Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - August 14, 2025

Summary

Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis Episode: Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - August 14, 2025 Release Date: August 15, 2025

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1. Enhancing Security in Washington D.C.

Timestamp: 00:00

Bill O'Reilly opens the episode by addressing the ongoing security measures in Washington D.C., emphasizing President Trump's efforts to reduce crime in the capital. He highlights the deployment of 800 National Guard members and 120 FBI agents to patrol neighborhoods, aiming to suppress criminal activities and enhance public safety.

"If you're a criminal and you want to go out and hijack a car or stick up an old lady to get money for drugs and there's National Guard standing there, you are less likely to do it."
— Bill O'Reilly [00:00]

O'Reilly criticizes the progressive left for opposing these measures, arguing that these actions are necessary given the high crime rates and homelessness in D.C. He underscores the administration's tough stance on homelessness, portraying it as a pragmatic approach to address addiction and criminal behavior.

2. Critique of Pete Buttigieg and Progressive Narratives

Timestamp: 05:00

Transitioning to national politics, O'Reilly criticizes Pete Buttigieg, labeling him as "perhaps the worst transportation secretary in the history of the country under Joe Biden." He accuses Buttigieg and progressive figures of politicizing President Trump’s law enforcement actions in D.C., suggesting they are diverting attention from other issues like the Epstein files.

"Buttigieg and the progressives, they want to tie Epstein to Trump. So anything Trump does, Putin meeting, anything. Oh, it's a diversion."
— Bill O'Reilly [05:12]

O'Reilly challenges Buttigieg's credibility, questioning his understanding of Trump's motivations and strategies, and dismisses his statements as unsubstantiated.

3. Perspectives on Russian Collusion and Trump’s Strategy

Timestamp: 15:00

In a discussion about international relations, O'Reilly speculates on President Trump's approach to dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He suggests that Trump understands the necessity of negotiating with Putin, even if it means overlooking certain aggressive actions to secure peace.

"The only way this will be solved is to give Putin something... You’ve got to overlook China, the worst police state in history."
— Bill O'Reilly [15:51]

O'Reilly forecasts a potential peace deal involving territorial concessions but emphasizes that such a resolution is essential to end the ongoing conflict and protect American interests.

4. Interview with Mick Mulvaney: Foreign Policy Insights

Timestamp: 13:14 - 25:50

Bill O'Reilly engages in a compelling conversation with Mick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff under President Trump. They delve into various topics, including the recent high-stakes meetings between Trump and Putin, the credibility of Trump's foreign policy, and the challenges of negotiating peace in Ukraine.

Mulvaney discusses the strategic importance of meeting locations and criticizes figures like Bolton for attempting to undermine Trump’s presidency.

"Derangement syndrome is a real thing."
— Mick Mulvaney [14:33]

The dialogue explores Trump's negotiation tactics, emphasizing the need for strength and credibility in dealing with adversaries like Putin. Mulvaney highlights Trump's unique ability to navigate complex international relations, positioning him as a formidable negotiator on the global stage.

"He knows how to play Macron, he knows how to play Keir Starmer... I don't think he's figured out Putin yet."
— Mick Mulvaney [22:57]

The interview concludes with a focus on Trump's potential to achieve significant diplomatic successes, which O'Reilly believes could cement his legacy as one of the top presidents if managed effectively.

5. The Impact of Smartphone Addiction on Youth

Timestamp: 29:00

Shifting focus to domestic social issues, O'Reilly discusses a study from the University of Southern California published by the Financial Times, which examines the detrimental effects of smartphone use on younger generations. Key findings include increased distraction, higher anxiety levels, and reduced interpersonal skills among 20 to 30-year-olds.

"Kids are anxious about it... they stay in the house instead of going out, jumping in the ocean or the pool or playing stickball."
— Bill O'Reilly [32:47]

O'Reilly emphasizes the role of parents in mitigating these issues, advocating for stricter controls on phone usage and encouraging more face-to-face interactions to foster stronger community bonds and mental resilience.

6. US-Mexico Relations and Crackdown on Drug Cartels

Timestamp: 36:25

O'Reilly addresses the escalating violence in Mexico due to drug cartels, criticizing Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum for her stance against US military intervention.

"Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, does not want that... absolutely out of the question."
— Bill O'Reilly [37:36]

He forecasts that the US Department of Defense will intensify efforts to dismantle cartel operations using drones and other strategies, dismissing Sheinbaum's objections as ineffective against the severity of the cartel threat.

7. Final Reflections and Societal Concerns

Timestamp: 37:21

In his concluding remarks, O'Reilly reflects on the broader societal challenges, including the rise of cyberbullying, mental health issues, and the erosion of community values. He underscores the difficulty of addressing these problems within the framework of a free society and advocates for community-driven solutions alongside parental responsibility.

"And the cruelty factor is rising because every tape of somebody being cruel is on that machine, TikTok or whatever it is."
— Bill O'Reilly [36:25]

O'Reilly calls for greater awareness and proactive measures to combat the negative influences of digital technology on the younger generation, emphasizing the importance of fostering resilience and critical thinking skills.

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Notable Quotes:

• "If you're a criminal...you are less likely to do it."
  — Bill O'Reilly [00:00]

• "The only way this will be solved is to give Putin something."
  — Bill O'Reilly [15:51]

• "Derangement syndrome is a real thing."
  — Mick Mulvaney [14:33]

• "They hate Trump and they don't want laws to be enforced."
  — Bill O'Reilly [03:00]

• "We're the most addicted, violent country in the world."
  — Bill O'Reilly [32:47]

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Conclusion: In this episode, Bill O’Reilly tackles a spectrum of pressing issues, from national security and international diplomacy to the profound impacts of technology on youth. Through incisive commentary and engaging discussions with guests like Mick Mulvaney, O'Reilly presents a perspective that underscores the complexities of contemporary American politics and society, while advocating for robust measures to address crime, safeguard communities, and mitigate the challenges posed by technological dependencies.

Transcript

[Bill O'Reilly]

Foreign the summer of Trump continues. Taking over D.C. putin on Friday. Russian collusion investigation in September. We have General Michael Flynn coming up this evening. He's probably knows more about Russian collusion than anybody. The only person prosecuted so far, he's got a book out. But first, the Talking Points Memo. President Trump takes Washington, D.C. so 800 National Guard are going to the D.C. armory right now. Associated Press is reporting. And they will patrol neighborhoods, suppressing criminals. So if you're a criminal and you want to go out and hijack a car or stick up an old lady to get money for drugs and there's National Guard standing there, you are less likely to do it. Okay? There's also 120 FBI agents, and they are in the neighborhoods where crimes are most committed. So, again, this is a suppression of crime, an institution of more safety for the public. Everybody understand what's happening here? I hope you do. Well, the progressive left, the Trump haters, they hate this. And then the simple question is, wait, wait. If you're going to make human beings, American citizens more safe and you have the legal authority to do it because the federal government runs the District of Columbia, why wouldn't you do it? Okay, so in addition to the crime and murders, by the way, by the way, I'm sorry I said that. Murders in D.C. rose between 2012 and 24 about 100%, and they've come down a little bit. But D.C. is a violent city, and everybody knows it. Who lives there. You gotta be careful. Everybody knows. Okay? In addition to the crime, There are about 6,000 homeless people, most of them drug addicts, and a lot of them live on public land, federal land. And Trump goes no. So today, Caroline Levitt, the press spokesman for the White House, said, hey, the Metropolitan Police are going to get the homeless and they're going to give them a choice. You can either check yourself in, and I guess there would be accompanied to a shelter receiving mental health services, but if you do not do that, then you will be put in jail. Okay, why that tactic? Because it's the only tactic that works. You're not going to persuade people to give up inebriation unless they're desperate. So if you talk to any drug rehab counselor, you can't rehab somebody who doesn't want to be rehabbed. And most of these people, not only in D.C. but all over the country living on the streets, are drug addicts or alcoholics, and they want to get high all day, every day. You put them in jail, which you can do, because there's an ordinance on the book to Washington. They can't get their dope or their booze, though. They're going to leave. They're not going to hang around for that. That's how you get them out. And that's what the federal government is now doing. So the US Park Police are going into the public areas owned by we, the taxpayers, and they're saying, you're out of here. No debate. That's not going to take long. But the progressive left, of course, they don't want that. They don't want anything like that because they hate Trump and they don't want laws to be enforced. That's a complicated issue, but it's absolutely true. All right, so the first guy I'm going to feature on this is our pal, Pete Buttigieg. Pete, perhaps the worst transportation secretary in the history of the country under Joe Biden. You remember Pete, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Under Pete, the US Airline industry almost collapsed, and Pete did nothing because he didn't know what to do. And of course, President Biden didn't do anything. So people were delayed and had canceled and on and on and on and on. Well, here's what Buttigieg says about Trump and the feds going into law enforcement in the District of Columbia. Go. As we speak, the federal government is taking over the policing of a major American City, Washington, D.C. the president is doing this not in order to make the city safer.

[Mick Mulvaney]

That's the job of local law enforcement.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But to solve his own political problems, he needs to get his base talking and thinking about something besides his refusal to open up the Epstein files. Well, how would Buttigieg know that? Does he read minds? Does he talk to Trump about it? No. He wants to divert away from Epstein. Epstein's story is largely dead. We're going to have a little bit on it tomorrow, put a bow on it, but it's largely dead. But Buttigieg and the progressives, they want to tie Epstein to Trump. So anything Trump does, Putin meeting, anything. Oh, it's a diversion. How would you know? How do you back that statement up? Buddha Judge, you can't back it up. Just ridiculous. He's a ridiculous man. Okay, the other guy is former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. Listen to this. Go. Most FBI agents were not police officers before they came into the FBI. Even the most tactically astute, highly trained FBI agents, those who serve on SWAT teams, I know this as a former SWAT team member, they don't know. They don't do community policing. Are you kidding me? This is so ridiculous. So all they're supposed to do. The FBI agents is. Is to stop crime by their very presence and to investigate gang members and things like that who may have organized carjacking rings. You tell me the FBI can't do that. Oh, fine. This is so absurd. I mean, I sit here every day and I go, these people, I guess they believe the American public's that stupid to listen to this garbage. All right, now, there was a protective operation in Los Angeles. We all know that when some of those riots out there got out of control and the federal government, Donald Trump sent a National Guard and stopped the cold. Stop the cold. And that's what's going to happen in D.C. i guarantee this. This is 100%. This is easy. This isn't hard. The gang bangers in D.C. we can't come out of their holes now as long as the federal presence is there. Now, you would think that a McCabe and a Buttigieg, not fair. People not looking out for you by any means, would listen to the police union Chief in Washington, D.C. go, well, look, we completely agree with the President that crime in the District of Columbia is out of control and something needs to be done with it. We have to go back to how we got here, though. 2020, the D.C. city Council passed an enormous amount of legislation that handcuff police officers, exposes them to administrative, civil, and even criminal liability even when they do their jobs properly. And that happened in New York, that happened in Chicago, that happened in LA and San Francisco. Same thing. Okay? We will hector the police. We will make it hard for the police to do their jobs. But the police union chairman, Gregory Pemberton, said, hey, we back Trump. We know the situation in D.C. is out of control, crime wise. Enter. This is unbelievable. And Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House. Here's what she tweeted. Quote, Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack. And. And lives are at stake now. He's activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education, immigration, just to name a few blunders. Okay, so it's not Epstein, it's tariffs and everything like that. All right, Nancy Pelosi. Now, the Capitol Hill police chief at the time of the riot is named Stephen Sundance. Here's how he reacted to Pelosi. Quote, ma', am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3rd, I requested National Guard assistance, but your sergeant at arms denied it. Under federal law I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. The same day, Carol Corbyn at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because. Because I lacked the legal authority. So this we have known that Pelosi was a saboteur of the National Guard coming to protect the Capitol, and yet she is the gall and the deceit. I'm Piers Morgan, the host of the Piers Morgan Uncensored podcast. We do big interviews and we do big debates about whatever's getting people talking about. We make news, we make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble, too. Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Piers Morgan uncensored on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy and the biggest global stories going on of the day, this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon, and on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB Situation Report with excellent guests including national security insiders and foreign policy experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Also on our YouTube channel at President's Daily Brief criticized Trump doing this. Hard to believe. All right, now, looking forward, the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, very close ally with Donald Trump, is going to have a another round of hearings. And D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser is first up. He announced that yesterday it's going to be in September. We don't have a date. So they're going to call in all the D.C. locals and say, why do you oppose something that would make your own citizens, your own residents safer? Why would you do that, madam? Crimes going down. So what? So what if crime goes down to zero? That's what we want. Okay, so that hearing, another House oversight, but it's a busy bunch over there. Okay. On the homeless situation, they can solve the problem fairly easily by saying, look, either help yourself or you go to jail for a few days and then you can't get your drugs and you're in withdrawal or whatever. And so they can all leave. They go to Baltimore. Baltimore, you can, you can do whatever you want with drugs. Easy. So summing up, I expect this to be successful, this D.C. stuff, the opposition to Donald Trump continues to embarrass itself and be deceitful. Nancy Pelosi, incredibly deceitful. And that's where it stands. And that is the memo. Joining us now from South Carolina is The former acting chief of staff under President Trump in 2019-220. Mick Mulvaney, CM on News Nation. And he is the co chair at Actum Actum, a global consulting firm. So my over to doing it here am I. I too agitated for my own good? No. Where to start?

[Mick Mulvaney]

I. I'm with you on where the meeting is and oh, my goodness gracious, I can't believe he's coming to the United States. What did we extract? If you wanted the meeting to take place, Bill, it was going to take place in the United States, period, end of story. Why? Because it's really hard to move the president, especially on very short notice. If they were gonna have this in Oslo, for example, it probably would have taken six weeks. Trump didn't wanna wait six weeks. He wanted to meet as soon as he could possibly put together a meeting. That means it's going to be someplace in the U.S. yes, there's a military base in Anchorage. I think it's attached to the airport there. Believe it or not, a little piece of trivia. I think it's where we held the very first people that came back from Wuhan at the beginning of COVID on the layover back to Southern California. So it's a very.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's a transit stop. And it's also the place where Sarah Palin saw Russia.

[Mick Mulvaney]

I think you can see her house from this place, which is fantastic going forward as well. Okay, so it's much ado about nothing on where the meeting is.

[Bill O'Reilly]

The meeting?

[Mick Mulvaney]

Of course not where the meeting is.

[Bill O'Reilly]

All of this is just garbage. So are they traitors? Are they miscreants, these people? Because I use two sound bites, Mick. I could have used 20. I have 20 sound bites.

[Mick Mulvaney]

Yeah, you know, I don't know, Kelly, so I won't opine on that. I know Bolton. Bolton would say anything to make President Trump look bad. I don't know what that makes him. I don't know if it makes him a traitor or a miscreant or just an idiot. I'm not really sure, but he really, really hates the President Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, absolutely. From an emotional mouth.

[Colby Hall]

All right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

When I talk to President Trump about these things, he's very clear with me, and I'm a kind of judgmental guy. If I'm talking to you, even if it's off the record, I'm assessing what you know, what you don't know and what the message is. What I get is that President Trump really understands that the only way this will be Solved is to give Putin something. And I expect that to happen. Okay, now, I didn't read the sound bite from Zelensky, who's basically saying, well, we're not going to give up anything. Well, you're going to have to give something. You're going to have to if you want to stop the bloodshed in your country and hundreds of thousands of people being killed and maimed and going to have to give this villain Putin. It's not right, it's not fair, but that's what's going to have to happen. That's how I see it.

[Mick Mulvaney]

I don't remember anybody starting a war over Crimea. I know the Ukrainians were upset about it, but I don't even think they went to war over that. I know that we didn't. The Europeans didn't. I can't imagine Zelensky actually going on TV as he did this weekend and saying, look, all of Ukraine is Ukraine and there's no negotiating. That's wrong. Crimea is gone as part of any discussion here. That's just, that's the way it's going to be. And if the U.S. russia and the EU all want to stop this war and the price of that is Donbas the next and Crimea, that's how it's going to end. Because the Ukrainians cannot fight this battle.

[Bill O'Reilly]

By themselves and they can't fight it without the United States arms. I mean, because now Trump is committed to sending arms over there. So what I expect to happen is there's going to be some land given to Russia. They'll occupy the land and maybe they'll have a vote to two years away, which will be a ridiculously corrupt thing. But then there'll be some guarantees from Putin that this will stop and he won't go further. That's the way I think it's. And that Ukraine won't join NATO. I think that's probably how it's going to be.

[Mick Mulvaney]

I'm not sure about Ukraine joining NATO, but if you want to look to something that Trump has done already that doesn't get the attention that it deserves, there is a de facto security guarantee already. It's that critical minerals deal that Trump cut and he didn't get nearly enough credit for it. Look, I'll criticize the guy if I have to from time to time. This was genius because it's a non security guarantee. Security guarantee because Trump knows that Russia is not going to invade Ukraine if Alcoa is pulling aluminum out of the ground there. So I thought that's genius and I Think it lays a foundation for what the next round might look for? No, I don't think Ukraine is going to NATO, but there's going to be some type of structure that guarantees their security or at least Russia doesn't go into Kiev.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Do you think the Trump derangement is worse now than it was when you were in the White House in the first term? Yeah.

[Mick Mulvaney]

Cuz they really don't know how he won again. They were able to convince themselves back in 2016, 17 that he pulled the wool over everybody's eyes. 2024. They don't have any idea what's going on because Donald Trump was the most well known person in the world and still won the election. And they don't get it. There's a cognitive sort of dissonance between that. They don't understand a world where Donald Trump can become president. By the way, Democrats aren't the only one. I think, you know, Mitt Romney never was able to grasp that. Mitt Romney was never able to accept how Donald Trump was president and he wasn't. So it's not partisan, it's heavily Democrat, but it's not exclusively Democrat. No, it's a real thing. I see it every single day.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But to be fair, Donald Trump did attack Mitt Romney. The Bush family, and I understand the portraits in the White House of Bush the younger and elder have been moved into the janitor's closet someplace. And that brings me to my next question. If he would, if President Trump would just stay on the issues, which I think he is right on most of the time, and stop the bombast and the, you know, the small ball, wouldn't it be better? Did you ever advise them? Hey, let that go.

[Mick Mulvaney]

No, I mean, Bill, I don't know how old you are. You're a little bit older than I am, but not much. My guess is I'm not doing much to change your personality. At this point in your life, you are who you are. There's an old saying that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. And that's true. You were never going to change Donald Trump. He got where he was. I remember having a conversation one time about the campaign in 2020 and he wanted to do X. And I'm like, Mr. President, maybe Y is a really good idea. I'm not sure about X. He looks at me, he goes, how many campaigns have you won for president? Zero.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right. He always does that. But it's attack, it's tactics, you see?

[Mick Mulvaney]

Tactics and they work.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right. You just pointed out that the mineral deal in Ukraine didn't get the attention it deserved because something else not important overrode it. And that is, I believe that if Donald Trump gets the peace deal in Ukraine and sorts out the Russian, the Chinese trade thing, which I'm involved with, I don't know how that happened, but I am that he then propels himself into the top 10 presidents of all time. But he could go faster into that arena and that really means a lot to him if he would just stop some of the bombastic stuff that doesn't matter. Am I wrong? You know what?

[Mick Mulvaney]

Look, we're having a discussion about style. And I get it. A lot of folks don't like his style. His style works for him. And he may listen to you because, you know, you've achieved a tremendous amount in your life and you're very successful. So he might listen to you, but he's not gonna listen to very many people when it comes to changing his style. It's worked for him. He's been elected the president, you know, twice, he thinks three times. So I don't think he's going to change.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And look, honestly, I don't know whether he won or not, but I have talked to him a few times where he has modified. He's modified because I presented in a historical way. I don't want him to change his style. This is one of the most spectacular venues with all kinds of character and hospitality, scenery. These people in this Kitty Task Valley, they love when you come to see what they have to offer. I'm J.J. harris, an Ellensburg rodeo clown, and I want to invite you to the rodeo. Come hang out with us in Ellensburg. Great rodeo. Great time. Two performances on Saturday. One is the Extreme Bulls of the Year event. Do not miss The Ellensburg Rodeo, August 29th through September 1st. We'll see you there.

[Mick Mulvaney]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Colby Hall]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Colby Hall]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

I think that his style has propelled him. I agree with him that he never would have been elected president either time. Okay. If he wasn't a populist bomb thrower because that's what the country wants. They're tired of the Kellys and the Boltons and the guys who have no solutions to anything, just undermining and undercutting for partisan reasons. They hate that. And that's why Trump is successful, because he isn't a BSer. Okay? I would never tell him to change. I think he's wise in Presenting himself in a flamboyant way, there are things he chooses to overlook. He overlooks a lot about Putin when you read. And I'll send you my new book after this conversation. Confronting Evil. Putin's evil. But in order to get a deal, Trump's got to overlook it. He's got to overlook China, the worst police state in history. He's got to overlook it if he wants the best for America. Right, Bill?

[Mick Mulvaney]

I look at this as probably the single most significant couple of days in his two terms so far, and maybe the most significant in his terms. When he's finished, he's done a masterful job. He knows how to play Macron, he knows how to play Keir Starmer. He knows how to play Washington, D.C. he's better at all of those folks when it comes to negotiating. I don't think he's figured out Putin yet. I think he really got elected going into office thinking Zelensky was the primary impediment to peace. Now I think he knows it's Vladimir Putin. I think he believes that Vladimir Putin doesn't necessarily want this war to end. He thought that he did, and he doesn't know how to deal with it. This is the biggest challenge I think he's going to face. And if he does it successfully and manages to negotiate an end to this war, I think you're absolutely right. It rockets him up the list of successes. How could it not with the accomplishments that you go with the style of waste. You don't get style points for being president. You get results points.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah. You don't get results points from the American. Not from the American media. You're never going to get results points from the American media, not Trump. And I disagree with you on one very important thing. Okay? I think he knows Putin now. I think you're right. He thought he could reason with LAD because he did the first term. Right. You were there. He reasoned with Putin. Putin didn't do anything like he did under Biden. But I think that Trump now understands Putin. Not as well as I do, because I've spent a lot of time on this guy. Where do you see what we came up with? But the only way to deal with Putin is through strength and what, what Trump is likely to say to him in private. Remember, this is not all going to be public because Putin speaks English to Trump in private. He's going to say, look, lad, we'll get your deal here. You're not going to look like a schmuck. You'll get your little donbass or whatever you want, but if you don't, I'm going to break you. I'm going to crush you. He's going to say that to him. Last word.

[Mick Mulvaney]

And here's my question, and I think this is the seminal issue of this. Does he have the credibility Trump, is Putin looking at him as somebody who keeps changing a deadline, who draws red lines and they can't stand up to him. We know what that did to Obama in Syria. But Trump has changed some deadlines here.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He's given him a lot of rope, there's no doubt about it. But Trump can shut down those banks.

[Mick Mulvaney]

And that's the issue. How do you reestablish that credibility? I think that's what the Trump team should be working on this week. Yeah, you could do it voluntarily, but that's awful. Ham fisted and runs the risk of dramatic escalation. How do you get that credibility back quickly? And I think if they can do that, this could be hugely successful this week.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He doesn't need his team. He knows what to do. Okay. Trust me on that. All right. That was a great interview, Mick, and I really appreciate you taking the time. I know you're really busy and everything, but thank you very much. New study. So this is important. It's not at the level of war and peace, but it's important. So last night I had a dinner here on eastern Long island and urchins, you know, there in the dinner, high school kids and middle school with their parents and run around and they're very interested in my upcoming book, Confronting Evil. Okay. Because we got Hitler on the COVID we got Mao, get Stalin, we got Putin. And then there's 12 other guys inside the book that are as evil as you can possibly imagine. Anyway, they oh, it's about what's about. These kids are asking me and I'm trying to explain it to them. They knew nothing, nothing about even Hitler. And I said, don't they teach you that? No, no, not taught. And then I looked at the parents and the parents kind of embarrassed and I said, well, it's hard to engage these kids in conversation because they're always on the phone. Every waking moment they're in the house, they watch TV anymore, not watching tv, they're not reading books, they're on this. And it's very hard to get them away from that. Okay. And I think that is an accurate assessment of where we are in America. So there is a new study comes out of the University of Southern California. The Financial Times printed it, about 15,000 younger people about the Effects of the phone. And here are the highlights. 20 to 30 year olds report being more easily distracted and careless. I see that my own urchins, they're on the phone, they forget they got to clean their room or whatever they have to do, reduce tenacity and follow through on commitments. So, yeah, I'm going to do this, dad. And it doesn't get done because they forget because they're on the phone. Okay, Then there is higher anxiety levels. Why? Why would that be? Because there's so much stuff they don't understand and so much negativity on the phones. Bullying, Huge, huge little kids, getting bullied by name, getting destroyed in their communities. And kids are anxious about it. And less outgoing, you know, people, they stay in the house instead of going out, jumping in the ocean or the pool or playing stickball. And the stuff we didn't know. Nope. In the room with the phone. So joining us now from Brooklyn, New York is Colby Hall. You may know him, he's the founding editor of Media. He read a column on how all of this stuff is going to negatively affect the United States big time. And it's coming up fast. Should I have included anything else in my lead before we get to the specifics?

[Colby Hall]

No. I mean, I think you set it up wonderfully. But I also think that in one level, this is kind of obvious to anyone that has kids or you go outside, you go to the park, everyone's on their phone with the study I thought sort of hung a lantern on was just how bad it's gotten. And no one's really talking about what an enormous, not just a generational shift, but a millennial, historic shift. And we should start to talk about it because I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But there has been talk. In New York State, for example, there is a new law that bans phones in school during class time. They are concerned about the distraction, they being the authorities. But it hasn't risen to the level that parents are banging the emergency bell. And that's what I'm seeing. They allow the urchins to do this because if they don't, there's tension in the house. There's angst. Now with me, that never worked because I don't care about angst. Oh, I'm going. There's no phones at the table and there never was. And that put the phone down is one of my favorite phrases. And do this, but I'm a martinet word of the day. But most parents, they let the kids do it. So I think it's the parents fault. And I do think it's going to adversely affect this country.

[Colby Hall]

Well, I think you're right. I think it's everyone's fault, but the parents are the ones that are responsible. Right. I also abide by no phones at the dining room table ethos as well. And I'm proud to say my 22 year old reads books. He's a big reader. My 18 year old is not. And maybe that's because one just graduated from college, the other's about to go to college. But yeah, this is an issue where we need to figure out how we sort of the genie is out of the bottle. The genie's out of the bottle and has got his own TikTok account and is distracted enough to try to solve this. Right. And you know, I put in my column that I compared it to the Gutenberg, you know, inventing of the printing press, which changed, you know, it spread, it started the Renaissance, it spread knowledge and understanding of Christianity and so many great things came from it. But the, the, the effect of that took centuries to unfold. And for people to read across the world, this is the same thing. But it's unfolded over a decade. Right. And so there's been no guardrails, there's been no sort of, you can't really regulate it because it is what it is. I think you make a very salient point that parents need to take a lead role and be a lot stricter about this. And I happen to think, you know, I've done some research on this in the New York public schools. Turns out, you know, who's the biggest fan of not allowing phones in schools are many of the students because they want to, they want to have a break. You know, the, the isolationism and the anxiety, the lack of consciousness. I think a lot of these kids that are addicted to their phones, they're somewhat aware of it. And when they can, when you force them to detox and I don't know, play a parlor game or spend quality time with your parents or your friends or, you know, I send my kids to summer camp mostly so that they wouldn't be on their phones and they would be playing, you know, pick up baseball, wiffle ball, you know, swimming fish and what have you. Not everyone has that opportunity. But, but I don't know what's the solution. I think we are at a point where we need to recognize it so we can try to detoxify our brains before it's too late. Because I think we're raising a generation of zombies who don't even know what's wrong with them, right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

And they're not getting stronger. This makes you weaker, makes you weaker mentally and it makes you weaker physically because you're not out there exercising or anything like that. It's easy to isolate yourself in your room with their phone. And my 22 year old who I think is smarter than I am, he doesn't read many books, but he does research and good research on the stupid phone. But I have to explain to him that, look, you got to broaden it out, particularly if you want to be president of the United States, which I think he's got a shot at. All right? You can't just be a phone addict. Now the thing that concerns me the most about mental health and that's big in this country now with all the addiction we're seeing, with all this violence we're seeing across our country, we are the most addicted, violent country in the world, okay? We are. And that's shocking because we are based on Judeo Christian philosophy. If you know your party's extension, Press or say 1. To leave a message in our company mailbox.

[Colby Hall]

Press or say two.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Spoiler alert. It will be full representative. Would you speak to your mother in that tone?

[Mick Mulvaney]

Speak to a real human being.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You shouldn't need to shout into the void to get your health insurance questions answered. Pacific Source Health Plans. This is a real person. How can I help you? Human service, not automated phone trees. Pacific Source Health Plans. But the urchins don't even know what Judeo Christian philosophy is. Is okay? They don't know. So when I was teaching in high school, I saw the bullying in the halls. I saw it, I stopped it. And I was stopped it sometimes in a very confrontational way. Now the bullying is on a machine and they can tear kids apart, leading to suicides and all of that. And a lot of the kids don't tell their parents. They're afraid to tell their parents, all right? Because they think the parents are going to run down the school or they're going to run to the kids parents and they're going to make it worse. That, I think is one of the most dangerous aspects of this phone culture.

[Colby Hall]

I couldn't agree more. And I think, you know, you've worked in the media space for a long time, as have I, you've developed a certain level of skepticism and you have a critical mind and you can kind of. You can smell a scam a mile away, right? These young teenagers don't have that. They don't have the wisdom of those experiences. I mean, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, right. And that's made me smarter. Right. And I can see, you know, a phishing scheme, a spam, some sort of, you know, attack to try to steal your data. I can see that coming. A lot of these kids can't. Two other things. I mean, I think there's been this rise of. I was talking about this with Jonah Goldberg yesterday, who was a comedian. You know, he was a conservative thinker. He started National Review Online and you know, he was kind of like a comedian. He was, he was sort of a troll. And now he can't do that because the trolling behavior from the extreme left and the extreme right has kind of ruined it for everyone. It's no longer funny. It's just mean spirited. And I don't think that kids are equipped to handle that. And then the one last thing I would say, this isolationism. People just get lost in their own phones. They don't want to, you know, engage in the outer world.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right?

[Colby Hall]

And there's a lack of community. There's no faith based living. There's no churches. People don't go to church anymore. And so there's a lack of community that is helping. Not every parent can do it on their own. But if there's elders in the community that can help out, that's gone away also. So it's a kind of a perfect storm of negative influences. I feel bad for our kids. We shouldn't blame them.

[Bill O'Reilly]

In a free society, there isn't legislation that can stop it. And the cruelty factor is rising because every tape of somebody being cruel is on that machine, TikTok or whatever it is. So the more cruel you are to your fellow man, the more exposure you're going to get. And that they're just absorbing it like this. And it's real. It's not movie, it's not Terminator. Okay? This is real. And now the anesthesia fills in. I've seen it so much it doesn't even affect me anymore. So I don't know what the solution is. I know you can't legislate against the First Amendment. I do like all of this school stuff. No phones while classes are underway. And I think that we have to spread the word that parents have a responsibility. But the irony is some of the parents are worse addicted than our kids. Last word.

[Colby Hall]

I think you're absolutely right. I think we can't solve this problem immediately. But recognizing it is the first step. And calling out adults to parent is A major first step, and take it from there.

[Bill O'Reilly]

All right, thanks, Gobi. Appreciate it very much. Mexico, defiance. So you know, the drug cartels are murdering politicians, journalists, everybody. Mexico's most dangerous country in the Western hemisphere. Trump administration said, hey, we're going after the cartels. We're going to take them out ourselves. The USA is going to take them out. Okay? Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, does not want that. Here's what she said on August 8. Go. No, but, no, no. The United States will not come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. That is out of the question. Absolutely out of the question. Because in addition to the fact that we have stated it in all the calls that it is not allowed and is not part of any agreement, much less they have not raised it. Okay? So here's what's likely to happen. What Ms. Shaimam says doesn't mean anything, all right? She has no power. Is an executive order. I think that the Defense Department is going to go after gang members in Venezuela, all right? Narcotics, gangs, and in Mexico, probably with drones. If you read Killing the Killers, my book on terrorism, you'll see. Oh, it's done. It's not hard. I expect that to happen. And Claudia Sheinbaum will have nothing to say about it. She should be happy, just like the D.C. officials. She should say, bring it on. Get these guys out of here. They're murdering hundreds of thousands of people in my country. Help us. Usa, Right? Shouldn't that's what the woman be saying? Come on. Geez. Smart life. Best city for job opportunities. You want to move on up? You go to Raleigh, North Carolina. It's the best city. This is according to a website checker. Nashville, number two. Austin, number three, Salt Lake City. 4. Portland, Maine. 5. Denver. Omaha. Durham, Charleston, Indianapolis. All right, here are the worst cities for jobs. Bakersfield, California. Scranton, Pennsylvania. McAllen, Texas. Fresno, California. Memphis, Tennessee. Jackson, Mississippi. Rochester, New York. Toledo, Ohio. Augusta, Georgia. Spokane, Washington. Don't go there if you want to work. Okay. I got a small segment on Bernie Sanders I'm going to do tomorrow because I'm running heavy on town. Bernie's running around. I wrote a message of the day. He's on his Oligarchy tour. I love this. So tomorrow I'm going to. I'm going to play the sound bite. But I think Bruce Springsteen should be opening for Bernie, Right? Read my message of the day on bill o'reilly.com. here is the final thought of the day. The Constitution gives every American the right to be a moron. And many of us exercise that right every day. There is a book, sold 6 million copies so far by Mel Robbins, the let them Theory. It's basically, you're not going to change the morons. You are not going to educate them. You are not going to make them better people. You are not going to make them see the light. And when you got a kid, that just drives you crazy, right? So Robin says you got to let them do it and work on your reaction. My reaction usually to morons is I am polite and I would throw out maybe a line. Maybe you want to think about this. Keep it pithy. That's all, because I know people believe what they want to believe. You're not going to change them. They don't have a frame of reference. They don't understand how anything works. I am writing my message of the day tomorrow about these letters I am getting about Putin. People have no idea about what this is. You got to have some kind of clue. But you do not have to, do you? You have a right to be a moron. Thank you very much, all you smart people, because morons do not watch this. Do not listen to this program. You got to know something to watch me. So we appreciate you. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow. Lowe's knows that more projects mean more tools for a limited time. New and existing MYLOS Rewards credit card members can get 12 months special financing on purchases of $299 or more in store and online. Don't wait to get the things you need. Get special financing today. Lowe's we help you Save now through August 27th. Choose 12 months special financing and purchases of $299 or more offer subject to credit approval and cannot be combined. Minimum monthly payments required. See store lowe's.com for details.