D (11:48)

So.

A (11:51)

I don't think US Fortunes are going to invade Greenland. I'll go right up top. Say would be a disaster, an absolute disaster if that happens for the Trump administration and for the United States because NATO would fall apart, Putin would win. Remember, Putin's rationale to go into Ukraine was Russian national security. We need to stereoto it because NATO is going to attack us. How many? Bunch of garbage. But that was his rationale. A trust rationale is we need Greenland to protect us against Russia and China. There's some truth to that. We only have one military base on that island. We should have about 10 because the ships, submarines, all kinds of stuff coming down from the Arctic Ocean past Greenland. But we can make a deal. I'm thoroughly convinced about that. Remember Panama A year ago I wrote about this in a message of the day on billoriley.com and I was in a cabinet meeting with the President and he's going, I'm going to. I said now you don't have to do that. And they worked it out. You haven't heard Panama in a year. I think that's what will happen in Greenland. I hope it happens. Because if the US Military were to go into Greenland, Democrats would win the midterms. Big, big. Only 9% of Americans support a military incursion into Greenland. Let me back it up. Quinnipiac poll. All right. We just border pose the United States trying to buy Greenland. Sport. 37 opposed, 55. Don't know. 8. Support military force support 9. Oh, geez. Oppose 86. Don't know. 6. And the president is a smart guy. He knows, he knows all that. I don't think he's going. I think he's saber rattling to make the best deal he can make. I think that deal will happen. May even happen this week at Davos, Switzerland, where the President's going over the big U.S. contingent. Talk to the financial pinheads. Maybe they make a bail over there. I hope so. I hope so. Let's get another point of view of this. Joining us from Washington is Hugo Gurdon, is the editor in chief of the Washington examiner newspaper. In my analysis, did I say anything that you quibble with, Mr. Goddard?

D (14:27)

No, not, no, I don't quibble with it at all. I completely agree that strategically it's important for the United States to have a very strong military presence in the Arctic and in northern Greenland. It's important for the Golden Dome, it's important for the protection of the Arctic, important for the protection of northern Europe. But the President seems to me to be going about it in precisely the wrong way. And Denmark has already said it's made it perfectly plain that it's willing to make a deal. So, you know, we don't, we, we don't want to let our enemies operate in the Western hemisphere. We basically made sure of that down in Venezuela. But we don't say we've got to own Venezuela, we can make the deal with Denmark. And you know, one of the ironies I think is Bill, that the, in many circumstances the President is saying the Europeans should do more for their own defense. Well, here's a perfect opportunity to get a NATO ally to do more for its own defense by saying, right, we're going to strike a deal. The United States can have a 50 year lease or a 99 year lease for set up military operations in the northern Arctic, in the Arctic from on the north coast of Greenland, take on the Russian nuclear powered icebreakers and the Chinese moving into that area. It's something that we, that they should be doing. And today's news today about the exchange with the governments of Finland and Norway was just extraordinary. And.

A (15:55)

I don't believe that. I got to tell you, I, maybe it's true. But President Trump, what he likes to do, and I'm sure you know this, is that he likes to throw the hand grenade in and it blows up and then from that swirl of smoke and everything, then he walks in and gets the best possible deal. So he likes to keep people on edge and he likes to say things that are provocative and he likes to have everybody, you know, and, and then he comes in and it's like Mighty mouse, here I come to save the day. And he almost does it every time.

D (16:33)

Yeah, look, I think that there's truth in that and it's one of the cautions that one needs when always, you know, when considering what Trump is doing, he will go in there and, you know, create a kind of mayhem or extraordinary circumstances, which everybody's hair is on fire. And then when they settle for 60% of what he's asked for or they rush to make a deal, he's actually getting what he originally intended to get.

A (16:59)

Right.

D (17:00)

So I completely agree with that. But it doesn't mean to say that any method of getting there is really an acceptable or a good one. I don't think.

A (17:10)

I think that's a good point. I think what he's got now is all of Europe hates him. Do we really want all of Europe hating us?

D (17:19)

No, we don't.

A (17:20)

No. So, but three weeks from now, all of Europe might like us again because he'll do something that would benefit them. I don't know, but I understand the overkill, but that's what he's always done. I mean, if you trace, if you read my book, the United States of Trump, I mean, every business deal, every political deal. Remember the first debate when he had the nine guys lined up on a stage and he just blew them up, you know, boring Jeb and Lyin Ted. And it's. People are shocked. And it works for him. And so it's hard. When I'm speaking with the president, I'm always respectful, no matter what president it is. You know, I can't say, well, you can say, look, it's been successful for me my whole career. And that's where his mindset is.

D (18:13)

Yeah. He will actually sometimes prevent people who are kind of, broadly speaking, supportive of him from explaining away or trying to put into context. And I mean, right back when he accused President Obama of starting ISIS and people would say, oh, what he means is that he was creating the circumstances in which ISIS could start the Islamic State. And he said, no, no, no, Obama started it. He says deliberately outrageous things, and indeed they are outrageous. And then you're left to calculate later, well, okay, we got. He got what we wanted. He got things for the United States. He shocked people in the way that he did it. What is the price that we paid for getting the thing that we want?

A (18:59)

And that is a legitimate question. I mean, there is certainly unease throughout the world. Now we go over to Iran, and that's a situation where there are a lot of different nations involved. Saudi Arabia, a big player, not very vocal on it, but, you know, they're big and Trump listens to them. What do you think is going to happen there? Any idea.

D (19:26)

Look, I'm, I, you know, I think there's quite a high likelihood if, if not very, very soon, but pretty high likelihood of American military involvement over there. I don't know. There's not a lot of information that comes out about exactly what the state of protests are, but they seem to have died down. Obviously, thousands of people have been murdered by the regime. But I think that, you know, there are reports of former members of the government there being arrested by the Republican Guards for having, you know, contact with the, the, the shah or the, you know, the successor outside the United States. And, and there are def, diplomatic defections. They don't necessarily count for very much, but they are, they might be straws in the wind. I think a lot of people would say, and I think I agree them with this regime is on its last legs. It cannot stay in power even with the repressive methods that it uses for that much longer. But how much that much longer is, is a difficult question. It seems to me that the United States was probably caught without the proper military assets in the area. That's not surprised. There was a huge deployment obviously over in Venezuela, and there's a carrier group that's coming from the South China Sea, and by the time it gets there, the current wave of protests might be flattened. But I think that your viewers should probably expect more turbulence and ultimately the United States getting involved, not because, not with troops on the ground, of course, but with things like cutting off Republican Guard communications. They know the United States has proved itself extremely good at disrupting the ability of, yeah.

A (21:12)

And they'll, they'll flatten the Revolutionary Guard headquarters. That's what I think will happen. But it's, it's all a matter of the, what was put forth by the Gulf states was if you, if you go in now, then the ayatollah is going to use that as a religious fundamentalism turn or look at the great Satans trying to destroy all of us. And so it wasn't a right time to do it, which I think has some merit to it. I know the president would like to take them out, but they want to do it surgically. So just summing up, I don't believe that the US Is going to put military into Greenland unless there's a treaty signed. Do you, do you concur with that?

D (21:56)

Oh, I do. I concur. I don't think that they're going to do it. And it would be absolute disaster.

A (22:00)

Right. That would just ruin the whole Trump administration. All right. Mr. Good on, thanks very much. For helping us out on a holiday. We really appreciate. Thank you. Thank you. All right, I saw. There's not really anything new here other than there's a report today that the ICE agent who shot Ms. Good last week has internal bleeding. Now, it's sketchy. More will come out on it, but it's been released. Now, that can only happen if the vehicle that Ms. Good was in hit him. But I'm not trying this on television. It's not right to do that. But you need to know what's surfacing here. So everybody took sides. I saw the video, I saw the bull. If it ever gets into a courtroom, and it won't, then you'd go frame by frame as I analyze, and then you'd hear from the ICE agent and then witnesses, whatever. Okay. But I don't think any of that's going to happen. But if the man does have internal bleeding, that's pretty big. So that's the latest on that. Now, there's a website called Mediaite, deals with a lot of press stuff, and it's a good website. It used to tilt really far left, and they brought it back to left center. As a guy who created it, along with a few others, Dan Abrams, Colby hall, he writes a column, and a column's pretty good. Enough is enough. It's basically criticizing Donald Trump's overreach as President of the United States. I'll read you a portion here, and then we'll bring in Mr. Hall. Quote, what distinguishes the current moment is not the impulse to push boundaries, but the scale, speed and brazenness with which these accumulated presidents are being exploited. Obama used drones and faced criticism, but operated within executive branch legal frameworks. Trump exacts, extracts foreign leaders and announces it as a fait accompli. At home, the same logic is playing out through federal law enforcement. ICE agents are defended reflexively before facts are known, before investigations are complete. Oversight is dismissed as obstruction. Questions are treated as attacks, powers insulated first, examined later, unquote. Colby hall joins us now from Brooklyn. So the mindset of the President of the United States is that his opposition is so entrenched that they don't care about what's good for the country. And so he has to cut through that so he can't go to Congress and say, I want to remove Maduro, and then Congress votes on it five months later because no Democrat will ever vote for anything that Trump wants. This is the president's mindset. Do you understand that?

E (25:07)

I do. I think that's a generous description, and I'll Say, first of all, thanks for having me on. Secondly, I agree with a lot of what you said during your talking points. Right. I find that we're pretty much aligned on a lot of this stuff, especially the concern with sort of Denmark and Greenland, which is remarkably risky on a number of levels, not just politically. My column Enough Is Enough was really about how under an executive branch that literally acts without impunity or with impunity with zero checks and balances is acting in a way that really sort of reinforces might makes right, which is a philosophical construct that we long moved past. And it's not really democratic. And the actions of this president reveal a nation that increasingly doesn't look like the America that I grew up and I still love very, very much.

A (25:59)

See, I don't have that. I don't have that perception. And I'm just about 25 miles from you in my dwelling. And when you say that Trump operates without any constraints, the courts ruled that the president could not send National Guard to LA and a few other cities because he didn't reach the bar of impending chaos. So he took him out. Trump took the troops, the National Guard, he withdrew. So he's been constrained.

E (26:31)

You know, Posse Comitatus basically says federal government cannot send in troops unless the governor of the state asks for it because of chaos. And that's what was ruled the democracy. Or he's plotting the Constitution, but he's obeying.

A (26:46)

He's not running roughshod. Okay, but that's the way it always happens. Colby, come on. You take an action and then there's a reaction. That's the way the government always runs.

E (26:57)

Here's what I would say. You could defend the extraction of Maduro, the. The sort of way that that was defined as we can do whatever we want with Western hemisphere because it affects our national security, and we're going to use that as a pretext to now threaten to, you know, sort of bomb Iran and to then just sort of invade and take Greenland, like you said. That's. That really threatens and is very risky to our NATO alliance, to be clear. And I want to say this, I have given credit to the Trump administration where I feel like they've deserved it. And in particular, I think the way that the Trump administration has handled Iran vis a vis Israel was masterful and deserves a great deal of credit. I also give him an incredible amount of credit for the way that he cleaned up the abject horror that is the border. The worst thing that Biden ever did was just look away. And I think one can be for getting bad guys out, cleaning up the border, but also be opposed to masked ICE agents shooting protesters. And I don't think Renee Goode should be dead as a result of trying.

A (28:00)

To find a car. I don't either. That doesn't mean, that doesn't mean that what the ICE agent did carries any criminal intent. Because I have said, and you know this, de escalate it when you have a life death situation. And some of my viewers don't like that. They don't want to hear that. Okay. But every law enforcement agency that I know of has a de escalation program when life and death is on the line. Tom, I, I'm behind the law. But Trump is saying, and with absolute validity, I can't bring in Maduro to Congress. I can't bring in nuke bombing in Iran to Congress because they, the other side hates me so much they're never going to support it. They'll drag their feet. We can't operate secretly in that regard. We can't do military operations with any kind of effectiveness if you're going to debate them for two months. And he's right. And when Noriega came out, that shattered that. And that'll never even get into the courts. Maduro is never going to get in. Okay. He'll be convicted in Brooklyn. You should go over and see him. He's right near your house. All right? And then he'll go to the penitentiary in Colorado. And that's what's going to happen. And there's not going to be any court hearing about Maduro. I don't even think the ice age is going to be prosecuted. Now, do you agree with me that there are 10 states in open rebellion to the United States government because they fail to obey the law? It's okay to protest the law and no problem with that. But when you say, and that's what walls fry, all of these people are saying, I'm not going to obey the law that has been passed by Congress, not Trump. I'm not obeying it. You're in rebellion, are you not?

E (29:57)

I think rebellion is a narrative that oversteps considerably. I remember, I'm old enough to remember when states rights were a big talking point on the. Right. And now that's gone away. Right. Like suddenly we don't care about states rights.

A (30:14)

If you want, if you want, you.

E (30:17)

Are basically making situational decisions. Right. And I, and honestly, previously, what you just said, you just walked. You just basically said Trump doesn't want to take Maduro to Congress because he Knows he won't get what he wants. I'm sorry, you don't get to pick and choose what the Constitution says you do.

A (30:33)

If you have national security concerns behind you. Yes, you do.

E (30:38)

Well, yeah, but that, that's very subjective. And to say that there was a national security threat by Maduro, you know, I think is hyperbole at best. I think it's absurd.

A (30:50)

Tons of narcotics are coming in here.

E (30:52)

Far less drugs from other places. Please, let me finish. Look, the whole point of the Constitution is checks and balances. You can't simply say, I'm going to avoid checks and balances if I know that a congressional check and balance is not going to give me what I want. But you can call perfectly illustrates my point.

A (31:08)

You can if there's precedent about national security after 9, 11, all of that changed, all the change.

E (31:16)

Well, I think. Well, so herein lies the gray area of this, of this dialogue, and I appreciate the chance to describe it. I think there's overreach and I think a lot of people feel that there's overreach. Honestly, in hindsight, I care less about the Maduro extraction because he's clearly a bad guy. And you know, this is very personal for me because my nephew is on USS Ford, he's a Naval intel officer, and he was very much a part of the whole growler part. And I'm, I'm extremely proud of him, but I'm also concerned about him.

A (31:42)

And so it's a good, it's an, it's a good debate, but I live in a real world and I know it's going to happen. And Trump is not going to lose any of these things at all because of the national polling battle.

E (31:55)

When it comes to ice, when it comes to ice, only 28% of the people are sort of agreeing with the narrative that the ICE agent was justified in shooting.

A (32:02)

Well now, now if he has injuries, that that polling is going to change. But even if it doesn't change, all right, Trump is basically saying this, and I'll give you the last word on it. My job, I was elected to protect the American people and I'm going to do it. And I am not going to submit to some theoretical process when I believe I have the authority to take out people like Maduro, the Muellers, people who are threats to this country. And that's his mindset. And the only way you constrain it is the Supreme Court. That's the only way says no. And the courts of federal courts said no to guard in LA and other places Oregon. All right. And Trump pulled them back. Last word.

E (32:50)

I think you're being very generous. If I don't think a lot of people feel like mullahs in Iran pose a direct threat to their lives. I think billions to terror groups.

A (33:00)

Billions to terror groups.

E (33:03)

I'm telling you, I think geopolitically they are a huge threat and they should be extracted. And you and I agree with largely on the foreign policy there. I'm talking about politically. I don't think a lot of people in Overland Park, Kansas, where I grew up, see that as a perfect threat. I also think that a lot of people want immigrants who are illegals extracted from our nation, but they don't want to see mass ICE agents invading homes without a search warrant. They don't want to see protesters shot.

A (33:27)

I'll see that point. That ICE has to tighten it up a little bit and has to be more give more of an explanation. All right, Colby, very good debate, very lively. I want everybody to read your column on media. Thanks for taking the time. Okay, be good Pins, right? Or I'm good. Whatever. There's be good. Right. So these are at the Golden Globes, which the ratings for the Golden Globes are catastrophically low. And that was expected, but there are the pins. So I said to my staff, where do these pits come from? You know, I can't like go to CVS and buy them. So they came from the aclu. Of course they did move on. Other far left organizations, they sent out blasts on their social media to the far left. People said, hey, we're going to be at certain Golden Globe events. We'll have the pins. You come over, you can get them. That's how it happened. And that's my point. This stuff isn't organic. This stuff is real well organized against ICE and President Trump. All right, so Iran, it's tottering and we don't have great information because they blacked out all the Internet and everything like that. But we do know that there are bodies, that the mullahs are killing people and the army, but we don't know exactly what. And this is a lot like what happened last summer when Trump bombed the nuclear facility inside Iran. Anything could happen at any time. And when I was speaking to the president about this, I said, Just me, U.S. military, if you can tip it, I would do it in a heartbeat. But we don't need to have any displays of power. We've already done that. But if you can get them out of there by using military power, I would absolutely do it. They are awful and they are still funding terrorism worldwide. Iran, I mean, 3 billion. A Hezbollah in the last year. 3 billion. Come on. All right, so we're on this. We're watching it very, very closely. Smart life. So the way that I raised my kids was simple. I kept everything simple as I just challenged the doctor. There was no whataboutism. There was none of that. Okay? It was like, okay, what's the circumstance? What did you do? Why did you do it? All right, I believe in simple parenting, straightforward parenting, and always telling your children the truth. Always. Even if the truth hurts. Now, there's a survey from the Action Network about lying in America. 3,000Americans surveyed, and it found out that 59% of Americans lie at least once per week. Weak men lie more than women. Georgia is the biggest state for lies. Now, I don't believe any of it, okay? I don't believe Georgia is the biggest lying state because they don't back it up very well. The survey. You see people's opinion. All right? I probably say men would lie more than women. Yeah, I probably believe that. But what's a lie? If you're selling somebody, they look nice when they're kind of dubious. I don't think that's a lie. A lie is an intentional deception to gain advantage. That's a lie, okay? In the commandments, it's bear false witness to hurt somebody, and then you might get an advantage over hurting. That's what a lie is. I think most people do lie when they get in trouble, and some lie for convenience. But I'll tell you what. It's risky. If I am in the presence of someone who lies, then they're gone. I don't count to that. They're gone, out of my life. See you. And I always tell my kids, just do the right thing. Then you don't have to lie. And if you don't know what the right thing is, call that and we'll discuss it. I won't tell you what it is. I'll lead you there. Okay, we'll discuss it. What is the right thing to do? Because you got to make those decisions. All of us have to make those decisions every day. What's the right thing to do? And a lot of it's hard, complicated. I like the pen, paper thing. So your pros and cons. But if you do the right thing, even if it's going to inconvenience you, okay, then you'll have to lie. So say the boss comes up and goes, hey, how's your. How's your department running and you know it's not running well, and you go, oh, it's great. That's a lie. And you're telling it for your advantage. You're trying to prop yourself up. But then the boss, three days later finds out that it's absolute chaos in your department. Then what do you do? Okay, so I don't believe this survey, but I do believe there's way too much lying going on, not only in the United States, but in the world. All right, here is a final thought of the day. So we do hundreds, probably hundreds of concierge requests a week. Concierge membership, bill o'reilly.com. you get a special email, you got a problem, you want more information, whatever you want. We'll try to make your life better. A lot of times we need more information from people writing in. So I'm getting hosed by this one. And they're doing this to me. And the breakdown is that a lot of people, when we say, okay, we're ready to go, we're ready to help you send the names and the numbers of the people you've been dealing with who are giving you a hard time and we'll contact them. About 30% don't they don't they just don't reply to us? It's so strange. You know, the old adage is the Lord helps those who help themselves. More information you can compile about people doing the wrong thing to you or your family, the easier it is for us to correct that wrong. Thank you for watching and listening to the no Spin News. See you tomorrow.