Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Twenty-Two Years After 9/11, an Update on the War on Terror with Former CIA Officer Douglas London, Biden's Messy Press Conference, Kamala Harris' Revealing Interview & More

Episode Date: September 12, 2023

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, September 11, 2023. Stand Up for Your Country.Tonight's rundown: Talking Points Memo: Bill looks at the legacy of 9/11 and the impact it's had on the country. Former CIA agent and Georgetown professor Douglas London joins the No Spin News. President Biden's press conference in Vietnam goes off the rails. Vice President Kamala Harris' CBS interviewer fails to press her on the southern border. This Day in History: The Beatles first hit. Final Thought: 9/11 Charities Controversy In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "The Sting." Get tickets to Bill and Sid Rosenberg's live show this October: "A New York State of Mind" at The Paramount in Huntington, NY. They are on sale NOW! Fall Madness is here!  Go to BillOReilly.com to take advantage of the latest deal, including Killing the Killers, Killing the Legends, and mug, all for $42.95. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, September 11, 2003, stand up for your country, especially on the 22nd anniversary of 9-11. So this is the classic good, evil story. know it thoroughly. There's a bunch of stuff you might not know, but I'm going to get to that in a moment. However, a very difficult story to cover because it's so emotional here on Long Island where I am, and I've said this many times, I mean, dozens of families were affected directly, they lost loved ones, and some of my friends, too. I was in the middle of it 22 years ago.

We'll get into that as well, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So 2,97 people killed in the terror attacks, all told. In New York City, 2,753, the lion's share of the dead were killed here in the World Trade Center. Two airlines hijacked by jihadists crashed in. World Trade Center, the two towers collapsed, okay? Now, total dead, and this counts people who died after 9-11 from illnesses that they contracted being close by, 5,600 total dead, and that's according to World Trade Center Health program. Another 71,000 individuals have been diagnosed with illness directly caused by the 9-11

attack. It's a staggering number. Now, the jihadists have been severely downgraded throughout the world. And I wrote a book about it, killing to killers. You're familiar with this book. It's the best reporting that I've ever done, by the way. I mean, all the kids. killing books are worthy, in my opinion, but this book tells you things you absolutely do not know about how the U.S. government attacked the jihad. And it was all done under the cloak of secrecy, but we were able to get top secret documents and put them in the book and walk you through what happened in the ensuing years. Mistakes were made, but overall, the USA downgrimed downgraded the jihad in a way that I don't think has ever been done throughout history.

Threat is still there, but not nearly what it was. And if you want to know how this country did do that, then you read Killing the Killers. Now, today, in 2023, we have a threat here because of the open border. And the terrorists are coming across it, according to Customs and Border Protection. this year alone, and we still have, what, four more months, 149 individuals on a terror watch list have been detained at the border. Last year, the whole year, the number was 98, but the open border is a magnet for terrorists to come across.

Now, whether President Biden knows that or not, anybody's guess, nobody ever asked him, and he never addresses it. He's just happy that the border is open, and 8 million people have sauntered across it. Now, last night's 60 Minutes, which has been on the decline, in my opinion, did a really excellent report, Scott Pelley, on 9-11. And it focused in on the New York City firefighters. Boy, it was good. And if you haven't seen that, it's worth watching. It just shows you the heroism that was in play on that day, 9-11.

It was a terrific, terrific piece. And later on, I'm going to get into a negative about 9-11, and that was the telethon. I've done this before, but I think it's worthy to refresh everybody's memory about how bad that was and my role in it, because most Americans rallied to try to help, and even to this day, all right, we have charities. I support Tuesday's children. Tunnel for Towers is a good charity because the ongoing prime. problems from 9-11, obviously, are still there. And that's the memo.

All right, President Biden's in Alaska, and he is giving a speech to service members up there. We have a big base in Alaska, of course, and talking about 9-11. If he says anything of note, I'll bring it to you tomorrow. I don't expect he will. You understand that last week, as we reported, he went to India for the Economic Summit. on the way back from India, he stopped in Vietnam, and the United States is trying to be a closer ally with Vietnam to provide a bulwark to China.

China is a threat, so we are upping our relationships with Vietnam, with the Philippines, with Japan, all of the surrounding countries, India, of course. So Biden stopped in Vietnam, and then he held a 26 minute press conference not a very long one and here's what happened go and look nobody likes having celebrated international meetings if you don't know what you want at the meeting if you don't have a game plan he may have a game plan he just hasn't shared it with me but I But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.

Yeah, we talked about, we talked about at the conference overall. We talked about stability. We talked about making sure that the third world, the, excuse me, third world, the, the, the southern hemisphere had access to change it, had access. It wasn't confrontational at all. Thank you, everybody. This runs a count press conference. Thanks, everyone.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, so they cut him off because he's obviously can't get it out. That said by it ran 60 seconds. To me, it felt like it was five minutes. He couldn't get out. And the question was simple, all right, that she didn't show up, the leader of China. And then a guy, the second in command for international relations showed up.

And, you know, what did you talk to him about? You get it. You don't get anything out of him. So Jean-Pierre goes in, oh, thank you, that's all. He interrupts her boss. I mean, maybe I'm nitpicking here. I'm sorry if I am, but it just me is like, oh, agonizing to listen to him. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast,

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years. Currently, he's a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a fine school. He is the author of the book, The Recruiter, Spying in the Lost Art of American Intelligence. So he knows what he's doing. First of all, the jihad, as I said, has been downgraded. They're active in Africa and in the Middle East somewhere. How would you calibrate their strength? Bill, I think you hit the down on the head by using the word downgraded or degraded. The United States pursued a strategy of leadership decapitation that I know is well-estrated in your book,

going after the core leadership and logistics hubs and such to make it more difficult for these groups as centralized organizations to pose a threat. But at the same time, that strategy led to a decentralization of the threat. So we saw the rise of the Islamic State. We see al-Qaeda morphing into various affiliates. So I think, as you depict correctly, the threat of a 9-11-type attack on the United States is much less than it was and much less than it was. And much less it's ever been, but I think we see the rise in smaller scale attacks by both Islamic state and its affiliates as well as al-Qaeda. Recently, we saw the news from Philadelphia in mid-August of a teenager, apparently, who was planning an attack undescribed, but that would

involve various explosives and a number of weapons that he was in touch with one of these Al-Qaeda affiliates back in Syria. So downgraded, degraded, yes, absent, unfortunately, not. And it'll never be. You were at the CIA when the Patriot Act was passed and the CIA was very effective in listening to calls made to foreign locations, particularly the hot locations. There was a segment of the American public and there is now. Hates the Patriot Act, thinks it's inclusive, it violates privacy and all of that. But from my research, the ability to monitor through drones and everything else, the communications worldwide among the jihadist core

is really what led to a lot of victories over them. Am I wrong? Well, you're right, Bill. In fact, it's absolutely essential, and there's a debate right now about Section 702 in terms of bulk collection and what U.S. intel and law enforcement can listen to. But again, circling back to this individual in Philadelphia, that was all over cyber.

It was the ability of the U.S. intel community and the Bureau to identify his communications with this Al-Qaeda affiliate. And that wouldn't have happened without the Patriot Act and without Section 702. Okay. Let's look at Afghanistan for a second. I mean, Taliban take over. Al-Qaeda reconstitutes a little bit in that country. or what do you think about what's going on over there? The Taliban has its own interpretation of the accord with the United States,

which diverges from ours, which allows them to be a lot more supportive to al-Qaeda and its various partner groups than we would like or that we thought they were going to be. The Taliban provides sanctuary none to al-Qaeda, but variously 17 to 23 affiliate groups and partner organizations. And back in the CIA, we looked at partner organizations, even though they weren't necessarily Al-Qaeda franchises.

They were Kashmiri militant groups. They were Central Asian groups that cooperated and collaborated with al-Qaeda. Those groups are receiving sanctuary in Afghanistan. And while you might be able to say, as the United States administration does, that those groups themselves might not be capable of directing an attack against the United States, they provide a strategic direction to their affiliates and partner organizations who would carry these attacks. And they also are able to fundraise,

manage and recruit under the Taliban's protection. So it continues to pose a problem for us, but also the various neighbors in that very volatile region. What about Pakistan's Secret Service? Are they sympathetic to the jihad as they were at one time? They have a great deal of problems from getting what they wished for, which was a U.S. loss and expulsion from the area. The Taliban has given sanctuary to their number one threat,

which is the terror Taliban, Pakistan, a group of various Pakistani Afghan tribes that cross the border that don't really believe they're Afghan or Pakistan that have been undertaking the majority of the attacks against Pakistan and destabilizing the country at a very difficult time. And relations between the Taliban and Pakistan

are very tense after two decades of Pakistani support to their operations against the United States presence on the ground. How about Iran? Is Iran now a sanction? for the jihad? Iran continues as best I could tell from open source information to host various groups such as al-Qaeda, but their nemesis is shared with us as being the Islamic State, whose interests are inimical to theirs.

But they continue to provide sanctuary to al-Qaeda, but also, obviously, they're providing support to their proxy, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the various Shia militant organizations in Iraq. In Iraq, the western part of the country was where the ISIS people based. They were the most vicious after the Iraq war. Trump went in and put a herd on them, but they're still there and in northern Syria as well. Is that correct? They're definitely there.

And our ability to maintain counterterrorist pressure has really been the key to preventing them from going on the offensive. they're certainly taking advantage of less pressure, both in northwest Syria, as well as across the region, to try to reconstitute. We see it in some of the prisons where or detainee camps where they're recruiting and fundraising. So it's something we can't be complacent about. And what about Turkey? Do they cooperate against ISIS? Well, yes and no. ISIS represents a definite threat, one we share, but they have a difference of opinion about some of their partners. We partner with some of the Kurdish groups against which the Turks have various issues, and they've been at war with for

many decades, and that does cause some friction between the greater ISIS coalition that continues to operate in that region. But not too many ISIS are in Turkey. Turkey doesn't want them there, correct? No, Turkey certainly doesn't want to host ISIS or Al-Qaeda for that matter. They definitely partners in that, but sort of a different approach to how they're prosecuting the threat. And finally, the southern border, as I gave you the stats, do you see that as a danger to the USA right now? Well, Bill, I don't share your perspective in terms of jihad and terrorism. I'll stay away from the other partisan issues about immigration overall. But over my career at the agency, we kept a close eye on the transit of potential terrorists among these various groups,

and we didn't really see it as a major issue. Okay, but now with the volume of human beings streaming across that border and the stats from the border patrol that these people were found on a terror watch list going up pretty dramatically, do you think the agency is down there in any force watching what's going on? I know you're speculating because you're teaching now, but to me, they open border. I mean, that's something you've got to take seriously. Well, the CIA has an excellent relationship with the rest of the U.S. Intel community as well as law enforcement, including TSA. And we very actively exchange information and expertise and such like that, which is one of the reasons why I'm a little bit encouraged that there has not been that problem. We certainly always worry about it. Keep a close eye.

The Millennium Bomber came across the Canadian border, as you'll remember, Bill, so many years ago. So it's something we do pay attention to or did under my time. But again, we had not seen terrorist groups able to exploit any vulnerabilities in great effect over the course of my career. And right now, again, I'm outside. It hasn't happened. I look at you do. That's fair.

It has not happened, been traced back. But the numbers are growing. Hey, Professor, very good. Thank you very much for your expertise. We really appreciate it. The book, again, is The Recruiter, Spying in the Lost Art of American Intelligence. Thanks again, Professor. um okay so kamala harris goes on uh face the nation a sunday morning program on cbs and here's what happens go

are you taking the threat of a second trump presidency seriously enough i don't understand the question you were dismissive of some of the republican criticism of you and the president when you look at current polling the frontrunner for a republican nomination is the former president the 45th president we will win the election you will win we will win we will win the election there is too much at stake and the american people know it okay so she understood the question perfectly um you know do you underestimate um don't trump and she wouldn't answer the question now on a more serious note because that's politics and you would expect her to say, we're going to win, rah, rah, rah, right. It's not newsworthy. But the second soundbite is newsworthy. Go.

So there are many reasons for why this is happening. And America is not immune to that. The point has to be then to understand what we must do to deal with, one, ensuring that we have a secure, humane, and orderly policy about the border, but also what we must do in the long term to address the root causes of migration. See, now that's where the CBS interviewer, Ms. Brennan, lets everybody down. They're certainly not orderly at the southern border. Nobody with an IQ over 10 could think it would be orderly. Yet she says, we have a secure, humane, and orderly policy.

No, you don't. Okay? So the interviewer should be right there, right there. But no. And that is the deterioration of journalism. And finally, the root cause of migration. Hey, lady, look, you've had two years now to come up with the root causes of migration. You haven't come up with anything.

The root causes is many country in the world are violent and terrible, and people want to get out. That's what the root cause is, and the United States can't do anything about it. We can't occupy those countries. Donald Trump, he's in Iowa yesterday or on Saturday, goes to the Iowa, Iowa State, football game. Go. Okay, so there were booze and cheers, right? Is what the lefty said, go. Both Trump and DeSantis, they attended yesterday's Iowa. Iowa state game. Trump met with a decidedly mixed reception, interesting, some cheers,

also some booze, some obscene gestures from the stands. Okay, now NBC has ordered, I understand, they're commentators on MSNBC to say that Trump got a mixed reception. NBC's, believe me when I tell you, they know, okay, every survey shows they are the most left wing of the three networks. And they're trying to pull back a little bit. It's not going to be successful. We can't run a propaganda network like MSNBC and say you're a legitimate news agency.

You can't. It's possible. Anyway, just imagine if President Biden showed up at the Iowa-Iowa-Iowa State game. Did you have a few booze? I think you might. I wrote a column on this subject. called the sting. Remember the Robert Redford Paul Newman movie? It is posted on

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Okay. This one thought you should know. This day in history, September 11, 1962, the Beatles record their first single, Love Me Do. Love Me Do, you know I love you, I'll always be true, so please, love me do. All right, that song was released in the USA. A year and a half later, and a hit number one, along with everything they did in 1964, they had, how many hits, seven? Seven songs written by Leonard McCarty in one year, hit number one.

Beatles have sold more than 600 million albums worldwide. They're still selling. They have grossed to the present day, according to Yahoo Finance, $2.15 billion. That group has grossed in all of their activities. Here's something interesting. McCartney's worth $1.2 billion. Ringo Star, $350 million, a lot less because Ringo didn't write. Harrison, when he died, $400 million, when he was assassinated, $200 million.

And today, last year, no, I'm sorry, last bill. magazine, last stats, Beatles are making about $13 million a year, still. Okay. Okay, so we've got a mail segment, and then we got a final thought about my involvement with the fundraising on 9-11, which I think you're going to want to see in here, back in a moment. Okay, let's go to the mail. We got David Spano, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last night.

O'Reilly, you said 40% of the people will likely still vote. for Biden if he runs again, doesn't it really boil down to a repeat of 20? All right, they'll be voting, won't be voting for Biden, they'll be voting against Trump. Somewhat. But now Biden has a record. He didn't have it in 20. Didn't have any record. He's in his basement hiding.

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Love the NOSman News, Bill. I believe Joe Biden will be the nominee in 24, apart from Michelle Obama. Do you think the DNC would do a last-minute push for Gretchen Whitmer? She's not well-known. Melinda, I mean, if you run out in Sydney, lovely town, by the way, Sydney is great. If you run out today and ask any of your fellow countrymen down there, how about Gretchen Whitman? Nobody will know. And it's the same thing in the USA. Nobody knows she is.

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Rap scallion. Did you know that? You didn't know it. The rappers don't know it. Rapscallion. R-A-P-S-C-A-L-L-I-O-N. The rappers don't even know where rap derive. Okay, big big controversy. September 21st, 2001, 10 days after 9-11. I'm right in the middle of it. Well, explain in a moment. Okay, here's a final thought of the day. So, 10 days after the 9-11 attack, there was a charity fundraiser on all the networks

called a tribute to Hero's Benefit. Okay, 35 network and cables covered it simultaneously. Two hours raised $350 million. George Clooney headed it up. Thanks to the generosity of Capital One, we have a phone bank here. We wanted to show you a few of our friends that just showed up to answer the phones and take pledges. And all around the country, thousands of volunteers at phone banks are ready to take your calls. All right, noble enterprise, I was part of that, okay?

And it was noble. Okay, so three weeks, I'm sorry, Three months, not weeks, three months after that concert, that charitable fundraiser, only 15% of the money have been given to the families, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 5, 3 months. I'm getting thousands of calls and letters from 9-11 affected families. What's going on? So I make a simple request to all the celebrities to ask the United Way, the Red Cross, and the other charities who are supposed to distribute what's going on. Okay?

Well, I get attacked by George Clooney. Quote, on the evening of October 31st, you ran a story that has no basis and truth. Okay, this is Clooney talking to me. What is not important is your attack of the performance who gave their time to raise money during the telephonse for the 7th 11th fund. What is important is your accusation the fund is being misused and mishandled. That, sir, as you know, is nothing short of a lie. Well, Clooney was lying, and it was proven that he was.

He's a bad guy. It remains a bad guy to this day. He's made a fortune selling booze. I mean, this is... There were four celebrities who recognized that this was wrong. Clint Eastwood, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and the singer James Brown. None of the others, because they weren't police. politically correct that's what they always want to be would help out anyway as soon as we broke

the story it went all over the world all right now i appeared on uh i think it was PBS with charlie rose go you broke this story or you getting credit in the congress today you're telling me as we walked in for breaking a story that a lot of the money raised in the telethon some over 200 million dollars has not been felt at the victim level. Yeah, we've been doing this story for six weeks now, and the way we got on to it is very interesting. Where I live on Long Island, 29 people were killed, and people in my town trust me.

And shortly after all the publicity about how much money was being raised to help the victims, people kept coming up to me saying, I'm not seeing any of these big money, and nobody's contacted me and what's going on. So I started to make some calls. My staff made some calls. we found out, there was just absolute chaos. Chaos in a Red Cross, chaos in the United Way,

and 158 other charities. There are 160 charities set up to help the victims, 5,000 families approximately. And to this day, now more than eight weeks after the attack, most of the money collected is not even close to get into those families. So after Congress got involved and I went on the media and did all that, the money started to flow. Okay?

So, when I die, Judgment Day, that's on my resume. All right, I did good. And as I gave you my opinion of Mr. Clooney. And the others, you know, who didn't rally to celebrities, you know what that culture is. Okay. So here's the update. 10 years later, all right, in 2011, 5. 128 million had been distributed, all right?

There was a study done by the New York Community Trust. It was actually an investigation because of us, okay? So most of the money did finally go. Now, all the charities admitted, it wasn't like some charity was saying, oh no, excuse me. They all said, oh, we got problems here. distributing the money, and this and that. Some of them were actually banking the money to give to other disasters. Okay?

And I said, no, that's not happening. I am very, very proud of that coverage, okay? Because we were the only ones on television in the media driving this. And it was because the guy I worked for, Roger Ailes, Fox News, he stood behind me. I don't know whether that would happen today, but he stood behind me and allowed me to investigate this, to go full bore on it. I had no pushback from the folks, particularly the folks who gave their hard-earned money to the charitable cause. They wanted this money, of course, to get to the family. No pushback from them. I got a slew of a war,

You know from this charity and that charity that eventually helped these people, but I remain to this day and it's petty of me. I know it's petty. I should forgive Clooney. He's never asked for forgiveness, but he'd never do that. But I should let it go. I should let it go. But something inside me, I can't. It was so blatant. It was so bad. These people were suffering so much, and these arrogance. Anyway, got to do the right thing. That's the theme. You've got to do the right thing. And in this case, we did. Thanks for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We will see you tomorrow.