Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Whos At Fault Sorting Out The Minnesota Ice Shooting John Solomon Weighs In On The Investigation Trump Talks To Colombias President

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, January 8, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill covers the latest news on the Minnesota ICE shooting and the ongoing ICE debate. John Solomon, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, enters the No Spin Zone to weigh in on the investigation of the Minnesota ICE shooting and the FBI’s statements. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland. What was discussed in the phone call between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and President Trump? Former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton are scheduled for depositions next week in the Epstein probe. Final Thought: Listen to Bill's recent appearance on WABC’s Sid and Friends in the Morning here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, January 8th, 2026, stand up for your country. This is an important broadcast. It will teach you a lot about not only the conflict in Minneapolis with ICE, but the world. And I'm going to go through this in a very methodical way. We always want your feedback, bill at billow Riley.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Now, as you know, our mantra is people believe what they want to believe. that's about 90% of the population, the human population. So, you know, facts, not a lot of facts matter. It's all emotion.

They believe what they want to believe. So within minutes of this terrible shooting in Minneapolis, people were form and sides. All right. The left, which does not want immigration enforcement, they were demonized ICE, and the right, which does want the federal government to control illegal immigration. was demonizing the left and some, but not too many, the actual victim herself, who was a leftist. Now, I'm going to go right through this in the talking points memo. So obviously up top, anybody celebrating the death of another human being needs to see a psychiatrist.

So let's get that out of the way, virtue signaling, whatever you want to label it, nobody should be dead. And it didn't have to happen. And it happened because of bad decision making. That's why this woman is dead. Her name is Renee Nicole Good. She's a mother of three children, including a six-year-old son. She's a lesbian. She lives with a female partner.

Why does that matter? because it's not clear now where the younger boy will wind up, and I'm very concerned about him. A 15-year-old daughter, 12-year-old son, they live with their father. Okay? So we're always very concerned about children in situations like this. Now, her mother, Ms. Good's mother, says she was not an activist, but she was. She's a very ardent liberal. And my sources in both Colorado where she lived and in Minnesota,

she wasn't a bomb-throwing Antifa, but she wasn't emotionally involved in left-wing causes. So the first bad decision which led to her death was she should not have been interrupting a federal investigation, which she was. and she had parked her car to try to impede federal agents. That is a terrible decision. Particularly, you have three children. Now, I'm not blaming her for her death.

I'm not doing any of that. I'm just saying that bad decisions lead to bad outcomes. Okay? There's no reason on earth why that woman should have put herself in that kind of jeopardy. And if you're watching me tonight anywhere in a world do the same thing, you're likely to get hurt. and you may die. You do not impede authorities on the job anywhere, anytime. You do not do that. That's not protest. Now, right after the woman was killed, you had this unbelievable far-left garbage saying that she was a legal observer or some kind of crazy stuff. She was not. She's

breaking the law. That's obstruction of justice, what she did. All right. Now, the most important thing that I have said so far in this whole reportage, I repeated last night on Cuomo. Roll the tape. Well, number one, I'm not going to second guess the law officer. That's cheap and I'm not going to do it. All right. I wasn't there. And anybody doing that should reevaluate.

Number two, this is a story about bad decisions. And in your life and everybody's life, if you make a number of bad decisions, you make a number of bad decisions, you're going to pay the price. Okay, so I do not think it is fair for anybody to condemn that officer who shot this good. What you would need to make a decision on that is enhanced videotape. As you sit in a room, it would go frame by frame

from every angle. And then you would need to hear the agent himself testify what his state of mind was. These are split-second decisions. It really angers me. I'll tell you what. You see these people on television do this? I really think it's so immoral, but I'm not doing it.

Okay? I am not doing it. I have been in situations, wife death, guns involved. Okay? I know the adrenaline flow. I am not going to pass judgment on that man. not and I didn't pass judgment on as good either I just said it was a bad decision for her to be in a car impeding a federal investigation blocking it now the bad decision making goes back

to Joe Biden that's where it goes that that is the genesis of this story so you allow millions of people and supervised to come into the united states you're going to have a criminal element come in and they're going to kill people, which they have. And therefore, your decision-making, Mr. Biden, has led to death and destruction and has led to now President Trump having to correct your terrible decision by employing federal authorities to arrest and deport criminal aliens and others who are not in this country illegally. Remember, they all have to have a warrant. But ICE is not making that decision on the street. They're going after criminal aliens, okay?

And if there are other non-criminal aliens with them, they get swept up. That all goes back to Joe Biden. That bad decision that he made, probably the worst presidential decision of all time, has led to this woman's death yesterday. In addition, the people who run states California, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and others made a decision not to obey federal law.

We are not going to obey federal law. This is rebellion. That's what it is. It's like what South Carolina and other southern states did in the 1850s. We are going to rebel against the federal government. There is an immigration law, we are not going to uphold it, and Minnesota is perhaps the worst, because they won't even cooperate when criminal migrants are involved. That decision making on the part of Governor Walls and Mayor Jacob Frye in Minneapolis

did contribute to the death of Ms. Good, because those two men incited Ms. Good. How did they do that? Well, listen to your for yourself. Go. Donald Trump's modern-day gasapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.

To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Very early on in President Trump's first term,

I discussed this with him, and I said, look, you have a case that you can make against the sanctuary states. The Justice Department can sue them for a big money. And that's what should have happened. It did not. It didn't happen. But there's no question that walls and fry are inciting, inciting, actions against the federal government.

Of course they are. You can't deny that. Who could deny that? And this poor woman is caught up in that hysteria. Now on to the Trump administration. When you have a $9 billion fraud, perpetrated by a number of illegal migrants from Somalia. When $9 billion is stolen from the American taxpayer,

you have an obligation to send Homeland Security agents to the site where the $9 billion fraud took place. That's not an option. That's an obligation. Now, Wals and Fry, they don't care about the nine, billion, they looked the other way. They had to know. They had to know. And they allowed it. So you can't deal with them. They're in rebellion against the United States. So President Trump orders 2,000 ICE into Minneapolis to not only round up criminal aliens and these Somalis

who participated in this fraud are criminal aliens, but to impose a kind of order in Minneapolis, which is lacking. Though, if you want to make an equivalency, you can't, because the president of the United States, it could be anybody. There's an obligation to stop a $9 billion fraud. Expose it, prosecute it. Then you have unbelievable media, and I don't think you get into that today, who, again, they follow the PAC, and the PAC hates Trump. So the bad decision making is, we're not going to try to find out what happened.

We're just going to condemn Trump and everything he does. Then you have a de-escalation order. Now remember, every police agency in the country, local state and feds, the agency teaches to de-escalate any kind of potential life-threatening situation. That's the fact. You people who are on the side, if you want to use that phraseology, of the police, have to know that. The ICE agents in this case did not de-escalate. They didn't. That's a fact. Now, I'm not condemning anybody. I'm just saying that de-escalation is the rule of the land in police agencies.

A lot people don't understand that. And that did not happen in Minneapolis yesterday. Okay. So all of these things were swollen around when I went on News Nation last night with the three Americans, Cuomo, Stephen A. Smith and myself, roll of tape. Okay. Bill O'Reilly, may I chime? May I chime in and speak? May I chime to you directly, Bill? Here's where I'm disappointed, Bill. Here's where I'm disappointed, Bill, and your response. So you can have an opinion about her, but you can't have an opinion about the officer, even though you've seen the video numerous times. you've seen the video. I've watched it 10 times. I can't put myself in his shoes. I think it's irresponsible to do that.

Okay. Because I don't know the state of mind of the man when a vehicle is coming at him. It's irresponsible to do it. I'm not going to do it. Okay. I'm coming to you. Let me be irresponsible. A 37-year-old woman, she wasn't coming down the street going 90 miles an hour. She was stationary. She was still. And then she took off. Did she took off? So you had to move out the way as she was. taking off, okay?

And you shoot her in the head? Let me, let me reply. Let me reply to that. I'm for de-escalation. I support de-escalation. Okay. Every kind of a situation, not just this. I don't want to see anybody die.

All right? So if I were there, I'd like to think that I would have tried to de-escalate. But it's not fair of me, because I don't know the state of mind of the officer when he sees a vehicle lurch forward, and I'm not going to condemn it. I am not going to do that. No matter how many videos you show. Show it to a grand jury, a federal grand jury,

and let them decide after forensics and this and that. Allow me to retort. Hearing the officer. Okay. What she did is not worthy of the death penalty, but it's about where you start the chain of causation, Stephen A, with about why they were there in the first place. Well, I wanted to throw out this question of bill,

in all honesty, because I have. I appreciate his candor. I don't agree with his position totally, but I respect it and I respect where he's coming from. What I would ask you in return is this bill. So, of course, where things start, that matters. And we understand that. That was instigated by her action.

Some people who are on the left will say it's instigated by ice because they shouldn't be there, blah, blah, blah. I'm not going there. Stephen A, you had a big vehicle coming at you from 10 feet away. That's a situation. He wasn't even right in front of the car. And let's let the people deliberate on it. There is a system, all right?

And they, and I will trust what the people in the federal grand jury or whatever forum decide. But not us. And that's the right way to handle this. Now, there is a report that the federal government is not turning over all the evidence to the local authorities in Minnesota. I'm not surprised by that. The FBI does not trust law enforcement in Minneapolis. They simply don't trust it. And neither do I.

Because they're under the orders of Walls. And Walls is a fanatical anti-Trump in rebellion to the United States guy. That's the truth. All right. Now, going forward, the Trump administration is not going to capitulate to this. And they shouldn't. There has to be order. the laws have to be enforced.

But the sanctuary places, you've got to take action against them. You've got to stop this. These sanctuary people, the FBI should interview Jacob Fry and Governor Wals and say, look, you're on a verge of incitement here and rebellion here. That's where you are, because that's the truth. You can't have this. We had it before the Civil War. and anybody who've read my book, killing Lincoln or confronting the presidents, knows it, can't allow this stuff.

Or you're not going to have a country. Okay, so finally, we're going to say honest story. And on Monday, you know, we'll encapsulate it again. But I'm going to offer masks for both the victim and the officer on Sunday. I want you to know that. And that's a memo. I was bringing John Solomon, one of the best reporters in the United States, in my opinion. He's an honest man.

He fronts the just-the-news operation, which you should be familiar with. All right, what's the latest? Have you learned anything that we don't know? Well, listen, I think the most important thing we learned today came from the FBI director, Cash Patel, who told us in a statement. We asked this question, what are you doing about the protesters? And he said, we're investigating both the organizers of the protest and, the funders of these protests, these anti-ice protests in Minneapolis, for possible criminality.

What is that criminality? Obstruction of justice, just like you correctly identified in your monologue. When you sit there, you put your truck in front of a law enforcement vehicle with their blinking red lights. When you went to driving school and we're told to pull over for the cops and get away out of their way, you know you're obstructing a law enforcement. So that means financiers, if it's a George Soros or someone like that, and we don't know who it is, but whoever the financiers are, the logistical organizers could be soon facing prosecution. That is what Cash Patel told us today.

I think that's an important part of this equation. Yeah, you off-hopped on something that's always mystified me as a reporter. In the last five years that Donald Trump was in office, there have been multiple opportunities to prosecute or civilly litigate against sanctuary cities in a significant way. It is clearly obstruction of justice when you have an arrest warrant. and you're in custody of the felon, and you won't give that felon over to the United States government. And it's always wondered why the Trump Justice Departments haven't gone that route. And I continue to endeavor to try to get that answer.

I can't get an answer yet. But I do think today, knowing that these protests are part of the problem, part of the bad decision-making is you so eloquently put it in your monologue, I think it's a big step today that the FBI on the record said, If you're organizing, you're providing material support, you're providing money to make these protests, and these protesters engage in obstruction of law enforcement, you will be prosecuted. I think that's a big moment that hasn't been said before in any of this sanctuary city debate. Okay. How about incitement? That's a harder one because of the First Amendment.

You know, no doubt in my mind that these two men, Walson, Fry, incited people to go out, and confront the ICE agents. And then when you go out and confront law enforcement, obviously bad things are going to happen. But incitement, federal charges of rebellion, they're much, much harder to, you know, judges are very askance at that. But is there anything underway there at all?

Not yet. Not that I can talk about it. I think those First Amendment issues that you give a little pause to the FBI, they feel like they have better cases to be made right now that get the same people for accountability that haven't been brought. And there are two or three really significant cases underway. The first case, of course, is the one that they announced today, that they're looking at these protesters and organizers. And if any campaign donated to the supposedly Democrat

donated money to these groups, they could be held culpable for being part of an obstruction process. The second one is the sheer size of the fraud. And what did the people in of protecting that federal money do. And Tim Walts as the recipient of federal monies that got defrauded in these programs, what did he know, when did you know it, and did he make a conscious decision to look the other way and allow the American people to be fleeced in a significant way, maybe $9 billion. Those cases are underway, and I've talked to lots of law enforcement officials last couple weeks that tell me they're looking at state officials as possible co-conspirators in the fraud scheme.

And then I think the third one is the one we're going to do that. we went back to, which is the one I can't get an answer on yet from the Trump Justice Department, but I think we're owed one as the American public. If you're Tim Waltson, you have 600 people like Christy Knoem, Senator News Conference last night, in your custody that we have lawful arrest warrants for and you won't turn them over, are you obstructing justice? And should you as the governor, forget rebellion. It's just simple, old-fashioned obstruction of justice. And I'm going to work hard to get that answer from the Trump Justice Department. I've been knocking on doors all day on that one. All right and the Homeland Security Secretary of Ms. Noam has to be careful

because she made some misstatements yesterday as well. I agree. I mean you can't I don't believe for a second that the victim is good all right was tied into Antifa or any of that. I think she was just a you know a misguided person who acted on emotion and then panicked. Yeah the domestic terrorism label doesn't apply here no one with right no one in common sense America would buy that. And so both sides need to turn the rhetoric down. Absolutely. Because you've got to be fair on this. You know, bad decision making. That's in both precincts. But right now, the woman would still be alive if Minnesota obeyed the law. Yeah. Your monologue could not have played in a better light. That's the way most common sense

Americans are going to look at it. They look at it. I hope so. Americans are so much common sense than our politicians are. John, thanks very much. We always appreciate having you on. Good to be with you, my friend. Just the news. Okay, so War Powers Act is in the Senate. It's a very interesting story. So five Republicans voted to limit President Trump's ability

to regulate things in Venezuela. Those are, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young from Indiana, Josh Hawley from Missouri. And then right after that, President Trump put out a true social saying they should never be elected again and he's mad at them. But here's the interesting thing about this. It's not going to pass the Senate, this War Powers Act. It probably won't even get voted on because of the filibuster, the 60.

You need 60 senators to okay a floor vote. Now, a lot of conservatives, including President Trump, want to do away with the filibuster. If you did that, then these people would win. Then Donald Trump would not be able to conduct foreign policy in Venezuela the way he wants to. And that's what I've been saying in the beginning. This is it two-way. This is why you have that filibuster. It can make it more difficult, okay, for things to happen.

Because there's no way that President Trump should be impeded in neutralizing Venezuela. No, he's doing the right thing. He's protecting America. All right. The government of Venezuela stole all the American infrastructure that, harvested oil, you're going to just to let me do that. So now he's getting the money back. And the narcotics is the narcotics. Anyway, I don't expect this to go forward, but it was an interesting thing today. Greenland, as I told you, I mean, it's really most absurd story

ever. So Secretary of State Rubio, who I'm really gained a lot of respect for. He's going to meet with the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark next week. I hope they come to the White House, not the White House, but Washington. But it has been announced where this is going to be. And I work it out. We're going to work it out. All right, we need bases there. We'd like to have mineral contracts there. They'll work it out. All these invasion stuff. Come on. Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro. When we last left Gustavo, he was taunting President Trump. I don't think that might not be a good strategy, Gustavo.

Just, you know, between me and you, maybe you don't want to do that. So Columbia is a big drug haven. Always has been. If you read my book Confronting Evil, you'll see. Now, Petro is alleged to be sympathetic to the drug traffickers, I don't, it's not like Maduro, who Switzerland froze his money because he was taking money. We don't know that with Pedro, okay? But Gustavo calls President Trump yesterday and says, you know, can we get together?

Okay. So it looks like the Colombian president is going to come to the USA. And I guess it'll work something out. But you got to get those cartels in Colombia. Gustavo, come on, man. Somalia, no more U.S. aid. Yay. There is no government in Somalia.

It's run by terrorists. So finally, we're not going to give them any more aid. And it's all because of Minnesota. So they get on you. All right. All right, next week, big story next week. So both Bill and Hillary Clinton are being called, testifying in front of the House, over,

committee that is Congressman James Comer. And they're going to be asked questions about Epstein. Ooh, this is not good. Now, the Clints don't want to do this.

They've already put it off once. I don't know if they're going to show up. I don't know. So Bill Clinton is scheduled January 13th, and Hillary January 14th for depositions under oath about Epstein. Now, there's no question that Bill Clinton had a relationship with Epstein, 17 times on his jet. I don't think Hillary knew him, but I don't know.

Anyway, we're following that story. Potential to be a very big story next week. Epstein is back. We'll be back in a moment with final thought. Final thought. But so WABC, as I mentioned before, is our flagship radio station. We have 300 radio stations around a country. Carry my commentary.

And we're very pleased to be on WABC, which is the dominant number one, not only in the New York metropolitan area, which is the biggest market, but around a country. Because you can access WABC radio from your computer now, from your smartphone now. It's a punch up WABC News Radio Live, and then pops up. So I was on Sid and Friends this morning, of course, talking about Minneapolis, rule of tape. So we get every morning the blast that these dishonest people send out to the media. It's really unbelievable how they do it. And then politicians and pundits pick up the exact wording.

So this is a legitimate observer, this woman who was killed. Now, she's not a legitimate observer. she was breaking the law by what she did. And that's why she's dead. And I feel terrible. You're a six-year-old child, this woman. Right. So anybody that celebrates that are happy that she's dead,

you need to see a psychiatrist. And by the way, not only is nobody happy she's dead, but the person that is least happy that she's dead is this poor cop. Of course. His life now is an absolute turrets. turmoil. So anyway, a heads up on WABC. Well Worth seeking out. I'm on there on Katz and Cosby Mondays at the end of their program on Sid every day, commentary, and then I'll extend its segment at 9 a.m. on Thursday. So if you want to check us out, very nice of you to watch us tonight.

We've got a whole bunch of stuff coming over the weekend. Stay close to Bill O'Reilly.com. We'll see you on Monday.