No Spin News - Weekend Edition - July 11, 2026

Summary

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Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News - Weekend Edition

Episode Date: July 11, 2026
Host: Bill O’Reilly
Key Guests: Father Robert Sirico, Alvin Louie
Theme: America’s global image after the World Cup, the cultural and political battles over socialism vs. capitalism (especially in religion), US foreign policy and the crisis with Iran, and the state of American education and public schools.

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Overview

This episode spotlights a variety of pressing topics:

• How America’s hosting of the World Cup improved global perceptions of the country and demonstrated positive social order compared to other host nations.
• A deep dive with Father Robert Sirico into the Catholic Church’s historical and current stance on communism, the role of liberation theology, and the broader morality of capitalism and socialism.
• Analysis of escalating US-Iran tensions and the recent NATO summit, including reflections on previous mistakes in foreign policy.
• An unfiltered look at the crisis in US public education with Alvin Louie, scrutinizing parental responsibility, systemic indoctrination in schools, and the evolution of the teacher's role.

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Main Segments & Discussion Points

1. America and the World Cup: A Public Relations Triumph

Timestamps: 00:07–06:05

• Bill unpacks why, though he’s not a soccer fan, America’s handling of the World Cup was a massive PR coup:

  • Contrasts American orderliness with chaos at games in Mexico (e.g., arrests, violence, garbage).
  • “In Mexico, 40 people were arrested. Cops are in the hospital, 64 tons of garbage left behind the stadium, the usual Mexican chaos. Sorry. It’s the truth.” (00:24)
  • Pointed out that US stadiums saw good behavior and positive experiences even after American soccer losses.
  • Observes that the US hospitality and police conduct left global visitors “ecstatic.”

• Foreign Fans Praise America:

  • “I fall in love with this country. And this was so emotional, I even cried in the stadium. Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things.” [European World Cup Fan, 02:51]
  • “It’s hard to sit there and think Americans are bad because every single person I’ve met that’s American has been unbelievable. They’ve been so welcoming. They’ve been so supportive of Scotland.” [European World Cup Fan, 03:07]
  • “The police have been really kind, really helpful. If you look confused, they’ll ask you, is everything okay?” [Father Robert Sirico, 03:44]

• Broader PR Impact:

  • O’Reilly argues the media ignores these positives, but believes the world saw a fairer image of the US.
  • “It’s a tribute to us. It’s a tribute to…we are a welcoming country. And the police did a fabulous job everywhere, in all the American venues. They were beyond impressive.” (03:49)
  • Emphasis on America as a generous nation, per capita the most giving.

Memorable Quotes:

• “Time after time after time, game after game after game, everybody has a good time. And there’s no rioting and there’s no people in jail like you got in UK and France. And none of that.” (01:48)
• O’Reilly laments even President Trump couldn't help but “wreck it” with distractions (“We got goodwill all over the place, and there’s a president going, now we have to have Greenland.”) (05:00)

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2. Catholicism and Communism: With Father Robert Sirico

Timestamps: 06:09–21:14

• Historical Context:

  • O’Reilly details Pope Pius XII’s excommunication of Catholics involved with communism post-WWII.
  • “He put out a decree that any Roman Catholic that subscribes to communism, that joins, promotes any of that, is excommunicated. That means they can’t receive the sacrament. That is heavy.” (06:13)

• Why Communism and Catholicism Are Incompatible:

  • Father Sirico: “Communism is a materialistic, atheistic ideology. By definition. You would excommunicate your own self from faith, from the Catholic Church.” (08:17)
  • Challenges that many people misunderstand both socialism and capitalism, associating the latter with greed.
  • Explains socialism’s moral claims: “The essential claim of socialism is a moral claim. It pretends to be about brotherhood and fraternity…But also to help people understand that capitalism is more about human freedom, human action that’s reciprocal.” (08:44)

• The Social/Moral Problem:

  • Critique of both communism and unchecked capitalism for failing to foster genuine community.
  • “Communism is false because it doesn’t promote community, it doesn’t promote the social well being, the social good. And parts of capitalism don’t do this either. So we have a cultural problem on our hands and a moral problem, right?” (09:38)

• Church and Liberation Theology:

  • O’Reilly: “Liberation theology can sometimes morph into a communist situation. Or am I wrong?” (12:35)
  • Fr. Sirico agrees, citing early liberation theologians’ adoption of Marxist analysis and the volatile mix of “ignorance of what a free economy is all about with a burning passion and concern for the poor.” (15:09)

• Modern Popes & Political Messaging:

  • O’Reilly discusses interaction with Cardinal Dolan, relating charity with concerns about “social disorder” amid migration.
  • O’Reilly worries about open borders: “You can do more harm by allowing an open border, unsupervised people, than you do being charitable.” (17:08)
  • Fr. Sirico defends Pope Leo as less left-leaning than perceived: “Don’t give Leo to the left. That’s what I’m saying. Don’t give Leo to the left.” (20:08)

Notable Quotes:

• “Winston Churchill once said that the communism of the early church said all that is mine is yours. But the communism today says all, all that is yours is mine.” [Fr. Sirico quoting Churchill, 12:09]
• “The threat of Christianity in particular to communism is that Christianity lives with the communist claim to want, that is fraternity, that is looking for the well being of other people.” [Father Sirico, 11:13]

Memorable Moment:

• O’Reilly jokes about funding Cardinal Dolan’s real estate deal, then worries about unintended social consequences and not being properly thanked. (16:28–18:47)

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3. Update on Iran & The NATO Summit

Timestamps: 21:19–30:10

• Bill’s “Talking Points Memo” on Iran:

  • President Trump’s announcement: the ceasefire with Iran is over due to attacks on commercial vessels and US installations.
  • O’Reilly’s own regret over supporting the Iraq war based on faulty reporting: “I made a mistake with the Iraq situation, and that haunts me to this day. … I was wrong, okay? There’s a reason I was wrong.” (22:30)
  • Predicts the only option with Iran is a serious military strike: “You have to blow up all their facilities, all their power, all of that, because…they’re just not. There’s no reason why Iran would attack anybody after signing this memorandum.” (24:14)

• NATO and Defense Spending:

  • Trump attended the NATO summit in Turkey, pressured by Turkish President Erdoğan.
  • Discussion around European defense spending increases; NATO aims for 5% of GDP by 2035.
  • NATO Official: “Canada and Europeans are now already at almost 4% when it comes to defense spending. So in one year on this trajectory to 5% in 2035, we reach to 4% in 2026.” (26:29)

• Diplomatic & Trade Tensions:

  • US possibly banning trade and travel with Spain over their lack of NATO spending (27:06).
  • Trump offering heavier military aid and technology to Ukraine.
  • O’Reilly’s complaint about Trump distracting with comments about Greenland: “Take the win. Take the win. Greenland we can deal with later.” (29:49)

Memorable Quotes:

• “All we’ve gotten from [Europe] is scorn, laziness and corruption. That’s the truth.” (28:01)

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4. Public School Crisis & Educational Indoctrination: Interview with Alvin Louie

Timestamps: 30:16–41:48

• Stark Numbers from NYC:

  • 43% of public school students attend failing schools; 35% chronically absent.
  • “Of course they’re going to be idiots. Of course they’re not going to know anything.” (30:42)
  • O’Reilly blames both derelict parents and ideological unions.

• Alvin Louie’s Analysis:

  • “Education in the United States is the greatest national security that we face. … Because the purpose of government K12 is to create social justice activists. It is to create angry young people.” (33:01)
  • Argues students are not being classically educated, but “emotionally discipled” in grievance and activism.

• Systemic Indoctrination:

  • O’Reilly asks about the origins of this “victimization” education.
  • Louie responds: “The pervasiveness is systemic. … Whether you’re talking about the teachers unions, the teachers colleges… the mental health – anytime you hear mental health, that is the big Trojan horse to bring all these things in.” (35:57)
  • Louie: Even private schools are not immune now.

• The Obama Administration’s Role:

  • Louie credits the weaponization of the Department of Education during Obama’s administration for embedding emotional and social criteria into education via social-emotional learning, grant money strings, and “language contamination”—reshaping the language of inclusion, kindness, and anti-bullying to serve ideological goals. (38:48–41:12)
  • “If you’re a girl that don’t want a boy in a locker room or your bathrooms or your showers, you’re the bully.” (40:26)

• Closing Thoughts:

  • Louie quotes Lincoln: “The philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” (36:58)
  • O’Reilly: “Combine with the parents who don’t give a hoot, it’s really devastating. It’s hard to come back from that…” (41:15)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On America's World Cup Image:

  • “We are a very generous nation. We give more money to help people than any other people on earth per capita, and we never get the credit that we observe.” (04:15)

• On Communism vs. Religion:

  • Fr. Sirico: “They don’t want anything above them. They don’t want anything that has a moral claim on the human heart that goes beyond the Politburo…” (11:13)

• Bill Owns Up on Iraq:

  • “I was wrong, okay? There’s a reason I was wrong. But that still haunts me…” (23:20)

• On America’s Education System:

  • Louie: “Today it is in a lot of the private schools as well. So you are not safe at all. …It is the entire purpose of the system.” (35:57)

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Segment Timestamps At-a-Glance

| Segment | Time (MM:SS) | |----------------------------------------|---------------------| | Opening/World Cup PR | 00:07–06:05 | | Catholicism vs. Communism (Sirico) | 06:09–21:14 | | President Trump/Iran/NATO | 21:19–30:10 | | Public Schools Crisis (Louie) | 30:16–41:48 | | Final Thoughts/Upcoming Guests | 41:53–43:33 |

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Tone & Delivery

• Bill O'Reilly’s style is direct, sometimes sardonic, and he likes to mix anecdote with analysis.
• Guests bring scholarly and activist gravitas, but both speak plainly.
• The tone is skeptical of mainstream narratives, critical of both left-wing ideology and what O'Reilly sees as American self-sabotage or naivete.
• There’s a recurring motif of “telling it like it is” and skepticism toward establishment institutions (media, church bureaucracy, government).

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Takeaways

• The US successfully improved its global image through the World Cup, demonstrating civility and hospitality, defying foreign media stereotypes.
• There is enduring tension in religious and political life about the morality of capitalism and socialism; Catholic leadership remains officially opposed to communism, but modern movements and Papal figures are topics of intra-church debate.
• Bill O’Reilly confesses major regret over misjudgment on Iraq and sees shades of that dilemma in the Iran situation—he urges caution but feels a military response will probably come.
• The American education system—especially public schools—is portrayed as an engine of ideological indoctrination, systematically displacing academics with activism through both government policy and union activism.
• There are no easy fixes, but active public engagement and scrutiny are presented as necessities.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a brisk, wide-ranging tour of America's cultural, moral, and geopolitical crossroads. You'll get O'Reilly's signature blend of historical context, critique of mainstream narratives, and deep-dive guest interviews—this time illuminating the global stakes of soccer, the perils of political and religious confusion, the unsettling trajectory of public education, and the perils (and responsibilities) of American power.

Transcript

[Bill O'Reilly]

Welcome to the no Spin News Weekend Edition.

So the World cup is a big success for America. And I don't really care about soccer. I was a football, baseball and hockey player growing up. And soccer guys are around, but, you know, they kick the ball, they run after the ball. They kick the ball. It takes three hours to score two goals. I. You know, but I'm looking at this from a point of view of pr, American public relations. It's huge. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Okay, so in Mexico, they had a game. It's Canada, USA, Mexico. And they have games. And in Mexico, 40 people were arrested. Cops are in the hospital, 64 tons of garbage left behind the stadium, the usual Mexican chaos. Sorry. It's the truth. It's got the highest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere. And it's not going to get any better because the president is a communist. I mean, this is just it. And there's no order and the cartels control the country and everybody knows it. But anyway, you contrast that to Kansas City or to Dallas last night, where the USA team got whacked. And I knew that was going to happen. I should have put money on it. But we're hockey, we're NFL, we're baseball, we're not soccer. And it wasn't even a close game and I was rooting for my country. But in the first five minutes I went, it was not going to turn out well, and it didn't. But anyway, time after time after time, game after game after game, everybody has a good time. And there's no rioting and there's no people in jail like you got in UK and France. And none of that. People went to the game, paid a lot of money, going to game. Okay. And they behaved, generally speaking, in the United States. And that went out all over the world. But the press, of course, wouldn't acknowledge it because they don't like us. All right? But everybody saw it. And in fact, some of the people living abroad who came here to watch the games were ecstatic about being in America. Roll the tape.

[European World Cup Fan]

I fall in love with this country. And this was so emotional, I even cried in the stadium. Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great things.

[Alvin Louie]

Your thoughts so far? First impressions?

[Bill O'Reilly]

First impression. Amazing.

[Alvin Louie]

Love the place.

[Commercial Narrator]

Amazing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Great people.

[European World Cup Fan]

We've had such opening arms and we've been so welcomed into the city of Boston that it just. It's hard to sit there and think Americans are bad because every single person I've met That's American has been unbelievable. They've been so welcoming. They've been so supportive of Scotland.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So the police have been very, very good. They've been standing back, letting the people enjoy themselves. Instead, if you go to Italy, if you go to Spain, the police cause a bit of trouble. But here, they've just let everybody enjoy themselves. The police have been really kind, really helpful.

[Father Robert Sirico]

If you look confused, they'll ask you, is everything okay?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, it's a tribute to us. It's a tribute to. We are a welcoming country. And the police did a fabulous job everywhere, in all the American venues. They were beyond impressive. There were some people who tried, but they didn't get anywhere to disrupt the World Cup. So this goes against our image abroad, where we're onerous and we're horrible and all of this. And that is the reason that the World cup is so important, because it's not true in the first place. We are a very generous nation. We give more money to help people than any other people on earth per capita, and we never get the credit that we observe. Now, the World cup started on June 11, and that it ends July 19 in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. And I like, I kind of like the Norwegians with the big guy with the drum, and they're going, ro, ro. And then President Trump has to wreck it by going to Turkey and saying, no, we need Greenland back. Can't we do that next week? We got goodwill all over the place, and there's a president going, now we have to have Greenland. Okay, next week. I just can't help himself. He just can't help himself. And this was the height of capitalism, this whole World cup thing. So the estimate is the United States will take in $620 million. And everybody, all the teams, 41 billion. And that's a lot of money. Everybody prospered. The image of the USA is good, and it was a big win, and I hope it stays that way. We still have a couple of weeks here, and that's the memo.

You're listening to the no Spa News Weekend Edition.

Here's an interesting piece of history. Pope Pius XII was running the Vatican for 19 years, and he was in World War II. And he's a fascinating man. He put out a decree that any Roman Catholic that subscribes to communism, that joins, promotes any of that is excommunicated. That means they can't receive the sacrament. That is heavy. Okay? And he did that because of post World War II. You had the Cold War, you had Stalin taking over all these countries and enslaving them in Europe. And Pope Pius XII said, no, can't be a part of it, or you can't be a part of the Catholic Church. That was very interesting. Very few people know that happened. Okay, so why. Why did he excommunicate Catholics who were involved with the communist movement? Joining us now from Missouri, Father Robert Sirico, who's the president emeritus, the Acton Institute, and he's a scholar. But more importantly, his brother played Paulie Walnuts on the Sopranos. How about that? How about that? Okay. And I'm sure you're proud of your brother. He's an excellent actor and that's proud of him.

[Father Robert Sirico]

Yes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's some family there, Father.

[Father Robert Sirico]

It's amazing. It's. It's amazing. I grew up with Paulie Walnuts, and I know all his lines.

[Bill O'Reilly]

All right, why did. And I don't know whether that's still in effect. Is it still in effect, if you're a Roman Catholic, that if you embrace the communist movement, you are excommunicated? Is that still there?

[Father Robert Sirico]

Yes. I mean, the communism is a materialistic, atheistic ideology. By definition. You would excommunicate your own self from faith, from the Catholic Church. The problem is it comes in various forms with rationalizations and things like that. But we see what communism has done. I want to go back to something you said. It was a very important point you made. You said that people are not sure if they support socialism or not. The truth of the matter is that a lot of people are not sure if they support capitalism or not because they don't understand what that is either. They see it as greed. They see it as power racism, as you already demonstrated through the popular media. And I think what is incumbent upon us is to engage precisely that group that you identified who don't understand, who don't know, and help them to come to know both what socialism is and is not. Because the essential claim of socialism is a moral claim. It pretends to be about brotherhood and fraternity and things, things like that. But also to help people understand that capitalism is more about human freedom, human action that's reciprocal. The cultural things that we saw from these Europeans describing commonplace things in American life really come from a commercial culture. A commercial culture is a culture that's predicated on reciprocity. I need a bottle of water. Well, I have a bottle of water. I need some money. And you exchange. You become valuable to each other. In a communist system which has class struggle, you have division, the antithesis of fraternity, of community. Communism is false because it doesn't promote community, it doesn't promote the social well being, the social good. And parts of capitalism don't do this either. So we have a cultural problem on our hands and a moral problem, right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well you know, greed has always been a part of human nature, which I think is what you're talking about with capitalism. I mean obviously the people are greedy and they don't care about other people are amassing far beyond what they need to live a life of luxury or whatever they want to live. But I always go back to this with not only the Catholic Church but Protestants as well, and Jews, forget it. Communists hate Jews across the board hate them. They've been persecuted in every single communist country. But the communists don't want any God, they don't want anything like that at all.

[Alvin Louie]

Why?

[Father Robert Sirico]

They don't want anything above them. They don't want anything that has a moral claim on the human heart that goes beyond the Politburo, beyond the ideology of class warfare and redistribution of the wealth. The threat of Christianity in particular to communism is that Christianity lives with the communists claim to want, that is fraternity, that is looking for the well being of other people. Many of the communists have, have in particular Marx and Engels said that early socialism existed in the New Testament. And what they're identifying is that people had things in common where there was need, people helped those who were in need. And what the communists don't get, what the socialists don't get is that that was the result of a conversion of a heart, a love of other people. Winston Churchill put it very well. You may know this quote because you've written so many books on history. Winston Churchill once said that the communism of the early church said all that is mine is yours. But the communism today says all, all that is yours is mine.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's right.

[Father Robert Sirico]

It's a forcible flaw. Right, go ahead.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Now there is a split in the Catholic Church. You have the liberation theology movement which is based out of south and Central America where horrendous living conditions are driving good people, religious missionaries, to try to help the poor while at the same time they're looking up and there's an oligarch or whatever you want to call them, with everything. And that liberation theology can sometimes morph into a communist situation. Or am I wrong? The world is getting more unstable between escalating global conflicts and America's skyrocketing debt. Investors are ditching the dollar for hard assets like gold. With uncertainty at an all time high, I trust American Hartford gold to protect my savings they make it simple to have physical gold and silver delivered to your door or placed inside a tax advantage IRA. If you have a 401k, their specialists can help you roll it over tax and penalty free. With an a Better Business Bureau rating and billions delivered, their track record is unmatched. So don't wait. Protect your wealth with something real. And right now, call and tell them O'Reilly sent you to receive up to $20,000 in free silver with your first purchase. 866-326-5526 or text BILL to 998-899. That's 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998, 899.

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[Father Robert Sirico]

No, I think you're quite right. In fact, the early liberation theologians explicitly utilize Marx's close socialist analysis of society and use biblical imagery and stories to talk about class warfare and liberation from Egypt, that kind of thing, and then apply it to today. And I think you're right to have sympathy with those who combine a certain ignorance of what a free economy is all about with a burning passion and concern for the poor. This becomes volatile. And what liberation theology, in effect, attempted to do was to baptize Karl Marx, to make Karl Marx as though he was the epitome of what it means to. To create a good and truly social society.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But that's really a radical point of view, and I wonder how much it's embraced. I don't think Francis and Leo went that far, but certainly Leo is tottering around that area. I'll just tell you a little story. So you know Cardinal Dolan, right?

[Father Robert Sirico]

Yes, yes, Missouri guy.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So he came to me one time and he wanted to buy a block full of row houses in Brooklyn. And, you know, a charming guy he is, and you know, that kind of thing. And I know him, and he said, look, you need to help me buy this stuff. And I gave him a substantial amount of money to buy the row houses, which he did, I assume. Okay. I didn't get a lot of thanks for that, but I'll get my thanks later, I hope. And If I don't, this is going to be hell to pay. Pardon.

[Father Robert Sirico]

I'll mention it to him.

[European World Cup Fan]

All right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay. So anyway, my only dictum to the cardinal, to Dolan, was, don't cause social disorder. All right? I know these people need to be housed. I don't expect you to go around looking at their passports. I don't expect that. But if you see people coming in that are nefarious, they got tattoos from head to toe, you know, you're going to have to make some decisions about who's getting O'Reilly's block full of row houses, because I don't want social disorder, which is what massive migration leads to. If I could only get Pope Leo's attention. So you can do more harm by allowing an open border, unsupervised people, than you do being charitable and doing what Jesus commanded, You know, to the least of those, you have a responsibility to help. And I believe that. So the story I'm telling you was that there was a conflict there. I don't know how Dolan worked it out. I didn't check it. As I said, it was the right thing for me to do. I'm an old altar boy. He. He played on my Irish Catholic upbringing of what she knows so much.

[Father Robert Sirico]

And I'm glad I was a cardinal, right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

And I'm glad I did it. But when I. When I hear Leo, and to some extent Francis, going, hey, let them all in, I'm going, no, that's not what Jesus wanted. He did not want social disorder. He wanted harmony.

[Father Robert Sirico]

Of course he did. Of course. Can I. Can I push back a little bit on the. The Leo remarks? Because I have a different perception of Leo. Leo served as a bishop in Peru for 20 years. Now, I don't know if you know, but Peru was the nation that gave us the founder of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutierrez, who is a priest, and Leo was there for 20 years. He had a lot of opportunity to identify with all of those social socialist movements that were extant during his time in Peru. You find no traces of that. In fact, there is one book that he wrote, an introduction to on Catholic social teaching. It would have been the perfect opportunity to identify with socialism, and he doesn't do it. I think you have a very different kettle of fish in Pope Leo than you had in Pope Francis.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay, but. But the.

[Father Robert Sirico]

Don't give him to the left. That's what I'm saying. Don't give Leo to the left.

[Bill O'Reilly]

The problem with Pope Leo is the message, not the messenger. But the message isn't getting out there, it's, it's like a feud with Trump and all this. And that shouldn't be fascinating.

Come on.

Fascinating. Father, thank you for taking the time and be with you. Bill, say hello to your brother and tell him that if he needs a loan or anything, I'm. I'm here to give it to him.

[Father Robert Sirico]

Well, maybe his brother, the priest will come to you for that, but. Or a donation. Even better. My brother, by the way, died four years ago.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, I'm sorry. He passed.

[Father Robert Sirico]

No, no, that's okay. In fact, this week, and maybe even today, I think it we're fourth. Maybe it's tomorrow, the fourth anniversary of his death.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Such an indelible actor. They all were. I'm friends with Sharipa, but he has some great stories. Thanks again, Father. We'll catch up with you again soon, I hope.

[Father Robert Sirico]

God bless. I'd like that. Take care.

[Bill O'Reilly]

This is the no Spin News, Weekend Edition.

President Trump was standing up in Turkey for the NATO meeting. This is my favorite quote from the meeting. There was a lot of love in the room, Okay. A little skeptical about that, but that's what he said. Is it true? That's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. First point. So the President says that the ceasefire with Iran is over. Why? Because Iran violated central condition of the June memorandum of understanding. All right? For God knows what reason. Iran attacked three commercial vessels over the weekend, July 6 and July 7. The U.S. fifth naval base in Bahrain was attacked by Iran. Okay? The Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, where we have troops attacked, and a US Reaper drone, which Iranian forces shot down. Now the President is threatening to bomb Iran tonight. Nobody knows what's going to happen because these threats come and they go, but this has got to stop. And I don't see any other way but military to stop it. And I made a mistake with the Iraq situation, and that haunts me to this day. And the reason I made that mistake is that I didn't fully understand the facts of the matter. I was taking reporting from the New York Times and others that said Saddam Hussein was harboring deadly weapons, okay? And I said if that's true in the press because the Times hated Bush the Younger and Colin Powell, Secretary of State at the time, confirms it, then I got to go with that. Turned out to be wrong. Zahm didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. And the chaos that ensued brought a lot of pain on America. I was wrong, okay? There's a reason I was wrong. But that still haunts me in Iran. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see any other way here. I don't see any other way. You're going to have to just blast their infrastructure and make it almost impossible for the Persians to exist day to day. You have to blow up all their facilities, all their power, all of that, because they're just not. There's no reason why Iran would attack anybody after signing this memorandum. They don't want the war to stop. They being the Revolutionary Guard, which controls what happens in Iran. The mullahs don't control that. The paramilitary Revolutionary Guard control. Okay, So I predicted that President Trump would have to do this on June 10th. Go. Now, I don't have any inside information, but I believe Iran is going to get hit militarily very soon. President Trump has to reignite his momentum and the mullahs are just not cooperating. And I don't think it will cooperate until the pain level gets very, very high. All right, so there's my prediction and I'm sticking to it. The other big thing, there were two other big things. The NATO conference, which Trump didn't want to go to, by the way, but he went because Aragon, the president of Turkey's helped him out. Okay? And he went over the other two were congratulating NATO on finally, finally paying their dues as far as military expenditures are concerned. Finally. Remember, if you know anything about World War II, we rebuilt Europe, the Marshall Plan, and all we've gotten from them is scorn, laziness and corruption. That's the truth. So anyway, Trump gave them their props. But the NATO people are more interested in Ukraine than they are in Iran. Okay? So the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rucci, said this go. You have a very good relationship with President Trump. You've been credited as sort of being the Trump whisperer on behalf of this alliance. You're shaking your head.

[NATO Official]

But the point is this. I just like, like the man. I think what he is doing for NATO is great news because yesterday Russian threat there is Ukraine. So we had to step up in Europe anyway. But he was what was necessary to bring this extra impetus to the debate to really get all these nations on the famous old 2% and now to agree to the 5%. And as I said yesterday in the pre conference presser, Canada and Europeans are now already at almost 4% when it comes to defense spending. So in one year on this trajectory to 5% in 2035, we reach to 4% in 2026.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, that makes sense, right? I mean, if Putin's a threat and he is that you have to have enough money to buy munitions. And President Trump was touting that they'll all be sold by the USA to NATO. Okay. And the other thing is that Spain is the NATO country who will not cooperate. So Trump said this, and I don't know whether he'll carry through on it or not, that he's going to ban all trade with Spain. That includes going there. So if you're an American and you want to travel to Spain, you might have some visa problems there. Just a forewarning, because I know somebody who had planned a trip to Spain and I'm going, that's a 50, 50 now. So if the president, United States puts a ban on travel to Spain and you go, you might not be coming back anytime soon. So he. And Spain isn't paying its dues and is obnoxious and wouldn't let U.S. planes refuel on a surf. That's because the Maloney thing in Italy and Maloney handled it poorly. So did Trump. They both did. Meloni just should apologize and said, we made a mistake and now we're going to help you no matter how. That's how you solve this kind of thing. And Trump would have forgiven her. Okay, so the other headlines from this meeting, and Trump's on his way back now to the usa, is that for the first time, the President is going to help Zelensky in Ukraine with heavy weapons. One of the things I think we're going to be talking about today, just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make patriots. We'll show them how to do it. It's very complex, actually, but it's. You'll figure out the complexity quickly. Okay? And then the final thing was a mistake. He brings up Greenland again. The President does. We take the win. Take the win. Greenland we can deal with later. It is important and it should be discussed. But I am 100% sure that the United States could make a deal with Denmark, which of course administers to that place. But why do that now? NATO doesn't like you anyway, but they kind of lean in our way, in our direction. Leave Greenland a couple of weeks down. My opinion, if I'm White House Chief of Staff, I'm. And of course, Trump's not going to listen to me, but that's that. And that's the memo.

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Am. Donnie. So the Success academy charter school. 60 schools all over the country and they chronicle how the students, not only in the charter schools, but all over the city. 410,000 public school students, 43% of them go to failing schools. 43%. Okay. The report says that roughly 35% of all new York City students were chronically absent in the 2324 school year. That's on the parents. Parents don't make them go to school. And they run around. They don't go in. So of course they're going to be idiots. Of course they're not going to know anything. All right, now what does the city do? Zero. Nothing. Okay? Because they're victims. You got to understand Tammandani. These kids are victims. They don't have to learn anything. In fact, he doesn't want them to learn anything, because then they figure him out. But they're victims. You don't have to go to school. This is unbelievable. So these kids, grades three to eight, are adrift. They're not showing up. There are kids now in public schools who refuse to take exams, just not taking them. And then they promote them. Social promotion. The city does. So you can see, you know, my point is that most Americans know nothing or very little about their own country. It's getting worse. Joining us now from Indiana is Alvin Louie. He's a national president of Courage is a Habit. So that's an organization that equips parents to at least deal with the collapse of the public school system in America. Not everywhere there's a very fine public schools, but a lot of places, like the big urban areas. All right, Mr. Louis, thanks for helping us out here. And I have a book coming out September 15 called Confronting America where I'm simpatico with you. So I'm saying, look, derelict parents, parents who don't give a hoot about their kids, combined with ideological teachers, teachers unions. Okay, we're shoving down. You're a victim. You're a victim. You don't have to take a test. You don't even have to show up. That combination is almost lethal to the future of the country. What say you?

[Alvin Louie]

It absolutely is. It's a personal honor to meet you, sir. Thank you for having me on.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Sure.

[Alvin Louie]

You are absolutely correct, as my co founder often would say, that education in the United States is the greatest national security that we face. Because, you see, a lot of parents still believe we start with the wrong premise. A lot of parents and a lot of Americans still believe that government K through 12, is about academics, meaning your basic reading, writing, math. And so when you see students marching to protect violent, illegal aliens like we do like we did earlier in 2026. What do people say, Bill? I can't believe it. Why are they doing this? Why aren't they in class? Why are they marching to protect violent, illegal aliens? Well, our response is they're marching to protect violent, legal aliens because they were in class. Because the purpose of government K12 is to create social justice activists. It is to create angry young people. And as you often say. You just said it yesterday in your bonus video where you say that they're the Mandami and the socialist Democrat. Socialist is to kill hope. Well, they don't have to kill hope because they kill them in K through 12 because they're telling kids that your skin color matters and there's genocide for trans people and all those different things. And so you're not telling them at 25, you're telling them at 5. And so when they get. When they get older, in voting age, socialism sounds great. Because they. They have no hope. They're angry. They believe that America is racist and oppressive. And so that combination, like you said, is very lethal, because what you're doing is. This is not an intellectual brainwashing, Bill. This is an emotional discipleship.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Alvin Louie]

They're not training kids in the academics. They're teaching them.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So you can't go home to dad and mom and dad and mom go, hold it. You know, this isn't really the way it is because it's a combination. Now, do you believe that the teachers across the United States, I mean, you got some in the union, you got some notes. How pervasive is the victimization they're trying to sell the public school students? You don't get this in private school. I went to Catholic school. You don't get, you're a victim. You're never gonna succeed. That doesn't exist. Okay, but in a public school, it exists. How pervasive is that point of view? And how did it get that way?

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[Alvin Louie]

Well, actually, today it is in a lot of the private schools as well. So you are not safe at all. We've actually done a lot of projects for private schools, both in Texas and Florida. And we found it equally as, as it was in the public schools. The pervasiveness is systemic. It's not in some school, it's in all school. It's the system. Whether you're talking about the teachers unions, the teachers colleges, and, and even more, more under underlining that people don't see undercover is the mental health. Anytime you hear mental health, that is the big Trojan horse to bring all these things in the schools. And the schools spent hundreds dollars on mental health. So it's absolutely pervasive, it's systemic, it is the entire purpose of the system. So when you see these children marching against illegal aliens, when you see these children being so broken, talking about, you know, tax the rich and all those different things, climate change ism, when you see that, that is the purpose of it. And so when people are shocked and going, how come the academics are down? How come our budget is sky high? What are they doing with the money? Well, that's what they're doing with the money. They're teaching your children to hate America. And as my favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln is, the philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. And so when President Trump talked about it, you know, at NATO, when he says that it's more dangerous than let's say, Pearl harbor or World War II, World War I, he's absolutely right, because those are physical attacks. Those are attacks that you can see and you can beat. What we're seeing in government, K through 12 today, Bill, is actually in the heart and in the mind, and you can't see it until it's too late, because they're not brainwashing children in terms of intellectually, but they're changing their values. And it's like a religion. And once you change a child's values, it's very, very difficult to get them out, even when you show them facts.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I was a high school teacher, you may know that, for a couple of years. And of course, it was a different world back then. But most of the teachers at the Catholic school that I taught in weren't radical left. They weren't anything. They didn't bring that in. They just taught their discipline and then they went home. So I'm wondering from a historical basis how the teachers industry, okay? And these people sacrifice. Teachers could make more money doing something else in the private sector, most of them could, okay? But they choose to try to do some good, I think, in helping kids in the classroom. But now it's like a tsunami. It's like every Time you look around, whether it's Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or this college or that college is full of these progressives who are teaching victimization. How did that happen?

[Alvin Louie]

Well, There was really two major areas when it came to government. K12. It really started in the Obama administration when he changed the way the competencies were measured. Before, you were measuring math and science and your core competencies, but during his administration, he weaponized the Department of Education to measure emotions. And how do you measure emotions? You got to take surveys. And that's when social emotional learning came into schools. Not to say that before the Obama administration that there wasn't a this kind of indoctrination happening. It was, but his administration put grant money on, on the strings on the grant money. And so that's what made it so pervasive. So that even in the red county, in a red state, you're going to see the exact same critical race theory and queer theory. So that's how it got into the K through 12.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Was there a test, though, that the Obama administration put out to get the grant money, you know, in a stealth way that, hey, unless you toe the liberal line, you're not going to get any funds? Was. Did that happen?

[Alvin Louie]

No, it's a lot. It was, it's a lot more sneaky than that. And we hear it all the time today. It's always dangling poor kids, black kids, brown kids in front of you. And it's always about helping those kids. And it's always emotional blackmail, kindness, inclusion, welcoming schools, social emotional learning. Those things sound great. And if you're a teacher, if you're an educator, not the woke educator, but just a good educator, those things kind of tug at your heartstrings. It really, really does. And it still does today. And so a lot of that came in through that be kind anti bullying. It's not the anti bullying, you know, that we classically know going to school because that was just about not shoving a kid in the locker room and not making fun of their shoes. Today, if you're a girl that don't want a boy in a locker room or your bathrooms or your showers, you're the bully. And so they've, they've done something what we call a courage as a habit. We call it language contamination. And this is real easy for us to teach it. Language contamination is when they use your vocabulary, but not your dictionary. And so when the Obama administration came in, they didn't come in and say, hey, we're going to go ahead and survey your kids and manipulate the data so we can shove in socialism and communism and teach your kids to hate America. Of course, they didn't show it that way. They said, we just want to help kids learn because if their mental health isn't good, then they can't learn. Sounds great.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I got it.

[Alvin Louie]

Obviously, mental health means something very different to them.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, Mr. Louis, very good. I learned a bunch. And during this interview about the, the overall evolution of this, which I believe, you know, when you combine with the parents who don't give a hoot, it's really devastating. It's hard to come back from that, particularly if you go through the system and the system gets more and more radicalized as the, as you get older. Very hard to come back from it. We appreciate it very much. We'll talk soon. Thanks for helping us out.

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