Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trump's New World Order, the White House's Three Big Concerns, Colby Hall Debates Bill on the President's Actions & Sanctuary Cities Under Threat of a Federal Funding Freeze

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down today’s top stories involving Iran, ICE, and Denmark and how each could impact Trump’s future. Colby Hall, Founding Editor of Mediaite.com, joins the No Spin News to debate how Trump’s actions reflect a changing America and whether some states are acting in rebellion. The problem with Trump’s statement that he will cut federal funding to sanctuary cities over immigration policies. Why the president is heading to Switzerland next week. Final Thought: Bill hints he's taping a special in Florida tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, January 14th, 2006. Stand up for your country. Well, here's something you think about. There's no question President Trump is governing in a non-collaborative way. All right? That means his way or the highway. And if you don't like it, then you can take him to court or try to get Congress involved or whatever.

But there is a method to use a cliche to the, the president's madness. So he believes he has a mandate, 77 million Americans voted for him to correct what the Biden administration screwed up, which is colossal if you are any kind of fairer analyst. Just the border alone is so catastrophic. And President Trump says, look, the American people elected me to clean this mess up, and I'm going to clean it up. In addition, I'm going to impose a new world order on the globe. Foreign policy is going to be pro-American. I am going to create a country that is so powerful that few will defy it.

But I don't need Congress to do it. And I don't need the courts because you can litigate all day long, but it just holds it up. Trump wants to go fast, and he has in his first year. He doesn't want Congress to be deliberating for five months, and he doesn't want it. So the question then becomes is he overstepping his authority, is the president overstepping? And that will be debated this year. Okay, 2006, you're going to have a lot of definition there. But in the meantime, Donald Trump's going to do what he wants to do.

Full steam ahead on immigration, on foreign policy, and if he's blocked, he's blocked. Meanwhile, Congress is so partisan, it's really hard to get any alternatives out of them as far as, well, we have a better idea. We in the Senate have a better idea. No, you don't. If you do, it's a mystery, and I'm talking general across the board. All right, that's not my talking points. That's just setting up my talking points because we have three major stories in play here. Iran, ICE, and Denmark.

And they're all very, very different. President Trump's future hinges upon those three stories at this moment and the economy as well. Okay, Iran. So right now, the Pentagon has worked up a number of military engagements there. It's just a matter of Mr. Trump's order. I don't know what they are. Nobody does. It's top secret.

They've walled it off. There's no leaks. We don't know. I did talk to the president personally on Saturday, and I said, in my opinion, because I was asked, okay, I wouldn't use military action unless it's a tipping point. You don't need to send any more messages. You already did that with the nuke bombing. But if you can get them out of there, Mr. President, the mullahs, if you can get them on that flight to Moscow by, say, wiping out the Revolutionary Guard headquarters,

I'd do it in a heartbeat. Got to get them out. And I believe it will happen. I think the mullas are done. And that'll be a tremendous victory for the USA and the world. But I could be wrong. But anyway, the actions have been drawn up. We don't know when, where we don't know.

And it could happen at any time. Remember, Tehran, the capital of Iran, is eight and a half hours ahead of us. And this is not going to be a daylight action. These are going to be under the cloak of darkness. And so I'm going to be on it for the next, whenever it takes, watching, I check it every 30 minutes because all hell could break loose at any time. But again, I do believe the mullahs are done, and I really hope that's true. Okay, the second is ICE, which this is very interesting. The protests against ICE are not organic, as they say.

It's not like everybody's running to the streets like Vietnam or anything like that. These are very well-organized, far-left-generated protests. And the nexus, of course, is in Minneapolis where Ms. Good was shot dead by an ICE agent last week. But this has not caught on across the country, even though there are 10 states an act of rebellion against the federal government, which I write about in my column on Bill O'Reilly.com. Okay? This is a rebellion. It's not a protest.

There's a big difference. Okay? They are refusing to obey the law. Now, the third one is Denmark. And I'm going to just take a little time at the end of the talking points to explain the danger for Donald Trump here. This is the most dangerous story, Denmark, not ICE, not Iran, Denmark, and Greenland. That's the most dangerous for him. Now, getting back to Iran, there are, even before any military action, liberal Americans,

Democrats, who say, well, you can't keep doing this. You can't keep going into Venezuela, grabbing a dictator there, and then go and get the mullahs out of there. You need Congress to approve all this. And I debated Chris Cuomo on News Nation last night about that subject. Go. Let me ask you something else, though. Iran, I don't understand a legitimate basis in law for any president to say,

ooh, this regime, they're bad. I don't like what they're doing other people. I think I'll use the military and not have to go through Congress. How can the president do that in Iran? Under the national security banner. Because Iran, and we saw that with Soleimani, when Trump took him out with a drone, I read up at that in my book, Killing the Killers. Iran continues to fund worldwide terrorism and gives them billions of dollars, billions with a bait.

That's a national security threat to the United States. So under national security, if you can neutralize somebody like Soleimani or ISIS, as Trump did with the assistant of Barack Obama, you can do it without congressional approval. And that's what he'll use. And that's true. So the Democrats can jump up and down. It can sue. They can do this.

They can do that. The president has the authority. party based upon what happened after 9-11 to take out national security threats without getting permission. And he has. All right. That's what he's doing. It's all about national security. Drug dealing into the United States.

Massive amounts of narcotics, national security. Okay. Mullah's funding his woolad, Hamas, all the terror groups, national security. Courts aren't going to go against that. At the higher level, the partisan courts will, but not. up in the Supreme Court or even the appeals courts. Okay. Now let's get to Greenland.

So today there's a meeting, closed door, and we don't have anything yet, and I might break. If it does, I'll tweet about it at Bill O'Reilly. It's important to keep us on the ban. So we don't know yet, but we know obviously a Harley-Lev meeting. Vice President Starr, Vance,

and Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the meeting with the Danish foreign minister and his Greenland counterpart. Now, I fully expect them to work out some kind of deal because if the United States invades Greenland with troops, which is, I can't imagine that that would ever happen. I said that to President Trump. This would fracture the NATO alliance. You can't do that.

Putin would be a winner. Because all the European NATO countries have turned against the United States, Every single one of them. Maybe hungry wouldn't, but that's it. You can't. And then the United States, American people don't want the U.S. military in Greenland. Every single poll shows that. And Republicans don't want it either.

And then Congress, my God, they'll go crazy. And that would tilt it against the Republicans in the midterm. So there is a bill introduced by Lisa Murkowski, who's supposedly Republican, but she's really not. And Senator Gene Sheehan in New Hampshire that says, you can't do this. You can't invade Greenland with U.S. troops. Now, that's going to pass the Senate. That bill is going to pass, and it might pass the House of Representatives. Trump could veto it, but you can see the unbelievable deficit that President Trump would create for himself and the Republican Party.

It doesn't have to do it. You know, I'm a cocky guy. You guys all know that. I said, look, send me over to Copenhagen. I'll come back with any deal you want in 48 hours. And I would. It's not that hard to get military bases up there. They've had them there in the past. Denmark's not going to object to that. Mineral rights wouldn't get them. We don't need to put military boots on the ground there. So anyway, I expect the deal would be worked out. I'd be shocked if President Trump ever sends U.S. military to Greenland. This is his negotiating ploy, huff and puff and blow the house down, and then we'll get a deal.

That's what he always does. But this one is very dangerous, and that's a memo. Right, ice, there's not really anything new here other than there's a report today that the ice agent who shot Ms. Good last week has internal bleeding. Now, it's sketchy, more will come out on it, but has been released. Now, that it can only happen if the vehicle that Ms. Good was in hit him. But I'm not trying this on television. It's not, not. right to do that. But you need to know what's surfacing here. So everybody took size. I saw the video. I saw the bull. If it ever gets into a courtroom and it won't, then you'd go frame by frame

as I analyzed. And then you'd hear from the ICE agent and then witnesses whatever. Okay. But I don't think any of that's going to happen. But if the man does have internal bleeding, that's pretty big. So that's the latest on that. That is a website called Mediaite. It deals with a lot of press stuff. And it's a good website. It used to tilt really far left and they brought it back to left center.

As a guy who created, it, along with a few others, Dan Abrams. Colby Hall, he writes a column, and a column is pretty good. Enough is enough. It's basically criticizing Donald Trump's overreach as president of the United States. I'll read you a portion here and then we'll bring in Mr. Hall. Quote, what distinguishes the current moment is not the impulse to push boundaries, but the scale speed and brazenness with which these accumulated precedents are being exploited.

Obama used drones and faced criticism but operated within executive branch legal frameworks. Trump extracts foreign leaders and announces it is a fate of complete. At home, the same logic is playing out through federal law enforcement. ICE agents are defended reflexively before facts are known before investigations are complete. Oversight is dismissed as obstruction and questions are treated as a tax. Power is insulated first, examined later. Unquote. Kobe Hall joins us now from Brooklyn. So the mindset of the President of the United States is that his opposition is so entrenched that they don't care about what's good for the country. And so he has to cut through that. So he can't go to Congress and say, I want to remove Medoro, and then Congress votes on it five months later because no Democrat will ever vote for anything that Trump wants.

This is the president's mindset. Do you understand that? I do. I think that's a generous description. And I'll say, first of all, thanks for having me on. Secondly, I agree with a lot of what you said during your talking points, right? I find that we're pretty much aligned on a lot of this stuff, especially the concern with sort of Denmark and Greenland, which is remarkably risky on a number of levels, not just politically.

My column, enough is enough, was really about how. under an executive branch that literally acts without impunity or with impunity with zero checks and balances is acting in a way that really sort of reinforces might makes right which is a philosophical construct that we long moved past and it's not really democratic and the actions of this president reveal a nation that increasingly doesn't look like the America that I grew up and I still love very very much see I don't have that I don't have that percentage And I'm just about 25 miles from you in my dwelling. And when you say that he, Trump officer operates without any constraints,

the courts ruled that the president could not send National Guard to LA and a few other cities because he didn't reach the bar of impending chaos. So he took him out. Trump took the national guard. So he's been constrained. But also, you know, it wasn't constitutional. It, you know, Pasi Comitatis basically says federal government cannot send in troops unless the governor, the state, asked for it because of chaos. And that's what was ruled.

He's plotting the democracy or he's flouting the Constitution. But he's obeying. He's not running rough shot. Okay, but that's a way it always happens. Kobe, come on. You take an action and then there's a reaction. It's a way the government always runs. Here's what I would say.

you could defend the extraction of Maduro. The sort of way that that was defined is we can do whatever we want with Western Hemisphere because it affects our national security and we're going to use that as a pretext to now threaten to, you know, sort of bomb Iran and to then just sort of invade and take Greenland. Like you said, that really threatens

and it's very risky to our Native alliance. To be clear, and I want to say this, I have given credit to the Trump administration where I feel like they've deserved it And in particular, I think the way that the Trump administration has handled Iran vis-a-vis Israel was masterful and deserves a great deal of credit. I also give him an incredible amount of credit for the way that he cleaned up the abject horror that is the border. The worst thing that Biden never did was just look away. And I think one can be for getting bad guys out, cleaning up the border, but also be opposed to masked ICE agents shooting protesters.

and I don't think Renee Good should be dead as a result of trying to drive away. I don't either. But that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that what the ICE agent did carries any criminal intent. Because I have said, and you know this, deescalate it when you have a life-death situation. And some of my viewers don't like that. They don't want to hear that. Okay, but every law enforcement agency that I know of has a de-escalation program when life and death is on the line. So I'm behind the law.

But Trump is saying, and with absolute validity, I can't bring in Maduro to Congress. I can't bring in nuke bombing in Iran to Congress because they, the other side, hates me so much. They're never going to support it. They'll drag their feet. We can't operate secretly in that regard. military operations with any kind of effectiveness, if you're going to debate him for two months. And he's right. And when Noriega came out, that shattered that. And that'll never even get into the courts. Maduro is never going to get in. Okay, he'll be convicted in Brooklyn.

You should go over and see him. He's right near your house. All right? And then he'll go to the penitentiary in Colorado. And that's what's going to happen. And there's not going to be any court hearing about Maduro. I don't even think the ICE agent is going to. going to be prosecuted. Now, do you agree with me that there are 10 states in open rebellion to the United States government because they fail to obey the law? It's okay to protest the law. No problem with that. But when you say, and that's what walls, fry, all these people are saying, I'm not going to obey the law that has been passed by Congress, not Trump. I'm not obeying it. You're in rebellion, are you not?

I think rebellion is a narrative that oversteps considerably. I remember, I'm old enough to remember when states rights were a big talking point on the right. And now that's gone away, right? Like, suddenly we don't care about states' rights and their ability to make decisions about stuff and not. That's on the issue. If you want, if you want, you are, you are basically making situational decisions, right? And I, and honestly, previously what you just said, you just walked, you just, basically said Trump doesn't want to take Maduro to Congress because he knows he won't get what he

wants. I'm sorry, you don't get to pick and choose what the Constitution says. You do if you have national security concerns behind you. Yes, you do. Yeah, but that's very subjective. And to say that there was a national security threat by Maduro, you know, I think is hyperbole at best. I think it's absurd. Tons and narcotics are coming in here. Far less drugs from other places. Please, let me finish. Look, the whole point in the Constitution is checks and balances. You can't simply say I'm going to avoid checks and balances if I know that a congressional check and balance is not going to give me what I want. But you can call it. Perfectly illustrates my point. You can if there's precedent about national security after 9-11, all of that changed. All of it changed.

Well, I think, well, so here in lies the gray area of this dialogue. And I appreciate the chance to describe it, I think there's overreach. And I think a lot of people feel that there's overreach. Honestly, in hindsight, I care less about the Maduro extraction because he's clearly a bad guy. And, you know, this is very personal for me because my nephew is on USS Ford. He's a naval intel officer. And he was very much a part of the whole growler part. And I'm extremely proud of him, but I'm also concerned about him. It's a good debate, but I live in a real world and I know what's going to happen. And Trump is not going to lose any of these things at all because of the national security. When it comes to ICE, when it comes to ICE, only 28% of the people are sort of agreeing with

the narrative that the ICE agent was justified in shooting. Well, now if he has injuries, that that polling is going to change. But even if it doesn't change, all right, Trump is basically saying this, and I'll give you the last word on it. My job, I was elected to protect the American people. And I'm going to do it, and I am not going to submit to some theoretical process when I believe I have the authority to take out people like Maduro, the Mullers, people who are threats to this country. And that's his mindset. And the only way you constrain it is the Supreme Court. That's the only way says no.

And the courts of federal court said no to guard in L.A. and other places, Oregon, all right, and Trump pulled them back. Last word. I think you're being very generous. I don't think a lot of people feel like Mullahs and Iran pose a direct threat to their lives. Billions to terror groups? Billions to terror groups? I'm telling you, I think geopolitically they are a huge threat and they should be extracted.

You and I agree largely on the foreign policy there. I'm talking about politically. I don't think a lot of people in Overland Park, Kansas, where I grew up, see that as a perfect threat. I also think that a lot of people want immigrants who are illegal is extracted from our nation, but they don't want to see mass ICE agents invading homes without a search warrant. They don't want to see protests. I'll see that point that ICE has to tighten it up a little bit and has to give more of an explanation. All right, Kobe, very good debate, very lively.

I want everybody to read your column on media. Thanks to take time. Okay. Be good. right? Or I'm good, whatever. I think it would be good, right? So these were at the Golden Gloves, which the ratings for the Golden Gloves are catastrophically low. And that was expected, but there are the pins. So I said to my staff, where do these pins come from? You know, I can't like go to CVS and buy them. So they came

from the ACLU, of course they did move on, other far-left organizations. They sent out blast on their social media to the far-lived people said, hey, we're going to be at certain Golden Globe events. We'll have the pins. You come over, you can get them. That's how it happened. And that's my point. This stuff isn't organic. This stuff is real well organized against ICE and President Trump. So the new anchor person for CBS Evening News, Tony Ducopal, I do not know him. He could talk to a pretty good interview, I thought, with President Trump yesterday in Detroit. And, of course, the good situation came up. Go.

Well, I want to say to the father that I love all of our people. They can be on the other side. As you say, he might be on my side. He is on your side. And I think that's great. And I do. I think it's great. And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances, was a very solid, wonderful person.

but then her actions were pretty tough. Okay, I thought that was a decent answer. You know, we asked him with the father, of course, broken heart and his daughter is dead, but the father is a Trump supporter. All right, so the president is furious at sanctuary states and cities, and he says that beginning on February 1st, he's cutting off all federal funding. Rule of tape. Starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens.

And it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary. But there's a problem with that. And it goes back to the debate I had with Kobe Hall is that Congress is the authority. about where U.S. tax dollars go. They have 100% control over the budgetary process. So a president can't say, I'm not going to send any money to Minnesota.

What the president can do and probably will do is hold up so-called block grants, for example. Most states can get federal money to improve or buy. things for law enforcement. State police, local police, big city police, New York City gets a bunch of money. Block grants. If the president says that money is being misused, the block grant money misused, and that's Mr. Trump's argument that these people aren't enforcing the law, so that's a misuse of federal law enforcement funding.

He block it. All is very complicated legal. but that's why I'm here. The House Democrats say they want to block funding for ICE. Roll that. We want accountability and oversight. I know Donald Trump and Christy Noem and their friends do not want accountability and oversight, but House Democrats want accountability and oversight to ICE. Well, you're not going to get it because the House and the Senate aren't going to vote

to block funding for ice. They're not. But you can try, but that's not going anywhere. So next week, President's going to Davos, Switzerland, which is a ski resort in the eastern part of that country,

beautiful country, Switzerland, if you haven't been. And he's given a speech, big one, to the World Economic Forum, 64, heads of state, big economic show. Zelensky of Ukraine is going to be there. No Putin. Why? Because the international court grab them. Putin can't go. They grab them. He's a war criminal.

Anyway, the president expected to be America. What's good for America is good for all you guys. Which in a way is true. I mean, if we're prosperous and we're doing a lot of trading with everybody, despite the tariffs, everybody wins. but that's what I expect. All right, we got a final thought in a moment. So, final thought of the day, I'm not going to be here tomorrow because I'm going to be on assignment in Florida. I know, I can hear it. I can hear it.

Oh, yeah, you're all. But it's true. I told you last week that we're doing some specials. That would be special interviews. And I'm going to be, and these are going to be important people, very interesting people. So I'm going to do one of Florida. I'm going to tell you what it is now because we want to be surprised.

So you got to get down there and not bad going to South Florida in January. I'll tell you that. And I'm doing other stuff. I'm doing a lecture and, you know, I got a whole bunch of stuff on the sheet. But believe me, I am on this Iranian situation. This thing could pop any time. So stay with us at Bill O'Roy. is the tweet okay bill o'reilly dot com I'm gonna if anything happens all the

message up there within 15 minutes and we're a good message of every day we have messages in the morning every day in different messages you get a pop pop pop pop pop pop okay so that's how we keep in touch I will have a new column on Sunday and there's so many things going on that's a problem I wait till Saturday because it's breaking news breaking news breaking news to write the column for Sunday thank you very much for watching and listening to the nesman news this evening we will see you on Monday and check in with us across a weekend please