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Foreign. Here. Welcome to the no Spin News January 8, 2026. Stand up for your country. This is an important broadcast. It will teach you a lot about not only the conflict in Minneapolis with ice, but the world. And I'm going to go through this in a very methodical way. We always want your feedback. Bill it billow riley.com billetbill o'reilly.com now, as you know, our mantra is people believe what they want to believe. And that's about 90% of the population, the human population. So, you know, facts, not a lot of facts matter. It's all emotion. They believe what they want to believe. So within minutes of this terrible shooting in Minneapolis, people were forming sides. All right, the left, which does not want immigration enforcement, they were demonizing ice. And the right, which does want the federal government to control illegal immigration, was demonizing the left and some but not too many. The actual victim herself, who was a leftist. Okay. Now I'm going to go right through this in the Talking points memo. So obviously up top, anybody celebrating the death of another human being needs to see a psychiatrist. So let's get that out of the way. Virtue signaling, whatever you want to label it, nobody should be dead. And it didn't have to happen. And it happened because of bad decision making. That's why this woman is dead. Her name is Renee Nicole Good. All right. She's a mother of three children, including a six year old son. She's a lesbian. She lives with a female partner. Why does that matter? Because it's not clear now where the younger boy will wind up. And I'm very concerned about him. 15 year old daughter, 12 year old son. They live with their father. Okay. So we're always very concerned about children in situations like this. Now her mother, Ms. Good's mother says she was not an activist, but she was, she's a very ardent liberal. And my sources in both Colorado, where she lived and in Minnesota, she wasn't a bomb throwing antifa, but she was emotionally involved in left wing causes. So the first bad decision which led to her death was she should not have been interrupting a federal investigation, which she was. And she had parked her car to try to impede federal agents. That is a terrible decision, particularly have three children. Now I'm not blaming her for her death. I'm not doing any of that. I'm just saying that bad decisions lead to bad outcomes. There's no reason on earth why that woman should have put herself in that kind of jeopardy. And if you watching me tonight anywhere in the world, do the Same thing. You're likely to get hurt and you may die. You do not impede authorities on the job anywhere, anytime. You do not do that. That's not protest. Now, right after the woman was killed, you had this unbelievable far left garbage saying that she was a legal observer or some kind of crazy stuff. She was not. She was breaking the law. That's obstruction of justice, which she did. All right? Now, the most important thing that I have said so far in this whole reportage, I repeated last night on Cuomo. Roll the tape. Well, number one, I'm not going to second guess a law officer. That's cheap. And I'm not going to do it, all right? I wasn't there. And anybody doing that should reevaluate. Number two, this is a story about bad decisions. And in your life and everybody's life, if you make a number of bad decisions, you're going to pay the price, okay? So I do not think it is fair for anybody to condemn that officer who shot Ms. Good. What you would need to make a decision on that is enhanced videotape as you sit in a room. It would go frame by frame from every angle. And then you would need to hear the agent himself testify what his state of mind was. These are split second decisions. It really angers me. I tell you what, you see these people on television do this. I really think it's so immoral. But I'm not doing it, okay? I am not doing it. I'm not. I have been in situations, wife death, guns involved, okay? I know the adrenaline flow. I am not going to pass judgment on that man. Not. And I didn't pass judgment on this good either. I just said it was a bad decision for her to be in a car, impeding a federal investigation, blocking it. Now the bad decision making goes back to Joe Biden. That's where it goes. That is the genesis of this story. So you allow millions of people unsupervised to come into the United States. You're going to have a criminal element come in and they're going to kill people, which they have. And therefore, Your decision making, Mr. Biden, has led to death and destruction and has led to now President Trump having to correct your terrible decision by employing federal authorities to arrest and deport criminal aliens and others who are not in this country illegally. Remember, they all have to have a warrant. But ICE is not making that decision on the street. They're going after criminal aliens, okay? And if there are other non criminal aliens with them, they get swept up. That all goes back To Joe Biden, that bad decision that he made, probably the worst presidential decision of all time, has led to this woman's death yesterday. In addition, the people who run states like California, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Massachusetts and others made a decision not to obey federal law. We are not going to obey federal law. This is rebellion. That's what it is. It's like what South Carolina and other Southern states did in the 1850s. We are going to rebel against the federal government. There is an immigration law. We are not going to uphold it. And Minnesota is perhaps the worst because they won't even cooperate when criminal migrants are involved. That decision making on the part of Governor Walls and Mayor Jacob Fry in Minneapolis did contribute to the death of Ms. Good because those two men incited Ms. Good. How did they do that? Well, listen to your for yourself. Go.
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Donald Trump's modern day scapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye. Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared to ice.
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Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart.
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Very early on in President Trump's first term, I discussed this with him and I said, look, you have a case that you can make against the sanctuary states, the Justice Department can sue them for big money. And that's what should have happened. It did not. Didn't happen. But there's no question that Walls and Fry are inciting, inciting actions against the federal government. Of course they are. You can't deny that. Who could deny that? And this poor woman is caught up in that hysteria. Now onto the Trump administration. When you have a $9 billion fraud perpetrated by a number of illegal migrants from Somalia, when $9 billion is stolen from the American taxpayer, you have an obligation to, to send Homeland Security agents to the site where the nine billion dollar fraud took place. That's not an option. That's an obligation. Now, Walz and Fry, they don't care about the 9 billion. They look the other way. They had to know. They had to know and they allowed it. So you can't deal with them. They're in rebellion against the United States. So President Trump orders 2000 ice into Minneapolis to not only round up criminal aliens, and these Somalis who participated in this fraud are criminal aliens. But to impose a kind of order in Minneapolis, which is lacking, though if you want to make an equivalency, you can't because the President of the United States, it could be anybody, there's an obligation to stop a $9 billion fraud, expose it, prosecute it. Then you have unbelievable media, and I don't think I'm going to get into that today. Who again, they follow the pac and the PAC hates Trump. So the bad decision making is we're not going to try to find out what happened, we're just going to condemn Trump and everything he does. Then you have a de escalation order. Now remember, every police agency in the country, local, state and feds, the agency teaches to de escalate any kind of potential life threatening situation. That's a fact, though you people who are on the side, if you want to use that phraseology of the police, have to know that the ICE agents in this case did not de escalate. They didn't. And that's a fact. Now, I'm not condemning anybody. I'm just saying that de escalation is the rule of the land in police agencies. A lot of people don't understand that. And that did not happen in Minneapolis yesterday. Okay? So all of these things are swirling around. When I went on News Nation last night with the three Americans, Cuomo, Stephen A. Smith and myself. Roll the tape, Bill O'Reilly.
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May I chime in and speak, may I chime in and speak to you directly, Bill? Here's where I'm disappointed, Bill. Here's where I'm disappointed, Bill, in your response. So you can have an opinion about her, but you can't have an opinion about the officer even though you've seen the video numerous times. You, you've seen the video. I've watched it 10 times.
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I can't, I can't put myself in his shoes. I think it's irresponsible to do that. Okay. Because I don't know the state of mind of the man when a vehicle is coming at him. It's irresponsible.
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Let me be irresponsible.
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I'm not gonna do it. Okay?
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I'm coming to you. Let me be irresponsible. A 37 year old woman, she wasn't coming down the street going 90 miles an hour. She was stationary. She was still. And then she took off. That, she took off. So you had to move out the way as she was taking off. Okay.
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And you shoot her in the. Wait a minute. Let me, let me reply, let me reply to that I'm for de escalation. I support de escalation, okay? Every kind of a situation, not just this. I don't want to see anybody die, all right? So if I were there, I'd like to think that I would have tried to de escalate, but it's not fair of me because I don't know the state of mind of the officer when he sees a vehicle lurch forward. And I'm not going to condemn it. I am not going to do that. No matter how many videos you show. Show it to a grand jury, a federal grand jury, and let them decide after forensics and this and that and hearing the officer, okay? What she did is not worthy of the death penalty. But it's about where you start the chain of causation. Stephen A. With about why they were there in the first place.
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Well, I wanted to throw out this question to Bill, in all honesty, because I appreciate his candor. I don't agree with his position totally, but I respect it and I respect where he's coming from. What I would ask you in return is this, Bill. So of course, where things start, that matters, and we understand that that was instigated by her actions. Some people was on the left will say it's instigated by ICE because they shouldn't be there, blah, blah, blah.
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I'm not going there.
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Stephen A. You had a big vehicle coming at you from 10ft away. That's a situation. He was. He was right in front of the car. And let's let. Let the people deliberate on it. There is a system, all right? And they, and I will trust what the people in a federal grand jury or whatever forum decide, but not us. And that's the right way to handle this. Now, there is a report that the federal government is not turning over all the evidence to the local authorities in Minnesota. I'm not surprised by that. The FBI does not trust law enforcement in Minneapolis. They simply don't trust it, and neither do I because they're under the orders of walls. And walls is a fanatical, anti Trump in rebellion to the United States guy. That's the truth. All right? Now, going forward, the Trump administration is not going to capitulate to this, and they shouldn't. There has to be order. The laws have to be enforced. But the sanctuary places, you got to take action against them. You got to stop this. All right? These sanctuary people, the FBI should interview Jacob Fry and Governor Walsh and say, look, you're on the verge of incitement here and rebellion here. That's where you are, because that's what the truth. You can't have this. We had it before the Civil War. And anybody who've read my book, Killing Lincoln or Confronting the Presidents knows it. Can't allow this stuff or you're not going to have a country. Okay, so finally we're going to stay on a story and on Monday, you know, we'll encapsulate it again. But I'm going to offer mass for both the victim and the officer on Sunday. I want you to know that. And that's a memo. Let's bring in John Solomon, one of the best reporters in the United States, in my opinion. He's an honest man. He fronts the Just the News operation, which you should be familiar with. All right, what's the latest? Have you learned anything that we don't know?
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Well, listen, I think the most important thing we learned today came from the FBI director, Kash Patel, who told us in a statement we asked this question, what are you doing about the protesters? And he said, we're investigating both the organizers of the protest and the funders of these protests, these anti ice protests in Minneapolis, for possible criminality. What is that criminality? Obstruction of justice. Just like you correctly identified in your monologue. When you sit there, you put your truck in front of a law enforcement vehicle with their blinking red lights when you went to driving school and were told to pull over for the cops and get away out of their way, you know, you're obstructing a law enforcement. So that means financiers. If it's a George Soros or someone like that, we don't know who it is. But whoever the financiers are, the logistical organizers could be soon facing prosecution. That is what Cash Patel told us today. I think that's an important part of this equation. Yeah, you harped on something that's always mystified me as a reporter. In the last five years that Donald Trump was in office, there have been multiple opportunities to prosecute or civilly litigate against sanctuary cities in a significant way. It is clearly obstruction of justice when you have a, an arrest warrant and you're in custody of the felon and you won't give that felon over to the United States government. It's always wondered why the Trump justice departments haven't gone that route. And I continue to endeavor to try to get that answer. I can't get an answer yet. But I do think today, knowing that these protests are part of the problem, part of the bad decision making, as you so eloquently put it in your monologue. I think it's a big step today that the FBI on the record said if you're organizing, you're providing material support, you're providing money to make these protests and these protesters engage in obstruction of law enforcement, you will be prosecuted. I think that's a big moment that hasn't been said before in any of this sanctuary city debate.
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Okay, how about incitement? That's a harder one because of the First Amendment. You know, no doubt in my mind that these two men, Walls and Fry, incited people to go out and confront the ICE agents. And then when you go out and confront law enforcement, obviously bad things are going to happen. And. But incitement, federal charges of rebellion, they're much, much harder to, you know, judges are very askance at that. But is there any, anything underway there at all?
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Not yet, not that I can talk about. I think those First Amendment issues that you write give a little pause to the FBI. They feel like they have better cases to be made right now that get the same people for accountability that haven't been brought. And there are two or three really significant cases underway. The first case, of course, is the one that they announced today that they're looking at these protesters and organizers, and if any campaign donated to the supposed Democrat donated money to these groups, they could be held culpable for being part of an obstruction process. The second one is the sheer size of the fraud. And what did the people in charge of protecting that federal money do? Tim Waltz, as the recipient of federal monies that got defrauded in these programs, what did he know? When did he know it? And did he make a conscious decision to look the other way and allow the American people to be fleeced in a significant way, maybe $9 billion. Those cases are underway and I've talked to lots of law enforcement officials last couple weeks that tell me they're looking at state officials as possible co conspirators in the fraud scheme. And then I think the third one is the one we went back to, which is the one I can't get an answer on yet from the Trump Justice Department. But I think we're owed one as the American public. If you're Tim Waltz and you have 600 people like Kristi Noem said at her news conference last night in your custody that we have lawful arrest warrants for and you won't turn them over, are you obstructing justice? And should you as the governor, forget rebellion, it's just simple old fashioned obstruction of justice. And I'm going to work hard to get that answer from the Trump Justice Department. I've been knocking on doors all day on that one.
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All right. And the Homeland Security Secretary, Ms. Noem, has to be careful because she made some misstatements yesterday as well.
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I agree.
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I mean, I don't believe for a second that the victim is good. All right. Was tied into antifa or any of that. I think she was just a, you know, a misguided person who acted on emotion and then panicked.
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Yeah. The domestic terrorism label doesn't apply here. No one with.
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Right.
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No one in common sense America would buy that. And so both sides need to turn the rhetoric down.
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Absolutely. Because you got to be fair on this. You know, bad decision making. That's in both precincts. But right now, the woman would still be alive.
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That's right.
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If Minnesota obeyed the law. Yeah.
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Your monologue could not have put it in a better light. That's the way most common sense Americans are going to look at it. They look.
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I hope so.
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Americans are so much common sense than our politicians are.
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John, thanks very much. We always appreciate having you on. Good to be with you, my friend. Just the news. Okay, so War Powers act is in the Senate. It's a very interesting story. So five Republicans voted to limit President Trump's ability to regulate things in Venezuela. Those are Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young from Indiana, Josh Hawley from Missouri. And then right after that, President Trump put out a true social saying they should never be elected again. And he's mad at them. But here's the interesting thing about this. It's not going to pass the Senate, this War Powers Act. It probably won't even get voted on because of the filibuster. The 60. You need 60 senators to okay a floor vote. Now, a lot of conservatives, including President Trump, want to do away with the filibuster. If you did that, then these people would win, that Donald Trump would not be able to conduct foreign policy in Venezuela the way he wants to. And that's what I've been saying in the very beginning. This is a two way. This is why you have that filibuster can make it more difficult. Okay. For things to happen because there's no way that President Trump should be impeded in neutralizing Venezuela. No, he's doing the right thing. He's protecting America. All right. The government of Venezuela stole all the American infrastructure that harvested oil. You need to let him do that. So now he's getting the money back and the Narcotics is the narcotics. Anyway, I don't expect this to go forward, but it was an interesting thing today. Greenland, as I told you how. I mean, it was really most absurd story ever. So Secretary of State Rubio, who I've really gained a lot of respect for, he's going to meet with the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark next week. I hope they come to the White House. Not the White House, but Washington. But it has been announced where this is going to be, and I work it out. They're going to work it out. All right. We need bases there. We'd like to have mineral contracts there. They'll work it out. All this invasion stuff. Come on. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro. When we last left, Gustavo, he was taunting President Trump. I don't think that might not be a good strategy, Gustavo, just, you know, between me and you, maybe you don't want to do that. So Colombia is a big drug haven, always has been. If you read my book Confronting Evil, you'll see. Now, Petro is alleged to be sympathetic to the drug traffickers, but I don't. It's not like Maduro, who Switzerland just froze his money because he was taking money. We don't know that with Pedro. Okay, But Gustavo calls President Trump yesterday and says, you know, can we get together? Okay, so it looks like the Colombian president is going to come to the usa. I guess they'll work something out. But you got to get those cartels in Colombia, Gustavo, come on, man. Somalia, no more usa. Yay. There is no government in Somalia. It's run by terrorists. So finally, we're not going to give them any more aid. And it's all because of Minnesota. But they get on you, right? All right, next week. Big story next week. So both Bill and Hillary Clinton are being called to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee. That is Congressman James Comer. And they're going to be asked questions about Epstein. Oh, this is not good. Now, the Clintons don't want to do this. They've already put it off once. I don't know if they're going to show up. I don't know. So Bill Clinton is scheduled January 13th. And Hillary, January 14th. Fifteen depositions under oath about Epstein. Now, there's no question that Bill Clinton had a relationship with Epstein 17 times on his jet. I don't think Hillary knew him, but I don't know. Anyway, we're following that story. Potential to be a very big story next week. Epstein is back. We'll be back in a moment with final thought. Final thought. So wabc, as I mentioned before, is our flagship radio station. We have 300 radio stations around the country carry my commentary. And we're very pleased to be on wabc, which is the dominant number one not only in the New York metropolitan area, which is the biggest market, but around the country. Because you can access WABC radio from your computer now from your smartphone. Now punch up WABC News Radio live and then pops up. So I was on Sid and Friends this morning, of course talking about Minneapolis. Roll the tape.
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So we get every morning the blast that these dishonest people send out to the media. It's really unbelievable how they do it. And then politicians and pundits pick up the exact wording. So this is a legitimate observer. This woman who was killed, now she's not a legitimate observer. She was breaking the law by what she did and that's why she's dead. And I feel terrible. You're a six year old child.
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Yeah.
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This woman, right. So anybody that celebrates that are happy that she's dead, you need to see a psychiatrist.
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And by the way, not only is nobody happy she's dead, but the person that is least happy that she's dead is this poor cop.
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Of course his life now is an absolute turmoil.
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So anyway, a heads up on wabc well worth seeking out. I'm on there on Katz and Cosby Mondays at the end of their program on Sid every day commentary and then I'll extended segment at 9am on Thursday. So if you want to check all us out. Very nice of you to watch us tonight. We got a whole bunch of stuff coming over the weekend. Stay close to billor.com we'll see you again on Monday.
Episode: "WHO'S AT FAULT? Sorting Out the Minnesota ICE Shooting, John Solomon Weighs in on the Investigation, & Trump Talks to Colombia's President"
Date: January 9, 2026
Host: Bill O'Reilly
Notable Guests: John Solomon (“Just the News”), appearances from others via audio clips (Stephen A. Smith, local politicians, etc.)
This episode focuses on analyzing the controversial ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, identifying the chain of decisions leading up to the incident, and discussing political, social, and legal implications. Bill O’Reilly methodically examines the roles played by the victim, law enforcement, politicians, and activists, arguing for a fact-based—not emotional—approach. The episode also covers updates on the federal investigation, comments from lawmakers, and broader discussions about sanctuary policies, immigration, and recent developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
O’Reilly’s Core Argument
Victim Background
On Celebrating the Death & Assigning Blame
Role of Elected Officials
Politicians' Statements Played
Comparisons to Historical Rebellion
No “Second Guessing” Officers
De-Escalation Failing
[16:55–22:00]
FBI Update
Sanctuary Cities Legal Gap
Fraud Investigation
Labeling and Rhetoric
[22:00–24:00]
Senate Vote Recap: O’Reilly notes five GOP senators voted to limit Trump’s Venezuela powers. Trump criticizes them, but O’Reilly explains the filibuster will likely prevent the measure from proceeding (22:35).
Venezuela & Trump’s Foreign Policy
[26:19]
On kneejerk reactions:
“Our mantra is people believe what they want to believe. And that’s about 90% of the population…the facts, not a lot of facts matter. It’s all emotion.” (00:31)
On state leaders’ responsibility:
“I discussed this with [Trump]…the Justice Department can sue them [sanctuary states] for big money. And that’s what should have happened. It did not.” (08:40)
On the legal observer narrative:
“This is a legitimate observer. This woman who was killed, now she’s not a legitimate observer. She was breaking the law by what she did and that’s why she’s dead. And I feel terrible.” (27:38)
On both victim and officer:
“Not only is nobody happy she’s dead, but…the person that is least happy…is this poor cop.” (28:03)
For more analysis or to replay specific segments, listeners are encouraged to visit BillOReilly.com or tune into O’Reilly’s radio appearances on WABC.