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Bill O'Reilly
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I mean, we have, we're shell shocked here, but over there, and not just Ireland, it's all being generated by financial chaos. Now, I still believe that America will prevail, but that might be because I want to believe that. Remember my mantra, people believe what they want to believe. I cannot back up my belief that the Trump administration will break the mullets. I can't. I do know that there is a lot of information President Trump gets that is not public, particularly on economics, that the Persian people are suffering big time. And it's kind of a race on who can hold out one sideline. You may have seen me on other venues debating people who say, well, Iran doesn't even have enriched uranium. Iran admits they have it now. Okay? So it's not like they, if they didn't have it, this would have been done a long time ago because they would have said, sure, send the weapons inspectors in, took around, we don't have it. And then there wouldn't have been all this because Iran gets hurt, too. So just remember that when you see me debate somebody who said have uranium enrichment. Okay, gets a little frustrating. Two more people were executed. And again, I don't report this every day, but you should know this continues today. They were hanged in the morning. So if you dissent from the mullahs publicly or even privately or, you know, they'll kill you. That is why the population of Iran has not risen up. Maybe they will. I don't know. Okay. Iran, you know, continues its pitiful military response. Couple of groans went over toward Kuwait U.S. forces blew them out of the sky. There's no doubt that if we wanted to, we being the United States of America, we could destroy that country militarily. Probably 48 hours. And I did talk to President Trump about this. He does not want to kill civilians. Will that eventually have to happen? I don't know. Right. Israelis have no problem killing Iranian civilians. And I'm not saying that in a derisive, negative way. I'm saying they understand, okay, the Netanyahu government, that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, go in Israel first. Oh, they got it. Okay. The problem now is when are we here in America and the world going to get relief? Nobody knows. And very, very frustrating for me who has excellent sources. Nobody knows. And now we're first of June, and I don't have any insight into a timeline. And nobody else does either. If they're spouting that on television, just turn it off now. There was a suggestion by President Trump that the United States would stop the federal gasoline tax. It's about 19 cents a gallon, and that would immediately bring down the cost of a gallon of gas. But no action has been taken on that. And the suggestion was made about four weeks ago. Congress has to approve it. The Democratic Party really doesn't want the situation solved before the midterm election. I can't imagine any Republican voting against that. But it's stalled for some reason. I'm working it, but it's not close to being brought up on the floor. It's a little frustrating to me. I think that we should have updates on this because a 19 cent decline would help the American economy and the American consumer. Obviously, the Democrats are not. I'm not saying that they are unpatriotic or subversive. I'm not saying that they don't believe in a mission in the first place because they hate Trump and they don't particularly care that Iran may have a nuke. I'm generalizing now. There are some Democrats who do most of the party, you know, why did you start it? You shouldn't have started it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Chris Coons is a senator from Delaware, one of Joe Biden's buds, and he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Okay, so he's involved with this. Here's what he said yesterday. Go. Frankly, Iran is stronger than they were 90 days ago before this war, because they've used their cheap and lethal drones not just to close the Strait of Hormuz, but to attack our partners and allies in the region, harming oil and gas Infrastructure hitting our embassies and bases. And we need a stronger, better answer to Iran's ability to close the Strait of Hormuz at will. Yeah, what's that answer? You know, these guys run around every show. What's the answer? What's your solution there, Senator? You don't have one. Democratic Party didn't have one. Or else not stronger now than when this whole thing began. That's absurd. They haven't closed the streets of Hormuz. Any American warship wants to get through there, can get through there. And if the warships escort tankers, as they have been particularly for China, tanker will get through. Thirteen casualties on the American side. So this is all a bunch of garbage now. Does Coons know that? Probably not, because he doesn't want to know it. Anything that goes into his sphere that doesn't jibe with what his political belief is, he's going to reject. It's the same thing with the press. Press doesn't want a win for Donald Trump with Iran. And I'm talking about 80%. You know, Fox News does. Newsmax does. There's a few. Washington Post does not. Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. Sorry, sorry, Wall Street Journal. I don't want to lump you in there, but all liberal newspapers and tv, they don't want Trump to win this. I could give you a thousand examples. Here's just one go. It really is going to be up to Trump to sort of brand this very different politically so that it doesn't seem as though the US Just went to war with Iran for no apparent reason, only to end up with a deal that was similar to the one that the Americans had basically a decade ago. That's the mantra. So Obama had a deal and Trump dismantled it, and Trump's going to get a worse deal or the same deal or whatever. Again, I will remind you, the streets of Hormuz take care of themselves. That's not anything that can't be done quickly. It is the weapons inspections. So if Iran would agree, whole thing would be done in 20 minutes. And finally, with this talking points memo, the whole world should be rooting for the Trump administration, right? You want a terrorist state, a state that supports Hamas and Hezbollah and the udis and that killed American soldiers and built bombs and, and hangs their own people and destroys whatever it wants to destroy. You want that country to have access to a nuclear weapon. That's what you want. Everybody should be with us. And that's the memo. This is the no Spin News Weekend edition. So there's a vote in California, Los Angeles, and the governor's race, the gubernatorial race tomorrow at this time, I will report what happened. But if you look at California, the progressives been running that state now for 25 years, it's a disaster. That's not just unique to the Golden State, the largest state in the union, it's happening everywhere. Maine. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So the progressive movement and the Democratic Party have merged, and the moderate Democrats, and they are not plentiful, but they're around, have to shut up if they want money to run in the primaries because big money is coming from the far left. That's number one. You got to know that. It's a money deal. Nancy Pelosi started it. You either vote my way or we cut you off entirely. And now that is pretty much de facto daily for the Democratic Party. There is a strain of that on the right, the Republican Party, but not nearly what it is on the left. That's important to understand. So in Los Angeles, which is a disaster, and I mean that. It is a disaster, okay? Homeless, crime, nothing works. Police don't answer calls. It is just anarchy. The woman who runs the place is Karen Bass. You know her because she screwed up the fires and just. You can't say enough terrible things about Karen Bass. She should be doing anything else but running the nation's second largest city. She may win reelection. She may win. Our main competition is a TV guy named Spencer Pratt. I don't know much about him. He's a Republican, 42 years old. He's around L. A, he does projects. He owns a company called Pratt Daddy Crystals, and he's been waging a pretty effective campaign. So it'll be interesting to see how well Pratt does, whether people are going to put aside their ideology because California is overwhelmingly Democrat and vote for a change. How long are we going to do this? It's crazy. So at the same time, Angelenos will be voting for a mayor. We have a gubernatorial race. Bass, by the way, in la, in the mayor's race, is ahead of press, but not by a lot. It's 2522, according to the latest polling, and Pratt could do an upset, which would be very interesting. On the gubernatorial side, it looks like Xavier Becerra, who was the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Joe Biden and who presided over the unbelievable homeless collapse in California, it looks like he's going to be the next governor. Now Steve Hilton, a former Fox guy, is giving Becerra a race. Tom Steyer, the multibillionaire Is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars. He's in it, too. So there's two, I would say, far left guys against Hilton. Be interesting to see tomorrow what that brings. Almost 4 million people. 4 million have moved out of California between the years 2020 and 24, according to the census. 4 million people in California is a nice place to live, if you like the weather and all that. And there's a lot of opportunity or used to be there. Four million people say goodbye. Can't cut it here, all right, because the government is too onerous. And it's all about taxation, it's all about regulation, control, all that. That's Newsom. Newsom can't run again. He will run, try to run for president. So, anyway, I'm watching these races not because I particularly care about who the people are, because I don't really know them. We can't follow every race across the country, but we are watching the ideology of people in LA and across the state of California, because if you continue to vote for failure, you get more failure. You know, there's a whole bunch of cliches that demonstrate that, but that's what it is. We have the same problems in New York, where I am, but not to the extent of California. The progressives are trying here. There's a little bit more resistance here than out West. Now In Maine, population 1.4 million. Tiny, tiny. Not a tiny geographically, it's a big state if you drive it, but 1.4 million. They got a guy running for the Senate, Graham Platner. You've heard of him? Nazi tattoos. Crazy, crazy left guy. All right, he may be the Republican Susan Collins who's past her game and, you know. But what are you doing up in Maine? What is going on up there? One of my favorite states. It's a beautiful place. Cold, but great in the summer. And platinum is what you want. What is wrong? Because this is. This is as irresponsible as I've ever seen. This guy can't do anything. He's involved with controversies all over the place, with the Marines, with his wife. I mean, it goes on and on and on and on. This guy, he could win. I mean, that's shocking. Then you have the. Let's see what word I want to use here. Pundits isn't strong enough. The organized influencers. There you go. Okay. Who run around. These are far left individuals. There are some on the far right, but not many. Telling everybody, we got to be Communists, we got to hate the Jews, we got to do this, we got to do that the bad. Listen up. I'm going to tell you the gift every dad wants this Father's Day. Get him Gold Belly. 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Ronald Coleman
Because if that's the standard, they'd have
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Bill O'Reilly
to ban billions of people around the world. So we can't let this go forward
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Scott Rasmussen
without a massive outcry or we'll all be next.
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Ronald Coleman
I've never heard you espouse any anti Semitism. Never heard you be hateful about Jewish people or anyone because of Their faith or their ethnicity. So I just don't understand what rationale the UK government could possibly have for banning you.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, I'll explain it to Mr. Morgan. Anti Semitism. So when I was there doing a special for News Nation, we will tell you when that will air about how Jews in the UK are terrified, and I use that word literally, they are terrified. About 275,000 Jews in the UK, very small, all right? There are about five million Muslims. There are more than that because the government doesn't know who's coming in. They don't monitor it. All right? This is what Europe is turned into. And there was an incident a few weeks back where some Muslim guy went into a Jewish neighborhood and stabbed a guy almost to death. The victim survived, but it was unprovoked. And that led to demonstrations and everything else. Well, the UK government does not want these two guys, Piker and Uyghur, who hate Israel. They hate that country, all right? And by extension, I don't know whether they hate Jews personally, but certainly they are not friendly to Jewish people. And the government of the UK goes, look, we can't handle this, all right? We don't want this provocateur attraction to come into our country. I understand that. Unlike Piers Morgan, I understand it. Would I abandon them? I don't know. Piker has used the phrase Zionist pig. He's way out there. And the uncle, he's co founder of the Young Turks. And he said, this is Piker again, that America deserved 9, 11. I mean, these guys are way out there. So I, I might have. I might have come down on them. Now, behind all this, all this progressive movement in la, in California, and the influencers behind all this is money coming out of communist China. Now, we broke the story in January. Neville Roy Church Chamberlain Singham. Neville Roy Singham, okay? And he lives in Shanghai and he's pumping billions of dollars into the progressive movement to try to overthrow the capitalism system in the usa. All right? Now the far left is starting to admit that, okay, at first, no, they want to talk about Singham, but now they're having to admit it. Roll it. It's like totally ridiculous to, to try and, you know, to try and stop, like, the political advocacy of an American citizen, right? Roy Singham is an American citizen. He lives in China now and he's a centimillionaire. I think he, like, has almost a billion dollars. Not sure how much money he has now, but, like, he's been a funding vehicle for a lot of, like, political. A lot of Political movements in the country like a lot of activism, and they hate that. Like, the American government hates that. So they're trying to jam him up, you know, they're trying to hit him on anything and everything they possibly can. Yeah, the American government and every loyal American should hate that blank. Because Singham wants a communist America. Okay? And that'd be a civil war. There'd be guns if that ever happened. Okay. Here. Because people like me are not going to let the government seize my private property. No, I'll fight for it. I'm not being provocative, but I'm telling you what could happen because of a guy named Neville Roy Singham now Fox News, and we have not been able to confirm this ties the source boys into it as well. I don't know whether that's true. I don't know whether sources are funding, all right, these communist radical groups. I know they're funding far left groups. I know they're paying for buses. I know they're sending people to New Jersey to attack ICE agents. I know they're doing all of that through their political action committees. But I don't know whether they're on the overthrow, the government level that Singham's on, you know, it's frightening. It really is frightening. So summing up, we've got a litmus test in California, in Los Angeles, again, if you go to L. A and I was recently there, it's falling apart, the whole place. And California is losing millions of people. There is a reason you're going to reelect that reason. Staggering. That's the memoir. You're listening to the no Spin News Weekend Edition. Now, yesterday we gave you a primer on E. Jean Carroll. And this is a terrible story. And this drives President Trump's thinking on a lot of other matters. So on June 21, coming up, 2019, seven years ago, Ms. Carol accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault. Okay? She said that Mr. Trump committed these crimes at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in either late 1995 or early 1996. E. Jean Carroll did not know, could not recall when she was raped. That might be a signal flag. Didn't report it to the police, didn't report it to any Bergdorf official, didn't do anything. Sat on it for, what, more than 20 years? Then presto. Now, this was the case where George Stepanopoulos from ABC called Trump a racist. And then ABC had a pony of $15 million for defamation to Mr. Trump's library. I believe that he's using the money for now in depositions. This is A civil case, not a criminal case. Again, Ms. Carol did not report this to any authority. There were depositions. And Ms. Carol said in a deposition, which is sworn document, nobody else is involved with this but me. Nobody's funding it. Nobody pushed me to do it. I'm just outraged. And I thought I had to do something that's under oath. Now, it turns out that a group called American Future Republic, run by a guy named Reid hoffman, okay, gave Ms. Carol's lawyers $7 million to use in this lawsuit. He admits it. He admits it. And now the Justice Department is investigating E. Jean Carroll. They have to. They have to. On possible charges of conspiracy, perjury. On and on and on and on. So Hoffman admits that he gave the money. And then the lawyer for Carroll said her recollection is refreshed. Oh, I see. She doesn't remember when she was allegedly raped. She didn't report it to anybody. She told the court under oath nobody helped her or her lawyers gave her any money at all. But now suddenly, her recollection is refreshed. Okay, now I am all for this investigation. The progressive left hates this. Oh, it's Trump going after his. Yeah, yeah, it is. Now, E. Jean Carroll is entitled to due process. That means the FBI investigates her. It goes to a grand jury. If the grand jury finds that Ms. Carol likely committed a crime, she'll be indicted. I hope she is. This is outrageous. And I'll remind you, here's what Donald Trump said about the case. Go. I know nothing about this nut job. She's accusing me of rape, of raping her. The worst thing you can do, the worst charge. And. And you know, it's. You know it's not true, too. You're a political operative also. You're disgust. You're a disgrace. He's talking to her lawyer in a deposition. Mr. Trump. All right. Joining us now from Newark, New Jersey, is Attorney Ronald Coleman, who's filing this case. You know, I wonder whether most counselors, most lawyers give a hoot about this because it goes right to the heart of our justice system, even though it's a civil case that you can make up anything about anybody. And I certainly do not believe E. G. Carroll. I'm being upfront about that. That. Okay. And then try to ruin them. And Carol won. A jury awarded her $5 million, and then a judge gave her another $80 million because Trump allegedly defamed her. I would think that every lawyer in a country would be interested in this. Am I wrong?
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Ronald Coleman
You're wrong. And you're wrong for the same reason that most of so many of us were wrong about how quiet lawyers, especially the criminal defense bar, have been over the last 10 years with respect to everything involving Donald Trump. The, the rape, if there's any rape that's involved Donald Trump, it was the rape of the attorney client privilege, the Michael Cohen business, all the things that have, that have been done to Donald Trump that the ACLU and the extremely well spoken criminal defense bar have had so little to say, save perhaps Alan Dershowitz. Don't be surprised at all. This is negotiable virtue that they have and pretty much not much else.
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Bill O'Reilly
But I don't care because Trump got hammered. But Stephanopoulos paid a price for what he did. However, there's silence across the country about this story. I guess it's, well, it's gone away. Trump isn't going to suffer for it. But the case is going to come before the Supreme Court, correct?
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Ronald Coleman
It is distinctly possible and it's a real shame because it should have been dealt with. It's bad enough that this went through the New York District Court, but that the 2nd Circuit was so ready to rubber stamp the decisions of the district court is really disturbing. So many problems with so many legal problems, so many procedural problems, so many constitutional problems. Now, these kind of things happen in lots of cases and circuit courts ignore them lots of times. The only reason anyone's even hearing about this is because it involves the President of the United States.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, the Justice Department is keeping very quiet about this. In fact, there's contradictory statements being made. The case is now In Illinois, the U.S. attorney's office, but we can't get any definition on what they're doing, if anything. Do you know?
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Ronald Coleman
I certainly don't know. Even if I were a member of the Trump legal team, I wouldn't know. I haven't been for a couple of years. But it is a not, not particularly surprising that those who do know aren't going to say whether they're on the Trump side or the Carroll side or the government side, because it's still an investigation. And as you point out, Bill, the government has denied that there is an investigation. With respect to Carol herself. They are looking at the Reid Hoffman business and to the extent that his activities involve her, then she's, she and this case would be part of the investigation.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, so Hoffman and his crew, the focus on whether they broke certain laws in the pursuit of trying to convict Donald Trump in civil court, do I have that correct?
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Ronald Coleman
Well, not convict, but to find him liable, I mean, they they're not all that interested in either the 5 million or the $83 million. They're interested.
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Bill O'Reilly
They were.
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Ronald Coleman
What the entire purpose of that laws suit was was to destroy Donald Trump's political reputation, to make him unelectable.
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Bill O'Reilly
So why isn't there more exposition on this? Because it seems to me that's a very high crime to take out a legitimate contender for the presidency with a false accusation. And I'm not even going to get into he said, she said about it. But if the person e. Jean Carroll says under oath, nobody helped me, and then $7 million rolled into her attorneys, that's pretty serious, it looks to me, is it not?
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Ronald Coleman
It is pretty serious. And you know, Bill, from a technical point of view, from what I understand, the Carroll team is taking the position that, well, she was always. And apparently this Second Circuit passed on this as well. She was always walled off from the mechanics of it. But that means when asked the question, you don't answer. No, you answer. I've been walled off from the mechanics of it. Moreover, when the lawyer says six months later, you know, I've been thinking about this case, kind of just going through the files, and I just remembered about that $7 million check.
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Bill O'Reilly
Hey, this is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith.
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Ronald Coleman
I would love for you to listen.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Ronald Coleman
$7 million is a lot of money for most lawyers.
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Bill O'Reilly
Just remember, and I don't buy the Eugene Carol thing at all because she had to walk into a lawyer's office or be guided in. All right, she had to make a deal. Whether it's a contingency deal or hourly deal, she had to be involved in it. Had to be, of course. So it looks to me she's like, yeah, that's how they're going to portray her, as this doddering person. But if she's so doddering, how can you believe anything she says about the actual case?
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Ronald Coleman
Well, if it involves Donald Trump, the rule always is you believe it. Especially, you know, if you actually go so far as to name the source for the claim against Donald Trump. That's a home run. I mean, you can, you can say anything about Donald Trump and it's repeated breathlessly and immediately by the corporate media.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, none of the media has challenged this. E. Jean Carroll, as far as we can tell, I'm bringing it up because I just think it's not only dangerous for Mr. Trump, but it's dangerous for every single American. Every single American.
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Ronald Coleman
Every single American. And one of the things that, Bill, that is the most concerning about this is again, the point that you brought up at the beginning. Where's the legal profession? Where's the judiciary on this? The judiciary is supposed to be the neutral arbiter, supposed to be the last, best opportunity an aggrieved citizen has or an accused citizen has to get justice. And they have so failed. I mean, every court in New York, whether federal or state, failed so miserably with respect to the lawfare brought against Donald Trump. It's a gigantic problem, and it really presents a political and institutional problem for the Supreme Court as well.
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Bill O'Reilly
And a jury participated in this whole charade as well. They found him guilty.
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Ronald Coleman
Well, juries in what happened, a reasonable
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Bill O'Reilly
doubt, lady, if you don't know when it happened, that's reasonable doubt to me.
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Ronald Coleman
You would think that, and you would think that even if, even if the jury didn't find that there was reasonable doubt, you know, there are many opportunities for judges and reviewing courts to say there is insufficient evidence. It is very hard, Bill, to appeal from a jury verdict. And you sue people in certain jurisdictions because you know what kind of juries you're going to get in these political cases. And they guessed right just about every time.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, councilor, thanks very much for your expertise. Let us know if anything breaks and you hear about it. By all means. We appreciate it. This is the no Spin News Weekend Edition Talking points memos on yesterday's vote in California, Maine, a couple of other places. We don't know. It doesn't really say much. I know a lot of people hyped it up, the cable TV networks, but at this point, it looks like. But California simply cannot count their votes. They can't do it. They've never been able to do it. So we don't have. We should have, but we don't. Exactly what happened yesterday in California with LA Mayor and the gubernatorial race, we don't have it. Nobody has it because they can't count the votes. All right, all right. So it looks to me, and I could be wrong, that in the governor's seat you're going to have Steve Hilton. He's a Republican, used to work on Fox News, conservative man, against Xavier Becerra, who worked for Joe Biden, Health and Human Services. Remember, Becerra was in charge of homeless. Okay. I don't know if that's something he's going to campaign on. So at least you'll have, as it appears now, a race in November. Now in la, which is just about to fall off the cliff there into the Pacific Ocean. Karen Bass, current mayor, she's going to be in it. And it looks like Spencer Pratt, the Republican, and he's a TV guy, is going to be running against her. Now, there were. If you combine the Democratic votes, however, in the primary, Pratt gets murdered. Okay? And that's what's going to happen. So your Democratic machine, probably most powerful political machine outside of Chicago, is going to kick in to put Democrats in office. That's what will happen. But again, at least the people of California will have a choice. Now, I don't expect them to seize upon the choice because of a variety of reasons that we'll get into down the road, but one of them is apathy. People just don't know what's going on and they don't care. I predict that when all the votes are counted in California, far less than 50% of people would vote in the primary. It's not interested. They're interested in their own situations. Okay? So we don't learn anything that we didn't know on Monday. The progressive movement is still there, it's well funded. California's Democratic state. Now, Maine is just a crazy situation. Why you would elect a guy like. And he's going to be the candidate against Susan Collins, a Republican. This guy, he's got the Nazi tattoo. I mean, I don't know what they're doing to Maine. I guess I'm going to have to go up there and scold everybody. But it's crazy. But Collins may pull it out because this guy's a nut. Anyway, that's a memo, a short one today because I want to get into all the stuff that we have. You're listening to the no Spin News Weekend Edition. I did not know that Iran's inflation rate at this point is 77%. That means the 70 million people who live inside the boundaries of Iran, mostly Persians, are paying an enormous amount of money just for bread, just to eat. 77%. In the USA, it's 3.8%. Up a little bit from when Biden was president, but not a disaster, not yet. Okay. I mean, it's inching up. Can you imagine that? So the mullahs, all they have to do is say, okay, we're not going to do a nuke anymore, and everything goes away. 77%. So I don't know how these people in Iran survive. I mean, they can't even buy bottled water. So that was something I learned today when I was researching, because this has got to stop. Got to stop. And President Trump, I think, sees the same stats I see. He says, look, country's going under. If we give it a little more time, it's going to collapse totally. He might be right, but he didn't have that much time, June. And Americans are still paying 450 for a gallon. Gas and food is ridiculous and insurance premiums are ridiculous and on and on, you all know. And Democrats who, they don't have any solutions to it, of course, but they're just saying, oh, no, we're going to make it better. How? They're willing to look away, and so is Europe and everybody else, from the evil of the mullahs. It's not even in play for the Democratic Party. They don't even care about it. It's not a partisan analysis. It's the truth. So, yeah, they get nukes, the mullahs. Democrats don't really care and neither does the EU or China or Russia or anybody else. Ah, we don't care. All right. They didn't care about Hitler either. I know the comparison is tired. I know it, it's tired. But it's valid. Now. This is a positive coming. And again, President Trump, I think, is weighing the economic negatives and positives before he goes in and obliterates Iran, which he may do. So every taxpayer, 97% of people who file a tax return are going to get either a refund or a lower tax assessment. And that's because of the big beautiful bill, which the Democrats opposed. They don't want the bill. They don't want any tax cuts. They wanted more tax. Okay. Most of the money goes to workers. 70% of all filers earning less than 100,000. Okay, get the biggest tax cut averages close to $900. That money is now coming into circulation. It hasn't hit full. Born but it's going to hit very soon. What that means is that there will be a more vibrant economy, at least in the short term, because people will have money to pay the debts off or to buy what they want to buy. Not a lot of money, but substantial amount. Now, there are, according to the Bureau of Labor stats, plenty of jobs open, plenty of jobs. You want to work, jobs are there. And 730,000 jobs were added just in the month of March in this country. So this is all a very big positive for the United States that the economy remains strong even though everybody's paying more for stuff. This is the big picture that you're never going to get anywhere. But that doesn't mean that Iran can go on much longer because it's hurting President Trump's legacy. He knows that. Joining us now from McKinney, Texas, is pollster Scott Rasmussen, who I've known for years, decades, and he's a very good analyst. He's got a book out, and I hope you consider it. It's called out of the elite 1% and the battle for America's soul. Wow. Number one, why should I care about the elite? Maybe I'm one of them, I don't know. But what is the elite and why should I care about them?
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Scott Rasmussen
Well, the reason you should care is because the elite 1% do not believe in America's founding ideals. They do not believe in consent of the governed. They do not believe in freedom, equality and self governance. Who they are people with a postgraduate degree who make a lot of money and live in densely populated urban areas. Places like Manhattan, not like Cedar Rapids, but people who have a huge impact on the narrative. And unfortunately, they think the rest of us would be better off if we just followed their lead. These elites tend to believe that most Americans have too much individual freedom. They tend to trust the federal government and think that everybody else does, too. And they're a little surprised when people push back with skepticism about political solutions.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, are they in both parties? Are they in both ideologies, liberal and conservative?
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Scott Rasmussen
Among the elite 1%, there are more Democrats than Republicans. But I think it's really important to acknowledge that a Republican member of the elite 1% has very little in common with a Republican voter. And a Democratic member of the elite 1% has very little in common with a Democratic voter. Just to give you a sense of scale, half of these politically active elites think you should not be allowed to vote unless you have a college degree. They tend to believe that if a regulator thinks something should be done and, well, you know, voters hate the idea. Well, they should ignore the voters and do it anyhow. This is true of elites in both parties. Now, look, anytime you and I have talked about this for 25 years, when you talk about polling statistics, it's never 100%. There are members of the elite, 1% who recognize we don't have enough freedom. But by and large, this group thinks that the challenge is that we're not paying enough attention to our betters.
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Bill O'Reilly
But isn't. Isn't this all about control? That the wealthy, they call them patriarchy, wants to control the unwashed masses and have the masses be manipulated into doing what the wealthy patriarchy wants them to do? It's a matter of control, correct?
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Scott Rasmussen
Yes, it's a matter of control. It's not just about wealth. That postgraduate part is really important. You know, over the years, people talk about a diploma divide, that Republicans tend to have people without a college degree, Democrats tend to attract people with a degree. The biggest gap, though, is between people with a postgraduate degree and everybody else. Those. Those people with a bachelor's degree actually have more in common with those without a degree than the postgrad. So it's not purely an economic issue. Now, when you take it back far enough, Woodrow Wilson in the late 19th century, I think you were just getting started in journalism about that time, was talking about the study of administration. He wrote a very influential article. He envisioned America. He wanted America to have a governing system much more like the Prussian system of government, where you would have experts make the decisions. He openly spoke about the fact that voters should be cut out of the process. In fact, a little bit later, he said that the problem with the American people is they've never gotten over the Declaration of Independence. And Bill, by the way, I haven't gotten over it yet either. I still believe in it. But this idea that a group of experts should lead things started with Wilson. It has been growing for 140 years, and that's the battle we face today.
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Bill O'Reilly
But here's the conundrum. Let's take the Bush family. They would be considered elite, right? By any standard. So they're elite, and the father and the son become president. The Obamas are not elite, although they have law degrees. And as you talk about, they're very well educated, but they come from both of them, Michelle and Barack, very humble beginnings. So it's hard to put them in the elite category, is it not?
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Scott Rasmussen
They're certainly in the elite category in the sense that they were very well educated at elite schools that had a postgraduate degree. They've done very well for themselves. They have a much different background than the Bushes. But I think the, the common ground between both the Bush family and the Obamas is they looked at the political system as a top down system of governance. The federal government should make the rules and others that follow. I dedicated my book to the.
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Bill O'Reilly
Both the Bushes and the Obamas see it that way. So they have something in common.
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Scott Rasmussen
Correct, Correct. And in my book I dedicate to the nation's 519,000 state and local elected officials. I would like to encourage them to pull back power from the federal government. Not to ask, not to beg, but to find ways to actively bring decision making closer to home.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, that's the States rights movement. You see a little bit of that in the Supreme Court.
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Scott Rasmussen
Decision making closer to home at every level. And look, if you're a city council member, maybe not in New York City, but in most places, you run into your constituents in the grocery store, you have a different relationship with them.
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Bill O'Reilly
Sure.
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Scott Rasmussen
And you have benefit that members of Congress listen to you because you're an elected official. These are the people we want to elevate to challenge. That's a different way of thinking about our policymaking system.
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Bill O'Reilly
But in order to do that then you have to kind of shrink the powerful party system that we have now. The book again is out of touch, the elite 1% in the battle for America. So while I have you here, what is it with this communist movement? What is it with this? It comes in the last, I don't know, eight, nine years, maybe 10 out of nowhere, and now social, is this communist that Mandami, the mayor of Seattle, and they're all as radical left, does that have anything to do with the elite?
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Scott Rasmussen
Absolutely. In fact, when you talk about Mandani, for example, despite all the hype about what a national story this is and how it's changing the perception of the Democratic Party. This is a man who was elected by 1 out of 11 voters in Manhattan. This is a local story about a city that is more prone to be left leaning. What has happened is we have a nation that has now, I call it a 10, 1080 nation. We have 10% on the far left, these radicals on one side fighting with 10% on the far right. And they are so consumed with fighting each other that they've forgotten about the 80%. And the 80% hate the political process. They want to keep their heads down. They want to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. And again, those are the voices that we actually need to elevate because they're the ones who still believe in freedom, equality and self governance.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right. But it's impossible to elevate the regular folks if the media itself is part of the elite system, which it is.
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Scott Rasmussen
And that's where the good news comes. And one of the reasons I'm very optimistic about America's future. You know, Back in the 60s and 70s, there were three television networks that controlled 94% of the audience. The evening news. If you didn't make the evening news, your story didn't exist. And by the way, the three network anchors all read the same stories from the New York Times. That world does not exist anymore. In that world, you could not be doing your show. In that world, a Fox News never would have come around or cnn. And now we have the Internet. And look, I know all the problems with social media, but it is a much better world that we have lots of voices springing up and the gatekeepers have lost control that ultimately that, that decentralizing of communications is good news for all of those who want to restore power to, to the ordinary folk.
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Bill O'Reilly
Even if all of them or most of them hate the sitting president, Donald Trump.
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Scott Rasmussen
Most people hate the sitting president. Most people dislike the previous president. America is not defined by our elected politicians. We began long ago with the idea that the most important thing about being an American was you didn't have to ask permission from the government to do anything. Back in 1636 when they wanted to create a new college called Harvard. In those days, well, it was illegal to start anything without getting permission from the king. They just ignored that because the king would have said, you have to teach the religion that I believe in, not the religion that you believe in. Once that became known, once people began to realize they could start organizations on their own businesses or non profits or any kind of organization that set in motion a chain of events that led to America's commitment to freedom. And that the idea that we don't have to ask President Trump or President Biden for permission for everything, that's a good thing.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, Scott, appreciate it. Good book. Thank you for writing it and coming on the program. We'll talk soon. This is the no Spin news Weekend Edition. Okay, long form podcast tomorrow drops at noon for premium concierge members. Hope you check that out. And 6pm for everybody. And it's me and Victor Davis Hansen. Go. We are a nation now that is so distracted based on TikTok or whatever they're consuming that millions and millions and millions of people don't know what's going on and don't care to know how important is that to the progressive advancement? It's very important. When I pick up my phone, I I had never asked to be a subscriber to Apple News or Smart News, but all of a sudden this stuff pops up with all of and it's completely left wing. And then all these things on YouTube, tick tock. They all have a particular they're either left wing or they're a crudity or a diminishing of the cultural standards of the tradition that we grew up with. So you'll see more and it's a very solid interview, I believe again, that will drop. We'll do it live noon for members tomorrow and 6pm for everybody. Thank you for watching and listening to the no Spin News. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you on Monday, but I will write a Sunday column and if anything happens in Iran, obviously we'll be on the case. Thank you for listening to the no Spin News weekend edition. To watch the full episodes of the no spin news, visit billoriley.com and sign up to become a premium or concierge member. That's billoriley.com Sign up and start watching today.
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