Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trouble Ahead in the Senate for Trump's Picks, John McLaughlin's Exit Polls, Can Trump Deploy Military for Mass Deportation? & the Real Cost of the Kamala Harris Town Hall With Oprah

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, November 18th, 2024, stand up for your country. Can I ask you a question? Of course I can. All right, I'm here. I can ask a good question. You don't have to answer it, but I can ask it.

So do you agree with everything Donald Trump does? And if you don't, to what degree? I'm very, very interested in my audience because we obviously don't do a Kool-Aid presentation. We're not choir practice here for anybody, and we never will be. But I want to know, I mean, I get some letters that, you know, are in the he can do no wrong category. I don't know. All right, so bill at bill o'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. It's just from my personal information.

I'm not going to read them unless you want me to read them. If you want me to read your letter, you said, I'd like you to read my letter. But I'm doing this because I want to know. So the talking points memo is about Trump's cabinet selections, which, of course, are controversial. We went over this last week. So at least three of the president's cabinet choices, let's put it that way, are going to have trouble in the Senate. And maybe more than this, but these are the top guys. guys. Matt Gates for Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy for Health and Human Services, and Pete

Hague Seth for Secretary of Defense. So they all have to go through the confirmation hearing in the Senate get a majority of senators to vote. Yes, they're all going to have trouble. But Donald Trump has Plan B, which is recess appointments. This is fascinating now. So recess appointments is when the Senate is not in Washington, D.C., it's out of session. And when the Constitution was being forged, Alexander Hamilton, who was a big federalist guy, wanted a big government, okay, he snuck in to the Constitution a clause that said, if the Senate's not around and the president needs an appointment, he has the ability to unilaterally get it. Okay, that's called recess appointment in the Constitution. And the reason back then was

that the Senate and Congress would go home, but they live far away and they had a horse and buggy taking them. So if you lived in Savannah, you go home, It's not easy to come back so that there were a lot of gaps in Congress's presence. Now, let's give you some facts to put this into perspective. So, President Clinton made 139 recess appointments. Most were very low-level, ambassadors, things like that. People didn't care about that. President George W. Bush made 171.

That's a lot. But again, no big ones. But both Clinton and Bush used this recess appointment a lot. Okay. Barack Obama swept into town. He made 32, but some of them were big. Okay? And they were challenged.

They got to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court ruled in 2014 because they saw what Obama was doing here. He was waiting to the Senate to go on vacation and then diving in. The Supreme Court ruled that the Senate has to be out for 10 days or more. So they cut it down a little bit, made it harder. Now, Trump in his first term, zero recess. appointments. Nobody knows that but me, and I'm reporting it to you. None. Biden made zero. They didn't do any. And I thought that was good. I want the Senate to be able to question

powerful people, and you should too, because powerful people can do a lot of good, but they can do a lot of damage. And we ought to know on the record what the deuce is going on. Is that reasonable? I think it is. So they didn't make any, all right? And now Donald Trump knows that the three guys I mentioned, and, you know, I think Tulsi Gabbard would be confirmed, or a director of national intelligence. I don't see a problem.

I don't see a problem with Christine Nome, Governor of South Dakota, overseeing Homeland Security. I don't. If you voted against that, you're just being a contrarian. neither woman, they're both very smart. There's no reason not to have them do the job. And I'm going to, 60 minutes did a thing last night, a sleight of hand that I'm going to deal with later on,

but just keep this in mind. Okay, so Trump knew when he appointed or he suggested that Hegsteth and Gates and JFK Jr., RFK Jr., he knew. that all hell was going to break loose because it provocatory enjoys that Donald Trump likes that you stir it up okay but he's going to have a hard time now because even if he goes with the recess appointments there's no big recess after inauguration day until you get to easter boy he has to wait and if he puts those three guys into the senate democrats are going to kill him It's going to be like the Kavanaugh hearings.

Remember that for the Supreme Court? Bloody, awful. I don't know why you want to put the country through that. Now, if Mr. Trump really believes that Matt Gates is the best attorney general and he has to have him, should explain that. Because I'll tell you what, Pam Bondi would sail right through. To me, that's my pick. And I can give you five others.

You know, tough law enforcement. who have a lot of experience, Gates don't have any experience at this level. None. Yes, Gates will blow it up and it deserves to be blown up. Justice Department deserves to be blown up. Okay, it is so corrupt, it's staggering how corrupt it is. But you can do that with people have experience. There are enough people who come in and do it. All right. So how this is going to play out, I can't predict it. I don't, why would you want to be sworn in, all right, on, I think it's the 21st of January, and immediately face a bloodbath of questioning your nominees in the Senate. Why would you want to do that? Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under

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You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Why would you want a honeymoon period for a little while? That's my question. Let's recap. The reason that Donald Trump supported all those people is because they're loyalists, particularly Mr. Hegsmith, they're loyalists. RFK Jr. could turn on Trump at a second in a heartbeat. I don't know whether Donald Trump knows that or not, but boy, oh boy, you better be careful

with that guy. And Gates got problems. You got legal problems, get ethical problems. He got problems. And that's a memo. All right, Donald Trump's R and R in today. I don't know what he's up to. He's out of Mar-Lago.

Might be playing golf. I don't know. Joe Biden's in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Interesting town. been there a few times. He was over in Peru, and they embarrassed him over there in a picture. They put him in the second row. I would not have done that. If I'm president of the United States, I would not stand in the second row. Sorry, but he did because I don't think he knows where he is. Then he went to the Amazon jungle. I don't know why he went. At least they found him his way out of there.

Now he's in Rio de Janeiro for the group of 20, the G20. It's an economic summit. No Russia, though. Putin's isolated. So you got Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Turkey, UK, and the USA. Spain is in there, too. Okay. And they're all there. They run a big tab, and they talk about the economy. That's where Joe Biden is.

All right, election post-mortem. So tomorrow will be two weeks, and we have new stats for you. I'm very interested in about how this all went down because it's so historical. I don't even know if Donald Trump understands that what he did is unique in our history. It's never even come close. I know Grover Cleveland, but if you read Confronting the Presidents, Cleveland only got back in because Benjamin Harrison, the sitting president, was the most boring guy on earth. Wasn't that Cleveland was so great.

There wasn't a popular uprising for Cleveland. It was just a Harris who was dismal. And I went, all right, Grover wasn't that there. We'll bring them back. Trump was a popular uprising. That has never happened twice. I mean, when I'm looking at the history of it, it's staggering. So anyway, here are the votes that we have now.

153 million votes counted. It's down about 5 million from 2020. Electoral vote, Trump got 58 percent, Harris 42, that qualifies as a land slide in the electoral college, popular. Trump won 50, Harris 148, which is incredible because of California, New York, and Illinois, or liberal states, and they're the biggest, as far as population is concerned, well, not Illinois. I shouldn't say that. Florida and Texas have passed, New York, which is hemorrhaging people.

But when you have those three combinations of Chicago and New York City and L.A., I mean, my God, you win the popular vote, boy. So joining us now is our pal John McLaughlin from upstate New York. He is the pollster for Donald Trump. And he has brand new, just out today, exit polling information for us. First of all, I get a lot of mail to get a how do you do this? how do you do it? So you polled a thousand voters earlier this month. How does that go down? Just briefly. Well, that was between the fourth and the sixth. We did a thousand voters who voted in the election, either earlier on election day. And it's the one poll we can't get wrong because we have voter lists. We call them ahead of time. We know what the results are. And we get to target and wait it by the actual results. How do you get a voter list? How do you get a voter list? They exist. They're databases. There's databases of

all Americans, consumers, et cetera. But every secretary of state and every state keeps a voter list. It's updated. There's companies that sell you the data. I have to pay for the samples. So you pay for the samples. The Republican Party uses certain people. They have a company called Data Trust that keeps their data. There's other ones like I-360, etc. They have every voter in the country. And we know like 5,000 to 7,000 pieces of information on each voter. We have a database. So you got 50 states, but you only have a thousand recipients. So you get every state in there, or what do you do? Yes, we do. Some states like Alaska, get one or two calls. That's about it. But you proportionate it by the actual vote, by the way it came out. Like you had mentioned

that there were 153 million votes so far. It was just under 160 million in 2020. And we know who those voters are. There's 90 million more people that were eligible that still didn't vote, but they're eligible and they're out there. And, you know, so we know who they are too. But Donald Trump won this race decisively. Okay. And I don't think anybody quibbles with that. I think that that is a known fact. Thank God for the country. We didn't want to go through what we went through in 20. Okay. So the first headline, and you correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just going by what our researchers came up with, is that the primary reason to Donald Trump was elected was the high prices in America.

People are suffering because of that. Is that true? Top issue, without a doubt, four or five voters said they were negatively impacted by at half, struggling to just get by. Okay. So if that's the case, why didn't the Democratic Party know that? Because they stayed away from that totally. They caused it.

They caused the inflation. I know they caused it, but they could have made an excuse that COVID did this and that Somebody did that. Putin did it. You know how they are. But they just stayed away from it. They tried. Remember, she had a plan. They were going to go after price couch, you know, et cetera, like that. More big socialism. All right. So they basically punted on that, the Democrats, and people recognized they had no solution, no known solution for this high prices. The second one was the reason that people voted for Kamala Harris wasn't for her is because they had it. Trump. Right. And that's what our exep polls said were virtually. They were running a negative campaign. She didn't stand for anything. Trump, on the other hand, we were running a campaign. Remember,

he was ahead. And when we won the nomination in record style, I mean, it was like bigger than Reagan, bigger than anything else, blow away nomination. He was ahead of Biden then. And then he made the lead so much bigger that Biden, they forced them out. And what he did was he maintained that lead. And we out from the election, at a conversation with him, I said, you know, Mitt Romney was ahead by a point at this stage in the popular vote. He ended up losing. And Trump told me he's not Mitt Romney. And I said, you just got to make your puts. We've been ahead since the primaries. We're going to go ahead. And you have to just keep on driving it on the issues, reducing inflation, securing the border, lowering crime, ending the endless wars. And he ran on the issues. And his job approval in our

post-election survey, which is on our website, McLaughlin Online.com. He had a 56% positive job approval, only 43 negative. Harris was a minus one. Biden was like a minus six. When was that? When was that approval waiting? When did you post it?

That was, we, it's on our website now. That's from that November. Was that before the vote or after the vote? That was after the vote. Before the vote in the battleground states, we had him, we had Donald Trump positive net positive on his job rating, and Harris was a 43-approved, 53 disapproved. So we set up a contrast

that Donald Trump could solve these problems, do the job, and she was part of the problem. She was Joe Biden. She was Joe Biden's vice president. Yeah, she couldn't make any progress off her because he doesn't disagree with anything he did. Now, your survey shows abortion was hardly an issue at all in this thing, even though the media tried to ramp that up, folks, 6% nothing. Right, because Donald Trump stayed in character.

I mean, he basically, he stood where he stood during the primaries, when he was president, et cetera. He was going to leave it up to the states decide the Democrats poured probably a billion dollars into

and saying we were going to have a national abortion ban. It wasn't true. The voters read through that. Plus, they had other more serious problems that they could see, you know, I said to anyone, if they were undecided on election day,

Go to the supermarket, go look at your rent, look at your utility bill, look at your mortgage, decide who you're voting. But no doubt about it. It was the economy that drove it. Now, you were right on in everything that you predicted, all your surveys, all of that. Did Trump thank you? Did he give you a bonus? Did he call and say, hey, why don't you and your family go to Tahiti for a couple of weeks on me? I mean, what did he do? Well, we haven't spoken lately because I'm not looking for a job. Everybody else. I know.

Everybody's looking for a job. My goal was to make your predictions come true because you were giving them good advice. I give everybody good advice. I mean, I'm a nonpartisan advice. But he sometimes didn't think I gave him good advice because I don't just knee-jerk it. You know, I'm not a choir master here. But I followed, you're giving me credit, but I followed your lead in the sense that you must have been on a half dozen times since September 10th. And every time you are on, you were very specific, which puts you apart from most of these bloviators that work at the politics.

And what you said bore out. I can't, I'm looking at your sheet here on the exit polling. So you must be a Swami or something because you hit it. No, we just asked the American voters. We have inside information. If you do the polls in an unbiased fashion, and if you look at what the people are saying, you always talk about the people. When the folks tell us that their top issue is inflation, and they're worried about immigration,

and they're worried about crime, and they're worried about wars, and if you've got the candidate that can solve those problems, because that's why Donald Trump was running. He cares deeply about the country. He's patriotic. He wants to go back to the good policies that he had as president, and he's going to do a better job this time. I hope so. But he's got to be a little bit more contemplative before he dives into waters that are going to muddy his agenda. That's just my opinion. But let's get back to you. So you say, okay, it's easy and you're saying that. But I'm going to, after you disappear

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By the way, it's not easy. You have to be careful how you do it, statistics as an integrated. exact science, I got an MBA in it. If you're careful and you know what you're doing and you have some experience how to read public opinion, it was right there. And it was really, I'm only as good as the people I work for. And Donald Trump, as you said it, was a historic president. You're going to have to add a whole other chapter that may be longer at the end of your book. Well, I'll do something on it. But he doesn't know, in my opinion, or if he does, he hasn't stated it how remarkable that's the word what he accomplished is in the context of history i know

maybe someday you me and him can have some supper and and you know say do you have any idea which you pulled off here now when you say what he pulled off it sounds like he's a genius and this and he may be, but it was the folks who did it. But nobody has come close in this country or any other country that I can see, all right, to what he accomplished. It's a stunning story. No, you're exactly right, because in 2016, I compared him to Andrew Jackson. And he said, 1824 said, no, 1828. But that was the election where Jackson had had, had, had, He beat the establishment, the Republican establishment, he beat the Washington establishment. Yeah, it'd be Quincy and the boys.

Right. But it wasn't close to this because Jackson didn't have a hostile media and a hostile infrastructure in Washington, both working against him in dishonest ways. Jackson didn't have that because he would have shot them dead. He would have kicked the door into the Tennessee newspaper and just shot all of them if they had done that. All right, John, you're the best. I got to tell you, I've got to tell my audience, man, if I ever have any need for any poll, you're the guy I'm going to. So congratulations for all your success.

And Trump should be sent in you and your family to Tahiti. And I'm going to join them. That's okay. I'll see you next season at a Yankee game. All right. See you later. Okay, as promised, we're ranking the polls here. So John was an internal poller.

and just understand that. He worked for Trump, and he didn't do public polling. These are the public polls. So number one is Atlas Intel out of Brazil. We had their CEO on here, dead on. I will always, for the rest of my career, in any kind of a situation, go to Atlas. Second is Rasmussen. Very good.

Third, making a big leap forward is Emerson College in Boston. they were pretty accurate. All the rest are pinheads. Bloomberg, Harris, Reuters, Monmouth, which is notoriously terrible, and Maris College, which works for NPR and PBS, they are the paymasters for Maris College. And I suspect that Maris College told them what they wanted to hear because Maris College had Harris winning by four.

You don't make mistakes like that. That has got to be something wrong there. So that's the number. Put them up again. I want everybody to look because it's going to be polling, all right? So you just look at the top three. Those were the best. And starting with Bloomberg on down America, they were terrible.

Okay. So Donald Trump wants to declare a national emergency on immigration, which would give him the authority to do, different things. And you declare a national emergency by executive orders. He just signs a piece of paper. It doesn't give them as much authority as you would think. He's still constrained by Congress and the federal courts. But he wants that to bring attention to the immigration problem. So it would be the National Emergencies Act, and he would sign an executive order, and he would have more power to do quickly what he wants to do. Now, the main thing he wants to do, and why he's signing this executive order, and he will,

is used the military to assist homeland security to deport undocumented migrants. That's what he wants, the authority he wants. Now, he runs into Pasi Kamitatis. He runs into a lot. As soon as he signs that EO, there'll be lawsuits, federal lawsuits. Boom. It'll have to go to the Supreme Court.

And I think it'll fast track in there. But that's why he's doing what he's doing. He wants to use the military to assist, not to arrest, but to assist in moving undocumented to places from where they will be deported. Sanctuary cities. So Donald Trump could not get it done the first four years denying federal funds to sanctuary cities. Why? He signed an executive order on January 25th, 2017, almost shortly after he was inaugurated. It was executive order 13768.

So as soon as he got in, the first time around, he signed his executive order, enhancing public safety in the interior of the United States to withhold federal grants from sanctuary cities. Immediately, he got sued. And I went to federal court and a judge, William Oric, okay, issued a nationwide permanent injunction against blocking funding for sanctuary cities, saying it was unconstitutional. Supreme Court dismissed the case on technicalities. That's going to come back. Trump will try it again. But again, the Supreme Court's going to have to make all of these calls. It's not easy to get this done.

But it'll get up there. That'll be a big, big story in early next year. Okay, media. So Donald Trump has an act of lawsuit against CBS News. It is for $10 billion with a B dollars. The lawsuit says that CBS practice, quote, deceptive conduct for the purpose of electing Kamala Harris. The deceptive conduct was when,

60 minutes interviewed Harris, and it was a taped interview edited, and allegedly, according to Trump, they edited the interview, so it made Harris look better. It's still in there. It's a $10 billion lawsuit. Okay. So where that's going to go, CBS has First Amendment rights. What Trump wants, he doesn't want $10 billion, I guess he'd take it. But he wants that transcript to come out of the whole interview with Kamala Harris. That's why he's doing this, and CBS won't put it out. But last night, Scott Pelly, as the head correspondent on 60 Minutes, did an opinion piece and gave us his opinion.

And he started with Pete Hegsev. Go. He's a combat veteran, most recently a morning show host on Fox News, with no government experience. Former Congressman Matt Gates for Attorney General in charge of law enforcement. Gates has been investigated by Republicans for alleged drug use and sex with a minor. Gates denies those allegations. Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. She sought a pardon for Edward Snowden, who leaked U.S. secrets and now lives in Russia.

And Robert Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, a skeptic of vaccinations. It's up to the new Republican majority in the Senate to decide whether these nominees are equipped to represent the American people. And obviously, Scott Peli thinks they are not because he wouldn't have singled them out

if he supported them. So CBS News, all right, they go, we don't like this. Now, they would have more credibility CBS News would, if they had questioned at any time what Pete Buttigieg was doing as Secretary of Transportation. And this isn't a what aboutism. This is reporting. So Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a tiny town. The only reason anybody ever heard of it is because Notre Dame is there, was appointed to a federal position in which he wasn't

qualified. He had no experience, and he had a terrible three-and-a-half-year reign. The airline industry almost collapsed on his watch. He did nothing. Only in the last six months, he said, hey, we might find these people something. Keep you waiting there for six hours for no reason. Buttigieg got the job because he's gay. He's a DEI hire. That's all. There is no other question about it. That's why he's there. He's a Biden loyalist. Same thing with Alejandro Mayorkas.

He had a little experience with undocumented people, but he screwed up so badly that any efficient president would have removed him years ago. I mean, this is a disaster, this guy. And the disaster is still to come because because of the open border policy that Mayorkas embraced terrorists are here. A lot of them, they're here. So if CBS had reported on the inefficiency of Mayorkas, of Buttigieg and others, then I might respect Pellie's commentary.

But CBS, a partisan organization. Oprah, it wasn't a million bucks that she got from Kamala Harris, her company. It's $2.5 million, according to New York Times, the New York Times. So the Washington examiner broke the story that it was a million. New York Times said, no, it's $2.5 million. How do they know that? I don't know. Do I believe it?

Yeah. I do. Oprah, $2.5 million for what? So the Federal Election Commission got to get involved here. You can't be spreading that kind of money around, giving it to Oprah's company without any explanation. And Harris gave $500,000 to Al Sharpton, who works for NBC News on MSNBC,

and Sharpton is a cupcake interview with her. And NBC won't comment. What? What? Sharp is a known grifter. Always has been. So again, the Federal Election Commission under Trump, they've got to go in and look at this.

I mean, it's Sharpton, the thing's just outrageous. Hey, here's 500,000 to your little now. National Action Committee, whatever it is, and then you do an interview with Kamala. And if you watch it, it's ridiculous. Saturday Night Live viewership down big, all right? The episode after the election drew just over 4 million people down 33% from the previous weeks and nobody watched it because all people who watched Saturday in Live of liberals and they were too depressed to watch it.

SNL lost 25% of this audience so far this season, compared to 2020. You know, again, when you go into all your audiences of a certain mindset, there's danger. I have to say that this Saturday, SNL's weekend update, was very funny. The woman who played the Squirrel Lady, knocked me out. I laughed out loud. So Che and Jiao's, they're talented guys. They do the weekend update. MSNBC's ratings, they had their lowest rated Wednesday in eight years right after the vote.

They've dropped 43% in primetime since Trump was elected. 43%. Smart life. So there is a sample, Gallup, about what Americans are going to spend this Christmas and Hanukkah. So they come to the conclusion that Americans are going to spend $1,014.

I guess $1,000, and then $14,000 is for tips. I don't know. All right, this is up. No, Americans say 20% of Americans say you're going to spend more than last year, 52% say they're going to same, 25% less. I think retail sales this year are going to be down, but on the internet, they may be up a little bit because you get really good deals on the internet. But it's not going to be a blowout.

Stay in the history 152 years ago, November 18, 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested. She voted illegally. U.S. Grant was running against Horace Greeley. there's Susan B. So Susan and her friends show up and they voted. I don't know who they voted for. And women couldn't vote, but they let them in the vote in upstate New York. And the U.S.

Marshall showed up and arrested Susan. And she was convicted of illegally voting, find $100. And Susan said, I'm not paying. And the government didn't know what to do. So she didn't pay. The others did. They paid 20, they would find 20 bucks each, which is substantial money back then. Susan never paid.

She died March 13, 1906 at age of 86. And women's suffrage, women didn't get the vote until 1920. So 14 years, she died before the vote. Susan B. Anthony, a very courageous woman, back with a final thought. in a moment. Okay, final thought of the day, Elon Musk and Vivek Arama Swami. They don't have to be confirmed. They're just advisors to Donald Trump. And what they are tasked to do is to go in and find out who's wasting our money. I'd tax pay money.

Now this is noble. This is a great thing. But it's not going to be easy because they have inspectors general in all of the federal agencies. Do they do their jobs? Some do, some don't. But to get all of that paperwork, to get all of those things without subpoena power, they can't just walk in and say, give me all your stuff. It's going to be a little complicated. What Musk and Ramoswami need are whistleblowers. Whether they can cultivate that, I don't know.

But they need people from within the department and say, look, they're doing this, this is insane. they will be able to get some kind of information from the new department heads because Trump has got to appoint them all and they will be able to look at that but boy I'll tell you this this bureaucracy in D.C. it's tough but this is a very brilliant move by Donald Trump some of his other moves particularly the Matt Gates thing not brilliant. This one is And I'm hoping that this is the beginning of some kind of supervision, $36 trillion debt. And Armageddon can't do it.

We have to stop. Okay. We have a very good week of programs. You know, we plan ahead our weeks here. Really good. I hope you'll be with us every night. We really appreciate you watching and listening to the No Spin News, and we will see you tomorrow.