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The World On The Brink - March 9th, Hour 2
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It's simple, man.
That can only mean one thing on this show, and that is all things Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at BillOReilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, great to have you back.
I have a question.
I hope you have a simple answer to it because it's not a simple question.
The Biden in, by the way, how are you doing?
I'm celebrating the funeral of Joseph Stalin today, 69 years ago.
So I'm very, very happy today.
Okay, that dictator.
Thanks for reminding us, Bill.
We should learn from the past.
It was interesting to watch Zelensky quote Winston Churchill before the British Parliament yesterday.
And Putin learned very well under Stalin.
He's got an amazing quote.
I'll read it to you later, but I'm curious about your question.
So my question is this issue, we now know that Joe Biden inherited an America that was energy independent, an America that was a net exporter of energy.
On day one, he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
He paused new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
He had increased dramatically the environmental restrictions and rules on emissions.
And then he rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, which recognizes China and India as developing countries, meaning we pay all the money and they pay next to nothing, and ended what I think was his biggest mistake, exploration and drilling in Anwar.
Now, the administration is claiming, it's a long, I got to set this question up, they're claiming, well, we already have 9,000 leases.
Go talk to them.
Well, the American Petroleum Institute has given us their answer.
They said we're at a two-decade high for the percentage of leases that are in production, meaning the 9,000, with nearly two out of three leases producing natural gas and oil.
Leases are issued prior to exploration, and not every acreage of leased land has the resources to tap into, which is why it's a boom and bust industry, despite substantial investment by developers.
Now, with production still below pre-pandemic levels and an imbalance between supply and demand, what is being exacerbated now by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for the administration to support domestic production, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, here's my question.
So they put all of these restrictions on the energy sector.
Now, Joe Biden, up till yesterday, was importing oil from Russia.
Now we learn that they sent an embassy or an emissary rather to Caracas, to Venezuela, to discuss the possibility of importing oil from that murdering dictator, Maduro.
Then we now know, and I have before me a report, that this new Iran deal would give the mullahs in Iran access to $90 billion of sanctioned money, $7 billion for ransom, and that America would then import energy from the Ayatollahs, the mullahs that want Israel and the U.S. wiped off the map.
Now, Mr. Simpleman, break that down for me.
How any part of that is intelligent?
Biden knows he can say anything.
So last night, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, none of them covered, none of them covered Biden's most outrageous statement, which was, in my first year in office, I pumped more oil than Trump did in his first year.
Okay?
That was an incredible sleight of hand.
And I called it, you called it, as just gross propaganda.
And I'll give you the stats in a moment.
They're very short.
But Biden knows he can say stuff like that.
And the Associated Press, the New York Times, Washington Post, nobody's going to say anything, even if they fact-check him.
They're not going to say a word.
So he can get out there and he can say, oh, I love oil.
I didn't do anything to inhibit oil production in the USA.
That's a lie.
I did not.
And that's exactly what he's doing.
That's exactly what he's doing.
So here is the key stat.
And this is on my message of the day on billorilly.com.
I hope everybody goes there every morning.
You don't have to be a premium member.
It's there for you to consume.
So when Trump left office, the average price of a gallon of gas in the USA was around $2.50.
Okay.
And now it's $4.25.
But before Putin did anything in Ukraine, the average price was $3.47%, up a buck under Biden in 13 months, up a buck, a dollar a gallon.
So he, Biden's blaming Putin for all this, yet in his 13 months, first 13 months, it went up a dollar.
Why would it go up a dollar?
Because he made it so difficult for the fossil fuel industry, and I'm not just talking oil, I'm talking coal, fracking, natural gas.
They slapped so many regulations, the federal government, on these companies, that their cost basis increased.
And so the companies became more conservative in their harvesting of their product, as any company would.
And they saw that Biden was going to increase the regulations, and all the exploration was going to cost 10 times as much as it did under Trump.
Final answer, and I hope this is simple enough for you, Andy.
Are you following me here?
No, actually, I'm very impressed because besides myself, you seem to be one of the few that actually understand this.
Yes, well, you know me.
The only thing I agree with when it comes to Lisa Murkowski, the senator in Alaska, who I believe is going to lose her seat, is that Alaska alone, alone, could provide all the oil the United States needs if the federal government would allow drilling in Anwar and other areas.
Now, you say to yourself, well, why don't they?
No one lives there.
Are they going to scare the caribou?
Are the polar bears going to be upset?
Here's a little known fact.
The caribou and the polar bears like the pipelines.
Because it keeps them warm.
It keeps them warm.
You're 100% right.
So they don't have to buy coats.
I don't know why that just got to my funny bone.
Good job, Bill O'Reilly.
All right.
Now, it's even more interesting than that, too, because we actually sent a plane once to look at the vast wasteland.
It's all empty space of Anwar.
It's massive.
The oil reserves there are massive.
That's why we secured that land so many years ago.
Believe it or not, it was Jimmy Carter.
What's fascinating is the oil companies, I've done a deep dive on this over the years.
Oil companies say that they can go there in season, not when it's snowing heavily, and they can have heavy, quick extraction.
And by the time they leave and pick up for the winter, they won't leave a single footprint there.
That's how easy it would be and how it would not in any way impact the environment.
And here's more good news.
I love good news.
Okay.
Because of global warming, there'll be a shorter winter up there.
That's more oil down.
By the way, it's snowing in New York.
Thanks, Bill.
Yeah, I want everybody to just step back.
The important thing here, more important than Ukraine, if you can imagine, and that's a vital news story, is that we have a president of the United States who goes out and actively misleads the people.
And the press does not hold him accountable for doing that.
And the third thing is, and I could be wrong on this, I don't think Biden even knows what he's saying anymore.
I don't think you're wrong.
What?
I don't say.
I don't think he knows that it's Wednesday.
That's how bad I think things are.
So you and I concur, word of the day, on that.
So when you have the leader of the free world, most powerful man in the world, Putin doesn't think so, but Biden still is not knowing what he is saying.
See, if you were to have Joe Biden on your program, on your radio program today, Biden would look you in the eye and go, I'm not misleading anyone.
I'm not distorting the facts.
No, no, we pumped more than my previous, the previous president, Donald Trump.
We did more in oil.
And he would actively believe that.
I did more in my first year than he did in his first year.
That's the statement.
You're right.
It's beyond a sleight of hand.
It's an outright lie.
Well, no, that's true, though.
If you look at the barrels, okay, because Trump inherited Obama.
Trump inherited Obama.
It took Trump a year to extract.
Thank you.
Another intelligent comment by Mr. O'Reilly.
Now the hard question comes in, Bill.
Okay, hold on.
Let me give one more stat.
Okay.
One more step.
Mr. Biden, the United States harvests 750 million barrels less a year than it did under Trump.
I'll give you a couple of stats.
Last year, Joe Biden imported over 232 million barrels of oil from Russia.
He even took in a million barrels of oil, believe it or not, from Iran.
That was the first time since 1991.
Also, Joe Biden took in over 600 million barrels of oil from OPEC nations and 5 million from the Saudi.
All right, so here's my question.
I am very, very concerned about a president that is going to do this $90 billion in cash deal by lifting sanctions on the Iranian mullahs and doing it and negotiating a deal that would include importing oil from Iran to make the mullahs rich and richer than ever,
and then thinking and contemplating and sending emissaries to negotiate with Venezuela with that murdering dictator thug named Maduro.
The same with Joe Biden has been begging OPEC.
It's embarrassing and humiliating.
Up to today, they've been rejecting him, Bill.
Yes, somebody wouldn't even take his phone call.
But I think if the Republicans win in November, which they overwhelmingly will now, and I'll give you another thing in a moment, they can block a lot of this stuff.
So Biden's going to have a hard time buying oil from Venezuela and Iran.
He's basically trying to convince them to sell oil to other people than the United States because they know they're not going to get this in.
So what's going on?
By the way, do you know who's a quick test question?
Do you know who's negotiating and bartering that deal between Iran and the U.S.?
Joy Behar.
No.
No, no, it's Russia, Bill.
Russia's advising Iran.
I know, I know.
It's Israel.
No, they're bartering the deal.
They are brokering this deal.
Not for us.
Yes, it's not and them.
We don't have anybody over there that's got cojonas.
I mean, they're going to sign a deal no matter what.
Bill Buddhajudge said they're very close to a deal.
Of course.
How stupid can we be?
And people get angry.
You know why the Muellers want to do this deal because they fear Pete Buddhajudge.
I mean, he makes them tremble.
All right, quick break.
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All right, Hanny, one more, and this is very important for your audience, and I appreciate you having me on every week.
I want everyone to know that.
What's next is food prices.
So I'm telling my audience, stock up now.
Because food prices are going to explode.
They have to.
Because transportation companies that get food from the ground or wherever to the grocery store are paying $1 a gallon more, and that's going to be passed on.
Now, what the food companies are doing deceptively, because they have to rise prices if they want to keep their stock price up, is they're cutting down the amount of food in a package.
So, for example, Briars Ice Cream, we reported this on the radio today, has cut its little tub of ice cream by about 25%, but charges the same.
They have no choice, Bill.
I understand that, but people don't know.
It's not like there's a lot of people who are in the middle of the market.
Let me ask you a question.
Does Bill O'Reilly, you have people that do your grocery shopping.
I'm just betting.
You don't do your own grocery shopping because I go grocery shopping every week.
I know every week you tell me you go grocery shopping and everybody in the country rolls cries.
Okay.
I go every week, Bill, and I can afford it.
It was a time in my life.
People are going to get a camera in the grocery store.
So when it's now mid-part.
But my point is, Bill, the prices are dramatically higher.
Of course.
And I remember what it was like living paycheck to paycheck.
There was an article today.
People are going to say goodbye to even chop me for crying out loud.
It's back to hamburger helper.
Okay.
So when you, it's mid-March.
The election midterm is in early November.
Things may improve a little bit.
This recruiting thing is not going to be going on to that extent.
And it's not going to extend into the fall.
I don't know how it's going to.
People asked me, and I said, I have no blanket idea how this is going to basically be.
There will be a ceasefire at some point.
There are so many people that do not understand the severity of all of this, and it's really dangerous.
Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
Thank you, sir.
Quick break, right back.
Your calls on the other side.
Straight ahead.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to join us, there was a hell of an exchange with Fox News Channel's White House correspondent Peter Ducey and Circleback Chief Propagandist for the White House, Jen Asaki.
And I mean, Docey, I mean, just absolutely destroyed her in this mini debate that broke out between them.
Listen.
You and the president are both talking about producing energy here, saying that oil and gas companies have 9,000 permits to drill now.
They could be drilling right now.
Would President Biden cut red tape to make that possible?
What red tape needs to be cut when they have the permits?
They have the capacity to do it.
What's holding them up?
Does President Biden think that each of these 9,000 leases that are available have oil or gas in them?
Because industry experts are saying that that accusation is a complete red herring.
Some permits are viable and some are not.
When you say that, this represents a fundamental misunderstanding as to how this process works.
Well, first of all, nearly 60% of leased acres remain non-producing.
That's a lot in the range of 20 million acres.
So there are 9,000 unused approved permits to drill in.
That should not require us inviting them to do that.
They should do that themselves.
additional permits so would the president what additional permits do they need there's no they have The leases are there.
The permits are there.
I don't think they need an embroidered invitation to drill.
They are oil companies.
What is happening?
What is happening?
But look, the permits have been granted, Peter.
What is happening here is that we are seeing these are private sector companies.
We recognize that.
Many of them are making record profits.
We see that.
That is all publicly available data.
They have pressure to return cash to investors and their shareholders.
What we're saying right now is there is a war.
We're asking them to go use the approved permits, use the unused space, and go get more supply out of the grounds in our own country.
I'm asking you if it is an option.
You guys say all options are on the table.
Is restarting Keystone Construction?
One of them.
If we're trying to bring about more supply, that does not address any problem.
It's supply from Canada, a friendly ally, instead of Saudi Arabia.
We're already getting that oil, Peter.
The pipeline is just a delivery mechanism.
It is not an oil field.
So it does not provide more supply into the system.
It does not address.
It's impossible that Joe Biden will ever say that you guys can go ahead with construction of Keystone XL.
There's no plans for that, and it would not address any of the problems we're having currently.
None of that, what she's saying is true.
The fact and the reality is they did cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.
They did grant Vladimir Putin a waiver in Nord Stream 2.
They did pause new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
They're unwilling to change course.
They did put very restrictive, new environmental restrictions on exploration and drilling, new rules on emissions that make it far more difficult for oil companies to do the very thing that she's dictating they need to do.
And of course, then they, of course, ended Anwar drilling, where we have vast amounts of resources that can easily be extracted very quickly and brought to the marketplace.
And that's not under consideration either, on top of them ending the entering the re-entering the Paris climate agreement.
Look, as the Petroleum Institute said, we're at a two-decade high for the percentage of leases in production.
That's the 9,000 that they talk about.
But they also point out all these leases are issued prior to exploration.
In other words, it's not the case that every single lease granted gives them the yield that they anticipate or expect that will happen.
And that's why they need more land and leases and far less restrictions.
Anyway, Peter Ducey, White House correspondent for the Fox News Channel, I thought you just absolutely destroyed the argument that they've been making for the longest period of time.
Good job today.
Thanks, Sean.
And ultimately, it goes back to the first day of Biden's term.
He signed an executive order that remains in place today that bans, or they use the word pause, but it's the same as a ban any new oil and gas drilling on public lands.
And so a lot of these guys, they've got the oil and gas area, the range.
Great.
They don't know if there's anything underground, and they can't go ask the Interior Department for permission because the president said no.
They are putting a priority on climate change and moving towards a fossil fuel-free country rather than address the major spikes in prices right now due to the limited supply.
And then we get advice from the likes of that ever-so experienced former mayor of South Bend, Mayor Pete, when they fired these guys working on the Keystone XL pipeline.
No, well, we want you to get another high-paying union job.
And I'm like, where's that available?
This is a very specific skill set in the oil and gas industry.
Then he's saying, we want you to go buy an electric car.
Okay.
Most people don't have 50 grand laying around for their brand new electric car if you can even get them because you can't even get the semiconductors.
And most car companies don't have inventory available.
And did they answer in any way today why it is that the U.S. is going to do a new Iranian deal that would allow the importation of oil from the number one state sponsor of terror?
Why they're negotiating and sending emissaries to Venezuela to deal with that murdering thug Maduro?
Any explanation as to why the Saudis and the UAE have no interest in calling Joe Biden back?
Any of those questions come up?
So they claim that the Saudis and the UAE leaders are not just letting it ring when Biden calls.
That's what the Wall Street Journal says that's what happened.
The National Security Council claims that is not true.
As for doing the Iran deal, they are putting a priority on preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
But at the same time, as part of this process, and I get that it's all this tangled web, they might be rewarded with some new contracts to export oil either directly or indirectly to the United States.
And the reason that they are a state sponsor of terror, you know, these are leaders who are blamed for directly or indirectly murdering American citizens over the last several decades.
If you look at some of the reports, though, we're talking about sanctions money that had been frozen from the Iranian mullahs, I guess, that weren't part of the first awful Iranian deal.
That could be as high as, what, $90 billion, I read.
And now we're going to help make the number one state sponsor of terror wealthy again and part of the world community again.
Now, the last Iranian deal did not allow any place anytime inspections.
It did not allow a single American inspector.
And it also would allow the Iranians in 2025 to then begin the process of building a nuclear weapon anyway.
And we still did that deal.
That was not a good deal.
Right now, it sounds like the Russians, as a way to kind of punish the U.S., might be throwing a wrench in things.
It might be, you know, we heard reports last week and the week before, oh, we're within 24 or 48 hours of a new Iran nuclear deal.
Hasn't happened yet.
And so we're in business with these people.
We're asking them to help us make an Iran nuclear deal.
But so far, our helpers are not being very helpful.
Well, that then now raises another great question.
And that is, okay, so we finally, Joe implemented the one sanction that would have an impact.
But if Europe and NATO countries and Western European countries are still relying on Vladimir Putin and Russia for their energy, and Putin is now even threatening to cut that off, and now we have Vladimir Putin and China on the periphery negotiating a deal between the U.S. and the number one state sponsor of terror.
I wonder whose side Vladimir Putin is going to take in those negotiations, and why wouldn't they walk away from the table at this point considering the invasion of Ukraine by Putin?
Right.
And there's some new analysis that that is part of Putin's calculation potentially, and that's how he could wait out the West.
Just team up with China, make sure that all these assets that they've been moving around because they knew sanctions were coming are protected, reinvested with the Chinese, and then they can wait out the West.
So we'll see if that's what happens, but only Putin knows.
I know the Keystone XL pipeline issues come up a lot.
Have they ever given an answer besides the talking point about the 9,000 leases on whether or not they will lift the pause that they put in place on new oil and gas leases on federal lands?
Will they lift the environmental restrictions and emissions rules that they put in Will they open up Anwar again?
It's a vast wilderness.
We have tons of energy resources there.
Is that even under consideration or no domestic drilling whatsoever?
To every question like that, the answer has been no to date.
But we had also been told that they weren't going to ban Russian oil imports because it was going to be too disruptive.
So it's no until maybe it's not down the line.
I'm having a hard time grasping why we're dealing with some of the world's worst terrorist supporting nations, the worst murdering dictators as a means of getting energy when we can produce it all here and we could do it very cheaply and we could do it very effectively and efficiently and we could be a net exporter again of energy.
Now, that was another claim that Joe Biden made yesterday in his speech.
The fact is, this year we will be a net importer of energy, not a net exporter of energy, like it was when he got into the White House.
Right.
And they're kind of approaching this.
It's this huge global issue.
There are a million different ways to attack it.
The way that they're trying to attack it today is they've got him sitting at an event about semiconductors, which is part of it.
That is a problem that we can't get them.
But is it the problem right now for today?
I don't know.
Well, Peter Deucey, you've been doing a great job.
I don't think they could pay me enough money to do your job.
I think you need a raise.
What do you think?
I think you're doing okay, Sean.
So I think.
You think?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I know your dad's really proud of you.
I've known you for many, many years.
You have worked so hard to get this position you have.
We're very proud of you.
You're the only one that it's must-see TV watching you and Jensaki.
I mean, you guys could do a show together, and I'd watch like four hours straight every day.
Well, maybe someday, but usually they cut us off at about four minutes of questions.
I got it.
Maybe tell the AAP reporter to sit down and be quiet and stop bailing out Jensaki like happened earlier in the week.
All right.
Well, today it was another short one, but it was because they had to rush us off to this semiconductor event, which unfortunately the president did not answer any questions at.
I'm so shocked.
Try to begin tomorrow.
My favorite is I'm not allowed.
They told me not to answer any.
I'm not allowed to answer.
Even when he says that, though, I have figured out how to get his attention.
He figured it out one time, and I think he called you a stupid son of a bitch, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, he did.
Just a once.
That didn't hurt your feelings, did it?
No, no.
He called me after, actually, right before I went on your show, and we had a laugh about it.
No hard feelings.
Let me ask you this.
Have you ever asked for a one-on-one interview with Joe?
It's been a while since I asked for that.
They've got all new people in.
But, you know, they haven't really done, he doesn't do a ton of one-on-one interviews, period.
So here's my prediction.
Jensaki, your debate partner, is going to end up at either MSDNC or Fake News CNN.
Any thoughts?
I saw some reports that a couple different networks are looking at her.
I have no idea what she actually wants to do.
I haven't asked her.
Now, if she needs advice on where to go and what to do, the two most logical people to talk to would be your dad and me, because we've been at this the longest.
I think that's right.
Yeah.
Can I give her your cell phone?
100%.
Love to hear from Jensaki.
Right.
Yeah, well, I'll have her touch base just as she updates her LinkedIn whenever she decides to leave.
You could actually say, I did get a request from Sean Hannity if you'd ever consider going on a show.
And you can report back an absolute hell no, never happened.
Tell him I said he can drop dead.
That's what I mean.
I bet that if you guys had, I doubt that it would be that much of a no at that time.
i'm saying internally inside her mind she will look at you like you're insane and say uh i will take it under consideration and i'll circle back on that uh peter Thank you for the opportunity.
Next question.
Yeah, well, lots of people look at me like I'm insane.
So it'd be hard to do.
By the way, in that room, that's a badge of honor.
I've been in that room during the Trump years, and it's like, oh, he's here.
I'm like, yeah, I'm here.
Aren't you glad to see me?
I have fun with it, but it is an important time right now.
And, you know, these issues, as they evolve, they really do affect everybody.
And so I'm just trying to ask questions that people listening in their cars right now are thinking of.
All right, Peter Ducey, we're going to show this exchange on Hannity tonight, and you'll be joining us.
Always great to have you, Peter Doocy, Fox News White House correspondent, 800-941-Sean is on number.
You want to be a part of the program.
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It's called, and by the way, Joe Biden once supported it, the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline.
We'll explain when we get back.
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