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Mike Slater
My name is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I was just talking to a friend of mine who said he hasn't been able to follow the news lately. It's been too much, it's too crazy, it's driving him crazy and he's just checked out. If you feel that way sometimes too, I think you'll really like our podcast Politics by Faith. We take the main story of the day and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible say about this? It's amazing, but it's all there. And then God tells us what to do. We don't even have to figure it out. The answers are right there. He gives us the answers. Politics by Faith. Please join us over there. You can listen to it wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. Politics by Faith.
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Bill O'Reilly
I talked with President Trump briefly over the weekend and he says there is going to be some very good news for the country coming up shortly. We were talking about economics and foreign policy in those two areas. Now, I didn't push him on, was a casual conversation, but I have to say, I've known a man 35 years, he's never misled me one time and he's been mad at me. But even then he would just kind of ignore me or send me a text or something telling me how terrible I am, you know, that kind of thing. But he didn't, hasn't misled me. So if he says there's good things I had, I tend to believe it. But I can't get any more specific than that at this point. When I can, I will. I can tell you I have the best contacts. You know, Hannity get very good contacts in the Trump administration. Very good. But I'm on a par and I'm not competing with Sean. I'm just telling you that there are certain people who know what's going on and there are certain people that don't. And so I'm glad you're here listening to me because I do now. I want to spend a little time today on Donald Trump, the president, and how he is governing. And that is the subject of this evening Talking Points Memo. So everything to Trump is personal. Everything. He's not like most presidents and most politicians where, you know, they forget about things after 24 hours, they're mad, and then they. Trump does forget about things, but he incorporates his policy vision on a personal basis, what he wants, what he believes. And so you see a lot of personal stuff. And right now, there is a controversy, not a major one, but somewhat of a controversy about how he's treating certain people in his past. Okay, now, some say it's revenge. Others say it's retribution. Let's define the two terms. First, revenge is to harm someone as punishment for harm they have done to you. And I think every human being on the planet has, at one time or another, either committed revenge or contemplated it seriously. Retribution is deserved and severe punishment. So that is, let's say, the Nazi party in Germany or the Tojo regime in Japan, you annihilated them. We annihilated them with the help of our allies because if we did not, they would continue murdering people all over the world. That wasn't wrong for us to annihilate them. I know some people say Hiroshima, Nagasaki, we've gone through all that. But for me, if I'm the commander in chief on the president, I'm annihilating both of them. I'm not shooting prisoners of war or anything like that, but it's total victory, okay? And if they don't stop, they die. Retribution again. If you did not do that, these people would continue their evil. It's like that in real life. You all know people who are evil. Well, maybe I shouldn't say that. Most of us know people who are evil. They hurt people time and time and time again, and some of them are stopped and some of them aren't. If you stop a person like that, you got to be. You have to have the facts and the evidence, okay? That's retribution, not revenge. All right, so let's look at four human beings that Donald Trump is after. John Bolton, former National Security Adviser Mark Esper, former Defense Secretary Bolton wrote a book and said that Trump was stunningly uninformed and unfit to be president. Esper wrote a book and said that Trump was unprincipled and wanted to shoot protesters. Okay? So those guys are in the revenge zone. Donald Trump is. You know, he took away their national security thing. If Trump could hurt him either, I don't know about the retribution there, because I don't think Bolton and Esperance can do any further damage. Could be wrong, though. Two others, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley and Director of European affairs for the US National Security Council, Alexander Vindman. Milley wrote another book. No. Milley was quoted in Bob Woodward's book as saying that Trump is a fascist and a dangerous person. Vindman testified in front of Congress in November 2019 about Trump talking to Zelensky in a, quote, improper way. All right, now Milley and Vindman are both finished again, just like Esper and Bolton. They can't do any further harm, but Trump has got them on a radar screen. Law firms. There are 10, maybe more, that Trump is denying any federal access. No business can be done. Paul Weiss, awful firm. Terrible. I had to deal with them. Covington and Burling, Perkins Coy, Wilkie Foreign. Gallagher Weiss folded, is giving Donald Trump $40 million in promo. Bono Legal Services free. So did Farr and Gallagher. 100 million. Perkins, coy, they represented Hillary Clinton 2016, up to their eyebrows in the phony Russian investigation. Covington and Burling, they're representing former special counsel Jack Smith. Now here, all four of those firms, in my estimation, could and will, once Trump leaves the presidency, do damage to people. This is retribution here to me on these four and others, too, okay? Because they're in business to hurt people for money. That's what they do. They hurt people for money. Okay, now here's one. This is an interesting call. 60 Minutes. So Trump has ordered an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission. Why? Well, last night, here's what he said on social media, quote, almost every week, 60 minutes. She's being sued for billions of dollars for the fraud they committed in 2024 presidential election. With their interview of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris mentions the name Trump in a derogatory and defamatory way. But this weekend's broadcast tops them all. They did not one, but two major stories on Trump, One having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a war that never should have happened if the 2020 election had not been rigged. In other words, if I were president. And the other story is having to do with Greenland casting. Our country is led by me, falsely, inaccurately and fraudulently. I am so honored to be suing 60 Minutes, CBS fake News and Paramount, unquote. Okay? So CBS News, is this revenge or retribution? There's no doubt 60 Minutes is trying to get Donald Trump. That's a fact. There's no balance there at all. New regime over there. Relatively new. Okay? They hate him. They hate his guts. They hate everything he stands for. They're trying to hurt him. Now, by hurting Trump, you hurt the country, I think by trying to destroy the president of the United States. So I'm putting this in the retribution column here. How about you? Finally, this is not unusual, President Trump's revenge or retribution take. I'll give you five modern presidents who were pretty much as bad as Trump. Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy used his brother Bobby Kennedy, who was attorney general, to get who he wanted, gotten Lyndon Johnson the absolute worst, and Richard Nixon, who had a printed enemies list. Now, I write about all of that in confronting the presidents. So this isn't new. These guys, and I'm not doing what about ism. I'm just taking the historical record and showing you that once a person is elected president, a lot of them go after people. There's no doubt that that has happened and is happening now. Did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the USA with thousands of different plants and more than 2 million happy customers. They have all the plants your yard needs, like fruit trees, privacy trees, shrubs and much more. Whatever plants you're interested in, Fast Growing Trees has you covered. 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Tell them Bill O'Reilly sent you for up to $15,000 of free silver on qualifying orders. 8663-265576-86326-5576 or you can text BILL to 998-899 again 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998-899. I am sympathetic Somewhat to Trump's jihad. Let me use that word against his opponents. Because for 30 years, ever since I started doing national commentary, I have been attacked by vicious, horrible people who hurt other people for money, for power, for ideology. I know who they are now. Some of them I have taken care of, and some of them I haven't. I can't, for whatever reason. But my instinct is to take them off the board, not hurt them physically or anything like that. I do it all legally. Right. Because they don't just do it to me. They're just evil, in my opinion. But I've experienced the evil directly up close here. And, you know, when I see them and they never. If somebody apologize, if somebody said, look, I'm sorry, I maybe overdid it, I don't really like you, but I shouldn't use those tactics. I would forgive them. I'm compelled to do that because I'm a Christian. I have to do it, but they don't. They're arrogant and they do it to other people. And I watch them. So I have. I have to be honest. My emotion lies in the Trump area. And that's the memo. Talking Boys memo is about political madness, which is not being covered by the corrupt national media. So now the Congress is on a break, right? So the senators and the representatives go back to their districts, and many of them hold town hall meetings where you get to meet them, ask them questions. Okay. Going on since the Civil War. All right? People have the meeting. They go in. Locals express their concerns to their elected representatives, the way it was designed to be by the Founding Fathers. Well, now it's being corrupted. I'll give you the best example I can possibly give you. So Senator Chuck Grassley is 91 years old, a senator from Iowa. Senior senator. Okay. He's a good guy. I've known him for years. He has a town hall meeting in Lee County, Iowa. Place. Rural place. Right. And he goes in, and this is what happens. Go.
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Audience Member
Yeah. Okay. So with law, I would welcome refugees and I would welcome people. And you're going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Why not? Well, because that's not a. That's not power. Supreme Court said to bring him back. Trump don't care if I get an.
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Bill O'Reilly
Order here, a check for $1,200, and.
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Audience Member
I just say no.
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Bill O'Reilly
Does that stand up? Because he's got an order from the Supreme Court, and he just said no? Yeah, he just said, screw it.
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Audience Member
I'll be able to answer your question.
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Bill O'Reilly
You ignored my letter.
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Audience Member
Guatemala.
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Bill O'Reilly
Mine, too.
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Audience Member
El Salvador is An independent country. The president.
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Bill O'Reilly
We can't hear you.
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Audience Member
The president of that country is not subject to our US Supreme Court.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right? Those people didn't want to hear what Grassley had to say. They were all activists. They were organized. That wasn't organic. That wasn't the regular folks coming out. All right? So we investigated. That was organized by the Lee County Democratic machine. All right? They seeded that audience with all these activists who were going to yell at Grassley. Now, media didn't report that. I don't even think the local media reported in Iowa. No, not everybody's mad. The Democratic activists, the far left people are mad. And Grassley walks right into it. And he's 91. For me, I would have cleared the room. Now, this is happening all over the country. As I said, in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman up there, had a town hall in Acworth, and the police had to be called. God, do it. Okay? So again, same thing. These were activists. They were piped in there to attack Marjorie Taylor Greene, which they did. All right? This isn't democracy, because the people in Acworth and in Iowa, the regular folks, they had questions to ask, but they're disrupted to the fact that they can't even get the town hall underway. Again, we looked for Georgia coverage of this. No, we had to do it. We had to do it. Nobody in Atlanta doing it. Oh, boy. That's the corruption that we're dealing with here. Now, a final kicker on the Georgia thing. They were bailed out. The three that were arrested by the Cobb County Democratic Committee bailed them out. Jeez. Now, if Republicans had done that, it would have been fascist Nazis races, you know, but the Democrats can get away with it because the press won't cover it. So, so terrible. All right, so just to reiterate, this is happening all over the place. If it happens in your town or your area, your county, let me know, okay? Because we're going to follow this. And that's the Democratic Party at this point right now. And that's a memo. All right, Blood feud alert. Blood feud alert. Donald Trump versus New York Attorney General Letitia James. As you know, Ms. James was very instrumental in prosecuting Mr. Trump for state crimes in New York. That, in my opinion and my. I think most people agree with me, were trumped up, Pardon the pun. All right? And she had one case where his business operation did something that nobody could understand, where there were no victims, and James was behind this. Okay? So now Donald Trump is president, and guess who's under investigation for mortgage fraud. That would be Letitia James. Fascinating case. So a guy named William Pulte is the director of the United States Federal Housing Finance Agency. Okay. And he has sent a referral to the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. All right. That the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, may have committed fraud in purchasing a house in Virginia. Basically, the case outlines. This way, if you tell the Commonwealth of Virginia the house you're buying is your primary residence, you can get a lower mortgage rate, apparently. Allegedly. That's what Ms. James did when she bought a house in Virginia, but it's not her primary residence because she's the Attorney General of New York. So now the Justice Department may file charges against her. Fascinating story, but this is really. Oh, whoa. So no charges yet. I expect there will be against Ms. James. Now, she today announces that she's investigating Donald Trump, the president, for insider trading over the tariff stuff. You see where this is going? All right. Revenge versus retribution. We did that earlier this week. You make the call on it, but, boy, it's getting unbelievably nasty. California is suing Donald Trump on tariffs. This is Governor Gavin Newsom says that, hey. President Trump's unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos in California, families, businesses, and our economy, driving up prices, threatening jobs. So we're suing. You lose. California can't win. Number one, doesn't have jurisdiction in tariffs. It's a federal thing. And number two, unlawful. Trump could do this. Nobody. I don't think there's anybody in the country that said the president can't control the tariff situation. Come on. But they're just doing. Gavin Newsom's doing it for political reasons. Wasting tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands. If they continue with this. Of California tax money. Not gonna win. All right. But again, nasty, nasty, nasty. Judge Boasberg, James Boasberg. Now, this is the guy in D.C. he's a federal judge who said that the plane full of the criminal migrants going to El Salvador from Texas had to turn around and come back, and the Trump administration ignored that. So Burrowsburg now says that he as probable cause that Donald Trump is in contempt. Okay, he's in contempt. Again. This is a loser, okay? Boasberg isn't going to win it. Boasberg is a liberal judge. Now, there is a study by the Hill newsletter. You can get that online, that said there are says there are 200 lawsuits currently in play against the Trump administration. 72% of them have been assigned to judges appointed by Democratic presidents. All right, 69, Biden, 66. Obama Clinton, 26. Okay. 72% of all the lawsuits against the Trump administration are being heard by judges appointed by Democrats. And then they cite the hillsides District Columbia as the most. 107. Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington state, California, New York. 177 out of 200 are in liberal states. Now, the Supreme Court has already sent a message that this is not going to stand, but they're going to have to rule on this because what the intent is so you know, is for the Democrat, the Democratic Party. I am putting this in the party, okay, to create so much chaos that Trump can't govern. That's what the plan is. Sue him every time he turns around. Colorado, crazy left state. When I lived there, it wasn't. It was a traditional state. Now it's crazy left. So the House, as we reported, has passed a law. I don't know whether the governor is going to sign it or the Senate is going to pass it, but the law is outrageous. Here it is. Colorado taxpayers must fund abortions. That goes against the Hyde Amendment for the United States, which says you can't force Americans to pay for abortions. So the state law goes right against the federal law. And of course, federal law trumps state, state law. Second one, the law prohibited cooperation with out of state investigations on transgender procedures. This is saying we're not going to obey Donald Trump's law on transgendered men competing with women. That's what this is. And you saw what happened to Maine. The governor said, all right, obey it. Trump just cut off all money for me. All right, Maine's hurt. That's what Colorado did. We're not going to obey this law from Trump. Okay, Third one, Gender affirming care must be provided by all insurance companies in Colorado. Gender affirming care means hormone therapy, surgical procedures for children, for children without parental permission. This is insane, this law. All right, and finally, schools are to use students preferred names rather than their born names. Joining us now from Winona, Minnesota, is the bishop out there of the diocese, Robert Barron. You may know him because he had very successful social media operation called Word on Fire. Okay. Which is worth checking out, even if you're not Catholic. So is the church in America going to get involved with this in Colorado?
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Bishop Robert Barron
Well, it might. We've been involved in similar struggles in different states. You look at my home state here in Minnesota, there's a, we're a sanctuary state, which means that you can take a kid from his parents in a state other than Minnesota, bring them here, and despite the parents objections, they, they can do all this. Gender affirming business. We've been opposing it. There have been similar things. I was out in California as an auxiliary bishop, and we were fighting these battles. It's a real ideological struggle because, I mean, the church stands athwart this very modern sense of everything depends upon freedom. We just get rid of any objective normativity. We say it's all a matter of personal, free choice, even a child choosing its gender. I mean, it's beyond absurd, but it's also. It's a deeper moral problem about human nature and this weird primacy we've given to freedom of choice. And the church, I think, is the strongest, most articulate organization standing against this business.
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Bill O'Reilly
But you've got to organize and do something formal so the American people know that there is opposition to what Colorado is doing. And I have not seen that bishop so far.
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Bishop Robert Barron
Yeah, I mean, in some of the states, the bishops conferences get together. We'll have our meeting in June, and sometimes these issues come up and we try to find an organized, you know, but usually it takes place at the state level. The state conference level is where the bishops tend to engage these things. We just met as Minnesota bishops with the governor, Governor Walz, and with the top leadership in Minnesota. We laid out all the concerns that we have about these various things. So I think that's really where the battle usually is joined at the state conference level.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, but that's all well and good, but the mobilization of the American people. I think most Americans would find this law barbaric. In Colorado, okay, two to one. If you polled it two to one, they go, you can't allow children to not tell their parents they're going to have a surgery to change their gender. That's just off the chart. But there doesn't seem to be any logical or apparent opposition to this. Now, when you're in a situation where the Colorado law basically is saying, we don't care about the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment was passed because you can't. The United States government, according to Constitution, can't force somebody of conscience, a Catholic, to fund something that's a sin in the Catholic religion. That's as simple as that. All right? You can't force. It's a freedom of religion issue.
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Bishop Robert Barron
Right.
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Bill O'Reilly
Can't take.
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Bishop Robert Barron
We've been opposing that stuff for years right now. We've been very articulate and clear, I think, in our opposition to this stuff for years, trying to carve out these conscience protection clauses. And as I say, I fought this now in three different states as a priest and as a Bishop, and we raised it a lot at the national level. I'm on the Bishop's Committee for Religious Liberty, and that's how we name this. It's precisely a religious liberty free exercise issue.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, I don't believe that right now in the usa, and I could be wrong, but I follow these kinds of stories very closely, that it's an organized opposition. You say state by state. Okay. But Trump is the guy that's knocking the DEI out. That's knocking the WOKE out. It's telling the states you can't do transgendered men competing against women in sports. It's a secular thing. Trump is doing it, and he's doing it for reasons, because the MAGA people want that. But there doesn't seem to be a religious alliance with Trump there.
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Bishop Robert Barron
Well, I'm chair of the Bishops Committee on Laity, Youth and Family Life, and I've issued a couple of statements supporting those moves of Trump, especially in the gender area, especially in men and women's sports and all that. I came out against them in terms of in vitro fertilization. So I spoke as chair of that committee. See, the way the church is organized, power is concentrated really in the individual bishop and maybe in the. In the state conference at the national level. Sometimes we don't approach the questions at that level. It's more the individual bishop in his diocese or the state conference. Also, I try to do it through preaching, so I use the means I have of communication to talk about these things. I've been battling wokeism for years. I've been speaking out against it like crazy, and I have a lot of enemies because of it. But I've chosen to use this means of social communication. I've got to.
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Bill O'Reilly
What's your objection to woke? What's your objection to it?
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Bishop Robert Barron
It's fundamentally unjust, and it's a fundamentally racist point of view. It's grounded in European postmodern philosophy that's repugnant to Catholic social teaching, which is not an antagonistic social theory, but one based upon cooperation. I'm a Martin Luther King man, right? We're judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. And this return to a very racialized understanding and a very antagonistic understanding of society. I think all of that is repugnant to Catholic social teaching. So I've been against it for years.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, so we're in Holy Week now. And the surveys say that church going not only for Catholics, but for everybody. Protestants, Jews, Muslims, the whole across the board is on decline, vast decline. And the elevation of atheism and people who don't care. Agnostics is on the rise. Is there one thing that you could point to that has shifted us from a traditional society to a sexual society?
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Bishop Robert Barron
Well, of course, we've adopted largely this kind of, I call it, culture of self invention. So instead of looking at objective normativity and objective value, we just say, it's a matter of my choice to create reality. And so the great opponent of that is belief in God. If you believe in God, you believe in a supreme objective value, and then arranged hierarchically under that are the other objective values. You get rid of God, you get rid of that whole framework, and all you're left with then is the freedom to invent reality. That's the ideology we're up against. That's another face of wokeism, by the way. But that's the struggle, you know. Now, I would contest a bit. There are certainly indicators over the past 30 years of this great decline. In more recent years, though, there have been some more encouraging signs of revival in religious belief, especially among young people and especially young men. Just recently, I saw a study in both France and England. Numbers have gone up rather dramatically in terms of those joining the church, we still have a massive problem, and I've been tracing that for the past many years. The disaffiliation from the churches has been proceeding apace. But there are some hopeful signs, I'd say, in recent years.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, a lot of it is the media portraying religious people as fanatics. And, you know, I mean, secular media dominates in America and in Europe as well, that, you know, if you're going to church, there's something wrong with you. And, you know, the atheists get all the attention. All right, Bishop, we really appreciate your point of view. Word on fire. How can people get that? Tell us how we can get that.
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Bishop Robert Barron
Just go wordonfire.org and you can find all kinds of resources there. Sermons and podcasts and articles and so on.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, and we appreciate your work and hope we can talk again soon. Thank you.
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Bishop Robert Barron
God bless you, Bill.
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Bill O'Reilly
Thanks, Harvard. So on Hannity today, it was pretty funny. Another blood feud, by the way, between Harvard and the Trump administration. So I have offered myself as a mediator in this blood feud because I attended Harvard. I know a lot of people up there, and I know the Trump administration. I think I could do detente. But Hannity goes, we don't want detente. Kusani's a conservative guy. I mean, he goes, ah, we don't want it. That might be true, but I'm going shouldn't. Blessed are the peacemakers, right? If I can broker some deal between Harvard and the Trump administration, isn't that a worthy thing? Hannity had very, very severe reservations about? It's posted on billoriley.com okay, very interesting. So Trump administration is freezing 2.2 billion. We reported that yesterday. Now, they might go after the president, might go after a tax exempt. Harvey, you're not. We're not going to give you a tax exemption, okay? You got to pay tax on everything you do, including your endowment. It's unbelievable how much tax Harvey would have to pay. And the reason is because we believe you are not okay enforcing federal law when it comes to protecting Jewish students. And you're indoctrinating your students with a whole bunch of radical leftists on your faculty, and you won't stop doing that. There are a myriad of federal regulations that Harvard is violating, according to the Trump administration, and they can back it up. I mean, Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor of New York City ever, a Democrat, he got hired by Harvard. Lori Lightfoot, the worst mayor in Chicago history, got hired by Harvard. And they get paid about 200,000 each of them to go up there and do nothing to spout gibberish. Now, have you heard of any Republican governors being hired? No. Or mayors? No.
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Bill O'Reilly
When I was there at the Kennedy School of Government, it was liberal, but it was an activist liberal. What happened was it became very activist liberal. They fired gay. The president, who is an absolute extremist, a Palestinian sympathizer, hates Israel, on and on and on and on. This is all my opinion of gay, but I think it's Solid. Now the new guy up there, he's trying to be a little bit more moderate, but he's got a campus. Most of these students are leftists because that's what they wanted. That's the culture they wanted at Harvard. When I was at the Kennedy School, the grad students there there was across the board, there were a lot of military people in there and a lot of foreign students, you know, the sons and daughters of sultans and this kind of thing. It wasn't crazy left. Now it is. Anyway, this feud if Harvard loses its tax exempt status is going to be pretty intense. So enter Barack Obama who is supporting Harvard because he went to Harvard Law. Quote, harvard has set an example for other higher ed institutions, rejecting an unlawful and ham handed attempt to stifle academic freedom while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate, mutual respect. Let's hope the other institutions follow suit, unquote. I don't know. I think that might be a little optimistic by President Obama. Okay. I don't think there's a wide acceptance of conservative views at Harvard and I know what's going on up there in Cambridge. Well, here's how President Trump replied on Truth Social, quote, perhaps Harvard should lose his tax exempt status, be taxed as a political entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological and terrorist inspired, supporting sickness. Remember, tax exempt status is totally contingent on acting in the public interest. Ooh, another feud. Okay, now here was a surprise analyzing this on msnbc. Chris Matthews said this go.
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Chris Matthews
It's Trump going after the elites. He knows what he's doing politically. It's not going to hurt him. I think these universities have enough money to cover their legacies. They got a lot of money to handle it, so they're going to be able to take care of themselves. I don't want to be loose about this.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah.
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Chris Matthews
But I think Trump targeting these universities is probably not the worst movie ever made.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, so the sympathies probably lie. I agree with President Trump and if you guys want me to get involved and you know, I'll be happy to do it, I would like to see Harvard. I don't want to see them punished. As I told Hannity, school does a lot of good and particular, particularly in the medical area, but they got to stop with the leftist ideology up there. I don't know if that's possible. All right, update on the attack on Governor Josh Shapiro's home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The nut who did it, Corey Balmer, 38 years old. No Bail. He'll never get out now. He said he wanted to hurt Shapiro because of what Shapiro wants to do to the Palestinian people. This guy's crazy. I mean, look at him. Okay, so the thing I want to know about is what is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania doing to protect people? How could this guy do this? Get over that fence and bomb the house? There's not much reporting on that. We're watching it. Smart Life. This comes out of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Eight drinks a week increase your chance of Alzheimer's brain lesions by 133%. Whoa. Just eight drinks a week? Actually, you know, eight drinks a week, it's kind of a lot. So there's a survey of 1,781 people, moderate drinkers, 60% greater chance of developing brain lesions. So you don't have to be a drunk. Okay, now here is the big stat. And remember, this is Smart Life. Heavy drinkers die an average of 13 years earlier than non drinkers. So if you are a heavy drinker, you know, get that cemetery plot up and running. 13 years. Now, I never drank, and I. I get a lot of Irish comments on that, but I don't care. I mean, I'm not. You say that about some ethnic groups. I don't care. Irish people traditionally have a pub culture. It's fact. I never drank. But in my family, we've had some people die of cirrhosis of the liver and die from alcohol. And I think almost every family in the world has it. But I never thought that intoxicants forwarded my life in any way. Same thing with drugs, as you know. And I'll tell you what, at my age, my advanced age, the fact that I never drank and never took drugs had really, really helped me both mentally and physically. Smart Life just using me as the guinea pig. All right, final thought of the day. I had to go and get my real id. Driver's license in New York State. Nightmare. Wasn't that bad. I have to say, it wasn't that bad. Now, what is a real ID? So as of May 7, we all have to have it if we want to get on an airplane or you have to bring a passport, but you go into the DMV in your state and you fill out an amazing amount of forms, show them your old license, you bring your passport, you got to bring your Social Security number, and I give you a real id. Why are they doing this? Because the feds say this idea is more secure and reliable, and it's harder to fake it. So there's a lot of bogus driving licenses and Social Security cards and all that. This is very hard to fake. So you're not going to be able to get on a plane if you don't have this real ID unless you bring a passport. So I went down, and everybody's very professional. I waited about a half hour. It wasn't too bad because I was watching the crowd. And I'll do a little commentary on that a little later on in the week. But I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, so you got to do it. Check it out. And we really appreciate you watching and listening on the radio to the no Spin news tonight. We'll see you again on Monday.