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The Left’s Reaction to Trump's Middle East Victory, Tim Graham Addresses the Media’s Reaction to the President's Peace Deal & News Outlets Reject Pete Hegseth’s New Rules
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Welcome to the no Spin News tonight from Washington where I am reporting. I'm going to the Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony after I finish taping this broadcast. And Then tomorrow, Wednesday, 8pm Live, Kennedy center in D.C. the three Americans for a big town hall. That should be interesting. And whenever I come down to the nation's capital, I got a million things to do running around and all that. But we're happy to be here. And I am going to the ceremony as a reporter, I am going to obviously watch and listen and all that. I will have that report for you tomorrow on the no Spin News. So tonight we're going to lead off with talking points on reaction to President Trump's historic success by getting the Israelis and the Hamas people to stop killing each other for at least a little while. Hamas is killing their own now, of course, it's never going to end. I told you that yesterday. It's no magic wand. But 20 human beings are free. And I believe the bodies of the other hostages, four have already been released. I think the rest are coming. But President Trump did a good job here and anybody who denies that is not being truthful. However, the progressives are not going to change their view of Mr. Trump. They are going to continue to hate him. So how do they handle it? That's what we're going to report on tonight. And I'm going to run it down for you in a very methodical way, but yet need to know there's vengeance in the air. Why? Why would there be vengeance in the air against President Trump? Because he's making the Trump haters look bad. He's tearing apart the progressive movement. You heard nothing from Bernie Sanders, nothing from Elizabeth Warren. I don't think you heard from AOC either. They don't know what to do. They don't know what to do. But I know what they will do, and that is move on from this story as fast as they possibly can and get right back into the Gestapo ICE agents. Comey is a victim right back in. And that's going to happen with lightning speed. It's already happening in some of the more hysterical progressive precincts. So I don't, I'm going to pick on this guy, John Legend, and I don't really want to because he's not anyone of, I don't know, he doesn't have any sway over any of us. There's no power. He's an entertainer. He's a singer. John Legend Siddha knows a lot. He's a very, very ardent progressive. But his mindset accurately reflects the progressive movement in the United States. So I'm going to use him tonight as a demonstrator. All right, so you know about the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegians didn't want to give it to Trump. They. That's all it was. Did Trump deserve it? Yes, of course he deserved it. But the Norwegians are very, very liberal and they didn't want to give it to him. Maybe if Ukraine there's some deal made, they'll have to give it to him next year, but they avoided it this year and they shouldn't have. That's not honest. But here's what John Legend said about that. Go.
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If Trump is able to actually earn the peace prize, it probably won't be enough that he's helped bring peace to the Middle East. Let's look at what else he would have to do. He'd have to stop sending Black Hawk helicopters to terrorize people while they sleep in their apartment buildings in Chicago. Yes. The so called peace president who's ending wars around the world would also have to stop declaring war on the American people.
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Okay. No. So what are you going to do? Mr. Legend's entitled to his opinion. I don't know why he does what he does. Certainly ain't going to help his record sales. He's an extremist. I don't feel anybody's declared war on me or anybody I know. All right? I know a lot of liberal people. I don't see any war. I don't see Black Hawk helicopters swooping down, terrorizing people as they sleep in Chicago. I don't see any of that. Maybe I'm missing it. Maybe I'm just not skilled enough to absorb the information that John Lennon and his cohorts in the progressive movement have absorbed. Okay. I'm just not smart enough to get it. But that what he just said is what they believe. Because people believe what they want to believe then. And you're never going to convince them ever in a million years. Okay, now part of the subterfuge here, excuse me, is that Legend doesn't like Israel. You know, I always like to know who I'm featuring on the no spin news. So he doesn't like Israel at all. Roll the tape.
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No matter what political disagreements and political animus and anger we have at Hamas and the leadership in Gaza, those kids are innocent.
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And I don't believe in collective punishment. And I believe that their lives are just as valuable, just as valuable as Israeli lives or any, any other lives. And so I want foreign policy to be conducted with that in mind.
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Okay, so according to Mr. Legend, if Hamas attacks our country, United states and kills 1200Americans, and I hope Mr. Legend would be spared, okay, we can't go after Hamas in Gaza. We couldn't use US Military power to avenge or punish the terrorists who killed the 1200, just as they did in Israel, because innocent children might be killed. And that's true, they might be killed. But you don't do anything. What do you do? John Legend doesn't know. The brutal truth is that Israel defeated Hamas and downgraded its leadership and created a lot of problems for that terror organization. But in the process, 50,000 civilians, that's my estimation, were killed in that war. Ever heard of Gold Belly? It's an amazing site that delivers the best of America's iconic foods right to your door anywhere in the usa. Craving New York's famous cheesecake from Juniors or the legendary Franklin Buck barbecue from Texas, Gold Belly delivers. 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So if you are looking for that perfect gift or want to impress your friends and family with an epic meal, as the kids might say, the next time you host, go to goldbelly.com get 20% off your first order with promo code BILL. That's goldbelly.com code BILL. 20% off your first order. And whose fault is that? Well, Legend would blame Israel and the United States because we support Israel. Now he might blame Hamas too, but he said clearly I don't believe in collective punishment. Well, what are you going to do. Don't you just let them get away with it. And then they run back and hide behind their children. And you don't take any action because you don't believe in collective punishment. It's just dumb. And that is my big problem with the progressive movement. It's stupid. It has no solution to any problems. These are pie in the sky. People think that they're noble and that they have a higher moral ground than anybody else. Boy, oh, boy, can you imagine if Kamala Harris, because she is a progressive president, you think those Gaza hostages would have been released? Come on, even Kamala's husband doesn't think so. All right, President Biden finally weighed in. I was waiting and waiting and waiting, and George W. Bush hasn't said anything. Bill Clinton did all right. Bill Clinton issued a very strong statement in favor of Donald Trump's actions. But Biden was late to the table because his crew had to get around. They had to write it, they had to debate it. He had nothing to do with it. And here's what he says. Quote, my administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, to get released to Palestinian civilians and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get his renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line. Now, with the backing in the United States, in the world, the Middle east is on a path to peace. Maybe I don't believe it's on a path to peace, but I believe the situation is a lot better now than it was now. What about Biden's administration? They did try somewhat, but failed to get the hostage released. I was involved in that. And at the end, the very end of Biden's presidency, in December of last year, 24, there was movement and there were hostages released in January of 25. The Biden administration was part of that, but the big part of it was Trump coming in. And I'm going to. I'm not going to go through what my role was now, but I will down the road. So I know what's going on here. I didn't object to Biden's statement, by the way. I object to Biden's presidency. It was a disaster for the world and for this country. But the statement was, okay, finally, let's wrap this thing up. It's not going to change. The progressives hate Donald Trump. The liberal media, which is about 80% of it, is not going to change its posture unless something like CBS happens. Where company is sold, CBS was sold, new ownership, Disney, NBC, cnn, they're going to stay the same Essentially. And that's the memo. All right, let's bring a guy who is monitoring the media. I didn't have a lot of time to do that last night because I'm unbelievably busy. Tim Graham is the executive editor of News Buster. He's a friend of this program. And I want to let everybody know that, that Tim has really helped us out. So I got a sheet in front of me. I want to talk about this Mary Bruce, who is a chief White House correspondent for ABC News. I did not see this, but apparently she was doing what while reporting on the Gaza situation?
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Well, she can't give credit to Trump. Mary Bruce was well known to us for somebody when Joe Biden was president. She was always just glorifying everything that he did. Now they have to both sides, everything. You know, this yesterday, most of the networks, this was a day when you saw so much touching video of reunions of these hostage families. And so obviously, this is something Donald Trump caused. So this was about the best press day Trump has had. But somewhere in there, somebody's gotta not let him get all the credit. Sometimes they tried to balance it out and said, now let's go to the Palestinians and their happy reunions. Well, but to some degree, there is a difference between the two sides, right? Is that most of these Israelis were captured at a concert or something. A bunch of the Palestinians that were in prison were in prison for violent crime. So I think you can't really balance those two out.
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Okay, and you think that Ms. Bruce tried to do that? Apparently, the anchor, Muir, had to interrupt her a couple of times and bring her back down to Earth.
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Yeah, and that's really interesting because, again, usually you don't correct your reporter. You know, and I think it. Again, I think a day like this is a day when you want to stay positive. You could sit here and say, well, we're not sure that this ceasefire will hold. You can be pessimistic about whether Hamas is going to actually disarm, but on a day like this, when people have come out after more than two years in a horrible hostage situation, whether we're tortured or starved or, you know, were kept in tunnels, could, you know, hadn't seen the sunlight, this is just a. It's a good news day. It's a good news day. So to try to rain on that parade, it's not the right day.
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Okay. But they didn't do it overtly. Even Ms. Bruce, to be fair to her, said that Trump's role was critical in this. And whatever Chrissy on Amanpour, CNN had to apologize. Now, we all know if you know this woman's history around a long time, she very pro Arab, she's a Persian herself. But she, she's very, I want to be fair here, skeptical of Israel, let's put it that way. So what is she very nice for? Yeah, I'm trying to be fair, Tim, you know.
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Well, you know, she, she grew up the first 11 years of her life in Tehran and then they moved to England and then later they came to the United States. She's been at CNN for more than 40 years and has been a foreign correspondent for a large chunk of that before she came sort of. This the CNN host. Yes, we have chronicled numerous times and especially since October 7, 2023, where she's very solidly come down on the Palestinian side of things. And this was certainly true yesterday where she was so out of tune with the way the day was going that she actually said that the Israeli hostages were probably treated better than the average Gazan. Again, tortured, starved, many of them ended up dead. Astonishing.
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As I reported yesterday, CNN ordered their talent, their air talent, not to bash Trump on this story. That was a direct order given by Robert Thompson, who's in charge of cnn. So Amanpour kind of got around that by not mentioning Trump but trying to make a comparison, as you just said, an equivalency between how the Gazan civilians are treated with the heavy hand of Israel, of course, as opposed to how the hostages who were kidnapped are treated. But she did apologize and that's because she wants a paycheck, right?
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Yeah, it's a little bit like if we can imagine, you remember, some of us remember 1973, 74, when the Vietnamese, the American POWs came home from Vietnam. And you imagine some anchorman saying, well, I'm sure our American POWs were treated nicer than the average Vietnamese. I don't think that would have been received well. And that was really just a terrible and tone deaf thing to say. She was asked about just the situation on the ground that sadly the Western journalists weren't given enough access to go into Gaza and bash Israel. Like they didn't bash Israel when they didn't have perfect access.
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Well, look, CNN has lost most of its audience and credibility because of its stance, hating Trump and propping up the progressive movement. There's no doubt that that has happened. Let's look to the future. So my analysis is this ceasefire between the media and Trump is going to be last maybe 36 hours and then we'll be back to ISIS, the Gestapo and the John Legend crew will then get back to what they do every day. You disagree with that?
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No, I think that their standard mode of operation is, yes, Trump is evil and anybody trying to, you know, enforce the immigration laws as evil. It's very strange that law enforcement is like an evil force, but that is where they go. Now. The only way they don't do that domestic stuff again is if some of these Israel the ceasefire doesn't go as well as we would hope. And in that case, then they might say, well, for Trump, this is all coming apart. I mean, we have seen over 10 years this whole pattern of network news coverage of Trump is usually 89, 90, 91, 92% negative all the time. It was negative coverage of Trump on the networks after he was shot. So we can always predict that they're going to return to form and be negative about Trump.
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I agree. I think that the public though, knows what the game is now and doesn't have any effect. Let's face it, the US Economy is under stress, national debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax Advantage Gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401k tax and penalty free with billions in precious metals delivered, thousands of five star reviews and an A from the Better Business Bureau. You can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998899. Again, that's 866-326-5576, or text BILL to 998999.
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Anything other than a real dumb people who live in, you know, a bubble world and they hear things on social media that get picked up but the majority of American voters, they know what the game is and they've made their decision. And the media obviously has declined in a unbelievable way. I've been in the business 50 years and this is the end of it. I think it's the end of network and cable news. Just a matter of who survives the longest. There's no growth any place, nobody growing. And it's predictable, it's dull, and it's not fair. One more question. Trump did congratulate the media on a trip back to the United States and said you were fair and this and that. I thought that was a pretty effective statement, but I didn't see it much. I didn't see it around a lot.
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Yeah, I mean, let's guess with the average people in their audience who they expect to be anti Trump, they don't want to show a clip of Trump saying, you were pro Trump today or you were fair to Trump today. They don't want the media to be fair to Trump. They want the media to wage war on Trump. That's what they expect. And as you suggest, that's one of the reasons why polls show that people don't see the media as fair and balanced or as accurate, because they can understand that these people have a severe animus against the president.
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And it's going to get worse. There's going to be vengeance now because the president is succeeding. And when you succeed, and I'm the poster boy for this, they come at you as hard as they can come at you because they're so angry about that success. Hey, Tim, thanks very much. I really appreciate it. And it'll be interesting to see Charlie Kirk gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. What the media reaction is tonight, and I will have that for you along with the reportage of the ceremony itself to tomorrow. Rasmussen poll knew about the deportations, the migrants. Rasmussen is generally favorable to Donald Trump. One of the two or three polls that are okay. First question. Do you approve or disapprove the Trump administration's program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally? Total approval, 53%. Wow. Total disapproval, 43. That's interesting. Number. Second question. Federal Judge recently ruled President Trump could not deploy National Guard troops to defend officers of the Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency, known as ice? Do you support or oppose any using National Guard troops to defend ice facilities? Total support, 52. Total opposed, 43. Again, same 10 point gap. It's nine on the second one, but, you know, within the margin of error. Final question, do you agree or disagree with this Statement we've seen over the last nine months an ongoing legal insurrection in which district court judges have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional. Totally agree. 56. Disagree. 31. That's huge. That is a huge number that most people are not down with these judges trying to derail a President of the United States. And it's going to come to a head now because of the Chicago situation that I'll get to in a moment. But first, I want to go to Oregon. And as some of you know, I worked in Portland as an anchorman in the 80s. I know the town, but it's totally different now than it was. Okay, so while the Gaza hostage deal was close to fruition on Saturday. Okay, I'm sorry. On Sunday, two days ago, a thousand naked people protested against Donald Trump. So they didn't care that hostages might be released. They wanted to ride around Portland protesting Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard to the city. Some of the slogans end occupation, end deportation. No one is illegal on stolen land. Wow. Kick yourself out. You're an immigrant, too. We're cold, but not as cold as ice. Skin color is not probable cause. So these are the antifa sympathizers. I don't know if they're antifa or not, but they're the ones that hate this country. Stolen land. You know, the whole thing. They're worse than the progressives. They're way more extreme than the John Legends of the world. Okay, so that's what they would do it. We're watching the possibility of freedom for 20 hostages that they were right around naked. Oregon now spends more money offering free health care to migrants than on the state police. These are numbers 25 through 27. Health benefits for illegal aliens in Oregon, $1.5 billion. Oregon State Police budget two years. 717 million. Almost twice as much money going to undocumented folks for free health care from the state of Oregon. Now, you'll remember how many left wingers. Oh, no, no money goes for health care for the undocumented. How many people said that? And I told you it wasn't true. I told. I, I named the eight states that were getting around game in the system. Oregon's number one beat. Now California. Now somebody's dying. I'm going to give them free whatever they need. That's what I'm going to do. But a policy to take 1.5 billion tax dollars when most Oregonians who work are paying through the nose for health care and you're giving it to somebody who snuck across the border free.
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Your ratings are very good and I want to congratulate you. Wow. Oregon. Now there's a movement, the Greater Idaho Movement. It's eastern Oregon. They want to dump Oregon and ally themselves with Idaho. Idaho is a red state. Some bad news for you guys is not going to happen. So there's not any way under the Constitution that you can leave Oregon and join Idaho. You'd have to move to Oregon, but they're not going to dissemble the state. Chicago, where are the Guard? It's 500 National Guard. Where are they? Some of these people are Texans. So they are in Elwood, Illinois, outside of Joliet, an hour southwest of the Windy City. What are they doing? Planning and training, according to the Northern Command. Planning and training. What does that mean? They're not doing anything. They're sitting there. So the Trump administration isn't bringing them in because a judge, federal judge, is held that up. And if he were a dictator and an authoritarian, he would just say, I don't care about that judge. I'm going to do what I want. But Trump administration's holding up the Guard until the Supreme Court will weigh in. That should happen pretty soon. Okay. Because this has Been going on since October 8th. I figure by the end of the month, there's got to be a resolution. You just can't have these people sitting in Elwood, Illinois. And, you know, when it comes, obviously it's going to be a big year. But I expect the Supreme Court will rule because the Trump administration has framed it as we are protecting federal agents. And since that shootout that we told you about and everything, and the Chicago police wouldn't help, and a woman protester had a gun in a car and she got shot, I don't know how the Supreme Court allows that. So I think I'm going to be right on that one. Also in Chicago, a number of priests and nuns, Catholics, marched to the ICE facility and Cook county. That's where Chicago is. The isis, though, is outside of town in Maywood, I guess, Illinois. And then they wanted to give the migrants were being held at the ice facility communion and say a prayer for them, give them spiritual counseling. And the ice cream people said, no, not letting you in to do it. So I did a little investigating on my own because I'm Catholic, number one, the crew that went to ice, very liberal crew, but that's fine. I don't have any problem with liberal. The theologians, as long as they're sincere and honest, no problem. They didn't give the ICE people an advance notice, and that's what you have to do. So if you really wanted to bring communion to the migrants, you would have requested it in writing and done it in an orderly way. But you didn't want that, did you, guys? Come on, be honest. You're priests and nuns. You wanted a stunt. That's what you wanted. I know. Eight years at Catholic school and the grammar and then Catholic high school. Okay, I know what you're up to, but let's be honest about it. But if they did give ISA heads up in writing, then I should let some of the priests in to give them communion? Absolutely. I believe that the Trump administration would do that. All right, Pete Hegseth, now, I told you I did not support his nomination to be Defense Secretary. She's now Secretary of War. So Hag says, look, we're throwing every reporter out of the Pentagon who doesn't sign a paper that says we have to approve whatever the reporter puts out in the newspaper or on television or radio. Only one news organization agreed, One America. Every other news organization said, we're not doing that. So they're all, apparently Haig says, throwing them all out of the Pentagon, not going to be any more reporting from there. Now, Hag said is 100% wrong. This is fascism, okay? And I don't know, you can't defend it. You want freedom of the press. Even though we don't like a lot of the press, you can't ban them from reporting. And that's what Pete Hagseth has done. It's wrong. Back in a moment. Okay, As I told you, top of the program, I'm heading over to the White House for the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. Today would have been Charlie Kirk's 32nd birthday, and it's a very kind thing the president is doing. His widow, Erica, will receive the award. I don't know the Kirks. I'm not in that world. But I was invited to go and I'm going to do it as a reporter. And I think it's a worthy effort to honor the de Kirk family, whether you like them or not. And a lot of people have taken what he said out of context, and I'm going to call some of those people out tomorrow. The man had a point of view. He was courageous. He presented it in a civil manner. And that's what pundits should do. But whether you agree with him or not, that's okay. But I'm glad he's being honored. I will tell you everything that happens. And here is some of the other honorees. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. Mother Teresa, Muhammad Ali, Nancy Reagan, Colin Powell, JFK, John McCain, Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Bono, Tiger Woods. So they all received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And now Charlie Kirk joins those ranks. I hope you tune in tomorrow. I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching the no Spin News tonight. We'll see you then.