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No Spin News - August 21, 2025
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That is big surf and it's very interesting to watch nature and all that. I like all that. Anyway, that's what we are dealing with on this Wednesday. And the talking points memo is about Putin's madness. Now I made a lot of headlines all over the world by saying flat out I believe that Vladimir Putin is mentally ill. And that's the reason that Trump got fooled and campaigned. I'll solve the Ukraine war on day one. You remember all that because in the first four years of Trump's presidency, Putin was at least somewhat rational. It's gone. And my book Confronting Evil comes out September 9th, you'll see almost every single one of these heinous mass murderers in the book. They didn't start out absolutely insane, but that's how they ended up. And I believe that Vladimir Putin is in that category. So after going to Alaska where he was greeted as an equal by President Trump, Putin has not relented one bit. Okay, so it's Wednesday. On Monday he killed and a bunch of people in Kharkiv, including a family with toddler, 16 year old boy, 23 injured there. Another southeastern attack, another 23 wounded. The Ukrainian Air Force says 25 locations were hit by Russian drones and military. Ukrainians air force also says that 270 drones, 10 missiles were launched into Ukraine by Putin. So he's obviously not stopping, he's not pausing. He didn't pause even when he was in Alaska. Is that what is that okay? If you really want to get a peace Deal. If you really want to get a compromise on issues. And Trump is willing to compromise. All right. You don't keep bombing and killing women and children. But Putin likes it. He enjoys that. Okay? He enjoys bringing terror into the hearts of what he perceives as an enemy. And Ukraine is not an enemy of Russia. Ukraine can't do anything to Russia. NATO would never invade Russia. And it rankles me, and I will call them out. Any Americans who say, hey, Putin's got a legitimate beef here. Anybody does that, you're going to come up against me, just like John Bolton did because he hates Trump so much. His analysis is dishonest. Bolton pulled him back a little bit. I don't know whether you noticed him. He's still around, but he's not as hateful as he used to be. So I think we accomplished something there. Overall, civilian deaths. Civilian deaths. Okay? And this is from the United Nations High Commissioner in Ukraine, closing in on 36,000 innocent people. Injuries. I think this is a low number myself. 14,000 total. Almost 50,000 hurt by Putin. For what? For what? Ukraine's no danger to you, all right? Even if you get Ukrainian territory, it doesn't do you any good. None. Ridiculous. President Trump has canceled his vacation to Bedminster, where he has a club in New Jersey to try to work this out. There is a rumor that Zelensky and Putin might meet. That's a total waste of time. Putin doesn't respect Zelensky. He's gonna go out like a peacock and. Okay, you want to know the spectacle? Fine. It's not gonna lead anywhere. The only thing that's going to stop Putin is if Putin thinks that his own life is in danger. And the only way that could happen is if Trump slaps onerous economic sanctions on Russia and the people there begin to starve. And they'll kill Putin. If that happens, his own people will kill him. His generals will kill him. We can't kill him because he has nukes. And he'll use those nukes. Putin's mad enough to use them. So just keep that in mind. We're not dealing with person here. Got any compunction about wiping out 100,000 people in Kiev. He'd send a nuke to Keef. Absolutely. Convinced he would. Again, I will back up everything I say in the book coming out September 9th. Confronting Evil. And we do expect here that President Trump will put major sanctions on Russia soon. That's the memo. Inside the United States, we could not find one Democrat praising Donald Trump's attempt to bring peace in Ukraine. Not one in an elective office. So I'm doing a YouTube commentary which has exploded worldwide now. We're very proud of it. It's YouTube.com billoriley It'll be posted tomorrow. Right now on the YouTube ban. We have the disintegration of the Democratic Party in America. But tomorrow will be a very specific commentary about sedition, about how the opposing party in the United States, the Democrats, some of them are being seditious. And I'll explain what sedition is and all that. But I'm going to give you a preview. Here's what Senator Ted Cruz said. Go. They don't want peace and that is sad.
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We should all want peace in Ukraine.
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I believe we're going to see that. And I think President Trump is doing everything humanly possible to achieve that peace. And not a single Democrat is cheering him on. They're all rooting for America to fail.
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That's really sad.
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And what Cruz says is true, absolutely true. And we'll back it up. We'll prove it. We've researched it and everything else. Again, that's on YouTube. We will post that tomorrow. Did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the USA? Thousands of plants, more than 2 million happy customers. They have everything your yard needs. Fruit trees, privacy trees, shrubs, more whatever plants you are interested in. Fast Growing Trees will deliver your dream yard right to your door. They're alive and thrive. Guarantee ensures your plants arrive happy and healthy. And this fall they have the best deals, up to half off selected plants. Plus my listeners get 15% off the first purchase with code bill at checkout. That's an additional 15% off with code bill@fastgrowingtrees.com again fast growingtrees.com code bill now is the perfect time to plant save today with code Bill offer valid for a limited time terms conditions may apply. Olivia loves a challenge. It's why she lifts heavy weights and likes complicated recipes. But for booking her trip to Paris, Olivia chose the easy way with Expedia. She bundled her flight with a hotel to save more. Of course, she still climbed all 674 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. You were made to take the easy route. We were made to easily package your trip. Expedia made to travel flight inclusive packages are at all protected. Let's bring them on in. Mark Levin, you know him, he comes on occasionally on this program. We're pleased to have him. He's got a new book out on power. Very apropos, of course hit number one on the New York Times list. Ninth time for Mr. Levin. Very impressive radio guy. 300 stations. He leads into me on our flagship WABC in New York City. And he joins us now from Leesburg, Virginia. About that, I don't have a red carpet I can give you down there. I would have done that for you. You know, I would have.
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You're a good man, Bill. No matter what they say, you're a.
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Good guy, and they say a lot.
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And let me say something. I really couldn't disagree with, the thing you said. Putin is a monster. He's a genocidal maniac. He's only getting worse. You make a great point. Even today, he's trying to bomb the hell out of the civilian centers in Ukraine. And let us not forget, in 1994, Soviet Union, well, what was then Russia, signed a deal that Ukraine would turn all their nukes over to Russia, and in exchange, the United States, Britain, and Russia would protect their boundaries. And, of course, he violated that. So the key here is, you know, Putin wants all this land, and he also wants those areas where the Ukrainians are really dug in, and they believe they have a very strong line of defense beyond which the Russians have been unable to go. And he wants that, too. And, of course, the issue for the Ukrainians is, well, look, how are we supposed to keep doing this? We need security here. This guy is untrustworthy, as Bill says. As you say, this guy is, is. Is really a head case. And as he's written, Bill, and he's written a length or somebody did for him, it doesn't really matter. He believes it. This is just the first step. He thinks he's more aligned with Stalin than he is with Gorbachev.
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Oh, Stalin is his idol. When you read my new, when you read my book, you'll see he models his whole thing on stomp. But I have a very, very tough question for you right now. Are you ready for that?
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Barely.
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All right. In this world, who's more powerful, Trump or Putin?
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I don't think the answer is that tough. I think Trump is. Is more powerful. And I'll tell you why. Right now, Putin's economy is a shambles. When you're relying on North Korean troops who don't know how to fight. And you are, to some extent. And you were relying on Iran for your drones, and you're relying on China and India to pump up your economy, you're relying on a lot of outside factors. And you mentioned in your opening there have been about a quarter of a million Russians who have died in this war. And on top of that, you have about 900 to a million casualties. In addition to that, they're taking more incoming in terms of death and casualties than the Ukrainians are. You look at their equipment. I went back and looked at this. They're losing tanks and personnel carriers at a clip of about 5 to 1 compared to the Ukrainians. And so plus, Donald Trump has basically opened the spigot. As much as Europe wants to buy our military equipment, he's going to sell it to them. And also this issue of tariffs against India and China to get them to stop buying oil, Trump could pull that trigger. He's talking about.
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He hasn't done China yet because he's still working on it. But I'm going to, I'm going to play devil's advocate here in this negotiation, because I'm going on the framework of your book. In this negotiation, Putin holds more power than Trump. And the reason is that Putin knows that NATO and the United States will not go to World War three to save Ukraine. What do you think?
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Well, I don't think that's the test. I think the test is whether or not they'll go to World War three. Putin is more concerned about holding onto what he has. Then Trump leaves office. Then he figures he'll be able to roll over any Democrat and most Republicans. That's my concern. I don't think he's thinking about World War III with Donald Trump opposition. See, he saw what Trump did with, with Iran, and he knows from his perspective, Trump is a wild card. He's not sure what Trump's going to do, and most people aren't. But Trump is not the isolationist as some of the fake maga say he is. He's not an appeaser. He's not a pacifist. He's a realist in many respects. So I also think that he saw what Trump was capable of about three or four weeks ago, when Trump lost his patience with him and started to choke India and was planning on choking China and again was willing to flow arms into Ukraine through Europe, purchasing them. And I think that helped bring him to the table. Because my concern is that after Trump leaves, he's going to say, all right, let me deal with Trump. Let me see what I can get under Trump. Let me, you know, I'll take what I can get. And then we'll, we'll wait.
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See, there are, yeah, we'll violate everything when the next president comes in. But why hasn't President Trump sanctioned the banks yet? So he could have he could have done it. He could have basically said, look, no banking corporation in the world who does business with Moscow in any way can do business with America or the EU that breaks the banks. They can't do business with Putin. It starves Putin. Why hasn't he done it yet?
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Maybe he will. I mean, he might have done there seven months. He's in there seven months, and he's been doing a hell of a lot and in a lot of parts of the globe. So he may well do that, but maybe he doesn't want to open up yet other fronts of economic battle yet until he's. He's done everything he can. But I don't speak for them. They don't sit down and explain it to me. I'm just. I'm just giving you my judgment. That's still on the table. And even more than that, choking off their ability to bring any revenue in through. Through their oil sales. That's. That's the killer.
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Yeah.
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Second line, that second level of sanctions, which would be the bank. If he wanted to destroy Russia, he can destroy Russia economically the way Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union. He can't. And that's why, to answer your initial question on power, Trump has the cards. Number one, Ukraine is not our country. They're an ally. Number two, they're a victim. Number three, they've done enormous damage to Russia. Russia's done enormous damage to Ukraine. Ukraine has done more damage to Russia than anybody thought was even possible. In fact, every country that looks at Russia now sees that they're not the conventional military threat that they once were. They're a nuclear threat. There's no question about that.
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Yeah, that's the problem.
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They're not the same conventional military threat.
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That they were before.
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I think Putin's play is to work through Trump as best you can and then wait for the next president to make further moves.
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Okay. And that's why I think there will be a deal. But it's. China is the key to it, because China could speed it up. Now let's segue into Hamas and Israel. A couple of questions, because I follow your commentary on this, and you've had some feuds with people that you believe are anti Semitic and are shaping their foreign policy against Israel because they simply don't like Jews. Want a little more clarification on this? So in college campuses, the progressive left, which has always despised Israel since 1949, and Harry Truman, progressive left, is always despised. It, thinks it's a fascist state, thinks it stole the land from the Arabs. You know, the whole history better than anyone. Okay. If a person buys into that, a younger person, say, at Harvard or wherever, do they automatically hate Jews?
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No, and I've never said that. I think when you platform Holocaust deniers and you platform people who are sympathetic to Hitler and are trashing Churchill, in other words, frauds. Or when you platform people who are in fact out of the closet, anti Semites, that makes you an anti Semite too. If you're marching in the streets against the war, that doesn't make you an anti Semite, makes you buffooned. Because the terrorists are the terrorists. The same people hit us on 9, 11, and we'll have a different type of debate about that. But when you have comics and others who come on and flat out spew, you know, the KKK lines, the neo Nazis lines, or when you have people talking about the river to the sea, when you're marching on that, you're talking about the extermination of the Jews. Yeah. You are what you are, and many of them are proud of it.
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There's no doubt about it. It's a tough line sometimes to delineate, but here's the power quotient there. So you've got Israel, and I open up confronting evil with the October 6th attack to demonstrate to the reader. You want to know what evil is, here's what evil is. And we have unbelievable description of what happened on that day. And that's how I kick off the book. But now you have a power, Israel, very capable of defending its own people, has to be, has to be against a movement. Hamas has no rules. There's not one rule. They'll kill babies, they'll hide behind women, they'll blow up hospitals, they'll steal food for people who are dying. We all know that. So that, again, makes it very difficult for an Israel to negotiate anything with people who got no rules, no compunctions, Word means nothing. Correct.
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That's 100%, which is why this whole thing is rather bizarre, I think. And to have Qatar, which is a terrorist regime, and Qatar, which. Which funded Hamas and protected its leaders, and they are billionaires, those who are still alive. Qatar is a very dangerous country, as far as I'm concerned, in the United States, it's got its money everywhere and in both parties and in the executive branch and in Congress and everywhere else. And both, as I said, it doesn't matter, even matter who's in charge of what. It's a very dangerous situation. And so as an example, you have Qatar and Egypt, which is on the border With Gaza, which has a real wall and will not allow any of those people out. I mean, even Netanyahu says, well, why don't you take them? Egypt, you keep negotiating, you're mediating, and you've got the whole Sinai Peninsula that we gave back. And Egypt wants none of them, not one of them. So they've closed the gate, they have the wall, they won't let them out. Qatar keeps supporting Hamas. They used to do it openly, now it does it behind the scenes. And those are the mediators, those are the people negotiating. And so it's a very strange thing. You know, Bill, what I see here is more of this Marxist model, this oppressor oppressed. And the media in Europe, in our country, and even some in Israel have turned Israel into the oppressor. Why? Because Israel can actually defend itself now. Israel needs the equipment. It's a tiny country, 9 million people. It doesn't have massive industry, but it's got massive technological know how and, and it's got warriors who are willing to fight because they know the, the alternative is death. And so all their people, they fight, they come out of the cafes, they have to go wherever they go. But you're right, the idea that you negotiate with terrorists as if they're crazy called terrorists for a reason, because they don't believe in rules.
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But y', all, you have to. And to Trump's credit, he has neutralized guitar a bit. And it's the way he operates. I don't know what his personal feelings are about it. I don't know if he has any. He's neutralized him better. Last question for you. Mint is still $15 a month for premium wireless. And if you haven't made the switch yet, here are 15 reasons why you should. One, it's $15 a month. Two, seriously, it's $15 a month. Three, no big contracts. Four, I use it. Five, my mom uses it. Are you, are you playing me off? That's what's happening, right? Okay, give it a try. @mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for three month plan. $15 per month equivalent required. New customer offer, first three months only, then full price plan, options available, taxes and fees extra. C mintmobile.com this episode is brought to you by LifeLock. Between two factor authentication, strong passwords and a VPN, you try to be in control of how your info is protected. But many other places also have it and they might not be as careful. That's why LifeLock monitors hundreds of millions of data points a second for Threats. If your identity is stolen, they'll fix it, guaranteed or your money back. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com podcast for 40% off terms apply. Is there a television network news operation in America that gives Israel a fair play?
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Well, I think you do. I think, I think there are certain podcasters who do. I think Fox does, I think Newsmax does. I think the rest of them, not that I watch them that much, but like on these Sunday shows, they're absolutely horrific. New York Times, Washington Post, they have a whole history of being horrific about this. And they are. They take the Hamas numbers and they regurgitate them. They bring in the most repulsive politicians, whether it's Bernie Sanders or people like that who, who come on. And he, he's an out of the closet Marxist and, you know, he went to a kibbutz in Israel as a young man that was known as Astalinus Kibbutz guys. And they bring them on like he's just your average politician. They bring on people like that who will speak what they know, who will say what they know. So I would say very few in Europe, it's gotten horrific too. So there's very few.
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Yeah. Even England and Ireland. Even in England and Ireland. Even in England and Ireland, Israel cannot get a fair shake.
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But you, but I have to say, you, you know, we're friends, but they're friends. I disagree with. You're very honorable. You, you play right down the middle. And playing it down the middle means sometimes you got to take a side. The middle is what's the truth, what's the morality, what's virtue, what's the belief system? And as you point out, it's terrorists versus a democratic civilization. And so when you play it down the middle, it doesn't mean six terrorists versus six Israeli. You play it down the middle. The middle is ok, who's the aggressor, who's acting out of, out of good faith, who is conducting themselves in a highly immoral way, and so forth and so on. So when you play that down the middle, it shouldn't be that hard to know who's right and who's wrong. And that doesn't mean you agree with everything, but it means ultimately there's a good guy and a bad guy.
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Well, you're astute enough to understand, because you're a historian like I am, that there are facts in this world and usually when you gather the facts, the truth becomes known. So on a Putin, you know, you'll remember in the beginning of the Ukraine War. You had high profile people in the United States sympathizing with Putin. It was like you had him, you had Joseph Kennedy and Lindbergh sympathizing with Hitler. You had it, it was there, okay? But I tore them the pieces on the facts. And just last week I just annihilated Ambassador Joe John Bolton. I annihilated the man because he hates Trump so much that whatever Trump does, he's going to oppose for personal reasons and thereby he helps Putin, he helps Russia by doing it. That's called gathering the facts. And then the truth then exposes itself. And I think that's why you and I have been successful all these years. The book is on power. Number one New York Times bestseller, which makes them deliriously happy. They love to put Mark levin and Bill O'Reilly's name at the top of the bestseller list. You know, I think they have parties, Levin, when you and I hit number one, I think they go out, have a bunch of drinks and hey, those guys have done it again, you know.
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Well, let me say one thing on your behalf. You sent me an early copy of your book. Obviously I've been busy with mine. I started, I just, I broke the back of it starting last night. It's another killer book. It's just a fantastic book for the reasons you say. You bring the facts to the table and then you reason through the facts. I ask people to do the same thing, just reason through these things.
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Right? Stop with the agenda driven garbage when you have to just struggle to make your position even coherent, you know, you're not on the right side. All right, Mark, it's always a pleasure. Hope we can do it again soon. Thank you for taking the time. I know you're the busy.
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Well, you'll be coming on my show. God bless you, brother.
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You take care of yourself and it won't be boring. When you and I get together, it's never boring. Okay, we'll see you later. Okay. Media madness. This is an amazing story. So Colbert. I'm over Colbert and you're over Colbert. You never watched him in the first place. I can guarantee you never watched them. I'd say 90% of my audience didn't waste their time on Stephen Colbert and that includes me. Okay, so the right wing group News Busters and issued a report. And in the report it said that Colbert since 2022 hosted 176 left leaning guests and one non left leaning. And this is in the realm of politics. That was Liz Cheney who hates Trump. Newsbusters was accurate we checked. But now one of Colbert's assistants denies this. Roll it.
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Yeah, it's bull.
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Do you think that Colbert didn't invite J.D.
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Vance and every single crazy right winger on? They don't come on with him because he's too good and embarrassing them. It makes no sense for someone.
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Okay, it's true that probably somebody in the Colbert organization at one time or another, they wouldn't invite Trump because that's ridiculous. But maybe Vance and Vance blew them off. But he's misleading and this is what they do on the left. I try to get on Colbert for the last three or four books. He never put me on because he can't stand up to me. I make them look like this. Now, Letterman was very liberal and Letterman invited me on all the time. I think it was 14 times. And Letterman and I debated. That's the way it should be at late night. That's why Letterman succeeded and Colbert failed. But this guy, to get on there and say, oh no, he's just not telling you the truth. See, what upsets me most about the media and this extends into the right wing and the conservative media as well. They don't have any compunctions about misleading you. They don't. They say all it is garbage where they could never back it up. Okay. And it's like, okay, I'm just going to say it. Boy, oh boy. Anyway, I thought that was interesting. All right, Migration. So as many of you know, Boston is my second home. So my mother went to Boston University, my father went to Holy Cross in Worcester. Long ties to Massachusetts and Boston. I went to BU as well and Harvard. I worked at Channel 5 local and Channel 7. And I love Boston. It's a fantastic city. Is being ruined because the far left has taken over in Massachusetts. Remember, that's where Romney was governor not too long ago. But now it's loonsville across the board. So the mayor of Boston is a woman named Michelle Wu. And Michelle is one of these liberals who believes that the other side, the people who disagree with her, are miscreants. Okay? She's noble and she is the one who's benevolent and kind and charitable. And if you don't agree with her, you're awful. So Michelle Wu has set herself up to tell the federal government, screw you, we're not going to enforce immigration law and we don't care who what you say. Roll a tape. To all the federal officials attacking communities that embody diversity, creativity and moral clarity. We mayor said this in D.C. nearly six months ago. And I'll Say it again. Today, you are wrong on the law and you are wrong on safety. Okay? Moral clarity. That was the key phrase. She feels that she is the noble one. Okay. Now, is there anything that the federal government, the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, can do to Michelle Wu? Let me set it up. So yesterday, Bondi sends Wu a letter. Okay. And says that because you're an unlawful sanctuary city, there are potential violations of federal law about you interfering with federal immigration enforcement. So Bondi is going up against Wu. Put Wu on notice. This just happened yesterday. Now, Wu loves that because then the liberal press in Boston, the Globe and the Boston Herald is a conservative paper. It's one of the few two newspaper towns left in America. And the local news tilts left. Okay? So this is to Wu. This letter is great for her, and it's a tough letter for Bondi because Bondi cannot charge Wu with anything. If she just talks. Wu would have to do something. Let me give you an example. Wu is demanding that the federal government, ice, immigration authorities alert her office if any sweep is going to be made in Boston. ICE isn't going to do that. Doesn't have to do it by law. Okay, but this is what Wu is demanding. So say that Homan, the head of ice, said, okay, we'll be respectful to Mayor Wu, and we'll tell her that we're going to go into Roxbury on Tuesday and pick up some criminal aliens. If Wu then told the community activists in Roxbury that was going to happen, they could charge her with interfering with the federal investigation. She'd have to do that. And I don't think that woman's that stupid to do it. Although I don't think she'd mind being cuffed by the feds, because, again, this is local politics for her. Fascinating situation. I am on it, all right, Because I know everybody in Boston, and I'm just watching this really closely. Adam Schiff. So he's under investigation by the federal government now. He's a senator from California. Hates Trump. So according to the Federal Housing Agency, Senator Schiff misrepresented a Maryland home as his primary residence to secure more favorable loan terms. When his real home is in California. That's a crime. It's fraud. So they're going after Schiff. And you know why? Because of President Trump wants to get Schiff. So Schiff knows it's coming. What does he do? He creates a defense fund. So he wants us to pay his lawyer's legal bills. Okay. And this was filed last Thursday, August 14, with the IRS. So if you're going to set up a fund, have somebody pay your bills, you got to tell the IRS you're doing it. So if you want to donate to Senator Schiff's fund, I'm not even going to give you the address. I don't like Schiff at all. I don't think he's an honest man. But it's my opinion he may be as honest as Benjamin Franklin. But to me, over the years, big bill. The average American is going to receive $3752 in tax cuts from the bill. Is that going to make up for the food? Yeah, it'll make up a lot of it. And this is according to the nonpartisan Tax foundation. They came out and said almost $4,000 because that bill was passed. Working Americans, wealthy Americans, not poor, because the poor don't pay federal income tax. Okay. But everybody's going to get back an average of about four grand, which is good. Residents of Wyoming, Washington, Massachusetts get the biggest discount. I don't really know why. And no, they're. Let's see which state will have the largest, lowest tax cuts. Highest tax cuts, yeah. Wyoming, Washington, Massachusetts, lowest. West Virginia, Mississippi is a lot of equations going on there. But the big bill was good for working families, in my opinion. National Guard update. Pam Bondi in charge. There are 1550 National Guard troops in the District of Col. Columbia. They can't arrest anybody, but they can intimidate. So they're out there in the high crime areas making sure that the carjackers don't come out and the carjackers aren't that stupid. So that's a lot of them. South Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia have sent guard in. 130 FBI agents on the street. They say 40 alcohol, tobacco, firearms on the street and 400 arrests since August 7th made by the increased police presence in D.C. now, the left doesn't like it. Democratic Party didn't want it. Progressives don't want it. So DC Is going to be safer. No doubt about it. It will be. It'll be cleaner. They moved out a whole bunch of homeless camps. 44 homeless camps disassembled. They're going to take the graffiti down, be a nicer place. Democratic Party doesn't want it. They don't want it to be nicer. They don't want it to be safer. Oh, Trump's going down. Okay, well now it will go down a lot faster. Lives will be saved. No, we don't want it. And you wonder why Trump won. Smart life record, low level of Americans are drinking. I don't know about this, but I got to give you the stats. Gallup poll, okay? 1,000 US adults among drinkers, people who consume alcohol, only 24% had consumed booze in the last 24 hours. That's a record low. 40% said it had been more than a week since they had their last drink. Okay? And all age groups are not drinking as much. So the share of US Adults who report drinking alcohol just drinking themselves dropped to 54%. So half of the population like me. I don't drink. And you know how much money I saved in my life not drinking? I told my son and daughter this. More than a million dollars. More than a million dollars because I don't drink. I get a Sprite or water or whatever it may be. But you add up my age to I was 18. I could drink way back then. If I had consistently drank alcohol, I'd be a million dollars light. That's a lot of jack. And here now in the New York area, you want a cocktail. Fifteen bucks easy in a nice place. Fifteen, Your little cocktail. That's why drinking is going down. People that's too much money price themselves out. Now, unfortunately, I think drug use is going up because pot and all the other drugs are cheap. Cheaper than booze. But I can't prove it. All right, here's an interesting survey from Northwestern University in Chicago. So they asked 1500 confidential undergrads at a bunch of schools, University of Michigan being one of them, if they lie about their political persuasion. 88% admitted pretending to be more progressive to succeed socially or academically. 88% college students are so intimidated and want to fit in so badly, want to date, want a good grade, that they pretend to be more liberal and progressive than they really are. How about that? Talk about pressure at universities. 78% say they self center on gender identity. 72% self center on politics. And we'll talk about politics. That's smart. They don't talk about it. 68% of family values, 80% have misrepresented their belief systems in classwork to get a better grade. Telling the liberal professors what he or she wants to hear. Boy, academic freedom. No. All right, final thought of the day. You may remember that I had four movies produced of my nonfiction books. We did Killing Lincoln, we did Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and Killing Reagan. All were fabulously successful and made the companies that produced them lots of money.
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I think Killing Jesus was the best movie. One of the movies was what they call a docudrama where you had film scenes and all that, but you had a major star. Tom Hanks kind of set the movie up throughout. I'll give you a clip in a moment. So the people who developed this movie work for a company called Scott Free. Ridley Scott, brilliant director. They formed their own company now. It's called Fifth Season. They just bought Confronting Evil. Boy, that's a big break for us. And they're gonna do it as a TV adaptation, which is a streaming thing. Okay, So I think this is the way it's gonna come down. Roll a tape on Lincoln in the aftermath of the assassination of the many witnesses who claim to know Booth or to see him on the evening of April 14, 1865. Booth's friend and fellow actor John Matthews later said, those who were the wisest knew the least. And the stage is set for the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history. That is what I think the Confronting Evil series is going to look at. I don't know who. I'm an executive producer, but I don't know who I want yet. A couple of people I have in mind. But it's gonna be big. And we are so happy to be working with Fifth Season because I work with them for the other four movies, and they're great. You know, I don't like a lot of the Hollywood weasels, you know that, but these people were really good. So that was a big break. And, you know, we sent them the book and they loved it. You'll love it. Get it now. So you get it first is coming right up. Confronting Evil out September 9th. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the no Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. See you again tomorrow. Oh, what you eating? The new banana split cookie from AM pm All freshly baked with real butter with banana, chocolate and strawberry flavors. That sounds amazing. Can I have a bite? I'm sorry, but no. But you can't split the banana split. Not even a little. Not even a crumb. What if. No, please. Mine when it's too legit to split. That's cravin. Get a 3 pack for 99 cents with our app am pm too much good stuff plus tax where applicable. Prices and participation may vary. Terms and conditions apply.