O'Round the World - March 1, 2026

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Episode: O'Round the World - March 1, 2026
Host: Bill O’Reilly
Guests/Contributors: Chris Cuomo, Dan Abrams, Simone, Christopher Wray (not FBI Director), others
Date: March 1, 2026

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Overview of the Episode

This episode examines the intersection of sports, politics, and American cultural divides, centering on reactions to President Trump’s State of the Union address and the attendance controversy involving the US men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams. The panel further analyzes partisan use of patriotism, Trump’s political strategy during the address, the state of the Democratic leadership, high-stakes midterm elections, US-Cuba relations, and larger themes about radicalization and party finances.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Olympic Hockey Teams and the State of the Union Controversy

• Men’s Team Attends, Women’s Team Declines:

  • President Trump invited both the gold medal US Men's and Women's Olympic Hockey teams to the State of the Union. The men attended; the women declined via a polite but, in O’Reilly’s view, disingenuous press release ([00:00]–[05:00]).
  • O’Reilly questions the justification offered by the women’s team, stating:

    “They don't start the professional league again until Thursday. There's no reason they can't go to D.C. just like some of the men. It should be an individual decision.” (Bill O’Reilly, 01:54)

  • Defines the decision as culturally left-leaning, referencing prior women's sports activism (Rapinoe, etc.):

    “But the culture of women's sports, going all the way back to 2019 World cup, is left wing… I don't think that culture has changed.” (Bill O’Reilly, 03:15)

  • Statistical divide: Trump approval is notably lower among women than men, which O'Reilly links to broader gender-based political divides ([05:00]).

• Clash of Cultures in Athletics:

  • Men were openly patriotic and apolitical, eager to honor the office regardless of president. O’Reilly highlights the lack of women's soundbites as “strange and telling.”
  • Panel agrees women’s team leadership should have allowed players to make an individual choice ([22:34]–[23:28]).

2. Sports and Politics: A Broader Trend

• O’Reilly lists numerous sports teams declining White House invitations (Golden State Warriors, South Carolina women’s basketball, Philadelphia Eagles, University of Virginia, US women’s soccer) and sketches it as a trend of cultural protest against Trump and, more broadly, traditional America.
  • Notable comment:

    “If I were president, I would look into deporting some of them. That’s a joke.” (Bill O’Reilly, 08:15)

3. Dissecting Trump’s State of the Union Strategy

• Patriotic “Trap” for Democrats:

  • Trump’s address included a moment where he called for anyone agreeing that America’s government’s first obligation is to its own citizens (not “illegal aliens”) to stand ([11:00]).
    • Democrats did not stand; O’Reilly and others say this “trap” was meant to leverage American patriotism and isolate the opposition.
    • Quote:

      “So the Trump people knew that they a) could cloak themselves in the flag, which they did. And patriotism is a very strong emotional lure for voters. And they could set a trap for their opposition as far as putting Americans first. So it was a very clear, well thought out trap, and it worked.” (Bill O’Reilly, 11:52)

• O’Reilly is critical of Democratic leadership and suggests lack of coordination led to a public optics loss.

  • “You don’t have to repudiate that stance by standing up and saying, yeah, Americans have to come first in the protection list. You don’t. Anyway, when I say the Democrats don't have any leadership, I mean that literally. There's no leader to the party. And the shots are being called by far left financiers…” (Bill O’Reilly, 13:00)

4. Midterm Elections, Independent Voters & Radicalization

• Voter Dynamics:

  • Turnout expected to drop drastically compared to presidential years; independents highlighted as key ([15:00]).

• Democratic Radicalization & Party Funding:

  • Radical left now funds and influences much of the Democratic party, in O’Reilly’s account.
    • Quote:

      “The radical left has more power within the Democratic party than it ever has in the history of the radical left movement…congress people need money to run every two years and the radical left gives it to Democratic congress people who toe the line.” (Bill O’Reilly, 14:30)

  • This is seen as a turnoff for independents:

    “That margin, and I'm telling you the radical left does not appeal to independent voters. It does not.” (Bill O’Reilly, 15:53)

5. Panel Analysis: Trump’s Strengths, Risks, and Policy Messaging

• Presidential Demeanor & Risks:
  • Trump risks appearing “teed off” and petulant, especially if he deviates from prepared remarks or attacks the Supreme Court ([16:42]–[18:23]).
• Economic Policy & Appeals:
  • Trump’s strong economy narrative centers on interest rates, oil, insurance, but must avoid rhetoric wars.
    • Notable plan: convene insurance company CEOs for a summit ([18:23]–[19:03]).
• Patriotism as Partisan Wedge:
  • Debate over whether “patriotism” has become a political issue rather than a unifying force ([23:33]–[24:16]).
    • O’Reilly:

      “He's not going to bring America back together. Okay. That's not going to happen. He's not that kind of politician.” (24:16)

• Democrats and State of the Union Optics:
  • Radical Democrats greatly outnumbered by mainstream, so any disruptive protests or walkouts will not dominate optics ([29:46]).
  • Attending Democrats “have to stand, or they'd hurt themselves dramatically if they don't.” (Bill O’Reilly, 21:12)

6. Democratic Leadership & Gavin Newsom

• Discussion on Newsom’s presidential prospects: recognized as a slick, well-funded candidate, but associated with California’s troubles.
  • Dan Abrams:

    “He has absolutely destroyed the state of California. So anybody with an IQ over 50 would go, if he destroyed the state of California, wouldn't he destroy the United States? And the answer is, yeah, he would.” (Dan Abrams, 37:03)

  • Newsom’s sincerity and personal interaction with Bill O’Reilly is dissected ([37:41]–[39:02]).

7. Economy & Supreme Court Tariff Ruling

• Economic grievances focus on high insurance and household expenses, not dire economic collapse.
  • O’Reilly:

    “We're not living in Hoovervilles here... We're not in economic trouble. Most people are working. Most people are getting by.” (Bill O’Reilly, 41:11)

• Supreme Court’s recent tariff ruling is described as a rebuke to presidential overreach, not policy ([41:03]–[42:03]).

8. The Epstein Files & DOJ Transparency

• Debate over DOJ withholding Epstein-related allegations; O’Reilly defends non-release if claims are unverified to avoid “trial by mob,” while panelists argue the law required disclosure ([44:22]–[48:41]).
  • O’Reilly:

    "No law enforcement agency puts out unverified information. That's what's going on." (Bill O’Reilly, 45:07)

  • Panel agree DOJ owes the public an explanation ([45:24], [48:02]).

9. State of the Union Address: Ratings and Political Impact

• Panelists agree the speech was strong, especially in its structure and delivery—Trump’s “best ever” per some ([50:13]).
  • O’Reilly analyzes the message craftsmanship and long-term effect:

    “They laid two traps... that they're going to say, if you think American lives are more important than foreign nationals, stand. Very simple. That could have been done in sixth grade.” (Bill O’Reilly, 55:00) “Trump just wipes them out.” (Dan Abrams, 56:57)

• Debate on whether the impact will last to November—O’Reilly believes it will serve as a baseline for Republican messaging ([59:22]).

10. International Segment: U.S.–Cuba & Iran Tensions

• Incident: Boat from Florida, carrying 10 armed men, fired upon by Cuban authorities, four Americans killed ([61:15]).
  • O’Reilly contextualizes as a sign of Cuba’s oppressive regime and warns of possible coming U.S. action against Iran and Cuba ([62:01]–[63:31]).
• Broader comparison of authoritarian regimes (Cuba, China, Iran), oppression, and the lack of basic rights ([63:50]–[65:31]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It should be an individual decision. The men shouldn't be forced to go if they don't want to go, and neither should the women."
  (Bill O'Reilly, 01:45)

• "The culture of women's sports... is left wing."
  (Bill O'Reilly, 03:15)

• "If I were president, I would look into deporting some of them. That's a joke."
  (Bill O'Reilly, 08:17)

• "So the Trump people knew they could cloak themselves in the flag, which they did. And patriotism is a very strong emotional lure for voters."
  (Bill O’Reilly, 11:52)

• "Trump’s biggest risk tomorrow [at the State of the Union] is sounding petulant, right?"
  (Chris Cuomo, 17:51)

• "But you don't have to repudiate that stance by standing up and saying, yeah, Americans have to come first in the protection list."
  (Bill O’Reilly, 13:00)

• "The radical left does not appeal to independent voters. It does not."
  (Bill O’Reilly, 15:53)

• "So that's what happened. So these guys from Miami get in the speedboat and they're armed. You know, that's about as dangerous a play as you can make..."
  (Dan Abrams, 62:01)

• "Trump just wipes them out... [with the 'Americans First' litmus test]."
  (Dan Abrams, 56:57)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00–05:00]: O’Reilly on men’s and women’s hockey team invitations, response analysis
• [11:00–15:00]: Trump’s State of the Union: “America first” moment, Democratic response, poll numbers
• [16:25–25:00]: Panel discussion (O’Reilly, Cuomo) — political stakes, speech structure, economic narrative
• [23:29–24:16]: Patriotism as a partisan issue
• [29:46–32:17]: Radical Democrats not attending, impact on SOTU optics
• [33:00–35:42]: Debate on Gavin Newsom’s remarks, Democratic candidates
• [41:00–47:00]: Supreme Court tariff ruling, party leadership, economy
• [44:03–48:41]: Epstein files and DOJ disclosure debate
• [50:13–53:00]: SOTU speech delivery, craftsmanship, Trump’s communication style
• [55:00–59:22]: The "trap" moments in the speech and their midterm implications
• [61:15–65:31]: Cuba boat incident, regime oppression, ties to Iran, Apple TV’s Tehran series

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Additional Notes

Tone:
The episode is direct, skeptical of Democratic messaging and leadership, and unapologetically supportive of patriotic displays, critiquing what is seen as performative or partisan opposition to Trump.
O’Reilly and panelists often use humor (sometimes biting or sarcastic), blend commentary with fact-checking, and reference personal anecdotes and media strategy.

Event Promotion:
Bill O’Reilly announces a special on News Nation, bringing back “The Factor” for a one-off ([66:15]).

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In Summary

The episode dissects how Trump and Republicans are using patriotism and event optics to drive wedges in an election year, while criticizing Democratic leadership and party radicalization. The controversy over the women’s hockey team refusal to attend the State of the Union is framed as symbolic of deeper partisan divides around American identity and signals ongoing cultural battles, especially as midterms loom. The panel additionally emphasizes the importance of economic messaging and legal debates (Epstein files, Supreme Court), before turning globally to discuss oppressive regimes (Cuba, Iran) and what American action or image should look like at home and abroad.

Transcript

[Bill O'Reilly]

Foreign. Here, let's get started. As you know, members of the men's US Olympic gold medal winning hockey team attended the State of the Union address by invitation from President Trump. And that's a good thing. It's not about President Trump. It's about the office of the presidency. So if you're invited, you go. Now, Barack Obama invited me a number of times. I always went, okay, Bush the younger invited me. I went, Joe Biden never invited me and it's his loss. And Donald Trump, of course, I have a personal relationship, so I've been there many times. Now, the men's team was unabashedly, Good word. Patriotic, and I think conducted themselves as well as any athletic team I've ever seen. The women's gold medal winning Olympic hockey team will be different. So there was a joke made by President Trump after the Americans defeated the Canadians in the men's locker room. He said, hey, you guys, come up to the State of the Union and I have to invite the women's team or I'll be impeached. And it was a joke. No malicious intent. Ridiculous. Okay. Oh, but, you know, enough, enough. But the women's hockey team then issued a statement and said, we're not coming to the State of the Union. But it wasn't a rude statement. It said, we are honored to get the invitation. We're sorry we can't come, but here's what's going on. They could go. At least most of the women could. They don't have any events. I tracked it. They flew into Atlanta last night. They're all here. There's no event for the US Women's hockey team and they don't start the professional league again until Thursday. There's no reason they can't go to D.C. just like some of the men. It should be an individual decision. The men shouldn't be forced to go if they don't want to go, and neither should the women. But you don't issue a statement, go like we are not going, and then give some bogus reason why it's dishonest. Absolutely dishonest. Some of the ladies wanted to go to State of Union. They should be able to go. And I hope you know that we find down the road that some did. I don't know of any now. Okay, how did this all happen? Well, the US Hockey team is for the women, run by two directors. A woman named Katie Million and a woman named Reagan Carey. They run the team. The coach of the team, John Robleski, he doesn't have any power he's just an iceman. He just coaches what happens on the ice. So these two women run the team, and I would assume they put out the press release saying the women weren't going to show up. Okay. I assume that because there's nobody else involved. So it's their decision. Now, we trace both of them. We can't find any political stuff that neither of them did. Okay. They seem to be in their athletic bubble. They don't seem to be political people. But the culture of women's sports, going all the way back to 2019 World cup, is left wing. You remember that. Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan. Badmouth, bad mouth, Bad mouth. The United States is this United States. Is that all of that? Okay, I don't think that culture has changed. I could be wrong. But this situation with the women's hockey team is not honest. They're not telling you what's going on behind the scenes. I don't believe every single woman on a team doesn't want to go to the White House. I don't believe it. Okay, so the decision was made for them. Now I'm going to throw in a poll here to show you the difference between men and women in this country. This is a Economist poll on job approval. Donald Trump. Female Approved, 34 disapprove 62. Men Approve 44 disprove 53. So it's a big gap. And in the last election, men carried Donald Trump to victory. Women voted against him. More women voted for Kamala. Now, as far as the men's hockey team is concerned, they continue to embrace the nobility of their country. Roll a tape. Are you guys excited to be going to the White House and meeting Trump? Yeah, we're excited. I mean, anytime, like, everything is so political. We're just.

[Christopher Wray]

We're athletes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

We're so proud to represent the US and we could not find any sound bites from any of the women, Pro or Con.0. That is very, very strange. So I think I know what's happening here. I mean, there's a possibility I could be wrong, but I doubt it. The culture is we don't like Trump on the women's side. It's not like the men love Trump. I think it's probably equally divided about him. But they certainly love their country, and they understand that you honor your country. When you're invited to the White House by going, that makes sense to you. Now, there is this blend between politics and sports, and it's becoming a little disturbing, I think. So you remember the Golden State warriors, which is by far the Most liberal sports organization in the country. They wouldn't go to the White House after winning championship in 2017. 18. So they're led by a radical leftist named Steve Kerr. He's the coach. And they didn't go. The South Carolina Gamecock women's basketball team wouldn't go to the White House. 2017 Philadelphia Eagles had a controversy after they won a Super Bowl. 2018, Trump rescinded the invitation to the Eagles because the Eagles were bad mouthing them. Toronto Raptors basketball 19 didn't go. University of Virginia didn't go. Women's national soccer team, as we mentioned, 2019. I don't even know why they would be invited. In fact, if I were president, I would look into deporting some of them. That's a joke. Okay, so on the other side, under Biden won, University of Iowa women's basketball team decided not to visit President Biden. I don't know really why Caitlin Clark was involved with this, but they didn't want to go. So there you have it. The Olympics were a tremendous success for the usa. We are proud of our athletes, whatever they believe. But this women's hockey team, you're not being straight up. So I guess I got to talk about the State of the Union because it has a big effect on our lives. So President Trump, who is in a bit of trouble in the polling because of high prices in America, basically turn things around, at least temporarily. And he did that by being pretty clever. He set a number of traps for his Democratic opposition. Now, as in every State of the Union address, the president gets to pick and choose who he wants to Spotlight. And Mr. Trump brought in the US hockey team, a couple of veterans got the Congressional Medal of Honor. He brought in some victims of crime. And it was effective. It was good television, as they say. But the big thing was the bomb he dropped on his opposition, the Democratic Party, the congresspeople sitting in the chamber. So he set it up this way. What about America first in protecting U.S. citizens? Shouldn't that come before foreign nationals? Here's the SOT. One of the great things about the State of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight, I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. So Democrats did not stand up and Trump scolded them. Okay, so if you're partisan on the Democratic side, that doesn't bother you, all right, because you are sympathetic to what the Democrats are rolling out, compassion for illegal migrants. The other side is the same way. Law and order. They shouldn't be here. This is a Republican side. But it's that great voter turnout in the middle of non ideological people. And so when President Trump and his speechwriters set that trap, if I had been the Democratic leader, which is Chuck Schumer in the Senate, I would have been anticipating something like that. So that I would have said to my membership, stand up, right? Because our first duty is to protect American citizens by the Constitution. So stand up, take the issue away. But that didn't happen because the Democrats, number one, have any effective leadership in Congress. And number two, they are fervently in the camp that Trump is an oppressor, that he is illegally treating foreign nationals in an unconstitutional way. But you don't have to repudiate that stance by standing up and saying, yeah, Americans have to come first in the protection list. You don't. Anyway, when I say the Democrats don't have any leadership, I mean that literally. There's no leader to the party. And the shots are being called by far left financiers, people who fund campaigns. So it used to be Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, pretty much controlled the Senate, the House of Representatives, by saying, either you follow the Democratic line or you don't get any money. We're not going to give you any campaign money. And Pelosi was ferocious. She was a leader of the Democratic Party, but no longer. Hakeem Jeffries, not nearly as strong as Pelosi, is now in charge. So the Trump people knew that they a could cloak themselves in the flag, which they did. And patriotism is a very strong emotional lure for voters. And they could set a trap for their opposition as far as putting Americans first. So it was a very clear, well thought out trap, and it worked. Now, the opposition to Trump got hysterical. Here's an example. Roll it.

[Christopher Wray]

We have a nut job wannabe king

[Chris Cuomo]

who's doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn't want to hear. He has his goons arresting, incarcerating and killing American citizens.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He's got funding for cancer research at

[Chris Cuomo]

children's hospitals while he rakes in literally billions of dollars for himself and his family.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He's coming after our right to vote. Okay, that's his hysterical stuff. And Congresswoman Omar screaming, you're killing Americans in the State of the Union. That doesn't help. Once again, if you are a real Rabid, anti Trump person. You're not offended by Kimmel and Omar and AOC because you hate Trump or you dislike him dramatically. But the big middle of the country, they don't like that stuff. So the radical left has more power within the Democratic party than it ever has in the history of the radical left movement, which has been around for about 125 years getting the radical left a lot of, a lot of power in that party. You know that because of the money, because congress people need money to run every two years and the radical left gives it to Democratic congress people who toe the line and they all do. And it is very interesting. Final point I want to make is in the midterms, eight months from now, about 150 million people voted in the presidential election. That's going to go below 100 million in the midterm. So the bubble people, the floater people, they don't pay pension. They'll come out for the presidential race, but very rarely in the midterms where that is decided is in the very few independent precincts. So the hate Trump is going to vote Democrat. The people who loathe the Democratic party and the radical left are vote Republican. But that margin, and I'm telling you the radical left does not appeal to independent voters. It does not. The Kimmels of the world, the De Niro's of the world, The Omar's, the AOCs, they want enormous changes to this country. They don't like capitalism, they don't want to punish criminals on and on. Independence don't like that. So it's a toss up. That's where we are. A lot of things are going to happen in the next apt in the next eight months, I should say.

[Chris Cuomo]

We begin with Bill O'Reilly tonight, author of Confronting the President, host of the no Spin News. Bill, in that sense, I think that there may not be a State of the Union with higher stakes for a president than tonight or tomorrow night.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, it's an important situation. Speech will probably run a little bit more than an hour and a half. That's a long slog. And it'll be an optimistic speech, not a pessimistic one. And he'll list all the things that are happening and then the press that doesn't like him will fact check him and that game will go on as well. But I think it's a lot about the President's demeanor tomorrow night. So teed off is not going to help him. And he is teed off about the Supreme Court's tariff ruling and a Number of other things. But he should stay on track to say our programs economically are working, and you're going to see that. I don't know if I put it at the existential level, but obviously the Republican Party is looking for a pep rally, something to grasp because of the midterm elections. And this kicks off that campaign.

[Chris Cuomo]

Well, I'll put it this way, the Republicans I talk to view it as existential if they lose the midterms, because if they lose the House and especially if they lose the Senate as well, it radically changes what they can get done and what goes on, especially with Donald Trump. Certainly, if there's another Supreme Court vacancy, it changes that as well. So you view Trump's biggest risk tomorrow as sounding petulant, right? As lecturing the Supreme Court or doing that. What's his biggest opportunity?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, he's got a pretty good story to tell on the economy. Home mortgages are at their lowest rate in quite some time. Oil is going down, some food is going down as well. He's got to deal with the insurance situation. That's really brutal. And, you know, all he's got to say is, look, I'm going to gather all the CEOs of American insurance agencies at the White House for a summer and we're going to work it out. We're going to get a deal where they just can't keep raising premiums over and over and over to these high levels where they're bankrupting families. He's got to basically be specific. And, Bill, you've been talking about this

[Chris Cuomo]

summit now for months.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I know. And, you know, after the first of the year, I had a long conversation with him about that, and he was going to do it, but then he gets sidelined by the foreign affairs stuff, which is looming. He's going to have to deal with Iran somewhat tomorrow night. He's going to do a lot of pep rally stuff. The American men's hockey team will be there, at least many of them. And then he's going to do a victory lap. Go ahead.

[Chris Cuomo]

One of the things that's so amazing about Trump is he gets his opponents to take stupid positions. Right. And the Huffington Post, I think, sort of laid out this dichotomy. Well, there's a name for the discomfort you're feeling watching the Olympics right now. If waving the American flag, you're chanting USA turns you off, right now, you are not alone waving the American flag, cheering Team USA is a 9010 issue. And so then you have Trump, I think, very smartly, I think you'd agree. Invite. Team USA invited both the men's and the women's team. The women's team said they couldn't make it. Here's Jack Hughes, hero of the Olympics, talking about his love of country. Take a listen.

[Bill O'Reilly]

This is all about our country right now. I love the usa.

[Christopher Wray]

I love my teammates.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's unbelievable. The US Air hockey brotherhood is so strong and we had so much support from ex players. I'm so proud to be American today.

[Chris Cuomo]

Okay, so they're still trying to work out the pageantry. My reporting shows, Bill, in terms of exactly how they're going to get all these players and how they're going to sort of come out and have some reveal at that moment that Trump talks about them. Last year, State of the Union, Trump had a similar thing up his sleeve where he gave that young man, I think his name was D.J. the Secret Service credentials. He was a kid who was fighting cancer. Interviewed him here on the show. He was great. But no Democrats cheered for dj. Nobody stood up, nobody applauded. What's your over under on the number of Democrats who stand up and applaud Team usa?

[Bill O'Reilly]

All of them that are there because the real radicals are, are not going to be there. So the radical left in the House are 100% dependent on radical left money. So they're not really people with an independent point of view on anything. They do what they're told. And they were told to get out of the mall and do another State of the Union, the people, State of the Union, whatever stupid thing they came up with. So they're not going to be there. All of these bomb throwers, Trump haters. The other Democrats have to stand. They would hurt himself dramatically if they don't. And then Trump will do a lot of migration stuff, a lot of immigration stuff with the families and things like that. He'll do that. But it was interesting that the women's hockey team refused to go to the State of the Union. They did it politely. They weren't like the Golden State Warriors. But I was taken aback by that and I'm still searching around. They go, well, we have other commitments. What commitments? What are you doing? You don't have anything? Yeah, what are you having a party? Where are you going?

[Chris Cuomo]

No, they have another game. There's a number of the women who have another game.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That.

[Chris Cuomo]

That's their job. They're coming back. They play professional hockey here in the United States. I didn't know there was women's professional hockey. There is, but they have a game on Tuesday night for the teams they

[Bill O'Reilly]

play for, okay, Some of them don't. So what should have happened was the women's hockey team should have said, the ladies that want to go can go, and the ladies that have to play will play.

[Chris Cuomo]

That's all you need to go.

[Dan Abrams]

Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They said they issued a statement going, where the team's not showing up. There's a different culture between a men's hockey team and a women's hockey team. And then it extends all the way back to the women's soccer team, which was anti American all day long. And that's still in there. That's my read on it. And any hockey player that wants to go to the State of the Union, men or women, should be able to go. Why are you issuing a blanket statement?

[Dan Abrams]

Agree.

[Bill O'Reilly]

What's that all about?

[Chris Cuomo]

So help us, help us understand the politics of this.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Chris Cuomo]

State of the Union. 43% of Americans say the State of the union is strong. 57% say not strong. That means there's a lot of Trump voters in that number, just by definition, who think the State of the Union is not strong. Economic Approval rating TRUMP 44. Approved. Disapprove 55. That means there's a lot of Trump voters who don't approve of his handling of the economy. The politics of this, number one, how did does the fact that Trump has made, or maybe it's Democrats who've made patriotism partisan an issue, and how does Trump get past that? How does Trump, or does he need to bring America back together?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, he's not going to bring America back together. Okay. That's not going to happen. He's not that kind of politician. But when you say, and the polls say, what's the State of the Union? People are talking about the state of their house. They're not talking about State of the Union, they're talking about the state of their house. And they're spending too much money. They don't have enough money. The perception is that we're getting drowned by bills, particularly after Covid stuff isn't coming down that we need as fast as we would like, and insurance is killing us, which is all true. And that Trump has got to find a way in there, say, look, I'm going to deal with the insurance stuff and you're going to get a tax refund very shortly. It's going to alleviate some of the financial suffering. All right. And I assume that his speechwriters are going to do that. I assume.

[Chris Cuomo]

Now, I'm told basically, that there is going to be parts of the speech that Go through the big beautiful bill that lay out multi points of the bill and how that relates to people's bottom line leading up to tax day.

[Dan Abrams]

Right.

[Chris Cuomo]

Leading up to April 15th. Try and change the perception of the economy. Yes, it would make sense. The wild card and what I hear that Republicans are most worried about is going off script is what you point out. He's going to have the Supreme Court there. They just rebuked him on tariffs. Does he get into a fight, a rhetorical fight with the Supreme Court? Does he pick on Democrats? What does he do that is a risk for him tomorrow? What can't he do if he wants this reset?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I wouldn't get into a fight with the Supreme Court, but I would marginalize Democrats as much as I could because they don't have any solutions to anything. And I'm not a partisan guy, but I'm looking around going, what's your solution? And we hate Trump. I mean, when you had the Huffington post, which is 100%, when you have the Huffington Post website, which nobody cares about, but it's 100% left, far left, saying, you know, we were uneasy about waving the American flag, that's not good. And Trump should hone in on that. Should hone in on. Look, these people aren't just dissenters and they're destroyers. They want to destroy traditional America. And they do. That's true. That's what they want. Okay? And he can give a few examples of that. But picking fights with the Supreme Court or other, you know, people that are not involved directly with the midterms doesn't help him. Going after the Democrats will help him, I think.

[Chris Cuomo]

Okay, to that point, I think Hakeem Jeffries understands that this is the House Minority Leader. Take a listen.

[Simone]

The two options that are in front

[Dan Abrams]

of us in our House is to

[Bill O'Reilly]

either attend with silent defiance

[Dan Abrams]

or to

[Simone]

not attend and send a message to Donald Trump in that fashion, which will include participation in a variety of different alternate programming that is going to take place in and around the Capitol complex.

[Chris Cuomo]

Boy, he calls himself a leader, but he sure sounds scared.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I'm not going to marginalize the minority leader, Jeffries, but I'll tell you, in his whole career, I've never heard him put one fourth, put forth one solution to any problem ever. And I live in New York. So what the president has to do tomorrow night to regain momentum, regain momentum is concentrate on what he perceives are his successes. Very specifically, marginalize his opposition of having no solutions to anything that. And that the far left controls the party through financial means. And I get into heavy what happened in Minnesota with the Chinese money coming over. And I get into that big time because a lot of people still don't know that story. But he's got to maintain his sense that I'm in charge and that I promise you things will get better. That's the central theme. I'm the leader. Things will get better. They'll start after the tax refunds don't come in and then the surge will continue. Keep it simple.

[Simone]

State of the Union tonight. What does the president need to do?

[Dan Abrams]

I present a positive picture of the country. So Mr. Trump often dwells on the negative. Obviously he's got a Supreme Court decision he doesn't like. I would kind of overlook that other than to say we believe that this is strong for the country, these tariffs and now we're going to change a little bit. But we still have this amount of money coming in and, you know, overwhelm the audience with facts. But keep it essentially positive. That's what he has to do.

[Simone]

Yeah. Hey, Democrats have a new tradition of embarrassing themselves as State of the Unions with booing and stuff like that. Now there's a rumor they're going to walk out tonight. What do you think the Democrats will do?

[Dan Abrams]

I don't think so because the leadership doesn't want that. So the real far, far left Democrats aren't even showing up at all. They're having their own State of the Union on the mall which no one will attend except the bused in people who are paid. And here's an interesting aside for wo our listeners. The people who are not attending and you can get their names on the Internet. The House members, the senators aren't doing this. But they are all beholden to far left money, which means they run every two years and their campaigns are financed by the sources of the world. The real radical fringe elements pump tens of millions of dollars into these campaigns. If these people don't do what their radical masters tell them to do, they get cut off from the money. Most people don't know that, that it's a money game. So the ones that aren't going to be there, and those are the ones that would walk out or scream and yell, they'll be in another separate thing which of course will have no impact at all.

[Simone]

Yeah. So aren't they kind of helping the president by getting all the Adam Schiff angry nut jobs out of the, out of the audience of the speech? It'll help the president.

[Dan Abrams]

Yeah, it does, Schiff says. And why would Trump want him there. You know, whatever Trump does, Schiff and his ilk are going to condemn it, since it bothers me about ideologues. And far left is obviously the problem in the country right now. Far right doesn't have any organization, no cohesiveness. There are a bunch of people running around, but they don't have any organization that, for example, can get into the media with propaganda, whereas the far left has all that. So. But if you're an ideologue, no matter what the other side does, you're going to condemn it. And that's not healthy. It's not healthy for you and it's not healthy for the country.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Simone]

Hey, the Olympic hockey players there tonight, that'll be a big thing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Won't. Will be in.

[Dan Abrams]

The story about the women's hockey team is really not being reported accurately. Now, I did it yesterday when the announcement came out from the women's hockey team that they would not be attending the State of the Union despite being invited. Now, it wasn't a belligerent press release. They said, oh, thank you. And we feel honored that we're invited, but we're not showing up. There's no reason for them not to show up. It's not like they have another event. They don't. Now, there are particular women that are playing in professional games, but the men's side has that, too. So the fair way and patriotic way to do it would be for the leadership of the women's team to say, hey, ladies, if you want to go, go. If you can fit it into your schedule, go on up. That's what the men's team did. But there's a difference in culture. The women's sports in America are very infiltrated with the left. We saw that with the crazy women's soccer team. Remember that?

[Simone]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

Rapine. Oh, and all those people.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

Well, that persists. Whereas that's not on the men's side. So the men hockey team is not the NBA. And it's a very interesting story because you, you're not getting why the women are doing what they're doing. There is a political. I believe there is a political component to it.

[Simone]

Interesting. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, Gavin Newsom, how badly did he damage himself this week?

[Dan Abrams]

Not at all, really. And it's another example of ideology gone out of control. What Newsom said was totally innocent. And I wrote a message of the day. It's on billowrilly.com and all he was trying to do was saying, I'm a regular guy. I had my problems in school. I'm not some elite guy. That's all he was trying to say. And anybody who read the interview, which I did, knows that. But of course, the opposition to Newsom wants to demonize him and now call him a racist, which is absurd. There's enough stuff to get Newsom on legitimate stuff without doing this kind of stuff. And usually this happens. Liberals do it against conservatives. It's very, very rare that. That the converse. And when I saw that yesterday, I went, come on. Everybody knows what he was trying to say. There was no malice in his remarks. And it's my job to report honestly, so I am.

[Simone]

I disagree slightly. First of all, that whole thing. I'm not an elite guy. He is an elite guy. He's a very elitist sort of a guy.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay?

[Dan Abrams]

And that's. That's legitimate. He's trying to pass himself off as one of the folks when he's not one of the folks. No problem with that. But you don't think that Gavin Newsom's a racist, do you?

[Simone]

I don't think he's a racist. I think Democrats get into this pandering kind of talk, and they don't realize what the hell they're saying half the time. It comes out awkwardly when they say it. It doesn't sound great when they say it.

[Dan Abrams]

But that's. That's just. That may be true, but I've been accused when I made some remarks over my career of being a racist.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And I'm.

[Dan Abrams]

And I'm going to. And it's. It's ridiculous. So I don't like that label, and I don't like when anybody uses it unless you have the facts to back it up. And clearly Newsom was not trying to denigrate black people.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Simone]

All right. But he is. I was talking about this before. If you. You're the historian. Every presidential election, there's always some pretty boy who comes way out in front. Two years out, Gary Hart or John Edwards. But that one always fizzles. They never end up being the nominee. You think that'll happen with Newsom?

[Dan Abrams]

Newsom's up against a very weak field. No establishment person

[Bill O'Reilly]

is

[Dan Abrams]

polling well. I mean, you got Klobuchar. She'll run. She's running for governor of Minnesota. She'll win, and then she'll run for president. You got Bershear in Kentucky, Shapiro in Pennsylvania. These are not strong candidates. People don't know who they are.

[Simone]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

So everybody knows Newsom. He's got name recognition, but he has absolutely destroyed the state of California. So anybody with an IQ over 50 would go, if he destroyed the state of California, wouldn't he destroy the United States? And the answer is, yeah, he would.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

That's not a tough one. So. But he. You don't count him out. He. I spent some time with him a few weeks ago at super bowl weekend in San Francisco. He's a very slick guy.

[Simone]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

A good campaigner. He's going to have a lot of money. So I wouldn't count him out.

[Simone]

Okay. But you know how to read people. When you were with him, did you think to yourself, this is a very sincere guy I'm talking to.

[Dan Abrams]

Okay. Has an interesting question. Simone. Simone's giving me a workout today.

[Unknown Guest]

All right.

[Simone]

You don't have to answer, but.

[Dan Abrams]

No, no, I am going to answer because I never dodge questions. Two tracks. He was sincere in basically having a conversation with me about the state of San Francisco. Okay. Because I was out there. And I'm gonna do a special on News Nation about the collapse of the city. He lives outside the city. He does not live in San Francisco. I did not know that. He keeps that very quiet in the conversation. He didn't dodge. It was a good conversation. The insincerity might have occurred because he needs me and he knows it. So I have a very strong national voice. He doesn't want me to condemn him. So there was that kind of manipulative thing. But I enjoyed the conversation with him. He invited me on his podcast and I accepted.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh.

[Dan Abrams]

And that'll be on in the fall, and if he carries through, that'll be

[Simone]

an event that'll be interesting.

[Christopher Wray]

What did the big man, Bill O'Reilly, say as a point of contrast?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, I'm not going to quibble with your commentary because it's, I would say, mostly accurate. But you're missing the bigger picture on the economy if you go to microeconomics. Yeah. The president overhypes what he's done and slams Biden. And Biden wasn't as bad as Trump makes him out to be. That's true, but we're not living in Hoovervilles here. Okay, so the Democrats, he's. Where's the guy? He's not okay yet is a word that is ill defined. We are not in economic trouble. Most people are working. Most people are getting by. Everyone's annoyed at the higher prices, particularly insurance. And I was the one who broached this with President Trump early in January about getting a summit meeting among the insurance companies in the White House, because you're absolutely right. They would fold and he could get something done very fast and put pressure on the Democrats who will vote against anything he wants. So I don't believe that we're in an economic crisis. We're going in the wrong direction. And there is an opportunity with the tax refunds coming in to juice the economy because it's based on consumer spending tariffs. You can debate all day long. That message wasn't an economic message sent by the Supreme Court. It was, we're going to rein in the president. He's getting a little bit too authoritative here. Imbalance of power has got to be respected. That's what that was about. Wasn't about.

[Christopher Wray]

I agree.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Economic plan.

[Christopher Wray]

I agree. I don't think it was about economics at all. It was just about the plain reading of that statute. I told you that decision was going to go against him.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I didn't have any thought on it one way or the other. It could have gone for him because the Constitution is vague on it. So you've got an economy that could be better, but it's not that bad. However, there are many voters who feel they're paying too much money and they're sinking in debt, primarily not in the grocery store, but in insurance. That's the real killer. So rather than chance. Rather than chance, it. The Republican Party is very shrewd. It said, look, the Democratic Party, with no leadership at all, none. Who's the leader of the Democratic Party? Cuomo.

[Christopher Wray]

I don't disagree. I don't disagree. They really gotta really have to figure that out. I'm not disagreeing with you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Nobody.

[Christopher Wray]

That is a problem. That is a problem.

[Bill O'Reilly]

All right. Big problem. So we're going to lay a trap. We're going to lay a trap, and the trap is going to be the Constitution, which every elected official is to swear to uphold the laws of the country, which require that Americans are protected by their government. So the question is, put Americans first on the protection list. Who stands up for that? And all Republicans leap to their feet and the Democrats sit there. Are you kidding me? How stupid are they? They could have just stood up. That doesn't mean you are not compassionate to migrants. That doesn't mean you support unfair policies toward immigrants. It means that you understand what the Constitution says, but not one Democrat was smart enough to do it. Okay, so that gives.

[Christopher Wray]

They just. I agree with your business and I said the same thing. But. And it definitely gives them their campaign ads. But you know what the counter's gonna be? They're all about the Constitution. It's this guy who violates it And I'm not standing up because he tells me to. He's not my king.

[Bill O'Reilly]

People believe what they want to believe. But you're looking for the middle ground voter. That's what you're looking for. All the Democrats have right now, this is the only thing they have, is Epstein. That's all they have.

[Christopher Wray]

And the economy.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Prove it. Right after, right after the State of the Union ended, I switched over to cnn. Reliably Democrat. What were they talking about? Epstein? We're talking about the economy. Weren't talking about foreign affairs. We're talking about any of that with Epstein. That's all they have. And that's going to backlash against the Democratic Party. You wait and see.

[Christopher Wray]

Why?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Because it's overdone, number one. And number two, after all of this time, there isn't a shred of evidence linking President Trump to any illegality.

[Christopher Wray]

All right, listen, I'm not differing. I'm not differing with the conclusion. I do disagree that it's shallow. There's nothing there. Every time I look at the database, it gets more troubling to me that obviously this was being concealed by government agencies long before Trump. However, what do we do about the DOJ having been exposed by the Oversight Committee, Democrats and by multiple media outlets that they took out allegations against the president and didn't inform and did so in violation of federal law? What is to be done about that? Forget about the allegations themselves for this moment.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's easy.

[Christopher Wray]

What do you do about that?

[Bill O'Reilly]

The attorney General. The attorney general. Pam, Bonnie's come out tomorrow. Say this is why we didn't release them. And I'll tell you why the Justice Department didn't release them. Because it's unverified. And if you understand our Constitution, there's a due process element to it. You just don't throw out stuff that has not been vetted in a sense that it's responsible. So there's been one document put out by this. So alleged victim and Trump's name was not mentioned. There have been a couple held back. And I understand it's because they are unverified that the FBI tried and looked, couldn't find anything. And here's the two questions you think Christopher, the former FBI chief, you're interrupting me in an important point. Okay, let me make you think. Christopher Wray, the FBI chief under Biden, Merrick Garland, the attorney general under Biden, all the Trump haters in the Biden White House would not have put out a verified accusation against Donald Trump. So if it's unverified, then you don't put it out. No law enforcement agency put puts out unverified information. That's what's going on. But Bondi agree should explain it. That's all.

[Christopher Wray]

I agree. I agree. She won't, first of all, because she's being told not to. Second, here's the problem with your analysis, okay? There are two problems. One is not about Trump, which is. What do you mean they weren't vetted? They had these for years. There are multiple interviews with an accuser and again, I don't know what she says because I can't see them, but they removed them. Which takes you to the second problem. The law that was signed by Trump does not give them the ability to exclude things on the basis of vetting. It is not one of the exceptions. They were legally required to turn it over and they did not.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Wrong. They can classify anything that they want or else you have trial by mob. Okay, well that's trial by mob. That's not. It's exactly the same thing.

[Christopher Wray]

You're arguing why they passed.

[Bill O'Reilly]

No, the law that was passed says you release the Epstein files, but you can classify if you're the federal government, stuff that's not vetted. If you can't. No. Then you have trial by mob. That's what you have.

[Christopher Wray]

Not in the law.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I agree with your concern.

[Christopher Wray]

Come shooting with your concern.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I agree with you that it's unconstitutional. You can't do it.

[Christopher Wray]

Then you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's unethical, it's unconstitutional, it's ridiculous. Trial by mob is not what we do in this country.

[Christopher Wray]

I. I understand.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Don't you understand that, Bill?

[Christopher Wray]

Not only do I understand it, I understand it legally and intimately. Personally.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay?

[Christopher Wray]

I understand it very well. Here is the problem. They can sue that the law is unconstitutional, but the law does not allow them to hold back things that they believe are uncorroborated. It's very clear that's not true.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You can classify any. A president can classify. A president can classify any document that man or woman wants to, and you know that.

[Christopher Wray]

I know that. That is the practice of the doj. I'm saying the law was drafted to

[Bill O'Reilly]

get rid of the law.

[Christopher Wray]

No, that is DOJ guideline. The federal law that Trump signed superseded it. They should sue on it or explain it. That's all I'm saying. Look, I don't disagree with your policy arguments. I don't. I get the concerns. They're real. But the law is the law. That's all I'm saying. They're in violation of it. I gotta Jump. And I'm not, I'm not just pulling your chain. I read the law very carefully.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They have to explain, and that's what they did. Okay.

[Unknown Guest]

All right.

[Christopher Wray]

They should explain it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I want to tell everybody. I want to tell everybody. Wait, you're going to Israel. Okay, Stay safe. A week from tonight, I'm going to do the hour, the whole Cuomo hour, and I'm bringing O'Reilly Factor. Okay. I'm bringing it back a week from tonight. You can't miss this. Where do you see the cast that we've assembled? You're going to be jealous.

[Christopher Wray]

It's going to be a lot of it's going to, it's going to be the Everybody Hates Chris Show. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much. Thank you for subbing in. Thank you for being here tonight. And I'll be talking to you.

[Unknown Guest]

For me, that was the best speech I've ever seen from Trump. Other states of the unions, congressional addresses, Cabinet meetings, rallies I've been to. I spoke at Madison Square Garden. For him, this was the best way. He weaved in his accomplishments while just destroying the Democrats, rewarding great Americans, from veterans to little kids, and then really giving the Democrats a chance to walk out and just humiliating them. I thought it was Trump at its very best, but you know better than me. Bill O'Reilly, how'd you rate it?

[Dan Abrams]

Well, I think that was an excellent speech by Trump and helped him a lot. And there's a couple of different levels to analyze the speech. Number one, I was just really happy that you weren't arrested at the House of Representatives.

[Unknown Guest]

I never got. I never got there.

[Dan Abrams]

We had a pool. What time is she gonna be taken into custody now?

[Unknown Guest]

You know, I never got there. I had it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I know that.

[Unknown Guest]

Right.

[Dan Abrams]

Bill, you just wrecked up my setup, okay? And it's no accident you never got there, by the way. I mean, all the people that you think get delayed, you just CIA guys.

[Unknown Guest]

Okay, wait, so you're saying, you're saying, and this is the smartest guy in the history of our business, you're saying that there was an active coup between the CIA and Amtrak to make sure I never made it to D.C. oh,

[Dan Abrams]

Dan has been in development for about six months. All right, so no way. You're lucky you didn't wind up in Poland. Okay, so there are two tracks here. The amazing track was that the man spoke for one hour and 48 minutes and did not stumble once. Not once. I've never seen that. Now, I consider myself one of the best teleprompter readers in the world. Agreed. Okay. I don't use a teleprompter now at all. I just. Because I know the material and I just speak it to you. But when I did use a teleprompter, inevitably you're going to have a problem. You're going to mispronounce a word. You're going to go, not once. His cadence was always there. And you're talking to one of the longest speeches since William Henry Harrison. I mean, my God. And I'm sitting there going, and his inflections, the way he did it. And this is just a talent. So he was that. So logistically, the guy is far and away better than any president that I have. You know, and I started with Calvin Coolidge. He's the first guy that you have recorded stuff, and that goes back in the 1920s, so 100 years. Secondly, the editorial composition of the speech. So they started writing the speech the week before Christmas. That's when the White House speechwriters began. Wow. Six of them. And there's a main writer. Sometimes it's Miller, sometimes it's other guys. You don't know their names. Okay. And what they do is that they forge sections of the speech. Okay. And then they presented it to Trump about a month ago, what they call a rough draft. So these are the areas that we're going to get into. And then Trump says, I want to do more of this. I want to do less of that. And then it evolves based upon the news cycle. So they all knew that they had to get domestic up top, because that's what's hurting the Trump administration right now, the high prices. And they got to get that in. Which they did. Spent two thirds of the speech on domestic. Here's what we're going to do. Here's how we're going to do it. Now, that's just standard issue. Every president does it. But they laid two traps. Now, I don't know who was responsible for that, but they were brilliant traps. Usually the presidents don't do that because they don't want to get involved. They want to bring together the country. Trump does not want to bring together this country. I'm going to say neither do they. No, that's true. But that's what the president's put up there.

[Unknown Guest]

Right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

I got it. Yep.

[Dan Abrams]

Okay. Well, I want to bring everybody together, and we're all Americans. We're all in this, and we should be working together. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Trump goes, I hate you. I don't want to bring you Together.

[Unknown Guest]

These are crazy people.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right?

[Dan Abrams]

So the speechwriters don't even bother with that. So they laid two traps. And the first trap was that they're going to say, if you put American lives, if you think American lives are more important than foreign nationals, stand. Very simple. That could have been done in sixth grade. Okay? Now why would they do that? Because the Constitution demands when you are elected. And somebody ought to read this to Mamdani. Okay? The Constitution says your first responsibility as an elected official is to protect Americans. So they put themselves on the right side of the Constitution, and then they give the litmus test. Stand or not stand. Now, the Democratic Party has no leadership at all. None. So there's no coordination among the House and Senate about what might happen. That doesn't have. What they get is an email. We discussed this before every morning from K Street in Washington, from The radical left, PACs, political action committees, telling them what the thought of the day is. That's what they get. It's kind of like that old show Romper Room. Here's what the thought of the day is, kid. Right, right, right. All right. But there's no organized. I'm in charge of the Democratic Party. You better be careful. This might happen. So the dopey Democrats in the chamber, they don't know what to do. Trump drops the bomb on them, and they're going, well, I better not stand up. I won't get any campaign fund money. Okay? And they don't. And therefore independent Americans, not. Not Kool Aid drinkers on either side, they're going, what the deuce are you doing? You don't want to put the public safety of Americans above foreign nationals.

[Unknown Guest]

Come on.

[Dan Abrams]

Right, right. So Trump just wipes them out. And then the second one was not well noticed by the press, who couldn't wait to get back to Epstein after the speech because they knew Trump had done well. All right. The second one is Obamacare. So they're blame the Trump administration blaming Obamacare for health insurance woes. And you notice that one of the lines was, you guys all voted for that.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

And it's a disaster now.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

And everybody's paying more for health care because of you guys. And there's no answer to that. No, Democrats can't answer it because the stats are the stats. Most Americans are paying a lot more, not only for health insurance, but all insurance. And that is what's gutting the household budget. It's not steak. It's your car insurance, your house insurance, your health insurance. That's what's draining Your money. So, anyway, Trump gets all of this stuff in flawlessly, and then he brings in the hockey team. He's giving people medals and beautiful. He was going to get out free hula hoop. I thought everybody's getting a hula hoop like Oprah.

[Unknown Guest]

Everybody gets a car like Oprah.

[Dan Abrams]

Yeah. And so that's. And that's standard issue, of course. So top to bottom, almost two hours. He's winning every. On every issue.

[Unknown Guest]

You're right. And you broke it down brilliantly. But the question always is. And you've taught me a lot, because I said something an hour ago I never would have said because my first instinct was, yeah, Trump nailed it. You're right. He. Twice. He buried them. They had opportunities. They look silly. It was just an amazing night for him and the Republicans. So we can't lose the midterms. But Bill O'Reilly said to me a long time ago that in this news cycle, every day is like a year. And the odds that people will remember in November what happened here are slim to none. If the economy is not better than it is, and some of these wars are still an issue, it's not going to matter that Trump wiped the floor. He did. He embarrassed them. He wiped the floor with them. He made it very, very clear they are the less party. But it's not going to matter come November.

[Dan Abrams]

Or is will.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It will.

[Dan Abrams]

Because. Because that's the baseline for every Republican running for office. The baseline is we, the Republican Party, are working on solutions to make your lives better financially.

[Unknown Guest]

And solutions that we have to come up with because it was them. Right, you guys. Right.

[Dan Abrams]

You are going to care about that. They're not going to care that Biden was the second worst president ever. They're not. But what they will care about and what the Republicans will do is we're trying. You really want those people. No, you really want the people who won't stand up for you in the House chamber who are putting the welfare of foreign nationals above yours. Do you really want to vote for them? See, that theme is now going to be recurring, and it's going to go, you know, right through to November. Then there's going to be other stuff, other traps that are going to be laid for the Democratic Party, like voter id.

[Unknown Guest]

Right, Right.

[Dan Abrams]

Okay. So they'll get a bill and then the Democrats are going to vote against it.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

And so that theme that, hey, they don't care about you, they care about trans, they care about foreign nationals. That will continue.

[Unknown Guest]

Love this.

[Dan Abrams]

And that's a powerful message, is no it is.

[Unknown Guest]

I'm so glad you're saying this, because that's my. Again, my instinct is that it worked great for the party, but I've been kind of school that. Take it easy. You know, it's only February. But what you're saying is exactly what I want to hear. I do want to move, though, to one more story in the final four minutes. You and I both lived in Florida, Okay? I've never been to Cuba. Have you?

[Dan Abrams]

Yes, I've been to Cuba.

[Unknown Guest]

I knew you were going to say yes. Tell me about this. This event that happened in the waters where a ship leaves Florida. They cannot been up to anything good, by the way, they got 10 armed men on a boat, okay? So I don't think it was a family taking a vacation or a yacht and end up getting shot, murdered. Four Americans killed by the Cubans, six more in the hospital. Desantis and Rubio were going, we don't trust these guys, no matter what they say. And I was told yesterday by a pretty important guy that Kuba is coming very, very quickly. Iran next week. You can bank on it. They're going to hit something next week. We are, I should say. And Cuba is right behind him. What do you think about this event that happened, and do you agree that. Right, with Iran, Cuba could be next?

[Dan Abrams]

Yes, I agree with. Cuba is in very bad condition, and the United States does not want to go in and do any military there. But they believe that the people will rise up in Cuba. But the Cuban secret police and the Cuban border authorities, they will shoot you. It's not like, you know, taking you into custody or, you know, interrogating you. They'll shoot you. Okay, so that's what happened. So these guys from Miami get in the speedboat and they're armed. You know, that's about as dangerous a play as you can make. That's about as dangerous as being a New York City police officer going to Central park in a snowstorm. It's the same level. You know, you're going to get brutalized.

[Unknown Guest]

You're on fire today, Bill.

[Dan Abrams]

Yeah, I'm trying to be as vivid as I can be here in France. But the Cuban government and I taught a lot of those kids in high school when I was down in Miami teaching history and English. That island is as oppressed as any place on Earth. I mean, these guys down there, when I was there, we had two of them just following us around. The secret police guys, they all wear big shirts. They're all chubby. They got their guns underneath the shirts. Are outside untucked. And they just. No person has any rights inside of Cuba. So it's like China. Yeah, you don't have any right.

[Unknown Guest]

It's also like Tehran. I got to tell you, I've watched and I really compel everybody to watch it. One of the ladies that took part in making this series was found dead in an Athens hotel room last week. The series is called Tehran. It's on Apple tv, and it does a really good job of explaining the relationship, which is not good, between Iranian leaders and the Mossad. They put a girl from the Mossad into Iran to try to mess with their nuclear programs. It's very real. They even mentioned Tanaz or Tanz, whatever the place is, that we actually bombed the Times. It's a great series, and it does show you how oppressed, especially women still are in Tehran. So you could add that city to all that and watch that show. I think you'd love it on Apple TV called Tehran.

[Dan Abrams]

Well, look, that government is and has been one of the most oppressive on earth. They're not communists like Cuba or China, but they're theocrats. And if you don't do what they say, they feel justified in killing you. And by the way, by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was Anwar Sadat.

[Unknown Guest]

Anwar Sadat. Right. And communism, as bad as it is, it's not as bad as radical Islam. Sorry.

[Dan Abrams]

Oh, you know, there's this whole little difference in both systems. You have no rights. You just don't have any right.

[Unknown Guest]

But they'll kill you quicker. Radical. Well, maybe not. I don't know.

[Dan Abrams]

Maybe you're right. These guys, I mean, boy, I'll tell you, there's not a lot of difference between the totalitarian assassins.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Dan Abrams]

You know, maybe somebody's watches a little slower, but, you know, blow your brains out if they're ordered to do so.

[Unknown Guest]

Yeah, that's a good point. You're right. Listen, Bill, you got to be. You got to be the smartest guy alive. I swear to God. And this was.

[Dan Abrams]

You know, the nuns who taught me would definitely dispute that at St. Bridget's School. I want to tell you and everybody else that on March 4th, Wednesday, I have. I have engineered a coup d' etat on News Nation. I'm taking over Cuomo's entire show, Billy. The whole hour at 8pm Eastern on March 4, Wednesday night, and I'm bringing back the Factor.

[Christopher Wray]

Come on.

[Dan Abrams]

I'm bringing it back for forever or one night. No, it's a one, it's a one off. Because Cuomo is out on assignment.

[Unknown Guest]

So. And they're letting you actually bring back the fact or the greatest show in the history of cable television.

[Dan Abrams]

By far. By far.

[Unknown Guest]

Like President Trump says. The Factor is back.

[Dan Abrams]

Factory back on March 4th, News Nation, 8 Eastern. And we're gonna have some lineup where you see this.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, I can't wait.

[Dan Abrams]

So I got a lot of fun and I, I think it's going to be an event. You're going to see a throwback there. And I'm still at the top of my game, so I'm not listening. Not an old timer scam.

[Unknown Guest]

Oh, God, no, no.

[Dan Abrams]

I'm throwing a fastball right under your chin.

[Unknown Guest]

Damn right you are. So you'll be able to use everything from the, the logo to, to whatever you used in the past. You can use it here in this case. Or, or did Fox own that?

[Dan Abrams]

No, I'm using every mannerism. All of my obnoxious capabilities will be on display. I even put a call into Barney Frank, but nobody knows where Barney is, so we're trying to find him.

[Unknown Guest]

Barney Frank. That would be great. Oh, that would be great. Well, I'm excited about that, folks. March 4 News Nation. Chris Cuomo show goes back to the greatest show ever, The Factor. Bill O'Reilly, I love you. Great job as always. Not good. Great. Thank you so much.

[Bill O'Reilly]

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