Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trump Addresses Iran Deal: What's Next?, James S. Robbins on the 60-Day Timeline, & DOJ Targets Illinois Reparations Program

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill's analysis of President Trump's press conference following the G7 Summit. James S. Robbins, Ph.D., Dean of The Institute of World Politics, weighs in on the 60-day timeline, why the president praised China in his remarks, and how Trump’s approach compares to the Obama Iran deal. Is Evanston, Illinois’ reparations program illegal? Why is the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division intervening. A Washington Post report claims the Trump administration knew it would need taxpayer money to fund the White House ballroom. Final Thought: Bill recommends a patriotic song to check out.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the NOSPN News from Manhattan. Wednesday, June 17, 2006, stand up for your country. Obviously, big news day. And it was so annoying because I had so much stuff beginning at 7.30 in the morning. And I'm whining now. I mean, I'm well paid for what I do. But it just was so intrusive. So I'm trying to lock in on what's going to happen. happened. And then Trump's press conference was originally scheduled for 930. I think he got there about 1120. So we're sitting around and you're going, oh, when is it going to stop? I got to go into the crazy city from Long Island, which can take three days with the traffic here. But anyway, we have the best, and I mean that literally, coverage of this Iranian situation that is the subject. of this evening's talking points memo. Always good to watch this broadcast with a pen and paper. And you're going to hear things that contradict

the other news agencies. Trust us. We will back everything up. So, President Trump, as you may know, is in France for the G7 meeting, but everybody's there. And the French and the Europeans and the Asians and the Japanese, and the Japanese are all very happy about the secession of hostilities between Iran, USA, and Israel. And they won and did nothing, nothing, to help the United States and Israel tamp down the threat from this terrorist state Iran.

Zero. So they get the benefit of all of our tax money and we'll get into that. Europe gets free ride, free riders again. So why wouldn't you be happy? And they're all clapping for Trump and they like him now. Gone is Greenland. All right, so the president opens with what exactly the does. deal is with Iran.

Go. And it's a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn't get done in 60 days, it's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good. But we might have to because we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. So that was the headline today, that the Iranian pursuit of a nuclear weapon is dead. It's not dead, but it's badly, badly down.

Now, people believe what they want to believe. The Democratic Party is going to tell you that President Obama had the Iranians locked down, that there was no threat. All right. I mean, it's a useless debate. It's useless. So we assume, and I hope I'm right, because I don't want to mislead you, that Iran did ramp up its uranium enrichment and was a threat.

We assume that is true. The Trump haters and his opposition will never believe that. You could take them down to mine and not going to believe it. Now, that was a justification for the conflict, along with a few other things, but that was the big one. Okay? And the president addressed it. Go. Importantly, Iran has agreed that they will neither produce nor procure a nuclear weapon. Neither produce. Because originally they said they talk about that they will not develop a nuclear weapon.

And some people found it okay. These guys didn't, in all fairness. But some people, but I didn't like it. It said it won't develop. I said, what happens if they should buy? I don't know. It's very dangerous for somebody to sell because whoever sells them a nuclear. weapon will get nuked themselves. If they sold a nuclear weapon, only a few they could do it. They would be nuked. They wouldn't have that country long.

So it's a very dangerous thing for somebody to do. But I wanted it in there. So it's develop, procure, buy anything. And you'll see that when you see the agreement, but it's appropriate that we release the agreement. And we did send a copy to Israel, by the way. All right. So the agreement is a right.

is around now and the media has it is supposed to be signed on Friday okay um then um the money question is a lot of Americans that are outraged that we are buying pretty much buying Iran's cooperation again it's a terrorist state he's what the president said about that go so we don't give them money we don't give them any of that and what happens is with time if they behave, if they be a citizen of the world, a reasonable citizen of the world. And the president defined it further that they're going to unfreeze Iranian money, which is held all around a world in banks, and that was frozen because of economic sanctions against Iran. Violations, I mean, there's just endless violations in the UN and other countries.

said enough and we're going to freeze the money. So that money will be released. Okay? And then there will be money coming from the Gulf states when they make deals with Iran. Now, I don't know what the deals are. President Trump was a little foggy on this. But he believes that Iran then, with all its oil exporting,

will make up a lot of money. The number bantered around and stated. 300 million. But he says flat out, we, the United States taxpayer, are not paying Iran. Obviously, I hope that's true. Okay. Then he talks about, this is a legacy thing. I reported this yesterday.

Trump's legacy versus Obama's legacy. And again, the Democrats are never in a million years going to say the Obama nuke deal with Iran was a bad deal. And Trump's never going to say there was anything good about the deal. So forget it. It's a waste of time. But as an extension of that, President Trump said this. Go.

And Iran got stronger and tougher. If we didn't blow them up the first time and then blow out those weapons, they would have been unstoppable. Okay. Now he's talking about the bombing. last June, a year from now, a year ago, I should say, that downgraded not only the uranium, but also ballistic missiles and across the board. Now, we can confirm the ballistic missiles and the other ordinance, military ordinance, a lot of it was destroyed. That's, you can confirm

that from space. But enrichment of uranium can't. So, the other ordinance, so there's, the president says, yeah, we downgraded it, I would say most weapons people believe that. Certainly ones we have talked to, the ones in Austria, but you can't prove it 100%. So if Iran doesn't live up, and you hear this all the time, cliches abound, well, you can't trust them, they kill this, they, ah, it's a lie. Oh, that's true. But Trump says he is a very simple solution to any deceit. Go. We will bomb them.

They will be bombed, just like I bombed them on Wednesday night and Tuesday night and was going to bomb them on Thursday night at a level that was three times greater. And they knew that. I will bomb them. Now, that's with me as president. If you have a weak, pathetic president, maybe that doesn't happen. but I can only do the job that I have to do. I have a long time to go.

I have almost three years, close to three years. Time is going fast. Now, I know that President Trump doesn't want to bomb them. Okay? It costs an enormous amount of money to do that, and he doesn't want dead bodies, civilians, all over the place. And I know that because I talk to him about it. I, man, a man one on one.

So I'm a primary source here. And so far, so far, according to Pentagon, we have spent $30 billion on the Iranian conflict, $30 billion. A lot of money. Spain didn't kick in anything, as I mentioned. All right. So I wish you guys were all here, if you have any other questions. The other thing that wasn't, that the president really didn't address,

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important is it a line important did we go uh to war to open the strait of hormones no But because the Iranians were effective in intimidating the insurance companies that spend enormous amount of money on the tankers, insuring the tankers. A lot of tankers didn't move in there. It wasn't that Iran had all this ordinance that they were thrown. It was just a threat of it. And that paralyzed a lot of oil sales. and then Herbert Hoover made an appearance in the president's speech going, Trump said, I don't want to be Herbert Hoover and preside over a worldwide depression.

And that was Iran's big weapon, that they would create so much chaos in the shipping of oil that the world would go into a recession or depression. and Herbert Hoover and you know I was complimented because Donald Trump read my book and confronting the presidents and we went into the Hoover thing big time and he knows that now

did he use that be off my book I can't say but I know he read it okay so there let me just recap because there's a lot going on here so Trump believes that he's got the Iranians receding from

the uranium enrichment nuke weapons. He believes that. If they don't or go back, he's going to destroy the country

militarily. Going to destroy them military. So he said, I have an assurance because we reach so much damage on them,

and we'll do it five times as much. Hormuz is still undefined. Can we You just don't know what that's going to be. I don't suspect it's going to be a major problem because, again, money drives this. Money is driving this.

And the Gulf states, and he mentioned all of them. You know, guitar and Saudi Arabia and Emirates and all the like, they're going to make deals with Iran, financial deal. Everybody's going to be in the Iran business for a while. And Trump knows that. And that was part of the equation to the mullahs. You know, you want to rebuild your country. This is a way to do it because we've destroyed your country. All right.

Now, dissent. It's the usual suspects that I'm kind of wasting your time playing the stuff. But I think you need to know, and I'm not going to play a lot of it, that the dissent against Trump will never stop, no matter what he does. And he brought it up to him in the press. He goes, no matter what I do, it's going to be terrible. So the first one was NBC in the form of MS. Go.

He's complaining about how much dropping American bombs cost $250 million, and bombing for another two to three months wouldn't make a difference. That's an incredible signal to the Iranians, the Chinese, the Russians, that President Trump has no stomach, you know, for military conflict. It's amazing. Yeah, so now the most dovish network in the history of network news wants more military conflict. All right, and their number is wrong, the $250 million is wrong, according to Pentagon. All right, the second one comes in Siena and another reliable, liberal Democrat source.

This is from a guy named Ian Bremmer who runs a foreign policy operation. So we, unlike the others, identify who, who, we're using on the air. And Bremer's a liberal. CNN would never tell you that, but they couldn't wait to book Murphy in Connecticut. Every bomb thrower in a world that hates Trump. CNN is just lining them up.

Okay. Here's what Bremer said. Go. Not a single one. Not the ballistic missiles. Not the nuclear file. Not the support for terror or for proxies in the region. not choosing the next supreme leader, not rescuing the Iranian people.

There was not a single war goal that the Americans decided that this was why they had to go and decapitate the Iranian regime that is being resolved by this agreement, not one. Well, that's simply not true, all right? You got a framework where that says this country is not going to pursue a nuclear weapon. He got in writing. So either Bremer doesn't know what he's talking about or doesn't care to tell the truth. And the second one is that because Iran is so bellicose and so aggressive that Israel in particular wanted to downgrade their missile program, which happened.

That happened. And you know that their leader was killed and you know. So, I mean, guys like that, easy to just say anything. They're not fact-based guys. All right, one guy who is a fact-based guy is Jerry Baker, and he's a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Here's how he sees it go. We keep seeing very good numbers on jobs.

Inflation has gone up a bit, but we'll come down again. The underlying performance of the U.S. economy is really very robust. And that's why, again, whatever one thinks of the security aspects of this, getting getting getting getting the world economy back to some court up sort of an even keel and stability is going to be good for the yeah and get There you go Jerry all about money and it is And so it's the usual stuff now when I was watching President Trump I watched the whole thing I thought it's pretty good

I would have liked to have heard more specificity I particularly on how you're going to to be monitoring. You know, he said, well, we got the space stuff, and we got eyes on the gates and the nuclear air, but three miles down on the ground, you know, I would have liked to hear more about that. And then Hormuz, I still don't know what's going on there.

I don't expect that to be big, as I said. And the final thing is Israel got screwed in this deal. Israel gets nothing out of this deal at all, and President Trump wants to constantly. strain them you know his words were a law every time they kill a Jewish person and he's talking to BB Netanyahu you don't have to blow up five buildings okay and Israel got nothing out of this at all they cannot be happy tonight UM OU Memorandum of Understanding so this is what happens in a negotiation

All right and then the formality is on Friday as I mentioned in Geneva Switzerland. I believe Vance is going to be there not Trump Trump's getting out of Europe as quick as he can after his dinner with Macron tonight But I could be wrong about that maybe Trump will stay around he said he might stay around I can't see it He wants to play golf over the weekend and I'm not saying that in a derisional way But that's what he wants to do. And let's see. Did I miss anything? That's pretty comprehensive.

That's pretty comprehensive. I think I got it. I think you're up to date. Again, I wish you were all in his room so we could kick it around. But I got a guy who's pretty smart on this stuff. His name is James Robbins. He is a PhD, Dean of the Institute of World Politics at Reston, Virginia. He also writes a column for USA Today, and he joins us now from D.C.

Am I making any mistakes, Doctor? Not at all, Bill. I think you have it pretty much right where it should be. This is not the final deal. This is just the MOU. It's just the framework for the 60 days of negotiations. So those people who were complaining about how it didn't contain everything in the kitchen sink really don't understand how this is only phase one of the process.

But if it doesn't happen on Friday, then the president takes a hit because his words were defining what this memorandum was. So you would assume that what he said is what's going to happen. Oh, absolutely. The only way that wouldn't happen is if the Iranians decided to start to play tricks, like they recently did with respect to the ceasefire in Lebanon, where they unilaterally added that, oh, by the way, all the Israeli forces have to leave Lebanon. That's part of the ceasefire. So that was Iran moving the goalposts. And it's possible that they could try to do something like that and say, you know, unless you do this, there's no deal. But I also know from President Trump's book that part of the art of the deal is the ability to walk away from the table. So I think the Iranians shouldn't play chicken with the president. They should just get it done on Friday. Well, it should, but who knows? But Trump will hit them militarily if they have pulled anything like that. It'll hit them hard. That is a 60-day window for further

specificity on the nukes. So they got 60 days. I don't expect anything to happen in the 60, and they'll probably do another 60 and all of that, because President Trump knows that's his vulnerability. No weapons inspectors can't be 100% sure that they're upholding the deal, and then Iranians may try to get as much money as they can and then do whatever they do. So I didn't say that in my talking points memo, but that 60 days, that's a little fraught, I mean, they can be pulling a lot of tricks. But you know what it struck me?

And I'd like to get your opinion on this. Trump uses speech to praise China. He said that China could have helped Iran and didn't with Stinger missiles and other things. When I have his way, he even gave Putin a little shout out, which Putin doesn't deserve. but she did. She could have caused an amazing amount of trouble there by arming Iran against the USA and Israel. So Trump used this speech for a lot more than just a memorandum. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I do agree with that. And if you look at the MOU, the final point says that it will be secured whatever comes out of the 60 days. And I agree with you, it's not going to be 60 days.

It's going to probably take a lot longer. But whatever comes out of that process has to be confirmed by the UN Security Council. And essentially, that gives China and Russia a veto over whatever comes out of this process if they choose to veto. So the fact that the president went out of his way to praise China and give a little. little nod to Russia, I think is looking forward to the fact that at the end of the day, those two countries are going to have to vote for whatever comes out of this process. Yeah, I mean, that's a symbolic vote because Trump's going to do what he wants. So if he sees that the Mullahs are violating or aren't doing what they said they were going

to do to him, he'll hit him militarily and the UN's not going to stop him. The other thing about this that's fascinating is that Donald Trump didn't mention the midterms, but it was all over the place and that he feels that he has to get the prices for consumers here in America down and down fast, or that he's going to lose power. Did you read it that way? Yes, and I think this is another reason why the 60-day timeline isn't the real time line because I have serious doubts that if this whole thing, you know, flamed out, that we would be going back to open war in the middle of August with the midterms coming up in October. I mean, there would be no

chance to reset at that point. So that's why there's another 60 behind the first 60. It's 60 days. It's renewable. But what's on the president's mind is. not just international. It's, hey, I got to get momentum back here in the United States. And I think that was a paramount point. And the president kind of avoided that a little bit, but behind the scenes, I know that was big, last word. Well, you're right. Politics is a reality. I mean, there's the international dimension, but there's also the domestic. And I think the Republicans, even though people already, writing the obituary for the Republican Congress, I don't think that's true.

I think the Republicans have a chance to retain everything, and President Trump wants to see that happen. So getting off the dance floor is important to him. The legacy is the most important to him. And the polling is already tightening up, according to CNN, which I mentioned. and then the Democratic Party and they don't have a lot of response other than Obama's deal was better.

I'm just an aside. Do you think Obama's deal was better than, do you think it constrained Iran from developing a nuclear weapon? No, the Obama deal was terrible. It didn't constrain them from anything. It gave them all kinds of unlimited money, which they then used to fund their terrorist proxies.

And ultimately, it's unsetted, and basically gave Iran a timeline for developing a nuclear weapon. So I think the president's critique of the JCPOA was right on target. It's too soon, though, to compare this to the JCPOA, because, again, this is just the MOU. It's the framework for the negotiation. Nobody knows if it's going to go down, although I think it will in the short term. But if another U.S. president is elected that Trump pointed that out, that's weak, then the mulls are run wild again.

Hey, doctor, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Nice to have you on the program. Okay, let's see other news, nothing like that. And just keep in mind what we just gave you, and it was, what, 26 minutes of analysis on a very important story, obviously. And if there's any mistake that I made or any factual thing that doesn't stack to you, you know, send me a letter, bill at bill o'Reilly.com,

bill at bill o'Reilly.com, I'll read the letter. But then compare what you're going to see later on with the others on television. It's not even in the same hemisphere. And we pride ourselves in just telling you the truth. And if we don't know the truth, we tell you that we don't know. Okay. Evanston, Illinois, nice little town, and they approved reparations, $25,000 for African Americans for slavery.

Okay, now it's being challenged in a court, obviously. Department of Justice is now involved, and they're going in saying we want to be part of the lawsuit because it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which means that a group, African Americans, are being treated different. Now in this case they're being treated better because they're getting 25,000 dollars ahead in Evanston, Illinois. Okay, but that's against the Constitution. You can't say I'm going to give Presbyterians a hundred thousand dollars. So that's an interesting thing that I believe the city of Evanston is going to lose. I'm going to lose this.

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Okay? It was originally supposed to open a year ago, and the original cost estimate was $350 million. So it overrode its original cost by $500,000. million dollars. Now, who pays that? Presidential libraries are constructed with private or non-federal funds, donated. But the Obama people don't have enough money to cover it, even though the library's built. And the contractors, the people make the bathrooms and put in the escalators or whatever they say they're not getting paid. Again, the story is.

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so we'll see if that goes anywhere but they owe a lot of money Washington Post can't really trust it they say that President Trump knew the ballroom at the White House was going to cost the taxpayer money

even though the president denied that rolling it's all donations rich people and people are putting up the money zero taxpayer dollars is that right scott zero taxpayer dollars stuff is all done for free and i get sued all right so i don't trust the washington post but that doesn't mean it's not true and i hope i hope it's what the president said is true because if anything goes to into Congress. Congress has to approve all of that. And it'll be a big scandal. Big, big, big scandal. We're watching that. All right, I got a final thought about a Christian song. I think you'll like back in a moment. Final thought of the day, you know, there is a Christian record list on,

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Are they just written down in some old story? My fondest memory of World War II was a day when victory was declared over the axis. A good Americans cannot live without freedom. It's worth fighting for. All right, so that's a big, big hit, and you can find it on Real America's Voice. And you want to want to check it out. You know, it's a patriotic display.

display, 4th of July, good tongue, right? Again, Beau Davidson, song is blessed. Thank you very much for watching the no spin news. And Bill O'Reilly, we got lots of stuff over the weekend. Just keep checking in with me. At Bill O'Reilly's the tweet, I guess they don't tweet anymore, whatever it is, I don't know, and then Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com and all of that.

Okay? Have a good weekend. We'll see you on Monday.