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Spin News Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
This is very frustrating trying to analyze the aftermath of President Trump's China trip. We're not getting a lot of information and I have the best contacts and sources. As you probably know, I'm not getting it, so I don't know what the deuce happened there. It's the Chinese way not to tell the press anything. Although I did speak to a couple of powerful people in China. It was more of the same. You remember, I was there in Beijing myself last year at this time. And the Trump administration usually lays out stuff, but being a little controlled here. Okay, So I can't tell you who won, who lost, and I can tell you that the reporting on it is dishonest, but that's not going to shock you. Whenever Donald Trump's involved with anything, there's dishonest reporting. But it is very, very frustrating for somebody like me, usually ahead of the curve, not to have a lot of information to give you. But the talking points memo will go over what we know. So the Trump administration says, okay, that America got $17 billion worth of agricultural trade deals. 17 billion. We have not seen any contracts. I don't doubt it, but I can't prove it. All right, Most of the trade is in agricultural products. Beef, poultry, soybeans. Soybeans, Soybeans. Okay, you got it. Okay. And then in return, China is going to address in a nebulous way, supply chain shortages of rare earth material, which is what Greenland's all about and all of that. Will China address anything? Probably not just guessing here, but oh yeah, we'll address it. Okay, then in October, last October, China committed to purchase 25 million more agricultural products. I don't believe they've moved out yet. Okay, so China says it'll do stuff and then just lays there. The trip was cordial. I think that's the best word, and that's important. But there wasn't anything headline making. So apparently President Xi said, well, we'll help you on Iran. How? Nobody knows. Nobody. I guess the president knows, but he hasn't said so. We don't know. It's not specific. The only thing Xi did that got attention was saber rattled toward Taiwan. And I told you that it's a very emotional issue. And every time I talk to the Chinese, Taiwan comes up. But does she want to destroy his own economy by invading Taiwan? Probably not. But the Chinese want it for their own reasons. Rest of the world doesn't care. Other than Japan and South Korea, who are close by now, the anti Trump press is so boring that even the crazy networks are ignoring it. Now, I picked out two sound bites. One from a guy who runs the Midas Touch operation, which is far, far left. He. This man represented Colin Kaepernick. That's how nutty he is. All right, but he got a forum to go on television and say, this go. This trip by Donald Trump to China may go down in history as the most historic humiliation ritual for the United States ever. Donald Trump's just giving everything away to Xi Jinping while Donald Trump is there
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Edgar Dworski
in China giving speeches about Chinese food
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Bill O'Reilly
and Chinese restaurants in the United States. And as Donald Trump keeps on glazing
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Edgar Dworski
Xi Jinping about how powerful you are,
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Bill O'Reilly
again, the guy's alone. All right, go down in history is the most historic humiliation ritual for the USA ever. You know, okay, if you guys, I know you don't watch it, but it's my duty to bring it to your attention. Of more substance is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Now, remember, Schumer is pretty much at the end of the road. He cannot speak without notes, so he's literally reading every word he says. And his job is to oppose everything that President Trump does. So much for fighting against how China is hurting American workers and poisoning our communities with fentanyl. That would get in the way of
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Donald Trump and his family profiting off
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Bill O'Reilly
doing business with the Chinese Communist Party.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Just hours in, and Xi Jinping has already threatened to, quote, collide or even
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Bill O'Reilly
clash, unquote, with the United States if we continue our support for Taiwan.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Trump apparently didn't say anything in response.
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Bill O'Reilly
No, you see him reading his stuff off the paper, and Trump was smart not to say anything. You don't blow up a meeting like that based on speculation. They don't do that, you better not go into Taiwan. That's you get you nowhere. And you notice Schumer's hunched over reading the words off the paper, all of that. Now I will remind you that in 2023, she came to San Francisco. You'll remember that, because the city moved all the homeless out so she wouldn't have to see them and the world wouldn't have to take a look at really what San Francisco's devolved into. And then two days later, all the homeless were back. Anyway, in that meeting, nothing was accomplished. Nothing. All right. And Biden, well, you know, it was total waste of time. Now you can make a comparison if you would like. We don't know yet whether China is going to carry through on the trade deals or help in Iran or back away a little from Taiwan. We don't know. Okay. So summing up, I can't report any more than I just told you because I don't know. Will I get information? Maybe it's not the Chinese way. Okay. You know, it's funny because we have leakers here all over the place out of our federal government. If you leaked federal government stuff in Beijing, you execute it, they kill you. Okay. Just keep that in mind. And that's the memo. Tokovis is the go to for premium handcrafted western boots. Stop by any store location for a warm welcome, a cold drink in hand and a truly one of a kind shopping experience. Let our friendly staff help you find your new go to boots, whether your first pair or your 50th. Finish things off with a complimentary boot brand to make them extra special. Come for the boots. Stay for the good times.
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You're listening to the no Spin News Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
So lost in all of this Trump stuff is a very interesting case that the federal government has suspended $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to the state of California. A lot of jack. Okay. And the reason is like Minnesota and Maine, a few other states, probably more than we know, the states themselves were allowing phony hospice, hospital, phony stuff to be paid for. And then the states get reimbursed for that so that we pay for it really. But it was, it was bogus. So I asked myself, get, get somebody who really knows what this is all about. And I think we have a Dr. Brian Blaze coming to us from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He's the president of the Paragon Health Institute. He did once work for Donald Trump. You guys should know that he follows these stories. And it's a grift, right? We're looking at. Let's pinpoint California first of all. So from what I understand, a whole bunch of hospices out there where people go and die and they were either over billing or they weren't in existence at all and said they were and the state would just rubber stamp the payments. So the federal government would reimburse the state of California. Do I have it correct?
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Yeah, I mean one of the things about the California hospices bill is that nobody was dying. You expect if people go into hospice, a pretty high mortality rate. And actually there was a very high survival rate with the Los Angeles hospice. So there's two programs. The one we're primarily talking about is Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal state program traditionally for lower income, more vulnerable Americans like children, pregnant moms, people with disabilities. The key to understanding Medicaid is that the federal government provides an open ended reimbursement of state spending. So, so the more the states spend, the more money that they get from Washington. That creates really bad incentives at the state level, creates a permissive environment for waste, fraud and abuse. And it's really important when you have those incentives that the federal government provide meaningful oversight of state programs. And what we saw during the Biden administration in particular was sort of in anything, no holds barred approach to Medicaid, the program grew astronomically in California. California now has a Medicaid program that costs more than $200 billion a year. About 2/3 of that is paid by the federal government. So a lot of this waste, fraud and abuse in California's Medicaid program is paid by federal taxpayers, people outside the state of California. And while there's significant waste, fraud and abuse in every state's program, because of the incentives, California is really the hotspot and probably the most egregious example in the country of a mismanaged, wasteful Medicaid program.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, California doesn't make money on this. It loses some money. But that money would go to the Medicare patients anyway, right? The ones that really need help. But what they've done to set up this grift is saying, well, we're going to pay people who don't need help. I understand there was one hospice in somebody's garage. I mean, that was how bad the fraud is in California. Now, does California have any kind of law enforcement looking at this at all to try to prevent the fraud? Yeah.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
So Dr. Oz has done particularly good work here. He's flagged, I think, 400 hospices in Los Angeles that were fraudulent. You know, one third of all hospices in the country are in Los Angeles. And they took action against these. These providers, and very few of them have. Have appealed. You know, the state did some very minor oversight over the last couple of years, but just a fraction of the total problem. It really has been the attention that this fraud task force led by Vice President Vance, with Dr. Oz as the administrator for center of Medicare and Medicaid Services, they've really brought additional attention and done significant action to close down these fraudulent hospices in Los Angeles.
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Bill O'Reilly
What's the difference between the L A grift and the Somali thing in Minneapolis?
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Dr. Brian Blaze
So, I mean, one of the differences is the Somali problem was related to autism. So they were paying parents to have their kids diagnosed with autism so that they could maximize billing. The other problem out of Minnesota was those sham daycare centers. Now, that's not a Medicaid program, but that is another federally supported program in California. We've also seen an ethnic entity really involved with the fraud, the Armenians. And I think one of the factors that Dr. Oz is looking at is, is in a lot of these big cities, you have ethnic groups that have developed fraud schemes and are ripping off the federal government and in many cases, taking the money, the loot that they get out of the country.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, so Armenians, first I've heard of this, are involved with the fraud in la, Somalis in Minneapolis. Now, Governor Newsom looks like he's going to run for president. Does he have defense here? Can he defend saying, well, I tried to clean this up or I did whatever. Is there anything that he did?
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Dr. Brian Blaze
I mean, I think he's made the problem worse. Bill, if you look at Medicaid spending, the growth trajectory of Medicaid spending since he's been governor, California has one of the highest, fast, highest growing Medicaid programs in the country. It is really unsustainable. They've also done a lot of financial gimmicks. One of the things that Paragon wrote about last year was a California really, this money laundering scheme. Where they were able to get federal tax dollars to expand Medicaid to all unauthorized immigrants in the state. I don't think Gavin Newsom has a track record of being a good steward of Medicaid and, and protecting that program for the most vulnerable. And in California, it really is out of control. Almost 40% of all of Californians are enrolled in this welfare program.
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Bill O'Reilly
So almost 40% receive some kind of Medicare. Medicaid, I should say. And that includes undocumented aliens.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
It does. California expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state back in 2020. Of course, that had costs that ended up being much greater than expected. So they have looked to dial that back. But yeah, I mean, it was one of his main health policy agenda items a few years ago.
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Bill O'Reilly
So did the state legislature in Sacramento. Okay, that. Or was it just a executive order by Newsom?
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Dr. Brian Blaze
So here's what the state did. And it took advantage of the open ended reimbursement. It engaged in what is a. Well, was a legal money laundering tactic. The way that this works, the state tax managed care plans, it taxed them, say $10 billion. It then spent that $10 billion right back on those managed care plans. That is an accounting Gimmick. It was $10 billion going from the insurer to the state, back to the insurer. But then what the state did was invoice the federal government as if that was an actual expense. So the state got about, I think, $10 billion additional money from the federal government for that accounting gimmick. And the next year they expanded Medicaid to cover all unauthorized immigrants in the state. One of the good reforms in the one big beautiful bill was to shut down that loophole so California can no longer take advantage of it and states, other states can't either.
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Bill O'Reilly
Was that under Biden?
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Dr. Brian Blaze
No, that was. So they expanded it to unauthorized immigrants. That was approved under President Biden and it was shut down by the reconciliation bill that President Trump signed.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, but Biden did know about it, did approve it.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
That's correct.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, Doctor, we appreciate the candor and I hope we can talk again soon. Let us know if anything else breaks out there. And this massive fraud, that's what it is. I mean, this is why people don't have any money, because we have to pay more and more and more taxes and then go into corrupt situations like this under administrations that don't care. Okay. And then, well, we need more money. We need more money. We need national debt rise and rise and rising, rising. And so now at least the Trump Administration is trying to do something about it. And of course they're attacked by saying, oh, you're inhumane. Oh, yeah, I want the hospice in my garage. Come on. But the expansion of this into the billions and billions of dollars because nobody was paying attention to it.
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This is the no Spin news, Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
So let's talk about antisemitism. Never got it. Never got it. Okay. And I grew up in a neighborhood where there were Jews and Catholics and every ethnicity except for blacks. They were redlined out of there by the Levitt brothers who built Levitt Town. It was terrible what they did, but we had every other ethnic group in there and everybody got along pretty well. And the city I a little bit different because of the landlord thing. And there was some resentment about Jewish Americans owning a lot of the buildings and collecting the rents and all of that. But minor, minor, minor, minor, minor. And now we got full blown anti Semitism all over the country and it's all about Israel. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So why should you care? You're not Jewish, right? And even if you are, then I know why you care. But if you're not Jewish, why should you care? Because this is bad for usa. You shouldn't have this. And to me as a historian, I'm looking at it and it's acceptable now. The progressive movement has embraced it and that's a large part of the Democratic Party. They despise Israel and by extension some of them hate Jews, is an example. Go.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
And it makes me feel silly to
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Dr. Brian Blaze
consistently, you know, talk about what Hamas has done, especially when there has been an October 7th times a thousand, if not more than a thousand at this
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Bill O'Reilly
point, in the hands of Israel against
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Dr. Brian Blaze
the Palestinian population in its entirety. I mean, they're doing an October 7th to Lebanon right now as we speak.
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Bill O'Reilly
We have enabled Israel to carry out, you know, modern Nazi policies of ethnic
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Dr. Brian Blaze
cleansing, mass slaughter, land land theft, border expansion.
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Bill O'Reilly
It's unacceptable and we're the ones enabling it. No, you're the one that's making it up. But you're doing, you're making it up, fabricating it. Now, I spent some time in the Middle east, in Israel. I mean, I know what the story is, but a little history is instructive. Six million killed by the Nazis, you know that. But then there were another quarter of a million, at least quarter of a million Jews after World War II had nowhere to go. Nobody take them. USA. Nope. FDR didn't particularly like Jewish people. Great Britain wouldn't take Them. Canada. No way. Eastern Europe. They persecuted them. Stalin persecuted Jews. Cossacks. Okay, so you got a quad, least quarter of a million people walking around on nowhere to go. And then you had the rest of the Jewish population going. How could we lose 6 million people in the most destructive way possible? That can't ever happen again. That is the history of this. I wrote a book called Killing the ss. If you want to know it, there it is. Those two people you just heard, one of whom is running for Senate in Maine, they just. Are they liars or are they stupid? Probably both, but I'm not sure because I don't know them. This summer, don't squeeze in. Spread out.
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Bill O'Reilly
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and we run it through the Bible.
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Bill O'Reilly
What does the Bible have to say about this? Because there's nothing new under the sun. Read the headlines.
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Everything's all crazy.
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Bill O'Reilly
World's coming to an end. It's all in the Bible.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
And after every episode, hopefully you leave with a proper perspective and a biblical piece.
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Bill O'Reilly
Please join us wherever you listen to podcasts. And we also have a YouTube page as well. YouTube.com politicsbyfaith all right, so after World War II, some had it happen somehow to get. So Britain and USA got together and said, okay, we're going to have some land controlled by Britain in the Middle east given to create a Jewish state, Israel. All right? I mean, the land largely unusable except for Jerusalem and the holy sites, nothing really going on there. Wasn't like they were given the Jews Beverly Hills here. So that happened. And then in 1948, the United nations said, it's part of our charter. And in 49, Harry Truman, a real hero to the Jewish people, said, it's a new nation, and I'm the first one who's going to sign a signatory. And the president did. Okay, so from then on, there was war because the Arabs said, no, Darlan, you can't give it away. Great Britain, the usa, United nations, we're not going to recognize this or supported in any way. It didn't take long. So May 15, 1948, even while this process was underway, okay, coalition of Arab nations, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, all of them got together and invaded Israel. They had a fight. Now there's 7 million Jews living in Israel. There weren't as Many at that time, because a lot have emigrated in since and there's about 6.3 million in the USA. In our country, we now have this movement, progressive movement that says no Nazis. Not that bad. Israel, that. No, no. Hamas? Nah. Hezbollah. No, no, no. Terrorism? Nah. All Israel's fault. All Israel's fault. Here's an example. This is a student at Towson University of Maryland talking to an Israeli soldier who came over here. Go keep sucking our country. Drive.
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Come and talk with me.
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Bill O'Reilly
No conversation. No you.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Why me? I want you.
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Bill O'Reilly
You're a fascist. You bow.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Respect for you.
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Bill O'Reilly
Come on. I don't want to talk to someone like that. I don't want to.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Someone like you who's an inherently genocidal.
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Bill O'Reilly
You're brainwashed, brother. I'm brainwashed. That's funny. I'm in the. Ever been in Israel? No.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Why?
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Bill O'Reilly
I go there. So how do you know it's happening, what you're saying? Because I can see with my eyes. Okay? You can see with your eyes? You never been to Israel, so you saw through the phone of your eyes.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
Oh, what is it, AI?
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't know. Children starving.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
AI, are there children starving in Gaza?
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Bill O'Reilly
No.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Okay, you're
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Bill O'Reilly
okay. So that's never going to end. These idiots who hate Israel. Israel is doing this, Israel's doing that. Now we elevate it to the New York Times and a columnist named Nicholas Kristof, whom we've had trouble with before. So Kristof writes an article last week, May 11, and the headline is A Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians. Kristof says that the Israeli government sanctions rape and atrocities against the Palestinian people, the innocent Palestinians. That's the basis of the article. Fourteen anonymous sources. Fourteen. Three on the record. The three on the record are all pro Palestinians, though he doesn't get the other side. Israel's armed forces are raping Palestinians. Like mass rape. Horrible things. Okay? Now this guy, we've had questions about his accuracy for 15 years. I don't got to go into the history of it. But forget this. He is way out there. But the Times puts his article, I guess, on page one. Okay. In the article, he quotes former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Omer, who says that he believes there is. There have been some atrocities committed by the Israeli army, probably. So that's probably true. Okay? But after the article is published, Omer says, I. I don't know that for back. I don't know that for. To be true. Okay? Where it was presented as fact. So you see where this article is going? It's a smear hit piece. Now this has caused some problems for the New York Times, for the state of Israel and all of that. How is it going to play out politically? I don't think most Americans respect the progressive party. I think the party is going to hurt the Democrats in the midterms more than they think because they're so far out there. But I don't know what's going to happen with Israel as Netanyahu, the leader, says they're going to sue in the case. And that's the memo.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
You're listening to the no Spin News Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
Joining us now from Frankfurt, Germany is New York City attorney Joe Tacopina, who is following closely and I understand has volunteered his services in this case. Is that true? If you were asked, sure.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I mean, I, I've been, I've been contacted by someone from Netanyahu's team and want to know if I'd be interested. And when I looked into it, interested would be an understatement. Bill, this to me is as close to a ground ball as you get as far as a defamation suit because look, the New York Times knew exactly what global reaction these accusations would trigger and they published them anyway. So this case is going to turn and I think they have a great defamation case. That case is going to turn on one question. Did the New York Times meet the extraordinary verification burden required when publishing accusations disinflammatory? Because when you publish something so outrageous, so inflammatory, so extraordinary, the level of verification has to go up. You know that you're one of the top journalists of our century and so you understand that verification has to be meet the level of, of, you know, the nature of the accusation or reporting. So defamation law exists precisely for moments like this, when reputations are destroyed globally by allegations that may never ever have been responsibly verified. And I got to tell you something. You know, the Times has to understand if you're going to accuse Israeli soldiers of medieval style atrocities, and these are as gross test as I've seen as far as an accusation is concerned, if you're going to accuse Israeli soldiers of medieval style atrocities, you better have evidence beyond activism, beyond outrage or anonymous narratives or partisan haters, anti Semites, because once those allegations hit the front page of the New York Times, the damage to Israel and to Jews worldwide is immediate and permanent.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, let me, that goes right on. Let me stop you there. So Israel is a foreign country, obviously. Do they have any hurdles to overcome to get this in a United States courtroom?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Not even a Little bit. Because it was published by a United States newspaper. You know, anyone can be defamed. You don't have to be a citizen.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, so because a vehicle is a United States corporation, they can sue. They're basically suing the corporation. I don't know if they're suing Kristoff himself.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Oh, I would. If I were advising, if I were leading this charge, I would sue the New York Times and Kristoff.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah. Because he's got a lot of problems, Kristof.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
He's got a history. Oh, yeah. I mean, look, the New York Times took one of the oldest anti Semitic smears in history, Bill. This blood libel nonsense. Right. And repackages modern journalism. And it's, it's. It was absolutely outraged when you accuse soldiers of. Of barbaric crimes without actual proof. Let's see the proof. I don't want to hear about some Hamas supporters or anti Israeli individuals who are coming up with these, you know, accusations without proof.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah. I mean, you remember Abu. The world, remember Abu Ghraib and all that problem that the United States had to absorb because soldiers did that. But it was in policy. And there are always going to be atrocities in war, no matter what. Now do you understand? Because I don't. The embrace of younger Americans, which is mostly what this is, the anti Semitic embrace, the dance that they are doing now, not. I wouldn't even say it's a majority of younger Americans, but there's enough of them out there on the campuses that we see them all the time. Why are they doing this?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Bill, I listened to your monologue, your opening monologue, and you were right on. It's hard to understand. I mean, and I heard that little debate between the soldier and the activist. You know, it's repulsively unintelligent when you argue with someone that you don't really understand the facts or you can't give facts. You just repeat stuff that's posted on social media or in these blogs or in these groups, these hate groups. I don't know why they're doing. Bill. I mean, I went. Look, I grew up with an Italian American, but I went to yeshiva in Brooklyn because that was the best school that my mom could find. So I grew up in that community, and I couldn't for the life of me understand why someone would victimize like an entire class of people like that. It's just amazing. And how anyone could be sympathetic to Hamas or any of these Hezbollahs or any of these terrorist organizations. Mind boggling. And, you know, the timing of this piece was amazing too because the timing of it was in conjunction with the reporting of the, the, the atrocities from October 7th. So it's, it's. Something was, was really wrong here. And I cannot believe this got past the editor's desk at the New York Times. The timing is what makes it.
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Bill O'Reilly
But I can't get into that, that structure over there. I, I just can't because I'm not inside it. I don't know who the decision makers are.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Right.
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Bill O'Reilly
It used to be a Jewish run paper and the top editors were Jewish, but now it isn't. Now it's. I don't know what it is, but I'm more interested in Americans who hate Jews and why are, but they can't articulate why are you hating Jews? For what reason? Well, we got a mayor in New York City, Mamdani. I mean I'm not going to call him an anti Semite, that would be irresponsible. But certainly this man has no affection or wants to protect Jewish New Yorkers. He doesn't.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
No, he didn't. Yeah, no he doesn't. I mean he didn't participate in the, in the Jewish festivals in New York. His wife has made many posts that are, I'll say, anti Semitic. I mean there's no if, ands or buts about it. She's reposted things that were anti Semitic. And you know, if you read his previous, before he became mayor, some of his, his social media posts, I mean you could argue with straight face that they were anti Semitic posts. Whether he is or isn't. I mean, I, I don't know. I don't know the guy, but he's not had a strong history and, and you know, some people say he's a jihadist supporter. So again, he's not someone who's sympathetic. And I think he does feed into this, you know, this mindset of people who like, you know, just attack Jewish people because they're Jewish, not because they've done something.
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Bill O'Reilly
It doesn't, but it doesn't make any sense. And here's the kick around. I get a lot of mail by people who don't live in a big urban centers and they say, well, Jewish Americans by and large are liberal people and they vote left, they vote progressive, but now the progressives have turned on them. It's just, I can't. And I'm usually pretty good at this, Joe, you know that. I know you are figuring out why these people are doing what they're doing if you don't have a right to defend yourself. You have 7 million Jews. Okay, what do you have 100 million Arabs? And you can't defend yourself against Hamas and Hezbollah. And that doesn't mean that the poor Palestinians aren't trapped. They are trapped. There's no doubt about it.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Okay, but they're hostage to Hamas.
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Bill O'Reilly
But Israel has to be overly sensitive, not only to the Palestinians, but to Christians as well that are in the proximity. So I'm appointing you Netanyahu's legal counsel. Now, what do you tell him to do going forward?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
We go. We go aggressively. I mean, you know, I just don't know the Times we'll ever be able to verify this accusation because again, the law is simple. The more shocking the accusation, the higher the journalistic duty to verify it. And having some anonymous sources who are pro Palestinians or pro Hamas or anti Israel, that's not. That doesn't carry it for the Star magazine. That wouldn't carry it, let alone the New York Times. You just can't casually publish allegations that Israeli soldiers listen to those allegations. Train dogs for sexual assaults. Bill. And then hide behind. They were just reporting claims. That's not sufficient. That will not carry the day. So extraordinary accusations require extraordinary verification, especially in a war fueled by propaganda. And that's what you have here. And I'm surprised at the New York Times did this. I really am. You know, I know things have changed there, but I still hold them up as New York Times. But. And I've never sued ever, you know, a media outlet, a publication, anything. It's, you know, it's just not what I do. This would be different. I would. I would absolutely do this here because I think.
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Bill O'Reilly
So you bring a straight out defamation suit on behalf of Israel against the New York Times and Kristof, that's what you would do?
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
I would do it, Bill, absolutely.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
And I think that. I think it would be meritorious. I think they'd win. I wouldn't do this unless I thought they'd win. I think they'd win. I think the New York Times would buckle quickly and probably settle.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, I don't know if the state of Israel is going to do it or not. Stories cooled down a bit. But obviously if they get in touch with you and I are you please let us know. And we appreciate your time very much. Ironic. Ironic. The councilors in Germany, where all this stuff really started, this anti Jewish stuff, I mean it's been going back for centuries. We all know that with the Germans were unconscionable.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
This is the no spin news weekend edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
Every major story has a version the news gives you and then a version that's actually true.
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Dr. Brian Blaze
If you're a critical thinker, if you're
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Bill O'Reilly
somebody who's not tribal, if you're somebody who just wants the facts so you can make your own decisions, Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels is the show for you. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts, Talking Points Memo. Okay, so Donald Trump did very well last night in the primaries cross country, and he remains the most powerful politician in the country BY Far. So 35% of the Republican, mostly Republicans, I would say to maybe a few independents, but 35% are just right there. They're Maga. They love him. He can direct their votes. They are behind him. Nobody else is close in this country. No one else has a 35% constituency like that. So there's a guy in Kentucky, a congressman named Thomas Massie, and you might have heard of him, he opposed almost everything that Trump did. And he's a Republican, so he got waxed by a guy named Ed Gallrain, who the president endorsed over Massie because Trump hates Massey. And you would, too, if you were president and this Republican's voting again, pretty much everything you wanted to do. All right, you can look it up. But he didn't want the tariffs. He didn't want the big beautiful bill. He didn't want Venezuela. This is Massey. He didn't want anything. And he was just doing it to be a pain in the. You know what? There wasn't any ideology behind it anyway. He's done. He lost by 10 points. That's big for an incumbent to lose that big. So he's gout. And it is a very conservative district in Kentucky. So this guy Gorain will walk right in unless there's some big scandal or something. In Texas, the president has endorsed Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, the incumbent. Both Cornyn and Paxton are conservatives, but Cornyn didn't like the Mar? A Lago thing, didn't stand behind Trump on that. That's what got him. That's what got Cornyn. All right, so Trump was infuriated by the Mar A Lago FBI raid. Cornyn said, you know, maybe it's necessary over. So Paxton has to run now a pretty aggressive race against a Democrat named James Talarico. The press loves him. So it's not a fait accompli that Texas is going to have two Republican senators. Paxton's in for a race, but Trump endorsed Paxton and Cornyn. That was the end of Corny. So you can see, and this goes on and on and on and on. Now, we don't cover a lot of this party stuff here. I think, you know, that if you've watched me for a while, we don't really get involved with party politics because there's no reason to, you know, the way I think about the major stories, because I tell you, and I don't take a party line ever. And if you want the Republican Party's point of view, you watch Fox or Newsmax. If you want the Democrats point of view, you watch CNN or Ms. Or the network news. That's it. Why do they need me in the middle of this? And I got more important things to do, like your life to be wandering around in party politics, which I do not want to do. I have never done it and I never will do it. The independent vote in November for the midterms, that. That's the vote. So Republicans are, you know, have an advantage because of the MAGA people. They'll all go Republican. Democrats have no leadership at all. Kamala Harris is back. Yay. Yikes. And the independents, though, man, they don't like this Iran thing. They do not like this. So you can't call it now because stuff's going to happen in Iran soon. We'll get to that in a moment. Summing up, President Trump remains the most powerful politician by far in the United States of America. His endorsement can make or break you. If I were Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska, I'd be a little bit worried. Be a little bit worried up there, Lisa. And others as well. That's the memo.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
You're listening to the no Spa News Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, on your front, in your house, most likely, you're spending a lot more money on gasoline and food. All right, the raw stats are gas is up 46% since Donald Trump took office the second time. That's painful for every American. And food is up 3%. That's not bad. But food's going to go higher because of the oil. Where I live, Stop and Shop has cut prices on Long Island, 46 stores. CEO going, you know, we know everybody's hurting, so we're going to give them a break. Good for you. Stop and Shop. You're not seeing any of the American oil companies cutting prices. So Nathan's famous hot dogs are down 28%. Rotisserie chicken down 13. Beef top London broil down 26. Tropicana orange juice down 10%. This is all Stop and Shop, okay? And I applaud that company trying to make things easier. And people on Long island are Suffering. People everywhere are suffering financially. One of the problems is not the outward cost of the item. It's that when you buy at the grocery store now, you're not getting as much as you used to get. It's called shrinkflation. Shrinkflation. 10 massive corporations, Coca Cola, General Mills, Pepsi and others have all engaged in shrink inflation. That means you're not getting as much in the package as you used to get. And how would you know? It's printed in small print, but you don't know. So they're taking food out of there, charging you high price, not giving you what you used to get. Now, more than 40 years ago, I worked at Wnev TV in Boston and I anchored a show called New England Afternoon. On that show was a man named Edgar Dworski, who was our consumer guy. Here's a look. Go. If you have children or grandchildren, you will be interested in consumer editor Edgar Dworski's report on household poisons. But first, as he does every Friday, Edgar has an update on this week's consumer news. Edgar?
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Edgar Dworski
Well, that's right, Bill. And the top story is the new condominium conversion law, which went into effect on Wednesday in Massachusetts. It provides that most tenants must receive one year notice before facing eviction from their apartment.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, how about that hair? Anyway, Edward Dworski is now the CEO of consumerworld.org based in Boston. He joins us from the Hub. I think I look better than you, but I'm not sure. Yeah, I know, I know. But you're still the best consumer guy out there, which is why you're on a program today. Now, you've been following some food and I want to know what's going on here. Hershey's Dark Chocolate. That's a big shrink inflation thing.
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Edgar Dworski
Absolutely. We're talking about shrinkflation, where the product is getting smaller. It's a backdoor, sneaky way to raise prices. So here on the left you see the old package of hershey's dark assortment, 29 ounces. The new version on the right is 23.9. You lost 5 ounces. If these were full size candy bars, that's like, you know, losing four full bars in every bag. Both bags are $19.99. And if you haven't changed fine print, you wouldn't know you were getting screwed.
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Bill O'Reilly
How would you know? So they haven't changed the price, they just changed how much stuff is there? Quilted Northern toilet paper. They're doing the same thing, right?
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Edgar Dworski
Well, toilet paper and paper towels is one of the big categories of downsizing here, the old ones on the left, there were 295 sheets on the roll, and the new one on the right has 255. You lost 40 sheets. What's that, 15% give or take in the new package? When you add it all up, that's like losing one whole roll of toilet paper. Crazy.
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Bill O'Reilly
And then cereal. I understand many cereals are doing this shrinkflation stuff.
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Edgar Dworski
It's very common to have downsizing of cereal boxes, but to look at them side by side, they look identical. And that's what's really so sneaky about downsizing. There on the left is the Kellogg's Corn Pops. The old version was 18.1 ounces, the new one 16.4. So you lost a couple of bowls of cereal in every box. But they're both called family size. The one on the right is maybe slightly smaller, but how did they do it? If you turn them sideways, you'd see the new one is narrower. They're making these products so narrow, I don't even know how it stands up on the shelf anymore without falling over.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, maybe one of the kids ran away or something, and that's why they justified it. Coffee. Coffee is now. Every time I read the Wall Street Journal, coffee's going up, coffee's going up, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's a real situation with coffee?
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Edgar Dworski
Well, because of some shortages and weather issues, coffee has gone crazy. Even the store brand of coffee, in this case, we have great value coffee, which is Walmart's brand. The old one on the left was 11.3 ounces. The new one's 9.6. So you probably lost about five cups of coffee. But you remember when those cans on the left were a full pound? That was common when we were growing up. You bought a pound of coffee, and now it's a fraction of that and you're paying more.
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Bill O'Reilly
Especially if you drink it in some kind of Starbucks situation. Then you're getting really hosed on a coffee.
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Edgar Dworski
Then you're really paying through the nose for that.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay. Breyer's ice cream, my father's favorite. Big shrinkflation there, huh?
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Edgar Dworski
Well, this is the history of Breyer's ice cream. Remember when 20, 25 years ago, you bought a half gallon of ice cream? 64 ounces. That's the one on the left. Then they took out a full cup and became 56 ounces. But to see them side by side, it's really hard to tell there was a change. And you don't get to see them side by side in the store, and then on the right is the current size 48 ounces. They took out another cup. Only if you had the product side by side and turn them sideways, do you see the difference. So think how much we've lost. We've lost 16 ounces of ice cream, and we're still paying a pretty penny for it.
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Bill O'Reilly
But this isn't new on a lot of these products. They've been doing this over the years, kind of sneaking it in. But now with the cost of food a problem, this really hurts.
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Edgar Dworski
Well, absolutely. You see it more in times of inflation. You know, supermarkets tell me, you know, the cost of labor has gone up. The cost of gasoline is costing more to get stuff to the store. So they have some choices. They could raise the price directly, but they know consumers are price conscious and they'll catch it and they might lose sales. They can reduce the contents in some manner, such as by using cheaper ingredients. That's called skinflation, where they literally water down the product. Or they can do what we're talking about today, Shrinkflation, give you a little bit less in the package. It's a backdoor price increase. It's a sneaky way to pass on those costs to the consumer.
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Bill O'Reilly
And it's all legal, right?
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Edgar Dworski
It's all legal. You know, interestingly, in some other countries, Austria just passed the law last month that requires retailers to put a notice on store shelves if the product has been reduced. And a German court just last week found that Mandalas, which is a big supermarket product maker, they make candy bars in Europe, for example, the candy bar, the old one and the new one. The old one was 100 grams. The new one was 90 grams. They said that was deceptive. Consumers shouldn't have to read the fine print to figure out you're getting less. So they're requiring Mondelez to put on all their products a notice for four months when they shrink a product by more than 3%.
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Bill O'Reilly
We should do that here. All right. In our lifetime, Bill, no food lobby is powerful and so is the oil lobby. We know that. Edgar's website is consumerworld.org I recommend it. Thank you for helping us out. Good to see you, man.
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Edgar Dworski
Thanks, Bill. 40 years flew like that.
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Bill O'Reilly
I know, it's. It was a good time in Boston.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
Know this is the no Spin news Weekend Edition.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, here's a final thought of the day. I'm going to be on Cuomo tonight on my Wednesday slot at 8 o', clock, 8:15. Whatever he decides should be pretty good. Tonight, News Nation has grown 85% in total viewers since March 2025. The others are all sinking. News Nation's up 85%. Should I take credit for that? What do you think? Anyway, congrats to News Nation. That's a big jump and it's a good network. I'm sorry. Now, if breaking news happens, I'm cruising News Nation because I know they'll get the facts there. February 2026 was a record setting month for NN. Most watched month since the network became a full time news channel. Congrats again. All right, so this is it for me. I'm going to Ireland on Friday night, then to London to do a special 4News Nation on a civil war between Muslims and let's call them traditional English getting bad over there. I'll be doing our report. So I will not see you again until a week from Monday. But we will have, we'll do it live. Okay. We're doing the Baldwin brothers. That breaks tomorrow. Alec and Billy and Steven and Daniel. Too conservative, too liberal. That should be pretty fun, right? Victor Davis Hansen. We got him. So there'll be a lot of stuff going on while I am in Erie and I will be tweeting over there sending you pictures on billowright.com doing all that. Okay. So stay with us. Time will go fast. Always does. Looking forward to Ireland. Thank you for watching tonight.
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Co-host/Guest Commentator
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