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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - May 2, 2025
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Bill O'Reilly
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Donald Trump
This was a tough booking. President Trump is very busy and he works hard. He and I. He's three years older than I am and we have a work ethic, okay? I take more time off than Donald Trump. Donald Trump only plays golf. He doesn't have any other hobbies. I have a bunch. And as I said, he gave his 25 minutes and you know it. When you hear the clips, just focus in on the difference. If you watch that ABC fiasco on Tuesday, I mean, that went nowhere, got nothing. It just, they just don't get it. They don't know how to interview the man. But anyway, he did, I think, out of friendship to me. Give us the 25 minutes on Wednesday evening. Now, we began with the polling, which is, you know, at this point in history because of the stock market, and that's what it's about. And the tariffs, not looking good for Donald Trump. Roll the tape. So a series of rough polls this week, and I'm wondering how you process that. Do you. Does it hurt your feelings when you see numbers come in that are not what you'd like them to be.
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Well, first of all, they're fake polls. And if you take a look at the polls, they interviewed more, and for the most part, they interviewed more Democrats than they did Republicans, which is ridiculous and unfair. And Democrats aren't voting for Trump. And you look at him, John McLaughlin, who's the most respected pollster, said, I'm at 50, 55 and maybe even higher than that. And he said that these polls are largely fake. When you say, am I bothered by it? If I was, I'd be really helped by the fact that in the election, we won in a landslide. We won the popular vote, we won the swing states, we won the districts, 2,750 to about 505. And the election took place just a short while ago, November 5th.
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I think what's different now, Mr. President, what's different now is the tariffs. And that's what's driving your numbers down, that some people are panicking because the stock market is so up and down, in and out. Would you agree that that has been a perception problem? The tariffs?
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Yeah, But I'm an honest guy and I. We have to save the country. We were losing $5 billion a day with this man that we had as a president, the auto pen president. Nobody even knows who the president was. We're losing. Think of it, we're losing $5 billion a day, and a big chunk of it was from China.
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Okay, so are the polls fake? Some of them are. McLaughlin is a very good pollster. So I didn't hear what he. I don't think he said that publicly to President Trump, but I know John did meet with him. There's a new poll out today I'm going to give you that is pretty interesting. And it's different than the polls that have him way down. So you can't say to Donald Trump, well, no, the polls are fair. They're not fair. I mean, I've told you, the polling at Fox News is terrible. The polling at npr, pbs done by Marist College, is disgraceful. It's awful. Okay? Anybody buying that poll is buying a fraud. And this is based on what their poll numbers were, not only for this election last November, but on and on, okay? They're awful. And whenever you ask Donald Trump about the wobble which is in his administration now, which is the tariffs, he falls back on. He has to do it. He didn't have to do it. As he pointed out later in the interview, no other president took it on in modern times because they knew it was so Risky, but he's doing the right thing on paper in a trillion dollar trade deficit here. And that's outrageous. So this is undefined. And that's why some people who once supported the president now a little scared about it. Okay. The second one is also about economics, because that is the key. President Trump has succeeded on the border. He succeeded in the deportation area. I believe that he'll succeed overseas. But economically is a big question mark. Roll it. When do you think, though, it's going to turn around economically so that people aren't frightened? Do you have a timeline on it?
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Yeah, I mean, it's a very fair question. Building plants, building equipment, building so much right now. You probably heard it could be 8 trillion. It could be more than $8 trillion of new investments. Outside in one of my offices, waiting for me is the President and chairman of Eli Lilly. And I had, I just left you take a look. IBM was here today. IBM was here. They're spending billions of dollars. I had some of the biggest, the biggest Apple, as you know, is spending $500 billion building their plants. And they've already started in the United States. As you know, they built most of them in China. We had the biggest companies in the world. I had a conference here just about an hour and a half ago. And some of the people are still here. They remain. Some of the people are watching your show tonight, but they're spending. It could be a close. I think we're over $8 trillion of new investment. That's unheard of.
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But the folks don't see it. They don't see it. And they do see their statements, stock market statements, bonds and all that every day. And that's the problem. Now, I'm not doubting what the President is saying. I believe that he is going to bring in a lot more investment into the United States. I don't know if the tariffs, the amount of money that's coming in from them is going to override the negatives in the market. No one could tell you that with any certainty. And again, people believe what they want to believe. President Trump believes that this is going to turn the economy upward and he's going to be a very successful president, a la Ronald Reagan. That's what he believes. Ronald Reagan believed that he was going to bring down the Soviet Union. Press didn't. Press hammered him for all the defense spending. Donald Trump believes he's going to turn that economy around in a big way, historic way. Okay, now, third soundbite. That picture of Zelensky and Trump at the Vatican, at The Pope's funeral really affected me personally as a journalist. Very unusual roll of tape. What were you and Zelensky talking about when you were nose to nose in the Vatican?
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I was telling him that it's a very good thing if we can produce a deal that you sign it, because Russia is much bigger and much stronger. Russia is just chugging forward. It's a big, strong country, by the way, not nearly as strong as the United States, because I rebuilt our military in my first term. They gave a lot of it away in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is one of the reasons the incompetent. We had an incompetent president, grossly incompetent. He should have never been president, but we had a man that didn't know what the hell he was doing. And Afghanistan showed the stupidity of our. Our leader and. And the weakness of the military. We have a great military. I knocked out ISIS in three weeks.
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You got the deal. You got the deal with Zelensky on the minerals. That means the United States is going to have a presence in Ukraine. Is that going to inhibit Putin, do you think?
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Well, it could, but we. The reason I did that is that we're in for $350 billion or close to it, whereas Europe is only in it for $100 billion.
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So we get some of our investment back. And then the President went on to say that Europe, the EU nations, NATO nations lent Ukraine the money, and we just gave it to them. So he believes that this mineral deal will bring some of that money back to the USA Again, that absolutely could happen. No guarantee, but it could. But the real reason that the United States wanted that deal is because it gives us a presence in Ukraine, an economic presence that has to be guarded. Okay? So if Putin sweeps in to our industries there, that at opposite, big time. All right? Now, the deal they made is not what it seems to be. You have not been told. So Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, doesn't reimburse the usa. It allows the USA preferential rights to harvest minerals. All right? And they're there, but we don't know exactly where they are, the minerals. And the agreement says a future military assistance to Ukraine will count as an investment. Okay, so there'll be a fund set up to get reimbursed. What Trump wants to do is he'll give Ukraine the money, but he wants them to pay it back in the form of mineral sales. And I think that's a fairly good deal. All right, so that's what happened. Now, finally, it was a pretty intense interview, and I'll tell you where you can see it all in a moment. So I wanted to use some levity. I want it, you know, because you don't want to, you don't want to leave everybody. All right, roll it. Let's face it, the US Economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile China is dumping the 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 advantaged gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401 tax and penalty free. With billions in precious metals delivered, thousands of five star reviews and an A 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 8663265576 or text BILL to 998999.
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Donald Trump
Okay. Stephen A. Smith may run for president, as you know. Do you have any advice for Stephen A. If he launches the run?
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No. Stephen A. Is, he's a good guy. He's a smart guy. I love watching him. He's got great entertainment skills, which is very important. People watch him. You know, a lot of these Democrats I watch, I say they have no chance. I've been pretty good at picking people and picking candidates and I will tell you, I'd love to see him run.
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No. There you go. Now, will he run? At this point? No. But who knows? Three and a half years down the road, Trump has opened the door for every populist candidate. So we are very grateful President Trump for giving us the time. I'm not one of these arrogant guys. He goes, hey, gotta give it. I told the President when I was booking him that this would be very widely watched all over the world. And the numbers support that. And then over the weekend, you get another surge of people who didn't quite understand what was happening. And I'll give you all the details about where you can see it, if you missed it. So joining us now From Washington is Dr. Charles Kupchan. He is professor at Georgetown University, an expert in foreign relations. He's been everywhere, knows everything. He wrote a book, Isolationism A History of America's efforts to shield itself from the world. First of all, Doctor, it's very nice to see you. Thank you for helping us out. Did I make any mistakes in my run up to introducing you?
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
No, I think you got it about right. The one comment I would make about Trump in Canada having written a book about isolationism is that we've been here before. We tried repeatedly in the 19th century to either invade Canada or buy Canada from the British, and it failed. And Trump, I think, is looking at a map. He's a real estate mogul. He sees good property up there across our northern border, and he says, I like that. But I completely agree with you that it's backfired. It's turned Canadians into a people that want to stand up to Trump. And in many respects, as you put it, it led to the win of Mark Carney in the Liberal Party, when the Conservatives were actually set to win this election, and. And Trump undercut him.
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Donald Trump
But I don't think Trump cares about internal politics in Ottawa. What he wants is a better trade deal, and I think that's going to happen even with Carney in office.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
I think that's likely. You know, I think the rollout of these tariffs has been chaotic. By the time you and I finish this conversation, policy on Canada, policy, on China, policy and on Mexico may have changed. And that's because the initial rollout, it didn't go over very well. Right. We're looking at a possible trade war. We're looking at a huge hit to the American car industry because parts and cars get passed back and forth across that northern border multiple times as they're being constructed. And so, yeah, I think Trump is getting a lot of negative feedback. The poll numbers are going down. The bond market crashed.
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon
The stock.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
Stock market crashed. He's now recalibrating. So I basically agree with you that we're likely to see trade deals with Canada and perhaps with. With a whole bunch of other countries.
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Donald Trump
I think that'll happen, but it better happen fairly quickly, because once a president gets on the wrong side of the American people, you know, it takes a while to get back on the right side. Now, there was a picture at the Pope's funeral of Trump and Zelensky together, close together in the Vatican. And I continue to believe that there is a good chance that this Ukraine thing will calm down. How do you see it?
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
You know, Trump is doing the right thing by reaching out to Putin. This is not a war that Ukraine is going to win on the battlefield. And I think Biden made a mistake in not having a strategic dialogue with the Russians to try to end the war. And so I think the proposal on the table right now has some real strengths. And one of them is ceasefire in place. The other is that the 20% of Ukraine that is occupied by Russia will, for now, stay in Russian hands. That's just the way it is. That's just a recognition of reality.
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Donald Trump
Right.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
I think what we need to see Trump do now is get behind the Ukrainians to ensure that the 80% of Ukraine that is still free, still controlled by Zelensky in Kiev emerges as a success story. And that's going to take a lot of American support, as well as Trump saying to Putin, hands off. If we end this war, you need to keep your hands off the rest of Ukraine and allow it to prosper as a democracy that's anchored in Europe.
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Donald Trump
Well, that's why they have the mineral deal, because they'll send in US Personnel to mine the minerals, and they don't have to provide security. So. And that deal comes along with the. With the Ukraine, cease fire Iran. So the Iranians continue to. I don't know what their goal is, because in the next three years plus, Donald Trump's never going to let them progress any further on nuclear weapons. And he'll. He'll give the green light for the Israelis to just take out their ports, just blow them up. And the mullahs know that. So I expect there'll be some deal there.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
You know, I think that's. That's probably the case if I look at the various conflicts and negotiations that Trump either is proceeding with or has. US Russia, US China, US North Korea, US Iran. Iran, in some ways, may be the one that's easiest to bring across the finish line. And that's because Iran is as weak today as it's been in decades. And that's simply because Israel has taken down Hamas, taken down Hezbollah. The Syrian regime that was in cahoots with Iran has collapsed. The Houthis are getting hit by the United States, and the Israelis have demonstrated to Iran that they can take out their air defenses at will. So in some ways, Iran is standing there with its pants down. And I think that puts Iran in A position in which a deal is more likely than, than not. We're like three rounds. The fourth round of negotiations is scheduled for this weekend in Oman. The experts are at the table. We're not there yet, but I think there's a good chance we'll get a deal.
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Donald Trump
Yeah, I mean, that's what these polls don't reflect, is that a lot of things, both economically and overseas are going to change. We don't know when. Finally, China. China is the most difficult problem for the United States because Xi and the Chinese government don't care what happens to their people. So if they have to suffer for two years, three years because their markets are soft and their exports drop dramatically, then it's tough. These people are going to suffer and they can't do anything about it because it's a totalitarian state. So Trump doesn't have much leverage there over Xi, or am I missing something?
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
You know, in some ways, I think Trump and Xi are in similar positions. They're both strong willed, they're both playing to the nationalist crowd at home. And they both face a situation in which if these tariffs stick, we're talking like 145%. If they stick, our populations, the Chinese population going to suffer. Folks are going to go to Home Depot and Walmart and Lowe's and they're going to see prices go through the roof. And so I think the fact that both Trump and Xi want to be political successes, they don't want to blow up the global economy, they don't want to lose popular support, that would suggest to me that there is some trade space here. And in the end of the day, I think Trump is more of a, of a transactional president than he is an ideological one.
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Donald Trump
Sure.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
We don't know who's going to blink first, but I do think, or I hope that we get some movement on the trade front because if these tariffs stick, Americans are going to suffer, Chinese are going to suffer, and it risks blowing up the global economy.
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Donald Trump
Well, if we get deals with India and Japan and the EU on trade within the next month, China is going to be under tremendous pressure. So that's the thinking. I know that to be true. Doctor, thanks very much. Underestimate difficulty.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
You know, a normal trade deal takes months, if not years. Trump says 90 days.
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Donald Trump
Right.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
His team has a lot of hard work to do in the, in the days and weeks ahead.
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Donald Trump
Okay. Doctor, thanks very much. We appreciate it. Now, let's go to media madness. So there is a negotiation underway between Donald Trump, which is sued, who has sued CBS News for like $50 billion. Whatever. It's a crazy thing, all right? And the lawsuit is that Trump alleges that CBS News helped Kamala Harris in the campaign. That's a 60 Minutes thing that was edited in a different way. I do believe that 60 Minutes did try to help Kamala Harris. From what? You know, just the facts that I've seen. I believe they did, but I could be wrong, but I don't think I am. Anyway, CBS is owned by Paramount, all right, the big Hollywood outfit. And Paramount wants to sell CBS to an outfit. It's called Sky Dance, all right? Now, Sky Dance is run by Larry Ellison's son. Skydance is a much more conservative outfit than Paramount, cbs. So it's good for Trump if Paramount sells to Skydance. In the meantime, though, there's all this angst. Now Trump despises CBS because of Leslie Stahl. And in an interview on October 25, 2020, way back, way back. This is the tipping point for CBS News. Go.
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I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me. It would be so good. You know what?
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon
You like this.
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Donald Trump
I thought. I thought you liked it. I don't mind it.
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I don't mind it. But when I watch him walk out of a store and he's walking with ice cream and the question the media asks him, what kind of ice cream? What flavor ice cream do you have? And he's in the midst of a scandal.
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
He's not.
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Donald Trump
And he's taking. Of course he is, Leslie.
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Come on.
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Of course he is. It's the biggest, second biggest scandal. The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign.
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There's no real evidence of that.
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Of course there is. It's all over the place. Leslie. They spied on my campaign and they got called.
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Can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes. And we can't put. Put on things we can't verify.
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You won't put it on because it's bad for Biden.
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We can't put on things we can't verify.
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Leslie, they spied on my campaign.
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We can't verify.
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It's been totally verified.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Mike Slater
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Donald Trump
Yeah, it has. And Leslie Slow should have known that the Russian collusion fraud, which was actively being investigated, was zeroing in on the phony FISA warrants, okay, that were signed by FBI people to give the power to surveil Trump's campaign to the FBI. You remember all this. Maybe you don't, because it's confusing. So an FBI lawyer named Kevin Kleinsmith was convicted of giving false information of federal judges to get the phony FISA warrants so the FBI could spy on the Trump election campaign. That's a fact. And the fact that Leslie Stahl had no idea that this was in play is stunning. Now, she could have said, well, it's not been fully adjudicated yet. But to deny the reality of what was happening. And Trump just went through the roof and never, ever forgot that. And remember, that was only a week, or a little more than a week before the vote, that 60 Minutes piece. So that is the genesis of it all. I do believe that CBS Paramount will have to pay Trump, you know, 15, 20 million. Just like Stephanopoulos, ABC had to pay him, and that money will be used for his library. And I think that deal will come soon. And then Trump will okay the sale to Skydance. That's what I think is going to happen there. And then there's Chuck Todd. I don't pay attention to guys like Chuck Todd very much, but this is a good story. So we ran yesterday a clip of a Axios reporter at the correspondence dinner in Washington on Saturday scolding his peers for failing to cover Joe Biden's decline, which they absolutely did. It was totally one of the worst things in American history, as Far as the press is concerned. Well, Chuck Todd gets on YouTube where we are too, okay, and says this.
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Bill O'Reilly
Go, this is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party. And I just sort of the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story. They didn't miss this story. David Ignatius wrote. I just refused to accept this, this stupid premise because it's a right wing, manufactured right wing premise in order to sustain the media.
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Donald Trump
That's insane. They didn't ignore the story. Of course they ignored the story. The corporate media was behind the Trump administration, the Biden administration, until the debate, and then they jumped right into the Kamala Harris campaign to try to boost that. And they never pointed any fingers at the Biden people for faking that Joe Biden was a competent president, which he was not. So to say that this was a manufactured right wing premise, I just. Your mouth opens. It's almost like Michelle Obama saying that the immigration executive order is racist. But this is what's happening in this country. All right? Pot. Now, for years I have been suggesting to you that marijuana is not good. And I base this on personal information. I've never smoked pot in my life, but I know people who got addicted to it, mentally addicted to it, and their lives crashed hard. And I also know that the THC level of pot is like 25 times what it was when I was in college in the Vietnam era. It's a serious drug you're ingesting into your brain, and if you're doing it every day, there's going to be unintended bad consequences for you. So there's a study presented at the European Psychiatric Association's congress, comes out of Australia. That's. That is stunning. Okay? This is prenatal effects of Cannabis use disorder. 98% if the mom uses, okay? Increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on the baby when the baby is born. 94% risk of autism, 46% risk of intellectual disability. Okay? And in Europe, about 4 million people smoke pot daily. It's much more in the United states, much more. About 1% of the population of the EU. Now, here are the countries that have legalized recreational marijuana. Not many of them. Canada, Georgia, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay, and in the USA, 24 states, including and three territories in the District of Columbia. So I keep telling everybody, this is not good. This is going to hurt people. And if the moms are pregnant and they're smoking pot or taking the candy or whatever, kids are going to suffer have you heard that in the media? Have you heard the Media Bound? I can't understand why pot is glorified in the media. I could never understand it. I get in the Vietnam War, I got the hippies and I got the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and, okay, Willie Nelson. I smoke pot every day. Snoop Dogg. All right, fine. You guys want to do that, you do it. But to incur. Where is the counterweight? There's no counterweight. So now you got the pot shops all over New York City, where I live. Thank God they're not in Nassau County. Not many of them anyway. But the kids see this, and a lot of parents use pot in front of their kids. Oh, I think that's child abuse. Joining us now is Dr. Peter Grinspoon. He's a cannabis specialist from the Harvard Medical School. He's up in Boston, where he joins us now. So in my analysis, my setup, am I making any mistakes?
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon
Well, what you're saying is true, but it's only part of the story. I mean, cannabis or marijuana does have a lot of side effects and can certainly harm people like any other drug. It also helps a lot of people medically. And according to recent polls, about 93% of Americans support legal access to medical marijuana. So I think, like any drug, you could use it in a healthier way or less healthier way.
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Donald Trump
But isn't that. Aren't you deflecting, Doctor, the real problem? Because with morphine, which is heroin, okay, that helps people. Nobody objects to opiates when you're having an operation or you have severe pain. But why do we always deflect into the medical marijuana area, where I don't know too many people who object to that at all if it's done under the auspice of a doctor in a hospital. I'm talking about promoting recreational drug use. And you saw the stats. I mean, they are really frightening to me. Am I wrong?
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Dr. Charles Kupchan
Well, no.
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon
The stats, the study, you. The hard part is we don't really know how dangerous it is with pregnant women. A lot of pregnant women use cannabis because they think it's safe and natural, and they think it's harmless. And it works really well for morning sickness. I never recommend to pregnant women that use cannabis because we don't know how safe or dangerous it is. Most likely, the smoking of cannabis is what makes it dangerous, because when you smoke cannabis, just like when you smoke tobacco, you get dangerous combustion products. But I do, for the sake of fairness, need to mention that there are just as many studies that don't show Any problems with fetuses or children if the parents use marijuana? Again, I don't recommend it because we just don't know. But the data is all over the place. And the other point I wanted to mention is it's a very fine line between medical and recreational use. You take polls of people that buy marijuana recreationally, 3/4 of them are using it for pain and 2/3 of them are using it for sleep. So I don't think there's like that clear a distinction between medical and recreational cannabis. Certainly some people misuse it, there's no question. But I think we had a lot more trouble when it was illegal and the supply was dangerous and people were getting arrested. And you might agree with this. Why criminalize something that people are going to do anyways? It was a disaster when we criminalized alcohol and it was a disaster when we criminalized Cannabis. We had 20 million arrests for nonviolent cannabis possession. And if it's legal, at least it's regulated.
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Donald Trump
It's labeled, but it isn't regulated. It's not regulated at all. I mean, look where you live in Boston and you're associated with Mass General. If you go to Roxbury tomorrow, okay, and you stand outside a marijuana clinic that's selling recreational pot, the hardcore heroin, fentanyl addicts go in, they buy a bunch of pot and they come out and they sell it to kids because you have to be 18 to buy the pot. And they're selling to 14, 15 year old kids. That's a big, big industry in every urban city in this country. So I think you're being a little naive here. This kind of. I wouldn't put people in jail unless you were a big weight mover of marijuana. But if you're smoking marijuana or small beef, I'm not putting you in jail. But I think that the media should be discouraging the use of it, not only because physically the unintended consequences, as you point out, could be terrible, but you got automobiles in every legalized state. Everyone. Car accidents have gone up. And it's because directly the law enforcement people will tell you there are more stoned people on the highways. So I don't, I don't understand this. Benign. Well, maybe it's not that bad, you know, self medication. I think it's bad across the board. Last word.
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon
Well, you know, it. It's hard to say how no drug use should be encouraged. I think they should ban advertising for cannabis, alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals. I agree that no drug should be encouraged. But at the same time, we don't want to magnify the harms or criminalize it because that harms people as well. And I think with education, we could really teach people. For example, pregnant women do not use cannabis if you're pregnant. Teenagers.
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Donald Trump
I'd be great for that. If Bobby Kennedy Jr. Would put those ads out and say, hey, you know, put, there'll be public service announcements. Your kid could get autism if you, if you smoke pot during the prayer. Scared of hell out of these people. I'm before that, but I know the media doesn't want that. They like pot. I don't know why. I mean, I kind of do know why, but I just think it's wrong. And I say the same thing about alcohol. If you're boozing it up and you got, you know, you're pregnant, you're not going to help your kid, you're going to hurt your kid. If you're drinking every day and you are pregnant, you're going to hurt your kid. So stop it. Anyway, doctor, we really appreciate your point of view. Thanks for coming on Smart Life. This is a riot. So the University of Nottingham in the UK at Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, all that stuff, they did a study on Generation Z, that's 13 to 28 year olds. All right, Generation Z. And they find that many of them are struggling with telephobia. I love this. They're afraid to talk on the telephone. Why? Because they have anxiety due to lack of visual feedback and they don't know what to say on the phone because they're texting all the time. So it kind of makes sense. So they have telephobia. Now, why did I put this in the Smart Life segment? Because there is a way to speak to people and many, many human beings, Americans, Brits, whatever, don't know what that is. So I was at an event last night, big dog and pony show for Nextar, which owns News Nation and CW. And I talked to at least 100 people because I just want to, you know, say hello and all of that. When you talk to somebody, Smart Life, you look them in the eye. You don't stare at them like this, but you look them in the eye and you give a little smile. Hi, nice to meet you. What's my. I always try to control the conversation. They say, oh, we love your work, or this and that. Nobody's mean, nobody's rude. And I said, thank you very much. Where are you from? That is my opening question to almost everybody. Where do you live? Where are you from? Because when they tell me that, I Know something usually about that place. Okay. So somebody says, well, I live in Manhattan Beach, California. I go, do you go to the Shellback Tavern? Oh, yeah. So immediately I'm forming a bond with who I'm speaking to. Okay? Because I'm asking them. You do that. It's easy. Where are you from? Or if you're in the context of anything, where they have a shirt. That's why we have the not woke shirts and the hats. Because people come up and go, where'd you get that? And start a conversation. Now, is that important? It is important. You want to be accessible to people because people can help you. That's not a using thing. You just want to be accessible to your neighbors and people that you meet. And it's easy. It's so easy. But these younger Americans, Gen Z, and they have no blanking clue how to talk to people. They don't look at it. I mean, my kids, you look them in the eye, you know what, you're looking down here and mumble, Speak clearly, speak up. But keep it light. Keep it light. And you know, I can't tell you how easy it is. And if you do it, you'll have a better life. That's what the Smart Life segment is all about. Talker research. Pretty good. 2000 employed Americans about their money. Now, I don't believe this. First stat, and I could be wrong, 74% of those working in America are living paycheck to paycheck. I don't believe that. The reason I don't believe it is because a lot of us who work, we have money taken out of our pay to go into 401ks and other things, insurance, whatever it may be. I don't believe that 74% of American workers don't have enough money to, to save a little bit. I think the number is 50. 50% of Americans are in dire shape financially. Okay. But that's a number that talker research coming out. 73% of Gen Z, again, 13 to 28, are looking for other jobs. And 70% of millennials, 29, 44 are looking for other jobs. They want to change their jobs or their careers, mainly because they're not making enough money. That's good. That's good. You know, when I got fed up with a job, I got another one, a better one. That's a good thing. Now, sometimes you can't. I could move. I was single, so I could go and. But sometimes you're, you know, you got kids and a wife and a house, but you can always look for another job, a better circumstance. Don't just sit there and take it. But you got to be smart. Okay, final thought of the day. I've been saying that the Leland special on Friday is at 8. I was told that, but apparently it's at 9. This drives me absolutely crazy. Right. So I guess it's at nine. But I was told it was eight. Oh, now I'm going to be patient. Not going to lash out. Would like to, but like to lash. I'm not going to lash. So I guess it's 9:00 on Friday. I can't tell you. I sat down, I looked. I'm not going to tell you who told me. He said, what time is it? Special? 8:00. Okay, so I look like an idiot, but it's 9:00 Friday, 10:00pm Sunday. Now this is actually a good final thought because I don't know, 10 years ago, maybe 15, I would have really gotten angry, yelled, maybe use bad words. But now I'm inside, I'm still a little boiling, but outside kind of let it go. Right. But it happens to all of us, doesn't it? They ask you try to do due diligence, you try to get everything in order, try to be accurate, and then somebody misleads you. I don't think they did it on purpose. They're just too lazy to check it out. Oh, yeah. No. 9. Anyway, quite a week, huh? Hope you enjoyed it again. You want to reach me, bill@billoriley.com billitbillorilly.com name and town if you wish to opine. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the no Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We have a new Sunday column and we'll see you again on Monday.