse, I think, in that area than America is. Because the European leaders actually fear the influx of Muslims, particularly in Great Britain, in France. They fear them. And here we don't have that.

It's just a matter of propaganda and crazy college kids running around. But this Iranian thing, the world is sitting it out. Did that surprise you? There are aspects of it that I do find really, not just surprising, but shocking. You know, in the early days of this war, there was a drone fired from Lebanon, probably by Hezbollah, at the British base in Akrateri in Cyprus. Akrateri is sovereign British territory. It's not just an overseas base.

The British are allowing various basing rights to the United States as part of this war, but they've been kind of irrelevant beyond that. I mean, I think it's pretty clear by now that the free world really only has three functioning militaries. Look, it's the United States, it's Israel, and it's Ukraine. You know, the British, the French, all of these countries that are part of our larger security architecture have sat this out. Even though I believe there was a French soldier killed a few weeks ago. And again, British sovereign territory has come under attack by Iranian proxies since this began. I mean, they're concerned about escalation spirals, right?

the European diplomatic stance is always to push for de-escalation and compromise. But at the same time, you know, these are events that are considered great provocations to countries that are supposedly... Not anymore. ... players in the world. And they don't seem to be. Not anymore. I think that the irrationality and emotion of this has overtaken.

the logistical danger and really what it's all about. Last word. Yeah, I mean, look, this is a very novel conflict. You know, there hasn't really been a war like this where a rival country's leadership was decapitated in the opening hours, where this much has been destroyed this quickly, but where it seems like the preexisting political order of the country, attack is going to survive. We're in all kinds of uncharted territory. But if the war ended today,

the Iranians would be rebuilding for an awfully long time. They would be far more isolated than they were when this began. It's clear that the Gulf states, you know, are not about to be led into, you know, they're not going to put up with having to tolerate an Iranian protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz, which I think is going to prove to be a toxic asset for the Iranians, assuming they can even control it at the end of this. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck

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YouTube.com slash at Politics by Faith. And also, there was quite a bit of instability inside of Iran in the months after the war last year. There were huge protests back in January, and Iran took far less damage. You know, the regime has come under far more sustained attack now than they did back then. I think people predicting that they know exactly what's going to happen inside of Iran in the next few months are diluting themselves. But for the time being, the winning. The one thing we do know is that if it stopped, today, Iran would still have the uranium enrichment program.

And that's why it isn't stopping today. Because Trump can't live with that. That's where he staked it all out. So anyway, Amman, thanks very much. We really appreciate you coming on talking to us today. Thank you. The Republicans are not all in lockstep here. So Senator Ron Johnson for Wisconsin, he does not want the Trump administration to go in and attack civilians for all the tape.

I am hoping and praying that President Trump is this really is bluster. I do not want to see us start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to see that. We are not at war with the Iranian people. We are trying to liberate them. Okay, so there isn't a heavy drumbeat, but, you know, there are Republicans who don't want part of this, the attacks on civilian targets. Okay, in other political news, I've been getting a lot of mail about Pam Bondi, 60 years old.

The former attorney general was ousted by President Trump. Now, what you need to know is this. No one can cover the departments of the federal government because it's like Department of War, it's a Department of Justice, whatever it may be. The issue reports at the end of the year, the inspector generals go in, tell you what's going. But on a day-to-day basis, yes, there are correspondence,

okay, there, and they're reporting what actually happens, but really the inner relationship between a president and one of his cabinet members, Ms. Bonding, undefined. All you can do is guess. Now, I like Pam Bondi. Okay, I like her. I think she did a good job in Florida. I don't know why she got the boot here. I suspect it was failing to control the Epstein file thing, failing to bring Comey to indictment, and Letitia James to indictment.

I think those three things President Trump felt were not positives, obviously, in his point of view. So that's why Bondi went. This is a guess. All right. Artemis 2 broke the record, furthest travel away from Earth by any human beings. And they're coming back on Friday. There'll be a celebration. I hope this Iran thing does not intrude.

It's a great achievement by America. $4 billion, so it should be great. Zipped around the moon, 10-day mission. They got to see the other side of the moon. and the reason they're doing that is because the federal government, and this will supersede Trump's term, wants to land again on the moon. Remember, Apollo 17 was in 1972.

It's just really expensive to do this. Now, as you know, we're in a huge debt here. But that's the plan, to put people on the moon again, and then to do something in Mars. You know, I don't know. Is it worth the money? You've got to make the call on that. All right, ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union.

I'm only bringing this to your attention because it's very interesting. So I'm watching all the networks last night. Just flipping around and see who's the most irresponsible. okay, who's doing what? That's part of my job. I have to do it. I don't want to do it.

I'd much rather watch the game, but I can't watch the game. I got to watch this stuff. So up pops on CNN, a fundraiser commercial for the ACLU. Roll it. Hey, everybody.

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You'd have to let them out. Anti-police. Okay, they don't like the police. The police are racist, according to the ACLU. Trans rights, men should play women in sports. Okay? And race preferences, if you are. a person of color, you get better jobs, easier admissions to universities, on and on.

That's what the ACLU wants, in addition to open borders and all that. And when I'm watching this thing, I'm going, this is such rank propaganda. I can't even believe it. Now, there's no accident they bought this spot because they had to pay for it on CNN. Okay, because that liberal audience there is, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, my liberties are under, these are fringe people. Okay, CBS announced who's going to replace Stephen Colbert. I know most of you don't care. Okay, so as a guy named Byron Allen, 64 years old, I know him a little bit, he's an okay guy.

He's a billionaire. There made a ton of money at the Allen Media Group. And he's going to have a comedian Comics Unleashed program where four comedians sit around. He ripped us off from Goodfell. Gutfeld should sue CBS. It's exactly what Gutfeld does every night. CBS is doing it. Okay.

So it's Comics Unleashed. Now, who is Byron Allen? Well, he is a Democrat, according to Open Secrets, which tracks political donations. All of his money goes to the Democratic Party. That's okay. Because I think CBS will line it up, so it's not going to be like the view. Okay, they'll line it up and get a different point of view. Anyway, Colbert gets the boot on May 21st.

I don't know why they kept them this long. I guess they were worried about a lawsuit from him. And then Alan moves in. Do I think Alan will succeed? No, I don't. It's not because of him. I just think late night is shot. Okay.

What else do we have here? On the rundown, smart life, the nuclear threat. So how do you explain to see kids and your grandkids? So they're running around, and they don't know Nagasaki Hiroshima, they don't know Oppenheimer. They don't know. They heard about it, but they don't really know. This is the crux of this whole Iranian thing.

I know this, because I did talk to the president about it. All Iran has to do is say, okay, well, let in the world. weapons inspectors to look at what we're doing with uranium. That's it. The whole thing ends. All right. So my news nation with Leland Vitterd last night. Roll tape. Are you for letting Iran have a nuclear weapon? The New York Times seems to be for it. MS seems to be for it. Is that a rhetorical question? All of NATO seems to be for it. No, no, I mean, I'm not. The Pope seems to be for it. All of these people seem to favor Iran having a nuclear weapon. Why else would they object?

Simple man. Why would you object to neutralizing Iran because it's a terrorist state, everybody knows that, and then allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon? Why would you object to that if you didn't support them having a nuclear weapon? a weapon. I asked that question to all my liberal friends. Nobody answers. Because there is no answer on their part. What they say is, well, we got in there under false pretenses. Trump didn't tell us what the mission was. Trump didn't do this. Trump didn't do that. Boots on the ground, but they never answer the call core question. All of these people who object, who

would allow Iran to sit there and develop a nuclear weapon. It's okay with them. You've got to boil the argument down. Final thought, coming your way. Okay, final thought, as I mentioned, we'll do it live. The long-form podcast drops tomorrow at noon for premium and concierge members, and at six for everyone else. Howie Mandel.

He's had a very hard time. in his life, incredibly hard time. And we get into that. So I think you'll enjoy it. This is a big thing that's happening with us. And I can't say I knew it would work. My younger staff was the one that pushed me into it, but it's going great. So we want you to watch.

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