Dr. John Goodman (11:38)

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Bill O'Reilly (12:06)

Okay, I'm going to give you two examples. Here is the softest of the soft To Kamala Harris from Bill Whitaker. Go. Let's shift gears here. Most basic of questions why do you want to be President of the United States? There are many reasons, but probably first and foremost I truly believe in the promise of America. I do. And I love the American people. You know, we are a people who have ambition and aspirations and dreams and optimism and hope. Please. Number one, she loves the American people. She doesn't love me. She doesn't love the MAGA people, doesn't love Trump. She doesn't love anybody who opposes her. Now, Whitaker just sat there and let her go on and on about her love for the people and hope and aspiration. This is not an interview. It's not the way it's done. You've been watching me for almost 30 years. You know how an interview on television should be done. This is gibberish. Okay? Now, let's be fair to Whitaker. He's been around a long time. I don't know him. Here's a hard question. He asked go. You were for Medicare for all. Now, you're not so many that people don't truly know what you believe or what you stand for. And I know you've heard that. In the last four years, I have been Vice president, United States, and I have been traveling our country, and I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus. More gibberish, okay? And when the interview subject descends into that kind of banality, the interviewer, me or Whitaker, has got to jump in and go, wait a minute. I asked you why you change your opinion on Medicare. Can you answer that? Madam, you don't let them just go all over the place. Oh, the interview was a softball. Now, here's the worst thing. Even if that went to court, I don't think Trump would have won the Kamala Harris thing, all right? Because they would have said, ah, it's different interpretations. You can't prove there's malice. But here's how you can prove it. One name Scott Pelley got. Pelley is, I think, the Senior Correspondent on 60 Minutes Now. All right? He hates Donald Trump. Remember his college graduate? He despises the man. And story after story, after all you got to do is parade Pelly in there. I mean, it was so outrageous. The last one he did, Mark Elias, was a top attorney for Hillary Clinton who ginned up the Russian collusion fraud, and Pelly sainted him, canonized him on 60 Minutes, and used him as a cudgel to hit Trump without even telling the audience who Elias was. Don't tell me that CBS is a responsible news agency. It is not. I worked there when it was responsible. So anyway, they got to pay Trump 16 million, probably more. All right. Join us now, Dr. John Goodman from Dallas, Texas. He is a senior fellow with the Independent Institute, a non profit, nonpartisan public policy research group. So first of all, Doctor, am I making any mistakes in my analysis?

Ryan Reynolds (16:28)

No, I don't think you are. I think what this bill reflects is that Donald Trump is probably the best marketer in politics today. And it's very obvious that he wants to connect with blue collar families. And when you hear him talk about it, he says no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. That's the way he describes it. In fact, none of those taxes are really going away. What's happening here is there is a small tax break for people with moderate incomes and it goes away in four years. But it's a terrific way for Donald Trump and the Republican Party to connect with people who used to vote for Democrats.

Bill O'Reilly (17:11)

Okay, but $25,000 on tips deductible, that's significant for the service industry people. It's absolutely significant. And it goes away in four years. Let's hope that it doesn't go away because those people need all the assistance they can get. But overall, the American public, and I'm going to do this right after we wrap this interview with you, has a negative view of this bill because they haven't been told the truth about it. And you know, I got millions of viewers. Dr. All over the world. But it's, you know, there are 365 million people in America right now counting illegal aliens. And they hear this stuff. They're not paying attention, many of them. And, oh, they're going to cut Medicaid and Medicare. They're going to cut this, they're going to cut that. This is a concerted, propagandistic effort to undermine what Trump wants to do. Am I wrong?

Ryan Reynolds (18:07)

No, you're right. The public is being lied to about how the income tax system actually works. And Republicans have done a very, very poor job of defending themselves. Now, the way our system works is the rich are not getting away with not paying their fair share. In fact, the rich pay almost all the income taxes. The bottom half of the income distribution pays 2 or 3% of all income taxes. They pay almost nothing. The top 1% are paying 40% of income taxes top. 10% pay 75% top. So we have the most progressive tax system in the whole world, far more progressive than any European country. And why is it that way? Because of Republican tax legislation. Every time the Republicans have legislated, they've thrown more and more people off the tax rolls and Republicans never brag about it. They never go out and say, look, the reason half the people aren't paying the income taxes is because of us. You never hear them say that. So they have shifted the burden to the rich, and they don't want to tell you that. And the Democrats lie about it, okay?

Bill O'Reilly (19:13)

But the Republican, their basic philosophy is lower taxes and the wealthy because we're in a transitional age into high tech. All right? There are plenty more billionaires than they used to be, just as there were at the 20th century. You know, that turn of the 20th century with Rockefeller and Morgan and all those people, with these big colossus corporations taking over the infrastructure of the United States. I write about it in Confronting Evil, which is beyond September. I mean, some of these people, they call them the robber barons, were as evil as they come because there was a transition and they got fabulously wealthy. The same transition is taking place, or has been for the last 20 years, into technology and the founders of Apple and all these people, gazillions of dollars, because that's happening. But the Republican Party doesn't want to punish them. It doesn't want to confiscate what they have earned or in some cases inherited. Am I wrong on that?

Ryan Reynolds (20:16)

Well, a little bit. Again, what the Republican Party has done is shift the burden of taxation to the upper part of the income distribution.

Bill O'Reilly (20:24)

Which would be that Democrats didn't do.

Ryan Reynolds (20:27)

That, Republicans did that. And through every single time they legislated, they threw more people off the tax rolls and shifted the burden. Well, let's take the 2017 first Trump tax cut. What did it do after it passed? We were told that was a tax cut for billionaires. Right. And within a few years, we find out that the top 1% have a greater share of the tax burden than they did before the bill was passed. So that's pretty much the way tax law has gone. And Republicans don't talk about it, all right?

Bill O'Reilly (21:01)

Because most of the voters are not wealthy people. And both parties want those voters support. And it's not only that they don't pay any taxes. Doctor, as you well know, federal government sends millions of Americans money. If they don't, you know, reach a certain threshold of income, they get to get checks in a form of tax credits. And so you're right. But I think that the philosophy is Democrats tax up to here, have the government run the economy, socialism, Republicans lower the taxes as much as possible, even for the big corporations, and let capitalism run. That's what I think the two philosophies are last Word.

Ryan Reynolds (21:48)

That's certainly the way they talk about it. But in reality, we have a very progressive tax system. Republicans have created it and they don't explain it very well.

Bill O'Reilly (21:57)

All right, Doc, we appreciate it very much. Thank you again. We'll see if this bill passes in the House. Can be a brawl. Pretty interesting situation. We should know by this time next week if we do have a new spend and tax bill. Now, As I mentioned, CNN's propaganda is now at a record level and they don't like the bill at all. There isn't one corporate entity outside of FOX that supports this bill. Just tells you, you know, where they are as far as their politics is concerned. Here's what was said on CNN last night about the big bill. Go.

Ryan Reynolds (22:42)

I'll give you some adjectives. How about awful, horrible, and to quote Our dear friend, Mr. Sir Charles Barclay, terrible, terrible, terrible. What are we talking about here? Well, why don't we take a look at the big, beautiful bill. I got four, five, five, not just four, five different polls across the screen for you. This is the net favorable rating. The highest rating comes from the Washington Post at -19 points.

Bill O'Reilly (23:06)

Okay. I mean, I'm not arguing the numbers. I know what people hear constantly every day and they do not hear the truth. Which is why I'm so happy that you are watching and listening to me right now because we will always tell you the truth. Always. All right, American Pride. New poll. Gallup, just in time for the Fourth of July. How proud are you to be an American? Extremely, very proud. 58. Moderately. Only a little proud. 30. Not at all proud. 9. Now that extremely, very proud number is down 23 points in 10 years. So in 2015, 81% of Americans were extremely or very proud, and that is because of President Trump, the polarizing effect that he has had. Second question to Republicans. How proud of you to be an American? 92% of Republicans say they're proud to be an American. Democrats 36%. Independence. 53. This is extremely, very proud.

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Bill O'Reilly (25:40)

So there you go. Democrats, they do not like the country right now because of maga. The MAGA people overwhelmed them. Kamala is not president. Thank God. That would have been an unmitigated disaster because coming off Biden, the second worst president ever and again confronting the president's documents, it. There you go. Now, on Friday, Supreme Court ruled against judge shopping. What is this? So when Donald Trump got into office, and this is the message of the day on BillORiley.com, which is different from the column, okay, Donald Trump got into office, he wrote a bunch of executive orders trying to overturn the, the Biden executive orders of four years ago. When Biden opened the border and did all that, Republicans did not challenge a lot of that in federal court. They groused about it and complained about it, but they didn't go around and try to undermine executive orders en masse. That's not what they did. Democrats did. So the Democrats would go to Washington State or Massachusetts or California, one of those, find a judge they knew would rule in a liberal way against Trump, and then they slap on a national injunction so some pinhead judge in Sacramento could stop an entire executive order for the entire country. Now, I knew this was insane, and so did you. I'm sure you did. Here's what I said on June 4. Go. So the founding father said, we're going to give the president the power to issue executive orders to protect the people and the people's treasury, not to abuse the people. That's what executive orders are supposed to be. Now, they are subject to review from the judiciary, but now that's being abused to the highest level in our history. And Supreme Court has to rule on it. And they, I assume they will this month because after the end of June, they take three months off. I assume that they're going to rule and knock this crazy stuff out to some extent. Hello, Nostradamus. That's me. But it wasn't a hard prediction. Okay? But everything I said came true on Friday, 6, 3 ruling, okay? The justices had limited the use of nationwide injunctions. Okay? They said that if you're a judge and somebody comes and files a petition, you can hear that case, the single case, if the person's in your jurisdiction, but you can't issue a national pause or anything else. So the left went crazy. And the three liberal judges, and look, I'm not going to disparage the liberal judges because there are conservative judges and they vote ideology sometimes, too, with the liberal judges had no constitutional basis. So here's what Amy Comey Barrett Supreme Court justice who ruled the majority opinion wrote the majority opinion I should see. Here's what she said. Quote, we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this. Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary. All right, so Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by Biden, is probably more liberal than Sotomayor, definitely more than Kagan. And she would, you know, okay, you can't stop this and all that. And the six other judges said, this is crazy. That's not what the founders had in mind. And certainly it isn't. All right? But Judge Jackson doesn't care because she views her job as advancing a cause, a liberal cause. But again, some conservatives feel that way, too, in my opinion, my humble opinion. All right, this is an ongoing battle over the Constitution being used for political purposes. But there's no doubt it was in this case now on cable tv, which is sunk into the morass. I don't think it'll ever come out of it. It was predictable. Go. I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer.

Ryan Reynolds (30:30)

And I just want to quote it.

Bill O'Reilly (30:31)

Because I think she was right when she said it. It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks. Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a Democratic president. Now she voted against the decision on Friday. Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are a hack. What the Supreme Court has done, and again, stacked largely by these Trump appointees, is ceding their power under the Constitution, in fact, their responsibility as a judicial branch. They're ceding that to Donald Trump, who is a lawless president. Oh, what a bunch of bull that is now, the original executive order that sparked all this was President Trump's intention to say no more birth. Right. Okay. So if you are born here, you are not automatically a citizen. That's what President Trump wanted to do. Now, the Supreme Court did not rule on that, and I don't think they're going to rule in Trump's favor. Okay. It's clear in the Constitution that those words are there. If a person is born in the United States, that person is a citizen. Doesn't matter how they got here. Not a lot of. There's no footnotes. So Senator Van Hollen, who's, you know, about as far left as you get, he's going to be proved wrong, because I don't think the Supreme Court's going to knock that out of the Constitution. It may be possible they might attach a few things to for review of it. But anyway, that has been paused for 30 days. And since the court doesn't come back to late September, it'll, I think the pause will be extended. And that's a memo. Another ruling. On Friday, Montgomery County, Maryland, parents sued in federal court saying, look, if the schools in Montgomery county are going to teach about gay stuff and they're going to promote LBGTQ stuff, then we want to kids to be out of the classroom because we don't believe that on religious grounds. Okay. And again, the justices ruled six, three, same thing, that, yeah, if you're a religious person who does not believe that the gay lifestyle is accepted by your religion, your kid doesn't have to listen to that. Common sense. Right? I believe so. They're not banning the lesson. They're giving the parents a right to take the kid out when that happens. Okay. So the left, of course, went nuts. Go.

Ryan Reynolds (33:23)

Right. Now, this looks like it affects only books with LGBTQ characters, but it very well might extend to science and evolution and, and all the other things that for some reason are up for debate in this day and age that, that are rooted in science and understanding. But it very well might upend what we think of as public education.

Bill O'Reilly (33:50)

Yeah, I'm not worried. Okay. I don't think you're going to be imposing evolution on the kids in the classroom. Both should be discussed, though. You know, why not, why not discuss the biblical point of view? Say, look, there are some fundamentalist religious people who believe Adam and Eve were there and they. Which, you know, the snake was chasing them around. There's nothing wrong with that. Okay. You don't say it's fact. I mean, but you know, how it is what this is all about. This ruling is all about is there are many states, Maryland, at the top of the list, that want to impose liberal doctrine on the students. That's what they want. Okay, I guess there are some states that want to impose conservative doctrine. Maybe Louisiana, because they had the 10 commandment thing. But the liberal states are real active in this. All right, this isn't funny. South of the border, Mexico remains out of control, getting worse over the weekend. Okay? 20 bodies are found in Sinaloa. 4 headless corpses hanging from a bridge. Of course. I mean, this is just a regular weekend. Okay? 27 murders on one day. June 29th, Sunday. Okay? Everybody's supposed to be in church. Mexico's Catholic country. 29 murders, one day in Sinaloa. That's one province. Okay, President, Mexico can't control it. Here was a statement from the Mexican government, though. Military and police forces are working together to reestablish total peace in Sinaloa. Yeah, okay. How long has that been going on now? What, 20 years? You can't or won't stop the killing. The drug cartels control the country. What is daddication? The thing that drives me every day as a dad is Dariana. We call him Dae Date for short. Every day he's hungry for something, whether it's attention, affection, knowledge. And there's this huge responsibility in making sure that when he's no longer under my wing that he's a good person. 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Nor would her predecessor, Obra Dorr, who I believe, and I could be wrong, had a little arrangement with the cartels. Let's put it that way. Okay, Chimeaum, have that. I don't know, not trying to save any lives so far in this year. First six months. Okay, 11,121 murders in Mexico. It's the most dangerous country in the world. 11,121. That doesn't count the thousands of people who just vanished. Okay, the crocodiles ate them or something. I don't. But they're dead. Hey, Claudia, wise up. Smart life. So this is an interesting story. When Covid hit and people were off the streets, you weren't banned from going out. Okay, you just had to wear a mask or whatever. But very few people comparatively did go out. Most people cliche alert, sheltered in place. Those who went out on the highways drove like 150 miles an hour because there was anybody on highways that has now carried over to post Covid. If you go on a Long island expressway where I live, you got dangerous people going 100 miles an hour more, weaving in and out of traffic. So much so that there is a public outcry here in New York about it. So Allstate has ranked the safest cities for driving and the unsafest cities. Let's go with the safe cities. First. The safest place to drive an automobile, a vehicle in the USA is Brownsville, Texas. Isn't that a shocker on the border? Boise, Idaho. Fort Collins, Colorado. Cary, North Carolina. Laredo, Texas. Another border town, Olathe, Kansas. Scottsdale, Arizona. Port St. Lucie, Florida. Madison, Wisconsin. Eugene, Oregon. Interesting group. Here are the most dangerous. Boston by far. Because Boston, you cannot drive in the town. They don't have street signs. The town hasn't changed its grid since Samuel Adams and John Hancock. And narrow streets everywhere. Nobody knows where they're going. Don't drive there. D.C. second, I don't really know why. Baltimore, third. Worcester, Mass. Why Worcester, Mass. Would be fourth? I don't know. Springfield, Mass. I guess they're not. They're just not enforcing the traffic laws in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Glender, California. Suburb of la LA itself. Oakland, Providence, Rhode Island. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. New York City's not on the list because people aren't crazy enough to drive in New York city anymore. Number one, it costs you like 50 bucks to do that. And number two, it's insane. You're just going to sit there. That's why it's not on the list. Now here's a Smart Life tip. Most of us have to drive. We're going to encounter people who are insane on the road. You can't react. And to me that's the hardest thing. I really want to whack them I really do. Road rage. I don't, I don't know what you call it. Can't. Can't. So somebody tailgating you, you pull over, let the idiot go by. Somebody weaving in and out. I try to get the plate number, okay? And if I see a cop or something, I give them the cop. But that never. What they should have is drones photographing these cars. And they will, they have to. And get these people charged them with felonies, reckless endangerment. That's what I charge them with here in New York. They are impounding the cars now. Good. Smart life. Okay. Donald Trump, in addition to putting migrants in the Everglades, bombing the Iranians and basically telling California to go blank yourself, has a new fragrance out. It's true. 249 bucks gets you 3.3 ounces of victory. 45, 47. Fragrance. Here is how it is described. It's for men with rich, masculine notes and women, a perfume was sophisticated, subtly feminine scent. Okay, so Trump selling the cologne and perfume. Now, this is a venture by cic, which is a corporation owned by Donald Trump. I think he had to put this someplace when he was reelected president. His kids control the Trump Organization that are probably controlling this. 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