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Foreign here. Welcome to the latest edition of Looking out for you. Let's get started. How about the big betting scandal, huh, in the National Basketball Association. So this is an interesting story. I expect Robert De Niro to play the mafia chieftain in the movie. I don't want to make light of it, but it's film. Ready? So here's what allegedly happened. According to the FBI, there were a couple of guys associated with the NBA who got involved with organized crime in rigged poker games. So these guys, allegedly, of course, they're innocent until proven guilty, brought in high rollers to play poker, and the game was fixed and electronically it was fixed. It was fixed card counting, it was fixed. And in association with that, these guys gave tips to the mafia about what basketball games to bet on. That's what they're charged with. Three guys are Chauncey Billups, hall of Famer, coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Terry Rozier, who's a guard for the Miami Heat, and Damon Jones, a former NBA player and he was a coach as well, but he's out of the league now. Billups and Rozier have been suspended by the late. By the NBA. That doesn't mean they're guilty. But the investigation, obviously these guys are being indicted. Now, you can't have, with billions of dollars, fixed games. Right? You just can't. And I'll give you a rundown of historical stuff. This is not new. My sources tell me there are other sports people involved with organized crime in throwing games and giving information out to gangsters, to bookies, all of that. I don't know whether that's true, but that's what's swirling around. All right, let's start with one of the most famous former NBA players and current basketball analyst Charles Barkley. Roll it.
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These dudes are stupid. Why are they stupid?
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You.
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Under no circumstances can you fix basketball games. Under. Under no circumstances. I love to gamble. The notion like Rosie makes $26 million, him bidding, giving people information or taking himself out of games, how much is he going to benefit, taking himself out the game to get unders, like he's making $26 million.
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Well, that's not what it's about. It's about they had. They being the mafia people, organized crime, something on Rochear, and they said, we're going to ruin your life unless you do what we tell you to do. That's what happened here. It wasn't that Rozier went to them and said, hey, give me money. I'll fix. I'll fix the games. I won't play or whatever. They had something on these guys. And that'll come out. You wait and see. Now, the NBA commissioner is a man named Adam Silver. Here's what he said. My initial reaction was I was deeply disturbed. There's nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition. And so I had a pit in my stomach. It was. Was very upsetting. Now, I don't blame Silver. I mean, that'd be unfair to do. Some pundits do, but that's just stupid. But he's gotta be very strong on this. He got to cooperate fully with the FBI. And the final sound bite I have for you, I'm going to hold. It's Pete Rose. But first, let me run down the pass because again, this is not new. So in 1919, one of the most famous corruption sports stories ever, the Black Sox scandal, where eight Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the world series of 1919. You imagine that 8. They didn't think they were going to get caught. Well, they got caught, okay? And they're all booted. Careers ruined. 1951, big college basketball point shaving scandal. 35 players admitted to taking bribes to manipulate point spreads. That's big. 1989, Pete Rose suspended. Tossed out of major league baseball for betting on baseball games while he's the manager since he had a Reds. He bet on his own team. He denied it at first, but then he admitted it. Now we'll hear from him in a minute. Then Tim Donaghy, in 2007, he was an official, a ref, and he bet on games that he ref. Tim, I don't know what happened to him. I should know, but I don't know what happened to him. And then there were a bunch of in CAA men's basketball players indicted federally. 38 states have legalized sports betting right now. Missouri will have it December 1st, so it'll be 39. All right, Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah. Don't have it legalized, but anybody can bet online. And it's a gazillion dollar industry. Okay? US sports book grossed in 2024 last year, $14 billion. Okay? This is all the commercials that you see. Sports kings and all of this. The movie stars out there getting paid very handsomely to encourage people to bet. And huge business. The states that have legalized sports betting, they get tax money from it. About 2 billion. All of them together. That's not worth it. It's not worth it in my opinion. But it's here, it's Going to stay here. It's going to corrupt both college and professional sports. It's just too much money. So if you do something wrong and the mafia finds out about it and blackmails you, that's going to happen. Okay, here's Pete rose in 2004. Go. You're now saying for the first time publicly, yes, I bet on baseball.
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I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
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Did you bet on your own team?
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Yes. Did you ever. I believed in my team. I mean, I knew my team, but it never altered the way I tried to run the game. Did you ever bet against your team? No, that would be. That'd be the last thing I'd ever even consider to be.
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Rose passed and never got into the hall of Fame. Shouldn't get into the hall of Fame, even though he was one of the best baseball players of all time. Now this is a kin akin to the marijuana thing. So everybody's legalizing pot, right? 24 states have legalized pot. All right, that's a bad idea because cannabis use has doubled in the USA since the legalization movement started. Okay, Double sorry about stone population. And people say, I can smoke pot. Doesn't do anything bad. Okay, some people can, but DUIs are up big, driving under the influence, People are getting killed on the road. Don't mean you might not veg you, but it's affecting society. And again, as states go, we need the money. 30 billion in pot sales last year. 30 billion in the states that legalize it. Geez. 24 states have legalized it. And about 500,000 full time jobs in the legal cannabis industry. You walk down the street in New York City, pot smoke all over the place. Kids walk to school. So do an experiment. I went to a middle school that's 7, 8, 9, grade 7, 8, 9. And I kind of was in an unmarked van and I watched kids smoke pot before they went to school. These are, you know, 11, 12, 13, a lot of them public school, midtown Manhattan. Where'd they get the pot? You have to be 18 to buy it. And the heroin act sold to them. Heroin acts go in, they buy the pot, they sell it to underage, support their heroin. That's what's going on. So these kids are stoned, they're going to school and you know, got to assume a lot of them are going to become drug addicts, right? Because it's so easy to get pot and it's easy to make a bet. All you need is this and a PayPal account or whatever they do. I don't even know. So we're living in a country now that's skidding. It's going into a chaotic moral environment. And finally, you cannot win betting on professional sports or college sports. You can't. It's too unpredictable. There's a reason why people in Vegas make millions of dollars every year. The bookies, they can't win. You can't win. You don't know what the bookies know. But it's fun. It's exciting. Smoking pot is fun. Well, I don't care about the unintended consequences. I'm not. I'm not here to give you a lecture. I'm here you. To provide some kind of reality Sports betting gonna get worse. Okay? The mob is involved with it now. The mob is going to corrupt the professional and college leagues. It's going to happen. The pot industry is going to drive drug addiction. It's going to happen. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, has endorsed Maam. Doni. Uh. Oh, okay. Here are the ones who have endorsed him. Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Governor Hochul, Letitia James, Congresswoman Velasquez, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. On and on and on and on. They love them. Yeah, let's have more of that socialism. That's what we want. And he's going to win. I told you that last week. Early voting has begun and there's numbers coming out. Mandani's running well ahead in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Cuomo is running ahead in the Bronx, Staten Island. And a week from tomorrow is election day, officially. But you can vote early in New York State. So the data says that early voting turnout this year is five times higher than it was in 2021. Okay? When Eric Adams elected five times higher. That means Mamdani's people who want free stuff. And I know that sounds unfair, but it's true. Why would you vote for this guy? He doesn't have any experience. He says crazy things all the time. If he's not going to give you stuff, why would you vote for him? Why? There's no reason to. He wants to cut the police budget. He doesn't really believe in punishing criminals. He's going to chase corporations out of the city. Public safety is going to decline dramatically. Garbage isn't going to get picked up. Why would you vote for him? The only one reason. Free stuff. Okay? Now, Hakeem Jeffries doesn't care about any of that. He just wants to keep the Democratic Party in power. Roll the tape.
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Well, Zoran is a Democratic nominee. And there's alignment between as it relates to the affordability crisis and the need to decisively deal with it. And of course, there's alignment around the existential threat that Donald Trump confronts, you know, will bring to the city of New York in ways that he's unleashed this extremism on the American people in such an extraordinary way from the very beginning of his presidency. And he clearly has put a bull's eye on the city of New York.
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So Mr. Jeffries new favorite word is alignment. But he's not wrong when he says that Trump is going to punish New York City. If, Ma' am Donnie is the mayor, they have a hard time getting money from the feds. Absolutely. So he's not wrong. There. There's nothing else I can really say. I mean, WABC has made it quite clear. It takes full pages out in the New York Post about who's endorsing. I think that Blakeman will win in Nassau. He'll remain in charge of the county. And Republicans across the board will probably sweep Long island in reaction somewhat to the far left shenanigans that are going on in New York City. If you don't live in a city, you're not directly affected. But if you have to go in there, watch out, watch out. You know, I keep telling my young daughter, you know, mid-20s, living on the Upper east side, working hard for a living, I go, if this guy's elected mayor, you're going to have to be very vigilant wherever you go because the criminals are going to run wild and they're just waiting for it. Cops are not going to be around. It's going to be, what a nightmare. But this has already been said over and over and over and over again. It just looks to me like these younger voters and voters who were born overseas, they don't care. I think that's a bottom line. They don't care. They want stuff and they're not going to get it. It's going to be very interesting to see how Mamdani comes up against the bureaucracy. You're not going to get a lot of free stuff. So one week from today, New Yorkers will vote for the next mayor. And I have predicted that Ma' am Donnie will win. Now I'm going to give you some backup for that prediction. So there's polls, and the polls really aren't hard news. They're a snapshot in time. The latest is Suffolk University, which is up in Boston. I mean, Suffolk on Long island, but this is a Boston Poll. It's got my endometrium 44%, Cuomo 34, Sliwa 11. All right, but that's not factual. Here's. Here are the facts of the matter and this is what I based my prediction on. So early voting is underway, as you know, and about a quarter of a million New Yorkers have already voted and they do exit polling. And the Board of Ed, Board of Elections, I should say, not the Board of Ed. The Board of Elections say that Mandani in early voting is well ahead in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. And the Cuomo is ahead in Staten island and the Bronx. But the totals really favor Mandani. Now, it's not 100. My prediction is not 100%, but I'd say it's 75% with this data rolling in. And the early voting turnout is five times higher than it was four years ago. That's Mandani. There aren't people rushing to vote for Cuomo. There is an anti Mandani vote. Yes, that's true. But boy, every sign points to him as winning. Now he's got money, he's running the ads and all that. Where's the money coming from? So more than a half a million dollars, 53% of the money that Mamdani has raised comes from outside New York City. All right? Now this is the organized socialist communism cabal. That's what's pumping money. Mandani has enough money to do whatever he wants outside people pumping it in. You can do that legally through the political action committees. So in New York, there's eight or nine communist PACs. Okay? The workers this and the family that. And they're communists. And the communists say, whoa, we have a chance to run the largest city in the country, most powerful city in the world. Of course they're going to pump money into it. Now, Mamdani himself doesn't care about any of this. All he wants to do is win. And you've heard wabc. We, our repetition has been pretty good about the downside. But let me tell you something that happened last night. So I'm a reporter above all else. I know I'm a pundit, I know I'm a celebrity journalist, all that stuff, but that doesn't matter to me. The most important thing to me is I'm a reporter. And that's why my books sell so well, because they're well reported. So I'm talking to a very high ranking police official last night, off the record. And this is what reporters do. You gather information. And this person been with the NYPD more than 20 years. He knows everything about it. And I go, what is the morale factor here if Mandami wins? And he goes, well, nobody in the police agency likes him because they all know that their job is going to be harder. But there's a resignation. This is what this high ranking NYPD guys tell me. And the resignation is, all right, if this is what the mayor wants, non aggressive police work, that's what we'll give him, just as I said. So that if you dial 9112 months from now, that call may or may not be answered. The police are going to pull back, they'll do their job, but they're going to do it passively, not actively. Right now, the police commissioner, Tisch, wants the cops to be aggressive, all right? To go in and to get the bad guys, man. Donnie doesn't think there are any bad guys. He's sympathetic to criminals. So that whole mindset is going to change, and that's new. And this guy went into it pretty specifically, broke it down, and he's an honest person. So I figure I'd pass that along to you. Don't get mad at me from the prediction. My job is to tell you what I believe and why I believe it. Let's get to Imam Doni. He was in the Bronx this morning, running behind in that borough, according to the early voting. He is stronger in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Queens the key, if Cuomo can make inroads, I should say, in his own home area, remember, the Cuomo family is from Queens, then he might tighten things up. But Zorra is also from Queens and he's doing well there, according to the early voting anyway. The former Governor Cuomo reappeared on Fox Business. I think he's going to lose, I said, and it's my duty to kind of flag you to what's happening, even though you may not want to hear it. That's been my story of my life. I have to tell you what I think. And based on the facts that I have assembled, anyway, about 300,000 New Yorkers have voted early as of yesterday, and that's a big number. Okay? So obviously there's acute interest in all of this. Now, if Mandani does prevail next Tuesday, that I think signals the end of Kathy Hochul and stay with me here. So Mandani is going to be a disaster. There's no way he can succeed, not with his point of view, not with his dependency on outside funding. Remember, the money that he's getting is being sent to New York by Communists and socialists around the world and they go into political action committees is already under scrutiny. Mandani is for accepting foreign money. I don't know whether that's true or not deserves due process. But this guy is not going to change from a rabid socialist progressive. So you're going to have more crime, city's going to be dirty. Your quality of life is going to go down. People will move out, corporations will rebel, on and on and on. All of that will be pretty well defined this time next year when Governor Hochul runs for re election. And that picture of her arm in arm, arms extended up into the air with Zoran Mam Doni will sink Kathy Hochul, I almost guarantee it. Now as a new poll. I don't really trust the poll that much from the Manhattan Institute, which is a good think tank, but they lean right. It's got Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who is going to run against Hochul, tied with her essentially at this point in time, I do believe it's going to be Republican governor in New York. And that'll turn it around, I hope, because we can't continue going into this progressive craziness. You know, there's a new study. I'm going to tell you about it in a national show about how Americans see the Democratic Party as not being relevant to their interests. But there are holdouts, very strong holdouts like Boston and New York City and Chicago, Louisiana, San Francisco, where the progressive movement still has a lot of power. It's receding all over the country, but not in the big Northern and California metro centers. If Chiarelli can win the governorship of New Jersey, that would be something that will send a real signal to the Democratic Party that you better get away from the progressives, the far left, destroying your party. According to Emerson, which is a college in Boston, they do polling though, all over the country. Mandamio is a 25 point lead over Cuomo. Curtis Sliwa is only four points down from Cuomo. And everybody's screaming about Curtis getting out of the race. As I said, it's not my job to tell him to do that. You guys can do the math. Curtis can do the math. Curtis makes his own decision. I don't want Mamdani to win, but that is as far as I'll go, as far as telling people what to do, what not to do. I will point out that there are going to be a lot more dead people in the New York area if Mandani is the mayor because the cops are going to be under siege and we got into that. We've explained it. If you have any questions about that, because it's an important issue, I'll deal with it on Monday, bill@billoriley.com billorilly.com so if you've got any questions about public safety, police reaction to Mamdani, any of that, be happy to answer them. Okay? So Cuomo, former governor, went on Stephen A. Smith's podcast, and here's what he said.
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Go now. They want to say we hate Trump. Never talk to Trump. First of all, it's not an option. And if Mamdani wins, you're going to see Trump come in here and take over New York City. You mark my words. What do you mean by that? What does that mean? That Trump is going to take over New York City?
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How can you do that?
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Forget sending the national first, they'll send the National Guard. But the federal government controls everything. They can close your airports, they control your health money, your housing money. You're basically bankrupt if the federal government turns off the faucet. And are you talking period or New York City?
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New York City. And that's kind of true, because President Trump's going to find a way to give Mamdani a hard time. There's no doubt that that will happen. Now, whether that's going to persuade anybody to vote for Cuomo, because Cuomo would keep Trump at bay. He wouldn't pander to Cuomo, to Trump like Adams did, but he wouldn't unnecessarily rile him up. Mamdani, I don't think he's going to do that either. But Trump, you know, he knows Mandami's far, far, far left. And the public safety is going to decline here. It's not in great shape now. And they can give you, you know, crime is going down and all those stats are so bogus, because if you don't prosecute crimes, they go down, right? And Bragg doesn't prosecute. Neither does a woman in the Bronx. I got to study Brooklyn a little bit more. But the Bronx and Manhattan, you know, you slug somebody in the face, a cop sees you, arrests you, they won't charge you, they'll dismiss the case. They even beat up two cops on videotape in the Bronx. And it's been almost two years. And that case is not in court. Come on. It's just insane. So Cuomo is right when he says that Mandani is going to have a hard time in the Trump administration, but he's also going to have a hard time with Albany because They're scared up there. Mandami fouls, then Hochul and the crew, the far left crew, they're going to take it. New Yorkers are going to go way more conservative. So they're watching too. Namdami, if he wins, doesn't have a lot of friends. You think he would. He doesn't. And when he doesn't produce for all the people expecting stuff, then all hell will break. All hell will break loose. Let's talk about Kamala Harris. She's got a new book out, doing pretty well, and we congratulate her on that. You know, I like to see people succeed, even if I don't agree with them. I don't know Ms. Harris. She never talked to somebody like me because she only does interviews with friendly people, you know, who kiss her butt and who she knows not going to ask her tough questions. However, that changed a little bit in London and this is pretty amazing, but let me set it up for you. So Kamala Harris is making noise that she may get back into politics on a national level in 28. She may run again for the Democratic nomination. Well, that's been mixed. You know, the progressives don't really like her all that much, even though she'll sell out in a heartbeat, in my opinion. She doesn't really have many principles, but she continues to harp on that Biden was a good president and this sunk her. And I'll play the sound bite in a little while on the View when she said, ah, no, I wouldn't do anything differently. Most people understand that Joe Biden was a disastrous president. So she's over in London promoting the book. She gives an interview to an Australian. Okay, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Companies, Sarah Ferguson. This happened on October 29th. Roll the tape.
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Wasn't Joe Biden then, to put it on him, wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?
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I ran against Donald Trump for president. And Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people. I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices. And he didn't. And you combine that misrepresentation of intention with also what was at play in terms of massive amounts of mis and disinformation, forgive me. And a documented calendar in terms of the clock.
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I want to interrupt you because that is a world class pivot. But it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden's failure to recognise his own frailties and what that did to you. The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticise the former President?
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In what regard, please?
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Well, just in terms of that question. So you went on.
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That's exactly what you like to ask. Be more specific if you don't mind.
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Was it Joe Biden's decision, his failure to recognise his own frailties in that position, that put you in the position that made it almost impossible to win that race?
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He was not frail as President of.
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The United States, but he had frailties. We all saw the debate.
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I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be President of the United States. And I have never doubted that he had the capacity to be President of the United States.
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That pretty good interview by Sarah Ferguson. Okay. I mean you wouldn't see Americans on the left and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is pretty laugh do that. So Kamala Harris, you know he has a capacity to be the President of the United States. I don't want to give her nightmares, Ms. Harris, but if she continues that, she'll never get elected to anything ever again. So let me just run down the facts in a non hysterical way. So, border crossings under the Biden administration, four years, highest in U.S. history by far. Drug smuggle, record amounts of fentanyl and other opiates. Homelessness increased 33% in the USA in four years. Energy prices up 33%. Insurance costs to individual Americans up 24%. Total inflation more than 21%. U.S. debt went from 28 trillion to 36 trillion. That's an added 8 trillion in debt in four years. Money sent to Iran, 6 billion. Much of that money went to building its nuclear facility that Donald Trump bombed. Russia invades Ukraine February 24, 2022. Biden, what did he do? Okay. Military recruitment for America. Four years, 60,000 shortfall, 60,000 fewer military people signed up than we should have had under Biden. Now if Kamala Harris wants to think that's a good record, then she's not living in the real world. And this hearkens back to what sabotaged her in the campaign where Trump beat her. Roll the tape.
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If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of. And I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
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Are you kidding? So I gave you all of those stats and she wouldn't have Done anything differently, she would have had that open border, allowed record amounts of narcotics into this country, supervise an explosion of homeless people. The reason that she said that Kamala Harris on the View is because she didn't know what was going on. She might have been in the discussions, but you'll remember that Biden tried to pawn off the border on Harris, who was furious about it and said, you go down there and come up with some kind of solution. Harris went down for about 20 minutes to El Paso and never went again, ever. If you're going to run, Madam for President 28, this is still going to be there. Now, I don't know how the Trump administration is going to do the next three years, but for the first year, Donald Trump's done more than Biden did in four years by far. And you may not like him, you may not oppose what he's doing, trying to remake the economy. That's a dicey situation, okay? But the man's trying. Biden sat there. So I don't, you know, I think it's a. What they call a disassociation. But Kamala Harris, for whatever reason, has been pampered her entire life. In California, she had the nominations handed to her attorney general, all the local stuff she did DA handed to her. And she never really engaged in the big picture. And the same thing with vice president. Here it is. There was never a litmus test. She was never tested. And she lives in a bubble. She lives in a world that doesn't exist, doesn't live in the stat world, in the world of what actually happened and is happening. And that's why she lost. Because Americans say, you know, if she thinks that Joe Biden was a great president and wouldn't do anything different, and that's what the woman continues to say. We can't support her. So that's not going to change. All right? Biden's going to go down as the second worst president in U.S. history. If you don't believe me, read my book, Confronting the Presidents. I just lay it on out for you. I mean, the decision to open that southern border, leading to 15 to 20 undocumented migrants coming in here unsupervised was the worst decision. Remember, that was just an executive order type thing. Congress didn't pass. That was the worst decision any chief executive has ever made in the history of the country. It's costing us trillions of dollars. Thousands of people have been killed by criminal migrants, for what? So you could get votes down a road? Which is the prevailing wisdom Biden's never explained it. Kamaris has never explained it. She's the czar. Why'd you do it? Why do you support it? Madam, that's a question you don't have to get complicated. Madam Vice President, why did you support the open border? And you know what? You probably say, oh, it wasn't open. Hello, 15 to 20 undocumented migrants here. Was it open? No. All right. So it's my job to give you the truth, to hand it to you in a way that almost everyone can understand. But remember, people believe what they want to believe, and you can hit them with stats all day long and they're going to go, ah, no, that O'Reilly, whatever, blah, blah. Now I'm a stat guy. I'm a fat guy. Kamala Harris will never be president. She won't get the nomination in 28. Thank you for listening to Looking out for you. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also, consider becoming a BillORiley.com premium member. It will enhance your life. Sign up@billoriley.com membership. Get access to full episodes of the no Spin News.
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