Bill O'Reilly argues that 15% of inherently evil individuals dominate society due to apathetic "good people," criticizing public schools for promoting "woke" ideology. He predicts Zohran Mamdani will become NYC mayor, confiscate property, dissolve the NYPD, and drive half a million residents out within four years, creating a crime-ridden free fire zone under DA Alvin Bragg. O'Reilly also condemns Governor J.B. Pritzker for Chicago's 4,000 murders and claims mainstream media censorship excludes him despite his best-selling status, while noting Beijing's suppression of Mao Zedong's legacy despite 20 million deaths. Ultimately, he suggests societal collapse stems from moral decay rather than organized class warfare. [Automatically generated summary]
So the NYPD, and my grandfather was one, is 10,000 light, 10,000 under what they should be.
You're going to have another 10,000 out of there.
That is going to give license to every violent miscreant to do whatever they want to do, which they're pretty much doing now with the no-bail law.
Okay.
And Bragg is the DA and he doesn't prosecute anything.
So it's a free fire zone on crime.
The other thing is economics.
So where I live is just outside the New York City boundary.
Real estate in my town has gone up 20% to zero since Mandani announced.
And that's all New York City selling their places, getting the hell out before he comes in.
Because what he's going to do is put draconian taxation on everything, not just your income, but everything's going to double because he's going to boom, boom, boom.
New York City tax on this, New York City tax on that.
And corporations are going, can't do it.
So they're going to go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, and the people who have homes in the five boroughs are moving to Connecticut, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, wherever it may be.
So that flow out, I estimate, to be at a half million people in four years under Mandami.
Well, I want to spend most of the time talking about the book, and then we'll get to a couple of the issues of the day.
I would say you're probably right that no one will beat the 20 because New York Times probably will not even exist as an institution in a couple of years from now.
So just the math doesn't even work out for anyone to beat you.
But Confronting Evil.
I thought the title is great.
It's clean.
It's straightforward.
And the book is about how societies basically fall to the wrong people, the wrong ideas.
Kind of timely relative to, say, a New York City mayor who's a communist about to take over.
The next day I got up, Putin's lobbing missiles into Poland.
Putin's on a cover with Mao Zedong and Hitler and Ayatollah.
And then four hours later, Charlie Kirk's assassinated.
And when I was doing interviews in support of the book, people going, that's just eerie.
Your book would come out and the next day, all of this stuff, all this hell would break loose.
And it struck me hard because I'm not an Astradimos, but I did put this book on the board a year ago because our books take a year to research and write.
Because I saw it, the elevation of evil, not only in America, but all around the world.
And that good people were looking away.
They didn't want to get involved.
Once that happens, and it happened in the 1930s, here they come.
And very, very hard to stop evil once it gets established.
So I can build a wall, a bubble, and I can live in that, and then they're not going to get me.
And why do I want to get involved with some messy thing down the block or some neighbor who's selling narcotics?
But it always going to get you.
We can't avoid evil.
No human being does.
Everybody gets it.
But you can mitigate it if you recognize it.
And what I'm seeing in America is this.
We have now a political movement, the progressive movement, the far-left movement, that wants to destroy all traditions in America.
They believe we're a racist country that we're evil, that the United States is evil because of slavery and because of Jim Crow and the white guys of all the power.
You heard it.
It goes on and on.
So they say, you're going to blow it all up.
All right.
This is Mandani.
And then we'll start over again.
We'll let all the criminals out because it's not their fault they punch some old lady in the mouth for drug money.
Ah, no, no.
Society made them do that.
They didn't.
So he can't be punishing them.
All right.
So then when you get kind of that misguided philosophy and you get it into the mass media, which is now easy to do because of this, that's what happened to Charlie Kirk.
So speaking of fact-finding, what while doing the research, and I'm sure you had a good team with you that was diving into some of the historical stuff here, was there anything that really shocked you about any of these regimes and these bad guys and bad ideas that come?
Or is it just sort of a consistent theme of sort of collectivism and centralized power?
Or was there something that really jarred you as you guys were doing the research?
Well, every book I've written, I've learned an enormous amount about the subject.
But I've been around.
I've been to 86 countries, covered four wars.
I've seen evil up close.
I know what it is.
So I wasn't stunned in the general sense.
But when you look at what Mao Zedong and what he did to his own people, 20 million, many of whom starved to death because of him.
And when I was invited to go to Beijing in May to address the Chinese government over there, and they invited me because of YouTube, because they watch me and they know that I have access to President Trump and that I am not a BSer.
And they wanted to ask me questions.
So I did fly over at my own expense.
I brought my 21-year-old political science major son with me.
And we spent three hours with the Polar Bureau.
But while I was in Beijing, there are pictures of Mao Zedong all over the place.
As you imagine, if an American killed 20 million Americans, I don't think his picture is going to be everywhere.
So, but the Chinese people have no clue, no idea what happened.
They have no access to the internet, no access to accurate history.
They know who the government hates, and they know what the government wants them to think.
And they know if they don't think that, they can get in serious trouble fast.
You talk in the book, you talk a bit about the moral struggle between good and evil.
And I'm wondering, in a time where we're all on this thing, where we're all being hit with Instagram, TikTok, all the crazy stuff that's coming through and the gender confusion and everything else, where do you think Americans should be getting a moral, well, let's ask it this way.
Do you think politicians have any responsibility to be giving a moral guidance?
Or should that purely be coming from like a religious perspective?
So since you mentioned you are in New York City and Mom Dami, a guy who I think is replicating a lot of the ideas that some of the people you've written about in the book brought to fruition, how bad do you think New York City will actually get if he becomes mayor?
So the NYPD, and my grandfather was one, is 10,000 light, 10,000 under what they should be.
You're going to have another 10,000 out of there.
That is going to give license to every violent miscreant to do whatever they want to do, which they're pretty much doing now with the no-bail law.
Okay.
And Bragg is the DA and he doesn't prosecute anything.
So it's a free fire zone on crime.
The other thing is economics.
So where I live is just outside the New York City boundary.
Real estate in my town has gone up 20% to zero since Mandani announced.
And that's all New York City selling their places, getting the hell out before he comes in.
Because what he's going to do is put draconian taxation on everything, not just your income, but everything's going to double because he's going to boom, boom, boom.
New York City tax on this, New York City tax on that.
And corporations are going, can't do it.
So they're going to go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, and the people who have homes in the five boroughs are moving to Connecticut, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, wherever it may be.
So that flow out, I estimate, to be at a half million people in four years under Mandami.
And take the tax money with them, which then will only further people.
What do you think about the class welfare or the class warfare problem that it will also create?
To me, this ends, this will end sort of like the end of Gangs of New York or the end of Dark Knight Rises, where why wouldn't the poor people of downtown be ransacking the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side and taking back what is rightfully theirs?
Do you see that it will, or would you predict that it would end in that type of violence?
They don't want to have to go out and fear for their lives and their children can't even go to school.
So if I had a bet, I'd say that would not happen.
What will happen is a terrible rise in individual crime and a depravity, public depravity, homeless drug addicts running all over the place, you name it, that will rise to record levels.
Let's leave New York for a moment because you've had some interesting comments.
We've been playing a lot of clips of J.B. Pritzker lately, and I've been very critical of him, but I don't think it's quite reached the level of critical that you've been hitting this guy on.
You, if I'm not mistaken, think he is worse than Newsom.
Is that correct?
And Newsom, Newsom, I basically think is the devil incarnate.
I don't know if you've ever heard me go off on him.
So sell me why J.B. Pritzker is worse.
And remember, I left California basically single-handedly because of that guy.
Well, Newsom is an opportunist, and he sold his soul for power, and he is a destructive force in California, but he's not totally irrational.
You can have a conversation with Newsom.
Pritzker is so invested in hatred for not only Trump, but anybody who opposes him that he's at a different level.
Now, Newsom can get hateful, but Pritzker lives there.
Now, Pritzker knows that he's failed across the board in Illinois, people leaving the state.
Chicago is 4,000 dead, murdered under his regime.
4,000, 80% African Americans.
Trump called him about a week ago, maybe 10 days ago, and said, Look, I want you to call out the guard, the governor of Illinois, and let's work together.
I'll send in the feds, the FBI will come down, flood the zone in the South Side, where the murders, most of them, are taking place.
You use the state.
I'll use the feds.
We'll wipe it out.
And that's what Trump did.
And Pritzker gave him the finger.
Now, remember, Pritzker has not solved anything.
He has allowed this carnage to take place for six years.
Drug gangs control those neighborhoods totally.
Control them.
And now he's lashing out against Trump as Hitler.
Trump is this, Trump is that, because Pritzker knows that it's his failure that has caused all of this.
So I place him at another level above a Newsom, who's basically a guy who, you know, he wants to be president.
I mean, when him and Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, sit down, do you think they, I mean, this is sort of an offshoot of their earlier question, but do you think they think they are doing a good job?
And there have been reported, a guy named David Nig NG did a big thing, unbelievably well documented about how this whole thing, this Antifa thing works.
But anyway, what I brought and what was in vogue for a while was really robust debate.
Gone.
Replaced by nothing.
And that is why all of the media, television media, and the newspapers have declined because not only do they not seek posing points of view, they're exclusionary.
So I'm the best-selling nonfiction author in the world.