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Mamdani Drives NYC Decline, FCC Targets The View, Former Prince Andrew Arrested Over Epstein Ties & Gavin Newsom's Disapproval Rating
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So we are in a window where there could be military action on Sunday night or Monday, whatever. Remember, Iran is eight hours ahead or something like that. And it would be a darkness play. So giving you what I have, which is in March, if I get anything further, stay close to billoriley.com and it's a huge story. But here's really an interesting social wrinkle. More Americans are interested in the Savannah and Nancy Guthrie story in Arizona, the kidnapping of Mrs. Guthrie, than they are in this. And if you step back and you think about it, I understand why people are interested in the Guthrie story. It's a mystery. It's terrible. Mom is involved. I got it. It's emotional all over the place. But also the pundits that are out there hour after hour after hour don't know anything. They just speculate and guess and gobble up airtime with nothing. That's why we don't do it here. We don't know. Once something happens, of course we'll report it. But the Iranian situation is far more important for the world, for the United States and for you. Far more important yet. Given the choice to sit there for 20, 30 minutes and listen to Guthrie or Iran, vast amount of Americans will choose the Guthrie story. I don't know if I'm disturbed by that. I understand it. It's a little unsettling. People just don't understand how dangerous this world is. Iran is a dangerous place and they're desperate now. And speaking about lack of awareness, I'm going to take you into New York City, a place you probably don't want to go to at this point. But everything I told you about Mayor Mamdani is coming true in a lightning fashion. It's, it's startling. And, and it's not just New York, it's everywhere. Because Seattle got a communist mayor. All right? You saw what happened in Minneapolis, you saw what happened in Los Angeles. This is really getting to be intense. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So Zoran Mandami, he's been in office for seven weeks. He's 34 years old. As I've said, very, in a very nasty way. He's not qualified to run a Taco Bell, much less a city of 8 and a half million, the largest city in the country. Now under his regime. Seven weeks again, 19 people frozen to death, 19 human beings, because Mamdani would not carry out Code Blue. Now, Code Blue has been in place for decades. It says when the temperature drops below a certain point, windchill included, that the police take homeless people and indigenous people, you know, people just running around, usually drug or alcoholics involved. Okay, Take them and they put them in a warming center. Take temporarily. Now, a lot of these people don't want to go. Would the cops just take them forcefully? And Dami said, no, don't do that. Now he's backtracking on it, okay? But that's exactly what happened. And 19 people are dead. Now you go, why? Why would anybody, Communist, socialist, capitalist. Why would any mayor not enforce Code Blue to the utmost? I don't know. I don't know. I do know that this is not a rational person. Mandami. He's not, Okay, I don't know what his thought process. I've never met him. I don't know. I'm glad I don't live in New York city. I'm about 10 miles away from the city border and it's a whole different world where I am. In addition, Mamdani now says that he wants to raise property taxes on 3 million New Yorkers, mostly working class people in Queens and Brooklyn, Staten island, some in the Bronx. All right, by 10%, 9.5%. You know, devastating that's going to be to those people to raise their property tax like that. It's like taking 10% of your assets away every year. And he's doing this because he can't afford to pay for his giveaway programs. The hallmark of the communists. Can't afford to pay for free childcare, free buses, free Food. He can't do it because the city is already running a record deficit. Highest deficit in the country. New York, I mean, they make fun of California and they mock California, but New York has got a $12 billion deficit. He's never going to be able to pay it off. Even if you sold the Empire State Building and you sold Brooklyn, Dami wants to do all these freebies and it takes money. So 10%. And nobody can stop them. Okay, Albany can't stop. Albany can stop Mandami from raising taxes. Income taxes, can't stop property taxes. So this is again, seven weeks, 19 dead, 10% rise on your property tax. And that's just the beginning. Just the beginning. Now, many, perhaps most Imam Doni supporters don't own any property. They live in Reynolds. So his constituency isn't affected by this. All right, as much as the others. They're poor people. That's who voted for Memdan. A lot of them in New York City. And they don't care. I mean, it doesn't affect them where the property tax go up. They just want free stuff. And I'm not saying that in a disparaging way. If you're poor, you need help. And that's how Mandani got elected. Now, just on the basic day to day in New York City, it took the city 14 days, two weeks to remove the snowstorm. 14 days. And I told you that the unions aren't going to work for this guy. And as they couldn't remove the snow, or wouldn't one of the two, and we're talking less than 2ft here, 20 inches, whatever garbage piled up and it wasn't elected, which you knew was going to happen. So this is just occurring at lightning speed, the decline of the largest city in the country. By this time next year, I will predict New York City will be a fiscal disaster, a catastrophe. Quick, choose a meal deal with McValue. The $5 McChicken meal deal, the $6 McDouble meal deal, or the new $7 Daily Double meal deal, each with its own small fries, drink and Four Piece McNuggets. There's actually no rush. I'm just excited for McDonald's for a limited time only. Prices and participation may vary. Not by Alder McDelivery. And yes, I know there are going to be hundreds of thousands of people moving out, but Mandami wants that because one of his big issues is housing affordability. If you have all these people moving out of New York, which will happen, then their houses go on the market and then there's a glut of houses so the prices come down. That's what Mandami wants. Now, is he doing it on purpose? Wrecking the city so people move? I don't think so, but it's possible. But the point of this is. And Seattle is going through the same thing because you got a communist mayor there, Katie Wilson. I mean, it's just inconceivable. But if Americans continue to not pay attention. All right, to live in bubbles created by social media and to vote for these kinds of people, these communist socialist people, is what you're going to get. This is it. 89% of the Cuban population, 89% live in poverty. You think you're going to prosper in that kind of a communist socialist arena? You're not. Yet millions of Americans are too stupid, too apathetic to understand the danger. And that's the memo. All right, let's go to the media because it's an interesting story. So you know about the View. Okay, it's a propaganda show, but it's under the ABC News banner. The news division of abc. Disney controls the View, but it's not a news show. It's not gathering information. In fact, last year didn't book one non liberal guest on the show, not one. And they had Schwarzenegger on talking about how his muscles are sagging or something. But you know, come on. So it's a propaganda show. Entertainment. That's what it is. Enter the fcc, Federal Communications Commission. It is threatening now Disney because of the View. And the View is violating what the FCC says is the equal time rule. Okay? Section 315 of the Communications Act. It says, quote, if any licensee shall permit any person who is legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all of the such candidates for that office. So if the View brings on some liberal person who's running for office, they have to bring on a conservative, but they don't. Now, there's an exception to what I just read that is if you are a bona fide news organization, you don't have to do that. And the reason is because the person involved, maybe in a scandal or maybe in a controversy or maybe doing something, got to cover that. And you don't have to give equal time if the person's an office holder. Okay? That makes perfect sense. But Brandon Carr, the head of the fcc, is saying the View is not a news program. It's hiding behind that. And so there's a big investigation being launched on the View. Now, will this lead to anything? I don't think so. I don't think so. But I could be wrong. I don't know why Disney does it. It's hurt their brands so badly. And you know, I was on the View a dozen times, you know, but it was a whole different thing that Barbara Walters ran it. Now at the same time, Colbert, who's going to be leaving the air May 21, CBS wants him out of there so badly he tried to book a Texas congressman, James Talarico, who's running against a whole bunch of people for the Senate, okay, Including Jasmine Crockett. It's a big Democratic primary in Texas. So Colbert, for whatever reason, Colbert is another one, never books anybody who's not liberal. Ever by Colbert is obviously an entertainment program and they're not saying it's news and it falls under the Equal Protection Act. So CBS lawyers said to Colbert, hey, if you're going to put Talarico on, you got to put on all of the other people running against him. Colbert didn't like that. So Colbert pulled Talarico off his show and put him on the Internet. That's what Colbert did. And then Colbert went on his show and said this. Go. We looked and we can't find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview. Not only for my entire late night career, but for anyone's late night career going back to the 1960s. But on January 21st, we heard from FCC chairman Brendan Carr, seen here testifying how to purple a nerple. Carr. He issued a letter saying he was thinking about getting rid of that talk show exception. He had not gotten rid of it yet, but CBS generously did it for him and told me no, told me unilaterally that I had to abide by the equal time rules. There isn't any talk show exception that I can find. He just made that up. But he's telling the truth. In previous administrations didn't enforce the rules, but there were very few of these kinds of controversies. But he's right. Colbert is right. They didn't enforce. But there's no exception, written exception that I can find. I could be wrong. If I am, I'll, I'll tell you. Okay, okay. So what is happening here is the Trump administration is so angry about how the media, corporate media, Disney, cbs, NBC, all of them, cnn, have treated him that they're taking the letter of the law and enforcing it. That's what's happening. Epstein, this story is never going to go away. It's going to be like the JFK assassination. Years and years and years and years of stuff. Anyway, Prince Andrew has been arrested. He's not a prince anymore. He got booted out of the prince thing. So he's just Andrew. So he's been arrested. But it's different to be arrested in England than it is in the United States. So they can only hold you one day. All right? And they haven't charged Andrew with anything. What we understand is that he was, in 2010, Andrew a, quote, special envoy for international trade, and he dealt with Epstein on that. I don't know how. Okay. And anyway, so there. It looks like they're trying to get Andrew and put him in prison because everybody knows, unfortunately, that Andrew did commit crimes and got away with him. And that's true, in my opinion. I can't prove it. But this guy and Epstein, you know, if it walks like a duck, all of that. But I can't prove it. Anyway, I don't expect him to be charged, Andrew, but maybe they will. I think they're trying to just tamp down a British outrage because the public's outrage over there. All right, new poll. Reuters. So. So poll. Thousand 117 respondents talking about Epstein. First question. The Epstein files show that powerful people are rarely held accountable. Strongly agree. 69%. Whoa. Somewhat agree. 17%. Disagree. 11%. So that's what drives the story. Everybody believes that the wealthy and powerful got away with something here. Second question. The files have lowered my trust in political business leaders. Strongly agree. 53. Somewhat agree. 24. Disagree. 19. Was the fix in? Yes, to some extent, because Epstein got tried in Florida. That should have been a federal beef. He got a very light term for what he did with the underage girls. Then he gets out, does the same thing again, and a whole bunch of powerful people hung around with him, and none of them were indicted. With one caveat. All right? In order to make a case, the Justice Department has to have a complaining witness. So you have to go in and file a criminal complaint against Andrew or whoever else harmed you. And that has not happened. And that's what's holding all of this stuff up. So if somebody comes forward and said, Andrew did this to me on this date, and I was 15, you got adjudicated. But so far we don't have that record. It doesn't mean it didn't happen, but it, you know, there is a stair step to the criminal justice system. But I do believe that a lot of authorities in Florida and the federal government, remember Biden didn't do anything about this for four years. You never heard this because the Clintons were involved. And the Clintons will have to testify next week, but they did look away. Gavin Newsom. So he's campaigning for president already. You know that There is a poll, Emerson College, just in California. Okay. Thousand registered voters, just out. Democrats, 50%. Republicans, 27. Because that's a voter registration in California. So Emerson did its job. First question, do you approve or disapprove? Job. Gavin Newsom is doing this. Approved. 45. Approved. 44. Never heard of him. 11. Never heard of him. How can you live in California, never hear. Because you're a bubble person. That's why. All right, so it's evenly split, but with the Democratic majority being so vast, that's not a good number for the governor. 53% of Californians say they have considered leaving the state because the high cost of of living. 47% are hanging tough. All right, let's go to Iran. So I last talked with President Trump a little more than two weeks ago about Iran. He doesn't want to bomb it because thousands of Persians will be killed. Innocent people, regular people, because the mullahs hide behind those people. Just like Hamas, Gaza and the Revolutionary Guard does the same thing. So very hard with sustained air power, not to have civilian casualties. And that's what President Trump is worried about. Doesn't want worldwide pictures of 50,000 dead Persians. So the only way to do this is to bomb military installations, which will happen. And I've always been an advocate of taking out the ports of Iran. But that'll hurt the people if they do that, because they'll start. No, nothing in, nothing out. But the President, I understand I could be wrong on this because I'm getting a third hand. Not from him. Is still not still hoping he comes to some kind of deal with the most. And that window is closing fast. So to congressmen Ro Khanna, Democrat, California, Thomas Massie, Republican, Kentucky. Both do not like President Trump at all. They're saying, oh, no, we have to go to Congress to get approval. Same old thing. Heard it a million times. It's not going to happen. If Trump wants to go in, Trump will go in. But Khanna in particular had a pretty interesting explanation for him trying to prevent any presidential action against Iran. Roll it. It's tax season, and at LifeLock, we know you're tired of numbers, but here's a big one you need to hear. Billions. That's the amount of money and refunds the IRS has flagged for possible identity fraud. Now, here's another big number. 100 million that's how many data points LifeLock monitors every second. If your identity is stolen, we'll fix it, guaranteed. One last big number. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com podcast for the threats you can't control. Terms apply. Thomas Massie and I are going to force a vote next week in Congress to stop a war in Iran. Sources say that There is a 90% chance that Trump will launch a major invasion of Iran. It would be a colossal blunder to have another war in the Middle East. We need Congress to go on record next week to say no war in Iran. So that is so crazy, and I'm speaking as a skeptic, of military action in the Middle east because of what happened in Iraq. Okay, I'm. I'm very cautious there. But no war in Iran. Like, they're not responsible for all the other wars. You got to connect those dots there, Row. It wouldn't be a Gaza Hamas if not for Iran. Wouldn't be a Lebanon Hezbollah. Wouldn't be the Houthis firing at people in the Red Sea. And then you got this nation sworn to kill Americans and Israelis. You're an American roe. They're swearing to kill you and your family, and they're developing nukes and they have ballistic missiles. And you don't want any action, roe. You just want to let it go. Kind of like Biden and John Kerry, Barack Obama. They're letting it go. Come on, you know, shark bites. So there are, in this world, 8.3 billion people. I'd like to know who counted them all. That's what I like. 8.3 billion people in the world. Okay? Last year, 2025, there were 21 unprovoked shark bites in the United States. 21. Now, what do you mean by unprovoked? Some idiots, you know, chum, throw blood in the water, do that, kind of. They're just asking for it. All right? People do that. But 21, okay, not that leads the league in the world. Australia is second. They had 21 as well. Five fatalities. We had four fatalities. So I guess it's a tie between the USA and Australia. Third is the Bahamas. Okay, just five. So shark bites, they're not a real problem, but every time it happens, the media blows it up. So everybody's going, whoa. Okay. Right, right. Which is good for me because I like to go swimming in the ocean. I don't like a lot of people around. And there's never been a shark attack on eastern Long island, where I live, in the history of the East End along. Well, I'm not going to tell you where I live, but where I live, never been a shark attack because the tides are so intense, the currents, these sharks don't like that they stay outside. But anyway, the real problem in the world is snake bites. So 80,000 people die from snake bites every year. 80,000. And last year, according to World Health Organization, 5.4 million people were bitten by poisonous snakes. That blows away the sharks. Now most of those people are in India and Africa. There's a lot of jungle and people going through the jungle and no shoes on. Whatever they're doing, the snake goes, hey, but snakes are a lot more dangerous than sharks. Back with media people feuding in a moment. Okay, final thought of the day. If you spend any time on social media, you know that a bunch of high profile folks that have various programs and forums feud from time to time, call each other names. And going on 30 years, I did it a little bit and then I figured out how dumb it was to do so. We don't do that anymore. Unless somebody's hurting you, somebody's hurting you, I'll take them on. But back and forth, you know, I understand the appeal of it. Everybody likes a good show. So I was on WABC with Sid Rosenberg. I do that every Thursday morning. And here's what I said about it. So the feuding helps the people on both sides. It brings attention to them. And it's so hard to get an audience now because it's fragmented across the board, everything's blown up. And when Trump leaves, it's going to be a debacle. For television news, it's so hard that if you want to get attention, you throw a hand grenade at somebody and then that somebody replies. That's what's going on. Now that doesn't offend me. I don't get involved with it. But if you guys want to brawl it out, okay, that's okay with me. But I'm not going to do it. And it does get pretty nasty sometimes. But you know, these very hard to get people's attention. Now, in this country where we live in, there are a few of us who command attention because we've been around so long. I hope you saw the Cuomo program on News Nation last night with Stephen A. Smith and me. It was so funny. I really, you know, that's worth looking up and, you know, so people know us, but other people want to get attention. That's the quickest way to get it is to go in and slash and burn. So that's what's going on. All right. I want you to have a nice weekend news column on Sunday. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching the no Spin News. We'll see you again on Monday.