NEW: O'Round the World - February 15, 2026

Summary

Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Episode: O'Round the World - February 15, 2026
Date: February 15, 2026
Host: Bill O’Reilly
Notable Guests: Mark Levin, Boomer Esiason, Jesse Watters, Simone Del Rosario

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Overview

This episode centers on a no-spin discussion of the current American political and economic landscape as the country approaches the 2026 midterms. Bill O’Reilly analyzes President Trump’s prospects, the public’s mood, and key election issues like inflation, insurance costs, and immigration. The conversation expands to cultural commentary—most notably the reasons behind Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show—and ends with in-depth discussion about the Epstein hearings, California’s social and economic decline, and media narratives.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The 2026 Midterm Landscape

[00:34-02:15, 23:02-24:30, 35:58-36:09]

• Potential Outcomes:
  O’Reilly predicts that if the midterms were held immediately, Democrats would likely take the House and the Senate might be a tie, leaving the Vice President, J.D. Vance, as the tiebreaker.

  “If the vote were held tomorrow, Democrats would take one, the House of Representatives, and it might be a tie in the Senate... The momentum is against President Trump right now.” — Bill O’Reilly [01:56]

• Why Trump’s Agenda Is at Risk:
  Losing congressional chambers hampers Trump's ability to implement his agenda, limiting him to executive orders that would likely face court challenges.

• Economic Discontent:
  Public frustration centers on rising living costs—especially food, meat, and insurance.

  “It's becoming increasingly difficult to get ahead of the bills... Insurance companies are some of the greediest corporations in the world.” — Bill O’Reilly [01:56]

• Blame and Context:
  O’Reilly attributes initial economic shocks to Covid and government responses—especially post-pandemic spending under Biden, which sparked lasting inflation.

2. Key Issues Driving Voter Sentiment

[01:55-03:30, 16:48-18:45, 18:45-19:46]

• Personal Finances over Policy:
  Americans, especially women, vote emotionally based on economic security and “calm.”

  “The grocery store trumps Beijing all day long. The average American voter, particularly female... wants calm and wants to be able to pursue a worthwhile life, have enough money and assets to do that.” — Bill O’Reilly [07:14]

• Insurance as Top Problem:
  Skyrocketing insurance premiums are demoralizing for working people.

  “Insurance, that's the main reason that people are finding themselves short of cash. If you live in a high tax state... you're being taxed up to here and then you got to pay these enormous insurance costs and it dwarfs food.” — Bill O’Reilly [16:48]

• Tax Refunds Hoped as Remedy:
  Trump administration is banking on tax refunds to revive confidence and spending.

3. Immigration and Crime Narratives

[04:00-06:15, 51:29-53:55]

• ICE and Migration:
  O’Reilly claims there’s broad support for removing undocumented migrants, but faulty government messaging has hurt Trump, especially with Latino voters.

• Media “Lies” about Criminal Statistics:
  O’Reilly criticizes stats used by Democrats and mainstream media to downplay the threat posed by illegal immigrants.

  “Drug dealing is not considered a violent crime. Child pornography, not considered a violent crime... Domestic abuse, not considered a violent crime... They use a 14% number, which is totally bogus, to justify abolishing ICE.” — Bill O’Reilly [51:57]

4. Foreign Policy: Iran, Cuba, and Beyond

[09:20-11:00, 19:46-22:08]

• Foreign Policy Doesn't Sway Voters:
  Americans don't typically “vote foreign policy,” but Trump’s foreign agenda (“reshaping the world”) is nonetheless significant—especially his hard lines on China and Russia.

• Potential Wins and Risks:
  The administration hopes for major foreign policy breakthroughs, such as regime changes in Iran and Cuba.

• On Iran:
  O’Reilly takes a pragmatic stance—deal over war if Iran can be forced to release political prisoners and be stripped of nuclear capacity, but acknowledges that the mullahs are hard to budge without severe pressure.

  “A deal at this point in history... is better than the United States bombing the country and killing a bunch of Muslims.” — Bill O’Reilly [20:36]

5. The Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Explained

[11:20-16:21, 29:03-31:58, 43:11-45:28]

• Business, Not “Woke” Politics:
  Contrary to culture war punditry, O’Reilly insists Bad Bunny’s presence was about Apple’s vast investment in NFL advertising and music downloads, not virtue signaling.

  “It wasn't about being socially correct or woke... Apple wanted Bad Bunny at the halftime show to sell downloads for Apple music. That's what it was all about.” — Bill O’Reilly [29:48]
  “Apple invested between 50 and $100 million in the NFL just this year... Apple will make four times that worldwide on downloads.” — Bill O’Reilly [44:06]

• Music Industry Shifts:
  Bad Bunny is framed as a hugely successful international artist driven by downloads, not traditional album sales.

• No NFL Payment:
  Bad Bunny performed the halftime without direct payment—expenses only—knowing the performance would boost his music revenue globally.

• Cultural Reactions:
  O’Reilly finds the outrage over Bad Bunny performative by both sides—critics and fans:

  “The most strident critics of the devious Rabbit make money themselves criticizing him... everybody wins except the kids who listen to this guy and incorporate what he says into their lives.” — Bill O’Reilly [15:18]

6. Epstein Hearings, Clintons, Media Spin

[33:12-34:56, 37:13-42:44]

• Clinton Complications:
  The ongoing investigations into Epstein are seen as potentially damaging for the Clintons. Epstein reportedly provided support to the Clinton Foundation and Global Initiative.

• Attempts to Link Trump:
  Media and Democrats are trying to connect Trump to Epstein’s crimes, but O’Reilly says there’s no credible evidence.

  “It's obvious the Democratic Party wants to link Donald Trump to some kind of crime involving Epstein. That evidence has not surfaced. They're never going to stop doing that.” — Bill O’Reilly [38:04]

• On Attorney General Bondi's Testimony:
  O’Reilly describes Bondi’s approach as intentionally confrontational, seeing the hearings as a “charade.”

• Ilhan Omar's Accusations:
  O’Reilly sees Rep. Omar’s inflammatory language against Trump as worthy of House ethics sanctions, not direct legal counterattacks.

  “I think that the House of Representatives should bring Ms. Omar up into the Ethics Committee and sanction her for this kind of outrageous behavior.” — Bill O’Reilly [41:33]

7. The State of California, Super Bowl, and Social Decay

[25:19-26:41, 46:34-48:49]

• San Francisco’s Decline:
  Bill shares stories from his documentary reporting on homelessness and crime, focusing on the Tenderloin neighborhood. He attributes the city’s trouble to permissive drug policies, lack of enforcement, and “Honduran illegal aliens” controlling the drug trade.

• Exorbitant Costs:
  Super Bowl pricing is mocked—$36 cheeseburgers, $30K tickets—and state taxes are seen as driving people and businesses away.

  “California is so extreme in its taxation. It is double what I pay for a gallon of gas on Long Island.” — Bill O’Reilly [46:59]

8. Political Personalities and Party Dynamics

[22:49-24:01, 56:03-58:41]

• Trump’s Personality and Consistency:
  O’Reilly and guests characterize Trump as fundamentally unchanged since the 1980s and 2016.

• Gavin Newsom:
  O’Reilly recounts his encounter with California’s governor, describing Newsom as charismatic, affable, and surprisingly approachable at high society events.

• Pelosi and the Democratic Party:
  Comments on Pelosi’s immense wealth, her social distancing from San Francisco’s decline, and the radicalization of the Democratic leadership:

  “She is a radical leftist… There are two types of Democrats… [but] they’re not effective. They don’t represent the Democratic Party.” — Bill O’Reilly [58:20]

• Moderates in Hiding:
  Discussion about the scarcity and silence of moderate Democrats due to social media pressure and dominance by the far left.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Economic Anxiety:

  “People's standard of living... is becoming increasingly difficult to get ahead of the bills… insurance companies are some of the greediest corporations in the world.” — Bill O’Reilly [01:56]

• On Trump's Communication:

  “I think he should have commercials, television commercials... here's the reality of the situation... give the impression the president... is on the case.” — Bill O’Reilly [18:45]

• On Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl:

  “It wasn't about being socially correct or woke... Apple wanted Bad Bunny at the halftime show to sell downloads for Apple music. That's what it was all about.” — Bill O’Reilly [29:48]

• On Democrats' ICE Crime Stats:

  “Drug dealing is not considered a violent crime... They use a 14% number, which is totally bogus, to justify abolishing ICE.” — Bill O’Reilly [51:57]

• On Outrage and Capitalism:

  “The most strident critics of the devious Rabbit make money themselves criticizing him... everybody wins except the kids who listen to this guy and incorporate what he says into their lives.” — Bill O’Reilly [15:18]

• On the Democratic Party’s Evolution:

  “Look at Schumer. Schumer used to... portray himself as a populist... now he's Che Guevara.” — Bill O’Reilly [59:18]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Forecasting the 2026 Midterms: [00:34–02:15], [35:58–36:09]
• Economic Discontent and Insurance Hassles: [01:56–03:30], [16:48–18:45]
• Media on Immigration and ICE: [51:29–53:55]
• Bad Bunny Super Bowl Business Deal: [11:20–16:21], [29:03–31:58], [43:11–45:28]
• Epstein Hearings and Clinton Connections: [33:12–34:56], [37:13–42:44]
• Trump, Personality, and Party Consistency: [22:49–24:01]
• California, Social Decline, and Taxes: [25:19–26:41], [46:34–48:49]
• Party Moderates and Democratic Radicalization: [58:20–59:41]

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Tone and Style

O’Reilly’s signature “no spin” approach is evident—blending blunt, occasionally acerbic political and cultural commentary with humor, skepticism toward mainstream narratives, and deep knowledge of media operations. He calls out “lies” from both parties, openly mocks performative outrage, and peppers the episode with personal anecdotes, quick asides, and pop culture references.

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Conclusion

This episode offers a sweeping, candid look at America’s 2026 crossroads—electorally, economically, and culturally. O’Reilly paints a picture of voter frustration with kitchen-table issues, a political class disconnected from its base, and a media ecosystem more invested in spectacle and outrage than substance. Listeners are reminded that beneath the headlines and outrage cycles, money—rather than ideology—often drives decisions, whether in politics, pop culture, or pro football.

Transcript

[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

Here. Let's get started. Who's going to win a midterm elections in November in the usa. Vital. And here's why. So President Trump has a very specific agenda. Very specific. He wants to do certain things. And I'll tell you exactly what he wants to do. You know, in his next three years, if he loses the House or the Senate, obviously, or both, that agenda is going to be much more difficult to implement. So be able to do executive orders, but they'll all be challenged in court. Impeachment. I don't think the Democrats are dumb enough to do that again. I mean, the two impeachments that Trump every history book from now until the end of time, we'll just ignore it because it was so stupid. And there's never going to be a conviction of Mr. Trump in the Senate unless new stuff comes out. Okay. About some heinous thing. But there are partisan Democrats who might do this stupid stuff, so that's something too. Okay, so what is my prediction? I can only make the prediction if the vote were held tomorrow.

All right.

Not in November, because so many things are going to happen. The vote were held tomorrow, Democrats would take one, the House of Representatives, and it might be a tie in the Senate, which of course the vice president, J.D. vance, would break. But the momentum is against President Trump right now. Why? Let's run it down. Okay, so the most important thing in this country is people's standard of living. How much money you have and is becoming increasingly difficult to get ahead of the bills. Now. It's if you want to pinpoint fall Covid. Covid caused this. And then Biden came in and spent gazillions of dollars trying to mitigate the damage Covid did to the economy. And that caused all kinds of inflation. And a lot of that inflation has not come down. The overall number has. But food in particular, meat has not. A lot of reasons for that. Insurance. The insurance companies are some of the greediest corporations in the world. The US Insurance companies. Greed, greed, greed. They seized upon Covid to jack every rate up. They Could. And that if there is an earthquake in Southern California, people in Maine are paying for that earthquake. That's the equation now. Yeah, that's what they do. And so insurance, health insurance is the worst because. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up. And then house and car. By the time you get paid any premiums, you're devastated. And then you got to buy the food, and then you got to buy a house now, depending on where you live. Okay, so Americans are going, whoa, got to be some relief. Well, the president has no wage. Price control, power. Can't do that. He can't wave a magic wand and say, hey, bring down a price of steak or burgers, but there are things that he can do. So he flooded his own with oil. And that has brought down in many parts of the country the price at the pump that's working. I don't know about the food chain. I don't know why it's so high. I'm very selective when I buy food. Very selective. Whatever. I'm not overpaying for it. But I don't have to have meat. I can eat fish. Doesn't matter. Doesn't bother me. All right. The second thing is the ice. Undocumented, most people support the removal of migrants who should not be here. The problem is that the government's messaging on this is not great. They don't explain why they're doing what they're doing. That has to improve. And it's damaged the Trump administration right now, particularly among Latinos. And they need a Latino vote. The GOP needs three. All the crazy stuff, you know, enough, enough, enough, enough. We get the Obama thing with this. We got that people exhausted. All right, that hurts. So you got a bunch of stuff that is swirling around. The good stuff isn't reported by the media. So the impression you get is all bad. It's not all these tariffs and everything that could lead could to much higher wages as the jobs become in the manufacturing service, and then you're going to get your tax refund. A lot of money coming into this country in the next few months. We don't know. All right, then we go overseas now. People don't vote. Foreign policy. Americans don't vote. Americans vote emotion. How am I feeling? Do I like this one? Do I not like this is what they vote? They don't know really what's going on. Ukraine, they don't care what's going on in Ukraine. They care that Putin is a madman and killing innocents. Yeah. Care that. They care that Iran is a terrorist sponsor. Yeah. Maduro nobody even heard of him until he got whacked. But nobody's going to vote foreign policy. And it is here where Donald Trump has been most successful. He's reshaping the world, right? So we are going to dominate the Americas, the United States. He's demanding Europe get stronger as a bulwark against Putin. And then he's kind of playing China eye to eye, you know, saying, you're not going to take over the world. You're not going to be the world superpower. We're going to remain that. That's the big picture. For Trump to assert and grow American power. And that's smart, but American. The grocery store trumps Beijing all day long. The average American voter, particularly female, and I know I'm going to get criticized for this, wants calm and wants to be able to pursue a worthwhile life, have enough money and assets to do that. That's it. Calm, financial stability. And right now, both of those areas are swirling around. That will help the Democrats. It doesn't matter that the Democrats don't have much solutions. Doesn't matter that their leadership is almost undefined. People vote motion. So again, vote for Hill tomorrow, the midterm elections. I think President Trump would lose a significant amount of power wherever. Wait till you see the next six months. And that's why you stay with us, not only on the YouTube channel, but on Bill O'Reilly.com where every day we're telling you the truth and we're covering stories that matter to you. All right? And I'll give you tell you one more thing. President Trump watches the newspaper news first when he reviews media every day. Bad Bunny money. Okay, now this story, like almost every other story in this country, is really not being told accurately. I have to confess, I don't care about Bad Bunny. The devious rabbit can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't break the law. I don't care. I made a terrible prediction in the late 1990s that rap music would not last. I don't think I've ever been more wrong about anything. But I listened to it. I thought, oh, come on, this was the Eminem time. How can people what? We'll get back to Earth, Wind and Fire and the Four Tops and we'll get back to that kind of good song stuff. No. So now rap is enormous. And the money is incredible that people make putting this stuff out. Enter bad money. A Puerto Rican guy worked his way up first in the Latino community. He has 17 Latin Grammy Awards. 17. He's got six overall Grammys. He's put out 17 albums. Whatever. I'm sorry, seven or eight albums. Can't figure it out. But we can figure out that he is sold 124 million albums now. I've sold 24 million books. Bad Bunny is all 124 million albums. Whoa. So this is big dollars here, okay? Enter Apple. Apple wants you to download music from its services. That's what Apple wants you to do. Because there's a lot of money. People don't buy albums anymore. They don't buy 45s. They don't do that. They download music, but they pay for it. And Apple has got a lot of competition. So Apple enters into a deal with the National Football League, whereby Apple will spend $50 million to stage the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Apple's got exclusive rights there, okay? And Apple will also buy throughout the season advertisements and other things. So Apple is investing in the NFL big time. The quid pro quo is Bad Bunny does the super bowl not anything to do with Roc Nation or Jay Z or Beyonce. I mean, do with that. It has to do with, okay, Apple, you're one of our unbelievable sponsors. And if you would like the devious Rabbit, the headline the show at halftime, we'll take it. And that's what happened. Not cultural. The NFL didn't come down and go, oh, we want to gross everybody out. And if you listen to the English translation of Bad Bunny's music, it's just kind of, you know, you don't want kids listening to that. It's the usual rap stuff. The usual, you know, you know what it is, okay? But it wasn't like, yeah, let's have bad Bunnies come in and disrupt traditional America. That's not what happened. That's not the decision. Decision is money. Now. Got a little complicated. When Bad Bunny shows up and gets the Grammy Award and Bad Mouse his country, then the NFL goes, whoa, we can't have that at the halftime show. Remember, this beams out all over the world. And so the Rabbit's people were said told in no uncertain terms, none of that. And the Bad Bunny didn't do it, okay? Now Apple makes a ton of money because people all over the world are getting bad bunnies music, whatever it is, from Apple and other Apple artists. So they're going in there, they're getting familiar with the brand. I estimate Apple make four times the profit, four times than the investment when this thing is all over. I don't have the stats now, but they're colossal. Because, remember, all over the world, particularly in the Spanish speaking world in south and Central America, Luca markets for music, which is why you saw Ricky Martin. These other people in there couldn't get in there fast enough. Final couple of things. Bear Bad Bunny and get paid a dollar. They didn't pay him. They picked up his expenses for moving his crew into Santa Clara, California, rehearsals, hotels, that kind of thing, okay? Because bad Bunnies getting all of this, record sales, album sales. So Bad Bunny goes, I don't need to get paid. I'm going to get paid on this end for this. And the final thing is people who are upset about Bad Bunny. As you can see, I'm not upset about Bad Bunny. I don't particularly like what he does. I'll never consume that kind of information or entertainment. Doesn't mean anything to me. But the ones that scream the loudest against Bad Bunny are kind of doing the same thing because they want people to come to their websites or their cable shows or their publications. They want traditional people to go, ah, I hate this Bad Bunny. And then I'll come in and here Bad Bunny gets smashed. So they're making money from it, too. It's, this is what capitalism is, what America is, okay? You find a way to exploit situations for cash. If you do it legally, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I'm not offended when certain commentators go on their social media or their podcasts or their cables and scream about Bad Bunny being bad. What do I care? I know exactly what happened. I broke the story and makes perfect sense to me. This is a country in which we live. But the most strident critics of the devious Rabbit make money themselves criticizing him. So in the end, if you want to think about it this way, kind of everybody wins except the kids who listen to this guy and incorporate what he says into their lives. They don't win, they're the casualties. But otherwise, it's, hey, let's get that Bad Bunny up and running. Ravy Train city.

[Mark Levin]

With US Now, Bill O'Reilly, host of the no Spin News. Billoe Reilly.com, author of Confronting Evil, Assessing the worst of the Worst. Bill, good buddy of mine Tony Katz, radio host out in Indianapolis, used to always say that Trump always wins. First rule of Trump. How does Trump get a win right now to turn the the feeling in the country around?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I think he's counting on the tax refunds to really gin up the economy. That would be number one. Number two, the administration believes that Iran and Cuba will fall. Now, it is true that most Americans don't Vote foreign policy. The third thing is that the Trump administration has to figure out how to bring down insurance costs. Insurance, that's the main reason that people are finding, working people are finding themselves short of cash. If you live in a high tax state like New York, where I am, you're being taxed up to here and then you got to pay these enormous insurance costs and it dwarfs food. And you're looking around after the month and going, where is the money going? Well, it's going to insurance costs and it's going to taxes. And people are getting discouraged. And that's the poll you just cited.

[Mark Levin]

Harry Entten over on CNN has talked about this, about President Trump's job approval numbers. Take a listen.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Absolutely crazy in how the American people have totally turned on Donald Trump.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Take a look here.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Trump's net approval rating on jobs in January 2025. Look at that. Overall, plus nine points. Hey, that's pretty good. But down he goes minus 13 points overall. But you think that's nuts, take a look at the independents.

[Simone Del Rosario]

They go from plus seven way, way.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Way down off the screen to minus 30 points.

[Mark Levin]

Not sure how you get off the screen when it's still on the screen. But the point is made. The question is this, bill, does Trump need to acknowledge how people are feeling about insurance costs that people are feeling, borrow a term that is from history, the malaise of America right now?

[Bill O'Reilly]

I think so. I think he would be better served than doing the press goggle, which always devolves into name calling, which doesn't do anybody any good. I think he should have commercials, television commercials that he puts out and says, here's the reality of the situation now. You talk to the president about having a summit of all insurance company CEOs at the White House and trying to come to some agreement that the insurance companies would stop gouging the American public. See, all of these things are photo ops, but they give the impression the president of the United States is on the case. He's trying to stem all this. And the poll numbers are just a daily thing. But I think the president, if he would do some 30 second TV spots laying out the facts or whatever his vision is, that would help him.

[Mark Levin]

You make the point that people don't vote on foreign policy, but Cuba falling and Iran falling would be big wins. Here's President Trump talking about a deal with Iran, though, just a few minutes ago on Fox Business.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Do you think a deal with Iran.

[Mark Levin]

With this current regime would ever really stick?

[Bill O'Reilly]

I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I know one thing. They want to make a deal. They wouldn't talk to anybody else, but they're talking to me.

[Mark Levin]

Do we want to deal with Iran? Bill? This is a regime that chants death to America and executes its own people because they protested against in hospitals and somehow, we're told, seem to think that a deal with them is a good thing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So one week ago, the president gave me a call and asked me exactly the question that you're asking me. Here's what I answered. A deal at this point in history that would have them completely neutered in the nuclear area and include a release of political prisoners inside Iran is better than the United States bombing the country and killing a bunch of Muslims. That was my answer. I don't know if the mullahs will do that unless they're really up against the wall and their own lives are at stake. But that was my answer to the president's question.

[Mark Levin]

Okay, is there not a middle ground that you do to Iran what, as you pointed out, America is doing to Cuban. To Cuba and strangle them?

[Bill O'Reilly]

There's no middle ground on Iran because of their secret police and army capacity. So if that deal were made, that would embolden the Persian people who don't want this kind of theocracy any longer. But you got to let the Persians sort it out. America and Israel, which is what would be the propaganda aspect of it. Removing the mullahs is going to create a lot of turmoil and unintended consequences around the world.

[Mark Levin]

Well, we've heard about those before. Where does the president need to be focused in his. I say that because there seems to be a lot of things that may not be directly helpful to the American people or fix the issues we were talking about at the top. Here's President Trump today, Friday, and Caroline Levitt talking about renaming Penn Station in New York and Dulles Airport.

[Jesse Watters]

You would want Penn Station and Dulles Airport to be named after you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Is that.

You suggested that to me.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Chuck Schumer suggested that to me.

[Bill O'Reilly]

About changing the name of Penn Station to. To your first question about the renaming.

[Jesse Watters]

Why not?

[Bill O'Reilly]

It was something the president floated in.

His conversation with Chuck Schumer.

[Mark Levin]

Good politics.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Look, you know, if you don't get President Trump by now, you're never going to get him. His rationale is I'm going to rebuild Dulles, which is a dump. And it is. And I'm going to rebuild Penn Station, which you can't even walk through. It's. The ceilings are 6 foot 1. I actually have to do the limbo when I go to Penn Station. And because we're going to allot the federal money to do that, I need some credit on it. That's his thinking process. Now all it is just reinforces the people who don't like Donald Trump that he's a megalomaniac. But it's not anything of importance at all. It's not he's the same guy he was in 2016, at least he's consistently. It's the same guy.

[Mark Levin]

No, that's what he's changing. I would say he's the same guy. He's the same guy if you know him better than I do. But just in terms of watching him and covering the same guy since the 1980s. Right. That that's who Donald Trump is 35.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I've known him 35 years. He hasn't changed one bit. Not one bit.

[Mark Levin]

Okay. So I'm going to give you this the end.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay.

[Mark Levin]

I'm going to give you this at the end. You were on this program a little less than a year ago saying that if things don't turn around by April, there is serious problems. Things turning around being the economy. Are you seeing the signs that things are getting better in America?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Somewhat. Somewhat. Anybody who's in the stock market with their 401ks or college funds, they're doing great. That's a lot of folks. Okay. Unemployment, you can get a job and if you're in a certain part of the country, a well paying job. So somewhat. But the perception is that prices are too high because they are in very vital areas. And if the midterms were held tomorrow and you were a betting person, I think you'd have to bet Democrats would win one of the two houses of Congress. All right.

[Mark Levin]

Bill O'Reilly, good to see you as always. I know you're on with Cuomo tomorrow night. We'll be watching.

[Boomer Esais]

Bill O'Reilly, how you doing?

[Bill O'Reilly]

I'm just back from California, so I'm okay, but still a little chilly out here on Long Island. I know I'm whining, but that is the fact.

[Boomer Esais]

Well, now you covered every inch of the Super Bowl. Tell us about the first, the a lot of great parties for that week.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You know, I'm not a party guy, Simone. You know me, not a schmooze around a guy. I did attend a few of them in the sense of business. That's what it was primarily about for me. Not, not fun. The highlight was in a long conversation with Governor Newsom. Ah. And I watch him. He's really a Good retail politician, this guy. Couple of things about. He doesn't. He doesn't travel with his security guard, which I was very surprised in this day and age. You know, he kind of flounces around on his own. I didn't see any state police with him. There was one guy that I guess was his aide. And I talked to him, I said, where's the state cops? And he goes, well, in this kind of a situation, we don't really need them. I be care. And I told him, should I be careful? But as you know, he invited me on his podcast.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Oh.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And if that happens, that will be a major event. Of course. I said, sure, that would be something.

Yes.

And he did that. You know, I didn't suggested. He just did it.

[Boomer Esais]

Well.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And, you know, they were the wealthiest people on earth there at the parties and a. This is the apex of capitalism, the Super Bowl. A lot of excess $36. Cheeseburgers, two scrambled eggs. Simone, $22.

[Simone Del Rosario]

That's a lot of scrambling.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So I didn't. I can't do that. Even though I wasn't paying. I mean, News Nation was picking up the tab because we're doing a big documentary, the collapse of social order in San Francisco.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Ah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And the same thing will happen in New York City one year from today, I predict.

[Boomer Esais]

Oh, God. Hey, Newsom. Not having a lot of security around, as you know. Usually a politician that doesn't have security around him is up to something, you know, playing around, doing something.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I wouldn't say that. I don't. It's a more casual thing out there than it is here on the East Coast. I don't know what he's up to. I don't think he's run the state of California very well. I wouldn't live there in a million years. I'm never gonna go back to San Francisco unless I have to. I mean, that city. I've been going there 45 years. Was once the jewel of American cities. It is a dingy, dirty, dangerous place now.

[Boomer Esais]

Hey, tell me about Roger Goodell. He. I've met him a couple times. Seems like a real dull sort of a stern sort of a guy. What's the real Roger Goodell like?

[Bill O'Reilly]

He's gregarious. Making about 100 million a year. It's not bad, right?

[Boomer Esais]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Little known fact, I worked with his wife at Fox News. Jane Skinner. Very nice woman. Always look forward to talking to Jane Goodell is. Is a businessman, and that's why Bad Bunny was at the halftime show. I have a message today on billow reilly.com explaining it wasn't about being socially correct or woke or wasn't about any of that. It was about Apple.

[Boomer Esais]

Ah, now that's interesting.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah. You read the message.

[Boomer Esais]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So Apple's invested enormous amount of money in the NFL through advertising and other ways. And Tim Cook, the CEO, was there. I did not talk to him. I don't. I could have, but I don't know. Really, I don't have a lot to say to him. We were still compiling information about Bad Bunny. I didn't have it all when I ran into him. So here's what happened. So Apple set up in this season, not only funding the entire halftime show, and Bad Bunny did not get paid. Did you know that?

[Boomer Esais]

No, I didn't.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He didn't get a dime. He got expenses for him and his little entourage. And Apple wanted Bad Bunny at the halftime show to sell downloads for Apple music. That's what it was all about. So a deal was made, and they put up all this money for the NFL, and then the Bunnyman shows up, and that's what happened.

[Boomer Esais]

Now it is kind of funny watching all the Democrats, the left wing, the media, especially the older ones, have to pretend that they're big Bad Bunny fans just because it's the latest anti Trump thing to do. It is comical to watch, isn't it?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, I guess so. I mean, I was at the stadium, and I couldn't really hear the malevolent rabbit, but I saw him jumping up and down and grabbing his crotch. You know, it's still there. Bad Bunny. I don't know why you have to check it every three minutes, but I don't care. I don't care. For me, Earth, Wind and Fire would do the halftime show, but if Bad Bunny wants to hop around on the stage with a bunch of tattooed people writhing around, that didn't matter to me. And I'm different than a lot of people because they get angry. I'm not angry at Bad Bunny. I am. You know, Bad Bunny's a shrewd hombre. He has a low level of talent. My opinion. But again, I'm not in that world. I don't listen to this rap stuff. What do I get out of that? I speak a little bit of Spanish, but, you know, all he's ranting and raving about is, I can't even say it on the radio. It's like, okay, but a lot of younger people like Bad Bunny. And when I asked them why they like him, they can't explain it. So I think he's a Manufactured celebrity. But I'm, I mean, it's not like Michael Jackson. You may loathe him, but he was very talented. I don't see that in Bad Bunny.

[Boomer Esais]

Nobody hates Trump, and that's enough reason for young people to latch onto him.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And he, I guess that might be part of it.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Yeah.

[Boomer Esais]

Hey, just all those people we saw sitting in the stands, what do they pay to go to the Super Bowl?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, top secondary ticket was 30 grand. Whoa, 30,000. And the cheapest ticket that I saw was 4,000. So that lets out any families or, you know, this is a capitalist event. That's what it is. And then you go into the stadium and they're hawking the nachos for 15 balls or, you know, you're going, all right. But everybody knows when they go to a spectacle like that that it's just part of, of the mosaic. You're going to be gouged. If you wanted to park close to the stadium, it's 250 bucks.

[Jesse Watters]

What?

[Bill O'Reilly]

What? Yep.

[Boomer Esais]

Oh, God. Well, if you want to read more about super bowl week, what really goes on there, check out billoreilly.com lot of stuff there. Billow reilly.com hey, the Epstein hearings, the, the Clintons, do they have anything to worry about?

[Bill O'Reilly]

The head of the oversight committee on my no spin news broadcast last night. And it'll be pretty interesting because they can't take the fifth amendment like a Maxwell did yesterday. And if we're up to me, Maxwell would, would never get out of prison ever.

Yeah.

In fact, I, I think I would send her some more Devil's island or something. She's a horrendous human being. But the Clintons with Bill Clinton.

They.

Want to focus in on what the deuce he was doing with Epstein. What were you doing? Now he's not going to tell you what he was doing Bill Clinton, but apparently the oversight committee has done a lot of investigating. They have a lot of stuff that has not been put out.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

For Hillary, it's about the Clinton foundation, the charitable arm that they have. And Epstein provided his plan and resources to that charitable organization. And nobody, of course, knew it. But this is not good for the Clintons. There's no positive that comes out of this for either of them.

[Boomer Esais]

Yeah. And apparently Epstein was very much a part of putting together the Clinton Global Initiative, original funding, all that sort of stuff.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So he was deeply involved in it. Epstein was a sociopath who live for two things. To his proclivities and to curry to hang around with people who are powerful.

Yeah.

That was it. That was his life. And when you were in New York, you and you were at that level, you knew him, he was around and he'd spread around a lot of money and invite people here, there and everywhere. And then when Trump got in a beef with him, you know, Trump, I think, knew that this guy was committing a lot of crimes and, you know, pretty much distanced himself. You know, we traced it and it was a lot of interaction. But in the 90s, you know, they ran in the same circles, the New York City upper echelon.

[Boomer Esais]

Yeah. Well, it's an amazing story. Bill O'Reilly, great stuff on the, if you go to billoreilly.com you can, you can get his column, you can get the TV show Billo Riley.com and great stuff on YouTube. I love the YouTube channel.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's a thank you. Tonight we have whether the Republicans can hold on in November. And if I had to bet today, I would say no.

[Boomer Esais]

Oh, well, you can watch that tonight.

[Bill O'Reilly]

We're going to back it. We're going to back it up. But if it's all about Donald Trump, it's not about the two parties. And if Trump does a few adjustments and these tax refunds help, which they should, the economy, then the, the odds will swing back. But if the vote were held today, the Republicans would lose the House for sure and maybe even a Senate. Well, everybody watch, you know, they're, they're confused. That's the best word. So we'll do that on YouTube. I ran into the head of YouTube. The guy runs it.

[Boomer Esais]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And he said, Boy, your YouTube channel is on fire. I said, thank you and thanks for providing it. It's a great service.

[Boomer Esais]

Well, everybody take a look at Bill O'Reilly's YouTube channel. It's great stuff. And make sure you go to billoriley.com Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Thanks for having me, Mark.

[Boomer Esais]

All right, Take care.

[Jesse Watters]

Want to bring in Bill O'Reilly, whose message of the day, by the way, was aptly titled Linking Trump to Epstein. Bill, great to see you. Thanks for taking the time. I'm just going to set it up, my point of view, and then I'm going to hand you the floor. I read through those memos in the Epstein files where it basically says, and I get it, I'm a lawyer. We don't have enough evidence to prosecute somebody else. We don't even have videos. We don't have photographs of anyone else abusing these girls. I get it. But when Bondi gets defensive, when she starts talking about the Dow and the accomplishments of the Trump administration as the attorney general. When she calls Raskin, a former. When she gets kind of wish washy on the redactions, people will look at that and say it looks bad. It looks like there's a cover up, when maybe that's not even the case. And I'm just wondering your opinion today. Did she really do herself or the administration any favors?

[Bill O'Reilly]

People believe what they want to believe, Jesse, and this story is dragged on and on and on. It's obvious the Democratic Party wants to link Donald Trump to some kind of crime involving Epstein. That evidence has not surfaced. They're never going to stop doing that, and Bondi knows it. So what she decided to do was go in and throw some hand grenades and just blow the whole thing up and bring attention to the charade that it really is. Let me make a couple of points. So the unfortunate women who were abused, and I believe a lot of them were, when they stood up, my question would have been to them, well, you have the court to sue civilly. There are thousands of lawyers who would take your case free. Why don't you pursue that end? And then in depositions, if there's something that is shocking or true or you can prove it, then you hand it to the Justice Department. Did anybody ask that question? Do you hear that question asked, Jesse?

[Jesse Watters]

So they would say litigation has already been pursued over the years and there have been settlements. The counterargument would be this is all about whether or not the DOJ and the FBI was thorough in their investigation. And when it came to them standing up, it didn't seem that Bondi had a great answer. Just, just to push back on something. You know, the idea is, do people care about this? Is this a distraction? You know, there was a poll. 65% say that the Epstein transparency is important to forming their opinion on Trump. Republicans, 60% on that, independents, 59% of that. And you and I both know this was something that the Trump administration really ran on, that they were going to get to the bottom of this. And I just wonder, is this backfiring?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I don't, I don't know what the bottom may be. If you have civil litigation and there is settlements, then, all right, you can bring that, even though it might be secret as far as the public is concerned, to the Justice Department. I mean, it does not seem like this whole thing is being run responsibly. It's a stunt to get Trump and all Trump supporters know that. Now, whether the independents of people who don't follow the news. I don't know what their frame of reference is. I mean, when you have a document that comes out and says, Donald Trump in 2006 called the Palm beach sheriff to say, go get Epstein, he's evil. I mean, if you're involved with Epstein, you don't do that. And then it's ignored. It was absolutely ignored by the media. That was the big headline yesterday. Meaning cover. Because it doesn't want to cover that.

[Jesse Watters]

And I'll tell you, despite that, I gotta get your opinion on this. You had Ilhan Omar, who basically called the president a pedophile. She posted the leader of the pedophile protection party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia, they execute pedophiles, not elect them. You and I can both agree, I think most people should agree that crossed the line. How do you anticipate the president is going to respond to that? Legally? Maybe I should ask.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I don't think he should respond at all. I think that the House of representatives should bring Ms. Omar up into the Ethics Committee and sanction her for this kind of outrageous behavior. It's the only way it's ever going. And she doesn't care. Omar doesn't care about this, doesn't care about what happened. She's just trying to get famous and then denigrate her opposition. She hates Trump. Okay, Everyone knows what this is. It's a carnival of deceit. Three million documents, four years under Biden. They had all of the information. Everybody knows that. So, you know, I'm not going to say we should leave the case. I don't believe that. I'd like justice to be done. There was a cover up. I certainly think that should be adjudicated. And the FBI should arrest the people who covered it up, former Justice Department officials, current, whatever it may be. But let's stop with the nonsense. So I knew Attorney General Bondi was going to blow this thing up. Why would she legitimize it? So she went in and she blew it up. And that's what happened.

[Jesse Watters]

But she definitely did that. And look, there was a part where she talked about, you know, this ongoing investigation. We wonder if it's the one connected to New York. So all eyes will be on that as well. Bill O'Reilly, thanks so much for taking the time. I appreciate it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I've been listening throughout the morning. Couple of notes here. Michael McDonnell, one of the best singers, but kind of a morose guy. Not. Not Mr. Friendly. Okay.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Oh, is that. Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I ran into him with the Kentucky Derby. Now, could just be me.

[Simone Del Rosario]

No, no, no, no. It's not just you. Lou Rufino, who knows all these musicians, used to smoke dope with the, with the band. He. He's actually nodding yes. He's in that Van Morrison, Donald Fagan category.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He's not a pleasant guy. And when he walks out to the stage, isn't even acknowledged the audience, he's like, you know, his head is down and you don't have to. I mean, I. I go to see him again. I mean, that Dukes of September thing with Boss Gags and Fagan and him was fantastic. Wow. You couldn't get a better concert than that.

[Simone Del Rosario]

That is great. You know, it's like that, too. Comes out and doesn't pay any attention to the crowd. And I saw him last summer, Bob Dylan, he doesn't even address the crowd. He comes out with his head down, plays a couple of his songs, not even his best songs, and then he walks off the stage.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, it's probably better that he does that before they beat him up, because you're going to pay a lot of money to hear hits and you don't get the head.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You know, that's not. Fagan did that in Boston at the Orpheum Theater. And I almost rushed the stage. I almost got him. Didn't play any of his hits. And people going, what are we listening to this for?

[Simone Del Rosario]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Anyway, a couple of things. I was at the super bowl, as you know, and you were talking about the Malevolent rabbit and all that. The big story there was, why was he there in the first place? Of course, I broke the story on Billorily.com and my YouTube. Don't forget my YouTube channel, which is soaring now. It's YouTube.com Billorilly. So here's what happened. This is a fascinating thing. Apple invested between 50 and $100 million in the NFL just this year. And it came down to advertising and infrastructure. What is infrastructure? That's the super bowl halftime show. Apple financed it in return. The deal was that the Malevolent Rabbit would be the headliner. Now, why did Apple put all of that money into the NFL treasury? Because they'll make four times that worldwide on downloads, music downloads. It was a pure business deal.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Interesting.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Nothing to do with Jay Z or Beyonce or any of that. This was cash. Here we go. And that's what happened.

[Simone Del Rosario]

I buy it. You know, I saw something else. That's a great job out of you, Bill O'Reilly. Great job. My Competition, but not really. He does sports, but he's on the same time Boomer Esais and told the story, talking about California. I know you were out there doing a piece on the demise of San Francisco. I can't wait to see it. He tells a story that each NFL player who wins a Super bowl receives about $180,000. Okay, about 180,000. But Boomer says that when you play a football game out there, that you've got to pay something that they basically call the jock tax.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Simone Del Rosario]

So after Sam Donald, the quarterback of the Seahawks, the former Jet, won the super bowl, he got a check for 180. But it cost him. This is unbelievable. It cost him about 250,000 to spend the week there in California to play the game. So his point was, only in California can a guy win a Super bowl and he's out $70,000.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Isn't it insane? And it's absolutely true. However, Donald's accountants will write off a whole bunch of stuff and they'll throw stuff on there so he'll come out at least even. But the state of California is so extreme in its taxation. It is double what I pay for a gallon of gas on Long Island.

[Boomer Esais]

Double.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Twice as much. Wow. Because they load up the taxes on the gasoline, they want everybody to go back to covered wagons. And then you see the massive expenditures. I'll give you one. And New York is heading in this direction. So, ma', am, Donnie wants to do exactly what the California authorities have done. He was to do.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Right. And to your point, he was actually in Albany just yesterday. Our jihad boy mayor talking about raising taxes again.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, absolutely. He's going to he do everything possible to take all the money away from successful people. So I'm doing a story about the collapse of social order in San Francisco. I've been going out there 45 years. It used to be the best American city, the most beautiful, the most opportunistic. I loved going out there. It is a dingy dump.

[Simone Del Rosario]

You know what's funny about you saying that? I. I travel just about every beautiful city in this country. When I was doing syndicated sports talk radio, my former host, Scott Kaplan, twenty plus years ago, we did something, Bill. It was called the Party with the People tour. So we were on about 90 cities across America, big beautiful cities. And we would go do three shows, three shows in that city. I'm talking 20 something years ago. And I came home from San Francisco. He went to cover the. The U.S. open Championship in San Francisco when Tiger woods was at the top of his game. And I said to Danielle, the beautiful wife, I said, I want to move there. I loved it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Like you said, the weather is good.

Yes.

Tony Bennett and I were skipping around Fisherman's Wharf, singing. Now you go there, and there's a pall over the city.

Oh, no.

Because there's an army of between 10 and 30,000. Now, just picture that 10 and 30,000. Nobody can get an accurate number, all right, of miscreants who roam the city. Some of them live outside, some of them live in these hovels that the state provides, which are so dangerous that the homeless people won't go into the shelter because they're run by dope dealers. The dope dealers are inside these places and they're armed and they'll kill you. So that's the situation. More than a billion dollars have been spent by San Francisco and the state of California try to house these people. But there's no drug testing to get in the house. They don't give. There's nothing. No standards. Now, here's the kicker. You know, selling all the dope in San Francisco and parts of Oakland.

Who?

Honduran illegal aliens.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Honduran.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They run the dope trade and they're open 24, 7. And wherever they set up, that's where the homeless people go, okay, to get their dope. So not only the Hondurans control this, but usually when you have an organized crime like that in a city, you'll have a joint operation between federal and state to get those people, to get the pushers. California will not cooperate with the federal government to bring in the Honduran illegal alien, fentanyl and heroin dealers.

[Simone Del Rosario]

No shock there. You know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a lot of us became aware of illegal aliens committing heinous crimes. At least I did in San Francisco, when many years ago, a beautiful. Not that it matters, but she was beautiful. A young, beautiful blonde girl by the name of Kate Steinle was murdered on the pier in San Francisco, as it turns out to be by an illegal. And I know, Bill, that, you know, you talk about the lies, the lies, the lies put up by the media every day. No one has exposed the media, maybe outside of Trump, more than you, including Trump, probably. And they talk about 14%. That's their number. ICE detained 14% of really bad criminals. That's not even close. It's much higher than that. So it kind of all started in San Francisco, where you just were. But how about the lies that the media continues to feed to the public about how many actual Dangerous people ICE has put away.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's infuriating. So the Democratic Party is now using a. For only 14% of ICE. Detainees are violent criminals. How many times have you heard that? A lot. Okay, so here's the conversation. Drug dealing is not considered a violent crime. Child pornography, not considered.

[Simone Del Rosario]

No, no, stop.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Not considered a violent crime.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Really?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay. Dui if you run over someone in your car and the person's dead. Not considered violent crime.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Come on.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Domestic abuse, not considered a violent crime. All theft, everything not considered. All fraud like we saw in Somalia in Minnesota, not considered violent. Clearly the. The. And the Democratic Party knows this, so they put out a lie that ICE is rounding up poor hotel workers and farmers. And then they use a 14% number, which is totally bogus, to justify abolishing ICE. It doesn't get more heinous. Now you have CNN doing this. You have the major liberal newspapers doing it. NBC News does it. Good Morning America does it. On and on and on and on. I mean, when I was in San Francisco, we did very thorough reporting. You would have loved it. Because I actually had to go into the Tenderloin where these people are living on the streets and doing all kinds of insane things in public.

Wow.

So I walked in there. I did have a security guard, a security guy. Corrections officer in California. Looked like a Hell's Angel. I said, get me the meanest looking guy. And they did. So this guy was trailing me. All right. But I'm walking in and I'm talking to these people. They thought Dirty Harry was back.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Good one. Good one.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So this was a real hands on reportage that I was doing. I didn't know the Hondurans was. Were controlling all this. Yeah. And if anybody informs on the Hondurans, they're dead. No, they cut off their hands.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Oh, come Jesus. It's unbelievable.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Hands with machetes.

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[Mark Levin]

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[Jesse Watters]

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[Simone Del Rosario]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Mark Levin]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Mark Levin]

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Simone Del Rosario]

Well, when. When can we see this Amazing scheduled yet.

[Boomer Esais]

Okay.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But it will be. When it does, it'll get a lot.

[Simone Del Rosario]

There is. There is one street up. I'll promote the hell out of it. I can't wait to watch it, honestly. There's one street that I am curious about because it is the famous street in San Francisco, and that is Hate and Ashbury. Were you there? What does that look like?

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's just basically a residential neighborhood now. It doesn't really. The homeless and the mentally ill, they go where the dope dealers are. So I did a stand up in front of Nancy Pelosi's mansion in Pacific Heights. Yeah, a beautiful house. Oh, my God. Did you know that Nancy Pelosi and her husband are worth $300 million?

[Simone Del Rosario]

I thought they're actually worth more. I do know because she. And again, this is just alleged, but if Martha Stewart went to jail, let's just say Nancy's got a lot of great information over the years on her stocks. She knew about Nvidia before anybody else.

[Bill O'Reilly]

She. Whatever she did, that's up to somebody else to look at. I can't get her personal finances, but I can tell you she doesn't have to see this because where she is in San Francisco, you can drive around it. All right? You don't have to go through it. And all the politicians are wealthy people. Here's the kicker. Newsom, former mayor. He doesn't live in San Francisco. No, he lives in Marin. Right over the gate.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay. And he's my new best friend. He invited me on his podcast. Can you imagine if that happens?

[Simone Del Rosario]

I wasn't going to say anything because, you know, I don't want to ruin it for some of the listeners, but you did send me a picture. And the caption, the caption you texted me under the picture was what you just said, quote, my new best friend.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, when I'm at these soirees, these are the wealthiest people in the world at the soirees. Tim Cook, the apple guy. And they're all there. You don't talk politics. I mean, it's inappropriate. So I was just. I was asking about logistical things. You know, where do you live, how your kids doing that kind of thing. And he is. And I watched him. He is unbelievably slick.

[Simone Del Rosario]

He's got charisma. There's no question he's got charisma. You know, he looks good. He's a good talker. People when they meet him tend to like him.

[Bill O'Reilly]

If that sounds familiar, he's very affable.

Yeah.

And he engaged. And he and I engaged for a while. And he was funny because everybody in the room was going all. And Nancy Pelosi was the Exact opposite.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Oh, really?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Pelosi sachets in early 80s with MC Hammer.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Stop.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's who her date was.

[Simone Del Rosario]

For real?

[Mark Levin]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So MC comes running over to me, very polite and respectful. Yeah, okay. Nancy takes one. Looks. I didn't know an 83 year old woman could sprint.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Oh my God. That bad, huh?

[Bill O'Reilly]

With high heels.

[Simone Del Rosario]

You know what's funny? But you know what's funny? Look, I understand people who don't like people who don't know Trump. They don't like him. And I maintain all the time, if you get to know President Trump, it's almost impossible not to like him. Same thing with you. But what's funny about you is because you had all those years on Fox News, people tend to believe that you're maga. You're MAGA with a capital M. You're Rush Limbaugh on television and you're anything but. You're one of the most down the middle guys I've ever talked to. That's part of the reason why I think you're, you're a genius, because you're able to do what you did on that type of TV station after all those years. So what I'm saying is if Nancy Pelosi ever really listened to you, really listened, I don't think she'd run away from you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I don't know about that. She, she is a radical leftist. Yeah, yeah. See, there are two types of Democrats. There are the regular Democrats who are liberal people.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Who are those?

[Bill O'Reilly]

And then. Well, there's, there's a bunch of them there.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Really.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Willie Brown, a former mayor of San Francisco, former.

Former.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Former governor of New York. My point is, if I put you, if I sat you down and played Russian roulette and said if you can't name 10, one of these bullets is going to work, you'd probably die.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You can name them, they're, they're around, but they don't say anything because they're scorned and mocked if they do by the rad left, which controls social media and the money flow into the Democratic Party. Look at Schumer. Schumer used to portray himself as a populist guy from Brooklyn. He's looking out for the folks. He wrote a book about the Baileys and now he's Che Guevara.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Right? Well, used to. That's right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

See Schumer, I'm gonna give him a little red beret.

[Simone Del Rosario]

You should. But, but that's the point. So there are no moderates left because to your point, every one of them, every one of Them is scared to death. They're scared of aoc. They're scared. So when they run, they run as moderates. The only guy I can think of is John Fetterman. That's it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, but look, there's no doubt that they're frightened because social media will rip them up if they don't toe the far left line. But they're out there. But they're not effective. They don't represent the Democratic Party. Look, when you oppose voter id, which is what the Democratic Party is doing. Yeah. For no reason. There isn't one reason on earth to oppose that.

[Simone Del Rosario]

No, they have a reason. It actually works for them. That is that all these illegals that Democrats allow into the country, you're basically guaranteed their vote.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But that's illegal. That's a crime.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Well, they don't care.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They're not going to say, hey, I'm, I'm against voter ID because I want to commit a crime. With illegal aliens voting.

[Simone Del Rosario]

They don't have to say that.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Okay.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They try to come up with some Jim Crow thing.

[Simone Del Rosario]

Please.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right. When, when every state would be required to go to your house and hand you an ID if you were impoverished or you were infirmed, this state would have to provide it for you and go and give it to you. And they still oppose it. So that is so radical. Left off the chart. It's, it's insane. And then when you have the, as we just talked about the violence level of 15 million people coming in here, and when you read Confronting Evil, you see my stat, that 15% of the whole world population is evil. Do the math. All right. It's about 2 million criminals are here committing crimes and the Democratic Party does not want to remove them.

[Boomer Esais]

Nope.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So you're saying to yourself, in a sane world where people were really paying attention, the Democratic Party would probably be dissolved at this point and the mugwumps would come back or whoever. The Whigs. Let's bring the Whigs back.

[Simone Del Rosario]

You are so right. They'd be back, but we're not there. And as much as you and I break down their party, 95% of the media breaks down. My party, not yours. You're down the middle my party. And says God awful things about us. Jimmy Race. Jimmy Kimmel called me a racist this week because I wanted the halftime show in English. That makes me a racist. Bill, another amazing conversation. I'm really looking forward to this piece on San Francisco. I think the whole audience is 25 minutes of Radio Gold. Bill O'Reilly, I love you. Thank you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

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