Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trump-Harris Debate Fallout, ABC News Moderator Criticism, Michael Kazin on Who Won the Debate, Taylor Swift Gets Political, Candidate Civility at the September 11 Memorial, & More

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, September 11th, 2004, stand up for your country, particularly on this day. 23 years ago, we all know what happened. I'm going to get into that a little bit later on, anniversary of the terror attack. But first, of course, we're just talking about the debate. Unfortunately, most people who are talking about it are not being honest with you.

We will be tonight. Brutely honest, because that's what I do. We're not going to spin, we're not going to evade, we're not going to do any of that. I'm going to lay it out for you. What exactly happened and the repercussions of it. I've got to flood a mail today on people who are very concerned about this election coming up in November. So first of all, nobody won. Those people saying somebody won, somebody didn't win, it's ridiculous.

Nobody won on the merits. And that's because both candidates, all right, did not do what they needed to do to convince the majority of Americans that they would win the presidential election or should win it. Okay? And I'm going to get into micro detail on both the vice president and the former president. That's number one. Nobody won. If you were going to vote for Donald Trump before the debate, you're still going to vote for.

And same thing with Kamala Harris. Harris did not hurt herself, okay, by her massive evasions, because she came off as somebody could articulate a thought, unlike Joe Biden in June. Trump hurt himself a little bit, not with his supporters, but with people who were maybe considering him because he went into areas that don't help him. It's as simple as that. So let's get specific in the Talking Points memo. Number one, I have a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com. We hope you check that out. Every day, you don't have to be a member or a subscriber. It is there. It lays out exactly the tone of the debate and what happened. The most important things that I zero in on is that

for every question specifically asked, Vice President Harris dodged every single one. Yet the moderators never once pointed out the dodge. President Trump dodged twice on how he would deport undocumented migrants, totally dodged it, and what his vision for better health care is. Well, he dodged twice. Harris, by my account, dodged a dozen times, and that includes not being able to define Gaza, Israel, at all, or Ukraine. Okay, so let's go very slowly through it. first soundbite, I want to play you, is when it comes to the economy, which is the number one

issue, roll it. When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off that they were four years ago? So I was raised as a middle class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America? Doesn't answer the question. Doesn't even come close to answering it? Yes or no? America's better off or not, in your opinion? Mew it and let it go. Now, me, you know me. The debate rules say you can't interrupt the candidate for what, 90 seconds or what, but after, if I'm newer, I go, you didn't even come close to answering that question. Are we better off? Do you believe Americans are better off now? We're four years ago.

And then I would throw in, if I were the debate saying, your campaign theme is a new way forward. But why do we need a new way forward if the Biden-Harris administration was so effective and so good? Why would we need a new way forward? Okay. Second question. All right, this is about abortion, which was gleefully embraced by ABC News because they knew that this is Harris's strongest rhetorical issue. Go.

Vice President Harris want to give you your time to respond, but I do want to ask, would you support any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion? I absolutely support reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade. No, it doesn't answer the question. The protections of Roe v. Wade, all right, don't go into late-term abortions.

Okay. Now in New York, where I am, you can abort an unborn child up until 10 minutes to birth. But in some states, you can't, right? Roe v. Wade was based on a privacy decision by the Supreme Court. Supreme Court now says that privacy condition doesn't really exist in the Constitution, so we're throwing it back as the Constitution dictates to the states to make their own decision. But that's a fairly straightforward question. Do you support any restriction? doesn't answer it. Okay, that's two. Number three, all right, the Afghanistan screw up, which Americans, according to the polls, think is horrendous how the Biden administration, with the support of the vice president, of course, pulled our troops out of Afghanistan, leading to a massive debacle. Roll it. Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden's

decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did. And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day. We were paying for that endless war. That's true. Americans were paying $300 million a day. It's incredible. That's true. But that's not the question. Okay? The question wasn't ending the war. Trump wanted to do that. Trump was negotiating with the Taliban to do that. The question, was cutting and running and leaving $100 billion worth of weaponry in the hands of terrorists. Doesn't answer. It doesn't come close to answer.

All right. One more. But you're getting the gist of it. I know you are because this is an intelligent worldwide audience. So Gaza, right? Very hot topic right now in this country. Roll it. What we know is that this war must end.

It must end immune. immediately, and the way it will end is we need a ceasefire deal, and we need the hostages out. And so we will continue to work around the clock on that. Yeah, everybody knows that. How are you going to do it? Well, no, we're working around the clock. How? What? Why? Never get that. Oh, we're working on it. Now, does Trump have an incisive, here's how I would get a ceasefire? No. Trump's portfolio or what he says is that it wouldn't have happened if he were president.

Not quite enough right now, because it is happening. You want to be fair on this. So it was clear to me as an American that Kamala Harris was not going to answer any questions at all. None. 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. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax advantage gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401k, tax and penalty

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These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. And that's why she doesn't do interviews or press conferences. Because if you were paying attention, as we were, you saw it. No matter how simple the question was an answer. But she did have a theme. And the theme was all of the problems, open border, inflation, overseas chaos,

where Trump's fault, go. And what we have done is clean up Donald Trump's mess. what we have done and what I intend to do is build on what we know are the aspirations and the hopes of the American people. Aspirations and hopes. She's going to build on those aspirations. My aspiration is pretty simple. All I want is the President of the United States to answer questions honestly.

Is that too much of an aspiration? Okay, let's go to Trump. So Trump, number one, had to know he was walking into a three against one. Because ABC News and ABC Network, Disney, CEO Bob Eiger, they want Harris to win. It's clear they want it. There's not one conservative that works in the AB News hierarchy, not one. It's a total blackball. When I'm out confronting the presidents, am I going to get on Good Morning America?

No. No, I'm not. Are they going to interview me on this week, Martha Radditz? know, used to. But once Trump came on a scene, anybody who did to hammer Trump was banned and banished across the board on CBS, NBC, and ABC. Across the board. Trump has to know that. Now, the two moderators, David Muir, he's not an ideological guy. He's the snob. All right? The other one, Lindsay Davis, is an ardent liberal, and she despises Donald Trump. But they didn't write the questions.

They were written by people behind the scenes, producers. Okay. So Trump walks into that, and he knows that the ABC people are going to try to sandbag him. And they do on this incredibly ridiculous story that Haitian migrants are eating dogs and cats somewhere in Ohio, which is internet generated, is not one shred of evidence that exists. And of course, ABC throws it right at Trump. Go. In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats.

They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame. I just want to clarify here. You've rigged up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there had been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community. Well, I've seen people on television. I've seen people on television.

You don't do that. Not in this dangerous age we have, Ukraine, Gaza, runaway inflation, people paying 20% more for the essentials of life, open borders. You're talking about some fiction on the internet? And it doesn't even matter if it's true. Okay, so what? You got some psychopath doing crazy stuff? That's the centerpiece of a debate. And ABC knew that because they, before the debate, all right, questioned the people in Springfield, Ohio.

Well, they knew they were going to do this. That's called a sandbag. Okay. Then they wanted desperately, both the vice president and the two moderators at ABC, to take Trump back to 2020, the election where Trump claims there was fraud because the poll show Americans have had enough of that. They don't want to hear it. Trump takes the bait.

Go. If you look at the facts and I'd love to have you, you'll do a special on it. I'll show you Georgia and I'll show you Wisconsin and I'll show you Pennsylvania and I'll show you. We have so many facts and statistics. Okay, maybe that's true. But it doesn't matter now.

One of the strong points, though, and as I said, Trump won the first 30 minutes, and then he got into the dogs and cats, and then the whole thing collapsed, was that Trump defined the vice president as being Joe Biden. Go. She is Biden. She's trying to get away from Biden. I don't know the gentleman. She says, she is Biden. The worst inflation we've ever had, a horrible economy because inflation has made. it so bad that she can't get away with that. Thank you. Time's up. I want to respond to that, though. I want to just respond briefly. Clearly, I am not Joe Biden, and I am certainly not Donald Trump. And what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country. Okay, fine. But she is Joe Biden because she supported every single thing he's done. You didn't see Mike Pence run around when he was Vice President Trump. saying crazy stuff. Pence was very locked down. Kamala Harris denies for years there was even a

problem at the southern border. For years denied it and blames Trump for inflation. And she is Joe Biden. That was a strong point. Now ABC drops the bomb, okay? Mewer again. So there are softball questions that when you favor a certain candidate, you feed to the candidate. Trump got zero softball questions from Muir and Davis. This is the softest of all. Mewer goes in, ask the vice president about Trump's statement that if reelected, Trump would investigate the alleged fraud in 2020 and put the people who did it in jail. Roll it. This was a post from President Trump about this upcoming election just weeks away. He said, when I win, those people who cheated, and then he lists donors, voters, election officials, he says, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, which will include long-term prison sentences.

One of your campaigns, top lawyers responded, saying we won't let Donald Trump intimidate us. We won't let him suppress the vote. Is that what you believe he's trying to do here? Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people so let's be clear about that and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that

so Muir knew she was going to wail I mean is that what you think he's trying to do Trump should have said hey David do I get a softball like that do I get one of those you gave one of her can I get one

can maybe you point out that she was appointed to help on the border and did nothing? Maybe you can point that out and let me wail on it. You see, this is all very, you've got to see it. And I've been in a business long enough to know what that is. A huge softball coming in. And ABC did it on purpose. So let's sum up.

Donald Trump didn't help himself last night. Kamala Harris didn't hurt herself last night with her crew and uninformed voters, in my opinion. Trump did not define her as clearly as he should have because he got diverted into areas that make him look foolish. And that's a memo. Our reaction was predictable along ideological lines. First, Chris Wallace on CNN.

Jake, I didn't think I was ever going to witness a debate as devastating as the one that you and Dana moderated back in June, where Joe Biden basically tanked his re-election campaign. I think tonight was just as devastating. I think that Kamala Harris pitched a shutout on almost every subject I can think of. Yeah, she bids a shutout because he didn't answer any questions. So that's partisan. Chris Wallace hates Trump.

And, you know, Trump attacked him. Trump, and that's where the Cheney's, the Bushes, Trump attacks them. Trump attacks them. They hate him. All right, here's a pro-Trump person. Go. I think that Donald Trump did exactly what he needed to do on questions of policy. The biggest win for either candidate tonight, and I do think it was a win for Donald Trump. Of course, that's what Vivek is going to say, because he wants a cabinet position. All right.

Some good thing. This is a good thing. 23rd anniversary of 9-11. Service downtown Manhattan. Trump was there, Vance was there, President Biden was there, Kamala Harris was there, Michael Bloomberg, former mayor, former mayor of Rudy Giuliani, Governor Hockel, they all shook hands. Nobody punched anybody out.

Nobody insulted anybody. Nobody called anybody a Marxist or a predator or anything like that. And it was, I went, thank God. Thank God. They were down there about an hour. Walsh didn't show up. I don't know why, but he didn't show up. But everybody else was there and they conducted themselves, as they should have, in this very solemn day. All right, so let's get an opposing point of view. You heard me blow V8 for 18 minutes and 27 seconds. I hope it wasn't boring. We are a fact-based crew. As you know, that separates us for 90% of the press in the United States.

us now from Washington is a professor of history at Georgetown University, very fine school. Michael Kaysen, Dr. Ph.D. He's got a book out called What It Took to Win, a history of the Democratic Party. He is a Harris supporter. All right, doctor, my first question, and I'm a student in your class, so I don't expect any bloviating or evasions from my pedagogue, which would be you. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in.

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Why do you think Kamala Harris dodges so many easy questions? I think, Bill, that both Harris and Trump did what most people do in these debates, which aren't really debates, as you know, they're talking points back and forth. She said what you wanted to say in response to a subject that was raised. It's certainly true that she could have been more direct in answering some of the questions, but former President Trump was not very direct answering the questions either. And you mentioned some of those in your commentary. So I think they're both guilty of not answering the questions directly, but then we expect that in debates.

Okay, but I don't expect that. I'm insulted. I guess I'm a little bit different. Now, I know what Donald Trump did in his four years in office, and so do you. I don't know Deuce about Kamala Harris. I don't know how she sees the world. I don't know how her problem-solving abilities would come to the fore. I don't know anything.

And she does not have, it seems, any kind of obligation to inform me. Why do you think she doesn't do interviews? She's got a website. A lot of policies on the website. No, no, no, no. A website is something that you just put propaganda on, all right? Why do you think Kamala Harris doesn't do one-on-one interviews? Why wouldn't she speak to me?

Well, she obviously doesn't want to speak to someone she thinks going to be hostile to her. But, you know, she did an interview with CNN, which had some particulars in it. And also last night, she talked about a housing subsidy. She talked about money for people for child allowance. Yeah, she talked about giveaways, and that's what's on our website. She's going to give away more than a trillion dollars in her first year if she gets Congress to go along with it. But come on, doctor, you're a professor of history. Surely you know that if you cast a ballot for something,

somebody you don't know what she's going to do or how she's going to do it, there's an obligation to try to find that out. And that's my job. And I can't find it. You say she did an interview with CNN. It was a puff interview. You know what everybody knows. It cash admitted it. The interviewer said, oh, I can't force you to ask a question. No, but you can point it out. And Barack Obama, by the way, did three interviews with me, one when he was running the first time around. Harris is dodging the press. Why do you think she's doing that? Well, she was on for an hour and a half last night. She mentioned things she liked to do, but as you know very well, in order to accomplish

big things, you need Congress on your side. Trump could only do so much. The biggest thing he did was to pass his tax cut, which helped the rich more than anybody else. And if she does have a big majority in both House of Congress, which probably she will not have, the election is going to be very close, she'll be able to do things around the edges. So it's okay with you, a professor of history, that she's, you know, a professor of history, that

she doesn't do any press. It's okay with you? She's going to be doing more press. She's done press before. You know, what's important to me? She's not done any meaningful press at all. Let me get a minute to explain. What's important to me, she lays out what she wants to do. She did that last night. She did that on CNN. He does it. I have to disagree with you. She did not lay out anything. She gave a long speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago where she laid out a lot of a whole. She didn't lay out anything. She said. look, I'm going to give you $25,000 for this, $6,000 for this. I'm going to do that.

How am I going to solve the Gaza thing? Doesn't know. Ukraine, doesn't know. How am I going to bring down inflation? Doesn't say. Let me respond. No, no, no. Her response to the border is, oh, Trump voted against this bill.

That was crazy if you read it. All right. But she didn't have it. And for three and a half years, they did Bupkes. They didn't do anything. Can I respond to that? Let's move ahead. Here's the danger.

How can I respond to that? I'd like to respond to one of the things you just said. The border bill, which was backed by, in fact, was put together by a Republican senator, would have been a very good border bill. It would have put more people on the border. It would have blocked more people coming in. It would have made it harder for people to claim asylum. And Trump opposed it because he knew that if the Democrats and President Biden got credit

for doing something important about the border, it would hurt him because his largest, most important issue is the border that's the talking points that's the democratic talking points that trump sabotaged a good bill bill was no good it led 5,000 people a day foreign nationals a day in unsupervised okay it cost billions of dollars hundreds of billions would not have stopped asylum claims you just had to go to a different place and it was no punitive attached to it at all. So you could come across eight times. I can say the Republicans were in favor of it.

That's their problem, not my problem. I'm not a party apparatchnik. I thought it was a bad bill. But anyway, look, that's her point of view. Trump sabotaged it. But for three and a half years, she denied there was even a problem at the border. Now let's go into history, which is your Ballywick. So I got a new book out, just came out yesterday, confronting the presidents, right? In said book, in 1920, Warren Harding, the immortal Warren Harding, you know him, right? Warren Harding, exactly what Kamala Harris is doing, Harding's people did. No press conferences didn't even campaign Harding.

At least Kamala is going out there and giving speeches. He didn't even do that, okay? Sat on his porch in Marion, Ohio, going by, how are you? One in the landslide because people were so fed up with Woodrow Wilson at that point, after eight years in the Democrats, they would have voted for a chimpanzee. And they did. Parting gets in and is one of the worst presidents ever in this republic because people voted for a man who they didn't know. He had no solutions. He played cards and got drunk all day long and chased his mistress around the White House. Now, I'm not saying

Kamala Harris is that. She's not. Okay. But to vote for somebody who has no solutions, Fentanyl? Open border? How is the new bill gonna stop fentanyl? It wasn't, all right? It isn't. So I'm upset and I am distressed that Kamala Harris continues to evade specificity. Last word.

All right, we had a technical problem. I think the professor fell asleep during that last I tried. But, you know, we're at satellites and all. I don't want to bore you with it. But anyway, it was a good question. Obviously, Professor Kaysen, and we really appreciate him coming on, taking a fire. He's going to support Kamala Harris, no matter what. And he's not alone. She could win. She could be Warren Harding. Okay? Do people believe what they want to believe? They think she's a genius. They hate Trump. And Trump has got to recognize danger. Okay. Taylor Swift. she endorsed Kamala Harris and here is the quote I think she's a steady-handed gifted leader

I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos I was so hardened and impressed by her selection of running mate Tim Walsh who has been standing up for LBQ plus rights IVF and a woman's right to her own body for decades signed Taylor Swift a childless cat lady I sort of a medium makes a big deal out of this, you know, okay. Fine. He likes, Taylor likes, Kamel. Means nothing. Here's something that means something. So there is, according to the foundation for individual rights and expression, problems big time with freedom of speech on college campuses. And they list the 10 worst schools that deny students freedom of speech.

And here they are, according to this group. Harvard, my alma mater, Columbia, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Barnard College, Syracuse University. That's one, two, three in New York, University of Southern California. Wow, USC. University of Texas, Austin, Indiana University, Pomona College, that's in California as well. They are the worst to deny students freedom of expression. Here are the best, according to this survey. And they surveyed 251 universities, about 60,000 undergraduate students were surveyed.

We're the best for free speech. University of Virginia is Charlottesville. Michigan Tech, Florida State, Eastern Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Clarember, and, McMount McKenna, that's in California, North Carolina State, Oregon State, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Mississippi State U. So, you know, it's a shame that students go to a college, pay all their money, and if they say something that's not politically correct, not woke, they get punished. And if they're in a classroom with a radical-led professor and they give their opinion, the grade goes down. that's happening okay be very very careful about where you send your kids and grad kids check it out smart life okay here's an interesting story so this is from

the journal of the American Medical Association JAMA and this is a very credible publication they say one in five people Americans when they go to a doctor's office they dispute the bill or they get charged so much they can't pay it, 20%. So I had to take my son to, he had a knee problem. He's a lacrosse player. And we took him to a doctor. And the doctor booted it entirely.

The doctor ordered an MRI didn't even read the MRI. Because you know me, I investigate everything. He didn't even read the MRI. And he had no answer for my son's malady. So I had to take him to another one. and we finally got it under control. This guy sends me an astronomical bill. I call up the office manager, and I say,

not going to pay it. And if you send me another bill, I'm going to file a complaint against this doctor at Albany, okay, a malpractice complaint, because this is insane, and we can prove it and back it up. So, presto, the bill goes away. So what this study says is if you get overcharged or the doctor, the physician, boots it, call them up, state your case.

And I did it calmly. I wasn't yelling, even though I was furious because my kid was suffering. All right. And they say that 62% of people who call and challenge get relief, either the bill comes down or it disappears. Now, I had to take it a step further by saying, look, this is so bad that if, you know, I'm not going to do it if you're not,

if you're reasonable, but if you're unreasonable, if I see another bill, I'm going right to Albany. And I'll prove it and I'll carry through with it. So no doctor wants that. Now, that is overdoing it unless it's really serious, but what the Smart Life segment is all about is if you think you're getting hosed and treated unfairly, you call. Get names. Get names.

Now I get a lot of that on the concierge band. You know, people, the concierge members of Bill O'Reilly.com, they write me and it's all private, and they say, look, I got this doctor did it, and I can usually steer them into attorneys. you get at some level you need an attorney but most of those medical attorneys will work on contingency they don't charge you up front because they if you have the evidence and you got to have the evidence okay then they'll take a piece of whatever settlement you get all right you got to get names you got to document it which of course i do all right but 62 percent get relief if you do it smart life stay in history september 11 2001 the terror attack uh 3 000

Americans dead. What are we got? 50, 60,000 hurt, 17,000 of chronic illness to this day. And we support charities that help those people. Tuesday's children here in Long Island. Tunnel the Towers on WABC is a big charity that helps people there. And I was very proud of my book, Killing the Killers, because this is the essence of 9-11. The Obama and the Trump administrations did excellent jobs in tracking down and killing these jihadists. They got almost all of them, and I take you through it step by step. This is justice, not revenge. This is retribution, justice. But usually the federal government is suspect. They screw up an awful lie. Here they did not. And two administrations, Obama and Trump, they got them. And they took them. And they

took care of them. And that's what killing the killers was about. I was so happy to do that research and to see how effective the feds were in writing this grievous wrong on 9-11. Back with Ronald Reagan getting hammered in a moment. All right, here is the final thoughts in 1984, and this is in confronting the presidents. Talked about it with Sean Hannity today on his radio program, by the way. I might want to listen to that. It's posted on bill o'Reilly.com. So Reagan is leading in the polls against Walter Mondale, okay? Because Mondale was associated Jimmy Carter, Reagan defeated Carter in 1980. Now Reagan's running for reelection.

Country's going pretty well. The debate is terrible for Ronald Reagan. Roll it. I have not believed that prayer should be introduced into an election or be a part of a political campaign or religion, a part of that campaign. As a matter of fact, I think religion became a part of this campaign when Mr. Mondale's running mate said I wasn't a good Christian. So it does play a part in my life. I have no hesitancy in saying so.

And as I say, I don't believe that I could carry on unless I had a belief in a higher authority and a belief that prayers are answered. All right, so Reagan came across as halting and low energy and all the polls showed that Mondale beat him pretty badly. So then there was a second debate. And Reagan won handily because he had new people come in and train him to be much more assertive in that debate. In the final realm, Reagan got 525 electoral votes.

Mondale got 13, his home state, Missouri, of Missouri, Minnesota. Okay, popular vote, he got 55 million, Mondale got 38 million, so it was a landslide. So if Donald Trump has another chance to debate Kamala Harris, you should do it. But more importantly, as I said at the top of program, Trump's got a hold of press conference. And I would own up to say, yeah, it wasn't my greatest debate, but I still beat her. Trump could say that. Okay, because look at the issues.

I addressed ABCD. She evaded ABCD. The more that Trump can engage, and not just on media that's going to kiss his butt. But you all the press conferences, everybody comes in. Because she's not going to do that.

It's not going to do it. So he's got to maintain momentum because all the momentum in the Trump organization is down. And you'll see it in the polling next week, or even later on this week. You'll see it because the discombobulated people who don't really pay attention. Remember, this stuff goes out on social media.

That's where most people see it. And that dog and cat soundbite, that's going to lead the league. It's already leading the league. I just went through it. And it was a headline on one of these political websites. Bill O'Reilly rips Donald Trump. I didn't rip Donald Trump. I mean, but they do that so people will go in and watch.

read the article and rip anybody okay I reported the truth that's not ripping it's so corrupt it's just so drives me nuts but I can't do anything about it other than present to you what really happens and why it happens and I think we do that pretty good job of it here so tomorrow we'll continue with this debate fallout and we'll have anything new that pops up we really appreciate you guys watching and listening to the no spin news I hope you check out confronting the president, streaking on Amazon. You love the book. I mean, it's I think my most informative book. We will see you again tomorrow.