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Is Marxism a Threat to America?, Cuba’s Collapse, Remembering Jesse Jackson & Jeh Johnson on Border Security Under Obama vs. Trump
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Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the no Spin News. Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Stand up for your country. My estimate is about 25% of Americans would want to have a different country. They'd want to change everything. Almost all of them are either Democrats or libertarians. Republicans, by definition, are traditional people. They whine about the country and complain, but they don't want to see it thrown out the window and start from scratch. Now, radicalism in the USA is on the rise, but it's not a crisis yet. Gets a lot of attention. You see a lot of the extremists, but the folks you don't have 77 million people vote for Donald Trump just a year and four months ago. All right, if it's a radical nation. So it's not there yet. However, Mandani has power in New York, Fry in Minneapolis, Pritzker in Illinois. And these are people who, if they could, would tear it all down. So it's worth watching. Now, there are some who are now actively fighting against the radicalism. And that is the subject of this evening Talking Points memoir. The Latest is Christianity vs Marxism. Fascinating story. So you may know Bishop Robert Barron. He is one of the most powerful clerics in the country. He is on social media. He has word of fire, and it is a very, very successful website. And traditional people not on social media may not know him, but boy, this guy has a lot of influence. And he is the sitting bishop in the diocese of Winona, Rochester, Minnesota, right. South of Minneapolis. Well, anyway, Bishop Barron and I know him, I wouldn't say he's a close friend, but we do correspond. Bishop Barron is one of the few clerics of all faiths in America who will take on what he sees as danger to the country. His latest is about Marxism in America. Go.
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What's worrying me, everybody is the extent to which political leadership on the left in America is becoming it's unapologetically Marxist. The mayor of New York City, you know, the warmth of collectivism. He's calling for the confiscation of private property, of seizing the means of production. All language right out of the Communist Manifesto. You know, might I encourage followers of, you know, mirmamdani and aoc? Talk to some of them. They're still alive, some of them. The people that fled Marxist tyranny in Europe, people laboring under it to this day in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, et cetera, et cetera. And then this too. It concerns me not just as someone who follows politics, but as a bishop of the Catholic Church. Marx himself said the first critique is a critique of religion. And his political adepts followed him. The first thing that the Marxist tyrannies went after in most cases was religion.
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And that is true. If you want to see more of Bishop Baron, by the way, it's wordonfire.org all right, so Stalin in 1928, when he was consolidating power in the Soviet Union, he implemented a godless five year plan. I write about Stalin in my book Confronting Evil. The plan gave local cells, regular people who were atheists, the power to commit violence against religious people. Leaders of churches were imprisoned, sometimes executed, and Stalin let it go. So it was open season, 1949, Mao Zedong, China. He's also in Confronting Evil. So he started a nationalism campaign where the government in Beijing confiscated churches, threw them all the clerics out, took the buildings and did whatever they wanted. And Buddhist monks, Catholic priests, Christian, Protestant, Christian evangelists, they were persecuted, sometimes killed by Mao. And in Cuba today, which is falling apart, Fidel Castro wouldn't even allow the people to celebrate Christmas. Cuba is almost 100% Catholic country. Okay, so Bishop Barron, historically is right. Now it was interesting because Mayor Mam Doni is a Muslim. But when the new bishop in New York City celebrated his first mass last week, Madame didn't show up. And that was unbelievable. Breach of etiquette. So I don't know if Mandani or AOC or Bernie Sanders, I don't know what their active posture is on religion. They don't talk about it. But under the Marxist philosophy, religion is a threat. Why? Because if you are a communist and everything is devoted to the state, can't have a God, you don't have individual rights. The state does what it wants to do, and you support that. So when I was in Beijing in May, one of the amazing things was they the Chinese police authorities could pick you up, charge you with crimes against the people, was that it's anything they want it to be. And you can get executed for crimes against the people. It's whatever they want it to be. Okay? That's what you're facing. Of course, you don't have lawyer due process or any of that. So that's Marxism. It is an atheistic movement and it is on the rise. Again, I don't think it's a threat yet, but it's certainly more acceptable than it used to be in America. And that is the memo. So on the subject of Cuba, countries on avertive collapse. The government, remember the Castro brothers, had gone now, and it's an anonymous government. They don't have a charismatic figure at the top like Fidel. All right? So they are rationing food, fuel and medicine. Once you start to ration things like that, people are going through trash to try to find stuff to eat. And remember, Cuba is an island. You could fish and feed the population, but Cuban citizens are not allowed to fish because the government fears they take the boat and go over to Florida. Do you know that? Did you know that? That's Marxism, Totalitarianism. So Donald Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio is a second generation Cuban. They're negotiating with Cuba. Roll the tape. You're warning Cuba to make a deal. What does that deal look like? What do you want them to do?
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Cuba is right now a failed nation. And they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off. They're clogging up their Runway. We're talking to Cuba right now. And Marco Rubio talking to Cuba right now. And they should absolutely, absolutely make a deal because it's a humanity, it's really a humanitarian threat.
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Well, what would the deal be? They don't have anything that we need. The deal would be like the Venezuelan deal. You do what we say. So Caracas does exactly what the Trump administration tells it to do. That's what the deal would be in Cuba. So we'll lift the embargo, we'll let the oil go in, you'll get some food, you'll get some release, but when we tell you to jump, you jump. And his secret police stuff and all that, that it's over. That's the deal. Okay? And the Cuban government, I don't know whether they're going to agree or not, but the people are going to rise up. You can't starve to death. Okay, Back home. And Jesse Jackson dies. He was on the Factor one time. I had a pretty good relationship off camera with the Reverend. I disagreed with his victimization push. But I admired his quest to help his people. And remember, February is Black History Month and Jackson did a lot of good. And you know, if you follow history, that he was with Martin Luther King Jr. When the reverend was assassinated in Tennessee. And whenever I spoke with Reverend Jackson, very respectable. I remember at a New York Knick game and the crowd was stunned. He and I were talking at halftime and everybody could see it. And he's a very witty guy. And he died at 84. He's not like Al Sharpton. I got problems with Sharpton all day long. And the estimate fortune that Jackson had when he died was 4 million. That's not a lot of money for a guy who could make cash speaking and going around and using his fame and celebrity to generate cash. So it wasn't like Sharpton. All right, there's a, there was a big delineation there. So our sympathy to the Jackson family. Department of Homeland Security. Okay, it's out of business for the time being because Democrats won't fund it because they want all kinds of modifications to ICE. Warning. The following ZipRecruiter radio spot you are about to hear is going to be filled with F words.
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And here's the kicker. They have to stop all their investigations. There are eight active investigations being done by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security against ICE because let's face it, let's be honest, all the ICE agents aren't perfect and there has been some abuse and are being investigated. Well, that stops. Okay, so I Expect this thing will be. Congress is on a recess now. When they come back, they'll work it out, I think. Joining us from Montclair, New Jersey, is a former secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, four years under Barack Obama. We're very pleased to have the secretary with us. You know, you in Obama's second term deported more people, all right. Than Donald Trump did in his first term. And so when I see that stat. And the Democrat Party didn't give you a hard time on that, did they?
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There were certainly activists on the. First of all, Mr. O'Reilly, thank you for having me on your show. There were certainly activists on the left that gave us a very hard time about deportations. President Obama was labeled the deporter in Chief in 2013, 2014, and I knew that that aggravated him because it was in the midst of an effort to try to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. But yes, the deportation numbers were high. It's a product of a bunch of different things. Crossings, interior enforcement and the crossings into the United States were fairly low. During his second term, my second full year in office, border crossings, illegal border crossings were, I think, the second lowest number since 1972. And that, too, is a product of a lot of different things. But enforcement certainly contributed to that.
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Yeah, there was no, I wasn't railing about lax enforcement under the Obama administration, but the party, yes, you're right. Radicals will always do that. Open border people, always. But the party, Schumer, all these guys, they supported you and Barack Obama in trying to regulate who is coming into the country by and large. Is that correct?
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That is correct. I would agree with that statement.
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Right. So what's changed? What's changed now that you have a flood because of President Biden, why isn't Chuck Schumer saying, no, we got to get this under control?
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So I don't, I don't quite know the answer to that. What I do know, the hard lessons I learned managing this problem, is you probably have found the right balance. When both sides are screaming at you or you don't hear anything at all about this issue, you've got people on the right who say there are too many illegal crossings. I believe there's a racist component to that.
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But also you think that if Belgians were coming over to the tune of 15 million that the Republicans wouldn't scream.
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I believe that there is a racist element. Element. I also believe that securing our border is a legitimate government objective. I believe Americans are entitled for the most powerful nation on earth to know who is entering our country. So that that is a legitimate government objective that I and President Obama certainly work toward. I also believe that there is a very large category of people in this country who entered this country illegally who have become de facto Americans. You know who they are?
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Sure.
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They've committed no crimes. They want to be accountable. They want to get on the books. They have kids who are U.S. citizens, and we got to deal with that population.
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And trying to. And President Obama, your boss, did want to do that with the dream Iraq, and he got nowhere because his party and the Republican Party didn't cooperate with him. But I'm more interested in this. So you're probably one of the five guys in the country who know this subject best. And I'm sitting there and I'm watching an evolution of a party, the Democrats from yes, we have to enforce immigration law to know we don't want to enforce it, because they are using that issue to hammer the Trump administration. Now, here's the key question. What is the Trump administration doing differently than what you did?
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Well, I'm going to come back to something. I may be one of the five people who understand how to manage this problem, but you're much more astute politically than I am. And the politics of immigration have overwhelmed any desire for smart policy. And the evidence of that is what is happening now. And the evidence of that is what happened two years ago after Senator Lankford and Senator Murphy negotiated a pretty good bipartisan bill that was pretty strong on border security. But the politicians didn't want to fix the problem. They'd rather have the problem as something to complain about.
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Okay, so you believe that the political aspect overwhelms the fairness aspect. But this is important on both sides. This is important. Mr. Secretary, you guys deported a million and a half people under your term. Four years. And that doesn't count the first term. Okay, That's a lot of folks. The Trump administration so far, one year, about 700,000. All right, so you guys and the Trump administration were simpatico in saying we have to round these people up, see who they are. Okay. And then decide whether they should stay or go. Not everybody the Trump administration rounds up gets deported. Not everyone. So what is the difference between the agents, the ICE agents, under you and under Trump?
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Well, there's a. There are elements of deportations. You know, is it. Is it expedited deportation of people who just crossed the border, or are you trying to deport people in the interior of the country who have been there for a very long time?
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Well, you got to have a warrant. You Got to have a reason. And, and that's what's unreported a lot. The press won't report that. If you don't show up for an asylum hearing, for example, you're right on the deportation list. You may not be a violent criminal, you may not have. But if you don't show up, you're out.
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Right? So here's the.
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Here's what I.
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But here's what I believe is the big difference, Bill. This administration started off, we're going to go after the worst of the worst. I think that's totally legitimate. In fact, that was my objective while I was in office. Go after the worst of the worst. But you don't want to. You don't try to achieve a quota for the sake of achieving a quota. You've got to be smart about this. What is inevitably going to happen, which has happened in Minneapolis and other places, is the way ICE goes about its business becomes so controversial that the mayors, the city councils, the governors don't want to work with you anymore, which is essential if you're going to get at the worst of the worst for the benefit of public.
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Okay, but you had that too, though. You had sanctuary. California was a sanctuary state when you were in office. They didn't cooperate with you.
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And we had a program called Secure Communities, which I totally changed, rebranded to call the Priority Enforcement Program, so that I could get people like Bill de Blasio and, and Michael Nutter in Philadelphia to start working with us again. I'd encounter people in city councils in Chicago.
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Today.
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Who I'd say, why don't you give us the guy who's undocumented, who just finished a lengthy prison sentence because he committed a felony. And the answer I got was, why should I do that? He's already served his time. He's been punished. Come on. He's undocumented.
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Right?
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So it was that kind. Right? It was that kind of attitude that we would often encounter. And my response would always be, work with me now before you are faced with a crisis. You've got a murder committed by an undocumented person who was released from jail. Wouldn't you rather work with me now on this so we were making great strides to do that. And what I used to say to leaders of ice, Tom Holman included, who worked for me, use your common sense. When you're on the streets conducting interior enforcement, one controversial incident could derail your entire mandate, your entire ability to work within a community to get stuff done and turbocharge the sanctuary cities community.
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Well, it's certainly logical. Now, do you believe Homan's a good man?
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Homan was one of my key advisors. The answer is yes, he was. He's very pro law enforcement. He's pro enforcement. I knew the label on that bottle of wine I was getting. But he's fundamentally a law enforcement officer. He's not an ideologue.
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Do you believe that ICE agents in general are trained enough? Are they professional people.
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In general? What I see sitting here, you know, as an armchair quarterback these days, watching the videos, the images, I see a force that is not adequately trained in the tactics of de escalation, which is common.
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All legitimate criticism. Right. I've made that criticism. Finally. Were you surprised when President Biden took office and the floodgates opened? Open border, 15 million. Anybody wants asylum, you don't have to go to a port of entry anymore. You can just wander right across. Cartels helping you say, I want asylum, they'll give you a bus ticket, you go anywhere you want. Were you surprised at that kind of a policy?
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Yes, I was.
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Why do you think he did it? Why do you think he did it?
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Well, I can tell you, I can explain the reaction better than the rationale. Illegal immigration bill is a very information sensitive phenomenon. It reacts sharply upward or downward to perceived changes in our enforcement policy on the southern border. Biden came into office, he was perceived as being soft. And you saw the result when Trump came into office. The numbers plummet. But, and here's the key corollary, so long as the push factors persist, the numbers are always going to revert back to their longer term trend lines. So when Trump took office in 2017, the numbers dropped. But by 2019, because the push factors persist, the numbers started to escalate again to the point where in 2019 he had something like a million crossings.
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Well, that's because of the Mexican situation. No, they didn't stop the caravans and they were working with the drug cartels. The corruption in Mexico was off the board. And the reason.
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That's a key component.
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Yes, of course. And the reason that. Go ahead.
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2014. 2014. One of the reasons we got the numbers under control is because President Pena Nieto agreed to do more enforcement on his Southern.
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Absolutely.
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With Central America, which is only 300 miles.
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Right. All right, Mr. Secretary, it's very nice of you to come on and I hope you come back. And we really appreciate it.
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Invite me back.
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Okay. To the media. So, you know, Stephen Colbert's days are numbered as a late night CBS talk show host. But he wants to gin up controversy continually. Got nothing to lose. They got to pay off his contract. So he wanted to put a guy on. Congressman James Talarico and Texas Democrat who's running for Senate in the Lone Star State. Telo is a radical leftist. Okay? And the CBS lawyers said, no, you can't put on Telorico because then you'd have to put on all his opponents because he's in a primary to try to run for Senate, which is what the law is sequel time when you're in a political campaign. Here's what Colbert said. Go.
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You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then. Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this. Let's talk about this.
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You're a moron. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to use that. But he doesn't even explain why the CBS lawyers said, hey, come on, all he wants to do is bring in bomb throwers. That's all Colbert wants to do. Which is why he lost his show because it was embarrassing to cbs. He didn't have big numbers anyway. All right, Ireland. So a week From Today is St. Patrick's Day. A month from today, not a week, month from today, St. Patrick's Day. All right, so the Republic of Ireland, which is a separate country. All right, 5 million. They were invited the government to come over to the White House for the annual St. Patrick's Day party or celebration, whatever it may be. They're coming. The Northern Ireland government, which is a part of London, part of England, okay, they still control. They gave the Trump administration the finger. The leader, first minister, is Michelle o'. Neill. She's not coming. Here's what she said. Quote, I deeply value the historic relationship between Ireland and the United States, and I remain committed to working with with U.S. figures to strengthen our peace and grow our economy. However, despite the Hopes and promise offered by the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Horrific Israeli military attacks continue. I cannot and will not look away from systemic human rights abuses and flagrant breaches of international law by Israel. On quote, that was yesterday. So. This is so outrageous, I can't tell you. Northern Ireland and Israel lead the league in terrorism. Okay? So both places have had to deal with insanity, murder, atrocities for decades. For decades. Okay, so Israel doesn't have a right to destroy the terror group Hamas that hides behind citizens of Gaza, literally hides behind them, builds headquarters and hospitals and schools. Israel have a right to go and neutralize those people. When you're in Northern Ireland and saw the IRA just blow the hell out of you. Now why does she do it? Because she's a socialist. Michelle o' Neill is a socialist. Communist, that's who she is. And I don't know the linkage. I'm trying to find out why the communists and socialists hate Israel so much. I understand the anti. Semitism, I got all that. But why? Why do those far left people. I guess it's beyond. It has to be raised. It has to be. There's no other explanation for that. So Iran, if she got invited to Iran, this woman, sure, no, no problem going. I'm sure she'd go. Makes me angry. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to. In her place. Already wired a White House. Hey, look, you got an extra seat because. Michelle o'. Neill, I want it. Smart life. This makes sense. So Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, studied, let's see, 8,000, was it participants? Okay, no, 2,000 participants. Americans for eight years tracked them elderly people. They found out that if you read right and write, and I guess like typing with your thing on a machine counts, you read and write, you drop your chances of getting dementia 40%. That's true. I mean, I don't have any problem in any mental capacity at all because I'm constantly reading and writing. Now, if I were sitting around on the beach playing pickleball every day or, you know, going on TikTok or whatever you do, I'd probably be going. But it's like a gym. You got to exercise your mind. So here's a cheap plug if you are elderly, if you're a senior citizen, get my books. Get them all because they're fun to read. You'll learn a lot, keep you sharp. Smart life. Code Pink. So they're communists too. It's unbelievable, isn't it? But Code Pink is operating out of Shanghai, China. Now, that's where Jody Evans, the Co founder. Lives with her husband, the notorious Neville Roy Singham, who's pumping money into the United States to pay agitators to tear the country apart. There they are. Lovely couple. All right, so in addition to being the co founder of code pink, Ms. Evans wants you to go on her tour of Red China. She'll set it right up for you. Wanna go so you can go China Wellness, you know. And she's. Of course, she loved. They loved. They think China is Communist China. Crimes against the people. No rights for anybody. This is it. Great. When I saw this, I went, oh, boy. Robert Duval, one of my favorite actors, passed. And I'll have a profile of him in Final Thought. Okay, Final Thought. Robert Duval. Met him three or four times. Crusty guy. I liked him. He was in two of my favorite movies of all time. The Godfather, Godfather 2. Mr. Duval, 95 years old. Died in Middleburg, Virginia, where he had a big ranch in the area. Beautiful, beautiful spread. And he lived an amazing life. Academy Award winner, Best Actor in Tender Mercies. Now, he made his career in the Godfather as the consigliere Tom Hagen.
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Go, Tom.
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This is business. And this man is taking it very, very personal.
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Where does it say that you can't kill a cop?
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Come on, Mikey.
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Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a dishonest cop, a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. We have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom? They might like a story like that. They might.
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They just might.
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It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.
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Now, Al Pacino and Robert Dairo are the two main actors still alive from the Godfather. And they are both legends. I mean, you know, you don't have to light Daro in particular. He's kind of obnoxious. Pacino, very interesting guy. Long conversation with him about the making of both Godfathers. Actually, he was in three of them. And Robert Duval did not sign on for the third Godfather, which was not nearly as good as the first two, in my opinion, because they didn't pay him enough. He felt disrespected. Anyway, all of the other principles have passed away. Now, why do I say they are the best movies I've ever seen? And here's why. Because they combine fiction with non fiction. The part in Godfather 2 where the Corleone, Michael Corleone, goes to Havana because the mob is going to take over Cuba from Batista the corrupt dictators cooperating and then Castro comes in, overthrows that. That's true. And there were so many things in both of those movies where Francis Floyd Coppola, the director, he blended fiction and, and historical fact. And I wrote Killing the Mob. So I know a lot about this kind of stuff. So they were brilliant films. And if you haven't seen them, boy, that's a night. If you watch them back to back, they're on cable every two minutes so they're around. But rest in peace, Robert Duval, brilliant actor. I particularly liked him in MASH. He was so good in the movie MASH. Okay, that is it for us today. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching no Spin News. We'll see you again tomorrow.
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