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TRUMP'S WAR? The Media's Shift on Iran, Michael Rubin Breaks Down NATO’s Anti- U.S. Response & Out-of-Control Gas Prices
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Foreign. Here. Welcome to the no Spin News for Monday, April 6, 2026. Stand up for your country. Big press conference today with President Trump. I'll run it down very quickly if you want more information. It's all over the place. My. What I do is read Smart News and the Wall Street Journal. They're pretty good. The rest of them are just. You're not going to get honest information from them. But those two zero in on and the smart life, the smart news thing, the reason that's good is because it does give you left and right. Okay. It goes both ways. So you get a good cross section. So the president, of course, talked about the miraculous rescue of the two US airmen over the weekend in Iran. Amazing operation. And everybody involved should be very proud. The situation is that in any war there will be risk to the US military in any kind of conflict. But this one went our way. Then the President pivoted. He didn't say a lot of new stuff. Okay. It was the usual grievance. Nobody's helping us. Some new names were put in there, though. Australia, Japan, South Korea. Not helping with Iran in addition to NATO. We're going to get to that in a moment. That's disturbing. Some Gulf states are helping us, but they had the vested interest of being right there next to Iran. And with the oil flow kind of stopped up, it's worth their while to throw in with the usa. But we haven't gotten much help from around the world, which is kind of startling. The highlight, if you will, of the presser was when Donald Trump said, this goes.
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan
If I didn't come along and terminate the Obama deal, which was terrible. The Iran nuclear deal was a road to a nuclear weapon, a big one, unlimited, legally. I terminated it without even much thought. It was so easy. I terminated that and then the B2 bombers. And I did one other thing. I had killed Qassam Soleimani, who was an evil genius. And the reason I did it, I heard he was going to knock out 5 of our military bases.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay? I write about that in Killing the Killers. President Trump really believes that, and I'm not casting any aspersions on his belief, but he believes that he was designated by maybe a higher power to come in and stop this madness with Iran. Now, the people who don't like the president don't believe it, and both sides believe what they want to believe. But I'm not in that soup bowl. So I know that the Iranians feverishly want to get a nuclear weapon. If they did not, they would have allowed inspectors in. I'm a simple man. That's a simple analysis. If you are not hell bent on getting your nuclear arsenal, why not let them in? Okay? So they can see you've already suffered an air intrusion on your main nuke base and you're now starting it up again. You say, okay, we're going to stop. Iran doesn't need to develop a nuclear weapon. It doesn't need to. So this is all logic that I'm bringing to my analysis. So you've got a country that's tottering, all right, May go under. Yet you're still refusing to allow the inspectors in to look at the nukes. Now, the president reiterated that the end of Tuesday, tomorrow, if he doesn't have some kind of deal with Iran that involves nukes, that he'll bomb their electrical grid, take him out, they won't have any communications. I believe that that might be extended. The Tuesday deadline might be extended perhaps for a week. Not a bad thing. Not a bad thing. Shows the world we're not warmongers here. Want to get this done, okay? But the key component is in his mind. President of the United States believes he is doing the right thing for the world. The world largely is rejecting that. All right, so that's what happened today. Now, the Talking Points Memo is the new nickname, Trump's War. So I assume, and we will report tomorrow on this, that the usual Trump haters will diminish the press conference today. And I have my producers looking for the sound and we'll go over that. And there are people actively hoping Iran beats the United States in this conflict. And we will spotlight those people tomorrow. Okay? The strategy from the hey, Trump media is to say we are not winning, okay? This is hurting every American, higher gas prices, whatever it may be, wrecking the economy. The whole world's against us, on and on. You've heard it, okay? And I don't believe it's going to stop. All right, It'll just accelerate up. And then if we finally get a deal, which I think we, we will, I'm praying we will, then it'll be yeah, but, yeah, but it's not the deal that he said. You see what's going on here? I mean, everybody does. And now the latest is the New York Times headlines. Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes in Iran. So now we got the New York Times accusing the President not only of committing the war crimes, but rebels wants to. So what are we talking about here? Well, we're Talking about this, quote, 100 legal experts and lawyers, according to the New York Times. And you could get 100 legal experts and lawyers say anything. Okay. So the conduct of the war and rhetoric of US Officials raises serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes. It pointed out the very act of the United States attacking Iran, violation of the UN Charter. Since there's no evidence Mr. Trump was acting to defend his country against an imminent threat. So either these people don't believe that Iran has or wants a nuclear weapon, or I don't know what people plan B would be. So if you have a nuclear weapon and you're pledged to kill Jews and Americans and you've state sponsored terrorism for almost 50 years, it's not hard to do the math here, is it? New York Times. I mean, this is just almost laughable what they're throwing out there. But now it's war crimes. So let's go back into history. The only reason Japan surrendered to the United States in 1945 was because we dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We firebombed Tokyo. We firebombed Dresden, Germany. We, the United States killed what, a million civilians? Probably more from the sky. That was the only way to defeat these fascist countries that launched the war. It is true, Iran did not launch any war. However, the nuclear weapon component dwarfs anything that Hitler or Tojo had. We all getting this. So a few nuts will accuse Truman and Winston Churchill of war crimes. But these are crazy people. You had to end it. Trump wants to end it. Financial stress is hitting an all time high. Millions of Americans are stretched thin with no extra money, no room to breathe. And this isn't just lower income households. Middle class families are also running out of options. If debt has been weighing on you, you are not alone. And waiting usually makes things worse. Interest grows, minimum payments trap you. 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If the whole world, again, I don't want to be repetitive, but if the whole world allied with the United States, Iran couldn't exist. And that's a memo. Okay, now we go to the moral aspect. And yesterday Easter I went to church. Churches were very crowded. But my religion, Roman Catholicism is condemned. The United States action in Iran. So Archbishop Timothy Brolio represents US military service. He's like a super chaplain. He goes on cbs, go under the just war theory.
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan
It is not because while there is a, there was a threat with nuclear arms, it's compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized. And I think there I would line myself up with Pope Leo who has been urging for negotiation. I realize also that you could say, well, with whom are you going to negotiate? And that, that is. That is a problem.
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Bill O'Reilly
But that's not the real problem, Archbishop. The real problem is your statement that Iran's nuclear threat is not actually realized. You have any idea what a nuclear weapon would do if it were realized? And you're going to wait and see. That's a tough one. All right. That is a very tough one. And then the usual urging negotiation, which has been underway for months, months negotiation. And the last one in Geneva, Switzerland, the Iranians basically said to the United States, we're going to develop the nuclear weapon whether you like it or not. We don't care what you say. Now, I'm not trying to persuade anybody, far be it from me, to tell the Pope and the Archbishop that they're morally wrong. I'm not doing that. I'm not. I'm not telling you about the morality of the war in Iran. But as a loyal Catholic, I'm sitting there and this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It's not doctrine in the sense that a just war can be debated. There's not dogma, which is coming straight from Jesus. That's dogma. Okay? When Jesus says that you got to love the Lord above everything else and love your neighbor as yourself, that can't change. Doctrine can. But again, it's not my job to try to persuade anybody that their stance on the Iran action is wrong. But I can. It is my job to point out that the Archbishop is saying, well, it's compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized. Hey, okay, you're going to wait
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Bill O'Reilly
see if the Iranians would use a nuclear weapon. I'm not sure I want to take that chance, particularly when we, the United States, can do something about it. Okay, so NATO continues to sit it out. Spain's the worst. But it was surprising today to hear President Trump say, South Korea, Japan, Australia and other countries won't help us. All of NATO is united now. There will be a meeting. The head of NATO coming to see President Trump on Wednesday. NATO's got to do something. Except Spain. Now, Spain is a socialist country. They don't like the United States and they have denied us refueling on their land for our planes to go to Iran. They have now actually helped out. I understand Iran military capabilities. Pretty startling. Joining us from Bethesda, Maryland, Dr. Michael Rubin. He is a senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, which is a think tank dedicated to defending human dignity. So tell me about this Spain helping Iran thing.
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Dr. Michael Rubin
Well, you know The Middle east forums. Jose Lev Alvarez, a former special forces soldier who is fluent in Spanish, has exposed a great deal of Spanish industry, which was shipping military grade steel and other technology to Iran to a company that was manufacturing Iranian drones. This is at the same time, as you said, Bill, that the Spaniards were denying the United States access to some of the bases. And it's at the same time that the Spanish government was also born, boycotting all Israeli goods and leading the braying pack, arguing that Israel really has no right to exist, that it's a terrorist state. I mean, it really is unbelievable that a Spanish ally, one that was with us just a couple decades ago, I mean a NATO ally, one that was so with us just a couple decades ago, has made such a turn.
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Bill O'Reilly
And it has because it's a socialist government. Is that what behind this?
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Dr. Michael Rubin
In Spain's case, yes. But also the Spanish prime minister was elected and as you said, he comes from a socialist background. He was elected because among Spain's center right, there was a corruption scandal. As soon as he got into office, however, his wife became the focus of a corruption scandal. So I suspect in Spain's case, part of its ideology, part of its distraction. And, and then if we want to look more broadly, you're talking about South Korea, which today is also a very leftist regime, and other countries, Australia, we are like Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels. And so many of these other countries are the little fuchins who simply want to tie us down without view to the greater threat that looms over the horizon Dome.
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Bill O'Reilly
But they believe the greater threat is Trump. And Trump even said it today, this is all about Greenland.
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Bill O'Reilly
That's why NATO hates him and won't cooperate, which I think there's some truth to that.
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Dr. Michael Rubin
Well, NATO certainly resents Donald Trump. Look, if we want to look at Donald Trump's first term, one of Donald Trump's signature achievements was actually getting NATO to pay up. But NATO doesn't necessarily like having to pay up. And certainly its politicians don't like having to explain to a public that doesn't understand that has been shielded from these threats for so long. When it comes to Iran, you know that Iranians have conducted assassinations on French soil, on German soil, on Spanish soil, on British soil. I mean, this notion that Iran doesn't pose a grave and growing threat is absolutely insane. And this, this notion that we hear that imminence, that Donald Trump violated imminence is simply backward when it actually comes to the roots of imminence in international law.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, you've got everybody aligned, including the Catholic Church that's putting a more immoral label on the action against Donald Trump. And usually the church stays out of stuff like this, but they haven't this time around. So I'm wondering if this is more about migration into Europe because these governments fear, particularly Spain, it's going to legalize what, a couple of hundred thousand people from, mostly from North Africa. And then you go down a list, you got Britain and you got France with you, millions of people pouring in, and it looks like the government fears those people. And of course, as you know, Iran's a Shia nation and that's a dominant part of Islam.
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Dr. Michael Rubin
You know, Bill, I'm really glad you asked this question, because one of the things that fascinates me with regard to this current war, in talking to people from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for example, this is the first war where you've actually had a net inflow of population because so many Iranians have been crossing the border from Turkey into Iran, from Armenia into Iran, because they have such faith that the Americans and the Israelis are bombing precisely, and therefore they don't carry risk. What's actually quite interesting when we talk about this issue of migration is, of course, number one, this year marks the 75th anniversary of, of the Convention on Refugees. But the other issue is that on January 1, Barham Saleh, the former President of Iraq, took over as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He's the first High Commissioner who was actually a refugee himself. And he has rebutted this Western European socialist embrace that all refugees are legitimate. He's basically been proposing get back to the basics and that economic migrants aren't refugees. And this more than anything else puts the Western European approach, their back is to the ropes. I mean, simply put, they're upset that they can no longer hijack international institutions to promote their ideology, which isn't rooted in the actual law.
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Bill O'Reilly
But you don't have that in Japan or East or South Korea or Australia. These countries are just sitting it out, waiting for the United States to do the dirty work. It looks to me.
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Dr. Michael Rubin
Well, you're absolutely right on Japan, and I'm actually surprised by Japan. South Korea, however, and Australia have both taken hard left turns. And so when we actually look at the conservatives in South Korea, they're akin to mainstream Democrats in the United States. The spectrum in South Korea, I was there quite recently, has shifted so far to the left, we need to be cognizant and calibrate our foreign policy towards the reality of what these countries are now, rather than what they once were. But you're absolutely right, it is surprising. And again, going back to Donald Trump's first term, what he stopped is the freeloading within NATO. And now it looks like we have a much greater problem. Look, when it comes to Iran, you can kick the can down the road as far as you want, but eventually that road comes to an end when it comes to this notion that there was no imminence. Bill, let me ask you a question. If I decided I didn't like you and I purchased a gun and then I googled where you live, and then I purchased ammunition, and then I took an Uber to your house, and then I knocked on your door and loaded the gun, at what point would I pose an imminent threat? I would argue that when I threatened to kill you, that would be the time in which I should face consequences. And the fact of the matter is that Iranians were chanting death to America every single day. And when people say, hey, we need more diplomacy, then how come they don't question why the Russians were selling anti aircraft missiles to Iran or the Chinese were talking about selling anti carrier killer missiles? The fact of the matter is, if you want to know why diplomacy, the window of diplomacy closed, you got to ask the Kremlin and you got to ask Beijing.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, they've been historically trying to destabilize the United States. And one way to do that is
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Bill O'Reilly
to prop up a rogue state. They hate Israel too, but Israel's a minor player there. Final question for you. The Iranian strategy is fairly simple. It's a rope, a dope, you know, use a boxing thing. We'll take all of the bombings and all of the military action because we don't believe that the United States going to be able to outlast the opposition both from within and without. Because the press in America, as you know, Dr. Hates Trump. And they're going to use every single weapon they have to try to delegitimize. Which is why Trump said today, put it on Obama. Put the whole thing on Obama, okay, today, which I thought was interesting. And he did that to try to deflect some of this. It's Trump's fault. It's Trump's fault. It's Trump's fault. But that's what the Iranians believe, that they can outlast the United States here. How do you see that?
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Dr. Michael Rubin
Well, first of all, I'm reminded of that old joke about the New York Times that if George W. Bush walked on water, the headline would have been George Bush can't swim. And the fact of the matter is, the press is what the press is during the Cold War we had communists, we had anti communists, and we had anti anti communists. And the same dynamic is at play today. But you're absolutely right. The Iranians are trying to wait us out. Now, the model as a historian that I look at is 1999 with the Clinton administration, when we were bombing Serbia in order to compel a concession in safety for Kosovo. And what a lot of people forget is the bombing itself didn't actually change the regime in Belgrade. It didn't actually end Slobolon Milosevic's rule that came the next year because he had so few supporters left that he was much more easily overthrown. I suspect we might be going down the Serbia path right now.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, but something's got to happen with the nukes. Trump's not going to back away from that.
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Dr. Michael Rubin
Oh, you're. Nor should he. Look, he's the commander in chief. He's responsible if we try to ensure international stability and security by consensus. That's never worked before. That's why the president has always been the leader of the free world. If we listen to global consensus, Berlin would have fallen back in the 1940s, 1950s. We. We wouldn't default the Soviet Union. We would have. I mean, basically, it would be a whole different world. And that's what so many people on the left and so many people who are just obsessed by Trump derangement syndrome don't understand.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, Doctor, thanks very much for the good analysis. We really appreciate it. The. Dissent, that's the word I'm looking for. What do you think? You think that they're going to. The press is going to. They can't attack the rescue mission of the two airmen. And that's. They spent a lot of time. Trump and Hegseth and the lead general spent a lot of time on it. But I'm. It'll be interesting to see tomorrow. And as I said, we'll have it all right. Back home, California gas prices out of control. Diesel broke above $8 a gallon, highest by far in the country. Next high, national average diesel is 560. California's above 8. And then regular gas, California is approaching 6 bucks a gallon. National average, $4 a gallon. Now, if you were the governor of the state, in order to give your people relief, what would you do? Well, suspend the gas tax. Right, right. You think Newsom's going to do that? I think he might. I think he might, because remember, he wants to run for president. He doesn't care about California anymore. But why hasn't he done it yet? You know, just put it on hold for two months. That would bring it down. California is 60 cents a gallon. Taxes 60 cents a gallon. Back with a final thought in a moment. Okay, final thought. A lot of action going to go on this week with Iran and the economy. So we're here and we're not going to screw around. We're going to tell you exactly what's happening because it's way too important. So we hope you will check in with us each night. We'll give you the facts. I'm not going to Monday morning quarterback to war. That's insane. I don't have the intel or any of that. The people who do that are grossly irresponsible. Okay. So we are sticking to the facts tonight. I'll be on Leland Vitter, 9 o' clock Eastern News Nation. I'm sure he's gonna go over a lot of the Trump stuff. We are up to the task. Thank you for watching and listening to the no Spin news this evening. See you again tomorrow.
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