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Bill O'Reilly (0:12)
It's 100 degrees in New York City, in the suburbs and area. Some dome heat thing. I have no idea. A lot of whining, a lot of whining about it. You guys In Texas, Arizona, 100 degrees. Ah, you know, but here it is very, very intense. So you turn on local news and about 25 out of the 30 minutes is the weather, and ABC Network News does that, too. So the weatherman comes out and goes, it's hot. Yeah, we know. And then have to drink a lot of fluids. Yeah, we know. And then if you're on fire, you call 91 1. It's just so banal. Word of the day. Banal. It's just unbelievable. Like, who doesn't know this? Anyway, I'm getting away from the news component of the day, but we have plenty of that for you. And the political world is very hot. Harden upon as a subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So these are tough days for the Democratic Party. They really don't know how to handle the Iranian bombing. Okay? So most of them have kept quiet. There's no leadership. The zealots, far left. Of course, they don't like it because they don't like anything Trump's going to do and that's that. But the party has no plan B. So when you're going to criticize someone, it is responsible to have an improvement. And this is in your personal life, too. If you're going to give somebody some jazz, say, look, this might be better. Democrats have none of that for anything. They have nothing, you know, on the budget, they, oh, don't cut Medicaid. All right, $37 trillion debt. What. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. They don't have anything on Iran? Oh, no, no. You have to consult and you look at them. Oh, what's plan B? Okay, how long you want to give the mullahs? Six months, six years going on for decades. No plan. All right, so I got to run down what they're saying for you, and I will do some commentary on on the back of it. First, our pal Senator Adam Schiff from California. Go.
Bernard Goldberg (2:49)
So a lot of risks here for.
Bill O'Reilly (2:51)
The country, which, you know, is the reason why you come to Congress in the first place, is the reason why our Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war, not the president. Now, the woman on CNN interviewing him, Cassie Hunt found, failed to say to Schiff, and this is journalism 101. I mean, this is not anything hard. Well, that may be true in theory, but the War Powers act gives the President, 60 days to unilaterally use military action in situations. Did you not know that, Senator? And Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, they used bombing without any consultation to Congress whatsoever. Were you unaware of that, congressman? But instead, Ms. Hunt just sits there. Now, I don't want to criticize her. I don't watch her enough to know whether she's good or bad. But when you're doing a Top Flight interview undermining the President of the United States military action, you have a responsibility to your audience to be skeptical of what, you know Schiff is going to say. You know he's going to attack it. And then you say, senator, what would you have done? Pretty precisely, we don't want any general. Well, diploma. What would you have done? No, none of that comes. And it doesn't come because CNN doesn't want that kind of exposition. They bring on Schiff. They know Schiff is going to criticize Trump and that's what they want. They don't want balance. They don't want two sides. Okay? Second one is the ardent socialist, perhaps a communist. I'm not sure yet. Bernie Sanders is a communist. No doubt in my mind he would seize your property. Warren, I'm not sure which. He's absolutely a fanatical progressive and a socialist. Here's what she says. Go. Trump has launched the United States into another potentially endless war in the Middle East. Bombing another country is an act of war. The Constitution is clear. If there is no immediate threat to Americans, to our service members or to the homeland, the president has no law, legal authority to order our troops to strike another country. None. War with Iran will not make us safer. Well, she's reading that at a pro abortion rally, by the way. She can't get enough abortion. Elizabeth Warren can't get enough. Okay. But anyway, she says things that are just factually incorrect. And of course, somebody. So there is no immediate threat to Americans. Well, I believe that a hostile nation that has a policy of killing Jews and Americans stated policy, okay, Having an atomic bomb, a nuclear weapon might be a threat. Now, there are a lot of people who just don't believe it because they don't want to believe it. They don't want to believe Mossad, they don't want to believe US intel. They don't and they won't. But the UK, MI6, every intelligence agency, and they have droves of people inside Iran, okay, say, look, these guys were really close to enriching enough uranium to make that bomb quickly. But Elizabeth Warren doesn't care about that. Wouldn't even Consider it. Because she doesn't want to consider it breaks her bubble. So these are irresponsible people. Now, what did Barack Obama say about the bombing? That would be nothing. How about Joe Biden? No, Joe didn't weigh in. How about Kamala Harris? No, these are supposed to be the leaders of the Democratic Party. So if I'm the leader of the Democratic Party. All right, number one, it would be much more competitive than it is now and much more sane. Here's what I would say. We support the President's military action against Iran because he's the commander in chief and we support our troops, but we have reservations. But now is not the time. He has made his decision, and we're going to support the action because we are pro American. We're not rooting for Iran. And then afterward, if we believe it was not the right thing to do, certainly come forth with a better plan. If the leadership of the Democratic Party were to do that, then people would take it seriously. Who takes the Democratic Party seriously now? Other than the loons, the zealots, the hate Trumpers? Who? Nobody. It's the lowest ebb in modern times. Harry Truman, fdr. There's nobody close to that. Jfk, there's nobody close. Okay, finally, nobody knows about the ceasefire. It could blow up tomorrow. Trump's cursing at Israel and stuff. You know, these are volatile countries. You can't trust them. They'll do what they think is best for whatever. The Muellers are a theocracy in Israel. They know that the Jews are in danger from these people. So Trump can't control that 100%. America has a lot of power with Israel, so the ceasefire will happen. But will it hold? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. And then what happens after the ceasefire? Are there more peace talks? I don't know. I do know this, that Iran is so weak it can't close the Straits of Hormuz or do anything. It can't. When it signaled to the USA that it was going to send rockets into our bases, it actually told us, the mullahs told us before they fired him. What does that tell you? Don't hurt me anymore. We'll give you a tip. We got to do this for show. And that's what they did. And that's a memo. All right, now let's get to some polling. CNN poll. 1030 adults, no registered voters, no likely voters. Democrat, 28. Republican, 28. Another party, 44. All right, what is your view of the U.S. decision to take military action? Iran approved, 44. Disapprove, 56. Second question. Do you think the U.S. military action will make Iran more of a threat? 58 less of a threat. 27. How much do you trust Donald Trump to make the right decision about the US use of force in Iran? Great deal. Moderately. 45 not much. 55. Now I don't believe his poll. I think it's a push poll. And I called. I didn't call, but my producers called John McLaughlin, the Republican pollster who is very accurate and honest and he said the same thing. The tip off is adult respondents, not likely voters or registered voters. So you're getting in that crew people who don't know anything. Let's face it, the US economy is under stress, national debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax Advantage Gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401k tax and penalty free with billions in precious metals delivered, thousands of five star reviews and an A plus from the Better Business Bureau. You can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866-326-5576 or text Bill to 998899 again, that's 866-326-5576, or text Bill to 998899. What is daddication? The thing that drives me every day as a dad is Dariona. 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. I want him to be able to sit back one day and go, we work together. We did a good job. That's dadication. Find out more@fatherhood.gov brought to you by the U.S. department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council. They don't know. And I'm going to back that up with another poll in a moment. And when you talk to people who don't know why something's happening or even that it is happening, you're going to get a skewed answer, which is what CNN wanted. They wanted this answer. This is easy to do and CNN understands that nobody's going to remember the poll from day to day. So they can do whatever they want to do. So Reuters poll, Reuters, the left wing News Service. Again, 1,139 US adults not registered voters. One question that's key. How closely, if at all, have you been following the Iran, Israel, USA situation? 67% say closely. 32%. We don't know anything about it. Now, that's a lot of people. Okay, 32%. So when you look at this stuff, you have to look at it with a healthy dose of skepticism. I believe, based on analysis and generalized polling, that most people understand a threat that Iran poses. Hoses. Okay. Now, maybe they didn't like the bombing. I don't know that for sure. But I think most people understood why it had to happen. And since there's no plan B, None. You either let them get the bomb or you bomb them. There's no middle. So I think most Americans are fine with it. But. But I'm not positive on that. Okay, so yesterday we said that the House Ethics Committee has to call two people who criticized the Commander in Chief while. While the bombing was underway, the planes were in the air. There would be Congressman Sean Castin of Illinois and the always amusing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York. You cannot undermine a military action when there are US Military people in the field conducting. You cannot do that. So we call the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Michael Guest, who is rude to us. Rude. Okay. This guy's from Mississippi. And we had to call him back a number of times. He didn't pick up the phone. His guy, Jordan Downs, did. And they were arrogant and rude. We're not going to tell you anything. Okay? You want to go that way? We'll make you a hobby, Congressman Guest. We'll make you a hobby here. So here's what I said about the Ethics Committee. Go. The House Ethics Committee have got to call Congressman Sean Kasten and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. While our military people were in the air, they called for the impeachment of the Commander in Chief. Okay? They got to go up before the Ethics Committee, and I'm going to make sure that happens. Okay, so now we have a conundrum because the head of the Ethics Committee citing confidentiality. That's bull. All right, So I can't talk to you. Yeah, you can. I don't know what game you're playing, Mr. Guest, but we're going to watch you. Now you're on our scope. I want to try to get somebody else on the committee to come in here and explain this. I do believe that they're going to have to call these two people in front of the Ethics Committee. But I was disappointed with this guy Guest. If you're in his district in Mississippi, you might give him a call. This is ridiculous. It's just totally absurd. All right, predictably, we went over with Cassidy and Ocasio Cortez, they're the fringe, fringe left. But the Democratic Party now is getting into real dicey territory. So a guy named Jeff Merkley, he's a senator from Oregon, he goes on CNN and says this, go. But the reason that that enrichment occurred is because President Trump in his first administration pulled us out of the diplomatic deal with Iran in which they had huge amount of inspections and every path to a nuclear weapon had been blocked through diplomacy, not through war. So it's unfortunate that Trump's decision in his first administration set the scene now for this challenge. And that's the mantra now of the Democratic Party, that Obama was brilliant. It was a brilliant deal. Iran was constrained and Trump just blew it all up. So it's Trump's fault. You heard that from Carville last week on News Nation. I'll be on News Nation at 9:00 tonight. But I told Carville he was full of, you know what, which he is, because he just spouts the propaganda, which this guy did. So. But I want to go on a record with Trump. He issued a statement when he pulled out of the Obama deal. Here's what the statement said, quote, in the years since the deal was reached, Iran's military budget has grown by almost 40%. True. After the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear capable missiles, support terrorism, cause havoc. True. The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in a short period of time. That's speculation, but that's what Trump believed, okay? That's why he pulled out in his first term. So you can decide whether that was a wise move or not. But to say that everything would be swell with Iran if Trump had not pulled out of the deal is absurd. Okay? Did you miss October 7th there, pal? Merkley, did you miss that? All right, who dissented on the Republican side? Here they are, as usual. Congressman Massie, Kentucky Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Rand Paul, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. They're the biggest names on the Republican side who are dissenting. We have Eric Bolling tomorrow night. He is ascending somewhat, has to come up against me. Don't miss that. Europe, you know, Europe is, you know, I'm gonna get into this on YouTube, but the only Guy that really stood up is Starmer, the PM of Great Britain. And he said, yeah, you know, we know it had to be done. The rest of them are, Germany wasn't as weasel as, but Macron was really a weasel. So we'll get into all of that. Stock market is shaky. You know, it goes hour to hour. What can I tell you? That's why I told you two weeks ago, you got spec stocks, sell them. I did. I shouldn't give you financial advice. So let me rephrase it. I sold my spec stocks. It's too risky in this day and age. Dividend, big companies, long time holdings, fine speculation, no looking out for you. Here's a story that has gone almost totally unreported. Pakistan is nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Because you remember in May, India and Pakistan almost at war because it was a terror attack in Kashmir and the death toll was 46. Okay. And they were shooting each other and all of that. It's the ethnic war. Trump stepped in and calmed it down. Do you know that? Did you hear this, reported that Pakistan is nominating him the Nobel Peace Prize. I didn't. My astute producer picked it up. Okay. Joining us now from North Carolina is the purveyor, bernardgoldberg.com and I checked that out and I am very busy. So bernardgoldberg.com I check in. So you say you support the action, but you're not a big Trump fan. So explain that to me.