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Bill O'Reilly
Here welcome to another edition of the no Spin News for Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Stand up for your country. As everybody knows, our nation is divided. Not the first time Revolutionary War about half of the colonists were Tories. They didn't want to separate from King George. And then we of course had the Civil War where more than a million Americans were killed fighting each other and then Vietnam. And there have been lesser divisions in this country and we are in that age now because primarily of President Trump. There are other factors like the progressive movement, the rise of socialism. But it's President Trump that has, through, I don't know, circumstances caused a big political division in America. We will get through this and hopefully stronger. But it's harder to come together now because of all the massive fraud that many Americans are not even aware of. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. TikTok never been there. Know what it is but I have more important things to do than ticking the talk or whatever you do there. But massively popular all over the world and charlatans are using it. Here's a very good example. March 25th just a few days ago. A I don't know what to call them. Disruptors maybe? That's a good word. Tony and Angel. We have not traced them back and I really don't want to bring any kind of grief upon them, although I don't respect them. Posted a TikTok video about Ice Go.
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
This plane's not going anywhere, people.
Bill O'Reilly
Right.
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
I'm not going to repeat myself all day. Juan Garcia, where are you? Come to the front right now. You guys are allowed to take people off the plane now. Yes, absolutely. That is it. That's why I have this bad job. Since when? Yeah, what's your badge say? I'm not here for a discussion. I'm here for Mr. Garcia.
Renee DiResta
Identify yourself.
Bill O'Reilly
Okay, right after that dropped I got all kinds of texts from from my liberal friend C C C C and I said let me check this Out. It's a phony. They're actors. It's a set that they used, they had to spend some money on. This was a complete phony. No disclaimer that we could find. None. Just threw it on up. Millions of people believed it were, it was true. Including, and I mean, among my friends who texted me are journalists, sophisticated people. And then it got nasty. Roll it.
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
I got arrested. I'm a US citizen and these guys want to put me away. They want to send me across the border.
Bill O'Reilly
I was born here in the middle
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
of portion of your border. San Antonio, Texas. Dad was Mexican or something. Yeah, my mom was, but that shouldn't matter. I was born here in the United States.
Bill O'Reilly
Yeah.
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
Dude, where's your wife? They already took her. And she was born here too. She was born same place, yeah.
Bill O'Reilly
You're kidding me. Yeah.
Actor in TikTok Video / ICE Incident Participant
American citizens. I hope you can get a lawsuit or something. I'm gonna sue the out of these people.
Bill O'Reilly
Okay, Again, phony. Total fabrication was acting and on a set and it went all over the world. This is serious. Okay? Now, YouTube, which carriages some of it, they have more than 2 million subscribers as Tony and Angel duo. And they call themselves Disruptors or whatever, you know, digital creators. Digital creators. So this is serious. And the outfit that rented them the set is called Network Media. It's an industry. This whole industry. Somebody's behind this because it costs money. Somebody paying for this is propaganda. Okay? Now we have this spectre of AI, artificial intelligence. We do make these people look like pikers. Because with artificial intelligence, you can take a human being and then insert a different face words in the person's mouth. They did not say it's unlimited, the fraud, the potential is unlimited. People are going to watch these videos. They are not going to know what is true and what is not true. This is dangerous. Okay, now there's a poll by Quinnipiac out about AI. And the first question is, how concerned are you about AI? Very. Somewhat. Not at all very concerned. 38. Somewhat. 42. That's 80% of Americans are concerned about AI, but they won't even know it's AI. A lot of them okay. And 18% are not. Okay. Second question, how much of the time do you think you can trust the information generated by AI? All the time. Most of the time. Some of the time. Almost all. And most of the time only 21% some of the time. Hardly ever. 76%. But how are you going to delineate that? How are you going to know what you can trust and what you can't? Unless you have a machine like I do. I have an investigative machine. We can find out you don't have that. Okay, last question. When it comes to day to day life, do you think I do more good than harm? More good, 34. More harm 55. Don't know. 11. But it's coming. Now, with all of that stuff in the air, you combine it with misinformation on the already existing media. Okay? Now, Chris Cuomo is a friend of mine, but he's an emotional guy and sometimes he makes mistakes, as he did last night. So this was his program. He was taking calls. Roll the tape. We know that you told Bill O'Reilly that you weren't a Democrat. But instead of telling us what you don't like what's going on with Trump, what would you do? What is your answer to the solving the Iran problem? Okay, first of all, I'm a journalist, not an elected leader. Okay. You don't hear Bill O'Reilly giving you any explanations or solutions. You don't every day. I do that. Every blanking day. If you watch the San Francisco special, which Cuomo didn't, I had absolutely given you the solution to that problem. That's therapeutic centers where these people are mandatory. You get to take them off the street and get them, well, provide for them, because what's happening now in San Francisco is barbaric. And then there were the migrants. Did you know? Fast Growing Trees is America's largest and most trusted online nursery with thousands of trees and plants and more than 2 million happy customers. It's like your local nursery, but anywhere. You live with more plants than you'll find anywhere else. Right now they have great deals on spring planting essentials, up to half off on select plants. And listeners to our program get 20% off the first purchase when using the Code Bill at checkout. That's an additional 20% off. Better Plants and Better Growing at fastgrowingtrees.com using code BILL at checkout fast growing trees.com code BILL now is the perfect time to plant. Let's grow it together. Use Bill to save today. Offer valid with a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply.
Alex Canceroitz
Sometimes you just want a good story.
Bill O'Reilly
On TikTok, you'll find short dramas, emotional, fast and impossible to stop watching. Download TikTok now. So how do you deal with that? Well, last September, as you may remember, we had all kinds of problems in Minneapolis where ICE was running down, people suspected of being in the country illegally, and protesters were confronting them. I have a solution and I put it forth. Last September 19th go. You can't have people kicking doors in, chasing people around. Can't do that. What you can do is say to anyone in this country without documentation, you have three months. I had it originally at six, but I'd bring it down to three. You have three months, 90 days to register with your local post office. Each post office will have a registration form. You're to fill it out, and then you send it to Homeland Security on an envelope that's already given to you. And the government pays the stamp if you do not fill out the form. And the form and say, who are you? What country do you come from? Where are you living? Do you have a job? Do you have dependents, children? That kind of thing. A questionnaire. If you don't do it within 90 days and you're caught by the authorities, local, state, federal, you deport it without a hearing. No hearing, you're gone. Now, if that happened, the government would have a massive database of people here illegally, and then they could adjudicate those people, give them a hearing. Right now, we just have millions of people just wandering all over the place. Is that not a solution? Of course it is. Now, Chris Cuomo didn't intentionally mislead you. I don't believe that he did. He's not that kind of guy. But he doesn't watch this program, okay? He's talking off the top of his head. He does not watch this presentation. He doesn't know what I do, and most likely he doesn't care. But that's okay. It's all right. But off the top of his head, well, Bill O'Reilly doesn't have any solutions, which is ridiculous. If you know me, if you watch me, you know that almost every day we put forth solutions to vexing problems here. So let's recap it. You got stunts on TikTok and other social media paid for phony garbage. You got AI coming that can electronically, or whatever word you want to use, alter reality. And you have a corporate media full of misinformation. Boy, that's a threesome that is almost impossible to cut through if you want to know the truth about your country, about your life, and about solving problems. And that's the memo. Joining us now from Washington, D.C. is Renee DiResta. She's associate research professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and is very interested in this information flow. Number one. Am I overstating, understating that I make any mistakes in your opinion, Professor?
Renee DiResta
No, I think what you're saying is accurate. I would Say it's not just mainstream media, that that is wrong. I think the entire ecosystem is, you know, full of BS artists at this point, independent as well as mainstream. So I think that's, that's the one area where I would maybe disagree. But the challenge is people need to try to figure out what's real. And they have huge collective resources.
Bill O'Reilly
People are busy.
Renee DiResta
That's the problem. That's where I was going to go.
Bill O'Reilly
People have to make a living. People have to go to the store. They got to try to figure out what's real, what isn't real. Nobody's going to. And they don't have, nobody's going to do that out. They don't have a staff. I have a staff and they're good.
Renee DiResta
Yep.
Bill O'Reilly
And I can give them Joe and Angie or whoever these people are and say we chase these people down. People can't do that. Regular folks.
Renee DiResta
No, you're completely right. That is the main problem. The problem is that people trust what they see when it hits their feed because somebody that they chose to follow shared it, whether that's a friend, a media outlet, you know, a news person like you, an influencer like Tony and Angel. And they think that it's, you know, they think that it's real. People are still in the mindset that what they see is likely to be real. And we've hit a place in our, you know, in our technological and information environment where that's just not true anymore.
Bill O'Reilly
Okay, you teach younger people, are they addicted to this kind of stuff? Do they have any skepticism about it at all? Generally speaking?
Renee DiResta
Generally speaking, younger generations do. I have a 12 year old son who says, you know, nothing I see on the Internet is real. So I think the young, yeah, the younger, the younger, younger generation knows that it's not true. It's actually more, you know, people who are still used to thinking of the media or the online environment as a place where they could get accurate information. It's usually a little bit more people who've been accustomed to that, generations that are a little bit older people who still think of the Internet as a place where accurate information lives. So younger kids are actually more attuned
Bill O'Reilly
to it than we are because I got, as I mentioned, texts from journalists who thought this was it. And they were gloating. They were gloating. Oh, look, O'Reilly, you know, look at what ICE is doing. Look what Homeland Security's doing. Look at their heinous, are terrible, blah, blah, blah. And I go, let me check this out. These are sophisticated people. Totally, totally drawn in by this fallacious presentation. Okay, let's advance the story a little bit. How much of a danger is this to our democracy, Professor?
Renee DiResta
The danger is twofold. One, it's that, as you're noting, when people do that, right. When you have journalist friends who reach out to you, it's because it hits something that they're likely to believe already and they see evidence. And that happens across the political spectrum. Right. So the, that might be a completely different issue that lands for people on the right than for people on the left. Right now a lot of these ICE videos are making the rounds. You might see videos of riots, right? That would, that would flip. That would land better with audiences on the right that think that this is something that is more likely to be happening. So you see that happen where different content plays and it hits you because it hits emotionally. And so you just hit that share button, you send it to your friend and it's because you actually maybe don't even really care if it's true. It's just confirming an existing belief and that's why you share it on. And so that's what's happening. And that's kind of dangerous to begin with, right? Because you're. We're just in these mindsets where, as you noted at the start of the segment, everybody's very polarized. And so you don't actually care to check. Sometimes you just think this is showing my enemies or my political opponents in the worst light. So I'm going to share it and.
Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, how. Right.
Renee DiResta
I am not going to go check. Yes.
Bill O'Reilly
But when you have, and this is certainly possible with AI, when you have the majority of voters not knowing what's real and what isn't real, I think there's trouble.
Renee DiResta
That's the second part. That's the second part.
Bill O'Reilly
Right.
Renee DiResta
Because sometimes what you'll see is, you know, in the, in the incident that you showed, there's some signs there, right? There's. That plane is very unbranded. It's a little bit suspiciously kind of 90s looking. Most planes don't have those cloth covers in quite that way anymore. They don't have those kind of bulkheads. But what you see now is, you know, you don't even have to have the video. You can have a very plausible leaked audio that sounds like a politician saying something, but really it's a synthetic voice. If something like that drops 24 hours before a vote, that kind of thing can really shake people up. It can make them wonder, is this real? We've seen that happen in a number of European elections. There's nothing to stop that from happening here. And because it takes sometimes, you know, between three hours to two days to actually go in there and figure out if the content is real, sometimes these are very, very high quality fakes. There's that window that time where people don't know what to believe. And if it sounds scandalous, you're going to have this environment where again, people are going to be likely to believe it if they don't like the person, not likely to believe it if they don't. And they're not actually going to get at the facts or the truth. And that's one of these big challenges. The other side of it, though, it's
Bill O'Reilly
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, I don't think the law has caught up with this US Law. We're supposed to be protected against fraud when it comes all down to it, professor, and please disagree. If you. If you believe that it's fraud, this is fraud.
Renee DiResta
So the challenge you have is that what Tony and Angel would say is that this is political satire and that that's covered under the First Amendment, and that's legally correct. Right. And so the question that we get to is, what do you do to help people then know? When you get at false information about a person, you have a little bit more. You have a little bit more in the way of law that you could apply to those situations like defamatory content or likeness laws. In certain areas where you see candidates that are subject to harassment, content where, you know, female candidates in particular are put into compromising situations, that kind of thing happens sometimes. There are certain laws that apply to that. But for political content, this is protected under the First Amendment. And so one of the things that we are trying to do as we think about how to address this problem is can you give people more context? Can the platforms, particularly social media platforms, work where this spreads? Toss up a label, right? Can the models that are used to create it put up a label? I know that's the. And that's the problem. And this is the issue, though, right, where you're. You're hitting that challenge of what you know. And I'm the first person to tell you that labeling is not foolproof, that bad actors can strip it out, that it doesn't work. Too much of is. And that is the other thing. It's the deluge. I wish. You know, look, I sound like I'm making an excuse for the tech companies here. I'm really not. Nobody's more frustrated than me. It is that balance. You were right. The law has not caught up. This is the environment we live in now. The other side of it, though, is that you have real content, real audio. Sometimes politicians do get caught saying dumb things on tape, right? And then they can just say, no, no, no, that's not me, that's AI. And that's the other side of it, right? So you have this. Liars. That's not merely what it is happening. That is happening also already.
Bill O'Reilly
You know, the assertion that there is a villain way overwhelms everything else. I mean, yes, that's true. Nitwits who put this out wanted. I don't care what they say. It's satire. Whatever they wanted, they make A lot of money. Well, I don't know about money, but they wanted a conclusion that ICE and Homeland Security were bad, were abusers. That's what they wanted, and they accomplished it.
Renee DiResta
The political piece. The political piece, you're right, is true. But the other side of it is that a lot of this is financially motivated. We focused on the political here. But a lot of the ways that this applies that people need to be aware of is spam and scams. It is people reaching out, particularly to older people, saying, hey, you know, it looks like a beautiful woman reaching out in a message. That person doesn't exist. They're trying to sell you a product, that product doesn't exist. A vacation home or a stay, that house doesn't exist. Right. So it's actually financial fraud and scams that are where most of the AI generated content is happening in the political realm. You're seeing the skits, the, the satisfaction that is fraud.
Bill O'Reilly
But you can get, you can get prosecuted and for the.
Renee DiResta
Yes, for the financial stuff. Yes, absolutely you can. So I think last world. Thanks. Thanks for having me on.
Bill O'Reilly
No, you were very good. Thanks for taking the time. Okay. The UN says that slavery is the greatest, gravest, I should say, crime against humanity ever. Gravest crime against humanity. It was a vote, an actual vote in the UN. New York City. 123 nations voted in favor. USA, Israel and Argentina deferred. 52 countries abstained. UK, European Union. DA da da da da. Now, this was put forth by African Union and Caribbean communities, countries to try to get the reparations movement up and running. That's what this is all about. Okay, you got to be careful here. I mean, the knee jerk is. Reparations are bad. And. But there are points. And if you read my book, Confronting Evil, you'll see how heinous, how awful the slave traders in the USA were. They were awful. And that legacy continues to exist because families were destroyed. People didn't have opportunities in education. They had to move. There was a war fought. I mean, it was on and on. Okay, so that's real. But now there are countries that want money. Where do you think that money's going? Okay, sorry to be cynical, but I know where it's going. On the other hand, slavery was not the gravest crime against humanity. And I'm sorry, and I know I'll get accused of being a racist, but World War I, for example, 16 million dead, okay? 21 million injured, 14 million displaced. World War I, World War II, 80 million dead, 25 million injured, 55 million displaced. Now I go with the higher number because a lot of that couldn't be tracked, right? And it's always the higher number. Now these wars were the worst things that have ever happened on this planet by far. And if there's ever a nuclear attack, which is what we're dealing with now in Iran, that'll be far and away. So my question to the UN is why now? Why, when the United States and Israel are trying to prevent a country, Iran, developing a nuclear weapon, would you drop this? Why couldn't you wait? Isn't preventing a nuclear weapon that would be the most catastrophic thing that ever happened on the planet? So there's all kinds of political things. I don't have any respect for the United nations at all, with one exception, unicef. The children's part of it, they do a lot of good. The rest of it, they could fall into the east forever for all I care, because there's always an agenda. But interesting story, particularly the timing of it.
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Bill O'Reilly
on the Move Biggest county in our country is LA County. Los Angeles city is the second biggest next to New York. But the county is humongous and it has the largest decline. People moving out, according to the new census data. And they're moving out because if you go and I was there recently in Los Angeles, it's not as bad as San Francisco, but it's not far away. It's just chaos. The whole county, traffic, crime, pollution, waste of taxpayer Dollars, you name it. Run by incompetent idiots. Karen Bass. My God. Okay, so they're leaving. And the Wall Street Journal had a study, their own, that says that high tax states are losing an enormous amount income. They are. California, $12 billion because people moved out. New York, 10 billion. Illinois, 6. Massachusetts, 4. New Jersey, 3. Maryland, 2. Minnesota, 1.5. And all these states have one thing in common. They're run by far left people. And they want to take money from the prosperous and the prosperous state. We're going to move to Florida or Tennessee or Texas. They don't have a state income tax. They're not going to gut us when we die. Mandani. This is how bad it is in New York. When I die, I'm not in New York City, but say I'm only about 12 miles away from the border. So I say I was. Mandami wants everything. So my children, my heirs, my charitable foundation, nothing. Wants everything. That's communism. And it's just, I mean, I'm looking at this going, this is so crazy. Four highest tax states, California, New York, Minnesota. Minnesota. 11 million people. What are you taxing those people up to their eyebrows for? For what? And Illinois, which is the worst governor in the country? All right, Iran. Latest. So Secretary of War Pete Hagg says, said that Iran still has the capacity to do some damage. Okay, that's not a bulletin. Pretty much everybody knew that. It's a big country. If you look at the map, most Americans couldn't find it on the map, but it's a big country, 90 million people, and they can hide weapons. So. Okay. But their offensive capacity has been severely downgraded. Now, the United States is going to fly B52s. Those are the big destructive bombers. And, you know, look, you can't bomb Tehran and kill civilians. That would not be what you want to do. Okay? But you can wipe out a lot of military installations with B52s. And then Trump is really angry at Europe, and he continues to vent on social media about how bad they are over there. And they're pretty bad. Spain's the worst. So I've been all over Spain. Beautiful country. Really interesting. I'll never go again. Never. Unless I'm forced to go for some, you know, journalistic reason. So Spain is being so obnoxious. Number one, doesn't pay its NATO dues to the extent that it has been mandated. All the other NATO countries are, thanks to Trump, paying their dues, not Spain. Number two, the Defense Minister Margarita Robles says, hey, we're not going to let the United States stop in Spain to refuel the planes or cooperate in any way. Roll it.
Renee DiResta
From the very beginning, it was made very clear to the American army and to the American forces, therefore needed the faces. Normal, of course, the use of Spanish airspace for actions that will have to do with the war in Iran will be authorized to be here. Obviously, the bases are there. Other actions can be carried out. But Spain will definitely and clearly not authorize, nor has it done so, nor will it do so. The use of the bases of do and moron to wage a war against which we are totally opposed, which we do not believe in, which we consider profoundly illegal and profoundly unjust, though it's
Bill O'Reilly
unjust to try to stop the mullahs from getting a nuclear weapon. According to this one. Now, you can't. I looked into this. You can't throw Spain out of NATO. There has to be a vote. But come on. So I'm not going there. Sorry. I know a lot of people love Spain and over unintended consequences of the Iranian action. Fuel prices going through the roof. So you're going to pay more if you want to hop on a plane. All the American airline companies are jacking up their prices like crazy because the jet, you jet fuel obviously average at the pump. You're pumping your gas. Buck up. It's painful. It is absolutely painful. But that doesn't mean you surrender, does it? So that's the thing. I mean, we are selfish people. Come on, be honest. We're a selfish society here and Europe's worse. China not selfish. No sacrifice anything to get what they want. Lines at the airport dropping and that, you know, Trump did a good thing. Well, we're paying them out of another fund. And so today in Houston, hobby the worst down to a few minutes from four hours. So good. And in Florida, Governor DeSantis has signed legislation yesterday to rename Palm Beach International Airport President Trump International Airport. This goes into effect July 1st. I don't know if this is necessary. It's going to cost Floridians five and a half million dollars to make the switch. Got to change the signs and stuff and I don't know. I don't know. Back with final Thought. Okay, short final thought. I'm going to be on News Nation tonight at 10, staying up late with Katie Pavlich, May remember her from Fox. And we are going to tape tomorrow in the city. As I mentioned, the latest long form which you are going to like. Thank you for watching and listening to the no spin news.
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Date: April 1, 2026
Host: Bill O'Reilly
Featured Guest: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, Georgetown University
Bill O’Reilly dives into the proliferation of internet deception, focusing on misinformation and fraud—especially via social media and emerging AI technologies. He discusses a recent viral TikTok hoax, the risks of artificial intelligence in manipulating reality, media misinformation, and ongoing geopolitical events, notably the Spain-Iran-Trump controversy. Bill is joined by misinformation expert Renée DiResta for a candid conversation about the true dangers deceptive digital content poses to American society and democracy.
| Timestamp | Segment | |------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:43 | Opening: U.S. division, cause, and importance of facts | | 03:08–05:32| TikTok ICE video breakdown and the role of digital fraud | | 06:57 | Public concern about AI & O’Reilly’s investigative edge | | 12:15 | O’Reilly’s immigration database solution | | 14:09–24:01| Interview: Renée DiResta on disinformation & democracy | | 24:01 | UN vote on slavery & reparations, U.S. response | | 28:31 | Migration: high-tax states losing population & revenue | | 31:00–34:30| Iran update & Spain’s ban on U.S. bomber refueling | | 34:30 | Palm Beach airport renaming, show wrap |
For listeners:
This episode is a sobering reminder to question what you see online—regardless of source—and underscores the urgent need for critical media literacy in the age of deepfakes, viral stunts, and algorithmic echo chambers.