Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - What to Expect From President Trump's Address, Mike Slater on Faith and Politics, & Tom Homan’s Surprise Appearance

Episode Date: July 16, 2026

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Offer ends July 22nd, 2026. Visit Ancestry.ca slash beginners for details. Terms apply. Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 15th, 2020, stand up for your country. Very important speech by President Trump tomorrow night. I was on a Hannity radio program today. It's posted on Bill O'Reilly.com. And Hannity had good information because he talks to Trump a lot. And he was telling me that it's going to center on a lot of fraud about 2020 election. And the president, of course, is entirely convinced and nobody's going to unconvince him that that election was rigged.

And I said, and this is absolutely true, that in order to engage the American public on this issue, six years later, president has got very specific in who did what. Can't be general. Same thing with Iran. Now, Hannity doesn't think he's going to discuss Iran. I do. We'll see who's right. It almost has to update the nation on Iran because everybody is being affected by it.

So anyway, we will not be broadcasting on Friday, as you know, but I'm going to do a message sometime early Friday and then a column on Sunday about the president's speech. but again, clarification, if President Trump wants to continue leading the nation in a powerful position, it has to happen. Or the Republicans will lose the midterms, and we're going to give it a numbers. We have new numbers tonight. And that is the subject of the talking points memo. So let's put me in charge of writing this speech.

and President Trump could do worse. So I sit down and my mind is linear. I go A to B to C to D, E. I don't wonder, you know, you read my books, 20 bestsellers, number one bestsellers, I should say. And I'm telling you a story. That's what I do. I'm a storyteller from the ancient Irish tradition.

Now, was the gift I was born with. I tell stories. Now, the story here is probably broken up into three areas. Number one, President Trump's passion that the election was rigged of 2020. Whatever he's got, he got to put it all out there tomorrow. And this guy did this, this guy did that. Here's how it affected the vote. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Okay, that's number one. My two has got to say, look, here's where we are with Iran. And here's what could happen. I don't expect him to give us the battle plan. That would be foolish. Okay. But here's what we can expect. And I hope it doesn't turn out that way or whatever phrase he wants to use.

As a speech writer, you always consult with the president or whoever you're writing the speech for. And the third is the economy because the Trump economy is pretty good. But you ask Americans, they don't know that. And they're never going to get it from the corporate media, ever. I wouldn't spend a lot of time tomorrow on the economy because he does want to get this election stuff out and Iran is kind of up there above the economy right now. Because Iran drives the high prices. Okay, so a couple of interesting things surrounding the Thursday speech. Number one, the White House has not asked for time from the networks yet.

So at 9 p.m. at the White House, now Fox will take it, News Nation will take it, News Max will take it, so you'll be able to see it if you want to. But ABC, NBC, NBC, and CBS haven't been asked yet. I suspect they will not take it. could be wrong on that. Depends on what they have and what's going on. But you'll be able to see it and hear it on the radio. Also, the left, the far left, progressive left, doesn't want anybody to hear the speech.

This is an amazing thing. Here's Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. I don't think that we should be contributing to any platforming of lies about our election. And so I think that, you know, I mean, many of these, many news outlets oftentimes may receive transcripts. And I think that we have an ethical obligation to not air things that undermine our elections that are not rooted. in evidence and fact. All right, so that's what the communists do. You can't have an opposing point of view in Beijing or Moscow,

or Havana, or Hanoi. You can't. The government puts on something Putin doesn't like, a person who puts it on, bye, okay? That's what she wants. No, we'll put the speech on and then we'll analyze the speech for accuracy, which is what we do in a democracy. Okay? No, nobody should take it.

It's very important that the American public understand the mindset of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Mandani. you've got to understand where they're coming from. And that is a hard left place. And if you don't understand that, it's to your peril. These are revolutionaries. These are Che Guevara people. All right. In summing up, you never,

I never know what President Trump's going to do. And I can't, as an American citizen, suggest he do anything. I can do it through this program, and I know he watches the No Spend News. He told me he watches this broadcast first at night. You know, he's got a list of people, television shows, that he watches, news shows. And he says, we watch you first because, you know, you're obviously giving us information, and I am. So I hope that specificity rules for the nation's sake, not for Donald Trump's sake. I mean, obviously, if I had to vote again, and it's Kamala Harris against Donald Trump,

I'm voting for Trump. Okay, or Biden. Okay, I'm voting for him. I'll straight up because I think it's a better country. It's kind of country you want. All right. And that's a memo. So the president's in Pennsylvania today.

He's at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle. He's going to give a speech. I don't know when that's going to happen because there's a whole bunch of roundtables. And they're talking about defense and innovation, all of this stuff, very wonkish. Hear that? It's your money calling.

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I don't think the president is going to burn anything tonight. He's going to save it for tomorrow night. But he is in Pennsylvania. And then the vice president, J.D. Vance, he's with a bunch of Republicans. I don't know what they're doing. Right now, the Vance campaign or office does not cooperate with us very much. There's no animus. I mean, I interviewed him on time extensively. It came off well. I thought we were fair. But they recently have not been friendly at all.

to this operation. Do I take it personally a little bit? I have to be honest, a little bit. You know, we want our public servants to buck up and answer the questions. That's what we want, both parties, both sides. Secretary of State, Rubio, and that's right now,

if the election were held, 28, it would be Rubio running against for the Republican nomination. So Rubio is in D.C. with 70 countries talking about terrorism. And the meeting is intended to lay the groundwork for coordinated action against international organizations seeking to implement extreme political vision through intimidation and coordinated campaigns of terror. All right, this is just a free ride by 70 countries send their people over

whoever they want. and they live large in D.C. for a few days, running a big tab, and then they all go home. Is there anything going to be done about this? Ruby, I'm pretty slick. He makes friends, and you need friends. But otherwise, I don't expect much to come out of this. All right, so News Nation, you know that I'm on there, and tonight I'll be on with Katie Pavlach. A little bit later, we usually do Cuomo on Wednesday, but I don't know why we're not doing it.

but they asked me to do Katie, and be happy to do it. And she's at 10 Eastern. There's a whole laundry list of what she wants to talk about, which is good. I like that. They like to pong around. So we'll see you there. They have a pretty good polling operation called Decision Desk, H.Q, D,DHQ, independent and nonpartisan provider of election data.

Okay. I'll look at that. And here is the headline as it stands on July 15th. Congress, 65% that Democrats will win at least one house. 40% Democrats will win both houses. Okay? 35% Republicans will retain both houses, full control. So Dems look like they have a fairly significant advantage here.

That can change overnight. Okay. House of Representatives, 39% chance the Republicans retain the House. 62% chance Democrats win the House. Okay, that's all about money in people's pockets. That's what this is about. Okay. Finally, to Senate, 57% chance Republicans retain the Senate, 43% Democrats winning. So those are the latest numbers. Do I have any quibble with those numbers? I do not.

But they can change in a heartbeat with victory. Americans like winners. Okay. Now one guy who follows this stuff every day as I do is named Mike Slater. may know him because he is the radio guy we use. See, our radio broadcasts, what, of 300 stations? And we have a format that at the top of the radio, O'Reilly, whatever it is, they can put on whatever they want. WABC is our flagship in New York City, and it's, you know, Bill O'Reilly commentary.

So Slater comes on, and he gives you the headlines because Slater's up like three in the morning. I just can't do it. And he's got boom, boom, boom. I come on and I give you a message of the day, a commentary. And then I come on again, there's a third part of the commentary, where something you might not know, which is really caught on, because we give you a lot of good information. So anyway, Slater, who's been around forever, he's a good broadcaster. He used to live in San Diego. He's a local San Diego radio guy and lived out there. In San Diego, it was a beautiful place to live, or at least was. I haven't

been there in a while. And he moved to Tennessee Slater. And he does a podcast every day, five originals, two reruns, called Politics by Faith. He joins us now from Nashville. So are you a holy roller now? What are you now? Are you, what are you? Yeah, Benz, though, for about 12 years. We like to thump the Bible on politics by things. faith, Bill O'Reilly. We thump it over there, unapologetically. Okay. Give me an example of a theme that politics by faith would take on. Let me give you the genesis, if I may, of why we started this podcast. I felt that people were very full of anxiety, Bill. It's important to bring in the headlines,

understand the news and what's happening, but I saw that people were being taken out with anxiety. And that's not good. We have a country to save. And if we have anxiety, then we're not going to be able to think clearly. And Hebrews 11 and 12 starts off with faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. And then it goes into all the characters in the Bible. So by faith, Abel, by faith Enoch, by faith Abraham. And they talk about all these incredible saints. If I may, Mr. O'Reilly, give a shout out to one of your books, killing England. anyone listening now who's read the book Killing England and then you go see the movie Young Washington

it's all there everything from your book is in the movie Young Washington but Young Washington and the men and women in Virginia that he fought for they never lost heart and they never lost sight of providence and God's hand over the affairs of man and the affairs of nations and that's what we do

we understand that God is in control and that there's nothing new under the sun I'll just give you one example Lindsay Graham passing away the other day. What do we do with that? What lessons can we learn from that? We talked about Ecclesiastity 7. Bill, last time you were on my radio show,

if you remember, I asked you, what do you want your legacy to be? Do you remember what you said? No, I can't remember what I did yesterday. Bill, you said, my legacy doesn't concern me. I do what's right in the moment. That is, I don't know if you knew it, but you quoted essentially Ecclesiastes 216,

which says for the wise, like the fool will not be long remembered. And that sounds like a downer, but it's not. It's about focusing on eternal things. So that's just an example. Anything in the news, we bring it to the Bible, and we try to get rid of our anxiety. All right, and it's a good thing to have people

be optimistic or hopeful that the situation, whatever it may be, is going to turn in a positive way. Now, you yourself, are you a religious guy? I mean, what faith are you? raised in a home that was very religious? Now, I was a creister growing up, Bill. We went on Christmas and Easter.

That was it. It wasn't until I moved to Tennessee when I first started to learn about the Bible and understand. So it's been about 14 years since I was baptized. All right. So you were kind of a semi-Atheist or you guys, your family didn't really engage in organized religion. And then you, as many people do.

saw the light and decided to become interested in the deity and theology. When you do the podcast, it just seems to me that you are relying upon on reality. Let me explain that. So when I wrote killing Jesus, the intent of the book, and it succeeded phenomenally, was to portray Jesus as a human being. We don't have any miracles in there because he couldn't verify the media. You couldn't do any of that.

And we didn't take Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John or any of the New Testament, or any of the Old Testament to set up anything. All we did was we went down the line and here's a 32-year-old guy who's murdered by the Romans. Why was he murdered? All right?

And under that banner, we were able to get into his philosophy. I mean, remember, Jesus of Nazareth, I never call him Jesus Christ, by the way, because Christ is a symbol of God. And we called him the Nazarene or Jesus of Nazareth. But he's the most famous person on earth, and always will be, which is pretty startling for a stone cutter. from a small town than nobody ever heard of, Nazareth. That's pretty shocking.

There's got to be something there, and that's how we went, how we roll, they say. Your podcast is more of a traditional, this is what the theology says, or am I wrong? I think that's right. It's the theology and just the history. I'd like to go back to Old Testament stories. and relate things that have happened today to battles that have happened in the past and the great men that are in this historical book as well. I just love the idea that there's nothing new under the sun.

Okay, so you're, but you're not taking the Old Testament literally, are you? I am indeed. So you believe that everything in the Old Testament happened? I do. The frogs, the plagues in Egypt, the frogs came down, they chased them around. The Red Sea parted. They went through the Red Sea.

You, Mike Slater, you're believing that. Mr. O'Reilly, at the risk of losing my opening, starting three minutes of your O'Reilly update, I believe every word of the Bible is true as it is written literally. Okay. And believe me, your belief should be respected. Anybody running it down or anybody denying it is anti-Democrity. and foolish, in my opinion. Now, let's turn to a lifestyle situation.

So you're out there in San Diego, I guess you're surfing every afternoon after your radio shift or whatever you're doing, whatever they do in San Diego. Okay, I've been to San Diego a dozen times, and you always enjoyed myself. It's gone downhill, as all of California has. And then you decide, for family reasons,

because your wife is a Tennessean, to go to Tennessee, so you move the family to Tennessee. primarily, what is the difference between San Diego and Nashville? What have you seen? Yeah, the thing that's speaking to me right now, and I'm really curious your take on this film, is how beautiful it is. Tennessee.

Tennessee is stunningly beautiful, the land here. Now, I know you said California, San Diego in particular, is beautiful. It's not. The distinction I've realized over time is the weather's nice, but that's very different than it is beautiful. It actually is not that beautiful. It's desert. It doesn't speak. That land doesn't speak to me. Tennessee with its rolling hills and beautiful trees and it's lush and it's green. It's so beautiful. I was, we're at Monticello, Monicello recently. We went there for the fourth. We brought the kids out there. And you're standing on this Monticello Italian for Little Mountain. And you look around at the Blue Ridge Mountains.

And you're just like, yeah, of course. Of course Thomas Jefferson fought for this land. Of course he said the king's not going to tell me what to do. I think the land is really powerful. And Tennessee is full of people who really, really want to fight for this country and fight for this land. Yeah, it's a red state and conservative thinkers mostly. What about socially? Did you have to make any adjustments going from California to Tennessee? No, Tennessee is my people.

My first job out of college was also in Tennessee, West Tennessee. Shout out to Jackson, Tennessee. And that's just where I really cut my teeth in conservatism and where I started to learn the Bible. So it's always been a second home to me. I call myself a born again, Tennessee. And then home, obviously, for my wife. One thing I also love about Tennessee, and this speaks maybe I think to your social point or question, is Tennessee is built around towns. So there's all these towns where you have the courthouse in the middle and then town square around it with local businesses.

And then the schools rate a block away. And the community is around that. and it's all very town focused. And San Diego in particular, it's not. It's like highway and corporate slop and strip malls. And it's just all blends together and blah. And you lose a lot of that sense of community that I think is really important for raising a family. Yeah.

And I mean, obviously Tennessee is a lot older than San Diego as far as the development is concerned. And that goes all the way back to Andrew Jackson and Davey Crock. I did a fascinating state. All right, Mike. The podcast is Politics by Faith. Okay? YouTube at Politics by Faith. Just punch that up and there it is, right?

What an honor, Bill. Thank you to hear you say those words. As if I'm not nervous enough to talk about to the great Bill O'Reilly, then you remind me that the President of the United States watches the show every night. What am I supposed to do here, Bill? You just do what you do.

That's all. All we can do. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't have hired you if you was some kind of moron. So you just do what you do, Mike. And we wish you the best with it. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. All right.

This is an unbelievable coincidence. If you watched in the No Spin News earlier this week, you heard me say that this migrant who was killed by ICE agents, Maine tilted the whole state away from the Democratic Party, which is serious. Because after that moron was exposed up there, the Democratic candidate, that Susan Collins Republican running against him for the Senate surge and still leads. But it would look like Maine was going to elect a Republican again, Ms. Collins. But then all the emotion that drives dead migrants in the street has changed everything.

Talk about politics. So here's what I said first of all. Go. The problem is that we, the people, don't hear from Mark Wayne Mullen to head of Homeland Security. He hasn't been on TV. He hasn't explained anything. And Tom Holman, I don't know where he. is the czar now i want due process so i don't expect them to come on to convict anybody or

acquit anybody but there are simple rudimentary questions like how come the ice agents weren't wearing vests you know the answer well the vests would have cameras on them literally an hour maybe an hour 20 minutes after i recorded that and nobody's saw it, gang, because we didn't put it out until 6 o'clock at night. But literally, this is so crazy, Holman shows up on CNN. Go. Why were the ICE agents not wearing body cameras in Houston or in Maine during these two incidents? I, you know, when the Democrat shut down the Department of Homeland Security, I was up on the hill as part of the negotiating team to reopen the government. And They wanted body cameras.

There's $120 million in the budget they're holding up to buy those body cameras. Now since the big, beautiful bill passed, now the reconciliation bill, the body cameras have been ordered. So in other ways, it is back a hole on the cameras that you would put on the vass because of the Democratic Party's refusal, all right, to pass the homeland security measures. I didn't know that. Did you know that? Because that's a pretty big thing.

Anyway, I live an amazing life. That's all I got. I just talked about this. Now, I want to reiterate, Oman did not see my commentary. He just said that. Okay, and I like Oman. I've had some very, very good conversation, and I believe him.

All right, so, The ICE traffic stop update is still murky because Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullins, a head of the head guy, says, we're going to pause our pursuit of migrants in vehicles. Well, about it two hours later, President Trump says, no, you're not. And he's in charge. Trump's in charge. So they're not pausing. And Trump says, look, I got to do this.

we have to get these people out and we're going to do it. Wise decision? I probably would have paused it. Then I'd report back to you about how long these cameras are going to take because then you get a much better view of what is going on. We don't want dead migrants in the street. Okay, this is not helpful for anyone. Now, in Maine, there are a million voters.

That's all. And maybe if it's 65% show up for the midterms, $650,000. So it's not a big thing. The protests up there, all engineered by the Democratic Party, as you would expect, they haven't been overwhelming. But there is anger on the part of some independence, which is what Maine is. and you want to tamp that down if the Republican Party wants to keep the Senate. So I'll just reiterate that point.

All right, daylight saving time. I don't really care about this one way or the other, but the House passed an extension of daylight savings time. The Sunshine Protection Act 308-1-17. Okay, and that means you don't mess with the clocks anymore. which is an inconvenience to mess with the clocks. But again, is it matter to me? No.

It gives the planet, not the planet, but the country, a little more warmth than a winter. It's probably a good thing. Now, there are people who don't like it. I don't know why. I got a summation. Some lawmakers argue that year-round daylight saving time would delay winter sunrises until after 9.

9 a.m. raising safety concerns about darker morning commutes. I think it'll pass, but they're going to play games with it in the Senate, as they always do. Okay, we'll take a quick break, and we've got a lot of good stuff at the end of the program here you don't want to miss. Final thought. Number one, kudos to Earth, Wind, and Fire. And Lionel Richie. I saw them last night at the UBS Arena. Great show. And Lionel Richie, he had some health problems. He would right on it, right on it.

Well worth your time and money. That is one of the best shows. Territ Wind and Fire, they're always good. And I know them in a long time. I don't know Mr. Richie, but he was right there. Okay, that's number one. Number two, as I mentioned, I'll be on News Nation tonight at 10 Eastern with Katie Pavlitch. We hope you tune into that.

Number three, that we are going to cover the president's speech Thursday night, but in a different way, go to Bill O'Reilly.com, because we'll have a whole bunch of stuff there, all right, to, for you to analyze. important speech very important in the country and I will write a Sunday column about it and I think I have covered it all all right so it's about a hundred degrees here in New York it's this crazy crazy winter crazy summer I'm going out east where it's a lot cooler and you know the only I to fight the Great Whites out there, but I'm ready for them. But I'll be around. As they spinners once sang, I'll be around.

And a beach voice, right? Round, round, get around. I'll get around. Anyway, I'm babbling now. I'm sorry about that. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching, and we'll see you soon. Hey, y'all's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair.

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